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swerte99 login Big houses and grand spaces leave lots of potential for some strange games. Melanie Cable-Alexander investigates. Driving a Land Rover blindfolded might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but, according to the Duchess of Fife, it can be a hoot. The idea, she explains, is to place two pairs of people in two vehicles and to encourage them to navigate a series of cones set in separate lanes, with one person in each couple at the steering wheel wearing a pair of blacked-out swimming goggles and the other issuing directions. ‘It’s hilarious when a husband-and-wife team is involved,’ she adds. The Duchess and her husband are nothing if not adventurous when it comes to entertainment at their home, Kinnaird Castle in Angus — particularly at Christmas, when the weather is inclement and the castle, by virtue of its sheer size, comes into its own, with games (albeit not the aforementioned Land Rover driving) being transferred from outside to indoors. You can tell that the corridors at Kinnaird are one big playground from the moment you walk into the main entrance hall, which has an air-hockey table right in the middle of it. Tractors, scooters and rollerblades (‘easier on stone than grass’) are given free rein in the long stone downstairs corridors and the top-floor corridor is devoted to crazy golf and bowls (‘the carpet is green, so it made sense’). The old kitchen is the trampoline room and the former staff dining room is for yoga. Best of all is the dedicated (and unheated) games room, created from a two-storey library and a second drawing room that was never rebuilt after a fire 100 years ago. The space houses, among other things, a ‘near enough life-size’ badminton court and a full-length cricket pitch with a strong net ‘to prevent broken windows’. It’s a room that Ben Cowell, director-general of Historic Houses, recalls vividly from his visit to the castle a few years ago. ‘It was cavernous, with the full height of the room reaching up to the rafters as the ceiling had not been replaced,’ he remembers. ‘The Duke explained that they were quite happy for the space to remain as it was because the family played games there.’ It may seem surprising for such grand spaces to be set aside for light-hearted recreation, but it is not unusual, as art historian Kate Retford, professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, points out in her essay A family home and not... a museum: living with the country-house art collection . ‘Scholarly interest has generally focused on the country-house art collection as a site of display,’ she writes. ‘We less often think of them as elements of a backdrop to the inhabitants reading, sewing, playing music, conversing’ — and, of course, playing games. Prof Retford refers to a painting by Elizabeth Chute of the lower gallery at the National Trust’s The Vyne in Hampshire, dating from 1877. The gallery in question had been converted into a place in which the then owner’s many children could play. Prof Retford writes that in the picture, ‘marble statues, busts and paintings jostle with a rocking horse, a horse on wheels, a net strung up for battledore (or shuttlecock), a train track with a couple of carriages falling off the end and a large variety of tools’. It all sounds not dissimilar to sights met at Kinnaird, suggesting that these big country houses make natural playgrounds, especially their corridors. This point was made by another Duchess, the late Deborah (‘Debo’) Cavendish, who described children roller-skating along the corridors of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, in her book about the house, adding that ‘on a wet day you can walk for hours, be entertained and keep dry’ (she did also say that, less conveniently, ‘a bag put down can be lost for months’ and ‘it is a terrible place to train a puppy’). Etymologically, the word corridor derives in part from the Latin currere , meaning to run, which is a trifle irritating for children when that’s what they are mostly told not to do in them. One of the first times the word appeared in the English language was when the 1st Duchess of Marlborough questioned Sir John Vanbrugh’s design for her new home Blenheim Palace and his unusual distribution of rooms in 1716. The architect explained: ‘The word Corridoor, Madam, is foreign, and signifies in plain English, no more than a passage.’ Later on, the Duchess’s descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, used these same Vanbrugh-designed corridors and rooms to invent a game called The English and the French, which, according to Antonia Kearney, Blenheim’s social historian, ‘resembled a rugby scrum and had only two rules: one, that Churchill was always the General and two, there was no promotion. No prizes for guessing why!’ Churchill’s game is a classic example of H. G. Wells’s belief that country-house corridors could give ‘the men of tomorrow [...] new strength’ and ‘build up a framework of spacious and inspiring ideas in them’, as well as ‘keeping children happy for days’. So inspired was he by life at Easton Glebe, Essex, where he was staying as a tenant of the Countess of Warwick, that he wrote Floor Games , in which he penned these words, in 1911. Two years later, he followed it with Little Wars , which set rules for playing with toy soldiers. Cartoonist Oliver Preston recalls playing real-life soldiers as a child with swords grabbed from the walls at his friend’s house, Arbury Hall in Warwickshire (‘fortunately, they were blunt’) and participating in a version of corridor football at Eton in Berkshire. ‘My house had three floors of narrow, wiggly corridors with fire doors breaking up the passageways. These made excellent goals.’ It was another school, Charterhouse, then in London, that played a version of football in its corridors, which later led to the creation of the offside rule. Mr Preston also remembers a cartoon in Polo magazine of a child riding the family great Dane down a long corridor, swinging a mallet. Country Life’s own Annie Tempest has illustrated an equally unexpected sight — that of a butler riding a Sinclair C5 (Sir Clive Sinclair’s doomed recumbent electric vehicle) along an endless corridor. It was inspired by C5s being ‘a bit of a joke at the time’ and her life at Broughton Hall, her family home in North Yorkshire, now a smart wellness sanctuary run by her brother Roger. The cartoon may have been semi-fictional, but it is not unknown for motorised vehicles to whizz down country-house corridors, as the Duke of Richmond reveals. ‘My grandfather always said he rode his motorcycle in Gordon Castle quite a lot,’ he reminisces. The Duke’s own family home, Goodwood House in West Sussex, doesn’t have many corridors as the rooms open onto each other — although he did once hold Goodwood’s legendary annual cricket match indoors in the ballroom ‘because the weather was so awful, which probably wasn’t the best idea’. At Christmas, everyone plays a version of hide-and-seek across the ground floor in a game devised by the Duke’s grandmother. Spooky games are often a feature of country-house corridors, particularly as the nights draw in. The Countess of Carnarvon makes much of ghostly corridor creepings in her blog about Highclere Castle, Hampshire, and Viscount Hereford says that his father, the 18th Viscount, ‘always encouraged his house guests to embark on a ghost hunt after dinner’ down the corridors of Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire. Growing up at the castle perhaps allowed him to have ‘fond’ rather than petrifying childhood memories of visiting the Drummond family at Megginch Castle in Perthshire, where his friend’s father Humphrey Drummond ‘would encourage us to head down through a secret door to a winding staircase to the dungeon, where a skeleton attached to fishing nylons and chains would leap to life, terrifying us’. Fishing lines were used for a different purpose by Miss Tempest’s father, who wanted to put a stop to corridor creeping of another kind. ‘To prevent us misbehaving when we were in our teens, Dad would put fishing-line trip-wires by the boys’ bedrooms,’ she recalls. Had that happened to the zoologist Desmond Morris, he would have been far less amused, for it was during a spot of corridor creeping when playing sardines at a country-house party in 1949 that he met his future wife. He declared the episode as proof of love at first sight — but the story may have been very different had the pair been sitting next to each other in a Land Rover on the Duchess of Fife’s instructions. Melanie Cable-Alexander is a journalist and editor

Once upon a time, there was a talented basketball player named Lonzo Ball, who had a very loud father named LaVar Ball. Lonzo was one of the top talents of the 2017 NBA Draft, but that wasn't enough success for LaVar. In addition to NBA success, LaVar wanted to create his own shoe brand, which he named Big Baller Brand. LaVar had Lonzo wear those shoes for one season and then, long story short, Lonzo stopped wearing them. We already knew Lonzo , but he made it abundantly clear to ESPN . As the story goes, Lonzo was selected No. 2 overall in the 2017 NBA Draft and was given a pair of shoes to wear in summer league. He did like them. Via ESPN: "They were like kickball shoes," Ball said. He wore them just twice that summer. He and his manager, Darren Moore, went out to Foot Locker stores in Las Vegas to buy a different pair of high-end shoes for each game. Ball played one game each in the Air Jordan XXXI, Nike Kobe A.D., Adidas Harden LS and Under Armour Curry 4 en route to winning summer league MVP. LaVar changed course after that, reportedly setting up an agreement with Skechers to manufacture the shoes bearing his family's name. Lonzo wore those shoes and still wasn't a fan, going as far as suggesting they could have played a role in his meniscus injury during his rookie season. "I think it's a possibility for sure, to be honest with you," Ball said. "I wasn't really getting hurt like that until I started wearing them." Lonzo also speculated that years of training on the hard concrete of Chino Hills State Park could have played a role in the cartilage issues that have hammered his career. He missed two entire seasons while undergoing three different surgeries, including a cartilage and meniscus transplant. Ball returned this season and has played only six games due to a wrist injury, averaging nowhere close to his usual playing time. Meanwhile, Big Baller Brand has , , and , . There have been , and , but you can still buy a LaVar Ball-autographed shoe .

FERANAGOUNA village in East Fataleka is set to host the festive season games for Ward 14 of Malaita Province as of Monday 30 December. The games include 7 aside soccer tournament and volleyball tournament and the games organiser and FIFA Assistant Referee David Sau said the registration fees for both soccer and volleyball teams will be $100 dollars per team. He said there will be no team re-entry into the competition once knocked out as the games will only be straight forward knockouts. The first prize for the soccer tournament will be a cash prize of $3000 dollars, the second prize will be $1500 dollars cash, the third prize will be $1000 dollars cash and the fourth prize will be $500 dollars cash. For the volleyball tournament, only be two grand prizes were so far made known and these are the first prize, which consists of $2000 dollars cash and the second prize which is worth $1000 cash. The executive is yet to decide on the amounts for the third and fourth prizes. David Sau said for this year, the standard of the games in Feranagouna will be high. “This means every team must have proper uniforms and every player must wear soccer boots to qualify for participation,” he explained. He said this tournament is only for Ward 14 members from Abira village to Ata’a village in East Fataleka. Mr Sau said so far, 25 teams have already arrived at the games hosting village. He said the games will be opened with a parade at 11:30am for all the teams participating in the games. Mr Sau said the signing of the ground rules will be held during the official opening ceremony, which will see the Games Coordinator officially declare the games open. Mr Sau, meanwhile, called on all Ward 14 members of East Fataleka in Honiara or elsewhere in the country who wants to participate in the games, especially the soccer knockout, to bring their own soccer boots because the game rules have been upgraded. These Xmas games are sponsored by the Member of Provincial Assembly for Ward 14 in East Fataleka, David Solobaerara. Mr Sau extended his acknowledgement to the CDO of Fataleka Constituency for paying for his travelling expenses from Honiara to Feranagouna and also to the MP for Fataleka Constituency, Rexon Ramofafia for his financial assistance towards the games.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Will Howard passed for two touchdowns and rushed for another, TreVeyon Henderson ran for a score and No. 2 Ohio State beat previously undefeated No. 5 Indiana 38-15 on Saturday. All Ohio State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten, CFP No. 2) has to do now is beat Michigan at home next Saturday and it will earn a return to the Big Ten championship game for the first time since 2020 and get a rematch with No. 1 Oregon. The Ducks beat Ohio State 32-31 in a wild one back on Oct. 12. The Hoosiers (10-1, 7-1, No. 5 CFP) had their best chance to beat the Buckeyes for the first time since 1988 but were hurt by special teams mistakes and disrupted by an Ohio State defense that sacked quarterback Kurtis Rourke five times. “In life, all good things come to an end,” Indiana coach Curt Cignetti said. Late in the first half, Indiana punter James Evans fumbled a snap and was buried at his own 7-yardline with the Buckeyes taking over. That turned quickly into a 4-yard TD run by Henderson that gave the Buckeyes a 14-7 lead. Early in the second half, Caleb Downs fielded an Evans punt at the Ohio State 21, raced down the right sideline, cut to the middle and outran the coverage for a TD that put the Buckeyes up 21-7. It was the first time a Buckeye returned a punt for a touchdown since 2014. Howard finished 22 for 26 for 201 yards. Emeka Egbuka had seven catches for 80 yards and a TD. “Our guys just played with a chip today, and that’s the way you got to play the game of football,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. Indiana scored on its first possession of the game and its last, both short runs by Ty Son Lawson, who paced the Hoosiers with 79 rushing yards. Rourke was 8 for 18 for 68 yards. “We had communication errors, pass (protection), every time we dropped back to pass, something bad happened," Cignetti said. Indiana's 151 total yards was its lowest of the season. And it was the most points surrendered by the Hoosier's defense. Indiana: Its special season was blemished by the Buckeyes, who beat the Hoosiers for the 30th straight time. Indiana was eyeing its first conference crown since sharing one with two other teams in 1967. That won't happen now. “Ohio State deserved to win,” Cignetti said. “They had those (third quarter scores), and we just couldn’t respond.” Ohio State: Didn't waste the opportunities presented by the Hoosiers when they got sloppy. The Buckeyes led 14-7 at the break and took control in the second half. An offensive line patched together because of multiple injuries performed surprisingly well. “We know what was at stake," Day said. “We don't win this game, and we have no chance to go to Indianapolis and play in the Big Ten championship. And that's real. We've had that approach for the last few weeks now, more than that.” Some voters were obviously unsure of Indiana because it hadn't played a nationally ranked team before Ohio State. After this one, the Hoosiers will drop. Howard made history by completing 80% of his passes for the sixth time this season. No other Ohio State quarterback has done that. He completed his first 14 passes in a row and finished with a 85% completion rate. “I think Buckeye nation is now seeing, after 11 games, that this guy is a winner, he's tough, he cares about his teammates, he's a leader,” Day said. Indiana hosts Purdue in the regular-season finale next Saturday. Ohio State hosts rival Michigan on Saturday. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football

'Democracy and freedom': Jimmy Carter's human rights efforts in Latin America5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. Although all parts of the pomegranate are medicinal, extract from pomegranate peel is 10 times as rich in beneficial biochemicals as the rest of the fruit. Some advocate making a pomegranate peel powder for tea. It should be noted that the peel is the most nutritional part of any fruit. One tablespoon of shredded citrus peel, known in the culinary world as zest, contains four times the dietary fiber and three times the quantity of Vitamin C as one tablespoon of citrus pulp. Even the fleshy outer covering or jacket of almonds is highly nutritious. With avocadoes, where the peel is not eaten, the outside pulp that touches the peel is more nutritious than the inside pulp Vegetables. Beets grow with ease when planted now and are ready to harvest 60 days or less after planting. Beets originated in the Mediterranean where they were grown for their nutritious leaves more than 2,000 years ago. For centuries, their roots were used for medicinal purposes alone. It was only in the 1500s when a large bulbous root developed on a beet grown in Germany that this part of the plant was first consumed for its gustatory appeal. (For this reason, beets are sometimes referred to as “beetroots” to distinguish them from beets that are still grown for their foliage.) Beet seeds are unusual among vegetables since, like its close relative, Swiss chard, seeds are actually formed in multi-germ capsules or clusters. Thus, when you plant beets or chard, you are dealing with clusters from which 2-6 seeds sprout. Thin the sprouts so the most robust of them remains, although some gardeners allow two or three sprouts to develop and thin them when small beets have developed for a final thinning. Herbs . Rue (Ruta graveolens) is a highly attractive evergreen subshrub with delicately lobed blue-green foliage and yellow flowers that grow two feet tall. It may be used as a stand-alone member of your herb garden or trained into a low hedge. It is a strewing herb, meaning it was strewn on the floor of dwellings in the Middle Ages. Due to its strong malodorous scent, strewing it could repel insect pests, especially fleas that carried the Black Plague. It was also thought to have divine power as both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo said they were heavenly inspired upon imbibing an infusion made from its leaves. You should be able to find rue in the herb section of any well-stocked nursery or garden center. Flowering woody perennials. Winter cassia, or Christmas bush (Cassia/Senna bicapsularis), is an anomaly as it blooms when all other shrubs and trees have stopped flowering. The display of butter-yellow, butterfly-shaped flowers is seen from November through the first of the year. Each leaf consists of a series of small oval leaflets set opposite each other. This is an airy specimen that you will never need to prune and, grown in half-day sun, won’t need to water either. I obtained mine years ago and it is one of the most gratifying plants in my garden. You can find it online readily enough. Plants and seeds are available from vendors on Etsy.com. Ornamentals. Winter is the season for geranium appreciation, although what we commonly refer to as geraniums are mostly pelargoniums. The most commonly seen geraniums are known as zonals (Pelargonium x hortorum). They are upright plants with lobed leaves – sometimes colorfully patterned – and always with a distinctive odor on account of which they are sometimes referred to as fish geraniums. Ivy geraniums (Pelargonium peltatum) are easily identified due to their trailing growth habit. Martha Washingtons (Pelargonium x domesticum) have flowers in many fetching colors, including salmon, creamy pink, and lavender-purple, along with sharply toothed leaf margins. And then we come to scented geraniums (Pelargonium spp.), of which there are probably a hundred different kinds or more. Their flowers in pale pink or white are an afterthought to the plethora of scents – peppermint, lemon, chocolate, nutmeg, apple, ginger, apricot, attar of roses, and cinnamon, among others – that their leaves transmit upon being rubbed or crushed. The chemical compounds that create these scents also impart a significant measure of drought tolerance. All pelargoniums are easily propagated from four to six-inch shoot tip cuttings

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(Bloomberg) -- Canada’s largest banks all are poised to pay their employees more in variable compensation for 2024, with stock-market favorites Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank of Canada increasing bonus pay the most. The country’s Big Six lenders set aside 12.2% more on average in fiscal 2024 compared with the previous year, with bonus pay rising across the board despite a generally challenging environment for dealmaking and capital markets during the year. While there was decent activity in debt capital markets this year, there was a dearth of Canadian initial public offerings — a dry spell that finally ended when Groupe Dynamite Inc. went public last month — and mergers and acquisitions were muted for most of the year. Still, that didn’t lead to a wave of job cuts, said Bill Vlaad, managing partner and chief executive officer of Toronto-based recruitment firm Vlaad & Co. “We haven’t had a bloodbath in 2024,” he said. “Things haven’t been good, but there’s been really good management of personnel. Yes, there’s been some cleaning up and yes, there’s been a little restructuring, but for the most part it hasn’t been catastrophic.” Incentive pay at Canadian banks is based on performance, and the figures the firms report in their quarterly filings reflect the amount reserved, not paid out. The fiscal year ended on Oct. 31, but bonuses are typically distributed in December. The trend in Canada echoes what bankers south of the border are expecting. Investment bankers, traders and asset- and wealth-management professionals are all poised to see increases in year-end incentive pay reaching into the double digits, according to a report last month from Johnson Associates Inc. Bankers who help companies sell debt may see the biggest gains, with payouts set to rise as much as 35%, the compensation consultant said. Variable compensation is particularly important to capital-markets professionals — including investment bankers, analysts, salespeople and traders — who typically count on a large portion of their take-home pay coming from bonuses. But employees in other divisions, such as wealth management, insurance and asset management, also receive incentive pay on top of their base salaries. RBC, CIBC, National Bank Bonus pay at Royal Bank and CIBC increased by 16.2% and 19.1%, respectively, in 2024. While Royal Bank’s dominant capital-markets franchise saw profit increase by more than 10% last year, net income at CIBC’s equivalent unit was little changed. Canada’s fifth-largest bank has been on a winning streak in recent quarters, however, with its stock routinely hitting new all-time highs on strong financial performance. “We pay competitively and have a pay-for-performance philosophy that aligns compensation to our bank’s financial and non-financial performance,” CIBC spokesperson Tom Wallis said in an email, adding that non-financial metrics including environmental, social and governance progress are also a factor. Royal Bank Chief Executive Officer Dave McKay cited the bank’s strong capital-markets results on an earnings call this week and noted the lender has a “robust pipeline that continued to build as we progressed through 2024.” National Bank, which has also enjoyed a run-up in its shares for most of the year and is poised for growth if it completes its acquisition of Canadian Western Bank as planned, increased bonus pay by 13.9% during the year. Its capital-markets business saw profits increase about 19% in fiscal 2024. “Our variable compensation is in line with revenue growth and the solid performance of our teams across business lines,” spokesperson Alexandre Guay said. BMO, Scotiabank Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia both boosted the size of their bonus pools — with increases of 5.1% and 4.2%, respectively — despite capital-markets profit declining at both companies. The slump at Bank of Montreal was largely due to higher provisions for potentially bad loans — an issue that has plagued the bank overall — while Scotiabank said in its latest quarterly report that profit at its capital-markets business slipped on higher expenses. “Our compensation framework is designed to deliver long-term shareholder performance, is a reflection of business results and is competitive with the market,” said Bank of Montreal spokesperson Jeff Roman. Scotiabank employees are its “most important asset and recognizing them through performance-based compensation is one of the many ways we reward their valued contributions,” Chief Financial Officer Raj Viswanathan said. “This year’s all-bank performance-based compensation reflects early progress against our strategy amidst continued challenging market conditions, and confidence in our execution,” he said, referring to a strategy the bank put in place about a year ago. Toronto-Dominion Bonuses were up a healthy 10.2% at Toronto-Dominion Bank, despite a rough year for the lender, which reached a $3.1 billion settlement with US authorities over money-laundering charges in October. It said Thursday it’s suspending its guidance on growth as it undertakes a sweeping business review. Still, on the capital-markets front, the bank is enjoying momentum following its takeover of US investment bank Cowen Inc. But its 45% profit increase for the division is outsize partly because last year’s figure included significant costs related to the Cowen integration. “This year’s incentive compensation reflects a combination of factors including year-over-year annual salary increases and higher business specific incentives reflecting strong performance in wholesale banking (including a full fiscal year of TD Cowen) and wealth management,” spokesperson Elizabeth Goldenshtein said in an email. --With assistance from Melissa Shin. More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com ©2024 Bloomberg L.P.Stock Market Today: Stocks Advance on Light Volume Thanks to Big Tech

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Article content The Toronto Raptors finished out 2024 similarly to how the team has fared all year — with a resounding loss. Toronto fell for the 10th game in a row, this time 136-107 against the visiting Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night. Eager to rebound from allowing the most points in franchise history on Boxing Day in Memphis, the Raptors defended a bit better and showed more fight, but were way too careless, turning the ball over nearly at will and once again simply could not hit three-point shots. With Trae Young (34 points) and DeAndre Hunter (22) cooking for the Hawks, the result never seemed much in doubt as Toronto fell to 7-25 on merit. Only two teams head into 2025 with fewer wins than this group. Scottie Barnes led the Raptors with 19 points, RJ Barrett added 17, but neither played particularly good games, nor did most of their teammates. The night actually started with good news though, with the Raptors saying pre-game that wing Bruce Brown would make his season debut following a series of false starts. Brown had not played in 7.5 months when an off-season of rest did not get his ailing knee back to 100%. Brown underwent surgery on the eve of training camp and had been working on reconditioning for more than a month, with a return expected to be imminent. Instead, as Brown explained on Saturday, it took far longer than expected for him to feel confident enough to suit up due to residual soreness, but the day finally came on Sunday. Brown looked sharp, throwing down a hammer dunk, playing strong defence and sending Gradey Dick in for a jam too at one point. Brown had eight points by halftime and finished with 12 off the bench. Toronto also welcomed back Jakob Poeltl, who had missed four games. The team is 4-33 without its starting centre over the last two seasons, but his timing seemed off as fouls piled up. Rookies Ja’Kobe Walter and Jamal Shead also played after missing one and two games, respectively. That gave Toronto as full a house as it has had for most of the season, even with backup point guard Davion Mitchell joining starter Immanuel Quickley on the sidelines. The Hawks played without Dyson Daniels, plus scoring guard Bogdan Bogdanovic and veteran big man Larry Nance Jr., who had played Saturday. The team shot 40% from three against Miami despite Young’s 2-for-9 performance. Toronto had six turnovers in the first three minutes of the game, keeping control of the ball on only one of the first seven possessions and 10 in the quarter. The Raptors finished with 31 turnovers, one off the franchise record. And it could have been even worse had Daniels, the NBA steals and deflections leader, been able to play. Atlanta is finding its form, with four straight wins. In a weird scheduling quirk, the Hawks will head from Toronto to Denver and then Los Angeles and beyond. Toronto next plays at Boston in an early tip Tuesday prior to New Year’s Eve, before hosting Brooklyn to kick off the New Year. Toronto went 20-62 since last January 1, one of the worst records in a calendar year since the franchise’s inception. @WolstatSun

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