Read Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' 2012 State of the State address.
Members of the General Assembly, honored guests, fellow citizens. For an eighth time, and the final time, you afford me the unrivaled privilege of this podium. As it's my last such chance to express my appreciation for the public service you each perform, and to Hoosiers for hiring me twice so I could try to perform my own, I'll start with a heartfelt thank you.
But the time for reminiscing will come later, much later. Tonight, and all nights in today's Indiana, must be about the future, where we are and where we are going.
A reporter asked recently, "What keeps you up at night?" I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
I'm pretty sure that good man would agree tonight that things are very different in Indiana now. Then, we were broke and other states were flush. Tonight, while states elsewhere twist in financial agony, Indiana has an honestly balanced budget, a strong, protective reserve in our state savings account, and the first AAA credit rating in state history, one of just a handful left in America. Our credit is better – imagine this – than that of the federal government.
Another host of states raised taxes again last year, while Hoosiers are taxed at the lowest levels in a long time, thanks in part to the lowest property taxes in the nation.
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.
Tonight, Hoosiers are served by provably the most productive government workers anywhere. Indiana has the fewest state employees per capita in the country, the fewest we've had since 1975. And yet our parks have never been in better shape, your tax refund comes back twice as quickly as it used to, and the average customer got in and out of a license branch last month in less than 14 minutes.
I'm not the only one to notice. In a national survey last summer, 77 percent of Hoosiers described their state government as "efficient," far above most states and the second-highest rating in the nation.
Uniquely in public sector America, Indiana now pays state workers on a performance basis, so those doing the best job are properly rewarded for their superior efforts. But I know that the reward they value as much as money is simple recognition from the citizens they serve, and I hope you'll show them right now that you value them and their hard work as much as I do.
Careful stewardship of the taxpayer's dollar, and ceaseless efforts to improve public services, are matters of duty, and basic good government. But they are not the fundamental goals of public life. They are just means to the real goal, which is to make of our state a place of opportunity, and upward mobility, and a better standard of living. A place where young people, and people not so young, know that they can start with nothing and make a good life. From our administration's first day, this has been the central objective around which everything else was organized.
We have worked relentlessly to move Indiana up the list of great places to do business. We set out to build the best sandbox in America, a place where men and women of enterprise knew that, if they risked a buck on their idea or their dream, they would have the best possible chance to get it back, with something left over they could use to hire the next Hoosier.
We have made steady progress, coming from nowhere to the top tier in every ranking: No. 6 according to the nation's site selectors, No. 6 according to CEO Magazine, No. 5 according to real estate decision makers.
But it isn't nearly enough. It was our ironic bad luck to create a top economic climate just as the nation plunged into its worst modern recession, and business investment slowed to a crawl: we became the prettiest girl in school the year they called off the prom.
Despite these headwinds, our recently strong state revenues show that something positive is happening to Hoosier incomes. In 2010, the most recent data we have, Indiana incomes grew at the eighth fastest rate in the country.
Here's another encouraging sign: more people are moving into Indiana than moving out. Our population is growing at the fastest rate from Iowa to Maine. Maybe best of all, thousands more college graduates moved into our state last year than moved out. There is no better indicator of economic promise in today's world than success at attracting top talent, and we are.
We are not where we want to be, nowhere close. But with a welcoming business climate, enormous investments in new public infrastructure, and a stable fiscal picture, we are poised for more progress, and better days.
The days when education debates started and stopped at dollar signs are over, and high time. From President Obama down, everyone now recognizes that leaders in education are defined not by what they put in but by what they get out. But just for the record, and despite frequent misrepresentations to the contrary, Indiana is a leader in what we put in.
With this year's spending increases, plus the additional funds we requested for full day kindergarten, K-12 spending is now 56 percent of the entire state budget, the highest percentage of any state in the nation. No state anywhere devotes more of its state funds to education.
But that's not why others are following Indiana. It's our new commitment to rewarding the best teachers, liberating principals and superintendents, and providing low- and middle-income parents the same choices as their wealthier neighbors; that's what has caught the world's attention. And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.
There are few subjects more studied, or more intriguing, than leadership. Leaders come in many forms and often from unexpected directions. But some qualities are common among them, and one is that leaders never loaf. They never slip into complacency, settle for things as they are, or stop pursuing innovation and excellence of result. If they do, leadership will pass, and new leaders surpass. Leaders who loaf aren't leaders for long.
Along with all the accolades, Indiana now bears this burden of leadership, the duty to keep pressing ahead.
This administration will not loaf. We have made out a long list of self-assignments for our eighth and final year. Our Economic Development Corporation captured a record 219 new jobs transactions in 2011; we have raised the bar to 250 for the year ahead.
We will press hard to accelerate further the ahead-of-schedule, under-budget delivery of our Major Moves transportation program. In 2012, we will invest $1.2 billion in road and bridge construction, the sixth straight record-setting year.
The last contract on the Hoosier Heartland Corridor will be let next summer and the entire project finished by 2013. The last contracts on U.S. 31 from South Bend through Kokomo will be let this year, and we have accelerated completion of the entire corridor into 2015. I-69 will be open for traffic from Evansville to Crane, as will the entire Fort to Port highway in Northeast Indiana. The Sherman-Minton Bridge will be rebuilt and reopened by March and, upriver, an agreement on a new bridge from Utica to Louisville will be in place, cementing Indiana's place at the forefront of the public-private partnership movement.
We will build the state's 3,000th mile of bike and hiking trails, and reach our goal of a trail within 15 minutes of every Hoosier.
Unknown to most citizens, the air and water of Indiana is now the cleanest in living memory. In 2011, every Indiana community met all national air quality standards for the first time in the history of the Clean Air Act.
Last year, we wiped out the last of a 550-case backlog of old, and therefore less strict, environmental permits, and are now the only state completely current. Our goal for 2012 is to maintain this status and, if national limits are lowered yet again, to find a way to meet those standards, too.
We will complete our successful overhaul of what was once America's worst welfare system when, in February, the 10th and final region is converted to our reformed, public-private system. Backlogs have been slashed by 80 percent, timeliness and accuracy have soared above national averages, and last October the program earned a cash bonus and an award for most improved in the nation. We have set high targets for continued improvement in 2012.
The same is true of our campaign to conserve Indiana's natural heritage. The last seven years have seen new records for protection of wetlands and habitats, 50,000 acres by the end of this year, highlighted by the largest such project ever at Goose Pond. In 2011, we launched new waterways conservation projects the size of three Goose Ponds in the Muscatatuck Bottoms, and five Goose Ponds along the Wabash Corridor. Before long, Hoosiers will be able to travel over 100 miles down our state's signature river and never leave a protected wetlands.
Our coming Bicentennial gives us an ideal opportunity to extend this historic era of reverence for the beauty God bestowed on Indiana. I have appointed a commission of a dozen illustrious citizens, led by my partner Becky Skillman, and by the legendary Congressman Lee Hamilton, to guide the great celebrations to come.
As a first initiative, I have asked them to oversee a Bicentennial Nature Trust, a statewide project to protect still more of our most precious natural spaces. On our 100th birthday, Indiana launched its state park system. A statewide conservation initiative is a fitting sequel and bequest from our second century to our third.
We have identified state funding, within existing resources, of $20 million, but that must be just a beginning. The Trust is intended to inspire others, and to match their donations of land or dollars in a continuing statewide surge of conservation. The Commission joins me in challenging citizens, businesses, and in particular our unique network of county community foundations, to identify and fund local projects that will safeguard places of beauty for future generations.
In this Assembly, you too must set big goals. We should, at long last, enact a law to protect workers and patrons across Indiana from the hazards of second-hand smoke. Public support has grown, and so has the evidence of health risk to workers. It is time to move this long-sought objective to the finish line.
We should – no, we must – strengthen our laws against the horrid practice of human trafficking, and we must do it in time for the Super Bowl, the kind of event at which the exploitation of young women is rampant in the absence of such a tough law.
We should assist students with the cost of higher education by empowering our Higher Ed Commission to limit the "credit creep" which unduly increases both time to graduation and student expense. Undoubtedly, some degrees will continue to justify more than the traditional 120 credit hours. But schools requiring 126 hours for a degree in sociology, or 138 hours in special education, or 141 hours in music education, should have to explain why all that time and student expense is necessary, especially when other colleges offer high quality programs in less time and cost.
We should deepen the state's response to the terrible tragedy that befell so many at last summer's Indiana State Fair. A catastrophe so singular merits unique treatment, and I hope you will augment the amounts already provided the victims and their families by the state and private donors.
And we should trust the people of Central Indiana with the decision whether to raise local dollars for mass transit if they believe it crucial to their future quality of life.
Within weeks, one of the great public careers, and perhaps the greatest judicial career, our state has known will come to a close. Chief Justice Randy Shepard, let tonight be one of many occasions on which a grateful and fortunate state thanks you for a quarter century of fairness, firmness, and farsightedness on our highest bench.
Part of Justice Shepard's legacy will be the landmark report that he and former Governor Joe Kernan co-authored, proposing overdue modernization of our pioneer days structures of local government. One way to honor this great public servant will be to advance more of the sensible and needed reforms set forth by the Kernan-Shepard Commission. I ask this Assembly to do so, on their own merits but also in recognition of this historic public servant.
Because economic opportunity, and building America's best home for jobs, is the central goal of all we do, every year should include a bold stroke to enhance it. This year, the choice of actions has become obvious.
In survey after survey, by margins of 2 to 1 or more, Hoosiers support the principle known as Right to Work. After a year of studying the proposal, I agree.
The idea, that no worker should be forced to pay union dues as a condition of keeping a job, is simple, and just. But the benefits in new jobs would be large: a third or more of growing or relocating businesses will not consider a state that does not provide workers this protection.
Almost half our fellow states have right to work laws. As a group, they are adding jobs faster, growing worker income faster, and enjoying lower unemployment rates than those of us without a law. In those ratings of business attractiveness I mentioned, the only states ahead of us are right to work states.
What every economic development expert has testified to, we have learned from firsthand experience: over seven years and well over a thousand job competitions, we have found that, when Indiana gets a chance to compete, we win two out of three times. But too often we never get a chance, because a right to work law is a requirement. Especially in this poor national economy, a state needs every edge it can get.
Everyone knows that, among the minority favoring the status quo, passion on this issue is strong, and I respect that. I did not come lightly, or quickly, to the stance I take now. If this proposal limited in any way the right to organize, I would not support it. But we just cannot go on missing out on the middle class jobs our state needs, just because of this one issue.
For the sake of those without jobs, and those young people just beginning the ascent of life's ladder, I ask you to remove this obstacle and make Indiana the 23rd state to protect the right to work.
And we think we have disagreements! When we do, I hope we'll keep them not only in state, but also in this Chamber, where the people's business is supposed to be settled.
Mr. Carpenter's letter wasn't mainly about duels or haircuts. He wrote it because he had gone to see the newly-elected President, Abraham Lincoln, who had spent that day, his 52nd birthday, in Indianapolis. Young Carpenter described Lincoln's arrival at Lafayette Road, the procession down Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois Streets to the Bates House hotel.
Seeing the new President filled Carpenter with hope, he said, that "(S)oon our government will be remodeled." I like the term. These measures I have mentioned are part of our continuing remodeling project.
In three weeks, the entire world will fix its eyes on this city, and our state. It should be a magic moment, I hope a matter of pride to every Hoosier everywhere.
But the Super Bowl didn't get here overnight. Indy's selection followed decades of constant striving, and building, and reforms to make our capital the vibrant, livable model city it has now become. No one leader, or group of leaders, made it happen. The work was passed from hand to hand, administration to administration, generation to generation, and in no era did the people of Indianapolis rest, or settle, or loaf. So it will have to be with the construction of the great Indiana we are determined to achieve.
I carried here from its place on my desk an atomic clock, given me by a friend who served a sister state as governor with great distinction. It sits directly in front of me each day, counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until I turn over these duties and return to private life. It is there to remind me to use every moment as well as I can to make Indiana a place of greater promise and prosperity. Silently, it challenges me to search each day for the next improvement, the next efficiency, the next breakthrough, the next stroke of Indiana leadership.
Yes, these nights are about the future, but I do look back at past speeches, if only to avoid repeating myself. In one, I recounted telling an East Coast CEO who wondered what Indiana was known for that one day he wouldn't have to ask. Tonight, he doesn't.
In another, I said I hoped we would become bolder in our embrace of change, take our motto from the inspiring athletes of the Special Olympics, and be a braver state. Tonight, we are.
In the very first of these meetings, I invited you and every Hoosier listening to join us in rejecting mediocrity, demanding excellence, aiming higher. Tonight, we do.
That is the state we have dreamed of. A state that magnetizes people of talent, and the risk-taking capital that seeks to employ them. A state of growth. A state of hope. A state of promising futures.
We are not yet fully that state. But we are so much closer to it. We have leapfrogged other places, passed more competitors than Tony Stewart at Homestead. We are certainly, irrefutably, different.
Until it became real, I never imagined that, for eight fulfilling years, I would be given the chance to help make Indiana different. On the night it became real, I resolved to use every day, take every action, make every change that might make our state a place of promising futures.
I now have 369 days, __hours, ___minutes, and __seconds left as the people's employee. I pledge to use every one of them, as wisely as I can, in the service of those who sent us to this chamber. I ask you to do likewise, to be the kind of leaders the new leadership state of Indiana now expects us to be.
God bless this Assembly and this great state.


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'Let's get going': Government steps up Brexit preparation with details on travel and immigration
Business July 13, 2020
The government prepares to update the country on changes under Brexit – but some fear it is yet another nightmare for businesses.
An example of the government's Brexit advertising campaign. Pic: Cabinet Office
The government is to set out the UK's future immigration and border policies today, as it aims to prepare the country for the end of the Brexit transition period.
Home Secretary Priti Patel will say the country will be able to "welcome the best and brightest global talent" as she publishes a 130-page document detailing how the new points-based immigration system will operate.
The announcement is expected to include a visa for foreign health professionals, but Labour says the proposals have been "rushed" and could cause "major problems" for the NHS and care sector.
Michael Gove says next year will be a 'new start'. File pic
The new policies will take effect from 1 January 2021, when the UK leaves the EU customs union and single market.
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has launched a public information campaign to tell individuals and businesses how to prepare for the changes.
A new website will use the "Check, Change, Go" strapline and will provide a questionnaire tool to identify specific steps to take.
UK nationals intending to travel to Europe next year will be advised to purchase comprehensive travel insurance and check with their mobile phone provider about additional data roaming charges.
Those wishing to travel with pets will also be advised to seek the required documentation from a vet at least four months before travelling to the EU.
In a statement Mr Gove said: "At the end of this year we are leaving the single market and customs union regardless of the type of agreement we reach with the EU. This will bring changes and significant opportunities for which we all need to prepare.
"While we have already made great progress in getting ready for this moment, there are actions that businesses and citizens must take now to ensure we are ready to hit the ground running as a fully independent United Kingdom.
"This is a new start for everyone in the UK – British and European citizens alike – so let's get going."
The campaign will use television, radio and online advertising, as well as sending information via text message.
Acting leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said: "Businesses right across the United Kingdom have struggled to survive financially over the past few months as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
"The fact that the government is now trying to force them to gear up and prepare for the end of the transition period will fill them with utter horror."
Business groups have warned many firms will not be ready to implement changes by the end of the year.
The UK leaves the EU customs union and single market next year
Jonathan Geldart, director general of the Institute of Directors, said: "With so much going on, many directors feel that preparing for Brexit proper is like trying to hit a moving target. Jumping immediately into whatever comes next would be a nightmare for many businesses.
"A commitment to some form of reciprocal phasing-in of changes once clear is a long-standing ask from our members, and the benefits would be significant.
"At a time when government is rightly straining every sinew to help firms deal with widespread disruption, it would be counterproductive not to seek to minimise it at the end of the year".
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For this 3rd edition of our new French Friday series, I've decided to show you a new product, Lancôme Blush Subtil Crème in Corail Alizé, from the brand's Summer 2015 collection named French Paradise. The collection has a classic summery theme with bronze, golden and blue shades for the eyes and nails, and a lot of coral for the cheeks and lips. Wait somebody said coral? Where?? Yes I have a, ahem, moderate, coral obsession. Funny because coral was not a shade I would have considered wearing just a few years ago.
Anyways, I'm also a cream blush addict, so when I strolled around the department store and saw these new little round blush pots at the Lancôme counter, I naturally decided to stop and swatch them. There are 3 shades of this new Blush Subtil Crème, but 03 Rouge Mistral is exclusive to lancome.com. So I swatched the other 2, 02 Brise Rosée and 01 Corail Alizé (misspelled Coral on Lancôme's and most retailers' websites. Alizé, mistral and brise are all words that refer to wind), and instantly fell in love with the latter. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it is a true coral shade, as in reddish with a hint of pink. Most shades described as "coral" these days are in fact peachy, as in a mix of pink and orange, and true corals are, in my experience, harder to come by. A quick warning here: my camera insisted on making the pot look orange. I adjusted hue, temperature and saturation the best I could to show you the true color, but you might want to check it in person if you're unsure about the shade. At $24, it's very fairly priced for a high-end makeup product.
The Blush Subtil Crème is, according to Lancôme, supposed to impart a "healthy glow". I wonder if something got lost in translation here, because in French it's a "belle mine" effect, meaning a healthy-looking complexion, and this blush doesn't have any sheen. Don't be fooled by the description, this is not a product with a glowy or dewy finish, and it would work very well on oily skins. When you look at it in the pot, it seems to have a bit of shimmer, and while some silver particles are visible when swatched, it looks mostly matte on the cheeks. Just not a flat, dull matte, but a soft matte with a little bit more dimension to it.
Blush Subtil Crème has a spongy, mousse-like, ultra-thin texture that's completely weightless. There's a slightly wet sensation to it that disappears during application, and when it dries down it feels like you don't have anything on your skin. I know this is said of a lot of light products, but it's actually the most accurate description here. Once applied, it's texture-less. This is not a cream-to-powder product, nor does it feel creamy on the cheeks. It feels like there's nothing on the cheeks at all.
It fuses with the skin, kind of like a cheek stain, and once it's there, it lasts forever. Blushes typically don't last very long on me (I have this terrible habit of touching my face), but this one won't budge till the end of the day, with only very minor fading.
Now that thin as air, slightly drier texture has a downside: this is not the easiest product to blend. The absence of any creaminess to the formula makes it harder to apply with fingers, my favorite method for cream blush application. It has a tendency to stay where you first put it, and moving it around requires some elbow grease. It's much easier to soften and blend with a brush, preferably a synthetic brush with dense and moderately firm bristles. I've used a pointy kabuki for precise application and a slanted fluffy brush for a more diffused look, and both worked beautifully.
Corail Alizé is super pigmented, all the swatches that you see in this post are with ONE swipe, so it's easy to overdo. Start with the tiniest amount and build up to the desired intensity, it's very easily buildable. On my light and warm skintone, Corail Alizé is a bright red coral that creates a healthy flush. Despite the vibrant color, it turns into a more natural looking fresh cheek on me. This shade really makes me look radiant, healthy, refreshed, and youthful. People tell me "you look good today" when I wear it, thanks to the brightening, uplifting effect. Hard to capture in pictures, but trust me when I say that I haven't seen my face brightened up by a blush like this in a long time!
Bonus track: you can use Corail Alizé as a lip stain. In fact, I'm surprised that Lancôme didn't make this a "lip & cheek" product. Hmm maybe the colors are not lip safe according to FDA/EU standards? Anyways, I tried it on the lips, and it wasn't as dry as I expected. Of course it will emphasize any flakes and cracks, but it didn't dry out my lips, and looked like a beautiful reddish coral stain, again with zero visible texture.
Does this little pot with a screw top remind you of another recent product? Clue: cat. Yeah? Maybe you guessed, the Blush Subtil Crème pot is exactly the same as the one the Shu Uemura Shupette blush came in a few month ago, except in the color of the content vs. white for the kitty.
Since the products looked so similar, I wanted to compare their textures and finishes. While they're undeniably related, the Shupette blush is creamier and has a pearly finish, while the Lancôme version is slightly drier and looks more matte.
Overall: Lancôme Blush Subtil Crème in Corail Alizé is a rare true coral shade in a completely weightless and long-wearing "cream" formula. It works best applied with a brush, but I'm happy to give up my usual fingertip application for the beautiful brightening effect it has on my face.
Where to buy? At your department store or online on Nordstrom (free shipping, and they have a 10% price-matching offer at the time of this post, which brings the price down to $21.60!).
I loved the look of the whole collection, but it was the cream blushes that intruiged me the most.
Me too! The rest was a little more classic Lancôme. Have you tried this blush or the other shades yet?
Hi lovely, this is great blush! Locate products are amazing, great quality!.
Thank you! I really like how it brightens my complexion.
OOO Lulle, thanks so much for the review! I've been curious about these but haven't really had the time to look into them. Glad to hear the formula is such a winner! I like a good long-lasting brush, and I LOVE coral :) It does look super natural on you!
You're welcome! The formula is perfect if you like a weightless, no-texture blush. My lazy self just wishes I could apply it with my fingers!
Never think about the other blushes when you're shopping. NEVER!
I am alllll about corals so I really like this shade! The formula sounds really lovely. And I love the finish, it's so wearable.
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Grammar Lesson #2
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In 26 Views of a Starburst World, Ross Gibson argues that William Dawes was exposed to an entirely different cosmology in the process of trying to record the Sydney language. Gibson shows how Dawes began to see this different perspective on the world when he was learning the language by means of a series encounters with Patyegarang, an indigenous woman from the north side of the harbour. Gibson argues that this different cosmology is apparent in the structure of the Sydney language itself:
"If Eora language is air, English might be a machine. In English, unadorned nouns pre-exist and prevail, while basic verbs are prescribed to act in a standard way. From this precondition, the English speak can use separate, additive words merely to adjust things and actions in the dependably prescribed, present world. In general, the English language is founded on an assumption that things and actions already exist, that they are givens, pre-formed and shaped to some permanent ideal. Because things an actions are already there, they will always tend to hold the overall shape decreed to them from the world's genesis. The work you do in speaking or writing English is therefore just an ancillary procedure, just tinkering with the predispositions of an inherited and stubborn reality. The noun or verb is given to you, rock-solid as the world is presumed to be, and you try to customise it with appended qualifiers and modifiers
In the Eora language, by contrast with English, the verb itself (and therefore the world that the verb serves and makes) changes within its sounded self, changes intrinsically rather than just ornamentally. Steele explains that this work is done by sounds such as 'dara, nara, -gari, -li, -lyi, -ra.' A suffix insinuates and transmogrifies long utterances, changing the very 'DNA' or 'genetics' of a proposition. A suffix changes inside the operating code of the statement. The suffix causes things and actions to shift ideational shape in relation to each other as they gather into an utterance … A suffix can cause verbs and surrounding clauses to recharge and realign so that they become entirely new composite utterances. Let's say these ever-altering sound-events, galvanised by the suffixes dissolved into them, are not only part of the world: they are instantaneously making the world. In Eora language, it seems, the suffixes are catalysts that later the potency of whatever unfolding word-experiment they get thrown into. But simultaneously, they are also language and they are therefore just their own, contingent versions of the world. These vocal sounds are concurrently meagre and momentous. They are simultaneously nothing and a big thing. Like music. Like language. Like breath. So great was their power that they had never needed writing down. The language made a wold just by floating in the air."[1]
The distinction Gibson upholds between English and Eora was not clear to me until this part of the book. For the first hundred pages I couldn't help but think that Gibson was upholding a false distinction for the sake of a good argument. Like a good Colonial Soldier, I felt like I needed to defend English from the repeated charge that it was so mechanical and inflexible. It is indeed possible to change the way words "make" the world and words can also take on a different meaning in sentences by virtue of the different prefixes, suffixes, verbs and adjectives. Consider the phrases "that table is blue" and "that table is green"; the table can shape-shift with the assistance of the simple adjective. Or, for example, "the table is set for dinner" compared with "the tornado broke the table into a thousand splinters and scattered them all over the prairie"; the context of the noun shifts its materiality given its place within the sentence and relationship to verbs and adjectives. But in all these examples the idea of table is quite fixed: the idea of a table remains solid, even if the tornado shatters into pieces. So, although we may all imagine a different table in our minds, the tornado breaks apart what should be solid. Perhaps we even hope that the unlucky owner of the broken table will be able to get a new one someday. What Gibson describes here is an altogether different grammar, one that is so different it is almost difficult to imagine how our view of the world could be, if English only were more like this language. From what I can gather, what Eora 'event grammar' would allow for is the expression of a tornado and table linguistic combination, and this combination could remake the object itself. It would no longer be a table, but a tornado-table-prairie. The splinters, distributed across the prairie by the tornado, could be expressed as a new and lively part of the world.
At the final residency showing on Thursday April 18, we've invited the poet and sociolinguistic researcher Astrid Lorange along to respond to this dilemma more directly.
[1] Ross Gibson, 26 Views of the Starburst World (Perth: UWA Press) 2012, pp. 111-112.


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A Real Pirate
Leo had always been aware that he'd have to produce an heir sometime but it had been easy to put it off. He was too busy with his skills and career. Besides, flirting with potential clients was an important part of his strategy; part of making each one feel special (and therefore more willing to pay his exorbitant fees – and often a hefty bonus on top). If he was known to be married, that little ploy was going to lose a lot of its effectiveness. None of the townswomen seemed particularly interesting anyway. What had happened to Barnacle Bay's pirates? The old families were gone and the town was full of interchangeable, bland nobodies.
His visits to the cemeteries had suggested the solution: he could marry a ghost, as so many of his ancestors had done. It hadn't always worked out well for them and might not for him – but at least his child would have an interesting mother. By talking to his spectral friends, he'd discovered a number of women who'd met untimely ends. He hadn't managed to meet all of them in ghostly form but he'd helped himself to their tombstones anyway. All he needed to do now was to revive them and choose one. He'd been hoping for a call from the science lab but it never came. He knew that genies could also restore the dead to life – but his family hadn't been able to summon genies since the Hidden Springs days. On the other hand, nobody had even tried recently, so maybe he should give it a go. He bought a dusty old lamp but somehow never quite got around to rubbing it. There was plenty of time yet – and maybe he'd meet a living woman who appealed to him and save all the bother.
Then his parents died and he suddenly became aware that time was running out. Accepting that job at the business office had completed his requirements. It was time to get on with the next phase of his life. He rubbed the lamp.
Whoa! He hadn't expected it to be so… explosive. At this rate, he'd soon be surrounded by a crowd of curious onlookers. Maybe he'd better go somewhere quieter before he tried any serious wishing. He sent the newly-emerged genie straight back into her lamp and drove home.
So, who should he revive first? He sorted through the tombstones. Ah yes! Victoria Skullfinder: he liked her name: she sounded like a real pirate. He put down her grave.
Then he rubbed the lamp (a little less enthusiastically this time), introduced himself to the genie and apologised for the abrupt way he'd treated her outside Doo Peas.
Then he asked for her help. She clapped her hands, rose into the air and glowed…
…and there was Victoria's ghost, out of her tombstone in the middle of the day. As the genie drifted back to the ground, Victoria solidified. She was alive again.
She didn't look much like a pirate, although he probably shouldn't have said so.
"Why can't ghosts keep up with fashion? If you'd spent a couple of centuries in a corset and six petticoats, you'd want a change, I can tell you."
She didn't act like a pirate either. How could she not like his rebelliousness?
But then it turned out that she was as evil as he was - and a genius to boot. This was much more promising. They discussed nefarious plots and evil schemes until Leo was reasonably convinced that she was the woman for him. He asked her to move in and then tried something more romantic.
It turned out that she liked to flirt – and thought he was good at kissing, for a beginner. She seemed more than willing to help him practice, too. It was definitely worth taking this further. The bistro was still open, so he invited her out for dinner…
…and then asked her to go steady.
The next morning, Victoria updated her image again. Taking inspiration from Leo's outfits, she chose something piratical but practical for daytime. She'd noticed Leo's eyes light up at the mention of corsets. Honestly, men! Still, it was useful to know. She'd keep that weapon in reserve. Once she was happy with her new clothing choices, she asked Leo to show her around the island.
"This beach used to be my favourite place. It's hardly changed – unlike most of the island. I can't believe the Goldbeards gave the town an art gallery. Stealing art was more their style."
Leo had avoided Crowe's Nest Campgrounds in their tour. He'd been wondering why she'd been buried there but it had seemed a little indelicate to visit the place where her grave had been Now, though, in this peaceful place where she seemed so relaxed, he asked her how she'd come to be buried in a park rather than the cemetery.
"Because I died there and no-one bothered to move my grave. It wasn't always a park. Back in my day it was Crowe's Nest – and you wouldn't want to spend any more time there than you had to. Jack Crowe had a heart as black as his name. His base was in a little place called Bridge Port, two days' sail down the coast – but he was trying to get established here as well. With the Beardies at each other's throats…"
"The Beardies?"
"The Goldbeards and Inkbeards. They were the two most powerful pirate clans. Crowe reckoned if he could stir up more trouble between them, maybe he could get them to wipe each other out. Certainly they'd be too busy feuding to notice that he was getting all of the smaller pirate families to join him and gradually taking over the island."
"So what happened – to you, I mean?"
"Crowe thought I was spying on him – which I was – and beat me up. That's the last I remember, which is probably just as well. He liked setting fire to his enemies."
"That's awful! Uh, you know you're safe now…?"
"Well, being dead's safe, in its way. But yes, Jack Crowe is long gone. I heard that the Beardies worked out what he was doing and gave him a taste of his own medicine – burnt his Nest to the ground."
"Good riddance!"
"So, Leo, are there any pirates left at all – apart from you?"
"I'm not one, really. I'm an architect. My grandmother was a Beardy - a Goldbeard, in fact, and I'd like to be a pirate, too… but the opportunities seem to have gone. Everyone's respectable now. I do my best to undermine their safe little society but I'm on my own there."
"Not any more." And she kissed him again.
As they sat watching the stars that evening, he told her about his family, about needing to produce an heir soon – and about his wish to keep the pirate genes going.
"I have a bargain for you. Take me to that restaurant again and I'm in."
And later…
Leo could have sworn he heard distant chimes.
On the other hand, no harm in making sure, especially with Vic wearing that corset.
It soon became clear that the next generation of Golds was indeed on the way.
As they left the hospital with their new daughter, escorted by Tim, who had driven them there (Leo wasn't leaving another labouring woman in charge of a car), Leo clapped his hands in glee. His Abigail would be a proper little pirate.
Summary – Generation 11
Heir: Lionel/Leo
Traits: evil, artistic, rebellious, kleptomaniac, avant garde, great kisser (rebel influence)
Lifetime wish: Street Credible
Unique maxed career: Architectural Designer
Two unique best friends: Donald Burt, Nora Coley
Three unique skill challenges: Master Muralist, Always Wanted, Precision Sprayer
Four unique opportunities: Commissioned Street Art, Deliver a Painting to China, A Small Painting, Business Model
Buildings bought this generation: Landgraab Industries Science Facility
Newly-upgraded properties: none
Vacations used: 2 out of 4
Despite finishing his lifetime wish and skill challenges very quickly, Leo was the slowest heir so far to complete the requirements. It took him a while to max his career through renovations (I didn't want him to use the drawing board much because sketches count as paintings in the skill journal and he couldn't risk getting any painting challenges) but, as usual, the opportunities were the real problem. I was hoping for Oh My Ghost! but, despite seeing both of his parents and a few townies die, it didn't fire for him. I'd also have liked another painting opportunity, ideally to deliver a painting to France, so that India could start on her final set of tombs. In the end, he had to use a celebrity opp. I'd been trying to save them for future heirs who may need them more but Leo really was running out of time: Abigail was born on the day before his elder birthday.
…And we have another greenishboo. Since Victoria has very pale green skin, I was expecting Abi's skin colour to be either a bright green à la Dora or somewhere at the pink end of the rainbow slider. As it is, she seems to have inherited both the slider and her position along it from Leo.
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Re: End of the Line Dynasty: A Real Pirate (26 March)
Okay, I probably should've seen the ghost as a wife thing coming. I tend to forget that genies can resurrect, since I always have used witches for that particular task. Ms. Skullfinder is an appropriate and suitably-piratey spouse for Leo. And look, another greenboo! You just can't get away from them, can you?
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"Odessa, I'm worried about Leo and Victoria. They don't seem to spend much time together any more. Sometimes I wonder whether they even like each other."
"All that sneaking up and scaring the other one? I think that's just their way of showing affection."
"Like stealing sweets from Abi?"
"Yes. They're not the world's most conventional parents, are they? But maybe they just need some time together, away from dynasty duties. Time to be a couple instead of parents. You keep saying we should go to France sometime soon. Why don't we take them along? Abi's pretty independent these days. Simon and Tim are more than capable of taking care of her."
And so it was a party of four who arrived in Champs les Sims the following morning. Leaving Leo and Victoria to settle in and meet their fellow guests, India checked the noticeboard. Would it be like Egypt, full of opportunities for eager explorers, or largely empty like the one in Shang Simla?
Before she'd even finished checking for adventures, her phone rang. News had already got around that the famous sportswoman India Gold would be visiting. Would she support the local fitness campaign by jogging around town? It might not involve any tombs but it looked like an easy way to pick up some visa points. She changed into her running kit and set out on a circuit of the town.
The other three had all decided that they'd like to visit a real French café, so India met them in the marketplace for lunch. Afterwards, she visited the relic shop.
She was an expert on Chinese and Egyptian relics by now: how did French ones differ? The shopkeeper didn't seem too keen on her hanging around, examining his wares without making any purchases, so she ended up buying a number of assorted vases, statues and broken bits and pieces and taking them out into the sunlit square for a closer look. As she'd suspected, most of them were considerably older than he'd thought, and apart from a couple of modern fakes, they were worth more than the selling price. She went back into the shop, gave the relic vendor a lengthy lesson on archaeology and art history, and sold them all back to him at a fat profit. Then she and Odessa set off to raid some tombs.
Carlotta and Adam had explored the museum basement and had made a start on the Celtic burial mound outside town. India and Odessa made short work of completing both, circumventing the boulders as they had in China.
India took on a few quests, mostly of the mundane variety, and obtained her level 1 visa. Then (finally!) she was sent on a series of real adventures, to explore the shuttered and heavily booby-trapped Château du Landgraab. It wasn't as easy as she'd expected – that Admiral Landgraab must have been a real nutcase – and she gave the other holidaymakers a few shocks by materialising at base camp in singed underwear.
Still, she and Odessa gradually worked their way through the place, deactivating the traps and rediscovering the long-lost glories of the château. In recognition of her efforts, she got a second stamp in her passport.
There was just one area in the centre of the house that she couldn't seem to access. Or, at least, not until, using her Eye of Horus to get out of a tight corner, she found herself in an unfamiliar corridor. Odessa was nowhere around – the Eye must have malfunctioned slightly.
It was a happy accident. She quickly realised that she must be somewhere just beyond the locked door she'd noticed, leading from the secondary staircase. Once she'd made her way into a wider room, Odessa joined her and they were able to explore the remainder of the château.
Meanwhile, back at base camp, Leo and Victoria's romantic break wasn't going well. There were just too many people around. Leo spent most of his time discussing trends in French interior décor with other artistically-inclined guests, while Victoria read and played chess. They spent their nights together but didn't feel inclined to do more than sleep.
Once the château was mostly opened up, India invited them over.
"Leo, you'll love this place. Classic French opulence – and the beds are much better than at base camp."
They spent a day there. India was right – the furniture was comfortable and the wallpaper gave Leo some ideas for some of his snobbier clients' houses. But then Vic managed to blunder into a trap that was still functioning and announced that she wasn't staying in this freaky old house a moment longer. Back to base camp, then.
On the way back, Leo saw a sign to the Gallerie d'Art.
"Vic, d'you fancy visiting that place? India says it's a museum as well as an art gallery. Lots of stuff from all around the world, not just France."
It was well worth the trip. The exhibits were fascinating and they somehow lost the whole day just wandering around and gazing at relics. Then Vic had an idea. Why not stay the night?
It appealed to his rebellious nature. A night together among vaguely spooky old relics? And with no other tourists around?
"Hey, wasn't there a bed back in the Chinese section?"
There was – an elaborate four-poster. Unfortunately, it was pushed right up against the wall, so that only one person could get in. So much for his plans. Still, just sleeping here would be cocking a snook at the French authorities. He nobly offered Victoria the bed while he curled up on a priceless lacquered sofa.
A few hours and a backache later, that didn't seem like such a great idea. Then he remembered that India had given him her tent. She and Odessa didn't need it at the château. He set it up in the grounds, then woke Vic – with a kiss rather than his megaphone, for once. They spent the rest of the night and half the morning testing India's tent to destruction.
"Leo, you crazy pirate, I love you."
"Did you mean that? You love me? I thought we were just together because of Abigail."
"No. It was easy to feel like that at home but I realised last night that it's not true any more."
"And... for me it was when you walked into that electricity trap. I thought I'd lost you.
"Victoria Skullfinder, will you marry me?"
They agreed that they didn't want a big fancy wedding with all the attendant publicity. It would be a lot easier to escape the reporters here than at home. The following afternoon, they found the perfect spot.
Just as they finished exchanging rings, a French reporter caught up with them.
"Sorry, dearie. Trop tard."
And they ran off, laughing.
As with Lucy and Elias, Leo was initially unable to propose to Victoria. Thanks to lvrugger for pointing out that travelling was the solution. Oddly, after they returned home, Abi still had the surname Skullfinder even though her parents were both now Golds. Leo visited the town hall again and changed it.
France turned out to be somewhere between China and Egypt in terms of adventures. India was only able to explore the first section of the Nectary cellars and, without Pangu's Axe, she couldn't get into Tuatha's Garden. Accidentally getting into the basement of the château almost made up for that, though .
Re: End of the Line Dynasty: Night at the Museum (30 March)
Oooo! That was awesome! I love Leo and Victoria! That last part, with the French reporter, had me giggling for a good ten minutes hehehe
They're fun to write .
A Proper Upbringing
As Odessa had observed, Leo and Victoria had an… unusual parenting style.
They claimed they were teaching Abigail important lessons about life: hang on to what you've got or someone else will take it. Finders keepers. Property is theft – or something like that. It was important that she grew up with the right values: theirs, naturally. Really though, it was all about the fun, as usual. And Leo did have a sweet tooth.
Then Abi had a cake – but didn't get to eat that either.
Perhaps that was why she grew into such a solemn toddler.
She got more attention from her parents now: cuddles, games, even some teaching of skills…
…although Odessa still got stuck with most of it, while Abi's mummy and daddy went back to their old ways.
It seemed to be making an impression on Abigail. Her first word was "feef".
With her toddler skills duly learned, Abi had another cake – and this time, she was even allowed to eat a slice.
Her parents were sad to lose their lollipop donor but, to compensate, she was now big enough to wear a proper pirate outfit instead of a little sailor dress.
They might have bought the outfit but Abigail accessorised it to suit herself. They were beginning to discover that she had her own way of doing things.
Now that the relic collection was as complete as it was going to be, India and Odessa had stopped eating ambrosia.
Odessa had made some for Leo, so that he could see his little girl grow up, and Simon would have another serving or two. He needed to keep clearing up after his mother, who had apparently decided that one collection at least was going to be as good as she could possibly make it.
Odessa spent most of her time fishing. It wasn't necessary any more but fishing reminded her of Moe and she'd come to enjoy it for its own sake.
Abi was equally solitary. It was obvious that she'd inherited her father's and grandmother's talent. Since the first time she'd picked up a paintbrush, nothing else mattered. She went to school because the family insisted, rolling out of bed at the last minute and flinging on whichever clothes were handy. In the afternoons, she'd do her homework the moment she was through the door and then rush off to the studio, painting and humming along to the stereo until bedtime.
Which was how she came to celebrate her next birthday on her own.
This time she wasn't going to wear a pirate's outfit. She'd dress to suit herself.
The following day, there were two long-delayed birthdays: first Odessa…
…and then India.
Odessa insisted that they should both have makeovers. Just because they were old, there was no reason to look it. India humoured her friend, selecting a new wardrobe in pinks and violets that were only a little more muted than before and having pinky-mauve highlights put in her hair. Of course, as soon as they arrived home, the new clothes were dumped in the wardrobe, the faithful old gi was back on and she was outside breaking space rocks again.
After all, just because she was old, there was no reason to act like it.
Rikki8528
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Re: End of the Line Dynasty: A Proper Upbringing (2 April)
Abi looks rather unusual, but I like it.
Wow, she does look dreadfully serious. I hope you gave her the no sense of humor trait to match.
Quote from: Rikki8528 on April 03, 2014, 03:00:08 AM
She's a bit odd-looking, especially as a teenager, but it's nice to be starting the last town with someone who's so far from being a clone-face. I thought at first she mostly took after her mother but her jawline is all Leo and her eye shape is more his than Victoria's.
Quote from: Rhoxi on April 03, 2014, 05:46:39 PM
I didn't have enough traits to play with! In fact, she spontaneously tells quite a lot of jokes – just with a deadpan style, obviously .
I Protest!
Like her parents, Abi thought society was all messed up. There was certainly something very wrong with Barnacle Bay. Almost everyone was ancient for a start. She knew why her own house was full of old people but the whole town seemed to be the same. Her friend Cheesy was the only other person in her class at school. Cheesy's real name was Brie, so the nickname was inevitable. Well, apart from one of the teachers, who called her Bert, short for Camembert. Only having two girls in the class was a little awkward when prom was announced. Naturally, they voted for each other as Prom Queen. Someone somewhere must have had a casting vote, because Abi ended up with the crown. Maybe it was one of the other teens who mysteriously appeared from nowhere on prom night to make the place look suitably crowded and provide partners for the usual dances and fights.
The next day, it was just her and Cheesy again. Something had to be done.
She stood outside the empty school and ranted about everything that was wrong with being a teenager in this place. The lack of response was overwhelming. All right then. Time to take it up a notch. She announced a protest: Founder's Park at 6 p.m.
At first, she thought it was going to fall as flat as her impassioned speech earlier but gradually people drifted over and listened. Some of them even joined in. By the end of the evening, the protest was beginning to feel like a success.
Then the police turned up, pointed out that it was after curfew and drove her home in disgrace. Her parents were proud.
The weekend was approaching, though. After school on Friday, she announced a series of protests to start early the following morning and then spent several hours handing out leaflets and drumming up support around town. Then she went home like a good little girl, did her homework and got an early night. It was going to be a busy weekend.
Again, things started quietly. Her call for action outside the town hall drew fewer supporters than the previous evening's protest. Maybe it was too early or perhaps people just liked parks better. There was certainly more space there for setting up banners and soapboxes. She tried a few other locations, just to see. Yes, you definitely got more attention in a park. As evening fell, she ran into her Uncle Tim, who'd moved out of the family home and was living near the centre of town. She gave him a flyer and he promised to turn up for her protest the following day.
Sunday was wildly successful right from the beginning. People no longer even seemed to care what she was protesting about. They flocked to join in regardless.
A brief hunger strike after school the next day maximised her rebel influence, just in time. As she was heading home, the sparkles hit.
Even before she'd climbed back into the car, her phone rang. Would she like a job in art appraisal? What, combine her love of painting with undermining the established order? Of course she would. It was her ideal job.
She went home to pick out her adult wardrobe. Contact lenses instead of glasses, she thought, but what would be a suitably arty outfit? Hmmm…
The job turned out to be everything she'd hoped. She was promoted at the end of her first day and was given a high-tech art scanner. She spent the evening wandering the house, scanning everything she could: paintings, plants, her father's graffiti, Simon's widgets, even a gnome or two. This was going to be fun.
Abi might be throwing herself into adult life but her parents refused to grow up.
When Tim had moved out, he'd taken with him the car he'd inherited from his mother. A few nights later, Leo stole it, just to keep in practice.
He returned it almost at once. Tim was his brother, after all.
He and Victoria continued to enjoy each other's company – and regularly scandalised the townsfolk.
Even old age wasn't going to slow them down.
It was disappointing that they couldn't find pirate clothes for oldies but they did their best. At least their old hats still fitted.
And they still had each other.
Re: End of the Line Dynasty: I Protest! (4 April)
I love the little old lady in her nightgown and heels at the protest. A lady's gotta have good footwear, after all, even if all the rest goes downhill. Looks like you and Abi had a lot of fun with those protests.
I love the little old lady in her nightgown and heels at the protest. A lady's gotta have good footwear, after all, even if all the rest goes downhill.
I hadn't even noticed her shoes until you pointed them out . She was a very enthusiastic supporter. There were quite a few more protests in the game than appear in the story and I think she was at all of them.
Looks like you and Abi had a lot of fun with those protests.
We did. It's something I'd not played with until this dynasty. I love all the ridiculous things Sims can protest about .
Haunted by Death
Abi had her adult birthday.
Everything was going pretty well. Her career progress had been a little slower than she'd hoped but she was most of the way there now – and the advanced art training she'd taken had done wonders for her painting.
But then, the following day, the bad times started.
India was first. She was in the basement, admiring her Chinese relics, when she started to float.
The day after that, Odessa arrived home from the diner and went transparent in the porch.
She was content. With India's death, she'd lost the last of her old friends, and she'd been living on without Moe for what seemed like forever.
Then it was Simon's turn.
Like Odessa, he was happy to go – which didn't make it any easier for the three left behind.
Grim wasn't limiting his attentions to the Gold family, either. Abi's retired boss died on the same day as Simon and was rapidly followed by her two closest friends among her colleagues. Was she going to lose everyone she cared about? Her parents were already into borrowed time. Would Grim come for them next?
She found herself watching them constantly, looking for the first signs of sparkles. They seemed oblivious, wrapped up in each other as usual and making the most of the time they had left.
In fact, the next death was another of her colleagues. Uncle Tim had recently joined the art appraisal career and Abi had invited him round to the house to get to know him better. They'd just become good friends when he was also taken from her.
Somehow, despite the constant mourning, Abi managed to keep working as usual and finally made it to master forger.
It had been a long time since she'd protested about anything. She'd really have liked to rant about Grim having it in for her friends and family but she'd heard that could be a very bad idea. Still, protesting about something would be a good way to let off steam. She set up her banners and podium in Jollyboat Plaza and started haranguing the gathering crowd.
She moved from accusations to chants to impassioned speeches with practised ease and the crowd hung on her every word.
Meanwhile, back at the house, Grim was paying another visit – their longest-serving paparazza had run out of time.
The protesters hadn't escaped his attention, though. As Abi began to wind up to the big finish, a cook who'd joined in on his way home from the bistro burst into sparkles.
Somehow, Abi held it together. She rounded up the audience again, picked up the threads of her speech and managed to bring it to a rousing conclusion. As her supporters clustered around to congratulate her, she made a decision.
Let's wrap this thing up now!
She still needed two best friends, replacements for the ones Grim had taken. The people here all liked her. Valarie from work was already a friend and – had she spotted a once-familiar face? Yes, there she was, at the back. Cheesy – but a Cheesy grown strangely old. Was the Reaper after her too?
Well, you're not getting her, Grim. Or Mum and Dad.
She moved among her supporters, chatting, encouraging, joking, then drew Valarie and Brie into conversation.
Well, that was depressing. So many deaths in just a few days. RIP India, Odessa, Simon and Tim. Losing India should have been a relief (no more worrying about accidentally completing collecting challenges) but was actually quite tough. I'd grown more attached to her than to anyone since Sam and Sophia. And in fact, once I'd got used to it, tomb-raiding with a pair of Sims had its advantages, particularly at Abu Simbel. I may well choose to do it in future games.
Abi seems to have a hidden 'unlucky' trait. Well, either that or it's just the usual end-of-town glitchiness. Despite basil-fuelled hard work, she narrowly missed two or three promotions. Since her boss retired on her third day at work and was never replaced (although she had seven co-workers), she couldn't do anything about it. She also managed to drop her workaholic trait at some point. I suspect it had been gone for quite a while by the time I noticed, because she was mostly trying to finish the painting challenges rather than working from home.
McHazy
Re: End of the Line Dynasty: Haunted by Death (5 April)
Wow, you've seen a lot of Grim lately! R.I.P. everyone.
Love that screenshot of Grim emerging from the floor boards, creeps me out!
Wow... that's a lot of visits from Grim XD Do you remember how many days were between that or where they all on the same day or close to it?
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