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The official history of Monopoly states that the game was invented in 1935 by Charles Darrow, a man down on his luck during the Great Depression, who was catapulted to fame and fortune through his invention of a simple board game. The game was hugely popular, selling two million copies in its first two years in print. However, the game would have already seemed very familiar to intellectuals, leftists, and Quakers across the Northeast. And for good reason: the Monopoly we know today is a near-carbon copy of an earlier game, The Landlord’s Game, designed by a Prince Georges County Maryland stenographer named Elizabeth Magie — except that while Monopoly’s goal is to bankrupt your opponents, The Landlord’s Game was intended to show players the evils of monopolies.
Elizabeth Magie received a patent for The Landlord’s Game in 1904, and its description of the game’s rules will ring a lot of bells for anyone who has played Monopoly. In Magie’s game, players move around the board buying properties and paying rent on their opponents’ spaces, trying to accumulate more money than their opponents. Perhaps most damningly, the gameboard features several spaces that have carried over unchanged into Monopoly, including the railroads placed at the center of each side, and the space marked “Go to Jail,” sending a player’s token to be imprisoned on the opposite corner (which, by the way, you had to pay $50 or roll doubles to escape). There are some minor differences between The Landlord’s Game and our familiar Monopoly, most notably that in Magie’s version, the game was over after everyone had gone around the board five times, saving everyone involved a lot of time and trouble. But while the rules are almost identical, the ideals behind the two games were very different. Magie’s game, she hoped, would show players that scrambling for properties and charging each other exorbitant rents caused more harm to the community than good. As she said in her patent:
“The object of the game is not only to afford amusement to the players, but to illustrate to them how under the present or prevailing system of land tenure, the landlord has an advantage over other enterprises and single tax would discourage land speculation.”
This was very intentional on Magie’s part; she wasn’t just “some housewife” who had come up with a board game on a lark. An outspoken feminist and progressive, most of her public statements and creations had a political purpose. The short stories she published had heavy undertones concerning the evils of competitive capitalism. She even took out an ad in several national newspapers advertising herself as a “White Female Slave” for the highest bidder, in order to call attention to the state of gender inequality at the time. But her one pet cause was the single-tax policies championed by Henry George, the progressive economist. George might not be a household name today, but he certainly was in the late 19th century; people claimed his Progress and Poverty had outsold every book but the Bible, and he was popular enough that he made a sizable showing in the New York City mayoral election. (He lost, but he handily beat an unknown Republican named Theodore Roosevelt.) George's idea that all taxes but the property tax should be abolished, on the principle that this would lead to the elimination of poverty, as only the wealthy would be taxed, made him very popular with leftists and the lower classes.
Washington, D.C. had a community of single-tax activists, and Magie was one of the most active activists. She was the secretary of the Woman’s Single Tax Club of Washington, and counted among her friends Henry George, Jr., the son of her economic idol. Magie very intentionally designed The Landlord’s Game so that it would exemplify Georgian principles; the game would drive home the idea that every player was better off when the community, rather than individuals, profited from property.
The Landlord’s Game was a hit among activists and intellectuals, but not the general public. Still, these groups began to spread the game throughout the Northeast. Upton Sinclair was among the early players of the game, as he and Magie had corresponded in the past. Other early adopters of the game were Scott Nearing, Rexford Tugwell, and George Mitchell, who, fittingly enough for his trust-busting ethos, played a version without money. All of these notables introduced it to their circles, where it quickly caught on.
The game’s popularity extended steadily into the 1920s (among those who had a propensity for economic theory-based board games, that is). People started calling it “the monopoly game” or “monopoly,” since that was the basis of the gameplay. The game was often played on homemade boards, with rules transmitted by word of mouth, so players were rarely aware that Magie had invented it, or that anyone could claim ownership of it. People added their own house rules that, in turn, were passed around as part of the game. People began to name the spaces after streets in their own cities, and in Atlantic City, the “monopoly game”-loving Quaker community added hotels to the game. Although Magie filed a patent for an updated version in 1924, the game had already passed beyond her control, and most people assumed it was in the public domain. By this time, the game already resembled the modern-day Monopoly more than the original Landlord’s Game.
The game continued in this oral-tradition way until Charles Darrow, an unemployed man in dire financial straits, first learned it at the household of a Quaker acquaintance in 1933. Darrow requested a written copy of the rules, and soon produced his own copy, enlisting a friend to draw the now-iconic illustrations on the spaces. Darrow shopped “his” game around to several game companies, and in March 1935 Parker Bros. purchased Monopoly for an initial payment of $7,000. The game was a smash success — over two million copies were sold in its first two years on the market. Parker Bros were hoping to patent the game, but the company was worried about possible claims of patent infringement; even they saw the close similarities between Monopoly and The Landlord’s Game.They knew they had to take preventative action.
In November 1935, George Parker of Parker Bros. visited Magie in her Arlington, Virginia home to purchase her patent for The Landlord’s Game. Parker told her that he was interested in distributing her game and would buy it and two others from her to be mass-produced by his company. Magie accepted and received a one-time payment of just $500 in exchange for the patent. She was delighted that her economic beliefs would soon have a wider audience; she sent Parker a letter — heartbreaking in retrospect — bidding “Farewell to my beloved brain-child,” and urging her game to “not swerve from [its] high purpose and ultimate mission.”
One month later, Charles Darrow submitted his patent for Monopoly. The Parker Bros. version of the game continued to be wildly successful, with two million copies sold between 1935 and 1936. Much was made of the rags-to-riches story of Darrow’s invention, which was (and still is) printed in every copy of the game’s rules. Parker Bros. released The Landlord’s Game in 1939, with a newly designed board that obscured its connection to Monopoly. It and Magie’s two follow-ups flopped, none of the three even coming close to Monopoly’s popularity. Magie felt betrayed, but her brainchild continued to spread across America, as far beyond her control as ever, devoid of her initial message.
Magie continued to invent games to exemplify political principles, including one to prove that World War II was caused by “tariff barriers.” None of them got anywhere close to the attention that Monopoly did. In 1936, Magie finally got her chance to speak out, protesting to the Washington Post and the Evening Star that she had been the true inventor of Monopoly, not Darrow. However, these articles were far from scathing indictments of plagiarism. The Post refers to Magie as “the inventor of Monopoly,” but goes on to refer to Darrow “improving” the game that he came across, implying that he still deserved credit as Monopoly’s architect. The controversy died away, not to resurface for decades after Magie’s death in 1948.
Today, Monopoly has been translated into forty-six languages and is played in 114 different countries. Hasbro, the game’s current owners, estimate over 250 million copies have been sold. Charles Darrow died a millionaire, acclaimed as the inventor of the world’s most beloved board game; at the end of her life, Magie was still a typist, never having found widespread success with her writing or her games. Magie never made more than that initial $500 off either Monopoly or The Landlord’s Game. Tragically for Magie, capitalism won out in the end, as it always does in modern-day Monopoly.
If you’re interested in learning more about Elizabeth Magie and the history of Monopoly’s transmission, a great place to start would be with Mary Pilon’s fantastic new book, The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game, which I have sourced heavily here.
- ^ U.S. Patent Office, Patent No. 748,626.
- ^ U.S. Patent Office, Patent No. 1509312.
- ^ Her writings made a moderate splash, too: she was published in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly and Godey’s, two well-known journals, and Upton Sinclair thanked her in the preface to his anthology The Cry for Justice.
- ^ Mary Pilon, The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game, (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), 61-3. Magie did have a second goal, as well: to get funding for the next few board games she had been working on.
- ^ Mary Pilon, The Monopolists, 20.
- ^ Mary Pilon, The Monopolists, 26. Decades later, Marie would found and run the Henry George School of Social Science, which was held in her home. [Pilon, 137.]
- ^ This wasn’t even Magie’s first invention, by the way. At age 26, in 1893, she had engineered and patented a device that allowed paper to pass through typewriter rolls more easily. (The patent can be seen here.) [Pilon, The Monopolists, 28].
- ^ Pilon, The Monopolists, 72, 75.
- ^ Pilon, The Monopolists, 41.
- ^ In Mary Pilon’s book The Monopolists, one of her most remarkable achievements is in tracking down the specific person who gave the game to Darrow, and his original writing down of the rules and spaces, which is where the misspelling “Marvin Gardens” (rather than “Marven Gardens”) entered the Monopoly canon.
- ^ Pilon, The Monopolists, 107.
- ^ The company had more patent worries than just Elizabeth Magie. Daniel Layman had started selling the game Finance in 1931 - and making a hefty profit - four years after he had been introduced to the supposedly public-domain “monopoly game” through his college fraternity. Finance was nearly identical to the “monopoly game” that stemmed from Lizzie Magie’s The Landlord’s Game, and almost exactly the same as Darrow’s Monopoly. Like Monopoly, Finance even had the famous Atlantic City names of properties.
- ^ Magie (by then Elizabeth Magie Phillips, incidentally) had moved to Arlington sometime around 1924; shortly after inventing The Landlord’s Game, she had moved to Chicago, and lived there until her move to Virginia.
- ^ Pilon, The Monopolists, 121-3.
- ^ Although as of recently, Hasbro seems to no longer have the story of Darrow’s “invention” on their website.
- ^ Darrow attempted a follow-up to Monopoly as well, called Bulls and Bears. Never heard of it? There’s a reason: it was a huge failure, and Parker Bros. stopped manufacturing it after just a few years.
- ^ Jean Brownell, “Mrs. Phillips Invents Game to Show Tariff Barriers Caused the War,” Washington Post, October 25, 1940, p. 15. [By this time, Elizabeth had married, and went by her husband’s last name.]
- ^ “And Now It’s The Pastime of America’s ‘Rugged Individualists,’” Washington Post, January 28, 1936, p. 13.
- ^ “Man Who Gave Us ‘Monopoly’ Dies at 78,” Chicago Tribune, August 29, 1967.


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Senator Maria Cantwell toured the Domex Superfresh Grower's facility this morning, her first stop before making her way to Benton City.
Cantwell shared the benefits local growers and their employees should see in the coming months, since the U.S. Farm Bill was passed a few weeks ago.
The legislation helps fund everything from food stamps, to agricultural research into specialty crops such as apples, cherries, and pears. Most of which are grown in our area.
The bill also provides funding for export marketing support.
Cantwell says the bill will create more business, meaning more jobs for people in our area.
"When we can get some of these growing markets, and we can get the doors open through either the market assistance program, getting people to make first time Washington apple consumers, I think it could help grow jobs right here at home," said Cantwell.
Cantwell says about 1 in 4 people in Yakima County work in agriculture, and about 1 in 5 in the Columbia Basin.
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Mark Anthony Grantos
Mark Grantos started training at the age of 16 at the Royeca School of Ballet under the tutelage of Girlie S. Royeca. After 2 years, mark moved to Ballet Center Cebu training under the artistic direction of Nicholas Pacana and Gregory Aaron. Wanting to pursue a professional career in dance, Mark joined Ballet Manila in 2009 where he was able to dance in some of the company's major productions.
Desirous to explore more in dance, Mark joined Ballet Philippines in 2012 as an apprentice under the direction of Paul Alexander Morales, and as a member of Ballet Philippines 2 under Alden Lugnasin. In BP, he was able to do both classical and contemporary works. HIs portrayals of lead roles include the role of Bantugan in Manhid and the male lead in the CCP Dance School's Flower Festival. Promoted to company member for the 46th season, he was also a finalist at the 1st CCP Ballet Competition.

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A mid-session wave of buying carried the stock market to its third broad gain in a row in active trading today.
Analysts said the advance was aided by expectations of some favorable news when the government reports Thursday on the April wholesale price index.
The Dow Jones average of on Industrial stocke climbed 6.53 to 940.72 after a net advance of 7.20 Monday and Tuesday.
Since it touched a 15-month low a week ago Monday, the average has rebounded more than 26 points.
Gainers outdistanged losers by close to a 2.1 margin on the New York Stock Exchange.
Big Board volume increased to 23.33 million shares from 21.95 million on Tuesday.
Nationwide turnover in NYSE-listed issues, including trades in those stocks on regional exchanges and in the over-the-counter market, came to 26.92 million shares.
Standard & Poor's index of 400 industrials rose .61 to 110.70, and S&P's 500-stock composite index was up .53 at 99.96.
Airline stocks showed strength, with American Airlines up 1 1/2 at 12: TWA ahead 5/8 at 10 2/3, and UAL 3/4 higher at 22 3/4. UAL said it expected much better results in 1977 than it had last year.
The airlines' gains, coupled with strength in most rail issues, spurred a healthy 3.26 advance to 240.36 in the Dow Jones transportation average.
Another area of strength showed up at the American Stock Exchange, where the market value index rose .50 to 113.55, its highest level since the index was established in September 1973.
Boeing, which projected record earnings for the year after reporting sharply higher first quarter profits early in the week climbed 1 1/4 to 52 1/8.

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Copeland Mayor Mike Starkie has branded legal challenges against the Government's plans to approve a coal mine in West Cumbria as a 'waste of time'.
Friends of the Earth - one of two main opponents to the mine - says it will file its claim later this month.
Its main is issue is the potential climate impacts of the mine.
The other main opponent, South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC), is also considering legal action and sent a letter to the Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove, in December seeking more information and setting out some of the errors in law in his decision.
Speaking on the legal action by Friends of the Earth, Mike Starkie said: "It is not entirely unexpected, there was always the suspicion that they would go down this line.
"Any grounds for legal action is completely baseless and I am pretty sure they are well aware of that. It just seems like a futile waste of money.
"The planning inspectors report was pretty conclusive and it has refuted all of the claims that they were making.
"This mine is the right way forward, the right decision has been made and it has followed full due process. So there is absolutely no basis for any kind of legal claim."
He continued: "Economically the local economy is going to benefit massively from this mine.
"It is going to bring significant employment opportunities, over 500 direct jobs and 1500 supply chain jobs.
"It is going to bring diversity to the local economy and it is going to bring real wealth and prosperity. It is real levelling up in action.
"I would think that Friends of the Earth would have better things that they could spend their time, energy and money on."
Niall Toru, lawyer at Friends of the Earth, said: "By giving the go-ahead to this polluting and totally unnecessary coal mine the government has not only made the wrong decision for our economy and the climate, we believe it has also acted unlawfully.
"Michael Gove has failed to account for the significant climate impacts of this mine, or how the much-needed move to green steelmaking will be impacted by its approval.
"The steel industry is under no illusion that it must decarbonise if we’re to meet our climate goals, which calls into doubt the long-term viability of the mine and the jobs used to justify it.
"Just as many jobs could be created locally through a programme to guarantee every home in the area is properly insulated.
"This would bring a myriad of benefits the mine simply can’t offer, such as lower energy bills, warmer homes and fewer carbon emissions released into our atmosphere.
"With the world facing a climate emergency, we shouldn’t have to take this challenge to court."
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Four-year-old fan for Gracy
Gracy Singh has found a new fan and friend – four-year-old Abir, actor Raghuvir Yadav’s son. Abir fell in love with her character, Bubbly, in Dekh Bhai Dekh.entertainment Updated: Jan 14, 2010 17:45 IST
Gracy Singh has found a new fan and friend – four-year-old Abir, actor RaghuvirYadav’s son. Abir fell in love with her character, Bubbly, in
Dekh Bhai Dekh
. Every time he requested his father for a meeting with his heartthrob, he would promise a meeting with his Bubbly.
Recently, Gracy and Raghuvir Yadav were dubbing for their film, White Land, and suddenly Abir called his father on his cell. Inevitably, he asked for Bubbly. Raghuvir Yadav told him that she was dubbing. Little Abir reached the dubbing studio immediately and asked for Gracy. He was quite amused when he finally saw her because he hadn’t expected his Bubbly to be dressed in a pair of jeans and T-shirt. The two got talking non-stop and Gracy couldn’t dub the entire day.


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Author(s): Saadat M, Nejad SM, Habibi G, Sheikhvatan M
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Abstract OBJECTIVE: Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific hypertensive syndrome associated with significant morbidity and mortality in mother and neonate. We compared neonatal and maternal complications in preeclamptic women with healthy pregnant women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All 125 consecutive women with preeclampsia at Bandarabbas Shariati Hospital were assessed between July 2005 and July 2006. Parity, type of delivery, common causes of cesarean section, gestational age, birth weight, and neonatal complications and mortality were included as study variables and compared with the control group. RESULTS: Cesarean section rates were significantly higher in the group with preeclampsia than in the control group (p < 0.05). The mean parity was higher in the normotensive group than in the preeclamptic patients (2.3 +/- 0.65 vs. 3.6 +/- 0.74; p < 0.05). In the preeclamptic women undergoing vaginal delivery, 31\% of them underwent induction of labor. The most common indication for induction of labor was severity of preeclampsia (77.8\%). Birth weight was statistically significantly lower in women with preeclampsia (p < 0.0001). Among the patients, 5.6\% of them were admitted with intrauterine fetal demise, while 111 neonates survived for the remaining patients. The most common causes of neonatal mortality were congenital abnormalities and respiratory distress syndrome. CONCLUSION: Gestational age, parity, cesarean section rate, the rate of induced labor, and low birth weight neonates were more frequent in preeclamptic women than in healthy pregnant women.
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Thursday | 26 March | 2020
The final regulations that will regulation South Africa’s lockdown was announced a few hours ago. These regulations basically confirm that the lockdown will start at 00h00 on 26 March 2020 and end on 16 April at 00h00.
It is important to note that, among other things, Regulation 4 in Chapter 1 states that no patient, who shows clinical symptoms of Covid-19, who has been tested positive for Covid-19, is suspected that they have been infected with the said virus or have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, may refuse to undergo medical tests, be placed in quarantine or some form of isolation or be admitted to a medical facility. If such a person refuses the above, the person will be placed in solitary confinement or quarantined for 45 hours, during which time a warrant will be issued against the person.
The next important section that must be noted is Regulation 11 chapter 2, which deals with the description on the movement of persons and good during said time. People’s movement will be limited to their dwellings and they will only be allowed to move around to perform essential services, obtain essential goods or services, receive their social grants or to receive essential medical help during emergencies and life-threatening circumstances. This Regulation further describes in more detail what qualifies as essential services and goods.
Regulation 11C prohibits almost all forms of public transport and provides that, in very exceptional cases, persons who need to provide essential services, who do not have other forms of transport, can use public transport under certain conditions. Regulation 11E determines that no person will be entitled to claim compensation for any losses or damages suffered as a result of the bona fide conduct of any officer during the enforcement or implementation of these regulations.
Accordingly, Regulation 11G provides that any person who contravenes the regulations will be guilty of an offense and may be fined and/or jailed for a period not exceeding six months.
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[Fum d’Estampa Press; 2022]
Tr. from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
Years ago, when I taught creative writing at a university in the Midwest, I debated whether to assign a short story about a young woman who engages in covert sexual meetings with her father in his car on the roof of a parking garage. I knew the frank imagery of incest, the charged dialogue, and the consciousness we were to inhabit in that story would surely be difficult to discuss. On one hand, it is seldom productive for readers to relive trauma on the page, all the while wading through vivid descriptions and dense literary prose. On the other hand, I believed, and still do, that it is useful for writers who are going to be excavating and examining trauma in their work to read stories that do so in a nuanced and intentional way. (In the end, I distributed copies of the story—“You Drive,” by Christine Schutt—but made it an optional reading.)
Nowadays, I view the process of reading difficult work as an act of reconnaissance: scoping out different containers into which we can imagine pouring our otherwise formless and messy thoughts, memories, and observations. For that reason, I became interested in journalist and essayist Anna Punsoda’s first novel, Other People’s Beds, translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem, which is in many ways a refreshing rejoinder to the stories about trauma and sexuality that I read and taught in graduate school.
What struck me about Punsoda’s book was its initial insistence on telling rather than showing: It is composed of a long, lucid monologue delivered by a woman named Claustre to a waitress in Lleida, Spain. Choosing her words carefully, Claustre recounts episodes from her childhood, teenage years, and twenties. These episodes are divided into twenty chronological chapters. Bookending the twenty chapters are two scenes from the present, and in the middle of the one hundred-page book is an interlude in which the waitress responds to Claustre’s story.
The ten chapters preceding the interlude are loosely organized around Claustre’s experiences in “other people’s beds”—the cot in the school infirmary where she preferred to spend recess, her mother’s bed where she slept until age thirteen, and the bed of a male relative named Vicenç, who sexually abused her. Through Claustre’s narration, we see a mind at work trying to make sense of her early years. What’s more, we see that she has chosen a particular way—out of an infinite number of ways—to present the information.
By foregrounding the fact that Claustre is telling her own story, rather than fully immersing the reader in the traumatic events being described, Punsoda extends to us a kind of narrative guardrail, a hand to hold. The framing story in particular anchors readers to a scene they can fall back on. As a counterpoint to Vicenç, we get dialogue between Claustre and the waitress in Lleida, who affirms Claustre’s memories and commiserates with her. This happens, for example, when Claustre snaps out of her monologue during the book’s interlude and begins to capitulate, noting that, despite everything else, her family had paid for her attend a good school. “To fix what they’d broken in you,” the waitress points out, refusing to let Claustre blame herself.
Punsoda’s strategy also lends dignity and depth to her characters. Take, for instance, the novel’s seventh chapter, which centers on the hospital bed where Claustre’s father spends his dying days. In this chapter, Claustre, her mother, her aunt, and a jazz club entertainer—presumably a mistress—tend to Claustre’s father, after he enters a hepatic coma due to decades of heavy drinking. The hospital bed serves as a gathering place, where family members speak about the patient as if he were absent, or in the abstract, like a sculpture in a museum. The patient is horizontal, inert. His visitors are vertical, mobile. “He always does the most hurtful things,” the jazz club singer says. “There are good things about him too,” Claustre says in her father’s defense. Besides a quick description of the father’s “yellow face and scabby lips” at the beginning of the chapter, Punsoda does not linger on the spectacle of death. Instead, we hear about the dying man through the women who know him best—the women he lies to, terrorizes, neglects, and who, in the end, come to care for him. His sorry state is told and not shown.
In much the same way, the sexual abuse that forms the backbone of the novel is told and not shown. Readers are privy to long accounts of the events and their circumstances, but almost no descriptions of the abuse exist. This style of narration assumes a level of understanding on the reader’s part: The abuse does not need to be spelled out because, like the waitress in Lleida, the reader is invited into the story to commiserate, not to judge, doubt, or demand evidence of wrongdoing.
The ten chapters following the book’s interlude deal with bowel movements, specifically those induced by the laxatives Claustre takes in her twenties in order to purge her meals. The drastic formal shift that occurs at the midpoint of the book lends the novel an infallible sense of order. From cause to effect, sexual abuse to eating disorder, we cross a conceptual boundary on the book’s fiftieth page. When the book closes, the two halves meet face-to-face, and this perfectly symmetrical arrangement reflects the delicately constructed nature of Claustre’s self-image.
In the novel’s second half, there is quite a bit of showing in lieu of telling, as if feces were the perfect objective correlative to Claustre’s earlier years. We get graphic depictions of Claustre trapped in her bedroom or out on the street, shitting in her underwear or—somehow worse—into a cardboard box she finds in her childhood closet during her twentieth birthday party:
There, squatting in the dark over a shoe box, with laughter and voices in the background still toasting my health and the great future ahead of me, I entered another dimension. Because when the smelly paste stopped, water started coming out and even after that I was still excreting. My entire body gave every sign of emptying, my entire self struggled to void itself, I was even making the belligerent sounds of excretion, but nothing was coming out, there was nothing that could come out. I howled hysterically and involuntarily.
It is perhaps surprising that Claustre would spare her dying father the description of his damaged and malfunctioning body and, soon after, tell the waitress an utterly humiliating story about herself in such spectacular detail, though this reads to me like a deliberate, rhetorical choice on Punsoda’s part. The dramatic action that accompanies Claustre’s involuntary bowel movements aptly highlights the absence of such drama in the book’s first half. I get the sense that while Claustre might have a carefully calibrated way of recounting the story of her childhood, the abject and unruly story of her twenties is one she enjoys telling. It is, oddly enough, her way of reclaiming space and reaffirming her existence in the wake of early opposition. In her words, “You can shit in all sorts of places, keep hysteric watch over every inch around you, flagellate yourself with vomit and sex, and still ooze a primitive desire for life.”
Sentences like these that showcase Other People’s Beds’ self-affirming style remained with me—walked alongside me—as I made my way home from the coffee shop where I was able to finish the novel, which read like a long short story, in one sitting. In place of images of trauma revisited, I’m grateful to have been given Claustre’s wit, her unexpected turns of phrase, her potent omissions, and her evocative innuendos, which served as reliable guideposts in otherwise boundless and treacherous territory.
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From the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
Kilmeade: Israel "Refuses" To Go Along With Obama's Border Plan, "Netanyahu Said As Much On Capitol Hill"
Limbaugh: "Obama Wants Israel To Commit Suicide"
Hannity: Obama Has Thrown Israel Under "A Bus Full Of Suicide Bombers"
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Park and Ride service for Romsey Road?A Park and Ride bus service to the Romsey Road area of Winchester could be introduced next year if the City Council's Cabinet agree to spend £30,000 on a 6-9 month trial. They are looking for a further £25,000 from Hampshire County Council to help fund the experiment.
A report to Cabinet for its meeting on 15 December recommends setting up an experimental bus service during peak periods to link the St. Catherine's Park and Ride car park with the Romsey Road area, where the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Hampshire Police HQ, University College and Winchester Prison are located.
In his report the City Council's Director of Development Services Robin Cooper says the proposed service would operate at a 20-minute frequency during peak periods and would cost about £90,000 in a full year. Buses would turn in the forecourt of the hospital.
The report states that the level of usage of the additional service will clearly be critical and says if the usage was lower than 50 users per day, it would be difficult to justify a permanent service. With 50 users, it would only generate income of about £15,000 a year, so a significant subsidy would be needed for a permanent service.
Mr Cooper says the other potential limitation is that use of Park and Ride car parks has been increasing on a month by month basis since the St Catherine's extension opened in January 2004.
"Increases in season ticket charges for parking in the city centre have encouraged drivers to use Park and Ride as an alternative, and this trend is expected to continue. However, the potential number of Romsey Road users cannot be verified without an experimental bus service being introduced," the report goes on.
Sheila Campbell, Leader of Winchester City Council, added that the case for a second Park and Ride car park has been made.
"Bar End is not the ideal location as the Romsey Road users' car park because it is at the wrong end of town. Winchester desperately needs a new Park and Ride site in the Bushfield area and perhaps a third to the north of the City. As the facilities take Hampshire County Council at least three years to provide, they need to make some decisions so we can plan how to remove more cars from the centre of Winchester as soon as possible," she added.


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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will give his Autumn Statement on November 22
Mr Hunt confirmed the date to the House of Commons today. He has also commissioned a forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility, which will be presented alongside his keynote speech.
As the cost-of-living crisis goes on and interest rates have risen, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor have spent recent months promising to halve inflation.
Meanwhile some Conservative MPs are pressuring the Chancellor for tax cuts, looking ahead to a general election that is expected before January 2025.
But he and Mr Sunak have resisted those calls so far, saying their focus is on financial stability and curbing inflation.
Mr Hunt confirmed the date in a statement in the Commons. he said: "On Friday, the Office for National Statistics published an update to the UK’s GDP growth figures which shows the UK economy was 0.6% larger than pre-pandemic levels by the fourth quarter of 2021.
“It means our economy had the fastest recovery from the pandemic of any large European economy, thanks to decisions such as furlough that protected millions of jobs.
“For that growth to continue we now need to halve inflation, which I am pleased to report is now nearly 40% below its 11% peak. I can also tell the House I will deliver the Autumn Statement on November 22."
The Spring Budget in March saw Mr Hunt abolish the tax-free cap on the lifetime pensions allowance in a bid to boost economic growth and get more older adults back into the workplace.


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Word is Labor Secretary Lynn Martin will give President Bush`s nominating speech at the Republican convention next month. If they let Lynn be Lynn, Martin, a longtime friend and ally of Bush, could come up with a barn-burner. The keynoter will be Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas.
Atty. Gen. Roland Burris, other Dems and homeless advocates are pushing legislation making it easier for the homeless to vote. But isn`t it true that the Chicago Board of Elections has been registering the homeless for six years and the current total registered out of 30,000 or so homeless in the city is . . . 200? (Machine captains used to be indicted for too much enthusiasm in registering the homeless in Skid Row precincts.) Someone is registering, however. At least 40,000 new voters were added to the rolls in the last six weeks in Chicago.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski is feeling perkier after a House task force found James Smith, who accused Rosty of improprieties involving the House post office, contradicted himself in his testimony. One detail in the report: Smith took home some of the cash sitting around the post office and, for safe-keeping, kept it in his freezer in green-bean boxes. . . . Former Ald. Dick Simpson, who lost the Dem primary to Rosty, is having a garage sale Saturday and Sunday to help pay off his campaign debt. He`s moving from West Rogers Park to the Lincoln Square neighborhood, which actually is in the 5th Congressional District.
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When ``Prelude to a Kiss`` was filming at the Green Mill Tavern last spring, INC. reported that Alec Baldwin went ballistic-kicking things and hitting a wall-because a white thread on his chin had rendered unusable what he considered his best take of a scene. You can see the results of his tantrum-a badly beat-up hand-when he`s shown hugging Meg Ryan in the final scene of the finished product.
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. . . Macaulay Culkin got his start? Producers of ``Dennis the Menace,`` which will be filming here between August and November, are looking for three stand- in doubles for each of the movie`s kid characters. The double for Dennis is very blond, 47 inches tall and 45 pounds; for Joey, it`s a kid who has brown hair, is 45 1/2 inches tall, and weighs 50 pounds. Margaret`s double will have brown or auburn hair, stand 45 inches tall, and weigh 48 pounds. If your aspiring actor or actress fits the bill, bring them (and a snapshot) Saturday to 700 S. Desplaines St. (west of the Loop) between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Marlon Brando, whose most recent media appearances have been on Court TV because of manslaughter charges against his son Christian, has just purchased Kristy McNichol`s house in the San Fernando Valley for $800,000. Brando seems to have had more than the average father`s share of trouble with his kids, but he keeps on keeping on. He reportedly bought the house for a former housekeeper who is the mother of his two youngest children, including one born last spring. (If anybody is keeping track, Brando has 10 kids by several different mothers.)
Chicago`s Pritzker family, already heavily invested in Hyatt Hotels, TicketMaster, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and other major corporations, is now backing the single largest investor in Savoy Pictures Entertainment. It`s a new distribution company that`s appealing to filmmakers because it will allow them to retain ownership of their work, rather than turning it over to a studio for distribution.
Cook County Commissioner John Daley is telling people that he absolutely, for sure, supports state Sen. Margaret Smith, who may be challenged by state Sen. Bob DiTuri. The maitre d` at the Tuscany restaurant, DiTuri replaced state Sen. John D`Arco, who had a little problem with the feds. It was supposed to be just a fill-in appointment, but apparently DiTuri likes the Senate. . . . Jim Edgar`s Chicago staff presented him with a chocolate cake dressed-up like the Illinois flag for his birthday Thursday. The frosting was white chocolate mousse.
Friday birthdays: Ruth Buzzi, 56; Kevin Butler, 30; Dick Kaye, 56; Robert Hays, 45; Lynda Carter, 41; Chris Sarandon, 50. . . . Saturday birthdays:
Elsie Miller, 100; Louise Brown, 14; Estelle Getty, 68; Barbara Harris, 57;
Walter Payton, 38. . . . After Harry Caray made an offhand remark during a Cubs broadcast last week about whether he needed a passport to go to Warrenville, the Warrenville City Council voted on Monday to issue him one. . . . To celebrate its 30th anniversary Friday, the Wendella Commuter Boat line will give free rides from North Western Station to Michigan Avenue and presents to all riders. . . . Vice President Dan Quayle will be in Chicago Monday for a fundraiser and a speech to the National Association of Homebuilders. Might there be a question or two about his future?


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Classic bubble buster / bubble shoot / match three game with a twist. Flower Buster is the promo game for game called Hexagon. It contains set of levels not found in original game. Shoot color flowers to clear the play area. When 3 and more flowers of same color touches, they fall down. You win the level when the whole area is cleared.
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Begging and scavenging food
Like the other boys he lives with in Konya Konya Market, Mabior survives by begging and scavenging food from local restaurants. He does not go to school and has no access to even the most basic of healthcare facilities.
One of the main dangers faced by homeless boys and girls is the sexual predators. "Sometimes it happens that men come and look for boys for sex; they are looking for boys and girls, but where I stay there are only boys," Mabior said. "It is a mixture: Arabs, southerners, soldiers from all over ... some boys will go straight away for the money, others will resist and refuse, but this means they can get beaten."
He said the children earned between US$0.05 and $0.10 for providing sexual services.

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The new season of Man vs. Food starts tomorrow on Travel Channel. If you've never seen it, host Adam Richman goes around to various eating establishments across the country and eats stuff. Not just anything on a menu, we're talking about giant hamburgers, a 13-pound pizza, 12 egg omelets, stuff like that. In tomorrow's episode he eats a burger so hot he has to wear gloves.
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More electric systems are gaining ground aboard new aircraft but they will not force hydraulics out in the near or even mid term, according to Alain Coutrot, Safran’s deputy director for research and technology. Moreover, he said, depending on the size of the aircraft, electric power addresses different needs.
“In 30 years from now, we will still have some hydraulic power aboard aircraft,” Coutrot predicted. This could be local power, such as electro-hydraulic actuators, which generate hydraulic power from a local tank and do not rely on ducts that supply fluid all over the aircraft.
“The bigger the aircraft, the more power you need. In that instance, going more electric helps cutting fuel burn,” Coutrot said. Overall system optimization is a major benefit. For example, generators can be more properly sized. They usually are oversized to cope with peaks that happen rarely. And you have to add an oversized hydraulic generator to an oversized pneumatic generator, and so forth. It is better having a single kind of power. And electric generators better cope with peak demand.
For the next generation of narrowbodies–namely the successors of the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320–Safran is already working intensively on such optimization.
On smaller aircraft, the benefit is rather in maintenance costs, Coutrot asserted. For Falcon business jets, Dassault is thus studying how to get rid of hydraulics, even in powering control surfaces. The current fly-by-wire concept involves flight controls, not the actuation of ailerons and rudder.
Here at the Paris Air Show, Dassault will host a conference on the topic on Thursday morning in Chalet A320. Visitors can attend by registering with exhibitor AS Tech (Hall 3 Stand A81).
The 787, for which Boeing has touted a much more electric architecture, was to make its first flight two years ago, but it still has to do so. Coutrot confirmed Safran’s electric brake has been available since the initial date.
The trend is still relatively hazy. For example, Airbus’s A350 will enter into service after the 787 (according to current schedules) but will be less electric. Its engines will supply bleed air for some systems, while Boeing has even electrified pressurization. In regional jets, the in-development Sukhoi Superjet has a conventional architecture, Coutrot admitted.
Clean Sky, a major private-public research initiative in Europe, does cover more electric architectures. “Part of Clean Sky will be a demonstrator made of several interconnected pieces of equipment and a generator,” Coutrot said. The so-called copper bird will be an upgrade of one created for a previous European research program, called Power Optimized Aircraft. It will run at Safran’s Hispano-Suiza labs in Colombes, near Paris.


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Clinical associate professor James W. Tom DDS ’99 has been appointed to serve on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Moderate Sedation Task Force.
Tom was nominated by American Dental Association (ADA) president and Ostrow alumna Carol Gomez Summerhays DDS ’78 to help represent dentistry on the interdisciplinary panel, which will prepare new national guidelines for sedation use in hospitals, surgical centers and all clinical settings.
“It’s an exciting opportunity for dentist anesthesiologists to be recognized by the ADA as the anesthesia practitioners with the most directed scope of training and practice in sedation and general anesthesia,” Tom said.
The committee — comprised of individuals from dentistry, oral surgery, anesthesiology, radiology, cardiology, gastroenterology and emergency medicine — will assess data, peer-reviewed journal articles and studies as well as current clinical opinion from subject matter experts to revise the national guidelines, which were first published in 2002 in the journal Anesthesiology.
“It’s an honor for dentist anesthesiologists to be acknowledged by our medical colleagues and welcomed into contemporary policy making endeavors to ensure patient safety,” Tom said.
Tom earned his doctor of dental surgery degree from Ostrow in 1999 before pursuing a master’s degree and certificate in dental anesthesiology from The Ohio State University in 2001.
Tom joined the Ostrow faculty in 2001. He is a clinical associate professor, teaching courses in intravenous moderate sedation, and is the director of Ostrow’s dental anesthesiology service. He is also president-elect of the American Society of Dentists Anesthesiologists and associate editor for Anesthesia Progress, A Journal for Pain and Anxiety Control in Dentistry.
Ostrow jumps to third top-funded U.S. dental institution by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. IF THE PAST FEW YEARS OF PANDEMIC were meant to slow researchers down in their quest for knowledge, no one told the research teams working in Ostrow’s lab spaces across both campuses. The Herman Ostrow School of […]
Asha Green, Daniel Ip and Somkene Okwuego have their dental educations paid for, thanks to a National Health Service Corps scholarship that requires them to spend two years practicing in a health professional shortage area. IT’S A STATISTIC THAT’S NEVER FAR from the mind of Asha Green DDS ’26: just 3.7 percent of dentists in […]
Zhaoyang Liu Assistant Professor LAST YEAR, Ostrow welcomed researcher Zhaoyang Liu to the Trojan Dental Family. The tenure-track assistant professor earned her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences in China before pursuing a master’s degree in cellular, molecular and structural biology from Miami University-Ohio and a doctorate in biology from the University of Rochester-New York. […]
Alon Frydman PERIO ’06 Director, Continuing Education LAST YEAR, Ostrow’s CE department launched its official podcast, Louped In, which looks at various topics in dentistry from the foremost experts in the field. We caught up with its host, Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry Alon Frydman. WHAT GOES INTO PREPARING FOR RECORDING AN EPISODE […]
The new tech allows endodontists to see in three dimensions, allowing more accurate diagnoses, treatment and evaluation. ENDODONTISTS SPECIALIZE IN SAVING NATURAL DENTITION, mostly focusing on the tooth’s interior. They live and die by imaging, both to diagnose what’s going on inside a tooth as well as to see how a treatment is working. Historically, […]


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Illinois spring breakers jailed for booze
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, March 9, 2010
A minor traffic infraction turned out to be a major felony incident for six Illinois spring breakers after they were caught with 10 cases of beer and eight cases of assorted liquors Sunday.
Lt. Lance Price said agents with the Alabama Beverage Control Board were called to assist the Florala Police Department when the officer located the alcohol inside the group’s vehicle.
“What many people don’t know is that it is illegal to possess and transport alcoholic beverages through a state they have not purchased it from,” Price said. “It is also illegal to possess five gallons or more of such alcohol.”
Price said 52, 12-ounce beers constitutes five gallons of alcohol.
Arrested and charged with transporting more than five gallons of alcohol were: Jona Bertsche, 22; Troy Bertsche, 23; Josh Decker, 22; Tim Iverson, 23; Kyle Harding, 24; and Erick Smith, 23. Each were booked into the Covington County Jail and held on a $10,000 bond.
Price said he expects these arrests to be the first of many in the coming days as spring breakers make their way through Alabama.


At least it’s new to me. The rental car I have… a 2008 Dodge Charger has a new style ignition key. You stick it in like a normal key and it sends an electronic signal to the car telling it he key matches the ignition and will allow the car to start.
My Harley has something similar. It has a fob that just stays in my pocket. The bike will start up and run as long as the fob is within eleven feet of the bike. I like this feature, but am a little concerned that it might start up when I’m at home and accidentally leave without the fob in my pocket. My understanding is that it’ll run until I shut the engine off. There is an emergency way to start it with out the fob, but when reading manual it seemed pretty complicated and involved entering the bike’s serial number into the radio keypad or something like that.
I know Cadillacs have a similar keyless ignition system.


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Cardiff Blues 22-15 Connacht
Match Reports, Updated:
Ben Blair boots a personal tally of seventeen points as the Blues outplay Connacht in the second half to secure the win in Cardiff
Connacht went into this game in desperate need of a confidence booster after a demoralising defeat at the hand's of Italian outfit Aironi last time out.
Indeed the Irish side made a positive start, and found themselves leading the contest after three minutes, fly-half Niall O' Connor landing a penalty.
Cardiff hit back though, and had the lead themselves after ten minutes, Ben Blair on target twice for the home side from penalty kicks.
The visitors were playing positive rugby however, and they scored the first try of the contest midway through the first half, when winger Tiernan O' Halloran dived over. O' Connor added the extras, and after the first quarter, the game was shaping up to be a tight affair.
Before the break, Cardiff ensured they would take a lead into the half time interval, when Ben Blair again fired over two penalties in quick succession, to leave it 12-10 at the break, with all to play for in the second half.
Cardiff stepped up the tempo in the second period though, and when Ben Blair added his fifth penalty of the game, things were beginning to slip away from Connacht.
The Blues were playing the better rugby, and put themselves further clear going into the final quarter when Xavier Rush bundled over the whitewash to put Cardiff in command of the game. Ben Blair added the conversion, Connacht now needed a minor miracle to rescue the match.
It wasn't to be though and the game petered out, and even though the visitors added a very late try, Cardiff held out to secure the win to leave the Irish side rooted near the foot of the table


Attorney General William Barr reportedly has taken issue with a key claim made by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz in his soon-to-be released report on possible FBI misconduct toward the Trump campaign in 2016.
Barr has told associates that he disagrees with the conclusion that “the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign,” The Washington Post reported, citing numerous sources that were familiar with the matter.
“Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz’s rationale for concluding the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016,” The Post continued. “The attorney general has privately contended that Horowitz does not have enough information to reach the conclusion the FBI had enough details in hand at the time to justify opening such a probe. He argues that other U.S. agencies, such as the CIA, may hold significant information that could alter Horowitz’s conclusion on that point, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.”
The Post notes that the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign was launched after then-Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos made statements to Clinton-connected Australian diplomat Alexander Downer about Clinton’s emails. – READ MORE


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A New Hampshire man has found himself behind bars after impersonating a state police officer and orchestrating a chilling stalking campaign. Salisbury’s State Troopers responded to a harrowing call on Sunday, February 25, when a terrified woman reported receiving text messages from an individual claiming to be a high-ranking police official. The malicious sender, posing an ominous vigil over her, asserted that she was under strict surveillance and her residence was being watched, instilling fear with his every message.
As these unnerving texts flooded her phonem the frightened victim noticed a mysterious figure lurking outside her home through her security footage. Despite their immediate response, State Troopers were unable to catch the stalker on the property at the time of the report. However, Trooper Tyler Griffin, with unwavering dedication, launched a full-scale investigation into the matter that would soon lead to a suspect.
In a demonstration of efficient police work, Trooper Griffin's investigation swiftly pinpointed a male suspect, leading to the swift procurement of an arrest warrant. The man was promptly detained on several charges, including felony false personation and misdemeanor counts of harassment, stalking, criminal trespass, and loitering/prowling, according to New Hampshire State Police.
Out of respect for privacy concerns and the protection of the victim, authorities have withheld the name of the suspect. The investigation remains open, and anyone with potential ties or information relevant to this alarming episode is encouraged to step forward. Witnesses or those privy to pertinent details are urged to contact Trooper Tyler Griffin at (603)451-9313 or [email protected].


DISTURBED, Incendium and Heavy Metal Entertainment have announced the launch of “Dark Messiah”, a five-part comic book series. Published under Heavy Metal Entertainment and Incendium’s music-focused OPUS imprint, the story was conceptualized by Incendium CEO Llexi Leon and Tim Seeley (“Nightwing”, “Hack/Slash”) and written by Seeley, with illustrations by Ángel Hernández (“Arrow”, “Star Trek”) and cover artwork by Ryan Christensen.
“Dark Messiah” takes place in the not-so-distant future, as firefighter Griffin DeSanto finds himself a man out of time, stumbling into a harsh world of poverty, automation, and subjugation. Technology rules and a tech empire built on suffering keeps the population in check through surveillance and mechanized policing. Though lost, Griffin is never alone. He was brought here for a reason, and The Vengeful One is his guide.
The iconic character and beloved mascot “The Guy” has been the faceless “face” of DISTURBED for over 20 years. This will be the first dive into The Guy’s power’s, history and lore, as we see him as The Vengeful One. “The Guy” has been featured in multiple DISTURBED music videos, including starring in Todd McFarlane’s “Land Of Confusion” animated music video, and in cover artwork for the band. The Guy’s origin was in album artwork for DISTURBED’s 2000’s “The Sickness”, shown as a creepy smile with big teeth. After that, his first full-blown appearance was in the album artwork for “Ten Thousand Fists”, where he was shown as a character with the same creepy, smiling face, cloaked by a hood, with an outfit made up of torn cloak and multiple chains, pumping his fist into the sky.
“Ever since ‘The Guy’ made his debut 20 years ago his evolution and transformation has only grown. We are excited to take ‘The Guy’ to the next level and bring his story to the forefront via both the comic book series and action figures. We can’t wait to share this next chapter with all of you,” DISTURBED said in a statement about the “Dark Messiah” series.
Seeley, who is also the editor-in-chief of Heavy Metal magazine, added: “the guys in DISTURBED have a lot of the same influences I do…horror movies, ’90s superhero comics, punk music, and an interest in humanity and the fight against oppression. So, we’ve teamed up to give a story to ‘The Guy’, and it’s going to be a savage horror epic about heroism, hope and a whole lot of teeth and chains.”
Leon said: “DISTURBED’s powerhouse of a mascot was destined for comics and we’re thrilled to be developing the dystopian world of their immortal anti-hero, exploring the roots of his power, and digging into the rich history that’s been teased to date through the bands iconic album artwork and music videos. With flames and chains in abundance, ‘The Guy’ action figure was also a must have, so we’re realizing that out of the gate alongside issue one!”
“Dark Messiah” begins as a five-issue comic series; the first print edition of each issue will be released as a prestige-format limited edition collectible comic book, featuring cardstock covers, specialty foil treatments, glossy pages, and individual numbering. The first issue is available to order now and ships in July 2021.
DISTURBED’s “Dark Messiah” will extend beyond the printed page into toys, apparel, and collectibles, including an action figure of “The Guy”.


AECOM was commissioned by GPT and Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd to provide acoustic engineering services for the base building design of the commercial/retail development at One One One Eagle Street, Brisbane. This project involved the design and construction of a new premium grade commercial office development at the site bordered by Eagle St, Riverside Plaza and Riparian Plaza. The building includes approximately 63,000m2 of Property Council of Australia (PCA) premium grade office space over 44 levels, retail on Level 7 (ground floor) and four levels of basement car parking.
The important acoustic issues associated with the development were:
- Noise intrusion from traffic along Eagle St, Elizabeth and Creek St onto the site;
- Noise intrusion from items of plant within the proposed development and neighbouring sites;
- Acoustic separation of office spaces from retail and plant areas;
- Noise control from loading dock areas;
- Environmental noise emission from the site, including mechanical plant;
- Noise and vibration from services.


The Active Silencer™ duct is designed to help with noise control, while allowing heating and cooling units to work at their highest, most energy-efficient speeds, significantly reducing operating costs, says the manufacturer. It is an add-on unit that can be attached to any new or existing air exchange unit or imbedded near the air device without adding resistance to airflow. The duct is designed to be installed at the end of a pipe emitting or sucking air and generating noise. It automatically calibrates to its environment, eliminating more than 10dB(A) of broadband noise at the source. According to the company, contractors can directly install the Active Silencer duct, saving time, labor, and material costs as it eliminates the need for long, complicated labyrinths and ducts to reduce noise.
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In the cycle of life together woman does not notice that her life is closely intertwined with the life of man. Of course, this idea warms. After all, people who love each other, tend to merge.
But from time to time everyone wants to feel a little loose. If you can not "carve out" for several minutes or hours, life becomes unbearable. Sometimes you need to be alone with yourself, to think about life, and just relax. After all, two-way communication also takes power.
Maintain islands of freedom requires that life does not seem routine. It helps to be reborn to a new activity and not get bored partner.
One of the islands can be a hobby, a hobby other than a partner. Of course, the favorite thing often brings people together. But well, if it is allow them to break apart. Besides, if men and women are different hobbies, you can share with each other successes.
Allows you to open the circle of everyday worries hike to the hairdresser or shaping. When he returned to his duties with the new influx of forces woman to share his energy with a partner.
The woman should have its own source of income, some of which she will spend only on themselves. This will allow her not to forget about their needs in full of worries of life together. Besides, she would not have every time "to beg" the money for a campaign in a cafe, shop or theater.
As anyone with a woman simply need to have "their space" in the house. Do not confuse it with the kitchen. Space it is necessary to do what he likes or relax. It is better if the house allows you to scale, let it be a separate room. Should furnish it to your liking and to engage in it that brings pleasure.
In the heat of the family or close romantic relationships do not forget about your friends. Sometimes you can meet them, it fills the soul with pleasant memories and restores strength.
In any case, whatever the "island of freedom", it is meant to help relax and escape from everyday life. "A breath of freedom" will give strength and help keep "afloat" in the maelstrom of life.


Here at Carbody Banbury, we have the latest air conditioning equipment allowing us to service and refill all makes and models of vehicle. All our technicians are fully trained to re-gas the system.
Regular maintenance of your air conditioning ensures your vehicle is always cool and fresh and makes driving in the hotter weather a more comfortable experience. It also helps to clear the windows from condensation in the winter.
The system needs regular lubrication to prevent from premature wear.
Over time gas can escape from the system and with regular use, the refrigerant gas levels will need checking and refilling at least every 2 years.
If you don’t use the air conditioning system regularly you may find the gas will need replacing, as there can be a build-up of harmful bacteria, mould, spore, and allergens.
The air conditioning radiator, compressor, and pipe work all require annual visual checks to make sure there are no leaks or signs of wear and tear.
The air conditioning system can dry out if not lubricated regularly.
* It may blow out warm air.
* The air won’t be as cool (A fully topped up air conditioning system will be ice cold)
* The vehicle won’t tell you, that’s why it is really good to keep it topped up and regularly serviced.
Pop into see us, we can give you a quote and make sure you are cool in your vehicle again in no time.
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If left alone and not serviced, it can cause leaking gases and failure, which would result in a more costly repair.
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LIFE THROWS CURVE-BALLS
College life can be some of the most challenging years for many of us. It is often the first time we are on our own and/or away from home, making it difficult when things start getting rough. As important as college is, it is often the first thing that gets dropped when life throws a curve-ball.
It's easy to become less and less motivated in college when life is bearing down on you. Take it from Dee. He comes from a place where only 14% of students go to college and only 2% graduate. College life will be challenging but can be very rewarding at the same time when you focus on resilience.
Dee Hankins shows students how to balance student life and real life in times of adversity so they can keep moving forward. He also shares ways to avoid common pitfalls so that college can be as smooth as possible. Dee shares his on and off campus experiences with students inspiring them to not lose hope and to focus on resilience. He relays the messages of "you matter" and "you can make a difference in this world" by driving home one simple point; Life throws curve-balls but even curve-balls can be hit for home runs!
As a master storyteller and a self-proclaimed "Wal-mart version of Kevin Hart" comedian, Dee Hankins will bring laughter, clarity, passion, and motivation to your students that that they can succeed in their lives. Dee is speaks from the heart because he believes that life's experiences are to be used to:
1. Change perspective.
2. Help people in need.
3. Help people be more understanding of those around them
Dee will deliver a life changing story that will help you understand that Life Throws Curve-Balls but Even Curve-balls can be Hit for Home Runs!
- Clear definition of what resilience means and how to focus on it
- You have potential
- The dangers of falling into the state of hopelessness
- The importance of emotions and the dangers of hiding them
- A message of you matter and what you are going though matters
- A message of all things can work together for good

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Whimsy is a highly evolved art form, and a vital characteristic in illuminating your true joy. Let me tell you a story..or two.
When I was living in rural West Texas at Madera Hills Horse Ranch I had an extraordinary experience. I had been transplanted from the lush Northwest to the wilds of the Texan plains. This is a land where a descent sized ranch is 75 to 100 THOUSAND acres. This is a land where havelenas, big horned sheep from Africa, and Saguaro cactus rule the landscape. You will find scorpions in your mixing bowls and hear frogs emerge from the mud after the rain. The grasshoppers are super-sized, and there is a vibrant calm and a quiet I have only also experienced in New Mexico. At night it has the most spectacular starry ceiling you have ever seen.
I was living there with the mythical Kate Vigneron, a Louisiana native who became a Parisian wife and then moved to her own ranch in this untamed landscape. She took on horse training in her 5th decade, and was one of the toughest, most straightforward and loving people I have ever met; you always knew where you stood with Kate. She had a grand Piano in this home in the middle of nowhere. She felt like the heroines in those epic novels about Africa or Australia; her land feels like Africa. She and I had been drawn together through the horse spirits and were teaching women’s retreats with her herd.
One evening, during my favorite activity on this sacred land, I was out walking at dusk. The weather was perfect. It was still in the low 80’s, and a t-shirt and jeans were perfect. I was exploring the dry riverbed scattered with sherbert colored rocks; pinks, seafoam greens, lilacs, and every form of yellow, orange and brown you could imagine. It was divine. Water only surged through this wide pathway after torrential rains. I had never seen that.
As I leaped from rock to rock, I was totally blissed out. This land spoke to my soul in a way few places have. It was so vast and foreign and alive. I was vibrating with a quiet peace and contentment. At one point I had the sense to turn around and look to where I had come from. Who happened to be looking back at me, but a little red fox. She seemed to be sizing me up, “who is this creature in my territory, and is it a playmate?” As I stood in awe, she came closer, and closer and closer. When she got about ten feet from me, I said in unspoken language, “you are totally incredible, and I mean no disrespect, but I am new to these lands and do not know all of its ways. I am not sure if it is safe to be this close to you, so can you give me a little more space.” At that moment she leapt up the side of the embankment and disappeared into the brush.
And then she returned…and for quite a long time we played our own version of follow and pursue, each of us leading at different times. She would run ahead, waiting for me, and then I would dash up, watching her leap forward. She led me back to one of the few trees in this land, and sprang up onto one of the limbs rocking up and down gleefully. A bird in the top of he tree paid her no attention, this was obviously a common occurrence. When you enter this liminal space, time becomes elusive. I have no idea how long we played, 20 minutes, and hour?? It doesn’t matter, I was welcomed into her magical world. Maria Yraceburu says when the animals open up to us like that, we are in great harmony; they trust us. I wonder if I shape-shifted into her kin; I am a Lioness.
We had gone down the arroyo at least a hundred feet, and then we went back up where we began. At certain points she would disappear into the networks of tunnels within the thick underbrush of cats claw and chaparral. She would always reappear, and I wished I was compact enough to follow her there. At one point she disappeared for a longer time, and I assumed our game was over. I sat down on a big rock in awe, savoring the profound gifts of being invited into her world. As I sat, she came back out to where I could see here in a little clearing. She sat down, and began to groom herself. This level of trust is incredible. I watched as she licked her paws and stroke them over her ears, tending to her sleek little body. Then she stood up, whipped her big bushy tail around dramatically, tucked her nose in and curled up into a ball TO SLEEP. I am eight feet away. There are no words for this sense of wonder. No words.
This is what we ALL have access to when we open to whimsy and find our places of bliss. She allowed me in because I was so happy that I was glowing. She knew my heart, my intention, my clarity, my joy.
In my divination readings with my Oracle of Initiation deck a consistent theme coming through for clients is to deeply honor and engage in your whimsy. Be textural and tactile with the world in a very kinesthetic and sensual way. Wriggle your toes in the mud; dash through the ocean waves; stroke the nubby stone wall; actually stop and SMELL the roses. Act like a child, or a dog, or a fox and find glee and delight in this precious and magical world we live in. Become alive and enlivened, awakened through really feeling all that is around you. Live in the creativity and vision by actually meeting what is around you. My sense with this direction from the Oracle is that a central pathway to reclaiming our inner-passion and expansion is to ground ourselves more profoundly in our earthly existence. To be naive and innocent as a child, to have the Beginners Mind and see everything as a great blessing.
To live this way takes dedication. Most of us have lives where we are responsible to others and our own physical survival. We have children and rent and partners and jobs. We can all get caught up in our “to-do” lists and forget to recognize the wind caressing our faces.
Today, on a whimsical walk with my beloved Azul, I was reminded of how precious and enchanting life can be when we slow down and let go. Azul and I were at our favorite stomping founds, a lush arroyo with a large quarry at one end. With the snow melt here in Santa Fe, the consistently dry landscape was filled with water. All of the acequias were flowing and the open fields had become lush marshes.
As I sat along one of the nourishing waterways with my toes in the mud I noticed a little friend on my leg. A small spider was on by lower calf. I watched as she raised her bulbous torso up and down, wondering what she was up to. Then she climbed up towards my knee and did this movement again. As I watched closely the sun glinted off her abdomen and I saw the golden thread of a web. She was making a web on my leg! She continued this for a good deal of time as I threw the stick for my canine companion. She would go around the back of my leg, anchoring, and then drop down dangling in the wind, making more of her woven structure.
She came to me because I was calm, I was content, I was in my whimsy and awe. I was resonating the beauty of joy, we were in harmony. This is that sort of experiences I guarantee you the Universe will meet you with if you allow yourself to slow down and allow the magic. Who knows where this all might lead…and the true gift is in the awe and delight of a whimsical life. Blessed be to Grandmother Spider who graced me with her presence today, may you be graced with your own signs and guardians and delights today. xoxxx M