The "drawbridge up" or "drawbridge down" dichotomy looks a bit too self-serving for comfort.
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In 2005 Stephan Shakespeare, the British head of YouGov, a pollster, observed: We are either "drawbridge up" or "drawbridge down".
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However, GE Ventures partner Risa Stack, who was instrumental in guiding the idea for Drawbridge says, unlike Theranos, Drawbridge only collects the blood.
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Raising the drawbridge will not convince China to open up.
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But first Drawbridge needs to get through a few hurdles.
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A drawbridge leads to a roof terrace above the pool.
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For women, evidently, all that drawbridge business was growing passé.
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Drawbridge customers include Adobe, Criteo and IBM, according to its website.
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But in the meantime, the drawbridge-raisers can do great harm.
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"Like I'm just pulling the drawbridge up behind me," she says.
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None of us ever "drew up the drawbridge" in our restaurants.
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But on the investment markets, the drawbridge has already swiftly been lowered.
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Nielsen rates Drawbridge as 97.3 percent precise in identifying consumers across devices.
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Yet the Brexiteers won, revealing just how many voters were drawbridge-uppers.
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"You only get one chance to raise the drawbridge," Mr. Sussmann said.
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He's not a bridge but a drawbridge, and he's pulling himself up.
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But now Drawbridge has begun offering this technology to non-advertising customers, too.
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Orange leads you across the drawbridge, and then the span starts going up.
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The drawbridge has been lowered once since, at the land's rededication in 1983.
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The team found its answer in a project that already existed at Microsoft: Drawbridge.
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Brooke North, 39, is facing several charges after jumping off a drawbridge in Maryland.
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Although the drawbridge-uppers have all the momentum, time is not on their side.
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The great thing about the drawbridge is that anybody can wind up on one.
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Thanks to this, SQL Server in Drawbridge could manage its own memory, too, for example.
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Drawbridge recognized early on that one communication device isn't nearly enough for most busy people.
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Drawbridge figured out a way to understand users even when they aren't logging in somewhere.
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Drawbridge-up populists vary from place to place, but most share a few key traits.
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Drawbridge was listed as the fastest-growing female-led company in America in the Inc.
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This doesn't mean the United States should pull up the drawbridge, as Mr. Trump proposes.
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Depending on your point of view, it either lowered the drawbridge or opened the floodgates.
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The alien lands in what appears to be France and hides from conflict beneath a drawbridge.
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Recent acquisitions include retail advertising start-up PromoteIQ, data company BlueTalon and digital advertising company Drawbridge.
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On either end of the building were gigantic staircases connected to the building by a drawbridge.
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The influx of Africans and Romanians turned him into a pull-up-the-drawbridge Leave voter.
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But, as the remarkable Mr Macron takes office, another future is visible: one in which he unleashes the creativity and ingenuity of the French, and sets an example for drawbridge-down democrats across the EU and lays to rest the drawbridge-up fears of his nativist opponents.
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It's early days for Drawbridge and it is just now exploring partnerships with clinics and doctor's offices.
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The latest funding round brings the total outside investment in Drawbridge to date up to $45.5 million.
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Their goals: Close the borders, deport illegal immigrants, pull out of international entanglements and pull up the drawbridge.
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Other investors include Rakuten Ventures, Safegraph CEO Auren Hoffman, Factual CEO Gil Elbaz and Drawbridge CTO Devin Guan.
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There is a drawbridge bed towards the rear of the van that can be folded and stored away.
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Upon opening, children raced across the drawbridge toward the castle, which was modeled after a real Bavarian estate.
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John grumbles until lunch arrives, but once we set out our salads, he lets down the drawbridge a bit.
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In this depressing company of wall-builders, door-slammers and drawbridge-raisers, Canada stands out as a heartening exception.
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He would despise the "drawbridge up" and protectionist mentality that causes people to fear other faiths and other nationalities.
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But the SQL Server team took over the Drawbridge code base and added it into the SQL OS layer.
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Other launch partners include Brown-Forman (makers of Jack Daniel's), TGI Fridays and ad-tech companies Drawbridge and Adelphic.
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You pull down the magnetized drawbridge, and behind it is an image of He-Man holding his power sword.
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Throughout this crisis Europe has been accused of pulling up the drawbridge and shunting its problems onto its neighbours.
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The recent string of terrorist attacks in France, Belgium and Germany has boosted support for drawbridge-raising throughout Europe.
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Our little island had chosen to raise its drawbridge to Europe, and all we could see was the moat.
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So in this G20 leaders will look for reassurance in the US as to not drawing up the drawbridge.
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But the chances are that it will be a poorer, more inward-looking place—its drawbridge up, its influence diminished.
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We are not going to solve the challenges we face by shrinking our thinking or by pulling up the drawbridge.
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Brexit, the refugee crisis and the rise of drawbridge-up populists across Europe had already punctured the West's self-confidence.
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For this round, Drawbridge went back to Sequoia to lead, with Kleiner and another previous investor, Northgate Capital, also participating.
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The EU-Turkey deal hangs in the balance, with President Erdogan threatening to drop the drawbridge to Europe once more.
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The ex-mayor is a defender of free trade and immigration in a time of haul-up-the-drawbridge populism.
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That does not mean a futile attempt to retreat into a fortress economy and to raise the drawbridge against migration.
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Backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Northgate Capital, Drawbridge drew $48.5 million in funding after three rounds.
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Mr Trump's charisma aside, the success of drawbridge-up parties in so many countries is driven by several underlying forces.
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That kind of steel could withstand the weight of a Ferris wheel or the openings and closings of a drawbridge.
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Part of this is the very human tendency of immigrants to pull up the drawbridge after they have crossed over.
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There are roughly 150 sensor-equipped cameras snapping pictures in the area, part of a state program called Operation Drawbridge.
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Equifax's security team, according to the indictment, didn't employ the patch, leaving the drawbridge down for People's Liberation Army attackers.
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If you then make a purchase on your laptop, Drawbridge can tell the advertiser which ad prompted you to do so.
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The castle had neither a moat nor a drawbridge, so few people believe that it was ever used as a fortress.
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That's the area that Drawbridge specializes in: Helping brands correctly identify and measure the audiences they want to serve advertising to.
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Within an hour, an alert is sent to Mr. Forbes's cellphone from a remotely operated camera system, known as Operation Drawbridge.
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The gap is a permanent feature of the bridge, which was opened to traffic in 2017, replacing a decades-old drawbridge.
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The fortress should just raise its drawbridge and man its walls—and the rest of the world can then go to hell.
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It's one good reason Drawbridge was listed as the fastest-growing female-led company in America last year in the Inc. 5000.
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Nearly all drawbridge-up parties argue that their country is in crisis, and explain it with a simple, frightening story involving outsiders.
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Monmouth County officials say heat caused expansion of the metal encasing the drawbridge, which is a popular route for residents and beachgoers.
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They run the gamut from guidelines on how to kill chickens to orders on when a single drawbridge should open or close.
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The digital advertising company Drawbridge, the social media tracker Klout and the save-it-for-later reading app Instapaper also stepped back.
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San Mateo, California-based Drawbridge uses A.I. and machine learning to build solutions that enable brands to create personalized experiences for their customers.
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Drawbridge, a startup that helps businesses identify when a single person is using multiple devices, has raised $25 million in Series C funding.
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"The opportunity that Drawbridge is going after is: How do we use this fundamental asset to power so many different services?" she added.
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The European Union began pulling up the drawbridge, and debates flared up around the legality and morality of its "stop the boats" policy.
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These days, it is often said, the real dividing line in politics is between open-door liberals and pull-up-the-drawbridge nationalists.
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Instead, I drive through the abundant construction up ahead, cross a small drawbridge, keep going, and eventually take the exit for J.F.K. Airport.
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"That's why we shouldn't just pull up the drawbridge," Gabriel said at a European conference of his Social Democrat (SPD) party in Berlin.
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Corner Office This interview with Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, founder and C.E.O. of Drawbridge, a cross-device advertising platform, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
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A member of Voina, Vorotnikov is best known for painting a giant penis on a drawbridge opposite Russia's secret service headquarters in Saint Petersburg.
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But the whole purpose of having a drawbridge is that one can raise or lower it as necessary depending upon the situation at hand.
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Founder and CEO Sivaramakrishnan was the chief scientist at Admob (acquired by Google in 2009 for $750 million) before she started Drawbridge in 2010.
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To us, this may be touching proof of his affinity for Western culture even as Europe pulls up the drawbridge against refugees like him.
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Sydney Lanier Bridge Deaths: 10 Where: Brunswick, Georgia When: November 7, 1972 A freighter collided with a drawbridge, sending cars into the Brunswick River.
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Second, the demographics of his support and support for Brexit speak to similarities between the two phenomena (their "pull up the drawbridge" character in particular).
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They do it on laptops, tablets, mobile phones, even smart appliances — all offering a different user experience that Drawbridge set out to identify and optimize.
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At any hint it may be asked to account publicly for its failures, the Democratic Party pulls up its drawbridge and retreats deep into itself.
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The result is almost always an uptick in political populism, either right wing ("Raise the drawbridge") or left wing ("Off with their heads") or both.
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At a time when companies in depopulating eastern Germany need immigrants to fill skilled and unskilled jobs, some voters want to pull up the drawbridge.
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By rallying behind the lowest common denominator of "anything but Trump," they are disengaging the public's discontent, pulling up the drawbridge until the next election.
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The group was traveling in a rental car near Stockholm when they crashed through a barrier set up to stop vehicles from crossing an opening drawbridge.
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The government promised to give businesses time to adapt to its new system, but one employers' group warned the government not to "pull up the drawbridge".
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The archetypal Leaver really wants nothing more than to remain: to pull up Britain's drawbridge, deepen roots, and make others outside remain where they are, too.
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This newspaper doesn't hold out much hope that a drawbridge-up Mr Trump will be a boon for the American economy, especially in the longer term.
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We drove past her house, across the wooden drawbridge at the north end of the island, and onto the sandbar where the White Deer Motel stood.
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And the rise of ISIS transmuted the post-Iraq anti-interventionist impulse into a "raise the drawbridge" style of politics, with the libertarian aspect drained away.
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Situated on a corner facing a busy stretch of highway and a working drawbridge to accommodate passing yachts, the W Miami in downtown Miami is bustling.
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Essentially, the law is meant to help create a digital drawbridge between Russia and the rest of the world that the country can raise in an emergency.
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Drawbridge Health wants to make it easier for doctor's offices and clinics to collect small samples of your blood for testing on site with a handheld device.
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Instead, the device can stay in the clinic and the proprietary Drawbridge cartridge holding your blood would be shipped out to the third-party lab for results.
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These expressions of pull-up-the-drawbridge truculence are far from the sort of polished policy papers and working-group reports that other campaigns like to produce.
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Timbro, a Swedish free-market think-tank, has compiled an index of what it calls "authoritarian populism", which tracks the strength of drawbridge-up parties in Europe.
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Drawbridge-downers in France's main parties have more in common with each other than with the National Front, he says, so he has launched a new movement.
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U.S. ad tech firms Verve and Drawbridge have announced they will cease doing business in Europe, while numerous small firms and apps have put operations on hold.
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Mr. Lam, who grew up in Carroll Gardens with a healthy fear of the canal, stood on the rust-scabbed Union Street drawbridge, long overdue for replacement.
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The show proceeded from the belief that it was more fun and interesting to be out searching for somebody drawbridge-worthy than to actually lower your bridge.
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The leader of the free world is pulling up the drawbridge, and the EU (which negotiates trade deals on behalf of its member governments) has spotted an opportunity.
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According to the museum's statement, such discrepancies emerge in a sketch of the men's wing of the Saint-Rémy asylum and in another of a drawbridge in Arles.
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And Mrs Clinton, though the most drawbridge-down major-party candidate left standing, has moved towards the Trump/Sanders position on trade by disavowing deals she once supported.
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Operation Drawbridge, which is run by the Texas Department of Public Safety, is a network of thousands of hidden wildlife cameras equipped with motion detection and lowlight capabilities.
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In doing so it's opened a fissure between the old limited-government-grow-the-pie Republicans and the anti-immigrant hoard-the-pie, pull-up-the-drawbridge Trumpers.
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Though they sit on different points of the left-right spectrum, the Tory and Labour leaders are united in their desire to pull up Britain's drawbridge to the world.
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" And while Facebook, Google and others now utilize their own data for similar aims, Drawbridge "basically democratizes what the larger players are trying to do inside their walled gardens.
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Sometimes I wish I could close a drawbridge behind me and hide, to find some cocoon of safety to carry our little family through the madness of the world.
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Rather than pull up the drawbridge, or fall back on algorithms, Twitter should hire a corps of well-trained personnel to deal with hundreds of thousands of contested cases.
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The early "Game of Thrones" seasons tended to forget a rule of economical storytelling: To get someone into a castle, you don't have to show them crossing the drawbridge.
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When you close your eyes and retreat into the dark mind-castle of your thoughts, you have to make sure you're letting down the drawbridge for the right person.
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That's useful whether a Drawbridge client is selling an ad or simply wants to streamline experiences across devices, authenticate someone's identity or customize a website without a user log-in.
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This summer GE Ventures hired on Lee McCracken to run the ship as CEO at Drawbridge and the startup intends on a commercial launch next year, pending that FDA approval.
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His group Voina (War) started in 2007 and gained attention in 2010 by painting a huge phallus on a drawbridge near offices of Russia's FSB security service in St Petersburg.
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Since then the drawbridge-up tendency has surged: first in Europe, with wins for nationalists and Britain's vote for Brexit, and then in America with the election of Mr Trump.
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As crew members waited near sunrise for the first drawbridge they encountered to open, they anticipated a slow-moving day whose highlights would involve seeing alligators and possibly a manatee.
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The AfD, the National Front and their supporters want nothing less than a dissolution of the European Union and a return to pull-up-the-drawbridge nationalism for their individual nations.
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In her post, Carey explained that her parents took her son swimming last Monday in a small bay near Ocean City, close to the Harry W. Kelley Drawbridge on Route 50.
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As Trump pulled up the drawbridge on refugees and more than 130 million Muslims, he acted with remarkably un-American cruelty, implementing the kind of religious prejudice that the Constitution rejects.
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A reason such ideas are circulating is that, within Europe, France has consistently pursued statist and at times protectionist drawbridge-up policies—and has hence suffered low growth and high unemployment.
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And even if it were, it would not be a great idea, either economically or politically, to pull up the drawbridge and mouth an expletive at the rest of the world.
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As the officers reached the complex, they discovered that the building resembled more of a fortress of brick and cement, complete with gigantic staircases connected to the building by a drawbridge.
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With only a slight air of a team determined to pull up the drawbridge as soon as the keep is full, it has become a keen advocate of Financial Fair Play.
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" Sally Hunt from the University and College Union told The Guardian that Rudd's proposal "equates to pulling up the drawbridge and sending a message that the UK is closed for business.
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On Tuesday, the company's LinkedIn unit announced the acquisition of Drawbridge, which specializes in a type of digital advertising called identity resolution that involves identifying people across different devices and data sets.
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Every time I write about Drawbridge, I'm contractually obligated to mention that the company is backed by two of the best-known venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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"The leadership expressed the right amount of concern," Kumar commented — and my guess is that there was indeed quite a bit of concern given that Drawbridge was very much an experimental project.
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"And us trying to abandon the field and pull up the drawbridge around us is going to be bad for us," he said after the talks, hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Start-up companies like SilverPush, 4Info, Drawbridge, Flurry, and Cross Screen Consultants, as well as the big players like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, are all experimenting with different technologies to "fix" this problem.
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Cons: All rooms except top-tier suites face busy Brickell Drive or are close to it, which comes with significant noise bleed from traffic and announcements from the drawbridge as boats pass through.
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In Palacios' suit, he argues that border patrol agents have installed thousands of "drawbridge cameras," inexpensive surveillance cameras that respond to motion sensors and, once triggered, transmit GPS data and record everything they see.
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Expedia, Cheapflights and Kayak are just some of the sites reporting that interest in travelling to the United States has fallen since Mr Trump's inauguration and his attempted travel bans and drawbridge-up rhetoric.
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Openness is supposed to be a European strength—its magic potion, to extend the Asterix metaphor—in an age when America is pulling up the drawbridge and China's more closed model is making strides.
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The company's stock then plummets, and every vendor and employee that has even the most tangential link to the controversy — of which there may be hundreds — hunker down, raise the drawbridge and lawyer up.
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"If there was a 'hard Brexit', as in somehow the drawbridge was pulled up, it wouldn't take long before there were literally thousands of lorries parked on either side of the (English) Channel," he said.
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Drawbridge was a research project that launched back in 2011 which basically provided a container with a small API surface and a basic version of Windows configured to efficiently run the application in the container.
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Standing on a drawbridge one night early this month, a man and a woman stood close and kissed, blind to everything around them, even the motionless toxic porridge of the Gowanus Canal below their feet.
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Meanwhile, advertising companies like Verve, a location-based mobile marketing firm, and Drawbridge, a cross-device targeting firm, have closed their European operations in advance of the deadline to begin implementing the new data protections.
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FAIR emerged in the late 1970s and was later followed by NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies in leading the charge to pull up the drawbridge and stop future generations of immigrants from coming.
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So far, Drawbridge has attracted money from the biggest names in venture capital: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital are among the firms that have invested a little more than $53 million in the company.
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Helping brands correctly pinpoint and measure the audiences they want to reach — and which device those folks are using — is the area Drawbridge specializes in, and one that may upend the big three ad tech giants.
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"Drawbridge can identify user behavior like the big guys do on sites like Facebook and Google, but they do it across the wider internet, " says Vikrant Gandhi, a digital transformation analyst for research firm Frost & Sullivan.
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"Finally the bridge would open because the paparazzi crashed a car and they wouldn't let the bridge open and made us wait for literally 40 minutes," Kardashian West said while filming the The Brickell drawbridge rise.
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So far Drawbridge has attracted money from the biggest names in venture capital: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital are among the firms that have invested a little more than $48 million in the company.
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As for the G.O.P., it's divided between a "limited-government-grow-the-pie" right — but one that wants to just let capitalism rip — and a "hoard-the-pie, pull-up-the-drawbridge" Trump-led far right.
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It sits on the bank of a wide canal where steel barges and cargo boats glide through dark-green waters under a black drawbridge, adjacent to a sandbox and a wooden playground resembling a pirate ship.
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Young, intelligent and bubbling with ideas to make France more open, dynamic and fiscally sober, he gave an eloquent rebuttal to the drawbridge-up nostalgia of Brexit Britain, Donald Trump's America and the autocracies of eastern Europe.
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Stockholm Police spokesman Martin Bergholm told the Associated Press that the accident on Saturday afternoon occurred when the men's rental car crashed through a barrier that was closed to stop vehicles as a drawbridge was opening up ahead.
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If, as seems likely, Britain leaves the EU's customs union on quitting the organisation, it may well find itself trying to negotiate new trade terms at a time when economies around the world are pulling up the drawbridge.
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In Poland and Hungary the drawbridge-uppers are firmly in charge; in France Marine Le Pen, who thinks that the opposite of "globalist" is "patriot", will probably make it to the run-off in next year's presidential election.
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OTTÓN SOLÍSSan José, Costa Rica You used the metaphor of a drawbridge to illustrate your argument that the new political alignment is no longer between right and left but between open and closed societies ("Drawbridges up", July 30th).
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"Part of the argument I'm making in the United States is that the answer to globalization and income inequality and lack of wage growth is not to pull up the drawbridge and shut off trade," Mr. Obama said.
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The East Coast on Sunday sweated through another day of heat and humidity in a stretch of weather so oppressive that a New Jersey drawbridge got stuck and suburban Boston police jokingly asked criminals to take it easy.
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Speaking to Business Insider over email, Drawbridge CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, said the new capital will be used to grow the company's headcount but also help it expand into new areas and serve customers beyond their ad tech needs.
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US-based tech company Drawbridge has raised $25 million in Series C funding and it is planning to use the investment to "invest aggressively" in building its "global graph" that helps it anonymously identify people as they switch between devices.
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"Brexit is not the occasion to 'pull up the drawbridge' but to embrace the opportunities that the changing pattern of global trade presents," British trade minister Liam Fox told a business audience in London, setting out a new export strategy.
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Officials had hoped to start fixing another notorious choke point on the Northeast Corridor next year — the Portal Bridge, a balky, century-old drawbridge in New Jersey prone to getting stuck in the open position, causing a cascade of delays.
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He sought exemptions from local ordinances, bent and broke regulations, and complained about everything from the frequency of drawbridge openings — "far too often," he wrote in a 333 letter to transportation officials — to the "deplorable" condition of a neighbor's loading dock.
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Indeed, it's "a constant game of risk management," says founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, who also worked at Google but left in 2010 to launch Drawbridge, a company that builds technology to connect users' screens and devices without relying on their personal security information.
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"The Big Sick" requires drawbridge work by the male lead, but not by the woman, who spends most of the movie in a coma; what makes him likable isn't courtship, but the more adult work of helping her parents care for her.
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Presenting itself as a champion of free trade "read widely in the corridors of power", the publication said May wanted to "raise the drawbridge" with her plan for a post-Brexit Britain which could starve the economy of the skills it needs.
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The work on this was successful enough that the team didn't just build this for SQL Server on Linux but actually merged SQL OS and the work it did on Drawbridge into the new SQL Platform Abstraction Layer that now runs on Windows and Linux.
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Drawbridge is the largest independent cross-device identity company, though contenders such as Adbrain, Crosswise and Tapad all compete for a slice of the customer ID market that relies on gathering user data via IP address, device type, browser type, location and operating system.
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The W is part of a massive collection of high rise buildings that make up the ICON Brickell complex and residences, which sits on a bustling corner overlooking downtown Miami and the water, with traffic whizzing by and mega yachts passing under the functioning drawbridge.
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Now my eye constantly picks out elevated-train girders, footbridges, drawbridge houses, pipelines, fuel tanks, lampposts, window gratings, fence bars, guardrails, and I-beams holding up interstate overpasses, all in their own versions of Statue of Liberty green, and they fasten me to the city.
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But the IGF bulwark has been so imperfect in how it protects ICANN that senior members of the business community, including some of the largest internet, cloud and software companies in the United States, are thinking of draining the mote and dropping the drawbridge.
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The Steel Bridge, a century-old elevating drawbridge, was destroyed by its own counterweights as they swung back and forth during the five-minute quake, the twisting steel singing out in the spring air, as if one hundred years of history were escaping into the ether.
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Labour also seems likely to tear itself apart, after its hard-left leader, Jeremy Corbyn, campaigned half-heartedly for Remain and the party's leaders were forced to confront their abandonment by English working-class voters fired up by Leave's message of anti-globalisation and haul-up-the-drawbridge nativism.
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"That humiliation is actually key to understanding that 'back to the future' feel you see in the U.K. today with the attempt to pull up the drawbridge to Europe and the hope that by doing so that the problems of living in a global world will go away," Mr. Hands said.
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No amount of bluster and rhetoric, or blaming "the Germans" and "Brussels," or simply pulling up the drawbridge, will shoo away such challenges, not to mention Italy's ingrained problems, its clunky bureaucracy and judicial system, north-south divide, inequality, nepotism, and low employment rates, especially among women and the young, for starters.
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The purchase of Drawbridge, which was small enough that it didn't require Microsoft to disclose the terms, is meant to help advertisers measure the return on investment for campaigns they launch on desktop and mobile devices, as well as to expand the reach of their campaigns, a LinkedIn spokesperson told CNBC on Tuesday.
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It's not for the faint of heart — some of the obstacles are downright death traps: there's "The Leveler," a giant multistory drawbridge that forces contestants to balance their cars on the edge; there are passages that are barely the width of a car; and in some cases, the contestants have to complete the obstacles while in reverse.
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In papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, RUI said it plans to sell itself while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy after an unsuccessful three-year search for a buyer and mounting financial strain left it unable since January to make payments on roughly $37 million in debt owed to lenders Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund LP and NXT Capital LLC.
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Last year I wrote how A year ago I urged it to build a platform in my article "Snap's anti-developer attitude is an augmented liability", as it needs help to populate the physical world with AR. 2017 saw Snap cautiously extend the drawbridge, inviting in ads, analytics, and marketing developer partners to help brands be hip, and letting hacker/designers make their own AR lenses.
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Set in France and a deftly delineated Palestine, from the outbreak of World War I to the escalating violence amid the Arab general strike of 1936, "The Parisian" has an up-close immediacy and stylistic panache (a laugh is "the drawbridge to weeping," a garden is "berserk with weeds") that are all the more impressive coming from a London-born writer still in her 20s.
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But resisting these critiques — whether it's of "The House of Mirth" or the House of Marvel — with an automatic claim of canon feels like an act of dominion, the establishment of an exclusive kingdom complete with moat and drawbridge, which, of course, would make the so-called resenters a mob of torch-wielding marauders and any challenge to established "literary values" an act of savagery.
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And because my throat was feeling more salty than an episode of America's Next Top Model, I doubled up with some refreshing water, because although I wasn't timed for this challenge in any way, I could start to feel the drawbridge of fullness close its sturdy wooden door on me, and I needed to act fast if I was going to pack this all in like a true Olympian.
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