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Marci BoldenOct 2019
Pink Sand Press
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After a spycam is discovered in a secure community, the homeowners association hires HEARTS to track down the culprit. Investigator Eva Thompson fits the description of every victim so far and volunteers to move into a vacant condo to draw out the suspect from within. But until they know what’s behind the peeping, no one feels safe sending Eva as a decoy alone.
Joshua Simmons is Eva’s ex and the one man she can’t quite escape. As the county medical examiner, he frequently consults with HEARTS and cases—and uses that connection to keep close to the woman he’s still not over. When Eva needs a fake husband to work alongside her as a decoy, Josh agrees on one condition: that Eva won’t do anything to put herself in harm’s way.
Living together stirs up old feelings and old passions. And while Eva and Joshua try to sort out their demons, a voyeur is on the loose and getting braver by the day.
As a teen, Marci Bolden skipped over young adult books and jumped right into reading romance novels. She never left. Marci lives in the Midwest with her husband, kiddos, and numerous rescue pets. If she had an ounce of willpower, Marci would embrace healthy living, but until cupcakes and wine are no longer available at the local market, she will appease her guilt by reading self-help books and promising to join a gym “soon.”
Visit her here: http://www.marcibolden.com/
Fiction / Romance / Suspense
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Second Circle Tattoos, The Complete Series: The Strongest Steel, The Fractured Heart, The Purest Hook, The Darkest Link
Meet the heroes of Second Circle Tattoos. Trent, Cujo, Dred, Reid. And now all four books from Scarlett Cole are together for the first time in a fabulous, low priced eBook bundle featuring an exclusive epilogue. Why pick one book boyfriend when you can have all four?
The tattoo artist with a heart of gold.
The playboy with his own hidden scars.
The international rockstar who longs for a home.
The mechanic with a dark past.
The Strongest Steel
Harper Connelly never expected to find herself outside of a tattoo parlor at one in the morning. The scars that decorate her back are just one more reminder of things she'd rather forget, the past she wants to leave far behind her, but before she can move on, she needs him. Trent Andrews has his own reasons for specializing in inking over scars. And there's no way in hell he's going to turn Harper away.
The Fractured Heart
Tattoo artist Brody "Cujo" Matthews knows how to keep things simple. In life and in love. That all changes when he meets Drea Caron, the definition of high maintenance and sizzling curves. And the one woman he doesn’t want to walk away from. Andrea "Drea" Caron is broke and tired. After years of caring for her ailing mom, she's at the end of her rope trying to manage the piling medical bills, two jobs, and a life placed on hold. She certainly doesn’t need the added frustration of a sexy playboy tattoo artist messing up her carefully balanced life. Too bad the universe has other ideas.
The Purest Hook
Rugged, hot, and rock hard, Dred Zander is exactly the type of man that normally sends Pixie running. Not dreaming about running her hands down his washboard abs...and lower. The lead singer and guitarist for the band Preload embodies trouble behind his quick smile and guarded eyes, and Pixie left trouble behind her years ago along with the name Sarah Jane Travers and the pathetic trailer her mom called home. But Dred has other ideas.
The Darkest Link
When her car breaks down off the side of a lonely highway far from her sunny Miami home, tattoo artist Lia never expected her very own white knight to ride up on the back of a barely street-legal motorcycle...and she never expected to fall for her dark savior. A bruised heart Lia is not looking for forever, and the hot mechanic, with his sexy scruff and shaggy hair, is simply impossible to resist.
A Wilderness Within
The world he knows and loves is gone...
Lincoln Atwood survived the contagion that wiped out the nine tenths of humanity. As the last survivor in a secret government bunker and a Delta Force soldier, he knows that the other survivors are scared, angry and dangerous, just like him. After weeks alone with the mummified bodies of his colleagues, he escapes the bunker. But the world outside has changed. Among the empty cities and crumbling ruins of civilization, he loses himself to the wilderness in his soul. When he sees Caroline, a fellow survivor, she is vision of light in a world gone dark. He wants to help her, but she won't trust him, when there's danger around every corner. How can he convince her that fate has brought them together?
She will not go quietly into the night...
Caroline Kelly survived hell when she escaped quarantined Chicago in search of her family after the outbreak. But it's not as easy to travel from Illinois to Missouri with the world gone dark in the space of three months. The last she thing she needs is to get captured by a muscled, bearded mountain man who looks and acts like a damn super soldier. When it’s clear she can’t escape him, she finds herself becoming fascinated with the brooding, intense man who knows how to survive. He makes her heart race and blood pound. When tragedy strikes, Caroline realizes she might have a plan to save the world, but she’ll need Lincoln’s help. Can she trust Lincoln not only with humanity’s future, but also her heart?
Warning: This book contains some depictions of violence and realistic contagion scenarios.
Coffee, Sex and Law
Avril Rose
Enemies or lovers?
Liam, a successful young lawyer, is allergic to love. He’s always between business trips and, devastated by a dark secret, he has put a lock on his heart. That’s the way he likes it. But when he crosses paths with Zoe, all his principles fly out the window. Zoe is the opposite of his usual conquests: natural, funny, impetuous... and she has no plans to make room in her life for a man.
I watch her delicate hands work over my torso, becoming intoxicated by her scent rising to meet me from her neck.
“I’m so sorry,” she insists, now scrubbing the fabric with concentration, taking breaks to dab her forehead with her arm.
She’s damaging my designer shirt. Instead of pointing that out to her, I observe her every movement. I surprise her a few times as she nibbles her thumb. A habit that reveals how nervous she actually is.
“I’ll pay for the dry cleaning, of course. And free coffee for a week.”
I don't reply.
I resist the temptation to run my hand through her long, silky hair.
I find her beautiful: her fragility, embarrassment, simplicity.
“A month?” she offers, obviously worried by my silence.
“It’s fine for the coffee. A week and we’re even,” I reassure her. "For the dry cleaning, I'll take care of it. Don’t worry about the clothes. It could happen to anyone.”
She stops and looks at me, smiling, relieved by my pacifist reaction.
“I think your shirt is ruined,” she announces, nibbling her lower lip.
“Yeah, I think you’re right about that!” I agree, laughing.
I’m speechless when she starts working on my pants, kneeling down between my legs.
<i>Is this a joke? I thought this kind of thing only happened in movies!</i>
Except there’s nothing funny about the position. On the contrary. The pressure she’s putting on my crotch awakens sensations in my entire body. My imagination becomes quickly uncontrollable. I want her.
Forbidden thoughts start to creep into my mind. To touch her. Caress her. Kiss her.
She suddenly stops, as if she had heard my inappropriate thoughts.
Time stands still for a second, and the noise of the café customers dies down. Here we are, the two of us, completely isolated from the rest of the world.
Love, Law, and Lattes: A brewing romance, Avril Rose, complete novel
A Billionaire for Christmas - 3 romances
Heather L. Powell
He's rich, handsome, strong and charismatic. He's the man of your dreams and he's in love with you! What more could you want for Christmas?
Let yourself be swept away by these funny, romantic and torrid love stories.
Addictive Publishing presents this special collection including excerpts from the first volumes of the following series:
Take Me! - Under the Billionaire's Power, by Heather L. Powell
Entice Me! - Obsessed with a Billionaire, by Kate B. Jacobson
Embrace - At the Billionaire’s Command, by Lucy Jones
The stories in this collection may be read separately.
Broken Rebel: A Lawless Kings Novel
She's loved him since he saved her from her evil stepmother all those years ago. He's sworn to never love her for fear of tainting her innocence with his criminal past.
What do you do when the one person you love is the one person who can’t have?
Broken Rebel is an intense, ultra-sexy standalone novel set in the world of the Lawless Kings. Sherilee Gray’s raw, hard, beautiful, deeply-emotional voice will leave you breathless long after the last page.
"Smokin’ hot, the chemistry is volatile, and the plot diabolically clever. Broken Rebel is an exhilarating thrill ride and oh, so sexy! Don’t miss it!" - The Librarian's Corner
"So damn good." - iScreamBooksBlog on Broken Rebel
“Shattered King is a sexy, beautiful second chance love story... a truly enjoyable read.” - Sawyer Bennett, New York Times bestselling author
"Raw, gritty, and full of supercharged sexual tension...SHATTERED KING will break you into pieces right before it stitches you back together again." -Diana Gardin, author of SWORN TO PROTECT, Rescue OP's Series
The Road Leads Back
Second chance romance please!
Sometimes the only place left to go is home.
Kara Martinson always thought her high school crush was out of her league, but they did share one night she’s never been able to forget. Nearly three decades after being disowned by her parents and forced to raise her son on her own, Kara’s made it—her art is being toasted at a gallery opening. Even better, she and her son are finally on stable ground. Until Mr. One-Night Stand himself crashes her party.
Harry Canton always knew Kara would make it as an artist. Almost thirty years after high school, he still considers her the one that got away. But the surprise reunion doesn’t quite go to plan when Harry discovers he left her with more than just memories when he went away to college. Desperate to connect with the family he never knew existed, Harry convinces his son to move cross country for a fresh start with his father—and pleads with Kara to come home, too.
Kara hasn’t stepped foot in their hometown since the day she was sent away. But her son desperately wants the father he never had and denying him that may cost her everything. Can love heal old heartaches so Harry and Kara can have a second chance at the future they were robbed of so long ago? Or will the pain of the past be too much to face?
The Road Leads Back can be read as a standalone which is part of an overarching six book Stonehill Series. It is a sweet, second chance, small town romance from your new favorite author Marci Bolden. If a charming, sweet second chance romance story that reconnects hero and heroine after years and years apart sounds like your idea of a good time . . . this book is for you! Guaranteed HEA & No Cheating.
What readers are saying about The Road Leads Back:
“This is a heartfelt tale of second, and third, chances. Kara and Harry liked each other when they were in school together, but were both too shy to approach or tell one another. They spent one night together that irrevocably changed Kara's life. Instead of college, she was homeless and sent to a community for unwed mothers. She learned to survive and raise her son, Phil. Twenty-seven years later, Harry reunites with Kara and is floored by the news he missed his son's life. Harry wants to reconnect and convinces Kara and Phil to return to her hometown. The hometown she never returned to after being forced away and hurt by those adults in whom she should have had support. Everyone has much to be angry about and no one can seem to keep their tempers. Read this journey through the pain, anger, and maybe enough forgiveness for those third chances.” (5/5) – Coral Mitchell
“The Road Leads Back is the first book I've read from this author and most certainly won't be the last. I absolutely LOVED. THIS. BOOK! The book … hooks you fast. It was nothing that I expected it to be. I loved it because it was unique… and very believable…There were so many twists that it kept me engaged throughout the whole book. … This book stayed with me long after I finished.” (5/5) – Itsy Bitsy Book Bits of ItsyBitsyBookBits.com
“[Marci’s] writing talent shines with her sweet romance The Road Leads Back. This all-too-true storyline evolves through vivid description and masterly written character development. The Road Leads Back gives us an in-depth view of the joys of love and what it really takes to find happiness. I recommend this book, even if you aren’t a romance reader.” (5/5) – Sloane Taylor of SloanTaylor.com (Author of French Tart, French Twist, French Delight, and 28 other works.)
Neighbors: A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel, a reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.
Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors into her mostly undamaged home as the recovery begins.
These people did not even realize that movie star Meredith White was living on their street. Now, they are sharing her mansion, as well as their most closely kept secrets. Without the walls and privacy of their own homes, one by one, new relationships are forged. For every neighbor there is a story, from the doctor whose wife and children fear him, to the beautiful young woman dating a dishonorable man, to the aspiring writer caring for a famous blind musician.
In the heart of the crisis, Meredith finds herself venturing back into the world. And thanks to the suspicions and the dogged detective work of a disaster relief volunteer, a former military officer named Charles, a shocking truth about her own world is exposed. Suddenly Meredith sees her isolation, her estranged family, and even her acting career in a whole new light.
Filled with powerful human dramas, Neighbors is a penetrating look at how our world can be upended in a moment. In a novel of unforgettable characters and stunning twists, acts of love and courage become the most powerful forces of all.
A Life Without Flowers
Marci Bolden
Twenty-four years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Carol Denman has finally made peace with Katie’s father. But releasing her ex-husband from blame and facing how deeply she held herself responsible were only the first steps in Carol’s journey toward peace.
With the pain of her failed first marriage behind her, Carol is determined to mend her broken relationship with her mother. But she soon discovers she isn’t the only one who has been hanging on to bitterness. A road trip to face the past leads Carol’s mother, Judith, to unearth the seeds of past mistakes and deep resentments in ways neither of them would expect.
The roots of family animosity run deep and thick. While Judith seems hesitant to start digging, Carol commits to pruning away the thorns of the past so she no longer has to live a life without flowers.
She betrayed me.
After everything I did for her.
Now I’ll have to suffer the consequences of that mistake.
But then I’ll get the revenge that I deserve.
A Life Without Regrets
"A Life Without Regrets is the perfect ending to a perfect series." ~Dauntless Novels
"This is a book I will think about for a long time." ~Bookbubbe
"Not just for women's fiction fans, but for everyone who enjoys a heroine who digs deep to find the ability to survive and flourish with grace." ~ PW Reader
Since losing her husband, Tobias, in a tragic accident, Carol Denman has been on a journey of self-growth. She’s taken steps to finally grieve her daughter’s death, forgive her first husband, and mend her broken relationship with her mother. The one heartbreak she can’t seem to come to terms with is losing her husband.
As Carol continues her travels, family, old friends, and new confidants want to help her heal. However, this is a path Carol must travel alone. She knows her husband would want her to be happy again. She just has to figure out how to move forward.
Carol must dig deep to find a way back to the peace and happiness she once had in her life with Tobias. Coming to terms with being a widow isn’t going to be easy, but with the support from her loved ones and a few strangers, Carol embarks on her most poignant journey yet—finding a life without regrets.
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FOUNDSOUNDS: Plastic Plates – Stay In Love (feat. Sam Sparro)
Here’s a name I bet you haven’t heard of for while: Sam Sparro. He was like the Sam Smith of 2008. Yes, it’s been 6 years since “Black and Gold”. Let that seep in.
I was just alerted to his recent collaboration with fellow Aussie Plastic Plates, a track called “Stay In Love”. It’s an on-trend laidback house number, and Sam’s soulful vocals go down easy. It was quietly released on iTunes back in February and managed to slip under my radar until now. A jam and a half, you may agree.
STREAM: Plastic Plates – Stay In Love (feat. Sam Sparro)
Buy the song.
Catch up with Sam.
More on Plastic Plates.
March 31, 2014 | Categories: AUS, Dance, Electronic, Pop | Tags: foundsounds, plastic plates, sam sparro | Leave a comment
REMIXED: Ellie Goulding – Beating Heart (Cahill Radio Edit)
Professional soundtrack botherer Ellie Goulding just premiered the video for her latest young adult blockbuster theme song “Beating Heart”. For those of you who prefer EDM Ellie, the Divergent tune also got a fresh club-friendly remix by the ever-reliable Cahill. If you’re up for some generic good fun, check out the dance radio edit below.
STREAM: Ellie Goulding – Beating Heart (Cahill Radio Edit)
You can watch Ellie having a nice walk in the woods below.
Buy “Beating Heart” on iTunes.
More on Ellie.
More on Cahill.
March 28, 2014 | Categories: Dance, Pop, Remixes, Soundtrack, UK | Tags: cahill, divergent, edm, ellie goulding | Leave a comment
LISTEN: Foxes – Night Glo
Foxes’ ascension to pop stardom has been a long time coming, but it looks like 2014 will be her year. January brought her a Grammy award for her Zedd collaboration “Clarity” (Best Dance Recording), February landed her a UK Top 10 single for “Let Go For Tonight”, and come May her debut album “Glorious” will finally drop.
“Night Glo” is one of the album tracks, and it presents a somewhat different side of the British pop star. The midtempo number is produced by Liam Howe (Lana Del Rey, Marina & The Diamonds, Ellie Goulding, FKA Twigs), with a piano intro that recalls a Studio Ghibli score. Over an atmospheric, swampy instrumental, Louisa sings: “When soldiers are calling, just run through the night glo.” The track already sounds ready-made for a young adult film adaptation soundtrack.
STREAM: Foxes – Night Glo
Pre-order the album on iTunes, out May 9 in the UK.
Foxes on Facebook.
March 27, 2014 | Categories: Pop, UK | Tags: foxes | 1 Comment
Plastiscines Return With Covers EP, Reinterpret Lana Del Rey
Does the name Plastiscines ring a bell to you?
Let me jog your memory: back in 2009, the all-girl French rock band became the first to sign to NYLON magazine’s record label, released their second album “About Love”, and even nabbed a guest spot on Gossip Girl. Since then, the group downsized to a trio, added synths to their sound and continued to release new music. Their most recent release is a covers EP sponsored by Paco Rabanne perfume Black XS. It’s an eclectic collection of slick and stylish reinterpretations of Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Jeans”, Air’s “Sexy Boy”, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder On The Dancefloor”, Caroline Loeb’s ’80s hit “C’est la ouate”, and an acoustic version of Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”. If you like your bands to consist of guitar-rocking ladies (The Like, The Donnas, HAIM etc.), you should dig into this pronto. You can’t go wrong with some fun rock n’ roll with a French accent.
Listen to their new-wave take of Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Jeans” below. Cowbells included!
STREAM: Plastiscines – Blue Jeans (Lana Del Rey Cover)
I also quite enjoy their 2013 French single – the groovy “Comment faire”, whose video is a fun retro homage to American ’70s cop shows à la Charlie’s Angels.
WATCH: Plastiscines – Comment Faire
Their new album “Back To The Start” drops April 14.
Buy Black XS: The Rock Cover EP on iTunes.
Check out their Soundcloud.
March 22, 2014 | Categories: Alternative, Covers, France, Pop | Tags: air, lana del rey, plastiscines, sophie ellis-bextor | 1 Comment
J▲M: Tame Impala – Stranger In Moscow (Michael Jackson Cover)
Last weekend, Aussie psych-pop wizards Tame Impala casually chucked a cover of Michael Jackson‘s 1996 single “Stranger In Moscow” on Soundcloud. The track’s arrival might be unexpected, but its gorgeousness is no surprise. Generously doused with swirling psychedelia, comfy synth pads and layer upon layer of reverb, it’s an effortlessly superb re-imagining that sounds fresh and retro at once. Honestly, if they hadn’t put “MJ Cover” in (double) parentheses, I would have totally bought it as a new unreleased Tame Impala song.
STREAM: Tame Impala – Stranger In Moscow (Michael Jackson Cover)
Out of curiosity, I launched Youtube right after to check out the original, which turned out to be a beautiful ’90s relic. Then I ended up at the track’s Wiki page and found out UK duo Alpines also recorded another lovely version which was put up on their Myspace back in 2010. I’ve unearthed that and uploaded it for your convenience below. Have a listen while I lean back and congratulate myself for such a productive day.
STREAM: Alpines – Stranger In Moscow (Michael Jackson Cover)
More on Tame Impala.
More on Alpines.
March 18, 2014 | Categories: Alternative, AUS, Covers, Electronic, UK | Tags: '90s, alpines, michael jackson, tame impala | Leave a comment
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Written by SDM February 28, 2015 February 26, 2015
Josh Thorpe – Heavy Ambivalent Flag
In 2010 Canadian artist Josh Thorpe created a flag that contradicted itself — white on one side, black on the other — and flew it from a pole at the entrance to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery on the University of Toronto campus, which had commissioned the work.
Heavy Ambivalent Flag flying at the University of Toronto in 2010. Photo by Toni Hafkensheid.
About this work, the artist writes:
With its straight-ahead reference to surrender on the one hand and anarchy or piracy on the other, the signal is not passive aggressive, but rather passive and aggressive entwined.
The flag’s “ambivalence” (in the sense of two forces or two arguments in a state of apposition or convolution) comes from the apparent struggle between the binary black and white.
Since the flag is flying on a university campus next to a soccer field, the work is something of a joke on argumentation – on the claim to knowledge or the claim to territory.
As a flag doing more or less what flags do, however, it also indicates the multivalent forces at work in the atmosphere, an order of play unintelligible to the model of binary opposition.
In order to achieve the effect of black and white, the flagmaker used two pieces of nylon with a liner between, making the flag’s movement heavy and slow. This adds an unexpected oafish quality to the final work.
A month or so after install, the flag was stolen.
Thorpe’s fellow artist David Court provides an insightful reading of the work as a piece of self-referential art — as a flag that stands for itself, and for art itself, if art is understood as a domain of both intrinsic conflict and of asylum, apart from the world.
Court says, At its most basic, Thorpe’s flag simply does what any flag does: it sets up a predetermined figure/ground relationship. I’m not sure I agree (or understand). I do have a hard time with that “simply”, though: whatever flags do, this artwork I think shows nicely that this is never “simple”, never unequivocal, always subject to interpretation.
One of the great things about Heavy Ambivalent Flag (as do other strong examples of flag art) is that it opens a space to ask: just what does a flag do, at its most basic level? And Thorpe answers exactly this question very nicely in his commentary above: a flag flies in the wind, indicat[ing] the multivalent forces at work in the atmosphere. Atmosphere is quite literal when it comes to flags, of course, but it is also metaphorical: a flag’s atmosphere includes the cultures, the histories, the intentions, the interpretations that animate it, that give it life.
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Parsable In The News
Parsable Raises $60 Million, Taking Total Funding to $133 Million to Accelerate Connected Work at Enterprise Scale
Market-leading provider of the Connected Worker™ Platform is digitally transforming industrial frontline teams at the world’s largest companies
SAN FRANCISCO – August 11, 2020 – Parsable, the Connected Worker™ Platform company, today announced it has raised $60 million in a Series D round. With this new funding, Parsable will be able to accelerate its growth including Asia, EMEA and Latin America; invest in its rapidly expanding network of global partners and integrations; and further deepen the enterprise depth and capabilities of its platform, with the ultimate goal of increasing safety, productivity and quality output for essential industrial frontline workers.
New investors Activate Capital and Glade Brook Capital Partners co-led the round. New investors Alumni Ventures Group, Cisco Investments, Downing Ventures, Evolv Ventures and Princeville Capital also participated. The round also includes broad support from existing financial investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Future Fund and B37 Ventures, as well as continuing strategic investments from the investment groups at Honeywell and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures. This latest round brings Parsable’s total funding to date in excess of $133 million.
This level of investment is a testament to the market opportunity and a validation that Parsable’s highly secure, enterprise-scale platform approach is what the market desires as opposed to using point solutions.
The Parsable Connected Worker Platform provides modern digital tools that help connect frontline workers to the experts, information, systems and machines necessary to drive safety, productivity and quality in industrial and manufacturing operations.
Parsable customers include iconic companies such as Corteva Agriscience, Grupo Bimbo, Georgia-Pacific, Henkel, Shell, Suntory and Yara, in addition to many other leading global producers in consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturing, paper and packaging, transportation, and energy. The company’s Connected Worker Platform is globally deployed and has users in more than 130 countries, and is available in 14 languages.
“Parsable is a key part of our overall digital initiative and our strategic plan to equip our employees with the right digital technologies to unlock new levels of transparency, consistency and collaboration. As industrial automation becomes more prevalent within our business, having that seamless connection between our human workers, machines and systems is critical, and this is where Parsable plays a leadership role,” said Raul Obregon, chief information and transformation officer, Grupo Bimbo.
The mobile-first Parsable Connected Worker Platform guides frontline workers and their activities through digital, rich-media standard work procedures, enables real-time and remote collaboration, and triggers automated actions in business systems and machines. Companies can then collect and analyze powerful new data on frontline work, including adherence to safety and quality criteria. As a result, organizations can quickly and more accurately measure work execution, continuously improve work processes, and accelerate efficiencies and operational excellence across multiple teams and sites at scale.
Over the past year, Parsable has rapidly expanded its worldwide footprint and usage, including:
11x year-over-year global growth in registered users
180 percent year-over-year global growth in sites deployed
190 percent year-over-year global growth in safety use cases deployed
155 percent global growth in completed safety-related work procedures by CPG customers between March 2020 and May 2020, during the early height of the COVID-19 pandemic
“Activate was founded in 2017 to invest in innovative companies using digital solutions to transform the industrial economy for a more connected, intelligent and resilient future. After 18 months surveying the landscape of digital platforms for procedures and the ‘connected worker,’ we identified Parsable as the clear market leader,” said David Lincoln, managing partner, Activate Capital. “As companies accelerate their IIoT adoption and digital transformation, we see Parsable as the leader in connected, intelligent operations. We are excited to join the team and be part of their growth.” Lincoln will join Parsable’s board of directors.
“Glade Brook is pleased to co-lead Parsable’s Series D financing. Parsable is the leader in SaaS empowering the connected worker in manufacturing and industrial environments,” said Paul Hudson, founding partner and chief investment officer, Glade Brook Capital Partners. “We believe Parsable is well positioned to grow into a category defining software business and deliver extraordinary ROI to its customers and partners.” Hudson will join Parsable’s board of directors.
Lorrissa Horton, vice president and general manager of WebEx Teams at Cisco, will join as an observer on the Parsable board of directors.
Ensuring the Long-term Resilience of Global Supply Chains
More than 48% of respondents in a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of the world’s top risk experts said they were most worried about a disruption of global supply chains as a result of the health pandemic. Another WEF report states that the COVID-19 crisis has impacted more than 75% of the world’s manufacturing outputs. Parsable is a member of the WEF and an active participant in its Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production Platform.
“Despite these uncertain times, achieving this amount of funding proves that forward-thinking companies and the investment community are bullish about the criticality of human industrial workers in the world economy. Empowering frontline workers with modern, accessible yet powerful digital tools to increase safety, performance and quality is essential to the long-term resilience and flexibility of our supply chains,” said Lawrence Whittle, Parsable CEO.
Whittle continued: “Legacy systems and point solutions simply aren’t built for the type of agility and scale that is now necessary to achieve operational excellence. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform ticks all the requirements for flexibility, comprehensiveness, ease of use, and rapid time to value, and we’re excited for this next level of massive global growth.”
“We are at a tipping point in the digitalization of supply chain and manufacturing processes. These unprecedented times have accelerated the rise of a new, digital-first ‘normal.’ By connecting its Connected Worker Platform to Microsoft Teams, Parsable has redefined the way global industrial companies and frontline teams work together and leverage data across the entire supply chain,” said Çağlayan Arkan, vice president manufacturing, Microsoft.
Parsable’s Frontline Work Connector for Microsoft Teams enables the collaboration between Microsoft Teams users and industrial workers on the manufacturing floor or out in the field, empowering them to easily access and share the information they need to get their jobs done right.
Ushering in a New Wave of Enterprise Connectivity and Collaboration
“We see enormous potential in advancing safety and worker productivity in industrial workplaces around the world,” said Jonathan Meltzer, principal, Alumni Ventures Group. “We believe Parsable is a leader in its field and are extremely pleased to support the company’s growth plans.”
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Justia Patents Plural Gate Electrodes Or Grid Shaped Gate ElectrodeUS Patent for Power metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor Patent (Patent # 5,168,331)
Power metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor
Jan 31, 1991 - Siliconix Incorporated
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor constructed in a trench or groove configuration is provided with protection against voltage breakdown by the formation of a shield region adjacent to the insulating layer which borders the gate of the transistor. The shield region is either more lightly doped than, or has a conductivity opposite to, that of the region in which it is formed, normally the drift or drain region, and it is formed adjacent to a corner on the boundary between the insulating layer and the drift or drain region, where voltage breakdown is most likely to occur.
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This invention relates to power metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors and, more particularly, such transistors which include a gate region that is constructed in a groove or trench configuration.
Power metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) have frequently been constructed in the configuration shown in FIG. 1, which shows in cross section a portion of a MOSFET which includes a drain region 10, a source region 11 and a gate 12. Drain region 10 and source region 11 are arranged in a vertical configuration and gate 12 is in a groove or trench configuration. Drain region 10 and source region 11 are both formed of heavily doped N material and gate 12 consists of polysilicon. Layered between drain region 10 and source region 11 are a drift region 13, which is made of a lightly doped N material, and a body region 14, which is made of P material. An insulating layer 15 is interposed between gate 12 and the semiconductor materials, and a dielectric region 19 is partially enclosed by gate 12. Insulating layer 15 and dielectric region 19 are typically formed of silicon dioxide. Drain region 10 is connected to a drain contact 16. Source region 11 is connected to a source contact 17 which provides electrical contact between source region 11 and body region 14. Gate 12 is connected to a gate connection pad on the chip in a manner to be described below.
The device shown in FIG. 1 is in an "off" condition when gate 12 is grounded. When a positive voltage is applied to drain terminal 16 so as to reverse-bias the P-N junction between drift region 13 and body region 14, an electric field is set up within drift region 13. It is known in the art that the electric field reaches its maximum strength on the boundary of insulating layer 15 and drift region 13 at or near a corner in the profile of the gate, such as the point designated as 18 in FIG. 1. The concentration of the electric field at point 18 has frequently led to a voltage breakdown there, which can create oxide traps or pin holes in insulating layer 15, and can result in a short-circuit between drift region 13 and gate 12. Whatever the consequence, a voltage breakdown of this kind can permanently damage the device and render it unfit for further use.
Several ways of solving this problem had been proposed in the prior art. For example, the corner of insulating layer 15 at point 18 can be rounded, as shown in FIG. 2. While this tends to reduce the strength of the electric field in this area and renders the device somewhat more resistant to voltage breakdown, the improvement in this regard is not significant.
Another solution proposed in the prior art is to form a well 20 of heavily doped P material, as shown in FIG. 2. The creation of a P-N junction between well 20 and drift region 13, however, has the undesirable effect of creating a junction field effect transistor in the area designated as 21 in FIG. 2. This tends to choke off the current between drain terminal 16 and source terminal 17. In addition, the creation of a well reduces the cell density possible in the device.
In accordance with this invention, a layer of the drift region immediately below the gate in a grooved power MOSFET is doped with ions of a conductivity type opposite to that of the drift region. This creates a "free floating" shield region within the drift region which serves as a buffer to reduce the strength of the electric field in the drift region at the point where it reaches a maximum level, which is adjacent to a corner in the profile of the gate. The shield region can be doped to an extent that it takes a conductivity type opposite to that of the drift region, or to a lesser degree such that its conductivity type remains the same as, but weaker than, the drift region.
The introduction of a shield region in accordance with the invention reduces the field strength at the point where it reaches its maximum strength by a factor of 4 or 5. Moreover, if breakdown does occur in a device constructed in accordance with the invention, it will take place at a point on a P-N junction at some distance from the gate electrode. Thus, the reliability of the MOSFET is improved, because the magnitude of the breakdown voltage becomes a determinable quantity. If breakdown does occur, damage to the device is not irreversible. The device may be used again.
The principles of this invention can also be applied to a transistor in which the drift region is omitted and to insulated gate bipolar transistors as well as MOSFETs.
FIG. 1 shows a cross-sectional view of a typical grooved MOSFET in accordance with the prior art.
FIG. 2 shows a cross-sectional view of the MOSFET of FIG. 1 which has been modified in accordance with the prior art to alleviate the problem of voltage breakdown.
FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view of a high-voltage MOSFET constructed in accordance with the invention.
FIGS. 4A, 4B and 4C are illustrative plan views of an array of MOSFETs of the kind shown in FIG. 3 on a semiconductor chip.
FIG. 5 is a top view of a semiconductor chip showing an array of MOSFETs and respective gate and source connection pads.
FIGS. 6A, 6B and 6C show details of the connections with the gate pad and certain other elements of FIG. 5.
FIGS. 7A through 7Z and 7AA are simplified cross-sectional views of an embodiment of the invention during various stages of fabrication.
FIG. 8 is a graph illustrating the electric field strength at cross section A--A of the device shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 9 is a graph illustrating the electric field strength at cross-section B--B of the device shown in FIG. 3.
FIG. 10 shows a cross-sectional view of an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) constructed in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 3 shows in cross section a power MOSFET constructed in accordance with the invention. The MOSFET of FIG. 3 is generally similar to the MOSFET shown in FIG. 1. In accordance with the invention, however, the intensity of the electric field at point 18 has been found to be reduced substantially by the addition of shield region 30, which is formed by implanting P-type ions (such as boron) in the region adjoining insulating layer 15 directly below gate 12. Various concentrations of P-type ions may be implanted in shield region 30. If relatively low concentrations of these ions are implanted, shield region 30 will remain a very lightly doped N-type material. Alternatively, a higher concentration of the P-type ions may be implanted to convert shield region 30 to a lightly doped P-type material.
The operation of shield region 30 to limit the electric field strength at point 18 can be described as follows. As an increasing voltage is applied at drain terminal 16, the depletion region along the reverse-biased junction between drift region 13 and body region 14 expands a greater distance into drift region 13. At the punch-through voltage, this depletion region makes contact with shield region 30. When this occurs, the voltage in shield region 30 becomes approximately equal to the sum of (a) the voltage in body region 14 and (b) the punch-through voltage, and it does not significantly increase as the voltage at drain terminal 16 is further increased. In this manner, an upper limit is placed on the strength of the electric field at point 18.
This effect is illustrated by reference to FIGS. 8 and 9, which were prepared by computer simulation. FIG. 8 shows the strength of the electric field at various points along cross-section A--A in FIG. 1. The horizontal axis begins at the left edge of the device shown in FIG. 1, and the location of point 18 is indicated. It will be noted that the electric field reaches a peak value of approximately 35.times.10.sup.4 volts cm.sup.-1 at point 18. The graph of FIG. 9 shows the strength of the electric fields at points along cross section B--B in FIG. 3. Similarly, zero on the horizontal axis coincides with the left edge of the device, and point 18 is indicated. As shown in FIG. 9, the electric field reaches a peak value of approximately 8.times.10.sup.4 volts cm.sup.-1 at point 18. Accordingly, by using a shield region in accordance with this invention, the strength of the electric field at the critical point 18 has been reduced by a factor of about 4.4.
Moreover, in the embodiment of FIG. 3 voltage breakdown will occur along the junction between drift region 13 and body region 14 instead of at point 18. This means that the voltage at which breakdown will occur can be predicted with considerable precision. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the level at which breakdown will occur at point 18 is virtually impossible to predict. This feature of the invention will improve the reliability of high-voltage MOSFETs, since a particular breakdown voltage can be specified. Furthermore, since the breakdown occurs at a P-N junction, the device is not irreparably damaged as is normally the case when the breakdown occurs at the boundary between a semiconductor material and the gate insulating layer.
The point on the boundary of the gate insulating layer where the strength of the electric field reaches a maximum need not be a sharp corner. Accordingly, as used herein, the term corner refers to any point on the boundary of the gate insulating layer at which the shape of the boundary causes the strength of the electric field to reach a maximum. Moreover, where the strength of the electric field has more than one local maximum on the boundary of the gate insulating layer, each such maximum will be considered a corner.
It will be understood by those familiar with the art that the structure shown in FIGS. 1-3 is a cross-sectional view of only a portion of a MOSFET, in which the left edge of the drawing coincides with the centerline of gate 12 and the right edge of the drawing coincides with the centerline of body region 14. The MOSFET is normally constructed in the form of an array on a semiconductor chip. FIG. 4A illustrates an example of such an array, with P+ body regions 14 being surrounded by N+source regions 11 and transected by an orthogonal lattice of trenches comprising a gate 12. The cross sectional views shown in FIGS. 1-3 show, for example, the portion of cross section C--C between axes 40 and 41 in FIG. 4A.
FIGS. 4B and 4C illustrate other types of arrays in which a MOSFET may be constructed, FIG. 4B showing a hexagonal lattice and FIG. 4C showing a linear pattern.
A method of fabricating a preferred embodiment of a MOSFET in accordance with the invention will now be described, with reference to FIGS. 7A through 7Z:
The process begins with a substrate 700 consisting of heavily doped N-type silicon (FIG. 7A). The thickness of substrate 700 is typically in the range of 20-28 mils. An epitaxial layer 701 consisting of lightly doped N-type silicon (thickness 6-20 .mu.m) is then grown on the substrate 700 (FIG. 7B). Layer 701 has an ion concentration in the range of 1.times.10.sup.15 -2.times.10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3. A silicon dioxide layer 702 is then deposited on epitaxial layer 701, a photoresist layer 703 is deposited by a masking process on silicon dioxide layer 702, and the exposed portion of silicon dioxide layer 702 is dry etched using the reactive ion etching process (FIG. 7C). A heavily doped P well 704 is then formed by diffusion or ion implantation (FIG. 7D). Silicon dioxide layer 702 and photoresist layer 703 are then removed and are replaced by a silicon dioxide layer 705 and a photoresist layer 706 which is applied by a masking process. Silicon dioxide layer 705 is then dry etched (FIG. 7E). A trench 707 is then formed by reactive ion etching to a depth of approximately 1-4 .mu.m and a width of approximately 1-3 .mu.m. A silicon dioxide layer 708 is thermally grown along the bottom and sides of trench 707 (FIG. 7G), and is then removed in order to clean the bottom and sides of trench 707 (FIG. 7H). Another silicon dioxide layer 709 is thermally grown over the bottom and sides of trench 707 (FIG. 7I), and is then dry etched using the reactive ion etching process so that the portion of silicon dioxide layer 709 covering the bottom of trench 707 is removed. (FIG. 7J).
Boron ions are then implanted into the bottom of trench 707 at a concentration of 1.times.10.sup.12 -1.times.10.sup.14 cm.sup.-2 to form shield region 710, a region of P-type conductivity, at the bottom of trench 707 (FIG. 7K). Preferably, the doping concentration is in the range of 1.times.10.sup.12 -1.times.10.sup.13 ions cm.sup.-2. As a result, region 710 has a P-ion concentration in the range of 1.times.10.sup.16 -1.times.10.sup.20 cm.sup.-3. As described above, shield region 710 provides the buffering function which reduces the strength of the field at point 18, a corner on the surface of trench 707. As shown in FIG. 7K, shield region 710 overlaps point 18, and a small region 711 of lightly doped P-type conductivity may be formed parasitically at the lip of trench 707. Alternatively, shield region 710 could be formed as a region of very lightly doped N-type conductivity by implanting the boron ions at a concentration of 1.times.10.sup.11 -1.times.10.sup.12 cm.sup.-2, yielding a shield region 710 with an N-ion concentration in the range of 5.times.10.sup.13 -5.times.10.sup.15 cm.sup.-3. If this is done, the strength of the electric field at point 18 will be reduced as a result of reduced N type doping in the vicinity of point 18. While boron ions are preferred for doping shield region 710, ions of other Group IIIa elements such as indium, gallium or aluminum may also be used.
After shield region 710 has been formed, the remainder of silicon dioxide layer 709 is removed from the side of trench 707 (FIG. 7L), and a gate insulation layer 712 is thermally grown along the sides and bottom of trench 707 (FIG. 7M). A polysilicon gate layer 713 is then deposited (FIG. 7N), followed by a low temperature oxide layer 714 (FIG. 70). Low temperature oxide layer 714 may also be a layer of borophosphosilicate glass (BPSG) or phosphosilicate glass (PSG).
To planarize the trench, low temperature oxide layer 714 is first etched (FIG. 7P), and then, using a polysilicon mask, polysilicon layer 713 is etched back to the level of photoresist layer 706 (FIG. 7Q). Photoresist layer 706 is then removed and polysilicon layer 713 is selectively dry etched to further planarize the trench (FIG. 7R).
Silicon dioxide layer 705 is then removed by selective etching (FIG. 7S). Boron ions are implanted at a concentration of 5.times.10.sup.13 -2.times.10.sup.14 cm.sup.-2 at the top surface of epitaxial layer 701, and are driven in, to form a P-type body region 715 (FIG. 7T). This implantation process does not adversely affect gate insulation layer 712, polysilicon layer 713 or low temperature oxide layer 714. As a result of the implantation process, a screen silicon dioxide layer 716 is formed. Photoresist layer 717 is then formed by a masking process (FIG. 7U), and arsenic or phosphorous ions are implanted at a concentration of 3.times.10.sup.15 -8.times.10.sup.15 cm.sup.-2 to form source region 718 (FIG. 7V). Photoresist layer 717 is then removed and interlayer dielectric 719 is deposited or thermally grown on screen silicon dioxide layer 716 (FIG. 7W).
A photoresist layer 720 is formed on interlayer dielectric 719 (FIG. 7X), and interlayer dielectric 719 and screen silicon dioxide layer 716 are etched to form source contact window 721 (FIG. 7Y). Photoresist layer 720 is removed. A metal source contact layer 722 (typically 3 .mu.m thick) and a passivation layer 723 (typically Si.sub.2 N.sub.4 or SiO.sub.2 about 1 .mu.m thick) are deposited. The bottom surface of the wafer is cleaned and a drain contact layer 724, consisting of an alloyable metal, is deposited (FIG. 7Z).
Alternatively, instead of depositing low temperature oxide (or BPSG or PSG) layer 714, a thicker polysilicon gate layer 713 can be deposited prior to planarization (FIGS. 7O-7P). This alternative process is particularly suitable for embodiments having narrow gate trenches. Immediately following the deposition of the thick polysilicon gate layer 713 the device would appear as shown in FIG. 7AA. Gate layer 713 is then etched back to the level of photoresist layer 706, and the process described in conjunction with FIGS. 7R-7Z is carried out.
The depth of P body well 704 (FIG. 7D) can be varied so as to achieve desired voltage breakdown characteristics. For low voltage devices, the diffusion or ion implantation process may be carried out to yield a bottom of well 704 which is at a level either above the bottom of trench 707 or less than about 0.5 .mu.m below the bottom of trench 707. For high voltage devices, the diffusion or implantation process is carried out so that the bottom of well 704 is at a level more than 0.5 .mu.m below the bottom of trench 707.
FIG. 5 shows a top view of a chip 50 which contains a gate contact pad 51, a source contact pad 52 and conductive gate runners 53. To form gate pad 51, photoresist layer 706 (FIG. 7E) is formed so as to cover an area slightly smaller than the area of chip 50 to be occupied by gate pad 51. In the area overlain by photoresist layer 706, trenches 707 are not formed by the reactive ion etching process described in conjunction with FIG. 7F, and instead trenches 707 end in "fingers" 60 as shown in FIG. 6A, which is a detailed view of area 54 in FIG. 5.
Trenches 707 also end in fingers 61 along gate runners 53. This is shown in FIG. 6B, which is a detailed view of area 55 in FIG. 5. A polysilicon layer 62 overlaps and electrically contacts the top surface of fingers 61. Similarly, a polysilicon layer 64 overlaps trench fingers 63 around the perimeter of chip 50, as shown in the detailed view of FIG. 6C (area 56). A metal contact layer is then deposited on the polysilicon layer in the area of gate pad 51 and on polysilicon layers 62 and 64, resulting in the formation of gate runners 53 and 65, respectively (FIG. 6B and 6C). Metal gate runners 53 and 65 and the metal layer on gate pad 51 are all in electrical contact with one another. The function of gate runners 53 and 65 is to minimize the delay in the transmission of a signal from gate pad 51 to gate trenches 707 over the entire surface of chip 51.
Source pad 52 is formed by allowing the top surface of metal source contact layer 722 (FIG. 7Z) to remain exposed in the rectangular area shown in FIG. 5. As shown in FIG. 7Z, source contact layer 722 is insulated from gate layer 713 by silicon dioxide layer 716 and interlayer dielectric 79.
The perimeter of chip 50 contains structures that are known in the art and are consistent with the character and function of the chip. For example, a P region 66 as shown in FIG. 6C may be used as a shield for chip 50. If chip 50 is to be a high voltage device, additional shield regions may be formed around its perimeter.
Finally, appropriate connection terminals are attached to gate pad 51, source pad 52 and drain contact layer 724 (FIG. 7Z).
An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) can also be constructed using the principles of this invention, as shown in FIG. 10. The embodiment of FIG. 10 can be viewed as a PNP bipolar junction transistor (BJT) with a emitter 89 and an collector/body region 88 separated by lightly doped N or P drain region 80 and a lightly doped N base/drift region 83. This BJT is driven by an NPN MOSFET of the kind described above having a gate 82, a source region 84, a collector/body region 88, a base/drift region 83 and a drain region 80. A shield region 85 is located under gate 82 adjacent to insulating layer 86.
In operation, emitter 89 is connected to a positive voltage and base/drift region 83 is connected to ground or to a negative voltage, so as to forward bias the PN junction between emitter 89 and drain region 80. Base/drift region 83 is grounded by applying a positive voltage to gate 82, thereby creating an inversion channel between source region 84 and base/drift region 83 and turning the MOSFET "on". The inversion channel is in collector/body region 88 adjacent to insulating layer 86, and it essentially ties base/drift region 83 to ground. As a result, electrons flow from source region 84 and combine with holes flowing from emitter 89. Some of the holes injected by emitter 89 reach collector/body region 88 and form the collector current of the device. As compared with the MOSFET of FIG. 3, the IGBT of FIG. 10 has a lower voltage drop and is therefore useful at somewhat higher voltages (greater than about 200 V), although its somewhat slower speed limits its usefulness to frequencies less than about 50 Khz. Further details and an equivalent circuit for the IGBT are given in an article entitled "Insulated Gate Transistor Physics: Modeling and Optimization of the On-State Characteristics", by H. Yilmaz et al., IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. ED-32, No. 12, December 1985 which article is incorporated herein in its entirety.
During the operation of the IGBT, and in the absence of shield region 85, the electric field in base/drift region 83 would reach a maximum at point 87 along the junction with insulating layer 86. In the manner described above, shield region 85 limits the voltage at point 87 to a value which is approximately equal to the sum of the voltage in collector/body region 88 and the punchthrough voltage. The device will break down along the junction between base/drift region 83 and collector/body region 88 rather than at point 87.
The fabrication of an IGBT is very similar to the process described above for a MOSFET, the sole difference being in the initial steps. Referring to FIG. 10, an epitaxial layer 80 of lightly doped N or P material is grown on a heavily doped P substrate 89. The remaining steps are exactly as described above and as illustrated in FIGS. 7B-7Z, beginning with the growing of lightly doped N epitaxial layer 701 shown in FIG. 7B, which is equivalent to base/drift region 83 in FIG. 11.
While the invention has been shown and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. For example, while the embodiment of FIG. 3 includes a U-shaped groove, the invention is equally applicable to transistors in which the cross-sectional shape of the groove or trench is a "V" or other configuration. Moreover, it will be understood that the conductivities of the semiconductor materials may be opposite to those described, and that the drift region can be omitted entirely and the shield region can be formed in the drain region. If the conductivities of the semiconductor materials are reversed, the doping of shield region 710 (FIG. 7K) would be accomplished by implanting phosphorus, arsenic or antimony ions into an epitaxial layer of lightly doped P-type silicon. The ion concentration levels for the ion implantation process and the resulting shield region would the same as disclosed above and would produce a shield region consisting of N-type material or very lightly doped P-type material.
1. A metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor in a grooved or trench configuration and comprising the following regions in succession:
a source region of a first conductivity type;
a body region of a second conductivity type; and
a drain region of said first conductivity type; and additionally comprising
a gate formed in a trench or groove, said trench or groove extending through said body region into said drain region, said gate bordered by an insulating layer, said insulating layer having a boundary, and said boundary including a corner; and
a shield region bounded by said drain region and said insulating layer and adjacent to said corner, said shield region being of said first conductivity type and being doped to a lesser degree than said drain region, said shield region operating to inhibit voltage breakdown at or near said corner.
2. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 1 in which said shield region has an ion concentration in the range of about 5.times.10.sup.13 to about 5.times.10.sup.15 cm.sup.-3.
a shield region bounded by said drain region and said insulating layer and adjacent to said corner, said shield region being of said second conductivity type, said shield region operating to inhibit voltage breakdown at or near said corner.
5. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 2 or 4 wherein said body region includes a well of relatively heavily doped material.
6. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 5 wherein the bottom of said well is located at a level 0.5.mu.m or more below the bottom of said trench.
7. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 5 wherein the bottom of said well is located at a level higher than 0.5.mu.m below the bottom of said trench.
8. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 2 or 4 wherein said gate partially surrounds a dielectric region.
9. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 8 wherein said dielectric region is selected from the group consisting of borophosphosilicate glass, phosphosilicate glass or a low temperature oxide.
10. A semiconductor chip including a plurality of the transistors claimed in claims 2 or 4 wherein said trenches form a lattice configuration.
11. The semiconductor chip of claim 10 wherein said trenches form an orthogonal lattice.
12. The semiconductor chip of claim 10 wherein said trenches form a hexagonal lattice.
13. A semiconductor chip including a plurality of the transistors claimed in claims 2 or 4 wherein said trenches form a series of substantially parallel lines.
14. A metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor in a grooved or trench configuration and comprising the following regions in succession:
a body region of a second conductivity type;
a drift region of said first conductivity type; and
a gate formed in a trench or groove, said trench or groove extending through said body region into said drift region, said gate bordered by an insulating layer, said insulating layer having a boundary, and said boundary including a corner; and
a shield region bounded by said drift region and said insulating layer and adjacent to said corner, said shield region being of said first conductivity type and being doped to a lesser degree than said drift region, said shield region operating to inhibit voltage breakdown at or near said corner.
15. A metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 14 in which said shield region has an ion concentration in the range of about 5.times.10.sup.13 to about 5.times.10.sup.15 cm.sup.-3.
a shield region bounded by said drift region and said insulating layer and adjacent to said corner, said shield region being of said second conductivity type, said shield region operating to inhibit voltage breakdown at or near said corner.
17. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 16 in which said shield region has an ion concentration in the range of about 1.times.10.sup.16 to about 1.times.10.sup.20 cm.sup.-3.
18. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claims 15 or 17 wherein said body region includes a well of relatively heavily doped material.
19. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 18 wherein the bottom of said well is located at a level 0.5.mu.m or more below the bottom of said trench.
20. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 18 wherein the bottom of said sell is located at a level higher than 0.5.mu.m below the bottom of said trench.
21. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claims 15 or 17 wherein said gate partially surrounds a dielectric region.
22. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor of claim 21 wherein said dielectric region is selected from the group consisting of borophosphosilicate glass, phosphosilicate glass or a low temperature oxide.
23. A semiconductor chip including a plurality of the transistors claimed in claims 15 or 17 wherein said trenches form a lattice configuration.
26. A semiconductor chip including a plurality of the transistors claimed in claims 15 or 17 wherein said trenches form a series of substantially parallel lines.
27. An insulated gate bipolar transistor in a grooved or trench configuration and comprising the following regions in succession:
a collector/body region of a second conductivity type;
a base/drift region of said first conductivity type;
a drain region; and
an emitter of said second conductivity type; and additionally comprising
a gate formed in a trench or groove, said trench or groove extending through said collector/body region into said base/drift region, said gate bordered by an insulating layer, said insulating layer having a boundary, and said boundary including a corner; and
a shield region bounded by said base/drift region and said insulating layer and adjacent to said corner, said shield region being of said first conductivity type and being doped to a lesser degree than said base/drift region, said shield region operating to inhibit voltage breakdown at or near said corner.
28. The insulating gate bipolar transistor of claim 27 in which said shield region has an ion concentration in the range of about 5.times.10.sup.-- to about 5.times.10.sup.15 cm.sup.-3.
a shield region bounded by said base/drift region and said insulating layer and adjacent to said corner, said shield region being of said second conductivity type, said shield region operating to inhibit voltage breakdown at or near said corner.
30. The insulated gate bipolar transistor of claim 29 in which said shield region has an ion concentration in the range of about 1.times.10.sup.16 to about 1.times.10.sup.20 cm.sup.-3.
31. The insulated gate bipolar transistor of claims 28 or 30 wherein said collector/body region includes a well of relatively heavily doped material.
32. The insulated gate bipolar transistor of claim 31 wherein the bottom of said well is located at a level 0.5.mu.m or more below the bottom of said trench.
33. The insulated gate bipolar transistor of claim 31 wherein the bottom of said well is located at a level higher than 0.5.mu.m below the bottom of said trench.
34. The insulated gate bipolar transistor of claims 28 or 30 wherein said gate partially surrounds a dielectric region.
35. The insulated gate bipolar transistor of claim 34 wherein said dielectric region is selected from the group consisting of borophosphosilicate glass, phosphosilicate glass or a low temperature oxide.
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Date of Patent: Dec 1, 1992
Assignee: Siliconix Incorporated (Santa Clara, CA)
Inventor: Hamza Yilmaz (Saratoga, CA)
Primary Examiner: William D. Larkins
Law Firm: Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel
Current U.S. Class: Plural Gate Electrodes Or Grid Shaped Gate Electrode (257/331); With Means To Increase Breakdown Voltage (257/339); Floating Pn Junction Guard Region (257/495)
International Classification: H01L 2978;
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CoViD-19 may not end as predicted by the SIR model
Hamid Merchant
The researchers from Singapore University of Technology and Design recently launched a website presenting the predicted CoViD-19 end dates in various countries across the world. The predictions based on susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model used the pandemic life cycle curves to predict the CoViD-19 end dates for various countries. The curves in many countries are asymmetric and mainly skewed to the right (positive skewness) which means the actual end dates can be much later than the current predictions. This is particularly evident in profiles in the UK, Italy, USA, Spain, Canada, UAE etc. The expected end date in the world is, therefore, also likely to be later than the predicted date using this model. Caution is necessary for any over-enthusiasm on the end of CoViD-19 based on these predictions. Contrary to these, some other countries where the pandemic started late still seems to be on the upward trajectory of the predicted curves. This may mean that some countries may benefit from a much earlier end of CoViD-19 than what's currently predicted by this model.
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One of my favorite actors is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He is an awesome actor and I honestly would be head over heels excited if I were ever to meet him in real life someday! I’ve seen him in so many movies and I just think he “rocks!” I even named one of our roosters after him – Dwayne! Ha ha! So when my husband and I went to see “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” (and then again with our kids), I couldn’t wait to see how the movie was. Honestly, it was WAY BETTER than I thought it would be based on the trailers! I really enjoyed both Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as they “swapped smack talk” and body blows during the movie. Not to mention Vanessa Kirby as a bad-ass addition to the “Fast & Furious” series. I also laughed a bunch with Kevin Hart’s role as an air marshal on the plane going back and forth with Dwayne and Jason. It was a funny, action-packed movie and I would see it again in a heartbeat! You have to see it if you haven’t seen it yet! We will definitely be owning this movie when it comes out on Blu-ray!
After eight films that have amassed more than $5 billion worldwide, The Fast & Furious franchise now features its first stand-alone vehicle as DWAYNE JOHNSON and JASON STATHAM reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), and lawless outcast Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, first faced off in 2015’s Furious 7, the duo has swapped smack talk and body blows as they’ve tried to take each other down.
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Hobbs & Shaw blasts open a new door in the Fast universe as it hurtles action across the globe, from Los Angeles to London and from the toxic wasteland of Chernobyl to the lush beauty of Samoa.
Directed by DAVID LEITCH (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) from a story by longtime Fast & Furious narrative architect CHRIS MORGAN and a screenplay by Morgan and DREW PEARCE (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Iron Man 3), Hobbs & Shaw is produced by Johnson, Statham, Morgan and HIRAM GARCIA (Skyscraper, Rampage). The executive producers are DANY GARCIA (Shazam!, Skyscraper), KELLY MCCORMICK (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde), ETHAN SMITH (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde), AINSLEY DAVIES (Bird Box) and STEVEN CHASMAN (The Transporter, The Bank Job).
JONATHAN SELA (Deadpool 2, John Wick) is the film’s director of photography, DAVID SCHEUNEMANN (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) is the production designer and SARAH EVELYN (FX’s American Horror Story, Showtime’s Ray Donovan) is the costume designer. Hobbs & Shaw is edited by Oscar® winner CHRISTOPHER ROUSE ACE (The Bourne Ultimatum, Captain Phillips), and the score is by TYLER BATES (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde). The supervising stunt coordinator is CHRIS O’HARA (Jurassic World, Venom) and the visual effects supervisor is DAN GLASS (Deadpool 2, Jupiter Ascending).
Genres: Action-Thriller
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby and Helen Mirren
Directed By: David Leitch
Produced By: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Chris Morgan, Hiram Garcia
Executive Produced By: Kelly McCormick, Dany Garcia, Steven Chasman, Ethan Smith
Be sure to check out “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” in theaters now!
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19 Responses to “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw in Theaters”
Nick M. says:
I haven’t seen this , but those two are funny together and I can just imagine how this movie is going to be.
Shannon Gurnee says:
It was a really good movie! I’ve seen it twice and want to take my oldest son to see (making it my 3rd time)! LOL
Cristina Petrini says:
I’m a bit ashamed to say it but I stopped at the second movie, I think the story got lost … it moved away from the initial incipit …
kumamonjeng says:
Glad that it is back, I love to watch it as it is so thrilling. Thanks for the great review.
Dwayne Johnson is one of my fave actors too however I hate to admit it but I’ve not watched ang fast and furious films yet eek
Ashley Rollins says:
Oh wow, i didn’t even know that there was a new F&F – I will say, I do like Dwayne so I might have to go see this one.
Catherine Santiago Jose says:
Never tried to watch it but I am sure it was a great movie and I am so excited to see this on this weekend movie night with my kids.
Cyndi Buchanan says:
I can’t wait to see this movie. Kevin Hart is hilarious. Good to see you gave it a good review!
Kat&Phil says:
We’ve been wanting to check this out but have yet to! It’s a loaded cast for sure!
Arya says:
The whole cast is to be inspired as fuck haha Real life superheroes!
Sue-Tanya Mchorgh says:
I had no idea there was a new one. Thanks for letting me know. I would love to watch it.
Jay Mih says:
I have not seen any of the Fast and Furious movies. This sounds like a great one that we need to see.
i never saw the F&F movies. so i’d probably be lost in this one lol
I love these guys together. This one wasn’t my total favourite but I still enjoyed it.
I am not a fan of Fast and Furious but Hubby and our sons are and would love this
Rosey says:
I saw the previews for this and it piqued my interest. We will go see it before it gets out of theaters.
Candy Rachelle says:
“The Rock” is my all time favorite action star and this is one of my favorite action movies. That sounds exciting!
Hobbs and Shaw is one of the most awaited movies in my bucket list and I’m excited to watch it 🙂
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The Doors returned to their roots and were reborn a rock ’n’ roll band on Morrison Hotel, the group’s fifth studio album. Completed in only a few weeks and released in February 1970, the hard-charging album took its name from the Skid Row hotel in downtown Los Angeles that’s featured in the iconic cover photo taken by Henry Diltz.
Morrison Hotel: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, plus a bonus disc of unreleased studio outtakes, and the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl. The music will also be available from digital and streaming services the same day.
For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than an hour of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for Morrison Hotel. These 19 outtakes transport listeners into the studio with Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek for an unprecedented perspective on the making of the album. Botnick says: “There are many takes, different arrangements, false starts, and insightful studio conversations between the band – who were in the studio – and producer Paul Rothchild – who was in the control room. It’s like being a fly on the wall.”
Several of these unheard recordings spotlight how Queen Of The Highway and Roadhouse Blues evolved across multiple sessions. It’s especially interesting to hear how the band played with different bass players on Roadhouse Blues. Early versions include Harvey Brooks, who played on the band’s previous album, The Soft Parade. Later takes feature guitar legend Lonnie Mack on bass along with The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian on harmonica who, due to contractual restrictions at the time, had to be credited as G. Puglese.
Among the treasure trove of unreleased outtakes are also rough versions of Morrison Hotel tracks Peace Frog and Blue Sunday, as well as The Doors rarity I Will Never Be Untrue. The collection also captures some incredible session outtakes of the band jamming on cover versions of the Motown classic Money (That’s What I Want) and B.B. King’s Rock Me.
CD Track Listing
Disc One: The Original Album
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First Session (11/15/68)
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Queen Of The Highway (Various Takes) *
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Third Session (Date Unknown)
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Queen Of The Highway (Takes 5, 6 & 9, Dancing Through The Midnight Whirlpool) *
Queen Of The Highway (Take 14, Start It All Over) *
I Will Never Be Untrue *
Queen Of The Highway (Take Unknown) *
Money Beats Soul (Roadhouse Blues Sessions)
Roadhouse Blues (Take 14, Keep Your Eyes On The Road) *
Money (That’s What I Want) *
Rock Me Baby *
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Roadhouse Blues (Take 8, We’re Goin’ To The Roadhouse) *
Third Session
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Roadhouse Blues (Takes 5, 6 & 14, Let It Roll Baby Roll) *
Dawn’s Highway (Peace Frog/Blue Sunday Session)
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Unless you’ve been vacationing on another planet, you’ve surely heard plenty about XML and about Microsoft’s .NET initiative. On one hand, I see XML and .NET as largely developer initiatives. But I’ve begun to realize that all of this also has huge systems implications for you. Let me explain.
As XML gains acceptance in the corporate market, organizations face a challenge in creating applications that can quickly be modified to take advantage of new data sources. One approach is to use components. What better way to ramp up a new solution than to buy something already available and plug it into your existing infrastructure? With its loud and insistent .NET platform announcements, Microsoft has proclaimed itself a major player in XML integration.
That’s why the company has also joined the likes of IBM and Sun Microsystems in pushing the business of components. Microsoft recently launched an initiative through its MSDN Online Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/componentresources to act as a clearinghouse for component developers, publishers and customers. Think components still consist of little objects used to add graphing to Visual Basic programs? A $1,499 package called the EDS Investment Calculations Suite helps financial institutions determine values or rates related to CDs, IRAs, and other investment products.
So why am I bringing up components to a mostly networking crowd?
Consider the dilemma of a Microsoft break-up. As analyst David Sprott writes in a recent editorial for Interact (“the journal of component-based development & integration,” www.cbdiforum.com), it appears that “every solution under consideration includes the requirement to ‘open the Windows source code.’” Third parties want to access that code to better develop products that extend Windows. Sprott’s interesting proposal: to have Microsoft “document and stabilize the APIs” making up its OSs, and then, with the help of a cross-industry group, agree on an interface architecture that can be touched by third-parties—in other words, to “componentize” the core services of Windows. By extension, that could apply to all of Microsoft’s major offerings.
This sort of move would also enable Microsoft to hasten its move into the application services business. As an enterprise customer, we’re probably not ready yet to have our OS delivered by a provider, but I could envision our IT group offering, say, OLAP services to my workgroup without having to license and maintain SQL 2000 or employ a full-time DBA. Windows piecemeal, BackOffice on demand.
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The undeniable cruelty of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran
Tyler Cullis
The Trump administration calls its policy towards Iran one of “maximum pressure.” By its latest move, it would more properly be called “siege and starve,” as the feigned interest in establishing leverage for comprehensive negotiations with Iran has been replaced by a full-throttle push to pulverize Iran’s economy and collapse its social and economic life.
The Trump administration has now designated Iran’s entire financial sector under Executive Order (“E.O.”) 13902, subjecting all Iranian financial institutions — formal or otherwise — to an effective international boycott. Even with the crushing sanctions thus far visited on Iran, this move will have devastating impact, severing the limited ties that connect the Iranian people to the outside world and that allow them to sustain some modicum of economic life. Disconnected from the global financial system, unable to conduct the most basic of cross-border financial transactions, and denied their limited currency reserves abroad, Iran’s economy will be forced into the dark, surviving, if at all, on a subterranean diet of barter and shell companies.
The humanitarian impact could well be significant. The Iranian people deserve more than the most basic of medicines and foodstuffs, but even those will be made difficult to come by as a result of this policy. Even as the Trump administration claims that it will preserve existing humanitarian exceptions, banks that remain linked to Iran’s economy will sever those relationships, unsure of what the future holds, unclear about the financial benefits of maintaining trade with Iran, and fearful of being sanctioned for dealing with Iran’s banks in any capacity, humanitarian or otherwise.
Those who practice U.S. sanctions have long been cognizant of the peculiar challenges conducting trade in humanitarian goods with Iran, which existed even when significant parts of Iran’s economy remained open for business. Those challenges will now not just be exacerbated but will erect a prohibitive bar. No one, in good-faith, could advise that trade in humanitarian goods with Iran is without sanctions risk.
Some, like those at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies — the brain trust for the Trump administration’s Iran policy and a group whose views generally align with Israel’s Likud Party — will dispute all this, claiming that the new policy leaves open clear channels for humanitarian trade with Iran. No one need take this argument seriously. Those behind this move have long sought to crush Iran’s economy — and, by implication, its people — including through explicit targeting of Iran’s access to humanitarian goods. That explains the sanctioning of Iran’s central bank and FDD’s latest push to add another layer of sanctions and designate all of the non-designated Iranian banks. Their objective is clear: crush the people to stir political change. In some contexts, we use a word for this tactic: terrorism.
Based on reports, the Trump administration’s new policy came after visits from the Israeli government and FDD’s lobbying efforts. This is par for the course: FDD has long laundered Israeli talking points and intelligence before the U.S. government to make it seem as if there is a natural constituency for the policy being advocated. But there is no sizable constituency, at least not an American one. That is why the policy is being trotted out quietly in the midst of a thunderous presidential election season: to hide from the American people how their government is maliciously targeting Iranians and setting the stage for one last-ditch effort at war. Advocates of this policy know that there will be no referendum on it and that — subsumed by President Trump’s total saturation of the news market — the U.S. public will have little chance to even learn of it.
One can only hope the nightmare is a short-lived one for Iranians. In less than a month, the United States will conduct presidential elections, and there is by now clear indication that former Vice President Joe Biden is the strong front-runner. The Biden campaign has intimated its desire to return to the Iran nuclear deal and to lift U.S. sanctions in return for Iran re-establishing nuclear restrictions. That could herald a quick return to the status quo that existed at the end of the Obama administration, in which Iran was slowly re-integrating itself into the global economy while the United States was secure in the knowledge that Iran’s nuclear program was under wraps.
But a return to the nuclear deal will not address the pathologies that underlie the Trump administration’s “siege and starve” policy towards Iran nor will it compensate what has become a “lost generation” in Iran, struggling under the boot of American economic domination. Washington’s policy community will be quick to forgive those who advocated for this outrage, incorporating them back into the fold and treating them as honest interlocutors for a particular policy persuasion. The Iranian perspective will continue to be ignored, shut out from consideration through the potent combination of an embargo that prohibits meaningful dialogue between Americans and Iranians and an attitude of disregard for how our adversaries see things. In this manner, the wheel is reinvented and lessons go unlearned.
But if the United States seeks a sensible policy towards Iran — one that neither avoids the uncomfortable truths about the Islamic Republic nor seeks to destroy the country or risk war at every turn — there will need to be due consideration for how the U.S. has come to this policy, exacting an economic siege without historical precedent in the modern world and degrading what remains of its tattered moral standing in turn.
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News Three Days of Darkness in D.C.
Three Days of Darkness in D.C.
I was there. This is my story.
“Do you denounce the violence at the Capitol Building?”
Any talking head on radio or TV must now first answer that question in the affirmative before they are allowed to express an opinion. The whole paradigm infers, naturally, that the default position of Trump supporters is to encourage violence. Empirical evidence, of course, tells us the exact opposite. Indeed, the behavior of the MAGA masses at every peaceful rally, every boat parade and every convoy in 2020 is a testament to that reality. The eyewitnesses among the over 500,000 people who gathered at the MAGA rally on the National Mall on January 6 have also related something quite telling: that they actually had absolutely no clue about what went on at the Capitol Building — until they finally got a signal on their phones or went back to their hotels and saw it on the TV.
Listen carefully to one of the eyewitnesses here:
I was also an eyewitness to many things. All bars and restaurants were closed. A curfew was in place. The National Guard was flooding in — and in the chilly darkness Trump supporters had nowhere to go. Even the MAGA loyalists who were gathered on the sidewalks outside hotels downtown were being ushered back inside buildings by Capitol Police.
At my hotel in Chinatown, a MAGA group just inside the foyer held a kind of raging standoff with the police outside the glass front doors, opening them occasionally to vent their frustrations. And their frustrations were not without cause.
They had been promised a reckoning. January 6 was supposed to be the date when all that was wrong would be made right, when somehow by the slimmest of margins and thinnest of chances, Trump would prevail.
Whether this came from Senators and Congressmen disputing the count, or from some miracle of Constitutional contortion by Vice President Mike Pence, there was still hope. And since November 3, somehow many on Trump’s side had kept their faintest of hopes alive.
Some believed in Sidney Powell, convinced she would have the legal clout to expose the fraud against the President. Others put their faith in Giuliani and his endless bombast. Others held their breath for the possibility of a ten-day delay to enable a formal audit of the votes.
None of this came to pass. Almost every Senator who had promised to challenge the vote ended up falling meekly into line in the aftermath of the disruption inside the Capitol Hill building earlier in the day.
Tennessee’s Bill Haggerty (R-TN), Ron Johnson (R-WI), James Lankford (R-OK), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) all signaled their intention to ledge objections to at least one vote. Only to reverse course and vote to certify Biden’s win after the violence in the Capitol Building.
No politician wanted to be contaminated by the scenes on the Hill. Many tried to cleanse themselves by repeatedly denouncing the violence — that even Trump himself denounced. They were clearly calculating that their own political survival depended on it.
If some could have stripped naked and doused themselves with hand sanitizer live in the Senate to demonstrate their purgatory, I believe many of them would have done so. I sat on a couch with dedicated Republicans in DC as they watched the Senate proceedings in horror.
Senator Lindsay Graham was quick to reveal his stripes:
Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view he’s been a consequential president. But today, first thing you’ll see. All I can say, is count me out, enough is enough.
The aftermath has been just as dark.
The Capitol Building is now caged as well: 8 foot fencing, concrete bollards and national guard troops stationed at every corner. There are snowplows on every junction, groups of police on bikes circling around, and a strange sense of malevolence hanging over the mall.
As I run from the Capitol Building to the Lincoln Memorial, everything feels enormous. The seriousness of the moment, the sense of time and place, the evil held at the center of power, the hopes and dreams of the powerless held in the arms of democracy, the presence of Lincoln — bearing down on us all.
And I feel very small.
Whether MAGA voices are 500,000 strong on this Mall or just little old me, running along in my daft hat and ugly gloves, it feels futile trying to have our voices heard. Silicon Valley has crucified all meaningful conversation on social media and Parler, it appears, has been felled with one blow.
I text John Matze, Parler’s founder, to ask him how I can help. I fear the answer is there is nothing to be done.
We are 75 million, undoubtedly more. And yet at this moment it seems as if we are reduced to a whisper. Worse, we are let down by traitorous Republicans who are more interested in their own political future. Worse still, we are vilified as violent terrorists akin to ISIS – courtesy of a dubious ambush of the Capitol building.
Hearing CNN and others casually refer to my MAGA family as national terrorists and ISIS in the same breath makes my jaw clench.
Even as endless contractors deliver flooring, power and fencing down the mall in preparation for the inauguration on 20 January, curiously, and against all the odds, I still carry a flicker of hope. Not because of theories spouted by ex-Intelligence Corp bloggers, or whispers of the Insurrection Act signed by Trump. Not because of rumors and nods on the patriot wires, or curious power outages or closure of airspace. But because I know MAGA. I know it personally. I lived and breathed it for three long months on the road across America, and feel it beating with all my heart.
The MAGA movement is built on great things: love, kindness and joy. It is not represented by a few bad actors engorged with adrenaline at the Capitol, or slippery politicians worried for their own careers.
MAGA is as ordinary as an In-and-Out Burger, as everyday as Walgreens, and as honest as hard work. And it is the very stuff of the ordinary American that makes it extraordinary, that makes it a movement not a moment in time. I still have hope. MAGA will prevail.
This article first appeared in frontpagemag.com
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Katie Hopkins is an English media personality, columnist and former businesswoman who trained in the British Military. She has written for The Sun and the MailOnline and hosted her own television and radio chat shows.
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HOW DURABLE IS THE HOVERBOARD’S BATTERY
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The durability of the Hoverboard Battery:
Nowadays, the self-balancing scooters, commonly known as hoverboards, are considered the hottest toy of the era, gaining much importance by kids and adults for commuting. They enjoy riding these portable and rechargeable gadgets to the office, gym, parks, shopping malls, and many more. Hoverboards are not only the coolest gadgets but also the next fad in personal transport. But how long does the Hoverboard’s battery lasts? Durability is one of the crucial factors to consider while purchasing hoverboards of any kind. The answer varies from model to model.
The maximum battery durability of a top-rated and professional hoverboard is detected as 3-4 hours; however, the ordinary and low-priced Hoverboard’s battery lass for 1-2 hours maximum.
FACTORS AFFECTING BATTERY POWER
The following are some of the external factors that might affect the life of a hoverboard battery.
The hoverboards utilize more power on off-road terrains, such as coarse surfaces and steep inclines. The self-balancing scooters reaching certain charging battery levels go into power-saving mode affecting its performance.
Rider’s weight
Each Hoverboard has its defined weight range. The more it is pushed to carry the overweight, the faster its battery drains out. For example, when the rider’s weight is beyond the Hoverboard’s maximum load capacity, the battery extorts more power to work more than expected.
Weather also plays a role in affecting the battery’s performance of the Hoverboard. Batteries drain faster in hotter temperatures and are underperforming in lower temperatures also, I.e., winters. Therefore optimum temperatures level should be maintained while charging.
TIPS TO ENHANCE LONGEVITY OF HOVERBOARD’S BATTERY
Despite the brand, model, and price, it is acknowledged that portable self-riding gadget, hoverboard performs impeccably and efficiently in the beginning, then lowers its performance with continued use. Therefore to boost its battery life of following tips should be followed.
Never allow the battery to drain out completely.
Using a battery with a low charge badly influences the battery capacity. Therefore every time the power indicator is beeped on the hoverboard, place it on charging as soon as possible. Many hoverboards give power signals when left with 5-10% of the remaining battery capacity.
Never overcharge the battery
Unplug the battery right after the hoverboard is fully charged and avoid letting it sit for too long on charging because it reduces the battery’s durability. A standard hoverboard’s battery takes up to 3-4 hours to be charged 100%, therefore, leaving it overnight on charging is absurd.
Doing regular charging
Even when one doesn’t travel or regularly use a hoverboard, it is a pro tip to charge it daily because the battery drains out itself. But avoid overcharging and overheating to maintain the optimum performance level of the hoverboard.
Using original chargers
It is always recommended to use the original charger to charge the hoverboard because it is customized and tested before approval for use.
Concluding the subject, batteries play a great role in the performance of the hoverboard. Therefore, proper battery handling is needed with utmost care concerning charging capacity to get the most out of your board. As mentioned earlier, a hoverboard usually takes 1-4 hours on a single charge depending on the user’s weight, weather conditions, and terrain. Adhering o mentioned pro trips, one can achieve the battery’s longevity and boosted performance.
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Chile: Forest Fires Emergency Appeal n° MDRCL013
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This Emergency Appeal seeks a total of some 528,860 Swiss francs with an initial loan of CHF 67,760 from the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to provide immediate support to the National Society and allow for the deployment of IFRC personnel on a preliminary basis to support the Chilean Red Cross (ChRC) deliver assistance and support 2,000 people (400 families) for 12 months, with a focus on the following sectors: health (including psychosocial support PSS); water, sanitation and hygiene promotion; shelter and settlements (including household items); National Society capacity building; disaster preparedness and risk reduction; and cash transfer programme (CTP). The planned response reflects the current situation and information available at this time of the evolving operation. As the situation evolves and further assessments are completed by local authorities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the plan and appeal may be revised with the possibility of scaling up and CTP considerations.
The disaster and the Red Cross Red Crescent response to date
15 January 2017: Forest fires break out in the Metropolitan and Maule regions; despite the efforts of firefighters, fire brigades and volunteers, they are unable to halt the fires’ progress.
21 January 2017: The government of Chile declares a Constitutional State of Exception and State of Disaster simultaneously for the provinces of Colchagua and Cardenal Caro in the O’Higgins region and for Maule and BioBio region; a Constitutional State of Exception is also maintained in commune of Valparaíso in the region of Valparaíso
28 January 2017: The fires spread to the regions of Coquimbo and Araucanía; the fire has destroyed 396,027 hectares of agricultural crops and forest. All of the efforts have been directed toward containing the fires in the affected areas close to population centres and their mitigation and extinguishment. 3 February 2017: IFRC Surge Capacity deployed to Chile – general Regional Intervention Team (RIT) member
10 February 2017: The IFRC issues an Emergency Appeal for 528,860 Swiss francs for 2,000 people for 12 months
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Mali: Missing egg in food security basket
BAMAKO, 17 December 2009 (IRIN) - Mali had some 30 million chickens, ducks, guinea fowl and turkeys in 2005, but not enough protein-rich poultry products are consumed locally, according to the government and nutritionists.
In 2006 15 percent of under-five children were too thin or did not weigh enough for their height group, signs of malnourishment, and two out of five children in the same age group were too short for their age, a sign of chronic malnutrition, according to the Ministry of Health.
Poultry is still seen as a luxury, a source of money rather than protein, nutritionist Rouky Bah Tall told IRIN in Bamako. "Instead of consuming chicken and eggs, families prefer to sell them without knowing how much natural protein they lose out on or how it could improve their family's nutrition."
The Poultry Development Project in Mali (PDAM) estimates more than 90 percent of poultry farming in Mali is unregulated traditional backyard poultry. "Our backyard is a savings account," one farmer in the Bamako neighbourhood of Moribabougou told IRIN.
While more than 70 million eggs and 21,000 tons of poultry meat are produced annually, residents consume at most only 16 eggs per year and 1.7 grams of poultry every day, according to the director of the Poultry Development Project in Mali (PDAM), Ibrahim Ayouba Maïga.
The regional avian flu in 2006 halved the sale of eggs in Mali. Since then, the price and quantity have stabilized, according to a December 2008 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) analysis of Mali's poultry sector.
Adama Tangara, president of the poultry farmers' cooperative in Barouéli, 200km southwest of Bamako, told IRIN most of the cooperative's sales are in the capital.
Even though modern poultry farming contributes only 5 percent of all poultry in Mali, "it plays an important role in urban and peri-urban food security," noted the FAO evaluation.
Poultry brings in 7.5 percent of the country's agriculture income and reaps more profits than either beans, potatoes or corn, Livestock Minister Madeleine Diallo Ba told IRIN. "It is wrongly perceived as a side trade in rural farming when it actually represents a large pool of animal protein. Poultry plays a significant role in social life, with special symbolic importance in cultural festivities and ceremonies," said Ba.
Nevertheless, nutritionist Tall told IRIN that prejudices against eggs persist, such as the belief that children and expectant mothers will have bad luck if they eat too many eggs.
While more egg consumption could decrease childhood malnutrition, it is only one of many local solutions, the national director of nutrition, Raki Ba Samake, told IRIN. "We have a lot of biodiversity and nutrient-rich plants here in Mali. More eggs can help improve nutrition, but we also have other products here that we have not explored."
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State Lower Houses: Processed Data: QLD
Burrows, T. (Data Manager), The University of Western Australia, 13 May 2014
DOI: 10.4225/23/591537b4d1295, http://elections.uwa.edu.au/
State Lower Houses: Processed Data: NT
DOI: 10.4225/23/5915344ed1285, http://elections.uwa.edu.au/
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Staphylococcus epidermidis mesothelial array and RT2 data
Chakera, A. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 16 Feb 2017
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Sparse Principal Component Analysis with Preserved Sparsity Pattern
Seghouane, A. (Creator), Shokouhi, N. (Creator) & Koch, I. (Creator), Code Ocean, 14 Feb 2019
DOI: 10.24433/co.4593141.v1, https://codeocean.com/capsule/2626712/tree/v1
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Sex steroid values, composites and cognitive follow-up Raine Cohort Data
Jamnadass, E. S. (Creator), Keelan, J. (Creator), Russell-Smith, S. N. (Creator), Hickey, M. (Creator), Maybery, M. (Creator) & Whitehouse, A. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 29 Mar 2017
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Seagrass Presence Absence WA (ACEAS)
Canto, R. (Creator), Udy, J. (Creator), McMahon, K. (Creator), Waycott, M. (Creator), Kilminster, K. (Creator), Kendrick, G. (Creator), Roelfsema, C. M. (Creator), Scanes, P. (Creator) & West, G. (Creator), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), Nov 2013
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Robertson Park urban geochemistry
Rate, A. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 2017
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Roads versus flows in the Great Western Woodlands: surface-water insights into linear infrastructure effects
Raiter, K. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 7 Dec 2017
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Return to Oomarri: Dating and Preserving North-Western Australian Indigenous Rock-Art [2011 - 2011] - Images
Porr, M. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
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Rotary Club of Ikate Refurbishes Anjorin Health Centre, Donates Furniture and Bed Sheets
Rotary Club of Ikate, District 9110 led by the Opportunities President, Kola Awotoye has just refurbished Anjorin Primary Health Centre in Surulere, Lagos state.
In addition to the total refurbishment of the health centre, the club also changed the look of the hospital rooms with the donation of new bed sheets to the centre.
The reception area of the centre was further equipped with new branded furniture to enable comfortability of patients.
Commissioning the refurbished health centre on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 was the District Governor, Bola Oyebade and members of the club.
After the commissioning of the health centre project, the Rotarians proceeded to Progressive Senior Secondary School, Surulere where a dictionary stand was mounted by the club as their contribution to academic development in the school and the country at large.
The School Principal, Mrs Adeniran Yetunde in her speech, appreciated the club for such an attractive innovation which is designed for easy learning of diction by the students.
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Relational Remembering
Rethinking the Memory Wars
Sue Campbell
Tracing the impact of the 'memory wars' on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbell's work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge women's memories, particularly those meant to provoke a general social alarm about suggestibility. Sue Campbell argues that we cannot come to an adequate understanding of the nature and value of memory through a distorted view of rememberers. The harmful stereotypes of women's passivity and instability that have repopulated discussions of abuse have led many theorists to regard the social dimensions of remembering only negatively, as a threat or contaminant to memory integrity. Such models of memory cannot help us grasp the nature of harms linked to oppression, as these models imply that changed group understandings of the past are incompatible with the integrity of personal memory. Campbell uses the false memory debates to defend a feminist reconceptualization of personal memory as relational, social, and subject to politics. Memory is analyzed as a complex of cognitive abilities and social/narrative activities where one's success or failure as a rememberer is both affected by one's social location and has profound ramifications for one's cultural status as a moral agent.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
978-0-7425-3280-9 • Hardback • October 2003 • $139.00 • (£107.00)
978-0-7425-3281-6 • Paperback • October 2003 • $46.00 • (£35.00)
978-0-585-48278-1 • eBook • October 2003 • $43.50 • (£33.00)
Series: Feminist Constructions
Subjects: Philosophy / Epistemology, Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology / Social Psychology
Sue Campbell is associate professor of philosophy and women's studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Interpreting the Personal (1997) and co-editor of Racism and Philosophy (1999).
Chapter 1 Constructing the memory wars
Chapter 2 Respecting rememberers
Chapter 3 Framing women's testimony: narrative position and memory authority
Chapter 4 The subjects of therapy: Revisiting Trauma and Recovery
Chapter 5 The feeling of identity is quite wanting...in the true woman: Models of memory and moral character
Chapter 6 Suggestibility, misdesign, and social skepticism
Chapter 7 The costs of a stereotype: Defending women's confidential records
Chapter 8 A singular and representative life: Personal memory and systematic harms
Sue Campbell provides an insightful and much-needed analysis of the current debates surrounding recovered memories. Her lucidly argued position is essential reading for both therapists and theorists grappling with this contentious subject.....
— Tony Suzuki Laidlaw
Relational Remembering is a compelling, persuasively argued book that brings a welcome philosophical sophistication to recent debates in the so-called 'memory wars.' Sue Campbell argues that our dependence on others in the construction of narrativesof our past, far from undermining the reliability of our memories, is necessary for 'good remembering.' Philosophers, cognitive psychologists, therapists, feminist theorists—indeed, everyone interested in the politics of memory—will benefit from reading this fascinating study of memory and identity...
— Susan J. Brison, author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
In Relational Remembering Sue Campbell extends to the contentious terrain of the 'memory wars' the subtle and lucid account of subjectivity that she articulated in Interpreting the Personal. This extraordinary achievement shows that seeking the truth about what we feel or about what we seem to remember requires, not abstraction from, but politically informed attention to the social contexts in which those feelings and memories take shape....
— Naomi Scheman, professor of philosophy and women's studies, University of Minnesota
This is an especially useful text for those interested in philosophically interdisciplinary projects. . . . Relational Remembering presents an important feminist voice in the arguments over the unity and stability of memory. Campbell's text is critical, important, and quite provocative. Highly recommended....
An engaging and intelligent book, Relational Remembering is a probing analysis of the false memory movement written by an insightful and sophisticated philosopher of science. Of interest to a wide audience, Relational Remembering should be required reading by all those who claim—or would like to claim—expertise on memory for trauma....
— Jennifer J. Freyd
• Winner, Winner of the 2003 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2004
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Jumeirah announces expansion plans for Wild Wadi Water Park
Wednesday 10 December 2008 PDF Print
Jumeirah, the Dubai-based luxury hotel group and a member of Dubai Holding, has revealed expansion plans for Wild Wadi Water Park with the arrival of the latest rides available on the market.
Wild Wadi Water Park has been one of Dubai's favourite family destinations for the last nine years and the new rides, which are a first for the region, can be enjoyed by the entire family, providing hours of fun for all ages.
The first ride to be added next year is called 'Tantrum Alley', which will incorporate two large sections of downhill waterslides and two tornados. Guests seated on a four person tube will travel downhill to enter the first tornado where they slide back and forth several times, then circle around and around in the eye of the storm before exiting and hitting the second tornado, after which they splash out into the pool.
The second ride, known as 'Behemoth Bowl' is equally as adventurous and consists of two sections of downhill waterslides and the looming 'bowl'. Guests are seated on a four person tube, travelling downhill to the bowl, where they are hurtled into a spiralling spin and then dropped into the slide, ending with a splash in the pool.
Chris Perry, General Manager of Wild Wadi Water Park, commented: "Wild Wadi is all about fun and is an ideal place for families to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life. As water park industry leaders, we remain committed to Jumeirah's promise to 'Stay Different' and offer our guests the latest wild rides that cannot be found anywhere else in the region."
In order to prepare the park for these incredible slides, Wild Wadi will be closed from January 22nd until February 11th, 2009, before re-opening on February 12th. After this date, the park will continue operating while Tantrum Alley and Behemoth Bowl are being constructed, with a minimum disturbance to the guests.
Jumeirah will add the two new rides - 'Tantrum Alley' and 'Behemoth Bowl' - to Wild Wadi Water Park in 2009.
About Jumeirah:
Jumeirah properties are regarded as among the most luxurious and innovative in the world and have won numerous international travel and tourism awards. The fast growing Dubai based luxury international hospitality group encompasses the world renowned Burj Al Arab, the world's most luxurious hotel, the multi-award winning Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Madinat Jumeirah and Jumeirah Bab Al Shams Desert Resort & Spa in Dubai, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower and Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel in London and the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in New York.
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James Dolan writes a second email to Knicks after a backlash
Knicks owner James Dolan sent a second email to employees Tuesday to “clarify” his position on why the club did not issue a statement regarding police-related death of George Floyd, according to a source.
Dolan attempted to calm the unrest within the organization with the Knicks as one of two NBA teams to avoid issuing a formal statement about Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis that has sparked protests, riots and looting.
Dolan was furious at racism in his second email.
“Then let me be clear. We vehemently condemn and reject racism against anyone, period, “Dolan wrote.
Dolan added: “Racism is born out of ignorance.”
SNY first reported the second email after the first one was met with confusion by Knicks employees and sparked a virtual meeting by some employees Tuesday morning. The Knicks’ Instagram account posted a post in support of Blackout Tuesday.
Here is the text from the second email confirmed by the Knicks:
Yesterday, I made a sincere attempt to provide my perspective on a very difficult subject, one that has no easy answers. I know how important this topic is to many, and I don’t want there to be any confusion about where I am as an individual or we as a company. So let me be clear: we vehemently condemn and reject racism against anyone, period. It is against every value that we appreciate.
My point yesterday was about actions and the importance of living your values. At Madison Square Garden, we have worked hard to build an environment of inclusion and mutual respect, and those are the values we strive to live every day. Racism is born out of ignorance and it is up to each of us to understand that the person who works alongside them is their equal regardless of color or any of the other qualities that make us diverse. And any injustice to one person is an injustice to everyone.
This is how we at MSG fight against racism. We start with ourselves and through our actions we define who we are. This is how we can be an example to the world at large. That was the point of my message yesterday.
I am proud of the environment you have created here. I know this is a difficult time and that we will always have to communicate with each other about difficult problems. I will continue to do everything I can to help make our community even better. I know you will too.
In the first email, Dolan explained that he did not believe the Knicks were adequate to comment publicly on police brutality. The Post reported that some employees were disappointed with the email, and ESPN reported that the players were “furious” and had been active on social media to express their horror at the police incident.
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The board should advise employees what personal information it will collect and the purpose for which it is being collected. The board has a duty to ensure that any information collected is accurate, complete and up-to-date. In most circumstances the best way to do this is to collect the information directly from the employee
In addition to statutory requirements, employers are advised to, at a minimum, keep copies of documents and letters provided to employees as well as copies of evaluation reports and assessments.
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There may well be more than one employee file. There may be a payroll file kept at central office, a supervision file kept by the Superintendent or Director, and another file kept by the principal at the school covering matters dealt with at that level. In addition there may be separate files for medical issues or other specific topics related to the particular individual.
Board policy on employee records should set out what types of records will be kept in each file or at each location. It should also set out which employee of the board may use the information contained in each of these files.
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Employee personnel files are generally maintained in the central office of the school division. This central office file will contain information related to the employment relationship including, but not limited to a resume, education verification, employment contracts or letters of offer, formal performance appraisals and disciplinary reports.
Employee records should only contain information that is relevant to the purpose for which they were created. They should be factual and objective and free of hearsay, gossip, speculation and personal commentary or opinion.
Principal or Supervisor Files
It is common for a principal or a supervisor to also maintain an employee file. In general, this file will include information such as everyday performance observations, documents and notes outlining the employee’s goals and performance improvement expectations, and documentations of conversations and verbal warnings. Ongoing records should only be kept in one location, such as the personnel file, therefore the supervisor file may include temporary copies of those records while the employee is under their supervision.
Employee medical records contain sensitive and confidential information and must only be accessible to those who are required to access the records for their job. They must not be kept in the principal’s or supervisor’s file. These records must be maintained in accordance with the STF Provincial Collective Bargaining Agreement for Teachers which requires a separate medical file to be maintained. Board procedures and/or collective agreements for non-teaching staff may have similar requirements. .
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An employee has the right to request access to any record relating to themselves, including emails and records in the principal’s or supervisor’s file. When an employee requests access to their “file”, this means that access must be given to the principal’s or supervisor’s file, the central office personnel file as well as any other records such as emails, meeting notes, reports, etc.
The employee has the right to a copy of any record that pertains to themselves but they do not have the right to remove any (delete: ongoing or permanent) record. They do have a right to request a correction or a notation that the correction was requested.
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Email should not be used as a method of records management. If an email is required to be retained, that email should be moved to the central office or principal’s or supervisor’s file.
When an employee no longer works under the supervision of the principal or supervisor, it is recommended the supervisor’s file be sent to human resources to be kept centrally with the employee’s central office file. (delete: For records located in a supervisor’s file,) The Superintendent of Human Resources or designate will review the contents in the file and determine what ongoing or permanent records should be retained, passed on to the new principal or supervisor or destroyed in accordance with the school division disposal guidelines.
In no case can principals or supervisors retain any personal information of employee once the principal or supervisor leaves the employ of the school division. This includes information that might be stored on personal electronic devices.
In determining the retention period for files, a distinction can be made between transitory or temporary records, which can generally be disposed of after a relatively short period of time, and non-transitory records that will have longer retention periods.
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Despite It All: What I Loved Best About 2018
On December 31, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Lorraine Devon WilkeIn Latest Thoughts6 Comments
End-of-year lists. I love them. The “best of” ones, anyway. They’re like small-plate nostalgia buffets, filled with tidbits of all the stuff you loved, distillations of an entire year from the various points of view of clever writers, of which there are many. I’m not sure how clever Iam, but as I watched the last sunset of the year dip into darkness, I thought about making my own.
This would not be announcement-worthy except for the fact I’ve found myself damn near speechless this year, particularly in terms of political opining, quiescence brought on by a combination of outrage exhaustion, a sense of swimming in an overpopulated stream, and the fact that so much of what I think and feel is amply covered by the countless other writers op-edding on a daily basis—and for media sources with far higher profiles than my little blog (I still haven’t forgiven HuffPost for shutting down the contributors’ platform!).
Add to that the “churning machine of political horrors”—also known as the Trump Administration—which pumps out ceaseless vomit with such perpetuity one would have to write five articles a day to stay current, and I ain’t got it in me right now.
But as I got to retrospecting, I was reminded that though these last twelve months have been truly nuts on so many levels, they were also replete with tremendous progress, solid wins; the evolution of new voices, and hearty activism. Enough fabulous things happened, both personally and more expansively, that I became compelled to compile.
In no particular order, not listed by virtue of gravitas or merit, the select things, people, and events that helped make this year a wonderful one… despite it all:
What I Loved Best About 2018:
• The Women’s March, Los Angeles, January 21, 2018. We were almost a million strong (750,000) just in LA alone. The numbers worldwide were astonishing. And beyond the sheer power of that many people gathered to protest racism, sexism, corruption, and sexual assault, the event marked the first time in many years I gathered with all five of my sisters (we call ourselves “The Sixters”) to march together. With matching signs designed by our youngest sib, Grace, it was a phenomenal, empowering moment of familial and global solidarity. I do hope whatever pulls and tears have come into the Women’s March group from various quarters of late can be transcended in 2019 to keep the momentum going. We’ll see. But 2018’s event was unforgettable.
• We got a cat. That may sound silly but it’s not. I’ve watched this fuzzy little creature, who came to us from a shelter on January 5th, literally change the tenor of our habitat with her inexhaustible energy and character. I’ve watched a husband who deals with Post Concussion Syndrome become the warm landing spot for an animal who loves him, who follows him around like a puppy; engages with him in absurd games of fetch, and with whom conversation often ensues (on both sides, mind you!). She is a delightful little being who’s brought particular and unique joy to our home and has made walking in the door an event. No small thing. We call her Georgy Girl. She occasionally likes me too.
• The Parkland Kids: While caustic contrarians like Louis C.K. and Dana Loesch persist in using them as target practice for their bile, those of us who’ve been frustrated and horrified by stagnancy within the “gun reform” debate saw a group of high school students who’d survived a mass shooting take their rage, fear, and sorrow and turn it into one of the most powerful political movements of recent years. I don’t care what minor critiques are dragged up, I don’t care how young and occasionally callow they may be at times; I am not remotely interested in David Hogg’s SAT scores or Emma Gonzalez’s sexuality. There is NO ONE who has more quickly, cogently, and fearlessly dragged the convoluted issue of guns into the spotlight and onto the political stage than these kids. On top of that, they rallied thousands of young people to get registered and to the polls during the midterms, activism which contributed to record-breaking turnout, and they are continuing the movement forward from there. I do believe they will create real change… because no group has ever stood up to the corruption and callousness of the NRA with such earnest and passionate fervor.
• Attitudes about Climate Change & Conservation Continue to Evolve: Despite America having an idiot president who denies science, along with the other money-grubbers who can’t see the forest for the green (lining their pockets), short-sighted dismissal about the longterm assignment of saving the planet is becoming less and less acceptable, not unlike how attitudes about smoking or littering evolved. Reports detailing the dire circumstances that inexorably face our planet, horrific fires we’re told will become the norm, droughts, pestilence, and changing tides, all remind us that we’re a finite element in a grand universe that needs, demands, our immediate attention. And more people are paying attention. While Trump and his toadies temporarily regress America on this issue, this detailed breakdown from Quartz shows there is hope across the international stage. Please read it and do continue, however you do, to challenge and lessen your own carbon footprint.
• I found a publisher. This may not resonate widely, or with anyone who hasn’t pursued a creative career, but it was a game changer for me in ’18. As one who has pursued the arts from the time I was told I could sing or cobble a story together of some merit, I have largely been an indie artist “doing it for herself,” as Annie and Aretha might sing. I’ve had scads of people throughout my time—managers, producers, collaborators, agents, etc.—who pushed things in directions I wanted to go (and sometimes arrived), but despite tremendous wins and scores of incredible experiences, no part of my particular journey has been a slam-dunk. I wasn’t the actress plucked from a coffee shop, the singer pulled on stage by a rock star, the novelist garnering literati applause. I was that other one. The one making my own stage. Working with indie film and record producers, self-financed productions, self-published books.
So this year, when publisher Brooke Warner of She Writes Press, a small but innovative and emerging force in the publishing industry, said she wanted to publish my upcoming novel, The Alchemy of Noise, despite it being controversial, despite my independent resume, despite industry resistance to off-trend voices, I felt the embracing welcome of an opened door. I don’t know how it will go when the book’s finally out (April 9th)—I’m hopeful, they’re expert, early reader reviews (so far) are good—but just to have a group of experienced pros choose to work in tandem with me to achieve this goal is a balm.
• The Midterms: In all my life I have never been more concerned, more involved, or more invested in Midterm elections than I was this year. Anyone who knows me, reads me, converses with me, knows what I think about the current administration, so it’s no secret that I believed the outcome of this election truly was “life or death.” The urgency of implementing checks and balances into what has become a blatant flouting of rule-of-law and all manner of integrity felt tantamount to pulling a drowning society from a raging swamp. I spent hours, stamps, and handwritten agony (can anyone handwrite anymore??) sending out hundreds of campaign postcards for candidates around the country, and the unbelievable turnout, the overwhelming wins, the feeling that we now have a most amazingly diverse and capable group of adults stepping into the cult frenzy, is overwhelming. We did good. Let’s PLEASE make sure we do good for 2020. That’s a whole other article. But I think you know what I mean…
• Social Media Activism: Say what you will about Twitter and Facebook (and there’s plenty to say), in 2018 both platforms became an even more powerful outlet for righteous anger and social activism, particularly on issues related to racism and white privilege. When New York lawyer Aaron Schlossberg bombarded a group of Spanish-speaking customers in a sandwich shop with his vile, racist nonsense, Twitter and Facebook outed him without mercy, and before long he was out of a job and had mariachi bands serenading his apartment building. When Barbecue Becky called the cops on a black family “committing the crime” of grilling in a park, Dr. Jennifer Schulte faced an onslaught of pushback that went all the up to her place of employment and had police considering her commitment. The list of perpetrators from every walk of life assaulting good men, women, and children of color is long, unfortunately, but there continues to be conscious, compassionate, and justifiably angry people with smart phones and social media platforms to take them on, giving activist citizens the empowerment of knowing silence is not an option when faced with hate and bigotry.
• Movies with/about music: I don’t mean musicals—thought I love musicals—I mean A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody. I mean movies that climb inside the life of singers, songwriters, and bands, and bring us with them to watch the music evolve, see the excitement and anxiety of the lifestyle unfold, feel the power of creativity. I’m not interested in critiquing these films—plenty of reviewers have done just that—but both the films mentioned had me energized, engaged, entertained, and moved throughout. That’s always an amazing moviegoing experience. And A Star Is Born, particularly, not only resonated with me for all sorts of expected reasons given my band singer history, but the telling of its story touched me deeply. Both stars are phenomenal, and though I have wearied of drug & alcohol related “Behind the Music” narratives, Bradley Cooper did an extraordinary job of bringing vulnerability and true sorrow to the inexorable trajectory his character experienced. It showed a side of addiction rarely seen. And Lady Gaga… well. What can I say: listening to the fragility and crack in her voice on “I’ll Never Love Again” before it transforms into a soaring power ballad wraps me in tears and goosebumps every time.
• Political transcendence: Allowing a corrupt and amoral conman like Donald Trump into the White House has been one of the most egregious errors in American history. I fought with everything I had—my activism, my voice, my articles, my vote—to keep that from happening, but the power of corruption, the short-sightedness of one-issue voting, the collusion and involvement of foreign adversaries, the willingness of too many to ignore blatant bigotry, lack of intellect, and a classless, corrosive worldview, toppled the good sense of an entire nation. We have paid, and will continue to pay, a very high price for that folly. Yet, while the carnage of Trump has shaken us to the core (and when I say “us” I mean anyone who cares more for humanity than stock prices, who believes all people are created equal, who respects and embraces science; who leads with compassion, empathy, consideration, and love), it has also awakened American consciousness in ways we might not have expected. It struck me that my upcoming novel is called The Alchemy of Noise, a narrative exploring the notion of pulling the good, the gold, out of the very darkest of situations, and I do believe America is finding its own alchemy in this era of Trump. (Read this piece: The halfway point: What have two years of Trump’s wrecking ball done to America?. It is quite brilliant and hopeful… I love the line, “democratic renaissance.”) 2018 has been a “democratic renaissance.” That will only continue to evolve. I have faith in that. Don’t you?
• My circle, real and virtual: As I traverse life on a day-to-day basis, whether meeting friends for lunch, gathering with family; singing songs for my mother in hope of shaking her fog, or spending time in virtual conversations with the many incredible people with whom I engage on social media, I am reminded of how lucky I am to have such evolved, conscious, caring, active people in my global circle. The list is long, you know who you are, and though I would need another blog to name each of you, please know how grateful I am for your hearts and minds, your anger and activism, your humor and good-will, your pictures and silly videos, your articles and reviews, your generosity in helping me with my work, writing me blurbs, commenting on my articles, or simply sharing your own thoughtful perspectives either privately or on my pages. It all means something. You have helped me endure the insanity of our times; you’ve made me laugh, shared cakes I want to eat, brought brilliant art to my attention, and appreciated mine. Thank you. Let’s keep doing it all of that. It brings joy.
Photo by Cristina Cerda
• The power of love: That may sound treacly, but I don’t mean it that way. I mean it in the most transcendental, soulful, joy-empowering way. This year I had the pleasure of, once again, performing music with my brother, Tom, who I adore, and three other people I adore as well: Ben (his son/my nephew; Jeff, and Erik), and the love shared and experienced in putting our Sixth & Third shows together could light the grid for years. I also spent about six weeks putting a milestone birthday video together for my beloved husband, and, in the process, was reminded of every moment of our lives together, filling my heart beyond words. The family, the friends, the projects, the labors of love, our children, our pets, our closest friends… it was an overwhelming 18-minute blast of love, and it reminded me to remind myself to always remember and never forget… you know what I mean?
There are more, but these are the highlights, the things that made this year resonate and stand up to the opposite side of this list. I don’t want to enumerate the opposite side; I don’t need to. I only need to keep moving forward wrapped in the power and solidarity of the good side, the “renaissancing” side! I have faith in us. I have hope for us. I know love will drive us. Which is good, because, like Todd Rundgren, I do believe love is the answer.
Happy New Year, my friends! And welcome, 2019. Let’s make some history together.
All photos, except where attributed, by LDW.
Lorraine’s third novel, The Alchemy of Noise, has an April 2019 pub date, with pre-orders currently available at Amazon. Visit www.lorrainedevonwilke.com for details and links to LDW’s other books, music, photography, and articles.
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Consumer Trust in Service Brand and in Frontline Service Personnel: Impact on Co-Production and Value Co-Creation Behavior - A Cross-Country Study
Sherriff T.K. LUK, Esther Ling Yee LI, Ben S. C. LIU
Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Conference paper (refereed) › peer-review
The conventional wisdom in service marketing explains customers can serve as either "resource providers for a firm" as illustrated in numerous self-service operations, or "contributors for a company's service quality", subjected to customer expectations and perceptions over actual performance (Zeithmal et al. 2012). In this research stream, much of the literature on factors influencing customer participation behavior through out the service delivery process has focused on the customer's knowledge, abilities and incentives.
Proceedings of 8th Annual London Business Research ConferenceImperial College, London, UK, 8 -9 July, 2013
8th Annual London Business Research Conference - Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Jul 2013 → 9 Jul 2013
8th Annual London Business Research Conference
Imperical College London
https://studylib.net/doc/13326373/proceedings-of-8th-annual-london-business-research-confer...
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LUK, S. T. K., LI, E. L. Y., & LIU, B. S. C. (2013). Consumer Trust in Service Brand and in Frontline Service Personnel: Impact on Co-Production and Value Co-Creation Behavior - A Cross-Country Study. In Proceedings of 8th Annual London Business Research ConferenceImperial College, London, UK, 8 -9 July, 2013 https://studylib.net/doc/13326373/proceedings-of-8th-annual-london-business-research-confer...
LUK, Sherriff T.K. ; LI, Esther Ling Yee ; LIU, Ben S. C. / Consumer Trust in Service Brand and in Frontline Service Personnel: Impact on Co-Production and Value Co-Creation Behavior - A Cross-Country Study. Proceedings of 8th Annual London Business Research ConferenceImperial College, London, UK, 8 -9 July, 2013. 2013.
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Birds and Vegetation Structure of Isolated Juniper and Oak Communities in the Trans-Pecos Chihuahuan Desert
Kayla Rochelle Garza, University of Texas at El Paso
Birds of the Trans-Pecos region are historically understudied, with most literature covering birds of desert grasslands and scrub in New Mexico and Northern Mexico. A multitude of vegetation communities within the Chihuahuan Desert have also been neglected due to this gap in the research, for reasons including lack of access to public or preserve land in West Texas, and rough terrain. Indio Mountains Research Station (IMRS), is located 42-km southwest of Van Horn, Texas and encompasses many different vegetation communities, including juniper-oak habitats of arroyo and canyon systems. The purpose of this study was to document the bird species utilizing these isolated areas, record mating and nesting in the summer, especially if using the oak or juniper as nest plants, get a snapshot of migrating, wintering, and summer breeding bird arrival and departure dates, and better characterize the vegetation communities. We hypothesized that habitats containing both juniper and oak species would contain more bird species richness and diversity than other oak, juniper or thorn-scrub communities. Plant surveys were conducted to calculate shrub and tree percent occurrences, and to document the presence-absence of flower-herbs, cacti, grasses, ferns, spike-mosses, agaves, and vines. Bird surveys were conducted from June 2016 to December 2017 in 4 randomly rotated sites containing these different vegetation communities from 0600-0900 for 30 minutes bi-weekly. Bird species, relative abundance, mating and nesting incidents, nest plants, photographs of nests were collected, and species richness data analyzed for differences in season and bird range category (summer breeding, migrating, wintering, year-round) between each site. Plant surveys indicated that the oak and juniper sites contained large percentages of Parthenium incanum, Viguiera stenoloba, Tequilia greggii or Acacia constricta shrubs, and large percentages of Quercus pungens, Juniperus coahuilensis, or small Forestiera pubescens trees. The data from the juniper and oak communities, including the flower/herb species found, indicated that these vegetation communities could be classified as Madrean Oriental Chaparral and Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub of the general shrubland ecosystem. We found 64 bird species total, and analysis indicated there were no significant differences in bird species richness by site overall (p > 0.50), in any season (p = 0.27), or by bird range category (p = 0.43), however, we did document several migrating, wintering, and summer breeding birds using the oak and juniper sites that were not documented using the desert thorn-scrub community. The juniper-oak community contained the most avian diversity and the thorn-scrub community had the least. We also documented Zenaida macroura using only Quercus pungens as a nest plant, with evidence of use in prior years, and Archilochus alexandri using Juniperus coahuilensis, both species not documented doing so in the past. Two winter range birds, Zonotrichia albicollis and Pipilo chlorurus, were found occupying the sites year-round, and Micrathene whitneyi was documented in pairs and groups of 3 using the juniper habitat in the summer and fall of 2016 and 2017, an owl that is not shown to have a range in far west Texas, but of which there is growing evidence for across all of the Trans-Pecos region. Chordeiles minor was also documented using an oak-juniper arroyo system, and no other habitat, in high relative abundance for one summer, an observation that warrants further research in habitat preference for mating and breeding in the Trans-Pecos region, and the trends in abiotic conditions determining these patterns of use. Comparison to the previous bird study on IMRS of the cattle tanks and permanent spring yielded many similarities in year-round birds, but major differences in species of more riparian oriented birds and rare migrants, as expected. This study provided a better understanding of the life history of several bird species, a clearer understanding of the plant species present in the habitats, potential updates to the range maps for particular birds, and an even better understanding of how birds use post-grazed ranchlands in the region.
Biology|Botany|Zoology
Garza, Kayla Rochelle, "Birds and Vegetation Structure of Isolated Juniper and Oak Communities in the Trans-Pecos Chihuahuan Desert" (2018). ETD Collection for University of Texas, El Paso. AAI10815738.
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Jake Kaufman, the Follin brothers... and Alberto Gonzalez?!
Wyrdwad
Jug of Wyrdwad
Jake Kaufman, the Follin brothers... and Alberto Gonzalez?! Oct 25, 2014 3:36:45 GMT -5
Post by Wyrdwad on Oct 25, 2014 3:36:45 GMT -5
All this time, the Follin brothers and Jake Kaufman were pretty much my top-tier picks for non-Japanese game musicians, and I didn't think anyone else could ever quite give them a run for their money.
...Then, in the course of listening to tracks for my Soundtrack Sleuth videos, I discovered Alberto Jose Gonzalez.
I had no idea this dude existed, mostly because he's composed largely for licensed games that are most likely viewed as shovelware (Smurfs and such) and now works primarily on iOS titles and such. But DAMN, this guy is totally up there with the greats.
Just listen to this track and tell me it's not one of the best 8-bit techno songs you've ever heard. (Skip ahead to the 1:00 mark if you don't want to deal with the intro, but I kinda like it -- it adds a little extra mood to the piece!)
Here's a more mellow, emotional piece from him (from his very first NES soundtrack, no less!).
And a couple tracks from the GBC version of Turok 2, including the one I used in Soundtrack Sleuth episode 5. These absolutely SCREAM Tim Follin to me (especially the second) -- I swear, this Gonzalez dude managed to out-Follin the Follin brothers.
And here's a track from one of his later-era GBC releases. I had no idea the GBC could even produce this full of a sound. It really sounds like it's using waaaaay more channels than the GBC has!
I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with his work or not (I imagine Gamemusicfreak must have at least heard of him before), but for me, discovering this guy was a total HOLY CRAP moment -- he really has shot up my list of favorite VGM composers almost instantly, and I felt compelled to share because... well, just listen!
Here's a full list of his works, and some info on him as well:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Jose_Gonzalez
I hope to hear more of his stuff in the future. Maybe some indie game designer can recruit him into the limelight or something, or one of his own games will hit it big -- because damn, he seriously deserves it.
Last Edit: Oct 26, 2014 1:11:07 GMT -5 by Wyrdwad
lailmith
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Jake Kaufman, the Follin brothers... and Alberto Gonzalez?! Oct 27, 2014 10:08:31 GMT -5
Post by lailmith on Oct 27, 2014 10:08:31 GMT -5
That Asterix game music - so nostalgic. Thanks for sharing. I had completely forgotten about these pieces of music. I used to play up to certain points and then just listen to the awesome music.
"People are not moved by logic."
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Tag: outdoor activities
Explore More National Parks on These Fee-Free Days in 2021
Have you planned your camping trips for 2021 yet? Plan your travels around these six fee-free days at the national parks!
With over 400 National Park Service sites, there are plenty of options for your next RV weekend getaway or extended vacation. Take pictures of Zion canyon’s narrows, gaze at Arches’ massive sandstone arches, view exhibits about the desert flora and fauna at a Saguaro visitor’s center, or hike one of the many trails in the Great Smoky Mountains. America’s national parks have much to offer in the way of scenery, activities, and history.
Saguaro National Park, Arizona © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
The U.S. Department of the Interior recently announced that all National Park Service sites will have six entrance fee-free days in 2021. The fee-free days are part of the Administration’s commitment to increase access, promote recreational opportunities, improve visitor facilities, and conserve natural and historical treasures in national parks for the benefit and enjoyment of the American people.
Joshua Tree National Park , California © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
The six fee-free days in 2021 are:
January 18: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 17: First day of National Park Week
August 4: First anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act
August 25: National Park Service Birthday
September 25: National Public Lands Day
November 11: Veterans Day
Mark your calendars and start planning your camping trip.
White Sands National Park, New Mexico © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
“Each of the fee-free days celebrates or commemorates a significant event including the establishment earlier this year by President Trump of the Great American Outdoors Act. The legislation marks the single largest investment ever in national parks and will result in enhanced facilities and expanded recreational prospects for all visitors,” said Margaret Everson, Counselor to the Secretary, exercising the delegated authority of the National Park Service Director.
Badlands National Park, South Dakota © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
“Throughout the country, every national park provides a variety of opportunities to get out in nature, connect with our common heritage, and experience the vast array of benefits that come from spending time outdoors. Hopefully, the fee-free days will encourage everyone to spend some time in their national parks.”
There are more than 400 National Park Service sites nationwide, with at least one in every state. Approximately 100 parks charge an entrance fee with costs ranging from $5 to $35. The other 300-plus national parks do not have entrance fees.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt signed Secretary’s Orders 3386 and 3387 granting veterans, Gold Star Families and fifth-graders free access to all national parks, wildlife refuges, and other federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior. Veterans and Gold Star Families will have free access forever while fifth-grade students were granted the reprieve through this academic year as some of last year’s fourth-graders may have been unable to make full use of the Every Kid Outdoors Annual Fourth Grade Pass due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arches National Park, Utah © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Active duty military and fourth-grade students will continue to have free access with discounted passes also available for seniors. For other visitors who love visiting public lands, the annual $80 America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass is a great option which allows unlimited entrance to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas including all national parks.
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Last year, 327 million people visited national parks and spent $21 billion in local communities. This supported 340,500 jobs across the country and had a $41.7 billion impact on the U.S. economy.
Keep track of your visits with a National Parks Passport. Simply stamp your book before departing and continue to add on more throughout the year. Stamps are typically located at the visitor’s center.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada
Other federal land management agencies offering their own fee-free days in 2021 include the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The national parks in the U.S. are destinations unto themselves with recreation, activities, history, and culture.
—Jimmy Im
Author vogelontheroadPosted on January 12, 2021 January 10, 2021 Categories National ParkTags National Park Service, National Parks fee-free days, outdoor activities
2021 Vision: On Travel Restrictions, Freedom to Travel, and Staying Healthy
We’ve been through a lot this past year. 2020 has tested our resolve and proven to be a difficult time for many in the face of the COVID pandemic.
It goes without saying that 2020 hasn’t been the year any of us expected. And as we bid farewell to this year, it’s a good time to look back on what we’ve learned, while we also look forward with anticipation to the New Year and all it may bring.
Catalina State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
One thing we’ve been reminded of this year is that spending time outdoors brings a world of physical and mental benefits. This rang even more true in 2020 as we focused on health and well-being. Medical professionals advised us to socially distance from one another and told us that when we did spend time with others, it was preferable to do so outside rather than indoors. This advice seemed tailor-made for the RV lifestyle, so much so that some news outlets dubbed it The Year of the RV.
Sequoia National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
With the first coronavirus vaccinations making their way across the United States and Canada as this is written, we look to 2021 with hope. Our 2020 Vision has left us with a new appreciation for the freedom to travel, to explore our continent, and to spend time in the company of friends and family. Cheers to more of that in 2021! And cheers to always expanding our RV knowledge and learning new things.
Bernheim Forest, Kentucky © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
What can you do to help navigate through what might be another crazy year? My answer is simple…Get outside and start 2021 off on the right foot, right from the trail! Try something new or get back into a familiar, possibly forgotten pastime. Take a breath of fresh air while hiking in our beautiful outdoor places and you’ll breathe a sigh of relief. Focus on what you can control in 2021. Get outside, stay healthy, and stay connected. Pack your hiking boots and get off the beaten path. Take a look at the following options to help you start 2021 off strong, outdoors, and on a positively healthy note!
Catalina State Park, Arizona
Catalina State Park sits at the base of the majestic Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona. The park is a haven for desert plants and wildlife and nearly 5,000 saguaros. The 5,500 acres of foothills, canyons, and streams invite camping, picnicking, and bird watching. The park provides miles of equestrian, birding, hiking, and biking trails which wind through the park and into the Coronado National Forest at elevations near 3,000 feet. Choose from 120 RV and tent campsites with electric and water utilities. Each campsite has a picnic table and BBQ grill. Roads and parking sites are paved. Campgrounds have modern flush restrooms with hot showers, and RV dump stations are available in the park. There is no limit on the length of RVs at this park, but reservations are limited to 14 consecutive nights.
Custer State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Custer State Park, South Dakota
Custer State Park is a South Dakota State Park and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills. The Park encompasses 71,000 acres of spectacular terrain and an abundance of wildlife. A herd of 1,300 bison roams freely throughout the park often stopping traffic along the 18-mile Wildlife Loop Road. The Annual Buffalo Roundup draws thousands of people to Custer State Park every September. Besides bison, Custer State Park is home to wildlife such as pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, deer, elk, wild turkeys, and a band of friendly burros. Whether hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, or rock climbing, find your adventure along the roads and trails! Custer State Park’s early pioneers, ranchers, and loggers have left behind miles of hiking trails and backcountry roads to explore.
Moro Rock, Sequoia National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
Side-by-side, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks have 800,000 acres and 800 miles of hiking trails to enjoy. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are famous for the massive trees that grow in their forests. The Sequoiadendron giganteum that grows in this portion of the Sierra Nevadas is famed for its girth with the world’s largest tree by volume found here. General Sherman is the tree in question, and grows in Sequoia National Park. Nearby Giant Forest hosts several more of the world’s largest trees. Moro Rock provides a stunning vantage of the surrounding foothills and granite formations; pair it with Crescent Meadow, which John Muir called the “Gem of the Sierra,” at the head of the High Sierra Trail.
Bernheim Forest © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Kentucky
Are you looking to connect with nature? Bernheim is the place to do it. With over 15,000 acres of land, there is an adventure waiting for everyone, no matter what your interest. At 15,625 acres, Bernheim boasts the largest protected natural area in Kentucky. Bernheim contains a 600-acre arboretum with over 8,000 unique varieties of trees. Take a scenic drive through the forest on paved roads, or bicycle around the Arboretum. Over 40 miles of trails weave their way through the forest at Bernheim.
Arches National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Arches National Park, Utah
Visit Arches to discover a landscape of contrasting colors, land forms, and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins, and giant balanced rocks. This red-rock wonderland will amaze you with its formations, refresh you with its trails, and inspire you with its sunsets. RV and tent campers can select from 51 sites at Devils Garden Campground. Between November 1 and February 28, sites are first-come, first-served. Sites range in length from 20 to 40 feet. Facilities include drinking water, picnic tables, grills, and both pit-style and flush toilets.
Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary, Walterboro, South Carolina
There is a beautiful wildlife sanctuary located in the middle of the historic and picturesque city of Walterboro, South Carolina. Easily reached from I-95, the Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary (formerly the Great Swamp Sanctuary) is a great place to leave the traffic behind, stretch your legs, and enjoy nature. Located within the ACE Basin, the East Coast’s largest estuarine preserve, the 600- acre Sanctuary features a network of boardwalks, hiking, biking, and canoe trails that are perfect for viewing a diversity of a black water bottomland habitat.
Jekyll Island © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Golden Isles of Georgia
The natural splendor of the Golden Isles (St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Jekyll Island, Little St. Simons Island, and the port city of Brunswick) extends past its golden-sand shores to tidal marshlands, live oak forests, and delicate estuaries. These impressive landscapes create a springboard for adventure. Hike or walk along the trails to experience the region’s natural beauty. Historical ruins, exquisite wildlife, and unique vegetation give outdoor enthusiasts an exciting variety of routes. From nature preserves to stretches of beach and miles of trail systems, find routes appropriate for all ages and skill levels as well as routes perfect for families and pets. If you’re looking for a diverse network of trails and a day full of fun, head to Blythe Island Regional Park, a 1,100-acre public park. Comprised of more than 30 nature and urban trails, the Jekyll Island Trail System is the best way to explore the island.
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm.
—William O. Douglas, Justice, United States Supreme Court
Author vogelontheroadPosted on January 1, 2021 December 30, 2020 Categories Road Trips, RV LifestyleTags 2020 travel, 2021 travel, Arches National Park, Bernheim Arboretum, Catalina State Park, Custer State Park, Golden Isles, hiking, outdoor activities, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary
A Bakers Dozen Campgrounds for an Unforgettable Arizona Wilderness Experience
Sometimes, “great outdoors” is an understatement
As the world grapples with the current reality, the great outdoors have become a welcome respite. Biking is on the rise. RVs became mobile motels for a new generation of traveler. And camping is a now go-to weekend activity for backcountry buffs and newbies alike. With fall in full swing, Arizona is an ideal camping destination.
Usery Mountain Regional Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
With its wildly diverse wilderness, the state is a massive playground for campers of all walks, whether you’re seeking a trip to one of the country’s most celebrated national parks or one of its most underrated. Here, jaw-dropping vistas can be discovered during a hike or by simply pulling off the main road. You’ll find red-rock deserts and dense forests, and dry basins—and much of it is all-seasons. Whether you’re looking to flee Phoenix or stop off for a while in the middle of a cross-country voyage, these are the Arizona campgrounds you need to hit.
Alamo Lake State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Alamo Lake State Park
If you love the desert and want some year-round lake views, check out the Alamo Lake State Park campground. With six loops, this large campground has both full hookups and dry camping sites. The park also has cabins for rent with views of the water. Lake Alamo is nicely remote. It’s located less than two hours from the RV-centric town of Quartzsite.
Dead Horse Ranch State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Dead Horse Ranch State Park
You can learn a lot about yourself after spending some time in the Verde River Valley. Are you the type of person that enjoys solitude under a canopy of towering cottonwood trees? Do you relish the sight of wildlife and soft sounds of a gentle river as you explore nature? Maybe you’re just looking for a gorgeous spot to take your family. A spot that will help simplify life for a while before heading back into the daily grind. Relax, recharge, and return to your “normal” life with less stress. Spending time at a place like Dead Horse Ranch will facilitate this magical transformation and, who knows? Your family might request a return trip. There are more than 100 large RV sites available. Most of the pull-through sites can accommodate 40-foot motorhomes and truck and trailer rigs up to 65 feet and include potable water and 30/50-amp service.
Monument Valley © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
The View Campground, Monument Valley
Monument Valley is basically the image that comes to mind when someone who’s not from Arizona thinks of Arizona. It’s undeniably the picture of the American Southwest. And not only can you visit the iconic sandstone buttes, you can camp on the edge of the park. The View Campground certainly lives up to its name: Equipped with both RV sites and wilderness campsites, it’s positioned on the cliff side of the park which undoubtedly makes for some iconic sunrise and sunset views.
Picacho Peak State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Picacho Peak State Park
Jutting out of the Sonoran Desert some 1,500 feet, you can’t help but see Picacho Peak for miles as you drive along Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson. Travelers have used the peak for centuries as a landmark and continue to enjoy the state park’s 3,747 acres for hiking, rock climbing, spring wildflowers, and camping. Picacho Peak State Park’s campground has a total of 85 electric sites for both tent and RV camping.
La Paz County Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
La Paz County Park Campground
Nestled along the Colorado River La Paz County Park Campground is located 8 miles north of Parker off Highway 95. The campground offers 114 RV camping sites with water, electric service, and cable TV; riverfront armadas with cabana; and dry camping under large shade trees. Amenities include restroom buildings with showers, boat launches, beachfront walkway, and a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Usery Mountain Regional Park
Neighboring the Goldfield Mountains and Tonto National Forest, Usery Mountain Regional Park spans 3,648 acres of metro Phoenix’s east Valley and offers 73 individual camping sites. All are developed sites with water and electrical hook-ups, plus a dump station, picnic table, and barbecue fire ring and can accommodate up to 45-foot RVs. Restrooms offer flush toilets and showers and group camping is also available.
Lost Dutchman State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Named after the fabled lost gold mine, Lost Dutchman State Park is located in the Sonoran Desert, at the base of the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Several trails lead from the park into the Superstition Mountain Wilderness and surrounding Tonto National Forest. Take a stroll along the Native Plant Trail or hike the challenging Siphon Draw Trail to the top of the Flatiron. The campground has 138 sites: 68 sites with electric (50/30/20 amp service) and water and the remainder non-hookup sites on paved roads for tents or RVs. Every site has a picnic table, and a fire pit with adjustable grill gate. There are no size restrictions on RVs.
Wahweep RV Park and Marina © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Wahweep RV Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Centrally located at Wahweap Marina, the campsites are about one-quarter mile from the shore of Lake Powell. Wahweap offers plenty of fun with a wide variety of powerboats and water toys. You can also enjoy the restaurant, lounge, and gift shop at the Lake Powell Resort. This RV park/campground is a great place to enjoy the winter solitude of Lake Powell. The campground offers 139 sites with 30 and 50 amp service, water, and sewer. Sites accommodate up to 45 feet.
White Tank Mountains Regional Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
White Tank Mountains Regional Park
Maricopa County’s largest regional park, White Tank Mountain Regional Park covers almost 30,000 acres in the West Valley and features 40 individual sites for tent or RV camping. All are developed sites with water and electrical hook-ups, plus a dump station, picnic table, and barbecue fire ring and can accommodate up to a 45-foot RV. Amenities also include restrooms with flush toilets and showers.
Patagonia Lake State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Patagonia Lake State Park
Tucked away in the rolling hills of southeastern Arizona, Patagonia Lake State Park is a hidden treasure. The park offers a campground, beach, picnic area with ramadas, tables and grills, a creek trail, boat ramps, and a marina. The campground overlooks the lake where anglers catch crappie, bass, bluegill, catfish, and trout. The park is popular for water skiing, fishing, camping, picnicking, and hiking. 105 developed campsites with a picnic table and fire ring/grill. Select sites also have a ramada. Sites offer 20/30 amp and 50 amp electric service. Campsite lengths vary but most can accommodate any size RV.
Catalina State Park
Catalina State Park sits at the base of the majestic Santa Catalina Mountains. The park is a haven for desert plants and wildlife and nearly 5,000 saguaros. The 5,500 acres of foothills, canyons, and streams invites camping, picnicking, and bird watching—more than 150 species of birds call the park home. The park provides miles of equestrian, birding, hiking, and biking trails which wind through the park and into the Coronado National Forest at elevations near 3,000 feet. The camping area offers 120 electric and water sites with a picnic table and BBQ grill. Amenities include modern flush restrooms with hot showers and RV dump stations. There is no limit on the length of RVs at this park
Twin Peaks Campground at Organ Pipe © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
The remote Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a gem tucked away in southern Arizona’s vast Sonoran Desert. Thanks to its unique crossroads locale, the monument is home to a wide range of specialized plants and animals, including its namesake. Twin Peaks Campground offers 208 sites that are generally level, widely spaced, and landscaped by natural desert growth. The campsites will easily accommodate big rigs and are available on a first-come first-served basis. As well, Alamo Campground has four well-spaced, primitive spots.
Madera Canyon © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Madera Canyon
Madera Canyon is nestled in the northwest face of the Santa Rita Mountains 30 miles southeast of Tucson. A renowned location for bird watching, Madera Canyon is a major resting place for migrating species while the extensive trail system of the Santa Rita Mountains is easily accessed from the Canyon’s campground and picnic areas. A three mile paved road winds up the lower reaches of the canyon beside Madera Creek ending at a fork in the stream just before the land rises much more steeply. Along the way are three picnic areas, a side road to a campground, and five trailheads. Nearly 100 miles of paths climb the valley sides to springs, viewpoints, old mines, and summits including Mount Wrightson.
Alone in the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy. The world has seemed more beautiful to me than ever before. I have loved the red rocks, the twisted trees, the sand blowing in the wind, the slow, sunny clouds crossing the sky, the shafts of moonlight on my bed at night. I have seemed to be at one with the world.
—Everett Ruess
Author vogelontheroadPosted on November 27, 2020 November 25, 2020 Categories Camping, RV LifestyleTags Arizona, Arizona State Parks, outdoor activities, wilderness, winter camping
Give yourself some space #OptOutside
Especially now, we need outdoor spaces free from the distractions of modern technology and the negativity of our never-ending social media feeds
Approaching Thanksgiving we search for ways to be thankful and pave the way with a positive and an introspective look into our lives. Many people have taken the opportunity to spend more time outside and others have enjoyed outdoor recreation for the first time. As we prepare to leave 2020 in our rearview mirror, take the opportunity to spend it out of doors with a road trip into America’s beautiful places. A camping trip is a great place to start!
Joshua Tree National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
The renowned naturalist John Muir wrote that “thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”
Golfing in Southern Utah © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
The world has changed immensely since Muir wrote this in 1901. People, now more than ever, seek the benefits of nature. It’s amazing what a couple of hours outside can do for your well-being. Fresh air is a state of mind. One we could all use a little more of these days.
Opt outside with Americas’ national and state parks on Black Friday. Forego the hustle and stress of this traditional shopping holiday and choose to break the mold by enjoying a worry free, socially distanced trip to an outdoor recreation area. On Black Friday and any day of the year, get outside and enjoy a hike in the parks!
Saguaro National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Get out and explore some of the great parks located across the country! Try something new; if you’ve never seen the beauty of southern Arizona, it’s the perfect time of year to visit Saguaro National Park or Catalina State Park in Tucson. Saguaro has two sections, approximately 30 minutes apart. Both sections of the park offer great opportunities to experience the desert and enjoy hiking trails.
Catalina State Park, one of the many gems in the Arizona State Park system, offers beautiful vistas of the Sonoran Desert and the Santa Catalina Mountains with riparian canyons, lush washes, and dense cactus forests. The environment at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains offers great camping, hiking, picnicking, and bird watching.
Picacho State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Picacho Peak State Park offers trails for all difficulty levels. Hiking at Lost Dutchman State Park can be a great way to test your endurance as many of the trails are quite steep.
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California. Five hundred miles of dirt roads, 12 wilderness areas, and many miles of hiking trails provide visitors with an unparalleled opportunity to experience the wonders of the Sonoran Desert. Or you can explore two deserts in one at Joshua Tree National Park.
Zion National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Outdoor enthusiasts flock to Moab. Mountain bike, hike, and climb your way around the stunning red rocks. Test your hiking limits at the Zion National Park. Zion is filled with impressive canyons, sheer cliffs, and wide expanses of slick rock. This is the type of place where you can take your hiking ability to the limit and beyond.
Creole Nature Trail © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Tour the Louisiana Outback. Life is everywhere along the Creole Nature Trail. Birds, mammals, fish, crabs, and alligators make their home in the four wildlife refuges that can be found along the 180 mile-long byways that make up the Trail.
El Malpais National Monument © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Tucked away in southern New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin, White Sands National Park protects a portion of the world’s largest gypsum dune field. The best way to explore is by hiking, horseback, or biking—and don’t miss out on the thrill of sledding down the soft white sand. The richly diverse volcanic landscape of El Malpais National Monument offers solitude, recreation, and discovery. There’s something for everyone here. Explore cinder cones, lava tube caves, sandstone bluffs, and hiking trails.
Edisto Beach State Park, South Carolina © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Admission will be free at state parks in South Carolina on Friday, Nov. 27, as the Park Service joins the national #OptOutside initiative. The promotion, sponsored by REI, encourages people to spend some time in the great outdoors the day after Thanksgiving. State parks are some of the most beautiful outdoor settings in South Carolina and are ideal places for family outings.
Guadalupe River State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Or, stop at Guadalupe River State Park just outside of San Antonio in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Here you can camp by the river and spend your days enjoying various water activities like kayaking, tubing, swimming, and fishing.
Northeast Georgia mountains © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Northeast Georgia Mountains’ picturesque beauty, countryside, tumbling waterfalls, and gentle mountains provide a much-needed escape from the bustling city. Hike to the top of Brasstown Bald for a panoramic 360-degree view. Cumberland Island is the largest uninhabited barrier island in Georgia. The adventure starts on the ferry from St. Mary’s, the only way to get to the island which offers a wonderful view of the diverse habitats. Rent a bike, book a tour with park rangers, or bring a pair of good hiking shoes, as the island is a wonderful place to explore. You can spot wild horses roaming freely, raccoons, wild boars, alligators, whit-tailed deer, and many birds.
Mesa Verde National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings built from the 6th to the 12th century can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in southwestern Colorado.
The #OptOutside movement was started by the outdoor retail company REI in 2015. The basic meaning of #OptOutside is: Go outdoors on Black Friday instead of shopping.
Everything is easier said than done. So don’t just read or say it; do it!
Cumberland Island National Seashore © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Author vogelontheroadPosted on November 25, 2020 November 23, 2020 Categories RV LifestyleTags #OptOutside, hiking, outdoor activities
The Ultimate #OptOutside Guide
It’s amazing what a couple of hours outside can do for your well-being. Fresh air is a state of mind. One we could all use a little more of these days.
For a lot of people, the pandemic has turned life upside down. It’s decimated savings, derailed dreams, and thrown the future into dark uncertainty. I’ve been fortunate to have remained relatively unscathed especially compared with those who have fallen sick, lost jobs, or faced other challenges. Fifty-three percent of adults report that pervasive concerns about the virus have negatively impacted their mental health, according to a poll conducted in July by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
#OptOutside at Meaher State Park, Alabama © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Especially now, we need outdoor spaces free from the distractions of modern technology and the negativity of our never-ending social media feeds. There are numerous mental health benefits to be found in spending time outdoors, be it a neighborhood walk or bike ride. But there’s something special about the deep woods, the wide-open desert, mountain landscape, even the forested corners of an urban park. Those places help to remove us from the anxieties and stresses of everyday life.
#OptOutside at Lynx Lake near Prescott, Arizona © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
On Black Friday, we’re going outside. Because we need to! Because that’s where we feel good, and awesome, and human again! Join us!
Ways to Spend More Time Outside
Here is a list of ways to spend more time outdoors. Some big! Some small! Some you can do right outside your door wherever you are. I hope this list serves as inspiration and motivation, or at least a little nudge in the right direction (hopefully, that’s outside).
#OptOutside on Amelia Island, Florida © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Watch the sunrise
Explore a local park
Walk a mile
Check out a new neighborhood
Camp someplace new
#OptOutside in Redding, California © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Camp someplace old
Dance in the rain
Find the end of a rainbow
Walk in the snow
Park your car and walk and then walk some more
#OptOutside at Laura S. Walker State Park, Georgia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Just walk out of your door
Take your dog for an extra-long walk
Walk around a lake
Read a book under a tree
#OptOutside at Bernheim Forest, Kentucky © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Climb the biggest hill you can see
Reflect on your time outside through journaling
Explore a new trail
Spend a day in the woods
#OptOutside at Raccoon Lake State Recreation Area, Indiana © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Climb a mountain
Hug a tree
Feel sand in your toes
Splash in a stream
#OptOutside at Roosevelt State Park, Mississippi © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Kayak or canoe in a lake or creek
Walk in a meadow
Feel the wind on your face
Surround yourself with trees
Walk a dry creek bed
#OptOutside at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Park, Louisiana © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Stroll around a park
Stop and smell the roses (literally)
Go camping in a tent
Look for a four-leaf clover
Listen to the birds
#OptOutside at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Sit on a pier
Visit a national park
Visit a state park
Visit a regional or county park
Enjoy a new path
#OptOutside at Lackawanna State Park, Pennsylvania © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Optoutside and cast a line
Go bird watching
Observe nature with a camera
Float a river
Stand on a summit (any size will do)
#OptOutside at Natural Bridges National Park, Utah © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Listen to the ocean
Pick up trash while on the trail
Watch the sunset
Watch the moon rise
Count the stars in the night sky
#OptOutside at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
In every walk with nature, one receives more than he seeks.
Author vogelontheroadPosted on November 24, 2020 November 21, 2020 Categories RV LifestyleTags #OptOutside, Black Friday, COVID-19, hiking, outdoor activities
Get Inspired To Get Back Out There
Good morning. Every now and again, it’s good to remind ourselves what a bizarre world we are living in. So far, 2020 has been a year like no other! With less than two months left, no one is sure whether it’s flown by or dragged on. One thing is for sure, though—you deserve some recognition for sticking with us through it all!
RV Exterior cleaning at Las Vegas RV Resort © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Your impulse to scrub every corner of your home (on-wheels) has benefited household goods companies handsomely. P&G, the consumer goods giant and owner of Tide and Charmin, said organic sales jumped 6 percent higher for the past fiscal year. The company’s fabric and home-care unit (which includes Swiffer, Mr. Clean, and Dawn) grew 14 percent, the biggest-ever bump.
A clean coach at Vista del Sol RV Resort in Bullhead City, Arizona © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Why? One word: COVID. People who are suddenly cleaning their doorknobs twice a day tend to buy more cleaning products. An added layer of P&G’s success? We kept buying its products even at premium prices during an economic slowdown—P&G’s wares are generally a bit more costly than competitors.
A clean coach at Sonoran Desert RV Resort (formerly Gila Bend KOA) in Gila Bend, Arizona © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Zoom out: Disinfecting like mad has also polished the reputations of other cleaning-focused brands. Clorox reported overall sales increase of 27 percent from a year ago and double-digit increases in eight of its 10 business units. People are using Clorox’s namesake disinfectant products to clean household surfaces, cell phones, and laptops—but the company is also benefiting from people cooking more at home instead of going out. That’s because Clorox also owns the plastic bag brand Glad and the charcoal line Kingsford. Sales for Clorox’s household division, the unit that includes these products, soared 39 percent compared to last year.
In an Axios/Harris poll of U.S. attitudes toward companies, Clorox got the best grades in “Ethics” and “Products & Services” and came in second in “Trust.”
Autumn colors at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
It’s Fall, Y’all
Fall isn’t just a time for pumpkin-spiced everything, cool-weather hikes, and Thanksgiving overindulgence. It’s also when nature shows off the autumnal art display of trees clad in brilliant colors.
Autumn along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
As the world grapples with the current reality, the great outdoors have become a welcome respite. Biking is on the rise. RVs became mobile motels for a new generation of traveler. And camping is a now go-to weekend activity for backcountry aficionados and newbies alike. With fall in full swing, there is an unlimited supply of ideal camping destinations coast to coast.
With wildly diverse wilderness, a massive playground for campers of all walks, whether you’re seeking a trip to one of the country’s most celebrated national parks or one of its most underrated.
Autumn in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
National parks might get all the fame and glory, but the United States is dotted with some stunning state parks as well. America is home to more than 10,000 state parks attracting some 739 million annual visitors. As more and more travelers seek the open road and open spaces, those numbers will continue to grow. More and more of these parks are catering to RV travelers with campgrounds, hookups, and other amenities.
Autumn in Brasstown Bald State Park, Georgia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Don’t let the cool temperatures of the fall season keep you from getting out and camping. There are great advantages to “cold season” camping including fewer people, fall colors, and seeing areas in different seasons to name just a few. With some preparation you can stay comfortable in cooler temperatures and keep on adventuring.
Driving Fish Lake Scenic Byway, Utah © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Jaw-dropping vistas can be discovered after a long hike or by simply pulling off the road. Whether you’re looking to flee the big city or stop off for a while in the middle of a cross-country journey there are campsites for all interests.
Autumn in Whitehall, New York © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Today’s post is all about road trips going on RIGHT NOW. I am feeling pent up and could use the expanse of the horizon line to keep me going in these COVID-trying times. Filling my mug with coffee, hiking a local trail, and channeling some of my favorite road dawgs from Jack Kerouac and Paul Theroux to John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charlie! Put the phone on RV mode and ride off into the sunset. But also, check it every once in a while so you can keep up with the latest RVing with Rex post.
Walking the trails at Bernheim Forest near Louisville, Kentucky © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
All that said, I hope you are safe, and making the best of our challenging times. Be wise. Be careful. Don’t take needless chances. Be kind to others because right now that goes a long way to comforting people who are nervous, scared, or otherwise emotionally hurting over the dramatic upheaval in their lives.
And thank you for reading.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Author vogelontheroadPosted on November 8, 2020 November 6, 2020 Categories Camping, Road Trips, RV LifestyleTags COVID-19, fall activities, fall road trips, inspiration, outdoor activities, RV cleaning tips
Redding For an Outdoor Adventure
The Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay is a Redding icon and acts as a massive sundial—perfect for this sunny city
With mountains all around, miles of hiking and biking trails, a river running through it, and national parks nearby, Redding is an outdoor paradise for all ages. Cradled by Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen, Redding has 300+ sunny days per year. It’s a great place to escape the chill of spring and the gray days of winter, too.
Turtle Bay Exploration Park with the Sundial Bridge © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Redding is also home to the famous Sundial Bridge, world-class fishing, and 200 miles of hiking and biking trails for all abilities. Head out on a day-trip to see the bubbling mud pots and boiling lakes in Lassen Volcanic National Park, or get refreshed by the waterfall at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park. This 129-foot gusher is considered one of the most beautiful in the state.
Sundial Bridge © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Redding, an old train town named for a California & Oregon Railroad land agent, is the largest city in the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California. Redding has built a national reputation as an outdoors destination around it trail system, so much so that the National Trails Association is headquartered here. The Sacramento River Trail is paved along both sides of California’s largest waterway and the Sacramento River Rail Trail follows a course that was touted as “the road of a thousand wonders” when it was built in 1888.
Sacramento River looking west from the Sundial Bridge © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Redding brags that it’s the “Second Sunniest City in the U.S.,” with 300-plus clear days (86 percent of the time). From the end of May to early September, families can cool off at WaterWorks Park with a trio of waterslides, action rides, and a lazy river.
The area’s wealth of outdoor activities include Turtle Bay Exploration Park with the renown Sundial Bridge, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta Lake, and Lake Shasta Caverns.
Turtle Bay Exploration Park is a 300-acre campus along the banks of the Sacramento River. Gateway to the city’s 220-mile trail system, the Park features a botanical garden, natural history and science museum, and exploration center in the guise of a traditional forest camp. The 300-acre complex is tied together by Redding’s jewel, the Sundial Bridge that was the first American project by celebrated Spanish bridge architect Santiago Calatrava. The supporting pylon and curving, translucent deck perform as the world’s largest sundial.
Eight miles west of Redding, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is located at the juncture of the Klamath Mountain range and the northern edge of the Sacramento Valley, making it home to a special collection of plant and animal life, and year-round beauty. The park features Whiskeytown Lake, Shasta Bally Mountain (6,209 feet), and numerous waterfalls providing outdoor enthusiasts opportunities for water recreation, hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Lake-based recreation is popular.
Redding is the jumping off point for the spectacular lunar landscape of Lassen Volcanic National Park. The park boasts incredible mountain scenery reminiscent of Yosemite as well as fascinating thermal wonders similar to Yellowstone with just a small fraction of the visitors. Lassen features three of the four different types of geothermal features including steam vents, mud pots, and hot springs; all four types of volcanoes (shield, plug dome, cinder cone, and composite); and all types of naturally occurring lakes.
Lassen Volcanic National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
The focal point of the park is 10,457-foot Mt. Lassen, one of the world’s largest plug dome volcanoes and the southern-most peak in the Cascade range. Most of the park’s major attractions are along the 29-mile link in State Route 89 that encircles the peak’s east side.
Planning a visit? Surrounded by pristine mountains, lakes, and rivers, Redding offers a wide range of RV parks and campgrounds including Green Acres RV Park, Marina RV Park, Premier RV Park, Redding RV Park, and Win-River Resort.
JGW RV Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Our home base while touring the Redding area was JGW RV Park, a big-rig friendly resort located 9 miles south of Redding on the Sacramento River. This is a beautiful 5-star RV park with water, sewer, and 30/50-amp electric service centrally located. The majority of pull-through sites are back-to-back and side-to side. There is no cable TV; however, we’re able to obtain a satellite signal between trees and pick up numerous local stations on the antenna. Our site backed onto the Sacramento River. Interior roads are paved and in good condition with concrete pads.
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Author vogelontheroadPosted on October 15, 2020 October 11, 2020 Categories Road Trips, RV ParksTags California, hiking, Lassen Volcanic National Park, outdoor activities, Redding, Sundial Bridge, Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Get Outside and Enjoy Nature
Finding joy in the outdoors
The world was flipped upside-down when COVID-19 spread to the US and Canada affecting each aspect of human life and social interaction. As humans we have a weapon to fight against the negative effects that come with social isolation—the great outdoors.
Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Many cities across the country issued shelter-in-place orders, directing individuals to stay home to decrease the spread of the coronavirus. The resulting loneliness often led to higher stress levels, increased depression, impaired immunity, or other negative health impacts.
As days go by without social relationships, our mental and physical health is at risk. These ill effects can counter by spending time in the outdoors.
Trapp Family Lodge near Stowe, Vermont © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
In a study conducted by the University of Exeter in England, researchers found that people who spent more time outdoors were less likely to feel anxiety or depression. Another study found that exposure to sun rays was associated with lower blood pressure. People who feel more connected to nature tend to feel more life satisfaction, vitality, and general happiness.
Forest bathing, or nature therapy, has become a popular technique to promote the health benefits of being outside. Exposure to green space has been proven to induce relaxation.
Brasstown Bald Scenic Byway, Georgia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Since COVID hit, people have been taking the opportunity to explore the outdoors more. A survey conducted by Civic Science found that 43 percent of Americans 13 years or older said they have participated in more outdoor activities because of social distancing rules.
Shenandoah River State Park, Virginia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
So what can you do during this time to combat the stress and fatigue that follows social isolation? Go outside! Go on a scenic drive! Go to a state park! Go for a hike! And find the peace that nature provides!
As the weather cools get outside and soak up the beautiful sights and sounds of the autumn season. The yearly spectacle of fall puts changing leaves at the forefront of our imagination but you don’t have to imagine the beauty.
Valley of the Gods, Utah © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Here are several great suggestions for fall trips to help you get the most out of this amazing time of year in America’s most beautiful places. So, come along and find out what to do and where to go this fall. Step out of summer and into an autumn adventure. And snap some photos while you do!
Roaring Fork Nature Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee
This 522,427-acre park straddling the border between North Carolina and Tennessee comes alive with red, yellow, and orange from mid-September to early November thanks to a collection of 100 tree species, most of them deciduous. The best way to view the likes of flaming cove and northern hardwood, maple, and beech trees is via a scenic drive along the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail or Cades Cove or a hike along area trails such as the Appalachian Trail or Oconaluftee River Trail.
Cold Hollow Cider Mill, Vermont
The state’s loveliest drive might just be its largest highway, Route 100—a 200-mile-plus thoroughfare that vertically dissects the state from Massachusetts to Canada. In fact, nature photographers from all over the country hit the highway for guaranteed peak foliage photography. But the main event comes when you turn off Route 100 onto the Green Mountain Byway which takes you from Waterbury to Stowe. This means leaf-watching against a backdrop of bucolic mountains and farmland, cider donuts from Cold Hollow Cider Mill, and a detour into the Ben and Jerry’s Factory (for pickup orders only).
Brasstown Bald, Georgia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Russell-Brasstown Scenic Byway, Georgia
Surrounded by the beauty of the Chattahoochee National Forest, the Russell-Brasstown Scenic Byway runs 40 miles from Blairsville to Brasstown Bald, the state’s highest peak, and access points along the Appalachian Trail. This national byway winds through the valleys and mountain gaps of the southern Appalachians. From the vistas atop Brasstown Bald to the cooling mists of waterfalls, scenic wonders fill this region. Hike the Appalachian Trail or fish in a cool mountain stream. Enjoy spectacular views of the mountains and piedmont. Several scenic overlooks and interpretive signs are features of this route.
Shenandoah River State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Shenandoah River State Park, Virginia
Just 15 minutes from the town of Front Royal, Virginia awaits a state park that can only be described as lovely. This park is on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River and has more than 1,600 acres along 5.2 miles of shoreline. In addition to the meandering river frontage, the park offers scenic views of Massanutten Mountains to the west and Shenandoah National Park to the east. A large riverside picnic area, picnic shelters, trails, and river access make this a popular destination for families, anglers, and canoeists. Ten riverfront tent campsites, a campground with water and electric sites, cabins, camping cabins, and a group campground are available. With more than 24 miles of trails, the park has plenty of options for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and adventure.
Valley of the Gods, Utah
Often described as a ‘miniature’ version of Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods is arguably, equally spectacular. What Valley of the Gods may lack when it comes to the size and volume of its free-standing monoliths, spires, and fins, it makes up for with solitude. It would be a rare occurrence to pass through Monument Valley without seeing another visitor but at Valley of the Gods you’re likely to have the whole place to yourself to explore and enjoy. Take in a scenic hike or stop for a picnic in the crisp fall air.
Avery Island © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Avery Island, Louisiana
Lush subtropical flora and venerable live oaks draped with Spanish moss cover this geological oddity which is one of five “islands” rising above south Louisiana’s flat coastal marshes. The island occupies roughly 2,200 acres and sits atop a deposit of solid rock salt thought to be deeper than Mount Everest is high. Geologists believe this deposit is the remnant of a buried ancient seabed, pushed to the surface by the sheer weight of surrounding alluvial sediments. Today, Avery Island remains the home of the TABASCO brand pepper sauce factory as well as Jungle Gardens and its Bird City wildfowl refuge. The Tabasco factory and the gardens are open for tours.
Jungle Gardens, Avery Island © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
It’s a beautiful day for it.
—Wilbur Cross
Author vogelontheroadPosted on October 12, 2020 October 4, 2020 Categories RV LifestyleTags Avery Island, Brasstown Bald State Park, connect with nature, COVID-19, fall road trips, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, outdoor activities, Shenandoah River State Park, Valley of the Gods, Vermont
Best Parks and Gardens to Connect with Nature
Parks and gardens are ideal destinations for picnics, enjoying the outdoors, and simply taking time to relax and enjoy nature
In an earlier article I detailed ways to live healthier and extend both the quantity and quality of your life. There is evidence to support the positive impact of adopting a healthy lifestyle and following certain definitive, scientific, time-tested methods including enjoying nature.
From an ancient forest and coastal wetlands to a botanical garden and desert oasis, here are eight of our favorite parks and gardens for enjoying nature.
Frances Beider Forest © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Frances Beider Forest, Harleyville, South Carolina
Feel the beauty and serenity of this ancient forest. Frequented by photographers and nature lovers from all over the world, this 18,000-acre bird and wildlife sanctuary offers a beauty unsurpassed in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Audubon’s Beidler is the world’s largest virgin cypress-tupelo swamp forest—a pristine ecosystem. Enjoy thousand-year-old trees, a range of wildlife, and the quiet flow of blackwater all from the safety of a 1.75-mile boardwalk. Paddle the flowing blackwater under towering 1,000-year-old cypress trees. Wildlife is plentiful and varied.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
Lady Bird Johnson was the First Lady who championed the planting of wildflowers along Texas highways. Her passion was not only for wildflowers but native plants of all kinds. So it’s fitting that the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is both a showplace for beautiful plants and a botanical research center. The public botanical garden introduces visitors to the beauty of wildflowers and other native plants and natural landscapes through experience and education. There are 284 acres of gardens, savannas, and woodlands including the Ann and O.J. Weber Butterfly Garden, the sprawling South Meadow, and the Erma Lowe Hill Country Stream.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a zoo, natural history museum, aquarium, and botanical garden all in one place. Founded in 1952, 85 percent of the Desert Museum is outdoors and primarily a walking experience. Located just west of Tucson, it features 2 miles of walking paths traversing 21 acres of desert landscape. The Desert Museum’s 98 acres host 230 animal species—including prairie dogs, coyotes, Gila monster, and mountain lion—and 1,200 local plant species (totaling 56,000 individual plants). This highly acclaimed Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum deserves all the accolades that it receives.
Desert Botanical Gardens © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
You’ll never look at cacti the same way again after visiting the 140-acre Desert Botanical Garden. In this environment, every plant represents stunning beauty. Five marked trails, such as the Sonoran Desert Nature Loop Trail, capitalize on views (whether of mountains or flowers) and fragrances. Learn how native ancestors and current ethnic groups survived in the desert climate by traveling along the Plants & People of the Sonoran Desert Loop Trail which documents Hispanic, Tohono O’odham, and Western Apache people’s connection to plants. The Desert Botanical Garden is located in Papago Park in central Phoenix.
Botany Bay Plantation © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve, South Carolina
If you want to see the South Carolina coast the way the original settlers did, take a step back in time at Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve on Edisto Island. The 4,600-acre preserve includes three miles of undeveloped beachfront. This wildlife management area exhibits many characteristics common to sea islands along the southeast coast: pine hardwood forests, agricultural fields, coastal wetlands, and a barrier island with a beachfront. Only this tract has been left undisturbed.
Boyce-Thompson Arboretum © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Boyce-Thompson Arboretum State Park, Superior, Arizona
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, tucked into the foothills of Picketpost Mountain near Superior is a state park like no other. The Arboretum is home to hundreds of species of desert loving plants from around Arizona and other parts of the world. This venerable “Arizona oasis” has nearly three miles of paths and trails winding through colorful gardens, woodlands, and native riparian habitat. Founded in 1924 by mining magnate Col. William Boyce Thompson, the Arboretum is Arizona’s oldest and largest botanical garden and offers over 323 acres to explore.
There is a beautiful wildlife sanctuary located in the middle of the historic and picturesque city of Walterboro, South Carolina. Easily reached from I-95, the Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary is a great place to leave the traffic behind, stretch your legs, and enjoy nature. Located within the ACE Basin, the East Coast’s largest estuarine preserve, the 600- acre Sanctuary features a network of boardwalks, hiking, biking, and canoe trails that are perfect for viewing a diversity of a black water bottomland habitat.
We can never have enough of nature.
Author vogelontheroadPosted on October 4, 2020 October 4, 2020 Categories Road Trips, RV LifestyleTags Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Bernheim Arboretum, Botany Bay Plantation, Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park, connect with nature, Desert Botanical Garden, Frances Beider Forest, gardens, health benefits, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, outdoor activities, Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary
An Isolation Itinerary: Places to Get Lost and Find Yourself
Looking for a road trip destination this summer? You will feel safe with this ‘isolation itinerary’.
The global COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the way we travel in 2020. The more we read, the more obvious it becomes that outside is better than inside.
2020 is shaping up to be the year of the road trip. Unlike a plane, train, or other public transport your RV is your personal space and allows you control the level of cleaning and sanitation and who you share the space with. Plus, fuel prices are low this year while airline availability has been greatly reduced. In an RV you can go where you want and stay in a campground, an RV park, or boondock on public lands.
Brasstown Bald State Park, Georgia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Everyone want to get outside after months of the “stay at home” and for all these reasons natural sites like national parks, state parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, and other wide open spaces have seen a huge spike in interest.
The National Park Service states that more than 300 million people visit more than 400 national park areas in the U.S. each year. Since summer is typically the prime time for travel, it makes sense that many parks fill to capacity during these warmer months.
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
However, with concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, national parks may be even harder to access than usual. Phased reopenings are occurring in many popular locations such as Arches, Zion, and Joshua Tree. Because national parks provide an ideal road trip destination, it’s safe to say they’ll be popular in the coming months.
Gulf State Park, Alabama © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
State parks can be a hidden gem for outdoor enthusiasts. Even better, they usually aren’t as busy as national parks. If you don’t want to take a chance on crowded national parks this summer visit one of more than 8,000 state park areas instead. State parks are often underrated destinations, but they can provide wonderful opportunities to enjoy the outdoors.
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Opportunities for outdoor recreation also draw people to national wildlife refuges. Many visitors enjoy fishing, paddling, wildlife viewing, nature photography, and hiking with 2,100 miles of public walking trails and boardwalks available. All these activities offer visitors a chance to unplug from the stresses of modern life and reconnect with their natural surroundings.
Babcock State Park, West Virginia © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Here, we’ve put together a list of incredible state parks and natural wildlife refuges from coast to coast. You will feel safe with our researched “isolation itinerary.”
Gulf State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Gulf State Park, Alabama
Located along the southern coastline of Alabama, Gulf State Park provides a beautiful escape to the seashore and nearby lakes. Use the in-park camping and full hookup RV sites as your base camp for hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking, and canoeing. Or stay in one of the cottages or cabins found around the park. With more than 3.5 miles of white sand beaches and 28 miles of paved trails or boardwalks, there’s plenty of space.
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Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington
The Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge preserves thousands of acres of diverse habitats and archaeological sites alongside the Columbia River. Taking a stroll from the parking lot, the pedestrian bridge allow you to stand over the railroad tracks and gaze westward over the mosaic of seasonal wetlands, permanent wetlands, grasslands, upland forests, riparian corridors, oak woodlands, and croplands that become home to thousands of ducks, geese, and swans that winter on the Refuge.
Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Babcock State Park, West Virginia
The 4,127-acre Babcock State Park is 20 miles southeast of Fayetteville and the New River Gorge Bridge. You can hike, fish, and mountain bike in this scenic park though a huge attraction is seeing the Glade Creek Grist Mill. This is a fully functioning replica of Cooper’s Mill which once stood in the same area. The mill attracts photographers from all around to capture idyllic scenes along the creek. Campsites are available for overnight stays.
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Located where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the Southern Plains, Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is one of the more biologically significant wetland areas of the Pecos River watershed system. Established in 1937 to provide wintering habitat for migratory birds, the refuge plays a crucial role in the conservation of wetlands in the deser. More than 100 species of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonates) have been documented on the Refuge.
Brasstown Bald State Park © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
Brasstown Bald State Park, Georgia
Plan a trip to Georgia’s tallest mountain for amazing views and quality time with Mother Nature. As the state’s highest peak—4,784 feet above sea level—Brasstown Bald is among the first to display fall colors. Even in summer, you’ll find the mountain a worthy escape thanks to its picturesque location amid the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest and its refreshing temperatures. Nearby, take a scenic drive through the national forest via the Russell-Brasstown Scenic Byway. From the byway, stop at Vogel State Park which offers ample camping, plus fishing, hiking, and lake swimming.
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Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1963 as an overlay of NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center for the protection of migratory birds. Consisting of 140,000 acres, the Refuge provides a wide variety of habitats: coastal dunes, saltwater marshes, freshwater impoundments, scrub, pine flatwoods, and hardwood hammocks that provide habitat for more than 1,500 species of plants and animals.
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Oppikoppi festival: 101 Interesting Facts and Funny Stories
Post author:Henno Kruger
Post published:Jul 16, 2018
Post category:Music / Featured
Reading time:15 mins read
The 24th edition of Oppikoppi festival is happening this year in August on that infamous farm near Northam in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Oppikoppi festival has a rich history and it’s regarded as one of the top music festivals in South Africa. I’ll be attending my 20th Oppikoppi this year and there are so many things I can tell you about it, so I’m not going to beat around the bush. Here are 101 Interesting Oppikoppi festival Facts and Funny Stories…
Oppikoppi festival had humble beginnings…
1. The first Oppikoppi band weekend was held in May 1994.
2. Koos Kombuis and Valiant Swart were on the line-up for the first Oppikoppi band weekend. Tickets cost only R30 and +/- 300 people attended.
3. The first actual festival was held in 1995 and called “Oppikoppi Festival of Rock”. Koos Kombuis, Valiant Swart, Squeal, Sugardrive, Jack Hammer, Battery 9, Urban Creep and 20 other South African acts were on the line-up. +/- 2000 people attended.
4. The second edition of the festival (which was held in 1996 and was billed as the 2nd annual festival of rock) featured Squeal, Wendy Oldfield and others.
5. The 1997 edition of the festival was called “One Big Bang”. This edition featured 60+ bands on 3 different stages. Valiant Swart, Squeal and Battery 9 were part of the line-up.
6. A youngster committed suicide at the festival in 1997. He hung himself on a tree.
7. The 1998 edition’s theme was “Bushveld Blast”. In that year, it was the first time that more than 10,000 people attended the festival.
8. “Bushveld Blast” was my first Oppikoppi experience. This edition featured performances by Springbok Nude Girls, Wonderboom, David Kramer, Sugardrive, Boo!, Koos Kombuis, Piet Botha, Van Der Want & Letcher and a whole list of others.
Once upon a time I got free beer at Oppikoppi festival…
9. At my first Oppikoppi we ran out of beer, so we decided to make a “roadblock” with chevron tape on the road where we camped. We stopped people (who were driving around the festival the whole time that year) and asked them who their favourite bands were. If we didn’t like the band we asked for a beer. If we liked the band we asked for a beer. We gathered about 2 cases of beer in less than an hour.
10. Someone tried to sell a gravel rock that they picked up in front of one of the stages for R10 to buy a beer at Oppikoppi festival in 1998.
11. Koos Kombuis played two sets at “Bushveld Blast” – 1 acoustic set and 1 loud set with his band (Die Warmblankes). I think this was the 2nd and 3rd time that I watched him live. I watched my first Koos Kombuis show at Navigators Ladies Bar in Pretoria in 1996.
12. The 1999 edition’s theme was “Infestation” and featured Vusi Mahlasela, Boo!, The Awakening, Koos Kombuis, Gert Vlok Nel, Valiant Swart, Sugardrive, Zim Ngqawana, Buckfever Underground, Brasse Vannie Kaap and others.
13. The 2000 edition’s theme was “Trek 2000” and featured Soulwax, Zita Swoon and other artists.
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Compiled from over 40 years of classic bluegrass recordings on the Folkways and Smithsonian Folkways labels, Classic Bluegrass, vol. 2 showcases many of the key artists who shaped the sound of this internationally-acclaimed, all-American music. "Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Hazel Dickens, The Cou...
Compiled from over 40 years of classic bluegrass recordings on the Folkways and Smithsonian Folkways labels, Classic Bluegrass, vol. 2 showcases many of the key artists who shaped the sound of this internationally-acclaimed, all-American music. "Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Hazel Dickens, The Country Gentlemen, Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, John Hartford, and many others bring us the best of this diverse music tradition. 32-page... Compiled from over 40 years of classic bluegrass recordings on the Folkways and Smithsonian Folkways labels, Classic Bluegrass, vol. 2 showcases many of the key artists who shaped the sound of this internationally-acclaimed, all-American music. "Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Hazel Dickens, The Country Gentlemen, Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, John Hartford, and many others bring us the best of this diverse music tradition. 32-page booklet. 28 classic tracks. 73 minutes. Show more Show less
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Pinecone Corner
Safety First on The Fourth
by Mary Jane | Jul 1, 2020 | Shady Pines Stories, The Shady Pines Way | 9 comments
The Fourth Of July is just days away. All kinds of commotion swirls around Town Hall in downtown Shady Pines Story Town. The few employees still working there (others work from home) are social distancing, wearing masks, and talking on their cell phones. These employees have to let their neighbors know what they can and can’t do on the Fourth.
At the top of the list – no fireworks. That includes backyard sparklers or any other kind of fireworks. The public firworks display has been cancelled and that’s just one of the changes to the town’s traditions in 2020. Due to the pandemic, there won’t be the usual holiday celebrations that everyone is used to seeing.
There will be no parade down Main Street and no big ‘ole barbeque in Stonewall Park. But there are still plans to have smaller gatherings around town.
The Community Center is having an ice cream get together for the kids and people will be allowed to picnic down by the lake. They just have to stay six feet apart.
Still, there’s that one issue that always sparks concern. Everyone who lives in the small Southern town is discouraged from using fireworks on their property, but some will do it anyway. That’s why messages about fireworks safety need to go out soon. There’s so much to do!
Mayor Beauregard P. Fibbs sits at his big wooden desk in his office at City Hall and answers one phone call after another. He gets more frustrated by the minute. Finally, he calls for his assistant.
“Beth,” he shouts, “Will you come in here please!”
A moment later, a tall young woman appears in the mayor’s doorway. Beth Dowd has been the mayor’s assistant since graduating from college three years ago. “How can I help you?”
Mayor Fibbs gets up and starts to pace back and forth. “Beth, there’s not much time. We need to get our arms around this Independence Day situation.”
Beth can see that the mayor is really upset. “I completely agree. Here’s the good news. The planning committee is meeting downstairs right now. They’re working on getting the word out on what is, and isn’t going on this year.”
As he paces with his hands clasped together behind his back, the mayor is nodding. “That’s good. You know, this fireworks situation is real. I can’t tell you how many calls I’ve taken from animal rights groups. Don’t folks realize how much our pets get upset by the sound? The poor animals don’t feel safe in their own homes for cryin’ out loud!”
Beth understands. “My dog, Scruffy, runs into the closet and hides at the sound of the first fireworks he hears. He just shakes. It’s really bad.”
Mayor Fibbs is getting worked up. “And another thing. What about our veterans? I just got a call from one of our retired generals. He reminded me these men and women have been to war. The sound of fireworks takes them right back to the battlefield. You talk about upsetting.”
Beth frowns. “Oh, my gosh. That makes sense. I’d never thought about that before.”
Mayor Fibbs has an idea. “Beth, call over to The Shady Pines Gazette newspaper office, will you? Ask Zulah and Scoop if they can come over here.”
Beth claps here hands. “That’s perfect. They can do a story and spread the word. I’m on it.”
As Beth leaves, the mayor returns to his desk. He jots down some thoughts about what he wants included in the interview he is about to give. Besides safety for pets and veterans on the Fourth of July, he wants safety for children included in the story as well.
“We all need to watch out for one another and be sure the most vulnerable among us are protected,” he says out loud. “Compassion should never take a holiday.”
**Come back next time to find out what Zulah and Scoop include in their story. In the meantime, leave us your thoughts about this one in the comments below!
Dorothy on July 2, 2020 at 5:52 pm
Looks the the Shady Pines gang is at it again. They’re good at bringing up topics that kids need to know about.
Tim on July 2, 2020 at 5:50 pm
Gotta love that Mayor Fibbs! Wish our mayor was on top of an important topic like this.
Bob on July 2, 2020 at 3:28 pm
I get so angry every year when people shoot off fireworks. What are they thinking? They’re not only dangerous, but a nuisance. Good job Shady Pines Story Town.
Elaine on July 2, 2020 at 3:26 pm
I just read this. Kudos for Shady Pines to find an entertaining way to talk about an important subject . My dog thanks you.
Barbara on July 2, 2020 at 2:59 pm
Every year I get so upset when people in my neighborhood shoot off fireworks. My dog is scared to death. I hope everyone reads your Blog.
Allison on July 2, 2020 at 2:56 pm
This is such an important reminder going into the Fourth of July weekend. I’m going to share it with my nephew and niece.
Trevor on July 2, 2020 at 2:54 pm
This Blog is very useful and fun at the same time. Great ideas here.
Sammy on July 2, 2020 at 2:53 pm
I hadn’t thought about the effects of fireworks on veterans. I’m really glad you included this information.
Audrey on July 2, 2020 at 2:51 pm
This is a really good way to help kids understand the dangers of fireworks.
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For a band that resists repeating itself, picking up lessons from a decade prior is the strange route Cloud Nothings took to create their most fully-realized album. Their new record, The Shadow I Remember, marks eleven years of touring, a return to early songwriting practices, and revisiting the studio where they first recorded together.
In a way not previously captured, this album expertly combines the group’s pummeling, aggressive approach with singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi’s extraordinary talent for perfect pop. To document this newly realized maturity, the group returned to producer Steve Albini and his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, where the band famously destroyed its initial reputation as a bedroom solo project with the release of 2012 album Attack on Memory.
Another throwback was Baldi’s return to constant songwriting à la the early solo days, which led to the nearly 30 demos that became the 11 songs on The Shadow I Remember. Instead of sticking to a tried-but-true formula, his songwriting stretched out while digging deeper into his melodic talents. “I felt like I was locked in a character,” Baldi says of becoming a reliable supplier of heavy, hook-filled rock songs. “I felt like I was playing a role and not myself. I really didn’t like that role.” More frequent writing led to the freedom in form heard on The Shadow I Remember. What he can’t do alone is get loud and play noisily, which is exactly what happened when the entire band— bassist TJ Duke, guitarist Chris Brown, and drummer Jayson Gerycz—convened.
The band had more fun in the studio than they’ve had in years, playing in their signature, pulverizing way, while also trying new things. The absurdly catchy “Nothing Without You” includes a first for the band: Macie Stewart of Ohmme contributes guest vocals. Elsewhere, celebrated electronic composer Brett Naucke adds subtle synthesizer parts.
The songs are kept trim, mostly around the three-minute mark, while being gleefully overstuffed. Almost every musical part turns into at least two parts, with guitar and drums opening up and the bass switching gears. “That’s the goal—I want the three-minute song to be an epic,” Baldi says. “That’s the short version of the long-ass jam.”
Lyrically, Baldi delivers an aching exploration of tortured existence, punishing self-doubt, and the familiar pangs of oppressive mystery. “Am I something?” Baldi screams on the song of the same name. “Does anybody living out there really need me?” It’s a heartbreaking admission of existential confusion, delivered hoarsely, with an instantly relatable melody.
“Is this the end/ of the life I've known?” he asks on lead single and album opener “Oslo.” “Am I older now/ or am I just another age?” Despite the questioning lyrics, the band plays with more assurance and joy than ever before. The Shadow I Remember announces Cloud Nothings’ second decade and it sounds like a new beginning.
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“Together in Hope” Declaration of Intent between Caritas Internationalis and The Lutheran World Federation
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Caritas Internationalis, created in 1951, is the social and justice arm of the Catholic Church. It is at the same time a confederation of 165 national organisations present in 200 countries and territories and a central entity of the Holy See. Serve, accompany and defend the poor: its mission is to promote a civilization of love, based on the social and other teachings of the Church and is developed around five central strategic orientations that are: Caritas at the heart of the Church; save lives and rebuild communities; promote sustainable integral human development; build global solidarity; make the Caritas Confederation more effective.
In its first orientation, an objective is to contribute to and promote a culture of partnership and ecumenical and interreligious cooperation. The LWF has engaged with diakonia and service since its founding in 1947. World Service, the diaconal arm of the LWF, focuses especially on the needs of refugees and internally displaced people in humanitarian assistance, development aid and advocacy. The LWF is committed to working with other Christian World communions and faith-based organisations (FBOs) for broader reach and wider impact, aiming to empower and enable local populations through rights-based approaches.
Caritas Internationalis and the LWF World Service have worked together on several occasions during the past decades in many countries and regions addressing the root causes of poverty and humanitarian crises. Caritas member organisations have also cooperated with the LWF World Service.
On the occasion of the commemoration of the 500 years of the Reformation, the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church have taken further steps towards reconciliation and moved forward in the field of joint service to express and strengthen their commitment to the quest for unity. This is expressed in the Lutheran-Catholic study document “From Conflict to Communion”, in which the 5th ecumenical imperative calls for joint diaconal action. It says:
“Catholics and Lutherans should witness together to the mercy of God in proclamation and service to the world”. § 243 reads: “Ecumenical engagement for the unity of the Church does not serve only the Church but also the world so that the world may believe”.
The international community is also calling especially upon FBOs to engage actively in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, working towards the eradication of extreme poverty in a generation. In the Catholic world, there are various spaces of collective engagement (among which the Forum of Catholic Organisations) and in the broader Christian world, there is ACT Alliance, of which the LWF is a member and with which Caritas Internationalis has been linked for many years.
We believe that faith communities and the organisations with which they engage are uniquely placed to fight extreme poverty in all its dimensions. Not only because these communities are present around the world, but also because when trained, organised and accompanied, they are the best responders to disasters, the best promoters of integral sustainable human development, and the best advocates for their lives. What animates us is our faith and, in a secularized world, this makes a huge difference: courage, commitment, perseverance, taking risks, the belief that God is with us to confront evil and rebuild lives.
As two global Christian organisations working for human dignity and social justice, we decide to join hands. To bring hope. To witness and act together, without being exclusive. And to invite our members to engage with their counterparts and friends locally.
The overall purpose of this Declaration of Intent is to consolidate and develop a mutually inspiring relationship beneficial to the people we serve, accompany and defend, based on shared values and vision regarding how our organisations can work together in the world today.
Caritas Internationalis and the LWF World Service will seek to expand and deepen their relationships and joint work at all levels. We will:
look for opportunities
commit to cooperate where appropriate
engage in regular strategic discussions
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ensure that members, staff and volunteers understand the Declaration of Intent and look to work together in harmony and collaboration
3. Areas for cooperation
The LWF World Service and Caritas Internationalis will work together in the following fields at global level:
Refugees, internally displaced people and migrants
Peace building and reconciliation
Humanitarian preparedness and response
Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
Interfaith action and programming
4. Concrete application mechanisms
Caritas Internationalis and the LWF World Service will:
Engage in regular strategic discussions on issues agreed upon, with specific experts on board
Engage in common programs whenever possible
Invite our membership to cooperate and engage in joint programming at national/diocesan/local levels, in consultation with respective member organizations in donor countries when applicable, in those fields referred to above and more as identified locally, including capacity building, interfaith action, reinforcing local civil society.
Meet annually to appreciate the work done and plan ahead.
Communicate what we have achieved
Signed on the occasion of the Joint Ecumenical Commemoration of the Reformation,
In Lund, Sweden,
On 31 October 2016
For Caritas Internationalis
Michel ROY
For LWF World Service
Maria IMMONEN
Pope In Sweden
Lutheran World Federation
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Sunny Delight – And Kyren Shows Class
Hugill Wins WSF Open To Secure Main Tour Return
January 18, 2020 World Snooker
Ashley Hugill defeated Iulian Boiko 5-3 to win the World Snooker Federation Open title in Malta.
The victory sees the 25-year-old succeed Luo Honghao as champion and will also see him earn a two-year tour ticket to the World Snooker Tour from the start of the 2020/21 season.
Hugill was previously on the professional circuit from 2017-19, reaching the last 16 of the Scottish Open and is currently second on the Challenge Tour ranking list having won Event Four in Bruges.
The Englishman emerged from a difficult round-robin group which included Junior Open finalist Sean Maddocks and fellow former professional Chris Totten, before winning five knockout matches to progress to the final.
Awaiting him was Iulian Boiko from Ukraine, who at just 14-years-old had lit up the tournament by taking the scalps of players including Sean O’Sullivan and Ross Muir, both among those favoured to take the title.
It was Hugill who would assert himself upon the final in its opening stages, a clearance of 113 and a further run of 56 enough to give him a 2-0 lead in their best of nine frames final.
The attacking Boiko – who earlier in the tournament had dispatched O’Sullivan 3-0 in under 27 minutes with an average shot time of just 13.58 seconds – responded in style by taking three frames in a row, a break of 62 enough to put him into the lead for the first time at 3-2.
It was Hugill’s turn to raise him game however as he countered with breaks of 65, 50 and finally 89 to claim his own hat-trick of frames and seal a 5-3 victory.
“It is an incredible feeling to claim this title,” said Hugill, from York. “The thing that made it better was my family being here. It would have been the best day of my career if they weren’t here and to have them here to see it was perfect.
“I felt really calm all the way throughout the tournament. I was most nervous in the quarter-finals against Allan Taylor but I was just in the zone tonight. I felt great, even at 3-2 down I hadn’t made that many mistakes. I just couldn’t get in around the black spot during those frames.”
Having left as the last man standing from a high-quality field of over 150 players, Hugill added that he had arrived at the event with confidence and now feels that he is well-placed to return to the professional circuit as a better player.
“I came here both expecting to win and I was hoping to win,” said Hugill. “You don’t come here to lose in the final and after I beat Kuldesh [Johal] in the first knockout round I hardly missed a ball and I knew I was in a good place to win it.
“It was awful not getting through Q School. I had a tough second year on the tour especially and I went into Q School with low confidence and I was devastated to be off the tour. What turned it around was my maximum break at Challenge Tour in Leeds. That gave me the confidence and the belief that I was good enough to earn a living at this game.
“Without a doubt I am better equipped for the main tour now. I have learned a lot more about the mental side of the game, controlling my mind and thinking clearly under pressure. That’s almost more important than your cue action.”
Hugill also had words of praise for his opponent, who despite defeat leaves with a number of new fans around the globe who have followed his progress during the event.
“He is an incredible talent,” added Hugill. “When his game develops further in respect of shot selection and safety, he can go as far as he wants in the sport and I told him that after the match.
“This has been a superb venue including the TV table and facilities at the Academy where we have also played are fantastic. I am sure that Malta will see some great young players coming through the ranks with those facilities.”
Full information about the WSF Open including results and standings can be accessed here: https://snookerscores.net/tournament-manager/2020-wsf-open
This post appeared first on World Snooker.
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Home » MLB » Report: Rob Manfred tells MLB teams to prepare for full season, on-time spring training
Report: Rob Manfred tells MLB teams to prepare for full season, on-time spring training
Baseball’s opening day might happen on time after all.
Although the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the country, Major League Baseball is planning to begin spring training on time and hopes to play a full, 162-game season, according to a report by USA Today.
According to national baseball writer Bob Nightengale, commissioner Rob Manfred informed clubs Monday that they should prepare for spring training to start on time in February and to plan on playing a full 162-game season.
Spring training is scheduled to begin Feb. 17 in Arizona and Florida, with opening day scheduled for April 1. The Rockies are set to host the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at Coors Field to open the season.
Although no official announcement has been made, Rockies players and staff have been working under the assumption that spring training would begin on time.
MLB owners have been pushing to delay the start of the season until May to allow players and fans to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. But the MLB Players Association, fighting for a full 162-game season and the 100% of salaries that comes with it, is demanding a full season.
“As we’ve made clear to the league on multiple occasions, we expect spring training and the regular season to start on time and as scheduled, consistent with our (collective bargaining agreement),” the Players Association said in a statement earlier this month. “The league does not have the authority or legal basis to unilaterally delay or shorten the schedule without players’ consent.
“While there will continue to be challenges, our players have proven they can safely play a season under difficult circumstances, as have the other sports. The commissioner’s office has assured us that they have instructed the clubs to prepare for an on-time start.”
The 2020 season, which did not begin until late July, was limited to just 60 games without fans in the stands. Players received only 37% of their salaries, while Manfred said the 30 MLB teams lost a combined $3 billion.
MLB has not said when fans might be permitted to attend games, and as Nightengale noted, no team has begun selling spring training tickets.
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Review: Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Premise: Four people have their lives shattered by drug addictions that spiral out of control.
What Works: Requiem for a Dream splits the narrative, working with different storylines of related characters. While this multiple narrative technique is very much in vogue at the moment, this film does it better than most because it limits the number of characters and the connections between them are more interesting. The story has been smartly constructed so that the narratives comment on one another, particularly in the comparison between Sara (Ellen Burstyn), a lonely older woman who begins to misuse diet pills, her son Harry (Jared Leto) who is hooked on heroin, and Harry’s girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) who gradually begins prostituting herself to get drugs. These stories are really about a search for an ideal and the character’s use of chemicals and self deception to try and fool themselves into thinking that they are on their way to achieving that ideal. As a drug film, Requiem for a Dream also is better than most because it identifies that the drug abuse is not an end in itself, but a symptom of greater psychological problems and dissatisfaction with life. These kinds of films are often plagued with the question, “Why don’t the characters just stop?” and many of these films end with characters living happily every after by simply going clean. Requiem for a Dream refuses that easy solution by giving the characters permanent physical and psychological damage and rooting their addiction in human frailty and their dissatisfaction with life.
What Doesn’t: Requiem for a Dream uses repetition as one of its key narrative devices. While this works through most of the picture, at times it seems as though the patterns are overdone, particularly in the climax. Requiem for a Dream is also one of the most brutal films about drug abuse ever made, and the picture refuses to glamorize narcotics or give the audience the consolation (and cop out) of an ending like The Basketball Diaries. While this is to the film’s credit, sensitive viewers might find it very difficult to take.
DVD extras: R-rated and unrated editions of the film are available. The Director’s Cut edition includes a making-of documentary, commentary tracks, deleted scenes, interviews with cast members, trailers, production notes, and The Anatomy of a Scene feature.
Bottom Line: Requiem for a Dream is one of the great drug addition films. Some recent biopics have taken on the subject in passing, namely Walk the Line and Ray, but where in those films drug addition is disconnected from the rest of the character’s personality, Requiem for a Dream places the drug addiction as a central component of the addict’s character. The film is not Reefer Madness, making the audience afraid of a boogeyman, but instead focuses on the reasons people turn to drugs and the personal cost of addiction on the user.
Episode: #121 (December 10, 2006)
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Canadians will once again be at the forefront of the ongoing exploration of Mars as it was announced yesterday by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that they would be contributing to ExoMars mission. Canada’s contribution will be the shared development with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the Mars Atmospheric Trace Molecule Occultation Spectrometer (MATMOS) instrument onboard the …
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Meet the Open Space
Meet neighbor and new board member Dovid Coplon
Erik Hansen
When Sutton Trout stepped down from the Starr King Open Space board due to his family moving away from San Francisco, the board turned to long-time SKOS supporter, volunteer, and Potrero Hill neighbor Dovid Coplon to fulfill his term.
So who is Dovid Coplon?
Meet new board member and neighbor: Dovid Coplon.
Dovid moved to Potrero Hill upon his return from a year and a half in Boston in 1997, just in time for the neighborhood’s metamorphosis from sleepy backwater to vibrant part of the City’s ever accelerating frenzy. One of his favorite quick escapes is to be able to find refuge in the Open Space which is visible from his deck. And as his daughters have grown, Dovid and his family enjoy the rope swing, Sunset Pianos, throwing a ball, wildflower walks, just being silly, or connect back to open space. A native of the Bay Area, Dovid’s parents’ one-time property on Skyline now makes up the core of the Russian Ridge Preserve.
Regretting the lack of parity between the pace of development and the addition of open space and parks on our side of the City, he is committed to helping preserve SKOS as a treasured resource for the neighborhood.
Dovid coordinates digital communications for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and also serves on the Board of the National Kidney Foundation of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, a chapter that his father founded almost 50 years ago.
Dovid’s dream is to cover the 101 freeway with soccer fields and open space and reconnect the Potrero and Mission neighborhoods.
We’re excited to have Dovid on the board, please say “hi” if you see him with his family at the rope swing!
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DFEH Settles Sexual Harassment Case against Sandhu Brothers Growers in Stanislaus County
By ted schwartzJune 16, 2016Private
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has
obtained a $75,000 settlement in a sexual harassment case filed on behalf of a female
farmworker who worked for Sandhu Brothers, a sweet potato farming operation in Stanislaus
County.
The case stemmed from a complaint by a female farmworker that she was harassed by a
supervisor while working for Sandhu Brothers. The complaint alleged that the supervisor
exposed his genitals to members of the crew, masturbated in front of the workers while driving a
tractor, and made unwanted sexual advances to several female crew members. The complainant
also alleged that she was groped by the supervisor and was fired after complaining to the
company. A separate sexual harassment complaint by another worker involving the same
company and the same supervisor was filed and resolved with the federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission in 2013. After the allegations were investigated and substantiated by
the DFEH, a complaint was filed in Stanislaus Superior Court in Modesto, California. The case
was settled January 19, 2016. It would have gone to trial on February 2, 2016.
As part of the settlement, the company has agreed to undergo sexual harassment training and
implement sexual harassment prevention policies.
“Sexual harassment is a serious problem, especially in agriculture where many workers are often
afraid to speak out and are unaware of their rights,” said DFEH Director Kevin Kish. “We hope
that this settlement will send a message to victims that the law will not tolerate this kind of
behavior in the workplace and encourage employers to adopt effective training and prevention
programs.”
The lawsuit was filed against defendants Sandhu Brothers Growers dba Yam Gro, Gurinder
Sandhu, and Bhupinder Sandhu. The case is titled DFEH v. Sandhu Brothers Poultry and
Farming et al, Stanislaus County Superior Court Case Number 2006626.
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Merchants & Marauders
Merchants & Marauders lets you live the life of an influential merchant or a dreaded pirate in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. Seek your fortune through trade, rumour hunting, missions, and of course, plundering. Modify your ship, buy impressive vessels, load deadly special ammunition, and hire specialist crew members. Will your captain gain eternal glory and immense wealth - or find his wet grave under the stormy surface of the Caribbean Sea? In Merchants and Marauders, players take on the role of a captain of a small vessel in the Caribbean. The goal is to be the first to achieve 10 "glory" points through performing daring deeds (through the completion of missions or rumours), crushing your enemies (through defeating opponents and NPCs in combat), amassing gold, performing an epic plunder or pulling off the trade of a lifetime, and buying a grand ship. While some points earned from performing various tasks are permanent, players earn points for amassing gold, which can be stolen or lost (or at least diminished) if their captain is killed. Points due to gold are hidden so there's some uncertainty about when the game will end. A big component of the game is whether (or when) to turn "pirate" or remain as a trader or neutral party. Both careers are fraught with danger: pirates are hunted by NPCs (and other players) for their bounty and blocked to certain ports while traders are hunted by non-player pirates as well as their opponents and generally have to sacrifice combat capability for cargo capacity. Although players can kill each other, there is no player elimination as players may draw a new captain (with a penalty) so it's possible to come back from defeat.
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Sunrise Mountain Echo
Jesus Castro Qualifies For State Tournament
Photo by Esmeralda Palacios
Lizbeth Martin, Sports Writer
Sunrise Mountain junior Jesus Castro proved to be the only wrestler to qualify for the state tournament. The 220-pound wrestler captured fourth place at the Class 3A Southern Regional Championships, which will send him to the state tournament.
Castro practiced really hard, and has dedicated his time to wrestling. To make it even more impressive, Castro wrestled with a injured ankle to qualify for state.
Castro has been wrestling since his freshman year, and also his first time he qualifies for the state tournament. Castro has trained after school most of the week, and has won wresting matches to be able to qualified for the state tournament.
Castro lost the third-place match to Virgin Valley’s Shane Zarate, 8-2.
“Only the tough wrestlers go to the state tournament,” said Castro. “I wrestled with an injured ankle. I didn’t want to wrestle anymore, but my parents and coaches convinced me to.”
Going into a state tournament is nerve wracking, but at the same time it’s a great experienced.
“I am nervous, because I’m going against different schools which I’ve never wrestler before,” said Castro.
The state tournament only had the best of the best athletes, so there is going to be a lot of competition.
“There’s a lot of competition, even people who are better than me,” said Castro.
Several Sunrise Mountain wrestlers fell just short of a state touranment run as you must place in the top-four to advance. Four others placed in fifth place, including junior Osvaldo Diaz Rosas at 106 pounds, sophomore Juan Gomez at 113 pounds, junior Issa Ziadeh at 170 pounds, while sophomore James Banks, wrestling at the 285-pound weight class, also took fifth.
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Nigeria recorded low spam calls, messages in 2018: Report
Michael Bamidele
The top 20 Countries affected by spam calls in 2018 released by truecaller
Truecaller claimed to have helped users block and identify 17.7 billion spam calls including the identity of 74.1 billion calls.
Nigeria ranked among markets that experienced low spam calls and unsolicited messages in 2018 according to a report analysis breakdown by Guardian Nigeria, a research conducted by Truecaller has revealed. Unlike in 2017, where Nigeria ranked ninth behind India, USA, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Mexico, Turkey, and Peru respectively in the world’s top 20 list, the country dropped out of the list last year.
Photo credit: Truecaller
The Truecaller 2017 report put the average spam calls/messages an average Nigerian gets in a month at 10.2 percent.
In the 2018 report obtained by The Guardian, Truecaller found that there are common categories that tie all the spam calls together. They include operator, debt collection, bank, political, health, spam, telemarketing, financial service, scam and insurance.
It explained that the regions span across the world, and even some countries that are on the same continent differ drastically in what type of spam call they receive. Truecaller is a product of Swedish company, True Software Scandinavia AB. It is a mobile app developed to find mobile number details globally given a telephone number either using the app or their synced contacts, and has an integrated caller ID service to achieve call-blocking functionality and social media integration to keep the phonebook up-to-date with pictures and birthdays.
In 2018 alone, Truecaller claimed to have helped users block and identify 17.7 billion spam calls including the identity of 74.1 billion calls. This means that close to every fourth call that the app users receive are spam calls.Compared to 2017, Truecaller said fewer African markets are in the top 20 list: Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, and Nigeria. South Africa is the only country in the list – as a matter of fact the amount of spam calls increased from 15 to 21 spam calls/months – that is a 40 per cent increase!
According to a telecoms expert, Kehinde Aluko, the drop in spam calls and messages could be linked to subscribers’ activations of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC’s) recently introduced Do-Not-Disturb (DND) codes.
NCC had urged subscribers, who are tired of unsolicited text messages and calls to text “Stop” to “2442” or “Help” to “2442” for options.The Guardian gathered that over 12 million subscribers had as at November 2018, activated the code and blocked unwanted messages and calls.
In the 2018 list, Brazil surprisingly took over from India as the most spammed country in the world, with the average Truecaller user receiving 37.5 spam calls per month. This means that Brazil saw an 81 per cent increase in spam calls last year.
The firm cited new markets entered the list including Spain, Canada, Costa Rica, Poland, Dominican Republic, and Israel, adding that there was a big increase of spam calls in European markets like Spain (100%), Greece (54.1%) and Italy (22.7 %.) However, Turkey has seen a decrease of spam calls (18 %.)
Furthermore, Truecaller revealed that a lot of Latin American countries entered the top spam list, and they are seeing the biggest increase of spam calls. Costa Rica was ranked top as country that has seen the highest increase in terms of percentage (330 %.)
Digging deeper into the bigger markets, Truecaller found common categories that tie all these spam calls together. The biggest pattern discovered was that operators across the world are the biggest spammers.“We could also see that telemarketing calls from financial services, debt collectors and insurance related matters are spamming our users globally. Others are political, health, scam, financial service, telemarketing, among others,” the Swedish firm stated.
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AWS launches Amazon Honeycode, a no-code mobile and web app builder
Jane peace
AWS today announced the beta launch of Amazon Honeycode, a new, fully managed low-code/no-code development tool that aims to make it easy for anybody in a company to build their own applications. All of this, of course, is backed by a database in AWS and a web-based, drag-and-drop interface builder.
Developers can build applications for up to 20 users for free. After that, they pay per user and for the storage their applications take up.
“Customers have told us that the need for custom applications far outstrips the capacity of developers to create them,” said AWS VP Larry Augustin in the announcement. “Now with Amazon Honeycode, almost anyone can create powerful custom mobile and web applications without the need to write code.”
Like similar tools, Honeycode provides users with a set of templates for common use cases like to-do list applications, customer trackers, surveys, schedules and inventory management. Traditionally, AWS argues, a lot of businesses have relied on shared spreadsheets to do these things.
“Customers try to solve for the static nature of spreadsheets by emailing them back and forth, but all of the emailing just compounds the inefficiency because email is slow, doesn’t scale, and introduces versioning and data syncing errors,” the company notes in today’s announcement. “As a result, people often prefer having custom applications built, but the demand for custom programming often outstrips developer capacity, creating a situation where teams either need to wait for developers to free up or have to hire expensive consultants to build applications.”
It’s no surprise then that Honeycode uses a spreadsheet view as its core data interface, which makes sense, given how familiar virtually every potential user is with this concept. To manipulate data, users can work with standard spreadsheet-style formulas, which seems to be about the closest the service gets to actual programming. ‘Builders,” as AWS calls Honeycode users, can also set up notifications, reminders and approval workflows within the service.
AWS says these databases can easily scale up to 100,000 rows per workbook. With this, AWS argues, users can then focus on building their applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
As of now, it doesn’t look like users will be able to bring in any outside data sources, though that may still be on the company’s roadmap. On the other hand, these kinds of integrations would also complicate the process of building an app and it looks like AWS is trying to keep things simple for now.
Honeycode currently only runs in the AWS US West region in Oregon but is coming to other regions soon.
Among Honeycode’s first customers are SmugMug and Slack.
“We’re excited about the opportunity that Amazon Honeycode creates for teams to build apps to drive and adapt to today’s ever-changing business landscape,” said Brad Armstrong, VP of Business and Corporate Development at Slack in today’s release. “We see Amazon Honeycode as a great complement and extension to Slack and are excited about the opportunity to work together to create ways for our joint customers to work more efficiently and to do more with their data than ever before.”
Slack announces Connect, an improved way for companies to talk to one another
Agency Reporter
Virtual events are the new norm for product rollouts in 2020, with Slack taking to the internet earlier today to talk about a new part of its service called Slack Connect.
On the heels of Apple’s lengthy and pretty good virtual WWDC that took place earlier this week, Slack’s event, part experiment and part press conference, was called to detail the firm’s new Slack Connect capability, which will allow companies to better link together and communicate inside of their Slack instance than what was possible with its shared channels feature. The product was described inside of a business-to-business context, including examples about companies needing to chat with agencies and other external vendors.
In its most basic form, Slack is well-known for internal chat functionality, helping teams talk amongst themselves. Slack Connect appears to be a progression past that idea, pushing internal communications tooling to allow companies to plug their private comms into the private comms of other orgs, linking them for simple communication while keeping the entire affair secure.
Slack Connect, a evolution past what shared channels offered, includes better security tooling and the ability to share channels across 20 orgs. The enterprise SaaS company is also working to give Connect-using companies “the ability to form DM connections independent of channels,” the company told TechCrunch.
The product could slim down email usage; if Slack Connect can let many orgs chat amongst themselves, perhaps fewer emails will be needed to keep different companies in sync. That said, Slack is hardly a quiet product. During his part of the presentation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield noted that the service sees up to 65 million messages sent each second at peak times.
According to the CEO, Slack Connect has been piloted for a few months, and is now available for paid plans.
Slack shares are off 3.8% today, before the news came out. Its broader company cohort (SaaS) are also down today, along with the market more broadly; investors don’t appear to have reacted to this piece of news, at least yet.
Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely
At a time when IT has to help employees set up and manage devices remotely, a service that simplifies those processes could certainly come in handy. Apple recognized that, and acquired Fleetsmith today, a startup that helps companies do precisely that with Apple devices.
While Apple didn’t publicize the acquisition, it has confirmed the deal with TechCrunch, while Fleetsmith announced the deal in a company blog post. Neither company was sharing the purchase price.
The startup has built technology that takes advantage of Apple’s Device Enrollment Program, allowing IT departments to bring devices online as soon as the employee takes it out of the box and powers it up.
At the time of its $30 million Series B funding last year, CEO Zack Blum explained the company’s core value proposition: “From a customer perspective, they can ship devices directly to their employees. The employee unwraps it, connects to Wi-Fi and the device is enrolled automatically in Fleetsmith,” Blum explained at that time.
Over time, the company has layered on other useful pieces beyond automating device registration, like updating devices automatically with OS and security updates, while letting IT see a dashboard of the status of all devices under management, all in a pretty slick interface.
While Apple will in all likelihood continue to work with Jamf, the leader in the Apple device management space, this acquisition gives the company a remote management option at a time when it’s essential with so many employees working from home.
Fleetsmith, which has raised more than $40 million from investors, like Menlo Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Upfront Ventures and Harrison Metal, will continue to sell the product through the company website, according to the blog post.
The founders put a happy face on the deal, as founders tend to do. “We’re thrilled to join Apple. Our shared values of putting the customer at the center of everything we do without sacrificing privacy and security, means we can truly meet our mission, delivering Fleetsmith to businesses and institutions of all sizes, around the world,” they wrote.
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Home MLS Montreal Impact Canadian GAs fall to the second round: Reid goes to FC Dallas, Shome goes to the Impact
Canadian GAs fall to the second round: Reid goes to FC Dallas, Shome goes to the Impact
Adonijah Reid
League1 Ontario scoring ace Adonijah Reid and FC Edmonton midfielder Shamit Shome were the two members of the initial Canadian Generation Adidas class. As GA signees, their contracts wouldn’t count against the salary cap.
But, despite Reid being a standout scorer in League1 Ontario and Shome being the only player in the draft class with significant professional experience — with 26 NASL games played — they both fell to the late stages of the second round of Friday’s SuperDraft.
Reid went 18th in the second round to FC Dallas (40th overall) and Shome went to the Montreal Impact with the 19th second-round pick (41st overall). Of course, with the Ottawa Fury moving from NASL to USL and beginning an affiliation with the Montreal Impact, this could be the scenario: Shome is sent to Ottawa and could face FC Edmonton in the Amway Canadian Championship. The Eddies’ former NASL Canadian rival, the Fury, might be able to line up Shome against his hometown team.
“On Shamit’s side, he is a player who already has a certain amount of experience in second division and he has a lot of technical quality in midfield and should integrate well in our system,” said Impact technical director Adam Braz.
Kwame Awuah was selected 16th overall by NYCFC; the University of Connecticut midfielder scored twice and added seven assists in NCAA play in his senior year.
“It means even more to me that they paid to move up the order – it means they really believed in me and really wanted me – to be part of a staff which welcomes me to the family, it’s a big thing, Awuah was quoted on the NYCFC website. “I can’t wait to prove that I’m worth the whole shake-up.”
And, Brian Wright, who is second all-time on the University of Vermont scoring list, was selected 20th overall by the New England Revolution.
Toronto FC had two opportunities to take Canadian players — in fact, any player — after it selected the Notre Dame’s Brandon Aubrey in the first round. Would the Reds take a flyer on any of these Canadians, with those two second-round picks? No, the Reds traded both picks away and, when he was interviewed on the MLS feed of the draft, TFC coach Greg Vanney said “we’re done for today” as if he was already an hour late to get to the airport. It was like the last place he wanted to be was the SuperDraft floor.
The Whitecaps selected two defenders — UConn’s Jakob Nerwinski and St. Francis University’s Francis de Vries, which is a sentence that’s a lot easier to write than it is to say. Nerwinski was part of the U-23 U.S. national team identification camp, and de Vries played with the Michigan Bucks team which beat Calgary Foothills in the 2016 PDL final.
Montreal took University of California-Santa Barbara striker Nick DePuy in the first round. He scored 31 times in four seasons for UCSB.
But, what does it say when MLS asks the Canadian Soccer Association to recommend what it thinks are the two top youth prospects in the country, and these picks fall to late in the second round? Both move into the realm of being longshots, but we can only hope that it will fuel these young men to prove these critics wrong. One of the MLS analysts on the league’s feed even suggested that Shome had a “funny gait” that scared off some teams. Hopefully, Shome gets a copy of that and plays it over and over and over.
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The general meaning of the symbol is "life" and is used quite literally as well as metaphorically. It is thought that the fact that many of the Gods carrying an Ankh that were painted within tombs were to signify the gift of life into the afterlife.
Similarities have been made between ankh, and the symbol "Tyet" the knot of Isis. The meanings are the same, meaning Life and Welfare, but linking it closely to the goddess Isis.
Ankh was considered to be such an important symbol, that it has even been found in archaeological digs as far as Mesopotamia and Persia, and was even featured on the seal of the biblical king Hezekiah.
With such importance and provenance, it is no surprise that the symbol has carried on today to evoke a similar meaning. The symbol was adopted in New Age mysticism in the 1960s as well as having a place in Paganism and many other communities.
In many communities such as Wiccans and Pagans, the symbol is used as a healing tool, using the symbology of life to aid the healer. The Ankh would be placed over areas of the body that require attention, regeneration or divine healing. The Ankh is predominantly used with forms of magick and is sometimes worn as an amulet to protect the wearer from negative energies and bad luck, maintaining the bearers "life" energy.
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The Butler men’s basketball team was the victim of its own demise in Monday night’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, making them the fourth team in NCAA history to lose consecutive title games. The Bulldogs’ worst shooting performance of the season came against the No. 3-seed Connecticut Huskies, who defeated the Bulldogs, 53-41, in…
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How love flourished amidst the horrors of the Holocaust
16th January 2019 by Graham Taylor
A LOVE STORY based on real events and set amidst the horrors of Auschwitz is among the latest batch of new titles added to the Library shelves.
Alongside them are a delightful tale set in Dublin that grew out of a Facebook page created by the authors, Emer Mclysaght and Sarah Breen and the latest offering from that doyen of the legal thriller, John Gresham.
Our DVD corner features the highly-charged political thriller, Bodyguard, a definite candidate for anyone’s must-see list.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
IN 1942, LALE SOKOLOV arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival – scratching numbers into his fellow victims’ arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.
Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale – a dandy, a Jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer – it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did too.
So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust – the love story of the Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Emer Mclysaght and Sarah Breen.
Oh My God What A Complete Aisling
by Emer Mclysaght & Sarah Breen
LIVING ‘DOWN HOME’ with Mammy and Daddy, Aisling commutes to her pensionable job in Dublin and stays two nights a week with her boyfriend of seven years, John.
But she wants more. She wants a ring on her finger. She wants the hen night with the Willy straws. She wants the big house with the utility room of her dreams.
When a week in Tenerife doesn’t result in a proposal, Aisling decides she’s had enough. It’s time for a change. A new start, a love triangle (well, more of a square) and some home truths force Aisling out of her comfort zone and into a life she never imagined.
THEY DREAMED OF CHANGING the world. Instead they’re facing a mountain of debt and no hope of a future. Mark, Todd and Zola are starting to realise it’s not even worth graduating from law school.
They’re better off hanging out at The Rooster Bar, plotting how to dodge the loan sharks. But maybe there’s another way. Maybe they know enough about the law to pass as lawyers.
Because it turns out the crooked hedge fund billionaire who owns their law school also runs the bank that arranged their student loans. And it’s time justice was served. Even if that means taking on the FBI…
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IF YOU MISSED this series on television it really is a must see. Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the story of David Budd (Richard Madden), a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Special Protection branch of London’s Metropolitan Police Force.
When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawkes), Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, could he become her biggest threat.
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More titles offer something special for Christmas
23rd December 2018 by Graham Taylor
A BUMPER CROP of new titles added to the Library shelves in the run-up to Christmas include the atmospherically-charged Reservoir 13 by John McGregor, the equally intriguing The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz, rightfully one of the hightest-earning writers in Britain, and Irish novelist Patricia Scanlan’s delightful Orange Blossom Days, which will resonate with many who have had dealings in their apartment block with El Presidente.
Then there’s the latest from the prolific pen of that master of the spy story, John Le Carre, a tangled tale of families by Joanna Nadin and a sparkling debut novel from Sarah Haywood.
A globe-trotting journey in the run up to Christmas
26th November 2018 by Graham Taylor
THREE MORE NEW TITLES added pre-Christmas to the Library shelves takes us on another globe-trotting journey encompassing some very different topics.
Peter May’s The Runner begins on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, while Rachael English’s The American Girl starts its journey in 1968 Boston but then takes us across the Atlantic to Ireland and 2013 Dublin in a tale of long-buried family secrets.
Finally, Rhiannon Navin’s Only Child delves into the topical subject of mass shootings in the United States and how a mother and her young son deal with the aftermath in very different ways.
Our DVD spot focuses on the second series of the hugely popular ITV series, Victoria the landmark account of the public and personal life of one of Britain’s greatest monarchs.
by Peter May
THE SUFFERER: A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.
The Listener: Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li’s fiancée, Margaret Campbell.
The Runner: When Campbell’s contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun, and outwit, an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance.
The American Girl
by Rachael English
IT’S BOSTON IN 1968 and Rose Moroney is 17, smart, spirited – and pregnant. She wants to marry her boyfriend. Her ambitious parents have other plans. She is sent to Ireland, their birthplace, to deliver her daughter in a mother and baby home – and part with her against her will.
In Dublin in 2013, Martha Sheehan’s life has come undone. Her marriage is over and her husband has moved on with unsettling speed. Under pressure from her teenage daughter, she starts looking for the woman who gave her up for adoption more than 40 years before.
As her search leads her to the heart of long-buried family secrets, old flame Paudie Carmody – now a well-known broadcaster – re-enters the frame.
by Rhiannon Child
THEY ALL WENT to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of them went home… When the unthinkable happens, Zach is at school. Huddled in a cloakroom with his classmates and teacher, he is too young to understand that life will never be the same again.
Afterwards, the once close-knit community is left reeling. Zach’s dad retreats. His mum sets out to seek revenge. Zach, scared, lost and confused, disappears into his super-secret hideout to try to make sense of things. Nothing feels right – until he listens to his heart… But can he show the grown-ups how to love again?
Victoria Season Two
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THIS LANDMARK ACCOUNT of the life of one of history’s greatest monarchs continues as the Queen faces the very modern challenges of balancing a growing family with her marriage to Prince Albert and her work as ruler of the most powerful nation on earth.
As Victoria’s reign continues into the 1840s there are constitutional crises and scandals at court, trips to France and Scotland, the devastating Irish Potato Famine and political machinations ending in tragedy. As the saga unfolds over vital moments in history, the Queen and Prince Albert must meet each public challenge while confronting profound personal changes.
Idyllic Ireland and Devon give way to space city
NOVELS set in the rural idylls of Ireland and Devon contrast sharply with one set in the brash city of Houston, Texas, to provide us with three very different stories to feature in our regular look at new titles added to the Library shelves this month.
DVD Corner this time round features an ITV screened earlier this year, Girlfriends, which tells how three middle-aged women, friends since their teenage years, cope with a catalogue of family dramas.
The Girls Of Ennismore
by Patricia Falvey
IN 1900 IRELAND, two girls meet. They are from vastly, different worlds, they will be united in friendship through loves, losses and wars.
In the early years of the 20th century, Victoria Bell and Rosie Killeen are best friends, growing up in rural County Mayo, their friendship forged against the glorious backdrop of Ennismore House.
However, Victoria, born of the aristocracy, and Rosie, daughter of a local farmer, find that the disparity of their class and simmering social tensions in Ireland will push their friendship to the brink…
The Lie Of The Land
by Amanda Craig
QUENTIN AND LOTTIE BREDIN, like many modern couples, can’t afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, together they must downsize and move with their three children from London to a house in a remote part of Devon.
Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can’t understand why Lottie is so angry. Devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded. Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless , knows a different side to country life, as both a health visitor and a sheep farmer’s wife; and when the Bredins’ innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another.
By the end of the year, all their lives will be changed forever.
The Jealous Kind
by James Lee Burke
HOUSTON LIFE IS as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, juke boxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath all this, a class war has begun and against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers a world of violence he did not know existed.
When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, he inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob and one of the richest families in Texas.
As Aaron undergoes his harrowing evolution from boy to man, he discovers the inspirational and curative power of first love and how far he will go to protect it.
WHEN LINDA IS SUDDENLY WIDOWED, she finds herself on her own for the first time in nearly 30 years. She turns to her old friends Gail and Sue for support. But it seems they may need her support in equal measure as each face up to the problems with being modern women of a certain age.
As the girlfriends come back together it’s clear that although their lives have changed over the years true friendship remains the same no matter how much time has passed.
Starring Phylis Logan, Miranda Richardson and Zoe Wanamaker.
Just in time for returning swallows
14th October 2018 by Graham Taylor
TWO TITLES from Richard and Judy Book Club recommendations are among this latest crop of new offerings added to the Library shelves just in time for the return of our ‘swallow’ members. Both feature big-selling writers, namely David Baldacci and Rachel Hore.
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Comic Book Reviews (Week July 22, 2020): Empyre Issue 2, Emperor Hulkling, and More!
by Farid-ul-Haq | Posted on July 23, 2020 July 24, 2020
Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling (Image: Marvel Comics)
I’m enjoying how a whole lot of comic books are coming out on a weekly basis. It’s great to have something new to read during current times. In this week’s comic book reviews round-up, I’m covering Empyre Issue 2, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling Issue 1, Batman Issue 95, and more!
Of course, I will be opening with Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling issue 1 because it gave me everything and more as a fan of Teddy and Billy. From writer Chip Zdarsky and Anthony Oliveira, this issue was perfect (as far as my opinion is concerned). The story served as an introduction to Hulkling and why he’s the figurehead of the current Empyre event.
What made this issue a must-read was the focus on Teddy and Billy’s relationship. We know that Teddy’s been feeling left out because of Wiccan being part of Strikeforce. Also, the fact Teddy’s fiance is the future Demiurge always tends to steal the spotlight. However, with the Kree and Skrulls striking an alliance, Teddy has to accept his destiny. I loved seeing how supportive Wiccan was as he stood next to Teddy. Yes, Hulkling is the King of Space and Wiccan is the Demiurge, but to each other, they’re just two young queer men in love.
Inject this into my veins! (Image: Marvel Comics)
Now, I have to say that I was ready to flip tables because of certain decisions that were made in the narrative. When Hulkling was forced to end his engagement with Wiccan, I was like, “I refuse!”. However, Zdarsky and Oliveira made it clear that the bond between Teddy and Billy couldn’t be broken. And for that, I applaud both writers. Making loving couples break up just to cause drama is lazy writing.
Wiccan understood what Hulkling had to do to lead the Kree/Skrull army. Even though Wiccan couldn’t stay with him on the ship, the future Demiurge will continue to be with the King of Space whenever needed. I can’t wait to see the two young heroes team up and save the universe!
Here’s to hoping Marvel decides to give Oliveira a Wiccan/Hulkling solo series.
I am dying!!! (Image: Marvel Comics)
Other than the Wiccan and Hulkling stuff, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling featured a lot of comedic moments (including queer humor) that readers will enjoy. The art team (artist Manuel Garcia, colorist Triona Farrell, and inker Cam Smith) did an amazing job with this one. The emotional moments between Billy and Teddy were a treat to see.
Recommendation: PICK IT UP!
Does it have obvious queer characters? Yes.
Empyre Issue 2 (Image: Marvel Comics)
Empyre Issue 2
The second issue of Empyre, from writers Al Ewing and Dan Slott was kind of a fast-read. Nothing surprising happened. The heroes found out they were betrayed by the Cotati. The scene where Captain Marvel absorbed the magical energy of Hulkling’s Space Sword was cool, though.
Recommendation: I guess.
Empyre: Avengers Issue 1 (Image: Marvel Comics)
Empyre: Avengers Issue 1
With the Cotati attacking Earth, Empyre: Avengers Issue 1, by writer Jim Zub, showed Earth’s heroes (even some not so famous ones) working together to save innocent people. If you wanted to pick this issue up because the cover featured Storm, don’t. She isn’t in this. And yes, I was disappointed. Maybe she will appear down the line? Let’s see.
I do have to applaud artist Carlos Magno and colorist Espen Grundetjern. The character designs of the Cotati requires a lot of detail.
Recommendation: Meh!
Does it have obvious queer characters? No.
Empyre: X-Men Issue 1 (Image: Marvel Comics)
Empyre: X-Men Issue 1
Sigh! I would like Wanda to try and chill. I understand she still feels guilty about depowering millions of mutants, but that’s something she just has to live with. However, Wanda’s always causing trouble, and Empyre: X-Men Issue 1 is no different. After realizing she couldn’t erase M-Day from existence, she decided to do something else. For those who don’t know, millions of mutants died in Genosha. So, Wanda decided to resurrect them. Ufff!
Genosha’s full of zombie mutants now. And while that’s a dangerous threat, writers Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard were still able to add some comedy. This issue was basically plants (the Cotati) vs zombies (resurrected mutants) with Angel, Magik, Multiple Man, and Monet stuck in the confrontation. Also, do you all remember the old women from Hordeculture? They appear as well.
I can’t wait to see what happens next. It feels like an X-Men story rather than a strictly Empyre tie-in, and I’m here for it.
Recommendation: Pick it up.
New Mutants Issue 11 (Image: Marvel Comics)
New Mutants Issue 11
The latest issue of New Mutants helped bring Ed Brisson’s current arc to a close. Our team of heroes was able to subdue the dangerous young mutant, named Cosmar, after Wildside gave her pleasant dreams. Artist Flaviano’s work really complimented the story’s weirdness. Anyway, it looks like the team will be dealing with a blog that’s doxxing other mutants and putting them in danger.
X-Men + Fantastic Four Issue 4 (Image: Marvel Comics)
X-Men + Fantastic Four Issue 4
From writer Chip Zdarsky, the final issue of X-Men + Fantastic Four reached a (kind of) predictable end. Of course, Doom had his own hidden intentions behind helping Franklin. Of course, Franklin’s powers are still acting weird.
In my opinion, the final panels of this issue were the most impactful. Seeing Professor X and Magneto walking up to Reed and removing his memories of how to create a mutant gene manipulating device was a very powerful move. Such a move might come back to haunt Charles and Magento down the line, but it was still very cool to see the two tell Reed he should stop messing with mutants.
Also, Doom’s not happy with Krakoa gaining power. So, I’m looking forward to seeing what he decides to do. He’s clearly not going to allow mutants to call themselves the superior race.
Batman Issue 95 (Image: DC Comics)
Batman Issue 95
I don’t know what writer James Tynion IV has planned, but I would like for him to get on with it already. Batman Issue 95 was quite boring, in my opinion. Apparantly, Bruce got a new Batsuit even he didn’t know existed.
Wynd Issue 2 (Image: BOOM! Studios)
Wynd Issue 2
While James Tynion IV’s work on Batman has been a bit of a drag, at least, we have Wynd Issue 2 to showcase his enjoyable original storytelling. Things are turning dangerous in Pipetown and it’s time for Wynd to leave. We got a lot of information regarding Wynd and the Bandaged Man’s past. And while wanting Wynd to be transported to a place where he can live freely made sense, we know that Wynd’s afraid of the magic growing inside him. The young boy wants to be normal, but he can’t. And yes, the parallels to growing up as a queer kid and feeling different are intentional.
Michael Dialynas’ art does a great job of bringing the fantastical world of Wynd to life. But don’t be fooled by the cuteness because again, with the Bandaged Man around, things are far from being adorable. Fingers crossed a streaming service decides to do an animated or live-action adaptation of this story.
Billionaire Island Issue 3 (Image: AHOY Comics)
Billionaire Island Issue 3
I was provided with a free review copy of Billionaire Island Issue 3. The opinions are my own.
I really want you all to start reading Billionaire Island from writer Mark Russell. The way it feels current while delivering an engrossing narrative is impressive. The latest issue featured Trent being interrogated and realizing how crazy the billionaires on the island are. The rest of the panels had Shelly and Flynn trying to find a way to get off the island. Turns out, there isn’t any. The two are stuck and Flynn doesn’t take the news well.
Russell’s storytelling continued to be quite pointed in the latest issue. I appreciated his insight into human nature. I can’t wait to see what happens next. Also, are Shelly and Trent operating on the same timeline? Just a thought.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer Issue 1 (Image: BOOM! Studios)
Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer Issue 1
I ended up being a fan of Ranger Slayer the moment she appeared. From writer Ryan Parrott, Ranger Slayer Issue 1 featured Kimberly Hart going back to the Coinless world to atone for her mistakes while working for Drakkon. As a fan of Kimberly, I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed reading every panel of this self-contained story. It’s full of the undead, action, and lots of interesting character moments. The final panel gave us a development I can’t wait for Parrott to explore down the line.
Which comic books did you pick up this week? Did you enjoy Teddy and Billy’s relationship in Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling issue 1? Let us know.
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12 STEPS, TRADITIONS & CONCEPTS
We follow, to the best of our ability each day as an individual, a set of suggestions – the 12 Steps – as a program of recovery.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol ‐ that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
We follow, to the best of our ability each day as members of Alcoholics Anonymous, a set of suggestions – the 12 Traditions – to protect our unity and fellowship as groups.
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self‐supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities
We follow, to the best of our ability each day as a recovery movement, a set of suggestions – the 12 Concepts – to ensure our success providing service globally into the future.
The Twelve Concepts for World Service were written by A.A.’s co‐founder Bill W., and were adopted by the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1962. The Concepts are an interpretation of A.A.’s world service structure as it emerged through A.A.’s early history and experience. The short form of the Concepts reads:
1. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
2. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole society in its world affairs.
3. To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A.—the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives—with a traditional “Right of Decision.”
4. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional “Right of Participation,” allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.
5. Throughout our structure, a traditional “Right of Appeal” ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
6. The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.
7. The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees to manage and conduct world service affairs. The Conference Charter is not a legal document; it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final effectiveness.
8. The trustees are the principal planners and administrators of over‐all policy and finance. They have custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly active services, exercising this through their ability to elect all the directors of these entities.
9. Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the trustees.
10. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
11. The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.
12. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and whenever possible, substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government; that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.
Copyright © A.A. World Services, Inc.; reprinted with permission.
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UniFirst Honored for Providing English Classes to Immigrant Workers
Company values a diverse workforce and commits to helping them succeed
Pictured (L to R) Claudia Green, executive director of English for New Bostonians; Mary Truong, executive director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants; Brian DiFillippo, UniFirst general manager; Angela Spinola, UniFirst production Team Partner; Cynthia Croatti, UniFirst executive vice president; Steven Sintros, UniFirst president and CEO; and Nam Pham, Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade.
WILMINGTON, Mass. ( November 2018 ) - UniFirst Corporation, a leading provider of customized work uniform programs, corporate attire, and facility service products to businesses throughout North America, has received a 2018 Business Leadership Award from English for New Bostonians. The award recognizes UniFirst's support of workplace English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes for its employee Team Partners.
English for New Bostonians creates opportunities for immigrants to learn English and pursue their economic, educational, and civic goals. The award was presented to UniFirst president and CEO Steven Sintros and executive vice president Cynthia Croatti at the "Raising Our Voices" breakfast, an annual awards ceremony held in Boston, attended by honorees and several state-level officials.
"English for New Bostonians' Raising our Voices event shines a light on great businesses and people in Massachusetts who are supporting their immigrant workers by offering English language classes in the workplace," says Claudia Green, executive director of English for New Bostonians. "Our nominating committee selected UniFirst as an award recipient because they do just that, and, in doing so, help lift the voices of immigrants."
UniFirst currently offers free weekly ESOL classes after work for the diverse work force at its Dorchester and Springfield, Massachusetts locations. The program, implemented two years ago, has been such an overwhelming success in helping these employees succeed in the workplace that it is now included in the company's local benefits package. UniFirst also hopes to expand this program into other locations across North America.
"We're especially proud to receive this distinguished award from English for New Bostonians," says Sintros. "UniFirst is committed to providing professional development opportunities for all of our employee Team Partners, at all levels. We're happy to help our limited-English-proficient workers by investing in resources they can use to advance their careers within our company. Their success is our success."
Angela Spinola, a production employee at the UniFirst-Dorchester plant, has been taking the company's ESOL classes since the program's inception with nearly a 100 percent attendance rate. "Angela is a model student whom we deeply value as a Team Partner," says Brian DiFillippo, UniFirst-Dorchester general manager. "She approaches all of her studies with a steadfast commitment and good humor, and cheerfully assists the coworkers who are also her classmates."
Spinola sees this opportunity as a way to advance her career within the company and appreciates the convenience of taking classes directly after work. "I feel so fortunate to be able to work for a company that cares about my success and helps me achieve my goals," says Spinola. "Learning English shouldn't have to be difficult. However, it can be very challenging after working all day and having to go to another job, or go home and take care of your family. UniFirst makes it easy for me to attend class right here after work. I can then go home at a normal time to be with my family. It has really helped me succeed in work and in life here in the U.S."
For more information about UniFirst, please visit UniFirst.com.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., UniFirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF) is a North American leader in the supply and servicing of uniform and workwear programs, as well as the delivery of facility service programs. Together with its subsidiaries, the company also provides first aid and safety products, and manages specialized garment programs for the cleanroom and nuclear industries. UniFirst manufactures its own branded workwear, protective clothing, and floorcare products; and with more than 250 service locations, over 300,000 customer locations, and 14,000-plus employee Team Partners, the company outfits nearly 2 million workers each business day. For more information, contact UniFirst at 800.455.7654 or visit unifirst.com.
About English for New Bostonians
English for New Bostonians creates opportunities for immigrants to learn English and pursue their economic, educational and civic goals. We fund English language learning programs, train instructors, share policy research, and advocate for public and private investment in English programs. We also work closely with employers to facilitate on-site English learning opportunities that increase productivity while sharply reducing employee turnover. Our work supports student pathways from learning English to further education and training, U.S. citizenship, and family-sustaining employment.
Donna Kish
PR/Communications Specialist
UniFirst Corporation
68 Jonspin Rd.
Wilmington, MA 01887
Donna_Kish@unifirst.com
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polymer: translation
/pol"euh meuhr/, n. Chem.
1. a compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller molecules, as polyethylene, or by the condensation of many smaller molecules with the elimination of water, alcohol, or the like, as nylon.
2. a compound formed from two or more polymeric compounds.
3. a product of polymerization. Cf. monomer.
[1865-70; < Gk polymerés having many parts. See POLY-, -MER]
Any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of macromolecules that are multiples of monomers.
The monomers need not all be the same or have the same structure. Polymers may consist of long chains of unbranched or branched monomers or may be cross-linked networks of monomers in two or three dimensions. Their backbones may be flexible or rigid. Some natural inorganic materials (e.g., the minerals diamond, graphite, and feldspar) and certain man-made inorganic materials (e.g., glass) have polymer-like structures. Many important natural materials are organic polymers, including cellulose (from sugar monomers; see polysaccharide), lignin, rubber, proteins (from amino acids), and nucleic acids (from nucleotides). Synthetic organic polymers include many plastics, including polyethylene, the nylons, polyurethanes, polyesters, vinyls (e.g., PVC), and synthetic rubbers. The silicone polymers, with an inorganic backbone of silicon and oxygen atoms and organic side groups, are among the most important mixed organic-inorganic compounds.
▪ chemistry
any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules, called macromolecules, that are multiples of simpler chemical units called monomers. Polymers make up many of the materials in living organisms, including, for example, proteins, cellulose, and nucleic acids. Moreover, they constitute the basis of such minerals as diamond, quartz, and feldspar and such man-made materials as concrete, glass, paper, plastics, and rubbers.
The word polymer designates an unspecified number of monomer units. When the number of monomers is very large, the compound is sometimes called a high polymer. Polymers are not restricted to monomers of the same chemical composition or molecular weight and structure. Some natural polymers are composed of one kind of monomer. Most natural and synthetic polymers, however, are made up of two or more different types of monomers. Such polymers are known as copolymers.
Organic polymers play a crucial role in living things, providing basic structural materials and participating in vital life processes. For example, the solid parts of all plants are made up of polymers. These include cellulose, lignin, and various resins. Cellulose is a polysaccharide, a polymer that is composed of sugar molecules. Lignin consists of a complicated three-dimensional network of polymers. Wood resins are polymers of a simple hydrocarbon, isoprene. Another familiar isoprene polymer is rubber.
Other important natural polymers include the proteins, which are polymers of amino acids, and the nucleic acids, which are polymers of nucleotides—complex molecules composed of nitrogen-containing bases, sugars, and phosphoric acid. The nucleic acids carry genetic information in the cell. Starches, important sources of food energy derived from plants, are natural polymers composed of glucose.
Many inorganic polymers also are found in nature, including diamond and graphite. Both are composed of carbon. In diamond, carbon atoms are linked in a three-dimensional network that gives the material its hardness. In graphite, used as a lubricant and in pencil “leads,” the carbon atoms link in planes that can slide across one another.
Synthetic polymers are produced in different types of reactions. Many simple hydrocarbons, such as ethylene and propylene, can be transformed into polymers by adding one monomer after another to the growing chain. Polyethylene, composed of repeating ethylene monomers, is an addition polymer. It may have as many as 10,000 monomers joined in long, coiled chains. Polyethylene is crystalline, transluscent, and thermoplastic—i.e., it softens when heated. It is used for coatings, packaging, molded parts, and the manufacture of bottles and containers. Polypropylene is also crystalline and thermoplastic but is harder than polyethylene. Its molecules may consist of from 50,000 to 200,000 monomers. This compound is used in the textile industry and to make molded objects.
Other addition polymers include polybutadiene, polyisoprene, and polychloroprene, which are all important in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Some polymers, such as polystyrene, are glassy and transparent at room temperature, as well as being thermoplastic. Polystyrene can be coloured any shade and is used in the manufacture of toys and other plastic objects.
If one hydrogen atom in ethylene is replaced by a chlorine atom, vinyl chloride is produced. This polymerizes to polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a colourless, hard, tough, thermoplastic material that can be manufactured in a number of forms, including foams, films, and fibres. Vinyl acetate, produced by the reaction of ethylene and acetic acid, polymerizes to amorphous, soft resins used as coatings and adhesives. It copolymerizes with vinyl chloride to produce a large family of thermoplastic materials.
Many important polymers have oxygen or nitrogen atoms, along with those of carbon, in the backbone chain. Among such macromolecular materials with oxygen atoms are polyacetals. The simplest polyacetal is polyformaldehyde. It has a high melting point and is crystalline and resistant to abrasion and the action of solvents. Acetal resins are more like metal than are any other plastics and are used in the manufacture of machine parts such as gears and bearings.
A linear polymer characterized by a repetition of ester groups along the backbone chain is called a polyester. Open-chain polyesters are colourless, crystalline, thermoplastic materials. Those with high molecular weights (10,000 to 15,000 molecules) are employed in the manufacture of films, molded objects, and fibres such as Dacron.
The polyamides include the naturally occurring proteins casein, found in milk, and zein, found in corn (maize), from which plastics, fibres, adhesives, and coatings are made. Among the synthetic polyamides are the urea-formaldehyde resins, which are thermosetting. They are used to produce molded objects and as adhesives and coatings for textiles and paper. Also important are the polyamide resins known as nylons. They are strong, resistant to heat and abrasion, noncombustible, and nontoxic, and they can be coloured. Their best-known use is as textile fibres, but they have many other applications.
Another important family of synthetic organic polymers is formed of linear repetitions of the urethane group. Polyurethanes are employed in making elastomeric fibres known as spandex and in the production of coating bases and soft and rigid foams.
A different class of polymers are the mixed organic-inorganic compounds. The most important representatives of this polymer family are the silicones. Their backbone consists of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with organic groups attached to each of the silicon atoms. Silicones with low molecular weight are oils and greases. Higher-molecular-weight species are versatile elastic materials that remain soft and rubbery at very low temperatures. They are also relatively stable at high temperatures.
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Polymer — Pol y*mer, n. [See {Polymeric}.] (Chem.) Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization. [Formerly also written polymere.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
polymer — polymer. См. полимер. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
Polymer — (v. gr.), vieltheilig, theilbar, mannigfaltig; Polymerer Isomorphismus, ein Isomorphismus, bei welchem mehre Atome der einen Substanz mit einem Atom (od. einer verschiedenen Anzahl von Atomen) als isomorph vorausgesetzt werden. Scheerer stellte… … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Polymēr — (griech.), vielgliederig; polymere Körper, Polymerie, s. Isomerie … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
polymer — (n.) a substance built from a large number of simple molecules of the same kind, 1866, probably from Ger. Polymere (Berzelius, 1830), from Gk. polymeres having many parts, from polys many (see POLY (Cf. poly )) + meros part (see MERIT (Cf. merit) … Etymology dictionary
polymer — ► NOUN Chemistry ▪ a substance with a molecular structure formed from many identical small molecules bonded together. DERIVATIVES polymeric adjective polymerize (also polymerise) verb. ORIGIN from Greek polumeros having many parts … English terms dictionary
polymer — [päl′ə mər] n. [Ger < Gr polymerēs, of many parts: see POLY & MEROUS] a naturally occurring or synthetic substance consisting of giant molecules formed from polymerization … English World dictionary
Polymer — Appearance of real linear polymer chains as recorded using an atomic force microscope on surface under liquid medium. Chain contour length for this polymer is 204 nm; thickness is 0.4 nm.[1] A polymer is a large molecule (macromolecule … Wikipedia
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polymer — branched polymer crosslinked polymer network polymer … Mechanics glossary
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Vladimir Putin Says If Russia Had Poisoned Alexei Navalny He Would Be Dead
Navalny, 44, fell violently ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August and was hospitalised in the Russian city of Omsk before being transported to Berlin by medical aircraft.
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected reports that Russia's security services were behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, saying that if they were, the opposition leader would not be alive.
Experts of several Western countries concluded that the Kremlin critic was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent -- a claim that Moscow has repeatedly denied.
A joint media report this week revealed what it said were the names and photos of chemical weapons experts from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) that had tailed Navalny for years.
Speaking to reporters at his annual end-of-year press conference Putin described the report as "the legalisation of materials from the American special services", adding that the Kremlin critic "has their support".
The Russian leader said that if Navalny was supported by US special services, then Russia should of course tail him.
"But this does not at all mean that it is necessary to poison him. Who needs him?" Putin said.
If the Russian special services had wanted to poison Navalny, "they would have taken it to the end," he said.
The joint report on Navalny lead by the investigative website Bellingcat said that the FSB agents had shadowed the opposition leader on a regular basis since 2017.
Bellingcat said it had made the conclusion based on volumes of data, including phone logs and travel records.
The joint report with CNN, Der Spiegel and Russian outlet The Insider did not establish any direct contact between the 44-year-old opposition leader and the named agents.
In response to the poisoning, the European Union has imposed entry bans and frozen the bank accounts of six people suspected of being responsible, including FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov.
Navalny has said he will return to Russia once he has made a full recovery in Germany.
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Home News Business Dow ends off 122 but Wall Street posts 2-week gain
Dow ends off 122 but Wall Street posts 2-week gain
Wall Street closed out its first two-week gain in almost a year Friday barely. After a mixed start, stocks veered lower in the afternoon as financial stocks fell and investors collected profits from the advance that saw the Dow rise 14 percent over seven trading days. One reason for the market’s pause: It simply ran out of upbeat economic and corporate news the past two days.
The major indexes did eke out a gain for the week, jolted by the Fed’s plans to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of debt securities in hopes of reviving lending. Stocks initially jumped on Wednesday when the plans were announced but then fell Thursday and Friday as investors became concerned that the huge injection of money into the economy could cause inflation.
Other markets had a tumultuous week as well. In just two days, the dollar fell 5 percent versus the euro and 3 percent versus the yen, and oil prices soared 7 percent Thursday above $51 a barrel to the highest level this year.
Many analysts believe stocks were due for some retrenchment.
“You get a run-up like that you’re going to get a pullback,” said Doreen Mogavero, president of the New York floor brokerage Mogavero, Lee & Co.
The Dow industrials fell 122.42, or 1.7 percent, to 7,278.38.
Broader stock indicators also lost ground. The S&P 500 index fell 15.50, or 2 percent, to 768.54, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 26.21, or 1.8 percent, to 1,457.27.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 13.15, or 3.2 percent, to 400.11.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated volume came to 7.5 billion shares compared with 8.8 billion shares traded Thursday.
For the week, the Dow rose 0.8 percent, its first back-to-back weekly increase since the period ended May 2, 2008.
The S&P rose 1.6 percent, its first two-week gain since December, and the Nasdaq added 1.8 percent for the week.
The stock market began to rally off of 12-year lows beginning two weeks ago after several banks reported being profitable in the first two months of the year. Even after Thursday’s retreat, the Dow was up 13 percent from its lows, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up nearly 16 percent.
The question now is whether there will be enough good news in the coming days to maintain the rally.
Michael Binger, portfolio manager at Thrivent Investment Management in Minneapolis, said the market’s overall move is signaling that the economy is hitting bottom. He said it shouldn’t be too difficult for stocks to resume their climb because expectations have fallen so low.
“I think the stock market is saying that fourth quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009 may be the trough in negative news,” he said.
Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management, said a retreat in financials wasn’t surprising because they had jumped 60 percent from their lows in such a short time. “We had gone from way oversold to slightly overbought,” he said.
Stone said investors’ desire to lock in some profits as a rally gets going is typical of a bear market, generally defined as a fall of at least 20 percent from a peak.
Bond prices slipped. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 2.64 percent from 2.60 percent late Thursday. The yield on the three-month T-bill rose to 0.19 percent from 0.18 percent.
The dollar rose against other major currencies. Gold prices slipped.
Analysts have remained cautious about the market’s rally, having seen other big advances crumble in the past year. From late November until early January stocks rose 20 percent only to fall to new lows as fears grew about the health of the nation’s biggest banks and prospects for the economy.
Market veterans say some skepticism among investors is healthy. They are reassured by the step-stool approach the market has shown in recent weeks as big gains are followed by more modest moves. That gives traders time to make more reasoned assesments without simply diving into a market for fear of missing a big rally.
Investors also expect some money managers to do some buying with the March 31 end to the first quarter approaching. Stock prices are still seen as very cheap; the major indexes are still down by about half from their highs in October 2007.
Still, there are plenty of analysts who say the underpinnings of the economy remain too weak to justify a sustained recovery. The unemployment rate stands at 8.1 percent, its highest level since the wrenching recession of the early 1980s, and businesses and consumers are struggling to pay down debt. Many consumers who aren’t hurting are still cutting back, fanning worries that the economy will only continue to shrink.
“All of these bounces in the last two years have run on emotion and this one has been no different,” said Brian F. Reynolds, chief market strategist at WJB Capital Group.
Reynolds contends the sharp rallies after heavy bouts of selling trick investors into believing a recovery is at hand. “We bounce so hard off the bottom for these rallies that it just sucks people in because they want to believe,” he said.
Some investors have still bought into the latest rally. As of midweek, investors had funneled $12 billion over the prior seven days into mutual funds that focus on U.S. stocks. That compares with $14.3 billion they pulled from these funds a week earlier, according to TrimTabs Investment Research.
Overseas, Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.7 percent, Germany’s DAX index rose 0.6 percent, and France’s CAC-40 rose 0.5 percent. Japan’s stock market was closed for a holiday.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed the week up 54.40, or 0.8 percent, at 7,278.38. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 11.99, or 1.6 percent, to 768.54. The Nasdaq composite index rose 25.77, or 1.8 percent, closing at 1,457.27.
The Russell 2000 index, which tracks the performance of small company stocks, rose 7.02, or 1.8 percent, to 400.11.
The Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index ? a free-float weighted index that measures 5,000 U.S. based companies ? ended at 7,801.33, up 125.39, or 1.6 percent, for the week. A year ago, the index was at 13,336.42.
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1681: Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland is hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London for High Treason. The charge is generally accepted to have been a trumped up one and his main “crime” was he was an activist Catholic who refused to accept Protestant doctrine. He was the last Catholic martyr in England. Beatified in 1920, on October 12, 1975, he was canonized by the Catholic Church as a result of miracles associated with him. He was the first Irish saint in over 700 years.
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1867: Death by drowning of Thomas Francis Meagher, Fenian, Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. Transported to Australia following the 1848 rebellion, he escaped to America in 1852. When the Civil War started, he was instrumental in forming the Irish Brigade, which fought so valiantly in numerous conflicts including Chancellorsville, Fair Oaks and Fredericksburg. Meagher was a brave leader, loved by his men who unfortunately ultimately fell foul of Ulysses S. Grant. When the war ended, he was appointed Acting Governor of the (then) Territory of Nevada.
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1881: The Royal Dublin Fusiliers is formally created by the amalgamation of two British Army regiments in India – the Royal Bombay Fusiliers and Royal Madras Fusiliers . The vast majority of the men who would fight with the Fusiliers came from a catchment area of Dublin and surrounding counties. The regiment was garrisoned in County Kildare. Nicknamed “The Dubs,” the regiment saw battle in many major conflicts including the Boer War and World War I where they fought at Ypres, Arras and Gallipoli. In total seven members of the Fusiliers were awarded the Victory Cross for gallantry. In one of the many ironies of Irish history, “The Dubs” were engaged in combat against fellow Irishmen during the 1916 Rising.
John Dillon, the Irish Party MP and Land League activist who was in Dublin during Easter week, told the House of Commons: I asked Sir John Maxwell himself, “Have you any cause of complaint of the Dublins [the Royal Dublin Fusiliers] who had to go down and fight their own people in the streets of Dublin? Did a single man turn back and betray the uniform he wears?” He told me, “Not a man.”
Following the end of the war and the commencement of the Irish War of Independence a number of disbanded Fusiliers joined the IRA. The regiment formally disbanded in 1922 on Irish Independence.
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Key Genes for Mucosal Melanoma in Humans, Dogs and Horses Might Help Target New Cancer Therapies
The comparison of cancer genes across species helps prioritize targets for new cancer therapies. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com
Cancer genes in mucosal melanoma, a rare and poorly understood subtype of melanoma, have been compared in humans, dogs and horses for the first time. Researchers sequenced the genomes of the same cancer across different species to pinpoint key cancer genes. The results give insights into how cancer evolves across different species and could guide the development of new therapies.
The research was conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators. The results were reported in Nature Communications (1).
Mucosal melanoma is a rare form of melanoma, a tumor type usually associated with skin cancer. Of the 15,400 people diagnosed with melanoma in the UK each year, around 1 per cent will be diagnosed with mucosal melanoma.
The cancer arises from the cells that produce pigment, known as melanocytes, which are found not only in the skin but also mucosal surfaces of the body, such as the sinuses, nasal passages, mouth, vagina and anus.
The risk factors for mucosal melanoma are unknown, and there is no known link to UV exposure or family history. Patients with the cancer often present late in the progression of the disease, and the main treatment for mucosal melanoma is surgical removal of the tumor. As well as humans, the cancer affects dogs and horses with varying outcomes for the different species.
To uncover the genetics underpinning the cancer, researchers at the Sanger Institute and their collaborators sequenced the genomes of mucosal melanoma tumors taken from human, canine and equine patients that had been diagnosed with the disease.
Analyzing the genomic data from 46 human, 65 canine and 28 equine melanoma tumors, all at the primary stage of cancer, scientists revealed a handful of genes that were mutated in all species.
“Genomics gives us a unique view into the hidden similarities and differences of cancer between species,” says Dr. David Adams, corresponding author from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, in a press release. “The genetic changes, or mutations, we found in mucosal melanoma tumors across humans, dogs and horses suggests they are important enough to be conserved between species. These key mutations are likely to drive the cancer and could be targets for the development of new drugs.”
Immunotherapy, the stimulation of the body’s own immune system to attack cancer cells, has been used to treat some people with melanoma, but has not been effective for people with the subtype, mucosal melanoma, and the reason was unknown. Researchers now suggest that unlike skin melanoma, mucosal melanoma tumors carry few mutations so they remain “hidden” to the immune system and do not spark the immune response needed to target the cancer.
“Understanding the genetic changes underpinning mucosal melanoma suggests why people with this particular type of cancer may not benefit from immunotherapies,” explains Kim Wong, first author from the Wellcome Sanger Institute. “Genomics can help identify who is at greater risk of developing mucosal melanoma and provide information to genetic counsellors and doctors advising patients on disease management.”
This study is the first to sequence horse tumors, and the first genomic experiment of this scale on dog tumors. Gray horses are genetically predisposed to getting melanoma. However, the cancer is very different in horses as it does not usually spread, unlike the disease in humans and dogs.
“Spontaneous tumors in dogs are gaining recognition as ‘models’ of human cancers for the development of therapies that can benefit both species,” says Professor Geoffrey Wood, from the University of Guelph in Canada. “This study shows the importance of understanding the genetic similarities and differences of cancers across species so that the most biologically relevant drug targets are prioritized.”
Read about canine multicentric lymphoma or lymphosarcoma, a cancer of lymphocytes that affects approximately 13 to 24 dogs per 100,000 annually.
Read an overview of equine pythiosis, a noncontagious disease caused by Pythiosis insidiosum, a fungus-like protozoan organism.
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Kim Wong, Louise van der Weyden, Courtney R. Schott, Alastair Foote, Fernando Constantino-Casas, Sionagh Smith, Jane M. Dobson, Elizabeth P. Murchison, Hong Wu, Iwei Yeh, Douglas R. Fullen, Nancy Joseph, Boris C. Bastian, Rajiv M. Patel, Inigo Martincorena, Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza, Vivek Iyer, Marieke L. Kuijjer, Mark J. Arends, Thomas Brenn, Paul W. Harms, Geoffrey A. Wood, David J. Adams. Cross-species genomic landscape comparison of human mucosal melanoma with canine oral and equine melanoma. Nature Communications, 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08081-1
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The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the Princesses
Alathea Fitzalan Howard (Author)
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'For a glimpse into the lives of the young princesses these diaries are riveting' Daily Mail , Christmas Books 2020
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'A new perspective on "Lilibet" as she fell for her future husband' Sunday Express , Books of the Year 2020
'F unny, astute, poignant and historically fascinating' The Times
'A compelling and revealing insight into the teenage life of the then Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret' Richard Kay, Daily Mail
'I loved reading this, so reminiscent of my own childhood' Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting
'Alathea found herself living in Windsor with the Princesses throughout the Second World War. She captures that tiny, peaceful island in a world on fire' Charles Moore, Spectator
'This is an enthralling book . . . often funny and sometimes truly moving' The Oldie
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The Windsor Diaries are the never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War.
Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live with her grandfather, Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. There Alathea found the affection and harmony she craved as she became a close friend of the two princesses, visiting them often at Windsor Castle, enjoying parties, balls, cinema evenings, picnics and celebrations with the Royal Family and other members of the Court.
Alathea's diary became her constant companion during these years as day by day she recorded every intimate detail of life with the young Princesses, often with their governess Crawfie, or with the King and Queen.
Written from the ages of sixteen to twenty-two, she captures the tight-knit, happy bonds between the Royal Family, as well as the aspirations and anxieties, sometimes extreme, of her own teenage mind.
These unique diaries give us a bird's eye view of Royal wartime life with all of Alathea's honest, yet affectionate judgments and observations - as well as a candid and vivid portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth, known to Alathea as 'Lilibet', a warm, self-contained girl, already falling for her handsome prince Philip, and facing her ultimate destiny: the Crown.
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Shares of Japan's ANA drop on report airline plans to raise $1.9 billion
23 November 2020, 11:32 pm ·1-min read
FILE PHOTO: A Japan Airlines (JAL) aircraft takes off near All Nippon Airways (ANA) aircrafts at Haneda Airport in Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares of ANA Holdings Inc fell as much as 4.2% on Tuesday after a report said Japan's biggest airline plans to issue new shares, seeking to raise around $1.9 billion, as early as this week.
ANA will hold its first share sale since 2012, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing two sources who declined to be identified as the information was not public.
The issuance is expected to raise around 200 billion yen ($1.9 billion), one of the sources said.
In a statement on Tuesday, the airline said nothing had been decided on a new share sale.
Airlines worldwide are struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic that has brought the travel industry to a halt. Although Japan has not been hit as hard as the United States and Europe, its travel industry is suffering.
ANA has forecast a record operating loss of $4.82 billion for the year to end-March and is temporarily transferring more than 400 workers to other companies. Other staff are being asked to take pay cuts or go on unpaid leave.
ANA's stock was down 1.9% by 0336 GMT, compared to a 2.8% rise in the benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average, as trading resumed after a long weekend.
Domestic rival Japan Airlines Co Ltd said earlier this month it would raise $1.8 billion in a share sale to strengthen its finances.
(Reporting by Rocky Swift and David Dolan; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Vinay Dwivedi)
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Linda Sarsour’s Awkward Defensiveness Over Saudi Oppression That The Left Seems To Ignore.
January 24, 2017 January 24, 2017 ~ thesecularbrownie
Linda’s Tweets
Linda Sarsour was the head of the Women’s March in the United States. There is a great irony and contradiction in letting someone who deflects criticism from the misogynistic Saudi Arabia lead the Women’s March. Let’s examine some tweets.
She’s basically saying “women not having the right to drive in Saudi Arabia shouldn’t be a big deal because they get 10 weeks paid maternity leave.” Do you not realize she’s talking about a place where the culture only values women as mothers and wives? If the culture favored women as solely housewives/mothers don’t you think incentives for pregnancy would exist?
In this tweet she attempts to deflect criticism from the headscarf and women’s covering by trivializing it as a social issue. Say Linda, do you really think all women in Saudi Arabia somehow don’t feel hot in their clothing? Wouldn’t they at least enjoy the OPTION to dress how they want? This isn’t a call for women to wear less because God knows the “if no hijab then naked” card is getting old. This is for a woman to have the right to choose. If the government is so invasive of women’s bodily expressions, wouldn’t you call that misogynistic, sexist, etc.? As a “feminist”, how do you fail to see this?
Of course. She is completely dishonest about the facts. She appeals to followers by showing women in high positions, and that somehow alleviates the problems of the average woman. It’s similar to saying “racism doesn’t exist in the United States because Barack Obama was president.” In some of these countries there is honor violence, and even sharia courts that punishes rape victims. But of course, they have women leaders, therefore “no sexism.”
She is basically defending Sharia Law in this tweet. Does she not realize that as an apostate, I would be subject to capital punishment in Saudi Arabia and homosexuals would be punished in some way? People would become sexually repressed because having sex can lead to capital punishment. Women who complained about rape needed the testimony of four witnesses in Sharia court, which they could not find, making them subject to public stoning. Of course despite all this, Linda brags about the interest free loans in Sharia and ignores who would be marginalized in that system.
After seeing these tweets you can imagine why Linda Sarsour would be criticized for leading the Women’s March if she deflects criticism from Saudi Arabia, a place very difficult for women to live.
Linda’s Response to criticism.
Of course Linda had to spin the narrative.
She’s basically saying her haters don’t want to see her succeed because she’s Arab. She felt offended by the criticisms against her, so she framed it as a “coordinated attack campaign.” She then brought her children into it and said they shouldn’t be subjected to seeing these attacks, basically as an attempt to draw the readers’ sympathies.
She brilliantly makes it seem like this is not an attack on her, but her entire progressive politics community. Through her wording she made it seem like she was under danger and the left needed to unite against these “right wingers” (just for challenging someone’s feminist convictions.) The appeal to human’s sense of tribalism amazes me.
She even calls these “alternative facts.”
In the last paragraph she makes it seem like this is a backlash against the progress of feminism. When, in fact, her deflecting criticism from Saudi Arabia prevents progress of feminism there. What’s intriguing is her ability to make it look like her critics are these misogynistic/racist right wingers who plotted an attempt to attack her because they did not want to see a Palestinian woman in power.
The All Powerful Islamophobia Card
These articles lumped all attacks on her, including this article, as “Islamophobic.” Because this card was played, if I presented these tweets to progressives, they would just think “Islamophobia” and altogether avoid the discussions on Linda Sarsour’s deflections of criticisms against Saudi Arabia.
The cry of racism becomes a method of silencing her critics, who can’t be critical of Linda in anyway because it’s now racist. Linda used her racial identity, motherhood and tribalism to make this an existential fight against her critics. And of course, the left wing media and activist community followed suit. How ridiculous is that?
That being said, you gotta find some amusement in those Saudi apologist tweets. She really sounds deluded.
Mark my words… The left is cannibalizing itself.
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44 thoughts on “Linda Sarsour’s Awkward Defensiveness Over Saudi Oppression That The Left Seems To Ignore.”
hughbinks says:
For someone accusing Linda Sarsour of spinning facts, that’s exactly what you’re doing.
Just because she praised the KSA’s paid paternity leave and the existence of women in their parliament doesn’t mean she is excusing or condoning the misogyny and oppression in that country. If you believe that then you’re committing a fallacy of composition.
If you actually looked through her twitter feed more objectively you’ll find Linda condemning the likes of the KSA as well as their behavior quite regularly. For instance she’s fierce opponent of misogyny, homophobia, etcetera that the KSA relies on.
Not only that, she is an intersectional feminist that stands for the rights of all genders, specialities, ethnicities and religious groups.
Moreover, her tweet on “Sharia law” is clearly sarcastic and should not be taken literally.
Overall, your assessment is intellectually dishonest and shows severe cognitive dissonance.
ReasonOnFaith says:
Hugh, I myself have not followed Linda’s past work closely.
Do you have an article you can point me to that gathers a sample of her tweets and other public statements condemning the KSA, and which make it very clear that her tweet on sharia law is a sarcastic outlier from her other statements on sharia law?
I am always open to correction myself. That’s how we all learn and grow. Thanks.
fujisakuyuka says:
Not her follower either, but I doubt she was being sarcastic. It should be noted, though, that her idea of sharia is very different than what we know about sharia.
The bizarre thing about sharia law is everyone has their own idea. Most of them are moderates, but it is easily hijacked by the extremists.
And, yes, many of these women who are okay with sharia law consider themselves as feminist. It’s just that their idea of sharia law is very different from what the men, who would formulate the law for them in the name of an islamic caliphate, have in mind.
I’m not particularly tech savvy but here are some examples:
Shame on Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait. SHAME. SHAME. #Syria #SyriaCrisis pic.twitter.com/ryuqNhTXhE
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) September 4, 2015
@HudaMadani @rahmaa411 don't take me out of context. It was a specific moment on paid leave. Saudi has bigger problems, yes; I'm not naive.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 27, 2016
Saudi just killed close to a 100 people at a FUNERAL in Yemen. Yes, the US ally Saudi Arabia. So crazy.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 8, 2016
Yeah, don't tell me about Saudi Arabia. If Saudi Arabia is your benchmark – then you go live over there. It ain't mine.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) January 9, 2016
So because of the horrific attacks on Syrians, you justify killings of Shia clerics calling for democracy in Saudi? https://t.co/I1xfTLxzLS
"Those who defend oppressors are partners in the oppression." #SheikhNimr was murdered by Saudi Arabia for speaking truth to power.
This seriously must be some kind of joke. "Saudi Arabia chosen to head key UN Human Rights Panel." http://t.co/E9Q20brgsn
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) September 21, 2015
As for that tweet on sharia, I consider it sarcastic since she and most people are aware that it is impossible for “sharia” to replace laws in the US. Moreover, she has repeatedly reiterated support for intersectional feminism, which is antithetical to Saudi Wahhabism, which you can see in any of her tweets on #WomensMarch
thesecularbrownie says:
Defending something like the hijab, and attacking Muslim women who criticize the hijab as a concept, isn’t very helpful for feminism. And dishonestly saying Islam is a feminist religion. Saying that erases the plight of millions of women who are negatively affected by Islamic values, either their family/community in the west or government in the east.
Linda says all the right things when it comes to issues where the villain is united states based racism, sexism etc. My criticism of her isn’t in her views on American progressive politics. But on Islam apologetics. Islam apologetics is very dishonest and very dangerous. I personally know lots of women who have escaped environments where the religiosity plays a large role and their voices are erased when someone dishonestly calls hijab and Islam “feminist”
Intersectional feminism is being used in her favor because it works in her favor as a brown Muslim woman
I can criticize the effects being dependent on Islamic scriptures can have on society and she’ll cry Islamophobia to make it seem like I’m the oppressor against the “brown man’s religion” even though I grew up Muslim. If I were white it would work way more against me.
I do applaud Linda’s work in many cases. But I’m critical of her blind eye to the misogynistic effects Islamic scriptures can have. Yes I get it, she feels responsible to her Muslim collective and upbringing to defend her values but that doesn’t excuse her from criticism.
That’s a well thought out response yet it doesn’t excuse the actual abusive and intellectually dishonest messages Linda Sarsour gets. Obviously not all the messages against her are Islamophobic, but most are.
She is no friend to Saudi Arabia, as the tweets I provided before, and she had no intention of trivializing atrocities committed there.
Moreover, contrary to what the anti-Muslim bigots think (I’m sure you’re not one), there is no reliable evidence that she is working for any terrorist organizations or seeking to overthrow the US.
That’s enough from me. I hope you understand my criticism of your article now.
1) Islamophobia is a troubling term
Why? Because it means fear of Islam. Islamophobia often encompasses criticism of Islam. When a woman of Muslim faith chooses to leave her faith and criticize its misogynistic implications on her life, then has to live under hiding because of being under threat from Islamists, you’d think in terms of intersectional feminism this African born ex Muslim would get support from Linda. But because she is inconvenient to Linda narrative Linda goes on a smear campaign and pits the American left against her using charges of “Islamophobia”. While ayaan was critical of Islam she was not bigoted against Muslims. Criticizing Islam isn’t racist.
2. Note how in your selection of tweets you’re identifying Linda’s selection of Saudi Arabia foreign/immigration policy and mine is on Linda’s defense of Saudi sharia. You don’t understand how conservative Muslims think. They romanticize Islam because of faithful bias and do what they can to defend it. Because of Linda’s connection to her Islamic faith she defends the sharia lifestyle in Saudi with mentions of paid vacations in Saudi (really an incentive for pregnancy), brings up statistics of those in office out of context (like how political access for women isn’t normalized in Saudi Arabia and the king himself chose the few women in parliament.) These aren’t her only defenses of sharia law by the way. She’s constantly defending the head scarf, etc etc etc which is all misogynistic by nature if you think critically as a feminist. (Slut shaming, victim blaming, lack of bodily autonomy for women etc). By criticizing the the Saudi sharia lifestyle as patriarchal is an inconvenience to her narrative and she’ll do whatever it takes to water down sharia. For example interest free loans: “hey non Muslim liberals you don’t know much about sharia but here’s an interesting fact. But I’ll totally skip past the other oppressive practices because that’s inconvenient for my defense of Islam in front of liberals so this ideology gets defended from outsiders in the discourse with charges of racism.”
You can’t conflate what I’m doing with what those who call her hamas are doing. I don’t buy into that allegation one bit and I don’t mention it in my article. The problem is the minute she makes herself look like a victim BECAUSE she’s a brown woman she’s immune from criticism. The racism cry protects her from my criticism as a brown woman and fellow progressives will tune out or do what you’re doing: find ways to defend her wiggly taking the extra step to think critically of what you’re doing. All because she’s a brown woman with a scarf and due to anti Muslim climate she needs absolutely community protection from anything, bigotry or not.
1. Correction, Islamophobia is defined as prejudice against Muslims and/or Islam (http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/defining-islamophobia). This does not include legitimate criticism.
People like Ayaan Ali Hirsi and Robert Spencer are bigotssince they falsely assume there is one “proper” interpretation of Islam that is totally nihilistic. Such dishonest descriptions of a diverse religion prevents genuine criticism.
2. The only Saudi sharia Linda defended was paid maternity leave. She did not condone or obfuscate the repression by the Saudi Wahhabis’ sharia. Hijabs aren’t misogynistic unless they’re forced onto someone. If a woman chooses to wear a hijab without duress, then that’s her choice and it should be respected.
3. I never said Linda was or should be immune from criticism. I’m just offering my view on your analysis.
The fact that Islamophobia includes Islam in it rather than Muslim makes it hard to criticize the ideology
Ayaan isn’t a bigot. She’s offensive sure but that’s because she criticizes a religion. She criticizes the effects being closer to ancient religious scriptures have on society. That’s not racist. The quran, hadith, and seerah are full of violence and misogyny that if you value those texts as the source of your values it’s going to be problematic when you read misogynistic texts as divinely infallible. Why not listen to ex Muslims who left the religion and are speaking out against the effects of scriptural infallibility on society?
And hijab is misogynistic. It’s to cover a woman’s beauty to avoid provoking men’s lust. Apply feminism to it: victim blaming, slut shaming you name it. Hijabis defend hijab because they have a hard time removing it without social condemnation, therefore they make the most they can out of the hijab.
But in reality hijab is one of the most misogynistic practices we still hold on to today.
Linda said “paid leave is awesome and you’re all complaining about women not driving”. Think about the effects of that. And whose struggles it invalidates. She defends hijab which is LAWFULLY mandated in Saudi Arabia, Iran etc.
You should probably try entertaining critiques of Islam. Try it. It’s not racist I promise.
Ps: I’m against anti Muslim bigotry, I’ve faced it myself. My family is Muslim. I’m just critical of their and every other faithful Muslims, Christians etc choice of worldview. And I’m not a trump supporter
People can easily criticize religions without being bigots. Yet when Ayaan says things like the West is “at war with Islam”, that is bigotry since it is incredibly dishonest and casts Muslims in general as enemies.
I’ve listened to some ex-Muslims. Some, like you, are reasonable. Yet I’ve encountered some and know of some others that are genuine bigots e.g. Walid Showbat.
As for the hijab, it depends mainly on context. If a woman living in a liberal society chooses to wear the hijab, then that’s her choice. Obviously I oppose the places where clothing is forced into people.
Moreover, the idea that the hijab is just to “cover up a woman in order to curb lust” is one interpretation. There are Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab out of religious pride.
Women have and continue to be oppressed worldwide due to their clothing. In Western countries, some Muslim woman are assaulted for wearing the hijab. From this I can conclude that it’s misogynistic men, and not the clothing of women, that oppressed women.
I’ve entertained and accepted critiques of Islam. I believe it just needs to be treated to the same standards of the other major religions.
Ultimately my view of Islam, based on education and research, is that it is a complex religion that can be used by any kind of person for any kind of purposes.
Hugh, you raise some good counter examples. It’s clear than Linda has criticized the KSA in the past. With most of these tweets from late 2016, those criticisms are also recent enough. It does give credence to some tweets being perhaps in jest, satirical etc.
Twitter can be a bit dangerously terse like that, and we can all be on the receiving end of people misunderstanding our sarcasm in the brevity constraints of a tweet.
In Linda’s tweets that were sarcastic, I would imagine that with the fallout/reaction, Linda would have had a later tweet (perhaps in the same thread) along the lines of, “That was sarcasm people! The KSA is not friendly to women!”.
Now I’ve not yet read all the back and forth comments since your comment with some sample tweets (again, thank you for that), I do find that Linda’s cherry picking references to shariah (i.e. banning interest) instead of the classic ‘hudood’ punishments laid out in the Qur’an for social crimes is misleading propaganda to make Islam look rosier than it is.
As for the women’s march itself, as Ali A. Rizvi said (see: http://tinyurl.com/AliRizviOnLindaSarsour), we are grateful for Linda putting her time and effort into co-organizing. There are a lot of themes we share from that march.
Sohan says:
Condemning KSA for other things does not make her apologetics for mandatory hijab and women not being able to drive there okay. And I’m not seeing the sarcasm in her cliched obscurantism about Shariah.
Far from it. Clearly you have ZERO facts about the nature of the extremism that she pimps and the fact that the so-called Sharia law that this shameless hypocrite puts out there is DIFFERENTLY interpreted from tribe to tribe, sect to sect. You Westerners have NO CLUE as to the depths of Linda Sarsour’s depravity and intellectual charlatanism. You just want to bloviate in her corner because she has figured out JUST how to use your emotional blindspots to coerce you to her side. We Middle Easterners who have been through HELL in our countries with Islamism, have tried to explain it to you Westerners…but most of you are so closed-minded and frothing-at-the-mouth with your misplaced rage, that the only way you’ll get it is if you end up having to live through what we experienced.
You’re just slandering Linda Sarsour. She is a brave and accomplished woman that has done more than you ever will. I know this because I look at the facts instead of just accepting propaganda from sites like Brietbart.
hughbinks – You’re Muslim and a man, so oppressing women must seem normal to you. I’ve been told that Islam allows it’s adherents to lie in order to advance Islam, so of course Linda’s going to SAY she doesn’t condone oppressing women and all that, but the truth is that women in Islamic countries DO NOT have the freedom that women have in the USA and until Linda stands up and admits that the problem is Islam and stops trying to oppress American women by slapping a hijab on them, she should NOT be leading a women’s march in the USA; that’s ludicrous!
Marie P says:
I agree. Have you heard of a documentary called “Honor Diaries”? This film is meant to break the silence about honor based violence, female genital mutilation and the misogynistic ways that women are treated in many societies. Linda Sarsour has been an active speaker AGAINST the film. One of her tweets regarding the film says “How many times do we have to tell white women that we do not need to be saved by them? Is there a code language I need to use to get thru? ” This is coming from someone that is supposedly a women’s rights activist?? If she was so concerned about women’s rights, she would be active in speaking out and would want to promote it.
Idiot, here are the facts:
1. I’m not Muslim and I don’t oppress women.
2. We’re not living in Islamic countries are US women are far from an optimal position. For instance, the US is ranked 45th in Gender Equality according to the Global Gender Gap Index of 2016.
3. Misogyny exists across all countries, so it’s not a Muslim-only problem.
4. Linda isn’t forcing anyone to wear hijabs.
5. The narrative that “Muslims lie to advance Islam” is a basesless conspiracy theory.
Dave Elias Kerr says:
In reply to Hughbinks
1. I used to defend Islam like you did, started reading the Qu’ran. It starts off pretty standard for religion, hyper conservative like the evangelical christian which infested the west for so long and before I got too far in I thought was a bit out of touch and some misogyny here and there such as explaining women as if they are “field to be plowed”, but it was typical religious stuff. Regardless, you hit about chapter 9 verse 5 before Muhammad simply descends into zealotry violence on a mass scale, slaughtering tribes, advocating the rape and slaughter of opposing tribes & enslavement. The more I debate Muslims on the Qu’ran the more I realise that less than 10% (at least) of muslims have actually read through it properly and that might be why there are so many moderate Muslims.
2. I thought I’d look into the Global Gender Gap Index.
About 150 countries are included in the Global Gender Gap Index.
Yes America came 45th out of 150. Proud my country the UK is 20th ^.^ these are the 140th-150th countries listed below.
These are the Bottom 10, all are by a vast majority Muslim.
Lebanon, Middle East – Majority Muslim
Côte d’Ivoire, Africa – 40% Muslim (Largest Religion in the country)
Morocco, Africa – 99% Muslim, Sharia applies in personal status issues (such as marriage,
divorce, inheritance, and child custody)
Mali, Africa – 98% Muslim, their closest neighbor has Sharia Law
Chad, Africa – Majority Muslim
WORST 5 in the world for women on the Index you citied:
Iran’s Islamic Republic, Middle East – Vast Majority Muslim with Sharia
Saudi Arabia, Middle East – Vast Majority Muslim with Sharia
Syria, Middle East – Vast Majority Muslim (Sharia in ISIS controlled zone)
Pakistan, South Asia – Vast Majority Muslim with Sharia
Yemen, Middle East – Vast Majority Muslim with Sharia
Not a SINGLE Muslim Majority country was above the USA’s ranking. The Highest rank a Muslim Majority country on the list is Albania coming in at 60th. Which is by a very small amount majority Muslim and is in Europe.
Stop using big number like “45th” like it means something. Draw some comparison and make your point! I learnt quite a lot while refuting your point though ^.^
3. Well… I guess you have to just read how I refuted the 2nd part of your comment and I think it adequately refutes your 3rd point.
4. Linda advocated and applauds a system that does. Even applaud Sharia systems across the world which force women to wear hijabs. She may attack the countries leaderships, but she always supports the Sharia Law aspects.
5. Well I believe during any argument where you accuse the other of lying is stupid. You do not win arguments like that and if anything you just seem like an idiot, so please never accuse a Muslim of that in a debate unless you can prove they are lying.
However, the idea that they “lie to advance Islam” is far from a “Baseless conspiracy theory”. A very sweeping statement. Taqiyah, where you lie about your faith is acceptable only to non-muslims in the Sunni schools of though. For the Shia you can do it to other Muslims as well (It’s believed this was added in after they were persecuted by the Sunni Muslims). There is a base for it and it is not a conspiracy theory. But of course you never win an argument by just accusing your opponent of lying :L
Dennis Bass says:
You are delusional
hughbinksHugh Binks says:
LOL. What a mature reply…NOT!
Try engaging in debate instead of using ad hominem!
David J says:
Yes, it does mean exactly that. She glosses over that women are never legally adults in Saudi Arabia – they’re under the legal guardianship and control of a male relative. Maternity leave is a means of making sure women aren’t in paid employment at all. (those few who are anyway, can have their wages taken by their guardians).
Anyone who says that is covering for the Saudi monarchy and is not any kind of feminist. She’s a fundamentalist suckering the naive.
I think you need to re-read my comment. I don’t think you understood it.
Linda Sarsour is still a feminists, and a great one at that
Opus58Mvt3 says:
Hugh – for all of your attempts to cast Linda as an intersectional feminist you are failing spectacularly at intersectionality in this comments section. Consider the dynamic of a white non-muslim lecturing brown muslims and ex muslims on where ‘Criticism’ ends and ‘bigotry’ and ‘Islamophobia’ begin. Your response to people actually from the middle east who hold unfavorable views of Sarsour is to accuse them of getting their information from Breitbart.
Humble yourself.
mfgreenberg says:
Hugh – for all your attempts to cast Sarsour as an intersectional feminist you are failing spectacularly at intersectionality in this comments section. Consider the dynamic of a white non-muslim from a western country lecturing brown muslim and ex muslims from the middle east and elsewhere on where ‘criticism’ ends and ‘bigotry’ and ‘Islamophobia’ begin. Your response to a self-described resident of the middle east who holds unfavorable views of Sarsour was to call them a slanderer who got their information from Breitbart.
I’m aware of my position already and have considered yours already. I’m just providing essential analysis and counterpoints. Nothing is above criticism or counter-criticism.
That is messed up. I’d thought “What does Saudi Arabia have to do with this march, it’s not like the Saudi government is going to change its policies if a march in the US protests it”. Which is true, but not an excuse for making excuses for Saudi Arabia.
There are basically rightists who operate within the Democratic Party and the left basically just because they wouldn’t be welcome in the white, Christian US right. Tulsi Gabbard for example. Sarsour seems like another example, and shouldn’t be welcome.
Living in a majority Muslim nation. I can say that your assessment is absolutely correct. Most of them are in denial that there is serious problem with their religion. While I’m sympathetic with their situation considering many of my friends are also Muslims, this is the problem that they need to address.
They cannot complain that people treated them differently while at the same time demanding their religion to be treated as special. In a secular nation, there is no special treatment that protect religions from criticism. The idea of sharia law is something that is simply unacceptable in the western world and as long as they can’t separate religion and politic. I don’t think islam have a place in the western world. I only feel bad for the secular nationalist muslim because the ignorance of their fellow believers make things hard for them.
MimiAouf says:
Hugh, Ayaan is an anti Muslim bigot because you think she only focuses on one interpretation of Islam? An interpretation that affects millions of Muslim women by the way…
Also she criticises plenty of actual Islamic scripture, scripture that millions of Muslims hold dear and practice in their daily lives.
As an ex Muslim and proud apostate I really doubt wherever you got your knowledge from…
I find it really unsettling that an ex Muslim who went through some really traumatic experiences thanks to particular Islamic values, can be dismissed as an anti Muslim bigot…
I doubt that you would be saying similar things about a woman who left Catholicism and then went on to raise awareness about the crappy and sexist ideas within Christianity for example…
Also that sharia loving Muslim leader of the womans march lady was not being sarcastic in that tweet about Sharia and there is nothing that would even indicate that?
You responded to the wrong comment 🙂
1. Ayaan is an anti-Muslim bigot, regardless of her experiences, as she doesn’t different between moderate and radical Islam. Plus she falsely claimed that the “war on terror” was a “war on Islam”. This article, using Hirsi’s quotes, highlights her extreme rhetoric: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/20/ayaan-hirsi-ali-the-acceptable-extremist/
2. I would treat apostates from Catholicism to the same standards. There are plenty of decent apostates, but some are terrible people.
3. Her tweet was clearly sarcastic, for as I explained earlier, it is in contradiction with many of her other tweets
bardhi says:
“Islamic civilization, since the time of Prophet Muhammad (s) until now, is firmly founded on the concept of ‘rule of law.’ For that reason, the law is published and known, and citizens and courts are expected to uphold it. In addition, Muslim citizens must adhere to Islamic law – Shariah. If a Muslim citizen commits a religious violation, he is judged according to Islamic law. A non-Muslim citizen is judged in religious issues by the laws of his own faith.”
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/legal-rulings/52-understanding-islamic-law.html
so it is clear that it is the duty of every Muslim must apply and effort to establish the sharia worldwide.
in the world there are approximately 1.7 billion Muslims, most of them are Sunnis, statistics show that not all Sunnis agreed to apply sharia to 100%, but in all countries where sharia is full applied (KSA, Sudan ) all Muslims and the not-Muslims are subject to the sharia. In other countries where Shariah is not full applied so exist also a “secular” jurisdiction, is condemned with different penalties the apostasy and the blasphemy, then practically is eliminated any criticism of Islam and don’t exist the freedom of expression.
In Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, which lasted less than 20 years, neither all the population nor the majority of this were fascists and not all fascists have killed or tortured inocent people, but this minority of population he succeeded that entire population was living under a ruthless dictatorship where the law the state reflected the ideology of the single party, today no one has ever bothered to invent words like “fascistophobia” as prejudice against fashist and / or Fashism, indeed “fascist” is used to stigmatize any thought or Alt-Right behavior.
Islam in 1400 have shown in all ways what destructive ideology is, we known how many genocides Muslims committed and now we are observing the current attacks commited by Muslims and someone has courage to talk about Islamophobia!? I agree that is not right to have prejudice about each Muslim, at least until you discover that he now is become an mujahedin of jihad, but our opinion about Islam is not a prejudice because Islam has largely proven to be one of the worst ideologies ever created.
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I really don’t think accusing some of us of islamophobia is helping the situation. I have to say that in many case, islamophobia is actually justifiable.
I’m sure Linda is a good person and I think she and I can definitely get along. However, she display certain mindset that reminds me of Islamic fundamentalist in my country. Trust me, they are good people and we are friends. But these friends want to deny me of my political right in the name of religious freedom because I’m not a muslim.
I’m not criticizing Linda as a person. I’m criticizing her belief. People who share this belief, when they are minority, they are fine, because they understand how to be in the minority’s shoes. But when they are majority, they might not have the empathy to treat you the way they want to be treated.
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David f Barrows says:
Live in the Middle East….leave America ! Take a ham and cheese sandwich on board the aircraft just to help you remember America.
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Asiff Hussein says:
I think Linda’s even confused about some Islamic issues because the Zionist media is so pervasive in the US. For example her inability to distinguish between FGM and female circumcision. Female circumcision is certainly an Islamic duty. Female circumcision involves removing the skin (prepuce) around the clitoris and enhances, not curbs women’s sexuality. This procedure allows the clitoris to be exposed for greater stimulation since it does away with the prepuce which serves as an obstacle to sexual satisfaction. The clitoral prepuce also harbours germs such as the cancer-causing HPV. See: http://asiffhussein.com/2015/04/02/female-circumcision-the-hidden-truth/
Brooke W says:
The left is cannibalizing themselves! I’m not sure why they seem to ignore the Saudi oppression and you’re right, cry of racism becomes a method of silencing Linda Sarsour’s critics!
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The Weird World of LosCapricos Weapons
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The ancient and varied line of LosCapricos weapons (LC’s) are a feature of the Great House system in the League. Each Great House has its own unique LC which was, in part, designed by the Elders themselves centuries prior. As the Elders had a hand in their conception, LC’s are considered sacred. No murders can by committed with LC’s–any killings done by them are forgiven in the eyes of the Sisterhood. LC’s are always spelled using UPPERCASE letters.
Facing a LosCapricos weapon in battle is a bewildering thing. Some are fairly straight forward in design and concept, (swords, knives, pistols, and so forth), some are purely technological in nature, while others are bizarre in the extreme and perform any number of mystical effects. Knowledge is one’s best defense against an LC; knowing what they are and what they do is key to surviving against them. Learning LC lore is a required field of study for boys in most Vith Great Houses.
Captain Davage and his King CARG
The tribes of Vith and Esther tend to have offensive-minded LC’s that aid them in battle. The CARG of House Blanchefort and the CEROS of House Probert are two examples, both being rather deadly. The Remnaths and the Zenons tend to have very arcane, mystically operated LC’s, such as the BESSAMER of House Hobby and the NTH of House Belmont, both of which can do very odd things. The tribe of Barrow often features defensive-minded LC’s–the ARLISS of House Dare which creates a suit of armor around the user is a notable example. The Calverts and Halas tend to make use of LC’s that enhance the luck, skill and attributes of the person using them. The MOLLY of the House of A-Ram allows its user to know things and perform feats they otherwise shouldn’t or couldn’t.
The Deadly Princess Vrok of Xandarr with her BEREN (Carol Phillips)
The Xaphans do not have a tradition of creating LC’s. Instead, many of them use the LC’s they brought with them when they betrayed the League in 000000AX. The Xandarr’s, for instance, still make use of the invisible BEREN sword.
RUMALORE: A Rumalore is a bit of disinformation regarding a LC that has been filed with the Sisterhood of Light. The Sisters have a complete listing of each weapon and what they do. A Rumalore is intended to either hide a weakness or foster fear of an LC. For example—the NAS of House Albans, a small jewel-encrusted dagger, was said to create wounds that would bleed forever, and that only the Sisters or the Hospitalers could stem the bleeding. The relentless wounding power of the NAS was a Rumalore exaggerating the power of the NAS, as small, shallow cuts inflicted by it would indeed stop bleeding on their own after several hours.
copyright 2011, Ren Garcia
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Belinda Neal voted very strongly against letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
How Belinda Neal voted compared to someone who believes that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Senators should vote against all motions that stop an MP or Senator from speaking (that is, motions that the MP or Senator 'be no longer heard')
19th Mar 2008, 9:16 AM – Representatives Motions — Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill 2008 — That the member be no longer heard
The majority voted in favour of a motion introduced by Labor MP Anthony Albanese. The motion was: "That the member be no longer heard" and referred to Liberal MP Judi Moylan.
This sort of motion cuts debate short and is known as a ‘closure of Member’.(See this infosheet for more information on these types of motions.) Passing this motion means that Ms Moylan can no longer speak.
Background to the motion
The motion was put after Ms Moylan seconded a motion put by Liberal MP Petro Georgiou related to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill 2008. That bill provides for the appointment of an independent person to review the operation, effectiveness and implications of laws relating to terrorism.
Yes No (strong) Passed by a small majority
19th Mar 2008, 9:07 AM – Representatives Motions - Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill 2008 - That the member be no longer heard
The majority voted in favour of a motion introduced by Labor MP Anthony Albanese. The motion was: "That the member be no longer heard" and referred to Liberal MP Petro Georgiou.
This sort of motion cuts debate short and is known as a ‘closure of Member’.(See this infosheet for more information on these types of motions.) Passing this motion means that Mr Georgiou can no longer speak.
The motion was put after Mr Georgiou put a motion related to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill 2008. That bill provides for the appointment of an independent person to review the operation, effectiveness and implications of laws relating to terrorism.
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Lady Gregory and Other Forgotten Dirty Laundry
May 23, 2014 – 2:37 pm
As you may, or may not, know Lady Gregory translated and collaborated with Yeats and Synge. She was not only a producer and director of theatre in Ireland (co-founder of the Irish National Theatre and the Abbey Theatre Company) she was a playwright. But, what I remember about Lady Gregory is that she was the youngest in a huge Irish family and while still an infant they very nearly threw her away with the dirty bed linens.
This idea that women can be thrown away has resonated with me throughout my life. That we are somehow disposable. In order to stay relevant we must behave, look, emotionally connect, in a very specific way. It’s puzzling. And something to reflect on as a middle aged woman.
When I begin to feel the rage around that fact, I think of Gregory, Charlotte Cushman, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. Then another rush of rage rises up when I realize these are just some of the women we know about. How many go un-named? I’ve spend a decade on the women of Molly Maguire. And recently found another Deborah Randall. Deborah Knapp Randall who was a very prestigious woman in Annapolis. There are highways and airports named after men who may have held violent politics. And, these women have somehow, at best, managed to avert the erasure.
Why weren’t they thrown into the waters with the dirty linen?
Because they are connected to a truth. Maybe a truth that has not yet been fully revealed but it will out. It’s connected to the oral tradition of storytelling. To passion having more power than control. To even the dimmest flame on the smallest candle having the ability to illuminate the deepest darkness.
Eventually.
I’m looking at the stats regarding Glass Cliffs and Double Binds that women face. And feeling the third wave of fury. I witness. I am audience to some action flick that wants to smash women down into a mottled puree…some x rated adult puppet show that mimics in singing rhyme so many lives cut short or silenced into obscurity. I witness. And, the fury surrounds. And, the little flicker illuminates.
Middle age is interesting. I know I’m suspended in the air by giants. I know that I live in the best time possible to do what it is that I do. And, I continue to see the betrayal. The shortcomings. The devastating and hilarious quote from that 70+ woman once again protesting outside of the White House with a sign that says, “I can’t believe I’m still here.” And that takes me to the Suffragists.
The Iron Jawed Angels. Some of these women died before they saw their battle won. Then there are the ingrates who have forgotten their sacrifice. The ones who use arguments from over a century ago about women voting the same as their husband. About women being property essentially.
And, I look around and see how some of us try to become precious property instead of priceless individuals.
And, I remember an old boss who committed suicide when she turned 50. Make-up tattooed on her face as she lie in the open coffin. And I remember this recurring mantra in my head, Barbie never makes it to 50. And, I wonder why anyone thinks this is okay.
In order to be seen we must fall within the spectrum of the current definition of woman. But, in order to grow forward we must essentially leave the spectrum altogether. It’s a journey.
I have made mistakes.
There is no perfect person. So, this means forgiveness is the only way to temper down the waves of fury. We need to forgive and stand in truth where we can glimpse it. Where we can find it.
I’m struggling with that. Struggling with how to accept the world exactly as it is without putting my judgements on it. Without resenting it. Without holding it to my story line. How to honor what is. What exists. What’s been done as a bridge to what will become instead of a barrier to all that could have been but has been lost.
This, I believe, was the original intention of the sacrificial alter. We must sacrifice what our ego tells us should have happened so that our spirit can soar into all of the best of what will be. Theatre teaches us that our only real power lies within the moment at hand. For what has past we have remembrance and we should pay respect to the souls that lay down their lives so that we could choose to ignore their accomplishments. All of the inequity mounts into a monstrous personification of some kind of lady-killer-karma. Fire is sometimes necessary to clear the land for new growth. But, it’s also a reaction that is unpredictable. I tell myself, when possible: Lay it on the alter and give it over to something greater than myself. Let it go. Find the faintest flicker of light and take the journey.
I hope I am of the lineage of the wise warrior. The one that knows when to fight and when to ride on. The one holding the light.
I hope.
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by Steve DuBois
This world is wrong, Ark-arr thought. I was a fool to come here. Her lungs could not adjust fully to the thick, syrupy air. Her legs quivered in the alien gravity, which turned every task into an epic labor. Her eyes suffered at the odd light, at the beasts which cavorted under strange blue skies, gorging themselves on the growths that sprouted everywhere, and upon each other.
Some even gorged upon her. The tiny vermin of this planet’s material plane came in endless, swarming multitudes, burying themselves in Ark-arr’s pelt, biting and sucking, sampling her rich, foreign blood. Scratching did little good. Shifting did better. When the itching and the irritation grew too much, Ark-arr flexed her mind, and changed, the blue skies and odd wildlife fading, replaced with a stark, sandy waste under a black sun. Ark-arr’s biology Shifted with her, her blood and breath adjusting automatically to the new atmosphere and environment. The alien parasites, she had discovered almost immediately, could not Shift. It seemed that all this world’s creatures were confined to the material. They had never known the darkside, the mirror reality to which the packs of Luna were native, and which housed the shattered remains of the voidship in which Ark-arr had traveled here. So she stepped outside of these lands, as into a cleansing bath. And under the dancing light from her still-blazing vessel, she found herself purified.
How different this darkside, though, from the one at home! On Luna, the lands of the Shift were rich in delight and sustenance. The material world, by contrast, was an arid waste, all dust and craters, seldom visited. Here, it was just the reverse—the material plane teemed with the stuff of life, while the darkside was barren and sterile, and the deep dimensions worse still. Pity these paper-thin creatures, prisoners of a single physical reality! They would never voyage down the planes, would never know what they were missing.
Yet they did know loss and pain. Ark-arr had known that from her first night here. When the sun went down, and Ark-arr’s shining homeworld hung above, she had thrown back her head and sang her penace. She poured forth her shame and her regret at the hubris that had led her to eschew the explorer’s proper path. She had perverted the natural joy of discovery and had voyaged outwards, not inwards, turning her back on Shiftcraft and the deep planes, seeking instead to sail beyond the sky. Now she was justly marooned, far beyond the help and companionship of the pack. She sang a mourning song, and as she did, the voices of her strange alien brethren rose in chorus, joining her.
She had seen them in the distance, like herself and yet unlike. Smaller and thicker of bone and sinew, yet just as richly furred, long-snouted and fearsomely befanged, and loyal to one another, as a pack should be. But they knew not the darkside, nor were they the masters of these lands. They had subordinated themselves to a species of sparsely-furred bipeds, and in doing so, had blocked all possible paths to their own advancement. She could not help them.
And what masters they had chosen! The bipeds came with skins upon their bodies and crude weapons in their hands, meandering aimless into peril. She had made the slavemasters pay for their effrontery; two of their eviscerated corpses still lay on the turf, their throats ripped out. Yet their kin barely seemed to notice. They had a beast’s sense of when to hide or flee, but no meaningful grasp of subterfuge or tactics—if they had, Ark-arr would surely have perished on the fire-hardened points of their spears. They gazed on her through narrow-set, incurious eyes. Then, unable to eat her or wear her, they wandered on.
Ark-arr watched them, these unworthy masters, in their indolence, and their ignorance, and their absence of ambition. And in time, she came to a decision.
Ark-arr could never go home. Her craft was wrecked beyond repair, and even when whole had not been built to rise in this sort of gravity. She had made herself an outcast. But with that status came a certain freedom. I am yet an explorer, she told herself, and an artist of change. I will traverse ways my pack has never known. I will turn my back on the darkside, and master the material. I will work such a Shift such as has never been accomplished in all of history.
MacGruder couldn’t stop shaking. He couldn’t stop sweating. He’d put away enough antacids to kill an ordinary man, but his ulcer was still in overdrive. His horn-rimmed glasses slid down his nose, and semicircular sweatstains darkened the armpits of his wide-collared shirt. He was wild-haired and wide-eyed, as wrong for network television as a man could be.
It didn’t matter; there were no cameras here. Within an hour, the greatest event in human history would unfold, witnessed by almost no one apart from the two dozen engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, and other assorted techies here in the heart of Cheyenne Mountain.
This was not Cape Kennedy or Houston, the antiseptic, photogenic mockups which NASA propped up before the world. This was the true dark heart of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration—a gaggle of shirt-sleeved nerds enmeshed in a cacophony of bings, bleeps, and blinking lights, the whole shebang obscured by cigarette smoke and ankle-deep in ash. Today, hidden away from the world, he and his colleagues were going to land three men on the surface of the moon. Officially, of course, that objective was still years away from completion; as far as the world was concerned, NASA had yet to so much as test the command module in orbit. That was the cover story.
MacGruder shook his head, watching Logan struggle to pick burrito fragments from the keyboard in front of a telemetry monitor. You’ve got to wonder why the public buys it, he thought. An entire space program playing out in real time, in front of the public? Celebrity astronauts risking their lives before a global audience? I mean, did the government run the Manhattan Project that way? Has the government ever run anything that way?
What would happen if—God forbid—we messed it up? If we lost one of those rocket-jockeys the public’s fallen in love with? What would Congress say? How could a project like this possibly be left vulnerable to political pressure? Surest way in the world to hand the moon to the Russkies.
Never in hell. The Russians had had it right: work out the bugs behind closed doors. If things worked out, you could present your accomplishments to the world as a fait accompli: a bleeping ball in orbit, a man in space. But America, birthplace of Hollywood and P.T. Barnum, would do them one better. NASA would get things done behind closed doors, and once they had worked out all the bugs, eliminated the worst risks, they’d re-run the operation before the world, “plausibly live”. That was the way to keep the cash spigots open. That was the plan for the moon.
Could it work? MacGruder had his doubts. The lunar orbit operation last year had been plagued by erratic behavior on the part of the astronauts. It seemed that every time the craft reached a certain point in orbit, everybody went a little crazy. Still, this trip had gone relatively smoothly so far. And as the lunar landscape slid by on the big screen at the front of the room, and the boys in the lander broadcast their signal into his earphones, checking off one item after another en route to touchdown, MacGruder found himself growing ever shakier and ever sweatier, his heart palpitating, his excitement rising. Christ, he thought. I’m vibrating like a coin-op bed in a cheap motel. Good thing history isn’t watching. She’d laugh her ass off.
Officially, nobody could know what they accomplished today. But MacGruder held out hope that someday, maybe, the curtain would be yanked aside. Could be, he thought, that future generations will look back on the year 1967 as humanity’s finest.
Blood was the key. Ark-arr had hunted down one of the bipeds and, in spite of her gravitational handicap, easily slain it. Enough had remained of her ship’s science console to investigate the thing’s fluids, to discern their properties, to uncover the strange similarities between the life on this world, and in this dimension, and that on her own. These were not Ark-arr’s people, but they were not so different as to transcend the possibilities offered by pack science. They would serve.
Beneath the black sun, she had treated the blood, analyzed the helical structures which encoded its properties. She had drawn forth vials of her own substance, and strategized. Yes, and synthesized, too. She infused the substance of the bipeds with that which was best in herself—her pack’s dynamism, their curiosity, their capacity for subterfuge. And something more. Deep within the stuff of life, she locked away a hidden trigger—a sight, unknowable to the natives of this world, would one day bring on a Shift of its own.
At last the thing was done. Ark-arr took one last longing look around her, at the darkside of this alien world. As harsh and vacant as it was, it had served her needs. Now it would be locked away from her forever. Her claws grasped the vial of altered blood, now encased in a syringe. She closed her eyes, twisted her mind, and Shifted one last time.
Luna’s face shone down at full, bestowing a parting blessing. Ark-arr threw back her head and sang a salute, heard her strange alien comrades echo a reply. Her aching lungs drew in a final draught of viscous air as she lifted the syringe to her foreleg. Farewell to this form, and to femininity. Farewell to the deep sight. I go into the wilderness. But one day, thousands of generations hence, there shall be a restoration…
She plunged the needle home, and agony enveloped her. Beneath her pelt, bone and sinew shifted. Within her, organs mixed and melded. To a race unaccustomed to Shiftwork, and the accompanying biological changes, the results would have been fatal; as it was, Ark-arr collapsed into a shuddering, shrieking mass. Her cries drew an audience. From a distance, under Luna’s light, the bipeds watched. As they did, a new legend was born among them—one that would change with the ages, but which would never quite die.
Ark-arr rose again with the rays of the sun, up onto two legs, between which dangled the evidence of her new, unfamiliar sex. She was nearly hairless except for a tuft on her head. Her paws had elongated into nimble fingers. Her new eyes beheld colors for which she had no names. She strode forth with tottering steps, and the things who had witnessed her transformation fled in terror before her.
No matter. There would be other bipeds, in other packs. She would show them her worth, win their trust. In time, she would find willing partners to bear her seed. And down the generations, as her seed spread, the ambitions of her new pack would grow.
Ark-arr’s lips pulled back, and she bared her new, flimsy fangs—not in a display of threat, but somehow, in one of joy. At the end of everything, she thought, I am yet an artist of change.
Had the world been watching, events might have proceeded with more decorum. When they replayed the adventure for public consumption, MacGruder resolved, they’d do it dignified. Here and now, though, human nature took over. With the white-knuckle tension of the landing behind them and champagne corks popping in Colorado, the three astronauts spilled out of the lander at Mare Cognitum like eager toddlers onto a playground.
The first of them had descended the ladder too quickly and had fallen ass-backwards; mankind’s first words from the lunar surface had been “Ah, shit.” But since that moment, things had proceeded more or less according to plan, though with a tad more exuberance. There was a bit more low-grav bouncing than was strictly necessary, but the regolith sampling appeared to be proceeding apace. MacGruder had turned from the readout in front of him and was chatting with Cruz when he heard the mission commander’s voice over the comm: “Hey, Roger? You all right?”
The black and white image on the feed was grainy, but the tableau was nonetheless clear. One of the astronauts was motionless, his back to the camera, his head tilted back, staring at a sight previously unseen by human eyes: its the Earth, dark seas sworled with white, hanging huge in the sky, round and full.
MacGruder was imagining what it must have looked like in full color when the growling began over the comm—low, guttural, primal. The first astronaut was still staring skywards, his suit trembling, strange shifting visible beneath the rubber and nylon. The commander had bounded over to join him, but was now silent and motionless, staring up at the sky. The third member of the party stood in the foreground, his arm eclipsing the upper right of the frame, motionless.
“Cognition Base, this is Cheyenne Mountain. Please update us on your—“ MacGruder got no further. In a moment of spectacular insanity, the astronaut in the foreground was unscrewing his glove from the aluminum wrist-lock ring that held it in place. “Ed, for God’s sake! What are you doing!” In the background, both figures were contorting wildly. The comm channel was full of barks and yips. The glove in the foreground tumbled to the lunar surface, and what was revealed beneath it was less a hand than a paw.
One of the suits in the background exploded, and a thing burst from it—human-sized, but lupine in form, with scrawny, elongated limbs, tongue lolling and fangs bared in what might almost have been a smile. A technician in the front row emitted a strangled shriek. The second background figure had unscrewed his helmet from its neck-ring—how do they manage that without thumbs, MacGruder wondered—and a canine form was squeezing free. In the near-vacuum of the lunar atmosphere, the creatures should have been asphyxiating, their lungs bursting from internal pressure, water evaporating from every cell in their skins—yet somehow, they weren’t. Somehow they were capering, cavorting, playing, kicking up dust from the lunar surface.
And then…they just weren’t there.
They didn’t expand, or explode, or boil away into nothingness. They merely blinked out. First the one that had been Roger, and then, in rapid succession, the other two. They were simply gone.
An eerie silence descended at Mission Control. It was broken by another piercing shriek from the technician, but as nobody replied or even acknowledged it, it faded. And MacGruder, his eyes fixed on the camera feed, felt something welling up within him. Something that told him that what had happened was no tragedy, but somehow right, that a plan had been fulfilled and a destiny achieved. That their friends were not gone. That they were fine; or, perhaps, better than fine.
The thing within MacGruder was whispering in the stillness. Calling out to him from down the aeons. Calling him to the moon.
He cleared his throat. “Well,” he announced. “This is gonna be hard to explain.”
“Explain to whom?” Keller replied. Over by the coffee machine, a bug-eyed astrophysicist was staring into a computer monitor, his features lit up in eerie green light. “The Administrator had a live feed. Nobody else outside of this room knows.”
MacGruder’s shakes were back with tectonic intensity, but a more important part of him was still. Inside his mind, gears were cranking, calling upon a long evolutionary heritage—an instinct to roll with the punches. To innovate. To reconfigure his plans to meet new circumstances.
“There was a fire,” he said.
Cruz turned to him, features blank. Slowly, he nodded. “A bad one. Pure oxygen atmosphere in the test capsule, you know. They never stood a chance.”
“Closed caskets, of course,” MacGruder concluded.
Morganstern stared over from an astrophysics readout. “But that doesn’t solve the problem,” he interjected. “President Kennedy made the promise that we’d go to the moon and come back within a decade. And that’s gonna be, um…” He swallowed. “That’s gonna be a little difficult to pull off, I think. I mean…anybody up for going back up there?” On the viewscreen, the lander stood alone, unfiltered sunlight casting diamond-edged shadows in the powdery, pockmarked surface, which was now marred by three ruptured and abandoned spacesuits.
Me, MacGruder thought. I wanna go. It was an ache, deep inside him, and he knew, somehow, that everyone else in the command center felt it. Its intensity made him want to throw back his head and howl. But there’s no way back. And there won’t be until we figure this out. Our next voyage will be inwards. Unraveling the dark side of the human genome. That’ll be the next big thing.
Still, the public must have their rocket show…
MacGruder leaned back in his chair, stared at the ceiling for a moment. Then he reached up to click a switch in his headset. “Administrator Webb? This is MacGruder. No. No, we have no idea.” He licked his lips. “Yes, it’s bad sir, but there’s a way around it. We can still give the public what they want. We’ve got a couple of years to work with. I know a guy. Not in aerospace, sir, but in Hollywood. Special effects guy.”
MacGruder smiled faintly. A strategic shift was called for. “It’s amazing what you can pull off these days, with lights and computers. And he’s got this out-of-the way soundstage, see…”
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151. Fight Club – Summer of ’99 (#10)
Posted on October 12, 2019 by Darren
Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Charlene Lydon and Alex Towers, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, continuing our Summer of ’99 season, David Fincher’s Fight Club.
1999 was a great year for movies, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that would define cinema for a next generation: Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, American Beauty, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Matrix. The Summer of ’99 season offers a trip through the year in film on the IMDb‘s 250.
A successful young insurance claims adjuster finds himself comfortable existence literally blown to pieces after two chance encounters: first with his unlikely kindred spirit Marla Singer and then with charismatic anarchist Tyler Durden. However, what initially seems liberating quickly escalates into something that is much less comfortable.
At time of recording, it was ranked 10th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Note: Despite the promise at the end of the episode, the entry of both Joker and Capernaum on to the list forced a slight schedule realignment. The Summer of ’99 will be going on hiatus until early next year. Instead, next week we’ll have Jason Coyle and Ronan Doyle discussing Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum.
Recorded 31st August 2019.
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Bob Harris at Mother Jones offers an immediate reaction to the Columbine massacre, April 1999.
Dave Cullen at Slate on the causes of Columbine, April 2004.
Dennis Lim at The New York Times on the on-going fight over Fight Club, November 2009.
Brian Raftery at The Ringer discusses the making of Fight Club, March 2019.
Chuck Palahniuk talks to The Guardian about the evolution and resonance of Fight Club, July 2018.
Michael Sragow at CNN looks at the production and development of Fight Club, October 1999.
Caludia Eller at The Los Angeles Times on the contemporary controversies around the release of Fight Club, October 1999.
Robert Dominguez at The New York Daily News on the controversy around the violence of Fight Club, October 1999.
Brian Mockenhaupt at Esquire profiles David Fincher, March 2007.
Molly Lambert at Grantland takes a look at the filmography of David Fincher, October 2014.
Edward Norton discusses making Fight Club with The Telegraph, April 2003.
Steve Bannon likens the Breitbart Newsroom to Fight Club in The New York Times, January 2018.
Paulie Doyle at Vice on how Fight Club became a beacon to the alt-right, January 2017.
Jared Richards at Junkee on whether Fight Club has been ruined by its fans, February 2019.
Megan Koester at Vice describes Fight Club as “the reddit of movies”, August 2014.
Scaachi Koul at BuzzFeed looks at the state of the pick-up artist community, September 2018.
Chuck Palahniuk talks to The Independent about his work, June 2012.
Chuck Palahniuk discusses the importance of second fathers with The Los Angeles Times, June 2015.
Meat Loaf talks to Stuff about his fat suit on Fight Club, May 2013.
Starbucks in Fight Club attempts to document every coffee cup in Fight Club, December 2011.
“Beer Run”, February 2005.
Chuck Palahniuk discusses his early life with Rolling Stone, June 2005.
Chuck Palahniuk explains his worldview to The Guardian, November 2014.
“Fight Club: PSAs”, October 1999.
Chuck Palahniuk discusses the absurdity of trying to market Fight Club with CNN, October 1999.
Vince Mancini at Uproxx on Fred Durst and John Travolta’s The Fanatic, September 2019.
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Rick Lyman at The New York Times reports on Fox attempting to find its place in the early twenty-first century cinematic landscape, June 2000.
Cam Wolf at GQ on how Jared Leto brought his own head to the Met Ball, May 2019.
Rebecca Renner at LitHub offers an anti-capitalist reading of Fight Club, July 2019.
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The Washington Times reports on plans for Fight Club-inspired bombing of Starbucks, July 2009.
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SIDC receives ‘Contribution to Organisation’ award
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SECURITIES Industry Development Corp (SIDC), the training arm of Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), has been awarded with the “Contribution to Organisation” award at the Asia HRD Award 2019.
According to SIDC, the recognition is presented to organisations who have contributed to the development of society by advancing education and learning efforts to the communities.
“This prestigious recognition is the validation of our visionary and pragmatic approach towards self-empowerment and future-ready talents, encapsulated by the Competency Management System — an online industry utility platform that addresses an individual’s holistic learning and development needs,” it said in a statement.
The Asia HRD Award 2019 aims to honour individuals and human resources (HR) practitioners at all levels which have significantly impacted or influenced the HR community, organisations or society.
Four categories were presented during the ceremony, including the Lifetime Achievement, Contribution to Society, Contribution to Organisation and Contribution of HR Community.
Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, the wife of Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred on individuals who have either promoted the cause of learning or pioneered initiatives that have impacted people in a significant manner.
The award ceremony was held at Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences.
Among other recipients for the Contribution to Organisation award were Ampang Jaya Municipal Council, Convex Malaysia Sdn Bhd, A Cut Above Sdn Bhd, JD Resources International Ltd and Cyberview Sdn Bhd.
Incorporated in 2007, SIDC is the leading capital market learning and development solutions provider for industry participants in Malaysia, and the growth and emerging markets that include market professionals, company directors and regulators.
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Non-QM bond issuances have been on the rise, Bloomberg reports. But even amidst this positive move, some skeptics worry about non-QM's performance along the road ahead. With misconceptions and negative pre-recession associations lingering, how is non-QM paving the way for responsible lending to borrowers who don't fit within the QM bucket, without the pitfalls of subprime?
According to Barclays, this surge comes as initial indications of delinquency rates on the loans are starting to emerge, about 3% to 5% in some bonds. However, Bloomberg states that the non-QM bond market is too small for now to cause the kind of broader disruptions that subprime bonds did before the recession. The bonds themselves also have more safeguards for investors than they used to. According to a Fitch Ratings analysis, an average of 36% of principal would have to be lost before the top-rated slice took a hit. The cushion in crisis-era “alt-A” bonds with the same rating was just 6%.
Speaking with MReport, Denis G. Kelly, SVP of Sprout Mortgage, recently noted that non-QM loans are a different breed.
"Non-QM loan performance is very strong right now," Kelly said. "That's the number one. Are you making responsible loans? The misconception may be that they equate it to what was happening in 2006, 2007, 2008—those were a very different type of loan."
Aaron Samples, CEO of First Guaranty Mortgage, echoed this sentiment, noting the misconceptions surrounding non-QM loans as "sub-prime."
“The biggest challenges lenders face today are around the stigma of the product being misunderstood as a sub-prime product,” Samples told MReport.
According to the American Enterprise Institute, the non-QM market is the fastest-growing segment of non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities in the U.S., despite still being a relatively small slice of the pie. The non-QM market is on track to double, or even triple, last year's securitization issuance within this year.S&P found that there have been 20 odd transactions year-to-date, totaling over $6 billion in issuance, which is already almost double 2017's full-year volume. S&P also notes that, when compared to other RMBS categories, non-QMs have prepaid quicker, often soon after loan origination. The report found a conditional prepayment rate (CPR) 35%.
“It’s not the subprime we remember from 2006 to 2007,” said Mario Rivera, Managing Director of the Fortress Credit Funds business, which has bought non-QM bonds. “It’s more of a second or third inning of non-QM. We’re getting the best collateral before the more aggressive lending comes in.”
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He explained his mother’s distress that she was unavoidably absent for this, her favorite event of the Pavilion year. This was the night for the 11th annual Texas Music Festival Orchestra. Each year this festival showcases talented young musicians from throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Following a month of intensive study and preparation at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, the gifted youngsters came together for the gala concert which has become a highlight of Houston’s classical music season.
Several scholarship winners were introduced, and the winners of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition were announced. This year’s winners were tied for 1st Place: Matthew Dickson (trombone) from New Haven, Connecticut, and Dan Zhu (violin) from Beijing. Robert Pagan (Flute) of Brooklyn, N.Y. was runner-up.
The program began with the “Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59” of Richard Strauss. The orchestra’s shimmering brilliance was evident from the very first phrases of this popular masterpiece. It is a work of varying moods, and I did have a bit of momentary nervousness during some of the most powerful and vigorous portions. The stage was heavily “miked” (there were no fewer than 13 scattered microphones visible amid the orchestra), and in the early going I feared a bit of harshness was creeping into the acoustical equation during crescendos that were not microphone-friendly.
Happily this seemed to quickly resolve itself under the baton of skilled conductor, Leon Spierer. This is a piece that wraps its arms around the audience when played with such superb craftsmanship. The familiar waltz portion was elegantly performed, and the richness of the strings was particularly evident in the cellos.
The conclusion was nothing short of thrilling. Next, Mr. Dickson joined the orchestra for a solo turn on trombone during “Concertino Op.4” by Ferdinand David. This was a regal and majestic delicacy. Dickson delivered velvet tones in a work that showcases the trombone’s unique range in a way that is rarely seen. As the pace quickened, the tall, handsome soloist showed that he had the technical expertise to preside beautifully as his fellow musicians provided the thrilling backdrop for this exciting composition.
Mr. Zhu’s solo was the final movement of Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto.” The watchword was virtuosity from the very outset. There was no slow warm-up here, as the racing technical brilliance of this talented young man was evident at once in the demanding opening passages. His high-speed instrumental heroics were nothing short of dazzling, and his precision and exquisite interpretation provided colossal closing moments that brought the crowd roaring to its feet.
Following intermission, the delicious, swirling, waltz music of Johann Strauss Jr. was featured in an “Overture to Die Fledermaus, Op.362” that was tenderly conducted and lovingly performed. How many of us dream of gliding across some grand palace ballroom when we hear a masterpiece of such sweeping grandeur and grace? It was a joy!
And speaking of joy, Spierer then took violin in hand to both conduct and perform during the exquisite Strauss “Blue Danube.” The mystery of its whispered opening captures our attention immediately. The rapturous theme will lift us out of our chairs as the soaring waltz emerges.
Spierer joyfully joins in on violin with infectious enthusiasm. A more beautiful rendition, on a more beautiful night in Texas, could not be imagined.
Finally the snare drums were brought front and center on the stage to guide their peers on a haunting trip through Ravel’s “Bolero.” Spierer finally rested a bit and took a seat on the stage to enjoy the various skillful solos that repeatedly introduce the hypnotic and compelling theme. The music weaves a spell like no other composition as it snakes its way to higher and higher plateaus. With relaxed grace, Spierer and the violins strummed their instruments like soft guitars. Watching these young performers display such musical mastery at the beginning of their careers is what makes this annual event so special. I count this as the most satisfying “Bolero” I have ever seen.
The cheering audience was rewarded with a perennial favorite: “Radetsky March” by Johann Strauss Sr. Maestro Spierer left the audience laughing by conducting their hand-clapping participation from the stage.
(The Courier 6.29.00)
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Trip 3:Saturday, September 16, Part 1
It’s the last full day of this trip! How, when I have waited so long for this, could it end so quickly? I realize that no one back home will sympathize in the least that I had “only” a month away, but it certainly seemed like “only” as I arose this morning. That said, I am immensely grateful that I had the opportunity to return. Australia has become such a large part of my life, I have to believe this won’t be the last trip—but if it is, it has been a remarkable one.
After breakfast, Geoff and I headed down to the far paddock so I could photograph the pair of maned geese and their eight “littlies,” as Geoff calls their offspring. Then it was back up to the house to prepare for another day of delightful exploring. Judy packed the picnic hamper into the Land Rover, and Geoff readied the “hardware” for the al fresco meal we would have later.
We wound along the lovely, tree-shaded mountain roads that now seem so familiar, out through Yarra Glen, and to the wonderful historic Gulf Station. I love history and really enjoy historic venues where one can “visit” another time. This station was built in the early 1800s, and we learned that it is one of the only historic stations in Australia where all the original out-buildings are intact.
To recreate what it would have been like at the time, not only are the buildings kept as they were, but the plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers) and animals are all appropriate to the time period. Judy pointed out the lovely, pale pink, rose-like flowers growing at the front gate and told me they were heirloom quince. That explained the flowers, as quince is in the Rose family. Really beautiful, and you get fruit, too. Among the heritage animals there were bronze-winged turkeys, Berkshire pigs, Ayreshire cows, and Clydesdale horses.
I found this short video that looks at this delightful historic venue. It’s very short, but it gives you a feel for how beautiful this historic place is – so definitely my cup of tea.
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Tagged as Gulf Station, Victoria, Yarra Glen
Leisurely morning–not up until 8:00. Because it was my last meal in their home, at least for this trip, Nikki and Richard created a really splendid breakfast and served it out on the terrace, so we could take advantage of the lovely weather. Then it was time to pack. Richard loaded my bag in the car, and we were off to Adelaide. Richard and Nikki had a few things they wanted to do in town, but Richard also had a couple of things he wanted me to experienced, things I had missed on previous visits to Adelaide. I happily left the day’s plans to him.
We did a bit of shopping along the pedestrian mall section of Rundle Street, where cafés and eateries appear to outnumber boutiques. No one really wanted to rush around, so after Nikki bought a few things she needed, we just ordered tea, settled at an empty table, just talked for a while. After having their carefully made plans go so terribly wrong, Nikki and Richard had been fairly stressed, but today, they were unwinding at last. Also, with Richard no longer in his outback guide role, he could relax. The conversation was both stimulating and light-hearted–and it would make it that much harder to leave.
Artwork on Rundle Street
But Richard still had those two things he wanted me to experience, and it was several hours before we had to be at the airport. First stop was the Adelaide O-Bahn, a “guided busway.” Buses pull onto the O-Bahn, and then, like a train, they are guided by the tracks. This takes buses out of city traffic, as cars can’t go on the tracks. No stop lights or competing traffic. No holding up cars when the bus stops. Nifty.
On the O-Bahn
We took a bus for the 12-kilometer/7.5-mile ride up the Torrens Gorge. Transit was smooth, swift, and safe, and the surroundings were beautifully landscaped. The bus simply pulls off when it reaches one of the stops along the route, and then pulls back on. Really brilliant concept. However, since our purpose was just using the O-Bahn, we didn’t disembark; we simply returned to our starting point.
For lunch, we enjoyed Indian food and more excellent conversation. Then we headed over to Victoria Square. I had seen the Glenelg Tram on my first visit, but just witnessed it stopping here at the square. This time, we would ride it. The tram is a classic electric tram—the last one in Adelaide. The interior is old fashioned and handsome, with abundant brass and wood and leather trim.
The tram runs the 15 kilometers/9.3 miles from Adelaide city center to the Victorian-era, beachside town of Glenelg. The tram carried us through a trendy part of town into old suburbs, then to vintage rural areas to the seaside in a few minutes. But no time to linger in Glenelg. We had to return to Adelaide, get the car, and head for the airport.
As we drove out of the city, I wondered why I felt so much less like I was in Australia here than I did out bush. I love Australian cities, and Adelaide is a delightful place. But it’s the wild places that cling to my heart. Maybe it’s because cities are so much a part of “real life” that they don’t offer me the sense of escape that the outback does. I do realize I couldn’t live in the wilderness, but I do love the rugged beauty–and being truly “unplugged.” That said, I was quite happy with the things we’d done today.
Nikki and Richard came into the airport with me, and I bought coffee and tea, and we sat and chatted until it was time for me to head out to the boarding area. I left them hoping I’d see them again, and maybe even have new adventures. I feel blessed to have such friends.
The flight was bumpy but otherwise uneventful. It was raining as we landed in Melbourne. Judy and Geoff were waiting for me at the airport. They look great; semi-retirement clearly suits them.
They had gotten a new Land Rover since my last visit, though they assured me the one I knew was still at the house, reserved for hauling supplies for the horses and garden. We wound through Melbourne’s suburbs and out and up into the Dandenong Mountains, arriving at their lovely mountainside ranch at roughly 10:30 p.m.
The three of us enjoyed a cup of tea and talked about what we’ll do this week. Then I headed off to their delightful guestroom with its regally high brass bed. It’s good to be here again.
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Trip 3:Thursday, September 7, Part 1
We were up just before dawn and began packing up bits of camp. The sunrise was glorious, and the light spilling over the astonishingly lovely bushland was magic.
Gawler Wildflowers
Our orphan lived through the night. Today, we’ll try (among other tasks) to find him a new home. We headed back along the dusty, red miles of beautiful wilderness, not stopping until we got to Iron Knob. Short break, mostly to buy beverages, and then on again, and back on to the Eyre Highway.
The knob of iron that gives Iron Knob its name
Skippy slept in my lap for most of the drive, only poking his head out of his pillowcase-pouch occasionally to look around or to suck on my fingers, hoping for milk. He is a heartbreakingly beautiful creature, with big, brown eyes and a coat like silk. His huge ears swivel independently, as he tries to pick up a familiar noise, and he shivers occasionally, no doubt because nothing is familiar.
First order of business in Port Augusta was getting the tow hitch on the ute repaired, so we could pull something again. Richard then arranged rental of a larger trailer, one on which we could load the totaled trailer we’d left out busy. Then we headed for the local vet Nikki knew, to drop off “our baby.” Skippy is so adorable, the vet’s staff fell in love with him—and they immediately called to make arrangements for him at a nearby animal reserve. One thing that amused me was seeing cans of milk on the shelf for various forms of local wildlife, including wombat milk and kangaroo milk. Nice to know that they are equipped for emergencies like this.
Then back across town, to pick up the rented trailer. Port Augusta is a very utilitarian town, the “Crossroads of Australia,” where highways and trans-continental train tracks all converge, connecting in some cases with the busy harbor. As a result, there are lots of unattractive warehouses and work buildings—and charming, handsome, Victorian-era hotels. The area is pale and dusty, but flanked by beautiful Spencer Gulf and the Flinders Ranges.
Spencer Gulf
Port Augusta offers lovely old houses and dozens of service stations. Magnificent old gum trees and flowering bushes suggested to me that earlier settlers might have thought it a beautiful spot, and in its heyday, as a busy port, it would have been fairly wealthy, as well. Now, it’s a kind of tacky, ugly spot with some pretty bits in a magnificent location. But the residential areas are nice, and the people here are remarkably friendly.
And whatever else can be said about it, Port Augusta had everything we needed, including a good place for lunch. We were directed to a carry-out place that offered spit roasted chicken, salads, fish, gyros, and chips/fries. We got chicken and salads to share, and had a bit of a picnic nearby.
After lunch, with the new, larger trailer hooked up to the ute, we headed back into the wilderness, to retrieve our gear.
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Tagged as Gawler Ranges, Iron Knob, Port Augusta, South Australia, Spencer Gulf
Trip 3:Wednesday, September 6 Part 1
Up at 7:00, had breakfast, and got a tour of Nikki and Richard’s wonderful garden. (The hedges around the front gate are rosemary, so the place is fabulously fragrant.) Then we packed the ute (an Aussie pick-up/utility vehicle), hitched up the camping trailer, and headed out bush again. Richard’s years as a tour bus driver and outback guide were about to be put to good use.
We drove out of charming Nuriootpa, through delightful Greenock, among the rolling hills and spring-green fields of the Barossa Valley. Grazing sheep, vineyards full of awakening vines, and flocks of galahs alternated with small towns and large wineries.
Brief stop in Kapunda, where I photographed the town’s centennial statue of a miner. Before even bigger deposits were discovered in Burra, this was an important copper mining area.
Then on the road to Clare, rolling through a countryside that might be English but for the gum trees. Into Gilbert Valley, where large patches were brilliant yellow with canola flowers.
Into Auburn, birthplace of poet C.J. Dennis, author of The Sentimental Bloke. I’m a fan, so I was pleased. If you’re interested in knowing more about Dennis and his charming verse, I posted about the poet last year: C.J. Dennis post.
As we continued through the Clare Valley, we were surrounded by vineyards, but then we drove into a grain-growing region—one of the best in the world, Richard told me. Their specialty is malting barley that is so highly regarded it is even exported to Germany.
Before long, we could see the lower Flinders Ranges in the distance, across the miles of undulating, green farm land. We pulled into Georgetown, a classic little old town with buildings of field stone, with iron lace and wooden verandas much in evidence. We past the old railway hotel, a feature of most of these old towns, and stopped at the charming 1912 General Store. The interior of the store was as iconically rural Australian as the exterior. Here, we enjoyed a lunch of excellent meat pies with sauce and locally produced ginger beer.
Then on the road again, heading toward Port Pirie, across the hills, then swinging north, with the lower Flinders to our right and Spencer Gulf to our distant left. Yellow, gold, and purple flowers lined the road.
We joined Highway 1 and continued toward Port Augusta. We stopped briefly to watch stumpy-tailed lizards crossing the road. Samphire flats stretched toward the water. (Samphire is an edible succulent plant, sometimes called sea asparagus, pickleweed, or sea beans, that grows on some shorelines, marshy areas, and mud flats.)
The country not directly adjacent to the water was drier than that we had left behind. The mountains got closer and higher. Glorious flowering bushes surrounded us. We got closer to Spencer Gulf as got nearer to Port Augusta.
Not surprising, of course, but it’s quite a bit colder here than it was at the top of the continent. However, as we drive farther north, the clouds are clearing and the bright sun is warming things up a bit. Fortunately, Nikki was able to lend me some warm clothes for camping out in colder weather.
And into Port Augusta. Just a short stop, to buy groceries for our stay out bush—and to stretch our legs after the long drive. After buying food, we headed across the street to the grog shop, to buy some Strongbow cider. (I had learned to love Strongbow during my first trip to Australia–well before it was available in the U.S.) Then we were off again, heading for the Gawler Ranges.
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Tagged as Barossa Valley, Flinders Ranges, Georgetown, Kapunda, South Australia
After lunch, we did a little more browsing among the shops along Carnarvon Street. I bought a lovely little, locally collected seashell: a Cypraea cylindrica, which is indigenous to this stretch of coastline. Then we caught the 3:30 bus to Cable Beach.
Cable Beach is a long (22 kilometers), beautiful stretch of white sand bordered by red cliffs, graced with purple-flowered vines and palm trees, and dotted with eroded black rocks. The beach gets its name from the trans-oceanic telegraph cable that was strung from Australia to Java in 1889, allowing Australia to then communicate with the world more quickly than sending a message by ship.
We walked and observed and photographed. When Belinda and Athena perched on rocks to rest, I continued on my own. I picked up bits of coral and tiny shells, photographed a hermit crab and the sand balls surrounding the burrows of sand crabs. (The sand balls are created by the crabs, who roll up and rubbish after eating and eject it from their burrows.)
As sunset approached, a couple of strings of camels were led down onto the beach. Riding a camel along the beach at sunset is one of the “things to do” in Broome, and sunset-lit camels appear on a high percentage of the souvenirs in town. I photographed the camels and then rejoined Athena and Belinda, who had been joined by Mim, Hazel, Shirl, Graham, Leslie, and Don from our recently completed tour. We exchanged notes on what we’d seen and what we would be doing in Broome, then said good-bye again.
Athena, Belinda, and I climbed a nearby hill to await the disappearance of the sun. By 5:30, the huge, golden orb was well on its way towards the water. There were not a lot of clouds, so the sunset was not quite as stunning as in some photos we’ve seen, but it certainly seemed far larger than usual, perhaps attributable to our proximity to the equator.
Once the sun had set, we caught a taxi back to the hotel. I did a quick load of laundry, hung the wet clothes all over my room to dry, changed clothes, and rejoined Athena and Belinda for a quick taxi ride back to Chinatown. We stopped at a fish and chips shop with a surprisingly impressive menu (salmon, snapper, shark, squid), but we just bought chips (fries). Then the three of us headed for Sun Pictures, “The Oldest Picture Garden in the World.” (Are there others?) By picture, they mean movies. They would have been showing silent films back when this place was built in 1913. The façade would lead a passerby to believe Sun Pictures was a relatively normal theater. But behind that façade, the roof only extends for a few feet, to cover the ticket office and a bit of wooden lattice work, and then ends. The “theater” is a broad, green yard framed by palm trees, completely open to the sky. Rows of deck chairs are lined up in front of the large outdoor screen. It’s quite wonderful. The movie was actually incidental to the experience. The heat of the day faded into what seemed cool in comparison. The air was fragrant from all the flowers. Stars were splashed brilliantly across the sky overhead. Absolutely delightful. The place was packed, with locals far outnumbering tourists. Great fun. Highly recommended.
We caught a taxi back to the hotel and said a final farewell. I stayed up another hour, ironing my clothes and organizing my luggage. But by 11:30, I was too tired to do any more, so I went to bed. (It was not just the fifteen days of camping that have worn me out; I’m still hurting a fair bit. Definitely think I broke a rib or two back in Kununurra.)
Anyway, it was a fine last day to this part of the adventure. And tomorrow, onward.
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Trip 3:Monday, September 4, Part 1
Up at sunrise. A moment’s excitement upon discovering a tarantula in the loo. There was a grasshopper, as well, but that was less daunting.
Headed alone to the beach for as long a walk as I could manage. I had until 9 a.m. at my leisure, but the tour was scheduled to end at 10, and we still had to drive to town. But that gave me a couple of hours to enjoy my surroundings. I was joined by wading birds, an egret, and sea eagles. Mud hoppers skipped across the mud. (Also known as mud skippers, these are fish that can actually breathe air.) Snails emerged from their shells and explored for food. Red rocks, black rocks, gray mud, blue water. Beautiful morning.
Mud Hopper
Layered Rock
Snails, large and small
I lingered on the beach till the last possible moment, then headed back to camp, to climb into the 4WD one last time.
Most of the gang was dropped off at the posh Mangrove Resort, but Athena, Belinda, and I continued on to the more modest, less expensive, but still very nice Tropicana. The yard was filled with flowers, particularly the wildly fragrant frangipani, so the place smelled heavenly.
We allowed ourselves half an hour for settling in and showering, and then the three of us met up and set off to see the sights. Our first stop was at the nearby Broome Historical Museum. It was a wonderful little museum, filled with relics, photos, and documents from Broome’s earliest settlement to the glory days of pearling through the devastation of World War II (Broome was bombed by the Japanese), and up to the present. There were artifacts from all the many peoples who have inhabited (and do still) the region: Aborigines, Europeans, Japanese, Malay, Indonesians. Delightful place, and astonishing history.
Leaving the museum, we walked on the road bordering the mangroves and beach. We continued to be amazed by the brilliance of the turquoise water and stopped frequently to photograph it.
We visited an art gallery and an upscale jewelry store (this stretch of coastline is famous for its huge, exceptionally white pearls, and they’re worth seeing even if they are too costly to consider), then continued toward Chinatown. The gum trees along the road were in bloom and were wonderfully fragrant. Ibises wandered on the court house lawn, and kites (the birds) soared overhead. We all commented that this was a good place to ease ourselves back into civilization, as there was enough of the exotic to make us feel that this was still an adventure.
Chinatown was a real shock. When I first visited, it was a quiet, sleepy area, even though it’s the center of town. The broad streets then were covered in red dust but otherwise featureless. There were no sidewalks. The cars parked somewhat randomly down the center of the street tended to be rusting, practical, and sporting protective bars to minimize damage when encountering kangaroos or water buffalo. The stores were very basic tin-roofed structures that were generally Chinese owned. Now, though still open and amiable, the area is very upscale, with nothing more than a couple of Chinese restaurants to give validity to the name “Chinatown.” Carnarvon Street now has sidewalks and a parkway covered with grass and dotted with palm trees. The street is lined with posh boutiques, souvenir shops, jewelry stores, health food stores, nail salons, tour operators, and delis serving quiche and mocha lattés. Wow! What a disappointment. I had so looked forward to the funky, rustic, multi-lingual Broome that I had been telling Belinda and Athena about before we arrived.
That said, at least it was a convenient disappointment. We browsed through a few shops, where both Belinda and Athena found gifts to buy for folks back home. Then we popped into the comfortable (air conditioned!!) and apparently popular Bloom’s Gourmet Deli, where I had iced coffee and the mixed salad plate (Greek, pasta, and potato). Athena asked if any of us had any sense of being in a remote corner of the Australian Outback. No. Well, at least not until we went to the restroom, which is a corrugated iron shack at the far side of the hot, dusty backyard.
One thing on Carnarvon Street that had not changed from my previous trip was Sun Pictures. I photographed it in the daylight, and we agreed to return this evening.
(For more on the changes in Broome, check out my earlier post on Broome Old And New. There, you can see contrasting photos of what I saw during my different visits.)
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Ighalo: My Parents Couldn’t Afford PayTv
Manchester United striker, Odion Ighalo, has revealed how he used his lunch money to watch his boyhood club at viewing centers because his parents couldn’t afford to pay for sports channels.
The former Watford player was signed by Olé Gunnar Solskjaer from Shanghai Shenhua following a hip injury to Marcus Rashford.
Ighalo, who described his move to Old Trafford as a dream come true for him, said in a recent interview with Sky Sports that he is enjoying every moment at the Theatre of Dreams.
The 30-year-old also mentioned things he did to watch his idols play at Old Trafford and what playing for the club meant to him.
“I know many footballers say that, when they sign for a team, this is my dream team. Respect to that but my own case was different,” he told Sky Sports.
“Anyone who knows me back from when I was young knows I and my siblings supported Man Utd, we would pay to go and watch Man Utd play.
“In Nigeria, you have to have sports channels to watch that but not everyone can afford it. My parents couldn’t afford that so you have to pay a viewing centre to watch that. We would pay to watch that.
“I grew up in Ajegunle, which is like a ghetto and it was very difficult there. When it would get to the weekend, everybody was excited because they wanted to watch Man Utd play.
“You start saving the money they would give you to go to school. You would eat at home and they would give you some pocket money to go to school and maybe eat lunch there. But you would be saving it bit by bit and when you get to the weekend, everybody is ready.
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Ghana Tops COVID-19 Cases in West Africa After Easing Lockdown
Ghana has the highest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in West Africa.
According to data obtained from the World Health Organisation, no fewer than 4,012 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ghana.
The country witnessed increased cases of the virus after lifting a three-week lockdown in its two major cities on April 20.
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana cited improved coronavirus testing and the “severe” impact of the restrictions on the poor and vulnerable for lifting the lockdown in the country.
Reports have it that Ghana overlook Nigeria as the country with highest COVID-19 cases after its total cases jumped by nearly 30 per cent in a single day.
The overall number of cases in Ghana rose to 4,012, including 18 deaths, from 3,091 on Thursday.
The country recorded 921 cases within 24 hours, barely 18 days after easing its lockdown.
A graph showing COVID-19 cases in Ghana. Source: WHO Africa
At present, South Africa with 8,895 COVID-19 cases has the highest number of infections in Africa, followed by Algeria with 5,369 cases; Ghana – 4,012; Nigeria – 3,912; Cameroon – 2,265; Guinea 2,009; Côte d’Ivoire – 1,602; Senegal – 1,551; Democratic Republic of the Congo – 937; Niger – 795; Burkina Faso- 736; Mali – 668; Kenya – 621; and Gabon also has 620 cases.
we report that Nigeria’s coronavirus cases rose to 3,912 after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), ordered a gradual easing of lockdown in the FCT, Lagos and Ogun States on May 4.
The President had on March 29 imposed a 14-day lockdown in the FCT and the two states to contain the spread of the virus. At the end of the 14 days, which terminated on April 13, the President extended the lockdown by another 14 days.
On April 27, Buhari in an address to the nation announced a one-week extension of the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun, and the FCT and the commencement of a two-week lockdown in Kano State.
COVID-19 cases in Africa as of 11.50am on May 9, 2020. Source: WHO Africa
From May 4 when the gradual easing started, Nigeria has recorded an additional 1,111 COVID-19 cases.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday said the country recorded its highest daily infections figure.
The NCDC said, “On the 8th of May 2020, 386 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
“Till date, 3912 cases have been confirmed, 679 cases have been discharged and 117 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
“The 386 new cases are reported from 20 states- Lagos (176), Kano(65), Katsina (31), FCT(20), Borno(17), Bauchi(15), Nasarawa (14), Ogun(13), Plateau(10), Oyo(four), Sokoto(four), Rivers(four), Kaduna(three), Edo(two), Ebonyi(two), Ondo(two), Enugu(one), Imo(one), Gombe(one), Osun(one).”
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Ferry connections to London
Regular ferry services for passengers and vehicles operate to and from the UK, continental Europe and Ireland, and are a great way to travel to London.
London is located just a few hours' drive from England's east, south and south-east coasts. The seaports of Dover, Harwich and Newhaven are all easily accessible from London.
Getting to London from the ferry port
London is easily reached by road from the major ports. Read more about driving to London.
For pedestrians, there are frequent train services into London's Victoria station from Dover and Newhaven. Harwich services terminate at Liverpool Street station. There are also rail links between Holyhead and London Euston station (some services have an interchange), and between Fishguard and London Paddington station (interchange at Cardiff Central).
For train timetables and fares from UK ports to London visit the National Rail Enquiries website.
Ferry crossings to continental Europe
The quickest ferry crossing from continental Europe is from Calais to Dover. Crossings take around 90 minutes. Ferries are operated by DFDS Seaways and P&O Ferries and run regularly throughout the day and night. DFDS Ferries also operates services from Dunkirk to Dover (two hours each way), Dieppe to Newhaven and Amsterdam to Newcastle. Longer routes from France and Spain, operated by P&O Ferries and Brittany Ferries, arrive at Portsmouth, Poole and Plymouth.
Stena Line operates a service from the Netherlands (Hook of Holland in Rotterdam) to Harwich. The journey usually takes just over six hours. There is also a ferry from Esbjerg in Denmark to Harwich, operated by DFDS Seaways, with a journey time of approximately 18 hours.
Ferry crossings to Ireland
The fastest routes for ferry travel between Ireland and London are Dublin to Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead. On both routes, high-speed vessels operate alongside normal ferry services.
Services are operated by Irish Ferries and Stena Line and journey times are as little as 110 minutes on the high-speed vessels and three hours 15 minutes on the traditional ferries. Stena Line also operates a crossing from Rosslare to Fishguard with journey times of upwards of 120 minutes. And Irish Ferries has a route from Rosslare to Pembroke, which takes four hours.
All ferry operators provide facilities to ensure that disabled passengers have a smooth journey. Contact the individual companies in advance for further details and to book assistance.
Eurotunnel and Eurostar to London
Eurotunnel provides high-speed car, coach and freight shuttle services via the Channel Tunnel between Coquelles (Calais) and Folkestone. Folkestone has good access to the motorway network and London. The Channel Tunnel is 31.5 miles long and the approximate crossing time is 35 minutes. Read more about driving to London.
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Visit Ross-on-Wye
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Made In Ross features in H-Art nine-day county art festival
Posted on August 13, 2016 by thebookwriters
The diverse and original talents of Herefordshire’s artists and craftspersons will be spotlighted during the annual nine-day H-Art festival trail across the county between 8-10 September.
Ross-on-Wye’s arts and crafts collective Made In Ross, based upstairs at the Market House, is one of 97 venues featuring 250 artists and sixteen different media across Herefordshire.
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250 years of tourism
William Gilpin may not be a household name but his legacy has led to one of biggest industries in Britain.
It was 250 years ago in 1770 that he took the first step by organising boat trips along the River Wye, and writing a seminal bestselling book ‘Observations of the River Wye’.
From those humble but visionary beginnings what was later described as The Picturesque Movement came into being, giving a name to a new appreciation of the natural world and its beauty.
The Wye Valley is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, much as it was 250 years ago. This year, 2020, heralds a year long calender of arts, crafts and fun events to celebrate his achievement and the beauty of the Wye Valley.More information at: www.gilpin2020.org
Ross-on-Wye is voted UK’s best loved market town
Ross-on-Wye has been voted the UK’s best-loved market town by a leading coach tour company.
National Express Managing Director Tom Stables said: “With its picturesque location and stunning Market House it’s hardly surprising Ross-on-Wye is regarded as one of the best towns in the UK. It’s tough to think of anything more quintessentially British than a market town and we think that’s worth celebrating”.
Revealed: The UK’s favourite market towns:
1. Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire)
2. Thirsk (North Yorkshire)
3. Grantham (Lincolnshire)
4. Bedford (Bedfordshire)
5. Shepton Mallet (Somerset)
6. Chippenham (Wiltshire)
7. Ledbury (Herefordshire)
8. Tie: Bridport (Dorset) Devizes (Wiltshire)
9. Wareham (Dorset)
10. Farnham (Surrey)
Rick Stein brings taste of Mexico
Restaurateur and TV personality Rick Stein is the latest celebrity to visit Ross-on-Wye. A guest of enterprising local bookstore Rossiter Books, he signed copies of his latest culinary hardback, ‘Mexico’ for fans who queued along the High Street to meet him.
More gastro news: A local cider and perry producer has been voted ‘Best In The Country’. Full story here.
‘Gastro Ross-on-Wye’ reputation grows
The flavours of the east meet the taste buds of the west as yet another culinary destination opens its doors in the town.
Ross-on-Wye’s Amisos restaurant can be found at 9 High Street (next door to another successful eatery, Avellino – which recently earned rave reviews in a leading restaurant blog).
Added to Yaks and Yetis, No 3, Leonards Cocktail Bar and a host of other eateries this reinforces Ross-on-Wye’s growing reputation as a ‘gastro town’.
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Caroline Utting chairs the RTA and is on the committees of createROSS, Ross Children’s Projects, The Blake Memorial Garden Volunteers and The Hedgehog Festival.
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Over 30 delegates from 11 countries visited the town as part of an international effort to promote cider and tourism.
Herefordshire is regarded as the cider capital of Britain and Ross-on-Wye the birthplace of tourism in the UK.
Two scrumptious cider trails
Cider lovers can now follow two new cider trails in the north and south of Herefordshire. Even if cider is not your tipple, the trails are a great way to explore the county at any time of year, not just autumn. Visit the trails HERE.
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Coach trips welcome – shops, walks, history, restaurants
Visitors have always loved Ross-on-Wye and many thousands flock to the town throughout the year arriving by coach. They come for the shops, the walks, the history trail, the Tudor buildings, the river Wye, the restaurants and bars.
The town welcomes coach operators and provides parking in convenient locations. A map of the town with all car parks listed can be found under the Location tab on the menu bar.
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New town guide
ROSS-ON-WYE TOWN GUIDE
Look out for the new guide to Ross-on-Wye and find out where to visit, where to eat and drink and where to have fun. The guide is available from all Tourist Information Sites and in other locations around the town.
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Ross-on-Wye is brimful of choice when it comes to accommodation, from cosy B&Bs, to comfortable self-catering houses and cottages, and upmarket hotels.
Information to help you choose can be found on the ‘Where To Stay’ section of this site.
For those who prefer not to browse online, the tourist association has produced its latest accommodation folder with details of up to fifty establishments to suit all tastes and pockets.
Folders are available at all the Tourist Information locations around the town. Details on this page.
Phoenix Theatre, Ross-on-Wye
For details of theatre and film performances call 01989 564570
Wye Valley River Festival – biannual event (click image)
BBC’s Countryfile visits Herefordshire (see blog post)
BBC's flagship programme visits the county (see blog post)
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Birds of Prey Review
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|By Tim Poon
Birds of Prey (Or the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a rare movie that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. Putting those goals into words is a bit of a wild prospect, but that’s kind of the point. This movie puts down into a tangible form something delightful, weird, and altogether unique.
It does this by fully embracing the comic book ethos in a way no other movie has done before. There’s a sort of deranged, ruthless commitment to indulging in the things it wants to indulge in and letting the problem of making sense fall to your ability to let go. It’s a hugely refreshing take after years of drowning in the steadfast groundedness of the MCU (and the hilariously dour DCEU trying to chase that).
Granted, movies have already captured certain aspects of the comic medium before. Deadpool revels in the character’s trademark ability to play within the absurdity of the macabre. Various others have nailed the visual aesthetic of it all like with Watchmen and Kick-Ass. But few others have tapped into the way holding those pages and parsing through panels forces a sort of cartoonish detachment from our reality.
The movie sets the tone immediately by blasting you with an impossible universe and an inscrutable time. Following the events of Suicide Squad, we see Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) break up with the Joker in the most bombastic of fashion. This seems like an incredibly personal matter, but as it turns out, the blanket fear the clown prince engendered in the criminal underworld was protecting Harley from everyone wanting to kill her, so now it’s an everyone matter. Turns out she can rub folks the wrong way. Who knew?
And though we know this is a modern world with cellphones and whatnot, it feels entirely otherworldly. Part of it is the tremendous production design fully displacing you. The clothing is a nightmarish yet pleasing mishmash of the 90s, 00s, and present trends. This seemingly wholly fabricated interpretation of Gotham City doesn’t even have the usual landmarks to center you in a New York-adjacent mindset. And combine that with a hallucinogenic color palette and you have a wonderful bit of misdirection.
Plus there’s Robbie’s entire portrayal of the character. This Harley has all the unhinged charm of the 2016 debut version but with this new undercurrent of a thoroughly broken heart. And it’s not just the breakup with the Joker; she’s always been disillusioned with the world. And somehow Robbie’s performance informs us that Harley’s hard swings from happy to manic to categorically downtrodden all stems from this damaged backstory. (It’s very I, Tonya in that way.)
Because she’s not broken. No, the things she does may be a bit wild, but she’s not a not functioning human. Here we get a complete display of her ability to both work within and appreciate the happy-go-lucky nature of comic book characters enjoy the odd deus ex machina now and again and her unbelievable prowess to get herself out of jams with her raw talents. This partly what I mean about that comic book ethos. Seeing her get into and against insurmountable odds only to flip and kick and smash her way out with a demented glee and no concern for explaining how or why is just a joy to behold.
From a weapon that fires rounds of potent confetti and on-brand clouds of smoke to her trademark mallet, this movie has us edging closer and closer to the woodchipper with a smile on our face. There’s a sequence that can only be described as bat kata. There’s a chase that turns Harley’s favorite hobby into a threat. And the entire climax seems purposefully built to maximize shenanigans.
The action, while over the top, still manages to be entirely digestible. It delivers some truly joyous moments with some incredible shot composition and clarity. It pulls in some popular moves you’ve probably seen before (e.g., some knee slides into leg sweeps and the ever-visceral full-body contortion via head slam into the ground) but with some truly bold wide shots you’d normally only get with, say, a Hong Kong action film. They stand in stark contrast to how you’ve previously seen these maneuvers, which is to say quick, closeup, and with jagged editing. It’s clear these actors put in the work to do these stunts.
And that each character only seems glad to be in the way of all of this is endearing, each one seemingly living in their own genre flick. The swirling vortex of intent and MacGuffins ropes in a beleaguered Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) trying to make a case against the deadly Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor) who is employing Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina) and Dinah Lance (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) to find a missing diamond that’s been stolen by Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) but once belonging to revenge-seeking Helena Bertinelli (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). And Harley somehow finds herself smack-dab in the middle of it all.
Perez, especially, brings a special kind of hardboiled Brooklyn detective bent to Montoya. It’s the sort of serious but aware commitment that makes a straight edge character work in an oddball world like this one. Just enough camp to keep a hold on her place amongst the more comic book-inclined. Whereas McGregor is fully loosed to be a gross, slimy, conniving, controlling, entitled trash bag and it’s terrific. He plays garbage as if he’s been doing it all his life and not charming the pants off of everybody near him.
And special shoutout to Winstead’s Huntress, who is stuck in a Lady Snowblood– or Kill Bill-like revenge story but doesn’t particularly grasp what that entails other than killing. It’s a special kind of weird that I can’t get enough of.
Birds of Prey doesn’t do everything. Its plot is thin and the emotional appeal is built to be just enough to care the requisite amount, but that doesn’t matter. Consider it the patter to a great magic trick—misdirection, really. Free from the shackles of saving the world from evil or the pressure of being a women-led film (though obviously women-led) as a statement about women, it wants you to look one way while it’s going another. Then, before you know it, you’re watching one of the most fun movies of the year.
Final Score: 8 out of 10
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Duchess of Sussex reveals she had miscarriage in the summer
Posted: Nov 25, 2020 / 03:13 AM CST / Updated: Nov 25, 2020 / 11:31 AM CST
FILE – Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at the annual Endeavour Fund Awards in London on March 5, 2020. The Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July. Meghan described the experience in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday. She wrote: “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.” The former Meghan Markle and husband Prince Harry have a son, Archie, born in 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others.
Meghan described the miscarriage in an opinion piece in The New York Times on Wednesday, writing that “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”
The former Meghan Markle and husband Prince Harry have an 18-month-old son, Archie.
The duchess, 39, said she was sharing her story to help break the silence around an all-too-common tragedy. Britain’s National Health Service says about one in eight pregnancies in which a woman is aware she is pregnant ends in miscarriage.
“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,” Meghan wrote. “In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.”
In a startlingly intimate account of her experience, the duchess described how tragedy struck on a “morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs. Take vitamins. Find that missing sock. Pick up the rogue crayon that rolled under the table. Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib.”
“After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right.”
Later, she said, she “lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.”
Buckingham Palace said it was “a deeply personal matter we would not comment on.”
Sophie King, a midwife at U.K. child-loss charity Tommy’s, said miscarriage and stillbirth remained “a real taboo in society, so mothers like Meghan sharing their stories is a vital step in breaking down that stigma and shame.”
“Her honesty and openness today send a powerful message to anyone who loses a baby: this may feel incredibly lonely, but you are not alone,” King said.
Meghan, an American actress and star of TV legal drama “Suits,” married Harry, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, in a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle in May 2018. Their son was born the following year.
Early this year, the couple announced they were quitting royal duties and moving to North America, citing what they said was the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media. They recently bought a house in Santa Barbara, California.
The duchess is currently suing the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper for invasion of privacy over articles that published parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father after her wedding.
Last month, a judge in London agreed to Meghan’s request to postpone the trial from January until fall 2021. The decision followed a hearing held in private, and the judge said the reason for the delay request should be kept confidential.
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Posture can affect your mood: Northwestern University study
by: Dina Bair
EVANSTON, Ill. – Sitting at a desk, staring at a computer can be pretty boring work.It can even bring you down.
But when you succumb and let your body angle toward the ground, that makes your mood plummet.
“This is something we have implicitly known for a long, long time which is that when you are feeling energized, courageous, proud you tend to have a stronger, taller posture than when you are feeling down, Dr. Mark Reinecke, Northwestern University Chief Psychologist.
But it turns out the mood doesn't always direct the posture. By sitting straight -- you'll smile. Slumping you'll scowl. Body position alters the brain.
“It appears to have direct biological effects on hormone levels, on cortisol levels, testosterone levels and that's the remarkable thing,” says Reinecke.
It's called embodied cognition.
Repeated studies have shown a change in brain chemistry is triggered by changes in body position.
People sitting upright had more empowering thoughts and lower stress hormone levels than their bent over counterparts filled with negativity.
“Our moods are regulated by sub-cortical systems in the brain that are regulated by the frontal lobe and higher cortical function. These systems are very sensitive to what's happening in our environment including our bodies,” says Reinecke.
In his own practice -- Northwestern University Chief Psychologist Dr. Mark Reinecke encouraged his patients to stand at the precipice of their world.
“I will pose them like that, put your foot out, your chest out. Lean into your life and I'll say how do you feel?” he asks.
The answer -- powerful.
We wanted to see the effect in action so we didn't tell them why, we simply asked students -- some incredibly stressed out -- to take that carpe diem pose.
Many reported they felt powerful, happier in the upright posture.
It's something people who practice yoga have known for centuries -- and now science is confirming real changes in the brain associated with a change in body position.
But the effect doesn't last forever.
“These are momentary changes in your physiology. They are not going to have a long term or enduring effect. But they will put you in a clearer mental space to be able to take on whatever challenge you are approaching at the moment,” says Reinecke, adding “It's worth trying on your own because it does work!”
In the same way standing up straight and improves mood, softening your body and tossing your arms around can throw stress right out of the body.
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NEW YANNY/LAUREL?: Is Grover Saying the F-Word In This!?
We here on 'The Internet' love two things: kids' characters being inappropriately adult and illusions of perception. You know, is the dress blue or white? Are they saying Yanny or Laurel? Or, in this case, is Grover, Sesame Street's beloved sweet natured little Muppet, who would never a cuss word speak or even think, saying "Yes, Yes, That Sounds Like...
Funny, Viral, Weird
We here on ‘The Internet’ love two things: kids’ characters being inappropriately adult and illusions of perception. You know, is the dress blue or white? Are they saying Yanny or Laurel? Or, in this case, is Grover, Sesame Street’s beloved sweet natured little Muppet, who would never a cuss word speak or even think, saying “Yes, Yes, That Sounds Like An Excellent Idea” or “Yes, Yes, That’s A Fucking Excellent Idea”. I mean, of course he’s not actually saying the f-word, or at least he doesn’t mean to, but man, you listen to this thing thinking he is, and you are in for a weird little shock. It was discovered on Reddit by user u/shrodert.
It’s kind of like the “Brainstorm/Green Needle” video from a few months back. What you think he’s saying is the sound your brain will play. Again, obviously Grover would never swear. The man has an children’s entertainment career to consider. But I love that the new Yanny and Laurel and has come from such an unexpected source. I mean, what’s the context here? What did Rosita (the light blue Muppet) say to Grover to get him so excited? It can both sound like an excellent idea AND be a fucking excellent idea.
And if a little kid would hear the f-word, don’t worry, just sit them down, with footage of the audio file and the world of many experts from the field and explain the complicated science behind audio illusions, and the way perception and bias helps you hear the phrase that you think is coming, and how it has to do with the age of your ears and the pitch you hear and so on and so on.
Or just give the kids some soap, and have them try to wash out Grover’s mouth. Pause the screen. Teach Grover a damn lesson. swearing Muppet. Thinks he’s got it all!
What do you think of the new audio illusion? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter at @WhatsTrending.
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Jet Receives Awards in Print Competition
Downers Grove, Illinois - May 03, 2008 -- Jet received a total of six awards for outstanding achievement in the 6th Annual 2008 Pinnacle Print Awards Competition, a two-state printing competition hosted by the Printing Industry of Illinois and Indiana, the states' trade association for printing and the graphic arts.
Competing against 392 entries from printing and graphic arts firms from the two states, Jet received three "Best in Category", which is the highest level of awards. The company's winning submissions are as follows:
Best of Category
Holiday "Bling" Card - Cards
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Calendar - Environmentally Sound Materials
Cefotetan APP Mailer - Single Promotional Self-Mailer
Giordano Pocket folder - Presentation Folders/Portfolios (4 or more colors)
Inter Ocean Recruiting Brochure - Brochures and Broadsides, Small (4 or more colors)
Insight Beverages Mailer - Single Promotional Self-Mailer
Certificate of Merit
JetPak - Print/Graphic Arts Self Promotion
"It is very gratifying to be recognized by our peers and the PII," said Jeff Norby, the President of Jet. "It is particularly satisfying to receive recognition for our work with plastics - an area in which we excel - and also for our work with commercial paper products - an area in which we have a long history of high quality and performance."
Polly Jensen, PII's President and CEO, adds, "Each year, the Pinnacle Print Award competition grows in size and intensity. The quality of the 2008 entries was impressive; print excellence abounds in Illinois and Indiana. Jet should be very proud of this fine achievement and the exceptional work done by its employees."
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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program.
Philly parents complaints not about curriculum, says Pa. education head
Kevin McCorry
With resources stripped to bare-bones levels, parents in the Philadelphia school district filed more than 800 complaints last year to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
The office hasn’t investigated the claims, and last month The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court on behalf of seven parents and the advocacy group Parents United for Public Education in an attempt to compel action.
On Friday, Pennsylvania education secretary Carolyn Dumaresq petitioned the court to dismiss the case.
Dumaresq reasons that the complaints are not curricular, and thus don’t legally demand a state investigation.
Ben Geffen, an attorney with the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, says Dumaresq’s logic is wanting. Many of the complaints, he says, were about insufficient offerings in state mandates such as foreign language and physical education coursework, as well as programs for gifted students.
Parent plaintiffs also decried the school district’s lack of guidance counselors and classroom overcrowding.
“It’s difficult to understand how these types of allegations could be anything other than curricular,” said Geffen.
Dumaresq has referred the complaints to the Philadelphia School District itself.
“That’s no kind of investigation,” said Geffen, who wants the state to do an independent probe.
“If you file a complaint against your car insurance company with the state department of insurance,” he said, “you wouldn’t be very pleased if you got a letter back saying, ‘we’re going to refer your complaint to your insurance company.'”
Geffen believes the Court will side with the parents and force Dumaresq to take corrective action.
“And if it’s an issue of money,” he said, “the state ultimately is who has the responsibility to make sure that adequate money is available for the school to provide a full curriculum.”
The State Department of Education could not be reached for comment on the Columbus Day holiday, but in the past has said it doesn’t discuss pending litigation.
King’s speech: Delaware students emulate MLK in spoken word contest
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N.J. law strengthening Amistad Commission aims to help students learn ‘our real history’
Changes aim to strengthen the panel by giving it more independence and ensuring that the curriculum it helps develop is used more widely in New Jersey schools.
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Five decades later after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the neighborhood school is fighting to provide a high-quality education.
About Kevin McCorry
@bykevinmccorry kmccorry@whyy.org
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Deconstruction of one bike was necessary and that was mostly done last week. Some parts still need trimming but DEconstruction is done. CONstruction was started by building a seat. The seat doesn’t really seem like the logical place to start, more of a detail, but when it comes to determining the positions of the handlebars and pedals the seat should already be in place so there is a starting point. The first attempt at a seat was PVC tubes on 1/4" (18.75mm) threaded rods. The shape was good but the rods were too flexible. Larger rods would have gotten heavy so the design was scrapped.
Failed seat materials
The next day a design was sketched out for a wooden seat and parts were purchased. The design relied on some metal parts for reinforcement but was really just a couple slabs of wood holding dowels.
Sketch for wooden seat design
Angle braces were purchased to make a seat bracket. The brackets were arranged so they would tighten on a 1/4" (20mm would work well) rod which could be clamped by the seat post.
Flat seat bracket made from angle braces
Some ordinary 1x2 lumber and dowels were purchased along with some foam padding which would fit over the dowels. The wood was all cut to length according to the sketch and the hardware was used to assemble everything into a seat that kind of looked like lawn furniture. This model was significantly stronger than the PVC version.
Wooden bike seat
Hardware for attaching the bike frames was lost so new hardware had to be purchased. Hardware for attaching the upper frame had not been purchased at all. Two analogs, things with the same diameter, were picked up around my apartment and brought to the store so I could find clamps that would fit.
Store purchases next to analogs
Purchased hardware was attached to the bike frames and fit well. The bikes frames were laid on their sides and the hardware pieces were attached so the frames could be arranged into a ridable configuration. Nothing was tightened yet.
Arrangement of hardware for attaching bike frames
The seat was attached to the bike and the pedal arrangement was checked. It fit well and was reasonably comfortable. The seat would not be suitable for long periods but it can be covered with ordinary cushions. The upper bike frame was held in place with twine for this test. Twine is not part of the final design. Shocking I know.
Sitting on bike while upper frame is suspended by twine
Attaching the old wheel sockets was not a problem but attaching the rest of the frame has proven difficult. Again, it is important to me that the frame doesn’t get drilled because holes would weaken it and considerable force may be applied through these tubes. Wide braces were purchased with the hope of connecting the frames together. This hardware didn’t work. The frames were not firm, they would wobble.
Attempt to use wide brace and cable clamp
More care will have to be taken when arranging the pedals for final installation. If the pedals are too low they will interfere with the front wheel.
Pedals will interfere with wheel
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Yum Yum Korean Food Story 2
Moon Eun Joo, Kwak Ki Hyuk, DOLGOJI STUDIO
Publisher: STUDIO DOLGOJI
Introduces the origins of Korean food through mouthwatering illustrations. What comes to your mind when you hear the term “Korean food”? You may have heard of dishes such as bibimbap, bulgogi, and tteokbokki. However, Korean food is much more diverse than these. Take Andong-style braised spicy chicken with vegetables (Andong jjimdak), grilled short-rib patties (tteokgalbi), and ox bone soup (seolleongtang) for instance! What else is there, and when did people begin eating these dishes? We are going to travel to various parts of Korea to taste delicious Korean food and learn about their origins. Let the journey begin!
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Rolls Royce CEO sticks it to fossil fuels, announces the future of flight is electric
By Matthew Griffin Future Transport 26th March 2017
The airline industry has been grappling with the dual challenge of rising fuel costs and increasing pollution levels for decades, but now executives agree the future is electric.
Twenty years ago if you’d said that the future of cars was electric people would have scoffed in your face, but now, with major advances in battery energy density, polymers and supercapacitors noone’s laughing anymore. Now, as the US gets ready to roll out 250,000 miles of new electric vehicle charging corridors, and Germany bans sales of the combustion engine from 2030, it’s a question of when, not if, electric vehicles become the status quo.
Now Rolls Royce too is looking to an electric future, as its CEO, Warren East, positions the engineering company at the forefront of the next revolution in aviation – electrically powered aircraft.
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East, setting out his plans to return the company to profit after one of the most troubled periods in its history, said Rolls Royce needed to be reshaped so that it could help to lead a number of big technological changes, including one of the most ground breaking of all – electrically powered aircraft.
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“There’s a lot of chatter about hybrid electric flight, not just little aeroplanes but regional aeroplanes. I’m convinced we will see these things happen sooner rather than later,” he said, adding, “there is a race on. We need to be ready by 2020 because people are talking about entry into service by 2030.”
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Best Car Show (2016)
St. Paul's Back To The 50's Wins Best Car Show
Charlotte AutoFair takes runner-up spot
For automobile enthusiasts, there's nothing quite like getting up close to a cutting edge debut supercar or vintage classic, popping the hood to gawk and the powerful machinery within or sitting in the drivers seat. These 10 car shows in the United States, voted as the best by 10Best readers from a pool of 20 nominees selected by a panel of automotive experts, deserve a spot on any motorhead's bucket list.
The Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul hosts Back To The 50's (June 17-19, 2016) each summer – a celebration of hot rods, customs and classics with nearly 12,000 registered vehicles. The event also includes live 50's music, a flyover and a gigantic swap meet, as well as activities and games for kids and 'tweens.
Photo courtesy of Greg Gjerdingen / Flickr
Charlotte AutoFair
Each year in April and September, the Charlotte Motor Speedway gets taken over by the Charlotte AutoFair (September 22-25, 2016). Collector vehicles are for sale (or for window shopping), as are restoration parts and supplies for almost any vehicle ever produced.
Photo courtesy of steviep187 / Flickr
Amelia Concours d'Elegance
Fernandina Beach, Fla.
Since 1996, Fernandina Beach has hosted the annual Amelia Concours d'Elegance (March 10-12, 2016) – a beauty pageant for rare and vintage cars featuring more than 300 vehicles from collections around the world. Proceeds from the charitable event go toward charities on Florida’s First Coast.
Photo courtesy of Rashba.com
EyesOn Design
Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.
Staged at the beautiful Edsel & Eleanor Ford Estate in Grosse Pointe Shores near Detroit, EyesOn Design (June 19, 2016) showcases 200 to 300 invitation-only vehicles curated based on an annual theme. Other special exhibits feature concept cars and production vehicles from the previous year's auto show circuit.
Photo courtesy of Terry Bone / Flickr
The Chicago Auto Show (February 11-20, 2017) was first held in 1901 and is today the largest auto show in North America. Put on by the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, the event features 1 million square feet of exhibits within McCormick Place, including world and North American introductions, competition vehicles, collector cars and concept cars. In total, more than 1,000 different vehicles are on display during this Windy City event.
Photo courtesy of Chicago Auto Show
The Elegance At Hershey
Hershey, Penn.
The Elegance At Hershey (June 9-11, 2017) is a weekend celebration of exquisite automobiles from a bygone era. Events include a vintage hill climb to the Hotel Hershey, an auction and the signature garden party where the world's finest collector cars are on display.
Photo courtesy of Patrick Cain / Flickr
Luftgekuhlt
Vernon, Calif.
Luftgekuhlt (April 10, 2016) celebrates all things air-cooled. While venues and details often change from event to event, they always include a curated display of historically significant or interesting vehicles – both race and street.
Photo courtesy of mcipseric / Flickr
Monterey Bay, Calif.
Pebble Beach is no stranger to elegance, and that's particularly true during the Concorso Italiano (August 20, 2016) – the world's largest Italian automotive event. Part of Monterey Bay Automobile Week, this one-day event features nearly 1,000 exotic cars on display at Black Horse Golf Course.
Photo courtesy of Patricia Rose
Telluride Festival of Cars and Colors
Telluride, Colo.
The beautiful fall foliage of the San Juan Mountains sets the stage for the annual Telluride Festival of Cars and Colors (September 29-October 2, 2016). Entering its second year, this new event carries on the Concours d’Elegance tradition with a display of the world's finest million-dollar automobiles.
Photo courtesy of Telluride Festival of Cars and Colors / Facebook
Annual Street Rod Nationals
During the Annual Street Rod Nationals (August 4-7, 2016) in Louisville, pre-1986 autos compete for top honors. These vehicles, eye candy for vintage auto enthusiasts, are often decked with innovative paint jobs, luxury interiors and state-of-the-art sound systems.
Photo courtesy of National Street Rod Association
The top 10 winners in the category Best Car Show are as follows:
Back To The 50's - St. Paul
Charlotte AutoFair - Charlotte
Amelia Concours d'Elegance - Fernandina Beach, Fla.
EyesOn Design - Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.
Chicago Auto Show - Chicago
The Elegance At Hershey - Hershey, Penn.
Luftgekuhlt - Vernon, Calif.
Concorso Italiano - Monterey Bay, Calif.
Telluride Festival of Cars and Colors - Telluride, Colo.
Annual Street Rod Nationals - Louisville
A panel of experts partnered with 10Best editors to picked the initial 20 nominees, and the top 10 winners were determined by popular vote. Experts Eddie Alterman (Car and Driver magazine) and John Davis (MotorWeek) were chosen based on their extensive automotive industry knowledge.
Additional nominees for the title of Best Car Show included Concours D'Elegance of America, Hemmings Concours d'Elegance, Los Angeles Auto Show, Miami International Auto Show, New England International Auto Show, New York International Auto Show, North American International Auto Show, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, The Texas Hoedown and Woodward Dream Cruise.
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Eddie Alterman
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Eddie Alterman is the editor-in-chief of Car and Driver magazine, the largest monthly automotive title in the country. Since taking the wheel of Car and Driver in 2009, Alterman has overseen a lauded redesign of the magazine, bolstered the brand’s digital and social media efforts, and launched multiple apps and tablet versions of the brand. Alterman was also responsible for the magazine’s successful campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of texting while driving. In 2013, Alterman was named to Complex Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Influential People in the Auto Industry” (#38).
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Bobby Witt Jr. Immediately Impresses Royals With Amazing Summer Camp Debut
By Scott Rogust | Jul 4, 2020, 12:38 PM EDT
Royals 2019 first-round pick Bobby Witt Jr. made a huge impression on manager Mike Matheny. | Will Newton/Getty Images
The Kansas City Royals fell back down to earth after the team's World Series victory in 2015. With many of the faces of that championship team having left, the Royals opted to begin rebuilding the roster. Perhaps the key figure for Kansas City's future is 2019 second overall pick Bobby Witt Jr., who's already made a good impression on his team.
On the very first day of Royals summer camp, Witt had a memorable 12-pitch at-bat against a major league pitcher, culminating in the shortstop prospect hitting a one-hopper off the right field wall. No one was more excited to see this than his manager, Mike Matheny.
Today’s Royals notebook: Bobby Witt Jr. catches Mike Matheny’s eye with superb big-league camp debut: https://t.co/D9F7WNSYci via @MLB
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) July 3, 2020
“You watch young guys come here like him, and he has just so much excitement and such a bounce in his step,” Matheny said, via Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com. “You can’t step into a cage against a Major League pitcher and put together a solid at-bat like that without doing a ton of work leading up to it.”
Matheny wouldn't out the pitcher who surrendered the hit to the youngster, which you have to respect. But you can tell that the Royals skipper cannot wait to have Witt in his everyday lineup in the near future.
Our 60-player club pool for Summer Camp is set. pic.twitter.com/QwwGYvkiW8
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) June 28, 2020
Witt initially wasn't invited to spring training earlier this year, but after the months-long delay to the 2020 season caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Matheny opted to add him to the 60-man player pool. The move was made for developing Witt instead of having him sit at home, due to the cancellation of the minor league season.
It may not be this season, but Witt appears to be on the fast track to make his major league debut very soon after making a new fan in Matheny.
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Ukraine: The Waiting Game For The NATO Neo-liberal/Neo-fascist Junta To Go Broke
Pepe Escobar / The 4th Media News on 2014-05-14
Ukraine: The waiting game
Everything one needs to know about mediocre political elites allegedly representing the “values” of Western civilization has been laid bare by their reaction to the referendums in Donetsk and Lugansk.
The referendums may have been a last-minute affair; organized in a rush; in the middle of a de facto civil war; and on top of it at gunpoint – supplied by the Kiev NATO neo-liberal neo-fascist junta, which even managed to kill some voters in Mariupol.
An imperfect process? Yes. But absolutely perfect in terms of graphically depicting a mass movement in favor of self-rule and political independence from Kiev.
This was direct democracy in action; no wonder the US State Department hated it with a vengeance. [1]
Turnout was huge. The landslide victory for independence was out of the question. Same for transparency; a public vote, in glass ballot boxes, with monitoring provided by Western journalists – mostly from major German media but also from the Kyodo News Agency or the Washington Post.
What should come after the Donetsk People’s Republic proclaimed itself a sovereign state, and asked Moscow to consider its accession into Russia, is not secession, nor outright civil war, but a negotiation.
That’s clear by the Kremlin’s measured official reaction: “Moscow respects the will of the people in Donetsk and Lugansk and hopes that the practical realization of the outcome of the referendums will be carried out in a civilized manner.”
The cautious tone is also reflected by the Kremlin urging the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to help broker the negotiation.
Yet once again, there’s concrete proof that the NATO neo-liberal neo-fascist junta does not want to negotiate anything. Farcical “acting” President Oleksandr Turchynov labeled the exercise in direct democracy a “farce, which terrorists call the referendum”; and Washington and Brussels branded it “illegal”.
And all this after the Odessa massacre; after the deployment of neo-nazi paramilitaries disguised as a “National Guard” (the goons US corporate media calls “Ukrainian nationalists”); dozens of CIA and FBI agents on the ground; plus 300 of the inevitable Academi – former Blackwater – mercenaries.
What else to expect when the current Ukrainian Secretary for National Security is neo-nazi Andriy Parubiy, the previous commander of the Maidan’s “self-defense forces” and a cheerleader of World War II nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.
Banderastan – with its remix of 1980s Central American-style death squads – doesn’t do referendums; they’d rather burn to death ethnic Russian civilian “insects” who dare to occupy buildings.
So this is the key message of the referendums. We reject the Kiev NATO neo-liberal neo-fascist junta. It’s an illegal “government” of putschists. We are not “pro-Russian” separatists. We don’t want to secede. What we want is a unified, federal and civilized Ukraine, with strong autonomous provinces.
R2P, anyone?
The Empire of Chaos wants – what else – chaos. Crucially, the Empire of Chaos now blatantly supports the deployment of an “army against their own population”; this was strictly verboten – punishable by NATO bombs or NATO-enabled jihad – in Libya and Syria, but now is just the new normal in Ukraine.
In Libya and in Syria – they tried three times at the UN – this would be the ultimate pretext for R2P (“responsibility to protect”). But in Ukraine the “terrorists” – Dubya-era terminology included – are the population, and the good guys are the Kiev neo-nazi militias.
US ambassador to the UN and top R2P cheerleader Samantha Power exceeded all her previous levels of batshit craziness when she depicted the NATO junta onslaught against civilians as “reasonable” and “proportional”, adding that “any of our countries” would have done the same in face of such a threat.
Berlin, for its part, wants, tentatively, to go the diplomatic way, although there’s a clear split between stony Atlanticists and German captains of industry – who have identified clearly how Washington is aiming no holds barred to destroy the Russo-German economic synergy.
The Empire of Chaos’s game is to erect a wall between them, manifested in practice by a Russian “invasion”.
It’s true that Moscow could easily pull a Samantha and invoke R2P to protect Russians and Russophones in Ukraine. But chessmaster Putin knows better than to invent a new Afghanistan in his western borderlands.
For Berlin all that matters is the economy. Germany will grow by 1.9% at best in 2014. With 6,200 German businesses in Russia and over 300,000 German jobs depending on two-way trade, American-style sanctions are beyond counter-productive, although Russophobia and Cold War 2.0 hysteria remains somewhat rampant.
Paris, for instance, has seen the writing on the wall. The US$1.66 billion contract to sell two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia will go ahead, as Paris diplomats admitted the cancellation – in terms of penalties and lost jobs – would hurt France much more than Russia.
Over a month ago, on April 10, Putin sent a crucial letter to the 18 heads of state (five of them outside of the EU) whose countries import Russian gas via Ukraine. He was more than explicit; Moscow could not by itself keep financing the about-to-default Ukrainian economy. Between discount after discount and failing to impose penalty after penalty, since 2009 Moscow has subsided Kiev to the tune of an astonishing $35.4 billion. Europeans, Putin wrote, would also have to come to the table.
That spectacular nullity, outgoing European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso, although agreeing a dialogue is necessary, answered that Gazprom’s new rule of only allowing gas to flow to Ukraine if paid in advance was “worrying”. As if any European energy major would gladly dismiss unpaid bills.
A neutral, Finlandized Ukraine would finish off for good the current mess. It’s just a matter of waiting for the NATO neo-liberal neo-fascist junta to go broke, and frozen to death.
Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge (Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.
(Copyright 2014 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.)
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Home » News » Finance » Tax Ombudsman rules CBR circular as void
Tax Ombudsman rules CBR circular as void
in Finance, News June 3, 2004 27 Views
ISLAMABAD (June 01 2004): The Federal Tax Ombudsman, Justice Saleem Akhtar, has decreed that a circular of CBR regarding new conditions for registration under sales tax is void and should be withdrawn. In its place, the conditions should be made part of the rules through correct procedure of law.
The ruling was given in a case by Ziaullah of Gojra who said that the department had deliberately delayed his application for registration under sales tax. He said that the condition of personal appearance before the assistant collector of sales tax, presentation of identity cards duly certified by Nadra, and other points were demanded for some ulterior purpose.
The complainant had alleged that extra conditions were imposed because of some ulterior motive and to harass the applicants.
During hearings of the case Kamal Afzal, AC, Sales Tax, Faisalabad, presented a letter of Dr Kamal Azhar Minhas, Secretary (St-L&P0) dated 16.8.2003. The letter has prescribed the condition of personal appearance, visit to the premises and presentation of Nadra-certified NIC.
The delay in registration occurred because these conditions were not fulfilled in time.
The FTO found that the grievance of delay had been removed but on perusal of the new sales tax registration it was noticed that these were not framed according to law.
The circular of Sales Tax Secretary reads:
SUBJECT: NEW SALES TAX REGISTRATION: As the existing rules/procedure for sales tax registration do not provide sufficient check to ward off the applicants who want to abuse the system and in order to provide safeguard against possible abuse of the system, the Collectorate of Sales Tax and Central Excise (East) Karachi carried out an exercise of processing new application of sales tax registration.
After considering the outcome of the exercise, the following instructions are laid for the registration:
— All individual applicants (persons other than manufacturers/companies) for new registration be asked to appear in person before the registration authority for verification of their person, identity, along with supportive documents.
— Apart from declaration of business address of head office, manufacturing/business premises, branch offices etc in the application form, it shall be made mandatory for the applicants to declare home address and provide details of the property in their names;
— All applicants shall be required to submit a certificate from their banks, certifying the financial worth of the business concern;
— Authenticity of the applicant's ID card shall be checked by getting it verified from Nadra's record; the survey or verification of premises declared by the applicant shall be undertaken by a team comprising one Deputy Superintendent and one inspector. The Superintendent, Registration Division may get counter-verification done in at least 20 percent of newly registered cases; and
— The telephone numbers, cell numbers declared in the application form shall be got verified from the concerned department/company.
NOTE: It shall be the personal responsibility of Sales Tax Registration authority to ensure that all the columns of the application are properly filled in and duly verified and fed in the computer by the responsible sales tax functionaries. In case, it is found at any subsequent stage that the particular/ statements as furnished by the applicant were false/fabricated and have been wrongly verified the Assistant Collector who had issued the registration will be held responsible.
Signed (Dr Kamal Azhar Minhas) Secretary (ST-L&P)
The FTO's order adds: The perusal of the circular shows it seeks to materially modify the Sales Tax Registration Rules 1996 and contains new requirements for registration which are not even remotely envisaged in the law or rules.
In fact the opening words of the circular show that it was issued to overcome perceived deficiencies in the rules.
The very purpose of the letter was thus to obviously invalid because substantive change in law or rules cannot be brought about through circular instructions. If the rules were considered deficient, these should have been amended f by following the correct legal procedure.
The CBR has no power to add any conditions, which are not contained in the rules.
The FTO therefore concluded that the CBR letter dated 16.8.03 thus amounts to an act of maladministration as defined in section 2(3)(i)(a) and (b) of the ordinance of 2000.
The FTO recommended that the CBR should withdraw the circular and compliance be reported within 30 days.
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Ada has become the first programming language to establish the process for testing compilers’ implementation as an international standard. Ada compilers can be labeled as “certified as conforming to standard Ada” (informally called “Validated Ada Compilers”) only if they follow a specific route of testing and certification. In October 1999, the International Organization of Standards (ISO) approved the prescribed path in Ada: Conformity Assessment of a Language Processor (ISO/IEC-18009:1999).
The standard provides other programming languages with a compiler certification model to follow. If the C community, for example, needs to distinguish between compilers that translate standard C and those that permit nonstandard extensions or that fail to handle the entire language, the new ISO standard process for testing Ada compilers has blazed a trail to that goal.
The Ada community will not notice much change in the testing procedures except in the vocabulary (for instance, validation versus conformity assessment) and in a streamlined bureaucracy. The new standard codifies existing practices for testing Ada compilers that tool vendors have followed since the early eighties.
The Ada community is well-qualified to pioneer the standard. Ada is unique in insisting that software tools’ conformity to the language’s international standard be an integral part of marketing compilers. Facilities all over the world have tested standard Ada implementations for over 15 years.
The language’s designers realized that compiler testing is critical to Ada’s success. Testing compilers for translating “proper Ada” actually predates the first Ada standard of 1983. The designers intended the language-initially used in large embedded systems–to be dependable, reusable, portable, maintainable, and legible. Many different programmers working toward the same goal had to simultaneously write, reuse, and integrate software components. After being fielded, the systems were assumed to have a long life during which they would port to many different hardware systems.
Ada 95 continues this emphasis on high reliability. The language is used for most modern aircraft fly-by-wire controls and new air traffic control systems, as well as rail transportation systems and satellites. Ada has been used in the Chunnel and the subway systems in Paris, Hong Kong, London, and New York; for manufacturing Volvos in Sweden; and for controlling steel mills in West Virginia. The language is used for smaller applications, such as network switching systems and e-commerce applications, where adaptability and time to market are important factors.
To realize its purpose, Ada must execute reliably across platforms and national borders. In other words, it must be standardized. If Ada compilers translated dialects, not only would safety-critical verification of the software be difficult, but also the software would not be reusable, universally legible, or as maintainable. Today, the Ada Conformity Assessment Authority (ACAA) safeguards the procedures for testing Ada compilers’ translations against the ISO standard.
A history of Ada conformity assessment
The original big user of Ada, the US Department of Defense, first tested compilers’ conformity to standard Ada in 1984. In October 1998, the DoD handed conformance testing over to an industry group, the Ada Resource Association. The ARA consists of numerous Ada compiler and tool vendors who work together to promote and support Ada’s use in the commercial and government marketplace.
Having Ada vendors controlling the process of testing Ada compilers is very much like having the foxes guarding the hen house. The vendors could easily decide to make the process less rigorous, reducing its value for Ada users. Therefore, to safeguard the process, the Ada community agreed to make the testing process an international standard. This standard, ISO/IEC-18009, outlines the basic conformity assessment process. The standard does not specify such details as what to test or how to distribute the tests, but it does specify what is allowed and disallowed in testing.
Why is a separate authority needed?
The conformity assessment standard defines an independent agency–the ACAA–to manage the testing process. Although the Ada tool vendors finance it through the ARA, the ACAA’s real boss is the ISO, and its charges are the testing laboratories. Independent laboratories, or Ada Conformity Assessment Laboratories (ACALs), test the compilers. Because compiler vendors pay testing fees, they could put financial pressure on a lab to successfully complete tests. If a laboratory certifies a processor that does not meet the Ada standard, the testing becomes useless for users. The ACAA reduces this risk by ensuring that labs use the same detailed procedure. The ACAA and testing labs cooperate to develop the detailed procedures, with the ACAA as the final arbiter. This lets laboratories compete on the basis of price and service.
The ACAA enforces consistency by verifying that the ACALs follow the procedures for each completed testing, maintaining the test suite, and handling test disputes. Thus, the ACAA ensures that all labs use exactly the same tests. The ACAA also maintains the single, common list of successfully tested compilers.
The Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite (ACATS) includes both positive tests, which check that the language’s features work as defined by the Ada 95 standard, and negative tests, which check that the compiler rejects illegal Ada code. It is freely available to everyone from many sources, including the ACAA’s Web site, www.ada-auth.org/~acats.
The value of Ada conformity assessment
Ada users know that conformity assessment is the only objective presale assurance that a compiler implements Ada correctly. They consistently state that independent third-party testing is the most important feature of Ada conformity assessment. Although vendors might have a strong incentive to fudge results, the testing laboratory has verified that the compiler passes the tests. The Ada conformity assessment standard strengthens this advantage by providing an agency (the ACAA) to police the laboratories, ensuring comparable results from different testing laboratories. Moreover, the ACAA and the testing laboratories are independent organizations, minimizing the possibility of collusion. Finally, the free availability of the test suite and test reports also makes test results more reliable, because any interested party can repeat some or all of the testing. This provides yet another disincentive to cheating.
Because the test suite (ACATS) is freely available, all Ada vendors use it for regression testing and to judge the quality of their implementations even before they contract with a lab for testing. This inevitably improves the quality of Ada compilers because the test suite detects many problems, which the vendor eliminates, long before users are affected.
The common list of successfully tested compilers serves two purposes. Not only can users verify the testing of a particular compiler, they can also access the actual test reports. This is a more reliable way to determine a compiler’s test status than relying on a vendor’s information. Second, the list is complete and lets users find all compiler vendors that target a certain processor. Because not all compiler vendors are well-known, the list provides an Ada project manager with the most choices.
The Ada conformity assessment process resembles the open source movement in that the test source code and documentation are freely available, while testing services cost money. The new standard goes further by providing free maintenance to users of the process. No charge is made to a vendor or user that requests a test modification or disputes a test’s results; the ACAA bears the cost. Thus, users face no political, financial, or monolithic corporate obstacles in participating in the maintenance of tests and procedures. Consequently, the test suite is more likely to reflect real users’ needs.
Ada compiler testing continues unabated. Over 50 conformity assessments have been performed in the last two years. The test suite now contains more than 3,600 tests covering the full breadth of Ada 95. The suite expands existing tests and adds new ones as user and vendor needs evolve. New tests focus on recent corrections to the Ada standard-the most likely areas for processor errors.
Software engineers have always been confident of the quality of Ada compilers because the compilers were independently verified. The new ISO standard assures them that the procedure is protected against weakening by vendors. The standard is the product of 15 years of evolution of the process of Ada conformity assessment. The process has evolved to benefit everyone: users, vendors, and testing laboratories.
As demand for reliable software grows, other languages will need to establish procedures for testing conformity of compilers to their standard. Others could adapt the model and experience of the Ada language for other languages, especially where a strong central authority exists, as is the case with Java.
by Randy Brukardt
Randall Brukardt is the manager and Technical Agent of the Ada Conformity Assessment Authority. He has been involved with the Ada language for nearly twenty years, having been lead designer for a popular PC Ada compiler, an Ada 9x distinguished reviewer, and now is one of the editors for the Ada 95 standard. He still is Director of Technical Operations at R.R. Software, Inc, leading development of their compiler and Windows products. He occasionally finds time for travel and photography. Contact him at agent@ada-auth.org.
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SXSW Announces 2nd Round of Bands Scheduled to Perform
November 15, 2011 By Christine Thompson
November 15, 2011 – Austin, TX – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival is pleased to announce a second round of bands scheduled to perform at the 26th edition of the event taking place Tuesday, March 13 – Sunday, March 18, 2012 in Austin, Texas.
This is a partial list of invited acts scheduled to perform.
Alabama Shakes (Athens AL)
Asking Alexandria (York UK-ENGLAND)
Atlantic/Pacific (Brooklyn NY)
Bad Weather California (Denver CO)
Belligerence (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Ben Howard (Devon UK-ENGLAND)
Blouse (Portland OR)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Choir of Young Believers (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Dikes of Holland (Austin TX)
Duran (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Edison Chair (Austin TX)
Electric Eel Shock (Tokyo JAPAN)
Electric Wire Hustle (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Elias Haslanger (Austin TX)
Extrawelt (Hamburg GERMANY)
Fallulah (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Films of Colour (London UK-ENGLAND)
Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Hunters (Brooklyn NY)
Idiot Glee (Lexington KY)
J.R. Patton (Dallas TX)
Juan Cirerol (Mexicali MEXICO)
Lanie Lane (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Led Er Est (New York NY)
Lilly Wood and the Prick (Paris FRANCE)
Lonsdale Boys Club (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lucero (Memphis TN)
Miles Zuniga (Austin TX)
New Look (Hamilton CANADA)
Nick Jaina (Portland OR)
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children (Nuuk GREENLAND)
Oh Mercy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders (Los Angeles CA)
Polarsets (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PUJOL (Nashville TN)
Psychic Ills (New York NY)
Radiation City (Portland OR)
Schmillion (Austin TX)
Teengirl Fantasy (New York NY)
The Abramson Singers (Vancouver CANADA)
The Record Summer (New York NY)
Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN)
Wheelchair Sports Camp (Denver CO)
You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Zulu Winter (London UK-ENGLAND)
For a list of all of the bands announced so far, please go to http://www.sxsw.com/music/shows/bands. (This list is subject to change and is only a portion of the bands that will be performing at the SXSW Music Festival. Schedules and more band announcements will be announced at a later date.)
SXSW 2012, the world’s leading music industry event, marks the 26th edition by presenting this highly anticipated convergence of all things music. SXSW aims to educate and inspire participants by offering numerous industry events and countless networking opportunities. After a full day of events at the Austin Convention Center, attendees take to the streets for the world-renowned music festival which showcases over 2000 acts from over 55 countries on 90 stages throughout downtown Austin. Conference registrations and hotel requests are now being accepted. For more information on every aspect of SXSW please go to http://www.sxsw.com.
SXSW® 2012 is sponsored by Miller Lite, Sonicbids Chevrolet, IFC, Brisk, Pepsi, Monster Energy, freecreditscore.com and The Austin Chronicle.
BREAKING DAWN – NEW B ROLL FOOTAGE
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Reel Women Fish (10-10-17)
Reel Women Fish: A new cast on the art of the angle
Sisters are doing it for themselves! Women and girls are the fastest growing demographic in the sport of fishing. Photo by the U.S. Forest Service
Pass a riverbank or bridge as dawn breaks on any half-decent fishing season morn and, to the untrained eye, angling might appear a male-dominated pursuit.
The truth is fathoms deeper. Worldwide, women, men and children traditionally cast lines side by side to provide for the table. Here in the states, you’ll find a smattering of women among angling’s elite. But they also are the largest-growing demographic in fishing—and they are ready to teach other women (or men) to fish.
If you are a woman who’s curious about dipping into any type of angling now is a great time to cast a line at state park lakes where you can win prizes for your catch during the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2017 Trout Fishing Derby. The derby officially ends Oct. 31. However, lakes are still being stocked with trout. And, with the weather cooling down, the fish are bound to be biting, say WDFW fishing experts.
To top it off, there are more than 570 prizes waiting to be claimed, including gift cards, guided fishing trips, gear, boat rentals and much more! Catch a trout that has a yellow floy tag, (a brightly-colored numbered tube attached to the dorsal fin) and you could win a prize!
Michelle Pugh’s introduction to fishing was like that of many young women — trekking out with her father on a small boat in the Puget Sound when she was young.
It was fun, says Pugh, a graphic designer and long-time outdoor enthusiast, but a little repetitive just sitting and waiting around for the fish to bite.
Then, in high school, she met a guy who really liked to fish.
“I tell (my son) my dates with dad were hacking through the blackberry bushes to find the sweet spot on the river,” Pugh says. “After a while, I just realized it was our thing.”
So Pugh got hooked on both fishing and her fishing partner.
“When you are out there whipping the fly…It’s physical but it’s also very chill. I just love everything about it,” Pugh says.
Early on, it was a rare moment to see another woman out fishing, Pugh says. That is changing, slowly but definitely. Pugh notes many more women and girls casting flies every year and a growing number joining groups and events, such as Casting for Recovery, which supports retreats for women with breast cancer and Sisters on the Fly, an international organization that sponsors and hosts outdoor travel and fishing events just for women.
The one that didn't get away! Like a growing number of women, Michelle Pugh pursues her passion for fishing with her family.
It’s also a relief to be able to find proper equipment, which is increasingly being offered in sizes and styles better suited to women, Pugh notes.
Meanwhile, classes for are filling up. Washington Outdoor Women (WOW), a program of the Washington Wildlife Federation, can barely keep up with the demand for workshops, from basic survival skills to big game hunting and fly fishing, says Faith Roland, WOW Director and fly fishing instructor for 20 years.
The reasons for growth are as vast and varied as the women themselves, Roland says. But overall, she sees a strong desire to reconnect with the land and their food sources.
“There is a real joy in that process,” Roland says. “It is a great pleasure to establish an identity with places and an appreciation for and with the land.”
Once upon a time women, like these ladies fishing (successfully) at Lake Chelan in 1919, commonly fished alongside men. The sport has come full circle and many women are returning to catching and not just cooking the fish. Photo: U.S. Forest Service.
Ready to cast out your line for a new hobby that may well become a lifetime passion? Sign up for a class — or two — and then test your beginner’s luck at one of these great state parks lakes participating in the WDFW derby!
Curlew Lake State Park (Republic)
Big skies, tranquil waters and great fishing at a park with an old-time campground feel. What could be better? A prize trout! Or, if you get lucky, maybe even one of the record-breaking tiger muskie that WDFW plants in the lake annually.
Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park (Coulee City)
Both Rainbow and Deep lakes are being stocked here. Wide open and prone to great weather, this is a very nice park for camping and fishing adventures. Note: This park can get windy. Take appropriate cautions when casting and boating.
Alta Lake State Park (Pateros)
Where desert and mountains collide, you’ll find great fishing and a dramatic landscape to enjoy. Well on its way back to recovery since the Carlton Complex fire scorched the land in 2014, Alta Lake makes a great fishing vacation destination. And if they are not biting, try your luck at nearby Lake Chelan State Park!
Pearrygin Lake State Park (Winthrop)
Big skies and miles of great views are the icing on the cake at this great rainbow trout fishing lake in the Methow Valley. There’s a boat launch (fees apply), and both motor and human-powered craft are permitted on the lake. If the kids get tired of fishing, send them for a dip in one of the park’s two swimming holes (if it’s warm enough, of course).
Conconully State Park (Conconully)
Here there be paradise! This park has been a fisherperson’s favorite for decades. Two bodies of water are being stocked with prize-winners here: Conconully Lake and Conconully Reservoir. Stay the night in one of the five awesome, cozy cabins!
Battle Ground Lake State Park (Battle Ground)
A deep, placid volcanic lake set in a deep grove of Douglas-fir trees? Yes, please! This mirror-surfaced lake is for human-powered craft only. A great escape from the nearby bustle of Vancouver and Portland!
Seaquest State Park (Castle Rock)
A super camping park with plenty of fish for anglers and lots of other activities for those that are not. Enjoy a day of fishing on Silver Lake, and stop in to the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center located right across the road!
Columbia Hills Historical State Park (Dallesport)
No “buttes” about it! Head out to fish in the warm, inviting climes of this Columbia River Gorge park, and you will be guaranteed a great time—and likely some great catches, too! The stocking here is happening on Horsethief Lake, which dips inland from the river into the park.
Millersylvania State Park (Olympia)
A favorite Civilian Conservation Corps-era park for generations. Pretty setting in a classic Western Washington forest, State Parks' other Deep Lake is about as popular as a body of water can be. Our advice? You will have better luck parking and quieter fishing during non-weekend hours.
Lake Sylvia State Park (Montesano)
Lake Sylvia is everything you would imagine a beautiful fishing hole to be like and more! This park packs tons of recreational fun into its modest 233 acres. Tucked back in the woods near Montesano, this old logging camp boasts 15,000 feet of freshwater shoreline, a fishing dock (ADA accessible!) and popular bridge for fishing from. Non-motorized or electric craft only, please!
The first written fishing guide is credited to...A WOMAN! Outdoorsy gal turned nun, Dame Juliana Berners wrote "A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle" (A Treatise of Fishing With an Angle" around the turn of the 14th Century. It may be 600 years old, but it still has some great tips!
Have you got a great fishing story to tell?
Do share! Upload your state parks stories and photos here. We promise to believe your story on the one that got away!
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Autodesk Offers AutoCAD 2010 Software to Student Engineering and Design Community Members
Students and Educators Have Access to Industry-Leading Design Software and Resources
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the first time, Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) is making AutoCAD 2010 software, its flagship product for 2D and 3D design and documentation, available for free* to members of its global Student Engineering and Design Community. The Student Community is an online resource that offers numerous benefits to students and educators, including free design software, self-paced training, innovative curricula, global social networking, job listings and more.
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Financial Times Knocks Buhari Government, Says Nigeria Close To Becoming Failed State
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
The Financial Times of London has described Nigeria as a country going backwards economically and plagued with terrorism, illiteracy, poverty, banditry, and kidnapping and risks becoming a failed state if things don’t take a drastic turn.
The UK-based newspaper said this in an editorial on Tuesday titled, ‘Nigeria at Risk of Becoming a Failed State’.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.
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It said the abduction and subsequent rescue of over 300 schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina State, revived memories of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Borno State in 2014.
According to the newspaper, while the government’s claim that no ransom was paid to the abductors of the schoolboys remains doubtful, other acts of criminality could not be overlooked.
The editorial read in part, “The government insists no ransom was paid. Scepticism is warranted. In a country going backwards economically, carjacking, kidnapping and banditry are among Nigeria’s rare growth industries. Just as the boys were going home, Nigerian pirates abducted six Ukrainian sailors off the coast.
“The definition of a failed state is one where the government is no longer in control. By this yardstick, Africa’s most populous country is teetering on the brink.”
The newspaper also questioned the claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that Boko Haram had been technically defeated.
It said contrary to the government’s claim, Boko Haram remained an ever-present threat.
The Financial Times stated, “President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 pronounced Boko Haram technically defeated’. That has proved fanciful. Boko Haram has remained an ever-present threat. If the latest kidnapping turns out to be its work, it will mark the spread of the terrorist group from its north-eastern base.
“Even if ‘ordinary’ bandits carried out the mass abduction — as now looks possible — it underlines the fact of chronic criminality and violence. Deadly clashes between herders and settled farmers have spread to most parts of Nigeria. In the oil-rich, but impoverished, Delta region, extortion through the sabotage of pipelines is legendary.”
The newspaper said security is not the only area where “the state is failing”.
The Financial Times added that Nigeria has more poor people than any other country even as Nigeria has the highest number of out of school children on earth.
The newspaper stated that as oil continues to lose its value, Nigeria’s economy would worsen.
“The population, already above 200 million, is growing at a breakneck 3.2 per cent a year. The economy has stalled since 2015 and real living standards are declining. This year, the economy will shrink 4 per cent after COVID-19 dealt a further blow to oil prices.
“In any case, as the world turns greener, the elite’s scramble for oil revenue will become a game of diminishing returns. The country desperately needs to put its finances, propped up by foreign borrowing, on a sounder footing,” it said.
The newspaper said Buhari, who has less than three years left in office, must use the remainder of his term, to redouble efforts at improving security.
It advised the government to restore trust in key institutions, among them the judiciary, the security services and the electoral commission, which will preside over the 2023 elections.
The Financial Times said the #EndSARS protests led by Nigerian youths, signalled a glimmer of hope for Nigeria’s teeming youth population.
It added, “The broad coalition that found political expression this year in the EndSARS movement against police brutality provides a shard of optimism. At least Nigeria has a relatively stable democracy. Now Nigeria’s youth — creative, entrepreneurial and less tainted by the politics of extraction — should use that system to reset the country’s narrative.”
The newspaper concluded by saying that it was time for Nigeria to restructure its political system and concentrate on security, health, education, power and roads.
“At the present trajectory, the population will double to 400 million by 2050. If nothing is done, long before then, Nigeria will become a problem far too big for the world to ignore,” it warned.
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Truth Test: Hickenlooper ad claims Gardner left Senate for vacation
Democrat John Hickenlooper campaigned on not being a negative campaigner, yet paid for what appears to be his first negative ad against Republican Cory Gardner.
Author: Marshall Zelinger
Published: 9:44 PM MDT September 4, 2020
Updated: 9:44 PM MDT September 4, 2020
DENVER — He has a history of being the candidate who doesn't produce negative ads.
He's campaigned on not being a negative campaigner.
And yet, Colorado Democratic Senate candidate John Hickenlooper has paid for what appears to be his first negative campaign ad.
AD/CLAIM: "Cory Gardner’s on vacation for a month. No relief passed for the unemployed. No expansion of COVID testing. No more help for struggling ranchers and small businesses."
VERDICT: Because of the wording, this is a yes and no, but it's a bit of a cheap shot.
Yes, Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, the incumbent candidate, is not currently at work in Washington, D.C.
Is Gardner on vacation? No.
Scroll through Gardner's Twitter account and you'll see he's made multiple appearances throughout Colorado.
The Senate always has a scheduled "State Work Period" for August. There are multiple "State Work Periods" where all 100 Senators go to their home state and spend extended time. This is true of Gardner and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, so singling out Gardner for this is where this becomes a cheap shot.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is the one with the power to call the Senate back to work, not Gardner, and certainly not Bennet.
AD/CLAIM: "When John Hickenlooper faced an economic crisis, he made Colorado the number one economy in the country."
VERDICT: Another yes and no.
We've covered this "number one economy" claim in a previous Truth Test. In 2018, U.S. News and World Report gave ranked Colorado the number one economy based on:
Growth: 50%
Employment: 30%
Business Environment: 20%
As we stated in the previous Truth Test, there is no one organization that hands out "America's No. 1 Economy" award. U.S. News and World Report is just one publication that produces "Best of" rankings.
BOTTOM LINE: Hickenlooper distorts what Gardner is doing during scheduled time off from the Senate. Time off that Gardner, individually, cannot end.
The first 17 seconds of this ad are negative. Since he first ran for Denver mayor in 2003, Hickenlooper has been known as a positive campaigner. When he ran for governor in 2010, he produced an infamous ad where he goes into a shower, fully-clothed, to show his disdain for negative advertising.
2010 Ad: "I'm John Hickenlooper, and I guess I'm not a very good politician because I can't stand negative ads. Every time I see one, I feel like I need to take a shower."
Over the years, Hickenlooper has touted his positive campaigning. In June, when his Democratic primary opponent, Andrew Romanoff, used that shower ad and tweaked it to attack Hickenlooper, Romanoff was called out by prominent Democrats including Hickenlooper and even Gov. Jared Polis. Often, groups that support Hickenlooper are the ones that do the attack ads, while Hickenlooper can produce positive ads with his campaign money. Just like he had to explain why he repeatedly said on the presidential campaign trail that he didn't want to be a Senator and didn't think he'd be good at it, Hickenlooper will now have to explain his use of a negative political ad.
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Peter Doran: Performing Rights or Performing wrongs? The Play’s the Thing
October 5, 2016 by Peter Doran
At the start of each new year, my first job is to decide which plays we will produce for the next season. What a wonderful position to be in, all those great plays waiting to be produced and the choice is all mine. Sounds great but not quite that simple.
The first thing we need to examine before making a choice are our finances – what can we afford to do? This narrows down our choice dramatically. We have to work to a budget (as our finance department keep drumming on about) and that budget can vary depending on the box office success of last season or how reckless the Artistic Director was in sticking to his production budget.
The cost of set construction, lighting design, set design, wardrobe, royalties are reasonably consistent year to year regardless of the choice of play and can’t really be cut back on; the only real saving can be made through ‘actor weeks’. (One actor employed for one week equals one actor week, six actors employed for six weeks equals thirty-six actor weeks etc. etc.) Once it is decided to cut back on actor weeks then suddenly the amazing choice at your disposal has shrunk even further.
For this year’s Autumn show I could only afford eighteen actor weeks; in our pattern of 3.5 weeks’ rehearsal and 2.5 weeks’ performance, this translates into a production with just three actors. Not a great number of three handers spring to mind or get me excited but fortunately I had always had a strong desire to direct Skylight by David Hare, a great play with just three actors and one that had proved very popular at The National Theatre in 2014 and also via the NT Live satellite broadcast so all being well, should also meet the required box office target – great! All sorted? Not quite. To produce a play professionally one has to apply for the performing rights; generally straightforward as long as the play is not currently on in the West End or on Broadway. However, you do get the odd surprise; and true to form, the rights for Skylight were not available. Why? Apparently somebody had bought the exclusive rights and yet nobody was prepared to tell me who and for how long. Maybe the National still hold them and if so, why? Apparently they have no further plans for it, and anyway, why would performing it for two weeks in Milford Haven affect a production anywhere else the UK? No answers are forthcoming, the big boys have it sewn up and we have to have a rethink – a quick rethink as the Marketing department are on my back. I need a three hander and one that will do reasonably well at the box office; well there’s The Woman in Black of course, 25 years in the West End and still running so no chance of getting the rights for that and anyway, every year it tours to either Cardiff or Swansea so they’ll think it’s far too close; a quick glance at their website just to confirm things and then I can move on; but hang on, what’s this? It’s not touring into Wales at all this year – then surely worth a shot!
As I suspected, a quick email to the current West End producers brought a negative response, the rights were not available whilst the play’s running in the West End. Back to the drawing board. No, hang on, this is ridiculous, why can’t we produce it at the Torch? What possible harm can we do to the West End Production? How many people will decide to come to Milford Haven rather than go to the West End production? I put this to the producers but once again got the standard reply. Instead of getting on with finding another play, I now had the bit between my teeth. The Woman in Black is a good play, a great adaptation of the novel, audiences love it, it’s a box office smash and I WANT TO DO IT AND I WON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER!!!!
Now my staff here at the Torch feel that I need protecting, they won’t let any old Tom, Dick or Harry be put through to me on the phone, I’m far too busy and important and talented and handsome – they fob them off with an excuse, take their number and tell them I’ll get back to them if I’m interested. A lot of the time, I’d love to have somebody to talk to but they just won’t allow it. So the secret is to get past the person who answers the phone, once you’re past them you’re on the homeward straight; I managed this by trying to sound really important and in a hurry, he’d put me through to the personal assistant, so far so good; the PA was quickly side-stepped with a bright cheery attitude suggesting that I was an old mate and finally I’m chatting to the top dog. I explain where Milford Haven is on the map, I explain that we are seventy miles from Swansea and two hundred and fifty from London. I do the sob story of children in rural areas not getting to see the top shows due to distance and cost and how they always lose out. ‘I certainly don’t have any objection’ comes the reply. Oh my Goodness, I’ve cracked it, I’ve got the rights, the non-league team has beaten Manchester Utd!
And here we are about to open, I await news from The Stage regarding the sudden drop in audience figures for the West End production of the Woman in Black whilst coaches full of cockneys speed down the M4 towards Milford Haven. And I’m still looking for this mythical production of Skylight; does David Hare realise that’s he’s lost about two grand in royalties? Does he care?
I’m often asked ‘Do you get to choose all the plays?’ Well I do, but it’s never as exciting as it sounds and come January it starts all over again – Skylight?
Peter Doran
Artistic Director of The Torch Theatre and Director of The Woman in Black
Images of The Woman in Black: Drew Buckley
The Woman in Black runs at The Torch Theatre 5-22 October. For tickets and further information, visit www.torchtheatre.co.uk
Posted in In My Words/ Yn Fy Ngeiriau Fy HunTagged Peter Doran, The Torch Theatre, The Woman in Black
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great read and well done, you don’t get if you don’t ask
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When a decision feels tangled, try making a mind map
If you are trying to manifest something and you are stuck or don't even know where to start a Mind Map can help. Usually when we think about something we think about the whole thing. This can cause problems.
"I want to lose weight."
From afar that statment seems pretty clear but when you take a closer look at it there are a gazillion moving parts inside of it.
The same goes for manifestations of career.
"I want a job I adore."
Even if you can find the feeling of that, when you zoom in on the topic even just a little bit you might feel overwhelmed at all it entails.
"I want to buy a house."
"I want to hire a cleaning service."
"I want to get a new car."
Look more closely. There are swirls and movements and layers inside every want – even the desires that seem rather simple like "I want a new shirt I can wear to work". What does that mean? What kind of shirt? What price? What look? What color?
Nothing is just one thing.
In 2015 I realized I wanted to buy a house. I had never owned one before and the idea intrigued me. What would it be like to be able to paint the walls whatever color you wanted and stay as long as you can stay? Grow things in a yard you kept year after year? Build a long-term plan around your idea of "home"?
But then the idea felt overwhelming at times.
How do you do that house-buying thing? Mortgages and choices and long-term committment? My mind simultaneously snagged and ran rampant all at the same time. Was it the prospect of math or keeping it clean that daunted me or was it something else? Was getting a house in alignment with me? What comes next? Help!
That's when I learned how to do a Mind Map.
I have it somewhere here in my office... (Yes, the house I bought has an office for me! For me! Just for me! Muahahahaha!) but if I take the time to look for it I won't finish this post so I'll draw a new one on my computer instead. It's just an example and not completely filled in. Here it is. It's very fancy.
Here's how to make yours:
Mind Map Steps:
1. Get a piece of blank paper and draw a circle in the center. In that circle write what you want to manifest. Put a bit of feeling with it like: "A job I love" or "A life partner I adore and marry".
NOTE: While I made my Mind Map example online so I could put it in this post I recommed you use paper and pen/pencil. The process of writing is clarifying.
2. Draw a circle around that circle. In that circle write 2-3 things that are core concepts for what you want to manifest. Only write down things that feel good.
3. Around those circles on the paper, anywhere you want, start making lists. Brainstorm. Brain dump. Get out everything that comes to mind about that topic. For a job it could be:
Lunch options
For a change in weight it could be:
Cost of food
Going out with friends to eat
Enjoyment of food
Knowing how to cook or prepare it
Going to the gym
Paying for the gym
Whatever comes to mind, jot it down. Don't edit yourelf. While the writing inside the circles has to feel good the lists outside of the circles do not. If it comes to mind, write it down.
4. After you have you have completed your brainstorming / brain dump take a look at everything you have written – really pause and look – and circle the concepts or ideas or items that don't feel good.
Those are your blocks.
You may be surprised at what you didn't circle. I know I was.
In my Mind Map for manifesting a house I assumed I would have an issue with keeping it clean (because it would be a bigger house than the one I was currently renting in the Bay Area, darnit). But no, that wasn't a problem. I thought it would be leaving my friends. But no, that wasn't an issue either. Although I would miss them I felt at peace with the choice to move (as the Bay Area wasn't where I saw my new home) and I knew they supported me 100%.
It wasn't the money. The mortgage. The math.
It wasn't the prospect of gutters. Or choices. Or committment.
It was leaving family.
Specifically, my amazing in-laws who lived 20 minutes from us in San Jose. I stared at that circle on my Mind Map around "local family" and I lost it. Suddenly I was 6 years old all over again moving from New Jersey to Michigan with my new step-dad and mom and sister to a state where we knew no one. I was bereft. And I couldn't imagine doing that to my kids.
I was in a class when I made this Mind Map and my sharing partner was such a loving, warm soul. She was also a grandmother who's story was perfect for me right then and there. (Thank you, Universe.) She put her hand on mine and said: "My daughter and grandkids moved away to buy a house. It's hard but I know it's the right thing for them. They have to live their life and do what is best for them, just as you need to do the same for you and your family."
I looked into her eyes and a peace decended around me. Instead of a big, tangled, scary mess the idea of moving and buying a house suddenly seemed...doable. I knew what was bothering me and so now I knew what to work on. I could do that.
I grieved, and I let go.
What followed was an amazing turn of events so miraculous you just can't doubt the Universe's brilliance when you hear it. You see, I did move to a new state and I did buy my dream house (with my very own office!) and my in-laws are still 20 minutes away. They moved too. And now they live in THEIR dream house.
So don't let a project you are working on, whether it's health, career, money, love, or life in general, feel like an overwhelming issue forever. Make a Mind Map and see what you really need to work on, and maybe even more importantly, what you don't.
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All About Archie / Archie Meets Glee
I read this yesterday for the first time. It's pretty funny - if a bit on the wordy side.
Here's one thing that surprised me. It seems this is where Riverdale High's cheerleading squad was first called the River Vixens. Okay, technically, it's spelled Rivervixens here, but I was surprised to learn it was first used in a classic-style Archie comic story and was later reused on Riverdale. I'd always assumed Riverdale was the first to name them as such. RAS (the creator of Riverdale) wrote this story, so it seems he just borrowed the name from himself.
All About Archie / How many of each type of continuity came out in the last few years
I just crunched some numbers. I was curious as to how many issues/episodes representing each type of continuity within the Archie multiverse have come out within the time frame that the "current" gang has been in school (2015-2019).
I've sorted these into a few categories:
Digests (D)New Riverdale (NR)Archie Horror (AH), regardless of each of the different continuitiesClassic Archie (CA), just the floppy titlesAlternate Future (AF), the Life With Kevin miniseriesRiverdale (R), both episodes and issues (Riverdale Digest issues are counted under Digests)DC: the crossovers with DC( Harley and Ivy, Batman '66)Reprints (RP), the reprint floppy comics (Betty and Veronica: Friends Forever)
Ninth Grade (2015-2016, ages 13/14 - 14/15)
NR: 12
AH: 2
CA: 1
Summer Vacation (2016, age 14/15)
NR: 6
AF: 1
Tenth Grade (2016-2017, ages 14/15 - 15/16)
Eleventh Grade (2017-2018, ages 15/16 - 16/17)
DC: 6
RP: 1
All About Archie / Continuities that Riverdale has surpassed
So I've been keeping track, recently, of how Riverdale stacks up against other Archie continuities (specifically, adaptations in non-comic media). I equate one minute of running time with one page of prose and also with one comic page, even though the amount of content in a comic page is probably significantly less than what can be conveyed in one page of a novel or one minute of a show.
I've found, as of last night's episode (and including all Riverdale comic issues), Riverdale has surpassed, individually:
the 1962 and 1964 pilots
Josie and the Pussycats (HB cartoons)
The New Archies (episodes + comics)
Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
Riverdale High (novels, although this one's kinda debatable)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 Showtime movie)
Archie's Weird Mysteries (all episodes, all comic issues (including Archie's Mysteries), and the Jugman movie)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001 film)
Kevin (novel)
xoxo, Betty and Veronica (novels)
Betty: Diary of a Girl Next Door (novel)
Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch
New Riverdale (all issues of every series, although it might briefly regain the lead during the summer)
I'm not sure how long that the old-time radio show ran, but most episodes seem to no longer exist, so should that be counted as another win?
The loose continuity of Sabrina: The Animated Series, Sabrina in Friends Forever, and Sabrina's Secret Life will be equaled by episode 12 of season 3 of Riverdale and surpassed by episode 13. It will take longer if you factor in the issues of the corresponding Sabrina comic series.
The Filmation series is confusing. A lot of episodes seem to consist of recycled stories. There was even an iteration that consisted of nothing but repeats. Also, the majority of Archie's T.V. Funnies can be removed from competition, since it's mostly non-Archie content. So I'm not sure exactly how much content is in this "continuity", but it seems to be the next milestone for Riverdale to surpass after all of the DiC Sabrina stuff.
Obviously, the live-action Sabrina the Teenage Witch series is the most successful Archie Comics adaptation ever. Riverdale would have to last until episode 7 of season 5 in order to surpass it, and that's only if you don't count the plethora of tie-in novels.
Fan Fiction / Perfect Trust (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, sitcom)
For the past four months, I'd been working on a fanfic continuation of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (the Melissa Joan Hart sitcom). I just completed and posted it last night. It picks up just hours after the series finale and then covers over a year in the characters' lives. It's a Sabrina/Roxie ship fic with some explicit content (and a hell of a lot of cursing), so I'm not posting it here. Just follow the links. Here's the description:
What makes a person one's soul mate? How much does destiny or fate play into it, and how much is personal choice? When Sabrina Spellman reaches her lowest point, she begins to rise again - and reexamine what she thought she knew.
You can read it at either of these locations:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12776371/1/Perfect-Trust
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13176576
Feedback is appreciated!
All About Archie / Riverdale, season 2, episode 7
The B&V story was hilarious! These two do comedy really well. That reveal, though.
What's Cheryl's deal? She's making Josie think she's being stalked by Chuck. Is Cheryl developing feelings for Josie after Josie saved her from being raped and is trying to make sure that Josie doesn't "ride the Chuck Wagon"? Madelaine did say Cheryl's getting a love interest this season? Might Josie be it? (Cheryl referred to Josie as "my girl" in front of Chuck.) I'm not opposed, but I don't think deceiving and scaring Josie is the way to win her heart. Just tell her how you feel. What would the ship name be? Joryl? Chersie? The preview for next week's episode hints at a somewhat intimate moment between them.
All About Archie / Riverdale, season 2, episodes 5-6
Here are some random thoughts on the episodes:
Pussycat beatdown was awesome!
Madelaine Petsch is the best actor on this series, and Cheryl Blossom is the best character ever!
Cheryl ends up doing Betty a solid, even though her "dear cousin" had originally come to her house under the pretext of concern for her well-being (which Cheryl saw through).
The scenes between Cheryl and her mom were very good. In particular, the first one was heartbreaking. Sad Cheryl makes me cry.
Yay for Cheryl in short shorts. More, please.
Cheryl being high on Jingle Jangle was pretty funny.
So Veronica saves Cheryl from being raped, and Cheryl helps Betty out with some snooping. I think these three ladies are gonna become besties.
Just some random thoughts:
Betty actually likes Nancy Drew? That's a bit of an eyeroll moment, but it totally fits the version of the character that they're going with. Really, the whole bland/vanilla appearance that they put on Betty in this series is a bit too on the nose. I mean...she literally drinks "old-fashioned vanilla" milkshakes.
How can Cheryl be in three scenes but not have any lines? That, like, breaks the rules of awesomeness.
Pay attention in the town hall scene. When Fred's speaking, Hiram and Hermione are literally the only two people not looking at him. Wonder if that means anything.
All About Archie / Riverdale, season 2, episodes 1-2 (spoilers)
I figured I'd make a combined thread for both episodes, since there wasn't one for episode 1 last week.
RIP, Ms. Grundy, Moose, and Midge.
So Ms. Grundy's ex-husband isn't the Black Hood. Who is?
Betty kept a copy of the video of Clifford killing Jason. And she uses it to blackmail Cheryl, threatening to post it. Total bitch move. But Cheryl seems to have gained respect for Betty (in an odd sort of way).
Veronica's way of cheering up Archie: hawt, naked shower sex.
Still getting used to the new Reggie.
Cheryl lies on the witness stand about Clifford threatening F.P., even though, coincidentally, that's exactly what happened.
Hiram and Hermione can't be trusted.
Yay for Cheryl filling in as a Pussycat. That rooftop performance was cute.
Sweet Goddess, Cheryl is hot!
All About Archie / list of characters' birthdays
I just found this old file that I saved on January 18, 2010. I must have copied this information from an old version of the official Archie site:
Geraldine Grundy
Waldo Weatherbee
Benjamin Flutesnoot
Hiram Lodge
Mr. Svenson
Terry "Pop" Tate
Ms. Beazly
Dilton
Mary Andrews
Fan Fiction / Lightning in the Dark (Sabrina's Secret Life)
Sabrina's Secret Life
"Lightning in the Dark"
Author's note: Welcome to my fanfic. I had recently watched "Sabrina's Secret Life" on Netflix and fell in love with the series, so I decided to write a fanfic about what happens after the final episode, "Midsummer's Nightmare".
For those of you that are unfamiliar with this particular incarnation of Sabrina, here's an explanation. "Sabrina's Secret Life" is the third and final installment in a loose animated continuity of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The first was the 65-episode "Sabrina: The Animated Series" (1999-2000). The second was a TV movie called "Sabrina: Friends Forever" (2002). The third was the 26-episode "Sabrina's Secret Life" (2003-2004). Despite supposedly all taking place in the same continuity (they have the same character designs), the continuity between these three incarnations is pretty bad. Characters disappear without explanation and are replaced by new characters (also without explanation).
In "Sabrina's Secret Life", Sabrina is 13 years old and a high school freshman. After her regular school day, she attends a witches' school, which is accessed through a door in the basement of Greendale High School. This school consists of one classroom and is taught by some of her regular school teachers (who are secretly witches). Her sole classmate is Cassandra, the niece of Enchantra, the Queen of the Witches. Cassandra starts out as Sabrina's enemy. Over the course of the series, she becomes Sabrina's frenemy. Finally, in the series finale, the two of them become friends. Sabrina's requisite best friend in this incarnation is a girl named Maritza. Cassandra, the resident popular girl, has the requisite two friends: Tiffany and Margo. That's really about all that you need to know.
Oh, yeah, I guess maybe watch the series finale before you read this fic. Otherwise, the gist is Sabrina and Cassandra have to work together to put on the school's production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (with Sabrina as the director and Cassandra as Titania opposite Harvey's Oberon). Meanwhile, Puck (who's actually real) gets himself cast in the play, causing trouble. In the end, Sabrina and Cassandra come together and defeat Puck through the power of true friendship.
The childhood incident that Sabrina refers to can be seen in a 2000 comic story called "A Midsummer's Magic" in Cheryl Blossom #34 (available digitally). The song lyrics were written by Marty Wilde and Ricky Wilde and are copyright © 1981 by RAK Records.
Times written: Saturday, January 7, 2017, 8:04 PM - 8:45 PM; Saturday, January 28, 2017, 7:30 PM - 8:59 PM; Monday, April 17, 2017, 7:55 PM (EDT) - 9:46 PM; Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:53 PM - 6:30 PM, 6:59 PM - 8:36 PM; Friday, May 5, 2017, 6:17 PM - 6:30 PM, 8:59 PM - 9:20 PM; Saturday, May 6, 2017, 6:13 PM - 6:30 PM, 8:33 PM - 10:03 PM; Sunday, May 7, 2017, 7:18 PM - 8:48 PM; Monday, May 8, 2017, 9:45 PM - 9:58 PM; Saturday, May 13, 2017, 9:26 PM - 10:00 PM; Sunday, May 14, 2017, 9:21 PM - 9:41 PM; Monday, May 15, 2017, 7:05 PM - 9:45 PM; Thursday, June 1, 2017, 7:26 PM - 8:54 PM; Sunday, June 4, 2017, 7:42 PM - 8:35 PM; Friday, June 9, 2017, 8:15 PM - 8:56 PM; Saturday, June 24, 2017, 8:59 PM - 10:07 PM; Sunday, July 2, 2017, 7:38 PM - 8:11 PM; Monday, July 3, 2017, 1:25 PM - 2:29 PM, 2:51 PM - 3:41 PM, 3:57 PM - 5:16 PM
The following story is copyright © 2017 by Mark Moore.
S+C
Sabrina Spellman sat in witches' school, listening to Ms. Magrooney drone on about the proper way to do some kind of spell. She looked over at Cassandra, her best friend, who had seemingly zoned out.
Finally, Sabrina let out an involuntary yawn.
"Sabrina!"
Sabrina snapped to attention. "Yes, Ms. Magrooney?"
"Can you repeat what I just said?"
Sabrina thought for a moment. "No."
Ms. Magrooney looked at Cassandra. "What about you, Cassandra?"
Cassandra didn't react.
"Cassandra!"
Cassandra snapped to attention. "Huh?!"
"Have neither of you been paying attention?!"
Sabrina and Cassandra looked at each other and shrugged.
Ms. Magrooney sighed. "This will be on your final exam. You do want to pass, don't you?"
Sabrina and Cassandra sighed. "Yes, Ms. Magrooney."
"Well, I guess that's enough for today. There's one more thing that I want to discuss with you. Your production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was so popular that the school wants you to do an encore performance next Thursday evening."
The girls looked at each other.
Sabrina smiled. "I'm game."
Cassandra smiled. "Me too."
"Great. Discuss it with Harvey and the others and report back to me. Have a good weekend."
Sabrina and Cassandra stood up and picked up their magic books.
Sabrina smiled. "Let's stop by Harvey's and talk with him about it."
Cassandra smiled. "Okay."
Sabrina and Cassandra walked up to Harvey's front door.
Sabrina rang the doorbell.
Soon, the door opened. Harvey was standing there.
Harvey smiled. "Hey, Brina. Hey, Cassandra."
Sabrina smiled. "Hi, Harvey. Ms. Magrooney wants us to put on an encore presentation of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. You up to it?"
Harvey grinned. "Sure! When do you wanna start the rehearsals?"
Sabrina and Cassandra briefly looked at each other, and then they looked back at Harvey.
Cassandra smiled. "Give us a while to work out some of the kinks on the production side."
"Okay, let me know when you're ready."
Cassandra gave him a thumbs-up. "Will do."
Harvey closed the door.
Cassandra looked at Sabrina. "Wanna come by my place and help me practice my lines?"
"Actually, I need to get home. My aunts wanna speak to me about something. But you're welcome to come over."
"Okay, cool."
Sabrina walked into the living room. Cassandra followed and closed the door behind her.
"Aunt Hilda! Aunt Zelda!" Sabrina called.
"In the kitchen!" Hilda called.
The two girls walked into the kitchen.
The aunts were just finishing setting the table for dinner.
Zelda smiled. "Hi, Cassandra."
Cassandra smiled. "Hi."
Sabrina smiled. "Cassandra came over to practice her lines for the school play. Ms. Magrooney asked us to do an encore performance."
Hilda smiled. "That's great."
Zelda walked over to a cabinet. "I'll set an extra plate for dinner."
"What do you wanna talk to me about?" Sabrina asked.
Hilda brought the food over and put it on the plates. "We're attending a magic symposium in the Netherworld. There's a pre-conference mixer tonight. We wanted to let you know you'll be on your own until tomorrow evening."
"Okay."
"Call us if you need anything."
"I will." Sabrina smiled as she thought of an idea. "Hey, since it's the weekend, maybe Cassandra can stay over."
Hilda and Zelda looked at each other briefly and then looked back at the girls.
"Can we trust the two of you to stay out of trouble?" Zelda asked.
Cassandra smiled. "Of course."
Sabrina smiled. "No trouble at all."
Hilda shrugged. "I suppose it's okay."
Sabrina raised a fist triumphantly in the air. "Woo-hoo!"
The ladies walked into the living room after dinner. Hilda and Zelda magically floated their suitcases down the stairs.
Zelda smiled. "I'm glad that the two of you are getting along."
Hilda smiled. "Yeah. It's nice to not hear Sabrina complaining about Cassandra."
Cassandra looked at Sabrina and frowned.
Sabrina chuckled nervously. "It's all in the past."
"Okay, we're off." Zelda opened the portal to the Netherworld. "If you need something, just ask Salem."
Sabrina frowned and folded her arms over her chest. "Salem's a cat. What's he gonna do?"
Zelda chuckled. "Details."
She walked through the portal, and Hilda followed her. The portal closed.
Sabrina looked at Cassandra. "Do you want anything to drink?"
Cassandra smiled. "Sure. Got any energy drinks?"
Sabrina smiled. "Coming right up. Then we can head up to my room and rehearse the play."
"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania."
"What, jealous Oberon!" Cassandra exclaimed. "Fairies, skip hence: I have forsworn his bed and company."
"Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?" Sabrina asked.
"Then I must be thy lady..." Cassandra sighed. "Sorry, I'm just not feeling it. Can we take a break?"
"Sure." Sabrina went and sat on the floor, leaning against her bed. She set her book on the floor.
Cassandra went over and sat to her left. She set her book on the floor. "I don't know what's wrong."
Each girl picked up a can of Rockstar, opened it, and took a swig.
Salem walked into the room. "Girls, I'm off. There's an awesome cat food tasting in the Netherworld, and I intend to sample everything. You may need to come and get me tomorrow. I doubt I'll be able to walk."
"You're leaving?" Sabrina asked, surprised. "You were supposed to be our go-to guy tonight."
"You're complaining about a lack of supervision?" Cassandra asked incredulously. "This is what teenagers live for."
"Anyway, toodles." Salem hopped onto the windowsill and then outside.
Cassandra sighed.
"Is something wrong?" Sabrina asked.
"I don't know. Maybe. I'm not connecting to the material."
Sabrina gulped down the rest of her drink, crushed her can, and dropped it on the floor. "Maybe we oughta unwind for an hour or two and pick this back up later."
"What do you suggest?" Cassandra asked.
Sabrina smiled. "We've got a supreme pizza in the freezer."
Cassandra smiled. "Perfect!"
While Sabrina was getting the pizza out of the oven, Cassandra was looking through the cabinets.
"What are you looking for?" Sabrina asked.
"Where do your aunts keep their booze?" Cassandra asked.
Sabrina was surprised. "What? I wouldn't know."
Cassandra looked at Sabrina. "Seriously? You've never had the idea to sneak a drink when you've had the house to yourself? We have the house to ourselves for the entire night. This is a golden opportunity. We can be total bitches, pig out, get drunk, and end up shit-faced and passed out on your bedroom floor." Cassandra smiled to herself and sighed. "Good times."
Sabrina set the pizza on the stove top and helped Cassandra search. She came across a locked cabinet.
Cassandra walked over to her. "Allow me." She waved her finger, magically unlocking the cabinet. She opened it, looked inside, and grinned. "Jackpot!"
Sabrina looked inside. "Okay, what's your pleasure, wine or vodka?"
"Yes." Cassandra took out one bottle of each. "You cut up the pizza. I'll get some glasses and make us some screwdrivers."
Sabrina carried the pizza up to her bedroom, and Cassandra carried a tray holding four glasses of screwdrivers and the bottle of wine.
After they entered Sabrina's bedroom, Cassandra closed the door. The two girls sat on the floor by Sabrina's bed and set the food and drinks down.
Cassandra sniffed the pizza and smiled. "This smells really good."
Sabrina smiled. She had taken a supreme pizza and added extra cheese, extra sausage, extra pepperoni, extra olives, bologna, salami, bacon, and garlic sauce to it. It filled her with a certain amount of pride.
Cassandra picked up a slice, bit off the end, chewed, and swallowed. She licked her lips. "Mmmm, supremely decadent. You make a wicked-cool pizza, Bri."
"Thanks." Sabrina picked up a slice and started eating it.
Cassandra picked up one of the glasses. "To friendship."
Sabrina picked up another glass. "To friendship."
They clinked their glasses together and then sipped their drinks. Sabrina made a disgusted face.
Cassandra laughed. "Don't worry, you'll get used to it."
Sabrina quickly ate a bit more pizza. "Why'd we ever fight anyway?"
"I dunno. I guess I just had my prejudices." Cassandra sipped more of her screwdriver. "If I haven't said it enough yet, I'm sorry...about everything."
Sabrina smiled. "Water under the bridge."
Cassandra smiled. The two girls slowly sipped their drinks and ate their pizza for a while.
The telephone rang.
Sabrina stood up, picked up the handset, and answered the call. "Hello?"
"Hey, Sabrina, it's me."
Sabrina sat back on the floor, next to Cassandra. "Hey, Maritza."
"Hey, I was wondering if you'd like to come over and hang out."
"Ooh, sorry, I've got Cassandra over. She's spending the night."
"Cassandra?" Maritza asked, surprised.
"Yeah. What's the big deal? She's my friend too."
"Since when?"
"Since...recently, okay?"
"Okay, fine, forget it. I'll see you at school. Bye."
"Bye." Sabrina ended the call and dropped the handset on the floor.
"What was that about?" Cassandra asked.
"Maritza invited me over." Sabrina picked up a second glass of screwdriver. "She didn't seem happy that I declined."
Cassandra put her left arm around Sabrina and hugged her. Sabrina rested her head on Cassandra's shoulder. They just sat like that for a while.
Cassandra gulped down her screwdriver, set down her glass, and stood up. She nearly fell over and had to hold onto her bed to steady herself.
"Are you okay?" Sabrina asked.
"Yeah. Let's do the scene again."
Sabrina finished her second screwdriver, set down her glass, picked up both books, and stood up. She offered Cassandra's book to her. "Pick up where you left off."
Cassandra opened her book and flipped through it until she found the right spot. She hesitated.
"What's wrong?" Sabrina asked.
"I dunno. I'm still not feeling it."
Sabrina closed her book and dropped it on the floor. Then she took Cassandra's book from her and did the same. She took hold of Cassandra's hands. "You know the lines. Just speak to me."
Cassandra stared into Sabrina's eyes. "Then I must be thy lady. And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me on the first view to say, to swear, I love thee..." She leaned forward and kissed Sabrina on the lips.
Sabrina was surprised but didn't react. She let Cassandra finish the kiss on her own. Cassandra finally finished the kiss but remained very close to Sabrina. She searched Sabrina's face for a reaction.
Sabrina smiled in amusement. "I think you garbled your lines from separate scenes."
Cassandra laughed. "It was intentional."
"Has this been...what's been on your mind?" Sabrina asked.
"I guess so."
"We should probably talk about it."
Cassandra nodded. "Are you angry?"
Sabrina shook her head. "No." She paused for a moment. "Talk to me. Tell me how you feel."
"I feel like I love you. I feel like you're the one person that I can talk to about truly anything. I feel so happy when I'm around you. I feel like you're my everything."
"Are you sure that's not the booze talking?" Sabrina asked.
"I'm sure, and I think you feel the same way."
"Oh?"
"We're still holding hands."
Sabrina chuckled. "Yeah, we are."
Cassandra gave Sabrina a loopy smile. "Baby, it's all I know...that you're half of the flesh and blood that makes me whole. I need you so..."
"Cass, you've got a beautiful singing voice."
"Really? Thanks. We should totally form a band."
"Exsqueeze me?" Sabrina asked in surprise. "Now I know you're letting the booze talk."
"We both have nice voices. If we can learn to play some instruments, we can kick some serious ass in the local music scene."
"Okay, but let's get this play right first."
"What's your rush? We've got all night." Cassandra kissed Sabrina on the lips.
"So then I was like 'Ooh, Brad and Jen are so cute together!' And Maritza was like 'Nuh-uh!' And I was like 'Uh-huh'!" Sabrina gulped down some wine directly from the bottle.
Cassandra took the nearly empty bottle of wine away from Sabrina. "Okay, you've had enough."
"Spoil sport!" Sabrina stuck out her tongue.
Cassandra drank the last of the wine and dropped the bottle on the floor. "Anyway, it won't last."
"You never know."
"Actually, I do. They divorce early next year. Then Brad gets together with Angie. They break up not long after they finally get married, ironically."
"How do you know all of this?" Sabrina asked.
"A time-shifting spell. It allows me to observe events in the past and future. I know the death of every celebrity within the next thirteen years."
Sabrina stared at her for a moment, unsure what to make of the information. "That's really creepy."
Cassandra shrugged. "Anyway, I think we've got the play worked out. Agreed?"
"Sure."
"Okay, on to the band."
"Tomorrow. We currently can't strings two sentences together or sing a wing-a-ding-ding, whee!"
Cassandra stared at her. "O...kaaay. We should shower and get to bed, I guess."
Sabrina smiled impishly. "Stand up."
Cassandra stared at her in confusion and then stood up. She felt dizzy and uncoordinated and fell to the floor. "Whafuckhappenedhuh?"
Sabrina laughed. "You're drunk. That's what happened that's what happened that's what totally happened I have spoken!"
Cassandra, holding onto Sabrina's bed for support, stood up slowly. Sabrina did the same and pulled down the covers.
The girls climbed onto the bed. Cassandra took off her pants and shirt and dropped them on the floor.
Sabrina stared at Cassandra. "Wow."
Cassandra smiled. "Like what you see?"
Sabrina smiled. "Definitely." She took off her pants and shirt and dropped them on the floor.
Cassandra tackled Sabrina. Sabrina's head hit the pillow. Cassandra passionately kissed Sabrina on the lips, audibly moaning, shoved her tongue into Sabrina's mouth, and groped her. Sabrina was surprised - and yet not - by Cassandra's forwardness and enthusiasm and started feeling up her new love.
Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning outside the window, followed by a crash of thunder. The girls were frightened, and Cassandra broke the kiss.
Sabrina smiled. "Wow, that was amazing. I felt the Earth move."
Cassandra smiled. "Oh, no, you haven't, honey, but you will soon enough."
Sabrina grinned. There was another flash of lightning and another crash of thunder. The light in Sabrina's bedroom suddenly went out.
"We've lost power!" Sabrina exclaimed.
"Well, that's unacceptable. We've gotta be able to see each other." Cassandra felt around for her wand and picked it up. "Illuminate!"
A brilliant white light flowed from Cassandra's wand, filling the room. Cassandra looked at the wand in her hand, and then she looked down at the last bit of clothing that Sabrina was wearing - her underwear - and smiled mischievously. Sabrina grinned in delight.
Sabrina woke up and opened her eyes. Sunlight was shining in her eyes through the window. She turned and looked at Cassandra, sleeping peacefully next to her, and smiled, remembering their lovemaking from the previous night. Sabrina kissed Cassandra on the lips.
Cassandra woke up and opened her eyes. She and Sabrina hugged each other and tenderly kissed for a while, simply enjoying each other in the quiet solitude of the morning.
Finally, reluctantly, Sabrina finished the kiss and smiled. "Good morning."
Cassandra smiled. "Understatement of the year."
"Let's take a shower and clean up this mess, and then I'll make us breakfast."
Cassandra sighed. "Okay, but I'd rather stay in bed all day."
The two girls got out of bed and stretched.
Suddenly, a portal opened, and Salem came out. The portal closed. Salem collapsed on the floor and groaned.
Sabrina panicked and folded her arms over her breasts. "Salem!" She chuckled nervously. "How's my second-favorite pussy?"
Salem looked around. "Why are there pizza crumbs and an empty wine bottle in your room?"
"Um, well, we had a long evening of work, so you really can't blame us for wanting to relax and unwind. You won't tell my aunts, will you?"
"Nah. Hell, I've drunk more booze in one night." Salem looked up at the girls and eyed them suspiciously. "Am I suffering from food poisoning, or are the two of you naked?"
Cassandra smiled, not even attempting to hide it. "We're naked."
"Why?" Salem asked.
Sabrina searched for an explanation. "Well, y'see, last night, there was a really bad thunderstorm, and we got scared and couldn't sleep, so Cassandra decided it would be a good idea to take off our clothes and..." She stopped, trying to decide how to phrase it.
Cassandra smiled. "Fuck each other."
Sabrina looked at Cassandra in surprised annoyance. Cassandra shrugged.
Sabrina looked at Salem, nervous. "You won't tell, will you?"
"What's it worth to you?" Salem asked.
"I'll buy you a bunch of cat treats."
Salem felt nauseous. "Please, I'm on the verge of being sick as it is."
Cassandra held up her wand. "I could zap you to the familiar clinic in the Netherworld, and we could call it even."
Salem felt like he was about to throw up. "Deal."
Cassandra waved her wand, and Salem disappeared in a flash of light.
Sabrina smiled. "Thanks."
Cassandra smiled. "No problem."
After taking a somewhat lengthy shower, Sabrina and Cassandra cleaned up the mess and came downstairs. While Cassandra disposed of the trash and washed the dishes, Sabrina made pancakes for breakfast.
When they were ready, Sabrina served them, and she and Cassandra sat next to each other at the kitchen table and started eating.
Sabrina cut a piece of her stack off and held up her fork, smiling. "Pancakes, the official breakfast of witches!"
Cassandra stared at her for a moment and then squirted maple syrup on her own stack of pancakes. "You're weird."
Sabrina ate her pancakes with pride. "Yummy!"
Cassandra offered the bottle to her. "Want some syrup?"
Sabrina took the bottle. "Yeah, thanks." She squirted maple syrup on her stack of pancakes and then looked at the label on the bottle. "Blossom Maple Farms. Y'know, I met this one girl at camp a few years ago, Cheryl Blossom. She bragged about how she was an heir to a 'maple syrup empire'. I laughed it off at the time, but I think I recall she said she was from..." Sabrina checked the back of the bottle and nodded. "...Riverdale."
"Maple syrup empire, okaaay." Cassandra thought for a moment and then smiled wickedly. "After breakfast, wanna give each other a sticky maple?"
Sabrina was confused. "What the hell is a sticky maple?"
After a second shower, Sabrina and Cassandra entered Sabrina's bedroom and sat on her bed. They hugged each other and started making out.
Cassandra suddenly broke the kiss. "Hey, do you wanna discuss the band now?"
Sabrina shrugged. "Okay. Can you play anything?"
"I'd learned to play the piano in music class in elementary school, and I've stuck with it. It's probably transferable to a keyboard. You?"
"I'd played around with an acoustic guitar in music class. I never got particularly good at it."
"Well, these are things that we can work on. Do you wanna go out and look for some instruments?"
Sabrina smiled slyly. "We'd have to put on clothes."
Cassandra smiled. "A small sacrifice."
"Okay, let's do it."
Sabrina sighed. "The prices in that music store were too expensive."
She and Cassandra were walking back to Sabrina's house.
"Not for me, but I understand your situation."
Sabrina frowned.
Cassandra sighed. "I just didn't see anything that I liked."
They walked in silence for a moment.
"So...got any ideas for other band members?" Cassandra asked.
"Huh?" Sabrina asked, surprised. "You want more members?"
"It makes sense. A band can't have just two members."
"Eurythmics."
Cassandra thought about it. "Still, they had other musicians with them."
Sabrina shrugged. "I'll ask Maritza."
They came to Harvey's house and noticed his family was having a yard sale. They stopped to look around.
Harvey walked over to them and smiled. "Hey, Cassandra. Hey, Brina. My parents decided to clear out the attic and garage. We've got some cool stuff here."
"You wouldn't happen to have an electric guitar, would you?" Sabrina asked.
"Actually, my dad is selling his '84 Gibson Les Paul Studio. It's in pretty good shape."
"May I see it?" Sabrina asked.
"Sure." Harvey went to get it.
"Seriously?" Cassandra asked.
Sabrina smiled. "It makes sense. I can't afford a new guitar, you don't see a new keyboard that you like, and we're a beginner band. We should have shitty instruments."
Cassandra thought about it. "I guess you're right."
Harvey came back, holding a guitar case. He set it on the table and opened it.
Sabrina looked at the guitar. "How much?"
"$800."
Sabrina frowned. "Harvey! That does not help me!"
"Bri, may I?" Cassandra asked.
Cassandra studied the guitar. "I notice some nicks and dents." She looked up at Harvey and frowned. "What do you take us for?"
"Hey, my dad set the price!"
"Then get him over here. We need to negotiate. Also, while we're at it, I'm looking for a keyboard."
"Dad's got an '84 Roland SH-101."
"Good. We also need an amplifier."
"Got one."
"Splendid. Also, do you wanna be in our band?"
Harvey stared at her in surprise.
Sabrina, Cassandra, and Harvey set up their gear in Sabrina's garage. Sabrina tuned her guitar - with assistance from Harvey. Cassandra played with her keyboard, which came with a strap, so she wore it as a keytar. Harvey banged on his drums.
"Okay, okay, hang on. We need a plan. What kind of band do we wanna be?"
Sabrina and Harvey stared at Cassandra blankly, unsure how to respond.
"What type of music do we wanna play?" Cassandra clarified.
"Retro?" Sabrina finally suggested. "Like, '80s, maybe?"
Harvey smiled. "Sounds good."
Cassandra smiled. "Yeah, I like that too. Okay, what kind of image do we wanna project?"
Sabrina thought about that briefly. "Uh, how about just cool, confident girls?"
Cassandra grinned. "I like it! Simple, yet powerful. Okay, what song should we practice first?"
"Uh, well, first, I'm gonna get on the Internet and print out some music sheets and lyrics. Be right back."
Sabrina walked back into the garage with a stack of sheets and three cans of Rockstar. She sat down and handed one can each to Cassandra and Harvey. Then she passed out the sheets.
Sabrina smiled. "I think you're gonna like the selections."
Cassandra looked at the sheets and smiled. "Nice. Okay, let's try one."
Suddenly, Maritza walked into the driveway. "Hey, Sabrina." She noticed Cassandra and Harvey and lost her smile. "Oh." She walked into the garage. "I didn't know you had anyone over."
"Yeah, Cassandra's spending the day. She had the idea of starting a band and then brought Harvey on board, and...here we are."
"Yeah,...here you are."
"Did you need something?" Sabrina asked.
Maritza frowned. "I wanted to see if you wanted to hang out, but I guess you're busy."
"Sorry."
"Y'know, it would have been nice if you'd asked me if I wanted to be in your band."
"We really don't need a fourth member."
Maritza nearly lost it.
Sabrina could sense that and got a bit afraid. "I mean I didn't even think we needed a third until Cassandra brought it up. I meant to ask you, but Cassandra asked Harvey when we bought our instruments at his family's yard sale, and he agreed, so...that was that."
"Got it. See you at school tomorrow." Maritza turned and walked away.
Sabrina sighed but didn't say anything. She just watched Maritza go.
Cassandra put a hand on Sabrina's shoulder. "You okay?"
"Yeah. Okay, let's practice a song." Sabrina flipped through the sheets and then started playing the opening chords of a song. "One way..."
Throughout the following school week, Sabrina and Cassandra sat together in class and at lunch. This had an alienating effect on Maritza, Tiffany, and Margo.
On Thursday afternoon, Sabrina, Harvey, and Cassandra put on a spectacular performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". They took bows as the audience cheered and applauded. They waved to the audience.
"Thank you!" Cassandra exclaimed. "We have an announcement to make!"
The audience quieted down.
"We invite all of you to come to the debut concert of our new band, Lightning in the Dark!" Cassandra announced.
Sabrina smiled. "The concert will be held tomorrow, after school, right here!"
Harvey grinned and pointed at the audience. "So be there or be square!"
Sabrina and Cassandra grimaced. They and Harvey took a final bow and then walked backstage.
Ms. Magrooney smiled. "That was a great production, girls! Well done!"
Cassandra smiled. "Yeah, thanks."
Ms. Magrooney walked away.
Maritza came backstage and met up with them. She grinned. "That was totally bitchin'!"
"Bitchin'?" Cassandra asked. "What is this, the '80s?"
"It's still in use. I checked."
"Right, okay." Cassandra turned to face Sabrina and smiled. "See ya tomorrow."
Sabrina nodded. Cassandra puckered her lips. Sabrina felt nervous and abruptly left. Cassandra frowned.
Sabrina was lying on her bed, watching a DVD on her computer. Her phone rang.
She reached for her handset and answered the call. "Hello?"
"Hey. We need to talk." It was Cassandra. She didn't sound happy.
Sabrina was concerned. She pressed the Mute button on her remote control. "What about?"
"About what happened backstage today."
"Oh. Come over."
There was a flash of light, and Cassandra stood before Sabrina. Sabrina ended the call and put the handset back in its cradle. She sat up straight. Cassandra sat to her right on the bed.
"Cass, I didn't mean to hurt you. You just kinda...put me in an awkward position."
Cassandra folded her arms over her chest. "Oh?"
"Well, I haven't let anyone know we're together yet. Not my aunts. Not the kids at school."
Cassandra took Sabrina's hands in her own hands. "Bri, things would probably go a lot better for us if we were honest."
"I'm scared. How will they react? What if our relationship doesn't survive?"
Cassandra let go of Sabrina's hands and picked up her wand. "Let's find out."
"The time-shifting spell?" Sabrina asked. "Are you sure about using it?"
Cassandra smiled. "We shouldn't be afraid of what we'll find. Trust me."
Cassandra held up her wand and waved. "Show, for us to see, if things will be hunky-dory between Bri and me!"
There was a flash of light, and then they found themselves sitting on the grass in Sabrina's backyard. Sitting among them were Hilda, Zelda, Salem, Maritza, Harvey, Tiffany, and Margo. Standing under an oak tree was Enchantra, queen of the witches and Cassandra's aunt. It was nighttime, and the full moon had risen. Tiki torches provided additional lighting.
Then Sabrina and Cassandra saw themselves, a few years older, walking past the invited guests and toward the tree. The two of them were naked and holding hands.
They arrived at the tree and faced each other. They joined hands.
Enchantra smiled. "We have gathered here today to join two very special people in marriage: Sabrina and Cassandra. You may now recite your vows."
"Four years ago, I could barely tolerate you. But then something wonderful happened, and the radiant light of this shining star came upon me." Sabrina smiled. "I, Sabrina, take you, Cassandra, to be my lawfully wedded wife, in perfect love and perfect trust, from this day forward and for the rest of my life. So mote it be."
"'Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.' If you had told me, seven years ago, that we would get married, I would have laughed." Cassandra smiled. "How quickly things changed, my beautiful director. I, Cassandra, take you, Sabrina, to be my lawfully wedded wife, in perfect love and perfect trust, from this day forward and for the rest of my life. So mote it be."
Enchantra smiled. "By the authority invested in me, I declare the two of you to be married."
Sabrina and Cassandra kissed each other on the lips. The guests cheered and applauded.
Sabrina smiled as she watched her own wedding occur.
Cassandra was smiling as well. She looked over at Sabrina. "Convinced?"
"Uh-huh."
Cassandra waved her wand. There was a flash of light, and they found themselves sitting on Sabrina's bed again.
"I'm sorry that I was so insecure."
Cassandra smiled. "Don't worry about it."
"I'd like to let everyone know we're together, but I'm not sure how."
Cassandra thought for a moment and then smiled. "I have an idea."
On Friday afternoon, students, faculty, and guests packed the auditorium.
Sabrina, Cassandra, and Harvey were waiting backstage.
"I'm kind of nervous."
Cassandra put an arm around Sabrina and hugged her. "It's okay, sweetie, I'll be right by your side."
Harvey smiled. "Me too. Well, a bit behind you, but...y'know."
Sabrina smiled at Cassandra. "Thanks."
Cassandra smiled. "Let's get out there and put on a hell of a show."
The three of them walked out on the stage. The audience cheered and applauded. Sabrina picked up her guitar. Cassandra picked up her keytar. Harvey sat behind his drum set and picked up his sticks. They turned on their microphones. Cassandra turned on the amplifier.
"Hello, Greendale!" Cassandra exclaimed. "Welcome to our debut concert! Let's rock!" She looked at Sabrina.
Sabrina nodded. The three of them started playing.
Sabrina looked out at the audience. "Looking out a dirty old window. Down below, the cars in the city go rushing by. I sit here alone, and I wonder why. Friday night, and everyone's moving. I can feel the heat, but it's soothing, heading down. I search for the beat in this dirty town."
Cassandra grinned. "Downtown, the young ones are going. Downtown, the young ones are growing."
Sabrina and Cassandra moved closer together. "We're the kids in America. Whoa-oa! We're the kids in America. Whoa-oa! Everybody live for the music-go-round!"
Cassandra started playfully touching Sabrina. "Bright lights, the music gets faster. Look, girl, don't check on your watch, not another glance."
Sabrina smiled. "I'm not leaving now, honey, not a chance."
In the audience, Maritza stared at them in shock. Hilda and Zelda were also surprised.
"Hot shot, give me no problems. Much later, baby, you'll be saying never mind." Cassandra playfully pushed Sabrina away.
"You know life is cruel. Life is never kind."
Sabrina and Cassandra came back together. "Kind hearts, don't make a new story. Kind hearts, don't grab any glory. We're the kids in America. Whoa-oa! We're the kids in America. Whoa-oa! Everybody live for the music-go-round!"
Maritza frowned, her initial shock turning to anger. Hilda and Zelda, by contrast, were getting into the performance.
Cassandra snuggled up close to Sabrina. "Come closer, honey, that's better. Got to get a brand new experience, feeling right. Oh, don't try to stop, baby, hold me tight."
Sabrina was really enjoying herself. "Outside, a new day is dawning. Outside, suburbia's sprawling everywhere. I don't want to go, baby."
"New York to east California, there's a new wave coming, I warn ya. We're the kids in America. Whoa-oa! We're the kids in America. Whoa-oa! Everybody lives for the music-go-round!"
The band finished the song, Sabrina and Cassandra kissed each other on the lips, and most of the audience cheered and applauded - all except one girl, Maritza, who had walked out.
After the concert was over, they packed up their gear in Harvey's father's van.
"So...what was all of that about...on stage?" Harvey asked.
"Huh?" Sabrina asked, feigning innocence.
"You know what I'm talking about. The two of you were flirting like crazy."
Sabrina shrugged. "Well,...we're together."
Harvey was disappointed. "Oh. I see."
Cassandra closed the back door of the van and looked at Harvey. "It's not you, Harvey. It's just...something that happened."
"We can still be friends, right?" Sabrina asked.
Harvey managed a small smile. "Yeah, sure."
Sabrina smiled, but then she looked over and saw Maritza walking toward her parents' car, and she grew concerned. She walked over to Maritza.
"Did you like our show?" Sabrina asked.
Maritza faced her angrily. "What the hell was that?!"
"Is there a problem?" Sabrina asked.
"It's no wonder that you've been spending so much time with Cassandra recently!" Maritza cried. "Are you...seeing her?"
Sabrina stared at Maritza's anguished face for a moment, trying to decide what to say. "We're in love."
Maritza reacted as if Sabrina had shot her.
"And we plan to get married someday."
Maritza opened her mouth to try to yell at Sabrina, but she was too shocked to say anything. Sabrina sat on the back bumper of Maritza's parents' car and motioned for her to do the same. Maritza sat to Sabrina's right.
"It's something that just happened. We became best friends, and then we became more than that. You and I will never stop being friends, but Cassandra is my everything. I love her more than words can say. I don't want you to feel jealous or angry, because I want you in my life as well."
"Will we still hang out and do all of the things that we used to do?" Maritza asked.
"Of course! Maybe not as often, but we will."
"Okay. I'm sorry that I was jealous."
Sabrina smiled. "It's okay."
The two of them hugged.
Maritza looked into the distance and saw Cassandra standing by the van and watching them. She was smiling.
Maritza released Sabrina and smiled. "I think your future wife overheard you. Go get her."
Sabrina released Maritza, stood up, and walked over to Cassandra. "You heard?"
"I did." Cassandra hugged Sabrina and kissed her passionately on the lips, soon shoving her tongue into Sabrina's mouth.
Soon, they heard the sound of Zelda clearing her throat. Cassandra broke the kiss and released Sabrina. The two of them faced the aunts.
Hilda smiled in amusement. "So..."
"Who wants to start the explanation?" Zelda asked.
"Um, the two of us can explain...over dinner?" Sabrina suggested.
Zelda shrugged and nodded.
Sabrina faced Harvey and waved. "See ya, Harvey."
Cassandra faced Harvey and waved. "Just bring our gear by Bri's place tomorrow."
Harvey waved. "Will do."
Sabrina and Cassandra sat next to each other at the kitchen table. The aunts sat opposite them. They were eating a home-cooked meal of steak, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Cassandra smiled. "This is delicious."
Zelda stared at her. "Thanks. Start talking."
Cassandra shrugged. "Not much to say."
"Think of something."
"Really, there's not much to say." Sabrina set down her utensils and put her right arm around Cassandra, hugging her. "We've fallen in love with each other."
"Is it serious?" Hilda asked.
Sabrina smiled. "Very."
Zelda arched an eyebrow. "Explain."
Cassandra smiled and set down her utensils. "We used a time-shifting spell to look into our own future." She put her right hand on Sabrina's right hand. "We get married on July 24, 2011."
The aunts were surprised but didn't say anything for a long time. Sabrina and Cassandra stared at them.
Zelda finally smiled. "Welcome to the family, Cassandra."
Sabrina and Cassandra grinned, and then they kissed each other on the lips.
On Monday morning, Cassandra picked Sabrina up in her limousine, and the two of them rode to school together.
They held hands while walking around on campus, and they sat together during classes. Tiffany and Margo took exception to this, continuing to grow jealous.
At lunch, Sabrina and Cassandra sat together at a picnic table outside. Maritza sat across from Sabrina, and Harvey sat across from Cassandra.
Tiffany and Margo walked by with their trays. They briefly glanced at Cassandra and Sabrina and then averted eye contact.
"Tiff! Margo!" Cassandra called.
They stopped and looked at her, frowning.
Cassandra rolled her eyes. "Pu-leaze, jealousy does not become you. Sit with us."
Tiffany and Margo looked at each other, and then they looked back at Cassandra.
"Are we still your friends?" Tiffany asked.
"Because we were under the impression that we weren't."
"Just because Sabrina's my bestie doesn't mean I don't wanna hang out with you."
Sabrina smiled. "Yeah, c'mon, let's get to know each other."
Tiffany sat next to Cassandra, and Margo sat next to Harvey.
Harvey smiled. "It's great that we can all get along."
Maritza smiled. "Amazing, isn't it?"
Sabrina smiled slyly at Cassandra. "Yeah, who would have thought?"
Cassandra returned the smile. "Amazing how things work out."
Feedback/Support / Shoutbox not working for me
For the past few days, when I try posting in the Shoutbox, the little icon spins endlessly, but my message never appears.
All About Archie / Betty checks out a girl
I just came across this gem in SAGG's gallery:
All About Archie / Time setting of "Riverdale"
Okay, so it's established in the first episode that Riverdale High was founded in 1941. It's mentioned later in the season that they're gearing up for the 75th anniversary of the town's founding (which is eventually shown). Keep in mind that all of this occurs within, like, the first two months of the school year.
So is the first season of "Riverdale" supposed to occur in September-October of 2016?
And season 2 is supposed to pick up immediately after. Roberto once said he hopes season 2 will still be sophomore year.
So will season 2, airing in the 2017-2018 season, still occur in the 2016-2017 school year?
Or can we fudge a little and say the school was founded around a year before the town was officially incorporated?
All About Archie / Does the New Riverdale line merit the Teen rating?
Reading it, I haven't noticed really anything in terms of offensive content. There's the occasional "Omigod" or "hell", but that's it. Storywise, there seems to be no difference with Classic Archie (except for the stories being longer, but even Classic Archie was doing some of that in its last few years).
All About Archie / Riverdale episode 9
Here are my thoughts:
Tree-tapping ceremony. WTF?
Maple syrup empire. WTF?
Why does the board fear Cheryl being in charge? She seems capable of leading the company.
LOL at Cheryl's "Also, 4.0."
So Polly supposedly thinks the Blossoms had "something to do" with Jason's death, but they actually were responsible for sending Hiram to jail, so maybe Hiram put a hit out on Jason?
Veronica's apparent go-to solution after feeling she's wronged someone: flowers.
I'm surprised that Mrs. Muggs kept Veronica's flowers.
What will Cheryl do? Will it be as imminent as the repercussions from the sacked football players, which hasn't happened yet?
LOL at Veronica's way of handling her mom.
Yay for underage drinking.
How'd they get in the club? Do they all have fake IDs?
What did Penelope and Cheryl say in their short scene together? I couldn't hear it.
What's Cheryl's deal? She's back on her whole "Psycho bitch Polly killed Jason" theory. What happened to "If Jason hurt Polly, I'm sorry"?
I did like how Cheryl got the River Vixens back, even though she threw Polly under the bus to do it.
Betty could have avoided this whole awkward situation if she'd simply gone to Cheryl with her info last week. (I seriously don't get why Cheryl wasn't in that episode.) I know Betty says "I don't trust you", but that's after Cheryl texted everyone with her "Polly killed Jason and torched the evidence" theory.
So Betty got to hear her parents flat-out lie to her face. Polly wants to give up the baby. Suuuuuure. She knows she can't trust her parents, which is likely why she met with the Blossoms after Cheryl offered to help.
Buuut it seems Betty can't trust the Blossoms either. Bravo for Cheryl coming and warning Betty. Now Cheryl will have to deal with her parents. Probably "Betty and Polly chickened out and didn't show" or whatever.
What made Cheryl doubt her parents' sincerity? Not that she needs any specific reason to mistrust them after 16+ years in that house, but I'm curious.
That's a very nice Polly/Cheryl moment. I love how Cheryl's nervous, but then Polly takes her hand and places it on her belly.
Penelope was right about one thing: Betty is family now (in a roundabout way). Betty and Cheryl are bonded by a common niece/nephew. This child will one day call each of them "aunt". They need to be there for her/him. Also, Cheryl is now, essentially, Betty's boss again. It really would be to their mutual benefit to become friends and stop this stupid "feud".
LOL at Cheryl's face after Penelope's line to Betty. What was she reacting to? The idea that she and Betty are now family or Penelope's "protect you ferociously" line?
Finally, with this episode, "Riverdale" reaches an important milestone: it surpasses "The New Archies" in total running time (7 one-hour episodes versus 13 half-hour episodes). This makes "Riverdale" the third-most successful incarnation of the Riverdale gang on TV.
General Discussion / My Pandora stations
I have created a few custom radio stations on Pandora recently, using as many artists and songs from the films and soundtrack albums as are available as station seeds. I figured I'd share them in case anyone's interested:
Beavis and Butt-head Radio
https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3509437650732193373
I've added as many artists and songs as I could find that either or both of them have declared "cool".
Charlie's Angels Radio
Dedicated to the music of the 2000-2003 film series
Female Warrior Radio
Dedicated to the "Resident Evil" and "Underworld" film series (they have a lot of overlap, musically, including Milla Jovovich singing on some Underworld tracks) as well as "Ultraviolet", "Aeon Flux", and "Ghost in the Shell" (2017)
Flashdance Radio
https://www.pandora.com/station/play/647759778164381277
Dedicated to the music of "Flashdance"
Ghostbusters Radio
Dedicated to the music of all three films
KJEM
Dedicated to the music of "Jem and the Holograms", primarily the movie, but also includes artists and songs featured on the "Dream Tour" cassette
New Gotham Radio
Dedicated to the music of the 2002-2003 WB series, "Birds of Prey" (also included "Betcha Never" by Cherie from "Mystery of the Batwoman")
Panem Radio
Dedicated to the music of "The Hunger Games"
Riverdale Radio
Dedicated to the music of series and movies based on Archie Comics, including the old Filmation series, Josie and the Pussycats (series and 2001 film), Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Riverdale
Streets of Fire Radio
Dedicated to the music of the 1984 cult film
Supergirl Radio
Dedicated to the music of Supergirl (her 1984 film, Kara's episodes of "Smallville", and her titular series)
Transformers Radio
Dedicated to the music of the "Transformers" films, whether animated or live-action
Videoland Radio
Dedicated to the music of "Captain N: The Game Master", "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!", and "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (includes songs that were parodied in season 2 of Captain N)
Other Media / Riverdale Radio
I have renamed my Sabrina station on Pandora to Riverdale Radio. I have used every artist and song that I can identify from every series and film (at least, everything that's available on Pandora). Enjoy:
Other Media / Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 series)
So I never really watched this show when it was on (outside of maybe a few scenes), but I decided to buy the Complete Series DVD set for my birthday, and I just finished season 1 last night.
Overall, it's really cute. I like it.
The DVD set does have music replacement and footage removed, due to licensing issues. I'd like to see a master list compiled of everything that's been changed for the DVD release, since there doesn't seem to be one place to look up all of this info.
MJH is "in talks" for a reunion:
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Sabrina-Teenage-Witch-Coming-Back-Here-What-We-Know-128117.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sabrina-teenage-witch-making-comeback-7656447
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-could-make-a-comeback-as-melissa-joan-hart-reveals-shes-in-talks-34584444.html
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/sabrina-the-teenage-witch/39622/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-talks-afoot-for-a-revival
Libby, Hilda, and Morgan's actors are interested in coming back.
Fan Fiction / Betty and Cheryl
I've decided to start writing Archie fanfic again. This isn't related to my previous Betty fanfics. I've decided to reimagine the characters for the modern era and follow them through high school, from the beginning of freshman year through graduation. The series should be 45 chapters long, and it will progress in "real time", meaning, at the end of each month, a new chapter covering that month will go up.
I'm focusing primarily on Betty, Cheryl, and Veronica (Cheryl moreso than Veronica as the series goes on). I have to warn you that it's a mature series with cursing, sex, and general political incorrectness. Enjoy!
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12171408/1/Betty-and-Cheryl
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 300 pgs / illustrated throughout.
For 20 years, Parkett has presented unparalleled explorations and discussions of important international contemporary artists by esteemed writers and critics. These investigations continue in issue No. 72, which features collaborations by Urs Fischer, Richard Prince, Monica Bonvicini, and in a special twentieth anniversary section, Alex Katz. In Issue No. 72: come into Swiss-sculptor Urs Fischer's house of mirrors, among his oversized raindrops, chairs, and cigarette cartons, and ponder his spatially jarring world. Also, go on a guided tour up Richard Prince's driveway, past a parked 1973 Dodge Barracuda, where you'll get a close peek at his anti-monument of countercultural ephemera--a partially renovated, partially ramshackle house-work “painstakingly crafted to be almost impossible to find.” Read about Italian-born artist Monica Bonvicini who refuses to be confined by the architecture of her surroundings, but offers in her radical gestures, her own menu of obstacles. Also in this issue, adjust your eyes to Alex Katz's flirtatiously awkward visions of reality until the details in his paintings emerge as indelible markings of timeless style. Pour into Katz's cool poetic pictures as if into a perfect fitting suit.
Authors include, Beatrix Ruf, Benjamin Weissman, Brenda Richardson, Vincent Prôcoil, Alison Gingeras, Dike Blair, Juliane Rebentisch, Jorg Heiser, Lars Lerup, Anselm Franke, Ena Swansea, Bruce Hainley, Boris Groys, Daniel Kurjakovic, Douglas Fogle, Marc Gloede, Stephanie Smith and Hans Rudolf Reust.
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BART responds to unions' Monday strike notice
BART Spokesperson Rick Rice issued the following statement in response to notification from BART’s two largest unions of a Monday strike:
"Shortly before 11 pm Thursday, BART received written notification from two of its unions that they may go on strike as early as July 1, 2013. The letters did, however, indicate that both unions preferred not to take this step and intended to continue negotiations.
BART is also committed to continuing good faith negotiations and staying at the table until a deal is reached. Meetings are expected to resume at 11 am today.
There was some progress yesterday, with both sides making proposals and responses. We're looking forward to continuing that when we meet again today and through the weekend. There is still plenty of time to reach an agreement before the threatened strike Monday.”
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Dr. gay changer /
Dr. gay changer
Evan Derkacz
According to a Daytona Beach News-Journal article, via Pam, a woman walked into a doctor's office, was checked out by a physician's asst. as her regular doctor wasn't around, and left with "literature condemning homosexuality as 'sinful and sexually impure.'"
Her sexuality was in her file but if the physician's assistant used that information to push her personal non-medical agenda then I've got to agree with Pam when she writes: "Some licenses need to be revoked in this case. There's nothing else to it."
When she opened up an envelope Pope-Wright left at the checkout counter, she was shocked to find photocopied pages including Bible verses that denounced homosexuality and asserted God can help her change. "The information that Ms. Pope-Wright gave to Ms. Beiler was derogatory and offensive, and completely disrespected her right to dignity and privacy," the complaint says.
It's also important to point out that another doctor "deflected Beiler's concerns when she complained to the office."
In other news of the intersection of medical/pharmaceutical incompetence and American talibanism, three women are suing Wal-Mart for refusing to stock the morning after pill in their pharmacies.
(Special thanks to this CNN article for drinking at the right wing framing trough and calling the women's backers "pro-abortion rights groups"-- fools. The Washington Post version of the same AP report calls them "abortion rights groups."). (Pam's House Blend)
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