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Who Is Left on the 2024 Season of American Idol?

'American Idol' is down to its top seven contestants, and Katy Perry got to choose who was eliminated from the latest episode.Source: ABCEvery season of American Idol comes with its fair share of shockers and brutal eliminations, which is part of what makes the series so endlessly watchable. In 2024, Season 22 is down to the final seven contestants, which has left many wondering who remains in the competition and who has been eliminated. Article continues below advertisementArticle continues below advertisementFans of course love to root for their favorites, but they also want to be outraged when the wrong person is sent home or when someone stays longer than they probably should. Here's who is left on the show as we head into the top seven. Source: ABCArticle continues below advertisement

Who is left on 'American Idol' in 2024?

Headed into the top eight, this year's contestants were asked to compete in the Judges' Song Contest when all three judges picked a song for each contestant to perform. Katy Perry won that little side competition, as more contestants picked her song suggestion than anyone else's. That victory gave Katy the power to save one of the two final contestants from elimination at the end of the night, which came in handy. At the end of the night, six contestants were voted into the next round and two were at risk of going home. Kaibrienne and McKenna Faith Breinholt were at the bottom, and Katy ultimately chose to save McKenna, who performed "Everywhere I Go" by Lissie during the episode. That meant that it was the end of the road for Kaibrienne, while McKenna is one of just seven remaining contestants on the show. Article continues below advertisementHere's the full list of who is left in the competition: - Will Moseley, 23, from Hazlehurst, Ga. - Jack Blocker, 25, from Dallas, Texas - Abi Carter, 21, from Indio, Calif. - Julia Gagnon, 21, from Cumberland, Maine - Triston Harper, 15, from McIntosh, Ala. - Emmy Russell, 25, from Nashville, Tenn. - McKenna Faith Breinholt, 25, from Gilbert, Ariz.Article continues below advertisement

'American Idol' has faced some controversy this season over who gets eliminated.

Although part of the point of American Idol is that people get mad about who gets eliminated, there has been a particularly acute controversy this season. Many of the contestants of color were sent home during the earlier rounds, leaving behind a slate of contestants that is tilted toward white people. Of course, there's only so much that the show itself can do to control this state of affairs, in large part because it leaves who gets sent home up to viewers at home. Still, some people think that the show needs more mechanisms like Katy's save which give the judges more say as to who gets sent home, in part because it's becoming harder to trust viewers at home to vote. Now that we're down to just seven remaining contestants, it's hard to say who could emerge victorious. Abi has been one of the frontrunners since early in the season, and her performance this week definitely suggested that she isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Whether she ultimately wins or is supplanted by someone else, only time will tell. Source link Read the full article

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WQBY

Top 100 for the week ending February 26,2023

Back To You---Lost Frequencies, Elley Duhe, X Ambassadors

Lovesick----Alan Walker, Sophie Simmons

Unholy---Sam Smith, Kim Petras

***Heaven---Niall Horan

Reborn----SIDEPIECE, *Kyle Walker remix

Dancing's Done---Ave Max

Money On The Dash---Elley Duhe, Whetham

Red Lights----Lane 8, Emmit Fenn, *EMBRZ remix

Never Gonna Not Dance Again----Pink, *Sam Feldt remix

Lay Low----Tiesto

When I Talk---Kx5 f/ Elderbrook

You Know What I Need---PNAU, Troye Sivan

Sparks----MEDUZA, DEL-30, Mali-Koa

I Can't Wait----Tiesto, Solardo, Poppy Baskcomb

Lennon---ESSEL

Flowers---Miley Cyrus

I'm Good (Blue)----David Guetta, Bebe Rexha

10:35---Tiesto, Tate McRae

Freeze---Kygo

Out Of My Mind----Little Image

Left & Right---Ownboss, FAST BOY

Afterparty---Loud Luxury, Hook N Sling

Shut Up----Alan Walker, UPSAHL

Drifting Away---Audien, Joe Jury

Save Some Room---Shallou

I'm Not Dead Yet----Mike Posner

Rely On Me---Sigala, Gabry Pointe, Alex Gaudino

No Love For You---Regard, Drop G

Gimme That Bounce---Mau P

Forget You----FAST BOY, Topic

New Gold--Gorillaz, Tame Impala, Bootie Brown, *Dom Dolla remix

Solitude----Snakechips, BIA, Lucky Daye

Good Life---Hayden James, Emie

Tra Tra----HUGEL, BLOND:ISH, Nfasis

What A Life---John Summit, Guz, Stevie Appleton

Serotonin Moonbeams---The Blessed Madonna

How Many Tears---Kygo, Sam Felt f/ Emily Warren

High----Neil Francis, Paw Paw Rod

Show Me----John Summit, Hannah Boleyn

Wings ( I Won't Let You Down)----Armen Van Helden, Karen Harding

It's Quiet Now---Honey Dijon, Dope Earth Alien

Different Kind Of Lonely---Camp Kubrick, Don Diablo

Creppin'----Metro Blooomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage

Bel Mercy---Jengi

Sete---BLOND:ISH, Francis Mercier, Amadou & Mariam

Anything But Wet---I. O. Lights

Chasing Shadows---Alex Warren

Koo Koo Fun----Major Lazer, Major League Djz, Tiwa Savage, DJ Maphorisa, Diplo

Blood Upon The Snow---Hozier, Bear McCreary

Heartbeat----James Arthur

Feel Alive---TELYKAST, Sky Blu

Body Breathe---LP Giobbi, Monogem

Infinity----Dubdogs, Bhaskar

***Sing Your Lullaby---R3HAB, Mike Willams

Kill Me---Alok

Pouring Rain---Guz, Camden Cox

Need Me Right---Anabel Englund

Where Do We Go From Here---Garth Emery

Be Right There---Diplo, Sleepy Tom, *HUGEL remix

Chasing Cars---Sofi Tukker

Anyway----CASH CASH W/ Ruth Anne

Pearls---Jessie Ware

Stay Above---Lukas Graham

Nervous----Joan

Whistle----Jax Jones, Calum Scott

The One----INJI

Pegasus----MEDUZA, Eli & Fur

If I Live Forever---Vintage Culture, Izzy Bizu

Something's Coming----Cheat Codes, Lady A

How To Drive---Alexander 23

Heartbreak Feels So Good----Fall Out Boy

Nervous System---JOSEPH

Ghost Again---Depeche Mode

Here----Tom Grennan

Sleepwalking----Matt Sassari, Goodboys

Hurt That You Gave Me---Cheat Codes, Brett Young

Shockwave---R3HAB, Afrojack

Just The Kinda Feeling---Yotto, Lost Boy

Borderline---Tove Lo

Firewalk---Margan Page, Lissie

Can't Tame Her---Zara Larson

If We Ever Broke Up---Mae Stephens -96

High Heels - Party Down Under---Flo Rida, Walker Hayes, Sam Feldt

Tornado---Hi-Lo, Oliver Heldens

Don't Make Me Have To Come Down There---Dolly Parton

Gimme Back My Soul---Medium Build

Running Up That Hill---Betty Who

Merchants---Sans Soucis

Who We Love---Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran

Break Up With That Guy---Virginia To Vegas

You Only Love Me---Rita Ora

Can I Get It Back---Jordana Bryant,*R3HAB remix

***Heart Want's What It Wants----Bebe Rexha

On My Mind---EDX

Loop---Martin Garrix, Dallas K, Sasha Alex Sloan

Drugs From Amsterdam---Mau P

Weekend On A Tuesday---R3HAB, Laidback Luke

Makin Time---Sultin + Shephard

Can't Change For You----Bankrol Hayden, Charlieonnafriday, Arden Jones

All Falls Down---Alonestar, Jethro Sheeran, Ed Sheeran

Gone are;

What's It Gonna Take---Cheat Codes, Michael Tenpenny Hooked (Hot Stuff)----RIKA, Galantis I'll Be Around----Elderbrook, Amtrac Let Em Go----Matt Hansen

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Feltrinelli, gli appuntamenti della settimana di tutti gli store di Milano

Feltrinelli, gli appuntamenti della settimana di tutti gli store di Milano.    Lunedì 30 gennaio  Ore 18:30 laFeltrinelli p.zza Piemonte: NICCOLÒ AMMANITI Maria Cristina Palma ha una vita all’apparenza perfetta ma un giorno riceve un video sul telefonino che cambia tutto. In La vita intima (Einaudi) Niccolò Ammaniti esplora paure, ossessioni e desideri inconfessabili della mente femminile. Insieme all'autore intervengono Marco Missiroli e Giulia Ichino. Letture di Lorenza Indovina.   Martedì 31 gennaio ore 18:00 laFeltrinelli p.zza Duomo: ASSALTO ALLA LOMBARDIA Assalto alla Lombardia (Laterza) di Michele Sasso è un duro e documentato atto di accusa alla classe politica che dal 1995 a oggi ha guidato la locomotiva d’Italia. Intervengono Pierfrancesco Majorino e Pietro Bussolati.   ore 18:30 laFeltrinelli p.zza Piemonte: GIAN ANDREA CERONE In Il trattamento del silenzio (Guanda) Gian Andrea Cerone fa tornare in azione il commissario Mandelli e l’ispettore Casalegno. Milano è buia, fradicia e pericolosa. Con l’autore intervengono Giorgio Fontana e Pietro Galeotti.   Mercoledì 1 febbraio  ore 18:30 laFeltrinelli p.zza Duomo: PIETRO CITATI La ragazza dagli occhi d’oro (Adelphi) è una raccolta di scritti che Pietro Citati ha curato minuziosamente fino alla sua scomparsa. È la letteratura il fulcro di questi scritti, che avvolge e contagia, che non può lasciare impassibili. Intervengono Andrea Cane e Gian Arturo Ferrari con la partecipazione di Giovanni Mariotti, modera Roberto Barbolini. ore 18:30 laFeltrinelli Portello Il Circolino del Portello si incontra per parlare di Città sola (Il Saggiatore) di Olivia Laing. Giovedì 2 febbraio ore 19:00 @Ostello Bello Grande via Lepetit 33: L'ULTIMA FORESTA DI MAURO GAROFALO In L’Ultima foresta (Aboca) una famiglia alle prese con l’attualità dei mutamenti climatici e la post-apocalisse. Le vicende umane di flussi migratori che fatichiamo ancora a immaginare. Con l’autore interviene Bruno Arpaia. Letture di Baby Campi Falcone. Per prenotare il tuo posto a sedere vai su biglietti-mauro-garofalo-presenta-lultima-foresta   Venerdì 3 febbraio  ore 18:30 laFeltrinelli p.zza Duomo: CLARISSA BEVILACQUA  La talentuosa violinista italoamericana, vincitrice dell'International Mozart Salzburg 2020, presenta Dream Catcher. ll nuovo album è una raccolta dedicata alla compositrice Augusta Read Thomas. Interviene Grazia Lissi.   Sabato 4 febbraio ore 17:30 laFeltrinelli p.zza Piemonte: ROSELLA POSTORINO CON MASSIMO RECALCATI E ALESSANDRA TEDESCO Nada e Omar sono due bambini che, nel luglio del 1992 a Sarajevo, un pullman porta via contro la loro volontà per allontanarli dalla guerra. In Mi limitavo ad amare te (Feltrinelli Editore) Rosella Postorino indaga sulle questioni private e sulle azioni degli esseri umani nel mezzo dei rivolgimenti storici più scioccanti. Insieme all’autrice intervengono Massimo Recalcati e Alessandra Tedesco. Domenica 5 febbraio  ore 11:00 laFeltrinelli p.zza Duomo: RITAGLIA LE TUE BAMBOLE Insieme a Laura Pasi letture e laboratorio da Le bambole di carta (Rizzoli) di Julia Donaldson, un’incantevole avventura di una bambina con le sue cinque bambole di carta. ore 11:00 laFeltrinelli c.so Buenos Aires 33: NERINO PULCINO Nerino pulcino (Brioschi) cerca la sua mamma in un viaggio alla scoperta di sentimenti e paure. La storia del piccolo viene raccontata con un teatrino in stile kamishibai.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Single Review: “Love Blows” by Lissie

The title behind what is Lissie’s final promotional single in advance of Castles (due for release on March 23rd via Lionboy Records) says it all. “Love Blows”. At the same time, the latest single from Castles goes so much deeper than what the title suggests. The most blatant sentiment is that, yeah, love blows, the whole thing of having feelings for another person being so brutal, grueling and taxing. “Love Blows” transcends those basic emotions that can stem from pain caused by the object of one’s affection, though, exploring the real reasons why a broken heart is so painful. “I look around and all I see are the reminders of a dream that died. A sort of suicide, a love denied, a life incomplete…” Lissie begins, the track focusing on what could have been and how tortures it is to dwell on how different life may have been if things had worked out differently. Going even further, it examines the insecurities that can haunt people, how, thanks to perpetuated stereotypes, some can feel inferior to others when it comes to looks and thus inadequate.

Those are two vastly different but equally compelling perspectives, “Love Blows’” specialty being how well it conveys this duality. For example, on one hand the track deals with pining over and desperately wanting a person, yet it simultaneously comes across as being a big F U to the entire concept of love. Having been hurt so badly that you’re over it and don’t want to think about it. At times Lissie portrays herself as being vulnerable and open, while at other portions her strength and resolve is unquestionable; such contrasts being the defining aspect of the track. An intriguing blend of modern pop components with some indie rock flare and a full-on singer/songwriter persona, it’s obvious that “Love Blows” is something special. The subtle pop elements come in the form of the programming that works in the background, being crucial to the overall sound, but never diluting the final product. The beat is rather monotone, though the way it and the other instruments coalesce results in something that is quite organic and so rich and vivid. And through it all Lissie’s stunning voice shines, guiding it through the highs and lows. While it doesn’t test her limits as a vocalist, it does demand a ton of emotion, which the songstress delivers in spades. She sounds defeated and broken, just empty in the aftermath of a breakup. The way she utters “…But I'm just gonna say it, what everybody knows: love blows,” sounds rather matter-of-factly, like a harsh truth that is being grappled with. Yet her voice is still teeming with passion and energy. “Love Blows” is certainly something special, a well-crafted song that is magnified thanks to all the fine nuances that can be found in it, brilliantly accenting the track and allowing it to reach its full, grand potential. It’s something different from the previous tracks released from Castles, hopefully meaning that the record will have a lot to offer sonically speaking with Lissie covering a lot of ground. Fans will be able to find out if that is true soon. Pre-order Castles on: iTunes | Google Play | Amazon MP3 Visit Lissie’s websites: Official Website | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube Current Shows: 2018 March 23--HMV Instore--London, United Kingdom 24--Banquet All Saints Church--London, United Kingdom 25--Resident Instore--Brighton, United Kingdom 26--Pie & Vinyl--Southsea, United Kingdom 27--HMV Instore--Manchester, United Kingdom 29--The Leadmill--Sheffield, United Kingdom 30--The Horn--St Albans, United Kingdom April 6--Oran Mor--Glasgow, United Kingdom 8—Gorilla—Manchester, United Kingdom 9--Village Underground--London, United Kingdom 10—Omeara--London, United Kingdom 12—BITTERZOET--Amsterdam, Netherlands 13--Studio 672--Cologne, Germany 14—Privatclub--Berlin, Germany 16—Nochtspeicher--Hamburg, Germany 18--Bar Brooklyn--Stockholm, Sweden 19—Røverstaden--Oslo, Norway 21—Grieghall--Bergen, Norway 23--Bogen F--Zurich, Switzerland 25--Big Four Lawn, Waterfront Park--Louisville, KY May 2--Teragram Ballroom--Los Angeles, CA 3--The Independent--San Francisco, CA 6--Doug Fir Lounge--Portland, OR 7--The Crocodile--Seattle, WA 8—Imperial--Vancouver, Canada 16—Adelaide--Toronto, Canada 17--The Ark--Ann Arbor, MI 18—SPACE--Chicago, IL 20--Mr. Smalls Theatre--Millvale, PA 22--The Sinclair--Cambridge, MA 23--Bowery Ballroom--New York, NY 25--World Cafe Live--Philadelphia, PA 26--9:30 Club--Washington, DC June 2--Laura's Legacy--Rock Island, IL 5--Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden--Dallas, TX 7--Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival--Manchester, TN 9--Rjukan Rock Festival--Rjukan, Norway July 13--Cornbury Music Festival--Greens Norton, United Kingdom 16--The Watering Hole--Perranporth, United Kingdom August 4--Tjuvholmen Arena--Hamar, Norway

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My Wayhaven Chronicles Playlist  - Adam

In no particular order, here are the songs I have on my playlist so far & a quick snippet why:

Alabama Shakes - This Feeling “Please don't take this feeling I have found at last” -What’s going through Laura’s mind as Murphy exposits above her. She’s finally found someone after being lonely for so long. Please let her live so she can have just this one thing. 

The Civil Wars - Dust to Dust -Virtually every lyric in this song.  Laura had a lonely childhood, essentially raising herself while Rebecca escaped into her work.  Adam has also been lonely, for other reasons. The song acknowledges there are obstacles between them, but also embraces the hope that they can be removed.

Lissie - Everywhere I Go “Danger will follow me now, everywhere I go” -The melancholy tune fits Laura’s depression following the traumatic encounter with Murphy & now the fact that she’s got a bounty on her.  Beneath her attempts at remaining stoic, she fears deeply for the safety of those around her as well as herself.

Sleeping At Last - Two “I know exactly how the rule goes: put my mask on first. No, I don't want to talk about myself, tell me where it hurts. I just want to build you up, build you up, ‘til you're good as new. And maybe one day I will get around to fixing myself too” -This could be either Adam or Laura talking- who knows?

Seafret - Oceans “We hide our emotions under the surface and try to pretend, but it feels like there's oceans between you and me. I want you, and I always will” -The vocals on this track are out of this world, perfectly portraying the longing and desperation behind the words.

The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine “I wish you'd hold me when I turn my back” -I think this one is on everyone’s playlist for Adam as it’s a pretty obvious choice. Copying the lyrics doesn’t give this duet justice.

City & Colour - Constant Knot “A classic case I suppose, a haunted man who can't outrun his ghosts- They're in my skin and my bones.” -Dallas Green is one of my all time favorite musicians.  This song came on my shuffle 2 days ago & I thought “OMG that is SO Adam”

Geographer - Think About You “You were so young, with wide eyes. And I don't want to keep you from your life, but you are all that I have ever wanted to find” -This one gets tossed around between Morgan & Adam’s playlist. An admission of attachment on their part, with a healthy bit of hesitation and a dash of words left unspoken. Some of these songs do mention youth, which I find fitting- especially if the Detective’s mortality is part of why the vampires hesitate to acknowledge their feelings.

Joseph - Green Eyes “ If we're headed for the cliffside I'm ready for the fall” -I’ve shared this one before. Joseph is a new-to-me artist & the lyrics were a no brainer, fitting not only perfectly with Adam’s eyes, but dropping a line reminiscent of Sonja’s reading for Adam in Book 2 & portraying Laura’s stubborn love.

Sleeping At Last - Atlantic -This is a purely instrumental piece. I like to pair this song with the fireworks scene at the end of Book 2. It’s a bittersweet melody full of hope, happiness and fulfillment.  Perfect for a budding romance!

Vance Joy - Wasted Time “Well I don't think she knows how she changed all my plans The things that I thought would last, well they're fading. The feelings I used to have they're changing, they're changing ” -I love finding songs that I feel fit Adam’s perspective on things

Sleeping At Last - Eight -Can you tell which album is my favorite? (Fun fact: this musical project started in my hometown!) This is another Adam song, describing his origin, motives, and how his relationship with Laura makes him stronger.

Sarah McLachlan - I Love You “Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say and you just walk away” -Seriously give this one a listen. It came up in a shuffle too and just knocked my socks off. Every time Adam appears, Laura unconsciously smiles- a fact that hasn’t escaped Farrah at all.

Donovan Woods - I Ain’t Ever Loved No One “And when I said I loved you, I didn't care if you said it back ” -Another sweet duet, but a song that’s a little quick to the draw considering the point their relationship is at this point in the books.  I like the imagery of them finally coming out as a couple to their respective “families” & everyone just being like “I knew it!”

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And that’s all I have for now! Thanks for reading all of this! I’m in a writing mood with very little creative juice, basically Wayhaven is all I have keeping me going right now...

I’m not sure if this will work, but here is a link so you can listen to my (Amazon music) playlist.  Please share yours as well- I would love to see what everyone else has to listen to!

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RULES: tag ten followers you want to know better!

TAGGED BY: @dinohearted

TAGGING: ahhhhh anyone who wants to !!

NAME:  rachel

STAR SIGN: sagittarius 

HEIGHT: 5′6″

WHAT’S YOUR MIDDLE NAME?  ahhh private

PUT YOUR ITUNES ON SHUFFLE. WHAT ARE THE FIRST 6 SONGS THAT POPPED UP?

- “wicked ones” dorothy

- “rocket” beyonce

- “cute without the e (cut from the team)” taking back sunday

- "pursuit of happiness ( cover )” lissie

-  “wildest dreams” taylor swift

- "grace kelly” mika

GRAB THE BOOK NEAREST YOU AND TURN TO PAGE 23. WHAT’S LINE 17?  “what would happen if I weren’t so careful? just once?” ( from evolution of claire because i’m rereading it because i love it )

EVER HAD A POEM OR SONG WRITTEN ABOUT YOU? hopefully no

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED AIR GUITAR? honestly like yesterday, at work.

WHO IS YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH? BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, is a big one. chris pratt atm - although let’s be real - pretty much all of the Chris’s. Lucy Liu

WHAT’S A SOUND YOU HATE; SOUND YOU LOVE?

HATE: when someone touches a movie screen/projector screen

LOVE:  rain, an entire crowd screaming ‘if a man talks shit than i owe him nothing’, marty popping off about nonsense.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?  ahh yeah, kind of it. i’ve had my own small experience but nothing very full body or heard words but i think they could.

HOW ABOUT ALIENS? i really doubt that we’re the only life pissing about in this galaxy.

DO YOU DRIVE? i DO

IF SO, HAVE YOU EVER CRASHED?  no, i’ve been in cars that have been rear ended but the accidents that i’ve been in have either only involved me or scrapping against a parked car when trying to get out of a parking space.

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? the evolution of claire by tess sharpe

DO YOU LIKE THE SMELL OF GASOLINE?  like only the amount of smell you get at a gas station otherwise yikes no

WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW? in theaters it was fallen kingdom, on tv/streaming i think it was set it up

WHAT’S THE WORST INJURY YOU’VE EVER HAD? do particularly gross and horrible ingrown toenails count? otherwise while playfighting with my dad i hit my toe hard enough that it was bruised all over and i couldn’t walk very well for a few days.

DO YOU HAVE ANY OBSESSIONS RIGHT NOW? claire’s relationship with simon masrani, buzzfeed unsolved is coming back so i’ll be solidly back on that bullshit

DO YOU TEND TO HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE YOU WRONG? 100% of the time it depends on what they did, and not always then because there’s a good chance the person isn’t even in my life anymore so holding a grudge against them when i no longer am around them doesn’t make sense and it’s honestly exhausting. 

IN A RELATIONSHIP?  lmao no

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A little about me....

Rules: Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better

Kindly tagged by @asthewheelwills :) and I’ve never done one of these before so like I’m wingin it!!!!

Name: Melissa 

Nicknames: Mel mostly or Meliss to some. (Lissy Lou is used solely by blood relatives) 

Zodiac: Leo!

Height: 5′1″ is what I put on my drivers license but I’m prob closer to 5′0″

Orientation: Left all the way. 

Ethnicity: White af (also) (me taking the same answer as the person who tagged me lol)

Favourite Fruit: Strawberries

Favourite Season: Fall, I love everything about it. 

Favourite Book: As of right now Outlander (because that’s what I’m reading) but in the past the position has been occupied by many different books, I’m not a picky reader. 

Favourite Flower: Pink roses or lilies.

Favourite Scent: The pumpkin donut candle I have 

Favourite Colour: Blue 

Favourite Animal: This is probably the hardest question, I simply can’t pick. I love all animals tbh. 

Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa?: Coffee six million times a day 

Average Sleep Hours: 4-5 hours a night when I’m in school, other than that about 6 hours?

Cat or dog person?: I love both but I’ve always had dogs and been involved in dog rescues, so if I had to pick I would say dogs. 

Favourite Fictional Character: ANOTHA TRICKY ONE. I have so many bc I have a general tendency to fall madly in love with fictional characters. Those that immediately come to mind would be: Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Anne Shirley, Lisbeth Salander, Atticus Finch, Dallas Winston, Emma Swan, Jesse Pinkman, omg I could go on for days

Number of blankets you sleep with: 3 blanket minimum, I’m just a human who’s always cold. Even in July. 

Blog created: I think I created it in 2014 but didn’t start actively using the blog until May of this year. 

Number of Followers: I think 59? I’m not sure. It used to be like 4 hahahah 

Since I don’t know anyone on here really (pretty new to the whole deal) I will tag some to get to know :) Feel free to post one (or not, I’m not out here to make anyone do anything they don’t want). But tag me if ya do so I know ya did it!

@onceuponaprincessworld @teamhook @daeo28 @nfbagelperson @cs-nina-cs

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I was tagged by @kaitiez464 thanks so much baby chunk!!!!! Rules: answer 20 questions and tag 20 followers youd like to get to know better Name: Alyssa😀 Nickname(s): Loulou, Lissy, Dually Dually (tf is this) Sign: Taurus 🐃 Height: 5'5" Etnicity: French, irish, native american, german mexican Orientation: straight Favorite fruits: Cherry, strawberry, apples, nectarine, lemons and limes Favorite season: winter❄ Favorite books: The Outsiders, Hatchet, Shot in the Back, Summers horses, the frontiersman, the trail west Favorite flowers: Roses and Dogwoods Favorite animals: Horses, wolves, deer, elk Favorite Beverage: either mountain dew or sweet tea Average hours of sleep: ahhh around 7 Favorite fictional characters: Ponyboy curtis, Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston, Breckinridge Wallace Number of blankets you sleep with: 1-2 always Dream Trip: to all of the western states and Canada, ive been to all of the eastern states Blog created: March 2017 Follower count: 60 (i love you all) I tag: @thingsaretuffallover @pmcurtis @cotton-beetle @youdigokay @just-another-terrible-writer @ittybittydally @show-choir-gal @ponyboysfineass @lightning-mcqueen95 @rikersgirl22 @beautyanthedan @bananakid42 @jelly-cade @bashful-cade @babyjohnnycakes

[dyemelikeasunset]

hey naf, have the side character for the samsara arc gone through changes at all over the years? i remember when i first discovered the project i was so in love with dallas!! the idea of him and sam having a bff relationship really reminds me of me and my best friend

yeah Dallas is still around! Sam&Sara is mainly focused on the main 6 characters (Sam and Sara obvs, but Mal, Tammy, Lissy, Blaire, Jayden, and Gwen/Gabe are all technically mains now), but Dallas has a pretty important role as a side character. Sara’s family might get a little more screen time too, but probably not as much as Dal :)

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COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul

After terrorists slammed a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11, ambulances rushed scores of the injured to community hospitals, but only three of the patients were taken to specialized trauma wards. The reason: The hospitals and ambulances had no real-time information-sharing system.

Nineteen years later, there is still no national data network that enables the health system to respond effectively to disasters and disease outbreaks. Many doctors and nurses must fill out paper forms on COVID-19 cases and available beds and fax them to public health agencies, causing critical delays in care and hampering the effort to track and block the spread of the coronavirus.

“We need to be thinking long and hard about making improvements in the data-reporting system so the response to the next epidemic is a little less painful,” said Dr. Dan Hanfling, a vice president at In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit that helps the federal government solve technology problems in health care and other areas. “And there will be another one.”

There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system, in which nearly 3,000 local, state and federal health departments set their own reporting rules and vary greatly in their ability to send and receive data electronically.

Sutter Health and UC Davis Health, along with nearly 30 other provider organizations around the country, recently launched a collaborative effort to speed and improve the sharing of clinical data on individual COVID cases with public health departments.

But even that platform, which contains information about patients’ diagnoses and response to treatments, doesn’t yet include data on the availability of hospital beds, intensive care units or supplies needed for a seamless pandemic response.

The federal government spent nearly $40 billion over the past decade to equip hospitals and physicians’ offices with electronic health record systems for improving treatment of individual patients. But no comparable effort has emerged to build an effective system for quickly moving information on infectious disease from providers to public health agencies.

In March, Congress approved $500 million over 10 years to modernize the public health data infrastructure. But the amount falls far short of what’s needed to update data systems and train staff at local and state health departments, said Brian Dixon, director of public health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis.

The congressional allocation is half the annual amount proposed under last year’s bipartisan Saving Lives Through Better Data Act, which did not pass, and much less than the $4.5 billion Public Health Infrastructure Fund proposed last year by public health leaders.

“The data are moving slower than the disease,” said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. “We need a way to get that information electronically and seamlessly to public health agencies so we can do investigations, quarantine people and identify hot spots and risk groups in real time, not two weeks later.”

The impact of these data failures is felt around the country. The director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Sonia Angell, was forced out Aug. 9 after a malfunction in the state’s data system left out up to 300,000 COVID-19 test results, undercutting the accuracy of its case count.

Other advanced countries have done a better job of rapidly and accurately tracking COVID-19 cases and medical resources while doing contact tracing and quarantining those who test positive. In France, physicians’ offices report patient symptoms to a central agency every day. That’s an advantage of having a national health care system.

“If someone in France sneezes, they learn about it in Paris,” said Dr. Chris Lehmann, clinical informatics director at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Coronavirus cases reported to U.S. public health departments are often missing patients’ addresses and phone numbers, which are needed to trace their contacts, Hamilton said. Lab test results often lack information on patients’ races or ethnicities, which could help authorities understand demographic disparities in transmission and response to the virus.

Last month, the Trump administration abruptly ordered hospitals to report all COVID-19 data to a private vendor hired by the Department of Health and Human Services rather than to the long-established reporting system run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration said the switch would help the White House coronavirus task force better allocate scarce supplies.

The shift disrupted, at least temporarily, the flow of critical information needed to track COVID-19 outbreaks and allocate resources, public health officials said. They worried the move looked political in nature and could dampen public confidence in the accuracy of the data.

An HHS spokesperson said the transition had improved and sped up hospital reporting. Experts had various opinions on the matter but agreed that the new system doesn’t fix problems with the old CDC system that contributed to this country’s slow and ineffective response to COVID-19.

“While I think it’s an exceptionally bad idea to take the CDC out of it, the bottom line is the way CDC presented the data wasn’t all that useful,” said Dr. George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco.

The new HHS system lacks data from nursing homes, which is needed to ensure safe care for COVID patients after discharge from the hospital, said Dr. Lissy Hu, CEO of CarePort Health, which coordinates care between hospitals and post-acute facilities.

Some observers hope the pandemic will persuade the health care industry to push faster toward its goal of smoother data exchange through computer systems that can easily talk to one another — an objective that has met with only partial success after more than a decade of effort.

The case reporting system launched by Sutter Health and its partners sends clinical information from each coronavirus patient’s electronic health record to public health agencies in all 50 states. The Digital Bridge platform also allows the agencies for the first time to send helpful treatment information back to doctors and nurses. About 20 other health systems are preparing to join the 30 partners in the system, and major digital health record vendors like Epic and Allscripts have added the reporting capacity to their software.

Sutter hopes to get state and county officials to let the health system stop sending data manually, which would save its clinicians time they need for treating patients, said Dr. Steven Lane, Sutter’s clinical informatics director for interoperability.

The platform could be key in implementing COVID-19 vaccination around the country, said Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting who spearheaded the development of Digital Bridge.

“You’d want a registry of everyone immunized, you’d want to hear if that person developed COVID anyway, then you’d want to know about subsequent symptoms,” he said. “You can only do that well if you have an effective data system for surveillance and reporting.”

The key is to get all the health care players — providers, insurers, EHR vendors and public health agencies — to collaborate and share data, rather than hoarding it for their own financial or organizational benefit, Wiesenthal said.

“One would hope we will use this crisis as an opportunity to fix a long-standing problem,” said John Auerbach, CEO of Trust for America’s Health. “But I worry this will follow the historical pattern of throwing a lot of money at a problem during a crisis, then cutting back after. There’s a tendency to think short term.”

This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul

After terrorists slammed a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11, ambulances rushed scores of the injured to community hospitals, but only three of the patients were taken to specialized trauma wards. The reason: The hospitals and ambulances had no real-time information-sharing system.

Nineteen years later, there is still no national data network that enables the health system to respond effectively to disasters and disease outbreaks. Many doctors and nurses must fill out paper forms on COVID-19 cases and available beds and fax them to public health agencies, causing critical delays in care and hampering the effort to track and block the spread of the coronavirus.

“We need to be thinking long and hard about making improvements in the data-reporting system so the response to the next epidemic is a little less painful,” said Dr. Dan Hanfling, a vice president at In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit that helps the federal government solve technology problems in health care and other areas. “And there will be another one.”

There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system, in which nearly 3,000 local, state and federal health departments set their own reporting rules and vary greatly in their ability to send and receive data electronically.

Sutter Health and UC Davis Health, along with nearly 30 other provider organizations around the country, recently launched a collaborative effort to speed and improve the sharing of clinical data on individual COVID cases with public health departments.

But even that platform, which contains information about patients’ diagnoses and response to treatments, doesn’t yet include data on the availability of hospital beds, intensive care units or supplies needed for a seamless pandemic response.

The federal government spent nearly $40 billion over the past decade to equip hospitals and physicians’ offices with electronic health record systems for improving treatment of individual patients. But no comparable effort has emerged to build an effective system for quickly moving information on infectious disease from providers to public health agencies.

In March, Congress approved $500 million over 10 years to modernize the public health data infrastructure. But the amount falls far short of what’s needed to update data systems and train staff at local and state health departments, said Brian Dixon, director of public health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis.

The congressional allocation is half the annual amount proposed under last year’s bipartisan Saving Lives Through Better Data Act, which did not pass, and much less than the $4.5 billion Public Health Infrastructure Fund proposed last year by public health leaders.

“The data are moving slower than the disease,” said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. “We need a way to get that information electronically and seamlessly to public health agencies so we can do investigations, quarantine people and identify hot spots and risk groups in real time, not two weeks later.”

The impact of these data failures is felt around the country. The director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Sonia Angell, was forced out Aug. 9 after a malfunction in the state’s data system left out up to 300,000 COVID-19 test results, undercutting the accuracy of its case count.

Other advanced countries have done a better job of rapidly and accurately tracking COVID-19 cases and medical resources while doing contact tracing and quarantining those who test positive. In France, physicians’ offices report patient symptoms to a central agency every day. That’s an advantage of having a national health care system.

“If someone in France sneezes, they learn about it in Paris,” said Dr. Chris Lehmann, clinical informatics director at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Coronavirus cases reported to U.S. public health departments are often missing patients’ addresses and phone numbers, which are needed to trace their contacts, Hamilton said. Lab test results often lack information on patients’ races or ethnicities, which could help authorities understand demographic disparities in transmission and response to the virus.

Last month, the Trump administration abruptly ordered hospitals to report all COVID-19 data to a private vendor hired by the Department of Health and Human Services rather than to the long-established reporting system run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration said the switch would help the White House coronavirus task force better allocate scarce supplies.

The shift disrupted, at least temporarily, the flow of critical information needed to track COVID-19 outbreaks and allocate resources, public health officials said. They worried the move looked political in nature and could dampen public confidence in the accuracy of the data.

An HHS spokesperson said the transition had improved and sped up hospital reporting. Experts had various opinions on the matter but agreed that the new system doesn’t fix problems with the old CDC system that contributed to this country’s slow and ineffective response to COVID-19.

“While I think it’s an exceptionally bad idea to take the CDC out of it, the bottom line is the way CDC presented the data wasn’t all that useful,” said Dr. George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco.

The new HHS system lacks data from nursing homes, which is needed to ensure safe care for COVID patients after discharge from the hospital, said Dr. Lissy Hu, CEO of CarePort Health, which coordinates care between hospitals and post-acute facilities.

Some observers hope the pandemic will persuade the health care industry to push faster toward its goal of smoother data exchange through computer systems that can easily talk to one another — an objective that has met with only partial success after more than a decade of effort.

The case reporting system launched by Sutter Health and its partners sends clinical information from each coronavirus patient’s electronic health record to public health agencies in all 50 states. The Digital Bridge platform also allows the agencies for the first time to send helpful treatment information back to doctors and nurses. About 20 other health systems are preparing to join the 30 partners in the system, and major digital health record vendors like Epic and Allscripts have added the reporting capacity to their software.

Sutter hopes to get state and county officials to let the health system stop sending data manually, which would save its clinicians time they need for treating patients, said Dr. Steven Lane, Sutter’s clinical informatics director for interoperability.

The platform could be key in implementing COVID-19 vaccination around the country, said Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting who spearheaded the development of Digital Bridge.

“You’d want a registry of everyone immunized, you’d want to hear if that person developed COVID anyway, then you’d want to know about subsequent symptoms,” he said. “You can only do that well if you have an effective data system for surveillance and reporting.”

The key is to get all the health care players — providers, insurers, EHR vendors and public health agencies — to collaborate and share data, rather than hoarding it for their own financial or organizational benefit, Wiesenthal said.

“One would hope we will use this crisis as an opportunity to fix a long-standing problem,” said John Auerbach, CEO of Trust for America’s Health. “But I worry this will follow the historical pattern of throwing a lot of money at a problem during a crisis, then cutting back after. There’s a tendency to think short term.”

This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul

After terrorists slammed a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11, ambulances rushed scores of the injured to community hospitals, but only three of the patients were taken to specialized trauma wards. The reason: The hospitals and ambulances had no real-time information-sharing system.

Nineteen years later, there is still no national data network that enables the health system to respond effectively to disasters and disease outbreaks. Many doctors and nurses must fill out paper forms on COVID-19 cases and available beds and fax them to public health agencies, causing critical delays in care and hampering the effort to track and block the spread of the coronavirus.

“We need to be thinking long and hard about making improvements in the data-reporting system so the response to the next epidemic is a little less painful,” said Dr. Dan Hanfling, a vice president at In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit that helps the federal government solve technology problems in health care and other areas. “And there will be another one.”

There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system, in which nearly 3,000 local, state and federal health departments set their own reporting rules and vary greatly in their ability to send and receive data electronically.

Sutter Health and UC Davis Health, along with nearly 30 other provider organizations around the country, recently launched a collaborative effort to speed and improve the sharing of clinical data on individual COVID cases with public health departments.

But even that platform, which contains information about patients’ diagnoses and response to treatments, doesn’t yet include data on the availability of hospital beds, intensive care units or supplies needed for a seamless pandemic response.

The federal government spent nearly $40 billion over the past decade to equip hospitals and physicians’ offices with electronic health record systems for improving treatment of individual patients. But no comparable effort has emerged to build an effective system for quickly moving information on infectious disease from providers to public health agencies.

In March, Congress approved $500 million over 10 years to modernize the public health data infrastructure. But the amount falls far short of what’s needed to update data systems and train staff at local and state health departments, said Brian Dixon, director of public health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis.

The congressional allocation is half the annual amount proposed under last year’s bipartisan Saving Lives Through Better Data Act, which did not pass, and much less than the $4.5 billion Public Health Infrastructure Fund proposed last year by public health leaders.

“The data are moving slower than the disease,” said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. “We need a way to get that information electronically and seamlessly to public health agencies so we can do investigations, quarantine people and identify hot spots and risk groups in real time, not two weeks later.”

The impact of these data failures is felt around the country. The director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Sonia Angell, was forced out Aug. 9 after a malfunction in the state’s data system left out up to 300,000 COVID-19 test results, undercutting the accuracy of its case count.

Other advanced countries have done a better job of rapidly and accurately tracking COVID-19 cases and medical resources while doing contact tracing and quarantining those who test positive. In France, physicians’ offices report patient symptoms to a central agency every day. That’s an advantage of having a national health care system.

“If someone in France sneezes, they learn about it in Paris,” said Dr. Chris Lehmann, clinical informatics director at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Coronavirus cases reported to U.S. public health departments are often missing patients’ addresses and phone numbers, which are needed to trace their contacts, Hamilton said. Lab test results often lack information on patients’ races or ethnicities, which could help authorities understand demographic disparities in transmission and response to the virus.

Last month, the Trump administration abruptly ordered hospitals to report all COVID-19 data to a private vendor hired by the Department of Health and Human Services rather than to the long-established reporting system run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration said the switch would help the White House coronavirus task force better allocate scarce supplies.

The shift disrupted, at least temporarily, the flow of critical information needed to track COVID-19 outbreaks and allocate resources, public health officials said. They worried the move looked political in nature and could dampen public confidence in the accuracy of the data.

An HHS spokesperson said the transition had improved and sped up hospital reporting. Experts had various opinions on the matter but agreed that the new system doesn’t fix problems with the old CDC system that contributed to this country’s slow and ineffective response to COVID-19.

“While I think it’s an exceptionally bad idea to take the CDC out of it, the bottom line is the way CDC presented the data wasn’t all that useful,” said Dr. George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco.

The new HHS system lacks data from nursing homes, which is needed to ensure safe care for COVID patients after discharge from the hospital, said Dr. Lissy Hu, CEO of CarePort Health, which coordinates care between hospitals and post-acute facilities.

Some observers hope the pandemic will persuade the health care industry to push faster toward its goal of smoother data exchange through computer systems that can easily talk to one another — an objective that has met with only partial success after more than a decade of effort.

The case reporting system launched by Sutter Health and its partners sends clinical information from each coronavirus patient’s electronic health record to public health agencies in all 50 states. The Digital Bridge platform also allows the agencies for the first time to send helpful treatment information back to doctors and nurses. About 20 other health systems are preparing to join the 30 partners in the system, and major digital health record vendors like Epic and Allscripts have added the reporting capacity to their software.

Sutter hopes to get state and county officials to let the health system stop sending data manually, which would save its clinicians time they need for treating patients, said Dr. Steven Lane, Sutter’s clinical informatics director for interoperability.

The platform could be key in implementing COVID-19 vaccination around the country, said Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting who spearheaded the development of Digital Bridge.

“You’d want a registry of everyone immunized, you’d want to hear if that person developed COVID anyway, then you’d want to know about subsequent symptoms,” he said. “You can only do that well if you have an effective data system for surveillance and reporting.”

The key is to get all the health care players — providers, insurers, EHR vendors and public health agencies — to collaborate and share data, rather than hoarding it for their own financial or organizational benefit, Wiesenthal said.

“One would hope we will use this crisis as an opportunity to fix a long-standing problem,” said John Auerbach, CEO of Trust for America’s Health. “But I worry this will follow the historical pattern of throwing a lot of money at a problem during a crisis, then cutting back after. There’s a tendency to think short term.”

This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Single Review: “Blood & Muscle” by Lissie

Nearly two years after the release of her most acclaimed work to date, Lissie is ready to follow-up My Wild West with Castles, which is set for release on March 23rd, 2018 and will be released via Lionboy Records. If My Wild West was Lissie lighting a spark to make certain that the world began to take notice of her talents, than Castles will be the record that finds the songstress adding kindling to what she built, now prepared to make a more striking statement than ever before. At least, that’s what the first single to be released from the forthcoming album suggests. “Blood & Muscle” feels like a natural progression in the evolutionary process for the songstress, who has further perfected her craft over the past couple of years. The songwriting behind it is more marvelous than ever, while Lissie’s delivery is nothing short of stunning. It aims to leave the listener in sheer awe, “Blood & Muscle” succeeding at that with absolute ease.

The purely piano-driven tune allows Lissie to pour her heart and soul into the track, something that is evident thanks to the impassioned vocal performance she gives. “Blood & Muscle” is the product of every fiber of her being; personal feelings laid bare for all to gaze at. She sounds desperate and anxious at times, while an overwhelming sense of hope permeates other moments of the track that examines love from an ever so slightly different perspective. There have been plenty of songs about wanting more in one’s love life, though this song just feels different from the vast majority of those. It’s due to the subtle differences in the perspective; and that is a hallmark that any great songwriter should possess: to be able to take something typical and find a way to breathe new life into it. “I want a love that's made of blood and muscle…” There’s an optimistic aura radiated by that line of the chorus (as well as the chorus in general). It acts as a unique way of saying you want something real. Something with substance; the rest of the chorus detailing what one hopes to get out of their ideal relationship. Much like the dating game can be, “Blood & Muscle” is fraught with perils, from the first verse, detailing what comes across as being time wasted on a person, to the second verse. “The crows fly higher and higher. Their cries sound like a choir in the sky. It’s like they’re taunting me.” That segment paints a dismal picture, conveying a sense of isolation and possibly perpetual loneliness, before a ray of hope breaks through. At its heart, “Blood & Muscle” is a bit of a defiant song, because it’s one about not settling. Its focus revolves around not compromising yourself in the least, even if that makes the road to love more arduous than it already is. It brilliantly captures the hardships that that can bring, Lissie using her exceptional voice to capture every conceivable emotion that could arise from being so resolute. Because of that, it’s overwhelmingly real and honest, as she bares the deepest part of her soul to the listeners. Truly, Lissie’s vocal performance is nothing short of ravishing, “Blood & Muscle” acting as vessel to showcase how superb her voice is. Flawless even, as she belts out some parts with authority, demanding one give the song their unwavering attention. The wide ranges she explores vocally allows her to make the track all the more emotive; while the backing vocals that are carefully layered on top create some gorgeous harmonies that finely punctuate it. “Blood & Muscle” is Lissie kicking things up a notch – or even two, pushing herself into territory where she is not just worthy of the masses knowing her name but deserving of it. And if this gem is an indicator of what is yet to come from Castles, then she will probably be taking the world by storm sooner rather than later. Pre-order Castles on: iTunes | Google Play | Amazon MP3 Visit Lissie’s websites: Official Website | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube Current Shows: 2018 April 6--Oran Mor--Glasgow, United Kingdom 8—Gorilla—Manchester, United Kingdom 10--Omeara London, United Kingdom

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Forensics Team having memorable fall season

Bloomsburg University’s Forensics team has had a great semester thus far. The team has already attended two competitions this semester, and have won various awards at each event, individually and as a team.

The first event of the semester was held in October at Shepherd University in West Virginia. The team won third place overall out of nine schools. Ten of the 19 participants from BU won awards for speech, debate, and interpretation events.

BU students Thomas Weber and Noah Roux won first place in Parliamentary Debate at the first event.

“It’s hard to say exactly how we won,” said Roux. “The debate topics are often far ranging and you have to have a good base of knowledge on world and national news to do well…we also rely heavily on being good public speakers.”

However, not everyone on the Forensics team begins as a great public speaker. Being on the team can make students do things outside their comfort zone, but prepares them to be better public speakers over time.

“The forensics team has made me a much better public speaker,” said Roux. “It has also made me more analytical and thoughtful on current events and it has become easier for me to understand the other side’s arguments.”

The second event was held in November at Shippensburg University, where the team won third overall, and 11 students won individual awards.

Weber and Roux also placed in Parliamentary Debate at Shippensburg, this time earning fourth place out of more than 20 teams.

The Forensics team travels for each event, and usually events are within Pennsylvania and Virginia. However, some competitions require longer travel times.

“We go as far as Florida, South Carolina, West Virginia, and even Ottawa, Canada,” said Weber. “I drive personally between three and five hours for tournaments.”

Both Weber and Roux credit their adviser, Dr. Harry Neil Strine, with much of their success, along with other professors from the Political Science and Communications Studies departments.

“Without his wit, humor, and exceptional advice we would not be where we are today,” said Weber.

  — Dallas Kriebel, mass communications major 

Bloomsburg University Forensics (Speech and Debate) Team won the 2ndPlace Sweepstakes Award out of 9 schools at the Collegiate Forensic Association’s annual Holiday Tournament held at Shippensburg University this past weekend, November2-3, 2018.  Ten out of nineteen BU students won speech and/or debate awards. This was one of the largest teams to ever have competed for BU in the past 14 years.  I have attached a picture of the BU Forensics team to this email. Here are the individual student award winners:

Amy Bitar: 5th  Place Dramatic Duo with Tarah Kelley; 2nd Place Declamation; 5th Place Persuasive Speaking; 4th Place Pentathlon

Lissy Dombeck: 1st Place Communication Analysis; 3rd Place Declamation

Alli Robbins: 5th Place After Dinner Speaking

Noah Roux: 3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking; 4th Place Parliamentary Debate with Thomas Weber (out of 23 teams)

Joseph Touey: 6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking

Tarah Kelley: 5th Place Dramatic Duo with Amy Bitar

Katie Rose: 4th Place Communication Analysis

Thomas Weber: 4th Place Parliamentary Debate with Noah Roux (out of 23 teams)

Shawn Edwards: 3rd Place, Informative Speaking

Eric Musgrove: 6th Place, Informative Speaking

The other students competing for Bloomsburg University and contributing to our success included Taylor Baker, Emily Bernosky, Tasha Hill, Andrew Kline, Isaac Osborn, Adam Phillips Emme Reiser, Jonathan Roe, and Katarina Solovey,

Dr. Neil Strine, Director of Forensics,  Dr. James Vines, Department of Academic Enrichment, Mr. Charles Humphrys, BU Class of 2008, and Mr. Robert F. Harris, Jr., retired Director of Veterans’ Affairs for Franklin County, PA., served as speech and debate judges for Bloomsburg at the tournament.  Dr. Erin Brummett, Communication Studies, assists with coaching students on the team. The BU Forensics Team is generously supported by the BU Community Government Association and is open to all BU students.  No previous experience is necessary.  The team meets every Monday and Wednesday in Bakeless, Room #306.  The BU Forensics Team will travel to Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia November 30 – December 1, 2018 for our next tournament. Students may earn credit for forensics through enrolling in the Forensics Practicum – Intstudy 108.

Forensics Team places third at CFA fall tournament

Bloomsburg University’s forensics team captured the third place Sweepstakes Award at the Collegiate Forensic Association’s annual fall tournament held at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W.V. on Oct. 19-20, 2018.

Eleven out of the 18 BU students won awards, including first and second place in parliamentary debate in a field of 21 teams.

Amy Bitar took second in the dramatic duo with Tarah Kelley; was third in place declamation; fourth in persuasive speaking; and fifth in pentathlon.

Alli Robbins was second in persuasive speaking, second in after-dinner speaking; and sixth in parliamentary debate with Adam Phillips.

Adam Phillips was sixth in parliamentary debate with Alli Robbins.

Noah Roux took first place parliamentary debate with Thomas Weber; first in best speaker parliamentary debate (out of 42 speakers); and was fourth in Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Tarah Kelley was second in dramatic duo with Amy Bitar; third in persuasive speaking; sixth in Poetry; and sixth in Pentathlon

Katarina Solovey was fifth in poetry

Katie Rose took fourth place communication analysis

Thomas Weber took first in parliamentary debate with Noah Roux (Out of 21 teams); was fifth in best speaker parliamentary debate (out of 42 speakers); and sixth in communication analysis.

Shawn Edwards was second in parliamentary debate with Eric Musgrove.

Eric Musgrove was second in parliamentary debate with Shawn Edwards.

Andrew Kline was fifth in Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Also competing for Bloomsburg University were Emme Reiser, Julia Pittre, Alyssah Dombek, Bradley Bohm, Isaac Osborn, Jonathan Roe, and Taylor Baker.

Neil Strine, director of forensics, and Michael Martin, associate professor of English, served as speech and debate judges for BU’s team at the tournament. Erin Brummett, assistant professor of communication studies, assisted with coaching students on the team.

Forensics Team places third at Randolph-Macon invitational

Bloomsburg University Forensics (Speech and Debate) Team won the 3rd Place Sweepstakes Award out of 7 schools at the Randolph-Macon College Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament this past weekend, November 30-December1, 2018 in Ashland, Virginia.  Bloomsburg competed against Randolph-Macon College, University of Richmond, Lord Fairfax Community College, Florida College, Shepherd University, and the University of Lynchburg,  Nine out of sixteen BU students won speech and/or debate awards. Please see the attached picture of the BU Forensics team following the awards ceremony at this tournament.

Here are the individual student award winners:

Taylor Baker: 4th Place Parliamentary Debate Speaker (Tie)

Amy Bitar: 2nd Place Prose; 3rd Place Declamation

Alyssah Dombek: 5th Place Communication Analysis

Alli Robbins: 3rd Place Persuasive Speaking; 4th Place After Dinner Speaking

Noah Roux: 6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking; 5th Place Parliamentary Debate with Thomas Weber

Joseph Touey: 2nd Place After Dinner Speaking; 4th Place Parliamentary Debate Speaker (Tie)

Katie Rose: 6th Place Communication Analysis; 6th Place After Dinner Speaking

Katarina Solovey: 5th Place Poetry; 6th Place Persuasive Speaking

Thomas Weber: 5th Place Parliamentary Debate with Noah Roux; 4th Place Lincoln-Douglas Debate; 5th Place Impromptu Speaking

The other students competing for Bloomsburg University and contributing to our success included Tasha Hill, Andrew Kline, Isaac Osborn, Adam Phillips, Emme Reiser, Shawn Edwards, and Jonathan Roe.

Neil Strine, director of forensics and James Vines, of the Department of Academic Enrichment served as speech and debate judges for BU’s team at the tournament. Vines and Erin Brummett, communication studies, assist with coaching students on the team. The Forensics Team is supported by the Community Government Association and is open to all students. No previous experience is necessary. 

The Forensics Team will compete next at the CFA Winter Tournament held at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina on Jan. 25 to 26, 2019.