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Pope has got to be the cutest looking doctor in the lakorn world, haah.
He shows up in episode 2 of GRGR as the love interest of Chompoo Pae (Nang Fah/Fahlada's sister.) He's supportive, capable, patient and oh so handsome. I haven't really noticed him in other lakorns but gee whiz he is a cutie here.
I've enjoyed episode 2 but just wanted to share our new resident Dr.Handsome!
I get curious about Pope and Mint couple.
Pope is still as cute as ever, even when his character is more mature than in Tawan Deurd. Speaking of scrubs and doctors and nurses, I find it exasperating that I haven't seen a lakorn where female doc/nurses are actually in scrubs and walkable shoes. I believe Mor Nam in 4HJHKK wore heels at the dr. I know it's just lakorn but my reaction was still: pfft.
Did you hear there will only be 6 island episodes? I was hoping for more but just because I love love love their perfect romance with nothing keeping them apart! But to be realistic, I suppose we'll be needing more action soon if this is going to get anywhere. T-T I can hardly stand the city t-sers already.
Lol at Dr's with heels. It's hard to take her seriously when she's operating in manolo's! Me thinks she should don her scrubs with crocks and then rock manolo's outside of the hospital. I'm trying to recall lakorn female dr's and can only come up with Dr. Nam.. Hm, I'll have to do some more research.
6 epi's for island scene, that means we still have 4 more- yay! I'm looking forward to the city scenes as well lol, those t-sers are really something huh? Don't forget to watch the special that should have aired with ep2..
@Raiya, I'm still not sure why they decided to omit the baby that Saichon and Nangfah have while on the island lol but they're still filming so we can keep on hoping.
@Fia, I love and hate those city t-sers/specials 555, like, I can't help watching them because they're so…"awe-full" and intense, and yet all the conflicts make me just want to fastforward! which I will NOT do, so don't worry.


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Exclusive: Chris Hedges on Bill C-51 and the corporate state
by H.G. Watson March 15, 2015 October 5, 2021
Journalist Chris Hedges was to speak at Toronto's protest against C-51. Weather delayed his flight, but rabble.ca caught up with him for an exclusive interview.
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This weekend, protests were held in communities across Canada to protest Bill C-51, a bill that would increase powers for CSIS.
Journalist and author Chris Hedges has spent much of his career working as a foreign correspondent in war zones across the globe, and has written extensively on the surveillance state and world conflict. The journalist and writer was scheduled to speak at the Toronto protest on Saturday. His plane was forced to land in Windsor due to heavy fog and so he was unable to attend the Toronto protest.
rabble.ca's H.G. Watson was able to catch up with him by phone on Saturday to find out why he was travelling to Canada to join the Day of Action Against Bill C-51. This interview has been edited and condensed.
LISTEN: TO HEAR THIS INTERVIEW CLICK HERE.
Why did you want to travel all the way to Toronto to be a part of the protests against Bill C-51?
Chris Hedges: I've been fighting you know the [erosion] of civil liberties in the United States for a long time. I sued president Obama over section 1021 of the National Defence Authorization Act, which permits the U.S. military overturning over 150 years of law to carry out domestic policing on American city streets, to seize American citizens who "substantially support" the Taliban, Al Qaeda or something called associated forces — another kind of nebulous phrase — strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
I was also part of the lawsuit that worked its way up to the Supreme Court on warrantless wire-tapping. I covered the Stasi state in East Germany, I spent 20 years in some of the most despotic regimes around the globe as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and I think because of that, understand that this is not the kind of power that you ever want to give to a government.
We can't talk about free citizens in the state where everyone has all of their electronic forms of communication not only monitored, but stored in perpetuity in government computers. It doesn't matter if they're not using it. History has shown that if the government feels threatened or they seek greater control — and I think that is the trajectory of the corporate state — they will use it. The goal of wholesale surveillance, and something that Hannah Arendt wrote about in The Origins of Totalitarianism, is not to discover crimes but to give information to the government that it can use if it decides to arrest a certain category of the population. I think this is extremely grave.
What I find disturbing is that although the revelations of Edward Snowden are known, we're not reacting. We don't understand the danger that's in front of it, when you talk about a population that is watched and tracked 24 hours a day. The relationship between a population that is monitored on that level and knows that [the government watches] them is a relationship between masters and slaves — you can't even use the word liberty anymore and we're already at that point.
I want to go back to the point you mentioned, that we're not reacting. Why do you think that is?
People are politically passive because they have kind of given up on the system. That's certainly true — more true — in the United States where Congress has a nine per cent approval rating. Only 38 per cent of the population even bothers to cast a ballot anymore. I think the other thing is that they don't quite understand how incredibly dangerous handing any government this kind of power is.
So I think it's those two factors, coupled with the fact [that] our mass radical movements — more so again in the United States, but Canada is not immune to this — have been largely broken. Labour unions are under assault, and I find that frightening.
That's why I was willing to fly up here because if we don't react in a sustained way then we will see cemented into place one of the most frightening dystopias in human history — something that dwarfs anything ever dreamed of by the communist Stasi state in East Germany.
In terms of this particular bill, do you think that this fits into a wider trend of similar legislation in the western world?
Of course it fits into a wider trend — not only into the western world but in Canada. Canadians are monitored as closely as U.S. citizens are as closely as British citizens or any other. This is a global phenomenon and the corporate state — and Harper is representative of the corporate power and the corporate state — seeks this kind of control because they know what is coming with climate change and the inevitable financial collapse that is looming now that global speculators are back on a spree as they were before 2008. With a flick of a switch essentially we have both the legal and physical mechanisms through the creation of massive security forces — militarized police forces — to in essence declare a militarized state both in Canada and the United States. Or should we have another catastrophic act of domestic terrorism anything like that, all the mechanisms are there… we have to fight it now.
So do you think that this bill will actually will do anything towards its stated goal of combatting terrorism?
None of these bills are about terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse. That's what 9/11 was and that's what this gunman who carried out this attack on Parliament Hill — they seize on that the same way, for instance, the Nazi party seized on the Reichstag fire to strip away civil liberties in Germany. What people forget is that the next day, after the Nazis essentially eviscerated all civil liberties for the German population, everything appeared normal. Everyone went to work; came home; had dinner. They had ceded to themselves this kind of power in the name of fighting terrorism.
But for most people there's a kind of normalcy and they don't quite yet understand what a sea change this has been, and how dramatic this change is, and of course how terrifying it is. Totalitarian systems, they creep forward because they have to break any kind of obstacles or opposition that lie in their path. By the time people grasp what has happened to them, its kind of too late. There are no mechanisms left by which they can fight back. That's kind of where we're headed; that's what is going on.
In what ways can we combat this kind of surveillance?
Well I've spent a lot of time with Julian Assange, who believes in encryption up to a point. Even Assange says finally the best encryptors — and he is one of them — will finally not be able to keep channels of privacy open. So he's kind of optimistic in the short term but not in the long term.
I don't encrypt. Rather than trying to build a parallel encryption mechanism I think what we have to do is carry out sustained and long term acts of civil disobedience in order to try and force the state to back down. I think that's the only hope we have left. I think that we have to build radical mass movements and radical alternatives. Political parties I don't trust. I see with the Democrats, they will, under the bush administration, decry the assault on civil liberties, but Obama's assault on civil liberties has been far more egregious than that carried out by Bush. I don't think the traditional political establishment has any intention — I can't speak for Canada, I'm not Canadian, but that is certainly true in the United States that neither the Republican nor the Democrats have any intention of rolling any of this back
You've written a little bit about radicalization and how it really stems from alienation from society. Do you think Bill C-51 that can contribute to radicalization in Canada?
Of course it does because what you do is you target a certain segment of the population and Muslims have already been targeted in the United States and Canada for harassment and abuse and discrimination even though they haven't done anything. This breeds a kind of rage, especially among the young who feel caught between two cultures already and then feel alienated from two cultures. This feeds into exactly the propaganda that jihadists hand out, which is why you have roughly 20,000 foreign fighters with ISIS, 3,000 or 4,000 of them from Europe and Canada.
What would you propose as a way of them making sure people don't feel like they are alienated or isolated?
Don't take away their rights. Don't take away their right to privacy; don't take away their right to dissent.
Don't take away — you know, a functioning democracy is a mechanism by which reform: incremental and peaceful reform can be carried out. When you [shut down] that mechanism you inevitably radicalize, especially your disenfranchised.
You know, if we don't win this fight, then we are going to cement into place a species of corporate totalitarianism which will usher in a dystopia of terrifying proportions.
H.G. Watson is a multimedia journalist currently based in Toronto. She was rabble.ca's labour intern for 2013-14, and now works at Daily Xtra.
Tagged: C-51, canada, Chris Hedges, CSIS, federal government, politics, privacy, terrorism, U.S.
H.G. Watson
H.G. Watson is a multimedia journalist currently based in Waterloo, Ontario. After a brief foray into studying law, she decided that she preferred filing stories to editors than factums to the court.... More by H.G. Watson

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Polis, Dems offering major drilling legislation
Counties and cities will have the power to set the buffer zones for natural-gas wells under a broad proposal that Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic leaders in the Legislature are preparing to introduce.
The measure also would shake-up the nine-member Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission by replacing two seats currently held by industry representatives with one for an environmental advocate and one representing public health issues.
Polis was joined by House Speaker KC Becker, D-Boulder, and Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, also from Boulder, in announcing the legislation Thursday. The measure hasn't been introduced yet, so it doesn't have a bill number.
"In a state as diverse as ours, as diverse culturally and politically and geographically, there's not a one-size-fits all approach in how we integrate oil and gas development," Polis told reporters at the state Capitol.
Gas development was a major issue in the November election between Polis and Republican challenger Walker Stapleton. There was also Proposition 112, an unsuccessful ballot measure that would have mandated a 2,500-foot setback between gas wells and homes, schools, and open water.
The current buffer is 500 feet from homes and 1,000 feet from schools.
Giving local governments authority to control setbacks and other surface features of drilling would be a dramatic change for the oil industry, which has successfully blocked in state courts past efforts by cities to do that.
"This legislation will give local governments that authority," Becker said in a telephone press conference Thursday.
Industry spokesmen had little to say Thursday, noting the actual legislation has not been introduced for review.


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Greg Dull Covers
I think that today's cover is an interesting one and to be honest that I didn't realise was a cover if I'm honest, although the title was familiar. Deep Hit Of Morning Sun was the opening on Primal Scream's 2002 album Evil Heat, not an album that I have listened to that often. In it's original form it is a trippy. psychy track with pretty rubbish lyrics. Dulli's version in his Gutter Twins guise with Mark Lanegan gives it the more straightforward rock treatment which I think works better but it is not outstanding or essential by any means. It was released as part of the Adorata digital only ep which consists of 7 covers and one original. The pick of the bunch is the Lanegan sung version of Duchess, penned by Scott Walker.
The Gutter Twins - Deep Hit Of Morning Sun
The Gutter Twins - Duchess
This song was in my head yesterday all day. If you excuse the pun it always brightens up my day. For a song that if the story is true was a result of such a tragic event, it is quite remarkable how upbeat it is. It is said that Bobby Hebb wrote the song after his brother was stabbed to death, the day after the assassination of JFK as a way of remembering better times.
Sunny has been covered numerous times by the great and the truly appalling. My favourite version was the Marvin Gaye one unearthed from the Motown vaults by Richard Searling at the turn of the millennium which I have posted a couple of times. So today you're getting Marva Whitney and James Brown's rather fine jazzy stab at it. I had never heard this before I bought the It's My Thing remastered double album which is well worth seeking out.
Marva Whitney/James Brown - Sunny
Monday's Long Song
Up here summer feels as if it has been and gone as I type this it is poring with rain and incredibly windy for July, it is the second week of the Glasgow Fair so we don't really expect glorious sunshine but still.
Last week when I was contemplating filing the newly acquired Complete Matrix Tapes vinyl boxset, a thing of beauty both visually and aurally by the way, the shiny silver box housing I See You, the third album by the XX caught my eye and I thought to myself "haven't heard much from them recently and I can't actually remember that album at all, must play it again" and then duly forgot it again until last Thursday night when I contemplated doing a moon themed It's Friday . . . Let's Dance but couldn't decide between Acen's Trip To The Moon or the Orb's Supernova At The End of The Universe so in the end didn't bother my arse but did think about the great video for Gosh and decided to listen to some Jamie xx tunes and remixes.
So today's track comes out of that listening session, In 2015 Young Turk's released a white label 12" of two excellent John Talabot remixes of Loud Places one of the best tracks from Jamie xx's solo album, In Colour. The Higher Dub, the b-side was the one that I flogged to death for months but this mix, the Without Me dub is actually pretty special too.
Jamie xx - Loud Places (John Talabot's Without Me dub)
With all the buzz around the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing, this song has been running around my head.
In some of my least lucid moments I have been known to be a bit sceptical about whether we walked on the moon or not but after educating myself and also looking at some of the conspiracy theory guff I am quite annoyed at myself.
God, I miss Allo Darlin'.
Allo Darlin' - Neil Armstrong
Greg Dulli Covers
This track was another that Dulli gave away from his website about 4 or 5 years ago. A Crime was originally recorded by Sharon Van Etten and appeared on Brooklyn based singer/songwriter's 2010 album Epic. Dulli slows the pace down slightly turns the folky acoustic ballad into a smouldering tune full of regret and longing.
Greg Dulli - A Crime
Bloody hell that was a quick two weeks, some clichés unfortunately happen to be true, especially the one about holidays being the fastest two weeks of the year.
As well as supervising the younger son's exploits on his bodyboard (no need for the elder who decided to spend two weeks in the caravan re-watching the Wire, a step up from last year's viewing, old episodes of Coronation Street on YouTube), I managed to read a few books and can thoroughly recommend David Ross's Welcome To The Heady Heights. One of the other two was "In Search of The Lost Chord - 1967 and the Hippie Idea, as the title suggests the book was all about the year that was the high water mark for the 60s counterculture movement. As you would expect there was quite a bit of emphasis on the music of the time, including of course the Grateful Dead.
I have to be honest I am not a Dead Head and never really got into them the same way as I did with other bands from the late 60s. I did own a couple of albums when I was a young teenager. The first thing I bought was Shakedown Street, if I'm honest, I bought for the cover which was by Gilbert Shelton responsible for the Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat. It was pish, to my 14 year old brain this had nothing to do with psychedelia or what I expected. I also bought a copy of the first album which failed to bowl me over either and I ended my investigations there, deciding that LSd was obviously needed to get this guff.
Fast forward twenty five years and I'm sitting at a table in a hotel in Bothwell after the end of a couple of friends wedding and another of the guests is waxing lyrical about "the Dead" and of course I had to stick my neb in, "hippy pish at is noodling, self indulgent worst" was my constructive input. But Jim gave a vigorous, impassioned defence of Garcia, Weir, Pigpen etc" So much so that a couple of weeks later I followed up on his recommendation to buy Live/Dead as this is about the best representation of what the Grateful Dead were all about in the early days and listen to it especially Dark Star. And you know what, I rather liked it. The lyrics are embarrassing nonsense but the music is pretty good and I have listened to Dark Star in particular pretty often since, the tune would be a hell of a lot better in my opinion if it was an instrumental.
I have never felt the need to investigate further but I have gone back and listened to Shakedown Street and it's not half bad too.
The Grateful Dead - Dark Star


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The Vox Custom Series AC15 amplifier is now available with two 12 inch Celestion G12M Greenback Speakers. This new AC15C2 'TWIN' (as it was affectionately referred to in the 60's) enhances the full, 'chimey' sound of the traditional AC15C1 and also features the larger spring reverb tank found in the AC30C2.
Based on the classic AC15, the AC15C2 'TWIN' is part of the VOX Custom Series line. These amps have been updated to include dual channel sound, tremolo circuitry and footswitching capabilities. True to its past, the AC15C2 'TWIN' relies on 3 x 12AX7 dual triode vacuum tubes in the pre-amp stage and 2 x EL84 pentode tubes in the power stage.
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I read an article with my mom about brain injuries and degenerative disease in military personnel and athletes in the NY Times. Dr. Lee E. Goldstein of Boston University's School of Medicine and Dr. Ann McKee, co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University published a study in the Journal Science Translational Medicine in May of 2012.
C.T.E is only found by autopsy and cannot be cured. Servicemen and women were thought to have a psychological illness or a brain injury when they came back from combat and their doctors and family members were not even sure what was going wrong. The family may have seen a big change in their loved ones' personality. Maybe their doctors or therapist or wife or husband thought the changes were stress related or that he/she was having a hard time adjusting to life at home. Athletes also have a hard time adjusting after retirement and their personality can go through changes too. Football players have head injuries from concussions. Boxers have repeated hits to the head.
Concussions are a huge factor in CTE and all of the behavioral changes that come with it. Dr. Maryse Lassonde of the University of Montreal and is the neuropsychologist for the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens is the senior author of the study and Dr. McKee performed the biopsy on Mr. McHale.
My bottom line is, if someone you know has served and is acting erratic, do not turn your back on him/her or shun him/her. In the NY Times and other newspapers and magazines there are more and more articles letting us know that suicides in the military are rising. I will talk about this in other blogs. If someone's personality has changed, if they have become depressed or aggressive, or their memory is decreased, take them to see a psychologist, psychiatrist, regular medical doctor, or neurologist and do not doubt them.
About sports related head injuries, there really is no sport that does not involve injuries. I always wear a helmet when I ride my bike, use my scooter or go horseback riding. People should enjoy the sports they play, but take the precautions that are given.


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Never Too Late by Sloan Johnson Blog Tour
My life ended six years ago. No, really. I was dead on the side of the road following a gruesome motorcycle accident. From what I've been told, it's only because of one stubborn man that I have another chance to make something of my life. I no longer hate him for screwing up what I thought I wanted. I want to thank him. NEED to tell him what his actions mean to me.
Now, I'm headed back to the town I've never set foot in even though it's a huge part of my life. I'm not thrilled about that, but the job offers haven't exactly been flowing in. They'll probably think I'm crazy, because there's no way I won't be able to look at every guy I walk past, wondering if he's the one who saved me.
My entire life, I wanted to save lives. I'd earned a full-ride scholarship and had been accepted to med schools across the country. I was so close to making those dreams a reality until the night I held a dying man in my arms. I've never been able to get the images of his lifeless body, caked in mud, out of my head. Even when the paramedics tried to take over saving him, I couldn't let go. I never let go. Eventually, my guilt over not doing more cost me everything but my son. And now, I worry I'll lose him if I don't get it together.
I've often thought that if I could find him, maybe I could get some closure and finally get my life back on track. Now he's here and I'm more of a mess than ever. Once the truth comes out, will he keep trying to save me or will he realize that it's too late?
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Veronica – ☆☆☆
This is a story that is more about telling us about what is happening in the characters' lives rather than telling us about the characters themselves. As a result, I didn't feel an emotional connection to what I was reading. But the story was interesting enough to keep me turning the pages.
I enjoyed seeing Michael's struggles as a single parent and watching him deal with his growing feelings for Dax. Dax himself felt a little too perfect and like he only existed to further Michael's story. He got swallowed up.
Never Too Late was enjoyable, but I felt like something was missing.
Mary Jo – ☆☆☆
While I enjoyed this book, I felt as though something was missing. We had points of views from both Dax and Michael, but it still felt as though I was missing an important part of the story.
I loved the way the author very artfully wrote Michael, a single father, who, until he met Dax, never had feelings for another man, much less acted on them. Dax's insights into Michael's persona were authentic and true and their feelings for each other very real.
The drama with the maternal grandparents seemed a bit forced, but overall an enjoyable read.
Erica – ☆☆☆
I'm a sucker for a book with a little kid in it. My next favorite trope in the MM genre is gay-for-you. So with those two plot devices, Erica was a happy girl. As the cherry on top of the sundae, slow-burn romance instead of insta-love/lust.
Never Too Late was written in a steady pace with an easy to read writing style. Dual-narrated first person, there was no head-hopping due to the fact that each chapter was sub-headed by the narrator, and they never shared a chapter.
In the beginning I loved Dax's point of view. New to town, his impression of the town itself and its inhabitants was amusing (I'm from a small town), especially the first 3 impressions Michael made on him. Now, Michael on the other hand, he was a bit too defeatist for my tastes. Even after reading in his voice what his angsty reasons were, they still didn't jive with the level of self-deprecation the man was feeling. He could be downright nasty, especially to Dax who had no need to help and was only doing so out of the goodness of his own heart. Meanwhile, Dax, the man who had lived life on the edge, he had some reasons to be that way, and it was refreshing to see he wasn't.
Never Too Late was Michael's story, even if Dax narrated a little less than half. Michael's family, Michael's town, Michael's child, and Michael's issues. I would have liked a bit more of a balance, because like a lot of wives in life, they lose their personality when they become their husband's helpmate. Dax was neither a wife, nor a woman, and everyone, regardless of gender, should retain the core of who they are, no matter who they are coupled with.
Jagger, Michael's little rascal was an extra-special addition to the storyline. Michael was a loving dad, but one who had his hands tied behind his back (see my defeatist attitude comment above). As a Kindergarten teacher, Dax was a natural.
Overall, I was thoroughly entertained. Now, you're probably asking why I didn't 5 star Never Too Late, aren't you?
Around the 50 - 60% range, I could feel the story winding down, but knew there was most of the book left. But by then I was getting disinterested and anxious because I knew DRAMA was about to show up in town and infect the easy, enjoyable story I was gobbling up. I was right, and the drama felt forced and took the comfort read feel away from the story, driving it toward frustrating and drawn-out.
There were a few instances with timeline issues that had me clicking back a chapter or two, confused. 'Dates' were happening on specific days of the week, with plans made on specific nights. Yet the lack of communication between the pair was written as if it was a week or so, when on the timeline, it couldn't have been more than 12-24 hours, or specific events would have been passed by. I mean, next Saturday is always the NEXT Saturday, not two or three from then. Yet those dates and dinners were still in their assigned days in the same week, but it was written as if a long time had passed. Basically, I was thinking this, "Wait a minute. Didn't that happen on a Thursday, and today must be Friday. So how did days go past without communication when they had to have parted this morning. Especially when Saturday's date with the fam happened in the next scene? School day are only on weekdays."
I received an ARC, so I don't know if this was edited in the final publication, and it didn't affect my rating whatsoever. But there were several instances when the narration was mixed up. The chapter would be Dax or Michael, yet they were calling themselves in the third-person during dialogue/monologue as if the other narrator was speaking, and I had to click back to check out who was the narrator during that particular chapter. It was only for a sentence within a paragraph, but it was jarring. Basically, the author had the wrong name in the passage, confusing the reader.
Over all, I enjoyed the heck out of Never Too Late, confusing issues aside. I believe MM romance readers will adore Dax, Michael, and the naughty Jagger. I would most definitely read more by this author.
Shannan – ☆☆☆☆
Dax never wanted to come back to this town, but the job offer he received for his first teaching job was something he couldn't pass up. Coming back brought up all the memories of his old life. The life he had before the accident, an accident that was life changing.
Michael thought he had it all together, at least he was trying to get it all together. He was on the right path, going to school, working and trying to make it work with his wife, but life changed when he caused an accident on a back country road. After his wife dies unexpectedly, he's suddenly a single father fumbling through life, until he meets Dax. Dax is the first person he's let get close to him, he's pushed everyone else away.
Dax and Michael fall into a fast friendship. Dax helps with Jagger and points out when Michael needs to just be there for his son. Dax is instantly attracted to Michael but knows his feeling won't be reciprocated, Michael's straight. Or is he?
I enjoyed Never Too Late. It's a sweet read. Is it realistic that a straight widower would fall for the boy next door? I have no idea. It's fiction and I got lost in the world that Johnson created and that is enough for me. Michael was lost and fumbling through, Dax was enough to keep him grounded and it works. I look forward to more in this series.
Lee'Anne – ☆☆☆
This was an okay story but at times it was a bit unbelievable.
Michael is the father of young Jagger who is always running off. Dax is the new guy in town who seems to be the one always finding Jagger off on his own, making him question Michael's ability as a father. Dax just moved to a small town where he's starting his career as a kindergarten teacher. Dax's attraction to Michael is immediate but he knows that nothing can ever happen since Michael is straight. (This is the part I struggled with, I just don't see the entire "small" town being okay with a large gay man teaching Kindergarten and think that the story kind of glossed over that.) After Michael gets in a tough spot with childcare, Dax steps in and offers to keep Jagger, and Dax and Michael's friendship grows. Then Michael realizes he's starting to have feelings for Dax, which he wants to explore.
This was a good read, I found it very interesting. I just felt that the author glossed over a few things that needed to be gone into more. The plotline itself was great though, and I look forward to reading more from this author.
Angie – ☆☆☆
I wanted to love this book but I just couldn't. The blurb drew me in and I was so excited to read this book. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, just wasn't as good as I was hoping. I wanted to see more chemistry and more heat between Dax and Michael, more passion. You could tell they liked each other and there was a spark, but once the spark lit it just fizzled out at times and the sex wasn't very hot either. Things just seemed too easy, I mean Dax thought Michael was a bad dad and then was always watching Jagger. Jagger is a great part of the story and I think he added something. There just wasn't the angst you thought there would be reading the blurb. A lot of it was from Michael's point of view and I think at times we missed some stuff that was going on with Dax. What little drama there was, between Michael and his in-laws, was really nothing and seemed like filler. I didn't hate the book but I didn't love it like I wanted to but if there is a second book I will read it because I am curious about Justin.
Characters: Easy to relate to in certain instances
Sex: Not descriptive
Religious: No
Would I recommend to others: Yes
More than one book in the series: Not sure, but I hope there is a second book about Justin
Genre: M/M Romance
Would I read more by this author: Yes
Angela – ☆☆☆☆
This is the first time the stars have aligned properly, allowing me the chance to read one of Johnson's books when it came up for review. I usually keep my review schedule packed. I'm a book-a-day reader. But in order to keep from spreading myself too thin, I've pulled back a bit on my review schedule so that I had time built in for other book-related activities. Hi, my name is Angela and I am an addict. I'm addicted to books and Never Too Late proved to be an enjoyable way to feed my addiction, while giving me a chance to finally read an author I've had to miss out on repeatedly because of my schedule.
By opening the book with Dax's memories and his return to the so-called scene of the crime, Johnson snagged my attention from the beginning. She finished reeling me in with his rescue of Jagger and stand-off with Michael. I was hooked. Growing up in small town America in the Southern Bible Belt, I had almost no difficulty in understanding the mindset that Michael grew up with and I could relate to his feelings of being suffocated by it. Because of this, I got where he was coming from, feeling overwhelmed as a single parent, feeling as though nothing he ever did was right, and feeling as though EVERYONE in town judged him for his parental deficits. So it made sense that when Dax offered him friendship without the judgements of his supposed past failures, that Michael clung to it like a drowning man, because that's exactly what he was. Watching the men build a friendship over a matter of weeks was heartwarming because while Jagger may have been what brought them together, they both needed someone they could count on to have their back – and if Dax had to keep to himself that he wanted to have more than just Michael's back, then so be it. However, as Dax spent more and more time with Michael and Jagger, it was Michael who found himself questioning his feelings for Dax, especially as he'd never felt an inkling of attraction for another man in his life. Even as Michael comes to terms with how he feels, he is faced with all of the "normal" relationship issues of a single father along with worrying if being in a relationship with another man was something he could do in Marshall, and if it was worth the risk.
When I began reading Never Too Late, I had no idea that it was a gay-for-you romance. I'm still relatively new to the genre, but I enjoyed this theme in the novel quite a bit. I cannot even begin to imagine the inner struggle someone would have to deal with to find themselves attracted to a person of the same sex when they've never had such feelings before. The relationship that forms between Dax and Jagger was heartwarming to watch and vital to the eventual relationship that developed between Michael and Dax. Not surprisingly, the sexy fun times between the men proved to be quite sexy and a lot of fun to read. I enjoyed watching Michael find himself again as he found the love and safety in Dax he didn't realize he was missing. This included him reconnecting with Justin, who proved to be a much better friend (and alcohol beard) to both Michael and Dax than my first impression of him led me to believe he would be. There are several things within the storyline that make Never Too Late a heavy read in places, but Johnson does a nice job of inserting humor into various scenes when I needed it. Although there were a few times over the course of the novel that interactions between Michael and Dax felt more formal than the scene called for, I'm chalking that up to regional differences and a good dose of small town wariness. In the end, Never Too Late was an enjoyable read and I look forward to reading more of Johson's writing.
Sloan Johnson is a big city girl trapped in a country girl's life. While she longs for the hustle and bustle of New York City or Las Vegas, she hasn't yet figured out how to sit on the deck with her morning coffee, watching the deer and wild turkeys in the fields while surrounded by concrete and glass.
When she was three, her parents received their first call from the principal asking them to pick her up from school. Apparently, if you aren't enrolled, you can't attend classes, even in Kindergarten. The next week, she was in preschool and started plotting her first story soon after.
Later in life, her parents needed to do something to help their socially awkward, uncoordinated child come out of her shell and figured there was no better place than a bar on Wednesday nights. It's a good thing they did because this is where she found her love of reading and writing. Who needs socialization when you can sit alone in your bedroom with a good book?
Now, Sloan is a tattooed mom with a mohawk and two kids. She's been kicked out of the PTA in two school districts and is no longer asked to help with fundraisers because she's been known to lose herself with a good book and forget she has somewhere to be.
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Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of Never Too Late (Home in the Heartland #1) by Sloan Johnson to read and review for this tour.
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MIAMI — Slowly but surely, TV advertising has arrived on the internet. But now it needs to start functioning more like TV advertising again.
In this video interview with Beet.TV, one of the leading platforms helping brands deliver ads to over-the-top TV platforms says the potential is huge – but OTT ads are a different beast.
Innovid CTO Tal Chalozin broke out three main factors that are different:
"Right now OTT is a very premium type of a market. There's no fraud, there's no viability. It's 100% brand safe. You can't really multitask, you're on the big screen."
"A lot of success-based KPI, like click-through rate or completion rate does not really apply. You can't really click on your connected TV. The completion rate is so high that it's not the right way."
"Some marketers the last couple of years spent a lot of money in building a DMP, and attribution capabilities and different ways that the marketing organizations or agencies can be smarter. A lot of those things does not really translate in an easy way into the TV world. The TV world is very much of a household delivery vehicle and not an individual messaging vehicle, which means that a lot of technologies that are based on login or based on cookies or device ID do not really translate well into the OTT space."
OTT is rising. At Innovid specifically, the company has seen the proportion of ads it delivers to OTT grow from 5% of the total to 20% of the total.
And the outfit has teamed up with Fox Networks-owned TrueX, the company which helps channels reduce ad load when viewers engage in an ad-based value exchange.
"We've been exploring that in the last couple of months, and we just announced it out of beta about a month ago," Chalozin confirmed. "We've tested it with a lot of different marketers in many verticals across many different shows, and we've seen amazing results.
When you give people the opportunity to step up and use their remote to actually choose, they choose – they engage, they spend the time, and we've seen amazing results and repeated marketers into that environment."
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For T-Mobile, The New Mobile Advertising Is In-Car
A year after it acquired a rideshare advertising network, T-Mobile has hopes it could be used to power ads in autonomous vehicles. In January 2022, T-Mobile acquired Octopus Interactive, the national network of interactive video screens inside Uber and Lyft vehicles. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Cherian Thomas, Head of Marketing & GTM, T-Mobile […]
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Sibling Rivalry Advice: Why Less Can Be More When It Comes To Rivalry
By Michael Bradley
The holidays are here, which means your children will be spending a lot of time together. Cue the squabbling and the sibling rivalry, right? Well, maybe not.
Dealing With Teen Sibling Rivalry
Your Teen recently asked Dr. Michael Bradley—author of When Things Get Crazy With Your Teen: The Why, the How, and What to Do NOW—for his go-to recommendations on how to handle sibling rivalry.
Q: Why does sibling rivalry exist?
Bradley: It is part of nature's plan. Parents view it as a pathology when, in fact, it's a normal developmental process that helps kids learn a heck of a lot. It's actually a valuable thing for kids to go through, in the proper dose and tone. But parents hate it; it tears their hearts to see the two creatures they love go after each other.
Q: What are the kids learning?
Bradley: They're testing. Kids are figuring out how to resolve conflict. They're figuring out sharing, boundaries, and loyalty. Sibling rivalry is a complex process that helps kids deal with rivalry and competition in the outside world.
Q: What about sibling rivalry in teens? Is it different in adolescence?
Bradley: Little kids will say, "You're a poopy head," or "You're stupid," or something like that, and parents will kind of chuckle. But when they hit the teen years and start dropping the F-bomb or saying other terrible things, the parents go on red alert, thinking their kids hate each other. In reality, though, they are just trying to figure out how to live together. It simply sounds much worse in adolescence. It's the same with the parents. Unlike four-year-old language, a teen's words can really hurt you. It can sound and feel like an adult viciously coming at you.
Q: Is sibling rivalry different for boys and girls?
Bradley: Yes. Girls are 12-18 months ahead of boys in adolescent development, and they're better at moving people around socially and emotionally. Boys don't care as much. They may have a big explosion and stomp off and be over it in 20 minutes. Girls can string out conflict for days.
Q: So, what should parents do to solve sibling rivalry?
Bradley: As little as humanly possible. It's tremendously hard, but again this is normal, natural, and important for kids to go through. The more parents step in, the worse it gets. Parents can do more damage when they try to decide guilt without knowing all of the information. Say, you hear an explosion. You weren't there. You don't know who did what to whom. And even if you were there for the explosion, you're still only seeing the end product. Maybe today's "victim" was actually yesterday's villain. You don't know, and that's why you've got to shrug your shoulders and say, "Sorry I wasn't there. You have to work it out."
Q: And then walk away?
Bradley: If you intervene, it's important to go about it in an unbiased way. You can say to your teenager, "Wow, it seems you're really angry at your younger sister or brother. Can you tell me about that?" Then, don't judge. Nod and listen as you would with a friend and say, "Oh, I get it." You are showing support but not taking sides. Parents may feel like this is not doing anything, but you're supporting them. If you launch into the, "How dare you treat your younger sister like that," you are just priming the older child to go after the younger one.
Q: Is there anything else we can do to help?
Bradley: Try to see what else may be going on. If one child is suddenly acting out and you aren't aware of any specific causes, look at the bigger picture. Maybe their brother or sister is athletic and doing well in sports and the other isn't. A solution might be to find ways for that child to have stories and status, too. Some children are more needy, while others are more autonomous. If you have a needier child, give them more attention. Show up at school and ambush the kid with a lunch date. They love that. Working in the background like this can help the rivalry.
One trick that works about half the time is to offer an incentive to the competing sibs to work things out on their own. Offer to pay them for each AM and PM that they get through without a major blowout. Be clear that this is a team challenge, that they will win or lose together, even though only one team member may have "started the fight." This puts the onus upon them to learn to coexist without the parent officiating.
Q: Is it wrong to assume the older child has an unfair advantage?
Bradley: Again, it's a nuanced judgment. The rule of thumb is don't intervene in a judgmental way because you don't know what happens when you aren't there. And, if you defend the younger child against the older child, you're giving the older child more reasons to resent the younger one. So, avoid taking sides. In most situations, the younger child takes her shots in other ways.
Q: Can you give parents some hope? When does the rivalry go away or at least start to subside?
Bradley: The less parents mess with it, the earlier it will go away. Otherwise, it can last well into young adulthood, and you don't want that. In general, the greater the age range between your children, the faster it evaporates. Also, around 16 or 17, a magical truce seems to happen. By this age, your teenager's brain has matured, and she can think at a higher level. At the same time, her life is expanding with her own friends and activities. Suddenly, the fighting stops and parents are wondering, "What happened?" It's like everything else in child raising. When you are in the middle of the storm, it just feels awful and hopeless and forever. But, wait out the storm. It's just a chapter.
Dr. Michael J. Bradley is a nationally recognized expert in adolescence and award-winning author of, most recently, When Things Get Crazy With Your Teen: The Why, the How, and What to Do NOW.


Are you looking to create a membership site, or to add a members-only community to your existing website? Membership websites offer a great opportunity for bloggers and online businesses to monetize their content and to sell digital products. In this blog post, I'm going to share the 10 top tools for creating a membership site.
MemberPress is a WordPress plugin that lets you build WordPress membership wesbites, easily. You can add it easily to your website and instantly set up a membership payment process for your content.
MemberPress works with any WordPress theme – even custom ones. Plus, they also offer the other plugin they created, Affiliate Royale for affiliate programs, with the Business and the Developer plans.
Brilliant Directories is a directory software that you can use without any other plugins. They offer all kinds of directory solutions, such as industry directories, business review sites, classified ad sites, and of course, membership sites, among others.
Brilliant Directories aims to be an all-in-one solution that you can use for all of your directory needs; use it to design your website and populate it with content, as well as to manage all of your members, easily.
You can design your website with your own branding and then add all kinds of different types of content, such as blog posts and articles, coupons, events and classifieds. In terms of monetizing, you can set up recurring payments for your members, and you also have the option to sell and manage banner ad spaces.
Plus, every plan includes premium hosting for your website and email support for any issues or questions that might arise.
Wild Apricot is one of the top options when it comes to membership websites.
You can use it to build a new website, or you can connect Wild Apricot to your existing website if that is the case, and add directories, membership forms, event calendars and so on. And if you have a WordPress website, don't worry as the tool integrates easily with the popular website platform.
Above all though, Wild Apricot is a great membership management software. Easily set up memberships as you wish, set up different payment plans and subscriptions, automate renewals, add members-only content and much more.
You can also use it promote events and gather attendees and registrations; for example, you can automate event reminder emails and other promotional tactics and you can accept payments for event registrations.
Another cool thing is that they also offer apps for iOS and Android devices, so that you can manage your website and its members from your phone, easily.
Kajabi is an all-in-one solution for selling your content online – from online courses to membership sites, there are numerous opportunities for monetizing your knowledge with Kajabi.
Use it to create landing pages for your products and services, membership sites, training portals and all kinds of digital products – and you'll also have access to their extensive library of beautiful templates to choose from.
Accept payments easily, and set up marketing automation to make more upsells, easily. Plus, Kajabi integrates with tools like Zapier, MailChimp and Google Analytics.
We're always discussing WordPress themes, tools and plugins, but what about Squarespace users?
If you're on Squarespace, you can try MemberSpace, a tool for adding a membership business to Squarespace websites.
The way it works is very easy; you choose what pages on your website you want to protect, add the content and then start charging for access to it.
You can create all kinds of different plans, add free trials and charge for recurring or one-time fees. You can also set up drip content, create coupon codes for members and access your member analytics.
Memberful is a membership software that can be connected with all kinds of websites, including ones on WordPress or Squarespace.
Use it start charging for your content, to sell subscriptions, as well as to set up members-only communities. Then, easily manage your members with complete access to their information, send them email newsletters by integrating with your MailChimp or Campaign Monitor account, offer discounts and free trials and much more.
Digital Access Pass is WordPress membership platform that offers complete membership site automation: payment, content delivery and email marketing, all in one tool.
In terms of payment, you can accept members for free, or charge a one-time fee or set up a recurring subscription.
They also allow for different useful automations; for example, you can use their pre-scheduled autoresponders to engage your members.
In terms of your content, DAP offer content dripping, for slowly rolling out all kinds of different types of content, such as .doc and .mp3 files.
The software integrates with different tools and plugins, such as forum plugins for adding a forum to your website and with email marketing tools like MailChimp and GetResponse.
EasyMember Pro is a membership software for creating secure and profitable membership sites. Not only that, but they also offer affiliate management so that you can get your members to help promote your website.
Set up all kinds of different payment methods, including setting up different membership levels, and easily manage your members and offer them coupon codes.
EasyMember Pro will automatically back up your website to your dashboard, so you can rest assured you're not losing anything important. Plus, it integrates with all the popular autoresponders and you can add all kinds of different payment options, such as PayPal, ClickBank and Payza.
WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce solutions for online stores and with the WooCommerce Membership plugin, you can now also create a membership system that connects with your store.
You have multiple options and complete control over how you sell and offer memberships to your visitors and clients, as well as over how you offer your gated content – including dripping content.
You can even hide specific products to non-members, and offer special discounts and offers for existing members. Plus, you can easily manage your memberships and see all the information you need for any one of your members and subscribers.
Zenbership is a free-to-use open source membership CRM platform designed with online businesses in mind.
But even though you can download the software for free, don't underestimate its capabilities – in fact, it has a lot of very useful features for online businesses.
The tool comes equipped with a built-in CRM tool to help you manage your leads and turn more of them into members. Plus, you can automate your email marketing with drip and double opt-in campaigns and integrate with social media to help you promote your service.
The software can also be used for event management; create event pages for online and offline events, set up your pricing if that's the case, track your attendance and even contact the attendees.
As I mentioned earlier, membership sites can be a great way for bloggers and online businesses to monetize their knowledge. And with all of these easy-to-use tools at your disposal, creating a membership site is easier than ever.
Do you have a membership site? If so, what software are you using and what do you think?
From last few days I was thinking about tarting a membership site and landed here today. it is really good to learn.
I was not aware of any of these tools. Thanks for sharing.
Great Post! I run WooCommerce Memberships myself over at woorefugee.com It's a pretty powerful plugin… It's hard to go wrong. You can also use WooCommerce Groups / Subscriptions.


NEWSWEEK Columnist Illegally Calling for Open Rebellion Against the Presidency?
Wikipedia still controlling the narrative that spying against Trump is a false conspiracy theory. Today Barr confirmed that Trump was spied on.
Judicial Watch: NEW Lawsuit against DOJ for Roger Stone Raid Documents–Was CNN Tipped-Off?


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I've actually been holding this one close to the vest since it came to my attention. This makes me, I suppose, a horrible journalist, but a formidable confidante. I'll take that.
NightBEAT, the annual Tour of Champions event put on by Carolina Crown, has been relocated from Charlotte to Winston-Salem at BB&T Field, home stadium of Wake Forest football. As a previous ticket purchaser, I was invited about a month ago to take a brief survey gauging interest and likelihood of attendance in the event that NightBEAT were to make that move. I knew then it was a strong possibility, and sure enough, word came out on Friday that Winston would be the event's 2015 home.
I couldn't be more thrilled.
NightBEAT is typically a nearly two hour trek for me from my home in Greensboro. Not bad, to be sure, but the 45 minutes to Winston is far better. And while it's virtually home for me, it is home for friends of mine - and my usual NightBEAT crew - who work for a high school band there. In fact, there's a good chance they'll be a host site. I've longed for a drum corps show to make it here to the Triad, and now, even if it's a one year engagement, one is coming.
As for Wake Forest, I'm no stranger. Having good friends who are Florida State alumni, I've been there about every other year when the Noles come to town. I've already got my tailgate spot and everything. In fact, with a shorter trip, local friends, and my daughter being four and more up to a longer day, we may indeed return to the lot after a few years' hiatus before this one.
What's more, there's an undercard to the news that could otherwise go overlooked. While NightBEAT will feature the Tour of Champions' usual suspects, this year's event will also include the Madison Scouts. My only - albeit minor - qualm with my closest show being a TOC event has been that it doesn't give me the opportunity to see anyone outside of that group of corps. I'm glad the men of Madison will be making the trek this time around.


The industry standard for creation, edition, and management of PDF files. Two versions are available on this page: standard and professional. Trilingual application (English, French, German).
Acrobat 7.0 should works fine with every newer operating systems up to MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard w/Rosetta.
These Acrobat 7 files have been downloaded from links listed on the original Adobe CS2 "free" download page of 2013. I did not test this version though since I already have Acrobat 9 on my Mac.
To tell you frankly, I expected to get the French language version from these links and to my great surprise I have discovered that I have got instead what seems to be a trilingual application. That needs to be confirmed by someone else just to make sure.
BTW, this page also needs a few screenshots of Acrobat 7 for Mac in action. I have uploaded meanwhile a single screenshot of its Windows counterpart running in WINE to give an idea of the Mac version to the reader. Thanks.


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'Harry Potter' by the Numbers: Audience Grew Older, Series Got Richer
Final box office numbers show "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" ended up with a record $481.5M over the weekend
Daniel Frankel | July 18, 2011 @ 1:28 PM	Last Updated: July 18, 2011 @ 6:07 PM
The Harry Potter franchise aged considerably over its 10-year, eight-film lifespan.
The audience for the two "Deathly Hallows" films — the last one opening over the weekend — were 56 and 55 percent over the age of 25, respectively.
That's quite a bit older than when the franchise debuted in 2002. At that time, 60 percent of the audience for "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was under the age of 15, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.
"Those 10-year-olds going to the first movie, holding the hands of their parents, ended up driving to the last midnight shows," noted Warner distribution chief Dan Fellman. "Along the way, we increased our fanbase."
Indeed, defying the usual physics of aging, the series grew stronger both creatively and at the box office.
Also read: 'Harry Potter's' Done … What Will They Do Now?
If source-book author J.K. Rowling sticks to her pledge to produce no more Potter novels, the Warner's film series ended on a high note this weekend, generating the biggest domestic, foreign and global opening of any film ever.
According to final Monday numbers, finale "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" grossed $481.5 million globally this weekend, an all-time record.
Also, according to official numbers, the film now owns both the domestic premiere record ($169.3 million) and the foreign mark ($312.3 million).
The series owns four of the top 10 best global openings.
In fact, from biggest non-summer opening (set by "Deathly Hallows, Part 1" back in November with $125 million) to best IMAX start ("Deathly Hallows, Part 2" did $15.5 million at 274 big-screen locations, the Potter franchise now owns most of the key movie-premiere benchmarks.
The series seemed to get better over time, not only commercially, but creatively, as well.
In terms of narrative quality, "Deathly Hallows, Part 2's" 97 percent Rotten Tomatoes was a series best, easily outstripping the 80 percent garnered by first installment "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" back in November 2001.
Of course, it's the box office numbers that remain the most staggering, with the series — bolstered by the weekend gross — approaching $6.9 billion over its 10-year theatrical lifespan.
This figure isn't accounting for the massive book sales, as well as the robust DVD and film aftermarket.
With revenue like this, and the series no where near close to jumping the shark, how can Rowling stop at eight seven books?
Certainly, there's immense pressure for her to write more.
"That's up to her — whatever she decides to do is her call," Fellman said Sunday. "Personally, I would love to see it."
Can Harry Potter Power His Way to a Best Picture Nomination?
By Steve Pond | July 18, 2011 @ 3:23 PM
$476M! 'Harry Potter' Shatters Global Box Office Record
By Daniel Frankel | July 17, 2011 @ 9:15 AM


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Ellen DeGeneres returns to talk show after battling Covid-19
Ellen DeGeneres returned to her show for the first time in 2021 with a new episode on Jan. 13, in which the 62-year-old opened up about her recovery from COVID-19. In December, Ellen announced she had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. It took time for DeGeneres to recover and she kept fans updated on her condition while she was in isolation by sharing some messages and videos on social media.
In the new episode of The Ellen Show, she spoke candidly about her experience with COVID-19, saying she didn't know how she picked up the illness because she had worn a mask and washed her hands. After finding out her diagnosis, she went home and kept her distance from her wife, Portia de Rossi, who was also tested for COVID-19. The comedian said, "I started to feel better and I'm very fortunate and very blessed. I know a lot of people are struggling with this illness right now, my heart goes out to all of them, as always."
In the episode, Ellen also spoke with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about the new strain of COVID-19 and what we can possibly expect. They also discussed how COVID-19 cases are rising in Los Angeles, along with the rollout of vaccines.
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We Shot The Moon - The Polar Bear & Cougar EP
February 14, 2008 By The Headless Horseman in Reviews | Comments closed
Artist: We Shot The Moon
Album: The Polar Bear & Cougar EP
Label: The Militia Group
Buy: Amazon MP3
1. Sway Your Head
2. Julie
3. The Water's Edge
4. Ltfp
5. Welcome Home
Jonathan Jones is almost certainly known to all of you, if you are at all like me. At the same time you were spinning Destination:Beautiful, you were probably spinning Composure. If piano-based indie-pop-rock is your thing, you've probably erected a cozy spot in your music collection for Waking Ashland to occupy. If so, you can stop crying now. The break-up of the aforementioned group probably left you heartbroken…at least, those of you who hadn't already received The Well with a slightly more negative reaction than being stood up at the altar. (And there are many such people. I am one of them.) But cheer up, power-pop kid! We Shot The Moon appropriately fill the deep void in your soul and/or your iPod.
But the band's strength is also its weakness: The Polar Bear & Cougar feels like a continuation rather than a progression. While he's become slightly more upbeat, he's writing pretty much the same catchy piano-pop songs he wrote on Composure. Perhaps, however, Jones is simply declining to fix what isn't broken. The songs on Composure were good, so why not write similar songs of similar quality? In any event, fans of either band will probably say that if the songs on The Polar Bear & Cougar are all as good as those on Composure, this shouldn't be a problem.
And most of the songs are that good. "Sway Your Head," which many of you will recognize from Hearts Bleed Passion 3, dares you not to nod and toe-tap along. Nothing is overdone; everything is simultaneously mature and catchy. And "Welcome Home" is a requisite ballad that shows the competition how it's done. If bands feel compelled to write slow, acoustic-y songs, they should write songs like this. Lines like "So I have to believe that this is gonna be my year" and "When the day wakes, I arise and try again" combine the poignant and the optimistic in exactly the right proportions.
But sadly, this five-track EP has its filler as well. "Julie" has some laid-back, thoughtful verses that show promise, but the chorus is dragged down in a morass of plodding post-grunge power chords. Jones's voice and lyrical style just aren't suited for that kind of a song, and it falls flat. And while "The Water's Edge" is pleasant enough in its own right, its non-descript chorus (complete with "Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh") fails to meet the admittedly high standards set by "Sway Your Head" and "Ltfp."
Long story short, if Waking Ashland's break-up bummed you out, and if Mae's ventures into the alt-rock realm make you long for a new Composure, rejoice. We Shot The Moon have just released it. Hopefully, given the new (probably more permanent) lineup, the band can continue to progress and mature. In the meantime, The Polar Bear & Cougar EP definitely has the potential to make you sway your head. And with the EP for download at Amazon MP3 for only $2.77, I'm missing whatever downside there could possibly be in this scenario.
The Headless Horseman
Standout Tracks: "Sway Your Head," "Welcome Home"
RIYL: Waking Ashland, Copeland, Destination:Beautiful, Something Corporate