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When is the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, do we get an extra day off and celebrations revealed
The Queen will make history this year, as the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee.
By Sarah McCann, Search and Trends Writer
Monday, 10th January 2022, 12:52 pm
Updated Tuesday, 11th January 2022, 12:12 pm
Celebrations will be taking place across the UK this year to mark the Queen' s Platinum Jubilee.
The first British monarch to reign for 70 years, there are plenty of plans to celebrate this historic occasion.
Here's everything you need to know about the Queen's Jubilee.
When is the Queen's Platinum Jubilee?
On February 6, 2022, the Queen will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee.
Celebrations for the 70 year reign will take place throughout the year, with an extended bank holiday weekend being a highlight for many.
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The Queen will make history this year, being the first British monarch to reign for 70 years.
What is a Platinum Jubilee?
A Platinum Jubilee celebrates a monarch reigning for 70 years.
The Queen will be the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
The previous longest reigning monarch was Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years.
The longest reigning monarch in the world was Louis XIV of France, who reigned for 72 years.
Do we get an extra bank holiday?
To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, there will be a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from June 2 to June 5, 2022.
What celebrations have been planned?
Buckingham Palace revealed their planned celebrations today.
Taking part throughout the year, plans include street parties, a celebration concert and the four day bank holiday weekend in June.
There will also be a competition launched asking members of the public to come up with a new pudding to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.
The puddings will be judged by expert bakers including Dame Mary Berry and the winning entry will be showcased at Jubilee celebrations.
The Queen's Jubilees in full
Queen Elizabeth has celebrated many jubilees since her coronation in 1952.
Here are all of the jubilees the Queen has celebrated:
The Silver Jubilee in 1977 marked the Queen's 25th anniversary to the throne.
The Ruby Jubilee in 1992 marked the Queen's 40th anniversary to the throne.
The Golden Jubilee was held in 2002 and marked the Queen's 50th anniversary to the throne.
The Diamond Jubilee was held in 2012 and marked the Queen's 60th anniversary to the throne.
The Sapphire Jubilee was held in 2017 and marked the Queen's 65th anniversary to the throne.
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Carnegie Community Engagement Classification - Canadian Pilot Cohort
About the Canadian Pilot Cohort
About the Carnegie Framework
Presenting Partners
Canadian Pilot Cohort
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is committed to developing networks of ideas, individuals, and institutions to advance teaching and learning. We join together scholars, practitioners, and designers in new ways to solve problems of educational practice. Toward this end, we work to integrate the discipline of improvement science into education with the goal of building the field's capacity to improve.
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered by an act of Congress, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center. Improving teaching and learning has always been Carnegie's motivation and heritage.
Paul LeMahieu: Senior VP, Programs and Operations - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Swearer Centre, Brown University
In 1986, Brown President Howard Swearer was at the forefront of a revolution in higher education when he founded one of the first public service centers in the nation, now named for him — the Swearer Center for Public Service. President Swearer had the foresight to locate the new center within the Dean of the College's office — at the heart of the undergraduate curriculum. He strongly believed, as President Christina Paxson does today, that public service and experiential learning are essential components of Brown's educational mission.
Today, the Howard R. Swearer Center works with more than 1,200 Brown students, through and with 100+ community partners -- more than half of which are in the Greater Providence area. In our 30-year history, we have developed and nurtured many deep — and deeply rewarding — relationships with individuals and organizations in Providence that continue to inspire us and our work. We connect students, faculty and community partners through community engagement, engaged scholarship and social innovation -- three key perspectives that are the foundations of our work.
Mathew Johnson: Executive Director, Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service - Brown University
Located in Canada on British Columbia's west coast, SFU is comprised of three distinctive campuses, 30,000 students, 6,500 faculty and staff, and 130,000 alumni. We have been consistently ranked among Canada's top comprehensive universities and we were recently named to the Times Higher Education list of 100 world universities under 50.
Our vision is to be one of Canada's leading engaged universities, defined by a dynamic integration of innovative education, cutting-edge research and far-reaching community engagement.
Our approach to community engaged scholarship and service is strategic, collaborative and distributed, resting on the principles of inclusion and diversity; mutual trust, respect and accountability; sustainable approaches; healthy relationships; equity; and knowledge creation.
Andrew Petter: President and Vice-Chancellor - Simon Fraser University
McConnell Foundation
The McConnell Foundation is a private Canadian foundation that develops and applies innovative approaches to social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges. We do so through granting and investing, capacity building, convening, and co-creation with grantees, partners and the public.
Building on our partnership with Ashoka U to bring the Changemaker Campus Designation to Canada, and as a complement to activities related to "Building Social Infrastructure", the McConnell Foundation has joined the collaboration as a strategic learning partner; serving as an advisor, convener and capacity builder. In seeing how the Carnegie Classification is used alongside parallel initiatives in the US, such as the Changemaker Campus Designation, we see the Carnegie Classification as an opportunity to further deepen the civic and community engagement of Canadian postsecondary institutions.
Stephen Huddart: President and CEO - The McConnell Foundation

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The Ausmus House is located on a dirt road about I mile southeast of Highway 63 in the Powell Valley. The house sits on a small knoll thus enhancing its antebellum grandeur.
retained its original "L" shape with the inner portion of the "L" now serving as a patio area. In its early years the house settled on its northeast corner but the settling apparently has not caused any structural damage and the gaps have been well pointed.
The house is different from other homes of similar vintage in the area because it has three doors in the front. Apparently this was part of the original design for the door going into the living room still shows the ax scars made by Union soldier to gain entry into the house. The wood on the first floor still bears the imprint of their horses' hooves. The house was built just prior to the Civil War.
The present owners have sought to retain the anti-bellum integrity of the house. The rooms have been tastefully furnished and their original large dimensions retained. The only exception to this has been the widening of the opening from the back portion of the "L" to the main house. Also an iron spira1 staircase has been added to the back portion of the house.
The Ausmus House is significant because it is the only brick antebellum home being nominated to the Register from Claiborne County. It is also significant because it is the only Kincaid home being nominated from Claiborne County.
The Kincaids were a major influence in Powell Valley, particularly just prior to the Civil War. John Kincaid was one of i the first settlers in the Powell Valley arriving around 1800. His son, John Kincaid II, became a major slave and land owner. It has never been determined the source of John Kincaid II's wealth. It is known he minted his own money which contained more silver per ounce than the official U. S. currency. Tradition has it that he knew of a secret silver mine in Union County and thus secured his wealth from it. There are lead mines in Union County and apparently lead is often associated with veins of silver so there may be merit to the story.
It was John Kincaid II who commissioned all the existing antebellum brick homes in the valley. The Ausmus home was built for John Kincaid II's son, John Kincaid III, in 1851. Slaves burned the brick and quarried the limestone base. There is excellent craftsmanship throughout, in the woodwork and particularly in the perfectly cut limestone.
The Kincaids were strongly for the South in the Civil War. John Kincaid III was a Captain and apparently led renegade troops .through the valley after the war had ended. He was accused of killing a man named Vanbebber and thus had to flee with his family. He and his family died of cholera in Missouri.
When he left, John Kincade III left his house to his brother Alvis. Alvis in turn sold the home to Jordan Longmire. Some of the older residents of the valley still refer to the home as the Longmire Place. Around the turn of the century William Ausmus acquired the house and its 150 acres. The property deteriorated under William Ausmus until his son, Frank, took charge. It was Frank Ausmus who added much of the present mechanical systems. Frank Ausmus died during the 1950's. The house is presently owned by the Welch family.
The grave of Phillip Ausmus and the historical marker at the site -located in a field near Davis Creek Church.
After Benjamin Franklin Ausmus died in 1946 his widow Viola Wells Ausmus married John G. Farmer.
Benjamin Franklin Ausmus was the son of William Thomas Ausmus and Mary Jane Carr.
Rootsweb database with more information on The John Kincaid's. Builders of the Frank Ausmus Home.
Back to Joe Payne's Genealogy Page.


Watch Anne Curtis And Jessie J Sing "Flashlight"
On Sunday, July 5, Anne Curtis took to the ASAP stage and performed "Flashlight"—the hit song from Pitch Perfect 2—with Jessie J. Well, Jessie wasn't actually there, but Anne used the Sing! Karaoke app for the duet.
The It's Showtime host tried to hit all the high notes AND she rapped, too. Do you think she nailed the performance?


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Q: LVM tries to de-activate in use volume at shutdown and partition alignment concerns Is it okay to have root file system on a lvm2 logical volume? Because, I always get the following error on every time I reboot or shutdown the machine.
Can't deactivate volume group "vgSystem" with 1 open logical volume(s) failed
will now restart.
vgSystem volume group contains two logical volumes, namely, lvRoot for root file system and lvSwap for swap.
Although, it has no effect on booting on next time, personally I don not like to see warning messages in Red letters, especially the one which says failed. So can someone help me regarding this issue.
In case if you want to know my partition structure, here it is...
Disk /dev/sda: 247.0 GB, 246960619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000993f
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         122      975872   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2             122        3648    28320768   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda3            3648       30025   211873792   8e  Linux LVM
On side question:  How to avoid the statement Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary is appearing when partitioning using fdisk (i.e. how to partition correctly so that the above statement does not appear)
Thank you in advance :)

A: It sounds like the shutdown script is being a little indiscriminate in managing LVM. In short, you have nothing to fear, you won't be able to deactivate an LVM volume while it's in use.
Your second question is much more complicated. It amounts to aligning your partitions correctly depending on the sector size of your disk. Here's a good article from IBM to get you started. It's not fatal, though it will impact performance some. Unless you're running a production server, or you're really into tweaking, I would leave it alone.

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With the great impact of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, more and more things have been digitized in our society. You could say that we have digitized everything that is possible with today's technology. You can order everything from clothes to actual houses online and get it delivered to your doorstep. Services such as food or taxi for that matter are delivered within minutes, just from a touch of a button on your smartphone. And experience services that do not even deliver a physical product have taken the internet by storm. Today, so much movies and TV stream account for a significant part of internet traffic internationally! But this article is not about clothes or movies but about online games – more specifically online casinos and how you can become part of a young and fast growing industry!
When you think about the internet in the late 1990s online casinos is probably not the first thing that crosses your mind. But the fact is that online games, and online casino in particular, was something that came early.
In 1994 Barbuda and Antigua decided to create the first remote gambling license so companies who wished to offer gambling services online could do so. The first casino to launch was InterCasino, but not the last.
In 1996 there were about 15 online casinos but it wouldn't take long before there were hundreds. In 1997 it was over 200 operators and in May 1999 the number had reached 700. And the ball was rolling on the roulette wheel.
No matter what you think about the gaming industry and casinos, it's de facto an extremely exciting industry with a young mind and all about performance more than anything else. Whoever has heard about the dot-com bubble's rise and fall, or even experienced it, can probably understand what we mean. The biggest difference is perhaps that the igaming industry so far has shown no tendency to be any kind of bubble.
Making a career without any previous experience is definitely not impossible, on the contrary! Relative basic knowledge in eg IT, marketing or HR can take you to an intermediary position in just a few years and after that maybe you will become head of the department. In fact, this is an industry where you can come right after high school without previous experience and still do the same career, provided you have the right attitude and are prepared to work hard.
In this article we will scratch on the surface of the industry and focus on online casinos, the operators, ie those who run the actual casinos. But in the wake of this there are several other types of companies, which you can read more about here.
You can find casino and gaming companies in many places, and more will it be with more local regulations with their own licenses. But many big gaming companies have already been rooted around the world.
If you are looking forward to moving abroad, this is a great opportunity to take a shot! A lot of the european gaming companies left their home back in the 1990s and chose Malta as their base, and it became the natural choice for the casino companies to come. Today, Malta is the country with the highest density of igaming in Europe, well, probably in the world. But there are clearly many other countries such as Gibraltar, England and other where you will find igaming companies.
Working in Malta has many advantages. With 300 days of sunshine per year, proximity to crystal blue sea and with English as one of the official languages, it is no wonder that many people choose Malta as their new home.
Gibraltar, a small British enclave clad in southern Spain, has long been a centre for igaming. But Brexit has made several companies to take their staff and move elsewhere.
UK with it's long and strong tradition of gambling, especially in sports and betting, is the home of several big industry leaders. In London you will defenitively be able to find jobs within the igaming industry, but also in other UK cities. However, Brexit has affected the market here as well, and some gaming companies have opened up or moved their business to Malta.
Does it sound interesting? Here you can read more about moving and working in Malta and if you continue reading we will go through some of the most common roles!
As said, you can come a long way without any previous experiences of the gaming or the casino business, or any other industry for that matter. Being fluent in a sought after language and being service-oriented may be enough. It's no secret though that the online casino industry is an industry that is heavy on the IT and tech side of it. Below we have listed some different roles and, in some cases, potential career moves and opportunities.
Customer Support, or CRM (Customer Relation Manager) as it's often reffered too, rarely requires any previous experience or any higher education. But basic computer skills and English is often a requirement, as most workplaces are of an international charter.
All though English is usually a requirement, far from all Customer Support roles are for English speakers. Most European languages are sought after and especially languages such as Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish and German.
Obviously you need to be fluent in the language whose customers you will help. Because this is the easiest service, it is also the one who gets the most applications.
Career Development:Personnel turnover in foreign jobs is generally quite high. Within customer service, it is even higher. If you are persistent, performing well and gaining understanding of your role in the company, it does not take long, not even a year before you can get promoted to Team Leader, VIP Manager, Affiliate Manager or maybe Content Writer.
Working as a Team Leader it usually involves the responsibility of a group within the customer service. Most often, the same tasks are included in the customer service job, but you will also support your team members and have an overall responsibility to deliver good customer service. In the larger companies, each language usually has a team leader and sometimes even several team leaders for each language.
It is almost impossible to get this job without previous experience from the casino industry, but team leader often happens through internal recruitment, or directly recruited from another company in the industry.
Career Development: In the larger companies there is the potential to become middle management or head of the entire customer service department. With good knowledge of the industry and if you are good at working with other people, HR is also a possible career development for a skilled team leader.
Working as a VIP Manager means that you have contact with the regulars, or those players that spend the most if you want to put it that way. Your role is partly customer service where you make sure that those who achieve VIP status get help faster, but also tailoring offers and make sure they are happy and pleased with you as a company.
This role is also usually filled through internal recruitment, or direct recruitment.
Career Development: Are you good at keeping and people happy, Affiliate Manager is a possible step in your career. If you have good understanding of creating attractive promotions, the marketing department may be your next step.
Working as an affiliate manager means that you have contact with so-called affiliates. They are helping to bring in customers to your employer and usually works on a commission basis. Your responsibility is to find new and maintain existing business relationships, as well as making sure they are happy with you as a partner.
Career Development: Chief or middle management. Even the marketing department can be the next step, since affiliates are often one of the most important marketing strategies for a casino.
Content Writer has the task of writing texts. The profession itself is relatively new and should not be confused with a copywriter or a journalist, even if some tasks do overlap.
As a Content Writer, you write texts for the website, such as game descriptions or blog posts. Over time, you often get more responsibility and get started writing texts that are more related to marketing, such as newsletters.
Career Development: There is several possible ways for development. One is copywriter which is more responsible for selling and converting texts. With one foot in the marketing department there is a lot of possibilities. Even SEO Manager is a likely next step.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization as it is called, is a semi-technical role within marketing. It's about getting websites to appear on search engines like Google. For an online casino this is of course very important. However, traditional education is unusual within this area as well as clear answers.
This role can be gained with relatively little experience, but good understanding of IT and/or marketing as technology, tools and processes often differ between companies.
Career Development: Chief or Middle Management Roles. Even a more general senior role within the marketing department can be a next step, since SEO and digital marketing are such important parts of a casino's marketing.
As mentioned earlier, the online casino industry is dependent on tech. Partly so-called back-end development but also a lot of front-end development. For this role, you need to know one or more programming languages or some kind of web development.
Career Development: Chief or Middle Management Role. With years of experience and with a good understanding of the entire technical bit, CTO is a possible role in the long run.
Online casino is a form of entertainment where feel, experience and above all, excitement, is the product. The graphics is one of the most important pillars when it comes to conveying feel and build the brand of the casino.
To apply for this job you should probably be familiar with the Adobe softwares such Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as having a good eye for design.
Career Development: Chief or Intermediary. Even Art Director or UI/UX designer is a possible career development.
In a rapidly expanding industry with relatively high staff turnover, a strong stream of new candidates is required to fill the roles of a fast-growing company. But even the current employees need to be taken care of since the competition between the companies is high.
You can apply for this role if you have an education in the area, but the right person can also fill the spot through internal recruitment.
Career Development: Chief or Middle Managment Role.
This role is rarely found on job pages where a person with skills in x, y and z is requested. Most often, this person has previous experience of running companies or worked in industry for many years and accumulated a broad understanding of all elements such as staffing needs, organization, marketing, technology and economics.
Starting in the customer service and working your way up to the CEO's post is unlikely, but the fact is that it has happened several times before in the gambling industry. That hard work pays off is definitely a truth in the casino industry.
Tip! Building a fast career in the gaming industry is relatively simple, doing a good job and by changing employers regularly. Staying for less than a year in the same place can raise warning flags, but people in the industry that change employers after 1-2 years are not considered unusual and usually help you climb faster than staying too long in the same place.
Keep in mind, however, that that chance can disappear quickly. It is a relatively small industry, and although most people are tolerant with minor incidents, bridges can burn quickly.
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Ana Chronistic
May 11, 2019 at 12:03 am	| #
"then can I trust you with this cracked open closet door?"
WARNING A HUGE FEEL REPRESSED SECRET IS APPROACHING FAST
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
May 11, 2019 at 3:27 am	| #
Yes, I admit it. I am Batman.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
May 11, 2019 at 3:36 pm	| #
Yes, I admit it – I *am* an idiot! xD
May 11, 2019 at 11:47 pm	| #
No. I am batman
Michelle J. Caboose
ValdVin
Trust her, Jocelyne.
But I think it's a conversation they should have in person. Not over the phone.
Jocelyn has a car and hopefully can eat the cost of gas to drive there right this minute.
Woomy
Yes. For us. To see this drama unfold right now.
Hahahaha, no. Not on a writer's money she won't.
showler
Really petty question, but do we actually know Jocelyne has a car?
I'm sure we've seen her driving after dropping off Becky and Joyce, so… not definitely but it's been implied I think?
thejeff
Nope. Becky and Joyce dropped her off. Using the family car.
She came up with the parents for Family weekend. She rode with John to the lunch with Joyce and got a ride back with them.
She might have a car, but we haven't seen it.
Not always possible. They're pretty far away and don't see each other that often. Sometimes you really need to talk to someone, you need to share something with them or to have their emotional support, and they're just not there, and it's better to talk to them on the phone than not at all. In the process of wrestling with my own issues, I've had a lot of phone talks with my sisters who lived in another city, and it helped me a lot.
"REEEEACH out, reach out and touch someone! Reach out, call up and just say hi." (old long distance commercial)
BBCC
It's safer to have this conversation over the phone if you're not 100% sure the other person won't react badly. Unfortunately, violence and all sorts of other abusive reactions aren't unheard of when coming out. Joyce being okay with Becky being gay doesn't necessarily mean she'll be okay with Jocelyne being trans. There's plenty of people who are okay (or 'okay') with gay people and not trans people, and it's sometimes different when its someone in your immediate family. If you tell someone over the phone, they can't hit you, you can hang up if it gets bad and not answer if they call back, and it gives you time to lock the door if you think they might come over.
MatthewTheLucky
I was going to say that's ridiculous in this case, but then again even surprised flailing from Joyce would almost certainly be fatal to any human without Toedad levels of protective girth.
Also, again, Joss has no way of knowing Joyce is cool about trans people – gay people, yes, but supporting one does not always equal support for the other. I doubt Joss is worried about physical violence with Joyce, but emotional violence like rejection is also easier to deal with on the phone – you can hang up.
SillyGoose
You made me cry again, BBCC. What a fucked up world.
Sorry. 🙁
For now I find it even safer not to have the conversation at all. I don't even think I'm being 100% honest with myself.
I don't think my religious parents are ready for a pan, trans atheist.
I doubt it matters too much in this case. While the immediate emotional effect might be worse if she was there and couldn't hang up, the real risk that she wouldn't be willing to take if she doesn't completely trust Joyce is that her parents would find out from Joyce and for that it doesn't really matter how she tells her.
TemperaryObsessor
Actually I think in person might be a little safer from the telling the wrong person angle but means she'll have to put up with Joyces growing pains on this issue.
What are the odds that Joyce even knows what being trans is? She seems to be the only person on the floor who doesn't know about Carla, and while I'm not really sure it's been explained *why* everyone else knows (is she out and proud? does she not pass well? did previous year students spread rumors? other reasons?) it makes me think the concept of a transgender person has never crossed Joyce's mind before.
3oranges
Joyce tries to be a good person, and as she learns what things she was taught were wrong, I think she should be trusted to try to do right instead. But it's a long journey and one should not trust her to avoid the many mistakes on the way.
To her credit, Joyce has a pretty great "doing the right thing" record, in spite of all the bullshit she was taught. While she may not initially have the most positive or supportive reaction, she'll never actively try to hurt someone and she'll ultimately be willing to learn and to question her prejudices.
Much to her credit! So how much you should trust her is a question of how much that initial not the most positive or supportive reaction matters to you.
Pretty much. Joyce is probably not the best first person to tell when you have zero support network and you desperately and immediately need to talk to someone understanding, but you can also trust that she'll come around eventually, and won't do anything actively hurtful in the meantime.
Chris Phoenix
Would Jocelyne have zero support network, though? I mean, the Internet is a thing now, and we've seen she's willing to tell people who aren't her family (at least IIRC she told Ethan, yes?) So wouldn't she have at least found emotional support online?
Presumably yes, but the internet can only give you so much support. Online communities are a great help early on, when you're just trying to figure out what's going on with you and you need to know that there are people who know what you're going through, that you're not wrong for being who you are, and that there are things you can do to make it better.
But when you're past the point of accepting yourself and you already more or less know how transition is going to work, you've kind of hit the limit of what the internet can provide for you. Eventually, you reach a point where you need people in real life who actually know you and care about you. Online communities can still be fun places to hang in, but they can't provide that.
yes, this. and if jocelyne knows joyce well enough, she'll understand this. but this also means she has a right to wait until a time when she can handle the possibly shitty initial reaction before the longer-term payoff of her learning to be supportive.
begbert2
Yes. You must first survive the initial Joyce Face.
On second thought, don't do it Joss, it's too dangerous! It's not worth the risks!
Trusting Joyce to accept her is one thing, but if Jocelyn isn't prepared for the whole family to know her secret, telling Joyce might not be wise. She could accidentally let something slip, or even decide Jocelyn should come out when she's not ready and try to push her to come out.
On the contrary, that's the one thing I would absolutely trust Joyce on. She's seen first hand the worst that can happen when an LGBT+ person is outed to an unsupportive family, and she is very much aware that her own family kinda sucks. Even if she herself doesn't immediately understand, I think she'd know better than to out Jocelyne.
i'm thinking of how her relationship went with ethan; she was really pushy about wanting him to come out. has she progressed on that since then?
She was pushy, but I don't recall her actually outing him to anyone either. Did she? No, really, I don't know, that was a while ago and I don't remember.
Fart Captor
Yeah she was persistent, but gentle. She encouraged him to come out but understood when he said he wasn't ready
Lone Duck
The Christian metaphor is to be a shining city on a hill, not a covered lamp. Even though there are certainly times when a LGBT person might need to remain closeted (lack of support network, avoid conversion therapy, etc.) I think Joyce still things in that Christian framework. I think Joyce would be supportive, but need to learn on what effective trans support means. Joyce was willing to lie to her parents for Becky, so I think she will go the extra mile for Jocelyn.
^thinks, not "things" grumble grumble.
I think she would too, but Jocelyne hasn't seen as much of Joyce's transformation as we have, so it's a harder call for her.
Plus everyone knows Joyce is a horrible liar, especially to authority figures, so even if she wanted to keep the secret, it might not be a good idea to let her know.
Not to mention that Jocelyn would be dumping her problems onto her little sister (who she knows has been through some major issues). I wouldn't blame Jocelyn at all for thinking "I shouldn't drag Joyce into this right now. She's been through a lot, and this is my issue, I'm the older one, it's not fair to her." In a happier universe Joyce would discover Carla was trans (NB: does she know?) and Carla would explain things. Unfortunately: (a) That's not really how Carla rolls, and (b) The Willis doesn't do Disney plot resolutions.
Needfuldoer
Joyce knows Carla gets her own room "for some reason", but I don't think she knows Carla's trans. She might just assume it's because Carla's parents are rich., or something like that.
Let's also bear in mind that Joyce, as pretty much everyone knows, is an AWFUL liar, and expecting her to be completely normal around their parents after learning she has a sister is, perhaps, too much to hope for at this point. Certainly I can see that it would put Jocelyne off for now.
woobie
Maybe don't put this on your younger sister who is barely coping with her last few weeks? Right now, it's be there for Joyce.
Regalli
*Hugs these girls*
Also, 'that's – huh.' Jocelyne definitely didn't know Hank's been changing. Now I hope Hank actually lives up to that when the time comes.
DailyBrad
Hopefully. Hank cited Joyce's courage in standing up to him to defend Dorothy as making an impact on him, so I have to wonder.
huttj509
Given what we've seen of Hank, I can picture him being caught off guard. I can see him saying something *really* stupid/rude. I can also see that being a knee-jerk reaction to something new, and he then becomes more recognizing of "it is what it is."
Yeah, Hank is like Joyce in some ways. Just even more set in his ways. His instincts are good.
Jocelyne coming out to him would be ugly. He'd react badly.
I think they'd be able to reconcile in the end, but it would take time.
Electriccombines
Oh man please let Joyce be cool
Please Willis
Doctor_Who
Hey, if the leather jacket didn't do it…
Kidding. I hope Joyce will be happy to have a sister.
Joyce always wanted a sister.
Reltzik
Please give us another Joyce face and THEN have her be cool after about 30 seconds of silent visual freakout that doesn't hurt Jocelyne because she can't see it.
This conversation is happening quite a bit sooner than I thought! Don't mess this up, Joyce!
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . . . . This can lead to possibly the best possible thing or the worst possible thing. I desperately hope that it is the former.
ǝ snow ʍousɐ
I don't think it'll be the worst possible thing, but Joyce might need a little time to think about it.
These girls. ;;
Oof, I think using 'Josh' stayed the confession.
Or maybe provided a good opening for it ("well, actually, about that…")! I hope tomorrow will tell.
i think it could urge it. "here's someone who wants to be trustworthy, using the wrong name, because i havent told her"
This is what I am hoping as well
Rosicrucian
Joyce doesn't know she's doing it, though.
"So about that, I don't use 'Josh' anymore. It just doesn't work.
-How do you mean?
-It's just not me.
-Huh? That's weird. OK so what should I call you?
– Hmm?
-….Jo."
Or maybe just push "Joss" for now. One step at a time.
"What, like the writer?"
"… Yeah, like the writer."
*shocked Joyce face* "Have you been watching Buffy?!"
Oh, Joss, honey.
Stephen Bierce
I don't ask for much–I only want TRUST
And you know It Don't Come Easy–Ringo Starr
Cues up "A Matter of Trust" by Billy Joel on the hacked jukebox.
Deanatay
Adds DRAMA's Dead and Gone to the queue
Jocelyne is truly killing it with the beat panels.
BassBone
Can she… can she see us?
Thursday Violist
That's why her eyes are so blue.
So if Mike hears us, and Jocelyne sees us… I am afraid to ask who 'does' us.
Depends on whether you have (or want) a nickel.
Maybe I'm super projecting but it must be weird and painful for Jocelyne to be in the closet while also having a younger sister that looks a lot like her. It's like looking into an alternate universe where you are cis or had supportive parents.
Anyway I hope things turn out fine 🤞
Plus they practically have the same name.
FLUFFYWOLF
…I'm no expert but I'm like 90% sure Moon isn't projecting and that'd be like crazy painful to watch.
Schpoonman
I believe canon is that Joyce's name was directly inspired by baby!Jocelyne's name for herself (Patreon when Carol was pregnant with Joyce). Joyce is literally named in a fashion after Jocelyne. I hope that becomes a bonding moment for them.
ian livs
As a trans guy with a cis younger brother–we used to look a lot alike until puberty, at least, and now that I present less feminine we sorta do again–it's *totally* weird and painful tbh.
My twin sister and I have a running joke, whenever someone is surprised we're twins, we respond with "Yeah, couldn't you tell? We're identical."
While I love the joke, it also hurts since the whole premise is "Ha ha, ones of us is a girl and the other's a stinky boy."
Now I'm thinking about Clinton and Claire in QC. My headcanon is that they're identical twins. (Claire is trans, so it's quite possible AFAIK.)
It's been explicitly stated that they're not, I think because so many people thought what you do! Claire is three years older than Clinton.
Kravis
And I want to be Batman, Joyce.
We can't always get what we want, sugah
Yeah, but you're the Blue Beetle. That's a hell of a lot closer to Batman than most of us ever get to be.
Thores
I feel like the subtext of Jocelyn asking Joyce if she trusts Hank is directly tied to the Patreon bonus strip featuring Jocelyn and Hank from a few months ago. She senses that Hank's a supportive dad from that exchange, but still isn't sure whether that'll be null and void if/when he discovers the real her.
Here's hoping she can go from Josh to Joss in Joyce's vernacular.
I'm glad Joyce had seemingly good news for Jocelyne on the dad front, and as bitter a pill it is to swallow, I am glad Joyce is tempering herself some by recognizing that Ross obviously violated trust given to him. Then again, Joyce of now would never have trusted him, so she's probably giving herself too little credit.
Does Jocelyn like the nickname Joss, or is that something the fandom decided? Seems it would be too similar to Josh.
good question, I wanna know the answer
Zaidyer
I learned that if I say "Joss" over the phone as being clearly short for "Jocelyne", people will think it's "Josh" because it sounds alike. One has to lean hard into changing the O sound from the more technically correct "ahh" to a very clear "awe", as in "Jaw-ss", and even then it's 50/50.
ShinyNeen
Phones are weird. There's just something about the slight change in voice quality over a phone connection that just absolutely fucks with how everything sounds. My voice reads as more feminine over the phone, which was real confusing in the years before I figured out I was trans let me tell ya.
… Although I do get plenty of baffling misunderstandings in person, too. Anybody have any idea how "Fifty" sounds like "Twenty"?
It's the limited dynamic range and exaggerated sibilance messing with pronunciation that does it.
Well, dang, there is an explanation. Thankee!
Communication is hard >.>
Josh isn't pronounced "Jaw-sh"?
abysswatcher1993
Jocelyne: "I have a secret to confess, Joyce."
Joyce: "Oh my possibly non existent god, is someone in our family a criminal?! Is it Jordan? Wait, I know, it's John!"
Jocelyne: "Joyce, no."
Joyce: "It makes sense. How else can he afford such a fancy car?"
Jocelyne: "Okay, he is possibly a criminal, but that isn't-"
Joyce: "And I am sure he invented his fiance to cover up for some evil scheme in India."
Jocelyne: "Joyce!"
INNER JOCELYNE: "I mean, she's probably not _wrong_, but this is SO off the mark."
Newllend(henryvolt)
Well she is getting there.
Deadjolras
"Accepted her, like… like a daughter."
I'm tearing up in the club right now.
It's maddening! Savage teasing! For us and for Joss! AAAAAAAAAA- *Flips table*
Mooood
"You know, like Ethan. Who's so trustworthy that you came out to him after only talking to him twice, even though he was still my closeted gay boyfriend at the time and he never had an opportunity to answer your pointed question about what he was doing dating me."
It recently struck me what a daring/foolhardy thing that was for Jocelyne to do. Sure, the fact that Ethan was (as far as Jocelyne could tell) lying to Joyce about his sexual orientation might imply he'd keep her secret too, but "I'm dating your sister while pretending to be straight even though I know I'm not and hitting on her cute brothers [as far as I know] at the first opportunity" isn't really a good look. And yet Jocelyne told him anyway. It almost makes me wonder if she has a self-destructive side, or was hoping her secret might spread without her actually having to do the coming-out herself.
joyfulldreams
Seems to me she's just in the process of coming out, and prefers to be as out as possible with nearly everyone EXCEPT her family, because she depends on them financially and has zero (up until now) reason to expect them to be cool with it.
She doesn't live with their parents, so she can be as out as she feels like to her neighbors and personal friends, for example. And even if Ethan wasn't a great guy or whatever, he was still apparently queer in some way and NOT a member of her family, and therefor there's no real reason NOT to just casually let Ethan know who she is, if the only person who might possibly find out is Joyce on accident, who probably wouldn't really get it and certainly wouldn't immediately tell-tale on their parents or anything.
Just a thought tho.
Plus, taking that into account Ethan was probably the first and/or only queer person Jocelyne had to look to for support in-person in God only knows how long.
I know I cherish the very few opportunities I have to open up about that sort of thing.
Pl0x
Jocelyne strikes me as a compassionate person. I think she recognized Ethan as a closeted individual, struggling with their identity. Maybe she used to be like that when she was younger, or knows someone like that.
Partly it was just necessary on the meta-level to get her out to us.
I can't speak for anybody else's experiences with being in the closet, but for me coming out to people always feels like a risk, no matter how well I know them. I figure that you never know for sure before you do it. Hell, sometimes I don't know for sure even after I do it. Building on what joyfulldreams said, sometimes you just want to be out.
Oof, that last panel. The hope and fear on Jocelyne's face. And…disappointment at being called Josh? Guilt over not telling Joyce the truth? Poor anguished, ramen-eating lass.
You mind if I steal "Poor anguished, ramen-eating lass" for general use?
I think Joyce would take it okay, even if she didn't understand right away (does she even know about trans people yet?). I hope Jocelyne tells her.
JessWitt
Probably not. She doesn't know about Carla either and oof, that interaction's gonna be rough.
I think the only case of transness being mentioned in front of Joyce was regarding Jacob's brother's job
If only Becky was there to help nuke Jocelyne's closet to Joyce.
…I don't think that's a good idea.
Well I meant as an in-between, like Jocelyne tells Becky and she tells Joyce.
But yeah I thought it over and nah, not the best idea.
Go for it jocyleneeeee
And be good sister Joyce
Cholma
Alt-Text: "never trust a toe"
Me: "Not even Sergeant Hulka, the company's Big Toe? Who *are* you, Alt-Text, FRANCIS?!"
Ryek Hvek
Malaya up there on the TCAF images, with her helmet-hair coiffure, is an inadvertant visual echo to none other than the elder statesman of color TV cartoons, Colonel Bleep, whose mouth was often rather improbably delineated.
She makes me think of Stitch of Lilo & Stitch fame.
was Stitch a member of the Interplanetary Space Command?
I like how Joycelyn picked up on the fact that Joyce asked if mom was a good person and not if their parents were good people, and is now sort of using Joyce to feel out how safe dad is.
Jocelyne, not Joycelyne, that's far too many y's for one name 0.0
….and I made a typo too, of course
well, at least it was a typo of the typo, not a typo of the real spelling!
Yeah, that struck me as well. Jocelyne knew nothing of Hank's talks with Joyce and has little reason to think he's been changing.
…. dammit, I am not in Jocelyne's position, I do not know her life, it is not my place to recommend that she give Joyce a bunch of PFLAG material (you know, so she can learn how to be a trustworthy ally) before coming out herself.
Lots of complex feels here! Let's run em through:
Panel 2: Iiiii'm no expert, but I detect a little surprise and perhaps some uncertainty here. Like "he's more reliable than a lot of the people we thought we'd trust our whole lives and are both afraid to admit we can't trust anymore, but I don't know how trustworthy he actually is."
(that one got long)
Also "like a daughter." Ouch, Joyce. You stabbed your sister right in the feels.
Panel 3: The uncertainty is…. a lot more obvious this time. "What, really?" But there's something else – I'm suspecting Jocelyn still doesn't trust her dad enough (a reasonable precaution) and she's weighing the possibility of whether or not this is false hope.
Panel 5: I was gonna say that she "knows she isn't," but that's not true, I think – I don't think Joyce knows if she is. Which is totally different. She's tripped over a lot of her own bigotry so far and I don't think she knows where she stands on a lot of this.
Also there's a lot of baggage in this – "I want to be someone people can trust, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣'𝙩."
Panel 6: "I want to trust her, but… can I?"
I find it interesting where Willis put the emphasis in Joyce's statement. By putting it on trust as opposed to can, it seems more authoritive, like she realises she hasn't been and is endeavoring to change that.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
yeah same
hard same >.>
Oh geez, I'm so tense. Is she gonna tell Joyce? And if so, how will she take it? I know I've said she'll undoubtedly take it better now than she would've at the start of the semester, but it's still gonna come as a huge shock. I really hope she'll take it well.
(Also, Jocelyne asking for Joyce's read on their dad broke something in me. Huge projection warning here, but I feel like she's looking for any signs that her parents might not be as unaccepting if she came out as she's worried they will be. I just wanna hug them both so bad after these last few days' comics.)
It's possible, but it's also maybe "If I tell you something, are you going to tell Dad?"
TheFlamingonator
Hasnt Joyce shown that she can lie to her parents if necessary (think the whole becky thing, until toedad showed up and she called them afterwards)
Xespera
Oh geeze, these are killing me lately. I thought things might go here, oh geeze I hope things go alright
I'm both looking forward to and worried about how Joyce might respond if Jocelyne tells Joyce.
nlips
Homosexuality was hard enough for Joyce to understand… Trans is even harder.
Remember she has only been away from her family for a few weeks, and they spent a lifetime enforcing strict gender roles as inherently "good."
Yeah, plenty of people are okay with homosexuality, but fail hard on trans issues. Partly just that it's less common, so they're less exposed.
It's going to be hard for Joyce to accept. I don't think Jocelyne is going to tell her here though. And that's probably a good thing.
Hank is abour to be the proud father of three daughters in a few years
Oh yeah the whole trans thing is a bit of a hot topic… considering Hank and Carols favourite letter when voting
MatsuoTanuki
*strums acoustic guitar*
Today's the Macy's Day parade…
The night of the living dead is on its way
With a credit report for duty call
It's a lifetime guarantee…
Stuffed in a coffin, ten percent more free
Red-light special at the mausoleum
Give me something that I need…
Satisfaction guaranteed to you
What's the consolation prize?
Economy sized dreams of hope
When I was a kid I thought…
I wanted all the things that I haven't got
Oh, but I learned the hardest way
Then I realized what it took…
To tell the difference between thieves and crooks
Lesson learned to me and you
'Cause I'm thinking 'bout a brand new hope
The one I've never known
'Cause now I know it's all that I wanted
Because I'm thinking 'bout a brand new hope
And where it goes
And I'm thinking 'bout the only road
And I'm thinking 'bout a brand new hope
TheGrammarLegionary
Nice, I haven't thought about that song in years… Beautiful.
BenRG
I think that poor Jocelyn is rapidly running out of things to say and even out of ideas about what to say to Joyce about how to approach her problems.
I am wondering if what Joyce said about Hank may have set some wheels in motion on Jocelyn's side, though.
Bagge
"So… is this how a case normally goes?"
My client tried to make a brave smile, but I could see how scared she was. It's easy to forget that no matter how routine for you, every game of hide-and-seek-with-guns is the first time for someone.
"Pretty much," I whispered, ducking under a partly fallen wooden beam in the vain hope of finding an unguarded way out from the abandoned building. No such luck.
"So… you can get us out of here?"
"Sure," I lied ."Piece of cake. Nothing to worry about." I dared a peak through the window, but the goon was still out there. Crap.
"Apropos nothing," I asked as casually as I dared. "That 'Hank' character we were supposed to meet, you trust him?" She gave me a suspicious look.
"Have I reasons not to?"
"Kid, let me tell you something. There are many excellent ways of getting killed in this line of business."
"…like tommyguns?" she asked with a surprisingly sharp wit. I nodded.
"Sure. Or knowing too much. Or knowing to little. Or mouthing off to much… I might have a problem with that one… but nothing offs you as quickly as a knife in the back. from someone you trust.
"But you want to trust him?" she asked, and I didn't like the glint in those big blue eyes of her.
"I need backup," i spat, a bit more forceful than I had to. "We're in a corner here."
"Are there no one else you could have called?" she asked, and my throat tightetened. "No one?"
I was saved from trying to come up with a sarcastic answer by one of the goons taking an ax to the door. I desperately looked around, trying to figure out another option. As I did, she sided up to me and put her hand on mine.
"I trust you," she softly said. "I know you will get us out of here, and I know you will help with with my case, because" …don'tsayit-don'tsayit-don'tsayit… "you are a good person."
At that point my own eyes did something unbelievable soppy. I may have said something to the effect of 'ngh?', but when it comes to not-sarcasm I'm not known for my way with words.
Stupid kid. She had to go there. That whole 'trust'-thing. Trust is stupid. It's soppy. It can get you killed… and there was nothing in the whole wide world I wished for more than being able to trust someone, the way this girl trusted me.
Well, fudge it. Me and the kid had places to be, and these clowns were not going to stand in our way. It took the goon with the ask 30 seconds to get through the door and burst into the room, gun first, like the worlds least friendly room service.
30 seconds is plenty of time.
I know these mooks were not chosen for a notable surplus in the brain-department, but I was still taken aback when she actually fell for the old 'shoot-the-mirror'-trick. As she realized her mistake she had also fallen for the – admittedly less subtle – 'brick-in-a-sock-to-the-head"-trick, and me and the kid were off.
The tommygun on the street started to bark as soon as the door opened, which was – of course – why we were nowhere near it. But it served as a nice distraction that kept the goon from watching her back.
Just because I have trust issues doesn't mean I'm completely without backup.
"Perfect timing, as always, Miss Sakaki," I said as me and the kid left the building. Miss Sakaki stood up from the unconscious goon, gave me a short nod and sauntered off. Never one for conversation, that one.
"What happens now," the client asked, still a bit shook up of us nearly getting shot, killed and ax-murdered. I smiled and put my arm around her shoulder.
"Now it's time for us to talk."
#JocelyneNoir
Transgressingwaffle
I love this! Thanks for taking the time to write it.
Thanks. I have WAY too much fun not to 🙂
This was really good. Not just borrowing the character, but tying your story back to the in-comic arc. Got me in the feels a bit. Thanks!
Thanks so much. I have great fun writing these weird reflections of the strip proper. With more or less flights of fancy on the way.
I'm assuming that Miss Sakaki is still the cat. 🙂
At this point I honestly have no idea 🙂
And you write this over breakfast!? Damn impressive.
Trust is tough : (
Thanks. I eat long breakfasts 🙂
Yup. And I didn't even include the whammy from the strip itself, where Joycelyne aches to tell her little sister her biggest secret but doesn't dare to.
Fair! That'd be, like, an entire update on it's own anyway.
oh joyce………
Teddae
oh man, i understand jocelyne's situation so well as a trans person. my heart hurts for her
Yes, yes, second panel. I get it. I had my misgivings about Hank but frankly he is THE BEST DAD. The "Father of the year" mug is on the way, it's stuck in a complicated customs negotiation between EU and US regarding maximum tonnage on the Atlantic ocean.
JBento
Sierra's dad is better. So is Dina's, probably. And that's just off the top of my head.
Hank still has his problems, but he definitely gets the "Most Improved" award.
No, that goes to Toedad.
I'm not kidding. Him removing himself from Becky's life is such a tremendous increase in parenting skills compared to BEING in Becky's life that it overshadows even Hank's growth.
Of course "-A LOT +quite a bit" still ends up on minus.
They are great, sure, but none of them have been tried like Hank.
It would have been SO EASY for him to turn his back to the girl that practically grew up under his roof when church and father and the whole world declared her person-non-grata. His own wife, his own faith told him he should.
But he didn't.
He took her in. He gave her a place by his table. He removed her from a bad situation, like Joyce said. He opened that joint bank account. (Note: He didn't just give her a bunch of money and washed his hands – he accepted joint responsibility). In short – he accepted her like a daughter.
"Yes Becky, Always."
I don't think it's fair to say Hank's a better parent because he stopped being homophobic. That wouldn't have been a test for Ryou, because he was never homophobic in the first place (that we saw). You had a greater starting point and maintained it.
And not a parenting moment, but Geno stepped between a violent man and his daughter in defence of a total stranger.
Like, if Carol wakes up tomorrow and make a 180 on her bullshit, that's great. That doesn't make her a better mothers than, say, Mrs. Rutten. Mrs. Rutten was consistently better. Carol changing from being a transphobic and homophobic fuckface would be great, but it's bullshit to say it makes her a better mom because she was 'tested' by her transphobic bullshit because Mrs. Rutten, so far as we can tell, didn't have a transphobia problem in the first place.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
No slander against iguanas!
I see your point, but I still think what Hank did was several steps beyond "not being a homophobe". That joint bank-account thing and what it symbolizes is HUGE.
Fair point. I'm sorry, Fuckface. You're cool.
And yeah, the bank account thing is genuinely really good of Hank. I'm not saying he's not a good parent – there's even arguments you could make for him being the best dad. I'm just not a fan of 'well, he turned around after he was tested' being one of them. The reason why Ryou or Mr. Rutten or whoever weren't tested that way is because, from what we can tell, that was never a test for them in the first place because they were never homophobic or transphobic jerks. From a child's well-being standpoint, not being a jerk in the first place is a lot better than having had damaging beliefs and changing them. The latter is good, but it still comes with making up for the prior damage done from said beliefs (which Hank has started to, imo).
Hank wasn't tried. "Dude switches from a stance that makes him suffer 0 and other people a lot into a stance that makes him suffer still 0 and other people not" isn't a trial, it's the minimum amount off decency that you should show not to be berated on a permanent basis.
daredaemon
In an ideal world it wouldn't be a trial.
But standing up against something you've been told to believe, which your community still believes, which even your spouse still believes? All of them telling you it's important to believe that?
That's hard. Even if the belief itself is Evil, it's still hard. Peer pressure is a big deal, and the community Joyce grew up in, the community her parents live in?
That's one that's basically designed to optimize peer pressure and to produce the kind of evil people like Becky's father. To that kind of community Becky's father's greatest failing is Becky being gay, not the awful, evil steps he took to try to force her in line.
In an environment of evil, doing the right thing takes strength of character even if the act itself is so simple; because it involves resisting decades of indoctrination.
I grew up in a community like that, and I still find myself reflexively agreeing with the evil shit I was taught.
I'd also like to point out that the full extent of Dina's father's qualities as a parent as far as we have seen boils down to "stands around with a vacant expression" "has probably been involved in spotting Dina some money for a date" and (in a patreon strip) "is happy for his daughter when she gets a girlfriend.
Great, sure! But it's a bit of a low bar.
It's still a higher one than Hank has set. The only reason why HE's not on the bottom three is that parent shittiness in DoA reaches levels that could fertilise the entire world's crops, ten times over, for ETERNITY.
I mean, Hank's LEVEL with Joe's dad, AT BEST. That's not a ringing endorsement or, at least, a ringing endorsement of anything good.
As a sidenote, "ringing" is a hard word to stop typing, I was on my third -ing by the time I noticed. Like banananananana.
That whole "Accepted her like a daughter" line might have touched a nerve…
goggleman64
I only just realized they're having a therapy session. They're even in the classic poses, Joyce reclined and Jocelyne sitting.
Oooooh! Well spotted.
But in that case, they should have switched position for this strip.
Anyone else going to/at TCAF? Gonna get some comics. Gonna see a Willis.
JohnnyO
Don't trust a toe
Never trust a toe
Won't trust a toe
Cause a toe won't trust me
Seregiel
:'( nooooooooo, my poor babies. :'(
Sock_V
The realization that your parents aren't perfect is uncomfortable.
The realization that they can't always be trusted is painful.
And Joyce's judgement of Hank as a possibly good parent opens all those wounds fresh for Jocelyne. Is it worth risking everything by getting closer to him?
Roger Sterling
The problem isn't that they aren't trustworthy in the sense they are ever disingenuous-its precisely the opposite. They are terrifyingly amd uncompromisingly committed to the truth, even if it kills them. Or their progeny.
…not that I mind, its just highly ironic this particular name is getting paired with the Jocelyne icon, during this particular arc
Re: Panel 4.
Fudge you Toedad. Joyce trusted you and you betrayed that trust. You are a bad person and should feel bad.
(And that whole gun-thing, or rejecting daughters-thing or mistaking dinosaurs for pokemen* didn't help any either)
*) That last bit added on behalf of Dina.
Felian
wait "never trust a toe"… is Joyce breaking her toe metaphorically connected to toe-dad? if so am i the first or last to notice? 😀
Nelly Dreadful
Mister Willis please temporarily lower the fourth wall so I can give Jocelyn a hug?
Cue plushy merch in 3… 2…
Let's be real though. The moment that fourth wall goes down, half of the cast will never appear in-panel again. They'll all be buried beneath a pile of readers hugging them!
There are so many beautiful blue eyes in this comic
Darkoneko
noooo don't say it don't say it don't say iiiiit
Fuck, the unknowing deadnaming hurt me directly in the soul
Elsendor
Rartorata
Oh, Jocelyne…
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Here's a fact you probably wish wasn't true: your employees aren't as motivated as you think or even hope they are. It's statistically likely a large proportion of your workforce is mentally checked out. A recent study by Gallup showed 70 percent of workers are disengaged in their current roles.
Don't think your company is the exception. Right now, your best employees might be daydreaming about leaving your office for greener pastures. In fact, a study on candidate behavior from CareerBuilder found the very idea of a passive candidate just might be a myth on par with Bigfoot. The study found 77 percent of full-time employees are either open to new opportunities or actively looking for a new job.
So what exactly is the problem here? Perhaps it's a lack of communication between upper management and the people on the ground who keep your company moving. Another study, this one a partnership between ClearCompany and Dale Carnegie, found only 5 percent of companies communicate goals on a daily basis. For most, these goal check-ins happen monthly or quarterly, giving employees a lot of time to lose sight of important objectives and feel adrift.
Proactively keeping goals top-of-mind mind throughout the organization is the best way to get your workforce motivated, improve employee engagement, and reduce employee turnover. But before we get into how reinforcing goals can improve employee retention, we must first understand why it's imperative to reduce turnover.
It's no secret employee turnover can be extremely costly for organizations of all sizes and for employees at all levels. How costly? For employees making less than $50,000 a year, the cost of employee turnover is about 20 percent of the employee's salary. Certainly this isn't a cost most companies are looking to incur.
Unsurprisingly, things get even more expensive the farther up in the organizational chart you go. For employees in senior executive positions, turnover can cost as much as 213 percent of their current salary. But those are just the costs of employee turnover in dollars, which doesn't take into account how turnover can waste human capital, momentum toward goals, and hurt employee retention.
With a system that visualizes and tracks goal alignment, you can increase employee engagement by helping your people see how their efforts and work fit into the company as a whole. Goal alignment helps everyone from entry-level to C-Suite understand their place in the organization. Instead of feeling like a cog in the proverbial machine, they can see exactly how their work brings value.
Goal-based approaches to leadership can also help in ensuring you recognize the right people for a job well done. Every employee wants to feel like their contributions to the company are being recognized. By focusing on how individual employee and team goals contribute to an overall company strategy, you will see who is adding strategically to these goals, and be able to recognize the right people.
This also helps to cut down on stressful and needless office politics. Keeping goals in view means people are staffed appropriately, and end up with credit for their hard work. After all the hard work your team has put into recruiting and hiring the best people, you can't afford to watch them walk out the door. Employee turnover isn't just costly -- it's also bad for employee engagement, morale, and productivity. Keeping your organization aligned with goals means more informed and motivated workers, which equals greater employee retention.
What do you think? How do you use goals in order to keep employees motivated and reduce turnover? Share in the comments!


Even if you stop after the first "B," the biscuits are worth the trip. They're $2, or $5-$9 in combinations with fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, bacon or another topping from Merritt's combo menu.
If you want another "B," consider another biscuit.
The dessert cherry pie on a biscuit with premium vanilla ice cream ($6.95) is enough to stop traffic on Rosedale. The other dessert is a strawberry shortcake on a biscuit ($6.95), although chocolate sauce seems out of place.
If you want to move on to a different "B," the burger menu offers a choice of seven burgers for $4.25-$6.95.
The burger that packs the biggest punch is the "Vaquero," a pepper-jack cheesrburger with jalapenos, chorizo and grilled onions ($5.95).
(The day I went, the burger didn't measure up to Merritt's signature house burger at his other restaurant, Fixture Kitchen. It's on the same Pearl Snap Kolaches bun.).
The Ben's menu also offers four salads, including a fruit salad with strawberries, green apple and grapes.
Ben's is off to a remarkable start, drawing long lunch lines some days and a weekend crowd of beer drinkers who have been hoping for someplace like Fred's or Rodeo Goat but on the east side.
The 80-year-old buidings were formerly a drugstore and furniture store. Ben's is part of Wesleyan's effort to draw business to Rosedale and improve the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood around the campus.
Ben's is open at 10 a.m. daly for late breakfast, lunch and dinner; 3020 E. Rosedale St., 682-385-9262, facebook.com/bens3b or bens3b.com.
▪ If you've never tried Fixture Kitchen, it's open for lunch or brunch and dinner weekdays and Saturdays, brunch Sundays; 401 W. Magnolia Ave., 817-708-2663, fixturefw.com.
Liquid nitrogen, which comes out at -320 degrees, chills the ice cream at Hurst's Sub-Zero.


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Gordon Peabody, Founder and Director, Safe Harbor Environmental Services
Gordon Peabody, Founder and Director Safe Harbor Environmental Services
""Living on the sea offers an intimate embrace with the primal elements that shape our lives. Our Coastal Resources and Coastal Communities need each other to survive." "
Peabody lives aboard a sailboat for up to six months each year.
We have intentionally structured this Web Site for educational use. We offer support to High School and College students and Community Groups with up to 20 environmental education presentations each year. We have an active Intern Program, taking on board two part time interns each semester. We now offer College Credit for Interns in our Program. We suggest checking out our publications page, for some great choices in further learning. Since we are an environmental consulting group, we also provide restoration plans, permitting and management services for Coastal and Wetlands projects. Safe Harbor offers free initial consultations: gordonpeabody@gmail.com
Peabody was Chair of a Conservation Commission on Cape Cod for almost 5 years.
Peabody chaired the Herring River Technical Committee, tasked with reviewing all existing scientific materials and developing a conceptual salt marsh restoration plan for the 1,200-acre Herring River diked estuary on Cape Cod. This would be the largest estuary restoration in New England.
Peabody and Green Architect from Aline Architects in Orleans (Joy Cuming), were Visiting Professors for Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin.
Peabody wrote, edited and published "An Applicant's Guide to Conservation Commissions".
Peabody edits and publishes annual "Conservation Commission Directory" for the Outer Cape, including deadlines, requirements and contact information.
Peabody has written and published 28 educational booklets on the Innovative Environmental Techniques developed by Safe Harbor
Peabody is founder and Editor of OCEAN Newsletter (Outer Cape Environmental Awareness Newsletter), an e-newsletter with a readership of nearly 4,000 subscribers.
Peabody is a contributor to the Western Australia Water Journal, which covers an area equal to about half of the US.
Peabody is Editor and manager of SafeHarborEnv.Com, the environmental educational web site of Safe Harbor. The site receives up to 12,000 visitors each month.
In 2010, Peabody was a member of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC) Technical Advisory Committee tasked with revising erosion and sediment control guidelines and techniques. Safe Harbor's innovative systems were incorporated.
At the largest environmental conference in New England, (Annual Environmental Conference for Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions) in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, Peabody presented workshops to Massachusetts Conservation Commissioner members, Commission Agents and environmental professionals: "Using Sustainability to Make Better Conservation Commission Decisions"; Using Sustainable, Innovative Strategies for Reducing Vista Conflicts.
Peabody sponsored "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", a Learning Conference for Environmental Professionals, to review failed environmental projects on Cape Cod.
Peabody has assisted with Emergency Certification and Emergency Response Plans for coastal communities following winter storms. Peabody has been experimenting with innovative, bio mimicry restoration techniques, utilizing the wind energy within resource system to power successful coastal restoration.
Peabody received a grant for his successful experiment to restore a barrier dune, Peabody's integrated Biomimicry system collected 24 vertical feet of new sand in 26 months, reconnecting eroded profiles.
Peabody is certified Coastal Invasive Vegetation Manager.
Peabody published "Risk Reduction Strategies for Environmental Projects", in the (AMWS) Association of Massachusetts Wetlands Scientists Newsletter. The article reviewed failed environmental projects on Cape Cod.
On July 22, 2015, Peabody was invited by NOAA to present a National Webinar on Safe Harbor's Biomimicry coastal restoration system, The presentation is available in their archives.
Peabody wrote an article for the (AMWS) Association of Massachusetts Wetland Scientists Newsletter titled "The Role of Uncertainty in Climate Change Decisions".


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Celestar Holdings Corporation Promotes Debbie Miller
Celestar Holdings Corporation Promotes Deborah Miller to Business Relationship Manager
Tampa, Florida, June 30, 2015:
Celestar Holdings Corporation announced today the promotion of Debbie Miller to Business Relationship Manager. Ms. Miller will be responsible for implementing and managing Celestar's business relationships and military affairs programs, in addition to developing and executing a comprehensive internal and external communications and community strategy to enhance Celestar's corporate reputation.
"Debbie has been a critical factor in building Celestar's presence in the community. As a result of her hard work, she was recognized by the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce with the Bob Cutler Volunteer of the Year Award. A true testament to Debbie's dedication to supporting military causes", said Gregory Celestan, Chief Executive Officer of Celestar Holdings Corporation.
About Celestar Holdings Corporation
Celestar Holdings Corporation operates through its subsidiaries Celestar Corporation; Celestar International, LLC and Celestar Analytics, LLC and is based in Tampa, Florida with a satellite office in Reston, Virginia. Celestar Holdings Corporation's subsidiaries offer our clients a wide range of services in the United States and International markets. Celestar Holdings Corporation is privately held, Service Disabled Veteran Owned and ISO 9001:2008 certified company.
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Weekly Military Information – 24 June 2015
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
Women in Defense 3rd Annual Chapter Charter Celebration – at Bascom's Chop House – Calling all members and potential members! Please join us as we celebrate our second year of success and recognize those who have made it possible. We will also welcome a very special guest, Karen Conti, WID National President who will speaking on "Leading Through Change". Register Today
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2015 UPCOMING EVENTS – FOR MORE DETAILS ON EVENTS LISTED BELOW VISIT
Visit our weekly newsletters and military events on our website! We will archive past newsletters for your reference and maintain a calendar of events that are listed each week in the newsletters.
The link for the newsletters is: Weekly Military Information, and the direct link to the events calendar is: Events Calendar.
SUPPORT SMOKEY BONES IN RAISING $50,000 FOR THE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE!!!
Last week, Smokey Bones kicked-off their THREE BURGERS. ONE CAUSE initiative to raise $50,000 for the Fisher House Foundation during the month of June. For every limited-time-only burger ordered in June, Smokey Bones will donate $1 to Fisher House Foundation. On top of the $1 donated from each special burger sale in June, during Flag Week, June 14-20 Smokey Bones will donate another $1 if you dedicate your burger to a service member and post the photo of it on InstaGram or Twitter using #RedWhiteAndBBQ. http://smokeybones.com/specials/three-burgers-one-cause/
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Are you member of the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association ("AFCEA")? Being a member of AFCEA is important for professionals in the global security community. We are currently holding a recruiting campaign "Each One, Reach One". As a member-based association, we draw our strength from the relationships and dialogue between over 30,000 members of industry, government, military and academia worldwide. So I encourage you to join today to:
– Connect with great ideas, vital solutions, and innovative people
– Enhance your resume by being part of the rich heritage of AFCEA
– Help advance the global security mission
– Receive SIGNAL magazine, AFCEA's award winning monthly professional journal
By using this link to join, you will also enable me to participate in this campaign: https://www.afcea.org/portal/imemb/newmember.jsp?spid=55191975&rcd=RECR1
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Celestar sponsors Operation Helping Hand Dinner
Celestar was happy to be a sponsor for the June Operation Helping Hand dinner held at the James A. Haley VA Hospital SCI Building.
Since 2004, Operation Helping Hand has extended all necessary efforts to assist and support over 950 military wounded/injured being treated at the James A. Haley VA Hospital, and many of their visiting families. The main purpose of the monthly dinners is to let the patients and their families know that we recognize, honor, support, and thank them for their sacrifices and for what they have done for us.
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Celestar Holdings Corporation Names Lori Larsen as Chief Strategy Officer
Celestar Holdings Corporation announced today the promotion of Lori Larsen to Chief Strategy Officer. Ms. Larsen will be responsible for the development and execution of Celestar's strategy as well as identifying growth opportunities across the subsidiary companies.
"Lori has been a critical component of Celestar's growth and success. She joined the company in 2005 as a Program Manager and quickly rose through the ranks of management. She has helped drive Celestar's growth from a startup business to a successful mid-tier enterprise", said Gregory Celestan, Chief Executive Officer of Celestar Holdings Corporation.
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