#Donald A McDonough

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The Alien Factor | 1978 — deleted scene Britt McDonough built and animated the Leemoid creature

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favorite screen grabs in iZombie 🙏

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Band of Brothers Ages: IRL vs. Actors

Did you know that according to a 1947 study, almost half the men who served in WWII were still under age 26 by the end of the war?

What this is : A (very long) post comparing the ages of the actors in Band of Brothers vs. the IRL figures they are portraying.

Background: Did I need to do this? No. Did anyone ask for this? Also no. Did I do it anyway? Yes.

Disclaimers: This is SUPER approximate for the most part. I based IRL ages off of D-Day unless otherwise noted, and actor ages off of January 1, 2000, the year filming took place (the latter is where the most variation will be because I didn't try to figure out what month filming started). I also didn't fact-check birthdays beyond googling. Most are sourced from the Band of Brothers and Military Wikis on fandom.com, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

I broke them up into rough categories, which are, again, approximate. I know I often forget how young the real life people were here, and this was a good reminder of that. I also found it interesting to see which actors were actually younger than their roles!

Check it all out under the cut ⬇️

~10+ years older

Dale Dye (55) as Col. Robert F. Sink (39) (~16 years)

Michael Cudlitz (35) as Denver "Bull" Randleman (23) (~12)

Marc Warren (32) as Albert Blithe (20) (~12)

Rocky Marshall (33) as Earl J. McClung (21) (~12)

Frank John Hughes (32) as William J. Guarnere (21) (~11)

Neal McDonough (33) as Lynn D. (Buck) Compton (22) (~11)

Dexter Fletcher (33) as John W. Martin (22) (~11)

~5+ years older

Simon Schatzberger (32) as Joseph A. Lesniewski (23) (~9)

Richard Speight Jr. (30) Warren H. (Skip) Muck (22) (~8)

Jason O'Mara (30) as Thomas Meehan (22) (~8)

Ron Livingston (32) as Lewis Nixon (25) (~7)

Donnie Wahlberg (30) as C. Carwood Lipton (24) (~6)

Matthew Settle (30) as Ronald C. Speirs (24) (~6)

Nolan Hemmings (28) as Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (22) (~6)

Douglas Spain (25) as Antonio C. Garcia (19) (~6)

George Calil (26) as James H. "Mo" Alley Jr. (21) (~5)

Rick Gomez (27) as George Luz (22) (~5 year)

Scott Grimes (28) as Donald G. Malarkey (23) (~5)

Stephen Graham (26) as Myron "Mike" Ranney (21) (~5)

~less than 5 years older

Shane Taylor (25) as Eugene G. Roe (21) (~4)

Tim Matthews (23) as Alex M. Penkala Jr. (19) (~4)

Matthew Leitch (24) as Floyd M. "Tab" Talbert (20) (~4)

Peter O'Meara (30) as Norman S. Dike Jr. (26) (~4)

Tom Hardy (22) as John A. Janovec (18) (~4)

Rick Warden (28) as Harry F. Welsh (25) (~3)

Kirk Acevedo (28) as Joseph D. Toye (25) (~3)

Eion Bailey (25) as David Kenyon Webster (22) (~3)

Craig Heaney (26) as Roy W. Cobb (29) (~3)

Damian Lewis (28) as Richard D. Winters (26) (~2)

Robin Laing as Edward J. "Babe" Heffron (~2, 21/23)

Ben Caplan (26) as Walter S. "Smokey" Gordon Jr. (24) (~2)

David Schwimmer (32) as Herbert M. Sobel (33) (~1 year)

Michael Fassbender (22) as Burton P. "Pat" Christenson (21) (~1)

Colin Hanks (22) as Lt. Henry Jones (21) (~1) (age around Bastogne)

Bart Ruspoli (23) as Edward J. Tipper (22) (~1)

~Same age

Peter Youngblood Hills as Darrell C. "Shifty" Powers (21)

Mark Huberman as Lester "Les" Hashey (19)

Younger

Lucie Jeanne (23) as Renée Lemaire (30) (age around Bastogne) (~7)

Ross McCall (23) as Joseph D. Liebgott (29) (~6)

Simon Pegg (29) as William S. Evans (~33) (~4)

Philip Barantini (19) as Wayne A. "Skinny" Sisk (22) (~3)

James Madio (24) as Frank J. Perconte (27) (~3)

Stephen McCole (25) as Frederick "Moose" Heyliger (27) (~2)

Matt Hickey (~16) as Patrick S. O'Keefe (18) (~2)

Incomplete/not found

Phil McKee as Maj. Robert L. Strayer (34)

Rene L. Moreno as Joseph Ramirez (30)

Doug Allen as Alton M. More (24)

David Nicolle as Lt. Thomas A. Peacock (24)

Rebecca Okot as Anna (Augusta Chiwy) (24) (age around Bastogne)

Alex Sabga-Brady as Francis J. Mellet (23)

Mark Lawrence as William H. Dukeman Jr. (22)

Nicholas Aaron as Robert E. (Popeye) Wynn (22)

Peter McCabe as Donald B. Hoobler (21)

Marcos D'Cruze as Joseph P. Domingus (not found)

[beardedmrbean]

New claims of plagiarism emerged Tuesday against Vice President Kamala Harris — with allegations including that she fabricated a story about sex trafficking and cribbed the work of other prosecutors, a judge and even Wikipedia to draft state reports on crime.

Harris, 60, seems to have invented details of a sex crime case out of whole cloth and taken sentences directly from published work by former California Attorney General Bill Lockyer as well as a New York jurist.

The new allegations were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

In a 2012 report on human trafficking Harris issued while California’s attorney general, she cited a fictional example of the type of call received by the National Human Trafficking Hotline as a bona fide case that had occurred.

The nonprofit in charge of the hotline, Polaris Project, had posted the exact same case details in June of that year as “representative of the types of calls” it received.

With different “names, locations, and other identifying information,” the example was “meant for informational purposes only,” according to an archived webpage reviewed by the Free Beacon.

But Harris copied the example verbatim into the state report, keeping the alias — “Kelly” — of the woman who was being trafficked but shifting the venue from Washington, D.C., to her native San Francisco.

The 2012 report also used a nearly identical paragraph to a Wikipedia entry on California’s Victim Compensation Board.

Another report put out in 2011, on organized crime the previous year, contained passages that were an exact match for portions of Lockyer’s report on the same subject six years earlier.

In 2014, Harris apparently stole from New York Court of Claims and Albany County Superior Court Judge Roger McDonough for a report on transnational gangs.

Recent polling has shown that Harris is seen as far more honest than her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, but the copycat claims — on top of earlier plagiarism allegations — is sure to test that public image.

The Trump campaign dubbed the veep a political “chameleon” in August, shortly after she clinched the Democratic nomination, for flip-flopping on her long-held liberal stances related to crime and immigration while embracing some of the 45th president’s proposed policies.

In April 2007, years before the purloined reports, Harris appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to lobby for passage of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act — a bill that would have helped local and state prosecutors and public defenders repay their law school and undergraduate loans while performing their public service.

More talented lawyers who opted for high pay at white-shoe firms would remain in the public sector if their debt was forgiven, the then-San Francisco DA argued, keeping more expertise in prosecutors and public defenders’ offices and helping to fill gaps in staffing.

Harris’ words in the April 24 hearing were nearly identical to testimony given two months prior by Republican Winnebago County, Ill., prosecutor Paul Logli, the Free Beacon also noted, citing the occurrence of the same statistics, punctuation and even typos in both written statements.

In total, the outlet said, 1,200 of the 1,500 words spoken by Harris (80%) were the same as those uttered by Logli.

Logli told The Post Tuesday that his testimony was prepared and written “largely” by staff from the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), where he was then serving as president.

He said that Harris, who was a member of the association’s board of directors at the time, likely “also relied on NDAA staff support for her opening statement.”

“The similar content of our statements was an effort by NDAA to be entirely consistent in the positions we presented to both Houses of Congress on behalf of the 3,500 state and local prosecutors we represented on  a national level,” Logli said in an emailed statement. “Like me, I believe Ms. Harris simply relied on NDAA staff for much of the content of her opening statement before Congress.”

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo revealed last week that portions of Harris’ 2009 pro-criminal justice reform book, “Smart on Crime,” had used identical wording to academic studies, press reports and even a Wikipedia entry — all of which predated the publication’s release.

Harris’ ghostwriter seemed unaware of the apparently plagiarized passages when contacted by The Post — but her publisher later signaled internally that the accusations were “a very sensitive topic” that was being handled by higher-ups.

“It was not the ghostwriter’s fault but, rather, this is a pattern,” Joshua Lisec, a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, told The Post in a phone interview last week, saying he believed that Harris had probably “copied and pasted” other people’s work and sent it off to her ghostwriter without attribution.

“I don’t have inside access to their particular working relationship, but from the outside, my lens of the ghostwriting career and the profession, knowing how this goes, the ghostwriter probably had no idea that likely Kamala copied and pasted from somewhere on the internet or maybe her assistant did,” he said.

“She’s in trouble with everybody that she has effectively stolen [or] stolen from, or whoever did it, but she’s liable because her name is is on it,” Lisec said of Harris’ pilfering.

Harris’ ghostwriter, Joan O’C. Hamilton, he added, was “legitimate, experienced, successful as a ghostwriter and not the sort of person that you would expect engages with extremely low standards.”

South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem was widely viewed as a potential running mate pick for Trump before her own errors about a “meeting” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un crept past a ghostwriter into her political memoir “No Going Back,” which was published in May.

The Harris campaign and Hamilton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

[redpool]

There are a lot of hbo war actors that I recognise in Justified.

Jacob Pitts who plays Tim Gutterson played Bill 'Hoosier' Smith in The Pacific.

Rick Gomez who plays David Vasquez played George Luz in Band of Brothers.

Richard Speight Jr who plays Jed Berwind played William 'Skip' Muck in Band of Brothers.

Frank John Hughes who plays Terry Powe played William 'Bill' Guarnere in Band of Brothers.

Neal McDonough who plays Robert Quarles played Lynn D. Buck Compton in Band of Brothers.

Scott Grimes who plays Seabass played Donald Malarkey in Band of Brothers.

Joe Mazzello who plays Billy St. Cyr played Eugene Sledge in The Pacific.

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Donald Wayne "Uncle Duck" Jenkins Obituary - McDonough, GA

Dignity Memorial

[dankusner]

Sources: Vance, Walz records breached

Probe into access by VA staff members underway

WASHINGTON − More than a dozen Veterans Health Administration employees accessed the medical records of vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz in violation of federal health privacy laws, two sources told USA TODAY on condition of anonymity because of a criminal probe into the breaches.

Justice Department investigators have not yet determined if the records were shared or why the employees accessed them.

Most of the VA staffers who opened the files used work computers in government offices.

Among those who accessed the records, at least one was a physician and another was a VA contractor who looked through the records for extended periods, according to a VA source who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Some of the employees told investigators they were just curious about the records of Walz and Vance since the two men are under scrutiny during the presidential campaign, according to an official briefed on the investigation.

In some cases, veterans’ service records are accessible through VA medical records, the source said.

VA spokesperson Terrence Hayes strongly condemned the breaches and said the department reported them to law enforcement.

“We take the privacy of the Veterans we serve very seriously and have strict policies in place to protect their records,” Hayes said. “Any attempt to improperly access Veteran records by VA personnel is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”

Spokespersons for Walz, the Democratic nominee who is governor of Minnesota, and Vance, the Republican nominee who is a senator from Ohio, didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment.

The VA notified the Vance and Walz campaigns about the breaches, and VA Secretary Denis McDonough sent a message to employees after the breaches were discovered in August reminding them of privacy laws.

“This message is a reminder that: Veteran information should only be accessed when necessary to accomplish officially authorized and assigned duties,” McDonough says, according to the memo obtained by USA TODAY. “Viewing a veteran’s records out of curiosity or concern – or for any purpose that is not directly related to officially authorized and assigned duties – is strictly prohibited.”

The VA inspector general, an independent watchdog, briefed federal prosecutors. The inspector general is investigating along with the Justice Department, a VA source said.

The VA has access to sensitive information on Vance and Walz because they served in the military before running for elected office. Vance enlisted in the military directly out of high school.

He joined the Marines in 2003 and served as a combat correspondent – or military journalist – until 2007, according to military news site Task & Purpose.

Walz served in the military for 24 years.

He enlisted in the Nebraska National Guard at 17 in 1981 and transferred in 1996 to the Minnesota National Guard, where he served as command sergeant major, among the highest ranks for enlisted soldiers.

He retired in 2005 to run for the U.S. House.

His battalion deployed to Iraq shortly after Walz’s retirement.

Sensitive information presidential candidates keep under digital lock and key has often been sought after by people seeking to have an impact on the race.

Justice Department investigators secured an indictment against three Iranian men suspected of hacking into former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to influence the election just days before the breaches at the VA were made public.

A 37-page indictment released Friday doesn’t name Trump, but the document makes clear the charges relate to an attempt to steal information from his campaign to leak to journalists and the presidential campaign of Joe Biden, before Biden chose to step aside in the election.

The men, Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar Balaghi, are employed by the Iranian government’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military branch, according to the indictment.

The U.S. government has not apprehended the trio, whose last known residence was in Tehran.

Foreign governments aren’t the only ones interested in Trump. A former Internal Revenue Service contractor, Charles Littlejohn, took the federal job for the express purpose of leaking tax information about Trump and other wealthy individuals to news organizations, according to Justice Department prosecutors. In October, Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to unauthorized disclosure of tax return and return information and was sentenced to five years in prison in January.

Littlejohn, who turned over the data to the New York Times and investigative news site ProPublica, said he acted out a “sincere, if misguided, belief” that he was acting in the public’s interest after Trump refused to release his tax returns even after being elected president, despite a 50-year tradition of disclosure, according to defense attorney Lisa Manning’s filing.

And Littlejohn isn’t the only IRS employee to unlawfully access agency data. The IRS substantiated more than 450 instances of willful, unauthorized access of taxpayer information by employees between fiscal years 2012 and 2021, according to a Government Accountability Office report released in 2022.

The unlawful access to the candidates’ files is the latest controversy for the VA, which has come under fire for privacy breaches over the past decade.

Over 46,000 veterans had their private data breached in 2020, according to the department’s Office of Management. Unauthorized users accessed a VA Financial Services Center online application to steal payments meant for community health care providers for treating veterans.

The department warned that the unauthorized users also gained access to sensitive data including Social Security numbers and financial information.

VA employees and contractors were found responsible for over 14,000 health care privacy violations at 167 facilities between 2010 and 2013, according to Healthcare Compliance Pros, a medical systems consulting company

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The Alien Factor | 1978 — deleted scene Britt McDonough built and animated the Leemoid creature

[princessgracekelly1956]

ABOVE: Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco are offered a 4½ pound rainbow trout by Roy Hodges, of Hamilton, N.Y., at Philadelphia Travel and Vacation Show. Princess had hooked a fish in pool at the show, but it got away.

Princess Opens Travel Show 

Throngs Hail Grace, Rainier 

By DONALD A. McDONOUGH and LEONARD J. McADAMS 

The Philadelphia Inquirer - April 20 1963.

The royal couple of Monaco Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary here Friday with a day on the town and they enjoyed it as much as any couple that manages to get out of the house for a few hours without the children. 

They received the cheers of thousands in a motorcade from City Hall to Convention Hall to formally open the Philadelphia Travel and Vacation Show.

Mayor James H. J. Tate gave them a print of Old Philadelphia, little girls gave Princess Grace flowers, and the entourage even did a little fishing in a pool in the basement of the hall. 

Princess Grace hooked a big trout and lifted it halfway out of the pool when the fish - probably nearsighted - jumped off the hook.

But this was hardly the highlight of the day for the stately and gracious blonde from East Falls who became a princess. It came probably when the Prince publicly apologized in the Mayor's Reception Room for depriving Philadelphia "of your loveliest citizen. 

Crowds had formed early at the northeast corner of City Hall awaiting the arrival of the royal couple for the city's official welcoming ceremonies. 

By 10:30 A. M. some 1000 unofficial greeters were on hand. They cheered and clapped as Princess Grace stepped from the car accompanied by Prince Rainier, her mother, Mrs. John B. Kelly, Sr., and her brother, John B. Jr. The children, Prince Albert, 5, and Princess Caroline, 6, had been left at home. 

City Representative Fredric R. Mann took the party in tow and led it via elevator to the second floor where an honor guard of police lined the hallway to the Mayor's office. 

Princess Grace wore a two-piece red wool suit, designed by Philippe Venet, a flowered blouse, navy pumps and handbag and a blue hat. For jewelry there were a gold pin and gold earrings. As counterfoil, Prince Rainier wore a dark pin-striped suit with a white handkerchief in the breast pocket. 

Mrs Kelly was clad in beige  with brown bag and shoes and a tigerskin hat. Mrs. Tate, who with her husband, Mayor Tate, greeted the party first in the Mayor's office, completed the fashion ensemble with a blue suit, yellow scarf and hat. 

From the office, Mayor Tate and Princess Grace led a procession to the front of the Mayor's Reception Room. The party sat at the right of the speaker's stand flanked by flags of the United States and Monaco. Some 200 persons were in the room, including members of Philadelphia’s consular corps, judges, councilmen and city officials.

TATE EXTENDS WELCOME 

Mayor Tate in his official greeting made note of the wedding anniversary and extended a welcome to Prince Rainier and his wife, "a native daughter." 

In response, the Prince said "A little more than seven years ago I came here for the first time to your city. It was not as an official guest and it was not to attend any official function. For me it was much more important than that. I had decided to deprive you of your loveliest citizen. 

"Having now been forgiven I hope, Mr. Mayor, we are proud and pleased for the warm and wonderful welcome we have received. In these moments the memory of a great Philadelphian, John B. Kelly, remains with us and he would be proud that his son, John, is following in his tradition.”

HEADS TRAVEL SHOW 

John B. Kelly, Jr.. is head of the Philadelphia Travel and Vacation Show which will run through Sunday, April 28. 

The "warm and wonderful welcome" continued as crowds lined a 12-car motorcade route down Broad St. to Walnut to 34th to Convention Hall. They clapped, they waved, they cheered and whistled. 

At Convention Hall, Princess Grace, on the arm of Mayor Tate, made her way through a throng of some 300 persons on the steps to cut the blue ribbon formally opening the show. 

CRUSH TAXES POLICE 

Then the crowd surged around the royal couple and with flashbulbs popping and police attempting to open a way through the crush for a time it looked like a movie mob scene at an ancient Roman temple. 

Ten minutes later they entered Convention Hall but still found difficulty in moving with throngs jammed in the five aisles along which the exhibition booths were lined. 

The Princess was given a bouquet by Marcia Freedland, 6, of Philadelphia. Preceded. followed and flanked by photographers they made their way slowly along the booths, accepting samples here and there. 

SALAMI FAUX PAS 

One booth attendant handed them slices of salami. Some of the party started munching when Jack Kelly exclaimed: 'Oh, gosh, today's Friday. I forgot." 

"It didn't count." Mayor Tate said. "They didn't think about it." The royal couple are Roman Catholics and a Church law forbids eating of meat on Fridays.

Several times spontaneous bursts of applause came from the crowds in the gallery. 

Princess Grace remarked to her husband: "This is where they play professional basket ball." 

POINT TO MURAL 

At the Monaco exhibit, the royal couple pointed out points of interest on a large mural to Mayor and Mrs. Tate. Princess Grace said the mural had been made especially for the show. 

"You are a very pretty girl," the Princess told Evelyn McCombs, 7, of York, Pa., who presented her with another bouquet. 

At the fish pool downstairs the party tried its hand with hook and rod. The Princess and other women in the throng screamed when she hooked a trout, then screamed again when it threw the hook and flopped back into the pool. 

"Do you give up, Gracie?" asked her brother, Jack. 

"Yes, Jack, I give up," she replied.

The party then left for a 12:45 P.M. luncheon for the immediate family in the rare-book room of the University of Pennsylvania. University president Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell and Mrs. Harnwell were hosts.

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BAND OF BROTHERS - 20 YEARS ANNIVERSARY

free choice: Letterboxd reviews

[will-pilled]

Vampire Steve from iZombie headcannons because I have to do God's work.

I have to do EVERYTHING around here.

(Includes my iZombie OC, Katrin. They are together. Her headcannons will be here soon if you're interested.)

Keep reading

(All SFW except one, and there is a warning)

He likes to snuggle. Always touchy.

Loves attention, but doesn't go out of his way to get it.

Him and Katrin like to fuck with Ravi.

Addicted to social media.

Tumblr boy.

Went "Emo" for Zoe, yeah, but actually ended up liking the style and kept it.

Atheist.

Demiboy He/Them/It.

Pansexual.

He has major environment anxiety and it keeps him up at night, even though he doesn't go outside much.

(NSFW) Bottom energy.

Fears: Being alone, Mild fear of spiders (but won't hurt them), People not loving him back, Death (but he's also fascinated by it).

Reverse troll, basically goes around spreading anti-bigot stuff online (and IRL if warrented).

His favorite food and drink are Oreos and Apple juice, but he'll say it's wine and steak.

Has a major (Lillywhite) sweet tooth but will deny it because it doesn't think that fits his aesthetic.

Obviously smart AF.

Has an adorable laugh.

Runs so many meme pages it's not even funny.

Always complains about Twitter, Tik Tok, and Reddit but still uses them anyways.

Can talk politics for HOURS.

Will argue about his fictional crushes.

"Loki IS hot and IS NOT evil, you dolt!!! HE is an ANTIHERO with a TRAGIC PAST!!!!!!!!!!"

Simple things like "I like your shirt" will make his whole month.

Knows the whole Pi song and various internet rants by heart.

Little spoon.

Has ADHD.

A little sensitive, and will get worked up if you offend him.

Poor dude is insecure of his body.

Along the lines of him wanting people to like him, he doesn't want people to see him cry.

Nerdytm

He's 43

As you know from the show he is a great singer, but i think he did choir and band as a kid. (Steve-a-dore really DOES have sweet pipes.)

Scince he's a zombie and has a hard time tasting things, he puts ungodly amounts of sugar on everything.

Plays FORTNITE

I didn't know what to name him besides Steven so i took the name of the guy ho plays him and switched it around. "Steven Turton Kett" because we don't know his actual full name.

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Be My Sleepy Valentine ♡

Valentines Day special! Enjoy, my lovlies!

Donald Eberhard

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Zombie Life ♡

(Request) Y/n is a new zombie and Don E’s girlfriend. She has a small problem with letting people into her life but a soft moment shows Don E that he’s making progress.

Olivia Moore

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Vampire Steve

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Major Lilywhite

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Peyton Charles

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Enzo Lambert

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Chase Graves

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Lowell Tracy

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[sweet-jolly-fucken-ranchers]

you know what? the scene from izombie where ravi and blaine are standing glaring at eachother in the morgue?? and then the cure's "Friday I'm in Love" starts playing as they fight for the serum?? iconic

[bettsfic]

You described on Fansplaining how in the beginning you wrote stories each focused on one aspect of writing as practice. Can you say more about that? Was it systematic? Do you now have a recommended set of prompts/exercises for your students? I'd love to steal your method, if you don't mind. Loved the interview & that it brought me here!

sorry to take so long to reply! honestly i was too lazy to log into my teaching gdrive account and look at the structure of my class.

so when i went about trying to teach myself how to write, i only had a basic understanding of the elements of craft. i knew stories were made up of conflicts and characters. i knew about voice, person, tense, tone, setting, imagery, and things like that. so it was systematic in that i was only trying one thing at a time with the fics i was writing, but it was also a meandering path of trial and error. mostly error. 

i set up my intro cw class very similarly to how i learned. each week is a craft lesson where i give a few readings, we have a discussion, and then i provide a writing prompt. the prompt for the big class assignment is “write your biggest risk” which students work on throughout the semester. i introduce it the first day and everything we do builds to the end game of writing the thing they are most afraid to write.

i can’t go over my entire class because most of my lesson plans involve group activities, but i can offer a few of my lesson plans with the readings and corresponding prompts. i can’t link to the readings but most of them are very googleable. 

beliefs & techniques

this lesson is about beginning to reflect on your personal aesthetic, things that are important to you in creativity and art

readings

“beliefs & technique for modern prose” by jack kerouac

“shitty first drafts” by anne lamott

“the heart-work” by melissa febos

“on fear” by mary ruefle

prompt: What are your current beliefs about writing and being a writer? Your answer might take the shape of a numbered or bullet point list a la Kerouac, or any other spin you’d like to take on it. 

narrators

here we discuss the way voice, tense, and person shape a story

readings

“debbieland” by aimee bender

“how to become a writer” by lorrie moore

“girl” by jamaica kincaid

prompts

fiction/cnf: Write your own “how to become a _____.” This could be your version of “how to become a(n undergraduate) writer” or maybe “how to be an accounting major” or “how to get a restraining order from Ed Sheeran.”

cnf/poetry: Write your own lyric essay in the style of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl.” Consider: in what ways have you been silenced? How have you been taught to perform against your instincts?

fiction: Write a story in first person plural, a la “Debbieland.”The key to this prompt is to utilize the first plural in a way that affects/develops theme. Consider: what reasons might we be compelled to think in unity?

urgency, stakes, & conflict

in this lesson we look at the way conflict is developed, how stakes are defined, and how urgency is managed

readings

“some of us had been threatening our friend colby” by donald barthleme

“accident, mass ave” by jill mcdonough

“the fourth state of matter” by joanne beard

prompts

CNF: Work on the beginning of a braided essay. Pick three stakes to explore. Start the essay by writing one paragraph about each, and go from there.

Fiction/CNF: Like the shooting in Beard’s piece, write a story about a (metaphorical) ticking time bomb. 

Fiction/Poetry: Like Barthelme’s piece, write a story or poem where the stakes are distorted.

i also have an activity involving the game apples to apples so if you have it you can try this other prompt

Pick three red and one green Apples to Apples cards. Write a narrative or poem in which each red card represents a stake, character, or conflict in the story. The green card is your tone.

form & fairy tale

in this lesson we use fairy tale to consider the notion of form, and what it means to work within a given form or break it, and why. in discussion, we use bernheimer’s 4 elements of a fairy tale to dissect the other readings.

readings

“form is fairy tale; fairy tale is form” by kate bernheimer

“tiger palace” by kirsty logan

“the husband stitch” by carmen maria machado

prompt

i have about a dozen other lesson plans but they are all far more complicated and interactive, but hopefully you can get a few ideas from this! 

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Biden stacking hi-level positions in admin with Muslims & terrorist-apologists (updated)

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If you have more to add to the list please leave a comment here or on our Gab post. Maher Bitar - Sr. Director for Intelligence on the NSC

'Palestinian' Muslim deeply involved in Trump’s first impeachment

As Rep. Adam Schiff’s top legal adviser, he was deeply involved in the first impeachment of then-US President Donald Trump.

Maher Bitar, one of the executive board members of Students for Justice in Palestine, was one of the principal organizers of the 2006 conference which was being hosted by Georgetown University’s SJP hate group.

Reema Dodin - Deputy Director of White House Office of Legislative Affairs

'Palestinian' Muslim who justified suicide bombings

During the Second Intifada, in 2002, Dodin spoke about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with residents of Lodi, California, saying that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people,” according to the Lodi News-Sentinel.

...as one of two deputy directors of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, she will be in a position to keep track of proposed or impending or about-to-be-voted on legislation about Israel, Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the whole Middle Eastern works. She will know which Congressmen are “on our [Palestinian] side,” who can be persuaded to move toward the Palestinian position, who supports Israel and cannot be moved; she’s in the perfect place to inform or warn her allies in the pro-Palestinian camp of what’s to come, and how best to promote or stop it.

Sameera Fazili - Deputy Director at the US National Economic Council ('Kashmiri' Muslim) Source 1 + Bio

Update 1:

via: Biden’s Terror-Tied Appointee Sameera Fazili is a Threat to U.S.

via: Top Biden Economic Policy [Fazili] Adviser Linked to Kashmiri Extremists

Currently, Fazili is listed as Committee Chair of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network's (IMAN) Atlanta office, and she was previously listed as a director of IMAN's Chicago branch. Notably, two of IMAN's top 20 donors include the Barzinji Family Foundation and Mirza Family Foundation. These two organizations, in particular, are apparent successors to individuals and organizations associated with the SAAR Network, a web of businesses and charities accused of harboring numerous financial connections to entities involved with Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Aisha Shah - partnership Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy ('Kashmiri' Muslim) Source

Uzra Zeya - Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights (Zeya was a key Obama advisor during Arab Sprint/Muslim Brotherhood uprising) + Source

More on Zeya:

Biden Pick for Human Rights Undersecretary Worked for Group That Claimed Jews Were Behind 9/11

Sean Durns, a research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, called the Washington Report a "fringe organization" that has "published content with anti-Semitic themes," including claims that the Mossad was behind the JFK assassination and the Sept. 11 attacks...

And on Zeya’s previous work:

"Ms. Zeya, a Muslim, will seek out Islamic groups seeking to work effectively within the American political system, and non-Muslim groups looking for authoritative speakers on Islam," reported the outlet. She published several book reviews in the Washington Report and was listed as "program coordinator for the American Educational Trust specializing in Islamic affairs" in March 1990.

Ali Zaidi - Deputy National Climate Advisor (Pakistani) Source 1 + Source 2

Zayn Siddique - White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Bangladeshi) Source

Paul Abbate - Deputy Director of the FBI

9/11 mosque visiting, terror-imam praising FBI flack

…[as] the FBI’s #3 man, Associate Deputy Director Paul Abate, participated in a “love-fest” of sorts with Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood jihad Imam Johari Abdul-Malik at Hamas’ Dar al Hijra Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia.  See the UTT video HERE.

Denis McDonough - Secretary of Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Islamic terror supporter

McDonough has a long history of openly supporting terrorists/jihadis while in public office.  

The counter-terrorism policies and strategies created under his watch as Deputy National Security Advisor and Chief of Staff under President Obama demonstrate his overt support for individuals and entities who openly call for the overthrow of the U.S. government and the destruction of liberty and innocent life.

McDonough’s seditious and unlawful actions are unprecedented in their brazenness and blatant violation of his oath and the law.

For instance, as the Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, McDonough went to the Muslim Brotherhood’s mosque, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Sterling, Virginia with senior U.S. leaders including FBI, DHS, NSC, etc to PRAISE its Imam.

The ADAMS Center Imam is Mohamed Magid, a Muslim Brotherhood leader.

See the video of McDonough’s speech at ADAMS HERE.  (By the way, Denis McDonough lied when he said Thomas Jefferson held “the first Iftar dinner at the White House”)

McDonough with imam from terror-linked, Muslim Brotherhood mosque

Robert Malley - special envoy for Iran (Hamas supporter & Obama's Iran deal negotiator & failed ISIS czar)

... in 2008, when he was an informal foreign policy adviser for Obama's presidential campaign. He was forced to sever ties with the campaign when news outlets reported he had met with members of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that the State Department classifies as a terrorist organization.

President Bill Clinton, left, meets with, from left to right, Palestinian negotiator Nabi Abu Rudineh, Rob Malley and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat on July 17, 2000 at the Middle East peace summit at Camp David in Maryland.

Neera Tanden - Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Clinton and Obama retread

Head of anti-American, Bloomberg-funded, pro-Sharia law think tank Center for American Progress that created an “Islamophobia” hit list and targeted those who warn about the dangers of sharia in the U.S. 

Update: Tanden has withdrawn

Hady Amr - Deputy Asst Secretary of State for Israel-Palestine

Biden’s New Asst Sec of State Worked for Islamic Terror State That Funds Hamas

One year after 9/11 Amr stated “I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada” & called for engagement with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood

... Over the past few years, Amr has repeatedly urged negotiations with Hamas. When the Trump administration unveiled its proposed peace deal, Amr co-wrote an article declaring that it should be scrapped in favor of focusing on a deal with Hamas. The article provides some insight into the policies that Amr may advance as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel-Palestine.

Matt Duss - State Dept

Associate of Linda Sarsour & Islamophobia conspiracist at left-wing think-tank Center for American Progress

Update 2:

Ilhan Omar - vice chairwoman Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations

The anti-American, 9/11 victim-mocking, brother-marrying, fraud-committing, ISIS terrorist-supporting Muslim said she is excited to:

“play a leadership role in overseeing our international aid and foreign policy on the continent."  Source

In other words, Americans can expect more taxation for Islamization...at least it will be outside the U.S.

Update 3:

Ramin Taheri, Chief of Staff, Office for Civil Rights - Source

Tariq Habash, Special Assistant, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development - Source

  Vanessa  Harmoush, Special Assistant, Office of Communications and Outreach - Source

She started her professional career as a journalist at the Washington, D.C., bureau for Al Jazeera America, where she worked primarily as a feature reporter.

For Harmoush, Al Jazeera America’s Qatar-based sister news organization, Al Jazeera, was always on when she was growing up in Lebanon. After her time at the D.C. bureau, she took an internship with then-Senator Mark Udall.

Today, she works as the communications director at Rocky Mountain Values, a progressive advocacy organization.

Al Jazeera is Qatar-funded jihadi propaganda outlet.

Many more far-left appointees at the source links above and via multiple U.S. Department of Education Announcements https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases.

Just the beginning & the Muslim Brotherhood, HAMAS, Hizbollah, ISIS, al-Qaeda, CAIR, MAS, MPAC, MSA, Emgage, et al know that America will one day be theirs