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I am guessing that a lot of my audience loves crystals and does some kind of crystal healing – whether it’s just having a few around the house, having a Himalayan salt lamp, or some pretty jewelry.
If you are anything like me – you love these beautiful gems!
I personally have many crystals around my home. I use them for various methods of focusing. Like having something to focus on during meditation, or having a physical object to focus an intention on – like rose quartz for love.
I even make crystal grid bases using sacred geometry and other sacred symbols.
(Here’s a link to my Etsy shop if you are interested. 🙂 – https://www.etsy.com/shop/EtchandEmbers
But, as you all know – this website and newsletter are dedicated to exploring all things spiritual in a scientific way.
I always say, it doesn’t have to have scientific evidence for me to believe in it, but it’s really fun when it does!
So, let’s get down to it!
Do crystals really heal?
I read about 7 articles and searched high and low for the scientific studies about crystal healing. They all came back saying the exact same thing.
Crystals have the potential to heal, but it’s not the crystal doing the healing.
(How’s that for a complicated and circular answer!?)
Here’s what I mean:
In an article on Today.com
Heather Askinosie, author of Crystal Muse: Everyday Rituals to Tune into the Real You, states,
“If you believe grabbing a crystal will change your life, you’re going to be really disappointed — the only one that can change your life is you,”
From Stuart Vyse, a psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
“But people feel better using them, that’s undeniable — that’s why people continue to use them. [People are] given the illusion that they have control over things that they, in reality, don’t have control over.”
Were there any studies!??? Only one was ever conducted:
One of the only studies ever to explore crystal healing was done in 2001 by University of London psychologist Christopher French. He gave 80 volunteers booklets explaining the sensations they might have while holding crystals, including tingling limbs, increased concentration, and heightened energy. Then he gave half of the participants genuine gemstones and the other half fakes made of cheap plastic. Those holding a fake were just as likely to respond physically as those holding the real thing. French’s conclusion: The power of suggestion — not flowing energy — was to credit.https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20180116/can-crystals-heal-separating-facets-from-facts
But sometimes they actually work! So – what’s going on here?
The Real Placebo Effect
Ted Kaptchuk, PhD, director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School, says the placebo effect is often wrongly assumed to be “all in your head” — a “fake” response to an inert substance. But brain imaging studies have shown that when a patient performs an action, such as taking a sugar pill or getting a sham acupuncture session, it activates very specific regions in the brain and can trigger the release of feel-good hormones like endorphins, dopamine, and natural painkillers.
“We are talking about a real biological process, not something you are just making up,” says Kaptchuk.https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20180116/can-crystals-heal-separating-facets-from-facts
From James Giordano, PhD, a professor in the departments of neurology and biochemistry at Georgetown University:
The mere ritual of flipping on a salt lamp, donning a crystal, or paying a visit to a reiki practitioner, with the expectation it can help you, can evoke measurable changes in the brain and body — a.k.a. the placebo effect.
And there may be other things at play that scientists don’t have the tools to study yet, he says. “Sometimes we scientists think we know how things work, or don’t work, and we really don’t.”
Several more articles all saying the same thing – the placebo effect is what is at play, but that the placebo effect is real and real benefits are being experienced.
I personally think there is more going on, but even if that’s all it is, I still love them and love having them in my house.
Crystals make me feel better, they are beautiful, and they are a meditation and intention focal point for me in the real world that I can touch and hold.
When I started this research topic I must confess, I was very hopeful that it would be one of those things that does have scientific backing, like Reiki Healing, but alas – I am here for the truth, and the truth what I have written for you all here.
I would love to hear your comments and stories!
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Say what you need to say
I hear so many people say they are tired, but I really wonder sometimes if they mean something else.
Words with meaning
Why is she a strong girl? Because she walks around everyday on the verge of tears and you don't even have the slightest clue that she's not okay
"You eventually just get tired of fake people with coward intentions; you struggle because your heart is pure and you don't understand why so many people can't be authentic."
Just Saying ...
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I'm literally so tired of being nice to people and going out of my way to make sure they're okay and happy just to get treated like shit
I am so tired of loving people who don't know how to love back. They sure know how to lie and hurt me though. Tears.
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Can i say this describs what I do most of the time in my life? I mean emotionally?
So true. Except you can't change anyone period. But you can't even change YOURSELF if you don't acknowledge your own issues.
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I could be doing this all wrong, I really could, but I'm happy and in a world where I'm not promised tomorrow, being happy today means the world to me.
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Today’s album is From the Ground by Heather Woods Broderick. Heather is the sister of singer/songwriter Peter Broderick whom you may remember I did my first post on. Similarities are almost instantaneously noticeable between the brother and sister’s albums. First off, they’re both obviously folkish people. Secondly the same otherworldly feel is on this album too. She’s got gorgeous vocals and (so does he!).
This album is amazingly beautiful from the first note on. Seriously. The melodies are lush and haunting, the piano work is just wonderful. It’s amazing. What I love about albums like this is how amazingly introspective they make me. They make me think about my life and where it’s been, and where it’s going. If you want an album to just chill with all day, you should seriously consider this one.
The song The Colors is the standout song for me, it’s just so hypnotically ethereal, like it’s from another planet where folk singers are the prophets looking deep into your soul. It just make me want to sip scotch and write poetry all day. (and if I didn’t have work in a couple of hours, I would definitely do that.)
Do yourself a favor and check out From the Ground by Heather Woods Broderick today.

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Johnson County girls and boys basketball results from Tuesday night:
Granbury 41, Cleburne 39, OT
The Cleburne Lady Jackets dropped a 41-39 overtime decision vs. Granbury to fall to 4-7 for the season.
Cleburne returns to action at 6:30 p.m. Friday when the Lady Jackets host Brewer.
Grandview 44, McGregor 20
The Grandview Lady Zebras jumped out to a big lead early en route to a 44-20 win over McGregor.
The Lady Zebras held leads of 13-4 after the opening quarter and used a 20-point second quarter to build a 33-11 lead at halftime.
Morgan Holliday led Grandview with 14 points while Kylie Mahanay added 12 points.
The Lady Zebras are set to compete in the Glen Rose Tournament today through Saturday.
Saginaw 54, Cleburne 27
Cleburne remained winless at 0-4 after a 54-27 loss at Saginaw.
The Yellow Jackets fell behind 12-0 in the game’s opening moments as Saginaw led from the opening tip.
Blaine McElroy scored 20 points to lead Cleburne.
The Jackets will try for their first win at 8:30 a.m. today in the Granbury Tournament.
Burleson 74, Ennis 62
The Burleson Elks moved to 4-1 on the year with a 74-62 victory over Ennis on Tuesday.
Alvarado 71, Kennedale 66
The Alvarado Indians improved to 3-1 with a 71-66 victory over Kennedale.
The Indians and Wildcats were deadlocked at 16-16 at the end of the first quarter, but Alvarado out-scored Kennedale, 16-9, in the second to take a 32-25 lead at halftime.
The fourth quarter was an offensive eruption as the two teams combined for 54 points, as the Indians held on for the win.
Will Johnson led Alvarado with 18 points, Jordan Caldwell added 14 points, Trent Keener chipped in 10 points, and Ka’Lon Johnson and Jake McCullough each scored nine points.
The Indians have scored at least 65 points in all four of their games this season.
Alvarado will compete in the West Tournament today through Saturday.
Godley 45, Maypearl 44, OT
The Godley Wildcats improved to 3-1 on the season with a 45-44 overtime win over Maypearl.
The Wildcats are set to participate in the West Tournament today through Saturday.
Benbrook 42, Grandview 39
The Zebras, still playing without their full roster, fell to 1-3 on the season with a 42-39 loss to Benbrook on Tuesday.


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I was planning a quick trip to Portsmouth today to check out fabrics, but when my daughter rang last night to say she had the day off today the plan changed. Much more fun to check out fabrics in Berwick Street and go to all the places we want to go to together.
One of the great things about living in Petersfield is that London is only an hour away on the train. Easy.
Yesterday I drove my mum to see my brother and we had a happy time reminiscing about our early childhood. His memories seem often to do with cars. Ah yes, that was when we had the white Mini estate he'll say. He'll remember being in a car and the state of the roads. From a very early age he could name every car on the road. He spent journeys with his nose to the window naming cars - are all small boys like that?

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In a Friday night ruling, the Supreme Court voted along ideological lines and ruled that California Governor Gavin Newsom can’t entirely ban indoor church services due to the pandemic. But they didn’t go so far as to say that churches are “untouchable” and can’t be restricted in any fashion. Unsurprisingly, the court’s three remaining liberal justices dissented and would have been willing to allow Newsom to forbid indoor church services entirely. This is a decision that will likely impact a number of other pending cases in multiple states. It was a case of the First Amendment being pitted against the extraordinary authoritarian powers granted to executive officials during a declared state of emergency. (Associated Press)
The Supreme Court is telling California it can’t enforce a ban on indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The high court issued orders late Friday in two cases where churches had sued over coronavirus-related restrictions in the state. The high court said that for now, California can’t ban indoor worship in areas where virus cases are surging, but it can cap indoor services at 25% of a building’s capacity. The justices also declined to stop the state from barring singing and chanting at services.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented.
This is the second time that SCOTUS has ruled in favor of religious freedom during pandemic lockdowns. In September, they delivered a similar ruling in a case out of New York State, though that one was a bit closer, with Chief Justice John Robers siding with the liberals in a 5-4 split.
As I mentioned above, the court didn’t totally throw out all of Newsom’s orders. The Justices refused to shoot down the state’s ability to limit attendance to 25% of capacity. They also allowed a ban on singing in church to stand.
As to caps on attendance, I suppose that makes sense to some degree. It’s crazy to think that you can allow a grocery store or Walmart to be open with limited capacity but not offer the churches the same option. That comparison becomes even wilder when you consider that there is no Constitutional right assigned to Walmart shoppers. We could probably extend this interpretation a bit and ask whether there ever should have been any governmental power to define which activities qualify as “essential businesses” and which were “nonessential.” Every public center of activity of any kind only exists because there is a demand for it. Stores that attract no shoppers and churches without a congregation don’t tend to last very long.
The ban on singing is another issue entirely. I don’t see how the court was “following the science” on that call at all. They’re saying that the Governor has the right to ban singing, but talking is just fine? There’s always going to be someone standing before the congregation and preaching. We’ve already determined that the virus can be transmitted through the air as a result of people opening their mouths, whether they are coughing, sneezing or speaking. What’s the difference when they are singing? What if the Priest is leading the congregation is a recitation of one of the Psalms? As long as they’re not doing it in a musical fashion they aren’t technically “singing,” right? Would that be allowed?
There are plenty of these challenges making their way through the courts this year. I think the conservative majority on the nation’s highest court is sending a fairly clear message so far. Some limitations on personal freedoms may be put in place during a declared state of emergency, but those executive powers are not limitless. And they don’t override the fundamental rights assured to citizens in the Constitution.

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Handsome Eric is one of the best new artists I've come across on the vast labyrinthine world of Bandcamp, and he's only 18. Handsome Eric is the project of Stephen O'Dowd, a kid from Dublin who records in his college dorm room. His pop songs are atmospheric and interesting, topped with O'Dowd's deep, melancholic drawl.
He's become a micro-celebrity in a tiny pocket of 4chan's /mu/ where people share Bandcamp links, but still has less than 200 likes on his Facebook page. His lyrics alternate between genuine feels and tongue-in-cheek wordplay, and his album titles are off-hand phrases like, "Nah, I'm Good," and "Oh, Cool." We're streaming his new EP exclusively until the release. Give it a listen.
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USDA Begins Cutting 80 Percent of Pathogen Testing for Produce
"After months of uncertainty over the future of the program, the Agricultural Marketing Service's Microbiological Data Program, which tests produce for disease-causing pathogens like E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, and Listeria, has officially gone into shutdown mode, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official confirmed Tuesday."
"Department officials told states that participate in the $4.5 million program to stop pulling produce samples on Friday to 'ensure an orderly shutdown of the program by December 31.'
According to an analysis by Food Safety News, ending MDP will eliminate more than 80 percent of public produce testing for pathogens. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which has jurisdiction over the safety of produce, also has a produce testing program, but it is significantly smaller."
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“Everybody wants a vaccine,” a random Facebook “friend” that I didn’t recognize said to me in a comment about the President’s push to have a vaccine for the coronavirus soon. Someone replied with, “Literally everyone.” That’s when the debate ensued on my normally quiet Facebook page. I had to turn off notifications on my phone because it became too annoying.
The gist of the argument that transpired on my Facebook post is the same argument that’s going to occur in the real world as we get closer to having a COVID-19 vaccine. To some, it’s the sign of victory they’ve been waiting for as they remain cooped up in their homes. For others, it’s a sign of defeat and government control as they see it as something that will be rushed with limited benefits and potential harm. Warnings of it being the “mark of the beast” even popped up as many claimed it will be mandatory, that those who do not have it will not be able to buy or sell as the Book of Revelation details.
Personally, I’m not a fan of vaccines. I do not get the flu vaccine and, oddly enough, haven’t had the flew in decades. I’m not one who actively goes after the pro-vaccine crowd, but I’m very quick to call out those who try to quash the scientific arguments against vaccines. Big Pharma is very much invested in making sure the anti-vaxxers are stifled, which instantly makes me skeptical about their motives as well as about vaccines.
Nevertheless, the majority of Americans believe in vaccines and want a COVID-19 vaccine as quickly as possible. That’s why this debate is going to continue to pop up and possibly dominate discussions on social media, especially after this announcement:
President Trump delivered another dose of optimism in the race to generate a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday when he announced a public-private partnership as part of what he called “Operation Warp Speed” to develop cure “by the end of the year.”
“This is an endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project…No one has seen anything like we’re doing now within our country since the second world war. Incredible,” Trump said in the White House Rose Garden.
“That means big and it means fast,” Trump continued. “It’s objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine…prior to the end of the year. I think we’re going to have some very good results coming out very quickly.”
Could it be mandatory? Possibly. Could those who get the vaccine also be given some sort of identifying document—such as a bracelet or (gasp!) a mark—saying they have had the vaccine? Possibly. The turmoil and fear surrounding the coronavirus has been strong enough to take people who were once staunch supporters of liberty and turn them into lukewarm supporters of draconian measures.
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A majority of Americans want a vaccine. That’s their prerogative. But if proponents of a coronavirus vaccine start calling for it to be mandatory, patriots must stand up and fight for choice whether they’re getting the vaccine themselves or not.
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THE STARS AT NOON. By Denis Johnson. 181 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $15.95.
''The air was getting thick - if you like calling a garotte of diesel and greasy dirt 'air' - and so before the burning rain began I stepped into the McDonald's. But right away I caught sight of the grotesque troublemaker, the pitiful little fat person whose name was forever escaping me, Subtenente Whoever from Interpren, getting out of his black Czechoslovakian Skoda and standing there on the dark street with my fate in his hands . . . If I didn't go to bed with him again soon, he was going to lift my card.''
With the opening sentences of ''The Stars at Noon,'' we're deposited in a menacing but familiar world - a hot, tropical world of sleazy bars and cheap motels, third-rate spies and disaffected drifters, a world familiar to us from old Sydney Greenstreet movies, and novels by Graham Greene and Robert Stone. Sometimes the setting is Southeast Asia, sometimes it's Mexico or South America. In this case, it happens to be Nicaragua, 1984; and the protagonist is a ''North American female prostitute-drifter with a press card, which has been revoked.''
A poet as well as a novelist, Mr. Johnson possesses a gift for visually precise description, and in ''Stars,'' he conjures up a hellish vision of Managua and the outlying country through dozens of details and heat-glazed images. He tells us what mornings are like in the city: ''As soon as the first drop of dawn dilutes the blackness, the neighbors begin their unbelievable racket, first the roosters, then the radios, then the live accompaniment to the radios - and then it's time to wind up the little children and start their screams and tears.''
He tells us what it's like to stay in a cheap local hotel: ''Overhead a long white malfunctioning neon tube waxed and waned and shimmered stroboscopically so that things happened to your mind.'' And he tells us what it's like to travel in Central America: ''Ahead of us was one of those buses that seem to drift out of history from Buchenwald and turn up in the Third World to take impoverished people home. The passengers had all gotten out and were wandering up and down beside this strange craft looking patient and content.''
There are moments when Mr. Johnson is equally persuasive in describing certain emotional states - conveying to the reader the panicky sensation of traveling in a war-torn foreign country, cut off from everything familiar and subject not only to the palpable dangers of gunfire and ambush, but also to the more insidious assaults of the unknown. ''Pulling to the side of the road,'' he writes, ''we would survey the scene and check out the roadside pedestrians, looking for the face that might have half a brain behind it. And then we'd ask our questions. I've experienced starvation and thirst, but never the drained, aching need for information, anything, the smallest piece of data - left or right? near or far? open or closed? is there a garage? a constabulary outpost? a meal? a drink? what time? how far? - that powered our movement along the edges of those towns.''
Brilliant as Mr. Johnson's poetic reportage is, however, it can't sustain the novel's thick, histrionic plot or carry us through his extended excusions into melodrama. As he demonstrated in his last two novels, ''Angels'' (a disturbing look at two drifters' unraveling lives) and ''Fiskadoro'' (a fierce, hallucinatory portrait of America, postnuclear holocaust), he is an ambitious writer, blessed or cursed with an apocalyptic vision of America as a spiritual wasteland. And in ''Stars'' he seems to want to extend this vision further - by obliquely examining the consequences of American political/business intervention in Central America and by more directly looking at the consequences of one American woman's careless cynicism.
The problem is that the story never becomes more than a sort of hokey retread of ''Angels,'' set in the third world and garnished with a twist of betrayal: drifter-woman meets down-and-out male, the two hit the road together, become lovers, meet up with other unsavory types, get into further trouble, etc. This time, the ''crime'' the man has committed -giving away industrial secrets to foreign governments - is so sketchily delineated that the reader is never sure whether he's just incredibly dumb or the author, himself, is naive.
As for the woman, she swiftly disintegrates into a carelessly packaged collection of cliches - the hard-bitten prostitute, the hard-drinking lady journalist, the world-weary war tourist -and as the narrator, she unfortunately gives the entire novel a tricked-up tone. Half the time she sounds like a parody of one of Joan Didion's disaffected heroines, trying to hide her spiritual emptiness through aimless affairs and equally aimless wandering: ''But I'm saying that I was in the habit of walking the midnights after work, barefoot, dangling a high-heeled shoe from either hand, in the only hour when the temperature was bearable.'' The rest of the time she comes across as a second-rate female Bogart: ''Look,'' she says at one point, ''everybody sells everybody out down here. They can't afford not to, it's basic, that's the situation. If you hang on to even one little tiny scruple it'll be the death of you, I promise. This is Hell, it's Hell, how many times do you have to be told?''
Though such remarks supposedly belie a deeper vulnerability and pain, we grow so sick of this woman's posturing, so weary of her self-pity and tattered cynicism that we just want her story to end. We never really care whether or not she betrays her lover, and we certainly never care what eventually happens to her. Mr. Johnson's shimmering descriptions of Central America provide us with moments of relief, but in the end, his narrator's tiresome voice drags the novel down, submerging the magic of his prose.

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"The night was started by Twin Sister, a quintet with only one raspy voiced female. I certainly hope she's got a twin somewhere!...Xiu Xiu and Tune-Yards' setlists and more pictures from the Friday night show at Bowery Ballroom (4/9), below...
...Next up was Zola Jesus, moniker for Nika Roza Danilova. Last year, she collaborated with Freddy Ruppert and Jaime Stewart for the Former Ghosts project, via the The Bull and the Ram. At that point, I had no idea who she was, but that song sounded pretty much like a nightmareish synth pop tune sung by Kate Bush, then after grabbing a couple of mp3s off her debut album The Spoils, it became clear that was her preferred line of work. She recently released a new EP called Stridulum that still goes down that same line of being the second coming of Kate Bush in an even more refined manner...
...Tune-Yards is another one-lady band, in this case her real name is Merrill Garbus....she proceeds to create her musical and vocal loops right in front of you. I have no idea how she does it, but it's incredibly fascinating to watch and makes her set electrifying...
...Xiu Xiu went through yet another line-up change, now it's only a duo with new member Angela Seo...About half the set consisted of songs from the new album Dear God, I Hate Myself. I've been listening a lot more to the album and it's currently on the rise with me. At first it struck me as a bit too 8-bit, but once you really give it a listen the sheer melodic genius of it all starts to shine through. Guess it won't really appeal much to the people who complained about Women As Lovers not being noisy enough, it probably is the most pop album. [pecusita]
Xiu Xiu setlist
Black Drum Machine
Dear God, I Hate Myself
I Luv the Valley OH!
This Too Shall Pass Away (for Freddy)
Chocolate Makes You Happy
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To block this lifeline for months is an ongoing war crime by the government of Israel.
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Oxfam Ireland condemns Israeli war crimes
Oxfam Ireland condemns Israeli war crimes as Gaza faces famine over Christmas.
REACTION TO THE RELEASE OF SHOCKING FOOD SECURITY STATISTICS BY THE IPC ON GAZA
Reacting to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report published today on Gaza warning of a risk of famine if intense hostilities and restricted humanitarian access persist or worsen, Oxfam Ireland’s Director of Public Affairs Bríd McGrath said:
“People in Gaza are starving and it is taking place in full knowledge of the rest of the world. The IPC have told us that Gaza is at risk of famine unless the situation drastically and rapidly changes. The travesty behind this tragedy is that it would be an entirely man-made famine caused by the actions of the government of Israel.
“Before this invasion 80% of Gazans were dependent on aid. We know that conflict always hits the poorest hardest. To block this lifeline for months is an ongoing war crime by the government of Israel.
“The people of Gaza need an immediate ceasefire; they need access to humanitarian aid at sufficient scale to feed the 90% of the population who are dealing with a food crisis, some a catastrophe. Mothers are going hungry so their children can eat.
“There are countries shielding Israel from facing up to its responsibilities and changing course, even at this late stage. Ireland at least is not one of them. We call on Ireland to redouble its efforts in the EU, UN and all international fora to alert our allies to the entirely preventable nature of this disaster and to convince them that collective punishment of a civilian population is not what we, nor they should stand for”.
Notes to editors
Starvation as a weapon of war being used against Gaza civilians,
Oxfam press release, 25 October 2023.
Read the IPC's Gaza Report.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative of 19 organisations, including Oxfam, and intergovernmental institutions. The IPC initiative provides food security and nutrition analysis to inform decision-making.
The assessment was done between 24 November and 4 December, 2023.
The figures are likely an underestimate of the situation now.
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From Ojai, crops of Gala apples and Howard Miracle plums
Most California apples are grown either well north of Los Angeles, in mountains, or near the coast, where cool winters and nights boost production and quality. Ojai, atrociously hot in summer, is better known for its citrus, but in some of its valleys where cold air pools, the microclimate is surprisingly suitable for apples, which were grown there on a modest scale in decades past. The possibility was clear on Monday when Cecilio Marquez and his crew harvested Galas from an 8-acre orchard, leased from a couple who bought the property from Otis Chandler, publisher of The Times from 1960 to 1980.
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Proxy Definition and Legal Meaning
On this page, you'll find the legal definition and meaning of Proxy, written in plain English, along with examples of how it is used.
What is Proxy?
a person or a written authority which authorizes a person to act as an agent or a subsitute of another person somewhere. Usually it also gives the power to cast a vote as well.
History and Meaning of Proxy
The term "proxy" originated from the Latin word "procuratio" which means to manage affairs on behalf of someone else. Proxy refers to a person or a written authority that allows another person or entity to act as a representative or substitute of the original person or entity. It is used in various fields, including corporate law, elections, and finance.
In corporate law, shareholders often give proxy to another person or entity to vote on their behalf during shareholder meetings. In the context of finance, a person may give proxy to an investment advisor to make investment decisions on their behalf. The use of proxy allows for more efficient decision-making by delegating authority to trusted individuals or entities.
Examples of Proxy
- During a shareholder meeting, a shareholder who cannot attend may give proxy to another shareholder, allowing them to vote on their behalf.
- A student who cannot attend a class may give proxy to a classmate, allowing them to take notes and turn in assignments.
- A person who lives too far from a voting booth may vote by proxy, giving someone they trust the ability to vote on their behalf.
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- Power of Attorney: Legal authority given to a person to act on behalf of another person or entity.
- Trustee: A person or entity who holds property in trust for another person or entity.
- Fiduciary: A person or entity who has a legal or ethical duty to act in the best interest of another person or entity.

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The Fender Squier Affinity series represents great design and amazing value combined in an incredible set of instruments. As we touched on in our previous article, Are Fender Squier Guitars Any Good, we broke down the criticisms usually thrown at Fender’s economy line of guitars. And while we felt that they obviously won’t stand toe to toe with their American Standard line, they offer the best bang for your buck when money is a concern, especially at the sub $300 level. With the Affinity line, in particular, we felt that they were a big step up from previous Squier models, even rivaling some of the company’s Mexican-made line in terms of quality and playability. With that in mind, we are excited that Fender decided to throw a new coat of paint on their Affinity series instruments. Below, we take a look at what this new color refresh has to offer.
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Together with Epic Breda we presented Blind Walls Epic Stories Part II. For this T-shirt we teamed up with Hedof.
Illustrator Hedof created this unique T-shirt in honor of Blind Walls Gallery’s fifth anniversary. For this occasion he also made a new mural on the Markendaalseweg.
The T-shirt and mural are inspired by Blind Walls Gallery’s mission: to tell (Breda) stories through murals. The mural shows different ways of telling stories, via telephone, music, text, a pipe and a dream. The rat is a troubadour who brings stories from door to door. Read the full story behind the mural here.
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It is not a clear-cut answer. It is easy to either praise or demonize them. A sober reflection is needed to decide whether a video console is right for the family and if it is consistent with the values that parents want to instil in their children.
Violent video games: What's a parent to do?
Despite the poor video quality of the interview, the ideas are very helpful for making decisions about violent videogames.
Video game addiction
Educational Psychologist, Jane Healy, PhD, explains the increasing understanding of how children can become addicted to video games and offers advice for parents on how to avoid this.


Shedding Light on Optics
Posted August 2008
What you see is what you get... except when the thing you are looking at is either very small or very far away (all a matter of perspective). Take, for instance, the light from a street lamp projected through a hole the size of a fork tine in a screen. If you place another screen just behind the hole what you will see is an image of the hole. But as you move the second screen further and further away, the image of the hole starts to blur. Move the second screen far enough away, and — if your eyes are sensitive enough — you will see light and dark rings appear. These rings are the diffraction pattern of the hole in the first screen, known to mathematicians as the Fourier transform of the hole, or at least the amplitude thereof. Not many people can look at a diffraction pattern and recognize what the original object is. Watson, Crick and Franklin famously "decoded" x-ray diffraction patterns to reveal the true structure of DNA. Thanks to the Fast Fourier Transform — and fast microprocessors — Fourier transforms are easy to invert, so that today, in principle, anyone could recover the image of the original hole by simply inverting the diffraction pattern, but for one problem: the observation is of the amplitude of the Fourier transform, not the Fourier transform itself. This is a central problem facing crystallographers and anyone else that uses diffraction imaging to infer the structure of the things through which light passes.
Long-term IMA visitor Russell Luke (University of Delaware) has been fascinated by mathematical algorithms for solving this problem (known as the phase retrieval problem) ever since his PhD thesis on the theory and practice of wavefront reconstruction for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's replacement. The phase retrieval problem is a vexing instance of a nonconvex feasibility problem, for which there is scant theory, though recent work by Luke and collaborators is beginning to shed some light on this issue.
While at the IMA Luke attended as series of lectures by organizer David Brady (Duke University) on optical imaging. At one of the lectures Brady gave to the audience plastic glasses which made the letters "DUKE" appear to the wearer whenever Brady used his laser pointer to emphasize important items in his talk on the overhead screen. Brady's glasses were patented and mass-produced by a manufacturer with a high-tech printer, but Luke was confident that he could produce a less glamorous version of the glasses with nothing more than an ordinary laser printer, transparency film, and mathematical software such as Matlab. With the help from an instructional grant from the University of Delaware, and space provided in the Mathematical Sciences' Modeling Experiment and Computation Lab at UD, Luke built a diffraction optical bench with which students can design their own glasses. Following a very nicely-written recipe by Thad Walker (University of Wisonsin), the student starts with the image she want to appear through the glasses and then, with software written by Luke, computes a binary mask that will produce the desired image as the diffraction pattern of the mask. The image is a very simple version of a hologram. Luke uses the bench to teach mathematics students about the physical nature of Fourier transforms, and to teach science/engineering students about the mathemetical nature of diffraction. On a deeper level, the lab provides a very tangible instance of some of the frontiers of mathematical computation.
J.V. Burke and D.R. Luke, "Variational analysis applied to the problem of optical phase retrieval’’, SIAM J. Contr. Optim., 42 (2003), pp. 576-595.
D.R. Luke, "Relaxed averaged alternating reflections for diffraction Imaging", Inverse Problems, 21 (2005), pp. 37-50.
D.R. Luke, J.V. Burke, and R.J. Lyon, "Optical wavefront reconstruction: Theory and numerical methods", SIAM Rev, 44 (2002), pp.169-224.
T. Walker, "Holography Without Photography," University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics Technical Report (1998).


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An Interview With Longlisted Author Diane Raptosh
The Grammys celebrate music; the Oscars, movies. Tony Awards are for theatre, and the Golden Globes are for television. But what about books? For those, we have the National Book Awards.
Unless you’re an avid follower of book news, it’s easy to miss the National Book Awards (NBA), an event that deserves as much pomp and circumstance as any Hollywood red-carpet affair.
According to their website, the mission of the awards and the National Book Foundation is to “celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America.”
So how does it work?
The National Book Awards, first established in 1950, are put on by the National Book Foundation and recognize the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. The foundation selects twenty individuals—librarians, booksellers, published writers, and others—who are divided up according to their specialty, to act as judges. Some of these are past winners or finalists of the award themselves.
Publishers nominate books they’ve published between December 1 of the previous year and November 30 of the present year. The author must be an American citizen, and writers cannot nominate themselves.
All five judges get their own copy of each book submitted for consideration—somewhere between 150 and 500 books, depending on the category. Each committee or panel then selects ten titles called the longlist. These titles are announced each year in September. This year, the schedule is…
Young People’s Literature — September 12*
Poetry — September 13*
Nonfiction — September 14
Fiction — September 15
*Check out the winners so far here.
Less than a month later, the longlist is cut in half as five Finalists from each category are announced (this year, on October 4). Finally, the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner takes place in mid-November—an affair much anticipated by all, since not even members of the National Book Foundation know who the winners are. There, the announcement is made, and the winner of each category is presented with $10,000, a bronze trophy, and an honor great enough to last a lifetime. This year’s announcement will take place November 15.
A special interview…
In anticipation of the coming awards, we caught up with local author, professor, and poet Dr. Diane Raptosh, whose book of poems, American Amnesiac, was on the longlist in 2013 for poetry. Shortly after being longlisted for the NBA, Dr. Raptosh was named Boise’s Poet Laureate and Idaho’s Writer-in-Residence. Be sure to check out her interview with HigleyFox below, as well as a sample from her upcoming publication, Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles. You can purchase her books on almost any online bookstore, including Amazon, and from her publisher, Etruscan Press.
HigleyFox: In 2013, you were among ten authors selected for the National Book Awards longlist for poetry. Did you have any idea ahead of time that your book was being considered?
Diane Raptosh: The editor of Etruscan Press, Phil Brady, told me he was submitting American Amnesiac for consideration for the National Book Award. I thanked him profusely for doing so, and then I basically forgot about it.
HF: Authors cannot submit their own books for the National Book Award, but must be nominated by their publisher. What was it like waiting to see if you would be named on the longlist? Did you have any knowledge of other poetry novellas that you suspected might be considered?
DR: As I said, I basically forgot about the fact that the book had been submitted. I did not even track the date that the NBA winners would be announced. It is dangerous and foolhardy for a writer to wait around to see if she has won a prize. The writing world is highly unpredictable—known mostly for rejections. I did not know what books in any genre were being considered for the NBA that year.
HF: Your most recent book, Human Directional, came out in 2016. What is it like to write a book after having been longlisted for the National Book Award in poetry, not to mention having been named Idaho's Writer-in-Residence and Boise's Poet Laureate? Did you feel pressured? Inspired? Were you still able to write for yourself, without considering what award committees might be thinking?
DR: I felt hugely honored to be Boise's Poet Laureate and Idaho's Writer-in-Residence. They gave me opportunities to serve the communities of Idaho, which pleased me very much. Verse is serve's anagram. I aim to serve as a poet. This fact both pressures and inspires me.
Being longlisted for the National Book Award was the biggest professional honor of my life. I was shocked when I woke up that September morning and checked my emails and found one from them. I did feel a little more fearful than usual about writing anything after Amnesiac. I poured my mind's heart into that book, and it ended up paying off. I did feel nervous about the fact of Human Directional following that mini-opus. But HD is a very different kind of book. It is a kind of dervish dance, a romp through consciousness, a playground of form and content. I see it as a second (and lighter) book in what I consider to be a trilogy that started with Amnesiac. I am working on the third book now. It is more ambitious, like Amnesiac was. It will take on a lot of big issues, which I discuss in #4, below. That manuscript is both serious and playful, as are most things I write.
I never, ever wonder what award committees might be thinking. I stay rooted in the world of the mind and the imagination: the writing world, which for my purposes takes up residence at my kitchen table. I do not write to win awards! I write poetry to survive an increasingly brutal world, to be perfectly honest. I've been studying America closely for a long time, and I could see many of the present American brutalities coming. I began to feel despondent—not so much for myself, but for others, our more vulnerable communities—what Amnesiac refers to as "the we." I had to write my way out of a sense of collective despair. That was Amnesiac. I don't necessarily write for myself, per se, except inasmuch as writing poetry helps alleviate some anxiety—if what I write lifts the veil of social realities and reinvents what seems to want to be there. The greatest—or perhaps the only—hope for homo sapiens lies within the human imagination.
HF: What are you working on now, and what are your goals for this next project?
DR: I am working on a new book of poems, the working title for which is Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles. The last of a trilogy in verse, this manuscript will comprise a series of epistles directed to a newly fertilized zygote—what one of the poems refers to as "the great human maybe." These letters will take on issues ranging from the modes and limitations of production and reproduction to symbolic systems and sentience. They will also meditate on cell lines (for science) and cell phones, speculative life and artificial intelligence. So too, they will consider selfhood, citizenship, and identity—national and global—in the age of big data, white nationalism, and totalitarian capitalism. Along the way, the poems will riff on Moby-Dick and draw on current events as well as meet with some musicians: perhaps Dionne Warwick and the Beatles.
HF: What tips do you have for writers, and particularly writers of poetry, looking to get published or bring their writing to the masses?
DR: My advice for writers is to pay close attention to the world, to watch and, especially, to feel what is going on, to resist the numbness that screens and spectacles and technologies hope will set in. Staying awake and alert is one of the most important things that a poet can do. This takes a lot of time, solitude, and courage. Young poets should not be terribly worried about publishing their work right away. They should instead be paying attention to their instincts and intuitions about how to proceed. They should be feeling how deeply unsatisfying are the marketplace's offerings: what I call in a poem from Human Directional those "frilled lean-tos daily dispensed to us." The young poet's job is to help the world dream a new face for itself. In short, a young poet should set out to rewrite the world. Doing so will naturally, with patience and over time, bring her writing to the masses and into the pages of books.
A sneak peek from Diane Raptosh's current project, Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles:
Be sure to check back on October 4 for our take on this year’s NBA Finalists and again on November 22 for a recap of 2017’s NBA winners.
Special thanks to Eric Raptosh for the use of his photo of Diane Raptosh.


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Wes Craven, the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, takes you on a terrifying journey inside the most demented house on the street. Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare in The People Under the Stairs on Blu-ray from Shout! Factory.
Ghost Town is an interesting fusion of the horror and Western genres involves a modern-day sheriff (Franc Luz) whose search for a missing heiress leads him into the title locale, a frontier-age Arizona township whose residents are cursed with immortality. He eventually discovers that the abductee (Catherine Hickland) has been spirited off to the lair of an evil black-clad gunslinger (Jimmie F. Skaggs), who sees her as the reincarnation of the dance-hall girl he murdered a hundred years before.
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The first major retrospective celebrating the life and work of artist and Lardil man Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey (1920–1985) opens at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) from 30 March 2019. ‘Stories of this Land’ recognises the artistic and social contributions of Roughsey, a revered elder and artistic pioneer of Indigenous art and culture. Throughout his career, he explored traditional practices, stories and ceremonies, social effects caused by missionary activity, everyday life on Mornington Island, and his journey through Cape York. The exhibition brings together seventy works including barks, paintings, ceremonial and historical objects, draft illustrations from his children’s book and three story book films.
Roughsey was well-known for his landscape paintings featuring North Queensland ancestral narratives and scenes depicting life on Mornington Island both before and after European contact. He is probably best known for his illustrated children’s books, notably The Rainbow Serpent – first published in 1975 and still in print today. Roughsey truly understood the power of storytelling, for thousands of children The Rainbow Serpent remains an important first encounter with Indigenous Australian culture and an introduction to some of the key Indigenous narratives of this land.
SOURCE: Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art.


Weinstein accusers Rose McGowan, Asia Argento respond to arrest: 'We got you'
"Harvey Weinstein ain’t smiling now," Argento tweeted.
“We got you, Harvey Weinstein, we got you.” Rose McGowan tweeted those words on Friday morning as Weinstein, the now-disgraced Hollywood movie mogul, was arrested on charges of rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct.
McGowan, one of the numerous women who alleged sexual harassment and assault at the hands of Weinstein, was joined on social media by fellow accuser Asia Argento as footage of Weinstein’s arrest was broadcast by news outlets. McGowan also appeared on Good Morning America and Megyn Kelly Today to discuss the situation.
Weinstein has repeatedly denied any instance of nonconsensual sex, though this is the first time formal charges have been handed down. According to the New York Police Department, these charges are in relation to incidents involving two women in New York.
“I have to admit I didn’t think I would see the day that he would have handcuffs on him,” McGowan told GMA‘s Amy Robach in a pre-recorded segment. “Now, of course, it’s been orchestrated: it’s a Friday of a holiday weekend, so it’s slow media, right? So they did something nice for him; it means he has friends in high-up places still. But I have a visceral need for him to have handcuffs on him.”
“Wipe that smile off your face, you f—ing monster,” Argento remarked on Twitter about photos of a smiling Weinstein surrendering himself to authorities. As he was handcuffed and transported to court, she followed up with, “Harvey Weinstein ain’t smiling now.”
McGowan alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in 1997 and that she was paid a $100,000 settlement to keep quiet. Argento recently appeared during the Closing Ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival to reiterate her allegations: “In 1997, I was raped by Harvey Weinstein here at Cannes. I was 21 years old. This festival was his hunting ground.”
Weinstein refuted her claims. “The allegations made are completely false,” his lawyer told EW of Argento’s Cannes speech. “This is clearly a painful moment for Ms. Argento, but it is a false narrative,” she added. “Harvey has only respect for Ms. Argento and wishes her well.”
“This is all happening in real time, but I can say this,” McGowan said while appearing on Megyn Kelly Today on Friday. “The man who pinned me down had handcuffs on him today.”
McGowan further said she doesn’t “ever want to see him again” and that she doesn’t want to forgive him. When asked if she could say something to Weinstein at that moment, McGowan simply said, “We got you.”
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The greatest risk to the viable growth rate of the Cypriot economy is the islands own bad habits; Finance Minister Harris Georgiades stated this week. His thoughts follow Cyprus statistical service’s (Cystat) estimated marginal economic growth rate (a mere 2.9%); both for the final quarter of last year and the entire upcoming financial year.
“The Cypriot economy is recovering, we are making up the ground lost, and we must remain unwaveringly focused on the effort. Of course it is up to us to let things run their course, and to manage this second chance we have secured responsibly and credibly to avoid repeating previous mistakes. If we do this, I am convinced the recovery will continue.” The Finance Minister told reporters at a news conference.


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CITES Proposals submitted to protect four pelagic shark species and devil rays
Helmut Nickel (mail), Shark Year Magazine,
07. February 2016
On 05. February, CITES has informed its members on the latest received proposals to amend the Appendices for several marine species.
All these proposals are related to elasmobranch species (sharks and rays) and will be considered at the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) that will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 24 September to 5 October 2016.
Sri Lanka has proposed the inclusion of all three species of thresher sharks (Alopias spp.) in Appendix II of the convention. This proposal is co-proposed by the Maldives.
Furthermore, the Maldives seek to add another pelagic shark species, the silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis), in Appendix II of the convention.
Appendix II includes species which are not necessarily threatened with extinction, but in which trade must be controlled in order to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival.
A third proposal by Fiji aims to include any putative species of devil rays ( Mobula spp. ) in the same Appendix. The CITES notification explicitly names nine different species which are listed in the table below.
During the last meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP16 in Bangkok, 2013), the required 2/3 majority of the member states voted in favour of the inclusion of the two manta ray species in Appendix II.
Now the side-intention of the new Fiji-proposal is to complement the trade regulations for the already CITES-listed manta rays (Manta spp.) rather than solely protecting the population of devil rays (Mobula spp.). Because it is believed that law enforcement officers are unlikely to be able to distinguish between specimens of the two similar-looking genera.
The 30. October 2015 was the official deadline for the submission of proposals to amend Appendices I and II for consideration at CoP17 ( if the species occurs partly or totally outside of the territory under the proponent’s jurisdiction and if the proponent does not intend to consult the other range States before the submission of its proposal).

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AWC 2021 will return after being canceled because of the pandemic last year. Tencent announced its return in a recent press release. 16 teams will compete at the event starting June 19, 2021; Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Mainland China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Brazil for the title of World Champions and a piece of the $500,00 USD prize pool. There are currently twelve confirmed teams to compete in the tournament. Here are more details about the Arena of Valor World Cup 2021.
Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 Details
The Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 has been announced after it was canceled last year due to the pandemic. The online tournament format for the upcoming tournament includes sixteen top-ranked teams from nine different regions competing for the title of World Champions.
The tournament will begin on June 19 and conclude on July 18, 2021. More information about the participating teams and live stream links will be released at a later date.
Participating Regions in the Arena of Valor World Cup 2021
Here is the list of participating regions in the upcoming AWC 2021;
- Chinese Taipei (3 Teams)
- Thailand (Three Teams)
- Vietnam (3 Teams)
- Indonesia (2 Teams)
- Korea (1 Team)
- Mainland China (1 Team)
- Japan (1 Team)
- Malaysia/Singapore/Philippines (MSP) (1 Team)
- Brazil (1 Team)
Twelve teams have already qualified for the tournament. These include:
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- Dewa United
- MAD Team
- Overclock Esports
Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 Tournament Format and Schedule
Group Stage June 19 – 27
- 16 teams will be divided into 2 groups of 4 teams.
- Teams will compete in a round-robin Bo3 Format.
- Each win will grant 1 point.
- The top 2 teams in each group will proceed to the Playoffs.
- The bottom 2 teams will be eliminated from the tournament.
Playoffs June 30 – July 18
- Double Elimination Bracket (except the one-off grand finals)
- Round 1 is played in a Bo5 Format.
- All other matches are played in a Bo7 Format.
Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 Prize Pool Distribution
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- 3rd Prize – $70,000 USD
- 4th Prize – $30,000 USD

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The Best Episodes Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
#3 - Trapped
Mission: Impossible Season 6 - Episode 22
An $8 million army payroll has been stolen from a base in SE Asia by the Stafford family, Syndicate drug smugglers. The IMF must recover the money. Jim and Barney steal a Stafford truck and then offer to sell it back to the family if they pay "protection." Jim meets with brother Doug to convince him brother Art has ordered a hit on Doug - however, Art has put a hit on Jim and he is ambushed and gets amnesia. Meanwhile, lounge-singer Casey meets with Doug and sets it up so he thinks Art is trying to kill him. Doug makes a deal with Barney for protection from his brother in return for $2 million and leads the IMF to the money - they arrest everyone and convince Art to tell them about his plan to kill Jim. Meanwhile Art's killers are on Jim's trail and when Barney gets hold of him, he manages to recover his memory just in time to thwart them.
#4 - The Question
Mission: Impossible Season 7 - Episode 16
Nicholas Varsi, an enemy assassin, has been captured but claims to be a defector who will reveal his mission to a government agency, the FIS...when he is guaranteed safe asylum. But the FIS may have been infiltrated by a deep-cover operative and Varsi may be selling fake information, so the IMF must verify if he really wants to defector. Jim and Willy break Varsi out and Jim claims to be an agent for Varsi's former government and demands to know why he is defecting. Varsi says nothing and shoots FIS agent Andrea (actually a guest IMF agent) with an empty gun. They let him and Andrea go - he'll turn Andrea back to the FIS if he's a true defector, but instead Varsi goes to a hotel to meet with his former superior, Colonel Kremmer, and the IMF must figure things out before Varsi and Andrea are both killed.
#5 - Invasion
Mission: Impossible Season 6 - Episode 9
An earthquake damages the U.S.'s Distant Early Warning (DEW) system and a Defense Department advisor, Whitmore Channing, steals plans from the Air Force identifying the weak spots. Channing has hid the information for pick-up by an enemy agent the next day, and the IMF must get the name and flight # of the agent from Channing. The IMF evacuate Channing's city block and drug him unconscious after a fake electrical shock, then wake him up after adjusting the clocks to a day later. He believes the information has already been picked up, an idea "proven" by a faked IMF invasion of the European People's Republic. But then the EPR invaders arrest Channing and put him on trial. Channing reveals the location of the drop to prove his "innocence", and then the IMF let him covertly know the whole thing is a fake. Channing calls his contact and mentions his name - the IMF get it via a tapped line and arrest the man before he can recover Channing's info.
#6 - Betrayal
Maverick Season 2 - Episode 25
Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws.
#7 - The Deal
Mission: Impossible Season 7 - Episode 3
The Syndicate plans to finance the head of the army's takeover of his country in return for the right to operate the country's vices. The IMF team must intercept the safe deposit key before it reaches the general. Willy replaces a crewman aboard the yacht, but can't find the key and is discovered. He is forced overboard, almost drowns, but escapes and helps warn the team. Jim, Barney and Mimi craft an elaborate plot to convince the bad guys' courier to reveal the location of the key.
#8 - Two Thousand
Mission: Impossible Season 7 - Episode 2
Joseph Collins, a nuclear physicist, steals plutonium and is going to sell it to a unidentified foreign interest through a man named Haig. The IMF must identify Haig and locate the plutonium, so they feed Collins fake news story about military action in the Middle East, then arrest him for murder and show him film of Los Angeles under attack before knocking him out. When he wakes up, for Collins its the year 2000, he's been unconscious for 28 years, and the state exterminates anyone at the age of 65...which Collins will be in two days. Desperate, he escapes from his cell and finds a secret meeting of military heads who are ready to surrender beacuse of their lack of nuclear material - Collins obligingly gives them the location of his cache.
#10 - Boomerang
Mission: Impossible Season 7 - Episode 15
Syndicater John Vayle, a member of the Luchek Family, dies in a plane explosion - the IMF believes Vayle's wife Eve set him up to get hold of records, which would be invaluable as evidence against Luchek. Eve has the records and plans to blackmail Luchek - Jim pretends to be a killer sent after her who Eve plays to find out who wanted her dead. The IMF set it up to look like her husband John is still alive and using truth serum on her in her sleep to provide the location of the records. Barney, a crooked cop, claims that he was working with Johnny and killed him afterward, and Eve has to check the records to make sure they still exist - the IMF follow her and Luchek to them and arrest everyone.
#14 - Diamond in the Rough
CHiPs Season 5 - Episode 8
A friend of Getraer's son is involved in an accident, while a gang of criminals plot a complex bank robbery. Getraer is giving Timmies friend a home while they're searching for his dad. Timmies friend has much problems with the role of a father as he never had one.
#18 - The Bionic Criminal
The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 - Episode 9
Barney Miller, the seven million dollar man, is reactivated. Having apparently recovered, he's eager to resume auto racing. However, when the team owner won't let him race, Barney attacks the man and mistakenly believes he's killed him. Barney has a mental break from the stress and goes on crime spree, and Steve must track him down.
#20 - Bobby's Hero
The Brady Bunch Season 4 - Episode 17
The principal calls home to alert Mike and Carol to the fact that Bobby's playing Jesse James at school. This leads Mike and Carol to learn just how obsessed Bobby about his "idol" and try to dissuade him from worshiping a cold hearted killer.
#21 - Leona
Mission: Impossible Season 7 - Episode 4
Syndicate boss Mike Apollo was being infiltrator by a Federal agent, Parnell, who disappeared - the IMF assumes Apollo is torturing him for information. The IMF must learn where Parnell is. Since fellow Syndicate boss Joe Epic's wife Leona died under mysterious circumstances while Apollo was elsewhere with Parnell, Jim as an insurance investigator reopens the case and hints to Epic his wife was involved with an affair. The IMF plants evidence the affair was with a fellow Syndicate boss, Apollo himself. Jim leaks a fake story to Epic's secretary that Epic is planning to kill Apollo. When Epic accuses Apollo of killing his wife at a Syndicate meeting Jim tells a different story, that it could have been Leona's husband or lover. To clear himself Apollo produces the imprisoned Parnell, at which point the police move in and arrest everyone.
#23 - A Threat of War (a.k.a. Karate II)
CHiPs Season 5 - Episode 22
Ponch and Jon tackle two karate chopping gangs. The officers meet Andy Macedon, Danny and Rivas again. A pine plant programm helps to solve the gang problems. No one believes Andy that he is no criminal anymore.
#25 - Cosmic Whiz Kid
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Season 1 - Episode 11
Hieronymous Fox, an 11-year-old child genius from the 20th Century is kidnapped for ransom by the sinister Roderick Zale. The boy is the President of the planet Genesia and his bodyguard fears that he will be killed because they cannot meet the ransom demand. Buck, Wilma, and the bodyguard then make separate attempts to rescue the boy.
#27 - Skateboard Wiz
Wonder Woman Season 3 - Episode 8
Diana's god-daughter, a teenage skateboard whiz, is used by a mobster for extortion and blackmail purposes.
#30 - The Western
Mission: Impossible Season 7 - Episode 21
Van Cleve and his partner, Royce, robbed a museum of pre-Colombian artifacts - Cleve apparently killed his partner and has the artwork hidden somewhere in the U.S. and the IMF must find it and bring him to justice. The IMF convince Cleve that he has the ability to see the future with some rigged incidents. Then they convince him that he'll die in an earthquake that will cause a dam nearby to burst - Cleve flees to the desert where he has the art hidden. The IMF follow him and manage to grab him and Royce, who faked his death and planned to kill Cleve and grab the artifacts.
#31 - Last Day, First Day
Quincy, M.E. Season 6 - Episode 3
A lawyer, who also was a small time coke dealer, is murdered by a group of crooks who inject him with a lethal dose of cocaine. The killers then try to make it look like an accident by putting him in his car and having it drive off the road and explode. However, the plan goes awry when the victim is thrown from the car before it explodes. The killers then blackmail the son of one of Quincy's colleagues to try to get him to get his father to fix the autopsy so that there is no trace of cocaine in his system. When Quincy finds out what happens he tries not only to save his friend's reputation, but possibly his life.
#32 - The Heiress
Dallas Season 3 - Episode 11
It's Jock's birthday, and J.R. stages a fight with Alan Bean at his party, attracting Lucy's eye, but in pursuing him, she witnesses an important meeting. Miss Ellie is still struggling with her self-image. Bobby investigates J.R's Asian project.
#35 - Hooray for Hollywood (1)
Diff'rent Strokes Season 6 - Episode 16
Upset over Maggie breaking off their relationship, Drummond chases her to Hollywood to win back her heart, but while he woos Maggie, Arnold and Dudley sneak away from a studio tour to find the star of Knight Rider and wind up in a life threatening situation.
#36 - Stolen Faces
Wonder Woman Season 3 - Episode 10
People are being duplicated including Steve Trevor Jr., and Wonder Woman herself.
#37 - Peter and the Wolf
The Brady Bunch Season 5 - Episode 5
Greg's date can only go out with him if he can get a date for her visiting cousin. So Greg gets Peter to wear a fake moustache and act like an older man on the double date.
#38 - Black Fire
Maverick Season 1 - Episode 25
The heirs of millionaire General Eakins are being killed off one by one so why is Bret Maverick so worried? He's posing as one of the heirs and might be the next intended victim.
#40 - The Penguin Goes Straight
Batman (1966) Season 1 - Episode 21
After his recent release from jail, The Penguin has started his own protective agency and is thwarting small time hoodlums everywhere he goes. Batman & Robin decide to send in an undercover Alfred to spy on the newly reformed Penguin and his recently acquainted high society friends. However, the Penguin has anticipated Batman and Robin’s every move and manages to give them a makeover into wanted men instead of him.
#41 - Not Yet, He Ain't
Batman (1966) Season 1 - Episode 22
Already wanted for a robbery they didn’t commit, Batman and Robin fake their own deaths with a little help from Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara. They even allow the Penguin to take hold of the Batmobile, now renamed ’Birdmobile’ in order to keep track on them via a hidden camera.
#43 - Power Play
Dallas Season 3 - Episode 16
Lucy is secretly seeing Alan Beam, but all he is interested in is her family's money. Pam is promoted at her job once again and problems in her marriage, and the bedroom, are on the rise. Kristin is finding her charms on the wane to J.R., and she isn't happy. J.R. sees an opportunity to rid himself of Lucy, and Gary... once and for all.
#44 - The Not-So-Rose-Colored Glasses
The Brady Bunch Season 3 - Episode 13
After taking the wrong bike from school and with her grades beginning to slip, Jan is fitted with a pair of glasses. But her unwillingness to wear the glasses leads to the destruction of Mike's anniversary gift to Carol, a portrait of all six children, and the kids must try to reshoot the photo without Mike knowing.
#45 - Stone Pillow (aka Big House)
Mission: Impossible Season 6 - Episode 16
A private detective, Edison, has pictures incriminating Syndicate boss Vochek in a murder and is using them to blackmail the mobster. The IMF need to get the pictures to get Vochek convicted, but Edison has been convicted and is in prison for six months. Since Edison is unaware that his accomplice Leona is dead, Casey takes her role while Jim is Edison's cellmate and helps him to escape, then fake their deaths. Casey-as-Leona tells Edison she sent the evidence to the D.A. after she heard Edison was dead, and Jim convinces Edison she is keeping the pictures to pull off her own blackmail scheme. When Edison confronts her, Jim fake-shoots her but she calls a confederate to get the film - desperate, Edison reveals the location himself as he goes for it, and ends up arrested.
#46 - Breaking Point
CHiPs Season 5 - Episode 13
Ponch has a bad accident. After that he's not able to drive his motorbike and get's vacation from Getraer. His sister Patti visits him and both begin to think about a new start. The fellow officers have much to do to bring Ponch back.
#48 - The Bundle from Britain
Maverick Season 4 - Episode 1
Returning to America after an extended stay in England, Cousin Beau Maverick (Roger Moore) is hired to take the place of a young English nobleman. However, he soon finds himself the victim of a kidnap and ransom plot due to his assumed identity.
#51 - The Ghost Soldiers
Maverick Season 3 - Episode 9
Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against War Hungry Indians. Maverick succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspicious Indian chief (Paul Clarke) causes him to reconsider.
#52 - Bright Flashes
CHiPs Season 5 - Episode 15
A criminal gang equipped with a powerful laser cause havoc, committing robberies and blinding witnesses. Ponch drives an Oldtimer race and Jon tries to help an old Western star who is giving up. Wayne Cato's horse has a secret that helps catching the laser attackers.
#54 - The Cincinnati Kids
The Brady Bunch Season 5 - Episode 11
Mike brings along the family on a business trip to an amusement park in Cincinnati. But when a mix-up occurs with Mike's blueprints, the Bradys must scour the park to find them.
#55 - A Tale of Three Cities
Maverick Season 3 - Episode 6
Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way from the local Ladies Aid Society.


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My name is Brendon Henry, and I am running to represent New York's First Congressional District in 2018. I am a life long resident of Eastern Long Island. I was born and raised here in a working family, and understand the value of hard work and the power of determination. I graduated high school here, and became the first to graduate college in my family here. I met and married my wife Brittany here, and now we are raising our son where we have always loved to call our home. Washington has forgotten who it works for, and I intend to remind them that the people always come first. We need a Congress that accurately and actually represents our people and district, not just the will of the parties. I will always put the needs and desires of the people of this district over party first politics, big money, and special interests. I hope to have your support as we try to restore order and accountability to Washington. Every voice matters, and my ear will always be available, my door will always be open, and together we can work to make our district the best it can be for everyone.
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