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A few days after the announcement that Dave Bautista has joined the cast of Knives Out 2, it is now the turn of Edward Norton and Janelle Monáe to join Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as Detective Benoit Blanc.
The original cast of the first film included Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer and Toni Collette. Details of the plot for the new film are still being kept under wraps and it is not known if any of the original cast will join Craig.
The addition of these two actors to the cast is a sign of producer Rian Johnson‘s impressive script. Norton is a three-time Academy Award nominee and has become a major figure in what he does, including roles in Wes Anderson‘s Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, as well as the upcoming The French Dispatch.
An eight-time Grammy nominee, Monae broke into the film world with her performances in Moonlight – which won the Oscar for ‘Best Picture’ – and Hidden Figures. In addition to her work as an artist, Janelle is also CEO of the multimedia company Wondaland Arts Society.
In a massive $469 million deal, Netflix secured the rights to two Knives Out sequels and a ready-made franchise. The only conditions of the deal were that Craig had to star in the sequels and that each had to have at least the budget of the 2019 film, which was around $40 million.
Production of the second film is expected to begin in the summer in Greece.

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New Broker-In-Charge at Briar's Creek
May 24, 2018 – Johns Island, SC – Briar's Creek Land Company is pleased to announce that Will Freeman has been named Broker-In-Charge of real estate sales for the community. A native Charlestonian who grew up on the Peninsula, he brings a wealth of local knowledge and real estate expertise to the company.
Briar's Creek is located between Downtown Charleston and Kiawah Island, SC. Set on more than 800 acres of scenic Johns Island, this exclusive family retreat provides an unhurried lifestyle and world-class golf with no tee times. The Golf Club at Briar's Creek was named America's Best New Private Course in 2002, and the community is so pristine that Audubon International designated it a Silver Signature Sanctuary.
Freeman's efforts include aggressively pricing available lots and homes to renew interest in the development stalled by the recession. To further attract buyers, Briar's Creek Land Company is focusing on flexible building requirements. There are no build time requirements for lot purchasers, the minimum home size is now 2,500 square feet, and the HOA dues are only $2,400/year. Estate lots are one to eight acres in size, offering privacy and plenty of space for creative building.
"Savvy investors and home buyers are taken with the neighborhood's natural beauty and are taking full advantage of the incentives and pricing." states Freeman. "We have several spec homes underway, and have already surpassed the 2018 sales goals for lots. It's exciting to watch the development flourish.”
It helps that Briar's Creek is adjacent to the Kiawah River Plantation development, which will feature 1,200 new homes on 2,000 acres, with 20 miles of shoreline on the Kiawah River. This development will bring more shopping, dining and amenities to the area, all of which Briar's Creek residents will benefit from. The world-renowned Kiawah Island Golf Resort is also situated across the river from both communities, and Seabrook Island is only minutes away. Charleston was ranked the "World's Best City" by readers of Travel + Leisure Magazine, and is only 20 minutes from Briar's Creek.
To learn more about the community and available real estate, visit https://www.briarscreeklandco.com/.

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Mostly throughout 2019, a shelf-full of assorted VHS tapes sat in the dining room of my apartment-mansion with barely a way to play them. I’d fallen out of interest with the hobby of collecting tapes or even watching movies. Watching Adjust Your Tracking hasn’t turned me into a passionate tapehead again. Rather, ruminating on what these collectors enjoy about the hobby has solidified what I want from movies, VHS tapes, and what I want to watch.
What are sports but competitions against an increasingly better version of yourself? For a show like Breakers, which explores para-athletes trying sports starting with wheelchair basketball, there are themes of overcoming adversity, rising to challenges, and self-betterment. Most anime, and most entertainment in general, follow these same themes. The fun is watching these characters face these challenges and learn to overcome them naturally, not so much any narrative drama over whether or not they’ll win.
I’ve loved the Lupin III series for longer than I knew why. There’s just something about a gentleman thief and overpowered crew getting into wacky hijinks before always seeming to make it out alive that’s appealing in a world so stifled by insufferable formalities. What happens when an anti-hero from the past arrives in the present laden with smartphones, drones, and everything digital that could usurp his throne, and cause his reputation to lay prone?
Rating: ★★★★★ [5/5]
Between Pet and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, I think Pet might be my favorite show of the 2020 Winter season. Eizouken might be the better show overall from factors like animation quality, imagination, and excitement. I’ve always been more of a fan of media that makes you better for having experienced it. When you know what’s important to you, you tend to gravitate toward similar media. For me, I’m always hooked in by open-ended thoughts.
Even before the opening song in episode 1 of Pet, we already explore an uncommon psychological depth. Why do we like macabre media? What horrors do we internalize because we are too sensitive to the outside world? What if we locked away these peaks [emotional highs] and valleys [emotional lows]? Could we navigate the grime and glitter of this world with more ease? These are some questions Pet meanders through, so let’s meander through them, too.
While covering episodes 1 and 2 of currently-airing anime Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, I wrote meandry academic thoughts between screenshots in a gallery experiment. Although an exceedingly fun and clever show, with moderately deep characters and creative artistic flourishes, I’m not the most qualified to academically study it. Instead, let’s meander over an idea from the episode. How does someone make and complete a project, fulfilling and profitable, under what might seem like an impossible deadline?
Each episode of Sengoku Choujuu Giga is abstract, adapting the historical Choju-jinbutsu-giga scrolls [translating to “Animal Person Caricatures,” or, Scrolls of Frolicking Animals] into 3-minute limited animation poems in anime format. The implied storytelling with its unconventional humor puts a unique twist on teaching real events, possibly. Concluding the first season review from years ago, the episode synopses below will impressionistically recreate the episodes through stylistically poetic interpretations of haiku with interpretive kigo, or maybe not.
Can we draw inspiration from disparate media? Can the pillow shots of Ozu Yasujiro inspire anime? Can the descriptive-epithets of Homer and the makura-kotoba [pillow-words] of waka poetry inspire anime? Can we depict that which is invisible, like wind, by that which is around it? Can impressive background art inspire writing? We’ll meander through these questions and more in this week’s review of last week’s episode of the currently airing Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!.
Within the first twenty-four seconds of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, I had the same wonderment as the first character of our trio. Midori is “carsick” or maybe apprehensive about her lifestyle change moving into a new city until she sees it. We see it through the same quiet awe over what adventures may unfold as she does through this anime’s weird art aesthetic, frenetic energy, and visceral examination of a grimy yet glittery reality.
Didn’t Kondo Marie already write a book about getting rid of stuff? Why would there need to be another book? Which is the better one? Both have their advantages. Whereas The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up broaches the topic of reducing clutter in general terms, Spark Joy goes into specifics with drawings and applicable examples. If the former book is like an essay arguing a point, the latter book presents the execution on those arguments.


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TWO DAYS * TWO FESTIVALS * ONE SEMINAR
EUROSONIC / NOORDERSLAG
7 & 8 January 2000, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Breaking New European Artists
- Live EBU Radio Broadcast Throughout Europe
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- 1000 Professional Participants
- Panels And Meetings on Dutch and European music
On 7 and 8 January 2000, the city of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands hosts EuroSonic/Noorderslag, one of the main musical events in Northwest Europe. Comprising of two festivals and one conference in two days, Noorderslag puts you in touch with the movers and shakers of European radio, European festivals and the European live music industry, and brings you the best of new European and Dutch talent.
EuroSonic/Noorderslag consists of three elements:
- Noorderslag Seminar
Noorderslag is held in the city of Groningen, 180 km northeast of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, approximately 2 hours by train from Schiphol Airport
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Noorderslag, EuroSonic and the Noorderslag Seminar are organised by the Noorderslag Foundation, a co-operation of the Conamus Foundation, De Oosterpoort Groningen and NPI, the Dutch Rock & Pop Institute.
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Inventario 08: Everything Is A Project
This edition begins with an investigation into our fascination with hands, prevalent throughout the history of visual art. From there it moves on to feature a diverse spectrum of both past and current makers and thinkers. From Rudolf Stingel’s carpeted Palazzo Grassi, DIY architect Allan Wexler and the interior projects of architect Carlo Mollino, to the frank and witty commentary of visual artist Helmut Smits, the (re)arrangement of everyday things by Haim Steinbach, Marco Botti’s oxymorons and more, the assortment is as intense as it is entertaining. An extensive interview with British product and furniture designer Jasper Morrison completes the volume.
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Like clockwork, the arrival of March also marks the arrival of my all-consuming spring fever.
I am so sick of coats and layers.
I am so sick of snow boots and sweaters and gloves.
I am so sick of inside days and bone chilling winds.
I miss sunshine and flowers and days spent on the front porch swing.
I spent 45 minutes browsing shades of yellow paint for our front door today. I caught myself gazing longingly at the maxi dresses tucked away at the back of my closet.
I'm so over you, winter.
So completely over you.
24 long, agonizing days until we find out who has set up shop in my uterus.
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Vasectomy Reversal in Athens, GA
Patients who have previously received a vasectomy will occasionally change their mind later on for a wide variety of reasons. While a vasectomy is a permanent form of birth control, there is a procedure that can reverse its effects.
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Future of Nepal has gone in the wrong hands
After the euphoria of the so called April Revolution, the nation and its citizens seem to be slowly getting back into the reality of the situation. Especially their belief (if they ever truly believed) that the same incompetent and corrupt politicians would take the country out of the quagmire towards a brighter future is being shattered—those they helped into power have started showing their true face. The leader of this pack of incompetent politicians—no matter what his supporter would like to believe him as—is undoubtedly Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. He has been the one who is trusted at every crucial period in the country’s political landscape post-1990, and he is without a doubt the one who has betrayed the peoples trust in him the most. Let us go through a few of his political sins— so to speak.
After the first general election following the 1990 revolution, GP Koirala was chosen the leader of NC to head a majority government for the NC, making him the first elected PM of Nepal post-1990 democratic era. Within a couple of years we witnessed scandals after scandals – from Dhamija kanda to Tanakpur kanda— very little progress in country’s socio-economic and political development. The same period saw the rise of corrupt politicians in Chiranjibi Wagle, Govind Raj Joshi, Khum Bahadur Khadka et al. The example set by the opposition wasn’t that good either – instead of playing the role of a strong and credible opposition in the parliament, they took it to the streets on every occasion of discontent, with numerous Nepal Bandhs crippling the economy. Strangely, within three years, the majority government of GP Koirala fell with MPs of his own party revolting against him. Who is to blame for this failure? I blame Mr Koirala himself. He was the one given responsibility by his party and by the people to lead the country in a new democratic era. Instead, he chose to put his own interest over that of the nation, put a blind eye to all the corruption within his government and beyond. And when the matter came to him, he chose to dissolve the parliament rather than looking for a compromise solution within his party which had a majority seat in the parliament. The example he set then has been followed time and again ever since.
The second crucial period in Nepal’s political landscape was the royal palace massacre, in which everybody but Gyanendra’s family died, and Mr GP Koirala was the PM at that time as well. The murder of everybody but Gyanendra’s family smelled fishy to everybody else but those in power. GP Koirala, being the PM, supposedly with the “real” power, couldn’t take a stance against Gyanendra to order a full enquiry into the massacre. He wasn’t strong enough to tell Gyanendra that the monarchy’s relevance was finished with the murder of King Birendra and his family, and that until full and proper investigation of the palace massacre, no proclamation will be made on the successor. Instead he was quick to proclaim Gyanendra a king. I am sure many of our generation like me were wishing an end to the monarchy there and then after the palace massacre. Instead, under GP Koirala, we found ourselves betrayed once again with a mock investigation by another rotten politician post-1990, Taranath Ranabhat, into the palace massacre, blaming everything on Dipendra and clearing way for Gyanendra and his cronies to assume power without any hindrance. It was like feeding snake the milk, only to find oneself being bitten by that same snake, as we saw GP Koirala not lasting long in power after Gyanendra became the king.
I think it is quite scary to see that same person, GP Koirala, as PM at this crucial juncture in our country’s political landscape. If we are to look into his actions during his previous reigns as PM, it becomes clear that he cannot take strong and decisive actions when it matters. No matter how politically strong people see him as (and within his own party, he is undoubtedly very strong), he has turned out to be rather weak when it comes to taking a stance against the rich and the powerful (like Gyanendra), taking strong decisive actions in country’s interest (like sacking corrupt ministers from his cabinet). Now, at yet another time of need, he is starting to show his weakness – by talking in favour of keeping monarchy when majority of the people seem to be against it. Has he forgotten what Gyanendra did to our country and the political system since becoming the king? It is rather ironic that people like GP Koirala are in power today because of the April Revolution, which is still being remembered for its anti-monarchy slogans. The parliament was revived not for the MPs to usurp the allowances and conduct petty debates and make laughable decisions (such as making COAS take oath to the Speaker, only to see him disobey government directives time and again) but for making decisions on constituent assembly election, interim constitution, interim government etc. Now, they all seem to have forgotten the purpose of the House revival and are content with the allowances and the benefits they are getting.
Who should we blame for all this? I blame the leader of the pack – GP Koirala. His lack of strong leadership and willingness to take strong and decisive actions when needed clearly shows that he is not up for the responsibility he is given. He has betrayed peoples’ trust many times before and there is no guarantee he wouldn’t do so again, especially judging by the remarks like that he made recently about “giving monarchy a space”. It is clear that the members in his cabinet, like Amik Serchan, are not happy with his remarks or the slow pace of progress made under his leadership in resolving the country’s political problem. Furthermore, Baburam Bhattarai’s response to GP Koirala’s remarks on monarchy signals to a difficult period ahead, which will certainly require a strong credible leader to take the country in the direction of a peaceful resolution of the conflict and to a brighter future. I am not sure GP Koirala is that leader. Nepal and Nepalese will probably be better off getting rid of this octogenarian now – before it is too late, before we are betrayed again.
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Hoarding: When Collecting Goes Bad
Speaker: Karen Kent
Thursday, 12/12/13 from 3:00 - 4:00 pm at Qualis Health in Northgate
Karen Kent is a licensed mental health therapist and has been in the field for 35 years. She has worked with hoarders for 15 of those years. Karen currently owns her own business named Geriatric Creative Services.
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Announcing a New Co-Director
The de Tornyay Center is pleased to announce that Dean Emerita Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods will be joining Dr. Barbara Cochrane as co-director of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging, effective November 1st. As we celebrate Dean Emeritus Rheba de Tornyay's career and life, we welcome Dr. Woods and the School of Nursing's commitment to the Center's role in leading gerontological research and education.
Dr. Cochrane and Dr. Woods
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Dr. Woods joined the School of Nursing faculty in 1978 and has focused her research and teaching efforts on women's health for more than 40 years, while currently she is focused on healthy aging in older women. Dr. Woods and Dr. Cochrane have served as investigators together in the past and look forward to continuing their collaborative relationship in the future through their work for the de Tornyay Center's expanding role in leading gerontological research and education.
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We get it. You have other stuff going on and you’ve heard a lot of competing ideas about the Voice. There are some people who want you to believe the Voice is too complex for you to understand. Yeah, nah.
You’ve got this! Have a read so you’re prepared the next time someone tries to bamboozle you.
What is the Voice to Parliament?
The Voice to Parliament stems from the very simple idea that everyone deserves a meaningful say over the issues that affect their daily lives.
An “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice” would be a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, elected by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to consider new laws that would affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Voice would then provide advice back to parliament.
When we take advice from other people with different perspectives, we can often find better solutions. The Parliament would not have to always agree with the Voice or act on the Voice’s advice, but the Voice will be able to make recommendations for Parliament to consider.
In other words, our country will benefit from the insight and knowledge of the world’s oldest living culture.
Where did this idea come from?
In 2017, over 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders met to consider options for potential changes to the constitution to formally recognise Australia’s first peoples.
243 of these 250 leaders agreed, in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’, to call for the establishment of a ‘First Nations Voice’ in the Australian Constitution. The Uluru Statement called for Voice, Treaty, and Truth.
How will the referendum work?
Later this year, all Australians on the electoral roll will be asked vote on the following question:
A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Do you approve this proposed alteration?
Just like a regular election, it is compulsory to cast a vote at a referendum. The voting process will be similar to last year’s federal election.
You will be asked to write “Yes” or “No”.
What is the constitution?
The Constitution of Australia is like the basic rules of Government.
The Constitution establishes the composition of the Australian Parliament, describes how Parliament works and what powers it has. It also outlines how the federal and state Parliaments share power, and the roles of the executive government and the High Court of Australia. It took effect on 1 January 1901.
The constitution has been changed eight times since then. The constitution can only be changed by a referendum – a vote of everyone in Australia.
A national majority of all Australian voters, as well as a majority of states (but not territories) need to vote YES for the referendum to succeed.
Why does the Voice need to be in the Constitution?
For too long, Governments have created – but then defunded, silenced and abolished - different bodies intended to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ wishes. Because these bodies were legislated by the Parliament, Parliament could easily legislate them away.
But if the Australian people collectively demand an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice embedded in the Constitution, only we, the Australian people, can remove it.
Parliament will still be able to make changes to the form and function of the body through legislation if they need to, but the only way they can remove the Voice entirely will be through another referendum.
Why do we need this at all?
The Uluru Statement from the Heart puts it best:
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
Is a Voice divisive?
Refusing to talk about inequalities doesn’t erase them. We have to be courageous and honest with ourselves about the ways our country can do better.
When Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live shorter lives with worse health outcomes, get paid lower wages, live in communities deprived of decent infrastructure and are obstructed in their access to education, we are ALREADY a nation divided.
All of this has happened on the watch of politicians who have spent generations insisting they know better than the people affected by their decisions.
All of us deserve equality, and the chance to really be heard by the people making the laws that affect our lives. By asking us to support the Voice to Parliament, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are extending an invitation to all Australians to help them be heard too – because clearly, governments don’t have all the answers.
But aren’t Aboriginal people represented in Parliament already?
An electorate may choose an Aboriginal MP, but Aboriginal communities don’t currently have the power to elect someone to represent them.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up only 3% of the Australian population, and are a minority in nearly every electorate in Australia. Politicians follow votes – and Aboriginal votes are too often ignored in deference to bigger or more powerful groups.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will continue to be able to vote for their local, state and federal government representatives just like everyone else. They will also be invited to elect representatives to the Voice, who will advise the Parliament.
Why isn’t there more detail?
There is ample information publicly available to make an informed choice about what we can expect from the proposed Voice to Parliament, including a comprehensive set of guiding principles at ulurustatement.org
Once we have established the existence of the Voice in the Constitution, additional finer details will be debated in Parliament, through regular law-making processes. This gives everyone more flexibility to make sure the Voice works as intended, and that the way it’s put together reflects the expectations of the Australian people.
How will this actually improve things for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
We all want to see practical solutions for Aboriginal people, but nothing happens overnight.
Embedding a Voice in the constitution will empower Aboriginal communities to determine better outcomes by having a direct say on what really works, based on their own lived experience.
With a strong representative Voice providing advice, the government will have better information and more accurate insights, which will in turn mean they are better able to respond to the various needs of different communities with better laws.
The Voice is a simple, practical step in the right direction.
What about Aboriginal people who oppose it?
Aboriginal communities are diverse, and it’s not surprising that there are different priorities and different views within Aboriginal communities.
However, poll after poll indicates that over 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people support the Voice, and are inviting you to support it too.
Ultimately, if the Voice succeeds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can choose how much they will participate in Voice processes.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) detectives are seeking the public’s assistance in locating the suspect(s) responsible for burning 2-year-old pit bull named “Justice.”
On November 2, 2018 at approximately 3:30 p.m. the Shelby County Animal Shelter received a call on an injured dog in the area of 900 North and 400 West. An Animal Control Officer was then dispatched to the area to investigate further. Upon the officers arrival he found that the dog, Justice, had entered a vehicle of someone who had stopped to check on the dog’s welfare. The officer then approached the truck and removed Justice which was observed to be a tan male pit bull. The officer quickly observed that Justice had several injuries that were consistent with being burned on its head, ears, neck, eyes and other parts of its body.
Justice was found to be wearing a pink 1 ½ inch collar with no tags. The officer then transported Justice back to the Shelby County Animal Shelter. Justice was checked for a micro-chip and was none was found.
On November 3, 2018 Justice was evaluated and transported the dog to Indy Vet Hospital in Indianapolis for further treatment. Detectives are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317.262.TIPS
The Shelbyville/Shelby County Animal Shelter is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction for the person or people responsible for Justice’s injuries, to be eligible email your tip to firstname.lastname@example.org
*Note: The following link contains images that some may find disturbing of Justice and his injuries. Viewer discretion is advised.


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Lowest Mortgage Rates Since April
Rates for 30-year mortgages dropped to 5.75% last week, the lowest rate since April. This compares to a rate of 6.16% one year ago. It's still a great time to buy that new dream home! For more details, visit the Detroit Free Press.
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Natacha Akide popularly known as Tacha has described Nigerians as slaves in her reaction to the recent increment in fuel pump price.
The Nigerian government had increased the fuel price to N212 per liter, few weeks after assuring its citizens there wouldn’t be a rise.
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) announced late Thursday that the new retail price for a litre of petrol for the month will be between N209.61 and N212.61.
The amount sold to fuel depot owners to marketers, will be N206.42, while the landing cost stands at N189.61 per litre, the agency said.
Reacting to the development in a video sighted by LailasNews, Tacha questioned the independence of Nigerians, as she described what is happening in the country as a master slave relationship.
She also sighted the freezing of account of protesters, saying the government might freeze the account of anyone who complains about the situation in the country.
Watch her speak below;
BBNaija Tacha responds to new fuel price at N212. Says Nigerians are slaves.pic.twitter.com/WCORvIYVcz
— Laila Ijeoma | Lailasnews.com (@LailaIjeoma) March 12, 2021
She also wrote on Twitter;
Na ment!! Make all of us dey suffer dey go! The target is N500 per liter! Then our messiah Dangote will come and sell to us @ 350 so let’s not complain too much!
Imagine having 4Refineries the Govt. have made sure not to be working! But we are all waiting for DANGOTE!! Wow


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Rich in scenic beauty, wide open spaces, soaring mountain peaks, craggy outcrops and a great diversity of flora, the Cederberg is a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers and mountaineers as well as those seeking a serene and peaceful retreat. Approximately 200km's from Cape Town and stretching for about 70km's from Citrusdal to Clanwilliam, the Cederberg mountain range is a proclaimed wilderness area incorporating some 130 000 hectares.
The Cederberg is famous for its spectacular rock formations, some of which we deposited in the area between 500 and 345 million years ago. Years of erosion have created unusual rock formations, crevices and outcrops and a variety of well-laid out hiking trails traverse the reserve leading to points such as the Maltese Cross, the Wolfberg Arch and Wolfberg Cracks amongst others. The mountains also provide excellent opportunities for rock climbing, and the caves and overhangs are home to some fine displays of San rock art, reminders of the lives led by the early Bushman inhabitants of the area.
The Cederberg was named after the Clanwilliam cedars which used to flourish in this mountainous area - not in fact cedars, but rather a species of cypress indigenous to South Africa. The extremely unique and rare white snow protea can also be found here, high above the snow line on the mountain slopes and blooming in March. The main campsite in the area is Algeria.


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Opinionated Formula 1 journalist Peter Windsor has warned the sport over what he sees as a concerning trend.
Speaking on The F1 Hour, Windsor criticised the sport's growing reliance on street and street-hybrid circuits, with long straights emphasising DRS overtakes rather than skilful ones.
He highlighted the potential departure of purist fans and, more significantly, the diminishing platform for drivers to showcase their exceptional skills, casting doubt on the production of talents comparable to the likes of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.
Windsor: Standards will drop
“The problem is that the standard of driving will go down because the very great drivers will have fewer and fewer opportunities to show the difference in skill level," he said.
"For me, there’s nothing nicer than watching a Max Verstappen or a Lewis or a Charles [Leclerc] or an Oscar [Piastri] displaying a talent that is above the ordinary. And that may well go, the opportunities to do that may well go with this trend.”
In his detailed analysis, Windsor pointed out F1's increasing dependence on DRS and high-speed braking corners to inject excitement into races.
Vegas illustrates Windsor's concerns
He also expressed concern over the sport's reliance on strategic camera angles to enhance the viewer experience, cautioning that this approach might have adverse effects on F1 in the long term.
Windsor then put a spotlight on the Las Vegas Grand Prix circuit as a prime illustration of his concerns, stressing how purist racers, including Verstappen, initially criticised its introduction.
However, even Verstappen's viewpoint shifted after he emerged victorious in the inaugural race.
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Soccer star David Beckham is planning to move to America to escape the "lies" of the British media.
The 30-year-old currently divides his time between Spain, where he plays for Real Madrid, and his family home in England.
But Beckham is sick of his happy home life with former SPICE GIRL VICTORIA BECKHAM and their three children being attacked by women claiming to have had affairs with him in the British press - and he hopes a move to Los Angeles will answer his prayers.
He says, "I love LA. I could get used to this. One thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman.
"A lot of the things said about me in the past year and a half have been lies. The fact is I'm happily married. I love my wife.
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In the world of radar technology, where split-second decisions can make all the difference, 10MHz stability emerges as the keystone for reliable and accurate operations. Let’s explore why this stability is a paramount consideration in the radar domain, unlocking a world of possibilities and precision.
Radar, short for Radio Detection and Ranging, is a sophisticated system that employs electromagnetic waves to detect and track objects, ranging from aircraft and ships to weather phenomena. In this fast-paced and ever-changing environment, having a stable and consistent reference point is of utmost importance.
Enter 10MHz stability—a frequency that oscillates with remarkable precision at 10 million cycles per second. In radar applications, this stable and predictable frequency serves as the backbone for precise timing and synchronization. It ensures that radar systems maintain a common and accurate time reference, vital for coherent data processing and analysis.
Radar technology relies on time-of-flight measurements, where the time taken for a transmitted signal to return after bouncing off an object is precisely calculated. A stable 10MHz frequency allows radar systems to measure these time intervals with incredible accuracy, resulting in precise range measurements and target localization.
Moreover, the stability of the 10MHz frequency is vital for radar resolution. High stability ensures that radar pulses maintain consistent duration and frequency, enhancing the system’s ability to distinguish between closely spaced targets. This capability is crucial in scenarios where radar must detect multiple objects within a short distance from each other.
In military applications, radar’s role in surveillance and threat detection cannot be understated. 10MHz stability enables military radars to accurately detect and track enemy targets, ensuring the highest level of situational awareness and response readiness.
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Bumping around Warwick
A DRIVE around Warwick has become a rough and bumpy endeavour of late, with many streets riddled with potholes.
And it seems Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) is struggling to deal with the extra workload the damaged roads have created, with staff doing extensive overtime and extra workers being assigned to flood-damaged areas.
Problem spots that have been identified throughout the region other than highways include Freestone Rd, Cleary St and Fitzroy St.
SDRC director of engineering Peter See said he would meet with supervisory staff this week to develop strategies on how to deal with the extensive workload.
“All staff are working every work day and are doing extensive overtime to attempt to catch up,” Mr See said.
Some areas are in need of more than a touch-up, with one of the streets hit hardest by flooding in need of a complete overhaul.
The eastern end of Fitzroy St suffered widespread inundation in both floods which has had a dramatic effect on the condition of the road.
“Fitzroy St is to be reconstructed,” Mr See said.
“It has reached the end of its life and the two recent floods have not been kind to it.
“There are massive failures along the edge of Cleary St and this will be fixed as part of the flood damage works.”
Mr See conceded that roads across the entire region were in “fair to poor condition” and said getting the roads back to their pre-flood state would be a lengthy process.
“It will take at least two years to restore the road network to what it was before last October when the extensive wet season began,” he said.
“Council has employed some extra temporary labourers to do specific flood works.”
Mr See said due to the fact it would take a long time to overcome the damage, people should always drive to the road conditions and not just the posted speed limits.
Send your pothole photos to firstname.lastname@example.org
Some of the roads experiencing a large number of potholes include:
- Fitzroy St
- Cleary St
- Freestone Rd


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Assembly: Made In Rhode Island — Fancy Contraption with Steve Schwartz
12 – 1 pm, Contemporary Art Gallery
Part of Locally Made’s One Room.
In Assembly, gather for casual meetings of the minds and unexpected happenings curated by local artists and designers. Congregate for poetry readings, sonic performances, movement, projection, and more.
Kipp Bradford curates Made in Rhode Island: Fancy Contraption, from 10/22-10/27.
Part storytelling, part demo, part discussion. Making Things can sometimes seem like magic. From Air conditioning and Arduino to Robots to Sensors interacting with people and the environment, come behind the scenes to see the magic happen and understand how you too can be part of the world of Makers. — Kipp Bradford
10/22: Steve Schwartz
While an undergrad at Brown, Steve built a gadget to make recording for his music classes easier. The gadget worked much better than it should have, and eventually he joined with a friend to try to turn it into a product. That is the basis of what you will get to see. — Steve Schwartz
Free with museum admission.
Kipp Bradford is an educator, technology consultant, and entrepreneur with a passion for making things. He was the founder or cofounder of start-ups in the fields of transportation, consumer products, HVAC, and medical devices, and holds numerous patents for his inventions. Some of his more interesting projects have turned into Kippkitts. Kipp is the author of Distributed Network Data, (hardware hacking for Data Scientists) and launched the Data Sensing Lab, both with Alasdair Allan. Kipp co-founded Revolution By Design, a non-profit education and research organization dedicated to empowerment through technology and coorganizes Rhode Island’s mini Maker Faire. As the Senior Design Engineer and Lecturer at the Brown University School of Engineering, Kipp teaches several engineering design and entrepreneurship courses. He serves on the boards of The Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art, The Providence Athenaeum, and the community arts organization AS220. He is also on the technical advisory board of MAKE Magazine, is a Fellow at the College of Design, Engineering and Commerce at Philadelphia University, and is an Adjunct Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Steve Schwartz started playing instruments age 4, started taking radios apart age 7. Studied composition at Juilliard before completing undergrad work at Brown, with a concentration in music. Manages recording and sound for many Brown and Community Music Works events. Volunteers as a tutor at Martin Luther King Elementary School.


October 20, 2006 Post-Summit Dispatch by Rob DesLauriers
I lie awake at 11pm in my sleeping bag freezing and nervous. I knew it was time to start getting ready. We had moved to the South Col in the afternoon, trying to eat and drink as much as we could, not an easy task at 26,000ft. The winds had died down and it seemed that the weather window we had been praying for was opening for us. I began my preparations. Getting everything together for a summit bid on Everest requires tedious amounts of time and effort.
Eventually, we departed for our summit bid at 1:45am. At 3:30am, Dave Hahn stopped us all and pointed to the east. We stopped to watch in awe as the moon rose from below us over Tibet. It was a beautiful orange crescent smile. A light wind from the west forced Kit to put her goggles on in the dark to keep her eyeballs from freezing… it was bone chilling cold. The glow of morning sun caught up with us at the “Balcony” at 27,500ft which we reached at 5:15am.
Three hours later we arrived at the South Summit where we waited an hour and a half as we watched Pasang Sherpa lead through steep loose snow on the Hillary step to the final summit ridge. It was an amazing display of difficult and dangerous route fixing at almost 29,000ft. The winds were picking up and a banner plume flowed off the summit to the north. Eventually, the rest of the team crossed the knife edge ridge and moved through the Hillary step. The entire 14 person team shared the summit by 11:00am with spectacular views. It was a beautiful moment for all of us.
As many people say, the summit is only half way. Now the real challenge began… getting down from the summit of Mount Everest safely. On the summit, Kit, Jimmy and I stepped into our ski bindings. It was a dream come true for all of us as we carved our first turns off the summit. We were all excited for Kit, as we all knew she now held the honor of being the first person to have skied from the summit of each of the “Seven Summits
Our intention of a complete ski descent of Everest meant that we were hoping to ski the Hillary Step. Unfortunately, the Hillary Step was not in condition to be skied with a lot less snow than we expected. We decided to rappel the Step with skis on. The plan was for me to go first so I could film Kit from below. Dave gave me a back up belay, as I began the descent of the Hillary Step. My oxygen ran out half way down the Step, at the crux of the rappel. My world began closing in. The team above was unaware of the situation. Fortunately, Sherpa Mingma Ongell stepped over Kit (with her permission!) and came around the corner to help me finish the descent down the Step.
At this point, Kit checked her own oxygen supply, saw it about on zero, turned the flow down and decided to get down to the cache of fresh oxygen bottles at the South Summit. She wanted to keep the train moving, which meant changing out from skis to crampons at the uphill corner on the Hillary Step while letting Sherpas step around her. Jimmy negotiated the Step with his skis on, but also ran out of O’s mid way through the final rappel. He eventually worked his way to the South Summit after getting resupplied with O’s from Kami Sherpa. In this manner the entire team after two hours of effort - kept climbing toward the South Summit as the weather closed in.
The time was getting late as it began to snow. The weather was clearly changing. The margin between life and death is thin at 29,000ft. Dave, our guide who has climbed Everest 8 times, had been diligent about hammering this point into us throughout the trip. We all knew we were riding the line. The weather change, the time, issues with oxygen and a potential wind loaded slab below the South Summit pointed to one decision, the complete ski descent was shelved in favor of safety.
I was proud that every climbing member and each climbing Sherpa made every possible correct decision. The hearts of the whole team were as one in the effort to make sure that everyone got down safely. A post-monsoon season can go by without a summit window on Mount Everest, and I knew we had already threaded the needle and we had gotten to ski off the summit. I also knew that the most technical and serious skiing was still ahead on the Lhotse Face. But at that point, we needed to get back to the South Col.
We all eventually made it back to the South Col and the shelter of our tents at 5:00pm. Exhausted and humbled, I crawled in and crashed.
Once again it is with deep respect that we express our gratitude for the incredible hard work of the first class Sherpa team we have had during this expedition. During the descent nearly each member was lucky enough to climb down at different times with the companionship of the Sherpas that we had befriended over the last 6 weeks. We all have a special story and memory of their strength and selflessness during that day. It is obvious on the superficial level that they climb Mount Everest, and other mountains in the Himalaya, for a living. Yet, on the human side they climb for the same love of life, sense of accomplishment and mountaineering camaraderie that we westerners experience.


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The craftsmanship of Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America by Beth Hoffman is good, better than many books I read. For people unfamiliar with the challenges of Midwestern, sustainable agriculture, it is a good introduction, covering most issues.
Hoffman is a member of Practical Farmers of Iowa and so am I, so there are some connections. Even though we never met, I know people she mentions in the book and we would likely have friends and acquaintances in common. The PFI community is not that big.
For nine seasons, I worked with beginning and experienced farmers who operate community supported agriculture projects, large vegetable or fruit farms, and raise livestock, so I know some of the work and the challenges. In total, I worked on or did interviews for newspapers on a dozen or so of them.
As she mentions more than once in the narrative, she is from the coast and the land was owned outright by the Iowa family. The former is more typical of beginning farmers, the latter isn’t. It is a good book, yet I hoped there would be a connection to the author and her narrative. There wasn’t.
Bet the Farm was a quick read and if a person is interested in this topic, there are a number of other works by beginning farmers I’d read first.
I wish Beth and John good luck on their farm and would read another book about their progress after they have been farming five or ten more years.
In The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy, author Thom Hartmann focuses on Big Data and its consequences for all aspects of our lives. In the framework of surveillance and social control, Hartmann traces the history of surveillance and the threat of violence to control behavior, thought, and belief by our political and social masters.
Referencing George Orwell’s book 1984, Hartmann wrote, “Orwell was only slightly off the mark. Big Brother types of government, and Thought Police types of social control, are now widespread in the world and incompatible with democracy.”
What makes this book timely is the way Trump campaigns used Facebook and Cambridge Analytica to scrape personal data about tens of millions of voters from the internet, and then custom targeted them with tens of thousands of distinct daily ads designed to either persuade people to vote for Trump or not vote at all. On the day of the third presidential debate in October 2020, Hartmann wrote, team Trump ran 175,000 variations of ads micro-targeting voters. These ads were, for the most part, not publicly seen.
Here in Iowa the Republican legislature seeks to control our behavior with legislation intended to address perceived constituent needs. Iowa Republicans approach it with a dull knife. For example, because of feedback and paranoia about transgender girls, Republicans introduced legislation to ban trans females from Title IX activities. This legislation would create discrimination for sure, and potentially a bullying environment for children. They seek to control our behavior and even such crude attempts at social control are anti-democratic. By using bludgeoning methods, Iowa Republicans were not nearly as effective as Trump’s use of Big Data to spy on voters and use what they found to influence their decisions.
Whether one is liberal, conservative, libertarian or whatever, we have concerns about how Big Data firms like Google, Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, and others surveil and use data we consider to be private. In the beginning we considered such data collection and use to be for advertising like generating sales for a brand of energy drink. Whether it is conservatives who have paranoid feelings that “Big Data” is collecting personal information, censoring and manipulating people, liberals who see companies like Cambridge Analytica violating their privacy, or Amazon Ring customers concerned about law enforcement gaining warrantless access to video from the camera at their doorstep, Big Brother is watching us, eroding our privacy, and threatening our democracy.
In The Hidden History of Big Brother in America, Hartmann uses extensive examples to highlight the consequences of Big Data on our lives. He traces the history of surveillance and social control, looking back to how Big Brother invented whiteness to keep order, and how surveillance began to be employed as a way to modify behavior. “The goal of those who violate privacy and use surveillance is almost always social control and behavior modification,” Hartmann wrote.
Big Data threatens privacy and enables surveillance, Hartmann wrote. The lack of alternatives to lifestyles that involve feeding into Big Data leads to almost forced participation in surveillance by Big Brother. Surveillance and lack of privacy are a threat to freedom, he wrote, because the information gathered can be abused, people have a right not to be observed, and being observed is an intervention that can affect those who are observed.
Are we doomed to live under Big Brother’s watchful eye? How much social and political control should corporations have in society? How much Big Brother will modern people tolerate? For discussion of answers to these timely questions and more, I recommend the Hidden History of Big Brother in America.
Thom Hartmann is a four-time winner of the Project Censored Award, a New York Times bestselling author of thirty-two books, and America’s #1 progressive talk radio show host. His show is syndicated on local for-profit and nonprofit stations and broadcasts nationwide and worldwide. It is also simulcast on television in nearly 60 million US and Canadian homes.
To buy a copy of the Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy, click here. The book is available March 8, 2022.
Fiction usually serves a specific purpose in my reading life: it functions the way a palate cleanser prepares us for flavors ahead, or in the case of reading, the next serious book. It is not that fiction writers are trivial in their efforts, it takes the same hard work to produce decent fiction as it does any other type of writing. Fiction is not the main event for me, so there are different expectations.
A novel must be paced quickly to hold interest. While fans of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky exist, their books have been difficult reads. I’m willing to suspend disbelief, yet only for so long.
I don’t like it when the mechanics of assembling a story are visible in the narrative. Yes, the author has to end a novel, although arbitrary resolutions of plot, ones in which the author’s hand is clearly visible, are particularly annoying. I’m thinking of Richard Powers novel The Overstory, an otherwise engaging tale.
Reading the first chosen novel of an author is almost always better than the next. I’m comparing Amor Towles books A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway. I was enraptured by the former and the latter seems forced and vapid. Towles seems full of himself and we don’t read fiction because of that. The same applies to Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars and The Thirty Names of Night. The former is memorable, and the latter, not so much. All of them helped pass the time, so what am I complaining about?
Time was I wanted a novel to teach me something. Michael Crichton’s State of Fear cured me of that. One needs no further thinly veiled and polemicized presentations of a political argument. That Crichton was required reading to work in a logistics company rubbed salt into the wound. I seek to engage in a good story, follow it through to the end, and move on. Spare me the polemics, please.
When I consider past reading, there are only a few novels I would read again. Among them are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tolkien’s books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, and On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I enjoy reading John Irving, who is an exception to the rule about next books. Before I’d re-read one of his, I’d finish reading what I haven’t. My favorite was A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Give me a good novel, one that reads quickly, encourages me to suspend disbelief, and is a narrative for the sole purpose of telling the story. Do it well and you’ve got me hooked… at least until I move on to the next main reading event.
I got my first library card in 1959 and have been reading ever since. When I was young, teachers kept an eye on my reading and made their opinions known. If they didn’t like a particular book, I read it at home where my parents supervised me.
My first conflict was in eighth grade over a book written by Ian Fleming, one of the 007 series. The priest saw I had it and confiscated it because of Bond’s interaction with women. I discussed it with my parents and eventually bought another copy from my allowance.
In high school I heard about J.D. Salinger’s book Catcher in the Rye and wanted to read it. It was prohibited and unavailable in the school library. I read that one too. I managed the conflicts between teachers and my reading.
What I can’t abide is the state legislature regulating which books should be allowed in schools. This decision should be between teachers, librarians, and parents. The claim parents don’t know what books are in schools seems bogus. If the legislature wants to do something, fund on-line access to card catalogues throughout the state. We don’t need lawmakers telling us what to read.
~ First published on Jan. 22, 2022 in the Cedar Rapids Gazette
The effort to disrupt the Electoral College vote counting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was appalling. It was made worse by the fact a sitting U.S. president, in order to overturn a legitimate election and cling desperately to power, organized, led and encouraged a mob. When events turned deadly, the president failed to call off the demonstrators in a timely manner. By any definition, what happened that day was insurrection.
Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa is the first draft of historical narrative of events leading to that day and its aftermath during the first months of the Biden-Harris administration. The authors interviewed more than 200 people for the book and it reads like history. It’s not that. It is more like an extended newspaper article. Discovery of new aspects of the events leading to Jan. 6 have been released almost daily. The pace of new information is expected to accelerate in 2022. This book is what we have now to provide an overview of what happened.
To the extent Peril recounts what happened, it is useful the way a newspaper article is useful. It left me wanting to know more. It is neither the best written political book, nor does it provide meaningful insights. Its narrative is believable yet incomplete.
The good news about Peril is that it took less than 48 hours to read. Combined with our first winter storm and in between snow removal, cooking, and indoor work, it made an engaging companion. There will be better books written about Jan. 6 once the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack finishes its work. For the time being, Peril can accompany us on the journey to determine what happened and what a voter can do to remedy the causes of this doleful day.
As an American the need for action is obvious. Reading Peril is an efficient way to get caught up after the end of year holidays. What comes next is an open question.
I beat my 2021 goal and read 54 books this year. I also developed a process to give prime time, early each day, to reading 25 or more pages. Either book reading is important in our lives or it isn’t, I reasoned. So I read books, almost daily. Book reading is an important part of any writer’s life. Here are those I found most useful and memorable.
Poetry: I re-read A Coney Island of the Mind after Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s passing on Feb. 22, 2021. An important part of my high school reading, it held up well. In addition, I read books of poetry by Amanda Gorman (The Hill We Climb), Gabriela Marie Milton (Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings), Charles Wright (A Short History of the Shadow: Poems), Gary Snyder (Turtle Island), and bell hooks (Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place). I read the memoir of poet laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior.
Current Affairs:Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert stands out in this category. Her writing is compelling and this book is relevant now. Other current affairs books I’d recommend are Persist by Elizabeth Warren, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire, The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050 by Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann, and Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall.
Wilding: Returning Nature to a Farm by Isabella Tree Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald Turning Pointe by Chloe Angyal On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Poles in Minnesota by John Radzilowski What I Mean by Joan Didion
Check out my Goodreads profile for the complete 2021 list by clicking here.
I met Maureen McCue, who just published a memoir Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night: Sharing Life Along the Road, when we were both on the Johnson County Board of Health in 2006.
As soon as McCue arrived to become the board’s physician, she drove us to become quite busy both with required tasks like replacing the director, and voluntary initiatives like educating other county boards of health in the effects of coal-fired power plants on human health. Given our shared history, I didn’t know what to expect when the memoir was released earlier this year.
While much in the book is familiar, the author’s interpretation of events is fresh. The road in the title, along which life is shared, was the same one I drove many times to get to their home: all without incident or specific inspiration. I recall when the bridge was out and had to take the long way around. It was a road, a conveyance. Or was it? The central assertion of the book is it was more than that, a metaphor for a path forward from environmental degradation.
It is a book worth reading for a couple of reasons.
McCue creates a sense of place that is hers alone and explains its risks and rewards. We see life along her road with all its wonder and tragedy. There are a number of Grade B roads in the county, yet she made hers special by describing animal and plant life along with changing weather in which she found herself. She attempted to connect it to the broader world she experienced in international travel as a physician. One experiences the sense of place in the writing. That alone is enough to make Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night worth reading.
Life along the road includes their adopted son Michael who has special needs, or as McCue put it, “The diagnosis according to specialists that day was ‘mild to moderate’ mental retardation.” Over the years I spent time with Michael. He is a unique person and a familiar face around the county. While I feel I know Michael well, it is unclear what, if anything he remembers of me when I approach him to engage. McCue’s narrative about caring for Michael is compelling and an engaging read for people with special needs children.
When professors and instructors leave university many have written books. Stow Persons’ The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century, D.C. Spriesterbach’s The Way it Was: The University of Iowa 1964 – 1989, and others come to mind. I asked McCue about this retirement, book-writing phenomenon. She answered, “I’ve asked myself the same question, but it’s not so much about writing after retirement, it’s more like having the time and will to get it published — this book and it’s parts were weaving there way out of me over a long time. Writing happens whenever, but following it to the publisher takes a different kind of mind set and time line facilitated by retirement.”
There is an obvious comparison between Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night: Sharing Life Along the Road and Cornelia F. Mutel’s 2016 bookA Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland. McCue and Mutel are friends and share many elements in their lives, McCue said. I wouldn’t want to pick between them so I advise reading both.
Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night: Sharing Life Along the Road is published by Ice Cube Press. Find it by clicking here.
Retirees will soon migrate to winter homes. Pontoon boats were pulled out of the lake, scrubbed down, and covered with tarps. The last volunteer work is finished, and even though local weather is quite pleasant, rents have been paid for winter homes, or second homes are owned in Florida, Arizona, or other points south and west. Warmer climates beckon.
The two of us remain in Iowa year-round. When it is cold, we leave home less often, read more, and with higher natural gas prices forecast this winter, will keep the thermostat down and stay warm with additional layers of clothing. I put an extra blanket on the bed when I made it this morning. We’re from here.
My reading consists mainly of three types: I read between 40 and 50 books each year; subscribe to four newspapers and several daily newsletters; and read linked articles in my Twitter feed. I stay well informed without watching television, listening to radio, or using streaming news sources. Reading is a mainstay of staying engaged in society.
In November I might read five 250-page books. It is getting harder to answer the question, what’s next? There is a backlog of books to read, both recently acquired and those that have been in the stacks for a while. Figure I’ll keep reading until at least age 80, so there’s room to read about 500 more books. The days of seemingly endless available reading time are over. Each book choice matters.
I spend a lot of time gardening and cooking yet read few complete books on the subjects. I have enough experience to do this work and improve it by tweaking current practices. I consult with books and online articles, yet more with farmers I know both locally and in other parts of the country. I seldom read a cook book or gardening book all the way through.
What am I seeking in a book? Some poetry, some fiction, and a lot related to my life. For example, I recently read Elizabeth Warren’s book Persist because of my connection to her presidential campaign and my interest in politics. I just finished The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos. I enjoy books that have broad historical sweep because I need escape in them from time to time. Lately I’ve been reviewing books from Thom Hartmann’s publisher and that work kept me busy in late summer. I recently read Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings by Gabriela Marie Milton who I found through WordPress. There is a stack of books about or by people I have known. My process for reading selection exists and needs a bit more self-awareness and adjustment.
A person can effectively read only one book at a time, so I work to choose the next one well. With winter coming I’ll read four or five books each month. I want to make sure it is the ones from the stacks, shelves and boxes in my indoors writing area that will serve my interest in remaining engaged in society.
It goes without saying, I want to protect my eyesight so I can go on reading as long as I have the mental capacity to do so.
Text on the postcard: “Student, c. 1960. Photographer Unidentified.”
When young our capacity seems limitless. When I got my first library card in 1959 I believed I could read every book on the Bookmobile that stopped each week in our neighborhood. I looked forward to returning books I read and getting new ones. Outside of school, it was a highlight of the week.
Mother got me a subscription to My Weekly Ready, the arrival of which was another highlight. I bought a few children’s books at the local drug store. Keeping up with reading was easy with the energy of youth.
When I lived in Iowa City in my twenties, I started a project to read every book in the public library. It tested my limits. I started at the beginning of the Dewey Decimal system and didn’t make it out of the philosophy section.
I didn’t hear about the Horatio Alger story until I was in college, but that could have been my story, lifting myself up with diligence, honesty and altruism as I read and read and read, waiting for some happy circumstance to present itself and bring me the good things of life. We now know what I was feeling was the privilege of being white and middle class.
I look back to those days, with their libraries full of reading material, and consider my devotion to the act of reading. It was a solitary life and I was mostly okay with that.
What I didn’t realize, that would have helped me if I did, was to get anything significant done in society it takes a context that includes others. I was ready for a life of rugged individualism, in which through my own hard work I could pull myself up by my bootstraps and experience success. I didn’t understand how divisive that could be, pitting my own efforts against others to ensure personal success above all else. Live and learn.
Today I have piles of books I want to read just like the schoolboy on this postcard. However, my intent is different than it was in the 1950s and 1960s. I seek insight to take collective action on things like the climate crisis and more. I provide for my basic existence — food, shelter, clothing, transportation and healthcare — yet that serves only as a platform to do other things with a network of people.
Some days I wish to be that boy sitting next to a stack of books while reading. If I were, there would be things to tell him.
As I finish my seventieth year on planet Earth I’ve been considering why I read and why I should.
Reading has become such a habit it’s unclear I’m approaching it the right way. As Socrates is said to have asserted, an unexamined life is not worth living. I want my remaining days to be worth living and for reading to be part of them.
I’ve become a lazy book reader. I read in bed, in the middle of the night when sleep fails me, and when I wake too early to get up. I read when I can’t fall asleep when I should. I have four subscriptions to newspapers along with several daily newsletters and countless emails. I read articles linked in social media and of course the posts on my pages.
Most of that reading is good, yet the backlog of books to read is growing. There is also a randomness to how I pick books. Unless I’m on a deadline to write a review of an advance copy from a publisher, my choices are somewhat impulsive, based on what a friend said, who wrote the book, or the context in which I heard of it. A retiree has few deadlines and constraints when it comes to reading. There is a sense my impulses on reading have not always been the best for me.
According to my Goodreads tracker, I’ve read 30 of a 36-book goal for 2021. In July I read one book and I’m working on my first in August. I like the Goodreads reading challenge because it gives me a point of focus. I feel good clicking the link to say I finished a book. Whatever I do, I’ll keep using the social media platform.
There is an existential angst to all this although I don’t intend to dwell there long. I need to move from habit to active engagement in reading–I know that. I also need a better strategy for picking what to read and when to read it.
Taming the internet and it’s 24/7 fire hose of words is important. Scrollers gonna scroll, and I am one. It is one thing to get through the feed to find what’s engaging. There is no reason to follow a rabbit hole in real time, every time. When there is a linked article, I could use the application Pocket to save it to read later. If an article is worth reading, it will still be so at a designated time. I already devote some of my morning routine to reading. It should be easy to add saved Pocket articles to the mix at that time.
When I consider reading done this year, the best part was researching my ancestors settling in Minnesota. It resulted in this piece of writing for my autobiography. More of that would be good. As the gardening season commenced, my interest in autobiography waned and I moved on and outdoors. Once the garlic is planted in October, I expect that kind of reading to resume. It is some of the best I do and I want that.
Like many, I read to learn. I’ve been tracking my reading on this site for years. It’s a simple list of books with the most recently read at the top. If one looks through them, there is not a particular theme or concentration. Someone I know will recommend or write a book, and it falls into the reading queue. I have a long reading queue which want organization.
When we consider the gravest threats to our lives during the coming decades, the effects of climate change may be the most challenging. I expect to continue to read books , studies and articles about the environment as a mainstay of my reading.
This blog is about gardening and cooking, creating a “kitchen garden.” When I read about these topics, I’m looking for something specific: how to combat a pest, for instance. The best of what I read is doing the research in my library of cooking and gardening books–finding answers to questions about process. I don’t read many gardening or cooking books cover to cover.
An example of a cooking book I do read cover to cover is Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace. More than anything, she presents a narrative about cooking that goes beyond a single meal or dish to how we connect them together. I also read Anya von Bremzen’s Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing. Again for its narrative more than cooking tips.
The thing I’ve been dodging here is my book reading. How does one get from being a lazy reader to more engaged? The answer is obvious. Set aside prime daytime hours to read, and stick to a schedule. Instead of using reading to fill hours I should be sleeping, make it the main event for at least part of the day. Morning is the best time so adding an hour or two to my daily outline might serve.
The harder part is in book selection, working on the reading queue. It is easier when I’m working on a project like researching my Minnesota ancestors. Like a coal miner, you just follow the vein. I also want to be moved by what I read. I’m thinking of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. I want things from reading and haven’t given them adequate consideration. All I can see is the growing book stacks waiting to be read and no way out except to spend the time.
Why do I read? To learn, to enjoy, and to be a better human. Why should I read? To retain relevance in a changing world. Without devotion to ideas found in books relevancy can be difficult. So I end where I began, with questions. There are a couple of things I can do for better reading. I can’t wait to get started.

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Painted hand prints with names of teachers and students are on a playground bench at the new Sandy Hook elementary school in Gun rights advocates prepare push for more guns in schools – grizzly bears or no Attempts to allow more guns in K-12 schools were defeated in 15 states last year but second amendment campaigners are only encouraged by Trump’s election
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting US President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service, with tears, for the victims and relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-six people were killed when a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary and began a shooting spree. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN
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Well I got the tach and hour meter.
It has an internal battery so one wire is all it has. That wire gets wrapped around the plug wire 3 or 4 times and it senses the current as it passes through to ignite the gas in the cylinder.
It has four settings from what I see. To cycle through the settings, hold the S1 button for about 4 seconds and it will start to flash 01, then 02, then 03, and finally 04. 01 is for an ignition that fires twice per revolution and is the way it is set when it's shipped. 02 is for once per revolution, and 03 is for every other revolution. I have a 4 stroke Briggs so my setting is 03. 04 is hour meter only. Let go of the S1 button when it gets to your desired setting. The hour meter allows you to set maintenance intervals, but I have not yet fiddled with that.
My experience with it is that it works, but is a little slow to react. It lags about a good second. But for general purposes it's a good tach for the cheap price. I got this one shipped for $16.99.