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Change and Transformation Reads for the New Year!
Stories are most exciting when they trigger change, or even better, transformation. But change can take many forms. Explore just how different in this special feast …
The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
The boy – who became a man,
The man – who became a king,
The king – who became a legend.
Helen's debut novel, published in 1994, is the first part of her Pendragon's Banner trilogy about King Arthur. Using early Welsh legends, she ignored the Norman knights in armour, turreted castles and magical elements – there is no Lancelot, Camelot or Merlin. Instead, she explored what might have happened during the 5th century 'Dark Age' – the transition from post-Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England, when one man, Arthur, tried to accomplish a peaceful union between the Britons and the English.
More from Helen at her website: www.helenhollick.net
Twitter: @HelenHollick https://twitter.com/HelenHollick
Buy this book here: http://viewauthor.at/HelenHollick Kindle ebook £1.99 $2.50
Devolution by Amie McCracken
When humans have stopped evolving, when change is stagnant yet the rest of the planet continues to advance and surpass our species, desperation forces humankind to take drastic action. The modified children are born, genetically enhanced to kick-start evolution.
Selah is one of the new world children, built to excel. She relishes the challenge of training and exceeds expectations on all testing. But she feels alienated from her peers, her family, and the world. The genetic mutations set her apart, there is something special about her, and she worries she is less her parents' child and more a science experiment.
More from Amie at her website: https://www.amiemccracken.com/
Twitter: @amiemccracken https://twitter.com/amiemccracken
Buy this book here: http://mybook.to/devolution-amie $2.99/€2.99/£2.29 (Kindle)
T o Be A Queen by Annie Whitehead
This is the story of Æthelflæd, 'Lady of the Mercians', daughter of King Alfred the Great. Married to an older man to seal an alliance, she must overcome personal loss and cast aside preconceptions in order to earn the love of her people. In a world where women have many rights, but do not rule, when her husband falls ill, she must learn to lead an army to save her adopted country from the Viking onslaught and, ultimately, from her own brother.
She will never have the title, but she will learn what it takes to be a queen.
More from Annie at her website: https://anniewhiteheadauthor.co.uk/
Twitter: @AnnieWHistory https://twitter.com/AnnieWHistory
Buy this book here: http://mybook.to/To-Be-A-Queen £1.99/$2.99 (Kindle)
Queen of the Warrior Bees by Jean Gill
Mielitta is hoping to be accepted for the Maturity Test that will transform her from Citadel misfit into a normal adult but she's doomed to endless childhood. Then she's stung by a swarm of bees in the forbidden Forest and gains strange powers. She can shift shape and perspective between human and bee, questioning all the received ideas of Perfect society.
She grows into her second nature and adulthood on her own terms, determined to fight for Nature, in all its rich variety, against the might of the Citadel's male rulers. For humanity's sake, she must change the Citadel itself.
More from Jean at her website: https://jeangill.com/
Twitter: @writerjeangill https://twitter.com/writerjeangill
Buy this book here: (multiple retailers) https://books2read.com/QueenBee $3.99 / £2.99
The Pearl of Penang by Clare Flynn
Evie Fraser, a lady's companion, receives a proposal from a distant relative she met only once. Douglas Barrington is now a widowed rubber planter in exotic Penang. Evie risks all to escape from a life without prospects and cross the world to marry him.
The book is all about change – Evie coming to terms with a new life, a new country, a new role, her husband's quixotic behaviour and about the entire world of pre-war colonial Penang, on the brink of terrible and dramatic change – even though the ex-patriate population refuses to recognise the growing threat of war with Japan.
More from Clare at her website: https://clareflynn.co.uk
Twitter: @clarefly https://twitter.com/clarefly
Buy this book here: (multiple retailers): https://books2read.com/ThePearlOfPenang £3.99/$4.99
Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos
After the English Civil War, Mairead, a young Irish woman, and Iain, a Scottish prisoner of war, are sold into indentured servitude on a Barbados sugar plantation. They form an unexpected and life-changing bond — but can they survive and find a way back home?
Severed Knot is the second novel in a standalone series that explores a transformed world turned upside down.
Connect with Cryssa on her website: http://cryssabazos.com
Buy this book here (multiple retailers): https://books2read.com/SeveredKnot
Twitter: @CryssaBazos https://twitter.com/CryssaBazos $4.99 / £3.99
Best Murder in Show by Debbie Young
When Sophie Sayers arrives in the Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow to live in the cottage she's inherited from her great-aunt, her self-esteem is at an all-time low. After years of being taken for granted by her selfish actor boyfriend, touring Europe with Damian Drammaticas, his travelling theatre company, Sophie determines to make the most of the opportunity to start afresh – although turning detective when she discovers a dead body on a village carnival float was not part of her plan.
A feel-good, funny novel that will make you want to join the unstoppable Sophie in this captivating village community.
More from Debbie at her website: www.authordebbieyoung.com
Twitter: @DebbieYoungBN http://www.twitter.com/DebbieYoungBN
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A Rip in the Veil by Anna Belfrage
Three centuries separate them – and yet they meet up. Impossible, says reluctant time traveller Alexandra. Black magic, says 17th Century escaped convict, Matthew Graham, studying this female apparition warily. Will it end in tragedy or romance?
Whatever the case, life will never be the same again – for either of them!
"An enthralling story, layered in history, romance and with just the right dash of magic that keep a reader turning those pages all night long." (Coffee Pot Book Club)
More from Anna at her website: www.annabelfrage.com
Twitter: @abelfrageauthor https://twitter.com/abelfrageauthor
Buy this book here: http://myBook.to/ARIV1 £2.99/$2.99
An Unknown Woman by Jane Davis
Anita knows exactly who she is. She's proud of the life she's built with partner Ed. She has her dream job – a curator at Hampton Court Palace. But, then, without warning, everything changes. Anita finds herself standing in the middle of the road, watching her home burn to the ground.
Before she can come to terms with the magnitude of her loss, hairline cracks appear in her perfect relationship. And returning to her childhood home in search of comfort, she stumbles upon the secret her mother has kept hidden, a taboo so unspeakable it can only be written down.
More about Jane at her website: https://jane-davis.co.uk
Twitter: @janedavisauthor https://twitter.com/janedavisauthor
Buy this book here: https://books2read.com/anunknownwoman £3.99/$4.99
The Swooping Magpie by Liza Perrat
When sixteen-year-old Lindsay is forced into a heart-breaking decision, the resulting trauma will forever transform her. Bullied at home, when sexy school-teacher Jon Halliwell finds her irresistible, Lindsay believes life is about to change.
She's not wrong.
Lindsay and Jon pursue their affair in secret, until an accident separates the lovers and Lindsay becomes enmeshed in a shocking Australian scandal, discovering the dangerous games of the adult world. Games that destroy lives.
Reflecting the social changes of 1970s Australia, The Swooping Magpie is a heartbreaking drama of lost innocence, deceit and a true-life scandal … Jill's Book Cafe
More about Liza at her website: http://www.lizaperrat.com/
Twitter: @LizaPerrat https://twitter.com/LizaPerrat
Buy this book here: https://books2read.com/u/bMQdr7 $3.99/£2.99
Britannia's Spartan by Antoine Vanner
1882: Japan is modernising rapidly, politically, socially industrially and – most of all – militarily. Imperial China's weakness and corruption encourage Japan to seize the opportunity to establish itself as the dominant power in the Far East. But first it needs to control Korea, a kingdom frozen in time and reluctant to emerge from centuries of isolation.
Korea's king is weak and pliable and only its shrewd and ruthless queen is prepared to make a stand against Japanese aggression. Faced with a nightmare of riot, treachery and battle, can her only sure ally be a Royal Navy captain, in Korea only by accident?
More from Antoine at his website: www.dawlishchronicles.com
Twitter: @antpoinevanner https://twitter.com/AntoineVanner
Buy this book here: https://amzn.to/38sxyOZ $3.99/£2.99
INCEPTIO by Alison Morton
New Yorker Karen Brown is caught in a tangle of hot foreign agents, a vicious enforcer hunting her and tough families. Running for her life, she flees to her dead mother's homeland – Roma Nova – the last Roman Empire outpost in present day Europe.
But the killer reaches into her new home. Unable to rely on anybody else, especially arrogant special forces officer Conrad Tellus, she undergoes intensive training, develops fighting skills and becomes an undercover cop. Crazy with bitterness at his past failures, the killer sets a trap for Karen. And she has no choice but to spring it.
More from Alison (and Roma Nova) at her website: https://alison-morton.com
Twitter: @alison_morton https://twitter.com/alison_morton
Buy this book here: INCEPTIO buying links £2.99/$3.99/3.49€
Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers – INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO, AURELIA, INSURRECTIO and RETALIO. CARINA, a novella, and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories, are now available. Audiobooks are available for four of the series. NEXUS, an Aurelia Mitela novella, is now out.
Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines… Download 'Welcome to Roma Nova', a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison's monthly email newsletter. You'll also be first to know about Roma Nova news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.
January 30th, 2020 | Tags: Bestselling authors, Books, change, Transformation | Category: Authors, Books, INCEPTIO, Promotion
10 comments to Change and Transformation Reads for the New Year!
anniewhitehead2
30th January 2020 at 12:40 pm · Reply
Alison, thank you so much for the opportunity – it's an honour to be keeping such wonderful company!
Alison Morton
30th January 2020 at 1:26 pm · Reply
Thank you in turn for being part of it, Annie. I love highlighting books from other authors as it takes you on different journeys. I love your new cover for Lady of the English – so evocative!
Debbie Young
Thank you so much for including the first in my Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series, Alison – honoured to be a part of your line-up! And so interesting to see it in the company of such a wide range of novels all with the same central theme: change and transformation, in so many different manifestations. I'm a great believer in reading outside one's comfort zone, and working my way through this to-read list should be fascinating for anyone with whom any individual title in there already resonates. Just what we need to take us out of ourselves at this gloomy time of year!
Interesting how change crosses different genres. I think we must be fascinated by it as a species. I'm so pleased some of my favourite authors have joined in!
Richard Tearle
What fabulous choices! Heartily agree!
I've read quite a number of them already and yes, they do resonate very well around the idea of change. And a little shake up is always a good idea! 😉
writeanne
A great selection of books here. I've read several of them and will check out the others.
Happy reading! It's a fair range of settings, characters and styles, but all of them go through fundamental change of some sort.Or maybe we like to pile hardship onto our characters and see what happens!
Anna Belfrage
31st January 2020 at 1:02 pm · Reply
What great company for my book baby! Some I have read, some I have not and quite a few are downloading to my Kindle right now!
Ditto! A terrific way to discover high quality new reads.


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Status Update: Work starts on OCC's $50…
Status Update: Work starts on OCC's $50 million language-arts center
This complex was financed through Proposition 51 and Measure M, a $698 million general obligation bond to construct education facilities.
C.W. Driver Companies has begun work on Orange Coast College's $50 million Language Arts and Social Science building in Costa Mesa. The three-story, 107,760-square-foot building is part of an overall initiative to modernize the campus and accommodate the college's expanding enrollment. It's expected to be completed by summer 2021. (Courtesy of C.W. Driver Cos.)
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PUBLISHED: December 9, 2019 at 11:10 am | UPDATED: December 9, 2019 at 11:10 am
Work has begun on Orange Coast College's $50 million Language Arts and Social Science building in Costa Mesa.
The three-story, 107,760-square-foot building is part of an overall initiative to modernize the campus and accommodate the college's expanding enrollment, according to C.W. Driver Cos, which is leading the project. The Language Arts and Social Science building is the company's 10th project for OCC; it's expected to be completed by summer 2021.
CHOC Children's in Orange has received a monetary gift from the Cherese Mari Laulhere Foundation to enhance and expand its pediatric mental health system of care. The gift will endow CHOC's mental health inpatient center, which will now be named the Cherese Mari Laulhere Mental Health Inpatient Center. The foundation declined to provide a dollar amount for the "naming gift." Seen here is outdoor recreation space at CHOC Children's Mental Health Inpatient Center. (Courtesy of CHOC)
YMCA of Orange County has stepped in to keep afterschool care alive at Scholarship Preparatory Charter School after Youth Policy Institute, the L.A.-based nonprofit, closed its doors in October. YMCA-OC has opened Scholarship Prep YMCA in Santa Ana, providing afterschool care for students in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade, starting this month. (Courtesy of YMCA-OC)
Bill Gross, the co-founder of Newport Beach-based Pimco, and his son and daughter have donated $19.5 million to 45 nonprofits this year, including at least a half-dozen Orange County entities. Local causes that got money from the Gross foundation include Children's Hospital of Orange County, the Anaheim Community Foundation, Laguna Beach Community Clinic, Laguna Food Pantry, Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach and Laguna Beach Senior Center. (FILE PHOTO: CHRISTINE COTTER, OCREGISTER)
Rikki Bains is the new executive director of the Fullerton Family YMCA. He will work to grow membership, increase quality and retention, develop new programs and increase community partnerships. Bains brings over nine years of experience within the Y organization. Most recently, he served as the associate executive director for the Lakewood Family YMCA.
The building's first floor will house classrooms, labs, an English as a Second Language computer lab and room, facilities for the speech, debate and theater team and a journalism newsroom.
The second floor will have classrooms and connect to the existing Mathematics Business and Computer Center Building. The third floor will encompass division and faculty offices.
Other features include a lactation room and gender-neutral restrooms on every floor.
C.W. Driver in a statement said it is partnering with tBP Architecture on the project.
This building was financed through Proposition 51 and Measure M, a $698 million general obligation bond to construct education facilities for Coast Community College District.
In addition to the Language Arts and Social Science complex, C.W. Driver Cos. is managing projects for the new Student Union and Kinesiology and Athletics complex.
Naming gift to benefit CHOC, mental health
CHOC Children's in Orange has received a monetary gift from the Cherese Mari Laulhere Foundation to enhance and expand its pediatric mental health system of care.
The gift will endow CHOC's mental health inpatient center, which will now be named the Cherese Mari Laulhere Mental Health Inpatient Center. The foundation declined to provide a dollar amount for the "naming gift."
The funds also will help establish the Cherese Mari Laulhere Young Child Clinic for children ages 3 to 8 who are experiencing behavioral and emotional challenges, mental health issues and school readiness challenges.
The funds also will expand CHOC's Intensive Outpatient Program, a mental health treatment program for high-schoolers with moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety, depression or other symptoms related to mental health conditions. The program will be expanded to middle school-aged children to help address the risk of suicidal ideation that can occur among pre-teens in grades sixth through ninth.
Pub crawl benefits Project Access
The annual Newport Beach Santa Pub Crawl is in its 14th year of raising money for Project Access, a program that provides on-site health, education and employment services for families, children and seniors living in affordable housing communities.
The holiday fundraiser from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 is being hosted by the Givsum Foundation and Yelp Orange County.
Participants can buy a $20 wristband for drink specials at select bars. The wristbands can be picked up at Woody's Wharf from 8-10 p.m. on the day of the event. Organizers say bring a copy of any pre-sale receipts or buy tickets at the event.
To buy a wristband, go to www.givsum.com.
Bill Gross, the co-founder of Newport Beach-based Pimco, and his son and daughter have donated $19.5 million to 45 nonprofits this year, including at least a half-dozen Orange County entities.
Local causes that got money from the Gross foundation include Children's Hospital of Orange County, the Anaheim Community Foundation, Laguna Beach Community Clinic, Laguna Food Pantry, Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach and Laguna Beach Senior Center.
The William, Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation has given to a variety of nonprofit organizations, such as the Wilcox Health Foundation of Kauai, Hawaii, and Doctors Without Borders in New York City.
The foundation's donations focus on issues such as sustainable development, healthcare and global hunger.
Garden Grove-based Brand New Day is partnering with Newport Beach CareCar, a non-emergency transportation company that serves the healthcare sector, to bring its services to members starting Jan. 1.
CareCar, similar to Uber, has certified drivers with experience transporting those with medical needs and ensures members arrive at their appointments safely and on time.
Brand New Day is a Medicare Advantage prescription health plan available in 12 California counties. For more information, go to BNDHMO.com or call 866-255-4795.
Afterschool program changes hands
YMCA of Orange County has stepped in to keep afterschool care alive at Scholarship Preparatory Charter School after Youth Policy Institute, the L.A.-based nonprofit, closed its doors in October.
YMCA-OC has opened Scholarship Prep YMCA in Santa Ana, providing afterschool care for students in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade, starting this month.
The afterschool program runs from 3:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 12:15 p.m. – 6 p.m. on Fridays. Registration is open at all of the Y's after school programs.
For more information about the Scholarship Prep YMCA, call 714-633-9622 or javila@ymcaoc.org.
The nonprofit Age Well Senior Services presented An Evening of Giving Back which raised $145,000 to support Age Well's critical Meals on Wheels program, lunches and programs at senior centers, along with case management and transportation.
Retired NFL star Vince Ferragamo was honored and recognized for his support of Age Well Senior Services and his support for the seniors in our community.
Other honorees at the event included Age Well volunteers Susan Bristol of Aliso Viejo, and mother and daughter Jackie and Jaclyn Smith of Rancho Santa Margarita.
Status Update is compiled from press releases by contributing writer Karen Levin and edited by Business Editor Samantha Gowen. Submit items and high-resolution photos to sgowen@scng.com. Allow at least one week for publication. Items are edited for length and clarity.
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Legal procurators have rights of audience before magistrates' courts and special tribunals and boards, and are able to give advice.
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The Registrar of the Courts is responsible for the registries and the officers attached to them, the filing and service of judicial acts, execution of executive titles, such as judgments, and warrants through Court appointed marshals, judicial sales by auction, trials by jury and other criminal court procedures.
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Femmes Fatales Jul 4 2022
I came up with it all by myself. Totally groovy, right?
These shots show U.S. actress Teresa Graves today in 1970, and despite the fact that her bizarro hairdo makes her look counterculture, she was in Washington, D.C. attending the Honor America Day celebration. If you've never heard of Honor America Day, that's because it was a one-off, hastily cobbled together by then-president Richard Nixon, who was under pressure due to his decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia during the Vietnam War, a move which precipitated a protest at Kent State University at which Ohio National Guard troops shot and killed students.
Graves was a minor television star at the time, a recurring guest on the show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, however she was a natural for the D.C. event because she had built her career partly by touring Southeast Asia as a singer with Bob Hope's USO show. She would eventually become a major star on the police drama Get Christie Love! By then she'd ditched the hairdo that looked like it picked up signals from space for something conventional, as you can see at this link. But whatever shape her hair took, she was quite beautiful.
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Vintage Pulp Oct 31 2021
The artist is almost as mysterious as his posters.
You can see immediately that this Universal Pictures teaser poster for 1933's The Invisible Man is special. You'll find out how special in a minute. It was painted by Hungarian born artist Karoly Grosz, whose work is highly sought after. With this dark portrait he captured the essence of the film's insane central character Dr. Jack Griffin, who accidentally discovers invisibility and decides, what the hell, he'll use it to take over the world. An original of this poster went up for auction a few years back and pulled in $275,000. That's about as special as vintage art gets.
Halloween is today, so we thought we'd share more horror posters. Since Grosz specialized in that genre, we were able to focus solely on him and his work for Universal. Though he's a collectible legend, his bio is a bit sketchy. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1901 as a child, was naturalized as a citizen, and grew up to live and work in New York City. His output came mainly between 1920 and 1938, and he died young sometime after that (nobody is sure when, but most sources say he was in his early forties). At least he left behind these beautiful gifts to cinematic art. You can see another piece from him in this post from a while back, the one with the green-eyed cat.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 21 2021
He's a dead man walking but he's got big plans.
Above, a super Japanese poster for Black Tuesday, the Edward G. Robinson death row escape drama we discussed a couple of weeks ago. The distributors renamed it 死刑5分前, which means, "5 minutes before the death penalty." The movie opened in Japan today in 1955, and you can read more about it here.
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Eddie G. never goes down without a fight.
Mid-century Belgian promo art strikes again. This is an epic poster. It was made for the crime drama Black Tuesday, which played in Belgium as Mardi ça saignera (French title) and Dinsdag zal er bloed stromen (Dutch title). Edward G. Robinson and Peter Graves star in the tale of two death row inmates who escape prison and go on the lam. Graves has hidden $200,000 from a bank robbery and Robinson plans to betray him and steal the dough. Unfortunately, Graves is critically shot during the escape and, even as he lies near death, refuses to say where the money is hidden.
This is a pretty nice flick. Virtually any movie with Robinson is worth a viewing. He played many types of characters in his career, but he's known for portraying tough guys, and this is classic Edward G., with all the snarls and sneers fans had come to expect from romps like Little Caesar and Key Largo. And why wouldn't he snarl? Unless a doctor he's taken hostage can save the day the cash he lusts for will never be found. But maybe Graves won't die. Maybe he's tougher than he seems—and smarter too. Robinson never wins in his gangster roles, so it's a question of how he'll lose, not if. But it's always fun watching him fight the bad fight. Black Tuesday premiered in the U.S. in late 1954 and reached Belgium today in 1955.
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Intl. Notebook Mar 5 2021
You probably can't pull this look off but there's no harm in dreaming.
Above you see a photo of U.S. actress Rosalind Cash modeling what we like to think of as the classic afro, an image we've posted today because recently we ran across a story on Simone Williams, official Guinness World Record holder for largest afro in existence. We don't know if hers is actually the largest, regardless of what Guinness says, but it's a majestic 'do, beyond doubt. It got us thinking about the hairstyle, which in our book is the coolest of all time.
There are different types of afros beside just the classic. We wanted to feature all styles, and we also bent the definition a little to include what might be categorized more accurately as large perms. We've labeled all the variations below, which will help when you start on the long, winding, and ultimately fruitless road toward your own blowout. We're aware, of course, that there were many male celebs who had afros, but we're sticking with women today. Your journey begins below.
The pure joy afro, as modeled by Gloria Hendry, who appeared in such films as Live and Let Die and Savage Sisters.
The regal, by Diahann Carroll, crown not included
The bohemian, by Esther Anderson, who appeared in flims like Genghis Khan and A Warm December.
The aquatic, by Camella Donner, who's a true water sprit, as we've shown you before.
The iconic, by Pam Grier, who did as much to popularize the afro as any film star in history.
The tall and proud afro, worn by trans b-movie actress Ajita Wilson.
The wild child, seen here atop Italian actress Iris Peynado.
The supreme afro, seen here on Diana Ross.
The lovely innocence afro, by Brenda Sykes.
The you-could-be-bald-and-still-be-smokin'-hot, demonstrated by Get Christie Love star Teresa Graves.
The afro-warrior by Cleopatra Jones star Tamara Dobson. Definitely more in the category of a large perm, but she pioneered the high fashion afro, so she's earned some latitude.
The too-cool-for-you afro/perm by Vonetta McGee.
The action afro, seen here on Jeannie Bell. This barely qualifies, but she had one of the largest afros in the history of cinema, so we can cut her some slack. Check her screen shot in this post to be amazed.
The bright-eyed and bushy, by Carol Speed.
The action afro again, this time by Trina Parks, who sported this look in Diamonds Are Forever. Is it technically an afro? Tell her it isn't and see what happens.
And lastly, the too-big-to-be-real afro, worn by Azizi Johari, whose actual hair you can see here.
There are numerous other afro shots in our website, but we can't possibly remember where they all are, so you'll just have to find them yourself, maybe by clicking the blaxploitation link below. Besides those, we do recall one more afro you can check out. It's on Desirée West, and you'll need to gird yourself for probably the hottest shot in Pulp Intl. history. Ready? Look here.
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Intl. Notebook Sep 30 2019
For British movie lovers Continental Film Review was their ticket across the English Channel.
Continental Film Review was first published—as far as we can discern—in November 1952. We decided on that month because we saw a copy from February 1953 numbered Vol. 1 Issue 4, and the masthead said the magazine was published the first week of every month. CFR would go on to become one of Britain's most popular film magazines, exposing English language readers to the wide variety of foreign movies being made across continental Europe. The above issue appeared this month in 1966 with cover star Maria Pia Conte, and numerous film personalities inside, including Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Bates, Rossana Podesta, Evi Marandi, and more. We have other issues we'll get around to sharing at some point. In the meantime see more here, here, here, and here.
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Vintage Pulp Aug 18 2019
When you're rich you're never insane. You're just a little eccentric.
La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba, aka The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, premiered in Italy today in 1971, and is an Italian made, set-in-England, gothic giallo flick for which we shared an unusual Greek poster some years ago. The art on that was retasked from the original poster, which was painted by Sandro Symeoni, a genius we've featured often. If you don't know his work, click his keywords below and have a look. He's worth your time.
In the movie a British lord violently obsessed with his deceased redheaded wife goes nuts and is committed to a mental institution. When he gets out he immediately brings disrepute to the entire psychiatric profession's notion of "cured" by going on a redhead killing spree. While he's busy reducing rural England's carrottop population one pale person at a time, his headshrinker, who knows nothing of the murders, is encouraging him to remarry in order to get over his dead wife.
That doesn't strike us as responsible psychiatric advice, but as we mentioned, there are lousy doctors in this film, so the Lord indeed picks out a suitable spouse, who's blonde, importantly. Things go fine until Mrs. Lord notices a redheaded maid in the manor. This is impossible, you see, because the Lord hates (and kills) redheads. So it goes without saying he'd never hire one. Who was this woman, and why was she there? Soon we're treated to the reliable giallo staples of imposters, unknown people creeping through the woods at night, disappearing corpses, and the question of whether what's happening is real, or is an attempt to induce insanity.
What might induce insanity for you is the screenwriting of the female characters in this flick. They're pure murder magnets. For example, whenever the Lord meets a redhead he yanks painfully on her hair to see if it's real. "Ouch! That hurt!" "Sorry, I thought it might be a wig." "Oh." Here's some advice: kick him in the gonads and run like Flo-Jo. Yet the women instead decide painful hair-pulling is just a cute quirk, and later meet their bloody ends.
There's also an incredible scene where the Lord slaps his wife around until she's bloody-mouthed, only to finally be stopped by the appearance of a friend, who asks, "Why were you fighting?" Why were you fighting? A more appropriate line might be, "Why were you beating the fuck out of your beloved?" But with this latter incident there may actually be a plotworthy reason the Lord is forgiven. We could reveal it, but that would be a spoiler. Of course, saying it would be a spoiler is a spoiler too. Oh no! Everything is spoiled! We have to murder a redhead now. Is that a non-sequitur? No, it's just giallo.
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Vintage Pulp Nov 10 2018
Prosecution maintains that the only way to know if these are in fact the witness's panties is to have her try them on.
As the great defense attorney Johnny Cochran once so memorably intoned, "If the panties don't fit you must acquit." Lawyering is all about snappy rhymes. Robert Traver knew this because he was in reality John D. Voelker, first a prosecutor, second a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, and all the while the author of numerous novels. The most famous of those was Anatomy of a Murder, which became an Otto Preminger motion picture starring Jimmy Stewart and Lee Remick.
Looking at the odd cover scene above, you probably want to know what's happening. An assistant prosecutor is trying his first case, which centers around a house painter who "did ravish and carnally know" a young woman named Gloria. But it turns out Gloria's mother had interrupted what was actually a consensual encounter, exploded with shame and outrage, and forced her daughter to file rape charges. The case falls apart in court and the young prosecutor is made to look like a fool, so the cover art tries to capture that event. Trouble Shooter was originally published as Trouble-Shooter: The Story of a Northwoods Prosecutor in 1943, with this Bantam paperback edition coming in 1947.
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Vintage Pulp Jul 16 2018
Neglected baseball comedy reminds viewers that the American pastime was also the African American pastime.
Major League Baseball is known as America's pastime. But for decades it was really only the pastime for whites, due to the fact that black participation was banned by every team, and black spectatorship was limited by apartheid laws. But during that time African Americans formed their own leagues, and those teams and players are part of wider baseball lore. As far as we know The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, which is set in 1939, is the only major movie about black baseballers during the pre-integration era. That alone makes it worth a gander. James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor and Billy Dee Williams in the starring roles are bonuses. The plot involves various Negro League athletes who band together and barnstorm around the U.S. They're trying to get out from under bad contracts with their original teams, or bad jobs in mundane professions, but of course this break toward freedom leads to trouble.
The film benefits from excellent exterior location work. Director John Badham makes use of the old sharecropper cabins, winding rural roads, and rickety wooden stadiums of the American countryside. These would have existed in abundance when the film was made in the mid-1970s, requiring little in the way of set design. The authenticity is palpable. In other areas the film misses the mark, particularly in the tone of the performances, which are Vaudevillian and over-vernacularized. But one aspect of the film hits a bullseye. James Earl Jones expresses it succinctly when he hears that the Major Leagues are scouting black players: "So the white man is finally moving in," he says, as if speaking about the mafia. He goes on to predict the death of Negro League Baseball. Jones's point is crystalline: the Major Leagues broke the color line not out of altruism or justice, but in order to protect its product.
The oldest Negro League team had been around since 1885. By the 1940s Negro League players had competed against white players and proved to be capable, and in some instances, superior. MLB had a legitimacy problem. It couldn't truly claim to contain all the best baseball players. People were growing more interested in black baseball. Money was being made on the sport beyond the confines of MLB. A lot of money. Breaking the color line cemented the legitimacy of MLB's talent claims, and it obliterated competition from Negro League baseball, which died on the vine. Today black ownership in Major League Baseball is basically 0%. Only the Miami Marlins, with Derek Jeter possessing 4% of the club, can claim—and just barely—to have minority ownership. But a merger of Negro teams into the league rather than a raid of players might well have led to a different story. MLB integrated the field, but ensured future segregation of the owner's box.
Though the color line for players was broken all the way back in 1947, today MLB has another legitimacy problem. Black participation has declined over the decades. Organized baseball requires fields, equipment, sponsorship, and other elements that are scarce in poor communities. Of course, they've always been scarce, but as public money dries up and individual wages stagnate, community support for baseball and family income allowing for participation in it are lacking. African American rostering on Major League Baseball squads is at 1956 levels. Many consider that a travesty; but America being America, many don't. MLB's front office just lately has made some minimal efforts to address the problem. It will be interesting to see how those go. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings premiered in the U.S. today in 1976.
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Femmes Fatales May 4 2018
This little guy is a jailbird and he just got his parole today. Who says rehabilitation doesn't work?
Above is a photo of U.S. actress Teresa Graves, whose primary claim to fame was starring in the blaxploitation inspired television cop drama Get Christie Love! It ran for one season on ABC from late 1974 through early 1975. We've never seen it but it seems to have developed a cultish following—no surprise, with Ms. Graves in the starring role. Below you see another shot, and her signature line from the show: "You're under arrest, sugar." Get Christie Love! is being rebooted for a 2018 cable movie with a celestial being named Kylie Bunbury in the starring role, but maybe we'll watch the original first. If we do you can be sure we'll report back.
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This beautiful Tarot combines scenes from ancient Egypt with the traditional Tarot structure. The period of validity dates from around 1304 BC, when Sethi I ascended the throne with the reign of Merenptah (1224 BC).
The Major Arcana focus on the time of the great pharaoh Ramses II, with episodes of his family, battles, religion and court life.
The minor arcana have scenes from everyday life of the time. Written by Giordano Berti and the artist Severino Baraldi have tried to be as historically accurate as possible.


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We would not be able to do the work that we do in the community without the support of foundations, local businesses, and individual donors. We are so grateful to our friends and partners who have donated money, time and resources throughout the years. Below is a list of some of those who have helped us along the way, as well as information on how you can support the work of Art Haven!
How is Art Haven Funded?
Art Haven has been very lucky to receive numerous donations from people all over Cape Ann. It is with these donations that we are able to continue our work in the community. Please consider making a donation to Art Haven. Donations are tax deductible, and even small donations go a long way.
Last year Kathleen O'Reilly's Business Management Class at Gloucester High School started a business in which they sold Lip Balm. They raised over $500 and donated it all to Art Haven.
Generation Conservation, an after school club at Gloucester High School sponsored by Sustainable Cape Ann, made a donation of $350 after fundraising all year.
Gloucester High School's DECA program also chose our organization to receive the profits from their "Lemonade Challenge". Team Prestige World Wide raised $90 for Art Haven.
These are teen run programs that have recognized Art Haven as a worthy cause. Your generous support is instrumental to the success of Art Haven.
Please make checks payable to Art Haven.
From time to time Art Haven holds classes or events where volunteers are needed. If you would like your name added to our list of Friends of Art Haven Volunteers, please email director@arthaven.org. Thanks!


We take special note that for the Orthodox, the Holy Bible forms apart of Holy Tradition, but does not lie outside of it. One would be in error to suppose that Scripture and Tradition are two separate and distinct sources of Christian Faith, as some do, since there is, in reality, only one source; and the Holy Bible exists and found its formulation within Tradition.
As Orthodox, however, while giving it due respect, we realize that not everything received from the past is of equal value. The Holy Scriptures, the Creed and the dogmatic and doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical Councils hold the primary place in Holy Tradition and cannot be discarded or revised. The other parts of Holy Tradition are not placed on an equal level, nor do they possess the same authority as the above. The decrees of the Councils since the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) obviously do not stand on the same level as the Nicene Creed, nor do the writings of, for example, the Byzantine theologians, hold equal rank with St. John's Gospel.
Our Lord tells us that when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth (John 16:13) and this promise forms the basis of Orthodox respect for Holy Tradition. Thus, as Fr. Georges Florovsky expresses this idea: Tradition is the witness of the Spirit; the Spirit's unceasing revelation and preaching of good things…. To accept and understand Tradition we must live within the Church, we must be conscious of the grace-giving presence of the Lord in it; we must feel the breath of the Holy [Spirit] in it…. Tradition is not only a protective, conservative principle; it is, primarily, the principle of growth and regeneration…. Tradition is the constant abiding of the Spirit and not only the memory of words [Sobornost: the Catholicity of the Church, in The Church of God, pp. 64-5].


Barron is an American illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator. He is known for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist, as well as for his career as a teacher. Storey has taught illustration since the 1970s and currently is on the faculty of California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has also taught at San Jose State University and Pixar Studios.
He has been a commercial illustrator since the 1960s, and his clients have included major magazines such as Boys' Life, Reader's Digest, and National Geographic. His cover portraits for Time of Howard Hughes and Yitzhak Rabin hang in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His giant painting of the South American rain forest hangs in New York's American Museum of Natural History, and a 1979 rendering of the space shuttle commissioned by NASA, the first official painting ever done of it, hangs in the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall.
As a book illustrator he as done cover illustrations for the Franklin Library classics, War and Peace, The Good Earth and Stories by Sinclair Lewis; as well as the covers of Fahrenheit 451 for Del Rey / Ballantine; and, most famously, the 1980 reissue of Lord of the Flies.


According to recent reports IBM and Intel – and possibly the Federal Reserve – are considering using a popular technology associated with bitcoin – called blockchain – in order to create a new digital payments system.
Blockchain is a leger or a list of transactions that, as with bitcoin, allows traders to make transactions anonymously. IBM wants to use the technology to speed trades, cut transaction costs from banks and increase transparency. The blockchain would allow each transaction to be viewed by members of the network.
But unlike bitcoin, where the network is decentralized and there is no overseer, IBM's proposed digital currency system would be controlled by central banks, the source told Reuters. "These coins will be part of the money supply," the source said. "It's the same money, just not a dollar bill with a serial number on it, but a token that sits on this blockchain."
The U.S. Federal Reserve is rumored to be in informal talks with IBM regarding the new digital financial transaction system. The Bank of England in 2014 described the technology as one that could transform the entire financial system.
Analysts speculate that the version of blockchain IBM and the Federal Reserve would use would incorporate more regulation and security, which might be less appealing for those who use it for anonymous transactions.
Intel is also reported to be interested in blockchain technology. Based on job postings for cryptographic researchers, Pymnts.com reported that it looks as though Intel wants to build a special team to harness the power of blockchain technology. The job would be with Intel Labs' Special Innovation Projects group and would investigate, "hardware and software capabilities that advance the performance, robustness, and scalability of open, decentralized ledgers," Pymnts.com reported.
Because digital transactions are faster and cheaper than traditional transactions, merchants as well as legislatures in Utah, New Hampshire and New York City have shown interest in accepting bitcoin, according to a report in Bitcoin Magazine.
"It seems likely that governments will try to appropriate selected aspects of digital currencies, and eliminate undesired aspects such as anonymity and volatility, to create efficient and cost-effective but fully regulated digital economies," the article stated.


While the people of Yemen are fighting, and on the forefront is Ansarollah, the world: to stay high, and while you are harnessing all your human energy, economic, political and military powers to face the fiercest and brutal global war of Yemen, the executioners of the aggression, the counter-revolutionaries, the paid agents, the frustrated aspirants, the counterfeit activists etc.
[ Ansarollah destroyed the civil state, failed to run the institutions of the state, exceeded corruption, stole the bank, opened black market, starved and besieged the people, raised oil prices, cut the salaries, death of people with cholera, violated liberties etc etc.]… and other forms of provocations and defamations are venerated and spread against the experienced role of Asarollah and revolutionary forces of 21 September.
The worst of that is the revolutionary whips of the dreamer or the ideal of standing on the revolutionary teapot, watch you as you move to install your feet on the ground, dates with turbulent tendencies in the palm of the pillar !!, Then do not forgive you any bump, you are asked to weigh every step you take in straight lines! it exhausts you, from comprehensive administrative and political reform combating corruption and building state institutions and what they believe is short or short, in the overall investigation synchronous targets and the promises of September 21, A great scourge tested by the Ansarollah: the arrogance of aggression and the abandonment of some friends.
The political experience of Ansarollah between the two Fires.. What should and can be..
There is a team that has a predisposition from the Ansarollah, cannot budge, it is better to let them in for days and focus on the issue at hand. How can we test the experience of Ansarollah?
In assessing the experience of Ansarollah political supporter are of two differentiating ways first scales based on what should be and the other is realistic based on what can be.
I believe that many of the criticisms at Ansarollah are due to the ideal approach to their experience on the basis of what should be without regard to the reality burdened with local and regional contradictions, the revolution is seen as an act of change, and the revolution as a great social and political conditions. Therefore they rush from the revolution to move the people on the carpet of wind from stage to stage and from regime to system, as soon as the revolutionary honeymoon ends, they are hit by the difficulties of reality and sometimes impossible, says Heigal, hence the problem of some with the experience of authorities of September 21 and tehey are facing a series of troubles and difficulties and obstacles, perhaps they may not be able to calculate, they are soon overwhelmed by desperation and despair, declaring defeat and rushing to judge the results of the change that took place in September, the counterrevolution and the forces opposed to local and regional change, exploited to deepen the state of despair and frustration and to bear the consequences of the forces of change, especially Ansarollah.
The revolutionary thinker of Lebonan, Mehdi Amel, describes the revolution that it is silt of the earth that is not known by those who fear the hands of earth and the shaking of earth. And how the revolution remains clean, which is coming out of the bowels of the present so dirty, and demolish it and rinse promise that man is free and beautiful.
On this basis, the correct and equitable evaluation of the experience of Ansarollah is to balance between what must and what can be and is related in the context of the conditions of local reality and its regional and international environment… we will address…God willing… in detail in the second episode.


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            'created_by'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NULL',
            'updated_by'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NULL',

            // timestamps
            'created_at'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NOT NULL',
            'updated_at'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NOT NULL',
            'deleted_at'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' DEFAULT NULL',

            //foreign keys
            'initial_status_id'     => Schema::TYPE_STRING . '(20) NULL',
        ),$tableOptions);

        $this->addPrimaryKey('PK_SW_Workflow','{{%sw_workflow}}','id');
        $this->addForeignKey('FK_SW_Workflow_SW_Status','{{%sw_workflow}}','initial_status_id','{{%sw_status}}','id');

        $this->createTable('{{%sw_transition}}',array(
            'start_status_id'           => Schema::TYPE_STRING . '(20) NOT NULL',
            'start_status_workflow_id'  => Schema::TYPE_STRING . '(20) NOT NULL',
            'end_status_id'             => Schema::TYPE_STRING . '(20) NOT NULL',
            'end_status_workflow_id'    => Schema::TYPE_STRING . '(20) NOT NULL',

            // blamable
            'created_by'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NULL',
            'updated_by'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NULL',

            // timestamps
            'created_at'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NOT NULL',
            'updated_at'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' NOT NULL',
            'deleted_at'            => Schema::TYPE_INTEGER . ' DEFAULT NULL',

        ),$tableOptions);

        $this->addPrimaryKey('PK_SW_Status','{{%sw_transition}}',['start_status_id','start_status_workflow_id','end_status_id','end_status_workflow_id']);

        $this->addForeignKey('FK_SW_Transition_SW_Status_Start','{{%sw_transition}}','start_status_id','{{%sw_status}}','id');
        $this->addForeignKey('FK_SW_Transition_SW_Status_End','{{%sw_transition}}','end_status_id','{{%sw_status}}','id');
    }

    public function down()
    {
        echo "m000000_000001_workflow_init cannot be reverted.\n";

        return false;
    }

    /*
    // Use safeUp/safeDown to run migration code within a transaction
    public function safeUp()
    {
    }

    public function safeDown()
    {
    }
    */
}

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Last week I had the privilege of participating with distinguished journalist Denis Horgan in a program at the Old State House about the meaning of the First Amendment and why freedom of expression is so important. Many thanks to the Old State House for hosting this program, which you can watch on CT-N. Given the current political environment, I don't think the program could have been more timely.
[W]e agree with the defendants that, having found that the educational resources provided by the state reasonably meet the minimal needs of the state's students . . . the trial court should have concluded that the state's educational system satisfies article eighth, § 1 [of the state constitution], and it should not have gone on to apply a constitutional standard of its own devising. By doing so, not only did the trial court fail to defer to the legislature, it also usurped the legislative responsibility to determine how additional funding, beyond the constitutionally required minimum, should be allocated and how to craft educational policies that, in its view, best balance the wide variety of interests at issue. This action was in clear violation of separation of powers principles.
Many legal observers, myself included, anticipated this decision and its separation of powers rationale.
Justices Richard Palmer, Richard Robinson and Appellate Court Judge Michael Sheldon, sitting by designation, issued a separate opinion which concurred in part and dissented in part from the majority decision. They agreed with much of the majority's analysis, but thought that instead of directing the entry of judgment for the defendants, the case should have been remanded for a new trial.
I hope to write more about the twin decisions after reviewing them more closely.
Please attend!!!!!! Great program, great speakers, great price!
Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced today that he intends to nominate Associate Justice Andrew McDonald to become the next Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Current Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers announced last year that she intends to retire next month after eleven years as the state's top judge.
Click here for more on this developing story. And here is a link to my prior post about Justice McDonald's initial appointment to the Supreme Court.
Does/Should The 1st Amendment Protect Speech On College Campuses?
Does Chris Mattei Have A "Bysiewicz" Problem?
Former federal prosecutor Christopher Mattei recently abandoned his interest in running for governor of the Nutmeg State and has declared that he will now seek the Office of the Attorney General. This development follows in the wake of Attorney General George Jepsen's surprise announcement that he will not seek reelection in 2018.
Is Heckling A Speaker A Crime?
Short Answer: It depends (my favorite two words as a lawyer).
Fuller Answer: Isolated heckles by an individual are protected speech under the First Amendment. But an intentional and sustained effort to disrupt a lawful public assembly by heckling the speaker is unlawful in many states–and it should be. Eugene Volokh, a leading First Amendment scholar, explains the law in this helpful article.


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Huntington Beach, Dana Point to challenge Newsom's Orange County beach closure order
By Oscar Flores
FOX 11 Los Angeles
All Orange County beaches closed effective May 1
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - UPDATE
Orange County beaches will remain closed. Judge Nathan Scott declined Friday to issue a temporary restraining order to halt Gov. Newsom's executive order to shut down OC beaches only.
The judge did, however, issue an order to Newsom's attorneys for them to provide cause, according to FOX 11 investigative reporter Bill Melugin.
The next hearing is set for Monday May 11.
The Huntington Beach City Council voted 5-2 Thursday night to file a lawsuit challenging Gov. Gavin Newsom's orders to shut down all of Orange County's beaches set to take effect on May 1.
Dana Point would also be joining in the fight against Newsom's Orange County beach closure order.
A memo sent to all police departments in the state on Wednesday saying Gov. Newsom was set to announce a full closure of all beaches in the state was leaked to the public and a backlash ensued. However, on Thursday, during a news briefing from the governor, Newsom singled out Orange County only after photos of a busy beach over the weekend sparked concerns over COVID-19.
• Orange County officials upset after Gov. Newsom announces closure of beaches
Huntington Beach to challenge Governor Newsom's order to close all OC beaches
"Governor Newsom's mandate to close all beaches in Orange County today was a jarring decision that significantly impacts us here in Huntington Beach," said Mayor Lyn Semeta. "Given that Orange County has among the lowest per-capita COVID-19 death rates in California, the action by the State prioritizes politics over data, in direct contradiction of the Governor's stated goal to allow science and facts to guide our response to this horrible global pandemic."
WATCH: Orange County officials respond to Gov. Newsom's orders to shut down all beaches in OC
With Thursday's vote, the city of Huntington Beach is directing the city attorney to pursue any and all legal actions necessary to challenge the state's beach closure directive.
"Out of concern for being the only Orange County city with beaches still open, Huntington Beach will be closing all beaches starting May 1, including the City's bike paths, boat ramps, restrooms, parking lots, and associated recreational amenities. In addition, activities such as sunbathing, walking, running, and watersports will be prohibited," said city officials in a statement.
RELATED: Stay up to date on all coronavirus-related information
"Prior to the issuance of the Governor's directive, the City had been following the State's Stay-at-Home Order guidelines, and had invested considerable effort and expense in order to discourage overcrowding while facilitating effective social distancing at our beaches," the statement continued. "In this way, the City was attempting to provide the community with the ability to safely experience the physical and mental health benefits associated with accessing the Pacific Ocean. Our experience locally had been that most people were being responsible and complying with social distancing requirements."
Governor Newsom denies seeing beach memo
It was the memo that shook the state -- the governor ordering all beaches in California shut down. But when Gov. Gavin Newsom made his announcement, he singled out Orange County only, leaving the rest of the state's beaches alone.
So what happened? Gov. Newsom denied ever seeing the memo that caused shockwaves throughout the state and said he never intended to close down all beaches. However, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer told FOX 11 investigative reporter Bill Melugin that on Wednesday night, Newsom's staff members called to say all California beaches would be closed -- then, minutes before the governor's news conference on Thursday, the Governor's Office called again saying it would just be OC Beaches.
San Diego's mayor's sentiments were also shared by Orange County Supervisor Donald Wagner who told FOX 11 his office also received a call from the governor's staff just minutes before the scheduled news briefing Thursday to let him know only OC beaches would be closing.
Wagner's Office said in a statement, "The Governor says in his press conference that he wants to listen to local health professionals and work together. Orange County would like this as well. But he has not tried to work with local leaders; he is asking, despite his rhetoric to the contrary, for a 'one size fits all' approach."
The California Police Chiefs Association also issued a statement regarding the memo saying in part, "In an ever-changing environment, we sent out information regarding decisions that were still evolving, which was regrettably shared outside of our police chief membership and we apologize for the undue concern that cause to the public, our colleagues, the Governor and his staff. The sole intent of the notification was to alert our members and give police chiefs time to prepare."


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#include <naiveConsole.h>
#include "include/kalloc.h"
#include "include/pmem.h"
#include "include/paging.h"
#include "include/lib.h"
#include "include/memmap.h"

static MemoryBitmap bitmap;

void
init_kalloc(void)
{
    init_bitmap(&bitmap, (void *) 0x15000000, HEAP_VIRTUAL_START, VMEM_SIZE);
}

/**
 * Allocates a page and links it with a physical page
 */
void *
kalloc(void)
{
    void * virtual_address = alloc_block(&bitmap);

    return virtual_kalloc(virtual_address);
}

void
kfree(void * virtual_address)
{
    uint64_t address = (uint64_t) virtual_address;

    int pml4_index = (address >> 39) & 0x1FF;
    int pdp_index = (address >> 30) & 0x1FF;
    int pd_index = (address >> 21) & 0x1FF;
    int pt_index = (address >> 12) & 0x1FF;

    PTE pte = get_pte(pml4_index, pdp_index, pd_index, pt_index);

    void * pmem_address = (void *) (pte & (PAGE_BASE_ADDR_MASK << PAGE_BASE_ADDR_OFF));
    set_pte(0, pml4_index, pdp_index, pd_index, pt_index);

    // Flush table cache
    uint64_t cr3 = _asm_get_cr3();
    _asm_set_cr3(cr3);

    free_block(&bitmap, virtual_address);
    pmem_free(pmem_address);
}

void *
virtual_kalloc(void * virtual_address)
{
    int is_present;
    void * address;

    uint64_t pml4_index = ((uint64_t) virtual_address >> 39) & 0x1FF;
    uint64_t pdp_index = ((uint64_t) virtual_address >> 30) & 0x1FF;
    uint64_t pd_index = ((uint64_t) virtual_address >> 21) & 0x1FF;
    uint64_t pt_index = ((uint64_t) virtual_address >> 12) & 0x1FF;

    PML4E pml4e = get_pml4e(pml4_index);
    is_present = pml4e & PAGE_PRESENT;
    if (!is_present) {
        address = pmem_alloc();
        pml4e = create_pml4e((uint64_t) address >> PAGE_BASE_ADDR_OFF, PAGE_RW | PAGE_US | PAGE_PRESENT);
        set_pml4e(pml4e, pml4_index);

        clear_page_entries(address);
    }

    PDPE pdpe = get_pdpe(pml4_index, pdp_index);
    is_present = pdpe & PAGE_PRESENT;
    if (!is_present) {
        address = pmem_alloc();
        pdpe = create_pdpe((uint64_t) address >> PAGE_BASE_ADDR_OFF, PAGE_RW | PAGE_US | PAGE_PRESENT);
        set_pdpe(pdpe, pml4_index, pdp_index);

        clear_page_entries(address);
    }

    PDE pde = get_pde(pml4_index, pdp_index, pd_index);
    is_present = pde & PAGE_PRESENT;
    if (!is_present) {
        address = pmem_alloc();
        pde = create_pde((uint64_t) address >> PAGE_BASE_ADDR_OFF, PAGE_RW | PAGE_US | PAGE_PRESENT);
        set_pde(pde, pml4_index, pdp_index, pd_index);

        clear_page_entries(address);
    }

    uint64_t * block_address;

    // Point to a physical memory address, set it to present and
    // return the virtual address used to set every level
    block_address = pmem_alloc();

    PTE pte = create_pte((uint64_t) block_address >> 12, PAGE_US | PAGE_RW | PAGE_PRESENT);
    set_pte(pte, pml4_index, pdp_index, pd_index, pt_index);

    return (void *) (((uint64_t) virtual_address >> 12) << 12);
}


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Former major league players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo were killed in a car crash following a winter league game in Venezuela.
The 33-year-old Valbuena and 37-year-old Castillo died late Thursday, according to Cardenales de Lara of the Venezuelan league.
The team's administrative director, Gustavo Andrade, confirmed reports that the accident was caused by a rock placed on the highway, apparently by bandits trying to force cars to stop on the highway between the capital, Caracas, and the city of Barquisimeto.
"How many other Venezuelans on highways across the nation have lost their lives because ... of those people who put objects on the highway for the purpose of later making an assault?" he told local news media.


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PANULA ACADEMY
Panula Academy Conducting
with professor Jorma Panula
ABOUT PANULA ACADEMY
Founded in 2014 the PANULA ACADEMY is the only official training programme for aspiring Finnish and international conductors authorized by Maestro Jorma Panula, one of the foremost conducting pedagogues in the world.
Weekend workshops take place throughout the year in Helsinki and Turku and and longer masterclasses with concerts are held with professional Finnish orchestras, recently with Vaasa City Orchestra, Lappeenranta City Orchestra and St. Michel Strings.
Panula Academy is a non-profit-making registered organization with the mission of furthering the pedagogical knowledge, philosophies and techniques of Jorma Panula, encouraging youth and fostering a new generation of conductors.
click here for the info
Helsinki Masterclasses
Turku Masterclasses
JORMA PANULA - Director
Jorma Panula is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. He was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra from 1963 to 1965, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1972 and the Aarhus Symphony from 1973 to 1976. Today, though he is in high demand as a guest conductor throughout the world, he has limited his podium appearances greatly during the past ten years devoting his time mostly to composition and pedagogy.
As a pedagogue he has served as Professor of Conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1973 to 1994 and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
Panula has had great influence on the world of conducting through teaching. His has been called the "hidden hand" behind the extraordinary succession of fine conductors that came out of Finland. His students include Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Hannu Lintu, Susanna Mälkki, Pietari Inkinen, Rolf Gupta, Jukka Iisakkila, Dmitri Slobodeniouk, Dalia Stasevska ja Klaus Mäkelä.
He now teaches conducting all over the world including Paris, London, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ottawa, Sydney and Singapore.
Conductor and pedagogue Jorma Panula is listed in the BBC Music Magazine league-table of the "60 most powerful people in music", featured in the November issue year 2000. Panula was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in 1997.
Questions - Academy
click here for frequently asked questions
Lauri Haapanen - Operative Manager
info@panula-academy.com
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Q: Azure Worker Role Asynchronous Receive message: how long I should put the sleep for? (milliseconds) Sample code here
public override void Run()
{
   while (true)
   {
    IAsyncResult result = CUDClient.BeginReceive(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10),  OnMessageReceive, CUDClient);
    Thread.Sleep(10000);
   }
}

I have tested this Azure worker role. I kept 100 messages in the Service bus Queue. It's doing entities updates as a operation(Entity framework). It took 15 minutes to process all the queues and looks like taking longer time.  Any suggestion to improve this?
Thanks in Advance

A: Actually Service Bus is very fast enough in my experience. What wrong with you is "Thread.Sleep(10000)";
Sleeping 10 sec for each message.
 For 100 messages 100*10 = 10000 seconds = 16.67 minutes
 So this is a problem for the delay...
Solution:
Dont use Thread.Sleep(10000); (Its not suitable for BeginReceive, only suitable for Receive)
public override void Run() //This should not be a Thread...If its a thread then your thread will terminate after receiving your first message
{
    IAsyncResult result = CUDClient.BeginReceive(**TimeSpan.MaxValue**,  OnMessageReceive, CUDClient);
}

//Function OnMessageReceive
{
 //Process the Message
 **IAsyncResult result = CUDClient.BeginReceive(TimeSpan.MaxValue,  OnMessageReceive, CUDClient);**
}

using TimeSpan.MaxValue your connection to the SB will be preserved for longtime. so no frequent null message(less cost)...

A: Try using XecMe Parallel task for processing the message reading.
XecMe @ xecme.codeplex.com

A: I tried this.
while (true)
        {
           //read all topic messages in sequential way....
           IAsyncResult result = CUDClient.BeginReceive(OnMessageReceive, CUDClient);
           Thread.Sleep(1000);
        }
public static void OnMessageReceive(IAsyncResult result)
    {
        SubscriptionClient queueClient = (SubscriptionClient)result.AsyncState;
        IBusinessLogicProvider Obj;
        try
        {
            //Receive the message with the EndReceive call
            BrokeredMessage receivedmsg = queueClient.EndReceive(result);
                //receivedmsg = CUDClient.Receive();
                if (receivedmsg != null)
                {
                    switch (receivedmsg.ContentType)
                    {
                        case "Project":
                            Obj = new ProjectsBL();
                            Obj.HandleMessage(receivedmsg);
                            receivedmsg.BeginComplete(OnMessageComplete, receivedmsg);
                            break;
                     }
                 }
          }
    }

It processed all the 100 messages in 1 minute(00:01:02) . A lot better than previous one.

A: Try this one...
  //Somefunction
    IAsyncResult result = CUDClient.BeginReceive(OnMessageReceive, CUDClient);

    while (true)
        Thread.Sleep(1000); //In case you are using thread

    //Somefunction End

public static void OnMessageReceive(IAsyncResult result)
    {
        CUDClient.BeginReceive(OnMessageReceive, CUDClient);
        SubscriptionClient queueClient = (SubscriptionClient)result.AsyncState;
        IBusinessLogicProvider Obj;
        try
        {
            //Receive the message with the EndReceive call
            BrokeredMessage receivedmsg = queueClient.EndReceive(result);
                //receivedmsg = CUDClient.Receive();
                if (receivedmsg != null)
                {
                    switch (receivedmsg.ContentType)
                    {
                        case "Project":
                            Obj = new ProjectsBL();
                            Obj.HandleMessage(receivedmsg);
                            receivedmsg.BeginComplete(OnMessageComplete, receivedmsg);
                            break;
                     }
                 }
          }
    }

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