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[NEWS] Canadian Space Agency Pivots

2024.05.17 00:18 brokenbow2 [NEWS] Canadian Space Agency Pivots

With the successful launch of Alan Shepard via our southern neighbor's Gemini program, the Canadian Space Agency has been forced to reassess the goals of its orbital program which has yet to bear fruit. Many within the agency blamed our more scientific approach to rocketry, as it is obvious to anyone that Ontarian aerospace technology is far more advanced than that of Texas. CSA Administrator Jason Goddard addressed the engineers of the program, saying: "Shepard can count himself lucky that he made it to orbit and his rocket didn't explode. We do not take such risks with our astronauts. Our rocket will work the first time, and it will work EVERY time. Once there is a Canadian on that rocket, we will NOT have another Zander incident. Now: the Texans may have beaten us to having the first man in orbit, but for the past few months these fine women have been training to be the first women in space. We call them the Hestia 7: Nicole Marks, Shelby Brock, Violet Mainse, Kara Wellington, Ava Roberts, Aurora Fuller, and Rachel Carlson. As you all know, the Titan II rocket that will bear Ms. Wellington safely into orbit and return her home is well underway, and I trust you all to have gotten the calculations right."
It is hoped that sending the first women into space will demonstrate the Ontarian spirit in a way that will revitalize the public's interest in space exploration, as it clearly shows the Ontarian government's commitment to egalitarianism. Every woman in the Hestia 7, save Ms. Fuller, came from the Air Fleet or Air Force's piloting ranks, and Ms. Fuller was previously employed by Avro Canada's testing division. They are all immensely talented pilots, who have additionally demonstrated a talent for the complex mathematics involved in orbital maneuvering.
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2024.05.17 00:11 Peacock-Shah-III The Farmer-Labor Presidential Primaries of 1952 Peacock-Shah Alternate Elections

The Farmer-Labor Presidential Primaries of 1952 Peacock-Shah Alternate Elections
Seeking a third term to finish his construction of a new dawn for the republic once and for all, incumbent President Philip La Follette has rallied his supporters within the party to almost guarantee his renomination after four years of intraparty purges of his detractors following his narrow triumph over John L. Lewis in 1948. Yet, inspired by former Vice President Lena Morrow Lewis’s deathbed plea to “save our party’s democratic soul,” burgeoning efforts from within statewide opposition groups have sought to mount opposition from within the presidential nominating process as a means of reconquering state parties.
Presidential portrait of Philip F. La Follette.
Philip F. La Follette: The heir to one of the nation’s great political dynasties, Philip Fox La Follette would emerge from the Great War and Revolution as a war hero, a reputation that, with his last name, would carry the once outspokenly anti-war young man to the Governor’s office, Lindbergh’s Supreme Court, and finally the upper echelons of the Army, where his ability to avoid taking positions on controversial issues would win him the Farmer-Labor nomination for the presidency in 1944–and finally the White House itself. Alienating much of his constituency from the outset with his determination to prosecute the war effort to its fullest, La Follette would respond to the battlefield use of two atomic weapons by Japan with a series of nuclear strikes upon the Japanese mainland that would claim final victory for the United States at the cost of the lives of over two million Japanese civilians. Appointing General Douglas MacArthur, hardly a Farmer-Laborite, as Secretary of State, La Follette has pursued the rebuilding and rearmament of a ring of anti-communist nations in Asia while pledging to avoid any future war.
Declaring that, with the age of war having closed, the republic must “win the peace,” La Follette allied himself with much of Charles Lindbergh’s base of support, saluting alongside the fascists of Alabama as he presided over the sharpest GDP growth in American history and buoyed it with executive orders to nationalize the healthcare industry while engaging in the mass sterilization of Americans and constructing an interstate highway system and hydroelectric power grid without congressional approval. With an investigation into the disappearance of Smedley Butler yielding evidence of an assassination organized under former President Lindbergh and a litany of arrests of leading anti-La Follette figures stuning the nation, the opposition would unite in an unprecedented impeachment effort.
Now, months after having saved his presidency from the first impeachment in American history, 55 year old incumbent President Philip F. La Follette has sought a new mandate for his call to “win the peace” in a quest for a third term; further, the President has taken his first major post-impeachment use of executive power to reorganize the cabinet into umbrella departments of Peace, Production, and Prosperity. Pointing to the successful slaying of the dragon of inflation and the first space launches in human history, Phil has sought the passage of a constitutional amendment reducing the legislative power to that of a veto and expanding that of the presidency while instituting a nationwide referendum system. Although practically guaranteed renomination after his purging of opponents from national power within Farmer-Labor following his narrow 1948 triumph over John L. Lewis, La Follette’s re-envisioning of Farmer-Labor has nonetheless continued to fuel a dogged but disorganized opposition movement despite the winning over of former opponents such as Washington’s Scoop Jackson, who nearly mounted a bid against La Follette himself.
Conservative former President Alf Landon, socialist Representative Norman Thomas, and the widow of Franklin Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, campaigning in New York.
Nationwide Opposition Candidates:
With efforts to discourage any opposition campaigns in full swing, only one major figure has stepped forth to win ballot access in most states continuing to hold primaries, although many states have seen independent organizing efforts in tandem with the shared ultimate goal of the demise of fascism.
Alf Landon: 65 year old former President Alf Landon has his cross to bear. Refusing to endorse against Charles Lindbergh after withdrawing from the party’s 1936 primaries, Landon’s inaction as his 1932 campaign manager Rush Holt put Lindbergh over the line would see the Lone Eagle’s flight path on a course to the White House, from where he would crush the remaining loyal Landonites in the midterm elections of 1938. Landon emerged triumphant in 1928 by pitching his moderation as a formula for long term Farmer-Labor dominance of government, only to see the party implode under his watch. Losing the popular vote only to win a contingent election via the machinations of Clarence Dill, Landon's presidency proved eventful, most notable, perhaps for its domestic inaction. While concentrating his focus upon the Molotov-Lundeen Pact establishing friendly diplomatic relations with the Soviet government in Russia, a policy Landon championed as the catalyst for the wide scale withdrawal of foreign forces from American soil, Landon would cut economic aid across the board and refuse to bail out banks & big business in the face of record unemployment rates following the worldwide depression brought on by the collapse of the Japanese economic bubble, while focusing on driving up interest rates to control inflation.
Pitted against a hostile Congress led by Clarence Dill, the man whose legislative acumen carried him to the White House and who now stands as La Follette’s loyal Secretary of Peace, Landon found much of his party arrayed against him in the face of a veto of the Thomas Bill nationalizing natural gas distribution & the telephone industry despite prior promises from Landon to support both proposals. With the complete breakdown of legislative-executive relations, Dill forced through the Recovery Act of 1931, the largest omnibus bill in American history, enacting vast economic reforms over the disgruntlement of Landon. Winning the primaries of 1932 in a landslide, only to lose at the convention in the face of the backroom dealings of Clarence Dill, Landon would fail in a 1936 comeback attempt that would inadvertently pave the way to fascism.
In partisan exile, Landon would unsuccessfully organize against President Lindbergh, only to watch his followers be resoundingly defeated in the midterm elections of 1938; finding himself at the upper echelons of power anew as an unofficial negotiator with the United Kingdom under President Luce, Landon would organize political comeback in 1945 by winning election to the United States Senate after the death of George Norris. Working from there on policy issues such as advocacy of the Parliament of Nations and support for presidential programs such as the Interstate Highway system, Landon and his remaining caucus of conservatives have been at the fore of anti-La Follette intraparty organizing from the campaign of John L. Lewis to the movement for impeachment. Throwing his hat into the ring once more, Landon has used his stature to argue that only his brand of moderation can resurrect the Farmer-Labor of old as a viable party independent of the control of the fascists brought to power by his own neglect.
Commodore Robert A. Heinlein photographed shortly before his role in the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Heinlein has mounted a presidential bid separate entirely from other opposition efforts.
Robert A. Heinlein: Launched to international fame as the senior naval officer during the American attack on Pearl Harbor, 45-year-old former Commodore Robert A. Heinlein has used the events of December 7th, 1941 as a springboard for a lucrative career as a science fiction author. Emphasizing scientific accuracy in novels with titles such as Red Planet and Rocket Ship Galileo, Heinlein would step from the military and literary arenas to the political at the urging of his publisher James Laughlin and associate Ezra Pound, the poet and former New York Governor who has attempted to revive the American social credit movement. In turn, with Laughlin, Pound, and office holders such as Senators Hans Wight and John Horne Blackmore and Representative Solon Earl Low in tow, Heinlein has capitalized on his war hero stature to campaign for the presidency entirely unrelated to those of every other candidate campaigning against La Follette and instead intended to revitalite the American social credit movement.
Falling curiously between the social credit wing of Farmer-Labor and radicals of the Liberty League, Heinlein has described himself as a libertarian while supporting a social credit monetary system balancing a nationalized monetary supply with a requirement of a 100% reserve on money lending as described in his seminal novel For Us, The Living; further, he has coupled his experience in the Navy with his science fiction work to argue that he is uniquely able to continue President La Follette’s attempts to reach for the stars through a space program and argued for a currency backed by the very goods owned by the government itself. A firm believer in the concept of a national draft and a militarist at heart, Heinlein has resurrected positions such as support for the repeal of the Jesus Amendment, the concomitant secularization of the United States government, and support for a constitutional amendment requiring a national referendum prior to any declaration of war resulting in the drafting of supporters.
A comic book promoting Sid McMath for office.
Regional Opposition Candidates:
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With opposition Farmer-Labor organizations persisting around the nation and fighting to recapture control of their state parties, anti-La Follette factions across the nation have rallied around regional candidates in states permitting competitive primaries in an attempt to rise the tide of the down ballot opposition. Thus, all of the following candidates are only on the ballots of one or several states.
John Haynes Holmes: 73 year old Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes served as a leading advisor to William Jennings Bryan, guiding the post-revolutionary nation through the unsteady waters of foreign occupation as he used the White House pulpit to preach his gospel of pacifist socialism. Playing a key role in the pardons of former revolutionaries, Holmes would serve in Alf Landon’s inaugural diplomatic delegation to Bolshevik Russia before reluctantly supporting Charles Lindbergh for his opposition to war with Japan. Nonetheless, a consistent opponent of fascism from his days as a seminary student denouncing young Governor Milford W. Howard’s new order in Alabama, Holmes has been a consistent bulwark in the struggle against the party’s fascist wing, renouncing President La Follette once it became clear that he would not end the Third Pacific War and using the word impeachment as early as the atomic bombings of 1945, which Holmes has denounced as a violation of the Jesus Amendment. Running on restoring the party’s former core of Christian socialism, Holmes has been put forth across New England as the flag bearer of the opposition, with a fundraising team led by widow Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin of the former President.
Sid McMath: Hoisting the banner of opposition across the Deep South and Southwest is 40 year old Arkansas Senator Sid McMath. Primarying longtime incumbent Farmer-Laborite Garrett Whiteside in 1948 only to face off against the organization of Progressive strategist Osro Cobb, known as the “wizard of Arkansas” for his success in what was once the nation’s most Farmer-Laborite state, McMath would win an upset victory running on his record as a war hero and ties to Smedley Butler and Evans Fordyce Carlson. Horrified at revelations of the murder of Butler by the Lindbergh Administration, McMath would vote for the removal of Philip La Follette after a midnight visit from his former commanding officer in the Marine Corps David Shoup, transforming himself from an enigma to a pariah overnight as fascists across the nation have descended upon Arkansas to challenge him in 1954, with La Follette forces already organizing behind challenger Orval Faubus in a move that has placed McMath in an unexpected alliance with former rival Osro Cobb.
An interview with Governor Frank Zeidler.
Jimmy Hoffa: 39 year old labor leader Jimmy Hoffa inherited the mantle of leadership of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from longtime President John L. Lewis after the arrest of Lewis and his deputy Tony Boyle. A moderate with sympathies to both the party’s right and left seen as balancing with fellow CIO leader Walter Reuther’s socialism, Hoffa has put the interests of labor above all from his days leading the Teamsters Union. A fiery speaker who many credit with saving the CIO from collapse after the arrest of its leonine leader, Hoffa’s name is only on three ballots, but he has emerged as the choice of handfuls of CIO-affiliated delegates across the nation as a protest vote against the continued nationalization of the General Trades Union.
Jerry Voorhis: The Senate’s sole member from the Single Tax Party, California’s Jerry Voorhis has nonetheless served as the lightning rod around which disparate California anti-La Follette Farmer-Laborites have organized owing to the state ordinances permitting political crossfiling. Having described “the Kingdom of God” as being a world “all producing wealth is owned publicly” in his Claremont University thesis, Voorhis would oppose President Lindbergh from the beginning as a Farmer-Labor socialist before joining the Single Tax Party in 1946, reviving it in the state of California in an attempt to find a new vehicle for his politics. Seen as a contender for the presidency regardless of party affiliation, Voorhis’s draft movement among California oppositionists has been heralded as the first step of the left wing knight’s hypothetical return to a rebuilt Farmer-Labor Party. Among his surprising supporters has been former Lindbergh-La Follette stalwart Reverend Robert P. Shuler, who has praised Voorhis for crossing ideological and party lines to defend his right to free speech in moralistic attacks on Henry Luce’s romantic life.
Frank P. Zeidler: 40 year old Wisconsin Governor Frank P. Zeidler has stood as a socialist in the heart of La Follette country, successfully resisting primary challenges to maintain his grasp on the office amidst a tenuous alliance with Joseph McCarthy. Entering politics following the death of his rising star brother Carl, Frank has accepted the ballot line of the opposition in several Midwestern states following the death of former Senator Herbert S. Bigelow, once anticipated as a socialist challenger himself. A socialist to the core, Zeidler supporters point to his history of fiscal success and balanced budgets as evidence of his acumen in economic management and ability to control inflation as a possible future chief executive.
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2024.05.16 05:45 Court152344777 Entitled coworker plays victim

Well, I didn’t think things would come this far or have to be like this. I want to start off by saying that I am not perfect, I do make plenty of mistakes and i will continue to make mistakes. I’m writing this because a coworker of mine decided to make a post about me and completely lied.
I work for Jo-Ann fabrics and I love it, I love the atmosphere and I love the people- the customers and coworkers. Well, except one. For privacy I will call her Regina because she acts like work is the mean girls movie. I started working for this company October of 2023, I was hired in as the full time key holder. I do have a four year old that goes to school and due to kids having germs my daughter was sick a lot so I did have to call in, I don’t have much help babysitter wise so I HAD to stay home to take care of her. I didn’t call in every other day it was like twice every so often. Regina didn’t like that and resented me for choosing to take care of my daughter rather than work, so she told our boss that she should have the position because she doesn’t have a kid and would be available more. Our boss talked to me so I sacrificed the position so she could have it, now I’m not mad, upset or jealous that I don’t have the full time position it’s just hard to make a living working part time hours only making 10.55 an hour. If I knew what was to come I would have NEVER sacrificed the full time position. I do have a steady babysitter now so I’m working as much as I can so I can provide for my daughters need, kids are expensive and my daughters birthday is coming up so I asked for extra hours.
Days after Regina and I switched positions she started to act like she was made out of gold, like a golden child would. She would ALWAYS rub it in my face that she now was the full time key holder and always bragged how much more an hour she makes. She would ask all of our coworkers what their pay was and then would tell them how much she makes. I don’t care how much she makes, though higher pay would make my living situation easier. I grew up poor so I already adapted to a life of poverty and I’m honestly okay with it, sometimes it’s harder than other times but I make it work with what I have. Money to me is just paper, I can’t take it to the grave with me. Regina stoped me in the back room and said “I hope your not mad” I asked “why would I be mad” Regina replied with “because I make way more money than you” I smiled “well, I honestly don’t care. I couldn’t care less about money” Regina’s face got sour and cold because she knew she wasn’t getting under my skin. She replied with “oh, I thought you were”. I chuckled and said “no” and continued what I was doing.
Some time goes where nothing was happening but I could feel that something was brewing. It was the calm before the storm is what I’d call it. Now around this time I was going through a break up and was not feeling the best in my own skin and Regina knew this and used it as her ammunition. She started to call me her fat friend and then gave me hugs, I felt awkward because I do not like to be touched due to some very tramatic events . I’m bigger, I’m not skinny but I’m also not severely obese. Regina started to poke me and grab my fat and jiggle it. The first time she did, it was in front of two other female coworkers. They weren’t nice either, I’ll call them Gretchen and Karen, they were all in on this. When Regina grabbed my fat and giggled it Gretchen and Karen watched and laughed. I asked Regina “what are you doing” she responded with “I just wanted to feel how squishy it is”. Me being a non confrontational person I say “oh, don’t do that” still being nice and smiling, though I felt what was left of my self esteem completely shatter. I brushed it off and walked up to where all three of the mean girls were to ask a question about work since I was the only one doing something. Before I could even ask the question Gretchen goes behind me, makes a fist and lightly punched my back fat making it jiggle. All the girls laugh, I could feel my face getting hot and tears forming in my eyes as my heart sank to my stomach. I went to the bathroom for a moment to gather myself. This would go one for weeks, and every time it happened I would ask her to stop or to leave me be, each time she disregarded what I asked. During this time she would tell every coworker that I was a bad worker, I didn’t do what I was supposed to and if I did I would do a horrible job. There are so many other things she has said to others one that hurt the most was her saying it was annoying that I talk about my daughter so much. Now this whole time I thought we were friends, I’m a very forgiving person and I’m super nice even to people who don’t deserve it so when I heard about everything she was saying I was hurt I was so confused because she even asked to be my daughters god mother though she was never in my daughters life. I know friends don’t treat friends like that but I was just happy I could call someone a friend after years of having no one due to becoming a mom and losing myself in motherhood. I call my kindness and willingness to forgive a blessing and a curse because it truly is.
After finding out about everything she was saying, the drama and the physical touching which is actually bulling and harassment I finally went to my boss. It took me almost two months to tell her what was going on and how I felt. I hated every second explaining the torment to her, my boss is a lovey person and is super sweet. I couldn’t imagine how she felt hearing all of this, I truly felt like I was going to puke. I was so uncomfortable I couldn’t bear to work any longer without the help of my boss. My boss did talk to Regina and she said that she seems like she will be better and will stop the nonsense. A day after she was talked to Regina poked my back fat and laughed, she was shocked at how I responded. This time I wasn’t nice I turned to her and pretty much yelled “don’t touch me” she immediately apologized. I was surprised with how I responded as well, I actually stood up for myself and it felt nice. I did tell my boss she touched me again so Regina was talked to again and was extremely pissed. She started acting really passive aggressive, avoiding me and slamming things and being rude to everyone even customers. Me, being the nice person I am I decided that I would forgive her. Dumb of me, I know. I wrote her a four or five page letter explaining how everything made me feel , how bad of a friend she was and that I would teach her how to be a good friend. I even bought her a candle and some other stuff along with the letter I went as far as going over to her house to help her clean. She cried a lot when she read the letter and cried to me saying how bad of a friend she was, I hugged her back and said that it was okay and I forgive her. After that is was okay for a while until I witnessed her take drinks without paying for them and told my boss. After this, it was like a war.
I have never gotten in trouble with anyone, anywhere with anything, I guess I’m a goodie-two-shoes. Though I do have anger problems I have found ways to cope and deal with my anger, I’ve been working really hard to not get angry at Regina even though she deserves to hear what the mama bear side of me wants to say. I want to be gentle, I want to be nice and forgiving, I don’t want to be angry. But I knew I had to set some sturdy boundaries in order to keep my sanity. These past few weeks have been hell, in summary I caught her talking bad about me to my boss, she was lying about me, blaming me and others for things we didn’t do. With one situation in particular she turned the tables , when hearing this my adrenaline started to course through my veins, I stared to shake so bad. I went up to her and told her that was not how the story went. She got so scared seeing me so mad and shaking. She apologized to our boss for lying but not to me, my other coworker helped me calm down and thank god she did because I was going to quit right there and then. To summarize other things she has done I will just list them -tried to frame another coworker for theft to the point the coworker cried to our boss -tried to take credit for the work I did -talks bad about other managers and workers in other stores -gave out the phone numbers and emails of our hr and of our boss’s boss -made me work off the clock to train new people because she didn’t want to train them -purposely trained me wrong and is hesitant with teaching me new things to the point my boss has to and when I learn she gets mad and jealous because she’s threatened by my work ethic -yelled at me in front of a customer to the point the customer came back to complain about Regina to our boss and another coworker
And so many more but, the most recent is her blaming me for not locking the doors at close when it was her that didn’t do it correctly, the alarm company called my boss at night and the cops came to our Joanns and everything. I have several eye witnesses watch her do it. I told my boss to watch the cameras because I have nothing to lie about and Regina still is trying to blame me. This is where I draw the line, I will not forgive her so easily this time. Forgiveness without changed behavior is just manipulation. I am not the only one who has complained about her, many of our coworker have switched their availability to when I work or when my boss works because they don’t want to deal with Regina. Tension is very high and I’m afraid of what is to come.
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2024.05.16 00:15 oldbublysoul29 Weekend Roundup May 17-19

“Your art was the prettiest art of all the art.” -Roy Anderson, The Office
“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.” -Fernando de Rojas
🎵 “HEE HEE!” 🎵-Michael Jackson
Have a great weekend!
AROUND TOWN
FRIDAY, MAY 17
SATURDAY, MAY 18
SUNDAY, MAY 19
SPORTS
MOVIES (released nationwide in theaters)
LINKS
Reddit Twin Cities Social Meet-Ups: https://www.reddit.com/twincitiessocial
Trivia Mafia Schedule: https://www.triviamafia.com/schedule
Music Mayhem Schedule: http://www.musicmayhem.net/live-show-locations.html
Get a Clu Trivia Schedule: https://www.getaclutrivia.com/home/#weekly-trivia-schedule
Racket MN Event Calendar: https://www.racketmn.com/category/events/
Meet Minneapolis Event Calendar: https://www.minneapolis.org
MPLS Art Events: https://www.mplsart.com/calendaupcoming
Minnesota Monthly Event Calendar: http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/Calenda
MSP Magazine Event Calendar: http://mspmag.com/search/event/events-calenda#page=1
Minneapolis Northwest Event Calendar: https://www.minneapolisnorthwest.com/events/
Minnesota Parent Event List: https://www.minnesotaparent.com/calenda
Family Fun Twin Cities: https://www.familyfuntwincities.com/family-fun-events-calenda
Minneapolis Park Events: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/event-calenda
St. Paul Parks & Rec Events: https://www.stpaul.gov/calendaparks-and-recreation-events
Three Rivers Park District Event Calendar: https://web2.myvscloud.com/wbwsc/mnthreeriverswt.wsc/search.html?display=Calendar&module=event&_csrf_token=cU716Z6D0C1B2B2C3C2L454I5R604U581V665Z566H046Q3U595K0B5U4U6L4N1F0E3S6K4U055R5P4J576D734L5C576Q73535P6D015S4R504J09664Q5G5708564N5S
If you have any events to add, drop them in the comments!
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2024.05.16 00:13 oldbublysoul29 Weekend Rundown May 17-19

“Your art was the prettiest art of all the art.” -Roy Anderson, The Office
“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.” -Fernando de Rojas
🎵 “HEE HEE!” 🎵-Michael Jackson
Have a great weekend!
AROUND TOWN
FRIDAY, MAY 17
SATURDAY, MAY 18
SUNDAY, MAY 19
SPORTS
MOVIES (released nationwide in theaters)
LINKS
Reddit Twin Cities Social Meet-Ups: https://www.reddit.com/twincitiessocial
Trivia Mafia Schedule: https://www.triviamafia.com/schedule
Music Mayhem Schedule: http://www.musicmayhem.net/live-show-locations.html
Get a Clu Trivia Schedule: https://www.getaclutrivia.com/home/#weekly-trivia-schedule
Racket MN Event Calendar: https://www.racketmn.com/category/events/
Meet Minneapolis Event Calendar: https://www.minneapolis.org
MPLS Art Events: https://www.mplsart.com/calendaupcoming
Minnesota Monthly Event Calendar: http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/Calenda
MSP Magazine Event Calendar: http://mspmag.com/search/event/events-calenda#page=1
Minneapolis Northwest Event Calendar: https://www.minneapolisnorthwest.com/events/
Minnesota Parent Event List: https://www.minnesotaparent.com/calenda
Family Fun Twin Cities: https://www.familyfuntwincities.com/family-fun-events-calenda
Minneapolis Park Events: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/event-calenda
St. Paul Parks & Rec Events: https://www.stpaul.gov/calendaparks-and-recreation-events
Three Rivers Park District Event Calendar: https://web2.myvscloud.com/wbwsc/mnthreeriverswt.wsc/search.html?display=Calendar&module=event&_csrf_token=cU716Z6D0C1B2B2C3C2L454I5R604U581V665Z566H046Q3U595K0B5U4U6L4N1F0E3S6K4U055R5P4J576D734L5C576Q73535P6D015S4R504J09664Q5G5708564N5S
If you have any events to add, drop them in the comments!
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2024.05.14 03:37 br0kena4m All items that get multiple chemistry (2x, 3X) - Updated

Here is the update to my last team chemistry post:
ALL TEAMS
Eric Berry S 2x Chiefs at 80 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Channing Crowder MLB 2x Dolphins at 80 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Kevin Mawae C 2x Jets at 80 OVR; 2x Jets, Seahawks, Titans at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Frank Gore HB 2x 49ers at 80 OVR; 2x Bills, Colts, Dolphins, 49ers, Jets at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Ronde Barber CB 2x Buccaneers at 80 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Jordan Reed TE 2x Commanders at 80 OVR; 2x Commanders, 49ers at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Rob Eisen HB 2x Any Team NFL Combine†
Team Affinity Strategy Items (1x-4x)
ARIZONA CARDINALS
96 Emmit Smith HB 2x AKA Crews
93 Greg Dortch WR 2x Division Dynasty
92 Aeneas Williams CB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Marquise Brown WR 2x Division Dynasty
84 Paris Johnson Jr RT 2x Rookie Premiere*
ATLANTA FALCONS
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
98 Kirk Cousins QB 2x AKA Crews
96 Jonnu Smith TE 2x AKA Crews
95 Ruke Orhorhoro DT 2x NFL Draft 3
94 Kirk Cousins QB 2x NFL Free Agency
93 Jake Matthews LT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Bill Fralic RG 3x Team Diamonds
88 Calais Campbell RE 2x Division Dynasty
84 Bijan Robinson HB 2x Rookie Premiere*
BALTIMORE RAVENS
96 Randall Cunningham QB 2x AKA Crews
95 Adissa Isaac LE 2x NFL Draft 3
95 T.J. Tampa CB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Travis Jones DT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Anquan Boldin WR 3x Team Diamonds
88 Odafe Oweh ROLB 2x Division Dynasty
84 Zay Flowers WR 2x Rookie Premiere*
BUFFALO BILLS
97 Andre Reed WR 2x AKA Crews
95 Keon Coleman WR 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Reggie Gilliam FB 2x Division Dynasty
92 Ruben Brown LG 3x Team Diamonds
88 Dion Dawkins LT 2x Division Dynasty
84 Dorian Williams MLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
Frank Gore HB 2x 49ers at 80 OVR; 2x Bills, Colts, Dolphins, 49ers, Jets at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
CAROLINA PANTHERS
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
97 Charles Tillman CB 2x AKA Crews
95 Ja’Tavion Sanders TE 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Johnathan Brooks HB 2x NFL Draft 3
94 Damien Lewis LG 2x NFL Free Agency
94 Josey Jewell MLB 2x NFL Free Agency
93 Bryce Young QB 2x Division Dynasty
92 Julius Peppers LE 3x Team Diamonds
88 Bradley Bozeman C 2x Division Dynasty
84 Jonathan Mingo WR 2x Rookie Premiere*
CHICAGO BEARS
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
97 Charles Tillman CB 2x AKA Crews
96 Gale Sayers HB 2x AKA Crews
94 Gerald Everett TE 2x NFL Free Agency
93 Nate Davis RG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Alshon Jeffery WR 3x Team Diamonds
88 Justin Jones DT 2x Division Dynasty
84 Darnell Wright RT 2x Rookie Premiere*
CINCINNATI BENGALS
95 Eric All TE 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Jermaine Burton WR 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Kris Jenkins DT 2x NFL Draft 3
94 Tee Higgins WR 2x NFL Free Agency
93 Ted Karras C 2x Division Dynasty
92 Geno Atkins DT 3x Team Diamonds
88 Logan Wilson ROLB 2x Division Dynasty
84 DJ Turner CB 2x Rookie Premiere*
CLEVELAND BROWNS
93 Shelby Harris DT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Joe Thomas LT 3x Team Diamonds
88 David Njoku TE 2x Division Dynasty
84 Dawand Jones RT 2x Rookie Premiere*
DALLAS COWBOYS
96 Troy Aikman QB AKA Crews
96 Emmit Smith HB 2x AKA Crews
96 Randall Cunningham QB 2x AKA Crews
95 Marshawn Kneeland ROLB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Osa Odighizuwa DT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Chuck Howley MLB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Leighton Vander Esch MLB 2x Division Dynasty
84 Luke Schoonmaker TE 2x Rookie Premiere*
DENVER BRONCOS
98 Aquib Talib CB 2x AKA Crews
98 Chris Harris Jr CB 2x AKA Crews
95 Jonah Ellis ROLB 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Troy Franklin WR 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Mike McGlinchey RT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Julius Thomas TE 3x Team Diamonds
88 Jerry Jeudy WR 2x Division Dynasty
84 Marvin Mims Jr WR 2x Rookie Premiere*
DETROIT LIONS
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
98 Amon Ra St. Brown WR 2x AKA Crews
95 Christian Mahogany RG 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Ennis Rakestraw Jr CB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Jalen Reeves-Maybin LOLB 2x Division Dynasty
92 Kevin Glover C 3x Team Diamonds
88 Penei Sewell RT 2x Division Dynasty
87 Aidan Hutchinson LE 2x Rookie Premiere*
84 Jahmyr Gibbs HB 2x Rookie Premiere*
GREEN BAY PACKERS
97 Josh Jacobs HB 2x NFL Free Agency
95 Edgerrin Cooper MLB 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Javon Bullard SS 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Elgton Jenkins LG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Clay Matthews LOLB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Christian Watson WR 2x Division Dynasty
84 Lukas Van Ness LOLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
HOUSTON TEXANS
97 Dalton Schultz TE 2x NFL Free Agency
96 J.J. Watt RE 3x Team Diamonds
95 Kamari Lassiter CB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Sheldon Rankins DT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Mario Williams LE 3x Team Diamonds
88 Jimmie Ward SS 2x Division Dynasty
84 C.J. Stroud QB 2x Rookie Premiere*
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
99 Pat Mcafee P 2x April Fool's
97 Marshall Faulk HB 2x AKA Crews
97 Michael Pittman Jr WR 2x NFL Free Agency
95 Adonai Mitchell WR 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Samson Ebukam RE 2x Division Dynasty
92 Reggie Wayne WR 3x Team Diamonds
88 Julian Blackmon SS 2x Division Dynasty
84 Julius Brents CB 2x Rookie Premiere*
Frank Gore HB 2x 49ers at 80 OVR; 2x Bills, Colts, Dolphins, 49ers, Jets at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
93 Roy Robertson-Harris RE 2x Division Dynasty
92 Donovin Darius SS 3x Team Diamonds
88 Zay Jones WR 2x Division Dynasty
84 Brenton Strange TE 2x Rookie Premiere*
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
99 Tyreek Hill WR 2x AKA Crews
98 Travis Kelce TE 2x AKA Crews
95 Jaden Hicks SS 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Donovan Smith LT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Will Shields RG 3x Team Diamonds
88 Isiah Pacheco HB 2x Division Dynasty
86 Darrelle Revis CB 2x Playoffs†
84 Rashee Rice WR 2x Rookie Premiere*
Eric Berry S 2x Chiefs at 80 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR Team Captains†
Chiefs Super Bowl Offensive Playbook 1x
Chiefs Super Bowl Defensive Playbook 1x
Chiefs Super Bowl Home Uniform 1x
Chiefs Super Bowl Away Uniform 1x
Chiefs Super Bowl Base Stadium 1x
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
95 Jackson Powers-Johnson C 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Daniel Carlson K 2x Division Dynasty
92 Lincoln Kennedy RT 3x Team Diamonds
88 Marcus Epps FS 2x Division Dynasty
84 Tyree Wilson ROLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
LOS ANGELES CHARGERS
98 Chris Harris Jr CB 2x AKA Crews
96 Hunter Henry TE 2x AKA Crews
95 Junior Colson MLB 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Ladd McConkey WR 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Zion Johnson LG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Phillip Rivers QB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Gerald Everett TE 2x Division Dynasty
84 Tuli Tuipulotu LOLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
LOS ANGELES RAMS
98 Aquib Talib CB 2x AKA Crews
98 Kevin Dotson LG 2x NFL Free Agency
97 Isaac Bruce WR 2x AKA Crews
97 Marshall Faulk HB 2x AKA Crews
95 Braden Fiske DT 2x NFL Draft 3
96 Todd Gurley HB 3x Team Diamonds
93 Coleman Shelton C 2x Division Dynasty
92 Ryan McNeil CB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Kyren Williams HB 2x Division Dynasty
84 Byron Young LOLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
MIAMI DOLPHINS
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
99 Tyreek Hill WR 2x AKA Crews
99 Jaylen Waddle WR 2x AKA Crews
96 Jonnu Smith TE 2x AKA Crews
95 Jaylen Wright HB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Jason Sanders K 2x Division Dynasty
92 Reshad Jones FS 3x Team Diamonds
88 Emmanuel Ogbah LE 2x Division Dynasty
84 Cam Smith CB 2x Rookie Premiere*
Channing Crowder MLB 2x Dolphins at 80 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Frank Gore HB 2x 49ers at 80 OVR; 2x Bills, Colts, Dolphins, 49ers, Jets at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
MINNESOTA VIKINGS
98 Danielle Hunter LOLB 2x NFL Free Agency
98 Kirk Cousins QB 2x AKA Crews
96 Randall Cunningham QB 2x AKA Crews
95 Khyree Jackson CB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Dalton Risner LG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Fran Tarkenton QB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Harrison Phillips LE 2x Division Dynasty
84 Jay Ward FS 2x Rookie Premiere*
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
98 Aquib Talib CB 2x AKA Crews
97 Mike Owenu RT 2x NFL Free Agency
96 Hunter Henry TE 2x AKA Crews
96 Jonnu Smith TE 2x AKA Crews
95 Ja’Lynn Polk WR 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Cole Strange LG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Logan Mankins RG 3x Team Diamonds
88 Jabrill Peppers FS 2x Division Dynasty
86 Darrelle Revis CB 2x Playoffs†
84 Christian Gonzalez CB 2x Rookie Premiere*
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
98 Chris Harris Jr CB 2x AKA Crews
98 Cameron Jordan LE 2x AKA Crews
95 Ga’Quincey Mckinstry CB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Rashid Shaheed WR 2x Division Dynasty
92 Jimmy Graham TE 3x Team Diamonds
88 Tyrann Mathieu FS 2x Division Dynasty
84 Bryan Bresee DT 2x Rookie Premiere*
NEW YORK GIANTS
97 Brian Burns RE 2x NFL Free Agency
95 Tyler Nubin SS 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Evan Neal RT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Terry Kinard FS 3x Team Diamonds
88 Shane Lemieux LG 2x Division Dynasty
84 John Michael Schmitz C 2x Rookie Premiere*
NEW YORK JETS
93 Tony Adams SS 2x Division Dynasty
92 Joe Klecko DT 3x Team Diamonds
88 Laken Tomlinson LG 2x Division Dynasty
86 Darrelle Revis CB 2x Playoffs†
84 Will McDonald IV RE 2x Rookie Premiere*
Kevin Mawae C 2x Jets at 80 OVR; 2x Jets, Seahawks, Titans at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Frank Gore HB 2x 49ers at 80 OVR; 2x Bills, Colts, Dolphins, 49ers, Jets at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
97 John Madden MLB 2x Ring of Honor
96 Randall Cunningham QB 2x AKA Crews
95 Cooper DeJean CB 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Jeremiah Trotter Jr MLB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 D'Andre Swift HB 2x Division Dynasty
92 Troy Vincent CB 3x Team Diamonds
88 James Bradberry IV CB 2x Division Dynasty
84 Nolan Smith Jr LOLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
PITTSBURGH STEELERS
95 Mason McCormik LG 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Payton Wilson MLB 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Roman Wilson WR 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Zach Frazier C 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Broderick Jones RT 2x Division Dynasty
92 Le'Veon Bell HB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Mason Cole C 2x Division Dynasty
84 Darnell Washington TE 2x Rookie Premiere*
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
99 Richard Sherman CB 2x AKA Crews
97 Isaac Bruce WR 2x AKA Crews
93 Aaron Banks LG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Merton Hanks FS 3x Team Diamonds
88 Dre Greenlaw ROLB 2x Division Dynasty
84 Ji'Ayir Brown SS 2x Rookie Premiere*
Frank Gore HB 2x 49ers at 80 OVR; 2x Bills, Colts, Dolphins, 49ers, Jets at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
Jordan Reed TE 2x Commanders at 80 OVR; 2x Commanders, 49ers at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
49ers Super Bowl Offensive Playbook 1x
49ers Super Bowl Defensive Playbook 1x
49ers Super Bowl Home Uniform 1x
49ers Super Bowl Away Uniform 1x
49ers Super Bowl Base Stadium 1x
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
99 Richard Sherman CB 2x AKA Crews
99 Bruce Irwin LOLB 2x AKA Crews
95 Christian Haynes RG 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Jason Myers K 2x Division Dynasty
92 Steve Largent WR 3x Team Diamonds
88 Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR 2x Division Dynasty
84 Anthony Bradford RG 2x Rookie Premiere*
Kevin Mawae C 2x Jets at 80 OVR; 2x Jets, Seahawks, Titans at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
99 Richard Sherman CB 2x AKA Crews
98 Aquib Talib CB 2x AKA Crews
98 Mike Evans WR 2x NFL Free Agency
95 Chris Braswell LOLB 2x NFL Draft 3
93 Aaron Stinnie LG 2x Division Dynasty
92 Doug Martin HB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Ryan Neal SS 2x Division Dynasty
86 Darrelle Revis CB 2x Playoffs†
84 Yaya Diaby LOLB 2x Rookie Premiere*
Ronde Barber CB 2x Buccaneers at 80 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
TENESSEE TITANS
97 Chidobe Awuzie CB 2x NFL Free Agency
96 Jonnu Smith TE 2x AKA Crews
93 Azeez Al-Shaair MLB 2x Division Dynasty
92 Keith Bulluck ROLB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Jeffery Simmons RE 2x Division Dynasty
84 Will Levis QB 2x Rookie Premiere*
Kevin Mawae C 2x Jets at 80 OVR; 2x Jets, Seahawks, Titans at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
WASHINGTON COMMANDERS
98 Kirk Cousins QB 2x AKA Crews
97 Andre Reed WR 2x AKA Crews
95 Johnny Newton DT 2x NFL Draft 3
95 Mike Sainristil CB 2x NFL Draft 3
94 Frankie Luvu LOLB 2x NFL Free Agency
93 James Smith-Williams LE 2x Division Dynasty
92 Brian Orakpo ROLB 3x Team Diamonds
88 Cody Barton MLB 2x Division Dynasty
84 Emmanuel Forbes CB 2x Rookie Premiere*
Jordan Reed TE 2x Commanders at 80 OVR; 2x Commanders, 49ers at 81 OVR; 2x Any Team at 85 OVR; 3x Any Team at 96 OVR Team Captains†
*No longer obtainable
†Marks a player item that must hit a certain overall to unlock an extra chemistry slot
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2024.05.13 00:21 HRJafael Heath voters OK $1.6M town budget, school spending

https://archive.is/uuTVI
After much discussion at Saturday’s Town Meeting, voters approved a $1.6 million fiscal year 2025 spending plan for town services and a $1 million assessment for Heath’s share of the $26.7 million Mohawk Trail Regional School District budget.
Although the Finance Committee did not recommend it, voters agreed to spend the $1 million town assessment requested by the school district, as well as paying Rowe $6,667 for shared transportation costs for a late bus which transports students home from Mohawk Trail Regional School in Buckland, following after-school activities. Voters also approved a transfer of $24,443 from free cash to the district’s FY22 Operating Assessment Error Account.
The votes took place after Mohawk Regional School superintendent Sheryl Stanton spoke during the meeting. She explained how the budget was created, which included providing a wider range of programs to students and targeted initiatives for students who need additional support after the COVID-19 pandemic, balancing funds to keep assessments to the towns within the Mohawk district low and to contain costs.
“We recognize that our smallest towns bear burden,” said Stanton, addressing residents’ concerns about the $1 million cost. “One of the largest pieces of research here that we have managed without it coming back to the towns is a $600,000 increase … for students in special education. That is a direct result of COVID, We are seeing many more students with trauma, many more students with a lack of support but it’s needed so that we can be productive in classrooms.”
After passing the $1 million assessment, voters quickly approved other articles pertaining to Mohawk’s shared transportation costs for the late bus and a final payment to error account. They then approved the town budget, which represents a $104,115 increase over the current year’s spending plan and a tax rate of $20.43 per $1,000 of property valuation.
Near the end of the meeting, residents were supposed to vote on the regional agreement amendment which would change the school enrollment formula used to calculate town assessments by adding in students who attend charter schools or who have used school choice to attend other districts. Heath voters requested a quorum for this topic, however only 54 residents were still present at the meeting, two short of the 56 voters needed for a quorum.
A vote was then held to adjourn, and to continue discussing the amendments on Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. at the Jacobs Road Municipal Center, in hopes that enough residents will attend to hold a quorum.
Town election
Of the 552 registered voters in Heath, 230 ballots were cast. The results are as follows:
■Selectboard, one seat with three-year term — William Emmet, 122 votes, Michael Smith, 108 votes.
■Finance Committee, three seats with three-year term — Edwin Wolf, 172 votes, Robert McGahan, 148 votes, Dena Briggs 67 votes, Karen Brooks, 58 votes.
■Town Clerk, one seat with three-year term — Mary Sumner, 222 votes.
■Assessor, one seat with three-year term — Robyn Provost-Carlson, 14 write-in votes.
■Planning Board, one seat with five-year term — William Fontes, 202 votes.
■Library Trustee, one seat with three-year term — Rebecca Johnson, 201 votes.
■Constable, one seat with three-year term — Steven Thane, 203 votes.
■Municipal Light Board, two seats with three-year term — Arthur Schwenger, 204 votes, Edwin Wolf, 176 votes.
■School Committee, one seat with three-year term — Budge Litchfield, 188 votes.
■School Committee, one seat with one-year term- Tucker Jenkins, 49 write-in votes (town still needs to confirm if Jenkins accepts the position).
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2024.05.11 20:12 AlecMaiz0 Article: Gender Disappointment in 2024 is Almost Always About Boys "A shameful secret kept from the public eye but omnipresent in online mom spaces"

Article: Gender Disappointment in 2024 is Almost Always About Boys
"Recently, a Slate article came out about the parents who are seeking IVF—not because of fertility struggles or even genetic diseases, but strictly for the purpose of having a daughter instead of a son. Selfishly, as an IVF mom, I don’t love articles like these. The vast majority of people who choose IVF do it for infertility reasons, and a much smaller percentage to it to avoid serious familial diseases. The people doing IVF solely for gender selection (let alone absurd things like height or eye color- nearly impossible to do anyway) are few and far between, so rare in fact that articles like these almost seem like hate-bait, describing a rare phenomenon as if it’s a growing trend because almost everyone reading about it will disapprove. This is especially prescient with extreme right-wing disapproval of IVF. We’re dealing with that already, and now you’re gonna try to get everyone else on their side because you’ve painted IVF parents as vain, self-absorbed, baby-designers. Okay.
What is a common trend, however, is gender disappointment—a strong feeling of sadness or anxiety that happens when parents discover the sex of their child isn’t what they hoped. Technically it should be “Sex Disappointment,” not to be confused with how I’d describe losing my virginity.
Gender disappointment isn’t new. For most of human history, parents have wanted sons instead of daughters. During the one-child policy era in China, baby girls were aborted, killed after birth, abandoned, or adopted out. Other cultures around the world still practice infanticide, mostly targeted at baby girls. If we resurrected everyone who has ever lived, and told them that people in modern-day America often feel gender disappointment, they would naturally assume people were disappointed about having girls. But that’s not the case.
Modern-day gender disappointment is primarily an online phenomenon (mom groups, Reddit, etc.) because people don’t want to be judged. It’s not acceptable to want anything other than a “healthy baby.” In fact, when I was pregnant and I jokingly mentioned that I hoped our first born would have my husband’s beautiful eyes, a relative chided “all you should care about is that the baby is healthy.” Even a minor, innocuous preference for one gender is met with judgment—every mom must insist they don’t care. So naturally, online mom spaces are where moms go to voice their fears and sadness around gender disappointment. And 99% of the time, they’re disappointed to be having a boy.
The disappointment when popping a balloon filled with blue confetti or simply opening a Sneak Peak test at 8 weeks and discovering XY chromosomes can be boiled down to multiple things. Let’s start with the most simple and harmless reason. I think almost every parent has a slight preference toward having a child of the same sex as themselves, not because they find their own sex superior, but rather because one of the fun things about being a parent is getting to introduce your child to all your favorite things from childhood (and if you’re a feminine woman, there’s a lot of fun in dressing up your daughter—dressing up your son can be fun too, but the options for boy clothes aren’t as cute.) In 2024, we have to pay lip service to the idea that “of course my son might like dolls and my daughter might like monster trucks,” but I do think boys are generally, on average, more likely to gravitate toward some things and the same goes with girls. Even in my super-progressive circle, where everyone says they raise their kids gender-neutral, I’ve noticed that all the girls in my son’s class love the movie Frozen, even if they also like dinosuars, and almost all the boys in his class love superheroes, even if they also play with baby dolls.
When we found out we were having a boy, my husband was excited to introduce him to basketball, and when I found out I was having a girl, I got excited to gift her my old dollhouse which I designed with my mother over years of attending dollhouse trade shows and shopping at antique dollhouse stores. That doesn’t mean we’d love our children any less if they weren’t gender conforming, or that we wouldn’t adjust our plans if we turned out to have a son who loved dolls and a girl who loved basketball, just that it’s fairly reasonable to assume your average girl is going to get some enjoyment from a dollhouse, and your average boy will get some enjoyment from sports. They may not, and that’s okay too! But it’s reasonable to fantasize about it, as long as you aren’t strongly tied to that fantasy.
But maybe it’s deeper than a sadness about Carter’s only offering camo-pattern cargo shorts after age two, or about never getting to use Felicity the American Girl Doll’s pet lamb Posey again. I can’t help but notice that all the positive traits that used to be associated with boys are now considered gender neutral (strong, capable, intelligent, ambitious), while most of the positive traits that used to be associated with girls are still associated with girls (nurturing, empathetic, detail-oriented, polite). Meanwhile, boys have been assigned plenty of negative traits: they will embody “toxic masculinity.” They will be difficult. They won’t be kind. They’ll grow up to be obnoxious frat bros. They’ll be violent. Many of the women who express these concerns, paradoxically, are progressives who claim to believe that there are no innate differences between men and women. Perhaps they’re concerned that the negative traits associated with boys will emerge because of “society,” but to be honest, I’m not really buying it. I think they do believe in some differences, and there’s cognitive dissonance when belief in those differences collides with paying lip service to the idea that men and women are interchangeable and the insistence that all gender preferences are morally repugnant.
Perhaps, most terrifying even to women who don’t believe in the other gendered stereotypes: boys apparently won’t visit you when they’re older, provided they are heterosexual. They will become absorbed by their wives’ families, and pay more attention to their mother-in-laws than to you. “Boy moms” across social media post short videos joking about their fears of becoming “the paternal grandmother” or “the mother of the groom.”
My mother-in-law has two sons and I asked her if she ever wished she had a daughter. She emphatically said no, and I believed her, mostly because she’s not a big girly-girl herself, and she never felt overly sentimental about her kids being dependent on her. She happily worked when they were younger and valued her career, and notably, looked forward to her kids getting older and becoming more independent instead of looking misty-eyed at their old baby clothes. My guess is, women like this are not the ones expressing gender disappointment.
I didn’t think I was capable of gender disappointment. I did IVF and I knew before I even got pregnant that my first child was a boy. I happily decorated a boy nursery, bought boy clothes (I did have to get creative to avoid the onslaught of construction vehicles and dingy gray, but I managed!) and happily referred to myself as “Team Blue” on my mom group polls. But crucially, I planned on having more than one child. I knew we had a chance for a girl next. I knew I would love my kids the same, but on some level I think I’d have been disappointed if I knew having a daughter was completely off the table in the future.
Unfortunately, I got a mini-taste of that reality when I got pregnant again. My embryo was a girl, and I miscarried. It was early, but because I knew the sex, and had a name and nursery plan picked out, I reacted more strongly than one would expect for such an early loss.
While I never felt gender disappointment with my son, I did feel some during my miscarriage. Losing my pregnancy—even as early as it was—felt like losing the idea of a daughter. I had built up eighteen years of mother-daughter bonding in my head, and for the first time since our infertility diagnosis, I felt deep dread that I might never get to experience that. Yes, I would experience bonding with my son and perhaps another son, but unless one of them expressed extremely feminine interests, what if I never had many hobbies in common with them? What if my future was spent at soccer tournaments, wrestling matches, and Little League games, while my old dollhouse my mother and I designed together collected dust until it got auctioned off in my mom’s estate sale someday? I would still be happy—certainly much happier than if I never had children—but would I always carry a tiny nugget of sadness that I never got to do “girl things” with my kids?
Of course, I didn’t want to express that feeling because every time I did, people would insist that my kids might turn out to be trans or nonbinary (true! and I would accept them and love them!) or for all I knew, my son would grow up to love Barbies. It felt unhelpful. Of course, if my son loved Barbies, I would get him Barbies, but it seemed like an odd thing to place my hopes on. I did not want to find myself subconsciously pushing my son or sons into girl-coded activities with the hope of relinquishing some fragment of a mother-daughter dream I once had. That, to me, felt more toxic than the assumption that all boys like trucks and dinosaurs.
Another reason I didn’t want to express this feeling to anyone other than my closest family members was the inevitable guilt tripping—what about women who can’t have children? Why should I be so selfish as to care about gender when some women can’t conceive at all? This felt especially hurtful because I was one of those women! Well, technically we did IVF for male factor infertility, but we struggled nonetheless. This guilt-trip didn’t make me feel better about the prospect of never having a daughter, but it did make me feel worse about myself as a parent and a person overall. Many infertility moms (myself included) struggle with feeling like we don’t deserve our kids, and that we certainly don’t deserve to ever complain or experience anything other than gratitude. So anyway: not helpful!
I did wind up having a daughter next, and unsurprisingly, gender had no bearing on my bonding with my kids. I truly love them equally, and would continue to feel that way regardless of how much they adhered to gender roles. And I promise I’m not just saying that!
There’s no real fix here, because this type of gender disappointment is largely tied in with the progressive ideals of gender equality, while holding onto some benevolent sexism. If boys are no longer important for the purpose of continuing the family lineage, serving as capable family farm workers, being the heirs to family businesses or being responsible for providing, then what’s special about them? While we extoll the virtues of girls on a regular basis, we’re afraid to do the same with boys, just in case we fall back on harmful antiquated stereotypes. And even as a card-carrying liberal, I think this creates a pretty toxic dynamic. You don’t have to be a Tucker Carlson viewer to admit something bad is happening with boys, who often don’t feel like there is anything just for them, while there are multiple things just for girls. A six-year-old boy isn’t going to “check his privilege” and acknowledge he benefits from a legacy of male privilege so it’s the girls’ turn.
That’s not to say that we are living in some kind of matriarchy, or that men are oppressed in some kind of systemic way. Just that, at least during childhood, we talk about what’s great about girls but are afraid to talk about what’s great about boys, while paradoxically, insisting there are no differences between girls and boys. And as the mom of a boy: boys are pretty great too!
I think most moms who never have daughters, even those who were initially upset about it, turn out fine. Most of the posts I see about gender disappointment are met with a multitude of comments saying “I felt the same way, and now I can’t imagine ever feeling that way again, because my son is awesome.” I believe them. A hypothetical baby isn’t the same as a real baby, and often the love for a real baby will vanquish any previous feelings of gender disappointment. I know many women who initially felt gender disappointment during a pregnancy but none who fail to bond with their sons. So all things considered, this is a temporary state. But it’s causing distress even if not permanent distress, and that’s bad for everyone."
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2024.05.11 20:06 AlecMaiz0 Gender Disappointment in 2024 is Almost Always About Boys. "A shameful secret kept from the public eye but omnipresent in online mom spaces"

Gender Disappointment in 2024 is Almost Always About Boys.
"Recently, a Slate article came out about the parents who are seeking IVF—not because of fertility struggles or even genetic diseases, but strictly for the purpose of having a daughter instead of a son. Selfishly, as an IVF mom, I don’t love articles like these. The vast majority of people who choose IVF do it for infertility reasons, and a much smaller percentage to it to avoid serious familial diseases. The people doing IVF solely for gender selection (let alone absurd things like height or eye color- nearly impossible to do anyway) are few and far between, so rare in fact that articles like these almost seem like hate-bait, describing a rare phenomenon as if it’s a growing trend because almost everyone reading about it will disapprove. This is especially prescient with extreme right-wing disapproval of IVF. We’re dealing with that already, and now you’re gonna try to get everyone else on their side because you’ve painted IVF parents as vain, self-absorbed, baby-designers. Okay.
What is a common trend, however, is gender disappointment—a strong feeling of sadness or anxiety that happens when parents discover the sex of their child isn’t what they hoped. Technically it should be “Sex Disappointment,” not to be confused with how I’d describe losing my virginity.
Gender disappointment isn’t new. For most of human history, parents have wanted sons instead of daughters. During the one-child policy era in China, baby girls were aborted, killed after birth, abandoned, or adopted out. Other cultures around the world still practice infanticide, mostly targeted at baby girls. If we resurrected everyone who has ever lived, and told them that people in modern-day America often feel gender disappointment, they would naturally assume people were disappointed about having girls. But that’s not the case.
Modern-day gender disappointment is primarily an online phenomenon (mom groups, Reddit, etc.) because people don’t want to be judged. It’s not acceptable to want anything other than a “healthy baby.” In fact, when I was pregnant and I jokingly mentioned that I hoped our first born would have my husband’s beautiful eyes, a relative chided “all you should care about is that the baby is healthy.” Even a minor, innocuous preference for one gender is met with judgment—every mom must insist they don’t care. So naturally, online mom spaces are where moms go to voice their fears and sadness around gender disappointment. And 99% of the time, they’re disappointed to be having a boy.
The disappointment when popping a balloon filled with blue confetti or simply opening a Sneak Peak test at 8 weeks and discovering XY chromosomes can be boiled down to multiple things. Let’s start with the most simple and harmless reason. I think almost every parent has a slight preference toward having a child of the same sex as themselves, not because they find their own sex superior, but rather because one of the fun things about being a parent is getting to introduce your child to all your favorite things from childhood (and if you’re a feminine woman, there’s a lot of fun in dressing up your daughter—dressing up your son can be fun too, but the options for boy clothes aren’t as cute.) In 2024, we have to pay lip service to the idea that “of course my son might like dolls and my daughter might like monster trucks,” but I do think boys are generally, on average, more likely to gravitate toward some things and the same goes with girls. Even in my super-progressive circle, where everyone says they raise their kids gender-neutral, I’ve noticed that all the girls in my son’s class love the movie Frozen, even if they also like dinosuars, and almost all the boys in his class love superheroes, even if they also play with baby dolls.
When we found out we were having a boy, my husband was excited to introduce him to basketball, and when I found out I was having a girl, I got excited to gift her my old dollhouse which I designed with my mother over years of attending dollhouse trade shows and shopping at antique dollhouse stores. That doesn’t mean we’d love our children any less if they weren’t gender conforming, or that we wouldn’t adjust our plans if we turned out to have a son who loved dolls and a girl who loved basketball, just that it’s fairly reasonable to assume your average girl is going to get some enjoyment from a dollhouse, and your average boy will get some enjoyment from sports. They may not, and that’s okay too! But it’s reasonable to fantasize about it, as long as you aren’t strongly tied to that fantasy.
But maybe it’s deeper than a sadness about Carter’s only offering camo-pattern cargo shorts after age two, or about never getting to use Felicity the American Girl Doll’s pet lamb Posey again. I can’t help but notice that all the positive traits that used to be associated with boys are now considered gender neutral (strong, capable, intelligent, ambitious), while most of the positive traits that used to be associated with girls are still associated with girls (nurturing, empathetic, detail-oriented, polite). Meanwhile, boys have been assigned plenty of negative traits: they will embody “toxic masculinity.” They will be difficult. They won’t be kind. They’ll grow up to be obnoxious frat bros. They’ll be violent. Many of the women who express these concerns, paradoxically, are progressives who claim to believe that there are no innate differences between men and women. Perhaps they’re concerned that the negative traits associated with boys will emerge because of “society,” but to be honest, I’m not really buying it. I think they do believe in some differences, and there’s cognitive dissonance when belief in those differences collides with paying lip service to the idea that men and women are interchangeable and the insistence that all gender preferences are morally repugnant.
Perhaps, most terrifying even to women who don’t believe in the other gendered stereotypes: boys apparently won’t visit you when they’re older, provided they are heterosexual. They will become absorbed by their wives’ families, and pay more attention to their mother-in-laws than to you. “Boy moms” across social media post short videos joking about their fears of becoming “the paternal grandmother” or “the mother of the groom.”
My mother-in-law has two sons and I asked her if she ever wished she had a daughter. She emphatically said no, and I believed her, mostly because she’s not a big girly-girl herself, and she never felt overly sentimental about her kids being dependent on her. She happily worked when they were younger and valued her career, and notably, looked forward to her kids getting older and becoming more independent instead of looking misty-eyed at their old baby clothes. My guess is, women like this are not the ones expressing gender disappointment.
I didn’t think I was capable of gender disappointment. I did IVF and I knew before I even got pregnant that my first child was a boy. I happily decorated a boy nursery, bought boy clothes (I did have to get creative to avoid the onslaught of construction vehicles and dingy gray, but I managed!) and happily referred to myself as “Team Blue” on my mom group polls. But crucially, I planned on having more than one child. I knew we had a chance for a girl next. I knew I would love my kids the same, but on some level I think I’d have been disappointed if I knew having a daughter was completely off the table in the future.
Unfortunately, I got a mini-taste of that reality when I got pregnant again. My embryo was a girl, and I miscarried. It was early, but because I knew the sex, and had a name and nursery plan picked out, I reacted more strongly than one would expect for such an early loss.
While I never felt gender disappointment with my son, I did feel some during my miscarriage. Losing my pregnancy—even as early as it was—felt like losing the idea of a daughter. I had built up eighteen years of mother-daughter bonding in my head, and for the first time since our infertility diagnosis, I felt deep dread that I might never get to experience that. Yes, I would experience bonding with my son and perhaps another son, but unless one of them expressed extremely feminine interests, what if I never had many hobbies in common with them? What if my future was spent at soccer tournaments, wrestling matches, and Little League games, while my old dollhouse my mother and I designed together collected dust until it got auctioned off in my mom’s estate sale someday? I would still be happy—certainly much happier than if I never had children—but would I always carry a tiny nugget of sadness that I never got to do “girl things” with my kids?
Of course, I didn’t want to express that feeling because every time I did, people would insist that my kids might turn out to be trans or nonbinary (true! and I would accept them and love them!) or for all I knew, my son would grow up to love Barbies. It felt unhelpful. Of course, if my son loved Barbies, I would get him Barbies, but it seemed like an odd thing to place my hopes on. I did not want to find myself subconsciously pushing my son or sons into girl-coded activities with the hope of relinquishing some fragment of a mother-daughter dream I once had. That, to me, felt more toxic than the assumption that all boys like trucks and dinosaurs.
Another reason I didn’t want to express this feeling to anyone other than my closest family members was the inevitable guilt tripping—what about women who can’t have children? Why should I be so selfish as to care about gender when some women can’t conceive at all? This felt especially hurtful because I was one of those women! Well, technically we did IVF for male factor infertility, but we struggled nonetheless. This guilt-trip didn’t make me feel better about the prospect of never having a daughter, but it did make me feel worse about myself as a parent and a person overall. Many infertility moms (myself included) struggle with feeling like we don’t deserve our kids, and that we certainly don’t deserve to ever complain or experience anything other than gratitude. So anyway: not helpful!
I did wind up having a daughter next, and unsurprisingly, gender had no bearing on my bonding with my kids. I truly love them equally, and would continue to feel that way regardless of how much they adhered to gender roles. And I promise I’m not just saying that!
There’s no real fix here, because this type of gender disappointment is largely tied in with the progressive ideals of gender equality, while holding onto some benevolent sexism. If boys are no longer important for the purpose of continuing the family lineage, serving as capable family farm workers, being the heirs to family businesses or being responsible for providing, then what’s special about them? While we extoll the virtues of girls on a regular basis, we’re afraid to do the same with boys, just in case we fall back on harmful antiquated stereotypes. And even as a card-carrying liberal, I think this creates a pretty toxic dynamic. You don’t have to be a Tucker Carlson viewer to admit something bad is happening with boys, who often don’t feel like there is anything just for them, while there are multiple things just for girls. A six-year-old boy isn’t going to “check his privilege” and acknowledge he benefits from a legacy of male privilege so it’s the girls’ turn.
That’s not to say that we are living in some kind of matriarchy, or that men are oppressed in some kind of systemic way. Just that, at least during childhood, we talk about what’s great about girls but are afraid to talk about what’s great about boys, while paradoxically, insisting there are no differences between girls and boys. And as the mom of a boy: boys are pretty great too!
I think most moms who never have daughters, even those who were initially upset about it, turn out fine. Most of the posts I see about gender disappointment are met with a multitude of comments saying “I felt the same way, and now I can’t imagine ever feeling that way again, because my son is awesome.” I believe them. A hypothetical baby isn’t the same as a real baby, and often the love for a real baby will vanquish any previous feelings of gender disappointment. I know many women who initially felt gender disappointment during a pregnancy but none who fail to bond with their sons. So all things considered, this is a temporary state. But it’s causing distress even if not permanent distress, and that’s bad for everyone."
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2024.05.06 19:49 BenSimmonsThunder I'm starting to think the government coverup of NHI is related to a Genetic experiment leading to an eventual takeover. A covert, stealthy, long game of genetic tampering. This includes woo and nuts and bolts. Here's why

First off, I want to make it known this may be a very long depending on how well I can condense and put forth the information. If you have no interest in UAPs/Aliens/NHI/ET's etc. you might not find any of this interesting. If you're like me, and have been following disclosure, Grusch, etc. and you're tired of hearing "the truth is so bad we can't tell you", then this post might interest you. I don't have any NDAs, I don't hold a security clearance, I'm not a member of the Intelligence community, and I'm not ex-military. This is gathered after reviewing almost a hundred different books, interviews, and material comprised of Jacques Vallee, John Keele, D. W. Pasulka, Dr. David Jacobs, Gary Nolan, Richard Dolan, George Knapp, Ross Coulthart, John Lear, and many others. I've spent about 2 years studying the subject intensely.
If you're up to speed on all things NHI, you can skip to the next part. If you haven't ever followed this stuff closely, here is a *very* condensed form to bring you up to speed. In American lore, the idea of non human intelligence dates back to the Truman-Eisenhower days and the infamous Roswell crash, Area 51, etc. Various alleged programs have been named, some disinformation like Richard Doty, involving groups such as MAJESTIC 12, Project Bluebook, ZODIAC, and so forth.
The basic lore more or less everyone knows in our culture today, are stories of little grey beings in a flying saucer. Pop culture. Movies. Abduction stories. It's what we all know and recognize. Beyond that, is where only people closely following the leading topic tend to branch out into more sophisticated types of knowledge. These branches can be divided into two groups known as "woo" and the "nuts and bolts" type.
Nuts and Bolts group tend to view the entire phenomena as grounded solidly in the material objects, such as a craft that has crashed etc.
The Woo group tend to lean more into the unexplainable and are open to interpretation of whatever it is. Interdimensional. Ultraterrestrial. Spiritual. Science that our current knowledge cannot explain, etc.
Most people are a mixture of the two, and many view them as one in the same like lightning and thunder. We know thunder exists, but it ultimately arises from the material lightning that occurs slightly before. Thanks to science, we know this and don't attribute it to a storm god.
In the last year, we've had more push for disclosure than the last 80 years combined. This for better or worse, is largely due to 2 individuals: David Grusch and Luis Elizondo. Luis Elizondo is a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He eventually began investigating this within the Pentagon. David Grusch, is a United States Air Force Intelligence Official formerly turned whistleblower, who testified to Congress, essentially, that the whole ordeal is real. Black Budgets. Need to know Top Secret Programs. NHI or biologics and crafts recovered. It was historic in nature.
SKIP TO HERE IF YOU'RE IN THE LOOP: So now we've established a little background, let's dig into it. Outside of a few members of the "community", there is a prevailing tone that comes from seemingly everyone somewhat "in the know". Again, I'm not asserting this as fact, I'm merely communicating many different compiled sources to reach a hypothesis or conclusion of this scary nature. Elizondo has claimed in several interviews the truth would cause ontological shock, make us realize we were not the top of the food chain, and the truth itself could be considered somber.
Ross Coulthart has claimed his journalistic sources have indicated the phenomena is not a pleasant truth, and could cause societal disruption. He has never asserted this as fact as a journalist because he protects his sources and can only assume some are individuals deliberately feeding him disinfo on purpose.
Tucker Carlson, politics aside, said in a recent interview, that he has heard the rumors of the reality of the situation, and claims he was so shook from it, he refused to talk about it or share it with his wife.
It has never been proven, but claimed by many that Jimmy Carter (who partially ran on disclosure), was told the truth and broke down into tears. However, he remained devout in his faith, and dedicated the rest of his life largely towards helping others. Implying no religious indication.
The issue has long been said by Air Force/Navy Intelligence essentially "the public couldn't handle it." Most people take this at face value and assume easy interpretations, usually something like "religious fanatics would lose it" and the like. Or people say "it can't get much worse, day to day life is hard, leadership sucks, come on down aliens" and most shrug it off.
However, I'm proposing the true nature of this is much deeper and not so simple. It is a mix of nuts and bolts and woo, and I believe they are intertwined. Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack was initially tasked with interviewing sessions with claimed abductees. He reached his conclusions years later and said he could not prove what witnesses were saying, but he believed them and could point to no other outcome with the consistency in what he was told. In order for us to believe this theory, we have to accept that abductions occur, and for the longest time the public has speculated "ok, but why?"
I never mean to offend anyone with sensitive topics and treat delicate topics with respect toward all cultures and beliefs. With that said, there does seem to be some "woo" to this all. Perhaps the most respected person in Ufology is Dr. Jacques Vallee. In a recently released interview, Diana Pasulka was talking about her time spent with Vallee. At one point in their conversation, he instructs her to grab a specific book off his bookshelf, titled "The History of Satan." Vallee has always seemed to allude to whatever the phenomena is, is that it is more complex than a simple story of beings from a nearby planet coming here. Here we start getting into the spiritual nature of this all, while still being grounded in the nuts and bolts acceptance of crafts physically abducting people.
John Keele, famously wrote "The Mothman Prophecies" and "Operation: Trojan Horse" back in the 60's and 70's which went on to become very famous. He was a journalist. What most people don't know, was that he sent a secret memo to intelligence agencies on what he truly believed after all his research, over 1,000 abductee interviews, on what was really happening in 1967.
He writes: "They are primarily engaged in: a. biological experiments aimed at gradually altering the physical & emotional characteristics of our future generations. b. Expanding their bases of operations. c. Thwarting or suppressing the activities of their "enemies" racing to achieve the same ends."
"Preparations are being made to eliminate biologically unacceptable types among terrestrials. A VERY LONG RANGE PLAN is being followed. Major changes in the world's birth rates can already be noted. Seemingly 'natural' catastrophes will occur on an increasing scale to further decimate the population."
"Advanced, inexplicable methods of mind control are being used by the groups, and more brazenly. Complicated measures for controlling the press and world governments are already being instituted. Religion, notably Catholicism and Judaism, play a vital role in this situation. Many of the entities are 'programmed' to present themselves as representatives of God. Religion has always been a tool - a mode of communication - between the "Controller" and Man. Man has misinterpreted much of the information he has been given through this tool."
"The biological experiments consist of genetic changes. Pregnant women are treated so that their children will bear the desired characteristics. This is a long process and has been going on for many generations. Each new generation is carried further along the evolutionary scale. Eventually these beings will gradually inherit the Earth and replace entirely the present races here. Some of these purebreds will serve as leaders. Thousands of purebred have already reached adulthood and are serving the UFO powers now as hybrids. Thousands are "sleepers", they don't even know that they are part of all this."
"We have no possible defense against the techniques being employed. Few people would be willing to believe all of this no matter how well documented our presentation might be. Our governments and our military services are helpless even though they are fully aware of the situation. Our one slender hope is that there might exist one outside "being" or race which might sympathize with us and defend us, hence our massive efforts to broadcast signals into space. We are literally crying out for help"
"Once the UFO powers realize fully that we are aware of their plans, they might feel it necessary to take immediate action. Therefore it is important that this knowledge be restricted to a very small group. Belief in the existence of UFOs would be the first step to understanding and believing in the more complicated and panic-provoking general situation. It is thus imperative that the UFO's existence remain discredited for as long as possible and this knowledge be kept from the general public."
"The above information is NOT SPECULATIVE. It is based upon personal experience and in-depth investigation. It represents part of the whole truth (there is much more). Please regard this as completely confidential. The record shows that all of those in possession of this information are subjected to harassment, threats, and even worse." - John Keel, Oct. 1967
If you're still with me, you may remember an interview with Elizondo when asked about disclosure and he said, "What if something were to happen, and the knowledge of them being here might cause them to take action that we're not yet ready for, and speed things up before we can properly defend ourselves?"
Dr. David Jacobs has interviewed thousands of witnesses and claimed abductees. He has 2 books detailing this subject very well called "The Threat" and "Walking Among Us". He details very carefully how the purpose of these crafts are to create hybrids to look like us, even though they are not us. They are slowly assimilating into the planet to take over covertly. Maybe these beings lack a soul. Maybe they cannot survive in our atmosphere. Maybe these beings don't care about us in the slightest, and only intervene when it benefits them like deactivating nukes to not destroy "their" planet.
CIA Agent Jon Ramirez is on record stating the two words Elizondo cannot publicly say without violating security clearance are "Implant" and "Hybrid".
Finally, billionaire tycoon Robert Bigelow, who has privately spent more money than any individual on planet Earth studying the phenomenon and NHI, including working with private defense contractors down to investigating Skinwalker Ranch, in an interview in 2017 when he was asked if aliens exist, he replied, "our planet has an alien presence that is right under our noses." When asked if he was scared of ridicule to say such risky things he replied, "I don't care what people think because it wouldn't change the reality of what I know."
Piecing together everything from the 1940's-2020's, by intertwining beings that are beyond our understanding, I have came to the conclusion that the truth is our planet is currently undergoing a covert, stealthy, takeover assimilation into human beings, by slowly creating hybrids through genetic manipulation going back extremely far into time, creating the religions the worlds recognize today through interpretation of what they were told, saw, or misled. It sounds crazy. Absolutely bonkers. But if it weren't, well that's the exact type of response the government means when they claim "people literally couldn't handle it, they can't process it or accept it. It would cause societal panic and economic collapse of humanity turning on each other not knowing who to trust and who is human." - Which leads me to one last final thought, where Elizondo in an interview, asked the audience to consider for a moment, what does it truly mean to be human? Does it mean look like a human? Think like a human?" Could this all be disinformation? Sure. Could all these guys, even Grusch, lie to Congress and be grifters? Yeah. But when you realllllyyyyy start to piece together this stuff it leads me to believe, this angle of the whole story, is a the very least, a piece to the puzzle embedded in the truth.
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2024.05.04 04:32 katanddog 2,000 Names (and their meanings) For Your Baby Girl found from a Vintage Mennen Company Booklet

My mom passed along this booklet that belonged to my grandmother when we were expecting. Figured I would share it here before discarding it. The Boy Name list is already posted 😊 Enjoy!
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Don't let the meanings concern you. Think instead of how the name will fit the child, when the child is grown, or known. Choose the name with care. It's very important to your baby-all through life. Here are some guides: - Say each name aloud, along with your own family name, to check rhythm and sound. - Use soft first names with sharp-sounding family names. - Use multi-syllable first names with short family names. - Avoid using a first name that ends with the same sound that starts the last name, such as "Jane Nevins." - Avoid "famous combinations" such as "Abraham" and "Lincoln." - Watch out for initials that spell out familiar letters, like “S. O. S”
if it's a GIRL
A ABBIE, ABBY.. Calm harbor ABIGAIL.. My father is joy ADA, ADAH.. Ornamental ADAIR.. Oak crossing ADALINE, ADELINA, ADELINE.. Little noble one ADDIE, ADDY. See Adelaide ADELAIDE, ADELA, ADELE, ADELLE.. Noble maid ADRIENNE.. Courageous AGATHA, AGATHE.. Good AGNA, AGNES.. Lamb AIDA.. Leader AILEEN.. See Helen AIMEE.. See Amy ALANE. . Cheerful ALARICE.. Ruler over all ALBA, ALBINA. . Fair ALBERTA, ALBERTINA, ALBERTINE.. Famous ALCYON, ALCYONE.. Calm ALDA.. Rich ALDABELLA, ALDABELLE.. Rich and beautiful ALEXANDRA, ALEXANDRIA, ALEXIS.. Helper ALFREDA.. Wise counselor ALICE, ALICIA.. Noble ALINA, ALINE.. High-born ALISON, ALLISON.. See Alice ALISTAIR, ALISTE.. Worthy defender ALIX.. See Alice ALLEGRA.. Lively ALLENE.. Swift, cheerful ALMA.. Kindly ALMERIA.. Princess ALMIRA.. Admired one ALOHA.. Love ALONZA.. See Alphonsa ALPHONSA.. Spirited ALTHEA.. A healer ALVA.. Lively ALVERA.. Truthful ALVINA.. Little lively one ALYS, ALYSIA, ALYSON.. See Alice AMABEL, AMABELLE.. Lovable and beautiful AMANDA.. Worthy of love AMARANTHA.. Everlasting flower AMARYLLIS.. Shepherdess AMBROSIA.. Delight of gods AMELIA.. Busy, industrious AMETHYST.. Jewel AMITY.. Friendship AMY.. Beloved ANASTASIA.. Risen again ANATOLA.. Sunrise ANDREA.. Strong ANEMONE.. Wind-flower ANGELA.. God's messenger ANGELICA, ANGELINA, ANGELINE, ANGELIQUE.. Little angel ANITA.. Little Ann ANN, ANNA, ANNE.. Grace ANNABEL.. Beautiful Ann ANNETTE.. Little Ann ANOLA.. Well-known ANTHA, ANTHEA.. Flower ANTOINETTE.. Graceful APRIL.. Blooming ARABELLA.. Beautiful place ARCADIA.. Happy land ARDEL, ARDELIA.. Industrious ARDEN.. Fervent ARIADNE.. Sweet singer ARIANA.. Altar of grace ARIETTA, ARIETTE.. Song ARISTA.. Best ARLEEN.. ARLENE, ARLINE.. See Helen ARNOLDINE.. Strong ASTRA.. Star-like ASTRID.. Love's desire ATALIE.. Innocent ATHENA.. Wise AUDREY.. Noble helper AUGUSTA.. Imperial AURA.. Halo AURELIA.. Golden AURORA.. Dawn AVA, AVIS.. Bird AZALEA.. A flowering plant
В BAB, BABS.. See Barbara BABETTE.. Little stranger BAPTISTA.. Baptized BARBARA.. Stranger BATHSHEBA.. Daughter of the vow BEATA.. Blessed BEATRICE.. Making blessed BECKY.. See Reba BEGONIA.. A flower BELINDA.. Graceful BELLA, BELLE.. Beautiful BENEDETTA, BENEDICTA.. Blessed BERENICE, BERNICE.. Bringer of victory BERNADETTE, BERNADINE.. bear BERTA, BERTHA.. Bright BERYL.. Foreseeing BETSY, BETTY, BETTINA.. See Elizabeth BEULAH.. Married BEVERLY.. Beaver meadow BIANCA.. See Blanche BILLEE, BILLIE.. Protectress BLANCHE.. White, pure BLOSSOM.. Flower BONITA.. Little good one BONNIBELLE.. Good and beautiful BONNIE.. Little good one BRENDA.. Flaming sword BRIDGET.. Spirited BRUNELLA.. Brown-haired BRUNHILDA.. Battle maid
C CAMELLIA, CAMILLA, CAMILLE.. Temple maiden CANDIDA.. Shining white CANELLA.. Fragrant tree CARA.. Dear CARLA.. Strong CARLOTTA.. Little strong one CARMELA.. Vineyard CARMEN.. Charming one CARMENCITA.. Little charming one CARMINE.. Vineyard CAROL, CAROLA, CAROLINA, CAROLYN, CARRIE.. See Carla CASSANDRA.. Winning love CASSIE.. The tree CATHERINE.. Pure CECILE, CECILIA.. Misty-eyed CELESTE.. Heavenly CELESTINA, CELESTINE, CELIA, CELINE.. Little heavenly one CHAREMON.. Dear CHARITY.. Love CHARLENE.. Strong one CHARLOTTA, CHARLOTTE.. See Charlene CHARMION.. Delight CHERIE, CHERRY, CHERYL.. Beloved, grace CHLOE.. Fresh CHLORIS.. Flower goddess CHRISTABEL, (ELLA), (ELLE) .. Beautiful baptized one CHRISTINA, CHRISTINE.. Little follower of the Lord CICELY.. See Cecile CINDY.. See Lucinda CLAIRE..See Clara CLARA, CLARE.. Bright CLARIBEL.. Bright and beautiful CLARICE, CLARISSA.. Famous CLARINDA. Bright one CLAUDETTE.. Little delicate one CLAUDIA, CLAUDINE.. Delicate CLEMENCE, CLEMENTINA, CLEMENTINE.. Merciful CLEO. See Cleopatra CLEOPATRA.. Glory of her land CLIO.. Glorious CLORINDA, CLORINDE.. Famous CLOTILDA.. Famous in battle CLOVER, CLOVIA.. The plant COLETTE.. Little winner COLLEEN.. Little maiden COLUMBINE.. Little dove CONCETTA.. Imagination CONSTANCE, CONSTANTIA.. Steadfast CONSUELA, CONSUELO.. Advice, consolation CORA.. Maiden CORAL.. Sea animal used in jewelry CORALIE, (INE).. Like coral CORDELIA.. Jewel of the sea CORINNA, (INNE).. Little Maiden CORLISS.. Noble maid CORNELIA.. Crowned COSETTA, (ETTE).. Little lamb CRYSTAL.. Clear CYNTHIA.. Moon goddess
D DAGMAR.. Glory of the day DAISY.. Dawn DALE.. Valley DAMITA.. Little lady DANIELLE.. God is my judge DAPHNE.. Triumph DARA.. Pearl of wisdom DARCY.. Mysterious DARLENE, DARLINE, DARYL.. Dear little one DAWN, DAWNA.. Sunrise DEANNA.. See Diana DEBORAH.. Industrious DEIRDRE.. Sorrow DELIA.. Pure DELILAH.. Delicate DELINDA.. Gentle DELL, DELLA.. Of nobility DELORA.. See Dolores DELPHINE..Little dolphin DEMETRA.. Harvest Goddess DENISE.. Joyous DESIREE.. Beloved DIANA.. Moon Goddess DIANTHE.. God's flower DINAH.. Justified DOLL, DOLLY.. See Dorothea DOLORES, DELORIS.. Sad one DOMINICA.. Belonging to the Lord, Sunday DONNA.. Lady DONNABEL, (ELLA) .. Beautiful lady DORA.. See Dorothea, Eudora, Theodora DORCAS.. Gazelle DOREEN.. Little Dora DORINDA.. Little gift DORIS.. Sea maiden DORLE.. Little golden one DOROTHEA, DOROTHY.. Gift of God DRUSILLA.. Eyes of dew DULCE, DOLCE.. Sweet DULCIBELLA, DULCIBELLE.. Sweet and beautiful DULCINEA, DULCY, DULCIE.. Sweet little one
E EARTHA.. See Ethel EDITH.. Bright gift EDNA.. Rejuvenation EDWINA.. Blessed friend EFFIE.. See Euphemia EILEEN.. See Helen ELAINE.. See Helen ELBERTA.. Lofty fame ELEANOR, ELENA, ELINOR.. See Helen ELFINA.. Little wise one ELFRIDA.. Wise, peaceful ELISABETH.. See Elizabeth ELISE.. See Elizabeth ELIZA, ELIZABETH.. Consecrated to God ELLA, ELLEN, ELLINE.. See Helen ELMIRA.. See Almira ELOISE.. Holy, famous ELSA, ELSIE.. Good cheer ELSBETH, ELSPETH.. See Elizabeth ELVIRA.. Sturdy character EMANUELA.. God is with us EMILIA, EMILY.. Industrious EMMA.. Nurse EMMYLOU.. See Emma and Louise ENA.. Purity ENID.. Soul ERICA.. Heroic ERMA.. Noble maid ERNA.. Modest ERNESTINE.. Little zealot ERTHEL.. Child of the earth ESMERALDA, ESMERELDA.. Greatly admired one ESTELLE.. Star ESTHER.. Star ETHEL, ETHELINDA.. Noble ETTA.. See Harriet, Honrietta EUDORA.. Beautiful gilt BULALIA, EULALIE.. Well spoken EUNICE.. Good victory EUPHEMIA.. Woll spoken of EUSTACIA.. Stoadfast EVADNE.. Sweet singer EVALINA, (E).. Little Eva EVANGELINE.. Little bearer of good tidings EVANTHE.. Fair tower EVELYN.. Little pleasant one, little Eve
F FAITH.. Trust FANNIE, (Y).. See Frances FATIMA.. Curious FAUSTINA.. Little lucky one FAWN, (IA).. Young deer FAY, FAIRY.. See Faith FAYETTE.. Little fairy FEDORA.. See Theodora FELICE, FELICIA.. Happy FELIPA.. See Filippa FERDINANDA, FERNANDA.. Peaceful FERN.. Sincerity FIDELIA.. Faithful FIFI, FIFINE.. French FILIPPA.. Lover of horses FLAVIA.. Flaxen-haired FLORA.. Flower FLORABEL.. Flower of beauty FLORELLA.. Little flower FLORENCE.. Flowering FLORENDA.. Blooming FLORETTA, FLORETTE, FLEURETTE.. Little flower FLORINDA.. See Florenda FRANCES, FRANCESCA, FRANCHETTE.. Free FRANCINE.. Litte tree one FREDERICA.. Peaceful ruler FREYA.. Beloved FRIEDA, PREDA.. Poacetul FRITZIE.. See Frances FULVIA.. Golden
G GABRIELLA, (ELLE).. God's strength GAIL, GALE.. See Abigail GALATEA.. Pure GARLAND. Floral wreath GAY.. Merry GENEVIEVE.. White as foam GENEVRA, GINEVRA.. See Guinevere GEORGETTE, (IA), (ANA), (INA).. Farmerette GERALDINE.. Little spear wielder GERDA.. Swordswoman GERMAINE.. Spear maiden GERTRUDE.. Spear maiden GILBERTA, GILBERTINE.. Bright servant GILDA.. God's servant GINA.. Little one or silvery GLADYS.. Delicate GLEN, (YSS); GLENN, (A).. Valley GLENDA.. The valley GLORIA, GLORIANA.. Fame GODIVA.. Gift of God GOLDA, (IE), (INE), (Y).. Golden one GRACE, GRATIA.. Favor GREER.. Jewel-like GRETA, GRETCHEN, GRETEL.. See Margaret GRISEL, GRISELDA.. Grey-eyed one GUINEVERE.. Fair GUSSIE, GUSTAVA, GUSTY.. See Augusta GWENDOLEN, (LINE), (LYN), GWENNA.. White-browed
H HADASSAH.. Star HAIDEE.. Modest HANNAH.. Gracious HARRIET, HATTIE.. Head of the hearth HAZEL.. God watches over HEATHER.. Heath flower HEBE.. Youth HEDDA, HEDWIG, HEDY.. Guardian HEIDI.. Expressing joy HELEN.. Bright as the dawn HELGA.. Holy HELOISE.. See Eloise HENRIETTA, (ETTE).. Little head of house HEPZIBAH.. She is delight HERMA.. Beloved HERMIONE.. Noble maiden HERMOSA.. Beautiful HERTHA.. Of the earth HESTER, HETTY.. See Esther HILARY.. Happy HILDA.. Maid of battle HILDEGARD, HILDEGARDE.. Battle guardian HOLLY.. Holy HONORA, (IA).. Honorable HOPE.. Expectation HORTENSE, (LA).. Flower lover HULDA, HULDAH.. Sprightly HYACINTH.. The flower HYPATIA.. Excellent one
I IANTHA, IANTHE.. Violet IDA.. Happy ILGA.. See Holga ILKA.. Helen ILONA, ILONE.. Radiant ILSA, ILSE.. See Elizabeth IMOGEN, (GENE).. Born of love INA.. Little one INEZ.. Like a lamb INGRID.. Daughter INOLA.. Like a bell IOLANTHE.. Fairy-like IONA, IONE.. Purple gem IRENE.. Peace bearer IRIS.. Rainbow IRMA.. Noble maid ISOBEL.. See Elizabeth ISADORA.. Gift of Isis ISEULT, ISOLDE.. Fair IVY.. Friendship
J JACOBINA.. Replacer JACQUELINE.. See Jacobina JAMESINA.. See Jacobina JANE, JANET, JANICE, JANINE.. God is gracious JASMINE.. The flower JEAN, (INE), (NNE), (NETTE), JENNIE, (Y) .. See Jane JEMIMA.. Dove JENNIFER.. The wave's crest JESSAMINE, JESSAMY.. See Jasmine JESSICA, JESSIE.. Wealthy JEWELL.. Thing of joy JILL.. See Julia JO.. See Josephine JOAN, JOANNA.. See Jane JOCELYN.. Lively JOHANNA.. See Jane JOSEPHINE.. Prosperous JOY.. Gladness JOYCE.. Merry JUANA, JUANITA.. See Jane JUDITH, JUDY.. Praise unto the Lord JULIA, JULIANA, JULIE, JULIET.. Soft-haired JUNE.. Feminine of Junius JUSTINA, JUSTINE.. Upright
K KAREN, KARIN.. See Kate KARLA.. See Carla KATE, KATHERINA,KATHERINE, KATHLEEN, KATHRINE, KATHRYN, KATRINA, KATRINE, KAY.. Pure one KIM.. Noble KIRSTEN.. See Christina KIT, KITTY.. See Kate
L LAURA, (EL). (EN), (ETTA), (ETTE), (INDA): LORINDA.. Tree, victory LAVERNE.. The spring LAVINIA.. Pure LEAH. Languid LEALA.. Faithful LEATRICE.. See Beatrice LEDA.. Slim LEILA.. Dark beauty LELA.. See Leala, Leila LENA.. See Helena LENORA, (E).. See Eleanor LEONA, LEONE.. Lioness LEONORA, (E).. See Eleanor LESLIE.. Quiet LETITIA, LETTICE, LETTY.. Gladness LIBBY.. See Elizabeth LIDA.. See Ludmilla LILA.. Purity LILIAN, LILLIAN, LILY.. The flower, purity LINA.. See Carolina LINDA.. Graceful LINETTE, LINNET.. Shapely LISA, LISETTE, LIZETTE, LIZZIE.. See Elizabeth LISLE, LYLE.. Islander LOIS.. Desired LOLA, LOLITA.. Little one LORA, LORETTE.. See Laura LORELEI.. Romantic siren LORNA.. Lonely LORRAINE.. Seeker LOTTA, LOTTIE.. See Carlotta LOTUS.. The flower LOUELLA, LUELLA.. Little Louisa LOUISA, LOUISE.. Famous LUCASTA.. Bright and pure LUCIA, LUCILE, LUCINDA, LUCY.. Light LUCRECE, LUCRETIA.. Lucky one LUDMILLA.. Love of the people LULU.. See Louisa LYDA, LYDIA.. A native of Lydia LYNELLE.. See Linette LYNN.. Gentle waters
M MABEL.. My fair one MADELEINE, MADELON.. See Magdalen MADGE.. See Margaret MAE.. See May MAG, MAGGIE.. See Margaret MAGDALEN, MAGDALENA, MAGDALENE, MAGDA.. Tower and strength MAGNA.. Great MAGNOLIA.. The flower MAISIE.. See Margaret, Mary MALVINA.. Handmaid MAMIE.. See Margaret MANDY.. See Amanda MANUELA.. God is with us MARCELLA.. Little Marcia MARCIA.. Fearless MARGARET, MARGARITA, MARGERY, MARGIT, (OT), MARGUERITA, (ITE).. Pearl MARIA, (IE), MARIETTA, (ETTE). See Mary MARIAN, (ANNA), (ANNE).. See Mary and Ann MARIGOLD.. Flower MARILYN.. Little Mary MARION.. Little Mary MARJORIE, MARJORY.. See Margaret MARLENE.. See Mary MARSHA.. See Marcia MARTHA.. Lady MARY.. Blessed (Blessed Virgin) MATHILDA, MATILDA.. Mighty maid of battle MAUD. (E).. See Magdalen MAURA, MAUREEN, MAURY, MAURYA.. See Mary MAXINE.. Little great one MAY.. Month of blossoming MAYBELLE.. Beautiful May MEDA.. Leader MEG.. See Margaret MELANIE.. Dark-haired MELBA.. Honeyed one MELIANTHE.. Sweet flower MELICENT.. Honey-sweet MELINDA.. Honeylike MELISSA.. Honeybee MELITA.. Sweet MELODIE, MELODY.. Song MELVINA.. Sweet little one MERCEDES. Mercies MERLE, MERLINE.. Thrush MERNA.. See Myrna MERYL.. Incense META.. See Margaret MICHAELA.. God-like MICKIE.. See Michaela MIGNON, (NE), (ETTE).. Dainty little one MILDRED.. Gentle adviser MILICENT, MILLIE, MILLY.. See Melicent MIMI.. Courageous MINA.. Little one MINERVA.. Goddess of wisdom MINNA, MINNIE.. Beloved MIRA, MIRANDA.. Worthy of wonder MIRIAM.. See Mary MOIRA.. See Maura MOLL, MOLLY.. See Mary MONA, (ICA).. Moon-like MORNA.. Beloved MURIEL.. Incense MYRA.. See Mary MYRNA.. Peaceful MYRTLE.. Beauty
N NADA, NADINE.. Hope NAN, (ETTE), NANCY.. See Ann NANINE.. Little one NAOMI.. Pleasant to behold NARCISSA, (ISSE).. Beauty NATALIE, NATHALIA, (IE). • Little one born on Christmas NELL, NELLIE.. See Helen NERISSA.. Out of the sea NETTIE, NETTY.. Neat NICOLE, NICOETTE, NICOLLE.. Conqueror NINA, NINETTE.. Little one NITA.. Neat one NOLA.. White shouldered NONA. Ninth NORA, NORAH. Honorable NOREEN, NORINE, NORITA.. Honorable one NORMA.. Model
O OCTAVIA.. Eighth OLGA.. Holy OLIVE, OLIVIA., Peace ONA.. One, the first OPAL.. The jewel, Hope OPHELIA.. Helper ORIEL, ORIOLE.. Golden OTILA, OTTILLIA, OTTILIE.. Battle heroine
P PAMELA.. Sweet one PANDORA.. Gifted PANSY.. Thoughtful PAT, (SY), (TY).. See Patricia PATIENCE.. Calm endurance PATRICIA.. High-born PAULA, PAULINE.. Little PEARL., The jewel, health PEG, PEGGY.. See Margaret PENELOPE.. Good worker PEONY.. A flower PERDITA.. Little lost one PHILIPPA.. See Filippa PHILOMEL.. Lover of music PHILOMENA.. Little lover PHOEBE.. The moon PHYLLIS.. Fresh as spring POLLY.. See Mary, Moll POPPY.. The flower PORTIA.. Wise leader PRIMROSE..First rose PRISCILLA.. Quaint PRUDENCE.. Discretion PSYCHE.. Soul
Q QUEENA, QUEENIE.. Ruler
R RACHEL.. Lamb RAMONA.. Wise helper RAPHAELA.. Healed by God REBA, REBECCA, REBEKKAH.. Enchantress REGINA, REINE.. Queen RENATA, RENEE.. Reborn RHEA.. Mother of the gods RHODA. .Rose RITA.. See Margaret ROANNA..Famed grace ROBERTA.. Famous ROLANDA.. Fame of land ROSA.. Rose ROSABEL.. Beautiful rose ROSALIE, ROSALINE, ROSLYN.. Little rose ROSALIND, ROSALINDA, ROSALINDE.. Pretty rose ROSAMOND, ROSAMUND.. Famous guardian ROSANNE.. Graceful rose ROSE.. Famous ROSELLE, ROSETTA.. Little rose ROSEMARIE, ROSEMARY.. Rose of the sea ROSINA, ROSITA.. Little rose ROWENA.. Of the white skirt ROXANA, ROXANE.. Dawn RUBY.. Red jewel RUTH.. Mercy, friendship
S SABINA.. Little holy one SADIE, SALLY.. See Sara SALOME.. Peaceful SANDRA.. See Alexandra, Cassandra SAPPHIRE. Beautiful SARA, SARAH.. Princess SARITA.. Little princess SELENA, SELINA.. Moon-like SELMA.. Fair SERAFINE, SERAFINA, SERAPHINE.. Ardent SERENA.. Peaceful SHARLENE.. Little Shirley SHARMAN.. See Charemon SHARON.. A flower SHEILA.. See Cecilia SHIRLEY.. Alert SIBYL, SYBIL.. Prophetess SIDONIA.. Enchantress SIGRID.. Winning wisdom SILVIA.. Maid of the forest SONDA.. See Sandra SONIA, SONYA.. Wise SOPHIA, SOPHIE.. Wisdom STACEY, STACY.. Steady STELLA.. Star STEPHANIE.. Crown SUSAN, SUSANNA, SUSANNE, SUSETTE.. Lily SYDNEY.. Joyous SYLVIA.. See Silvia
T TABITHA. Gazelle TALLULAH.. Indian name for a river TAMAR, (A).. Palm tree TERESA, (ESE).. See Theresa TERRY.. See Theresa TESS, TESSIE.. See Theresa THALIA.. Flourishing THEA.. Goddess THECLA.. Glory THEDA.. See Theodora THELMA.. Child THEODORA, (DOSIA).. Gift of god THERESA, THERESE.. Bearing harvest THOMASENA, THOMASINA, THOMASINE.. Little twin TILDA, TILDY, TILLIE, TILLY.. See Mathilda TINA.. Little one TONI.. Graceful TRACY.. See Theresa TRIXIE, TRIXINE, TRIXY.. See Beatrice TRUDA, (DY).. See Gertrude
U ULRICA.. Noble lady UNA.. Unity UNDINE.. Little one of the waves URSULA.. Dear little one
V VALENCIA.. Powerful VALENTINA.. Little valiant one VALERIA, VALERIE.. Worthy VANESSA.. Butterfly VASHNI.. Strong VASHTI.. Star VANYA.. See Yvonne VEDA.. Knowledge VELMA, VILMA.. Strong VENUS.. Goddess of love VERA, VERITY.. Truth VERNA, VERNE.. Spring-like VERONA, VERONICA.. Image of truth VESTA.. Hearth goddess VICKIE, VICKY.. See Victoria VICTORIA, (RINE).. Conqueror VIOLA, (ET), (ETTA).. Modesty, the flower VIRGINIA. Pure, chaste VITA.. Life VIVIAN, VIVIENNE.. Lively VOLANTE.. Flying
W WANDA.. Shepherdess WENDA, WENDLA, WENDY.. Wanderer WILHELMINA.. Little protector WILLA.. Desirable WILMA.. See Wilhelmina WINIFRED.. Peacemaker WINONA.. First daughter
X XANTHE.. Fair-haired XENIA.. Hospitality
Y YOLANDA, (DE).. Fairest YVETTE.. Little Vine YVONNE.. See Jane
Z ZARA, ZARAH.. Sunrise ZELDA.. Battle heroine ZENA.. Woman ZENOBIA.. Her father's pride ZOE.. Life ZORA, ZORINA.. Dawn ZULEIKA.. Brilliant and fair
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2024.05.03 22:43 fractalfay I thought we would be like the Spice Girls: Recap of Vanderpump Rules Season 11 Part 1!

Vanderpump Rules is a hilarious comedy about what happens when attractive people are accidentally ensnared in Lisa Vanderpump’s tacky trap, and drown under the weight of her cast-off pink flowers. The first season was basically perfect reality tv, and after endless rounds of weird slap-fights and short-term marriages, it appeared to be down to its dying embers, until an unscheduled cheating scandal allowed the show to rise like the phoenix tattoo from Ben Affleck’s back.
“Look, I had a problem with alcohol,” Ben wishes we’d quit reminding him.
With the scandal a hot headline, Bravo scrambled to grab their cameras while everyone was still bleeding in the street, and when it came time to edit, they knew this season wouldn’t be rage-bait unless they anchored it in misogyny.
“I thought we were going to be like the Spice Girls,” Ariana frets. “I was hoping I’d get to zigga-zig-ah.”
“Ha! Turning women against each other is why I wake up in the morning,” Andy Cohen pauses eating a baby long enough to sip from a glass of drunk housewife tears.
April kicks off with Ariana still adjusting to the opportunity and income upgrades birthed from total life upheaval, while the vultures in her network circle the sky for scraps and squawk their way into the narrative. Her ex Sandoval shuffles in platform shoes to embrace his Charlie Brown remorseless redemption arc. This is tricky to sell, since he can’t even perform giving a shit, so he comes off more sociopathic than a serial monogamist who can’t exit a relationship without a lady-in-waiting.
“I feel like I should mention Burning Man again,” Sandoval sighs, promising this isn’t a ten-year midlife crisis, and you don’t need to see his driver’s license to check his age.
Sandoval’s hoping Schaena’s obsessive jealousy over Ariana’s turn on Dancing with the Stars will be enough to derail whatever flimsy loyalty she previously assigned to their friendship, which is a safe bet, since there’s no woman Schaena won’t assign a burning bear suit for a tendril of male approval. So begins her full transformation into Gretchen from Mean Girls, storing everyone’s tea in the location tracker on her phone, and reading off receipts whenever the attention-fairy fails to flap under her chin until she sniffs out the chorus for her next chart-missing autotune monstrosity. This is how she makes fetch happen, and tattoos it onto her arm.
“It’s all happening. It is. IT IS!” Schaena gestures violently at her pop culture initiation ink.
In the past Sandoval recommended that the cheating partner in a relationshit be the one to exit the household, but now that he’s in the village stocks that policy needs a rewrite, and like his last romantic implosion, he refuses to be the one to leave.
“This is why I tell people I wasn’t crazy, I was REACTING!” Kristin reminds everyone this is her Monica Lewinsky year.
So Ariana and Sandoval still occupy the same address, with personal assistant Ann tasked with playing a boring game of telephone. Ann’s duties include tidying the floor’s wayward hair extensions, stuffing laundry into biohazard bags, and marveling at the contents of the litterbox while Tom tracks his reflection during slow treadmill meditations on nailpolish and facial hair. Ariana has been very busy while Sandoval has just been very, so when Ariana asks Ann if she knows anyone looking for assistant work, the person Ann recommends is…herself.
“I’d really really really really like to work for someone who does stuff!” Ann squees.
“Well I’m probably going to get depressed soon, since everyone’s disparaging me for my success, and my best friends kinda aren’t…” Ariana tries to get Ann to calm down.
“I really want to work for you. Really.” Ann can’t be calmed. “I just put an enema bag in the trash. Help me.”
The next day Ann shows up in business casual attire, and quickly checks in on Tom to make sure he hasn’t lost his balance during mandatory mirror-flexing. She tells him Ariana is eager to tap her assistant network, without noting it’s a network of one, and makes haste for the kitchen. With nothing better to do than linger in the doorway of Ariana’s advancement, Sandoval learns THE TRUTH about Ann’s ambitions.
“I won’t fire her exactly, but I’ll humiliate her, and start seeing another assistant on the side,” Tom has one solution for all things.
Once Ann is crying in the kitchen, Sandoval takes his woe-is-me tour outside of the house, for more conversations about how unreasonable Ariana is for stealing the assistant that helps him wrangle the tasks of buying batteries and neglecting animals.
“Those aren’t my pets and I shouldn’t have to take care of them,” Sandoval self-awares. “Still, Ariana shouldn’t say they’re hers just because she adopted them, pays their expenses, and feeds them.”
“You locked my dog in my room for three hours, and it ate my garbage monument,” Ariana scowls.
Tom swears he shoved the litterbox full of feces in the room first, so the dog had a variety of things to snack on. That’s right, we’re given not one but two litterbox reveals, when zero would have been just fine, and it’s hard to believe the presented trough is the product of a single cat’s anal efforts, even over the stretch of a week.
“Grandma, I don’t think a cat would poop on top of poop like that, grandma,” Pogue Bun-Bun can’t believe his pink toes and nose. “I would just stand in front of it and say ‘Grandma’ over and over again while tapping the wall with my beans. Don’t they listen, Grandma?”
“Apparently not, Pogue Pierogi,” Fractalfay says, getting back to the business of doing whatever her toxoplasmosis directs.
All the same, the ASPCA needs to do a wellness check on all animals affiliated with this cast, including the frequently-biting dog working out a name-change, the cat who poops like a 41 year-old narcissist, the post-operative dog recovering from skewer-eating, and anything Schaena’s glued to her eyes.
“It’s mink!” Schaena snaps, reminding us about the time Tom saved her from financial ruin. “That’s just like a weasel or something, it’s not like it was doing anything.”
“Why are you looking at me?” Brock looks up, excited to be included.
Schaena reports she’s wrestling OCD brought on by post-baby hormones and the man-baby she shares a house with. Brock thinks the solution to this anxiety is more nannies, so there’s always someone on hand to pat makeup onto a toddler’s face while he’s busy shopping for budgie smugglers.
“I don’t see why we should parent when we don’t have to parent,” Brock’s done this before.
“I feel like this is your second chance at being a dad though,” Schaena fries.
“Doesn’t everyone get three chances?” Brock checks his notes, but all he’s written down is BECOME SANDOVAL STEP ONE: SHOES.
Schaena needs a hobby to distract herself, so she reveals she’s tracking dozens of people on her phone and knows who hooked up with who. Schaena’s big scoop is that Katie slept with Max, her former stalking victim/one-sided relationshit, and apparently Schwartz’s best friend this season. No one gives a shit in the slightest, despite Lala’s efforts to mountain-up this molehill, so the cast gets back to what they do best: chasing Ariana from scene to scene, asking if she’s gotten over her ten year relationship’s implosion yet. Now? How bout now? Now? How bout now?
This fails to trigger Ariana’s get-over-it reflex, and instead she finds herself at a beach picnic with last season’s trash and only Katie to trade side-eyes with.
“Basically I’m right professionally,” Katie reads. “On Bravo, this guarantees a villain edit.”
Schaena sits by gamely while Brock scrambles for screen time by reminding Ariana of the recent relationship crimes that lubricated her star ascension, before Schaena pivots to the once-upon-a-time everyone on the planet flirted with her even if no one else remembers.
“Tell me I’m pretty,” Schaena, always. “No, again! Tell me again!”
Only 10 of those admirers got a restraining order to halt proceedings, and since two of those were John Mayer, it technically only counts as one.
“It’s two,” John Mayer interrupts. “I had to make sure she couldn’t reach me by land or sea.”
“That still leaves air!” Schaena shouts, quickly scrawling down the name of her next song.
Sandoval and Schwartz disappear to discuss the injustice of consequences for actions, while Ariana tries to explain for the hundredth time that the manipulation window has been closed, and if her ex wants to keep smashing into it like a lost bird, that’s on him.
“Stop shoving him on me,” Ariana snaps.
“We’re leaving,” Katie calls Schwartz to let him know he should get his stuff.
“Could you just grab it?” Schwartz asks, assuming Katie is still his mommy replacement.
“Bye!” Katie is retired.
Katie and Schwartz then attempt to have a conversation about Katie’s mattress snacks with lost cast member Max, and for the first time Schwartz looks damaged.
“Maybe we could get dinner sometime,” Schwartz is not over it.
“I don’t want to get dinner sometime,” Katie is over it.
If Schwartz is going to pursue Katie all over again he’s going to need to slough off roommate and sometimes-girlfriend Jo first, which is going to be a challenge since she describes him as her “favorite person ever” thanks to a shared love of robot-noises and rubberface expressions. Jo’s not equipped to deal with the cast’s level of toxicity without a juice cleanse, so she opts for sabotage and bleaches the high holy fuck out of Schwartz’s hair instead.
“Joseph!” Schwartz always has a dumb nickname at the ready.
“Ha!” Jo’s revenge-do succeeds in failing.
This look carries him into some kind of speed-dating swingers’ party, where he courts multiple women while Jo hates herself in the bathroom. The cast’s kryptonite is direct confrontation, but Jo chooses it anyway, and asks WTF is up with dating her for months, living with her, and professing love before going lady-shopping.
“Have you seen Seeking Sister Wife?” Schwartz asks. “How about From Couple to Throuple? That one is on Peacock, so…”
Jo tabulates that she’s been played by someone who speaks in moop-moop voice when he doesn’t want to be the bad guy, then feigns ignorance when the tears start falling. Schwartz stays in character, while she retreats to privately process her failed romance with someone who seemed so perfect when they were chicken-clucking gesturing and bleeping together over burritos.
With Jo on the ropes production is desperate for more awkward Katie and Schwartz time, so we’re asked to believe they’re pursuing the same romantic lede, which is so contrived it’s not worth acknowledging beyond this. Where Katie truly shines is when she’s forced to engage with Sandoval’s scripted faux-apology tour.
“I just wanted to say I’m really sorry—“
“Let me stop you right there,” Katie retorts, every single time.
What’s Lala up to? Nothing, but she has imported her entire extended family for an assist, while proceeding to plan a second child via sperm donation, so it can be “hers” exclusively. Since this isn’t gross enough, she invites all the ladies to weigh in on the potential donor at a party at Lisa’s pink palace, where everything tacky happens, and women instantly become girls.
“Who cares!” Lala toasts with sparkling water, which is like, her thing now that she needs a thing.
“We choose Kyle!” Ariana shouts, and somewhere on Love in Paradise Kyle pauses mid-crunch.
Meanwhile, James is thriving, after giving up drinking, getting a house with Ally, and celebrating a happy reunion with long-lost dog Graham aka Hippie. He’s booking big arenas and major dates with his DJ work, but on VPR his steady gigs still happen at SUR, and he’s forced to entertain opening for Sandoval’s karaoke cover band. Sandoval starts going off on a tangent about his heartbreak over Raquel’s false imprisonment at some deprogramming camp for troubled teens, but James shuts it down with reminders that for years he claimed to be fully in-love with Ariana, and his heartbreak should be assigned to the disintegration of that union — not the side piece.
“Go push buttons on a laptop,” Sandoval whines.
“In Vegas?” James is not going to suffer a self-esteem drop from a worm with a mustache.
Ally tries to sell herself as a reformed Swiftie and an aspiring astrologer, which is more believable than Rachel’s pageant lines about helping children, so go off. She smartly keeps her distance from Lala and Schaena, who spiral further down the jealousy toilet with each passing episode, as they scramble for reasons to welcome Sandoval back to the fray and gloss over their own historic hypocrisy.
Schaena and Lala bond over their lack of understanding about real estate law, and Ariana’s unwillingness to accept a low-ball buyout offer from someone who used her good credit to fund a bar and second mortgage. Sandoval insists he will buy her out, so Ariana’s lawyers say that’s fine, and true to form, Sandoval has none of the money for this, since he already squandered his mother’s retirement.
This is still somehow branded as Ariana being unreasonable, while LVP tut-tuts about a supposed mental health crisis Sandoval experienced while he was mocking other people’s mental health.
“I think it should be obvious I’m team misogyny by now,” LVP clucks, adrift without someone to infantilize.
If that wasn’t convincing enough, LVP shows up at the shell of a sandwich shop, and is disappointed that her forced relationship between Ariana and Katie and her grifter friend Penny isn’t working.
“Here’s all the delays we haven’t enjoyed while working with your recommended COO,” Katie isn’t dumb.
“We have her contract with our lawyers,” Ariana adds, because she’s really come to appreciate the role legal experts play in her life.
“But if you have lawyers, how will you trust someone else to profit from promoting your likeness?” LVP thinks it should be clear why she picked the Toms by now.
Contracts stipulate that Kyle Chan has to perpetually resurface on this series like herpes, and a planned store opening in San Francisco means it’s time to dust off the 25th version of “Good as Gold” for whoever wants to hear it. Sandoval is tapped to manage the logistics of this opening, which he’s eager to do, and volunteers the services of his sound guy.
“I’ve never done a sound check ever,” Schaena doesn’t have to say this, but does anyway.
This also creates another opening for Schaena to fully forget that Ariana’s breakup isn’t something that happened to her.
“You’re the only person who has always had my back from day one,” Schaena actually says to the guy who called her ridiculous for ever thinking they were friends.
Lala calls while Sandoval and Schaena are playing nice-nice, to make sure Sandy knows not to come to her 33rd birthday burlesque party.
“You’re only 33?” Sandoval’s as shocked as everyone at home.
“Whatever, eternal 40,” Lala counters.
“It’s PREVENTATIVE,” Schaena snaps from the tippity top of plastic surgery mountain.
The whole team is bound for San Francisco for Kyle Chan’s opening, and Brock wants to plan a “roaring twenties” party where everyone dresses like gangsters from the 30s. Ariana’s new boyfriend Dan also plans to attend, but before they board a flight with the riff raff they go out on a cute dinner where both seem genuinely smitten with each other. Dan’s got a firm NYC vibe, and stiffens when Ariana suggests relocation to the superficial capital of the country. He’s not keen, and all I see is an opportunity for an NYC-based show and future interaction between Ariana and the Summer House crew.
“How is it possible I haven’t been engaged to him yet?” Lindsey scans her instagram followers for any possible overlap.
Meanwhile, Sandoval readies to wow no one with his band-of-sorts, and the person writing the closed captions delivers by describing his bid at trumpet playing as *plays discordant notes*. James shows up to watch the gig, and Tom’s mom is already on deck, and stares at the stage like she’s captivated by her favorite televangelist and is going to be seized by the holy spirit, as soon as the lithium wears off.
“Yike,” Vy’s go-to line really works here.
Before the show is even over the venue scrambles to take his name off the marque, and Jo and Schwartz assemble outside to revisit their separation. Jo demonstrates the moves she learned at her latest improv class, and Schwartz asks to perform his one man wishy-washy act. Jo consents, and he says he feels weird with the distance between them, but wants their status as friends to be clear, but also doesn’t want to rule out getting married in eight years.
“See? That’s what I’m talking about,” protests Jo, who has too many receipts reflecting his habit of professing undying love and then taking it back.
Dan seems to know his presence on the show will inspire speculation that he’s a screen-chaser, so he opts out of a planned group boat outing in favor of working out and getting a massage. Everyone else heads to pier 39, where Lala uses her laser-sharp people reading skills to hone in on everything she overlooks in herself. Schwartz attempts to hold Katie’s hand for the first time in 15 years, and Katie tests the battery on her taser in case she needs to use it. Brock reminds everyone that Schaena recommended warm clothes but no one paid attention, so maybe folks should go on a spending spree at local shops before they board the SS Minnow for a three hour tour.
Schwartz tells Sandoval he’s been thinking about his proposal that they live together and collectively pay a $12K a month mortgage, and his mind is telling him no, but his body is telling him yeah.
“So I’m saying yes,” Schwartz announces, and Sandoval is super relieved he’s that much closer to still not being able to buy Ariana out.
On board the boat the weather starts getting tough, and the tiny ship is tossed, which ups the opportunity for a rogue wave to knock someone’s cell phone into the sea. All that build up has no delivery, but James does find the fire for a few random swings around a pole.
“Whee! I’m fun!” James is an army of one.
After the trip Sandoval dares the sea lions to attack, but they think they’ve already had their fill of microplastics, and some tragic twist of fate leaves Ariana trapped in conversation with Brock.
“Have you considered getting over your breakup for my wife’s benefit?” Holy shit Brock.
“So she can be buddies with the guy who screamed at her last week?” Ariana hasn’t sniffed glue since high school.
“Here’s a bland statement about forgiveness…” Brock says things.
“You don’t have to forgive anyone,” Ariana with the truth. “Gray rocking and going no contact is the only way to avoid manipulation. That’s me. I’m a grey rock.”
“I am the walrus!” a sea lion with an identity crisis retorts.
“I’m Schaena’s rock,” Brock tries. “And people have always said I’ve got rocks in my head, so I get it.”
“Not really,” Ariana’s familiar with how men on this show work. “I’m retired from diapering my man-baby. There’s power in female rage. And there never seems to be any issue with male rage.”
“Male rage whaaaa…” Brock’s sniffing glue habit is active, as the editors provide a little montage of all the mantrums that have tied the show together since this season’s premiere.
Brock derps away to get a haircut from the wrong era, and everyone gets ready for the historically inaccurate theme party, and Lala knocks on the door of Ariana’s room for a chance to spot Dan in a towel.
“I’m not mad,” Lala’s eyes keep going up and down, while Dan seems to immediately identify the bullshit before him.
Dan passes on the group dinner in favor of a private dinner with one of Ariana’s best friends, but he does iron all of Ariana’s clothes and lay them out for her, so Ann should know the personal assistant competition is heating up. It’s hard to tell if Dan is defensive about the coming interrogation, if he’s yucked out about sharing airspace with Sandoval, or if he just wants nothing to do with all of this.
“He (Sandoval) hasn’t done anything to me,” Dan explains. “But I know what he’s done.”
“I need to go before my lady-boner shows,” Lala excuses herself.
James splish splashes balls-deep in the bathtub with a rubber duck, while Ally tries to puzzle out Dan’s reluctance to attend dinner.
“Have you met us?” James asks, before humming a few bars of Rubber Ducky. “He might not even be able to stand being in the room with Sandoval. And not just because of the smell. Did you hear he’s moving in with his loser best friend so they can go nowhere together? Swan dive into bubbles!”
Everyone arrives at a bar or something, with James looking Peaky Blinders, Schwartz in a brown suit with snaps down the sides, Lala playing flapper, and Brock looking like a bouncer at a Berlin sex club. Someone notes Ariana and Sandoval wear similar shoes, and Ariana seems hypnotized by her phone as a means of avoiding looking up for too long.
Wing-woman Katie is ever at the ready, so she and Ariana take in the view until Schwartz saunters over to announce they look like a duo.
“We’re the new Tom-Tom,” Katie smirks.
Schwartz admits he’s still subservient, and is eager to hit on his ex-wife.
“You like me again,” he tries.
“No I don’t,” Katie retorts.
Schwartz goes on to propose a one-night stand of binge-eating snack food and scrolling in silence, but Katie isn’t nostalgic for her mistakes. She thinks in a few years Schwartz will brand her the one who got away, and she’s going to stay away just to make sure that happens.
Schaena finds a secluded spot to go outside with Sandoval to talk logistics, while Ariana paces alone, texting Dan that she’s got leftovers for him. He responds he’s stuffed and a little drunk, and his pushing away is getting distracting. Sandoval insists to Schaena that he feels good about Dan’s presence, because that way someone is there for Ariana. Schaena tries to get him to apologize for weaponizing her mental health, and Sandy admits that he does feel bad about that, and this almost seems sincere, so they indulge in an extended hug.
“I helped Ariana clean her house too,” Schaena reminds everyone at home, just in case we were landing too hard on her being awful.
“Oh, I’m still just here to rage bait,” Lala interjects, eager to resume instigation duties once her sparkling water hangover subsides.
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2024.05.02 23:15 alwaysjetlagged 2024-25 Salary Cap Picture & Roster Make-Up

2024-25 Salary Cap Picture & Roster Make-Up
With the season now complete, let’s look ahead to a potential 2024-25 roster. Figures from CapFriendly. The aim is to get to 14 F, 7 D, and 2GK.
CURRENT CONTRACTS:
8 Forwards ($34,100,000) : Ovi, Oshie* (back), Wilson, Strome, Sonny, Dowd, Protas, Sgarbossa** (hershey eligible anymore?)
7 Defs ($23,964,167): Carlson, Jensen, TvR, Fehervary, Sandin, AA, Iorio
2 G ($6,350,000): Lindgren, Kuemper
RFAs: McMichael, Malenstyn
UFAs: Patches, NAK, Haman Aktell LTIR: Backstrom ($9,200,000, and assuming he will not try to revive his career next year)
NHLPA PAP: Bear ($2,062,500)
EXPECTED CAP SPACE $87,700,000 = Expected Cap
-$3,900,000 = Kuzy Dead Cap -$2,062,500 = Bear assuming he clears program [edit: cleared on April 30th, still to meet with Carbs/BMac]
-$64,414,167 = 17 under contract (8F, 7D, 2G)
-$2,252,500 = carry-over bonus overages (Patches et al)
$15,070,833 to spend on adding 6 Forwards while losing 1 Def to Hershey/trade/other.
[note: I fully expect Oshie to play or attempt to play after a summer of rehab. Hence we can’t plan on stashing him on LTIR immediately. Playoffs 2025 anyone?]

With this money I’d expect GMBMC to:
FORWARDS
1. Resign RFAs McMichael ($3-4mil?) & Malenstyn ($1.2 mil?) = 10F
2. Decide on UFAs NAK or Patches. IMO wouldn’t resign either.
3. Decide on Lapierre ($863,333) and Miro ($950,000) in training camp if they will be everyday players. I see Laps/Miro in DC for the entire year. = 12F
4. Will Leonard revisit going pro this year? If so it’s only to go straight to the Caps (not Hershey).
5. Does Sgarbossa ($775,000) stay in DC or is he Hershey eligible again? (32 years old but very low salary).
6. Land 1-2 top six free agents through UFA or a package, ideally a NHL ready 1C. We could/should have about $8-10mil for one person assuming the above transactions.
7. Take serious looks during rest of season or training camp at young prospects like Dube, Sudz, Cristall, Frank, and others.
8. 2025-2026 we have higher earners Kuzy and Oshie (and Backstrom) come off the books so that is another $9,650,000 for player (re) investment.

DEFENDERS
9. Understand likelihood of Bear returning and whether Iorio and AA will be everyday players with regular minutes. If not Hershey continues to make sense. We can only carry 7D total and we’re at 8 with Bear, AA, and Iorio.
10. 1-2 D, i.e. TvR or Jensen could also be included in a package for top playeprospects.
11. Is RFA Haman-Aktell closer to playing in NHL after a year in North America? If so he is good cheap option to re-sign.

GOALIES
12. Is there a market to trade one and bring up Stevenson or Shepard to clear more money? Would we also lose assets if we had to dump Kuemper? With $15+mil do we need a Darcy salary dump this year? Is that extra few million worth potentially losing a prospect in the deal and would that extra few mil guarantee to get us over the hump to sign an elite first-line player?
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2024.05.01 20:57 golfy_m8 Washington Capitals (17th in points) 23/24 Season Skater Percentile Rankings

Forwards are only compared to other forwards, defensemen only to other defensemen.
Minimum 15 games played.
Natural Stat Trick expected goals model, SVA meaning “score and venue adjusted”.
D-Zone start bias percentile relates to how a player is deployed off the bench after a whistle, starting a new shift. Higher percentage meaning more D-Zone shift starts, lower percentage the opposite.
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2024.04.27 07:52 Busy-Apartment-2054 4/6 of our defensemen are from Hershey following Riemsdyk

Sandin - injured, Jensen - injured, Van riemsdyk - injured, Iorio - injured Bear - player assistance program,
Who we have playing -
Feheravary, Carlson, Johansson, Mcllrath, Alexeyev, Haman aktel.
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2024.04.26 23:18 SeeCrew106 Weapons on J6: a round-up of press coverage

Work in progress.
I've recently completed a list of J6 insurrectionists bringing weapons to the Capitol. I expect to be posting more about it, but this time I want to highlight what the press wrote about it.

PolitiFact

The Austin American-Statesman hosted[1] a Politifact article[2] responding to Tucker Carlson's claim at the first House J6 hearing that:
"Just to be clear on terms, an insurrection is when people with guns try to overthrow the government. Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one."
Like I did, they dove into the case files to find, unsurprisingly, that Carlson was lying. Again.
Lonnie Coffman of Alabama was found with multiple weapons in his vehicle and on his person. Coffman’s truck, which he had parked in the vicinity of the Capitol on the morning of Jan. 6, was packed with weaponry, including a handgun, a rifle and a shotgun, each loaded, according to court documents. In addition, the truck held hundreds of rounds of ammunition, several large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes, camouflage smoke devices, a stun gun and 11 Molotov cocktails. When Coffman was detained, questioned and searched, police found two more handguns on his person. None of the weapons were registered, documents state. Coffman pleaded guilty and was sentenced in April to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
But he wasn't the only one. Guy Reffitt of Texas, a member of the Three Percenters militia, was charged with bringing a handgun. Christopher Michael Alberts of Maryland also brought his handgun onto Capitol grounds. An officer saw it, alerted his colleagues and they chased him and detained him. It was loaded.
Mark Ibrahim, a former DEA agent who indicated his intent to resign weeks before J6 was indicted for bringing a gun with him on J6. He lied about it to federal agents.
PolitFact also reject Carlson's definition of an insurrection and note that the definition of "armed" isn't legally limited to guns.

CNN

CNN reviewed[3] J6 court records too, after Republican senator Ron Johnson said the attack wasn't an "armed insurrection" in an interview with a Milwaukee radio station.
Johnson condemned the assault, but then said "edited" videos made the situation look worse than it was and started defending the insurrectionists.
“This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me,” Johnson said in an interview with WISN in Milwaukee. “When you hear the word ‘armed,’ don’t you think of firearms? Here’s the questions I would have liked to ask: How many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired?”
We've already covered that above. They mention that 25 rounds of ammunition were found on Alberts. And obviously, you don't have to fire the gun for it to be illegal to bring it in the process of violently occupying the Capitol, which is why he's being charged. CNN says the weapons they saw mentioned in the court documents were, among others: a baseball bat, a fire extinguisher, a wooden club, a spear, crutches, a flagpole, bear spray, mace, chemical irritants, stolen police shields, a wooden beam, a hockey stick, a stun gun, and knives.
They add that the fights sent more than a dozen officers to the hospital, some with concussions and bone fractures. According to the former chief of the Capitol Police, the officers fought for an hour before being overpowered.
A second CNN article[4] contains an interesting video which sheds some light on where some extremists on Reddit and Youtube get their talking points. It opens with a quote from officer Michael Fanone: "and I heard people in the crowd yelling get his gun, kill him with his own gun, and words to that effect."
They then discuss several false claims by Republicans, some of them prominent.
  1. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R, New York), House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R, Louisiana) blamed Pelosi in one way or another for not calling in the National Guard, when that is the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board. CNN invokes former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund saying Pelosi was not involved in decisions made ahead of J6 regarding the National Guard.
  2. Rep. Jim Banks (R, Indiana) said that no Republican minimized what happened on J6. This is not true: CNN mentions Senator Ron Johnson (R, Wisconsin) who said it was a "peaceful protest" except for a "number of basically agitators" who "breached the capitol". They then show Rep. Andrew Clyde (R, Georgia) saying: "[If] you didn't know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit".

The Colorado Sun

J6 had after-effects, too. The Colorado Sun writes[5] that Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. from Colorado brought a small arsenal to his DC hotel room and intended to kill Nancy Pelosi and DC mayor Muriel Bowser. Federal prosecutors called him “a clearly disturbed, deranged and dangerous individual that fantasizes about committing horrific acts of violence and takes countless steps to carry them out.”
When the FBI was tipped off on January 7 about his intentions and then showed up at his hotel room, he told them he had arrived too late for J6. They found a Glock 19, a 9 mm pistol, a Tavor X95 assault-style rifle and “over 2,500 rounds of ammunition” including armor-piercing rounds. They found threats against Pelosi on his phone, as well as warnings not to do it. He assumed he was being surveiled, because in one text, he added: “You get that one Mr. Marxist FBI Agent? Go FK yourself.”
They include a screenshot of a court document showing his weapons cache.[6]

The Washington Post

The Washington Post reports[7] that according to captured police radio traffic, there were armed protesters just outside a secured area. This tracks with other reporting and court documents showing that various insurrectionist groups such as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys tried to have a "Quick Reaction Force" either closeby or on the perimeter of the city, read to come in and initiate armed conflict.
The recordings aired during the June 28 hearing in which former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump reportedly “was angry that we weren’t letting people through the [metal detectors] with weapons.”
They add that 6 men were arrested for having guns in the vicinity of the Capitol on J6. Some alerts were false alarms, however on January 6th police officers and even insurrectionists reported spotting many firearms. They weren't seized, because law enforcement had their hands full defending the Capitol as it was.
A Washington Post reporter present at 15th Street and Independence Avenue the morning of Jan. 6, 2021 saw a group from Broward County, Florida getting stopped by D.C. police because people in the group were carrying large assault rifles. They claimed the guns were not loaded and merely a "symbol" representing their 2nd Amendment rights. It happened before the protests at the Capitol turned violent.
According to the Washington Post, D.C. law bans open carry, and yet the men weren't arrested. To me, this again demonstrates the extraordinary privileges granted to white, christian conservatives in the United States. Federal authorities had started confiscating weapons since January 5th.
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, whose pursuit by a mob inside the Capitol was the subject of a viral video, has said that but for police restraint in the use of force, the riot “could have easily been a bloodbath,” a sentiment echoed by several officers on the witness stand in Jan. 6 criminal trials.
Paraphrasing from the Post: defendents say the same thing. Guy Reffit from Texas, mentioned earlier, said that as he stood close to the front on the West side of the Capitol, he saw 8 firearms carried by 5 people. This included his own .40-caliber pistol, his Texas companion's .45-caliber handgun, five firearms carried by a couple he met at the Capitol and .22-caliber weapon carried by a woman.
The Post continues:
At least three other men from outside the D.C. area also were arrested for carrying unregistered guns in the city on Jan. 6, court records show, but it is unclear whether they attended either the Trump rally or the Capitol riot. All three pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court, and their charges were later dismissed.
And, then there is this very interesting paragraph involving one of the leaders of the insurrection, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, a good friend of Alex Jones:
“You aren’t going to do anybody any good rotting in jail,” Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes told his followers in a recorded online meeting in November 2020, according to court documents. “Pepper spray is legal. Tasers are legal, and stun guns are legal. And it doesn’t hurt to have a lead pipe.” An armed group would stay in Virginia “awaiting the President’s orders ... then D.C. gun laws won’t matter,” Rhodes said in the meeting, according to court documents. Attorneys for Rhodes, who has pleaded not guilty to seditious conspiracy and other charges, said he and other defendants staged firearms hoping Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act, transforming the Oath Keepers into a kind of militia to keep Trump in office.
They go on to say:
About 825 people have been charged federally in the Jan. 6 riot. Most have been charged with misdemeanor-type trespassing counts. Although only a handful have been charged with firearms violations, at least 121 people have been charged with using or carrying dangerous weapons, and about 20 have been found guilty, a Washington Post database shows.
They then discuss Mazza, Ibrahim and Alberts.
Interestingly, they mention that Lonnie Coffman's unoccupied truck was spotted on First Street SE, the same area where pipe bombs had been found earlier. Regarding his weapons cash, they quote U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kortelly as saying: “I don’t think I’ve seen, in all my years as a judge, quite such a collection of weapons.”
[1] Austin American-Statesman - PolitiFact: Tucker Carlson is wrong. Firearms, other weapons at Capitol on Jan. 6 - 2022-06-15
[2] PolitiFact - Tucker Carlson is wrong. Firearms, other weapons were found at the Capitol on Jan. 6 - 2022-06-13
[3] CNN - Guns, knives, bombs and bear spray: Here are the weapons Trump supporters brought to DC on the day of the Capitol attack - 2021-02-17
[4] CNN - Fact checking claims January 6 was not an armed insurrection - 2021-06-28
[5] The Colorado Sun - Armed Colorado man who went to D.C. around U.S. Capitol riot intended to kill Nancy Pelosi, court documents say - 2021-01-13
[6] /JamiePullDatUp - Some of Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr.'s possessions when FBI agents searched his Washington, D.C. hotel room and vehicle on Jan. 7, 2020
[7] The Washington Post - Evidence of firearms in Jan. 6 crowd grows as arrests and trials mount - 2022-06-08
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2024.04.26 18:50 MeekoAllenINTP The MBTI Ecosystem

The MBTI Ecosystem
This post explores the three major schools of thought and the interconnected geopolitics within the typology community.
The subcultures, internet forums, and online communities to which one is exposed, as well as the people one befriends, dates, or learns from within the type community, are crucial. These include Personalitycafe, YouTube, Subreddits, Typology Central, IDRlabs, Open Jung Journal of Typology, intpforum, intp central, CognitiveType, Tiktok, Personality database, facebook groups and Tumblr profiles such as MBTI Zombie, MBTI database, and Weirdfella.
In the typology community, you’ll typically encounter these “types” of people:
Self-Improvers
Regardless of the level of scientific, spiritual, or philosophical rigor they attribute to Jungian typology, they value it as a tool for personal development in personal life, relationships, or workplace settings.
This group constitutes the more enthusiastic majority.
Casuals
These participants may harbor legitimate skepticism towards Jungian typology due to dissatisfaction with its scientific, philosophical, or spiritual depth. Alternatively, they may have preconceived biases that lead to rejectionist views.
Their engagement often manifests as indifference or displaced anger towards the concept of typology. This is seen in those who troll or play devil’s advocate, as well as those who engage only when the topic arises situationally due to a superficial interest they find harmless to indulge in.
This group represents a moderate majority.
Enthusiastic Theorists
They believe that there is a basis for Jungian typology, whether it be metaphysical, evolutionary, neurological, or empirical.
This group is in the minority.
Part 1 - Mainstream MBTI Experience
Aside from the notable contributions of Isabel and Katherine Briggs, other researchers or typologists have provided foundational type descriptors that are extensively referenced, both directly and indirectly, within about 90% of the type community. This is merely an estimate, as I cannot ascertain the exact readership for each individual. However, based on the frequent references within type social groups and among contributors who focus on personal development, interpersonal problem solving, relationship and dating advice, team building in the workplace, self-help culture, and the popularity of related websites, there are common themes. These include an empirical basis for MBTI, its utility alongside the Five-Factor Model (FFM), and other modalities, as evidenced by varying studies, Google Scholar publications, and citations.
The individuals I am about to mention are frequently discussed when introducing MBTI:
John A. Johnson, Heidi Priebe, Ray Moody, Mark Majors, Mina Barimany, Lenore Thomson Bentz, Naomi Quenk, Harold Grant, Magdala Thompson, Thomas Clarke, David Keirsey, Alan Brownsword, Jean Kummerow, Roger R. Pearman, Sarah C. Albritton, Leona Haas, Jane Kise, Paul D. Tieger, and Barbara Barron-Tieger.
Moreover, classic descriptions from Simulatedworld and Silke’s post "Individuation and Development of Functions" on 16types.info are seminal.
Popular Think-tank and Reading Websites include: - Practicaltyping, Verywell Mind, Personality Growth, Truity, Personality Junkie (by Dr. A.J. Drenth, Elaine Schallock) - Personality Hacker (Antonia Dodge) - The famously influential Tumblr group, MBTI-Notes
Popular tests include: - The official MBTI test, which is the most well-known, but other notable and free tests are: - IDRlabs (celebritytypes), known to have a myriad of different tests on various subjects aside from Jungian Typology - The Keys2cognition (Dario Nardi Test), which reflects Nardi’s vision for refining the test - The Sarkinorva Test, utilizing the Grant/Brownsword model and incorporating various schools of thought - SimilarMinds, known for its interdisciplinary psychological and refined typology approach - 16personalities, which speculates on statistics and adds a dimension of emotionality/neuroticism, labeled as assertive and turbulent, and uses cartoons. The latter is so interwoven within the collective consciousness of people in MBTI groups through memes. Interestingly, this is humorous because memetics bears a similarity to archetypes.
Typeform, though less popular, presents an interesting testing approach that applies machine learning to gauge overall temperament, i.e., mood and emotions, before taking the test.
Honorable mentions:
YouTubers like Chris G (Exploring Psychology), Bogdan Yakubets, Frank James, and Alexis Kingsley also significantly influence the community in various ways.
Rae Carlson's work focuses on the applications of how different MBTI types experience affective memories.
Researchers exploring the application of sophisticated AI and machine learning methods to validate mainstream MBTI concepts and their potential applications through MMORPGs or social media platforms include Ian Frank, Budi Laksono Putro, Yusep Rosmansyah, Suhardi Suhardi, Raad Bin Tareaf, Weiling Li, Matej Gjurkovic, Jan Snajder, Shruti Garg, E, Ashwani Garg, Partha Kadambi, Punati Venkata, Jahnavi, Pulivarthi, Hima Sumana, Shaik Charishma Kousar, Pasupuleti Himaja, Kondru Jeevan Ratnakar, Yi Joceline, Jia Xin, Thoufia Zumma, Jerin Akther Munia, Dipankar Halder, Sadekur Rahman, Kulsum Akter Nisha, Umme Kulsum, Saifur Rahman, Farhad Hossain, Partha Chakraborty, and Tanupriya Choudhury.
Part 2 - The psychodynamic vs MBTI approach to functions
This school of thought is more strictly psychoanalytical or influenced by it, and has been refined in better ways.
Contributors to this include Erich Neumann, J. H. van der Hoop, Linda Berens, John Beebe, Fudjack P. Dinkelaker, James Hillman, Daryl Sharp, H.K. Fierz, Phil Goss, Angelina Bennet, Mark Hunziker, Murray Stein, Edward Armstrong Bennet, Carl Alfred Meier and the meme of the philosophy wheel when compared to MBTI types.
The group that used to be known as CelebrityTypes, but now operates as IDRLabs, has been associated with the Open Journal of Jungian Typology. They have contributed to the Function Axes Theory and many philosophical ideas about psychological types, but re-contextualized for a contemporary audience.
The most notable is Michael Pierce, whom one friend referred to as the gold standard of MBTI. You also have Ryan Smith, Boye Akinwande, Liam Silveira, Eva Gregersen, Jesse Gerroir, Lee Morgan, Luke Whincop, and I even believe Juan E. Sandoval from Cognitivetype wrote two articles for the Open Journal of Jungian Typology when the website was still available. Fortunately, I saved some of the articles, though unfortunately not all of them.
Websites concerning similar concepts include outlawpsych, carljungdepthpsychologysite, and ARAS (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism). Content like Boolean11’s post “Feeling as a Rational Function,” Silke’s post “Cognitive Processes and Epistemologic Parallels,” and SolitaryWalker are greatly influential.
The Typology Wars
Within the type community, there are debates regarding what is most essential. Some argue that MBTI has bastardized the original theories, or how Jung’s approach is more unscientific and controversial, especially when his racial biases are mentioned. Some apply other psychoanalytical ideas to types, like the ego, synchronicity, and archetypes, while most do not. Some believe MBTI is false or is empirically valid in some ways (McCrae, Robert R.; Costa, Paul T) but is better used as a heuristic to maximize the usefulness of trait models like the FFM or Hexaco, with Jordan Peterson in one video arguing about the application of how MBTI is useful.
Honorable Mentions
Although Integrative psychotherapy and the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) are not based on MBTI or Jungian typology, the echoing concepts of how the interdependence balances between opposing personalities across different domains (cognitive, affective, et cetera.) are very similar to how the personal development applications of the dichotomies and the shadow operate.
Interestingly enough, Jaak Panksepp had a tripartite model of emotions he labeled as primary, secondary, and tertiary, similar to the cognitive stack model. And when you consider the connectivity of top-down and bottom-up hemispheres along with the left and right hemispheres, it brings up more potentials of how cognitive functions may operate at the neurological level, be it macroscale or microscale.
This researcher, Robert G. Sacco, didn’t specialize in studying MBTI per se but referenced it in a study in which he argued about the potential relationship between Fibonacci sequences and synchronicity. He noted how INFPs score higher on having such experiences and discussed how further improvements could be made in the future after delving more into that topic.
Part 3 - The Radical and Unconventional Typology Systems
This school of thought is radical in that the research groups here challenge the conventional understanding of MBTI and Jung’s ideas, altering the direction of their application in various other disciplines and hypotheses.
Socionics Framework (Ausra Augustinaviciute’s Model A, Grigori Reinin’s Dichotomies, V.V. Gulenko’s Model G) shifts the MBTI J/P designation, such that an INTP in Socionics would be labeled as INTJ. It also emphasizes the importance of relational dynamics and Information Metabolism.
James Reynierse revisits the structure to align it more closely with the Five Factor Model to enhance validity.
The Singer-Loomis inventory of MBTI highlights non-bipolarity, and its scaling method measures cognitive modes independently, creating a spectrum of responses. It uses ipsative scoring to emphasize the individuality of each test taker and incorporates situational variability of context-specific aspects in an interactional, fluid approach between an individual’s dispositional (stable) characteristics and emergent pattern states.
Wave Theory of Type Dynamics Henry L. Thompson views Jung’s typology as a nonlinear, dynamical system rather than a static model of 16 types. It incorporates concepts from chaos theory and complex systems. He believes that character development occurs in a multidirectional nonlinearity and operates across multiple dimensions and levels of consciousness. He emphasizes the importance of Psyche Development over type development. At this level of consciousness, there are interconnected stages deeply influenced by both intrinsic traits and external factors. Similar to principles from chaos theory, small changes or variations in initial conditions within these stages can lead to significant and often unpredictable outcomes, akin to the butterfly effect. As individuals progress through the waves of development, new aspects of personality emerge that were not evident in earlier stages, illustrating the dynamic and evolving nature of the human psyche. The development process features feedback loops where past experiences influence future behaviors and decisions, allowing for retrospective shaping of one’s developmental path based on earlier encounters and insights.
Neojungiantypology (Christian Johansson, Erik Thor) uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes MBTI, Enneagram, Big 5 Traits, DISC, and others but with an emphasis on Jungian Typology neurological potential which echoes a similar framework as seen with P-Fit (parietal frontal integration theory), Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), and the Top Down Bottom Up modes done by Stephen M. Kosslyn, and G. Wayne Miller.
CognitiveType’s Vultology (Juan E. Sandoval) deconstructs elements in socionics, mainstream MBTI, and depth psychology and how they apply in the field of affective neuroscience with influences from people such as Paul Ekman, Charles Darwin, and others. I would say this model, especially if working in conjunction with the Neojungiantypology approach, has the most potential in discovering great insights for future enthusiasts and researchers in the social sciences.
Honorable Mentions
I forgot to add objective personality and dario nardi. And in general there are more names I could of added but I decided this was already extensive enough and gets the point across.
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2024.04.24 06:47 BoukoKakuCatharsis "The Man Who Put the Bomp" by Richard Chwedyk (6/6)

Originally posted on the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol 132, No 3 & 4, March-April 2017.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive
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Continued From Here
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VOOM! continued through the tunnel accompanied by the sound of tires against concrete seams— *Diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it *—with the light ahead growing ever brighter, bigger.
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"Axel."
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"Yeah, Reggie?"
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"Reggie has determined that nothing is wrong with the braking system itself. What you call the Click Thing is unable to complete its signal to the mechanism. However, if we can press a heavy object against the brake pedal, we should be able to decelerate—an object like that thick book upon which you are standing."
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Axel stomped on the copy of Zemblia with his right foot. "This thing, huh?"
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"Exactly."
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"You want me to push this on the brake?"
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"If possible."
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"I'll try. One thing first."
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"What is it?"
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"Which one is the brake?"
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A brief hesitation. "Drop it on both pedals."
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"Okay!"
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Axel let go of the wheel, put down the Click Thing, and hopped off of Zemblia. It was heavy, but he pushed as hard as he could with his forearms until it advanced far enough for him to insert his hind legs between the seat-back and the book.
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Diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it—
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"Reggie?"
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"Yes, Axel?"
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"Why's everybody on this alter vacation thing?"
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Reggie, in the briefest terms, explained: what Christine had done with the samples; how she had injured Doc and damaged Rotomotoman; her holding Guinevere and the egg hostage.
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Diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it—
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"Doc is hurt! Rotomotoman! Guinevere! Egg! Gotta help them! We gotta go back!"
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He pushed harder with his hind legs against the book, moving it along a few more centimeters.
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"That is Reggie's intention."
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"We gotta go back! We gotta go back!" He pressed his tail against the seat-back and pushed with all his might. Zemblia tottered at the edge of the seat.
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Diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it—
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"GOTTA GO BACK! GOTTA GO BACK!"
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Axel remembered another moment, one he repressed as often as he could. Many years before, before the house and everything: Lancelot! Axel, wounded, bleeding, barely escaped the trio of boys who had cut into him and Lancelot to show they weren't really "living"—just robots. Lancelot was back there—his best buddy. He had to go back but he couldn't go back. Had to save himself but couldn't leave his best buddy behind!
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"No! No! Lancelot! No!"
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Reggie heard the words. He had heard them many times, as he heard everything that went on in the house. He heard them in almost every one of Axel's nightmares, his many, many nightmares.
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"Axel!" said Reggie, using his sharpest enunciation.
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"Lancelot! Lancelot!"
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"Axel! Push the book on the pedals and sing the song!"
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"Lan—"
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"Sing!"
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Axel sang. He pushed and sang.
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"Sinnn-baaad is a spaaaace—!"
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The book slipped away from him. Gravity did its job.
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Diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it-diddle-it—
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Just before the book fell, Axel looked down and saw Tibor peeking out from under the seat.
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"Tibor! Look out!"
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Tibor ducked back.
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The book, spine first, hit the pedals. With the impact, the pages flew open and fluttered, releasing a tiny square—no bigger than an old-fashioned postage stamp. It was as thin as a sheet of onionskin but made of something more durable and silicon-based, as far as Reggie could tell. It was printed with complex circuitry that Reggie couldn't examine before it fluttered off behind VOOM! and into the tunnel. Reggie surmised it was a sort of wireless power relay. The further the distance between the relay and the car, the weaker the connection became. VOOM! was decelerating, finally.
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Dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit—
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Reggie wished he had the opportunity to examine the power source more closely, since it was technology of a sort he had never seen before, but under the circumstances he was willing to let it go.
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Axel looked to his right, and there was Tibor.
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"How did you get up here?"
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Tibor, startled but stoical, said only, "Tibor has many secrets."
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"Hey, Reggie—did it work?"
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"It—something—did. The vehicle is slowing down."
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"That's good, isn't it?"
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"The situation could be worse."
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With *Zemblia *atop the pedals, Axel could no longer see through the windshield. But it was getting brighter.
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Much brighter.
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And doing so very quickly.
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The late-autumn afternoon light was fading, and the saurs who had followed Christine out to the edge of the property felt the chill in the air as well as a growing fear of the coming dark. Some of them had not been such a distance from the house in years and glanced back warily to see how far out they had gone. The lights had come on. The house looked warm and comforting, silhouetted by the setting sun. They wanted to go back but they couldn't leave Bronte and Doris.
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Of the humans, it was perhaps not surprising that Tom glanced back in much the same way.
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Christine stood at the very perimeter of the property. "Shut it down," she demanded.
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Tom hesitated.
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Christine held up the egg and Guinevere. "Shut it down."
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He spoke to Reggie through his phone. "Take down the security net, please."
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"One moment, Tom. Reggie is experiencing a brief delay due to an overload in VOOM!"
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Tom twitched at that last word.
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"Security net is down." Reggie almost sighed the words.
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Reverse beepers sounded from the van in the woods as it backed up behind Christine.
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Danner stood about a meter away from her, hands open and empty. "If you give them to those guys, you lose everything."
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She held out the egg and Guinevere—reminding him who had the top cards. She looked brash, but it could have been an act.
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Danner reached toward her, almost touching her fingers.
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"I'll give you something they can't take away."
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She stared at him with skepticism.
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"Everything I know."
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No change in her expression.
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"Why do you think they've kept me all these years?"
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Her expression shifted to one of contempt.
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She's afraid, Danner thought. "What did Zoey tell you about me? Or Austin? Did they call me an 'asset'?"
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She still held back, but listened.
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"Put two and two together, Christine. Like a couple of outer-membrane proteins."
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She looked at him as if he had just thrown a wrench at her.
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"Binary outer-membrane proteins, introduced at strategic points. They open the sequence to billions of new variations."
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Two men approached from the van: one in a dark, knitted watch cap; the other had a shaved head. They held their arms outward, as if feeling for the security net. They would have looked more imposing were they not so thin and not eyeing the house so cautiously, as if expecting something to shoot out from there—something fast and fiery.
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Danner nodded toward the approaching men. "They'll take them from you and claim the credit. They'll rip you off."
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She raised her shoulder to keep her purse strap from slipping down. "You won't tell me anything."
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He pointed at the two from the van. "Like you'll get something from them."
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Just then, she looked like she hated him—because she did; she hated him because he was right—and like she had suddenly become aware of what she was doing.
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He held out his hands, hoping she would pass him the egg and Guinevere. "Kid, you got the cards but the pot's empty."
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The men from the van flanked Danner, but on the other side of the property line.
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"We'll take those," the one with the shaved head said to Christine. "Come on. We'll drive you back to town."
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Danner reached into his pocket for the scrambler, hoping to pull off the same trick with the van as with his car.
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"No," she told the two men. "The samples are in my purse." She held the egg and Guinevere out to Danner. "Take them."
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The man in the watch cap slapped his hand on her shoulder and pulled her back. "That stuff's worth more. A lot more."
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"Fuck off!" She jerked herself out from his hold but she was handicapped by the treasures she held in her hands.
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Danner lunged forward, but the man in the watch cap pulled a Taser from his pea coat. The weapon was no more than a box with a pistol grip. A squirt gun might look more dangerous, but wouldn't be.
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He pointed the Taser at Danner, clearly ready to use it.
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Danner heard something—as he had before he arrived at the house. This time it wasn't a mere wistful memory. It was a real sound in the real atmosphere, above—and to the north.
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It was singing, far away and off-key...getting louder, if not better.
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"Sinnnn-bad! Sinnnn-bad!"
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As he looked around, he could tell that this time everybody else could hear it as well.
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"Hey, Tibor! We're in the air!"
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VOOM! fired out of the tunnel like a bullet from a gun. Though losing velocity, it would remain aloft for about a kilometer, granted its current ascending angle.
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"Yeah!" shouted Axel. "We're going up!"
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In a lower voice, beside him: "No! Down!"
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And then the car doors reshaped themselves into wings, at an aerodynamically beneficial orientation: flaps up.
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Wings.
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This, too, appeared to be a hidden modification to the car's specifications that took Reggie completely by surprise.
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Glider technology? Yes. UAV technology? Yes. Even stealth technology—Reggie understood them all. But this was VOOM! technology.
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He traced the distance and direction of VOOM! and determined it would come down in the forest that surrounded the house, as if this had been the plan all along.
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Reggie could ponder that later.
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Right now, he had to calculate what would happen when the pink missile "landed."
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An unmanned aerial vehicle (though this vehicle was carrying two very living passengers) is often equipped with helicopter propellers and landing gear. Reggie concluded, after brief review, that VOOM! had neither. Either VOOM! was a poorly designed UAV, or it was modified for another purpose. In what way could he ensure the safety of VOOM!'s two passengers?
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No way.
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"Hey! Tibor! We're in the air! We're going to space!"
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"No! To Earth!" Tibor muttered. "Too quickly. Too soon!"
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To be flying—or, more correctly, gliding—and not able to see anything was more frustration than Axel could bear. He hopped onto the steering wheel and peered up past the dashboard through the windshield. With his weight, the wheel turned to the right. The accidental banking to the west kept the car aloft a little longer.
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"Tibor! Look! I can see trees! They look like moss! And the sun is going down!"
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"So are we."
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"Hey, Reggie!"
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"Reggie is ready."
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"How do we land?"
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A pause.
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"Reggie?"
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"Axel should keep singing the song."
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And so he did. But Axel knew that wasn't a good answer, that maybe Reggie didn't know how to land the VOOM! And if Reggie didn't know (he knew everything), it was because there was no way to land.
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That was bad.
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"Sinnnn-bad! Sinnnn-bad!"
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Axel hopped back onto the front seat and examined his Click Thing. At one point or another, he had pushed every button on its face; some he had pushed many times, but never the one Ross had told him was "NO!" The button he should never, ever push!
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"Sinnnn-bad! Sinnnn-bad!"
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The sky shifted from bright blue to indigo and the first planets were visible, along with a few bright stars—going from Earth Sky to Space Sky. And where was the Moon? He wanted to see all the stars, up close, like he wanted to see the city, and maybe he would someday.
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But right now he wanted to be back home. He wanted to be with his friends, and he wanted to help because Doc was hurt and someone was trying to take away Guinevere and Doris's egg. He couldn't leave them behind the way he'd left Lancelot behind. Lancelot was dead and Diogenes was dead and he didn't want to leave them behind. He was alive and that shouldn't be—but he had to help his friends—
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He looked at the "NO!" button.
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No no no! Ross said never! Axel was going to follow directions for once and listen— listen —when someone said "No!" He was going to listen! He would never never never...
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Except in an emergency.
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He heard a voice—Geraldine's—coming from right behind him, almost straight into his ear.
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In that still, soft Geraldine voice, she said, "Press the button."
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So he did.
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He heard a POW! —like a gunshot—as bolts fired out of their moorings, releasing the front seat, which sprang upward like a trained porpoise leaping for a fish.
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Four more bolts came out with a *KA-POW! *for each bolt as the parachute engaged.
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A parachute.
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Axel and Tibor left the VOOM! below them as it sank into the darkening sea of trees.
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"Sinnnn-bad! Sinnnn-bad!"
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The parachute caught a slight crosswind—Tibor almost floated off in the jostling, but Axel grabbed him and held on tight. Tibor was Tibor, but he was also a little guy, and it was the duty of the big guys to look after the little ones, no matter how many bad, dysfunctional universes they might have created.
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And Axel, in that moment, thought of himself as a big guy.
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Tibor's green hat had come loose. Axel pressed it down until it was back securely on Tibor's head.
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"Tibor—and Tiboria—thanks you!"
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"Sinnnn-bad! Sinnnn-bad!"
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It was a mild day, and after a few bumpy moments, the parachute brought them down gently into a clearing not far from where their friends were gathered at the edge of the woods.
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Simultaneously, VOOM! progressed toward its inevitable target.
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NO ONE, TO THIS DAY, knows where the slingshot came from, but Ross had it. He may have hidden it on the grounds, in reserve. Before the man in the watch cap could pull the trigger on the Taser, Ross sent a red checker squarely at his forehead with exceptional accuracy. It even made a sound like a xylophone mallet striking a wooden box. The man wailed and pressed his hand to where the checker made impact, but he kept the Taser aimed at Danner.
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A wild scattering of checkers flew at him. Many, maybe most, were not aimed well, not as well as Ross's shot, but there were enough of them—red and black—to drive the two men back toward the van. The checkers came, no doubt, from the same source as the slingshot. Ross had distributed them moments before, choosing those saurs most likely to use their tails and forelimbs with accuracy, though he made sure even the little ones received a few—they needed to feel they, too, had helped.
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"Foo!" Ross led the saurs, who chanted with him as they fired their ammo. "Foo! Bad, bad guys! Foo!"
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Ross made Christine his next target, perhaps hoping to stun her so that she would drop her hostages.
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The checker hit her on the side of the head, but it hardly fazed her. She stared northward, mouth and eyes wide open, at something fast approaching—something pink. Her hands opened as wide as her eyes, letting slip the gray, speckled egg and the salmon-colored sauropod.
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"Tom!" Danner shouted.
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Tom dove for the egg and caught it before it hit the ground. Danner, in like manner, slid over the leaf-strewn floor of the forest just in time to intercept Guinevere before she could make impact against that same hard surface. The two looked like a couple of old-fashioned baseball players, rising and holding aloft their prizes to the relief of the gathered saurs...until Tom and Danner caught sight of that pink, winged projectile, fast approaching, reflecting the last light of dusk.
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"Get back!" Danner waved his free arm about to everyone in range. "Get back!"
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"Down!" Tom ran to Dr. Margaret. "No time to run! Get down! Flat! Hit the ground!"
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"Saurians!" Agnes, tail raised, plates lying flat, stood over Leslie. "Protect yourselves!"
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Ross tucked his head forward so he could cover his ears with his forepaws. "Incoming!" he shouted.
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Christine stood there, frozen, until Danner, still carefully holding Guinevere, tackled her.
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The air roared above him. Through some aerodynamic quirk or the workings of his own imagination, a screeching whistle traced its trajectory. He could see the van and the two men running for it, and the pink car shooting from overhead.
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Danner wouldn't need the scrambler after all.
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That a pink plastic car could so thoroughly crumple the exterior of a large metal van was not so incredible when you remember the simple efficiency of velocity combined with mass.
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Where the flames came from would be hard to construe without an inventory of the van's contents. There might have been spying equipment within, or a stock of combustible fuel. It didn't matter. The van went up in a bright ball of flame, throwing pieces of itself in every direction.
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The noise of the explosion was unmistakable:
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"VOOM!"
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The wreckage burned for an hour. The van's occupants were last seen fleeing through the woods, their condition and destination unknown.
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Axel and Tibor left the parachuted car seat behind and raced toward the smoke and flames.
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The first person they saw was Danner, dusting himself off, bending down to help the other human, Christine, who looked shaken and dazed. Then they saw Tom, holding his lower back with one hand, the other pressing his forehead.
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Next to him stood Doris, inspecting her egg, which appeared to be safe and sound. Bronte and Guinevere stood beside her.
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Axel ran up to them. "Is everybody okay? Where's Doc?"
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"He's bruised and his jaw's dislocated," Dr. Margaret said, "but he'll be all right."
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Cradled in her arms, Doc appeared in no hurry to recover.
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"Are you okay?" Tom knelt and put his hand gently on Axel's head. "What happened to you?"
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Tibor announced with assurance, "Tibor was beset by traitorous scoundrels. Through bravery and cunning, he waylaid his enemies and returned in time to save the day."
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"We were going real fast!" was all Axel added.
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Then he saw the wreckage.
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"My VOOM!" he said softly.
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"Tibor's VOOM!"
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"It's... gone!" He stared at the flames.
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"Good thing, too." Agnes watched the wreckage carefully, as if she expected the van and the VOOM! to reassemble. "You see? Nothing good ever came from anything pink!"
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"You get better car!" Ross patted Axel on the back. "Bigger car—like humans drive. You own da road again!"
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"Not for a while, I hope," said Tom.
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The saurs were cold, and night filled in where the daylight retreated. They slowly made their way back to their home.
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The humans, all but Christine, followed them in.
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"What are you going to do?" Tom asked Danner.
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"What are you going to do?"
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Tom looked at the sky overhead. "I think Susan Leahy at the Foundation can be persuaded not to prosecute."
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"If she hands over the samples," Dr. Margaret added. "And if she agrees never to return. We can't forgive her, but prosecuting the little idiot won't make things better."
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"Agreed." Danner approached Christine, his hand out. "Hey."
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Christine opened her purse and passed him the samples. Danner took the purse and checked through its contents to make sure nothing else was hidden within. "Reggie would detect them anyway." He handed the purse back, then gave her his e-key.
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"The car won't start," she said.
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"It will now." He returned her scrambler.
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She looked around, her face a distortion of fury, exasperation, and exhaustion. "I—I don't know what just happened. I don't know what I've just seen!"
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He stared at the smoldering wreckage. "What you've seen is this: the world's not the place you thought. Not the place you didn't think. It's changing. And you can't do a thing about it."
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She looked no less confused for the answer—no less angry.
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"Who are you? What are you?"
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For a moment, he thought of saying "Joe Hill," but he wasn't Joe Hill. Not a bit. "Drop the car off at my apartment. The parking guys will know what to do. You can take a cab from there. I'll reimburse you when I see you at work."
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"How will you get home?"
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"I'll take another cab."
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"That'll cost a fortune. It'll take forever."
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"I'm in no hurry."
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Before she got into the car, she asked, "What you said about outer-membrane proteins—is that for real?"
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Danner shrugged. "Who listens to a nobody?"
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She slammed the car door—hard—and took off.
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Danner watched his car head down the driveway.
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Above the trees, news drones hovered over the wreckage. Local authorities stopped by and asked questions, but there wasn't much to say. Yes, they saw something strike the van. No, they didn't know what the van was doing out there. No, they didn't know what struck the van. It was pink.
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Danner stayed for dinner. He sat with Tom and Dr. Margaret, surrounded by saurs sitting at their own tiny tables.
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Afterward, Dr. Margaret asked, "What would you have done if you hadn't become a prisoner of Toyco?"
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"Me? No one cares about that."
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"I do."
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As he thought over an answer, the Five Wise Buddhasaurs arrived, holding their instruments, waiting.
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"I think," he told her, "I would have been a drummer."
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Danner followed the Buddhasaurs back to their couch in the former dining room.
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The Buddhasaurs played and Danner kept the beat, showing them some new tempos along the way.
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Dit-diddit Bomp! Dit-diddit Bomp!
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And the saurs listened and kept the beat with them, tails and limbs and voices all together.
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No one sat before the living room video screen that night.
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Everyone attended except Geraldine. She remained in her lab, where the lights kept flashing and from which the strange noises kept emanating. She peeked out once, smiling that unsettling, squinky smile.
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When the evening's music died down and the saurs readied themselves for the sleep room—and the cab had still not arrived—Danner stepped out on the porch to wait. It was a chilly night, but the weather didn't appear to bother him.
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Only Axel went along and sat down with him on the edge of the porch. They stared for a while at the last embers of VOOM! in the woods, then Axel looked up at the night sky.
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"Do you know about frogs?"
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"A little," said Danner.
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"Do you know if frogs come from space?"
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"Maybe."
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"Space is big!"
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Danner nodded. "Big as anything. Big as everything."
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"Yeah!"
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Axel looked up at the old man with his wild hair and wiry beard, his worn features, his funny-looking eyeglass things. To Axel, he was someone who had sailed the world—worlds, even.
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He could have been any old man, any human—so many old humans these days; so many young ones growing old already. He could have been any of them. He wasn't. He put the Bomp, whatever that meant.
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Axel was smarter now. Much smarter. He had learned all sorts of things today. And what he learned, he knew.
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He knew who Danner was.
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He was Sinbad.
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— For Bob "The Green Knight" Carlson, and David G. Hartwell
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2024.04.23 16:54 Quackmotard Days Until the Draft Player Profile Series: Kai Forbath

We’re SO CLOSE!!! Just a couple kickers to take us home.
Forbath was born in Santa Monica, California. He attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. During Forbath's last two prep seasons, he converted 26-of-33 field goal attempts and scored 213 total points, with a long field goal of 57 yards. He also forced touchbacks on 150 of 188 kickoffs and made 134-of-135 extra point attempts. Forbath also served as the team's punter and had a punting average of 46 yards that led to him being named to the Los Angeles Times' All-Star team at punter. Forbath subsequently earned high school All-American recognition by USA Today.
In addition to football, Forbath also played soccer in the West Valley Samba Soccer League (National Premier Soccer League). Following his senior season, Forbath was invited to play in the 2006 U.S. Army All-American Bowl and the CaliFlorida Bowl. Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Forbath was listed as the No. 1 placekicker in the nation among the class of 2006. He picked UCLA over California, Notre Dame, Oregon, among others.
Forbath attended UCLA, where he played for the football team from 2006 to 2010.[4] After redshirting his initial year at UCLA, Forbath made 25 of 30 field goals and all 30 points after touchdowns (PATs) for a team-high 105 points in 2007. He became the first UCLA player to record five field goals of at least 50 yards in a season, including a freshman-best 54-yarder versus Oregon. In his sophomore year, Forbath received first-team All-Pacific-10 honors after making 19 of 22 field goals on the season, including his last 13 straight.
As a junior in 2009, he made 28-of-31 field goals (90.3%) and 24-of-25 extra points (96%). Forbath connected on another three field goals from 50 yards or more and had then made 9-of-12 tries from that distance. Competing with Leigh Tiffin of Alabama and Blair Walsh of Georgia, Forbath was named the winner of the 2009 Lou Groza Award, recognizing the best placekicker in college football.[9] He was named as a Consensus All-American.
As a senior in 2010, he made 13-of-18 field goals (72.2%) and 27-of-27 extra points (100%). On September 25, 2010, Forbath kicked two field goals in leading the Bruins to an upset victory over the #7 Texas Longhorns 34–12 in front of a stadium-record 101,437 fans in Austin, Texas.[11] In the previous week, He kicked a 42-yard field goal in the third quarter to give the Bruins a 24–3 lead in the game against then-#23 Houston. UCLA defeated Houston by a score of 31–13.[12] On November 6, 2010, Forbath kicked a game winning 51-yard field goal in the last second of the game to give the Bruins a 17–14 win over Oregon State, and he was named Pac-10 Conference Special Team Player-of-the-Week.
At the time, he finished his college career with an 84.2 career percentage (second in school history), 85 career field goals (tied for first in school history), 357 career points (second in school history), tied for most career games with at least two field goals (27) in NCAA history and tied for most career games with at least three field goals (13) in NCAA history.
Forbath bounced around the league for a few years until taking over for Blair Walsh in 2016.
On November 16, 2016, the Minnesota Vikings signed Forbath to a one-year, $760,000 contract after releasing incumbent kicker Blair Walsh. In Forbath's first game with the Vikings, in Week 11, he converted one field goal and three extra points against the Arizona Cardinals. On December 11, he kicked a season-high four field goals against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He finished his first season with the Vikings converting all 15 field goal attempts and 11 of 14 extra point attempts.
On October 9, 2017, Forbath kicked two field goals, including the game-winner against the Chicago Bears. In Week 7 of the 2017 season, Forbath converted six field goals, including a 52-yarder, in a 24–16 win over the Ravens, earning him NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. He is one of three Vikings' kickers to kick six field goals in a game; the last time this happened was in 1998 (Gary Anderson). On October 29, Forbath kicked four field goals against the Cleveland Browns. In the 2017 season, Forbath converted 34 of 39 extra point attempts and 32 of 38 field goal attempts. On January 14, 2018, Forbath kicked three field goals against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Divisional Round.
On March 20, 2018, Forbath re-signed with the Vikings. However, the team traded up to draft Auburn kicker Daniel Carlson the next month. On August 20, 2018, Forbath was released by the Vikings after losing the starting job to the rookie Carlson.
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2024.04.20 23:25 Trick-Two497 Some nonfiction that has moved into the Plus catalog

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness By: Andrew Scull
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners By: Margaret A. Burnham
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age By: Betsy Prioleau
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy By: Peter Carlson
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program By: James T. Lacatski DEng, Colm A. Kelleher PhD, George Knapp, various
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints By: Sam Brower, Jon Krakauer
How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization By: Mary Beard
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror By: Thomas Ligotti
Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future By: Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language By: Mark Forsyth
Coming of Age in Mississippi By: Anne Moody
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language By: Mark Forsyth
The Ghost Map By: Steven Johnson
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts By: Ruth Goodman
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology By: Paul Nurse
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts By: Leanna Renee Hieber, Andrea Janes
Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation By: Steve Luxenberg
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath By: Bill Browder
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness By: David Roberts
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present By: Eric R. Kandel
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers By: Mary Roach
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings By: Neil Price
You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type By: Daniel Amen
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself By: David McRaney
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational By: Michael Shermer
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World By: Christopher de Hamel
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order By: Martin Jacques
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America By: Margot Adler
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two By: Joseph Bruchac
A Voyage for Madmen By: Peter Nichols
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe By: Jane Goodall
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good By: Steve Phillips
City of Fortune: How Venice Rule the Seas By: Roger Crowley
Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses By: Alison Weir
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age By: Annalee Newitz
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century By: Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters By: Joan Ryan
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut By: Mike Mullane
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution By: Elsa Panciroli
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny By: Amartya Sen
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain By: Ian Mortimer
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness By: Mark Solms
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep By: Antonio Zadra, Robert Stickgold
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965 By: Jia Lynn Yang
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy By: David Zucchino
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper By: Hallie Rubenhold
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition By: Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos - translator, Donaldo Macedo - foreword, Ira Shor - afterword
Are Prisons Obsolete? By: Angela Y. Davis
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust By: Diana B. Henriques
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller By: Judith Thurman
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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2024.04.19 01:52 nowhereman136 All Guild Awards Nominees and Winners 2024

(NOTE: Only feature film categories are listed. Certain nominations omit teams of nominees and only list the film and/or certain individuals. Winners highlighted)

Producers Guild of America

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

Directors Guild of America

Feature Film
Documentaries
First-Time Feature Film

Screen Actors Guild

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Writers Guild of America

Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Documentary Screenplay

American Society of Cinematographers

Winners Announced March 5
Theatrical Feature Film Nominees
Spotlight Award
Documentary Award

American Cinema Editors

Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy, Theatrical)
Best Edited Documentary (Theatrical)
Best Edited Animated Feature Film (Theatrical or Non-Theatrical)

Visual Effects Society

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project
Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Composition and Lighting in a Feature
Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project
Emerging Technology Award

Motion Pictures Sound Editors

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Animation
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Documentary
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Foreign Language Feature
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Dialogue ADR
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Effects/Foley
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing - Documentary
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing - Feature Motion Picture

Cinema Audio Society

Motion Picture: Live Action
Motion Picture: Animated
Motion Picture: Documentary

Casting Society of America

Feature Animation
Feature Big Budget - Comedy
Feature Big Budget - Drama
Feature Studio or Independent - Comedy
Feature Studio or Independent - Drama
Feature Low Budget - Comedy or Drama
Feature Micro Budget - Comedy or Drama
The Zeitgeist Award

Art Directors Guild

Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film
Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film
Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film
Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film

Guild of Music Supervisors

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted $25 Million And Under
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted $10 Million And Under
Best Music Supervision for a Non-Theatrically Released Film
Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film

Costume Designers Guild

Excellence in Contemporary Film
Excellence in Period Film
Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Excellence in Costume Illustration

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild

Best Contemporary Make-up
Best Period and/or Character Makeup
Best Special Makeup Effects
Best Contemporary Hair Styling
Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling

Society of Composers and Lyricists

Outstanding Original Score For a Studio Film
Outstanding Original Score For an Independent Film
Outstanding Original Song For a Drama or Documentary
Outstanding Original Song For a Comedy or Musical
David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent

Set Decorators Society of America

Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Contemporary Feature Film
Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Period Feature Film
Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film
Best Achievement in DécoDesign of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film
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2024.04.16 15:15 Mystic_Clover A Discussion on "Christian Nationalism"

Tucker Carlson interviewed Doug Wilson yesterday, and to my surprise it actually presents a good backdrop to touch upon how Christian morality should bear upon the governance of society by the state.
I would have liked to post this in the other subreddit, but there was another (strikingly unproductive) thread that was locked by the time it got my attention, so I don't think they'd be very open to me rehashing the topic. Hopefully we can have a friendlier discussion here.
Like is discussed in the video, I have personally noticed an effort to label policy measures based in Christian morality as Christian Nationalism. I've seen this mostly frequently in discussions surrounding transgenderism, but also creeping into discussions on same-sex marriage, abortion, and obscenity.
The general sentiment is that laws which hinge upon religious notions of sanctity/purity are forms of "Christian Nationalism". They only respect secular argumentation in which perceptions of compassion/care supersede everything else. So for example, marriage can't be exclusive because it would harm same-sex couples, transgenderism needs to be accommodated at every level for the care of the person, abortion needs to be permitted for the care of the woman. Any religious argumentation about the importance of sanctity/purity in opposition to that sense of care is flatly rejected.
It's ultimately characteristic of left-wing morality, which weighs perceptions of care to the detriment of sanctity and social order, regardless of the religious component. We can directly attribute this to a number of social issues. (I'm not saying this from a partisan lens; right-wing morality has its own problems in weighing social order to the detriment of care)
The Christian ethic however is one that holds Care, Sanctity, and Authority in high regard. And what I'm arguing here is that sanctity, including from religious angles, is a vital part in the healthy functioning of morality. Christian morality, including sanctity, has an important place in how our laws are determined.
How Doug touches upon similar elements of this in the video aren't that objectionable, and I wouldn't personally consider that Christian Nationalism.
To me what defines Christian nationalism is a conflation of the Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities of the Church and State. And that is where Christian Nationalists, including Doug, fall into error.
As I've stated here before, I believe there's a distinction between the Church and State here, and different ethical standards they are held to. For example, it is the right of the State, perhaps even its responsibility to its people, to follow worldly standards like an eye-for-an-eye. While the Church is held to different standards, like turn-the-other-cheek.
But that doesn't mean there's a complete separation between Christianity, its moral guidance, and how the state governs. As Dirtyduck19254 put it in the other subreddit:
Since when did "the civil magistrate should reward good and punish evil" and "good and evil are objectively derived from the revealed will of God" become taboo and extremist positions?
The State for example, may arguably have a responsibility to outlaw abortion and uphold the sanctity of marriage.
However, there are certain ethical standards that are directed specially at the Church, that aren't meant to be imposed upon society by the state. And this is where Christian Nationalism runs into problems, by trying to impose high standards of purity and compassion that were directed at the Church, onto society through the state.
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