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The Black Dragon - Black Dragon R4 - Teaching Strength
Description: With Mitsuru in his clutches, Heihachi finally meets with the head of the Tokugawa family, to discuss her fate. But the Mishima finds his values challenged by Mitsuru's father, as they together decide Mitsuru's fate.
[HEIHACHI]
Heihachi had waited for a few weeks before contacting Tokugawa about his daughter. It was the Mayor's assassination that triggered it -- one of her alleged kidnappers was apparently present and thus cleared of all charges. Fujimura had informed Heihachi on the situation, and the old man knew it was time. The emotionless woman was the person who had been attending to Mitsuru -- she was infinitely patient with the rambunctious girl and didn't respond to her tantrums, only her requests, as long as they were 'within reason'.
Still, Heihachi decided to hold the meeting at one of his summer homes rather than at the bunker where he was keeping the poor girl -- though the summer home just so happened to be built right up at the middle of the mountain, in one of its more rugged regions. The other side of the mountain was where the installation that was holding her and NT01, but Tokugawa didn't have to know that. He had told the man his daughter was safely in his custody and that they should get together like old times. The implication that he'd see his daughter was there, but Heihachi had never explicitly said she would be.
Because there were no roads, Tokugawa was sent a helicopter, with Nakatomi as his escort. The helicopter was poised to land in the courtyard rather than on any helipad, and Heihachi stood there, waiting, wearing his trademark suit with the tacky gold scarf. Standing next to him was a massive giant of a man Tokugawa would recognize as Kawabota, the strongest of Heihachi's Parliament.
[MITSURU]
Nothing from Mitsuru would be within reason, short of things she needed to live.
It would have been several weeks of brattiness, fighting, anguish. She was angry. She would always be angry. Mitsuru would never surrender to Fujimura. She had met with many Fujimuras in the past, especially as a little girl. She had fought her wars with Fujimuras. And her own mother was a Fujimura in her own accord. Mitsuru would do everything and anything to make everybodies and anybodies life a living hell.
But Matsudaira Tokugawa would prove to be the greater challenge.
The head of the Tokugawa clan was a lean, serious man. His hair was coarse and thick, only just beginning to get peppered with grey; his expression in an ever present serene scowl. He is pale, with dark rings under his eyes. Mr. Tokugawa steps from the helicopter, arms behind his back. His moves with an awkward gait, too long and too lean. He too was in his suit; plain and elegant, with no frills or distractions from the slate grey. Familiar faces. All familiar faces. None of them his familiar men. And despite his length, he was not nearly the tallest, with Kawabota over ever him. But he shows no emotion as he advances towards Heihachi, looking at him with distant interest. When he reaches him, only then does he remove his hands behind his back. He extends his hand for a formal, business handshake.
Just like old times.
Heihachi is not so tall, but he's /broad/. He looks up at Matsudaira, encapsulating his hand in his own, heavily calloused and large one. It's a firm handshake -- Heihachi doesn't try crushing his hand or anything. Kawabota glares down at the man, but still he bows formally -- the consequences for disrespecting one of Heihachi's guests would be dire, after all. Nakatomi follows behind Tokugawa as if he were his aide rather than one of Heihachi's men, unhappily glancing around at the place that would be his prison, more or less, once again.
Heihachi's the first one to break the silence. "Matsudaira," he eschews formality, features softening in uncharacteristic warmth. "Welcome. Welcome. Would you like anything to drink?"
Already the old man turns, gesturing towards the mansion.
One other member of Parliament was watching them. Not even Heihachi could detect his presence. Why he was there was anyone's guess -- but no one knew he was. Like his namesake, the Owl perches on a tree, the branch he picked one none bothered looking upon.
"Heihachi."
His words carry a regal presence. It was unavoidable. The Tokugawas were married to princesses and were once the Shoguns of Japan. Only when Admiral Perry arrived and forced the country to reevaluate their leadership structure did they leave power. And yet, they did leave power. The Tokugawas were now banned from politics, and yet, everything found itself in their shadow. Now, they dealt in coffee. It was good coffee. At least, it the was the coffee used in every single public building in Southtown. He releases Heihachi's hand.
And the offer of the drink is made.
"Warm water, with lemon." He states softly. He avoids clarifying the specific temperature of the water. Such formality was not required with the old frenemy of the Tokugawas. He had given no read of his emotions, however. He did not see the Owl. He did not show any anger, or aggression. Just a cool, distant reasonableness. He begins his advance to the mansion. Matsudaira always had that cool, distant reasonableness.
IT's why there had to be so many security precautions.
A glance for Nakatomi has the man realize he's meant to go and do it, but he doesn't mind. He's glad to get away from the trio, and Heihachi leads Tokugawa to a table where he takes a seat and gestures for the one across from him.
"Leave us."
Kawabota's eyebrows rise in befuddlement when Heihachi gives that order, and he squints down at the old man. "Sir, I --" He's cut short by Heihachi giving him the Iron Glare, the mask slipping for a moment -- not that the slip of the mask isn't anything Tokugawa hasn't seen before. To Kawabota's credit, he glares right back, but then bows his head in deference and storms off.
And then the mask is back on, and Heihachi goes through the pleasantries of small talk, first. "I hope this crisis isn't affecting your business too much, Matsudaira."
Matsudaira takes his seat, his cool exterior not thawing.
He doesn't even look at the exchange between master and servant. It would be rude to do so. Of course, it was rude for Heihachi to allow such an exchange to even take place. But he had expected some relaxing of formalities between each other. He appreciated Heihachi, in his own way. He was a valuable stone in the structure that was modern Japan. When the mask returns, The Tokugawa takes a moment of silence. Was he considering? Calculating? He swallows lightly, not breaking his gaze from Heihachi. Until finally, he answers.
"It is not."
There is nothing more for Matsudaira to add. Heihachi would very well know how well his business was doing, of course. Normal purchases have fallen through the floor; good citizens of Southtown had no interest in buying coffee, and stocks were being raked across the streets by looters and monsters. But soldiers needed coffee. Mercenaries needed coffee. And the NOL needed coffee. There was only one supplier of that in Southtown. Tokugawa would endure. There is another pause.
"And yours?"
"Business is managable."
It was more than managable, Heihachi was doing rather well. Ultimately though, how well either of them were doing were irrelevant to the conversation, but Heihachi doesn't seem to mind, and it isn't very long before Nakatomi shows, placing down Tokugawa's glass in front of him while a tea set is put in front of the old man. He leaves quickly afterwards, with Heihachi already opening the pot then and there, deciding to prepare the tea in the kettle rather than in his cup.
"This Honoka Inue woman," Heihachi then brings up casually, working it into the conversation like he's asking about the weather. "What do you know about her?" The truth was Heihachi knew more than he was letting on. It was one of the few modern secrets the old man knew -- the woman's real identity, but he decided to hold that information to himself.
Instead, tea steepled, he prepares himself a cup next.
The difficulty was only beginning.
The aloofness of the Tokugawa somehow even elevated him above even the most extraordinary of men. When Heihachi states that business is manageable, Matsudaira gives a polite nod. And then, silence until the water his brought. He gives a gentle thank you to one far beneath his status, and drinks. He asks about his opinions on Honoka. A well known trouble maker in his circles, with a strong agenda of social upheaval, especially along ethnic lines. And successful one, based on her infiltrations. And yet, he stops his drinking once, to give his answer.
"Politics is a vice the Tokugawas are forbidden to indulge."
Matsudaira states coolly. "That was the price for our family to keep their lives in the Meiji Revolution. It would be unfortunate if I swayed your vote one way or another." He places the cup on the table. "How is my daughter doing." Matsudaira speaks with the same tone he had on the matter of politics. "I am very concerned about her-"
The Tokugawa suddenly coughs, bringing a fist to his mouth as he has a small fit.
Heihachi doesn't even look up from his tea when Tokugawa coughs. In fact, it isn't until the coughing fit is over that Heihachi brings it up -- he doesn't immediately answer the question Matsudaira asks about his daughter, instead showing faux-concern. Well, it's not all false, Matsudaira's an important ally regardless of his ability to participate in Japan's political landscape or not. Still, Heihachi can't bring himself to be too worried -- he's just incapable of caring that much for another human being, at least since the death of his wife.
"Are you alright, Matsudaira?"
His brow furrows to help express his sympathy for the other man, even while he's pouring himself his cup of tea. "Your daughter is in good health," he claims. "She is recovering from injuries sustained, but my medical staff do not forsee any permanent issues." He takes a testing sip, then pleased, has another.
"...You did not tell me she was able to manipulate chi," Heihachi remarks as an afterthought.
Matsudaira speaks very little, until he does.
When he did speak, it usually transformed the world. It was a gift of the Tokugawa family. They had seized control of Japan not through hot blooded warrior spirit. But simply taking it, when all others were mired in their own ambitions. Even now, the Tokugawa family was dangerous. If they found your weakness, you would not realize it until it was too late. And all your ambition would be theirs. Matsudaira had come at the position of ultimate weakness. When Heihachi clarifies how his daughter was recovering from unknown injuries, how he hinted what sort of violence the Mishima uncovered that revealed her chi, the Tokugawa father should have played the role of a terrified daddy. But he was still as calm as cool, when Heihachi mentions her chi. "You did not let me finish." He says, his throat now clear.
"I am very concerned about her education."
Matsudaira continues, looking at Heihachi with the same distant coolness as before. "The Tokugawa have always been paragons of stength, Heihachi. Yoshitora Tokugawa was a peer to Jubei and Hanzo, and his disposal of the rebellious General Gaoh, Daimyo Hinowa, was not by guile alone. Our power comes at a price. Our manifestations of chi is honed by indulgence and vice. Hedonistic exhibitionism of our desires. If it wasn't for that It is very distressing to her mother how she has begun to display her power." He sips the water again. "Good girls hone their minds, and discipline their bodies. I have no interest in fathering a woman Yoshitora. She has run from Seijyun High too many times. They cannot control her. And if they cannot control her, them they will not hold her." There was a fainting ringing in the air, like tinnitus. He leans forward slightly.
"What have you done to ensure her education, Heihachi."
"You should have come to me sooner." The mask slips again when Heihachi says this, his features doing a complete one eighty as they return to his permanent scowl. "Her power is strong, but her body is weak. The mind is willing, but she is fragile."
Heihachi's eyes slowly draw down to his cup of tea. "She has grown attached to one of my staff's patients," he reveals openly to Tokugawa. "One of the men that little worm Hachiko said kidnapped her. I will test and see if her chi manifests when she sees him in danger." His eyes flick up, gaze passing over Tokogawa after a moment before he sniffs.
"I have not yet began to see to the girl's education," he admits outright. "I've been busy -- the state of things has been keeping me that way. However -- yes, after seeing what she is capable of, I want to train the girl." And break her. Even if Heihachi can't (and with his track record of Jin, Kazuya, and Lee, he probably can't), there was a yearning in him to pass on his teachings. Sentimentality wasn't Heihachi's style, but his martial arts were in his mind the strongest in all the world. And in his old age...
The thoughts are banished with the old man leaning back in his seat, sipping on his tea again.
"Steve Fox. The boxer "
Matsudaira repeats back his knowledge of the man. "Hachiko blundered up the whole assignment. He has been dealt with." No more detail than that. "The private detective had no more information on her, and was acting out of morality. I do not punish people for doing the right thing, even if it inconveniences me." A sterling standard of morality. But with Heihachi's mention of his plan to teach her, the presence of the Tokugawa head shifts. It darkens, as his lips frown slightly.
He is at least polite in his rebuttal.
"This will be a point of disagreement, Heihachi." He begins, as it is his warning to Heihachi to prepare for the grounds of disagreement. "And this is why I have come to discuss with you. Mitsuru has always admired you for your stength, your warmth, and your drive for personal betterness." It was not flattery. Matsudaira had the utmost respect for Heihachi. And so did Mitsuru. But Matsudaira's coolness was but heating up, if only faintly. He shakes his head. "But you cannot foster her martial spirit. You cannot let her reach her potential."
You must quash it"
He clenches a fist, and bats it once on the table. A deep thud runs through to the foundations of the mansion. "I know her potential is a temptation, but I cannot allow it to grow into its full strength. Her vice is violence, competition, and dominating those weaker than her... Or stronger than her. No man of status will want a shrewish barbarian, who's only passion is to dominant and destroy. She must be recast, reforged into a delicate rose. The lessons she must learn, must be how to be a good, obedient housewife, that we can marry off without embarrassing ourselves." Matsudaira stares at his cup, lifting it up. "My wife... Her mother's only wish is that a strong man will be able to strike her, and she will have the personal strength and resolution to not only control herself from beating her husband half to death... But to demonstrate the true embodiment of feminine strength, in apologizing to her husband for inciting him to violence." He sips the cup, and places it down, steepling his fingers. "We have the steel, Heihachi. But it must be wrapped in silk. Can you do this, my old friend?"
"Can you break my daughter's spirit, and rebuild her into a woman we can be proud of?"
For a brief moment, Heihachi loses self-control. Fortunately for Tokugawa, the tea-cup is the only victim of it, but it is -- his hand clenches around it, and just like that, it's dust in his hand, completely crushed, decades of self-improvement and self-brutality keeping his hand from bleeding. He hardly even feels it -- though his hand is now soaked in the tea water. That control is seized back immediately -- for all his cruelty and sometimes outright evil, he does meditate, and it's that dedication that keeps him from flying off the handle.
"You want to... waste it?" The request is so alien to him -- for all his faults, Kazumi had shown a younger Heihachi -- who had much the same thoughts on women as the Tokugawas at the time - that they could become powerful weapons as well. "She can be your family's blade -- she can usher in a new age to the Tokugawa clan once more." His breathing is ragged as he struggles through the mental gymnastics of trying to understand Matsudaira's motives.
It's a strange day in history when Heihachi is the champion of women's rights, when he stands up for something he believes in that isn't himself.
"No. She /will/ become one of this world's strongest -- or she will die trying. I /will/ train her."
The mask is gone -- Heihachi is in full Iron Scowl now.
Matsudaira moves softly and subtly.
He was an old traditionalist, much older and much more conservative than the ambitious, worldly Heihachi. In many ways, Heihachi was the post-Imperial Japan. Where the Tokugawas held ideals before the rise of Imperialism. When Heihachi crushes the teacup, Matsudaira is patient. Standing in the path of the Master of the Iron Fist was a form of suicide. But he would not yield. He would just move slowly. Heihachi was not holding any illusions on Mitsuru's potential. But already, the Tokugawa was readying his counter, when the Mishima unleashes his scowl.
"Which one of your sons would marry to the world's strongest."
Matsudaira rarely leveled a direct attack. But Tokugawas always would strike where it was most lethal. "Strong, domineering women are not only undesirable to men, but dangerous to their husbands. They cannot be controlled. They cannot be tamed. And every challenge is met with anger and violence." There is no pressure from his words. But it comes with the power of an unseen fist.
"And sometimes, daughters do not survive their fights."
Matsudaira shakes his head. "You have seen Mitsuru. I do not even need to see her now. I know how she is. She treats you as she would her husband. You cannot love her. No man can love her. L" Damning, damning words. "If she was a man, if she was my son, I would have given her to you when she was of age. I could consider nothing more honorable than for you, old friend, to train my son in the Mishima arts, to make him the strongest in the world. I know you would succeed. But Mitsuru is a lady. Yes, her nature would make her a most formidable sword for the Tokugawa." He lifts his hand towards the arcway of a door.
"But where do swords sit now, Heihachi."
Matsudaira stares at the cup. Silver energy was silently, subtly tracing around his form. "They are not used to conquer, to hold land. No, they are only symbols. Decorations to kept in houses. Remainders of glorious days, where the Samurai once ruled. The Tokugawa Clan has not needed swords since we gave up the title of Shogun. The Tokugawa's strength will no longer be on battlefields. The future of Japan is not in warriors. It is businessmen, in commerce, in science, in diplomacy." He traces a thumb across the tea cup. "My daughter's talents are a curse in this modern time, not a blessing. And to unleash her power would make her unworthy and undesirable for any son of prominent businessman to wed, Heihachi." He places the cup down on the table again, holding it. He looks directly into the Iron Scowl. He would not flinch; his daughter wouldn't either. "Are you telling me, Heihachi, that you intend to ruin my daughter for marriage?" He releases the cup. It falls apart.
Bisected cleanly in two halves.
Matsudaira's words bring up a distant memory -- Kazuya was still a child, still hidden behind his mother's skirts at every opportunity -- but not that night. In the garden that night Kazumi tried to kill him. She had horns and wings -- it was unlike anything Heihachi had ever seen before. She was fierce in her attempt to kill him, her fingers becoming talons, light that burned coming from her eyes. Heihachi had no choice but to punch her at full strength -- the punch was a fatal one, and she died before he even got to say goodbye.
Those words, alongside Matsudaira's earlier comment regarding Heihachi's very, very disappointing sons were part of the verbal combo that the Tokugawa was brutalizing the old man with, but of course, Heihachi doesn't flinch -- he doesn't know how to flinch. Still, the brief aversion of the old man's glance is enough for someone perceptive to know that he might as well be in agony from the verbal barbs.
In fact, Matsudaira almost had him. He was so close that Heihachi was already trying to think up ways to turn poor little Mitsuru into the primest and most proper of housewives -- the V-Gage was one of the options. It isn't until Matsudaira points out that the future of Japan is not in warriors that the old man balks.
Heihachi was a businessman, this much was true. But he was a warrior, first. The energy around Heihachi was less subtle than Tokugawa's -- currents of electricity coursed through his limbs, though he wasn't absolutely wreathed in it like he might be in his most violent of battles.
"I despise weakness. If these men would not have someone like Mitsuru..." Heihachi says words he never thought he'd say, especially about the gangly little twerp who dared looked him in the eye that day in the elevator in front of some of his most trusted lieutenants: "Then they are not worthy of her."
"I /will/ train her, Matsudaira."
"No man will me worthy of her, if she reaches her potential."
It was the most defeated praise that Matsudaira expressed. He would not fight Heihachi with his hands. He had too much respect for the man, and too little respect for his own fighting ability. Besides. He might enjoy it. And what kind of example would that be to Mitsuru. "Men do not want strength. They want weakness in their women. They want them to be delicate lambs, delicate, porcelin dolls that they can dress up, and show to their friends. You will train her to be a woman, not a man, Heihachi." Matsudaira relaxes slightly. The tell. The ultimate tell of the Tokugawa.
Compromise.
"You have women in your employment." He begins, nodding his head as he looks aside. "They are obedient. Have them teach and train her. I will arrange something with Seijyun High. Remote study. If she is meeting milestones to my satisfication, then I will allow certain privilages." He nods at Heihachi. "Training with you would be the highest privilage. If she disobeys, or if she falls behind in her studies. Then she will be forbidden to train. If she is going to be your strongest fighter..." Matsudaira begins to stand.
"You must make her the perfect woman first."
Matsudaira's compromise has Heihachi's gaze dropping in thought, muscles in his jaw twitching. He knows that this will be difficult to do -- keeping Mitsuru in line. Fujimura has already reported on her attitude -- on how difficult she would be for any lesser person. His hand comes up and strokes at his goatee thoughtfully -- the one that's dry, not his tea-stained one. His eyes eventually lift up to Matsudaira and then the old man begins to rise with him.
And Heihachi nods his head stiffly. He wouldn't put Mitsuru in the V-Gage in that case. No one who is learning the Mishima way of karate should be subject to it -- it would make her weak, mentally. He had to prepare her. He might even need to use NT01 in some form or fashion to get this done, though he wasn't going to give that prize away any time soon.
"So be it," Heihachi decides. Even if he couldn't make her the perfect woman, maybe he can see about her pretending to be.
"...We should do this again sometime." The mask and the warmth are back, and Heihachi's smiling that big smile of his again. "These are troubling times, Matsudaira. Some respite is prudent, to keep one's mind sharp and their priorities clear."
He begins walking towards the helicopter, his way of walking Tokugawa out. "I will arrange for Mitsuru to call you on the phone, and when she is fully recovered, which I suspect is soon, I will send her home to you."
It was the new Tokugawa way.
"Yes. We should." Was Matsudaira's response. "Do not feel any hurry to return her. I have no interest in seeing her until she meets my expectations." The words come as easily and cooly as any other. He felt that MItsuru was truly blessed to have such concerned people in her life like himself and Heihachi. These thoughts swim in his head, as he reaches the helicoptor
Somewhere, deep away in a bunker, Mitsuru once again runs through what she is going to tell her father, when Heihachi finally lets her see him.
Log created on 11:14:12 06/26/2020 by Mitsuru, and last modified on 11:23:30 06/28/2020.


Not sure if iPad art is encouraged here, but here's my Procreate portrait of the wonderful Noname, from my iPad Pro!
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Be Known
About George Fox
About George Fox University
Our Namesake
Quaker Movement
Friends Pacific Academy opens with 19 students, including future U.S. president Herbert Hoover.
A bear born before George Fox University existed inspired the university's use of "Bruins" as a sports nickname and its oldest student tradition. In 1887, a student at Friends Pacific Academy brought to campus a black bear cub found in the coast range. The cub lived in a pit in Hess Creek Canyon. After it died in 1892, the bearskin became an unofficial mascot, traveling with the senior class on outings. Senior classes traditionally passed "Bruin" down to the juniors, but in 1898 the junior class swiped the skin early. Students have wrestled for possession of the bearskin and numerous canvas replicas, called "Bruin Junior," ever since in competitions known as "Bruin brawls."
Pacific College opens its doors with 15 students.
The first graduating class
Evangeline Martin and Amanda Woodward celebrate the $30,000 raised for a new college building. Wood-Mar Hall was completed in 1911.
The Bruins win the Willamette Valley League basketball championship in a season that included a 34-25 win against Oregon State Agricultural College (Oregon State University).
The school's name is changed to George Fox College.
The Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools grants accreditation.
The first Raft Race down the Willamette River begins an on-and-off George Fox tradition. Using oars and "anything that floats," students race the three-mile course from Roger's Landing in Newberg to Champoeg Park. The 1981 race draws 22 entries and more than 100 student sailors. The fastest recorded time is 65 minutes, set in 1971. The most unique craft might have been the air-filled waterbed that captured the 1976 race..
George Fox is the first in the Northwest to offer degree-completion program for working adults. Degree-completion classes are offered in Portland.
The Juniors Abroad overseas study program starts. Excursions have reached every continent except Antarctica. It's also the first year U.S. News & World Report ranks George Fox as one of "America's Best Colleges."
The Templeton Foundation includes George Fox on its nationwide Honor Roll of Character Building Colleges.
George Fox begins offering graduate programs, acquiring the doctor of psychology program from Western Seminary.
George Fox celebrates its 100th birthday in a yearlong celebration that ends Sept. 9. Centennial Tower donor Esther Klages was part of the ceremonies. In addition, the Computers Across the Curriculum program starts, providing a Macintosh Classic to each student. The program, which later provided laptops to incoming undergraduate students, remained in place through the 2010-11 academic year.
George Fox College merges with Western Evangelical Seminary and the name changes again – to George Fox University. Former U.S. senator Mark Hatfield joins the faculty to teach history and political science.
The campus closes for a day as all staff and students head into the community for volunteer service projects on the university's inaugural Serve Day.
Carnegie Foundation's Oregon Professor of the Year award is given to biology professor Dwight Kimberly.
The Salem Site opens. Meanwhile, Newberg business owners Ken and Joan Austin announce plans to donate 24 acres of undeveloped land for future outdoor athletic fields.
The Bruins win the NCAA Division III national baseball championship.
George Fox purchases the Newberg Providence Hospital and its eight acres of property for academic use.
U.S. News & World Report ranks George Fox in its "Best National Universities" category for the first time.
The Bruins win a NCAA Division III national women's basketball championship.
Record undergraduate applications cause the university to create a wait list and raise admission requirements. The Austin Sports Complex opens with a synthetic turf soccer/lacrosse field. In rankings news, Forbes ranks George Fox among its top-100 "America's Best Colleges," highest among Christian colleges in the nation.
The first cadre of Act Six students graduate. The leadership and scholarship program provides full scholarships to selected urban leaders in the Portland area. Marilyn and John Duke donate $2.5 million to the university – one of the largest gifts in school history – to fund the Duke Athletic Center, part of the new Stoffer Family Stadium complex on campus.
The university receives a first-tier regional ranking and "Best Value" listing from U.S. News & World Report, while also receiving recognition from Kiplinger's, Forbes and Princeton Review. It also marks the first year George Fox begins offering a three-year doctor of physical therapy degree, becoming only the second school in the state to do so.
George Fox breaks ground on Stoffer Family Stadium. The facility is constructed to accommodate track and field and the revived football program.
Construction of the new Stoffer Family Stadium, which includes the synthetic-turf Lemmons Family Field and the 14,000-square-foot Duke Athletic Center, is completed. In the fall, the school welcomes the return of football after a 46-year hiatus from the sport.
Construction is completed on a new residence hall, Brandt Hall, named for former President David Brandt and his wife Melva. The university also completes a 220-foot bridge that spans Hess Creek Canyon to better connect the new buildings on the east side of campus to the west.
Construction of a new dining hall in Hess Creek Canyon, Canyon Commons, is completed in time for a fall 2016 opening. The 30,000-square-foot facility replaces Klages Dining Hall as the primary food service venue. Klages was in turn converted into a Maker Hub. The year also marked the university's 125th anniversary.
Money magazine ranks George Fox "Best College for Your Money" in Oregon.
The university opens the Hadlock Student Center, a 48,000-square-foot fitness facility. In athletics, the women's track and field team ties for a national title, claiming the school's third NCAA team championship in history. In the fall, the school introduced intercollegiate swimming.
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Чутівська ЗОШ І—ІІІ ступенів — загальноосвітня школа, розташована у с. Чутівка, Оржицького району Полтавської області.

Загальні дані
Чутівська ЗОШ І—ІІІ ступенів — розташована за адресою: 37743, вул. Шкільна, 1, с. Чутівка, Оржицького району Полтавської області.

У школі навчається 96 учнів.

Педколектив навчального закладу — 26 вчителів.

Директор школи — Боговик Світлана Петріївна.

Історія школи
Перша школа на території села була церковно-приходською, мала чотири класи. Знаходилася вона в мальовничому куточку села, там де сьогодні знаходиться Алея Пам'яті. Цю школу утримувала місцева поміщиця – Мусьманша. В школі навчалися діти всіх селян, що жили в Чутівці. До революції заняття проводилися в цьому приміщенні, але через необережність сторожа ця школа згоріла. Навчання відновили в панському будинку, що знаходився на Валку. Працювала школа у дві зміни. Цей будинок у селі іще називали "академією". І хоча цього будинку вже давно не існує, місце, де він знаходився, і досі називають академією.

Після революції перейшли навчатися в інший панський будинок, що знаходився коло ставу. Будинок був оточений великим парком з різноманітними деревами, що були насаджені панськими слугами. Ця школа була трьохступеневою: І ступінь – 1 – 4 класи; ІІ ступінь – 5 – 7 класи; а з іншого боку (ІІІ ступінь ) – школа колгоспної молоді (ШКМ). Сюди набирали учнів після 7 класів з усіх навколишніх сіл. Школа мала сільськогосподарський нахил. Присилали сюди вчителів, агрономів, тобто тих, хто володів сільськогосподарськими професіями.

Дітей у школі навчалось багато, всі прагнули до знань. На початок 40-х років кількість учнів у школі сягала 450 учнів, навчання проводилося у дві зміни. Школа на той час давала семирічну освіту. На їх зміну в 1949 році прийшов працювати Усенко Олександр Іванович. Школа в той період опалювалася соломою, очеретом та соняшничинням. Уже пізніше для опалення почали завозити торф, брикет та вугілля. Розвантажували паливо та заносили його в приміщення самі учні. Робили все це дружно, з бажанням.

На період 1978 – 1980 років приходиться будівництво нового приміщення школи. Яка ж була радість вчителів та учнів, коли 24 листопада 1980 року було відкрито нову школу. Діти разом зі своїми наставниками переносили в нове приміщення унаочнення та таблиці, меблі для школи були придбані нові. На плечі директора та колективу лягла проблема упорядкування та благоустрою території школи.

У 1986 році школу прийняв Боговик Володимир Миколайович – сам місцевий, отримавши вищу освіту і попрацювавши декілька років в Райозерській школі, повернувся до рідного села.

У 1988 році було відкрито середню школу, а через рік почалося вивчення у школі автосправи та тракторної справи.

У 2000 році школа дає можливість отримувати дві робітничих спеціальності – водій автомобіля (категорія С) та оператор комп'ютерного  набору.

Директори школи
 Усенко Наталка Степанівна (з 1934 р.);
 Нестеренко Андрій Іванович (з 1938 р.);
 Усенко Олександр Іванович (з 1949 р.);
 Чеберяк Петро Федорович (з 1977 р.);
 Стрєльніков Віктор Юрієвич (з 1985 р.);
 Боговик Володимир Миколайович (з 1986 р.);
 Рева Антонина Панасівна (з 1992 р.);
 Боговик Мирослав Тимофійович (з 2000 р.);
 Сук Юрій Віталійович (з 2006 р.);
 Боговик Світлана Петріївна (з 2019.р)

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Школа на сайті ІСУО

Освіта в Оржицькому районі
Школи Полтавської області
Засновані в Україні 1917

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FAC Artist Spotlight: Laura Hohn
Jillian Schoettle April 1, 2016
"I want to make things that are designed well," Laura explained, gesturing to the pitchers, cups, and platters that are grouped throughout her studio. "I have this Mr. Coffee coffee-maker that pours just terribly," she laughed. "Every morning I use this coffee pot and I look at it. The angle of its spout is funny which leads to its fault. Where you put your spout and handle really affects the center of gravity."
Laura has been tweaking and perfecting her ceramic designs for years, through carefully documented trial and error, to create hand-crafted functional pottery. "I take notes and document my process when attempting a new project. You know, so I don't reinvent the wheel every time," she advised. "I always find it helpful down the road and kick myself when I forget. I also like to work in a series so I can immediately apply what I've learned to the next piece. At the end, I compare them and try to figure out which ones were successful and why."
The importance of functionality is always at the forefront of her mind. "I often get ideas from using everyday objects. If they function especially well or not at all, I find that I'm curious about their design and what aspect of the form, or how it was made, lent itself to the piece's success or failure."
Laura's studio is filled with glossy, richly-colored ceramic pieces adorned with thoughtful texture and mark-making. "I find I'm really inspired by patterns and texture. My inspiration comes from nature, fabric patterns, antiques, found objects, and commercial designs," explained Laura as she ran her fingertip over the intriguing texture of a luscious powder blue platter.
"I'm really drawn to the Impressionists and the influence of emotion and color in artwork." Laura explained how she layers and sequences her glazes to create the patterns, markings, and hues she envisions for each piece. As she delved into the process of creating one piece of pottery, it became evident just how many factors influence the final form: having a gas or electric kiln, the temperature clay at which is fired, the viscosity of the glaze, the thickness of the clay, and the amount of oxygen introduced while firing are among the many facets of the ceramic process. "There's a serendipity of chemistry in the kiln that you just can't foresee," Laura mused.
Laura's artistic path began to take shape when her mom bought her a book of simple projects and a big bag of clay around age nine. Just like any beginner in ceramics, she started making coil pots. "Of course, they all turned out terribly," Laura chuckled, "but I still loved it." She continued to take art classes throughout childhood and through high school, then went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in ceramics from Illinois Wesleyan University. Laura learned to make clay and glazes from raw materials and how to fire kilns during her time as a teaching assistant for the ceramics department, giving her extra insight into the technical processes of the ceramic arts. Her final year at IWU included the John Wesley Powell Research Conference where she was instructed on how to develop her own projects and present them in a public forum, a useful skill for anyone earning a degree in an artistic field. Laura graduated magna cum laude in 2005, returned to her hometown of O'Fallon, IL, and began her search for studio space.
Her search led her to the Foundry Art Centre as an apprentice to previous FAC Studio Artists, potters Tim & Christy Sawyer, in Studios 1-4. "That time really helped me learn more about what it takes to be a full-time potter," said Laura, who has worked as a waitress and bartender to support her pottery business, up until about a year ago when New Spin On Tradition became her full-time job.
Studio 21 has been home to her beautiful pottery for about five years. "I feel very lucky to have a studio here. As a creative person, how can you be surrounded by other artists and not want to make things yourself? Plus, if you're stuck or have a problem, you have this great thinktank for solutions. There are so many different mediums represented through our studio artists," she expressed. "They're all going to approach a problem in a different way. I feel very fortunate to be at the Foundry."
"Also, the space is really beautiful: lots of natural light and right on the river," she continued. "If I'm feeling tired or need inspiration, I can take a walk on the Katy Trail."
Laura is currently working on a spring-inspired series of flower bricks. Flower bricks emerged in the 18th century and originated from either English or Dutch potters. The structure and lattice-work top of the flower brick allows for easy and attractive arrangements of blooms that have less sturdy stems, such as tulips. Laura's flower bricks involve two clay slabs, a bottomless thrown form, attached feet, a hand-carved top and elegant patterning.
Apart from flower bricks, other forms sit drying on her work table: berry bowls and the bodies of pitchers await their next step in Laura's process. Commissioned pieces and work for the front entrance to coincide with the next FAC exhibition, Form and Function, are next on the agenda after Laura participates in the Art Fair at Queeny Park this weekend, April 1-3, 2016. Laura aims to show her work at 1-2 art fairs each month and looks forward to the people she meets and saying goodbye to her ceramic pieces. "Most of the things I make find a home within a year," she said. The pieces peering out her studio windows do often change and visitors get to see a wide variety of her work every time they go upstairs.
For the past ten years, Laura has been working toward being a full-time studio artist and has achieved her goal. With a thriving business and a presence on the local and national art scene, she's learned that success is not instant but it's definitely worth the wait. "Get as much education as you can," she suggested, "whether from formal or informal sources, like apprenticeships, degree programs, books, workshops, even Youtube videos from artists you respect. It all has some merit. Any time I attend a workshop or other educational opportunity, I feel like the work pushes forward. I always come away with some new insight or technique."
To learn more about Laura, visit her FAC Studio Artist page or her website. For current updates, be sure to like her on Facebook and follow her on Instagram.
Article & Photographs by Jillian Schoettle.
InStudio Artist Spotlight Tagslaura hohn, studio 21, pottery, ceramics, ceramic arts, functional ceramics, functional pottery, mugs, pitchers, platters, new spin on tradition, functionality, form and function, patterns, texture, illinois wesleyan university, john wesley powell research conference, tim and christy sawyer, flower bricks, art fair at queeny park, queeny park art fair


Welcome to my stop on this Blog Tour for the release of WE WERE THE SALT OF THE SEA by Roxanne Bouchard.
I would like to say that it is truly my pleasure to be invited onto this blog tour! Particular thanks to Anne Cater, Karen @ Orenda Books and the wonderful Roxanne Bouchard who gifted me an early copy of WE WERE THE SALT OF THE SEA. I am forever grateful and promise that the review below is 100% honest and of my own views.
Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation. On Quebec's outlying Gaspé Peninsula, the truth can be slippery, especially down on the fishermen's wharves.
Interviews drift into idle chit-chat, evidence floats off with the tide and the truth lingers in murky waters. It's enough to make DS Morales reach straight for a large whisky.
Well, what can I say? Orenda have done it again! They are the literary Santa Claus and we are all the good children! We have been given the gift of superb writing and story telling and I for one am rather pleased with my gift!
This book has been categorised as crime fiction, but as many are already pointing out – this is also an ode to the ocean. A calming entity that many people can relate to and you soon become lost in everything Roxanne has to offer which I experienced similar feelings when reading SEALSKIN. It is too easy to sit and read this book in one sitting (as I did!) and feel like you have experienced nearly every emotion you have.
Hands down, WE WERE THE SALT OF THE SEA is one of the most unique crime fiction stories I have had the pleasure of reading. Kudos to the translator; David Warriner who was able to bring Roxanne's words into English without losing the magic of her original telling.


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Why Michael Dawson is backing Nottingham Forest's new Portuguese trio to be a success
There is much excitement about the attacking flair Joao Carvalho, Gil Dias and Diogo Goncalves will bring to Nottingham Forest - but it is more mundane qualities that are impressing veteran defender Michael Dawson
Nottingham Forest's trio of Portuguese summer signings can make a big impact in the Championship – because they have the work-rate to back up their flair.
That is the message from defender Michael Dawson, who has had the chance to go toe-to-toe with all five of the Reds' summer attacking additions.
While Hillal Soudani and Lewis Grabban both arrived at the City Ground with a proven track record in front of goal, Joao Carvalho, Gil Dias and Diogo Goncalves were all unknown quantities.
But, having had the chance to work with all of them during Forest's pre-season training camp in Spain, Dawson believes Carvalho, Dias and Goncalves can flourish in English football, because they have the attitude to go with their ability.
"They are flair players and get them in front of goal and they will want to score goals," said Dawson.
Nottingham Forest transfer update - Reds have 'careful plan in place'
Gil Dias scores for Nottingham Forest against Malaga (Image: Nottingham Forest FC)
"They also work hard, which is something you have to do in the Championship. You cannot carry anyone in a side.
Nottingham Forest 'looking like a very good team' on AND off the pitch, says Aitor Karanka
"Those boys have shown that they are willing to work hard. They have picked up the work ethic and they already seem to know what it is about.
"They look like they are top players. But they are great lads as well. They have already looked to be together, within the squad."
Despite his optimism over their ability to flourish in the Garibaldi red, Dawson also hopes people will be patient with the trio, as they find their feet at a new club, in a new country.
"It will take time for them to properly settle, when you consider that they are moving to a new country and a new city," he said. "I know the city very well, but I also know what it is like when you come to a new club and you are looking for a new house; a new place to live.
Nottingham Forest fans divided on Lee Tomlin - 'Unnecessary expenditure' or 'worth a loan deal'
"It is not always easy and that is coming from a player who has had a career of moving around.
Nottingham Forest's Diogo Goncalves on the ball in a practice match (Image: Nottingham Forest FC)
"They will take time to settle, but they are good lads and it is great to have them."
Dawson, who made his return to his first club on a free transfer from Hull, is equally confident that Grabban – who scored 20 goals during loan spells with Sunderland and Aston Villa last season – and Algerian international Soudani will be a success with the Reds.
"The two more senior lads have already proved themselves in the past and they will bring goals for us, definitely," said Dawson.
Nottingham Forest 'can be really dangerous' this season, says Aitor Karanka
"Grabbs' goal-scoring record spoke for itself last season.
"And Hillal is an international player, at the end of the day. He scores plenty of goals in training and he is energetic and lively."
Aitor Karanka
Nottingham Forest transfer news


I don't know about you Moms, but some times at the end of the day I'll look around and feel like I haven't gotten a single thing done. I know I've done things all day long, I have three kids, I'm basically never doing nothing. But it can be hard to nail down something that I actually accomplished when I'm staring a sink full of dirty dishes, and a mountain of laundry that needs to be folded. I needed to find a way to get stuff done!
Enter #MomHacks, simple changes that you can make to help yourself get more done each day.
[ONE] Put Your Kids to Bed Earlier- Y'all this is one of the best things I have ever done. My kids (aged 8 + 9) go to bed between 7:00 and 7:30 every single school night. Trust me on this, they need the extra rest. I've noticed a huge shift in their behavior, now that they are getting more rest. Plus it gives me a nice quiet evening to get things done.
[TWO] Wake Up Before Your Kids- Sort of the opposite of number one, I wake up every weekday morning at 5:30. I sit and enjoy the quiet, and I actually drink my coffee- while it's still hot– you guys. It's an hour out of my day where I can write down everything I want/need to get done that day, while no one needs anything from me. This was a game change for me.
[THREE] Write It Down- Everyone loves checking things off a to do list. Scratching through your 'to-do' list will make you feel instantly accomplished and you'll want to get the next task done! So grab a notebook from your stash, and write down everything you need to do–bonus points if your notebook has flamingos!
[FOUR] Put on Real Clothes (and make up if you're feeling particularly ambitious 😉 )- No one loves a pajama day more than I do, but whenever I stay in my PJ's all morning, I don't get anything done…I sit around and binge Gilmore Girls on Netflix, again. Something about the act of putting on new clothes (that I would go outside my house in haha) makes my brain shift into doing mode.
[FIVE] Eat More Protein- A mom can not live on coffee alone, friends. We could all benefit from a healthy protein boost to get us going in the morning. For the past couple of weeks, I've made Perfect Bars my choice for my early morning protein.
They're perfect for popping in your bag and taking them with you anywhere, stays fresh up to a week out of the fridge so no worries.


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Two fallen Canadian soldiers return home from Afghanistan
The bodies of two Canadian soldiers killed by a suicide bomber in Kandahar, Afghanistan were brought back to Canada. Both were from CFB Petawawa located in Petawawa, Ontario.
Their vehicle has intercepted on a road by a suicide bomber. A helicopter came helping all injured and possibly dead soldiers into it where they received medical attention somewhere safe. This time, their vehicle was blown up by a man's car when he drived into them and detonated his car. Two Canadians were killed, the rest were injured.
Canadian, U.S., Dutch, and British soldiers stood at Kandhar Airfield Thursday to farewell Cpl. Albert Storm and Officer Robert Girouard. A piper played Amazing Grace as the Canadian flag-covered coffins were carried onto the C-130 Hercules aircraft for their flight home.
"It's very hard for me to do it but I know my colleague, my friend and soldier, is going home to a restful place," Cpl. Victor Thibault, 38, of Digby, Nova Scotia said to the Canadian Press. "He's done what he had to do and I believe that's good… He was a good friend. I will miss him," he said.
Forty-four Canadian soldiers as well as one diplomat have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002. About 2,500 Canadian troops are serving in Afghanistan.
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One of the questions we get most often here at GeekDad is when the best age is to introduce your children to the various geeky things you love. In the last decade or so, there has been a rise in the number of books aimed at little kids that tell science fiction or fantasy stories, but it's just possible that trend has reached its apotheosis with a new series of books.
If you're a parent of little geeklets, and a Doctor Who fan, either of "Classic Who" or "New Who" or both, you've probably given some thought as to when you can start watching episodes with them. Even the goofiest of the old or new episodes deals with things beyond most little kids' ability to process. But worry no longer, because a new Mr. Men – Doctor Who mashup is on the case.
You may remember from your own childhood the books of Roger Hargreaves. The Mr. Men series offered (and continues to offer) a whimsical look at emotions, the human body, and various aspects of modern life. And now, you can get versions of those books that offer a whimsical look at the various Doctors.
More waves of books are scheduled to follow later this year to cover the other Doctors. The next wave, scheduled to go on sale August 29, 2017, will include the Second, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Doctors.
Anyway, the first four books are on sale now. Trust me, if you're a Whovian, you'll enjoy them immensely even if you don't have kids little enough to be in the Mr. Men target audience. I would also mention that I'm much more a fan of "New Who" than "Classic Who," but I still really enjoyed Dr. First and Dr. Fourth, so don't let a bit of unfamiliarity with the specific Doctors stop you from buying them.
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Start up: AirBnB's race problem, solar prices crater, modern porn, AirPods teardown (sorta), and more
Posted on September 23, 2016 by charlesarthur
"All I did was say my name was Jennifer Null." Photo by Random McRandom on Flickr.
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Response to Airbnb's report on discrimination • Edelman.org
(Professor) Ben Edelman:
This month Airbnb released a report (PDF) investigating discrimination by its hosts against guests (including racial minorities and others), assessing the evidence of the problem and evaluating proposed solutions. The accompanying announcement offers lofty principles—"creating a world where anyone can belong anywhere."
In contrast to the company's prior denials, Airbnb now admits the problem is urgent: "discrimination must be addressed"; "minorities struggle more than others to book a listing"; "some members of the community did not receive the timely, compassionate response they expected and deserved when they reported instances of discrimination"; Airbnb's nondiscrimination policy was not widely known, within or outside company. This much is beyond dispute.
While Airbnb's report is a step in the right direction, it does little to address the crucial subject of how to actually fix the problem of discrimination. Indeed, the report proposes actions of uncertain or unproven effectiveness. At the same time, the report quickly dismisses a simpler alternative response—removing guest photos and names from booking requests—which would be far more likely to succeed. Meanwhile, the report completely fails to defend the legal gamesmanship by which Airbnb avoids litigation on the merits when consumers complain about Airbnb, and the report equally fails to defend Airbnb's continued prohibition on users conducting research to uncover and measure discrimination for themselves.
This article offers my critique.
Edelman is good at critiquing the subtle discrimination that big and small tech companies do. He pointed out the racial discrimination among AirBnB lettors back in December 2015; it's still valid.
New record low solar price in Abu Dhabi – costs plunging faster than expected • Ramez Naam
The price of solar power – in the very sunniest locations in particular – is plunging faster than I expected. I've been talking for years now about the exponential decline of solar power prices. I've often been called a wide-eyed optimist. Here's what those projections (based on historical learning rates) look like.
In fact, if anything, my forecasts were too conservative. The solar prices I expected have been smashed by bids in the Middle East and in Latin America. I will need to update the model above in a future post.
The latest record is an incredibly low bid of 2.42 cents/kwh solar electricity in Abu Dhabi. That is an unsubsidized price.
If there's anything to give us a little hope, it's this: allied to electric cars, the almost unlimited supply of silicon (sand is plentiful), you could get towards a future where we use a great deal less fossil fuel.
Equally, this puts the crazily high price that the UK government has agreed to buy electricity from the new Chinese-built Hinkley C nuclear reactor – 9p per kWh, or about 12 cents/kWh – into perspective. It would almost be cheaper just to pay for solar panels on all the UK's household and factory roofs.
These unlucky people have names that break computers • BBC Future
Chris Baraniuk:
Jennifer Null's husband had warned her before they got married that taking his name could lead to occasional frustrations in everyday life. She knew the sort of thing to expect – his family joked about it now and again, after all. And sure enough, right after the wedding, problems began.
"We moved almost immediately after we got married so it came up practically as soon as I changed my name, buying plane tickets," she says. When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.
Instead, she has to call the airline company by phone to book a ticket – but that's not the end of the process.
And you thought "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;" was a made-up name. (Of course the XKCD cartoon is worth the second hit of its alt text.)
Apple still leads in smartwatch sales; sector growth slow • Kantar Worldpanel
"In the three months ending July 2016, 47% of wearable sales in the US occurred in the smartwatch category, versus the more basic fitness bands," said Lauren Guenveur, Consumer Insight Director for Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. "Apple continues to dominate this segment with a 33.5% share, although that lead shrank slightly in the last three months as the market awaited the Apple Watch Series 2 announcement. The EU4 countries show a similar trend, with 38.6% of all sales coming in the smartwatch category, with Apple leading at 31.8%."
"Looking ahead, 9.3% of the US-based non-owners we surveyed said they intend to purchase a wearable in the next 12 months, which came in slightly below the 11.3% figure from Great Britain," Guenveur continued. "September 7th's unveiling of the Apple Watch Series 2 showed Apple addressing the key considerations cited by those planning to buy, including GPS, one of the most-desired functionalities, and waterproofing, the most-desired feature."
Making sense of modern pornography • The New Yorker
Katrina Forrester:
The majority of the world's [porn] tube sites are effectively a monopoly—owned by a company called MindGeek, whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Amazon or Facebook. Its C.E.O. until recently was a German named Fabian Thylmann, who earned a reported annual income of a hundred million dollars; he sold the company while being investigated for tax evasion.
The millions of people using these sites probably don't care much about who produces their content. But those who work in porn in the United States tend to draw a firm line between the "amateur" porn that now proliferates online and the legal adult-film industry that took shape after the California Supreme Court ruled, in California v. Freeman (1989), that filmed sex did not count as prostitution. Since then, the industry has been based in Los Angeles County's San Fernando Valley, where its professional norms and regulations have mimicked its more respectable Hollywood neighbors. In "The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford), Shira Tarrant explains how that industry works in the new age of Internet porn, and sets out to provide neutral, "even-handed" information about its production and consumption.
It's not an easy task.
But hey, someone's got to do it. At least it was even-handed rather than.. ok, I'll stop.
Airpods – a speculative teardown • LinkedIn
Nick Hunn is chief technology officer of WiForce:
Companies have developed a number of proprietary ways to ensure [sound signals, especially music, in separate Bluetooth earbuds] are synchronised. The first was from Cambridge Silicon Radio (now part of Qualcomm), who developed a method where one chip receives the stereo signal, then separates out the left and right and resends one of the channels to a Bluetooth chip in the other earbud. They included synchronisation signals, so that the audio output of both chips could be coordinated in time. You also need to do this if one earbud is a music player, streaming data to the other ear, which is a particularly difficult use case. Others have streamed over Bluetooth A2DP to both earbuds and tried to use Bluetooth low energy to send synchronisation signals between the ears. Others have done the same thing using Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI). Some have even attempted to stream audio between earbuds using NFMI.
The problem with all ear-to-ear communication is that the head is remarkably effective in blocking 2.4GHz radio propagation. Designs which fit snugly within the ear have real problems in getting a signal across. The bigger the earbud, the easier this is, as you can include a bigger antenna, but the best solution is to put the antenna outside the ear. Apple's design does exactly that. By locating the antenna in the long white battery and microphone boom, it moves it closer to the jaw where there's a lot less attenuation from one side of the head to the other. So I surmise they're using A2DP to stream audio from the phone to each Airpod and probably using BLE control signals between them to synchronise the audio rendering. So there's no need for NFMI…
…So why would Apple make [the W1] chip? Developing a wireless chip with this spec isn't cheap – it will probably cost at least $10m with a similar amount going on the stack. It is just a peripheral chip, which will never go into a phone, so the volumes are not that high. But it is interesting that Apple emphasised that this is their first wireless chip, in a tone suggesting it won't be the only one. My guess is that Apple wants to incorporate Bluetooth and Wi-Fi into their next generation of processors, as that's what their competitors are doing. Wireless can be difficult, so it's a big step to do that in one go. Far better to design the wireless chip and evaluate it in an entirely new product category, as well as forcing one of your subsidiaries to use it. That way you get to test the chip as well as getting useful feedback for your next generation of earbuds.
This is the smartest thing you'll read all week, and it contains a great deal about Bluetooth technology that wouldn't be obvious. And he's right – the longer tabs of the AirPods mean they can communicate through flesh (your neck) rather than bone (your skull).
Yahoo is expected to confirm massive data breach, impacting hundreds of millions of users • Recode
Kara Swisher:
While sources were unspecific about the extent of the incursion, since there is the likelihood of government investigations and legal action related to the breach, they noted that it is widespread and serious.
Earlier this summer, Yahoo said it was investigating a data breach in which hackers claimed to have access to 200 million user accounts and was selling them online. "It's as bad as that," said one source. "Worse, really."
The announcement, which is expected to come this week, also possible larger implications on the $4.8 billion sale of Yahoo's core business — which is at the core of this hack — to Verizon. The scale of the liability could be large and bring untold headaches to the new owners. Shareholders are likely to worry that it could lead to an adjustment in the price of the transaction.
Turns out it was 500 million account details in 2014 by a suspected "state-sponsored actor". Hard to defend against that. I've been getting malware emails from hacked Yahoo accounts for months now. No idea if it's connected.
The Galaxy Note 7 recall has nothing to do with removable batteries • SamMobile
"Deidre R" on the biggest of the Samsung-watching sites:
The batteries being shipped in the Galaxy Note 7 are faulty (at least some of them are; Samsung has never said that all the currently-shipped phones have faulty batteries, though mass hysteria can never be contained, unfortunately). The batteries are faulty because of issues within the battery itself. Nothing has been said to confirm that Samsung's "sealing" the battery itself, or the battery and the phone together, are causing the conflict that is resulting in explosions worldwide. The issue has been found within the battery cells, an issue that mandates using a different, non-faulty battery that doesn't suffer from the same defect.
This is the issue, but removable battery fanboys are switching topics, throwing out the real issue and planting a smokescreen from a different discussion. The topic concerns the batteries being defective, but removable battery fanboys want to get you off topic because they still can't accept that removable batteries are going the way of the dodo and that, contrary to what they like, the old way of battery charging has been replaced with newer, more sophisticated methods of doing so.
"Removable battery fanboys"? Truly we have begun to segment the world into ever-smaller niches. What I find fascinating here, though, isn't the fake row about whether the fault is removability (obviously, it's in manufacture) but how what used to be near-religious dogma among, uh, boosters of Android devices (removability of batteries trumps the iPhone's non-removability) has morphed into one where of course you don't want to be able to swap the battery out.
But then, we have always been at war with Eastasia. Ever since the Galaxy S6.
Mode Media collapse: the inside story • Business Insider
Nathan McAlone and Eugene Kim:
From the winding freeway that links Silicon Valley with San Francisco, the giant Mode Media sign gracing the company's headquarters was a hard-to-miss proclamation alerting passing drivers to an internet success story with a rich, $1bn valuation.
But on the 11th floor of the gleaming building last week, the mood among employees was sour.
Those gathered in the office and patched in through a crackly teleconference suddenly learned that they had no more jobs, no more health insurance coverage, and no more access to the company email system. Mode Media, founded in 2003 and once known as Glam Media, was shutting down. Oh, and please hand in your laptops on the way out.
People were stunned and shocked, and the management team's final Q&A session with the troops didn't help.
Someone asked about severance, one former Mode employee recounted. John Small, the COO, simply responded: "There is no severance. There is no Cobra. There is no company."
Great reportage – though there's a lot of fingerpointing every which way about quite what went wrong. Programmatic advertising (aka adtech) seems to have been a key element in the downfall.
You're not alone: 51% of Amazon Echo owners have it in the kitchen • Recode
Jason Del Rey:
Amazon's Echo voice-controlled speaker can perform more than 3,000 skills today thanks to its Alexa technology, but the most common use case is still simply setting a timer, a recent survey of early adopters found.
And that makes sense when you consider that about half of Amazon Echo owners — 51%, to be exact — surveyed place the device in their kitchen. The second most popular location for the smart speaker is the living room, with about one out of three using the device in that gathering space.
The findings come from a survey of about 1,300 smartphone owners who have used voice-controlled virtual assistants from companies like Apple, Google and Amazon. Of that group, 180 respondents — or about 14% — said they own an Amazon Echo. The survey was a partnership between Experian and the market research firm Creative Strategies.


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#define 	AXIOM_CHILDREN_WITH_SPECIFIC_ATTRIBUTE_ITERATOR_FREE(iterator, env)   axiom_children_with_specific_attribute_iterator_free(iterator, env)

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Biogen Alzheimer's drug and the brand new battle for dementia therapy
By UMass Mag Last updated Jun 12, 2021
Aduhelm from Biogen
Source: Biogen
The FDA approval of Biogen's Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm marked a milestone in Dr. Paul Aisen. The director of the Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute at USC has focused on the treatment of neurodegenerative disease for the past three decades and in recent years has helped guide this particular drug through the various phases of clinical trials.
But as he sat in his sun-drenched San Diego office in early June, he felt slightly puzzled by the way the Food and Drug Administration approved their use in early June on an "accelerated" basis, normally reserved for cancer drugs. This meant that the clinical benefit was considered likely, but approval for long-term use would be the subject of a larger study in a fourth phase of studies.
Aisen, who works as a paid advisor to Biogen, emphasizes the "unusual nature" of the regulator's green light, as an advisory board of experts voted and publicly opposed the approval, and insists that there were still "many questions the "I have – they still have no answers."
Three members of the FDA's panel that oversees the research have resigned since it was approved this week, including Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, a medicine professor at Harvard Medical School, who said in a letter the agency's decision on Biogen was "probably the worst drug approval decision in history." recent US history. "
Last November, that panel said in an 8-1 vote that Biogen's late-stage phase did not provide "strong evidence" showing that aducanumab is effective in treating Alzheimer's; two other panellists said the data was "uncertain".
While Aisen sees Aduhelm as an "effective treatment" for a disease that affects millions of Americans, he also has concerns about the impact of the FDA's decision on the range of other potential treatment options that are in the late stages of development.
An immediate challenge facing other teams working on a broader Alzheimer's drug pipeline, he said in a recent video call, would be to keep participants in ongoing studies, let alone attract new ones.
"In most cases," he said, many people with Alzheimer's disease would drop out of other drug trials to begin treatment with the newly approved Aduhelm. Leaving them would make the study data for these alternative drugs less useful, even if the drugs in question might one day prove to be safer, more effective, or more suitable for different stages of the disease. But perhaps pervertedly, he still regards Aduhelm's approval as "a boost to these efforts – a powerful boost".
Over 6 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's
In the past few years, some large pharmaceutical companies have abandoned brain disease research efforts, including Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim in 2018 – in fact, Biogen Aduhelm had given up at one point during clinical trials in 2019 before reversing its decision – after decades of failure in search of a breakthrough.
The controversy surrounding the Biogen drug, including its potential cost, is hitting a massive, unmet need for dementia treatment and a disease that costs the US up to $ 259 billion annually. The Alzheimer's Association estimates that more than 6 million Americans have Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia, and by 2050 that number could reach over 12 million people, which costs a trillion dollars a year.
Because of this, some dementia drug experts are focusing on the new attention and funding, rather than the potential downsides of Biogen approval, said Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, a neurologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who does an annual review of. publishes Alzheimer's drug development pipeline. His research consistently showed that drug failure rates prior to Biogen's approval were 99.6 percent, a stark contrast to 1 in 5 successful cancer drugs (20%).
Cummings says that any short-term adverse side effect for other drug trials "will be overcome, if at all, by increased interest from companies, venture capital, and biotechnology once they see that there is a way to get approval for a particular drug". Illness."
In recent history, the National Institutes of Health spent two to three times more research on heart disease and cancer than on dementia, while the lack of qualified participants for clinical trials also slowed progress.
Next in the dementia drug pipeline
For the handful of other Alzheimer's drugs in development hoping to overcome the same regulatory hurdles and prove their effectiveness – including Eli Lillys Donanemab, Roches Gantenerumab, and Eiseis Lecanemab – there could be a silver lining, the first mover advantage to cede to Aduhelm.
After decades of expensive but largely unsuccessful research attempts, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly's CEO David Ricks said that after a series of positive phase two results for its Donanemab offering, his company is "getting closer and closer to the goal".
Speaking at CNBC's Healthy Returns Summit in May, a month before the FDA approved Aduhelm's rival Biogen, he said his team felt "good about the probability of success" and said he wanted an "accelerated" route too explore what he called "adaptative avenues for the FDA to consider earlier study of data" that "should be used in a serious and widespread disease like Alzheimer's".
However, he conceded that recruiting for the next phase of the studies would require a significantly larger cohort of participants, and since it would take 18 months, he did not expect a new approved product until late 2023 at the earliest.
Several experts told CNBC that the Biogen drug's unique threshold for regulatory approval, with the treatment potential appearing to trump uncertain real-world benefits, efforts of competitors like Lilly, who are focused on drug development on relatively based on similar techniques.
Aduhelm's own clinical study data had shown that the drug successfully attacked and cleared clusters of a certain type of protein that many researchers believe may be responsible for Alzheimer's disease. But it didn't offer enough evidence to prove that the drug provided cognitive benefits to patients.
Debate on targeting amyloid beta formations
Known by scientists as aducanumab, it works by offering a set of identical antibodies that are cloned from white blood cells. These antibodies are chosen for their targeting abilities, as they can identify specific proteins called beta-amyloids that have built up certain formations in the body.
There is ample evidence that these beta-amyloid formations, also known as "pathological aggregates" or "plaques," are a major cause of Alzheimer's disease, although the exact causal mechanisms are not yet fully understood, according to Christian Pike von USC's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Nonetheless, he says the antibodies can help prevent these plaques from forming before other particles are caused to break them apart, a process that is clearly identifiable in before and after neural imaging.
As an analogy, it may be helpful to think of the amyloid beta proteins as young people walking through a city during the day, where the city is the human body and the day is a human lifespan. In certain cities, when afternoon turns into evening, individual young people gather, and some of these gatherings can become toxic and begin to cause problems. The antibodies supplied by Aduhelm act like police officers arriving at the scene, identifying disruptive gatherings, surrounding them, separating them, and then instructing bystanders to disperse the young people.
"When you say, 'Well, hey, the FDA is buying in that general concept,'" Pike said on a phone call, "if we can remove beta-amyloid from the brains of people with the disease, even if we can there is limited evidence of cognitive benefits, "he continued," there could be a variety of different therapies that would qualify under these criteria.
The long string of past failures within the Alzheimer's pipeline that targeted beta-amyloid will continue to weigh on optimism until conclusive evidence is produced – something this week's controversy over the first new approved Alzheimer's drug in decades shows has not yet been done.
"What we're going to find out by using this drug one way or another is whether or not the amyloid clearing hypothesis is correct," says USC health economist Darius Lakdawalla, who argues that Biogens will continue to test it Drug will prove useful to this confirmatory experiment.
"If it's right, then I think it opens the door to a lot of innovation, a lot of drug candidates that will try to remove amyloid in the pursuit of that hypothesis in the future."
As America reopens, companies see an uptick in dangerous habits
Automobile insurance coverage charges are rising, however insurers are adjusting to larger prices


California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Sunday that President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump calls Sri Lankan prime minister following church bombings Ex-Trump lawyer: Mueller knew Trump had to call investigation a 'witch hunt' for 'political reasons' The biggest challenge from the Mueller Report depends on the vigilance of everyone MORE is "very convinced" of his position that climate change is not a significant issue.
Brown said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that while he appreciated that Trump came to California in November to tour damage caused by massive wildfires, he did not feel the aftermath of the disaster swayed the president's views.
Brown, who will leave the governor's mansion in January because of term limits, has been an outspoken advocate for policies that combat climate change.
He acknowledged Sunday that he does not feel California has done enough to curb climate change, despite signing off on a number of pro-environmental policies.
"The technology, the investment, the lifestyle changes, the land use changes, this is a revolutionary threat," he said. "And we've got to get off this idea, it's the economy, stupid. No, it's the environment. It's the ecology that we have to get on the side of. And we only do that with wisdom, with investment, and widespread collaboration and working together."
Trump has consistently downplayed the threat of climate change, and has continued to do so after his administration released a report last month warning of dire consequences due to global warming.
Trump responded to the report by telling reporters that he doesn't "believe" its warnings about the economic impacts of climate change. The White House also brushed aside the report's findings, claiming it's "not based on facts."


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Джа́спер () — округ штата Джорджия, США. Население округа на 2000 год составляло 11426 человек. Административный центр округа — город Монтичелло. Получил своё название в честь американского военнослужащего Уильяма Джаспера.

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Округ Джаспер основан в 1807 году.

География
Округ занимает площадь 958.3 км2.

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Согласно Бюро переписи населения США, в округе Джаспер в 2000 году проживало 11426 человек. Плотность населения составляла 11.9 человек на квадратный километр.

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Recently I was asked if I would like to try out the Footner Exfoliating socks for Dry cracked feet. Initially i thought, oh god this means getting my feet out for a review, but after some thought I decided i needed to do it to see if this product is worth it. So i decided to unleash my feet and give it a go! I love using products with glycolic acid in them as the acid is great for renewing cells in the skin, so I knew from the start I would like these.
Those of you with a foot phobia be aware as there are photos!
Footner Exfoliating Socks is a revolutionary product to give you smooth, softer feet with just one 60 minute application Footner Exfoliating Socks make use of the skin's natural exfoliation process to rid your feet from years of dead skin build-up. After just one application your feet will shed this dead skin. Feeling young and rejuvenated, your feet will be smoother than ever.
Using this product will result in the peeling of the hardened skin build-up on your feet. Footner Exfoliating Socks makes use of the skin's natural peeling process to remove callus and dead skin from the feet. 5-10 days after application the layers of dead skin will peel from the soles of the feet. This peeling process will continue for about 2 weeks depending on the thickness of the skin. So before I go on to how to use these I am going to share my before photos. They don't look too bad but they were really hard, dry and cracked.
When you open the box you are greeted with 2 socks folded over and a set of instructions.
You begin by cutting the socks along the dotted lines. Once the socks are cut, open them up and place feet in.
Tie the socks using the tape provided. I didnt feel it was secure enough so i wore a pair of normal socks over these to keep them on.
Leave the socks on for 60 mins, it's a good excuse to sit down to your favourite tv programme.
Once you have completed the 60 minutes, take off the socks and was feet thoroughly in the shower. Dry well. Allow 5-10 days for your feet to start peeling.
My feet began to peel after Day 3. It is very hard to avoid picking at the peel but for best results please do not assist the peeling in any way. It states on the instructions that if you're feet have not began to peel after 5 days you can soak feet in hot water to speed up the process. After 10 days my feet had peeled fully and no signs of hard dry cracked skin were visible. My feet were baby soft.
I have to say I was completely in love with the results, I loved how simple it was to use, there was pain at all, and my feet are still completely smooth and soft nearly 3 weeks later. I have previously used the Exfoliating Foot Socks from Sam McCauleys and Pennys and the results last barely 2-3 weeks and the pricetag is just under 5 Euro. These Footner socks are 19.99 in Gallaghers locally and I have been told from a reliable source that they themselves got a whole summer of smooth feet by using these socks once last April. Now that in itself justifies the 19.99 pricetag. I would prefer to pay 20 euro for one pair of socks than to be buying 3-4 pairs of the other ones as the results do not last as long at all. Below are my results where you can see for yourselves how smooth and soft they are.
Aren't the results great? I'm really really chuffed with them. Has anyone else used these? How did you get on?
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Another Wednesday, and I'm sitting outside in my comfy camp chair, gently rocking with the breeze as I write this. If I sound mellow, that's about right. Two weeks of being in one place has been a luxury. This trend will continue till late January, and I'm enjoying it so very much. It's not that I hate moving, it's more that I've realized I was moving so much that I didn't have time to be still and let what I've seen seep into my soul and then come back out as art. I was taking photos on the fly, hoping that a bit of post-processing and a quick blog post would capture the essence of what I saw. As the weeks and months flew by, I was getting more frustrated with my posts and yet I couldn't figure out why. It took sitting still for a few weeks to realize that things need to change when I go back out on the road next January.
This is the first time ever that I have not been in motion in my adult life. I've always been working or looking for the next job; I've never had the luxury of just being somewhere, without the pressure of a job, either in progress or ahead of me. And since I moved into my trailer, this is also the first time I've stopped for more than a few weeks and not had to be thinking ahead about packing things up and moving to the next spot. I have the time to think about what I want to do, and the when and the how of it. This stillness is starting to pay off.
Two ideas I'm working on have to do precisely with "moving and doing" vs. "stopping and thinking." In 2019, I've decided to focus my travels on two themes and build in time while traveling to stop and reflect on those themes and process the photos and experiences before they get away from me. Sometimes it feels like the last two years of traveling are a jumble in my head and the challenge of writing in depth about what I've seen or done is overwhelming. By focusing my travel on themes and locales, with time to synthesize my thoughts and images before I move on, I hope to produce better blog posts and maybe even some essays that dive more deeply into places or topics of note.
The first theme for 2019 is the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. I had originally planned to explore places in Alabama this fall, but I realized I wasn't ready for it. I need to do more reading and learning about historical events and and politics before I see these places in order to fully appreciate them in the context of American history. This winter, I'll be working my way through a reading list as well as selecting places to visit and then the time to absorb it all and write about it. I'm giving myself eight weeks in the Spring to explore this theme, and that feels like a solid start.
The second theme is more photography-based. One of the photographers I've followed for years is David du Chemin, because he writes more about the why of an image than the technical side, like lenses, tripods, and lighting. He's much more apt to ask Why that image and not this one? or What story am I trying to tell? and that speaks to me more than worrying about which F-stop I'm using. His latest missive was about diving deep, rather than wide and in it, he challenged his readers to pick a subject and dive into it for a year. The second I read that sentence, the word "trees" popped into my head and it hasn't left.
The idea of spending a year really looking at and learning about trees seems to be exactly the right idea at the right time. As with all ideas that resonate deeply with me, the synchronicity of trees has been building for a while. I just finished reading The Overstory, a fantastic book that weaves trees into the stories of several characters, who then are woven together by the tree story lines into one larger epic, sort of the way individual trees are really a forest. The book is amazing on many levels and it got me thinking deeply about trees and all that I have seen as I've gone cross-country the last few years. In 2019, I want to head out west by mid-year, and so the range of trees and forests I could see in the next year could encompass most of the forests in the US, if I plan it right. I have no idea where this theme will lead me, but I want to find out.
Other than thinking a lot, I haven't done a whole lot the past week. Did a few hikes bathing in the Florida forest, had some good meals with friends, walked around the neighborhood, and got to know my way around on foot. Now if only the weather would cool down, it would be perfect.
When you go into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees… and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens and some of them are – whatever. And you look at the tree, and you just – allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is, you sort of understand that it didn't get enough light, and so it turned that way, and you don't get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that, and you're constantly saying, "You're too this," or "I'm too this," or – that judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees, which means appreciating them just the way they are.
Oh wow Annie I loved this: "I've realized I was moving so much that I didn't have time to be still and let what I've seen seep into my soul and then come back out as art. I was taking photos on the fly, hoping that a bit of post-processing and a quick blog post would capture the essence of what I saw." This resonates so much with the recent hectic life I have been living.
And I love the image of the forest, in muted bw in the middle of your post. What gorgeous images you show this week!!
Wishing you a peaceful weekend, Vida.
Vida, you're jet-setting all over these days, so I think you do know what I mean about being still 🙂 Hope you are enjoying your travels and work, and someday we'll catch up at a bookstore or a beach.
Thanks, Rich, I'll add that to my list. I read the quote in an article recently and liked it a lot.
I love your two topics! Since I am a tree hugger to the max I especially look forward to your tree photos! Did you know that trees can talk to each other thorough their roots by means of a fungus?
At first in retirement, I did a lot of things. And I still do, but I'm trying to take more time just to enjoy and "be". It will be interesting to see how our perspectives evolve as we are more distant from work!
I knew that about trees, but not much about it, so this winter I am reading about trees and civil rights. I get to jump between them when my head needs a break.
Our 1743 is put away for the NH winter. Your posts excite and inspire me and help me consider how I will "be" on the road. We currently have three geriatric pets who require our presence and care for the time being. Until then, your posts keep the dream fresh!
Enjoy the stillness. Seek the silence.
Annie: You've inspired me to "follow in your footsteps" with my F1743 (if ever I can get the PA bureaucrats to issue me a plate for it)! I'll be heading to Yuma in December to spend a few days with my Marine son before he deploys (for the 3rd time) to the Middle East with his squadron. I'll then stay out there for awhile, visit Quartzite for a couple fo days, and perhaps the RTR. My camera will be close by.
When I was growing up in FLA, I recall seeing billboards proclaiming "Impeach Earl Warren." I hadn't the slightest clue who he was or why anyone would want to impeach him (whatever that was). I also remember, when I was either a junior and senior in HS, when the first black student arrived. I don't recall too much except that there was a short-lived hullabaloo and then life went on. Most people don't realize just how racist and violent FLA was during the Jim Crow era.
My first hero was our family doctor. He was the only doctor in Lake County at the time who would treat black patients. He had his own small clinic/hospital as he was also a general surgeon. To openly practice in the county, he had to obey the norms which meant that the black patients had their separate entrance where a black nurse would help treat them, and separate drinking fountains.
I remember seeing those billboards in Southern California when I was a kid, put up by the John Birch Society. Weird, especially since he had been a Governor in CA. Your family doctor was a hero, it was those small moves that made for greater changes over time, I believe.
For Quartzsite, check out the Plomosa 14-day stay area rather than the more popular Roadrunner area. I liked it better, farther away from the freeway noise and town. Hope your license woes end soon and you're on your way.
Thanks for the suggestion re Quartzite.
Interestingly, I went to law school in Georgia with the niece of John Birch. She was the first female deputy sheriff in Bibb County. She told me that her Uncle John did not found the Society, but several wing-nuts who named their society after him after he was killed by the Chinese towards the end of WWII.
courage, wisdom and curiosity and for your willingness to be "still." Your writing and your photos are true gifts – to me and others who are so fortunate to have access to them.