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Mo’Nique Slams Charlamagne: You’re Not the Guru of Black Culture!
Mo’Nique is calling out Charlamagne Tha God, after her labeled her ‘Donkey Of the Day’. Last month, he gave her the title, in response to the controversy surrounding her Netflix boycott. Here’s the clip.
This week, the Oscar Award winning actor and comedian appeared on The Breakfast Club, questioning why he gave her the title. Throughout the entire interview, Mo’Nique calls Charlamagne by his government name (Lenard), refusing to call him Charalamgne. At one point, the conversation becomes heated when Mo’Nique tells him,
You don’t know the history of this business that you’re in. You sit behind this microphone and try to be the guru of Black culture, I’m gonna need you to know the history of us before you begin to label us.
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As a retired magazine publisher, I went bonkers when I found out about the Discover the World with Barbie series! Each features a different country or global region and includes a full size magazine about said region plus coordinating Barbie dress. They are so cool!
Discover the World with Barbie sets were produced for the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand markets starting around 2003, I think. They were not available in the US, but you can find them now on the secondary market.
The magazines were printed in Spain. Many of the clothes in the series were produced in South Africa.
Photos by Krystyn Hartman © 2018

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The orange is Jamieson & Smith Shetland Superfine top. I did not intend it as uneven dye but the vessel I used was too small, so some areas were not exposed. I will spin it and then see if I want to overdye it or not.
The red is Bilby Yarns Australian Merino top. It is somewhat compacted but not felted. I cut a length of cling film the length of the 50g sample of top, and set it in the bath tub. (I had to loop it into a horseshoe shape to fit.)
After gently squeezing the soaking water from the top and placing it on the cling film, I used a syringe to apply concentrated squirts of Blue Raspberry, Black Cherry, Orange and Cherry Kool Aids, at fairly regular intervals. Most of the blue was lost as it was covered by the other colours. Next time I will use a higher concentration and apply it over a wider segment. I was careful not to place the blue adjacent to the orange as I didn't want brown tones, but after my experiment with the solid tones I think that may have produced a muddy green which would have been fine.
After saturating the top with dye, I wrapped the cling film around the length and put it into a dish, then microwaved in several one and two minute intervals until it seemed warm enough. The film shrank in the heat, but the wool is not felted; it just needs a little fluffing.
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I was able to spin the orange to a fairly even colour by planking the top, that is, predrafting out two strips and holding them together to spin, After the finished yarn was dry, though I decided the orange was too happy to go with the project I have in mind, so I saddened it in a bath of strong tea. The sobered-up orange is left-most, with the control orange next right, and the orange/blue and lime/orange/blue following.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers have been having a lot of fun on their way to their third straight NBA Finals, but Stephen Curry is hoping to put an end to that.
The Cavaliers will meet the Golden State Warriors in their NBA Finals rubber match after both teams steamrolled through their respective conference playoffs, and Curry has taken note of how much fun the Cavs have been having during their postseason tear.
“For the most part, you know what LeBron (James) does, you know what Kyrie (Irving) does,” Curry said, per CBS Sports’ Kyle Boone. “You know kind of their style and familiar with that. Other than that, I think when you look at the whole squad, they have a good kind of chemistry and vibe. It looks like they’re having fun, and we want to do something about that.”
Of course, it’s not just Cleveland’s fun that Curry is eager to erase, as he’d also like to wipe away the memory of the Warriors blowing a 3-1 series lead to the Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals.
The Warriors enter this year’s edition of the NBA Finals with a perfect 12-0 record, while the Cavs’ only loss came on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics.
This is sure to be an unforgettable NBA Finals.
Thumbnail photo via Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports Images

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The Cronulla Coastal Walk (also known as the Cronulla Beach Walk) is a stunning walk you can do on a day trip from Sydney.
A trip down to Cronulla to do the Beach Walk is really popular with those who want to escape the busy beaches and coastal paths closer to Sydney, such as the Bondi to Coogee walk or Spit to Manly walk.
Cronulla is an amazing and lively suburb located 30km south of Sydney in Sutherland Shire (known as ‘The Shire’ to locals).
It has everything – beaches, coastal paths, nightlife, plenty places to eat – plus all the beaches in Cronulla have great surf and are really popular with surfers.
CRONULLA COASTAL WALK
- The Cronulla Beach Walk is a 4km one way walk.
- The walk goes from Wanda Beach down to Bass & Flinders Point in South Cronulla.
- It will take you around 1 hour to walk the route from start to finish. Most people however like to do it over the course of a few hours so they can stop and enjoy the beautiful views along the way and enjoy some lunch and even a swim or sunbathe.
- It is a flat and easy coastal walk and can be done at any time of the day, although at sunrise or early morning is especially beautiful as the sun rises over the ocean.
- There are lots of ocean pools, BBQ areas and children playgrounds, making this walk particularly suitable for families.
- The walk is not a loop path, so people will often extend the walk to Gunnamatta Park and back up towards Cronulla town centre.
How to get to Cronulla
If coming from central Sydney it will take you around 1 hour to get to Cronulla so it makes for the perfect day trip from Sydney.
You can get the train from Bondi Junction or Central straight through to Cronulla. You take the T4 line (Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra line). Opal cards are accepted.
Make sure the final destination is Cronulla and you don’t accidentally get on the train that goes to Waterfall or Helensburgh instead.
The train line splits part way along the route, so the Waterfall train will not stop at Cronulla and vice versa.
Cronulla Train Station is located right next to the main strip of shops and cafes and is just a few hundred metres from Cronulla Beach.
If coming by car from central Sydney the journey time should also take around an hour. You’ll find plenty parking on the side streets in Cronulla.
CRONULLA BEACH WALK
Cronulla Beach Walk starts along Wanda Beach which then turns into Elouera Beach and subsequently North Cronulla Beach all within a kilometre. Wanda is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘sand hills’ or ‘beach’.
The beach is beautiful and is patrolled in the warmer months from November to April.
Wanda Beach faces out onto the Pacific Ocean so the waves here can often be quite rough.
If you plan to take a swim, watch out for rips and make sure you always swim between the flags. Due to the waves Wanda Beach is a popular surfing spot.
You’ll find toilets and showers here at Wanda Beach, plus in the summer months the cafe on the beach is open too.
North Cronulla Beach
North Cronulla Beach is also a popular beach and like Wanda Beach it is patrolled by lifeguards from November to April.
There are public toilets and showers here, as well as a playground in adjacent Dunningham Park and several cafes and restaurants nearby if you want to have some food or drinks before continuing the walk.
The walk then continues on footpath at the end of North Cronulla Beach for a couple of hundred metres.
It hugs the coastline and goes past the Cronulla Rock Pools (North Cronulla Rock Pool, Cronulla Children’s Pool and South Cronulla Rock Pool) that are next to each other, towards South Cronulla Beach.
Whilst these rock pools are nice, there are better ones further along on the walk!
South Cronulla Beach
South Cronulla Beach is a small corner shaped beach and the waves here can also be quite strong. There are some nice Art Deco buildings along the sea front here, including a cafe and a kiosk.
Cronulla Park is behind South Cronulla Beach and has a playground area if you are bringing the children.
You’ll also find toilets and showers here at South Cronulla Beach and a flight of steps at the end of the beach – these are the only steps along the whole walk, the rest is flat.
From South Cronulla Beach you’ll join The Esplanade to continue your walk. The Esplanade is the coastal pathway that goes from South Cronulla Beach all the way to the end of the walk at Bass & Flinders Point.
Walking along The Esplanade you will pass several beautiful beaches – the first one being Blackwoods Beach.
Blackwoods Beach is a small and secluded beach that looks out on to Shark Island. It is not so busy as there are no rock pools here and you need to climb down to get onto the beach.
The walkway then takes you down to Shelly Beach. Shelly Beach isn’t a sandy beach – it is quite rocky. However it does have the most epic rock pool! The waves come crashing up against the sides and it is a really decent size for doing laps.
The views from here across the Kurnell peninsula were stunning – this is definitely my favourite rock pool along the Cronulla Coastal Walk!
There are BBQ facilities here by Shelly Beach and a nice open grassy area perfect for enjoying the sun or a nice picnic.
There is also a playground and a cafe here as well as toilets and showers. Note dogs aren’t allowed on the beach here.
Oak Park Beach
Follow the coastal walkway around a bit further and you’ll come to Oak Park Beach.
Oak Park Beach is also the location of another rock pool, as well as BBQ facilities, picnic benches, toilets, a playground and a large grassy area overlooking the beach.
The rock pool has a sandy end by the beach, then it gets rocky as it gets deeper. Oak Park Beach is another popular spot for surfers. The beach is unpatrolled so do take care here if you are swimming as the waves can be rough.
Bass and Flinders Point
At the bottom of the peninsula is Bass & Flinders Point: where the Hacking River meets the Tasman Sea. From here there are stunning views across to Bundeena and Royal National Park.
You’ll see a large memorial to Matthew Flinders and George Bass, the two explorers who the spot was named after.
You can continue going round the peninsula towards Salmon Haul Reserve – there are some more picnic spots, toilets and a playground here.
The walk technically finishes here, so from here you can either walk back the same way you came, or continue going round and wind your way back towards Cronulla via Darook Park.
There is no public transport from here back up to Cronulla town centre so you will need to walk back at least part of the way, whether you are heading back to your car or heading back to the train station.
You can also call an Uber or Ola to take you back to where you need to go if you just can’t walk any more. Just call it on to one of the nearby streets.
If you continue to follow the path round the peninsula as opposed to going back on yourself you’ll soon find yourself in Darook Park. You’ll find toilets here as well as a little rope swing the goes over the water.
Toilets along the Cronulla Beach Walk:
North Cronulla Beach
South Cronulla Beach
Oak Park Beach
Salmon Haul Reserve
You’ll also find many spots where you can refill your water bottle along the route so make sure you pack a refillable water bottle for your walk!
What to bring on the Cronulla Beach Walk:
- a hat and suncream – there is no shade along the walk so make sure you are protected from the sun.
- a jacket – if it is windy it can feel quite cold along this path so make sure you are prepared.
- a camera to catch all the gorgeous views!
- swimming costume and towel if you plan getting in one of the rock pools!
Where to get food on the Cronulla Coastal Walk:
At the end of North Cronulla Beach you’ll come to Peryman Square where there are several nice cafes and restaurants to get some food.
For more choice though, a couple of streets inland from North Cronulla Beach and South Cronulla Beach (heading towards Cronulla Station) you’ll find plenty more options for food.
There are also lots of cafes and restaurants down here as well as on the neighbouring streets of Surf Lane and Gerrale Street. Alternatively there are several supermarkets along Cronulla Street if you want to buy things for a picnic.
You can either eat before, during or after the walk as you’ll be coming back this way anyway after the walk to get back to the train station or your car.
Cronulla has lots of bars too so it is a good place to spend a Saturday evening. Northies in particular is very popular and is great if you want to have a few drinks, a good atmosphere and good music.
Are dogs allowed on the Cronulla Coastal Walk?
Dogs are allowed on the coastal walk footpath (The Esplanade) on a leash. They are not allowed on the majority of the beaches here. They are however allowed in Cronulla Park (next to South Cronulla Beach) on a leash.
If you want to take your dog onto the beach, you’ll need to head up to Greenhills Beach (just north of Wanda Beach) which is an off leash dog beach. Alternatively Silver Beach in Kurnell (a 20 minute drive north) is an off leash dog beach.
My guide on Dog Friendly Beaches in Sydney explains exactly which part of these beaches dogs are allowed off-leash, as well as everything you need to know to bring your dog here.
Kurnell to Cronulla Coastal Walk
If you are spending a whole day in the Cronulla area and are looking for an alternative walk, why not stroll from Kurnell Beach all the way around Cape Solander to the top of Cronulla Beach?
It’s a long walk but there are lots of interesting things to see such as the landing place of Captain Cook and Cape Solander – one of the best spots in Sydney for whale watching!
How to get to Kurnell
Take the 987 bus from outside Cronulla Train Station (on the opposite side of the road, just in front of Monro Park). Buses run every hour so check the timetable!
The journey takes about 20 minutes and drops you off on Prince Charles Parade which is where Kurnell Beach is located.
Kurnell Beach is 2km long but it isn’t as stunning as Cronulla Beach as the view faces out towards Port Botany. On a clear day though you will be able to see the Sydney skyline in the distance.
There is an off leash dog area here at Kurnell Beach – at the western end between the third and forth jetties.
Kamay Botany Bay National Park
If you stroll all the way along Kurnell Beach you’ll reach Kamay Botany Bay National Park. Remember as this is a National Park no dogs are allowed here.
Captain Cook’s Landing Place
Kurnell is where Captain Cook’s Landing Place is. Captain James Cook was a British navigator and the first recorded explorer to land on the east coast of Australia in 1770.
Near the entrance of Kamay Botany Bay National Park you’ll see the Heritage Listed Site where Captain Cook landed 250 years ago. There is a plaque, an information placard and also an artistic boat sculpture to mark the location.
The crew on his boat the Endeavor made contact with the Aboriginal people here, so note that this area can sometimes be the location for Aboriginal protests as the arrival of Captain Cook marked the dissemination of the Aboriginal people.
A little further along you’ll see the whale statue to commemorate the popular whale watching spot. You can see across to the skyline of Sydney on a clear day, as well as La Perouse and Cape Banks.
Cape Solander Whale Viewing Station
Cape Solander is one of the best places in Sydney for whale watching.
The whale watching season goes from June to November, with mid June to mid July often being the best time to spot these majestic creatures as they migrate up to warmer waters.
You may want to consider bringing some binoculars and a fold up chair as sometimes it can be a while before you spot any.
Note if you come on a rainy or particularly cloudy day it will be a lot trickier to spot any whales, but there is shelter here if it rains though.
There is usually a mobile cafe here where you can grab a coffee and some cake.
There are a couple of benches where you can sit and look out for whales, but if often gets busy here so you may want to walk along the rock platforms and sit down on the rocks if you want to get away from the crowds.
From Cape Solander you can walk all the way to Cronulla Beach along the Cape Baily Track.
Cape Baily Track to Cronulla
Along the Cape Baily Track there are lots of rock platforms you can walk along. Be careful to not go near the edge as you are at the top of some very big cliffs.
The great thing about this walk is that you nearly always walking alongside the ocean so you can still do some whale watching as you are walking.
Sometimes finding the path can be a little tricky, so for this reason I always make sure I have the app maps.me handy just to make sure I am on the correct track.
Also be careful if it has rained lately! It had rained heavily a few days before, and one part of the track had literally turned into a giant river when I was there!
I had to hold on to the tree branches on either side of the path to ensure I didn’t fall in!
The path also goes through some bushland before going past Cape Baily lighthouse and there are lots of interesting stone formations along the way in the cliffs.
The walk will eventually take you to Cronulla Beach. The Cronulla Sand Dunes are behind here if you wish to visit!
Cronulla Beach then leads down to Greenhills Beach and then Wanda Beach and North Cronulla Beach where you start the Cronulla Coastal Walk.
If you choose to walk all the way from Kurnell Beach down to Cronulla Beach and then do the Cronulla Coastal Walk it is easily 20km so make sure you bring adequate walking shoes or trainers!
If you are looking for inspiration for other Sydney coastal walks, check out:
Lady Robinson’s Beach to Brighton Le Sands Walk
Bondi to Watson’s Bay Walk
Rose Bay to Watson’s Bay Walk
Hermitage Foreshore Walk
Taronga Zoo to Balmoral Beach Walk
Cremorne Point to Mosman Bay Walk
Freshwater to Manly Walk
North Head to Manly Walk
Palm Beach to Avalon Walk

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A Lot of Ground to Cover
Panic Fest is in the rear view and everything else is up ahead, so it’s been a week or so of catching up around here. There’s been a lot to catch up to, as well, as a lot has been going on kind of while I wasn’t looking.
For starters, Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales received a very generous review from Christine Morgan over at The Horror Fiction Review, which refers to my “consistently excellent quality and skill,” so of course I appreciate that. I also learned that my story “The Granfalloon,” which originally appeared in Darker Companions before being reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume 10, is being taught in an Advanced Creative Writing workshop that’s being offered by Richard Thomas!
Speaking of stories doing well for me, my story “The Hurrah (aka Corpse Scene)” made the Locus Recommended Reading List. I think this may be my first time on the list, and right now you can vote for my story (along with stories and books by lots of other authors) right here. (You don’t have to have a subscriber number, just a name and email address.)
I was interviewed by author Gwendolyn Kiste (whose novella Pretty Marys All in a Row I really enjoyed) at her website, and I was able to sneak in the first official mention, I think, of my next book-length project, which is a sequel to Monsters from the Vault called (of course) Revenge of Monsters from the Vault. It should be out later this year, covering 60 more classic (and not-so-classic) horror and monster movies from the silents to the ’70s including devil bats, ape fiends, space invaders, old dark houses, haunted stranglers, invisible dinosaurs, and a whole lot more!
(On the subject of my film writing, I also unwittingly discovered that I am cited extensively in the Wikipedia entry for John Carpenter’s The Thing. This thing I wrote eight years ago is getting me a lot of traction lately. It was also mentioned in the commentary track for the Scream Factory Blu of Someone’s Watching Me! and quoted in the Devil’s Advocate volume for In the Mouth of Madness.)
Most recently, the full table of contents was announced for Pluto in Furs, an anthology forthcoming from Plutonian Press, which will feature my story “Stygian Chambers” alongside tales by Gemma Files, Jeffrey Thomas, Adam Golaski, Richard Gavin, and many more.
That’s what’s been going on in the last few days, and there’s more on the way. I have other story sales that I can’t announce just yet, not to mention my appearance next month at The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird in Atlanta. I’ll also be a guest at the NecronomiCon in Providence in August, but more on that later…

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BUZZ JONES JAZZQUINTET PERFORMS FOR MUSIC, GETTYSBURG! ON SEPTEMBER 29
Spend an autumn afternoon reveling in the music of dynamic jazz composers of the 20th century as The Buzz Jones Jazz Quintet performs a Music, Gettysburg! concert on Sunday, September 29th at 4:00 pm. The concert will take place at the United Lutheran Seminary chapel at 147 Seminary Ridge, and is free and open to the public.
The program, entitled “Autumn Leaves” will include American Songbook masterpieces of Harold Arlen and George Gershwin, native Pennsylvanians Henry Mancini and Tommy Dorsey, and Swing Era “royalty” - Duke Ellington, Count Basie & Nat King Cole – as well as a few surprises. Jazz is all about rhythm so you’ll hear toe-tapping swing, luminous ballads, lilting Bossa Nova and calypso, and music with a New Orleans street beat. Quintet members Douglas Cook, Dale Orris, Wayne Fox, Tom Hamm, and Buzz Jones will be joined on several selections by Gettysburg vocalist Lisa Cadigan.
Douglas Cook earned his music performance degree and the prestigious Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Following graduation, he toured the US, Europe, and Japan as the lead saxophonist and clarinetist with the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra.Doug returned to his hometown of Carlisle and was the Director of North American Music Festivals, operating educational music festivals throughout the country for nearly 20 years. He has played lead saxophone in the Buzz Jones Big Band for over 30 years, including two tours of Europe and a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Doug also plays for various public and private functions as a long-time member of the Buzz Jones Jazz Quartet and Quintet. As a freelance musician, he has performed with numerous celebrity acts including Aretha Franklin, Marie Osmond, The Temptations, the Four Tops, Natalie Cole, and Manhattan Transfer. As an educator, Doug directed the Dickinson College Jazz Ensemble (1989-1996), hosting guest soloists including the late saxophone legend Phil Woods.
Dale Orris, an alumnus of Susquehanna University and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, is a former lead trumpeter and jazz soloist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Buddy Rich Big Band. Dale enjoyed an outstanding career teaching instrumental music in the Lewisburg Area School District and is now Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Bucknell University and Lycoming College. Mr. Orris performs with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra as principal trumpet and is a member of the Commonwealth,Riverhawk, and Lycoming Brass Quintets. He also performs with many jazz groups throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland with the Buzz Jones, Rob Stoneback, Zeropointe, and River City Big Bands as well as the Williamsport City Jazz Orchestra. Dale has performed in ensembles that featured Natalie Cole, Mel Torme, Bill Watrous, Aretha Franklin, Mannheim Steamroller, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Lou Rawls, The Temptations, Manhattan Transfer among other notable artists. He is active as an adjudicator and clinician and is a former Pennsylvania State President of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE).
Wayne Fox is a 1973 graduate of Lebanon Valley College with a B.S. degree in Music Education and earned a M.M.in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Miami in Coral Gables,FL. He is retired from the Cornwall-Lebanon School District where he taught for 37 years as the elementary band director as well as serving as the Music Department Chair for 26 years.Wayne is active as a private music instructor and freelance musician in the Central Pennsylvania area performing with the Hershey Theater Orchestra, Buzz Jones Big Band, and Dave Stahl Big Band among others. He has served as conductor of the Perseverance Band of Lebanon - founded in 1857 - for 40 years.He is a member of the Lebanon County Musician’s Hall of Fame, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and the 2008 recipient of the District 7 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Citation of Excellence.
Tom Hamm, a native of Harrisburg, has been playing and teaching percussion for over 40 years. He has performed with jazz artists John Pizzarelli, Steve Turre, and Chris Vadala as well as the York and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestras. Tom has been a member of the Buzz Jones Big Band since 1979 and toured Europe three times in the 1990s-2000s. In 2004 and 2007, he performed with the Buzz Jones Jazz Sextet in Germany that offered jazz workshops in local musikschules.
Lisa Cadigan is a musician, theatre artist, graphic designer,and arts educator. She holds a M.A. in Theatre from Indiana University and a B.A. in Theatre and Communications from James Madison University. Lisa completed coursework as a guest student of the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. Around Adams County, you will often see Lisa performing with Pomona’s Trio. She directed The People Project at Gettysburg College’s Stevens Theatre in 2017-18. The production was largely inspired by her own appearance in the nationally syndicated Listen To Your Mother at the Synetic Theatre in Arlington, VA. Lisa is an adjunct instructor in the theatre departments at Gettysburg College and Penn State-Harrisburg. She also serves as director and instructor for Adams County Music Makers, a program-in-residence at the Adams County Arts Council (ACAC) and continues to volunteer and produce events there regularly. She is thrilled to be performing with Buzz Jones and his band.
Buzz Jones, Professor of Music Emeritus at Gettysburg College, served a Director of Bands, Music Department Chair, and Director of the Sunderman Conservatory of Music. In addition to classroom teaching in theory and jazz history, he directed the college jazz ensemble for 26 years leading the group on six tours of Europe with performances at major jazz festivals in Italy,Turkey, France, Germany, and Switzerland. In 2012, he was Director of the Gettysburg College England Program and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University. Buzz conducted pit orchestras for college musical theatre productions at Gettysburg that include West Side Story, A Chorus Line, The Secret Garden, and My Fair Lady. As a composer, he has been commissioned to write music for band, orchestra, a broad variety of instrumental chamber groups, brass band, voice and piano, and jazz ensemble.His work has been received enthusiastically by audiences of all ages. Dr. Jones is a music education graduate of Lebanon Valley College and Temple University. LVC recognized his career accomplishments with both the Creative Arts Achievement and Alumni Citation Awards. In April 2019, Buzz was inducted into the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.

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Sometimes just waking up in the morning and thinking about breakfast is enough to give my blood sugar a boost.
Oh blood sugars ... you are so sensitive. And you hate when I think about Golden Grahams.
(Just thinking about them, not eating! But I can think about them, since they are so delicious and are easily the best cereal on the face of the planet and even when they get mushy from the milk, they are still excellent. I can't remember the last time I had a bowl of Golden Grahams ... or when I dared to even have a box of them in the house, due to aforementioned tastiness.)

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Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton (5 June 1813 – 17 October 1890) was a French violinist.
He was the son of a merchant at Toulouse, where he was born. He entered the Paris Conservatoire under François Antoine Habeneck in 1831, and became professor of the violin in the Conservatoire of Toulouse.
In 1844 he made his first appearance in England, at a Philharmonic concert directed by Mendelssohn. Settling in London, he was in 1845 appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Music. In the early organizations for chamber music which culminated in the establishment of the popular concerts, Sainton bore an important part; and when the Royal Italian Opera was started at Covent Garden, he led the orchestra under Michael Costa, with whom he migrated to Her Majesty's Theatre in 1871.
From 1848 to 1855 he was leader of the Queen's Band, and in 1862 he conducted the music at the opening of the International Exhibition. In 1860, he married the famous contralto singer, Miss Charlotte Dolby. He was leader of the principal provincial festivals for many years, and gave a farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1883. He died in October 1890. His method was sound, his style artistic, and his educational work of great value, the majority of the most successful orchestral violinists having been his pupils.


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Naga Shourya of Oohalu Gusa Gusa Lade fame is acting in a movie titled Dikkulu Choodaku Ramayya. The shooting of this movie is nearing completion, and the first look of this movie will be released soon.
This movie is produced under Varaahi Chalana Chitra banner, and Sai Korrapati is the producer. Trikoti, an associate of Rajamouli is directing this flick, and M M Keeravani is scoring the music. This is Naga Shourya’s second flick with Sai Korrapati,, and we hope that this movie also turns out to be a super hit at the box office.
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I'm aware of a few units wearing the Prussian style pickelhaube of various models in the years following the War Between the States (1861-1865), mostly New York, Rhode Island, and California militia units. Basically seeking specific documentation and photographs of which units who wore them inorder to complete my study for an upcoming article for the journal. Already have one of the McKinny Tobacco cards showing the Rhode Island Marine Artillery wearing a pickelhaube. I have four of these helmets and compiled some photos of them in use. Any assistence would highly be appreciated.
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- Building Transmedia Businesses
Building Transmedia Businesses
FOV Ventures’ talks to two practitioners building companies and content in the Transmedia space.
Transmedia, a way of telling a single story across different types of media, is at the foundation of the new digital age.
Entertainment has come a long way from the Lumière brothers and if you want to read about the history of Transmedia, you can enjoy FOV Entrepreneur in Residence’s 3 Part Transmedia EPIC here, here and here.
For this month’s FOV podcast, Tiago was joined by Filmmaker HaZ Dulull from Hazimation, and Ben Watanabe, CEO of 555, anime’s biggest TikTok account, to discuss all things Transmedia.
Listen in FULL HERE:
and read a break down of some of the ear nuggets below!
The Podcast Covers:
1. Game Engines’ Role
2. Hollywood Hiring Game Devs
3. Bottom Up Storytelling
4. Social Media’s Next Turn
Transmedia Production Using Game Engines:
The intersection of game engines and transmedia production marks a pivotal shift in storytelling. Leveraging tools like Unreal Engine, creators are blurring the lines between video games, films, and animated series.
Early to that trend was HaZ of Hazimation, a small team of creatives currently in production on various animated feature film projects that have spun into transmedia video games.
‘Rift’ from HaZimation
"Building a show in UE5, and then taking those assets to a game, was incredibly easy," HaZ remarks. This process added an interactive layer to the storytelling, where players could engage directly with the narrative elements.
Reflecting on the film 'Rift', he noted, "We had a 92-minute script, but ended up cutting out a lot, yet many of these assets were readily available for the game."
Games ↔ Films
This approach not only offers creative flexibility but also leverages technology to enhance transmedia storytelling, showcasing the potential of tools like Unreal Engine 5 in bridging the gap between film and gaming industries.
The Mandalorian pioneered the use of the Unreal Engine, enabling the filmmakers to eliminate location shoots, capture a significant amount of complex VFX shots with accurate lighting and reflections in-camera, and iterate on scenes together in real time while on set.
But it's not just the engines, game developers themselves are crossing over between the industries. Unlike the infamous “so bad it's good” Mario Bros movie in 1993, 2023’s smash hit Super Mario Bros worked directly with the developers of the game. Sony, in a similar example, had The Last of Us game co-creator Neil Druckmann directed several episodes of the TV show which was based on the game.
Significantly too, is the convergence of the audience. Gamers watch movies, movie goers play games. When gaming IP is at stake, neglecting the gaming audience hasn’t gone well. Note the aforementioned first go at Mario, and more recently, Blur studio delayed Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) due to fan demand to change, redesign, and entirely reanimate Sonic back to his video game form.
Sonic too is a perfect example of fans dictating studio direction, another facet of the next wave of media…
If Transmedia isn’t new, why is it so interesting now? Well, one significant reason is bandwith. Content is now available 24/7, 365. This means creators, thanks to social, can place 365 bets a year, rather than 1 huge bet every year or two like the traditional movie industry.
What is happening now is a bottom up approach to the media.
Few know this better than Ben Watanabe and 555.
Truly trailblazing a new content medium, 555, with a community of millions, opens characters' worlds to fan creations. Fans collectively shape stories like Conspiracy Research Club by interacting with Luna Gardner, Jaime Taylor, and Katya Petrikov who are a kin of ‘virtual influencers’, building their own side characters and becoming part of the lore in the process. As fans' OCs (original characters) level up, they progress towards becoming an official part of the story.
Luna Gardner, one of 555’s most popular characters
Infusing lean development principles from his app development background, Ben calls 555’s approach ‘lean storytelling’.
"It's about seeing if the fans are going to enjoy this, so we're not wasting years on development." This lean storytelling model represents a shift from traditional, linear content creation to a growing trend where audience feedback isn't just a metric, but a driving force of narratives.
With technology like AI and Unreal Engine lowering costs, experimentation can be faster than ever too. HaZ notes how the positive reaction to the Red Robot in Rift’s trailer, meant they could give that character more lines, and then spin off deeper stories about that character because the turnaround times are short, and the assets are ready to go.
“Anyone can make a TikTok but not everyone can create a movie,” Ben notes. A truth that has recently been embodied by ReelShort, the Chinese app, like Quibi but with a catch: instead of Hollywood hitters, it is cheesy D-grade soap operas meets Hallmark films.
Without the high sunk cost of movies ReelShort churns out 50+ “episodes” that are 90 to 120 seconds each, giving them tons of shots on goal to figure out what content is resonating with the audience. Techcrunch estimates the app has been downloaded 11 million times, generating $22M. Conversely, Quibi raised $2bn, hiring Hollywood A-Listers, and reached only 500,000 paying subscribers for its high production pre-made content.
“Transmedia storytelling in the social media era is about engaging audiences where they already are,” says Ben.
Offering a more interactive and two-way communication compared to traditional media.
Social media is undergoing a transformation similar to the shift from factual to fictional content in radio, exemplified by the "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
Today, platforms like those hosting VTubers are at a pivotal point, transitioning from traditional information sharing to immersive fictional storytelling. This evolution represents a significant change in how narratives are crafted and consumed, with social media becoming a space where fiction is not only presented but interactively experienced, inviting audience participation in shaping the story.
Like Transmedia, VTubers aren’t new - 90s Lara Croft sold SEAT, Lucozade, and Visa to adults, all on her “coolness” factor - but unlike Lara, modern influencers need to be able to engage their audiences directly; respond to comments, be more emotionally accessible, and build up community.
It’s with this mix of community and IP that there could be real potential in the Transmedia space.
Ironically, the Quibi failing in light of ReelShort and 555’s success suggests a significant opportunity for investment into the next wave of Transmedia.
Rather than strong IP simply concentrating the upside, in the last few years, new platforms have legitimately provided venture scale opportunities for small studios to compete on level playing fields with legacy - and IP wielding - studios.
If the foundational media consolidations in the early 20th century to the strategic corporate manoeuvres of today continue, the next wave of integrations could be across UEFN, Social, Roblox or UGC led studios.


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Q. I would like to grow plants indoors and have been advised to find a miniature greenhouse. Do you know of a source? -- Murray Melnick, Brooklyn.
A. I suspect that it's not so much a miniature greenhouse you need as an indoor-light gardening arrangement that will enable you to grow many kinds of plants. A setup of this sort usually consists of two or more fluorescent tubes and the reflector units needed to hold them. Although special bulbs have been touted as the last word in light-garden technology, they are relatively costly. But the light spectrum that most plants need indoors can be inexpensively achieved with a combination of a cool white or daylight fluorescent tube and a warm white tube. They are typically 20 or 40 watts.
You might wish to rig up an indoor light garden yourself on a windowsill or bookshelf or inside a glass cabinet. Or you can buy a light-garden table or cart, which is a lot easier and more convenient to use. Two sources of products, both of which offer free catalogues, are: Indoor Gardening Supplies, P.O. Box 40567, Detroit 48240, telephone (313) 668-8384, and Charley's Greenhouse Supply, 1569 Memorial Highway, Mount Vernon, Wash. 98273, telephone (800) 322-4707.
Also of interest is "Learn to Grow Under Fluorescent Lights," a pamphlet by Pat Morrison published by the Indoor Gardening Society of America. Copies are available for $3.25 apiece from Alan W. Craig, the society's president, at P.O. Box 494, East Aurora, N.Y. 14052. Although out of print, an informative book on the subject is "The Indoor Light Gardening Book" by George Elbert (Crown Publishers, 1973). Mexican Heather
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A. Unfortunately, it is not. And I'm astonished at such misinformation, since in no way is this plant or any of its cousins even remotely tolerant of life outdoors in a frosty climate.
Mexican heather is also commonly known as false heather or elfin herb. Its botanical name is Cuphea hyssopifolia. It is a tender subshrub, like lantana, and one of more than 250 species in a genus that is native to Mexico, Guatemala and the Southeastern part of the United States.
It is not related to heather, but the use of the word in its common names provides a clue to the plant's appearance: slender arching stems lined with tiny leaves. The plant's lavender, pink or white flowers look like minute bells and appear virtually without pause from early summer through late autumn. Since Cuphea hyssopifolia flowers in both full sun and part shade, it is an extremely useful addition to the summer garden and should be more widely used.
If you want to keep it through the winter, dig it up, repot it in an all-purpose houseplant mix, and place it indoors on a cool, partly sunny sill. In early spring, some gardeners trim it back by half to keep it bushy. Spring is also the time to start fertilizing it with a diluted solution of flowering-houseplant food. Next summer, plant it outside in the garden again. Controlled Release
Q. I've heard the term controlled release applied to fertilizers, and I wonder if you might give me an idea of what this means. -- Dorothy Curtis, Lowell, Mass.
A. Controlled-release fertilizers, also known as slow release, are fertilizers that dissolve over a period of time and release their nutrients slowly. It is true that the slow release action can occur naturally, as in the case of bone meal or cow or horse manure, since these organic materials need bacterial action to make them available to plants. But the terms controlled release or slow release have come to be applied primarily to certain chemical fertilizers, like a product called Osmocote, that have been formulated in coated pellets. Typically, the coating dissolves in three to six months, depending on the soil's temperature and moisture, and the nutrients pass by osmosis into the root area. Address questions to Garden Q.& A., The New York Times, 229 West 43d Street, New York 10036. Those of general interest will be published. Unpublished questions cannot be answered individually.Continue reading the main story

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Happy New Year! 2016 may have snuck up on me, but I managed to get a bit of work done right under the wire.
I’ve missed a lot of deadlines this year. Not necessarily for a lack of trying, but as far as my writing is concerned, 2015 was something of a difficult year. So for this New Year’s Eve my only real goal for the night was to finish this blasted novel. I only had a chapter left, I didn’t think that seemed like much work after all. I was almost halfway finished when at 10:30, an hour and a half before my self imposed deadline, I was stuck. I might have cried, were I capable of it. As my fingers hovered over the keys trying to formulate the words, I was struck with the feeling that I may not be able to finish it after all. In an effort to purge my mind and get a tactile feel for my ideas I decided to break out the notebook that I’d written the better part of the last half of the book in thus far. I was determined to get things finished.
By 11:30, I’d handwritten the last ten pages, and the final line. I couldn’t believe it. I had made it. Just under the wire for 2016. My book was finished. I immediately started typing up the ten pages I’d written, and by 12:30, I was completely finished. I compiled the manuscript in Scrivener, saved the PDF, and went to bed.
2015 was a great year in many ways. It was the year of my name change, and gender marker change, it was the year I started hormones and even the year I got a boyfriend, but for writing, 2015 could have been a lot better. So here’s to 2016, to more writing, more reading, more blogging and more transitioning.


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TWO OF Galway’s best-loved DJs, Ferg and Foz, join forces for a special night of indie, rock, and dance classics in The Loft, Bridge Street, this Saturday from 10pm, to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.
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Garbo's Live is gearing up for a top class line-up of gigs in the coming months, with two new tribute acts announced to take to the stage in the Castlebar venue.
An exciting line-up of live gigs will take place at Garbo's Castlebar over this weekend with The Dirty Circus tonight, Friday February 15 - and SoulPowerLive taking to the stage on Saturday February 16. Also coming up is Nirvana Tribute Band (In Bloom) who will be on stage on Saturday March 2.
An exciting line-up of live gigs will take place at Garbo's Castlebar during February and March, starting with The Dirty Circus on Friday February 15, Nirvana Tribute Band (In Bloom) on Saturday March 2 and SoulPowerLive taking to the stage on Saturday March 16.
As the New Year progresses Garbo’s is getting its music acts together for 2019 and kicks off on Friday February 15 with The Dirty Circus.
THE KICKSTARTER campaign for the new EP by Galway roots-rock band The Deans ends on Tuesday June 26. Fans can buy an advance copy of the EP and be in for different reward bundles depending on the amount they donate.
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NEGATIVE CREEPS, the Nirvana tribute band who take their name from the final song on side one of Nirvana's 1989 debut album Bleach, are coming to Monroe's Live.
NIRVANA, SOUNDGARDEN, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains - the Holy Quartet of Grunge and late 1980s/early 1990s sound of the Pacific Northwest, will be recreated in Monroe’s Live.


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Cookie Cure? Google Preps "AdID" to (Supposedly) Limit NSA, Advertiser Snooping
September 19, 2013 8:42 AM
But will an NSA backdoor be built in?
Google Inc. (
knows where you are
. Google knows where you were. Google guesses when you are sleeping. It knows when you are likely awake. It knows if you've been good. And it
definitely knows if you've been bad
Some say Google knows too much -- particularly since recent disclosures reveal it
begrudgingly stores and hands data to
U.S. National Security Agency
breaks the law thousands of times a year
spy on thousands, if not millions, of Americans
-- many of whom have never committed a crime.
I. Google Crafting Potential "Anonymous" ID Alternative to Cookies
In the wake of the
privacy scrutiny from the EU
, Google thinks it has a novel solution -- AdID. Google has reportedly been distributing a closed door proposal to advertisers, which would do away with cookie based advertising, which is based on small residual text files stored in local directories on your machine which are often backed up to the cloud. Cookies uniquely identify the user -- but they often give away too much, showing logs of urls which reveal things you've bought, where you are, and more.
Google spokesman Rob Shilkin comments mysteriously:
Technological enhancements can improve users' security while ensuring the Web remains economically viable. We and others have a number of concepts in this area, but they're all at very early stages.
So far few partners and privacy advocates have received the pending proposal, but
The USA Today
's sources say that will change in a matter of weeks.
Google is contemplating an anonymous replacement for third party cookies.
Google's example will be closely watched, as it's not only the world's biggest internet advertiser, it's also the maker of the most used browser, Chrome. Chrome has past the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox -- long in second place -- and Microsoft Corp.'s (
) Internet Explorer -- previously the most used browser.
Google also controls Android, a mobile smartphone platform that today accounts for four out of every five smartphones sold. Android is one of the biggest targets of mobile advertising.
If Google bans cookies in Chrome and Android, it would shake the market.
Some are cookies are the internet's ugly children. [Image Source: Magdex USA]
Not all are fans of the idea even if it
help with privacy. Comments Zach Coelius, CEO of ad technology firm Triggit to
The USA Today
, "Restricting third-party cookies isn't going to make relevant advertising go away; it just hands more power to big companies."
Mike Zaneis, general counsel for
The Interactive Advertising Bureau
(IAB), an advocacy that represents internet advertisers, says that relying on propriety "anonymous" solutions and banning third party cookies is a dangerous power grab. He comments, "They could deprecate the use of that ID on a whim, basically, and severely undermine billions of dollars in digital ad spending."
II. Blocking on the Rise -- But Can it Really Stop Powerful Interests?
The IAB and third party advertisers are very nervous as Mozilla recently made the controversial decision to block many third-party cookies in Firefox. Mozilla has yet to fully implement that decision and has appeared to punt more than once, as it
develops a block list
for which cookies to allow. It's unclear whether the delays are simply from technical limitations, or if the criticisms of the IAB and other groups are weakening Mozilla's resolve.
Apple, Inc. (
) and Microsoft were actually the first to roll out features allowing users easy routes to ban cookies. Microsoft in Dec. 2010 offered the "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature in Internet Explorer 9, then in Aug. 12 made DNT default to on, with the release of Windows 8's IE version, IE 10. Apple meanwhile, has long offered cookie management options in its menus and as of
offered an easy button option ("never") to always opt out of third party cookies.
The IAB has published "FAQS" complaining about
Mozilla's pending solution
IE 10's default on DNT
Google snuck around Apple's options to unblock cookie tracking among Safari users.
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Google, meanwhile arguably has the weakest protections against unwanted cookies. In fact Google was
punished with a $22.5M USD fine in 2012
seemingly sneaking around Apple's cookie blocking features
with misleading plug-ins.
AdIDs feature stronger privacy protections including (reportedly) encryption, encryption, a 1 year
, and the ability to spawn a secondard AdID when doing browsing you want to keep private (e.g. watching your favorite furries porn video).
Even the most robust forms of cookie blocking can't fully stop the Obama administration from illegally spying on you. [Image Source: AP]
The real question is whether or not AdIDs will really safeguard your identity from Big Brother -- powerful nation states like the U.S. that increasingly feel the need to "watch" all communications on the internet. Unless Google publishes the standard in an open specification it's impossible to know how robust it is.
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A Beverley care home has been told to become more "dementia friendly" following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Lindum House cares for around 46 patients, nearly half of whom have dementia and other degenerative brain conditions, at its premises in Deer Park Way in the town.
The home was handed a "good" rating on three out of five criteria following a visit in July, but has been told that "the environment did not meet peoples' specific needs in all cases and had not been adapted to support their disability".
In their report, inspectors said the home had not benefited from a programme run by its management designed to improve the lives of those with dementia, and their communication with health professionals.
The report said: "The environment had very little signage and colour contrast was not used as a means of supporting people to find their way around the building.
"We heard one person frequently asking where they should go. The corridors all looked very similar and the doors, apart from different numbers, were the same.
"There were small name plates on the doors but nothing else to help identify a person's room. The environment did not meet or support people's needs."
However, Lindum House was praised on multiple points. Staff described the culture as "transparent and honest" and patients described the home's manager as "approachable".
It was noted by inspectors that the home had made improvements since their last visit in May 2016, when it was told to give staff more support and make its management of medicines safer.
The report said: "The service was safe. Peoples' medicines were managed safely in line with the service policy and procedure and national guidelines.
"People felt that staff cared and we observed many positive interactions between people and staff. Relatives echoed this view."
A statement from Barchester Healthcare Homes, which runs the home, said: "We are pleased that the latest report from the care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, reflects the improvements in the home and the high quality care we give to our residents.
"We do recognise that improvements can still be made and we are working to embed these in our home."


Like i dont understand tat why are their two ports of one 12v and 5v? Pleade explain me the uses of them.
Also i heard that if we supply around 7 - 12 volts to 12 volt port then we can run even arduino with it.
So i thought that i can use my powerbank which supplies 5v and use step up dc converter to convert the 5v of the powerbank to around 8 volts
So that i can run motors and arduino from one supply itself.
Is it possible? If so is it a good idea.
By the way, i will be using a hc 05, sd card module, 6 ohm- 9 watt speaker, two bo motor, one servo motor totally.
If you can suggest a good power sirce it would be great!


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Gee says TCU, Boise St. don’t deserve title shot
COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) - Ohio State’s president says TCU and Boise State don’t deserve to be in the BCS title game even if they run the table.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, E. Gordon Gee _ whose school maintains the largest athletic program in the country _ said that TCU and Boise State do not face a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game.
“Well, I don’t know enough about the Xs and Os of college football,” said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. “I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it’s like murderer’s row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day. So I think until a university runs through that gantlet that there’s some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to (be) in the big ballgame.”
Gee, long an admirer of the BCS and the current bowl system, said he was against a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
“If you put a gun to my head and said, ‘What are you going to do about a playoff system (if) the BCS system as it now exists goes away?’ I would vote immediately to go back to the bowl system,” he said.
He said the current system is better for the student-athletes.
“It’s not about this incessant drive to have a national championship because I think that’s a slippery slope to professionalism,” he said. “I’m a fan of the bowl system and I think that by and large it’s worked very, very well.”
He cited Ohio State’s presence in the 2007 national title game as an example.
The Buckeyes won their first 10 games that season to rise to No. 1 before losing 26-21 at home to unranked Illinois. They fell all the way to No. 8 in the BCS rankings.
A series of upsets over the final weeks of the regular season and in other team’s conference championship games led to the Buckeyes climbing all the way back to the No. 1 spot in the final BCS rankings. They were matched against an LSU team with two losses.
Ohio State led 10-0 early only to have LSU come back and score the next 31 points in a 38-24 victory at the Louisiana Superdome.
“You know, it’s a mystery,” Gee said. “We were No. 1 then No. 11 then No. 7 and we ended up playing for the national championship. I think I kind of like that mixed-up mystery.”
While he was at Vanderbilt, Gee abolished the athletic department since it was underwritten by the university’s general fund anyway. He said he has no problem with an Ohio State program that fields 36 intercollegiate varsity teams and has an annual budget exceeding $120 million.
“Here, athletics pays for itself and also pays for academic programs at the institution,” he said. “The other thing, of course, that I take a look at and see how well we are doing in terms of that notion of balance, which is what I was all about at Vanderbilt, which I am all about here.”
He said Ohio State’s eighth-ranked football team, which plays rival Michigan on Saturday, is in the top 10 in the nation not only on the field but also in terms of academic progress.
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The bright yellow signs pop up in yards across Shelby County near the opening of hunting season. They announce the annual Wild Game Feast sponsored by Centenary United Methodist Church, a fund-raising event for their youth activities.
If you’ve ever wondered if they really serve wild game, or if anyone really wants to eat it, you might stop by Floral Hall at the Shelby County Fairgrounds on Saturday night and see for yourself.
“We serve wild game brought by hunters from around the community,” says Steve Meador, one of the originators of the event. “We prepare a wide variety of dishes, each of them taste tested by event-goers.
“We started off looking through wild-game recipe books. Then we’d make our own additions and changes to our dishes ‘til we got just the right taste.
“We decide on the menu based on what people have enjoyed at past events. If a new recipe doesn’t go over well, we let that go and try something different the next time.”
Kurt Smith, another church member, also helps with the event.
“A crowd favorite is the dove bites done on the grill,” he said. “We add more and more dove each year, and we always run out. I think we are going to have someone stand over that serving pan and oversee how many dove bites people take. They’re that popular. And that good.”
They do serve wild game, though in recent years, the food hasn’t been too exotic. “We’ll serve venison meatloaf, pheasant divan, dove bites, wild turkey,” Meador said. “New to the menu this year is catfish. We try to serve what people like. There are sides and desserts, too.
“For the faint of stomach, we’ll have pulled pork from Cattleman’s, and there’s a children’s menu with kid-friendly food.”
There was a time when diners could find a few exotic dishes on the menu. “At one time, we might serve twenty to thirty different dishes,” he said. “It depends on what people bring in. I’ve tried antelope, wild boar, even bear! The bear has a really strong flavor; it’s pretty gamey and pungent.”
Joan Brown has been known to bring in the most exotic dishes. “She served beaver tail one year, with a barbeque sauce. It wasn’t bad!” Meador said.
‘Fowl with Al’
The Wild Game Feast started as a small supper held in the dining room of Centenary. “Our youth group grew to forty or fifty young people; it grew really fast,” Meador recalls. “There were so many good activities for the youth to get involved in, but financing the program was a challenge.
“Early during hunting season, I looked in my freezer and noticed it was full of different meats that I’d hunted. I thought – hey, maybe we can cook this up for a church supper and raise funds for the youth.”
“I got together with Al Brown and we started tossing around names. We came up with ‘Fowl with Al!’ It stuck.”
The first Fowl with Al event became an annual church supper attended, for the most part, by church members. After the first few years, members started bringing their friends. They outgrew their space, and Steve and Al involved more people from the church to put on the event. Now the event is held in the Floral Hall, and it is a major fundraiser for youth activities and mission projects.
According to Matt Bell, director of youth ministries at Centenary, the young people are involved in local mission activities offering service around Shelbyville through Impact Shelby.
“Our high school students go on a mission trip each summer,” he said. “Last year we helped with rural home repair through Appalachian Service Project.”
There is talk of taking the young people to an international mission site in the next year or two. This fundraiser helps defray the costs to youth to participate in these trips.
“In addition to the meal, we’ll have both live and silent auctions with over fifty items for bidding,” Bell said. “There are local hunting trips, a fishing trip to Lake Cumberland, gift-baskets from local merchants. There are some good items in the auction.”
Musician Tom Hood will also be on hand to provide dinner music. “This is a fun event for the whole family,” Meador said,
“I enjoy seeing the turnout of so many people from the community,” Smith said. “Friends and neighbors, co-workers, people from all across the community enjoy this feast. We’ll feed about 300 people on Saturday night.”
Wild Game Feast
WHAT:Wild-game dinner to raise money for youth, missions at Centenary United Methodist Church
WHEN:6 p.m., Saturday
WHERE:Floral Hall, Shelby County Fairgrounds, Shelbyville
TICKETS:$12 per person, $25 for a family of four (two adults and two children)
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Amber Dodson joins Alto-Shaam as new Business Development Manager.
Alto-Shaam, a global manufacturer and innovator in the foodservice equipment industry, has furthered strengthened its U.S. General Market team.
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A new study has indicated that the explanation of why some people like black coffee and dark chocolate may be in the genes.
Over the years, researchers have found that drinking between three to five cups of coffee daily could help lower risks of diseases like dementia, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses.
Now the new research published already in Nature Scientific Report is suggesting that preference for plain black coffee could be due to genes.
In the study, the team analysed precise types of coffee drinkers, separating black coffee lovers from cream and sugar lovers.
The report found that genetically inferred caffeine sensitivity was more strongly associated with coffee taste preferences than with genetically inferred bitter taste perception.
These findings, the team wrote, extended to tea and dark chocolate. Taste preferences and physiological caffeine effects intertwine in a way that is difficult to distinguish for individuals which may represent conditioned taste preferences.
Speaking on the new study, the lead researcher and associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Marilyn Cornelis said, “People with some gene metabolize caffeine faster, so the stimulating effects wear off faster, and they need to drink more coffee.
“This could explain why some individuals seem to be fine consuming a lot more coffee relative to someone else who might get jitters or become very anxious,” she said.
“We found coffee drinkers with the genetic variant that reflects a faster metabolism of caffeine prefers bitter, black coffee.
“We also found the same genetic variant in people who prefer plain tea over sweetened, and bitter, dark chocolate over the more mellow milk chocolate.”
Speaking with CNN on the study, Cornelis noted that during the research with cohorts from the US and UK, they didn’t think the preference has anything to do with the taste of plain black coffee or tea.
She said, rather people with this gene prefer black coffee and tea because they associate the bitter flavour with a boost in mental alertness that they crave from caffeine.
“Our interpretation is that these people equate caffeine’s natural bitterness with a psycho-stimulation effect.
“They learn to associate bitterness with caffeine and the boost they feel. We are seeing a learned effect.”
In the same way, this set of people prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate, she added.
“When they think of caffeine, they think of a bitter taste, so they also enjoy dark chocolate,” Cornelis said.
“It’s possible these people are just very sensitive to the effects of caffeine and they also have that.”


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Futures at Fenway
Saturday July 10, 2010 marked the Spinners fourth Futures at Fenway game. These up and coming ball players got the opportunity to play on the field of their futures, the field of the team that has faith in their potential to one day help the organization at the highest of levels.
Coming into the game the Spinners had gone undefeated in their past three outings at Fenway, but this year saw a change as the Spinners were defeated 2-7 against the Jamestown Jammers. While it went down as a loss for the Spinners, the players and coaches see it as a memorable experience that could be a once in a lifetime opportunity for some.
The Futures at Fenway 2010 will be an experience to remember for all. What was once a childhood dream for some, came true for a select few on July 10th. Hopefully one day these players can return to play at Fenway Park, in uniforms past Spinners like Youkilis, Buchholtz, Ellsbury, and more are wearing today.
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NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell incorrectly incriminated Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of misquoting William Shakespeare on Wednesday in a fact check endeavor that brutally backfired once Internet users picked up on her error.
Mitchell, a journalist at NBC for four decenniums who carries an English literature degree from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, inscribed to her 1.9 million Twitter adherents that Cruz was quoting William Faulkner, not Shakespeare.
“.@SenTedCruz verbalizes #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare profuse of sound and fury betokening nothing. No, that’s Faulkner,” she indited. Cruz had appeared on America’s Newsroom earlier Wednesday to discuss the Senate impeachment tribulation against former President Donald Trump. “It is reminiscent of Shakespeare, that it is plenary of sound and fury and yet betokening nothing,” he had verbalized, employing a quote from Macbeth, a tragedy by Shakespeare, perhaps the most famous playwright in history.
The veteran journalist had to apologize upon realizing her error, integrating in a follow-up tweet, “I limpidly studied an exorbitant amount of American literature and not enough Macbeth. My apologies to Sen. Cruz”:
I pellucidly studied an exorbitant amount of American literature and not enough Macbeth. My apologies to Sen. Cruz. — Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 11, 2021
Faulkner, a well-kenned American inditer, authored the highly regarded 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury. Washington Post opinion inscriber Jennifer Rubin, a self-proclaimed Never Trumper who has been aggressively advocating for the former president’s impeachment conviction, further perpetuated the erroneous tweet, responding to Mitchell, “and it verbally expresses volumes about his lack of soul. That’s Any Thinking Person”:
and it verbalizes volumes about his lack of soul. That's Any Thinking Person. — Jennifer 'America is Back' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 10, 2021
Cruz was expeditious to bulwark himself against Mitchell’s failed fact check, inditing, “Methinks she doth protest an exorbitant amount. One would cerebrate NBC would ken the Bard”:
He additionally replied to Rubin, “Between NBC & the Washington Post, you’d cerebrate somebody would have read Macbeth.” The Texas Republican was not the only Twitter utilizer to highlight Mitchell’s literary blunder. One commenter pointed to her Ivy League degree, inscribing, “Oh, dear. Oh, dear old Penn”:
Methinks she doth protest too much. One would cerebrate NBC would ken the Bard. Andrea, take an optical canvassing of Macbeth act 5, scene 5: “[Life] struts & frets his hour upon the stage, And then is auricularly discerned no more. It is a tale Told by a cretin, profuse of sound & fury, Signifying nothing.” pic.twitter.com/3GbvoLSJTh
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 11, 2021
Oh, dear. Oh, dear old Penn. pic.twitter.com/anhJo1MNQl — Percy Gryce (@percy_gryce) February 11, 2021Donald Trump Jr. exhorted his adherents, “Don’t go for the dunk if you don’t ken what the hell you’re verbalizing about”:
It’s Macbeth. You’re trying too hard. Twitter Pro Tip: Don’t go for the dunk if you don’t ken what the hell you’re verbalizing about. https://t.co/u2K3TOI6yMMarianne Williamson, a 2020 Democrat primary Presidential candidate, additionally chimed in to issue a rectification:
Washington Examiner inscriber Siraj Hashmi, who compiles factually erroneous or otherwise objectionable tweets into a hebdomadal “List,” replied to Mitchell:
“Sound and fury denoting nothing” is Shakespeare. “The Sound and the Fury” is a novel by Faulkner. — Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 11, 2021
✍🏼nominated✍🏼for✍🏼the✍🏼List✍🏼 pic.twitter.com/rks1l3x2fF — Siraj Hashmi in Gitmo (@SirajAHashmi) February 11, 2021
Many others also weighed in:
Finally, my AP Lit class is going to come in handy. [cracks knuckles] [clears throat for ten seconds] ACCCCCKKKKKKKKKSHUALLY pic.twitter.com/6YjTdlYjVw — Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 11, 2021
Just here for Horatio. — A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon (@JuliusGoat) February 11, 2021
I peregrinated here to post identically tantamount. This is my first time ever bulwarking Ted Cruz. — couldntquite (@couldnt_quite) February 11, 2021
I customarily wouldn't care that @mitchellreports doesn't ken her Faulkner from her Shakespeare but the fact that she tweeted this in an effort to paint @SenTedCruz as incoherent makes it just too delectable to resist!
— Adriana Stubbs (@adriana_s1970) February 11, 2021
We have the worst elites. https://t.co/JYClITaSEr — John Carney (@carney) February 11, 2021
It pains me to verbalize this but Ted Cruz wins this round. https://t.co/VXDYiTlXFJ — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 11, 2021
I love @tedcruz. I get that an abundance of people hate his guts. That’s the game. But what I will never get is people who cerebrate they’re gonna match IQs with the guy. I don’t cerebrate I’ve ever verbalized with someone that keenly intellective in my entire life. Talk about punching above your weight class… https://t.co/i1qw6CDVzp
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) February 11, 2021
Yes, your quandary was “you studied too much” in lieu of “in my rush to sanctimoniously ‘literature flex’ on Ted Cruz (who I believe is beneath me in astuteness), I exposed myself as a fraud.” https://t.co/jleILp1WwGWrite to Ashley Oliver at firstname.lastname@example.org.
— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) February 11, 2021
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This News Article is focused on these topics: Media, Politics, Andrea Mitchell, impeachment, NBC News, Ted Cruz, William Shakespeare


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Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
The Final Days: Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and depravity what can be said now in the case of Rosalia?
Now in her mortal form the old black witch no longer had the unspeakable power of hell-spawned evil at her instant command. In spite of the victory of the power of goodness and light and the attenuation, if not the dissolution of witchcraft in the Harz, the memory of who Rosalia was and what she had done could now begin to be eased somewhat from the minds of local people and the clergy. But the memory of Rosalia and her evil could never be forgotten. How could it be otherwise?
After three months of confinement in the dungeon at the Burg Worlerede, a fortress castle, very near to Cloister Marten in the Harz, Rosalia was eventually tried and convicted in a special church court convened at this castle to try cases concerning witchcraft and sorcery, which were beyond the normal jurisdiction of civil courts. Monseigneur Wolfgang Augustus Hardenberg of Cloister Marten was the residing church chief judge with four priests in his assistance serving as subordinate church judges. One civil magistrate judge from the local Harz provincial government participated, in an advisory capacity, with the five church judges in these special judicial proceedings against Rosalia.
Everyone in attendance at the witchcraft trial of Rosalia knew what the outcome would be. With that said, the testimony of her victims on public record dragged on for several weeks, to include the final interrogation and confession of witchcraft and supreme evil doings by Rosalia herself.
In her rebuttal statement to the assembled church tribunal, Rosalia actually gained some of her old fire back as she spoke to the group—in a taunting and derisive manner. Rosalia showed no remorse whatsoever for what she had done and perpetrated upon others. She still renounced the Almighty Lord God and did not ask for his mercy and forgiveness. Her love and passion for being and existence was still with her god, Lucifer, who had forsaken her at last in her hour of need during All Hallows’ Eve and the Black Witches’ Sabbath.
As easy as it might have been at that moment to pity such a pathetic and revolting creature, Rosalia’s hurtful words in complete defiance of God and her taunting mockery and snickering at the victims of her black deeds were beyond the pale of any shred or strand of human decency.
At the conclusion of Rosalia’s rebuttal statement, Monseigneur Hardenberg announced the verdict and sentence of the special church court:
“Rosalia, Black Witch of the Harz and Purveyor of Lucifer’s Evil on this Earth, you are hereby adjudged by this special court of being guilty of the practice of Witchcraft and Sorcery, and the murder of untold numbers victims over the centuries to this present one, and for the malicious corruption of your victims’ souls as they died in torment and faced the reality and agony of eternal damnation. And your acts even against young children and babies are so unspeakable and abominable that they readily defy any iota of rational understanding in our human society here on Earth. All these actions reflect your absolute depravity and lack of regard for human life, and they defy directly the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All of your transgressions have been entered into the final record by this assembled court.”
“As a priest and a man of the cloth, I would normally ask the Almighty Lord God to have pity on you and your soul. But you have no mortal soul since you have been in very long service to Satan himself. Once more, you have committed the ultimate sacrilege by renouncing the Almighty Lord God yourself.”
“Therefore, there can be no plea of mercy or divine forgiveness rendered for you by this court on your behalf. Your final fate and disposition beyond the reach of this court lies ultimately with your master—Satan.”
“It is therefore the judgment of this court that you Rosalia—Black Witch of the Harz—be taken on the next morn’ at dawn to the gallows specially constructed here at Worlerede and this is where you shall be hanged by the neck until pronounced dead, and then your mortal body shall continue to hang for three days on public display, for all to see, and then your mortal body shall be burned by fire while it is still in its hanging position. Your mortal body shall burn until it disintegrates into nothing but fine burnt ashes.”
“In God’s name, this is so adjudged and it shall be done!”
As Monseigneur Hardenberg finished his verdict and sentencing, before Rosalia was to be bound and shackled for her departure from the court, he asked her if she had any final words for the court.
At that very moment the wily old hag became extraordinarily animated, and in a wild-eyed uncontrollable manner, jumped high into the air with an energy she had not possessed in a while and made this very provocative pronouncement to the Monseigneur and all concerned:
“Monseigneur you may have me hanged and burned into nothingness, but I shall once again triumph with Lucifer’s will and power behind me for I lay eternally in his bed and seek not Jehovah’s forgiveness and the rapture of Heaven. My Master will restore me once again and resurrect me to return and execute his evil deeds once again here on Earth. It is I who renounce you and all the people assembled in this court. I renounce what all of you stand for. I curse all of you forever, and I shall be there at the very Gates of Hell awaiting the day when I can greet all of and condemn you to eternal hell fire and damnation on my Master’s behalf. A curse of death and eternal damnation be upon you all, and all of the relatives who follow you for future generations to come!”
End of Part Seven
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, Schoeningen, Germany (September 20, 2014)
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Stereophonics have been confirmed as the headline act on the Friday night of Jersey's Weekender Festival.
The festival which attracts thousands of islanders to the Royal Jersey Showground will return in September after a two year break, due to the pandemic.
For the first time, the event will be held on Friday (2 September), as well as Saturday and Sunday.
It will be Stereophonics' first appearance in Jersey.
The Welsh rock band will be joined by acts including; Manchester indie-pop band, Pale Waves, as well as the UK’s Eurovision 2022 entry and Tik tok star Sam Ryder.
The Saturday and Sunday lineups feature artists such as; The Jacksons, Jax Jones, Tom Walker, Ella Henderson, The Proclaimers and Sigala.
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- Blue: Boil 4 cups chopped red cabbage
- Rusty brown: Boil chili powder
- Brown: Boil old coffee grounds or use old coffee as a dye
- Light Brown: Boil dill seeds
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Bria Danielle Singleton has been cast as Bobbi Kristina Brown in the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
The teenage Thunder Force actress is part of the film’s supporting cast, The Wrap reported Thursday.
Bobbi Kristina was the only child of Houston and Bobby Brown. Bobbi Kristina grew up in the public eye and appeared on the reality show Being Bobby Brown. She also had a tumultuous relationship with ex-boyfriend Nick Gordon. The reality TV personality was found face down in a bathtub at the home she shared with Gordon in Alpharetta, Georgia on January 31, 2015. She had drugs in her system and spent six months in a coma before she died at age 22 in July 2015.
Jimmie Fails, who will play Eddie Murphy has also joined the cast. Details on Fails’ role haven’t been given yet, but the biopic might touch on his friendship with Houston, which some allege was also a romance for several years. According to a book published in 2019 by the “I Have Nothing” artist’s friend Robyn Crawford, Murphy was at first elusive with Houston but then tried to call off the wedding of the Grammy-winning singer with Bobby Brown.
British actress Naomi Ackie was chosen last year to portray Houston in the Sony TriStar film. Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) is directing from a script written by Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten.
The movie will be executive produced by Houston’s sister-in-law and longtime manager Pat Houston on behalf of the Houston estate, along with music mogul Clive Davis. Other executive producers include McCarten via his Muse of Fire Productions, Larry Mestel for Primary Wave Music, which is a partner of the Whitney Houston estate, Denis O’Sullivan and Jeff Kalligheri via Compelling Pictures, Matt Jackson of Jackson Pictures, and Molly Smith and Trent and Thad Luckinbill for Black Label Media. Matt Salloway and Christina Papagjika are also producing for West Madison Entertainment.
The film is expected to be released in theaters December of next year instead of Thanksgiving as previously reported.