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#pragma once

#include "il2cpp-config.h"

namespace il2cpp
{
namespace utils
{
    struct LIBIL2CPP_CODEGEN_API Memory
    {
        static void SetMemoryCallbacks(Il2CppMemoryCallbacks* callbacks);

        static void* Malloc(size_t size);
        static void* AlignedMalloc(size_t size, size_t alignment);
        static void Free(void* memory);
        static void AlignedFree(void* memory);
        static void* Calloc(size_t count, size_t size);
        static void* Realloc(void* memory, size_t newSize);
        static void* AlignedRealloc(void* memory, size_t newSize, size_t alignment);
    };
} /* namespace utils */
} /* namespace il2cpp */

#define IL2CPP_MALLOC(size) il2cpp::utils::Memory::Malloc(size)
#define IL2CPP_MALLOC_ALIGNED(size, alignment) il2cpp::utils::Memory::AlignedMalloc(size, alignment)
#define IL2CPP_MALLOC_ZERO(size) il2cpp::utils::Memory::Calloc(1,size)
#define IL2CPP_FREE(memory) il2cpp::utils::Memory::Free(memory)
#define IL2CPP_FREE_ALIGNED(memory) il2cpp::utils::Memory::AlignedFree(memory)
#define IL2CPP_CALLOC(count, size) il2cpp::utils::Memory::Calloc(count,size)
#define IL2CPP_REALLOC(memory, newSize) il2cpp::utils::Memory::Realloc(memory,newSize)
#define IL2CPP_REALLOC_ALIGNED(memory, newSize, alignment) il2cpp::utils::Memory::AlignedRealloc(memory, newSize, alignment)

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Soaps Spoiler Digest: Comfort, Confessions, and Confrontations
Matt Purvis
Image: Jill Johnson, Howard Wise/JPI
The shaken and the shocked.
Soaps.com has the latest tantalizing spoilers for the week of January 20 – 24. for The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless, plus Days and GH spoilers from January 27 – 31.
Wyatt's break-up with Sally is a lot harder than he was expecting it to be. She heads off to Flo's place to explain a few things about Wyatt. Meanwhile, Thomas is ecstatic that Hope has broken up with Liam and he gets to comfort her. He still manages to find the time to meddle in Steffy's plan to tell Liam the truth. As they make a deal for her silence, Katie tries to reassure Wyatt that Sally will survive her latest loss. Things are looking grimmer for Brooke. Quinn is on the warpath, determined to get back at the blonde for interfering in her marriage. That only gets worse when Eric tells her Shauna's news. Soon, Quinn and Brooke are both upping the ante as they fight for their rightful place in the Forrester family. Read Soaps.com's The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers to see who decides to put themselves first.
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The last day of Adrienne's life in Salem is finally explained as Justin and Sonny look back at the day they lost her. With Xander on hand, Sarah manages to deliver the baby. But she is still left in a precarious situation with Adrienne. That's when Will finds her. Soon after, he's making a confession to JJ about what happened while Xander is confiding in Victor and they're making a difficult choice. Brady is making some difficult choices of his own, like bringing Kristen to John and Marlena's for Mother's Day. Pretty soon, she's giving birth too, but it isn't going as smoothly as she'd hoped. Brady is shocked when he learns what's really been happening. Read the Days of our Lives spoilers to discover who tells JJ that Haley is dead.
Jordan is feeling pessimistic about what's ahead in Port Charles. At least Gladys is impressed by the way that things have been going. Sonny does what he can to comfort his father, but he soon winds up in the ER. Meanwhile, Laura has a new plan that she's eager to get to work on. Will Nikolas gum it up when he pays her a visit? As the Cassadine war continues to churn, Martin is sure to stay close to Valentin to get him what he needs. Life may be getting more frustrating for Willow but it's getting disturbing for Nelle. Getting desperate, she reaches out to Brook Lynn for help. And Michael spends his time helping people. He finds Joss on the docks and later finds himself defending Sasha again, but that's not enough to stop her from being shaken. Take a look at our General Hospital spoilers to find out who has a confrontation with Nikolas.
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Some people are surprised by the announcement that Nikki makes. As she and Victor argue about it, Nick is doing his best to remain firm in his commitment. This leaves Adam free to plot his next move with Chance. Across Genoa City, Lauren and Michael are startled by what Fenmore tells them. But they may not be as startled as Billy is when Amanda tries to set some clear boundaries between them. It looks like she needs to because Victoria is having a hard time getting through to him. They soon realize there might not be a way forward, but he has one more trick up his sleeve. Meanwhile, Kyle clobbers Billy and then hits the road with Summer. Pretty soon, they are locking lips and he returns with a confession to make to Jack. Visit The Young and the Restless spoilers to learn who experiences a setback.
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Two Iowa Towns Mark New and Old Time-Honored Holiday Tradition
Eric Stone
Eric Stone Published: November 29, 2022
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Mike Condon of Cedar Rapids has proudly donated this year's official city Christmas tree to Cedar Rapids. The tree has been on his property since before he and his family moved to Cedar Rapids in 2009, and according to the Cedar Rapids Gazette, but in the past few years has outgrown its space.
When the city went looking for an official city Christmas tree in 2021, Condon knew he had the perfect tree for their purposes. It's a good thing he let the tree sit because the city came calling again this year, ready to take the tree off his hands. By October, when the city contacted him, the blue spruce had grown to 35 feet, at least level if not slightly above the apex of his home.
We've always kind of said it would make a really good Christmas tree some time," Condon said. "And now it's going to be
The tree was transported to and set up in Green Square Park on Monday, November 28. Crews will decorate it and have it ready for the official tree lighting at 5:30 p.m. this Saturday, December 3. Check out the cool time-lapse of the transportation process from Cedar Rapids Rapids Parks & Recreation.
Prior to the lighting ceremony, there will be remarks from Cedar Rapids mayor Tiffany O'Donnell, as well as family activities at Green Square starting at 4 p.m., including family activities at the downtown Cedar Rapids Public Library and adjacent Greene Square, including a scavenger hunt and "reindeer games."
This is Cedar Rapids' 26th official city Christmas tree lightning, but an adjacent town is scheduled for its first-ever such event, when Hiawatha lights its own city holiday tree on Wednesday, December 7.
Their big night begins from 5-8 p.m. with the Hiawatha Holiday Market at Hiawatha Community Center. Pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus will be taken from 5:30-6:15 at Village Center Plaza, with the inaugural city tree lighting taking place at 6:30.
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Get to Know an English Football Club: Huddersfield Town
Clubs, Huddersfield Town	By Paul Gerald
Huddersfield Town was Yorkshire's only Premier League entry this season. They will be in the Championship for the 2019-20 season.
Occasionally I introduce you to an English football club which I assume you (my non-English readers) don't know much about. In other words, you won't be reading about Man U or Chelsea in this space.
This week we meet a club who, like Brighton and Hove Albion, came up to the Premier League for the first time in 2017.
(Update: April 2019: Huddersfield valiantly stayed in the Premier League for the 2018-19 season, but they have already been relegated and will be back in the Championship for 2019-20.)
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The hard-core Town fans (left) and the visitors, in this case Port Vale.
Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, 28 miles northeast of Manchester at the foot of the Pennines.
Quick intro:
A club you had probably never heard of before 2017, but one that was a role model for over-achieving little clubs, Huddersfield is also one of my favorite recommendations for people visiting Manchester. Instead of paying outrageous prices for crappy seats at a giant stadium, hop on the train to a lovely little town, make a unique tourist stop on the way, and catch a real local club in a cozy stadium with great fans.
The Terriers, which was introduced to honor the fitness and tenacity of a late-60s side.
Walking down to the stadium, just a few minutes from the station.
Current League:
Premier League for the 2018-19 season, the Championship next year.
Last year:
The John Smiths Stadium, with 24,500 seats, has been their home since 1994. It replaced Leeds Road, where they played from the club's founding in 1908. The Smiths is a terrific, modern stadium just a few minutes' walk from the train station. You want to sit in or near the Chadwick Lawrence (South) Stand, where both the away fans and the local hardcore fans sit.
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Brief History:
The club was founded in 1908 and in the 1920s was arguably the best team in the country. They were the first to win the league three years in a row, in 1924-26; only three other clubs have done it, and no one has won four in a row. They also won the FA Cup in 1922 and lost the final another four times.
Panorama inside the stadium.
After World War II, Town faded, dropping out of the First Division in 1952. They made it back for three seasons in the early 1970s, but since then have been in the lower leagues – and at times near extinction. They went into administration (British for bankruptcy) in 2003 but have come back strong.
Here is a shot from before a game I saw:
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In 2011, playing in League One, Town set a remarkable record which stood for deacdes: 44 league games unbeaten. At the end of the following season they were promoted to The Championship after a record-setting penalty shootout in the final of the League One Playoffs against Sheffield United. It went 11 rounds and finished with keeper-vs-keeper. Here is that shootout, which happened in front of the Town fans:
They stayed in the Championship for the next three seasons, but in 2015-16 they were 19th. During the 2016-17 season, they not only hung around the top three but also dod it playing an exciting, attacking style of soccer, with a core of young players. I saw them a couple of times that year, and I just love watching them. They ran and ran, pressed high, and when they won the ball in midfield, poured forward in the attack.
In fact, here is a video of how their tactics and player selection made up for a lack of financial resources:
They made some news in early 2017 when they drew nearby rivals Manchester City in the FA Cup. Playing at home, with seven changes in the lineup, they held City 0-0 in front a stadium-record crowd of 24,129. They went on to lose, 5-1, at The Etihad, but it was a nationally televised game that drew praise for the team and their fans. At one point late in the game, the ball went into the Town section, and they bounced it around like a beach ball for a while, enjoying their big day out.
Another fun note: Their (then) manager, David Wagner, was actually a former US international player, even though he has never lived in the US. His dad was American, his mom German, and he grew up in Germany. He was the first Town manager in history who was born outside the British Isles.
(Another update, April 2019: Wagner stepped down this last season.)
Statues:
None that I noticed.
Their most famous is "Smile a While," which sprang out of the terraces in their glory days of the 1920s. It was based on a song that was popular during World War I. Here are the lyrics, which aren't typically sung in full.
There's a team that is dear to its followers
Their colours are bright blue and white,
They're a team of renown, they're the talk of the town,
And the game of football is their delight
All the while, upon the field of play,
Thousands loudly cheer them on their way.
Often you can hear them say,
Who can beat the Town today?
Then the bells will ring so merrily
Every goal, shall be a memory
So Town play up, and bring the cup
Back to Huddersfield
We're Yorkshire! We're Yorkshire! We're Yorkshire!
Here they are giving it a go:
Rivalries:
Leeds United, just 21 miles away, are the most hated. However, they haven't played so often, just 61 times over all the years, with Town winning 25 of them. The rest of the years they haven't been in the same division, but I'm sure Leeds, with its proud history and tremendous support, doesn't appreciate Huddersfield calling themselves "The Yorkshire Club." Leeds fans also tell me Huddersfield ranks about fourth on their most hated list.
In the 2017 Leeds match, Town scored a late winner, and manager Wagner lost his mind a little, ran down to celebrate with the players, and then "accidentally" bumped into the Leeds manager on the way back. Chaos, and a suspension for Wagner, ensued.
Here is the winning goal:
And here is the "brawl":
The same separate-division factor applies to a rivalry with Manchester City, whom they used to play more when City weren't "all that" like they are now.
There is also a rivalry with Bradford City, whom they have played more often, having spent more time in the same division. Bradford is just 18 miles away, but they are currently stuck in League One. Barnsley, also of West Yorkshire, are a minor rival.
What else to do in town:
Huddersfield's lovely train station
First, for something to do on the way to town, take the local train from Manchester, the one that stops in Marsden. There, you can visit a unique museum from the industrial revolution days.
Back in the early 19th Century, a canal opened through a tunnel here, and workers would push barges through it by lying on top of the load on their backs, pressing their feet against the ceiling of the tunnel, and "walking" it through. Today you can visit the museum and take a boat ride 500 meters into the tunnel. In fact, there is even a little 12-seater shuttle boat from the Marsden Station to the tunnel visitor center for a pound per person. Marsden's Riverhead Brewery Tap in town is a highly-rated pub for food and bevvies.
King Jimi, I presume. And the firewood should hint at the coziness inside.
Otherwise, Huddersfield itself is really quite lovely. Right outside the station, which dates to 1850 and is famous for its colonnades, there is a beautiful courtyard area and two great pubs.
The one on the right, The Head of Steam, offers food and beer. The one on the left, the Kings Head, is more of a "traditional" pub, just serving beer and cider, but it has a fine selection of each and a very open layout, recently renovated. It also, oddly, has in its crest a picture of Jimi Hendrix – the King, I suppose. Also in that courtyard is an old hotel, The George, sadly now closed. It was built in 1851 and, in 1895, was the birthplace of Rugby League Football.
Huddersfield center.
In the center, where you can find more food and pubs (including a Wetherspoons and one called The Jules Verne) be sure to stick your head into the 1881 Town Hall, which includes an impressive mural of the town and a gorgeous, 1,200-seat concert hall. It is the home of the nationally renowned Huddersfield Choral Society, which has recorded numerous albums and performed with the best orchestras in Britain.
If you do "pop in," see if the caretaker is around, and if he is, tell him I said hello; more specifically, tell him the American working on the book, the one whose team has a mascot with a chainsaw cutting logs on the sideline, says hello. Also, pity him as a Leeds supporter living in Huddersfield.
Huddersfield Town Hall
Mural inside the Town Hall
Concert Hall in Huddersfield
The other thing you have to do in town is take a taxi up to the Victoria Tower (1899) on Castle Hill.
Victoria Tower
The medieval neighborhood up on the hill, Almondbury, is a treat – you might consider walking through it back down into town – and the view from the top is fantastic, a 360-degree panorama of the town and the rolling, lush green Pennine Mountains, covered in hedgerows and cottages and sheep.
Panorama from Castle Hill
A taxi ride from the station, up and back, with about 10 minutes spent at the tower, should be around 20 pounds.
And finally, as you walk to the ground for the game, stop into the Open (actually covered) Market on the way; there's a popular chippy called Sharky's near the main road.
Open Market, between the station and the football ground.
Inside the market
Your pre-game chippy in town.
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I happened to catch them at Barnsley in 2017, when they brought 4,000 people to a West Yorkshire Derby at Oakwell.
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The OS maker cited problems with "inappropriate drive reassignment" as the main reason for blocking the May 2019 Update.
The solution's simple: Yank the USB drive or SD card, if you can.
The block only happens on 1803 – to 1903 and 1809 – to -1903 upgrades. And you don't have to worry about it unless you're trying to upgrade as part of the Insider Program, or using one of the MSDN copies.
I never thought much of Sets, frankly. It seemed (and seems) to me to be an attempt to match Stardock's Groupy. Meh. Putting tabs in File Explorer would be nice (see EJIE's Clover – which is free), but as far as having windows with a mixture of random apps open in tabs, you can count me out. I do just fine with Chrome and Firefox.
So when I read that Sets weren't coming back, I wasn't exactly heartbroken.
Chris Hoffman over at How-To Geek originally wrote about the demise of Sets on Saturday. He took a tweet from 'Softie Rich Turner and fleshed out the topic. Turner said, "The Shell-provided tab experience is no more, but adding tabs (to Windows PowerShell) is high on our to do list." That's not exactly an official announcement, but it's close enough.
Chris's article appeared in the middle of a three-day weekend here in the US, and didn't get much traction. But on Monday, boy howdy, everybody and his brother was writing about it. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth accompanied a description of how Microsoft had yanked this wonderful new feature from our poor, anxiously awaiting souls.
Except… nobody bothered to credit Chris. The Windows blog echo chamber articles have popped up like dandelions in my lawn and with a few notable exceptions (Bleeping Computer among them), none of the authors have credited Chris or How-To Geek.
It's a tough business, folks.
XPS Writer – wuzzat? Thumbs way down.
Unlike my jury-rigged version (see the next post), this one installs clean.
Mary Jo Foley has a detailed explanation on ZDNet.
I finally got a super-clean copy of Win10 Pro 1903 installed. Local account. No remnants from earlier installs.
Take a look at the new, improved Start menu. Yes, that's "Seekers Notes: Hidden Mystery" in the Productivity section.


PartyPoker Pokerfest II returns this April with $3.5 million guaranteed prize pools spread across 47 events in the online poker series. Players can also win jackpot prizes which consists of cash, iPads plus a 2012 WSOP prize package.
The Pokerfest II Main Event features a million dollar guaranteed prize pool, qualifying satellite tournaments are running now with buy-ins start from as low as $1.
PartyPoker Pokerfest II takes place between 22nd April - 6th May, 2012 and features 47 tournaments in the online poker series, there is more than just $3.5 million in combined guaranteed prize pools. Additional prizes include iPads, iPods and a chance to win a 2012 WSOP Main Event prize package worth $14,000.
Players can qualify for their seat from as little as $1 in the daily satellite tournaments, there will also be two daily dollar tournaments running everyday of the Pokerfest II, these tournament have special prizes see the tournament lobby for more information.
There is $50,000 in extra cash to be won for players who rank in the top positions in the Pokerfest II leaderboards, there are 3 different leaderboards for each level of buy-in: points buy-in, low buy-in and high buy-in.
To rank in the leaderboards players must play as many Pokerfest II events and finish in top positions to win cash prizes.


Eat Your Way Healthy Through the Holiday Season!
Happy early Thanksgiving. I know that I truly am grateful for YOU. If you've worked with me you know how mushy I get around how awesome the people are that come to my groups. I'm very very lucky. So THANK YOU.
The holidays are often when everyone gets all worried about the sweet and savory indulgences that will no doubt grace every holiday table. It becomes a time where you often give yourself permission to let loose and eat whatever, and then new year's rolls around and you feel like you got hit by a food truck (who's with me here?!).
What I'm proposing is a complete mindset shift around how you honor your body and your self-care needs during the holiday season. This is a time for giving, so how about you give yourself a gift that's going to nourish you beyond the 10-minute sugar rush?
Try new and exciting recipes.
You can splurge and buy expensive superfoods, interesting fresh fruits and vegetables that you don't always get, nuts and seeds and truffled extra-virgin olive oil.
But truly, eating healthy doesn't have to mean buying expensive and rare foods (although admittedly I can find all that fun!). One of my favorite websites for clean, healthy living is Oh She Glows. Check her out! There's a lot there to spur your Kitchen Creativity!
Healthy food can be totally gourmet and special too. Make your own homemade chocolate with mint leaves. Adorn your salads with pomegranates and walnuts.
Thicken the drippings from your turkey for gravy with arrowroot or tapioca starch to stay away from gluten and GMO corn starch (if you want non GMO corn starch make sure you purchase ORGANIC corn starch!).
Check out my new Winter Detox program details and hopefully you'll join me!
Hope you're having a VIBRANT day!


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Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Black-tailed Gull
Short-billed Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Sabine's Gull
Ross's Gull
Ivory Gull
Least Tern
Forster's Tern
Elegant Tern
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Chlidonias niger
Order: Charadriiformes
This is a large and highly varied group of birds that do not have many outward similarities. Most are water birds that feed on invertebrates or small aquatic creatures. The order is well represented in Washington, with seven families:
Family: Laridae
The family Laridae is made up of birds closely associated with water. Distributed throughout the world, representatives of this family nest on every continent, including Antarctica. Most are long-lived birds, many of which do not breed until they are three or four years old. Most are colony nesters and nest on the ground. Clutch size is generally small, varying from one to four eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs and help feed the young. The young typically hatch covered with down and stay in the nest for a few days, after which they leave the nest but stay nearby. Most, especially in Washington, raise a single brood a year. This group is known for its elaborate displays in the air and on the ground.
The Washington representatives of this family can be split into two groups, or subfamilies. The adaptable gulls are the most familiar. Sociable in all seasons, they are mainly coastal, but a number of species also nest inland. Many—but not all—are found around people. Gulls have highly variable foraging techniques and diets. Terns forage in flight, swooping to catch fish or insects. They dive headfirst into the water for fish. Although they are likely to be near water, they spend less time swimming than gulls.
Status: Fairly common summer east. Rare west.
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A small, graceful, black and silver bird, the Black Tern has relatively broad wings and a short tail that is only slightly forked. In breeding plumage, it has a black body and head, silvery gray wings and a white vent. The legs and bill are also black. In non-breeding plumage, the Black Tern has a white belly and breast. The black on its head recedes, leaving dark sideburns, and is replaced with a white face. The legs are orange. Juveniles appear similar to adults in non-breeding plumage, but the gray mantle is mottled.
A marsh-breeding bird, the Black Tern nests in freshwater wetlands in Eastern Washington, mostly east of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers. For nesting, it requires habitat with extensive, cover-providing, vegetation as well as open water. During migration, it uses large lakes and coastlines. In winter, it can be found along productive marine coastlines, lagoons and estuaries, especially off the Pacific Coast of Panama.
Black Terns swoop to pluck food from the water's surface; they rarely plunge-dive under the water. They will also forage in flight, snatching flying insects out of the air. Highly social, they often forage in flocks.
In the breeding season, insects are the primary food source, although small fish and other aquatic creatures are also eaten. During migration and in winter, small fish make up the bulk of the diet.
Breeding in scattered colonies, often associated with Forster's Terns, Black Terns nest low in marshes, on floating vegetation mats, muskrat houses, or on the ground near water. Both parents help build a nest which ranges from a substantial mound of vegetation to a simple depression with a little bit of vegetation added. When mixed with Forster's Terns, the Black Tern nests tend to be lower, closer to the water. In fact, the eggs of Black Terns are adapted to get wet (but not for extended periods of time), and are often moist. Both parents incubate the 2-4 eggs for about three weeks. After 2-3 days they may leave the nest, but stay close by. In approximately three weeks the young are ready to fly, but they may be fed by their parents for up to 2 more weeks. Typically only one brood is raised each year.
Migration Status
In the fall, Black Terns gather at feeding sites that are often north of breeding colonies, and then migrate south in groups. Spring migration is more direct, and migration, during both seasons, is usually over land. It appears that Black Terns nesting in the west may move south to the coast of Mexico, and then continue further south offshore.
Numbers have decreased since the 1960s due, in part to the destruction or degradation of much of their breeding and migration stopover habitat. Other potential impacts on the population are increased fertilizer runoff causing chemical contamination in wetlands, and overfishing in winter habitat. It is federally designated as a category 2 candidate for listing under the endangered species act, and is included on the Washington Gap Analysis list of birds at-risk.
When and Where to Find in Washington
Common in parts of eastern Washington from May to mid-August, and rare in westerrn Washington from July to early September. Black Terns readily change colony sites, so there are not well established colonies that are a sure bet to find them at. They occur mostly east of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers and in some years they also nest in Klickitat County and at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge. They are most common in the northeast part of the state, and hundreds often nest at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in Spokane County. During migration, Black Terns can be observed in wetlands throughout eastern Washington.
C=Common; F=Fairly Common; U=Uncommon; R=Rare; I=Irregular
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North American Range Map
Laughing GullLarus atricilla
Franklin's GullLarus pipixcan
Little GullLarus minutus
Black-headed GullLarus ridibundus
Bonaparte's GullLarus philadelphia
Heermann's GullLarus heermanni
Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
Short-billed GullLarus canus
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
California GullLarus californicus
Herring GullLarus argentatus
Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
Iceland GullLarus glaucoides
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
Slaty-backed GullLarus schistisagus
Western GullLarus occidentalis
Glaucous-winged GullLarus glaucescens
Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Sabine's GullXema sabini
Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
Red-legged KittiwakeRissa brevirostris
Ross's GullRhodostethia rosea
Ivory GullPagophila eburnea
Least TernSternula antillarum
Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
Black TernChlidonias niger
Common TernSterna hirundo
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Elegant TernThalasseus elegans
Federal Endangered Species List
Audubon/American Bird Conservancy Watch List
State Endangered Species List
Audubon Washington Vulnerable Birds List
Monitored Early Warning
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He's underfunded, underfavored, and uncool. And Ken Cuccinelli isn't getting any help from Ted Cruz either. Lloyd Green on how Virginia's Republican gubernatorial candidate is running scared.
Ken Cuccinelli is running scared. At a Saturday night gala of the Family Foundation, Cuccinelli avoided taking the stage together with the driving force of the government shutdown, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cuccinelli also dodged joint photo-op with Texas' junior senator, and let it be known that he asked Cruz to compromise on the budget stalemate. Virginia's Republican gubernatorial candidate wants to be liked enough by the furloughed federal employees who live in Northern Virginia's suburbs, but he also wants to associate himself with Cruz, but not too much. That kind of dexterity requires tremendous personal and political talent, which Cuccinelli lacks.
And if a government shutdown isn't enough to complicate Cuccinelli's lackluster campaign, there are always the polls and Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian gubernatorial nominee. The latest numbers show Cuccinelli trailing Democrat Terry McAuliffe by about five points, with Sarvis running third, and garnering at least 10 percent of the vote.
Third party candidates are supposed to be asterisks or jokes, but Sarvis is neither, and that's not good news for Cuccinelli. Sarvis, a software engineer and lawyer, is getting most of his support from white voters, men, and middle aged Virginians. In other words, Sarvis is making a real dent among Cuccinelli's prime voting base.
The fact that Sarvis is also doing particularly well among voters under 30 further highlights the gap between the Republican Party and younger Americans. There seems to be little that Cuccinelli can do about any of this. Underfunded, underfavored, and uncool is not where any politician wants to be. But, that is exactly where Cuccinelli is right now.
Cuccinelli was never expected to win. Do you keep up with papers?
they didn't nominate him because he was supposed to lose.
Pretty much. I'm pretty good at predicting political races, and there's never been a point in this race that I thought Cooch could win. Of course, Tiny Terry's only boost is because of McDonnell's fuckery. Nobody really likes him, either. If Bill Bolling got in the race right now as an independent, he'd win hands down.
What the hell are you talking about? I don't have a dog in this fight. If Cooch and Tiny Terry were on fire and I had to piss like a Russian race horse, I'd walk all the way across town just to avoid the possibility of the slightest splash on them.
Unlike you, I happen to be an honest individual. If I think something is bad, I think it is bad, period. Not bad when their guy does it but okay when my guy does it, no, it's just plain bad.
he couldn't even win the republican nomination. why would a democrat vote for romney's WVA campaign chair?
this is the same type of non-reality-based assessment that makes certain types think ron paul could ever have been president.
It's called "alternative." Put up two extremely unpopular candidates that play exclusively to their respective bases. Let them sully each other. Then throw in a moderate that appeals to all voters. Alternative wins.
I get that you think you can only win races in this country if you're a Republican or a Democrat, but there have been multiple examples of individuals winning statewide races by getting between an unpopular Republican and an unpopular Democrat. Three of them have served on the Senate in the last few years.
As for not winning the Republican nomination?
I don't know about you, but if someone fails to win a Republican nomination, I'm more likely to look into them seriously, not less. The kind of people that win Republican nominations tend to be elitist douchebags that I don't want anywhere near public office.
Well, here's a leftist standing up for Cruz.
you aren't a "leftist" if you think cruz is any type of acceptable... and if you think the good republican bolling should have been governor of VA.
he's the best possible GOP soldier. there is no "alternative" there.
Don't be so petty. Leftist philosophy existed long before the Democratic Party. I don't have to choke down your party line just to maintain my philosophical identity.
Further, I didn't say Bolling SHOULD be governor. I said if the choice is Cooch or Terry, I'd prefer Bolling. He's the more centrist of the three.
Well, Jesus, let's crucify him then.
There is. Why don't you show his record, rather than an endorsement from a fellow member of the party and one position?


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OK, so I haven't read many on this list. That's fine, though, since I haven't tasked myself with reading everything on it! Maybe someday. Which ones have you read? Do you recommend them? Despise them?
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I want to read more of these than I actually have read. I would love to read Middlesex, Beloved, The Executioner's Song, The Optimist's Daughter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind (I'm a Southern girl and have never read this… can you believe it!??!), The Good Earth.
I love this list and am so glad to have come across it on your blog today!
I really loved Gone with the Wind! I didn't so much enjoy The Grapes of Wrath.


Since November five New Moons fell in the 22nd degree of five Signs: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.
It's unusual for this many New Moons in a row to be in the same Degree Frequency.
Frequency 22 is a truth inquiry, which means we're culminating a five-month search for truth that began last autumn. The inquiry began in Scorpio, which presides over the deep psychic-emotive underlayer of human existence. In these months I noticed a pattern in many clients I did Soul Level readings for. Almost every week now clients ask how I feel about their decision to cut their families out of their lives.
In earlier years of my practice I heard this question about once a year. To hear it at least once a week indicates something strange afoot. Few of these people seem intensely upset about this choice. Most seem to have wrestled with it. Rather than impulsive reaction, it seems based on a realization that it's not their obligation to dwell in dysfunction, and that they have a right to a healthy life. While it saddens me each time I hear of this decision, I recognize the search for truth at work.
A long-due awakening seems to be rippling through the collective undersoul, striking more and more people with the urge to get down to a bedrock truth, a sobering foundational recognition of how far their lives have strayed from the track of their soul, and of the power they have to make much-needed changes.
The final Sign of this 5 Moons Truth Inquiry is Pisces, whose New Moon cycle began a couple of weeks ago and continues for the next couple weeks. Pisces is the Family of Humanity, the roots that link us to genealogy, ancestry, origin and past lives.
I believe a great purging has been instigated, urging us to stop living many layers removed from underlying realities. The choice of my clients can be seen to fit into this broader need: To clear away the deceptions of our time, which we inherited from our parents' time, which they inherited from the illusions of their parents, and so forth, until our world seems to be more of a dystopian science fiction like George Orwell's 1984, rather than the healthy and sound planet we know it to be.
As in 1984 the deceptions of our time have a peculiar irony that exceeds that of the past. We have a president who has given himself the right to torture and assassinate anyone he wants without having to answer to higher authority. We have spy drones flying over New York City, as if our country was an Occupied Zone. We have an act signed into law last week that forbids anyone from holding genetically-modifying food companies accountable for the havoc their mutant food creates. We have corporate-controlled news media that is in some ways worse than that of Soviet Russia during the Cold War, because behind the Iron Curtain no one expected media to tell the truth.
If we are to get to the bottom of this soul-level inquiry we must awaken from the great hoax perpetrated on the human species, that allows millions of people to walk around acting as if poisoning the world and breaking the backs of the poor to support the rich is anything remotely resembling normal. We must break the taboo against pointing out the dead elephant carcass rotting in the living room.
At this point you may well ask, where then do I get my indefatigable positivity? How can I continue after forty years using my writing to carry the torch of the Great Good News of Existence? Where do I turn when the weight of Disinformation makes it hard to get up in the morning?
The answer is I draw encouragement from a deep well of positivity that got filled by the good acts of all people who ever lived, those who, during their own long dark night of the soul, chose love over fear. I draw my inspiration from Isaac Singer and Herman Hesse, from Rumi and Rilke and Malcolm X -visionaries who fought off tyranny and oppression and rose like beacons in the night to follow their own souls. And lately I've drawn encouragement from being so close to the bright souls of my four-year-old and nine-year-old boys, who need a good world to inherit from their old man.
I took part in the 1960s Revolution in Consciousness that stopped the Viet Nam War, and I know that since changed the world once we can do so again. However, I also know this change is harder, because the Disease of Untruth has infiltrated deeper into the system, and is no longer limited to the need to end one unjust war. Which means a massive awakening is called for that cuts across party lines.
When this many people choose to cut off their families, with little apparent bitterness and enmity, but much resignation, I can tell that these individuals have spent sleepless nights asking questions that really matter: Why am I not happy? Is it my job to keep enabling my family to ignore the truth? When is it a greater kindness to walk away from someone you love rather than continue supporting an illusion?
When clients ask what I think about their choice I tell them that dysfunctional relationships are not the product of one person but a co-creation. Which means that when you choose to separate from a dysfunctional marriage, family, sexual relationship, friendship, social group or job, you've only completed half the work. The second, and often more rigorous half, is to uproot the part of yourself that co-created the situation in the first place.
The most brutal war the United States directly participated in in recent memory was World War I, which came to be known as "The War to End All Wars." People called it that because the carnage was so horrendous that nobody who lived through it could imagine participating in another wide-scale slaughter. Unfortunately that war did not live up to its nickname.
It is the great task of our time to end an even more brutal war, which each day takes a toll not on tens of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people all over the world. It is the War on Truth that allows smiling presidents to pay lip service to noble aspirations while gutting the Constitution and shaming the meaning of democracy.
An ironic casualty of this War is that the growing outrage of dirty secrets of our country are being reported in European countries and other parts of the world - creating a huge credibility gap between what most Americans believe as truth and what more and more of the rest of the world knows to be true. The Revolution for Democracy that occurred here 250 years ago has passed us by and is now being adapted through the rest of the world, as more countries awaken to the fact that they now possess more democracy than we do. We have lost the moral imperative we once so boldly claimed.
The only remedy for this web of lies is to rise up, stand strong with your family and friends within the truth of your own soul, and speak out against the lies.
What will it take to put the world back on track?
Simple people like you and me, in many nations, claiming the long-denied truth that we are all citizens of the same planet. We all deserve our children to inherit a world that works, a planet that has a future, rather than the radioactive fallout of an imbecile species that kept denying its own shadow and projecting its own devil onto the other guy.
C'mon, people: Let's wake up before it's too late.
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Another factor is that during the last three years, Marcella and I have been preparing to buy our first home, and have finally found a beautiful rustic house here in Putney, Vermont that we love. During this time, as we gathered funds, I considered raising my rate, but held it firm, due to a bottoming-out economy. I didn't want to push clients to have to pay more than they could afford. With the economy beginning to strengthen now I feel the need to establish the higher rate.
For the month of April only, you can purchase an 80-minute reading for the former price of $258, and schedule it any time between Summer Solstice, 2013 and Summer Solstice, 2014.
In other words, I'm extending my old rate for one year to anyone who pays in advance. This offer applies to multiple readings and gift readings as well-- if you wish to purchase extra sessions for yourself or others, I will keep the low rate as long as you pay by the end of April, 2013.
Please be aware that demand for my work is at an all-time high. For several months I have been booked three months in advance, so it's best to schedule now if you wish to see me this summer. I added Special Needs sessions for folks who want to see me within two weeks, but there's an additional charge, and I can't always do this. As always, please know that I rarely turn down requests for my work, and am usually able to work out price breaks or payments for those who need financial assistance.
After having lived in more than a hundred homes since childhood, I've been pinching myself to grasp the reality of being on the verge of moving my family into our own place.
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CWEEE> Vol.2 No.2B, April 2013
Adsorption of Methylene Blue by NaOH-modified Dead Leaves of Plane Trees
Abstract PP. 13-19
DOI: 10.4236/cweee.2013.22B003 3,739 Downloads 6,194 Views Citations
Lei Gong, Wei Sun, Lingying Kong
College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.
NaOH-modified dead leaves of plane trees were used as bioadsorbent to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. Variable influencing factors, including contact time, temperature, initial MB concentration and pH were studied through single-factor experiments. The results showed that the initial concentration 100 mg/L, bioadsorbent of 2.5 g/L, pH of 7, room temperature were the best adsorption conditions. The NaOH-modified bioadsorbent had a high adsorption capacity for MB, and its saturated extent of adsorption was 203.28 mg/g, which was higher than the un-modified dead leaves (145.62 mg/g) and some other bioadsorbents. Finally, adsorption kinetics and isotherms were discussed, suggesting that the Langmuir isotherm model and Pseudo-second order kinetics were fitted well with the adsorption process.
Modified; Bioadsorbent; Methylene Blue; Kinetics; Adsorption Isotherm
Gong, L. , Sun, W. and Kong, L. (2013) Adsorption of Methylene Blue by NaOH-modified Dead Leaves of Plane Trees. Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering, 2, 13-19. doi: 10.4236/cweee.2013.22B003.
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In order to ensure a high turn out of members, both meetings will be held the same day.
Can someone please move this meeting/event to the correct date and time?


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New favorite TV Pilot of the Day : Marc & Alana Scott Zicree's SPACE COMMAND
Kemmer, The Son:
Now you don't like Synthetics?
My God, i don't believe it. You're missing the good old days.
Kemmer, The Father:
Humans weren't designed to observe, we were built to do.
So yeah… I miss 'em.
Let me tell you something.
Soft lives make soft men.
Soft men… make soft choices.
That beautiful exchange 10 minutes in to SPACE COMMAND tells you everything you need to know about why this may be your must watch and must support show of the day. A 3 year in the making pilot, having seen it, it has charm and wit, and has proved itself worthy of the time and effort that went into its forging. With stars such as the great Mira Furlan, Bill Mumy, McClure, Robert Picardo, Bruce Boxleiter and Doug Jones, alongside new faces, such as Ethan McDowell.
With any project, especially one done for love, on virtually no-budget, and no corporate backing, there will be limitations. Generally the younger actors don't have the comfort or gravitas, the subtlety of the older actors, and with the exception of Ethan McDowell, that disparity comes across. Ethan McDowell however, manages to hold his own alongside actors who were forged in the fires of many years of theater, and television and movies.
But that disparity with most of the younger actors, is to be expected given the budget limitations, but those limitations aside, I was completely captivated by the one hour pilot. In the age of streaming where content is the new gold rush, if I was a Netflix, or Apple, or Disney, or At&t I would be attempting to acquire content and production teams like this, that have a built in passionate fan-base.
All in all SPACE COMMAND is a worthy addition to the dreams of men named Roddenberry and Straczynski.
View it here:
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Currently Watching : SHADOW South African TV series – One of the Best Shows on Netflix
SHADOW (2019) – Six episodes in and I am still loving this 2019 Johannesburg centered series, starring Pallance Dladla as the titular Shadow, Khathu Ramabulana as the dependable best friend Max, and Amanda DuPont as the absolutely ravishing and riveting Ashley. Equal parts 'ROSEWOOD Medical Examiner Police Procedural' and 'EQUALIZER Action series', this is just a fun, well acted, and intelligently written action series.
Toss in beautiful photography, surprisingly cutting edge and compelling and heartwarming stories (loved episode 6), and likeable, enjoyable characters and you have an early contender for one of my favorite shows of 2020. The Brainchild of Phillip and Fred Wolmarans and Nick Keulemans and Gareth Crocker, and executive produced by Chris and Colleen Lawrence, here is hoping Netflix gives this one a 2nd season. Grade: B+
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The Return of SPENSER FOR HIRE??? – Netflix Movie trailer+Poster
There are a few shows I hold in very high reverence, as television at its finest. Stuff that stands and will stand the test of time. The 1980s SPENSER FOR HIRE is one of those shows.
Starring the great Robert Urich and Avery Brooks (as two very different, but equally imposing 6'1 guys, running around Boston putting people thru windows 🙂 ) and based on a long running series of novels by the prolific Robert B. Parker. The highest acclaim you can give the TV show, is the author himself acclaimed Avery Brooks Hawk as superior to the character in the novels. So I loved that 3 season Boston based series.
Now, it is clear this Mark Wahlberg Netflix movie will have virtually nothing in common with that great 80s series; however it puts that series back in the limelight, and I call that a good thing. And even though the new Netflix movie seems… not very 'Spenser' like; despite that… the trailer looked fun and enjoyable. I'm a huge fan of Winston Duke from his work in PERSON OF INTEREST and BLACK PANTHER, so looking forward to checking out this new take on Spenser and Hawk.
It of course will not be the slightly elegiac brilliance of the 1980s series, but it doesn't have to be. That series thankfully is now available on Dvd. If you have never seen it, it comes with the highest recommendation. It is an unjustly overlooked, often bittersweet and equally haunted and hopeful series, that stands as television at its finest.
Get Season 1 here!
Get all 3 Seasons here!
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EL MINISTERIO DEL TIEMPO Netflix Streaming VOD Marathon
EL MINISTERIO DEL TIEMPO Marathon
I'm currently watching the 2nd season of EL MINISTERIO DEL TIEMPO, courtesy of Netflix, and it just gets better with each episode.
Despite the fact that, like most time shows, the logic does not hold up. The rules of what they change, or do not change, does not really stand up from episode to episode, or minute to minute. It can be dissatisfying, if you ponder the holes in the show too closely.
But if you gloss over the issues with the central conceit of the show, the chracters themselves, and the overarching storyline, is entertaining and addictive, and the perfect thing to marathon on a lazy Sunday!
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Streaming TV Series of the 1st Week of 2020 and Quite Possibly the Year : NetFlix's DRACULA
Netflix's DRACULA – I have been looking forward to this series ever since i saw the first teaser trailer a month or so ago. The series has finally dropped on Netflix, and I have to say… the first episode exceeds my expectations.
Smart. Lavish, Biting, Charming and Ironic and irreverant when it needs to be, and above all dripping with gothic athmosphere and horror, this adaptation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA is off to a phenomenal start.
I've been underwhelmed by most of the new shows recently, 2nd season of JACK RYAN, WITCHER, even the 4th season of THE EXPANSE… not really wowing me yet, but DRACULA… yeah, I'm on board. Looking forward to upcoming episodes, and to see if the 3 episode mini-series sticks the landing.
Grade: A/A+.
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The Most Influential TV show of all Time? Breaking Bad? THE WIRE? No… It is…
I am re-watching Michael Straczynski's seminal BABYLON 5, after a lapse of probably 2 decades, and by the time you hit Season 3 Episode 10 Severed Dreams, and have sat thru the awkward first season, and rough effects (at the time innovative, but now quaintly dated, yet oddly still beautiful) it is clear… this show is what Straczynski intended. The first Novel for Television.
Whereas THE HONEYMOONERS forged the concept of the Sitcom for television, And DRAGNET (following in its Radio Roots) would define the form of episodic tv for decades to come, BABYLON 5 is very much the jumping off point for long form storytelling in television.
Prior to Babylon 5, in television largely the characters, kept showing up week after week and telling the story for that week, with no real vast growth or change for that character from first episode to last.
Whether BONANZA or THE FUGITIVE or "insert series here", it may have 2 or 3 part episode, but largely there was no overarching theme or arc for the season or the series.
It was episodic television, monster or crime or issue of the week.
And then enter Michael Straczynski and his idea, of going one step further than STAR TREK's aborted idea of a 5 Year mission, and try a multiyear story, with a beginning, middle, and end. Where there were stakes, And characters would have arcs, and change.
Enter BABYLON 5.
An experiment in television, in an age of 'done and one' TV.
It holds up.
Despite the meddling of the Networks, the lowball budgets, the always under threat of cancellation seasons, Michael Straczynski's BABYLON 5 was then, and remains now, one of the best written shows. A grand saga, writ large. With tragedies and triumphs and growth and betrayal and change… and hope.
And that BABYLON 5 is as good and as coherent as it is, despite the constant meddling and threat of cancellation it endured every year of its existence (which forced writer, cast and crew to always have to gear every season like it was their last, the last couple of seasons clearly suffering because of the the blade that was always over the show's neck); you have to put it down to Michael Straczynski's passion and his writing and his fighting for it.
And a team of people around him, from actors to directors to makeup artists to set and wardrobe designers to consultants (the late great Harlan Ellison) all championing this unheard of dream, of a novel for television.
So no, not LOST, not SOPRANOS, not THE WIRE, not GAME OF THRONES, not BREAKING BAD, not BATTLESTAR GALACTICA… though all those shows with their continuing story structure owe a debt of gratitude to BABYLON 5 (which paved the way for TV, to break out of its episode of the week, short form storytelling mode) … none of those shows are TV at its most influential.
TV at its most innovate and influential (post Star Trek the Original Series)… Well that mantle remains 30 years later, still… BABYLON 5; which dragging and screaming, changed the face and scope of what television could be.
You don't get any of those shows, without Straczynski, actually showing that long form narrative could be done on television.
So if you have never watched BABYLON 5, or have not watched it in a long time, all 5 seasons are available courtesy of Amazon Prime.
Give it a look, the first season is admittedly rough, stick with it. It takes off by the 2nd season and never looks back. And by the 3rd season, it is a hands down masterpiece.
Highest Recommendation.
And honestly, it is the type of series that deserves to be owned in physical media, that you do not want to trust to the vagaries of Streaming licenses. It is a series, like HOMICIDE, like GRIMM, like MUSKETEERS, that deserves to always be at your fingertips and available for viewing.
It unfortunately does not yet have a Bluray option, but you can get the complete series on DVD at the link below:
BABYLON 5: THE COMPLETE SERIES WITH MOVIES
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TV Show of the Day : LUKE CAGE SEASON 2 by Cheo Hodari Coker
Cheo Hodari Coker's 1st Season of Luke Cage was one of my favorite TV shows of 2016, right up there with the excellent Noah Hawley LEGION. They were each in their own way, game changing and ground breaking TV.
LEGION largely for its visuals and innovative storytelling, and Coker's LUKE CAGE for in many ways being one of the few shows to offer a multitude of characters of colors in non-stereotypical ways, and with innovative roles, with unfettered storytelling. One of my favorite shots in the 1st season of LUKE CAGE, was four strong, upstanding women of color, captured in one great shot. Not as prostitutes, not as rappers, not as comedians, but as heroes. Likewise their male counterparts were admirably done.
LUKE CAGE, the series, sings/rewards… largely because of those conversation of books in the barbershop, those conversations on playwrights and writers. Those things, those conversations, that mostly uninformed people (who mainly know Blacks via the stereotypes they have consumed through mass media), would right off as preachy, or talky, or unrealistic, those are the conversations, that immediately sang for me, and clued me to the greatness of this show.
As someone who grew up in those Barbershops, those conversations are very true, to how many of us escaped the traps of the street, and found our way to something… better.
Always Forward.
If SEINFELD can be acclaimed for being, in places, a show about nothing, we should allow that same latitude to a serious show such as LUKE CAGE, that uses those seemingly frivolous nothings about the writers, and the artist, and the books, and the music; to say profound somethings.
Of All the Netflix shows, it is the only one that says something more profound, than the standard super-hero or for that matter action or drama tropes. It says something about the world outside our door, and how to meet it. Not preachy, not banal, and never losing the joy and beauty we can find, despite the dire days, and the dangerous nights.
It is the balance of crime and charm, violence and virtue, war and wit, that can sing, to those with ears. And it withstands repeated viewings better, because of all those layers you can view it on.
Cheo Hodari Coker's LUKE CAGE is one of the best written and most innovative and ground breaking shows to come along in years for precisely this reason. It takes you the place all great writing should, beyond your prejudices, your assumptions, your comfort zone.
For my money it is one of the best of the Marvel/Netflix TV shows, right up there with the first season of DAREDEVIL. But edges it out, because I find the characters in LUKE CAGE, especially the protagonists, far more interesting and likable. DAREDEVIL's main characters are various stages of unlikeable and annoying.
Add to that Coker's plot has something valuable and timely and timeless to say about our world, that transcends bad guy fights good guy. There is a complexity to the storyline and the conflicts, that rewards repeated viewings.
Ten episodes in and that complexity remains for Season 2 of LUKE CAGE. It is not perfect, I can do with less Alfre Woodard, particularly her and the character of Shades getting intimate, I can really do without. I never really buy Shades attraction to Woodard's character, and the more they try to sell it, the less it works for me. Also Alfre's unhinged performance, while I get it.. she is Lady Macbething it up, for me it is too much. She is always in her twitches, and sputterings, always at eleven, always wildly and uncomfortably out of control, which for my own taste would have been better dialed back to 4 or 5. Also the poster for season 2 is absolute garbage, whoever came up with that poster should be fired. It is that inept of a poster. Right up there with the HANCOCK boxart and poster.
But those minor weakness aside, LUKE CAGE season 2, following strongly in the footsteps of Season 1 is crushing it; the story and performances shine, and like season 1 it has the best soundtrack of the year. Ten episodes in and I'm loving it… Grade: B+.
More to come as I watch the last few episodes.
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TV Show of the Week! Amazon's THE GRAND TOUR! Great Car/Humor Show!
Last year I became a huge fan of the BBC car show TOP GEAR. Thanks to catching episodes of past seasons on Netflix. It took a couple episodes for me to warm up to the show, but quite quickly the natural camaraderie of the hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May made a believer out of me.
The shows were just plain fun. So when news came that one of the trinity was no longer going to be on the show, due to punching out one of the producers, and the other 2/3rds quitting to join him, I was dismayed. No more of the show that I had in quick order made a binge watch favorite.
And yes there was the American TOP GEAR, but the hosts there came off as annoying frat boys, making the show quite unwatchable. Nope it was clear that what made BBC's TOP GEAR a long running hit, was the fun dynamic of the three hosts they had stupidly lost.
So when it was announced that AMAZON was giving the three ex-hosts a new car show, I couldn't wait. Well tonight the waiting ended as the first episode of THE GRAND TOUR dropped. And it's great. Different but great. There are minor quibbles, the biggest being the absolutely awful 'THE AMERICAN' driver.
Their take on the very popular "STIG' driver of TOP GEAR, but a very poor take it is. Being something of a very unfunny send-up of Ugly American cliches. The 'AMERICAN' is very annoying, very unfunny, and is a bit that hopefully they will pull the plug on in short order.
That aside, the rest of the show and the skits and the cars and the banter of the hosts is great! And the opening sequence is quite frankly awesome. A welcome premiere and looking forward to the upcoming Friday release of new shows!
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TV REVIEW : Netflix's LUKE CAGE Season 1 Episode 1-13 by Cheo Hodari Coker
Well I've just finished watching the 13th episode of Netflix/Marvel Studios LUKE CAGE, and I have to say… I loved it. Full stop. Show runner Cheo Hodari Coker manages to in many ways do the impossible, and take a character already spotlighted in the JESSICA JONES series, and whose origins are the milieu of the Black Action or Black Agency film of the late 60s and 70s (mislabeled under the derogatory misnomer of Blaxploitation) and with him tell a rich, evocative, exciting, deeply layered cultural and historical and prescient love letter, to a place, Harlem, New York, and to an idea of local determination, and local agency, and self love, and colored love, and Black love in the age of Ferguson.
Or you can just look at it as a great action/drama series, set in the wonderfully expansive universe of Marvel shared superhero universe. :).
But what has exemplified the Netflix/Marvel collaborations to date is how grounded they are in a world not so dissimilar from our own. The gritty street level nature of DAREDEVIL's 1st season, and ground breaking fight choreography, and fantastic writing made for a justifiably lauded 13 hours of television. (lost a bit in its less cohesive and interesting 2nd season)
LUKE CAGE takes that to another level, in being a show that is as much about cultural signposts and idioms that define us, as it is the 'A' story of conflict and resolution. The literary and historical and musical references are not just littered throughout the story, they help define the scope of the character and the scope of the neighborhood that this story takes place in. A man is the things he loves, the things he reads, the things he listens to, the heroes that inspired, the places that mattered, and immediately in one episode Coker defines LUKE CAGE the character and the series in broad strokes, that for me reverberate deeply.
The first two episodes floored me in how good and rich and beautiful, they are. Coker here hitting, for me, the conversations I have in my soul and my head, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Denis LeHane, George Pelecanos, Donald Goines??? Come' on Son!!! Kenyatta??? Those few strokes and I knew this was a writer with a deep love and understanding of genre fiction, and those who make it.
But it's more than name dropping, our influences define us, and define our world, and define who we care for, so immediately they make us part and parcel of this story that Coker and his team of writers tell. It's a beautifully structured 13 hours of television, in that the first 6 episodes are very much their own chapter. You could bundle those 6 episodes up and have a great season.
Episode 7 feels like a swerve, very much like a start over, so if you rush into it, not recognizing that peak at the end of 6, that culmination, it's going to feel stretched out. One of the possible dangers of binge TV… you have to pace yourself.
Take a break after episode 6, let that sink in. It is very much, in comic book terms, the end of the first trade paperback or story arc. Episode 7 begins the 2nd story arc, so you have to go into it not rushing to a conclusion, but gearing up for the start, because start it does. As everything from the first arc gets turned on its head, and new major players break on the scene. It's a jarring ride, but once it hits episode 9 its has picked up steam and by 10 is on a full sprint to the finish. Episodes 11, 12 and 13 are Brilliant.
There is a saying out there that 'it's not how you begin, but how you end that matters'; that saying is wrong. All of it matters. It is about how you begin, how you endure, and how you end. Cheo Hodari Coker's LUKE CAGE does the extremely unlikely, in doing all three exceptionally well.
I want a Blu-Ray of this show, complete with Director's and cast commentary, like yesterday. It is that good, and replete with episodes you want to go back to and know more about.
And I have to say it's wonderful to see here in 2016, that TV is making great strides to not be exploitative, and to have shows where you can have more than a token number of characters of color.
One thing I love about LUKE CAGE, particularly about the 2nd half (I love the first half as well) is it is so wonderful to see 6 beautiful women of color in major speaking parts, taking center stage in moments of strength and weakness, and owning the stage. It's so rare to see a three shot of powerful, beautiful Black women in uplifting, exciting, dramatic, heroic material. It's non-existent in Hollywood but thankfully, through great show-runners of color, and the success of shows such as BEING MARY JANE and EMPIRE is becoming finally available on the small screen. And the same love extends to being able to see multiple men of color in powerful, uplifting, heroic roles.
And the appearance of Method Man, and that song… Amazing. This series in addition to a DVD/Blu-Ray, must release a sound track, because in addition to the songs, the score for some of the episodes… is stunning.
I've recently become addicted to listening and purchasing scores, and LUKE CAGE has a world class score.
Now, is the series perfect ? No. I thought episode 3, they had a real opportunity to do an action sequence as talked about as DAREDEVIL's hallway fight, but the director/fight coordinator wasn't up to it. You'll know the scene when you see it, it's perfectly fine, but never rises above fine, when it should have been spectacular. And it's a different show from DAREDEVIL , so the action will be different, I get that, but you can still do different and STUNNING.
Also, my problem with a character like Luke Cage, is the same one I have with a character like Wolverine, just because you can stand there and take being shot by a hail of bullets, doesn't mean you want to or have to.
Luke Cage's character (minor spoiler ahead) is revealed as a former police officer, former Recon soldier, former Prison MMA Fighting champ, former Boxer, all this to say… HE CAN FIGHT. So speed the dude up! Rather than standing there and waiting for someone to unload a clip on you, he should be disarming them and wrapping the gun around their necks before they can get off a shot. Especially since ricochets can kill just as well as any other bullet. I understand visually it's an exciting thing to depict, but it should be the exception for talented filmmakers, not the rule. When he is shielding people from gunfire, sure… let the bullets fly. But in combat mode he should be disarming these guys before they get a shot off. Particularly later in the season that attitude would have made for exciting sequences.
So that was another issue I had. However, the sequences do improve as the series progresses. Plus it's not a show that is about fisticuffs like DAREDEVIL, as much as it is about the fight for a soul of a neighborhood. And that tale it tells expertly.
It is a superlative 13 hours of television, and all involved should take a bow. Cheo Hodari Coker has made not just a great Netflix series, but a great television show, and the one to beat as my favorite show of 2016.
And among the Netflix shows so far where do I rank it? It's much better than DAREDEVIL Season 2, which was good, but not great, it edges out JESSICA JONES, which was great, and it battles it out with DAREDEVIL Season 1 for the top spot. DAREDEVIL Season 1 which was clearly the best show of 2015, outdoes it in terms of action, a definite A of a show.
However I have minor quibbles with it, like I didn't like the loss of Ben Urich, I found the character of Karen page annoying through most of it, the character of Matt Murdock was a bit unlikable, and the last episode it failed to stick the landing with an unimpressive looking costume, and just a bit of a dour ending. So those nitpicks, are the reason LUKE CAGE edges it out, and gets a big A+ grade from me. It possesses a story and characters that I want to revisit… often.
Final Verdict: Seminal, Must Watch TV! Will appeal to fans of mystery novels, especially fans of Chester Himes or Walter Mosley, or fans of movies such as TROUBLE MAN.
If you are not a fan or are made uncomfortable or nervous or have unexamined issues with women of color, you probably will have an issue with the later episodes.
'The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.' Brother, it always does. :).
But for the rest of us who watch the series, LUKE CAGE is phenomenal television at its best.
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Netflix Series of the Month : LUKE CAGE by Cheo Hodari Coker! Report card on Episodes 1 to 8!
The long awaited third Netflix/Marvel series, LUKE CAGE, has launched, and helmed by relative unknown show runner, Cheo Hodari Coker, eight episodes in and I'm LOVING IT!!!
Here's a minor recap of the eight episodes seen to date. It's relatively innocuous comments, but to cover my bases I will say minor spoilers ahead, if you haven't seen the episodes. But really I don't think it spoils anything. But if in doubt, watch the episodes first.
Episode 1 and 2 written by Cheo Hodari Coker and directed by Paul McGuigan are exceptional. As strong, if not stronger of a start than the previous Netflix entries. It's really some fantastic, rich, long overdue writing that touches on everything from Crispus Attucks to Walter Mosley to Dennis Lehane.
Episode 3 is good but I have minor quibbles with it. The first 2 episodes sets up Luke Cage as someone who doesn't curse and doesn't like profanity, so his going into a battle listening to a profanity laden rap song seems questionable.
Also the Director has the chance to make a pivotal action scene to match the wonderful episode 3 highlight of the DAREDEVIL season 1, and misses a mark with a pretty unremarkable action sequence. However the remaining episode, good dialogue, nice twists, and a literally explosive ending keeps this episode in the winner category.
Episode 4 is FANTASTIC. An excellent origin story. Superlative story
Episode 5 is FANTASTIC! Yes!
Episode 6 Wonderful wrap-up. If this was a 6 episode season it would rock! In many ways this is the end of the first story arc, if this was a comic trade-paperback. And episode 7 begins the 2nd arc.So you should really approach starting the 7th episode, after a small break, like you are starting a new story arc.
Episode 7 – Fantastic score highlights this episode. Probably the best score of any of the episodes. A fantastic origin story, this time for the antagonists. What makes a great hero, is a great villain. And this episode shows you the roots of two of them. One of the best episodes!
Episode 8 – The machinations against Luke tighten as his life, and the lives of those around him come tumbling down. Another engrossing episode, that I was thoroughly entertained by from beginning to end.
3/4ths done and I think this series is a Home Run. I like it much better than Daredevil Season II, and have to wait to see if it sticks the landing… to see if I like it as much as DAREDEVIL Season 1 and JESSICA JONES.
The Marvel/Netflix juggernaut continues to be, like Luke Cage, bullet-proof. 🙂
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