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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
I’m twenty! Yay! I honestly can’t believe I’ve been alive this long, I really have outdone myself.
To celebrate, I’m talking about twenty books that have made me, shaping me into the reader I am today. The best of the best in terms of turning me into a functioning human being, even if the books are…. questionable, in some places.
Solitaire by Alice Oseman
If you’ve been around me for more than two seconds, you’ll know I love this book with all my little heart. When I read this in January, 2015, it truly changed my life and how I approached characters in novels. Tori Spring was the first character I ever found myself completely in sync with: she was a year older than me, depressed and jaded with the world, and not really confident in things going on in her life, something fifteen year old me desperately needed to see in a character. I still love this book, and I’m re-reading it over the Summer as one of my dissertation texts!
Hawkeye Volume 1: My Life As A Weapon by Matt Fraction
Personally, I believe this is the best comic run to ever come out of Marvel, and it changed the way I approached the MCU. I was already an MCU fan, really, but I get so heated over how badly they butchered Clint’s character. This was also the second Marvel comic I ever got into (I’ll talk about the other one later), but it helped me fall in love with Kate Bishop with a fire I’ve never felt before. I really, really recommend this, although I would suggest only reading the first four volumes written by Fraction. The Hawkeye VS Deadpool comic is also brilliant for this specific version of Clint!
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
LOOK: if you lived in the UK between the years of 2007-2013, and were a teenager or on the border, you have watched this film. I’ve actually read the whole series, and really want to do a re-read, only I…. accidentally donated the whole series other than the first?
I love Angus, am the BIGGEST Dave the Laugh fan you will ever meet, and will forever talk about how ungrateful and catty Georgia is, especially for how she treated Dave. I will also confess I just accidentally referred to her as Olive because of the opening scene.
Ember Fury by Cathy Brett
Ignore the terrible quality of the cover, this was my life! I used to sit with my dad and copy the drawings in this while he painted just because I loved it so much.
Sometimes I sit and think about Ned, Ember’s imaginary friend from the 1940s who lived during the Blitz. This book is pretty wild and top of my list to re-read if I ever decide to read my childhood favourites!
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Pretty sure this is the only steampunk story I’ve ever read, but I want you all to know I love it with all my heart.
I’ve actually realised this and Ember Fury have the similarities of a war-era setting, although I think this would be more widely-liked by the book community now. It has really strong female characters, a cute slow burn romance between two of the teens, and illustrations? Apparently? I cannot remember these illustrations, I just remember a little creature in an egg and having a crush on the main girl!
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A bit of a later read when I was in year 8 (so… when I was 12?) that actually made me fall in love with Shakespeare and classics in general!
I have such a soft spot for this play and the characters in it, I adore Mercutio and Benvolio with all my heart, and if you ever insult the Baz Luhrmann film in front of me, I’ll kick off. I even wrote a whole essay during my first year of university- that was my module grade- analysing the play in relation to Gnomeo and Juliet. I ripped a kid’s film to shreds and I had the time of my life!
Death Note Volume 1 by Tsugumi Ohba
I read this when I was fourteen? Maybe? My friends at school all went on about manga and anime and how great this was, so I went ‘fuck it’ and picked it up and I loved it. After this I got into Deadman Wonderland and Attack on Titan, but Death Note has a special place in my heart as the first manga I ever properly got into. I own all the black editions, only volume 6 is in French- entirely my dad’s fault, he bought the wrong version online for me- and I’ve never finished the series.
So my manga love can be directly traced back to year 10 peer pressure!
You Against Me by Jenny Downham
According to Goodreads, this came out in 2011, so I was around 12 when I read this for the first time. I remember it being super dark and would 100% be considered problematic now with its predominant focus on the romance instead of the harder side of this story, and I know for a fact more recent books have done this concept way better, but I really loved this when I was younger. It made me more aware of difficult issues that I hadn’t seen when I was younger, especially victim blaming of young girls who suffer from assault and harassment, and has definitely influenced how I approach content in books.
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
This is a very recent favourite- my favourite of 2018, in fact- but it really changed my reading for the better. It essentially started off a resurgence in my love of reading anything and everything, and only reading if I know I’m getting enjoyment from what I pick up. Molly as a character means a lot to me, too, as a fat girl and as someone with anxiety, and I think this book is one that has impacted my life the most on this list. This and Solitaire especially are the most important in being there when I needed them the most.
IT by Stephen King
It took me TWO WEEKS to read this in year eight and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to top that, other than when it took me 3 days to read The Name of the Wind when I moved house in year 10. While this isn’t the most important Stephen King book in my reading experience so far in life, it definitely played a massive part in the growth of my love for both horror and coming-of-age narratives. It’s around the time I read this that I got really into The Goonies and basically any eighties film with Corey Feldman in a main role!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Ya girl still has bad dreams about that opening scene where Bod’s entire family are literally massacred! Like! What the fuck! Everytime someone talks about The Cruel Prince opening all I can think of is that I’ve already seen that exact same family killing play out in a book I originally thought was safe for a 9 year old, and it scarred me more than any other book can. The illustrations of the dead and supernatural beings in this are also terrifying, and I’m still waiting for that sequel!
The Undrowned Child by Michelle Lovric
Words cannot express how excited I am to eventually go to Venice because of this book. I read and re-read this obsessively growing up, imagining I was the main character. This book is to me what Ink Heart is to so many others, with how exciting the fantasy world is lingering under the surface of our own. Michelle Lovric truly owned me entirely with this book, and she’s coming out with another book set in Venice this year, and I’m just- YES.
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
Y’all. I own all 15 of these books, and the novella collection. I own the first four in the original glow-in-the-dark mass market paperbacks. Myrnin is basically my whole ENTIRE LIFE. No other series about vampires ever got me this bad, and nothing appealed to my emo side quite like Eve and Shane having a Metallica VS Korn fight for literally no reason other than them both being loud assholes. God, that scene in book one with the acid? Sam? MYRNIN? My hatred for Shane in Bite Club? This series is still so exciting to me I really need to re-read it ASAP.
Demon Thief by Darren Shan
This is most definitely my favourite series. It’s still the most graphically violent I’ve ever read; it doesn’t hesitate to use body horror, kill off characters, and just do the extreme to a bunch of kids. Demon Thief is my favourite because it follows my favourite character, Kernel, and was also the first in the series that I read! The actual order is Lord Loss-Demon Thief-Slawter-Bec, but I read it Demon Thief-Lord Loss-Bec-Slawter! I also borrowed the series originally from the teaching assistant in my class when I was in year 6, and it’s the reason I made friends with my best friend online when we were 13.
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
I went back to my review to get an idea of my early thoughts but… yeah, I got nothing, young Connie couldn’t write good reviews for shit.
I distinctly remember it being the first book I read with both explicit swearing and enemies-to-lovers (including actual discussions of sex) and that really impressed me? It really had an impact on me and pushed me to start reading books that have an older YA feel to them, and also introduced me to more contemporary reads!
Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg
GOOD LORD. This series sure started a love for comics I never ever had before. I’m a massive fan of all things teenage and coming-of-age themed, so this was a series that really did mean a lot to me. I spent ages looking for this first ever volume to read and I ended up reading it online, ordering volume 2 through thriftbooks, buying Children’s Crusade and getting the Omnibus of the Gillen run for my birthday. I also got into the Runaways thanks to this comic, although I didn’t read it for a good few years!
Carrie by Stephen King
My first Stephen King book!
I bought the copy I still have when I was around 10 years old from a second hand bookstore in Great Yarmouth. Every time I go back I visit that same bookstore and try and pick up another King book; most of my books by him, other than IT, are second hand. Carrie really helped me get into horror in general, and it does mean a lot to me by introducing me to an author I now love- some of his films are also my favourites as coming-of-age narratives, something he does really well.
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
I won’t deny that I loved this book and read it about five times in one year, and have never touched it since. I really do love what this book did for not only making a change in contemporary YA- although I hate the wave of books that romanticise illness that came after it- but also popularising adaptations of teen romance books without humiliating the teens who love romances!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
I wrote about this book for a creative piece I did in year 10! I love it! It introduced me to a whole wave of 1) character, rather than plot/setting, driven narratives, and 2) narratives about mental health and heavier topics. I honestly think this remains one of the best pieces of literature in Young Adult history, and the film is also incredible.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
This is TOP TIER fantasy. I’ve re-read it about ten times. Katsa is the strongest female protagonist in YA fantasy without it ever becoming some ‘big thing’ that she’s badass- she does what she does to survive, and is so nuanced and well written. I kinda think a lot of current YA fantasy is just edgy for the sake of it, with… fake badass female characters, who you’re told are cool but never are and aren’t well written? I should probably do a post about my bookish opinions, to be honest. But Katsa is actually incredible as a character. Katsa and Po honestly owned my heart when I was growing up, and I still love Raffin and his blue hair even now!
And those are all the books that made me. Have we got any in common? What books would be on your list?
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Hey! As you may have noticed in the banner above, I'll be going to the Thought Bubble convention in Leeds on the 19th of November (just over two weeks away!). I'll be there both days and I'll have a bunch of stuff for sale, including all three volumes of my book including Volume 2 (very limited amount), original art, canvases, prints and other goodies. I'll put a page up with a list of what I'll be taking soon, but in the meantime, take a look at my Tumblr, where I've been posting images of the canvases and pictures I'm been making.
If you can make it, be sure to stop by and say hello!

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND IS THE THEME OF THE BIENNIAL AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM AT THE PRINCESS GRACE IRISH LIBRARY, MONACO
The Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA) and the Princess Grace Irish Library (placed under the aegis of Fondation Princesse Grace in Monaco) are pleased to announce their second joint symposium: "Eighteenth-Century Ireland" to be held at the Library from 19 to 21 October 2018. The Symposium is not open to the public.
Symposium Director, Prof Christopher Fox, says:
The Fellows of the Keough-Naughton Institute at the University of Notre Dame value this opportunity to collaborate with a highly-revered resource for the study of the global Irish culture. We look forward to continuing to build our relationship.
The Trustees of the Princess Grace Irish Library — Mark Armstrong, Anne-Marie Boisbouvier, Francis O'Hara and Peter K Murphy — are delighted to welcome academics with such global scope to discuss a century seminal to the later development of Ireland, its tensions and divisions.
The Symposium brings an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars together to explore our current understanding of Eighteenth-Century Ireland. This remains a seminal and highly-contested period, when Ireland moved from a kingdom to colony, to union, and empire. It was a time that witnessed the beginning of the great migration of Irish people to the Americas. It was also a time when Dublin itself moved from a medieval town to the second city of the empire and an era that witnessed a flowering of the arts and a massive upheaval on political, social, military and economic fronts.
As 2018 Symposium member Ian McBride notes, once "regarded as quiet backwater, the eighteenth century has become the new boomtown of Irish historiography." In fact, where "historians once described a century of tranquility, they now focus on deep-seated tensions—between Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter, settler and native, landlord and tenant—all culminating in the explosion of 1798." He adds that these "were years when the penal laws were implemented and the threat of a Jacobite invasion a real one, years when the famine of 1740-41 left 15 percent of the population dead."
The "old tension-free model" in the study of Eighteenth-Century Ireland has then (as Professor McBride argues) been challenged by newer work that shows that "social and political stability of the period was a 'façade', masking the reality of a deeply divided society, and the 1798 rebellion presents the inevitable product of a 'politico-religious' tensions which had been simmering for one hundred years."
Symposium member Thomas Bartlett would add that the "period 1691 to 1830, Ireland's 'long' eighteenth century, has traditionally posed a challenge to those historians who have sought first to establish and then to elaborate the main themes that make the most sense of it. Relatively benign developments—at least until the 1770s—of vibrant political activity, impressive economic advance and splendid flowering of art and architecture have jostled uncomfortably, especially for the later decades with, in the debit column, the much more malign notes of political failure, bloody insurrection, savage repression, rampant sectarian conflict and, in the early nineteenth century, increasing immiseration. Where is the balance to be struck between such apparently opposed viewpoints? And what is the connection between the splendour and the squalor, the poise and the poverty, and the self-assurance and the self-doubt, all of which seem in equal measure to characterize what has been styled both a 'golden age' and a 'penal era'?"
These and other issues will animate a lively PGIL discussion involving distinguished historians, linguists, and scholars of literature and folklore. How did the Gaelic Irish see themselves during a particularly repressive period and define their relation to issues of sovereignty and nation? What was the popular Gaelic tradition's connection to learned Gaelic traditions and what can this tell us about eighteenth-century Ireland? What was the connection between gender and the popular oral culture? In the Anglo-Irish tradition, how do we connect Swift's classic, Gulliver's Travels, with its place and time? How did the Irish respond to growing urbanization between 1650 and 1800? What were the connections between the lively poetic and musical cultures in eighteenth-century Dublin? How did the Catholic Church survive, function and even flourish during the penal law period? How did the experience of travel affect eighteenth-century understandings of Ireland's colonial position? How do we characterize Ireland's connections to the larger Atlantic trading system? Finally, how does the nearly constant experience of global war affect Irish culture, perspectives and lives?
The Symposium will offer a splendid table for open discussion of these and other questions.

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Good evening, I play the guitar and I intend to use FarPlay to play remotely as a duo with a bassist: I use an external sound card (Apogee “Duet2”, 2 in x 2 out) on a 27 inch Mac with High Sierra operating system; for the sound of the guitar I only use virtual amplifiers (au plugins) using the jack input of the sound card and listening to the sound from the monitors connected to the output of my Duet 2.
I would like to ask the following question:
Given that my setup doesn’t require a microphone to capture guitar sound, can I combine the Mac’s built-in microphone for speaking only and the external sound card for guitar sound only? If I exclude the monitors and use headphones in the appropriate input of the Duet 2, it should work, right?
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Pihole not working. the traffic is not read/flowing through it. It worked for a 2 days but all of sudden stopped working. I reinstalled the raspberry pi software and Pihole but it does not work. When I try using the DHCP of Pihole the net stops. When I use the routers DHCP again the net stops. have to switch off the pi for the net to start working.Using Orbi router and pi4.
Scenario 1 - uses pi DHCP disables router DHCP - net lost have to remove pi to restore net.
Scenario 2 - uses routers dhcp adds IP address of pi - net lost again
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when I go to DHCP page of Pihole I do not see all the clients connected to my router. Like my iPhone is missing while my Mac is shown in the DHCP lease section. When I had posted for the issue none of the client was listed.
So I had set my Pihole as the only dhcp server while my router dhcp was turned off. This worked smoothly until a point the log showed the ads were blocked while the ads were shown. I reset the router and pi. On setting things up. if I turn off the router DHCP and and turn on Pihole DHCP. The network hangs, for which I have to remove the pi and netwok is back up again. Now the router DHCP is on and have mentioned the pi address for DNS and pi DHCP off it works as mentioned in the above article.
In the Pihole DHCP page only 4 clients can be seen while on the dashboard page we can see all the device connected. How do we get to see all the DHCP for clients in the Pihole setting page?
so the only way I can get the thing to work is by router dhcp. Before I could get it to work with Pihole DHCP but somehow since evening its not working. when I turn off the router DHCP to make Pihole as the DHCP server the net and access to router stops.
when I have both turned on . the data shown is as per each client name in the logs, which also shows it blocking stuff but when I see the actual page nothing is blocked.
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THREE ARSENAL DEALS STALL
Arsenal’s summer is going as well as you probably expected. With around £40million to spend but needing at least four new players in this market, Unai Emery is evidently struggling to replicate Jesus’s fishes and loaves trick.
Apparently, Emery tried to make £15million stretch to a new left-back but, according to The Sun, Celtic have told the Gunners to go whistle. The bidding for Kieran Tierney will have to start at £25million, regardless of how many fringe players Emery offers to sweeten the deal.
Arsenal are struggling too in their pursuits of Yannick Carrasco and Ryan Fraser. Carrasco would probably walk from China to the Emirates but Dalian Yifang are yet to decide whether they might sanction a move. And if they do, the Evening Standard reckons the Belgium winger will cost £30million.
Even that sum would not be enough to land Fraser. The Bournemouth winger has only a year left on his deal but both the club and player seem content to enter the final 12 months of their agreement. Arsenal had hoped Fraser might force the Cherries’ hand but the Scotland international won’t rock the boat.
ATLETICO PROPOSE ARSENAL SWAP
The only way Emery can swell his coffers is to sell but, unsurprisingly, the only players who would raise significant funds are the ones the Arsenal boss wants to keep.
Among that group is Hector Bellerin. The right-back was crocked for half of last season, but that hasn’t stopped Atletico Madrid registering their interest. Juventus were keen on Bellerin last summer but Arsenal’s £50million valuation scared off the Serie A champions.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Atletico will try a different approach. Diego Simeone will offer Vitolo as part of the deal in the hope Emery might be tempted by a reunion with the former Sevilla attacker.
The pair won three Europa League titles together before Emery left for PSG and Vitolo joined Atletico. But the former Spain international has struggled under Simeone, scoring just four goals in two seasons.
SPURS WANT ASENSIO IN ERIKSEN DEAL
Across north London, Spurs are making similarly slow progress. Much depends on Christian Eriksen but the Denmark playmaker seems to be having to wait on Real Madrid and Juventus to make a decision over Paul Pogba.
Goal claims Real have opted to prioritise Pogba over Eriksen, but the Spaniards will have to shift some deadwood before they can afford the Manchester United midfielder. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer just wants rid of Pogba now, according to a couple of reports.
Real had hoped an offer of £45million plus Dani Ceballos might tempt Spurs into a swift deal for Eriksen but The Sun suggests Mauricio Pochettino would prefer Marco Asensio, even if only on loan. Zinedine Zidane will oppose any plan to let Asensio leave, so the deadlock continues.
Pochettino is rather more willing to see Kieran Trippier make for the exit. The Telegraph says Spurs are expecting a £25million offer for the England right-back from Juventus, while Napoli’s interest also remains.
AND THE REST
Inter Milan need to offload Mauro Icardi before making a move for Romelu Lukaku… PSG insist Neymar is not for sale at any price… Real Madrid are keen to sign Kylian Mbappe next year but they need the striker to force a move… West Ham, Watford and Sheffield United are all interested in signing Emmanuel Adebayor as a free agent… Chelsea expect to finalise the appointment of Frank Lampard in the coming week… The Blues won’t decide on Kurt Zouma’s future until the new boss is in place… Willian will stay at Stamford Bridge despite an offer from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua… Watford, Aston Villa and Bournemouth are all fighting for Burnley keeper Tom Heaton… Fulham are eyeing Newcastle striker… Alan Pardew could become FC Cincinnati’s new manager.

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After Island historian Edward Shillingburg was asked to take part in a presentation at the Shelter Island Historical Society in August, a document in the Society’s archives surfaced on the history of the Klenawicus Airfield, and other early stories of Island aviation.
The Historical Society’s event later this summer is to consist of several people giving short reports on the Island’s preserved properties, and Mr. Shillingburg drew the Klenawicus straw. “The idea is to bring to the public’s attention the Island’s open space program,” Mr. Shillingburg said. “To answer questions of, ‘What are they?’ ‘Where are they?’”
The airfield, a beloved, 17-acre Island institution — known fondly as the Klenawicus International Airport (see below for the reason) — was purchased by the town in April 2011 for a total of $4,148,500 from the Klenawicus family, using Community Preservation Funds to preserve it from development. Money for the CPF comes from a 2% tax that buyers pay when purchasing East End properties and is used in turn to purchase open space for preservation.
The Shelter Island Pilots Association was granted stewardship of the airfield.
There didn’t seem to be any historical record of how the airfield was founded, until the Historical Society brought forth an oral history project by Shelter Island High School student Natasha Borisova, which was published in the historical Society’s Autumn 2000 Newsletter.
Below (with slight editing) is Ms. Borisova’s report:
By Natasha Borisova
Aviation has been a significant part of Shelter Island history. There’s not much information about this fascinating topic in the Shelter Island archives. The purpose of this project is to fill the historical gap, to present and preserve the history of aviation on Shelter Island.
“Flying had started to become a popular new sport in 1909 when Glen Curtiss flight clubs and airports began to spring up all over Long Island,” wrote Frances Kestler in “Never-Never Land: The Saga of Westmoreland Farm.”
“But flying required a special courage due to many accidents in the small and, as yet, flimsily built planes. Many were two-seaters, and most were open cockpit biplanes,” Ms. Kestler wrote.
Long Island was a major site of flying achievement from the creation of airplanes in the early 20th century with, as the volume “Picture History of Aviation on Long Island” says, “The concentration of so much achievement in American aviation on Long Island in those pioneering days made it truly the ‘cradle of aviation,’ as it has been called.”
The Klenawicus family had a major influence on the history of aviation on Shelter Island. The family bought a lot for a farm in 1927 to grow potatoes. Joseph Klenawicus Sr. was the first in the family to take an interest in aviation. He and his good friend Mike Sabal built their first airplane together in 1935, when they took an engine from a car and used it for their plane. When they finished, their take off was the first flight from Shelter Island.
The plane got up in the air, but then the engine failed and it crashed into a cornfield. That didn’t stop them, though. Joe and Mike kept working on different planes and Joe bought an airplane, a 1929 Kitty-Hawk, around 1945. He worked on it for about two years, fixing it up, and then was ready to have it inspected so he could fly.
It was a cold winter day, and had been raining for a few days. The canvas covering the plane was frozen to the ground.
“Instead of getting a knife and cutting the canvas around to get it up, Joe came up with an idea to use a blow torch to apply heat to the edges of the canvas so the ice would melt. Back in those days things were a lot more flammable,” said Frank Klenawicus, Joseph’s younger brother.
They used a substance called “dope,” which was highly flammable, to hold the plane together. The canvas cover caught fire and the whole plane burned up in minutes. Joseph, in his 30s at the time, was devastated. Parts of the Kitty Hawk were saved and Frank hoped to restore it and get it to fly someday.
“When Mike Sabal’s plane was ready, he tried to take off from Hilo Shores. There wasn’t a runway long enough there,” Frank said. “So he built floats that went into the water hoping that the plane would get up in the air before it hit the water. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t long enough, and the plane crashed into the water. It flipped over and Mike had to climb up from under it.”
“During the 30s there was a lot of sea plane activity,” said Frances Roe Kestler. The reason was there were no landing strips for the airplanes on the Island.
Dudley Griffing was another early pilot. He worked with seaplanes, which he would fly from different creeks, North Ferry’s slip, or, the most common place, a ramp at Louis’ Beach. In 1938, when he was in his late 20s, Dudley started the first airline service from Shelter Island to New York City. Unfortunately, it only lasted four or five years.
“He didn’t make any money off it,” said Frank Klenawicus.
Dudley didn’t just work with sea planes. “He had all sorts of planes,” Hoot Sherman said. He was a “local legend” as the Islanders called him. He took many people for airplane rides around Shelter Island, Frank and Hoot remembered.
Frank recalled a story from the early 1930s, during a harsh, cold winter when the waters around Shelter Island froze. The ferries couldn’t get through the thick ice. Trucks with food couldn’t make it over to bring supplies to the Island residents. During that time, airplanes were used to deliver what was needed.
“There was a place for them to land in the Heights,” Frank recalled.
The Klenawicus airfield was a potato farm until about the 1950’s. The planes that used to land there had only a narrow path, the width of a car, between the potato rows. Other obstacles were the large trees at the end of the short runway. Planes had to go around them. Then, around 1955, when Jon Wright and Dick Edwards organized the Shelter Island flying service to Flushing Airport, the runway was increased to its present length of approximately 1,600 feet.
The Island’s airstrip was private, Frank Klenawicus said, “Because of the threats of lawsuits, such as the day a young man was flown into Shelter Island on a charter airplane and he couldn’t get out properly. He didn’t know any better and fell off the wing. His mother was screaming at us, that we don’t have any special steps to get out of the plane. And we told her, ‘Lady, this is private property.’”
James A. Roe Sr., of Westmoreland Farm, was another early pilot on Shelter Island. At age 21 he joined the United States Army Air Corps. He became one of the chief flying instructors and was sent to major flying fields to train as many men as he could. In 1946, Mr. Roe started the first airstrip at Westmoreland Farm on what was once a private golf course. Mr. Roe decided to put another airstrip on a potato and lima bean field around 1950. Then he had two airstrips to work with. “If the wind was against him, he would fly from the airstrip that better suited take-off,” Frances Kestler recalled.
The Westmoreland Airfield was used mostly for friends and family. Mr. Roe had parties where many dignitaries from New York and Washington, D.C. would be flown in by planes and helicopters.
During World War II, several Islanders learned to fly fighters and bombers. “George Dickerson, Leo Johnson, Dan and Anton Schaible, Blaise Laspia and Charley Avona were all pilots,” recalled Frank Klenawicus. “Avona got killed while flying over Germany.”
After the war some returned from the service with a yearning for planes and flying.
Many bought a used or a wrecked plane after the war. Sid Stiber, a member of an aircrew, came to Shelter Island in the 1950s. He didn’t have his flying license yet, so he went to the Klenawicus airport and took lessons offered by instructors from Mattituck. After he got his license, he bought a wrecked plane in Mattituck. Frank Klenawicus helped him repair it. “I flew that for several years, and then every few years I kept improving my airplanes,” Mr. Stiber said. “They got bigger and faster.”
Sid Stiber made the first international flight from Shelter Island in 1967. “I flew the Atlantic Ocean to Europe in a two engine airplane and that’s how the Shelter Island ‘Klenawicus International Airport’ got its name.”
From Shelter Island to international educator: Author of Island aviation history living in Berlin
By Ambrose Clancy
We contacted Natasha Sell (formerly Borisova), who wrote a history of aviation as a high school senior. The 2000 Shelter Island High School alumna is currently living in Berlin with her husband, Lorenz Sell.
“I’m so happy to hear this,” Ms. Sell wrote when told her school project would be appearing in the Reporter.
The schoolgirl scholar has stayed with her passion for research, writing, teaching and learning. After graduation from Shelter Island High School, Ms. Sell studied International Relations at Tufts University and then received a Masters from Harvard Graduate School of Education in School Leadership and Development. She has since led global education projects at Harvard, the Asia Society and the Ross Institute. Since 2012, she has entered the entrepreneurial start-up world with Mr. Sell.
They’ve created an online learning platform “focused on group learning and meaningful engagement called Sutra.co.,” Ms. Sell wrote. “We teach a course called Transformational Teaching Online and have helped hundreds of educators, trainers, facilitators, etc., create online learning experiences that emphasize meaningful connection and conversation.”
She splits her time between East Hampton, Moscow and Berlin. Speaking about her research project on Island aviation, Ms. Sell wrote: “It was an incredible experience for me to put that together and I’m so happy it lives on.”


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The older bohemian set sits and gossips over gin and cigarettes, while a convivial party crowd, who all seem to know each other from annual summer pilgrimages here, dance the night away. It is a Missoni and flip-flops place, and by the looks of it, when we leave at 2 a.m., the night is still young.

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“Beware the Ides of March” (I. iv. 52). This familiar line by the Soothsayer in Julius Caesar reflects the presence of omens and ghosts in the play. What exactly is the significance of these supernatural references? The supernatural establishes mood, develops character, and foreshadows the plot. First, the supernatural creates mood in the play. The most important mood is impending doom which gradually increases until the scene of Caesar’s assassination. This mood is first introduced with the scene of a terrible storm on the night before Caesar’s murder.
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Brutus says, “The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me / Two several times by night, at Sardis once / And last night here in Philippi fields. / I know my hour is come” (V. v. 1. 16-19). Brutus believes that everything is predetermined and that there is no way of changing his fate; therefore, he does not try to battle with it and accepts his punishment readily. Clearly, Shakespeare reveals characters through their reaction to the supernatural. The final dramatic purpose served by the supernatural is to foreshadow the plot.
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HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai and some of his top officials are headed for a showdown over the terms of an alliance deal inked by the MDC president on Saturday, along with leaders of other fringe opposition parties, in what is likely to present a litmus test for the former trade unionist ahead of next year’s polls.
The MDC’s public relations machinery went into overdrive yesterday as officials papered over cracks emerging within the party’s rank and files days after they had unveiled an alliance to confront Zanu PF at the 2018 polls.
A section of the MDC – backed by Tsvangirai’s deputy for 11 years, Thokozani Khupe, and the party’s chairman, Lovemore Moyo – is unhappy with the alliance, particularly the formulae adopted by its negotiators as the basis for allocating constituencies among the participating partners.
The rift has been further widened by the violence that broke out in the second city yesterday, resulting in Khupe and other senior officials suffering various degrees of injuries.
Khupe, who was conspicuous by her absence at the signing ceremony, has been so shocked by the level of violence meted on her and other senior members by the party’s thugs that yesterday she temporarily went into hiding and cut contact with colleagues and sympathisers moments after being treated for wounds at a Bulawayo hospital.
At the same time, Tsvangirai has questioned why Khupe, Moyo and other senior members, who were attacked by the party’s violent gang, did not attend the launch of an alliance of opposition parties in Harare on Saturday.
Khupe was on Sunday injured during an orgy of violence that caused the cancellation of a provincial meeting, which had been called by Moyo to give feedback to the structures on the alliance.
She received treatment at a Bulawayo medical facility but could not be reached for comment as her bodyguards firstly told the Daily News that she was resting before eventually saying she would not be available for security reasons.
Further attempts to speak to her were fruitless as her mobile phone was going unanswered before it eventually became out of reach.
Sources close to Khupe yesterday told the Daily News that she was shocked by the attacks on her and other senior figures by a group of violent youths who allegedly came from the MDC headquarters in Harare.
They said the Bulawayo meeting was meant to discuss and relay the outcome of the alliance which the MDC Matabeleland grassroots structures were in support of but differed on the implementation of constituency allocation.
“The whole of Matabeleland province is not against a coalition but wants a scientific method of determining which party gets what in the parcelling out of constituencies. The three provinces feel that the MDC has done well in Matabeleland and if there is really need to choose candidates for those constituencies, then primary elections were the best way of dealing with that,” a source said in explaining the attacks on Khupe and other senior officials.
“Matabeleland provinces do not see logic or reason in surrendering their constituencies to a party that has not held or won elections there. So they believe primary elections should decide which candidate and party the people wanted to represent them in next year’s elections”.
Tsvangirai told Daily News in an exclusive interview that he had not sanctioned the meeting in Bulawayo but had spoken with Moyo who said he was not going to attend the alliance launch in Harare.
“Yes, on the day we were supposed to meet, he (Moyo) said that he was not going to come to the launch. I said, why? And of course made excuses and said I understand you are having a meeting tomorrow.
“Remember that you cannot have a meeting which is regional. We are a national party and you know as well as I do that the resolution of the council regarding the coalition was only taken last Friday.
“Ah no we are trying to explain to people, people I said, but tell me something. Is there unhappiness about the strategy or the process? Zvikanzi (and he said) no, no, we are not opposed to the strategy. We are just saying that we were not consulted thoroughly.
“And I said that this thing has been going on for a whole year, right? And we have had so many meetings adopting principles, giving me mandates and assigning this team yema (of) negotiators to go and talk to the other opposition parties right up to the conclusion,” explained Tsvangirai.
He said Khupe did not sent apologies for not attending the alliance meeting in Harare.
“She didn’t pitch up – the three of them. Madam Khupe, (Abednico) Bhebhe and Moyo. But look, even if they had reservations, one of the things you don’t do is you don’t engage in work avoidance. At a place of work if you have a grievance, you work and then you raise your grievance.
“In this case, the party has a grievance procedure. And I think internally no one had closed them off,” said Tsvangirai.
Earlier at a press conference, Tsvangirai had condemned the violence for causing damage to the party’s standing before he suggested that Sunday’s barbaric scenes at the Bulawayo provincial offices could have been sponsored by State security agents.
“The MDC is a social democratic party whose values include equality, solidarity and the respect of human rights. As such, I unreservedly condemn the violence that happened yesterday, the 6th of August 2017, in Bulawayo where a group of thugs violently disrupted a meeting at our Bulawayo Offices.
“As the president of the party, I condemn in the strongest terms this callous act of violence committed by these people.
“Our vice president..Thokozani Khupe, together with other members of the national leadership were manhandled by these thugs resulting in the vice president having to seek medical attention. Her position as the party’s vice president, her dignity and her status as a woman, a mother and a role model to many young women, was immensely undermined in the process,” said Tsvangirai.
“I understand there are a few culprits who were apprehended by the police and as the leader of the party, I regard this incident as a criminal act and these thugs must face the full wrath of the law. I have since activated our own internal investigations and appropriate disciplinary measures will be taken against the perpetrators or anyone behind them.
“I, for one, have been a victim of violence at the hands of the State, bashed in a police station, in many circumstances left for dead while there been many attempts on my life. We are investigating this incident with the intention of taking stern action against any of our members who may have been involved in this dastardly act. At the same time, we are not ruling out the invisible hand of the State as it had a huge motive to douse the successful script of the Alliance on Saturday,” he added.
Political analysts said the violence which came barely 24 hours after the launch of the coalition was a sign that the MDC was deeply divided over the issue.
“Conflict is inevitable but violence is not. Beating up people for differing with you is sick. It shows we have a long way to go. This is the opposition that suffered lots of violence and lost members to Zanu PF violence. People with such predisposition for violence should never be given state power – they will crush anyone with disseminating views,” said political analysts, Maxwell Saungweme.
He said senior posts in the MDC such as that of the vice president were likely to be made irrelevant as leaders of fringe parties would gain seniority by virtue of leading those parties.
“So this causes division as some people will feel their power will be diluted. Some of the issues are real. Some parties in the coalition are so small such as (Transform Zimbabwe president Jacob) Ngarivhume’s.
“So people like Ngarivhume will be senior in the coalition more senior than Khupe for example yet he runs a small party with very few followers,” added Saungweme.
Another political analyst, Shakespeare Hamauswa, said the opposition was likely to have two coalitions, warning that Khupe and other senior figures in the MDC could join former vice president Joice Mujuru.
“What we are seeing is the manifestation of highly complicated political implosion in Zimbabwe. The whole opposition if not all political parties are likely to explode. The recent violence in MDC therefore indicates how the opposition is highly divided.
“So in light of coalition talks, we are going to see at least two big coalitions of opposition parties. Khupe and team might join hands with Simba Makoni, Dumiso Dabengwa, Mujuru and Priscilla Misihairabwi,” Hamauswa told the Daily News.
On Saturday Tsvangirai signed a pact with former Finance minister Tendai Biti of People’s Democratic Party, Welshman Ncube (MDC), Jacob Ngarivhume (Transform Zimbabwe) and Zimbabwe People First’s Agrippa Mutambara, a retired army chief.
As far as the larger sections of the opposition movement are concerned, this is the grand coalition that they have been waiting for and its leadership has been decided.
However, Mujuru and other opposition chiefs who stayed away on Saturday from the launch of an electoral alliance which chose MDC Morgan Tsvangirai as its main man, say the grand coalition is not yet a done deal. – Daily News

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Testing Mediators and Moderators of a Fotonovela for Depression to Promote Help-seeking Behavior
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04319458|
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : March 24, 2020
Last Update Posted : March 25, 2020
|Condition or disease||Intervention/treatment||Phase|
|Mental Health Literacy||Behavioral: Fotonovela Behavioral: Control||Not Applicable|
Latinx adults with depression are a particularly vulnerable population; although Latinx exhibit similar rates of depression to other racial/ethnic groups, they are less likely to seek treatment, are more likely to drop out of treatment, and thus experience greater chronicity of depression. This health disparity is likely due to a complex network of factors, but mental health literacy is one important contributing factor. Latinx are more likely to exhibit lower mental health literacy (including misconceptions, stigma, knowledge of treatment, etc.), which contributes to lower rates of treatment-seeking. Understanding how to engage Latinx in depression treatment by overcoming health literacy barriers is important in reducing health disparities.
Entertainment-education interventions are those that use popular media to engage consumers and deliver health messages. These interventions hypothesized to be useful in targeting populations with health disparities in encouraging changes in health-related behavior through dramatic and culturally-relevant narrative elements. However, no study has tested these theorized mechanisms in helping to explain changes in health literacy and subsequent health behavior.
This study will test the impact of a graphic novel about depression specifically for Latinx adults with depressive symptoms on theorized mediators, including transportation (feeling emotionally engaged in the narrative), identification (cultural relevance of characters, their language, and their appearance), and social proliferation (sharing of health information and mutual reinforcement of health behaviors). Furthermore, this study will test if these mediators help explain changes in mental health literacy and subsequent health behavior. Lastly, this study will test moderators of changes in mental health literacy and behavior to determine for whom the fotonovela has the largest impact.
|Study Type :||Interventional (Clinical Trial)|
|Actual Enrollment :||182 participants|
|Intervention Model:||Parallel Assignment|
|Masking:||Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)|
|Official Title:||Entertainment Education for Depression in Latinx Adults: Testing Mediators and Moderators of a Culture-Centric Narrative Intervention to Promote Help-Seeking Behavior|
|Actual Study Start Date :||March 1, 2019|
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :||August 30, 2020|
|Estimated Study Completion Date :||August 30, 2020|
Fotonovela mental health literacy intervention: Secret Feelings/Sentimientos Secretos
Secret Feelings/Sentimientos Secretos
Active Comparator: Control
Control mental health literacy intervention: NIH publication - Depression: What You Need to Know
NIH Brochure: Depression: What You Need to Know
- Help-Seeking Behavior [ Time Frame: 3 months ]The measure of help-seeking behavior is a checklist of behaviors that has been modified from the Service Assessment for Children and Adolescents. The measure assesses different sources of treatment, including psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, spiritual advisors, ER visits, and traditional healers. Participants are asked if in the past 3 months, they have sought services from any of these professionals. Each item is binary (i.e., Yes or No). The total score will be calculated by summing the number of "yes" answers (i.e., the number of services used).
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT04319458
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|University of California Los Angeles|
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095|

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Our View: Short-term fix of sheriff's budget OK, but long-term solutions essential
It was a long, grueling and often ugly process, but there’s a deal on the table that would support public safety efforts in Winnebago County without bankrupting taxpayers.
Winnebago County Chairman Frank Haney and Sheriff Gary Caruana visited the Rockford Register Star Editorial Board on Monday morning to talk about an agreement to provide the sheriff's office the money it needs to hire 10 corrections officers.
That might not seem like a lot in a department that has about 150 corrections officers, but it’s enough of an increase that it will reduce overtime, limit lockdowns and help resolve a grievance filed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Overtime hours rose 142 percent in January, and 64 lawsuits have been filed claiming "excessive and unwarranted lockdowns." AFSCME has been complaining about staffing levels at the jail, contending that officer safety is at risk because there aren't enough officers on staff to watch over inmates.
Just because the chairman and sheriff will make a recommendation, however, doesn’t mean it’s a done deal. The County Board needs to approve the sheriff’s proposed budget amendment. Board members are likely to vote on the amendment later this month We encourage them to approve the proposal and begin the arduous task of identifying and implementing long-term solutions.
The county still faces significant budget challenges. Sales and property tax revenues show no indication of reversing their downward trend, and costs associated with union contracts show no indication of changing their upward trend.
Still, Haney is optimistic that reforming how the county does business will lead to changes that allow Winnebago County to maintain the services residents rely on.
None of those services is more important than public safety. Caruana was not happy when his budget was cut by $4.3 million and has fought to minimize that cut because he feared it would affect his ability to keep the public safe.
Haney did not want to jeopardize public safety, either, but the county’s financial challenges are not easily resolved.
Kudos to both men for continuing the conversation about the best way to resolve the short-term problem while looking for long-term solutions.
We see consolidation and collaboration as keys to long-term solutions. The joint purchasing agreement the county has with the city of Rockford and the Rockford Park District is just one example of a collaboration that will save money.
It's high time for ideas like consolidating the city and county 911 centers and election offices and combining the offices of clerk and recorder to move past the discussion phase into implementation. These steps have been discussed for years. It's time to stop talking and start doing. Voters will get the first chance at doing March 20 when they decide to vote yes or no on whether to consolidate the clerk's and recorder's office.
County government is a unique, unwieldy animal, with separately elected officials — sheriff, state’s attorney, judge, clerk, recorder — who depend on the County Board for their budgets. That leads to disputes about what and how much each department can spend.
That magnifies the importance of building and maintaining good relationships among officeholders. They need to work together to share the limited pot of money that taxpayers provide. That's what's happening between the sheriff and the chairman. Haney plans to include all officeholders in the budget process as he looks to create a system that will provide the services residents want at a price taxpayers can afford.
The process won't be pretty, but it's essential for the county's long-term health.

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Sales at Selfridges rose 5% to £1.4bn in the year to 30 January, but its operating profits dropped 1.9% to £152m as it invested in revamping its grade II listed Oxford Street store.
Selfridges Designer Studio
Selfridges said its stores in London, Birmingham and Manchester had performed “above average” during the period. Online sales also improved.
However, the £300m refurbishment of the Oxford Street store, which will complete in spring 2018, hit its bottom line.
It unveiled a new 20,000 sq ft Designer Studio in July, three months after it launched a new 37,000 sq ft Body Studio. The focus now is on revamping the accessories department, which is due to reopen next month.
Anne Pitcher, managing director of Selfridges UK, said the refurbishment programme was “the biggest single capital investment by a department store anywhere in the world”.
She added: “I firmly believe that the continued investment in our stores to create a real reason for people to go shopping, supported and accompanied by a great website allowing 24/7 access around the world, is the absolute win for any great retail brand of tomorrow. I think we are on that journey.”
Pitcher said there is further investment to come in the Manchester store, as well as the website.
The comments were made in documents due to be filed at Companies House, seen by The Times.

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Arizona State Sun Devils vs. Washington Huskies: Odds, Picks & Predictions
BET OF THE DAY: (2u) Arizona State Sun Devils -6.5 @ -110
Washington Huskies @ Arizona State Sun Devils, 9:00 PM:
- Arizona State has won 4 of the last 5 meetings with Washington
- Washington has lost each of the last eight night games. (Stats courtesy of Statschecker).
The reason we’re backing Arizona State
Arizona State (19-10) was swept on their two-game California road trip, losing to both UCLA and then most recently USC 71-61.
The Sun Devils were ice-cold, shooting 33 percent from the field and 24 percent from three-point range.
Team-leading scorer Remy Martin did what he could to keep the game close, scoring a team-high 22 points on 8-of-18 shooting.
Rob Edwards was the only other Sun Devil to score in double figures, adding 10 points with four rebounds and four steals.
Washington (13-16) fell back into the losing column and lost for the ninth time in the last 10 games, falling to Washington State 78-74.
The Huskies leaned on the three-ball and it cost them, shooting 18 percent from beyond arc.
Jaden McDaniels scored a team-high 19 points with six rebounds, and Isaiah Stewart added a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds.
These teams met in Washington in early February which resulted in Arizona State winning 87-83. In that matchup, five Sun Devils scored in double figures.
Although Arizona State is in a current slump, the Sun Devils have been a tough out at home (12-2) and I like them to repeat the offensive success against Washington and cover the spread at home.
(1u) Ohio State Buckeyes -6.5 @ -110
#23 Illinois Fighting Illini @ #19 Ohio State Buckeyes, 7:00 PM:
- Ohio State has won 8 of the last 10 meetings with Illinois
- Ohio State has won each of the last eight home games following a win
The reason we’re backing Ohio State
#19 Ohio State (20-9) picked up a third straight win with a commanding victory over rival #25 Michigan 77-63.
The Buckeyes were lights out as all five starters scored in double figures while shooting 47 percent from the field and over 50 percent from three-point range.
Duane Washington Jr. led the way with 20 points on 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range while Kaleb and Andre Wesson each added 14 points.
#23 Illinois (20-9) edged out a fourth straight win, defeating Indiana 67-66.
The Fighting Illini were led by the efforts of three players - Ayo Dosunmu, Andres Feliz and Kofi Cockburn.
Dosunmu scored a game-high 17 points on 6-of-15 shooting while Feliz and Cockburn each had 15 points - Feliz totaled seven rebounds, four assists and three steals and Cockburn added six blocks and five rebounds.
The Fighting Illini sit only a half game out of first place in the Big Ten standings which makes this a crucial must-win for Illinois.
Yet, with that said, the Buckeyes have been stout at home (15-2) while the Fighting Illini have been up-and-down on the road (6-5).
This game will surely be back-and-forth down to the closing minutes but my lean is towards the home Buckeyes to pull off the win.
(1u) Memphis Tigers -1.5 @ -110
Wichita State Shockers @ Memphis Tigers, 7:00 PM:
- Memphis has won each of the last 12 night home games.
The reason we’re backing Memphis
Memphis (20-9) got back on track on the road and avoided the near upset with a 74-67 overtime win over Tulane.
The Tigers defense showed up big, holding the Green Wave to shoot 28 percent from the field and 13 percent from three-point range.
Precious Achiuwa went off for a monster double-double 22 points with 22 rebounds and five blocks. Tyler Harris came off the bench and contributed 12 points and six rebounds.
Wichita State (22-7) pulled off the road upset and won a second straight game, outlasting SMU 66-62.
Dexter Dennis and Grant Sherfield were the lone players to score in double figures, but those proved to be enough.
Dennis was on fire, knocking down 7-of-14 three-point attempts for a game-high 25 points and eight rebounds. Sherfield came off the bench and added 14 points with six assists.
These teams met back in early January as Wichita State played a stellar defensive game and pulled off the home win 76-67.
The Shockers are going to need another top-notch defensive game in order to pull out the road win, but that’ll be tough to do against the Tigers who average 72.7 ppg.
My expectation is the game will open as back-and-forth in the first half, but Memphis will pull away late down the stretch.


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With the release of Galaxy Nexus, Samsung has overthrown Apple to become the largest mobile phone maker be revenue. Apparently Samsung sold over 28 million in the third quarter, where Apple managed to sell only 17 million devices. With this, Apple has been dropped to the third position behind Samsung and Nokia.
Nokia still retains the title of the largest mobile phone seller (in terms of volume). With the upcoming lineup of Nokia Windows phones, It can be said without doubt that Nokia will either retain it’s previous position or become the largest mobile phone maker both in terms of sales and volumes.


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Indexed on: 18 Nov '08Published on: 18 Nov '08Published in: Foot and Ankle Clinics
Talar head and fracture injuries are not easily recognized and can create significant long-term disability when missed. Careful investigation of any injury about the ankle requires both clinical and radiographic examination. A computed tomography scan is extremely helpful in diagnosing and treating talus fractures. Displaced fractures require open reduction of the major joint surfaces and internal fixation. Prolonged non-weight bearing and immobilization is the norm. Despite aggressive management, complications involving avascular necrosis and posttraumatic arthritis to both the subtalar and tibiotalar joints occurs frequently.