My friend Keith and I spent a whole day wandering around Brooklyn planking!
Planking is a silly game where you find the most ridiculous places to lay face down and take a picture.
After a while we decided to step up our game and try a double plank.
Then we stopped by a party to triple plank. I love watching how confused everyone looks around you!
Ha ha!! You've got me "LOL"-ing at my desk :) Well done.
Haha this is so great! I laughed so much at work!
This is one fad I just don't get, but leave it to you to make anything cute.
Dang, you're good-- that's talent! Ha ha, that's a day well spent!
I don't know why, but the backpack makes these pics even funnier.
it's crazy...and I loved this!
I actually heard that someone fell off a building doing this and died. But for those that are safe about it I think its pretty funny.
You long as you don't try to do it on a balcony 7 high up like that Australian dude did (and died which is quite a stupid way to go haha). Great pictures! You should ask people to send in theirs and feature the best 7 or so on here!
esta genial todo lo que haces!! tienes muchas energias!! me he reido muchisimo con tus pics!
Hahaha. Wish I could do this with my friends!
Hahha I did not get this trend at all. But now I think I do. Hahaha.
haha this is funny. gotta try this!
I'm just going to keep thinking about this all day and laughing. People at the grocery will wonder what I'm giggling about and it will be these photos. Hilarious!
I laugh ^\^ :D I love how random and spontaneous all of your projects are!
I have been seeing these everywhere on Facebook, I wasn't sure if it was just my area or not!
Just be safe, and encourage others to be safe while doing this. It's things like this that can easily escalate into people taking stupid risks. I would hat to lose you or anyone else who provided this world with so much joy!
I just read about this somewhere! Isn't it the strangest thing???
I gotta work my abs to plank that well (pics 1 and 4)!
You truly are crazy fun and colorful all in one.
OMG! That looks like so much fun! I can't quit laughing! You have so much fun. . . I love it!
This is so fun! I'm definitely going to try this soon.
Thanks for making me smile today! I love your spontaneousness and quirky sense of humor.
i want to do this.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Will try this sooooonnnnnnnnn!
Hi from Finland! I've been reading your blog for long but this is my first comment. I'd like to say how much I love your colorful pictures!
haha, love the double plank!
this made me LOL I want to do it!! amazing!!
Love it! It's like Synchronized Planking.
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I want to do this. Right now.
This was TOO funny! Loved it!
LOL! OMG! These are great. Love how you always seem to have so much fun. The double plank is great. Also the one on the crossing way.
literally fell off the chair laughing. oh. my. god.
Some made me go "oh gross", but, all the others are super nice, now I want to try this out too!!!
Really cool idea and funny pics too!
Xaxa:)) This guy sleep a lot:) Very interesting pictures.
this is cracking me up!
Oh my gosh this made me laugh so, so hard!
I have pictures of you taking pictures of planking! Must email them to you later! I go "I think I read her blog" and snapped the picture.
haha, this is the funniest thing i've ever seen!
That's all kinds of fabulousness. Love it.
am i just a complete germophobe that the idea of having my face that close to the street or anything else freaks me out? otherwise.. this looks so cool and i would love to try it-! maybe i'll get over the fear.


Available through the Arts and Cultural Facilities Improvement Program, NYSCA offered two one-time funding opportunities for FY2019: the Mid-Size Capital Project Fund and the Large Capital Project Fund.
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Kick'n it For a Cause is, "Uniting people through the love of sneakers, pop-culture and community service". To see those words come to life right in front of my eyes last night was nothing short of amazing. The Kick'n It Team and my fam over at Everett and Jones BBQ planned the 1st ever Kick'n It For a Cause Comedy Show featuring comedian Tony Roberts with proceeds going toward the Kick'n It Design Academy. The Kick'n It Design academy is a not-for-profit program that provides underprivileged kids with the resources necessary to pursue careers in sneaker and apparel design. It was such a blessing to have Tony perform for Kick'n It For a Cause because back in 2010 before Kick'n It was even conceptualized, Steph and I watched Tony perform right there on that very same stage. He was hilarious and he's been one of my favorite comedians ever since! That's one of those examples of how life comes full circle. I remember the late, Jimmy V saying that, "if you laugh, you think and you cry that's a full day". I think it's safe to say Tony helped everyone who came out accomplish that goal. To top it off, he cancelled his scheduled PAID event to perform for us because he's just as passionate as we are about giving back to kids in the community.
The vibe in the room was amazing! We wanted to create an intimate and comfortable environment because the people in that room last night have been part of my Oakland family for 8 years. Naturally, Everett and Jones BBQ was the perfect venue because that's the spot I bring everyone I know. I'm still in awe that people are willing to take the time out of their extremely busy schedules to support our vision. Over the past few years, I've been really disappointed in the way sneakers are being made. Basketball sneakers are great for on court performance but there are very few you can rock with jeans. I'm not a basketball player so if my kicks don't look good in jeans they serve me no purpose and I'm not alone in that opinion. What's crazier to me, is that there are artistically talented kids all over the world who love to draw their dream sneakers in their notebooks. The sad part is that the large majority of those kids don't know that their artistic talent can be turned into a career or if you're from a place like where I'm from, it could be "your way out". Instead of continuing to complain about these issues, Kick'n it decided to something about it. Sneaker designer @FBCCbayarea hopped on stage inspired all of us with what he's accomplished in designing and creating his own kicks. We'll be collaborating with him and some of the top designers around the country to provide kids with the resources to live out their dreams. Last night, we raised over $10,000 to go toward the development of the Kick'n It Design Academy and every donation no matter how large or small was beyond appreciated.
To cap off last night, there was a special impromptu moment that I will never forget that came from a truly amazing woman, Ayesha Curry. Ayesha has been like a sister to me and over the years we've been able to witness one another grow into the people we are today. When she grabbed the mic and stood up on stage in front of everyone just to show love to me was an unbelievable moment.
There were so many other people in the building who ALWAYS show love to Kick'n It. DJ-DSharp, the official Warriors DJ, without question or 2nd thought always DJ's any event that I do. He's also another guy, I've had a chance to watch blossom since I've been in Oakland. He's my favorite DJ in the Bay Area. Once again thank you to Everett and Jones BBQ, you guys have been amazing to me and I'm so excited to collaborate on future events. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported Kick'n It For A Cause, I appreciate ya'll so much.
To make a donation to the Kick'n It Design Academy which provides resources for underprivileged kids to pursue careers and in sneaker and apparel design , click the link below! Every Donation no matter how large or small is HUGE! THANK YOU!
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Business Latest News
The cofounder of DrukSmart, Pema Tshering (left) and Avinash Sanap (right). ( Pic: DrukSmart)
DrukSmart's target for the next five years is to generate USD 17 million
KARMA CHIMI | Thimphu
Their desire to become one of the biggest information and technology (IT) companies in the country has driven DrukSmart to work towards a thriving multi-million-dollar company.
To take into figurative accounts, in 2022 alone, they generated around Nu 31 million in sales.
DrukSmart is an information technology enabled services (ITES) based foreign direct investment (FDI) firm providing a range of services including enterprise applications, data services, management consulting, technology roadmap development, solution implementation, and manpower augmentation and training.
The FDI company based in ITES was cofounded by Pema Tshering and Avinash Sanap from India in December, 2017.
The company's logo
The company is mainly focused on providing systems, applications and products in data processing (SAP) services.
"Like any other business, the company had to struggle for one and half years. But due to our perseverance and hard work there was a breakthrough," said Pema Tshering.
Their failure of "Oie drive" in 2019 was a bitter sweet experience for the company leading to their aspiration and their milestone achievement till date.
From their initial application of "Oie drive", it has evolved into "Oie wheels for meals" which was later transitioned to "Oie Wheels", focusing on kids merchandise and other household items which was delivered through an online App as well as through physical outlets in Thimphu.
Avinash claimed that there were concerns about the viability and acceptability of an IT-based company in the small market of Bhutan during the company's initial stages.
DrukSmart's goal was never to focus on Bhutan, instead, it was to leverage Bhutanese manpower to serve the rest of the globe, and no one ever looked at that perspective. Avinash said with excitement, "Everything was risky at first, but I'm glad it turned out for the best."
Bhutan, according to Avinash, has a large domestic labor force but limited access to the global market. As a result, the company's goal is to use its labor force to provide services to the rest of the world in order to generate revenue, foster the company's expansion and development, and advance the welfare of the entire country.
In his assertion, the business has allegedly been headed in that direction for the past five years.
He further emphasized the need for Bhutan's workforce to have training and exposure to the workings of the global economy and halt the youth exodus to foreign countries, especially Australia.
"We have been floating vacancies and opportunities for the youths, and will continue to do so in the future," he said.
DrukSmart's current strength stands at 17 young talented individuals from within the country with additional 40 subcontracted international consultants.
During its five years of service, the firm claims that they had a total revenue generation of Nu 60 million and an export market share of 65% particularly in the Middle East.
The Middle East needs IT services, according to Pema Tshering. "Since they need excellent SAP services and SAP is also our core area of focus, our work and their needs are very closely aligned," he said, adding they also have plans to expand their services in other parts of the world.
In addition to training their personnel to upgrade their skills and to prepare them for the global market, they offer customer training for every project they initiate.
In order to export their services to the international market, the firm is committed to developing IT engineers in Bhutan.
Pema Tshering said that it would be wise for the government to provide incentive in terms of the financial limits that can be paid to local IT consultants that are sent overseas at various international locations.
He also highlighted that sending local consultants overseas would boost their morale and give encouragement to more young IT engineers to join them.
He opined that even though there will be some expenses, but on a bigger picture, they will be bringing in more remittances than what they spend. The company is hoping that, in the coming years, their revenue generation grows exponentially.
They have signed contracts with international companies like Alfanar and Aliblad based in Saudi Arabia in providing their assistance and services. The company has also provided services to DHI-owned companies in collaboration with Thimphu Tech Park Limited (TTPL).
A partnership alliance has also been drawn between TTPL and DrukSmart, whereby DrukSmart will be providing business opportunities in the international market for employees of TTPL.
Partnership alliance with TTPL. (Pic: DrukSmart)
In terms of challenges, the founders say that banking facilities have always been an issue.
"As a company focused on the internal market, we do require banking facilities that are of international standards. Besides, there have been issues related to work permit, payment and remittances," Pema said.
The ongoing Australian exodus and youths leaving the country is one of the biggest challenges and the loss of human resources and expertise worries the company whereby, it can affect their target and vision.
Their overall target for the next five years is to generate USD 17 million. As a company, they are targeting to employ more than 100 people in the next ten years and for some of them to be posted in the international arena.
DrukSmart has also been working on the local and international front and has completed more than 58 projects till date.
Out of the 58 projects, 60 percent was local and 40 percent in the international market but their average revenue share is 65 percent from export and 35 percent from the local markets in the last five years.
The company has signed strategic alliances with DCG DataCore India Pvt. Ltd, an IT firm based in Kolkata, to explore and deliver projects to international clients in the Middle East.
"Our achievement can be that our 50 plus projects have been successfully delivered and our customers are happy with the services," Avinash said, further adding they have crossed more than hundred million worth of business.
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Q: Apply modifier to more than one element of an object I have a document structure like this:
{
  _id: ...,
  name: ...,
  keywords: {
    group_a: [1, 2, 5],
    group_b: [4, 7, 6]
  }
}

I know I can add elements to one of the elements of the keywords object like this:
db.coll.update({_id: ...}, {
  $addToSet: {
    'keywords.group_a': {
      $each: [9, 12, 17]
    }
  }
})

Is there a command I can run to add the same set of elements to group_a and group_b? Something like
db.coll.update({_id: ...}, {
  $addToSet: {
    ['keywords.group_a', 'keywords.group_b']: {
      $each: [9, 12, 17]
    }
  }
})

which of course isn't valid.
I know the names of the groups in advance, but an "add them to all elements" solution is equally fine.

A: You can affect multiple fields with a single $addToSet operator like so:
db.coll.update({_id: ...}, {
  $addToSet: {
    'keywords.group_a': {
      $each: [9, 12, 17]
    },
    'keywords.group_b': {
      $each: [9, 12, 17]
    }
  }
})

To keep it DRY you can, of course, do:
var each = { $each: [9, 12, 17] };
db.coll.update({_id: ...}, {
  $addToSet: {
    'keywords.group_a': each,
    'keywords.group_b': each
    }
  }
})

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Q: Which Spider-man comic series aligns closest with the 1994 animated TV series? I'm a huge fan of the 1994 Spider-man TV show. Which of the Spider-man comics align closest with this show?

A: Answer: The series most closely resembled the early years of the Amazing Spider-Man comic (post the Gwen Stacey years) with Parker struggling to pay his bills, handle a job with the Daily Bugle and dating Mary Jane. He meets with almost all of his classic villains (as the show was very villain-centric) including Venom and Carnage. Part of the show's villain-centric nature was its initial design as a merchandising vehicle.
Background
Spider-Man, also known as simply Spider-Man: The Animated Series or New Spider-Man, is the fourth animated television series in the Marvel Animated Universe. It is the third to feature the character of Spider-Man after Spider-Man (1967), Spider-Man (1981), and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. The series ran for five seasons for a total of sixty-five episodes starting November 19, 1994 and ending January 31, 1998.
While this was one of the longest running Marvel animated series, it was fraught with production and merchandising battles, scripting limitations, animation errors and extreme censorship. Adding insult to injury, Marvel was going through bankruptcy at the same time. Despite these challenges the series won Annie Award, an Image Award and a NAACP Image Award.
Because of Marvel's challenges at the time, John Semper, Jr who was working as the primary story editor and writer was able to use almost any characters he wanted to without a whole lot of hassle, which allowed Dr. Strange, Blade, and the X-men to appear. He even adapted the Clone Saga (called the Spider Wars in the animated series), one of the most popular of the Amazing Spider-Man stories with almost no comment; granted the story was VERY different from the one in the comics.

The Spider Wars - the Animated Series version of the Clone Saga


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Vettel 'had his hands full' in Hungary with steering issue
Despite outward appearances, Sebastian Vettel says that the Hungarian Grand Prix had been anything but an easy run to victory.
Vettel's Ferrari developed steering problems shortly after the safety car period for Daniel Ricciardo's retirement. It prevented him from pulling out a big lead over his team mate Kimi Raikkonen, and left him vulnerable in the second half of the race.
"It was a really difficult race. Maybe it didn't look like, but I had my hands full from three, four laps after the safety car," he said. "It was a tough one. I was hoping for a bit more of a quiet afternoon.
"I felt already there was something not right when we dropped the car on the grid," he continued. "There was something wrong. I don't know why, the steering started to go sideways. It seemed to get worse.
"It was a weird feeling," he recalled. "Basically it was tilted to the left. You go down the straights and the steering isn't straight.
"The right handers are okay, but in left handers you have to get used to it. After a couple of laps it's okay.
"But if it keeps changing all the time it's difficult because you have to go further than you want, and then you think in your head. So not ideal!
Hungary GP: Vettel holds on to take hard-fought victory
"We spoke a little bit on the radio about it, talking through the problem. They told me to avoid the kerbs. But on a track where you use the kerbs, it compromises your performance.
"It wasn't easy. Didn't do a favour to Kimi, who obviously could go faster," he said. "In the end I was pretty well flat out and they were behind me queuing. It is good you cannot overtake around his track. I had no room for error.
"Toward the end it did came back a bit. I had a couple of laps where I had a bit of a cushion and could breath a bit.
"But I had to stay focussed the whole race," he added. "I was hoping for a couple of laps to breath but they didn't come, so it was really tough."
Despite the issues, Vettel was able to keep things together all the way to the chequered flag.
"I'm over the moon," he beamed. "It's been a very good weekend for us. Overall, very very happy for the team. Great result, great day. Couldn't be better today."
The result means that he's extended his lead over Lewis Hamilton in the drivers championship to 14 points, but he wasn't overly interested in that aspect: "It's okay - it could be worse!"
Vettel can now put his feet up for a few weeks before the next race, the Belgian Grand Prix in four weeks time after Formula 1's mandatory summer shutdown.
"No big plans," he said when asked what he would do with the time off. "I just want to enjoy the time at home. We spend so much time on the road travelling, it's nice to just have a couple of days home and rest, and enjoy that."
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                                The president has said we are not at war with Islam. Well he has made it clear that he stands with Islam. Do you think he supports their radical views on ruling the world? He might not be at war with Islam but this country, and the rest of the world is. It doesn't matter whether your Christian, Catholic, or a Jew. In the presidents eyes you are less than him because you are an infidel. This includes the atheist, and anyone who doesn't share in his faith. We have been deceived by a man who convinced us he stood for the good of this country. Time and time again he has shown us what he really stands for.
He has said "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet Of Islam." Well the future of this country belongs to our children. The great-grandchildren of our forefathers who gave their lives for our freedoms. The freedom to choose our religion, and not have it chosen for us. This country doesn't, and never will belong to Islam. This is a nation under God where all men are created equal. Not one man is better and not one is less. This world has never belonged to a prophet, and it never will. These radical Islamist think they will rule the world. I pray one day they realize this world is ruled by God. They should stop listening to the lies of Satan.


Continuing on from the last post we want to share our recommendations for the 23rd, 24th and 25th. I am terribly excited because I plan to actually be there for these!
We will most definitely begin at the Rajinigandha front lawns to witness The Conflict of Dharma in the Mahabharata with Amish Tripathi and Bibek Debroy. A little surprised to see Devdutt Pattnaik not part of this panel but I am always up for a debate about morality in this beguiling epic. After this I remain in my seat for 'Wanderlust and the Art of Travel Writing' with Paul Theroux but if I could split myself I would also head towards 'Tigers in Red Weather' with Valmik Thapar. Take a quick break and head to 'Transpositions: Adapting History, Myth, and Fantasy for Television" moderated by my lovely agent, Mita Kapur.
Music: Perhaps the best day for music, the first act is the renowned Pakistani singer Sain Zahoor- Sufi at its sexiest, followed by Jazz from Dub Colossus.
This day is full of hard choices. When you get an opportunity to hear Nicholos Taleb (the author of Black Swan) speak, you take it even if Girish Karnad is discussing a topic close to your heart next door. After this you head straight to 'A history of the world in twelve maps' with Jerry Brotton, because anytime time I've read or heard anything about maps I find myself saying extremely erudite things at dinner parties; much like Bumble Bees on Day 2. The next sessions will have you wishing for two heads. At Charbagh you have Rajdeep Sardesai picking apart the recent election but on the other hand you have Ella Berthoud and Indrajit Hazra talking about their most wonderful anthology- Novel Cures, a book that recommends a piece of reading according to your current ailment. Life is unfair. In the afternoon, we have to choose between V. S. Naipaul, in the flesh and…well there is no 'and' is there? You don't get to see V. S. Naipaul everyday; it doesn't matter if you've never read anything written by him in its entirety. It's like having a six-headed snake in the next room; you're petrified but you're not going to miss it for the world.
Music: Did I just say yesterday was a good day for music? Well scratch that. Today you have the ridiculously talented Rizwan Muazzam Qawals followed by the Midival Punditz. Enough said.
It's the last day and while your brain is in serious danger of overstimulation and crying out for an episode of 'Friends', just hang on. Do not miss 'Vox' at 11:15. Nicholson Baker will be in conversation with Jeet Thayil. Read the book before hand if you can; it's a master class in restrained erotica. Try and stay away from Rajinighanda as Sonam Kapoor will be launching Anupama Chopra's book and you'll probably be crushed in the stampede. Instead use that time to go find a seat for 'Cultural Revolutions' with Jung Chang. After this I will be off to take a nap and get pretty for my night out at the Writer's Ball; I refuse to meet Aakar Patel with puffy eyes.
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PM seeks names of members absent during voting for statutory resolution in RS: Sources
By Press Trust of India on 12:25 pm August 10, 2021 No Comment
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the parliamentary affairs minister to submit the details of members who were not present in Rajya Sabha on Monday when voting for a statutory resolution moved by several opposition MPs was held, sources said.
The statutory resolution demanded that the Tribunals Reforms Bill be send to the select committee of the House, however, it got negated.
Speaking at the BJP parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday, Modi asked Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi to submit the details of those who were not present in the house when the voting was held, sources said.
The BJP parliamentary party led by Modi also gave a standing ovation to the Olympic medal winners, sources in the party said.
Modi also suggested the party MPs to encourage more people in their constituencies to participate in sports and also promote Poshan Abhiyaan and Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.
PM seeks names of members absent during voting for statutory resolution in RS: Sources added by Press Trust of India on 12:25 pm August 10, 2021


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Jazz FM - Album Of The Week
BBC Music Magazine - 4 Star Review
"James Hudson arrives on the recording scene with this polished and exuberant collection of standards - smartly arranged and smoothly performed"
MARK MCKERGOW - LONDON JAZZ NEWS
"A thoroughly enjoyable album with imaginative arrangements that capture the timelessness of the chosen repertoire"
NICK LEA - JAZZ VIEWS
"Super-slick and assured"
JAZZWISE MAGAZINE
"An immaculate recording debut by a singer with a great potential"
MIKE PINFOLD - JAZZ AUTHOR
Album Liner Notes
Over 2 years in the making, my debut album 'TOMORROW' is by far the biggest milestone of my career so far. I'm proud to say this was a self-released record which gave myself and the band complete creative control and allowed us to do things at our own pace and really explore the ideas we had.
We recorded the whole album over two full day sessions (one of which was my birthday) at Eastcote Studios in West London. We opted for late session times, from midday to 10pm. Firstly because recording vocals in the morning is never ideal but also because the midday start allowed our drummer Luke to fly in from Switzerland just in time for the first session... as if I needed anything else to worry about. In total we spent 20 hours in the studio and were well prepared so everything went really smoothly. We finished the tracks with about 4 hours to spare so took that time to pick out the best takes and do any polishing - the last thing we did was record the verse for 'Someone to Watch Over Me'. All of the tracks were recorded live with the whole band playing at the same time to get that authentic sound we really wanted.
Long before the recording sessions I spent a lot of time with Joe and Nick working on the arrangements. I took the decision to work on half of the arrangements with Joe and half with Nick which worked really well. I had so many ideas for each song and these guys really helped me bring them to life whilst adding their own brilliance too. Together we worked on my vision for the album to have an old-school feel with a modern edge, that would appeal to a wider audience whilst also being hip and interesting enough that jazz fans would enjoy. Choosing the songs was fairly simple - I just picked my favourite standards that I felt hadn't already been over-done by other artists, then threw in Tomorrow from Annie which i've always wanted to put my own spin on. It took time to find a balance with the styles, tempos and sound of each track before finding a place that I am really happy with.
The guys on this record are not only of my best friends, but some of the best jazz musicians I have ever met! We'd been playing together for over 5 years by this point and I knew all of these chaps were absolutely perfect for 'TOMORROW'.
Many artists hugely influenced me when making this album, including Oscar Peterson, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Diana Krall, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ella Fitzgerald, Matt Monro and many more. I would listen to their records on repeat in the run up to the recording dates! Another huge influence behind this whole project is my passion for singing jazz standards. The composers and lyricists who's work make up The Great American Songbook have gifted us with a rich library of incredible songs that allow us all to interpret them in our own way - and that is exactly what I strived to do with 'TOMORROW'.
Album Credits
James Hudson - Vocals
Joe Hill - Piano & Musical Director
Nick Fitch - Guitars & Musical Director
Luke Tomlinson - Drums
Jack Tustin - Bass
Recording Studio: Eastcote Studios
Studio Engineer: George Murphy
Mixing Engineer & Studio: Darren Williams @ The Den Studios
Mastering Engineer & Studio: Geoff Pesche @ Abbey Road Studios
Artwork and Photography: Nedim Nazerali
Graphic Design: Imran Nazerali
Signed CDs available from the SHOP
Listen now on Spotify and Bandcamp
TOMORROW by James Hudson
© James Hudson 2021


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Freespace: architects rethink space and the city – in pictures
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Freespace is the theme of this year's Venice architectural biennale, which runs from 26 May to 25 November 2018. The exhibition showcases work from some of the world's most exciting architects – here's a selection of the most eye-catching and intriguing urban explorations at this year's exhibition.
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Egypt – Robabecciah: the Informal City
Robabecchia is an Arabised Italian word meaning "jumble or "old clothes" and from it Egypt have taken the theme of their pavilion, which looks at how souks and informal trading spaces sprawl in urban and suburban areas, becoming the predominant element driving the use of space. How can street and market trading be better integrated and rethought while still allowing trade to flourish?
Photograph: Francesco Galli/Italo Rondinella
Denmark – Possible Spaces
The Danish entry showcased four projects, but it was the section featuring part of Virgin's Hyperloop One that asked the biggest urban question: how does the world change when cities are connected in new ways?
Venezuela – CCS Espacio Rebelde
The Venezuelan entry presented the idea of Caracas as a 'rebel city', and proposed three new free social spaces that "democratise and reprogram the use of urban land".
Korea - Spectres of the State Avant Garde
The four projects featured in the Korean pavilion were all built in the late 1960s to as as propaganda for Korea as an industrial powerhouse. Today, all four raise questions about how these aspirations fit with the modern-day incarnations of the cities in which they are situated.
Photograph: Matteo Chinellato/IPA/REX/Shutterstock
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Spectres of the State Avant GardeThe master plan model for Yeouido Island.
Finland – Mind-building
The public library has a special place in Finnish hearts as well as the country's cities and suburbs. The Finnish pavilion focuses on this central role of the library, and looks ahead to the opening of Helsinki's new public library, Oodi, later this year.
Czech and Slovak Republics: Unes-co
Tourism brings many benefits, but what happens when your city is constantly the centre of a tourist scrum – so much so that the actual inhabitants are pushed to the edges to make room for visitors? Focusing on the city of Českÿ Krumlov, home to 13,000 but visted by over a million tourists annually, the Czech and Slovak pavilion is the office of the fictional Unes-co project, looking at ways to reverse the process.
Brazil - Muros de Ar / Walls of Air
A cartography and data lover's dream, the Brazilian pavilion offers maps covered with demographic information highlighting the spatial and conceptual separation that have occurred as a consequence of urbanisation. The information is so detailed that telescopes are provided to give viewers a closer look.
Slovenia – Living with Water
Water is essential to life, but also a threat if not managed appropriately. With global warming threatening to submerge many urban areas, Slovenia's pavilion offers a timely meditation on how this precious resource might be managed without overwhelming us.
Latvia - Together and Apart
This section of Latvia's pavilion looks at the inefficiency of heating and cooling city housing blocks built in the 1970s.
Saudi Arabia – Spaces in Between
With its walls made of resin – a petrochemical byproduct – and sand, the Saudi pavilion explored the country's wealth, rapid urbanisation and sprawl. The suburban settlements around the country's four main hubs have effectively become single-function districts separate from the cities to which they belong – making citizen car-reliant into the bargain. The exhibition explores how to reconnect communities by directing urban development back into city centres and creating walkable public spaces.
Photograph: Courtesy of Pavilion of Saudi Arabia/Misk Art Institute
Russia - Station Russia
A vast territory, Russia has a special relationship with its railways, which span the country transporting goods and people to areas highways cannot reach. The pavilion explores the architecture of stations, and asks whether the space allocated to these transport hubs could in future be transformed, reduced and re-used.
Photograph: Courtesy the Russian Pavilion, Venice
Israel - In Status Quo: Structures of Negotiation
Israel's pavilion examines five of the country's most important sacred sites, which because of their religious importance have often become places of bitter struggle. Pictured is a series of architectural models showing how the area around the Western Wall has changed over the decades.
Photograph: Antonio Calanni/AP
Lebanon – The Place That Remains
A series of highly coloured projections over a relief map of Lebanon reflect how the country, one of the most densely populated in the world, might re-image both built and as-yet unbuilt space. In this projection, areas marked red are built areas; green sections are places to protect and perhaps imagine a different type of future for..
Photograph: Tash Reith-Banks/The Guardian
Chile – Stadium: an Event, a Building and a City
Chile's national stadium in Santiago has been recreated here, its seating areas replaced by maps of the city's shanty towns. Using three key events in the stadiums life: the 1962 World Cup, its use as a centre for detention and torture in 1973 and Pope John Paul II's visit in 1987, this pavilion investigates the segregation caused by Chilean urban housing policies.
Photograph: Francesco Galli/La Biennale di Venezia
A closer look at the maps etched on the surface of the recreated stadium.
Photograph: Francesco Galli/Francesco Galli/La Biennale di Venezia
United Arab Emirates – Landscapes Beyond Bigness
UAE has become synonymous with ambitious skyscrapers and fast growth. This exhibition focuses on four urban areas in Abu Dhabi and Dubai which have remained human-scale and resident-oriented.
Oases are common in the city of Al Ain. The one represented in this architect's model is the 62 acre (0.25km sq) Al Mutaredh oasis, looked after by seven farmers throughout the year. Oases are natural landscapes and in Al Ain they are used for both agricultural and recreational purposes; there are at least seven functioning oases in the city.
Romania – Mnemonics: Collective Memories Define Our Territory
What is the future of public space? The Romanian pavilion takes a playful approach, and is based on the public space found between housing blocks as a symbol of the country's rapid urbanisation during the second part of the the 20th century.


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The toll suspension would switch to the eastbound route over the Venetian when crews begin shutting down two of the MacArthur's three eastbound lanes for bridge work.
Details on implementation of the commission resolution haven't been announced, and technically the legislation wouldn't take effect until 10 days after passage. But Mayor Carlos Gimenez is expected to waive his veto authority on the toll waiver once county lawyers finalize the language of the formal resolution, allowing the legislation to take effect immediately.
Lifting tolls on the Venetian was something of a prickly topic among commissioners, since the move is designed to shift traffic from the six-lane MacArthur to the two-lane Venetian. Residents of the islands along the Venetian already don't pay the tolls, so the county change is bringing them only more traffic.
"I don't think the residents of the Venetian Causeway are going to like [that it's] being encouraged to push the traffic through there," said Audrey Edmonson, the commissioner who represents the islands along the Venetian.
Residents on the Venetian urged Miami-Dade not to lift tolls during the weekends because of traffic concerns, said Eileen Higgins, the county commissioner who made the initial Venetian proposal.
Higgins, whose district includes the MacArthur, cited epic delays for Miami Beach commuters in justifying the free trips over the Venetian.
"Folks in South Beach are literally spending an hour to go six blocks," Higgins said.
Commissioner Sally Heyman, who represents the northern areas of Miami Beach, successfully modified the original plan for an initial 45-day suspension to just 30 days at a time in order to soften the impact on the Venetian.


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Quincy: Fuji 1546
I'm not sure who declared Fuji 1546 has the longest bar in Quincy; a local editor, reporting two years ago, or the website. Either way, it is major. If you want a seat, you can have one. High ceilings make it noisy all right with the concrete floors and all. Watching a ball game here is like being in Fenway Park without having to get up for the beer. Honestly, it's just what we need this Tuesday. Dance class is off and we're in desperate need of a big dose of happy with good food and wine. It's all here.
Julie chooses a Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand grown. Nobilo isn't making it easy to learn more. Before you can get on their site just to read about wine, not drink, you must swear to be "of legal drinking age in your country to enter this site." And you have to put in when you were born. Really, as if no one ever lied to buy something online? We agree it's crisp with citrus notes which pretty much describes everything we order. I'm having a Chateau Lafayette fizz from California which 1000corks.com reports, without any tells, you can get on the cheap around the country. We send back the first glass, no bubbles. The second one's fine.
Hokkaiyaki: broiled spicy scallops mixed with crab stick, tobiko and cucumber. It looks like nothing we've ever seen and we file it under good surprises. If you like hot spicy mayo, it's for you. It's for us. And it looks damn good when they put it on the table; it covers the plate and it's smoking. Fuji also serves it in their sister restaurant in Cambridge not on a plate but in a scallop shell. (As it happens, that store looks completely different: all windows and modern wood.) They do have a way with liberal spicy mayo. Here and there, they will roll up what looks to be this dish in a maki roll. We're hooked. I am trying to imagine if it had bacon.
Ebiten is Japanese style fried shrimp and vegetables. It's crispy and piping hot. We play, guess what's hiding in the batter? We find red pepper, eggplant, string beans and shrimp. The shrimp are huge, like four inches. Vegetables are so lightly cooked they've hardly taken up oil so we tell ourselves it's calorie-free. No, but still. On a do you coat-or-not-coat-fish note, we blew into the new Wegmans in Chestnut Hill in time to see one of their cool chefs dredge tuna and fire it up in a frying pan just for us. He is using their house brand of coating in very little oil.
I'm not sure he needs anything on the fish since it came right off a whole tuna that's being carved as we watch. Anyway, the Wegmans pan-searing coating is not like batter exactly though they both use flour and salt. My point, and it's only my opinion, does tuna need anything, even spices, when it's fresh? Ebiten, similar if not matching tempura, has its own virtues. We do like batter and deep frying every now and then even if it comes with a side of guilt.
Vegetarian maki takes in asparagus, avocado and mushroom rolls. They've battered the mushrooms. The asparagus is still bright green. Even the ginger's unusual. And the avocado is the way you wish all your avocados would be: à la Goldilocks. We know maki's predictably good. (Except once, not here, years ago at a place I used to go, that slid ever so slowly. It took me a long time to admit it was over and then, I did.)
The din is getting to us. This doesn't make us geezers; one of us has a smart phone and the other is a webmaster. Was this once a bowling alley maybe? No, Bella English, a writer for the Boston Globe, reports an insurance company used to be at this address. I don't think it was my health insurance guys. (But here's a fantasy: put them on hold and deny their claims.) We're one of the last tables and it's only ten o'clock. The bar is still busy.
We check; the later it gets, the younger it gets. We're in no rush so let's have another round. Which makes the shots of their neon all the more inspiring. If you're sightseeing, not far is the Quincy Historical Society where you can see more about this, the City of Presidents. At the National Historical Park you can learn about John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Quincy has beaches too. Forget profound, I want sun after lunch.
Fuji 1546
1546 Hancock Street
© Photos by Julie Moffatt. Kitty Kaufman in a writer in Boston. See more of their food adventures at Corporate Edge and Kitty Kaufman on Twitter.


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Since 2015, we have performed as Broadcast 90: The Ultimate 90's Rock Tribute and have worked [and played!] hard in the last three years to become known not only in the Southeastern United States, but also on a national level. For those who have been following us, it's no secret in the past few months about our new name change - a name to better reflect the band's persona and sound. As of 10/23/2018 we've finally changed our name to Rock the 90's: The Official 90's Rock Tribute. It's the same band, show and sound that you love - just with a new name that we feel will make us more identifiable and true to who we are.
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See you on the road, and thank you for your support. - Hugh, Lance, Bronnie, Rob and Lewis, Rock the 90's USA.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of the longest-running stock market indexes in the world. Its components have changed since inception - they've changed 51 times since the inception of the index by Charles Dow.
Looking at the Dow Jones Industrial Average's (or simply the Dow's) components over time allows us to see how American business (and the world in general) has changed over the last century and a half.
As the original "Transportation Average" name should indicate, the original Dow components were heavily focused on transportation. We can clearly see that there are a lot of railroad companies represented in the initial Dow mix. In the 1880s, railroads had been around for a few decades, but they still represented the new and happening industry - similar to how technology is today fast growing and focused on thing in business even though computers have been around for a few decades already. Railroads represented Manifest Destiny and a new industrial era where lots of money was being made in the business of moving things from one place to another.
We see that 9 out of the initial 11 firms represented in the 1884 Dow were railroad companies - that's a very large representation and should clearly indicate the importance of transportation generally (and railroads specifically) in the pre-20th Century US economy. As the country moved westward and as more and more goods were in need of rapid transportation in the post-Industrial Revolution era, railroads were able to extract very healthy nominal and real profits.
Basically, a discussion of the early years of the Dow inherently is a discussion of railroads. The first public railways opened up in the US in 1830 using steam engine - by the 1880s, technology had improved as did ridership and a need for transporting goods in a new type of economy where self-reliance was beginning to give way to mass consumption and production.
The equivalent today in terms of industry would be seeing all tech firms dominating the Dow Jones Industrial Average - imagine seeing the Dow today composed of the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter, Apple, HP, Dell, Cisco, etc. An observer would think that the US economy was heavily dominated by tech. Luckily for us, today's economy is far more diverse than the industrial and transportation economy of the late 19th century - we have large industrial firms, firms involved in chemicals, firms involved in telecommunications, firms producing basic products, firms that primarily provide services (eg. consulting firms), etc. Today's economy is as diverse as any has been in human history.
This was the first real Dow Jones Industrial Average. Here we see many of the railroad companies replaced - only two of the firms (the Northern American Company and the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company) are firms heavily involved in transportation.
We can see that the list has now moved away from transportation and is focused important necessities for late 19th Century America. Things like cotton, oil, tobacco, cattle feed, coal, iron, leather and rubber are all represented - these basic necessities were key to a life that was moving away from self-reliance on farms and into a mass-produce economy that required energy (in the form of gas, oil, and coal), straps, linens and other fabrics, heavy metal, electricity, etc.
If the Dow had existed 500 years prior in the Middle Ages, things like electricity, leather, cotton, coal, and rubber would not be there - most of life would consist of cattle feed and other types of feed.
Another interesting thing to note is that the names of these firms are quite basic - they are literally are names of what the company produces. Can there be any doubt that the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company is involved in the production of coal, iron, and railroads? Would you be surprised to find out that the United States Rubber Company produces rubber? These firms were the first of their kind - they are representations of commerce and big business in an era that had only recently exited the darkness of the Middle Ages via the Renaissance. The unique names we see that not only don't represent the firm's products or services but sometimes are not even traditional words that humans have used are only possible in a world that understands what firms are - world filled with people used to branding, buying things from companies instead of from friends or family, and have a lot of trust in business and capitalism in general. The ability of firms to market and brand themselves in order to educate the public about their products and services allows firms today to eschew the basic naming conventions of the past and to use innovative and obscure names such as Twitter or Exxon. A Twitter or an Exxon would be strange in the early years of the Dow - no one would have any idea what these firms produced. Without the ability to create an image of the firm through the use of advertising (which requires a lot - print ads, TV, radio, the internet, etc.), firms would who used strange names would find themselves at a deep disadvantage in the past. It was a far smarter idea to make sure people knew what your business did just by reading the name.
Here, the index was expanded to the 30 firms we have today. This was an interesting time in the history of the United States and especially its economic history. The Roaring Twenties were coming to a close and little did anyone knows that the Great Depression was right around the corner.
Here we can see the that we have a few automotive firms represented - we've got General Motors, American Car, Mack Trucks, and Nash Motors. Car companies have come on the market and are now some of the largest firms in the country. A car firm at this time would be similar to seeing the edition of technology and internet firms in the 2010s and 2020s - the firms came up over a few decades and finally took their place among the largest in the US by playing in a new and important industry.
We see that the names here are still those basic names that hearken back to an era before sophisticated marketing and advertising and before readily available means of communicated such as radio, TV, and mass color print.
Here in 1956, we can say that we are in a totally different America. The last time we checked in was in 1928 - almost 30 years later the Depression-era youths fought a war abroad and came back home to have a ton of babies. Although key staples remain in the Dow, we can see the addition of many new firms.
We can see a big variety of firms represented here - car companies, companies producing basic materials, food-related companies, retailers, energy firms, and even a photography company in the form of Kodak. In 1950s America, technology has advanced far enough to make consumer products (photography, cars, retailing, toiletries, etc.) major parts of the economy. A Procter & Gamble wouldn't exist just 50 years prior - people didn't have the disposable incomes to shower often and use toiletries nor did they have a desire to in their mostly self-reliant forms of living. In 1950s America, a firm producing household necessities would make a lot of sense. In the same light, in 1950s America, big retailers, big tobacco, and big car companies all make sense - our conception of that era is of one that has now moved way past the agrarian roots of the United States and now is in the realm of post-WWII technology and sophistication. If you had told the people living through the Great Depression that a photography firm (Kodak) would be one of the biggest in the country, they would have scoffed and not understood why - photography was a luxury and the technology was not all there yet. The same can be said about many things represented above.
In these 20 years, surprisingly little has changed. Only a 5 firms were replaced since the last time we checked in in 1956. By comparison, there over 30 changes from 1928 to 1956 (some back and forth). What you have in this period is a stable period of growth, some merging of firms, and a movement away from those classic self-descriptive names to the more unusual firm names we know of today.
Look above to see the firms that remained in the Dow but changed their names - International Nickel became Inco, Texas Incorporated became Texaco, Swift became Esemar, and Standard Oil of NJ became Exxon. These movements are away from names that clearly state what the firm produces to more esoteric and strange names that don't provide any indication whatsoever about the firm - clearly a reliance on marketing, adverting, and branding is required in order to educate the public and create a mental picture of the firm when such strange names are used. This is possible because we are no in a world of color television, radio, print magazines, and other forms of advertising.
This trend has continued today where almost all new and interesting firms have absolutely strange names that give zero indication of what the firm actually does - names such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Apple, etc. If you took a person from 1850 and asked him to whet he or she tough a firm named Standard Oil or a firm named American Can do, he or she would very likely guess correctly. If you asked the same person to describe what he or she thought a firm like Exxon does (bear in mind this is Standard Oil with a name change), they would have no clue and rightly so because Exxon is a totally made up term. As stated above, such strange names can only work in a modern world filled with modern telecommunication systems and a general populace that is receptive to advertising and marketing.
Here we can see more name changes (eg. Chevron and AT&T), continuing the overall movement away from the simple names to the more strange and esoteric ones that require branding.
We can also see that some of the old components (eg. AT&T, Chevron, Exxon, Union Carbide, General Electric, General Motors, Minnesota Mining, Sears, and Union Carbide) still here - times have changed but these good firms have endured for a variety of reasons. Some endured because of good management (eg. General Electric), some because of early entry and the existence of various barriers to entry (eg. General Motors), and many because of luck.
It's interesting that even though we're in the heart of the proliferation of personal computing and the internet, there are few technology firms. This makes quite a bit of sense - it takes time for these new firms to grow to a size large enough that would put them in the Dow (the top 30 firms in the US). Firms like Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, and others might have been making big moves during this era, but they were still growing. IBM and HP are present because they were around longer - IBM was around for almost a century at this time.
With the addition of Intel, Microsoft, and SBC, we can see that in just about 2 years, the Dow has taken on some of the tech firms. These firms have grown in market cap by now (due in part to what would later be called the Tech Bubble) and had market caps large enough to allow placement within the Dow. The Dow here contains many old stalwarts but is filled with new firms that were either started within the last few decades or came to major prominence recently.
In today's Dow, we see the familiar firms that make up the market share and the mind share of the US economy today. We see an almost complete transition away from the simple self-descriptive business names to esoteric and strange names that require branding - compare this final list with the first list. Firms like National Lead, Tennessee Coal, United States Leather, and others are so clear in their descriptions while firms like Visa, Pfizer, Nike, and Apple would be totally obscure if not for branding and advertising.
Another interesting thing is the rise of big pharmaceutical and healthcare firms - firms such as Merck, Pfizer, and UnitedHealth have come to major prominence due to various large-scale factors. These factors include an aging population (Baby Boomers), a more wealthy economy that can spend more on healthcare, and the success of pharmaceutical research in producing new, innovative, and expensive drugs.
We also see the tech firms playing a bigger role - Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, and Verizon are all part of the overall technology economy, helping to provide hardware, software, and telecommunication services.


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by Elizabeth Mazer
It's said revenge is a dish best served cold, but what if it could be served hot? Really hot? Steamy, sweaty, decadent and deliciously hot? Because "hot" is exactly what flawless young aristocrat Lord Arthur Godwick is . . . and revenge against his family is precisely what Regan Ferry, a glamorous young widow with an icy edge, is after. Her revenge involves Arthur, stripped of his privilege and pretention, in her bed and at her mercy for 10 unforgettable nights. If he refuses, the priceless painting his reckless brother traded away will be lost forever. If he agrees—when he agrees—he'll get the painting back, but what will he lose in its place?
Author Tiffany Reisz has a lot of fun playing with, inverting and interrogating positions of power in her latest erotic romance, The Pearl. Arthur—nicknamed King Arthur—seems to be a man who has everything: youth, beauty, wealth, influence, a flawless reputation, a bright future and a storied heritage, descended from generations of men who kept the reins of power firmly in hand. The hotel that Regan inherited from her late husband, the Pearl, was a favorite haunt of Arthur's great-grandfather Malcolm back in the day when it was a brothel, and any woman there was Malcolm's for the asking. Regan descends from one of the Pearl's whores and has her own bitter experience of a man buying her, via a wedding ring, and relishing his authority over her. Little wonder that she revels in turning the tables on Arthur: having him kneel before her and service her in the hotel that her late husband owned, in the very rooms where Arthur's ancestor once held sway.
In a subtler exploration of power, the rooms are decorated with a series of paintings (real, beautiful paintings—look them up!) by female artists with their own dark stories—not dissimilar to Regan's—of cruel and careless men who tried to break their spirits. Paintings of fear, imprisonment, objectification, entrapment or desperation in which the artist, bloody but unbowed, gets the last word. And mingled among them—watching over them—is the one Arthur is bargaining for, the irreplaceable painting his family can't be without. It's a portrait of Lord Malcolm himself that might, it seems, have mysterious powers and an agenda all its own.
Reisz never fails to deliver a sizzlingly hot read, and there's plenty of erotic pleasure to be found here as Regan and Arthur explore their desires and give rein to their passions. But The Pearl is also a deeper, darker meditation on love and trust, and what it means to give yourself willingly, freely to another, to let yourself be vulnerable enough to love and forgive in exchange for love and acceptance in return.
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Most of Romancelandia knows where they were when they first encountered Tiffany Reisz's The Red. I was a fairly recent convert to romance, dipping my toe into the wild and wonderful world of self-published eBooks, when I stumbled across Reisz's incredible erotic novel which takes place at an art gallery with love scenes that are all inspired by classic paintings. The fearless, all-in exploration of desire and fantasy of The Red, especially when conveyed in Reisz's elegant prose, made it a sensation in the romance community.
Two years later, Reisz has returned to that world with The Rose, an erotic novel starring the daughter of The Red's eventual pairing, which takes its inspiration from the myths of Greek mythology. I talked to Reisz about reinterpreting ancient myths for a modern audience, the surprising inspiration of David Mitchell (the actor, not the writer) and which love scene was the hardest to get right.
When you first wrote The Red, did you have any notion that you would eventually write a sequel?
When I first wrote The Red, I didn't think anyone would read it. We'd self-published only 100 hardcover copies as a special edition for a conference I was the guest of honor at, and . . . I really thought that 100 would be it. The Red is slightly deranged erotica and I had no expectations for it. But when it went up on NetGalley, we started getting a lot of effusive reviews from readers and then somehow it got a starred Library Journal review and was named an NPR Best Book of 2017 and then hit the USA Today bestseller list. A book I genuinely thought we'd sell 100 copies of just went sort of viral. I think it shocked the hell out of people and whether they loved it or hated it, readers were talking about it. Made sense to write a sequel. The Red was self-published but the sequel, The Rose, is published by MIRA.
What spurred the shift from erotic fantasies based on art in The Red to ones based on Greek myths in The Rose?
The Red was set in an art gallery called The Red Gallery so it made sense all the sex scenes were based on paintings. I didn't want to simply redo The Red in a different art gallery. And I didn't want to have the same main characters. The Red was set in the mid-1990s in New York, so I knew my heroine could have a daughter old enough to star in her own book by now. I'm a huge fan of Greek mythology. It's twisted, it's funny, it's weird, it's wonderful. It was an easy leap from writing sex scenes based on paintings to love scenes based on Greek mythology.
What was the hardest love scene to get right?
The first time August and Lia have sex as August and Lia and not in the guise of mythological characters was definitely the hardest for me and for Lia. She was horribly wounded by a romantic betrayal when she was very young and has enormous trust issues. But she's also sick of feeling wounded, feeling left out and she's finally met this unusual man, August Bowman, who seems to be able to touch a heart that she was certain was dead. I wanted their first time together to be tender but also to show how hard it was for her to get there. It's a very playful scene, lots of teasing. August is doing his best to take the pressure off of her while not letting her run away from something he knows she wants and needs but still scares her.
I thought the first love scene, where Lia and August take the form of Perseus and Andromeda, was particularly delightful. It really drove home to me the importance of humor and laughter in sex. Why did you choose to start the book with this scene, and why do you think love scenes, even in romance, are often so serious?
Thank you! The story of Andromeda and Perseus is also the story of Andromeda and her mother and her mother's betrayal that leads to Andromeda nearly being put to death. It was a perfect fit for the plot of the book—the mother's accidental betrayal of her daughter. Plus Andromeda and Perseus were mostly strangers like Lia and August. Perseus was Andromeda's rescuer, again like August and Lia. Thematically it was the entire story of The Rose in one single myth.
And I'm absolutely certain Perseus was exactly like I portrayed him—young and brash but also doting and silly and besotted with Andromeda. Again, the teasing and playfulness help calm and comfort Lia/Andromeda, who's just been through hell. I mean . . . Hades.
It makes perfect sense that love scenes in romance novels are usually very tense and serious. Humor is a tension breaker and great sex relies on tension. You break the tension with humor and you risk pulling someone out of the scene. But I wanted to bring myths to life, make them feel real and modern and relatable to the reader. Every generation thinks it invents kinky sex and humor although both have been around since the beginning of humanity. The ancient Greeks were hilarious. If you don't believe me, read Lysistrata by Aristophanes. We read that in college, and my class laughed so hard we nearly hurt ourselves. Realizing that people 3,000 years ago made the same dirty jokes we do today made the past come alive to me.
There are a few Greek myths in The Rose that are reinterpreted to be less sexist or violent than they usually are. Do you think these myths had those characteristics from the beginning, or did they develop these negative traits as time went on?
The myths are so ancient that I don't think we can know anything for certain about what they were like in their original form. They might have been more sexist and violent. They might have been children's bedtime stories for all we know. The fun thing about myths is that they're so open to interpretation and reinterpretation. And Goddess bless the Greeks for being so generous with these stories that are the foundation of the Western literary canon.
I love Greek mythology and I'm a woman who hates violence, so if I can find a way to read the myths as sex-positive and joyful with plenty of room in them for women to have fun, anyone can. It just takes some imagination. Who knows? Maybe Leda had a swan fetish and Zeus knew about it and that's why he turned himself into a swan. (For the record, I do not explore the Leda and the Swan myth in The Rose. I gave that one a pass.)
You thank David Mitchell in your acknowledgments for being the inspiration for "a posh and whimsical (and adorably stuffy) English person." Am I correct in assuming that he inspired, at least in part, Lia?
Since there are two famous David Mitchells in England, I have to be clear we're talking about David Mitchell, the actor ("Peep Show," "That Mitchell and Webb Look") and not David Mitchell, the author of Cloud Atlas.
David Mitchell (the actor) has this wonderfully prickly stuffy posh persona and yet, if you read his memoir, Backstory, he turns into an absolute marshmallow when talking about falling in love with his wife, Victoria, and getting his heart broken. Lia was absolutely inspired by David's posh and prickly, yet secretly marshmallowy, personality. I could hear so many of her lines in his voice. That's what I get for watching British comedy panel shows while I'm supposed to be writing.
In an essay for The Huffington Post you wrote in 2012, you talked about how you felt God's pleasure most strongly while writing. Without going into too much detail, The Rose beautifully unifies the ideas of divine worship and sexual pleasure in really compelling contrast to how sex-negative many modern religions can be. Do you think that that sort of easy union has been lost to us in the modern age? Or are there movements or traditions that are bringing that back?
I'm not enough of a religious historian to say if there ever was the easy union of sex and religion that we imagine there was in ancient Greece or practiced among the ancient Celts and Druids. I'd like to think we had it figured out once and therefore we can figure it out again, but I wasn't there. Being a prostitute in the temple of Aphrodite might have been a blast. It might have been a nightmare. No firsthand accounts survive as far as I know. But if/when a new movement or religious tradition shows up in my neighborhood that has the soul/body dichotomy all figured out, I'll be the first to join that clergy.
If you were responsible for casting Lia and August in a film adaptation of The Rose, who would you pick?
Sophie Turner from "Game of Thrones" would do a marvelous job with Lia, her prickly side and her secret sweet side. For August? Maybe Panos Vlahos from "Days of Our Lives."
As handsome as Greek men are, really any of them would do. Literally any of them . . .
ALSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read our review of The Rose.
Author photo credit Andrew Shaffer.
Tiffany Reisz creates an erotic masterpiece based on Greek mythology in The Rose.
Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance, Romance, Romantic Suspense
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Review by Amanda Diehl
by Amanda Diehl
Without a doubt, Jasinda Wilder's Madame X, the first book in a new series, is unlike anything else I've read. In this compelling and dark novel, one woman will question everything she knows—everything she can remember, at least—as she slowly realizes her savior might not be the hero she imagines him to be.
Madame X can't remember her life before Caleb. He discovers her bloodied and beaten, takes her to a hospital and oversees her care. After she heals, he employs X and helps her rebuild her identity—keeping her housed, clothed, loved. Caleb is all she knows, and he keeps her locked away like a bird in a cage. And while X wishes for a taste of something more, sometimes the comfort of familiarity is easier to accept than the lure of the new.
Though X is an adult, there are still things she hasn't experienced, or at least remembers experiencing—first kisses, celebrating birthdays or the taste of wine, to name a few. When her job teaching etiquette to the protégés of the wealthy forces her to step foot outside of her plush apartment, it's both heartbreaking and beautiful to see the way she adjusts to the outside world. X wants more, especially from Caleb, though it quickly becomes clear that what she's asking for is something he isn't capable of giving.
Wilder does a wonderful job of creating something unique with Madame X. The assumed hero isn't much of a hero at all, despite how much X wishes him to be. However, a knight in shining armor waits in the wings, though Caleb isn't keen on letting his prized possession go. It's complicated, and Wilder fully intends to make readers work for X's happy ending. X is still growing and learning about herself, and she builds strength and confidence as the novel progresses. It's a delicate metamorphosis that Wilder handles well, writing from X's insightful and alluring point of view.
Readers will anxiously await the continuation of X's story. It's one of those books that you will want your friends to read, just so you have someone with whom to discuss it. X reaches a point where she must decide between the devil she knows or the devil she doesn't, and her story isn't one you'll soon forget.
Without a doubt, Jasinda Wilder's new series, beginning with Madame X, is unlike anything else I've read. In the compelling and dark first novel, one woman will question everything she knows—everything she can remember at least—as she slowly realizes her savior might not be the hero she imagines him to be.
Erotic Romance, Romance, Romantic Suspense
RomanceRomantic SuspenseErotic Romance
Review by Susan Andersen
by Susan Andersen
Award-winning author Molly O'Keefe, writing as M. O'Keefe, steps into the world of erotic romance in Everything I Left Unsaid, the first in an edgy, steamy two-book romance between two people whose paths ordinarily wouldn't intersect.
On the run from an abusive husband, Annie McKay lands in a Carolina trailer park. She's barely through the door of her temporary digs when she hears a phone ring. Tracking the sound to a cell phone in a drawer, she answers it. And her life is irrevocably changed.
Dylan Daniels has always paid the occupants of Annie's RV to keep an eye on the man next door. However, he can tell within seconds of talking to her that Annie is nothing like her predecessors. They were willing to spy for the money, but it's immediately apparent that Annie is both decent and probably too innocent for her own good. Then there's the unexpected chemistry that turns what should be a straightforward business transaction into a seductive game played over the telephone.
Annie can't believe the things the deep, dark voice on the other end of the line compels her to do. She feels things and tries things she has never even dreamed of. Yet something about Dylan's genuine interest, his unthreatening voice, makes her feel safe. She discovers following his commands imbue her with heretofore unknown confidence.
Everything I Left Unsaid follows a dangerous game of secrets and seduction that's intense and sometimes uncomfortable. But ultimately O'Keefe has deftly penned a story of hope, growth and courage peopled with complex protagonists. It's a smorgasbord of visceral emotions for the reader, and I for one can hardly wait for November so that I can belly up to that buffet once again and discover the rest of the story in the second book.
Susan Andersen is a New York Times best-selling author of 23 romance and romantic-suspense novels.
The limits of passion
Without Restraint is an explosively erotic start to Angela Knight's Southern Shields series. When a killer out for revenge starts targeting local South Carolina police, deputy Alexis Rogers turns to Navy SEAL and new addition to the department, Frank Murphy, a man with a dominant streak and the only one attuned to Alex's deepest desires. Crackling with chemistry, Without Restraint is a sensual and suspenseful romance, where passion and possession become two sides of the same coin.
Alex Rogers is still coming to terms with her unconventional (think Fifty Shades of Grey) proclivities in the bedroom. Thankfully, several of her colleagues at the police department are there to help introduce her to a welcoming community of like-minded individuals, guidance she especially needs after leaving her abusive former partner. When Frank, who is new to the area, attends a nightclub that caters to patrons with dark desires, Alex's friends can't help but play matchmaker. Unfortunately, their night of exploration and passion makes for an interesting icebreaker when Alex's new coworker is none other than the man who spurred her into submission.
But when someone close to Alex discovers her preference for a mixture of pain and pleasure, he'll stop at nothing to expose her deviance to the public. Intermittently, the story is told through the chilling perspective of the individual stalking Alex. As he begins targeting her friends and family and brazenly murdering police, Alex and Frank find comfort in one another as danger mounts.
Knight's portrayal of an emotionally complex woman trying to reconcile the role of submissive in her sex life with being a strong protector of the community exemplifies the fact that people are multifaceted. With the town being terrorized by an unknown killer and the stakes rising in the erotic games Alex and Frank play, Without Restraint is sure to produce a rush of adrenaline. As the killer grows bolder, Frank and Alex must decide if their intimate relationship is worth defending.
It should be noted, however, that Without Restraint deals with a bevy of difficult topics that are currently at the forefront of the nation's concerns, including police violence, racism, mental illness, homophobia and violence against women. Although Knight handles some of these topics with sensitivity, she hits some sour notes.
Without Restraint is an explosively erotic start to Angela Knight's Southern Shields series. When a killer out for revenge starts targeting local South Carolina police, deputy Alexis Rogers turns to Navy SEAL and new addition to the department, Frank Murphy, a man with a dominant streak and the only one attuned to Alex's deepest desires. With their personal needs mixing into their professional lives, and Alex and Frank's private moments only fueling the killer's aggression, Without Restraint is a steamy, white-knuckle-intense read.
Erotic Romance, Fiction, Romance
RomanceFictionErotic Romance
Review by Katie Leven
by Katie Leven
Some Like It Wild is the second book in M. Leighton's best-selling Wild Ones erotic (read: explicit) romance series, in which good girls encounter wild men who introduce them to the pleasures that have been missing from their straight-laced lives.
In Some Like It Wild, Laney Holt is forced to detour from her clear-cut path—find a good Christian man and start the perfect family—after her fiancé and best friend betray her. Shaken up, she returns to her small hometown in the South, where everyone knows her as the good-girl daughter of the preacher, which suits her just fine at first. Her excuse for being home is to survey the peach orchard owned by Jake Theopolis, a local boy with a bad reputation. No one would ever think they could possibly have anything in common.
Soon, however, Laney's deeply ingrained sense of self is threatened by her undeniable attraction to this fire-fighting man with rippling muscles and honey-toned eyes. After all that's happened to her, she's willing to let that good girl go just a little. Then a little more, and a little more, until she can no longer deny that she's adopted Jake's charming devil-may-care attitude. There are other men who care quite a bit, though. Laney's father and her ex-fiancé are not about to let her go so easily.
As Laney struggles to figure out what she really wants in life and Jake fights his own inner demons telling him all he does is hurt the ones he loves, the one bright spot is the physical pleasure that they find in each other. Whether they're at a party in the woods or on top of a waterfall, Jake shows Laney the joy that can be found in the rush of living on the edge. And Laney shows Jake he's worth caring about.
Thrilling, serious, funny and sexy, Some Like It Wild is a fast-paced, completely realistic and oh-so-erotic story. Leighton's writing is skilled, and everything flows naturally. The main characters are richly fleshed out and easily likable, despite their propensities for being either too good or too wild. Though some of the secondary characters are a bit one-dimensional, they're still believable.
With such solid storytelling and relatable characters, readers will enjoy going along on Laney's steamy—explicit, at times—journey from prim and proper to free and feisty.
FictionFamily Drama
A Little Hope
Ethan Joella
By Melissa Brown
Life is both painful and hopeful, but in Ethan Joella's debut novel, it is blessedly more of the latter.
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The magical Merlin strikes again
T.A. Barron
By Etta Wilson
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Sex and Vanity
Kevin Kwan
By Amy Scribner
What Kevin Kwan consistently delivers—and does so again in Sex and Vanity—are fantastic tales of the over-the-top wealthy, written with just enough empathy to make us care about young, beautiful trust-fund billionaires.
Scotto Moore
Scotto Moore unpacks the myriad inspirations behind his "science fantasy," Battle of the Linguist Mages, which more than lives up to the nerdy promise of its title.
Xochitl Gonzalez
With her roots in Puerto Rico and heart in Brooklyn, the heroine of Xochitl Gonzalez's vibrant and raw debut novel finds that politics and family are hopelessly intertwined.
Irene Latham and Charles Waters
Acclaimed poets Irene Latham and Charles Waters give the past a voice in African Town, their new novel in verse about the last group of Africans brought to America and enslaved.


Just a quick post from me today, but I thought I'd share my latest car boot finds with you all.
As I've said before, I have a bit of a thing for dinky little vintage chairs. I can't stop buying them, even though my children consider themselves far too grown up to actually perch their little bottoms upon them. Anyway, I actually walked past this little blue chair a few times before to deciding to part with £3 – I have no idea why I was undecided, because now I have it, I absolutely love it. The duck egg blue is perfect, and although it's very weathered and worn, I think that adds to it's charm. And it makes a very cosy spot for giraffe to take a rest.
Next up involved me rummaging through suitcases and suitcases of inky handwritten letter, papers, old school workbooks and other ephemera, from a house clearance lorry. I adore the beautiful old faded papers and stamps – there are even 1940's bus tickets and laundry bills amongst it all. A snippet of someone's life. I came away with a couple of bundles. I shall use them in collages, mood boards and scrapbooking, maybe even some paper bunting.


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Statewide scholarship, mentoring program still needs mentors to hit 2021 goal
Watch: Statewide scholarship, mentoring program still needs mentors to hit 2021 goal
By: Kirstin Garriss, FOX13Memphis.com
Updated: November 13, 2020 - 10:22 PM
A statewide mentoring program must recruit 2,500 more mentors in less than a month.
TN Achieves is a nonprofit providing scholarships and mentor guidance for high school students each year.
Normally, the organization recruits in person at schools and community centers but because of the pandemic, they can't do that this year and all recruitment is online.
The nonprofit is also using a virtual platform to connect with high school seniors as they transition to college.
TN Achieves Director of mentors, Tyler Ford said their mentors will be a vital part of that transition next year especially with many students returning to school virtually.
"You know they may not see their guidance counselor every day. They may not see their teachers every single day. You know they may not think about college every single day," said Ford. "But having someone in their community who reaches out every other week or so to check in and keep those gears turning about what comes next after high school, we think that's going to be critical in the coming year."
Ford said they usually have 1,200 mentors for Shelby County alone which is twice as many as other counties.
But Ford said they haven't that goal yet.
As of Friday, TN Achieves said they still need 526 members in Shelby County, followed by 55 in Tipton County and 28 in Fayette County.
Ford said mentors must volunteer one hour a month and server as a resource and support system for students.
"You know students may get down on themselves going through the college process. Many that we work with will be the first their family to go to college and they may feel overwhelmed at times. I mentor is someone who can encourage them and lift them over those obstacles," he said.
But the clock is ticking with less than a month to recruit those vital mentors.
"If we aren't able to make that goal, that means students may not have access to that local support system and it's such a priority for us to make sure each student has someone in their community they can turn to," said Ford.
Whether schools are back in the classroom or not, TN Achieves say all the mentors will connect with students virtually next year.
The deadline to apply is December 4 and you can find more information about the program, here.
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Exeter violent crime statistics in maps and graphs.
Annual crime rate in Exeter postcode area is 22.6, i.e. 22.6 crimes committed per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, Exeter's crime rate is at 73%. Violent crime makes up 29.9% of all crimes committed in the postcode area. The total number of "violent crime" is 12.5k, and this number has increased by 11.4% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019.
Violent crime rate is 22.6 crimes committed per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 12. lowest crime rate out of 104 England and Wales' postcode areas.
The total number of "violent crime" is 12.5k, and this number has increased by 11.4% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2018 - February 2019. In the graph below, postcode area are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the postcode area crime rate between March 2018 - February 2019 to the postcode area crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes committed. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes committed in the postcode area.


Bo Forbes is the owner/CEO of Ironside Press, located in Vero Beach's Historic Business District.
A graduate of Florida State University, Bo spent the first 12 years of his professional career working in corporate marketing and product management roles across the country for Verizon Corporation (formally, GTE, Genuity, Bell Atlantic). In 2003, Bo retired from his position as Senior Strategy Manager at Verizon Corporate Headquarters in Manhattan to join his family's business – Ironside Press.
In 2008, Bo acquired 100% ownership interest of Ironside. As CEO for the past 10 years, he has crafted a core strategic vision of innovation, growth, service and integrity as the company's guiding principles. Today, Ironside is the leading provider of professional market management services to over 2,000 business including small entrepreneurs, corporations, nonprofits, government, and educational institutions across the Treasure and Space Coast.
Ironside's professional portfolio includes: a Graphic Design Agency, Commercial Print Production Manufacturing, Direct Marketing Campaign Services, Brand Management Consulting and Digital/Web Marketing Program Management.
Bo lives in Vero Beach with his wife and two daughters, representing the 5th generation of his family to call Indian River County their home.


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Australia's love of real estate never seems to abate. Equally, the demand for skilled real estate agents remains strong.
Real estate can be a lucrative industry for those who are adequately trained and committed.
The key is to ensure you are equipped for this competitive industry. here are a number of Real Estate courses which can open the door into the property services industry for you.
Are you committed to customer service? And do you love to solve problems? Then the Certificate III in Property Services is ideal if you are already working in as a property services employee or looking to gain employment in the area of day to day management and maintenance of a single property or multiple properties on behalf of property owners.
If you are looking to progress you career and become a licensed real estate agent within New South Wales or Victoria then the world is your oyster!
Complete the Certificate IV in Property Services (Real Estate) to apply to NSW Fair Trading or to Consumer Affairs Victoria for a real estate license.
This will allow you to pursue a wide range of roles in real estate in NSW including property management, real estate sales and real estate office management.
This course is recognised by both NSW Fair Trading and Consumer Affairs Victoria as the qualification requirement for the real estate agents license in NSW.
If you are currently a real estate agent, or have been involved in the industry for some time, then you may be to take the leap into owning or managing an agency. If that's the case, then the Diploma of Property Services (Agency Management), helps you acquire the knowledge and skills needed to operate and manage a real estate/property agency business.
You will learn about selling, marketing, leasing and managing property, and managing the physical, human and financial resources of a real estate agency.
You will also acquire the knowledge and skills that underpin the fundamental concepts relating to property and business law, urban and regional planning considerations, business/organisational risk management, appraising property including building concepts and requirements.
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Find Your Way is the name of our regional guidebook series, based on a current research project, Student Parents on Campus, intended to systematically and comprehensively identify every college and university with supportive services or programs for student parents in the United States.
Our research process utilizes the official list of accredited colleges and universities, as provided by the appropriate accrediting body for a particular region as defined by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
Using publicly available web-based data, and a careful search and review protocol, our research teams review the websites of each institution one at a time, asking the question, What services or supports would be available to a student parent attending this institution? Our protocol involves deeply searching through available web-based materials as thoroughly and completely as possible. For example, researchers not only look at the residence life website for indicators of family housing, they also peruse PDF files such as housing applications and residence life manuals looking for indicators of family housing options, even if they are minimal or offered as a case-by- case exception.
We use web-based information, because this is the primary source used by prospective student parents as they consider their college and university application prospects. If a team of trained researchers using a thorough protocol to review web-based materials cannot find information about resources available, chances are that current and prospective student parents cannot find this information either.
As we completed the first two regions of this project, as a means of piloting our protocol and methods, we have also refined the process, and added new services such as on-campus food pantries to our search protocol.
Additionally, although there is no comparable comprehensive database of non-profit organizations serving student parents, where we are aware of non-profit and community-based programs that support student parents, we have also added this information to our guidebooks, although, it is admittedly not possible to provide comprehensive information on such programs that would parallel our review process for colleges and universities.
To date, our research teams have completed review of New England (based on the New England Association of Schools and Colleges) and the Mid-Atlantic (based on the Middle States Association of Colleges and Universities). We are currently underway on a project replicating this research process in the South (Southern Association of Schools and Colleges), forming a research team for California and Hawaii (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) in partnership with four Western regional colleges and universities, and we are working toward additional projects focused on the Northwest (Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges) and Mid-West/Plains Regions (Higher Learning Commission) in the upcoming future.
We also recognize that U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands are currently not included within our dataset. Although these territories are overseen by the above regional accreditation boards, because of their lack of physical proximity to their corresponding U.S. regional jurisdiction, we believe the best approach to addressing these territories is to separate them as their own distinct "region." If you are interested in starting a research team focused on U.S. Territories, please contact us!
If you are interested in supporting this research effort or would like to order printed copies of the Find Your Way guidebook for your region please contact us!