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Can you feel it? It’s an uncomfortable lump in the body. An ache we know has been there for a while — but its not so bad we have to do something about it. It’s tightening of the chest for no reason; an impatience towards an unknown goal.
My favorite holiday to date was to the remote Yasava Islands in Fiji. Where the mountains and ocean hold you in its vast lap. With simple cabins and rooms that hug the landscape and people from island clans, hosting us in these delightful eco-resorts.
All my life, I have moved continents, studied, worked, started a business and have been on a relentless hunt only to find peace in nature’s most untouched vast landscape. You can feel the power of the being that is this planet in these places, if your mind and senses can relax enough. The gentle and loving giant on whose waters I lay on my back and watched the clouds go by at dusk with forested mountains in the horizon.
What a dumb game we have created. We study and work to destroy the planet so we can earn enough money to go to the parts we have not yet destroyed. It dawned on me like a sick joke, like a brick in my chest. It is one thing to know intellectually cliched phrases: “climate emergency is at the door”, “the system is broken”, “1% controls 99% of resources”. It’s a whole other thing to see the game as you look at your own life and feel it in your body; it truly can make you sick.
2016 was the first time when I felt like my sadness was not mine alone, but arising from a collective pool of sadness. While the emotion can become all encompassing there is a certain stregnth is knowing that this is shared grief — and through it we are connected to each other.
2022 was when I realized that our bodies are a microcosm of this planet. The breath its winds and the rivers its blood. We are all hurting in our bodies for what we are doing to this planet. If you are able to steady your mind for just a little bit, just enough so that you can focus on your body, the parts that are aching, you will find keys not just to your physical but your emotional and mental matters that seek your attention. The trauma lives in the body and hurts like hell. Before it turns into illness I hope you can find the time to sit with it. Listen, love and accept the pain until it dissolves into you. As it dissolves it sends electric waves of gratitude for freeing it.
As you heal yourself, know you are doing your part in healing the planet. Sure, recycle, compost, ride-bikes and all that too — but only out of the joy of simple living — not driven by climate anxiety.


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Sydney-based company GiggedIn have come out swinging with a solid local lineup for their first ever live show, exclusively for their members. Sydney’s own roots-pop outfit Lime Cordiale will headline the milestone event, on top of a curated lineup of indie surf, psychedelic rock and party jams featuring Wax Witches featuring Bleeding Knees Club singer
Get waxed and grab your flares. GiggedIn has announced a huge week of shows on offer as well as its first-ever members-exclusive show — an indie-surf and psychedelic rock affair. Taking over two rooms at the Oxford Art Factory, Lime Cordiale, Wax Witches, Ocean Alley, Mesa Cosa and more top one slam dunk
INSIDE GIGGEDIN: THE NEW AUSSIE LIVE MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE It’s fair to say that when it comes to enjoying (and just as importantly paying) for music, subscription services are the future. Freedom to explore new and abundant selections of music, for a considerably small monthly fee means that new discovery has never been for
Even the most hardcore, band-lovin’ Sydneysiders can’t afford tickets to every single gig. Until now, that is. Meet GiggedIn: the brand new service that, for one neat, monthly price, gives you access to unlimited shows in the city. Yep, it’s kind of like Spotify or Pandora, but for live music. You
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One of the pioneers of the Golden-Age of hip-hop, with a discography that spans over a decade, several gold albums and an all-star filmography, Big Daddy Kane understandably hadn’t had much time to consolidate his appearances down under until this December. Ice T’s admittance that “Big Daddy Kane can

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14602.6 (b) The registered and legal owner of a vehicle that is removed and seized under subdivision (a) or their agents shall be provided the opportunity for a storage hearing to determine the validity of, or consider any mitigating circumstances attendant to, the storage, in accordance with Section 22852.
(c) Any period in which a vehicle is subjected to storage under this section shall be included as part of the period of impoundment ordered by the court under subdivision (a) of Section 14602.5.
(d) (1) An impounding agency shall release a vehicle to the
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impoundment under any of the following circumstances:
(A) When the vehicle is a stolen vehicle.
(B) When the vehicle is subject to bailment and is driven by an unlicensed employee of a business establishment, including a parking service or repair garage.
(C) When the license of the driver was suspended or revoked for an offense other than those included in Article 2 (commencing with Section 13200) of Chapter 2 of Division 6 or Article 3 (commencing with Section 13350) of Chapter 2 of Division 6.
(D) When the vehicle was seized under this section for an offense that does not authorize the seizure of the vehicle.
(E) When the driver reinstates his or her driver's license or acquires a driver's license and proper insurance.
(2) No vehicle shall be released pursuant to this subdivision without presentation of the registered owner's or agent's currently valid driver's license to operate the vehicle and proof of current vehicle registration, or upon order of a court.
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Louise Erdrich’s brutally beautiful “LaRose” is one of a handful of recent novels set in 1999. This novel begins as did Erdrich’s last novel, “The Round House,” with a catastrophe.
In some ways, the end always seems at hand, what with wars and environmental peril. But in 1999, many folks were planning for doomsday, stocking their shelves with canned goods and supplies.
Of Peter Ravich, one such character preoccupied with the millennium, Erdrich writes: “Ravich thought that something would happen, but not what did happen.”
What did happen is every parent’s worst nightmare, compounded. Peter’s 5-year-old son, Dusty, is accidentally killed by Peter’s best friend, Landreaux Iron, in a freak hunting accident. “Dusty’s hair had been a scorched blond, the same color as the deer,” Erdrich writes.
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Grief is bound up with betrayal and friendship. But there’s more. Because Landreaux is married to Emmaline, the half-sister of Nola — Peter’s wife and Dusty’s mother — grief is further tangled in kinship. The aggrieved parents are denied the luxury of uncomplicated blame.
Landreaux and Emmaline and their families are Ojibwe. Peter is not native and Nola is half native. They live on a farm just outside reservation land. The shooting occurs on the border.
The catastrophe is the point where life divides into “before” and “after.” In Erdrich’s fiction, the “after” is cast in prose so layered with blistering, tender truths and bittersweet wisdom, the reader feels caught in a spell.
This story is trademark Erdrich, the new mixed with the old. After the unspeakable loss, Landreaux and Emmaline do the unthinkable. They bring their youngest child, LaRose, to Nola and Peter to make reparations: “Our son will be your son now.”
The reservation’s priest is the handsome and tortured Father Travis, a familiar character from “The Round House.” He reflects: “He had heard of these types of adoptions in years past, when disease or killings broke some families, left others whole. It was an old form of justice. It was a story, and stories got to him. A story was the reason he had become a priest, and a story was why he’d not yet walked off the job.”
LaRose, the last of Landreaux and Emmaline’s five children, is also the fifth LaRose in their combined ancestry and from a long line of healers, and the only male LaRose. He is anguished to be torn from his birth family.
Peter, his new father, is sensitive to his homesickness. But he sees that the boy, the same age as Dusty, is having a healing effect on the grieving Nola. Peter proposes that the two families share LaRose, so the boy becomes a gateway between families and between cultures.
When his new sister, the intense Maggie, reveals to LaRose that Nola is suicidal, LaRose not only agrees to watch Nola but also begins to safeguard her. He empties all substances he thinks she could use to harm herself, he unloads guns, and he throws away all ropes.
“There was so much rope around — here and there, in Peter’s end-of-the-world stash,” Erdrich writes.
Thus the child LaRose assumes adult responsibilities, as does the prickly Maggie, as they both watch over Nola. Their watchfulness has a mending effect on Nola, who first pretends at normalcy and then begins to inhabit it, as does Maggie.
“LaRose” is told with aching understanding by Erdrich, who has great affection for her characters. This timeless 15th novel stands as one of Erdrich’s best: comprehending and comprehensive, full of cascading, resonant details punctuated with spiky humor.
Jeffrey Ann Goudie is a freelance writer and book reviewer living in Topeka.
“LaRose,” by Louise Erdrich (373 pages; Harper; $27.99)

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You have to consider the audience, but Landon Donovan said some things in Mexico City that are going to have some US Soccer higher-ups scratching their heads.
Not in a “Whaaaat?” way, rather a “Politeness aside, you didn’t have to say that, did you now?” way.
After telling MedioTiempo.com that he thinks the Mexican national team’s brutal 2013 will not affect their chances to “do something special” in Brazil this summer, Donovan lavished praise on the Mexican youth… somewhat at the expense of his home country.
“In my opinion, the youth in Mexico is better than ours,” he said. “We’re looking for ways to improve it, but for me Mexico is one of the best in the world at that kind of progression, with youth, and with the national team it’s almost the same forever, and I think it will continue to be for a long time.”
He also admitted what’s been rumored a bunch; Donovan had opportunities to play professionally in Mexico. That ship has sailed, and he says he plans on finishing his playing days as a member of the Galaxy.
“In past years, I have had some other opportunities that did not work out at that time,” said Donovan. “Now I think I’ll stay in Los Angeles for the rest of my career. I want to be in Los Angeles – you never know what can happen, but I am very happy at home.”
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WASHINGTON — The next commercial crew mission to the International Space Station passed its final review before its scheduled April 22 launch, with weather the only major issue.
At an April 20 briefing, NASA said the Crew-2 mission passed its launch readiness review, the final major review before launch. That allows NASA and SpaceX to proceed with a Falcon 9 launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour at 6:11 a.m. Eastern April 22 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The launch has an instantaneous window.
Steve Stich, NASA commercial crew program manager, said officials resolved the one technical issue remaining from the Crew-2 flight readiness review April 15. At that earlier review, SpaceX noted that on a number of recent Falcon 9 launches it loaded slightly more liquid oxygen (LOX) propellant than expected into the rocket’s first stage.
Stich said a technical review concluded that any additional liquid oxygen was “well within family” of analyses of the rocket, including additional loads on the rocket that the excess propellant might create. “We had an exception at the flight readiness review, and we closed that,” he said. He latest estimated that the additional liquid oxygen only accounted for “a very small percentage” of the total weight of the vehicle.
The Falcon 9 also performed a successful static-fire test April 17, followed a day later by a “dry dress rehearsal” where the four astronauts suited up, went to the pad and boarded the Crew Dragon for a practice countdown, although the vehicle itself was not fueled. “The crew is doing great. They’re really excited,” said Norm Knight, deputy manager of the flight operations directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
The only outstanding issue discussed at the briefing is the weather. Brian Cizek, launch weather officer with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron, projected an 80% chance of acceptable weather for launch April 22, and 90% if the launch is delayed a day. Winds are the primary concern for the first launch attempt.
However, those probabilities do not include weather at abort locations along the Eastern Seaboard. “Downrange weather is a little bit trickier,” Stich said, citing high winds and high waves in some of the abort locations. “Of the two days right now, I would say Friday looks a little bit better than Thursday.” He said NASA and SpaceX will evaluate the weather again 24 hours before the launch.
If the Crew-2 mission does launch on schedule April 22, the spacecraft will dock with the station at about 5:30 a.m. Eastern April 23. The four people on the spacecraft — NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet — will join the seven people currently on the station.
The station’s crew will be at 11 people through the departure of the Crew-1 spacecraft April 28, returning NASA’s Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins and JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi to Earth. That will require some adjustments to the station’s life support systems and temporary sleeping accommodations, said Joel Montalbano, NASA ISS program manager.
“The cool thing again is that the added crew member allows another set of hands on board to help us with research and utilization,” he said, referring to commercial crew’s ability to allow the station to host seven people at a time. “It’s an awesome time to be in human spaceflight.”


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The City of West St. Paul will discuss a potential purchase offer for the Hy-Vee property during a closed meeting on Monday, among other business including a catalytic converter ordinance, No Mow May, alcohol compliance failures, and more.
Potential Purchase of Hy-Vee?
Just last week Hy-Vee announced the end of their plans for a West St. Paul location and that they would be selling their land. During the Economic Development Authority (EDA) meeting, council members will discuss a potential purchase offer for the former YMCA property now owned by Hy-Vee. It will be a closed session to discuss details of a potential offer.
The purpose is likely to put the city in control of redevelopment, as opposed to other recent redevelopment projects that were negotiated privately with little input or control from the city (e.g., Perkins and Baker’s Square). This is one of the challenges that often complicates redevelopment.
Other Items on the Agenda
- No Mow May: West St. Paul will again be supporting No Mow May, an initiative to discourage lawn mowing in the month of May to protect pollinators.
- Child care facility: There will be a public hearing for a conditional use permit to allow a child care facility at 1025 Dodd.
- Catalytic converters: West St. Paul saw 177 catalytic converter thefts in 2021, up from 45 in 2020 and none in 2019. During the Open Council Work Session (OCWS), Council will consider ordinances related to stemming this recent uptick in theft.
- Street maintenance: During OCWS, Council will consider 2023 mill and overlay projects, plus discuss potential changes to assessments.
- Truck parking: Also during OCWS, Council will consider restricting large vehicle parking in residential areas.
- Compliance hearings: The West St. Paul Police Department did compliance checks on establishments that sell tobacco and alcohol, and five failed the alcohol check: Applebee’s, Cub Liquor, El Nuevo Morelos, MGM Wine and Spirits, R&B Liquor, and Smith Liquors.
- Gift card fraud: During OCWS, Council will discuss a potential ordinance to limit gift card fraud.
- Thompson Oaks: Council and EDA will approve joint powers agreements with Dakota County to finalize details related to the Thompson Oaks watershed restoration project.
- Parental leave: Council will approve a paid parental leave policy for birth/adoption of a child.
- Union contracts: Council will approve union contracts with the police union, police sergeants, and teamsters.
The public can watch the meeting live on Town Square TV or cable TV starting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday (5:30 p.m. for the OCWS).
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Hopefully there can be a renewed emphasis on street repair. We’ve lived on Betty Lane since 1975 & nearly every visitor from visiting suburbs is appalled at condition of our street especially west end. It appears that taxes continue to ramp up while basics go undone or lacking.
Don, then you’ll be thrilled to know Betty Lane is on the list. Here’s the presentation that includes what streets are coming for mill and overlay (and be clear, it’s not a full reconstruction, it’s a patch to make the pavement last longer; also, be prepared for the assessments): https://www.wspmn.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/12880?fileID=19835


Wilmington Treasurer files counterclaims in lawsuit with City over authority
The Wilmington City Treasurer is making counter-claims in a lawsuit filed against her last year by the City and its mayor, Mike Purzycki.
Purzycki and the City sued independently elected City Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter in August for withholding and attempting to make certain payments related to the financially troubled Wilmington Housing Partnership, now controlled by the City.
The lawsuit filed in Chancery Court claimed Jones-Potter scheduled an unauthorized payment out of City reserves on a $3.4 million loan borrowed by the City on the Partnership’s behalf, and made several unauthorized interest payments on the loan— while withholding other payments related to the Partnership, including to its contractors.
Wilmington Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter initially asked for the suit to be dismissed, but is changing course over what she says are new developments. She wants a judge to weigh in on two points.
“That the Mayor’s powers are not without limit,” she said. “That he does not direct the Treasurer; it is an independently elected office accountable to the public. And he cannot force access to the City’s bank accounts. The Treasurer was elected as the custodian of City funds.”
In the counterclaim dated Jan. 17, Jones-Potter argues the Administration is challenging her ability to act as a “check” on the Mayor’s handling of City money.
She says she released a more than $42,000 grant payment to the partnership in December at the request of City officials. She takes issue with this request, as it is justified by a repayment agreement between the City and the Wilmington Housing Partnership that Purzycki has called “a formality.”
“Therefore it calls to question the legitimacy of any subsequent payments to that entity,” said Jones-Potter.
The Treasurer also claims that City Finance Director Brett Taylor tried to circumvent her office and wire money from a City bank account directly.
According to a City official, the lawsuit has cost taxpayers $148,000 in legal fees for both parties since it was filed in August.
Jones-Potter maintains this cost to taxpayers is not her fault.
“I proposed that the lawsuit be dismissed,” she said. “It was baseless and unnecessary and wasteful. The Mayor chose not to agree with dismissing it, and so here we are. I believe it is my duty to protect the integrity of this office, the independence of this office and the ability to act in a way that is in the interest of this office.”
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Communications John Rago said in a statement that the Administration will respond to Jones-Potter’s counterclaim “shortly,” and does “not expect the Treasurer’s latest legal move to delay us getting to some resolution of this matter.”
He notes the $3.4 million JPMorgan Chase loan for the Wilmington Housing Partnership preceded Purzycki's administration, and was structured by the previous administration as a unsecured loan.
"There was never a guarantee that the City would be repaid, and it’s absurd for the Treasurer to continue to put forth a false notion to the public," said Rago. "The $3.4 million was not misspent by the WHP, as she continues to claim, but was spent for affordable housing projects, as she well knows. Previous audits have confirmed that point and we expect future audits to verify this also. The Treasurer should stop confusing the public and operate within the facts.”
City Council members have repetedly questioned how the Partnership spent the unpaid $3.4 million loan and requested a forensic audit into the organization’s transactions.
City Auditor Terence Williams has said a forensic audit is currently not an appropriate step to take, citing the potential cost to taxpayers.


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Your Windows PC runs on the hard disk drive to hold and retrieve data. A hardcore drive is definitely an electro-mechanical hard drive that stores data in sectors and blocks over a rotating platter surfaced with magnetic material, and the data is retrieved randomly via a read-write magnetic head.
If you delete data on your pc, the Windows based pc doesn’t get rid of the file in the harddrive by writing random 0s and 1s around the storage sector or block. Instead, to speed up computing, the OS simply updates hard drive’s file system and marks the pointer towards the closet containing the file as free. Any new file can overwrite the disposable closet. So, after loss of data, you must stop while using the drive immediately to avoid any overwriting about the deallocated storage space. You might resume harddrive usage after performing data recovery.
The next sections describe how loss of data sometimes happens over a hard disk drive along with what all you can do today to Data recovery external hard drive.
Common Loss of data Scenarios on Hard disk drive
Deletion is regarded as the common scenario for data loss with a hard disk. You always delete your file (document, photo, video, email message, audio, or archive file) by pressing the Delete key, then later empty your Trash without peeking into its stored content, or make use of the Shift + Delete key combination to remove data from the PC. Later, you recognize, you will need those deleted files back and suffer from data loss.
Formatting is an additional likely scenario for loss of data on the hard drive. Usually when you format your personal computer before installing Windows or format a non-boot volume or hard drive, you back its stored content beforehand. Data loss is the place you don’t have a backup along with the harddrive is formatted either accidentally or purposefully.
Corruption of a hard drive is a second data loss scenario. When an internal harddrive gets corrupted, your personal computer won’t boot due to damage from the master boot record or boot configuration data. For that external hard drive, corruption in the file system can make it inaccessible but is so visible in Disk Management as RAW. If partition data turns corrupt, a number of drive partitions are lost. Factors behind corruption is usually a power outage, virus, bad sectors, improper ejection of an hard drive, incomplete data saving on the tough drive, etc.
Crashing is additionally another common loss of data scenario over a harddrive. When system software crashes, Windows throws a blue screen of death of death (BSOD) along with the internal harddrive data becomes inaccessible. Also, when any software applications freezes or stops responding, ending the duty through the use of Task Manager won’t save the app’s unsaved data, producing loss of data.
Hardware Failure is surely an inevitable loss of data scenario over a harddrive. A hard drive fails automatically after its lifespan. Nevertheless it also can fail earlier on account of some other such as mishandling, harmful electrical currents, fire, or water that produces bad sectors, damages its internal components, or makes the drive dead. Loss of data due to severe physical harm to a difficult drive cannot be avoided nevertheless the hard drive’s backup can become a savior when this happens.
When loss of data occurs in your internal or external hard drive because of any of the above reasons or otherwise not, don’t panic. Implement the following ways to retrieve crucial computer data coming from a hard drive.
Solutions to Retrieve Data from Hard disk
1. Use Trash can
Trash can stores the records of one’s deleted files temporarily. So, when you delete data on your laptop by using the Delete key, you are able to immediately press the Control + Z key combination to undo the operation. If you have deleted your file earlier, then you can’t undo it. When this occurs, open the Bin to consider deleted file/s. Whenever you find your file/s, right-click about it, and pick Restore to go back the file/s to original locations.
This process won’t work in the event you’ve used the Shift + Delete key combination, emptied your Recycle Bin, or deleted data from an outside hard disk drive, because the file’s record is just not trapped in the Trash can which is removed immediately. Then this backup or a data recovery software can help retrieve your deleted data from a hard drive.
2. Readily App’s Inbuilt Recovery Feature
Applications like Microsoft Outlook stores deleted emails in your hard drive inside the Deleted Items folder. If you’ve deleted an email message accidentally on Outlook, immediately press the Control + Z secrets of undo the deletion. In any other case, visit the Deleted Items folder in the left pane of Outlook and drag and drop the message to the Inbox folder.
If the message is additionally deleted through the Deleted Items folder, then open the Deleted Items folder, along with the property tab, click Recover Deleted Items from Server. Choose the required email message and then click Alright to get back the deleted message around the Deleted Items folder.
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When you have supported your personal machine hard disk before data loss by making use of File History, you may use the File History backup drive to bring back your deleted files. To have an hard drive, File History won’t work. When this happens, a clone of the hard drive, a backup of important files to another hard drive, or a recover file software will help retrieve your lost data through the external hard drive.
4. Use OneDrive
In case you have synced your important folders on your personal computer harddrive to OneDrive, the proprietary cloud storage drive from Microsoft, you may use your OneDrive account gain access to your synced data from anywhere, anytime by using the Internet.
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A professional data recovery software like can help you retrieve data from your internal or external hard drive that’s afflicted by deletion, formatting, corruption, or software failure.
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File recovery solutions attractive the event of failure of an harddrive as a result of any physical data loss situations. If your hard disk has undergone physical damage, then don’t try any unreliable recover file method. Instead, select the most effective file recovery service with all the following attributes:
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How many of us try to sketch a Utopian society in our heads when daydreaming? I know I do. What would that society require and what would it lack? Are there any models of past experiments that got it right or got it close? What can we learn from analyzing them?
A good place to begin is by recognizing that "Utopian" isn't the right word. There will be no Utopias in the future. So, if you're expecting a Candide-ian El Dorado where the very soil populating the earth amounts to limitless wealth then turn away now, my friend, you've come to the wrong place. In any future society there must be compromises. But what works the best? What should we fight for and what can we jettison? Let's look at the example of the Kibbutz.
A Kibbutz is a Jewish communal society in Israel dating back to the beginning of last century. All property is held in common with every Kibbutz member. Their community is voluntary to such a point that children aren't considered members until they are old enough to choose to become a Kibbutznik. All menial jobs such as cooking, cleaning the communal dining hall, toilets, etc. rotate among the community members in addition to their careers. Starting off as an agricultural collective the Kibbutz has evolved into a mixture of agricultural and industrial enterprises, contributing far more than it consumes. For example, only 2.5 percent of Israel's population are Kibbutniks yet Kibbutizm generates 33 percent of the nation's farming products and 6.3 percent of the manufactured goods. This affords the members universal access to education and health care, and with the expansion of neighboring cities the Kibbutizm offer outsiders these services free of charge as well.
Here we encounter our first paradox. Each factory and farming collective is structured from the bottom-up in a rigidly socialistic manner while the distribution of their commodities outside the commune occurs capitalistically. It is encouraging to see these industries out performing Capitalists, but they're still playing the same game. We can see this elsewhere in the worker-controlled factories of Venezuela where laborers sell their goods on the free market as well with similarly stirring results.
The polity within a Kibbutz also mirrors the ideal Anarcho-sydicalist model. Internal decisions are made through direct democracy during general assemblies where each Kibbutznik elects a work coordinator, treasurer and officers as well as appropriating communal funds. This level of participation may be one of the reasons why Kibbutzim are so successful.
Remember all property is shared which means more than just land and the means of production. To illustrate how deeply they hold this concept, imagine someone from the city sends a Kibbutznik a basket of cupcakes. At the next general assembly those cupcakes will be distributed equally amongst everyone. If a service is offered to just one member of the commune such as medical care he or she will catch flack for it at the next general assembly. Not only that but children are typically educated and for the most part reared by communal caregivers and teachers providing parents with the time to engage in chores or enjoy free time with each other. Whatever one's attitude is toward this arrangement the quality of communal schools are indisputably superlative. Surpassing both the private and public sectors, the education system on the commune engenders independence and critical thought. It is no surprise that a disproportionately large number of Israel's doctors, lawyers, actors, writers, and artists were educated on Kibbutzim.
The effects of a society devoid of private property alert us to another dilemma. According to two psychologists, Melford E. Spiro and Bruno Bettelheim, who studied the interactions of Kibbutzniks concluded that private property is equivalent to a sense of personal identity. Without it an individual finds it hard to enter into fulfilling intimate relationships. On the other hand, Kibbutzniks are expert at engaging in lower maintenance relationships with a larger number of people.
What do these facts reveal about how future societies should be organized? Volunteerism must be the underpinning of any new paradigm. Kibbutzniks do not believe a Kibbutz is for everyone and never proselytize their lifestyle. I subscribe to anarcho-sydicalism or a federation of rank-and-file managed trade unions in the same mold as the C.N.T. and the I.W.W. But that might not be for everyone either. Some are furiously independent and want to start a small business with a compliment of employees. Not my idea of liberty but in a truly stateless society that would be his or her choice. As for the thorny issue of property I grasp for some middle ground between communal property and private property otherwise known as usufruct. Usufruct says you own anything you're actively using (house, car, underwear) therefore the disparity in wealth might be slight but nothing like we have today.
The bottom line is I do not have all the answers but I'm still searching. DROs (Dispute Resolution Organizations) are appealing however they need to be worker-controlled in order for me to fully accept them. In any case, a true Anarchist society needs to purge itself of coercion. A noble foundation to build upon.

domain: sociology


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Slowing Down by Kyle Hart – July 22, 2007
by James Gleick from “Faster: The acceleration of Just About Everything”
We believe that we possess too little time: that is a myth we now live by. What is true is that we are awash in things, in information, in news, in the old rubble and shiny new toys of our complex civilization, and-strange, perhaps-stuff means speed. The wave patterns of all these facts and choices flow and crash about us at a heightened frequency. We live in the buzz. We wish to live intensely, and we wonder about the consequences.
by Kyle Hart
July 22, 2007
Speed is exciting. It is invigorating. And doing things quickly gives us a rush, literally, by stimulating the production of endorphins.
Speed is a natural impulse. With my son Rowan, a typical 5 years old, every walk is a series of challenges in which he asks me to race him, accelerating from a dead stop and sprinting to a tree designated as the finish line. And the temptation for his sister Seneca to join in is irresistible. Speed is inside us waiting to get out.
Speed is fun, but speed is also essential in emergency situations or in some types of work. Speed can also be important for fulfilling commitments or deadlines. If doing things of this nature quickly seems reasonable, what’s the problem with speed?
We live in a society that is “addicted to hurry” states Rev. Kirk Byron Jones in a book with the same title that I have used to prepare this sermon. He states:
When hurry becomes a chronic condition, when we run when there is no reason too, when we rush while performing even the most mundane tasks, … we have become addicted to hurry. Thousands of us are addicted to hurry whether we admit it or not. Denying the addiction … involves denying the costs of the addiction. As long as we are blind to the ways that chronic hurry harms us …, we can keep on running even though we are bone tired.
First consider our societal attitudes about speed. Through the use of technology we have increased the speed with which we can travel, the richness with which we can communicate, and the rate at which we learn anything from the entire pool of human knowledge. The things we consume go from idea to product and on to our doorstep at a remarkable pace. And this is all made possible by teams around the world working around the clock contributing their bits to your movie, your toy, your necktie, or your heart medicine.
We benefit greatly from the fast pace of industry, and many of us participate in it directly through our own work. And we also participate as consumers, with spending habits that often exceed our means and demand that we work harder and for longer hours. And as part of this lifestyle we suffer many unnecessary sacrifices that relate to our addiction to and worship of speed. We lose our ability to be patient. We make rapid shallow judgments. We lose opportunities to experience joy, to develop ourselves as individuals, and to nurture our spirit.
One example of this is our worship of multi-tasking, a close cousin of hurry. We praise it as skill whose mastery is essential to functioning in our hurried lives. Whether its doing two things at once or rapidly switching between tasks, the practice of multi-tasking is widespread in our society (particularly in our cities).
Consider the act of switching to a new checkout line at the grocery store, or switching back and forth between lanes on a highway. With the right technique, observations, and opportunity, sure you can save some time with such habits, but are they worth the effort? When I catch myself doing this things I often ask myself what else I could be doing with my minds instead of engaging in activities with marginal reward? And who may we be offending with our actions? These questions often get lost (during the act) in our pursuit of speed.
With some of the choice we make in the name of speed, we recognize the cost of these choices. Fast food gives us indigestion and contributes to poor health. A harried schedule inflects stress on our mind and body that can also result in significant health problems.
What may be less apparent, however, is how chronic speed diminishes our lives, relationally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Thomas Merton characterizes it the following way
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence…[and that is]activism and overwork.
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps its most common form, of innate violence”
In order to understand the impact of the harried habit, it is useful to first consider our reasons for hurrying. For some people, being in a hurry is tied to their belief system. THOUGHT EXCERCISE: Consider for a moment the times in your life, past or present, when you are in the biggest hurry and what drove you to keep up this habit.
Now I want you to hold on to that example as I continue and possibly revisit it during the silent meditation.
Perhaps you hurry simple because you get more done and it makes time for relaxing later. If so, then great!. But could it be that you hurry because you think “you are what you do”, so doing more makes you more? Or perhaps you hurry because you feel it outwardly demonstrates your commitments to your family, work, or society.
Hurrying is often used as a coping mechanism. One reason we hurry is fear. Fear of what we will be forced to confront in an un-hurried state, such as emotional pain. How many times have you heard it said that someone is “keeping busy” as a way to deal with loss or misfortune. While this is a reasonable strategy from time to time, as a chronic habit, fear of pain can fester, making resolution even harder.
Sometimes we hurry because we are running from ourselves. We keep moving so that we don’t have to think about the situation we are in. At its best, hurry is like a balm we apply occasionally to make us numb when we need it. But at its worst, hurry is a desensitizer, snuffing out moments of intimacy in our lives, and hiding deep unresolved problems.
To some degree, many of us are trapped in a hurrying lifestyle. We’ve developed the hurrying habit over many years, and developed internal rationalizations that drive us to “keep on keeping on”.
Consider an unusual device used to trap a certain kind of monkey. The trap is baited with an aromatic food that can only be reached when the monkey places his arm through a narrow opening. The opening is so small then when the monkey grasps the food, his fist will not fit backward through the hole. The monkey is then easily caught because he is unwilling to let go of the food, even when hunters approach him.
How can we change our harried ways, and how can expect to benefit from such changes? Rev. Byron suggest the that we “savor more” not “slow down”, and offers the term “savoring pace” to describe a lifestyle that appropriately dedicates time to enjoying life.
One of the primary reasons for living a savoring pace is to provide an opportunity for discovery. By taking a break from regular tasks, redirecting our attention to our surroundings, and observing things with no particular agenda, we provide an opportunity for creative breakthroughs. Many a creative genius can relate stories of a random stroll that led to a groundbreaking discovery. But even for the rest of us, whatever problems we have that require creative solutions can be served by providing a similar serendipitous opportunities.
Another aspect of a savoring pace is a more deliberate choice to observe things more closely. Consider the benefits of what Rev. Byron calls “seeing slowly”. In a race, two or three seconds faster can mean the difference between winning and losing. When looking at things, viewing them two to three seconds longer can make the difference in capturing their essence.
A few year ago, a close friend and her husband came to visit my family shortly after we moved into our new house. We walked them around our neighborhood, showing them Waverly Square and Pequosset Park. The kids school, the park, the playgrounds. As I walked, chattering the whole way my friends husband was silent the whole time, and he kept craning his neck around to follow the flight of birds or to view one on a high perch. What I realized afterwards was that he was giving himself his own tour. And what I’ve since come to learn about my neighborhood is its remarkably vibrant bird population that I now spend a lot time enjoying. It was only through a change in my pace and mindset that I was able to enjoy this. It sounds so simple, but, yes, bird watching has made a big difference in my life.
A slower pace is also a necessary condition for having a meaningful dialogue with others. Dialogue requires as much listening and speaking, and can’t be rushed without inflicting undue urgency on others. Taking time for dialogue really is at odds with chronic speed. We can’t stop to talk, so we lose the opportunity to engage with others. Dialogue develops familiarity which breeds trust and reduce fear. So it is really not surprising that our harried society is so susceptible to the widespread fear of people from different cultures whom we do not take the time to talk to and understand.
A significant loss of interaction comes from isolating ourselves in the private environment of our car. In addition to regular commuting, even getting and eating food in them is a common practice. The opportunity for extemporaneous dialog with others by walking or using public transportation is one of the benefits of living in an urban community. But in the case of the solo car commuter, this is reduced to absurd programmed response of “do you want to supersize that?” spoken over a crackling drive thru speaker.
One of the most important things we can seek by slowing down is greater peace. It takes time to settle the mind and body, and to dissolve tension and reach a peaceful state. But peace is not merely the absence of tension, but is also the presence of harmony. On our way to our peaceful moments, we first need to address our native response to the lack of stimulus, and in particular, silence. Many people are uncomfortable with silence. Silence also smacks of un-productivity….something we take great pains to weed out of our harried life!
Perhaps the most troubling thing about silence is that it provides an entrez to thoughts we’d prefer not to consider or simply can’t seem to get rid of when they arrive. Budhist teachings attempt to break through this situation through the practice of meditation, to great benefit, but it is certainly a lot easier to listen and ignore noise than to deal with silence (in my experience).
My spiritual journey as a UU began as a simple choice to attend services for a weekly dose of spiritual rejuvenation. I would arrive, listen for an hour, be nourished, and return next week for more. Through a more engaged participation in this congregation, my spiritual practices have developed to include activities throughout my week that include service to others and to myself in the form of meditation and self-reflection. Perhaps the most significant outcome of this has been moving toward a more savoring pace. As Kirk Byron suggests, I have found that a REAL, if fleeting, contentment can be found in the space BETWEEN tasks. Its essential that we preserve and protect this SPACE because its what we DO when we are NOT DOING anything that determines our path to inner peace.
Along the way
by Shari L. Smothers.
Walking through my life hurriedly,
I saw thoughts flash by.
And in my rush to end my day
I went right by a gift for me.
Only in my bed did I
realize – that thing was a
blessing in the road.
I wanted ti, so I hoped
I could go back and get it.
But the next day
when I went to see,
there was a man, standing
smiling because he got
the blessing meant for me.
I decided to slow down
for a week, to see
what I might find along the path
to bless me. I walked, slowly, more deliberately,
acknowledging people along the way,
feeling the breeze, watching the blowing leaves.
And at the close of the week
there as nohting I could find
along my path, that was a gift
to me. I sniffed the last flower,
and picked up the pace,
alright with having missed my gift.
After I was back to my schedule
for a month or so.
I looked back at that week
I searched my path for a blessing
and found not one thing.
I reflected on how nice that week was,
never minding. And the last
of the reflection came with tears.
The peaceful pace I had touched that week,
almost as though someone else received it,
was the stuff that was my treasure.

domain: psychology


• The week’s highest Beyer speed figures in North America
110 Walton Street
Woodbine (Sept 18): Canadian International G1, $600,000, 1m4f, turf, 3yo+
Trainer: Charlie Appleby
Jockey: Frankie Dettori
Pedigree: 7 bg Cape Cross – Brom Felinity (Encosta De Lago)
Although the competition looked fairly moderate, there appears to be no arguing with the evidence of the clock when it comes to Walton Street’s Canadian International romp.
The seven-year-old’s time of 1m29.07s for the 1m4f on turf described as ‘good’ at Woodbine was worth a BSF of 110 – the highest grass number of 2021, fully four points ahead of US G1 winners Domestic Spending and Raging Bull.
Best Beyers of 2021 ▼
As impressive as the gelding was in denying Desert Encounter a hat-trick in Canada’s signature race (by the not insignificant matter of 5¾ lengths), it is worth remembering he had never before won a G1 contest.
Although his Dubai form was noteworthy in Listed handicap and G2 company, he was put in his place by Mishriff et al in the Dubai Sheema Classic.
Still, circumstances conspired to produce a good time – a really good time, it seems – as front-running Primo Touch took them along at a decent clip before the winner picked him up early in the stretch and powered away.
Canadian runner-up Desert Encounter also broke three figures with 102, while all-the-way Woodbine Mile scorer recorded a 104.
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It’s been getting colder lately, and the leaves are changing colors too! Yay, fall!
You know what’s great for this cooler weather? AN AFGHAN! (:D LOL, I know, I’m crazy about them.)
This is such a fitting fall one, this it? Pattern is on Red Heart, here:
Is this too dated?
Regardless, it looks really classy, right? Maybe I’ve been watching too much Mad Men….
This pattern appeared in a 1948 issue of Women’s Day, and can be found here:
Most afghans I’ve had are rectangular, which is why I thought this pattern was really cool.
It’s round! This is definitely on my “to-try list.”
The pattern can be found on Ravelry from user, Celeste Young: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rainbow-ripple-baby-blanket
I spent a great majority of last summer watching the newer Doctor Who on Netflix. It’s one of my favorite shows, and I can’t wait for the new series to come out. What better to add to my Doctor Who obsession than mini crocheted Doctors! I found this cute pattern and can’t wait to try it.
Designed by Pixelated Mushroom
Click the link for the pattern for ALL ELEVEN DOCTORS. Yep, all eleven.


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It is with relief that the reader shifts from this chugging, blood-spattered finale into “Big Driver,” a story about a storyteller in peril (a motif re-visited by King many times, most memorably with his earlier novel – and its later film version, with an Oscar-winning performance by Kathy Bates – the stunner “Misery”). Short-lived relief, that is.
Before the fireworks begin, King does what he does best: He sets up an ordinary character in ordinary contemporary American surroundings for a hellish ride into traumatic, extraordinary events.
Tess is in her mid-30s, churning out Willow Grove Knitting Society novels that earn respectable sales, if not the blockbuster status of those written by Janet Evanovich. Think Jan Karon meets Alexander McCall Smith.
To ensure a retirement cushion, she knocks off a dozen paid speeches and book-signings per year, all of them within an easy drive of her New England home.
An invitation for just such an appearance pops up at the last minute, and Tess accepts with delighted aplomb. All goes well, until the president of Books & Brown Baggers – a mannish 60-year-old named Ramona who extended the author’s invitation – suggests Tess take a shortcut home.
What follows is harrowing enough: flat tire, hulking helper-turned-attacker, Tess left for dead. But the lead-in and aftermath are what cement the horrors with the reader’s dread, driven by the commonality of Tess’s thoughts and mental tics.


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March Meet the Maker19-Feb-2019
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Gail Kelly exhibition in the Design Gallery, Leeds.06-Feb-2019
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Derry City & Strabane District Council Rural Business Investment Scheme27-Feb-2019 - Funding & Grants
RBIS call 6 - This is likely to be the final call under this scheme. Rural Business Investment Scheme provides investment support for the creation and development of non-agricultural and non-food activities for micro and small enterprises.
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Date: Saturday, 13 April 2019
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Hi hun! You might want to give my story “In Apnoea” a try
I will be honest with you: it does not have advanced directing. Yet, it does have a pointing system + full cc (also of LI) + choose your name!
It’s a romance and drama story given that you will see the story from different lenses to understand the struggles of each character. The aim is for every reader to identify itself in at least one of the stories (TW: drug addiction, anorexia …)
Hi, You might want to try my fantasy story "Guardians Of The Triskelion.
Though it has a limited customization as the mc’s skin color is important to the story but the LI is fully customizable and you can also choose your name
I have a fantasy story for you, you definitely would love to read. Fantasy mixed with drama, romance and (lots of) sarcasm. Only thing is: there is no CC (because of the many changing of eye colors, art scenes and overlays.), female MC and male LI and older MC and LI. But for the rest, I totally recommend to read my story ‘Cat Paws And Wolf Claws’, because it’s amazing to read!!
Description: You, a 49 year old female werecat, find an 9 year old orphan at your doorstep. What secrets will unfold, when you decide to take care of him??? #CPAWC No CC, Fantasy, Romance, choices… Female MC, Male LI.
title : Scorn Heir.
Includes multiple love interests of both genders. Full CC of MC, limited of Love interest. Mini-games, point system, no early access or skip the wait, in this story,
Description: After a tragedy befalls the royal family, you’re forced to take the throne. But will you thrive or fail when a ghost gets in the way and someone else tries to claim the throne too?
I see this is your first post. Welcome to the Episode Forums community!
I might not check all your boxes (like, my story isn’t Limelight and you can’t pick a LI because there is just one, plus the story isn’t really focused on romance, more drama and adventure), but I hope you or anyway else will give it a chance anyway. It does check your fantasy box, like a lot, and there are some small jokes in it, although I wouldn’t classify it as a comedy, more like a “children’s tale” so pretty PG haha. I’ve recently republished it with better (advanced) directing and it has some choices here and there (no gems!).
Here are the details:
Title: Luminesce Genre(s): Fantasy, adventure, drama Episode chapters: 8 (will be completed with 10) Style: Ink Link:Luminesce on Episode Description: Against all odds (and rules), Nimue embarks on a journey across the galaxy to be with her soulmate. Will she ever find her way to him?
These wonderful covers were made by @/agatha_draws on instagram.
If you’re not sure this story is for you, I’ve posted some old reviews (fanmail and other feedback) I got on it on this thread:Luminesce - a fantasy adventure between the stars✨, so that might give you a better impression of the story Feel free to comment your feedback there as well.
Hello. This is my first story, so I hope you like it.
Name: We Belong Together
Chapters: 18 (more coming soon)
Description: Cassidy is the schools queen bee who rules with an iron fist. Nathanial is a nerd new to the hive. When she finds out who he is, she re-examines herself and her relationships.
Hi, I’m here to recommend my own story hehe It’s a comedy with love interests for each main character (at various points). I hope you give it a try and enjoy
If anyone’s up for R4R, DM me
Title: The Apartment Author: Sapphire (: My Instagram: @ episodesapphire Description: Three best friends living together in the city sounds fun, right? And it is! But, it can also get pretty chaotic. Genre: Comedy Story Cover:
Some of my stories : Title: Because of US Summary: Celine was Bryan’s once-in-a-lifetime kind of love, the one that lit an unquenchable flame in him, yet their paths went separate ways. What will happen when he sees her again? Genre: Romance&drama Episodes: 22 (ongoing) CC: Full customization Art scenes: Yes Instagram:@kerli.writes
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Another story of mine: Title: More of US Summary: After getting together with the love of her life, a rock star Christian, Adriana finds herself in the middle of a wicked game. Will they find their happy ending in each other? Genre: Romance&drama CC: Full customization Episodes: 16 (ongoing) Art scenes: Yes Instagram:@kerli.writes
Link: Episode Writer Portal Cover:
Another one of my stories: Title: Faith in US Summary: Kyan - looking for true love. Nayeli - a woman with a broken past. What will happen when he falls for a broken beauty and agrees to a “relationship” that might break him? Genre: Drama&romance Episodes: 19 (complete) CC: Full customization Art scenes: Yes Instagram:@kerli.writes
Link: Episode Writer Portal
(p.s. me and my partner are kinda going through exam sessions and everything , so… since the story is currently under revamp, it will take us some more months (or maybe year) to release further episodes from episode 4 onwards, but anyways, feel free to give any feedback on the first 3 episodes, we’d love to hear them!
Hi! My story doesn’t fit any of the requirements, but I would appreciate if you gave it a chance. No hard feelings if you don’t like it.
Description: Ivy finally landed her dream job as a writer. Her first assignment: get the full experience on the new dating app, EpiMatch. She has two weeks to find love. Episodes: 14 and ongoing. Will be completed by Christmas.
Title: Crimes and Love (LL) Genre: Romance About: You’re a famous singer who meets mafia capo Charlie Glaviano. Will this work or is it too risky to be together? Well, what happens when your ex comes back with a memory machine…?
There’s one love interest and full CC for the MC and love interest + one opportunity to customize the MC’s brother and aunt
Greetings! Thank you very much for this thread. Here’s a list of my stories. Perhaps one or all will pique your interest. If you do end up reading any of them, I’d love to hear any thoughts you may have.
Daughter of Shadow
Title: Daughter of Shadow Author: Silver Lady IG:@silverlady.epi Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery Style: Limelight Number of Episodes: 6 currently, more on the way. Description: You wake alone in a forest with few memories and a magical brand. As you’re pulled into a world of intrigue & deception, will you discover who you really are, or die trying? Additional Info: Choice of two love interests (one of which you are able to choose the gender of), single option, full CC for MC and the two LI, two different point systems, currency system within the game, choices matter, multiple endings. Episode Accolades: Heroic Contest Winner Link:Episode Writer Portal Covers:
Title: Eternal Oblivion Author: Silver Lady Genre: Fantasy primarily with a large dose of mystery, as well as action, drama, romance, and historical fiction thrown in from time to time. Style: Limelight Number of Episodes: 42. Story is complete. NO “Skip the Wait”. CC: Kinda. You can’t customize the main three characters (for story reasons), but there is a character for you to customize starting with chapter five. You won’t see much of her to start, but she becomes more important later in the plot. Description: When a powerful force rises to threaten the world, can Amara and her allies defeat the ancient death dragon? Or is life as they know it doomed? Additional Info: The story unfolds on multiple timelines over the course of 5k+ years, and examines the affect true immortality could have on a person and their loved ones, as well as how the choices we make can have long lasting consequences, and the idea of determinism vs. free will. Episode Accolades: Magical Shelf (Jan. 2020) Link:Episode Writer Portal Cover:
Blood of Wolves
Title: Blood of Wolves Author: Silver Lady Genre: Fantasy Style: Limelight Number of Episodes: 5 currently, more on the way. Description: After years of captivity and experimentation, you escape and find refuge in the magical sanctuary of Cysegr Hudol. But will the evil that follows you bring doom to all within? Additional Info: Choice of two love interests, single option, full CC for MC and the two LI (with the exception of eye color for one of the LI), two different point systems, choices matter, multiple endings. Spin-off of Eternal Oblivion. Link:Episode Writer Portal Cover:
Magicka: Dark Star
Title: Magicka: Dark Star Author: Silver Lady Genre: Adventure/Dark Fantasy Style: LL Status: Completed (3 episode short story) Description: Lyal was born under a dark star, an omen of evil and death . Will she rage against the dying of her light? Or will she embrace her dark destiny? (choices matter, 4 endings). Episode Accolades: Magicka Contest Winner Link:http://episodeinteractive.com/s/5969712374808576 Cover:
Divided by Night
Title: Divided by Night Author: Silver Lady Style: LL CC: Yes, for both MC and LI Status: Completed (3 episode short story) Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance Description: A mission to the center of the galaxy results in the days of your assignment becoming months for your beloved, testing the strength of your love over not just distance, but time… (choices matter, two endings) Episode Accolades: Short and Sweet Shelf (June 2021) Link:Episode Writer Portal Cover:
This is such a helpful thread! Especially for new authors so thank you! My new story “Two Souls” is a romance and mystery genre that fits some of the things you listed
It is still in progress but it has full cc, enemies to lovers trope, it’s a slow burn too, it includes the mean girl trope but also much more drama. I’m starting to incorporate choices.
It gets better as it goes on and I can’t wait for more people to read it. I would also like to hear feedback after you read it Two Souls


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J. J. A. A. Demarchi , M. Q. Manella , O. Primavesi , R. T. S. Frighetto, L. A. Romero, A. Berndt, M. A. Lima
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of seasons under a tropical climate on forage quality, as well the effect of an Urochloa brizantha cv. Marandu grazing system on enteric methane (CH4) emissions from Nellore cattle in the Southeast region of Brazil. Sixteen Nellore steers (18 months old and initial weight 318.0 ± 116.59 kg of LW; final weight 469 ± 98.50 kg of LW) were used for a trial period of 10 months, with four collection periods in winter (August), spring (December), summer (February) and autumn (May). Each collection period consisted of 28 days, corresponding to the representative month of each season where the last six days were designed for methane data collection. Animals were randomly distributed within 16 experimental plots, distributed in four random blocks over four trial periods. CH4 emissions were determined using the sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) tracer gas technique measured by gas chromatography and fluxes of CH4 calculated. The forage quality was characterized by higher CP and IVDMD and lower lignin contents in spring, differing specially from winter forage. Average CH4 emissions were between 102.49 and 220.91 g d-1 (37.4 to 80.6 kg ani-1 yr-1); 16.89 and 30.20 g kg-1 DMI; 1.35 and 2.90 Mcal ani-1 d-1; 0.18 and 0.57 g kg-1 ADG-1 and 5.05 and 8.76% of GE. Emissions in terms of CO2 equivalents were between 4.68 and 14.22 g CO2-eq-1 g-1 ADG. Variations in CH4 emissions were related to seasonal effect on the forage quality and variations in dry matter intake.
Fonte: Jornal of agricultural science, v.8, n.4, p.106-115, 2016.
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Sir Nicholas Scott, the former Conservative MP for Chelsea who died on Thursday aged 71, was proof of Enoch Powell's adage that all political careers end in failure, and in Scott's case it was a matter of bad luck as much as bad judgment.
A staunch defender of Rab Butler's liberal conservatism (he was the first Tory MP to come out and attack Powell's 1968 speech on immigration), Scott's star was in the ascendant in 1970 when, as a young Tory MP for Paddington, he was appointed parliamentary private secretary to Iain Macleod, who died a month later.
Scott was an influential figure among his contemporaries, an influence symbolised by the choice of Nick's Diner as the name for the club which brought together the younger Tory MPs of the Centre Left (Kenneth Clarke once described its purpose as being to "prevent Ted Heath becoming too Right wing"). Heath made Scott a junior minister in his government shortly before the February 1974 general election, when the Tories fell and Scott lost his seat.
In July 1974 Scott appeared in a list of "future world leaders" in Time magazine, which called him "the most liberal Tory of all", praising his championing of black immigrants in Britain and his opposition to arms sales to South Africa. Time's eulogy helped Scott to land the plum Chelsea seat, which he won at a by-election later in 1974.
Appointed housing spokesman in Heath's shadow cabinet, Scott was an imaginative generator of ideas - advocating, for example, the notion of discounted sales of council houses. There is no doubt that, had Heath remained leader of the party, Scott would have risen much further.
But Margaret Thatcher, who became leader in 1975, saw him as the wettest of the "wets" and removed him from his shadow cabinet job. Although she later found him a useful minister, particularly in Northern Ireland where he was regarded as a "soothing presence" amidst the seething sectarianism, her 11 years in office dashed his prospects of high office. She never promoted him to the cabinet. Yet, unlike other Tory wets, Scott never held it against her. He was staunchly loyal and was well-liked on both sides of the party in Westminster and on both sides of the House for his personal warmth and his generous, easy-going nature.
But Scott's charm had its downside - a weakness for the opposite sex. The seeds of his eventual downfall went back to 1976, when his first wife, Elizabeth, filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery after 12 years of marriage.
There followed well-publicised dalliances with a number of women, including the black model Mynah Bird, before his second marriage to Cecilia Tapsell, the former wife of fellow Tory MP Sir Peter Tapsell, in 1979.
Even before his divorce from Elizabeth, Right-wing Chelsea Conservatives had complained about his liberal views. Now they accused him of misrepresenting his marital status: "Can a man who breaks his marriage vow be trusted as a politician?" thundered an outraged Chelsea councillor. In 1977 Scott narrowly survived moves to oust him after only three years in the seat.
The putsch failed not least because Westminster colleagues rallied behind him. But his past came back to haunt him in 1994, when he was effectively forced to resign as Minister for the Disabled, largely as a result of a storm of protest stirred up over his role in the wrecking of a private member's Bill of Rights for the disabled.
The furore was orchestrated by a parliamentary officer for the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (Radar), a young Labour supporter who referred to the Minister as "Nick Scott", but turned out to be Victoria Scott, his daughter by his first marriage.
In the wake of this embarrassing debacle, the Right in his constituency resumed its campaign against him, encouraged by the news that the Boundary Commission had decided to re-draw the constituency map, adding a large chunk of the Kensington seat of another Tory MP, Dudley Fishburn, to the northern boundary of Chelsea. For a while it seemed that Fishburn and Scott would have to slug it out, until Fishburn stood down to accept a full-time directorship of Barings Bank.
That might have been the end of the matter, but in June 1995 Scott was arrested for drink-driving and walking away from the scene of an accident after the vehicle he was driving hit a parked car, nudging the buggy of a three-year-old boy, who emerged wailing but otherwise unscathed. Scott was later fined £450 and banned from driving for a year.
It was while he was on bail, awaiting trial, that the selection process began. The constituency voted against endorsing him unopposed and opened up the selection to all comers. In November, he scraped through after three ballots.
It was only a reprieve. In October 1996 Scott was photographed face down in a Bournemouth gutter at the Conservative party conference after an Irish Embassy party, and it was clear that his constituents would be unforgiving of his excuse that it was a mixture of two glasses of wine and painkillers that brought about his fall.
In December 1996, despite being armed with messages of support from the party chairman, the Chief Whip, eight former Cabinet ministers and a testimonial letter signed by 130 MPs, he lost his fight. At a full association meeting, his constituency party voted by 509 votes to 439 to seek a new candidate. The fact that they chose the maverick Right-winger Alan Clark suggests that politics, rather than Scott's accident-prone private life, was really the deciding factor.
The son of a Metropolitan police inspector and an Irish Catholic mother, Nicholas Paul Scott was born on August 5 1933 and educated at Clapham College, City of London College and the City Literary Institute. After leaving college, he joined the RAF and served with Fighter Command until he left with eye trouble in 1953.
Conservatism did not run in his blood, and he once admitted to joining the party because "I was told that the prettiest girls were in the Young Conservatives". Nevertheless, he soon became committed and was elected to the Holborn council. He served as national chairman of the Young Conservatives in 1963.
Scott contested the safe Labour seat of South West Islington in 1959 and again in 1964, before entering Parliament as MP for Paddington in 1966. After the death of Iain Macleod, he served as PPS to Robert Carr and was briefly a junior minister at the Department of Employment before Ted Heath lost the February 1974 general election.
Returning to the backbenches under Margaret Thatcher, Scott became president of the Tory Reform Group, bastion of the wets during the Thatcher years. After Mrs Thatcher's election victory in 1979, he served as chairman of the Conservative employment committee and on the executive of the 1922 committee.
He was rescued by Jim Prior, who took him to Northern Ireland as one of his junior ministers in September 1981. Scott remained in Northern Ireland for six years, becoming the longest-serving minister since direct rule. He was one of the architects of the Anglo-Irish agreement, earning the enmity of many Unionists as a result.
In 1987 he replaced John Major as Minister of State for Social Security. It was a popular appointment. When the 1988 Social Security Bill was passing through the House, Labour MPs on the committee were impressed by his ability to listen and, on occasions, to adapt to their arguments. In 1990, following the leadership election in which he voted for Douglas Hurd, his portfolio was upgraded to include the role of Minister for Disabled People, a role which he discharged with humanity and skill.
His downfall in 1994 was precipitated by his revelation that he had misled the House in claiming that wrecking amendments to the Labour-inspired Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill had not been government-inspired. He resigned at the next reshuffle.
In many ways Victoria Scott's attack on her father brought out Scott's best qualities. He told friends that he would expect any daughter of his to stand up for her beliefs, and told interviewers that he was proud of what she had done. He was philosophical about the humiliating circumstances of his resignation and the consolatory knighthood he was given in 1995, observing that: "If you can't take a joke, you should not be in politics."
It was an irony that Scott's social conscience, his decency and his genuine concern for the disabled were never in any doubt. One of the Labour MPs pressing for his resignation was heard to muse that the problem was "that it couldn't be happening to a nicer guy".
Nicholas Scott was appointed MBE in 1964 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1989.
By his first marriage, Scott had a daughter and an adopted son; he also adopted his wife's daughter by an earlier marriage. By his second wife, Cecilia, he had a son and a daughter.

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Akai is a little witch that has suffered from a severe case of “bad luck” all her life. Her spells never work out, she trips, gets lost, gets hurt, her relationships are a disaster and is mocked by family and classmates alike. Her only friend is a goblin from a neighbor kingdom, and he encourages her to never give up. She starts pulling herself up by her bootstraps and decides to make friends at school. Little by little, she starts gaining confidence and friends, and together, they look for the clues that caused her bad luck, leading them to wonderful and mysterious discoveries.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- With the threat of rainy weather late Friday, UAHuntsville athletic department officials announced that the start of the NCAA South 1 Regional softball tournament has been moved up two hours.
UAH (43-9) hosts Tuskegee (29-14) at 4:30 p.m.
At this juncture, the weekend game times remain as scheduled.
On Saturday at 1 p.m., the winners of Friday's games will meet in the winners' bracket semifinals, followed by the losers at 4 p.m. The survivor of the 4 p.m. game meets the loser from the day's first game at 7 p.m.
Final round play begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, with a second game, if needed, at 4:30.
The winner advances to the super regional May 16-17, facing the winner of the South 2 tournament, being hosted by Sunshine State champ Tampa and including Valdosta State, Delta State and Palm Beach Atlantic. Should UAH win, it would host the super regional.
The eight super regional winners advance to Salem, Va., for the NCAA championships beginning May 22.
This is the 12th consecutive NCAA tournament for the Lady Chargers, who were ranked No. 2 in the nation, went 43-9 overall, won a league-best 23 games and reached the Gulf South Conference championship finals.


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ZUG, Switzerland - Colin White (Hanover, Mass.) notched three goals as the U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team handled Canada, 7-2, here today at Bossard Arena in the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Men's World Championship semifinals. With the victory, Team USA advances to the gold-medal game for the seventh straight year.
Team USA outshot Canada, 15-4, in the first frame but was held off the board until 2:25 of the second when Clayton Keller (Swansea, Ill.) lit the lamp for the U.S. Making a cut towards the net, Keller used the defenseman in front of him as a screen, went to his backhand and beat Zach Sawchenko. Jeremy Bracco (Freeport, N.Y.) and Chad Krys (Ridgefield, Conn.) earned assists on the play. Canada knotted the game, 1-1, on a power-play tally before Auston Matthews (Scottsdale, Ariz.) restaked the lead for the United States. After his initial shot was blocked, Matthews followed up his own rebound for the score. Michael Floodstrand (Hinsdale, Ill.) collected a helper on the go-ahead goal.
Team USA was tasked with killing off a 5-on-3 chance for the Canadians at the end of the second stanza into the third. After successfully holding Canada off and skating at even strength, Matthew Tkachuk (St. Louis, Mo.) hit Matthews for a one-timer from the right side of the cage. Jack Roslovic (Columbus, Ohio) registered the secondary assist. White found the back of the net on the short side to push the U.S. lead to 4-1. Caleb Jones (Frisco, Texas) forced a turnover and streaked into the zone leaving the puck for White. Canada swapped netminders and scored shortly after to slice the lead in half, but a miscue behind the net led to Team USA's fifth goal. Christian Fischer (Wayne, Ill.) intercepted an attempt by Canada's Evan Cormier to clear the puck from behind the net and found Jordan Greenway (Potsdam, N.Y.), who deposited the puck into the open net. White wrapped up the scoring for the U.S. with back-to-back markers less than two minutes apart.
Evan Sarthou (Black Diamond, Wash.) made the start in net for the United States, kicking out 16 shots in the win.
The U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team will play for a gold medal in the title game of the 2015 IIHF Men's Under-18 World Championship on Sunday (April 26). Puck drop is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET at Bossard Arena in Zug, Switzerland. The game will be streamed live on FASTHockey.com.
Team USA outshot Canada, 38-18 ... The U.S. went 0-6 on the power play while Canada went 1-5 ... Colin White was named Team USA's best player ... Luke Kunin is serving as captain for Team USA, while Auston Matthews and Colin White are alternate captains ... The U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team is led by Don Granato, serving as head coach at his second IIHF Men's Under-18 World Championship. Granato is currently in his fourth season as one of two head coaches at USA Hockey's National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan ... Twenty-two players on the U.S. roster come from USA Hockey's NTDP. Goaltender Evan Sarthou skated for the Western Hockey League's Tri-City Americans this winter ... Team USA's roster includes 20 players born in 1997 and three from the 1998 birth year. Defenseman Steven Ruggiero, born Jan. 1, 1997, is the oldest player on Team USA, while goaltender Jake Oettinger, born Dec. 18, 1998, is the youngest ... Thirteen different states are represented on the roster. New York leads the way with five skaters, while Illinois and Missouri boast three each ... The U.S. enters the tournament having captured a record 11-consecutive medals, including gold medals in five of the last six years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014) ... Team USA has won eight gold medals all-time, the most of any country in IIHF Under-18 Men's World Championship history. The event began in 1999. Team USA earned its first gold medal in 2002 ... All Team USA games, including the medal round, will be streamed live on USAHockey.FASTHockey.com free of charge ... Follow @USAHockeyScores on Twitter for live scoring updates during the tournament. Scores will be designated with the #U18Worlds tag ... For additional coverage, visit the NTDP Facebook page and follow @USANTDP on Twitter ... The U.S. National Under-18 Team trains with The Hockey IntelliGym, a software program that trains hockey sense. Visit USAHockeyIntelliGym.com for more information.
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The Good: Moments of musical originality, Historical value
The Bad: A number of poor recordings, Lack of vocal diversity, Some lyrics.
The Basics: A massive and rather disappointing collection of outtakes and obscure Elvis Presley songs has historical value, but little lasting appeal.
Right now, I am a bit sick of the music of Elvis Presley. I have been on a pretty steady musical diet of Elvis Presley for the last month and considering most of it has been in the form of his early works and giant boxed sets, like The King Of Rock: The Complete 50's Masters, listening to his works over and over and over again has become a draining experience. This is made even more painful by the boxed set collection Elvis: Today, Tomorrow and Forever, a collection of outtakes and rare performances.
In my experience, this collection is most analogous to the Bob Dylan collection Biograph as it contains a boatload of unreleased and alternate-take recordings. How significant are these recordings? I suppose that depends on what one's definition of "significant" is. Presentations in this set range from a seven song concert presented in Little Rock in 1956 to the only known alternate take to "Rip It Up" (which isn't all that spectacular in any form) to a rehearsal track duet of "A Thing Called Love" with Armond Morales which was buried on the charts when Johnny Cash beat Elvis to the market with the same song! As it stands, the collection catalogues the entire timeline of Presley's career with unreleased and alternate tracks from up until 1976, making it intriguing for those who adore the performances of Elvis Presley and cannot get enough of his works.
With four discs and almost five hours of music, Today, Tomorrow & Forever is a one hundred track collection of songs that span the career of Elvis Presley but are almost never associated with him. As a result, any number of obscure tracks appear in this collection without a whole lot of the ones that made Presley famous. So, for example, there is no outtake or alternate version of "Love Me Tender" or "Viva Las Vegas" in this collection, but there is an alternate version of "My Desert Serenade" from "Harum Scarum." Yes, I shudder to think they bothered to record that song more than once.
What Today, Tomorrow, & Forever feels like is a desperate attempt to clear out the archives of anything Elvis related and make a buck on it. So, for example, on disc two, there are a number of tracks that involve Presley or his engineers restarting a take. On "Flaming Star," "G.I. Blues" and "Make Me Know It," (among others) Presley and/or the instrumentals begin and then cut out before restarting. As a result, much of the collection has a feel of being a collection of process stories. We hear Presley tell his backup singers they aren't getting overtime if they delay, so it's time to get going and a charming bit preceding one track where Presley says he's just thrown up a little on a line (on "(That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me").
Yes, parts of this collection have Presley at his most charming. We hear him nervous introducing some of the live tracks and it's refreshing to hear him make cracks about how some of his music was denigrated because of its association as "black music." Presley makes some tongue-in-cheek remarks about his songs being popular in the U.S. and parts of Africa and that level of upfront social rebellion against the status quo of the Fifties and sixties is refreshing to hear.
Today, Tomorrow & Forever is a rather diverse collection in terms of material. While it does have some of Presley's early standards, like "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Hound Dog," there are also songs not associated with the rock and roll Elvis. Songs like "Snowbird" and "Where Could I Go But To The Lord?" come from Presley's career branching off into pure country and gospel music endeavors. The result is that moments of this collection actually sound quite different and fresh compared to collections that take from only one period in Presley's career. Presley's gospel songs sound dramatically different from his rock and roll tracks and his country songs.
Unfortunately, many of Presley's rock and roll tracks sound alike and so, too, do many of his gospel and country tracks sound like one another. Elvis country sounds like Elvis country, Presley's gospel songs seem to all have a similar resonance and cadence. In other words, when Presley finds a musical niche, he creates a sound in that genre and keeps it very consistently, at least as his recordings are presented on the discs of Today, Tomorrow & Forever.
When Presley sings slow and sad, he tends to sound less versatile; so, for example, "I Was The One" - an early rock and roll ballad - sounds remarkably like "Until It's Time For You To Go" a much later folk ballad. Indeed, the most truly diverse songs on the album are the duets that pop up occasionally. "A Thing Called Love" and Presley's duet with Ann-Margaret, Today, Tomorrow & Forever have a different flavor than the many tracks with Presley or Presley backed by the Jordanaires.
Musically, this is a strangely undiverse collection. Most of the tracks have a rather produced sound to them and come down to Presley with his guitar or Presley accompanied by just a piano. There is a stark quality to many of the tracks that allows one to immediately image Presley in a recording studio as opposed to on stage or in any sort of live performance setting. The tracks have a quality that make them feel like they are largely unfinished and in process as opposed to strong and ready. In other words, this is a collection largely of alternate takes and they sound like alternate takes from the inclusion of producers commenting when Presley gets something right to musicians or Presley restarting the songs.
This is an academic collection. It is intriguing for those who are fans, but has little inspired musical value on its own. Having listened to each disc no less than eight times apiece, it is easy to get bored with this. What is intriguing on the first listen becomes blase by the third. What might thrill fans who are tired of the studio versions of classic or obscure Presley-sung tracks are of little distinction to those who are not so obsessed with him or his works.
It is hard to imagine that this collection would even survive long in high rotation of an Elvis fan's collection, despite the diversity and initial intrigue of the works.
The best track is "A Thing Called Love" and I'm not even hazarding a worst track for this collection, for a change.
For other works by Elvis Presley, be sure to check out my reviews of:
Elvis’ Golden Records
Elvis’ Christmas Album
For LP Fans Only
A Date With Elvis
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Elvis’ Gold Records Volume 2
30 #1 Hits
For other music reviews, be sure to check out my Music Review Index Page for an organized listing!
© 2012, 2008 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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In the absence of regulations, landings increased from one to three million pounds in the mid-1990s to more than nine million in 2000.
In Southern California, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s law enforcement branch is struggling to shut down an illicit trade from south of the border.
In the latest development, on May 17 charges were filed in San Diego against a father-son team and their Arizona-based company, Blessing Seafood, Inc., for allegedly smuggling more than $17.5 million in sea cucumbers illegally caught off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to Asian markets via the U.S.
Erin Dean, resident agent in charge of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southern California region, says illegal sea cucumbers from Mexico are involved in as many as half the open wildlife investigations there.
In addition, the Service’s law enforcement records, shared by the Washington, D.C.-based Animal Welfare Institute, show that imports and exports of both animals were being declared to the agency and cleared by wildlife inspectors in 2012 and previously.


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On his first episode as the new host of Late Night (the only one I was able to see at press time), Seth Meyers stuck with what he’s good at, focusing on Weekend Update-style jokes (most of which were pretty solid) and bringing friend and former Saturday Night Live co-star Amy Poehler on as his first guest. There’s certainly room for improvement—the set looks flimsy and cheap, and bandleader Fred Armisen is criminally underused—but overall it’s a strong start for a new Late Night era.
Looking for some more cute dolphin antics? It delivers.
What’s surprising is that Tom Hardy, an actor best known for playing brutal characters, seems every bit as cute and vulnerable as his canine co-star.
The final installment fulfills its function of flattering the worldview of Rand’s fans and followers, while completely failing as a piece of narrative cinema.
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During her testimony, the actress, 36, told jurors the incident happened in March 2013, claiming Johnny, 58, had binged on cocaine and drink throughout the night and repeatedly accused her of infidelity.
The actor is suing Amber for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post, which his lawyers say falsely implies he physically and sexually abused her while they were together.
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