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wutbju · 2 years ago

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When the +++Positives+++ released this letter in January 2023, they blacked out all of the signatories but one:

The full signature line was:

Sincerely, The Executive Board of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship International Approved unanimously with one abstention by the FBFI Board at the 2022 Winter Board Meeting

So yes, Bob Jones III was writing to his own legacy institution to “being to make corrections.”

WutBJU doesn’t know who was present at this Winter Board Meeting of the FBFI outside of Bob Jones III.

But here’s the current slate of officers of the FBFI:

Dr. Kevin Schaal President/CEO Northwest Valley Baptist Church 4030 W Yorkshire Drive Glendale, AZ 85308 Phone: 864.268.0777

Dr. Gordon Dickson Chairman Calvary Baptist Church 2000 Broad Ave Findlay, OH 45840 Phone: 419.422.6842

Pastor Taigen Joos Vice Chairman Heritage Baptist Church 8186 Dover Point Road Dover, NH 03820 Phone: 603.749.0762

Dr. Bud Steadman Secretary Baptist World Mission PO Box 2149 Decatur, AL 35602-2149 Phone: 256.353.2221

Pastor Michael Privett Treasurer Summit View Baptist Church 31 N Highway 25 Bypass Travelers Rest, SC 29617 Phone: 757.206.9544

And the Executive Board:

Dr. Ron Allen Bible Baptist Church 2724 Margaret Wallace Road Matthews, NC 28105 704.535.1692

Rev. Mike Ascher Good News Baptist Church 3252 Taylor Road Chesapeake, VA 23321 757.488.3241

Dr. James Baker Tabernacle Baptist Church 717 N. Whitehurst Landing Road Virginia Beach, VA 23464 757.424.4673

Rev. Earl Barnett King Cove Bible Chapel PO Box 45 King Cove, AK 99612 (907) 497-2076 (907) 414-1402 Cell

Dr. David Byford Faith Baptist Church 7023 Deer Trail Road Manhattan KS 66503 785.539.3363

Dr. Robert Condict Upper Cross Roads Baptist Church 2717 Greene Road Baldwin MD 21013 410.557.7427

Rev. Jeff Davis EMU International 325 Regency Circle Anderson, SC 29625 864.617.7156

Mr. Roger Duvall 22 Elmwood Drive Taylors, SC 29687 864.420.0892

Dr. Ken Endean Tri-City Baptist Church 2211 W Germann Road Chandler, AZ 85286 480.245.7969

Pastor Tony Facenda Stillwaters Baptist Church Milepost 4 1/2 US 158 Nags Head, NC 27959 (252) 255-1835

CH (COL) Gary Fisher 2634 Wisser Street Honolulu, HI 98619 785.492.7667

Pastor Terry Hamilton Friendship Baptist Church 700 Boyson Rd NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 319.393.6990

Dr. Mike Harding First Baptist Church of Troy 2601 John R Troy MI 48084 810.689.4555

Dr. Craig Hartman Shalom Ministries Inc 2152 Ralph Avenue #601 Brooklyn NY 11234 718.232.8233

Dr. Dale Heffernan Midland Baptist Church 1860 North Tyler Road Wichita, KS 67212 316.721.1860

Rev. Arin Hess 7210 Orchard Street Lincoln, NE 68505 402.750.0555

Dr. David Innes Hamilton Square Baptist Church 1212 Geary St. San Francisco CA 94109 415.673.8586

Rev. Don Johnson Grace Baptist Church 2731 Matson Road Victoria, BC CANADA V9B 4M5

Dr. Stephen Jones Bob Jones University 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd Greenville, SC 29614

Dr. Larry Karsies Harvest Hills Baptist Church 9713 North County Line Road Yukon, OK 73099 405.721.1920

Dr. Mark Minnick Mt. Calvary Baptist Church 115 Cedar Lane Road Greenville SC 29601 864.233.1684

Rev. Jeff Musgrave The Exchange 10100 Glenayre Court Parker, CO 80134 303.798.1204

Dr. Larry Oats Maranatha Baptist University 745 West Main Street Watertown WI 53094 920.206.2324

Dr. David Pennington Penn Coaching & Consulting 2018 Freeport Drive Indian Trail, NC 28079 317.507.6001

Dr. Chuck Phelps Colonial Hills Baptist Church 8140 Union Chapel Road Indianapolis, IN 46240 317.253.5597

Dr. Kent Ramler People’s Baptist Church 6648 Carpenter Road Frederick, MD 21703 301.473.5635

Dr. C. Matthew Recker Heritage Baptist Church PO Box 7925 New York NY 10016 212.947-5316

Rev. Stephen Russell Central Baptist Church 1812 Honeysuckle Road Dothan AL 36305-4224 334.794.9214

Dr. Dale Seaman Calvary Baptist Church 1768 N Newcomb Street Porterville, CA 93257 559.783.0857

Dr. Will Senn Tri-City Baptist Church 6953 W 92nd Lane Westminster, CO 80021-4074 303.424.2287

Rev. Ron Smith Jr Victory Baptist Church/AFBM PO Box 2462 California City CA 93504 760.373.7314

Rev. Jeremy Sweatt Farmington Avenue Baptist Church 149 Mountain Rd West Hartford CT 06107 860.521.8380

Rev. Dan Unruh Westside Baptist Church 6260 West 4th Street Greeley CO 80634 970.346.8610

Dr. John C. Vaughn 109 Saffron Way Taylors SC 29687 864.325.2531

CH (COL) Joe Willis USAR RET 2021 Bradbury Rd Adams TN 37010 813.767.2734

Pastor Doug Wright Keystone Baptist Church 15 Keystone Lane Berryville, VA 22611 540.955.3410

Dr. Mike Yarborough Faith Baptist Church 1445 Fertilizer Road Riegelwood, NC 28456 919.622.5309

Dr. Wayne Van Gelderen Jr. Falls Baptist Church N69 W12703 Appleton Avenue Menomonee Falls WI 53051 414.251.7051

And then the board members they keep around on an “Advisory Board”:

Rev. Mark Brock Crossway Baptist Church 4600 Ashe Rd. #318 Bakersfield, CA 93313 661.900.2578

Dr. Ron Ehmann Northwest Baptist Missions PO Box 548 Toole, UT 84074

Mr. Mark Herbster Maranatha Baptist University 745 West Main Street Watertown, WI 53094

Dr. Marty Herron Harvest Baptist Church PO Box 23189 Barrigada, GU 96921

Dr. Jeff Kahl W10085 Pike Plains Road Dunbar, WI 54119 704.989.8517

Dr. Greg Kaminski Westside Baptist Church 1375 Irving Road Eugene, OR 07404

CDR Tavis Long, CHC, USN 1820 Sunsprite Loop Chesapeake, VA 23323 662.812.5288

Ch. Maj. Nathan Mestler International Baptist College 2211 W Germann Rd Chandler, Arizona 85286

Rev. Dan Pelletier Hamilton Square Baptist Church 1212 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94109

CH (COL) Michael Shellman 206 South Courthouse Road Arlington, VA 22204 910.309.6776 Board Emeritus

Dr. Rick Arrowood 104 Rambling Creek Cv Byron, GA 31008-9584 317.217.1600

Dr. Charles Britt Sr. 3979 Kristen Street Spring Hill TN 37174 931.489.9248

Dr. Gerald Carlson 53 Gideon Road Sebring, FL 33870 252.452.1112

Dr. Edward Caughill 206 Cooleys Crest Lane Inman SC 29349 757.479.1195

Dr. Walter Coles Good News Baptist Church 3252 Taylor Road Chesapeake VA 23321 757.488.3241

Dr. Johnny Daniels Calvary Baptist Tabernacle PO Box 3390 Carolina, PR 00984 787.750.2227

Dr. Bill Hall 75 Wintergreen Ave Greeneville TN 37745 423.638.8087

Dr. Bruce Hamilton Hamilton Acres Baptist Church 138 Farewell Avenue Fairbanks AK 99701 907.456.5995

Dr. Bob Jones III Bob Jones University 419 Library Drive Greenville SC 29609 864.242.5100

Dr. Peter Maruyama Narashino Baptist Church 4-17-10, Moto-Ohkubo Narashino, Chiba 275-0012 JAPAN 011.047.477.8910

Mr. Mike Moreau Harvest Media, Inc 22 Briarwood Court Schaumburg IL 60193 847.352.4345

Dr. Fred Moritz 149 Marsh Creek Drive Garner, NC 27529 (256) 318-0897

Dr. Les Ollila PO Box 40 Pembine, WI 54156 715.324.6900

Rev. Wilbur W. Schoneweis Emmanuel Independent Baptist Church 411 Blunt Street Clay Center KS 67432 785.632.5939

Dr. Robert Taylor Colonial Hills Baptist Church 8140 Union Chapel Road Indianapolis IN 46240 317.253.5597

Dr. George Youstra 1984 Georgia Circle Clearwater FL 33760 727.538.1920

I’ve bolded those names who are either current or former members of the BJU Board of Trustees. UPDATE: I eliminated this indication after receiving all the names who signed.

The men present who voted unanimously were either all of those or some of those. We don’t know. We can presume that the Officers were all likely present: Kevin Schaal, Gordan Dickson, Taigen Joos, Bud Steadman, and Michael Privett.

Who abstained? Bob III didn’t. Mike Harding as a present BJU Board member? Stephen Jones as a very absent member of the Royal family? Mark Minnick as a current employee?

The only name on there that I can guarantee did not abstain was Don Johnson, but he’s an old friend of mine. ;)

What do you think?

UPDATE, May 15, 2023: The Positives have added an unredacted signatory list. WutBJU will mark all those signatories on the above list in bold italics.

#Bob Jones University #BJU Board of Trustees #John Lewis #Bob Jones III #PBJU #Steve Pettit #FBFI #Make Pettit Prez Again #Make BJU Great Again #Stephen Jones #Mike Harding #Kevin Schall #Bud Steadman #Kevin Schaal #Michael Privett #Mark Minnick #Don Johnson

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brookston · 6 months ago

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Holidays 7.18

Holidays

Anti-Bigot Day

Billy Joel Day (New York)

Boxer 718 Day

Chrysanthemum Day

Constitution Day (Uruguay)

Global Lifting Awareness Day

Hug a Fat Bald Person Day

Insurance Nerd Day

International Day of the Vaquita Marina

International Laquita Marina Day

Jane Austen Day (Indiana)

Lollapalooza Day

Make A List of the People You Love Day

National Hamiltons Day

National Black Men’s Mental Health Day

National Dapper Your Data Day

National Emma Day

National Hamiltons Day

National Monica Day

National Mortgage Brokers Day

National Peyton Day

Nelson Mandela International Day (a.k.a. Mandela Day; UN)

Perfect Family Day

Perfect 10 Day

President’s Day (Botswana)

Pyramids Day

718 Day (New York)

Shawm Day (French Republic)

Tony the Tiger Day

Weinermobile Day

World Listening Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Brewers Day

National Caviar Day

National Sour Candy Day

National Tropical Fruit Day

St. Anou, Bishop of Metz's Day (patron saint of brewers; a.k.a. St. Arnulf, Arnould, St. Arnold)

Independence & Related Days

Constitution Day (Uruguay; 1830)

Prsänëa (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Vietnam (Becomes U.N. member; 1977)

3rd Thursday in July

Get To Know Your Customers Day [3rd Thursday of each Quarter]

Latitude Festival (Suffolk, UK) [3rd Thursday thru Sunday]

National Dole Whip Day [3rd Thursday]

Protect Swimmers Day [3rd Thursday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 18 (3rd Week of July)

Restless Leg Syndrome Education & Awareness Week (thru 7.28)

Festivals Beginning July 18, 2024

Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival (Chincoteague Island, Virginia) [thru 7.20]

Cookin' on Kampeska (Watertown, South Dakota) [thru 7.20]

Delaware State Fair (Harrington, Delaware) [thru 7.27]

Durban International Film Festival (Durban, South Africa) [thru 7.28]

Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) [thru 8.4]

Jazz in Marciac (Marciac, France) [thru 8.4]

Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem, Israel) [thru 7.27]

Johnson County Peach Festival (Clarksville, Arkansas) [thru 7.20]

Lexington Restaurant Week (Lexington, Kentucky) [thru 7.28]

Miami Valley Steam Threshers Show (Plain City, Ohio) [thru 7.21]

N.C. Peach Festival [Candor, North Carolina) [thru 7.20]

New Horizons International Film Festival (Wrocław, Poland) [thru 7.28]

Picklesburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.21]

Porter Peach Festival (Porter, Oklahoma) [thru 7.20]

Port Fish Days (Port Washington, Wisconsin) [thru 7.20]

Riverfront Food Truck Festival (Hartford, Connecticut) [thru 7.20]

Taste of Galesburg (Galesburg, Illinois)

Taste of Park Ridge (Park Ridge, Illinois) [thru 7.20]

Venice International Festival of Contemporary Dance [Biennale Danza] (Venice, Italy) [thru 8.3]

Verbier Festival (Verbier, Switzerland) [thru 8.4]

Feast Days

Arnulf of Metz (a.k.a. Arnoldus; Christian; Saint) [Belgium; brewers] *

Bernd Fasching (Artology)

Bobby Henderson Day (Pastafarian)

Bruno of Segni (Christian; Saint)

Camillus de Lellis (optional memorial, U.S. only)

Day of Arstat and Copper Woman (Everyday Wicca)

Eadburh (a.k.a. Edburga) of Bicester (Christian; Saint)

Eid-e-Ghadir (Iran)

Elizabeth Ferard (Church of England)

Feast of Saint Arnoldus (Belgium)

Feast of Teneu

Fionn Mac Cumhail (Celtic Book of Days)

Frederick of Utrecht (Christian; Saint)

Giacomo Balla (Artology)

Hunter S. Thompson (Writerism)

Hyacinthe Rigaud (Artology)

Jabotinsky Day (Israel) [29 Tammuz]

Leroy (Muppetism)

The Lunch of the Forward Goblins (Surprisingly Fairies Only; Shamanism)

Marina of Aguas Santas (Christian; Saint)

Maternus of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Nebet-Het (Birthday of Nephthys, Egyptian Goddess of Beer)

Nephthy’s Day (Egyptian Goddess of Death; Pagan)

Odulph (Christian; Saint)

Pambo (Christian; Saint)

Philastrius (Christian; Saint)

Rabelais (Positivist; Saint)

Symphorosa and her Seven Sons (Christian; Martyrs)

Theneva (Christian; Saint)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Thomas Morton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Vitulatio (Feast to Vitulatio, Ancient Roman Goddess of Exultation, joy & life)

Water Pistol Day (Pastafarian)

William Makepeace Thackery (Writerism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Day of Bad Omens (Ancient Rome) [1 of 2]

Prime Number Day: 199 [46 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [41 of 57]

Premieres

Aliens (Film; 1986)

Arachnophobia (Film; 1990)

Bad Boys II (Film; 2003)

The Betty Boop Limited (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1933)

Bosko’s Holiday (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)

The Bowling Ally-Cat (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1942)

City Kitty (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1952)

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess (Novel; 1962)

Closer, by Joy Division (Album; 1980)

Consider the Oyster, by M.F.K. Fisher (Food Essays; 1941)

Copy Cat (Animated Antics Cartoon; 1941)

The Dark Knight (Film; 2008)

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (Film; 1956)

Day Nurse (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)

Don’t Bother to Knock (Film; 1952)

Entourage (TV Series; 2004)

Eureka (TV Series; 2006)

Friends with Benefits (Film; 2011)

George of the Jungle (Film; 1997)

God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

I Love to Sings (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Johnny English (Film; 2003)

Jurassic Park III (Film; 2001)

The Mahagonny Songspiel, by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill (Song; 1927)

Mamma Mia! (Film; 2008)

The Minute and a 1/2 Man (Hector Heathcote Cartoon; 1959)

Mrs. Brown (Film; 1997)

The Nun’s Story (Film; 1959)

Pink Blue Plate (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1971)

Planes: Fire & Rescue (Animated Film; 2014)

Porco Rosso (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1992)

RWBY (Anime Series; 2013)

Sex Tape (Film; 2014)

Sketches of Spain, by Miles Davis (Album; 1960)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn (Science book; 1962)

Symphony No. 8 in D Minor, by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Symphony; 1956)

Tweet and Lovely (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

UHF, by Weird Al Yankpvic (Soundtrack Album; 1989)

Used Cars (Film; 1980)

Wouldn’t It Be Nice, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Answer, Arnold, Arnulf, Friedrich, Ulf (Austria)

Emil, Emilian (Bulgaria)

Bruno, Emilija, Frederik, Ljuba (Croatia)

Drahomíra (Czech Republic)

Arnolphus (Denmark)

Eerika, Erika (Estonia)

Riikka (Finland)

Frédéric (France)

Arnulf, Friedrich, Ulf (Germany)

Aimilianos, Emilianos (Greece)

Frigyes (Hungary)

Calogero, Giusta (Italy)

Rozālija, Roze, Rozīte (Latvia)

Eimantė, Ervinas, Kamilis, Tautvilas (Lithuania)

Arnulf, Ørnulf (Norway)

Arnold, Arnolf, Erwin, Erwina, Kamil, Karolina, Robert, Roberta, Szymon, Unisław, Wespazjan (Poland)

Anna (Russia)

Kamila (Slovakia)

Federico, Marina (Spain)

Fredrik, Fritz (Sweden)

Alfie, Alfred, Avery, Federica, Federico, Fred, Freda, Freddie, Freddy, Fréddy , Freed, Frederic, Frédéric, Frederich, Federik, Frederick, Frédérick, Frederico, Fredrick, Fredy (Universal)

Fred, Freda, Freddie, Freddy, Frederica, Frederick, Frederico, Fredrick, Fredy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 200 of 2024; 166 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 29 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 13 (Guy-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 11 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 20 Red; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 5 July 2024

Moon: 90%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 3 Dante (8th Month) [Rabelais]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 29 of 94)

Week: 3rd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 28 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 6 months ago

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Holidays 7.18

Holidays

Anti-Bigot Day

Billy Joel Day (New York)

Boxer 718 Day

Chrysanthemum Day

Constitution Day (Uruguay)

Global Lifting Awareness Day

Hug a Fat Bald Person Day

Insurance Nerd Day

International Day of the Vaquita Marina

International Laquita Marina Day

Jane Austen Day (Indiana)

Lollapalooza Day

Make A List of the People You Love Day

National Hamiltons Day

National Black Men’s Mental Health Day

National Dapper Your Data Day

National Emma Day

National Hamiltons Day

National Monica Day

National Mortgage Brokers Day

National Peyton Day

Nelson Mandela International Day (a.k.a. Mandela Day; UN)

Perfect Family Day

Perfect 10 Day

President’s Day (Botswana)

Pyramids Day

718 Day (New York)

Shawm Day (French Republic)

Tony the Tiger Day

Weinermobile Day

World Listening Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Brewers Day

National Caviar Day

National Sour Candy Day

National Tropical Fruit Day

St. Anou, Bishop of Metz's Day (patron saint of brewers; a.k.a. St. Arnulf, Arnould, St. Arnold)

Independence & Related Days

Constitution Day (Uruguay; 1830)

Prsänëa (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Vietnam (Becomes U.N. member; 1977)

3rd Thursday in July

Get To Know Your Customers Day [3rd Thursday of each Quarter]

Latitude Festival (Suffolk, UK) [3rd Thursday thru Sunday]

National Dole Whip Day [3rd Thursday]

Protect Swimmers Day [3rd Thursday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 18 (3rd Week of July)

Restless Leg Syndrome Education & Awareness Week (thru 7.28)

Festivals Beginning July 18, 2024

Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival (Chincoteague Island, Virginia) [thru 7.20]

Cookin' on Kampeska (Watertown, South Dakota) [thru 7.20]

Delaware State Fair (Harrington, Delaware) [thru 7.27]

Durban International Film Festival (Durban, South Africa) [thru 7.28]

Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) [thru 8.4]

Jazz in Marciac (Marciac, France) [thru 8.4]

Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem, Israel) [thru 7.27]

Johnson County Peach Festival (Clarksville, Arkansas) [thru 7.20]

Lexington Restaurant Week (Lexington, Kentucky) [thru 7.28]

Miami Valley Steam Threshers Show (Plain City, Ohio) [thru 7.21]

N.C. Peach Festival [Candor, North Carolina) [thru 7.20]

New Horizons International Film Festival (Wrocław, Poland) [thru 7.28]

Picklesburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.21]

Porter Peach Festival (Porter, Oklahoma) [thru 7.20]

Port Fish Days (Port Washington, Wisconsin) [thru 7.20]

Riverfront Food Truck Festival (Hartford, Connecticut) [thru 7.20]

Taste of Galesburg (Galesburg, Illinois)

Taste of Park Ridge (Park Ridge, Illinois) [thru 7.20]

Venice International Festival of Contemporary Dance [Biennale Danza] (Venice, Italy) [thru 8.3]

Verbier Festival (Verbier, Switzerland) [thru 8.4]

Feast Days

Arnulf of Metz (a.k.a. Arnoldus; Christian; Saint) [Belgium; brewers] *

Bernd Fasching (Artology)

Bobby Henderson Day (Pastafarian)

Bruno of Segni (Christian; Saint)

Camillus de Lellis (optional memorial, U.S. only)

Day of Arstat and Copper Woman (Everyday Wicca)

Eadburh (a.k.a. Edburga) of Bicester (Christian; Saint)

Eid-e-Ghadir (Iran)

Elizabeth Ferard (Church of England)

Feast of Saint Arnoldus (Belgium)

Feast of Teneu

Fionn Mac Cumhail (Celtic Book of Days)

Frederick of Utrecht (Christian; Saint)

Giacomo Balla (Artology)

Hunter S. Thompson (Writerism)

Hyacinthe Rigaud (Artology)

Jabotinsky Day (Israel) [29 Tammuz]

Leroy (Muppetism)

The Lunch of the Forward Goblins (Surprisingly Fairies Only; Shamanism)

Marina of Aguas Santas (Christian; Saint)

Maternus of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Nebet-Het (Birthday of Nephthys, Egyptian Goddess of Beer)

Nephthy’s Day (Egyptian Goddess of Death; Pagan)

Odulph (Christian; Saint)

Pambo (Christian; Saint)

Philastrius (Christian; Saint)

Rabelais (Positivist; Saint)

Symphorosa and her Seven Sons (Christian; Martyrs)

Theneva (Christian; Saint)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Thomas Morton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Vitulatio (Feast to Vitulatio, Ancient Roman Goddess of Exultation, joy & life)

Water Pistol Day (Pastafarian)

William Makepeace Thackery (Writerism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Day of Bad Omens (Ancient Rome) [1 of 2]

Prime Number Day: 199 [46 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [41 of 57]

Premieres

Aliens (Film; 1986)

Arachnophobia (Film; 1990)

Bad Boys II (Film; 2003)

The Betty Boop Limited (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1933)

Bosko’s Holiday (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)

The Bowling Ally-Cat (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1942)

City Kitty (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1952)

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess (Novel; 1962)

Closer, by Joy Division (Album; 1980)

Consider the Oyster, by M.F.K. Fisher (Food Essays; 1941)

Copy Cat (Animated Antics Cartoon; 1941)

The Dark Knight (Film; 2008)

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (Film; 1956)

Day Nurse (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)

Don’t Bother to Knock (Film; 1952)

Entourage (TV Series; 2004)

Eureka (TV Series; 2006)

Friends with Benefits (Film; 2011)

George of the Jungle (Film; 1997)

God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

I Love to Sings (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Johnny English (Film; 2003)

Jurassic Park III (Film; 2001)

The Mahagonny Songspiel, by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill (Song; 1927)

Mamma Mia! (Film; 2008)

The Minute and a 1/2 Man (Hector Heathcote Cartoon; 1959)

Mrs. Brown (Film; 1997)

The Nun’s Story (Film; 1959)

Pink Blue Plate (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1971)

Planes: Fire & Rescue (Animated Film; 2014)

Porco Rosso (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1992)

RWBY (Anime Series; 2013)

Sex Tape (Film; 2014)

Sketches of Spain, by Miles Davis (Album; 1960)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn (Science book; 1962)

Symphony No. 8 in D Minor, by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Symphony; 1956)

Tweet and Lovely (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

UHF, by Weird Al Yankpvic (Soundtrack Album; 1989)

Used Cars (Film; 1980)

Wouldn’t It Be Nice, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Answer, Arnold, Arnulf, Friedrich, Ulf (Austria)

Emil, Emilian (Bulgaria)

Bruno, Emilija, Frederik, Ljuba (Croatia)

Drahomíra (Czech Republic)

Arnolphus (Denmark)

Eerika, Erika (Estonia)

Riikka (Finland)

Frédéric (France)

Arnulf, Friedrich, Ulf (Germany)

Aimilianos, Emilianos (Greece)

Frigyes (Hungary)

Calogero, Giusta (Italy)

Rozālija, Roze, Rozīte (Latvia)

Eimantė, Ervinas, Kamilis, Tautvilas (Lithuania)

Arnulf, Ørnulf (Norway)

Arnold, Arnolf, Erwin, Erwina, Kamil, Karolina, Robert, Roberta, Szymon, Unisław, Wespazjan (Poland)

Anna (Russia)

Kamila (Slovakia)

Federico, Marina (Spain)

Fredrik, Fritz (Sweden)

Alfie, Alfred, Avery, Federica, Federico, Fred, Freda, Freddie, Freddy, Fréddy , Freed, Frederic, Frédéric, Frederich, Federik, Frederick, Frédérick, Frederico, Fredrick, Fredy (Universal)

Fred, Freda, Freddie, Freddy, Frederica, Frederick, Frederico, Fredrick, Fredy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 200 of 2024; 166 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 29 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 13 (Guy-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 11 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 20 Red; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 5 July 2024

Moon: 90%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 3 Dante (8th Month) [Rabelais]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 29 of 94)

Week: 3rd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 28 of 31)

#Holidays

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weloveperioddrama · 6 years ago

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period drama + doctors (requested by anonymous)

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burning-up-ao3 · 6 years ago

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So Kiss Me ch 2/2

Pure chaos.

Absolute pandemonium.

It was perfect.

Sid relaxed at a table the guys had pushed into a corner about thirty seconds after they’d rolled into the room. Actually, they’d pushed all the tables out of the way, making a bigger dance floor for “all of Bjugy’s moves.” Sid rolled his beer bottle between his palms and watched the mayhem.

Schultzy adding an empty to his beer bottle tower. “Physics,” he slurred to Olli, who’d added plenty of his own empties to the tower. Cully egged them on, popping another cap and handing the beer to one or the other. Sid had seen Cully grab an empty early on and pretend to take swig. Sid flashed Cully a thumbs up, supporting his sobriety that few knew about.

Dumo handing off the DJ duties to Zach Aston-Reese and grabbing the <i>Rock Band</i> guitar from Horny. He joined Guentz, Weedle, and Rusty who were destroying Green Day.

Sid laughed when Jake offered him the microphone. “Nope. I’m good.”

“Then stop laughing at us!” Jake boomed over the microphone.

Bringing in gaming systems was genius. NHL19 in one corner of the room and Rock Band in another was genius. When he paid the bill, Sid would include a generous tip because these people deserved it.

What the manager had pulled together at 11 at night was incredible. One table was actual, nutritious food—a cold carving station with a Virginia ham and a variety of cheeses. Salad greens with the choice of sliced chicken or steak. Warm, crusty kaiser rolls. Tray after tray of cheesy lasagna.

One table was pure junk food. A popcorn machine with fresh, hot popcorn. Chips and salsa. Fat homemade pretzels with beer cheese. Brownies. A tub of vanilla ice cream chilling in an ice bath. Bowls of sprinkles, jimmies, chocolate syrup, tiny marshmallows.

And an open bar. Bottle after bottle of I.C. Light. Wine for Dumo and Rusty. Jack and Coke for Guddy and Weedle.

And ice-cold prune juice for Geno.

Sid had never asked why, and Geno had never offered a reason. But Sid knew it was his guilty pleasure. Ice-cold prune juice in a frozen glass.

The guys were happy and loose, having a great time and working together. No. Playing together. In the end, their jobs were still a game, still supposed to be fun. The day they stepped onto the ice with apathy and a Fuck. Here we go again instead of with awe and overwhelming excitement was the day they needed to hang up their skates.

And right now, judging from the laughter coming from all corners of the room, they were having fun as a team. Sid laughed at Dominik Simon, holding three beer bottles with one hand and a bowl of ice cream in another as he tried to avoid Bjugy’s attempt at breakdancing.

Jared McCann hesitated before slipping into the seat next to Sid. “Hey—uh—thanks,” he said, more tipsy than drunk. “For this.” He looked at his empty glass and swirled the ice with his stirrer. “I know it’s not how you wanted playoffs to go—but man, it feels good to just be at the dance.”

Sid didn’t know how to answer. Jared was good—on his way to great. And he was young. He had a lot of playoffs ahead of him. “Yeah, I get that,” he finally said. Jared nodded, and when he stood, Sid held his wrist for a moment. “This isn’t our last one. Not your last one.”

Bjugy ran toward them and, at the last second, dropped to his knees and slid on the glossy, wooden dance floor. He grabbed Jared and drag him away to show the group their disco moves. ZAR played some BeeGees that they were all too young to remember, and to Sid, Jared’s “disco moves” were less Tony Manero and more Tony the Tiger

“We needed this.” Jack Johnson tumbled into the empty seat, careful not to spill his drink. “You did good.” He leaned over to hug Sid, and lost his balance, almost falling into the space between the two chairs. “You’re a great captain. The best. We’re lucky to have you. Geno’s lucky to have you.”

“What does that mean?” Sid asked, taking a sip of his beer. Was he talking about them?

“As a captain,” Jack said with a touch of duh in his tone. “How much have you had to drink??”

Sid laughed. “Not as much as you, bud.”

“Glad I’m playing with you again.” Jack struggled to his feet. He dropped a wet kiss on the top of Sid’s head before straggling off across the dance floor.

<i>God bless that man.</i> Sid laughed as Jack told the bartender some story that involved dramatic hand gestures and a lot of mime.

“If he weave and dodge like that on ice, we make him winger,” Geno laughed, taking Jack’s place next to Sid. “Better than on D.”

Sid jumped at a loud crash; physics failed Schultzy and Olli as the beer bottle pyramid collapsed.

“We’re not hurt!” Schultzy yelled over the Rock Band noise without realizing the game was paused

Jake, who was lying in the middle of the dance floor—Sid didn’t know if it was because he was too wasted to stand or he was still trying to copy Bjugy’s breakdancing—began a slow clap that caught on, echoed in the room until Olli and Schultzy bowed.

Cully stood against the wall looking innocent.

“Mr. Crosby, I’m sorry to bother you.” The manager looked tired, with dark circles under his eyes. He stifled a yawn. “Did you have a closing time in mind, or would you like us to bring out breakfast?”

Sid looked at his watch. “Jeez, I didn’t realize it was after 4.” He looked around—most of the guys were flagging, in quiet conversation at tables or, in Olli’s case, passed out on the floor.

“Can kitchen make bacon egg sandwich for all?” Geno asked, pushing his empty glass away. “Grease and bread. Hangover be less bad. And can get maybe ten rooms for them? Not want them to drive.” The manager left, and Geno said to Sid, “Not want Uber to see. Maybe say online.”

Sid looked at Geno and love hit him square in the chest, took his breath away, and left him shocked but not surprised. Late nights, long weekends, sneaking into each other’s room on the road late at night. Waking up a few minutes early to watch G sleep—in a totally, non-creepy way. When he slept, G looked youthful, his face unlined with worry and stress, like he did the night they met in 2006.

It was never just Friends With Benefits, was it?

Sid’s heartbeat raced, as if it knew he was standing on the edge of a precipice ready to step off. He could fall. But, what if he flew? What if Geno felt the same, that they were good, so very good, and any risk was worth the reward?

“You’re—that’s—good idea, G,” Sid whispered, afraid if he spoke his voice would give away his feelings. “We should wake them up, let them eat, before we kick them upstairs.”

They pushed away from the table to the sound of several guys snoring and Zach’s 1990s alt music; Zach had fallen asleep at a table, his head cushioned on his arms and the iPhone still resting against the microphone.

“I love this song,” Sid said as the track changed. “My mom used to play it all the time. Sometimes, she’d dance with my dad when it was on the radio.”

Kiss me, out of the bearded barley Nightly, beside the green, green grass…

Geno held out his hand to Sid and nodded toward the dance floor. “Dance?”

Sid looked around the room at the passed-out bodies. There was no one to see, and even if there were, maybe that was okay.

He took Geno’s hand, followed him to the small open space on the dance floor between bodies. Geno wrapped his arms around Sid’s waist, his hands resting on Sid’s ass. To Sid, it felt proprietary, that he was Geno’s for everyone to see.

Swing, swing, swing the spinning step

You wear those shoes

And I will wear that dress…

“Is okay?” Geno asked as he turned slowly with Sid. “I’m not know how to dance slow so good.”

Sid rested his head against Geno’s shoulder. “Perfect.”

Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance Silver moon's sparkling So kiss me…

“So kiss me,” Geno echoed and lifted Sid’s chin. Tentatively, Geno leaned closer until their lips almost touched. “I’m kiss you?” he asked, his breath warm against Sid’s lips.

Sid nodded, his feelings too raw to speak.

They kissed softly as the music played, kissed as if they were the only two in the room, in the world. Kissed as if it were a promise of forever.

“I love you,” Sid said as the song ended. “I think I always have.”

“You say hello for first time, and I’m think, he could be friend. Then I’m know that you much more.” Geno kissed him again and said, “I’m love you.”

The clatter of metal on metal made them jump apart. The manager had somehow dropped the dome top against the serving tray as he wheeled the cart into the room. “Sorry. So sorry. Just clumsy.”

Sid thought, judging from his grin, that it probably had been on purpose to warn them he was there.

When they turned to rouse the guys, Sid and Geno realized that almost all of them were awake, sitting up and grinning, Cully the widest of anyone.

“Finally realized?” Tanger asked, his voice bright and clear.

“I guessed as much,” Cully added.

Horny rubbed his chin. “I think they together for year, two years.”

“How are you guys even awake?” Sid balked. “You were sound asleep.”

Almost in unison, the three said, “Kids.”

“Kids always wake you up in the middle of the night, and you have to be 100 percent awake immediately.” Cully grinned wider as everyone laughed.

“Is not for advice or chirping,” Geno said, waving his hand between him and Sid. “Not want.”

“Wait. Are you guys—” Jake raised his head slowly, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

“Yes, we are,” Sid said in his captain voice. “Now can we just have breakfast?”

A few guys groaned, but most of them shuffled over for a sandwich and a room key. They left in small groups, and some joker had hit the light switch leaving Geno and Sid alone in the darkened room. The ballroom’s glass doors led outdoors to a patio, and they could see the first hints of dawn.

“I didn’t know what they’d think,” Sid said. He felt awkward, like a teenager again, unsure what to do or say.

“They think we best,” Geno said simply. “On ice and off. I’m think they know I love you. Not think I’m hide it so good.”

“I don’t think I hid it so good, either,” Sid said crowding Geno, who seemed happy to be crowded. “I got us a room. Want to show me how much you love me?”

“Don’t know if we have time,” Geno said as they left. “Have game day after today.” He slid his hand into Sidney’s and waited for the elevator to arrive.

It wouldn’t be enough time, Sid knew. But then, they had all summer to show each other. All year. All their future. Maybe even that wouldn’t be enough. “It’s a start,” Sid smiled and said, “So, kiss me.”

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Saturday, July 13, 2022

More news about Salman Rushdie. He’s on a ventilator. The prospect is that he’ll pull through. Right now he cannot speak.

Note: I remember a documentary about Rushdie. Pre “Satanic Versus.” A little clip showing him at work. He sat at an electric typewriter, the big ones that used to occupy office desks (I had one; I remember the sound it made) typing determinedly with both thumbs.

Kenichi throws big party for Jullie. Big crowd (many of the local campers). Ear-splitting local rock band.

I end up drinking too much. Very bad.

Sunday, July 14, 2022

Trump playing his followers for fools. Ask for contributions for lawyers. (Of course he’s not saying that is what it’s for. The slogan: Save America. Says the papers found at Mar-a-Lago cannot be labeled ‘Classified” as he unclassified them before taking them from the White House. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But...we wonder who thought this bit of pseudo-legal wizardry up.

Go to Monticello for the Annual Bagel Festival. The first time I had any idea there was a connection (up here it’s pronounced Mont-i-SELL-o, no CH) between this town and the manufacture of bagels. Very pleasant local event. Antique cars and all...

Later: Kenichi tries to time his drive back...says leaving a bit later could be a good idea. But...the traffic is terrible. Much of the drive is spent in bumper to bumper traffic. When things at last open up I see some of the most reckless driving ever. Kenichi turns in a masterful piece of driving...drops me off at my door.

Nice to be home. The apartment is cool...Watch a bit of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” with Dick and Liz. I recall that it was sort of cutting edge when it came out. Our Knoxville friend (Steve Johnson) said, afterwards: “Well, that only leaves ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’.... Prophetic...

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Cory Booker to headline Iowa Democratic gala. Is it prep for 2020?

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Cory Booker to headline Iowa Democratic gala. Is it prep for 2020?

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was the keynote speaker June 16, 2018 at the Virginia Democratic Party’s biggest fund-raiser of the year. A southern state that has increasingly trended Democratic, Virginia is vital to presidential candidates, which Booker could be in 2020. NorthJersey

Sep 4, 2018; Washington, DC, USA; Sen. Cory Booker (D – N.J.), left, speaks while Sen. Kamala Harris (D – Calif.) listens during the hearing for Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.(Photo: Jack Gruber, Jack Gruber-USA TODAY NETWORK)

Sen. Cory Booker will headline a Democratic dinner in Iowa next month that often draws presidential candidates, another sign – following his dramatic defiance of GOP-imposed confidentiality rules at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings this week – that New Jersey’s first African American senator is preparing for a 2020 run.

Booker will headline the Iowa Democratic Party Fall Gala on Oct. 6. Formerly known as the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, the event in 2015 featured both Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee.

Booker has been traveling the country this year to help candidates running in midterm congressional elections. He was in Texas Saturday campaigning with candidates including Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who is vying to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz. On Saturday night, he was to be the state party’s annual Johnson-Jordan Dinner.

The trip to Iowa would be Booker’s first this year to the state that kicks off the presidential selection process. Iowa’s state chair, Troy Price, said Democrats were “thrilled” to get Booker.

Lowry: Cory Booker, ever the fighter, takes on process, Brett Kavanaugh

Analysis: What Cory Booker’s ‘Spartacus’ moment at the Kavanaugh hearing accomplished

Cory Booker’s Burden: Senator deflects talk of a presidential run — for now

“Senator Booker represents a future-driven vision for our party and our nation that has inspired millions,” Price said in a news release. “As we head in to the most grueling weeks of this cycle, we hope that his message will be the fuel Iowa Democrats need to put our candidates over the top in November.”

When Booker headlined a similar dinner in Virginia in June, the state party’s executive director compared Booker’s ability to draw Democrats to Clinton and President Barack Obama. The former Newark mayor with more than 4 million followers on Twitter is often stopped in the Capitol from tourists seeking selfies.

Booker had a lucrative side line giving speeches around the country while he was a mayor, earning $350,000 in 2012 and $431,000 in 2013, the year he won a special election to the Senate, where speaking fees are prohibited.

Booker often mixes tales from his personal biography, including his parents’ experience breaking the race barrier to buy a home in the North Jersey suburb where he grew up, Harrington Park, with condemnation of inequality, especially in the justice system.

At the Kavanaugh hearings, Booker and Sen. Kamala Harris of California were both under scrutiny as new members of the Judiciary Committee and potential 2020 contenders. Harris’ questioning on Wednesday night about whether Kavanaugh discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation with the law firm of an attorney for President Donald Trump got wide play on social media.

Before she spoke, Booker had read from documents, including an email chain with the subject line “racial profiling,” from Kavanaugh’s tenure in President George W. Bush’s White House. Reading the document violated rules that had deemed the presidential records confidential unless Democrats had prior permission to disclose them.

The story continues below the tweet.

Weds—I broke committee rules by reading from “committee confidential” docs.

Thurs—Cornyn threatened me with expulsion.

He then changed his story & backtracked. Now he’s back at it threatening an ethics investigation b/c we exposed this sham process. https://t.co/FEf4p65iDl

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) September 7, 2018

On Thursday morning, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, objected to the use of the documents and said senators who couldn’t follow the rules did not deserve to be on the committee or in the chamber. Booker replied that he read the documents as an act of civil disobedience in objection and was willing to face ouster for defying what he considered a “sham” process. He said he was going to instruct his staff to release the emails, but Republicans said Booker had already been informed the committee’s classification had been lifted.

Throughout Thursday, however, Booker released other documents that had not been cleared, even as opponents on social media mocked him, especially for his reference to the line “I am Spartacus” after Democrats said they would stand by him if he were punished.

Cornyn said on Twitter on Friday that Booker should be investigated by the ethics committee for violating the committee’s confidentiality rules.

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Letters to the editor

The situation in Qatar

The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the UN claimed that the hostile action taken by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt against Qatar is not a blockade, because “there is no military aspect to the diplomatic measures that have been taken” (Letters, July 15th).

Qatar’s only land border has been closed and air and sea traffic has been diverted, cutting off vital routes for imports. Fresh food, water supplies and medicine must now be airlifted into Qatar or delivered by boat. Parents have been forcibly separated from their young children and husbands from their wives. Family members have been prevented from visiting sick or elderly parents. To the people of Qatar, this is a blockade.

The citizens of the blockading countries are suffering as well. Hundreds have been forced to choose between abandoning their jobs and families or facing fines and even prison for disobeying the orders. Foreign patients being treated in Qatar have had their medical care disrupted.

As Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, told an audience in London recently, “When you have a mother holding her seven-year-old child, and they are pulling her son away from her and not allowing her to travel with him, this is a blockade. It is inhuman. It is illegal. I’m sorry, but no one can call it a ‘boycott’.”

AMBASSADOR ALYA BIN SAIF AL THANI Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN New York

Around the world in 80 days

I’m sure readers were amused by the clever headline, “It’s not the heat; it’s the cupidity”, for the Free exchange column on climate change (July 15th). It’s a great line. S.J. Perelman, an American humorist and screenwriter, coined the phrase in his delightful travel chronicle, “Westward Ha!”, in the late 1940s. Perelman and Al Hirschfeld, a cartoonist for New Yorker magazine, were commissioned to undertake a round-the-world trip mostly by slow steamer, presumably with an eye to replicating the success of Mark Twain’s “A Tramp Abroad” more than 60 years earlier. The serialised illustrated essays were compiled and published in book form in 1947.

JIM RHODES Norfolk, Virginia

You say potato…

Is Johnson (July 22nd) being deliberately provocative in suggesting that scone is pronounced by Britons to rhyme with “gone”, whereas Americans pronounce it as rhyming with “cone”? Britain is just as divided on this topic as it is on Brexit (or on whether the jam or cream is spread first).

IAN SALUSBURY Oxford

The future is bright * “A flash in the sky” (July 15th) contained errors relating to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. NERC is not the utilities’ “industry group”. It is an independent, not-for-profit international regulatory authority. Our mission is to assure the reliability and security of the bulk power system in North America. It did not take “a decade” for a vegetation-management standard to be developed. While it is true that electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a national-security matter, NERC does not believe that EMP is solely the government’s responsibility, but rather sees the government leading national security in co-ordination with the public and private sectors. Working with the Department of Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is undertaking a major three-year initiative to inform steps industry can take to protect against EMP. Although EPRI’s work continues, NERC’s previous studies on geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) and EPRI’s on EMP showed large numbers of transformers will not be damaged as a result of GMD and EMP, but a smaller set could be impacted based on the transformer’s relative health. NERC’s study found voltage collapse, as experienced in Hydro Québec in 1989, would be the result. Though this is serious, the system restoration activities would begin quickly, with swift restoration expected. Industry also has spare transformer sharing arrangements to provide quick replacement of critical equipment. MARK LAUBY Senior vice-president and chief reliability officer North American Electric Reliability Corporation Atlanta

Keeping the generals happy

Riding up and down the Champs-Elysées with Donald Trump and promising to all and sundry that France will maintain its operations abroad is one thing (“Stumbling into a fight”, July 22nd). Providing the armed forces with the means to achieve that is another. Two groups of people risk being alienated by Emmanuel Macron’s latest moves: the armed forces and the civil servants.

The president’s desire to re-establish the journée de carence, when civil servants have to sacrifice pay for their first day of sick leave, suggests a certain disdain. Treating the armed forces and the civil service in this way risks creating a powerful enemy coalition. There are dangerous signs of Napoleonic ambitions, without the thought needed to carry them through. Having assembled a parliamentary majority of largely inexperienced legislators, the president seems to be tempted by the idea of bypassing parliament and governing by decree.

A last detail. Mr Macron’s official portrait, which will be on display in French town halls, happens to be bigger than its predecessors, causing some mayors to protest against the cost of framing it. La folie des grandeurs?

ALAN KIRMAN Director of studies School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) Paris

Election rigging * Your article (“How to unrig an election”, July 22nd) on democratic elections in Africa states that “Not until 1991, in Benin and Zambia, did the region see peaceful ejections of incumbent rulers at the ballot box (the long-democratic island of Mauritius excepted).” That is not entirely correct. In 1967 Somalia became the first place in the continent in which the head of state was defeated in an election, followed by a peaceful transfer of power. Somalia may have been brought to its knees by decades of dictatorship, civil war, clan militias, etc. It is easy to forget that its early years were different. Somalia was formed through the union of newly independent territories British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland in 1960. Aden Abdullah Osman Daar became the first president. In the 1967 presidential elections Daar was defeated by Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, his former prime minister, albeit by a secret ballot limited to members of parliament. Daar graciously accepted the loss, thus making history as the first leader in Africa to hand over power peacefully to a successor. Somalia’s democratic trailblazing in Africa came to a halt in 1969, when General Mohammed Siad Barré seized power in a coup.

PETER STEIN Stockholm * Your article was extremely welcome in drawing attention to this transformational demonstration of the value of soft power. I have two points of disagreement. First election observation is not expensive. In 2004 in Indonesia the EU Election Observation Mission (EUEOM) oversaw the first peaceful transition of power in the world’s most populous Muslim country. In 2006/7 the EUEOM in Aceh observed the final step in a peace process that ended a 30-year civil war. The costs were respectfully less than five and two hours spending in the Iraq war. Second, celebrity observers are far more trouble than they are worth. In 2004 the EU deployed a total of over 1,300 staff in the field with some in place for more than six months. A “celebrity”, with a team of less than two dozen arriving a week ahead of polling day to cover the 400,000 polling stations, promptly declared the poll a triumph of democracy three hours after the polls closed and hopped on a jet off to his next gig leaving the serious missions to pick up the pieces. I’d check John Kerry’s diary before I got excited. GLYN FORD EU chief election observer in Indonesia (2004) and Aceh (2006/7) Oldham

The life saver

Lexington praised the young Ronald Reagan’s initiative in getting a summer job as a lifeguard at a municipal beach (July 8th). The young jobseeker had taken a life-saving course at the YMCA. He gained employment because the local authority insisted that the beach concessionaires improve safety standards after a spate of drownings. This was a case of government showing it could be the solution rather than just the problem (something the 40th president had forgotten by the time he gave his inaugural address in 1981).

In his advanced years Reagan proved the durability of skills learned in younger days. Aged 58 as the governor of California, he dived fully clothed to rescue a seven-year old African-American girl who had got into difficulties in the pool at his house in Sacramento, where a party for staff families was being held. “I guess it’s just an old instinct that remains,” he told the press when the story got out.

IWAN MORGAN Professor of US studies University College London

Glad to be grey

You asked what to call someone who is over 65 but not yet elderly (“Over 65 shades of grey”, July 8th). Friends of ours invented the acronym Hopskis: Healthy Old People Spending Kids’ Inheritance, which sums it up pretty well.

LARS HENRIKSSON Kristianstad, Sweden

In my early days as a student in Bournemouth, we referred to the over 65s as Woopies and Jollies: Well Off Older People, and Jolly Old Ladies with Lots of Loot. Mind you, this was Bournemouth.

IVAR HAUFF Oslo

Being 79, I am in the midst of “longevity”. Yes, I am an Owl, Older, Working Less, still earning; but that also means Older, Wiser, still Learning.

FATHER EMMANUEL KAHN Warrington, Cheshire

I am now evidently able to refer to myself as a Geriactive, a Sunsetter, a Nightcapper, a Nyppie, or as one of the Owls. But after reading the reference to the Rolling Stones in your special report on longevity (July 8th), I think I’ll plump for “Jaggernaut”.

DAVID OGILVIE New York

The English-speaking world thinks of “retirement”, as “withdrawal to a place of seclusion”, you say. But not all nations share such etymology. Germans have Pensionierung, Swedes pensionering, and Italians pensionamento, while Spaniards call it jubilación.

TRISTAN JONES Chicago

Charles Dickens described the young elderly as being in their “green old age”, which is a wonderful definition.

META ROSENEIL Buckhurst Hill, Essex

How about Indy, as in I’m Not Dead Yet?

BRADFORD HAWKINS Irvine, California

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Doyle has some extensive touring plans for what’s left of 2018. Doyle is currently overseas touring the U.K. and Europe with Off The Cross supporting on the majority of dates. Following a break, Doyle will kick off a North American tour in October that runs on until January 3rd of next year. All dates follow:

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Doyle announces more dates for the As We Die World Abomination Tour Doyle has some extensive touring plans for what's left of 2018. Doyle is currently overseas touring the U.K.

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Somebody will win $10,000 from a baseball workforce after UMBC upset Virginia

Historical past was made Friday night time, because the 16-seed College of Maryland Baltimore County Retrievers upset the No. 1 general seed Virginia Cavaliers within the first spherical of the NCAA Division I basketball event. They blew them out too, 74-54. Previous to Friday, No. 16 seeds have been Zero-135 within the event. Our school hoops groups has every part it is advisable find out about March Insanity.

UMBC’s upset will internet one fortunate fan $10,000, courtesy of the St. Paul Saints, an impartial baseball workforce. The Saints held a Twitter promotion that may pay a fan $10,000 if a No. 16 seed beat a No. 1 seed this yr.

We do not have a billion like @WarrenBuffett, however our GM @DerekSharrer has formally gone mad. The Saints will give away $10,000 if a 16 seed beats a 1 seed in #MarchMadness2018. All you must do is retweet this to enter & we’ll select one winner if it occurs.

— St. Paul Saints (@StPaulSaints) March 12, 2018

“Somebody on our employees, who shall stay anonymous, introduced this concept to me and stated it was a foolproof promotion,” stated Saints GM Derek Sharrer in an announcement. “Now, because of this former employees member, I imply, this artistic genius, we are going to make somebody’s day by giving them $10,000. We’re all about household inexpensive enjoyable with the Saints and the winner might be ready to convey a whole lot of households to CHS Subject this season.”

The drawing might be held March 20 at 1pm CT, and you’ll watch on the membership’s Fb web page and Twitter feed. As of this writing, almost 16,000 folks have retweeted the competition tweet, making them eligible for the $10,000 prize. You continue to have three days to retweet it and throw your hat within the ring.

The St. Paul Saints have been based in 1993 and are a part of the impartial American Affiliation. Final season their roster included former large leaguers Dan Johnson, Caleb Thielbar, and Mark Hamburger. Darryl Strawberry and Corridor of Famer Jack Morris are among the many notable Saints alumni.

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Cheryl Burnett

Timing. Trust it.

For Cheryl Burnett, it’s evident from the onset that timing played a critical role in her beautiful story.

Being a small-town girl from Centralia, Missouri, Burnett wasn’t on most college coaches’ radar.

In fact, at the time, few coaches invested any time or money into recruiting at all.

“Players simply went to college and then chose to play,” Burnett said. “It wasn’t until 1976 that coaches started to recruit because colleges were first getting scholarships.”

Burnett’s story of becoming a Jayhawk starts with how Kansas recruited her.

“I was a little country kid from a very small town in the middle of Missouri, and the only way Kansas ever saw me was because one of the assistant coaches by the name of Shelia Moorman was working a camp,” Burnett recalled. “So, later in my playing career at Centralia High School, this assistant coach, Moorman—who went on to become a great coach herself—was the reason I was recruited to Kansas.”

Despite the early adversity associated with being from a small town during a period where recruiting hardly happened in the first place, Burnett still found her way to Lawrence, Kansas, where she helped galvanize the women’s basketball program.

Not only did Burnett become an instrumental piece to the Kansas women’s basketball team, she also broke a transformational barrier in becoming the first KU female granted a full-ride athletic scholarship.

In doing so, Burnett opened the door for thousands more female student-athletes to follow in her footsteps as a scholarship athlete at the University of Kansas. Burnett is adamant it was all about good timing, though.

“I’ve been blessed to be the age that I am due to Title IX,” she said. “I wasn’t the best player and that’s where I go to someone like Adrian Mitchell-Newell, who was much more talented in every way than I was, but I was just at the time where Title IX created the opportunity for the coaches to offer it to me rather than somebody like Adrian who had already been in the program.”

There’s “irony” to the story that many people have never heard.

Initially, the scholarship was intended for another young basketball phenom.

“Here’s the irony,” Burnett explained. “LeAnn Wilcox was from KC and we went to basketball camp together and we would have loved to have played together. Sure enough, Kansas was offering her the scholarship and I was next-in-line. LeAnn turned Kansas down to go to Kansas State. So, the irony is, the first (KU women’s athletic) scholarship could have been LeAnn Wilcox, but she became the first at Kansas State. So, I could very well have not been that very first full-ride scholarship,”

Fortuitous timing provided Burnett an opportunity of a lifetime, which the humble guard made the most of and then some.

Under the leadership of Marian Washington, the Jayhawks were coming off two consecutive losing seasons.

Burnett’s first year at KU (1976) certainly was not short on obstacles. The Jayhawks finished 11-15, which appeared to be a step backward from their 13-14 campaign a year prior.

Despite the sub-par record, Burnett made an immediate impact, averaging a career-high 10 points per game as well as playing stifling defense for the Jayhawks.

Expectations for the women’s team entering 1977-78 were certainly much higher than they had been in prior years. Not only did Kansas have Burnett returning, but they also added a player who would become major college basketball’s career women’s scoring leader in Lynette Woodard (3,649 points from 1977-81).

“I had the tremendous honor of having a teammate by the name of Lynette Woodard,” Burnett reflected. “I also had the pleasure of playing with Adrian Mitchell.”

Adrian Mitchell—whose jersey will officially be retired on Sunday, January 28 when the Jayhawks take on rival Kansas State—ranks second in Kansas history for points scored with 2,124, behind Woodard, whose jersey already hangs in the Allen Fieldhouse rafters.

Clearly, this collection of young talent had the potential to put Kansas women’s basketball on the national radar and they certainly did not disappoint.

Burnett’s second year on the team featured the biggest two-year turnaround in program history. With legendary coach, Washington, still leading the way, the Jayhawks finished the season 22-11 and participated in postseason play for the first time since Marlene Mawson was Kansas’ head coach in 1970.

While Woodard and Mitchell brought the scoring punch, Burnett found her niche elsewhere, “My impact was first defensively, then my ability to pass and certainly my ability to foul, as I was the all-time foul leader for quite some time at KU; I didn’t want to waste any of those fouls,” Burnett joked. “Lastly, leadership.”

The same leadership that Burnett brought to the Jayhawks every day for four seasons is the same that helped her later on in life, when she achieved tremendous success in the coaching ranks.

On one road trip, the Jayhawks were set to take on Old Dominion and Nancy Lieberman, also known as “Lady Magic” (a nod to Earvin “Magic” Johnson).

It was a privilege for a relatively unknown Kansas program to venture to Virginia for a tilt with such a well-respected program which contained one of the nation’s top talents in Lieberman.

Sure enough, Washington and her staff called upon Burnett to take on the tall task of covering “Lady Magic.”

Naturally, the Centralia, Missouri native welcomed the challenge.

Burnett hopes that her teammates, coaches, and fans remember her for both the defensive intensity and hard work that she brought with her to the hardwood.

According to Burnett, it was “The blue-collar part of the game, not the flash part of the game,” that allowed her to succeed at such a high level. While defense was her primary focus on the court, she was enough of a scoring threat that opponents had to respect her offensive skill set as well.

This versatility and dependability gave Burnett the “it” factor that coaches and experts often refer to when discussing athletes.

Between Woodard, Mitchell, Burnett’s combined talents on the floor and the vision of Washington, the Jayhawks finished the 1978-79 season with a 30-8 record, good for the most single season victories in program history.

More than anything else, Burnett believes that historical season and program turnaround was the culmination of Kansas’ coaching staff’s great recruiting efforts. Over the years, Washington had become well-known as a pioneer of recruiting nationally and it paid clear dividends for the Jayhawks that season.

Burnett capped off her iconic Jayhawk career with a 29-8 senior season, which featured a third consecutive postseason appearance for the team.

From Dr. James Naismith to Dr. Phog Allen to John McLendon to Marlene Mawson and beyond, basketball’s influence on the University of Kansas and conversely, KU’s influence on the game basketball is powerful beyond measure.

Burnett embraced this history in a unique way during her time as a Jayhawk.

“I used to go up into Allen Fieldhouse and sit in one of the top corners,” she recalled. “Of course, I’d sit on a #10 seat because that was my number, and I would sit up there and think about the history of basketball at the University of Kansas and how I wanted to represent that incredible history as a player and as a person.”

It’s tough to think of someone who represents what it means to be a Kansas Jayhawk more so than Burnett. The grit and tenacity she displayed on the court as a player carried over into her post-playing days career: coaching.

“I had known from a very young age (that) I wanted to coach,” Burnett explained. “One of the greatest influences of my life was my high school coach Jim Enlow.”

Enlow coached both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams at Centralia High School for over 30 years. He was known to take the boys on the road to scout, but never took the girls along. That was until one of his prodigies, Burnett, questioned his tactics during her freshman year at CHS and things changed quickly after that.

“By golly, he put me in the car with all the guys and him and we went to scout tournaments,” Burnett remembered. “I wanted to be like Coach Enlow; not only just to coach, but because I could see the impact he had on others’ lives and that’s what I love about sports.”

Burnett continued that sentiment when she said, “Basketball has been my passion my entire life and I knew I was going to coach from that moment forward. I just didn’t know where.”

Many believe it was at Lawrence High School that Burnett’s basketball coaching career began, but she says that’s a common misconception.

Instead, to complete her education degree at KU, Burnett spent a semester at LHS assisting with the volleyball team, a sport which she knew nothing about.

It was during her stint at Lawrence High that Cheryl met future Kansas Athletic Director, Bob Frederick. Dr. Frederick wound up at Illinois State, a school which Burnett would compete against annually later in her coaching years.

Timing.

“Again, (it was the) right time, right place,” Burnett said. “Back to Leanne Wilcox, we played Kansas State five times a year. I played against one of my best friends five times a year! Their assistant coach, Jane Schroeder, got the head coaching job at the University of Illinois and ironically I ended up working for them.”

Despite being long-time rivals, Schroeder and her staff recognized and respected the way Burnett played the game enough to offer her a graduate assistant position at Illinois.

Similar to the opportunity to become the first female scholarship athlete at Kansas, Burnett once again prospered from what she deems “lucky timing.”

It did not take long for Burnett to display her potential in Champaign on the sidelines for the Illini. Schroeder offered a full-time role after just a semester and from that point, Burnett never looked back.

While her time at Illinois was short—just three years—Burnett and the rest of the staff led Illinois to their first ever NCAA tournament appearance in 1981-82.

As exciting as that accomplishment was for the Illini coaching staff, that’s when an opportunity to return home arose for Burnett.

“Of course, with Missouri being my home state, I chose to come back to Southwest Missouri State as an assistant,” she explained.

After working as an assistant coach for three more years, this time under Valerie Goodwin, Burnett could once again sense a new opportunity on the horizon.

Timing.

Goodwin departed for the University of Oklahoma in 1987, which wound up being immaculate timing for Burnett.

“It opened the door for an assistant coach who was there for three years, to interview for the job. Why Dr. Mary Jo Wynn ever hired an assistant coach, I’ll never know,” Burnett said.

Clearly, Wynn saw in Burnett what many others have throughout her life.

The blue-collar work ethic that made Burnett such a valuable player on the court herself was having the same impact on her coaching career.

It wasn’t sunshine and rainbows right away for her at Southwest Missouri State, however.

“It took a while to get the program established because at the time, not too long before I was there, it was a DII (program) moving to DI,” Burnett explained.

Despite the tremendous challenge of transitioning from the Division II ranks to Division I, the school’s administrative support staff did everything they could to set Burnett up to succeed.

And succeed she did.

“I always say that the stars aligned,” said Burnett regarding her 15 years at the helm of the Bears in Springfield.

Not only did their program lead the nation in attendance—due in large part to a support group called the Fast Break Club—Southwest Missouri State was also the first women’s basketball program to be featured live on ESPN, “I can still remember the day our administrator walked into my office and asked, ‘Hey how would you like to be the first women’s program on live ESPN?’ Of course, I said, ‘Awesome!’ Then they said, starting time: midnight. So, we played a live game at midnight in Springfield, Missouri, and sold out,” Burnett recalled.

Another barrier broken for the legend.

Coaches from across the country would reach out to Burnett and ask what her secret to success was.

“People wanted to know how we built the club,” Burnett recalled. “How we got the fans, how we got the players in such great shape and then how we got our players to play so hard.”

For Southwest Missouri State women’s basketball, it all began with the type of student-athlete they recruited.

Burnett and her staff prided themselves in their pursuit of A-students, overachievers in the classroom, socially as well as individuals with a spiritual base of some type that, “Created an infinite ability to believe and of course they had to be team oriented. They had to make sacrifices for their team.”

This approach was a fundamental reason Burnett’s teams thrived during her 15 years at the helm of the program for Southwest Missouri State.

Burnett’s teams won nine Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) championships during her time in Springfield. Additionally, they received invitations to the NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament 10 times and advanced to the Final Four in 1992 and 2001.

In those 15 seasons, she compiled a sensational record of 319-136 (.701 winning percentage).

Burnett also played a pivotal role in developing Jackie Stiles at Southwest Missouri State from 1998-01. Stiles set the NCAA career scoring record with 3,393 points, a record that held up until February of 2017.

Despite offers from top tier women’s basketball programs across the country, Stiles ultimately chose to take her talents to Springfield, Missouri. This is due in large part to the recruiting efforts Burnett and her staff employed.

While everyone else was recruiting eighth graders and high schoolers, SMSU assistant coach Lynette Robinson—a former player at Illinois—entered a small Kansas gym filled with fifth graders in the middle of the summer.

Sure enough, that’s where Stiles was playing.

Timing.

“Jackie was a coach’s dream,” Burnett said. “I’m not sure she didn’t teach us more than we taught her.”

Burnett eloquently stated, “What an honor to have played with Lynette Woodard, who would probably be one of the all-time scoring leaders and then being able to coach Jackie Stiles, who was the all-time leader for years…right place, right time.”

From receiving the first full female athletic scholarship at KU to the GA position at Illinois to the opportunity to return home to Missouri to do what she loved: developing strong, successful women, timing was clearly the common denominator in Cheryl Burnett’s story.

Burnett retired from the game she dedicated her life to in March of 2007.

While deep down her ultimate dream was always to return to the University of Kansas in a coaching role, she says her coaching days are done.

“I can’t work that hard. (I) Did it for 30 years and it’s somebody else’s turn. I’m just enjoying living vicariously through (past players and assistants), I call them my kids,” Burnett explained.

What Cheryl Burnett did not only for women’s college basketball, but all of women’s athletics at the University of Kansas and beyond cannot be understated. The circuitous nature of life led her on a ride that impacted hundreds of young women’s lives.

While Burnett may never be seen on a bench again, her legacy will continue to live on through the careers of her “kids.”

All thanks to timing.

Once A Jayhawk, Always A Jayhawk.

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