Okay, so re-thinking the problem… one issue I have is securely mounting the whole lot to the PL-259 connector at the bottom. That’s always going to be the weak point, as I don’t have the luxury of making the connector integral to the antenna.
So I’ve re-thought my plans a little bit. The original rod was nice and light, and more than long enough to make a vertical sleeve dipole, which is what I originally had planned before I dove off into more complicated designs like the dual-band flower pot. Perhaps the way forward is to turn a base out of a 30mm block of wood and make it a fixed base antenna.
Going back to the original fibreglass rod, I noticed that the heat-shrink hid a small length of hose, and that could be stripped away to give me just the bare rod. This, could be jammed into a clamp-style PL-259 I had laying around, meant for RG6 coax. There’s enough room for a length of RG58 to come out of that connector alongside the fibreglass rod. I could then make a sleeve dipole by peeling the outer sheath and sliding the shield back over the coax.
This is the length of coax being prepared. I normally ignore velocity factor, but in this case I decided to factor it in, I can always strip the coax back further to make it longer.
I normally tune my 2m antennas for 145.7MHz which is mid-way between 144.1MHz and 147.3MHz. I don’t do CW so the bottom 100kHz of 2m is of no interest, and there might be some simplex stuff between 147.3 and 147.5MHz, much of that upper 500kHz is repeater output frequencies, so I’ll be listening rather than transmitting.
With that in mind, 145.7MHz gives a wavelength of 2.059m… quarter wavelength is 514.75mm. Accounting for 0.66 velocity factor for RG58/U coax, I get 339.7mm, call that 340mm. That’s the length of exposed braid seen in the above photo.
I found that this particular coax is pretty stingy on the braid, so when I peeled it back along with the foil, I found it difficult to get that to wrap around properly. Plus I had managed to accidentally cut the shield. Ahh well.
I have some adhesive aluminium tape, so I used a length of that to replace what was lost. Bonus being it adheres the coax to the fibreglass rod. Downside is it won’t take regular solder. @pelrun pointed out (on Slack) I need special flux for that, which I do not have. (Did try some flux I happened to have, but it was no use.) So workaround, use some scrap stranded wire, solder the braid to that and wind it tightly around the top of the aluminium tape and solder it.
At least at DC it checks out. I’ll try it out on the radio in a moment.
That’s the full antenna completed there. I just wrapped some tape around the bottom to secure the rod in the connector, long-term I might look at what I can make to clamp around that and better secure it, but at least it’s together now.


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Republican Rep. Tom Rice was voted out by Republicans in South Carolina’s 7th District after he, along with 10 other Republicans traitors, voted to impeach former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
According to The Hill, Rice lost to Republican Russell Fry after earning himself a spot on Trump’s enemies list by voting against him.
Fry was successfully able to take out Rice by constantly reminding voters about Rice’s very poor decision to turn against former President Donald Trump.
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Serena Williams edged a little closer to a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with a battling three-set win over 174th-ranked Mihaela Buzarnescu of Romania on Wednesday and declared: "That was kind of fun".
The 39-year-old Williams, a three-time champion in Paris, won 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 and will face fellow American Danielle Collins for a place in the last 16.
Williams, seeded seventh, has been one short of Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 majors since winning the Australian Open in 2017.
"It was a good competition, she played well, I played well. The points were long. It was kind of fun," said Williams who played with her right thigh heavily strapped.
"I was smiling out there which is rare for me, but it's always good to enjoy your job."
Buzarnescu, a former top 25 player who made the fourth round in 2018, said it had been one of her goals to face Williams before she retires.
"It was like a dream for a long time to play against her, because since I was young I was following her and her sister," said the 33-year-old.
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American diplomats are gearing up to carefully broach the topic of Tehran’s nuclear program with their Iranian counterparts during a summit on the subject in Geneva on Thursday, thus potentially going further than President Obama had been able to venture in earlier negotiation efforts. –KA
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President Obama has sought to make engagement with the Islamic Republic and other antagonistic nations a central part of his foreign policy, but until now Iran has spurned his efforts. Thursday’s talks are intended to launch a process that could rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and possibly reorient Iran’s role in the world, though U.S. officials are skeptical Tehran will act decisively, especially at this initial stage.
Nevertheless, the talks here could be the most substantial and in-depth conversation between the United States and Iran since relations were severed after the Iranian revolution 30 years ago. The chief U.S. negotiator, Undersecretary of State William J. Burns, is a career diplomat who joined in similar major-power talks last July in the final months of the Bush administration, but was barely permitted to speak under rules set by the White House.
“We are committed to meaningful negotiations to resolve what are growing international concerns about Iran’s nuclear problem,” the official said Wednesday. But, he added, “This cannot be an open-ended process, more talks for the sake of talks,” especially after the revelation last week that Iran has a second uranium-enrichment plant under construction. “We need to see practical steps and measurable results and we need to see them starting quickly.”
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Ever wondered what the most popular items are in the Dutch weekly shop? Online supermarket company Picnic has put together an overview of the national best-sellers.
Milk reigns supreme
The top three items across the Netherlands are semi-skimmed milk, cucumbers, and bananas. What a healthy trio.
It seems that the coronavirus has also impacted purchasing habits across the country, as toilet paper sales increased dramatically. In fact, toiler paper was the best-selling product in Rotterdam.
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A number of different types of fruit and vegetables have proved popular all across the Netherlands. Buying habits have shown that, in 2020, many people opted for fruit or vegetables instead of meat or vegetarian substitutes.
The cities that appear to devour the most fruit and veg are Delft, Leiden, Ede, and Arnhem. Leiden residents have a soft spot for white mushrooms, Delft loves aubergines, Ede enjoys a Jonagold apple, and Arnhem favours a sweet pepper. Utrecht’s best-sellers were Elstar apples, oatmeal, and bananas.
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What to Read Next (No. 232): Thomas Jefferson and Rethinking History
I finished and scheduled last week’s newsletter, which I called “Our New Reality,” on Thursday afternoon. Late Friday morning, a number of hours after that newsletter went out, the Roe v. Wade judgment was publicly delivered. Suddenly, those words “Our New Reality” ended up conveying something more serious than my original intent.
Turns out, our new reality looks a lot like the old reality of America, a place in which women’s bodies are controlled by men in power.
Buckle up for this week’s longer edition!
The Importance of Rethinking Our History
About six weeks ago, when I started thinking about this year’s Fourth of July newsletter, I didn’t expect today’s subject matter, Thomas Jefferson, to be so relevant. But here we are.
These days, Jefferson’s legacy is almost always mentioned alongside Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman he fathered six children with. While we’ll never be able to know the full range of complex emotions Hemings undoubtedly felt towards Jefferson, there’s no doubt about the power dynamic that led to their “relationship.”
All of America’s promises and contradictions are wrapped up in the character of Thomas Jefferson. While other founders had slaves, they didn’t pen the very words that abolitionists used in their campaigns for freedom (“all men are created equal”); there’s an especially disturbing air of hypocrisy when it comes to our third president.
The books featured today ultimately ask how we approach our old heroes from history.
Two of them are Pulitzer-winning books, one from the 1950s and one from 2008; the third book is a new memoir written by a middle-aged white man who came to grips with Jefferson’s legacy in the midst of writing a travel narrative.
Funny enough, though I enjoyed all three, I’m not giving any my highest recommendation.
The real point here is to encourage you to always be evaluating and re-evaluating our national history, from all the available voices — especially the minority voices who have been ignored for the majority of America’s existence.
There’s just no reason for historical figures to maintain the same legacy they’ve always had. Just as individual people change and strive to be better, so should the shared understanding of our past. Nobody seeks out a plateaued, static existence, but for some reason there are a lot of people who believe American history should be just that: fixed, immovable, unchanging.
So, while the books featured here today won’t be making my Best of 2022 list, they did highlight, for me, the importance of seeking out new and different voices.
What are some books you’ve read that have enhanced your understanding of America’s past? Fiction, non-fiction, new, or old, I’d love to hear!
In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father by Derek Baxter
Re-creating some famous figure’s historical journey has long been a staple of travel writing. About a decade ago, Baxter took on a travel agenda I had never heard of: Thomas Jefferson’s meanderings through Europe during the American Revolution.
From the wild gardens of England, to the vineyards of France, to the ancient ruins of Italy, and even some domestic sojourns, Baxter comes face to face with not only his own lack of adventure in life, but also his favorite founding father’s dark legacy of enslaving people.
For Baxter, a middle-aged white dude from Virginia, revering Jefferson was practically a birthright. And while his story of becoming enlightened to the contradictions of America’s past is not a new one, it remains an important narrative to share. For a well-off man to change his mind about something is always a somewhat surprising, admirable thing.
In Pursuit of Jefferson is a fun (sometimes overly long) memoir that combines travel with history in an accessible way.
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed is best known for bringing to light Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with enslaved woman Sally Hemings.
For decades, historians wrote off the rumors of these Jefferson-Hemings children as just that, but Gordon-Reed worked to set the record straight, often in the face of serious backlash from the broader historical community. Being a Black woman in that field, especially in the mid-90s, was incredibly difficult and lonely.
Despite her uphill climb, the importance of her scholarship and research cannot be understated. Our modern understanding of Thomas Jefferson has been profoundly shaped by Gordon-Reed’s writing and advocacy on behalf of the Hemings name.
Though this was not her first book about Jefferson and Hemings, The Hemingses of Monticello, published in 2008, functions as the capstone of her research into that story.
The nuance with which she writes about the relationship between enslaved peoples and their enslavers is unparalleled and unlike anything I’ve read. This was definitely the most memorable aspect of the book: the psychological examination of how the Jeffersons and Hemingses interacted on a day-to-day basis.
Even though Thomas Jefferson looms in the background (and sometimes foreground) of every paragraph, this really is a book about the Hemings family, from their first appearance on American shores in the early 1600s to Jefferson’s death in the mid-1800s.
As a reader and book reviewer, though, I have a hard time recommending it for anyone other than serious armchair historians (or, ya know, actual historians). It’s dense, at times, and gets into a lot of detail. That’s the point: this is a research-heavy book that will be used by historians for decades. Which also means it going to be inaccessibly tough for most readers — myself included. I skipped large chunks, at times, and wasn’t very motivated to pick it up and keep reading.
There are definitely pages and chapters of utter brilliance, but it takes some wading. Again, The Hemingses of Monticello is an incredible achievement, but will take some big-time commitment if you feel like giving it a read.
RMB Rating (out of 5): 4 — based not on merit, but on accessibility and readability
Jefferson: The Virginian by Dumas Malone
Over the course of thirty years in the mid-1900s, biographer Dumas Malone wrote and published six volumes about the life of Thomas Jefferson. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1975 for the entire effort, but isn’t very well-known today.
I read the first volume, Jefferson: The Virginian, and came away very impressed with Malone’s narrative powers — he can tell a great story and really brought Jefferson to life. But, it was also clear to me why this book is more of a relic than a classic.
While Malone doesn’t shy away from some of Jefferson’s failings, he never really examines the man through other perspectives.
Published around the same time, Robert Caro’s classic The Power Broker addresses Robert Moses’ reign as New York City Parks Commissioner through the lens of the city’s displaced residents.
In the ‘80s, Doris Kearns Goodwin told JFK’s story by focusing in on the familial and cultural forces that shaped his parents and grandparents, thus giving the reader a more well-rounded portrait.
Yes, Malone can tell a damn good story, but it’s not quite the right story.
I enjoy reading old history books like this for the simple fact that they can offer great insight into our society’s understanding of history at that moment in time. It’s easy to see why Jefferson enjoyed such a lofty, uncomplicated reputation when books like Malone’s were all that was available to people. Thankfully, a new generation of historians are telling a different story from a new and important perspective.
RMB Rating (out of 5): 3
That’s all for me this week. Thanks so much for reading — I deeply appreciate the time and inbox space!


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NAMELESS Architecture is a concept-based design practice where its founders, Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo graduated from Hongik University and Korea University, and later, their Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. After establishing NAMELESS Architecture in New York, they expanded their footprint into Seoul. Their practice is committed to simplicity in an unpredictable world, where they explore the worlds of architecture, city, and global cultural phenomena. NAMELESS’s work has been widely published and exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Center for Architecture New York, Parsons The New School, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul Museum of Art and National Museum of Korea. The office has received numerous awards, including AIA New York Honor Awards, The Architectural League Prize for Young Architect, AIA New Practice New York (NPNY) and Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record.
One of their most recent projects, Café Teri is another showcase of their unconventional style, where the site is located below the eastern foot of Gyeryongsan Mountain in Daejeon, South Korea. Like an architectural icon arising from the mountainous terrain, the unique structure belies what lays within - a place to enjoy food. Adjacent to the site where the mountains and plains meet, the entrance to the old trail is located. The new building starts from the topography of the trail from the village to the mountain. In this place, two buildings are arranged facing each other around the central courtyard. The two buildings are slightly shifted apart and the walls of the building flow down into the yard. The artificial valley, where the distinction between the wall and the floor is blurred, creates a dynamic flow towards the forest. The fluid wall is continuous not only in the yard but also in the interior space, connecting the inside and outside scenery through a stepped space. Meanwhile, the uplifted terrain in the backyard forms a static spatiality. There’s a splendid connection between the interior and the exterior of the building that becomes a place for people who come and go through the forest to rest and to enjoy a meal. This also marks the dynamic flow across the forest, in which different boundaries are no longer distinct but seemingly merge seamlessly.
Materials matter in this carefully considered ensemble. While the outer walls are clad in concrete brick, the interior walls feature exposed concrete, and floor in polished concrete. The specific use of concrete to construct the architectural topography was emphasised keeping in mind a sense of continuity of the flowing nature of the space. On the other hand, the façade wall made of rough broken bricks creates a difference of boundaries through the change of light, shadow, and time.


While fans look in back seats, under beds and down sweaters for the Seahawks’ fleeting mojo, consider the San Francisco 49ers, at 2-13 the sick man of the NFC West that is days from another purge — or not, and no one can say for sure which is the better plan of action.
As the Seahawks prepare to visit Levi’s Stadium — looking ever more like one of those insta-cities in southern China that was built recklessly and remains unpopulated — it is worth pausing to reflect that being the division titlist bearing a limp, a bad eye and hearing loss, is not really such a bad deal.
Yes, the Seahawks have lost three of the past five games and no longer have available Marshawn Lynch, Earl Thomas and Tyler Lockett. But the club is in good financial and management shape. It has a franchise coach and quarterback under multi-year deals. It has won at least one playoff game in five of the past six seasons, including 2010, the pre-Russell Wilson time when they they claimed the division at 7-9 and beat defending champion New Orleans in the immortal “Beast Quake” game.
That, friends, is a roll.
The 49ers lack even one of those things, and Sunday will be down to watching seagulls peck the eyes from the remaining half-dozen fans (Alfred Hitchcock came to nearby Bodega Bay for a reason).
This, then, is what is left of the great Seattle-San Francisco rivalry, the What’s Your Deal? Bowl, gone to tatters.
Seahawks DE Michael Bennett, for one, removed his fur hat and paused for sentimental contemplation.
“I think you do miss that,” he said this week. “That (rivalry) was built around the same type of teams: A running quarterback, a great defense. It was just a fun game to play in because you had to match the intensity of the other team. Obviously, you miss those rivalries because all those players are out of the league right now. You think about Justin Smith, Aldon Smith — NaVorro Bowman, he’s hurt. You think about Patrick Willis, Ray McDonald . . . They had so many great players on that team.
“It was just one of those games where it was the same team playing against each other. The intensity was outstanding.”
He didn’t even mention coach Jim Harbaugh, the columnist’s best friend on a slow news day:
“Hey Jim, I got nothin’ — say something ridiculous.”
“Just gobble, gobble, gobble, turkey from jive turkey gobblers. I think that paints a pretty good picture of it.”
“Right you are, Jim. Don’t ever leave, pal — don’t ever leave.”
But he did. Off to the University of Michigan he went, where this month he was again thwarted by a Seattle team and coach — Chris Petersen’s University of Washington Huskies, who gained the fourth and final berth in the national college playoffs just ahead of the Wolverines.
For all we know, the playoff selection committee hates khaki. But it was good to see Harbaugh throw objects, spittle and profanity again.
To Bennett’s point about intensity, the regular season finale still has meaning, It’s just not Sparta vs. Athens.
The 49ers beat the Los Angeles Rams Sunday 22-21, showing they can fog mirrors sufficiently to bid for next season’s jobs now. Nothing would curry more favor with coach Chip Kelly than to spoil the day of Carroll, his old Pac-12 rival.
The Seahawks, meanwhile, have an outside shot at the No. 2 playoff seed (Seattle must win and Atlanta has to lose at home to the Saints). As important, they need to stick a landing.
Here’s how O-line coach Tom Cable explained it.
“If you ever think you’ve got it in this league, towards the end, or in October, or whatever, you’re full of baloney,” he said. “Because it’s every week, and you keep building it right. What we want to do is come off the second half (of the Arizona game, in which they scored 28 points on 297 yards) and play our best football this week. Then, whatever is after that.
“We have a lot of work to do, like everyone does in this league. Everyone says, this team is better than that team. Not really. We’re all just getting ready to find out.”
Cable is right. In no other sports league can a hot team nap and a cold team awaken in a single playoff afternoon. Regarding the bigger picture of seasonal narratives, it can go swiftly, too. Ask the 49ers.


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Ernest Fenollosa Ars poetica or The Roots of Poetic Creation?
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The first decade of the 20th century witnessed a calling into question of some of the central positions held by the late 19th century Positivists. There was a shift of paradigm in science as well as art, as elicited by Einstein, William James, Freud, Picasso, Bergson and Pound. The insufficiency of the Positivist world picture became increasingly evident. Importantly, the concept of what was conventionally called reality, and legitimate ways of describing it, were being transformed. Fenollosa’s long essay, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, was a ground-breaking, if idiosyncratic, poetic criticism, as well as a significant illustration of prevalent intellectual concerns. The role of the individual word in creating images was central to Fenollosa’s interest, as it was to the majority of contemporary poets and critics, but he found an intriguing prototype in the Chinese pictogram, which conveys an item of information via a concrete, more or less stylized, illustration. Flemming Olsen follows Fenollosa’s theorizing, showing the extent to which it is indebted to, and shaped by, post-Positivist tenets. The current cult of dynamism is reflected in Fenollosa’s idea of metaphor, which he sees as a linguistic manifestation of the Bergsonian élan, which is the driving force behind everything. This explains his predilection for sentences with a transitive verb, which signals action, and his aversion to the stasis of grammar, logic and the copula. Equally, truth is not seen by Fenollosa as the accordance between observed facts and some pre-established metaphysical entity, as held by positivist science, but as a labile concept; it is something that happens”, determined by a context an idea pursued, for example, by the absurd” dramatists. The picture of reality” given by the poetical image could be just as truthful as the picture given by science. Reality thus moves from being our” reality, to become my” reality. Fenollosa was not a literary critic; he was an orientalist by profession. Yet his linguistic ideas, although presented in a rudimentary form and without any elaborate terminology, foreshadow linguists’ concentration on, and analysis of, the medium just as much as the message. Pound’s contention that Fenollosa’s essay is a modern ars poetica is shown to be exaggerated; its interest rather lies in Fenollosa’s endeavour to go to the roots of poetic creation.
Flemming Olsen was for many years Reader in English Literature and The Teaching of Literature at the University of Copenhagen. His courses included Shakespeare, Fielding, Wordsworth, Arnold, and Eliot. He has written several books and articles, including: Elements of Textual Analysis, Active Grammar, and Thomas Arnold the Teacher. In 2008 the University Press of Denmark published his Between Positivism and T. S. Eliot: Imagism and T. E. Hulme; and in 2010 Sussex Academic published his Leigh Hunt and What is Poetry?


Democrats slash Feingold move on censure, as Feingold says party 'cowering'
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While mainstream media outlets have pounced on the fact that Democrats blocked an effort by one of their own to censure President Bush over his warrantless wiretapping program, RAW STORY has found that Senate Democratic offices are fuming. The proposal to censure the President was introduced on a Sunday talk show by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI).
Though all say they believe the program warrants "more investigation," several Senate aides rebuked Feingold for proposing censure. They say that his move had the potential to derail Democratic efforts to strengthen the party's image on homeland security issues, noting that a large part of the country believes the eavesdropping program should continue. Bush has defended the program, calling it a "terrorist surveillance" program, and has used aides to defend its legality.
Strikingly, some of the criticism came from liberal Senate offices.
One longtime Senate aide was particularly scathing.
“Feingold’s grandstanding screwed the pooch and played into Bill Frist’s hands," the aide said. "Thank God Dems punted this down the field. Frist was going to force Democrats to vote on a resolution Feingold had kept a big secret and he would’ve split the caucus on an issue that needed time to get the whole caucus to support. Russ Feingold had only one persons’ interests in mind with his Sunday bombshell, and those were his own. He practically handed a victory to a Bush White House that desperately needs a win.”
Feingold, defending his censure plan today on Fox News, said: “I’m amazed at Democrats, cowering with this president’s numbers so low. The administration just has to raise the specter of the war and the Democrats run and hide…too many Democrats are going to do the same thing they did in 2000 and 2004. In the face of this, they’ll say we’d better just focus on domestic issues…[Democrats shouldn’t] cower to the argument, that whatever you do, if you question administration, you’re helping the terrorists.”
Feingold’s office declined to comment.
Three senior Senate Democratic aides said they hadn't heard of Feingold's plan until it was proposed Sunday. One said he'd heard that Feingold was going to introduce the measure late last week.
"This thing came up quick without a lot of time for other offices and other senators to look at the resolution and decide how they wanted to proceed," an aide said.
Some aides were more supportive. One staffer said that the climate for censure was unclear, and that despite others' griping about the timing and approach, Democrats were still open to the idea.
“I don’t think people are unwilling" to support it, one Democratic Senate aide said. "I don’t think people are 100 percent yes. If you look at the comments of Senator Reid and other senators' comments, you can see that other people want further investigations. Nobody’s said no on censure except Joe Lieberman as far as I know.”
One aide said that some senators felt the move went "too far."
“I just think you know there’s was a concern among a number members of the caucus that this was going a little too far," the staffer remarked. "The majority of the American people agree with what the president’s doing. A lot of people outside the beltway see this as a tool that’s keeping Americans safe."
The aide added that some members have concerns that backing censure would hurt Democrats’ image on national security.
“There were concerns that this would backfire on the Democrats just as they were beginning to get the upper hand or at least beefing up the playing field on homeland security credentials,” the aide added. “The Dubai deal, the war in Iraq, the president’s numbers heading south. Democrats have a long history of shooting themselves in the foot when the good things work and we’ve been known to do some things that end up hurting us rather than helping us.”
Several aides said their offices were stressing “more investigations” as an alternative to censure. One aide said public hearings would be better in bringing Americans around to the idea that Bush had done something wrong.
“Democrats had decided that public hearings were needed on the wiretapping to educate the public before considering a censure,” one staffer quipped. “Hearings would’ve forced Arlen Specter and Lindsay Graham to continue to criticize the Administration. Everyone knew that was the gameplan. Feingold just wanted to hog the spotlight. If he were interested in holding George Bush accountable he would’ve made his pitch in the Democratic caucus behind closed doors.”


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Review: 'A Quiet Place Part II' avoids the sophomore slump
Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 5:49 PM Central
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by John Couture
There are very few sequels that surpass their original film. Off the top of my head, The Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather Part II and The Dark Knight are some examples where the sequel is arguably better than the original film.
The tricky part when deciding on moving forward with a sequel is will the new movie add to the mystique of the original film or go down as the next Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo? A film as unique as A Quiet Place isn't immediately set up as a franchise as say a comic book movie or a big action film, but if done properly, subsequent films can add value to a franchise and broaden the storytelling of the original filmmaker.
It also helps to have the original filmmaker back in the saddle for the sequel. John Krasinski's involvement in A Quiet Place Part II wasn't always a given and, in fact, he had to be cajoled into writing and directing this installment. But, Krasinski's enthusiasm for the material is obvious and it transcends in the final product for all to see.
A Quiet Place Part II picks up almost immediately following the events of the first film as the Abbott family has to pick up the pieces after the deadly events that transpired. Now, Evelyn must pack up her family and move beyond the sanctuary of the family farm to see what is left of humanity past the end of the sand path.
The biggest obstacle for any sequel to A Quiet Place (aside from losing arguably its most important character) is handling the real-life aging of child actors playing the same character only a few days removed from the events of the first movie. Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe have both aged about two years since they filmed the first movie, but you have to suspend a bit of disbelief here, especially with Jupe.
Aside from that, they do a great job of world-building in Part II that expands the playing field a bit without sacrificing the heart of the franchise. Family dynamics amid a catastrophic event was the prevailing theme of the first movie and it remains a staple as the world continues to grow.
To that end, Millicent Simmonds is given the lion's share of work to fill the void left by the events of the first movie and she delivers wonderfully. Millicent brings an authentic feel to the character and you can see her develop her acting chops in real-time.
A great addition to the cast is the always wonderful Cillian Murphy. He is one of the most talented actors working in the business today and he brings a real presence to his role. I've been a fan for a long time, but he really seems to hit his stride in this movie as a character who has everything thrust upon him and is given a certain de facto leadership role.
He's really able to fill that role from the first film and expand upon the original source material. Once, the family leaves the farm, the entire world and the scope of the situation hits them completely. Beyond that, bigger themes come into play, but it all comes back to the familial unit that has been at the center of the franchise from the beginning.
Of course, the real star of the show is Emily Blunt and she shines in the material that Krasinski, her husband, has given her. While her main motivation remains survival and keeping her family together, she also brings more global compassion to the film that truly expands the world.
Blunt has been quietly building a wonderful resumé and she's shown the ability to carry both big action blockbusters and more quiet films (no pun intended) like this one. She's quickly becoming a tour-de-force in Hollywood and there appears to be no end in sight.
Finally, no review would be complete without mentioning the monsters that go bump in the night. While the first film was satisfied to keep the monsters mostly hidden as it explored the novelty of the concept, all sequels must, by definition, "take it to eleven."
The monsters get more prime-time love in this movie and they continue to deliver the thrills and chills that we've come to expect from A Quiet Place. But no matter how much screen time they get, the focus will always be on the humans and their interactions. That's what separates A Quiet Place from other horror films.
Paramount has struck gold with this franchise and as long as they can continue to entice John Krasinski to continue coming back. This franchise is his baby and I'm sure they will drive it into the ground someday, but, for now, the future is bright and I can't wait to see where they take things in the next installment.
A Quiet Place Part II is now available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD.


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The late morning sun streams through the window of the cabin loft. I stretch in the warmth of the bed and watch tiny particles of dust dance in the yellow rays. Aiden breathes deep and even at my side and I allow myself a moment to bask in the rightness that is this moment, this bubble of time we’ve carved out of reality, where only he and I exist, tucked away in the woods, trying to catch up on all the time we’ve missed.
One thing I missed this past year is about to be rectified, if only I can sneak away quietly enough to keep from waking him. If he wakes up, he’ll want to know what I’m doing and I want to surprise him.
Sliding out of the bed, I gingerly place one foot on the bare hardwood floor and then another, all the while listening to Aiden’s breathing. In. Out. In. Out.
So far, so good.
Then I’m free of the bed’s embrace and clothed in nothing more than a sunbeam, still listening, afraid he’ll sense that I’m missing from the bed. But he doesn’t, so I quickly slip a satin nightie on and tiptoe down the stairs to grab his present out of my purse.
Once I hit the kitchen floor, I am lightning speed, hoping I’ll make it back before he wakes up. Careful to skip the squeaky step, I dash back up the stairs and round the corner just as Aiden rolls onto his back and breathes out a deep sigh. His eyes are closed, but he is starting to stir. The sheet is lightly draped across his hips and tented in the middle. I can’t help the grin that steals across my face at the sight.
His blond hair is mussed and one cheek has a pink crease running down the side from where he was fast asleep. He blinks twice and turns his head, eyes slightly unfocused as he takes a second to remember where he is. When I step closer to the bed, his gaze locks with mine and the sleepy smile of recognition he offers makes my heart swell.
“Good morning,” I say, walking to the foot of the bed with his present held in one hand behind my back.
“And to you,” he replies, sitting up a little so he can lean back against the headboard. One eyebrow pops up and he gestures with his chin to my arm. “What are ye hiding there?”
Dang, he’s always so perceptive. Oh well, I can work with this.
“Noooothing…” I’m climbing onto the bed by his feet, placing my knees on either side of him as I make my way up his body and toward the edge of the sheet where his skin looks painted by the sun.
“Is that right? Then what of the mischievous grin?”
“Who, me? I don’t know what you mean.”
“I think ye do.”
I tsk my tongue at him. “So suspicious. Can’t a girl just come give her hubby a kiss in the morning without ulterior motives?”
He chuckles, flashing that dimple in his cheek. “Ah, but I know you’re up to no good.” He watches my progress up his body, coming closer and closer to the tented sheet, which is now drawn tight across his abdomen.
“Now why would you say a thing like that? As it turns out, I have a present for you.”
With a quick glance downward, he gives me a wolfish grin and says, “I have one for you, too.”
With my free hand, I tickle him on the ribs and make him squirm. “Mine first.”
“Yes, ma’am,” he says, pulling a serious face. “But ye don’t need to give me a present. I have all I need. You, me, this.” He sits halfway up to press a soft kiss to my lips.
“It’s for your birthday,” I reply, pressing him back down onto the pillow.
“My birthday? Today is not my birthday. ‘Tis the first of May and it has to be—what?—June? July? Lord, I haven’t a clue.”
“It doesn’t matter. I missed your actual birthday…” My heart pinches at the not-too-distant memory of the months we spent apart, but I shove the negative thought aside. “So I’m giving you a belated present now.”
“Thank ye, mo chridhe.”
“You’re welcome. And it’s probably a good thing you thanked me now, because you’re not going to be able to make sensible words for a while.”
“What do you—”
“Close your eyes.”
He does as he is bid, though I can see the confusion in his wrinkled brow. It makes me feel a teensy bit wicked. I like it.
From behind my back, I pull out the heated massage oil that I picked up when we went shopping in Spokane, squirt a dollop onto my palm, and place the bottle aside. Rubbing my hands together to activate the heat, I let my eyes drink in the sight of his bare chest, lightly dusted with blond hair, and taut with anticipation. His thighs clench beneath me as I wiggle back and forth to secure my position.
Fingers slick and warm, I spread my hands across his chest and slide them down his stomach. His breath hisses in as his muscles jerk beneath my palms. His skin sucks down the oil so quickly that I grab the bottle and dribble more over his naked body before rubbing it in with slow, wide circles.
“Lindsey…” His groan is a physical force that reaches out and strokes me back.
I pull the sheet out of the way and liberally apply more of the massage oil, watching the pulse in his neck.
“Can I open my eyes? In the name of all that is holy, I want to watch ye, lass.”
“Well, because you asked so nicely…”
His lashes sweep up and those blue eyes sear me to the core. Gone is the sleepy smile and in its place is a lava filled haze of desire that has me rocking in place. He reaches out and tugs the spaghetti straps of my nightgown down so they fall over my shoulders.
“So you like your birthday present?” I ask with a teasing smile.
“Best birthday ever,” he replies, though his voice sounds hoarse. “And now I’d like to give ye my present.” Before I can even let out a squeak, he flips me onto my back and crushes his mouth to mine.

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This weekend gave Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle his first taste of the Big 12, but Boyle had been through conference meat grinders before — as an assistant in the Pac-10, Southeastern Conference and Missouri Valley, and while leading Northern Colorado into the Big Sky.
League play, Boyle said, is a different animal. Coaches everywhere agree. Many began their conference schedule last week.
“The price of poker goes up,” Boyle said. “It doesn’t matter what league you’re in. Big leagues, small leagues, it’s all the same.”
Typically, conference games are more physical, Boyle explained. The effort-and-emotion meter cranks up. Crowds go crazy with every basket, every turnover.
“It becomes harder to score,” Boyle said. “We’re averaging 80-plus points per game. I hope we can continue to do that, but it’s going to get harder for us to score against Big 12 teams. Because of that, we’re going to have to make it harder for our opponents to score as well.”
CU sophomore guard Alec Burks said teams are scouted so well by conference opponents, “when you’re on the court, it’s like they know what you’re going to do before you do it.”
There’s more on the line in a conference game and players feel it, Kansas coach Bill Self pointed out.
“It means more when you’re playing for a trophy,” Self said last week on the Big 12 teleconference. “There’s pride, rivalries. You’re playing for a lot of different things. The intensity level goes way up.
“It’s what you play for, what you prepare for. It’s like a new season. And everybody feels like they have a chance.”
Glimpse into the future.
As recruiting analysts expected, Colorado signee Spencer Dinwiddie is having a breakout senior season for Taft High in Los Angeles. The 6-foot-4 point guard is averaging 11.1 points and team bests of 7.2 assists and 3.6 steals. The latter two stats rank among the top in the West (San Fernando) Valley League. He also is hitting 42 percent of his 3-pointers.
Playing with several Division I-bound teammates last season, Dinwiddie averaged a modest seven points and five assists. Still, he attracted early offers from the likes of Oregon and UNLV, in addition to CU.
Taft High is more famous for producing baseball players (including Robin Yount and Larry Dierker), football players (Jeff Fisher, Steve Smith), actors (Jason Bateman, Lisa Kudrow) and rappers (Ice Cube, Everlast) than basketball players. But perhaps Dinwiddie, ranked a national top-150 prospect by HoopScoop, can join Jordan Farmar as notable hoopster alumni.
Dinwiddie ought to be a thinking man’s playmaker. He received an offer from Harvard.
It’s a good sign.
That the improving University of Denver women’s basketball team won a Sun Belt Conference road game last week against Western Kentucky without getting a point from Pioneers senior guard Britteni Rice, who had an off night.
Rice has averaged 14 points since the beginning of her junior season and was a second- team all-league selection for 2009-10.
This and that.
The second- and third-round sessions of the 2011 men’s NCAA Tournament at the Pepsi Center are sold out, but fans might want to circle Wednesday, March 16, on their calendar. That’s the date of the open practices for all eight teams. . . . The University of Denver’s overtime victory last Sunday over the Arkansas-Little Rock men’s team marked the first OT win for the Pioneers since Joe Scott’s first game as DU coach: 76-75 over East Central (Okla.) on Nov. 11, 2007. . . . Who could have imagined that three of the Big 12’s top freshmen are Canadians: The Texas duo of forward Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph, and Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim. Thompson and Joseph were McDonald’s All-Americans. Ejim picked ISU over Boston College and Xavier. All three played high school ball in the United States.


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Mechanics influenced BioShock and the visually striking Soviet-punk setting immerse players, allowing them to experience the long-awaited unveiling of Atomic Heart. After years of anticipation, the initial announcement is finally here. Does the 6-hour cutscene in Atomic Heart leave you in awe?
If you want to know whether Heart Atomic has a cutscene that lasts for 6 hours, read on. We can elaborate on whether this is true or not. The rumor about the game featuring a 6-hour long cutscene that includes sex started to spread before its release, but now that it has been played in its entirety, we can confirm or deny it.
Does Atomic Heart Have A 6 Hour Cutscene?
We can confirm that Atomic Heart does not contain a 6-hour cutscene where you engage in intimate activities with robots.
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It has been confirmed that there will be a 6-hour cutscene between the main character and the twin ballerina mechanicals in Heart Atomic, stating that the text contains the origins of the rumor that the two mascots of the game came from a faked picture.
The twin ballerinas have cultivated a certain intrigue that certain enthusiasts possess for it, but it could potentially be a jest from the creators, Mundfish, to exploit the mystery surrounding its origins.
The hype surrounding the two characters is definitely evident, as they even posted some rule 34 content to their YouTube channel’s community tab in 2022.
Discover it on your own ;).
— @Mundfish #AtomicHeart (@mundfish) January 25, 2023
They have also joked about the situation on Twitter before. When a fan asked them how many hours of sex scenes it will contain, they responded, “Now go find out for yourself ;)”.
Many were speculating that the game would contain all sorts of explicit sex scenes, while there are no sex scenes in the game. Nora called him a robot who flirts explicitly about sexually assaulting jokes and the main character’s character, and there are references to sex.
Did you know that the rumor about the joke that originated from two characters who have some obsessed fans doesn’t seem to be true now? Well, the answer to our question is that Heart Atomic does have a 6-hour cutscene for all that.


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Quick & easy microwaving seafood
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Cook couscous according to package instructions. Set aside. Put haddock fillets, salsa and black olives in a microwave-safe dish. Cover and cook fish fillets until they flake easily with a fork, about 3 to 5 gs: 1. Quick & Easy Cooking. We can help you find the quick & easy cooking books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from , and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
Containing more than recipes, this book contains recipes for meat main dishes, poultry and seafood, cheese eggs and dried beans, salads vegetables and serve-withs, sandwiches and soups, appetizers beverages and desserts. Instructions. First, begin by rinsing your quinoa under warm water to remove residue. Then, place quinoa in a microwave-safe bowl or container and add in 2 cups of water.3/5.
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2-Minute Microwave Oatmeal (that tastes like cookie dough. With almost recipes, "Microwave Cooking For One" offers plenty of possibilities for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. And when you begin with a recipe for one, it's easy to double or even triple a dish if you need more food to go around/5(89).
Quick Breakfast Tostada Recipe Cook eggs in the microwave with a little milk, then plate on tortillas and top with cheese, black beans, and green onions. Heat the all-in-one breakfast for about 30 seconds–long enough for the edges of the tortilla to curl up slightly and crisp.
Meet your new friend – quick, easy, yeast-free Fried Piroshky. Light, fluffy with a beautiful crispy exterior, piroshki is what we make when we need something quick, but delicious. These can be made sweet or savory with a variety of fillings, but mashed potatoes are one of our favorites.
Made with just a handful of staples you’ll be using. As a recent piece on on how to cook shrimp explained, "Microwaves are great for reheating leftovers but when it comes to raw seafood, microwaves are not the way to go," writes Katie Jackson.
"'Don't do it,' said [Guido Horst Jendrytzko who currently manages a staff of cooks on the Caribbean Princess].Microwaves use radiation, not conduction. Quick & Easy Cooking from Contadina - No. 15Author: Favorite RecipesSome of the RecipesOutrageous Rigatoni Sauce, Herb Sauced Pasta, Seafood Gumbo, Country Style Pasta, Hearty Manicotti, Calamari and Eggplant Mostaccioli, Tomato and Cream Sauce, Spiked Sauce for Pasta, Layered Chicken SaladBook DetailsPublisher: Favorite Recipes PressYear Published: Book Number:.
Sometimes the simplest things are the best things. This Garlic Bok Choy Recipe- totally simple, easy, and delicious– is made with just a handful of ingredients /5. A professional pastry chef, cookbook author, and writer, Elizabeth LaBau has published more than articles on baking and candy making.4/5().
Ever since making my 5 Minute Microwave French Toast Mug a couple of weeks ago, I’ve wanted to try a savory version (because I’m alllll about savory breakfast).
I’m about to go out of town again and desperately trying to use up the last few leftover ingredients in my fridge before I go, so I thought now was a good time.
This is my second cook-zen book. I got the first one (the japanese food style one) at a local used book store. I had only leafed through it and then got it to only realize later that you needed a cook-zen to cook with.
Well, twist my arm to get another kitchen gadget. I waited (in)patiently for it to arrive and then I was a microwaving machine/5(5). Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course - Episode 9 - Real Fast Food // 40% OFF to 'Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy' cookbook.
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lemon juice 1/2 c. honey4/5. Super-quick Scandi supper. Leeky salmon in a parcel. Tender salmon, creamy leeks and peas certainly doesn't feel like your average microwave meal, serve with microwaveable new potatoes for a deluxe and satisfying dinner, bound to give everyone a midweek lift.
Leeky salmon in a parcel. Microwave butternut squash risotto. Cooking Easy Food With Convection Microwave Oven Pooja's Cookery Posted on J by Pooja Nadkarni August 8, The Convection microwave ovens are considered as one of the most favourite kitchen appliances for men because it is easy to use, clean and keep.
This microwave eggplant hummus is an easy trip to the middle east. This exotic recipe came to my life during my trip to Egypt. I just couldn’t keep myself away from the buffet — My favorite part of any trip is to eat local delish — especially the hummus bar. How to Make Microwave Oatmeal. First, place oats and liquid into a microwave-safe bowl.
Then, mix. Add in any other mix-ins your heart desires and mix again. Next, place the bowl into the microwave and cook on high for 60 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir. If you are using rolled oats, place back into the microwave for another seconds.
Finally, let oatmeal cool for 2/5. The time your filet spends cooking depends on its thickness. Heavier filets like salmon or cod will take minutes in a 1,watt microwave, while thinner filets like tilapia will take around 3 minutes.
If the fish isn't completely opaque by the end of your original cook. Seafood twice a week makes cooking delicious fish on Tuesday night in twenty minutes a snap. Fish is very fast to cook and with this book it is always delicious.
I now enjoy a much wider variety of fish. And I make restaurant quality meals in twenty minutes. Also each kind of fish tastes best with a recipe designed to go with its distinct flavor/5(4). The craze for microwaving portion-size dishes in a mug is building a head of steam.
Meals in a mug are a perfect solution for solo dining, and they're also quick and easy options for busy people. And they are a convenient and budget-friendly way to eat delicious and healthy meals when living in digs, caravanning or eating at the office.
Grilling doesn't always have to involve an outdoor burner, and in this case it may even incorporate a microwave.
This panini recipe can easily be converted to be made on a panini press, on a grill pan, or an outdoor grill. This caprese panini recipe uses the Lekue Microwave Grill to make a tasty sandwich that can be enjoyed for lunch or dinner.Steamer provides a quick and easy way to cook fish and vegetables in the microwave.
Helps to maintain maximum food nutrients/5(90). Award-winning chef, restauranteur (Anissa, Rickshaw) and cookbook author Anita Lo joins us for the latest edition of Chowhound's Table to Talk to dish about her book SOLO: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One along with her philosophy around solo cooking.
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How the company and S-CUT came to be
ES Equipment AB is the fruit of an EU project that came about after ambulance nurse Björn Åhlén was tasked with equipping the Swedish Rescue Agency’s international chemical response team. He soon realized that the scissors on hand for cutting up clothing to begin life-saving efforts were far from optimal for their intended use.
In connection with a large decontamination exercise, Björn saw that it took long time with the scissors when cutting up the clothes.
– In the event of a major accident with many seriously injured people, it takes far too long time, plus there is a great risk of injuring the patient when using scissors. It gives less capacity in the clean-up work and patients with potentially severe injuries or medical conditions can, in the worst case, die , he says.
He began to think about a better solution and came in 2004 into contact with Mats Fridh on the EU’s innovative action program MTiV (Medical Technology in Värmland), which led to the start of a development project. The Swedish Rescue Agency, the County Council in Värmland and the Defense Medical Center each had to submit a requirement specification for what such a tool would be able to handle.
Martin Bergstrand, an engineer attached to the project, was tasked with compiling all the requirement specifications into one and producing a proposal for a solution. A first concept for a new cutting tool was presented and aroused great interest among the claimants. The development of the S-CUT had begun.
The result is a unique serie of cutting tools that replace conventional scissors and knives, for example in rescue teams, military forces when open up clothes safe and quick are required. The S-CUT can be used by both right- and left-handed people and is fully manageable even with rough gloves on. It easily cuts through leather and virtually all textile materials, such as Gore-Tex. S-CUT also cuts through several layers of textile in a single cut.


Unless there is a clearly marked "switch" on the instrument panel, there isn't one.Most motor vehicles sold in North America do not have kill switches for the airbags.Some medium and light duty trucks do because of a rear seat and infant car seats.There may be a sensor in the passenger seat to activate the airbag only when seatsare occupied.
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In the 2001 Toyota Corolla the evap purge solenoid valve is located near the underside of the air cleaner. This is an emissions control device.
The 1996 Toyota Corolla does not have a cabin filter.
Several things can cause your 2001 Toyota Corolla to stall when you first take off. The most common cause is a dirty fuel filter or a dirty air intake filter.
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No, it does not.
No, 1998 Toyota Corollas do not have cabin air filters, according to a Toyota mechanic in Madison, WI.
It's located on the driver's side in back of the battery. An instructional video of how to change the air filter has also been provided below.
This vehicle does not have one.


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Also known as Zone Therapy. Ancient cultures believe that the body is divided into 10 zones that run from the head to the toes. When applying pressure to the feet or hands, it is believed that the energy in the zones is brought back into balance creating wellness and relaxation.
As a complementary therapy, reflexology is said to help reduce symptoms, relieve stress and discomfort bringing about a sense of wellbeing.
The treatment requires firm pressure to the entire area of the feet or hands, working on sensitive or tender areas that relate to the corresponding organs of the body in that zone to bring them back into balance. The therapist may also work the pressure points on the feet to assist with relieving stress, managing headaches and stimulating energy.


As Michael Martin looked across the Cabinet table at Leo Varadkar mauling Government quarantine measures this week, he may have thought to himself: this fellow reminds me of someone.
The Taoiseach might even have recalled a story he told me over lunch in Leinster House once, one he felt encapsulated Bertie Ahern in his cunning, man-of-the-people pomp.
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It went like this. Then-cabinet Minister Micheál Martin was honoured by a visit of then-taoiseach Bertie Ahern to his Cork South Central constituency. They embarked on a door-to-door canvass. Bertie was to show that although he was far from Drumcondra, he was still among his people.
They came to the house of a man with impaired vision, who told a story of appalling bureaucratic incompetence at the Department of Social Protection that had seen him lose his blind pension.
Bertie shook his head sadly and with that familiar hangdog expression said to the man: 'I don't believe that they could do that to you Mr [name withheld]. That's a disgrace.' And slowly Bertie's head turned accusingly towards Micheál, as did the old man's.
Bertie continued: 'Ah jaysus, Micheál, what are youse after doing to this poor man. You'll have to get it sorted.'
Micheál nodded his assent and took a note. As he backed away apologetically, Bertie was storming on to the next house, purposefully seeking another outrage against a supporter.
At the climax of the story, Mr Martin dramatically stood up from our table with a flourish: 'This was the Taoiseach of the country, divesting himself of all blame, and blaming me!' While he laughed heartily and his Cork accent shone through, you could sense a mixture of shame and admiration at the audacious deflection of blame by the Teflon Taoiseach.
Bertie was an enigma and I have made comparisons between him and Leo Varadkar in the past. Mr Varadkar employs the same rapier-like intuition that absorbs the views of the average person with great skill. Bertie, even as Taoiseach, gleaned his intelligence from industrial levels of street-to-street canvassing and over a nightly pint of Bass in one of his Drumcondra locals. Leo Varadkar uses social media and surprising enthusiasm for conversation with all sorts, that belies his introverted image.
But, Mr Varadkar is a political enigma in another sense. Sometimes, particularly in the last week, it has been impossible for allies and opponents to understand the pollical strategy behind his actions.
On Tuesday, the Tánaiste sat in the Cabinet room with the Taoiseach - most of the other Cabinet
Ministers were participating remotely. Those involved confirmed to me that the Tánaiste critically assessed the Government's confused and vague Covid-19 quarantine policy. The following day he used the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting to critique the performance of the EU in Covid-19 vaccine rollout, notably its failure to go further towards obtaining the Russian Sputnik vaccine.
All these are legitimate criticisms, but only if the person voicing them hasn't got a central role in Government policy formation. The Tánaiste plays a more central role than almost anybody else.
When Mr Varadkar was taoiseach last May, his minister for Health Simon Harris brought a memo to Cabinet proposing that the Government take action on all aspects of foreign travel in the context of Covid-19.
The memo, which was supported by the Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan, specifically asked that the practicality of quarantine for travellers be investigated. Ministers in that Government have confirmed that the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Business all presented barriers to action on foreign travel.
To our knowledge, Mr Varadkar, a doctor, has made no moves to revive quarantine or foreign travel restrictions since last May. Privately, he certainly believed last year that quarantine wasn't practical. And Mr Varadkar and his Fine
Gael Foreign Minister Simon Coveney are the second and third most powerful people in Government when it comes to forming our interactions with the EU.
Varadkar is the incumbent of one of the great offices of the State, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the department his Fianna Fáil hero Seán Lemass used to begin the modernisation of this State. He is in a vastly enhanced and empowered office of the Tánaiste.
Yet, he has reverted to a stereotype once attached to him by Fianna Fáil, that of 'commentator'. Even more damningly, he appears to have assumed the role he filled in former taoiseach Enda Kenny's cabinets, that of subtle fifth columnist within.
To me, this strategy makes little sense, for two reasons. Firstly, Mr Varadkar doesn't need to agitate for advancement as he did under Mr Kenny, for it is already written in stone that he will become Taoiseach again in December 2022.
Secondly, it is a grave miscalculation to assume that the Fianna Fáil sector of this coalition will be wholly blamed by the public for the undoubted failings of the fight against the virus. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens will together reap the whirlwind.
After what is easily the worst year of his political career, it would be fair to say that Mr Varadkar's confidence is cracked.
He reminds me of a formerly great songwriter who has lost the melody, the hit-making magic touch. Like Paul McCartney, who can't recapture the glory of Eleanor
Rigby or Hey Jude, he is going through a Mull of Kintyre phase. All the endeavour is there, but the ephemeral, mystic brilliance remains elusive.
Mr Varadkar is no longer the rising star or the Taoiseach, and in his desperation to recapture the spotlight he is making mistakes. The Fine Gael-created Woulfe controversy has one constant over the last two governments - Leo Varadkar.
The leaks controversy damaged him, and that too was a self-inflicted wound. His prime time TV attack on NPHET will haunt him for the rest of his time in public life.
But the eternal, inescapable arena of judgement for a party leader comes in a general election. Because of Covid-19 there has been no resolution to Election 2020. In political terms it might as well have happened yesterday as there has been no opportunity to purge the poison it created in Fine Gael.
It was Fine Gael's worst election since 1948. Yet Mr Varadkar survived, prospered and will be Taoiseach again in 2022. There were glaring and fundamental errors in that campaign that require the leader to perform a rigorous and honest self-assessment.
The reversion to type in the last week augurs ill, though, and if that reckoning for the 2020 failure doesn't come, there will be an unavoidable reckoning at the polls, next time out.


The new Apple Watch series 8 has the updated design that landed last autumn with the series 7. It introduced bigger screens, greater durability and faster charging. This, then, looks and feels the same, and the colours are similar, too, though there were extra ones last year.
The larger display is one of the standout features here, making it easier to read and with watch faces optimised for the bigger screen.
Series 8 continues Apple’s emphasis on health monitoring. It does the things that most smartwatches (including the SE) do, such as counting your steps and calories and tracking workouts, including swimming, running, yoga and more. It has a heart-rate monitor so that, like the SE, it can warn you if your heart rate goes unexpectedly high or low, or tell you if you have an irregular heart rhythm, along with notifications of cardio fitness.
But it goes beyond the SE by adding a blood-oxygen monitor and sensors for measuring an ECG on your wrist. These were in last year’s model, but now there’s a temperature sensor too. Not to tell you if you have a fever, sadly, but to track your temperature while you sleep. This is used by the female-cycle tracking app to provide an estimate, retrospectively, to indicate likely ovulation, which is helpful for family planning. Additionally, tracking temperature overnight can provide general insights into one’s health, Apple says.
Also new this year is a safety update: crash detection. The improved accelerometer can recognise if you have been in a car crash, though let’s hope you never are, and can automatically connect to emergency services and share your exact location. It’s hard to simulate this safely in testing, but Apple claims it has millions of hours of driving data to back this up.
The series 8 has an always-on display, meaning you can sneak a look at your wrist in a dull meeting and see the time without having to raise your wrist to illuminate the screen. This is a feature that, once you’re used to it, you don’t want to go without again (and it’s something the SE lacks).
There’s a new compass app in the latest software (compatible with the series 8 and SE watches, as well as earlier watches running watch OS 9). Sure, I never use the compass on mine either but, within the new app, there’s a neat extra called Backtrack (for Apple Watch series 6 and later), which helps you find your way back if you’ve got lost, recording GPS data, so you can retrace your steps. If you’re going somewhere that doesn’t have wifi or cellular connection, the watch spots this and automatically starts recording.
Both Apple Watch series 8 and SE have 18 hours’ battery life, so daily or nightly charges are needed. However, the series 8 has faster charging, with the special cable and charging puck supplied. Now, there’s also low-power mode, which turns off the always-on display and some other features but keeps activity tracking. With this, battery life doubles to 36 hours.
Apple Watch series 8 is slick and easy to use, and is very responsive and fast, whether you’re launching an app, getting directions on your Watch so you can keep your iPhone in your pocket, or setting a timer. Until the Apple Watch ultra comes along, this is the best Apple Watch yet.


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Seminary to Purchase 100,000 Volumes from Seabury-Western Holdings
EVANSTON, Ill - In response to the nation's unprecedented financial difficulties, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is offering a one-time $500 tuition grant for all returning and new full-time students enrolling in the 2009-2010 academic year. The seminary also will maintain the current levels of overall scholarship support.
President Philip A. Amerson announced these financial commitments to students in a letter recently distributed to the seminary community.
"Even in the face of significant reductions from our endowment income support, we affirm that our top priority for the future is maintaining support for our students," he wrote.
He also announced in the letter that Seabury-Western Theological Seminary has accepted Garrett-Evangelical's offer to purchase Seabury's library holdings of approximately 100,000 volumes. The acquisition preserves the United Library as one of the nation's top theological collections.
Amerson said Garrett-Evangelical will proceed with initiatives outlined in the strategic plan despite a projected loss of more than $1 million in endowment income by the fall of 2010, requiring reductions in the operating budget.
"We will need to delay some plans and reduce the size of programs and staff," he wrote. "Still, while we may move more slowly, we will move ahead on matters outlined in the strategic plan."

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Teen Adventures Camp: Born 2003- 2006
Our newest program provides our oldest campers with quality trips and age appropriate programming.
Staffed by a group of safety minded but still fun loving counselors, the camp is a “funtastic” place for 12-16 year olds to make new friends, enjoy the outdoors and have a positive experience. Counselors are college aged and above and are directly supervised by adult professional childcare workers who are in-tune to the campers needs.
Teen Adventure is the perfect combination of a travel camp, sports camp, arts camp, traditional camp along with a touch of sleep away. With trips throughout the summer, campers will visit some of the areas best water parks and adventure venues. Our trip buses are air conditioned!
- Water parks include places like Great Adventure, Dorney Park, Camel Beach and more.
- Adventures include horseback riding, rock climbing, canoeing and ropes courses.
- For those who are focused on athletes, professional trainers from the NBA and the Red Bulls themselves will work with the campers.
A highlight of the Teen Adventure program is the three day trip:
Campers will travel out of state and enjoy a wide range of activities such as paddle boarding and
zip lines, as well as visit some fantastic places like the NBA Hall of Fame and great amusement parks.
Sleeping in really fun places like aquariums and museums will make this experience a memory that will last forever!
The Teen Adventure program will even include Circus Training, trips to baseball games and Broadway shows and more.
At the campgrounds, campers will choose their own activities, take part in inter-camp games and parties, while also enjoying cook outs, sleep overs and a teen lounge of their very own with video games, ping pong and foozeball tables.