#Santa Clara Updates

[santaclaralocalnews]

With so much money flying around during this year’s election, many people are confused. The heart of the matter is who is spending money to get their preferred candidates elected. Read more at svvoice.com

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[itstaylorbitches]

Ticketmaster Postpones Sales For Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ Tour Due to ‘Historically Unprecedented Demand’

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[ultrainfinitepit]

Hello followers, Happy Halloween! I have a small update for you all. After a long and painful production process, the Astarion design I commissioned from CryMoreBrand is finally available as pins, you can find them on Shopify and Etsy. 

I'm hard at work fulfilling the Pride Angels campaign. I was hoping to release the Pride Angels leftovers later this month but instead I will wait until the December update to list them. My shop will be open for only a few days in December so be ready to grab them while you can. I'm also planning to run a holiday sale in December so you can look forward to that. 

Onto other news: the Blood & Holy Water campaign is now underway. If you're a fan of angels or vampires I hope you'll check it out. And be sure to take a look at the other Mementos Mori campaigns, there's lots of spooky pins and freebies to be had.

Lastly, I will be vending at the SJMade Holiday Fair. It is November 29-30, 11AM to 6PM PST at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I'll have lots of pins, stickers, keychains, and more for sale at discounted convention prices. As well as the ever-popular box of pick-your-own seconds pins. If you're in the area I hope to see you there.

That's all for this update, have a nice November!

[seeminglyranch87]

Taylor & Travis Timeline

July 2023

July 1 - The Eras Tour ~ Paycor Stadium, Cincinnati, Night 2

Ivy ft. Aaron Dessner (guitar), I Miss You, I'm Sorry with Gracie Abrams, Call It What You Want (piano)

July 4 - America celebrates independence, Taylor gathers with friends at "Holiday House" Rhode Island - see Taylor IG post July 7 (x)

July 7 - Famous last words...

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) released!

The Eras Tour ~ Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Night 1

with guests Taylor Lautner, Joey King and Presley Cash who star alongside Taylor in the "I Can See You" music video (x)

Fan favourite "Long Live" is added to the set list. Taylor brings out the koi fish guitar and debuts the purple Speak Now dress.

Never Grow Up (guitar) & When Emma Falls In Love (piano)

July 8 - Travis Kelce attends The Eras Tour at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Night 2 (x)(x).

A custom painted Taylor Swift Eras Tour football helmet that was posted by the KC Chiefs (x)

Travis receives friendship bracelets from Swifties (x)

Last Kiss (guitar) & Dorothea (piano)

a grainy image of Travis, Patrick and friend in the private suite at Arrowhead for the Eras Tour.

July 11 - Taylor attends Questlove's games night (x) with her back up singer Melanie Nyema.

July 14 & 15 - The Eras Tour ~ Empower Field, Denver

N1 Picture To Burn (guitar) & Timeless (piano)

N2 Starlight (guitar) & Back To December (piano)

About You by the 1975 is taken off the preshow set list after Denver.

July 19 - Travis is photographed outside the members-only club Zero Bond in NYC (a favourite club of Taylor's) (x). Travis reposts this photo on July 23 (x)

July 22 & 23 - The Eras Tour ~ Lumen Field, Seattle

N1 This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (guitar)(x) & Everything Has Changed (piano)(x)

N2 Message In A Bottle (guitar) & Tied Together With A Smile (piano)

July 23 - Travis and Jason record New Heights Ep.50 before leaving for training camp. Episode will be released on 26 July whilst boys are at camp.

Travis Kelce attends training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs in preparation for the coming NFL season at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, MO. (see open to public training camp schedule x) Chiefs Train camp runs July 23 -Aug 17. Photos (x)

July 24, 25 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO

July 26 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO

New Heights podcast ep. 50 airs.

Travis expresses his disappointment that he didn’t get to meet Taylor and give her the friendship bracelet he had made with his number on it (x starting at 25:14)

"I was disappointed that she doesn't talk before or after her shows... so I was a little butthurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her…. I received a bunch of them being there but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it" says Travis "Your number as in 87 or your phone number?" responds Jason "You know which one."

(photo of the exact moment Travis says "you know which one")

New Heights posted to Twitter

Jason comments on the New Heights instagram page, saying (x)

"Let’s be honest Taylor’s dad definitely made the right move not introducing her to Travis. He self admitted was trying to slip her his number on a friendship bracelet, truly shameful act"

July 28 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO

The Eras Tour ~ Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara N1

Right Where You Left Me (guitar) & Castles Crumbling (piano)

July 29 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO

The Eras Tour ~ Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara N2

Stay Stay Stay (guitar) & All Of The Girls You Loved Before (piano) - check out Taylor’s grin when she sings that football helmet line! (x x) ... Taylor did you reach out to a certain football player?

July 30 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO

July 31 - Chiefs Training Camp, St Joseph, MO

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[aggressivelyaverage21]

WARRIOR NUN FANDOM, and geography nerds: I'm working on locating the OCS chapters and would love some opinions and help

1. Madrid chapter (according to Camila)

1.b We know Spain also has Cats Cradle in Andalusia (Antequera)

2. New York, New York USA ("east coast USA in fandom wiki)

3. Vancouver British Columbia Canada (best guess corroborated by the fandom wiki)

4. Santa Clara, Cuba ("carribean" in fandom wiki)

5. Durango Mexico (open to other options)

6. Buenos Áreas Argentina (corroborrated by fandom wiki)

7. Cape Town South Africa (corroborated by fandom wiki)

8. New Dehli India (corroborated by fandom wiki)

9. Singapore (corroborated by fandom wiki)

10. Beijing or Tangshan China

Before the map shows up two cities in each hemisphere go dark I can find the holes for a couple of the lights

A. Edmington Canada or maybe something slightly more north

B. Paris France (about)

C. Cairo Egypt (corroborated by fandom wiki)

In an erlier frame from a hard angle it looks like there is maybe one in Australia as well

I’m thinking maybe Adelaide

There is one that’s taken out just before the 4 start disappearing off the map.

Then when it shifts there is another one just south of the China one that goes dark and the fandom wiki suggests it's in Korea (6 total gone dark before we get the flat look at the map)

Fandom Wiki also has one in London England.

So all together according to the map and the story around it there should be 18 or so chapters at the start of S2 at the very least.

What are your thoughts/head cannons?

When Yasmine has her computer open to find the OCS it looks like she might have some locations there but it’s not on screen long enough to get a clear picture

SO here's the list I got so far in no particular order: (I'll update as it goes) 1. Cat's Cradle - Antequera (filming location), Andalusia, Spain

2. Madrid, Spain

3. London, England

4. ____, France

5. New York City, USA

6. Santa Clara, Cuba

7. Vancouver, Canada

8. ____, Canada

9. ____, Mexico

10. Buenos Areas, Argentina

11. New Dehli, India

12. Cape Town, South Africa

13. Signapore

14. ____, China

15. _____, Korea (N or S ? assuming South)

16. _____, Australia

17. ____ (western hemisphere)

18. ____ (no idea)

This is not including the random safe houses they probably have all over (like the one MS and Camilla are using at the start of S2 in Malaga Spain)

[most-hated-blorbo-bracket]

any chance of an updated list?

Of course!!

Also, this is the NEW and FUCKING IMPROVED LIST, I alphabetized it so it’s even better than before >:3

Currently, we have 340 unique characters (if I counted right) and 487 total submissions. The top three most submitted fandoms are Homestuck, Danganronpa, and One Piece, excluding submissions that were spelt wrong or spelt differently. The top three submitted characters are Haiji Towa, Vriska Serket, and Stella Goeta (stella has so many submissions it’s funny)!

Finally, this is the raw, unedited list of characters submitted so far. Just because they are here doesn’t mean they’ll be in the tournament; it just means they’ve been submitted, regardless of media or what character they are!

as always, list under the cut!

This first list is for characters with two or more submissions. Characters who have three or more submissions will get first dibs in the tournament!

Akechi Goro

Akio Ohtori / Himemiya

Anakin Skywalker

Ansem the Wise

April O’Neil (2012)

Ardyn Izunia

Ayin

Azula

Bill Cipher

Boston

Bramblestar

Buzz McCallister

Caillou

Chibiusa

Childe

Cici

Cullen Rutherford

Darkstalker

Dazai Osamu

Dio

Dio (Zero Escape)

Donald Trump

Donquixote Doflamingo

Dr. John ‘Jack’ Seward

Drannus

Eichi Tenshouin

Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus

Eridan Ampora

Evan Hansen

Every Genshin Impact Character Ever

Glenn Quagmire

George Wickham

Greg Heffley

Haiji Towa

Happosai

Her Imperious Condescension

Higashikata Josuke

Huey Emmerich

Ibara Saegusa

Izzy Hands

JD

Jace Herondale / Wayland / Lightwood / Morgenstern

Jin Guangyao

John Gaius

Julia Mazzone

Junko Enoshima

Jurgen Leitner

Katsuki Bakugo

Kokichi Ouma

Kristoph Gavin

Kromer

Kusaka Masato

Kylo Ren

Kyubey

Lance Dubois

Le’garde

Live Action Buggy

Makima

Mal

Marvin Falsettos

Meenah Peixes

Merlin

Micah Bell

Michael

Minoru Mineta

Mr. Bungee

Pierce Hawthorne

Pierre

Princess Daisy

Ranpo Edogawa (Beast)

Regal Farseer

Ronaldo

Rose Quartz

Santa Claus

Sasuke Uchiha

Scrappy Doo

Sentinel Prime

Shiver

Shou Tucker

Simon

Simon Laurent

Sosuke Aizen

Spamton

Stella Goetia

Teddy / Kuma

The Maverick

The Metatron 

The Once-Ler

Thistleclaw 

Tony Stark

Tsumugi Aoba

Ty Betteridge

Val Velocity

Viren

Vriska Serkat

William Afton

c!Dream

Ōchi Fukuchi

The next list is for characters only submitted once. If you want these characters to have a higher chance of being added to the tournament, feel free to submit more propaganda for them!

Absalom

Abyss Sibling

Adam

Agamemnon 

Airy

Akane

Akito Shinonome

Akito Sohma

Alastor

Alexander Hamilton

Ali Lectric

All For One

Aloise Trancy

Anatole Kuragin

Angel Dust

Anne Hathaway

Any Character From Welcome to Nightvale

Anyone From The Locked Tomb

Aranea Serkat

Ashfur

Astarion

Asuka

Bella Swan

Ben Jackson Walker

Betsy Wolfe

Billy

Billy Hargrove

Black Pete

Blackbeard

Blitzo Buckzo

Booker

Box

Bro-Strider

Buck Cluck

Buzz (cheerios)

Byakuya Togami

Caesar Clown

Caliborn / Lord English

Captain Kuro

Cersei Iannister

Chloe Bourgeois

Chris McClain

Chrollo Lucifer

Cicero

Clara Oswald

Coco

Cozy Glow

Cynte

Damian Wayne

Dan Moroboshi

Dean Venture

Dean Winchester

Detective Saracusa

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd

Disembodied Voice

Don Flamenco

Dr. Henry Miller

Drew

Duke

Edelgard

Elias Ainsworth

Elias Ainsworth

Elon Musk

Equius Zahhak

Erebus

Eric Cartman

Erlina and Brugaves

Eugene Coli

Every Single Country In 1993

Everyone In Romeo And Juliet

Father / Dwarf In The Glass

Feferi Peixes

Five

Five Pebbles

Floch

Foreman Oyun

France (Hetalia)

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu

Gamzee Makara

Georg Weissmann

God

Goeffry St. John

Gordon Blackwall

Graham Spector

Gra’ha Tia

Haiji Senri

Heath cliff

Henry Miller (OC)

Henry the Eighth

Himiko Toga

Hisoka

Hiyoko Saionji

Holly Blue Agate

House

Huey Laforet

Ianthe Tridentarius

Il Dottore

Inspector Tobias Greyson

Itsuki Shu

Izumi Sena

JJ

Jacopo Bearzatti

James T. Kirk

Jayne Cobb

Jiren

Joe Destefano

Johnny

Jonah Magnus

Jonathan Groff 

Judith Ford / Natalie Cook

Judo

Julia

Julie-Sue

Ken

Kevin

Kusunoki Muu

Kyouichi Saionji

Ladd Russo

Lady Catherine de Bourgh 

Lebreau Fermet Viralesque

Light Yagami

Liontari

Lotor

Louie

Louis

Luke

Mahiru Koizumi

Makoto Itou

Marie

Marlon

Mary Keay

Master Crown

Matou Shinji

Matpat

Me

Medusa Gorgon

Meredith Rodney McKay

Michael Scott

Miguel O’Hara

Millions Knives

Moash

Moeka Kiryuu

Monokubs (Except Monodam)

Mori Ougai

Morris

Mr. Collins

Ms. Valentine

Muu Kusunoki

Muzan Kibutsuji

Mystery Hunter (Jeremiah Hartley)

Nagito Komaeda

Nanami Kiryuu

Narumi

Natsumi Sakasaki

Nefera DeNile

Nickel

Nikola Tesla

Noor Pradesh

Ocelot

Octavian 

Ogai Mori

Orochi

Otto Apocalypse

Paul Von Oberstein

Pencil

Petyr Baelish / Littlefinger

Prince Louis

Queen Scarlet

Quiche

Quill Kipps

Rafal (FEE)

Rafal (SGE)

Rafe Cameron

Randy

Raven Queen

Rebecca Costwolds

Redd White

Riley Finn

Roger

Rohan Kishibe

Roland

Roshi

Rumpelstiltskin

Ruruka Ando

Sakazuki Akainu

Sandy

Sanji

Sebastian Mechaelis

Sheldon Cooper

Shen Jiu

Shiki Tohno/Nanaya

Shinonomes (both)

Shredder

Sigma Klim

Silver Spoon

Skizzleman

Slayer

Solf J. Kimblee

So Sejima

Splinter

Stark Sands

Steven Universe

Stormcaller

Subara Akehoshi

Tatsumi Kazehaya

Teruhashi Makoto

Teruteru

The Eleventh Doctor

The Entirety Of Homestuck

The Groke

The Little Palace Mistress

The Mage

The New Ninja

The Old Palace Master

The Operator

The Pale King

Tim Drake

Tom Wambsgans

Tomaru Sawagoe

Touichiro Suzuki

Trishna

Tumblr Staff

Valens Van Varro

Verstael Besithia

Victor Frankenstein

Vivienne Medranno’s Impsona

Voice In The Calm Ad On Spotify

Volgin

Wanderer/Scaramouche

Wen Chao

Whiteout, Clearsight, and Benjamin

Will Shuester

Willy Stampler

Woodes Rogers

Xisuma

Yoshiharu Hisomu

Yu Ziyuan

Yumichika Ayasegawa

Yuri Briar

Zeke Jaeger

Zenos Galvus

Zhou Zishu

[darkmaga-returns]

I've asked the Santa Clara County health department to explain why we shouldn't be concerned. I will update this article when I hear back.

Steve Kirsch

Oct 18, 2024

Executive Summary

Santa Clara County has an excellent open data portal with lots of COVID data posted.

This morning I decided to take a deep dive and I downloaded the long term care facility (LTCF) cases and deaths.

I discovered that after the COVID vaccine rollout began, the COVID case fatality rate increased by 50%. The result was statistically significant.

I asked Ben at US Mortality to double check my work. His results are posted below.

The shots were supposed to make the elderly less likely to die from COVID, not more likely to die from COVID.

Furthermore, the age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) in Santa Clara County didn’t return to normal after the mask mandates, lockdowns, and a stunning 95% vaccination rate in the County. As Ben noted, the ASMR increased in 2021 vs. the 2020 baseline, and 2022 was only slightly lower.

I’ve reached out to media relations at the public health department (PHD) for an explanation as to why we shouldn’t be concerned about these numbers. I will update this article with their response when I hear back.

The data so you can replicate my work

My work is all posted on my Github in the covid repo. The README explains the details.

You can download the public health data for long term care facilities (LTCF) cases and deaths.

In calculating the CFR, we shifted the deaths forward by 11 days so we aligned case peaks to death peaks.

[featheredstudies]

2023.01.16 // 16:44  took some time over winter break to update my library catalog and reading list in notion!

pic: santa clara co., calif.

[santaclaralocalnews]

Santa Clara has 600 miles of roads to maintain but is $2.2 million short of what’s needed to maintain them. The city also has 200 miles of storm drain pipelines and 21 storm drain pump stations that need $480 million in upgrades. Read more at svvoice.com

[onikasbarbie]

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

I saw Fall Out Boy last night and only just learned their setlist rotates and I liTERALLY?!???? Got the setlist equivalent of Santa Clara N1 or Minneapolis N2 holy SHIT insane insane insane insane insane they changed the setlist to do THREE songs they’d never ever ever played and there was a special guest for two songs (I mean I knew that but) and all the update accounts had complete meltdowns and I’m so!!!!!!!! Like it was literally one of the best shows I’d ever been to but this elevates it even more

[tigermike]

SERIOUS Custom:

1951 Studebaker Woodie - Never Slow Down - StreetRodder

Body

Gray Baskerville accurately described Dennis Varni as "a hot rodder's hot rodder." Since buying a '31 Model A as a teenager in the late '50s, Dennis doesn't seem to have slowed down ever. He has amassed a phenomenal stable of collector cars, trucks, vintage race cars, and motorcycles of practically every type, including the '29 Model A roadster built by Boyd Coddington that was named America's Most Beautiful Roadster in 1992. He has participated in motorsports all over the world, including numerous trips to Mexico to race in the famous La Carrera Panamericana, to South Africa for the South African Rally Championship, and to the Bonneville Salt Flats, right here in the U.S., where he drove his Falconer L6-powered "Speed Nymph" streamliner just shy of 350 mph.

Dennis has more checks on his hot rodding bucket list than just about anybody we know. So did you really expect his latest street rod to be something ordinary?

Body Bottom

Any 1951 Studebaker woodie custom could be considered out of the ordinary (how many can you think of?), but Dennis, builder Curt Hill, and the people who had previously helped create this custom woodie, have taken the '51 to an extraordinary level.

This car was under construction when Dennis made the winning bid for it at the auction of the late Joe MacPherson's prized collection. The unfinished project had been started by Doug Carr of Woodn' Carr. It had already been transformed from a sedan to a fastback (based on Thom Taylor's design sketches) and was already a woodie. The top was chopped 2-1/2 inches, and the rear fenders were stretched 18 inches and treated to custom taillight lenses and bezels. The '37 Ford headlights were installed by Steve Davis, who had done some of the early fabrication on the car.

Such an unusual car deserved an equally unique engine. For a while, Dennis considered dropping in a Cadillac engine to create his own version of the Studillac, the Cadillac-powered Stude coupes custom-built in the mid '50s. Then he remembered the one-of-a-kind induction system he'd found at a swap meet decades ago. The mechanical fuel injection system, with wild-looking air bodies, was a prototype created by Propulsion Development Laboratories in the '50s. Everybody had seen it on the cover of Hot Rod magazine in 1959 and nobody had seen it since. The setup is finally in service, feeding a Ford 427 FE engine. Dan Brewer in Torrance, California, did the assembly on the engine and converted the PDL mechanical injection to work with a Hilborn electronic system hidden under the manifold. Edelbrock cylinder heads are topped with Edsel valve covers to replicate the look engine on Hot Rod's cover. The new combination produced 410 hp on the dyno. An adapter fits the Ford to a GM 700-R4 transmission. This is one of the rarest, most unusual engines you'll find in a hot rod, but Dennis is almost nonchalant about it. "Nobody puts Edsels in Studebakers," is what he said.

The interior was entrusted to Sid Chavers in Santa Clara, California. Chavers built custom bucket seats and covered them in tan leather with gray-toned fur inserts. No need to replace the '51 Studebaker dash, so Redline Gauge Works restored the appearance of the factory gauges and updated the internals. A reproduction '54 Stude steering wheel came from Shrock Brothers, which specializes in repro Studebaker parts. Lucky 7 Customs gave the wheel and column their wood grain paint. The perfect accessory to the interior is the set of vintage alligator-grain luggage in the rear deck area, which Dennis found in an antique store in Washington.

The end result is a genuinely unique custom that would probably hover around the top of most people's lists of great Studebakers, great woodies, and great customs.

[readyforwhit]

We’ve added SANTA CLARA!! And wow, it is SO FUN😍!

The Eras Tour VIP posters… so far!! I’ll keep updating this as they come out 🩵

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