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215 Reasons It's Time to Listen
Posted by Christopher Spicer June 01, 2021
It has taken me a few days to actually write something about the horrific news that the remains of 215 First Nation children were in unmarked graves by a Kamloops residential school. Part of the reason is I recently started an ad campaign that has drawn in some new readers and considering that I sold this as a movie site, I wasn't sure how excited they'd be about one of the first new articles being this heartbreaking discovery with heavy political and social implications. Not quite the deep dive into Weekend at Bernie's they were dreaming about. I've also had a rough emotional week and wasn't sure what energy that I had to deliver any worthwhile thoughts about this tragedy.
Maybe that is the big one. What does a privileged white movie writer who crafts poems about dead tress and sweat pants have of any value to add to this horrible and devastating revelation? A revelation that should be added is what many First Nation people have been trying to tell us had happened for decades. It is sad that this didn't seems to shock many First Nation people and seems to be an ominous discovery that they have been waiting to get blasted onto them.
The problem has been that maybe white guys especially of the political variety have been allowed to talk too much when it comes to First Nations' affairs and have made their voices the prevailing narrative. As Emily will sometimes tell me, there are moments I must shut up.
The last decade plus there has been a backlash against P.C and being 'woke'. The idea is certain groups need to move on and stop dwelling on past sins. Some has screamed it is time to stop paying reparations or making amends for things that were done in the past. They will say it is to leave it in the past, and I know there is a lot of bitterness among otherwise kind-hearted people that feel too much has been given to certain groups, especially in Canada the feeling is too many privileges for the First Nation.
But how can one move on or declare things to be history, when the past keeps hitting them with more nightmares and the sins continue to batter down more souls. It isn't ancient history if it is still making current news.
Last year I wrote about the tragedy that was George Floyd. I made it very clear that systemic racism and abuse by authority on non-whites was not just an American problem. Many of the things that the murder of Floyd triggered were issues that happen in my country of Canada, and during that time there were many people that I know that expressed their own moments of fear for their safety due to the plague of racism and abuse by those in power.
On top of that, Canada and the church has a shameful and despicable history of racism and abuse. There is no doubt that the country tried to pull off a cultural genocide and try to get rid of First Nations. While there are no longer any more residential schools and the Government takes no avert actions to wipe out or assimilate an entire race and there are truly people who are apologetic and full of empathy and sorrow, it is clear that the haunting of a horrific past not only lingers but still swallows up many. Some are still broken and shaken from the time of being stuck in residential schools that were designed to erase their culture and language while those in charge showed no desire to even have them around. While others have been grieving for decades for the children or friends that never ever came home while no reason was ever given for their disappearance.
I went to a private Christian school and while I do remember hearing about residential schools and the interaction between First Nation (we called them Indians back then) and the European settlers, my memories were that those things were mostly positive. I don't think the word 'civilize' was ever used but I was led to believe that things like the residential schools enriched the children and made their lives better. They were converted to Christianity and shown a 'better life.' I was taught that these were things that were embraced by the First Nation people and it was all done through love.
I started smelling the bullshit a little in high school and after taking a few indigenous studies courses in University, I really started getting smacked hard with the reality. It was then that I realized this wasn't loving embrace of Christian values but rather a pollution of a religion that was distorted in order to strip people of their language beliefs, customs, songs, values and identity. When some First Nations people spew hate on Canada Day, it is hard to provide any counter. Atrocities were committed by the treatment of First Nations, and now it is becoming clear that it was even worse than a lot of us even believed.
I was informed even further of the injustice when I wrote a piece about some dissent between the Six Nations and Brantford for Collective Publishing. I tried contacting a few people from Six Nations, but there was so much hatred and pain that they kindly told me that they probably couldn't handle an interview with me. I did get a several hour long interview in a coffee shop with the editor of the Turtle Island News who pointed out the long history of lies and deceit that has created a divide between Brantford and Six Nations, and all First Nation groups with the country of Canada.
But how was it that it took until 2021 that we uncovered the remains of 215 children. How was it we ignored the cries of decades of missing little kids. Kids that are younger than my son Everett and my daughter Danika. Parents like me who must have been screaming and hollering and clawing for the return of their beloved children. How do we plug our ears for that long?
Priests and high-ranking officials of the Catholic church would have known. Definitely most of the Canadian government would have known. You don't just misplace 215 bodies. And the sad fact is that there absolutely no way the residential school in Kamloops is the only one that has buried bodies of children.
So, what is supposed to happen next?
We listen. We shut up for a bit and listen. We actually listen and not offer our input or our answers. We actually listen to the concerns, worries, grief, sorrow, pain and fears of the First Nation people. Just for the record, it is good advice to do that for anyone that feels they've been wronged and feel a dark separation from society for hurts committed. But 215 dead kids were discovered, so let's listen toe First Nations to figure out how this happened and what needs to be done next.
We listen with an open mind and an open heart. We listen with empathy, kindness, compassions and humility. We don't need to take offense or try to offer a defense. Just fucking listen.
Then we listen to the fact that First Nations people have been talking about the ongoing trauma and horrors of residential schools for decades. They have made it clear that it is something straight out of the worst horror movie where Jigsaw feels like he may have been a lightweight in his way of torture. Or at least, he stayed away from innocent kids.
It is time to realize that there has been a push for an investigation into residential school for years and that many have cried that there are missing kids, and they need to be found and there needs to be closure. Now, we know it was cries of truth and it is time to investigate every single residential school. There will be more bodies. There will be way more grief. It is going to be horrible, but First Nation people deserve closure, and we can't run away from the atrocities that were committed. A full and proper investigation must be done.
Then we really listen about the trauma and damage that has been done by the residential school. We try to find ways to provide proper healing and work towards healing wounds and correcting evil wrongs. Justice hasn't been served. I honestly don't know if what has been perpetuated can fully be repaid and fixed.
As a white guy who never had to worry about being shipped off to a school that will abuse me and strip me of my identity, the one thing that I do know is that I need to listen.
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Batman Gets Hit With Another Devastating Tragedy in Today's Detective Comics
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For the last few months, Detective Comics has been living up to its name, sprinkling clues to pull readers along an intensifying mystery that's going to require the entire Bat-team to solve. Things come to a head in this week's issue, in a shocking conclusion that shakes up Gotham City's crime-fighting contingent.
Written by James Tynion IV, with art by Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Adriano Lucas, and Marilyn Patrizio, Detective Comics #940 caps off the "Rise of the Batmen" storyline, which has seen Batman and Batwoman assemble a team to thwart a secret threat lurking inside Gotham City. That threat turned out to be the Colony, an ultra-stealth military division modeled after Batman and led by Col. Jacob Kane, Batwoman's father. Each issue ratcheted the stakes up higher, showing Kate Kane caught in a tug-of-war between her father and the man who inspired her to become a costumed crimefighter.
The Colony's goal has been to eliminate individuals in Gotham that they believe belong to The League of Shadows, a splinter group of the League of Assassins led by Ra's Al Ghul. Despite Batman saying that the Shadows are a myth and the Colony is targeting innocent people, Col. Kane unleashes a fleet of drones programmed to kill hundreds of citizens.
Detective Comics #939 saw Tim Drake/Red Robin reprogram the drones to target himself, setting up the Bat-team's resident tech genius against near-impossible odds. Earlier this week, comics enthusiasts sites have been abuzz with speculation that Tim Drake would die.
The set-up has been there from the start. At the start of the new Detective Comics run, Batman had a heart-to-heart talk with Tim, letting him know how much he values the third young man to take on the Robin mantle.
In addition, Tim's been in a superhero romance with Stephanie Brown/Spoiler for a while and has confided in her that he's going to hang up his cape to go to college. He's also been shown as more of an invaluable badass than ever before and waxing rhapsodic about the Belfry, the cutting-edge Batcave that's set to revolutionize how the Bat-team keeps Gotham safe.
Tim Drake's always been a fan favorite and Tynion's scripting in 'Tec has had Red Robin riding high than ever. But longtime pop culture fans know that this is also the kind of emotional manipulation that happens before heroic characters make the ultimate sacrifice.
True to form, last-breath conversations with Batman and Spoiler play out in the panels of Detective Comics #940…
...building to a brutal splash page…
...and the drama spikes when Batman realizes how close Tim was to walking away from the danger and responsibility.
But Batman and crew have no way of knowing what's really going on.
That's right: Tim Drake isn't dead at all. He's being held captive by Mr. Oz, the same mysterious, robed figure who's been lurking in the shadows since DC's Rebirth initiative kicked off, and who recently captured Doomsday in Action Comics.
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I love this twist because it's been preceded a sardonic thread of misdirection, including all the clichéd plot beats above. That sleight-of-hand happened in the real world, too.
The cover art shown for retailer solicitations three months ago was different than the final version, with Red Robin standing alongside his allies. His absence from the final version of the cover fueled speculation that Tim Drake was going to die.
Moreover, this culmination of the "Rise of the Batmen" storyline holds to Detective Comics' core conceit, which is that of a Batman title aiming to approximate the energy of classic X-Men comics. (While I seem to recall hearing that description from someone from DC editorial during the publicity cycle leading up to Rebirth, I can't track it down the attribution. If someone does, please throw it into the comments.) In that vein, Detective Comics has had many of the hallmarks that made X-books great: melodramatic team dynamics, alpha characters leading philosophically opposed factions, vying for the loyalty of an important character, a standout character in a romance with a teammate. Issue #940 is this run's X-Men #137 moment, echoing the sequence from the classic Chris Claremont/John Byrne run where Jean Grey sacrificed herself at the end of the Dark Phoenix storyline.
My biggest takeaway from reading this issue is the sense that I don't feel cheated. Instead, I feel more drawn in and eager to see how the team reacts, even if it's connected to cosmic nonsense which I'm not that invested in. Detective Comics is my favorite DC title right now, because the execution shows a clever meta-awareness of when to satisfy and defy reader expectations while building a memorable interpretation of the Bat-family.
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L'Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna è un'istituzione culturale italiana, collegata all'Università di Bologna. Essendo direttamente derivata dall'Accademia degli Inquieti, fondata nel 1691, viene considerata una delle più antiche accademie scientifiche italiane tuttora esistenti.

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L'Accademia degli Inquieti
L'Accademia degli Inquieti nacque nel 1691 quando alcuni studenti ancora adolescenti, guidati da Eustachio Manfredi, decidono di riunirsi per discutere di temi filosofici. Se inizialmente adottarono un metodo scolastico lontano dalle moderne accademie sperimentali, man mano si avvicineranno al pensiero scientifico moderno, grazie anche agli insegnamenti universitari di Antonio Maria Valsalva e Domenico Guglielmini. Nel 1694 vengono ospitati nella casa del medico e professore Giacomo Sandri, dove rimarranno per i successivi dieci anni.

Già nei primi anni del Settecento acquisiscono un certo nome nel panorama culturale cittadino, entrando in contatto col generale Luigi Ferdinando Marsili e inviando relazioni a Parigi presso Giovanni Cassini e Giacomo Filippo Maraldi. A partire dal 1704, quando Principe (ovvero il presidente, eletto ogni anno) era Giovanni Battista Morgagni, iscritto già dal 1698, l'Accademia prende una netta svolta verso le scienze sperimentali. Vennero redatte nuove leggi che si ispiravano direttamente allAcadémie des sciences'' di Parigi. Nei successivi cinque anni l'Accademia fu protagonista di un'intensa attività scientifica e culturale, con contatti di rilievo in tutta Europa, grazie anche all'appoggio di Marsili che dal 1705 l'accoglierà nella sua residenza.

Un momento di crisi si ebbe solo tra il 1708 e il 1709, quando si ebbe la prematura morte di Vittorio Francesco Stancari, personaggio di spicco e segretario perpetuo dell'Accademia, e la cacciata dal Palazzo Marsili per via di Filippo, fratello di Luigi Ferdinando, che mal tollerava la presenza in casa sua dell'Accademia. Complessivamente i lavori degli Inquieti coprirono svariati campi, dalla medicina alla storia naturale ma anche analisi matematica, fisica, chimica e astronomia.

 L'Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto
Nel 1711 l'Accademia degli Inquieti venne annessa al nuovo Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna fondato dallo stesso Marsili, prendendo così il nome attuale e trasferendosi assieme all'Istituto in Palazzo Poggi. Con l'elezione al soglio pontificio di papa Benedetto XIV riceverà un grosso impulso, diffondendo in città le teorie e i metodi della nuova scienza sperimentale, raggiungendo il suo apice con la presidenza di Luigi Galvani alla fine del XVIII secolo. Nel 1804 l'Accademia fu sospesa dalle autorità napoleoniche in seguito ad uno sconvolgimento dell'ordinamento culturale del Regno d'Italia, per essere ripristinata solo nel 1829 dal restaurato Stato Pontificio, di cui divenne una delle istituzioni culturali più importanti.

Fino agli inizi del XX secolo l'Accademia era dedita unicamente alle scienze fisico-matematiche e mediche, vietando l'ingresso agli umanisti e letterati; Solo sulla spinta dell'entusiasmo per il premio Nobel conferito a Giosuè Carducci, professore all'Università di Bologna, nel 1907 fu istituita anche la classe di scienze morali, su pressione degli intellettuali bolognesi. Il membro più famoso di questa classe fu il poeta Giovanni Pascoli.

Durante il periodo fascista l'Accademia espresse intellettuali di spicco come Alessandro Ghigi e Guglielmo Marconi, ricoprendo un ruolo di prim'ordine durante la creazione della nuova Accademia d'Italia. Quando quest'ultima fu disciolta nel 1944 con la caduta del fascismo, si vennero a creare grossi disagi per via dei connubi che aveva avuto l'Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto; nonostante ciò nel dopoguerra riuscì a proseguire i suoi lavori che continuano tuttora.

Fra i soci più illustri l'Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto annovera sin dal Settecento Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Anders Celsius, Francesco Rizzoli, Laura Bassi, Augusto Righi, Giovanni Capellini, Luigi Calori, Pietro Albertoni, fino al Novecento con Marie Curie ed Albert Einstein.

 Organizzazione
L'Accademia è divisa nelle due classi di Scienze Fisiche e Scienze Morali (o umanistiche), entrambe suddivise ciascuna in quattro sezioni.Classe di Scienze Fisiche Scienze matematiche, fisiche, chimiche e geologiche
 Scienze tecniche
 Scienze biologiche (animali e vegetali)
 Scienze medicheClasse di Scienze Morali'''
 Scienze giuridiche, economiche e finanziarie
 Scienze filosofiche, pedagogiche e antropologiche
 Scienze politiche e sociali
 Scienze storico filologiche

Ogni sezione comprende massimo sessanta membri ripartiti in: 10 accademici effettivi; 20 corrispondenti italiani residenti; 10 corrispondenti italiani non residenti; 20 corrispondenti stranieri.

Sede
La sede si trova nel Palazzo Poggi, all'ultimo piano del quale nel 1725 fu allogato un osservatorio astronomico. L'Istituto era inoltre dotato di una tipografia con caratteri latini, greci, ebraici ed arabi, nonché di un museo e di una biblioteca, dove confluirono anche le collezioni e i libri di Ulisse Aldrovandi.

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Collegamenti esterni

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Physical description: Bliss has big curly hair. According to Mimi, Bliss also has "equine good looks".
"... a tall, rangy, Texan", "tall and willowy", "strikingly beautiful", she describes herself as "gangly"
Personality: Unlike Mimi, she's generally nice but often resorts to acting like her because she is weak. She has a pet Chihuahua. She has a nervous demeanor.
Family members:Forsyth Llewelyn (cycle father), BobiAnne Llewelyn (step-mother), Jordan Llewelyn (sister), and recently Allegra van Alen and Lucifer (parents).
Personal history:Modeled for 'Stitched for Civilization', the hottest jeans company in the world; was on a huge billboard in Times Square. Vogue's "Girl of the Moment" and landed many more modeling gigs (shoe ad, Gap ad, 5-page editorial in Kiss, etc)... there were websites dedicated to her every move.
Chose a golden lioness as mutatus.
Forsyth told her that her mother was a schoolteacher named Charlotte Potter, whom he'd met campaigning. She later discovered that her parents were Allegra Van Allen and Lucifer himself... Lucifer was her "true and immortal father" and he was inside her, taking control. She was Gabrielle's daughter long ago, in another cycle. She drank from the red blood Morgan, proving at least part of her is uncorrupted (red blood is poison to silver bloods) Jordan tried to kill her with Michael's white blade and Forsyth and BobiAnne took her away. Bliss realized that the Visitor was taking over... Lucifer wanted her to kill Schuyler... she couldn't, instead stabbing herself in the heart with Gabrielle's blade, killing Lucifer inside her and turning human.
History: When she walked into her family's "new" apartment for the first time, she felt like she'd been their before; most likely she had lived there in one of her past lives.
She has been to the Temple of Dendur in one of her lives. She visited the reconstruction at the Met and suddenly "she was in the desert. She could taste the acrid sand in her mouth, feel the hot sun on her back. A thousand scarabs- black and shiny, buzzing- flew out the temple door" and she could hear screaming.
She saw Mimi and Jack get married, Mimi was wearing a crown.
She was Margaret "Maggie" Stanford (16 years old in 1869). Her parents were Tiberius and Dorothea Stanford of Newport. She was engaged to Lord Alfred Burlington of London and Devonshire (Dylan Ward). He was an exchange broker, the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Maggie realized she carried Lucifer's soul and tried to drown herself. Tiberius died of "grief" and Dorothea went insane (possible silver blood attacks?).
As Goody Bradford and tried to set herself on fire. As Giulia de Medici she jumped off the balcony of her Florence villa.
Personal history:Her name was formerly BobiAnne Shepherd. "All the French she knew could fit in a dress tag (Dry Clean Seulement)." She smokes. Killed at Corcovado.
Personality: She's very observant, notices things she shouldn't. She seems to know, almost, about Blue Bloods, even though she's underage. She wore white to Aggie's funeral and seemed to know it was murder, even before Bliss did, and she knew it was dangerous for Bliss to go out alone with Dylan. She discovered Bliss was the Silverblood and tried to kill her. She was taken away by the traitorous Llewellyn elders and was held by Nan Cutler, who was preteneding to be her grandmother. Jordan Llewellyn was drained by Nan Cutler. Her pupils were gone, meaning that though Jordan was dead, Sophia lived on, slipping into a macaw and then into a red blood.
History: Pistis Sophia is the elder of elders- "a soul born with its eyes open". She was supposed to sound alarm if the Dark Prince returned... She discovered the Croatan betrayal in Rome as Julia Livilla (Lucifer's cycle sister).


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Jun 2013 - Solaris > Chapters 1-7
message 1: by Karena (new)
Please keep the discussion to these chapters. There will be spoilers so reader beware!
message 2: by Gail (new)
Is anyone else having trouble breathing while they read this book??
message 3: by Matthew (new)
There was definitely a sense of claustrophobia, where the station had only 3 people, and they were all on top of each other, and they all wanted their privacy, but they were also all one another had in the world.
That part was very well done. Where I had trouble suspending my belief was where the author goes one step further and implies that no one off the station would believe them, and they won't even believe each other -- using the story of the giant baby from the Minor Apocrypha as evidence that people will find them crazy. Does this futuristic space station that can analyze neutrinos lack cameras?
I was very satisfied when the claustrophobia was at a "10". The places where he cranks it to "11", (including that first conversation with Snaut) turned me off a little.
Matthew wrote: "There was definitely a sense of claustrophobia, where the station had only 3 people, and they were all on top of each other, and they all wanted their privacy, but they were also all one another ha..."
" Where I had trouble suspending my belief was where the author goes one step further and implies that no one off the station would believe them, and they won't even believe each other."
I agree. Since this is an advanced, futuristic society, there has to be some way to document what is happening on the station. Unfortunately, I think this is a symptom of the fact by today's standards, the book is dated. The author could not even imagine the technological abilities that we have today, let alone the distant future.
message 5: by Nadja (last edited Jun 04, 2013 03:46AM) (new)
I'm at about chapter 4 (I'm reading on my kindle so I didn't want to go back to the TOC and count) but yeah, I definitely got a very claustrophobic sense. I find it very effective because normally when one thinks of outer space there's a lot more space. I'm really confused by this guests (visitors, depending on translation) thing, and who this woman is.
Anyone else feel like Lem's messing with time as well? Kelvin makes a big deal out of "only an hour" and "only half an hour" (and not wanting to be late but then being 15 minutes late) but then this time pressure stops while he gives almost a history lecture or academic paper. Until that point I had felt very "in the moment" I think, almost like things were being described as or shortly after happening. But at that point it was like getting whipped away, and realizing really it must all be retrospect (in some way or another), or else just really messing with my head in terms of timing, because I don't think that sort of in depth research is 30 minutes' product.
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This book is soooooo CREEPY!!!! I love it so far!
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Tome wrote: "This book is soooooo CREEPY!!!! I love it so far!"
welcome back, Tome!
message 8: by Christine (new)
A very strange book, I love it! It is interesting how guarded everyone is. It is as if they are more concerned about hiding their past than finding truth. I also was intrigued that Harey is so blank. Is this how Kris remembers the relationship or is this copy all that the ocean is able to produce? Perhaps Harey is blank on purpose?
I keep thinking of those new 3-D printers that can produce something, but it can't actually do details. I see the ocean operating that way; it looks like something, but is lacking the essence of that thing, eg: that garden that was a rough approximation.
message 10: by Anil (new)
I'm on page 80 at the moment. After having read Snow's suggestion that we are not capable of admitting our limits, I think the Ocean serves as our conscious or superego. It is like a mirror that shows us reality that we deliberately distort so as not to be upset with ourselves. I might be reading too much into it, though.
message 11: by Reija (new)
I like 3d printing idea! those creatures reminds me something, movie or book, how they have created our memories and then they are not so multidimensionals as real humans.
Really like this book so far.
message 12: by Jeane, Book-tator (new)
It's kind of interesting that this book is such a product of it's time, they write letters on paper and slip them under the door, probably b/c when Lem wrote the book email was even a fathomable thing to him! There are other things too like phones, and print books. Although I guess they had skype :)
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One part of the book that stood out to me so far is the changing way Kris thinks about his 'visitor.' Sometimes he seems convinced that the visitor is not really Rheya – like when he tries to get rid of her in the spacecraft, and when he thinks he has come to peace with her presence, saying he is "no longer afraid of anything" and that his mind is "empty and at rest" (page 88 in my copy).
However, a few pages later he seems much more alarmed by the whole situation. For instance, he describes holding the visitor's graceful, trembling shoulders, and how he knows the visitor isn't deceiving him because she really thinks she's Rheya. And he says that seeing her two dresses filled him with a horror that was worse than anything he had felt up to then. It must be disorienting to Kris how he goes back and forth between seeming to love the visitor and seeming to observe her much more objectively.
It reminds me a little of Frankenstein too, with its questions of personal identity and what exactly it is to be human and alive.
message 14: by Beth (new)
I agree with Laura that this is creepy. I am enjoying it a lot. Just got to the discovery of the garden and the baby. Conjures up disturbing images. I heard it has been made into a movie 3 times and never came close to doing the book justice. I saw the George Clooney one but hadn't read the book yet. I don't think it followed the story from what I remember.
The tension and fear a palpable. Dated and implausible at times?....maybe....but intelligently, effectively written making it feel more real for me.
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Well, I, apparently, am hooked! I think that is the fastest I have read in a while. I am trying to figure out the ocean's motive behind the "guests" right now. A part of me feels like it is just what it does. Like a reaction to an action. The action...people being there. The reaction is forming things from their existence. Does that make sense?
My other thought is that it is malicious in some way. It mentions that this started happening after the radiation stuff they did... But that wouldn't explain Berton's experiences. So many questions.
I wonder if they could do the book any justice now with a movie. Update some of the technological items in the book. Plus with all of the special effects we have now, it could be great. But there is so much that would be lost in the movie. It would have to be a really good screenplay writer to capture all the thought processes that would be lost.
It reads like a Twilight Zone or Xfiles episode. I think LalalaLaura made that comment somewhere in a thread and I agree. The more books I read with the group, the more I am glad I joined. This is not a book I would have picked up off a library or bookstore shelf. But between this one and Ender's Game (read last month), I have discovered that I love me some scifi!!! Good stuff!
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Brittney's legacy lives on in organ donation
Aug 15th, 2015 · by Craig Anderson · Comments:
Kidney transplant recipient Natalie Mirage, 12, holds a photo of her hero Brittney "Bruiser" Ford. (Submitted photo/Mirage family)
BOWERS BEACH — Brittney "Bruiser" Ford's death early last December was indeed tragic.
Her passing, however, saved five lives and invigorated dozens more.
She'd be happy about that.
The late 16-year-old Bowers Beach girl told her mother "I want to be a firefighter. I want to save lives" two weeks before she died from injuries suffered in a Dec. 3, 2014, vehicle accident near her home.
Today, her mother Laurie will see living proof that Brittney achieved her goal.
Natalie Mirage, 12, of Oxford, Pennsylvania, who received one of the late Brittney's donated kidneys as a transplant recipient, will attend part of the "Camp Bruiser" youth camp created in the late Bowers Junior Firefighter's honor.
Young Natalie knows just what she'll do upon arriving at the Bowers Volunteer Fire Company.
"I told my mom that I'm going to give her mom a great big hug," Natalie said earlier this week.
Chances are, according to the people who loved her, Brittney will be overjoyed, as well.
"I know she's up in heaven watching me," Natalie said. "She gave me new life."
And the seventh-grader has continued to appreciate Brittney's contribution each and every day. She swims on a competitive team and dreams of one day becoming a dolphin trainer.
The girl who underwent a high risk surgery and faced possibly lethal organ rejection several months ago now requires a monthly checkup at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is progressing as well as could be hoped.
"It's not really that tough now," Natalie said. "I still take pills but eat a lot more than I used to and have a lot more
THE GIFT OF LIFE
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energy."
Yes, Brittney was a lifesaver.
"She's my hero," Natalie said.
Facing the significant possibility of death, four other patients received an organ from Brittney — another kidney transplant, a lung transplant and the donation of a liver that was halved for two recipients.
All a gift of life, courtesy of Brittney.
Also, Brittney's corneas were implanted in two out-of-state males, and Laura said she received a letter noting that they had regained their sight.
The teenage hero's thoracic aorta has benefited 50 people in the midst of life-enhancing dialysis, her mother said.
Laurie, an EMT for Memorial Volunteer Fire Company out of Slaughter Beach Station 89, couldn't be prouder of her daughter and recognizes her significant contribution to lifesaving.
"I can only hope to save as many lives as Brittney has," Laurie said. "She's really set the bar high for me."
Clearly, Brittney is missed in a special way.
"You have this hole in your heart that doesn't go away," her mother said. "You learn to deal with it.
"For me, I've lost quite a few family members and buried my sister a month later.
"You feel extreme sadness, but with Brittney there was also a tremendous amount of happiness she gave me.
"Out of the tragedy of losing Brittney, so many people can live, and two can see."
Decision to donate
From the hospital, once Brittney's death became inevitable, her family decided to donate her organs, and Laurie has no regrets.
"We looked at it as Brittney was going to die regardless of what could be done for her at some point," Laurie said.
"The only thing we could do is take from the situation a miracle that all her organs were able to be donated."
Kidney recipient Natalie had been on kidney dialysis since January 2012. Her Goodpasture Pasture's Syndrome was rare for anyone, especially for a child. Her mother Pat described it as a "middle-age smoking man's disease."
Natalie was afflicted in late 2011, and near death during an emergency situation when her kidneys began shutting down while the family was living in Tennessee.
Rushed to the hospital and then air-evacuated to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, she received nine blood transfusions in what her mother described as "life-saving measures."
The large amount of transfusions made Natalie a tough match for a transplant due to the mixed blood infused into her system. She could only receive an O-type kidney of a donor who does not have the transfused blood's antigens, making only 3 percent of the population eligible to provide a transplant.
Eventually, the Mirage family moved to Pennsylvania to be in close proximity to the children's hospital in Philadelphia.
Natalie had home dialysis for just shy of three years before receiving an overnight call from the hospital regarding a possible match — with Brittney — on Dec. 7.
"We went in immediately and didn't even pack a bag," her mother said. "It was all a blur."
Reach staff writer Craig Anderson at canderson@newszap.com
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The open beta for Meet Your Maker will begin this winter.
Meet Your Maker is a post-apocalyptic first-person building-and-raiding game where every level is designed by players. Switch between roles as you mastermind devious maze-like Outposts filled with traps and guards, then gear up for methodical fast-paced combat raiding other players' creations.
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Additionally, we now know when the game will be released!
Meet Your Maker, which was first announced in August, appears to have finally found a release date.
On April 4, 2023, Behaviour Interactif's new game will be released, the company confirmed at the Game Awards.
This loot-filled building experience will be available to players on PC via Steam, as well as on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series.
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Players can register for the beta today, which will start in Winter 2022, in advance of the release of Meet Your Maker on Steam.
Additionally, the company used the occasion to unveil a fresh trailer for its title.
Recall that in the post-apocalyptic construction and looting game Meet Your Maker, players assume the role of the Guardian, the Chimera's servant.
The last-ditch effort to save life on Earth is the Chimera.
You will be involved in a strategic struggle to capture MatGen, the most sought-after resource on the planet.
A vitally important resource because it is essential to the Chimera's evolution.
To gather and protect the priceless MatGen, you will need to construct amazing labyrinthine outposts, or you can sneak into other players' structures to gather more.
It's up to you to decide which strategy works best for you.
Is Meet Your Maker a good video game?
Meet Your Maker is not a very well known video game at the moment, so we'd rather not get involved. There are hundreds of new games every day and our editors haven't heard enough about Meet Your Maker to offer a full review yet. If the game continues to make itself known in the coming months, we will of course offer a detailed review and a note on whether or not you should play it. But for now, all we can say is that Meet Your Maker is a niche game, try it for yourself and make your own opinion, we hope you will have fun with it!
Can I play Meet Your Maker with my friends?
Yes, you can play Meet Your Maker multiplayer with your friends! So think about it the next time you have a party at home, it can be a great opportunity to have a great time with your friends and family, while determining who is the best at Meet Your Maker!
Is Meet Your Maker available on multiple platforms?
Yes, the game Meet Your Maker is developed to be compatible with PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It's quite handy to be able to play it on several different consoles, thanks to the Behaviour Interactive development studio!
Is Meet Your Maker a recent game?
Yes, Meet Your Maker is not yet released. It will be launched in most regions on Apr 04th 2023. Still 2 months 5 days to wait!
Meet Your Maker will be released on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Is there an official website for Meet Your Maker?
Yes Meet Your Maker has its own official website! You can find it by clicking here.
Is there a forum on the internet to discuss the game Meet Your Maker?
No, according to our information, Meet Your Maker does not yet have a forum or subreddit clearly identified to the community. However, it is possible that you can find one by searching on your favorite search engine, which we invite you to do! You can also look at social networks, indeed many groups exist for example on Facebook to allow communities to exchange between enthusiasts.
Is Meet Your Maker compatible with VR?
No, Meet Your Maker is not currently compatible with virtual reality, but we hope that one day it will be possible to play it with this new technology!
Does the game Meet Your Maker have other names around the world?
No, according to our information, there is no other way to name Meet Your Maker, or it is very marginal.
What are similar games to Meet Your Maker?
Meet Your Maker is a game similar to Breach & Clear, Borderlands 3, Day of Infamy, Survivalist, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, PUBG Mobile, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Remnant: From the Ashes, Desperados III and Partisans 1941, if you liked Meet Your Maker, you will surely love this list of games we just mentioned! You can find our dedicated portals by clicking on the name of the games, and make your own opinion very quickly!
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Silvia Henriquez
All* Above All
An award-winning advocate, a savvy coalition leader and a respected authority in reproductive health and justice, Silvia Henriquez works relentlessly for those without a voice in society.
Silvia is the Co-Director of the All* Above All campaign, a multi-year effort with a public education campaign, a federal agenda, state advocacy efforts, and a cross-movement commitment to building a stronger base in support of abortion coverage. This coalition is comprised of over 100 national, state and regional partner organizations committed to restoring federal funding for abortion.
Prior to assuming the role of full-time Co-Director of All* Above All she was a principal at ConwayStrategic where she worked with numerous clients on a variety of reproductive justice issues.
Previously, Silvia led the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health for 8 years as its executive director. Under her leadership NLIRH developed a national policy agenda, a successful organizing and leadership training model, built state and national reproductive justice coalitions and elevated NLIRH to be the leading organization working to advance the reproductive health and rights of Latinas.
Silvia has worked with a variety of reproductive rights organizations including the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority. She has been the chair of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project board and today is on the board of the General Service Foundation.
Silvia has been the recipient of the Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision award and most recently received the Lani Shaw Award in Pursuit of Courage and Compassion for Reproductive Justice.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs and a Master's degree in Women's Studies from George Washington University. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
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Want to Win on Abortion? Acknowledge the Contributions of Women of Color and Embrace Our Values-Based Approach
Jun 7, 9:01am
A response to the recent Rewire commentary, "Want to Lose on Abortion? Talk About It as an Economic Issue."
Securing Real Choices Means Going Beyond "Choice"
Jan 22, 6:00am Silvia Henriquez
I fervently identified as pro-choice. However, how I define abortion rights is not as simple as being pro-choice. At the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, we are faced with talking about abortion rights within the broader context of women's real lives.
The Other Fight in Health Reform: Immigrants' Access to Medical Coverage
Nov 13, 6:00am Silvia Henriquez
As important as it is, the focus in the media on the abortion ban in the House bill obscures an equally important issue: immigrant access to medical coverage. If this isn't addressed, the final bill will be outdated before the President's ink dries.
Policies to Curb Latina Teen Pregnancies Have Failed
Sep 17, 7:00am Silvia Henriquez
Latina teens give birth at a rate more than twice that of white teens. Many of the policies intended to address this are misguided and have been largely ineffective. We need a dramatically different approach.
Safeguarding Young Latinos: A Common Ground Perspective
Jul 16, 7:00am Silvia Henriquez
Many young Latinos' sexual and reproductive health needs fall outside of the scope of pregnancy prevention. As a result, focusing on teen pregnancy prevention as a main "common ground" strategy is an incomplete framework.
Latina Teen Pregnancy Surveys Should Avoid Blame
Jul 6, 7:00am Silvia Henriquez
Information about Latina teen pregnancy and childbirth should be presented in a way that enables the public to understand the exact dimension and context of the issue.
The Right to an Affordable and Accessible Abortion: An abstract right for Latinas?
Jan 22, 10:37am Silvia Henriquez
Silvia Henriquez is the Executive Director for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.
Thirty-four years ago the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the right to an abortion. While this certainly was a milestone and victory for women in the United States, we also must understand how this decision impacts women from all backgrounds and communities.
The Latina community is incredibly diverse. Many of us are immigrants or our parents were immigrants, while others have been here for generations. We come from many different places: Caribbean Islands, Mexico and more recently from South and Central America. Our cultural diversity, varied immigration status and personal experiences in the United States all contribute to how a Latina will perceive her right to an abortion and her understanding of this right.


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Driven by Culture, Connection and Comunidad
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By Maite Arce
Maite Arce is the founder and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation. She is an environmental movement leader working to connect Hispanic and Latino communities to the political power of Latinx communities. She lives in Purcellville, Virginia and her ancestral origins are of the Cochimi people of Baja peninsula and her Spanish roots. In this guest blog post to mark the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, she shares her motivations and the connections that infuse her passion for nature and community.
When I was a child, I lived in Baja California, Mexico by the ocean and ate fresh foods from the sea. I would walk to play by the ocean and the surrounding natural landscapes. The ocean was so big with sparkling waters, and the sea life was abundant. Moving to an urban, low-income neighborhood in Southern California provided a quite different environment – blacktops, alleyways, and a lack of safe and natural park space to play.
I married a wonderful man, Ted, who was raised in Alaska and shares an appreciation for wild spaces. He and his dad were responsible for hunting and fishing to provide food for his large family – like my own family back in Mexico. This love for the outdoors was passed down to our sons, Luke and Noah.
I am inspired to work in environmental conservation due to my love for the outdoors and by the cultural, historical, economic, and spiritual connections that my community has to the environment that I share with them. I am concerned about the climate impacts that threaten our coastal communities and am currently reading The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities by Mike Tidwell.
Latinos place a high importance on clean air, water, public lands, and want action on climate. Yet Latinos and other communities are more severely impacted by climate impacts like heat, drought, and natural disasters and historically have had unequal access to the benefits of nature. I see the opportunity to help nurture those connections to support greater engagement, connections, and advocacy that leads to improved health in our communities and equitable access to the benefits of nature for everyone.
Hispanic Access Foundation establishes a bridge that provides a path to the development and rise of Latino leaders and elevates their voices in areas where we are underrepresented. We work to build community around issues that are important to the health and well-being of Latinos and other communities. If we are going to achieve ambitious goals like President Biden's 30×30 goal, improved health and educational outcomes, and representation in STEM fields, it is only through creativity, collaboration, and shared leadership that we will achieve it. The ripple effects that Hispanic Access and many other organizations are part of creating we hope will lead to an equitable society.
We can aim to build a culture of community, collaboration and creativity with our peers, but we cannot do this work alone. Please help us by participating in a way that is true to you. Be a part of our initiatives like Our Heritage, Our Planet Film Week during Hispanic Heritage Month and Latino Advocacy Week in March. Follow Latino/a/x leaders on social media including @LatinoOutdoors and support their voices. Keep up with HAF on social media, sign up for our monthly newsletter and press releases to learn more about how you can engage with us. HAF's Conservation Toolkit is a great resource. Volunteer with Latino Outdoors, Outdoor Afro and other community partners to support them as they provide high-quality experiences for the community outdoors. Meet with your local elected officials and introduce yourself to learn what they are doing to integrate equity and justice into environmental policies.
But above all else: go outside, stay engaged, and advocate!
For more information about Maite, follow her on Twitter @maitearcedc.
To learn more about Hispanic Access Foundation, visit hispanicaccess.org and follow on Twitter @HispanicAccess.


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The news that Sports Direct has bought Schroders' 11% stake in fashion chain French Connection has raised eyebrows in the city.
Sports Direct owner, Mike Ashley has made forays into other businesses in the past, building up stakes in Debenhams and JD Sports for example. But this new investment represents a move to the higher end of the high street. French Connection reacted positively to the news by stating that it sees the investment 'as a vote of confidence in the true potential of the company'.
However, French Connection is a brand in trouble. It is a long way from its heyday when the eponymous FCUK t-shirts propelled its value to a high point of around £500m. Now, the brand is blighted by financial losses and a stale image.
YouGov BrandIndex data reflects the struggles the brand has had over the past few years and how it has been losing out to other high street retailers.
We track over 35 high street fashion retailers. Among all respondents, French Connection is bottom when it comes to whether a brand provides good value for money. It ranks far higher when it comes to quality (in sixth), but French Connection clearly has an issue.
One of the main problems is that since its heyday, competitors have emerged that better reflect the needs of consumers, not just in-store but online. Comparing French Connection to two other fashion brands – H&M and Zara – illustrates the problem it has. Among those aged 18-34, Zara is ranked better when it comes to value (+5 vs. -10), but also when it comes to quality (+25 vs. +24). And although French Connection is rated as better quality than H&M (as you would expect), it loses out significantly on the value front.
Looking specifically at whether 18-34 year-olds would consider purchasing something from different high street clothing brands, once again French Connection currently finds itself in the lower end of the list, with a score of +4. This compares unfavourably with H&M (+30) and Zara (+15).
Therefore the question is why Mike Ashley has bought a sizable stake. French Connection needs rejuvenation and to re-establish a clear identity that appeals to consumers.
Indeed, it seems the brand may have been a victim of its former success, unable to reposition itself after its once dominant FCUK line became dated. The good news is that it still has a reputation for quality but a key challenge is to make people think the brands clothes are worth shelling out for. Given much of Mike Ashley's success to date has been at the lower end of the high street, it will be interesting to see what happens next.
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Q: Why didn't Dumbledore destroy books on Horcruxes? If there was another Dark Lord in making, he would have found out the mentions of Horcruxes. Then he would have tried to find the books and of course may have tried the summoning charm Hermione used. Being that easy, did Dumbledore apply any protective charms so that it can only be summoned by people he chose. If not, wouldn't have that been a highly dangerous step?

A: A few reasons that spring to mind:

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*Horcuxes are a very rare branch of magic. You sure you want to destroy that knowledge?
The information in those books could be used by somebody trying to create horcruxes… but also by somebody trying to understand them. I'm sure Dumbledore has used those books to learn about horcruxes, and find out how he might destroy Voldemort's (which he's guessing might exist). If he destroys the books, that information is lost. You might regret that later.

*There's no guarantee that a future dark wizard would learn about horcruxes.
There have been many dark magicians through history, but only two (Herpo the Foul and Voldemort) are known to have made a horcrux. They're such a rare branch of magic that many will never have heard of them.
Even with Voldemort, only a handful of people knew he was using horcruxes – Slughorn, Harry, Ron, Hermione and perhaps Neville. They're unlikely to talk about it much:

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*Slughorn doesn't want to admit his role

*Harry and the trio know how dangerous they are

*Neville doesn't actually know that these are horcruxes or involve soul fragments, just that Nagini needs to die

As such, the potential risk of somebody knowing to seek out these books for information is small.

*Destroying these books may not be so easy.
We know that books can get defensive (fancy destroying the Monster Book of Monsters?). These books contain very rare and dangerous dark magic – it would be folly to assume there weren't some defences placed by their authors.
It's probably within Dumbledore's capability to destroy them, but he has better things to spend his time on.

A: I believe the main reason is that Dumbledore is like many of us, and believes that destroying books is intrinsically a bad thing, especially for old books that would be hard to replace.  Closing the books away from the library is a temporary decision that can be reversed any time, but destroying the books would be permanent damage.  He's not the only one who thinks like that.  A very similar example is in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, in which a character does not want others to read a certain old book, but also does not destroy it.
A secondary reason may be that the books aren't his personal property, but the property of the Hogwarts library, so he does not have the right to destroy them.
(Update)  The third reason is that the Dark Lord's Horcruxes were still around and had to be destroyed.  Those books may contain important information on what protections the Horcruxes may have and how they can be destroyed.


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Riverside Municipal Court
Riverside – they will fix your ticket!
2950 N.W. Vivon Rd.
Riverside, MO 64150
Riverside Municipal Court Website
Riverside generally holds court on Wednesday evenings at Riverside Municipal Court. Court begins at 7:00 p.m.
Speeding Ticket Information
The Riverside Prosecutor is friendly and will amend speeding tickets. The fines vary from $200 to $300 depending on your speed and whether you were in a construction zone. Most times, you will not have to appear in Court.
General Riverside Information
In 2001, the city of Riverside celebrated its 50th anniversary. Incorporated June 21, 1951, Riverside is formally one of the area's youngest communities. Although a growing industrial park, riverboat casino and high school swell Riverside's daytime population to nearly 10,000, Riverside residents actually number closer to 3,000.
Early Riverside played a key role in some of the metropolitan area's most unusual history. Until the 1930s, Riverside was a main stop on one of the nation's longest electric train routes, the 79-mile Interurban ran from North Kansas City to St. Joseph.
Riverside takes its name from several "river side" businesses, including the Riverside Park, a genteel horse race venue that was built and operated by Kansas City's infamous Tom Pendergast. Ironically, betting and tax problems contributed to the end of "Boss Tom's" career.


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Rangers Take Two From the Lobos in Wheatland
Daniele Webb, Townsquare Media
It was a successful 2020 debut for the Laramie Rangers on Monday, as they swept a doubleheader at the Wheatland Lobos.
Laramie won the opening game, 13-3, and took the nightcap, 8-3.
Rangers' manager Aaron Lozano told his team after the first game, it's time to look forward.
"It's already a better start than last year, which means we can finally stop talking about last year. We can focus on this year's team. This is who we are now, right? Now that that's all in the past, two wins is a great way to start."
In the first game, Laramie had 12 hits, including five doubles. Calvin Webb went 3-5 with two doubles and three RBI's. Ryan Chamberlain and Tyler Oppie added a pair of hits apiece. Caleb Eaton, Darek Squires, and Brandon Chavez pitched for the Rangers. Eaton started and went three innings. He picked up the win.
Lozano was pleasantly surprised by their offensive output in the first game.
"I'll tell you why. Not because these guys aren't capable or because they don't have the ability to hit the ball, but we had seen a little bit of live pitching on Sunday in practice and that was it. For these guys, this was essentially it. This was their first time out there. I challenged them to be aggressive, and they answered that challenge."
Diego Medina tied the game, at 1-1, with an RBI-sacrifice fly in the second inning. Laramie took the lead with three runs in the third. An error led to one run, while Calvin Webb and Jake Vigen had RBI-doubles. The Rangers scored three more in the fourth on RBI-hits from Eaton, Chamberlain, and Webb. They added two runs in the fifth inning and capped it with four in the seventh.
Game two was more about the pitching of Oppie and Chamberlain. They combined for 14 strikeouts on the mound.
Lozano felt they kept Wheatland off balance.
"They really did. The thing that I liked to see out of Tyler and Ryan is they did get in a couple of tough spots, and they worked their way out of them. They kept their pitched counts low, and they rose up to those challenges."
The Lobos had a 2-1 lead after the first inning. Eaton tied it with a solo home run to deep left-center in the second. A delayed steal of home by Webb plated the go-ahead run in the third. Laramie tacked on five in the fourth inning. The Rangers had RBI-hits from Webb, Billy Jenkin, and Hunter Lundahl.
Eaton led the offensive attack with three hits. Webb and Jenkin added two apiece.
Wheatland (0-4) was held to four hits in each game of the twin bill.
Lozano added, "(There's) definitely a lot of things we can work on and build on in practice and put into action on Friday night.
Laramie heads to Douglas for their next games. The doubleheader at Nada Field in Douglas starts at 5 p.m. on Friday.
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What cars does Richard Hammond own?
He's apparently already sold his Tesla
Alessandro Renesis posted in Hammond's Workshop
It's fair to say that Richard Hammond doesn't have the world's best luck when it comes to cars. Especially so when it comes to Morgans. And Rimacs.
Back in the mid 2000s, during the golden age of Top Gear, our very own Richard Hammond bought a Morgan Aeromax… and crashed it. Many, many years later – last year in fact – he purchased a Morgan Plus Six, which we (as in, Drivetribe users) helped him spec, but that was destroyed in a flood. Doy.
Having sung a requiem for Hammond's Morgans, I thought it'd be interesting to put together a list of cars Richard actually still owns. Here's a list – and remember to check out his upcoming discovery+ series, Richard Hammond's Workshop. It's Hammond, but fixing old cars. What could possibly go wrong?
1962 Jaguar E-Type
Man buys car | DriveTribe
Even though man who owns car isn't selling it. or so he thinks…
James May is perpetually trying to buy Hammond's Jaaaaaaag E-Type but he hasn't succeeded [yet], which means Richard is still the proud owner of a light blue Jaguar E-Type, arguably one of the most sought-after classic cars ever.
The story of James May's devious plot to own Hammond's E-Type | DriveTribe
It's a scheme 1 year in the making...
Richard reportedly treated himself to his E-Type back in 2009, to celebrate his 38th[+2] birthday. He apparently paid £50,000 for it. It sounds like a good deal, considering an equivalent E-Type will probably cost you eleventy trillion billion in today's market.
1968 Ford Mustang GT 390
Richard has owned his classic Mustang since… forever. He must've mentioned it a million times, even on old Top Gear.
His V8-powered (the 6.4-litre one) Ford Mustang (in Highland Green) also made an appearance on Drivetribe's YouTube channel during one of Britain's [numerous] lockdowns, when he test drove it… in his yard.
I'll be honest, I wasn't going to talk about Oliver because everyone in the known universe knows Richard owns a 1963 Opel Kadett nicknamed 'Oliver' that he originally acquired for a TG special in Botswana.
Then I changed my mind and decided to talk about it for one simple reason: this is probably the only car he's never going to sell. Oliver is like a pet. He won't get rid of it.
1950s Land Rover Series I
This is yet another vehicle that Hammond has owned since the dawn of time. In a recent Drivetribe video, he says he's owned it for "20 years" but I think it's more than that.
It's in terrible condition, as Hammond himself put it: "you can see how it 'flourished' under my stewardship."
It's a beautiful Army Green Land Rover Series I - and when I say 'beautiful', I mean decrepit - with a wheels made of iron and a beige [and sagging] soft top. Gorgeous.
Jaguar XK120 and XK150
Well, yes, technically that's two cars, not one, but I reckon I might as well include both in this 2-for-1 meal deal because both are Jags, both come straight from the 50s (sort of) and both were featured on Drivetribe's YouTube channel. And both are being restored as part of Hammond's project.
The XK120 (first launched in 1948) and the XK150 (1957) are two beautiful drophead coupes that are guaranteed to cause a headache if you're actually trying to restore them but they're worth it because they're handsome.
Let's just say that both require attention and progress has been rather slow. Hopefully Hammond's restoration business – The Smallest Cog – will help. Stay tuned for his upcoming series, Richard Hammond's Workshop, to see what else he gets his hands on…
What is your favourite car from Richard Hammond's car collection?
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Andrew Owen
I've realized that you can, to some degree, tell how old someone is based on what they mean by "old Top Gear." I'm not quite old enough to think of it as the regional program hosted by Angela Rippon (let's call that v1.0). I think of it as the one where Tiff Needell reviewed the McLaren F1 (v1.1). What you refer to as "old Top Gear" I think of as v2.1 (v2.0 would be series 1 without James May). The current version would be v3.2, with v3.1 being Matt, Chris and Rory, and v3.0 being the Chris Evans version.
Now we have that cleared up, let's rank them:
1. Clarkson / May / Hammond (v2.1)
2. Matt / Chris / Rory (v3.1)
3. Clarkson / Dawe / Hammond (v2.0)
4. Tiff et. al. (v1.1)
5. Rippon (v1.0)
6. Evans (v3.0)
7. Flintoff / Harris / McGuinnes (v3.1)*
*I stopped watching when they dropped Rory
Troy Hartley
I haven't watched iterations 3,4 & 5 but I definitely agree with your first two. I thought Matt, Chris and Rory really started to hit their straps and Rory really developed into a great reviewer and not just a 'Yoof'. I always enjoyed Tiff's...
Rory is doing YouTube videos for Autotrader UK now. I think they're pretty good. www.autotrader.co.uk/content/features/video-buying-a-used-ev
And of course Tiff often shows up in videos on the DriveTribe YouTube channel.
Joonas Summanen
I don't think Hammond's never gonna get rid of Oliver. I think he would probably want to be buried in it.
Timotty Neo
The Smallest Cog! Doing classic car restorations!
www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/pot9rj/richard_hammonds_new_businesstv_show_smallest_cog/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Robert Percy
I hope he never, ever gets rid of Oliver.
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La "Divisione Valtoce" è stata una formazione , comandata inizialmente da Alfredo Di Dio, il cui comando era a Ornavasso.

Storia
Eugenio Cefis e Alfredo Di Dio, si ritrovano a fine giugno del 1944, per fare il punto della situazione delle forze partigiane in campo, la quale risulta essere la seguente:
500 uomini della brigata Alfredo Di Dio, apolitica,
350 uomini comandati da Bruno Rutto, in val Strona,
200 uomini circa sulla riva sinistra del fiume Toce, comandati da Dionigi Superti.
da aggiungere a questi gli uomini della 2ª divisione Garibaldi tra la Valsesia e l'Ossola, passata al comando di Aldo Aniasi.
Le opere di difesa sono scarse e il rastrellamento che dall'inizio del mese aveva interessato la zona aveva ridotto e sbandato molti resistenti.

Da questa constatazione nasce la volontà di costituirsi in Divisione, la quale viene denominata "Valtoce", per tentare l'occupazione dell'intera valle dalla Svizzera ad Ornavasso, anche per seguire quelle che erano state le direttive del CLN.  La divisione contribuì in modo sostanziale alla liberazione del territorio e assieme alla "Divisione Valdossola" comandata da Dionigi Superti, Alfredo Di Dio, riuscirà a firmare a Domodossola la resa delle forze nemiche; da qui nascerà l'esperienza della Repubblica partigiana dell'Ossola.

Gli attacchi successivi delle forze nazifasciste obbligano ad una ritirata nella quale perde la vita Alfredo Di Dio, in una imboscata a Finero.

Nella primavera del 1945, la divisione Valtoce era composta da circa 1200 uomini e partecipò alla liberazione, il 24 aprile di Stresa, il 25 di Meina e dal 26 al 28 la resa delle SS a Milano.

Il 6 maggio, assieme a  tutte le altre forze dell'Ossola, sfila per le vie di Milano.

Persone legate alla Divisione
Eugenio Cefis
Antonio Di Dio
Alfredo Di Dio
Aristide Marchetti
Oscar Ambrosini
Paolo Stefanoni
Elsa Oliva
Ugo Maspero
Renato Boeri
Carlo Caldi
Guido Tilche

Onorificenze

Antonio Di Dio
Alfredo Di Dio

Note

Bibliografia
Vincenzo Beltrami, La Valle dello Strona nella bufera, Alberti libraio editore, 2003, ISBN 978-88-7245-122-9

Collegamenti esterni
 - visto 16 febbraio 2009
Itinerari senza frontiere - scheda - visto 16 febbraio 2009

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2) Reading Excel files from C#
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Attorneys Behind Irion Attack Ad Decline Interview Request
Monday, April 28, 2014 Monday, April 28, 2014
"TREW" TO FORM?
by Sharon Rondeau
(Apr. 28, 2014) — On Monday morning, The Post & Email contacted the law office of Biddle, Trew & Parr in Athens, TN, to request an interview with either Atty. Biddle or Atty. Trew, the authors of an advertisement in The Daily Post-Athenian urging voters not to cast their vote for Atty. Van Irion, who is running for criminal court judge in the Tenth Judicial District of Tennessee.
The primary contest for the position, which began on Friday and ends on May 6, is between Irion and Deputy District Attorney Sandra Donaghy. A local observer told The Post & Email last week that he has seen many signs, particularly large signs on business storefronts, for Irion as opposed to a smaller number of lawn signs for Donaghy throughout the district, which includes the four counties of McMinn, Monroe, Bradley and Polk.
Systemic corruption within the criminal and civil courts in Tennessee has been found and reported by The Post & Email over more than four years, with a concentration on the Tenth Judicial District, where grand juries have become tools which are used against the people they are supposedly serving in a Fifth Amendment capacity.
Corruption includes hand-picked jurors and grand jury foremen; ethics violations on the part of prosecutors; convictions issued without law enforcement performing its due diligence to provide proper evidence; cronyism, police brutality, forged signatures on charging documents; different versions of the same court transcript; threatening and intimidation on the part of judges; and issuing indictments leading to arrests without any evidence.
A reader of the The Post & Email recently related that when he called the office of a state legislator, the staffer admitted that they are aware that judicial corruption is a problem but advised him to contact the head of the District Attorneys General Conference. However, District Attorneys General and their deputies within the four-county region have also been found to skirt the law, abuse government vehicles and funds, commit perjury and even allegedly assault a co-worker.
In their paid advertisement, Biddle and Trew took Irion to task for suggesting that corruption is a problem within the Tenth District.
Irion is running on a platform of defending the U.S. Constitution and providing a check on possible unconstitutional legislation or situations. Donaghy is running on her experience as a private attorney; deputy district attorney in both the Tenth and Seventh Judicial Districts; her work as a public defender and her trial record.
In the same edition of the publication on Friday, ads were also published on behalf of Irion's and Donaghy's respective campaigns.
The advertisement submitted from Biddle and Trew bore a resemblance to Donaghy's in that it used bullet points which outlined many of the same "reasons" why they believed that citizens should instead vote for "either of the other candidates." Judge Amy Reedy is the incumbent and will face the winner of the Republican primary.
Over the weekend, The Post & Email contacted Reedy and Donaghy through their respective campaign websites, raising the issue of the composition of the grand jury as stipulated by state law and the way in which it is actually done in the district.
Irion has argued that the Monroe County grand jury was operating illegally when it indicted CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) in December 2011, as the foreman was serving in a second consecutive term. TCA 22-2-314 states that a period of 24 months must ensue between terms of jury service.
On Sunday evening, Reedy responded to our initial query. We then recontacted her with additional questions and are awaiting a reply if she chooses to provide one. We have not received any response from Donaghy.
The receptionist at Biddle, Trew & Parr was very courteous as we told her that we were calling to request an interview regarding the column Biddle & Trew had authored and published in the newspaper. We provided our full contact information, including the website url. She then thanked us for our interest and stated that someone would return our call.
Approximately 45 minutes later, the same woman called and stated that "They said that they are not interested in doing interviews at this time."
Both Reedy and Donaghy have operated within the corrupt Tennessee Criminal Court system for decades. Both allegedly seek to "improve" the system.
Biddle and Trew concluded their column with "These other candidates have the experience and also share similar core values as the silent great majority of citizens in McMinn County and our surrounding Counties."
To which "core values" do the attorneys refer?
While Biddle, Trew and Donaghy attacked Irion personally and professionally in their advertisements, Irion's ad detailed his experience, including appearances on Fox News as a constitutional analyst, and intentions if elected.
Tagged: Amy Reedy, Biddle Trew & Parr, CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III (Ret.), criminal court judge, Fifth Amendment, judicial corruption, jury-rigging, Sandra Donaghy, Tennessee, Tenth Judicial District, Van Irion


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