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Polk man killed after pointing stapler at deputy
By: WFTS Webteam, Jacqueline Ingles
A Polk County man was fatally shot by a deputy after leading law enforcement on a chase, telling witnesses he was armed with a gun and pointing an object believed to be a firearm at a deputy, Sheriff Grady Judd said.
When deputies found him they discovered what that object actually was: A stapler.
Dominic Fuller, of 3800 U.S. 17-92, Lot 6, in Haines City, was found dead in a home after a deputy fired at him five times, according to Polk County Sheriff's Office.
"He goes by the nickname Capone and he's very proud of that," Sheriff Judd said.
Deputies said about 7:15 p.m. Monday law enforcement received a call regarding a suspicious vehicle and suspected illegal drug activity on Delon Court in Auburndale. According to deputies, the caller stated several people were coming in and out of the residence.
Corky Stewart was the man who phoned police.
When deputies arrived, they say they made contact with Fuller, who was sitting in a car. Fuller took off running.
A perimeter was established, including K-9 teams and the PCSO helicopter.
"Very scary, we were told, lock down, armed, lock down," recalled Stewart. "It was horrible, we had armed helicopters flying over us."
A search of the vehicle in which Fuller was sitting when deputies arrived confirmed it was stolen from Osceola County on July 18, the sheriff said.
Deputies said they found a handgun inside the car. According to witnesses, Fuller has been driving the car for at least the past month.
Fuller entered a camper parked behind 1237 Dixie Drive and woke up a sleeping woman within it, the sheriff said. The woman, led him outside and went into the home in front of the camper.
"I was terrified," the woman told ABC Action News. She asked not to be identified. "I was laying down he was straddling over me, shaking me, he had a medallion that was flinging in my face and he was shaking me saying, 'Help me! Help me!'"
Fuller asked the woman for a ride or a bicycle, according to law enforcement.
She was able to lure him outside of the house where there was another member of the household.
Neither of the victims cooperated with Fuller, so he took off running again, deputies said.
While running away, Fuller was seen by witnesses trying handles on cars and doors. Deputies said he was heard by at least one witnesses yelling, "I have a gun."
Deputies in the area began searching a home on Dixie Drive to find Fuller, having been told by witnesses that he was trying to break into the home and yelling he was armed.
Around 8:50 p.m., Deputy Sheriff Carlos Valle spotted Fuller standing in the doorway of 1200 Dixie Drive.
Deputy Valle, according to the sheriff, ordered Fuller to show his hands several times but he refused.
As Deputy Valle walked up to Fuller, Fuller went into the home and slammed the door. Deputies surrounding the home say they saw Fuller run to a window at the side of the house and the climb out.
At the time, Deputy Sheriff Ricky Booher shined the flashlight mounted atop his firearm at Fuller, deputies said. Fuller then climbed back into the window and retreated into the house.
"He set up the perfect storm himself and that is what led him to be shot and killed last night," said Sheriff Grady Judd.
Deputies said they continued to shout commands at Fuller to surrender.
Sheriff Judd said Fuller opened a window, kept ignoring commands to show his hands and then raised his right hand toward Deputy Gabriel Reveron and Deputy Valle. In his hand was what appeared to be a black and chrome handgun. It was actually a stapler.
"We can only surmise that he wanted us to kill him. That he wanted to die by suicide by law enforcement officer," Judd explained.
Deputy Reveron fired five rounds at the suspect, Judd said.
Fuller retreated back into the house and slammed the door.
The PCSO SWAT Team and Crisis Negotiation Team responded to scene and spent the next two hours trying to make contact with Fuller and arrest him.
When he didn't respond, deputies went into the home and found Fuller deceased from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest.
"Wow oh wow, I didn't know that," said the woman Fuller allegedly attacked in bed.
Deputy Reveron is now on paid administrative leave which is protocol.
He was hired on the force in 2010.
As for Fuller, who hails from Indianapolis, arrest records show he has priors in Indiana, California and Florida.
Arrests range from driving on a suspended license to battery and robbery.


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Aside from these two very important things, my dad did little in the way of estate planning.
Now my mother is experiencing a health crisis, and was recently admitted to an assisted-living facility. My brothers and I have been urging Mom to get her financial affairs in order, and over the past few months the family has had a crash course in estate planning.
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CloudTrade: P2P Sharing for Cellphones
We're planning to catch up with CloudTrade at the Digital Music Forum East later this week, for a hands-on preview of the peer-to-peer cellphone service the company claims will allow users to share music, videos, and images with each other, cellphone-to-cellphone. Users can already sign up for 1GB storage of storage, to which music and […]
We're planning to catch up with CloudTrade at the Digital Music Forum East later this week, for a hands-on preview of the peer-to-peer cellphone service the company claims will allow users to share music, videos, and images with each other, cellphone-to-cellphone.
Users can already sign up for 1GB storage of storage, to which music and other media can be uploaded from your computer or phone. Log into the service on your web-capable phone, and you'll be able to download the stuff in your locker directly onto your phone. At some point in March, Cloudtrade users will be able to share media with their friends through the service (you'll be able to download songs from your friends' lockers, upload photos to share from your phone, and so on).
In the meantime, here are a couple video demos that show how CloudTrade works.
General functionality includes uploading and downloading from your phone:
The upcoming sharing feature will let users browse, search, and download from each others' media storage lockers:
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Gymhawks picked to finish 4th in Big Ten, first meet to be televised Friday
The 25th-ranked Iowa women's gymnastics team has been picked to finish fourth in the Big Ten Women's Gymnastics Preseason Poll in a vote of the league's 10 head coaches. That was announced Wednesday by the Big Ten office.
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Tan Yanying, Xue Liang, Zhang Yanning, Zhu Xiaoping. Control Strategies for Multi-UAV Simultaneous Arrival under Communication Topology Changing[J]. Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2018, 36(3): 565-570.
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Abstract: Aimed at changing in communication topology due to partial link/node failure in the battlefield, and for satisfying the weakest connectivity criteria of consensus algorithm, the strategy of judging in real time whether the communication topology among UAVs has a directed spanning tree or sub-tree and the strategy of acquiring the expected minimum partial link change suggestion for the topology containing a directed spanning tree again are designed. Based on the above strategies and selecting ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) as coordinated variable, the consensus algorithm ensures that after some time all the members or part members of the UAVs arrive simultaneously. The strategy is put forword which the UAVS are controlled arriving simultaneously on the planed virtual sub-goal waypoints one by one along the flight path. Through the strategy, the UAVs fly together soon and arrive simultaneously at last. It is helpful to improve the survival rate of UAVs and preserve the communication connectivity of UAVs which is usually distance-dependent. The simulation results show that the above strategies are effective.
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Chairman of the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation Henry Awong.
Chairman of the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation (CTTRC) Henry Awong has confirmed that the corporation is without a doctor. After receiving several calls earlier this week on this issue Guardian Media questioned Awong on Friday morning as he was about to enter the CTTRC's offices at Railway Road, Couva.
Awong said the contract of the last doctor expired a month ago and the Ministry of Local Government has failed to appoint a new doctor.
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Awong said, "That is severely hampering the operations of the CTTRC especially at this time when the coronavirus is in the air. I think it will come to T&T sooner than later because of the Chinese population moving back and forth. The main function of the doctor is to advise the council on issues regarding public health and without the doctor the council is without information on the status of public health in the region and how we can take preventative measures to address public health issues."
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The Design story began in December 1968. Tony Smith was a young songwriter who worked at the BBC Gramophone Library in London. He was seeking some backing singers for a demo session and enlisted his BBC colleague, John Mulcahy-Morgan and his friend Geoff Ramseyer, who were both members of a semi-pro rock group called Free Expression. He also asked Gabrielle Field, who brought along her best friend, Kathy Manuell. The two girls grew up close to each other in Welling, Kent, and went to a convent school together.
After Design was joined by Barry Alexander, a songwriter with the Beatles' Apple company, they all moved into a basement flat in Earls Court, so they could rehearse every evening after work. What was it like living and working together?
"We were brothers and sisters – a real family," says Gabrielle. "I don't remember many arguments, we were respectful of each other's space. We always put our music first and shared love and laughter. Falling asleep with wonderful guitar sessions going on seemingly all night are a vivid early memory."
Then came their first break. Adrian Kerridge from Lansdowne Studios heard their work and offered them a recording contract, signing them to his production company Motive Music International. Within a year enough material had been recorded for an album of (mainly) Tony Smith's compositions. Unusually the vocals were recorded prior to the backing musicians, as this was a way of preserving the unique vocal sound that the group had developed.
Motive had American contacts and as a result Epic Records in the USA offered the group a two-album deal and a $25,000 advance, something very unusual for a British group back then. Here in Britain, radio and TV performances began to build up their name. But then came a problem. Shortly before the album was released, Tony Smith was taken ill and decided not to continue performing, preferring to write and be around the recording studio. A replacement was found in the lead guitarist from Free Expression, Jeff Matthews, who had already been working with Design for some time.
The group started to appear frequently on television and over the next five years they would be on more than fifty TV shows, becoming the most televised group in Britain. They recorded three more albums, Tomorrow Is So Far Away, Day Of The Fox and In Flight, toured with Gilbert O'Sullivan, and starred in cabaret and at the London Palladium.
Then in autumn 1974, Gabrielle Field and Geoff Ramseyer decided to leave Design. The group continued as a four-piece, releasing a fifth album By Design, but it was never quite the same and Design finally broke up at the end of 1976.
Gabrielle looks back fondly now on her days with Design. "So many memories of late nights creating harmonies," she says, "early mornings in the studio or photoshoots, very long days together working on TV shows, sharing meals at home or on the road, evenings on stage in cabaret and concerts, meeting many fabulous people and talented showbiz characters."
Design's music has often been described as British sunshine pop and Gabrielle agrees that it sums up the group perfectly. "I think it's a charming description of that happy time when the world seemed full of hope and happiness and simplicity."
Tony Smith would relocate to France and is still writing and performing; Barry went into radio and then publishing as a writer and editor; Gabrielle settled in Australia, where she created a family act with her five children as pirates; Kathy continued to write and produce music and now lives in Malta; John moved to the USA and a career in the lighting industry; and Jeff would resume his career as a chartered quantity surveyor. Very sadly, Geoff Ramseyer died in 1975, only six months after leaving Design.
Since 2011 Barry has overseen a reissue programme of Design's first 4 albums, along with non-album single tracks and unreleased rarities. 2019 was the fiftieth anniversary of the group's first recording session in April 1969, and Market Square released a CD compilation, Children Of The Mist: The Best Of Design, containing the most popular tracks from their albums and some previously unreleased recordings and demos. All of this is lovingly put together by Barry, who also manages the Design Facebook page, regularly providing group members like myself with photos and memories from Design's past.
Design, in my humble opinion, never made a bad or substandard recording, so restricting my choice to just 10 tracks was challenging. In the end my selections all come from the Children Of The Mist compilation and all can be found on YouTube.
Willow Stream from their debut album Design was also their first US release. Variety magazine described the song, written by Tony Smith, as "a smooth flowing pop-rocker with an emphasis on 5th Dimension-like harmonies". The album would be the group's only US LP release, with one Italian website describing it as "the Holy Grail of soft rock".
The Minstrel's Theme also comes from that debut album and was written by Barry, who post-Tony Smith would emerge as the main songwriter within the group. He had penned it during his early days with Apple and was about his girlfriend "sweet Josephine, so fair and so serene". A lovely song, but by the time Design committed it to vinyl she had married someone else!
The Jet Song (see top clip) – this track from their second album Tomorrow Is So Far Away is a fabulous cover of a song by US outfit The Groop. In my view Design deliver a vocal tour de force with a punchy arrangement characterised by brass orchestration and vocal ba-bas in a classic slice of sunshine pop. It was their second single release (April 1971).
The Time Has Come, again from the second album and also written by Barry about his ex-girlfriend Josephine. A truly beautiful song with a wonderful string arrangement by Syd Dale that just gets you every time.
Love Is comes again from Barry's pen and is from that second album. A bright, upbeat number with a real positive vibe and wonderful counter-harmonies. And the lyric:
Love is a feeling of floating on air,
Love is the warm gentle smile that you wear,
Love is the way that you're always near.
One Sunny Day is a non-album single release from July 1973. John and Geoff sang lead vocals and the song, by Ed Welch, had a strong chorus. Like so much of their output it got good radio airplay and lots of good reviews, but again inexplicably, no chart success.
Day Of The Fox is Geoff's song, and he takes lead vocal on a jaunty folk-type piece that demonstrates just what a range of styles in which the group could sing. From their third album Day Of The Fox (1973).
If You Think About Me is also from Day Of The Fox. Once more some great uplifting ba-ba harmonies – Oh I didn't mean to hurt you and I still love you so. Again written by Barry.
Wherever You May Go comes from their fourth album In Flight (1974). Although Barry was the main songwriter, John Mulcahy-Morgan contributed some fine songs and this is one of them, a great up-tempo number.
I'll Be Back Again is yet again one of Barry's tunes and comes from the fourth album In Flight. Gabrielle and Kathy take lead vocal on this one and it's a gorgeous song and performance. Now I need you near, I'll be back again.
Why Design never troubled the charts is as baffling as it is unfair.
Design official website
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Design biography (Wikipedia)
David Pearson has lived all his life in Glasgow. Married with two sons, he was an English teacher for 40 years. Since retiring in 2011 he has written a number of items for a range of publications, including 55 Life, Northern Echo, Record Collector and Shindig. Lover of 60s/70s pop, especially anything with a strong harmony sound.
Posted on Aug 2, 2020 in 70s, Folk Rock, ROCK/POP
Colin Duncan
It takes a lot of work to get those harmonies so perfect. I really know little about Sunshine Pop, although we did once own a 5th Dimension cassette, so I'll need to explore not just Design, but the whole genre. Thanks very much, David.
Roger Abbott
I had the fortunate pleasure of meeting Gabrielle in 1978 with her former partner Steve Shooting-star. We actually performed together in my living room and recorded some songs including one of my own called 'Look through my window'. As a result, I had the honour of hearing first hand Gabe's amazing vocal range whose resonant frequency could almost shatter a wine glass! I still have the recording on an old cassette tape but unfortunately as yet have been unable to convert it into a CD format and share our rendition.
What a lovely article. I discovered Design quite by accident a few years ago, I was investigating how artists in the early 70s would plunder the early Beatles solo albums for material to cover, and found Design's delightful and unusual version of McCartney's "Man we was lonely" which is such an odd song to cover, but Design's vocal harmonies made it their own. I was intrigued and dived headlong into their albums and loved their music. I've always loved the sunshine pop sound but as you say there were very few British practitioners of that sound (maybe only Harmony Grass came closest). Loved this article – perfect choices!
David Pearson
Thanks for your kind words Rob. I love sunshine pop and get frequently irked at folk who speak disparagingly of the genre. Groups like Spanky & Our Gang, Harper's Bizarre, Cowsills etc turned out some fine recordings with inventive arrangements and polished production. As far as other British examples go, anything by Tony Rivers (Castaways, Harmony Grass etc) is always worth a listen. Thanks again and best wishes.
Michael Roche
I simply love the ear-caressing sound of DESIGN.
I urge you all to treat yourselves and delve into their music.
You certainly won't be sorry!


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Italian rights to The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff sold to Atmosphere Libri!
We are very happy to announce that Atmosphere Libri, an independent publisher of both Italian and quality translated fiction, has acquired Italian rights to Maresi (Schildts & Söderströms 2014) as well as two upcoming titles in The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff. Rights to Maresi are now sold in 11 territories!
"Maresi deals with the compelling theme of human identity and ego; of finding yourself and your own purpose. This is an exciting topic for any young reader."
– Mauro Di Leo, publisher, Atmosphere Libri
In addition to being awarded the 2014 Finlandia Junior Prize, the highest accolade given to a Finnish children's or YA book, Maresi was nominated for the 2015 Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize.
Naondel, the prequel to Maresi and Part II in The Red Abbey Chronicles, will arrive in Finnish bookstores next year. The UK edition of Maresi will be published by Pushkin Press in January of 2016.
Praise from international publishers:
"I was blown away by Maresi, quite simply. Maria Turtschaninoff has written an incredibly original, vivid and gripping story with appeal not only for YA readers but far beyond…I've no doubt that Maresi and The Red Abbey Chronicles as a whole will become classics of the genre."
– Adam Freudenheim, Publisher and Managing Director, Pushkin Press/Pushkin Children's Books
"Maresi is a powerful, intelligent and utterly thrilling adventure story with a strong and timely feminist message. Set in a beautifully drawn fantasy world, this story is as compelling as it is challenging, and I devoured it in one sitting."
– Daniel Seton, Commissioning Editor, Pushkin Press/Pushkin Children's Books
– Stefanie Brösigke, Junior Editor, Heyne Verlag, Germany
Maresi, Book I: The Red Abbey is a refuge for women and girls where everyone pursues their own areas of interest. Maresi prefers to spend her time reading and learning. Everything changes when the frightened Jai arrives on the island. She has seen her sister get buried alive for speaking to a young man, and her father and a crew of thugs are after her. Maresi and her friends have to fight to defend both Jai and their community.
A prequel to Maresi, Book II, Naondel (Schildts & Söderströms) will tell the story of the First Sisters, and how they came to flee a harem in the faraway Eastern Lands and eventually establish the Red Abbey.
BELGIUM, Clavis
CANADA (French), Editions de la Bagnole/Groupe Livres Quebecor Media
ITALY, Atmosphere Libri
NETHERLANDS, Clavis
TURKEY, Altin Kitaplar
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Food Stamp, WIC, Debit Terminals Down at Many Commissaries
Military.com | By Amy Bushatz
Some stateside commissaries are unable to process food stamps, and some WIC and debit card payments after the security certificate in store PIN pad terminals expired Dec. 7, shutting down the system.
The problem, which was not a data security breach and did not put any patron payment information at risk, impacted Defense Commissary Agency stores as well as some civilian grocers across the U.S., officials said.
"On December 7 thousands of older model PIN pads produced by Hypercom were unable to process debit card, EBT and electronic WIC transactions because the terminals' cryptographic certificate expired," Kevin Robinson, a DeCA spokesman, said in a statement. "As of Dec. 14, approximately 60 percent of DeCA's total PIN pads are able to process all of our customer's electronic transactions requiring a PIN."
The problem has the biggest impact on commissary shoppers who want to use electronic benefits transfer (EBT) food stamp benefits.
Stores where terminals are down can still run debit cards as credit cards, but are unable to give cash back. They can also process Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) transactions on paper. However, patrons who want to use food stamp benefits will need to do so at a different store or wait until the system is repaired.
Commissary shoppers used $130.6 million in food stamps, officially known as the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), in fiscal 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the Defense Department. About $29 million in WIC benefits were redeemed that same year.
Commissary officials said they expect the systems to be completely operational by Christmas.
The payment terminals, manufactured by Hypercom, contained security certificates from 2004 that were good for 10 years. But that company has since been absorbed by another, Equinox Payments, and the certificate's expiration was "unforeseen," Equinox Payments officials said.
"While we did not produce these terminals, we have an ongoing business relationship with many of these customers and have provided repair and maintenance services for certain of these models in the past, and therefore have the capability to repair them," Stuart Taylor, vice president of payment solutions for Equinox said in a statement.
Officials with Mazon, an anti-hunger organization, said service member's best option at rural bases where no other grocery stores are easily accessible is heading to a local food bank.
The terminal problem highlights the need for the Defense Department to reform its Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance (FSSA) benefit, which is designed to replace food stamps for military families, officials said.
Unlike SNAP, which requires users spend the benefit on a limited list of items, FSSA is given to troops as a paycheck plus-up. Officials with Mazon said the Defense Department can make the program more user friendly by making enrollment automatic for qualifying families and raising the maximum income allowed to qualify.
"If that program were functioning better, families that are eligible wouldn't have to worry about the SNAP terminals going down," said Michelle Stuffmann, a spokesman for Mazon.
Only 285 military families used the FSSA program in 2013, military officials said.
-- Amy Bushatz can be reached at amy.bushatz@monster.com
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import net.sf.mmm.client.ui.gwt.widgets.Fieldset;
import net.sf.mmm.client.ui.impl.gwt.widget.adapter.UiWidgetAdapterGwtSingleMutableComposite;

import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;

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 * This is the implementation of {@link UiWidgetAdapterBorderPanel} using GWT based on {@link Fieldset}.
 *
 * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)
 * @since 1.0.0
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    implements UiWidgetAdapterBorderPanel {

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Chad Carothers, also known by his artist name Chad Cantcolor, is an American contemporary freehand painter and designer.

Career
Chad Carothers began customizing articles of clothing for his classmates during his school days. He began his career as an artist in 1998, working in Los Angeles in the field of freehand painting. His work included the creation of custom surfboards and manufacturing designs for surfboard and wakeboard makers. He has also worked on the creation of custom hand-painted and designed trucks, including a 2015 Chevy Silverado Sport Truck.

Carothers worked with Adidas to produce limited-edition hand painted cleats for Justin Turner during the 2017 World Series, for which Carothers created different themes for each game. He has produced hand painted custom shoes for Nike athletes as well. In 2019 Carother's work was shown at the BET Experience festival in Los Angeles. Chad Carothers has also worked as a cover artist for musical albums.

Exhibitions
In 2008 pieces from Carother's collection Lost Enterprises of San Clemente were shown in the John Wayne Airport. In 2009 Carother's work was a part of the Disney's Stitch Experiment 626 Project Custom Art Tour, in which he adapted a Stitch figure to look like Mickey Mouse.

References

Living people
21st-century American artists
20th-century American artists
Shoemakers
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10 Animals with the most vicious bites – and how to survive them
Dangerous animals
There are few things worse than being bitten by an animal, but these animals have particularly dangerous bites that can cause injury, infections, and even death.
What's more, not all animal bites are obvious, so recognizing the signs and knowing what to do immediately can mean the difference between life and death.
Learn about five animals with the most vicious bites — and how to survive them!
If you're hiking through the woods and suddenly find yourself face-to-face with an angry moose, bear, or whatever else might be out there, you'll have to rely on your knowledge of the animal kingdom to ensure that you make it out of the encounter alive and unharmed.
This guide to surviving vicious animal bites lists the 5 most dangerous animals in the world and discusses how to protect yourself when one comes after you. You'll even learn what to do if you don't want to survive; we won't judge.
Which Are The Most Dangerous Animals?
When do you think of vicious animal bites, which creature comes to mind?
For many, a dog would be up there on their list. After all, who hasn't been bitten by a seemingly tame pooch?
But dogs aren't actually in charge of some of the worst bites out there. Snakes may not seem as cute or cuddly as a canine companion, but they're definitely one of nature's more dangerous animals—and they have particularly brutal bites.
In fact, depending on where you live, snake bites could be more common than dog bites! Even if you don't live in an area known for dangerous snakes—such as South America or parts of Africa—these wild creatures are often found in unexpected places.
African Rock Python
The African rock python is Africa's largest snake, growing up to 6.7 meters (22 feet) long. Although they usually eat small mammals, including monkeys, these large snakes can sometimes attack humans.
In 2013, an 11-year-old boy died after he was swallowed by a rock python in South Africa—the only known human death from a rock python bite.
Even if you're lucky enough not to be bitten, though, it can still be scary: Bites cause deep wounds that can take months to heal properly (or at all).
The best way to avoid a rock python bite? Don't approach one of these enormous snakes; instead, let it move away on its own.
In terms of bite force, they're nothing compared to a T-Rex (the alligator snapping turtle has a maximum bite force of 200 pounds), but their size makes up for it.
They live in stagnant waters like swamps, marshes, ponds, lakes, and canals that are home to fish — and they eat whatever is around.
That's where their viciousness comes in: They can easily crush your fingers if you get too close. If you're bitten by an alligator snapping turtle (which is unlikely considering their protected status) you should do everything possible not to let go of its neck.
The pain will subside after a few minutes but otherwise — unless you want your face ripped off — let go at your own risk.
While king cobras may not be known for having venom that's more potent than other snake species, their fangs are so big that it only takes a few bites for an opponent to feel its effects. King cobras typically avoid humans, but there have been cases of people getting bitten by one.
Just look at those teeth! If you ever get into a confrontation with one of these snakes, experts recommend trying to avoid eye contact so they don't think you're challenging them, standing up very straight (as they tend to strike downward), remaining calm, and keeping your hands down so they don't mistake them for another attacker.
The black mamba is widely considered to be one of Africa's deadliest snakes. The black mamba can move at a speed of up to 12 km/h (8 mph) over short distances, making it one of Earth's fastest-moving creatures.
When hunting, a black mamba will try and strike its prey from about half a meter away, delivering enough venom in one bite for an adult human to die within 20 minutes.
Deadly as they are, though, there are even more aggressive creatures lurking on our planet. We round up some of nature's most vicious bites…and show you how not to get bitten by them!
Saltwater Crocodile
The Saltwater Crocodile is one of nature's fiercest predators. It isn't afraid to eat almost anything, from giant elephants, hippos, crocs, and sharks to small mammals.
While it could chomp its way through anything that gets in its way, the Saltwater Crocodile also relies on a powerful bite when attacking prey.
The average adult animal can bite down with 7,000 pounds of force (3.2 megapascals), more than enough to crush a full-grown cow or horse in an instant.
Great White Shark Bites
When it comes to scary creatures, few have earned a reputation as fearsome as a great white shark.
With rows of razor-sharp teeth that are ideal for tearing into flesh, it's easy to see why these ocean predators are considered some of the most dangerous on Earth.
The biggest threat they pose is their bite. With an average bite force of around 4,000 pounds per square inch (psi), great whites can crush bones easily within their jaws.
They can also generate up to 200 psi in a single jaw stroke—enough power that they can tear right through someone's leg in seconds!
Box Jellyfish Bites
Box jellyfish have a reputation for having some of the most painful animal bites in all of nature. The pain from their sting is commonly compared to being shot or stabbed.
If you're unlucky enough to get stung by one, don't panic; in about 85% of cases, people who are stung will recover uneventfully over a period of several hours or days.
Bullet Ant Bites
The Bullet Ant, also known as the 24-hour ant or Hormiga Veinticuatro Horas (its scientific name), is an ant native to South America.
This insect is known for its aggressive sting, which has earned it a Guinness World Record for being considered one of the most painful stings in nature.
The pain from a Bullet Ant bite lasts for 24 hours… without any form of treatment, which makes it one of the toughest bites in existence.
Just thinking about it can make your skin crawl! If you ever encounter a bullet ant, keep in mind that they like hanging out under leaves and near logs so that they can dig easily into the ground when they attack their prey or a perceived threat.
Hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal. When they aren't eating grass or hanging out in rivers, they are territorial and violent. Hippos spend a lot of time on land, which is where you will find them at night.
They have extremely sharp teeth that can be up to 4 inches long; some males have even been known to bite off their own testicles (ouch!).
Hippos are extremely aggressive creatures who, when threatened, attack in groups. Often all it takes is being close enough for them to get a good grip and a good chomp. There have been more than 300 recorded deaths from hippo attacks since 1986.
The hyena is widely believed to be one of nature's meanest creatures, and while there are no known fatalities by a wild hyena bite, it would hardly come as a surprise.
Their jaws can deliver 1,100 pounds of pressure per square inch (about three times what an adult human's bites).
A hungry pack of hyenas could literally dismember you if they were so inclined. Fortunately for us humans, they tend to eat carrion instead. The lesson? If you see a group of these spotted hunters on your next safari trip, stay out of their way!
Aside from its beautiful coat, a jaguar is instantly recognizable by its very sharp set of teeth. Jaguars are ambush predators, which means they tend to hide out in wait for prey until it comes within reach.
That's where those teeth come in handy. The bite of a jaguar can deliver more than 1,000 pounds of pressure per square inch!
While humans rarely run into these wild cats, attacks are more common when jaguars are kept as pets or when wild ones become accustomed to humans due to proximity—or they feel threatened or provoked (jaguars will defend themselves against any potential threat).
In either case, bites can be quite severe; medical attention is highly recommended.
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San Antonio – St. Mary's University women's soccer players Carolina Hernandez and Annia Olivares each were honored by the Heartland Conference on Monday evening.
Hernandez was named the conference's Co-Offensive Player of the Week, while Olivares shared Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors after helping the Rattlers go 2-0 last week.
Hernandez (Sr., El Paso, Texas) hit the game-winner in overtime to defeat Texas A&M International University 1-0, and scored the Rattlers' only goal in a victory over Texas-Permian Basin. The goals marked her seventh and eighth over the past nine games.
Meanwhile, Olivares (So., El Paso, Texas) helped solidify a defensive effort that pitched two shutouts, including an unlikely one at A&M International in which the Rattlers played 45 minutes in a heavy wind. Both shutouts came on the road.
St. Mary's returns to the field at Newman University on Thursday night.


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Q: Smoothly transition from midway through CSS animation to start (or end) I have a box that spins on click:
.box{
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  background:red;
  transition: all 1s;
}

.box.spin{
  animation: spin 5s infinite linear;
}

When you click it a second time, I'd like it to either unspin, or complete its spin to come to a halt. It seems that instead it snaps immediately back to its starting position:
https://codepen.io/EightArmsHQ/pen/OaoPKm?editors=0100
Is there a way of achieving this without replacing the animation with a transition?

A: What about use animation-play-state property ?
.box{
  animation: spin 5s infinite linear; // add this here
  animation-play-state: paused; // pause animation by default
}

.box.spin{
  animation-play-state: running; // play animation
}

https://codepen.io/frantisekvrab/pen/YROXaZ
If you like to complete the spin, I assume you have to use some more JS or CSS transition.

A: By "unspin" do you mean to have it spin in the other direction? If so, you can do something like this:

window.onload = ()=>{
  let box = document.querySelector('.box');
  box.addEventListener('click', function(){
    this.classList.toggle('spin')
    this.classList.toggle('spin-reverse')
  });
}
@keyframes spin{
  0%{
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
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Christmas Themed Reviews Vol. 3
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Christmas movie reviews on December 1, 2014 by Last Road Reviews
Once again the entire month of December will be films of various genres set on or around Christmas.
Not sure what I'll post just yet. But Ghostbusters II, Die Hard, Christmas Vacation and Home Alone are the only for sure ones at the moment. If I have time perhaps a couple of TV episodes set on or around Christmas.
Christmas Themed Reviews
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Christmas Horror on November 29, 2013 by Last Road Reviews
So last year I had a batch of reviews for Christmas themed horror films, which originally was meant to be far more elaborate. At first most if not the entire month of December was meant to be all Christmas films and not just horror. However due to my house flooding and losing so many films that was sort of derailed and I ended up posting reviews that I already had written.
The blog was fairly successful so I figured why not do it again? For the most part it will be all horror films again, with a couple of non horror films thrown in. I have a list set up but that could change. But seeing as all these films my reviews are pretty much written (or in need of a bit touch up) I don't see any problems. Here are the list of films I plan to cover as of now. Like I said some may miss the cut and others could be added, but it will probably go like this (this isn't the order I will review them by the way).
December 2nd is when I'll kick it off and it will end December 9th.
After that I have an announcement to make regarding the page.
Until than here's the list of films.
Black Christmas (1974) Review
Posted in Black Christmas, Christmas Themed Horror Reviews, Uncategorized with tags 70s Horror, Andrea Martin, Black Christmas, Bob Clark, Christmas Horror, Doug McGrath, James Edmund and John Saxon, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Roy Moore on December 22, 2012 by Last Road Reviews
**** ½ Out of 5
Tagline- If This Movie Doesn't Make Your Skin Crawl it's on too Tight!
Release Date- December 20th, 1974
Screenplay- Roy Moore
Director- Bob Clark
Starring- Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Doug McGrath, James Edmund and John Saxon
Released in 1974 Black Christmas has gained a massive cult following over the years and is now rightfully seen as a horror classic and while I hold the film in high regard I don't hold it as high as some fans of the movie do. John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween is often cited as the first slasher film and the one that paved the way for the slasher flicks of the 80s; the latter is fairly accurate, but not the former. There were other slasher flicks prior to Halloween with Black Christmas being one of them and one can even cite the Gialli as an inspiration for many slasher flicks since they two have a lot in common in the basic structure, but it was Halloween even if not the first slasher was the one that made a whole lot of money opening the door for the slasher flick.
Black Christmas and Halloween often get compared with some people calling Halloween a knock off film, which really isn't true. Both films focus on suspense and tension rather than action and gore, but the truth is both films are actually quite different and any similarities aren't that close for Halloween to be called a knock off film. Like I said they have a few things in common, but the basic style of the films are quite different. Bob Clark once stated he told John Carpenter about doing a sequel where the killer breaks out of an insane asylum, but it was Irwin Yablans who came up with the Halloween setting not Carpenter or Debra Hill and while I'm not calling Bob Clark a liar and even he's gone back on what he said, but I don't think Carpenter stole anything from Bob Clark.
Black Christmas is a style of film that sadly is mostly forgotten in the days of more violence and more gore and less on suspense. As much as I loved the 80s the decade started off great, but soon drifted off into mindless violence, but even with that the 80s was still an excellent era for the horror genre, but nothing can top the 70s. What I loved about 70s horror is not only were these movies horror flicks, but they also had a touch of drama and in the case of Black Christmas also a little bit of comedy.
The screenplay by Roy Moore is very smart and creative; the script has a simple idea, but is very well thought out and relies more on being subtle rather than spelling out everything for the audience. The "Billy" character is a mystery, which really makes things chilling. You can get some info based on the phone calls, but then again how much of this is true and how much are the ramblings of a lunatic? Billy's motives are never made clear and sometimes that can slightly hinder a movie when nothing is explained, but when too much is explained the mystery is taken away, but Roy Moore gives just enough detail to retain the mystery of the villain.
I personally believe that Roy Moore's intention with the phone calls is to give the viewer some insight to the character of Billy and what he's saying as incoherent as it is has something to do with his past and I think the final outcome is highly effective, but you can also simply see it as some lunatic that has such a warped mind and his rants mean nothing, but the script was really intelligent. Even though I think the things Billy says has some kind of meaning he's still a mystery; where did Billy come from? Does he go from town to town stalking and killing people to recreate a murder from the past? Or does the sorority house have some kind of meaning for him and it's obvious Billy is insane, but does he have moments where he can maybe sort of function in reality? Did he possibly escape from an asylum? You can let your mind run away with you while watching the movie and that makes things more effective, but Roy Moore also delivers just enough insight that we don't feel as if it's a cop out.
The characters each have their own identity and while they may not have the most depth they aren't however faceless victims, which for me always makes a movie better since if we at least care for the characters a little bit it makes the suspense play out much better. Besides writing a solid horror flick, Roy Moore also is able to add some drama and comedic elements and they all work and never feel out of place.
I would hate for people to judge Bob Clark on his later flicks such as Baby Geniuses as well as The Karate Dog; there is no doubt these movies were horrid, but with Black Christmas and Deathdream, Clark proved himself a worthy filmmaker. Maybe he just got lucky? I don't have the answer for that, but Black Christmas is prime example on how to make a chilling horror flick and sadly this is something we hardly see anymore. As much as I love the 80s that did start using nudity and gore to make up for weak filmmaking. From the very opening scene Bob Clark sets a tone and is able to deliver some of the best feel of tension in any horror flick I've ever seen; some people might see Black Christmas as slow paced, but I disagree. To me a slow paced movie is one where there are scenes in which the movie doesn't move forward. Every scene in Black Christmas somehow moves the movie forward in either story, characters or suspense.
I'm not sure what happend to Bob Clark with his later movies, but with Black Christmas he hits all the right notes as the movie has this amazing sense of dread that is present through-out the entire movie and even if a scene or two might be a little slow it never gets boring due to the eerie feel. I've seen a lot of horror flicks in my life and very few have managed to be as chilling as Black Christmas. That's why I go back to what I said earlier on how I'd hate for people to judge Bob Clark on some of his later films since at one point he made some classics of the horror genre. Tragically Bob Clark was killed in a car accident with his son in 2007 by a drunk driver, but his legacy will forever live on with Black Christmas, which is prime example on how to make a horror movie. I'd advise any filmmaker to study Black Christmas to learn how to structure a movie.
Unlike most films of its type Black Christmas has solid acting and cult Icon John Saxon delivers an excellent performance, Olivia Hussey makes for an excellent and sympathetic final girl and Keir Dullea is rather creepy in another excellent performance in Black Christmas, but it's Margot Kidder and Marian Waldman that really stand out with hysterical performances.
Overall Black Christmas is one of the more chilling horror movies you'll see and what it lacks in violence it more than makes up for with suspense and a chilling feel through-out and Billy makes for one of the most chilling villains in any horror film. Its movies like Black Christmas that reminds me why I love the horror genre as much as I do.


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Astana, a twenty years long dreamed project of a metropolis built in the middle of the steppe is entering in a new phase of it's development. After years of building public iconic objects designed both by local offices and international star-architects in order to establish international visibility and create a feeling of grandeur of a new capital, it starts to rethink public investments. New infrastructures are emerging- from bus-stops and bike-rental systems to pedestrian bridges and public spaces. As an effect of a set of conversations on future of Astana's society with Askhat Saduov, a young yet influential part of Genplan- citie's planning office, we were asked to propose a new type public space. We chose a place where representation of the new Kazach middle class was not the theme, because local social context was different. In the old part of the city named Celinograd, on the verge of the university campus and working class Khrushtchovkas we've found an intresting triangular left-over of two overlapping urban grids. The plot remained empty and unused even though it is placed on the crossing of two important streets, especially Kenesary, that leads to the bridge linking Celinograd with new Astana. The placement of the installation is in deep contrast with the representation-obsessed new city. Surrounded by prefab multifamily buildings from 60-ties, betting parlors from 90-ties and empty lots for future development it is a symbolic underbelly of president Nazarbayev's and Kishio Kurokawa dream project inhabited by the people who actually build it with the proper hands.
Along with Askhat we decided we would provide a space that people can interpret, not just where they have pre-programmed stereotypal apparata of representation-bound parks. A limited budget and the rug-beating hanger in front of our office placed in a middle of coop housing in Warsaw, drove us towards the idea of a frame to which people can attach their things: hammocks, swings, ropes, planks of wood, etc. The location called for large scale in height, so the installation would attract people living in the entire neighborhood, not only the inhabitants of the surrounding buildings. The colours chosen came from the bi-colored Kazach flag, a set of blue and yellow that everybody there would find familiar. This was also motivated by our question marks: would people want and know how to use our installation, how not to damage it, how to treat it as their own?
Paralelly to enisaging the installation within a triangular part of the lot, we were asked to plan the entire space, again, taking under consideration a very limited budget. Our observation was that in harsh conditions of continental climate of the steppe, people choose shadowed spaces during hot summers in order to relax sitting under trees and playing chess, one of the favorite passe-temps in Kazachstan. We decided to mimic that sort of feeling of using informal spaces by planting local trees and adding simple benches. The budget allowed for black asphalt that became a perfect background for chalk drawings and class-games for children. The day of the opening planned with help of activists from Almaty-based festival ArtbatFest proved that people needed this sort of space and that our approach made sense- all ages found their space for activity there.


Blizzard has officially added Artanis to the public test realm of Heroes of the Storm. We now know what his abilities he has and, just as importantly, how he dances.
[D] Shield Overload - Cooldown: 20 seconds Trait If you take damage while below 50% Health, gain a 984 ( 186 + 42 per level) point Shield for 5 seconds. Your Basic Attacks lower the cooldown of Shield Overload by 4 seconds.
[Q] Blade Dash - 65 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds Dash forward and deal 125 ( 30 + 5 per level) damage to enemies, then return and deal 375 ( 90 + 15 per level) damage.
[W] Twin Blades - 25 Mana Cooldown: 4 seconds Your next Basic Attack immediately strikes the enemy 2 times.
[E] Phase Prism - 70 Mana Cooldown: 14 seconds Fire a Phase Prism that deals 145 ( 50 + 5 per level) damage to Heroes and swaps your position with theirs.
[R] Purifier Beam - 80 Mana Cooldown: 80 seconds Target an enemy Hero with an orbital beam from the Spear of Adun, dealing 400 ( 96 + 16 per level) damage per second for 8 seconds. The beam will chase the target as they move. Unlimited range.
[R] Suppression Pulse - 40 Mana Cooldown: 50 seconds Fire a large area pulse from the Spear of Adun, dealing 250 ( 60 + 10 per level) damage and Blinding enemies for 4 seconds. Unlimited range.
Phase Prism should remind League of Legends players of Urgot or Dota 2 players of Vengeful Spirit. The swap ability has the same role in all three games: ganking. You can grab a squishy enemy and pull them into the middle of your team or under your towers for an easy kill. The damage from Phase Prism is a nice extra perk to help ensure the target goes down.
Artanis' Heroic abilities sound very potent on their own but are even moreso when upgraded with talents. A level 20 talent for Purifier Beam automatically recasts the ability on another nearby hero if the initial cast kills its target. The talent for Suppression Pulse gives you an extra charge for the ability, making it huge in teamfights.
Blizzard will add Artanis along with fellow StarCraft 2 hero Lt. Morales to HoTS in the near future. Artanis will also be starring in Legacy of the Void, the upcoming expansion pack to StarCraft 2.


WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream) was coined by Dr. Stephen LaBerge, a psychophysiologist who specialized in oneironautics. It is used to refer to any lucid dream where the dreamer brings their woken awareness into a dream while falling asleep. This is in contrast to DILD (Dream Initiated Lucid Dream) in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are in a dream while inside it. It has the advantage of giving the user lucidity whenever they want, without relying on a spontaneous increase in awareness during a dream. Additionally, wake initiated lucid dreams are much more vivid than any other.
The only requirement for this technique is a great deal of practice. It will probably not work at the very first attempt, but it will eventually do so after some practice. The ideal way of starting a WILD is waking up early, specifically after 4-6 hours of sleep. It is best to set an alarm at the right time, but it is also a good to wake up unintentionally.
You should stay awake for some time, usually around one hour. You can do whatever you want in that time, but it is best to do something related to lucid dreaming, like reading about it or looking at your dream journal. Before going to bed, make sure that you are relaxed with all your muscles stretched, and make sure that the room is at a comfortable temperature with no lights, sources of sound or distractions. Do whatever you have to do before getting to sleep, since you must not move afterwards.
This technique involves falling completely asleep, so one has to lay in bed as comfortably as possible. The best position to sleep is whatever feels comfortable for you, but the preferred pose is Shavasana, or Corpse Pose, since it allows for normal blood supply to all limbs, and is the best pose to do an OBE exit. Additionally, sleeping on the back gives the highest chance of success among the sleeping postures.
Then, close your eyes, and focus on the absolute darkness, without thinking about anything. You have to keep your mind absolutely empty. If any thoughts appear, just observe them and let them go. You have to breathe very slowly and deeply ten times, so you'll be very relaxed. Try to imagine that your body is floating, or that it starts to gradually fade or melt. Don't make a single move; you have to "forget" that you have a body.
If you are deeply relaxed, within a few minutes you will start seeing moving blobs of color, called phosphenes. This is the onset of the hallucinatory phenomenon known as hypnagogia, which marks the transition between wakefulness and sleep. These patterns will gradually increase in complexity, and will be accompanied by more ellaborate visual, auditory, or tactile hallucinations, or sensations like floating, or doing daily activities. In this state, it is usual to feel a strong urge to roll over, change your position, or move your legs. Don't do it. It is actually a mechanism to prevent you from falling asleep consciously: if you are aware, you will move, thus aborting the process. Other reflexes that you must ignore include swallowing, or scratching. However, thre is no problem if you move slightly due to a spasm or jerk, as long as it is unconscious. It's very important to stay calm and breathe naturally; avoid losing awareness, but without focusing too deeply.
A very common thing that you can experience is the Hypnic Jerk, which is a strong muscle twitch violently taking you back to wakefulness, usually with a sudden falling sensation. It can thwart a WILD attempt, essentially at random. Stressful activities increase the likelihood of experiencing it, as does alcohol, and sleeping in an uncomfortable position. Sleep paralysis is also possible during hypnagogia, as you are consciously entering REM state, where movement is disabled. You could start feeling that your body progressively gets paralyzed, so if you don't like it, you can always move any part which is not paralyzed, and you will immediately wake up. Sleep paralysis will usually be accompanied by a strong buzzing sound. If you get completely paralyzed, you can start lucid dreaming by doing an OBE exit.
When your hypnagogic patterns get complex enough, you can create a simple dreamscape with them. For doing this, you don't actually need the hypnagogia; you can also bring all the imagery from beyond your field of vision, without paying any attention to the hypnagogia. Whatever you do, you must try to add as much detail as possible, although the image will start to gain realism by itself. Think that you are actually seeing it with your eyes; it is right there, in front of you. Then put yourself in the dreamscape. Look around, see what's behind you. Now look at your hands, run, feel the environment. Think that this is your actual body, and forget about the real one. Dissociate from it, and become more linked to your dream body by experiencing kinetic sensations. Eventually, you will udergo a complete dissociation, and the dream environment will become fully vivid and tangible. Remind yourself that you are dreaming, do a reality check, and you will be in a lucid dream.
Visualization is the easiest, and probably the best way to have a WILD. However, it is not always possible to do it. If you enter the REM phase before visualizing a dream, you will not dissociate from your body, and so will experience sleep paralysis. This doesn't mean that you are awake; everything you see, including your room, is just hallucinatory. It is a dream based on your memories, and may contain subtle differences. This state is also characterized by a very loud buzzing sound or vibration which can be distressing. Also, everything about sleep paralysis applies here, including the possible hallucinations or felt presences. You have to remain calm despite any disturbing incidence.
This is essentially a lucid dream, one in which one feels their paralyzed physical body. Thus, the only thing left to do is detaching from it. Possibly, you will even be able to get up normally, but most times you will be unable to move, and will have to use your imagination to move yourself. For example, you could imagine rolling out or floating out of your body. If you feel that you are being pressed against your bed, you can try to "pull" in the same direction, so you will end up sinking and getting into another scene, or The Void, from where it is possible to go elsewhere. Another option is visualizing another scene in your mind, and engaging yourself in it.
Possibly, and especially in those who have strong religious beliefs, one can feel and see angels, demons, monsters, shadow people, characters... Those are just part of the sleep paralysis, and are not any harmful, although they may be perceived as malign. Anyway, you can always talk to them, and even ask them to help you getting out of your body; they will usually do it. When you move out, you will feel everything exactly like a dream: you will be dreaming that you are in your room. Perform a reality check so that you get completely lucid.


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THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS!
Writer John Savage's latest book is a look at popular culture in what he sees a seminal year … 1966. The book is simply called "1966 The Year the Decade Exploded" and it explores the various events and themes of the year through 12 essays – each based around one record (one for each month).
Savage says "The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics — often fuelled by perception-enhancing substances and literature" .
You can read the book to make up your own minds about all that but in the meantime , Ace records have just released a 2 CD, 48 tack compilation to tie in with the publication. The album offers a real cross section of sounds and as you'd expect, there's plenty of great soul music – stuff like The San Remo Strings' 'Festival Time', The Capitols' 'Cool Jerk', Rex Garvin's 'Sock it To Em JB', Otis Redding's 'I Can't Turn You Loose' and dear old Dusty's 'Little By Little'.
Lashings of great pop too… most of it labelled "underground" in '66. So here there's The Velvet Underground, The Roosters, The Seeds and Liverpool cult band The Cryin' Shames amongst others. Mainstream pop is represented by The Who, though they never saw themselves as "mainstream" while there's a cut from a young David Bowie.
Oddly no Beatles tunes…. licensing, I guess, and to put things in perspective , yes 1966 was an exciting year musically but the charts were still stuffed with artists like Jim Reeves, Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra, the Bachelors, the New Vaudeville band… and good old Ken Dodd! None of them on this album though!


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Wow…is this Grama's real recipe? I'm FREAKING OUT to have it!!! My mother-in-law has a wicked-awesome recipe that I have used the last couple of years but none beat Grama's!!! My m-i-l adds celery seed, xtra sage, eggs and fine shreds of turkey meat to her recipe. Maybe someday I'll try a cosmic blend on the theme! Oh lucky day…and happy thanksgiving to us!!! Thank you thank you!!!
I just made this for my thanksgiving dinner and it was such a hit!
I split the recipe in half, and it still made a boatload!
Yeeeeahhh!! Ours is just coming out of the oven this very minute and BABY does the kitchen smell goooood! I'm so glad you made it. Save the leftovers in a ziploc in the refrigerator and it will keep for 3-4 days. If you have way more–it freezes well. I reheat it in the toaster oven and eat it for a week!
I'm pretty sure we will need a new bowl very soon. Like the next time we make this stuff. That little crack is getting very serious and we need to replace it before we have no bowl on the day we need it.
This is the one–honed and tweaked and jimmied with over the years. It's cooking in my kitchen this very minute!
We used to dump the whole can of Chicken with Rice soup and then we'd have rice and celery and bits of chicken in the stuffing too. I just use the broth and I ALWAYS use Campbells soup broth. It just tastes better. The End.
They have lots of really cool kitchen stuff at great prices. And bowls. Big ones – probably some bigger than you will ever need.
I'm no cook, so I have no idea how much a cube of butter is… Do I put 7 sticks of butter in???
If that is a stupid question, I'm so sorry. I think this recipe is a lot like the one my mom always made, and this is my first thanksgiving since she passed away. It's funny how so many memories can be tied to food.
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