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Red Widow
Red Widow: The Complete First Season DVD Review
Shilo Adams 10 years ago
Marta Walraven thought her life was going to be different from how she grew up. The daughter of infamous Russian mobster Andrei Petrov, Marta was raised in an environment of hushed voices, constant danger, and normalized violence. Once she got old enough to leave the house, she had a chance to make things right, to veer away from the ever-present fear and paranoia that her mother lived under thanks to the position her father had in the Bratva. However, Marta ended up with small-time marijuana importer Evan, who only got into the life due to who his extended family were and the lifestyle he was expected to provide for his wife. And then it all came crashing down.
Evan gets blamed for a theft against international crime boss Nicholae Schiller and is gunned down in the middle of the Walraven driveway, in front of the couple's young son Boris. Once content with their normal-ish life in the California suburbs, Marta is now faced with the prospect of having to repay her husband's perceived debts, provide for her children, and navigate the seedy world of organized crime, all the while working through her grief over Evan. The deeper Marta gets into the world she was only shallowly exposed to as a young girl, the tougher the decisions she'll have to make – exactly how far is she willing to go to protect her children? Can she stay true to herself while doing what she has to in order to survive?
Red Widow, based on Dutch series Penoza, is an interesting case, in that it was a precursor to the 2013-2014 television trend of limited series. At only eight episodes, the show tells a complete story and manages to answer a majority of the lingering questions that pop up (Who killed Evan? Why did they do it?) while teasing out others that could have been the basis for a second season (Is Schiller good or bad? Would Marta leave California with her children?). This isn't a canceled series that you feel cheated by after watching its entire run, despite the finale cliffhanger; you feel as if you watched a complete story unfold and while there were other avenues it could have explored, its pacing was such that it told the story it set out to tell. Although, the world of Red Widow, a very slick-looking encapsulation of California that flips between the openness of a marina and the claustrophobia of Schiller's penthouse office, was one that could have evolved along with Marta's mutating family and professional relationships, both of which were markedly different from the pilot to the finale.
The most fun of the grief-soaked series, whose highlights are the pilot and the final two episodes, lies in Marta's interactions with Schiller, thanks to Radha Mitchell's chemistry with Goran Visjnic. The power struggle between the two at the beginning, fueled by Marta's rebellion against Schiller's authority and torment at not having the freedom she once did, becomes much more layered throughout the series. There's unspoken romantic/sexual tension that gets exacerbated by other figures in Schiller's life, while Marta comes to realize that he's not the big bad that she thought he was, particularly once he comes to her aid and exposes other sides to himself that prove to be more appealing. The constant push-pull between the two is similar to how Marta feels about her current situation; when things are okay with Schiller, the urgency she had to settle the debt and flee subsides a bit. However, once she has to deal with the rougher side of who Schiller is, and what he's capable of doing, the tension builds and you're left wondering just how close she is to making a move and taking control of her freedom.
While Red Widow can't decide if it wants to be a psychological profile of a woman immersed in a male-dominated world and possessing the power to determine the course of her life for the first time or an plot-chewing action drama that highlights the dangers of becoming too involved in the land of gangsters of guns, it's a solid show that plays well on DVD and spotlights a subculture that's intriguing, custom-oriented, and bursting with tension.
Red Widow stars Radha Mitchell, Goran Visjnic, Clifton Collins Jr., Wil Traval, Jaime Ray Newman, Lee Tergesen, and Rade Serbedzija.
Red Widow: The Complete First Season features all eight episodes of the recently canceled ABC family-crime drama spread over two discs. The series finale of the show aired May 5th.
Red Widow: The Complete First Season comes with several special features, beginning with Red Widow: The Journey, a behind the scenes featurette from the perspective of creator Melissa Rosenberg. We follow her from the show's Los Angeles-based writer's room to Skype-fueled table reads to the Vancouver set for the taping of the season finale. In addition, there are brief interviews with select actors about their characters and how they prepared for the show.
The DVD set also includes eight deleted scenes (mostly culled from the pilot and season finale), which are mostly transitional in nature; a blooper reel, featuring some unintentional laughing, flubbed lines, and multiple takes being forced; and a sneak peek at the Once Upon a Time Season 2 DVD.
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Rita, or The Beaten Husband, is a delightful dose of Donizetti in a one-act comic opera with high octane musical numbers connected by bits of snappy dialogue on the "politically incorrect" side.
Michelle Berger was born and raised in Montana. She had an extensive career in Europe and the United States. While she is primarily known as a classical singer, Michelle has always enjoyed and performed other genres of music as well.
Michelle started delving into the world of musical theater while in high school and continued her love of musical theater through her college years and beyond.
After moving to Europe, where she lived for many years, Michelle was active in performing both classical music and Broadway shows. In Switzerland she toured a series of Gershwin Evenings and performed in Broadway musicals, as well as opera.
Michelle has sung The Witch in Sondheim's "Into The Woods", Liz in Russ and Haverty's "Inside Out", Ado Annie in Rogers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma", Fastrada in Schwartz's "Pippin", Buttercup in Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore", Katisha in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado", The Fairy Queen in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe", as well as many others.
When asked to come up with a title for this show, "The Other Side" seemed to be a perfect choice.


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A Bridge to Words
Posted on September 18, 2020 September 18, 2020 by janemlucas
Hilaire Belloc's "Rebecca," illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
To a small child, the pages of a newspaper are enormous. Looking far back through the years, I see myself, not yet school age, trying to hold up those long, thin sheets of newsprint, only to find myself draped in them, as if covered by a shroud. But of course, back then, my inability to hold a newspaper properly was of little consequence. Even if I could have turned the pages as gracefully as my parents did, I couldn't decipher the black marks on the page; thus, my family's ritual reading of the newspaper separated them from me. As the youngest and the only one who couldn't read, I was left alone on the perimeter to observe. My family's world of written words was impenetrable; I could only look over their shoulders and try to imagine the places where all those black marks on the page had carried them—these people, my kin, who had clearly forgotten that I was in the room.
My sister, who was three years older, had her very own news source: The Mini Page, a four-page miniature paper that arrived at our house as an insert in the Sunday edition. While our parents sat in their easy chairs poring over the state and local news, my sister, Jo, perched at the drop-front desk and occupied herself with articles, puzzles, and connect-the-dots.
Carl Anderson's Henry
Finally, one Sunday, someone noticed me on the margin and led me into our family's reading circle. Whether it was one of my parents or my sister, I don't know. I remember only the gesture and the words: someone handing me the Sunday comics and saying, "You can read part of the funny pages, too. You can read Henry."
I took the giant page and laid it flat in the middle of the oval, braided rug on the floor of the den. Once I situated the page, I lay on top of it with my eyes just inches above the panels of the comic strip. To my parents, my prone position was a source of amusement, but for me it was simply a practical solution. How else was someone so small supposed to manage such a large piece of paper?
As I lay on the floor and looked at the comic strip's panels, I realized what the voice had meant. I could "read" Henry, the comic with the bald boy in a red shirt, because it consisted entirely of pictures. In between panels of Henry walking, there were panels of him standing still, scratching his hairless head. I didn't find Henry funny at all. I wondered how that pale forerunner of Charlie Brown had earned a prime spot in the funnies. Still, I was glad he was there. He was the bridge that led me to the written word.
Reading the wordless comic strip Henry for the first time was the beginning of a years-long habit of stretching out on the floor with newspapers and large books—not thick ones but ones that were tall and wide, among them one of my childhood favorites: The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense. My sister and I spent hours lying on our bedroom floor, the pink shag carpet tickling our legs as we delighted in the antics of Rebecca, the mischievous title character of one of the poems.
"Rebecca"—which my sister read to me before I could read it myself—introduced me to the word "abhors," the very sound of which appealed to me. Sometimes before Jo had finished reading the opening lines, my uncontrollable giggles collided with her perfect mock-serious delivery. As the last word in the first line, "abhors" serves as a lead-in to an enjambment: the continuation of a sentence or clause in a line break. It would be years before I learned the term "enjambment," but I was immediately swept away by its effect in the opening lines: "A trick that everyone abhors/ In Little Girls is Slamming Doors" (Belloc 61). The first line lured me into the second one, and so on and so on. I was drawn both to the individual word "abhors"—with its side-by-side "b" and "h," rare in English—and the way the words joined, like links in a chain, to yank me giggling through Rebecca's cautionary tale:
It happened that a marble bust
Of Abraham was standing just
Above the door this little lamb
Had carefully prepared to slam,
And down it came! It knocked her flat!
It laid her out! She looked like that.
Her funeral sermon (which was long
And followed by a sacred song)
Mentioned her virtues, it is true,
But dwelt upon her vices too,
And showed the dreadful end of one
Who goes and slams the door for fun. (61)
Why these particular early memories visit me now, I don't know. Perhaps rereading Art Spiegelman's graphic memoir, Maus, with my students has roused the wordless Henry and the word-filled Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense from the corner of my brain where they've slumbered. The former wakes and stretches out in my mind as a bridge to the latter: a spot in the world of words I've inhabited ever since.
Belloc, Hilaire. "Rebecca." The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense, edited by Louis Untermeyer, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provenson, Golden Press, 1970, p. 61.
Posted in Reading, Teaching, Theatre
María Gringa
Posted on February 18, 2019 September 14, 2020 by janemlucas
I'm standing in the dark with my ear to the curtain, trying not to think about the large stock pot I'm holding, or how easily it could slip from my damp, sweaty hands. I'm trying to block those thoughts with the words that I'm speaking in my mind, over and over, until I hear my cue:
FLORENCE Please ring again.
Cosme rings the bell a second time, on this occasion with more force. After a short pause, the sound of a pan [stock pot] being slammed down is heard off stage. (1.1)
Finally dropping the stock pot offers no relief from my anxiety; instead it heightens it, because it means that I'm closer to saying María's lines, and closer to the risk that they'll slip away from me.
FLORENCE Ah, that sounds promising. Here she comes.
María, the Mexican cook and housemaid, enters. (1.1)
I part the curtain and cross into the unknown, a place where I don't know whether the words that I've prepared to say will come to me again, as I, María, approach my boss, Florence Foster Jenkins, the worst singer in the world. Florence will ask María to bring tea and cake for her and her guest, her soon-to-be accompanist, Cosme McMoon. Disgruntled María savors the opportunity to tell Florence that she doesn't feel like preparing cake and tea. She's trying to clean the kitchen, and then she has to clean the carpet because Florence and her guests make such a mess. With what little Florence pays her, Florence can just serve herself. And so María tells her that:
Oh, pastel y te? No me apetece preparar nada para su mariquita. Estoy intentando limpiar la cocina y después tengo que limpiar la moqueta porque sus invitados dejan el apartamento como un cochinero. Con lo poco que me pagan, sírvanse ustedes mismos. (1.1)
I'm speaking the words rapid-fire—not as if I'm reciting lines in a script, but as if I'm someone I'm not: a fluent speaker. But no hablo español.
The rush that comes with being in the moment fades as I exit. My next line will be far shorter than the first, but as I wait backstage for my cue, I will be holding something far heavier than a stock pot: a large serving tray with a teapot, two teacups, a plate with a slice of cake, plus napkins and cutlery.
As I hold the tray, my hands begin to sweat again, and I'm trying not to think about how easily I could lose my grip (in more ways than one). I'm trying to block that thought by mouthing my next line, one with a phrase that's particularly hard for me to say. I think that saying luego me vuelvan (then come back) means voicing consonant clusters that aren't common in English. But don't take my word for it. This gringa's no linguist.
Then once again I'm on stage, speaking the words rapid-fire, blasting through luego me vuelvan as if it's second nature, when that couldn't be further from the truth. And again the anxiety returns as soon as I exit. Despite the apparent ease of what I've done onstage, backstage I will always believe—throughout the entire three-week, ten-performance run—that the lines are about to slip away from me.
Why would anyone put herself through that?
The truth is, I almost didn't.
It wasn't the part I'd auditioned for, but that's not the reason I was hesitant to say yes. Instead, I was reluctant because I believed that audiences would find me utterly unconvincing as a maid from Guadalajara. And I imagined that the same audiences that would bristle at the sight (and sound) of a fair-skinned, blue-eyed María would also be indignant at the director's decision to cast an actor who wasn't Latina.
Recently I was reminded of my reluctance to play María when my composition students and I were studying the essay "Always Living in Spanish," in which Marjorie Agosín meditates on the vital need of writing in Spanish as a way to hold onto her native Chilé.
As I gazed at the thumbnail photograph of Agosín on the page of the textbook, I asked myself: Would you have been so hesitant to accept the role of María if you'd known of this fair-skinned, blue-eyed Latina?
Writing of her perilous circumstances as a child who'd fled her home country, Agosín observes: "Daily I felt the need to translate myself for the strangers living around me, tell them why we're in Georgia, why we are different, why we had fled, why my accent was so thick, and why I did not look Hispanic" (80).
Though I have experienced nothing remotely close to Agosín's peril, backstage as María, I felt the weight of her words: "I had left a dangerous place that was my home, only to arrive in a dangerous place that was not" (80).
The stage is always a dangerous place, but accepting a role in another tongue meant venturing out of the dangerous place that was my home and into new dangerous territories: a place where some would say I shouldn't (for lack of authenticity) and another place where some would say I couldn't (for lack of believability). Those voices ran through my head until the director wore me down.
So this gringa said yes.
For all of my concerns about authenticity and believability, the real danger was the words, themselves. It hadn't occurred to me that the challenge inherent in learning lines would be compounded by the cognitive shift required of learning them as a non-native speaker. When I say kitchen, in my mind, I see a kitchen. When I say cocina, I don't. For the first time, I wasn't visualizing my lines. Instead I was memorizing a series of unfamiliar sounds. I knew their English translation—and I'd kept a transcription with my script—but as a novice speaker, I couldn't link the signs to the signifiers.
I had actually studied Spanish as a high-school and college student, but I conjugated my last Spanish verb more than thirty years ago, and I'd been a mediocre student at best. One of my most vivid memories of high school is a conversation with my Spanish teacher after class. Holding my quiz marked with a red F, he said: "Josefina [my sister, Jo] is so smart. What happened to you?" Would Señor Grave de Peralta have ever believed that theatre-goers would ask, "Are you bilingual?"
I am always grateful for the opportunity to return to the stage. As a nonmusical woman of a certain age, that chance comes all too seldom. Looking back at the months of rehearsal and performance of Glorious!, I am particularly thankful for the opportunity to embody a Guadalajaran. As María Gringa, I became a stranger in a strange and dangerous new place. I not only faced a new challenge as an actor, I also became a better teacher for my students who are non-native speakers. As María Gringa, I gained insight into the fears and anxieties they face when they struggle to make meaning of a series of unfamiliar sounds.
Three months after María Gringa left the stage for the last time, I was cast as an English-speaking French housekeeper. After learning an entire role in a different tongue, learning an accent alone seemed a cinch, though it proved otherwise.
After one of the performances, an audience member who'd also seen me as María Gringa asked me, "What's your real accent?"
"Eastern North Carolinian," I said.
He seemed rather disappointed.
Agosín, Marjorie. "Always Living in Spanish." The Norton Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook. 4th ed., by Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Goggin, and Francine Weinberg, 2016, pp. 79-81.
Quilter, Peter. Glorious! Samuel French, n.d.
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"Twelve Angry Men": A First Reading and a Second Act
Posted on October 17, 2018 October 18, 2018 by janemlucas
In my mind I have traveled back to my tenth-grade English classroom, to a desk where I haven't sat for more than thirty-five years. Yet despite that temporal distance, parts of that room remain vivid to me: the side-by-side, long, narrow window and back door typical of public high schools built in the early 1970s and the air conditioning unit below the window. It was, in fact, the first public school in our county that was air-conditioned.
The relative smallness of the room seems at odds with the vast worlds of words that opened to me there in the pages of my textbook. I do not remember its title—all of those high-school literature anthologies had the word discovery or horizon in their titles, didn't they? Though the title escapes me, I can still feel the waxy, uneven texture of the worn cover and the pages softened from semester after semester of students turning to these poems and short stories: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, "Grass" by Carl Sandburg, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed, and "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats.
Why I recall more of those readings from my sophomore year of high school than I remember from the two years that followed, I do not know. Perhaps those poems and stories remain distinct in my mind because I was just starting to enjoy reading again. Books were my constant companions when I was a child, but in junior high I became too restless and distracted for them.
Along with those works of literature that I encountered for the first time in the pages of my sophomore anthology, I also discovered among them, to my surprise, some lines that I knew very well but didn't expect to see in a textbook: the lyrics to "Eleanor Rigby." ("Ah, look at all the lonely people / Ah, look at all the lonely people.")
When Miss Peggy Stanton played "Eleanor Rigby" for us, I thought that she, my staid, middle-aged teacher (probably younger then than I am now) was antithetical to the screaming teenage girls in the footage of Beatles concerts. Miss Stanton was a woman of quiet strength. Childhood polio had left one of her legs shorter than the other, and she wore one shoe with a very thick sole to minimize her limp. I was so fascinated by her physical imbalance, I began to imagine her as a fictional character, a spinster school teacher whose brilliant mind compensated for her impairment.
As I sat in her class and listened to the words of "Eleanor Rigby," I thought of my own loneliness. I dwelled on its particulars then, not old enough yet to understand that it wasn't mine alone. But I began to understand something about the universality of our particular human struggles and began to develop my capacity for empathy in those days in Miss Stanton's class, especially on the days when we turned in our textbook to the pages of Twelve Angry Men.
Though I may have seen the Henry Fonda film before I read the play, my first memory of Twelve Angry Men is reading it aloud in Miss Stanton's class. I don't remember which juror I was asked to read. What I remember clearly is holding one firm belief about the nineteen-year-old boy on trial for murdering his father and gradually realizing that what I had viewed as facts were merely suppositions, and that reasonable doubt warranted a verdict of not guilty.
Unlike the other works of literature that I'd read in English class, Twelve Angry Men didn't dazzle me with poetic language or character development. The jurors spoke plainly. They were numbers without names. But when Juror Eight led his peers to question their assumptions, he led me to question mine. When I was a high school student in the early 1980s, critical thinking wasn't the pervasive term that it is now in conversations about education. But that's exactly what I was doing: thinking critically. And I was developing my capacity for empathy as I witnessed Juror Nine explain why he identified with one of the witnesses, an old man whose credibility is called into question:
I think I know him better than anyone here. This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant, old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the newspapers. Nobody knows him, nobody quotes him, nobody seeks his advice after seventy-five years. That's a very sad thing, to be nothing. A man like this needs to be recognized, to be listened to, to be quoted just once. This is very important. It would be so hard for him to recede in the background . . . . (Rose 36)
That old man was Eleanor Rigby, and so was Juror Nine.
Now, so many years later, I find myself revisiting the play as a reader of a different sort. I am sitting with its lines before me on three-by-five index cards, part of the line-learning ritual that I adopted when I returned to acting in my forties. Back in that tenth-grade classroom, 188 miles and decades away, I see that fifteen-year-old version of myself who had just started acting a year earlier. I am a stranger to her. I, this woman she would become, who would turn away from acting—to focus on college, and teaching, and writing—and then turn back to acting, and fall in love with it all over again, decades later.
As I study my lines, I continue to reflect on first reading Twelve Angry Men and on "Eleanor Rigby," the two inextricably yoked in my mind—not only because I read them both my sophomore year but also because of their music. In the twelve jurors of Rose's play, I hear the violins, violas, and cellos of "Eleanor Rigby." And to be one of Rose's players, to carry the music of a juror's voice from page to stage, makes my heart sing.
Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. "Eleanor Rigby." Revolver. Capitol, 1966.
Rose, Reginald. Twelve Angry Jurors. 1954. Penguin, 2006.
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Delivering the keynote address at a program organised by the Horticulture Department for betel leaf farmers here on Saturday, Prof. Guha said that cultivation of the valuable betel leaf, which could fetch a tremendous amount of foreign exchange and income, was not scientific in Andhra Pradesh. He said West Bengal was the largest producer of betel leaf in the world accounting for 30 per cent. Betel leaves were chewed in Bangladesh,Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lankaand Thailand.
Calling betel leaf the "neglected green gold of India", Prof Guha said that even gold had limited value when compared to betel leaf because the source of the metal was not unlimited like in the case of betel leaf. "The amount of gold even in a mine is limited, but when it comes to betel leaf there is no end," he said to explain why he called betel leaf green gold.
He said farmers could harvest 80 to 100 leaves from a plant each year. Two to three lakh plants could be planted in one hectare.
The value of the total betel leaf produced in the country was around Rs 9,000 million per annum.
Betel leaf was, however, highly perishable after harvest. It was subject to spoilage due to dehydration and fungal infection. There was a loss ranging between 35 per cent and 70 per cent during transport and storage. Even the most conservative estimate of loss was 10per cent and that worked out to Rs.900 million, he said.
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Home Wildlife Species of Florida Birds American White Pelican
The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes.
The American White Pelican breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Central America and South America, in winter
The American White Pelican is similar in length to a trumpeter swan. It has an overall length of about 50–70 in (130–180 cm), with a huge beak that measures 11.3–15.2 in (290–390 mm) in males and 10.3–14.2 in (260–360 mm) in females. It has a wingspan of about 95–120 in (240–300 cm). The species also has the second largest average wingspan of any North American bird, after the California condor. This large wingspan allows the bird to easily use soaring flight for migration.
The body weight of the American White Pelican can range between 7.7 and 30 lb (3.5 and 13.6 kg), although usually they average between 11 and 20 lb (5.0 and 9.1 kg). The plumage is almost entirely bright white, except the black primary and secondary remiges, which are hardly visible except in flight. From early spring until after breeding has finished in mid-late summer, the breast feathers have a yellowish hue. After moulting into the eclipse plumage, the upper head often has a grey hue, as blackish feathers grow between the small wispy white crest.
The bill is huge and flat on the top, with a large throat sac below, and, in the breeding season, is vivid orange in color as are the iris, the bare skin around the eye, and the feet. In the breeding season, there is a laterally flattened "horn" on the upper bill, located about one-third the bill's length behind the tip. This is the only one of the eight species of pelican to have a bill "horn". The horn is shed after the birds have mated and laid their eggs. Outside the breeding season the bare parts become duller in color, with the naked facial skin yellow and the bill, pouch, and feet an orangy-flesh color.
Apart from the difference in size, males and females look exactly alike. Immature birds have light grey plumage with darker brownish nape and remiges. Their bare parts are dull grey. Chicks are naked at first, then grow white down feathers all over, before moulting to the immature plumage.
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The American White Pelicans are 'colonial breeders', with up to 5,000 pairs per site. The birds arrive on the breeding grounds in March or April; nesting starts between early April and early June. During the breeding season, both males and females develop a pronounced bump on the top of their large beaks. This conspicuous growth is shed by the end of the breeding season.
The nest is a shallow depression scraped in the ground, in some twigs, sticks, reeds or similar debris have been gathered. After about one week of courtship and nest-building, the female lays a clutch of usually 2 or 3 eggs, sometimes just 1, sometimes up to 6.
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Genus: Pelecanus
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This is the first bill in California's history that provides a dedicated source of funds towards prevailing wage enforcement.
AB 436 revised statues of SB X 2-9 of 2009 which created the Public Works Enforcement Fund and Compliance Monitoring Unit at the DIR. The revisions include technical changes requested by the Attorney General's Bond Counsel.
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Howard Hale of Woodmagic made beautiful magic items from wood. His premier chop cup made with padauk, wenge, zebrawood and red oak is truly a beauty. His Clear Deception is no exception. This is a well known and popular effect. The method is a classic and works very well for the illusion of the plate penetrating the threaded string. I had Howard make me a custom version of this prop, made with rosewood for the base and black ebony for the uprights; the cross bar is red oak. Unfortunately, I hear Woodmagic is no longer around and these pieces are now true collectibles.
some very funny moment thanks to the boards.
a side point this can be a different selection each time!!
i love this because it is so different.
What a Pretty and Clever Effect!
This is one of the early Collector's Workshop items that is often overlooked. You can still get it today and you should! When you see the price you will be even more excited to get one as it is great value too!
Briefly the effect is this: You show five brass napkin rings each with a different colored silk passing through. You take each brass ring and remove the silk and place it in a supplied blue bag. As you remove each silk you can clearly show the brass ring is empty and you assemble each ring together to form a tube. The tube remains in full view all the time. Then, you have a silk freely selected from the bag and this silk vanishes leaving just the other 4 silks. You now turn to the tube and push a wand or pen or similar and the chosen, vanished silk pops out from the end of the tube.
This is very easy to do and nothing is added or taken away. You will be delighted with the way the gimiick works so well.
I really like this hidden gem and I think you will too.
Ok so I have 20+ new tricks to add and 20+ books, but I have just added one. This beatiful effect by Paul Mims and Doug Gorman is really, really growing on me.
I've performed it a few times and it kills! The basic effect is this: 3 cards are chosen from a blue backed deck and then the 3 Magic Chameleon cards are shown and as they are placed on top of the chosen cards one at a time they are shown to change to the same card. Then each card is transformed to one of the chosen cards, and finally the colors of the backs of each chosen card changes to the Chameleon cards (red, green and black) and the rest of the deck are shown to be blue.
This is one of those tricks that needs to be seen to be appreciated. it requires one simple sleight and everything not only is clean at the end, but reset is almost automatic.
Everything about this effect has been cleanly routined and with about an hours practice you will have an incredible effect to perform for the rest of your life. This is already slated for my Christmas shows.
Thank-you Paul and Doug for releasing such a wonderful effect!


Caregiving takes many forms. Many of us help older, sick, or disabled family members and friends every day. We know we are helping, but we don't think of ourselves as caregivers. We are glad to do this and feel rewarded by it, but if the demands are heavy, over time we can also become exhausted and stressed. We think we should be able to handle caregiving roles on top of busy work and family schedules and begin to feel guilty and depressed as our stamina wanes.
About 44 million Americans provide 37 billion hours of unpaid, "informal" care each year for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions that prevent them from handling daily activities such as bathing, managing medications or preparing meals on their own. Family caregivers, particularly women, provide over 75% of caregiving support in the United States. In 2007, the estimated economic value of family caregivers' unpaid contributions was at least $375 billion, which is how much it would cost to replace that care with paid services.
All of us, at some point in our lives. Caregivers are daughters, wives, husbands, sons, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, partners and friends. While some people receive care from paid caregivers, most rely on unpaid assistance from families, friends and neighbors.
Buys groceries, cooks, cleans house or does laundry for someone who needs special help doing these things?
Helps a family member get dressed, take a shower and take medicine?
Helps with transferring someone in and out of bed, helps with physical therapy, injections, feeding tubes or other medical procedures?
Makes medical appointments and drives to the doctor and drugstore?
Talks with the doctors, care managers and others to understand what needs to be done?
Spends time at work handling a crisis or making plans to help a family member who is sick?
Is the designated "on-call" family member for problems?
In small doses, these jobs are manageable. But having to juggle competing caregiving demands with the demands of your own life on an ongoing basis can be quite a challenge. With the 65+ age group expected to double to 70 million people by 2030, family caregivers increasingly provide care for aging parents, siblings, and friends, most of whom have one or more chronic conditions and who wish to remain in their own homes and communities as they age. Others belong to the "sandwich generation," caring for children and parents at the same time.
Caregiving roles and demands are impacted by a number of other factors. For some people, caregiving occurs gradually over time. For others, it can happen overnight. Caregivers may be full or part-time; live with their loved one or provide care from a distance.
The "typical" U.S. caregiver is a 46-year-old woman who works outside the home and spends more than 20 hours per week providing unpaid care to her mother.
Most caregivers are married or living with a partner.
Most caregivers are employed. Among caregivers age 50-64 years old, an estimated 60% are working full or part time.
Many caregivers of older people are themselves elderly.
Of those caring for someone aged 65+, the average age of caregivers is 63 years with one third of these caregivers in fair to poor health.
Most caregivers live near people they care for. Eighty-three percent of caregivers care for relatives, with 24% living with the care recipient, 61% living up to one hour away, and 15% living 1-2 hours or more away.
With the dramatic aging of the population, we will be relying even more on families to provide care for their aging parents, relatives and friends for months and years at a time. Yet, the enormous pressures and risks of family caregiving are a reality of daily life for millions of American families and pose a great strain on family caregivers, many of whom are struggling to balance work and family responsibilities.
Families need information and their own support services to preserve their critical role as caregivers, but frequently they do not know where to turn for help. One place to start is the Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC). The ADRC can listen to your situation and help assess what type of assistance is needed. The professional staff can then talk to you about available services, supports or programs in your area. You will be given information on the service, support or program, what providers are in the area, the cost associated, as well as any financial assistance programs available to assist with the cost. Staff can come to the home to meet with you and your family. There are many resources available to assist you in this journey of caregiving and we are here to help you navigate them and find the ones that fit into your situation!
Call us today to discuss further! All our services are free and kept confidential. You can even call to get information anonymously!
The ADRC staff can assist you in finding the proper resources you need to maintain a great lifestyle. We can provide you with not only the information on what is available, but also help you take advantage of those services you qualify for. Assistance specialists in the ADRC provide you with information about services, resources, and programs in areas such as disability and long-term care, living arrangements, health and wellness, adult protective services, employment and training for people with disabilities, home maintenance, nutrition and publicly funded programs.
ADRC specialists can help to connect you with services and can help you apply for publicly funded programs as needed. You can call the resource center about a wide variety of topics. You can contact the ADRC in a variety of ways; phone, in person with no appointments needed, by fax, email or written letter. Information and Assistance services can be obtained anonymously and can be obtained by the person needing the information or by family members or other loved ones.
Have you ever seen on TV one of those performances where someone is spinning a bunch of plates on sticks and racing around trying to keep them all from falling? Caregiving today is a lot of like this. In our everyday lives we are already spinning many plates with our realtionships, family, careers, social activities, health care, and then once you become a caregiver many more plates are added to the mix with things like medical appointments, transportation, personal care, and decision making for our loved one. If we live in a continuous scramble after our plates we can lose sight of what is important and may put our own health in jepordy, not to mention the well being of the one we are caring for. Whether we decide to continue to spin all the plates at one time or make the decision to set a few aside, there is help out there for caregivers. Providing care for someone in need may be the most important role one will ever fill in a lifetime, but it does not have to be done alone. The first step is to recognize that we are spinning too many plates or that the plates are teetering out of control. The second step is to ask for help. This is a sign of strength, not weakness, and is the surest way to keep all the parts of our lives in balance.
The Aging & Disability Resource Center has different resources and options available to support caregivers. Caregiver support can be received in many ways; attend a support group to gain a perspective of the caregiving situation, build a support network to include family, friends, medical personnel, clergy and a social worker/care manager, accept assistance with personal care needs from family members and friends to lighten the load, hire private help even a few hours a week for household and chore services, accept respite care opportunities to allow a break from caregiving and find ways to renew one's own body, mind and spirit.
There are many different resources services out there to help. By calling the Aging & Disability Resource Center a Specialist can help you find the one that is best for your situation and discuss with you how the service works, who in the community are available to provide the service and the costs associated as well as any funding assistance available.
So start with the Aging & Disability Resource Center to discuss your situation and see what is available.
There are a variety of educational opportunities going on throughout the year that can be beneficial for caregivers. These events can speak to how to better provide care for your loved one, inform you more about different diseases as well as to help you take care of yourself so you can continue to provide care to others.
Please check back often for updated information. You can also join our caregiver listserve so that you are sent invitations or emails alerting you to events coming up. To join the listserve you can send the ADRC an email or give the ADRC a call and indicate you would like to put your name on the listserve. This listserve is kept secure and not distributed to others.
Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an educational workshop for people who are taking care of a family member or friend. It was developed by Legacy Health Systems at the University of Oregon, Portland. PTC is designed specifically to support the family caregiver and improve his or her well-being – it does not teach hands-on care or focus on disease or other conditions.
The Powerful Tools for Caregivers program will provide you with tools and strategies to better handle the unique caregiver challenges you face.
Classes are taught to a small group (up to 15 older adults) by two trained leaders. The workshop meets weekly for six consecutive weeks for 1.5 hours.
Who should take Powerful Tools for Caregivers?
Family & caregivers should take this course to help them better cope with the challenges of caregiving and get support and resources to make the caregiving journey easier.
Powerful Tools for Caregivers classes happen throughout the communities in Green County. To stay up-to-date, you can check out our Events Calendar by CLICKING HERE, get updates delivered directly to your inbox by SUBSCRIBING HERE, or call the Aging & Disability Resource Center office at 608-328-9499.
Our mission is to support, educate, and advocate for those who give and receive care.
Our Start: The Green County Caregiver Coalition was formed in 2011 to address the needs of family caregivers as they continue to support their loved ones. With over 600,000 family caregivers identified in Wisconsin in 2009, the number will continue to grow as our population ages. The Coalition is comprised of community members from a variety of different organizations who share a commitment to improving the lives and supporting family caregivers throughout all stages of their journey.
Coalition Goal 1: Create community awareness of the needs of family caregivers.
Updates: Results from the survey of 50 caregivers in Green County showed that of the respondents, the majority were female, aged 46 to 65, and had been a family caregiver for up to five years. Their care recipients are generally over the age 76 (64%) and are being cared for by their adult children (48%). Over half report it is their first time caring for a family member and one- third has the care recipient living with them. Seventy percent are working either part or full time.
Following was a focus group with 10 participants to address these major concerns, where distinctly a fourth challenge was identified as the importance of and potential stressors within the familial relationship between the caregiver and the care recipient.
Coalition Goal 2: Provide peer support opportunities for family caregivers.
Updates: As indicated by the Coalition's 2011 Survey Results the need for a support group specific to caregivers was evident in Green County. Therefore, a Caregivers Support Group was started. It meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 6 – 7:30 pm at the Monroe Clinic Hospital. It is a place for caregivers to share their experiences, learn about resources available, and find out you are not alone. Professionals from the Monroe Clinic and the Aging & Disability Resource Center work together to facilitate the group.
In 2013, the group was granted another opportunity with funding from the Monroe Foundation and is now able to offer on-site respite for care recipients. More details are to follow about eligibility and openings for respite on site. For other respite resources in home please contact the ADRC at 608-328-9499.
If you have questions about the Caregivers Support Group please call Deanna Truedson at 608-843-3402.
Coalition Goal 3: Provide information and education relevant to family caregivers.
Updates: Updates coming soon on this goal.
The coalition is open to any person with a passion and concern about caregiving and caregivers in Green County. This includes individuals who are or were family caregivers, representatives from non-profit and for-profit organizations, government agencies, faith-based groups, and the community-at-large.
If you would like to join our coalition or have questions please call the Aging & Disability Resource Center 608-328-9499. We also could accompany you to your first meeting.


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Martinez given backing by Belgian FA but told lessons must be learned
By	Sports Desk	October 12, 2021
Roberto Martinez retains the full support of the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) but has been told lessons must be learned from Belgium's disappointing Nations League Finals campaign.
Belgium let a two-goal half-time lead slip in last week's 3-2 defeat to France in the semi-finals and followed that up with a 2-1 loss at the hands of European champions Italy in the third-place play-off on Sunday.
The Red Devils are on course to finish the year as FIFA's top-ranked national side for the fourth time running, but their 'golden generation' of players have still yet to win any silverware.
Martinez could only guide Belgium to the quarter-finals of Euro 2020, having previously finished third at the 2018 World Cup (they were also beaten by Italy and France respectively in those tournaments), but the Spaniard – who has been strongly linked with replacing Ronald Koeman at Barcelona – is not at risk of being sacked.
However, RBFA chief executive Peter Bossaert accepts that the second-half display against France cannot be repeated if Belgium are to have any chance of ending their wait for a trophy.
"Roberto is still the right man for the job," Bossaert told La Derniere Heure. "We still support him 100 per cent. But we have to learn from the game against France, in which we played our best half of football and worst half in a long time.
"I'm going to ask some people for advice, but I'm not going to create a commission or a committee. I also don't want too many people giving their opinions because then there will be too many differing opinions."
Belgium are top of their World Cup 2022 qualifying group with 16 points from six matches and return to action on November 13 with a home game against Estonia.
Martinez agrees with Bossaert that Belgium were not good enough during the Nations League Finals, even if there were some positives to take away from the mini-tournament.
"We cannot concede five goals in two games and we cannot concede two penalties, even if the decisions were not correct," he said.
"But the way we reacted to going behind against Italy, after what had happened in the France game, I thought the team had a real strong personality to keep playing."
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Xavi defiant over Dembele: Sign the contract or be sold
Barcelona coach Xavi has issued an ultimatum to Ousmane Dembele over his future: either sign a new contract or leave the club this month.
The Catalans have been in discussion with the winger for months about an extension to his deal, which expires at the end of the season.
Dembele has struggled badly with injury troubles since his move from Borussia Dortmund in 2017 for an initial €105million, which have hampered his attempts to establish himself as a key player at Camp Nou.
Xavi, though, has been eager to see the France international stay at the club despite him playing just six times in LaLiga this season and in only 52 per cent of all Barca's league games since his arrival.
This week, Dembele's agent Moussa Sissoko told RMC Sport that he would not bow to "pressure" from Barca over his client's future and accused the club of making "threats of no longer playing in the side" rather than engaging in productive talks.
It appears Xavi and Barca's directors have had enough of the situation and the message to Dembele is clear.
"What I can say is that we are making a difficult decision. If he does not renew, the club has decided they will make a decision," Xavi told reporters ahead of Thursday's Copa del Rey clash with Athletic Bilbao.
"We've waited a long time. We have been in talks with him for five months.
"Either he renews or we look for an exit. In the end, the club has decided that if he does not renew, a solution must be found.
"We have to do what is best for the club. [Sporting director] Mateu Alemany has been talking with him and his representatives for months.
"It's not a pleasant situation for anyone, but what's clear is that the interests of the club must prevail here.
"He told me he wants to stay. It's a question for him. I've been really clear; I can't be more concise. Either he renews, or we look for an exit. It's all or nothing."
Xavi also made it clear he considers it a priority to extend the contract of defender Ronald Araujo, which expires at the end of next season.
"His renewal is a priority. He's a really important piece. He has a winning character," Xavi said.
"I hope an agreement is reached because he's a player for the present and the future. Ronald is a boy who adds a lot."
Salah and Mane not Liverpool's only weapons – Lijnders
Liverpool are proving that they are not just reliant on Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, according to assistant manager Pep Lijnders.
Jurgen Klopp's side are having to do without two of their star attackers, with Salah and Mane on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt and Senegal respectively.
Naby Keita is also featuring at the tournament, with the midfielder a talisman for Guinea, who like Senegal have progressed from Group B. Salah's Egypt will guarantee their qualification from Group D with a win over Sudan on Wednesday.
The tournament runs until February 6. Senegal were runners-up in 2019 while Egypt are the most successful team in AFCON history with seven titles, and both are fancied to go far this time around in Cameroon.
Liverpool have been without the trio since just after a draw with Chelsea on January 2, and though they subsequently beat Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup, the absence of Mane and the Premier League's leading scorer Salah was particularly felt in a 0-0 draw with 10-man Arsenal at Anfield in the first leg of the EFL Cup semi-final on January 13.
The Gunners had Granit Xhaka sent off midway through the first half yet Liverpool mustered only one effort on target, with that shot coming in stoppage time, after Takumi Minamino had spurned a glorious chance.
The Reds bounced back with a routine 3-0 win over Brentford on Sunday, with Liverpool having 27 shots (13 on target) and controlling 68 percent of the possession.
Liverpool had 3.1 expected goals against Brentford, the joint-fourth highest total for them in a league game this season, while they have only managed more shots in one top-flight fixture (against Leeds United in September), with their shots-on-target total the most in a single match.
Asked ahead of the second leg against Arsenal how pleased he was with Liverpool's reaction to being without such key players, Lijnders told a news conference: "We did it before. One of the most memorable games [the 4-0 Champions League win over Barcelona in 2019] was without a few of them [Salah and Roberto Firmino].
"When we have our squad, we knew that we needed to have different weapons, create goals from everywhere, dribbles from everywhere, attacks from everywhere, not just based on counter-attacks or the speed of these two boys.
"They are our front line but what I like is we don't just have one weapon, we have so many different ways to attack. How we are evolving as a team, developing with our positional game, it's important and we really like it."
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain stepped up on Sunday, scoring Liverpool's second and playing three key passes, second only to Fabinho (four), though the midfielder will not be available against his former club on Thursday due to an ankle injury sustained against Brentford.
"I spoke with him and he feels okay, it's not that bad," Lijnders explained. "He's hoping that he will make the weekend. Tomorrow will be way too soon. We will assess that day by day."
While Liverpool beat Brentford, Arsenal were not in action on Sunday, with the Premier League having granted the Gunners' request to postpone the north London derby clash with Tottenham due to a COVID-19 case within the squad, though injuries and players away at AFCON were also cited as a reason.
"We had our own experience with this, it's really difficult to judge from the outside," said Lijnders, who had to take charge of the Chelsea clash this month when Klopp was self-isolating due to COVID-19.
"We saw that with our situation. I fully respect the submissions because I trust 100 percent the medical department of each Premier League club. I think this is the most important, the trust in these decisions."
Haaland ultimatum is 'total b***s***', claims Watzke
Hans-Joachim Watzke has slammed the suggestion that Borussia Dortmund have issued Erling Haaland an ultimatum over his future as "total b***s***".
Haaland, who joined Dortmund in January 2020 from Austrian club Salzburg, is one of the most sought-after talents in European football.
Since the Norway forward made his Dortmund debut just over two years ago, he has netted 79 goals in all competitions.
He marked his two-year anniversary with a goal on Tuesday, though Dortmund nevertheless suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to St Pauli in the DFB-Pokal.
It means that, for the first time since 2006-07, neither Dortmund nor Bayern Munich will contend in the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals, while none of the winners from across the previous 26 years are left in this season's competition.
That defeat followed on from an emphatic Bundesliga win over Freiburg on Friday, though it was after that match that Haaland commented on his future.
The 21-year-old claimed Dortmund had been pressuring to make a decision on his next move, and that he would soon make a call on whether he will look to leave the club at the end of the season.
However, Dortmund chief executive Watzke, who did over the weekend acknowledge they had stressed the importance of Haaland making a decision soon to the striker, has insisted the club have not made any ultimatum.
"Some in the media write that BVB would give him an ultimatum, which is total bullshit," he told ARD.
"Dortmund didn't put the gun on his chest."
Asked if Dortmund had been unsettled by Haaland's comments, Watzke added: "Erling was obviously a bit bothered by it, but we can't influence that. We told him that too."
Since his Dortmund bow, only Robert Lewandowski (107) has scored more goals than Haaland across all competitions, of players in Europe's top five leagues.
Haaland averages a goal every 80 minutes, while his tally has come from an expected goals (xG) of 63, suggesting his finishing has been way above the standard that would be expected given the quality of chances that have been created for him.
As for big chances – which Opta define as an opportunity from which a player would reasonably be expected to score – Haaland has been presented with 110 and converted 65 of them.
That equals a conversion rate of 59.1 per cent, which is better than eight of the top 10 goalscorers across Europe's top five leagues in that time, with Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes, who has netted 32 of his 49 big chances (65.3 per cent) having a better conversion rate.


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Today's researchers have come up with a way to print a whole integrated circuit directly onto fabric. This opens up a range of possibilities especially when it comes to health and well- being. Printing a circuit onto fabric is not entirely new. Previously, circuits could be put onto fabric but that made them uncomfortable and not to mention they got damaged during washing.
With today's technology, researchers are able to print an entire circuit onto fabric and not only this, the fabric is not uncomfortable to wear nor does it get affected during washes.
These circuits have been printed using inks that are not only safe but also can be washed without the circuit being destroyed.
Since the circuit is printed on the fabric, it is stretchable and breathable and comfortable to wear. All this is done using conventional printing techniques.
Basically, the ink used to print the circuit onto fabric is called graphene, which is a two-dimensional carbon. With this ink used, the integrated circuit onto fabric can last for up to 20 washes.
Graphene with other components is used to print the entire circuit onto the fabric. Scientists used low boiling point inks to print circuit onto fabric directly on to the fabric. It was additionally discovered that by adjusting the roughness of the material, they were able to increase the effectiveness of the printed circuit.
Because of this, researchers were able to integrate entire circuits instead of only single transistors. This integrated circuit onto fabric was able to combine both active and passive materials.
What is currently available today, are electronic devices that depend on hard components such as rubber and plastic. These often times are uncomfortable to wear and can get destroyed in the washing machine.
The inks that are currently used are toxic and not particularly safe to wear on the skin. But with graphene, the circuit on to fabric can be washed without damaging it, it is environmentally safe and is safe to wear.
Because of the circuit's versatility, it can be used in a host of places such as health and well-being, it can be used as wearable energy harvesting, wearable technology, fashion and also military garments.
All these areas open up a wide range of possible uses for the printable circuit.
With nanotechnology, these circuit on fabric can be used to incorporate electronics into clothing such as sensors and displays. With this all in the future, clothing can be made interactive.
The research behind the integrated circuit onto fabric has been supported by a number of institutions and is also in the process of being commercialized.


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Directions: This license is required for driving a single vehicle with a GVWR of more than 26,001 pounds, and a trailer not to exceed 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, or a vehicle designed to transport 24 or more people (including the driver). To receive this license, applicants must pass a 50-question test. To pass, applicants must answer 40 questions correctly. Each question has four possible answer choices. Test questions come from the Kansas Commercial Driver License Manual. Questions come from chapters covering: Introduction, Driving Safely, Transporting Cargo Safely, Air Brakes (if applicable), Pre-Trip Vehicle Inspection Test, Basic Vehicle Control Skills Test and On-Road Driving.. Endorsements that may be used with a Class B CDL are: Hazardous materials, Tank, Passenger, HazMat and Tank, Air Brakes and School bus.
A supply of spare electrical fuses.
Mandatory emergency equipment includes: at least one fire extinguisher; spare electrical fuses (unless the vehicle is equipped with circuit breakers); and warning devices for parked vehicles (such as reflective triangles).
Cargo on flatbed trailers or trailers without sides must be tied down to prevent it from shifting or falling in transit.