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Denner / Shermann
Denner / Shermann Satan's Tomb CDs
01. Satan's Tomb
02. War Witch
03. New Gods
04. Seven Skulls
Michael Denner and Hank Shermann, the original guitar players of Mercyful Fate's legendary "Melissa" and "Don't Break the Oath" albums, have created a new classic in the forthcoming EP, "Satan's Tomb." These songs were crafted with the Mercyful Fate worldwide legion of fans at the forefront of their collective minds. From the first riff to the last wail, one cannot help but feel the magic newly recaptured once again.
The band, which is simply called Denner / Shermann, calls into service a formidable group of allies who were capable of helping realize this menagerie of malice, was a task carefully orchestrated by these metal mad scientists. Shermann first called upon Marc Grabowski (Demonica) to handle the bass guitar, followed by the only drummer that made sense for many obvious aspects, the one known as Snowy Shaw (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Dream Evil)! Many voices were considered, but fate lead them to Sean Peck (Cage and Death Dealer). He was not only a fan but had the versatile vocal skills to make the new songs come to life like their fans would expect.
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Prof. Lackner, director of the IKGF, envisions in this interview research trajectories of the IKGF. He elaborates on the Chinese reception of Western academia in the 19th and 20th centuries on the one hand, and on the other the significance and role of prognostic techniques in the history of Europe, the USA and China.
At the IKGF, Sinology and Medieval History meet both bringing in the history and tradition of their respective subjects. As different as these sciences are, they are dealing with the topic of the Consortium, "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication", from their own perspectives. Klaus Herbers, director of the Medieval History Department at the FAU, reviews the academic research of the Consortium to date, also stating the forthcoming aims and anticipated results of the cooperation between Sinology and History.
In this short film, Lionel Jensen reports on his early academic career, his research focus on the "intellectual history of China" and his time as a Visiting Fellow at the IKGF in 2011. In his research on the oeuvre and heritage of the Confucian scholar Zhu Xi (1130-1200) – one of the most popular Chinese philosophers besides Confucius - he investigates how intellectuals were involved in divination and mythology. Through this relecture, the classification of a "Chinese intellectual" acquires fresh dimensions beyond those classically ascribed to philosophers and intellectuals.


As the colors and great rides of autumn await, SLCBAC looks forward to closing out the riding season on a high note. Along with many completed projects this past year, more communities are thinking about upgrades to their streets and public areas that will benefit biking and walking. One of these communities happens to be the city of Riverton which is currently conducting a poll to gauge public demand for Active Transportation resources. If you live in or ride around Riverton, please take a few minutes to fill out their survey. The link is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/RivertonWalkBike, or it can be found by going to Riverton City's webpage at www.rivertoncity.com.
If you missed our meetings, you can always catch up on our website at www.slco.org/bicycle where we post transcripts of all he meeting minutes. As a volunteer committee under the office of the County Mayor, we are required to maintain transparency throughout all of our actions and expenditures. This record is not only a great way to adhere to this policy, but it also can be used to track our efforts to improve cycling throughout Salt Lake County.
The committee is still looking to replace three members by the end of the year. If you are interested or know someone who would make a great volunteer, please visit our webpage for links to the County volunteer application. Applicants must have a passion for bicycles, a love of their community and a vision of what they would like to see happen to move Salt Lake County and the state of Utah up the charts for bicycle friendly places in the country!


Two years ago, Ubisoft got into the film-making biz by encouraging would-be Assassin's Creed fans to make short films exploring the game's themes and possible plot points.
The results actually weren't that bad; so it seems Ubisoft intends to continue the trend with Assassin's Creed 2. Liveblogging from the press conference, Luke Plunkett says that these "proper films" will start showing up this fall ahead of the game's November release date.
"Ubisoft are, they say, no longer a games developer," Luke reports. "They're an entertainment provider, able to create games, movies, the works."
Hm. Maybe we'll can look forward to more films like this one.


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Last week, the Tickell review of open access in the United Kingdom was published. There are no unwelcome nasty surprises in the review and, in fact, there are a number of extremely progressive elements, most notably the formation of a monographs sub-committee to address this increasingly important area of practice.
Every "top" journal has published dud work and any good researcher can choose to publish elsewhere. By giving a list of journals or by ranking journals, we encourage people to ignore the specificity of work while also reifying the status of a "top" journal, even when we are unable to vouch for the anonymous peer community behind each article (we are merging a heterogeneous set of individuals and their expertise into a homogeneous journal title).
This reification also fixes economic hierarchies of publishing. Being on an accredited list means that those publishers will fare well as scholars will feel they must submit to such venues. This makes it harder for young journals – even those with credible peer-review practices – to break in and contributes to the rise of monopolistic publishers.
It actually restricts academic freedom in where to publish when we give lists like this, even if not ranked. Young scholars will have little choice – if they wish to be evaluated – but to go to these venues.
And this all comes about because we do, collectively as academics, want to be evaluated. Whatever anyone says – and regardless of how brilliantly kind people are as individuals – academia is hierarchical. We may wish for a world where this wasn't necessary but, in the world that exists, those wanting posts and promotion want their outputs to be recognised for this, not just for disseminating knowledge. Dissemination and assessment.
In my view, the culture that DORA aims to challenge is one situated in the area of labour time for readers. (I have been deeply influenced in my thinking here by Geoff Bilder.) People seek proxies for quality because they have insufficient time to read everything. So finding short-hands seems a tidy way in which we can accelerate this process. If we have 200 CVs before us on a hiring panel, do we read the work of absolutely everyone who applied? We surely should and we should not be doing a checkbox exercise for publication venue and for publication type. Undoubtedly, when labour time is short, though, panels fall back on such practices.
What we should be doing, however, is using our critical faculties to evaluate beyond the frame of publication, even if this is difficult in current labour climates. We need to explicitly state that legitimate and high-quality publications should be rewarded wherever they are found and within whichever communities and practices that can produce those publications. We can reward communities (journals) and practices (types of peer review) that contribute towards good work. But doing so at the expense of allowing people the freedom to create new communities and new practices through the soft-power exercise of scarcity-finance, mediated by hiring and promotion panels, stifles the academic world.
Accreditation and research-assessment practices (on DORA and the Tickell review) was published on February 15, 2016 . You can annotate or comment upon this post.


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Q: Unique clicks are higher than unique opens For some journeys I've found that there is an important amount of subscribers that clicked on email but didn't opened it.
can you help find some explanation please?
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*Clicks are ALWAYS counted, as this is done through a redirect URL, so every click will result in a record in _Clicks data view. One can't simply avoid being tracked in a context of a click, unless the URL is implemented incorrectly (or deliberately in a way to avoid clicks being tracked)

*Opens are being tracked through a tracking pixel, being a simple image (although the image has a unique URL for each email and recipient). Once the image loads, the open is being tracked. This is not a bullet proof solution, as a number of email clients block the tracking, e.g. in iOS 14.
This means that for the same recipient you might see a click being tracked, while no open has been registered. When doing a tracking extract in Automation Studio, you can ask to include inferred opens, so once an email has been clicked, it is also treated as being opened. However this only applies to the data in the extract, not in data views and Datorama reports.

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Chautauqua Sports Hall Of Fame Inducts Eight
February 20, 2018 wnynewsnow Sports 0
LAKEWOOD – Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame added eight new members during its induction dinner in Lakewood Monday night.
Among those added to the Hall of Fame was former Maple Grove Head Football Coach Curt Fischer, who spoke to our Ryan Hedrick at a recent basketball game about his induction.
"It's one of the biggest honors I've ever had in my life," said Fischer. "I'm so humbled by it."
"I've gotten such great outreach from the place I've graduated from," Fischer explained. "The Falconer people have been wonderful to me."
Other inductees included Clem Worosz for his work with college basketball.
Dick Cole, Lori Franchina, Sheilah Gulas, Fran Sirianni, Phil Young were also added, along with the late Jim Riggs, who worked for the Post Journal.

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» Intro
Jeff Drew
This year, 22,000 people cast 490,000 final-round votes for everything from their favorite local bands, baristas and barbers to their favorite accountants, acupuncturists and martial arts studios. While impressive, those numbers are down slightly from pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that, for some, the Daysies may seem like the stuff of legend. But trust us: They're real. Like our own fabled sea monster, Champ, you just have to see it to believe it.
Of course, Vermont is a very different place than it was in 2019, the last year the Daysies happened. The pandemic took a heavy toll on local businesses, including some perennial Daysies winners. Industries that rely on people gathering in indoor spaces — such as entertainment, food service and health — were the hardest hit.
Not every business struggled in the pandemic. For example, Vermonters took to the outdoors in droves for recreation. As a result, outdoor gear shops and outfitters have seen record sales in the past two years.
Unseating longtime incumbent Daysies winners is like slaying a dragon: It's really hard to do. Nevertheless, you'll notice a remarkable number of new names in familiar categories this year, an indication of just how much the restaurant and retail landscape has shifted since March 2020. It's also a testament to the fact that Vermont is full of magical people and places — and maybe lake monsters and minotaurs.
Did you attend the Daysies party at ECHO?
If you posed for pic in our magical photo booth, the images are now on the Seven Days Facebook page.
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Two Alamance families talk Medicaid expansion with governor
Isaac Groves Times-News
Jul 17, 2019 at 5:11 PM Jul 17, 2019 at 5:56 PM
RALEIGH — The standoff over Medicaid expansion got personal Wednesday, July 17, when Gov. Roy Cooper sat down with about a dozen people from around the state, including two families from Graham, with their own stories about the "coverage gap."
"At that point Jessica qualified for nothing because she was a 'healthy' adult 19 to 64 years old — she fell into the coverage gap," said Graham woman Robin Jordan. "Because of her mental health and her substance abuse with no treatment and no Medicaid and no insurance, it ultimately cost her her life."
Jordan's 32-year-old daughter died last year at an Alamance County hotel off Interstate 40-85 from a drug overdose after 10 years of struggling to get help for mental health issues and addiction.
"Substance-use disorder is something that could be addressed by Medicaid expansion," Cooper said, and he talked about the 54 percent decrease in opioid-overdose deaths Dayton, Ohio, had after Medicaid expansion.
Cooper said he wanted public pressure on Republican leadership in the state Legislature to drop their efforts to override his veto June 28 of a budget that doesn't include Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — but does include pay increases for state employees.
"The budget is the place where this needs to be debated and decided," Cooper said. "We're hoping in the next few weeks they will give up on this veto override and come to the negotiating table and talk about these issues. Remember, this is not the only issue we're working on."
North Carolina is one of 17 states to not expand Medicaid eligibility to adults living at 138 percent of the federal poverty level — $16,642 for an individual or $33,948 for a family of four, according to the John Locke Foundation. Half a million more people would be eligible, according to the N.C. Justice Center.
Lynne Pierce, also from Graham, told Cooper about living in the coverage gap herself while she worked full-time, and perhaps more, running the SAFE Food Pantry, and raised her 12-year-old daughter alone, all while dealing with diabetes and high blood pressure. She lost Medicaid coverage when she took her job.
"I've not been able to afford insurance since then, so it's like you're trying to do better for yourself, but when that happened I was slapped right back down," Pierce said. "It's cost a lot of people their lives, and I don't want it to cost me mine."
While he said several times he was willing to compromise, Cooper also clearly didn't care for Republican proposals for healthcare expansion with work requirements and premiums of 2 percent of household income.
"You saw and heard today from people who want to work, have been working, but then an illness strikes them down. A work requirement can be a problem for someone like that getting this kind of coverage so they can get well and go back to work. But those kinds of things are on the table," Cooper said. "They want to charge people a premium for doing this. You've got to remember that we're talking about people who are living on the edge already, and in other states that tried charging premiums, it has cost more than it was worth in the premiums they collected."
'It's life and death'
Under the ACA, the federal government would pay 90 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion, which Cooper said was unlikely to change since Congress is too divided for a controversial vote to reduce that to get through.
Opponents say states that have expanded Medicaid eligibility have spent more than they expected on healthy adults without children who then compete with low-income families for treatment. The John Locke Foundation estimated it would cost North Carolina $6 billion.
While this debate has been largely on party lines, Jordan says it's more important than politics.
"I'm not a Democrat, I didn't vote for [Cooper], and he knows that," she said. "This is not a partisan issue. It's a people issue, and it's life and death. People are dying every day."
Reporter Isaac Groves can be reached at igroves@thetimesnews.com or 336-506-3045. Follow him on Twitter at @tnigroves.
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Darfur NRF denounces killing of SLM-MM members in Khartoum
The National Redemption Front (NRF)
NRF Denounces Execution of SLM Members in Khartoum
March 26, 2007 — The National Redemption Front (NRF) strongly denounces summary execution of their fellow comrades in Darfur struggle, the SLM-Minnawi ex-fighters in Sudan's capital.
March 24th witnessed a cowardly attack on the residence of SLM ex-fighters in Muhandiseen residential area of Umdurman city across the River from Khartoum.
The assault involves unusually large force including military tanks and heavy arbitrary leading to demolition of the building over the victims. Demolished house was home to injured soldiers who came to Khartoum seeking medical attention. They were not in a position to defend themselves, let away initiate a fight against government security forces. The criminal attack left over ten people dead and several more injured. In this regard, the NRF states the following:
1. The incident shows that Khartoum's persistent plan to annihilate Darfur people knows no limit. It is perpetrated against IDPs as well as against those who have opted for the dubious DPA deal and sought safety and medical treatment in the capital
2. No peace agreement can proceed without provisions that accord ex-fighters same status as members of the government army and until their status is finally resolved in accordance with mutual agreement.
3. Justice in the Sudan can never be restored without unity of Darfur factions and the marginalized people across the nation.
Long live our struggle for peace and justice
NRF Secretariat
Abeche, Chad,
Sudan suspends daily on charges of undermining national security
Sudanese police breaks up demos in capital, Kordofan
Corruption threatens South Sudan's loan dealings: Global Witness


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Cuba reiterated last Monday its denunciation against the violations of the human rights and the State Law that represents the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington to the Caribbean island.
We strongly condemned every law and unilateral, extraterritorial policy. Cuba demands the immediate end to the system of norms and measures that's the blockade", expressed the ambassador to United Nations, Rodolfo Reyes, during the first session of a meeting about the contribution of human rights and the State Law to development.
The Cuban diplomat urged the White House to end the policy established more than half a century ago, and he also demanded respect from this nation to the universal appeal to end the blockade.


A report by French NGO International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on gold mining and human rights in Mali asserts that regulation drawn up under the influence of international donors neutralises the government's capacity to protect the Malian people's economic and social rights. Mali is the third largest gold producer in Africa. Following the Bank-supported revision of the mining code, the Malian government is now a minority shareholder of its goldmines alongside the large international corporations. FIDH urges IFIs and donors not to encourage the Malian state to set up investment-friendly provisions that infringe its international human rights obligations, and to adopt regulations to protect the environment and human rights.


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Malta Premier League joins European Leagues
18 November 2022 by Antoine Busuttil
The Malta Premier League (MPL) has been formally accepted as member of European Leagues (EL), the organization which brings together professional football leagues in Europe.
The decision was taken during the EL General Assembly in Oporto.
European Leagues is already providing MPL, as one of its Development Members, with advice and best practices on the establishment of a new Premier League in Malta.
MPL Chairman Joseph Muscat said that following the clubs' unanimous endorsement of its Statute and Work Programme, this was another crucial step forward.
"Our membership of European Leagues in such a short period of time will help in setting up the new league and in our discussions with MFA. EL agreed to give us access to their know how so that the new Premier League will be competitive and an attractive experience for fans, said Dr Muscat.
Together with MFA, the Malta Premier League will soon organize a consultation conference for stakeholders with a view of discussing choices that need to be made.
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A fresh look for Foreign Affairs
To celebrate 100 years of Foreign Affairs, we gave the iconic magazine a design refresh.
Heidi Latsky Dance at Cooper Hewitt
Our longtime client Heidi Latsky Dance performed On Display at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City as part of Disability Pride Month.
CASE Circle of Excellence Award
Seek, the science research magazine from The Rockefeller University, won a silver award in the Editorial Design category from CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education). Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez.
Three SPD Awards
Congratulations to our clients and collaborators! We are all Society of Publication Designers Print Merit Winners from the 53rd Annual Design Competition. Our work for Rockefeller University's Seek Magazine was awarded for overall issue design, cover art by The Voorhes; Melinda Beck's work for Columbia Journalism Review for illustration; and Selman Design's illustration and lettering for PCMA Convene for design.
Rockefeller University Press Branding
We recently completed the branding and design for the Rockefeller University Press, including their logo and identity system, as well as the design of their three research journals.
Designs for Global Americans
Point Five designed the research reports Liberals, Rogues and Enablers: The International Order for the 21st Century, and Keeping Up Appearances, as part of an going series for this non-profit.
Multiple Awards for Democracy
Our redesigned site for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas received three fantastic honors. Hats off to the editorial team at Democracy and to our collaborators at Tierra Innovation. We could not be prouder to be a part of this team.
New Website for Tricycle
We are thrilled to announce the launch of tricycle.org.
HLD in Times Square!
Our campaign for Heidi Latsky Dance's On Display installation was live on the Times Square Jumbotron.
Opening Act Play Reading
On April 21st, Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun) will direct a reading of FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Proceeds go to supporting Opening Act's powerful young students.
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The Meat of the Meeting: Convene magazine redesign and ongoing art direction and design.
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The Rover - DVD Review
'Constantly sharing the screen with the far more skilled Pearce only highlights the difference in quality between Pattinson's performance and that of his co-star'.
Proving that contemporary dystopian cinema is not yet solely the remit of young adult novel adaptations, writer and director David Michôd's The Rover presents a grim future in stark and stylish fashion. Michôd doesn't trouble us with complex explanations of how the world arrived at this sorry state of affairs, informing us through an opening caption that the film's events happen ten years after "the collapse" and leaving it at that. It's a bold decision that could have gone either way (look no further than The Purge franchise for evidence this type of narrative choice backfiring), but Michôd's vivid and authentic realisation of his bleak vision makes it work convincingly well.
Key to the success of The Rover's premise is Guy Pearce as the story's mysterious central figure. Through Eric, Pearce adds yet another superb indie performance to his CV, something of a breath of fresh air from the actor after much more stylised, less memorable turns recently in the likes of Iron Man 3 and Prometheus. Like an unhinged, post-apocalyptic version of The Big Lebowski's Dude, all Eric wants throughout the film is his car back after having it stolen during the opening scenes, willing to go to extraordinary lengths - and through anyone who gets in his way - to retrieve it. With Michôd only dropping a few small and subtle hints here and there as to why the car is so important, Eric's enigmatic purpose and background for much of the film makes the character a consistently captivating presence.
Opposite Pearce for much of the running time is Robert Pattinson as Rey, the abandoned younger brother of Henry (Scoot McNairy) who just happens to be a member of the gang that stole Eric's car. The dynamic between the world-weary, nihilistic Eric and the simple-minded, naïve Rey is pleasing, even at times reminiscent of George and Lennie from Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men. The problem comes from the juxtaposition of acting talent. Whilst Pattinson's performance here is never terrible, it is largely ordinary and at least once or twice, to quote Tropic Thunder's Kirk Lazarus, "goes full retard". Constantly sharing the screen with the far more skilled Pearce only highlights the difference in quality between Pattinson's performance and that of his co-star, a seriously unfortunate truth for the young actor yet to shake off the criticism levelled at his turns in the Twilight franchise.
Despite Pattinson's somewhat iffy performance, The Rover is for its first hour a captivating and uncompromising blend of contemporary Western and dystopian road movie set to a suitably minimalist, cacophonous soundtrack. The main issue is that Michôd's film runs out of steam during the final forty minutes. The pace slows considerably, the focus becomes fuzzy, and even Eric loses some of his intrigue after revelations about his former life. After spending around ninety minutes getting there, Michôd also feels disappointingly unsure of what to do once his film arrives at its climax. It's not enough to ruin the considerable good work to be found throughout much of The Rover, but it does leave the film feeling somewhat less satisfying than its first half perhaps promised. Had the whole film maintained the strength of the opening sixty minutes, there would be one more star at the end of this review.
By Ben Broadribb. Ben is a regular contributor to Film Intel, having previously written at Some Like It Hot Fuzz. He is normally seen in the wild wearing t-shirts containing obscure film references. He is a geek, often unashamedly so. He's also on Google+ and Twitter.
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New Haven, Connecticut • Wednesday, February 1, 2023 • Vol. CXLV
Silversun Pickups beam SoCal alt-rock into College Street Music Hall
The Los Angeles-based rock band swung through New Haven on Friday to promote their latest album, "Physical Thrills."
Maggie Grether & Ophelia He 11:59 pm, Nov 07, 2022
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Zoe Berg, Senior Photographer
The stage of College Street Music Hall was transformed into a post-apocalyptic lunar landscape on Friday. White sheets were draped over equipment like waterfalls. Scattered circular lights glowed red. On a kick drum at the center of the stage, a painted wolf howled up at the stage lights.
On Nov. 4, Los Angeles-based rock band Silversun Pickups visited New Haven to promote their most recent album "Physical Thrills," released last August. Formed in 2000, Silversun Pickups consists of frontman Brian Aubert, bassist Nikki Monninger, drummer Chris Guanlao and keyboardist Joe Lester.
New Haven was one of the first stops on a busy month of touring for the band. Guanlao described the first week of the tour as "nerve-racking," with the band encountering several technical difficulties during production rehearsals.
"But after the first week, we started to gel, and now we're able to have fun," Guanlao said. "I'm super excited for all these shows and I feel ready and re-energized."
Silversun Pickups emerged from the early 2000s rock scene in the Los Angeles neighborhood Silver Lake. The band got their start playing opening or closing sets for more established groups, sometimes taking the stage far after midnight. Guanlao said he fondly remembers the camaraderie that they shared with other up-and-coming L.A. rock bands.
"We were like the little brother of everyone," Guanlao shared, "It was just so motivating."
The Silver Lake music scene helped forge Silversun Pickup's musical style, which is often defined by driving and rock anthems.
"As far as our sound goes, everyone kind of tells us we like a SoCal band or like a L.A. band," Guanlao said. "But it's funny, because we don't know how to make Southern California music, you know, it just kind of comes out of us."
Silversun Pickups made "Physical Thrills" in collaboration with producer Butch Vig. Guanlao said that, being a percussionist himself, Vig has "that kind of drumming sensibility," and likened their communication in the studio to "mental telepathy."
Guanlao also mentioned that the collaborative energy of the whole band is similar to a family. Past conflicts around business issues had "never really lasted" or caused major rifts.
Friday's show was opened by Australian pop-rock band Eliza & The Delusionals. Frontwoman Eliza Klatt led the band through songs like "Swimming Pool" and "Just Exist" with her unrelenting, soaring vocals.
New Haven was just one stop on a cross-country trek for Eliza & The Delusionals, who embarked from San Francisco and drove east on a tour bus.
When asked about the band's tour rituals, guitarist Kurt Skuse commented that "we always have a gin and soda" and "we wear the same clothes constantly, because we don't wash any clothes."
The Silversun Pickups opened their set with the slow-paced "Stillness (Way Beyond)," which features ghostly, echoing vocals. The set list also included older hits like "Panic Switch," from the band's 2009 album "Swoon," which highlighted Monninger's explosive bass skills.
Silversun Pickups gave an energetic performance throughout the set. Each time a chorus hit, Monninger jumped up and down on stage, a huge smile on her face. Guanlao played a drum set on which the crash cymbal was suspended above his head, his face almost completely obscured by a shaggy mane of brown hair.
"I think they are absolutely amazing. I've never heard them before, and yeah, I got really pumped up," said audience member Jess Sanderson, who won tickets with her boyfriend through the radio station 10.41.
Silversun Pickups are slated to headline 12 more shows before Thanksgiving.
OPHELIA HE
Ophelia He is a reporter of city and arts desk, covering Arts, Theaters, and Museums in Yale and in New Haven. Originally from Shenzhen, China, she is a freshman from Stiles majoring in Computer Science & Math and Theater.
James Steele
Where is the class of 2018 now? Yale's "Four-Year Look" at employment


Did you know that aside from your face, your hands get the most sun exposure? That's why it's essential to protect them on a daily basis. Sure, you've been faithfully slathering SPF on your face for years — and get compliments from your friends, family, and dermatologist on your complexion — but look at the backs of your hands. The thin skin there is susceptible to wrinkling, sagging, and dark spots like your face . . . but your paws don't have the luxury of wearing foundation. Read on to discover 10 ways to keep them healthy and youthful.


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Miami falls to Boise State
D.J. Harper rushed for a career-high 162 yards and three touchdowns to lead Boise State past Miami University 39-12 on Saturday.Harper, a sixth-year senior who was granted a medical redshirt and an extra year of eligibility, also caught a 21-yard pass from Joe Southwick and ran for a 2-point conversion.Boise State (1-1) won its eleventh straight home opener, overcoming a pair of first-half turnovers before pulling away for good in the second half.Miami (1-2) took a 9-8 lead in the second quarter after Pat Hinkel's fumble at the Boise State 9 set up a 2-yard touchdown pass from Spencer Treadwell to Andy Cruse.Boise State responded with seven-play, 75-yard drive, culminating with a 1-yard scoring run by Harper to retake the lead.
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D.J. Harper rushed for a career-high 162 yards and three touchdowns to lead Boise State past Miami University 39-12 on Saturday.
Harper, a sixth-year senior who was granted a medical redshirt and an extra year of eligibility, also caught a 21-yard pass from Joe Southwick and ran for a 2-point conversion.
Boise State (1-1) won its eleventh straight home opener, overcoming a pair of first-half turnovers before pulling away for good in the second half.
Miami (1-2) took a 9-8 lead in the second quarter after Pat Hinkel's fumble at the Boise State 9 set up a 2-yard touchdown pass from Spencer Treadwell to Andy Cruse.
Boise State responded with seven-play, 75-yard drive, culminating with a 1-yard scoring run by Harper to retake the lead.


9.24.010 Discharging pistol or firearm within the townsite service area.
9.24.020 Obstructing highways and other public passages.
9.24.030 Disrupting meetings and processions.
A. It is unlawful for any person to fire or discharge, within the limits of the townsite service area, any pistol, gun, rifle, air rifle, or other firearm, other than a police officer in the lawful performance of the officer's duty.
B. Notwithstanding subsection (A) of this section, it is not unlawful to discharge a firearm at a rifle range, target shooting range, trap shooting range, or other area that is posted for such purpose; providing, that the chief of police has approved the area as being safe for such purpose; and providing, that such shooting is adequately supervised and safely conducted.
4. West of Wellfield Road between the Chilkat River and the Haines Highway.
A. It is unlawful for a person, having no legal privilege to do so, to purposely or recklessly obstruct any highway or other public passage, whether alone or with others, and to persist in so doing after warning by a law officer. However, no person shall be deemed guilty of recklessly obstructing in violation of this subsection solely because of a gathering of persons to hear the person speak or otherwise communicate, or solely because of being a member of such a gathering.
2. To maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous proximity to a fire or other hazard.
C. An order to move, addressed to a person whose speech or other lawful behavior attracts an obstructing audience, shall not be deemed reasonable if the obstruction can be readily remedied by police control of the size or location of the gathering.
D. For purposes of this section, "obstruct" means render impassable in a manner that poses unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
It is unlawful for a person to prevent, obstruct, or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession, or gathering, or to do any act tending to prevent, obstruct, or disrupt such an activity, or to make any utterance, gesture, or display at a lawful meeting, procession, or gathering that would offend the sensibilities of a reasonable person under the circumstances.


TECNO POP 1 also known as TECNO F3 is a bezel-less device that was launched alongside the Camon X and Camon X Pro by TECNO Mobile. The device is the advanced version of the F2, hence having a code name "TECNO F3".
This is a better-looking budget smartphone compared to the F1 and F2 smartphones. Personally, I think it's still disappointing none of the budget smartphones come with a fingerprint scanner.
Nonetheless, the POP 1 is covered with a much attractive plastic body, and a rear loudspeaker for quality music and bass. Love the black antenna line on the Red and Ice Blue colours, it's available in Champagne Gold and Elegant Black as well. The TECNO POP 1 is also slim by the sides, measuring 8.5mm in thickness.
It's not as bezel-less like the Camon smartphones launched with it, but the bezels have been reduced obviously. Unlike the other F smartphones, the top and bottom bezel is super minimal.
A bigger 5.5-inch FWVGA IPS capacitive touchscreen should display your games and movies pretty well. With a resolution of 960 x 480 pixels, details on the screen should be more clear and sharp than the other F phones.
I guess this was "built for speed" as well, there's no difference whatsoever in terms of hardware and software. A MediaTek chip is still in charge with 4-cores processor and 32-bit CPU architecture. The Quad-core processor on the POP 1 reaches a speed of 1.3GHz with 28nm process technology.
Equipped with the Split Screen feature and 1GB RAM space, letting you use two apps at the same time. The Android 7.0 Nougat operating system runs on the device, offering the Nougat experience. Store up files and apps with the 8GB internal storage space, you can upgrade up to 32GB as well.
Explore your photography options with the 5MP rear camera on the device. The camera is equipped with a dual-LED flash by its side and other features inside for taking clear photographs. There's another 5MP selfie camera with beautify technology and soft LED flash for capturing natural-looking selfies even at night.
The TECNO POP 1 is powered by a removable Li-Ion 2400mAh battery with fast no charging technology.
Tecno POP 1 is not yet available in Shopping stores but should retail between $89 to $90, that's about (N25,000 – N27,000).
My phone no longer works well. Any application I'm will close and tell me "Application is not responding". At this point keyboard will also cease automatically.
Please, I need solution very urgent because I suppose to do many assignments January and February.
my pop1 battery don't last I just bought the phone… why ?
please what Wi-Fi name should I give to the phone?
Doesn't download new apps. Why?
Where can I get the new tecno pouvoir 1 in Nigeria and at what price ??? ?
Any time I want to install application from play store is showing me pending, why and how will I solve the problem.


In Augusta, Kentucky, George Clooney and his wife, Amal, have a house they have maintained for many years. And now it has a new tenant: a Yazidi refugee whom Clooney has taken under his wing after he escaped ISIS attacks in Iraq.
In a cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, Clooney talked about how the unnamed refugee was a target of the Islamic State's attempts to eliminate the Yazidis from the region.
Clooney said the refugee he's housing is now attending the University of Chicago. So, does he make the long commute from Kentucky or did he move to the Windy City? The actor's reps didn't immediately respond to TheWrap's request for clarification.
The Clooneys have had a history of supporting refugees. Their nonprofit group, Clooney Foundation for Justice, which provides education, housing, and resettlement for refugees in various nations. Clooney also recently sold his beverage company, Casamigos Tequila, and plans to use some of the $200 million he's received from the sale to fund his foundation and other nonprofits like the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Clooney's next film, "Suburbicon," which he directed and co-wrote with Grant Heslov and the Coen Brothers, premiered this past weekend at the Venice Film Festival and will be released Oct. 27.


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Warnings From Weimar
by Kenn Orphan
Without a doubt, the people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6th are not ashamed. They have been emboldened. Egged on by a wannabe proto-fascist, his endless stream of lies about a stolen election, and driven by a relatively new cultish religion called QAnon, this mob breached the Capitol of the wealthiest and most powerful imperial power in human history. This mostly white crowd, already coming from a place of enormous privilege, did something no Black or Indigenous person could ever dream of in America. Yet there they were, being allowed into the historic building by members of the Capitol police, who some would later take selfies with. At the end of the day, four people would be dead, including a woman who was trying to break into the building. She is being referred to by some on the far right as a "martyr for the revolution." A police officer would be dead a short time later from his injuries.
What occurred at the Capitol was not an insurrection. It wasn't a coup either. But it was most certainly an attempt at both. Trump, himself, has already tried this several times. He only recently agreed to a peaceful transition of power; but has doubled down on the lie that the election was stolen, sans evidence. On the far right, however, Trump is only a symbol of their cause. With or without him, they have pledged to "retake" the republic.
In some sense, this is all rather karmic. After all, how many democratically elected governments have been overthrown via coups orchestrated by American intelligence agencies in concert with corporations? How many mass graves, massacres and atrocities have been committed by rightwing militias and death squads armed and trained by the United States military and the CIA?
But there is no reason to celebrate what happened at the US Capitol, not even smugly. What the world witnessed was a visible resurgence of overt fascism. A Confederate flag waved in the corridors of power. People proudly wearing "Camp Auschwitz" or white supremacist symbols took selfies as they sought out lawmakers. A mock gallows was erected outside. And make no mistake, these people are not ready to stop any time soon. As Trump was banished from Twitter and Facebook, far right groups like the Proud Boys have been organizing on Parler and other places on the so-called "dark web." They are openly talking about a "second revolution," and Inauguration Day may be the time they put this to the test. Censoring them, as in most cases, will only alienate and enrage them further.
All things considered, it is unlikely that Trump will succeed at a coup given the fact that the military establishment does not appear to support him. Their job is to protect the American brand. They safeguard the economic interests of corporate America, aka the coffers and trading status of the ruling class. And a coup, or the hint of one, within the world's most powerful empire would be bad for business. But regardless of this, there were many members of the military and police officers amongst the fascist mob that stormed the Capitol. And the damage to that American brand has been done.
Attempts to remove Trump via impeachment or the 25th amendment should proceed, but these efforts face enormous obstacles and must be done quickly to have any meaningful effect. Thanks to sweeping powers granted to the executive branch, mostly by the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, it is extraordinarily difficult to remove or curtail the powers of a sitting president. And Trump still has some rather terrifying tricks in his bag. A strike on Iran? North Korea? Even China? None of this is beyond his capacity and can be done with little to no authorization from either military brass or Congress.
Even as Trump faces his last days in office, he still has the power to start a nuclear war. This is a man who took the so-called "nuclear football" or briefcase with the nuclear codes, to a cocktail party in Mar-a-Lago. And just this month, the USS Nimitz was ordered to return to the Persian Gulf as tensions rise between Washington and Tehran. This comes as a US war ship was sent to menace China in military operations, and nuclear capable B-52 bombers were sent to the Middle-East, prompting one senior Iranian military adviser to warn the president in a tweet: "not to turn the New Year into a mourning for Americans." Recently, the governments of both Iraq and Iran have issued arrest warrants for Trump, for his illegal use of drone strikes that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last year. If there is one thing the last four years have demonstrated, it is that Trump does not take threats of arrest calmly.
The next few days will undoubtedly be tense. And even if the Trump presidency ends without incident or he is removed, we should not be ready to rest. Fascism has always simmered just below the surface in American society and within its economic and political institutions. But what is rapidly unfolding in the United States has precedent. History is replete with tragic examples of how fascism is born and nurtured; as well as how it spreads. And there is one solid lesson: we cannot afford to get comfortable with it, or collaborate with it, or even negotiate with it. It didn't work in Weimar Germany, or in Franco's Spain, or Pinochet's Chile, or anywhere else that it reared its ugly head. Its root causes, which lie squarely in economic, material privilege and its deprivation, must be met head on. Empty platitudes like "this is not who we are," or "we must embrace a spirit of bipartisanship" are nonsensical and dangerous, because they ignore the societal maladies responsible for fascisms' rise.
To be sure, if things go as planned and Biden takes control of the American Empire, we should not expect any massive shift to the left either. The Democratic Party establishment is still staunchly neoliberal. Diverse in color and gender as his cabinet might be, it is almost completely beholden to military and corporate interests. In fact, Biden has made it clear that he will reach out to Republicans even more than progressives or leftists. We will undoubtedly see more money allotted to an already bloated military industrial sector. And following recent events, we can count on increased surveillance and brutal crackdowns on dissidents and protesters, most of whom will be people of color, Indigenous, environmentalists, and antiwar activists.
In addition to this, we cannot forget the fact that over 70 million Americans voted for Trump, almost half of the voting public. In fact, Trump received 10 million more votes than in 2016, which is astonishing given his atrocious record with the pandemic. And a huge swath of these people fervently believe that the election was stolen from them. Biden and elite Democrats, who have spent enormous time and money deriding anyone left of them in their ranks, will not enter into office with any strong mandate. In fact, if they continue to alienate their base, they will risk becoming irrelevant in a very short space of time.
And leftists should not kid themselves that by continually attacking liberals they will somehow succeed in swaying most disenfranchised voters on the far right. This is the mistake that Ernst Thälmann, chief of the German Communist Party (KPD), made in the final years of the Weimar Republic. His hatred of liberals only distracted him from an ever strengthening Nazi party. And he, along with many of his comrades, were among their first political victims as a result. After years in a concentration camp, Thälmann was killed on Hitler's order in 1944.
There are many similarities of current day American politics to the final years of the Weimar Republic of the early 20th century: a bureaucratic plutocracy governed by out of touch liberal capitalists, incapable of understanding, let alone meeting, the needs of ordinary working people, in a nation where factions of the left foolishly downplayed the looming threat of the far right. This terrible recipe created the conditions that led many Germans to feel increasingly alienated from public life, and thus easily manipulated by nationalism, racism and the scapegoating of all of their problems.
In the coming months and years, we will likely see more platitudes about unity, all while civil liberties are ruthlessly crushed by an already bloated surveillance state in the name of stopping "domestic terrorism." It is not likely, however, that we will see any meaningful economic reforms, or the radical change that is needed to stem the rising tide of fascist sentiment, from the incoming administration either. No living wage. No universal healthcare, even in the midst of a pandemic. We will also likely see erstwhile or confused leftists attempting to align with elements of the far right. A venture which will only lead to tragedy. And without a mass movement to disrupt this trend, a reincarnated Weimar Republic may serve as a handmaiden for a more terrifying fascism to come.
Kenn Orphan is an artist, sociologist, radical nature lover and weary, but committed activist. He can be reached at kennorphan.com.


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Ojai's first jail still exists near Santa Barbara
This article first appeared in the Wednesday, December 13, 1989 edition of the Ojai Valley News on Page A-7. It is reprinted here with their permission. The author is Barbara De Noon.
Barbara De Noon
Special to the News
Would you believe that Ojai's first jail, built in 1873, is sitting in Santa Barbara County?
Let me tell you the story.
In 1873, the 50 peace-loving settlers in the Ojai Valley, tucked below some beautiful mountains (where there were more horses than people), felt the need for someone in the township to represent the law.
About the same time, a prominent lady of the town was sitting on a log one day watching her husband erect a canvas hotel (where Libbey Park is now). She was Mrs. Abram Blumberg and she said to her husband, "You know, our settlement should be call Nordhoff" (reportedly meaning Wayside Inn or Northern Hole). [But actually named for author Charles Nordhoff.]
And so it came to pass that Ojai's first name was really Nordhoff (always remembered by our only school).
Right afterward, the residents of this infant town hired Andy Van Curen (1848-1923) as its first constable.
Andy, as everyone was fond of calling him, had an unusual appearance. He had sparkling brown eyes, "wore" a white beard, and his head was completely bald except for one fringe of hair.
The first location of the jail was close to Ojai Avenue in front of what used to be Loop's Restaurant. Then it was moved [west] to what is now the southwest corner of Ojai Avenue and Blanche Street (later the space of Security Pacific Bank's parking lot).
Immediately after being hired, Andy personally built the jail, using 1-by 4-inch sideboards laid flat on top of one another.
The timbers were nailed together by iron spikes, one inch apart.
There were two cells, each with an iron door, one with the capacity for four prisoners and the other for seven.
Windowless, there was a six-inch slot in each cell for air.
The jail provided extra storage for Van Curen's coffins and tombstones as he was the only undertaker in the valley.
Prominent ladies of the town made doll dresses out of the scraps from the linings of the coffins.
Actually, Van Curen was a livery stable owner and made an unusual constable.
He was described as a man who accomplished his duties in a kindly and sympathetic manner, keeping peace in the Ojai Valley.
He arrested an occasional operator of a "blind pig" (an establishment that served illegal bootleg whiskey), but, most of the arrests were participants of violent quarrels, drunks and horse thieves.
A great-grandniece of Andy's wife, Mrs. Charles Phillips, remembers seeing her Uncle Andy taking trays of food prepared by his wife to the prisoners arrested and participants in violent behavior.
No one, however, ever escaped from the jail, a veritable fortress.
When Van Curen had given his services for many years, there was a movement among some of the local citizens to elect a younger and more active man to replace him as constable.
Commenting on this situation in her memoirs of the period, Helen Baker Reynolds writes, "Andy was hurt and incensed." He let it be known that if he were replaced no one else could use his jail. And so the movement for replacement promptly collapsed.
After a half-century of being constable, and before leaving the valley to move to Pasadena, Van Curen offered the little wooden jail to the city, realizing it was a relic of the Old West and of early Ojai history.
Unfortunately, the offer was turned down and the jail was sold.
It was moved on a flatbed truck and became an attraction 14 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, off San Marcos Pass, on a horseshoe bend (once deep in the forest) behind an old stage coach stop called the Cold Springs Tavern.
The old tavern, genial remnant of 100 years ago, featured refreshing drinks and exceptional food for people who traveled the pass and to this day, still does!
And you can still see the first wooden jail of Ojai, sitting in a dark corner nestled in the trees at the rear of Cold Springs Tavern.
Drawing of the jail built by Constable Andy Curen as it looks at the Cold Springs Tavern in Santa Barabara County.
There are those of us who think the genial relic should be returned to its home, Ojai.
Anyone interested please contact Bob Browne, curator of our wonderful local museum.
Reminiscences of Early Ojai (No. 2)
The following article was written by Howard Bald and appeared in the December 20, 1972 edition of the Ojai Valley News. It is reprinted here with their permission. Photos have been added by the Ojai Valley Museum. Bald titled his many articles with the same title. So, this article has "(No. 2)" added by the Ojai Valley Museum.
The Ojai valley in those days was a popular winter resort for wealthy eastern people who would come out for the winter.
Other than playing tennis and cards, about the only entertainment was horseback riding, and for the elder people, a team and surrey with a driver would trot them about the valley, up Matilija canyon (the road ended at Wheeler's Hot Springs) up through the Upper Ojai valley and onto Sulphur mountain, or over to Shepard's Inn via Casitas Pass and sometimes onto Santa Barbara. Shepard's Inn, situated on the line between Santa Barbara and Ventura County was a popular, rustic inn frequented by both Santa Barbara and Ojai tourists.
The Casitas Pass was approached only via what is now Foster Park, and the road followed along the foot of the north side of Red mountain. But the east and west passes were virtually the same as of today. One popular ride was to follow the beach from the Rincon to Ventura when the tide was low. I believe it was sometimes done with a team and wagon. I did it only on a saddle horse.
The livery stable was not only the site of horse trading and training, but also some lively prize fights were held there, sometimes right out on the street and sometimes inside the stable. When held inside buggies would be crammed into a corner to make room for the spectators. Some of the younger fry had their first lessons in boxing there.
I well remember one time when the men had Mavor Smith and me matched together. We were fairly evenly matched and things were going smoothly until Mavor glanced over his shoulder to see how near he was to a horse's heels in a nearby stall. At that instant I uncorked a left to Mavor's jaw. Mavor considered that unfair tactics and retaliated with all he had. The riot was quelled by Sam (Mavor's father) dragging him across the street to their home back of the post office.
Occasionally the village quietness was broken by a local hoodlum riding his horse down the board walk, and if a Chinaman happened to be within reach, wrapping the end of his cue around the pommel of his saddle and galloping to the end of the board walk. (The Chinese all wore a long single braid down their back. I'll mention them in particular later.)
One smart alec rode into Clyde Stewart's grocery store and roped a fellow and dragged him over the counter. But that episode is getting into the second decade and I am trying to confine myself to the first decade. And besides, that smart alec (notice I don't now use the term hoodlum) was myself.
Howard Bald led trips into the back-country.
One November night the village stillness was suddenly shattered by a series of pistol shots accompanied by unearthly yells. It turned out to be only Johnny Joshlin celebrating the beginning of the fall rains. After emptying two six shooters, he returned to Lagomarsino's saloon and all was quiet again. Now I wonder how Johnny happened to have two six shooters, for he was not a gunman.
The only law enforcement officer the valley had was constable Andy Van Curren. He was a familiar sight with his flowing gray beard, riding about the valley on an iron gray horse.
His home and the jail (they were separate buildings) occupied the area where the new Security Pacific Bank and Loop's restaurant now stand.
From left to right: Bank of America, Cattywampus Craft Ojai, Beacon Coffee on the south side of Ojai Avenue in downtown Ojai. Security Pacific Bank was originally housed in the Bank of America building. The building which houses Cattywampus Craft Ojai and Beacon Coffee used to house Loop's Restaurant. These lots used to be where Constable Andy Van Curren's home, and the jail he built, were located.
I don't remember there ever being anything in the jail but spare coffins, for Andy sometimes acted as undertaker. I am sure that on such occasions he substituted the gray saddle horse for a team and spring wagon. (I have recently learned, though, that Mrs. Van Curren would prepare meals, and one of the small daughters would carry them over to the inmates.)
Constable Andy Van Curren's jail, now at Cold Springs Tavern near Santa Barbara. This was the first jail in the Ojai Valley.
There was a story of one of the valley's most notorious rowdies (I will not mention his name, as it might offend highly respected present day descendents.) His appearances before the justice of the peace McKee were becoming rather frequent, and each time the fine would be a little higher. Finally, the judge fined him $10. The fellow blinked and with characteristic oath said, "Judge, ain't that pretty steep for a regular customer?"
Another time Constable Van Curren called at his home to make an arrest. His mother met Van Curren at the front door and parlayed with him while the intended arrestee skipped out the kitchen door, saddled and mounted a horse and rode off to the Upper Ojai.
Posted on November 3, 2011 April 7, 2018
Our Town, Part 1–Dr. Saeger & Andy Van Curen
Our Town, Part 1 by Helen Baker Reynolds
When the Bakers arrived in the Ojai Valley in 1886 they came in a horse-drawn stage. At that time there was no railroad up and down the coast. About ten years later, when a coast line was under construction, a track was laid from Ventura to Ojai, and from then on, a local train with two small, creaking passenger coaches puffed into our station each evening and out again in the morning.
The village during my early childhood was still very quiet and small. Businesses extended one block along Main street, a segment of the east-west county road. Even in the business block the roadway curved casually around trees, and a hitching rack and drinking trough occupied most of the southerly side. Blumberg's Inn, already ramshackle, stood in a grove of oaks.
On the opposite side of the street a boardwalk ran past a straggling row of establishments, general merchandise, grocery, and hardware stores, a blacksmith shop and a drug store. At the end of the block stood Schroff's Harness Shop; at the other end Tom Clark's Livery Stable. There was also a pool hall which we were taught not to glance into, it being not quite "nice".
Dr. Saeger owned the drug store. In the rear was his medical office, where he doled out quinine or calomel pills, and where he also extracted teeth.
He was slow of motion and slow of speech and wore a drooping mustache. At a patient's bedside he would sit solemn and silent; yet somehow his presence was immensely reassuring for he was a deeply kind man. My parents, who were devoted to him, used to say that Doctor Saeger never had been known to press a patient for payment, and usually he presented no bill until he was asked to do so.
Occasionally in the event of a very critical illness, request for consultation was sent to Doctor Bard, a remarkably skilled physician, who, like Doctor Saeger, practiced medicine in the best tradition of the old-time country doctor. He lived in Ventura, fifteen miles away, but, in spite of the distance and sometimes in spite of storms and floods, he would set out at once behind his spirited span of horses, in answer to a call. My family held him in reverence. He had come to attend little two-year old Sara when she was ill with pneumonia, and my parents believed probably rightly that he had saved her life.
A short distance west of the village a tiny, boxlike wooden building stood under spreading oaks. This was the jail, which Andy Van Curen, the perennial constable, had built on the grounds of his home. The jail was seldom put to use, for ours was a law-abiding town, only occasionally disturbed by some show-off galloping recklessly thru Main street, or someone being drunk on a Saturday night.
Van Curen's jail, now at Cold Springs Tavern by Santa Barbara
A gentle, slow-moving man of indeterminate age, Andy Van Curen had held his position for years. As the population grew and became a trifle more worldly, someone started a movement to elect a younger, more active man as constable. Andy was hurt and incensed. He let it be known that if he were replaced no one else could use his jail. The movement for replacement promptly collapsed.
Andy acted as undertaker, as well as constable. He kept a supply of coffins in a shed behind the jail. Children would peep through the tiny windows, shivering pleasantly at the sight of the coffins stacked inside. Processions to the cemetery in early days, I am told, were led by Andy transporting the departed in his spring wagon. Later, however, a horse-drawn hearse would be brought up from Ventura on the occasion of a rather pretentious funeral. The hearse was black, adorned with tassels, and the two black horses were elegant with black plumes on their heads.
Essentially our main street could have been duplicated in hundreds of small Western towns'boxlike buildings with false fronts, a few loungers in front of the pool hall, buggies and wagons raising dust or scattering mud, according to the weather.
But somehow the main street of Ojai was not altogether ugly. The ancient oaks spreading their branches over the drab little buildings, the backdrop of foothills and mountains entered competition with man and easily won the contest. In spite of human ineptitude, our village was attractive.
Posted on July 13, 2011 April 7, 2018
Early Stories of Ojai, Part I
Early Ojai Stories, Part One by Howard Bald
Note: Howard Bald was an early Ojai resident. His reminiscences were written in the early 1970s.
Other than playing tennis and cards, about the only entertainment was horseback riding, and for the elder people, a team and surrey with a driver would trot them about the valley, up Matilija Canyon (the road ended at Wheeler's Hot Springs) up through the Upper Ojai valley and onto Sulphur mountain, or over to Shepherds Inn via Casitas Pass and sometimes on to Santa Barbara. Shepherd's Inn, situated on the line between Santa Barbara and Ventura County was a popular, rustic inn frequented by both Santa Barbara and Ojai tourists.
The Casitas Pass was approached only via what is now Foster Park, and the road followed along the foot of the north side of Red mountain. But the east and west passes were virtually the same as of today. One popular ride was to follow the beach from the Rincon to Ventura when the tide was low. I believe it was sometimes done with team and wagon. I did it only on saddle horse.
The livery stable was not only the site of horse trading and training, but also some lively prize fights were held there, sometimes right out on the street and sometimes in the stable. When held inside buggies would be crammed into a corner to make room for the spectators. Some of the younger fry had their first lessons in boxing there.
I well remember one time when the men had Mayor Smith and me matched together. We were fairly evenly matched and things were going smoothly until Mayor glanced over his shoulder to see how near he was to a horse's heels in a nearby stall. At that instant I uncorked a left to Mayor's jaw. Mayor considered that unfair tactics and retaliated with all he had. The riot was quelled by Sam (Mayor's father) dragging him across the street to their home back of the post office.
Occasionally the village quietness was broken by a local hoodlum riding his horse down the boardwalk, and if a Chinaman happened to be within reach, wrapping the end of his cue around the pommel of his saddle and galloping to the the end of the boardwalk. (The Chinese all wore a long single braid down their back. I'll mention them in particular later.)
One smart alec rode into Clyde Stewart's grocery store and roped a fellow and dragged him over the counter. But that episode is getting into the second decade and I am trying to confine myself to the first decade. And besides, that smart alec (notice I don't use the term hoodlum) was myself.
One November night the village stillness was suddenly shattered by a series of pistol shots accompanied by unearthly yells. It turned out to be only Johnny Joshlin celebrating the beginning of the fall rains. After emptying two six-shooters, he returned to Lagomarsino's saloon and all was quiet again. Now I wonder how Johnny happed to have two six-shooters, for he was not a gunman.
His home and the jail (they were separate buildings) occupied the area where the new Security Pacific Bank [Bank of America] and Loops restaurant [Cattywampus and Beacon Coffee] now stand. [See Ojai's First Jail, by Ed Wenig]
There was story of one of the valley's most notorious rowdies (I will not mention his name, as it might offend highly respected present day descendents). His appearances before justice of the peace McKee were becoming rather frequent, and each time the fine would be a little higher. Finally, the judge fined him $10. The fellow blinked and with characteristic oath said, "Judge, ain't that pretty steep for a regular customer?"
Another time Constable Van Curren called at his home to make an arrest. His mother met Van Curren at the front door and parlayed with him while the intended arrestee skipped out the kitchen door, saddled and mounted a horse, and rode off to the Upper Ojai.
"Reminiscences of Early Ojai" by Howard Bald, 1973
Ojai's First Jail
Ojai's First Jail by Ed Wenig
Andy Van Curen's Jail
For those who needed to be incarcerated for some time, Andy Van Curen, long time constable in the Ojai Valley, provided lodging in a very small, home-made jail he had built himself on his own property. According to Edna Van Curen Miner, his daughter, the jail was built of 4 inch boards, one inch thick that were laid flat, one on top of the other, and then nailed through with iron spikes an inch apart. Says she: "It was a veritable fortress from which none could escape."
There were two adjoining cells with an iron door for each, one cell capacity was 4, the other 7. A six inch square hole in each door provided a convenient opening for air and for providing a space for passing in small dishes of food. The jail was situated first close to Ojai Avenue, in front of what is now Loops Restaurant [now Carrow's Restaurant]. Then it was moved under a tree back of the rear parking lot of the Security Pacific Bank building [now, Bank of America].
Andy Van Curen was Nordhoff's constable for many years. In his later life, there was a movement among some of the citizens of Ojai to elect a younger and more active man to replace him as constable. Commenting on this situation in her memoirs of the period, Helen Baker Reynolds writes: "Andy was hurt and incensed. He let it be known that if he were replaced no one else could use his jail. The movement for replacement promptly collapsed."
Years after its use was ended, the little jail was twice offered to the City with the suggestion that it be placed in the Civic Park, but the city was not interested.
Clara Koch who had become in possession of the Van Curen property gave the jail to Audrey Ovington of Santa Barbara, who engaged William J. Brakey, the famed "moving man" from Ventura to move it. Mr Brakey took it on a flatbed truck over the Casitas Pass, and deposited it at Cold Spring Tavern. There it stands today and may be seen by anyone interested.
Ed Wenig, Ojai's home-made jail was escape-proof, Ojai Valley News, Nov. 19, 1969.


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Smallville: 3x18
When Chloe accidentally inhales a mysterious krypto-gas, she discovers it acts as a truth serum to anyone who comes in contact with her and decides to take advantage of her new power by going to the Kents to find out Clark's secret.
Exile Oct. 01, 2003
Phoenix Oct. 08, 2003
Extinction Oct. 15, 2003
Slumber Oct. 22, 2003
Perry Oct. 29, 2003
Relic Nov. 05, 2003
Magnetic Nov. 12, 2003
Shattered Nov. 19, 2003
Asylum Jan. 14, 2004
Whisper Jan. 21, 2004
Delete Jan. 28, 2004
Hereafter Feb. 04, 2004
Velocity Feb. 11, 2004
Obsession Feb. 18, 2004
Resurrection Feb. 25, 2004
Crisis Mar. 03, 2004
Legacy Apr. 14, 2004
Truth Apr. 21, 2004
Memoria Apr. 28, 2004
Talisman May. 05, 2004
Forsaken (1) May. 12, 2004
Covenant (2) May. 19, 2004


High school blood drives are fun and creative! Giving blood during school years helps start a habit for a lifetime.
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This accountancy firm has a strong market presence in the Thames Valley and South Coast, and this has enabled it to continue growing through the pandemic. As part of its continued investment in tax it is looking for a corporate tax senior manager to take on a portfolio of UK outbound and international inbound clients.
The role will be to manage a key client portfolio of internationally focused entrepreneurial and small listed businesses, manage and mentor more junior staff, take on complex advisory projects, and build a case for director by developing new business in the internal and external markets.
To be considered you are likely to be CTA or accounting qualified, at top end manager or recently promoted senior manager level, and working in tax either with a firm of accountants, in a legal firm or in-house. You will need to have some international tax experience and be committed to developing this skillset.
The firm offers flexible working, and the role could be considered as a part-time opportunity.


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What Does Entanglement Mean and How Do You Know if You're in One?!
Screenshot of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith confirming her entanglement from Red Table Talk on Facebook
It takes a lot to break the internet but leave it to the Smiths, in this case Jada Pinkett Smith, to reign over Twitter and usher in one of the greatest new memes of 2020. Over the weekend of July 10th, Twitter blew up as news broke of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith both confirmed her connection to American singer August Alsina. We know it was a romantic relationship because it was confirmed by Alsina himself.
However, the best part about all of this media frenzy that's come out isn't really the details on The Smiths personal life and history. No. The real nugget of this whole moment is Jada Pinkett Smith uttering the instantly iconic phrase, "I got into an entanglement." This right here this is what we're here to talk about. Because as soon as Pinkett Smith said this Twitter and TikTok wasted no time in low key airing their own laundry and their own entanglements.
If you head to Twitter and type in #entanglement I guarantee you will find a rich set of memes, GIFs, and edits that leave you in tears. In trying to write this post I got sucked into #entanglement and I had to pull myself out. One could say I was in an entanglement with Twitter… See I was in an entanglement with my phone, but for Millennials and Gen Z what they think this word means is a bit different from what I mean.
Below are screenshots of some of my favorite memes:
#entanglement trending
One thing we have to discuss is while entanglement actually means one thing, the connotation that's circulating is coming from the context of Pinkett Smith's utterance. While the denotation of entanglement just means being tied up in a complex situation, the way #entanglement is being used refers to a relationship that's either romantic or sexual. It took Urban Dictionary almost no time to answer people's question of, "What does entanglement mean?"
We have to remember that Urban Dictionary is crowd sourced platform, meaning that people can create their own definitions and others vote on it. Essentially people are creating discourse, yeah, sorry for the big words, on words that already exist. It's actually so interesting to think about how we're making meaning around things that already exist... Anyways here's what UD has has their top definition for the now infamous word.
Screenshot of Urban Dictionary's top definition for entanglement
Some of my favorite ways I've seen people say that they were in entanglements is in memes about them avoiding work, talking about their hookups, or just as excuses for almost anything. If I were to tell my boss, whose much older than me, that I missed a meeting because of an entanglement I don't think he'd question me. It would essentially mean the same as I was busy with something else. However, if my friend asked me why I didn't reply to them and I said, "I was in an entanglement" it would totally mean something else. "Spill the T!" is probably how my friend would respond.
This is all to say that it should come as no shocker that words definitions sometimes don't translate across generations. I am in Gen Z and I know both what this world actually means what what Jada Pinkett Smith's entanglement means. Just know how you're using this word and who you're using it with. Because you don't want to have to untangle yourself out of some drama should you say you're in an entanglement. But now the question arises, how do you know if you know if you're in one of these complex situations?
How do you know if you're in an ENTANGLEMENT?
When people my age are talking about being in entanglements with their hookups, or exes, or friends with benefits, it's more of a play on the complicated depth of Pinkett Smith's statement. I think that if you're in an entanglement you know it. You know when you're in a bad relationship. And just like The Smiths talked about their issues and getting out of it, if we feel tied up in a mess we have to undo it too.
While people are parodying Pinkett Smith's line I must say that I respect her and Will Smith for being honest and open the way they have. Talking about relationship issues and marital issues, especially in such a public way, takes guts and real courage.
We can all keep saying that we're in #entanglements but it's worth remembering that sometimes we also do need to get untangled back up.
Let me know, did you know what entanglement meant or did you have to look it up? Or, what's your favorite #entanglement meme? If you liked this post make sure to share it and tag me @ Willsshowem so I can entangle you in a social media shoutout!
Click below to head back to the main blog - PS this is the first post in a new section I'm dedicating to pop culture/social media/and trendy topics!
Thanks for reading these Words by Will! See you in the next post!


Over the years there have been recurring themes when it comes to potential customers trying to get something for nothing. Here are five of the most common "Red Flag" customers that I have learned to watch out for.
What this individual really means is, "I'm a cheapskate, so you do all the work up front for free and when the site is successful you can have a small percentage of the profits." The interesting thing is that if the site fails, you are the only one who stands to lose. The person who has the most to lose should also have the most to gain if the project succeeds.
Much like the "Win-Win" partnership, this individual will approach you with an idea that is sure to be an instant success, the one catch is that they are not "technically savvy" so they just need someone to "partner" with who can program the site. What they think is, "Million dollar ideas are hard to come by, so I will share my idea with you and you do all the work, I get all the credit and profit because the hardest part is just having the idea." Anyone can have a million dollar idea, but it takes a lot of hard work and effort on the part of a web developer to make it happen. The idea itself isn't worth anything without the sweat that goes into making it happen.
This individual is pretending to be interested in your future career and is offering you an opportunity to build your portfolio on their project. They are actually not interested in a website designed by an amateur, that is why they came to you, they want a quality site. The first step in their mind is to convince you that you are an amateur who just needs some more experience and they are willing to offer you an opportunity to build your portfolio on their project. Obviously they still have an expectation to receive a quality site, but they think that by convincing you that you are not worth their pay, you will still deliver a quality product in a timely manner. They expect that you will be grateful for allowing you the honor of working on their site.
This typically is not someone you would consider to be in "the inner circle" but rather an acquaintance that wants to take advantage of the relationship and what you do for a living. They are opportunistic and take advantage of the family tree or the fact that you sat next to each other in a class once-upon-a-time. Simply test their sincerity by asking them for a "favor" in return–payment for services rendered.
Often these individuals think that they are on a higher moral plane than you and feel entitled to ask you to contribute your time and effort to their cause because it is the right thing to do. They seem unable to comprehend hourly rates and just keep talking about their higher calling in hopes of your buckling under the guilt and doing the project for free.
These potential customers all have the same thing in common, they are bullies and somehow feel entitled to your work. Once the project is underway, they usually see themselves as the "boss" in the relationship and will tend to micromanage your life from that point forward. The easiest way to say no is to hand them your (inflated) hourly rates and walk away.


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the Detroit airport. I wanted to put up one more video for you because I was struck yesterday with another person that really has figured out humor in the workplace. She works at Starbucks. She works in the airport. She works at Dallas-Ft. Worth. Alright, so you know how it is, you go to, we've all been to somewhere and boughten a drink. It's no big deal. It is a big deal with this woman because she just made, she just owned this whole concourse. She owned the concourse. She was like the queen of Dallas-Ft. Worth airport. She was like holding forth at Starbucks and she was calling everybody up, "Hey how are you doing? Get up here! How are you? What are you doing? Where are you going?" Just a super unbelievably friendly woman. So as is my habit, I asked her, "What's the deal? You know, how do you do this? How do you stay happy when it seems like people around you are not so happy with their job?" And she said, "Oh it's up to me, baby. But really what makes me happy is making you happy." It's so simple, but it's so cool. So social psychologists are going to call this flow, motivational speakers are going to call this motivation, customer service experts are going to call this, you know like "she's in the zone, she's doing her thing." But I think what really struck me is that she knows what keeps her happy and she knows that when she invests in other people, the payback is twofold. Not only are her customers happy, I was thrilled. She called me baby. I loved it. "Okay, here's your coffee, baby". I loved it. Not only did she make her customers happy, but I'm in the airport, can you hear me talking? Not only did she keep her customers happy, but she keeps herself happy. By delivering service, she feels served. It's just so, it's such a basic truth, but it's so easy to forget. So here is my challenge to you. What are you doing today to help others? And if you're thinking you are having a crappy day, maybe the way out of your crappy day is to deliver excellent service to your teammate, to your managers, to the people who you're managing, to your customers, to the people you are trying to sell. How can you make it better for them? And I think that what this woman at Starbucks is going to teach us is that by doing that, it will make it better for you. Happiness at work equals excellence at work. It's so cool. Serve others, you become happy. Love it! Alright, Brad Montgomery. BradMontgomery.com. Thanks for being here.


The Bhoys are all the buzz this upcoming 09/10 season! So, here's the brand new Celtic Football Club Away 'Bumblebee' Soccer Kit.
This cool new kit is sure to be popular amongst all Celtic supporters, and hearkens back to the famous 'Bumble Bee' design worn by the team in the mid-1990s. The shirt features embroidered Nike Swoosh on right chest and club crest over the heart; and felt Carling sponsor design on center. Made of Nike's advanced Dri-FIT® fabric, which keeps you drier, cooler and lighter by drawing sweat from the body to the fabric's surface, while its three-dimensional construction gives more air space around the skin to reduce clinging, and keeping you cheering on your team comfortably.


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Khmer Republic: Helicopters Rescue Refugees From Besieged Town Of Neak Luong As Government Defenders Are Re-Enforced And Lon Non Calls For More U.S. Aid. 1975
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Army helicopters airlifted refugees out of the besieged Mekong River ferry town of Neak Luong on Monday (13 January) after bringing in re-enforcements for government troops desperately holding out against Communist-led insurgents.
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SV Refugees helped out of helicopter by armed patrol
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SV Wounded man carried through muddy water off barge
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Background: Army helicopters airlifted refugees out of the besieged Mekong River ferry town of Neak Luong on Monday (13 January) after bringing in re-enforcements for government troops desperately holding out against Communist-led insurgents.
Neak Luong, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southeast of Phnom Penh -- the capital city, which is itself beleaguered -- is the only position still held by government forces along the 19-mile (30-kilometres) stretch of the Mekong River between the two centres. The rescue operation was launched because Neak Luong has become overcrowded to four times its normal population as refugees from the surrounding area have fled the insurgents' advance.
Hundreds of other refugees -- most of them women and children -- arrived safely in Phnom Penh on Monday by river barge and landing craft after running the gauntlet of many insurgent positions along the river. However, 26 refugees were killed and 44 wounded when their landing craft was hit by insurgent shelling near Neak Luong, and a second evacuation convoy was forced to turn back in the face of heavy fire.
Meanwhile, in Phnom Penh, President Lon Nol called indirectly on Monday (13 january) for more military and economic aid from the United States. The President was addressing the opening of the 31st annual Buddhist Conference.
But, even as he spoke, reports indicated that stepped-up U.S. military supplies are already pouring into Phnom Penh. Newsmen at the capital's Pochentong Airport reported about 50 landings by U.S. Air Force C-130 transport aircraft ferrying in equipment from Thailand.
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Kenya: Closing Down Order Enforced On Asian Shopkeepers
The notices served on nearly 3,000 Asian traders since last year ordering them to wind up their businesses in Kenya are now being enforced with great strictness.
U.S.A.: Alabama State Police Enforce Order Closing School In Tuskegee
A FORCE OF MORE THAN 200 ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS ACTING UNDER THE ORDERS OF GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE, TURNED STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AWAY FROM A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA ON TUESDAY.
Usa: National Guard Reinforce Law Enforcement Agencies In Wilmington Racial Troubles
Between 400 and 500 National Guardsmen joined State and local police and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Wilmington, North Carolina on Monday (February 8) following the shootings of a white and a black man.
Philippines: President Marcos Continues To Enforce Martial Law
Life in the Philippines continues under strict martial law following a tough clamp-down by President Marcos a week ago to check alleged subversion and corruption.
Singapore Enforces Immigration Control At Causeway
FOLLOWING SINGAPORE'S BREAKAWAY FROM MALAYSIA IN AUGUST, 1965, THE ISLAND REPUBLIC AT MIDNIGHT ON FRIDAY (JULY 1), ENFORCED IMMIGRATION CONTROLS FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE CAUSEWAY LINKING MALAYSIA THE MILE-LONG CAUSEWAY IS THE ONLY ROAD LINK BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA.
Algeria: Enforcement In Algeria
ALGERIA ROUND-UP:
Lebanon: Army Recruits Train To Enforce Government Authority Throughout Country.
United Nations forces have moved into the village of Braachit in southern Lebanon in defiance of opposition by rebel Lebanese Army, Major Saad Haddad who has set up an independent "Free Lebanon" state along the country's southern border, with the help of Israeli forces.
Eastern Nigeria: Strict Security Enforced On Borders Of Breakaway Region
THE BORDERS OF BIAFRA REPUBLIC, THE NAME ASSUMED BY THE BREAKAWAY EASTERN REGION OF NIGERIA, ARE SUBJECT TO STRICT SECURITY CHECKS AS THE REBEL STATE FACES AN ECONOMIC BLOCKADE IMPOSED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.


MainAll NewsPolitics & Gov'tIsrael Signing with Vatican?
Dep. FM Ayalon is meeting representatives of the Vatican, discussing a possible Israeli commitment not to confiscate Church-owned properties.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon is taking part in talks with representatives of the Vatican, Italy and France. Atop the agenda is a possible agreement on a Church exemption for property taxes, as well as an Israeli commitment not to confiscate Church-owned properties.
It was reported six months ago that talks between Israel and the Vatican had ended with no agreement, particularly on the Vatican's demand for sovereignty over the Last Supper room on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem. It was also reported that Israel had not agreed to the Vatican's non-confiscation demand, nor to its refusal to pay municipal taxes.
Messages left for Ayalon's spokesperson were unanswered. An emailed press release later in the day announced only that the meeting had taken place, progress had been made, and that further sessions are scheduled for July and December.


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US varsity can use race as factor in admissions: Court
Washington, July 16 :
A federal appeals court in the US has ruled that the University of Texas (UT Austin) may use affirmative action in admissions to ensure ethnic diversity among its student body.
A panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in southern port city of New Orleans voted 2-1 to throw out the lawsuit brought by Abigail Fisher, a white woman who was refused admittance to UT Austin in 2008.
UT Austin uses race as a factor in admitting one-fourth of its students each year, a practice that favours the admission of minority students, above all, African Americans and Hispanics.
Fisher claimed the policy violated her civil and constitutional rights.
But the 5th Circuit panel determined that forbidding UT Austin from using affirmative action in admissions would negative affect diversity on campus.
University president Bill Powers called it "a great day" for higher education.
Edward Blum, one of the attorneys representing Fisher, called the decision "disappointing but not unexpected" and said he will consider appealing.
Affirmative action in the US dates from the end of the 1960s.
The case reached the US Supreme Court last year, but the justices passed it to the 5th Circuit, which they tasked with carrying out a detailed examination of the situation.
-IANS/EFE
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"To Build a Home" is a song by English electronic music group The Cinematic Orchestra, with vocals and piano performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson. To Build A Home Lyrics: There is a house built out of stone / Wooden floors, walls and window Featuring Patrick Watson This is a place where I feel at home. Interview: The Cinematic Orchestra on "To Build A Home" and clearing . where my manager Dom put me in touch with Patrick Watson. Patrick.
To Build A Home (feat. Patrick Watson). Original Mix. $ Hetacomb · Datenbits Recordings · Deep House. $ With You There Feat Nadeau. There is a house built out of stone / Wooden floors, walls and window sills / Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust / This is a place where I don't feel alone. Check out To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra featuring Patrick Watson on Amazon Music. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on.
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