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What is a resale certificate in real estate? – David Reecher
A Resale Certificate is a set of documents that a condominium seller provides to a prospective buyer, usually after mutual acceptance. The certificate typically includes the homeowners association budget, the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) for the building, and a copy of the minutes of the association’s last meeting. In some states, resale certificates are required by law and buyers have the right to rescind their offer for a limited time period after receiving the certificate.

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[New York City, NY] The New York Times gave Ma•dé the lede in its “Off the Menu” column.
“For their first restaurant, Cédric Vongerichten, his wife, Ochi Vongerichten, and their partner, Ezra William, chose Wayan, which means firstborn in Indonesian,” writes the Times. “They have now followed up with Ma•dé, meaning second born, in a narrow space next to Wayan.”
“Ma•dé takes a more global approach, relying on France and Japan for many of the assorted small plates, like white asparagus with seaweed kimchi, gnudi with mushrooms, ramps with green asparagus and morels, shrimp toast served like shrimp cocktail, lobster dumplings with caviar sauce, and diver scallops with rhubarb, jalapeño and dill.
“Finales include warm madeleines with rhubarb chutney, and black sesame chocolate mousse with raspberries.
“The new restaurant, seating 25 at tables set along a single banquette, is light with whitewashed brick walls and touches of rattan, contrasting Wayan’s plant-filled dark wood setting. ‘This is a Balinese beach party,’ Mrs. Vongerichten said. ‘Wayan is in the jungle.'”
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AN EXPERIMENTAL ATTEMPT ON PLAIN CEMENT CONCRETE USING MARBLE DUST
Keywords:Marble dust, coconut fiber split tensile strength, compressive strength, standard concrete
Demand for cement continues to grow, and also increase in the cost of conventional building materials; for this objective, the use
of industrial waste products and agricultural by products are very constructive. These industrial and agricultural by products
such as Fly Ash, Rice Husk Ash, Silica Fume, Marble Dust and Slag etc can be used as cementing materials because of their
pozzolanic behavior, and natural fibers like jute fiber, Coconut fiber can be used to increase the tensile strength of concrete,
which otherwise require large tracts of lands for dumping, thus the concrete industry offers an ideal method to integrate and
utilize a number of waste materials, which are easily available, and economically within the buying powers of an ordinary man.
Presence of such materials in cement concrete not only reduces the carbon dioxide emission, but also imparts significant
improvement in Tensile strength, and Compressive strength. The present study is carried out for evaluating the influence of
Marble Dust and Coconut fibers in M25 & M30 grade concrete. This study presents the results of workability, compression test
and split tensile test on concrete which were casted with various percentage of Coconut fibers ranging from0.75% to 1.25% at a
regular interval of .25% and Marble Dust ranging from 7.5% to 12.5% at regular interval of 2.5%.


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Editor's Note: Second of a series of stories leading up to this weekend's Governor's Pheasant Opener.
MARSHALL - Part of the beauty of hosting an event like the Governor's Pheasant Opener is it provides conservationists the perfect stage to promote public hunting land. And few parts of the state have jumped on this bandwagon more than southwest Minnesota.
This weekend's event will bring not just Gov. Mark Dayton to southwest Minnesota, but also media from news outlets that might not otherwise make their way out to Lyon County.
This image provided by the DNR shows Walk-In Access parcels throughout a 25-mile radius of Marshall. These parcels, added together, amount to 2,788 WIA acres.
"We're pushing 3,000 Walk-In Access acres in Lyon County alone and having the media in town this weekend, it's natural to talk about Walk-In Access," DNR Southern Information Officer Scott Roemhildt said. "It should be a great weekend, even though we're looking at dealing with some rain on Saturday."
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' Walk-In Access Program has grown from 9,000 acres in 2011 to about 15,000 acres in 21 counties today. Nearly 3,000 of those acres are located on 35 parcels within a 25-mile radius of Marshall. The majority of that WIA-dedicated land lies in Lincoln County, but there are seven WIA parcels in both Lyon and Murray counties that fall within that 25-mile circle, plus two in Yellow Medicine County, and one each in Redwood and Pipestone counties. All of the Lyon County WIA parcels are south of Camden State Park.
The size of WIA lands range from 11 acres to 239 acres. Nine of the dedicated parcels of land are more than 100 acres.
The WIA lands opened on Sept. 1.
In a statement provided by his office Wednesday, Dayton said WIA is "a good program because it provides hunting lands for citizens and incentives for landowners to make it available."
What makes WIA lands even more important is the impending expiration of existing federal CRP contracts.
CRP?landowners are paid to retire marginal crop land; with contracts on about 290,000 CRP acres expiring this year - and more than 620,000 total acres set to expire during the next three years - the DNR hopes some of that land will be put into WIA. To make matters worse, only 136,000 new acres have been enrolled, resulting in a net loss of CRP land.
Also, expiring CRP contracts can not be replaced this year because of Congress' inability to pass a farm bill.
With crop prices so high right now, Roemhildt said, WIA offers CRP landowners some incentive to keep their habitat-rich land protected in some way and open to hunters and the wildlife population.
"Southwest Minnesota was chosen for the pilot program because it's an important area for native prairie grasses," said Roemhildt. "With so much cropland coming out of CRP, we hope the Walk-In Access Program can provide a little bit of a financial incentive to help them keep their land open."
Landowners who enroll in WIA receive a base price of $10 per acre but can get up to $13 depending on the size of the parcel, if the land is adjoining other state or federal land and if they enroll in a multi-year contract. Each of those criteria adds $1.
"There are a lot of people that really believe in those sensitive areas and believe in keeping them out of production," Roemhildt said. "But economics become a real issue for older landowners with a fixed income or absentee owners. WIA can provide a little bit of a bump to help them make that decision to keep it in grass."
WIA parcels present the most inviting resource a hunter can ask for. WIA lands open during all hunting seasons, including spring turkey, and hunters don't have to make contact with landowners prior to hunting. Any location marked with WIA signs is considered open to hunting.
"I've been here for about five years, and when you come into a new area, you don't know anybody, you have no contacts with farmers, but with all the wildlife areas available with Walk-In Access and WMAs (Wildlife Management Areas) it just makes it an inviting, comforting place to be," said Ron Prorok of the Lyon County Chapter of Pheasants Forever. "It gives people with no contacts places to go."
In that sense, WIA areas play a key role in the region becoming a credible destination spot for hunters from across Minnesota and those from Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas - states that, like Minnesota, are also facing major CRP losses. Lyon County is consistently among the top areas for pheasant hunting to begin with, but all the public land offerings and the private land that has gone into the WIA Program, increases the appeal of the area to outside hunters.
Plus, as Prorok said, having so many acres takes pressure off lands that might otherwise become over-hunted.
"Because there's quite a bit to offer, it really takes the pressure off a particular piece," he said. "Where I came from, hunting spots were few and far between; you can tell people have been through a certain section a lot."
Prorok said several of the lands open to public hunting are at least one-quarter section or better, which gives birds more of an opportunity to move around and gives hunters more chances to find birds in various locations.
Hunters can choose to donate $1, $3 or $5 to the WIA Program when purchasing a small game or deer license.


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A longer break is going to really help students' mental health, said Do. Additional stressors brought on by the pandemic appear to be aggravating student mental health. Mental health among students has been a growing concern for years, flagged by groups such as the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations . "If you really are committed to your students' mental health and stability, you need to be clear in what you're doing and provide as much time to prepare." The school also reiterated its ongoing effort to enhance student mental health supports, including directing to a new online portal of mental health services and resources.
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PORTSMOUTH — Shawnee State University has partnered with Southern Ohio Medical Center to support SOMC’s Hospice Expansion Project and has received $350,000 in state Community Capital Projects grant funding that will help make the expanded facility possible.
“This project is good for our community and good for our students who are preparing to become future nurses,” Dr. Jeff Bauer, Shawnee State President, said. “Hospice is a tremendous service and I can’t think of one person in our region who hasn’t been touched by the type of care that is given in this facility. The impact to those of us who live here is tremendous. So is the impact to our future caregivers.”
Bauer explained that Shawnee State is serving as the administrator for the funds that were appropriated by legislators in Ohio’s biennial capital improvements bill in 2018. Funding was recently released. As part of the partnership, Shawnee State and SOMC have entered a 20-year joint-use agreement that provides training and clinical hours for Shawnee State nursing students and other health sciences students in the new inpatient hospice facility.
“The facility will provide valuable and unique learning experiences for our students — adding to the education they receive before entering the health care profession,” Bauer said. “SOMC employs the majority of our nursing graduates. These alumni are advancing the care given in our region and are helping to elevate the quality of care provided by the next generation.”
“We appreciate Shawnee State University and their partnership of the SOMC Hospice Expansion Project,” said Teresa Ruby, Administrative Director of SOMC Hospice. “Through their support, SOMC Hospice will be able to serve even more patients and their families throughout our community. We also look forward to the students who will be training and helping us provide the highest quality of care in our expanded facility.

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The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration (BDMRR) Bill returns to Parliament this week. Trans asylum seekers, refugees and migrants are some of the groups most often asked to show a photo ID to prove their immigration status in Aotearoa. Yet they are currently excluded from the Bill’s provisions. It’s not too late to commit to addressing this gap.
Rainbow Path’s recommendations about the BDMRR Act
Rainbow Path made a written and private oral submission in support of the Select Committee Inquiry into Supplementary Order Paper 59 but also noted significant gaps left by the proposed changes to the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Act 1995.
The need for a NZ Identity document with the correct name and gender marker has become even more important now that we have Vaccine Passes. People are likely to be asked more often to show a photo ID to verify that the Vaccine Pass they present belongs to them. This will be another barrier for trans and intersex people whose overseas IDs have the wrong name and/or gender marker.
In our submissions, and the wider campaign supported by Gender Minorities Aotearoa, Rainbow Path made three related recommendations. These were to ensure that all trans and non-binary people born overseas can access a New Zealand ID with their correct name and gender, through a simple administrative process based on self-determination. Specifically, we recommended that:
- permanent residents, who currently can amend these details, should retain that right – but with a simplified process too.
- trans asylum seekers and Convention refugees on temporary visas should be able to obtain a document with these correct details, such as a Certificate of Identity or Refugee Travel document issued by the Department of Internal Affairs or Immigration NZ and
- migrants on temporary visas should be able to get some form of New Zealand ID as well.
What did the Select Committee recommend?
Rainbow Path was really glad to see this first recommendation in the Select Committee’s report:
- “That the Government commit to pursuing a solution that would allow overseas-born New Zealanders to register a nominated sex, and to carrying out further consultation with relevant individuals and groups to this end.”
Does this recommendation include asylum seekers or refugees?
It is very unclear to Rainbow Path whether this recommendation includes all overseas-born New Zealanders, specifically asylum seekers and refugees and migrants who are here on temporary or time-bound visas.
We are very concerned that this may exclude asylum seekers and refugees at the point when they are most vulnerable to discrimination and struggle to open a bank account, find accommodation or get work without a usable identity document.
Our concerns are because:
- There is no mention of asylum seekers and refugees in the Select Committee’s report and
- in the Department of Internal Affairs’ report to the Select Committee its advice around the Select Committee’s first recommendation was focused solely on New Zealand citizens and permanent residents born overseas.
What did the Department of Internal Affairs advise the Select Committee about asylum seekers and refugees?
The Department’s report specifically notes that “expanding access to documentation beyond citizens and permanent residents is beyond the scope of the Act”. It does note, however, that:
- “Work is already underway with Immigration New Zealand at an operational level to address how best to assist transgender asylum seekers (who are on timebound visas) with gender recognition documentation while they await confirmation of refugee status (and thereafter permanent residency).”
Rainbow Path is aware of that work because it has resulted from our continued advocacy for nearly three years, and has required multiple letters to Ministers and departmental officials. Now is a vital opportunity for the government to signal a commitment to addressing these concerns within the same time frame as the regulations being developed to support this Bill.
This will require thinking outside the restrictions of current policy settings or interpretations. Legal gender recognition should be available to any trans or intersex person in Aotearoa, whatever their immigration status. That is the international human rights obligation set out in the Yogyakarta Principle 31 and the practical step needed to ensure all trans or intersex people here can navigate everyday life with safety, dignity and respect.
Why this is even more important due to COVID-19
Trans asylum seekers and refugees without accurate identity documents are one of the groups struggling to obtain a Vaccine Pass that they can safely use. This highlights yet again why trans and intersex people born overseas need a New Zealand identity document with their correct name, photo and gender marker.
Rainbow Path has recommended that trans and intersex asylum seekers and Convention refugees should be able to self-identity their name and gender on Certificates of Identity and Refugee Travel documents. This is an important interim step, as these may be the only NZ photo IDs that some asylum seekers and refugees can obtain.
However, there is very limited recognition of these documents in Aotearoa, even though they are official NZ travel documents. For example, they aren’t included as documents you can use to sign up for My COVID record. If they are not listed as accepted forms of official IDs there, it’s even less likely that they will be accepted by venues and service providers.
Rainbow Path has asked the Government to:
- clarify that the work signalled in the first recommendation in the Select Committee’s report covers any trans or intersex person born overseas who is living in Aotearoa and
- commit to introducing legal gender recognition solutions for trans and intersex asylum seekers, refugees and migrants between now and when amendments to the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Act 1995 commence in 2023.
Rainbow Path members will be glued to our screens when the Bill returns to Parliament this week. We hope that this will be a moment that all of our trans and intersex communities can celebrate. Rainbow Path welcomes any opportunities to work meaningfully with Ministers, government officials and other trans and intersex community organisations to achieve legal gender recognition for us all.
The Select Committee report covers other issues raised by submitters too. Gender Minorities Aotearoa has written this blog analysing the Select Committee’s responses to the key points made in their submission.
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I am a permanent resident since I was five years old coming from Zambia northern Rhodesia, have lost my original birth certificate and of copies signed that the original has been seen by WINZ due to me having to get a benefit due my health and can not get an ID due to my ex husband years ago when he renewed my drivers license and put his birth date down instead of mine. This has caused major problems have sent forms to internal affairs but on hold at the moment, due applying to try and get a new one from Zambia.The didn’t register babies before 1973. I was born in 1959, so this has caused me a major headache. Any advice. Thank you for your time. Cheers Anne Sutcliffe.
Kia ora Anna
You may want to talk to an immigration lawyer or someone at a community law centre about your options. https://communitylaw.org.nz/
Rainbow Path can’t give legal advice. One question to ask a lawyer is if you could complete a statutory declaration confirming the details on your birth certificate. We understand that there are many people born overseas who don’t have access to their original birth certificate, so there should be alternative ways to verify your identity.
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would anybody know why is my car is still leaking coolant i put new radiator
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If it is leaking to the outside and puddling on the ground you have a bad gasket or a leaky hose connection somewhere. If the cooland level just goes down but doesn't show up outside the car it is an internal leak from a gasket or a crack in the block r head. External leaks from hoses or hose connections are easily repaired by replacing parts and tightening clamps. Gasket leaks, both internal and external can often be slowed or totally sealed up by adding Bars Leak to the cooling system. That's an easy and inexpensive solution that you can easily do yourself. The product won't harm your car and is available at any auto part store. Once you have addressed that, and if there is water in your oil you will need to change oil, maybe a couple of times to eliminate it from the crankcase.
Also forgot to mention the water pump. If it is worn out there could be coolant escaping from the seal around the shaft where the fan bolts on. Sometimes a bit hart to see so look carefully. The only fix for that is a new water pump which is not a huge deal. Get it done at an independent shop if you're not going to do it yourself. Don't go to the dealer for that, it will cost at least double there.
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The Real Time Crime Center has officers monitoring 41 cameras around the city, 36 of which are in the downtown area.
One sample tested positive for West Nile virus in mid-July.
The NTSB spokesperson at the Lockhart crash continues to say there is a “discontinuity” in the oversight of balloon companies and pilots.
Authorities are still investigating the crash.
The Travis County Honor Guard has not left the fallen deputies side since he was shot outside his home July 25, 2016.
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The boy remained calm and safe from any real danger.
It is the third such incident in the area in recent days.
At 7:26 a.m., the ground crew said they received a position update from the pilot which normally indicates he is ready to land
Witnesses say the teenager hit his head during one his flips.
Brittany Parker was reported missing by her family the week of July 12.
The 68-year-old homeowner made it look like he was away and laid in wait for the burglar to strike.
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Innocent bystander Teqnika Marie Moultrie was shot and killed as she walked down a crowded sidewalk with her wife and friends.
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Srinagar, July 01. The subscribers of the private telecommunication company Jio have complained about erratic calling and internet service in different villages of Harwan district Srinagar.
The subscribers in harwan are facing both the call connectivity and internet problem due to poor service.
We cannot make any calls even during emergencies, many times tower signal disappears suddenly while making a call. The call drops and eratic internet is frequent in the harwan due to poor network.
We are facing immense problems due to erratic calling and internet service from last few months at Harwan near the garden.
We are unable to connect our nears and dears as every time we dial the number, the network comes either busy, not reachable or show’s no network coverage, due to poor network in the Harwan, said Nasir Hussain social Activist from Harwan area.
We request the divisional administration to look into the matter and take necessary action in this regard.


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Turkey – Central African Republic (OAC) Relations
OAC already has the Kinshasa Embassy (Congo Democratic Republic) accredited and plans to open a new Embassy in Bangui. Our country also has an Honorary Consulate General in Bangui, which has been operating since 2003. OAC has an Honorary Consulate General in Istanbul since 1995.
Military Attaché, which started in Kinshasa in August 2015, is also accredited by OAC.
In 2013 after the outbreak of civil war in the OAC, while extending a helping hand to the victims of violence in the country and one of the first countries in the initiative to mobilize the international community towards the same goal has been Turkey. On the other hand, we have shown support for the Transitional Government, which was the first time in the history of the country without a coup, and the principles of territorial integrity and the protection of sovereignty of the country were respected.


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The follow-up to the Aaron Dessner-produced ‘All That Emotion,’ ‘I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care’ finds Vancouver’s Hannah Georgas exploring textures both dazzling and pensive that underscore her sharp, self-deprecating lyricism.
‘I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care’ – Hannah Georgas
And this happens at least once, if not two, or three times a year, especially in recent years – when I make the commitment to write about an album and even in my process of taking notes on each song, creating a very rudimentary outline of what I would like to discuss within the piece, and, like, determining my “way in” – what the conceit will ultimately end up being if I am able to pull it all off – regardless of how much preparation I do, I find that I reach a point where I believe myself to be in over my head with just how many flimsy strands I intent on grabbing ahold of and pulling together, and wondering if it is even worth it to be that ambitious.
If it’s even worth it to take what could, and perhaps in some cases, should be a more straightforward or, at the very least, less meandering review of an album, and continue insisting to myself that I turn it into a personal essay that happens to be about music, but will also most certainly be about my fragile mental health, or something else that I should just save for therapy.
I reach a point where I begin succumbing to the weight, or the pressure, that only I am putting on myself with it – where I get, say, 3,000 words and change in and want to scrap it all; or, I begin a second draft, exhuming bits and pieces from the first, but quickly realize how unhappy I am with that one as well.
How many flimsy strands, or narratives, do I intend to grab ahold of and pull together, hoping I can carry it all through until the end, and it’s worth it to be that ambitious, and that the story I ultimately want to tell is one worth telling, and worth being heard.
Where do I start, then.
Do I start with what is happening now, in this moment? Or do I go back to what could be referred to as a beginning?
Or do I start with something else entirely?
I spend a lot of time thinking about my relationship with others—those whom I am the truly the closest to, and my relationship to music, and how there is a place where those things inevitably intersect.
People can find their way into our lives at what you understand—maybe at that moment, or maybe later on, is the right time, or the time when you needed them the most, and you take them with you. And in moving forward together, you do so with an appreciation and admiration, yes, but also with this imagined uncertainty of what you might have done, or who you might have been without their presence in your life.
Specific artists, or even just certain songs, can arrive in your life at the point where it will make the most sense to you, or will resonate the hardest, or most personally—and then you go on to take those with you as you grow, like how we carry one another through time.
Go back to what can be referred to as the beginning.
And we were standing outside of the building. And it was cold. Mid or late October, and the chill in the breeze tore through the flannel shirts we were both wearing, neither of us thinking to put on our coats. And she was my co-worker then—a colleague, and outside of work, we had become close friends through working together through the first seven months of the pandemic had certainly created strains, or had magnified any underlying apprehensions that already were there in both our personal and professional dynamics.
And I had gotten myself in trouble, again, at work.
And this was maybe the second or third time this had happened in a relatively short amount of time. Morale, among the staff, was incredibly low; tensions within the building had reached a breaking point, and the ease with which I could become irritable or lose my temper was higher than it really should have been.
My mental health was, as you might expect, given the circumstances, the lowest it had been in a number of years.
And I had gotten myself in trouble, again, at work. Rolling my eyes at the wrong person or having said something to someone in a candor or tone they did not appreciate. I was never given specifics of what, precisely, I had done or who I had gone on to upset or offend. Nobody had, at any point, bothered to approach me directly and ask why I was acting, or behaving, the way that I so often was at that time.
Nobody had approached me directly to ask if I was okay.
The answer would have been no.
I was not doing well. I hadn’t been for quite some time, and I know that didn’t, and still doesn’t, make me a unique individual, especially when a number of other people around me were also really struggling.
But I was not doing well, and it was so disappointing that nobody could see that.
My colleague – my friend, she would be the recipient of an email from someone higher up, and it would, more or less, say that I was a problem that needed to be solved. The email would ask what she was going to do about it—what she was going to do about me.
“I got another email about you this morning. You want to tell me what happened this weekend,” she asked me on a Monday morning shortly after she had arrived in the building. Her voice, already tired. Her tone sympathetic, sure, but also beyond exasperated with both the circumstances we found ourselves in, and with me.
She’s hauled me outside of the building for this conversation. We’re standing far apart—more than six feet. Both still wearing our masks. It’s cold. Mid or late October, and the sun is still rising, and the chill in the breeze is tearing through our flannel shirts. I tell her that I am trying as hard as I can, but I am not doing well. She is doing her best to be patient with me, and I don’t know how else to make her understand what has been on the tip of my tongue for so long, so I just end up saying it—making a confession that I, perhaps, shouldn’t have, but if I hadn’t, it would still be an unnamed feeling that for the last three years, I would have continued lying to myself, and others, about.
I tell her that I am trying as hard as I can, but that I am not doing well, and that I am so unhappy. I am the unhappiest I have been in a long time, and things feel so dark, and so fragile, that I have been pushed to the point where, when I wake up, every morning, my first thought is, “I do not want to be alive.”
And when I tell her this, I realize what I have said, and that it is the first time I have ever vocalized to anyone.
It’s called “chronic passive suicidal ideation,” and it is exactly what it sounds like.
Start with what is happening now, in this moment.
Almost exactly a year ago, I found myself writing about the things we let go of.
We no longer work together. We haven’t for around two years. And last autumn, my former colleague, and close friend had decided to relocate—not far. Not really—not out of the state even. But far enough that we would not see each other with the same frequency that we had fallen into, and so her decision to move was something that was certainly going to change, or shift, the dynamic we had up until that point, but the extent to which it would change was, at the time, an unknown.
But I understood, as best as I was able to, that there would, in fact, be a shift, or a change.
I think I understood that, anyway.
And her decision to move shouldn’t have been a surprise to me—it had, in fact, been a possibility for a number of years leading up to this moment when it was, somewhat unceremoniously announced while I am standing in my kitchen, making us lunch.
It was no longer just an idea, or a desire, or a want.
Or a need.
It was happening.
I should not have been surprised, yes, but regardless of how much time, or how many years, I had to ready myself for what was presented as the inevitable, it does not make the act of saying goodbye—specifically for what has become a much longer amount of time than I had, perhaps foolishly, anticipated, any easier to accept, or to do.
Almost exactly a year ago, I found myself writing about, among other things, out of need more than anything else, the things we let go of, and I lost my mind, somewhat, in the process, trying to grapple towards a reluctant acceptance that people change, things change, and we ultimately have to let go—specifically, we have to let go of a person who was never really “ours” to begin with.
Last year, in the late summer, well before the announcement of First Two Pages of Frankenstein, and as they were about to embark on a late summer tour to road test newly written material, The National released the one-off single, “Weird Goodbyes,” featuring guest vocals from longtime friend of the band Justin Vernon.
The song itself didn’t make the final cut for the album—something I was, at first, disappointed to learn, but maybe it is for the best that it was given a life of its own, on its own, and that the emotional weight that it had—for me, anyway—was something that was not carried into the world created by the songs that were selected for the tracklist for Frankenstein.
“Weird Goodbyes” is, like many songs by The National, about a lot of things—some of the lyrics, as one might anticipate, are ambiguous, relying on the band’s lead singer and primarily lyricist Matt Berninger’s penchant for vivid imagery and stringing along a fragmented narrative. At its core, though, “Weird Goodbyes” is about the fear of fading away, the manic way we may deal with that at the moment, and why and how we say goodbye to one another.
It is about the things that we, whether we want to or not, or feel like we are ready to, let go of.
When I was losing my mind, I found myself writing about, among other things, why and how we say goodbye to one another—and how it feels for you, certainly, but more than that, the presumptions we make about how the person on the other end of that goodbye may, or may not, be feeling.
I wrote about how we ultimately project something—an insecurity, or an anxiety of some kind—onto that person.
I’d like to think that, in the last year, I have gotten better when parting with someone I care about, but I don’t know. Sometimes I am still uncertain.
I wrote about the goodbyes we say, whether it is for a few days, or a few weeks. Or if those days, and weeks can turn into a year.
I am thinking now about what happens in that space, or that distance. The space that forms between that goodbye, and the unknown of what happens next.
Start with something else entirely.
My intent, of course, is certainly not to sell the Canadian singer and songwriter Hannah Georgas, short by any means. But since the release of her fourth full-length, All That Emotion, in the autumn of 2020, and up until now with the arrival of its follow-up, the poignantly titled I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care, there is a part of me – perhaps the most observational and analytical portion of myself, that feels like Georgas’ association with The National has certainly helped her, but also, somehow, maybe held her back.
Georgas participated in The National’s 2019 tour in support of what was then the recently released and rather expansive I Am Easy to Find, a bulk of which was structured less around the dulcet baritone of Matt Berninger, and more on the presence of a number of female guest vocalists – Georgas, then, served as both an opening act for the group, and filled the role of providing that female voice when it came to bringing those songs from the record onto the stage.
At some point, around this time, either in 2018 or 2019, Georgas began working with The National’s Aaron Dessner, who had production credits to his name then, yes, but nowhere near the surprising notoriety he would gain in the summer of 2020—not credited a co-writer on Georgas’ 2020 release All That Emotion, save for one song, he did produce the album, as well as playing myriad instruments on it, and recording it at his studio, Long Pond, in upstate New York.
If you go back far enough on Georgas’ Instagram page – scrolling back through to the end of 2019, and into 2020, there was a slow trickle of posts and promotion about advance singles, leading up to the announcement of the album itself, and its intended September release date.
Written and recorded, and completed well before Taylor Swift and Aaron Dessner began their long-distance musical correspondence that resulted in the now infamous surprise release of Folklore in July, the reason that I feel like Georgas’ association, or relationship, with The National could have held her back is that, upon All That Emotion’s release, the album itself was more or less panned in at least a review I read of it, where the writer specifically pointed out Dessner’s “one size fits all” approach to production and arranging, referring to it as “musically reticent” and that it is “covered in fog”; then specifically saying that Georgas’ record “sounds like Folklore,” rather than giving it time or space to stand on its own.
I will admit that Dessner’s production – especially now, three years after this, with his profile continuing to rise, can be polarizing for many, and that he does seem to latch onto a specific sound, or a certain aesthetic, relying on chintzy, dusty sounding drum programing, intricate flourishes on the guitar, and big, cavernous chords on the piano.
But I would argue that All That Emotion does not sound like Folklore, and I would argue that drawing this kind of comparison between albums recorded well over a year apart, but released in the span of two months, did not exactly help Georgas in terms of building any kind of distinction, or letting her lyricism speak for itself.
Regardless of if this is just speculation, or analytical conjecture on my part, the idea of distinction, or an attempt to find, and better understand or accept, one’s self is firmly rooted at the core of Georgas’ fifth full-length, I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care.
Co-produced by Georgas herself alongside Sean Sroka, it is a record that finds her and her stable of collaborators pushing the kind of glitchy, introspective arranging from All That Emotion, then either amplifying it to the point where it seems like it is going to burst, of in a handful of instances, blowing it up entirely.
As a whole, I’d Be Lying, lyrically, is an extremely difficult gaze inward, and Georgas, as a songwriter, is regularly unflinching in her observations. It’s a record that, even in the moments when it is uneven, or falters, is of inherently bleak self-deprecation, which offers us, as listeners, an unflattering mirror where we cannot escape the reflections of ourselves it casts.
Go back to the beginning.
I spend a lot of time thinking about my relationship to others – those whom I am the truly the closest to, and my relationship to music, and how there is a place where those things inevitably intersect.
People can find their way into our lives at what you realize – maybe at that moment, or maybe later on, is the right time, or the time when you needed them the most, and you take them with you, and in moving forward together, you do so with an appreciation and admiration, yes, but also with this imagined uncertainty of what you might have done, or who you might have been without their presence in your life.
Specific artists, or even just certain songs, can arrive in your life at the point where it will make the most sense to you, or will resonate the hardest, or most personally – and then you go on to take it with you, as you are able, as you grow, like how we carry one another through time.
I’ve been afraid to tell you everything going on in my head
It’s called “chronic passive suicidal ideation,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like, and at the time, she didn’t react at all to what I had said because perhaps she did not realize the severity of it.
Perhaps she didn’t realize that it was a confession—something admitted when the conversation had backed me into a corner, and all I was able to do was be honest with her, yes, but for once, be honest with myself.
“I do not want to be alive.” I kept thinking about it that morning at work, as we tried to go about the day, hoping whatever tensions from the exchange we had would recede.
I kept thinking about how I had said it, though, and the gravity of what it meant, and later in the morning, I told my colleague, my friend, that I needed to speak with her, again, outside and in front of the building. And I said, my anxiety running high, “That thing I said to you before – please do not tell anybody I said that to you. I need you to promise me that you won’t.”
The late October wind is still brisk, and we still aren’t wearing coats, and it takes her a moment to realize what I am talking about, and when she finally understands, I watch the color drain from her face and see her lose her balance slightly, stumbling in place, with a panicked look in her eyes.
And I keep wondering will you still love me
even though I’m not what you thought
Start with something else entirely.
There is the most observational and analytical portion of myself that feels like Hannah Georgas’ association with The National somehow, maybe, held her back, but it also certainly helped her – the assistance coming in the form of the alternate version to the All That Emotion track “Pray it Away,” released on its own, featuring haunting, somber guest vocals from Matt Berninger, who sings lead on the first (and arguably the most poignant) verse of the song, and then alongside Georgas’ in the chorus.
Something that I am grateful for in how I listen to contemporary popular music—analytically, yes, when it is time to try and discuss it, or write about it, but on an emotional, or personal level, I am appreciative of how you can take a song and make it your own, regardless of what it actually might be about. Even if it’s about something else entirely, pop music, and pop music lyricism, often opens itself up to this kind of interpretation where you can see fragments of yourself within.
“Pray it Away,” in the sequencing on All That Emotion, is sequenced midway through the album’s first half – structurally, it’s based around slow-moving, woozy, antiquated synthesizers, and a shuffling percussive rhythm that incorporates both the clatter and jitter of a drum machine, with live elements. And in part of the conversation with Georgas from Apple Music, she explains it was written after an emotional exchange with a friend.
“(She) was planning her wedding and was sending out invitations and got a message back from one of her family members saying they wouldn’t attend because they don’t agree with her getting married to another woman,” she recalled. “It just really made me feel awful. I come from a very conservative family, and I’ve had so many disagreements and arguments with family on matters, so I really felt her pain. The song is coming from the position of being in her shoes, and also taking my personal perspective from my relationship with my family.”
Something that I am grateful for in how I listen to contemporary popular music is that, on an emotional, or personal level, I am appreciative of how you can take a song and make it your own.
You can find yourself in it, when it happens to find you, at the right time, and it helps you make sense of something, or understand something more than you, perhaps, otherwise would have been able to.
The first line of “Pray it Away,” uttered quietly by Georgas on the album version of the song, then sung by Berninger in the alternate version released as a stand-alone single, is, “I’ve been afraid to tell you everything going on in my head.”
“I do not want to be alive.”
Start with something else entirely.
Start from scratch—how do I do that?
How do I make sense of everything I thought I had.
If the central conceit that runs throughout I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care is Georgas’ attempts to search for, or reconcile with “the self” or, at the very least, her self, this idea, and her efforts to do so are both the most apparent in, fittingly, the album’s opening and closing tracks, as well as within the halfway point.
The album begins in a near whisper, with the gentle acoustic guitar string plucks and deliberately hushed vocals of “Scratch,” where Georgas opens with a question that she will, in a sense, spend the album looking for the answer to, even if there is no real easy answer, or resolve, as I’d Be Lying comes to its conclusion.
“Start from scratch – how do I do that,” she asks, her voice quiet but steady, and allowing for a natural rise fall of how she sings the song, then allows the words to tumble out into the music below her. “How do I make sense of everything I thought I had.”
And just in terms of structure, “Scratch” is one of the songs on I’d Be Lying where Georgas show the kind of expert precision and control she has over the notion of tension and release within the instrumentation—understanding when to let things simmer, let them build, and then loosen the grasp she has on them. Not the point where it gets out of control, but to the point where we have been led to a place of obvious catharsis.
There is something fascinating that occurs within the fabric of “Scratch,” where Georgas, before she even begins to really let things simmer and build, effortlessly blends the kind of organic, intimate sound the song opens with, with more textured, dense, and synthetic aesthetics. It happens less than a minute in, when she holds a note—the final word of the first verse—extending it in a way that seems unnatural—and is certainly the result of clever production techniques, which allows it to then flicker and oscillate slightly before disappearing into the ether, and serving as a cue for more instruments to begin slowly filing into the fabric of the song.
The further along Georgas guides us into “Scratch,” the more prevalent the gloomy, indie rock adjacent guitar line, glitchy, skittering drum machines, and subtle synthesizer washes become within the arranging, but it is, like a number of the songs on I’d Be Lying, her poignant, honest lyricism that ultimately sticks with you – “Words have such an easy way of making me feel so down,” she explains in the chorus. “And the mistakes I made know how to speak so loud.”
Less sonically so, and much more thematically, Georgas bookends I’d Be Lying with “Keep Telling Yourself,” which picks up where the kind of want for something better, or at least much larger, than yourself found on “Scratch” leaves off, though as the album’s final track, it does not exactly offer a real resolve to the kind of internal, emotional conflict that is found throughout the album, but it does provide a very small flash of hope, or at least slight optimism for what is going to come next, lyrically similar to the final moments on Sophie Jamison’s blistering Choosing, where on “Long Play,” she states, “You’re no clown—you’re a woman. And you’re only on side A; you’ve still got the whole long play to twist.”
Though here, on “Keep Telling Yourself,” the way Georgas’ writing comes across is less of an optimistic consolation, and more of a desperate final exhalation before the album ends. “I feel like I’m singing, and I’m in a ring,” she sings. “And everyone’s watching.”
And what is most surprising about this exhalation is that there is no real build-up or momentum heading towards some kind of bombastic final moment within the song, and for the record, but rather a kind of gentle declaration with the quiet sounds of an effected guitar strummed underneath her, and a strange manipulation of her voice that trails quietly below it all.
“I wanna live. I wanna love,” Georgas states as more of a mantra than a list of demands. “I wanna sing. I wanna laugh. I wanna cry. I wanna be everything I desire.”
At the center of the album, but not the centerpiece, exactly (at least not for me) is one of the many singles Georgas issued in advance—the bright, uptempo, and soaring “Home,” which is one of the few songs across I’d Be Lying where things are as big and bold in terms of sound and scope.
Backed by thundering percussion, the real draw for “Home,” or at least what makes it so infectious, in part, is the dream-pop sounding effects piled onto the electric guitar, allowing it to operate from between the places where you are both moved to dance, or writhe around to the music, but also would be content just to sway in place slowly, your eyes tightly closed. But it is also within the song’s chorus—built to lift off and scale to towering heights, with Georgas’ voice soaring too.
Good pop music, or rather, smart pop music, will often disguise writing that is bleak, or dark, by putting it up against something catchy, or memorable in sound, and if it’s really smart, it’ll take you a number of listens through to really understand the gravity of what is happening, which is exactly what Georgas does in the chorus to “Home.”
“Home, I think you lost me,” she bellows at the top. “Home, where’d you go? Home, don’t know what you mean.”
In her writing, Georgas has been rather self-effacing in the past, and she does return to that place throughout I’d Be Lying, with “Home” being one of the songs where she is, perhaps, the least harsh or critical towards herself, but there is an exhausted, somber deprecation that she speaks from within both verses—the second, more than the first.
“Working all the time—will it ever pay off?,” she asks pointedly. “And running all over makes me feel so lost. Everyone around me is growing up so fast. I’m sitting here thinking how the hell did time pass,” she continues before ending on one of the starker observations found on the record. “I know it can’t be all that bad, but I feel like I’ve lost my path.”
Start with something else entirely.
There is an admirable dynamism to the way Georgas and her producing partner Sroka have crafted the often warm, and regularly meticulous sound on I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care—even in its most intimate, or hushed moments, there is a warmth to how the record sounds as a whole, with noticeable precision and attention to even the smallest details throughout.
The duo does, occasionally, return to the similar aesthetic of All That Emotion, but even when there are layers and layers of old-sounding synthesizers or skittering percussion tumbling out of a dusty drum machine, there is a heightened sense of urgency to the record, which you can hear in how robust and often bombastic these songs do become, which is perhaps in part to it being a self-produced collection, and that there is slightly more on the line, or perhaps it has more to do with the central idea of the record, and the immediacy, or desperation, with which there can be when trying to explore, let alone find, “the self.”
The dynamism throughout is admirable, yes, but because there often is a lot happening, sonically, on I’d Be Lying, there are times when it appears a little less cohesive than its predecessor—which is not that fatal of a fault, though that can make the pacing of the album when listened to from beginning to end feel uneven—some of the finest moments, or the most genuinely interesting in terms of how all of the elements tumble together, come within the first half, like within the album’s third track, “Better Somehow,” where the same metallic echo that trails off of Georgas’ voice on “Keep Telling Yourself,” makes another appearance, giving the song a slight otherworldly feeling in places.
Within the different sonic territories that Georgas takes the album, “Better Somehow” is one of the places where she, even when playing with subtle effects on her voice, keeps the song’s instrumentation rooted firmly in a more organic or traditional sound—with a lightly strummed acoustic guitar, glistening electric guitar textures, and a crisp, punchy sound from the drum kit.
Georgas, then, pulls things inward, and is more inherently melancholic in her observations with “Beautiful View,” which is among the five songs that had been released in advance of the album as a whole.
“Beautiful View,” arriving shortly before the halfway point, which is, truthfully, where the finest and most poignant moments on the album are kept, is among I’d Be Lying’s gentlest sounding – beginning with what sounds like two intersecting acoustic guitars, strumming and circling around one another delicately, when the song reaches its chorus, additional layers ripple in with a shimmering restraint – like the melody that is plunked out on a keyboard, the subtle percussive elements coming from a drum machine, and the swooning, wordless background vocals that provide additional depth within those moments.
It is Georgas’ ability to turn a phrase, though – often turning them on herself – that is the most impressive, the more time you spend with I’d Be Lying.
Her capabilities as a lyricist were clear on All That Emotion, though perhaps the dense layers of production that could become a little dizzying at times distracted slightly from the weight within how she both observes others, and, more importantly, how she observes herself, doing so in a way that she rarely if ever pauses to give a kind of knowing glance, or wink, or slight break of the fourth wall to the listener and linger in the moment to really draw attention to it. Her words are not delivered with a deadpan exactly, but Georgas is ever straight-faced in her writing, and in her opting to keep moving on to the next line, there are a number of places on I’d Be Lying that, in her self-deprecation and starkness, can cause you to do a double take and confirm that she really did utter what you thought she might have.
“I miss you sometimes, and I hate that I do,” she sings early on “Better Somehow,” one of the first lyrics on the record that, in how matter of fact it, caught my attention, uttered as a statement, or a fact, with no time spent elaborating on it before she’s already on to the next, effacing scrutinization: “I can’t see me going easy on myself anytime soon, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care.”
‘Better Somehow” is not a break-up song, exactly, but rather about the messy feelings that can come after a relationship has come to an end—regardless of how long it has been. It is implied in Georgas’ writing that it has been quite some time, as she continues in the second verse: “I look at pictures of you to see how you’re doing—just so I can dig a knife in,” she confesses. “And I feel really cool when I’m listening to Joy Division, but I feel like a fool most of the time.”
And there is, as there often is, with a song written around a breakup, or at least the ending of a relationship, a hint at the desire, at least by one party involved, to reconnect, which is where Georgas takes us in the chorus. “Maybe if I say it to you, you will thank me for telling the truth,” she wonders. “And I can love you better,” a line, entrenched in a quiet sadness that only really reveals itself after a number of listens.
Later, on “Beautiful View,” Georgas takes a moment to acknowledge what is around her and that perhaps she has been oblivious to it, or at least has not paid the kind of attention she should have—“I’ve been waking around this whole time with my head down,” she sings. “Make myself bored on purpose—keep myself cool on the surface. I couldn’t tell I had this beautiful view.”
In the way I’d Be Lying is put together, if the songs that are the most robust and dynamic in their arranging are sequenced near the top, lyrically, some of the most scathing and bleak writing is saved for the second half.
“Am I the laziest person I know, or am I just tormented,” Georgas exclaims in “This Too Shall Pass.” “I’ve been walking around with so much god damn resentment—don’t know, but some days feel so lo and so fucking pathetic.”
It serves as a bit of an interlude within the second half of the record, arriving after “Home”—barely over a minute in length, and more of a loose sketch than anything else, but “Virgo in Me” is perhaps where Georgas is the harshest on herself, and by doing that, as she does regularly on Id’d Be Lying, takes those unflattering reflections and points them in the listener’s direction.
“Maybe it’s the Virgo in me — practical and overthinking everything,” she begins, before pulling us down with her into a moment of difficult emotional upheaval. “I’ve turned into the one you respond to in weeks. Casual acquaintance—that’s fine by me. Forget what I said. I wish I never sent that text. How can you feel so much,” she asks as the minute comes to an end. “And feel so empty.”
Start with what is happening now, in this moment.
Start with something else entirely.
We all manage and lose touch, right? Bonds aren’t as tight.
Almost exactly a year ago, I found myself writing about the things we let go of.
And it was because a song had specifically come along at a moment when I needed it—or felt like it was the most resonant with me.
Last autumn, my former colleague and close friend had made the decision to relocate—not far. Not really. Not out of the state, even. But far enough that we would not see each other with the same frequency that we had fallen into, and so her decision to move was something that was certainly got change, or shift, the dynamic we had up until that point, but the extent to which it would change was, at the time, an unknown. But I understood that there would be, in fact, a change, or a shift.
It was unavoidable.
I found myself writing about, among other things, out of need more than anything else, the things we let go of, and I absolutely lost my mind in the process, trying to grapple towards a reluctant acceptance that people change, things change, and we do ultimately have to let go—specifically, we have to let go a person who was never really “ours” to begin with.
Friends grow apart, right? Somewhere, lost sight.
Placed at the end of the album’s first half is I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care’s finest moment – “Fake Happy,” a delicate, then explosive, and visceral rumination on the slow dissolution of a friendship that, for me, is the most affecting and the hardest to hear in terms of the way Georgas holds literally nothing back in her stark observations.
And it, like songs often do, came along, or found me, at the moment when I needed to hear it, and use it as a means of having a more significant, but not better, understanding of something. “Fake Happy” doesn’t offer any resolution, nor does it claim that it is going to—it is Georgas, and you, as a listener, and me, certainly, reflecting on something difficult, or unpleasant to face, and doing so with an unabashed honesty.
Musically, “Fake Happy” works in two parts: The first is Georgas quietly strumming an acoustic guitar, with some subtle, atmospheric textures slowly working their way in by the time she reaches the first utterance of the chorus – “I don’t want to be sad, but I can’t be fake happy,” followed by some muffled, understated percussion that tumbles through the second verse; the second part, and it is an interesting way to end the song, honestly does nothing to add or take away from the emotional, personal depth of “Fake Happy,” but it does somewhat abruptly grow to a swaying, somewhat psychedelic inspired peak, with cavernous and thundering drumming and distorted electric guitar clangs that Georgas rides out until its final moments echo out.
In her writing, Georgas is unrelenting in how she oscillates between frank realizations about herself and the shortcomings of her mental health, juxtaposed against having to face the hard truth of admittance that two people have drifted so far apart from one another that their friendship has, unexpectedly and unfortunately, run its course.
“We’ve grown out of each other, and I’ve slowly watched it happen,” she begins quietly and without any hesitation, giving us little, if any, time in preparation for what happens within the song. “I know it’s for the better,” she continues, then a few lines later, arrives at the brutal sentiments of the chorus: “I’ll call you, but it feels like a chore,” Georgas resigns herself to acknowledge. “We’ll laugh, but it’s not as funny anymore. I’ll be sad, and I can’t tell you how I feel. Can’t reach out—even if I wanted to, it’s weird.”
I’ll be sad, and I can’t tell you how I feel.
I’ve been afraid to tell you everything going on in my head.
Specific artists, or even just certain songs, can arrive in your life at the point where it will make the most sense to you, or will resonate the hardest, or most personally.
It’s within the second verse to “Fake Happy” where Georgas turns things truly inward, and doesn’t go so far as to completely imply that her depression, or other mental health struggles, have contributed to the decline of her friendship with this off-stage individual, but she does suggest that they certainly haven’t helped.
“I get low—is that a crime?,” she asks, pointedly, and with some exasperation in her voice. “I think it’s something that I’m born with.”
“But I can’t tell you what’s on my mind,” she says in the next line.
I can’t tell you what’s on my mind.
I’ve been afraid to tell you everything going on in my head.
And I find that I am thinking about what happens in the space, or the distance, that forms between a goodbye with someone – sometimes not realizing that it might be the last one, for a while, and the unknown of what happens next.
And there are relationships that can, and often do, withstand the distance—literal distance, like across the country, as well as figurative, like how often you maintain a regular correspondence.
I think about the relative ease with which my wife and I are able to pick things back up with friends of ours who, at one time, lived nearby, before moving to Arizona for a number of years, then moving, somewhat recently, to Ohio – the conversations conducted over FaceTime, while all of us sit huddled on our respective couches, in our respective living rooms, across a time zone, never feel forced, or disingenuous.
Or that we have run out of things to say to one another after having known each other for over 15 years – that the dynamics have run their course.
I am thinking about how, for every friendship I have managed to hold onto—however large, or small, a piece of over the course of my life, there are those that I have not been able to, for whatever reason, been able to sustain. And that we have completely lost touch with these people who, at some point, certainly meant something to us.
In an exchange with my friend Alyssa, she said, “The more you talk to someone, the more you have to talk about.” And she is right, of course. Because if you can make the time, and space, to correspond with that kind of regularity, or frequency, with someone, it does eliminate the need to “catch up,” because you already know the answer to the question, “How have you been,” and instead, you are provided with the opportunity to, in a lengthy back and forth, yes, ask how one another’s day or couple of days has been, but more importantly to use that ping-ponging as a way to ask more thoughtful questions and engage in a much larger conversation.
And there are, of course, these varying levels of friendship, or connectedness, and there are, of course, the levels in between. You make the space, and the time, and you open yourself up as much as you are able, and you hope that the other person involved in the friendship does the same.
And I find that I am thinking about what happens in the space, or the distance, that forms. And how within that space, and distance, things can begin to grow smaller, or close, and that the connection, or the dynamic you, at one time, felt and would have never second-guessed, begins to feel strained, or like it is on the verge of disappearing completely.
I am thinking about the distance that can form between two people—not far. Not really. Not even out of state. But it is enough that it causes a shift.
Where do I start, then.
Or, instead, where does this end?
It ends with what is happening now, in this moment.
It ends in going back to what could be referred to as a beginning.
Almost exactly a year ago, I found myself writing about the things we let go of, and I absolutely lost my mind in the process, which, unsurprisingly, is what has occurred now as well. And a year ago, and even now, I continue returning to the sentiments within the song “Sing Your Heart Out” by Camp Cope”— specifically, what is at the heart of the song, and the phrase that is returned to as it unfurls and grows.
“People change, give them time.
If you can change — then so can I.”
And it is that change, from both sides, that can be difficult to find a way to accept, or even understand.
I’ll call you, but it feels like a chore.
We’ll laugh, but it’s not as funny anymore.
The texts, over time, are responded to less. The calls, over time, go unanswered, and aren’t returned.
Over time, the laughter on the line becomes less genuine and more of a nervous space filler when the silence of not knowing what to say next becomes too much of a threat.
We do try to keep what we can of people throughout our lives – sometimes, they do become characters for a very specific part of a story, but that part of the story comes to an end. There’s no falling out. There is no ill will. You both just continue moving forward, and further away from one another.
We keep what we can of people throughout our lives—we grab on as tightly as possible. It isn’t easy, certainly, to try and grow in tandem with another person, but it is very possible to remain as connected.
We keep what we can of people throughout our lives, and we grab on as tightly as we are able, and regardless of how hard you a trying, or much you want to remain as connected as you, perhaps, once thought you might have been, you lose your grip. And I am thinking about the things that we let go of.
In writing about music over the last decade, and specifically within the last four or five years, I am aware of how often I overuse certain descriptors or phrases – one of which is referring to an album as a kind of reflection of the human condition. And I would hope that my overuse of it as a means of articulating the sentiments or gravity of an album does not take away from the impact that the album ultimately has.
Like she did near the end of 2020 when I was within one of my lowest, bleakest moments, and heard “Pray it Away” for the first time—with that first line still reverberating from then until now, Hannah Georgas has, again, put together a record, and more importantly, written a song, that found me at the right time, or the time when it makes the most sense to me.
I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care is, even in the moments when it does falter slightly with pacing and arranging, Georgas’ reflection of the human condition.
It’s an album that shows the confidence and growth within her songwriting over the last three years, dexterously working through difficult, weighty, and sizable themes with surprising, dense, and diverse musical textures and arresting, honest observations all in the name of reaching out and grabbing onto the very notion of the self.
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© Vanessa Heins
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Windows 7 makes the things you do every day easier. With fewer clicks, faster searching, easier browsing, and simpler ways to connect, there’s less between you and what you want to do. Windows 7 is designed to improve the performance of your PC, so it’s faster, more secure, and more reliable. PCs with Windows 7 simply work the way you want them to work.
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Two children's stories with beautiful illustrations!
1. The Legend of the Black Sea - an unforgettable story which shows that strength of will is above everything else.
2. Mommy - an unforgettable story where good and bad are both done in the name of love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am Sergey Nikolov. I was born in 1980 under the sign of the Scorpion. I live in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria with my wife and our daughter, Eva. I am a government employee, but in my free time I like to write and enjoy life.

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Philly is turning discarded hamburgers, chicken salad, lettuce into tons of compost
A large pile of compost at a city-owned facility was steaming one day last week, the result of heat produced by millions of microbes feeding on food waste from city rec centers.
The newly operational facility on Rising Sun Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia is the result of plans laid before the pandemic to turn tons of food waste generated at the city’s 156 recreation centers into free compost for registered community gardens.
Rec centers serve meals during programs for children and the elderly. Each center generates nearly a ton of food waste each year, officials estimate. Though the compost facility, which is not open to the public, started accepting waste in November, the material is just now turning into usable soil.


PT&P manufactured F-type variable spring supports for a chemical processing plant in Texas. The variables are designed with an internal guide and for a movement of 0.09″. They are designed for a 5,350 lb. cold load and 5,450 lb. hot load. Because these springs had to be capable of withstanding a hydro-test in excess of 33,000 lb. (which substantially exceeded the standard maximum hydro-test of 18,000 lb.), special collars were used in conjunction with the standard travel stops. These collars are designed to absorb the large hydro load by relying on the high strength characteristics of the load flange and housing components of the assembly while essentially bypassing the threaded internal components.
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Indie/soul singer Tash Sultana announced their second album, Terra Firma, will be released February 19, 2021. They also released a new single, “Willow Tree,” featuring Jerome Farah.
The album will be self-released and is available for pre-order on their website with digital, CD and vinyl options. There’s also a lot of new merch, including shirts, tote bags and patches. According to the press release, Terra Firma is about finding a healthy balance between family, life and touring.
Tash Sultana explained, “I didn’t realize that I needed to create a space and home for myself to feel like a person again. I just went inward and found a really peaceful place and wrote an album, and I feel really happy with it.”
The singles released so far have definitely been peaceful, slower tracks. There’s been no tracklist announced yet, but stripped back guitar and vocal track “Pretty Lady,” hip hop influenced “Greed” and psychedelic soul song “Beyond the Pine” were confirmed to be on the record. They also mention an unreleased song called “Crop Circles,” describing it as “full jazz.” Tash Sultana described their sound as “Aretha Franklin meets Bon Iver meets John Mayer meets whatever. It’s recognizably Tash Sultana, but deeper and more nuanced.”
Other listening options are available here.
“Willow Tree” is a little more upbeat, but still relaxed. Reggae-influenced bass and drums set the rhythm, but the track is still distinctly a neo-soul song. The hip hop influence kicks up once fellow Australian singer Jerome Farah comes in. “Where there’s smoke there’s fire/Take me up just a little bit higher/Hot damn, try to rip off your plans/Win a free ride back to Neverland,” they sing.
Like their debut album, Flow State, Tash Sultana wrote, performed, produced and engineered every track. However, this time they got a little help from songwriter Matt Corby and producer Dann Hume, and featured artists such as Corby and Farah.
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|A typical old fashioned grain elevator|
After a delayed planting due to a late spring snow and followed by weeks of heavy rains, the farmers are anxious to climb into their huge combines and harvest their summer's work. They meet in the scale room, joking with the workers who will test the moisture content of the grain. If the grain is too wet, the harvest must wait. If the grain is too dry, many bushels could be lost onto the ground.
Everyone in the building is anxious for the harvest rush; long hours lie ahead, with the future of the co-op intricately tied to the success or failure of our clients, the farmers. Their anticipation feeds into us and we too become restless, waiting for the grain trucks to begin their yearly parade across the scale which will determine their yield.
Let the harvest begin!

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The Oak Ridge City Council on Monday unanimously approved an initial bond resolution of up to $16.5 million to build a new Oak Ridge Preschool and Oak Ridge Senior Center, and redevelop Scarboro Park.
It’s not the final bond resolution for the projects. The initial bond resolution approved in a 7-0 vote on Monday sets a ceiling amount for the debt issuance. A second resolution, a bond issuance resolution, will be brought to City Council, possibly at the October 8 meeting, for the actual bond issuance amount.
The City of Oak Ridge has opened the bidding period for the two projects, which have a total estimated cost of roughly $16 million. That announcement was made Friday.
But the city doesn’t know yet what the actual bids will be. And it’s not clear how steel tariffs might affect the projects, Oak Ridge City Manager Mark Watson said. [Read more…]


Coning of Wheels of Train
The distance between the inside edges of wheel flanges is generally kept less than the gauge of the track. So there is a gap between the wheel flanges and the running edges of the rails, i.e. 1 cm on either side. Normally, the tread of of wheels is dead center of the head of the rail; as the wheel is coned to keep it in this central position automatically. These wheels are coned at a slope of 1 in 20. This all is nothing but Coning of Wheels.
Advantages of Coning of Wheels
- Reduce the wear and tear of the wheel flanges and rails, which is due to the rubbing action of flanges with inside faces of rail head.
- Provide possibilities of lateral movement of the axle with its wheels on rail curves. (When inner rail distance is small, however outer rail distance is large).
- Prevent the wheels from slipping to some extent because of rigid axle.
Video animation – why conning of wheels is important ???
Theory of conning
On a level track, as soon as the axle moves towards one rail, the diameter of wheel tread over rail increases. While it decreases over the other rail. This prevents the further movement and axle retreats back to its original position. (It means with equal diameters on both rails and equal pressure on both rails).
On a curved path, due to rigidity of wheel base, it is seen that
If the tread diameter on both the rails is same, the amount of slip will be given by
Slip = Ѳ (R2 – R1)
Outer radius, R2 = R + (G/2)
Inner radius, R1 = R – (G/2)
G = Gauge
Ѳ = Angle at centre in radians
Therefore, Slip = Ѳ x G
For B.G. track, G = 1.676 m
Thus, Slip = (2πѲ° / 360) x 1.676
Ѳ° = angle at centre in degrees, say 1°
Slip = 0.029 (approx. for 1° of central angle)
Therefore, the slip is about 0.029 m per degree of the central angle.
Disadvantages of conning
Conning of wheels on curves is not of much use as the leading axle if due to centrifugal force moves towards the outer rail rear axle. This will move towards the inner rail and the full advantage of conning wheels can’t be availed. In other words, there is no free lateral movement of wheels and this leads to the following disadvantages –
- Pressure on the outer rail is more while on inner rail it is less. This results in wear of outer rail.
- Due to the centrifugal force, the horizontal components tend to turn the rail out and gauge has widening tendency.
- If no base plate is used under the voids sleepers under the edge of the rail are damaged.
In order to eliminate above demerits, tilting of rails is done. In tilting of rails, the base plate or sleeper is not laid horizontal but at a slope of 1 in 20 inwards. This is known as adzing of sleepers as shown.
To minimize the wear and tear of the rails and wheels on curves, the American practice is to reduce wheel conning to 1 in 40 and in some cases even to 1 in 100.


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This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author's twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain's artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.
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Mark Twain (Author)
LAWRRENCE I. BERKOVE, this volume's editor, is a professor of English at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, and a noted authority on Mark Twain. He has published groundbreaking essays on Twain's major novels, short fiction, travel literature, an...

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“Action to address drug misuse needs to be aligned with work to protect and promote mental health throughout people’s lives,” Centre for Mental Health chief executive Sarah Hughes said today.
Responding to the Government’s Drug Strategy 2017, Sarah Hughes said: “We welcome the Government’s recognition of the importance of strengthening children’s wellbeing and resilience, including through personal, social and health education in schools, and of the need to reach out to the most vulnerable young people, including those who have experienced violence and abuse and those in the youth justice system.
“We welcome the Government’s recognition of the harm related to drug use, particularly New Psychoactive Substances, among vulnerable prisoners. Our research has highlighted the need for a significant culture change in prisons to focus on the wellbeing of both prisoners and staff in order to prevent harm and promote rehabilitation. And high quality support must go ‘through the gates’ to enable prisoners to rebuild their lives when they are released.
“The strategy identifies a number of changes that are needed to drug treatment to meet people’s needs more effectively. These include better links with mental and physical health care, a greater level of service user involvement and peer support, and a bigger focus on employment and housing to help people to recover. These are all important steps to achieving greater coherence between mental health and substance misuse services, which together need to offer a shared vision of ‘recovery’ to help people with multiple needs to recover their lives.
“Many local drug and alcohol services have been subject to big cuts in funding in recent years. And on the ground it is often difficult to link up mental health and substance misuse services. The Government must now ensure that the principles set out in this strategy are supported by sufficient resources to support local commissioners and providers of drug, alcohol and mental health services to offer people the right help at the right time.”


If you have power to the motherboard, there will be a light on the motherboard, check. Remove all cards installed in any of your card slots (except for video if no built in is available), does it boot? If no, remove any fan headers connected to motherboard (except for CPU), does it boot? If no Remove all your memory, does it boot? if no, remove your CPU, does it boot? If no are all the power cables to the motherboard plugged in correctly? If yes, then your mobo is dead. If a motherboard is fine, removing memory and or CPU will cause it give you beep codes that tell you, hey, your memory or CPU are missing. If you get not codes, then your mobo is brain dead.


Sheffield quartet overcome the difficult second album hurdle with flying colours.
More mysterious darkwave sounds from GosT…enter the darkness…
Gold Of Scar And Shale finds Jack Rutter following up Hills with a set that further enhances his reputation as a solo artist.
Boduf Songs return with their seventh album…step into the darkness.
Hannah James and her Jigdoll ensemble are proving to be an innovative and creative force.
Critically acclaimed English singer and songwriter Maz O’Connor releases her first new studio album since 2016.
Swedish masters return with another magnum opus.
The new four piece Show Of Hands make the numbers count on Battlefield Dance Floor.
Enjoy a trip with the cosmic sounds and disco grooves of Moon Duo.
Legendary Swedish band deliver an epic spectacle on A Dawn To Fear.
Kaprekar’s Constant release another progressive rock meisterwork with Depth Of Field.
Former Genesis man Anthony Phillips, returns after seven years with Strings of Light.
Wolcensmen ooze class, confidence and grandeur on second album. Fire In The White Stone.
A dystopian roller coaster of a white knuckle ride ensues from Le Cygne Noir.
Sombre, ominous yet with a majesty that you’d associate with Chelsea Wolfe. Birth Of Violence sees her moving in a sparse and stark direction.


Hope-Wish Technologies Inc , as independent research and development to produce high-definition laser cameras, infrared thermal imaging cameras, portable devices and the latest research and development and other products with a new image appearance Dubai Intersec 2017 from Jan. 22th to 24th.
Hope-Wish exhibiting booth
In this exhibition, Hope-Wish brought triple thermal imaging camera, special industry vehicle mounted camera and the latest portable thermal camera into the booth.
Hope-Wish exhibiting products
The exhibiting products include military, forestry fire prevention, high-speed rail monitoring, oilfield security, police equipment, power temperature and other fields, at the same time, and for the general security customers to bring a new security monitoring industry solutions.
In this exhibition, the unique triple thermal camera which combined optical, laser and thermal feeds attract a lot of clients.
Triple Thermal Camera
Special industry vehicle mounted laser camera that especially designed for the military grade shows its distinctive advantages to make customers has a different opinion for the security surveillance camera.
Special Industry Laser Camera
Sales manager explained the products specs
In the 3-day exhibiting, Hope-Wish staff received over 1500 times visits. More than 100 new customers and 50 old clients shows their strong cooperating interests and discuss their projects in detail.
In 2017, Hope-Wish will keep our striving to provide top quality products and tip-top service and solution. Thanks for all the visiting clients. Your supports is the courage to push us getting better! Thank you!


Organizations are failing to respond to the culture of employees using their own mobile devices for work and are opening up their systems to security risks.
These are the preliminary findings of a survey by PwC and Infosecurity Europe.
82% of large organisations reported security breaches caused by staff, including 47% who lost or leaked confidential information.
Only 39% of large organisations encrypt data downloaded to smart phones and tablets
54% of small businesses (38% of large organisations) don’t have a security awareness programme
While 52% of small businesses say social networking sites are important to their business, only 8% monitor what their staff post on those sites.
Some 75% of large organisations (and 61% of small businesses) allow staff to use smart phones and tablets to connect to their corporate systems and yet only 39% (24% of small businesses) apply data encryption on the devices.


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Why can esotericism seem illogical to the sensual mind?
Answer from Master Samael Aun Weor.
The sensual mind elaborates its concepts, with the data provided by the 5 senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch and with these concepts it forms its reasoning. This mind helps us to memorize, the address where we live, telephone numbers, prayers, the date we were born, the day the house rent has to be paid, etc., but it cannot know anything about what is real, about the mysteries of life and death, about the truth, about God, about soul and spirit, etc., well, where could such a mind get information, if its only source of nutrition is the data provided by the senses? Obviously, you don't have the capacity to know what’s real.
To many intellectuals, totally caught up in the external senses, bottled up within the concepts of the sensual mind, esoteric studies seem crazy to them, and in a way they are right, how could the sensual mind accept something that is not sensual?If the data of the senses serve as a secret source for all the functionalisms of the sensual mind, it is obvious that the latter must originate sensual concepts.
Magazine "The Wisdom of the Being", N.85. The Transcendence of opening our Inner Mind.


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Natuur zeep kojic Bleaching soap 135 gr.
Kojic Bleaching soap is made on our assignment in Philippines. This soap is made with pure natural ingredients for dark spots on your face and body. Two strong components in 1 soap. Highly recommended.
Total Beauty Kojic Bleaching soap 135 gr.
Kojic Acid with Bleaching soap has a natural bleach that whitens and darkens the skin due to acne, age spots, freckles, sun-damaged skin and other skin discolorations.
Ingredients: Virgin Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Vegetable Gylcerin, Aqua, Kojic Acid, Retinol, Bleaching Agent, Essential Oils
The biggest difference with factory soap is that handmade natural soap contains no ingredients from the petrochemical industry. No preservatives, foam improvers, stabilizers, fragrances and colors; the causes of skin irritations.
The beneficial soaps are made according to traditional methods, with a lot of patience and love.
In addition, the glycerine produced during the chemical process of soap making is preserved in the soap during the traditional saponification process . Glycerine is a moisture-retaining agent and has a soothing effect on the skin. In factory soap, the glycerin is skimmed off and sold as a by-product.
Natural soap is good for human health and it is less harmful to the environment.

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Duplex apartment of 61 sqm, located in a beautiful private and secure property. Close to the beach and the Golf du Touquet.
This apartment is fully equipped with WIFI, and includes an entrance hall, a fully equipped kitchen (coffee maker, kettle, toaster, induction hob, microwave, oven, dishwasher, washing machine), a pantry, a toilet, a living room with a comfortable sofa rapido-type bed (140 x 190) LCD TV and DVD player, large window overlooking a south facing terrace and small exposure enclosed garden overlooking the pitch & put with garden furniture and sunbathing, a bedroom with a double bed (160 x 200) LCD TV, a bedroom with two bunk beds (90 x 190) and a trundle bed (90 x 190), a bathroom with tub and toilet. Parking. Bike storage available.
Access to the beach through the dunes, 15 min walk Bicycle path right out of the area for access to the city center (less than 10 min) and / or beach and possibility of free shuttle to 400 meters.

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Unique 3D maps of the most beautiful regions of the Alps
The lifelike 3D maps of 3D RealityMaps help you plan, implement and evaluate your outdoor adventures in the mountains.
Whether hiking, climbing or mountain biking, with the maps and apps of 3D RealityMaps are always well prepared. The unique realism and tours selected by expert mountaineers make your choice easier and make you wish for more.
As it's an app for en route it helps to orientate with realistic 3D display of the landscape along with GPS function. And you can extremly accurate track your activities with the recorded GPS signal and thereby measure your performance.
Here you will find a variety of 3D maps of the most attractive regions for summer and winter.
Trailer of our 3D maps
A variety of exciting videos can be found in a fascinating HD-quality in our video-section.


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A little while ago I told my sister that I really needed updated pictures of her family and that the next time they came up I would take some pictures for them. Well, she and the family came up to Denton for a few days at the beginning of the month so we headed out to Old Alton Bridge for a super quick portrait session!
Rachel is not only the mom of triplets, but she is also a wedding co-ordinator in the Austin area. Her business is called The Fairy Tale Effect and so I wanted to add a little fairy tale to her portraits!
Aren't the triplets adorable! Let me tell you, it is a lot of work to get them to all look at the camera! They were super hot and the sun was already up pretty high, but they were troopers and I think we got some sweet keepers!
My brother-in-law was such a good sport! They have a beautiful family and I am so glad I have some new pictures of them!!