The Importance of The Homestead RifleThere are many reasons that every homestead needs a rifle. We have written about how we carry handguns on a daily basis out here and if you have seen our videos, you can see our holstered firearms. Everyone on the homestead has easy access to a firearm if an emergency should arise and we go over some of those possible scenarios in our article, “3 Reasons Why We Carry On The Homestead”
There is an old saying,
“A handgun is only for shooting your way to your rifle that you should’ve had with you in the first place.”
On the frontier, the homestead rifle was as necessary a tool as a plow, horse, hammer or wood stove. It was a basic tool that every homestead on the frontier needed. Today, we can see the frontier flintlock has given way to the modern AR-15 or AK-47 type semi-auto rifle. Jaimie, Tim and I each have our own rifle of choice and the knowledge to effectively and safely operate it.
There are two primary reasons we have these personal weapons systems.
- Food gathering
- Homestead defense
This can be pretty obvious. Our state is split up by hunting zones and as of right now, our hunting zone allows 4 deer taken per year per person. This allows for me and Tim to hunt and bring in up to 8 deer needed for meat that will be used over the winter. Last year, I harvested 4 deer and that went a long way in helping us feed our family over the winter. We will pressure can much of the meat this year in order to save it.
My family is trying our best to be able to raise or harvest all of the meat we consume. The commercially raised meat you find at the store is full of animal anti-biotics and growth hormones. The animal is raised most of its life being fed a genetically modified corn feed that is altered to withstand chemical herbicides like roundup made by Monsanto. That can’t be healthy for you or the animal! The meat we raise is healthy because we know exactly what goes into it. The deer on our land are eating what God intended them to eat.
The frontier rifle was also a tool for defense and that is another role our firearms play for us. Without a doubt the state of the world is a mess and that is one of the reasons we decided to leave the city. We have good neighbors and they also have a preparedness mindset with a desire to look out for one another if things should really get bad. Because when it does “get bad” in the cities, many of those there, may try to come here. We are so far off the beaten path its hard to imagine anyone making it this far, but it is possible. We also have a close network of like minded families that know they can come here if times get tough. They are armed too. A close network of people armed and ready to defend their families allowed early frontier settlers to survive armed confrontations.
Many people don’t like to look at this aspect of homesteading. It’s uncomfortable to them. They think that societal breakdown will never happen in their lifetime. History would disagree. Many societies over history have given way to economic and other collapses that ended with many millions dead and suffering.
Some people think that by talking like this, I’m looking for a fight. That’s crazy. If I was looking for a fight, instead of being armed to the teeth out in the country where few people live, I’d be armed to the teeth where many people live in a city. My goal is to protect my family so we live in the middle of nowhere in order to avoid bad problems.
Having a modern personal weapon system with training on how to use it is a valuable skill that any homesteader should have. These days, many who call themselves homesteaders, either rural or urban, are blinded by a false sense of security that the modern 1st world society provides. But if that security was taken away, and the cities became full of people that were having a hard time finding food…homesteads that produce their own food will quickly become known targets and those that are unarmed will eventually be overrun. That won’t be a pretty picture. But that is reality and history bears this scenario out time and time again when a nation goes through some sort of major economic trouble.
Here on our homestead, we each have a rifle. We have a load bearing vest for each rifleman that will carry gear needed to operate that rifle effectively. Each rifle has sufficient magazines and ammo to support each rifleman.
We don’t have these because we are paranoid. We have these rifles because history bears out what happens when a society collapses for various reasons.
I prefer an AK-47 platform. Being in the military, I got to use the M-16 while serving in the Army infantry. I prefer the AK for its reliability and my rifle is built on a milled receiver which gives it superior accuracy over a stamped receiver AK. I believe a milled AK is just as good and as accurate as any AR platform. The 7.62×39 round is hard hitting and provides good ballistics for up close or far reaching combat.
My deer rifle is a Savage Law Enforcement model (10FP LE) with 18 inch barrel. I have taken a lot of deer with this rifle. Its outfitted with a Leapers 10 power shrouded scope. Being a law enforcement model, its chambered in .308 which in my opinion is a great round for taking deer. I aim for a neck shot and that usually brings the deer down instantly with this round.
Tim’s rifle is an AR-15. Tim, having served in the United States Air Force in Vietnam was familiar with this weapon platform. The rifle has a CMMG lower receiver that I built with an AR lower parts kit. It has an adjustable stock and a DPMS upper receiver with a chrome lined barrel. The flat top receiver is fitted with Magpul front and rear adjustable sites. You can click on the picture for a larger view. It’s our intention to eventually outfit the rail with an EOtech optics set for quicker target acquisition.
Like all of the rifles we own, it’s important to us that we use common calibers that can easily be purchased or bartered for. The 5.56mm ammo that feeds Tim’s AR is definitely in that category.
Jaimie’s rifle is an AR-15 chambered in 9mm. I originally traded with a web client for a Sig Sauer 550 that you see pictured here. Jaimie did not like the rifle at all, as it was too heavy for her. She wanted something much lighter and so we settled on an AR-15 in 9mm. A mother is designed instinctively to be able to protect her young. If you think of a mother bear, she will ferociously defend her young if she senses danger. My wife’s rifle needed to be designed for a close quarters engagement as she is our home’s last line of defense with the children. It needed to be lightweight and easy to operate while still giving good magazine capacity. She didn’t need a battle rifle or a patrol rifle. She needed what is sometimes called a PDW or Personal Defense Weapon. My first option would have been for her to have a Steyr Aug as they are very light weight, compact, ambidextrous for left hand use and still chambered in 5.56. An arms company called Microtech had plans at one time to develop such a weapon in 9mm but I don’t think it ever came into being. This AR-9mm is lightweight and is equipped with EOtech optics and has a mount for PVS-14 night vision.
The multi-cal lower is made by Scorpio Tactical and the upper is made by Rock River Arms. I had the upper tweaked and the feed ramp polished to ensure reliable feeding from the uzi magazines. Each mag holds 25 rounds. With the PVS-14 mount, I’m about out of room for any backup adjustable rear site but Jaimie prefers the EOtech optics anyway. At the moment, this rifle also serves as a great coyote and predator gun to have around the homestead as well.
So there you go. Many of you have asked about firearms on the homestead and what we use and recommend. In the future, we will be doing videos and additional reviews online concerning firearms. Stay tuned and be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel.
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An enjoyable read Zachary and covered a lot of good points about how different people have different needs and preferences for a homestead long gun.
I personally don’t keep a long gun handy because I have several handguns sprinkled through out my home. I live in a semi rural area in NW Ohio but have several close neighbors. Yeah, I’m probably in trouble if the SHTF because most of my long guns are in gun safes.
I do understand having a long gun in house. My cousin and his family live in NW PA in a very rural part of the country and I was amused to see a 30.06 with scope in the bathroom where a window offered a view of the pasture where he could be sitting on the toilet and shoot a deer, bear or turkey.
Or defend his home.
I enjoyed that article and like your choices. But I think that having a standard rifle platform for all would be a better choice. That way you could swap magazines and share ammo if the need arises. For me the AR platform is the best choice for a multitude of reasons but the AK is more than well proven too.
It is so nice to see someone promoting homesteading who also understands the need for a firearm. Owning firearms really isn’t about killing as it is about saving your life or those of your loved ones.
Hooah!! Great choices! 🙂
I beg to differ on several points. I too served in the U.S. Army Infantry. The M-16 is a fine rifle for what it was designed for. The AK platform is also a fine military weapon. Is is the equivalent of a lever action 30.30. The lever action is my choice in either 45.70 or 30.30 depending what you are hunting (or what is hunting you). I subscribe to the “gray man” plan. Hide in plane sight and do not alert anyone to your preps or homestead locale. OPEC (operational security) is paramount. Much better to avoid a fight. The lever action can hold many rounds and be loaded on the fly will readily available ammo. Semis seem to need extra maintenance and jam at the most inconvenient time. For your wife a .44 or .357 rifle/pistol combo can be had for the price of a decent AR-15. Just an old man’s opinion.
I enjoyed your post very much and look forward for more to come.
I was, at first, surprised that the three of you chose different caliber rifles… but I can understand. The AK round is soooo cheap and it has no problem firing the steel cased ammo which isn’t much more expensive than .22lr. The 9mm rifle seemed an odd choice until I remembered seeing a video the other day where you said that your wife and you both carry 9mm chambered handguns. All three rounds are very common and should be in supply in many scenarios. I might suggest using a Meprolight optic instead of Eotech… it doesn’t need batteries, which would help in a grid down scenario, and the cost is similar. Again, another enjoyable, informative article. Thanks.
. The milled Ak is no more or less accurate than a quality stamed receiver, the trunnion is where the barrel mounts . The 7.62×39 is not a long range round 300 to 450m max. And the 5.56 out of a cromed lined 16 inch barrel is only about a 500m max set up. Your 308 is a fine deer round. Your lack of irons worries me on the savage ,but more so on your 9mm Ar. Your night vision and red dot should be on the 5.56 Ar for maximum effect. The Uzii mags for the 9mm set up are also available in 32 rnd capacity. This is only my opinion !
I agree 7.62 x39 is the modern day 30 30 all purpous inexpensive round


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King’s Speech outlines drive to improve football governance
King Charles III has announced that a Football Governance Bill will “safeguard the future of clubs for the benefit of communities and fans”.
His comments were made in the first King’s Speech in 72 years at the State Opening of Parliament.
A new independent football regulator is set to be created by legislation and will aim to ensure the financial sustainability of clubs.
In February, the UK Government announced plans for a regulator to be appointed.
It followed a fan-led review, chaired by former Sports Minister Tracey Crouch.
Explaining the Football Governance Bill, the government said: “Across the Premier League and Championship combined, net debt increased to £4.4billion in 2022. This shows that many clubs across the pyramid are financially vulnerable.
“The unique importance of football clubs to their fans and local communities means the social costs of financial failures would be significant.
“The introduction of an independent football regulator will help to promote and secure the financial sustainability of clubs and reduce the likelihood of financial collapse.”
The regulator will, according to the government, “have powers to monitor and enforce compliance with requirements in financial regulation; corporate governance; club ownership (owners’ and directors’ tests); fan engagement and club heritage protection; and approved competitions”.

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The executive session will be held at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, at the Center for Learning and Leadership, 130 Trinity Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
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text: Eutypa dieback, caused by the fungus Eutypa lata, is a major trunk disease of grapevines. The productivity of infected grapevines gradually declines and vines eventually die. Eutypa dieback costs the Australian wine industry millions of dollars in lost production and additional vineyard costs per annum. Vineyard owners can manage the disease by physically removing infected wood and encouraging shoots from lower, uninfected parts of the vine. Wound treatments should be applied post-pruning to reduce likelihood of new infections.

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May 26 – With an exploratory committee set up in Chambersburg Borough Council to look into a possible non-discrimination ordinance for the LGBTQ+ community and the creation of a Human Relations Commission, hearing experts on both sides is critical.
Especially with the possible creation of a Human Relations Commission to investigate, adjudicate and enforce any ordinances that could be formed – that’s going to be a lot of time and money that the borough may not really have.
Attorney Clint Barkdoll, Pat Ryan and Michele Jansen discussed the need for balance on the exploratory committee this morning on First News.
Jansen pointed out, “From their own admission in the first meeting they held they are not very well versed in this. They say they don’t have any special qualifications.”
Barkdoll said, “At the state and federal level they have teams of experts that do nothing but this. These are lawyers. These are people well-trained in reviewing these kind of cases. And that’s why they are the ones that should be hearing this and making the decisions. Not untrained people at the local level.”
The exploratory committee will meet tonight via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. and if it goes like it did the last time, spectators can use the chat feature to talk with the members and emails to the group should also be discussed.
Barkdoll noted, “Much like what happened with Transource, these boards should be open to hearing from some outside experts, whether these experts are pro or con.”
Jansen said, “I’m already saying I want to bring in an expert, maybe Jeremey (Samek, senior counsel with the Pennsylvania Family Institute) himself. I did ask…there was a memo from Salzmann Hughes they got. There was a memo from the president of council that they got. I would like to see those. There’s also information from two very pro LGBTQ+ these ordinances groups. And they’re going to have an expert in from the Human Relations Commission on June 9. That group already from what I know about them, they’re going to be in support of this. That group is kind of left leaning, to say the least, established by Governor Wolf. We need to get some balance in the materials and the experts that they’ll be talking to.”
Ryan said, “Balance is all we’re asking for. You can’t have balance with the present situation that’s been set at our feet here. You can already hear ‘that radio station, they don’t want fair and equity, they don’t want to recognize LGBTQ.’ All we’re looking for is to have an honest dialogue. You have to understand there’s got to be a reasonable conversation.”
Barkdoll agreed, “There does need to be balance. I hope that the people that are advocating this, they need to realize that just because someone is against the formation of this commission does not mean they are anti-LGBTQ. Quite the opposite, frankly. I think this is more of a philosophical issue for a lot of people that we just don’t want more layers of local government, non-experts involved in hearing these kind of things, making the investigations and adjudications. I actually think there’s an interesting counter-argument that the advocates for this commission may be hurting their own cause because if I’m someone in the LGBTQ community, I would much prefer to have my complaint, my case, handled by a true expert at the state or the federal level, not someone locally. Not a layperson that’s just coming off the street with no expertise or no training in this at all. I actually think it could be undermining their own cause. This is the sort of balance in the conversation that this board needs to hear and I think they need to hear from some outside experts about this as well.”


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Perennial plants reproduce themselves, with new additions each year. That new growth you see around the edges of hostas, Shasta daisies, lupines, and others is new to the original growth from the previous year. Multiple stems increase the size of the existing plant, or you can take basal plant cuttings for entirely new plants.
What are Basal Cuttings?
Simply put, basal means bottom. Basal cuttings come from the new growth that shoots up at the plant’s edges on those that grow from a single crown. They become a cutting when you use a sharp tool to remove them around ground level, near the bottom.
If you wish to go a little further, you can dig and get the new roots that are attached. However, this is not appropriate for plants growing from a taproot. Basal propagation requires planting so that new roots develop.
How to Take Basal Cuttings
Take basal cuttings in early spring. Stems of the cuttings should be solid at this point, as growth begins. Later in the season, stems may become hollow. Take hold of a new plant that’s developed around the outer edge and clip it near the bottom with sharp, clean pruners. It is important to clean your pruners between each cut, as the basal area where plants grow is especially susceptible to fungal and bacterial disease.
Plant cuttings into porous, clay containers filled with new, dampened soil. You may apply rooting hormone to the clipped end if desired. If temperatures allow, keep the containers outside until rooting happens. If not, put plants that were rooted back outside through the hardening off process.
Sources say these cuttings develop best if planted near the edge of the container. You can test this theory by planting one in the middle too and see which cuttings root more quickly. Cuttings need oxygen to develop, hence the use of clay containers.
You can encourage rooting by using bottom heat or putting a plastic sandwich bag over each container to create a greenhouse-like atmosphere.
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Rooting time varies by plant, but most root within a few weeks. Plants desire growth this time of year. Roots are developed when there is resistance to a slight tug on the cutting. When you see new growth or roots coming through the drainage hole, it is time to replant into single containers or the flower bed.
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Leopards are most abundant in woodland, grassland savanna and all forest types, but also occur widely in montane habitats, coastal scrub, shrubland, semi-desert and desert.
Do snow leopards live in caves?
The cliffs and rocks ledges also give snow leopards protection as they merge very well into colors of rock with their beautiful camouflage fur color and rosettes. When female snow leopards have cubs cliffs provide rocky caves for birthing dens. … Most snow leopard habitat is also at very high altitudes.
Do snow leopards have claws?
They have retractable claws that allow them to move silently amongst the rocks without scraping their claws on the ground and therefore giving themselves away to their prey.
What is the snow leopards role in the ecosystem?
Snow leopards play a key role as a top predator, an indicator of the health of their high-altitude habitat, and, increasingly, an important indicator of the impacts of climate change on mountain environments. If snow leopards thrive, so will countless other species and the largest freshwater reservoirs of the planet.
Where can snow leopards be found?
Snow leopards occur in the mountains of Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and possibly also Myanmar (Burma).
Where do you find leopards?
Leopards are graceful and powerful big cats closely related to lions, tigers, and jaguars. They live in sub-Saharan Africa, northeast Africa, Central Asia, India, and China. However, many of their populations are endangered, especially outside of Africa.
Where is snow leopard found in India?
In India, snow leopards are found in the northern Himalayan Mountain range. We work in two distinct areas: Ladakh and Spiti.
Can a snow leopard live in Florida?
With their thick coats and fur-lined paws that work like snowshoes, snow leopards are perfectly adapted to cold and dry habitats like the Himalayas in Central Asia. However, for one local snow leopard, making him feel at home in South Florida required replicating his natural environment to keep him “chill.”
Where do snow leopards live in China?
China is home to the world’s largest snow leopard population–estimated at (at least) 2,000 individuals. Snow leopards occur in six provinces including Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Xinjiang. (They are also found in Tibet).
Where do snow leopards and blue sheep roam?
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How snow leopards adjust to climate?
Snow Leopards and Climate Change
View other species in the series. Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) may be quite resilient to the direct impacts of climate change in the near term: they are able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures, they have minimal freshwater requirements and they have a high dispersal ability.
Why are snow leopards endangered climate change?
As our planet becomes warmer, plants and animals that need colder temperatures may need to move higher up mountains or further north. This is likely to shift and shrink the snow leopard’s range.
What are 3 interesting facts about snow leopards?
Top 10 facts about snow leopards
- They’re well adapted to their cold environment. …
- In Nepal, their main prey are blue sheep…which aren’t actually blue. …
- High altitude acrobats. …
- They can’t roar. …
- They’re more closely related to tigers than they are leopards. …
- They have natural snowshoes.
What does a leopards habitat look like?
Habitat of the Leopard
Regardless of location, most leopards like to live in areas with trees for them to hide in. Their two main habitats are rainforest and savanna. However, they also live in temperate forests, river forests, woodlands, desert edges, and more.
Are leopards in South Africa?
Leopard populations are declining and fragmented outside sub-Saharan Africa. In South Africa, leopards are found throughout the country except for the greater Karoo basin. They are found in the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, North West, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape.
How many leopards are in South Africa?
South African National Biodiversity Institute and Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa. systematic population estimate ranges from 2,813–11,632 Leopards, which equates to 1,688–6,979 mature individuals (60% mature population structure).
Are snow leopards endangered in 2021?
The snow leopard is no longer an endangered species, but its population in the wild is still at risk because of poaching and habitat loss, conservationists said this week. … The difference means, simply, that the animals have gone from “very high risk” to “high risk” of extinction in the wild.
What leopards are found in northern Pakistan?
The snow leopard finds a home in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains in Pakistan’s northern provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan, and Azad Kashmir.
Why can’t snow leopards roar?
Snow leopards make sounds similar to those made by other large cats, including a purr, mew, hiss, growl, moan, and yowl. However, snow leopards cannot roar due to the physiology of their throat, and instead make a non-aggressive puffing sound called a ‘chuff’. Snow leopards are not aggressive towards humans.
Do snow leopards bite their tails?
It’s unknown exactly why snow leopards enjoy biting their enormous, fluffy tails. … Whether it’s to keep their noses warm or simply a form of entertainment, these giant cats biting their own fluffy tails is bound to make your day.
Can Leopards roar?
Roaring and Purring
For the most part, big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars) can roar, but they can’t purr.
Do snow leopards live in the Arctic?
Snow leopards live in harsh, snowy, rugged alpine regions in central and south Asia. They can be found at elevations between 3,000 to 5,000 metres across a total of 12 different countries.
How snow leopards adapt to their habitat?
Snow leopards are highly adapted to their home in the cold high mountains. Their thick fur patterned with dark rosettes and spots (a pattern that is unique to each individual snow leopard) is the perfect camouflage for their rocky habitat, allowing them to stalk their prey.
Are Clouded leopards going extinct?
Vulnerable (Population decreasing)
Are there snow leopards in Germany?
You have to be very lucky indeed to see one there at all, because they are not usually active during the daytime. There is not much prey for the snow leopards in the barren alpine landscape, and so they often attack and kill domestic animals.
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Has a snow leopard ever killed a human?
Snow leopards have simply never been known to attack people. … Snow leopards have very sharp teeth to kill and eat their prey but there has never been an authenticated case of a snow leopard attacking a human.
How many snow leopards are left in Afghanistan?
How Many Snow Leopards Are Left In The Wild?
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Enterprises looking to maintain IT infrastructure integrity and deter hackers from attacking employees' passwords, can tap software and simple guidelines to generate secure passwords, according to a security specialist.
Ronnie Ng, Symantec's manager of systems engineering in Singapore and Indonesia, noted that there are systems and configuration management software, which include components and policies that allow IT administrators to enforce strong password guidelines within the organization.
Recent security incidents have stepped up the need for robust secret code. Last month, 20,000 passwords obtained from a phishing scam turned up on a third-party Web site, revealing login credentials to Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts, among others. A subsequent analysis of the compromised passwords revealed that many users were tardy in creating secure passwords.
Viruses such as Conficker and Gumblar, have already attacked the IT infrastructure of organizations such as the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group.
With these in mind, here are five considerations to strengthen passwords and the password-generating process, for both work and play.
"So even if a certain password somehow becomes compromised, it will only be good until the randomization expires, and it will only apply to [a] particular computer," said Ng.
Tech author and columnist J.D. Biersdorfer, noted in a video for the New York Times that such characters and symbols should also be worked into the answers of your challenge questions.
According to a Newsweek article, 144 volunteers were each asked to create a mnemonic password in a study conducted in 2006. The researchers then built a simple program to scour the Web for famous quotes, ad slogans, song lyrics and nursery rhymes, amassing 249,000 entries. Using this list, which is a relatively small universe of phrases in the security field, the researchers cracked 4 percent of the group's mnemonic passwords, proving that this method has its fallibility.
Far more secure are pass-phrases such as "du-bi-du-bi-dub", which would withstand a brute force attack--in which a hacker attempts "a," then "ab", then "abc", and so on--for "531,855,448,467 years", according to the report. So think long, but easy to remember phrases, the next time you generate a password.
However, users should not base passwords on the convenience of their personal information, Ng pointed out. Such data include names, nicknames and birth dates.
Former Governor of Alaska in the U.S., Sarah Palin, is a cautionary tale. Last year, her personal e-mail account was hacked into by a student, who simply searched the Web to find out Palin's birth date, postal code and where she had met her husband to crack her security code.


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The Cochise College Small Business Development Center and the Sierra Vista Chamber of Commerce are partnering to offer a free workshop Feb. 19 designed to help you understand better how to increase your sales to our neighbors to the south. The workshop is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Sierra Vista Chamber of Commerce, located at 21 E. Willcox Drive.
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As was to be expected, Björk is everywhere right now. Her new technical-scientific-musical adventures deserve all the attention in the world and she’s doing her best to keep the spotlight in place, revealing information bit by bit about the multi-disciplinary project, “Biophilia”. Those who have been lucky enough to attend one of the first three concerts of her residence in Manchester know what the new tracks sound like. But behind “Biophilia” is not only music; there are the technical inventions developed for the occasion, the scientific concepts and the ideas that served as a theoretical substratum for the creation of Björk’s new music and the new stage plan. Some of those will be uncovered when the new edition of Dazed & Confused, one of the most respected lifestyle magazines in the UK, arrives on newsstands.
Björk is the guest editor of August’s issue of Dazed & Confused, to be published tomorrow on 7th July. Rod Stanley visited the artist in New York and talked long and hard with her, about the new album and the interactive applications that come with it. Furthermore, as the magazine explains, in the issue, Björk “presents many of the scientists, designers, programmers, musicologists and artists that inspired and created the project.” To the right you’ll see the photo by Sam Falls that’s on the cover of the special issue. If you’re a fan of all things Guðmundsdóttir, you have a date with “Biophilia” and Dazed.

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Long, Strange Trip: The past few months have been a roller coaster for the team and fans alike. As the regular season was winding down and points were becoming ever more precious, the playoff picture was coming into focus for a lot of teams that were not named the Washington Capitals. That sucked. The last month or so was a teeth-grinding, butt-clenching, freaky-outy nightmare. Night after night, we saw our playoff chances dissipate in loss after loss, points squandered, a team in name only, flailing about the ice with no apparent sense of mission or urgency.
Hanging by the skin of our teeth, marginally in control of our destiny, we played do-or-die on Thursday night. Up 3-0, Neuvy went down and Braden came in, two quick Panther goals and stop – we’ve seen this movie before, we know the ending all too well. But this time the ending was different; it was a storybook ending. Who can explain the win – skill, determination, lucky bounces or teamwork? We’ll say Sasha, but it really doesn’t matter. The clock ticked down and Verizon, as well as many homes across Caps Nation, erupted. We’re in. We made it. Somehow we freakin’ made it.
Game 82 seems like a minor distraction when compared to what lies ahead, but we’ll try and make sense of Saturday night and the out weeks – both of which are wrapped around a classless band of vulgarians known as the New York Rangers.
Torts’ Tantrum or Whine Pairings: Say what you will about the on-ice success of Hunter Hockey or the win – loss record of that other guy, Coach Mustard Stains (not to mention all those other Caps coaches we never heard of from the seasons before we jumped on the bandwagon), but thank God, we don’t have to suffer under the daily embarrassments of a certified creep and head case like John Tortorella.
Make up your own mind about the Orpik – Stephan hit (or let Shanahan do it for you), but the infantile postgame display exhibited by Torts on Thursday night, was one for the books. Make up your own mind too, about the comical $20,000 fine that Torts was slapped with. The through-the-looking-glass world of NHL punishment has never made sense to us; it’s all an elaborate sideshow, a limp effort to control the mostly uncontrollable – unbridled rage.
And in all honesty, who among us hasn’t wanted to see some of Dale’s rage surface now and again. Not the eyes-popping, veins-bulging, unhinged lunatic rage of a basket-case freak like Torts, but just a little something to remind us that he has a pulse. Torts is certainly good TV, always a good punch line, and a reasonably successful coach, but we can’t imagine this guy in DC. We’d become Wizards fans if that were the case.
We have our own proprietary scale, based on very complicated algorithms (and some #fancystats), to measure a bench boss’ dickishness, and we call it the Bylsma Scale. For reference, skirt or no skirt, on his best day, Coach Dan “Mr. Personality” Bylsma, registers a measure of exactly 1 Bylsma. When Dan dons his douche hat, he’s at 2 Bylsmas. When he opens his gaping maw (no matter what he says), he tips the scale at 3 Bylsmas. You get the idea. Toolbox Torts buried the needle Thursday night. And for that reason alone, on Saturday, and if we face his thugs in the first round, we want to see Torts go absolutely ape, making his latest outburst seem like a kindly priest’s Easter Sunday homily. Beating the Rangers is always nice, but watching Coach Clown self-destruct on camera again, and bigger the next time, would be icing on the cake. And we like cake.
Will we face the Rags in the first round? We hope so. The 1st and 8th seeds may be reversed from last season, but the hell with that – we have their number. Screw dem bums and their Loony Toons bench boss. Grind those hooligans into the ice tomorrow, boys, and hopefully, when the savaging is complete, there will be nothing left on that filthy MSG sheet except some gold fillings and their pride. Let Saturday night’s throttling be the haunting memory they carry with them into the playoffs.
#ThatAwkwardMomentWhen: So Sasha’s swan dive was not the result of him tripping on a snow snake, but the result of him trying to pound the glass and kick the boards at the same time. It doesn’t matter. Sasha scored the very first goal of the season and in the final minutes Thursday night, he backhanded maybe the single most important one all year. A $6.7 million goal? Nope, priceless.
Now that it’s been categorically proven that Sasha cares, Ovi also seems mostly in gear. That’s good. Beags is a beast, Wides is wicked, Carlzner reunited, Brooks and Chimdog are finding the twine, but there’s still a missing piece or two. We need Nicky and Greenie to start scoring. They’ve both had long trips back from mishap and injury, but this is where they need to prove their mettle. Now MOAR than ever, the young guns need to gun.
Practice Makes Perfect: The last time we went to Kettler for a practice was Saturday, March 24 – the morning after the Jets game. You know the one – that must win March 23 game in which we had a 3 goal lead and we blew it. That trip to KCI on the day after that Capstastrophe was to exorcize demons. Friday morning’s visit was to take a victory lap.
Even though it was a holiday, Kettler was sparsely attended on Good Friday morning. I grabbed some of my typical crappy pics and watched the action. Most noticeable from my end of the ice was Kanoobs. He spent the better part of a half hour taking one-timers, breaking sticks, and pounding the net with single-minded determination. After breaking one twig, he picked up the pieces, opened the rink gate and passed them to a fankid. About ten minutes later, just as he was wrapping up, he passed his intact Easton stick over the glass to a kid, maybe 5 years old, who was sporting a tiny #22 Caps sweater. Too cute for words and a testimonial to what a great guy Mike Knuble is. As it turns out, the kid is pretty well connected – his uncle manages the BrooksLaichYear site.
Braden: This is a joke-free zone. We don’t know the latest on Neuvy, but hope for the best. Not for the simple reason of Caps’ success in the playoffs, but for the long term health and well-being of a guy we absolutely adore. Braden and Dany have the weight of the world on their shoulders now
NBC or Nothing But Clowns: All the playoff games are relegated to air on Planet ComcastNBC, the Skynet of sports TV. We won’t waste any more bandwidth saying what’s already been said about their wretched squad of on-air “talent.” Poor Doc, he’s the diamond in the rough. He stands head and shoulders above recidivist, Mike Milbury, and Pierre McGuire, the Kent Brockman of NHL broadcast. We miss Joe, Craig, Alan and Al already. We’re trying to remember if we sent them invites to RMNB 4.0.
Is Party Now ))))): Last spring’s RMNB 3.0 at the Front Page is where we first got to meet Ian, Peter, Neil and Chris. In fact, not just them, but it was there we first met a larger crew who until then were just twitter nicks. We ate, we drank, we won a door prize – a cool woodcut of Ovi and Varly done by Kat. We won a pair of jerseys in the silent auction too (Brooks and Nicky), but in reality, we came away with much bigger prizes, friendships. Doug and I often say that we wish our civilian friends were as fun as our hockey friends (and it’s mostly true, they’re totes boring gay guys).
We almost didn’t make the overland journey out to Ballston that day, but we’re glad we did. It was that afternoon that two goofy gay gadflies with a rather unorthodox blog began to feel welcomed into the larger Caps community. So tomorrow evening (in addition to our valet parking duties), we’ll toast the team that brought us all together, and we will toast all of you for making us a part of the family. We’re thrilled to be your crazy, gay uncles.
We Never Met A Meme We Didn’t Laich: Who knows what next season will bring, but one certain retirement will be the Meme of the Day. And there’s no better way to put this tired gimmick out to pasture with an image on memegenerator dot net that has previously eluded us. We see this one as divine intervention or some sort of cosmic alignment. Yeah, cosmic alignment – you know, like those cheap literary devices that tie up the loose ends in the story lines of Peter’s comic books graphic novels. This is one called “Typical Hockey Player,” but the hockey player featured is hardly typical. We call him Captain.
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text: A wedding portrait is a young couple’s first image as a new family — and one that will likely grace that new family’s walls for decades. Alongside factors like exposure and lighting, wedding poses can make or break that couple’s first portraits as husband and wife. The honor of taking up prominent placement on the walls in a large print comes with the pressure of getting every detail right. On Kaylan’s wedding, we had the pleasure to capture those great moments for this beautiful couple. This was a simple wedding where just close family members were invited. We could sense the true love that the bride and groom have for each other. This feeling is shared with attendant and photographers and this inspired me as a wedding photographer. It is an incredible sensation to presence the union of two loving birds and captures those feelings forever.


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Scotland has recorded its highest daily number of positive Covid-19 cases in the past month.
Daily figures from the Scottish Government show that there have been 701 new positive Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
Statistics showed that about one in every 275 people in Scotland have now had the coronavirus.
Figures showed that there had also been ten new deaths registered, bringing the total number to 7572.
A total of 310 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed Covid-19, down 11 in 24 hours, and 32 patients are in intensive care, an increase of one.
The daily test positivity rate is 2.4% – down from 3.1% on the previous day.
Statistics show that 2,285,711 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination. This is an increase of 36,099 on the previous day’s figures.
A total of 263,236 have now received their second dose.


By last summer, the estrangement was nearly complete. Tensions between Theater J and its parent organization, the D.C. Jewish Community Center, over the theater company’s offerings related to the Middle East had risen to such a level that a rabbi had to be called in to try to mediate.
As Ari Roth, Theater J’s longtime artistic director, recalled it, he sat down over a couple of lunches with Rabbi Bruce Lustig of the Washington Hebrew Congregation and the JCC’s chief executive, Carole R. Zawatsky, in an effort to undo the ire and mistrust that had soured his dealings with his boss.
“We went to marriage counseling,” is how Roth wryly describes those attempts. “We worked on our relationship.”
The meetings apparently came to naught, for on Thursday, Roth was fired by Zawatsky from the job he had held for 18 years, a tenure during which he built Theater J into one of the leading Jewish theaters in the country and one of the most important outposts for plays about Israel and its neighbors. His termination came after he refused to sign a severance agreement that would have given him six months’ salary and required that he keep quiet about the nature of his exit.
The firing, which was greeted with expressions of disbelief and widespread condemnation by everyone from Washington actors, directors and artistic directors to playwright Tony Kushner, was in point of fact the culminating event of a difficult, years-long struggle between Roth’s company and those in charge of the august Jewish institution on 16th and Q streets NW that housed it. Furious over some of his programming decisions — including producing a play based on a novel by a onetime spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and a staged reading of another playlet, Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children,” labeled by some as anti-Semitic — activist groups and others had exerted pressure on the JCC to try to stop them.
The dismissal, though, was not merely the wrenching end to a long-simmering personnel matter involving a headstrong staffer. It was also an illustration of a growing rift in the Jewish community, over what kinds of dialogue concerning Israel can be tolerated at a multipurpose Jewish organization — and whether, in fact, programming perceived as critical of Israeli policies has any place at a center for Jewish culture.
“The work that Ari’s been doing isn’t more or less controversial than it was 10 years ago, but the atmosphere for airing different voices has changed,” said Joshua Ford, who was the DCJCC’s associate executive director until leaving in March. “That’s in part because there’s a perception that Israel is more besieged than ever, and that’s a perception with some reality to it. And part of it is that it’s very, very hard for artists and institutions just to get along in general.
“Artists need to be artists,” Ford added, “and institutions need to answer to more than just their artistic impulses.”
The result of Roth’s firing is being absorbed still by an arts ecosystem unaccustomed to such candid reports of a respected leader’s departure. The DCJCC, in a prepared statement, described Roth, somewhat disingenuously, as “stepping down to pursue a new series of endeavors.” (Roth has disclosed that he is now forming a new company, Mosaic Theatre, that is seeking financial support and will begin operations at the Atlas Performing Arts Center next fall.) For her part, Zawatsky added in an interview Friday that her remarks in praise of Roth in that statement were heartfelt; she characterized his record as “incredible.”
And she vowed the center will not abandon discussion of the Middle East. “I feel I’ve been handed an incredibly important role in helping shape and maintain an open dialogue around Israel, which is so important for the Jewish community,” she said.
Some online commenters on Twitter and elsewhere have expressed relief that Roth is out. Still, the deep outrage over the abrupt, messy manner of Roth’s leaving may haunt the center and certainly tarnish the reputation of Theater J for some time; in the midst of rehearsals for Theater J’s next play, a world premiere of playwright Aaron Posner’s “Life Sucks (or the Present Ridiculous),” he had to pack up his office and be out of the center by 11 a.m. Friday.
“This is an appalling turn of events,” Alexander Strain, who has acted in many Theater J productions, wrote in one of dozens of supporters’ posts on Roth’s Facebook page. “This is punishing someone for attempting to forge a theatre concerned with creating dialogue and healing.”
Kushner, author of Theater J’s current production, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures,” offered his support in a letter that was to be read at the curtain call. “Ari was fired because he refused to surrender to censorship,” Kushner wrote. “He was fired because he believes that freedom of speech and freedom of expression are both American values and Jewish values.”
It is Roth’s sometimes controversial embrace of a wide-ranging Middle East dialogue that drew fire from some ardent backers of Israel; Roth says that he knew that his time at Theater J was coming to an end when earlier this year Zawatsky derailed his plans for 11 staged readings this March of his own play, “Reborn in Berlin.” The work was objected to, he said, because it incorporates the views of Turkish Muslims, addressing the issue of “how Muslims processed the Holocaust today.”
But Roth said there were festering strains between him and the center’s higher-ups, including the organization’s 17-member executive committee , going back to Roth’s 2009 decision to present readings, followed by discussions, of the incendiary “Seven Jewish Children.” It was that presentation that attracted the attention of a Potomac-based ad-hoc group that calls itself Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art. “COPMA emerged from that controversy,” Roth said. And the group would become even more vocal two years later when, as part of his multi-year Voices from a Changing Middle East festival, Roth presented Israeli playwright Boaz Gaon’s “Return to Haifa.”
The play was based on a novella by onetime PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani that told of a Palestinian couple’s return to their home in Haifa that they fled during the 1948 Israeli war for independence. Although the production came from the celebrated Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv and travel costs were underwritten by the Israeli government, it proved so inflammatory that, Roth said, the Israeli Embassy’s cultural attache shouted back at the Israeli and Arab actors during the performance. In the aftermath, the JCC ended its affiliation with Theater J’s Peace Cafe, an after-play forum founded by Roth, his longtime supporter Mimi Conway and Andy Shallal, the Iraqi-born owner of the Busboys and Poets restaurants.
Roth’s position on 16th and Q deteriorated further with “The Admission,” a drama by Israeli Motti Lerner, about a purported 1948 massacre of Palestinian villagers by Israeli soldiers. COPMA stepped up a campaign to deny donations to the JCC, and Roth was told to scale back the production to a series of workshop stagings. (The center, sources say, has long been planning a major capital campaign to improve facilities.) As Zawatsky and Roth’s relationship grew ever less tenable, Ford said, “I felt like a child trying to have mom and dad get along.”
Zawatsky points to the array of programs that the JCC offers as a sign of the center’s vigorousness: “Theater J is without question one of the shining lights of the DCJCC, not unlike all of the beautiful children in our preschools,” she says. Others wonder, however, whether Roth’s dismissal augurs less glittery possibilities.
“I have real sadness that there’s increasingly less and less space for independent voices in the organized Jewish community,” Ford said. “The open space is shrinking.”


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Maps and legends: reading and writing along the borderlands
By Chabon, Michael
Publishing Date: 2009, ©2008
Call Number: 801.95 CHA
A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
The best American science writing, 2011
Publishing Date: ©2011
Call Number: 808.0665
Collects into one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year 2011. Culled from a wide variety of publications, these selections of outstanding journalism cover the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, providing a comprehensive overview of the most compelling, relevant, and exciting developments in the world of science.
The best American science and nature writing 2001
Publishing Date: 2001
Call Number: 808.8
Iterations of immortality / David Berlinski -- To save a watering hole / Mark Cherrington -- New life in a death trap / Edwin Dobb -- Abortion and brain waves / Gregg Easterbrook -- Baby steps / Malcolm Gladwell -- In the forests of Gombe / Jane Goodall -- The doubting disease / Jerome Groopman -- The recycled generation -- Stephen S. Hall -- Endurance predator / Bernd Heinrich -- Harpy eagles / Edward Hoagland -- Why the future doesn't need us / Bill Joy -- A killing at dawn / Ted Kerasote -- Seeing scarlet / Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp -- The best clock in the world / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- The wild world's Scotland Yard / Jon R. Luoma -- Breeding discontent / Cynthia Mills -- Ice station Vostok / Oliver Morton -- Being prey / Val Plumwood -- Troubled waters / Sandra Postel -- The genome warrior / Richard Preston -- Megatransect / David Quammen -- Inside the volcano / Donovan Webster.
The best American science and nature writing, 2002
Publishing Date: 2002
Call Number: 808.8
A collection of nature and science based essays by such authors as Malcolm Gladwell, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Dennis Overbye.
The best American science and nature writing 2019
Publishing Date: 2019
Call Number: 810.8
Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature writing are how we share the truth about the universe with the people of the world." And collected here are truths about nearly every corner of the universe. From meditations on extinction, to the search for alien life, to the prejudice that infects our medical system, the pieces in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing seek to bring to the people stories of some of the most pressing issues facing our planet, as well as moments of wonder reflecting the immense beauty our natural world offers.
By Collins, Billy
Publishing Date: 2021
Call Number: 811.54 COL
Whale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets. - (Random House, Inc.)
The winged seed: a remembrance
By Lee, Li-Young
Publishing Date: 1995
Call Number: 811.54 LEE
This memoir of Chinese American poet Lee creates a moving portrait of his imposing, emotionally elusive father that testifies to the pride, hope, social pain, and cultural alienation of Asian refugees in America.
By Ondaatje, Michael
Publishing Date: 2000, ©1998
Call Number: 811.54 OND
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's return to the place of his family, a remembrance, an honoring, and a lament of astonishing beauty. It is an irresistible work of poetic genius, and reaffirms Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today. He takes us through the sweep of history in the island of Sri Lanka, summoning up stories of war and love, of goon squads, kings and robbers, and of two millennia of culture, to create a tapestry of images, scents and gestures—the unburial of stone Buddhas, a family of stilt-walkers crossing a field, the pattern of teeth marks on skin drawn by a monk from memory—that reveal the longing for, and expose our anguish over, lost loves, homes, and lost ways of expression. He joins the poets of old who "wrote their stories on rock and leaf / to celebrate the work of the day,/ the shadow pleasures of the night." At the same time, his artistry as a poet, and the language of these poems, supersede all individual story-moments to give us a larger understanding of the human condition—he himself can be counted among those who "shared it / on a scroll or nudged / the ink onto stone / to hold the vista of a life." - (Random House, Inc.)
By Smith, Danez
Publishing Date:
Call Number: 811.6 SMI
Smith's unflinching poetry addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity. The collection opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved on earth. "Dear White America," which Smith performed at the 2014 Rustbelt Midwest Region Poetry Slam, has as strong an impact on the page as it did on the spoken word stage. Smith's courage and hope amidst the struggle for unity in America will humble and uplift you.
By Hughes, Langston
Publishing Date: ©1986
Call Number: 818.5209 HUG
Volume one of Hughes' autobiography tells of his early years--in Paris and Harlem.
How to be perfect: the correct answer to every moral question
By Schur, Michael
Publishing Date: 2022
Call Number: 818.602 SCH
"From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"--
House lessons: renovating a life
By Bauermeister, Erica
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Call Number: 818.603 BAU
"In this memoir-in-essays, New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in the eccentric town of Port Townsend, WA, and in the process takes readers on a journey into the ways our spaces subliminally affect us, ultimately showing us how to make our houses (and lives) better"--
Late migrations: a natural history of love and loss
By Renkl, Margaret
Publishing Date: 2021
Call Number: 818.608 REN
Selected as a TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna book club pick, Late Migrations is an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world—from beloved New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. - (Perseus Publishing)
The country under my skin: a memoir of love and war
By Belli, Gioconda
Publishing Date: 2002
Call Number: 868.6409 BEL
Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growing dissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness of the social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join the Sandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. She would be involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest, and often most dangerous, levels. Her memoir is both a revelatory insider's account of the Revolution and a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: about her family, her children, the men in her life, about her poetry; about the dichotomies between her birthright and the life she chose for herself; about the failures and triumphs of the Revolution; about her current life, divided between California (with her American husband and their children) and Nicaragua; and about her sustained and sustaining passion for her country and its people. - (Blackwell North Amer)
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As explained in a recent report from CNN, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to grant a request for emergency intervention in a court dispute over a ban on assault weapons that was recently enacted in Illinois. Also covered by the challenge were local restrictions, including in a city called Naperville, which is near Chicago.
Court disputes over the restrictions are continuing to move forward at lower levels of the federal court system, and the emergency action the Supreme Court declined to take would have suspended the bans while those levels of dispute play out. Thus, the restrictions were upheld — for now. No explanation for the Supreme Court’s decision was made available, and no dissents, meaning judges who broke with the decision to let the rules temporarily remain active, were noted either. A 2022 decision from the court directed that present-day rules around guns be compared to rules in effect around the time the U.S. Constitution was put into place, which is, of course, an argument seemingly difficult to implement with a straight face, considering how dramatically the world has changed since that period of history.
Those trying to challenge the Illinois rules in court cited the 2022 ruling in their arguments. “Since the Second Amendment presumptively protects Plaintiffs’ conduct, Respondents must justify the challenged laws by demonstrating that they are consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” they said.
Following the midterm elections last year, another state with Democrats mostly in charge — Washington — has also moved to implement sharp restrictions on assault rifles, which are defined in that state’s rules according to both a series of specific models and specific features, the latter of which would cover guns not specifically named but that would still function similarly. Although Republicans might have you believe otherwise, a national ban on assault rifles is actually a generally popular prospect. April polling from YouGov found 63 percent of respondents at least somewhat in favor.


Elkhart, Ind. (June 27, 2022) – The Reveal The Hammer Outlaw Late Model Tour made its first trip to Ohio, and the stout field of competitors did not disappoint the wildly excitable crowd at Lorain County Raceway Park. Steve Needles made it two in a row as he charged through the field and held off a very determined Mark Shook to win the Hammer Down 100.
The evening started with Steve Needles taking the Allstar Performance Quick Time with a lap of 13.752 seconds. The time edged out Mark Shook who stopped the timer with a 13.775 lap. This tight battle for the top spot would carry later into the feature.
The 100-lap feature saw the top ten qualifiers inverted for the start. This saw Needles and Shook start from the fifth row. The race started with Ohio racers John Sandquist Jr., Bud Perry, and Jesse Adams battling it out for the lead. On lap 20 an incident heading into Turn One put several cars on the wrecker. After a red flag stoppage to clean up the track, the field when back to racing. At this point Needles was near the tail of the field with Shook a couple of places up in the running order. Eventually the two made it to the front of the field. With Mark Shook out front, and Needles tucked in behind the leader.
Just past halfway, Needles made his move to take the top spot, but Shook wasn’t done. With ten laps to go, Shook was back on the rear bumper of Needles. On the final lap Shook made one last try and came up about six feet short of the win. At the checkered flag it was Steve Needles with the win, Mark Shook second, and Jesse Adams landing on the final spot on the podium.
“We had a strong field at Lorain”, noted series director Rich Mersereau. “There was great racing throughout the night, and we nearly had a photo finish. Can’t wait to see what happens at the next stop at Birch Run.”
Mark Shook finished 2nd
Jesse Adams finished 3rd
Round 3 – Hammer Down 100 – Race Results
1 Steve Needles
2 Mark Shook
3 Jesse Adams
4 Zack Cook
5 Brock Ganus
6 Trevor Berry
7 Brandon Short
8 John Sandquist Jr
9 Bob Schneider
10 Adam Terry
11 Emerson Huffman
12 Guy Fire
13 George Riddle
14 Bud Perry
15 Greg Forcht
16. Dominic Alesandro (DNS)
Next stop on the 2022 Reveal The Hammer Outlaw Late Model Tour is the Dixie Classic at Birch Run Speedway on August 12.
2022 Reveal the Hammer Outlaw Super Late Model Schedule
May 14 Ralph Baker Memorial – Berlin Raceway – Marne, MI
June 18 CB Fabricating 100 – Anderson Speedway – Anderson, IN
June 25 Hammer Down 100 – Lorain County Raceway Park – Amhurst, OH
Aug 12 Dixie Classic – Birch Run Speedway – Birch Run, MI
Aug 27 George Keen Memorial 100 – Berlin Raceway – Marne, MI
Sept 10 Reveal The Hammer Finale – Birch Run Speedway – Birch Run, MI
About Reveal The Hammer Outlaw Super Late Model Series
A touring series designed to support Outlaw Super Late Model competitors looking to compete at a variety of racetracks in the Upper Midwest while still having the ability to compete in a weekly series as well as special high profile events.
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Could Sid Haig be Reporting to the Devil’s Rejects Sequel Set?
A recent revelation might confirm that the sequel will shoot next month.
By Ray Morse
Late January, we reported that the “rejects” were gearing up for another ride in a sequel to Rob Zombie’s classic, The Devil’s Rejects. Our friends at Bloody Disgusting took things a step forward and, through their sources, confirmed that the cast could be in front of a camera as early as March. Apart from the massive fan reaction to this news, things have remained relatively quiet since.
On Saturday, however, New Jersey-based horror convention Monster-Mania had some unfortunate news to announce to their loyal fans about Sid Haig’s upcoming March appearance:
Initial reactions were that of disappointment from con attendees excited to have a chance to meet this fan favorite. However, with disappointment there is also an unconditional understanding that cancellations do happen from time to time for a working actor such as Mr. Haig, who is no stranger to Monster-Mania here in New Jersey.
The revelation also immediately triggered speculation that this announcement might have been another step forward in confirming that the wheels are about to be in motion for The Devil’s Rejects 2. This might not be much to go on but the timeline seems to match the previously-reported rumors and is worth noting, at the very least.[relatedArticle-0]
The sequel, rumored to be titled The Devil’s Rejects 2: Three From Hell, will be written and directed by Rob Zombie, and is presumed to include the original stars back in their iconic roles of Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig).
We will be keeping a close eye on this developing story. Stay tuned!
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As Russia is in the process of removing contaminated oil from the Druzhba export pipeline, the real cost of damage to European refiners, time to remove tainted oil and restore exports as well as the effect on Russia’s status as an energy supplier, remains unclear.
“It’s really hard to tell what impact is going to have,” Alexei Kokin, a senior oil and gas analyst at UralSib Financial Corp in Moscow, told New Europe on 23 May. “There is not enough information at this point to say what the consequences are going to be in the long run,” he added.
According to Reuters, the crisis has escalated since Belarus told oil refiners and pipeline operators in Europe nearly four weeks ago that the crude heading down the 5,500-kilometre Druzhba pipeline was heavily contaminated with organic chloride, which is used to clean oil wells and accelerate the flow of crude.
Russia had to stop exports via the Druzhba pipeline to Poland and Germany at the northern branch of the line and to Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic in the south.
Russia is using rail, storage tanks and ships to remove contaminated oil from an export pipeline and has so far extracted around 2 million tonnes of the tainted oil – or over a third of volumes hit, Reuters reported on 24 May.
A total of around 5 million tonnes could have been contaminated by organic chloride and up to six months are needed to fully restore the flows, according to the Belarusian operator of a section of the Druzhba pipeline. Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine still have the lion’s share of contaminated crude in their pipeline systems – or up to 2 million tonnes, with another roughly 1 million stuck in Poland and Germany, Reuters quoted traders and industry sources as saying.
Until tainted oil is removed from the pipeline inside Russia and Belarus normal flows or clean oil to export markets cannot resume.
“Technologically, I think eventually all this contaminated oil will have to be diluted and over time it will be diluted with good and eventually all this bad oil in storage will be mixed with good oil until the concentration goes down below the acceptable threshold. So technologically that’s doable, it’s just probably a very long process depending obviously on the concentration of the contaminant,” Kokin said.
Asked if the oil contamination would affect Russia’s reputation, Kokin said, “It seems like something that was completely unexpected and unprecedented and something that just never happened before. It feels that nobody was ready for this. Russian companies weren’t ready and obviously the Europeans weren’t ready for this but hopefully it won’t repeat itself in the future.”
Reliance on Russian energy
However, Justin Urquhart Stewart, director at Seven Investment Management in London, said relying heavily on Russia for energy supplies is a risky proposition.
“Frankly, our politicians should have realised that the very day they started signing contracts with Russia,” Urquhart Stewart told New Europe in an interview on 22 May. “It was always going to be a risk and I think that now if you look over the examples of the last few years of constraints in the reliability of consistent delivery in the pipelines whether it’s issues with Ukraine and now, in terms of the caliber and quality of the product, Germany especially needs be extremely concerned about how dependent it is upon Russian oil and they should be seeking urgently at least for political reasons have the ability to stand independently of Russia,” Urquhart Stewart said.
On 15 May, Interfax quoted Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak as saying that it would take a month to estimate the total cost of damage from contaminated oil in the Druzhba pipeline.
Kokin told New Europe that it’s too early to access the damage to European refineries. “Eventually it will be accessed the amount of damage and probably will be measured in terms of the cost of repairing those refineries and bringing them back to normal shape. It will take time. It won’t be clear overnight,” Kokin said.
The real cost of Russia’s dirty oil
Urquhart Stewart asked, “Who’s actually going to pay for it?” “If it is substandard quality product then you should be refusing payment on future deliveries until the previous loss has actually been either sorted out or compensation has been made for. This is straightforward contractual law and that’s where politics can get in the way,” the London-based expert argued. “It’s not just the claims for poor quality goods. It’s also the associated damages with this in terms of the delay, reputation and the further quality down the line in terms of further cleaning of the product,” he added.
Western buyers of Russian oil were taken by surprise and left in the dark by a lack of communication from Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft about how long the crisis would take to resolve, Urquhart Stewart said. “At that time, they were too concerned about giving assured delivery rather than necessarily questioning the caliber and quality of it so I think this story is going run a lot longer,” he argued.
Kokin said who is going to pay depends on the contractual relationship between the Russian exporters, Transneft and the European offtakers. “It’s hard to tell who is going to pay but someone definitely is going to pay. I don’t think that those Russian companies that are supposed to pay that they will try to wiggle out of this. I don’t think so. I think they will do what’s required because major relationships are at stake,” the Moscow-based expert said.
Urquhart Stewart said Russia’s worst oil supply disruption comes at a time when many European politicians are warning against increasing reliance on Russia for energy supplies.
“The damage relating to it is it going to significantly affect other supplies as well because that means it will have to be replaced by somebody else, therefore you’re going to find a constriction in supply and now if you are now going to be also seeing further concerns over political issues with Russia, it’s going to further add aggravation at a time of great sensitivity to the diplomatic issues between them,” he said. “But now it’s the time actually to be extremely firm with the caliber of this because you do not wish to be associated to poor quality goods. You must be rejecting that quality and making sure that you have further assurances for the future. Otherwise, you will be seen as been politically very weak indeed like Germany may well seem to be in the moment,” Urquhart Stewart argued.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly scolded the boss of pipeline operator Transneft over the contamination scandal, Reuters reported on 1 May.
But Urquhart Stewart said the issue is restoring the quality of oil. “That’s lovely headlines but in terms of what is actually been done, it’s not so much the people, as far as the companies are concerned, they want to know that they will be properly reimbursed for it. The fact a few unfortunate souls are gonna lose their jobs, well that’s the least of the issues. Frankly, that will be all about Putin trying to appear big and butch and trying to assert himself. No, no, it all needs to come back to the caliber and quality of product being produced. Are they reliable enough to produce quality products or are they are actually just in a position where they cannot be relied upon to produce good quality stuff and therefore source alternative supplies?” he asked, adding: “Russia does not need that now.”
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Turkish defense company Aselsan will meet the Pakistani Naval Forces’ countermeasure system needs against torpedo missiles with its domestically developed system. With the purchase, Pakistan becomes the second country after Indonesia to use the Zargana, which is the first and only system developed in Turkey and superior than its counterparts worldwide. The Zargana Anti-Torpedo Countermeasure System for submarines was developed by the defense company for foreign purchasers as a different version of the domestic system. The system Pakistan is set to buy will also be adapted to the country’s Khalid (Agosta 90B)-class diesel-electricsubmarines. Aselsan has also supplied the Zoka system to Indonesia for the service’s Nagapasa (Chang Bogo)-class submarines. Zargana System uses Zoka Acoustic jammers and decoys.
The Zargana provides the highest level of defense against torpedoes with its autonomous operation and quick reaction time and can be integrated into operator-controlled inputs or submarine systems that provide real-time data. The countermeasure tactics of the system include evasive maneuvering, different deployment patterns and acoustic jammers/decoys. After detecting and classifying the threat, the system determines the most appropriate avoidance tactic against torpedoes targeting submarines while taking into account environmental conditions with real-time data provided by the submarine. Acoustic jammers deployed by the system prevent the torpedo from detecting the submarine’s location, while acoustic decoys imitate the submarine and deceive the torpedo. The missile and launcher system has up to 24 different launcher cells, single or salvo firing with high reliability and fireproofing properties.


I was researching how John Kerry rose to such material prominence and came upon a couple reports about John Heinz death in 1991. The most compelling was an article written by Admiral Cloudberg December 2020 wherein the circumstances appear rather bizarre to say the least.
As such I came upon another article posted in EducationForum which summarizes the three editions written by Richard Sprague, The Taking of America’ 1 2 3, published in 1976-1977.
Sprague spent 17 years researching the Kennedy assassination. He died in 1991 from unknown causes.
The Warren Commission chaired by Warren, also has experienced suicides: Hale Boggs disappeared in an airplane in 1972. Richard Russell died in 1971 from complications. CIA Director Dulles who founded the MKUltra Mind Control tactic, died in 1969 of flu.
You get the picture – the Cabal is investigating the Cabal. It is why the Cabal never dies. Every president and vice president have complied… including Reagan. Some just comply with a little more fervor; Carter, Clinton, Bush, Obama… But cleaners are needed to vacuum up the mess of complicit politicians.
John Kerry is a true enigma, a lackluster student barely scraping by he has managed to create an illuminating career and vast marital wealth beyond imagination! He married the widow, just 4 years after John Heinz rather odd death. Not only did he get the widow, he got Heinz’ wealth and he got politics. With her money, Kerry was now in-charge.
In his book, Sprague goes back to The Bay of Pigs as the beginning of the end. The CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense had clandestinely decided to create an assassination ‘subsidiary’ that would take out whomever they regarded as infringing on the New World Order plan. At the top of the US list was JFK, RFK, MLK and MJK, all assassinated utilizing common tactics that these agencies had secured.
But assassinations were hardly limited to US individuals. This was a Global Affair from the beginning. And always has been about Total Power.
Sprague’s book mentions the term The Cabal, as having been created by some obscure author in 1968. Instead Sprague chose to identify them as the Power Control Group, PCG. Sprague claims the PCG is a continuum of operations that involves assassination, mind control, media, and taking over the Presidency.
Defacto in this is President Trump put a YUGE poison dart in their schematic. Putin has been a thorn as well. And taking out Russia with Navalny has proven to be futile.
What we are witnessing with the Biden Rule of massive numbers of EO’s is catchup, or ketchup, or catsup.
While assassinations are typically more often performed to eliminate anyone whose power enables them to reveal identities, witnesses sometimes emerge from the crosshairs and are eliminated as well – as in Hillary’s catchall phrase, “He’s dead what difference does it make?”.
The assassinations typically are designed to look like a bizarre suicide (Kate Spade, Epstein) or accident (Heinz, Tower), or they utilize a patsy to take the fall, some having operated under mind control. The book goes on to detail the extent to which weaponry and mind-control have been perfected beyond anything citizens would likely comprehend or accept. This is 1970, 50 years ago.
What they had then vs now would be the equivalent of using a fountain pen to write a 500 page book. Fifty years to improve on tactics, techniques, and the ability to remotely self-combust an individual, remotely control their car, their plane, their children…. wields quite a heavy hand.
While John Heinz peculiar accident was probably an assassination, the following day John Tower died – both by airplanes. Heinz pilot apparently had only 72 hours of training and had been cited previously for recklessness. He claimed the landing gear was not locked. Tower’s plane was switched at the very last minute and crashed at landing.
Tower, Republican, led the Tower Commission investigating the Iran/Contra affair. Heinz, a Republican, chaired a review board regarding the Iran/Contra affair. According to researcher Rodney Stich in Defrauding America, “when George Bush Sr. and CIA Director William Casey engineered the October Surprise to bribe Iranian officials into retaining U.S. hostages until after the 1980 elections, two of the passengers on Bush’s BAC 111 flight to Paris were Senator John Heinz, along with Senator John Tower from Texas”.
There are no coincidences.
Kerry was likely already chosen to take over John Heinz power, wealth and wife.
Many of the initial Power Control Group have died, and others are aging significantly. John Kerry is 77, Kissinger is 97, Soros is 90, Volcker, Clinton, etc…, the changing of the guards is a necessary continuum.
Unlike their predecessors, the new generation is rife with incompetence and a pointed lack of intellect or critical thinking capabilities; Harris, AOC, Omar, Trudeau, Buttigeig, Beto, etc… Even Soros 4 sons are not nearly as capable as their father. Finding appropriate satanics in the hemisphere who have the capacity to handle the batons proficiently is a dwindling supply. Obsessions with pedophilia and money seem more prevalent for these addicts, albeit ultimately useless except for continued blackmail. As such, their ability to rule, their brilliance, their tactical acuity are void components of their brains.
The Group doesn’t want idiots. They simply use idiots as a distraction, nothing more. So who are the real Avatars behind the marionettes in DC chosen by Biden’s handler?
I would guess Michael Chertoff, Steve Hasker, Bloomberg, Jerome Powell, Jens Weidmann of BIS, Alastair MacWillson, etc… They don’t make the news – because that would be counter-productive to the entire rule.
While people like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates, and Larry Page wield weight and money, they aren’t actually terribly bright, they simply were inserted to fulfill a necessary anonymity for the Powers that be. While giving them vast access to wealth meant nothing to The Powers, controlling that wealth was a necessary contract.
The final Chapter of Sprague’s book, The Taking of America, begins with George Orwell. By 1979, congress, the courts, the media, had all conspired to usher in the Great Orwellian World. And Sprague was fearful given that would be in a mere six years.
We are now beyond. Which means they failed. Which means they are NOT as intellectually adept as they use the media to portray. The players now prefer the illusion. Which means – they CAN be defeated. Which means – We Have Power.


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Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons on 11th May 2020.
What assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of local housing allowance during the covid-19 outbreak.
In April, in response to covid-19, we introduced increased local housing allowance rates for housing benefit and universal credit claimants to the 30th percentile of local rents, providing additional support for private renters. This significant investment cost almost £1 billion and ensures that more than 1 million households will see an increase, on average, of £600 per year.
Thousands of families in Britain are at risk of being pushed into homelessness as a result of this crisis. What urgent steps is the Minister taking to ensure that the most vulnerable will not lose their homes as a result of the covid-19 outbreak, at a time when there is no option to find cheaper accommodation to move to?
Over and above the measures introduced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, we have increased universal credit and working tax credits by more than £1,000 a year, and increased the local housing allowance rates. In this respect, in southern Greater Manchester, which covers Stockport, the two-bedroom LHA has been increased by £76 a month—£900 a year—and the four-bedroom rate in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency has increased by over £200 a month. That extra £6.5 billion going into our welfare system is supporting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in our society.


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Tverrbytthornet is 2,102 meters (6,896 feet) tall and is located in Lom in Norway. Tverrbytthornet has a prominence of 275 meters (902 feet).
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Images documenting everyday life in the Claremont Village neighborhood of The Bronx will light up the neighborhood in an exhibition by members of the Bronx Photo League.
Called ‘Claremont Illuminated’, the outdoor exhibition will be projected throughout the neighborhood onto spaces such as vacant lots and public stairwells with the assistance of artist Ethan Vogt.
According to an article in NextCity:
For far too long, The Bronx had its stories told by outsiders without the knowledge and histories of our neighborhoods nor the nuances and fabric that makes up our vibrant borough.
It’s important for our communities to be able to tell their own stories and this exhibition is one of them.


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Over 125 years later, Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. (O-A-K) is the longest-standing commercial construction manager and general contractor in the State of Michigan and two-time recipient of the Michigan Contractor of the Yearaward. We have also maintained a steady presence in Southwest Florida for over 30 years. Our offices are located in: Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo (Michigan); and Fort Myers and Naples (Florida).
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Gooding Postpones Rodeo
Gooding, Idaho: After months of monitoring and discussion, plans for the Gooding County Fair & Rodeo have changed. Gooding County Commissioners sought input from the Fair Manager, all elected county officials and representatives from North Canyon Medical Center before rendering a final decision this morning. All agreed, the best decision to protect the community and avoid a significant financial loss was to cancel some elements of the event and postpone others.
The rodeo has been postponed with plans to monitor conditions and hopefully to proceed at a later date.
4H events will continue during fair week with some adjustments to abide by social distancing guidelines.
The Market Animal Sale will be held Saturday, August 22nd at 10:00 in the arena to aide with social distancing requirements.
“This was not a knee-jerk decision,” stated Don Gill, Gooding County Fair Manager. “I have been working with the County Commissioners and North Canyon Medical Center for months as we monitored the COVID cases and discussed the risks a large event could have on our county. We are devastated to change our plans for the fair & rodeo, but we all agreed it was the right decision. In addition to COVID concerns, there is a huge financial impact that had to be taken into consideration.”
Officials analyzed the impact a wide-spread outbreak in Gooding County could have on the community including the risk of businesses being shut down again, the risk of schools not being able to reopen and the impact an outbreak would have on local healthcare. “This was an extremely difficult decision and one we did not take lightly. Just two weeks ago there was a high level of confidence we could move forward with the full event but the increase in COVID cases across Idaho the past two weeks changed that perception. While we did not want to change this event, we had to look at the long-term impacts a wide-spread outbreak could have on the residents and businesses of Gooding County,” stated Mark Bolduc, Gooding County Commissioners.
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