The historic Dalgleish Cadillac water tower tank has finally been installed in its final resting place at the corner of West Alexandrine and Second Avenue. With the help of metal artisans, it will become the entrance to our public gardens. People will actually walk through the tank to enter the gardens.
It was more than four years ago that the tank and its metal legs were reclaimed from above the Dalgleish Cadillac building as Wayne State made way for its new Bioscience building, which is now completed and open on Woodward north of Warren. The tank itself made its way down Cass on a flatbed truck, with the street lights being lifted with a pole to get the tank under them. Many of the Wayne State students came out to witness the move…it was quite a scene.
Two weeks ago, the Disenos metal artisans from Southwest Detroit cut the two entrance openings in the tank. They also re-enforced the roof. They then carefully moved the tank onto its new foundation. Eventually the tank will also be getting a reclaimed natural stone base too.
Gates are currently being designed to fit on the outside of the tank. They will open and welcome visitors into the gardens to attend special events, or just sit in the gardens on a lovely day.
This is all part of our commitment to ensure Detroit’s history is part of its future. And that it’s possible to have the people and resources already here be part of creating Detroit’s exciting and sustainable future.
The El Moore Gardens are expected to open in the spring 2017.


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I’m not sure if I can be myself anywhere any more.
I don’t have that freedom anymore.
The freedom that you gave me.
Everywhere I go, I am like a dandelion between beautifully blooming red velvet roses. I never stay.
I never meant to leave you, though.
With you, I could be myself. With a sad face, dry joke, sharp tongue and my sarcastic remarks. I could be myself and you never minded it.
I loved you for that, and I hate you for that right now. Just because no one else allows it.
And I miss it so badly. Every day.
And I hate myself because I cannot come back to where I was, and I cannot appreciate what I have right now.
I am on a hamster wheel made of my memories and photographs of your face, and I simply cannot step down.
Constant running makes me sick to my stomach. It makes me exhausted.
I wish I could come back to my life where there was no you in it. So that I would have never found out what I am. Coz, really, what was the point if it was brutally taken away from me?

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Welcome to Transylvania! With music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, this hilarious musical adaptation of the beloved Mel Brooks movie, "Young Frankenstein," is the story of Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the infamous mad scientist. When Frederick inherits his grandfather’s castle—complete with mysterious passages and secret labs—he decides to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps by bringing the dead back to life.
Chelsea Collier Zych directs a cast that includes Bradyn Wambach, Krystal Moya, Mallory Sellers, James Castree, Jenny Lamberson, Autumn Ellis, David Heckman, and Evan Seggebruch.
The Parkland Theatre will be holding a talkback immediately following the Thursday, April 4, show. Zych, as well as members of the cast and crew, will be on hand to discuss the show and answer audience questions.
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Champaign, IL 61821

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Peeps, Remz ; DJ Paniks
In 2014 former Gravity Ponds members Peeps ; Remz formed the group Black Teeth Red Gums, also taking on DJ Paniks (Third Degree, Mnops) as their official DJ in 2014.
With an influence taken from the likes of UK grime, new school trap ; garage – BTRG have combined it with the familiarity of the hardcore hiphop of the past to create a new and refreshing sound.
BTRG are working hard on a free introduction mixtape while working on their debut release on How Many Deep Records.
Black Teeth Red Gums are notorious for putting on a live and wild show and have supported Onyx, La Coka Nostra, Obie Trice, Trem, Brad Strut, Kerser, Dr Flea, Reason, Tornts, Bigfoot, Tech N9ne, Cheap Sober, Damo and more.


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What is PRP?
Platelet rich plasma (PRP) has increased concentration of platelets suspended in plasma after the red blood cells are separated from the blood’s plasma in a centrifuge. It works like this: The patient’s own blood is collected and centrifuged until it separates into 3 layers: platelet poor plasma (PPP), platelet rich plasma (PRP), and red blood cells.
PRP plays a fundamental role in skin rejuvenation, anti-aging and hair restoration. Growth factors from the PRP are involved in key stages of natural healing and regenerative processes. When injected or applied with microneedling, it stimulates cells to make collagen, and in hairy areas to produce more hair.
PRP treatment can be combined with microneedling procedures for enhanced skin rejuvenation and results superior to microneedling alone.
PRP can be injected into different areas of the face, such as under the eyes, on the cheeks, around the nose and around the mouth to improve skin texture and laxity, and, in combination with Juvéderm dermal fillers to improve skin volume.
PRP can be also injected into the scalp to promote hair growth. This procedure is safe for both men and women.

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What are dogs thinking when they stare into space?
Eyesight troubles. If your doggie can't see well, it'll just stare at nothing because the poor thing might not even realize what it's looking at. There are high chances your dog's eyesight will weaken as it gets older, which is why it sometimes stares at blank spaces convinced that something is located in front of it.
What does it mean when my dog stares into space?
Staring at the wall or staring into space could be a symptom of a type of seizure called a partial seizure or a focal seizure. These seizures are often hard to diagnose, but if you repeatedly catch your dog staring at the wall, contact your veterinarian for an expert opinion.
What do dogs think about when they stare at nothing?
Similar to humans, dogs can stare to interact with you, gather information, or communicate an idea. These types of staring can be interpreted by the context in which they happen. When your dog is staring at nothing, this might be a sign of anxiety or pain, or potentially be a signaling of dementia.
Why is my dog zoning out?
Staring off into space can be caused by dementia, eyesight problems, infections that can disorient the dog, because the dog is sensing or hearing something that you are just not able to see or hear, to gain attention, something in the walls, or a seizure.
What do dogs think when you stare them in the eyes?
Staring is different, and considered rude to dogs.
When a person stares into another dog's eyes, the dog perceives it as a threat. Think about it this way: If someone stares at you, you'd wonder why this person was staring at you or assume the person was upset.
Why Is Your Dog Looking At You?
Do dogs like to be hugged?
Experts in dog behavior believe that, in general, dogs do not like being embraced. However, every dog has a unique personality. Some may dislike hugs more strongly than others, and some may actually adore them. The closest thing our furry family members do to a hug is something referred to as 'standing over'.
Why do dogs hate being stared at?
Dogs Are Telling Us How They Feel
In their wolf ancestors, staring is considered threatening and rude. Some dogs still retain that attitude. That's why you should never stare down strange dogs or hold dogs still to stare into their eyes.
How do I know if my dog is seeing a ghost?
There are a few signs to keep an eye out for that might mean your pet has just seen a ghost.
- Following something invisible. ...
- Barking or hissing at nothing. ...
- Looking for comfort or trying to protect. ...
- Acting distracted. ...
- Too good to be true.
Why does my dog just stop and stare?
Focal or partial seizures, for example, can be very subtle and even cause your dog to freeze while standing up and stare off into space. If this type of seizure occurs in your dog and they happen to be standing in front of a wall, a seizure may therefore look like your dog is staring at the wall.
What does a dog think about?
Dogs feel the simple emotions like joy, pain, fear, anger, excitement, contentment, and love. However, they probably don't feel the more complex that require conscious thought, like guilt, shame, or pride.
What are dogs scared of the most?
Many dogs have sound phobias to loud noises like fireworks, thunderstorms, gunshots, and firecrackers. There is even research that suggests noise phobias can be inherited. According to Dr. Klein, herding breeds are particularly sensitive to noise phobias, perhaps because they are so attuned to their environment.
Can my dog see angels?
Dogs can actually be trained to alert to their owner's hallucinations. One of the oldest and most persistent paranormal beliefs is that dogs have the ability to see spirits, ghosts of the dead, or even the Angel of Death (click here for more about that).
Can dogs see ghosts?
Unfortunately, this is one of many unanswered questions humans have about dogs. To date, there's no evidence connecting dogs and ghosts — not to mention whether you believe the evidence for paranormal activity.
Why does my dog sit in the corner and stares at me?
The most common reason your dog barricades in the corner of the room is because of fear. Your dog may be experiencing loud noises, new smells and people, mistrust, or even mistreatment.
Why do dogs stare at nothing and growling?
If your dog only sporadically growls at nothing, the chances are that it can sense something that you cannot, meaning you have nothing to worry about. However, a dog frequently growling at nothing can be a sign of illness, injury, diet issues, and underline aggression.
Do dogs like eye contact with humans?
Dog eye contact triggers the release of oxytocin, the hormone responsible for love and bonding, in both humans and canines (one study found that dogs experience a 130% increase in oxytocin levels after locking eyes with their owners—while humans experience a whopping 300% increase).
Can dogs see things we can t?
A dog's field of vision is much wider than ours; they can see objects at a greater distance, and their ability to see in twilight, dusk, and dawn is far superior to ours, making it possible to pick up certain movements that are undetectable to the human eye.
Can dogs see in the dark?
The Structure of the Canine Eye
Obviously, his stronger sense of smell is useful, but it's also because dogs can see movement and light in the dark, and other low-light situations, better than humans. They are assisted by the high number of light-sensitive rods within the retina of their eyes.
Can dogs sense death?
Dogs have a heightened sense of smell and energy, which enables them to get an entire story with just a scent and interpret human emotions before humans do. Aside from these, they can detect human illness and death as well.
Can dogs sense sadness?
Dogs have a very acute sense of smell and can determine emotions like fear, anger, and disappointment. If you are feeling sad, your dog can sense this and feel subdued by you. Dogs respond to weeping with a submissive demeanor.
Do dogs have a sixth sense?
In addition to hearing, smelling, and feeling weather activity, dogs can detect changes in barometric pressure or electromagnetic fields. According to an Associated Press poll, 2/3 of pet owners think their pets have a sixth sense about weather. Who needs a weather forecaster when you have a dog? Human illness.
Do dogs understand kisses?
Many dog owners talk to their dogs in a cute or gentle manner when they are kissing them. The dog then learns to associate the kisses with a warmer tone, meaning they might respond accordingly. So while dogs do not understand what kisses really mean, they can eventually learn to realize they are positive messages.
How do you tell your dog you love them?
10 Ways To Show Love To Your Dog
- Ear rub. Your dog will naturally feel high with euphoria when you rub its ears. ...
- Have a daily playtime. ...
- Teach them new tricks. ...
- Have warm and hearty conversations. ...
- Take time to cuddle. ...
- Surprise your dog with a treat. ...
- Hang out together. ...
- Treat your pup with respect.
Do dogs like kisses?
Most dogs tolerate kisses from their owners fairly well. Some may even come to associate kisses with love and attention, and quite a few even enjoy kisses from their people. They'll usually show their pleasure by wagging their tails, looking alert and happy, and licking you back.
Do dogs like music?
Dogs do enjoy music. And not only do they enjoy it, they have musical preferences unique to their own personalities! Many people that play music for their pups notice changes in their behavior, which leads us to make assumptions about their feelings towards the music.

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The Competition Clutch Multi-plate Clutch Kit with Flywheel provides a drastic increase in horsepower holding capacity with excellent drivability characteristics. The twin disc construction is tuned for maximum drivability. The new clutch kit provides the ideal balance of sport driving and daily driving clutch use.
Many new features are responsible for these positive attributes. Twin 240mm full faced discs are used in conjunction with a performance pressure plate, thereby providing additional friction area for engagement. The full faced discs are offered in either full faced organic or segmented ceramic options. The steel flywheel is CNC machined and balanced. All clutch kits are provided with an alignment tool.


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Worldly known DJ Skrillex’s ‘Dirty Vibe’ that CL of 2NE1 and G-Dragon of Big Bang have featured is revealed. Skrillex’s first album, ‘Recess’ is released on 18, holds 11 tracks including ‘Dirty Vibe’.
‘Dirty Vibe’ is a collaboration of K-Pop rappers plus EDM with hyperactive beats and sounds.
In regards to Skrillex, he is a ‘dubstep maestro’ who has won three prizes from the Grammy two years in a row and a DJ watched by the entire world with keen interest.
Reporter: Jawon Lee
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Q: What types of damages are available when a former employee breaches a restrictive covenant barring solicitation of his or her former employer’s customers?
A: While parties often focus on the possibility to enjoin a former employee from soliciting a company’s customers, it is possible to recoup lost profits as well, particularly where they are significant. For example, a Massachusetts federal court found a sales representative liable for over $1.6 million in damages for breaching a nonsolicitation clause that prohibited him from procuring business from his former employer’s customers.
Background and Decision
The sales representative’s former employer manufactures products used to treat spinal diseases. In 2011, the company hired him to work for an exclusive distributor in the Boston area. The representative’s territory later expanded to Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Per his employment, the sales representative entered into a restrictive covenants agreement that included noncompete and nonsolicitation clauses. The noncompete clause restricted him from working for a competitor for one year from the date his employment ended. Under the nonsolicitation clause, the representative agreed not to “solicit, entice, persuade, induce, call upon or provide services” to the company’s customers for one year after his employment ended.
In 2019, the sales representative resigned to work for a competitor in the spinal products market. While there, he procured business from his former employer’s existing customers, including three Boston-area surgeons. The company sued the representative, seeking injunctive relief and damages for breach of contract. Following the company’s motion, the court issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the representative from violating the nonsolicitation clause.
In 2021, the court granted summary judgment in favor of the company on its breach of contract claim. The court later found that the sales representative violated the preliminary injunction, and he destroyed text messages with certain customers.
Following a three-day evidentiary hearing as to damages, the court awarded the company over $1.6 million, including prejudgment interest. In reaching its decision, the court observed that the company’s sales to a particular surgeon dropped by more than 50% after the former sales representative joined the new employer. Meanwhile, the new employer’s sales to the same surgeon increased “ten-fold.” The company’s forensic accountant testified that lost profits for this surgeon totaled between approximately $1.5 million to $1.9 million. Lost profits for two other surgeons totaled approximately $50,000.
The court’s decision serves as a reminder that a restrictive covenant, when legally permissible, can provide employers with substantial remedies in the event of a former employee’s breach.

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Michael J. Fox has faced numerous challenges since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Initially, he kept this life-altering news to himself, but over the years, he has become a prominent advocate for raising awareness about the disease. The beloved star of “Back to the Future” has been open about the struggles he faces due to Parkinson’s, allowing fans to witness the impact it has had on his life.
In a recent update, Fox once again emphasized his positive outlook. He bravely shared that he doesn’t harbor a fear of passing away as a consequence of his health struggles.
It’s evident that Michael J. Fox’s life has been marked by a complex journey, with moments of great triumph and challenging setbacks. Diagnosed in the early ’90s, he transitioned from being a thriving actor at the peak of his career to someone confronting the reality of dealing with significant health issues for the rest of his life.
Despite keeping his diagnosis private for seven years, Michael J. Fox has dedicated himself to raising both funds and awareness in the pursuit of finding a cure. His unwavering positivity has been truly inspiring, though he acknowledges that it’s becoming more challenging with age.
In a candid interview with CBS Sunday Morning’s Jane Pauley earlier this year in April, the retired actor opened up, saying, “I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s becoming harder, it’s getting tougher. Every day presents new challenges. But, well, that’s just how it is. I mean, who do I turn to for that?”
In a recent update, the legendary actor described himself as resilient and unafraid, saying, “One day I’ll run out of steam.” He acknowledged that there may come a time when he decides, “Today’s not the day. I’m not giving in.” At 62 years old, he recognizes that while it would be premature if he were to pass away soon, it wouldn’t be entirely unexpected. So, he doesn’t carry a fear of that prospect.
Regardless, it’s clear that Fox has rightfully earned his status as a legend in the entertainment world. We send him our best wishes for the future!


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The dip has been bought
The S&P 500 touched levels above 4,000 on Monday, aiming to leave its weakest week of 2023 behind. Growth companies like tech were snatched up by dip buyers even as suspicions of a hawkish Fed continue.
Tesla led consumer discretionary stocks higher as investors anticipated the electric vehicle manufacturer’s investor day on Wednesday. In other EV-related news, Fisker gained 30% as its maintained car production target for 2023 outweighed worse-than-expected quarterly earnings.
More to read: What does market cap mean in stocks?
Wall Street stocks gained on Monday, indicating possible bargain shopping. The Dow Jones increased 0.4% to 32,948.76, the S&P 500 jumped 0.5% to 3,990.25, and the Nasdaq advanced 0.85% to 11,4906. US two-year Treasury rates, which are the most sensitive to changes in interest-rate expectations, have increased by over 80 basis points since the Fed’s January meeting.
S&P 500 has dropped 6% of its value since reaching a five-month high on February 2nd. The yield on the two-year US bond decreased 1.8 bps to 4.784% on Monday, while the 10-year yield fell 3.1 bps to 3.918%.
US 2 year bond yield 1D chart, source: CNBC
Greenback finally eases the pressure on rivals
The US dollar began the week by maintaining its good momentum from the previous week. However a decline in desire for the American currency followed. Pending House Sales increased 8.1% exceeding forecasts. The US dollar index declined by 0.5% to 104.635.
The EUR/USD regained the 1.0600 level as Wall Street concluded the day with gains. The optimistic tone of equities impacted on the Greenback. AUD/USD toyed with 0.6700 before recovering to close the day at 0.7635, almost unchanged. Australian Retail Sales are due Tuesday. The USD/CAD dropped to 1.3580, and USD/JPY concluded the day with moderate losses around 136.20.
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The stock-boosting US data had little effect on oil prices. The US crude inventory report from the EIA finally caught up as Brent futures for May delivery slid 0.9%, to close at $82.45 a barrel. WTI ended 0.8% in the red at $75.68.
Gold drops below $1,820 per troy ounce after plunging to a new low for 2023 of $1,806.52 per troy ounce. Silver futures for May delivery stayed below the $21 level at 20.707 with a 1.09% decline.

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FLORENCE, SC (WBTW) The three cannons of the Confederate Cruiser CSS PeeDee are back in Florence County after four years of conservation at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston.
The guns are on display at the Florence County Veterans Center. Randy Godbold, Florence County Veterans Affairs Officer, said there will be plaques added to the displays.
“There will be a plaque out here for each cannon explaining the difference, and there will also be a plaque up in the front explaining the ship they came off of,” Godbold said.
Two of the guns are Rifle Brooke cannons and the other a Smoothbore Dahlgren. All three are between ten and twelve feet long and weigh between 9,000 to 15,000 pounds.
“These vessels were a part of a larger plan to establish a Confederate naval presence and reputation that would ultimately result in recognition of the Confederate government by governments of Great Britain, and France and other European nations,” said Ben Zigler, President of the Florence County Historical Society.
Godbold said he expects there to be a celebration for the cannons in August.

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Nice serifs on that sans font :)
[…] isn’t the first time Stanford changed its logo. Design blog Rioleo tracked the signature’s many changes over the last 20 […]
The astute among you may have noticed in the last week that Stanford changed its logo typeface away from Sabon Monotype to what it now calls something that should be treated “as artwork, not as typography”. Sabon is an elegant serif typeface that was developed in Germany during the latter part of the 1960s as a response to a need for uniformity across Monotype, Linotype and hand-set fonts.
As far as the Wayback Machine could tell, the previous font seems to have been in use since the fall of 2008. You can see the progression in font use on the main Stanford website below. It appears as though this is the first time the word “University” has been removed from its main page logo, though the Stanford Identity Toolkit has guidance for including the word if desired.
Update: while Stanford claims that “it cannot be accurately reproduced with any typeface and should not be modified in any way”, I can’t help but imagine that they started with something. Capitolium News 2 Regular, seen below in gray and behind the actual signature, seems like a good start.
The article previously misstated that the font was Source Sans Pro. Source Sans Pro is suggested as a font to use alongside the signature, but the font of the logo itself is what Stanford calls a “uniquely drawn set of typographic characters“.


As part of our Give It A Shot golf club membership campaign, we spoke to golf club members Jenny Cox and Rosemary Fehler.
Women’s participation in golf has been on a steady increase in recent years and both Jenny and Rosemary admit the social side of membership has drawn them to the sport.
They also talk about their different motivations and passions for golf, and how the increased exercise has changed their lives for the better.
“I was offered a number of different memberships but I decided to go straight into full membership,” said Rosemary. “I had the time to play and I’m a great believer that if I’m going to get better at something, I have to throw myself into it.
“It’s been life-changing for me. I’m exercising a lot more now and have a great social life. One day you can go out and think you’ve conquered it – you’re there and you’re hitting great shots.”
Jenny added: “I think it’s definitely benefited my health and wellbeing, particularly coming out of Covid. Just being able to get out and get some fresh air, see new people and integrate yourself among people you wouldn’t necessarily meet in everyday life has been really lovely.
“I’ve made several female friends who I regularly golf with now. Everybody is so welcoming and encouraging and supportive.”


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How could we have lived in this valley for 20 years and not know about places like Zenda, Long’s Chapel, Newtown, or the stories of Lucy Simms, Bethel A.M.E. church, Ralph Sampson or the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley? Here they all were, right under our noses and yet we were not familiar with these people, these places and their stories. Could it be that this history is not considered “mainstream” or as significant to the valley as other narratives?
We want to make sure everyone in the valley knows what we now know. Here are some excerpts from students’ journals as they have reflected on their month long study of the Shenandoah Valley and a quick three day trip to Washington, D.C.
“The most shocking thing I heard about Newtown (historic African American community north of current northeast neighborhood) was about the revitalization project called Project R4. The fact that the city (Harrisonburg) took parts of the neighborhood under public domain and turned it into retail space is tragic. If the city would have taken the parts it did and helped turn the neighborhood into a better area to live it would have been a great thing.”
“Rockingham County was unlike the large slaveholding counties in other parts of Virginia. There were many religious groups (including the Mennonites, Dunkers, Methodists, Brethren and others that opposed the institution of slavery.” (Freedom’s Child, pg. 18) Because of this free blacks were able to purchase small plots of land and establish a settlement called “Zenda.”
In the heart of the Shenandoah Valley lies a single remnant of Zenda, a settlement formed after the Civil War by newly freed slaves. When Rockingham Country reclaimed the property from a former plantation owner in a postwar legal action, they decided to sell it to the freedmen. Thus Zenda, known as ‘Little Africa’ was born. The church, Long’s Chapel, served not only as the spiritual center of the community, but as the educational center as well. Since the county did not provide for the education of black students, this facility became the first school for the community residents. In 2005, Alfred and Robin Jenkins purchased the property in order to preserve and restore it, in hopes of establishing a black history heritage site. Long’s Chapel at Zenda is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Zenda is an historical landmark that symbolizes freedom and the end of slavery for African Americans here in the valley.
Lucy Simms’s career in public education spanned 56 years, with only one half-day lost due to illness. This level of courage, commitment and care is so admirable!
My journey on this cross cultural has changed my way of thinking of both the life that I have and the lives of immigrants that this great nation is built upon. I will no longer take for granted the life that I have been given, nor the influence I may have in helping someone make their life better. I also have a greater appreciation for undocumented immigrants that have come to the U.S. seeking a better life for themselves.
In D.C. we saw a guy carrying a WHOLE gutted, scalded pig through the streets of D.C. on his shoulder, right into the front doors of a restaurant. (Guess what we’re having for lunch?)
The Brethren Mennonite Heritage Center was my favorite place. Just learning about how this lady was such a feminist back in the day was really empowering. The house and the rest of the land were awesome to tour and learn about. I wish I could have been around to go to one of the tent revivals with George Brunk. They looked like they would have been a lot of fun.
Journal entry after watching TedTalks, The Danger of the Single Story
I was struck by how important it is for each of us to not only be aware of the dangers of pigeon-holing people and groups into a single “story” that defines them, but also most importantly I was struck by our personal responsibility to seek out more than the “single story” of the people we meet and the communities we encounter.

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KBUU Newswire Wed Feb 2: SCE Launches Probe Into Stratospheric SCE Bills; Villanueva Asks For State Investigation, But State Investigates Him For Abuse Of Power
Written by 991KBU on February 2, 2022
=. Power bills are triple-sized … and Edison is investigating why.
=. Malibu should never – underline never – allow homeless in tents or tiny houses … says a Malibu task force.
=. Sheriff Alex Villanueva asked the state Attorney General to investigate his political enemies …
=. But now the state AG is investigating Alex Villanueva for possibly abusing his power.
=. The race to replace Sheila Kuehl as Malibu’s county supervisor takes an unexpected twist.
=. And now … free Covid 19 PCR tests for Malibu residents …. over the hill … every other day.
This is Malibu’s Only Local Daily News … the Wednesday edition … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
Coastal Electric Bills Doubling, Tripling, And SCE Launches Investigation Why
Complaints continue to pour in about electric bills doubling or tripling. And Southern California Edison says Malibu may not be the only place where something may have gone wrong.
An Edison official is telling Malibu residence that the company has received several inquiries from coastal communities experiencing higher electric bills”
Rudy Gonzalez… The principal manager for government relations at Southern California Edison… Says the company has received several inquiries from coastal communities.
He says and we quote … “e are conducting an analysis to determine the primary reasons for these increases.”
At least one Malibu resident has filed a formal complaint with California public utilities commission… Which has kicked the complaint up several notches at Southern California Edison.
It’s a complicated picture… Calculating electric bills. But most Malibu residents get their power generated by CPA the clean power alliance. And CPA has not raised its rates… Not since last summer. In fact CPA rates are supposed to drop 6% next month.
But Edison has raised its rates and shifted billing procedures around for the delivery charges that it slaps onto the CPA costs.
Delivery costs are skyrocketing because the Woolsey fire and grid hardening costs may be factored into those.
This comes as Southern California Edison is again conducting aerial inspections … drones and/or helicopters.
Broad Beach, Trancas, Malibu Park and Kanan Dume.
These inspections are not cheap… And it looks like the bills are coming due.
It’s important to remember that Southern California Edison is authorized under state law to tack on 11% guaranteed profit on top of the additional inspection costs.
Safety first has its price … with investor owned utilities.
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Homeless Task Force: Malibu Should Never, Underline NEVER Allow Homeless Tents, Tiny Houses Or Pods
Malibu should reject the idea of ever allowing homeless people to stay in tents inside the city.
That’s one of several strong statements made by the cities homeless task force yesterday… As it grappled was coming up with a homeless policy for the city Council to consider.
The task force members stressed that they think the city should never… with an underline under the word never … never allow individual tents, tiny homes, pallet houses, pods or similar forms of temporary shelter in Malibu.
That means driving the homeless person to another city,
Chris Frost is chairman of the public safety commission and he also sits on the homeless task force… and Frost says diverting sheriffs deputies in the taxi driving something the city cannot afford.
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“I think that sacrificing resources to roll people into other cities and towns… We can’t do that with the Sheriff self that we have now. We would end up having with too many of the resources that we need for law-enforcement leaving the city. If we send one car out in the middle of the night on Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday… We only have one car in the city then.”
But the stark reality is… There may be no place in the City of Malibu where a homeless shelter can overcome two major obstacles.
Neighborhood opposition… And cost.
Even the old Courts building in the Civic Center… oncene mentioned as a possible site… Draws intense opposition from people in houses a quarter mile away.
Malibu lawyer Bill Sampson is on the task force.
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“I like your hypothetical of Venice. I assure you if I tell any of my neighbors here in my neighborhood ‘oh …we’ve got several drug houses here … we’re going to bring in some more’… they’re … they’re going to draw and quarter me.”
Kelly Pessis is a Malibu Realtor who has been researching homeless centers in SantaMonica and Venice … including one near Western Avenue at Slauson.
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“In terms of shipping out our homeless… And removing our problem or however it’s been phrased… We absolutely can partner with somebody like a Salvation Army… A Hope X… A peoples concern… And basically start something up that immediately takes care of our needs. Because right now… Just as you can’t get a police car or a sheriff’s car… You can’t get beds anywhere.’
The commission spent two hours yesterday hashing over a comprehensive city plan … on homelessness …. For the city council to consider.
And the task force agreed that putting homeless persons in any other city … should be done in partnership with that other city’s government.
Alex Villanueva Asks For State Investigated, But Gets Investigated Himself Instead
Double trouble for embattled L A County sheriff Alex Villanueva.
The state attorney general yesterday opened an investigation into a secret squad… Set up by Villanueva… that is investigating his critics for possible lawbreaking.
This comes as the sheriff says the squad has investigated the LA County Civilian overseer of his office … the inspector general appointed by the Board of Supervisors to look over Villanueva’s handling of the three billion dollar sheriff’s department.
The secret unit has wrapped up its investigation into Inspector general Max Huntsman … and presented its findings to the state Attorney General for possible criminal charges.
That was two months ago.
No charges were filed against Huntsman …. And instead … the AG’s office is reviewing the sheriff amidst allegations that he is using deputies in a political witch hunt.
Last month … the chief lawyer for the LA County board of supervisors urged the state Attorney General to take control of the secret squad.
Los Angeles County Counsel Rodrigo Castro-Silva accused Villanueva of conducting “intimidating, politically motivated investigations.”
“Sheriff Villanueva has used these investigations to discourage legitimate oversight of himself and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and to retaliate against any public official who criticizes him or the Sheriff’s Department,” Castro-Silva said in the Dec. 6 letter, which was published in the LA Times.
Critics are unhappy that … at a time when the sheriff claims that he does not have enough deputies to patrol his 40+ cities… Including Malibu… The sheriff has used a half dozen deputies to investigate political enemies.
Inspector General Max Huntsman was accused by the sheriff off improperly downloading confidential personnel records on Villanueva and others.
The county lawyer says the Inspector General made a written request for the records and accessed them as part of his oversight duties.
And in the middle of all that … a subcommittee of the United States Congress is asking the US Justice Department to step in.
The congressional subcommittee has requested Justice Department investigation into what local Congress members call “criminal gangs” of deputies within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
These cliques of deputies celebrate deputy shootings and retaliate against whistleblowers.
Malibu Cosponsoring Free C-19 PCR Tests Over The Hill
Malibu and four other small cities are now sponsoring free COVID-19 testing … every other day this week … just over the hill.
The test are being administered in Calabasas every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 9AM – 5PM.
This is the PCR (nasal swab) testing.
Results will be sent directly to you within 24 hours. T
he testing service is hosted by the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, and Westlake Village, and Malibu.
The tests are given from 9 to 5 every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center … right near the Malibu Lost Hills sheriffs station.
That’s at 27040 Malibu Hills Rd., Calabasas.
No appointments are needed, but pre-registration is required at https://lablinqportal.com/PatientSignup.aspx?LabId=451.
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Pfizer Applies For Baby Vaxes, As US Sees Worst Covid Rate In Modern World
As we sort of predicted yesterday … Pfizer-BioNTech on Tuesday filed a submission for emergency use authorization to the federal government to allow babies and toddlers to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease effects.
Modeling by Scripps Health predicts that the current surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations should wind down by early March.
We are winding down into what scientists call an endemic of coronavirus.
A disease is considered endemic when infection totals are relatively stable and follow established patterns.
This is as opposed to major outbreaks continuing and prompting emergency response as has happened throughout the pandemic phase.
In the New York Times reports today that the United States has a Covid death rate for INXS of all the major western industrialized nations.
Credit antivaxxers for that.
The only industrialized countries to with higher Covid death rates than the USA this winter are Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, Greece and the Czech Republic … poorer nations where the best Covid treatments are relatively scarce
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Richard Bloom Drops Out Of Supervisorial Race, Leaving Hertzberg, Horvath, Stern
The race to replace Sheila Kuehl as the L A County supervisors who represents Malibu is shifting.
Richard Bloom announced yesterday that he is dropping out of the race to replace Sheila Kuehl as County Supervisor.
And that drastically changes the field for the hotly contested June primary.
Bloom was a the front runner in the race.
As of last summer, he had raised almost $1 million.
Three major candidates remain in the race now.
They include West Hollywood Councilwoman Lindsey P. Horvath, who is backed by Kuehl.
Also a major player from Sacramento … Senate president Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys.
And state Senator Henry Stern, ..,. a Malibu native whose district includes Malibu.
The Third District Supervisor seat includes Malibu, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, West Los Angeles, Agoura Hills and dozens of Westside neighborhoods.
70 Memorialize Alaska Airlines Crash Victims Off Pt Mugu
88 people were killed when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed off the coast of Point Mugu.
It was Jan. 31, 2000.
About 70 people gathered at Hueneme Beach Park on Monday around the Memorial Sundial monument … to honor and remember those who lost their lives 22 years ago.
The plane was flying from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico when it crashed into the waters north of Anacapa Island.
The flight’s five crew members and 83 passengers all died in the crash.
Global Warming Affects Oceans Starting in 2014
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A new study by the Monterey Bay Aquarium finds that global warming had reached a turning point in 2014, when over half of the world’s oceans experienced extreme heat.
Using what it calls an “atlas of extreme heat” to map out global ocean temperatures over time, the study was published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Climate.
It helps put into context the marine heat waves that occurred off the California Coast in recent years that disrupted the ecosystem and caused closures of the Dungeness crab and other fisheries. It’s also a reminder that climate change is not a future abstract occurrence but something that is already happening, coauthor Kyle Van Houtan said.
While half of the world’s oceans experienced marine heatwaves in 2014, they became common in some areas much earlier, including the South Atlantic Ocean in 1998 and the Indian Ocean in 2007, the study found. By 2019, up to 57% of the world’s oceans experienced extreme heat.


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Home Decorating Trends 2020
The key to a fashionable home is going to be on top of the trends in the year 2020!
New decade, new you consistently has its famous home stylistic theme and design highlights, similar to shag floor coverings or one of unique plan furniture.
I think 2020 will be one of these significant home design trending years. The previous five years have been about a bunch of large home stylistic theme patterns. In case you’re thinking about what will be enormous in 2020 Continue reading this article for a look into the future residential interior design and get the scoop on 7 home stylistic theme patterns we foresee will be all over the place.
What are Home Trends for 2020?
When 2019 moved around, we began to see the presentation of progressively natural tones, reasonable design components alongside ethnic and innate patterns; however, what’s going to start trending in home interior design 2020? Take a look at 2020 home patterns before saying a final goodbye to the stylistic theme for 2019.
1. Layered Rugs
Layering carpets is a well-known pattern for 2020, and it’s nothing astonishing to why. Layering mats is an incredible approach to twofold the surface and profundity in your space. Additionally, layering carpets can be a spending limit well-disposed choice contrasted with one bigger floor covering.
Brilliant, designed, and intensely layered carpets make sure to include a striking fly of shading in any room while something progressively modest will at present required, significant shading and warmth.
2. Woven Wall Hangings
Woven inside decorations are an immense home stylistic layout hit for the current year. Utilizing a woven tapestry is a simple method to bring a bit of surface and detail to a generally exhausting divider. Have a go at using a piece of fabric to make a component that your eyes are quickly attracted to.
3. Unique Ceiling Designs
Architects and home interior designers are giving more consideration to detail in 2020, particularly with regards to roofs. For a long time, ago, gone are the days when a fundamental sheetrock roof was sufficient. Hope to see increasingly vaulted ceilings, shiplap, uncovered wood pillars, plate roofs, and other unique compositional roof structures when you gaze upward in the years to come.
4. Industrial Lighting
Lighting with an insignificant mechanical vibe is another pattern we’re seeing as a significant player of 2020. Lighting is turning out to be fantastically sculptural blending stone and dark metal to make excellent structures and shapes, since why not have both structure and capacity together in one piece.
5. Sustainability at Home
People are starting to think more and more about the environmental impact of the interior design of the house. In addition to intelligent features and devices that regulate energy consumption, we also see the desire of our customers to shop sustainably.
We are seeing an increase in customers asking questions about the products they buy as the way it is made and where it comes from. People choose to invest in quality pieces that they can keep for years to come!
6. Variable Homes
Gone are the days when a lounge was viewed as a perfect plan of couches that pointed towards a TV. The personalization of spaces has now become a need for a great many people, and the idea of pieces is liable to one’s inclinations. For instance, numerous individuals have proceeded onward from the feasting table understanding and incline toward utilizing the additional room as a home office or creative space using best interior designers.
This growing need for customization of space according to use is a reason to believe that the houses will soon be fluid and variable.
7. Home Offices
Developments in communication innovation have made remote-maintaining sources of income a feasible alternative for some. This pattern has originators excited for creating furniture for home workplaces, everything being equal.
A developing network of consultants and business people are adding to this pattern by working with essential organizations that offer proficient administrations from their living arrangements. This beginning up culture is the thing that causes us to accept that the ‘home office’ pattern is digging in for the long trend, and 2020 will amaze us with some inspiring home office interior design structures.
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Okus Bokus Book – A to Z for Kashmiri Children
The book details, in Kashmiri, several aspects of Kashmiri life and culture through simple illustrations and interesting anecdotes. This is a must-have children’s book if you are a Kashmiri parent. You can also gift this to small Kashmiri kids in your relation.
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The city of Los Angeles Ordinance #183893 is effective as of November 22, 2015. The Los Angeles wood-frame soft-story ordinance can be found here: Article 1, Division 93: Mandatory Earthquake Hazard Reduction in Existing Wood-Frame Buildings with Soft, Weak, or Open Front Walls.
Changes to the ordinance, including updates to the time limits for compliance, were approved on February 12, 2016 under Ordinance #184081.
- Los Angeles’ mandatory wood-frame soft-story program applies to existing buildings that have the following characteristics:
- Wood-frame construction
- Construction permit was applied for prior to January 1, 1978
- Four or more dwelling units
- Ground floor containing parking or similar open floor or basement space causing soft, weak, or open lines where there exists at least one or more levels above
Building officials identified approximately 13,500 buildings in the city of Los Angeles that fell within the scope of this ordinance. As of April 2016, the preliminary inventory of wood-frame soft-story apartments (download the list) and condominiums (download the list) was made public by the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS).
City of Los Angeles Priority Designations
The Los Angeles wood-frame soft-story ordinance was carried out in phases. The timeline for compliance for each unique structure began following service distribution of the order from the LADBS. Orders were issued according to the priority levels outlined below.
|START DATE FOR
16 or more dwelling units
|3 or more stories||
May 2, 2016
|2 stories||July 22, 2016|
|Priority II||Three or more stories with fewer than 16 dwelling units||All||
October 17, 2016
|Priority III||Fewer than three stories and fewer than 16 dwelling units||9-15 units||January 30, 2017|
May 29, 2017
|4-6 units||August 14, 2017|
October 30, 2017
The city of Los Angeles requires that wood-frame soft-story building retrofits adhere to the timeline shown below. An official Order was issued to owners of buildings that fall within the scope of the ordinance. Once the Order was received, the subsequent deadlines were initiated. Orders were delivered in the phases outlined above, according to the priority level of the structure.
|BEGIN PROCESS||Order received by building owner|
|2 YEARS AFTER ORDER||Submit one of the following:
1. Proof that structure meets ordinance requirements OR
2. Plans for retrofit OR
3. Plans for demolition
|3.5 YEARS AFTER ORDER||Obtain one of the following:
1. Permit for rehabilitation OR
2. Permit for demolition
|7 YEARS AFTER ORDER||Complete one of the following:
1. Construction/retrofit OR
In the News
LA Times Soft-Story Buildings Map and Searchable Inventory
LA City Council Approves Seismic Retrofitting Measure (NBC)
Los Angeles City Council Approves Major Earthquake Retrofitting Ordinance (National Law Review)
Los Angeles Will Have the Nation’s Toughest Earthquake Safety Rules (LA Times)
Infographic: Look at How Apartments Can Collapse During an Earthquake (LA Times)
CONTACTSWiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Phone: (626) 696-4650
LADBS Soft-Story Retrofit Unit
201 N. Figueroa Street, Suite 890, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
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Over 60 of them put pen to paper in the first week – including Fjordhus Reivers, and Kelso, Peebles and Berwick Hockey Clubs.
More could be looking to sign on the dotted line during May, with the club pledge available at www.scottish-hockey.org.uk/clubs/club-pledge/.
The aim is to bring the hockey community together and connected, while showcasing the good work being done by clubs and to enable other clubs to do the same.
Scotland’s hockey club members are being urged to maintain club togetherness and community to help the sport to thrive.
Injury-hit Southern Knights muster reinforcements ahead of trip to Fosroc Super6 Championship basement side Stirling Wolves
Galashiels coach Dougie Anderson has gone from Borders amateur football ranks to mingling with Mourinho
In pictures: Capital gain at Peebles as Jed-Forest’s Kings of 7s title defence falters
Borders amateur footballers getting back on the ball this weekend
Chirnside team bowled over by success at national championships
By making the pledge, the clubs will:
Hold weekly club/team online (Zoom/Teams/GoTo) meetings at the time their training session would be.
Host virtual club social events – online quiz; karaoke; party nights.
Set club challenges to raise money for charity and good causes – for example, run 5k and donate £5.
Profile club members who are on the front line – working in the NHS, carers, supermarket workers. refuse workers, etc.
Paul Elliott, communications manager at Scottish Hockey, said: “Scotland’s hockey club members are missing the bonds and companionship they get from playing and training with their team mates for the game they love.
“This initiative helps clubs and teams maintain those bonds and keep spirits high in preparation for that time when we can all meet up again on the hockey pitch.
“In the meantime, we are hoping all our affiliated hockey clubs will make the club pledge to maintain the great sense of community and togetherness people enjoy through hockey.
“There’s also an amazing amount of fundraising taking place through club pledge so, collectively, we will hope to establish the amount of funds which have been raised for good causes right across the country.”


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…From the Editor
As huge fans of games and puzzles, we’re always tickled when a game makes the national news. That was certainly the case in early July—just before this issue went to press—when Pokémon Go was released and quickly became an overnight sensation. It was virtually impossible to miss all the media coverage of this gaming phenomenon, as news outlets large and small covered it from various angles. And of course, we at GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES had to get in on the action despite the short turnaround. Turn to Raymond Simon’s “Pokémon? Go For It!” on page 45 to see what all the fuss is about.
While you’re browsing the editorial features, don’t miss “Andrew Rhoda, The World’s Only Curator of Puzzles” on page 34. Rhoda curates the Slocum Puzzle Collection, a comprehensive resource consisting of more than 35,000 mechanical puzzles, at Indiana University’s Lilly Library. Author Jennifer Billock takes a look at the collection, focusing on Rhoda’s duties in his unique role as curator. Fans of mechanical puzzles will be fascinated and maybe a little envious! (To learn a bit more about someone who makes mechanical puzzles, turn to Game On! on page 48 and check out our brief item on Pavel Curtis.)
If you need a little lighthearted entertainment after contemplating the complexities of the puzzles in the Slocum Collection, flip to page 38 and try Jeff Moran’s quiz “And the Winner Is….” Based on Best Picture Oscar winners throughout the history of the award, this quiz isn’t just for die-hard movie buffs. We guarantee that casual movie fans will fare pretty well, too. Make this quiz a collaborative effort with your friends or family—two (or more) brains are better than one.
Puzzle fans looking for new challenges will want to try Block-a-Pix, on page 24. These puzzles are from Conceptis, the creators of the ever-popular Paint by Numbers—which, of course, also appear in this issue starting on page 56. “Three Dumbbells” (page 64) is a brand-new domino puzzle by Polish puzzle master Marek Penszko, who was a regular contributor of math and logic puzzles to GAMES in the 1980s. If word puzzles are more to your liking, we recommend Pent Words (page 50), Siamese Triplets (page 53), and Rows Garden (page 65).
IN THIS ISSUE
- Andrew Rhoda, the World’s Only Curator of Puzzles
- Meet the curator of the Lilly Library’s Slocum Puzzle Collection
- And the Winner Is…
- Test your knowledge of Best Picture winners over the years
- Pokémon? Go for It!
- A look at the phenomenon that is Pokémon Go
- What’s Happening
- Previews of upcoming events
- This Old Game: Lie Detector
- Vintage board games from the collector’s closet
- Your Word Against Mine: Scrabble Happenings, Puzzles, and Tips
- Tools to improve your game
- Contest: Rhyme Time
- Contest Results:
- Flustered Again (from April)
- Electronic Game Reviews
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Imbroglio
- Traditional Game Reviews
- Isles of Skye, Booty
- Game On!
- Offbeat news, trivia, and more from today’s world of games and puzzles
- Sole Survivor
- A challenging chess puzzle
- All About Fall
- Candy Corn Crush
- Gnu Speak
- Into the Woods
- May I Have This Dance?
- They’re Marvel-ous
- …and More!

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Tyshawn Taylor Has Successful Knee Surgery
Dec. 11, 2011
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas senior guard Tyshawn Taylor had successful surgery on his right knee Sunday morning and is expecting a full recovery, head coach Bill Self said.
“Tyshawn had surgery this morning and I spoke with the doctors and it went as well as expected” Self said Sunday afternoon. “Nothing had changed in the time frame for recovery, which is one to three weeks. He will be up and around tomorrow morning and will be back in the shortest time possible. The time for recovery depends on swelling and how he reacts to rehab.”
Following No. 13 Kansas’ 78-67 victory against No. 2 Ohio State Saturday, Self announced on the Jayhawk IMG Radio Network Postgame Show Taylor tore his meniscus in practice prior to the Long Beach State game Tuesday (Dec. 6) and would undergo surgery Sunday.
“We said (Tyshawn Taylor) tweaked his knee, but he tore his meniscus,” said Self. “He could have had surgery last Tuesday. He said there was no way he was going to miss these two games, so he’s going to have surgery tomorrow. (I don’t know) how long he’ll be out, two to three weeks. Maybe if everything goes perfect, it’ll be sooner than that. I can get on Tyshawn for turning it over. I can get onto him for not making some plays, which I think is conducive to being an extension of the head coach, but I can’t get on him for toughness. He’s been hurt, and he goes out there and gives his body up. We don’t beat Long Beach State without him, and we certainly don’t win this game without him. I think our fans should really appreciate him playing nicked up, and we’ll do surgery tomorrow.”
Through nine games this season, Taylor is averaging 15.9 points and 4.7 assists per game. He had nine points and a career-high 13 assists against Ohio State. Kansas’ next game will be Monday, Dec. 19, against Davidson at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., at 8 p.m.


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Creative Copper Mailbox Decor
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Custom Coaches was acquired today by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) with the pledge that the British company will “invest in people, processes and products” as it bids to “turn a successful brand into a GREAT Australian business.”
The pledge came from Colin Robertson, Chief Executive of ADL, Britain’s biggest bus and coach manufacturer and a company that in recent years has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing bus builders, now with manufacturing operations and build partnerships in the UK, mainland Europe, Hong Kong, China, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
The multi-million deal sees ADL take 100% control of the Australian business, which employs over 400 people at manufacturing sites in Sydney, New South Wales, and in Adelaide, South Australia.
Custom, which also has parts and service centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and the Gold Coast, currently has annual sales of around $90m and is one of the largest bus body builders in Australia with a 24% share of the market.
Signing the acquisition deal today, Robertson said: “This is another significant step in our strategy to diversify and grow the business. It will see our group turnover increase to around A$850 million per annum – a three-fold multiple in just five years – and position us well to become a major player in the southern hemisphere.
“The Custom brand is an icon in the Australian bus body market having been part of the transport landscape for 50 years. It has history, heritage and a reputation for quality products and putting customers first. These are the fundamentals of our business philosophy at ADL and we will build on them as we bid to turn a successful brand into a great Australian business.
“Our strategy will be to invest in people, processes and products; to exploit the synergies between our companies, particularly in terms of product and technology transfer, and to further strengthen the reputation we have elsewhere in the world for best-in-class customer support.
“This is the beginning of an exciting new chapter for both Custom and ADL. It will build on the progress ADL has made in New Zealand in the last two years where our manufacturing partnership with Kiwi Bus has established us as market leader and a major supplier to cities such as Auckland and Wellington.”
Mark Burgess, Managing Director of Custom, said: “Becoming part of the ADL family simply makes sense. We have revitalized our Custom product range with the introduction of the CB80 city bus and the SB50 school bus in the last year but the bringing together of Custom and ADL will open up a whole new raft of opportunities.
“There are clear synergies between the two companies. Custom is well established with state governments in Australia, corporate bus clients and family-run operations. We know the market intimately, while ADL is a recognized world leader in light-weight, fuel efficient vehicles, particularly midi buses and double decks. It is also admired globally for its focus on customer support. Bringing these strengths together presents the opportunity to create a powerful new force in the Australian bus manufacturing sector.”
Background on Custom
Custom is one of the most established and successful bus body builders in Australia, having produced its first vehicle in 1955. It designs and manufactures light-weight, stainless steel bodies for low floor city, school and midi buses, all of which are designed for a 25-year life-cycle. Custom’s focus on product innovation, coupled with meticulous research and development has kept it at the forefront of the Australian market for over 50 years, producing a raft of sophisticated specialist vehicles in recent years such as articulated, CNG powered and hybrid-electric buses, along with a unique range of low floor buses incorporating under-floor luggage space.
It has manufacturing facilities in Sydney and Adelaide and a series of aftermarket operations located strategically across the country.
Background on Alexander Dennis Limited
Alexander Dennis is Britain’s biggest bus and coach manufacturers with build partnerships and business alliances around the world. It has emerged in the past five years as one of the fastest growing manufacturers in the global bus and coach sector.
ADL is an acknowledged world leader in the design and manufacture of fuel efficient, environment-friendly single and double deck buses. It is also Europe’s leading supplier of low carbon hybrid-electric buses. ADL midi buses are global best-sellers, as are its double decks, which form the backbone of fleets in London, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Seattle.
North America JV
Just weeks ago (May 7) ADL announced details of a strategic alliance with New Flyer Industries Inc, North America’s leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses. Together, the businesses intend to bring a new dimension to the passenger transport industry in the USA and Canada.
As part of a contractual Joint Venture (JV) the companies plan to target the medium-duty, low-floor bus sector in North America and to transform the segment with a range of light-weight, fuel efficient products based on ADL’s midi bus range.
Colin Robertson said at the time: “Transit authorities in North America are being squeezed on all fronts as the economy tightens and the impact of the recession continues relentlessly. Our Enviro200 midi bus is a world-beater, leading the field in markets as far apart as Britain and New Zealand. It is light-weight, highly manoeuvrable, enjoys unrivalled fuel efficiency and has incomparable whole life costs. We believe there is potential for 1,000 a year in the USA and Canada.”
ADL was advised during the Custom acquisition by PWC Australia and Clayton Utz.

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Take bread away from me, if you wish, / take air away, but / do not take from me your laughter.
Raphael hears Simon before he sees him. His burst of laughter is a tangible presence that sends a warm feeling throughout his chest. He enters the foyer to find Stan pouting at the TV and Simon on his side, giggles rushing past his lips in short pants.
“I ca-can’t believe you shot yourself! Like ho-how does that even hap-happen?”
Do not take away the rose, / the lance flower that you pluck, / the water that suddenly / bursts forth in joy, / the sudden wave /of silver born in you.
Raphael walks hand in hand with Simon. The streets of New York can be lonely at night, but walking with Simon as he swings their hands back and forth, humming a tune Raphael can’t place, he begins to forget about the concept of loneliness.
His reflections are interrupted by Simon’s abrupt laughter, Raphael curiously follows Simon’s gaze. In the middle of the sidewalk is a goose. Simon senses Raphael’s confusion and says between giggles, “We’re gonna want to cross the street.”
Raphael stares incredulously at Simon. “Are you seriously scared of a goose?” He guides Simon to the other side of the street as Simon keeps side-eying the goose, ensuring it won’t follow them.
Raphael scoffs playfully at Simon. Simon’s a vampire and he’s scared of a bird.
He tells Simon how ludicrous he is being, but Simon responds with an unbelievable story (to normal people but honestly anything can happen with Simon) about how him and Clary were chased by geese in Central Park when they were seven, and how Simon can’t help but recall this traumatic instance every time he sees a goose; all of this said between the spread of his fingers as he covers his mouth slightly to suppress the bubbling laughter.
My struggle is harsh and I come back / with eyes tired / at times from having seen / the unchanging earth, / but when your laughter enters / it rises to the sky seeking me / and it opens for me all / the doors of life.
Raphael labors over the agreement resting on his desk, scratching out sentences and rewriting them to better outline the clan’s demands. Simon sits on the sofa in his office, diagonal from Raphael, watching some cartoon that has him in stitches. Raphael clears his throat, hoping to silence Simon’s noise, but its drowned out by a burst of laughter.
Raphael growls, “I’m clearly trying to work.”
Simon turns off the TV and gives Raphael an apologetic smile. “I’m sorry, Raph. I can leave.”
Raphael feels guilt twist in his gut, tight and sharp. “Simon, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have snap-”
“It’s okay.” Simon stands and walks toward Raphael, dropping a kiss on his forehead. Raphael leans into his touch. “You’re just stressed. I’ll go see what Penelope is doing. We have a game of Magic to finish.”
Raphael nods and squeezes Simon’s hand. Simon walks to the door but trips on the rug underneath Raphael’s desk. He flails, collapsing pathetically on the it and bursts into a fit of giggles.
Raphael rolls his eyes, grinning as Simon picks himself up with an “I meant to do that.”
My love, in the darkest / hour your laughter / opens, and if suddenly / you see my / blood staining / the stones of the street, / laugh, because your laughter / will be / for my hands / like a fresh sword.
Raphael heard the sound of the teeth piercing his flesh more than he felt it, but the demon is instantly wrenched off of him, Simon’s teeth sinking and tearing into the beast’s neck, sending it back to the hell it slithered from.
Raphael slumps against the wall behind him, breath puffing out in quick bursts. He tears the fang from his chest; blood seeps from the wound. He leans his head back as unsteady hands caress his face.
“Raphael, are you all right?”
Raphael groans in response. “I’m okay, just a little sore. It’ll heal nicely now that it’s out of my chest.”
Simon lets loose a shaky breath as Raphael reaches up to wipe the blood streaming down Simon’s eyes. “You might have to carry me back to the hotel, though. Think your weak fledgling self can handle that?”
Simon laughs, but it’s pained and sharp. Raphael hears the unacknowledged love and desperate fear released in it. He brings Simon in for a kiss, a gentle peck on the lips, then a kiss on each cheek, eyelid, and his nose. Simon huffs out a chuckle and Raphael smiles, victorious.
Next to the sea in the autumn, / your laughter must raise / its foamy cascade, / and in the spring, love, / I want your laughter like / the flower I was waiting for, / the blue flower, the rose / of my echoing country.
Raphael leans into Simon, pressing into him. He straddles Simon’s lap, kissing him intently. Simon groans into the kiss, lips bloody from drinking from Raphael’s neck. Raphael decides to return the favor as he presses his lips down Simon’s neck and rests them on his carotid. Something about drinking from such a vital vein leaves them both feeling powerful yet vulnerable, a combination he only allows himself to feel around Simon. He nips at the skin then pierces it with a gasp from Simon. He drinks and drinks and drinks. The blood is warm, intoxicating and enthralling him. Simon whines, desperate and high. Raphael licks gently at the wound on Simon’s neck, healing the punctures. He grips Simon’s side, attempting to readjust his position, but is met with a yelp.
His eyes flicker to Simon’s, immediately concerned, but only finds Simon’s warning glare.
“Don’t do that,” Simon warns.
Raphael quirks an eyebrow then it dawns on him. “Are you ticklish?”
Simon scowls. “No.”
Raphael smirks and squeezes Simon’s sides once more. Simon squirms beneath him. A snicker leaves Raphael’s lips as he attacks Simon’s sides with his nimble fingers. Simon shrieks beneath him, trying to get away from Raphael’s touch but only moving closer, his panting laughter encouraging Raphael.
Seeing Raphael’s glee, Simon playfully growls and flips Raphael over, pinning him to the bed. Raphael smiles up at him, and Simon sighs, a giggle leaking past.
“Whatever you say,” Raphael sings. “Now, I have a weapon I can use later.”
Simon sticks his tongue out playfully. Raphael reaches up to bite him but is instead met with eager lips. Raphael doesn’t completely forget about Simon’s ticklish tendencies but is mollified by the presence of Simon’s lips.
Laugh at the night, / at the day, at the moon, / laugh at the twisted / streets of the island, / laugh at this clumsy / boy who loves you, / but when I open / my eyes / and close them, / when my steps go, / when my steps return, / deny me bread, air, light, spring, / but never your laughter / for I would die.
Simon could probably count on his hands how many times he has heard Raphael laugh. He wasn’t expecting tonight to be one of them. It had started off well. He set up the whole roof of the hotel; it was covered in twinkling lights and burning candles with a table set for two in the middle. They had dinner and dessert that he had made (with help from Lily and Stan) and Raphael even agreed to lie on the air mattress he brought outside to stargaze on (more like staring at the moon with all the light pollution, but it’s the thought that counts.) And, most importantly, he had finally worked up the courage to tell Raphael that he loved him.
Now, as he stares at Raphael’s shaking form, he wonders if he made the right decision.
“Look, I know you might not feel the same. We never really specified what we were doing - if us was a thing - but I just- I just had to tell you, because if I kept it in me anymore I feel like I would’ve exploded. That’s how much I love you, Raph. And you don’t have to feel the same, but for you to sit here and laugh at me-”
He’s silenced with a harsh press of lips. They’re gone before he can respond.
Raphael smiles at him, softly, holding the side of Simon’s face in his palm. “Mi sol, I love you too.”
Simon sputters. “Why were you laughing then?”
Raphael cracks up again. “Simon, did you not hear yourself when you said it?”
Simon stares at him quizzically. Of course he heard it.
“You said, and I quote, ‘I love you like Leia loves Han, but - um - the gay version of that.”
Simon cracks a smile and eventually bursts into laughter alongside Raphael. “I guess I see your point.”
“Also,” Raphael adds with a smirk. “I’m totally the Leia of this relationship.”
Simon is about to protest but gets caught up in the way Raphael’s eyes sparkle in the moon's illumination. Instead, he giggles with Raphael, realizing that a life spent hearing Raphael’s deep chuckle is a life not wasted.

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I still can see Blue Velvet through my tears.
What would I give if I could live out of these waters?
The city looks so peaceful from up here.
Anything is peaceful from one thousand three hundred and fifty three feet.
TRUE ROMANCE, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, 1993
Suspicion (1941) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
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Review : Pedro the Lion - Achilles Heel
SputnikmusicLooking back on it, Pedro The Lion's Achilles Heel is a fascinating look at the evolution of David Bazan – not only as a musician but also as a living, breathing organism on this earth. It's fitting that this was the last album released under the Pedro moniker as the former youth group-gone-indie sound of his previous work had pretty much disappeared at this point. Sure, Bazan always had his doubts, they were what made him “him” you could say, but Achilles Heel always seemed like more of an affirmation to rebuke his own wandering soul than a cry of praise for those in doubt. His chastising of his fellow practitioners had gone from the back to basics hesitation of “The Secret of the Easy Yoke” to such biting lines as “...You were to busy steering the conversation toward the Lord to hear the voice of the spirit begging you to shut the *** up,” in “Foregone Conclusions”. Even his most steadfast moments of faith on Achilles Heel are consumed by uncertainty. Despite the comforting melody of the chorus of “The Fleecing”, his exasperated release of “...And I can't think it like I feel it and I don't feel a thing” makes it seem as though the only person he's trying to convince is his self. To this day Bazan is his own one man game of tug of war, but Achilles Heel is the sound of two competing ideologies – the tradition that you know versus the truth you feel – both staking claims to the man at the other's expense, a messy internal dialogue that lead us to the hauntingly intimate schism of Curse Your Branches.
That's not to say that all of Achilles Heel is a drawn out passion play. The album also does its best to expound on the darker elements of previous Pedro the Lion outings such as Winners Never Quit's morose family tale with the “Discretion” continuing on deeper into the realm of death and red handed family politics. Tracks like “The Poison” also delve into Bazan's own follies, in this case alcoholism. Bazan's never shied away from presenting himself as nothing more than a broken man stumbling through life despite his best efforts to hinder himself, and “The Poison” is that “first step” song of admittance. It all comes together to create a vivid document of the man. Driven by his own doubts and confusions, Achilles Heel is David Bazan trying to sort himself out in the only way he knows how: writing damn good songs....full text
PitchforkMan, I hate when an album doesn't match up to the review I had planned for it. Months ago, I'd artfully conceived a righteous corrective of all the bum raps David Bazan has received over the years, both from this esteemed institution and others. Valiantly, I'd position myself between the mournful singer/songwriter and the sharp arrows of our vicious kind, praising him as one of the finest modern practitioners of the lost concept album arts, while simultaneously mocking the IndieWorld reflex to immediately disparage anyone who dares discuss something so bourgeois as religion. Oh, the gleeful self-satisfaction that would be had!
Then I heard the album. No glee.
For starters, Achilles Heel finds Bazan taking a respite from the song cycles that have graced his last two fine efforts, Winners Never Quit and Control. And while the Lion certainly has a right to an intermission from his musical Decalogue, losing the narrative push sucks the heart out of these songs, leaving a mope-rock shell that's less than filling. Only the murder-tale of "Discretion" harks back to his previous style-- a short-story remnant of Bazan's minstrel talent, its bright light is obstructed by heavy-handed stand-alone songs about unhappiness in a socialist utopia, state infidelity, and bands dying in tour vans.
And then, there's the Jesus. While Sufjan Stevens has done wonders for hypnotizing indie folk into singing along with Sunday School lesson plans, Bazan continues to be the face on the scene dartboard for people's transposed aggression against the likes of Jerry Falwell. With hands pressed firmly over ears at the mere mention of the J or G words, most of these non-conformist conformists miss the context of Pedro's deity name-dropping, which is often as critical of organized religion (and better informed) as any of the Lion-haters claim to be. To his credit, Bazan never sounds like the kind of Christian robotically following clerical orders, but like a man looking for something, anything in which to find solace from an oppressively bleak world....full text
CokemachineglowAchilles Heel is Pedro The Lion’s redeeming follow up to 2002’s not-that-impressive Control. The success of Winners Never Quit, the critically acclaimed concept album about a morally corrupt politician apparently went straight to David Bazan’s ego, as he developed a do no evil pretense, and fucked up royally with Control. The main problem with Control is that good lyrics alone can’t make an album work, and Bazan neglected to pay attention to the music. I would say that his intentions were purely cathartic with Control, but that would mean that the lyrics were the equivalent of vocal masturbation, or some equally annoying form of self indulgence.
But now that the crippling pretension of Control is an acknowledged mistake of the past, Pedro The Lion has (as of May 25th) released the album of their career. At the surface, Achilles Heel is a set of simply structured lofi rock tunes, not too long, but not too short, with the music in the back and folky vocals in the front. But a closer look will reveal Steve Bazan’s incredible talent as a lyricist. Each song is either a short story, an expounded idea, or a few sentences elaborating on a random emotion in an unsuperficial way.
Bazan has a unique style of painting lyrical picture after picture of situations and characters, and the best example of his ability, I think, is “Discretion.” The song starts out with some dreamy, reverberated guitar, and Bazan sets the scene for the story of a farmer whose son paid a hit man to kill him. The guitar picks up, and the story continues to explain that the farmer found his dead son at the same time that the killer was driving and thinking about his “recent deviation from the plan.” But it’s not revealed until the closing seconds of the song that the hit man decided to kill the “asshole son,” and spared the farmer’s life.
However monotonous a lot of other songwriters may be in their storytelling, Bazan is far from out of material to write about. He can write very elaborately, like in “Discretion,” or simply, with a “hey, don’t be a dick” message. The slowcore jam rock of “Keep Swinging,” demonstrates this. Some dirty, overdriven, lo-fi blues guitar (damn, that’s adjectivey!) sets the melody for a story about how people in irrational states of mind can cause problems for other people by throwing self-deprecating temper tantrums. It’s about what I assume is a personal friend of Bazan’s who gets really drunk in Chicago, trashes a hotel room in a fit of self-directed drunken rage, and leaves the mess for the maid to clean.
Bazan meticulously insinuates the thoughts and actions of his songs’ characters very slowly until things are finally clear in the closing words of each song. It’s almost as if he’s inviting you into his mind for a few minutes at a time to catch a glimpse of the sometimes fictional, sometimes factual characters in Pedro The Lion’s songs, each of which act out the stories and fill in the blanks as more details are subtly unveiled....full text
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