Most of the time, when it comes to wireless charging, the name of the game isn't fast charging. Instead, what you're looking out for is mostly the experience that you're getting from the charger.
As wireless charging isn't as fast as wired charging, the way that you're able to use a wireless charger is what matters most. In this case, we're talking about the usage of a wireless charging stand.
In this review, we're going to be taking a look RAVPower's fast wireless charging stand that can fast charge Samsung smartphones. So this may actually give a better wireless charging experience than a regular wireless charging pad. Both on the powering and design side.
There are two main smartphones on the market that are capable of "Fast Wireless charging". One is Samsung smartphones ranging from the Samsung Galaxy S7, all the way to current ones. Also, the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone XS, also have their own fast wireless charging speed.
For this RAVPower wireless charger, it's able to supply 10W of charging power for Samsung smartphones. However, you must be using a Quick Charge wall charger to power this RAVPower wireless charger to get the fast wireless charging.
If you're using a regular wall charger, then the wireless charging for Samsung smartphones will default back to 5W.
As for fast charging the iPhone X, iPhone 8, or the iPhone XS? Unfortunately, this wireless charger does not support iPhone fast wireless charging. So even if you're using a Quick Charge wall charge with it, iPhones will receive a 5W charging speed. Instead of a 7.5W charging rate that they would receive with a fast wireless charger.
Also, all other Qi-compatible Android smartphones will receive a 5W charging speed.
As we mentioned before, to get the fast wireless charging speed for Samsung smartphones, you must use a Quick Charge wall charger to power it.
The wireless charging stand makes use of a Micro-USB input port, but the good news is that the wireless charger comes with a Micro-USB cable. It does not, however, come with a Quick Charge wall charger.
Much like other wireless chargers on the market, this charging stand is going to go great with nearly any desktop set-up that you've got going.
The charger has a height of 4.3 inches and has a base that is about 2.8 inches wide. The weight of the charger is 5.9 Ounces.
When it comes to using this wireless charger, the best part about it is that you can use your smartphone while it charges from it.
The stand portion ensures that your smartphone sits at a 60-degree angle, giving you a clear view of your screen.
Also, since this charger features two charging coils. One at the top portion and bottom portion of the charger, you can either place your phone vertically or horizontally for charging to happen.
There is a single LED light at the bottom of the charger that has two colors. Red and Green.
The Red either stays on for 10 seconds on standby and then turns off. Or if there's a foreign object, other than a smartphone on the charger, then it flickers Red.
When you can place a smartphone on the charger to actually charge, the light flickers green, or it stays on for about 15 seconds once your phone is fully charged and then turns off.
The build quality of the charger is nearly all plastic and that's basically what you can expect from most chargers on the market.
The base is the heaviest and thickest portion of the charger.
If you're fast wirelessly charging a Samsung smartphone at 10W for a long duration of time, then yes, the charger does get a little warm. However, when it comes to standard wireless charging at 5W, then the charger does not exhibit any overheating.
The reliability of the charger is going to be the best for Samsung smartphone owners, you can use the fast wireless charging that this RAVPower charger has to offer.
Sure, other Andriod smartphones will also benefit from using this wireless charger, too, but they will receive a 5W charging speed. But that will be the case for other fast wireless chargers, too. With this wireless charger, you get the stand form factor that makes it more reliable for using your smartphone while it charges.
However, when it comes to charging an iPhone X, iPhone 8, or iPhone XS, then this charger isn't the most reliable, as it won't provide a 7.5W charging speed. Rather a 5W standard charging speed.
Also, in regards to the reliability to what the wireless charger actually comes with; it does not come with Quick Charge wall charger, so therefore, unless you have a Quick Charge wall charger yourself, you can't use the full power of the wireless charger out of the box.
The charging power is great for Samsung smartphones as it features fast wireless charging speed for them.
The ability to use your smartphone while it charges from a wireless charger is a great benefit. You also get to place your smartphone in landscape mode, too because this is a dual coil charger.
This RAVPower charger does get a little warm if you're using its fast wireless charging for a long duration.
The fast charging is only meant for Samsung smartphones, and not for iPhones.
This RAVPower fast wireless charging stand is one of the best wireless chargers to get your Samsung smartphone or any other Android smartphone that you may own.


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Yuri Mikhailovich Gritsenko (; born November 6, 1961), known as The Zelenograd Chikatilo (), is a Russian serial killer who committed 4 brutal murders in his home city of Zelenograd in the first few months of 2001.

Biography
Since childhood, Yuri Gritsenko grew up a closed and unsociable person. His father was a carpenter, while his mother was a strong and strict woman. Psychiatrists are confident that this led to the development of a misogynistic complex in Gritsenko. After serving in the army, Gritsenko began working for the militsiya (Soviet police), believing that his profession would quash his self-doubt. He soon married and had two children born, but the complex persisted. Understanding this, Gritsenko became addicted to alcohol. During this time, everything negative splashed out of him, which, in the end, turned him into a murderer. After some time, he was fired from the police forces for his drunkenness, after which he committed a murder and received 8 years of imprisonment. According to the killer, his victim was a prostitute who wanted to rob him, and which he killed her with a blow from a frying pan. When Gritsenko returned from the colony, his family was almost completely broken up.

Since the beginning of April 2001, Gritsenko began attacking women. He struck his victims with a hammer, causing traumatic brain injuries. In just three days in April, he attacked five women, two of which the doctors couldn't save. The survivors couldn't describe the criminal, since he always struck from behind. Gritsenko committed all his attacks in Zelenograd's urban forest during the day, when people were returning from work. He loved to walk around in the park, especially in the area of Lake Chernoe. He temporarily laid low for a while, but in August he resumed his attacks. During this time, he inflicted severe head injuries on four women. Local newspapers began pressuring the authorities, and facial composites were hung throughout Zelenograd.

By the beginning of autumn, Gritsenko had committed 4 murders and 5 attempted murders in Zelenograd Forest Park. At the time, he again laid low, but on October 19, 2001, he attacked another woman, this time in the Northern Administrative Okrug of Moscow. Within a week, he beat three more women with a hammer. But soon one of the victims resisted him, snatching the hammer away and escaping her assailant. She then clearly described her attacker's appearance.

On November 19, 2001, the killer was detained during another attack on a woman in Moscow's Friendship Park. To her help suddenly came a young man, who heard her cries. Gritsenko, leaving the seriously injured woman, pounced with the hammer on her saviour, but couldn't kill him. Anatoly Sukhov, who was a bus driver, wounded the killer and waited for the arrival of the authorities. During the eight months of his criminal activities, Gritsenko had committed 4 murders and 10 attempted murders on women. He soon admitted to his crimes. A forensic psychiatric examination in April 2002 found him fully sane. In the summer of 2002, the Moscow City Court sentenced Yuri Gritsenko to 22 years imprisonment, with the Supreme Court of Russia upholding the sentence.

In the media
 Documentary film from the series "Documentary Detective" - 'Zelenograd Chikatilo'

See also
 List of Russian serial killers

References
 Yuri Gritsenko
 Comrade Sukhov declared war on the bandits

1961 births
Living people
Male serial killers
People from Zelenograd
Russian serial killers
Serial killers who worked in law enforcement

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Sweet Valley High Revisited - Rumors
Here we are then! I'm not sure how this got written at all to be honest, as I've been massively preoccupied with chasing Pokémon around the place for about ten days now and my obsession shows no sign of abating. (TEAM MYSTIC, btw) In any case, let's get cracking on to book 37, ever ever closer to the fateful book 40. There's actually two Super Editions that should have been covered by now, but I only got them for my birthday a few weeks ago and I'm as impatient as the rest of you to get to the Regina cocaine fiasco, so I'll go back to them after that point. In the meantime. Lezgo.
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Sweet Valley High #37: Rumors
Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are in the kitchen with their mother Alice (who looks both young and hot enough to be their older sister, you know) each reading different sections of the newspaper, having breakfast and generally being the picture of perfect West Coast whiteness.
There was no way to miss the fact that the twins were California girls.
Jessica is reading the comics while Elizabeth is reading an article about working mothers and admiring the journalist's writing style.
The story was clear, informative, and fair, she decided with a nod of her blonde head. Good reporting.
Oh my god, she needs to go down to that newspaper office and tell the writer IMMEDIATELY because surely praise from Elizabeth Wakefield is better than any award or accolades. Elizabeth reads aloud that more women are choosing not to have children in order to focus on their careers and Alice thinks it's a shame and says how important her family is to her, when Jessica makes a very valid point.
"It must be so much easier to be a man," she said. "You wouldn't have any of those really hard decisions we women have to make all the time."
"Yeah," Elizabeth said wryly. "I know what you mean. Like which blouse to wear with your new skirt. One of yours or one of mine."
Shut up, Liz.
All three then briefly chat about the upcoming Bridgewater Ball, a super fancy event that takes place in the nearby town of Bridgewater, which is full of wealthy people. I've previously called Palisades the Pawnee to Sweet Valley's Eagleton, but it sounds like Bridgewater is the real Eagleton in this game. Last year's ball had a Mississippi Riverboat theme, complete with a giant ice sculpture in the shape of a steamboat with jumbo shrimp all over it, which, to me, sounds like the stuff of actual nightmares, but I'm not a rich person in the Eighties so what do I know. This year's theme is "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and Jessica asks if that means they'll have "gondolas and things" at it. Aww! Before heading off for school, Elizabeth notices her mother wincing and putting her hand on her stomach. Alice says she's fine, she's just been feeling under the weather and has a doctor's appointment after work.
At school, Jessica and Lila are talking about the Bridgewater Ball and Lila insists that she's going but apparently no one has asked her yet. Jessica reckons that Susan Stewart will be going with her rich boyfriend Gordon, which riles Lila up, because she's jealous of Susan for being pretty and having fancy outfits, and partly because she dated Gordon a few times herself, but mostly for the air of mystery that surrounds her. You see, Susan lives with her guardian, a lady named Helen, and nobody knows who her real mother is, but apparently she sends loads of money because Susan always has the "most incredible clothes". And lots of people in school have gone out of their way to be friendly to Susan, in case it turns out that her mother is someone famous or important, because they're a bunch of shallow assholes.
Susan goes golfing at the Sweet Valley Country Club with Gordon and his parents, who are the kind of rich people that are named Farley and Binky and complain about how the membership of the club has gone downhill lately and that Sweet Valley used to only be populated by the right kind of people. Susan anxiously wonders whether she's the right kind of people, seeing as she has no idea who her mother is, and tells Gordon that she knows he'd still like her even she she wasn't.
For a moment he hesitated and dropped his eyes from hers while a slight flush showed through his tan. Then he laughed hollowly.
Hey Susan, I've got this MASSIVE RED FLAG for you, would you like it? Susan? TAKE THE DAMN FLAG, SUSAN.
Afterwards when Susan goes home, she tells "Aunt Helen" about her day and how Binky thinks she should wear a pale gold dress to the Bridgewater Ball. Helen works her ass off as a waitress and also works as a seamstress from home to make extra money, and she offers to make a dress for Susan, showing her a sketch she's drawn up. Susan loves it and thinks about how hard Helen works and wonders what life would be like if she was her mother. Also, we learn that Helen has agreed to tell Susan who her real mother is on her eighteenth birthday, but not a day sooner.
Meanwhile, Jessica's health class at school is covering fertility and she was shocked and appalled at the thought of women having babies in their forties, because that's how old her mother is. While she's at home doing homework for it, she reads about how some pregnant women get unusual cravings, when Alice suddenly announces that she really wants pistachio ice cream, gets mad at Ned when he says he's too tired to go out and buy some and storms off to go to the shop herself. After that and Alice mentioning how she liked the name Andrea earlier, along with the doctor's appointment, Jessica is now convinced that her mother is knocked up.
At school, while in the cafeteria queue, Liz gets talking to Allen Walters, who takes photos for The Oracle and used to date Robin Wilson, I think? Or at least, he was around and nice to her back when she was being mercilessly bullied for being fat. Anyway, Liz realises that Allen fancies Susan and encourages him to be friends with her. Susan comes over and chats to them for a bit and Elizabeth sees that while she's friendly and open, Susan clearly doesn't see Allen as anything other than a friend.
She doesn't know what she's missing, she told herself silently.
This is such classic judgmental nonsense from Liz. As far as she knows, Susan and Gordon are super fucking happy together, but Susan apparently "doesn't know what she's missing" because Elizabeth has decided that Allen deserves all her attention just because she gives him a boner and how she feels about him or the fact that she doesn't even know him that well obviously doesn't really matter because she doesn't know what's good for her. SHUT UP LIZ.
Anyway, Lila is sitting with Cara Walker and Caroline Pearce, sipping her Diet Coke and eyeballing Susan from a few tables away. For some reason, Lila has decided that Susan needs to be taught a lesson and makes up a rumour that her mother is in a "hospital for the criminally insane", knowing full well that telling Cara and Caroline means it'll be all over the school by the end of the day. Classic villainess scheming, Lila.
Back at the tastefully-decorated Wakefield house, Jessica has convinced Elizabeth that their mother is pregnant, and Jessica goes snooping in their parents bedroom looking for clues. She freaks out when she finds baby clothes in the back of their wardrobe and the twins decide to start casually mentioning babies and large families the whole time, to let their parents know they're ok with the idea of a new sibling. However, all this does is cause their mother to take them aside after dinner and very seriously ask "Which one of you is in trouble?" which I can't help finding hilarious. Sweet Valley is NOT READY for teen pregnancy. However, even after all that, they still don't just ask their mother outright if she's preggo so this dumb subplot lumbers on.
Meanwhile, poor Susan is having plans cancelled on her by her rich so-called friends and feels like everyone is looking at her weirdly in the corridors at school. Then Gordon shows up and says he can't take her to the ball after all, that his parents don't want him to bring her and when Susan doesn't understand why, he blows up at her, accusing her of lying to everyone and going around saying she was important (which she never actually did), and in the process reveals that the rumour doing the rounds is that her real mother killed someone and is locked away in an asylum. Susan runs off crying and bumps into Allen Walters, who comforts her and tells her he doesn't believe the rumour. Susan goes home and tearfully begs Helen to tell her who her mother is, but Helen won't, even though Susan is clearly extremely upset, so Susan figures the rumour must be true and ends up even more distressed. NICE ONE, HELEN.
Aww Susan :( Her blouse seems suitably fancy, all silky-lookin' with pearly buttons. Also, is it just me or is she the image of a young, red-haired Parker Posey?
The next day, everyone finds out that Jackson Croft, a big-time movie director guy is coming to Sweet Valley to hold an open casting for his next film. Jessica is immediately picturing herself starring in romantic comedies before moving on to hard-hitting drama roles and Elizabeth reads up on him in the paper, discovering that his son died the previous year when their car was hit by a drunk driver. She also reads that his earnings from this upcoming film are all going to some group called Students Against Drunk Driving and Elizabeth decides that she should interview him for the Oracle, because he has "a real message", so she's going to head along to the casting call too and try to spring an interview on him about his dead son, because he'll surely be down with that.
Lila calls up Jessica, telling her that she's heard that Gordon has broken up with Susan over the rumours about her mother so now he's going to need a date for the Bridgewater Ball and acts like she doesn't care if he asks her even though she's clearly dying to go. Jessica decides that she's going to try to bag him as a date herself so she'll get to go. Jessica borrows one of Elizabeth's dresses so she can look all classy and demure when she launches her charm assault on Gordon at school. Her attempt doesn't go over as well as it should have though, as he was sitting with Lila in the cafeteria, and all her lustrous eye action and tinkling laughs couldn't stop Lila from essentially marching a slightly bewildered Gordon out of there under the pretext of getting history notes for her.
Meanwhile in the library, Liz runs into a mournful Susan staring out the window and tries to assure her that not everyone believes the rumour and her real friends still believe in her.
A hollow, dry laugh, almost a sob, sounded in Susan's throat. "But they don't," she moaned. "Everyone's treating me like I've got the plague."
"I'm not!"
#notallwakefields
Elizabeth doesn't succeed in cheering Susan up and when she's leaving the library, meets Allen Walters and sends him in to talk to Susan. So far all we really know about Allen is that he's a lanky and shy photographer who nevertheless seems to have a suspicious knack for picking up girls who are sad and vulnerable. Anyway, he goes in and apparently he really likes Susan so he's nervous, but ends up asking her out for coffee on Saturday. Susan hesitates because it's the night of the Bridgewater Ball, but then figures she's not going now and agrees to the date.
Helen Reister is at home, kicking it Sunset Beach style, i.e. talking to herself in the mirror and saying dramatic things like "Oh Susan! Susan, my baby!" and "Susan, will you ever understand?" because, in a twist that will shock absolutely no one, it turns out that SHE'S Susan's mother. We discover that Helen wasn't married to Susan's father, that he was at the start of a career that would "consume every ounce of his strength and commitment" and couldn't offer her marriage. Because being pregnant followed by raising a child alone and with no support is such a fucking doddle I suppose, but yes, this dude's fancy job was more important than having any involvement with his child. Helen writes a letter to Susan, explaining all of this and how she moved to Sweet Valley after Susan was born but called herself Susan's guardian because an unmarried woman with a baby would be "shunned or scorned". Well well, maybe Sweet Valley isn't so perfect after all. Also, (and I know this isn't exactly a good solution either, BUT) couldn't she have told people that Susan's dad died or something? At least that way she could still be Susan's mother, it's a somewhat smaller and less ridiculous web of lies to weave and Helen would have been well within her rights considering the bullshit that guy pulled. Anyway, she ends up tearing up the letter, before a knock comes on the door and who is it only big-time movie director Jackson Croft. WELL LOOK AT THIS ASSHOLE.
He and Helen haven't seen each other in seventeen years and we find out that Helen wrote to him when she moved to Sweet Valley with Susan, in the hope that he'd come for the two of them but then saw in the papers that he'd gotten married. This fucking guy. (I feel like I say that a lot about male characters in this series, but seriously, THIS FUCKING GUY) Jackson wants to see Susan, as he suddenly feels bad about abandoning her and her mother now that his son is dead.
"I'm sorry." He drew a deep breath. "Another woman might have come to be by now for help. I-I have a lot of money you, know." He looked sheepish, as though he were embarrassed to have been so successful at his work.
And what exactly was stopping you from sending some of that fucking money her way regardless of whether she came looking for it or not, WHICH SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN 100% ENTITLED TO DO. Hmm, Scrooge McDuck? You dick.
Helen explains to him that Susan doesn't know anything about him and that she'd prefer to be the one to tell her and then he can see her. However, Susan arrives home unexpectedly, sees that Helen is upset and asks what this fucking guy is doing here, Helen runs off crying and Jackson tells her he's her father. AGAIN. THIS FUCKING GUY. He also ends up telling her that Helen is actually her mother, but in fairness, he didn't realise that Susan didn't know that. Anyway, Susan is mad at everyone briefly, but then has a tearful reunion with Helen and everything is cool, although Jackson says he wants Susan to come live with him in LA, if she wants to, which is very fucking presumptuous of him.
It's the day of the open casting for Jackson's film, so the twins turn up, along with most of the kids from school. Jessica is mad at Lila, because she and Gordon are there together and he's taking Lila to the Bridgewater Ball. Elizabeth, Jessica and Enid see Jackson behind some vans and just walk right up to him because there's no security at this thing and Elizabeth asks him if she can interview him for the school paper. He's all interested in Sweet Valley High, because he knows it's where Susan goes to school and agrees to do an interview on the spot, because this is what Wakefield life is like. However, Susan suddenly arrives on the scene, saying she had to talk to him and that she can't come stay with him in LA right now, but maybe she'll visit him soon. Jackson is then called away and the whole story about him being her dad comes out, to an astonished Enid, Jessica and Elizabeth.
Back at the Wakefield house, Steven and the twins have decided that enough is enough and confront their parents about the suspected pregnancy. Ned and Alice are shocked and explain through laughs and gasps that the baby clothes in their wardrobe are for a baby shower next week and that a conversation the twins overheard, in which Ned and Alice were agreeing not to tell them something until it was definite was about them taking a month-long holiday and leaving the girls by themselves. So that was all a massive waste of time and energy, THANKS GHOSTWRITER.
Everyone is out at the Beach Disco, including Susan, who's just been dancing with Gordon. She joins the twins, Lila, Cara and Steve and announces that Gordon has said he made a terrible mistake and wants her to come with him to the ball after all, i.e. now that she's not white trash anymore and the daughter of a famous director. Lila is raging and Elizabeth reminds Susan that she's agreed to go out with Allen that night. Allen then turns up and tells Susan that he understands if she's too busy now to meet him, but she tells him shush, that she knows who her true friends are now and when Gordon joins them, she tells him to jump in the ocean. She and Allen head off to the dancefloor, leaving Gordon with a furious Lila, who dumps her soda over his head and all over his fancy cashmere sweater. IN YO FACE GORDON.
Notable outfit:
Susan's outfits are supposed to be totally amazing and enough to send Lila Fowler into a jealous frenzy, but the only outfit description of hers we get is...
At the moment she was wearing a simple, khaki-coloured skirt and a creamy silk blouse that set off her tanned skin and coppery hair beautifully.
...sooo beige librarian, then.
As such, this accolade goes to Dana Larson, who only makes the briefest of appearances, so Jesica can describe her pants in awe.
She was wearing skintight, leopard-spotted jeans.
YES DANA.
Things I counted:
References to the twins' blue-green eyes: 5
References to the fact that the twins are blonde: 3
Grab This Widget Posted by Kitty Catastrophe at 12:55 pm
Labels: Sweet Valley High , Sweet Valley Revisited
Samantha 28 July 2016 at 18:20
Yup, I had this one! It was such a snore to me. If Jessica isn't in it being a sociopath, I'm not interested. LOL!
Beige librarian is a bad thing?? I'm going to have to rethink every part of my wardrobe....
Charline 9 August 2016 at 00:16
I love how Alice and Ned, the absentee parents go on about how important their family life is. While booking another month-long vaycay.
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Like me on Facebook. It's what Jessica Wakefield would do. After stealing your boyfriend, obvs.
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TV personality known for playing Bozo the Clown dies at 89
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BOSTON (AP) — Longtime Boston television personality and entertainer Frank Avruch, who was the star of the popular children's TV program "Bozo the Clown," has died. He was 89.
Avruch died Tuesday at his Boston home from heart disease, his family said in a statement to WCVB-TV .
Avruch played Bozo the Clown from 1959 to 1970, a clown character particularly popular in the U.S. in the 1960s because of widespread franchising in television. Avruch became the first nationally-syndicated Bozo the Clown.
"He had a heart of gold," manager Stuart Hersh told The Associated Press on Wednesday, "He brought the Bozo the Clown character to life better than anyone else's portrayal of Bozo the Clown."
Boston's original Channel 5, WHDH-TV, produced a local, weekday version of the "Bozo the Clown" children's program between 1959 and 1970. Booth announcer Frank Avruch played the title role. Grab is from a 1966 broadcast. (WHDH-TV via YouTube)
Avruch also was a contributor to WCVB-TV for more than 40 years as a host of "Man About Town" and "The Great Entertainment."
He was an active philanthropist and a board member of UNICEF'S New England chapter. He toured the world performing as Bozo the clown for UNICEF.
"He touched so many people with his portrayal," Hersh said.
Frank Avruch, who played "Bozo the Clown" from 1959 to 1970, died Tuesday, March 20, 2018, of heart disease at his Boston home. Photo from his Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/frank.avruch (Facebook)
Avruch is survived by his wife Betty, two sons Matthew and Steven and several grandchildren.
"While it's hard to say goodbye, we celebrate the legacy of joy and laughter he brought to millions of children around the world as Bozo the Clown on TV and as a UNICEF Ambassador and later as host of Channel 5's Great Entertainment and Boston's Man About Town," Avruch's family said in a statement to the station. "Our dad loved the children of all ages who remembered being on his show and was always grateful for their kind words. We will miss him greatly."


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Of Habana Libre, his most recent work, Holly Goddard Jones, author of The Next Time You See Me, describes the characters as a "cast of dreamers" for whom "America is more of an abstract ideal than a place that can be reached by boat. Wendel tells their story with tender complexity and rich detail." Fortunately for me, Tim Wendel could not be a kinder, gentler, more salt of the earth sort of soul. The sort of person who immediately puts everyone at ease.
WENDEL: I believe in the power of stories. They can save us, and a well-told tale holds a lot about the secrets of life, especially how to stay at it even when everything seems stacked against us. Richard Ford once said that when you read something that strikes a chord within you, the natural tendency is to try and do it yourself. There's nothing like finishing a good read and then imagining what you can do.
WENDEL: In recent years, I've tried to let things sit a bit before sending them out to the world. This allows me to see the places where the story could use a bit of polish. In addition, I often do more research during the revision stage. If a scene needs a boost, it can often be found in additional detail or back story that helps with the understanding of the characters. We're so lucky in the D.C. area, where I make my home, with the Library of Congress and National Archives close by. A trip to them or even the local library can underscore and help emphasize things, especially a pivotal scene.
WENDEL: Good question. In looking back on my work, a key theme has to be perseverance. I often write about the underdog, whether it is in my novels or narrative nonfiction. I'm also intrigued by group dynamics. Even though my writing usually has several key characters, they are often involved in a group, and how they come together is crucial to their overall success. This is certainly true with the nonfiction titles—Summer of '68, High Heat, Going for the Gold. But it is also key on the fiction side with Castro's Curveball and Habana Libre.
WENDEL: I'm been extremely fortunate to have several great teachers during my career, going back to my high school days, which is saying something because I went to a rural school in western New York state. In college, I studied with a master of long-form narrative, Bill Glavin, at Syracuse University. And since then I've been blessed to learn from Nick Delbanco, Margot Livesey, Marita Golden, Carolyn Doty, Oakley Hall and Alan Cheuse to name a few. But I also think it's important to seek good teachers out. I have attended several summer conferences (Sewanee and Squaw Valley) simply because somebody whose work I admired was teaching there.
HUERGO: How has teaching affected your writing?
WENDEL: It means I cannot cheat. What I mean by that is I cannot advise my students to go in one direction and then not pursue the same path with my own writing. Teaching keeps me honest about my own efforts on the page.
WENDEL: Try to bring some degree of regularity to your craft. Certainly writing is easier when we're inspired or a story is going well. But some of the best scenes or moments happen on the days when it all seems simply like a lot of work. But if you can put down a few lines, fill a page in your notebook, it can often lead to some effective passages and insights. Writing in this day and age is tough—no doubt about it. Between work, family, etc., finding the time can be difficult. But seize the time. It will be worth it. I wrote my first novel on the D.C. Metro. It was the only time I had back then, but I got a good book out of it.
WENDEL: I tend to alternate between fiction and nonfiction. It keeps me from becoming stale. So, after the recent novella, Habana Libre, I'm back to writing about sports and history in a new book for Da Capo entitled Down to the Last Strike. It will be out in spring 2014 and includes a slice of memoir, which is new for me. After that I'm back to the beginning, looking through various ideas in my notebook, and I'm thinking the next one could be another novel or even a screenplay.
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The Applecross Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and capable individual to undertake a range of general estate duties. Based in Applecross, the successful applicant will be self-motivated and able to work effectively with time constraints, both independently or as part of a small team.
Applicants possessing a trade or experience with operating plant and machinery will have an advantage. Flexibility to work irregular hours is important and a driving license is essential.
Salary level is according to skill and experience.
The young calves pictured are a set of twins, born on 27th February to Anabel bhuidhe of Applecross who is 9 years old. The sire is Aonghas Dubh of Ardbhan. The other set of twins (not pictured) are from the mother of the dam, Annabel 3rd and Ewen of Callahally. All offspring are heifers.
The in-depth strategic review and public consultation exercise which commenced in January 2016 has now been completed with the help and assistance of Strath Caulaidh Limited.
I plan to stand down as Chairman and as a Trustee of the Applecross Trust and will formally issue my resignation at the upcoming Trust Meeting later this week.
My lifelong association with Applecross, and that of my family, has made this a very difficult decision and one which has taken considerable time to arrive at. I have thought long and hard about what is best for Applecross, for the Trust, and for myself and my family, and think the time is right to pass on the baton.
Estate Office House, an old keystone building on the estate, is being renovated for use as a holiday let from 2017. For 2017 holiday bookings please contact Cottages & Castles or the Trust.
The Applecross Trustees will hold a Public Meeting in Applecross Hall on Wednesday 7th at 7pm. Douglas Campbell and Carron Tobin who are carrying out a 10 year plan for the estate will be contributors. All welcome.
Members of the Swiss Highland Cattle Breeders visited Applecross recently. The main purpose of their visit was to see the World renowned herd of Highland Cattle, considered to be the oldest in the Country. Farm manager, Michael Summers, took the visitors on a tour of the herd, followed by lunch at the Walled Garden.
The Trust has submitted an application for Outline Planning approval for the erection of 2 semi-detached houses next to the farm steading at Applecross. Further information can be found on the Highland Council website. Application reference 16/01585/PIP.
Anyone with any queries is welcome to discuss them with Archie MacLellan.
The Applecross river has been identified as a potentially significant site for learning about some important aspects of salmon biology. The behaviours of salmon and trout as they leave Scottish rivers, and the challenges they face on their seaward migrations, are largely unknown.
The Applecross Trust recently sought tenders for the production of a strategic Estate Plan which assesses the economic performance of the business and presents opportunities for development which are in line with Trust objectives. The successful applicant was Strath Caulaidh and their representatives have started work on this during January. Early stage processes will involve consulting with the Applecross communities.
The project is currently underway and the end of 2014 saw most of the trees harvested and transported around the north Applecross Coast by Ferguson Transport's high spec lorries. Mulching of the site is in the process of being carried out and new planting of native trees will start after a new perimeter fence is erected in February 2015.
The new path which dissects the site is already popular with walkers and mountain bikers.


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Author: Elizabeth Peters Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Audio Length: 6.75 hours Series:The Vicky Bliss Mysteries Release Date: November 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download ISBN: 9781440782374
A single crimson rose and a plane ticket to Stockholm neatly mailed in a mysterious package sound like the formula for a romantic weekend. And a note in the bottom of the box fuels Vicky's already insatiable curiosity-it is written in an archaic language even the capable Dr. Bliss cannot decipher. Is she embarking on a journey of romance or something else?
" Not my favorite of the series but still enjoyable. "
- Carly, 2/19/2014
" I really don't think I want to ready any more books in this little series. This book was EXTREMELY slow in moving. I think it was about pg 160 before I really knew what was going on and before anything happened. The author but a lot of details and facts about stuff in it that never really lead to a story. The so called storyline could have been summed up in a very very few pages. "
- Shannon, 1/31/2014
" Dr. Vicky Bliss takes off to Sweden to meet John Smythe and gets dragged into his latest scheme to get a Swedish recluse to let him dig for buried medieval treasures. Of course he is betrayed by his co-conspirators and with the help of Vicky must try and save the day and their own lives. With Vicky there are history and art lessons but the location on a Swedish Island made the book a little less compelling as were the villainous characters. You know too early who the bad guys are it is just a matter of how to outwit and outlast them. "
- Kaye, 1/29/2014
" Surprised to say I like Elizabeth Peters' variant style in her Vicky Bliss novels as opposed to her Amelia Peabody ones. Fun, easy read. "
- Nikki, 1/10/2014
" #3 in the VB series "
- Tania, 12/27/2013
" Still really liking this series. I love that we get to visit different places in each book. I also love that Vicky isn't so smart and superior that she never gets herself into tight situations, and yet she never acts in a way that makes me wonder how she could be so stupid. Pure enjoyment! "
- Andrea, 12/9/2013
" 4.5 stars. Rounded up for humor. "
- Hilly, 11/18/2013
" I think I say this after every Vicky Bliss novel, but I really wish she was Amelia Peabody! These books are just ok, never amazing like the Amelias..I just find myself not caring that much about the characters. But, they read quickly and keep you mildly entertained. It also took me an entire day after finishing it to actually understand the title, and I still don't get why there's a cat on the cover. *shrugs* "
- Christine, 10/20/2013
" Nice light reading. Love her writing style. Her books just seem timeless. They could be set in any era. This is the 3rd Vicky Bliss, and there are 3 more to go. I hope Vicky and John resolve their issues by the end. "
- Kimberly, 9/18/2013
" Really good plane fare - not too intensive, adventurous and mildly romantic without being too schmaltzy. I wasn't terribly surprised at anything that happened, but I was entertained. "
- Bree, 8/17/2013
" The vicky bliss books are a very nice light read with the added little romance between the characters. "
- Jennifer, 8/17/2013
" I'm currently listening to the audiobook narrated by Barbara Rosenblat. Love all of the Amelia Peabody books, so I am giving Vicky Bliss a try. Miss the British accent, though! "
- Peyton, 8/15/2013
" A reread of an old Peters' mystery. Lots of action, humor and twists and turns and a bit of romance. Involving art history, situated in Sweden. "
- Judy, 7/27/2013
" Breezy and with a little more bite than the last. "
" Book 3 is just as good as the other 2. "
- Laurel, 3/16/2013
" Not as fun as Street of the Five Moons, but still nice book. Couldn't really recognise Sweden in the book, but that doesn't matter much. "
- Aelliana, 1/31/2013
" I might be ready for a re-read. "
" A little more Sir John. "
- Nicole, 11/12/2012
" I was very bored in this book. It took me quite a while to get through it. I thought that the end redeemed it somewhat though. Enjoyed the end enough to find out what happens next. "
- Catherine, 11/6/2012
" #3 for Vicky Bliss. Envy over Vicky's stats aside, John Smythe is a lovely man (and there is some talk of his being a descendant of Sethos, our favorite man of mystery and disguise). "
- Lucy, 11/2/2012
" I really enjoy Vicki Bliss. This proves that women heroines don't always have to marry the rich man (see my reviews of the Chicklit I have read recently). Vicki is smart, she has the ability to problem solve. She has fun romantic encounters without having to "get married" or "get the man". "
- Kristen, 9/22/2012
" This one was a lot of fun. For some reason, I just can't get into the other series by Elizabeth Peters, but I love Vicky Bliss! "
- Cindy, 6/17/2012
" A "Vicky Bliss" mystery--I read this on vacation where I didn't want anything too involved and this certainly fit the bill. It was mildly entertaining but I didn't feel like the characters were very well developed. It was fine but nothing moving or meaningful. "
- Natalie, 5/23/2012
" This August a new Vicky Bliss book is coming out! This is exciting because she's only been writing Amelia Peabody books for a while. Read this it's quick and fun. "
- Valerie, 4/4/2012
" There wasn't much mystery. I didn't get why Vicky attraced men (particularly bad men) the way she does. Character portrayals were two-dimensional at best, and I don't think I'll bother with another one. "
- Morag, 3/17/2012
" I listened to this on CD. It's set in Sweden. I have visited some of the areas mentioned in the story. "
- April, 12/2/2011
" Another fun book in the Vicki Bliss series; however, perhaps not my favorite. "
- Bonnie, 12/23/2010
- Bree, 12/21/2009
- April, 12/15/2009
" Must find a friend with long lost Swedish (or Norwegian) relatives who will put me up in comfort while I flirt with a world class thief. "
- Katie, 12/9/2009
- Nat, 9/27/2009
" I am so addicted to this series. It's amazing that though the books were written years apart, the story's tone and flow remains constant. I am sorry there are only 6 of them!! "
- Arlene, 9/22/2009
- Peyton, 7/4/2009
Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) was a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt, of which many were New York Times bestsellers. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor and named after her major fictional character, at the Malice Domestic convention. She also wrote books under the names Barbara Mertz and Barbara Michaels.
Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded narrators in the business, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She has received the prestigious Audie Award multiple times and has earned more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has also appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London's West End and on Broadway.


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#### Original name
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Q: Select the text below the pointer Does anyone know if it's possible to obtain the text that the mouse pointer is over in a web page?
Some assumptions can be made:

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*The web page will contain only text, no images. Minimal styling.

*The content is all from the same domain, no CORs or iFrames involved.

*JavaScript events can be applied anywhere, to any element, as needed to make this work.

*Use of 3rd party client side libs is fine. No server side libs.

*Use of 'modern' browser APIs is fine, but ideally we can support back to IE9 (no earlier needed)

I'm aware of the Selection API, which allows you to return the selected text. But this is almost the opposite of that: A way to track the pointer, and obtain whatever content it passes over, ideally down to a single word basis, and then select it via code.
I can think of ways to achieve this by rendering the text to a canvas, then tracking pointer movement across the canvas, but I was hoping to find a more 'normal' approach.

A: Using document.elementFromPoint, you can find the element your mouse is hovering over.  All you need is an event handler that updates a record of your mouse movement.
var pointer = {x: 0, y: 0};
window.addEventListener("mousemove",function(e) {
    pointer.x = e.clientX;
    pointer.y = e.clientY;
});
function getTextAtPointer() {
    return document.elementFromPoint(pointer.x,pointer.y).textContent;
}

The only problem with this is that it won't tell you what word you're hovering over.  The only solution I can think of would be to parse the text content and wrap every word in a span tag, then call document.elementFromPoint again to get which specific span.  Doing this sounds like a heavy load, so hopefully there's an easier way to go about this problem.

EDIT
I've decided to try the method of replacing every word with span tags, and when I tested it, it didn't seem to affect performance in any perceivable way, so feel free to try it yourself.  Here's the updated getTextAtPointer function.
function getTextAtPointer() {
    var elem = document.elementFromPoint(pointer.x,pointer.y);
    for(var i=elem.childNodes.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
        var node = elem.childNodes[i];
        if(node.nodeType==3) {
            var words = node.textContent.split(/\s+/);
            if(words.length>1) {
                var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
                for(var j=0; j<words.length; j++) {
                    if(words[j].length>0) {
                        var span = document.createElement("span");
                        span.textContent = words[j];
                        frag.appendChild(span);
                        if(j!=words.length-1) {
                            frag.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" "));
                        }
                    }
                }
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            }
        }
    }
    var word = document.elementFromPoint(pointer.x,pointer.y).textContent;
    if(word.search(/\s+/)!=-1) {
        return "";
    }
    return word;
}

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New 7-Eleven Opens Along Lee Highway
Alex Koma December 18, 2018 at 9:45am
A new 7-Eleven convenience store along Lee Highway in Northwest Arlington is now open for business.
The store is located at 5747 Lee Highway in the Leeway-Overlee neighborhood, and now has signs posted in its windows looking for new employees.
The 7-Eleven replaces the longtime Lee-Lex Service Center, a fixture in the neighborhood dating back to 1978. The auto shop closed for good back in 2016.
The shop is now one of six 7-Eleven locations along Lee Highway alone, according to the chain's website.
Despite Traffic Worries, Lee Highway Daycare Center on Track to Open in Early 2019
Alex Koma September 27, 2018 at 3:45pm
Little Ambassadors Academy west side (photo via Google Maps)
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A proposed childcare center on Lee Highway that has irked neighbors for months is now on track to open in the next few months.
The County Board unanimously signed off on a permit Tuesday to let Little Ambassadors' Academy move ahead with plans to open a third location at 5801 and 5901 Lee Highway. The childcare center is now on course to open by February or March of next year.
The daycare company has hoped for just over a year now to remodel two existing buildings on the property and create space for as many as 155 children, but people living nearby have repeatedly raised concerns about how the facility's addition would impact traffic in the area.
Two people living behind the site even filed a lawsuit to block the daycare center's construction after the Board lent its initial approval last September, though a judge tossed out that case in January. The Leeway Overlee Civic Association has raised concerns about the project as well, urging the Board to restrict the number of children allowed at the facility in a bid to ease traffic in the area.
All the while, Little Ambassadors has worked to open up the new center — but the process has dragged on so long that the permit the Board issued last year came up for review, even though the daycare has yet open.
As Sara Mariska, an attorney for Little Ambassadors, told the Board: "There has been no change in circumstances since we were here a year ago."
Nevertheless, neighborhood concerns linger. Adam Watson, a staffer in the county's planning division, said he's heard from a variety of people in the area concerned that the daycare will snarl an already-busy section of Lee Highway. The original District Taco location sits just down the block, and a new 711 is on the way nearby at 5747 Lee Highway as well.
"[Our] initial expression of general support for [the company's] application was based on the understanding that the child care center would operate with no more than 135 children," Leeway Overlee Civic Association President Jack Grimaldi wrote to the Board. "More children, in other words, raises the likelihood of more vehicles being needed to get them to and from the center."
But Joanne Gabor, who works with county's Department of Environmental Services, assured the Board that staff believe Little Amabassdors' strategy for managing traffic in the area "is a good plan and it's workable." And without any real-world examples of the childcare facility's impact on the local traffic, the Board wasn't inclined to change its original decision.
"A lot of the concerns that people had when this use permit was approved originally, we haven't had a chance to see if any mitigating or corrective actions will be needed," said Vice Chair Christian Dorsey. "I can't find a way to mitigate something that hasn't happened. It may seem like a callous approach to safety, but we have to see how the network responds."
Board member Libby Garvey added that Little Ambassadors' track record at its other Lee Highway locations, at 5232 Lee Highway and 3565 Lee Highway, also gives the Board confidence.
"We have a lot of background coming to us on this," Garvey said. "I don't want people to think we're just winging this."
The Board will review the daycare center's use permit once more in September 2019, when it will have a chance to assess any potential traffic impact.
'Maya Bistro' Could Replace Nook Play Space on Lee Highway
Alex Koma August 8, 2018 at 9:45am
Nook Play Space's former location on Lee Highway
A new restaurant could be on the way along Lee Highway, taking the place of the Nook Play Space.
The indoor play area, once located at 5649 Lee Highway in the Leeway-Overlee neighborhood, is picking up and moving to the new Ballston Quarter development.
The space currently sits empty, but it's unlikely to remain that way for long — a chef at a Turkish restaurant in East Falls Church appears to be eyeing the location for an expansion.
Imam Gozubuyuk has applied for a permit at the location, using the business name "Maya Bistro," county records show. Gozubuyuk currently cooks up food at the Yayla Bistro, located at 2201 N. Westmoreland Street, with his brother, Abuzer.
Managers at Yayla Bistro did not immediately respond to a request for comment on plans for the Lee Highway space. Maria Vogelei, Nook's owner, said she didn't have any information on what might take her business's place in the small shopping center.
Nook is set to re-open in Ballston Quarter sometime this fall.
H/t Chris Slatt
Firefighters Extinguish House Fire in Leeway-Overlee
Alex Koma July 11, 2018 at 4:15pm
A fire at a home along 22nd Road N. (via @ArlingtonVaFD)
Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a home in the Leeway-Overlee neighborhood this afternoon (Wednesday).
County first responders were called to the 62oo block of 22nd Road N. to put out the fire. The fire was mostly concentrated in the attic, according to scanner traffic.
The home's occupants managed to leave without incident after the fire started, according to a tweet from the fire department.
Video of 22nd Rd pic.twitter.com/LoTh9sa8HW
— Arlington Fire (@ArlingtonVaFD) July 11, 2018
Crews are going through #Decon immediately after exiting the structure. This is to try to keep as many of the harmful carcinogens off our gear as possible and keep us safer. #FirefighterHealth pic.twitter.com/aX673qV1E7
Ballston-Based Drug Rehab Program Expands with Leeway-Overlee House
Anna Merod April 10, 2018 at 3:55pm
(Updated at 6:35 p.m.) Encore Recovery Solutions, a rehabilitation center for young adults trying to overcome "substance use and co-occurring behavioral health disorders," is expanding.
The drug rehab center has been in business for just over a year and recently moved to larger offices in Ballston. The Ballston facility hosts an outpatient treatment program, according to Tom Walker, Encore's director of community relations.
In February, Encore announced via Facebook that it had also purchased a residential property at 5805 26th Street N. in the Leeway-Overlee neighborhood, for use as a "sober living environment for young adults." The house has been approved as "legally non-conforming use by Arlington County," Walker said.
Some people who live near the home have expressed concerns about its new use.
"We have communicated with several of the neighborhood residents individually, and attended the Open Door Monday meeting yesterday evening where we discussed our plans with other neighborhood residents," Walker said via email. Some residents are "very much in opposition," he acknowledged, while others are either "openly supportive of Encore's efforts" or "willing to engage in discussing best practices."
Between 2015-2017, Arlington saw a 245 percent increase in patients seeking treatment for opioid addiction and related disorders. The number of patients went up from 100 in 2015 to 345 in 2017, according to the county.
Photo via Encore Recovery Solutions/Facebook
Leeway-Overlee Residents Criticize Construction Project Delays
Chris Teale October 11, 2017 at 3:30pm
A major road construction project in Leeway-Overlee has drawn the ire of some nearby residents, who say there appears to be "no end in sight."
The project by the county's Department of Environmental Services involves adding a new sidewalk, curb and gutter to 24th Street N. between N. Illinois and N. Kensington streets, as well as new pipes to help with stormwater management. At the same time, similar work is being done on N. Illinois Street from 22nd Street N. to Lee Highway.
According to a preliminary construction schedule, completion had been scheduled for Friday, July 28.
But when an ARLnow reporter dropped by this morning (Wednesday), the new sidewalk was only partially installed, with numerous sections of pipe standing nearby waiting to be added. And the 5500 block of 24th Street N. was still closed to all traffic except residents.
One anonymous tipster said the work has been "going on for four months with no end in sight." Another tipster who lives on the street said even worse things have been happening during construction.
"There has been flooding in neighbors' yards," the tipster wrote. "Toilets blown up and sewer drains put on people's property without even giving them a courtesy heads up… Damaged cars. Houses full of mud. Flat tires and the list goes on."
A DES spokeswoman disputed the claim that construction caused the flooding issues. Instead, she blamed a "high-intensity storm" on August 15 that "overwhelmed the drainage system in the neighborhood."
"This is a low-lying area that has experienced flooding issues in the past," the spokeswoman said. "The benefit of this Neighborhood Conservation Project is that we are improving the drainage system and providing additional capacity, which will reduce the likelihood of flooding in the future."
Residents claimed the project has been put on hold in part due to budget overruns and in part because the project manager recently passed away. But the DES spokeswoman said the hold up stems from crews coming across underground utility lines.
"The county's project manager did pass away recently, but this has not stopped construction," she said. "We have encountered unexpected underground utility lines, which is a very common construction risk in urban environments such as Arlington, as most utility lines were installed more than 50 years ago (and some are privately-owned), so records are not always accurate."
Neighbors said they are looking at retaining legal counsel to try and force some reimbursement from the county for the inconvenience.
The DES spokeswoman said county staff will meet with neighbors on Friday to discuss progress, and that work should be done "by the end of the year."
Local Resident's 'Hurricane Magnet' Family Impacted By Harvey, Irma
Chris Teale September 12, 2017 at 1:15pm
Hurricane Irma satellite view (via Flickr user Antti Lipponen)
Hurricane Harvey flooding (via Flickr user Jill Carlson)
Hurricane Harvey flood damage (via Flickr user Jill Carlson)
It's been an anxious couple of weeks for one Arlington resident who had three family members in the path of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Pat Shapiro, who lives in the Leeway Overlee neighborhood, has one son, Josh, in Houston; another son, Aaron, living in Miami; and her 89-year-old mother is a resident of Naples, Fla. All three were impacted to some degree.
"It's like we're a hurricane magnet," said Shapiro, a 10-year library assistant at an Arlington public library.
Harvey slammed Texas and Louisiana in the United States, leaving more than 300,000 people without power, killing more than 60 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
The still-active although weakened Irma hammered Florida, and has caused flooding as far north as Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga. More than 2.6 million homes were without power at one stage in Florida.
Shapiro's 65th birthday celebrations on August 25 meant Josh was in Arlington when Hurricane Harvey started to batter Houston, and forced him to stay put for a week. Unfortunately, Josh had just closed on a house in Houston the week before. When he returned, it was ruined by flood damage.
Thankfully, Shapiro said he had not moved in any of his furniture or other personal belongings, but the house itself needed to be gutted, and he cannot move in for between nine months and a year while it is repaired.
Josh needed to get to work when he returned to his home in Houston and rip out all the units and floorboards and also drill holes in the walls to let out moisture. And after his real estate agent, who lives nearby, posted on Facebook that he needed help, a group of volunteers intervened.
"He said all of a sudden, at 9:30 a.m., all these trucks and cars pull up and a group of about 30 people walked in his house and said, 'We're here to help,'" Shapiro said. "They worked until 9:30 p.m., they ripped out all the floors, they helped him get the carpet out, they helped him put holes in the walls because it had to start drying. He was flabbergasted."
Shapiro's other son, Aaron, escaped the worst of the storm. His condo building in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami managed to keep its power on, after management said they would be turning off the elevators and air conditioning and locking the doors to prepare for Hurricane Irma.
After evacuating his building, Aaron stayed with a friend in the nearby city of Coral Gables, where they lost power and saw significant wind damage to trees. The pair then were preparing to go out and do rescue work once the storm had subsided.
Across the state in Naples, Shapiro's 89-year-old mother was put under mandatory evacuation orders from her home, just three blocks from the Gulf of Mexico. Her house, too, escaped the worst of the storm, although she had to move locations twice. She first went to Tallahassee, then went further north into North Carolina to stay with Shapiro's sister after Irma's path shifted.
Shapiro said that other friends of hers in the Naples area who stayed put had to take emergency shelter due to the high winds.
"They said it was very scary," Shapiro said. "They said the winds were horrible, and they ended up spending the night in a closet they were so scared, because the wind was so bad."
The experience left Shapiro worried for her family's safety, but grateful that nothing worse happened to anyone.
"It was very nerve-wracking," she said. "[It's] been a one-two-three whammy. First the Houston thing, which I was terribly worried about, then this hurricane [Irma]. But all in all, my family came through in such good shape compared to so many others."
Photo No. 1 via Flickr user Antti Lipponen, photos No. 2 and No. 3 via Flickr user Jill Carlson, photo No. 4 via Flickr user Coast Guard News.
Fmr. Marine Creates Custom Furniture at His N. Arlington Home
Jackie Friedman August 9, 2016 at 2:40pm
Craftsman Jeff Spugnardi in his home workshop
Chess table created by Spugnardi
Spugnardi in his home workshop
Spugnardi's newest chair creations
Dining room table and chairs created by Spugnardi
Arlington resident Jeff Spugnardi's interest in woodworking began with skateboard ramps he built in grammar school. Decades later, after retiring from a career in the Marine Corps, he turned his hobby into a business in his Leeway Overlee home.
Since 2008, the 46-year-old craftsman has sold wood chairs, tables and other furniture he's designed and built in his personal workshop.
"So many people can't believe that someone builds something in Arlington because it seems like everybody is a professional and going to D.C., and here I am building things," Spugnardi said. "I take ugly slabs and turn it into this stuff."
Spugnardi only uses walnut, maple and cherry wood to make his furniture, including chairs that range in price from $1,300 to $5,000. All the wood is from a Northern Virginia supplier.
Spugnardi said he focuses on making comfortable furniture with character. He often adds special touches, like glow-in-the dark features, to his works. For his chairs, which take 80 hours to build, he puts in flexible back braces that are designed to conform to sitters' backs. A 6-foot-11 man once commented on how comfy the chairs were and how he couldn't find similar furniture for his size, Spugnardi said.
"Everything is custom-sized, so I have a bunch of templates based on your height and your arms," he said. "Everything is proportionate to the legs and where your knees are. We custom fit everything."
Spugnardi said most of his customers are locals. His work has appeared at art shows in Reston and D.C. and regularly catches the eye of people in his neighborhood.
"I'll often do a lot of sculpting and grinding in the driveway," Spugnardi said. "I used to be in the Marines so I will wear my flight suit. People will come by [and ask], 'What are you doing or what type of wood is this?' And so I'll get some people who will [ask if I can] build them a table or if I can see their dining room."
House Fire in Leeway Overlee
ARLnow.com March 20, 2015 at 10:55am
Firefighters battled a house fire in the Leeway Overlee neighborhood last night.
The fire was reported just before 6:30 p.m., on the 2200 block of N. Nottingham Street. The blaze started in the home's basement and spread to the first floor, but was quickly extinguished once firefighters arrived on scene, authorities said.
No injuries were reported. The county's fire marshal is investigating the cause.
As part of its ongoing campaign for additional fire department funding, Arlington's firefighters association pointed out via Twitter that Truck Tower 104, which was second due on the call, is "understaffed with only 3 [firefighters]."
Photo courtesy Arlington County Fire Department
Neighborhood Petitions to Save 200-Year-Old Tree
Ethan Rothstein November 14, 2014 at 11:00am
Neighbors of a large oak tree on the corner of 27th Street N. and Nottingham Street are concerned that a new development will tear down their "champion tree."
The tree, according to an online petition the neighbors have launched, is more than 200 years old and is the largest Wildenow's Oak — a natural hybrid of a black oak and southern red oak — in Virginia. It's on Arlington's list of "Champion Trees."
"Local naturalists have examined it and found it to be in excellent health," the petition states. "In its long life, the tree has survived the widespread felling of Arlington's trees during the Civil War and the neighborhood's transformation from farms to a suburb dotted with neat rows of brick colonials, Cape Cods and ramblers."
The lot on which the tree sits is slated to be redeveloped by DS Homes, a small construction company based in Manassas. When reached by ARLnow.com, DS Homes employee Manny Carneiro said "the plan right now is to save the tree."
Nonetheless, Carneiro pointed out that the tree is on the lot and things could change. At the very least, DS Homes will have to trim some of the massive tree's branches during construction, when it tears down the current home, built in 1950, for a new one. DS Homes bought the property to redevelop last month, according to Arlington County property records.
The online petition has 324 signatures as of 10:55 a.m. The petition's organizers have a goal of 400 signatures.
Photo via iPetitions
Busty Mermaid Carving Cut Down
Ethan Rothstein May 5, 2014 at 1:30pm
The mermaid carving along Lee Highway that drew national attention when it was put up for sale in 2011 has been cut down.
The statue had been up in the front yard of Leeway Overlee resident Paul Jackson since 2004. In 2011 Jackson hoped to sell the statue for $3,000, with the requirement of the buyer "slicing her off and returning her home." He apparently didn't find a buyer, as the statue, which was built out of a dying, 100+ year-old ash tree, remained in the yard.
Today, however, it is nowhere to be found. The only remnant is a stump beneath a sculpture of a turtle.
The statue was carved by Frederick, Md., artist Scott Dustin, and was described in the Washington Post as having "a shapely derriere and bare breasts that must be at least size DD." The mermaid was nicknamed "Damaged Goods" or "D.G." for short, and stirred up neighborhood controversy.
Jackson wasn't home today to explain why the mermaid was removed, but a poster on the ARLnow.com Facebook page said it was "becoming too rotted and infested with ants."
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