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VoterGA Identifies 2022 Election Anomalies, Cites Audit Flaws, Sues to Preserve Ballots After Ballot Image Destruction
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ATLANTA, Nov. 23, 2022 /Christian Newswire/ -- VoterGA revealed serious anomalies in the recent 2022 Georgia General Election. A sworn affidavit corroborated by the Edison media line feed show that over 20,000 votes were inexplicably subtracted from the vote totals of U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker. In addition, poll books in three counties mysteriously added hundreds more voters who voted than the number of votes cast by the machines.
VoterGA explained flaws in the recently completed 2022 Risk Limiting Audit (RLA). Dr. Phillip Stark, inventor of the RLA process, previously wrote to Georgia officials to explain that a RLA cannot meaningfully audit a Georgia election because they are conducted on Ballot Marking Devices (BMD). BMDs cannot produce a voter created source document to be used for an audit and the RLA process has no means to audit the accuracy of the BMD.
Secretary of State Raffensperger ignored basic RLA audit principles by selecting batches for all counties instead of having counties randomly select ballots. The number of ballots varies by batch across counties, so the audit was disproportionally administered throughout the state in conflict with Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. and Georgia Constitutions. Although all types of ballots must be selected, many counties received no Election Day batches to audit.
Despite the flaws, Raffensperger claimed the 2022 audit confirmed the election results. VoterGA previously highlighted how their research exposed fatal flaws in the 2020 audit leading to Gov. Brian Kemp's 36-point study sent to the State Election Board. In Fulton County, those flaws included a 60% batch error rate, falsified tally sheets with 850 to 0 Biden votes, 6,000 duplicate reported ballots and about 350 duplicate scanned ballots.
VoterGA announced a new complaint against several counties for unlawful destruction of original ballot images from the November 2020 General Election. It seeks to preserve 2020 election ballots as the only remedy for the image destruction. Over 1.7 million images were destroyed by up to 70 counties. Most counties admitted images were overwritten while some refused to comply with VoterGA Open Records Requests that revealed the destruction.
The press conference was held on the 59th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. To commemorate the event, VoterGA drew analogies between subsequent false reporting by the CIA's Operation Mockingbird and false election integrity reporting today.
VoterGA is a non-partisan, 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization created by a coalition of citizens working to restore election integrity in Georgia. We advocate for independently verifiable, auditable, recount capable, transparent and tamper proof elections.
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by Leia Gomzi August 28, 2018, 9:01 pm in Entertainment, From The Editors
Ed Sheeran Has All But Confirmed He Married Fiancée Cherry Seaborn in a Secret Wedding
When asked about his wedding plans, British singer Ed Sheeran responded by pointing to a ring on his wedding finger – If that's not confirmation that he's already married, what is? Read on for the full story
What would your conclusion be if somebody sheepishly points to a ring on his wedding finger on being asked about his wedding plans?
Well, that's exactly what British singer Ed Sheeran did when he was faced with questions about his wedding plans, during a recent interview with Scott Evans on the US entertainment TV show "Access."
"What about the wedding details? Have you picked a date? Do you know where? Do you know when yet?" asked Evans.
The 27-year-old performer responded with a shrug, smiling bashfully as he pointed to a ring on his wedding finger.
Now, isn't that confirmation enough?
But, wait! There's more!
Sheeran's gestured hint, apparently suggesting he'd already tied the knot with school-time friend and fiancée Seaborn, piqued Evan's interest further.
"That's exciting! Congratulations my friend! Congratulations! How did you sneak that one?" the show host pressed on, obviously seeking some kind of verbal confirmation from the Shape of You singer.
"Well, I never do anything too public anyway," was the typical Sheeran response, which was, again, more an allusion than corroboration.
"That's awesome! Congratulations, [I'm] happy for you!" Evans responded, seemingly convinced that Sheeran had indeed got secretly married to his lady love.
Whatever little doubt Evans might have had must have surely got dispelled by the "Thank you" and the giggles Sheeran responded with, which was, probably, the verbal acknowledgment Evans was looking for.
Known for keeping his personal life as private as he possibly can, the flame-haired celebrity had even kept his engagement under the wraps before coming clean a month a later.
In January, the Grammy Award winner posted a photo of himself kissing fiancée Seaborn, 25, captioning his post, "Got myself a fiancée just before the new year. We are very happy and in love, and our cats are chuffed as well."
A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) on Jan 20, 2018 at 5:49am PST
The baby-faced redhead and Seaborn, who have known each other since their high school days together, had reportedly been in a romantic relationship since 2015.
Seaborn is a hockey player and was part of the England U21 team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 European Championships.
In February last year, Sheeran dropped by at the Chelmsford Hockey Club in Essex just to watch his fiancée/wife, then his girlfriend, from the sidelines as she played for the visiting team, Wimbledon.
"I don't believe it was a planned visit," A Chelmsford Hockey Club spokesperson told Essex Live at the time, adding that he thought Sheeran "attended to watch his girlfriend who played for the opposition team, Wimbledon, this afternoon."
He even spent some time posing for photos with some of the players after the match was over.
THANKYOU @edsheeran for making some older players happy too! Particularly Ali (on the right) who was having kittens watching hockey with u! pic.twitter.com/1Z3IN8NUyV
— Chelmsford Hockey (@ChelmHockey) February 25, 2017
The shameless L7 roping @edsheeran into the @ChelmHockey mascot challenge… pic.twitter.com/4Yz22XYuOv
A month before he was spotted at the Essex hockey club, Sheeran had told Zane Lowe on Beats 1 that his year-long hiatus from music actually had, actually, given him the chance to fall in love.
"This has been the first time I've ever actually had the time to fall in love properly," he said.
"I've always got into relationships very passionately – I'm a redhead and also Irish," he quipped.
"But then I will get in a relationship and go on tour for 18 months and everything will [be ruined]," he confided.
"And I'm like, 'Oh, what happened?' But it's because I had no time to put into someone."
During that interview, he had also expressed his desire for fatherhood.
"I wanted to be a dad, like, last year. I'm ready, let's go – tour bus babies, little fat, chubby babies that just walk around," he said.
Then again, speaking on "The Kyle and Jackie O Show" in Australia Sheeran said, "Yeah, potentially. I would like some kids."
"I always thought to have a really good career, you always had to be incredibly unhappy, and I always thought to be really happy, you had to have a bad career because I didn't see the balance of the two," he admitted to Clash magazine.
"And I've realized that that's obviously bulls**t, and just what you tell yourself to justify it," he said.
"I live with Cherry now. We've got cats, we have takeaways and watch movies, we have people round for dinner. I've never had that," he said, expressing his happiness on being together with his hockey star lady love.
The couple spent most of 2016 touring together – the year he took a break from music.
The end of 2017 brought happiness for the bespectacled redhead in more ways than one: His song "Perfect" – inspired by his girlfriend and featuring Beyonce – became the Christmas Number 1, which he said was "an actual dream come true" and the other reason why last year ended well for him was his engagement – but of course!
Speaking to OfficialCharts.com about "Perfect" winning the Christmas Number 1, he had said, "Thank you very much for making Perfect Christmas Number 1. This is an actual dream come true and I'm very proud and happy."
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We dined here around 5.30pm this (Sunday) evening. Ambrosia has recently added Indian cuisine to its offering and my wife and I were keen to try it. The kids wanted Italian but were keen on trying the Indian food.
We didn't order any starters and had water with our food. My two girls wanted pepperoni pizza and penne Carbonara. My memory of the Italian food served here was a good one and I knew portion sizes were generous.
I chose Butter chicken and pilau rice, my wife went for the king prawn karahi and garlic nan and my little one insisted on chips also.
The food duly arrived and as expected portion sizes were very generous and presentation excellent. The kids loved the Pizza and Carbonara and I must admit this is one of the better Carbonaras I have eaten.
Chef Jainal is at the helm of the Indian kitchen with over 15 years in the hot seat. He is Bangladeshi by origin and this comes through in his style. His butter chicken is a good attempt at this traditional Punjabi dish with the right amount of buttery creaminess and spice.
The king prawn karahi was superbly presented on a hot plate and the prawn were big and meaty and cooked to perfection. The rich, thick, spicy sauce was finger licking good!! The nan was puffy and garlicky. Overall the Indian dishes are definitely worth trying out. The four of us were very impressed.
I always love good Indian food! I need to bookmark this for future travels.


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Book Review: Monsters of Verity by Victoria Schwab
It's a funny cycle and it goes like this: I write a book. When marketing said book for potential agents, having comparison titles can be very helpful. I go looking for comp titles from comp title extraordinaire, Megan Manzano. She does it for me for free because she's my husband's little sister, and I spent hours when she was a kid playing pet shop with her stuffed animals, so she owes me. She does charge for the service as well, so you should check it out. The next step in the cycle is to read the books she recommends and make sure I agree and know what I'm talking about when an agent says, "what in particular did you think was similar to the book?" That would be a really bad moment to gape like a fish. Anyway, I read, I love, I gush to her in annoying ways via FB Messenger, and then I write one of these. The Monsters of Verity series by Victoria Schwab was recommended to me mostly based on tone, family politics, and monster battles, but I stayed for so much more.
Book Summary: Below is the jacket copy for the first book of the duology, This Savage Song. I will not include a summary for Our Dark Duet, because that would be spoilery as all get out.
Kate Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she's finally going home to prove that she can be.
August Flynn wants to be human. But he isn't. He's a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He's one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father's secret weapon.
Their city is divided.
Their city is crumbling.
Kate and August are the only two who see both sides, the only two who could do something.
But how do you decide to be a hero or a villain when it's hard to tell which is which?
Corsai, Corsai, tooth and claw,
Shadow and bone will eat you raw.
Malchai, Malchai, sharp and sly,
Smile and bite and drink you dry.
Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal,
Sing you a song and steal your soul.
Monsters, monsters, big and small,
They're gonna come and eat you all.
What I enjoyed: I have to really stop and think about this, because on a knee jerk, I want to think I enjoyed everything, but I want to be more specific. This was definitely a novel that swept me up and through me through the dryer in the best possible way, so I'm still a little dizzy over it. Okay, deep breaths.
For starters, the characters–generally my favorite part of the book, I loved these characters. Kate was difficult to love, and at first you kind of loved to hate her, but by the end of her arc, I was blown away by her. She was a complex and truly wonderful character. August was a character I loved from the beginning, but his journey was a gripping ride, as he came to terms with who he was, what his role could be and what it should be. The villains ran the gamut between disturbing (the monsters) and oddly understandable and still disturbing (the human villains).
The mythology of this world was surprising and inventive. The monsters here are born of violent acts, meaning each act of brutal violence creates a monster. Dealing with your own demons is a big theme in this book. I was intrigued by the breakdown of differences between the monsters, and the creation of the war-divided city of Verity. I applauded her use of music as a way to draw forth a soul for devouring in the Sunai. This was a completely unique monster concept to me, and I loved the way this played out, especially in the end. The writing in itself is downright poetic. Like the music from August's violin, it drags you in and holds you in its comforting lull or pulls you into pieces, depending on the moment.
The tone of the story was another lovely point. It was gritty and real and lived in. No punches pulled.
What I'd avoid:
There were a couple of things I didn't love about the story, although they definitely weren't as prevalent as the things I did. Schwab delivered a new and inventive world, and I understood that she wanted to leave some room for speculation, but there were a couple of threads I felt were left hanging. Things like "what happened to the US to create a city like Verity?" or "What happened to certain characters Kate and August weren't able to maintain contact with?" just kind of never get answered, even though they felt like they would be. They aren't integral to the plot, but it nagged me a little bit. Bigger questions, like "why are the Sunai SO DIFFERENT from other monsters, and from each other?" could have been purposely left open as something for the reader to suss out and theorize about, but I felt a few more clues would have been very much appreciated.
Would I recommend it:
I actually just did. I hope my husband is enjoying his audiobook of it right now! And I will continue to. I really enjoyed this story.
What can I learn from it:
I've been struggling with the bittersweet ending of one of my novels, wondering if I'd gone the right way with it. The Monsters of Verity series, along with its popularity, made me feel much better about this choice in my work. It also helped me trudge forward without fear in my latest work, which does have a gritty backdrop and a slightly selfish heroine. This story is a class in "Write what the story wants, the rest will fall in place" and I love that.
Despite my few tiny gripes, this series had me from the very first line and held me. And, it helpfully works as an addition to my list of comp titles. One of my favorite things about looking for comp titles is discovering new authors and new stories. Have any of you ready This Savage Song and Our Dark Duet? Any recommendations of similar books?
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Posted on March 10, 2017 in Fandom, Personal, Writing Posts
Buffy Turns 20: What BtVS and Joss Taught Me About Writing
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Twenty years ago today, my then-boyfriend/now-husband Ismael tried to get me to watch the first episode of a new show premiering on= the struggling WB network called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I rolled my eyes at him. He had strange taste in television and, while I loved vampires, I had never felt compelled to see the movie. I just had no interest in it. Even after that day, Ismael kept pushing. No, the series was really good. It took him by surprise. It would take me until a year later to try an episode. That episode would be the two-parter, Surprise and Innocence, more popularly known as the episode where Buffy and Angel make love and Angel turns evil. I am not being hyperbolic–I wasn't the same person after that. Buffy the Vampire Slayer changed my life, it changed how I saw myself and who I was as a person. It motivated me and informed who I am as an artist.
So, as a love letter to a series I can still recite the dialogue for, I'm going to discuss the top ways Buffy changed my writing and my life. Note – Spoilers ABOUND. If you haven't watched…just watch the show. Seriously?
Lexicons Change…Muchly. The sarcasm. The snark. The strange turn of words. I still refer to people as bitca. I'll add ish to turn verbs into adjectives and age to nouns to make them verbs. If there's something to be said, I'll 'pop culture' it up. I abbreviate words that don't have abbreviation. I give emotions place names, like Waah Waah Land. I reorder words to sentences in odd ways. Pathetic much? Probably, but I started this show when I was fifteen and deciding who I was going to be. Was I intending to be Buffy and The Scooby Gang? Not so much. But it found its way in and I can't help going for some serious quirkage when I'm feeling chattish. Don't be afraid to play with language, as long as your audience can understand you.
2. Risk-Taking Pays Off. When my boyfriend was busy bugging me about the series, he was very interested in the fact that the principal of the school was eaten in episode six. Seriously, it was his main selling point. I didn't get it until they turned Buffy's love interest evil in season 2…and kept him that way for the rest of the season. This show would do anything, and even when it hurt, I loved it. Joss Whedon, the series' now well-known creator once said, "Don't give people what they want, give them what they need." And he did, solidly, for seven seasons. He disappointed us, but then he gave us great narrative reasons why our sadness was necessary. And Joss' commitment to risk wasn't just about risking his characters–it was about risking his reputation. He managed to craft and direct very risky episodes such as Hush, an episode with only 17 minutes of dialogue, The Body, an episode entirely about the strange and detached feeling of losing a loved one, and Once More, With Feeling, otherwise known as The Buffy Musical. All very risky, all paid off nicely. Taking creative risks with your work keeps it interesting.
3. Happy Sadness is Okay. There are episodes of this series that make me laugh out loud and cry real tears. They make me worry for the characters, and they make me cringe in embarrassment. As a teenager, Buffy taught me that the confusion of my emotions was not strange. It was just life. Life can be twisty. As an artist, it taught me that genre isn't a real thing in art. I mean, if you want to sell it, you need to know what genre it best fills. But when you're writing it? Write the thing. Art is about portraying our journey in a way that makes sense to us. And our journeys aren't romances or coming of age stories. They certainly aren't comedies or dramas. They are all those things. Well, for some of us, they may not be a Western, but you get my point. Be free. Worry about labels later.
4. Success Does Not Come Without Clunkers. The Puppet Show. Ted. Most of Season 7…Oops. Some of the series wasn't spectacular. There were episodes that I can only barely stand to rewatch when I do my rewatches. Which is proof positive that not everything you do is going to land with an audience. And that's okay. BtVS is still judged as a whole and your body of work will likely be, as well. That doesn't mean they're all bad. Some really good lines from the series come from The Puppet Show, Season 7 led up to a spectacular ending, and Ted…well…Ted had John Ritter! So, even your missteps can yield positive results.
5. POV is Important. The Zeppo follows sidekick Xander through a day in which he stumbles blindly through a relatively minor issue while his friends deal with some world ending cataclysm we know nothing about. You know why? Because we're with Xander and, frankly, he has no time for this Hellmouth thing. Superstar throws you into a world where Jonathan, a relatively minor recurring character, is suddenly a star, right down to getting placement in the title credits. In the Season 5 episode Buffy vs. Dracula, Dawn, a little sister we have never met thus far, just pops up, and we're expected to accept it. She's been planted there and the memories of the world has been altered to include her, but we don't find that out until later. For now, we're just surfing through the story, trying to figure out what is going on, and it adds a sense of mystery and foreboding we wouldn't get if we knew everything. Point of view can make or break your story. Use wisely for best results.
6. People CHANGE. Sometimes they change slightly, sometimes they are affected by something that completely and irrevocably alters the fabric of who they are. But the most important thing is that people evolve. I'm not who I was when I started watching Buffy. Buffy was much more mature, but also more dark inside, when she finished the series. Willow was stronger and wiser. Xander was more sober and careful. Dawn was less whiny. Giles was less up tight. Anya learned to care. Tara became confident. Angel and Spike repented for their wrongs. Faith went from tragic headcase to true hero. Cordelia became a higher being and Oz became a werewolf zen master. Your characters have to be altered when they finish their journey, or else what is the point?
7. Know When to Hold Back. Joss Whedon and the writing team didn't know what they were scripting when they created Earshot. In Earshot, an encounter with a demon gives Buffy mind-reading abilities, which lead to her overhearing a plot to kill all the students in her high school. It was scheduled to air in April 1999. And then, a week before the episode was to air, the Columbine High School Massacre happened. A freak moment of accidental prescience. Whedon and the network hurriedly pulled it off the airwaves because escapism isn't fun once it isn't escapism anymore. In that vein, artistically we should pay attention to when our work may be insensitive or cruel and be sure to yank that back. Art should not be used as a sword to harm.
A more artistic example of knowing when to hold back is evident in The Body. While the series had always been for mixing laughter and tears, for this episode, there is no laughter to be had. It is forty minutes of grueling sadness because it is so truthful, in a way that art should be truthful. Examining the emotions of the main characters after Buffy returns home to find her mother dead, The Body soars as an episode that doesn't have half of the well-known Buffy style, because it can't. Even vampire slaying because a numb, necessary event happening despite the main focus. Despite its sense of humor, Buffy knew when to take itself seriously.
8. Even People You Love Can Be Unlikeable. This one, I REALLY needed in my private life. The lesson was very strongly learned through the richness of characters in the Buffy Universe. I hated every character at some point. In Season 1, when Angel is all cryptic before disappearing, Batman-style, or when Cordelia doesn't get that Buffy is cool, even when she saves her ass. In Season 2, when Xander decides it's cool to make the entire female population of Sunnydale fall in love with him by magic and later doesn't bother to tell Buffy that Willow is trying to re-ensoul Angel. In Season 3, when Willow and Xander cheat on Oz and Cordelia or when Buffy lets loose with Faith. In Season 4, when Buffy seems to forget about her friends or when Riley does ANYTHING. In Season 5, when Dawn whines incessantly or when Xander tries to convince Buffy to try to love Riley even though he betrayed her. In Season 6, when Willow gets addicted to magic and lies to Tara and when Buffy plays around with being a reckless idiot. In Season 7, when Buffy keeps screwing up, then making self-righteous speeches. Make your characters human. Make them flawed. We'll love them all the more.
9. Make Things Relatable. So, you're fighting a war against a hellmouth full of demons? Make it feel more like high school, so your audience can relate, since most of us…MOST of us…have never went to war against a hellmouth full of demons. Even with the craziest twists our stories take, we should never leave them out of our audience's reach. Ground them to reality and make them that much more powerful. And speaking of powerful…
10. Who Run The World? WEIRDOS. Nothing showed me how to let my geeker flag fly like Buffy did. As I watched the characters in the series grow more powerful, and also as I watched Joss Whedon, a self-proclaimed geek, become more successful, I truly understood that the things that kept me from fitting in are also the things that make me interesting, that make my work unique. Embrace the weirdness. You'll be stronger for it.
Finally, I want to thank Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the cast, the crew, the writers, and Joss Whedon for creating a show that taught me so much and guided who I would become. And also, thank you to my husband, whose incessant nagging (I say this lovingly) led me to become an even bigger fan than he was. If you're a writer and you haven't watched this series, you need to check it out. As silly as it sounds on the surface, it truly is a television masterpiece.
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Posted on March 9, 2015 March 20, 2015 in Author Spotlight
Interview with a Writer…of Vampires
Today I have a guest visiting me. Charles O'Keefe! Charles lives in the beautiful province of Newfoundland, Canada, with his wife and two feline 'children,' Jude and Eleanor. He is a co-owner of a Beauty Wholesale Business and enjoys many hobbies and activities that include writing, reading, watching fantasy/science-fiction movies and television shows, gaming, poker, walking, Pilates, martial arts and of course fantasizing about vampires. He is also a vegetarian, animal activist, environmentalist and Agnostic. His novel, The Newfoundland Vampire, will be available from Distinguished Press on April 24, 2015.
For anybody who doesn't know him, Charles is very friendly and fun and it's been great getting to know him. Please check out our interview below.
JM: Tell us about your book.
CO: The a Newfoundland Vampire is my first novel and was originally published back in April of 2012 by Penumbra Publishing. It will be rereleased by Distinguished Press in March 27th of this year (2015 if you're reading this in the future). It was a labor of love and something I originally thought of back in 2002 and wrote the first chapter only to leave it for a long time. Then, in 2010, I got inspired and finished the rough draft in about 8 months. But enough history – here's the summary:"Like every other geek alive, Newfoundland native Joseph O'Reily secretly wants to be a superhero. At thirteen he fantasized about being a vampire, and ten years later he's still fantasizing – but mostly about a beautiful redheaded woman who has eyes only for him. The one thing different about Joseph's adult fantasy is that, amazingly, it comes true one night when he goes to a local university pub. Cassandra Snow, literally the woman of his dreams, invites him to her place for an evening of personal pleasure. Of course he's not going to say no. But when strange things start happening afterward, Joseph quickly learns that not all dreams should come true."
It's a book for adults that tries to approach vampires from a different perspective. How does a regular guy cope with becoming a vampire? While I deal with lots of serious issues I still have a lot of fun with it. One of the main characters, Cassandra, is based on a real person from history, Catherine Mandeville Snow. She was the last woman hanged in Newfoundland and the twist here is that a hanging is not enough to kill a vampire. The other main character is Joseph is based highly on me as I was at 23. I couldn't resist the temptation to put myself in and have fun imagining what I would do as a vampire. He gets to make a lot of choices I couldn't make and of course does things that I never want to do. It's a great exploration of a what if type fantasy for me, what if vampires were real and I was one? The rest you'll have to read and find out.
JM: What made you choose your subject matter?
CO: I've loved vampires since I was around 12 or 13 and horror about since then too. To be more specific though, I think for me the idea of a vampire is so fascinating. You are immortal, forever young, powerful and (in some versions) still yourself in terms of your personality, feelings and memories. I think the vampire creature is familiar to everyone in the world (at least most of it) that it give you the ability to play around with, changes things but still have the reader have a good idea coming in how they work and at least partially what to expect. Plus for me someone who lives forever could be any historical figure from the past and this idea fascinated me as well.
JM: How is your approach to vampires different from other authors?
CO: I made a fair number of changes. First off my vampires are not destroyed by sunlight, rather just weakened. They are unaffected by any holy symbol, holy water or garlic. I gave them an origin story that explained why a wooden stake to the heart works and why silver can harm them. My vampires don't sparkle and they certainly don't go to high school for hundreds of years. I also gave my vampires the ability to change their appearance and even gender. With minor shape-changing abilities they can literally be anyone they want, so as to have many human lives without looking suspicious. I also defined how they can sense each other and how the creator and progeny relationship (as I call them) works.
JM: What was your a ha! moment? When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
CO: Excellent question! Well I had a few. First back in 2006 when my friend published a book and I got mentioned in the acknowledgements (I helped him edit it), I thought "I want more than that, I want to write a book, not just be mentioned in it." Really thought it was just driving in the car one day listening to an interview R.A. Salvatore (who I'll admit I've never even read). He talked about how great it was to be a writer and I just thought, "that's what I want, more than anything." So the next day I got writing and almost 2 years later I was published.
JM: Is there anything about you as a writer that you consider to be a part of your signature style?
CO: That's a tough question! I think you pick up traits and ideas from writers you like, perhaps even on an unconscious level. I think for me though it would be I love music so much that I try to put songs (usually 10 or 11) in each book that fit the scene they are in. I have always imagined my books as movies, so I have tried hard to supply each one with a kind of soundtrack.
JM: Sound great. I can't wait to check it out.
CO: Thanks for having me, great questions!
Check out more from Charles O'Keefe over at his website, http://www.charlesokeefe.com/.
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Home sweet Haiti
Stevens family leaving east Montgomery for life of mission work
Home sweet Haiti Stevens family leaving east Montgomery for life of mission work Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/east-montgomery/2014/06/10/home-sweet-haiti/10286653/
MGM Published 1:27 p.m. CT June 10, 2014 | Updated 1:40 p.m. CT June 10, 2014
The Stevens family enjoys a 2013 mission trip.(Photo: Contributed)
Frazer church members Frank and Jan Stevens are leaving Thursday from Florida to Port-au-Prince to begin a ministry in Haiti. And they are not looking back.
The east Montgomery couple and their two children have sold their household possessions and will make Jacmel village their new permanent home.
"We sold our major furniture and household goods and two cars," Frank Stevens said. "When God places something on your heart he will place it on the heart of the whole family."
The couple, son Gabriel, 13, and daughter Josie, 3, have decided to leave the comfort of America behind. They also quit their good jobs to be full-time missionaries with Hands and Feet, a ministry serving needy youth in Haiti. "Gabriel sold his games and is looking forward to it," Frank Stevens said.
The couple will be serving as directors of housing that holds 65 to 70 children. The family will be moving from an upscale east Montgomery subdivision to live in a two bedroom, two bath home in Haiti.
The idea of being missionaries to Haiti first came to the couple's minds in 2010. Frank Stevens said the issue was not if but when it would happen. Frazer has an ongoing ministry initiative in Haiti that kept the nation and its need in plain view of the family.
Frank Stevens said the initial serious thoughts of moving to Haiti started when his wife came back last fall from a mission trip. In February, he also travelled to the impoverished nation which stirred more ideas of making a life-changing decision.
Josie Stevens is playing with those who will fast become her new friends. (Photo: Contributed photos)
The couple will be homeschooling their children who get along well with the Haitian youth, Frank Stevens said. The family's two dogs will be adjusting to a new home as well.
The couple will be site directors, handle budgeting and payroll, and help guide planned new construction. Haitian moms live in the existing houses with the children who number six to 10 per house. The ministry location includes a soccer field, playground and other recreational sites.
Jan Stevens talks to Kirby, a deaf child, on the Hands and Feet campus. (Photo: Contributed)
The children are all orphans who Hands works to unite with their parents. Some have been abandoned by parents because they can't support them.
"All have attachment issues as a result," Frank Stevens said. "Hands wants to reunite the kids with parents. Sometimes it's financial and we try to find jobs so parents can keep children and keep the family together. We are trying to give the kids a sense of family and relationships. We want these kids to be the future of Haiti."
Gabriel Stevens also has made some friends fast in Haiti. (Photo: Contributed photos)
How easily the couple's daughter played with the Haitian children in February was confirmation that the idea of moving was correct.
"In February, when our daughter fit in playing with the kids, it was just an affirmation of where we needed to be," Frank Stevens said. "This is where God wants us to be."
The Stevens family departs America for Haiti on Thursday. (Photo: LORI MERCER)
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Yellow taxis line up outside the Premium Plaza mall.
Editor note: this post is out-of-date and inaccurate so it has been updated in 2016 with new information.
By Western standards, taking taxis in Medellin is relatively inexpensive, and thus offer an easy and practical way for both visitors and locals to get around the city.
Hailing a yellow taxi on the street is as simple as holding up your arm until one flashes their hazard lights or turns on their direction signal as a sign they're pulling over to pick you up.
During the daytime, you should be fairly safe picking up taxis from the street, however exercise caution in the evenings.
Throughout the city, and often near points of interest, shopping centers and local landmarks, you'll see taxi stands where taxis queue up for customers. If you see one of these, it makes the process even easier.
Sometimes a person will be standing near the taxis keeping them organized, while other times, locals will be helping to direct passengers to specific taxi drivers who will then tip them a few coins in exchange for their help in attracting a customer. These people expect the tip from the driver, not you, so don't give them any money!
All Medellin taxis include digital meters with blue or red lighting. When you get in, check to make sure there is a meter, and it's working. If not, take another taxis (this is very rare, thankfully).
Taxis start off at 2,400 COP ($1.40), and in the evenings there is a mandatory charge of 4,000 COP ($2.30) even if the ride lasts less than that price.
Compared to many countries in the world, the majority of taxi drivers in Medellin are honest, friendly and trustworthy. Unlike places like Thailand and India, you probably won't be blatantly ripped off, however there are a few small ways some drivers will try to make a little extra money (especially if you're a foreigner).
1. They'll take a longer route than necessary to run up the meter. If you're not familiar with the city, it's unlikely you'll notice.
2. They'll ask for more money than appears on the meter (in the past, some drivers have claimed the difference is an evening surcharge, or it was for waiting at some point along the trip, though that time should be accounted for by a working meter).
3. Before you can give them money and ask for change, they'll state the amount due, rounding up to the nearest 1,000-peso mark from whatever shows on the meter (Ex: if the meter shows 5,300 COP, the driver will ask for 6,000 COP, with no intention of giving you change).
4. The driver will claim not to have change for the bill you give him. If this happens, it's his responsibility to find a shop or gas station where you can get change for your bill. The easiest way to avoid this inconvenience is to always carry small bills when taking taxis (and certainly nothing greater than a 20,000 peso note).
Tips are not expected, nor required, though many drivers appreciate any extra money you offer (through rounding up) given they usually make only about 50,000 COP ($25) per day.
While many people never have a problem with hailing taxis from the street, there is a safer approach that is often recommended by Colombians.
1. Call a taxi company to send you a registered taxi, 034 – 444 – 5555. If you call from a home phone number (landline), they will automatically know your address.
2. The taxi company will give you a secret code (often 4 digits) that you have to give to the driver so the driver can confirm he has the right person.
3. Have someone walk you to the door of the taxi, and note the registration number of that taxi. If you do not have someone to walk with you, call someone and give them this information over the phone.
This is less for sharing information and more for making the driver aware that someone knows where you are at all times and will come looking for you if you don't arrive as expected.
The cumulative effect of taxi doors being opened and closed regularly for months and years can slowly start to cause mechanical problems. As Colombian taxis are much smaller than the sedans and SUV's used in US and European cities, they don't stand up to being slammed shut so well. If you open the door on an old taxi, sometimes it even feels like it will fall off in your hand!
If you do not want the taxi drivers to give you a dirty look or yell at you, be extra careful when closing the car door. Make sure you gently close it with love and kindness. If a door is already damaged, the driver may prefer to close the door himself.
Whether you hail a taxi from the street, or call a service, the majority of drivers will be open to talking with you, especially if you're a foreigner. Many will even start the conversation by asking where you're from.
These conversations can be a great way to practice your Spanish, while also learning about the city and local culture.
The few times I have taken taxis, they are pretty nice. However, it's good to know what to watch for, just to make sure you are being treated fairly. I like how you said it's the drivers responsibility to get change for you.


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#include <grpcpp/server_builder.h>
#include <grpcpp/support/channel_arguments.h>
#include <grpcpp/support/config.h>

#include "src/core/lib/gprpp/sync.h"
#include "src/core/lib/iomgr/tcp_server.h"

namespace grpc {
namespace internal {

class ExternalConnectionAcceptorImpl
    : public std::enable_shared_from_this<ExternalConnectionAcceptorImpl> {
 public:
  ExternalConnectionAcceptorImpl(
      const std::string& name,
      ServerBuilder::experimental_type::ExternalConnectionType type,
      std::shared_ptr<ServerCredentials> creds);
  // Should only be called once.
  std::unique_ptr<experimental::ExternalConnectionAcceptor> GetAcceptor();

  void HandleNewConnection(
      experimental::ExternalConnectionAcceptor::NewConnectionParameters* p);

  void Shutdown();

  void Start();

  const char* name() { return name_.c_str(); }

  ServerCredentials* GetCredentials() { return creds_.get(); }

  void SetToChannelArgs(grpc::ChannelArguments* args);

 private:
  const std::string name_;
  std::shared_ptr<ServerCredentials> creds_;
  grpc_core::TcpServerFdHandler* handler_ = nullptr;  // not owned
  grpc_core::Mutex mu_;
  bool has_acceptor_ = false;
  bool started_ = false;
  bool shutdown_ = false;
};

}  // namespace internal
}  // namespace grpc

#endif  // SRC_CPP_SERVER_EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_ACCEPTOR_IMPL_H_

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Thanks to S/Sgt Raymond Algueseva (L Gunner).
Crew #3911 in front of Aircraft #38 "Forever Amber II".
For extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on 25-26 May 1945 on an incendiary bombing mission against the urban and industrial area of Tokyo, Japan from a base in the Marianas Islands. These individuals were combat crew members of a B-29 aircraft acting as pathfinder, with the task of lighting up the target area for the main force of planes which was to follow. Although they were caught and held in a cone of searchlights all the way in on the approach and over the objective, and though they sustained hits from intense anti-aircraft fire, making their plane easy prey for attacking fighters, this crew dropped their bombs accurately, successfully locating and lighting the target area. By vigorous and successful evasive action, they withdrew for the return to home base. Although suffering extensive battle damage, including several controls shot out, these veterans of more than twenty-one combat missions successfully performed their assigned mission with coolness, courage and skill. They contributed materially to the accomplishment of a severe blow against the enemy, thereby reflecting great credit on themselves and the Army Air Forces.
A separate DFC Citation was prepared for Captain RICHARD L. SHARP, Aircraft Commander of the above aircraft.
Starting sometime after June 5, this crew generally flew "Forever Amber II".


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Patricia Wentworth (Estate)
Pub date 1951
Publisher (UK) Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher (US) Open Road
International publishers Editions 10/18 (France)
Book 19 in the Miss Silver series
When a broken engagement leads to murder, Miss Silver hunts for the killer.
Bill Waring went to America with a bright future ahead of him. In London he had a promising career and the love of a young beauty, Lila Dryden, and there were plans for marriage when he returned from overseas. But then a freak train accident puts their happiness on hold. Bill spends a month in the hospital, and when he finally makes it back to London, there is a still bigger shock awaiting him. Under pressure from a domineering aunt, Lila has become engaged to another. She and her new fiancé—middle-aged, charmless, and rich—are in the country for the weekend. Bill follows, determined to win back Lila's heart. But when her new betrothed is stabbed to death, blame falls squarely on Bill, and only the brilliant, demure detective Maud Silver can clear his name.


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The Golden Globes Open Thread
Awards season continues on, deadening our souls and elevating mediocre, shitty movies. Tonight it's the Golden Globes. Chat along with fellow badasses here.
By Devin Faraci Jan. 15, 2012
The Golden Globes is one of the biggest awards shows on the movie calendar, and is considered one of the primary predictors for the Oscars. They're given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a horrible group of junket whores who have been accused of being able to be bought by movie studios for remarkably cheap prices. Click here to read one expose about this despicable group of inhumans, and then click here to read about last year's lawsuit about kickbacks and bribes.
I will say this for the Golden Globes: they have the good sense to have a comedy category and they also have the good sense to have an open bar, so the event itself is often kind of a drunken mess. This is the best awards show to actually watch because the celebrities don't take it too seriously and everybody is sort of lit. It's also interesting because they do TV awards; the TV people have to sit in the back of the ballroom, away from the actually famous movie people up front.
I won't be live blogging the awards - there's just too much of that going on and I'm not drunk enough - but this is the place for you guys to discuss the show as it goes. I'll pop in and give my two cents here, as well as on my Twitter account: @devincf.
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Ad Hominem Enterprises; Fox Searchlight Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures, Participant Media; Touchstone Pictures
Paramount Pictures presents a GK Films Production; Paramount Pictures
Columbia Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media Group, Crystal City Entertainment; Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing International
DreamWorks Pictures; Touchstone Pictures
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
GLENN CLOSE ALBERT NOBBS
VIOLA DAVIS THE HELP
ROONEY MARA THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
MERYL STREEP THE IRON LADY
TILDA SWINTON WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
GEORGE CLOONEY THE DESCENDANTS
LEONARDO DICAPRIO J. EDGAR
MICHAEL FASSBENDER SHAME
RYAN GOSLING THE IDES OF MARCH
BRAD PITT MONEYBALL
BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Summit Entertainment and Mandate Pictures; Summit Entertainment
a La Petite Reine – Studio 37 – La Classe Americaine – JD Prod- France3 Cinema – Jouror Production-uFilms coproduction; The Weinstein Company
Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Apatow Productions; Universal Pictures
A Mediapro, Versatil Cinema & Gravier Production; Sony Pictures Classics
The Weinstein Company; The Weinstein Company
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
JODIE FOSTER CARNAGE
CHARLIZE THERON YOUNG ADULT
KRISTEN WIIG BRIDESMAIDS
MICHELLE WILLIAMS MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
KATE WINSLET CARNAGE
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
JEAN DUJARDIN THE ARTIST
BRENDAN GLEESON THE GUARD
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT 50/50
RYAN GOSLING CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.
OWEN WILSON MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Paramount Pictures/Columbia Pictures/ Hemisphere Capital/Amblin Entertainment/Wingnut Films Production/ Kennedy/Marshall Production A Steven Spielberg Film; Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures & Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman; Sony Pictures Releasing International
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures
DreamWorks Animation; Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink / GK Films Production; Paramount Pictures
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE FLOWERS OF WAR (CHINA)
(Jing Ling Shi San Chai)
New Pictures Film Company; Wrekin Hill Entertainment
IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (USA)
GK Films; FilmDistrict
THE KID WITH A BIKE (BELGIUM)
(Le Gamin au Velo)
Les Films du Fleuve; Sundance Selects
A SEPARATION (IRAN)
(Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
Asghar Farhadi; Sony Pictures Classics
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (SPAIN)
(La piel que habito)
El Deseo D.A., S.L.U.; Sony Pictures Classics
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
BERENICE BEJO THE ARTIST
JESSICA CHASTAIN THE HELP
JANET MCTEER ALBERT NOBBS
OCTAVIA SPENCER THE HELP
SHAILENE WOODLEY THE DESCENDANTS
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
KENNETH BRANAGH MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
ALBERT BROOKS DRIVE
JONAH HILL MONEYBALL
VIGGO MORTENSEN A DANGEROUS METHOD
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER BEGINNERS
BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
WOODY ALLEN MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
GEORGE CLOONEY THE IDES OF MARCH
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS THE ARTIST
ALEXANDER PAYNE THE DESCENDANTS
MARTIN SCORSESE HUGO
BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
GEORGE CLOONEY, HESLOV, BEAU WILLIMON THE IDES OF MARCH
ALEXANDER PAYNE, NAT FAXON, JIM RASH THE DESCENDANTS
STAN CHERVIN
STEVEN ZAILLIAN, AARON SORKIN MONEYBALL
LUDOVIC BOURCE THE ARTIST
ABEL KORZENIOWSKI W.E.
TRENT REZNOR, ATTICUS ROSS THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
HOWARD SHORE HUGO
JOHN WILLIAMS WAR HORSE
"HELLO HELLO" — GNOMEO & JULIET
Music by: Elton John; Lyrics by: Bernie Taupin
"THE KEEPER" — MACHINE GUN PREACHER
Music & Lyrics by: Chris Cornell
"LAY YOUR HEAD DOWN" — ALBERT NOBBS
Music by: Brian Byrne; Lyrics by: Glenn Close
"THE LIVING PROOF" — THE HELP
Music by: Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman, Harvey Mason, Jr., Damon Thomas; Lyrics by: Mary J. Blige, Harvey Mason, Jr., Damon Thomas
"MASTERPIECE" — W.E.
Music & Lyrics by: Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry
BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
AMERICAN HORROR STORY (FX)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO)
Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions and Cold Front Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
BOSS (STARZ)
Lionsgate Television in association with Grammnet NH Productions, Roya Productions and Old Friends Productions
Bighead, Littlehead, 360 Television, Grok and Generator Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
SHOWTIME Presents, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet, Fox 21
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CLAIRE DANES HOMELAND
MIREILLE ENOS THE KILLING
JULIANNA MARGULIES THE GOOD WIFE
MADELEINE STOWE REVENGE
CALLIE THORNE NECESSARY ROUGHNESS
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
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BRYAN CRANSTON BREAKING BAD
KELSEY GRAMMER BOSS
JEREMY IRONS THE BORGIAS
DAMIAN LEWIS HOMELAND
BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
ENLIGHTENED (HBO)
Ripcord Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
EPISODES (SHOWTIME)
SHOWTIME Presents, Hat Trick Productions, Crane Klarik Productions
GLEE (FOX)
Ryan Murphy Television in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television
Levitan-Lloyd Productions in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television
NEW GIRL FOX
Chernin Entertainment in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –COMEDY OR MUSICAL
LAURA DERN ENLIGHTENED
ZOOEY DESCHANEL NEW GIRL
TINA FEY 30 ROCK
LAURA LINNEY THE BIG C
AMY POEHLER PARKS AND RECREATION
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
ALEC BALDWIN 30 ROCK
DAVID DUCHOVNY CALIFORNICATION
JOHNNY GALECKI THE BIG BANG THEORY
THOMAS JANE HUNG
MATT LEBLANC EPISODES
BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
CINEMA VERITE (HBO)
A Pariah Production in association with HBO Films
DOWNTON ABBEY (MASTERPIECE) (PBS)
A Carnival/Masterpiece Co-production
THE HOUR (BBC AMERICA)
Kudos Film and Television/BBC America co-production.
MILDRED PIERCE (HBO)
A Killer Films/John Wells Production in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and HBO Miniseries
TOO BIG TO FAIL (HBO)
A Spring Creek and A Deuce Three Production in association with HBO Films
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
ROMOLA GARAI THE HOUR
DIANE LANE CINEMA VERITE
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN DOWNTON ABBEY (MASTERPIECE)
EMILY WATSON APPROPRIATE ADULT
KATE WINSLET MILDRED PIERCE
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
HUGH BONNEVILLE DOWNTON ABBEY (MASTERPIECE)
IDRIS ELBA LUTHER
WILLIAM HURT TOO BIG TO FAIL
BILL NIGHY PAGE EIGHT (MASTERPIECE)
DOMINIC WEST THE HOUR
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
JESSICA LANGE AMERICAN HORROR STORY
KELLY MACDONALD BOARDWALK EMPIRE
MAGGIE SMITH DOWNTON ABBEY (MASTERPIECE)
SOFIA VERGARA MODERN FAMILY
EVAN RACHEL WOOD MILDRED PIERCE
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
PETER DINKLAGE GAME OF THRONES
PAUL GIAMATTI TOO BIG TO FAIL
GUY PEARCE MILDRED PIERCE
TIM ROBBINS CINEMA VERITE
ERIC STONESTREET MODERN FAMILY
OPEN THREAD: Let's Talk About HBO's THE OUTSIDER
Here's A Complete List Of Last Night's Golden Globe Winners
OPEN THREAD: So, What'd You Think Of STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER?
Well, Stephen King fans - what'd you think?
Did your faves win? Probably!
By Scott Wampler, Dec 22, 2019
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Mandy Ord is a comics artist, an illustrator, a speaker and teacher of comics, and a disability support worker, with a long history of self- publishing. Mandy's first book Rooftops (Finlay Lloyd) was published in 2008, followed by Sensitive Creatures (Allen & Unwin), published in 2011 and receiving a White Ravens award at the Bologna Book Fair. Mandy's comics have also been included in a variety of local and international publications including Meanjin, The Age, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, The Australian Rationalist Magazine and Trouble Magazine. In 2018 Mandy illustrated her first book for children, Chalk Boy (Allen & Unwin), written by Margaret Wild which was shortlisted in 2019 by the CBCA for picture book of the year.
Mandy's deep passion for the medium of comics has inspired her to present lectures and workshops to schools, universities, festivals and community groups across Australia and internationally. She has collaborated with theatre companies, writers, musicians, historians, local Wiradjuri language experts and audio units for animations and online content. Her latest book When One Person Dies The Whole World is Over is available through Brow Books.
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South Tahoe boys claim quarterfinals
Becky Regan
bregan@tahoedailytribune.com
By Becky Regan / Tahoe Daily TribuneBrandon Cramer lines up his shot during the first quarter of South Tahoe's quarterfinal win against Fallon on Tuesday.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – In the final two minutes of Tuesday's game, Brandon Cramer ripped the ball from Fallon and sprinted coast-to-coast.
"He just blew through everybody," South Tahoe coach Chris Proctor said. "He had two guys in front of him. My recollection was at about half court it just seemed he was going to take it and finish it."
The South Tahoe crowd started chanting "it's all over," and it was. Cramer's layup extended South Tahoe's lead to 61-49 with two minutes remaining.
South Tahoe used veteran experience in the fourth quarter to silence Fallon's third-quarter surge, and cement a 66-54 quarterfinal win Tuesday at South Tahoe High School. The win advances South Tahoe to semifinals, and ends a young Fallon team's playoff run.
"We played some good basketball, but some of our young guys made mistakes at the end and that's a veteran team. They don't make mistakes at the end," Fallon coach Chip Rutledge said. "That's the beauty of a veteran team. Those guys stepped up at the end and made no mistakes. They're a heck of a team."
It was also a heck of a game.
The Vikings and Greenwave were neck-in-neck through the first half.
The boys swapped the lead six times in the first quarter. Fallon's Niraj Morar and Richmond Laranang both drained 3's, but South Tahoe's Cramer hit one back. He ended the quarter with a steal and 3 of his own to give the Vikings a 16-13 lead.
The Vikings could have widened that lead in the second quarter when Fallon stumbled into turnover trouble. Kris DiGrande grabbed four steals and Tyler Sharp forced back-to-back turnovers in the period, but the Vikings bailed Fallon out with fouls.
The Vikings totaled 12 fouls in the first half, which capped their lead to 29-27.
A two-point game, however, wasn't too worrisome for the Vikings, who are usually a second half team.
"Our goal is to really step up the press in the first few minutes of the second half and see if we can get a momentum swing," Proctor said.
On Tuesday, though, it didn't work. Maybe it was Fallon's youthful stamina or maybe it was the elimination at stake, but the Greenwave was about to play its strongest half.
Fallon went on an unanswered nine-point tear to open the first half. LaDamien Crawely and Beau Marshall pushed Fallon to a 36-29 lead in what are usually South Tahoe's strongest minutes.
"They're a young team, but they had a great plan. They really brought a lot of pressure on us in the half court, and we haven't seen a lot of that," Proctor said. "They really stepped up and ran that kind of three-quarter, half court press and put us off our game. Just a little wrinkle like that can throw a team off."
The Vikings were definitely off as they slipped seven points behind in the third, pushing the time barrier of a probable comeback.
But the home crowd hadn't given up, and neither had Cramer.
The senior started working South Tahoe back into the game. Cramer and Kyante Wilson put up six unanswered points of their own.
"To me, that's why we play so hard to get a home game. So that things like that fall your way," Proctor said. "Being down seven, away, in Fallon … I don't know what the result of that game is."
Tyler Sharp drove inside to make it 37-37, and the Vikings had gained that swing in momentum.
"I just had a different mindset coming into the game today. It's my last home game, and so I was just going to take it to the hole and try to get my shot," Sharp said.
Once the veteran Vikings regained momentum they knew how to build off it.
Cramer hit 12 points in those last eight minutes and John Cefalu added six. The two seniors combined for 18 of South Tahoe's 22 fourth-quarter points.
"All of a sudden we got a couple great transition turnovers, took it the other way and I felt like we really kind of broke their spirit there for maybe the last four minutes," Proctor said.
Cramer delivered the final blow with the steal he drove in for a 12-point lead.
"We just turned it around. We were flustered in the beginning, but we just found it within ourselves to turn it around," Cramer said. "We knew this was it and we didn't want to go out like this. We knew what was at stake."
Cramer led the Vikings with 24 points and a nine-of-12 performance from 2-point range. Tyler Sharp was next with 11 points, and Hayden Bronken contributed 7 boards.
"Brandon carried a big load for us for three years in some ways, and he's really taken the burden well and you saw it tonight," Proctor said.
UP NEXT: South Tahoe advances to semifinals against Elko (22-3, 8-0) on Friday at Wooster High School. The last time these two teams met back in December Elko won 52-47. The winner of the semifinal game will advance to finals at 2 p.m. Saturday at Wooster High School.


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100 Top Sci Fi Movies List Challenge
How many of these 100 top Sci Fi movies have you seen? Click on each item below to mark it and then hit submit to get your score.
Metropolis (1927)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
City of Lost Children (1995)
Destination Moon (1950)
Rollerball (1975)
Logan's Run (1976)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Gattaca (1997)
The Terminator (1984)
Serenity (2005)
THX-1138 (1971)
Dark Star (1974)
Sunshine (2007)
They Live (1988)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Escape From New York (1981)
Silent Running (1972)
eXistenZ (1999)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Repo Man (1984)
Contact (1997)
The Time Machine (1960)
Mad Max (1979)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (1977)
Day of the Triffids (1962)
The Fountain (2006)
Primer (2004)
Dark City (1998)
Idiocracy (2006)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Sleep Dealer (2008)
Stalker (1979)
Dreamscape (1984)
Enemy Mine (1985)
The Matrix (1999)
Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
Outland (1981)
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Solaris (1972)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1992)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Altered States (1980)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Gojira (1954)
Moon (2009)
Men in Black (1997)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Frankenstein (1931)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Scanners (1981)
Minority Report (2002)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Abre Los Ojos (1997)
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the use of typography in the user interface.
buttons or it could be part of a branding system to give your app or website an identity.
Let's start out by looking at Type as content.
when we have video and audio to get our information through?
Well, the answer is that text does quite a few things that it's quite good at.
but most importantly, it can represent what can't be depicted.
we can see that the things that text is good at get amplified even more.
emojis in with the text itself.
as well as changing what we consider to be a typographic character.
and if anything, it's absorbing imagery into its language.
to alter itself to work in a new digital realm.
they're all fundamentally text-based still.
it has to have a typographic representation.
it becomes part of an interface design.
and for imparting and sharing that knowledge through digital media.
and this is because Type can do things that images and icons can't.
So, we can ask ourselves the same question.
Why do we need Type as part of an interface?
Why don't we just have icons for everything?
our interface are the same as why we use text for content.
and also, again, it can represent what can't be depicted.
Type is fast to read.
we know exactly what it means straight away.
and it has a very accurate and clear meaning.
There's no ambiguity at all.
"Stop." And Go only means one thing, "Go."
There's absolutely no gray area there.
very useful in terms of designing an interface.
not just a single word either.
We can take a letter and we can use that to represent something.
So, we know that this I stands in for information, for instance.
even though the form itself hasn't changed.
but the meaning is very, very different.
So, language has a great deal of flexibility in terms of how it works.
because it can work at greatly different scales.
but most importantly, Type can represent what can't be depicted.
How would you represent this word visually?
It would actually be quite difficult.
than it is when it's represented with language.
they still have a lot of overlap between how they might be read.
in menus, naming, buttons, instructions.
the fastest and most accurate way we have to communicate complex and specific ideas.
Finally, let's look at Type as branding.
Here, Type has a slightly different job to play.
and it's much more about connotation.
In other words, what does the form of the Type look like?
What kind of things does it suggest?
it build sympathy to a certain kind of content.
most often expressed as a logotype.
we could take some large companies and see what they look like without any form.
but it's dressed up with a different surface, a different form.
about the intrinsic form that these logotypes are normally seen in.
We're used to seeing Adidas look a certain way with it's round repetitive forms.
the typographic form, and as a mark or a logo.
and recognize them, but we also see them together.
The logotype and logo work together in harmony to form a single lockup.
to create an identity typographically.
the continuity between the two different versions.
or the time of year.
but also how they create a set of sympathetic imagery that's forever changing.
The big takeaway here is that Type matters.
and in terms of their individual identity.