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The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel is a chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel and was founded by Elder Owyn Lyons. Their headquarters is the Citadel, an imposing fortress built into and beneath the ruins of the Pentagon on the edge of what used to be Washington, D.C. As of 2287, they are led by Arthur Maxson, the last descendant of the venerated Maxson family line. Under his leadership, the Brotherhood has grown into a major military power in the region, able to project their power and influence all along the Eastern Seaboard.
- 1 History
- 2 Major outposts and locations
- 3 Capital Wasteland
- 4 Commonwealth
- 5 Society
- 6 Military
- 7 Relations with the outside
- 8 Technology
- 9 The War in the Commonwealth
- 10 Notes
- 11 Appearances
- 12 Behind the scenes
- 13 Gallery
- 14 References
Following the destruction of the Enclave on the West Coast, the Brotherhood dispatched an expedition to Washington, D.C. on a mission to reconnect with the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, investigate reports of super mutants in the Capital Wasteland, and recover any advanced technology. Led by Paladin Owyn Lyons, the group included Henry Casdin, Ishmael Ashur, Reginald Rothchild, and Lyons' 3-year-old daughter, Sarah.
Contact with the Midwest chapter was unsuccessful, so the group traveled to Pittsburgh. The city was being terrorized by wildmen, trogs, slavers, and raiders. Lyons' force swept through the city, destroying many hostiles and suffering only one casualty: Ishmael Ashur. Believing him to be dead, the Brotherhood gathered the surviving children into their ranks and continued toward Washington, D.C.
On their arrival, the wilderness outside the city was overrun by super mutants. Attacking head-on, they drove the mutants into the ruins of Washington, D.C. and earned the favor of the local population. Their investigation of the Pentagon uncovered a remarkable cache of technology, including the four-story-tall robot known as Liberty Prime. The discovery earned Owyn Lyons a promotion to elder and a change in his orders: instead of returning to the West Coast, they would establish a permanent presence in the area. They founded their base, the Citadel, in the remnants of the old Pentagon.
The Brotherhood's treatment of people in Pittsburgh and in Washington marked a characteristic trait of Elder Lyons' leadership. The Brotherhood's primary directive was to recover and preserve advanced technology. In many instances this directive was observed, even in the face of human suffering; however, Elder Lyon's detachment prioritized people's lives and well-being over machines, which is a far cry from the Brotherhood's traditional attitude. When the Elders in Lost Hills learned of these new priorities, they cut off all support to the chapter, though they still considered it as part of the Brotherhood. The chapter suffered a further setback when a number from within their ranks left in protest to form the Brotherhood Outcasts.
It was in this weakened and isolated state that it was possible for the Enclave, having relocated from New California as well, to re-establish a base of continual operations at Raven Rock, to make its move. They seized Project Purity, then set up outposts in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding wilderness. However, with the assistance of the Lone Wanderer, the Brotherhood ended the Enclave's presence in the known region; driving them first from Project Purity and then from their final holdout at Adams Air Force Base. The fate of the Enclave as a whole after these events remains a mystery.
Despite the Brotherhood's success with Project Purity and the war against the Enclave, the organization continued to struggle. Lyons would eventually pass away in 2278, leaving behind leadership to his daughter Sarah Lyons, who was then named elder in his place. However, Sarah was killed in combat shortly afterwards following her father's death. In the leadership crisis that followed, the Brotherhood repeatedly appointed and deposed one ineffectual leader after another until Arthur Maxson assumed leadership. In 2283, Arthur Maxson was appointed elder at age 16, the youngest in Brotherhood history, after displaying exceptional skill as a capable warrior and diplomat by defeating the super mutant leader Shepherd and brokering peace with the Brotherhood Outcasts, bringing them back into the fold.
By 2287, the East Coast Brotherhood had established contact with Lost Hills and has actively received support from the West. During this time, they began to make plans to establish control not only over the Capital Wasteland, but the entire Eastern Seaboard. To complete this objective, they began constructing the Prydwen, using parts from the Enclave Mobile Crawler at Adams Air Force Base and a nuclear reactor from an old aircraft carrier. The development and construction process took a total of six years, two years to design the Prydwen and twice that to build. During this time, the Brotherhood sent three scout missions into the Commonwealth: first, a group volunteered to go into the Commonwealth, then two teams led by Paladin Brandis and Paladin Danse individually. The first scout team was overwhelmingly successful. They brought back crates full of pre-War technology and documents. The second team, however, was not so fortunate. They had bad luck from the beginning at their drop-off point in Malden. First being ambushed by Gunners straight off the Vertibird, which resulted in a large number of soldiers manually shorting out their power armor (and killing them in the process), the survivors made their way to an old National Guard training yard outpost, which was infested with feral ghouls and resulted in the death of another member of the team. The team then fell back to a pre-War military satellite base, but it was infested with super mutants, which resulted in the death of yet another member of the team. The only survivor was the commanding officer, Paladin Brandis, who made his way to a pre-War nuclear bunker, and took shelter there until either the Brotherhood or someone else found him.
The final recon team, Recon Squad Gladius, was to both establish a permanent Brotherhood presence in the Commonwealth to prelude the Prydwen's arrival, and investigate Recon Squad Artemis' disappearance. After completing these objectives, Danse was to give an "all clear" signal to the Prydwen to enter the Commonwealth, which after several technical delays with the Prydwen and an argument between Quinlan, Cade, Kells, and Maxson over Ingram's combat readiness (due to her using a power armor frame in place of her legs, which were blown off by a super mutant utilizing a Fat Man while she was field testing a suit of power armor for one of her fellow soldiers), with Cade giving his approval that she is in fact combat ready and his medical approval, Quinlan his technical approval, but Kells and Maxson denying her request, since they were worried that there could be a malfunction in the field, thus putting her fellow soldiers at risk, and couldn't risk it until they were absolutely sure it functioned properly and efficiently in a combat environment. Nevertheless, the Prydwen made its way to the Commonwealth in a spectacular fashion, making its way over the Commonwealth, dominating the skyline while under full Vertibird escort. Recon Squad Gladius made contact with the Prydwen, and the Brotherhood established a permanent foothold at the Boston Airport, and bolstered Gladius's position at Cambridge.
Major outposts and locations
The East Coast Brotherhood is a major military power boasting vast supplies, manpower, cutting-edge technology, and scientific research in all fields, enabling them to hold power and influence all across the Eastern Seaboard. They hold many strongholds and bases throughout the wasteland, including the following:
Capital Wasteland
GNR Radio Studio
In 2277, when Owyn Lyons was elder, the Brotherhood had a large presence at Galaxy News Radio, a news radio station in the middle of Washington D.C. It was tactically and strategically important as it was a defensible location in the middle of the ruins of D.C., as well as having a mutual relationship with the DJ of the studio, Three Dog. The status of this outpost as of 2287 is unknown.
Washington Memorial
Also in 2277, a small Brotherhood unit composed of five soldiers was stationed here to defend the memorial, which had GNR's satellite on the top of it. Unfortunately, because of the chaos in this area (with slavers in the Lincoln Memorial, Talon Company, Super Mutants, and the Enclave in a three way battle to seize the Capitol building, and Super Mutants having a foothold in the National Archives and the numerous bunkers ironically established by the Brotherhood after making a push towards the Lincoln Memorial), casualties were high and the satellite dish often got knocked off, which resulted in the troops there simply using the same dish over and over again. After one such incident, the dish was irreparable, which resulted in a wild goose chase for another one.
Pennsylvania Avenue
The Brotherhood has a minor rest and resupply area near the nuked remains of the White House, making their home in an abandoned hotel, where they rarely sleep, due to the constant super mutant advances upon this location.
Arlington Library
The Brotherhood has a major presence at the Arlington Library (officially the Library of Congress), where, in 2277, Elder Lyons has Scribe Yearling searching for intact pre-War books to add to their collection. They are also trying to wipe out the raiders who have fortified themselves in the library and who have become an annoyance to the soldiers trying to salvage to library for books or anything of use.
Project Purity
After the near-end of the war with the Enclave, the Brotherhood established a foothold in the scientific complex known as Project Purity, which was underneath the Jefferson Memorial. The Brotherhood employed Rivet City's Security Services to help them transport the water as well as protect the Project. It is unknown what has happened to the Project as of 2287.
Adams Air Force Base
After the destruction of the Enclave's Mobile Base Crawler, the Brotherhood set up a permanent basecamp at Adams, attempting to gather what they could from the wreckage to construct the Prydwen. Arthur Maxson directed all resources to the construction of the Prydwen. After 6 years, the huge airship was constructed, and they set upon the Commonwealth with haste.
The Citadel
The Citadel is the bastion of the East Coast Brotherhood. Built in the ruins of the Pentagon, the courtyard was reserved for the training of initiates, who were trained by Paladin Gunny. From there, one could go to the Citadel Laboratory, where scribes tediously multitask between their duties to their order (The Sword, Shield, or Quill) and a special assignment by Head Scribe Rothchild; more specifically, Liberty Prime. Paladin Bael is in charge of security outside of the Citadel, while Knight Captain Colvin (via Sarah Lyons) is in charge of security on the inside. Surrounding the central area containing Liberty Prime are A-Ring and B-Ring. In A-Ring The Brotherhood's council chambers are located (known as the Great Hall), where they either plan for future operations or direct field units. There are two small passageways connected to the Great Hall, used for storage, and both storing food and miscellaneous items. The northernmost room is known as the "Lyons Den," which serves as the rest and resupply reserved only for members of the Lyons Pride. The southernmost room is reserved for the Order of the Quill and all historical records pertaining to the East Coast Brotherhood, the Maxson bloodline, vaults in the Capital Wasteland, and the pre-War Pentagon.
The East Coast Brotherhood holds numerous strongholds throughout the Commonwealth to serve as forward operating bases facilitating their operations against the Institute and other abominations in the Commonwealth.
The Prydwen
The main base of operations for the Brotherhood in the Commonwealth. The Prydwen serves as The Brotherhood's aerial aircraft carrier and contains all of the essential elements to make their operations possible; including barracks, research and development facilities, medical bay, munitions stockpile, and more. Proctor Teagan commands the Order of the Sword from the stowage on the Prydwen, and he's also in charge of the supply depot in the airport, where he has put Knight-Sergeant Gavil in his liege as CO. Proctor Ingram commands the Order of the Shield from the power armor bay, whose job is to keep the Prydwen afloat as well as repair any damaged gear or equipment soldiers bring in. She has also been charged with repairing Liberty Prime to working condition so the Brotherhood can use it to destroy the Institute. Proctor Quinlan commands the Order of the Quill from his quarters on the main deck. His duty is to organize field scribe escorts as well as research and file technical documentation brought back from the field by the Brotherhood's soldiers.
Apart from the three Orders, Knight Captain Cade resides in the medical bay, treating wounded soldiers and assessing new recruits in order to see if they're combat ready. Cade is the one who refuses to clear Paladin Brandis for duty until the Sole Survivor completes either The Nuclear Option for the Brotherhood or completes Mass Fusion for the Institute while working for the Railroad. Lancer-Captain Kells commands the Brotherhood's air force as well as controlling the flight path of the Prydwen from the command deck.
Boston Airport
Used as a place to moor the Prydwen, the Boston airport serves many of the same functionalities as the Prydwen does. The Brotherhood uses the airport as a forward operating base for all of their operations in the Commonwealth. Supplies are stored here, as well as the remains of Liberty Prime, who the Brotherhood eventually rebuild to use against the Institute. The Brotherhood's best soldiers are stationed in front of where Prime is being built, where ranked soldiers up to star paladins can be encountered patrolling the walkway surrounding Prime. Behind Prime's building platform is the storage depot, where Knight-Sergeant Gavil (in liege of Proctor Teagan) stores all incoming rations appropriately, as well as supplying gear to field soldiers. Above that is a landing platform, where a general recreational area lies around it, where incoming and outgoing soldiers mingle before it's time for their next assignment. Benches, vending machines, and several food items lay about to allow the Brotherhood to relax with each other before heading out.
Cambridge Police Station
Cambridge Police Station is the main operating base of Recon Squad Gladius, and serves as a "port in the storm" for the Brotherhood as well as another more local forward operating base to facilitate their missions. Before the arrival of the Prydwen, a six man squad captured the station from feral ghouls (led by Paladin Danse), in order to function as their base of forward operations. As time passed, they lost two soldiers while on scouting patrol and another while under attack by feral ghouls. When the Prydwen arrived, however, the ghouls in Cambridge were merely a nuisance as synths began launching attacks on the police station. Now it functions as a rest and resupply before soldiers head back out into the chaos of the Commonwealth, with a Vertibird landing pad above and the rubble leading to it cleared. A power armor station lies beneath the station, with ample supplies to upgrade and repair any soldier's armor.
The Brotherhood of Steel is a neo-knightly military order that rose from the ashes of the American military on the West Coast in the years following the devastation of 2077. The organization's tenets include the eradication of mutants, synths, and the veneration of technology. The Brotherhood has never been very keen on sharing their resources with their fellow wastelanders, considering them too ignorant and irresponsible to possess advanced technology, although the eastern chapter is more lenient about this than their Western counterparts. Despite their obsession with technology they will destroy technologies they deem too dangerous or uncontrollable, such as Institute synths.
The eastern chapter of the Brotherhood is generally beneficial to humanity, but in a more indirect way. They hunt down hostile mutants, ferals, and synths, and they keep dangerous technologies out of careless or malevolent hands. Despite the obvious benefits their technology could bring to the wasteland, they don't like to share their resources with outsiders due to the potential for misuse, and instead would rather control the technology while using it themselves to help people in the wasteland. While it is an established belief within the Brotherhood that the people of the wasteland are not responsible enough to possess or use advanced weapons technology. They believe that if everyone possessed these advanced weapons, the wasteland would be even more dangerous and chaos driven than it already is. However, the eastern chapter is shown to be more lenient about outsiders possessing energy weapons. Also, the Brotherhood is willing to trade some of their technologies with wasteland communities in return for supplies or even manpower, such as the arrangement with Rivet City security, and Diamond City but they always keep the more sensitive and dangerous technologies safe to themselves.
The Brotherhood's disdain for super mutants and synths stems from their belief that such "abominations" are the direct result of reckless scientific experimentation, i.e, "technology run amok". They hold the irresponsible use of technology by pre-war civilizations responsible for the planet's destruction, and actively seek to prevent a second apocalypse from occurring by maintaining a monopoly on advanced weapons technology.
Recently, much like the chivalrous knights of old, the eastern chapter of the Brotherhood has been more interested in justice and safety for the obviously weaker and less fortunate around them to a certain extent. Ghouls and super mutants are not included, as the Brotherhood believes them to be dangerous. Instead of keeping their secrecy, the Brotherhood has been far more assertive in the goings on of wasteland politics and life. They continue in their mission of preserving and developing technology. Their motives are often unclear, to those outside their ranks. Brotherhood members are not people to be trifled with. The East Coast contingent of the Brotherhood when it was first founded had "gone native" under the leadership of Elder Owyn Lyons. Lyons felt the Brotherhood had a responsibility to protect the people of the Capital Wasteland from the super mutant threat; a notion not entirely lost on Elder Maxson, who continues to use soldiers to combat Super Mutants and other threats.
As of 2287, It is clear that the Brotherhood is an unrivaled power in the region, and draws most of its new recruits from the area. Based off of information from dialogue, terminals, and holotapes the Brotherhood appears to have evolved politically into an Ordensstaat (Order-State) akin to the old "Teutonic Order", and governs the Capital Wasteland directly as its own "country". Additionally, The Brotherhood now looks forward to the future, attempting to build more and improve technology, unlike their West Coast counterpart.
The East Coast Brotherhood chain of command is divided into six clear levels.
- Initiates are Brotherhood-born members and sponsored outsiders who are training to become knights, scribes or lancers.
- Lancers are the backbone of the Brotherhoods newly formed airforce. Without them the Brotherhood would be unable to operate their vast fleets of VB-01 transport and VB-02 attack vertibirds.
- Knights are fully fledged members who have served time in the Brotherhood. They are professional soldiers, and the main backbone of the Brotherhood's ground forces.
- Paladins are the Brotherhood's elite, seasoned veterans that are often high ranking field commanders or used in elite strike teams.
- Scribes are the brains to the Brotherhood's brawn. They are responsible for the development and research of all brotherhood technology, as well as the maintenance of advanced systems, weapons and armor and any other technical requirements.
- Sentinel is a rare rank, only given to the Brotherhood's best and most distinguished soldiers. The last known sentinel was Sarah Lyons, daughter of Elder Owyn Lyons; she was the highest ranking field commander under Elder Lyons, and commanded the Lyon's Pride, a single squad of the chapter's best soldiers. It is unknown if the Pride still operates as of 2287. The Sole Survivor can achieve this rank through completion of A New Dawn. There are also two known BoS members at the Boston Airport that will eventually achieve the rank of Sentinel some time after the main quest is completed.
Sometime after 2277 the Brotherhood formed an air force for the operation and training of pilots for their captured Vertibirds. These pilots are known as lancers.
With all the Brotherhood's recent success including the defeat of the Enclave and subsequent acquisition of all Enclave technology, including all power armor and weapons, and the reintegration of the Brotherhood Outcasts, the East Coast division of the Brotherhood is at the zenith of its power. They have access to Vertibirds, power armor, and energy weapons; as well as the ability to mass produce more of these according to Paladin Danse. They also possess a new and improved, rebuilt Liberty Prime, as well as the Prydwen, a colossal airship developed by the Brotherhood, which Paladin Danse claims houses enough troops and resources to "push a full scale offensive" and is capable of "mobilizing the whole division according to Arthur Maxson. Thanks to the Brotherhood maintaining their policy of open recruitment, their numbers on the east coast have vastly increased. Evidenced by the Brotherhood holding power and influence all across the eastern seaboard. Maxson refers to the Brotherhood as a Division suggesting they could number from 10,000 to 20,000 strong.
In light of their recently acquired fleet of Vertibirds, the Brotherhood division under Elder Maxson now frequently conducts air assault operations within the Commonwealth, the foremost examples of which can be experienced in the missions Spoils of War and The Battle of Bunker Hill. Patrol and shock teams are frequently dropped into the Commonwealth to secure objectives deemed valuable to the Brotherhood or to eliminate hostile threats from an area.
Rank system
Exclusive to the current East Coast Brotherhood is a system of rank insignias among the knights and paladins. It has only been observed on their power armor so far but all the rank insignias appear to be based off a pentagon, which could be a reference to their base of operations the Citadel. The rank of initiate is an outline of a pentagon, then a full knight is a solid pentagon with chevrons added to it to denote knight-sergeants and knight-captains. A paladin's insignia is an elongated solid pentagon with a sword inside of it and a pair of wings flanking it. Sentinels and elders employ the same pentagon and wing motif but with a single diamond for sentinels and three diamonds for elders within the outline of a pentagon.
Special forces
- Lyon's Pride - The "Pride", as it was known colloquially, was an elite unit of the east coast division of the Brotherhood of Steel under Elder Lyons. The Pride was led by the then-sentinel Sarah Lyons, daughter of the erstwhile Elder Owyn Lyons. Members of the Pride were hand picked, and represented the best that the Brotherhood had to offer. As of 2287 there is little to no information on the unit or its fate.
Relations with the outside
Originally under Elder Lyons' rule, the East Coast Brotherhood was known to trade with outsiders, but as of 2277, there were many incidents which dissuaded the Brotherhood from such activities. The Brotherhood was also known to help patrol and defend settlements such as Megaton, until the super mutant threat escalated to the point that they were forced to withdraw from many key locations. In line with Elder Lyons' philosophy, Lyons' knights and paladins tried to protect any and all innocent wastelanders they encountered while out in the wasteland, and recruit them if possible. They were also known to hire mercenaries when needed, such as Reilly's Rangers. After the Battle of Project Purity, the Brotherhood began freely delivering Aqua Pura to settlements across the Capital Wasteland, working with Rivet City security and wasteland scavengers to organize the water caravans.
By 2287, the East Coast division of the Brotherhood has compromised between the former Elder Lyons' altruistic vision, and their traditional beliefs. They are relatively friendly towards human wastelanders and tolerate sentient ghouls, but have a generally hostile attitude towards super mutants, ferals and synths. The Brotherhood believes outsiders are too irresponsible and unrestrained to possess access to advanced technologies. They seek to control the dangerous technologies and would rather use them themselves to protect people rather than let the people themselves possess them. It is central to their beliefs that they must appropriate any dangerous technologies that they can control, and destroy the ones they cannot, such as the synths. By maintaining a monopoly on advanced technology, the Brotherhood hopes to protect the innocent and prevent a second apocalypse from occurring due to the irresponsible use of advanced technology.
Unlike the old West Coast Brotherhood, the East Coast division under Maxson has continued Lyon's practice of recruiting outsiders into the Brotherhood. While Lyons hastily welcomed outsiders into the ranks to bolster their forces, the Brotherhood under Maxson is more cautious, and recruits outsiders through a system of sponsorship. Under this system existing members of the Brotherhood can "sponsor" an outsider's entry into the ranks, making them an initiate. In this way the Brotherhood is able to balance its need for new recruits with their desire to ensure the loyalty of new members.
Following the liberation of Project Purity, the Brotherhood distribute bottles of purified water to various settlements (Megaton, Rivet City, Tenpenny Tower, Republic of Dave, Girdershade, Canterbury Commons, Temple of the Union, Girdershade, Arefu, Little Lamplight, Big Town, Oasis) around the Capital Wasteland. They do not serve to factions they and most other people consider are "evil". (Raiders, Paradise Falls slavers, Talon Company mercs, Super mutants, the Enclave, Brotherhood Outcasts)
In 2277, the East Coast Brotherhood primarily used T-45d power armor; this armor was much more widely issued, being given to most front-line personnel, and not just select paladins. They still used energy weapons, mostly the laser rifle and the laser pistol. However, due to the difficulty of finding, producing new parts, and maintaining the laser based weapons, and due to the fact that the Brotherhood no longer received supplies from the west coast, many paladins were forced to use traditional guns, notably the standard assault rifle and the Chinese assault rifle.
The Brotherhood has access to an extremely powerful pre war super weapon, Liberty Prime, a nigh invincible 40 foot tall communist-hating combat robot that packs enough firepower to decimate anything in its way. It was destroyed by an Enclave orbital missile strike, but the Brotherhood was able to not only rebuild prime, but improve on his original design, creating Liberty Prime MK.2. The Brotherhood transported the disassembled parts of Liberty Prime to the Commonwealth, where they rebuild him to working order and use him to fight the institute.
After the war against the Enclave, the Brotherhood gained access to a vast number of Vertibird gunships and stockpiles of energy weapons, power armor and many other advanced armaments.
As of 2287, the Brotherhood of Steel has gained access and manufactured a huge arsenal of T-60 power armor (which replaced the T-45 and T-51 power armor as the new standard issue power armor). This armor is only given to knights and above. The Brotherhood does not equip all of its knights and paladins with T-60 not due to an inability, but in order to maintain a level of flexibility in their operations. The Brotherhood have gained access to a large number of energy weaponry (all of the BoS members are equipped with laser rifles or Gatling lasers and even a vast supply of VB-01 and VB-02 Vertibirds, with the ability to manufacture even more according to Paladin Danse. They also possessed a heavily armored airship, the Prydwen, which according to Paladin Danse, can carry enough troops and supplies to launch a major offensive. The airship also serves as their mobile command center.
With the destruction of the Enclave, The Brotherhood of Steel East Coast division far surpasses their West Coast counterparts in terms of numbers and technology (as the West Coast, for years, have struggled in their war against the NCR, and has been forced to go into hiding in various bunkers). Although there is evidence on the Prydwen terminals that they may be operating on the surface again once more.
The War in the Commonwealth
The Brotherhood is a major player in the Commonwealth's fate, if the Sole Survivor decides to side with them. Before taking on the Institute, however, they must first establish their foothold around the Boston Airport, such as wiping out the super mutants at Fort Strong and, most importantly, getting Liberty Prime back online. This requires the help of Dr. Madison Li, a scientist who previously helped on the project ten years ago before heading to the Commonwealth to join the Institute. After infiltrating the Institute and recruiting Dr. Li, the Brotherhood solves the problems with attaching Prime's limbs, but unfortunately the giant robot requires a huge amount of nuclear energy, as well as Mark 28 nuclear bombs, which can only be found at the Mass Fusion headquarters in the middle of the ruins of Boston, and Sentinel site in the Glowing Sea, respectively.
After retrieving the nukes and the Beryllium agitator Prime is finally set to take on the Institute. Liberty Prime, assisted by the Brotherhood, blows through waves of synths while trekking through the ruins of Boston (stopping briefly to salute the memorial at Bunker Hill), and finally arrive at the ruins of CIT, where a huge Brotherhood contingent is fighting through the synths defending the ruins. While Prime scans for a weak spot to blow open an entrance to the underground facility of the Institute, the Brotherhood mops up any remaining synths sent to defend the outside of the facility. Prime finds a weak spot, and uses his lasers to blow a hole in the ground which opens to the old abandoned Robotics facility. The Sole Survivor takes point, aided by Elder Maxson (and Paladin Brandis, if they completed The Lost Patrol appropriately), as well as, depending on their level, several Legendary knight-sergeants, Legendary knight-captains, or Legendary paladins. Brandis has the potential of dying during this quest.
Maxson states his disappointment with the Old Robotics Center, saying that he expected much more from the Institute. As the squad fights through more synths and turrets, they enter the Bioscience area, where Maxson states that this is "exactly what he fears," in other words, science which is uncontrolled and unrestrained. They come to the atrium where several coursers and synths are waiting for them. After eliminating them, Proctor Ingram states over the intercom that they require access to the Advanced Systems area, but the lockdown engaged in the facility is preventing them from accessing it. The Sole Survivor goes to the Director's office, where Shaun is in the final stages of cancer. The Sole Survivor has the option of having one final conversation with him, where Shaun will condemn the Sole Survivor. The Sole Survivor has the option of gloating over their victory or saying their goodbyes to their son. Shaun can also be persuaded to give the access code to shut down some very powerful synths guarding the door to the Advanced Systems area.
After overriding the lockdown (and optionally issuing the evacuation order, which will affect their reputation with the Minutemen and Preston Garvey in the future), the squad goes to the Advanced Systems area and, from there, the nuclear reactor area. The Brotherhood sets the fusion pulse charge on the reactor and, after some business with the Shaun synth, teleports to the top of the Mass Fusion building where the Sole Survivor presses the button that ends the Institute permanently.
Alternatively, if the Sole Survivor decides to destroy the Institute with the Minutemen, his fellow knights and paladins state that they are angry they weren't invited to the "party," envious that the Minutemen have so much firepower, and surprised that the Minutemen actually had the strength to take on the Institute. Named characters, however, will react differently. Proctor Ingram will state that while it might not have been the Brotherhood way to use the Minutemen to destroy the Institute, it still got the job done, no matter what the cost, and approves of the Sole Survivor's actions. Proctor Quinlan says he approves of the "crater" in the middle of Boston, and how the Sole Survivor must be proud. He also states it was "ingenious" to use the Minutemen as "cannon fodder," thus minimizing casualties in the Brotherhood, and states his displeasure with his colleagues' "narrow-mindedness." Paladin Danse states that even though the Minutemen were used to get the job done, in the end, all that matters is that a new age in the Commonwealth is taking place, no matter who struck the killing blow to the Institute. The Sole Survivor, depending on choices made up to this point, will remain either a knight or a paladin, and will not recieve the promotion to sentinel, due to The Nuclear Option not being completed for the Brotherhood.
The Institute isn't the only problem the Brotherhood is having since landing in the Commonwealth. Proctor Quinlan requires technical documents found in pre-War ruins that might have information pertaining to important technology, weapon schematics, or military bunkers left behind in the war. Senior Scribe Neriah requires blood samples from heavily irradiated species such as feral ghouls, yao guai, and super mutants. Even after Danse is banished from the Brotherhood, Recon Squad Gladius still needs to complete their duties in Cambridge Police Station, such as cataloging tech or cleansing an area of radiation infected beings.
- A knight's eulogy found on a terminal on the Prydwen refers to the Brotherhood as a "country", more or less implying that the Brotherhood has evolved into an Ordensstaat, a little known political concept denoting a military order that has become a sovereign state in its own right. The best, and possibly only examples of an Ordensstaat found in history are the Teutonic Order after the invasion of Prussia, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (formerly the Knights Hospitaller).
- The East Coast Brotherhood is the only chapter/division that is mentioned as currently having a functioning air force. Although in the past there have been airships like the Prydwen built to explore Eastward, but the Brotherhood has not had a fighting force of Vertibirds shown or mentioned in a game until Fallout 4. The only other currently know factions capable of matching the Eastern Brotherhood in air superiority are the Enclave (location and status unknown but definitely a viable opponent) and the NCR (as they acquired an unknown amount of vertibirds after their war with the Enclave on the West Coast.)
- Paladin Danse mentions that the Brotherhood once ruled a quarry somewhere outside of but near the Capital Wasteland, referring to the situation as "more trouble than it was worth".[1]
- Should the Sole Survivor choose to wipe out the synths of Acadia, the Brotherhood of Steel will establish a presence at Mount Desert Island, using Acadia as a forward operating base.
- After completing Spoils of War the Brotherhood will use the Mass Fusion building as an outpost, most of the soldiers will say that the building is a "goldmine" for tech and that the scribes are still searching the building.
- After completing Ad Victoriam, the Brotherhood will take control of pre-war military checkpoints scattered throughout The Commonwealth.
- By 2287, the Brotherhood appears to use a new flag which has an orange background with the Brotherhood logo in white, the reason for this change is unknown. It is possible that when Elder Maxson took charge he changed the Brotherhood's flag from the previous flag because the previous flag represented the ideals of Elder Lyons' Brotherhood, which concentrated on helping wastelanders and recruiting as many as possible, to the point where it did more harm than good.
The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel appears in Fallout 3, its add-on, Broken Steel, and Fallout 4. They are also mentioned in the other Fallout 3 add-ons, Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt and Mothership Zeta, and they are again mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes
The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel have some similarities and differences with other Fallout games:
- External recruitment is also present in Fallout Tactics, and for the "Texas Expedition" in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
- The Brotherhood Outcasts, renegades deserted from the newly established Brotherhood of Steel division are similar to the Circle of Steel in Van Buren.
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Domino's Pizza still delivers. But more and more, customers want to stop in and pick up a pizza to go.
It's those "pick up" customers – whose orders now make up about a third of the delivery chain's $7.4 billion in sales – that Domino's wants to appeal to with a new store format, the "Pizza Theater."
The first one in the Baltimore area opened this week in the city's Hamilton neighborhood on Harford Road.
All Domino's new stores will feature the concept, built around additional seating for those placing or waiting for orders. The Hamilton store has a comfortable lobby, open-area viewing of pizza-making and a lobby screen that tracks carryout orders. Customers can leave messages on chalkboards.
The store opened for business Monday, but needs more employees and is hiring drivers, managers and customer service representatives.
Times have changed since most people knew Domino's as a phone number to call rather than a place to go, Chris Brandon, a Domino's spokesman, said in an NBC News story on the new format.
"Many consumers never even knew where their Domino's store was located," Brandon told NBC. "With the increase of pick-up orders, we're just trying to create a more welcoming atmosphere."


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Garcelle Beauvais Nabs Recurring Role on E!'s 'The Arrangement'
*Garcelle Beauvais has lined up a recurring role on Season 2 of E!'s hit series "The Arrangement."
The series stars Josh Henderson, Christine Evangelista, Lexa Doig and Michael Vartan in a Hollywood love story that brings to life the darker side of fame.
Beauvais will play Mason, a charismatic and intelligent businesswoman with ties to DeAnn's (Doig) past.
The project hails from Universal Cable Productions and Emmy-winning writer/EP Jonathan Abrahams (Mad Men).
Beauvais, known for her roles as Fancy Monroe on "The Jamie Foxx Show" and as Valerie Haywood on ABC's "NYPD Blue," most recently recurred on Syfy's "The Magicians" and guest-starred on "Chicago Med."
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The Virtual United Negro College Fund Tour Heads to NY, DC & NJ on Fri & Sat-Nov. 20 & 21 (EUR EXCLUSIVE!)
*African American students interested in going to college can attend the United Negro College Fund's (UNCF) Fall 2020 virtual Empower Me Tour. Set for this Friday and Saturday (November 20 & 21, 2020), New York, District of Columbia, and New Jersey will be repped. (This year's tour kicked off earlier this month in Wisconsin and Illinois). To register, go here.
The Empower Me Tour is an extension of the goals of the UNCF. Founded in 1944, the UNCF, a non-profit, has raised more than $5 billion and helped more than 500,000 students attend 37 private historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
The EUR caught up with Stacey Lee, the tour's director for four years, who discussed the importance of the event.
"The UNCF is the nation's largest provider of education support to minority students," said Lee. "The Empowerment Tour has been executed for the past 12 years and last year along we offered over $12 million dollars in scholarships."
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Lee continued, "I think the great thing is that during these times, even with COVID-19, is that a number of corporations (Wells Fargo/P&/FedEx/Disney/Goldman Sachs) and donors have really been providing opportunity and financial access to our schools and students."
The tour is packed with information and resources so that students and parents have the right tools to make informed decisions.
"It's a free event that provides educational support, scholarships, interviews with colleges, empowerment, and information on how to get to and through college. We also provide this information for parents as well. We have a parent section that focuses on financial aid and the things you need to get your students to college."
Lee continued, "Sometimes we have students that don't realize that they can attend college. They can receive scholarships. Some of them don't even know what an HBCU is. So, it's inspirational for me to see these students receive this information and the excitement that's around this tour."
In addition to college information, panel sessions on issues affecting the community will also take place. Legendary rapper Bun B will be part of a special My Black Is Beautiful panel. The panel will have discussions with girls and boys and the MC will lead the male portion.
"It's about empowerment," Bun B told the EUR. "It's vital for us to lift each other up and amplify each other's voices. We just talk about now what that role is in this COVID world. And with everything that we are seeing with young Black men on television, we want to keep them motivated and centered. We want to make sure that they are not discouraged in this moment."
Ever since Kamala Harris threw her hat into the presidential race and elected vice president of the United States, a spotlight has shined on the fact that she's an HBCU grad (Howard University) and member of the African American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. These facts are not lost on the UNCF.
"Kamala has really boosted people's awareness about HBCUs and (African American sororities) and the type of people that come out of HBCUs. HBCUS have also provided so many people from science, mathematics, and engineering programs (STEM)."
Bun B added, "We have more than enough examples to show you how beneficial an education from an HBCU can be. So, there is no reason to not be a part of an HBCU because the world is just as available to you as it is for anyone else attending any other type of university."
Register for the virtual Empower Me Tour on November 20 & 21, 2020 here. Spring tour dates will be announced soon. For general information on the United Negro College Fund, go here.
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New Music Buzz: Jazzy Rita Shelby's 'Goodbye 2020'
*SB Music presents "Goodbye 2020" a new single for the times we are in.
"Goodbye 2020" is performed by Jazzy Rita Shelby and written by Miss Shelby (ASCAP) and Eddie Lawrence Miller (BMI).
It's the perfect anthem to end a year that has impacted the globe.
EURweb's Jazzy Rita is also a prolific lyricist who has teamed up with Eddie Miller for "Goodbye 2020" because it was timely and convenient for the birth of a song such as this.
Eddie Miller is a coveted keyboardist & vocalist who performs regularly with Brian Culbertson and he's the Rhodes Festival musical director. Jazzy Rita rose to notoriety as host & performer at The Starlight Jazz Serenade, an annual benefit concert in North Hollywood with an A list of stars. As a teen Miss Shelby was inspired to write songs by the legendary David Porter.
This year has been a year like no other. "Goodbye 2020" is an ode to the world for the year that we have seen and the hope that lies ahead. Radio Programmers click here for adds.
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"Goodbye 2020" is released on the SB Music label and was recorded at Wishing Wells Studio in Canoga Park, CA. Willie Daniels and Mildred Black perform background vocals along with Jazzy Rita. The video is produced & directed by Jazzy Rita (LaRita Shelby), filmed & edited by Reggie Simon of Simon Vision Media, with wardrobe styling by Jazzy Rita and Poet Roni Girl's Army Couture. "Goodbye 2020" is available on most digital platforms. Click here to listen on Spotify.
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Celebrate Halloween with 'Spell' Starring Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine and John Beasley / WATCH
*Today/TONIGHT is Halloween and what could be a more perfect way to celebrate than with the release of SPELL? Enjoy the clips below to get you in the spooky spirit!
Omari Hardwick ("Power," Sorry to Bother You), Loretta Devine ("Black-ish," Crash) and John Beasley (The Sum of All Fears, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) star in the terrifying thriller SPELL, coming to Premium Video-On-Demand and Digital today October 30 from Paramount Home Entertainment.
While flying to his father's funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis (Omari Hardwick) to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family. He awakens wounded, alone and trapped in Ms. Eloise's (Loretta Devine) attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.
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DIRECTED BY | Mark Tonderai
SCREENPLAY BY | Kurt Wimmer
STARRING | Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine, John Beasley
AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS | Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, DirecTV, VUDU, Xfinity, FandangoNOW and more.
Rating | R – violence, disturbing/bloody images, and language
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Your Peace of the Week
by: Marissa Anteby
You deserve a hug for all the things you do for so many people. You may be surprised when I tell you who the best person is to give you this hug. It's you! There's no better time to get your hug, than right now. Good, bad, or indifferent, this week is coming to a close. It's only hours away from being over. How about throwing the whole week behind you and allowing this Shabbat to be the start of something new. Can you envision it? Really experiencing each new moment as it comes, without the added narration of past disappointments or projections and fears of what may happen in the future? I say, let's go for it. Let's take the leap of faith together. Release your grip on old patterns of behavior. If you think about it, you'll agree, those habits aren't benefiting you anyway.
Here's a simple Mind/Body exercise you can do to clear out your subconscious cobwebs and stagnant energy:
1- Stand tall, with your feet hip distance apart.
2- Give yourself a big hug.
3- Inhale, as you open your arms as wide as you can, throwing your arms behind you.
4- Exhale, as you close your arms, embracing yourself once again.
5- Repeat #2 thru #4, for a cycle of 8 repetitions.
For a bigger lift to your spirits, add the following variations:
1- Go as slow as you can, with your arm movements and breathing.
2- Turn your head to the right as you inhale.
3- Turn your head to the left as you exhale.
If you're feeling really brave, you might try adding some words to your movements:
1- Say the word "big," as you open your arms.
2- Say the word "thanks," as you close your arms.
3- Giving yourself, "big thanks!"
You can even mix and match the variations or make up your own. Just remember to always be gentle with yourself. The object is to show a little appreciation to yourself, not get stressed out. After all, even though we never take the time to do it, thanking ourselves for all that we do, may be the most important gift of gratitude.
As always, scroll all the way down to post your comments. I really enjoy reading them, and 1 lucky winner will be chosen from people who comment, to win a FREE Thai Yoga Massage from www.embodyinc.com
Shabbat Shalom,
Marissa Anteby is a wife, and a mother of 4 children. Her company www.embodyinc.com hosts holistic exercise classes in Cycling, Pilates, and Yoga, in cities throughout New York and New Jersey. Marissa maintains more than 10 wellness related certifications, including Reiki Massage, and Thai Yoga Massage. http://embodyinc.blogspot.com/p/marissa-antebys-bio.html


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We are trained in handling the removal of dust, dirt and stains by utilizing a unique and eco-friendly approach. We apply different stain removal techniques depending upon the nature of the stains such as make up, shoe polish, red wine, water marks, oil and others. At Clean Carpet Sydney, we make a constant endeavor to apply and rectify the cleaning requirements and utilize state-of-the-art machines in order to maintain the original look and luster of the carpet.
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LG's Optimus G Pro once seemed like just a rumor. Today it's become more of a reality, as the handset has cropped up on Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo's website as part of its spring lineup.
Though there's no pricing available just yet, the Optimus G Pro will have a quad-core 1.7Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, as well as a 5-inch, 1080p display, 3000mAh battery, 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 32GB of built-in storage. A microSDXC expansion slot will also be available. The Optimus G Pro will feature LTE and NFC capabilities, Android Jelly Bean 4.1 and will be a bit bigger, thicker, and heavier than its predecessor, the Optimus G—it will measure in at 139 x 70 x 10.0mm and weigh about 160g.
Japanese consumers will be able to buy the phone in April, though there is still no word on whether it will come to the United States.
As mentioned, the LG Optimus Pro is the successor to the company's Optimus G smartphone, but that doesn't mean its launch will put the older model to bed. LG currently has plans to bring the Optimus G to other untapped LTE markets later this month, such as China and several European countries.


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Ancestry is the world's largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 17 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than two million subscribers to create over 13 billion historical records, along with millions of DNA results to make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.
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This is a contract position performing document preservation in Newark, New Jersey. Working as a document/archival preservationist for Ancestry requires a technical and computer literate individual who ideally has previous experience working with digitization, archival documents, and/or goal oriented production projects. Qualified candidates will also be detail-oriented, organized, and accustomed to working independently in an environment that handles focused and repetitive tasks which requires a logical balance of efficiency and accuracy. This opportunity requires the contractor to work within the normal business hours of the office and, as such, is not a work-from-home opportunity and will be paid $13 hourly.
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I recently wrote an iPhone app (Waiting for approval in the app store at the time of writing) that needed data exported from a website (recyclinggroupfinder.com). The simplest way of handling external data in an app it seems is using a plist file, so I wrote this to generate one for me.
First of all I made my action respond to the plist format:
Next I created a builder file to format the data:
Then register the MIME type at the bottom of environment.rb:
Mime::Type.register "text/plist", :plist
And that's it! Well mostly. The XML file generated can be made significantly smaller by converting it into the binary plist format, run this on the command line in terminal after downloading the generated XML plist.
cat things_xml.plist | plutil -convert binary1 - -o things.plist
The resultant binary plist is almost half the size of the XML one, much better for inclusion in an iPhone app:
pleb:~ will$ ls -l things*
-rw-r--r-- 1 will will 1247300 20 Jan 18:50 things.plist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 will will 2110437 20 Jan 18:50 things_xml.plist
Of course it would be much better to generate the binary format directly, and the plist-official gem looks like it can handle that and I mean to investigate, but I wrote the XML version before finding the gem, and it works for me!
Edit: the plist_official gem seems to be gone, but check out the binary plist gem instead.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- China's Lenovo Group Ltd. is buying Motorola Mobility from Google Inc. for $2.91 billion. That's nearly $9.6 billion less than the $12.5 billion Google paid for the unit at the end of 2012.
On the surface, this might sound like a Silicon Valley megadeal gone terribly wrong. But it might also be a monster win for both Google
Google bought Motorola Mobility to, in its own words, "supercharge the Android ecosystem." In less than two years, Google has rummaged through Motorola's patent library, putting to work anything that could give a competitive edge to the open Android operating system while, in turn, eating into the Apple iPhone's share of the global smartphone market.
It worked. But Google could only go so far down that road because of the underlying conflict it posed for its Android-based smartphone customers, who became competitors the minute Google bought Motorola. At the same time, it means Google, having recently signed a licensing agreement with Samsung, can help push Samsung's Android-based phones right to the top of the market.
So Google is handing off Motorola Mobility to a company that A) has no business channel conflicts and B) is just as eager as Google to keep pounding away at Apple and Samsung. And Lenovo has been quick to make inroads into the smartphone market, rising to No. 5 world-wide in 2013.
Meanwhile, Lenovo is getting Motorola for a song, helping the Chinese company build the arsenal it needs to conquer more territory in the combative world of smartphones. It also makes them the most formidable player at home, where Apple recently signed a deal with China Mobile to leverage their shot at the world's biggest smartphone market.
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C. Keith Conners
University of Chicago, 1953, B.A., Liberal Arts
Oxford University, 1955, M.A., Philosophy, Psychology & Physiology
Stanford University, 1956
Harvard University, 1960, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
Keith Conners was born and raised in Utah with an older sister and a twin sister. He spent his first year in school in a one-room schoolhouse in Ophir, Utah. After his appendix ruptured, his family moved to Salt Lake City to obtain better medical treatment. At 15, he skipped most of high school and went to study in Chicago. He became a clinical psychologist and founded the ADHD program at Duke University. He has done a number of studies of how foods affect attention in children, including writing a book called Feeding the Brain. Although he is retired, he occasionally lectures and consults. He also spends his time, writing, reading, and painting oil and watercolors. He credits the Rhodes experience for pointing him to psychology as his profession, as well as providing him with peak experiences that have lasted a lifetime.
Q. I read that you were born in Bingham, Utah. At what age did you move to Salt Lake City?
From Bingham, I moved to a little mountain village called Ophir. Ophir in the Bible was the place where King Solomon's mines were supposedly located. It was a small town that served a large mining operation nearby called The Hidden Treasure. I lived in this canyon town until I was five. I still regard that experience as "a hidden treasure" in my growing up.
It was there that I did my first "psychotherapy" at the age of four. There was a lady in her late 80s named Mrs. Howerth, who lived down the road. On the way to work, my dad walked past her house. He had to climb over a mountain about five miles to where they were mining. He did that every day and learned that Mrs. Howerth who lived on his was was there with nobody to take care of her.
He suggested to me that it would be nice if I would take her a pot of soup. So I lugged a pot of soup to her little house where she had chickens, and introduced myself. She was gracious and charming, and sat in one small room with the rest of the house closed off. I sat in a chair and she started talking with me. She was very glad to have company and liked to talk about her life. She would have been one of the original pioneers in that part of the country before Utah was a state. She had a husband who had long since passed away, and there was a portrait of him that sat behind her. He was in a cowboy hat and had a red beard. She told a lot of really interesting stories about their pioneer days. I would sit there for hours listening to her tell these stories. A day or two later, I would come back and bring her some more food, or groceries, or just to listen to her stories. That was how I learned to sit still and listen for a long time to people's life stories. It is one of my fondest memories, not only because of the beauty of the surroundings, but also because of the quiet harmony with adults who allowed us to explore freely while still feeling safe wandering through the valley unattended most of the time.
I lived there until I had a ruptured appendix, when they rushed me to a hospital in Salt Lake City. I had contracted peritonitis and in those days with no antibiotics, it was a fairly serious event. Since there was no hospital, or medical care near the canyon, we moved to Salt Lake in 1939. I remember that time fairly vividly. When I was getting treatments for peritonitis, I remember seeing headlines in the newspaper that Hitler invaded Poland. I would have been six years old. I grew up in Salt Lake until the end of the Second World War.
Clifton Cleaveland
Duke University, 1958, A.B., Chemistry
University of Oxford, 1961, M.A., Physiology
Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1964, M.D.
Clif Cleaveland was born and raised in a small town called LaGrange in Georgia near the Alabama border. He is the oldest child with a sister who is four years younger. When he was fourteen years old, his family moved to South Carolina. From a very young age, he wanted to become a doctor. He graduated from medical school in the mid-1960's and served as a doctor in the U.S. Army. After a fellowship at Vanderbilt University, he focused his practice on internal medicine until his retirement in 2004. He is a former president of the American College of Physicians and his work on healthy policy issues has led him to testify before Congressional hearing committees. He is also the author of two books, Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine and Healers and Heroes: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times. He currently teaches an undergraduate course at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and writes a column about health issues for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. A major influence on his writing and viewpoint about health care was from his experience of becoming very sick as a student at Oxford and receiving medical treatment under the British national health service. He currently lives in Tennessee with his wife of 50 years.
David Carey
University of British Columbia, 1938, B.A., History
University of Oxford, 1938-1939, Philosophy, Politics & Economics
David Carey was born in 1913 in Malaysia to British parents. For most of his elementary and secondary education, he attended boys' boarding schools in England. When he was seventeen, his family immigrated to Canada. World War II started while he was attending Oxford University as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. He decided leave school in order to enlist, but did not qualify for military service because of cancer. During the war, he worked for the Canadian Department of Labor. After the war, he spent about twenty-five years volunteering and working for Moral Re-Armament. Carey worked another fifteen years as the public relations director for Up With People, a spin-off of MRA. In 1983, he retired to Asheville, North Carolina. Besides having an active civic life in his retirement, he is known for his tennis ability. He started playing tennis regularly at the age of 65 and he has won 31 USTA national senior championships in singles and doubles. He won the 2000 world singles title in the 85-age bracket and has held the number one US ranking in the ninety-year-old age group. Regarding playing in the men's 90 division, he is quoted as saying, "Yes, there were more than two of us playing in all these tournaments!" When the weather is okay, he plays tennis three, or four times a week.
Gerrit Gong
Brigham Young University, 1977, B.A., University Studies and Asian Studies
University of Oxford, 1979 & 1980, M. Phil. & D. Phil., International Relations
Gerrit Gong was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. He is the eldest of three siblings. Both of his parents were educators. His father was a university professor and his mother was an elementary school teacher. He has taught at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and and Brigham Young University. In the mid '80s, he worked for the U.S. government as special assistant to the Undersecretary of State at the State Department and special assistant to the U.S. ambassador in Beijing, China. At the time of this interview, he was the assistant to the president of Brigham Young University in Utah, focusing on planning and assessment. He is now a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jaquelin Robertson
Yale University, 1955, B.A., Political Science
University of Oxford, 1957, M.A., Politics, Philosophy & Economics
Yale School of Architecture, 1961, M.Arch.
Jaquelin Robertson is an architect and urban planner at Cooper, Robertson & Partners, a firm in New York City that he co-founded in 1988. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the youngest of three children. A short, but influential period in his life occurred at age 11 when his family lived in China for a year and a half. At the start of his architectural career, he was one of the founders of the New York City Urban Design Group, the first Director of the Office of Midtown Planning and Development and a City Planning Commissioner under Mayor John Lindsay. In his thirties, he spent three years in Iran directing the planning and design of Tehran's new capitol center. From 1980 to 1988, he served as the dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture. His awards include the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture in 1998, the Seaside Prize for his contribution to American Urbanism and the 2007 Driehaus Prize for work in the field of traditional, classical and sustainable architecture.
Rachel Kleinfeld
Yale University, 1998, B.A., Ethics, Politics & Economics
University of Oxford, 2009, M. Phil. & D. Phil., International Relations
Rachel Kleinfeld was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, with two brothers. In 2005, she co-founded the Truman National Security Project, a leadership institute for training progressives on national security. She is currently its president and executive director. She is also a regular contributor on radio and television programs and her commentary has appeared in numerous national journals and newspapers. She was recently named by TIME Magazine as one of the 40 under 40 "rising stars of American politics." She splits her time between Washington, D.C. and Colorado.
Amherst College, 1954, B.A., History
University of Oxford, B.A. 1956; M.A. 1961, History
Harvard University, 1960, Ph.D., History
James J. Barnes, the youngest of three sons, was born in Minnesota in 1931. He spent his childhood and adolescence in St. Paul, except for four years during World War II when his family lived outside of Buffalo, New York. In his youth, he excelled in football and music. He began teaching at Amherst College, his alma mater, but since 1962 he has spent his professional career at Wabash College, where he is now a Professor Emeritus of History. His interest in British history and culture led him to collaborate with his colleague and spouse Patience P. Barnes on numerous books and articles about the American Civil War from a British perspective, Nazism in the 1930s in England, and Fascism. He currently resides in Crawfordsville, Indiana, but still enjoys summer vacations in Minnesota.
Wesley Clark
United States Military Academy, West Point, 1966, B.S.
University of Oxford, 1968, M.A., Philosophy, Politics & Economics
Wesley Clark was born in 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, the only child of Benjamin and Veneta Kanne, a lawyer and a bank secretary. When Clark was not quite four years old, his father died. His mother then decided to move to Little Rock, Arkansas, where Clark's maternal grandparents lived. His mother eventually remarried in November 1954 to Victor Clark.
He attended Little Rock's public schools, except in tenth grade he went to Castle Heights Military Academy in Tennessee, because the Little Rock Board of Education decided shut down the city's two high schools in 1958 rather than desegregate. When he returned to Little Rock for his junior year, he helped the swim team win the state championship. Even though he could have gotten a full scholarship to Harvard, Clark was set on going to West Point. He "wanted the challenge, the leadership, the outdoor life, the adventure." And when he enrolled at West Point at the age of 17, he was entering an institution that had educated two men he admired, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur. He excelled at West Point, eventually graduating first in his class.
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Jeremy Dauber
Harvard University, 1995, A.B., Social Studies
University of Oxford, 1999, D. Phil., Yiddish Studies
Jeremy Dauber grew up in Northern New Jersey, the oldest of three boys. Before heading to college, he studied abroad for a year at a yeshiva in Israel. He is currently an associate professor in the Germanic Languages and Literatures department at Columbia University, where he is also the director of the Yiddish studies program and director of the university's Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. He has written Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature and co-edited and co-translated (with Joel Berkowitz) an anthology called Landmark Yiddish Plays. He has also written a television and movie review column for the Christian Science Monitor.
We spoke in August 2008 during the Beijing Summer Olympics.
Barnaby Marsh
Cornell University, 1996, A.B., Economics, Psychology & International Affairs
University of Oxford, 2000, D. Phil., Zoology
Barnaby Marsh is the oldest of five children. At an early age, he moved with his family from Pennsylvania to Alaska. He spent most of his formative years growing up in the Alaskan wilderness near Denali National Park. His parents home-schooled him and cultivated a problem-solving outlook. He did not receive any formal educational training until he enrolled at Harvard for his freshman year. After a year at Harvard, he transferred to Cornell, where he chose to take double course loads for the challenge and to get the most out of his undergraduate experience. He currently works for the John Templeton Foundation as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. He is also the Managing Director of the Templeton Philanthropic Leadership Network, defined as "a group of world leaders in business and philanthropy who aim to find innovative ways to address philanthropic challenges." [link]
Carolyn Conner Seepersad
West Virginia University, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1996
University of Oxford, B.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 1998
Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2001
Georgia Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 2004
Carolyn Conner Seepersad grew up in West Virginia, where she also attended college. She was West Virginia University's twenty-fifth Rhodes Scholar. At an early age, she excelled in math and science. She is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
Clyde Seepersad
University of the West Indies (Barbados), B.S., Accounting, 1996
University of Oxford, M.B.A., 1997
University of Oxford, M.Sc., Economics for Development, 1999
Clyde Seepersad grew up on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, the second child of an attorney and schoolteacher. He was one of two students from the Commonwealth Caribbean in 1996 to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship. Professionally, he has worked at the Finance Ministry in Trinidad and Tobago and was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group. Most recently, he was a senior vice president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental Publishers. He just started his own consulting firm in Austin, Texas.
Elisabeth Köl
University of Bonn, Germany, 1984-86, Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies & Business Administration
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1988, B.A. equivalent, Chinese language & economic history
University of Bonn, Germany, 1992, M.A., Chinese Studies (major), Japanese Studies & Business Administration (minors)
University of Oxford, England, 1998, D. Phil., Modern Chinese History
Elisabeth Köll is a Rhodes Scholar from Germany, who has studied and researched extensively in China. She specializes in Chinese business and socio-economic history and is fluent in English and Chinese and proficient in Japanese. From 1998 to 2007, she was taught modern Chinese business and social history at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. In July 2008 she joined the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School as an associate professor with teaching assignments related to business history and doing business in China for the elective MBA curriculum and the doctoral program.
Dayne Walling
Michigan State University, 1996, B.A., Social Relations
University of Oxford, 1998, B.A., Modern History
University of London, 1999, M.A., Urban Affairs
Dayne Walling was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. In addition to winning a Rhodes Scholarship, he is also a recipient of a Truman scholarship. He has worked on the staff of Mayor Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C. and for the Urban Coalition and Ready for K in Minnesota. In 2006, he moved back to Flint. One year later, he ran for mayor. He lost by only 581 votes to the incumbent in the closest Flint mayoral race in 30 years. Despite his loss, he continues to focus on the challenges the city faces. He started a citizens group called Flint's Future Now. He is also the founder of 21st Century Performance, a management consulting firm. He plans on running for office again.
Michael Cannon
Washington University, 1973, A.B., Economics
University of Oxford, 1975, B. Litt., Politics
Yale Law School, 1978, J.D.
Michael Cannon grew up in Peoria, Illinois, with one older brother. After graduating from law school, he began his career as a federal prosecutor of government corruption cases for the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division. He went on to work at several private law firms in Washington, DC. Then, in 1993 he returned to St. Louis, Missouri, where he had done his undergraduate studies at Washington University. He is currently the university's Executive Vice Chancellor and General Counsel. He is also the uncle of Ben Cannon, who won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2000.
Maggie Little
University of Iowa, 1983, B.A., Philosophy
University of Oxford, 1985, B.Phil., Philosophy
University of California Berkeley, 1994, Ph.D., Philosophy
Maggie Little grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, the youngest daughter of a computer consultant and an insurance executive. She has one brother and a sister. From on early age, she started asking the big questions about life. Her curiosity led her to pursue the study of philosophy. Most of her work has focused in some form or another on ethics. She is currently an associate professor in Georgetown University's philosophy department and a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, a think-tank specializing in bioethics. She is also finishing a book entitled Intimate Duties: Re-Thinking Abortion, the Law, and Morality.
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Ford Runge
University of North Carolina, 1974, B.A., American Studies
University of Oxford, 1977, M.A., Politics and Economics
University of Wisconsin, 1980, M.A., Agricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin, 1981, Ph.D., Agricultural Economics
Ford Runge grew up in Wisconsin with two younger sisters, a stepbrother, and a stepsister. He is currently a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law and Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota. He also regularly contributes public opinion pieces that appear in the Pioneer Press, the Star Tribune, and the Financial Times. He also writes longer pieces. His most recent contribution is an article in Foreign Affairs called "How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor." It is representative of the work he does, which is designed to get people's attention.
Scott Bear Don't Walk
University of Montana, 1993, B.A., Philosophy
University of Oxford, 1993-1994, Modern History
New York University, 2007, M.F.A., Creative Writing
Scott Bear Don't Walk was born in Helena, Montana, but grew up mainly in Billings. He has one older brother and a younger sister. As the middle child, he describes himself as very diplomatic, careful, soft-spoken, wary, and pleasing. He is a member of the Crow tribe. His father, an attorney, has worked with various tribes throughout his career. His mother dedicates her time to work on American Indian health issues. He is the twenty-seventh Rhodes Scholar from the University of Montana. Recently, he completed a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at NYU, where he had the opportunity to work with writers Sharon Olds, Breyten Breytenbach, and Kimiko Hahn. He is a published poet and his long-term goal is being a writer. He is currently in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago at the Committee on Social Thought trying to fuse epic poetry and academics into something that matters on the reservation.
Jonathan E. Skinner
St. John's College, 1991, B.A., Liberal Arts
University of Oxford, 1993, B.A., English Language & Literature
University College London, 1996, M.A., Translation Studies
State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005, Ph.D., English
Jonathan Skinner was born and raised in a classic nuclear family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has also lived in Mexico, England, Italy, and France. He is the author of a poetry collection called Political Cactus Poems and the editor of ecopoetics, a journal exploring creativity mainly in the written form and ecology. Currently, he is an environmental studies professor at Bates College in Maine. He teaches a freshman writing seminar that emphasizes experiential learning. His class included a climb of Mt. Adams in the Presidential Range in New Hampshire and a canoe float on the Androscoggin River. And when he's at home, he has a view of a wild island populated with bald eagles.
Steven Umin
Yale College, 1959, B.A., Modern Literature & Philosophy
Universty of Oxford, 1961, Bachelor of Medicine
Yale Law School, 1964, J.D.
Steven Umin grew up in the Bronx during the 1940s and 1950s as the eldest son of a lower middle class family. He has only one younger sister. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale, where he was ranked first in his class. He planned on becoming a doctor before deciding to pursue law. After law school, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart. Over the years, he has been involved in a wide variety of cases in civil and criminal litigation. He is currently a senior member at Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C. And since 2000, he has been a mediator for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit. Besides making time for art, music, and friends, he also devotes himself to the fight against multiple sclerosis. He is a member of the board of the Multiple Sclerosis International Foundation in London, England, and the Sylvia Lawry Center in Munich, Germany.
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David Satter
University of Chicago, 1968, B.A., General Studies in the social sciences
University of Oxford, 1975, B. Litt., Political Philosophy
David Satter grew up in Chicago as the oldest of five children. He has one brother and three sisters. He is a journalist/author and a well-known Russia scholar. After his time at Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship, he worked as a police reporter for the Chicago Tribune and in 1976 became the Moscow correspondent of the London Financial Times. He has written two books, Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. His numerous articles and essays have been published in the Los Angeles Times, National Review, New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal. His first book, Age of Delirium, is also being made into a documentary film to be finished this year. In addition, he has made appearances on Russian television networks, CNN, C-Span, and the Charlie Rose Show. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Read the rest of this entry »
Jonathan Blake
Yale University, 1960, B.A., History
University of Oxford, 1962, B.A./M.A., Jurisprudence
Yale Law School, 1964, LL.B.
Jonathan Blake grew up in a small seaside town in New Jersey called Rumson. He is the eldest of three sons. He attended the school where his father was the headmaster and spent his high school years at Deerfield Academy, a boarding school in Connecticut. He has been a communications lawyer at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. since 1964 when he started out as an associate. He remains physically active by playing in three to four tennis tournaments annually and since the first U.S. oil crisis in 1973, he's been running to work. He has been described as one of the finest lawyers in America and "the most ethical person I can imagine in the law profession."*
Oluwabusayo Temitope Folarin
Morehouse College, 2004, B.A., Political Science
University of Oxford, 2006, M.Sc., African Studies & M.Sc.,Comparative Social Policy
Oluwabusayo Temitope Folarin, or "Tope" as he likes to be called, was born in Ogden, Utah. He has four younger siblings-three brothers and a sister. At the age of 14, his family moved from Utah to Texas. Although he completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, he spent a year at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and a semester in South Africa studying at the University of Cape Town. He also worked for an NGO where he interviewed Parliament members about including anti-child prostitution laws within the South African constitution and aided in the development of HIV/AIDS training clinics for rural South Africans. During the summer of 2004, before heading to Oxford, he was a Galbraith Scholar dealing with issues of inequality and social policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He finished his studies at Oxford last summer and he now works for Google in London.
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David Quammen
Yale University, 1970, B.A., Scholar of the House in English
University of Oxford, 1973, B. Litt., English
David Quammen is an award-winning writer, perhaps best known for his nature column called "Natural Acts" in Outside magazine from 1981 to 1995. His first novel, To Walk the Line, was published when he was 22 years old. He has authored three other works of fiction and seven non-fiction books, including Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, The Song of the Dodo, and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. His recently published book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. He is also a regularly contributing writer for National Geographic.
Below is the transcribed record of a verbal conversation. Neither David Quammen nor I have tried to make it read like a polished, fully grammatic piece of writing. It is what it is: human talk.
Faith Salie
Harvard University, 1993, B.A., History and Literature
University of Oxford, 1995, M. Phil., Modern English Literature
Faith Salie was born in Boston, but grew up mainly in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of three children. At an early age, she found a love for theater. She attended Northwestern University for a year before transferring to Harvard, where she won the Jonathan Levy Award for most promising actor at the university. She had a brief stint on "Sex in the City" involving a gold lamé outfit and portrayed a genetically enhanced mutant on a couple of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episodes. She has also done years of stand-up comedy and improv, including two seasons in the BRAVO sitcom, "Significant Others." You can now find her hosting a public radio satirical news and entertainment show called "Fair Game" from Public Radio International. Read the rest of this entry »
Katherine Eban
Brown University, 1989, BA; English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing
University of Oxford, 1990, M. Phil., English Literature
University of East Anglia, 1991, M.A., Creative Writing
Katherine Eban grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She is the younger of two daughters. Her father practices and teaches law, but he is also a statistician. Her mother is a theater scholar and critic. Katherine is an investigative reporter focusing on public health and homeland security issues. Her work has appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, the New Yorker, and Vogue. In her first book, Dangerous Doses, published in 2005, she unveiled the spread of counterfeit prescription drugs in the American supply chain. Her most current piece appears in the July issue of Vanity Fair. In the article called "Rorschach and Awe", she exposes the role of CIA-contracted psychologists in military interrogations and torture. Read the rest of this entry »
Leslie Epstein
Yale University, 1960, B.A., Scholar of the House in English
University of Oxford, 1962, Dipl., Anthropology
University of California-Los Angeles, 1963, M.A., Theater Arts
Yale Drama School, 1967, D.F.A., Playwriting
Leslie Epstein spent his childhood in the 1940s and 1950s in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California. He was part of a Hollywood screenwriting family. His father and uncle, Philip and Julius, wrote classics like Arsenic and Old Lace and won an Academy Award for Casablanca. He is the author of seven novels and three short story collections. His most controversial work was the novel, King of the Jews, in which he examines European Jews who betrayed their own people to the Nazis. He also wrote an autobiographical novel called San Remo Drive in 2003. For over 20 years, he has been the director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.
Below is an hour-long talk we had while he ate lunch and cleared the dishwasher at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Ben Cannon
Washington University, 1999, B.A., History
University of Oxford, 2003, B.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics & M.Sc., Comparative and International Education
Ben Cannon grew up primarily around Portland, Oregon, but attended college in St. Louis, Missouri. At Washington University, he started as a delivery boy for the student newspaper and became its editor-in-chief his senior year. He also moved the paper on-line and created a new journalism program for freshmen. After studying in Oxford for three years, he returned to his home state where he enjoys his favorite activities like hiking, camping, and running. He currently teaches American history and civics to sixth to eighth graders at Arbor School of Art and Sciences in Tualatin, just outside of Portland. Inspired by talks with his wife, a public school teacher, and others about educational issues, he decided to run for office. In 2006, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives. He is currently the youngest member in the legislature. His focus is on educational, health care, energy, and environmental issues.
Bonnie St. John
Harvard University, 1986, B.A., International Political Economy
University of Oxford, 1990, M. Litt., Economics
Bonnie St. John grew up in San Diego, California, the youngest of three children of a single working mother. At the age of five, her leg was amputated, because of a birth defect. But 10 years later, after a friend invited her to go skiing, she decided to pursue competitive skiing. While in college, she participated in the 1984 Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Despite falling after hitting an icy patch during one of her races, she went on to win two bronze medals in the slalom and giant slalom. She also received a silver medal for her overall ranking as the second-fastest female amputee skier in the world. Before becoming a motivational speaker and coach, she had a successful career in sales for IBM and was on the National Economic Council under the Clinton administration. She is also the author of three books: Succeeding Sane: Making Room for Joy in a Crazy World, Getting Ahead at Work Without Leaving Your Family Behind, and Money: Fall Down? Get Up! In November 2007, she published her fourth book entitled How Strong Women Pray, featuring interviews with Maya Angelou, Barbara Bush, Edie Falco, and others.
Matthew Polly
Princeton University, 1995, B.A., Religion and East Asian Studies
University of Oxford, 1998, M.A., Politics and Philosophy
Matthew Polly, the eldest of two children of a doctor and a homemaker, grew up in Topeka, Kansas. After his junior year at Princeton, he dropped out to study kung fu with the famous Shaolin monks in rural China for two years. He has documented his experience in his recently released book called American Shaolin. He has also written articles for Esquire, The Nation, Playboy, Publisher's Weekly, and Slate. He's currently looking for suggestions on a career that doesn't involve any work.
The following interview was conducted by email.