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ArtSeen	 February 5th, 2019
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
by McKenzie Wark
BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN (Karlsruhe, Germany)
October 5 – December 2, 2018
Kathy Brew, Portraits of Kathy Acker, San Francisco, 1991. © Kathy Brew.
Kathy Acker is a writer whose readership has never gone away, even after her death at age 50 in 1997. There's some strange margin of the literary world where queers, punks, riot girls and avant-gardists have found reasons to keep turning to her. This marginal presence got a boost from Chris Kraus' biographical study, After Kathy Acker in 2015. Since then, Acker material keeps coming. In February 2019 alone there's the release of Kathy Acker: The Last Interview from Melville House and a reissue of one of her most satisfyingly structured books, Great Expectations from Grove Atlantic.
It's also a moment when care and attention to her work is passing from people who knew her personally to people who didn't, who were kids or unconceived notions at the time she died. The Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning exhibition and symposium at Badischer Kuntverein laid out a series of nested contexts: work by precursors, work by Acker, interactions with contemporaries, and appropriations and reflections by younger artists and writers. Co-curated by Anja Casser and Acker's literary executor Matias Viegener, Get Rid of Meaning also put her writing practice in the context of her interventions in visual and audio-visual media. "Kathy thought extra-textually," as Viegener said at the symposium.
Two of the precursors who provide a context for Acker's work are Carolee Schneeman and Lynn Hershman Leeson. Schneeman's film Fuses (1965) combines images of a couple fucking (and their cat watching) with formalist montage techniques. From 1974 to 1978, Hershman Leeson deployed a fictional persona called Roberta Breitmore, a character created out of a distinctive wig, make-up and clothing. Roberta acquired a driver's license, went on dates, and went to work. She was later replaced by three clones, three other women who used the same accoutrements to perform Roberta. The mash-up of formalist porn and the multiplication of selves are two key preoccupations that Acker brings from the art context into writing.
The first room of the show centers on Acker's early text The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula. Both original spiral-bound notebooks and copies of notebooks are here. Get Rid of Meaning contained some rare originals but did not make a fetish of them. They were not the center of the show. Acker was a writer, not an artist. Like most writers, she wanted to see her work mass produced in editions running into the thousands rather than as singular auratic objects.
Book cover by Jill Kroesen, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, Viper's Tongue Books, 1975.
The Black Tarantula text was at first self-published, in tiny, hand-made editions, which were distributed via a mail art list put together by Eleanor Antin, another important precursor and in this case direct influence. The show includes each of the successive editions that worked their way up through the various niches of the publishing industry. It can now be found included in Hannibal Lecter, My Father, from Semiotext(e). The early editions are now collector's items, but the text is now in a trade paperback, as Acker would have wanted.
Acker's publishing trajectory did not stop with prestigious niche publishers like Semiotext(e). Her major works were all published by Grove Press, the creation of the legendary Barney Rosset, who had a genius for finding the sweet spot between high literature and the mass market. The main room includes a selection of editions of her books in various languages—of variable quality. Most, it has to be said, with terrible covers, with the possible exception of the ones that used Sue Coe illustrations.
A whole section is devoted to Acker's crafting of her own appearances. The 1984 documentary made for British television by the Southbank Show plays on a monitor, and there one can see Acker in a tomboy mood working with Robert Mapplethorpe. She worked in a more collaborative way under the direction of photographer Michel Delsol. The production of images was not entirely incidental even if it was not central to her practice. Kathy Brew took perhaps the most iconic image, of a topless Acker on her motorbike, looking over her shoulder. Here we see that frame in the context of two from the same shoot. In one of them, she smiles.
Acker never much cared for the Mapplethorpe images of her. The one in which she is headless, topless, and in sexy black boots and tights was in somebody's slides at the symposium, but not in the exhibition. The most challenging images are by De La Grace Volcano of Acker, topless again, after her mastectomy. And then she is gone: Kaucyila Brook photographed selections from the wardrobe, on simple wire hangers against a white background, haunted by her absence.
The work that was the biggest revelation to me consists of two videos of Acker reading the same text, from In Memoriam to Identity. These were on a pair of side by side monitors, so you could move from one to another. One is a live reading with an audience, in which Acker works the room. The other is a recording without an audience. Jonathan Dawson made it on her 1995 Australian tour. Here one can hear how much she wrote for the voice, how the language is always rhythmic, with strategic breath points, how the sound of the sentences snake together. She had a magnificent reading voice, sometimes pitched just a little higher than her rather deep everyday voice. The videos are a master class in how to write for the voice. As she once said in an interview: "Well, a comma's a breath, and a sentence is a thought, and a paragraph is an emotion… You're always working the paragraph against the sentence."
The main room also featured blown-up reproductions of the dream maps included in Blood and Guts in High School. These are fascinating but hard to follow when squished down to paperback book size. Across a whole wall, you can really seem them as intricate spatial recordings of dream or dream-like spaces, events, avatars. Their straight-line precision is deeply strange.
Kathy Acker, Dream Map 2 (Ausschnitt), 1977. Kathy Acker Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Casually left lying about were color photocopies of some of Acker's journals through-out the show. Looking through my other phone photos of the notebooks, in one I find this description of writing method: "How do we find narrative? Emphasize the word find. That which is real to us. The most personal. Now. (1) Change dreams. Analyze. (2) Bring analysis back. Write story. (3) Write story from your own dream. How? Genet p. 270-274 → from personal to non-personal. Cixous, P. 106. To use dreams, find the demon. P. 107 mention to use the unconscious, find ways. WHO AM I? p. 121. End: use dreams to look for one's origins."
Most of the key elements of the Acker mode of production were in the show. Her library, from which to appropriate material, and her notebooks, in which to mix found material and diaristic writing. There was a photocopier if you wanted to make your own copies or collages or whatever. While Acker worked in the era of the photocopier, today's gallery-goers simply snapped pictures on their phones. There was a rare spirit of openness and trust about the audience's relation to the work. One of Kathy's stuffed animals—a tarantula—simply sat on a vitrine. People took selfies with it.
A thousand books from her personal library were arranged on shelves for people to leaf through. Her books now reside at the University of Cologne, where Daniel Schulz has diligently catalogued them all. Quite a few have annotations in Acker's hand. As Schultz pointed out in his gallery talk, Acker's library contained literature, philosophy, and a fine selection of trash. Interestingly, it also contained extensive selections of books by Donald Goines, Chester Himes and Octavia Butler. Her relation to Black American writers and indeed to African writers as well is a largely unexplored topic.
There were a few rare items, including photographs from 1975 of a naked Acker in a performance work by Lil Picard, in which she had the audience spit wine at her. (Acker spat back.) And there was a check for a million dollars, made out to The Black Tarantula by Leonard Neufeld, Acker's boyfriend for a while. Needless to say it had not been cashed.
Of the works by younger artists, the one I spent a lot of time with is by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, called I Want (2015). You sit on bean bags and watch a performer (Sharon Hayes) in a two-screen video, both shot from more or less the same position, of the same performance, but independently. The images zoom in and out at different times, focus on different details. In the performance, Hayes sits on the floor and relays a text that is a mash-up of Kathy Acker and Chelsea Manning.
This seems like a key connection to make. Manning is something like an actual manifestation of a politics of mediation that Acker prefigures: the marginal subject, the subordinate, the woman, for whom the world of law and property is something other—and who steals from it. Acker's work uses appropriation, or as the Situationsts would say détournement, from high and low literature, and were made by copying out in handwriting, or photocopying, cutting and pasting. Manning's were from classified military computers, and copied onto cd-rom.
At the symposium, we heard from Jason McBride, who will soon publish a fuller biography of Acker. He shared a section on her college and sex worker days in the sixties and seventies. Acker arrived at Brandeis in 1964, the year Hebert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man came out. A portrait emerges of an emotional and imaginative young woman, free from her distant stepfather and from her mother. One of her early boyfriends described her mother as a "bitch on wheels." Others recollect the young Acker variously as androgynous, motherly, and as a girl with a "reputation." She was writing Sappho imitations, taking cinema courses, shoplifting books, but was not all that political.
Acker studied classics rather than literature. The English Department at Brandeis was like many at the time passing through the vogue for New Criticism, with its close reading of canonic high literary texts, teasing apart elegant ironies. Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso came to read, which indicated another path. As Acker recalls in the Southbank Show interview, the "big Jewish male novelists"—early Mailer, Malamud, Roth, Updike—meant nothing to her. She took her cues from Ginsberg, Kerouac and in particular Burroughs.
At Brandeis, Kathy Alexander (as she then was) met Bob Acker. "A character from Zap comics," McBride says, a "brainy badboy." They hooked up when a previous boyfriend, Peter Gould, was off in Europe. Gould later wrote a novel called Burnt Toast that imagines an Acker-like character as a domestic hippie mamma. How little he knew.
McBride fills in the details about a particularly key time in Acker's life: her brief encounter with sex work. She and Lenny Neufeld acted in porno short films for Bob Wolf, "lord of the loops." They made $100 per film. None are known to survive, but McBride reports that the poet Ron Silliman saw one at Fun City in Times Square in which Acker was flogged with lettuce leaves. For a while Acker and Neufeld also did fake sex shows for $200 a week. Sometimes she performed with Mark "Mr Ten and a Half" Stevens, who was later photographed by Mapplethorpe. She would write at Tad's Steakhouse during breaks. From sex workers, Acker acquired a "street politics" that never left her or her work. Her books are populated with marginal women trying to survive on their wits, trading on their charms, but constantly subjected to violence and imposition.
Douglas Martin, who wrote a very fine study simply called Acker (Nightboat Books), spoke about In Memoriam to Identity, a book which started out being about the poet Rimbaud and his relationship with the poet Verlaine, but which veered off into something else due to Acker's disgust at the colonial gun-runner Rimbaud later became.
Instead, she ended up making a book that is a new kind of myth, one for people like us. As the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard once said, it's a function of modernist literature to write not for an existing audience but for one that doesn't exist, and call it into being. She wrote for the radical, queer, trans, precarious reader to come. If books are dolls we put ourselves to bed with, this is the doll for those who want to cut and glue their Barbies into monsters. Books made by remaking other books.
"Sometimes I work with books I hardly know. And sometimes ones I know very well," Acker wrote. Karolin Meunier talked about work she was doing with Kerstin Stakemeier on the marginal note in other's book as a literary form. For example, in her copy of Liz Grosz's, Space, Time & Perversion, Acker wrote "I'm up for no reality cause I (id) want repudiation." As Leslie Dick said in discussion, "Books were like sculptures for her." Or as Viegener put it: "She abused them."
Paris-based scholar Claire Finch talked about how Paris appears in the Acker landscape as a city of hierarchy, and of colonial and patriarchal power. But in the "oriented logic" of her texts, the city is also a "fuckable surface." In and against which she tried to craft a kind of ficto-theory of the "non-reductive cunt" for a "construct cunt feminism," using a writing of "femme excess." Acker closely read the psychoanalytic feminist writing that sprang from French into English in the eighties (Irigary, Kristeva, Cixous) as many have noted. But she also drew from the more materialist lesbian feminism of Monique Wittig.
Finch connected Acker to a younger generation of queer writers, including Paul B. Préciado, who name-checks Acker in his book Testo Junkie. What they share is a reluctance to treat the gendered body too reductively, but also a reluctance to treat it only as a construct of language, representation and performance. Both are interested in body technics: hormones, in Préciado's case; body-building in Acker's.
And for both—dildos. Both are much less interested in the puzzles of the Lacanian phallus and more in some silicon cock action. Which prompted Viegener to note the opposition in Acker between cunts and robots, where the robot repeats itself, but cunts are multiplicities that diverge. As Acker wrote in Pussy, King of the Pirates: "rose, a rose unfolds again and again until the nerves drive the flesh into pure nerves; they are—I'm closing again (becoming rigid)—these are the rhythms of the labyrinth." Sometimes roses are vaginas in Acker, sometimes assholes, sometimes neither. A kind of poetic excess in writing returns to open the body itself to being mapped and touched otherwise. Which for Finch points to the problem being to create a body-technics for multiplying cunts, or what Précado calls a counter-sexuality.
In her introduction to the recent reissue of Empire of the Senseless, Alexandra Kleeman describes it as a book to be used as a hammer, to break things, but maybe also to make things. Taking a cue from that, Hanjo Berressen presented it as a book not only about but as a tool for enduring life in a control society, where we are told there is a "level playing field," but it actually slopes steeply against us, and where nobody really meets as equals. All relationships are modeled on S&M relationships, where cruelty on the one side is best met with a disinterested coldness. The book breaks open the apparent relations of self to world and makes in its place a swarm of selvings and worldings.
Empire of the Senseless is also a book that is a kind of "dermographics," a manual for tuning the surfaces of the body into frequencies unknown to the logics of Oedipus and Capital. Using Félix Guattari's quadrant diagrams, Berressen showed it as a text where subjectivity fluctuates between identity and dispersal, and where this fluctuation corresponds to two aspects of a world outside of the subjective, of rhizomes and flows. Empire of the Senseless is, among other things, training in how to slip out of the symbolic order without entirely losing one's mind.
Anja Kirschner also reads an Acker for those who must contest reality in order to exist. She picks up on the parts of My Mother: Demonology that pull apart and rework Dario Argento's film Suspira (1977), based on the myth of the quest to kill the bad witch mother who is the head of the coven. According to Kirschner, Argento set this and some of his other films in a world where the Nazis won the war, which is one way of reading a lot of Acker books as well.
Kirschner also connected Acker to Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter, for whom "Caliban's woman" is a figure from who's vantage point a radically new conception of being human can and must be generated. In parallel to Berressen there's a reading here of Acker as finding techniques for reversing or destabilizing myth in the sense Roland Barthes gave it, of the formal, and apparently timeless structures of ideology. Could there be myths that are about something other than the heroic agency of man against the world?
As Ruth Buchanan noted, "archives are engines. Archivists don't know when someone will start them up." Georgina Colby started up the Acker collection at Duke University. Alongside Kraus and Martin, Colby has written one of the best books on Acker, her Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (Edinburgh University Press). Her point of departure is composition studies, with its interest in the practices of writing, or what book historian Joanna Drucker calls "performative materiality."
Looking at the page proofs for Blood and Guts in High School, Colby is interested in their repetition of the techniques of the avant-garde, from hand-writing to cutting up magazines. She spoke about the "Persian Poems" sequence, which read like the homework of a student of the language. The actual Farsi textbook Acker used for these exercises was in the exhibition. Acker took the risk of including her beginner's Farsi language learning exercises. It is a language without gendered pronouns, through which the book's Janey character, if she is a character, can write herself into and out of a language as something other than gendered.
Dodie Bellamy also drew attention to how language works in Acker-texts. I was particularly interested in the series of sentences she pulled out of Acker that hinge on the word "because." As in this sentence, also from Pussy, King of the Pirates: "Pirate sex began on the date when the liquids began to gush forward. As if when equals because." Linear causality is always somewhat fragile and suspect in the Acker-text, as her uses of "because" make clear. Bellamy also gave us this vivid image of Acker leaving America and arriving in London: "think of Dracula sailing to England, but with crates if books instead of dirt."
Both the exhibition and the symposium were studded with impressions Acker left on others while she was alive. Bellamy noted that she was "still able to seduce on her deathbed." Leslie Dick that she "seemed to know how to have a lot of pleasure in her unhappiness." Viegener than "Kathy treated other people as books. She tried to read as many as she could." In the joint performance Leslie Dick did with her daughter Audrey Wollen, I felt as though there was a particularly artful passing of the mic to the next cohort of Acker readers and re-writers.
For Dick, Acker was a writer who refused to live as if in a garret, and saw writing as part of a public and social world. Dick met Acker in New York in 1982, and they were friends in London after both had moved there. Dick met the British film maker and film theorist Peter Wollen after his relationship to Acker had ended. Acker generally stayed friends with exes, so the three of them were hardly strangers. Dick says that Acker "cracked something open in Wollen." But then, for Acker, "all forms of love are drag," and she at one and the same time loved life and desired to not exist.
Dick's presentation was interspersed with video-taped pieces by Audrey Wollen, daughter of Leslie Dick and Peter Wollen. "What doesn't kill you only hurts you a lot," she declares. The narrative hook is a story in which Kathy Acker gives Peter Wollen chlamydia, which he in turn gives to Leslie Dick. It's a piece about a sexually transmitted disease and how it might be read allegorically. "What's the difference between a book and an STD?" Both are things you catch, that are trouble, can be lethal, boring, scaring.
Wollen pointed out that Acker's writing is often mistakenly read as "sex-positive" simply because of its sexual frankness, ignoring her repeated attention to a street politics of sexual violence, rape, unwanted pregnancy and STDS. Being female is often a state of disgust in Acker, even if over banal things like pelvic inflammatory disease or a urinary tract infection. Wollen: "Sex only exists in the trouble it leaves you with."
Wollen: "What's the difference between a book, an STD and a baby?" After Acker, Wollen presents heterosexuality as a mode of contamination and love as scarification. Among other things, this seems to me an excellent figure for the passage of Acker's legacy beyond those who knew her. There's lots of queer sex in Acker, but she is also one of those rare writers about heterosexuality for whom it is a central preoccupation but also a bad idea. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, in Acker heterosexuality is common but that doesn't mean it is normal.
Acker was always interested in transmission as difference, how old books become new books, but in aberrant ways. Like all writers she had a library, and one that looks remarkably like the ones her contemporaries would have had. The difference was how she used it. Which poses the challenge of making new texts out of Acker that don't simply repeat her or recuperate her into a more acceptable literary coterie—arguably the problem with Olivia Laing's Crudo, in which Acker reappears as a respectable literary wife in our own times.
At one point, Leslie Dick said that Acker "was destined to be the most extraordinary old lady." One can only imagine how cranky and interesting that could have been. Instead, we're left with Acker as a literary chlamydia, a bacterium passed through intimate contact with contagious texts. It's an image which is both abject and honest, not just about Acker but about literary transmission in general.
McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is the author, most recently, of General Intellects (Verso 2017). They teach at Eugene Lang College.


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Fixed deposit interest rates are seeing a monstrous rise in the recent times. Major lenders like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, HDFC Bank are just a few names in the list which is presently encompassing almost every bank of the country. The continuing rate war amongst banks tends to tempt the customer towards the attractive rates being offered. However how viable is it to close a FD before maturity and move towards a new one with better rates is a question needing analysis.
The most important factor which accompanies premature withdrawal of a fixed deposit is preclosure penalty. Usually a penalty in the range of 0.5 -2% is levied by banks in case of premature withdrawal of all fixed deposits. The penalty is charged because FD termination causes an asset liability mismatch in the book of accounts of banks which needs to be managed.
Some banks however waive off the penalty in case the customer renews his FD with the bank or opens a new one of higher amount with it. This way banks try to retain old customers while allowing them to avail higher interest rates too.
There are certain other cases also when banks waive off this penalty but no bank gives a specific list of such instances. In case of serious illness or death of a member of family, banks tend to waive off the penalty but it needs them to be seriously convinced of the genuineness of the customer's decision of premature withdrawal.
Apart from the penalty clause, the customer also needs to look into the time frame where the current FD lies from maturity before deciding to close it. In case the FD is nearing maturity in a short time, it won't be considered very wise to close it off for a higher rate deposit too. This is because along with penalty the interest income generated from the old FD will also decrease, thereby bringing down the expected gains from the new deposit offering higher interest rate.
1. In INDIAN BANK with Chennai as head quarters, their term deposits bears a condition that for deposits with in Rs5 lacs, run for a period of minimum 6 months, there will be no penal interest for foreclosure and interest for the period actually run will be paid. This is a condition in their FD scheme as seen in their website.
2. All people deserve good life time and home loans or just auto loan will make it better. Because people's freedom relies on money.
3. Apart from the stated obvious, it would be far more beneficial if a computation of the loss on premature closure of FD can be computed through a online developed calculator.


New research suggests : Despite doomsday predictions for house price growth in the capital, prices in Hackney will continue to keep growth strongly over the next three years.
Westminster and Lewisham which will both experience growth of prices of more than four percent. With Hackney are expected to grow more than five percent in the years to 2020.
With Richmond Upon Thames will experience the lowest growth, with prices rising around 1.5 percent. That's followed by Harrow and Hounslow, where prices will rise around two percent.
The forecast, by KPMG, follows figures published by Savills yesterday which suggested having fallen this year, London house prices will not begin to rise until 2020. The figures suggested prices will fall two percent next year and remain flat in 2019, before rising five percent in 2020.
KPMG said it expected the UK's economy to remain relatively lackluster, weighing on local demand in London in the medium term.
"On the whole, our projections for the London housing market see a continued cooling in the short term, followed by a gradual rebound in the medium term, which will allow the cumulative price growth to remain positive over the forecast horizon overall.


Anytown Parents: Do You Know AAP Recommendations?
Today's we have a vital message for new parents or parents-to-be.
For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised parents to begin children's dentist visits before the third birthday.
The AAP and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry now counsels parents to take their toddler to a dentist before their first birthday, or within six months after their first tooth appears.
Why? Prevention, prevention, prevention! Sadly, even though pediatricians advise parents about children's oral health, America dentists find advanced tooth decay in very young children.
To meet with us about pediatric dentistry or make an appointment for your toddler, call 801.938.3466. Doctor Larry Johnson and the remarketable team here at Cornertown Dentistry take special care of our youngest patients. We work with parents to ensure that their children's smiles start out healthy and stay healthy as they grow.
We also pamper busy parents who come to Cornertown Dentistry for general and cosmetic dentistry. We would love to provide you and your children with singular dental care.


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Galaxy S21 specs leak w/ Snapdragon 875, more
With an earlier launch expected this time around, the leaks have started to pour out around Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S21 series. Today, we're getting a huge reveal of nearly all of the specs for each Galaxy S21 model, as well as new details about each device.
If you'll recall last year, Samsung's enemy in the leaks game was Max Weinbach, who today reports on the next series over at Android Police. In his huge information dump, we get a ton of details about the Galaxy S21 series, starting with a nearly complete list of specs.
According to Weinbach's sources, the Galaxy S21 series will see a modest, almost expected upgrade over its predecessor. That starts with a Snapdragon 875 or Exynos 2100 chipset depending on region, but apparently, the two chips are "on par" with each other this year, something we couldn't say on the S20.
All three phones
Home Office 'failed to discuss restart of asylum evictions with local authorities'
The Home Office did not discuss the decision to restart asylum evictions with local authorities, it has been revealed, despite concerns about the immediate impact on homelessness and heightened risks of coronavirus transmission.
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Councils were not briefed about the change in policy before it was announced in mid-September, a freedom of information investigation by the Independent online newspaper showed, underlining that all 26 councils that responded said there had been no consultation with ministers.
Related: Priti Patel not following her own anti-trafficking policy, judge rules
The Home Office lifted the ban on asylum evictions, which had been brought in at the start of the pandemic, on 15 September. The change meant the resumption of evictions of refused asylum seekers with "with immediate effect", putting thousands of people housed in emergency shelter at sudden risk of street homelessness.
Local authorities have criticised ministers
Schools want to end online classes for struggling kids. COVID-19 cases may send everyone home.
Math teacher Aaron Tomhave found it fairly easy to continue connecting with his students when his district outside of Houston shifted online in March. He's a tech whiz, and he already had a good relationship with them.
Internet connectivity problems slow down online learning
But when the Splendora school district returned to in-person instruction in September, Tomhave noticed subtle differences with his new students: When he rolls up on his mechanic's stool and asks them about their day and their schoolwork, he gets an authentic and immediate response. He knows that would have been harder over email. His students are grasping concepts more readily in person, too.
"There is a big difference between accountability face to face and accountability online," said Tomhave, who's been teaching for about 13 years.
Hot Property: Lakers legend Derek Fisher lists in Tarzana
Longtime Laker Derek Fisher and his partner, Gloria Govan, are looking to score a deal in the San Fernando Valley. Their Tarzana home has surfaced for sale at $2.5 million, records show.
Fisher, who won five NBA titles with the Lakers, and Govan, who owns the Mexican restaurant chain Gorditos, extensively remodeled the place during their stay. The Mediterranean-style spot now boasts a sleek interior with arched doorways and designer fixtures across 6,566 square feet.
On the main level, a chandelier-topped dining area adjoins a living room under tray ceilings. The chef's kitchen provides a burst of color with a bright blue tiered island topped by marble.
The backyard.
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The remodeled interior.
The living room.
The dining room.
The kitchen.
Some tips for older workers to weather hard times
The association of old age with decline has a long history. To work or do anything demanding during the traditional retirement years is often considered cute at best and depressing at worst. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith called these reactions the "Still Syndrome."
"The Still Syndrome is the design by which the young or the less old daily assail the old. 'Are you still well?' 'Are you still working?' 'I see that you are still taking exercise.' 'Still having a drink?' As a compulsive literatus I am subject to my own special assault, 'I see you are still writing.' 'Your writing still seems pretty good to me.' The most dramatic general expression came from a friend I hadn't seen for some years: 'I can hardly believe you're still alive!' "
I reread Galbraith's essay the other day while thinking about the age of key political players during the recent election. President-elect
Pilot to allow England care home visits 'too late' for many families
Families of care home residents have described the launch of a government pilot scheme to increase visits as "too little too late".
On Friday night, the government announced that family and friends of people living in care homes would receive access to regular testing to allow them to visit their loved ones. The pilot scheme will begin in 20 care homes across Hampshire, Devon and Cornwall on Monday, with plans to expand the policy to other regions by Christmas.
While the move offers long-awaited progress for care home visitation rights, for some families, it has come too late.
Related: 'All my dad does is cry': heartache over Covid visits ban in English care homes
Maureen Abson's father, a navy veteran with advanced vascular dementia who lived in a care home in Lancashire, died on Wednesday, aged 81. Abson described the pilot scheme as "ridiculous".
"We didn't have a pilot scheme
MPGL models showcase interiors by Romanza Interior Design
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Published 6:00 a.m. ET Nov. 14, 2020
Romanza designer Melissa Allen transformed a Moorings Park resident's new 3,380-square foot Spring floor plan into an updated version of a classic "Old Naples" beach house design. (Photo: Submitted)
Romanza Interior Design's expert approach to enhancing living spaces is on full display at Moorings Park Grande Lake, Naples' newest luxury Life Plan Community. A pair of furnished, luxury residence models featuring grand golf course and lake views display the possibilities for a truly perfect retirement lifestyle.
Romanza designer Luann Powers Gliwski took advantage of the soaring ceilings and light-filled living spaces in the Moorings Park Grande Lake residences to create two distinctive designs.
"We used the foyer spaces to set the tone and preview the palette used throughout the residences," said Gliwski.
In the Brook model, a 3,905-square-foot residence
14 Early Black Friday Deals: Tech, Home Gear, and More
It's deals season. You can smell it in the air, wafting across the land—savings. Or maybe that's just lingering wildfire smoke and hurricane moisture, I don't know anymore. What I do know is that this year, Black Friday is looking more like Black November. There are already plenty of full-fledged holiday sales happening. We've rounded up some of our favorite early Black Friday deals, along with a list of retailer sales pages if you want to dig through the offerings on your own.
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Phone and Tablet Deals
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Galaxy Note 10+ for $650 ($280 off): The Note 10+ is a great phone if you want to use a stylus
Awards gala to honor San Diego's top interior designers, home projects on Dec. 4
The public is invited to tune in on Dec. 4 as the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) honors the year's outstanding projects by top designers, in its virtual Design Excellence Awards and Holiday Gala.
Held from 6 to 7:30 p.m., the online event will offer attendees an up-close look at some of San Diego County's most magnificent interiors and the interior design community, which includes professional interior designers, consultants, artisans, craftspeople and exclusive showrooms.
Awards will be announced in 23 categories, including residential and commercial design, use of lighting and technology, kitchens, baths, sustainable design, product design and more.
"Our virtual awards celebration will be an easy way for the public to get acquainted with the top interior designers working in San Diego County and enjoy a panorama of their award-winning design projects," said Suzi O'Brien, president of the local ASID chapter.
College Students Home For The Holidays, How To Keep Families Safe From COVID-19 : Shots
Sandy Kretschmer imagines her son Henry returning home from college, dropping his bags and then giving her a big hug. But she knows the reality of this homecoming may be a lot different.
I'll probably have a mask on and he'll have a mask on when I hug him," she says.
Henry plans to take a COVID-19 test a few days before he leaves Iowa State University where he's a junior, and he'll self-quarantine until he heads home to Chicago.
The Kretschmers are taking these precautions because some family members have underlying conditions that put them at higher risk of becoming seriously ill with COVID-19. Henry's father has an auto-immune disease and his 78-year-old grandfather is in hospice care.
Families all across the country are facing a similar dilemma: They want their students home for Thanksgiving, but no one wants the virus to come home with them.
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The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor is a two-part post-apocalyptic horror novel written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. Part one was released on October 8, 2013 and part two was released March 4, 2014. The novel is a spin-off of Kirkman's series of graphic novels and explores the back-story of one of the series' most infamous characters, The Governor. The Fall of the Governor is the third and final book in a trilogy of novels, following The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor and The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury.

Plot

Part one
Along with a few other Woodbury survivors Lilly Caul and Caesar Martinez are on a supply run. During the run Lilly is attracted to a fellow survivor, Austin Ballard. They gather supplies from a warehouse but their supply run is interrupted by attacking zombies. Luckily they manage to escape unharmed. On their way back to Woodbury they see a crashing helicopter and decide to investigate. The pilot is already dead when they find the helicopter, but a passenger named Christina has survived. They make it back to Woodbury where Christina is treated by Dr. Stevens who warns her not to trust the Governor. When the Governor arrives he asks her who she is. Christina refuses to answer his questions and he threatens her. Finally she decides to tell the truth. She used to be a journalist in Atlanta and she was holed up in a TV station along with some other survivors. When the supplies ran low people turned on each other and Christina and the pilot, a cameraman named Mike, escaped using the chopper. Before they left the station a fellow survivor tampered with the engine, causing it to crash. She confronts the Governor and he chokes her to death. The Governor and his henchmen Gabe and Bruce visit Dr. Stevens and threaten him. His safety is only guaranteed at the moment because he is the only doctor, but he can be replaced easily if another doctor arrives.

After leaving Stevens, they notice Martinez who informs them about three new arrivals (who are revealed to be Rick, Glenn and Michonne). The Governor decides to give them a tour. Meanwhile, Lilly is trying to teach Austin to survive and the two fall in love. Austin gets injured during training and they rush to the infirmary, where they notice an injured Governor. The Governor tells them the new arrivals attacked him and he had to chop off the leader's (Rick's) hand. While Rick is at the infirmary, Glenn and Michonne are locked up in two storage rooms. The Governor rapes and beats up Michonne regularly. When her relationship with Austin becomes more serious Lilly discovers she is pregnant and Austin is the father.

One day an arena fighter named Harold Abernathy is killed by a vengeful opponent named Eugene Cooney. Because the Governor has a show planned later that day he forces Michonne to fight Eugene in the arena. During the fight Michonne decapitates Eugene using her katana, which upsets the audience. The Governor discovers that Rick, Glenn and Michonne live in a prison and he wants to find out where the prison is. He enlists Martinez to gain Rick's trust and help them escape, so he can find the prison.

Martinez succeeds to convince Rick that they are on the same side. He helps him escape and frees Glenn and Michonne. When they flee Dr. Stevens and his assistant Alice join them. Outside Woodbury Stevens is bitten and killed by a zombie. Meanwhile, Michonne goes back to The Governor's apartment for revenge. She knocks him out and ties him up. She proceeds to torture him by mutilating his penis, cutting off his right arm and removing his left eye using a spoon. Then she leaves him for dead and escapes. The first part ends when Gabe and Bruce find the Governor and Austin and Lilly, not knowing what happened to the Governor, finally feel safe and optimistic under the Governor's rule.

Part two
With Dr. Stevens gone Bob Stookey has to treat the Governor's injuries and keeps him in a coma. Outside Woodbury Lilly discovers Dr. Stevens, who has turned into a walker and kills him. Back inside Lilly notices the Governor's absence and talks to Gabe. He brings her to the Governor, who is still in a coma. Along with some other Woodbury residents she manages to keep Woodbury running. After the Governor wakes up he speaks to her. He tells her that Martinez' escape was part of a plan to discover the prison's location. Because Martinez has been gone for a week, the Governor asks Lilly to find him.

She organises a search party and they find Martinez, who was killed and has turned into a walker. They cut off his head and bring it to the Governor as proof. Later that night The Governor makes his first public appearance in Woodbury after his attack. He shows the people of Woodbury Martinez' head and tells them that Rick's group killed Martinez and Dr. Stevens. He tells them that they should strike first to protect themselves. During his speech Lilly notices the Governor is lying and starts to doubt his leadership. Shortly afterwards Lilly's stress causes a miscarriage.

A group of Woodbury residents led by Bruce are on a supply run to a nearby National Guard station searching for weapons, but they encounter several members of Rick's group. Rick's people kill all of them, except for Bruce, who is barely alive. When the Governor arrives he shoots Bruce in the head to prevent reanimation and tells his people to follow the tracks to find the prison. They find the prison, but the Governor orders them not to attack yet. They have to wait until the guard of the prison group is down.

After a few weeks the Governor and a group of Woodbury soldiers march towards the prison. Among the vehicles is a tank. They attack first, but the prison group fends off the attack and a lot of Woodbury soldiers are killed. After they retreat they are attacked by two prison group residents: Michonne and Tyreese. While Michonne manages to escape, Tyreese is captured and Michonne's katana is confiscated. The next morning the Governor goes to the prison gate and tells Rick to leave the prison. Otherwise he will kill Tyreese. The prison group do not respond and the Governor decapitates Tyreese using Michonne's katana. Back at camp the Governor tells the Woodbury soldiers that the prison people killed their own man so the Governor could not use him to take over the prison.

Michonne returns and attacks again. While failing to kill the Governor she steals her sword back. The Woodbury soldiers attack again, but are repelled by grenades. Gabe is killed by a prison resident, who attacks them from outside. The Governor uses his tank to destroy the prison fences and the Woodbury soldiers invade the prison, searching for survivors to kill. They see three people trying to flee and kill two of them, while the third one surrenders. Then another group of survivors, led by Rick tries to escape and Alice is with them. Alice is shot in the leg and the Governor shoots her in the head. The Governor sees Rick Grimes and his family fleeing the prison and orders Lilly to shoot them down. Lilly shoots and kills one of the remaining survivors. She then quickly realizes that the woman was carrying a baby, who was also struck by the bullet and subsequently crushed when the woman fell. The Governor kills the man who surrendered. Lilly realizes what kind of monster the Governor is and starts arguing with the Governor. Meanwhile, a group of walkers, attracted by the gunfire, invade the prison.

Lilly shoots the Governor in the head, which distracts the walkers temporarily. The remaining Woodbury soldiers flee into the prison. Austin reveals that he has been bitten by a walker and distracts the walkers so the rest of the survivors can flee the prison, but he is killed. Upon returning to Woodbury Lilly becomes the new leader. She kills Penny, the Governor's zombified niece and all the walker heads the Governor kept in fish tanks. The novel ends when a group of new survivors, looking for shelter, arrives.

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2013 American novels
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This past fall, Haller Lake residents submitted project ideas to the Seattle Department of Transportation's (SDOT) Neighborhood Street Fund 2019 Program. Many of the projects were accepted to move to Phase 2. See below for the accepted Haller Lake projects. During phase 2, voting occurs to prioritize projects that will go to phase 3 for final voting. The projects with the most votes will get moved to Phase 3 and then hopefully selected, funded and BUILT! Online Voting will be open January 28 – March 1. Voting takes a few minutes, click the link below and prioritize the projects that are important to you and our neighborhood. Select 'Council District 5'. You can prioritize as many projects as you would like. We are competing against all of District 5 — hopefully we can get at least one project in Haller Lake funded! Also, please forward this to your neighbors and friends. Consider engaging schools and businesses in the area too. See attached map showing exact locations of Haller Lake projects as well as the e-mail below from SDOT.
Click here to vote: nsf.consider.it.
The deadline has been extended to March 1 (and the post edited to match).


At home in Gemini, Mercury witnesses the birth of new ideas, a renaissance of perspective and communication. The only thing holding it back is its proximity to the Sun (also in Gemini), which makes Mercury invisible to the naked eye– but wait until Mercury is exactly aligned with the Sun on June 5, and you'll see that Mercury has been watching you lay the groundwork for something big all along. Mercury will remain in Gemini for about 2 weeks, speeding through on its way to Cancer.
Aries, Libra, or Aquarius: You'll find your muse around the corner and the inspiration flows freely.
Taurus or Scorpio: Now's the time to take your investment research or savings plan and put it into action!
Gemini or Cancer: Get ready for a perspective change or different dialogue than you've been used to.
Leo or Sagittarius: Expect a boost in relationships or partnerships for a couple weeks.
Virgo, Capricorn, or Pisces: It's time to get organized to get stuff DONE, whether at home or the office.
Don't know your Rising Sign? Check out my post on how to find it!
This week Mercury also receives a Trine aspect from Mars (on Friday), almost canceling out the overpowering effects of the Sun. Your ideas and communication will get a supercharge as if you had just downed 5 energy drinks in a row! Manifestation of your ideas seems even closer to reality than before.
Mercury also aligns with the star Aldebaran on Sunday, witnessing a challenge of honor and integrity that, if you pass the challenge, will give you success in the area that Mercury is transiting through in your life.
Update (6/3/18): As a Rising Sagittarius, this week definitely showed some fireworks with relationships, ultimately for the better! There's nothing better than the feeling of resolving tension with someone and becoming closer as a result. Friday was definitely the height of emotion with Mars aspecting Mercury providing that energetic momentum in relationships!
Information, desires, and inhibitions are let loose as the Moon in Sagittarius reflects the light of the Sun back to the Earth in full effect. Stay true to yourself and remember not to take everything at face value, but to question and challenge information as well.
It's time to talk out loud about what you've been observing but keeping silent or to yourself. From a place of doing what feels right (and from a place of compassion), shine the light of the Sun in Gemini on the matter at hand.
Your insecurities are comforted by nurturing and pampering, either by recognizing the need for this and practicing some self-care, or from friends or family who have recognized that you need the comfort.
The worries of the world give way to calm, meditation, and relaxation. Your individual strength comes not from being active all the time, but from going through cycles of action and rest.
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In Keeping Up with the Neighbours (Neighbours Series 2) author Tracy Krauss treats us to the adventures of colourful Newfoundland siblings who have left the Rock to find their fortunes in Alberta.
The characters (the Malloys—five young men and their sister) are earthy, relatable, often humorous, and interesting. We follow them as they find jobs in construction, the oil patch, the woods, the local bar, and a hair dressing salon, and socialize in the evenings with the locals at a neighbourhood watering hole.
These salty characters are not without their realistic problems and flaws, so be prepared for a little more edginess than you'd find in some Christian fiction. But Krauss incorporates faith as well in plot twists that feel plausible and inevitable.
Keeping up with the Neighbours (Neighbours 2) is a lot of fun as well as thought-provoking, dealing with subjects like loyalty, conflicts between immigrant parents and their adult children, alcoholism, religious faith and more. It's a bit like reading a Calgary-based season of Cheers.


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Lockheed LM-100J taking form in Marietta
By James Drew2016-04-20T00:31:38+01:00
Construction of first the commercial derivative of the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules in 24 years has begun in Marietta, Georgia, where fabricators are now assembling the first LM-100J wing.
The legacy Lockheed L-100, based on the C-130E, was type certified and delivered in 1965 and production continued until 1992. Just 115 of those commercial derivatives were delivered alongside C-130 models in Marietta for the Pentagon and dozens of foreign military customers.
This week, Lockheed announced that LM-100J wing assembly has begun, and meanwhile panels are coming in from Clarksburg in West Virginia and the floor structure is being prepped in Meridian, Mississippi.
"Watching the LM-100J move from concept to reality is monumental for everyone involved, including our team members, industry and our customers," says George Shultz, vice-president and general manager of Lockheed's air mobility and maritime missions division.
Lockheed Martin LM-100J
The C-130J first flew in April 1996 and is operated by 16 nations, with France and Saudi Arabia being the type's latest customers.
Lockheed announced the LM-100J (Model 382J) programme in February 2014 and signed up ASL Aviation as the launch customer by July.
The company isn't predicting large sales volumes, but instead numbers closer to the L-100, of which 115 units were produced.
LM-100J wing assembly in Marietta
"We're projecting the potential market for the [LM-100J] aircraft to be in the 75-100 range," Ray Fajay, Lockheed's vice-president of air mobility business development, said in a March interview. "We see an accessible market of somewhere in the 300-plus aircraft range."
Fajay says it's important that current and potential customers see the aircraft enter assembly, in preparation for the first flight next year and start of a 12-month certification effort.
"It's one thing to talk about launching a programme and doing all that activity, but when you start seeing parts and the aircraft coming together, it's significant and exciting and demonstrates the commitment that Lockheed has for the aircraft and commercial market."
Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) KC-130J Super Hercules
On the defence side, Lockheed announced last month that it has delivered the first two KC-130J Super Hercules aerial tankers to the Royal Saudi Air Force. The US government approved the sale of as many as 25 C-130J-based types to the Arab state in 2013, but there hasn't been any confirmation of follow-on agreements for the remaining 23 options.
Saudi Arabia is the largest C-130 operator apart from the USA, operating legacy C-130s, KC-130s and L-100s.
France has also signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the US government for four examples, including two J-models as a supplement to its heavier Airbus A400M fleet for cargo and troop transport, and two KC-130s to refuel helicopters, primarily. "We're excited and we're on the front end of welcoming them into the C-130J family," says Fajay.
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My Road to Advantage Play – A.P. STREET!
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you're in a similar position to mine years ago. You may have learned to count cards, browse some blackjack forums, and maybe even spread a little at your local casino. But you've never taken the plunge into full time play, or moved up to higher stakes that yield a respectable profit. I was in that state for years before I actually became a profitable advantage player, so I thought it might be interesting to share my story with people who are now where I was then.
Like most APs, I started as a card counter. This was a result of a trip to a card room in Washington when I was 18. I had no idea what blackjack was other than the fact that it had something to do with 21. I lost $60 (likely playing horribly), but I was interested in learning more so I decided to look into winning at blackjack. I came across a website that talked about card counting.
That summer, I was able to learn the hi-lo count fairly quickly, and I had basic strategy down cold, but I never learned anything about EV, ROR, BR requirements, N0, or anything else of that nature. I did learn enough to know that I didn't have enough money to make it worth my time, though. I would take occasional trips with friends, keeping the count and playing basic, and I would simply bet more than minimum when the count was high, with no defined spread or plan. Unfortunately, I was too green to realize the value of the games I was playing at the time, and I didn't like the thought of risking the small amount of money I had for a small expected hourly profit, so I never really made any money off of them.
Life went on, and I'm sure I went through stretches of a year or two without even playing blackjack or visiting a casino, as I never had enough of a bankroll to make an acceptable hourly profit and had other priorities at the time. My life went in a different direction, and I started and operated a successful business throughout my 20's, but I was getting burned out. After a lot of personal debate, and now being at a point where I felt I had enough money to make blackjack advantage play worth my time, I decided to put my business on hold and see if I could actually make some real money playing blackjack.
The thought of walking the Vegas Strip while getting paid, and traveling the world while pulling one over on the casinos was a daydream of mine. I wanted to see if it was possible. I never liked visiting casinos for fun, and I never gambled recreationally; my interest was mainly out of curiosity, boredom, and burn out at work. After years of being tied down with business obligations and girlfriends who wouldn't understand the travel involved, I found myself single, with a reasonable money cushion, and I had just finished up my last "real job" project, with no plans to take on another. It was time.
At this point I had never met anyone who played blackjack or other casino games professionally, and, to be honest, I still wasn't sure if blackjack was beatable because I hadn't done much studying beyond the basics of counting. Still, I was lucky to have enough money to learn on my own, time to do it, and some great games to choose from nearby. I studied up a lot more. I came up with a bet spread, EV estimate, and a game plan.
Although I could technically afford more, I decided to start with a spread of $25–$200 on some generously-cut double deck games with very good speed and late surrender. I'm sure I made some mistakes along the way, but the games were strong and my spread was decent for the game strength, I would even wong out regularly, so my hourly EV probably wasn't too bad. Still, after about two months of playing regularly, I was stuck $8000, plus expenses, not to mention the fact that I was out two months of money it took to support my lifestyle, as I had a house payment and other expenses not related to gambling. Nice start!
Starting off losing only motivated me even more. I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue or if I wanted to go back to my "real job" but I was definitely sure I wasn't stopping until I at least got my $8000 back, because I wasn't going out a loser. The game I was playing was better than almost anything else I could find, and it was driving distance from my house. I was determined to make it. That's when I got backed off of the DD game. I wasn't technically even backed off (they must have liked me); instead they just told all the dealers to give me horrible cuts. Effectively, that game was dead to me.
Instead of playing the worse games in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to schedule my first AP travel trip. I was still stuck about the same amount and wanted to turn a small profit before throwing in the towel. According to Stanford Wong's Casino Blackjack Newsletter, most of the games I could afford to play in Vegas were shoe games. At the time there were some decent shoe games in Vegas, even S17 LS tables on the main floors of some casinos. I had plans to wong out during bad counts and wong in on some good counts when I could, but when I crunched the numbers I learned that I needed to spread to two hands, increasing my max bets to 2x$200 to get an hourly rate similar to what I enjoyed on the game I started on.
So I was off to Vegas for 10 days, staying wherever was cheap and playing rated in my real name to get comps to help with expenses (I didn't know any better at the time). This trip is when I finally turned things around, putting my card counting career results into the black. I was a profitable card counter. I don't remember exactly how much I won, but it was in the low five-figures (probably $13–14K). The win was way over EV for that trip, but I was hooked. I continued that year counting, slowly upping my max bet as I gained more confidence and experience, including many backoffs along the way.
After a number of trips cut short due to heat, backoffs, and 86'ings, I decided that I needed to make counting a low priority and look into other AP methods. I didn't know it at the time, but I was already databased due to the mistake of using my real name while counting. I still make many mistakes and will continue to along the way, but I see them as learning experiences. At that time I still hadn't met another AP, but in my path to find higher EV in less transparent opportunities, I ended up meeting some like-minded players that made AP even more profitable and enjoyable for me. I haven't looked back since my first trip to Vegas.
I will never forget attending Max Rubin's Blackjack Ball for the first time last year and winning the Grosjean Cup in a head-to-head counting battle with John Chang, the former head of the infamous M.I.T. blackjack team. It remains the highlight of my career to date and I honestly never thought I would get this far when I started out. I now enjoy freedom to do what I want, have a very understanding and beautiful girlfriend at home, and make a healthy income off of AP. I also have a lot of good friends and associates that I met along the way. For those of you daydreaming, whether it's about a career as an AP, or something else, my advice is to go for it! You only live once, what's the worst that can happen?
Thanks Lee – this is quality stuff.
All your posts are dead on – great advice for the aspiring AP. Please keep it up!


Can't go wrong with original parts! Processing Black Oxide or Zinc Phosphate is the easy part if you have the correct chemistry. Preparing the surface is KEY so be careful on how aggressive you are with original parts and surface finish. Take plenty of quality photo!
Think we talked at a Carlisle event! Yes, agree original parts are great but members should know also that many of the same supplier hardware is available and if your screw, bolt or whatever is pitted it will look terrible. Many including me phosphate our own parts unless its size prohibited. Palmetto products are easy to use, and inexpensive. For anyone reading this thread and are interested there are many excellent threads that can be found using the search key discussing using the Palmetto products and subsequent processes.
9780422 Screw-GM is used heavily. I found the 9780422 screw to be made up by three suppliers which are identified in the picture with individual pics of the head markings. AMK uses Anchor screws for 9780422 and that might be correct but I decided to use 9780422 screws with the three suppliers found on my car and others for restoration. AMK catalog index has reference for 9780422 if anyone needs to order.
part number. Many of the same fasteners were used on 67's and 68's.
As Al mentioned many of these fasteners/screws/bolts/clips were used on all Gen I Camaro's. What I have listed was for our 68 Z/28 car but have some 69 AIM items listed as well.
Recently updated Fastener Chart and wanted to share-Also placed in my build thread.
0447143- P39/91/162 (69 AIM UPC 1 A5) Hex screw 8-18X1/4 .34" O.D. AMK- B-11070 (20pcs) 0456766-P237 front spoiler #10-12X5/8 5/16 AF .4 O.D. Noted some originals had "D" in hex head.
9420151-P153 1/4-14X3/4 3/8AF .5 O.D. AMK B-12102 (Cool Phosp B-12103 (Cool Zinc 9420152 ¼-14X1/2 3/8 AF AMK N/A Obtained Corvette Central #192117 correct zinc "E" screws. Additional info last page.
9420152-409 Radio Ground strap (68 AIM page 409) from body to sub-frame utilizes screw 9420152 and it was zinc. The screw is a self-tapping, 1/4-20 x 1/2", with indented head. Our originals were 'E' and can be purchased @corvette Central #192117 (2 for $2). Paragon offers the same screw with "RBW" #11189K, 7 screws for $5.00. 1967/8 Corvettes used this screw for radio ground straps and the front crossover brake line clip. AMK does not offer this screw!
Another area the AIM is incorrect on the hood hinge to fender screw. That screw assembly used a smaller diameter captured washer (conical diameter 3/4") as it gave more flexibility with adjustment compared to what is listed that had a 1" captured washer (conical diameter).
A picture showing the difference in washer diameter.
Sub Frame to Lower Cowl Mounting... long screws with pointed end.
Does anyone sell the correct versions of these screws?
Sorry John for the way too long of a wait for an answer. The 4 long sub-frame bolts that attach the frame to body have that pointed end that can be viewed from the engine compartment when the hood is up so assume that is why your asking about that area "sub frame to lower cowl mounting." I'm not aware of anyone making a correct bolt for that application. GM seemed to have normally three suppliers of each screw or bolt but the only bolts I've observed for that sub-frame to body mounting have been RBW bolts with the aforementioned sharp pointed end. If you have a friend who works in a machine shop one could take a bolt and machine the angled point to the bolt end and then re-phosphate to have a correct look from up top. Note when mounting it's been observed the large washer is phosphate and the smaller washer zinc (see picture).
Love to see that hardware restoration. Really love the thread.
HUGE Help! and time saver. sorry for yelling......thanks for all the great info.


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Welsh Mountain Pony Promotions
Welsh Mountain Pony Promotions LLC is an off-shoot of a Facebook group created as a forum to discuss the continued decline of Welsh Mountain Pony numbers in the USA and promotion of our favorite section of Welsh. Welsh Mountain Pony Promotions was originally a group of four Welsh Mountain Pony breeders dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the breed. The group held multiple planning sessions starting in April 2016. The first visible effort of the group was in the development of the Facebook page, Welsh Mountain Pony Promotions, in September 2016. It is not a sales page, but rather an informational and promotions page. The page has gained in popularity gaining new members each week. As of March 2018, it has nearly 4,000 followers.
Charter membership in the organization began in May 2017. During our first official year as an organization, we developed a web page with webmaster Paula Bright. Later, we migrated to a new web page with webmaster Winona Myers. We developed The Marketeer, a promotional magazine that is available on Amazon. We worked with designer, Pam Johnson, to develop a full page ad for each charter member that was promoted widely on the Facebook page.
We placed advertisements in a few publications including the Welsh Review and the Maryland Pony Breeders publication. We held contests on Facebook with Welsh Mountain Pony-related prizes. We advertised during the National WPCSA show on iEquine.com and the ad was viewed by tens of thousands of people.
As we begin a new chapter, we have migrated our web page one final time as our webmaster has retired from our organization. Webmasters for this version of the web page are Diane Stewart and Kelli Broers.
We plan to continue our promotional efforts, welcoming new members in increasing numbers, and finding new and strategic ways to promote Welsh Mountain Ponies.
To promote, preserve, and market the Welsh Mountain Pony and to serve as a resource for those who desire more information


One true thing is that we are able to obtain lots of important things in our life thanks to 78 magical Tarot cards. Amongst, love is considered as the most popular topic in all Tarot readings. Do you know the best Tarot cards for love? Which spreads should we look for to signify the loving relationship? Right now, we will mention the top 4 Tarot cards for a new relationship. Be ready to explore? Here we are!
To those who are single, the Ace of Cups will be a good card to start a new love relationship. If this card appears near side of other cards, you can find out a passionate affair that might take off with speed. To those who are happy with their relationship, this card seems to bring more blissfulness. Some Tarot readers reckon that this Ace is a representation of a happy and new relationship.
The Lovers in the Major Arcana will symbolize a love interest and the potential for a loving relationship. Although it might not be one you're interested in pursuing, the appearance of this card also mentions a new relationship. Similar to the Two of Cups, the best way is that you should notice the surrounding cards to determine where it follows and originates. All in all, this card is the last Tarot card for love and symbolizes an exclusive bond and profound connection between two persons.
The Ten often reveals committed love with continuity; however, this card has often appeared for singles with no possible build-up at all. Typically, the Ten of Cups describes a happy family with a loving and warm home. It indicates a feeling of completion and the existence of profound family values with perfect partners and children.
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One way to feel better when you're down, attract a great guy and get your creative juices flowing is to surround yourself (or drape yourself) with color.
Many studies that have been done on the ways color affects us, and the most aggressive users of color theory to manipulate the masses are advertisers.
Bright, vibrant reds and yellows, for instance have been shown to speed up heart-rate and decision making, and even make us eat more and faster. Remind me, what colors are most associated with McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Arby's, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut?
Color also affects different people differently. The same paper notes that color is used differently between the genders and throughout different cultures, not to mention people with individual preferences for certain colors based on life experience.
"In addition, recent studies have found that responses to color may vary depending on age, gender, culture, and preference," O'Connor says.
But since color is part of human life and, for most, part of every waking minute of every day, here are some tips and tricks from the experts on how some of the most common colors affect us, and how to make them work for you.
Makes you hungry, horny and hurried.
A hot date, making a sale quickly, making sure all eyes are on you.
Small accents of both red and yellow are recommended for rooms where you spend time focusing. These colors in large amounts have been shown to cause edginess and discomfort, but in small doses they're perfect for energizing you and getting your creative juices flowing.
Calms the nerves, relaxes the mind, makes you think about life and nature.
Relaxing, comforting and consoling yourself or someone else, keeping tensions low or giving a presentation.
Like reds and yellows, the amount of blue you use is directly related to the effect it will have on you and your space. Too much blue can make rooms feel a lot colder than they actually are. That said, blues and greens have been shown to lower heart rate and promote relaxation, making them perfect for bedrooms.
Blue has also been shown to reduce appetite. Greens on the other hand don't reduce appetite, but a green plate could help ensure you eat your veggies.


Hey, everyone! I was going to write this sooner but then trans stuff happened on twitter and I got sucked into a black hole. I've shared my Storify account with you here before, yes? (I hate using storify after that one time they set a stalker on me, but it's still the best tweet aggregator out there.) Anyway! We're on Chapter 7 which is honestly a good chapter because things start happening again, so I'm really excited and also I just had a lot of sugar. Let's do this!
Chapter 6 ended mid-conversation, which is always a very awkward way to end a chapter and I dislike when authors do that, but maybe things were different in the 1960s. Anyway, Calvin--who was previously established as having premonitional urges, but just the one time when it explained why he bumped into Meg and Charles--now has his second (and I think last? for the entire series? not sure.) premonition: that if they go into the Big Building they'll be in danger.
Since Calvin was also previously established as pretty religiously following these premonitions because they always come true, that would seem to indicate some hard choices ahead to the tune of (a) being in danger and/or (b) being separated from Calvin who presumably will not want to enter the building if his "compulsions" (his word earlier, and it's a pretty strong word!) won't let him.
And that is... sort of that? Calvin argues a bit about whether Charles should stay behind while Calvin and Meg go in, but Calvin seems to instantly accept that he's not going to follow this particular compulsory premonition, which seems... odd and out of character with what was previously told to us.
Having said all that, I'm probably misremembering ITs scale at this stage. As a kid, I thought of it as a massive brain the size of an elephant, but I could be wrong. We won't find out for a bit longer!
—Like the sameness of people riding in a subway, Meg thought.—Only on a subway every once in a while there's somebody different and here there isn't.
On the one hand, I want to like this because I liked it as a kid. Everyone with a blank face that somehow looked the same was very creepy and effective as a description. On the other hand, this is such a classic nerd power fantasy that it's almost embarrassing to put it on display here.
What's interesting, pushing past the embarrassment at realizing I was not in fact immune to nerd power fantasies, is that this is also a very common Christian power fantasy. The idea of being in the know, of recognizing what's Really Going On is a very pervasive trope in Christian science fiction fantasy. Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness* was (in my mind) successful largely because of its depictions of angel-vs-demon fights happening around us all the time (right now! in the room where you're sitting! just behind your chair!) and the feeling granted to the reader that only they knew the truth about the epic adventure happening in plain sight of all the other sheeple.
Anyway, there's a lot of back and forth satirizing people who are so involved in the system that they don't know how to snap out of it and I'm not sure whether I like it or dislike it because I have to admit it comes over a little twee with the distance of 60 years (since publishing) and several more decades since I was last a kid so I'm not the target audience here which is a valid point.
"How do we see whoever's in authority?" Charles asked.
"You present your papers to the A machine. You ought to know that," the man said severely.
"Strawberry jam or raspberry?" Charles Wallace murmured. Calvin looked down at Charles and shook his head warningly. Meg gave the little boy's hand a slight, understanding pressure. Charles Wallace, she was quite sure, was not trying to be rude or funny; it was his way of whistling in the dark.
I think that tipped the scales on whether I like the scene and I don't like it because it's just not creepy enough. The jam joke comes across as appropriate from a tense child (although I can no longer keep track of whether Charles is tense; he's been pretty flippant and arrogant up to this point and will be afterwards, which fits because it's his Great Flaw that will cause trouble later, so it's again kind of like the kids are just passing around the emotion-ball at random rather than having consistent characterization) but the fact that there's no consequences for the joke de-fangs this scene.
When a man is threatening to put me through the Process Machine in a scene that is supposed to read as tense and creepy and raise-the-hairs-on-your-neck, I want him to pose a greater threat to my health and well-being than my scolding sister does.
Anyway, this continues for a bit and Meg's hand-squeezing ratchets up to higher levels of intensity. I wish she was allowed to just talk here, and it bugs me that Meg was established as outspoken and Calvin was established as a good communicator and all of that was thrown into a bin for Charles--the youngest, the quietest, and the least good at communication--to do all the talking with Camazotz strangers. How is this even in character for him? On earth back home, he's so shy that numerous people in town think he's almost entirely non-verbal! Where did this sassy chatter come from?
—I wish he wouldn't act so sure of himself, Meg thought, looking anxiously at Charles and holding his hand more and more tightly until he wriggled his fingers in protest. That's what Mrs Whatsit said he had to watch, being proud.—Don't, please don't, she thought hard at Charles Wallace. She wondered if Calvin realized that a lot of the arrogance was bravado.
Grammar corrections! Our spokesperson du jour on Planet Fascism is an actual Grammar Nazi. (NB: This is not a term I use anymore in casual conversation, preferring Grammar Pedant so as to not trigger people who are traumatized by Nazis, but I use it here because... well, it's Planet Fascism Death Bat and it seemed appropriate.) Again I'm torn on whether I like this; his pedantry certainly fits with the world we've seen so far where everything must be perfect and creativity is stifled and poetry is impossible. Plus, I can throw this scene in the face of every internet troll ever, and that's always a good thing.
But I hesitate here because grammar pedantry makes me think about all the stuff I know now about privilege and wealth and whiteness and their intersections with education and language and "high" grammar in our culture. And I think this is a valid time to discuss the elephant in the room with a novel that puts forth a theme of "these kids are better because they're smarter".
Charles Wallace's smartness isn't being written in a vacuum, either in-universe or out-of-universe, and there's a lot to unpack. For one, he's white. This would already be a problem, but then L'Engle has to make it worse by drawing attention to it with her genetics fetish stuff (one book has time-traveling eugenics as the actual plot). For two, Charles has tremendous privileges in addition to his whiteness. His parents have multiple Ph.Ds each and are wealthy both in money and (somehow) free time to educate him in one-on-one settings. For three, because Charles is white he will score higher on the IQ tests mention in the text, because our IQ tests are inherently white-biased.
All of this would probably be manageable if Charles' smartness were just a character trait like any other, but... it's not. His "smartness" (measured by white-biased tests against a white-privileging backdrop) is part of this world's morality system. Charles is objectively more important to the cosmic war of good and evil because he's "smarter" than everyone else on earth. Which means the cosmic divine entities in this series objectively prize privileged white men over everyone else, but in ways that don't compromise their moral goodness.
That's a failure of world-building and it's a bit of a doozy.
So I come back to this moment in which a bad guy corrects our hero for his grammar and I have to pause because I wonder if Charles will be correcting grammar himself in a few years. Is this his destiny as the Smartest Guy In The Room? His objection to the correction here is that he's too young to know the right way, as opposed to an objection based in creativity or communication (rigid enforcement of high grammar can stifle both) or the de-privileging of whiteness here. He's not saying that grammar corrections are wrong or snotty or the refuge of bullies, just that he's young enough to be exempt.
I have digressed. My point: This book has a lot of nerd power fantasy moments and Charles Wallace and Calvin and Meg are all measured on their smartness and regularly pointed out as being smarter than the rest of the hoi polloi. And that's awkward in a morality setting like this one. Nerds who pride themselves on being "smart" are often unwittingly priding themselves on having mastered a culture which is not inherently better than all the other cultures out there. That's something worth remembering.
This part is good and creepy and I like it, but of course my mind goes once again to the ball-dropping boy and what he must have been through and whether he'll be saved by the end of this novel and why we weren't allowed to know one way or another and... yeah. I understand that his story wasn't the one L'Engle wanted to tell, but he's here as a part of the narrative now (like it or not, he's here in this scene with us!) and he's so similar to the kids we're supposed to like and identify with, so it's still so very jarring to be expected to care about these kids but not those kids.
I think we'll cut there for now because it's getting near my bedtime. Next time: There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
* The entire deconstruction tag for Yami's This Present Darkness posts is here. I offer this as a gift and apology for having been absent this month with writing projects.


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Q: Accessing Java default methods in a subinterface or implementation class I understand if a class overrides a default method, you can access the default method in the following manner
interface IFoo {
    default void bar() {}
}

class MyClass implements IFoo {
    void bar() {}
    void ifoobar() {
        IFoo.super.bar();
    }
}

But what about the case where an interface overrides a default method?  Is the parent method available in any way?
interface IFoo {
    default void bar() {}
}

interface ISubFoo extends IFoo {
    // is IFoo.bar available anywhere in here?
    default void bar {}
}

class MyClass implements ISubFoo {
    // is IFoo.bar available anywhere in here too?

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyClass mc = new MyClass();
        mc.bar(); // calls ISubFoo.bar
    }
}

The verbiage Java uses for default methods is similar to that for classes, otherwise it's confusing/misleading.  Subinterfaces "inherit" default methods, and can "overwrite" them.  So it seems IFoo.bar should be accessible somewhere.

A: You can go one level up, so the IFoo.bar() is available in ISubFoo with IFoo.super.bar().
interface IFoo {
    default void bar() {}
}

interface ISubFoo extends IFoo {
    // is IFoo.bar available anywhere in here?
    // Yes it is
    default void bar {
        IFoo.super.bar()
    }
}

class MyClass implements ISubFoo {
    // is IFoo.bar available anywhere in here too?
    // Not it is not

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyClass mc = new MyClass();
        mc.bar(); // calls ISubFoo.bar
    }
}

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