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Christine Morgan spent many years working the overnight shift in a psychiatric facility, which played havoc with her sleep schedule but allowed her a lot of writing time. A lifelong reader, she also reviews, beta-reads, occasionally edits and dabbles in self-publishing. Her other interests include gaming, history, superheroes, crafts, cheesy disaster movies and training to be a crazy cat lady. She can be found online here: Facebook and Website
BlurbEmma is a demure young lady from Back East, or so she appears until her stern parents discover her inclination toward lusty leanings, and decide she'd best be safely married off before she can ruin the family reputation. She finds herself on a stagecoach bound West, set to wed an old man she's never met. When a strapping cowboy boards the same stage, Emma realizes this might be her last chance to give in to her wild and wanton ways, but the journey may yet have some surprises in store for them both.
ExcerptWhat angered Emma the most was that she was being punished for something she hadn't done. Or, rather, that because she was being punished for it, she wished she'd gone ahead and done it. How easy it would have been, how delightful! And they had, almost. If she'd been less coy, dash it all! If she'd not played at maidenly demure resistance, and made him pant vows of undying adoration in her ear... why, it might have been long over with by the time Papa came in, and the ache, the terrible need in her, might finally have been met. The need that had burned since she'd discovered the books. She had never dreamed people did the deeds described in their pages, depicted in their drawings. The flame had begun then, flickering, lapping, making her think of things she had never considered before.
Time Machine Cowboy by Trayce Primm
By day Trayce Primm transforms women into goddesses with her flashing shears; by night she uses her razor sharp words to transform boring reality into fantasy. She is a poet, published author of sensual romance, and is currently awaiting publication of a reincarnation murder mystery.
BlurbA boring end to a cold winter's day means shedding work clothes and popping a frozen dinner into the microwave. But once in a magical while, the package contains a sizzling surprise that heats up more than a cold heart.
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Lady of Lacrymosa by Brantwijn Serrah
When she isn't visiting the worlds of immortals, demons, dragons and goblins, Brantwijn fills her time with art: sketching, painting, and cover design. She can't handle coffee unless there's enough cream and sugar to make it a milkshake, but try and sweeten her tea and she will never forgive you. She moonlights as a futon for four lazy cats and can spend hours watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer while she writes. In addition to her novels, Brantwijn has self-published erotic short stories available on Amazon. Her short stories occasionally pop up at Foreplay and Fangs, her blog.
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My Midnight Cowboy by Pumpkin Spice
If chocolate is the way to a man’s heart, then pastry chef Lucy Baker has the recipe for success. But will her culinary skills melt the most-hard hearted bachelor in Wyoming? A chance encounter on a New Year’s Eve flight leaves two strangers to discover unbound pleasure and a hunger for more sexual discovery.
Coming Up Roses by Anna Kyle
Anna Kyle spent her youth reading about and dreaming of horses and scheming (unsuccessfully) how to convince her parents to get her one. That led to writing her first story about a girl and her horse which in turn led to a lifetime love of writing. As an adult she reads everything from histories to mysteries but romances are definitely her favorite. These days she writes the paranormal romance series, the Wolf King, at World Weaver Press. SKYE FALLING was published last summer and the origin novel, OMEGA RISING, will be out late spring 2016.
Jump Without Looking by TJ Dodd
BlurbJackie has a veterinary practice, her family’s ranch, and a habit of avoiding men. The last thing she needs is a giant, blonde cowboy who tears down her fence and rattles her nerves. Russ has no job, a beat-up old pickup, and a rundown ranch he just inherited. He needs everything except the beautiful, angry neighbor who turns him on and then runs him off. Can one pregnant cow, two horses that love to jump, and three long kisses prove them both wrong?


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On 20 September, the British Prime Minister announced a delay on several of the UK’s Net Zero policies. Rishi Sunak’s recent U-turn on previously promised green policies notably includes a watering down of the ban on all petrol and diesel car sales by 2030. Instead, in line with the UK’s wider goal of reaching Net Zero emissions by 2050, this 2030 ban on fossil fuel-powered vehicles has been pushed back to 2035.
Sunak claimed in the announcement that this delay would save consumers money and would not impact the adoption rate of electric vehicles (EVs), saying that Britain could afford to make slower progress as it was “so far ahead of every other country in the world”.
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“By rowing back, the UK Government has not only pushed our Net Zero plan a further five years down the road, but risked fostering procrastination in a burgeoning market.”
There has been a theory circling within the UK automotive industry that the delay of the 2030 ban could pose a major setback for motorists’ willingness to make the electric switch.
With the combination of an extended Ultra Low Emission Zone and impending ban on combustion engine sales, many UK drivers were being strongly encouraged to make the switch. With the introduction of this delay, however, those same drivers now have little motivation to purchase an EV as their next vehicle.
Nathalie Thomas, LEX writer from the Financial Times, claimed to a part of this demographic, saying:
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Clearly, Sunak’s delay may have encouraged already-hesitant drivers to put off EV purchasing for even longer.
So, the question remains, is the U-turn going to slow down the willingness of UK drivers to buy EVs? At face value, it seems like the answer should be “yes”, but some of the stats say otherwise.
MG Motors today announced that their electric car sales in the UK have reached $1 billion, putting the company in a “very strong position to take advantage” of the shift to electric, as reported by the BBC.
So, if there’s a lack of urgency to buy an EV from the ban’s delay, how come EV sales in the UK are still climbing?
Nick Woolley, CEO of ev.energy, has argued that “‘people’s consent’ is not the issue” as reports have revealed that 54% of the UK public want to switch to an electric car before the 2030 ban.
Woolley added to his argument that the procrastination trend may not be one of laziness, but one of wealth.
“We need the Government to keep firm on their commitments, and get behind accelerating the transition, everywhere…Focus on providing fair access to those worse off so that EVs don’t just benefit the rich. Let’s make sure everyone can connect to the grid together, not just those who are ready first,” said Woolley.
As of 2023, the average cost of a brand-new EV is around £50,000, whilst a brand-new combustion engine car estimates around £26,000, according to reports by Splend and Nimble Fins. In the current climate of the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, it is likely that the latter price would be more attractive.
Therefore, it makes sense to assume that the willingness to buy an EV is less of an issue in the rate of adoption, but the cost to buy very well could be.


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New details are emerging about prosecutors’ concerns that DA Todd Spitzer compromised a mass shooting case by having a problematic conversation with a witness and then making misleading statements to a DA investigator that omitted important information about it from the defense.
At least three prosecutors raised alarm bells about Spitzer’s conduct, according to an internal DA investigator report obtained by Voice of OC.
Spitzer denies the allegations, saying his conversation with a grieving father was an innocent one, attacking back at the accusations against him as an effort by former prosecutor Tracy Miller to extract more money from a legal claim she filed against the County of Orange over the incident.
The newly revealed DA document states Spitzer’s conduct sparked concern not just from Miller, but from two other senior prosecutors at the time: Ebrahim Baytieh and Tammy Spurgeon.
The DA investigator’s report cites testimony that Spitzer drew alarm from fellow prosecutors when he informed them at a Nov. 15 meeting that he had talked with a victim of last year’s mass shooting in Orange about that case and a separate open case where that victim was a defendant.
The DA then told Miller to look into the criminal case against the witness – Rafael Farias – “since based on the information he received from Farias, this did not sound like a good case for our office,” according to the report, citing testimony from Miller.
Spitzer was then interrupted by one of the senior prosecutors in the room, according to the investigation report by DA Investigator Kenneth Schiffner.
Senior Assistant DA Ebrahim Baytieh “told him that he (Spitzer) spoke with a witness of a special circumstances homicide without an investigator present, who is also a defendant in one of our open criminal cases, and represented by counsel without counsel present,” the report states.
When confronted by Baytieh, Spitzer then contended he hadn’t known Farias was a defendant in the other case, but was then reminded by the DA’s spokeswoman and another prosecutor about two previous occasions where they say they had informed Spitzer about that, according to the report.
Spitzer agreed with Baytieh that he now needed to be interviewed by a DA investigator to document his conversion with Farias because it has to be disclosed to the defense, according to the investigator’s report.
But Spitzer then created another problem in his interview two weeks later, according to testimony cited in the report.
Prosecutors Tammy Spurgeon and Tracy Miller concluded that in his Nov. 30 interview, Spitzer had left out crucial information about his call with Farias that he had needed to be truthful about, the investigator’s report states.
“Compared with what [Spitzer] said in the executive meeting, [his later interview] lacked detail and context and was misleading,” states the investigator report, summarizing the two prosecutors’ conclusion.
Spurgeon and Miller had reviewed Spitzer’s interview about the call, and compared it with what Miller heard firsthand from Spitzer at the Nov. 15 meeting, according to the report.
Spurgeon wasn’t at that meeting, though Miller had told her later that evening what Spitzer had said, according to the investigator’s report.
Miller later filed a legal claim saying Spitzer’s actions put the mass shooting case at risk – by talking to a victim without his attorney present, “discussing favorable treatment” with the witness in a separate case against him, and “seeking to withhold the true facts of that contact” by making “materially false” statements about it when interviewed about it internally.
[Click here to read the DA investigator’s report about Spitzer’s alleged conduct.]
In a statement to Voice of OC, Spitzer said his actions were completely appropriate and that he immediately ended the conversation once Farias mentioned he was being prosecuted.
“I am a victim advocate and I talk to victims all of the time throughout the course of my duties as District Attorney,” Spitzer said in the statement.
“This was an innocent and completely understandable interaction with a grieving father who unbeknownst to me also happened to be a charged defendant in a separate case,” he continued.
“As soon I was made aware of his pending criminal charges, I terminated the conversation and said I could only talk to his attorney going forward.”
As for his Nov. 30 interview, Spitzer says he didn’t get into detail about the call because the investigator only asked an open-ended question, didn’t ask any follow-ups and didn’t re-interview him.
“My belief in memorializing this conversation with Investigator McCarthy was simply to have a record to produce to defense counsel in the Gaxiola and Farias’ criminal case that I had spoken to Farias and would no longer speak to him any further,” Spitzer wrote in a Jan. 31 memo responding to the investigator’s report.
[Click here to read Spitzer’s full memo, which is the last five pages of the document.]
Spitzer’s office has so far declined to release raw documents of what he said and did not say in that interview.
His office has not responded to a week-old Voice of OC public records request for Spitzer’s interview about the call and notes about what he said about it at the meeting two weeks earlier.
Spitzer says Investigator Schiffner’s report about his conduct is false.
“This report is completely misleading, lacks necessary context, and draws inferences which are not based on facts,” Spitzer wrote in his memo.
“It is abundantly clear from my reading of Investigator Schiffner’s report that Ms. Miller’s characterization of my conduct and how she describes the circumstances is biased, leading, fails to be objective, is agenda driven, and entirely inappropriate.”
Four people, including Farias’ 9 year-old son Matthew, were killed last March in the mass shooting at an office building in Orange.
It’s unclear how Spitzer’s alleged actions will affect that prosecution, if at all.
Spitzer’s reported actions are “extremely troubling on multiple levels,” says the defense attorney for the accused shooter.
“I intend to make fully informed decisions about whether or how to proceed in the near future, and I’m still waiting to receive a number of items that I’ve requested through the formal discovery process,” said Assistant Public Defender Ken Morrison, declining to comment further.
Spitzer’s spokeswoman says these issues have no impact on the case.
“This has no bearing on [the] Gaxiola case,” DA spokeswoman Kimberly Edds said in a text message to Voice of OC about Spitzer’s alleged actions, adding that Rafael Farias isn’t a witness because he wasn’t present at the shooting.
“He’s not a witness[,] he’s a victim,” Edds added.
State Bar rules prohibit attorneys from discussing their cases with someone they know is represented by another lawyer in that matter without the other lawyer’s consent.
In his statement to Voice of OC, Spitzer said he immediately stopped talking with Farias about the case once he knew it was an active prosecution.
Yet the internal DA report indicates Spitzer himself told colleagues Farias spoke in detail with him about his open criminal case during their call.
At his Nov. 15 meeting with DA executives, Spitzer said his conversion with Farias “was initially limited to the homicide case, but Farias eventually began talking about his open criminal case,” according to the DA investigator report, citing testimony from Miller.
“He explained to Spitzer why it was okay for him to transfer [the alleged victim’s] vehicle into his name, and that he was not guilty,” the report adds.
“He also mentioned something about a restraining order violation to Spitzer, and said he was not guilty of that crime either,” while speaking “negatively” about his alleged victim’s relationship with her children.
Spitzer told his fellow executives “Farias was very emotional during this conversation and he felt sorry for him,” the report states.
The revelations come amid concerns from DA prosecutors that Spitzer has compromised several of their criminal cases by inserting himself and engaging in improper conduct.
Spitzer rejects those allegations, saying they’re false and motivated by personal agendas of former prosecutors Miller and Baytieh.
Two of Spitzer opponents in the June election say these disclosures show there’s common threads to how Spitzer’s been behaving atop the local criminal justice system.
“He seems totally oblivious to the basic rules and ethics of being a prosecutor,” said Mike Jacobs, a former DA prosecutor who’s running for Spitzer’s seat.
“When he commits an error or obvious mistake, such as talking to a witness in a potentially capital case who is also a defendant in an auto theft case or injecting what could be viewed as racial bias into another potential capital case, he always gaslights and blames someone else or a conspiracy against him of his own attorneys,” Jacobs added, echoing concerns raised by current DA prosecutors in a letter to Spitzer last month.
“He never faces the allegations head on or admits to making a mistake.”
Asked for a response, Spitzer attacked Jacobs as unethical.
“Mike Jacobs’ idea of being a prosecutor is using jailhouse snitches to violate the constitutional rights of defendants. I was elected to rid the Orange County DA’s Office of that mentality and clean house of unethical prosecutors. I’ve done that,” Spitzer said in a statement provided by his campaign.
“Unfortunately Jacobs and his cronies want nothing more than to go back to the days of snitches and win at all costs. I refuse to let that happen.”
Jacobs responded that he “was never found to have committed any kind of misconduct” in the two cases he prosecuted that had informants – and questioned why Spitzer kept Baytieh on as a senior prosecutor despite being mixed up in the Seal Beach mass shooting informants scandal.
“Knowing this, Spitzer made him his right hand man until he recently fired him. When Spitzer is cornered he lies and fabricates,” Jacobs said in a text message.
DA candidate Bryan Chehock said Spitzer’s “problematic conduct” includes the letter he wrote to a judge about racially charged remarks Spitzer made while deciding whether to pursue the death penalty against a Black defendant, Jamon Rayon Buggs.
Former DA homicide prosecutor Matt Murphy also “filed additional paperwork with the court that certainly seems to suggest that his filing in the Buggs case was not complete, if not outright dishonest,” said Chehock, a federal attorney at the Drug Enforcement Administration who emphasized he was not speaking on behalf of his employer.
“Anybody can make a mistake, but at the end of the day you really want to make sure that – particularly in [the DA’s Office] – that there’s no question about your credibility,” he added.
“These are obviously not off-the-cuff things that are said. If you’re filing something with the court, you have to make sure they’re correct,” Chehock said.
Spitzer did not provide a response to Chehock’s comments.
The only other DA candidate – Democrat Peter Hardin – did not respond to a request for comment.
Nick Gerda covers county government for Voice of OC. You can contact him at email@example.com.
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Stuttgart (Germany) – The Supervisory Board of Daimler AG has given its full backing to the company’s strategic course, the related business plan for the years 2021 through 2025, and the measures derived to achieve the targeted profitability. As one of those measures, the investment plan for the ongoing transformation towards electrification and digitization was confirmed. From 2021 through 2025, Daimler will invest more than €70 billion in research and development and in property, plant, and equipment. Most of this investment will be at Mercedes-Benz Cars. As explained in the Mercedes-Benz Strategy Update on October 6, Mercedes-Benz Cars’ R&D expenditure and capex will decrease during this period and will be more than 20% lower in 2025 than in 2019. Furthermore, within this business plan, Daimler Trucks will also be able to accelerate its plans towards emission-free transportation.
Management and the General Works Council have also agreed to set up a transformation fund with a value of €1 billion and a term until 2025. This amount comes in addition to the planned investments. The details of the fund will be established by the two parties in the first quarter of 2021. It will mainly be used to promote the further development of future technologies and to safeguard employment during the transformation at the German sites.
Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Boards of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG
“With the Supervisory Board’s confidence in our strategic course, we will be able to invest more than €70 billion over the next five years. We want to push ahead faster in particular with electrification and digitization. In addition, we have agreed with the Works Council on a transformation fund. With this agreement, we are fulfilling our shared responsibility to actively shape the transformation of our company. Improving our profitability and targeted investment in Daimler’s future go hand in hand.”
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Michael Brecht, Chairman of the General Works Council of Daimler AG
“After controversial discussions in recent weeks, we have achieved that, in addition to the Daimler investment plan, a transformation fund of €1 billion is to be established. The General Works Council has called for this transformation fund in order to enable additional investment in the ongoing development of our sites. In this way, we can mitigate the disruption of the transformation and send an important signal to our colleagues. The additional funding gives us more opportunities to implement new technologies and products in our plants, thus protecting jobs and know-how. The fund is therefore an important element to make the transformation at Daimler a fair one.”


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With great power comes great responsibility. With all power comes all responsibility.
-- Brian Keith Dalton
Most of us have heard the first half of the above quote. It was spoken by “Uncle Ben Parker” to his nephew, Peter Parker, as wisdom and warning, though Ben never had any idea what powers had recently been inadvertently bestowed upon the teen in his care. The second half of that quote, though, seems to have shown up in multiple places, and Brian doesn’t give it an external citation. Still, it follows from the first statement pretty logically. If a being is all-powerful – if it has the means and ability to manipulate and control anything and everything in this reality, then that being bears the ultimate responsibility for the whole of it. That is the impact of the claim of omnipotence which has been claimed by believers in Yahweh.
Yet it seems as though Yahweh hasn’t treated his empowerment with a great deal of seriousness. He creates the world in six days, as described in Genesis 1 and 2, then four chapters later in Genesis 6, regrets his decision, decides to drown the world in water and tasks a 600-year-old man who is apparently the ONLY good man of all the world with preserving the non-human life he had created not that long ago.
And it gets worse from there. Yahweh himself admits that it isn’t all sweetness and light that he made in bringing the universe forth:
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
-- Isaiah 45:7
Then, three books later, he comes right out and admits to playing mind games with his creation, for no other reason than to reinforce the fear and indeed terror they feel at the thought of their deity:
I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the LORD.
-- Ezekiel 20:25-26
And these are but a handful of the horrors and depredations which are documented in the bible and which have been noted and categorized in The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible by Steve Wells.
The takeaway from all of this is obvious: having the ability to speak a universe into existence, control and manipulate each and every aspect of it, including all its living occupants and most especially Homo sapiens, Yahweh has behaved much like the “capriciously malevolent bully” Richard Dawkins accused him of being in The God Delusion. Without supervision, not needing to answer to any other authority than himself, he runs or ruins his reality to suit himself, little caring about inconsistencies he himself has built into the warp and woof of it. His utter lack of any kind of responsibility or answer-ability to his creation is as glaring as it is atrocious. And referring to the quote that began this treatise, there is a compliment to it which is highly apropos:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- John Dalberg-Acton
From all of this and added to it the maddening inconsistencies committed by this inept cosmic architect who, according to Robert Heinlein, “… is a poor Artist, the sort who is always changing his mind and scraping the canvas,” there remains a sole and solitary deduction that can be made by those of us here assembled:
The only saving grace about such a god is that he does not exist.

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Hello and welcome to Pizza and a Movie! I put last week’s installment on pause for a day of rest and relaxation while on Tybee Island. Today I have a Buttery Shrimp Pizza with Ricotta that is reminiscent of the pizza we made last time we were here: Wild Palms Flatbread, with shrimp, corn and Calabrian chilis. Today’s pizza is a similar flatbread-style pizza with butter, garlic and thyme-poached shrimp, mozzarella, ricotta cheese and scallions. This week I have a movie from 2016 called Captain Fantastic, starring Viggo Mortensen. Sort of a Swiss Family Robinson for the 21st century, this movie had me at Viggo Mortensen.
The crust of this pizza is like a buttery, garlicky breadstick with fresh parmesan. We will lightly (very lightly) poach the shrimp in butter, fresh garlic and thyme; and then brush the entire crust with the leftover butter mixture before adding the toppings. So let’s get to the shrimp!
I have 16/20 shrimps which are on the larger side, so after peeling and rinsing them, I am slicing them in half lengthwise. I am mostly doing this because I have half a pound and want to be sure the whole pizza gets even coverage, but also because I don’t want the large shrimp to overwhelm a bite of pizza. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
Over low heat melt about 3 tablespoons of salted butter with 2 large cloves of minced garlic and about one-half tablespoon of fresh thyme leaves. When the butter is melted, but not bubbling, add the shrimp. Stir to coat the shrimp in the butter and let it poach in the melted butter over the lowest heat just until the shrimp barely starts to turn opaque, then remove from heat and set aside.
I am using a pre-made pizza dough by an Austrian Company called Wewalka. I found it at the local Kroger near Tybee Island. It’s a European-style pizza dough, which seems to translate to an American-style flatbread dough. It comes rolled in a piece of parchment that you can just unroll and place on a sheet tray to top and bake.
Building the Butter Shrimp Pizza
Once the dough is rolled out and on the sheet tray, I am going to brush the entire top of the dough with the melted butter mixture we used to poach the shrimp. Brush it on straight from the saucepan. Then set the saucepan aside.
Now add the grated mozzarella cheese in an even layer, leaving about a one-inch border around all sides. Then add the shrimp, evenly on top of the cheese.
Scatter finely sliced scallions (the white and green parts) on top of the shrimp. Slice up about 4 scallions, we will use about 2/3 of the sliced scallions now, and then the last third when the pizza comes out of the oven.
Now, dollop ricotta evenly over the pizza. I like to use my fingers so I have better control over how much I am using and where it lands.
To top this off before it hits the oven, use a spoon to drizzle the remaining butter/garlic/thyme poaching sauce over the pizza.
Now we are ready for the oven! Bake the pizza for 15-20 minutes, until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted. When it comes out of the oven, let it sit for a couple minutes. Then transfer it to a wire rack placed on a cutting board, to keep the bottom crisp as it cools and we add the final touches. Once it’s on the wire rack, add some fresh cracked black pepper.
Then add the remaining scallion slices.
Then using a zester, grate Parmesan over the entire pizza, taking special care to cover the crust with parmesan.
This pizza is a dream pie! The buttery, garlicky shrimp is mellowed so perfectly with the mild ricotta. The scallions add an allium bite; the shrimp is tender and bouncy, not at all overcooked. The crust held up well to all the butter, with a crispy bottom and a crunchy, chewy bite.
Movie Night: Captain Fantastic
We have our Buttery Shrimp Pizza with Ricotta ready to go, so let’s get to the movie! I saw this movie when it was first available for streaming in 2017. I really enjoyed it then, and I found it just as enjoyable the second time around. Viggo Mortensen plays Ben Cash, a father of six who retreats to the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest to raise his children off the grid and free from capitalistic culture. From the beginning we know that Ben’s wife is absent and we discover that she is hospitalized with bi-polar disorder. We see the utopian culture of physical fitness, survival, and learning Ben and his wife have created for their children. We also see the children’s frustration with their lifestyle, and their father, for keeping them from the world.
When events cause the family to re-emerge into society, we see the difficulty the family, and their extended families, has with their lifestyle. This film is funny, heartbreaking, poignant and beautiful. In my opinion, Viggo Mortensen is one of the best actors of our generation and he is truly fantastic in this role. Captain Fantastic is available to stream on Netflix, and to rent on AppleTV, Google Play, Amazon and YouTube.
Thank you all so much for joining me today for Pizza and a Movie! We had a great stay at our house on Tybee Island; we are back at home now and I have to say, while vacation is nice, it’s really great to be home – I know our pups sure think so! I will see you back here Sunday for Sunday Supper. Take care and be well, everyone. xo Kelly
Buttery Shrimp Pizza with Ricotta
Butter, garlic and thyme-poached shrimp is mellowed so perfectly with mild ricotta. Scallions add an allium bite; on a crunchy, chewy flatbread crust.
- 1/2 lb. 16/20 Wild-Caught Shrimp, peeled, rinsed and sliced in half lengthwise
- 3 tbsp. Salted Butter
- 2 Large Cloves Garlic, minced
- 1/2 tbsp. Fresh Thyme Leaves
- 1 Prepared Flatbread Dough (like Wewalka)
- 1 cup Freshly Grated Mozzarella
- 3-4 Scallions, thinly sliced (divided)
- Fresh Cracked Black Pepper
- Fresh Grated Parmesan Cheese
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Over low-heat, melt salted butter with minced garlic and fresh thyme leaves. When the butter is melted, but not bubbling, add the shrimp.
Stir to coat the shrimp in the butter and let it poach in the melted butter over the lowest heat, just until the shrimp barely starts to turn opaque, then remove from heat and set aside.
Unroll the flatbread dough and place on a sheet tray. (If you're not using Wewalka Dough with the parchement lining, line the sheet tray with parchment.)
Brush the melted butter from the saucepan with the shrimp over the whole dough.
Scatter the mozzarella evenly over the dough, leaving a 1-inch border around the whole pizza.
Top with the poached shrimp, scatter them evenly over the cheese.
Sprinkle 2/3 of the sliced scallions over the shrimp.
Dot the pizza with dollops of ricotta cheese.
Drizzle the remaining butter/garlic/thyme poaching sauce over the pizza.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted.
Remove from oven and let sit for 2 minutes, then carefully transfer pizza (leaving parchment behind) to a wire rack to cool for another few minutes while we finish the toppings.
Sprinkle fresh cracked pepper over the pizza.
Sprinkle remaining scallion slices over the pizza.
Grate Parmesan over the entire pie, taking special care to cover the crust with the grated Parmesan.

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As the night sky fell over Moser Tower on October 22, rays of green lights shown through the Naperville sky. They were in support of those who have Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, a rare genetic condition caused by a deletion or structural change to chromosome 22.
The tribute was thanks to Joanna Kent. Wanting to raise awareness for her son’s syndrome, she spoke with Naperville Park District about lighting up Moser Tower, and they literally gave her the green light.
“I wanted people in the community to know more about special needs because it’s really easy to not see it, and it’s easy to blend in,” said Kent. “I’m not shy if somebody asks me, ‘when’s he going to speak?’ And I say, ‘I don’t know if he’ll ever speak.’”
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Sally was diagnosed with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome just two weeks before his second birthday.
Typical symptoms for the syndrome include developmental and intellectual impairment, but vary for each person. In Sally’s case, he’s lost some ability to communicate, but it hasn’t held him back from being himself.
“He’s a really happy guy, he’ll walk up to anybody and give them a hug. He loves people, and I think he gets that from his mom,” said Kent.
Community Members Show Their Support
Chicagoland residents showed to support Sally, and he was happy for the delicious treats they brought.
Tributes in light took place at locations worldwide. It was a particularly proud sight to see for Joy MacDonald, whose aunt by marriage started Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation.
“It is full circle. When I was driving here today to come meet a complete stranger and we’re all connected by this syndrome, I said to my aunt ‘can you believe that you created this foundation. That you started connecting people 25 years ago. You had this dream and now it’s a reality’,” said MacDonald.
Before heading out, it was time for a group photo: but Sally just wasn’t feeling it.
“He’s like ‘I’m ready for this party to be over’,” Kent said jokingly.
But the night did end on a highlight, as the group screamed “Yay Sally!”
Naperville News 17’s Christian Canizal reports.
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Too many Americans remain poorly prepared for retirement.
Although most of us work hard throughout our adult lives, many have little saved as they approach their golden years. I want to share a few observations about why this problem is so important, and why the answers will require each one of us to do our part.
First, we need to acknowledge that saving for retirement is not an option - it's mandatory. When we are not able to care for ourselves in our own retirement, we become a burden to our children. This is turn prevents them from saving because they are spending funds taking care of us. This in turn makes it difficult for them to save for their own retirement. It's time to break this vicious cycle.
Don't count on social security - it's not enough money. The average monthly check is only $1,341. Think about your mortgage or rent; consider how much you spend a month on food, and you'll see this amount will not go far.
You have to take care of yourself - no one will do it for you. If you need help understanding your investment options at work, see your HR department or seek a financial advisor for your personal investments. Remember, it's YOUR money and your retirement - so never feel embarrassed to ask questions.
The information on this page is provided for educational purposes only and is not tax, legal, financial planning or investment advice. Neither the information nor any opinion expressed in this section constitutes an offer to buy or sell any securities or advisory products. The information provided is general and is not information reasonably sufficient upon which to base an investment decision and should not be considered a recommendation to purchase or sell any particular security. You should not regard this information as a substitute for the exercise of your own judgment. Investing involves risk.

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Cosmos Apricot Lemonade
30 open pollinated seeds from our gardens.
Apricot Lemonade Cosmos is a variety that doesn't reach the overbearing heights of its cousins. Usually growing to between 70-100 cm and about half as wide, it can be grown in and around other flowers and shrubs. The flowers open and change from an apricot with sometimes a pink ring to palest lemon, so you will have different colours on the plant at the one time, as progressive buds open.
Cosmos are half-hardy annuals that grow, flower, set seed and die all in one year, but unlike hardy annuals, they can’t withstand low temperatures.
Cosmos are quick and easy to grow from seed, flowering in as little as 12 weeks. They are perfect for meadow gardens, cottage gardens and will bring the beneficial insects to your garden. Pinch when about 30cm tall. Full sun. Spacing 30cm. apart.
Seeds can be started indoors or in a greenhouse and carefully transplanted when the weather warms up. Or you can just scatter the seeds after the last frost.
Cosmos are an excellent cut flower with a vase life of 7 - 10 days, pick the stems in the early morning or late afternoon when the first buds are starting to open.

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ASM YUH-LINE NIOU, ILLEGALLY FIRED STATEN ISLAND AMAZON WORKERS, ACTIVISTS PROTEST CORPORATE GREED, RECORD PRICE GOUGING IN NYC
NYS ASSEMBLYMEMBER YUH-LINE NIOU, ILLEGALLY FIRED STATEN ISLAND AMAZON WORKERS, ACTIVISTS PROTEST CORPORATE GREED, RECORD PRICE GOUGING IN NYC
National Corporate Greed Day of Action shines a light on corporations that exploit workers and hike prices to make record profits
June 10, 2022
New York, NY – On Friday, NYS Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, Alicia Johnson – an illegally fired Staten Island Amazon worker, Mat Cusick – an Amazon Labor Union (ALU) worker and organizer unjustly fired in retaliation by Amazon after ALU’s historic victory at its Staten Island warehouse – Maritza Silva-Farrell, Executive Director at ALIGN and a lead partner for Unrig Our Economy NYC, and other invited local officials, and activists gathered in the financial district for a Corporate Greed Day of Action. Click on the links to access still images and the full video of the press conference.
Participants demanded that greedy corporations be held accountable for exploiting workers and price-gouging New Yorkers under the guise of inflation while lavishing CEOs with excessive compensation and rewarding shareholders with massive buybacks.
The evidence hides in plain sight as corporate executives excitedly tell their investors, ‘what we are very good at is pricing’ – code for jacking up prices on consumers – and brag about enjoying the highest profit margins in 70 years.
Attendees were joined by ‘Mr. Rigs,’ a 10-foot inflatable ‘corporate fat cat’ protecting his money the way Wall Street rewards companies that hoard profits at the expense of average Americans. June 10 is also when the May Consumer Price Index (CPI) report comes out and shows rising rents, gas, and food push inflation to record highs.
NYS Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou said, “What the latest Consumer Price Index and all the evidence suggest to me is that we’re not so much having an inflation problem. We’re having a corporate greed problem. Across the board, greedy corporations are using inflation as an excuse to price-gouge New Yorkers, make astronomical profits, and reward Wall Street investors. But that money is not going back into the economy. It’s making CEOs and wealthy corporate shareholders richer, leaving working families who drive the economy without enough money to make ends meet.”
Maritza Silva-Farrell, a lead partner for Unrig Our Economy NYC and the Executive Director at ALIGN, said, “It is no coincidence that mega-corporations are making record profits; at the same time, our communities struggle to afford everyday products, work in poor conditions for low wages, and walk down main streets once filled with our favorite mom-and-pop stores. The current shortage of baby formula is a perfect example of how monopolized markets are directly hurting our families.”
Added Silva-Farrell, who emceed the event” “Corporations have too much power as they boost their profits through consolidation while stifling competition for small businesses and lowering workplace standards. Today we’re calling out some of the most egregious offenders — like Amazon in Staten Island – for driving inflation in addition to dodging taxes and busting unions.”
As one of the most vocal Amazon Labor Union supporters, Alicia Johnson became a target of harassment and retaliatory firing from the JFK8 Fulfillment Center in Staten Island, NY. At the time of her termination on May 8th, Alicia was also locked in a struggle with Amazon HR to secure a workplace accommodation for her leg injury — which management refused to provide, in violation of the company’s stated policy and federal and state OSHA regulations.
Noted Johnson, “Amazon is a trillion-dollar company. It can afford to treat its employees like humans. But it chooses not to. Despite my medically documented leg injury, Amazon fired me in retaliation for telling employees to vote for a union.”
Mat Cusick, an ALU organizer and worker, unjustly fired in retaliation by Amazon after ALU’s historic victory at its JFK8 Staten Island warehouse, pointed out that Amazon posted profits of $8.1 billion dollars in just the first quarter of last year. “It is the workers who make Amazon’s excessive profits out of our labor,” Cusick said. “Amazon could have paid $10 an hour more to every employee in the U.S., and it still would’ve reaped huge profits of $3 billion in just three months. CEO Andy Jassy made over $212 million last year. Meanwhile, workers earn less in a week of work than what he receives in two minutes asleep in his bed—and we have to meet inhuman productivity quotas that make Amazon one of the most dangerous places to work in the country.”
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said, “New Yorkers are under enough financial strain coming out of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. They should not have to suffer through another round of unnecessary economic hardship by companies using inflation as a cover to hike prices and rake in record profits. We must take appropriate action now.”
Friday’s event is part of a national Corporate Greed Day of Action, which shines a light on corporations price gouging consumers and exploiting workers to make record profits and exposes politicians like Congresswoman Malliotakis who enable them.
Nanci Richards, Staten Islander, retired NYC public high school teacher, said, “My own Congresswoman, Nicole Malliotakis, has put corporate greed over her constituents. She has taken more than $120,000 from the oil and gas industry. She voted against Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act. She complains that we are paying $5 a gallon but does nothing as a Congressional leader to change that. The proof is how she votes. She is protecting corporate greed over helping her constituents with the high cost of gas. She ignores the plight of workers, voting against the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO-Act). Her priorities are misplaced. Just this week, she voted against the Protecting Our Kids Act, legislation designed in part to help regulate interstate gun trafficking, a huge problem here in New York state. Once again, Malliotakis put the interests of the greedy gun lobby over the safety of her constituents.”
Whether it’s the high cost of gas, groceries, or prescription drugs, corporate greed has cost families across Staten Island and New York City dearly. Such disheartening news is only made worse by reports of corporations shattering records for surging profits and engaging in massive stock buybacks benefiting wealthy executives and shareholders. We need more folks in office who will fight for their constituents, not just wealthy CEOs, Wall Street bankers, and powerful corporations that fund their campaigns. Congresswoman Malliotakis has repeatedly turned her back on workers and cast her lot with the rich and most powerful corporations determined to keep the economy rigged against the middle class.
Click on the links to access still images and the full video of the press conference.
Unrig Our Economy NYC is a local campaign to fix the rules of our economy to make it work for working people. When the middle class does well, all of us do well — which is why we’re fighting on behalf of working Americans and holding greedy and the politicians who enable them accountable.

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Oscar & Gabrielle introduces you to the new Blue Storm show jumping jacket Jessy – Freejump airbag technology compatible jacket.
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Do not choose between elegance and safety anymore !
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Product compatible with the new freejump airbag
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Wash on the wrong side at 30 degree in the washing machine.
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Flat hunting can become quite an experience when the house of your dreams is inhabited by two terribly seducing human beings. Trivial is a about a music student (Valentin) who goes visit a flat to rent one of its rooms, and is welcomed by Renault (Yann André) and Pierre (Gaspard), who are roomate with benefits. Things start to spice up when the house’s cat bites his hand, and while one of the hosts goes get a tissue from the kitchen the room is taken by a powerful sexual tension – from which no one will escape untouched. Trivial is Noel Alejandro’s eigth production, and his first threesome film. Shot in a beautiful natural light (which has become Noel’s trademark), Trivia is a smooth, uncomplicated film that will fill your eyes with the most erotic and inspiring sensations.
- Downloadable in full HD
- Instant Delivery
- 100% Secure Payment
- Director: Noel Alejandro
- Cast: Valentin Braun, Yann André & Gaspard
- Year: 2017
- Length: 30 minutes
- Language: English / Français
Luc Valgaeren –
dear noel, i saw yet many of your films. i’m really touched by the serenity the way you are setting in scene the different aspects and themes of the live of gaymen and how they are confronting their lifes.thank you very much. even the way you make the films as such, for instance the imortance of dark and light, is really very special and typical for you, I mean, isn’t it? PS: can I pay in EURO’s just by a bank-remittance and on wich number and name shall I do it?
This is a very nice movie.I want to see it,but don’t know how to enjoy.
This is a very nice movie.I like it.
Adrian Sandeson –
Ken Brown –
Will it be available to watch on Vimeo? I am from the USA so I have been using Vimeo to order.
VIMEO apparently doesn’t support explicit movies, as I’ve been kicked off several times. Had to stop insisting. My movies are always available to download through my website.
A nice and sensual movie with a tension rising to the end, i love it. Funnily enough, i realise that I live next door to the house where the film was shot. If only i had known 🙂 We sd put a blue plaque on the façade 🙂
The intoxication of the bodies giving themselves to each other in different variations, flowing from climax to climax in never-ending passion. A threesome that becomes a unity in perfect harmony.
Hendryk de Dissowe (verified owner) –
Hello, Noel. Another beautiful movie. Hot guys and great scenes. Thanks for this movie too. I’ll be glad when I have the whole collection.
I love to see a sexy dad and his son loving each other pls.
Love this threesome, so intense and hot.
LeVoyeur (verified owner) –
Hellooo! I’ve bought and watched the movie. It is very well done and very erotic. Great art! Ciao from Italy!
Bonjour! I’ve recenty discovered your art and I am very interested and fascinated. I have one question, once I buy one of your films…can I download it and store it on my laptop or I always have to watch it online on the website? 🙂
Hi there! the films need to be downloaded, so you can watch them with Quicktime (recommended) player or VLC
this movie is the best i have ever watched. period.
This is so wonderful, beautifully captured sex between men.
Trivial is a superb movie, congratulations !
Can i watch the films with the sububtitles?
Soon they will be available 🙂
Hi, which model is the beautiful thin man with the tattoos on his arms? I’d love to see him in more films!
As you wish! 😉
I paid for Trivial at the site that I was directed to. Now how do I access the download for the film?
Have you checked your Spam folder?
Gustavo Osorio –
Hola, compre las películas pero tuve que reiniciar el computador por un daño. ¿Que debo hacer para descargarlas de nuevo?
Hola Gustavo! Debes reenviarme el recibo de compra y entonces te la puedo reenviar. Un saludo.
Noel man…. you have brought sensuality and excitement & seduction back to erotic film making. The way you tell the stories & the guys put it in motion. It’s truly arousing and appreciated by someone who is getting bored with porn. I Thank you for creative mind. I just found you this week & I’ll follow forevermore!!!! Can’t wait for the next film. Will you do a full length feature in the future?
Thanks a lot Sadat! for now there are no plans to make a feature film. I love the shor-tfilm format! Hope you enjoy them all! 🙂
your movie are so beautiful very interessed to get contact with you
thanks for making porn great again
I think you should sale behind the scene too because I want to know how do work for all great films.
I will really think about it
How may I look at a video for which I paid?
Hi, Did you check your Spam folder?
Será seguro precioso, como todos hasta ahora
Beautifully shot work as ever, will be great to see how you deal with shooting a threeway scene. There appears to be an issue with the download though as it cancels out around 2/3 of the way through?
what a great new release, I’ve just watched the new movie and it makes me horny.
It’s such a pleasure to see the three guys have fun with each other and their faces when they exploded.
I love all your films and for me this one is one of the best.
Stefaan en Marc –
We Enjoy Every minute. Very Nice! Well done! Greetings from Belgium
When clicking on “buy now” there comes a secure page to fill in the details of the credit card though there is written it is valid for 365 days and not automatically renewed. .. why is this and what does it mean?
Hi, it is a suscriber payment gateway but it’s set as it you will get charged once uniquely. I have not member area but if i had it you would be able to access to it for 365 days.
Something is wrong with your CC processor. I’ve tried 3 cards, they’ve all been declined. Shame, I was looking forward to buying your latest video.
Sorry for that. The payment gateway declines some cards for safety reasons but I’m working to fix this. You can send me an email [email protected] with the films you want to buy and I’ll instantly send you a Paypal request. Once the payment is completed you will receive an email with the downloadable urls.
Downloading!!! Sooo excited. thanks for your beautiful films Noel.. you have a big big fan in Portugal
Hi. I already purchased it since the preorder period. Now that it’s been released I can’t watch it because you don’t have a log in section. And no links sent to my email. What should I do?
Hi Jay, I’m sending right now to all the pre-order purchasers. You’ll have the film in your mail in one minute 🙂 enjoy it!!
Which time exactly it will be available!? In barcelona time!? Coz I need to fix my schedule to watch ur awesomeness
Hi! Tomorrow from 11hours morning Barcelona time the film will be available 🙂
Hello!! I’m trying to buy the new video but I can’t.. The purchase it’s been declined!! Is there any other option to buy the new video?? Thank you so much!!
Sure, if your card is declined you need to send an email to [email protected] with the name of the film you want to buy, you will receive a Paypal request and once the payment is done you will be part of the orderers list. thanks!
can’t wait!! 🙂


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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it’s benign… but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.” ~ Ted Bell
FACEBOOK BRINGS INSTAGRAM LIKE AR DRAWING AND BOOMERANG TO STORIES
Soon, Facebook Stories will allow you to add Boomerang GIFs and a lot more.
WHAT IS FACEBOOK PLANNING?
Facebook is planning on launching new tools for making Stories more interesting and engaging.
Soon you will be able to use AR drawing and capture back-and-forth Instagram Boomerang GIFs. Facebook is working on adding creative tools to the Facebook Camera to make Stories popular and engaging.
John Barnett, a Facebook Camera Product Manager says about the feature it calls “3D drawing”, “We wanted to give people an easy way to create with augmented reality and draw in the world around them.”
The feature will be available for the users in the coming weeks.
WHAT ARE THE CHANGES?
There are various changes that are said to be launched by Facebook in future. Let’s have a look at all of them:
Now you can scribble on the world near you, then change the position of your camera and still see the drawing stay put. It is an awesome way to add graffiti which stays on your screen. You can add drawing before capturing the video or while making the video. This allows you to draw out of frame, then zoom out to make it visible.
For now, Facebook has added pastel gradient colors but it might also add additional brushes in the future. As mentioned in the report, technology understands and identifies the objects and surfaces in the area be it tables, chairs or other things, to create a 3D spec to wrap the drawing on them. For now, the camera only does it when it is confident about the object recognition.
Drawing fascinates a lot of people. It will most likely attract younger users and neophyte. Facebook launched AR effects at F8 last April. The recent addition was AR tracker target experiences that are stimulated by real-world posters or QR codes.
GIF Creation Betterment: Introduction To Boomerang’s Animated Clips
Looping GIF creation was another tool that was added to Facebook Camera, but those seem to be imperfect and a little disturbing as they play back from the start once they end. GIF option might not be available for some users and it could likely be replaced by Boomerang’s back-and-forth animated video clips. Facebook has given affirmation that the feature would be coming to Facebook Camera.
No matter what people say or what other social media call it, Facebook is determined to make Stories a hit. This is not the only attempt, the social media giant has also included tests of Stories to make it a default destination for content, shot with the Facebook Camera. Now you can see a preview of Stories in bigger tiles at the top of the News Feed and it also displays camera roll preview window when you open the status composer.
All of this with new tools would probably give a boost and could get more engagement from users.
DESPITE EMPLOYEE OPPOSITION, GOOGLE IS INTO AI AND MILITARY CLOUD
Google is hellbent to work with U.S. military on machine learning no matter what.
ARE GOOGLE’S MILITARISTIC AMBITIONS VALID?
Since last month, there were talks in the Silicon Valley about the partnership of Google and US military on machine learning to scrutinize drone footage. This started an internal discourse among the employees of the company. However, it has not affected the IT giants plans to get the thriving contracts.
Google has been working hard on making cloud services better than ever and with Machine Learning, it has a competitive edge. In 2015, an executive even predicted that in forthcoming five years, it would be able to bring more revenue than ads.
According to the detailed report by Defense One describes the intention of Department of Defense to use the cloud as a medium to “push mission-critical information to front-line operators.”
The attempt exhibits as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program, wherein cloud services would be used to aid combat operation, with AI probably incorporated. It is said to be likely worth $10 billion over the next decade, along with Amazon, Google, Oracle and Microsoft engaging.
WILL GOOGLE BE ABLE TO WIN THE CONTRACT WITH ALL THE OPPOSITION FROM INSIDE?
With all this, a news has surfaced that apparently, the employees are not in the support of the project. They have certain concerns and don’t want to work on military applications of technology.
A current project, Project Maven which involves analyzing drone footage for the Air Force, propelled the workforce to take 3,100 signatories on a petition asking Sundar Pichai, CEO Google to cancel the project and not take part in any of the future ones.
In spite of the petition and disagreement of the workforce, Google is quietly working to get the contract, while keeping the employees in the dark. Cloud head Diane Greene held a town hall on Thursday on this issue wherein she repeated that Google was working on a “Set of ethical principles to guide the company’s use of its technology and products.” Google will make sure that these guidelines are not violated when it commits to more military projects.
Well, the statement has not empathized the workforce and the internal disagreement will weaken the chances to win the contract.