#We Have Played Timber 87 Times

[your-greatest-queen]

One of my biggest hater moments in middle school was when my 4th grade teacher had us play Just Dance every day to get us to loosen up and get refocused and every day we would do 1-4 dances before going back to work. She let us pick the songs and I waited WEEKS for my turn to pick a song and I was SO excited to eventually choose Michael Jackson's Ghost of Jealousy.

Finally my turn came and I happily told my teacher my choice and she put it on. And then, she turned it off 30 seconds in because, and y'all will never believe this, the 9 year olds were not vibing with it. And I literally have never recovered from that betrayal

[leafpool-loves-ashfur]

Speedrunning 100 moons in ClanGen

just a lil info dump of all the SpeedrunClan stuff in the video posted above.

SpeedrunClan - Moon 100

Leader: Pondstar (8/9) Deputy: Spottedember Medicine Cats: Honeyfade, Aphidtooth Warriors: Sapdapple, Mapleback, Mottledrump, Tornhawk, Conefern, Nightingalegaze, Squirrelnut, Hopestem, Skipnight, Buzzardhusk Elders: Primfoot, Burger

information on the cats copy-pasted below:

First off, our leader, Pondstar. Yep! She’s still alive, after everything, and she only lost ONE LIFE to a dog attack! She’s now 142 moons old, the oldest in the clan! Her traits are playful and learner of lore, but generally I think she’s become a rather bitter and masochistic cat, with a very snobby attitude towards the other clans, considering she has ordered the deaths of AntClan kits before and has been seen taunting the other clans. Her mate was Lavenderripple, the medicine cat, and they had 8 kits over the course of 3 litters: Duckkit, Oakclash, Wildsilk, Honeyfade, Stumpmoss, Timberminnow, Squirrelnut, and Bluestripe. She mentored 4 cats, her own kid Stumpmoss, Sunnysight, Carpclaw, and Nightinggalegaze. She appointed her mate’s ex’s affair partner, Rootshade, as deputy, which was either a power play or she didn’t care about the fact Prim and Root cheated on their partners.

Next is our deputy, Spottedember! Spottedember was born to Faith the loner alongside Frondspirit and Hatchfreckle. But their young 16 moon old mother was, presumably, murdered by Primfoot and Rootshade so that the couple could raise Spottedember and her siblings as their own. Her other adoptive siblings are Aphidtooth, Crocusfur, Rainbowkit, Swiftpaw, and also Timberminnow. Timberminnow considers Primfoot her mother, despite her having cheated on her father, Lavenderripple, so Timber classifies as Spottedember’s adoptive sister. Spottedember was born a tom, but came out as a she-cat during her apprenticeship. She was mentored by Carpclaw, and mentored Skipnight. Her current traits are childish, lore keeper, and good climber, and she was influenced by Carpclaw to defend her beliefs, socialize less, remember history, and she was honored for her determination. She graduated late at 14 moons at Moon 76, and is currently 38 moons old, and mates with Squirrelnut and Hopestem. The scar on her side is from a battle with a Rat King.

Honeyfade is our senior medicine cat! Honeyfade is from Pondstar and Lavenderripple’s first litter, so her littermates are Duckkit, Oakclash, Wildsilk, and Stumpmoss, and her younger siblings are Timberminnow, Squirrelnut, and Bluestripe. She is currently 87 moons old, and graduated late at 16 moons old on Moon 29. Her traits are ambitious and beloved kitsitter. She was mentored by her father, Lavenderripple, and, despite Lavender having a more stoic personality, became more social yet a big rule-follower who doesn’t want to break the status quo. She was honored for her bravery, and she mentored almost every following medicine cat after her: Guppykick, Bumbleslip, Aphidtooth, Almondblossom, Swiftpaw, and Olivefur. She was mates with Snailbeak, but he died and Honeyfade didn’t get into another relationship for a long time, despite many cats crushing on her, like Tornhawk. Eventually, she developed feelings for Sapdapple and became mates with her. Before that, strangely, she had a litter with a parent from another clan, consisting of Almondblossom, Shrubkit, and Chivekit. Seems being a medicine cat must run in the family! She’s very amicable, holding many strong friendships, and the only cat she ever hated is, apparently, Tricklestalk, with a strong passion, for some reason. Perhaps he wasn’t as good a mediator as we think… She also has chronic joint pain, a permanent condition.

Aphidtooth is our second surviving medicine cat. She was born to the loner Shining alongside her littermates Rainbowkit and Crocusfur, and was the first litter to be stolen by Primfoot and Rootshade. She was much closer to Rootshade than Primfoot. Her older adoptive sibling is Timberminnow through Primfoot, and her younger adoptive siblings are Spottedember, Frondspirit, Hatchfreckle, and Swiftpaw. Her traits are confident and eloquent speaker, and she is currently 45 moons, and graduated late at 17 moons on Moon 72. She was mentored by Honeyfade, who influenced her to avoid violence but be better at arguing. She was honored for her initiative. She mentored Beetlepaw, who died. The only cat she ever had a crush on was Sunnysight, and, it seems this isn’t an unpopular opinion, as a lot of cats seem to have crushes on Sunnysight, including Tornhawk and Conefern later.

Sapdapple is our senior warrior at 105 moons old. She has been a kit from the very, very start, and she and Pondstar are the only two founders still alive. Her traits are troublesome, unnatural senses, and good storyteller, and she was mentored by former deputy Ashskip, who influenced her to calm others down and follow the rules more, as well as notice little details. She became a warrior early at 11 moons on Moon 6 and was honored for her flexibility. She was previously mates with Strawspeckle and then Mottledrump before she was captured by Twolegs, and had a litter with Mottledrump consisting of Stagblur, Rindlefreckle, Bumbleslip, and Cedarpaw. She eventually returned to the clan, and would earn two scars, one before her capture and one after: a cheek scar from a fight and half her tail cut off from a falling tree. She mentored Tornhawk. Over all, she seems like she stuck to her troublemaking roots and has always been outgoing, yet oddly level-headed.

Mapleback was formerly a NimbleClan warrior, having abandoned her old clan over a transgression. She joined at 39 moons old and is now 96 moons old. Her traits are righteous and fast runner. She earned a scar on her neck from a snake bite she survived—I think that’s pretty hardcore of her. She mentored Hushfade, and influenced him to be more cold towards others, follow the rules, and be resilient. I imagine she was a pretty strict mentor. She was mates with Wildsilk before his death, but did not appear to have a close attachment to him as she didn’t have a strong reaction to his murder, nor the fact that he had kits with another cat while they were together. She went on to have a litter alone, consisting of Pansypaw, Beetlepaw, and Buzzardhusk. She isn’t overly close to Buzzardhusk, but seems to care for him, though he does appear to be her least favorite kit. Perhaps her more cold nature is why she left NimbleClan.

Mottledrump is from the litter I told you not to get attached to. Well, I lied! He’s a proud warrior, now 93 moons old. He’s the son of Fluff and Springclaw, and his littermates are Gardeniapaw and Auburnkit, and his younger siblings are Snailbeak, Tornhawk, Forestfur, Whiskerrapid, Conefern, Spikepelt, Thriftroach, and Boarsplash. He has the cold trait, which I think he gained from his littermates’ young deaths, but he’s also an incredible runner and a great teacher, which shows as he’s had 4 apprentices, including 2 of his younger siblings: Snailbeak, Conefern, Graymeadow, and Buzzardhusk. He was mentored by his mother, Springclaw, who influenced Mottledrump into making more impulsive decisions. Mottledrump was honored for his caution when he graduated at 13 moons old on Moon 20. He was mates with Strawspeckle and Sapdapple, but after Straw’s death and Sap going missing, he remained single for a long time, until he and Oakclash caught feelings and became mates, though Oakclash would die as well. Also important to note that Oakclash was also mates with Mottledrump’s sister, Tornhawk, at the same time. With Sapdapple, he had 4 kits: Stagblur, Rindlefreckle, Bumbleslip, and Cedarpaw. Curiously, when Sapdapple returned from being lost, she and Mottledrump did not get back together, despite them both being single at the time. It seemed their feelings had mutually faded.

And now it is time for Tornhawk! Oh gosh, Tornhawk, where do we even start? Tornhawk is from Fluff and Springclaw’s second litter, so her older siblings are Mottledrump, Gardeniapaw, and Auburnkit, her littermates are Snailbeak, Forestfur, and Whiskerrapid, and her younger siblings are Conefern, Spikepelt, Thriftroach, and Boarsplash. She is currently 83 moons old. Her traits are nervous, very clever, and good storyteller. Sapdapple was her mentor, who influenced her to step out of her comfort zone and make her own rules, which I think Tornhawk took a little too much to heart. Despite being honored for her forethought, I don’t think Tornhawk actually has much of it. She graduated at the usual 12 moons on Moon 29. The moon before that, Tornhawk suffered from frostbite in the cold, and it hit her ears and nose, destroying their nerves. She can still hear, but her ears are both sensitive and lack feeling, and she can’t smell properly. Through her time spent healing, she bonded with Guppykick the medicine cat apprentice, and they would become mates. Despite this, I can’t help but wonder if Tornhawk’s eyes were truly just for Guppykick, or if Tornhawk actually only got close to Guppykick to be closer to Honeyfade, Guppykick’s mentor. Because it seems like Tornhawk holds a lot more romantic and platonic love for Honeyfade than for Guppykick. I think Tornhawk developed a lot of admiration and respect for Honeyfade while she was treating Tornhawk, which over time would grow into something like an obsession. Her relationship with Guppykick seemed to thin off as she neglected giving attention to her mate, and, Tornhawk proceeded to get pregnant with another tom’s kits—Wildsilk. Not only was Tornhawk mates with Guppykick, but Wildsilk was also mates with Mapleback, yet neither of them seemed to actually hold any feelings for the other, seeing as Tornhawk doesn’t blink when Wildsilk is murdered. I think Guppykick breaks up with Tornhawk around this time, which Tornhawk seems to see as a chance to confess to Honeyfade, while she’s still pregnant. Honeyfade rejects her, and Tornhawk gives birth to 2 kits: Carpclaw and Hushfade (and it’s not lost on me that Honeyfade and Hushfade’s names are so similar… perhaps Tornhawk requested Hushfade’s suffix). In game, Tornhawk would confess and get rejected by Honeyfade again, but I think Tornhawk does this a lot, and Honeyfade always just tries to politely reject her. Meanwhile, because Tornhawk’s love life is a literal shit show, she becomes mates with Oakclash, but then she has another litter, this time being sired by a cat from outside the clans, instead of her mate again

. 3 kits: Fruitstripe, Fadedpaw (again, with the Fade-thing?), and Agavepaw. As of right now, Tornhawk is single and way too fucking ready to mingle. Her obsession with Honeyfade is reaching Ashfur-levels, you guys. Honeyfade also holds a small amount of dislike for Tornhawk, and very little like, and this is saying something because Honeyfade holds a lot of love for nearly all of her other clanmates. Aside from that, Tornhawk mentored Downseeker and Fadedpaw, and she influenced them to be more likely to bicker. I can see why. She also lost her tail to a fox. (I think she might be taking after her mother, Springclaw, who murdered Wildsilk for literally no reason…)

Moving on, Conefern is our next warrior. He is from Fluff and Springclaw’s fourth litter, meaning his older siblings are—here we go again—Gardeniapaw, Auburnkit, Mottledrump, Snailbeak, Tornhawk, Forestfur, Whiskerrapid, and his littermates are Spikepelt and Thriftroach, and Boarsplash is his younger brother. Conefern is a very simple and easy warrior, thank StarClan, after the absurdity that is Tornhawk. Conefern is 67 moons old currently, and his traits are troublesome, very clever, and good mediator. He was mentored by his older brother Mottledrump, who influenced him to be more likely to bend the rules, and use violence over words, yet also helped him become better at solving problems—okay, I guess if your problem is murdering kits and the answer is yes… But, he became a warrior at 12 moons old on Moon 45, and was honored for his wit. Keeping with apparent tradition, he mentored his younger brother, Boarsplash, after his previous mentor Thriftroach died. He was mates with Sunnysight before her death. I wonder if Conefern is perhaps infertile or similar, as Sunnysight had kits with Mistpelt, but there doesn’t seem to be any hard feelings, and Conefern calls the kits his own. It was a litter of 4, consisting of Mottlestripe (named after his big bro, perhaps?), Skipnight, Honeycomb, and Hopestem. He seems to be a good dad, having strong relationships with his kits.

Beloved Nightingalegaze is the child of Perchroar, with deceased littermates Fringewhisker, Graymeadow, Lowstep, and Downseeker, and younger half-sibling Oliverfur, whose father is Hushfade. Nightingalegaze views Hushfade as their own father too. Nightingalegaze is currently 42 moons old and grew up during a time when wars were rampant. They were mentored by Pondstar, so I imagine the pressure was really on for them to be just as violent and bloodlusty and strong as the rest of the clan. Their traits are adventurous, great climber, and valuable insight, and Pondstar influenced them to break rules that don’t suit them and to be resilient. They were honored for their fearlessness and graduated late at 15 moons on Moon 73—I imagine because Pondstar held high expectations for them. If not for the fact that they haven’t had an apprentice yet, I almost wonder if Pondstar would have made them deputy instead of Spottedember considering their traits about good insight. They were born a tom but came out as nonbinary as a warrior, and they became mates with Timberminnow briefly and had a litter of 3 kits with her: Quiverkit, Moonpaw, and Fuzzkit, all of whom died young, and so did Timberminnow. This likely deeply affected Nightingalegaze, but I imagine they are pushing their emotions away to keep up appearances. Their leg was also just mangled in a Twoleg trap on Moon 100, twisting it, so that’s another thing weighing their mind down. Poor Nightninggalegaze—it really isn’t going great for them.

Squirrelnut is from Pondstar and Lavenderripple’s last litter, their littermate being Bluestripe and their older siblings being Duckkit, Oakclash, Wildsilk, Honeyfade, Stumpmoss, and Timberminnow. She is currently 34 moons old and in a sapphic poly-relationship with Spottedember and Hopestem. Her traits are wise, valuable insight, and good teacher, and she was mentored by Lowstep. She graduated at 13 moons old on Moon 79 and was honored for her understanding. I imagine Squirrelnut is kind of a little silly cat, who likes to crack jokes and poke fun of others lightly, which makes others think she isn’t all that serious or smart, but she really is very wise and knowledgeable. I think Spottedember has grown a little more jaded over time, and I think Squirrelnut is there to try and mellow her out and get her to relax. Squirrelnut I think was also the one to fall for Hopestem and suggest bringing her into the relationship after seeing Spottedember getting flustered by Hopestem’s kindness.

Hopestem is the daughter of Sunnysight and Conefern, with Mistpelt being her biological surrogative father. She resembles Mistpelt a lot though, so I think she tried to have a stronger relationship with Mistpelt before his death. Her siblings are Mottlestripe, Skipnight, and Honeycone. She’s currently 29 moons old, and her traits are charismatic, den builder, and a great mediator. She was mentored by Hushfade, who made her resilient and better at caring for the camp. She graduated at 12 moons on Moon 83 and was honored for her charisma. I think she’s a very kind and genuine soul, caring for even the tiniest things, a stark contrast to the rest of her clan. She also had a childhood crush on Bluestripe, and became mates with him. But, Bluestripe died when their relationship was still young, and Hopestem was devastated. She sought solace in Bluestripe’s sister, Squirrelnut, as they both mourned his death. I think they grew close during this, and Squirrelnut started to fall in love with her shy smiles and bubbly laughter, and how diligently she would care for the camp as though it was a living thing too. I like to think Hopestem had a little crush on Spottedember first, finding how the young and new deputy tried to keep things running smoothly and orderly endearing. She was likely shocked to be asked to be mates with them, perhaps a bit hesitant to rush into anything and ruin their friendship too, but she accepted, knowing that she could learn to love the two romantically. I think she’s often nervous to mess something up though, and often steps over her own paws to try and appease them, but Spottedember and Squirrelnut always reassure her she doesn’t have to be perfect for them. She’s also probably equally as worried as Squirrelnut that Spottedember is stressing out and overworking herself. Aside from her adorable love life, she also briefly mentored Swiftpaw before he became a medicine cat, and I think she took his death hard too.

Skipnight is Hopestem’s sister, so just rinse and repeat what I said earlier: her parents are Sunnysight, Conefern, and Mistpelt, and her littermates are Hopestem, Mottlestripe, and Honeycone. She’s 29 moons old and her traits are nervous but formidable fighter, which I think is an interesting combination. She was mentored by Spottedember, and I think since Spottedember was barely older than her by 9 moons, Spottedember actually struggled a bit with maintaining her authority versus a friendship with Skipnight. They don’t appear to have a strong relationship at all, so I wonder if Spottedember perhaps tried too hard to be a serious mentor. Still, Spottedember influenced Skipnight to break away from the status quo, defend her beliefs, and to be social. She was honored for her insight when she graduated at 12 moons on Moon 83. She was mates with Frondspirit, who died only this past moon on 99. She’s not grieving his loss though, so I think Skipnight mostly just feels… lonely. She doesn’t really seem to have any friends… except for Tornhawk.

Buzzardhawk is our youngest warrior and cat in the clan in general at 17 moons old. He is currently injured too, but so far it is not a permanent scar. Buzzardhawk’s mother is Mapleback, and his littermates were Pansypaw and Beetlepaw. Pansypaw died right before they were supposed to become warriors together, so I think this left him quite shocked, especially since Beetlepaw’s death was probably still raw. His traits are troublesome and incredible runner, and his mentor was Mottledrump, who influenced him to be more cold towards others and use violence over words (...again, Mottledrump, again?). He graduated, alone, at 12 moons on Moon 95, and was honored for his dignity. He then immediately had to mentor an apprentice, Moonpaw, and I imagine he was not quite ready for it at all, still grieving his sister. But I think he tried and, unlike with Spottedember and Skipnight, he and Moonpaw became good friends instead of a more traditional mentor-apprentice relationship. But this only meant that when Moonpaw died suddenly, Buzzardhawk was left hollow and lonely. I think he had kind of shut down at this point, growing jaded, sad, and quiet. He grew up after the wars, but during a time when death was rampant, dragging the clan down from a bustling hive of activity, to a meager sixteen cats. I think death is starting to become numb to him. …After him and Skipnight, this is starting to get very depressing…

Thankfully, Primfoot is next! Ah, good ol’ Primfoot! Primsy, Primsy, Primsy… If we thought Tornhawk was a lot of drama, then she’s got nothing on Primfoot. Prim joined the clan at 61 moons old on Moon 22. ClanGen says that something terrible made her leave her old home behind, and we might not know what that is, but whatever it was, I almost wonder if it was more of Prim’s fault than what she would lead others to believe… Primfoot was almost too quick to join the clan and take a clanname, in my opinion. She is currently 139 moons old, and an elder. Her traits are righteous and unnatural senses, which I think fits her a lot. I think Primfoot is the kind of cat to think she’s never in the wrong, and that everything she does is for the greater good in the end. She currently has a permanent condition of a weak leg, and has had it for 47 moons, which meant she was a warrior for a long time despite her weak leg. She mentored many apprentices, including Forestfur, Timberminnow, Fringewhisker, Agavepaw, and Pansypaw.

It says she encouraged Forestfur to heed their anger and be calm, so I think Primfoot really prided herself and others on being calm, collected, and calculated, and to be proper and mannerly. Which is almost ironic, considering all of the murdering and kidnapping and taunting she does. Let’s start off from when she joined the clan—she pretty quickly became mates with Lavenderripple, I imagine because she was perhaps purposefully getting close to him since he was a medicine cat and therefore in a position of power, and he was easily smitten with her attention, despite already having a mate. Whatever the case, Pondstar had no issue with Lavender dating Primfoot, though Pond and Prim were never in a relationship with each other. Pondstar and Lavenderripple at the time had Timberminnow, and Primfoot was quick to become a parental figure for Timberminnow, which was only more firmly solidified as Timber was given to Prim as an apprentice. Now, a lot of Primfoot’s kits seem to be rather depressed or stressed out in some way, but she also has very strong relationships in game with them, so I get the impression that Primfoot was very much an over-controlling parent but one who gave a lot of overbearing love. Like, smothered her kits in it, but only so she could use it as a threat—if they didn’t do what she wanted, she would stop loving them, and of course they wouldn’t want that. Timberminnow I think was the first and perhaps strongest case of this, as Prim wasn’t even her primary parent at first, but quickly it seems like Timber did everything for Primfoot’s approval. I think this definitely affected Timberminnow later in life, as Timber was often detached from her mates and family, and thought about leaving the clan often. I think Timber was either jealous when Primfoot moved on to her other kits, or that Timber realized Primfoot didn’t really love her in a genuine way, and it depressed her. What a great mom you are, Primfoot. And she’s not a great mate either, as she cheated on Lavenderripple for Rootshade.

I think Primfoot might have genuinely fallen for Rootshade a bit. Rootshade was a very daring and aggressive cat, and just as ambitious as Primfoot. I think Rootshade was persuaded by Primfoot’s businesslike attitude and charming facade, and both of them agreed they wanted to rise to power together and “build a better, stronger clan.” So, Prim cheated on Lavender, and Root cheated on Oakclash. When they got found out, I think Oakclash broke up with Rootshade, but Primfoot made sure she was the one breaking up with Lavenderripple, which probably pissed him off. Either way, Prim and Root were now officially together, and quickly made themselves a power couple, almost flaunting off how in love they were. And I think Primfoot is the one who likes to use kits to gain power. When she raises her kits, she raises them to love and respect and need her and, most importantly, follow her. It gives her power and influence in the clan. But of course she and Rootshade can’t biologically have kits together, and I think neither of them want to be pregnant either, so the next best thing, of course, logically, is to murder some parents and steal their kits! So Prim and Root will go on to murder 3 different loner mothers and take their kittens, resulting in 3 litters raised by the both of them, including: Rainbowkit, Aphidtooth, Crocusfur, Frondspirit, Hatchfreckle, Spottedember, and Swiftpaw. Just like with Timberminnow, I think Primfoot smothered them with love only to take it away when they misbehaved, and she taught them to be very, heh, prim and proper. I think Rootshade might have been a more genuine parent, as I get the vibe that Rootshade almost has the endless energy of a kit—I think Rootshade enjoyed playing with them as kits but would grow less close to them as they grew up as she doesn’t know how to handle their “emotions” like Primfoot does. Now, after Ashskip’s death, Rootshade became deputy, which was pretty surprising considering you’d think Root and Pondstar would have bad blood… But I almost wonder if Primfoot and Pondstar were almost kind of friends? Because of course Primfoot would try to be close to the leader as well, though I think Pondstar was always just too closed off for Primfoot to get too close. I think Pondstar maybe didn’t care too much about the whole relationship drama, and just happened to choose Rootshade. Whatever the case, Primfoot and Rootshade were ecstatic. They were working their way up the ladder! I truly think Primfoot is the one pulling the strings here too. I think SpeedrunClan became a lot more openly aggressive with Rootshade as deputy and Primfoot being almost like a second deputy, and I think Pondstar let it happen and even encouraged it in some aspects. Killing kits became the norm, and war raised an entire generation of young warriors. I think Primfoot retired because she was content where the clan was. It was the way she wanted it. Her mate in power, the clan striving to be in control and powerful and fearless. On the contrary, I think Pondstar is unhappy with how the clan is now, I think she wishes it was back to the days where it was just her and the founders. But I think Primfoot has also been whispering in her ear a little, especially after the death of Lavenderripple. So when Rootshade died, which probably did devastate Primfoot genuinely, Pondstar made Spottedember deputy because Spottedember was Primfoot’s daughter. And I think Primfoot is really putting the pressure on Spottedember to keep the clan powerful and feared, while Spottedember secretly wishes for the opposite… Wow, mom of the year award there, Primfoot. You really are evil. And I think she is going to be very shocked when she dies and wakes up in the Dark Forest.

Woof… All of that… And then… there’s Burger. God, Burger—we fucking hate you Burger. Why are you even here?! Burger refused to join the clan twice because it was too scary. I think Burger doesn’t want to fight or get hurt, which is why she only joined when she was too old to be considered able to fight in wars. We met Burger pretty early on, and, based on her history description, I think she got abandoned by her Twolegs or lost them, and was left in the forest and didn’t know how to survive. So she approached the clan, but the descriptions sounded scary and hard, and she decided to learn how to hunt and survive on her own. Which she managed! Good for her! And I think the second time the clan saw her and offered her to join, they had gotten even worse, and, even though Burger had been thinking about it, it now sounded too terrifying at all, so she left and lived a content loner life. But I think she started to grow old, and was losing the ability to hunt well for herself… So she finally joined the clan, only to immediately request retirement so she didn’t have to lift a paw. I think she’s still a little scared of the clan, but that she’s realized that when you’re on the inside of the clan, they aren’t quite as murderous towards each other (save for that one murder nobody ever talks about). So now she just chills and reaps the rewards of being an elder. She probably thinks Primfoot is weird though. So I guess maybe we don’t hate you Burger. She finessed the system and we’ve gotta respect that.

[ageofevermore]

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(1) Do You Sleep With Your Closet Doors Open Or Closed?

it’s a dual sliding door, so usually one sides open. but preferably, both doors are closed. 

(2) Do You Have Freckles?

sometimes in the summer, not often though. 

(3) Can You Whistle?

yes! 

(4) Last Song You Listened To.

well for some reason there’s a guy on my TV singing God Bless The USA

(5) What Is Your Favourite Colour?

purple

(6) Relationship Status.

single because my favorite omegle guy won’t answer me 

(7) What Is The Temperature Right Now?

48F / 9C

(8) Did You Wake Up Cranky?

i woke up wishing i was still asleep

(9) How Many Followers?

835

(10) Zodiac Sign.

Sun: Capricorn, Rising: Aries, Moon: Aquarius 

(11) What Is Your Eye Colour?

brown / hazel 

(12) Take A Vitamin Daily?

no

(13) Do You Sing In The Shower?

obviously, i’m not completely insane

(14) What Books Are You Reading?

whatever fucking book my english class assigned...

(15) Grab The Book Nearest To You, Turn To Page 64, Give Me Line 14.

i literally only have a text book by me and opening it is triggering

(16) Favourite Anime?

i don’t watch anime

(17) Last Person You Cried In Front Of?

my mom...about greys anatomy...but still my mom about christmas and my birthday. i cry alot, but i like REALLY cried about those two topics

(18) Do You Collect Anything?

chapstick, trauma, candles 

(19) What Did You Have For Lunch?

it’s only 10am and i haven’t even thought about breakfast 

(20) Do You Dance In The Car?

yes, and then my mom yells at me because i do nothing “subtly” and the entire car shakes

(21) Favourite Animal?

white siberian tigers, snow leopards, dolphins, and now elephants

(22) Do You Watch The Olympics?

unfortunately. i love gymnastics, but like, i’m not trying to watch men in toboggans and swim caps 

(23) What Time Do You Usually Go To Bed?

anywhere between 12pm and 3am

(24) Are You Wearing Makeup Right Now?

no, i never wear makeup because it makes me look more ugly

(25) Do You Prefer To Swim In A Pool Or The Ocean?

ocean

(26) Favourite Tumblr Blog?

besides my friends i don’t really have a favorite blog, i stick to my circle and don’t venture very far 

(27) Bottled Water Or Tap Water?

bottled. 

(28) What Makes You Happy?

i couldn’t tell you...

(29) Post A Gif Of What You’re Currently Feeling Right Now.

(30) Do You Study Better With Or Without Music?

without, but i always start with it on. it never lasts more then two songs.

(31) Dogs Or Cats?

dogs

(32) If You Were A Crayon What Colour Would You Be?

a shade of purple from the crayola 200 pack

(33) PlayStation Or Xbox.

wii

(34) Would You Swim In The Lake Or Ocean?

ocean

(35) Do You Believe In Magic?

hell mothering fucking year i do baby, lets take that train to hogwarts 

(36) What Colour Shirt Are You Wearing?

its a friends pj crop, so black and white stripped with the central perks logo

(37) Can You Curl Your Tongue?

yup

(38) Do You Save Money Or Spend It?

save money 

(39) Is There Anything Pink Within 10 Feet Of You?

my cup 

(40) Do You Have Any Obsessions Right Now?

stranger things ig

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no, those assholes scare me, but i’ve grown + released them 

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um chile, i would follow my best friend off a cliff with no hesitation

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all the fucking time 

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ITS MY FAVORITE FORM OF TRAVEL 

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the hannah montana movie

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peanuts 

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one direction 

(48) Are You A Picky Eater?

yes 

(49) Are You A Heavy Sleeper?

yes, but it takes me forever to fall asleep 

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yea, depends on the day and the level of scardy bitch i feel like being 

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i love both 

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hell yeah, let me feel the beat in my kidneys 

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carve pumpkins 

(54) Put Your Music On Shuffle, What Is The First Song That Came Up?

no tears left to cry by ag

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fall

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a churro + peppermint mocha frap

(57) Post A Screenshot Of Your Tumblr Feed.

(58) What Is Your Gender?

female (she/her)

(59) Coffee Or Tea?

iced coffee / sweet tea

(60) Do You Have Any Homework Right Now? If So, What Is It About?

yeah, i have environmental homework and US I homework and Algebra II homework

(61) What Is Your Sexuality?

bruh, idk 

(62) Do You Make Your Bed In The Morning?

no, that shit’s never made 

(63) Favourite Pokemon?

jigglypuff 

(64) Favourite Social Media?

pintrest 

(65) What’s Your Opinion On Instagram Stories?

they’re okay

(66) Do You Get Homesick?

no. i don’t miss thins very easily, i’m away from home for a week and i have no doubt that i could spend the rest of my life without going back. 

(67) Are You A Virgin?

yes sir

(68) What Shampoo And Conditioner Are You Using Right Now?

idk, some really thick and heavy in hydration set 

(69) If You Were Far From Home And Needed To Sleep For The Night, Would You Choose To Rent A Crappy Motel Room For $60 Or Sleep In Your Car For Free?

sleep in my car, though both options scare me 

(70) Are Both Of Your Blood Parents Still In Your Life?

i have a strained relationship with my bio dad, but unfortunately i still have to associate myself with him a few times a year 

(71)  Whats The Next Movie You Want To See In Theaters?

black widow or spiderman 3, but i’m willing to see anything just take me back! 

(72) Do You Miss Your Ex?

i’ve never had an ex, but i do wish krystian would stop ignoring me. stupid scotland boys 

(73) What Is Your Favourite Quote Right Now?

“friends dont lie”

(74) What Eye Colour Do You Find Sexiest?

green / brown 

(75) Did You Like Swinging As A Child? Do You Still Get Excited When You See A Swing Set?

i loved swinging, but a few years ago it started making me dizzy so i don’t swing very often anymore. but tire swings especially are my shit 

(76) What Was The Last Thing You Ate?

chicken flavored ramen 

(77) What Games Do You Have On Your Phone?

yes 

(78) Would You Give A Homeless Person CPR If They Were Dying? Why Or Why Not?

yeah...because they’re dying and if i have the skills to save them...why wouldn’t i?

(79) Been On The Computer For 5 Hours Straight?

honey, i do full virtual high school. we stan a pandemic (we don’t)

(80) Stalked Someone On A Social Network?

social media stalker is my middle name. not anymore though, i haven’t been asked to find a boy in a while 

(81) Do You Like Meeting New People?

no. i hate it. anxiety city man. 

(82) Do You Wear Rings? If You Do, Take A Picture Of Them.

i don’t wear rings, but i really want to.

(83) Do You Sleep With Your Bedroom Door Open Or Closed?

closed

(84) What Are Three Things You Did Today?

woke up, watched stranger things, made ramen 

(85) What Do You Wear To Bed?

whatever i fall asleep in. 

(86) List All Of Your Different Beauty Products You Have Right Now.

are beauty and skincare the same? because i don’t own much makeup. 

(87) Are You A Day Or Night Person?

i used to be a night person. but this pandemic has hit hard with depression and i’ve become a stay in bed all day person

(88) List All Of Your Video Games On Your Phone, Console Etc.

2048 balls, among us, ball sort puzzle, bubble shooter, bubble sort, color roll 3D, drag n merge, fit and squeeze, hole.io, mario kart, match 3D, nonogram.com, paint the cube, roof rails, solitare, spit, stacky dash, stair run, timber run...

(89) Tell Me About A Dream That You Had And When It Happened.

After my moms fiance died, I had a dream that he was able to come see my fifth grade play (he died just before it happened) and when we were walking out he got into the white car from fast and furious (we watched the movies together) and said he would see me again soon, then he drove off...like talk about weird 

(90) Favourite Soda Drink?

rootbeer 

(91) What Sounds Are Your Favourite?

i like a good clicking sound 

(92) Do You Wear Jeans Or Sweats More?

sweats everyday all day 

(93) How Do You Look Right Now?

like a fucking wreck 

(94) Name Something That Relaxes You.

netflix 

(95) What Tattoo Do You Want?

i want a bunch of little symbols, and i think it would be cute if i got a T for my mom, but i can’t tell her that because she might think i’m going soft and exploit my show of affection (jfc why am i like this lmao)

(96) Favourite YouTuber?

colleen ballinger 

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Biomedical Research Facility University of Warwick

IBRB University of Warwick Biomedical Research Building, Gibbet Hill Academic Project, Architect, Images

Biomedical Research Facility at University of Warwick

English Campus in Warwickshire design by HawkinsBrown architects, England, UK

26 Mar 2021

Biomedical Research Facility University of Warwick Building

Architects: Hawkins Brown Architects and Fairhurst Design Group

Location: Gibbet Hill campus, Warwickshire, England, UK

Construction Completes At “world-class” Biomedical Research Facility In Warwick

National contractor, Willmott Dixon has completed the construction of the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building at the University of Warwick this month (March 2021).

Once open, the £33m “world-class” research building on the University’s Gibbet Hill campus – which has been assembled with components manufactured offsite – will bring together up to 300 researchers who will be working to understand the origins and mechanistic basis of diseases of the body and brain, intending to find new ways to extend healthy life spans. The facility will also house world-class research in neuroscience, microbiology and infection, cell biology, and disease models, supporting and facilitating interdisciplinary biomedical research of the highest quality.

Thanks to a £750,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, the IBRB includes state-of-the art laboratory space – the Wolfson Tissue Mechanobiology and Human Disease Laboratory, where researchers will investigate how cells and tissues perform mechanical functions. Their work will impact our understanding of a wide range of diseases, from cancer to brittle bones and heart conditions, positively impacting our ability to fight human diseases.

The development, which was project managed by Turner and Townsend, is 7000sqm and includes a 400-seat lecture theatre and five-storeys of laboratories, as well as various social and collaboration spaces. Alongside housing a team of researchers, the development will also enhance the student experience, facilitate the growth of undergraduate schemes and foster interdisciplinary collaboration enabling life-changing biomedical research.

The building – designed by Hawkins Brown Architects and Fairhurst Design Group – has been completed to a “world-class”, industry-leading standard with 50% of the development made up of PMV (pre-manufactured value), comprising of several offsite manufactured components, such as a pre-cast frame, mega-riser, timber frame, and cladding. This approach simplifies the project’s logistics and improves its sustainability credentials by reducing the carbon footprint.

The project, which was supported by cost consultants Mace, has also maximised opportunities to improve sustainability, including the installation of over 390 vertical PV solar panels; these offsets approximately 46,00kg CO2 emissions. Once in operation, Willmott Dixon’s Energy SynergyTM process will also be applied to the building to bridge the performance gap and drive down energy costs. Throughout the project, the contractor has also studied the project’s embodied carbon lifecycle which is supporting the university’s net-zero carbon estates strategy.

The IBRB is the University’s most environmentally sustainable space on campus so far. It demonstrates real progress towards our aim of reaching net zero carbon from our direct emissions and the energy we buy by 2030 – the pledge made in the University’s declaration of a Climate Emergency.

Peter Owen, managing director, at Willmott Dixon, said: “We are delighted to have completed such a significant scheme both for the University and for the on-going fight against human diseases. In the current climate, we are extremely proud to be playing a part in the future ambitions of the University of Warwick’s Medical School. By providing a world-class building through the use of innovative construction techniques, this facility will witness ground-breaking research to further solidify the University’s position at the forefront of biomedical development.

“This facility expands upon our pre-standing relationship with the University which saw us complete the award-winning, sustainable £37m Sports and Wellness Hub in 2019.”

Through adopting an offsite approach, the contractor was able to reduce the whole project build time to just 87 weeks, compared to longer for a comparable project using traditional methods.

Peter added: “Using offsite and modern methods of construction not only helped us to improve the sustainability and carbon footprint of the development, but the factory build environment also allowed us to have better quality control, a reduced strain on specialist trades and fewer site deliveries. This, in turn, benefitted the local community by ensuring the local roads of Coventry and the university were much quieter.”

Stuart Croft, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Warwick said: “Three years ago we announced our intention to invest over £50 million in a new state-of-the-art research building to bring together up to 300 biomedical researchers from across the University of Warwick’s School of Life Sciences and Warwick Medical School, to help research and advance human health and fight diseases. Completing that building in this most challenging of years of a global pandemic makes that achievement of our staff and Willmott Dixon all the more praiseworthy, and the context of the ongoing pandemic says more than I possibly can about how crucial such an investment is in our biomedical research.”

James Breckon, Director of Estates, University of Warwick, said: “This fantastic building has been delivered during exceptional times and is testament to the tenacity and commitment shown by all those involved in designing and building it from the construction industry.

“The strategy taken in using modern methods of construction and a strong focus on sustainability and safety has paid off. The building is an excellent addition to the campus at Gibbet Hill, with the architecture and public realm massively enhancing the environment for our students and staff. I look forward with excitement to hear about the purposeful research and development that will be carried out within this building.”

Willmott Dixon

Willmott Dixon is a privately-owned contracting and interior fit-out group. Founded in 1852, we are dedicated to leaving a positive legacy in our communities and environment and in 2018 were one of only six companies to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the promoting opportunity through social mobility category.

We create value for customers, stakeholders and communities by working sustainably and responsibly to shape the built environment and make a positive impact to society’s well-being.

The Wolfson Foundation

The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity with a focus on research and education. Its aim is to support civil society by investing in excellent projects in science, health, heritage, humanities and the arts. Since it was established in 1955, some £1 billion (£2 billion in real terms) has been awarded to more than 14,000 projects throughout the UK, all on the basis of expert review.

Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building University of Warwick images / information received 260321

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28 Aug 2019 IBRB University of Warwick Building image courtesy of architecture office IBRB University of Warwick Building

Location: University of Warwick, West Midlands, central England, UK

Warwick Building Designs

Warwickshire Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:

The Oculus Architects: Berman Guedes Stretton photograph : Quentin Lake The Oculus at the University of Warwick

Warwick Students Union Design: MJP Warwick Students Union

Bluebell Views Student Residences, University of Warwick Design: Page Park Architects University of Warwick Student Residences

Warwickshire Architecture

Warwickshire Buildings

Warwickshire Architectural Designs – Selection

Jaguar Land Rover Design Studio, Gaydon, Warwickshire Design: Bennetts Associates photography © Hufton+Crow Jaguar Land Rover Design Studio Building

Sherborne House, Coventry, West Midlands Design: Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects photo : Tim Crocker Sherborne House Coventry Building

BFI Master Film Store Design: Edward Cullinan Architects BFI Master Film Store

Royal Shakespeare Theatre – redevelopment, Stratford-upon-Avon Design: Bennetts Associates Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Design: Ian Ritchie Architects RSC Courtyard Theatre

English Architecture

Coventry Buildings

English Architect

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2018 in Review

This year has certainly been a whirlwind one for wildlife conservation. We’ve had our hands full fighting threats to wildlife, habitat, landmark conservation laws, and climate policies. But we’ve had a major positive impact, and we wanted to highlight 18 of our biggest accomplishments this year!

1. We achieved a crucial legal victory this fall when a federal judge ruled in our favor, holding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) accountable for its attempts to undermine red wolf recovery. Defenders generated more than 37,000 public comments and won the support of North Carolina’s governor for red wolf recovery in the state, helping to secure our legal victory.

2. We launched a new campaign to help address storm-water runoff, the biggest source of toxics that impact southern resident orcas in Puget Sound — a critically imperiled species. Our Orcas Love Raingardens campaign highlights the link between southern resident orcas and toxic water pollution. It prioritizes opportunities for schools, parks and neighborhoods in Washington state to install more raingardens throughout the community to directly combat the storm-water runoff problem.

3. Defenders helped fund new research on mapping polar bear maternal dens in the western Arctic using unmanned aerial vehicles. We produced a video detailing this exciting new tool, which FWS has adopted for its use. This critical research aims both to identify polar bear winter dens to keep people, ice roads, and other development a safe distance away and to improve our understanding of female polar bear den fidelity and how climate change affects den locations.

4. Defenders is partnering with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Blackfeet Nation on an exciting new wild bison restoration effort. In 2016, 87 genetically pure bison from Canada’s Elk Island National Park were transported to the Blackfeet Reservation to begin the effort, but theyhave been kept in a very small pasture awaiting a permanent home. This year, we successfully acquired the first-year lease of a private ranch in a key location to provide the new home for this small herd.

5. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has announced the addition of our Southeastern Hellbender Conservation Initiative to its Working Lands for Wildlife partnership. This initiative is a collaboration led by Defenders to support farmers using conservation practices on their lands that help restore hellbender habitat.

6. We completed the fourth year of our Wolverine Watchers project, a highly popular community science forest carnivore monitoring effort on the rugged Bitterroot National Forest (BNF) in Montana. Nearly 140 volunteer scientists assisted with every aspect of the monitoring effort and documented the presence of 29 different species. Volunteers recorded seven individual wolverines at 14 monitoring stations and, for the first time, wolverine kits!

7. In response to two of Defenders’ listing petitions, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) listed the oceanic whitetip shark and the giant manta ray as threatened under the ESA. Now we can be sure that these species get the protections they need to begin recovering.

8. We released 27 scarlet macaws in the Biosphere Reserve of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico in August. This was our seventh scarlet macaw release there, and the birds reintroduced this summer will join 130 already in the wild. Through this series of reintroductions, we’ve established what is now the second largest wild population of scarlet macaws in Mexico, where they are highly imperiled. These reintroductions have brought scarlet macaws back from the brink of extinction, and the birds are forming breeding pairs and nesting in both natural nests and artificial ones partially funded by Defenders.

9. Following formal objections filed by Defenders and others, the Forest Service dramatically reduced the size of a proposed old-growth timber sale on Wrangell Island in the Tongass National Forest by about 90%, protecting thousands of acres of habitat for wildlife like Alexander Archipelago wolves, northern goshawks and brown and black bears.

10. Defenders opened our first-ever office in Texas to address critical threats to species and habitats in the Lone Star state. Texas supports some of the largest number of threatened and endangered species in the country, including the Houston toad, lesser prairie chicken, Gulf Coast jaguarundi, dunes sagebrush lizard, Mexican long-nosed bat, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, and ocelot. So far, our work is focusing on significant threats posed by the proposed border wall, efforts to stop three proposed liquid natural gas export facilities that could block ocelot movement between the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Brownsville and five habitats in Mexico, and building collaborative relationships with private land owners, state and federal agencies, conservation organizations and other groups with shared interests in biodiversity.

11. Defenders developed a comprehensive new report, In the Shadow of the Wall, to illustrate the damage a border wall would have on wildlife and habitats along the southern border area. The report focuses on key species such as jaguars, ocelots, Mexican gray wolves, California condors, Sonoran pronghorn, and other threatened and endangered species. Over 2,500 scientists from 43 countries have endorsed the article.

Scientists’ Call to Action: The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity and Binational… Join us in expressing unified concern over the U.S.-Mexico border wall’s negative impacts on biodiversity and…defenders.org

12. We continued to advance climate change adaptation planning for wildlife on public lands with stakeholders in the U.S. and at international conferences and meetings across the country — even as the Trump administration has abdicated our country’s leadership on this seminal issue. Our plenary presentation at the Everglades Coalition conference in January explored the effects of hurricanes on key habitats, the role that ecosystems serve in mitigating storm damage to human communities, and ways that managers can help improve the resilience of natural areas.

13. Defenders developed, prioritized and deployed recommendations for strengthening conservation programs in the 2018 Farm Bill, the largest source of funding for species conservation on private lands nationwide. We spent months analyzing, advocating and improving upon dozens of provisions in both the House of Representatives and Senate versions of the bill, with the goal of producing final legislation that works for both people and wildlife.

14. We successfully led Capitol Hill and grassroots advocacy efforts to stop scores of direct attacks to undermine the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We played a leading advocacy role in helping to stop enactment of over 110 bills, riders and amendments damaging to the ESA. We also helped to achieve major victories for the ESA, the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), and national forests in the final Fiscal Year 2018 omnibus spending bill, which had the potential to be a disaster for wildlife.

15. Defenders’ President and CEO Jamie Rappaport Clark and other Defenders spokespersons helped focus remarkable attention in the national press against a damaging proposal by the Trump administration to rewrite the regulations implementing the ESA. We drafted detailed comments and coordinated weekly discussions with over 25 organizations to raise the public visibility of the proposals and helped generate 800,000 public comments in opposition.

16. In August, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled for Defenders and our partners in our challenge to the Trump administration’s suspension of the Obama administration’s Clean Water Rule. The Clean Water Rule protects the drinking sources of nearly a third of the U.S. population under the Clean Water Act, including many seasonal streams and wetlands. The court’s ruling reinstated the Clean Water rule nationwide except in 24 states where it had previously been overruled.

17. Defenders published the first comprehensive overview of the status of ESA recovery planning in the leading journal Conservation Letters. Our research shows that a quarter of listed species lack recovery plans, half of all plans are over 22 years old and there is extensive variation between agencies and regions in how plans are implemented. Our research provides key evidence that major improvements are needed for recovery planning. This research is closely related to our ongoing work to develop web-based ESA recovery plans, which can help alleviate challenges faced by recovering and imperiled species.

18. Working with partners, we launched a major new project in New York aimed at increasing the pace of solar energy development on Long Island by identifying low-impact sites for generation based on local zoning and other laws, solar insolence and land protection priorities. The project will also conduct social science research in communities to understand residents’ perceptions of solar energy generation, and to identify and address barriers to development. We believe that if we can find room for solar energy facilities on a landscape as crowded as Long Island, we can export that model to innumerable other places in the country.

Thank you for helping us create a better world for wildlife in 2018. May 2019 bring you and your families health and happiness, and bring a more peaceful and protected world for wildlife.

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[zsebeger]

yeah sure why not

1. You woke up naked next to the last person you texted, what would you say?

morning, sunshine

2. What’s going on between you and the last person you kissed?

a lot of things, mostly love

3. If your boyfriend or girlfriend was into drugs, would you care?

of course

4. Is your last name longer than six letters?

yes

5. Was your last kiss drunk or sober?

sober

6. Have you ever wanted to have someone but you messed it up?

i always mess up

7. What does your last received text say?

good morning!

8. How many times have you kissed the last person you kissed?

i lost counting

9. Where was your last kiss at?

uh i think in my dorm room or in the lift

10. When is the last time you saw your sister?

i don’t have a sister so never and always?

11. What do you drink in the morning?

coffee

12. Where did you sleep last night?

in my wonderful bed

13. Do you think relationships are hard?

i think they are the hardest thing we have to deal with but the same time the most amazing and wonderful and beautiful and they are the best thing of all

14. If you could go back and change something in the past 5 months, would you?

maybe we should go on a trip or something, we should travel a bit

15. You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, any problems?

it would be pretty awesome, actually

16. Would you rather it be sunny or rainy?

depends on my mood, i hate when the sun reaches my skin so i’d say rainy, but after a few rainy and clouded days i get sad

17. Do you know anyone with the same middle name as you?

not really

18. Are you wearing jeans,sweatpants,or pajama pants?

i’m in bed, i don’t wear pants

19. Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 years from now?

yes

20. Does anyone like you?

yes

21. Have you ever kissed someone with a name that starts with an S?

i have no idea, i don’t really think so

22. Is the last person you kissed gay?

i think maybe not, but she’s not sure

23. Is there a person you CANNOT stand?

there are a lot of people i can’t stand

24. Have you ever considered getting a tattoo?

i have two but i want some more

25. In the past week have you cried?

uhh i don’t know. i’d say yes because i usually cry but i think i had a pretty good week

26. What breed was the last dog you saw?

chinese chrested dog, she left my bed a few minutes ago

27. Do you dry off in the shower or out of the shower?

half in and half out maybe

28. Have you ever kissed a football player?

if you mean a ‘professional’ dickhead, no. but my gf likes to play football so

29. Do you think you’re old?

yes

30. Do you like text messaging?

i’d prefer calls, but you can’t always call someone yet text messages are timeless, you can talk all day, so yeah, i like them

31. What type of day are you having?

idk yet, i’m still in bed, i didn’t have my morning coffee, so it could be anything

32. Have you ever thought about getting your nose pierced?

yes but decided it wouldn’t suit me

33. Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

neither, i love spring weather

34. Is there a person of the opposite sex who means a lot to you?

yes i have a gay friend and some random characters i love

35. Would you prefer a relationship or a fling?

relationship

36. Are you a simple or complicated person?

complicated

37. What song are you listening to?

Rockabye because my gf listened to it two days ago and it’s stuck in my head

38. When you say you’re sorry do you mean it?

yes, because i say it very rarely

39. Is there a girl that knows everything or almost everything about you?

yes, maybe two

40. What made you start liking the person you like now?

that she is... i think i started to like her because she is life, she is the sun

41. When did you last receive a text message?

40 minutes ago maybe

42. What is wrong with you right now?

everything

43. How well do you know the last female you texted?

deeply :D

44. Does anyone disgust you?

a lot of people

45. Would you date someone right now if they asked?

i’m dating someone, so if they weren’t her, then no.

46. Are you in a good mood right now?

neutral

47. Who was the last person you talked to in person?

probably my mom

48. What color shirt are you wearing?

green

49. Has someone recently told you something you didn’t want to hear?

people always tell me thing i don’t want to hear

50. Anyone you’re giving up on?

no

51. Do you hate the person you fell hardest for?

no, i’m dating her

52. Have you ever thought about giving up on someone but couldn’t?

sometimes

53. Do you like rain?

yes

54. Do you care if your boyfriend/girlfriend drinks?

yes, especially if she did it without me

55. Have you ever liked somebody and never told them?

i think so

56. Do you like to cuddle?

yes

57. Are you shy?

i guess

58. Do you get along with girls?

i guess

59. Have you dated the person you texted last?

currently dating her

60. What do you carry with you at all times?

my phone, and i have this thing for Persephone, it’s like a rosary

61. If you were paid 1 million dollars to spend the night in a supposed haunted house, would you?

sure

62. Do you think you can last in a relationship for five months?

no, i was really sure about no. but here we are, more than 1,5 years with her

63. Think back to October, were you in a relationship?

yes

64. The person you like kisses you on the forehead, do you find this cute?

yes, i love it

66. How old are the last three people you kissed?

i don’t remember the other two

67. Would you rather pay to get your nails done or do them yourself?   

i usually do it myself

68. Which do you like better- Zebra print or leopard print?   

neither, but if i have to, leopards

69. Do you have any stickers on your car?   

yes, two reining stickers, girls in cowboy hats performing a sliding stop  (with a horse, of course)

70. Would you rather listen to Luke Bryan or Lil Wayne?   

neither

71. Blackberry, Anroid, or iPhone?    

android

72. When’s the last time you had pizza from Pizza Hut?   

i can’t remember

73. Do you like diet soda?   

not really

74. What color are the walls in your room?   

green, with bricks and ivy leaves

75. Are you 16 or older?  

older 76. Do you watch Pretty Little Liars?   

no

77. Do you have a job?   

not yet

  78. What are your initials?   

N.C. or G.G.

79. Did you ever have braces?  

yes, it was cool 80. Are you from the south?   

i don’t think hungary counts as south

81. What does your last status on facebook say?   

i can’t remember, i don’t post much on fb since we’re together

82. Do you still talk to the first person you ever kissed?

no   83. Are you closer to your mom or your dad?

mom   84. Have you ever done cheerleading or gymnastics?

not really   85. What’s the last movie you saw in theaters?

Fantastic Beasts    <3   86. Do you smoke?

rarely cigarillos 87. Would you rather wear heels or flip flops?

heels   88. Is your phone touch screen?

yeah   89. Do you normally wear your hair straight or curly?

sadly it’s curly   91. Would you rather swim in a river, lake, or pool?

lake or pool   92. Have you ever made out in a car?

sure, who didn’t   93. …Had sex in a car?

i think yes   94. Are you single or in a relationship?

relationship   95. What were you doing last night at midnight?

talking to my gf? idk   96. When’s the last time you saw fireworks?

two days ago   97. Do you like the camera on your phone?

yeah, kinda   98. Have you ever had a friend with benefits?

one time almost, but she turned out to be my girlfriend 99. Have you ever passed out from drinking?

   uhm maybe 100. Are you friends with people on facebook that you actually hate?

don’t think so   101. Have you ever had a pregnancy scare?

hah you know i’m a lesbian, right?   102. Name your favorite Kesha song:

   timber, and huh i think she has  a song from that  Not Literally made a parody 103. Do you have any tan lines right now?

don’t think so   104. Would you ever wear cowboy boots with shorts?

i’m not sure that i didn’t wear that already, but i sure wear cowboy boots with miniskirt, or riding shoes with shorts so

[32flavasshoetique]

siberian woman

This is only some of the numerous concerns I have been talked to recently because of blogging here. What a question!

I possess a routine of composing late in the evening but Nastya ases if to view motion pictures withme prior to she sleeps. I suchas to maintain the condo clean and also ordered whereas Nastya ases if to carpeting the floor withall the clothing she chose she isn’ t mosting likely to wear that time. Image: Michael Oliver-Semenov

One I significantly desired to stay clear of as well as would have had my editor as well as wife not goaded me in to giving a response. I need to step carefully as my partner and publisher are eachSiberian women and also I put on’ t want to shed this area on the Moments or awaken to locate I have possessed parts of me taken out througha quite furious other half.

Firstly, being actually married is actually a strange trait: two people stuck together forever and ever amen. It’ s a challenging service in itself. It was actually also harder for my better half and also I as I was actually simply provided residency 6 months earlier and our team invite fact been married for only over pair of years. Previously 6 months, our initial effective time period of cohabiting as a couple, we have actually needed to acquire made use of to eachvarious other’ s bothersome behaviors and also traits; it hasn’ t consistently been actually exciting.

I have a habit of creating late during the night but Nastya suches as to see flicks withme before she rests. I as if to maintain the home tidy and also organised whereas Nastya ases if to carpet the flooring along withall the garments she chose she isn’ t going to use that day. I ‘ m instead keen on participating in jazz popular music, Led Zep and so on, however Nastya ases if to play the Russian popular song. So there have been actually times where our experts eachcould possess gladly coshed the various other over the scalp along witha blunt guitar.

But these traits are actually usual in relationships aren’ t they? I put on ‘ t know because neither Nastya neither I have actually been actually married prior to; that makes it look like I am less trained to answer this question, considering that definitely I will need to have to have been actually married to one woman from intermittent country if you want to make some form of evaluation.

Perhaps it would be actually muchbetter if I were actually to define Siberian ladies?

As a Westerner there have actually been some cultural distinctions that have actually taken an althoughto get utilized to; and also as a teacher, where I am in a blessed position that permits me to ask all kinds of private questions of my trainees, I have actually been surprised by some perspectives.

What is it like being actually married to a siberia women , are they more durable than typical? This is just among the various inquiries I have actually been actually asked just recently because of blogging listed below. What a concern! Picture: Michael Oliver-Semenov

The a large number of my female pupils assume it is a woman’ s place to cook for males, to washthe condo, to care for males commonly and to regularly appear attractive. It is their major duty to be slim, healthy and gorgeous at all times in purchase to feel free to guys.

My man students meanwhile can certainly not prepare a single factor. None may also boil an egg. Their main job depending on to them is actually to – provide ‘, – fix factors ‘ and also be manly. Seems to be a bit old fashioned doesn ‘ t it? Due to the fact that it is.

This is why I have been actually talking about feminist literature withmy women trainees and also asking my male students lots of concerns regarding cooking food, then telling them just how an egg is steamed. Simply, my examining and also tries to – inform ‘ so to speak could be observed by some as an attempt to subvert Siberian lifestyle; so I have actually had to step quite carefully. Siberians have actually lived withthese values for a long period of time and it’ s most likely not my location to attempt to transform just about anything.

Everyone seems to be delighted, althoughI was actually worried when some of my pupils couldn’ t also consider becoming head of state of Russia when I inquired her to compose an essay on the subject matter.

– However only men are actually presidents ‘, – men are stronger as well as better as well as better at ruling the globe’. Really? I couldn ‘ t aid but experience unfortunate that this set certain pupil couldn’ t even imagine being just about anything muchmore than second area or even second-rate in the world. In her sight guys ought to constantly be actually paid out greater than ladies regardless of whether they carry out the same work. – Men must consistently be made to feel they are manager’ ‘ etc and so on

Thankfully I wear’ t have these sort of discussions along withmy wife; I wear’ t requirement to: our experts are actually identical. Nastya throws the clothing on the floor and also I pick them up. I also perform most of the food preparation, not just due to the fact that I really love cooking food yet since I put on’ t would like to be – took care of ‘. Equality of the sexes isn ‘ t constantly about preparing food as well as cleansing thoughis it. It’ s concerning understanding as well as stability, self-respect as well as morality. I don’ t think my better half experiences she is actually next to best; at least I hope she doesn’ t.

The bulk of my women students think it is a woman ‘ s position to cook for males, to clean the condo, to care for males usually and to constantly appear stunning. It is their major part to become slim, in good condition as well as sexy in all times in order to satisfy guys. Image: Michael Oliver-Semenov

As you asked, I have to point out that in my point of view she – wears the pants’: she brings in most of selections when it concerns spending loan, where our experts invest our holidays, our potential programs; she even revises my job and recommends me what to accept eachauthor. However this is relationship in general isn’ t it -? Men like to – show up ‘ as the one in charge when in reality females consistently have the upper hand; that ‘ s exactly how marital relationship operates doesn ‘ t it?

In Russia there is an articulation that goes something suchas this: – Russian females can stop operating horses in their keep tracks of ‘. Siberian females specifically have a reputation for being difficult, considering that Siberians are normally tougher than the typical human being (sweeping statement, I know).

While I shelter’ t viewed any sort of evidence of Siberian ladies presenting super-human strengthI can say that mostly they are actually really patient as well as tireless. My relative for example is a power of attribute. She deals withevery thing in the home as well as expands bunches of vegetables at the dacha. Althoughshe is actually slow she is actually regularly moving: watering crops, cutting timber, taking her son to school etc. And her mama, 87 year old Baba Individual retirement account is specifically the exact same.

Althoughshe may appear historical, in her head she is actually still 20; and despite the fact she can scarcely stroll unaided, she still chooses to prepare her personal dishes and also suches as to check out the dacha in summer season too. Thus to answer your inquiry regarding Siberian ladies being actually harder than other women, I may’ t specifically claim without a doubt.

I possess 3 sisters back home in the UK and also they’ re all toughas old footwear; so I reckon my solution is actually bothyes and also no (I’ m being smoothhere, may you inform). I can’ t mention anything cement without creating muchmore sweeping statements, as well as I’ m still definitely stressed I might encounter as a prejudiced pig (if I place’ t actually).

What I can easily claim for sure is that I have no issues or disappointments, having said that if my partner asks me to watchSexual activity and the Urban area once more, that are going to perhaps transform.

In Russia there is actually a phrase that goes something suchas this: – Russian girls can stop running steeds in their keep tracks of’. Siberian females especially possess a reputation for being tough, given that Siberians are actually generally tougher than the typical person. Image: Michael Oliver-Semenov

Siberian ladies might look challenging, during that they manage to live in a world witha commonly unfavorable climate device, as well as rub shoulders withguys when it relates to dicing lumber, producing fires for the bbq and so on, however to illustrate the ladies here as tougher than others may be going a little bit far.

They, like ladies all over, have to reside in a man controlled globe and endured the same foolishness, while constantly competing for level playing fields and also justness. One can contend that in general Siberian girls are muchless difficult due to the fact that lots of (minority I have complied withanyhow) can easily’ t visualize a globe where ladies are identical, and also some equal inquiry why females ought to be equal.

In my view the – hardsiberian woman ‘ is actually a bit of an untrue cliché: my female students are probably occupied improving on their own at the moment or even thinking of what they must be actually doing to feel free to someone else rather than what they’d like to do as individuals. Simultaneously one could possibly dispute that Siberian women are tougher than girls elsewhere given that they exist in suchan aged fabricated fatherlike society and as a result have a longer roadway to empowerment. I presume everything boils down to what you suggest throughhard?

If you intend to wed a woman that chefs, cleans up, pertains to men as premium and also believes males are actually – supervisor ‘, then certainly, you may intend to look into seeing Siberia as well as pleasing a woman here, however, if you performed, that would most likely say a lot more about you than it will about Siberian ladies.

But after that mentioning eachof this, I put on’ t know everybody here, and also I can only happen my expertise along withthe few people that I recognize. I have asked a lot of questions of the people I have discovered however there is obviously the truththat I know lower than 0.002% of the population, or even less than that, therefore my understanding is actually very confined in extent. There is actually the opportunity that there are simply a handful of people listed here along withoutdated fabricated scenery whichthey all occurred to become in this particular one place. Whichwill indicate every one of the above isn’ t quite common.

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Garden regionally. Get inspired globally.

Guest Rant by Marianne Willburn  

Somewhere near the bottom of every writer’s artistic license, a clever wordsmith will find the following recommendation:

Monty Don

“Comically exaggerating the position of one’s opponent is encouraged in the defense of one’s argument.”[i]

Thus, after verbally sparring with Scott Beuerlein over the curiously inflammatory subject of whether to openly read British garden writers, or to do so under the covers by flashlight – all the while pledging fidelity to the American values of Weed & Feed; a tortured Scott is wrestling with the inadequacies of a Midwestern accent late into a Cincinnati evening, and I am apparently one step away from a sexting relationship with Monty Don.

Yet, beyond the slings and the arrows and the thoroughly base attempt to play cards as sneaky as cancer and a dead, beloved dog (I see you one dog and raise you a dad, Scott), the rebuttal beautifully illustrates the constant niggling suspicion American gardeners have that the British are looking down their noses at us, feeding us advice to help us fail, sniggering with intent, and securing all the fat Timber contracts in order to render our garden gurus speechless upon their own soil.[ii]

Rubbish.

Or if you prefer, horseshit.

And when social media gets involved, the comments reveal our innate prejudices and (I believe) underlying insecurities as Americans.

For the record:

I am not a self-righteous Brit who ignores and disparages American garden writers because I am so enchanted with the idea of tea at four and ha-has across the south lawn that I can’t remember my USDA zone. I AM an American garden writer with dual citizenship who has lived most of her life in America, reads authors on both sides of the Atlantic and writes for American publications on American soil. I married a Marine. And not as a war bride.

And neither is Scott a Trumpian angry ethnocentrist (as one commenter lamented) because he has a beef with the relevance of British garden writing to American gardeners. He was clearly just having a bad day.

Perhaps it was a work-related trauma. Spring is a cold and busy season at the Cincinnati Zoo. The last thing the Manager of Botanical Garden Outreach needs to have shoved down his throat is a picture of Fergus Garrett standing under a fruiting Musa basjoo.

Perhaps someone left a copy of George Plumptre’s The English Country House Garden in the men’s toilets. We can only speculate.

Nevertheless, something primal snapped in the man. I get it. But to throw out the cherubic baby with the bath water? That’s when I objected.

It’s just so damned predictable.

Though a strong stance, Scott took a safe one. An American audience is not going to object to giving the Brits a tongue-lashing for what we immediately assume to be their propensity towards snobbery, condescension and arrogance. And, any written defense of such a reprehensible population will be met with equal certainty that the author [obviously bewitched] eats her eggs soft-boiled.

An autumn tapestry at the newly opened Delaware Botanic Gardens, designed by Dutch Wave guru Piet Oudouf, and providing 25 acres of forage, habitat and outstanding beauty for wildlife & visitors.

Except.

Americans are not innocent in this game. Far from it. From my American pine cradle, I’ve grown up in both worlds. My mother is a California rancher’s daughter, my father, a public-schooled Brit. After a lifetime of lively conversations around their dining room table with friends from far and wide, I can attest to the fact that the two cultures take great delight in a strong sense of superiority over one other. I’ve seen my share of sparring. Subtle and not so.

All these decades after the American Revolution, there is still the spirit of rebellion in your average American heart and we’re deeply (and rightly) proud of it. We object to being told what to do – whether it’s what to do for a living, what to wear to a funeral, or what to plant in our gardens. We expect the luxury of space, and claim it when we can – from 4200 square foot homes for two people to insisting on a wide berth when standing at an ATM.

We’re pioneers, explorers and dreamers. But we’re also pragmatists. A great many of us feel strongly that we don’t need a two thousand year-old language to refer to a plant our daddies always called Ramps. And if we want to spell it with a capital R, that’s our business. We sure as hell don’t need people with a perfect climate telling us how to grow it.

Even though they probably weren’t.

In their less generous moments, the Brits look upon us as spoilt children who think the world revolves around us. (Scott, your original essay didn’t help with this.) They write for their own as surely as we write for ours; and if it’s American money that’s buying a gardening book, they credit that money with the good sense to recognize that it doesn’t live in Cornwall – and to adapt accordingly.

They’ve got their own issues and insecurities certainly.  In a country with an average population density of 720 people per square mile (the USA is 87)[iii], space is a luxury many never dream of attaining, no matter how quickly they get on the property ladder or how upwardly mobile their lifestyle.

This means that they can be a little prickly about American ideas of personal space. But they are an exceptionally self-reliant people – particularly those who live rurally – making do with very little to create lives that most Americans would find inconvenient.

Sparked by the blight that is decimating boxwood, RHS Wisley has created a knot garden composed of alternate shrubs to inspire depressed gardeners. I can’t grow several of these species, but it doesn’t stop me taking what I can from this fantastic, educational display. (Though not perhaps cuttings.)

When it comes to gardening, they know what they’ve got: the Gulf Stream and hundreds of years of exploiting it to create some of the best gardens in the world; and a culture that gardens more than it doesn’t. But they also know what they don’t have. Besides the obvious (colonies in the Americas & room to swing a cat), they don’t have the guarantee of a decent summer every year.

So, here we are. They, envious of our wide open spaces and [mostly] abundant sunshine. Us, fascinated by their walled kitchen gardens and high streets clothed in annuals. We may admit to a little jealousy – joke about it perhaps – right up until the moment we start feeling the slightest bit insecure.

Then, Americans tend to lash out in righteous fury….

“I don’t need to know the [insert expletive] “proper” [voice dripping with sarcasm] name for this [long pause] blue poppy, to grow it!”

…while the Brits rely on cold condescension.

“But you’re not growing it particularly well, are you?” 

And the resentments build.

Now, no one with an ounce (or a gram) of sense thinks that we shouldn’t garden regionally in America, or for that matter, anywhere else in this world. That we shouldn’t find garden writers who live where we live and garden where we garden in order to help us to gain knowledge and experience relevant to our climate.

Influences from all over the world come together in the wildly beautiful gravel garden at Chanticleer Garden, PA.

But to dream, and perhaps more importantly, to innovate, we should inspire ourselves globally: Paradise gardens of Andalusia, potagers in Normandy, xeriscapes in San Diego, shambas in East Africa. People working with their specific environments to create life-giving works of art that other gardeners can observe, absorb and adapt to their own climates and their own environments. Thus:

Half of Europe is embracing naturalistic pollinator and wildlife-friendly designs inspired in part by the prairies and open spaces of the Americas, and led by top designers. Hell, even Hyde Park is letting the grass grow. Do they loathe their own traditions?

A nearby grower friend is showcasing & selling Mediterranean look-alike plants (in a cruel and chilly Mid-Atlantic 6b) as Cali-faux-nian. The customers love it. Did she throw out her summer stock of petunias & calibrachoa?

Monty Don is inspiring his slavering audience to create restful Moorish gardens within the limitations of urban garden flats and boring, but respectable suburban neighborhoods. Does he thus despise boring, but respectable suburban neighborhoods? Well, probably, but we can all agree upon that.

Therefore, I plead with gardeners, garden educators, and Scott on a chilly spring day, who wish to make a full retreat into the safe space of regional gardening advice delivered by regional gardening experts:

Garden regionally. Inspire yourself globally.

Cutting ourselves off from other influences is short-sighted, possibly pig-headed, and will not lead to innovative, exciting design movements of the future. And for those now racing to the captcha to virtuously proclaim how few damns they give for “exciting design movements of the future” (I’m talking to you mom): it’s the Dutch Wave/New Perennial Movement you can thank for inspiring a new generation of gardeners – and non-gardeners – to create pollinator-friendly landscapes in an increasingly urbanized world.

Tom Stuart-Smith’s innovative design within the walled garden at Broughton Grange encourages gardeners all over the world to move beyond traditional borders and contrast formal architectural elements on a relaxed, perennial canvas.

This isn’t a zero sum game. The rest of the world does some things better than we do, and vice versa. Know what you know about where you garden, and know it well. Take time to know more.  Look for alternative opinions. Read footnotes. Whether British or American, pens deftly wielded as daggers can be a great deal more effective than those used to spoon-feed.

Doing all this doesn’t make you a snob – it makes you smart. And it just might put you at the top of your regional game.

Marianne Willburn is an American garden columnist and author of the book Big Dreams, Small Garden. Read more at www.smalltowngardener.com

Photo credit for Monty Don. All other photos by the author.

[i]Neither the license nor the sentence actually exist, although they should.

[ii] C’mon Timber, seriously. What if Bloomsbury snaps us up?

[iii] Countries By Density Population. (2019-10-01). Retrieved 2019-10-09, from http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-density/

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Garden regionally. Get inspired globally.

Guest Rant by Marianne Willburn  

Somewhere near the bottom of every writer’s artistic license, a clever wordsmith will find the following recommendation:

Monty Don

“Comically exaggerating the position of one’s opponent is encouraged in the defense of one’s argument.”[i]

Thus, after verbally sparring with Scott Beuerlein over the curiously inflammatory subject of whether to openly read British garden writers, or to do so under the covers by flashlight – all the while pledging fidelity to the American values of Weed & Feed; a tortured Scott is wrestling with the inadequacies of a Midwestern accent late into a Cincinnati evening, and I am apparently one step away from a sexting relationship with Monty Don.

Yet, beyond the slings and the arrows and the thoroughly base attempt to play cards as sneaky as cancer and a dead, beloved dog (I see you one dog and raise you a dad, Scott), the rebuttal beautifully illustrates the constant niggling suspicion American gardeners have that the British are looking down their noses at us, feeding us advice to help us fail, sniggering with intent, and securing all the fat Timber contracts in order to render our garden gurus speechless upon their own soil.[ii]

Rubbish.

Or if you prefer, horseshit.

And when social media gets involved, the comments reveal our innate prejudices and (I believe) underlying insecurities as Americans.

For the record:

I am not a self-righteous Brit who ignores and disparages American garden writers because I am so enchanted with the idea of tea at four and ha-has across the south lawn that I can’t remember my USDA zone. I AM an American garden writer with dual citizenship who has lived most of her life in America, reads authors on both sides of the Atlantic and writes for American publications on American soil. I married a Marine. And not as a war bride.

And neither is Scott a Trumpian angry ethnocentrist (as one commenter lamented) because he has a beef with the relevance of British garden writing to American gardeners. He was clearly just having a bad day.

Perhaps it was a work-related trauma. Spring is a cold and busy season at the Cincinnati Zoo. The last thing the Manager of Botanical Garden Outreach needs to have shoved down his throat is a picture of Fergus Garrett standing under a fruiting Musa basjoo.

Perhaps someone left a copy of George Plumptre’s The English Country House Garden in the men’s toilets. We can only speculate.

Nevertheless, something primal snapped in the man. I get it. But to throw out the cherubic baby with the bath water? That’s when I objected.

It’s just so damned predictable.

Though a strong stance, Scott took a safe one. An American audience is not going to object to giving the Brits a tongue-lashing for what we immediately assume to be their propensity towards snobbery, condescension and arrogance. And, any written defense of such a reprehensible population will be met with equal certainty that the author [obviously bewitched] eats her eggs soft-boiled.

An autumn tapestry at the newly opened Delaware Botanic Gardens, designed by Dutch Wave guru Piet Oudouf, and providing 25 acres of forage, habitat and outstanding beauty for wildlife & visitors.

Except.

Americans are not innocent in this game. Far from it. From my American pine cradle, I’ve grown up in both worlds. My mother is a California rancher’s daughter, my father, a public-schooled Brit. After a lifetime of lively conversations around their dining room table with friends from far and wide, I can attest to the fact that the two cultures take great delight in a strong sense of superiority over one other. I’ve seen my share of sparring. Subtle and not so.

All these decades after the American Revolution, there is still the spirit of rebellion in your average American heart and we’re deeply (and rightly) proud of it. We object to being told what to do – whether it’s what to do for a living, what to wear to a funeral, or what to plant in our gardens. We expect the luxury of space, and claim it when we can – from 4200 square foot homes for two people to insisting on a wide berth when standing at an ATM.

We’re pioneers, explorers and dreamers. But we’re also pragmatists. A great many of us feel strongly that we don’t need a two thousand year-old language to refer to a plant our daddies always called Ramps. And if we want to spell it with a capital R, that’s our business. We sure as hell don’t need people with a perfect climate telling us how to grow it.

Even though they probably weren’t.

In their less generous moments, the Brits look upon us as spoilt children who think the world revolves around us. (Scott, your original essay didn’t help with this.) They write for their own as surely as we write for ours; and if it’s American money that’s buying a gardening book, they credit that money with the good sense to recognize that it doesn’t live in Cornwall – and to adapt accordingly.

They’ve got their own issues and insecurities certainly.  In a country with an average population density of 720 people per square mile (the USA is 87)[iii], space is a luxury many never dream of attaining, no matter how quickly they get on the property ladder or how upwardly mobile their lifestyle.

This means that they can be a little prickly about American ideas of personal space. But they are an exceptionally self-reliant people – particularly those who live rurally – making do with very little to create lives that most Americans would find inconvenient.

Sparked by the blight that is decimating boxwood, RHS Wisley has created a knot garden composed of alternate shrubs to inspire depressed gardeners. I can’t grow several of these species, but it doesn’t stop me taking what I can from this fantastic, educational display. (Though not perhaps cuttings.)

When it comes to gardening, they know what they’ve got: the Gulf Stream and hundreds of years of exploiting it to create some of the best gardens in the world; and a culture that gardens more than it doesn’t. But they also know what they don’t have. Besides the obvious (colonies in the Americas & room to swing a cat), they don’t have the guarantee of a decent summer every year.

So, here we are. They, envious of our wide open spaces and [mostly] abundant sunshine. Us, fascinated by their walled kitchen gardens and high streets clothed in annuals. We may admit to a little jealousy – joke about it perhaps – right up until the moment we start feeling the slightest bit insecure.

Then, Americans tend to lash out in righteous fury….

“I don’t need to know the [insert expletive] “proper” [voice dripping with sarcasm] name for this [long pause] blue poppy, to grow it!”

…while the Brits rely on cold condescension.

“But you’re not growing it particularly well, are you?” 

And the resentments build.

Now, no one with an ounce (or a gram) of sense thinks that we shouldn’t garden regionally in America, or for that matter, anywhere else in this world. That we shouldn’t find garden writers who live where we live and garden where we garden in order to help us to gain knowledge and experience relevant to our climate.

Influences from all over the world come together in the wildly beautiful gravel garden at Chanticleer Garden, PA.

But to dream, and perhaps more importantly, to innovate, we should inspire ourselves globally: Paradise gardens of Andalusia, potagers in Normandy, xeriscapes in San Diego, shambas in East Africa. People working with their specific environments to create life-giving works of art that other gardeners can observe, absorb and adapt to their own climates and their own environments. Thus:

Half of Europe is embracing naturalistic pollinator and wildlife-friendly designs inspired in part by the prairies and open spaces of the Americas, and led by top designers. Hell, even Hyde Park is letting the grass grow. Do they loathe their own traditions?

A nearby grower friend is showcasing & selling Mediterranean look-alike plants (in a cruel and chilly Mid-Atlantic 6b) as Cali-faux-nian. The customers love it. Did she throw out her summer stock of petunias & calibrachoa?

Monty Don is inspiring his slavering audience to create restful Moorish gardens within the limitations of urban garden flats and boring, but respectable suburban neighborhoods. Does he thus despise boring, but respectable suburban neighborhoods? Well, probably, but we can all agree upon that.

Therefore, I plead with gardeners, garden educators, and Scott on a chilly spring day, who wish to make a full retreat into the safe space of regional gardening advice delivered by regional gardening experts:

Garden regionally. Inspire yourself globally.

Cutting ourselves off from other influences is short-sighted, possibly pig-headed, and will not lead to innovative, exciting design movements of the future. And for those now racing to the captcha to virtuously proclaim how few damns they give for “exciting design movements of the future” (I’m talking to you mom): it’s the Dutch Wave/New Perennial Movement you can thank for inspiring a new generation of gardeners – and non-gardeners – to create pollinator-friendly landscapes in an increasingly urbanized world.

Tom Stuart-Smith’s innovative design within the walled garden at Broughton Grange encourages gardeners all over the world to move beyond traditional borders and contrast formal architectural elements on a relaxed, perennial canvas.

This isn’t a zero sum game. The rest of the world does some things better than we do, and vice versa. Know what you know about where you garden, and know it well. Take time to know more.  Look for alternative opinions. Read footnotes. Whether British or American, pens deftly wielded as daggers can be a great deal more effective than those used to spoon-feed.

Doing all this doesn’t make you a snob – it makes you smart. And it just might put you at the top of your regional game.

Marianne Willburn is an American garden columnist and author of the book Big Dreams, Small Garden. Read more at www.smalltowngardener.com

Photo credit for Monty Don. All other photos by the author.

[i]Neither the license nor the sentence actually exist, although they should.

[ii] C’mon Timber, seriously. What if Bloomsbury snaps us up?

[iii] Countries By Density Population. (2019-10-01). Retrieved 2019-10-09, from https://ift.tt/2BoQmQI

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on the cease, it became all too much for mauricio pochettino. the tottenham supervisor, livid at seeing his group beaten at turf moor, strode to the centre of the pitch to confront mike dean.  pochettino’s disappointment may additionally had been the end result of a few borderline choices going towards his team. it is able to simply as without problems have been as a result of the sight of a most suitable league title undertaking slipping away.

yet it had all regarded installation for tottenham to win the game whilst, 20 mins into the second half, harry kane marked his go back from ankle ligament damage with the aid of striding thru to score his 21st aim of the season. there has been an element of controversy in this intention; danny rose had taken a short throw-in down the left, 5 yards further forward from in which the ball went out of play, permitting him to clear burnley centre-back ben mee’s head. the chilliness of the end can have inspired england manager gareth southgate, watching from the stand, however he become not the only international head educate who left with some thing to consider. austria’s franco foda, additionally in attendance, noticed ashley barnes touch in johann berg gudmundsson’s go seven mins from the end to win the game. bath-born barnes, who scored for the fourth healthy in a row, qualifies for austria via his grandmother. southgate, with a squad to pick out for euro 2020 qualifiers in opposition to the czech republic and montenegro next month, could had been impressed too by way of tom heaton, who made a flying keep early inside the second half to tip away kane’s fierce, bending 25-backyard shot. heaton, who has been excellent for the reason that displacing joe hart on the cease of december, should fancy his probabilities of an international name-up. it proved a critical shop, due to the fact seven mins later, burnley opened the scoring, courtesy of one of the choices that induced pochettino to fume. it got here from a corner that tottenham felt have to not were awarded, with the officials having judged that hendrick’s tried move had touched jan vertonghen last before going out of play. with that argument nonetheless effervescent, dwight mcneil introduced the set-piece, and wooden rose above foyth to go in off the bottom of the bar.  up until that factor, the spotlight have been on kane’s comeback. the primary 1/2 suggested, by way of and big, that the arena cup’s golden boot winner turned into shaking off his rustiness. there was, though, the atypical promising run, to go together with a neat contact right here and there. there has been too, after a quiet start, a warning as to simply what he's capable of when at his great; it came just after the quarter-hour mark, when he obtained the ball from the proper and darted throughout the face of the penalty location, beyond 3 flailing burnley defenders, before riding a shot just huge. yet burnley had now not built a seven-match unbeaten league run with the aid of wilting beneath strain. as tottenham probed for a gap, sean dyche’s aspect stood up to the mission, on occasion going as much as the boundary of legitimate pressure.

barnes become worried in an early tangle that left juan foyth with a torn shirt and, puzzlingly, a loose-kick provided towards him. rose became left crumpled at the ground with the aid of a robust tackled from jeff hendrick. if tottenham had arrived for the early kick-off with any sleep in their eyes, it become soon shaken out. yet burnley offered an attacking chance in addition to stamina and sturdiness, and almost long-established a incredible establishing goal simply after the 1/2-hour mark. hendrick gained the ball in the corner and crossed low for barnes to sweep a dipping shot simply over the bar with a clever first-time shot as goalkeeper hugo lloris groped at air. the two desires brought a captivating fit to life. to burnley’s credit, they did now not falter after losing their lead. rather, they endured to create probabilities. hendrick recommended just extensive after being played in by ashley westwood, and mcneil noticed a shot shovelled out by way of lloris. then came the overdue twist courtesy of barnes: a shattering blow to pochettino's season. 2:46pm pochettino talks, however refuses to bite on any questions on his meltdown "what took place on the pitch, passed off at the pitch. we made a few errors. i've nothing to say. congratulations to burnley, they fought plenty. "we do not deserve the defeat however this is football. it changed into an important recreation for us. i assumed before the sport this sport could be decisive, so feelings boiled over. "it wasn't normal how i behaved. we're very disillusioned, the distance can open to 8 factors, in my mind we had to win these days. we failed to try this and might best blame ourselves. "the primary intention turned into a situation where every person on the touchline complains. we whinge, they complain. nothing greater to mention." antique dodging from pochettino there. 2:35pm burnley's aim-scorers speak ashley barnes: "it is a huge end result, the lads dug deep. we gave away a sloppy purpose whilst we switched off however to move on and get the result changed into large. "we focused foyth a bit bit however we had to attention on ourselves." chris wood: "we knew we may want to provide them a sport and we've got got confidence because of the run we are on. "we revel in playing together, and as along because the group are doing well we've the smooth job of tapping the ball in."

2:23pm full time burnley have held on for a huge three points and spurs' name challenge takes a huge, and probably fatal hit. there can't have been many who expected that, least of all mauricio pochettino, who's on the pitch letting mike dean realize how unhappy he is - possibly with the choice to offer burnley a corner inside the lead as much as the first aim. there may be no converting the end result now, though, %. 2:20pm 90 mins +four - burnley 2 tottenham 1 spurs sooner or later have the ball and are looking long for llorente. crosses are coming in however burnley stand sturdy. the very last ball in is from rose and unearths lamela unmarked and five yards from aim, but his header is so tame and heaton saves. 2:18pm 90 minutes +2 - burnley 2 tottenham 1 burnley have it up the right end and are dictating the game. spurs cannot get it forwards... 2:17pm 90 mins - burnley 2 tottenham 1 four minutes to be delivered on. 2:17pm ninety minutes - burnley 2 tottenham 1 spurs are going way more direct and a ball ahead falls to eriksen flawlessly vital proper on the brink of the box, but he leans again and fires high over the bar. huge risk. 2:15pm 89 minutes - burnley 2 tottenham 1 burnley have the ball up the right stop of the pitch and are doing a high-quality job of keeping it there. three throw-ins in brief succession accompanied by means of a corner and they're ingesting up a large chew of spurs' valuable time. 2:13pm 87 minutes - burnley 2 tottenham 1 lamela is booked for dissent. 2:11pm goooooooaaall!!!! burnley 2 tottenham 1 (barnes) spurs are the makers in their personal downfall here. aurier makes a hash of his clearance and hendrick's lousy, miscued shot from the threshold of the field goes via three defenders and trickles to the back post, where barnes is arriving to tap in to the net. 2:09pm 83 minutes - burnley 1 tottenham 1 spurs do themselves no favours but burnley waste their chances: rose misjudges brady's nook and sends his clearance out for some other nook, before eriksen we could the ball leap off him and back to brady to keep the move alive for the hosts. 2:08pm 81 minutes - burnley 1 tottenham 1 gudmundsson wins a unfastened-kick just insie the spurs 1/2 and burnley do what burnley do satisfactory: load the container and lump it. alderweireld struggles under it and it comes off him for a nook. more hazard for spurs. 2:06pm seventy nine minutes - burnley 1 tottenham 1  changes for burnley: gudmundsson and brady replace mcneil and hendrick. 2:04pm seventy seven mins - burnley 1 tottenham 1 timber springs the offside lure and crosses low into the container wherein there is chaos within the spurs defence. they can't scramble it clean properly and it opens up for the coming mcneil, but his low shot is grew to become away by way of lloris.  2:03pm seventy five minutes - burnley 1 tottenham 1 15 minutes remain for spurs to keep away from their first draw of the season. 2:00pm seventy two mins - burnley 1 tottenham 1 phil bardsley goes into the book for a terrible, excessive lunge on rose. that would were a pink on some other day.  1:58pm seventy one mins - burnley 1 tottenham 1 burnley come once more as heaton lumps the ball returned into the spurs location. timber receives it down and finds hendrick at the proper. he drills in a shot which flashes across the face of intention. a allow off for spurs. 1:57pm 70 minutes - burnley 1 tottenham 1  westwood fires it straight into the wall. 1:56pm sixty nine mins - burnley 1 tottenham 1 foyth  incorrect selections in no time with a negative defensive header earlier than he lunges in on wooden wildly. he receives a deservedly yellow card and burnley have a loose-kick on the brink of the field. 1:53pm goooooooall! burnley 1 tottenham 1 (kane) danny rose launches a huuuuuuuuuuge throw down the road and kane brings it down surely well, going for walks at tempo down the left and below strain from  chasing defenders. with the ball bobbling everywhere in the area he manages to poke it beyond heaton, off the submit and into the net! we have a sport on our arms! 1:51pm 65 mins - burnley 1 tottenham zero llorente collides with mee beneath a excessive ball and it looks pretty harmless but mike dean thinks it useful, and books the spaniard. 1:48pm sixty one minutes - burnley 1 tottenham zero spurs make their first circulate from the bench: big fernando llorente replaces, erm, little harry winks. 1:45pm 59 minutes - burnley 1 tottenham 0 mauricio pochettino isn't pleased at all - replays display that shouldn't have been a nook inside the first vicinity. the last contact got here off jeff hendrick. 1:44pm gooooooaall!!!! burnley 1 tottenham zero (wooden) burnley win a corner, it's put proper in at the six-yard box and timber rises highest to turn a header in the direction of purpose. it's a clearly precise header and cannons off the bottom of the bar and into the internet. 1:39pm fifty three minutes - burnley zero tottenham zero eriksen crosses, foyth heads over. 1:39pm 52 mins - burnley zero tottenham 0 spurs have raised their recreation inside the last few minutes. foyth wins a free-kick 25 yards from aim and out to the proper. it's too wide for a shot, i assume. eriksen stands over it. 1:37pm 50 minutes - burnley zero tottenham 0 kane unleashes a piledriver from all of 30 yards and he has heaton concerned for a split 2nd. the keeper scrambles throughout to his proper to show it around the put up. what a purpose that might have been. 1:35pm 48 minutes - burnley 0 tottenham zero spurs start on the the front foot. danny rose whips a ball in and it's grew to become away for a nook by using tarkowski. eriksen takes it brief to son, and he pulls it returned rose however his shot is blocked. 1:32pm second half spurs get the second one 1/2 beneath way. here's to hoping for some type of enjoyment. no changes by way of the manner. 1:32pm 2nd half of spurs get the second half below manner. here's to hoping for some type of enjoyment. no changes with the aid of the way. 1:30pm 2nd half of development? spurs' ultimate 4 video games first 1/2 goals: 1 second half dreams: eight burnley's closing three video games first 1/2 dreams: 1 2nd 1/2 desires: 5 1:18pm half time that is the final movement of a quite dreary first 1/2. burnley have been - you guessed it - organised and nicely-drilled, and have given spurs little in the manner of an opportunity, but you'll likely suppose that pochettino will call for a bit extra intensity from his crew within the second half. burnley will in reality be the happier of the sides, having created multiple 1/2-respectable openings in their very own. 1:15pm 44 mins - burnley zero tottenham zero a surging run from aurier breathes a few lifestyles into the sport because it drifts towards half-time, but he's crowded out just as he gets into the container. 1:09pm 39 minutes - burnley 0 tottenham zero spurs sissoko's move has no tempo on it for kane to paintings with and his header is without difficulty stored with the aid of heaton. then rose puts some other ball in and his opposite wing-returned aurier meets it but with a tame attempt that, again, heaton saves effortlessly. 1:08pm 37 minutes - burnley 0 tottenham zero eriksen performs a long directly ball for kane, however the striker simply cannot get it beneath control.. could a healthy-sharp kane have delivered that down?  1:06pm 35 mins - burnley zero tottenham 0 son drives into the burnley container and does nicely to preserve it from going out... however no one is ready inside the six-backyard container with the purpose gaping. 1:05pm 33 mins - burnley 0 tottenham zero hendrick does well down the proper to get a ball into the center while below pressure from  spurs gamers, and he reveals barnes, whose first time shot grazes the top of lloris' bar - though he probable had it protected. 1:04pm 32 mins - burnley zero tottenham 0 son gets a primary hazard to run at a defender, he throws a step over and heads for the byline. his cross is right into a risky region but mee clears. eriksen follows up moments later with a shot from the threshold of the field but heaton saves effortlessly. 1:01pm 30 minutes - burnley zero tottenham 0 half of-hour 12-word round-up: low fine game, basically not anything has took place, burnley the better aspect. snore. 1:00pm 28 minutes - burnley zero tottenham zero spurs win their first corner of the sport and take it short with burnley napping. the ball ends up with winks on the brink of the box, however his left-footed attempt is right into a crowd and burnley scramble it clean, 12:58pm 27 mins - burnley 0 tottenham zero danny rose isn't pleased after he's stuck past due with the aid of hendrick. mike dean is not fascinated. 22 minutes - burnley 0 tottenham zero barnes drills a low ball throughout the face of lloris' aim however wooden had pulled far from goal and nobody is there to tap domestic. 12:52pm 21 mins - burnley zero tottenham zero son has more than one chances to get on the cease of balls into the container however he snatches at each - the second one time with a pretty ludicrous overhead kick strive.  12:51pm 20 minutes - burnley zero tottenham 0 the television mic alternatives up a clear shout of "get into them" from the home crowd as eriksen, rose and kane play some pleasant one-touch soccer to get out of problem. superb stuff. 12:48pm 16 mins - burnley zero tottenham zero kane receives his first sight of intention as spurs play it properly from proper to left. he gathers the ball on the brink of the box, actions it onto his left and shoots low and extensive of the post with heaton untroubled. rose became in a much better function and kane should actually have exceeded it. hazard wasted. 12:46pm 15 minutes - burnley 0 tottenham zero it's been simply bitty thus far. fouls have disrupted the flow of the sport and the group are quite subdued as a end result. spurs taking part in a piece extra possession now... 12:42pm 10 mins - burnley 0 tottenham 0 foyth gets caught in possession and then pulls barnes returned to concede loose-kick out at the left when it looked like the spurs defender turned into having his shirt pulled. he jogs away with a severely ripped shirt quite clear evidence he become inside the proper... the pass is nicely cleared via aurier however burnley come again. a high move has lloris in a piece of hassle proper underneath his personal bar, but he is saved by using mike dean's whistle for a slight nudge with the aid of timber. spurs are but to get going right here. 12:39pm 8 mins - burnley zero tottenham zero rose blasts the ball at bardsley from approximately 3 yards and then attempts to claim handball - and a penalty - but glaringly gets not anything. 12:38pm 7 minutes - burnley zero tottenham 0 spurs get ahead for the primary time these days and rose puts in a respectable pass but heaton claims it properly. 12:36pm 5 mins - burnley 0 tottenham zero a fair few stoppages in play thus far, and the cutting-edge, for burnley deep in their personal territory, gives us a demonstration of how they might method this game. tom heaton comes out and lumps it forward in the direction of wood, however alderweireld does enough to place him off and lloris sweeps up. 12:33pm 2 mins - burnley zero tottenham 0 timber runs into the left channel and holds play up earlier than mcneil joins him and he wins a nook off alderweireld. a big cheer greets the referee's sign, however the wind takes the go instantly out of play... 12:31pm kick-off burnley get matters began, turf moor bathed in wonderful spring-like sunshine. 12:27pm we are all set this guy is prepared: 12:25pm burnley are one of the optimum league's shape groups  unbeaten in seven with 4 wins, burnley have labored their way out of the relegation region but they're in no way out of hassle. just three points separate them and 18th-positioned southampton, so things ought to fast turn for them if they were not to preserve their unbeaten run going nowadays. 12:18pm the managers' thoughts on kane's inclusion: mauricio pochettino: i think we constantly play a chunk of poker with our players. on thursday, we deliberate to evaluate kane and there was a small doubt however after  schooling consultation there is no doubt anymore. he is one of the nice strikers inside the international and he could have a huge effect for all and sundry. we cannot put too much pressure on him but it is precise to have him back. sean dyche: kane is superb striker but they're no longer a one-man group by way of any stretch and that they've shown that during recent week. we have to recognition on ourselves. 12:07pm harry kane hits the ground strolling after a lengthy layoff kane's remaining 3 serious injuries have all been ankle accidents. his intention-scoring after getting back from massive day without work is amazing. following his first start after those 3 accidents, kane has scored: 6 dreams in 8 games 11 dreams in 8 video games, and 8 desires in 7 games be careful, burnley. eleven:48am another absentee still no signal of eric dier for tottenham... he has barely played considering the fact that having appendicitis in january, and for the 0.33 game going for walks he has didn't make the squad. with any luck we're going to listen from mauricio pochettino about his squad quickly sufficient. eleven:33am burnley are unchanged it's as-you-have been for sean dyche: he goes with the identical xi that gained at brighton last day trip. eleven:32am harry kane starts! lower back into schooling after damage handiest last week, kane goes immediately back into the tottenham beginning lineup. danny rose is likewise suit to play, at the same time as juan foyth comes in for davison sanchez, who would not even make the bench. kieran trippier additionally misses out against his former membership... 11:28am on we pass good day and welcome to our insurance of ultra-modern most advantageous league motion as we discover ourselves in the weird function of being bang within the middle of the weekend's football on saturday lunchtime. last night time saw west ham beat fulham and watford thrash cardiff in two friday night games that produced a whopping 10 dreams among them. everybody has a tendency to think early kick-offs have a sleepy feel to them and dreams are tougher to come by means of (the stats do no longer back this up in any respect, by the way), however we will be hoping for more of the same as tottenham journey to burnley for the 12.30pm sport. spurs have harry kane back in the squad, and we will discover shortly whether he goes directly again into the starting lineup. group information could be at the way any minute now...

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Damages to Natural resources of Balochistan

•••Shaari Baloch•••

This piece narrates the history of exploitation of natural reserves of Balochistan. The natural resources of Balochistan ranges from gold, copper, coal, gas and oil to huge reserves of Sulphur, Graphite, Mile Stone and lots more. The exploitation of natural reserves of Baloch land never had been in collective interests of Baloch nation, but instead had been proven a great loss to the sociological, economic and political structures of motherland

Balochistan.

"Fortunate countries with enormous resources being kept in special concern either to be the source of business or involved to fulfill the economical Interests of powerful countries whether it has been the interest of being nuclear power or to transform the world into a Global village. Sometimes the minerals within the country play a precious role in its success and sometimes it becomes curse for the same land marred by corruption, authoritarian repression, militarization and civil war. There are twenty-three countries in the world that derive at least 60 percent of their exports from oil and gas, and not a single one is a real democracy." (Observes Larry Diamond of Stanford University)

The oil export began since 1962 in UAE which transformed the

country's economy from fishing to a regional trading hub.Whereas the mineral deposits of Afghanistan became the major concern for the Trump administration and his predecessors to

stay in country after 16 years of war.

Most of the undiscovered deposits of rare earth minerals are believed to be in Helmand province, and its larger parts are controlled by the Taliban. The UN officials stated that there had been "15 massacres" between 1996 and 2001 while the Taliban are trying to consolidate to control over the northern and western

Afghanistan.

"Abundant natural resources were commonly and unquestioningly viewed as an important pillar of economic progress and prosperity. Econometric research supported by theoretical analysis as well by historical case has similarly suggested that abundant natural resources if not well managed can prove to be mixed, blessing or worse." (Reference: The Natural Resources and Economic Development-What Can We Learn from History? By Henry Willebald, Marc bardia Miro and

Vicente Pinilla)

The link between the natural resources and the human conflicts are as old as human settlements, and the manifestation of natural resource conflicts in the last quarter of the twentieth century were particularly devastating from oil in the Middle East and solid minerals in Africa to land in Asia and agricultural

products in Latin America.

"Conflicts over natural resources shattered hopes and tore societies apart from Africa. The implications of some of these conflicts have been profound resulted in to fundamental issues such as collapse of state structures, massive human rights abuses, the weakening of civil society, and further depression of economy and the disintegration of traditional institutions."(Natural Resources and Conflicts in Africa, the Tragedy of Endowment by

Abiodun Alao)

"In many African nations, the natural resources that should be used to free and educate people are instead being used to destroy them. The colonialism which allowed Europe to extract Africa's natural resources left behind the leaders who exploited their gold, diamonds, timber, oil to benefit their own regional or ethnic groups or their own bank accounts".(International Herald

Tribune)

In the same line of deprivation, we see one other name "Baluchistan" which has also been in first focus when the world brought Central Asia or South Asia in their concerned either it have been its strategic values, geographical values or trillions of

worth natural resources.

Balochistan is lacking basic needs, it has further fallen down in terms of sustainability and is on top of the poverty index, and even the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has released a new poverty report that indicates stark regional disparities within Pakistan with Balochistan being the poorest

province of the country.Mineral extraction is a deeply contentious issue in Balochistan. Geological reports confirm that a huge reservoirs of petroleum and gas in Kalat, Kharan, Kohlu and Lasbela districts in Balochistan. It has a significant natural gas industry.Pakistan was the seventh largest gas field in world during 1952 when Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) discovered a huge natural gas field at Sui in Bugti tribal area of Balochistan which to date produces 446 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. Around 23 percent of the total national output of natural gas is being exploited from Balochistan, including 18 percent from Sui gas field in Bugti tribal area and Sui is still the single largest gas field in Pakistan.At present, the Sui gas field produces around 800 MMscf of natural gas daily from 87 wells completed during 50 years of production. From economic point of view, it is the single largest source of energy supply for different industries, power generation, agriculture, commerce and household use in the country. According to a estimation, eight trillion cubic ft gas have been used from the resource which was having 10 trillion cubic feet, but from 1956 to 1990 Balochistan didn't get any single budget from its gas sectors.Since 1952, Pakistan has been extracting large quantities of gas, but has been denying the people of area their due rights. PPL has recently increased

production through optimizing reserves replacement and development efforts from mature fields,

including Sui.

Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) launched four fresh seismic crews operations in Kharan, Pasni, Gwadar, Zhob and Musakhel in Balochistan which remained inaccessible

due to security situation for a long time.

A Polish oil and gas company Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNIG), before acquiring the current Kirthar Concession (Block 2667- 7) operated and carried out exploration activities in four other concessions namely Khanpur West, Sabzal, Mekhtar and Sabzal South, Kirthar area and Lasbella in

Balochistan zone-III.

Rehman Gas Field was discovered in the Kirthar Block in 2009 which started production in 2013. Recently a new avenue has opened and would add to the hydrocarbon reserves base of Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) when the joint venture of Ziarat exploration license comprising of MPCL together with Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) which had discovered oil from its Exploratory Wells Bolan East-1 ST-1 that is located near Mach City in Kachhi District of Balochistan. According to the

spokesperson, wells were spotted on May 22, 2018.

The drill stem tests carried out in Chiltan Formation flowed 810 barrels per day of 15.6 degree API gravity oil from one well while

other is producing 690 barrels per day.

Pakistan Petroleum Limited, operator of Hub Block (2566-4), together with its joint venture partner Sindh Energy Holding Company Limited (SEHCL) has discovered hydrocarbons from exploratory well Hub X-1, located in District Lasbela, Balochistan.

According to the statement of local coal trading company in 2008, the province possesses huge reserves of coal at Harnai, Degari, Dukki, Mach, Ziarat, Chamalang and Abegum estimated at 217

million tons.

In accordance to some resources, coal mining in Balochistan started on small scale on 1877 by British. In Khost-Shahrig-Harnai area and is increasing with time.

The 60 km-long Chamalang coal mines contain coal ranging from high volatile C bituminous to high volatile A bituminous with a total reserve of six million tons. Nearly 200-250 trucks of coal leave daily for different parts of the country from Chamalang

mines.

Coal is being sold at a price of Rs4000-4500 per ton. According to a rough estimate, the profit from the supply of coal from Chamalang mines would be worth Rs30 billion per annum.

But still there is no electricity in the region and roads are in their worst conditions, while in Pakistan coal is the cheapest source of

thermal energy used in industrial sector.

Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) has been regularly carrying out development works to maintain and enhance coal production from its Sor-Range, Degari and Sharigh Collieries. The corporation is also working in a joint venture with a Chinese company for exploitation of Zinc deposits (District

Lasbela) which is presently under trial production.

Balochistan is seeking formal expressions of interest by international companies for an exploration block in the Tethyan belt, which boasts big copper and gold deposits. The H4 block

has estimated deposits of 148 million tons.

Tethyan is a fully owned joint venture company of Barrick Gold of Canada and Antofagasta Minerals of Chile; both are gold and copper mining leaders globally. Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) has identified a large, low-grade copper-gold resource at Reko Diq in partnership with the Government of Balochistan, is evaluating the development of a world-class copper-gold mine at

Reko Diq at District Chagai of Balochistan.

The Company has invested over US$220 million (excluding acquisition costs) into the project since 2006 on exploration. Reko Diq represents one of the largest copper reserves in Pakistan and in the world having estimated reserves of 5.9 billion tons of ore grading 0.41% copper. The mine also has gold reserves

amounting to 41.5 million oz.

The Reko Diq area is a part of the Tethyan Magmatic Arc, extending through central and southeast Europe (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece) Turkey, Iran and Pakistan through the Himalayan region into Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia

and Papua New Guinea.

In December 2009, the provisional government cancelled the Tethyan Copper Company license, however Islamabad's corrupt elite has been pushing the provisional government to cancel the exploration agreement into a mining license allowing Tethyan to exploit minerals without the Baloch consent. After cancellation, the chief minister had announced that "agreement is step towards getting control over provincial resources in accordance

with wishes of the People" (UNPO report).

Chinese, Australian and Turkish companies are all interested in H4 block. Beijing has pledged $57 billion for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship OBOR project that first focused on Chinese firms building roads and power stations but

is now expanding to include setting up industries.

Saleh Muhammad Baloch, the province's top mining official, said the plan is for Chinese companies chosen by Beijing to team up with local firms to mine marble, chromite, limestone, coal and

other minerals and set up steel mills and other plants.

The Saindak Copper and Gold Mine, operated by a subsidiary of state-run China Metallurgical Group Corporation (CMGC), the mine has been given export privileges for the People across

Pakistan and enjoys big tax breaks.

The discovery of copper deposits at Saindak was made in 1970s in collaboration with a Chinese engineering firm. The Saindak Copper-Gold Project was set up by Saindak Metals Ltd and Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. Al Ghani Company is also working in Asia's largest project "Saindak Copper Ore Project," it also supplies Quartz, Limestone, Sulphur etc to MRDL Chinese Company.

Pakistan and China signed a formal contract worth $350 million for development of Saindak Copper-Gold mine. The mine was leased for a 10-year period to Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. (MCC), a subsidiary of the China Metallurgical Group

Corporation.

However, extraction of precious metals, such as copper and gold, will not fall under the CPEC remit. Other vast resources of copper have been discovered by the Geological Survey of Pakistan and foreign investors in Chagai district of Balochistan at Koh-i-Dalil, Dash-i-Kain, Durban Chah, Kabul Koh, Ziarat Pir Sultan and a

number of other places other than Reko Diq and Saindak.

Presently, Pakistan is mining around 50 different types of the mineral, 40 of these are being mined from Baluchistan. Notable deposits of iron ore occur at Pachin Koh, Chigendik and Chilgazi

in Chagai district and Dalbandin area of Balochistan.

Total estimated iron ore reserves are about 273 million tons. PIDC (Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation), PCSIR (Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industries Research) and TSML (Towering Steel, Mills) showed their utmost interests for the up gradation of such a large resourceful region's minerals.

Nokkundi iron ore project was set up by PIDC in 1972 to carry out exploration and geological investigations on iron deposits of the

area afterwards in 1974.Many metallurgical tests including the tests carried out by Japan consulting institute in 1978 had confirmed that the iron ore deposits of these areas can be easily upgraded by the separation of the contents of magnetic to produce the best pellets in the

world.

Sizable deposits of chromite are found at Muslim Bagh, killa Saifullah, Lasbella, khuzdar, Kharan and Chaghi. Private sector has been engaged in mining this mineral since 1903 and is continued till today at the rate of 15,000 to 20,000 tons per year.

Large commercially exploitable deposits of marble are found throughout the district Chaghi, starting from Dalbandin and extending to the borders of Iran. Some deposits are located close to Pak-Afghan border areas namely Zard Kan, Patkok, Julhi,

Butak, Mashki Chah, Tozghi and Zeh.

The Chagai onyx marble is locally called "Malmal." The estimated reserves of marble in the province are more than 12 million tons. The sources said a Marble City at Hub has been established to introduce modern mechanized mining, cutting and polishing of

stone of international standard.

Pakistan Stone Development Company (PASDEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Balochistan for the overall development of Marble and Granite

mining and processing sector of the province.

According to statement of CEO, Zahid Maqsood Sheikh, the PASDEC will assist the Government of Balochistan in developing marble cities, training and development programs and machinery pool at district Khuzdar to facilitate in up-gradation in mining techniques. He further said that the process of development would also go as far as Chaghi not only to provide for employment opportunities to the natives but also set new standards of extraction and quarrying in the entire province, but still there is no any Progress. The Saindak Project couldn't bring any facility even schools and hospitals to the inhabitants aren't available until now. So how these marble cities would bring

opportunities for them.

Sulphur deposits of Chagai district are best known in Pakistan. The deposits are clustered around the southern and southwestern side of an extinct volcanic crater called, Koh-I-Sultan. Sulphur here is found in bugs and cracks as fumaroles products. Other deposits of Sulphur are present near Sanni in Kachi district. Total estimated reserves of Sulphur are about 787,000 tons, and annual production of Sulphur is about

600 tons.

Huge reserves of Barite are found in Lasbella and Khuzdar districts of Baluchistan. Total estimated reserves are over 30 million tons. The Khuzdar Barite has average annual production

of about 25,000 tons.

The total estimated reserves of fluorite are about 100,000 tons. The reserves of Gypsum and Anhydrite have been estimated at over 200 million tons. However, deposits of Magnesite are small and on the average about 700 tons per year are being mined. Total reserves of lead-zinc, estimated so far, stand at over 26 million tons exploration of other known showings will substantially

increase the reserve base.

These are the main areas which have been producing minerals being the major sources of Pakistan's Economy; a further area of major economic importance is Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea.

The areas which had been separated from Balochistan during the British Raj In 1876 when Robert Sandeman negotiated the Treaty of Kalat, which brought the Khan's territories, including Kharan, Makran, and Las Bela, under British protection even

though they remained independent princely states.

According to the statement of Robert Sandeman, the entire authorization of Mari Bugti areas, Dera Ghazi Khan to British Balochistan would be under the supervision of AAG Sandeman and district officer Dera Gghazi Khan would work under the supervision of Sandeman, but the authorized areas were limited to British Baluchistan, and the area Of Dera Ghazi Khan remained under the Government of Punjab and completely occupied by British in 1887 (Ref: The Problem of Greater

Balochistan).

Dera Ghazi Khan, being the ancestral lands of Meerani Baloch since 1400, became the main focus of exploitation when Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) began geological surveys to find mineable deposits of uranium in 1972. The Atomic Energy Minerals Centre (AEMC) in Lahore was responsible for the

exploration and mining operations.

The Siwalik Hills, west of Dera Ghazi Khan, was identified as the most promising location. Baghalchur is a village in Dera Ghazi Khan has been producing the best quality yellow cake Uranium being considered as the second most uranium producing site

after California.

In 1965, Chinese, American, Russian, British and Canadian Geologists started mining at that site. Almost for 30 years, it had provided uranium to the state until the director of project was killed in 1998. Since the inception of project, the inhabitants of

Dera Ghazi Khan were working on daily wages at the site.

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How rampant urbanization in Delhi is inflicting air pollution, housing shortages

The results of unbridled urbanization are inescapable in India’s capital metropolis. Smog blankets landmarks like India Gate in winter, delaying flights on the airport resulting from poor visibility. Site visitors jams are a part of the each day routine and slums abut New Delhi’s luxurious lodges and personal mansions, testifying to a rising wealth divide and continual housing scarcity.

And day by day, the issue will get greater. Greater than 27 million folks reside in and round Delhi with about 700,000 extra becoming a member of them annually, based on analysis agency Demographia. The United Nations forecasts that by 2028 the inhabitants may outstrip Tokyo’s to make Delhi the world’s greatest megacity.

India’s capital chronicles the extremes of a narrative that’s taking part in out around the globe as a flood of individuals in international locations poor and wealthy transfer to the most important cities that generate the lion’s share of financial exercise. Already, greater than half the planet’s inhabitants is city and the proportion is anticipated to exceed two-thirds by the center of the century.

The fallout of that shift hinges on whether or not governments can present the mandatory companies and infrastructure to match that development, an enterprise that some analysts estimate may value as a lot as $78 trillion over the following decade.

The problem isn’t misplaced on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities, which has set formidable targets to offer “housing for all” by 2022, and is upgrading transport, sewage and drainage techniques throughout India. Know-how is being harnessed to develop “sensible cities,” that higher handle site visitors, water, waste and different city techniques.

However the unabated development of New Delhi makes it arduous to maintain up. Since 2005, the federal government’s two important housing applications for the poor have constructed about 43,000 new houses in Delhi. In the identical time, the capital’s inhabitants has risen by as a lot as 10 million, based on knowledge from Demographia, largely as a result of arrival of poor rural migrants.

“Between now and 2030, we have to construct one thing like 700 to 900 million sq. meters of city house yearly, which suggests one Chicago yearly,” Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Minister for Housing and City Affairs, mentioned in an interview in his workplace over gold-rimmed, porcelain cups of tea. “Can this be performed? I don’t assume that’s an acceptable query — you haven’t any possibility however to do it. And you need to do it in a inexperienced and resilient method.”

India has the world’s fastest-expanding main financial system, which has helped carry thousands and thousands out of poverty previously decade. However inequality is rising. Many are above the official city poverty line of 47 rupees (64 cents) a day however will not be fairly center class and are susceptible to shocks, based on Sumila Gulyani, program chief for infrastructure and sustainable growth in India on the World Financial institution. What’s extra, non-monetary measures of poverty, like entry to healthcare and schooling, are typically worse for the poorest city inhabitants in comparison with their rural counterparts.

“Housing hasn’t stored tempo and environmental points have lagged,” Gulyani mentioned. “The sustainability to handle this large inflow, to maintain tempo with infrastructure and companies, housing, and managing the setting, it lowered the type of financial returns that you’d anticipate to see from this large city inhabitants development.”

Authorities efforts to treatment the housing issues have been beset by difficulties over land acquisition, relocation, infrastructure and environmental issues. Considered one of Delhi’s flagship sensible metropolis tasks — the event of an enclave for civil servants within the East Kidwai Nagar district — reveals a few of the obstacles that may make city regeneration a gradual and painful course of in India.

The undertaking, begun in 2014, will change 2,444 previous low-rise houses with 4,608 residences in trendy 14-story towers, along with automobile parking and retail house. Scheduled to be accomplished by June, the 87-acre undertaking is touted as a poster baby for brand new authorities housing, with photo voltaic panels, on-site waste administration and rainwater harvesting.

However the undertaking has angered many locals, with lawsuits filed over site visitors and environmental issues, and compensation for current residents. Nearly 2,000 timber had been lower down, and whereas some new ones are being planted, critics say a 10,000-space basement parking storage will prohibit the replanting of huge timber on the positioning and will threaten groundwater provides.

At the very least 20 Indian cities, together with New Delhi, are set to expire of groundwater as early as 2020 if measures aren’t taken, based on authorities think-tank NITI Aayog.

“These are acute issues in a metropolis which these tasks are literally aggravating greater than mitigating,” mentioned Kanchi Kohli, an environmental researcher on the Centre for Coverage Analysis. “We’d like growth within the metropolis that helps deal with these issues.”

Delhi’s excessive court docket dominated in August that a few of the industrial property on the positioning — which is getting used to fund the event — can’t be handed over whereas questions stay over how water might be provided and site visitors managed.

Even when it’s full, the brand new district may have added solely 2,164 models after 5 years of building. To maintain up with the town’s rising inhabitants, a whole lot of such developments are wanted.

And that presents an excellent greater problem. Over 200 households dwelling in slums in East Kidwai Nagar had been relocated 15 miles away to the Western fringe of the town, to make manner for the brand new gated neighborhood.

City planner and architect Ranjit Sabikhi says that sort of geographical segregation of the poor can create severe social stresses in cities.

“It’s a really unhealthy focus, and huge numbers of our inhabitants live in situations with no colleges, no well being facilities, no open areas for kids to play,” Sabikhi, who beforehand taught at Harvard, mentioned in an interview in his studio in Delhi. As a substitute, “you would have a complete collection of combined housing, for each authorities in addition to for low-income teams.”

A spokesman for India’s Ministry of Housing and City Affairs mentioned the slum dwellers from East Kidwai Nagar had been moved to a “central” space “near the airport.”

The separation of revenue lessons is a worldwide downside that has fueled social discontent in cities from Sao Paulo to Baltimore.

“This geography of haves and have-nots is creating the best political backlash — and the best political disaster of our time,” mentioned American urbanist Richard Florida. “Having urbanization doesn’t imply that you just’re going to carry all and even many boats. What tends to occur is you’ve gotten a really lopsided, or spikey, or winner-takes-all globalization.”

In India, a lot of the migration to cities is “hidden,” with the urbanization charge most likely nearer to 55 %, slightly than the official estimate within the 2011 census of round 32 %, based on Gulyani on the World Financial institution.

And the larger the town, the extra enticing it turns into for migrants. By 2030, the world is projected to have 43 megacities with greater than 10 million inhabitants, most of them in growing areas.

“Quite a bit will rely upon how cities are managed,” Gulyani mentioned. “Proper now we’re having a extreme set of administration points.” Key to enhancing the effectivity of cities is to empower native authorities who’re better-placed to take care of the challenges of urbanization, she mentioned.

In Shimla within the Himalayan foothills, a refuge from the summer time warmth for Delhiites since colonial instances, the state authorities is making a city-level water company for the primary time. For a metropolis the place faucets ran dry over the summer time, that would show a step in the best course, Gulyani mentioned.

Nonetheless, Shimla has a inhabitants of about 200,000, whereas Delhi is greater than 100 instances the scale, with nationwide, provincial and metropolis administrations all having a say in how the capital is run. And whereas those that can afford it could go to Shimla to benefit from the mountain air, there’s no escape from Dehi’s smog for many of its inhabitants.

“It’s completely haphazard, mad development of inhabitants with no regard” for the consequences on the setting and well being, mentioned Arvind Kumar, a surgeon at New Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, who has seen a surge of lung-cancer instances amongst non-smokers resulting from air pollution in recent times. “There was simply large development, development, development.”

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For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn’t afford to travel could have a “staycation” sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe Festival. That ended last year, when Fringe went on hiatus. Now details have been announced for the 21st annual Fringe, and it’s two festivals in one, FringeNYC, and FringeBYOV – which are taking place in all five boroughs…in October. Explanation and examples below, along with news of Keri Russell from “The Americans” debuting on Broadway, Gina Gershon as Melania Trump; the cover of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book; Broadway remembers Aretha;  and a plea: Critics are not the enemy of the (theater) people.

The Week in NY Theater Reviews

Pretty Woman

Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hit 1990 movie, there are fewer charms and almost no surprises in Pretty Woman The Musical.

Gettin’ the Band Back Together

From its first moments, Gettin’ The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show  on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot,  uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clichéd characters.  Yet, for all its obvious mediocrity, there is an odd and grudging realization by the show’s last moments: Gettin’ The Band Back Together is kind of fun.

What makes it so are the performers who portray the band members, each of whom gets at least one number that shows off a depth of talent that transcends the caricatures in which the show has trapped them.

The Week in NY Theater News

It’s not too early to buy the 2-1 tickets of #BroadwayWeek, Sept. 3-16. In fact, hurry for such hits as @TheBandsVisit, @TheLionKing, @WICKED_Musical https://t.co/cKz2Gd07JY pic.twitter.com/uBb2qdY2n5

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 15, 2018

  The New York International Fringe Festival will return after its year-long hiatus in a different form.  The festival’s 21st season will be held in the month of October, divided into two parts. FringeNYC will present over 80 staged productions in the West Village from Oct. 12-28.  Theatergoers will report to FringeHUB at 685 Washington Street (corner of Charles Street) in the West Village “and will be ushered to their venue.”

Among the shows:

“James Franco and Me,” the show that Franco’s lawyers sent a cease and desist letter. “Kevin is sitting in a hospital waiting room as his father slowly dies. Very slowly. Sitting with Kevin is James Franco.”

“The Resistible Rise of J.R. Brinkley,”  Edward Einhorn’s musical based on a true story of a 1920’s con man who made a fortune selling his impotence cure: surgically implanted goat testicles, then became a radio star and a successful politician.

FringeBYOV (bring your own venue), still being developed, will run the entire month of October, spread out in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, where the theaters in those boroughs (such as Irondale Center in Brooklyn and Jamaica Performing Arts Center) will do their own programing, and indie venues and Fringe alumni will also get into the act.

Keri Russell (from the TV series The Americans) will make her Broadway debut co-tarring with Adam Driver in a revival of Langford Wilson’s Burn This on Broadway in March. Details in the future

Alex Brightman (School of Rock) and Sophia Anne Caruso (The Nether, Lazarus) will star in ‘Beetlejuice’ musical,  based on Tim Burton’s 1988 film, and directed by Alex Timbers, during the “pre-Broadway” engagement at the National Theatre in Washington D.C. beginning Oct. 14, 2018

Gina Gershon will play Melania Trump in “The 1st Annual Trump Family Special,” a musical comedy beginning September 13 at the Triad Theater.

Axis Company will remount “High Noon,” its adaptation of the screenplay for the 1952 Western film, devised by an ensemble led by artistic director Randy Sharp, October 3-27,

  And you can preorder from wherever you like here: https://t.co/TaNKOhpboW But can I take this opportunity to show you how dope this cover looks in its physical form? Just got the test print w the gold foil mic today: pic.twitter.com/Agt7JiENcd

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) August 16, 2018

One poll this week found that 51 percent of Republicans considered the press “the enemy of the people rather than an important part of democracy.” writes @BostonGlobe in its editorial “Journalists are not the enemy”https://t.co/e0SwZKWmT3

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 16, 2018

And may I add, dear fellow theater lovers, theater critics are not the enemy either. To believe that (as too many in the theater community do) is no less wrongheaded, and shortsighted.

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 16, 2018

This critic-bashing is a textbook case of bias! Pick three reviews by 3 critics, out of the dozens written about the same shows (and the 100s of professional @Theatre_Critics) & use these examples to conclude: The theater doesn’t need professional critics. https://t.co/IdhAehndDx

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 13, 2018

 Is Theatre Criticism Dead

Theatre Criticism Now (HowlRound Twitter chat)

When journalism is under attack in general, and old forms of media are replaced by new ones that won’t pay, the decision to critique cannot be an easily assumed one. Critics write the rough draft of (theater) history. They communicate our work to the future. #howlround

— David Hansen (@dhansenx) August 13, 2018

Every play is a product of three time periods: when it was written, when it takes place, and when it is performed. Sometimes these are the same, sometimes not. A good theatre critic can engage with at least 1 when appropriate. #howlround

— Russell T. Warne (@Russwarne) August 13, 2018

In the current climate, newspapers are primarily focused on their own survival, not on supporting the arts. Yet 87% of respondents in a recent poll in the UK said they believed critics play a “crucial role” in the industry

R.I.P.

Mark Baker, 71, best known for the title role in Harold Prince’s revival of Candide, for which he received an Tony nomination, and his portrayal of Otto Kringelein in the international tour of Grand Hotel

Miriam Nelson, 98, Golden Age dancer and dhoreographer

As Miriam Franklyn (sometimes Franklin), she appeared in six Broadway shows, including two Cole Porter musicals, “Panama Hattie” (1940), starring Ethel Merman, and “Let’s Face It!” (1941), with Danny Kaye…When William Holden and Kim Novak slow-danced to “Moonglow” in the 1956 film “Picnic,” that was Ms. Nelson’s choreography. Much of Ms. Nelson’s movie work was for nonmusicals.

Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, dies at 76.

https://t.co/f4GBPE1o39

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 16, 2018

You better think (think) Think about what you’re trying to do to me Yeah, think (think, think) Let your mind go, let yourself be free Oh, freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom) Oh, freedom, yeah, freedom Freedom (freedom), Freedom, oh freedomhttps://t.co/htHQUpis3D

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 16, 2018

Eight years ago, when she was first diagnosed w/ pancreatic cancer, I wrote: I used to play Aretha Franklin records all the time as a kid. “I can scream too,” my grandmother, a pianist herself, would protest. But not like Aretha.

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) August 16, 2018

Aretha sings Broadway songs

  One night during “Hair”, @ArethaFranklin came to see us! (& Bernard Purdy the legendary drummer we shared) She invited us back to her hotel where she planted herself on a throne and held court all night! Still can’t believe that happened. RIP Queen.

— Will Swenson (@thewillswenson) August 16, 2018

It’s true! And she generously catered a huge meal for the entire cast too. What a crazy cool night that was. https://t.co/2ieQhYv9J6

— Caissie Levy (@CaissieLevy) August 16, 2018

The Week in NY Theater: Fringe 2018. Broadway Remembers Aretha. Critics Are Not The Enemy. For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn’t afford to travel could have a “staycation” sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe Festival.

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Competition brings the best out of Sporting Kansas City's Diego Rubio

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Confidence can spur anybody to do great things and on Saturday night it did just that for Diego Rubio. The 25-year-old Chilean scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season for Sporting Kansas City, leading his team to a 3-0 win over the Portland Timbers at Children’s Mercy Park.

“I always feel [confident] about what I can do in the game. I think, of course, it’s something physical, you can run the game, you can press, you can do all the things that are required to play as a striker on this team. So, of course, I [have] confidence but I am very happy that we are winning, that we are in first place,” Rubio stated after the match.

Rubio started on opening weekend for manager Peter Vermes, but did not get into the starting XI again until July 7. His fifth start of 2018 came against the Timbers and he managed to score the second brace of his MLS career, on five shots while completing 87 percent of his passes.

The Chilean is getting more opportunities with Khiry Shelton sidelined but ever since Kristizan Nemeth returned via trade, the competition for playing time has been fierce within the side. Nemeth subbed on for Rubio in the 72nd minute to make his first home appearance since the trade from the New England Revolution.

“I played one game as a [starter] in the first twenty games, so I [didn’t] feel [like] a starter before Nemeth came,” Rubio said. “I always train hard, I was doing what I needed to do. Of course, it’s competition but I think for everybody, not just for me. I think everybody feels that competition because we have a good team.”

Vermes echoed similar sentiments during his postmatch press conference stating: “I think competition, it breeds the best performance of most players.”

Rubio’s performance will make Vermes’ job even tougher with Shelton returning from injury and Nemeth rounding back into form with his former club. 

“I know he scored two goals tonight, which was great,” Vermes said. “They’re really good because that’s what he’s best at in and around the box. A lot of it has to do with the movement off the ball and that’s why he found those situations. He wasn’t standing. He had movement in the play. He was already running before he received the ball and that made him a little bit more elusive to the defender and then he finished those really well. He was very good tonight.”

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