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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (February 8, 1825 – December 22, 1911) worked as a bobbin doffer in a Massachusetts cotton mill and was involved in a turnout, became a poet and author, and played an important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

Early life
Harriet was the daughter of Harriet Browne Hanson and the carpenter William Hanson. Both parents were descended from early English settlers but without distinguished ancestors. Her elder brother was John Wesley Hanson (1823–1901), and she had two surviving younger brothers: Benjamin and William. Harriet's father died when she was five, which left his widow to support four young children.

Harriet's mother was determined to keep her family together, despite the difficulty in doing so.  Harriet later recalled in her autobiography Loom and Spindle  her mother's response after a neighbour had offered to adopt Harriet so that her mother had one less mouth to feed: "No; while I have one meal of victuals a day, I will not part with my children." She later wrote that her mother's words on that occasion stuck with her "because of the word 'victuals, whose meaning she wondered for a long time thereafter.

Initially, Mrs. Hanson ran a small store in Boston, Massachusetts, which sold food, candy, and firewood.  The family lived in the back room of the shop, all sharing one bed "two at the foot and three at the head," as Harriet would later recall.
At the invitation of Harriet's maternal aunt, Angeline Cudworth, also a widow, the family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, a center of the textile industry.

Lowell was a planned mill town. Under the Lowell System, the company recruited young women (15-35) from New England farms to work in the mills. The companies built boardinghouses managed by older women, often widows to provide meals and safe places to live. Churches and cultural organizations offered lectures, concerts, reading rooms, improvement circles and other cultural and educational opportunities. Another attraction were good cash wages compared to domestic work and teaching, which paid much less.

Mill worker

Mrs. Hanson obtained a job as a boardinghouse keeper for the Tremont Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. During the summer of 1836, Harriet started to work part-time at the Tremont Mills. By her own account, she wanted to work to be able to earn money for herself, and the experience was good for her. However, there may have been an element of necessity since her mother earned little money from running the boarding house. Her job, which paid $2 per week, was as a "doffer," who replaced full bobbins with empty ones. The job took only a quarter of each hour, and during the free periods, the boys and girls could play or read or even go home for a while.

In 1836, the Lowell Mill Girls organized another strike, or "turn out" as they called them. The first strike had been in 1834 over a 15% cut in wages. The second strike was over an increase in board charges that was equivalent to a 12.5% cut in wages. To Harriet, who was eleven, it was her first "turn out." In her autobiography, she recounted it with pride:

Harriet was harming her own mother by striking since her mother would have benefited from the increase in boarding charges. Harriet did not realize that until she was older.

As a consequence of the turn out, several of the mills reversed the increase in charges, and the boarding system was reviewed on the grounds that since it was the principal inducement for young women and girls to come and work at the mills in the first place, it must not be having the desired effect if they were so dissatisfied that they struck.  However, the turn out organizers were fired from their jobs, as was Harriet's mother, which Harriet depicted in her autobiography as an act of petty revenge for Harriet's own actions.

Harriet continued to work in the mills after the turn out was over and graduated to tending a spinning frame and then becoming a "drawing-in girl," one of the better jobs in the mill.
The drawing room was relatively quiet, away from the spinning and weaving machinery.

The drawing-in girl took over after the warp threads had been wound onto the take-up beam and drew each thread through the harness and reeds using a long metal hook.
She could sit on a stool or a chair as she worked.
Once that was complete, the beam would be delivered to the weaving room.
The pay was on a piecework basis and so Harriet could work at her own pace, and while the looms were operating, she could
find a quiet room away from the machinery in which she was able to read.

Education

Harriet had obtained an elementary education before she started work in the mill.
While she worked as a doffer, she also attended evening classes.

At the age of 15 she left the mills for two years to study French, Latin, and English grammar and composition at Lowell High School. She studied in a wooden school room in a building that had a butcher's shop on the ground floor.

The titles of two of her compositions have survived: "Poverty Not Disgraceful" and "Indolence and Industry",
reflecting her opinion that there was nothing wrong with the honest labor of poor people.

Harriet returned to the mills and worked there until 1848 but, in her spare time, participated in literary groups in Lowell.

Lowell was rich in educational and cultural opportunities for women at the time. There were libraries and bookstores, evening schools and lectures, concerts and balls.
Two of the first magazines written by women were published in the town, the Lowell Offering and The New England Offering.
Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797–1886), one of Harriet's companions in the mills, became a noted contributor of sketches and stories to the Lowell Offering.
Harriet said that "the fame of The Lowell Offering caused the mill girls to be considered very desirable for wives; and that young men came from near and far to pick and choose for themselves, and generally with good success."
Harriet also wrote and published poetry, and it was through this that she met her future husband, William Robinson, who worked as an editor at the Lowell Journal, which published some of her work.

Marriage

Harriet married William Stevens Robinson (1818–1876) on Thanksgiving Day in 1848, when she was 23. Also from a poor background, Robinson was a writer for a newspaper and a supporter of the Free Soil Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories and made it hard for him to keep a job.
During the early years of her marriage, Harriet was not interested in women's rights.
In her early writings, she described the pleasure of having a husband to handle worldly problems,  and her job was to take care of him and said that for that reason she did not want to vote.
Harriet later adopted the women's rights cause, after her husband had taken it up.
The couple would have four children, one of whom died young, and they also looked after Harriet's mother. Often, they struggled to make ends meet.

In 1858, the couple moved to Malden, a new residential suburb five miles from Boston and bought a house two blocks from the railway station. That was to be Harriet's home for the rest of her life.

At first, Robinson struggled to earn a living as a journalist.
The couple had a large garden, grew fruit and vegetables, and made some money by raising chickens and selling the eggs.

In 1862 Robinson held a well-paying job as clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for 11 years.

In 1868 Harriet joined the American Woman's Suffrage Organization, led by Lucy Stone, and founded the Malden women's club.
Robinson was forced out of his job by the politician Benjamin Butler, and in 1876 died after a long illness.

Her daughter, Hattie, served as assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872, being the first woman to hold such a position. Another daughter Elizabeth was considered to be a pioneer in introducing kindergarten to Connecticut.

Later life
As a widow, Harriet Robinson rented out rooms to support herself, her three daughters and her aged mother. She wrote several books, including a biography of her husband, and became increasingly active in the women's suffrage movement.
Harriet's book Loom and Spindle (1898) portrayed the industrial town of Lowell in her childhood and youth as a time of great opportunity for mill girls, who learned the discipline of labor and gained broader ideas about the world from their experiences. The book continues to be read more than 100 years after it was published.

Harriet and her daughter Harriet Lucy Robinson Shattuck organized the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, associated with Susan B. Anthony's organization, and Harriet Robinson made the opening address at the 1881 Boston Convention of the organization. They also helped Julia Ward Howe to organize the New England Women's Club. Harriet Robinson corresponded extensively with the suffrage movement leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. When the National Woman Suffrage Association opened on 26 May 1881 at the Tremont Temple in Boston, Harriet Robinson welcomed the delegates and guests. At this session she offered the following resolution: "Whereas, We believe that it is not safe to trust the great question of woman's political rights solely to the legislature, or to the voters of the state, therefore Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of Massachusetts to organize an active work, to secure a sixteenth amendment to the United States Constitution." Harriet Robinson wrote enthusiastically in 1881,

Harriet never took a theoretical position on women's rights and may have been largely motivated by an ambition to advance in society, which the movement offered. However, she became a formidable advocate of suffrage in her writings and as a public speaker.

The poet Lucy Larcom, a friend of Harriet who had also worked in the mills as a child, wrote of her, "Mrs. Robinson is deeply interested in all the movements, which tend to the advancement of women, and uses her pen and her voice freely in their behalf. She was the first woman to speak before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage in Congress, and has spoken for the cause before the legislature of her own State, where she is not only a citizen, but a vote as far as the law allows."

Additionally, Harriet contributed to the fourteenth annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, which was published in 1883. Here is an excerpt from the annual report written by Harriet Robinson:

They [the mill girls] went forth from their Alma Mater, the Lowell Factory, carrying with them the independence, the self-reliance taught in that hard school, and they have done their little part towards performing the useful labor of life. Into whatever vocation they entered they have made practical use of the habits of industry and perseverance learned during those early years. Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. Their early experience developed their characters... and helped them to fight well the battle of life.

Harriet lived to the age of 86 and died at home in Malden on 22 December 1911.

Bibliography
Although she published several books, Harriet Robinson did not make money from her writings, which she published at her own expense.

Books

In anthologies

Notes

References

Sources

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1825 births
1911 deaths
Writers from Boston
American suffragists
Textile workers
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century
19th-century American non-fiction writers
19th-century American women writers


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Boeing and Saab sign joint development agreement
Dec. 6, 2013, St. Louis, Mo. - Boeing and Saab AB have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to jointly develop and build a new advanced, cost-efficient T-X Family of Systems training solution for the upcoming competition to replace the U.S. Air Force's aging T-38 aircrew training system.
December 6, 2013 By Carey Fredericks
The JDA, with Boeing as the prime contractor and Saab AB as primary partner, covers areas including design, development, production, support, sales and marketing.
"Teaming with Saab will bring together our companies' formidable technical expertise, global presence, and willingness to present an adaptable and affordable advanced pilot training solution," said Boeing Military Aircraft President Chris Chadwick. "Boeing and Saab form the foundation for what will be the strongest, most cost-effective industry team. Our comprehensive Family of Systems approach provides a new, purpose-built T-X aircraft supported by innovative training and logistics support to offer total-life-cycle cost benefits to the U.S. Air Force and taxpayers."
"Saab is proud to join with Boeing for the T-X competition, thus creating a highly capable team to deliver unprecedented value to the customer. We are sure this is the best way to supply affordable first-class trainers to the U.S. Air Force," said Saab President and CEO Håkan Buskhe. "We will invest in development of this completely new aircraft design over the coming years. This cooperation with Boeing is part of our strategic development and we confirm our long-term financial targets."
Boeing and Saab look forward to the upcoming acquisition process, which will lead to the customer awarding the contract. The U.S. Air Force T-X program will include aircraft and training that will prepare warfighters for the next 40 years. The Air Force plans to replace the T-38 with a new Advanced Pilot Training Family of Systems and about 350 aircraft, plus associated ground-based training systems and logistics and sustainment support.
The trainer solution from Boeing and Saab with other potential team members will be a completely new designed aircraft, built to meet the needs of the Air Force.
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Embraer, Saab join forces for F-X2 project
Boeing reveals first two aircraft for U.S. Air Force T-X competition
GE and StandardAero sign development centre agreement
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Gov. Jerry Brown gives remarks at a symposium in Sacramento on climate change and natural landscapes co-sponsored by the UC Davis Policy Institute, March 10.
Governor Jerry Brown made an unscheduled appearance at a symposium on climate change and natural landscapes co-sponsored by UC Davis last week. In his remarks, Brown noted that Californians are already facing serious impacts from climate change, and that we need to compress highly complex impacts and solutions into simple points that can be used to overcome political barriers.
The March 10 event was co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy. Representatives from government, academia, non-governmental organizations and the private sector discussed how California's natural landscapes can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help the state adapt to its changing climate.
Other speakers included Deputy Cabinet Secretary Wade Crowfoot, senior advisor to Gov. Brown, and State Senator Fran Pavley. Read a full report on the meeting here.


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Watch Over Me
Mila Gray
"Steamy…Doesn't let up." —Booklist
"Intense…Unflinching." —Kirkus Reviews
From the author of Come Back to Me comes a striking novel about a young woman—desperately trying to protect her family from their violent father—who finds safety, and a passionate romance, with an ex-Marine.
Ever since Zoey was a kid she's been caring for her mom and her little sister, defending them from her violent father. She's been the strong one, the responsible one as she sacrificed her wants and dreams to keep her family together.
Now the life they've built for themselves in California is about to be upended. Her father, just released from prison, has discovered where they're hiding and has come looking for them.
Enter Tristan. A former Marine and now member of the Coast Guard, Tristian promises his best friend, and Zoey's Marine brother, that he will take care of Zoey and her family. Protect them, watch over them, and be the rock they need in their lives.
And as Tristan starts to help Zoey deal with the emotional fallout of her childhood, their relationship turns from protector and protected to something more. The two grow closer as a romance blooms into a heart-pounding and powerful relationship that Zoey hopes will be strong enough to fight off the damage her father has done to her and her family.
But not everyone can be kept safe forever, and when Zoey's father does show up, a confrontation ensues that will change Zoey's world forever.
Grades 11 and Above
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I bought this book three days ago and I haven't been able to put this book down. Honestly, I believe that this was one of the best books in the entire series. I LOVED THEM ALL HONESTLY. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND READING THIS BOOK. Mila Gray, you out-did yourself, honey! Periodt.
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Mika Gray and Watch Over Me
I bought this book and finished it in one sitting it was so good!!! This author is unbelievably talented and had me drawn into tho book the whole time! I can't wait to read more!
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Run Away with Me
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Screaming in pain by the side of the road, a severely burnt Wade Still made a "dying declaration" that the man who "poured petrol" on him was David McCauley, detectives allege.
Mr Still, 23, was found by a passing taxi driver by the side of Oakdale Road at Whitebridge, south of Newcastle, in the early hours of August 20.
He repeatedly told a Fire & Rescue NSW officer that "David McCauley did it", police have alleged in documents submitted to a court.
David John McCauley, 35, has been charged with Mr Still's murder. The two men, described by police as "low-level career criminals", lived in the same Belmont unit complex and had known each other for years, including periods during which they had been "in conflict".
Mr McCauley did not appear in Toronto Local Court on Tuesday nor apply for bail.
The matter was adjourned to Newcastle Local Court on November 15, the same date as co-accused Troy McCosker, 49, is due to appear.
David McCauley has been charged with murder over the death of Wade Still.
Details of the "dying declaration" were set out in a police statement handed to magistrate Robert Stone during a bail application for Mr McCosker last week.
A taxi driver told police he was driving along Oakdale Road about 1am on August 20 when he saw a small fire in grass by the side of the road at the entrance to a quarry.
He did a U-turn and called triple zero before hearing screaming and seeing Mr Still "sitting, huddled on the ground" near the fire.
The taxi driver called triple zero again to update them and asked Mr Still, "Are you hurt?"
Mr Still replied: "I'm dying. I'm dying."
The taxi driver tried to help Mr Still speak to the triple zero operator but he continued to scream, "I'm dying", the police statement said.
A Fire & Rescue NSW officer arrived a short time later and asked Mr Still his name and what happened.
"David McCauley poured petrol on me," Mr Still is alleged to have replied.
"Are you and Dave mates?" the firefighter asked.
"We were," Mr Still replied, according to the police statement.
The firefighter asked if he and "Dave" were out lighting fires, to which Mr Still replied, "No."
Mr Still then continued to repeat his accused murder's name and said "David McCauley did it", according to the police statement.
Police claim that, due to the fact Mr Still believed he was about to die from his injuries, these statements to witnesses can be classified as a "dying declaration", one of the exceptions to the ban of hearsay evidence being used in criminal proceedings.
About 50 minutes before the taxi driver stopped to assist Mr Still, police say a car containing four people drove past the quarry and saw a man run out waving his arms in an attempt to get them to stop. The man was "covered in mud, with clothes hanging off him". Police allege the man was Mr Still.
In a police interview after his arrest on Tuesday, Mr McCauley denied any involvement in Mr Still's death.
He told detectives he picked up Mr Still on his motorbike in the suburb of Jewells between 11.30pm and 11.45pm on the night of his death.
He said Mr Still was carrying a five-litre jerry can full of fuel for Mr McCauley's motorbike. He said they pulled over near the quarry on Oakdale Drive because Mr Still was cold and then Mr Still said he was going to wait in that area for a friend.
Mr McCauley said he left Mr Still there and drove to a house at Dudley and then was picked up by Mr McCosker. He said Mr McCosker's car broke down at Redhead and he was picked up by a woman and driven to his home at Belmont.
Mr McCosker, represented by barrister Terry Healey and solicitor Cameron Duncan, was unsuccessful in his bid for bail on Thursday. Mr Stone said the police statement indicated Mr McCosker was in a vehicle at the scene when Mr Still was allegedly set alight by Mr McCauley.
Mr Healey had submitted that Mr McCosker was no more than a taxi driver for Mr McCauley and did not know Mr Still was even at the scene.
The court had heard Mr McCosker and Mr Still were in an "ongoing, violent feud" in the lead-up to his death.


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Townsend Enjoying Life Back At Town
Andy Phillips
Conor Townsend is pleased to be back in a Town shirt and is looking forward to spending the coming month at the club.
The 22-year-old loan defender made his second debut for the Mariners in the 7-0 thrashing of Halifax last Tuesday after four years away and is looking forward to playing consistently again after limited opportunities at Hull City so far this season.
He said: ''It's just nice to be playing again, nice to be wanted and stuff so that was the main reason I came.
''The gaffer obviously spoke to me and gave me start when I was 18 so it was a no brainer once I knew he was interested
Asked if he had any reservations about dropping back down to National League level after having loan spells at the likes of Chesterfield and Scunthorpe recently, the left-back explained that he enjoyed his last spell so much that he couldn't say no.
''I've said that if it was any other club in the Conference then I probably wouldn't have done it'', said Townsend.
''I really enjoyed my time here the first time, the club itself and the people here and with it being local and stuff, I can still live at home and just get out and enjoy my football.''
Townsend, who made 27 league appearances for the club last time out, also spoke about how long he has been friends with fellow defender Danny East, with the two having known each other since their school days and progressed through the academy together at Hull City.
'' We went to school together, our dads are good friends from years back as well, so he's sort of a family friend and while we obviously haven't played together yet, it'll obviously be nice if we have a spell in the team.''
''I played for North Ferriby when I was picked up by Hull, I'd been at Leeds and stuff as a kid and been released, joined Hull at eight and stayed right the way through.
''Easty was year older than me at school but we came through the youth team and were travelling together.
''He was one of my best mates in football as it was anyway so it's a perfect fit at the minute.''
Townsend also revealed what Town boss Paul Hurst said to him ahead of making his return to Blundell Park.
''He just said he wanted us to come, enjoy playing and hopefully help the team.
''I think he obviously knew about the level and stuff but when I had a chat with him, it just made it an easy decision in the end.''


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Variety's Best Horror Movies of 2022, Including "X" with Editing by David Kashevaroff
written by William Earl, Variety
With all of the horrors Americans are facing daily — a gun crisis, attacks on women's rights, a supreme court hell-bent on legislating back to the olden days — it can be a difficult to engage with the artificial terror of scary movies.
Fittingly, many of the year's best titles tapped into this anger and fear. Themes of environmental decay ("Crimes of the Future"), the oppression of women ("Men"), toxic internet culture ("Scream"), surveillance ("Watcher") and sexual repression ("X") loomed large, linking fantastical scares to very real fright.
The rest of the year is packed with many more high-profile titles, including a "Predator" prequel ("Prey"), Jordan Peele's latest film ("Nope"), Michael Myers' return ("Halloween Ends") and a standout Sundance title (the Rebecca Hall thriller "Resurrection"). But until then, Variety has ranked the best horror of the year so far.
Before the countdown, some honorable mentions:
*Mariama Diallo's "Master" doesn't deliver the scares, but it's a compelling haunting tale which explores big ideas, held together by a strong lead performance from Regina Hall.
*Toby Meakins' "Choose or Die" has some compelling imagery and a charming throwback premise, but the killer video game script can't sustain a feature-length runtime.
*Though overlong and in need of a script doctor to punch up the jokes, "Studio 666" is a fun romp for rock fans — and a charming showcase for the Foo Fighters' late drummer Taylor Hawkins.
*David Blue Garcia's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was a disappointment, but featured one of the year's best gore scenes, courtesy of Leatherface invading a party bus.
#8: Fresh
A perfectly-cast Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan star in this rom-com-turned-cannibal nightmare, which brilliantly builds a budding romance for 33 minutes before unleashing a sharp twist and a darkly comedic opening credit sequence. Stan goes wonderfully off-the-rails as a illicit salesman who is falling a bit too hard for his latest source of human meat. Edgar-Jones is scrappy as the woman trying to lead an escape, and Lauryn Kahn's script dodges choices that would make her lead seem too gullible. "Fresh" never loses steam, even through a violent climax that doles out justice with a bitter aftertaste.
#7: The Cursed
Criminally overlooked due to a theatrical release opposite milquetoast hits such as "Dog" and "Uncharted," this early-1900s werewolf tale remixes classical mythology with some frightening new visions. "Yellowstone" scene-stealer Kelly Reilly shifts into a different gear as the mother of a cursed son, and Boyd Holbrook is solid as a werewolf hunter with a dark past. Directed with a steady hand by Sean Ellis and taking advantage of beautiful, foggy France shot on 35mm, "The Cursed" is sure to gain an audience when it hits a key streaming service.
#6: Men
Alex Garland's latest nightmare is an all-too-timely fable about men controlling and gaslighting women. Effectively a two-hander, "Men" stars the brilliant Jessie Buckley as a woman vacationing in the British countryside after the suicide of her husband. Unfortunately, she's surrounded by dozens of men who resemble a sinister Rory Kinnear, who gamely portrays nearly all of the other characters with wavering levels of hostility toward her. Although the film offers very little insight into gender dynamics, there are several indelible scenes which crank the tension up to 11. And with an incredibly divisive and disgusting final act, it's a film designed to spur more discussion with each new audience.
#5: Scream
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the directing duo who helmed 2019's clever horror mystery "Ready or Not," revived the "Scream" franchise with a better-than-expected new chapter. Legacy characters (Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell) share screen time with a sharp young cast (including Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega and Jack Quaid), with plenty of twists and red herrings along the way. By revisiting some of the franchise's best notes without being overly beholden to the past, the meta-by-design "Scream" is able to keep things fresh and avoid potential pitfalls along the way.
#4: X
One of modern horror's most compelling auteurs, Ti West roared back to the big screen with his first frightening feature since 2013's "The Sacrament," and it was worth the wait. A "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remix featuring a van full of ponographers (including Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow and Scott Mescudi) clandestinely shooting their next film at the guest house of a conservative old couple, the blood and surprises comes quickly. Goth is a standout in a sneaky dual role, and West's control of his material and ability to manipulate the audiences' exceptions creates one of the year's most fun rides. Editing by David Kashevaroff.
#3: Watcher
Eight years after her breakout in "It Follows," Maika Monroe stars in another film where she's constantly looking over her shoulder, in the best stalker movie since 2020's "The Invisible Man." Monroe stars as Julia, a lonely expat living in Bucharest, aimless while supporting her career-focused husband. She's convinced that someone across the street is watching her and becoming increasingly bold in pursing her around the neighborhood…might it be the murderer she keeps seeing on the evening news? "Watcher" muddies the colors of a post-"Rear Window" story by writer and director Chloe Okuno and showcases the vulnerabilities of a woman living in the city. Yet Julia is no pushover, and she's an excellent cypher for an audience destined to spend the following days peering in on their neighbors and checking around every corner.
#2: The Black Phone
"Sinister" and "Doctor Strange" creative duo C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson collaborated once more on this feature adaptation of a Joe Hill short story in which "The Grabber" (Ethan Hawke) abducts children in '70s Colorado. The film evokes the spirit of Hill's father Stephen King's best work, as kids grapple with supernatural abilities in order to defeat a psychotic villain. The script is sturdy enough to keep emotions swelling as much as frights, as it's filled with the most lovable scamps this side of Hawkins, Indiana. Hawke chews all the scenery as the oft-masked Grabber, in a frightening physical performance that begs for more appearances.
#1: Crimes of the Future
David Cronenberg's latest foray into body horror was, strangely, less disgusting than advertised, but far more tied to the legend's other inhuman quirks than could have been predicted. The lightly-sketched plot involves Viggo Mortensen as a man who grows extra organs in a ruined-Earth future, where his partner (Léa Seydoux) surgically removes them for captive audiences. Things become complicated once the government starts to get involved, and we're introduced to a world of superfans (including a wacky Kristen Stewart), assassins and children who eat plastic trash cans. Cronenberg keeps the proceedings as cold and clinical as his characters, with long stretches of dialogue accentuating the gloss of artificiality that is as fascinating as it is alienating. Those who can dip into Cronenberg's wavelength will be richly rewarded.


CINCINNATI -- The owner of the nightclub where one person was killed and 16 others were wounded by gunfire will close down the business permanently March 31, he said Monday in a news release.
"Earlier this morning, Cameo received a notice to vacate the premises from the landlord and owner of the property," Jay Rodgers, the club owner, said. "Cameo notified the (property) owner that although it had planned to move out in May due to the landlord's planned sale of the property, it will instead voluntarily surrender possession of the property immediately."
In a letter attached to the release, Rodgers requested that the property owner continue to cooperate with police investigating the shooting.
Earlier Monday afternoon, Rodgers had surrendered Cameo's liquor license at the request of the city.
He said in the release that reports of people being allowed into Cameo without a security check on the night of the shooting were false. Angel Higgins, a woman who was shot in the leg, said she had not been checked before entering and believed that other patrons had received the same pass from security.


The hovercraft: master of land, skimmer of seas, the ultimate chick magnet (I mean, probably), and one of the closest things we will likely ever get to this.
And now, all of it can be yours, with the majestic hovering prowess of the Kevlar-packing Renegade Hovercraft—available commercially, for the price of an average new car.
So basically, why would you ever want to buy a car when you could conquer both land and water, all while looking like a total f*cking stud?
Have you ever seen a group of people having more fun? This two-person ride can reach speeds up to 50 mph, and Renegade promises the controls were built with simplicity in mind.
The Kevlar-lined hull should take care of anything you might scrape into, just in case those controls were a little more complicated than you anticipated.
Renegade offers four models, with prices ranging from $25,000 to $34,000. Totally worth it.


I just finished reading UO colleague Kate Mondloch's excellent new book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010, from the thoroughly excellent Electronic Mediations series); and while I'm not ready to thoroughly review it, I do want to take a moment to log a few brief thoughts.
Heady stuff indeed. Key figures in Mondloch's theoretical framework include Friedberg, Lacan, Deleuze, and Baudrillard, to name a few. The theories at work are complex, and the goal (if you'll pardon my reductive paraphrasing) is to figure out no less than who, where, and when you are vis-à-vis the media screen. I'm trying to say that it's ambitious; and my initial reaction is that it delivers the goods.
Love it. More on this later.


We headed to The Enmore Theatre for the second of Flight Facilities run of three sold out shows last night.
Touring off the back of their huge new banger 'All Your Love,' electro masters Flight Facilities took to Sydney's Enmore Theatre and reminded us just why they are considered such a powerful live force. Supported by Haiku Hands, The producer duo lit up the venue leaving punters with dizzying heads and sore legs.


Well done Levi! Levi won a lovely Christmas Hamper in the raffle in assembly yesterday. He was very lucky.
We went baking this morning because we have worked so hard on our behaviour in class and on yard. We made lovely Christmas treats.


1. Have a basket for transporting all shower items from their room to the bathroom. The basket should have ventilation so it will dry out and not get moldy.
2. In some residence the students need to supply toilet paper. Extra can be stored under the bed. Send all shower essentials shampoo, conditioner, soap, shaving, etc in a convenient portable size.
3. The basket may include an over the doors hook that the student can use to hang their towel while showering so it is convenient.
4. Send a bathrobe. They may not use one at home but might find it useful at residence. Pack one that they will wear not one that has been around for a long time.
5. Send 2 bath sheets and 2 or 3 hand towels and 2 washcloths.


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Myrciaria floribunda, commonly known as cambuizeiro, guavaberry or rumberry, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It can be found across South and Central America and the West Indies in dry or moist coastal woodlands, up to 300 metres above sea level. The guavaberry, which should not be confused with the guava, is a close relative of camu camu.

Description

Guavaberry trees are slow growing and can reach   tall.  They have red-brown branches and small pink and white flowers. The fruit, which are roughly half the size of cherries, are yellow-orange, dark-red, or purple with tanginess of a guava containing a small amount of translucent flesh surrounding a stone. The fruit has moderate sweetness. The fruit is rich in vitamin C, with the darker colored fruit having higher concentrations.

There is great genetic variability within the species, and Myrciaria floribunda can vary in form, structure and appearance, and that has given rise to a large number of botanical synonyms.

Distribution
Guavaberry trees can be found growing wild in Central America, South America, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and many Caribbean islands.  The guavaberry has also been introduced to Florida, Hawaii, Bermuda, Philippines, and Tanzania.

Uses

Guavaberry is used to make jams and drinks.  Guavaberry liqueur, which is made from rum, is a common Christmas drink on many of the islands, particularly in Sint Maarten and the Virgin Islands. The colonists from Denmark and Holland found it could flavor rum by infusion similar to infused schnapps. In the Dominican Republic it is associated with the eastern town of San Pedro de Macorís which has a large population of Eastern Caribbean descent.

Guavaberry coquito is one of many coquito flavored drinks from Puerto Rico associated with Christmas. The drink is made with spices, guavaberry, milk, sugar, coconut milk, eggs, and rum.

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In these and other passages, Eig illuminates the predictable spiral of widely reviled prohibitions. Righteous legislators pass unenforceable laws banning alcohol, marijuana or wagering. Entrepreneurial "benefactors" compete to supply the banned pleasures. No taxes are collected on the proceeds, while a newly minted criminal class is enriched and emboldened. Unable to summon the authorities when disputes arise, suppliers are forced to police themselves, making violence inevitable. The top suppliers become so rich, so well armed (tommy guns in the '20s, jet aircraft and antitank rockets today), they compete with the police on even terms, sometimes to the point where the original prohibition is no longer tenable.
After numerous efforts to prosecute Capone in Cook County, he was abruptly arrested in Pennsylvania on a concealed-weapons charge in 1929. Though he served a year in prison, many cops and gangsters back home believed he had arranged his time away to short-circuit federal prosecution and escape assassination attempts. Once he was released and had returned to Chicago, it was back to racketeering as usual.
Enter Eliot Ness. This quintessential G-man was perfectly satisfied with his salary of $50 a week, which made him "untouchable." He and a dozen fellow agents began shutting down Capone's speakeasies, casinos and brothels, choking off much of his income. Yet Ness couldn't corner his quarry without the dreary diligence of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Capone never filed a tax return and took care to minimize any paper trail from his beer to his bankroll. Even so, the emerging art of financial forensics — which, like ballistics, developed as part of the comprehensive effort to indict Public Enemy No. 1 — enabled George Johnson to take what Ness and Internal Revenue gave him and "stack one piece of evidence atop another, like bricks, until he built an inescapable set of walls." In the end, it wasn't bullets, but paper (interview transcripts, a letter from his tax lawyer, Western Union money orders, butcher and telephone bills) that got Al Capone.
In 1931, he was convicted of tax evasion, fined $50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in prison. His forest-green armor-plated limousine was seized by the government and later used to provide security for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Tax dodging was hardly the reason Capone had been singled out; it was merely one of the more benign side effects of a career that would not have existed were it not for Prohibition, which would be repealed in 1933.
Capone served eight years, more than half of them on Alcatraz, where he learned to play the mandola. It was during his incarceration that the ravages of syphilis, contracted in his youth, began to destroy his mental health. By the time he was paroled in 1939, his control of the outfit was effectively over. He lived quietly in Florida until he died after having a stroke, at 48, in 1947.
Much of this tale is familiar from earlier books, with Robert J. Schoenberg's "Mr. Capone" (1992) thought to be the cream of the crop. Yet Eig's is a welcome, even necessary, update. He stretched similarly spacious canvases for his well-received portraits of Lou Gehrig ("Luckiest Man") and Jackie Robinson ("Opening Day"). For his third book, he sketches fresh profiles of scores of Italian, Irish and Polish mobsters, and of three presidents, three Chicago mayors and dozens of minor officials. And he dramatically details the game-changing impact of Gen. John Thompson's light submachine gun, a "trench broom" designed — about a year too late — to mow down the Germans. Panoramic yet sharply focused, "Get Capone" is as much a dark history of urban America between the world wars as it is another mobster's life story.
Did Capone order the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929? That he was in Miami being interviewed by a prosecutor certainly didn't preclude him from having ordered a tommy-and-shotgun assault on Bugs Moran's crew in the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Weighing newly available evidence, Eig makes a convincing case that — well, that no reviewer should spoil. He also persuaded the I.R.S. to turn over its files on the 1931 prosecution. This material, together with Eig's discovery of boxfuls of notes kept by two separate would-be biographers, makes "Get Capone" both a gore-spattered thriller and a more nuanced upgrade over previous takedowns and hagiographies.
Having said that, we may still be tempted to put the judiciously weighed 75-year-old evidence aside for a moment, if only to flex our itchy trigger fingers and say Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!


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Board index » Comics » Comic Titles & Groups » Girls' Comics
Favourite characters/stories in girl's comics
Tammyfan
Re: Favourite characters/stories in girl's comics
Phoenix wrote:
Tammyfan wrote:
Does anyone have Catch the Cat #1161, the last page of the episode in #1159 and middle page to the episode in #1163?
Yes, I do, Briony. However I will have to ask you to wait until next week for any scans as my London grandchildren, Aurora (5) and Kelsey (2), are currently staying with me until Saturday, and they take a deal of looking after. ''Grandad, can we go/will you please take us to/ the park/ some play zones/ the swimming baths/ Southport''. Mind you, to be totally honest, I would actually much rather be taking them places than rooting through back issues of Bunty. They get me out of the house, and we have a lot of fun. It's simply a question of priorities. I'm sure you can understand this.
Thank you, Phoenix. Looking forward to them when you're ready!
philcom55 wrote:
Looks like we are getting close to the ending with this episode, dated 24 June 1972. Assuming Hantz is right, where's your money on who The Cat is?
Curiouser and curiouser! It sounds as though the Cat has to be a transvestite, an old woman or Janine herself...or maybe Hantz himself suffered from multiple personality syndrome, with a cross-dressing alter-ego that even he didn't know about!
On the subject of all-black costumes, Diana's Black Nightingale was another early-70s heroine who wore similar attire to fight the nazis in occupied Europe - and while she didn't model herself on any kind of cat she didn't look much like her namesake either:
- Phil Rushton
Does anyone have the publication dates for Black Nightingale, please? I am asking because we have a query about finding this story on Girls Comics of Yesterday.
The Black Nightingale ran in Diana 526 (March 17 1973) - 540 (June 23 1973).
Thank you Phoenix.
paw broon
Location: Falkirk, Scotland
Many thanks to Phil for the mention and scan of The Black Nightingale - and to Phoenix for the info. on her appearances. As a huge fan of Masked Mystery (Wo)men and costumed crimefighters (and I'm supposed to know about all these characters) this was a brand new one on me. It's always a delight to discover exotic heroes and heroines and this is no exception.
Does anyone have the start and end dates for the third Catch the Cat serial in 1986, please?
I've only three or four issues missing in that year, Briony, so I will extract the required information for you tomorrow afternoon. Patience is a virtue.
Ok, thank you.
peace355
The dates are actually on girscomics site under the first Catch the cat entry.
Catch the Cat! – Bunty: #1490 (02 August 1986) – #1501 (18 October 1986)
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/
Thank you, Peace.
peace355 wrote:
This adventure for Marie Bonnet starts in issue 1491 (Aug. 9 1986), not in 1490, where it is merely trailered. The issue number and date of the final episode are correct.
Thanks for the correction, I must have noted the wrong date in my notes originally.
Thank you, Phoenix.
You know, this means the third Cat story only had 11 episodes. That's short in comparison to the first two. I wonder why they didn't make it longer.
Another story to use this theme was "The Character Camera", a Strange Story that appeared in Tammy somewhere around 1979-80. Any photo the camera took had its sitter appear as an animal version of a character flaw. A greedy girl appears as a pig, a timid girl as a mouse, a conceited girl as a puffed-up pigeon and so on. The photo taken of the protagonist is the exception to this, which they assume is because she had no character flaw to be parodied as an animal. So no, she did not appear as an ass in the photo. As for the others, they get such a shock at the photos that they set out to change.
...Hmmm, so which of those comics was your favourite Tammyfan?
While most of the one-off tales of 'mystery and imagination' that were featured in comics like Misty, Spellbound, Tammy, June, Jinty, etc. depended on rather hackneyed twists that you could see coming a mile off, every now and then one of them would really get under your skin, staying with you for years afterward.
For me, one such was the following tale that appeared in Misty dated 23rd September 1978, with marvelous artwork by Eduardo Feito (who also illustrated the classic time travel serial 'A leap through Time..' in the same issue).
To be honest I'm still not sure why I found this story so disturbing. On the face of it Jan appears to get off much more lightly than most people who fall foul of one of the Chief of Tempters' diabolical schemes. Even if she does have to go through the rest of her life feeling like a character in 'Winnie the Pooh' that doesn't seem like such a terrible hardship: certainly not one worth losing her immortal soul over. It's only a matter of superficial appearances after all: the world itself hasn't really changed at all.
The trouble is I just can't get it out of my head - the thought of never seeing a human face again, and being confronted by that awful leering 'thing' in the mirror every time you try to comb your hair or brush your teeth!
Maybe - just maybe - it really would drive you stark staring mad in the end...!


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The Banking Crisis Revisited
In an interview with Peter Baker, Bill Clinton says that although he regrets not regulating derivatives more strictly, he doesn't think that repealing the Glass-Steagall Act and allowing commercial banks to merge with investment banks was a big cause of our financial meltdown:
On the Glass-Steagall, I've really thought about that because No. 1, nonbank banking was already a major part of American life at that time. Letting banks take investment positions I don't think had much to do with this meltdown. And the more diversified institutions in general were better able to handle what happened….I believe if you look at the blurring of the lines which already existed before that bill was signed — the bill arguably gave us a framework, at least, for which this process, which was happening anyway, could be regulated. So I don't think that's such a good criticism.
I think actually, if you want to make a criticism on that, it would be an indirect one; you could say that the signing of that legislation sped up what was happening anyway and maybe led some of these institutions to be bigger than they otherwise would have been and the very bigness of some of these groups caused some of this problem because the bigger something is and the newer it is the harder it is to manage.
I think this is roughly right. And frankly, even the "indirect" criticism that repeal of Glass-Steagall produced a glut of banks too big to fail seems a little hard to swallow. After all, even if Citi and Bank of America had remained purely commercial banks they still would have been too big to fail. Hell, Bear Stearns, a modest sized investment bank, was too big to fail. In the event, I doubt very much that Glass-Steagall had much if anything to do with our banking disaster.
On the other hand, I've also been thinking a lot about the financial meltdown of the past two years and wondering how much of what we think we know is really true anyway. Structured finance, for example, has gotten a lot of blame for the crisis, but Dean Baker argues persuasively
that derivatives and financial engineering didn't really have much to do with it. It was purely and simply the result of a housing bubble, and the size of the collapse and the ensuing recession are pretty much what years of academic research predicts given the size of the price runup. You just don't need anything more to explain it.
In a similar vein, Jim Hamilton has suggested that if you model the 2007-08 runup in oil prices you get pretty much the recession that we got. And James Surowiecki points out that the IMF's estimate of capital shortages in the American banking system isn't actually as large as a lot of us have been thinking — and the market seems to agree. Bank stocks have been rising since early March, and after the stress test results were announced banks started raising startling amounts of private capital almost immediately.
What else? John Hempton has argued that the FDIC's takeover of Washington Mutual, which was responsible for at least part of the flight of private capital from the banking sector, was an act of unwarranted panic. Recent events suggest he was right. Likewise, it turns out in retrospect that the collapse of Lehman Brothers wasn't quite the catastrophe we thought it was at the time. Rather, it was panic in the wholesale funding markets caused by Reserve Prime breaking the buck — an event related to the Lehman collapse but by no means the same thing.
None of this is to downplay what happened. Fannie and Freddie and Bear and Lehman and AIG really did all collapse. The Fed really was forced to intervene in financial markets in unprecedented ways. The banking system really did require a lot of recapitalization. Exports really have dropped like a stone. The global economy really is shrinking for the first time since the Depression and trade imbalances remain stubbornly high.
But here's the weird thing. We're at a point where one of two things will happen. Either we're close to bottoming out, as many people seem to think, which will mean that the pessimists weren't really right. The biggest asset bubble in the past half century will have caused a bad recession but nothing worse. Alternatively, the pessimists are right and this is just a short breather. The worst is yet to come as home loans continue to reset, trade balances stay out of whack, consumption remains sluggish, and the world economy remains sensitive to further disasters — disasters that are almost certain to come sooner or later.
So what's my point? I'm rambling and I might not even have one. Except for this: I'm not sure that even the people who have been right about all this stuff have been right. I'm not sure that anyone has been right. Something doesn't add up, and I can't quite figure out what it is. But who knows? Maybe I'm just doing the equivalent of adding in decimal when I should be adding in octal. Or something. All I can say is, things haven't unfolded the way I've expected — or the way a lot of other people have expected — and I'm not sure what that means. Either the worst has been averted or the worst is yet to come. You can vote in comments.