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alyygx · 7 months

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Easy Company Members Sorted Between Surviving and Not Surviving WWII:

Died During the War:

Company Commanders:

First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III (July 8th, 1921 - June 6th, 1944)

Non-commissioned Officers:

Sergeant Warren Harold "Skip" Muck (January 31st, 1922 - January 10th, 1945)

Enlisted Men:

Corporal Donald B. "Hoob" Hoobler (June 28th, 1922 - January 3rd, 1945)

Private First Class Alex Mike Penkala (August 30th, 1924 - January 10th, 1945)

Survived the War:

Company Commanders:

Captain Herbert Maxwell Sobel (January 26th, 1912 - September 30th, 1987)

Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters (January 21st, 1918 - January 2nd, 2011)

First Lieutenant Frederick Theodore "Moose" Heyliger (June 23rd, 1916 - November 3rd, 2001)

First Lieutenant Norman Staunton "Foxhole Norman" Dike Jr. (May 19th, 1918 - June 23rd, 1989)

Captain Ronald Charles Speirs (April 20th, 1920 - April 11th, 2007)

Junior Officers:

Captain Lewis Nixon (September 30th, 1918 - January 11th, 1995)

First Lieutenant Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (December 31st, 1921 - February 25th, 2012)

First Lieutenant Edward David "Ed" Shames (June 13th, 1922 - December 3rd, 2021)

Second Lieutenant Robert Burnham "Bob" Brewer (January 31st, 1924 - December 5th, 1996)

Second Lieutenant Clifford Carwood "Lip" Lipton (January 30th, 1920 - December 16th, 2001)

Non-commissioned Officers:

Technical Sergeant Donald George "Don" Malarkey (July 30th, 1920 - September 30th, 2017)

Staff Sergeant William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere Sr. (April 28th, 1923 - March 8th, 2014)

Staff Sergeant Herman "Hank, Hack" Hanson (January 3rd, 1918 - May 15th, 1971)

Staff Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman (November 20th, 1920 - June 26th, 2003)

Staff Sergeant Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (March 13th, 1923 - June 17th, 2009)

Staff Sergeant John W. "Johnny" Martin (December 8th, 1921 - December 31st, 2012)

Staff Sergeant Floyd "Tab" Talbert (August 26th, 1923 - October 10th, 1982)

Staff Sergeant Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (March 1922 - October 12th, 1982)

Staff Sergeant Joseph John "Joe" Toye (March 14th, 1919 - September 3rd, 1995)

Sergeant Robert Emory "Popeye" Wynn Jr. (July 10th, 1921 - March 18th, 2000)

Sergeant James H. "Moe" Alley (July 20th, 1922 - March 14th, 2008)

Sergeant Wayne "Skinny" Sisk (March 4th, 1922 - July 13th, 1999)

Corporal Walter Scott "Smokey" Gordon Jr. (April 15th, 1920 - April 19th, 1997)

Enlisted Men:

Technician Fourth Grade George Luz (June 17th, 1921 - October 15th, 1998)

Technician Fourth Grade Eugene Gilbert "Doc" Roe Sr. (October 17th, 1922 - December 30th, 1998)

Technician Fifth Grade Joseph David "Joe" Liebgott (May 17th, 1915 - June 28th, 1992)

Private First Class Edward James "Babe" Heffron (May 16th, 1923 - December 1st, 2013)

Private First Class Edward Joseph "Tip" Tipper (August 3rd, 1921 - February 1st, 2017)

Private First Class David Kenyon Webster (June 2nd, 1922 - September 9th, 1961)

*This is not all of Easy Co. just some of the more recognizable names. If I missed anyone that you would like to see listed please message me and I would be glad to add him.

**I was also thinking about adding more info to this list and/or making a separate post with additional details like awards/medals, how and where they were wounded (if at all), and maybe some personal details like where they were born/died, their family (parents, siblings, spouse, children), what they did after the war (if they survived) stuff like that (though that might be a separate list idk yet). I would love to hear your opinion and if you'd like to see something like this. Basically just one large masterpost! Message me and tell me your thoughts!!!! I'm open to ideas!

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end-game-is-paradise · 4 years

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Swift-mas 🎄 in July 💥

When I think about Taylor Swift and I think about holidays, the two that spring to mind first are Christmas and Independence Day.

This post (and future ones added to it) will be an ongoing analysis on Taylor’s references to both holidays and how they play a role in her life and her public image as a celebrity. I’ll also dive into various Easter eggs from interviews and music videos and of course from her lyrics.

For some context this is building off a recent post by @daylicate related to religion, New Age Deceit and Jesus Christ.

https://daylicate.tumblr.com/post/623272154372374528/from-new-age-deceit-to-jesus-boy-i-did-not

To begin, what do we know about Taylor Swift’s religious upbringing?

For me personally, not much. So I did some digging and found myself listening - really listening - to her Christmas album original songs for the first time.

The album is a classic for longtime Swifties but unknown to many after its initial release in 2007.

-> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taylor_Swift_Holiday_Collection

💫 🎄

See the lyrics below and you’ll understand why it stuck out to me after reading the above post .

✨ Christmas Must Mean Something More ✨

SONG LYRICS -> https://youtu.be/9HHIGzI6Hjg

What if ribbons and bows didn't mean a thing

Would the song still survive without five golden rings

Would you still wanna kiss without mistletoe

What would happen if God never let it snow ❄️

What would happen if Christmas carols told a lie

Tell me what would you find

You'd see that today holds something special

Something holy, not superficial 🎁 ✨🙏

So here's to the birthday boy who saved our lives

It's something we all try to ignore

And put a wreath up on your door

So here's something you should know that is for sure

Christmas must be something more ✨

What if angels did not pay attention to 👼

All the things that we wished they would always do

What if happiness came in a cardboard box 📦

Then I think there is something we all forgot 🌎

What would happen if presents all went away 🎁

Tell me what would you find

We get so caught up in all of it

Business and relationships

Hundred mile an hour lives

And it's this time of year and everybody's here

It seems the last thing on your mind

Is that the day holds something special

Something holy, not superficial

So here's to Jesus Christ who saved our lives

It's something we all try to ignore and put a wreath up on your door

But here's something you should know that is for sure, Christmas must be something - Christmas must be something more

There's gotta be more...

- - - - - - -

2014 leads us to ...

Taylor Swift - Christmas Angel 👼

Taylor Swift being the most giving celebrity to her fans EVER. Seriously being a Christmas giving angel 😇 🎁 ❄️

youtube

https://youtu.be/j3yyF31jbKo

Moving on to...

2019 🎄 Christmas Returns

As any true Swiftie knows, Taylor grew up on a Christmas Tree Farm in PA before moving to Nashville to pursue her Country Star dreams.

Before getting too much into the song, Taylor already was leaving hints of her return to Christmas music in her music videos.

ME! 🎄

LOVER 🎄

Also featured in the Lover music video ✨ footage from 4th of July, 2016 celebrations 💥

I’ll be diving more into -> 🎇 Independence Day in a future post.

Lover also features the house in the snow globe and I can go into a full other post analyzing that - yes the Kaylor references - but also the doll house aspect of it all. Moving back to the Christmas Tree Farm 🎄

youtube

-> https://youtu.be/mN3rDTAdM2o

Sample of LYRICS:

My winter nights are taken up by static

Stress, and holiday shopping traffic

But I close my eyes, and I'm somewhere else

Just like magic ✨

In my heart is a Christmas tree farm 🏡 ❤️🎄

Where the people would come

To dance under sparkling lights ✨ 💃

Bundled up in their mittens and coats

And the cider would flow

And I just wanna be there tonight

Sweet dreams of holly and ribbon 🎁

Mistakes are forgiven

And everything is icy and blue ❄️

And you would be there too

Under the mistletoe 🎄

Watching the fire glow 🔥

And telling me, "I love you"

Just being in your arms 🤗

Takes me back to that little farm 🌲

Where every wish comes true 💫

In my heart is a Christmas tree farm 🏡 ❤️ 🎄

There's a light in the barn 💡

We'd run inside out from the cold 🥶

In the town, kids are dreaming of sleighs 🛷

And they're warm and they're safe

They wake to see a blanket of snow ❄️ ⛄️

————

And when I'm feeling alone

You remind me of home 🏡 🎄

Oh baby, baby, Merry Christmas

And when the world isn't fair

I’ll pretend that we're there

Baby, baby, Merry Christmas

Oh baby, baby, Merry Christmas

May your every wish come true 🎄

I love you ❤️

——

In conclusion for this first post - both Christmas songs are about people getting consumed with life and losing sight of the true meaning of Christmas - family, loved ones, and Jesus Christ (full disclosure- I’m Jewish, so someone with more knowledge feel free to add onto these ideas and explore further 😂)

@taylorswift

#follow the white rabbit #taylor swift #end game is paradise #kaylor #taymerica #swiftmas #lover

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scotianostra · 5 years

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Happy Birthday to the multi-talented Ronni Ancona, born on July 4th 1968 in Troon.

Ronni’s father was a commander in the Royal Navy and her mother was an artist who painted the sets at the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr. She attended Marr College, a secondary school in Troon, before heading to study design at St Martin’s in London.

As well as being a qualified designer and teacher, Ronni Ancona is also an actress, impressionist, comedienne and writer. Her comedy career started on the comedy circuit, winning the Time Out Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 1993. She worked extensively in radio and television before becoming a household name in the BAFTA Award-winning Big Impression, for which she won a British Comedy Award and Variety Club Award.

Since Ronni Ancona then Ronni has worked in film, television and theater, she has made regular appearances on BBC as a panelist on QI and has hosted Have I got News for You. In 2007 she starred in her own BBC comedy series Ronni Ancona & Co. In 2009 she starred in BBC’s drama Hope Springs, alongside Alex Kingston and Richard Madden, and published her first book A Matter of Life And Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football in 2009 . In addition, she played a recurring role in Channel 4’s popular series Skins. Other TV appearances have included, Still Game, Citizen Khan, Father Brown and Midsomer Murders.

Ronni was in a relationship with Alistair McGowan for 7 years, it ended just before they started working together, her brother Simon followed their father’s career and joined the Navy, he is now a Rear Admiral.

Recently she has appeared in the Imitation Game on ITV and the film Surviving Christmas with the Relatives. She has just finished filming of a comedy horror, The Devil Went Down To Islington.

#Scotland #scottisih #impersonator #Actress #writer #mother

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therestorationmusic · 5 years

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A Very Fond Bon-Voyage to Adam Corbett

Adam and Crystal (D. Machado, 2005)

Adam Corbett had played music since he was a kid, but I first saw him perform at his band’s rehearsal space in Red Bank, SC on a hot Sunday afternoon in 2003. His songs featured idiosyncratic lyrics about personified moons, mystic wolves, snakes, and surviving the wasteland with an empty tank of gas. The arrangements were simultaneously acoustic and electric. The band rocked, and featured a funky backbeat. His voice and guitar were distinct and felt authentic both to who he was and where he was from. I was immediately a fan.

Guitar Show (J. Labbé, 2005)

A few years of shared bills later, Adam joined up with my band at the time, Guitar Show, on bass guitar. Together we released an EP and a 16-track album while Adam continued to write and perform under a few equally engaging projects ranging from lofi folk as “Creature the Preacher” to prog as “The Ghost of FDR”—I’ve never known anyone who can so effortlessly re-imagine and rearrange songs and musical ideas as Adam.

Guitar Show: myself, Bill Elliott, Adam Corbett (2005)

Solo promo (2005)

Co-bill, Atlanta, GA (2005)

Guitar Show in NYC (2007)

In 2007, burnt out on 90s-inspired rock and autobiographical songs that somehow felt detached from who I was and where I was from, Adam seemed like the perfect person to hear my pitch for The Restoration, a band seeking to make regionally-inspired music. We rehearsed early songs in my apartment’s living room with fellow founding members Lauren Garner, Sharon Gnanashekar, and Eddie Lord until playing our first shows in 2008. We released an EP in 2009, our first album in 2010, followed by another in 2012, a second EP in 2015, and a full-length, West, arriving October 2019.

The Restoration: Eddie Lord, Adam Corbett, Sharon Gnanashekar, myself and Lauren Garner (M. West, 2009)

Early show (2009)

Nashville, TN (2012)

w/ Shovels & Rope (2014)

Adam has given The Restoration his incredible talents through distinctive arrangements on bass and percussion, and the composition of some of our favorite songs: “Reverend Samuel Harper” and “The Werewolf of Balentine,” along with a batch of songs about the Harper character that formed a major story arc in the Constance musical produced by Columbia, SC’s Trustus Theatre.

Paul Kaufman as Rev. Samuel Harper w/ ensemble in Trustus Theatre’s Constance musical (B. Martin, 2018)

During his time with The Restoration Adam also released an EP of lush, upbeat folk rock under his name, and performed and recorded electronic indie-pop that only he could make under the projects “Lazy A and the Green Thing,” and, later, “Husband,” a band featuring compositions and vocals by his wife, Bekah Rice Corbett.

Over a year ago, after completing his parts for The Restoration’s new album, Adam mentioned that he might want to step back from playing bass to focus on his own projects sometime in the future. After seeing us through the completion of West and performing at its Columbia, SC release party, Adam feels the time is right to make this move. With our full support, the release party on October 4th will be Adam’s last show with The Restoration. And with Adam’s full support, The Restoration will continue the promotional circuit for West, with shows planned in Washington, D.C., Burlington, VT, the SC regional area and onward.

Husband: Adam and Bekah Rice Corbett (S. Sanders, 2016)

For 15 years, hundreds of shows, and 5 hours of music across 8 recording projects, Adam has lent his talents, ideas, songs, influence and rehearsal space to my music. Simultaneously he’s been and continues to be a great friend, creative inspiration, and collaborator in other mediums.

When Adam released a new solo single in July I excitedly clicked the link and loved every minute of another track only he could make. I’ve never stopped being his fan and I'm so excited to hear what he does next.

— Daniel

Pre-show in Asheville, NC (B. Lach, 2011)

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classic-rock-roller · 6 years

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The Van Halen Timeline

Mostly Taken from Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga by Ian Christe, everything after March 2007 is from my own research

October 13th, 1947: Sammy Hagar born in Monterey, California

May 8th, 1953: Alexander Arthur van Halen born in Holland

October 10th, 1953: David Lee Roth born in Bloomington, Indiana

June 20th, 1954: Michael Anthony Sobolewski born in Chicago, Illinois

January 26th, 1955: Edward Lodwijk van Halen born in Holland

July 26th, 1961: Gary Cherone born in Malden, Massachusetts

Winter 1962: Jan van Halen emigrates with his family to California

1967: Edward gets $100 Teisco Del Ray guitar from Sears

1971: Alex and Eddie Van Halen form the Trojan Rubber Company

Autumn 1973: David Lee Roth joins the Van Halen brothers in Mammoth

1973: Sammy Hagar joins Montrose, records two albums, and tours heavily

Spring 1974: Mike Sobolewski joins Van Halen, becomes Michael Anthony

May 1976: Gene Simmons “discovers” Van Halen at the Starwood, finances unsuccessful demo tape

1976: Sammy Hagar leaves Montrose, launches solo career

May 1977: Ted Templeton rediscovers Van Halen, signs band to Warner Bros.

February 10th, 1978: Release of Van Halen; leading to tours with Journey, then Black Sabbath

October 10th, 1978: Van Halen goes platinum

March 23rd, 1979: Release of Van Halen II; first headlining tour runs through October

March 26th, 1980: Release of Women and Children First

August 29th, 1980: Eddie Van Halen meets Valerie Bertinelli

April 11th, 1981: Eddie marries Valerie

April 29th, 1981: Release of Fair Warning

April 14th, 1982: Release of Diver Down

May 29th, 1983: Van Halen paid $1.5 million to play for four hundred thousand people at US Festival ‘83

January 4th, 1984: Release of 1984, featuring band’s first number 1 singe, “Jump”

September 2nd, 1984: Final show by classic lineup in Nuremberg, Germany

December 31st, 1984: David Lee Roth releases Crazy from the Heat

1985: Cherone’s band the Dream wins MTV’s Basement Tapes

April 1985: David Lee Roth exits Van Halen

September 1985: Eddie Van Halen announces at Farm Aid that Sammy Hagar is Van Halen’s new lead singer

November 19th, 1985: Sammy Hagar’s ninth studio album, VOA, becomes his first platinum-selling disc

March 24th, 1986: Release date of 5150; first “Van Hagar” album sells triple platinum by October

July 4th, 1986: Release of David Lee Roth’s platinum solo debut, Eat ‘Em and Smile

December 1986: Jan Van Halen dies

May 24th, 1988: Release of OU812, followed shortly by Roth’s Skyscraper

Summer 1988: Eddie attempts sobriety while Van Halen tours with Metallica, Scorpions, and Dokken

February 1989: Tone Lōc;s “Wild Thing” reaches number 2, a rap single that samples Van Halen’s “Jamie’s Cryin”

April 22nd, 1990: Van Halen performs at opening of Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico

June 8th, 1990: Extreme’s “More than Words” single hits number 1

February 2nd, 1991: Release of David Lee Roth’s A Little Ain’t Enough, his last gold record as a solo artist

March 16th, 1991: Eddie’s son Wolfgang Van Halen born

June 17th, 1991: Release of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Van Halen’s third-straight number 1 album

January 1991: Eddie debuts the EVH Music Man guitar and the Peavey 5150 amplifier line

April 20th, 1992: Gary Cherone joins surviving members of Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in London

February 23rd, 1993: Release of first official live album, Right Here, Right Now

October 16th, 1993: Van Halen’s manager since 1985, Ed Leffler, dies

March 14th, 1994: Sammy Hagar releases solo collection, Unboxed

October 2nd, 1994: Fresh from rehab, Eddie Van Halen announces he will never drink again

January 24th, 1995: Release of Balance, the fourth consecutive number 1 studio album

April 7th, 1995: Eddie arrested at Burbank Airport carrying a loaded gun

April 26th, 1995: Van Halen returns to Europe after eleven years, as an opening act for Bon Jovi

Fall 1995: David Lee Roth appears in Reno and Las Vegas with a fourteen-piece band

November 29th, 1995: Sammy Hagar marries second wife, Kari

June 1996: Eddie and Sammy fight during a phone call; Sammy Hagar leaves Van Halen

August 7th, 1996: Van Halen certified diamond for ten million sold

September 4th, 1996: Original members of Van Halen appear together at MTV Video Music Awards, leading to renewed quarrels

October 4th, 1996: Alex and Eddie announce that Van Halen’s new singer will be Gary Cherone

October 22nd, 1996: Release of Best of Volume I, with two new songs featuring Roth; despite the recent split with the band, it is his first number 1 album

March 17th, 1998: Release of Van Halen III, the first VH . studio album not to go platinum

November 5th, 1999: Gary Cherone leaves Van Halen

May 2000: Texas hospital confirms Eddie in outpatient cancer prevention

Summer 2001: Van Halen completes at least three new songs with David Lee Roth

January 2002: Van Halen’s partnership with Warner Bros. ends after twenty-three years

April 15th, 2002: David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar announce joint forty-date summer concert tour

May 2002: Doctors declare Eddie Van Halen cancer free

July 2002: Eddie and Valerie Van Halen announce separation

April 2004: Sammy’s Cabo Wabo Cantina opens a branch in basement of a Lake Tahoe casino; Cabo Wabo tequila ships over 110,000 cases for the year

June 11th, 2004: Van Halen launches reunion tour with Sammy Hagar; relations sour by the end of the summer

November 19th, 2004: Eddie smashes two Peavey Wolfgang guitars, ending his thirteen-year partnership

December 6th, 2005: Eddie and Valerie officially file for divorce

January 2006: David Lee Roth replaces Howard Stern as morning radio DJ; lasts through April

September 2006: Eddie Van Halen announces that Van Halen will tour in 2007 with his son, Wolfgang, playing bass

December 2006: Roth rehearses with a new all-Van Halen lineup

March 2007: Van Halen inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

September 27th, 2007: Van Halen started their new tour in Charlotte, North Carolina

March 5th, 2008: World Weekly Entertainment to CBS News reported that the reason the tour had been interrupted was Eddie Van Halen’s needing to reenter rehab

June 2nd, 2008: The tour ended at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan

July 3rd, 2008: Van Halen headlined the Quebec City Summer Festival

August 2010: Warner/Chappell Music extends its administration agreements with Van Halen

January 17th, 2011: Van Halen enters the Hensen Studio C with Producer Jon Shanks

December 26th, 2011: Their official website is updated, announcing that tickets for their 2012 tour will be available beginning January 10th, 2012

January 5th, 2012: Van Halen plays an intimate gig at Café Wha? in New York City

January 10th, 2012: Van Halen’s single “Tattoo” makes it’s premier on radio stations

February 7th, 2012: A Different Kind of Truth is released

August 30th, 2012: Eddie Van Halen is diagnosed with diverticulitis and undergoes surgery, which postpones the shows in Japan

April 20th, 2013: Van Halen performs it’s first show outside North American with Roth since 1984

February 2015: Van Halen fansite, VHND.com, announces that Van Halen is releasing their first every live album with David Lee Roth, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert

March 24th, 2015: Van Halen announces a 39 date tour with Roth that will take place between July and October across North America

March 31st, 2015: Tokyo Dome Live in Concert is released

April 2015: Eddie Van Halen tells Rolling Stone that the band “will probably hunker down and do a studio album” after their tour

January 16th, 2016: Michael Anthony clears up the rumor that he might be rejoining Van Halen

February 26th, 2016: David Lee Roth clears up some rumors about his recently released song “Ain’t No Christmas”, saying that it has nothing to do with Van Halen

May 25th, 2016: David Lee Roth says he believes he’ll be back with Van Halen

August 17th, 2016: Sammy Hagar apologizes to Van Halen

December 23rd, 2016: Rumors start to fly about Van Halen reuniting for album and 2018 tour

March 12th, 2017: Michael Anthony says that it’s time for Roth/Hagar Van Halen tour

June 22nd, 2017: Michael Anthony says that now is a perfect time for a reunion of the classic lineup of Van Halen

November 2nd, 2017: Sammy Hagar says that there is no chance of a Van Halen reunion

January 5th, 2018: Michael Anthony is interviewed for upcoming Van Halen documentary

January 20th, 2018: Van Halen is rumored to have new music and 2018 tour

January 29th, 2018: Eddie Van Halen sues to stop release of “5150 Vault” documentary

#van halen #eddie van halen #alex van halen #david lee roth #michael anthony #sammy hagar #gary cherone #wolfgang van halen #van halen timeline

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lessthanmacyalexis · 7 years

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Macy Alexis Barianna

December 25th, 2000 - Age 9: Macy Alexis gets a tape recorder and casette tapes for Christmas. She can’t get the timing right, and ends up mashing songs together on accident. Eventually she started doing it on purpose, swearing she liked how they sounded. Until she got real mixing equipment, at least.

September 11th 2001 -Age 10: The entire Barianna family crowds back into their parent’s house. The watch on the new even though they can see the smoke outside. Macy Alexis can’t remember any other time she’d seen her father that scared.

October 31st 2004 - Age 13: Macy gets her first kiss at a Halloween party, while playing spin the bottle. Superman’s kiss tastes like melted snickers and pizza grease.

April 13th, 2006- Age 14: Macy Alexis DJs a school dance for 50 bucks. She keeps taking jobs, and eventually develops a following. The height of her career was getting to headline her own show at a club on her 18th birthday. Her experience earns her a full ride at the University of Wales.

September 2nd, 2007- Age 15: Macy Alexis buys orange hairdye from CVS. It comes out patchy and terrible, but she keeps her hair orange for the next decade.

May 23rd, 2007 -Age 15: Sarah Winslow moves in a block away from the Barianna household, and transfers into Macy’s class. They’re dating by the end of the school year.

July 12, 2007- Age 16: Macy Alexis loses her virginity.

January 10th, 2008- Age 16 Macy says I love you for the first time. Sarah says it back. They make plans for when they graduate, to run away together, to college outside of the US. Be out and live their lives together.

July 22nd, 2009- Age 18: Macy’s mom walks in on Sarah and Macy. Kicks her out without the chance to pack anything, or say goodbye to her siblings. Tells her that she’ll pay for a hotel room until Macy goes to Wales as long as she stays out of contact. Macy tries to turn to Sarah, only to find that Sarah is claiming Macy pressured her into having sex, that she never wanted to. Macy has nobody to turn to. She comes home one day when her family is gone to pack a bag and take the cat. It is the last time she’ll step foot in the Barianna household for seven years.

Novemeber 10th, 2013- Age 22: Macy Alexis reapplies for her student visa for her dual masters degree after double majoring in Music Technology and Music Production. Her extended student visa is denied, and she moved to Portland to finish her masters degrees. She only finishes one while she’s there.

January 28th, 2014- Age 22: Macy sleeps with Tybalt Sinclair. Neither of them realize the condom breaks. She gets pregnant, Briefly, she considers an abortion, before deciding to go through with it and become a mother.

July 12th, 2014- Age 23: Macy Alexis reaches out to her younger siblings about her pregnancy. It’s the first contact she’s had in five years with any member of her family.

October 14th 2014- Age 23: Julia Blake Barianna Sinclair is born. Sinclair is legally removed from all official document while she is two, and Ty has no legal custody. Macy hasn’t spoke to him since before Julia was born. Julia Blake is the love of Macy’s life.

November 22nd, 2015- Age 24: Macy Alexis meets Dustin Montgomery. They talk about where they would escape to if the purge was real and weird creations of children’s imaginations. She has no idea what she’s in for.

December 25th, 2015- Age 24: Macy’s entire family is in Portland to spend the holiday with her and Julia. Rhys decides to move to Portland with her. Macy sneaks away from her family after their dinner to spend a portion of the holiday with Dustin. She realizes that she doesn’t feel casually about him at all.

January 12th, 2016- Age 24: Macy Alexis breaks things off with Dustin. She doesn’t want their relationship to be casual and he had made it clear that was all her was interested in right now.

January 14th, 2016- Age 24: Macy Alexis is entirely sick of losing people in her life. Her family for five years, Sarah, Ty, Laiken, and now Dustin. It felt like a matter of time before she lost everyone again anyways. She makes sure her last words to everybody are ‘I love you’, and writes suicide notes. She doesn’t give Dustin his. Suffering from untreated postpartum depression, Macy Alexis swallows an entire bottle of pain medication. She barely survives.

March 30th, 2016- Age 24: Macy Alexis moves back to New York. She keeps in touch with Blake,and tries to keep in contact with her other friends, but loses touch with all of them.

July 1st, 2016: - Age 24: Macy is offered a job at Lotus Records as a assistant music producer. They offer to pay for her to finish the last credits of her major at Lakewood University. After her birthday, Macy Alexis moves to LA. Tries to convince Blake to move back stateside.

December 4th, 2016 - Age 25: Macy runs into Killian teaching at Lakewood University. Her gut gets the better of her, and she lets Blake know where he and Evie are. She does not regret meddling for a second. Still posits that they are soulmates, and belong together. Though she’ll never say it outloud because she think’s they’d lord it over her forever, she hopes for a relationship like theirs someday.

May 3rd, 2017- Age 25: Lotus records scouts All Systems Go. Macy Alexis is assigned as their lead producer. It will be the her first ever producer credit.

June 28, 2017- Age 25: Macy runs into Dustin again. None of her feelings have faded. In a moment of panic, she strips her hair of all color. Blake has to talk her out of sleeping with a stranger just to not fall for him again. He comes over that night. Macy wonders if this is what real love feels like.

June 30th, 2017- Age 25: Macy invites Dustin to In-N-Out so she can talk about how she’s feeling. He brings it up first. They agree to take things slow. They are bad at taking things slow.

July 14th, 2017-Age 26: Dustin sleeps with Jagger, a day after having spent the last two with her for her birthday. Macy finds out because of a snapchat Jagger sends to Killian. They aren’t technically together, but Macy is very jealous and hates thinking about it. She is godawful at pretending it doesn’t bother her. Loses a day of recording talking to her band about how much it bothers her.

July 18th, 2017- Age 26: Macy bites the bullet and talks to Dustin about the situation with Jagger. The two are officially together.Not casual, not talking, not taking it slow. She thinks it’s funny that that was what it took, two weeks of talking and one odd one night stand, but she is over the moon.

August 29th, 2017- Age 26: Macy is stressed beyond reason between the album finishing recording and Julia’s terrible twos. Her anxieties get the best of her, and she and Dustin have a blow out fight. It’s the first time they say they love each other. She thinks that’s it for their relationship, and decides against her brain that she’s not going to lose him again.

September 2nd, 2017- Age 26: Leila, the cat that Macy has had since she was six,dies. Macy shuts down, forgets to charge her phone, forgets to shower, forgets to eat. She’s like this for three days.

September 7th, 2017- Age 26: Macy finishes the initial recording of her first producer credit album, a day after a phonecall with Dustin where they made up from their fight.

#just pushed everything with Ty back a year bc i fucked up w timelines way back in riverdale so here's setting it all straight #tw suicide #caras and livs will not be this long #but i've had macy sine 2013 #she is more developed #lakewoodtask

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How many bank accounts do you have? Technically 2.

Have you ever been falsely accused of starting drama? yes or lying, even if i am not.

How old are you? 23 Do you attend church regularly? I used to when I was younger but now i dont have the time, and church isnt too much my thing. Have you ever found a song that describes your whole life? Yes always a Queen song lol

What time do you plan on waking up tomorrow morning? 8-9 am What kind of car do you drive? 2007 G5 Pontiac What kind of car would you like to have?

I want a Nissan Have you ever been to Dairy Queen? yes but theyre rly expensive for cheap tasting food

If so, what’s your favorite thing to eat from there? blizzards usually

How old did you turn on your last birthday? 23 Ever felt like falling apart? always Have you ever been in an ambulance? Nope Do you tend to worry a lot? always. im a fucking worry wort, annoying af. How old were you when you lost your first tooth? Not sure ahhaa maybe 5? Do you remember your first time on the internet? yes lol I think it was barbie games or something Which website do you email from? gmail Do you enjoy receiving souvenirs? sure, its nice when people think of you

Do you get angry with people easily? it always depends on what they did. Do a lot of people dislike you or is it the other way around? Im not sure tbh. I feel like most people like me. or dont have an opinion. Have you ever had the flu? yes What about strep throat? I dont think so Have you ever been to a psychologist? sure, but i need to go back What’s the worst part about school? how most of it is useless haha Do you normally have a lot of homework, if you’re still in school? In college I usually do

When was your last vacation? a while ago Would you ever consider going on a cruise? no and for sure not now What did you last buy from the store?

food Would you say you enjoy being single or in a relationship more? depends tbh. there are perks for both. I do like being with someone bc i like people

Do you try to stay busy a lot? i try

Do you lie a lot? no i try not to but sometimes i lie to protect others Do you still act childish most of the time? i can haha

Did you ever enjoy gym class? sometimes What is your biggest insecurity? my body and money Have you ever painted a room alone? no Speaking of which, when did you last paint your room? I cant paint my room b/c its a room im renting What’s for dinner tonight? didnt eat anything, left overs Do you ever drink alcohol? yes when I have the money Have you ever had a terrible hangover? not usually. I hardly get them no matter how hard i drink which i am blessed for hahahah Do you ever get migraines? yes ;-; What was the last thing you plugged into an outlet? my laptop charger Do people consider you to be a funny person? I think so Do you have any bad habits? nail biting Do you like children? yes What is your favorite snack? candy Do you own any gaming systems?

i own them all pretty much. Ps2, Ps3, Ps4, Wii, Wii U, Switch, Nintendo DS, N64, Game cube, etc lmfao How old were your parents when they had you? 28 Is there a big age difference between you and the person you like? 6.5 years Do you trashtalk people a lot? I used too but now I try to only say postive things. But sometimes, I need to vent or rant. What is the most amusing thing on the internet, in your opinion? tiktok<-- omg same. i am addicted. Does the future excite you or scare you? I am kind of scared right now. Do you try to spend a lot of time with family? Yeah. I usually see my family whenever I can. How often do you shower? Every day but I dont always wash my hair. What would you say is your favorite genre of music? Classic rock. Do you need to clean your bedroom? yeah a better cleaning

What do you plan on doing with the rest of your life? who knows man. survive Do you enjoy Chinese food? yes too much

What is your favorite movie from the nineties? The Lion King Which decade were you born in? 90s Are you good at giving advice to people? I try to

How many huge secrets do you have? a few.. How many people know these secrets? no one

How many times a day do you brush your teeth? twice Do you ever floss?

i should... Have you ever been in a long-term relationship? yes Ever considered suicide? yeah If so, did you try to commit suicide? no Is there anyone out there who makes you feel completely useless? yeah. Do you like texting or calling people more? Texting

What’s your favorite band? Queen Do you have a lot of friends? no

Have you ever painted something and been impressed by it? yes Would you rather go out to eat or stay in? depends tbh some days i want to chill When did you last babysit, if ever? Back in July

Do you have any younger siblings? yeah Have you ever thought of someone as useless?

No. Have you ever considered bleaching your hair? yup

Do you drink vitamin water? yeah

Are there any old movies you absolutely love? Yes a fewwww Have you ever had a Big Mac before?

yes Do you think you attract the opposite sex at a reasonable rate? no Where is your favorite place to travel? Banff What is your goal for the next few months? stay alive haha Can you count to ten in another language other than your own? no

Do you own a lot of shoes? yes Have you ever played on a sports team before? yes baseball and volley ball If you have, what was that sport and when? Baseball was 2-4th grade haha ad Volley was 6-8 grade Have you ever filed a lawsuit on someone? no Do you think you’re a good singer? i wish

Would you rather wear jeans or sweatpants? jeans Do you think you have a good sense of style? yes Do you enjoy reading often? nah

Have you ever had a deadly illness? swine flu Ever had food-poisoning before? yes its awful Where did you last eat dinner at? home

Have you ever shot a gun before? yes

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Realizing Success in a Dying Town - Out With the Old

During a recent visit to the once thriving southwestern town of Tucumcari, New Mexico, located in Quay County on "Historic Route 66," I wondered how businesses were surviving there during this floundering economy, especially since the town had been sputtering towards failure for more than a decade Office cleaning fargo. The universe answered my mindful inquiry by presenting this example of how one businesswoman was making it, while an elder businessman was not.

Once named "Six Shooter Siding," Tucumcari was founded in 1901 as a railroad construction camp. The 2000 census was 11 people short of reporting a population of 6000, but the count has since declined. The town occupies 7.5 square miles. Businesses in Tucumcari that exude a level of success are rare; they are few whose windows aren't barred or boarded up. The prominent ones are banks like Wells Fargo and Everyone's Federal Credit Union. (Yes, that is the credit union's actual name). Set apart, with its clean, almost modern architecture, Mesalands Community College seems as though extraterrestrials had plopped it down one late evening unbeknownst to the local inhabitants. [But I could only logically equate such an event with Roswell, New Mexico, far to the south.]

On Main Street of Tucumcari's "downtown," the only business front that said, "successful" was Pajarito Interiors, owned and operated by Ruth Nelson, an interior decorator who (according to local news articles) earned her degree from the University of Hawaii and moved to New Mexico from Oregon several years ago. Pajarito Interiors' Santa Fe adobe-style facade was clean, its paint fresh and stucco walls free of cracks. It had obviously been recently redesigned and updated compared to the buildings, up, down and across the street that sat in sad shape, windows boarded from vandal attacks, and having been long abandoned. An emaciated, feathery carcass of some now unidentifiable medium-sized bird-of-prey lay, splayed out in a display window where the raptor had accidentally flown in and failed in its escape. There it remained, in memoriam to its long suffering; for how long was anyone's guess. The building adjacent to Pajarito Interiors, connected by a shared wall was Sands-Dosey Drugstore. It had burned a year ago. Its partially scorched-black walls remained half standing, reminiscent of a bombed-out structure from a recent war no one had heard about. Its long history destroyed in what must have been a matter of hours.

Ruth Nelson's store is stocked with high-end home furnishing and decorator items. The interior walls hold a neutral hue that complements every other color found on unique, seemingly one-of-a-kind tables, sofas, chairs, and objects de arte . The ceiling lights softly light partitions that showcase special furnishings like a fashionably high table with a pair of plush-upholstered, matching chairs. In Tucumcari, with an estimated 80% of its population living on public assistance, it was an immediate mystery as to who among the locals could afford such exquisite items.

In an interview, Ruth Nelson said she moved to Tucumcari when she found a man with whom she thought she could spend the rest of her life; that being Donald Schutte, an attorney and now former state district judge. (Having been originally appointed by the governor, Schutte had lost last November's election with his opponent winning nearly 2 votes to 1.) In local news articles, Nelson and Schutte have expressed plans to greatly improve downtown Tucumcari as they have filled key roles in the "Main Street" initiative with its mission to "bring back Tucumcari." Nelson said her business was doing okay, but there was a time when she was realizing $7,000 to $10,000 in sales per week. That number sounded suspiciously exaggerated so I investigated further to find out the secret of how a businesswoman could be so successful in what appears to be a dying town. The answer came as a surprise.

In July, 2006, Ruth bought a home furnishings business from businessman Stanley Jennings. Stanley was 81 years old and thought it a good time to consider retiring. A veteran, and retired serviceman, Stanley was born in 1925 in his family's ranch house home in Quay, New Mexico, about 17 miles south of Tucumcari. He grew up there. Stan (as his friends call him) remembers as a child having just one shirt which his mother would quickly wash every night when he got home from school. She would iron it in the morning right before he left to attend a one room school house that was located on an adjacent ranch a couple of miles away. He would walk or ride a horse to get there. As a teenager, Stan was a "soda jerk" at Sands-Dorsey Drugstore whose abandoned business location was the bombed out building, previously noted. He served in the Army Air Corp as a P-51 fighter pilot in Alaska, and was once state President of New Mexico Young Democrats, a time he was being groomed to run for a higher, future office. He attended pharmacy school in Albuquerque but quit when he got a C in one class believing that it disqualified him to graduate. He didn't understand that is was a Grade Point Average (GPA) of a C or less that would have disqualified him House cleaning service fargo. Unexpectedly, Stan's father died far too young, and left Stan's mother to cope with running a cattle ranch that was on the small side, as cattle ranches go. The ranch was encumbered with a large tax debt, as well. Stan accepted the responsibility, supporting his mother, wife and child.

Stan gave up pursuing ambitions outside of Tucumcari: the new, flourishing airline industry needed pilots, pharmacies were short-handed, and state level politics continued to beckon, but he kept busy on the home front. He was elected to the office of Quay County Assessor for several terms, continued on as a 4th generation rancher and founded a business in Tucumcari that he maintained for over 30 years. Tucumcari became home. He had married there; his only child had been born there. Janie, his wife, a school teacher who had taught for 26 years in Tucumcari, died there just short of their 50th wedding anniversary. Although now remarried, Stan has a burial place reserved beside Janie's "place of rest." He was an active member and held offices in the Kiwanis Club and currently holds the position of Chaplain in the local Masonic Lodge. Bottomline: Stan is a long-standing member of Tucumcari's history. A dedicated community leader, he did everything expected of, above and beyond, many of his friends and peers who have passed away over the years. Since selling his business at the age of 81, what has happened to Stan in his golden years, within this small community he's loved and served all his life ?

Now a jolly-round man with a quirky little smile, and friendly disposition, Stan owns and operates Fort Bascom Trading Post, where he is a seller of used odds and ends. At a glance, one would describe it as a southwest curio and junk store with a few interesting "pieces" scattered here and there. A private 45 rpm record "juke box" rumored to have belonged to movie star Grear Garson, a Bally's nickel slot machine, and a coin-operated orchestrian that plays a tune for a quarter. There are the numerous Model As in various states of disrepair (rebuild); a couple look pretty complete. The business is housed in an old building whose interior is lighted by parallel rows of garish fluorescent lights that burn (a couple flicker) all day since the building's large picture windows were permanently boarded up after being broken out by vandals.

Who's buying this stuff? Nobody. "Economy's bad," Stan explains, "And I could sure use some sales, right now." Since he used to offer financing (credit) to his customers, a lot of people still owe him money from the former business, and most of them aren't paying. Stan has to file a claim (to garnish wages) against them, but can only do that if he has the extra $40 it costs to do so. Why don't they pay? "People are hurtin' here. They've been hurtin' for as long as I can remember, and can't afford to pay much for anything." Most of Stan's customers can't qualify for a credit card, don't have checking accounts, and "most live from paycheck to paycheck, if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck," he adds.

In 2006, Stan was approached by Ruth Nelson who wanted to buy his home furnishings business and transform it into her own decorator studio and interior design business. The deal was struck and Nelson's live-in male companion (then district judge Donald Schutte) bought the building from Stan with no hitches. Schutte apparently gave the building to Nelson as she is singularly listed as the owner of record at the Quay County Tax Assessor's Office. Nelson produced and presented a contract to Stan stating the terms under which she would purchase his business and inventory (valued at approximately $118,000 which Stan was discounting to her for approximately $63,000). Nelson was buying only the new merchandise from Stan and she understood that Stan would retain the used items to sell as used merchandise. Nelson was to pay for the inventory over time... or at least that's what Stan believes one of the contracts stated. You see, Nelson presented a number of versions of the contract to Stan over several days. Trusting, and in good faith, Stan signed each version of the contract that Nelson presented to him, but Stan was never given a copy of the final contract. Stan repeatedly asked Nelson for a copy, but those requests were ignored.

In 2007, Stan spent 30 full days in hospital battling and overcoming a case of pneumonia from which most people his age would have died. While Stan was still recovering at home, Nelson wrote a letter charging Stan with breach of contract, citing that she had seen a (free, courtesy) phone listing (not an advertisement) for his business in a telephone directory, and that Nelson had been told by a customer (hearsay) that Stan's staff had offered to order new items for them. For Nelson, these two events justified charging Stan with breach of a non-compete clause that was allegedly part of their terms of sale. This alleged breach therefore justified why she had the right to (abruptly) discontinue making payments to Stan for the inventory. Stan wasn't offered an opportunity to discuss the matter.

Meanwhile, Stan was slowly recovering from his illness and gradually returning to work. Stan continued to struggle to make payments on the original business loan he had obtained to buy the inventory that Nelson had bought, but now refused to pay for. Nelson was selling that inventory for pure profit and was realizing huge success in a faltering economy. This may explain how there were times when Nelson was able to sell $7,000 to $10,000 worth of merchandise each week... for a while.

Now comes the rub. Stan's family attorney (and CPA) refused to involve himself with a lawsuit against Nelson, not unlike five other attorneys across the state of New Mexico who, likewise, cited "conflicts of interest." Apparently, Nelson's live-in male companion (Schutte), the former New Mexico district judge and attorney also holds a seat on the New Mexico Bar Association Review Board, a position that could be politically dangerous for an opposing attorney to twiddle with.

Stan met with the sixth attorney in Albuquerque, a specialist in elder abuse law, who requested a $2000 retainer which he had borrowed from family members. To begin, the attorney requested a copy of the contract three times from Nelson who ignored the requests. The attorney wrote a letter of demand for payment to Ruth Nelson and Don Schutte. Schutte responded that he had nothing to do with the contract between Stanley Jennings and Ruth Nelson, and that Nelson would probably respond through her own legal counsel. (Keep in mind Nelson was living with Schutte, an attorney and former district judge capable of advising her in matters regarding business ethics, best practices, and taking appropriate legal actions.) Nelson did not respond to the letter.

The attorney told Stan that she would initiate a lawsuit against Nelson (and Nelson's attorney-judge-pro-bono-legal-counsel boyfriend for his role) if Stan provides a $10,000 retainer... which will only pay for "discovery" and filing initial paperwork. A subsequent trial or further legal action would be at an additional expense to Stan. With what Stan owes already on the business loan for the inventory, and borrowing the initial attorney fees, the old man would be looking at $100,000 of debt at age 83. This level of debt he'd never experienced in his life. The attorney voiced concern that Stan might not be able to physically weather the depositions, inquiries, interrogation, investigation, trial, or trials to come. [In the event that Stan died, he wouldn't be alive to pay for services rendered by the attorney, which probably explained the reason for such a large, up-front retainer.]

So now this elderly cornerstone of the community is caught in a no-win situation. Why? The attorney outlined Stan's options and possible options of outcome:

1). If Stan initiates a lawsuit against Nelson (along with her attorney-judge-pro-bono-legal-counsel boyfriend), and wins, it may be ruled that Nelson must pay Stan's legal fees, court costs, intangible and tangible damages that could total in excess of $100,000. Could (or would) Nelson pay this? Not if she demonstrates the inability to pay, and that might be pretty easy for her to do. Game over. Stan loses... and he would still owe court and legal costs... and would have to continue to pay on the business loan for the inventory.

2). If Stan initiates a lawsuit, odds are, Nelson (and her attorney-judge-pro-bono-legal-counsel boyfriend) would counter-sue Stan with the pointed strategy of elongating the legal process, thereby financially breaking and/or out-living the old man Stan. Game over. Stan loses with his debts being transferred to his estate, or to his elderly widow who also loses... along with his children and grandchildren (who may have had some sort of inheritance prior to such a lawsuit).

3). If Nelson counter-sues Stan and wins, Stan would probably be required to pay Nelson's court costs, tangible and intangible damages, as well as legal costs to her now exorbitantly expensive attorney-judge-NOT pro-bono-legal-counsel boyfriend who will have suddenly transformed into the most expensive legal counsel on earth. Stan loses absolutely everything because the attorney-judge-legal-counsel boyfriend would probably file a lien against every asset Stan has.

New Mexico Attorney General, Gary King advocates a strong stance on the protection of elders against abuse, both physical and financial. Yet a representative from the New Mexico Adult Protective Services Division stated that Stan's situation isn't really a case of financial elder abuse and that his case should be handled by law, through the legal system. If you review the options that the legal system offers (stated above), it is fairly easy to see that it offers little, if any, hope or opportunity for Stan to prevail in this situation.

Stan's retirement "plan" was simple. He wanted to spend his last days restoring Model A Fords, the kind he admired as a young man, but could never afford. Stan owns more than one shirt now, but his eyes tear up when he reflects about the moment when he had saved up enough money to buy two new shirts to have at one time. He gets up every morning, showers and shaves, checks his blood sugar, takes his insulin and other prescribed medications. He eats a little breakfast and feeds a group of cats before "going to work" at Fort Bascom Trading Post as a seller of used odds and ends, in an effort to make ends meet. For him, the weight of the world seems far heavier than it had 30, 40, 50 or 60 years ago. And he realizes he lacks strength. It seemed that Stan was headed on the same doomed path as the burn-gutted drugstore where he had once worked as a young man, only his suffering is lasting quite a bit longer. Stan is fast becoming the sun-dried hawk that fought for its life in the store display window until it could fight no longer, when no one either noticed or cared or tried to help it survive.

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Shinichiro Ito President and CEO Chief Executive Officer of ANA All Nippon Airways Japan at The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. USA 2017

The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. USA

The 2017 event marks the 90th anniversary of the first festival and the 105th anniversary of Japan’s tree gift

The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C. commemorating the March 27, 1912 gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City Japan to the city of Washington

The National Cherry Blossom Festival is known as the Nation’s Greatest Springtime Celebration!

Images are from the first weekend on The National Cherry Blossom Festival

National Park Service NPS predicted peak bloom March 19th thru 22nd 2017

Photos were taken while the cherry blossom trees were in the sixth of six stages of blooming called Peak Bloom which happened on March 25th 2017

* Approximately half of the Yoshino blossoms were lost due to a late frost that occurred March 14-16, 2017

Puffy white and peak bloom are defined as when 70% of the surviving blossoms reach those stages

Average peak bloom date is April 4th

Extraordinary warm or cool temperatures have resulted in peak bloom as early as March 15 (1990) and as late as April 18 (1958)

Peak bloom dates occurred on: 2017 March 25th 2016 March 25th 2015 April 10th 2014 April 10th 2013 April 9th 2012 March 20th 2011 March 29th 2010 March 31st 2009 April 1st 2008 March 29th 2007 April 1st 2006 March 30th 2005 April 9th 2004 March 31st 2003 April 2nd 2002 April 2nd 2001 April 6th 2000 March 17th 1999 April 5th 1998 March 27th 1997 March 26th 1996 April 4th 1995 April 2nd 1994 April 5th 1993 April 11th 1992 April 5th 1991 March 29th

Origins of the cherry trees in DC: Viscountess Chinda was the wife of the Japanese ambassador. She and Mrs. Taft planted the first two cherry trees at the Tidal Basin March 27th 1912 The ceremony of planting these trees grew into the National Cherry Blossom Festival This special part of history is celebrated through many events and is also commemorated with a large, bronze plaque at the site of the first planting

Also of importance is Dr. David Fairchild, a prominent botanist who planted the first cherry trees in D.C.

WASHINGTON DC history

Washington, D.C. formally the District of Columbia is the capital of the United States of America since July 16, 1790

The state of Maryland donated land to create what is now known as Washington, D.C.

Virginia had also donated land which was returned to Virgina in 1846

Washington, D.C. is not in a state but there is a movement for statehood which would have the name of the 51st state as New Columbia

The United States of America declared independance from Great Britain in 1776

Video taken while Donald Trump was in office at The White House as President of The United States of America

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Japanese Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae said at a press conference on March 02, 2017 "I don’t need to say, ‘Make this cherry blossom festival great again,’ because it’s already great."

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Healing Our Heroes

Sophie Saint Thomas of High Times Reports:

Sexual trauma is epidemic in the military, and survivors are demanding cannabis to help them heal.

A plate dropped at the restaurant where Kristina, a combat vet of 14 years, worked. She dove under a table. “It was around the 4th of July—that’s when the fireworks happen, which is a very stressful time for me,” she says. The national holiday is difficult for many vets, as fireworks can sound like a war zone. A younger male coworker wasn’t doing his job and ignored Kristina’s requests to pick up the slack. “I asked him repeatedly to do it, and then I lost it and almost went for the kid’s neck,” she recalls. Thankfully, a friend was present to bring her out of the flashback and into the present. “She nudged me with her elbow, and I was like, ‘Whoa, what just happened?’ I went to the VA the next day, and I haven’t been back to work since.”

While Kristina (whose last name is being withheld for legal protection) has been out of the military since 2008, it was only six months ago when she realized she was suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder. “PTSD is a huge problem regardless of the source, and we’re only starting to grapple with the implications as a society. Nowhere is going to be as difficult as the military,” says Harvard-trained holistic care and cannabis-therapeutics specialist Dr. Jordan Tishler.

Kristina is also a military sexual-trauma survivor. When asked if she was assaulted while in the service, she responds: “Yes, ma’am. Numerous times in numerous ways in numerous countries by numerous people.” According to a report released by the Pentagon, sexual assaults across the US military increased by nearly 38 percent in 2018. The Pentagon also estimated that 20,500 service members across the military branches, about 13,000 women and 7,500 men, were assaulted in 2018, according to an anonymous survey. A quick internet search provides an array of articles and research on combat violence, PTSD and cannabis, but the same is not true for sexual violence within the military. Despite the lack of acknowledgment, vets who survived both combat trauma and military sexual trauma (MST) may have particularly intense PTSD. “There is a greater persistence of the PTSD symptoms when both have been experienced,” says clinical psychologist and sexologist Dr. Denise Renye.

There is a void in what should be a plethora of discussions given how common MST is. According to a study looking into sexual harassment and assault of female US military personnel in the Persian Gulf War, sexual assault had a more significant impact on PTSD than combat exposure. “The sexual trauma was worse than anything they experienced combat-wise,” says somatic psychologist and sex therapist Holly Richmond when asked about her veteran clients. “Combat violence gets more attention because it’s seen as a valiant act,” says Alandria Hatcher, a US Army veteran who served from 1998 to 2009. She adds that despite the #MeToo movement, it’s no surprise that MST stats are going up. “I think, unfortunately, that in the era of #MeToo, because the military is such a good old boys club, they kind of poke fun at it,” Hatcher adds.

Ten years ago, the VA diagnosed Kristina with anxiety and “a little bit” of PTSD, so she assumed the incidents at work were anxiety-related. “I didn’t think it was as bad as it was until it got worse. PTSD is so unpredictable,” Kristina explains. Because she was on pharmaceuticals and in recovery from alcohol, she never considered cannabis as a viable treatment option. Then her son stepped in. While she was visiting him in California, he offered her a piece of infused white chocolate to help her sleep after he saw the large amount of benzodiazepines she was taking. Kristina was hesitant, but her son assured her he would take care of her. “I took the candy,” Kristina says. “I slept like a stinking baby and better than I had in years. The next day I called my husband, and I said, ‘Honey, how do you feel about me bringing home some butter?’ We made a whole bunch of butter at my son’s, and I took some plants home.” Kristina’s friends and family welcomed her new medicine when they saw how much it helped her.

Kristina has been making her own cannabis medicine ever since (and hasn’t had a drink). She also weaned herself off the pills. Of course, there is no shame in taking pharmaceuticals to help treat mental-health problems. Plenty of medical-cannabis users do. As Dr. Tishler notes, “I have some qualms over ‘I’ve got to get off this medicine’… It undermines the validity of that medicine for people who truly need it.”

Some vets, such as Kristina, say using cannabis dramatically improved their health. “Without cannabis, it’s just so hard to be me,” Kristina says. She is not the only MST survivor who finds that cannabis improves their quality of life. “They wanted me on a ton of pills, and that’s great, but I like to be able to function. I learned about CBD and that certain strains didn’t give you a high but helped calm the parts of your brain that get overactive with stressors,” Hatcher says. “I found cannabis a lot more effective than anything else,” agrees fellow veteran Lauren Hough. Previously, she tried an array of antidepressants but ultimately found the side effects were not worth the benefits.

Hough joined the military right after high school in 1996 and served for five years. She was raped by an acquaintance while at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, which she attended after basic training. She was hanging out and drinking with friends on the beach. “I was drunk and going back to the dorms because I just wanted to go to bed. I started walking up the hill, and he walked with me, and he ended up raping me,” Hough says.

After the rape, Hough returned to her dorm and was reported for being drunk by the dorm guard who signed her in. “My eyes were bloodshot and I had leaves in my hair. Those things were not because I was drunk. He reported me, and I got called to the student leader’s office on Monday,” she recalls. During the meeting, she told the student leader what happened. The student leader told Hough not to say anything because if she reported the rape, she’d also need to report the drinking, which would not only get Hough in trouble, but also every friend she was drinking with. “She said, ‘This is the worst thing I’m ever going to tell you, but you will get in trouble and he won’t,”’ Hough recalls. “It sounds strange to say to civilians, but she did this out of concern for me. She was like, ‘I’ve seen what will happen, I know what will happen, and you will lose your security clearance. You will lose rank. Your career is over if you report him.’” The student leader added that Hough was free to go ahead and report it, and she would back her up if she did, but Hough needed to understand the consequences fully. “I would have lost everything. So I didn’t,” she says.

The latest data from the Pentagon shows that about one in three MST survivors reports their assault. Civilian survivors face humiliation, cruel legal systems and re-traumatization when reporting rape too, but the military is its own beast. “We’re stationed places with [our assaulter]. We cannot quit our jobs, and we cannot walk away. You have to work with those people every day,” Kristina says. “Most of the time, you’re somewhere that is away from your home. It could jeopardize your career and make things a lot worse. So nobody says anything. I didn’t say anything.”

“If you report, your career is done,” Hatcher says. “The investigation is going to humiliate you and make you feel like you deserved it.” Someone Hatcher thought was a friend assaulted her while she was stationed in Germany in 2000. She was assaulted again, by a chief warrant officer who had significant rank over her, during her deployment to Afghanistan in 2007. “Your career is effectively over because you’re admitting [to breaking] General Order No. 1,” Hatcher says. “Even though it was a violation, your career is done.” General Order No. 1 lists prohibited activities for military personnel such as drinking alcohol and sexual relationships, and it’s a common obstacle for MST survivors who do choose to report. LGBTQ soldiers such as Hatcher and Hough who served during the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” era also had to hide their assault in addition to hiding their identity. “It was a very difficult time, because you were proud to serve your country, but I had to hide who I was. I couldn’t serve my country as myself. I served my country under a facade to be what they expected of me,” Hatcher says. She adds that work still needs to be done to protect LGBTQ service members and people of color. “The commercials like to pretend that the army is this big inclusive place, but racism and sexism are still incredibly prevalent.”

Despite their trauma, the veterans interviewed share fond memories of the military. “Nobody tells you to smile; you don’t have to worry about what you’re going to wear that day. It’s the happiest place for lesbians until they find out you’re a lesbian,” Hough says. Kristina recently completed a five-month program run by the VA for military sexual-assault survivors. “Everybody gives the VA this bad rap. I want to be the one who tells you that the VA has always given me excellent health care. The only thing that I can say is that the VA, which is a government entity, needs to be able to work with me in my choice in how I want to medicate so that I can recover from the things that have happened to me,” Kristina says. “I don’t get that choice because [cannabis] is still considered a Schedule I drug. I told my doctor that I was going off all my medication. In fact, she told me how to do it. I told her I was using herbal supplements instead of medication. I didn’t say specifically that I was using cannabis. I wish I could tell her.” Until the federal government takes action, vets must continue to seek their cannabis elsewhere. “Marijuana is illegal under federal law, and until federal law changes, [the] VA is not able to prescribe it,” Susan Carter, director of the office of media relations at the Department of Veterans Affairs, told High Times when asked about vets using cannabis as part of their treatment.

Hatcher now works as a clinical data analyst in a legal state, and she uses health insurance separate from the VA so she doesn’t have to worry about her cannabis use affecting her access to health care. Hough told her VA doctor about her cannabis use, and while he admitted that it probably does help treat PTSD, he can’t prescribe it.

While there are studies that suggest cannabis helps treat PTSD—and PTSD is even a qualifying condition for medical marijuana in many states—more research is needed to understand exactly how and why it helps. “The restrictions contained in federal law are clear. Some research is allowed, but must be done in conjunction with the aforementioned federal entities,” Carter explains. “If Congress wants to facilitate more federal research into Schedule I controlled substances such as marijuana, it can always choose to eliminate these restrictions.” Nonetheless, it is evident that there are legions of military sexual-trauma survivors who successfully use cannabis to treat their condition, even when it means putting their disability payments or access to medical care on the line.

“You have to literally put your life in the hands of somebody who thinks that you’re not valuable,” Hatcher says of women serving alongside their rapist. While all sexual assault is horrifying, the breach of trust and respect—principles the military is supposedly built upon—that occurs is immensely dehumanizing. Once MST survivors leave the service, which is often an extremely difficult lifestyle transition, they go on to do whatever it takes to get that missing piece back in the civilian world. “There’s a very deep sense of betrayal. When I joined, I believed the movies and the books that I read that this would be the finest brotherhood, and everybody would be accepted, and you’d have a common purpose,” Hough says. “To be raped by someone in the same uniform takes away from what you believed in it.”

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THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN(July 4th 2019)

Let us learn! Wilo, observers since the 80s to the time I quit journalism, rated FDP as the most fearless, consistent, uncompromising newsp aper in the history of Salone. And of course, the most persecuted journalists, including martyr Yansaneh who was killed by the SLPP. To be a journalist and gain a reputation amongst all journalists within and outside Salone, demands a lot of sacrifice, commitment and selflessness. No politician of whatever colour or dispensation, can claim to had bribed me, including our former prezo, or any other APC politician for that matter. What in Salone? Where everything is corruption? Started civil society organisations in 96, after FDP organised the first international peace conference bringing the whole country together at City Hall. Also played a pivotal role to end the rebel war and bring the rebels out of the bush to talk peace. So I am the harbinger of peace not only to the APC but the country. Brought the Wellington Muslim Association together and provided a vast land to become the largest islamic organisation in the entire country with 65 jamaat. Played a leading role in organising and working with the womens movement including Madam Zainab Bangura to stand up for democracy. And it was this great Salone woman who together with the US Embassy, eventually convinced me to join Bio for the sake of democracy. And it took four days to consent and subsequently survived an assassination attempt. The only Salonean to confront the entire judiciary to become the reference point for seditious and defamatory libel laws in the entire Commonwealth countries, including Salone. That's not a feat many politicians could afford to risk life and limb for the people and the common good. Also confronted successive parliaments and equally faced their wrath and venom in the struggle for Seperation of Powers. The only other journalist to suffer so, is Comrade Shekito who was locked up for a month for an alleged contempt which was a hoax to jail the poor man. I stood by him all the way. To confront all the regimes since Shaki to date, qualifies me amongst few Saloneans, who actually know the system proper and the solution to the problem. In short, I am the No 1 defender of people's rights in Ma Salone compared to any politician whatsoever. Perhaps also, the only politician who has fought for the youths, women, drivers, teachers, musicians, traders, market women and other various unions and youth groups. And without profit. Nobody has told truth to power and made selfless sacrifice for this country, more than of course, you know very well. In short Wilo, I have seen it all more than most Salonean politicians. And one of the most experienced, sincere and honest. He who confronts it, knows the system better than any elite politician enriched by the system. And they know they can never change it bcos they are the very behemoths that prop up this negative sustem of dog eat dogism. Not only that, they had never challenged the rotten system. Take for instance after Bio overthrew Strasser. I will tell you that all my cabinet colleagues, including Samura, Barrie and Sam wanted khaki continuity in civilian clothing. I was the only one that confronted the NPRC 2, and I paid the price. I also refused Bio's salary. And I also did not take any part in what they shared. And I also did not take a single land, when I could've taken hundreds of acres of land and be rich, especially looted under junta. But I refused all enticements, and to block them, I promulgated a decree that placed a moratorium on the sale and lease of all state lands. Which also angered them like hell. Only politicians that don't dance, can bring about the necessary changes and bring about the positive changes we all desire for Ma Salone after 2023 victory. And a new and different way of doing things bcos dis tem, orinch go born orinch en lem sef go born lem. The problem with many of our members, especially the young ones, is that they don't know or understand men and things in politics, and are easily carried away by greed, opportunism and sycophancy. There is no APC politician that stands close to my resume as a freedom fighter, whose credentials can easily beat Bio. And the only one that confronted him for democracy. Infact, not one APC politician has ever stood up or champion the cause of the worker, teacher, students, grassroots etc than myself. And if we fbs say we are democrats and pro poor, then this time, let us all show our credentials and let the party decide. Nobody should pass through any selection process, if we want to win! And we must win big even though, we are battling against the most autocratic leader in the entire history of our nation. Wilo, I offered space to NRM bcos we first tossed the idea with Jarra and Kasho, but the party thought otherwise. We must help the youths organise and grow to help promote the much-needed party reforms we all so desire. Now let me tell you my constituency. They are the rebel, d sobel, d kolonko and d kalanka including d ex-combatants. They are the APC Task Force, Friends of the Dead, Black Street and many others scattered in ghettos and other places including those in the south east. I am also a veteran and son of the APC who shines like the sun itself and the 'mynia' or light of a liberated, pro poor and grassrootd APC. In short ar don pas journalism, but it taught me that we can make things better with a strong political will. All those politicians and civil servants and others I worked with, knows my position when it comes to matter that have to do with the development of Ma Salone. ☝🏾Paul Kamara in SLAVE SHIP-FREEDOM SHIP Group 4-Youth forum Hon. Paul Kamara: Minister of Sports in the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma(2012 to 2018); Minister of Lands and Environment in the government of President Brigadier Maada Bio(1996); Publisher of For Di People newspaper: Blow your own horn if people forget to blow it for you. No one has yet challenged you that you have told lies in your regular biographical postings on social media. Can you please be clear: what is the purpose of your blowing your trumpet at this point in time? Another question: Can you publish on social media your articles, or, editorials in your For Di People newspaper, that show your critiques or criticisms of the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma between November, 2007 and March, 2018? Again: break your postings into short paragraphs. You want to be read, not so? It's disgraceful for a veteran celebrated journalist like you to write such long paragraphs - what any editor worth his salt would scream at a rookie reporter for.

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The Zodiac: Part One

The Zodiac Killer. The most notorious serial killer in the San Fransisco Bay area. To this day the case is still unsolved. First, I’m going to tell you the facts and then my personal theories. If any of these facts are wrong or misleading, please private message me, don’t make negative comments

The first letter was received by The San Fransisco Examiner in 1969. It contained a coded message. But before this, he had started his killings.

Lake Herman Road Attack was the first of the Zodiac attacks. On December 20, 1968, two high school students, Betty Lou Jensen, and David Faraday were shot. They were attending a Christmas concert for their first date. They were parked in the “lover’s lane,” a gravel turnout. Robert Graysmith had the idea that there may have been another car that pulled in behind the couple and shot the pair. Faraday was shot first in the head, Jensen seeing this tried to flee. However, she was gunned down 28 feet from the car. Faraday did survive.

The next attack was the Blue Rock Springs attack of July 4th, 1969. Just four miles from the Lake Herman site, Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau had driven to the public park. If you have ever seen the 2007 movie, The Zodiac, what happened to this pair is almost exactly what happened in the movie scene. They were parked in the lot. Then a second car pulled in and then suddenly drove away quickly, only to return ten minutes later. When the driver returned, he parked directly behind them. He, the driver of the second car, approached Ferrin and Mageau on the passenger side of the car. The killer came to the window shining a flashlight and a 9 millimeter in their eyes and shooting five times. He started walking away, however after hearing Mageau moaning, he proceeded to shot him twice more. Further, on the 5th of July, a man phoned in the double murder and also claiming to have killed the first couple from the previous December.

The police were able to track the call to a phone booth that was only blocks away from Ferrin’s home. Ferrin was unfortunately pronounced dead at the scene. Mageau was able to survive, even though he was shot in the head, neck, and chest. Mageau was also able to describe his girlfriend’s killer. He described him as a 26-30-year-old male, 195-200 pounds, and around 5 foot 8, with short light brown curly hair.

Then the letters started to appear. There were three letters, all received on August 1st, 1969. The letters were delivered to three newspapers around San Fransisco. The Vallejo Times Herald, San Fransisco Chronicle, and the San Fransisco Examiner. They were nearly the exact same letter. When examined by a psychiatrist the letters would have been expected to be written by a man who is brooding and isolated. These letters came with a demand, the killer demanded the papers to put his letter on the front page. The letters came with a 408 symbol crypt. If the newspaper didn’t print this on the first page the killer threated to “cruise around all weekend killing lone people in the night then move to kill again, until I end up with a dozen people over the weekend (direct quote from the letters).”

“The Chronicle published its third of the cryptogram on page four of the next day's edition. An article printed alongside the code quoted Vallejo Police Chief Jack E. Stiltz as saying "We're not satisfied that the letter was written by the murderer" and requested the writer send a second letter with more facts to prove his identity. The threatened murders did not happen, and all three parts were eventually published ( from the contributors at Wikipedia).”

There was a second letter received on August 7th of that same year. The letter, received by the San Fransisco Examiner, was the first time the killer was given a name. He called himself the “Zodiac.” Then just the next day the crypt was cracked.

And this is where I leave you for part one. Part two hopefully will be up in a few days.

till then, keep your eyed open.

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The casts are cofirmed for ALEXANDER MATTHEWS’ two plays at Tristan Bates opening January 31st: Screaming Secrets – press night February 6th 2018 Cast: Ilaria Ambrogi, Gregory Cox, Theo Devaney, Jack Gordon, Trianna Terry, Ben Warwick Glass Roots – press night March 6th 2018 Cast: Victoria Broom, Mitchell Fisher, Natalia Perera, Sam Rix, Kal Sabir, Ben Warwick.

Both plays are directed by Evan Keele with production design by Nancy Surman.

‘SCREAMING SECRETS’ explores our need to be understood and appreciated. It places relationships and moral dilemmas under scrutiny through the power of the writer’s philosophical lens. What do we do when we’re faced with our own mortality? How do we tell our family and friends and what should we do with the time that’s left? These are the questions that face philosopher and free thinker Antonio (Jack Gordon) as he discovers that he’s not as healthy as he thinks. Surrounded by his irascible father Alessandro (Gregory Cox), his dramatic sister Gina (Ilaria Ambrogi), flirty girlfriend Monika (Triana Terry) drunken publisher Hugo (Theo Devaney) and apologetic doctor Simon (Ben Warwick), Antonio has to make up his mind rapidly.

“We all have secrets,” says Alexander Matthews, “but because life is so fragmented and fast moving, and we all have widely different agendas, when we do open our hearts (and scream our secrets) we are often not heard or understood…at least on our own terms or indeed, above the cacophony of modern life.”

“I think the philosophical element of ‘Screaming Secrets’ adds to the poetic feel of the play,” continues Matthews. “For this production, I have taken out some of the philosophy but left enough in, I hope, to keep a philosophical tinge to what Antonio and sometimes Simon say.”

ILARIA AMBROGI – Gina llaria is from Italy where her theatre credits include Peter Pan (Teatro Vascello, Rome) and Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet. In 2007 she wrote her first one-woman show, The Echo, and performed it at Teatro dell’Orologio, in Rome. In 2009 she moved to the US, where she trained with Susan Batson and worked in numerous theatre and film productions. She was a member of the Kairos Italy Theater Company in New York for many years, performing Italian plays for the American audience.

GREGORY COX – Alessandro Gregory’s extensive acting credentials stretch from the West End to theatres all over the UK, Europe and the Far East. His credits include Oliver! (West End), Little Lies (West End and Toronto), Only When I Laugh (Hong Kong), The Picture of Dorian Gray (UK tour), Death of a Salesman (Frankfurt English Theatre), Tale of Two Cities, Hamlet, King Lear, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing (various venues UK and abroad) and many more. TV and film work include Doctors, Keep Up Appearances, Brookside, Eastenders, Poirot and many more.

THEO DEVANEY – Hugo Theo’s UK theatre credits include Caligula (Union Theatre), War & Peace (Shared Experience), Long Way Home, Lincoln Road (Eastern Angles) and The Soulless Ones (Hoxton Hall). In 2012 Theo relocated to Vancouver, Canada and wrote and produced the award-winning short play, Run and became best known to UK TV audiences as Gavin Macleod in the long running TV series Supernatural; while he was based in Canada he also appeared in the films Psych and Night at the Museum: Secrets of the Tomb.

JACK GORDON – Antonio Jack’s theatre credits include a number of productions as RADA including Carmen 1936, The Duchess of Malfi, Odysseus, As You Like It, A Month in the Country; plus War Horse (National Theatre/West End), Lulu (Gate Theatre), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl), Romeo and Juliet (Battersea Arts Centre). Ben has appeared in a number of independent films including Northern Soul, Captain America, Heartless, Panic Button and his TV credits include New Blood, The Crimson Field, The Great Train Robbery (all BBC) and Primeval Series 3.

TRIANA TERRY – Monika Triana’s first acting role was in Martin Kemp’s film Stalker (2010) which she followed up with Just For The Record alongside Steven Berkoff and can be seen in the 2017 independent film London Fields directed by Matthew Cullen. Triana’s theatre credits include Doctor Faustus; she’s also a self-taught painter and has painted portraits of, among others, Stephen Fry, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, and Charles Dance. She has exhibited her work at the Saatchi Gallery and The Hospital Club among others.

BEN WARWICK – Simon Ben’s theatre credits include Frankenstein (Blackeyed Theatre), Jane Eyre, Hamlet (English Touring Theatre), Look Back In Anger (Lichfield Garrick), The Deep Blue Sea (Watford Palace), Pentecost, The Oedipus Plays (Royal National Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuse, The Marquise (Bill Kenwright), Macbeth (US Tour), Miss Julie (Soho Theatre). Films: Blood Moon, War Game, Canakkale Yolun Sonu and TV includes Mary Queen of Scots (BBC) Emmerdale (ITV), The Big Picture, Five Years.

‘SCREAMING SECRETS’ listing information: Tristan Bates Theatre, 1A Tower Street, London WC2H 9NP ‘Screaming Secrets’ Dates: January 31st to February 24th Previews: January 31st to February 4th Box office: 020 3841 6611 and online at http://ift.tt/1gE6fmS

‘GLASS ROOTS’ is about bullying: what happens when you are bullied and are powerless to fight back? Can you survive with your psychology intact or is the damage permanent? This is the terrible ordeal faced by Sadjit and Thila, owners of a popular Indian restaurant in east London when they are terrorised in their own place of work by racist thugs.

‘Glass Roots’ addresses the violent clash of ignorance, racism, class and jealousy and wonders at the outcome; will the perpetrators get what they want and will the victims survive with a renewed purpose?

“In ‘Glass Roots’ the protagonists’ frustrations and longings are a hook, their being bullied is another,” says Alexander Matthews. “In a way, the feelings of the audiences will be forced into a corner by the bullying and that will steer them towards Thila and Sadjit.”

‘GLASS ROOTS’ CAST: VICTORIA BROOM – Celia Victoria’s TV credits include: Marcella (ITV/Netflix), Different for Girls (JackDaw Productions), Nurses Who Kills (First look TV and Alibi), Crossroads (Carlton Television), Derren Brown Hero at 33000 Feet (Channel 4). Her theatre credits include Tomorrow Never Knows, A Destiny with Death Macbeth (various theatre companies) and The Trial (Barbican). Victoria has appeared in the independent films Viking Destiny, Open All Night, Legacy, Dead Cert and more.

MITCHELL FISHER – Diesel Mitchell’s theatre credits include The Litaratti, The Red Button, A Death At Price Waterhouse, A Flat Full of Chandeliers, True Dare Kiss, and Jerusalem. His TV credits include England and the Road to Modernity, Hard Work (Channel 4) and the independent film Skint (directed by Ryan J Smith), Shadowboxer, Kill Kane, and Blackout which won best film at the Southampton International Film Festival.

NATALIE PERERA – Thila Natalie’s theatre credits include Antony and Cleopatra and Lear (by Edward Bond) both at Central School of Speech and Drama; A Golden Age, A Space Odyssey, Pinocchio, The Duchess of Malfi (various). She has appeared in a number of TV dramas including The Midnight Beast Presents Valentine’s Day (Sky TV) and films Together, Bazodee, and The Cook for independent film companies.

SAM RIX – Spaceman Sam is an actor, writer, voice artist and storyteller. After training at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama he joined the BBC radio repertory company and has appeared in a host of audio dramas. His theatre credits include Pomona, The Den and PLAY 1. He is a recurring character on the TV series The Royals. His film credits include We Still Steal The Old Way and Out Of It.

KAL SABIR – Sadjit Kal’s theatre credits include Romeo & Juliet, Home Is Where…, Loyalty & Dissent (various theatre companies). In 2017 he made his TV drama debut in the new crime show Armchair Detectives (BBC 1) and his film debut in Mary Queen of Scots directed by Josie Rourke, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse; the film is scheduled for release in 2018.

BEN WARWICK – Rupert Ben’s theatre credits include Frankenstein (Blackeyed Theatre), Jane Eyre, Hamlet (English Touring Theatre), Look Back In Anger (Lichfield Garrick), The Deep Blue Sea (Watford Palace), Pentecost, The Oedipus Plays (Royal National Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuse, The Marquise (Bill Kenwright), Macbeth (US Tour), Miss Julie (Soho Theatre). Films: Blood Moon, War Game, Canakkale Yolun Sonu and TV includes Mary Queen of Scots (BBC) Emmerdale (ITV), The Big Picture, Five Years.

‘GLASS ROOTS’ listings information: ‘Glass Roots’ Dates: February 28th to March 24th Previews: February 28th to March 4th Box office: 020 3841 6611 and online at http://ift.tt/1gE6fmS

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21st Century: Phase One - Avengers Assemble

2000:

DATE: january 3rd EVENT: A rejected Killian accepts a jilted Hansen into A.I.M. where they work on Extremis together.

2001:

DATE: july 28th EVENT: Under HYDRA’s influence, NASA sends astronauts through the Monolith to survey the planet on the other side.

DATE: september 12th EVENT: Frank Castle enlists in the Marine Corps following the September 11th attacks.

DATE: september 13th EVENT: General Thaddeus Ross starts the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project through the U.S. Armed Forces in order to replicate Project Rebirth.

2003:

DATE: march 29th EVENT: Iraq War begins, orchestrated by HYDRA.

DATE: august 29th EVENT: Matt Murdock meets his college roommate, Foggy Nelson.

2005:

DATE: february 25th EVENT: Bruce Banner joins the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project under false pretenses of Thaddeus Ross and earnest convictions of Betty Ross.

DATE: april 16th EVENT: Testing his experiment on himself, Bruce Banner is exposed to a combination of Gamma radiation and Betty’s formula derived from Dr. Erskine’s super-soldier serum, accidentally becoming the Hulk.

DATE: april 19th EVENT: Learning that the Army wants to use him as a weapon, Banner runs, starting a six-year chase across the globe.

2006:

DATE: november 14th EVENT: Microsoft releases the Zune 30. Peter Quill later obtains one.

2007:

DATE: january 3rd EVENT: S.H.I.E.L.D. assists Thaddeus Ross in the quest to bring down the Hulk until 2011. Stark also provides Humvee-mounted sonic cannons.

DATE: october 31st EVENT: Aldrich Killian injects himself with the Extremis virus, healing his disabilities and allowing him to walk without a cane.

2008:

DATE: february 19th EVENT: Killian exposes willing subjects, mostly seriously injured military veterans, to Extremis. Those who survive heal and regrow lost limbs.

DATE: may 15th EVENT: S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Melinda May earns her nickname “The Cavalry” during the Rescue in Bahrain.

2009:

DATE: december 18th EVENT: Nick Fury places Phil Coulson in charge of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. with the aim of using the Kree corpse to potentially revive a fallen Avenger.

2010:

January 12th

January 24th

January 25th

April 21st

April 26th

October 24th

October 25th

November 17th

Tony Stark demonstrates his Accelerated Wave Explosion (A.W.E.) weaponry to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Christine Everhart is kicked out of the Stark Mansion by Pepper Potts after a one-night stand; she later becomes an anchor for WHIH World News. Later, during a weapons demonstration in Afghanistan, Tony Stark is kidnapped by the Ten Rings, who are working for Obadiah Stane.

Under Fury’s orders, Phil Coulson questions Obadiah Stane as to whether or not Stark could have sold weapons to terrorists. Fury refuses Coulson’s request to go search for Stark himself.

Project T.A.H.I.T.I. test subjects go insane and are given new memories to cope with the effects of the trauma.

Stark and fellow captive Ho Yinsen, who saves Stark’s life multiple times, construct Tony’s Mark I suit of armor, allowing him to escape; Yinsen does not survive. Stark’s first flight as Iron Man is picked up by S.H.I.E.L.D.’s radar and Nick Fury contacts the U.S. Department of Defense with the intel.

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July 16th

Having returned to the U.S., after pulling out of the weapons business and cancelling all military contracts, Stark turns his attention to his Arc Reactor and Iron Man tech.

Pepper Potts and Phil Coulson discover the Iron Monger Armor and Stark uses his Mark III armor to battle the power-hungry Stane, who dies in an explosion of the industrial Arc Reactor.

Stark publicly claims his new nickname as Iron Man, rejecting S.H.I.E.L.D.’s cover story; he’s later approached by Nick Fury to join the “Avengers Initiative.” That same day, Anton Ivanko dies and his son Ivan vows to take revenge on Stark by developing his own powered-armor tech.

Emil Blonsky and his team track Bruce Banner to South America

2011:

April 23rd

May 22nd

May 24th

May 31st

June 1st

June 2nd

June 4th

June 5th

June 7th

June 9th

November 13th

Tony Stark appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Weaponized Suit Defense Program Hearings.

Natalia Rushman, a.k.a. Natasha Romanoff, joins Stark Industries as Tony’s new personal assistant, on Fury’s orders.

Ivan Vanko crashes the Circuit de Monaco, battling Tony Stark, who equips his lightweight Mark V armor and defeats Vanko’s Whiplash tech.

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May 30th

While Fury confines Tony Stark to house arrest after helping to slow his palladium poisoning, Rhodes delivers the stolen Mark II armor to the military, where it’s upgraded by Justin Hammer.

At the same time, Jane Foster and Erik Selvig monitor strange atmospheric disturbances in New Mexico, landing them on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s radar.

Meanwhile, Thor’s coronation is interrupted by the Frost Giants breaking into Odin’s treasure room; the Asgardian quickly brings the battle to Jotunheim before Odin puts a stop to it.

Iron Man, War Machine, Black Widow, and Happy Hogan defeat the Hammer Drones when Vanko hacks them to attack the Stark Expo. During this battle, a young boy (now confirmed to be Peter Parker) stands up to a Hammer Drone, assisted by Iron Man himself.

Coulson arrives in New Mexico and Thor crashes to Earth while Bruce Banner arrives at Culver University.

Odin enters Odinsleep and Loki begins to move against his brother when his true parentage is revealed.

Romanoff begins spying on Banner while Blonsky receives an unauthorized dose of enhancement serum.

Sif and the Warriors Three arrive on Earth with the Destroyer following them on Loki’s orders. It attacks S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and citizens at Puente Antiguo, but Thor proves himself worthy and, with his powers restored, defeats it.

An enhanced Blonsky battles the Hulk on Culver University’s campus while Romanoff reports her findings to Fury.

Stark accepts an advisory role with S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers Initiative.

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Later that day, Thor and Loki duel at the Rainbow Bridge. Thor destroys the Bifrost Bridge to prevent Loki from destroying Jotunheim, but that restricts Thor to Asgard and sends Loki into space. After a time, he arrived at the asteroid-strewn area known as Sanctuary, presided over by Thanos.

Blonsky mutates into Abomination when injected with products derived from Banner’s blood. Hulk defeats the Abomination after a destructive battle in Harlem.

Samuel Sterns, who attempted to cure Banner, ends up mutating due to exposure to Banner’s blood. Romanoff finds him and takes him into custody.

Fury receives the necessary funds to study the Tesseract and launch the Avengers Initiative.

Fury approaches Selvig with an offer to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in an advisory role, while the first “Mandarin bombing” occurs.

Tony Stark approaches Ross with a plan to put a team together, inquiring about Blonsky. His attitude rubs Ross the wrong way and the General refuses to release the Abomination, thus fulfilling Coulson and Agent Sitwell’s plan to keep Blonsky imprisoned.

The second “Mandarin bombing” occurs.

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2012:

January 11th

April 15th

April 22nd

May 1st

May 3rd

May 4th

May 6th

May 9th

July 10th

July 12th

August 19th

December 18th

December 19th

December 22nd

December 25th

December 27th

Aldrich Killian hires Trevor Slattery to pose as the terrorist known as the Mandarin in order to provide a cover for his explosive Extremis side effects which continue to make the news as “suicide bombings.”

S.H.I.E.L.D. continues research on Vanko’s “Whiplash” technology, the Tesseract, Samuel Sterns’ mutation, Jane Foster’s Nine Realms theory, and manage to thaw out a recently recovered Steve Rogers. The Darkhold also comes to their attention.

The Fifth Street Locos shoot up Eli Morrow’s car, which Robbie and Gabe Reyes had recently stolen. The car flips and Robbie is killed while Gabe is paralyzed. The Ghost Rider appears and saves Gabe’s life as well as Robbie’s, though the later is transformed into the new Ghost Rider.

Loki, aided by Thanos and The Other, uses the Tesseract energy to teleport him to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility where he steals the Tesseract and controls the minds of Selvig and Hawkeye. Heimdall alerts Thor and Odin of Loki’s arrival on Earth.

Meanwhile, Romanoff is undercover and interrogating weapons-dealer Georgi Luchkov; her mission is cut short by a call from Coulson, telling her Hawkeye’s been compromised.

Thor arrives back on Earth thanks to Odin’s use of dark energy to transport him. He has a brief skirmish with Iron Man and Captain America that ends with the agreement to take Loki into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

The Battle proceeds to New York where Loki opens a wormhole to allow the invading Chitauri army to swarm into the city. The Avengers unite, defeat Loki, and manage to prevent a missile from wiping out New York City. The invasion is ended and the Tesseract is reclaimed; Thor takes it to Asgard for safe keeping.

Many media outlets and private citizens record video of the invasion that show off both the heroic and destructive effects of the battle, in which the mother of Audrey Eastman and the mother of Ellen Nadeer and Vijay Nadeer died.

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Loki manages to escape captivity aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier when his mind-controlled agents take it over and the Hulk goes on a rampage. Phil Coulson is killed in the process.

The cleanup from the Battle of New York begins. Citizens begin to gather bits and pieces of the alien tech, taking it either as trophies or for other purposes. To prevent this, Tony Stark and the federal government reformed the U.S. Department of Damage Control, Spider-Man: Homecoming spoiler: which puts private salvage contractors like Adrian Toomes out of business. Toomes, however, takes this opportunity to pilfer more alien technology and put it to criminal purposes.

Phil Coulson is resurrected at the Guest House, though the painful process has the agent begging the surgeons to let him die and necessitating the implantation of false memories, like Tahiti.

Scott Lang is fired from Vistacorp for fixing what he believed was a code error that was illegally overcharging customers.

Lang then breaks into Vistacorp Headquarters to return $4 million of the ill-gotten money to customers. He also breaks into his former boss’ mansion to steal his possessions and drive his car into the pool.

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July 13th

Lang is arrested and sentenced to five years in San Quentin.

A fourth “Mandarin bombing” occurs.

The fifth “Mandarin bombing” occurs. Tony Stark tests his Mark XLII armor as his Iron Legion project causes friction between him and Pepper.

The Mandarin bombs both Ali Al Salem Air Base and the TCL Chinese Theater, which explodes when Jack Taggert succumbs to Extremis’ effects. Happy Hogan is caught in the blast but survives.

Stark’s mansion is destroyed by the Mandarin.

After discovering Killian’s plan, Stark and his Iron Legion save an Extremis-infected Pepper Potts (who didn’t need much saving after all) while Rhodes rescues the kidnapped President.

Pepper’s Extremis effects are neutralized while Stark has the last of the shrapnel near his heart surgically removed, throwing the old, obsolete Arc Reactor into the sea. Stark has the Iron Legion destroyed.

NOTE: http://collider.com/mcu-timeline-explained/#phase-one-avengers

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047: Ashley Lana Scott & Sarah Dennis: Become a co-conspirator for social justice

“We’re all different and that’s part of human nature, to celebrate those differences.” -Sarah Dennis

Calling in, rather than calling out…

In this episode, I had the privilege to discuss the history and the current reality of racism in our society as well as the potential for change from the inside out (and the outside in) with educator Sarah Dennis and artist & activist Ashley Lana Scott.

Sarah and Ashley had never met before so this was a truly candid conversation about what it takes to be an ally, how to support one another in looking inward at our internalized racism (regardless of skin color), and why these sometimes uncomfortable conversations are crucial to the cultural dialogue. (BTW, that’s the difference between calling in and calling out… IN is initiating a conversation, OUT is pointing a finger in an accusatory way.)

Of course we talk about impostor syndrome and feeling like a total fraud when trying to have said difficult conversations, too!

This is a conversation that is humorous, sensitive, hopeful and deeply thought-provoking.

So take a deep breath, relax your mind open, have a listen, and let me know what you think over in the Facebook Group.

And if you haven’t already, check out Episode 045: Talking to strangers, where you’ll hear how I met Julie and why I’m taking on a theme on the show that pushes me out of my comfort zone. Also, Episode 046 with Andrea Ranae Johnson on how to use your power and privilege for good.

Connect with Ashley

Ashley Lana Scott’s Website Ashley’s Facebook Ashley’s Instagram Ashley’s Twitter Ashley’s LinkedIn

“At the end of the day, the thing that is pulling the strings is our silence, on every side, and that silence is deadly. Like Sarah was saying, when you allow yourself to feel that shame and then you don’t want to do anything about it, you allow it to overcome your action, it makes the decision for you… I suggest getting your hands dirty with that shame.” -Ashley Lana Scott

Connect with Sarah

Sarah Dennis’s Website

“I actually like the word ‘co-conspirator’ better, I think ‘ally’ is really soft and wimpy. For me it’s not a call to action, being an ally. But being a co-conspirator makes me feel like, “I want to dismantle this system and I’m going to do anything I can to figure out what that looks like.” -Sarah Dennis

Connect with Andrea

Facebook Instagram Chicago Women’s Creative Collective

I was featured on Jessi Frey’s video blog talking about “What to Do When You Feel Like a Fake!”

One of my guided meditations was featured on the ASMR-based Sleep Whispers podcast. Skip forward to the 1hour mark just for the meditation (otherwise Harris might whisper you to sleep before you hear it if you listen to the whole episode!)

Resources & Links

The Creative Impostor Magic page! Get a special gift from Andrea here.

Power Your Story — My students’ new podcast!!!

The Movement for Black Lives – Policy platform mentioned by Sarah Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: Revised Edition By Beverly Tatum SURJ – Showing Up for Racial Justice A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki What Does It Mean to be White? Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin Di Angelo Article in the Atlantic: The Case for Reparations by Ta Nehisi-Coats Online Seminar highly recommended by Sarah: http://www.37days.com/racism/

Mother’s Quest podcast with Julie Neale

Support the Creative Impostor

Andrea’s Patreon Page — where you can support the show, get cool gifts from me and can become an active participant in the creative community!

Free Audio Book & 30 day trial membership with Audible.com (support The Creative Impostor when you sign up!)

About Ashley Lana Scott

Ashley Lana Scott is a Visual Artist and Community Organizer from the Westside of Chicago. She creates art from innovative ideas that are grounded in Social Justice, Self- Love and Community Empowerment.

In 2006, she presented her first Art Installation titled “Inspire A Generation”, using Installation Art and Film to introduce the history of the impact that oppression had on young people in underprivileged communities and how Hip-Hop grew out of poverty into an outlet from the oppression that still thrives in underground communities as a Socially Conscious Art Culture.

In 2012, she presented an excerpt of her art exhibition called (Her)story: A Journey through Womanhood and Hip-Hop during Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood Art Walk/Second Friday Event at the Chicago Art Department.

Ashley Lana Scott serves Creative Young Women in discovering their own personal power through Socially Conscious Art Engagement so that they can transform the global consciousness and inspire connection with their own innovative Ideas, ArtWork and Business.

About Sarah Dennis

Ph.D, Biography

I grew up in Chicago, attending a Chicago Public Magnet school that attracted children from diverse racial, ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds near the Cabrini Green Housing Project in the mid-late 80s/early 90s. From the young age of about 10, I was inspired to become an engaging educator committed to social justice to help turn children on to the love of learning and reading, and try to change the inequities in many of the systems in the United States. Also from the age of 10, I was a proud member of the Chicago Children’s Choir, a multi-cultural, multi-racial, secular city-wide organization committed to social justice. My experiences at my elementary school and choir helped shape my commitment to social justice.

After attending New York University for a Bachelors degree in Early Childhood/Elementary Education and then teaching preschool/Kindergarten, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades at public schools in New York City, I began coaching and mentoring preschool teachers in the Best Practices in Early Literacy Project, which led to two Early Reading First projects (2002-’05 & 2005-’08). During these years, I earned a Masters in Literacy Education (2005) and a doctorate in Early Childhood (2008) from New York University.

I have presented at many dozens of conferences nationally including the National Head Start Research Conference in Washington D.C. (2002, ’04, ’06 & ’08), NAEYC’s Professional Development Institute (Pittsburg, 2007; Indianapolis, 2012), NIEER’s Conference (2002), the Early Reading First Grantees Meeting (2004 in AZ, 2005 in FL, 2007 in CA), the Illinois Reading Council Conference (Springfield, 2011-2014), and have provided professional development and coaching to many hundreds of teachers and coaches. I have also been assessing and tutoring children (Kindergarten-HS) for nearly 15 years in NYC and Chicago.

I am the founder and co-leader of the Illinois Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education: Advancing and Advocating for Social Justice & Equity, and have also founded and co-lead the Families for Racial Justice Chicago Facebook Group. I recently participated as part of a panel on anti-racism for the Quentin B. Young Equity Project (Feb 2017) (see photo below), and I am currently in training to hopefully become a trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond.

I hope to hear from you soon to see how I can support your work to inspire the children of the next generation!

This episode was mixed by Edwin R. Ruiz of Mondo Machine. The Creative Impostor theme music was created by JoVia Armstrong.

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