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Entropay was one of the first virtual prepaid card options available across Europe. It offered the simple functions of a debit card coupled with top levels of control and the privacy of an eWallet, making it one of the most popular methods around. These features were particularly pertinent to online gamblers who need to have control and security when paying and playing online. As of July 2019, Entropay is no longer an available payment option.
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Players who used Entropay did so for a number of reasons. One of the big ones is the additional layer of security this method offered them as compared to debit and credit cards. Entropay worked by enabling players to distance their bank account from the casino that they were playing at.
By not needing to provide this information to the casino, players were able to reduce the risk of falling victims to fraudulent online activities.
By not providing this information also had the added benefit of protecting any personal information as well as spending habits. Another highlight was that these virtual debit cards were one use only. Once the card had been created and then spent, it was instantly disposable.
This meant that players would only use each card once, get rid of it and create a new one, again significantly reducing the chances of fraud or unwanted renewals for subscriptions.
It was also incredibly easy to use. In fact, the deposit and withdrawal process is almost exactly the same as that of using a debit or credit card. At the end of the day, it practically was the same thing! Creating an Entropay account was also very quick and required very little information from the player in order to set up.
As most of the new casinos offered Entropay as a payment option, it was then easy to use later on too.
How to Deposit Money With Entropay
Sign up for an Entropay account;
Choose a casino and make an account;
Choose Entropay as the payment;
Make a deposit.
How to Withdraw Money With Entropay
Click on the withdrawal;
Select the withdrawal amount;
Confirm;
Cash arrives in the Entropay account.
How Safe are you When Using Entropay?
As we have touched upon, Entropay was one of the safest online payment options. This was due to the fact that players never had to give any of their bank or personal details to the casino they were playing at. This meant that any money being paid in from Entropay could not be linked back to the bank account.
Fraudulent casinos would not be able to make extra money from the player's account or even know what it was.
Additionally, all Entropay cards are one-off, which means that there could be no extra charges made to that card. Again this helped with preventing fraud and making sure that players would not be surprised with additional payments or withdrawals being made as the card would simply no longer exist. These casinos offer generous bonuses to play with the best slots.
The company itself was based out of the UK and regulated by the Financial Services Authority to ensure it operated securely and fairly as well.
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Are There any Transaction Fees When Using Entropay?
When it came to fees, this is where Entropay may have hit a stumbling block. Whilst it was free to create the Entropay account and then a virtual Visa card, there were fees attached to the various aspects of actually using the account.
For instance, topping up any of the credit or debit cards was up to 4.95% of the value added to the card which was quite a lot for those paying larger amounts.
Withdrawal fees were also relatively steep and could be between €1.40 to €7.99 depending on the amount that was being withdrawn. Closing the account and withdrawing all money to a physical debit or credit card incur a further fee of £3.
Even if players weren't using their account there were fees! A six-month dormancy fee of €2.50 was in place and there were even a few 10 cent charges for transferring any cash between Entropay accounts.
Summary: Pros and Cons of Depositing With Entropay
The biggest and most obvious positive about using Entropay at an online casino in Ireland was the level of security is provided. These advanced security measures were a first for the time in which this payment option was released.
In addition to this, players could enjoy speedy transactions, and, if anything went wrong or there was an issue, they could contact a highly responsive and efficient customer service team who would get things back on track very quickly.
Entropay also didn't seem to have any maximum limits on withdrawals or deposits, which suited many players, particularly the high rollers, right down to the ground. One of the big cons though was that if you spent money from the card there were no fees, but loading it up with cash was a different matter entirely.
Simply just putting on money in the first place was rather exorbitant, which could have been somewhat of a turn off for many a potential user.
There was also a minimum amount required for any transaction and this was set at £20 which could be quite a lot for some of the more budget players. Add in the fees associated with this and Entropay, despite its positives of top-notch security, would not be such a great option after all.
Now that Entropay has left the scene, there are ample providers filling in its shoes, so new and old players will not be wanting when it comes to payment options.
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How Covid-19 has brought mothers and daughters back together
by Grant McCracken | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
For better or worse, the lockdown has forced families across America to spend more time together. Marketers have an opportunity to lean into the way it has reshaped relationships at home. Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken explains.
I have an observatory. It's in the kitchen. On a big wooden table.
Most observatories look at the heavens. Celestial events. Comets. Exploding stars. Deep space. My observatory is for terrestrial events. Changes in American culture. Comets. Exploding stars. Deep space. Well, space.
I sit down at my observatory every morning. It acts like a data aggregator, idea spinner. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, newspapers, magazines, op eds, movie reviewers, AI revelations, newsletters, scandal rags, stock reports, SKU data, ethnographic data, historical data, demographic data, sociological data, mostly anthropological data. The observatory remembers the best parts, some 3.4 gigabytes and counting.
Honestly, it makes my head spin. But I'm salting my coffee with Dramamine. So that's good.
Not so long ago, the observatory began to spit and murmur. This means it's trying to manage data that will not sit tidily in any of our existing categories. It likes things tidy. So do I.
The data, in this case, was American moms behaving in unusual ways. Out of character. Vigorously protesting an accustomed practice called "helicopter parenting." These moms were thinking about a change. Something less solicitous, less patient, less "there for you," when it came to their kids.
Stuff happens in American culture. "Trends," we call them. They come and go. The trick for marketers, planners, strategists and culture creatives is getting there early, figuring out what the "it" is, and finding the streams of data that can tell us the present and future significance of the trend. Hence the observatory on my kitchen table.
Covid-19 captivity versus the American mom
Five months ago, along came Covid-19. Suddenly, mom-ness was up against it. Entire families were confined to quarters. For an indefinite future. Locked down. Americans like their space, man. This was going to be hard. Really hard. And moms were going to have to fix it.
I know this from years of ethnographic study. I have had a cup of coffee in every living room in America. Well, I should say almost every living room in America. I've sat listening to the female head of household reveal how she made this house a home, how she turned a crowd of fractious Americans into a family.
And now a titanic struggle was upon us. Coronavirus captivity versus the American mom.
The conversations were interesting. The people suffering the most were the extroverts, those who find themselves, as George Herbert Mead said all of us do, by interacting with people. These people need people, at work, at Starbucks, at a book club, at a ball game. And these people were jonesing. They were hurting.
There were some moms who were like busboys at a very busy restaurant. All resources were now in play. Resource depletion was coming. Chaos was just around the corner. Sometimes there would be a pause in the conversation, and I could hear weeping.
But usually what I could hear was shouting. In the background. This is American shouting where sharing meets warning, good humor helps get things on the table. Mom was managing this and then some. Mealtime. Binge viewing. Game night. Bread baking. Dog purchase. Dog walking. Dog washing. Dog picking up after. You know, because mom.
As the observatory had indicated, moms were already thinking hard about child rearing and family life. So perhaps they were especially mobilized for this challenge. But then moms are always engaged in a survey of what and who their family is, what their kids need, and what's happening "out there" in American culture. They keep an observatory of their own.
The 'Covid-19 kitchen' is convergent
The first finding was simple but surprising. Thanks to mom, the American family rose to the occasion. In fact, my survey respondents believe that 50% of American families are "stronger" for the pandemic. (Only 5% think these families are weaker.) Job done, mom!
The question is "how?" There is a long answer here because moms have a lot of tricks up their sleeve. But some part of the answer is that moms managed to reverse the big bang of the American household. This took place roughly 20 years ago when Americans knocked down the walls between kitchen, dining room and living room to make what they call a "great room." This was designed to change mealtime even as moms struggle to accommodate a diversity of tastes (vegan, paleo, keto, low carb) and a restless, screen centric family. The great room was dispersive.
During Covid-19, moms bent the big bang to their will. Like a superhero, they brought it to one of those slo-mo stops and then made it rush back to a center. They returned their family to a table (kitchen, even dining room) for a single meal and a single conversation. They said to their family "here's what we're eating, if you want sometimes else, you know where the kitchen is. Probably." The great room was dispersive. The Covid-19 kitchen was convergent. Mom put the family back together again.
In all of this, moms got a gift. "I got my daughter back" they told me. Back from college, back from popular culture and the performance culture encouraged by Instagram, back from the constant hustle necessitated with which American kids begin a bid for the college of their choice. Prior to coronavirus, moms have been running a taxi service. They had been darn close to household staff. They were invisible to their kids. Worst, they looked clueless when it came to the things teens cared about. ("TikTok? Tell me again what that is.") Moms now say, "My kids can see me!"
This new connection between mother and daughters builds a bridge between generations. Influence will rush in both directions. Moms will get hipper. Daughters will get more worldly. Moms will get more liberal. Daughters will get a little less. What is "allyship?" How about "anti-racism." Moms and daughters are figuring it out. Currency and wisdom are being exchanged. Relationships are deepening. Connection are being made, then braided, then grounded. Mother/daughter is a new creature in the marketing world. How well do we understand her? What about the family she is building? What about the culture and economy she is refashioning?
Marketers, start your engines.
Grant McCracken is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. from University of Chicago.) He is the author of 12 books including Culturematic, Flock and Flow, and Dark Value. His new book will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2021.

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You can find divorce records in Massachusetts in several places. The best place to search divorce records will depend on what type of divorce document you need and how recent the record is. When you need a copy of your divorce papers for your personal use, it is best to contact the Probate and Family Court that handled your case. Local courts maintain a number of records that you may need following your own divorce.
A divorce search can also be performed at local courthouses in Massachusetts when you need a copy of divorce records for genealogical studies or other research. Massachusetts divorce records date back as early as 1639. Many of the earliest divorce court records are maintained in archives by the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, among other departments.
When you are searching divorce records in Massachusetts for informational purposes only, you may not need to use courthouse archives as your main source of information. A divorce record search can be conducted at the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics (RVRS) for divorces that occurred from the year 1952 through the present. However, it is important to note that the RVRS only maintains an index of divorces that occurred during those years. You cannot obtain a copy of a divorce certificate from the RVRS. Furthermore, online divorce records are not available from the RVRS.
Historical Massachusetts divorce documents may be categorized differently. When you search for divorce records in historical databases and archives, you may wish to ask what types of records you can expect to find before beginning your search.
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Starting your divorce record search in the Massachusetts Archives Collection, maintained by the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, is helpful if you do not know where to begin.


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#17 · Feb 10, 2010 (Edited)
as far as i know, the descriptions are as follows:
SAR - Search and Rescue
TSAR - tritium search and rescue
GSAR - government search and rescue
JSAR - jumbo search and rescue
CSAR - chronograph search and rescue
SAR-D - search and rescue - defect
the SAR name, of course, was just a nickname given by owners and admirers since they were initially intended for use with the Canadian Forces Air Force Search and Rescue Technicians. the SAR-D was so named because of the defect dial which indicated the use of tritium when in fact there was none.
i recently gave up almost my entire watch collection, including a few SAR series watches, to fund a grail which i'm STILL trying to pay off.
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[edit]: contract dates are just that. the organization ordering from Marathon will contract Marathon to produce X number of a particular series of watches. once that contract is fulfilled, that series is complete. for example, my SAR says May 2006. so in may of 2006, the CAF ordered a particular number of SAR watches. it may take a few years to issue all of them, but they will all say May 2006 on the back along with a serial number.
long story short, each contract date is based on the demand from the consumer from the providor. rumour has it that Marathon is no longer producing SAR watches (while T, G, J, or CSARs may still be in production) so those will quickly become highly collectable. and with each new contract there may be changes to the specifications such as the addition or removal of tritium, or the use of the "U.S. Government" branding, or the use of 60 or 120 click bezels, etc. and with each new iteration of the SAR series, a new nickname is given, such as TSAR, GSAR etc etc etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, ORDERS. No eating, no drinking, no smoking. Questions at the end.
the CSAR shares the same dimensions as the JSAR
the SAR, TSAR, GSAR and SAR-D all share the same case specs.
there are small differences here and there. for example, 2001 and 02 SAR's have 60 click bezels, and the 2001 has a slightly different second hand. the TSAR and GSAR can have or lack the US Government branding depending on the contract specs. i haven't really noticed any kind of trend for those, which leads me to believe that they produced both branded and unbranded versions of each during some contracts. the newest contracts of T and GSARs all have the US Government branding.
and there may also be a mix of branded and unbranded depending on the country it is meant for. this can be determined from the country code in the NSN number.
the JSAR and CSAR have both not changed at all.
in actuality, there really is only one SAR, which different specs for each contract. when the contract called for tritium, that was employed and it was just nicknamed the TSAR. when it required both tritium and automatic movement, they made that too, and that one became the GSAR.
the only exceptions might be the JSAR and CSAR, which dont adhere to the SAR series form factor per se.
the CSAR is nice, but think hard about it. with a 46.5mm case that's a whopping 17mm thick, it may look great, but it may not feel great once it's on your wrist. it really depends on whether you like big watches, and whether you can deal with almost a pound of steel on your wrist (if you opt to use Marathon's bracelet.)
the other smaller SARs are all 40mm cases at around 13.5mm thick. a pretty reasonable size for all but the thickest of wrists.
the larger one with luminova is the JSAR.
for those who aren't aware, the top row of my photo a few threads back is all marathon, as well as one smaller marathon in the second row.
meanwhile, FYI, the watches in the picture are as follows:
top row: SAR, TSAR, GSAR, JSAR
bottom row: Traser P6500, Marathon Navigator, CWC Royal Navy Diver in automatic.
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Thousands of violins have passed through John Montgomery's violin shop on Hillsborough Street in downtown Raleigh in its more than 30-year run. But one, brought to him last Monday, made a special impression.
Built in the 18th century by Italian violin maker Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, the violin was a masterpiece, worth roughly $200,000. And the man who wanted to sell it to Montgomery, Leslie Edward Fields, could not keep his story straight.
The violin, as well as three others that Fields and another man sold to Montgomery earlier this spring, had been stolen from violin shops near Atlanta. Montgomery's recognition of the theft resulted in the arrests of the two men, and the recovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen musical instruments.
John Montgomery stands next to violins at his shop, John Montgomery Violins in Raleigh, NC on Monday, June 15, 2015. John Montgomery helped stop men who were trying to sell him stolen violins from Atlanta, Georgia.
"Mr. Montgomery is really the big hero in this," said Megan Hallam, office manager for Atlanta Violins, which recovered five stolen violins, worth $40,500. The $200,000 violin was stolen from Ronald Sachs Violins, also in the Atlanta area.
Montgomery, 61, buys, sells and restores violins, in addition to building his own. Fields, 52, of Atlanta was a "fast-talker," Montgomery said, but when pressed on how he came into possession of the valuable Landolfi violin, he started tripping over his words.
At one point, Fields told Montgomery that he would not disclose where he got the violins.
"I won't buy your instruments until you can tell me where they're from," Montgomery remembers telling him, and so Fields wrapped the violins in cloth and left. Strange that he would not protect such valuable instruments in cases, Montgomery thought.
Montgomery took to the Internet to find out more about the violins Fields offered. He identified them using details such as marks in the wood or design features of a particular maker. Expensive violins are more similar to a painting than a middle school trumpet; they typically do not have serial numbers.
He found the violins in the online inventories of the two Atlanta-area violin shops. Ronald Sachs Violins, which lost the Landolfi, had reported the theft already. Atlanta Violins did not know any were missing.
Montgomery purchased another violin from Fields a week prior, as well as two from Gary Crouse, 60, of Roswell, Ga., under similar circumstances. He looked into those, too, after Fields aroused his suspicions, and they were missing from the same shops.
"He must have walked out with them," said Hallam, adding that staff saw Fields in the store wearing a suit jacket. She said the shop suspects the jacket was modified to conceal the instruments. Security camera footage from Ronald Sachs Violins shows Fields taking the violin to a bathroom, concealing it in his jacket and walking out of the store.
After speaking with the shop owners, Montgomery notified the Violin Society of America, a professional group for violin shop owners nationwide. The group's president, Lori Kirr, sent an email alert to its members.
"If either of these men come into your shop, call the police and if you can try to stall them safely until the police arrive," Kirr wrote of the two thieves that Montgomery identified.
The community of violin shop owners is tight-knit and connected online, Kirr said. She said that organized thefts are extraordinarily uncommon, and shop owners rallied quickly in support of each other.
"If you try to sell stolen violins, it's not going to be so easy," Kirr said.
The nationwide alert proved unnecessary when Crouse showed up at Atlanta Violins. Staff recognized him from a photocopy of his license that Montgomery had shared with them. He made the copy when he purchased the violins from Crouse in April.
Atlanta Violins staff called police and talked with Crouse to keep him in the store. He was strangely eager to talk, Hallam said, having come to the store looking for free violin cases, claiming to represent a children's orchestra.
"It felt a little bit like being caught up in a spy caper," Hallam said.
Roswell police arrived and questioned Crouse, then trailed him to a nearby hotel room, unable to arrest him on the spot for the thefts. They later executed a search warrant for the room and recovered the stolen violins in addition to oboes, trumpets and a clarinet.
Ronald Sachs Violins is still missing two violins that were not recovered after the arrest and are worth $35,000, staff members said.
Crouse and Fields were charged with felony theft by receiving stolen property and are being held in the Fulton County (Ga.) Jail. Fields has a lengthy criminal record in Georgia, including theft charges earlier this year.
Montgomery said he was encouraged by the way the community of violin shop owners came together to put a stop to the scheme. He said his experience with the craft not only allowed him to pick out the stolen goods but also made him especially committed to putting a stop to the operation.


The Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act was created after a student named Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in a residence hall at Lehigh University in 1986. Jeanne's parents, Connie and Howard Clery, began to press for legislation that would make colleges and universities safer. In 1990, their work culminated in the passing of the federal Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act, today known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.


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Ozzy Osbourne Was First Diagnosed With Parkinson's In 2003
In a new interview, Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has been battling Parkinson's disease for much longer than we first thought.
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While the news was only made public in January of this year, Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he's actually been battling Parkinson's disease since 2003.
In a new interview with Los Angeles Times, the heavy metal legend says that it's been many, many years that he was first diagnosed with the condition. The Prince Of Darkness is battling Stage 2 of the disease, which is considered a "moderate" form and involves stiffness, tremors, and trembling.
"I'm not dying from Parkinson's," Ozzy asserts. "I've been working with it most of my life. I've cheated death so many times. If tomorrow you read, 'Ozzy Osbourne never woke up this morning,' you wouldn't go, 'Oh, my God!' You'd go, 'Well, it finally caught up with him.'"
Ozzy first discussed his battles in an interview with Good Morning America last month.
"I've got numbness down this arm from the surgery," he said. "My legs keep going cold, I don't know if that's Parkinson's or what… It's a weird feeling."
Wife and manager Sharon added: "There's so many different types of Parkinson's. It's not a death sentence by any stretch of the imagination, but it does affect certain nerves in your body. And it's like you have a good day, a good day, and then a really bad day."
In an interview with Kerrang! recently, Ozzy discussed his health and wellbeing, and if he ever thinks about death.
"Do I ever think about when my time's gonna come?" he pondered. "I think about it; I don't worry about it. I won't be here in another 15 years or whatever, not that much longer, but I don't dwell on it. It's gonna happen to us all.
"Am I happy now? No. I haven't got my health," he continued. "That thing knocked the shit out of me, man, but I'm still here. In fact, I worried about [death] more when I was younger than I do now. I just try to enjoy things as much as possible, even though that's so fucking hard sometimes."
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Ozzy's new album Ordinary Man is due out on February 21. His previously postponed No More Tours II world tour is scheduled to start in May. Get your UK tickets here.
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29 Sunrise, FL BB&T Center
31 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union
2 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
4 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
6 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Stadium
11 Pittsburgh, PA KeyBank Pavilion
13 Bangor, ME Darling's Waterfront Pavilion
16 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
18 Hamilton, ON First Ontario Centre
20 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
22 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena
24 St Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
26 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
28 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
1 Milwaukee, WI Amer. Family Ins. Amp — Summerfest
3 St Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
7 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
9 Vancouver, BC Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
11 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
15 Portland, OR Moda Center
17 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center
23 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
25 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
29 San Diego, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
31 Las Vegas, CA MGM Grand Garden Arena
23 Newcastle, Utilita Arena, UK
25 Glasgow, SSE Hydro, UK
28 London, The O2, UK
31 Birmingham, Resorts World Arena, UK
2 Manchester, Manchester Arena, UK
5 Dublin, 3Arena, Ireland
8 Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena, UK
11 Dortmund, Westfalenhalle, Germany
13 Prague, O2 Arena, Czech Republic
16 Vienna, Stadthalle, Austria
19 Bologna, Unipol Arena, Italy
22 Madrid, WiZink Arena, Spain
24 Zurich, Hallenstadion, Switzerland
26 Munich, Olympiahalle, Germany
28 Mannheim, SAP Arena, Germany
30 Berlin, Mercedes-Benz Arena, Germany
3 Hamburg, Barclaycard Arena, Germany
5 Stockholm, Friends Arena, Sweden
7 Helsinki, Hartwall Arena, Finland
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The Neighborhood Watch program is the most effective means available for keeping crime out of our neighborhoods. It relies on the best crime-fighting tool ever invented – a good neighbor. Fortunately, good neighbors are found everywhere. They live in houses, apartment buildings, urban, suburban, and rural areas. You may hear it called Neighborhood Watch, Home Alert, Citizens Crime Watch or Block Watch. The names differ, but the idea is the same.
When neighbors work together with law enforcement, one of the best crime fighting teams around is created. Be a good neighbor and make your community safer from criminals by starting a Neighborhood Watch program. Remember, people acting on their own will not win the battle against crime.
* Neighbors getting to know each other, taking the time to care about each other and working together in a program of mutual assistance.
* Citizens being trained to recognize and report suspicious activities in their neighborhoods.
* Crime prevention strategies such as home security, Operation Identification and others being implemented by citizens.
There can't be a law enforcement officer on every street corner, so citizen involvement is essential to combat crime. You and your neighbors are the ones who really know what is going on in your neighborhood. By cooperating with each other and the police, people can help fight crime in their community in the most effective way – before it starts.
Neighborhood Watch members place stickers in their windows and post Neighborhood Watch signs on streets, warning criminals that they are in a active Neighborhood Watch Community, and that neighbors are looking out for each other.
Neighborhood Watch is only the beginning. It can be the basis for an ongoing dialogue and cooperative relationship with law enforcement and the City of Laguna Niguel.
* Join Beacon Hills' Instant E-Mail System to immediately learn about any neighborhood crime issues, emergencies, and/or alerts! Simply go to the website: www.beaconhillplanned.org, find the Forms Page, complete the opt-in form and follow the directions.
* Become a member of a Neighborhood Watch: If you are interested in joining Neighborhood Watch, please contact Jill Davidson at the O.C. Sheriff's Dept. They would like to have at least one representative from each Beacon Hill Street in the program.
* Follow the steps listed in the "Home Security Checklist" above.
The Beacon Hill Neighborhood Watch Committee: The Board appreciates the recent contributions and efforts of this committee. It supports and wants to continue to see the committee's goals realized along with the resulting benefits to Beacon Hill homeowners -- alert and knowledgeable residents who work together with local law enforcement to report and reduce crime in the Beacon Hill Community.


Imagine reeling in an 1800 lb Marlin, or an Ahi Tuna? It's not so far fetched. The largest Marlin ever caught was 1805 lbs. Around Kauai, both deep sea and fresh water fishing are available from shorelines, piers and boats. If you're looking to catch a Marlin, it's best to try a deep-sea charter at either Nawiliwili Harbor or Kekeha. License's are only required for freshwater fishing. Snorkeling is another way to get in close contact with Kauai's tropical fish, some of the best snorkeling is found inside the island's protected lagoons. For something a bit deeper, diving on the east or west shore will expose you to a world full of lava tubes intertwined with live reefs and a plethora of bright, tropical fish, dolphins, turtles and whales. If you're just beginning, it's best to stick to shore diving off Hanalei, Kee, or Poipu beach on the north and south shores. Don't worry about having to lug your diving equipment through the airport and onto the plane, there are rental shops, certification courses and diving tours almost everywhere.
On the surface you can get another very different experience of the world below. Hop into a kayak at Poipu beach and head west. Along the way, catch a glimpse of the beauty beneath and if you're tempted, try snorkeling at Port Allen. If you're experienced, it's a trip you can take solo, or if you want, you can hire a guide. There's also great kayaking along the Wailua River to the famed fern grotto or on Huleia River from Nawiliwili Harbour to Menehune fishpond.
You don't have to stay in the water in Kauai to experience something amazing. On the back of a bike, you can simply head down the road in Poipu to where it's quite flat, across a dirt road between Kealia Beach and Anahola where sugar cane is routinely hauled, or you can fly down the side of a mountain on a custom tour. There are different routes and tours for all types of bikers and abilities. Much like the other islands, horseback riding and camping are both popular in Kauai, whether you do the activities separately or as part of a combined tour. The areas to be explored are seemingly endless, from state parks to bluffs, foothills, beaches, and across sugar cane fields.


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Justin Fields, Bears offense bomb in rookie quarterback's first start
By Ryan Glab Posted September 27, 2021
So, what exactly was it that you were expecting from Justin Fields and the Bears in the rookie's first NFL start?
Answering that question might help put your feelings about the Bears' 26-6 loss to the Browns in better perspective.
Don't get me wrong. There's no way to sugarcoat an absolute disaster of a game. Rolling a turd in powdered sugar doesn't make it a chocolate doughnut.
If you were expecting Fields to struggle on the road in a hostile environment against a good defense, then you were only moderately surprised by the beating he took, and the lack of offensive production.
If, however, you were one of those Bears fans who felt his presence was like the second coming of Christ, then you're likely out on the ledge of a steep cliff somewhere looking for a good place to jump.
Or, you're just bitter and angry at Matt Nagy and blaming all of the team's woes on him this morning.
Let's analyze a few things. Before I go down a rabbit hole defending Nagy to the point you think I'm related to the guy, I will acknowledge that he has made plenty of mistakes in his game plans and his game day play calling. After all, Nagy himself told the media he didn't do a good job getting the offense ready to play against the Browns.
But with all that said, it is utter foolishness to say that all the problems from yesterday's game were his fault.
And I commend running back David Montgomery who, after the game while speaking with FOX, defended his coach.
"It wasn't his fault," Montgomery said of Nagy. "He's not out there playing. It's on us. We're the ones out there playing. How are we going to blame it on somebody else not out there playing?
"…the play don't make the play. The players do."
He's ultimately right. Whether or not Nagy calls plays that meet the approval of the fan base is irrelevant. How the players execute those plays is what counts. The best play callers in the NFL can't succeed without an offensive line. Don't believe me? See last year's Super Bowl when the Kansas City Chiefs — one of the best offenses in football — tripped over themselves against a tough Buccaneers defense because the Chiefs' offensive line play was horrendous.
And, Bears fans: the Chiefs have way better skill position players than the Bears do, and a better play caller in Andy Reid. If they can't succeed without good offensive line play, can the Bears?
What kills me most of all is the insistence of all the amateur play callers out there who think they have the magic formula to make the Bears a successful offense. A quick perusal through the Twittersphere shows all the master game plans laid out throughout Sunday's disaster.
Similarly, it slays me to see those who want Nagy to give up play calling and hand over the reins to offensive coordinator Bill Lazor. As if he knows where to find the "super secret plays" in Nagy's voluminous playbook that will make this engine purr.
The fact of the matter is that general manager Ryan Pace should be receiving the majority of criticism today, not Nagy. Because it is Pace's offensive pieces that have failed. Maybe Nagy isn't an offensive genius, but it's ridiculous to label him a bust while he's been handicapped with square pegs since Day 1 in Chicago.
So, where do the Bears go from here? As of Monday afternoon, the Bears don't have a starting quarterback. At least, not one whom Nagy is prepared to announce. Andy Dalton is hurt. Justin Fields is hurt and not ready for the full-time gig yet. So, third-stringer Nick Foles suddenly enters the conversation.
The Bears have a very winnable game at home next week against the Detroit Lions. For as bad as they are, though, the Lions have played three very competitive games up to this point. They just missed out on their first victory of the season after Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker kicked an NFL-record 66-yard field goal to win the game on Sunday.
In short, the Lions are not just going to come into Chicago, roll over and play dead. Their meatball coach, Dan Campbell, and his contingent of fiery assistants will have their guys ready to compete.
The big question this week for the Bears is: will Nagy have his offense much more prepared than he did against the Browns?
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Dr. Patrick Amoth's position has recently been advertised despite the fact that he held the office of Director-General for Health for three years in an acting capacity.
The Director-General for Health is one of the eight positions that the Public Service Commission announced and advertised for on Tuesday.
Dr. Amoth's chances of getting the job are practically eliminated by the announcement. While the Ministry of Devolution only has one position for a Secretary, Devolution Affairs, the Ministry of Health has posted seven job openings.
Directors of Health Management for the positions of family health and sanitation, clinical system, health systems, health products and technology, digital health, and sector performance, coordination and relations were among the additional positions announced by the CS Mutahi Kagwe-led ministry.
"Interested and qualified persons are required to make their application online through the Commission's website before July 4, 2022," the ad reads.
Dr. Amoth is a technical advisor to the CS. He also serves as the President of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board.
His diligent career started in 2001 at the Kiambu District Hospital. He later joined the government and has held a number of jobs there.
The trained obstetrician and gynecologist formerly worked in the Health ministry's Directorate of Public Health before being named the Acting Director-General. He took over for Dr. John Masasabi, who was appointed to the position in April 2019.
Members of Parliament questioned CS Kagwe earlier this year about the delay in Dr. Amoth's confirmation for the position. Aden Duale, a Garissa Township MP, questioned why the highly trained doctor hadn't yet been confirmed despite making progress on the global stage.
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"It is interesting that Dr Amoth gets recognized by WHO yet our own government does not see the critical position that he holds at the international arena," said the former Majority Leader in the National Assembly.
CS Kagwe replied, "The Human Resource appointment guidelines were changed to ensure the position is filled competitively. What this means is that the Cabinet Secretary has to place an advertisement inviting applications for the position."
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Charlton Heston with machine gun. Clear autograph.
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Heston's star burned at its brightest when DeMille cast him as the stern Moses in the lavish The Ten Commandments (1956). From there, Heston went on to headline numerous spectaculars which provided him the opportunity to play every one from John the Baptist to Michelangelo to El Cid to General "Chinese" Gordon. In 1959, Heston won an Academy Award for the title role in William Wyler's Ben Hur. By the mid-1960s, the reign of the epic film passed and Heston began appearing in westerns (Will Penny) and epic war dramas (Midway). He also did sci-fi films, the most famous of which were the campy satire Planet of the Apes (1968), its sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and the cult favorite Soylent Green (1973). The '70s brought Heston into a new kind of epic, the disaster film, and he appeared in three, notably Airport 1975.
Heston served six terms as the president of the Screen Actors Guild and also chaired the American Film Institute. Active in such charities as The Will Rogers Institute, he was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1977 Oscar ceremony. Known as a conservative Republican and proud member of the National Rifle Association, Heston worked closely with his long-time colleague and friend President Ronald Reagan as the leader of the president's task force on arts and the humanities.
Among his most enthusiastic critics is Michael Moore.


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My new venture into Sand Art starts tomorrow!
The van is packed and I'm ready to go do my first Sand Art booth tomorrow at the New York State Family Outdoor Sportsman show in Henrietta, NY. I'm actually doing two booths next to eachother; one for face painting and the other for sand art. My daughter and a friend are coming along to manage the sand art booth while I do the face painting. I'm curious to see which one is going to be more popular.
We did a practice set up on Wednesday on the driveway. Then we found out the weather is going to be bad all day at the event, so it's going to be moved inside. Trying to decide if we should still set up the canopy inside so we can hand up the signs or figure something else out. Thankfully, my husband is coming along to help us get set up. Hopefully people will still come out to the event in spite of the inclement weather.
To find out more about booking us for a Sand Art Party, go here.


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Kinshasa (/kɪnˈʃɑːsə/; French: [kɛ̃ʃaza]; formerly Léopoldville (French: Léopoldville or Dutch Leopoldstad (help·info))) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is beside the Congo River.
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What to do and see in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Best Places and Tips
Goma is the capital city of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. The lake and the two cities are in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift system. Goma lies only 13 to 18 km due south of the crater of the active Nyiragongo Volcano. The recent history of Goma has been dominated by the volcano and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, which in turn fuelled the First and Second Congo Wars. The aftermath of these events was still having effects on the city and its surroundings in 2010. The city was captured by rebels during the M23 rebellion in late 2012, but has since been retaken by government forces.
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Lubumbashi (former names: Élisabethville (French) and Elisabethstad (help·info) (Dutch)) in the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the second-largest city in the country, the largest being the capital, Kinshasa. Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, acting as a hub for many of the country's biggest mining companies. The copper-mining city serves as the capital of the relatively prosperous Katanga Province and is near the border with Zambia. Population estimates vary widely but average around 1.5 million.
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We haven't heard anything new from Haier since the Haier Chromebook 11e received Google Play Store support in October. The brand has helped bring cheaper Chromebooks almost three years ago. We also learned about its plan to peddle Android fridge in the Asian markets. At this week's CES, the consumer electronics and appliances brand has just introduced its plans for smart TVs that take advantage of Google's Android TV platform to make the good old television become smarter and ready for the demands of today's consumers.
This isn't the first time that Haier is releasing out such as there are Haier Chromecast TVs already available. Haier teamed up with the tech giant to bring more Android TV models to key markets all over the world.
A Haier Android TV is expected to deliver a smarter experience so you can watch more content from different sources all over the Internet. New TV models will be released in North America middle of 2018 powered by Android Oreo.
Haier America's President for Digital Products Group John Homlish said the company is excited to provide customers with the Android TV smart platform and Google Assistant built-in straight from Haier's latest TVs. You can access the Google Play Store for Android TV and enjoy several apps such as Netflix and YouTube TV so you can watch new TV shows, movies, videos, and millions of songs of different genres.
CES 2018 will be Haier's launching pad for the new smart TVs with built-in Google Assistant and Android TV.


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The getvfsent() function returns a pointer to the next vfstab structure in the file; so successive calls can be used to search the entire file.
The getvfsfile() function searches the file referenced by fp until a mount point matching file is found and fills vp with the fields from the line in the file.
The getvfsspec() function searches the file referenced by fp until a special device matching spec is found and fills vp with the fields from the line in the file. The spec argument will try to match on device type (block or character special) and major and minor device numbers. If it cannot match in this manner, then it compares the strings.
The getvfsany() function searches the file referenced by fp until a match is found between a line in the file and vref. A match occurs if all non-null entries in vref match the corresponding fields in the file.
Note that these functions do not open, close, or rewind the file.
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package koofrclient_test

import (
	"os"
	"strings"
	"testing"

	k "github.com/koofr/go-koofrclient"
	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)

var (
	client         *k.KoofrClient
	apiBase        string
	rootPath       string
	email          string
	password       string
	defaultMountId string
)

func TestKoofrclient(t *testing.T) {
	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)

	apiBase = os.Getenv("KOOFR_APIBASE")
	if apiBase == "" {
		t.Fatal("Missing KOOFR_APIBASE")
	}

	rootPath = os.Getenv("KOOFR_ROOTPATH")
	if rootPath == "" {
		t.Fatal("Missing KOOFR_ROOTPATH")
	}
	if !strings.HasPrefix(rootPath, "/") {
		rootPath = "/" + rootPath
	}

	email = os.Getenv("KOOFR_EMAIL")
	if email == "" {
		t.Fatal("Missing KOOFR_EMAIL")
	}

	password = os.Getenv("KOOFR_PASSWORD")
	if password == "" {
		t.Fatal("Missing KOOFR_PASSWORD")
	}

	client = k.NewKoofrClient(apiBase, true)

	err := client.Authenticate(email, password)

	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal("Koofr authorization failed")
	}

	mounts, err := client.Mounts()

	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal("Koofr listing mounts failed")
	}

	if len(mounts) == 0 {
		t.Fatal("Koofr mounts must not be empty")
	}

	for _, m := range mounts {
		if m.IsPrimary {
			defaultMountId = m.Id
		}
	}

	if defaultMountId == "" {
		t.Fatal("Koofr primary mount not found")
	}

	RunSpecs(t, "Koofrclient Suite")
}

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Leading Under Crisis: The Decision-Making Process of Texas School Superintendents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Obeng, Akua Anyei
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12262/267
During the COVID-19 pandemic, school district administrators faced significant obstacles due to the crisis's social and health impacts on staff members, students, and families. As the global pandemic presented new threats to school leaders, operational difficulties remained. The combination of old and new threats created additional complications for many school environments, making it more difficult for school leaders to respond to daily changes. The study was an investigation of the correlation between the self-reported leadership practices of leaders of large and small- to medium-sized districts. It was an assessment of how demographic factors and school district size influenced school district administrators' decision-making processes during the global shutdown. Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practice Inventory and Hadley et al.'s Crisis Leader Efficacy in Assessing and Deciding scale were the instruments used to measure school administrators' self-reported leadership abilities and performances during the crisis. Random stratified sampling from 800 Texas school districts produced a sample of 60 participants whose survey responses underwent analysis in SPSS to measure participants' leadership skills. The study's findings contribute to the literature on crisis decision-making to equip and leverage leaders' ability during sudden, unpredictable events. Participants' responses led to recommendations for future crises that were not limited to learning from the past but to designing a crisis decision-making framework suitable to a constantly evolving environment.
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What Happened to DC's Lesbian Spaces?
Local historian Bonnie Morris talks about the loss of gay bars in the District and the "mainstreaming" of gay culture.
Written by Harrison Smith
| Published on June 26, 2015
Omega, in Dupont Circle, closed in 2013. Though not a lesbian bar, it's one of several gay spaces in the District that have shuttered in the last few years. Photo by Flick user NCinDC.
In January, Phase 1, a lesbian bar in Capitol Hill that's been open since 1970, appeared to close for good. The closure turned out to be only temporary, allowing the bar to upgrade its sound system and lighting, but until it finally reopened in late March the future of one of DC's last lesbian spaces seemed murky at best.
A slate of gay bars and spaces, including the Hung Jury, Apex, Omega, and Remington's, have closed in DC in the last few years, but many of the city's lesbian spaces—Lost and Found, The Other Side, Pier 9—had closed years earlier.
Earlier this week, we spoke with historian Bonnie Morris about what the loss of gay and lesbian spaces means for DC's LGBT community, the "mainstreaming" of gay culture, and why lesbian bars have had a tougher time than bars catering to gay men. Morris, a part-time women's studies professor at Georgetown and GW, grew up in Bethesda and went to college at American University in the early eighties. She's also a board member at the Rainbow History Project, a group chronicling LGBT history in Washington.
You were in a panel discussion at the Library of Congress a few weeks ago, "Lost Lesbian Spaces." Can you explain what that loss is, exactly?
It's very generational, specific to people who came out in the seventies and eighties when, although DC was better than most states, there weren't very many protections for gay and lesbian people.
There were two very different communities then, with far more places for gay men to congregate, including some really wonderful bars, restaurants, and clubs. Women primarily had Phase 1 on Capitol Hill, The Other Side, Lost and Found, and the Pier 9, near what's now the Nationals baseball stadium. Tracks, the dancefloor, really brought everyone together—even my mom went dancing with me. That was really a good place to be kinetic. You didn't go there to have a cultural conversation.
The Hung Jury was really popular, beginning in the mid-'80s, and closed in the early years of the twentieth century. Apex in Dupont Circle was really popular for women's nights. But you could essentially walk to multiple places from any Metro stop. When I came out the drinking age was 19, so there was much more of a floating university population, and then everything changed really quickly. A lot of people's formative memories might have been in any one of these bars, or—if they weren't in a relationship or an activist—they might have seen the full range of DC's population there.
It's really hard to reconstitute what some of these places were like. What's intriguing is two big changes that my college students talk about. There's so much getting together in cyberspace, you don't really need a physical site, you don't really need a particular place to get into that serves your population, your tribe.
And people are coming out earlier, while they're still in school, often before they can drive, so they're not really making it to spaces like these.
If you are young and have this online community, though, is it really that important that there be bars or bookstores or other physical spaces?
I think it is. I'm actually writing a book right now, The Disappearing L, about the vanishing of lesbian spaces. Having discussions with people across the country—artists, musicians, activists—we all feel that having a place to go to is very important, say, when there's a negative event, like a hate crime or a loss, or a celebration. Let's say the Supreme Court affirms the right to marry; or there's, say, the murder of Matthew Shepard. People could go to their gay bar or their gay bookstore and immediately start organizing. You can do that online, but being able to hug and cry, jump up and down and party—in a lot of ways, those spaces, although they weren't maybe meant as "you have to be a progressive activist to come here," they serve to bring people into the larger meeting of advocacy. I don't want to say the "r" word, recruit. I mean that you would be moved to be more than just a party animal by encountering people that were there.
For women it was particularly important, dealing with sexual harassment on the job and so forth, to have a women-only space. For lesbians the idea of having a women's bookstore or a women's bar was to have a place to go where you wouldn't have guys trying to hit on you, which was commonplace in social life elsewhere. And also finding a literature or a cultural currency that was very specific to what lesbians experience. Lesbians were not trying to dress up to attract gays; they were dealing with things like low pay and custody battles, and possibly lack of access to a partner in a hospital in the same way gay men were, but women were far more likely to be nurses, social workers, intimately involved with personal care but suffering the same biases that gay people were. So these were places that you could do a lot of strategic checking-in on what kind of outrageous backlash we needed to address, and if you were hurt and upset by those things you could have a drink.
But if you were trying to get sober, having a bookstore or a site that was not based around alcohol was super, super important. In a lot of ways, women's bookstores and Lambda Rising really saved lives, because you could browse and be in an environment that affirmed you, and you did not have to be nursing a gin and tonic. Moreover, for women there was a whole cultural movement that advanced that vibe: women's music performance. Concerts and festivals. Any age could go, and you would hear a great entertainer who would rouse the audience to be more of an activist but would also sing music that affirmed your relationship. And you sure weren't hearing that anywhere on the radio.
The interesting thing for someone like me is that while women went out to dance at women's bars, women's bars did not play "lesbian music." No matter how hard people tried, mostly it was the same Madonna everywhere you went. So what the bars were playing was mostly music by straight allies, gays, and disco. So women would buy women's music and listen to it at home or in the car or at concerts, and being able to get that in a bookstore meant you could get everything to outfit your home, and literature and art that affirmed your life, in just a couple of places. In my neighborhood—I live on Connecticut Avenue—pretty much all the bookstores, except Kramerbooks, vanished within a year or two. It wasn't a particular anti-gay wave: we had a mystery bookstore, a used bookstore, a pride bookstore, and Lambda Rising. You can have a wonderful experience at Kramerbooks, but it's not specifically gay. So there isn't that sense of knowing you're going to see other people like you.
One of the more poignant things I associate with the big pride marches held in DC—I missed the one in '79, but I marched in '87, '93, and 2000—is you would see people from all over the country flocking to Lambda Rising or, if they were women, Lammas Books. You'd see all these folks with their Lambda Rising bags, T-shirts, and bumper stickers; they would just load up. My whole neighborhood would be filled with folks who were doing the very beginning of gay tourism. And that was still at a point when you weren't necessarily going to receive a warm welcome, except maybe in Amsterdam or Provincetown. So DC, during the various marches, was a place where the physical sites—the dance clubs, the bookstores—were full of people experiencing what it was like to see a bunch of happy gay people. So I think there's something to be said for spaces where you went where you were happy or sad, where you knew you would see other people processing the same emotions.
Then it started to shift a little bit in 2001. I became involved in spoken-word poetry slams that were pretty adjunct to gay culture. So Mothertongue, which lasted from 2001 to 2013 or so, was held at the Black Cat and was a pretty lesbian, bi, women's spoken-word event. It was just packed, packed with hundreds of young lesbian writers and poets—black, white, Asian. We would migrate from reading work to going over to the gay bar Chaos, which had a women's night Wednesday night, and eventually a drag king show. So many of the same women were beginning to do two different kinds of performance art, poetry slams and drag king. Those became huge in Washington, with competitions and prize money. Mother Tongue's big annual event was an anti-Valentine's Day slam every February, with prize money for whoever did the best poem for being broken up or stomped on—it couldn't be about successful love. [Laughs.] So you had a literary community, a lot of young MA grad students in poetry and fine arts, and a very literate, educated, culture of lesbian activists. You had this readymade population that showed up at some of the same events, but none of that was attached to a permanent bar or a permanent club. Drag kings performed at Phase 1, which also had open mics, but it was supposed to be a bar that anyone dropped in on, so it couldn't have entertainment events every night of the week. So eventually these floating communities also lost their homes. Chaos shut down, the Drag Kings have floated around, and [earlier this year] Phase 1 closed [for renovations]. So where do lesbians go? You got me.
What other lesbian-specific cultural spaces are left, besides Phase 1?
There are a number of groups in places like Takoma Park, where you're more likely to find social groups, women who go out and dance together. There are a lot of affinity groups organized through social media, like Nice Jewish Girls, which go out and do social events.
But as for physical spaces?
Yeah. There are a lot of queer poetry readings that are run through Split This Rock—a progressive, very LGBT poetry group that uses Busboys and Poets—including an LGBT spoken-word event called Capturing Fire that's run by Regie Cabico. Mothertongue just couldn't get enough people to commit to getting a space or to have a board.
I think what's happened is in the mainstreaming of gay culture a lot of people got married and settled down, and the DC community is sort of haves and have nots. There's a lot of affluent high-powered lawyers and government folks working on gay issues who live in the suburbs, and then there's folks who are really struggling to get support services and medication and housing. Their issues are very different. Then somewhere in the middle are people like me, women's studies professors who are trying to historicize very recent history, which I think will be more interesting to people in another 10 or 20 years.
You think the mainstreaming of gay culture has been one of the main reasons so many of these spaces have closed?
Sure. I don't know if folks just aren't aware of what's out there, or they didn't feel like they had to go to a specific gay bar—I think people have very specific taste now. We're in the era of the Food Network and Anthony Bourdain; people want to go out to restaurants and bars that have something cool or chichi that isn't just that we're all gay here. And in fact, I'm sorry to say, back in the day a lot of gay bars were pretty crummy, not welcoming or clean. Their restaurant quality was negligible. Now, because you're not being afraid of being asked to leave because you're a "homo" or picked on, you can go wherever you like. I go to lots of happy hours that are very mixed—straight, gay, bi—and people are really there because they want to try the basil-infused drinks or whatever. I think that's very much DC. In other cities I've gone to some really wonderful old bars. I think England is an example where you have traditional gay pubs that will go strong for a really, really long time. I think in the US we have a different relationship to the neighborhood bar, and we also, it must be said, have been on a health kick where a lot of people have given up alcohol and smoking and just don't want to go out drinking every night. I think there's a lot of young people that do. But it's hard to say. I think the mainstreaming of gay culture has in part—well, we're a victim of our own success. We don't need to hide, so we don't need places to hide in.
Can you foresee a time in which there aren't any gay bars or bookstores?
Yeah, I do. I think that's happening in a lot of cities. Until quite recently there used to be a women's bookstore in every state and women's music festivals in every state, including Alaska and Hawaii. There were lots of gay bookstores. But this is a whole other phenomenon, too—because of the shift to reading on glass, bookstores have really taken a hit. Will gay spaces become museumlike? I think what's hard to see is that there's also been a long tradition of house parties, particularly in African-American culture, and floating events like raves. I think locations like Provincetown, Key West, Greenwich Village will continue to be popular.
But I do think it's important to say that we can afford to be thoughtful and critical, but if you're coming out in Mississippi etc., it's still a godsend—haha—if you have a chance to go into a gay bookstore or a gay restaurant that's really all about you. It's so inconsistent in the United States. And it's inconsistent even in places that are urban. Obviously you can be gay in Orange County, where you're right next to LA, but you can be in a very right-wing community. You're in a high-density population area that goes from left wing to right wing on the freeway. So it's not fair just to say, If you've come from Kansas to Provincetown, you've found heaven.
As physical spaces go, do you have a sense of whether what's happening in DC is different from what's happening in other major US cities?
I think it's similar. The Park Service is marking new national historic landmarks through an LGBT initiative, but we can't really go around and put purple flags everywhere there was a gay disco (although I would love to). A lot of people have a personal attachment to bars that were never really great shakes as institutions. There was a place called Rascals down the block from me on Connecticut Avenue where I had one of the hottest nights in my entire life as a teenager—but it was never a bar that was particularly noble or brilliant. It's closed, and now I see it all the time and it's like some kind of shoe store or something. But the thing that's happening nationally is similar to what happened to the black community. (Obviously there are people who identify as both black and gay, to be clear.) In the years of segregation, you had black-owned businesses and black-owned baseball franchises and all of that because you couldn't belong to or go to other places. And then when that changed, people stopped going to the black-owned ball game or restaurant, unless you really had a loyal neighborhood clientele. It's the same thing [in the gay community]. With integration, the old independent joints vanish. Some of that is because people believe it's better to go with a nationally known brand, better to have a chain restaurant than a gay restaurant. People will go with the familiar, or they think it improves the neighborhood to have a big shop or restaurant rather than a gay bar. Or frankly the people who own or manage the independent places just can't afford the overhead. That was true of music festivals.
We can rattle off the names of gay bars in DC, bars that seem to cater more to gay men than women. Why is that? Why are there so few lesbian bars, comparatively?
I think traditionally, young men have come out earlier and had more experiences with what we would now call hooking up, and have been more involved in the late-night party scene. Women have had less money, which is still true, and have gone out less because of the discretionary income thing. Women have tended to pair off and settle down; although that's a stereotype, there's a grain of truth to it. Their going-out years have been fewer, and that has made it harder for women's organizations to sustain, because women don't go out as much and they don't drink as much. I think women have met one another in other places, sometimes vacationing or through work, and are possibly more interested in meeting through online dating where you can find someone based on similar interests. There's also a different kind of need to find women in alternative sites; women in the military were often so closeted and afraid, and they'd try to have immersion in a specifically lesbian space on their time off. I think that women still like to go out dancing, and they like to do so in a place where they don't have guys pinching them or whatever, but women have just not had access to the real estate that guys have enjoyed. A lot of it really is economic, or it's the community where the bars are, or it's that women have kids and don't stay out as late. And the women's movement has changed. The movement of the seventies, and into the eighties and nineties, made women want to be with other women for political reasons. So they put their lesbian dollars into supporting women's businesses, and they don't do that now. That feminist imperative has waned, unfortunately.
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Are you the type to stop and smell the roses?
I have to admit that when we go for a hike in my family, I'm the one who always gets left behind. Not only do I smell the roses, I check for insects, admire the colors and probably take a photograph or two. That's why I really enjoyed Janet Halfmann's new picture book, Grandma Is a Slowpoke , illustrated by Michele Coxon.
Told in the first person from the point of view of a young girl, this sweet story takes the reader on a walk through the woods. The girl is eager to be off, but Grandma is a slowpoke. She wants to stop and observe the animals around her. They discover much as they watch squirrels, geese and even ants along the way.
Even though the story might seem simple on the surface, it actually runs deep with meaning. It is a commentary on the importance of slowing down in our fast, fast, rush, rush society. It is also a gentle commentary on what time spent with grandmothers might have to offer. With the increasing fragmentation of families, our culture may be forgetting the enormous value of a little quality time with an older relative.
The back matter includes two pages of additional animal facts about the animals encountered in the story.
Grandma is a Slowpoke is perfect for sharing at story time, at bedtime, and any time in between. With so much to discover in these pages, be prepared to read it again and again.
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This week the spotlight is on children's books featuring African-American ballerinas. Today we have a historical-fiction picture book kindled by the life of ballerina Janet Collins: A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream by Kristy Dempsey and illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
Told from the point of view of a young girl who dreams of being a ballerina, this book reveals the importance of seeing role models who are able to succeed. In this case the role model is Janet Collins, who became a prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera House in the 1950s.
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This book has gotten a lot of positive feedback. Right now on GoodReads A Dance Like Starlight has 116 reviews, which is almost unheard of for a relatively new children's book. Everyone raves about Floyd Cooper's illustrations, as well. You can catch a glimpse at the video trailer on Dreamscape.
A Dance Like Starlight encourages young children to dream big, regardless of their circumstances. It is a wonderful message to share.


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The exterior changes are subtle, with the most noticeable being the new grille. The 2023 model got a mesh patterned faux grille, while the 2024 model trades that for a smooth panel. This change makes the I-Pace look more like an EV than before. The vertical blades alongside the grille are now finished in the same Atlas Grey as the grille.
The front bumper trim, lower door garnish, and the rear diffuser are all now painted in body colour instead of gloss black. Jaguar says it "serves to simplify and refine the design." All models with 22-inch wheels get a small tailgate spoiler to enhance the car's sporty look.
Two new paint colours bring a satin finish to the I-Pace for the first time. They're both grey, though, although the matte silver look is growing in popularity. There are new wheel designs and new wheel finishes to round out the changes.
The electric driveline is unchanged, so the 2024 Jaguar I-Pace continues to make 394 hp and 512 lb-ft of torque from its dual-motor system and has standard all-wheel drive. With a 90-kWh battery pack underneath, the electric range should remain at an estimated 381 km.
New trim levels should help make the 2024 I-Pace more accessible to buyers thanks to a lower price. The 2023 model was sold in Canada only as the HSE trim from $102,800. For 2024, Jaguar adds R-Dynamic S, R-Dynamic SE, and R-Dynamic HSE trims. While pricing isn't yet available, we expect at least the first two to be lower. Expect the new model to go on sale later this year.
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