The Midway Como Monitor and its sister publication, the Longfellow Nokomis Messenger, will be under new ownership beginning May 1, 2019.
Calvin deRuyter and Tim Nelson of deRuyter-Nelson Publications have sold their two well-established neighborhood newspapers to south Minneapolis resident Tesha M. Christensen, who has written for the two newspapers for almost eight years.
Christensen always knew she wanted to be a writer and was drawn to journalism at a young age when she wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the Cambridge Star newspaper.
She earned a degree in English and writing in 1998 from Bethel College, where she wrote for the Clarion, and then entered the community newspaper industry.
Her first job was with the same newspaper that printed her letter to the editor, then renamed The Star newspaper. Christensen worked as the assistant editor and special sections editor of her hometown newspaper for ten years, serving two counties and a circulation of 21,000 with a twice-weekly newspaper.
Over the years, Christensen covered a range of topics in Isanti and Chisago counties, from school board levies to new county parks to crime news. "I wrote about what new businesses were coming to town, local musicians, and rodeo shows, and a story about one resident who saved the life of another," Christensen recalled.
She left the full-time workforce in March 2009 when her first baby was born, but continued writing on a part-time basis for Northstar Media, the Isanti County News, ECM Publishers/Adams Publishing Group, Twin Cities Daily Planet, RedCurrent, and The Alley newspaper in the Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis.
From 2006 to 2012, she worked as an adjunct journalism instructor at Anoka-Ramsey Community College where she taught a variety of journalism classes and was an adviser for the Cambridge Campus newspaper, the Ink Spot. She also taught for one year at Planet Homeschool, a homeschool co-op in St. Anthony, and helped launch a school newspaper written by the middle and high school students.
Christensen has served on a variety of committees and boards over the years and is a co-founder of Team Yarn – Head Huggers (teamyarn.blogspot.com), a small non-profit dedicated to making and donating hats, shawls, and lapghans to those battling cancer and other serious illnesses.
Christensen and longtime staff member Denis Woulfe, along with the writers and photographers who contribute to the paper, are looking forward to what the future holds for the Monitor and Messenger newspapers.
"I think what excites me about this next chapter is working to re-engage the newspapers with the communities that we serve," observed Woulfe, who started as an intern at the Monitor while he attended Hamline University 40 years ago.
Over the years, Woulfe has served in many different roles at the neighborhood newspapers, including the editor, typesetter, managing editor, advertising manager, and more. For the past few years, he's been busy selling ads, and is currently a board member at ALLY People Solutions in the Midway which just merged with Community Involvement Programs (CIP) of Minneapolis. He is also a member of the Alumni Annual Fund Board for Hamline University.
"We dealt with many challenges over the years, but one, in particular, was the discussion over the role of a neighborhood newspaper and the balance between reporting what some readers saw as 'good' news and what others saw as 'bad' news," said Woulfe. There also was a constant dialogue about what role the neighborhood newspaper had, and how it differed from the daily newspapers.
Christensen agrees that it is more important now than ever, and will be recruiting various people from each neighborhood to serve on an advisory board that will share story ideas and tie each story closer into the fabric of the neighborhood.


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 * Images class contains info about interactively loaded images from disk.
 * You can load images while running sketch. press 'l' to load image info currently selected quad.
 * Image file path is automatically saved to json and load next time you restart the sketch
 *
 * @author Bartosh Polonski
 * @version 0.4
 * @since 2016-05-13
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 * @example Hello
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package bare.utils;
import processing.core.*;

public class Image {
	// image object
	public PImage img;

	// path to image file
	public String path;

	// parent object (needed for to get PApplet functions like createImage)
	FreeTransform parent;

	// constructor
	Image(String path, FreeTransform parent_)
	{
		parent = parent_;
		img = parent.myParent.createImage(1, 1, PConstants.RGB);
		this.path = path;
	}

	// load image file into img object
	public void loadImage()
	{
		img = parent.myParent.loadImage(path);
	}

	// loads image path string into path object
	public void loadPath(String path_)
	{
		path = path_;
	}

}

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Mr. Lee is an Executive Director and EIG's Head of Korea. In addition to leading EIG's business in Korea, Mr. Lee supports business development across the greater Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining EIG, Mr. Lee was a senior coverage banker at Standard Chartered Bank, managing the bank's overall relationship with leading private and public companies and originating complex transactions including acquisition and financing of overseas infrastructure assets, structured financing of specialised vessels and rigs as well as direct equity investments. Mr. Lee was formerly Head of Equity-linked Solutions for Standard Chartered and also worked in the investment banking and capital markets divisions of Morgan Stanley and UBS AG in Hong Kong. Prior to his career in finance, Mr. Lee served in the Republic of Korea Air Force as Lieutenant. Mr. Lee, a CFA charterholder, received a B.A. degree in Economics with honors from Williams College and an MBA from Yale University. Mr. Lee is fluent in Korean and conversational in Japanese.


Mellor set for Blackpool return?
Blackpool boss Gary Bowyer has dropped his biggest hint yet that Kelvin Mellor could re-sign for the club.
The defender's contract at Bloomfield Road came to an end at the start of July but the free agent has yet to find a new employer.
Bowyer has kept in touch with the 27-year-old, who made 89 appearances for the Seasiders in his two seasons at the club.
Mellor, who signed for Pool from Plymouth Argyle in 2016, has been linked with moves to Championship sides Wigan Athletic and Blackburn Rovers.
However, nothing has yet transpired despite there being just two weeks until the new Football League season starts.
Bowyer, speaking after Blackpool's 1-0 friendly win at Port Vale on Saturday, says he remains hopeful of seeing Mellor line up in tangerine once again next season.
"We've still not given up with that one," he said. "We're trying to get something over the line, sooner rather than later would be nice.
"I think he would find it frustrating himself (leaving it so late) knowing the lad well, but obviously he's got a person that represents him and they will be trying to get him to the highest possible level they can.
Following Saturday's friendly double-header against Nantwich Town and Port Vale, the Seasiders are now turning their attention to tonight's trip to AFC Fylde.
Bowyer says the game, which will be Pool's first appearance at Mill Farm, is all about progressing the fitness of his players ahead of the League One curtain raiser on August 4.
"It's all about getting the timings again and getting minutes in the legs. The most important thing about it is coming out with a fully fit squad," Bowyer added.
"We'll expect a competitive game against AFC Fylde, for sure, in what is a local derby if you like. We knew about that when we were picking these games.
Jimmy Ryan was missing for Pool's game at Port Vale on Saturday after picking up a knock in last week's behind-closed-doors friendly win against Burnley.
However the midfielder, who took part in fitness work during the warm-up at Vale Park, isn't expected to be out for too long.
"It was just a bang on his knee from Tuesday," Bowyer added.


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Review of Nick Cohen's " What's Left "
i think and it involves music..... phew eh?
"They knew they were being lied to, but if lies were consistent enough they defined themselves as a credible alternative to the truth. Emotion ruled almost everything, and lies were driven by emotions that were familiar and supportive, while the truth came with hard edges that cut and bruised. They prefered lies and mood music...."
what a mind melting film!


Head south from Guildford on the A3 to join the A31. Turn off the A31 (Hog's Back) onto the B3000, heading towards Puttenham / Compton etc. Very shortly, turn right into Puttenham village, (road named The Street - if you get to the Harvester that's too far). Continue forward and take the left (after the church / opposite The Good Intent pub called Suffield Lane) towards Elstead. The entrance to the Top Car Park is on the right, after 1.2 miles. Lots of parking for a change!


By skydiverd, December 5, 2018 in A Little Help!
SO, two weeks ago, RB was my strength....Even able to sit on an injured Kerryon thinking I would never need him, but alas, Hunt got cut while I was in Germany and sleeping, so my opponenet got Ware. Now Connor is out, and Gus Edwards is Questionable. Perfect timing for all of this!
Jaylen Samuels - committee? Really? Come on Tomlin.
So at least I know I can start Chubb this week, against Carolina does not bode well. Which of these other would you roll out as RB2. Standard scoring. Leaning towards Edwards if healthy. Not sure I trust Samuels as I'm hearing committee out of Pitt, but seriously, they've not done that before. What a difference 2 weeks can make, less than 2 weeks actually, really just a few days. Oy!
Chubb for sure. I'm leaning towards Jaylen over Gus myself this week in my main league. I think Jaylen will end up with a solid receiving game and do good on the ground with Ridley maybe getting 10 carries if that. Gus might not get as much carries this week if the Chiefs get a 14+ lead.


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Q: android studio create fragment missing checkbox When I click on new fragment I get this configure component box that has no checkboxes
But what I want is this, with checkboxes
I assume this is a problem with my studio config, but I cannot figure it out. Unless there is something else about fragments I am unaware of?

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I am trying to use quick base to manage web-based documents. The documents are not files, but web pages with content. Is this a good tool for that?
When you say "manage", what specifically are you wanting to manage? The content? Their publication and tasks associated with that?


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Scott Barkley tapped as Ga. Christian Index editor
By The Christian Index, posted May 31, 2018 in
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) — Scott Barkley, associate managing editor of The Christian Index, will be promoted to editor effective June 1, the Georgia Baptist Mission Board's executive director, J. Robert White, has announced.
Barkley, 44, in his 15 years with The Index, has served as production editor, web content editor and associate managing editor. He will assume the role of editor June 1, with current editor J. Gerald Harris serving as senior editor until his retirement Dec. 31.
Harris, 77, who has served as the editor of The Index since 2003, plans to continue his writing and preaching ministry following his retirement from the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.
Barkley, who joined The Index staff in January 2004, was instrumental in the publication's transition from a print edition to an all-digital newsjournal in January 2016.
Barkley is a graduate of Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Ala., where he earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education. At the university's Baptist Campus Ministries, he served as president, community ministries director, worship director and a small group leader.
After serving in summer missions in Colorado and Wyoming, Barkley was engaged as a North American Mission Board US/C-2 missionary for two years in Cheyenne, Wyo.
He and his wife Amy are members of Cartersville First Baptist Church where he has served as a deacon, Bible study leader and children and youth group ministry leader. He is also a former board member for Bartow Family Resources, a pregnancy resource center. Barkley has been involved for years in the mentoring program of the Cartersville City School System and serves as an adviser to the Cartersville High student newspaper, The Chipper.
The Baptist Communicators Association has honored Barkley frequently through the years for his journalism. At the most recent BCA annual meeting, he was recognized three times, including a first place award in editorial/opinion for "Remembering the Jesus Man and His Voice for the Gospel."
The Barkleys have four children, Rylee, Jackson, Bryce and Charlotte, three of them through adoption.
The Christian Index
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Longtime Ala. Baptist editor announces retirement
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Marlinde Wilson: living the lucky lotto. Is she Maryland's anonymous winner?
Mirlande Wilson: living the lucky lotto.
Kids it's time to brace yourself and dream sweet dreams as Maryland's Lotto office will finally present a $106 million check sometime tomorrow to some lucky individual who has decided to finally come out anonymously and claim their winning prize. The $6 million question is will that person be Mirlande Wilson?
So far a winner from Kansas has also claimed their share of the three way split of $656, with the only state missing is Illinois as officials wait for the winner there to turn up with to claim their share to the jack pot. Nevertheless all eyes are on a 37 year old woman by the name of Mirlande Wilson who ever since she uttered the phrase,' I misplaced,' my tickethas deflated most pundits expectations that she was ever a legitimate winner but rather a lucky lotto attention getter.
Of course others are wondering whether Ms Wilson, who with her lawyer, Edward Smith Jr called a press conference last week only to tell journalists at the meeting to effectively get lost are up to something crafty? Prior to having declared that her 'winning' ticket was missing, Ms Wilson had declared her ticket was somewhere carefully hidden away at McDonalds before backtracking to say she hadn't yet checked her jeans come last Friday.
The back and forth behavior hardly pleased her fellow co workers who had pooled in money for a slice of any potential winnings only to be cut out by Ms Wilson who at the beginning of last week had all but insisted the winnings belonged to no one but her and of course Haiti, her mother land where she would return forthwith to rebuild the ravaged territory.
Current theories include the mother of 7 and &7.50 an hour employee of McDonald's (no word whether she has returned to work or even has a position to return to work to?) may have a decoy going in tomorrow to claim the money for a percentage of the money to keep irate co workers off her back. Others on the other hand wonder if Ms Wilson was just living an extended fantasy and in the end couldn't dare release herself from the impossibility and fragility of her own situation (she has 7 children to a number of different number of men with no steady partner)and decided to maintain the illusion that she had somehow one as to somehow to defer the crashing back to reality.


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Another missed birthday party.
August 29, Rifle.
There was a fiesta last night, BBQ and booze, for the birthday of Carlos, who is called Bemba, one of the Mexican tent workers. Still under my 36-hour sleepless challenge's exhaustion, all I could do was climb into bed, but judging from the decibel volume of the shouts and laughter coming from the cookhouse a few feet away it was a good party.
Notes on nursing badly.
Some nights, like tonight, Dylan nurses himself to sleep for so long my arm goes numb under his head. My back starts to hurt, and I'm acutely aware of time passing. Of course I'm in the most uncomfortable of positions, sitting at the edge of the bed with no back or leg support. Afterwards it's as if he'd sucked my very marrow, I feel hollow and exhausted.
I called the midwife center back in Savannah, Georgia, where I had Dylan today asking for advice; there is no doctor I can call for just simple questions while on the road. They told me I could go on nursing him while pregnant, which I was concerned about. They also told me there is a chance that at some point he'll wean himself because the milk will change in preparation for the new baby and he won't like it anymore.
May that be soon, or I might lose more than just weight in the game.
Moving east at last.
[Somehow forgot to post this entry, no doubt due to sleepless nights.]
August 23 Salt Lake City, Utah.
The much feared road trip from San Francisco to Salt Lake City went on without a glitch for us. Thanks to Roy, who agreed to drive Fridman's truck, Fridman came with me, a world of difference when you travel with a nine-month-old. Not only was it a relief to have around, but we took could take turns driving, plowing through the night until and then on and off yesterday. We left Newark at 11 PM on Monday night after the shows and arrived at 5 PM on Tuesday here in Salt Lake.
Dylan slept though the night, waking up at 7:30 PM, his usual time, and from then on we had to stop so that I could nurse him but he was surprisingly good for an active baby, playing, dozing off. The 18-hour-trip was not easy either being pregnant and plagued with an upset stomach demanding food every two hours, like a newborn. We took a break in West Wendoverthe last town in Nevada on the border with Utah, to have lunch in the buffet of a casino, let Dylan make an utter mess on the table.
Lunar vistas of the salt desert spreading flat from the Nevada border. the rocky hills seeming to float above it from the distance. The desert in Nevada surprisingly alive with vegetation, and surprisingly, joyfully green past Elko, with even a spot or two of snow on some peaks, the brush teeming with new baby green sprouts.
The circus left in the morning on Tuesday and drove on to West Wendover, spending the night there and arriving here this morning. Tio Tito blew a tire, but otherwise no major incidents for such a major trip, almost 800 miles. We're out of California, having spent almost four months there, and three in the Bay Area.
Driving through the Salt Lake Desert.
Showers and trucks.
Walking down for a late lunch in Rifle, a few blocks from the fairgrounds, a two-street downtown really but a European-style bistro (good food, refined deco and casual atmosphere,) next to the Western wear shop with cowboy hats in the window and the pawn shop with various machine guns for sale. Up the street there is an apothecary. The Winchester Motel, a small sign hanging under the name: "Showers." This is truck country, big heavy-duty trucks, or rather trucks-that-are-actually-used country.
We're not in California anymore, if not quite Kansas.
This afternoon a boy, ten years old maybe, was riding his horse in the dirt ring around the arena, and he couldn't quite hang on to his hat, a big white cowboy hat. When he rode past the second time around the hat was gone.
To Colorado.
August 27, Rifle, Colorado.
Travel day again, on Sunday, une fois n'est pas coutume, 350 miles from Salt Lake City to Rifle, a small town in southwestern Colorado, up I-70 from Grand Junction.
Dylan oblige, again, I left on Saturday night after the show and drove all night, with Ekaterina accompanying me, for Fridman had not been given the OK to go with me and couldn't drive the circus truck ahead of me either because it pulls the trailer where the tent workers sleep.
So it was driving all night again, only stopping to try and steal a couple of hours of sleep in a gas station off I-70 in southern Utah (no can do, front seats of a Dodge truck not very comfy,) the attendant an old weathered man with a mischievous grin and a friendly manner, then facing a whole day of caring for Dylan, not being able to rest because the circus had left in the morning and was slowly coming in during the day, so the trailer was not parked and the slides not open. Ekaterina went to sleep as soon as we arrived, at 8 AM or so, and I went on to feed and change the baby in the cramped space of the unopened trailer, go for a walk, nurse him, watch him go to sleep only to be instantly awaken by Gramo jumping near him and Yogi crying for food, play some more and finally put him down for a nap, but then I couldn't grab any sleep for the lack of space to lay down, and the sheer exhaustion.
The circus is at the Garfield County Fairgrounds, in a big arena amidst all the trappings of horse country. When we arrived, in the early morning, the air was cool, it felt fresh, pure, smelling of mountain creeks and grass, rejuvenating; it felt good.
The trip was good, too, straight as an arrow down 6 across utah then I-70 into Colorado, an easy drive after the treacherous curves and ups and downs of California, chatting with Ekaterina, plunging through the night, sharing that unspoken bind that seems to tie those who drive when nobody else does, seeing the sun rise on the deserted highway into Colorado, the mesa at Grand Junction grandiose in the red light of the rising sun, beautiful along the Upper Colorado River surrounded by desert cliffs, ochre and sand, wild.
August 26, Salt Lake City.
Seeing an old friend from grad school again, so good to be catching up.
Chasing memories over a brie sandwich - which I did savor, a surprising reprieve from the debilitating, unrelenting stomach ache and nausea (getting worse each passing day.) John used to be a photographer, we met when we were both students in photojournalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, he's now made a cozy niche for himself as an advertising copywriter, just bought a house and got himself a dog. I liked his latest photographs, from a few years back, black-and-whites taken with an old camera, nothing like photojournalism, liberating, something I never could do, unfortunately, no matter how much I wanted.
Update on the new guys on the circus block, Lyubomir Karamitrev, hailing from Bulgaria, married to Andrea Torreblanca, of Venezuela, three-year-old daughter, Svetla, and Andrea's brother, Gino. The brother/sister couple does a rollerskating act, and the three of them together do a globe of death motorcycle act. The Russians know them, have crossed path on the circus road several times with them. They debuted in the second show last night, everybody was out watching them. Still no clue as to whether they are going to stay with us or are just here on a date.
Feeling lost.
it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to be in the circus.
Being a Mom in the circus, being pregnant in the circus, while being a Mom, the constant pressure of traveling, even when it's not such a voyage as the one we just did, the work it entails, the never stopping to rest, not even one day, in all those months, it's not just the baby, who now that he is crawling demands constant attention and confines me in the trailer most of time, making me feel like s prisoner in my own home, it is everything at the same time, and now feeling sick. It is the isolation, too, the friends far away, my support group of the mind and heart, my friends, far away, out of reach most of the time. The smile of Dylan, his laugh, his being, are not enough sometimes, sometimes it is simply too hard to bear, and I feel as if I can't go on, can't summon the strength to go on any further here traveling with the circus.
In and out.
Last week in Newark Corey left the circus after an argument with Roy. He had wanted to leave for a while to go to another circus anyway, with better pay. The argument went on at night in the parking lot, he was gone instantly. The Circus Chimera way.
Here in Salt Lake new performers appeared, a team from Chile and Bulgaria who does a motorcycle globe of death and a skating act.
We first saw them on Tuesday night when we were staying by ourselves at the fairgrounds and they asked us if we were with the circus, we had never seen or heard about them before, we were puzzled, not knowing what to think. There to audition? Staying?
The next day the circus arrived and rumors started to flow. The circus doesn't need other artists in the show at this point, but then again things always are in a flux here, you never know, in and out.
The Russians - Part One: Bérengere (rough draft.)
August 21, Newark, California.
[For details on the family see "The Russians" in the Glossary entry.]
It is a long way from the wine countries of France to the dusty roads of circus life in America. Not so for Bérengere Naidenkine, a native of Bordeaux, in southwest France, and a hula hoop performer married to Genia Naidenkine, Circus Chimera's clown.
Bérengere enjoyed sheltered days growing up as an only child in a relatively well-off family. Then when she was 12 her father sent her to Africa, two weeks without running water, toilets or steady food, out in Pygmy territory (the cost was relatively low for he owned a traveling agency.) "Coming out of my little bourgeois upbringing, it was a shock," she recalled with a smile. He thought she needed to see how the other half of the world lived. She thought she rather liked it, and has not stopped traveling since. "From that moment on I always wanted to travel," she said, "and I wanted to be free."
Bérengere, who is 36, has been a circus performer for a little more than ten years and was goaded into her hula hoop act by a Russian woman performer who told her spitefully she could never do it, no matter how much she tried. Bérengere's act, culminating in a fiery hoop stunt, regularly draws wild applause from the audience at Circus Chimera.
It's the classic story. Go to the circus, meet performer, run away with the circus (and performer.) It's an ageless story; it was Ekaterina's mother's, it was Fridman's mother's (somehow I realize as I write this that it is always the women who join the circus, and I wonder why: are men less adventurous, contrary to what the common fare would have us believe?)
Bérengere is not tall but seems so because of her acutely lean figure, enhanced by her bikers-inspired costume, all black, spikes and leather. She wears her hair short and dyes it a orange-reddish tone, accentuating her boyish appearance. She's garrulous, and doesn't wear her opinions under her sleeve. She'll talk about her passions for hours, her hands fluttering. When she was younger she suffered severe kidney problems, which are still an issue. She and Genia do not have children together; she talks affectionately about Vilen and Sasha, her step-sons, as "the children."
Bérengere met Genia in 1994 while visiting Cirque Amar, one of France's most established circuses, to do some decorative painting. She had been making a living as an artist, having attended art school after giving up the idea of being a wild animal veterinarian - when she wasn't traveling the world with a backpack. At Amar she was to paint the artists' quarters on a theme of Walt Disney.
She did, and then some. Some members of Genia's troupe were blocked at the border in Russia and the director was adamant about having a woman in the show, so she stepped in. Together with Genia and the rest of the troupe she did a jumping rope act that involved a human tower. "I'm afraid of heights - I was scared witless," she laughed. Over the next ten years she and Genia worked in France for Amar then for Cirque Bouglione, another one of France's most famous circuses, then in Ireland, England, and the U.S., where they arrived in 2000. Over the years she's worked a jumping ropes act, a badminton/juggling act with Genia, the Russian bars, also with Genia and two other people, a chiffon act, and the hula hoop, which she originally developed at Bouglione's.
Maybe there were signs. Both her grandfather and her father were fascinated with the circus, and her Dad once wanted to be a lion tamer. "It was the impossible dream," she said. Somehow she fulfilled it, on her own terms. And now it's almost time to move on. "This but a period in my life which is about to end," she reflects. She gives herself until she's 40, and then hopes to start her own business in tourism.
There are the passing friendships, friends who don't stay friends because everybody is on to something else, the sometimes infuriatingly closed-off quality of circus people who, for all their moving about, more often than not remain oblivious to the world around them, locally as well as internationally, moving in a sort of bubble. There are no retirement funds either, no safety net, in the circus. Working in a traveling circus takes its toll on even the toughest, and the financial future of a circus family is less than assured.
Yet "when you are in the ring and hear people applauding you, when you know they appreciated what you're ve done, there is a good feeling, not of pride exactly, but that all this was not for nothing," Bérengere said. Until the next turn in her life appears, then, she'll go on rushing in, spinning, feeling the sting of the fire as it dances around her body, the exhilaration of that moment, the roads wide open before her, still.
A mishap.
August 19, Newark.
Thursday morning while setting up the circus a stake rammed in at the wrong place ruptured a water main in the Newark Mall parking lot. No water for us, til late the next day. As with everything else in a traveling circus life, you learn to cope, and always have a gallon of water in store.
Baby wipes also come in handy.
Sasa - hair hanging act (August 17.)
In the early days - again.
It's the constant sensation of uneasy emptiness in the belly, not quite nauseous, except upon waking up in the morning on a growling stomach, but hollow, a feeling of impending sickness, the constant need to eat but disgust at the idea of food, any food, sweets out for once (and only, unfortunately,) fat banished, the struggle to find something palatable, the impossibility to cook, the mere idea of cooking sickening. Just like the first time. And the smells, the smells, not only the smell of food sickening but any smell, insidious, and unbearable when it's bad, like Dylan's diapers, or the smell of diesels running when we move at night and all the trucks are on. Some days I go to bed with Dylan, at 9:30 PM, exhausted, and sleep til he wakes me up.
I don't want to think about taking care of an infant and a toddler at the same time, not now, not yet.
Flashback to something new.
Here is an entry from last week that I didn't post then because Fridman doesn't want people in the circus to know yet. It suddenly occured to me that I could post it here, since this is the raw, original, unedited version of the blog. It's become increasingly uncomfortable not talking about the subject because it is such a core part of my life now, it feels like having my mouth taped shut when I want to scream.
August 11, Pleasant Hill, California.
I ate half a chicken this morning (braised, delicious even though it never saw the light of day nor had enough space to only move any one of those legs I so enjoyed ripping through.) I'm a vegetarian and I just had to have chicken, had to have some, two days of steady craving, I knew with utter certainty something was in the works because that seems to be what happens when I'm in the first few days of pregnancy.
So now it's not "Travels with Dylan in a circus" anymore but "Travels with Dylan & Company in a circus."
Dusty moods.
August 16, Martinez.
It's warm then it's cold. As my grandmother would have said, there are no seasons anymore in this world, y'a plus d'saisons ma bonne dame.
The circus is near the marina in Martinez, a town half an hour from San Francisco on the northern, inland part of the bay. The lot we're in is durt and with the steady wind going since we arrived everything is covered with a thick layer of dust, brown, penetrating, making you cough when you breathe it. Getting out with the stroller is a challenge, but so is staying in with a never-satisfied baby on the crawl.
Difficult days.
August 14, Martinez, California.
Dylan turns nine months old today.
Is there an off button somewhere?
Crazy show.
In-house tradition commands that every year Circus Chimera puts up what it calls a "crazy show," a unique feat, as far as anybody knows in the circus. This year's edition went on last night, crowning a three-show day of work.
In the crazy show performers and non-performers alike get to mock the show and each other, dressing up and making fools of themselves and everything else, a welcome comic relief to a regimen of seven days a week, ten months a year work. Or a fools' parody of the fools, the jesters making fun of the jesters, the circus eating its tail.
This year, among others, Corey, the only gringo working with the tent crew, and who must weigh a good 200 pounds, took the part of Ekaterina as Alice, tio Tito dressed up as Sasa, the Chinese girl who does the hair hanging act, Fridman and Sasha did the Chinese girls' diablo act, Vilen, Sasha, Vasily and Fridman the Chinese boys' Chinese poles act, and Chago, of Mexico, one of the crew workers and an old-time circus guy, dressed up in a sparkly suit to act as Roy, the ring master (and manager of the show,) swinging in slow motion to blaring cheesy Latino tunes.
It was Fridman who did all the directing, choreographing and organizing this year, the first year the Chimal family wasn't there to take charge. He ran around like a madman before the show, checking a wig here, makeup there, cracking up, running off again.
Corey and Ekaterina before the show.
Show time with Dylan.
August 9, El Cerrito.
Taking pictures of the show last night, Dylan perched behind me, taking off my hat. It was a good crowd.
To my mother.
Listening to the CD of the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park that my mother brought me from home (showing my age) I long for her.
For the wind on a Pacific beach when I was twenty, for the freedom to be, for roughing it up in Scotland with a backpack at sixteen, for the leaves falling in the garden, for the memories of childhood climbing up tall trees, for her indomitable heart, for the wild energy of New York City at nineteen, for the music, for the fierce wanting to live in the world, in exhilaration, for her strength in letting go of me, for the solidity of her instincts, for the travels with Dylan, for the sunsets on the plains of the Midwest, for fresh snow one morning in Columbia, Missouri, for all the photographs in the world, for all the good and all the bad, all the stumbles of trying, failing, never renouncing - to my mother.
Nostalgia.
August 7, El Cerrito, California.
My mother and my friend Fred left yesterday (back to France and their respective lives without Dylan.) It is sad and strange without them.
And the circus moved from Fairfield to El Cerrito, across the bay from San Francisco, with a view of the Golden Gate bridge, soft and grey in the distance, that Fred would have loved. We took advantage of the whole week the circus stayed in Fairfield to go on a car trip back to the Northern California coast, hoping to make it all the way to Oregon but ending instead no farther than Eureka, baby oblige. Route 128 to Fort Bragg through wine country then redwood country, Route One up the coast to highway 101 to Eureka, motels all booked because of a music festival right off Route 101 drawing some 50,000 people, according to a family man we struck up a conversation with at a café in Eureka the morning we drove back; sweet to be in Eureka again, the bookstores, the waiter remembering us at Bev's Café (I would have gone all the way back to Eureka just for their spinach omelette,) people speaking fondly of the circus everywhere we went, "we wish you'll come back and perform here," the lot by the boardwalk where the circus was looking forlorn without it, feeling happy about the footprint we left there.
(Fred tried the ocean again but only put in a foot.)
Moral of the trip: it is not advisable to travel long distances with a (almost) nine-month-old strapped in a car seat who's just beginning to discover the world and wants all of it, and has all the energy for it, now.


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Modi Has Stooped To Low Level Of Politicking: Congress
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Release of funds for disaster relief for drought and cyclone, setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB), stopping Karnataka not to build a dam across the Cauvery were some of the major demands made by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.....
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Volvo Reveals 2019 V60 Early
by Sean Murray
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Volvo's new V60 wagon seems to have been revealed a little early.
The new V60 was supposed to get it's big reveal at the Geneva Motor Show later in March, but a few snapshots recently got leaked via the Bosnian car site AutoMotoSvijet. Volvo must have gotten in touch since the article was quickly taken down, but not before the photos got snagged by Autocar and also posted online, along with some of the upcoming compact SUV's stats.
Visually, the V60 looks similar to the V90 Cross Country, only a little lower and a little shorter, but given the V90's titanic 195.4-inch length being a little shorter doesn't account for much. The V60 is expected to be sold along with the sedan version, the S60, early next year.
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As for what's under the hood, Volvo hasn't officially made any declarations but the smart money is on the same stuff as with the XC60 SUV, since the V60 is expected to be built on Volvo's Scalable Product Architecture. The engine is likely to be either the T5 or T6, depending on trim, which means a 2.0-L turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine with 251 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque on the T5 and 306 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque on the T6.
There's also likely to be a diesel version, which means a D5 2.4-L inline five-cylinder engine with twin turbos producing 217 hp and 310 lb-ft torque. The Plug-in T8 hybrid is also a possibility, with 400 horses between the electric and gas motors and 480 combined lb-ft of torque.
The V60 is expected to start around $39,000 in the States, which puts it up wither other luxury brands like BMW and Mercedes. But Volvo has always been a brand that markets itself on boring reliability, so expect that value to retain for years to come.
It'll also keep you alive, as the V60 is expected to come with the same safety features as the XC60, like whiplash protection system, side impact protection system, roll stability control, dynamic stability and traction control, inflatable curtain airbags, hill descent control, collision warning with brake support, and active bi-xenon lights. The XC60 received the highest safety rating from both the IIHS and Euro NCAP, scoring 95 percent overall with the latter organization.
The new V60 will take its official bow at the Geneva Motor Show next month.
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Walter Bucher may refer to:

 Walter Hermann Bucher (1888–1965), German-American geologist and paleontologist
 Walter Bucher (cyclist) (born 1926), Swiss cyclist

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Commercial Ferntree Gully sees value in auction method
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RAY WHITE Commercial Ferntree Gully Sales and Leasing Executive Mitch Rosam knows all about the auction method and why it succeeds for his vendors.
"With an ever-changing marketplace, it gives my clients the best chance to get a result on the sale of their property through creating competition on auction day," Mr Rosam said.
"By getting all potential buyers in one location and making them compete to buy the property, it gives my vendors the best chance to achieve the highest sale price.
"Auction creates competition by getting interested buyers on site at one time and makes them make a decision about buying the property.
"The average days on the market for auction at the moment is around 30-40 days, while the average days on the market for a private sale is around 100 days.
"The evidence will show that the best results come in the first few weeks of a marketing campaign and not after 10 weeks."
Mr Rosam said that ultimately, it came down to pricing the property in line with what the property was actually worth.
"The biggest thing is marketing the property correctly to make sure you get as much interest as possible throughout the campaign," he said.
"The main difference with auction is it gives buyers the chance to actually see in the flesh that other people want the property, and that realization brings to life that auction is your only shot to secure the asset.
"My best recent auction highlight was the sale of 64-68 Monbulk Road(above) in Belgrave. This property was on the market as a private sale for nine months with other local agents, but once I listed it for auction, we were able to achieve a sale price of $866,000 within five weeks."
Mr Rosam said agents that were not entertaining auction as a method of sale could be missing a trick in achieving a deal quicker than with private treaty.
"I'd say just bite the bullet and give it a crack, because you'll get paid the same if you sell it at auction or via private sale," he said.
"Auction is proving to be a faster method to sell property and for a better price for the vendor, so who wouldn't want to choose a more successful way, given the chance?"
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We are half way through Advent — the season of watching, waiting, longing, and preparing. I've got to tell you — I love the themes of this season. I do better with Advent than Christmas. I struggle with the dark and cold and sometimes damp of this season. And I worry about our friends who live outside.I long for the day when people are housed and employed. I long for the day when everyone can get the help they need with recovery from addiction and treatment for mental health.
These things are on my heart and mind during Advent and Christmas. I struggle with the being "jolly" part and the "ho ho ho!" But the timeless story about a refugee couple looking for shelter in a little town and ending up giving birth in a stable, I love. The part about "the word made flesh" and a "light in the darkness" — feeds my soul and fills me with hope.
So may this season fill you with hope, peace, deep joy, and love. If you need someone to talk with or pray with, give me a call. We need each other. I am thankful for you — my faith community.
Advent is a season of preparing to greet the Christ in the many surprising ways he comes to us. Sometimes we feel interrupted by Jesus coming in some pretty distressing disguises. We see it everyday at the Neighborhood Services Center. A family struggling with homelessness, a senior woman who counts on a daily hot meal to stretch her social security check through the month, a man in a wheel chair with no where to go, a person struggling with addiction and mental illness. Jesus said, "when you have served the least of these, you have served me." We also celebrate small and large miracles — someone getting sober, another finding housing, and another who finds spiritual meaning and God's love. This is a wonderful ministry that we have here at First UMC. Your involvement and support is greatly needed and appreciated.
Last Sunday we received commitment cards from many of you indicating what you intend to give to your church in 2019. Thank you very much for filling these out. We will have these available for the next few Sundays. If you have not filled one out yet, please take the time to prayerfully do so. This will make it possible for your Leadership Council to responsibly plan and budget tor the new year.
While we are on the topic of giving, please keep the church in mind for your Christmas and end of the year gifts. We are hoping to have a strong December in order to end the year in a good position for 2019. It is a joy to be in ministry with you.


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Black History Month Student Spotlight: Landon Richard
February 11, 2022 | by Shelbe Rodriguez
In honor of Black History Month, Lamar University will celebrate with a series of events organized and sponsored by a variety of organizations, departments and clubs that highlight and pay tribute to the achievements of African Americans and important events that contributed to U.S. history.
In addition to university events, LU also chose to celebrate Black excellence by spotlighting several Black LU students and the many reasons why they feel this month is important. Landon Richard, senior human resource management major, shares what Black History Month means to him and which Black historical figure inspires him most.
Why does it feel important to celebrate Black History Month?
It feels important to celebrate Black History Month because it is a reminder of how far the Black community has come and how far we have left to go.
What does Black History Month mean to you?
Black History Month means remembering those who fought and continue to fight for our civil rights. Black History Month also means celebrating the positive impact that Black people have had over the years.
What motivates you to be successful?
Having goals helps me to be successful. Without having a destination or an idea of where you want to be, you will become comfortable with where you currently are. Also, knowing that children are looking up to me motivates me to strive for success.
What Black historical figure is most inspiring to you and why?
As a content creator, I would say that Spike Lee inspires me the most. I admire how he has been able to tell various stories by being a film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and professor.
What do you hope to accomplish during this month of recognition and celebration?
I hope to use my creativity and creative thinking to create visuals that share my experiences as a Black person.
Learn more about how Lamar University is celebrating Black History Month this year, visit lamar.edu/blackhistorymonth.
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The second coming of the referendum
Written by Martin Hall
Nigel Farage at CPAC: photo: Michael Vadon
Calls for a second Brexit referendum, from the unholy confluence of establishment Remain and Farage, must be resisted by all the left, argues Martin Hall
The initial reaction of many commentators to Nigel Farage's announcement yesterday that he was coming around to the idea of a second referendum was bemusement. His reasoning, he said, was that the likes of Andrew Adonis, Nick Clegg and Tony Blair would never accept the result, so the only thing was to put it to the people again, in the belief that Leave would win by a larger majority and the matter would be put to bed 'for a generation'. This news has been greeted with great pleasure by many of the remain-at-all-costs constituency, with Clegg uttering the phrase: 'I agree with Nigel' and Adonis adding 'Bring it on!'
On the other hand, UKIP AM Gareth Bennett has accused Farage of 'effectively joining the Remain camp', which itself has led Farage to row back slightly and say that while he doesn't want one, he is resigned to it happening. This morning he and Chuka Umunna, in a cringing echo of the intellectual paucity of the establishment Remain and far right Leave campaigns, clashed on the Today programme on the subject, as well as on the cancellation of the Trump visit. However, Chuka could hardly conceal his pleasure at the thought of the fight ahead to keep Britain tied to the neoliberal EU.
We now have the sight of supposedly two opposite poles of British politics in agreement. What has brought on this change of heart from Farage? What do the two sides have in common?
A desire to thwart the left, destabilise Corbynism and derail a jobs first Brexit in which the needs of working class people are paramount.
Both sides need to take the conversation away from the NHS crisis, pay, austerity, education – in short, all the areas where Corbyn and the left are making headway. Throughout the last couple of weeks, despite the reality of the manifold problems facing working people (the NHS crisis in particular), the continuity Remain end of the Labour Party has been discussing Brexit, both in (but mostly out) of parliament. This is a very deliberate attempt to centre the news cycle on Brexit, in order to at least keep Britain in the Single Market (though better still Remain, of course) and in so doing, put the genie back in the bottle and return British politics to its pre-Corbyn, pre-Brexit situation.
From the point of view of Farage, he has, of course, not been centre stage recently. UKIP was destroyed at the General Election in June, and overall, the rise of the far right in Britain has been slowed, with the left having a very good 2017. Moreover, the removal of Steve Bannon from Trump's administration and the consequent reduction in far right influence upon Farage's friend in the White House has limited his political opportunities in the USA as well. He is a narcissist, and his vision of a free trade, low tax, low immigration Britain is in serious danger of never coming to pass, due to the weakness of the Tory government, as well as its recent moves to put in place transitional arrangements that maintain the free movement of labour. For his star to rise, he needs a Brexit debate that puts immigration front and centre, and in so doing, stokes up once more the fires of racism that he fanned in 2016.
Of course, the continuity Remain campaign also needs that version of the Brexit debate, as thanks to the liberal press, in particular The Guardian, so much of the campaign then and the subsequent coverage attempted to create a narrative where a vote for Leave was a vote first and foremost to curb immigration, despite the evidence not pointing to that.
It should also be stated firmly that the chances of a second referendum are very slight indeed. Why would the Tories agree to something that would effectively be a vote of confidence in the government?
However, Farage's announcement presents an enormous opportunity for Corbyn and the left. We have a return to two party politics, as seen with the Lib Dems, significantly the only party (in England and Wales at least) committed to keeping Britain in the EU, having such a poor General Election. Corbyn, having made it clear this week that Britain cannot stay in the Single Market after Brexit, can now present Labour as the democratic party of Brexit, in this fashion:
We are doing what the people asked us to do and respecting the referendum result.
You cannot trust Farage and the far right, who obviously do not respect those millions of working class leave voters.
The Tories are no friends of the working class. Look at the NHS. Look at our schools.
With us, for a rise in manufacturing, productivity, local procurement and ethical trade?
Or with the Tories for low tax, privatisation, and the continued destruction of our public services?
From the point of view of the left, there should only be one road open now. With Corbyn and a Brexit for the many?
Or will we see a new confluence in British politics, the Kippermaniac?
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January 4 at #KBtribechat – Why Natural Stone?
In a marketplace crowded with new, often manmade options for kitchen and bathroom surfaces, why do designers and consumers continue to choose natural stone? We know that natural stone is one of the world's oldest building materials, but since designers and architects continue to imagine innovative ways to use this classic material, natural stone is anything but outdated. Natural stone is durable, versatile, unique, and easy to maintain—not to mention environmentally-friendly. When treated properly, natural stone can last a lifetime, taking on different personas within a space. Variations in natural stone's broad range of color, pattern, and texture are interesting and impossible to replicate. The intrinsic properties of natural stone cannot be mimicked, manufactured, or faked. Perhaps a better question would be: why wouldn't you choose natural stone?
MIA+BSI: The Natural Stone Institute is an industry trade association serving over 1900 members in 55 countries who represent every aspect of the natural stone industry. Their new website features stories and photos that seek to educate and inspire visitors to choose natural stone.
Join MIA+BSI at 2pm on January 4th for a discussion on why natural stone is the top choice for kitchen and bathroom applications.
1. What is the most interesting/innovative application you've seen accomplished with natural stone?
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4. Natural stone is classic. How do you combine classic and contemporary elements to create timeless kitchen designs?
5. Natural stone adds elegance to the smallest spaces. What is your favorite way to add natural stone to bathrooms?
6. There are many misconceptions about natural stone. Which have you heard repeated most often (and why aren't they true)?


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Media Coverage of the Verdict in Allison Williams v. Advertising Sex LLC
Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ann Bartow
For background, go here.
From an account at the HuffPo:
… "I struggled every single day to maintain my law school studies, in the face of incredible stress and anxiety," Williams said in a prepared statement. "Still, I refused to allow these pornographers to control my dream to graduate from law school and realize my goals."
Williams originally sued 59 defendants in the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Cayman Islands, Canada and South Africa that allegedly took part in distributing the videos. U.S. District Judge Irene M. Kelley dismissed 28 of those defendants, a decision Williams is appealing.
The nine defendants found liable during a bench trial are Castle Company Property Ltd., The Moles Trust, Russell M. Moles, Gwendoline E. Moles and Guy Blomberg, all of Australia; Vidbidness Inc. and Eric Ridley of California; and Etrax Productions and Ronald Yates of Texas.
They all chose not to participate in the trial nor have attorneys represent them.
Mascari said this has been a grueling experience for Williams, whose online presence is usually the first thing she has to address with people she meets, from potential employers to boyfriends.
The bogus videos also attracted a stalker who sent her thousands of disturbing letters, Mascari said.
"She's been living a nightmare," Mascari said. "This has been a really hard process for her, but she never gave up."
Williams now hopes the first thing that pops up on an Internet search of her name is news about her vindication.
Very similar ABC News account here, and Yahoo news account here.
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Help with contact form and session variable.
I am making a page that uses a login and contact page.
Everything is working fine, but I have a small hiccup at one point.
When the user isn't logged in, the contact form is to be filled completely and will be sent to a particular email.
But when the user is logged in, the page reads from the mysql database to fetch username and email (auto fill in fields of contact form), and sends it to some other email id (other than the one when not logged in).
I am using a session variable 'account' to check whether the user is logged in or not.
else //when $_SESSION['account'] == "1"
The problem is when the user isn't logged in, it sends the mail correctly to test123@gmail.com. But if the user is logged in, it does not send an email to anothertest123@gmail.com, but still shows "success".
P.S. - I am new to PHP, so excuse me, if you find the code a bit lame (to say).


One of the web's greatest hidden evils: rollovers. Rollover flash ads don't fit with the Touch interface.
Basically, Flash is built around the idea of mouse input, and would need to be "rewritten" to work well on touch devices.
If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features."
While I have worked for many PC shops over the years to do their Mac work ... occasionally I'm asked to assist with the influx of PCs that need to be virus cleaned. The main culprits for loading viruses on PCs are Flash and infected Adobe PDFs.
Since I sell my own networking device for Macs - one common question I get is how to speed up the internet. My first suggestion is always to try to avoid sites with Flash ... but if you must visit them ... download a program called Click To Flash.
The advantages of ClickToFlash are numerous. Since Flash isn't loaded until you specifically ask for it, your CPU usage will stay at normal levels when browsing the web. This has tons of benefits: web browsing stays speedy, your Mac laptop won't get as hot, and your Mac's fan won't come on as often. In fact, we guarantee* that ClickToFlash will quintuple your battery life and that it will protect those precious parts of your body on which you rest your laptop!
Best of all, ClickToFlash even supports viewing all those ADORABLE meowing cat videos, annoying dog videos, and hilarious rickrolls from YouTube without using Flash at all! That's because YouTube also offers H.264 videos, which are used when viewing YouTube on the iPhone. With ClickToFlash, you get access to those same, higher quality videos.


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Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata is a psilocybin mushroom in the section Stuntzae, having psilocybin and/or psilocin as main active compounds. It is closely related to P. subaeruginascens from Java, P. septentrionalis from Japan, and P. wayanadensis from India.
This mushroom was first documented by Richard V. Gaines in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in June 2003.
Although it is sometimes confused with Psilocybe caerulipes, it can be distinguished by its rhomboid spores, larger stature, earlier fruiting season and membranous annulus.

Etymology
From the abundant ovoid pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia.

Description
Cap: (1) 1.5 — 5 (8) cm across, convex to subumbonate, chestnut or orangish brown to yellowish brown to pearly cream color, hygrophanous, glabrous, sub-viscid, translucent-striate near the margin, from slightly to highly undulated in maturity. During youth, the cap is usually highly convex and dark brown/black (the stem is white). During maturity, the entire mushroom becomes light-brown (cinnamon-brown when moist and light-beige when dry). Mature specimens often naturally exhibit blue-greenish bruising, and old, dried-out specimens are usually all black. Appearance may vary significantly  among individuals, depending on maturity and location. Flesh thick, pliant. Bruises blue and green where injured.
Gills: adnate attachment and range from whitish to rusty brown, lavender, or dark purple brown.
Spore print: Dark purple brown.
Stipe: (1.5) 3 – 9 (13) cm long by (2) 3 – 15 (20) mm wide, equal, somewhat subbulbous, hollow, base sometimes hypogeous, smooth at the top and often having small hairs near the bottom, colored whitish with irregular yellowish, brownish, or bluish tones. The partial veil is variable, ranging from a thin cortina that leaves a barely perceptible annular zone, to a substantial membrane that leaves a fairly persistent annulus. If a veil remnant is present, it is often found near the middle of the stem (unlike many other Psilocybe species, where it is just under the cap).
Taste: farinaceous
Odor: farinaceous to spicy
Microscopic features: Spores (7–) 8–9 (–12) × ( 5.5 – ) 6 – 7 (–8.5) µm, rhomboid to subrhomboid in face view, subellipsoid in side view, thick-walled, with the wall 0.8 to 1.5 µm thick.  One end of the spore has a broad germ pore and the other side has a short hilar appendage.  Two types of cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia are present.  One type of pleurocystidia measures 16 - 24 x 6 - 8 and is venstricose-rostrate.  The other type is larger, 20 - 40 micrometers by 12 - 16 micrometers, globose-pyriform, sometimes with a narrow apex and narrow base.  The basidia are 4 spored and measure 20 – 28 × 7 – 9 µm.

Habitat and formation

Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata  is mainly native to the eastern United States, in a range that stretches from Kentucky to Rhode Island, but has been found as far south as Mississippi. It is particularly common in the Ohio river valley.  Here, it is often found  along rivers and streams, usually in the woody debris of overflow areas, in man-made mulch and wood chips, and is sometimes found alongside of Japanese knotweed. It also tends to prefer shady areas and avoid direct sunlight. More recently, it has turned up in the western United States, in the Pacific States from Western Washington to Southern California, though it is still a relatively uncommon species in this region.  A relatively recently identified species, there is evidence that its range is currently undergoing rapid expansion, and it is frequently reported to appear in new areas.

This mushroom is typically gregarious, growing in groups of several hundred individuals in one particular area, as well as in multiple small clusters of several mushrooms each, within close proximity of one another. Solitary specimens also occur on occasion.

Seasonality varies a great deal depending on what region they are found in, but in the northeastern US, they are most common in the spring, from mid-April to late-June (peaking late-May), especially after periods of steady heavy rain for several consecutive days (a common weather pattern in the eastern US during spring). However, they may occasionally fruit as late as November.  These mushrooms seem to be very sensitive to the season and fruit chiefly in the spring; very little fruiting occurs during other times of year, even during favorable weather condition.

See also
List of Psilocybin mushrooms

References

External links
 Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata distribution map on Mushroom Observer

Psychedelic tryptamine carriers
Psychoactive fungi
ovoideocystidiata
Fungi of North America
Entheogens
Taxa named by Gastón Guzmán