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Log Load in front of Copeland Lumber on the corner of Monroe and Broadway in Burns Oregon- Circa 1950's

This structure no longer exists. Parr Lumber is now located here with a new building.

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Every one of these logs travelled to Harney County, Oregon and the City of Hines where they were processed in the Edward Hines Lumber Company Sawmill.

July 1942: Truckload of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon.

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Wayne Greavette

It was a chilly Thursday in December when the package arrived at the farm the Greavettes had recently purchased on Concession 11, between 15 and 17 sideroads, in the rural Milton area.

His son Justin, who was 21 at the time, went out to get the mail that day, bringing in a package for his father delivered by Canada Post that appeared to be a present in white wrapping paper. Inside the box — an emptied cardboard wine container with the UPC cut off — was a Duracell flashlight and a letter written on a typewriter with a unique key flaw that inserted a back slash after each period.

As Wayne read the letter that detailed a business proposal from what turned out to be a phoney company, Justin tried to turn the flashlight on, but nothing happened.

When his 42-year-old father pushed the button, the bomb went off — a device filled with an emulsion-type explosive and nails that acted as shrapnel, according to the OPP.

Wayne was killed instantly in front of his son, brother and wife, Diane. Daughter Danielle wasn’t home at the time. 

While decades have passed since that fateful day, the family has maintained the same mantra throughout the years — “somebody knows something.” The family did some investigative work of their own alongside CBC documentarian David Ridgen for his 2009 piece, “The Bomb That Killed Wayne Greavette.”

In the documentary, they considered many possible options: that perhaps someone was jealous of his impending spring water business, or it was a person he knew through the beverage and packaging industry, or a woman Wayne may have had a relationship with.

The packaging that came with the flashlight contained some local connections. Flyers were used to cushion the device, with at least one being sourced locally as it was for a Milton store — Copeland Lumber, which later became Rona on Main Street near Wilson Drive. Wayne had worked in Milton for many years, leading his family to believe at the time that someone from that area may have information that could help solve the case.

Then there’s the potential ties to Halton Hills. A month before the murder, two men are said to have visited the Acton post office asking for Wayne’s current address. The package was labelled with an Acton return address that doesn’t exist. 

The case reminds unsolved.

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Now’s as good a time as any to kill myself, he remarked to no one in particular.

The barefaced, white walls of his apartment bedroom were only barely defined by what sunlight managed to peek through the cheap blackout curtain (which was, humorously enough, navy blue.) Adding more light to the room would only make the living conditions more readily abysmal, the walls lacking any sort of decor or human touch. Dust lined his cheap wooden desk and the top of his computer monitors, both humming with that peculiar digital glow of the modern age.

Yeah, I wouldn’t have to clean this up and I wouldn’t have to work. Really, I wouldn’t have to worry about anything ever again. Seems like a fine idea to me. Let’s do it!

Having evidently made up his mind using such mundane reasoning, the young man stood up, naked as the day he was born, and lumbered over to his dresser. The dresser matched the computer desk, made of the same cheap dark wood and covered in a fine layer of dust from apparent disuse. Wrenching open the flimsy top drawer with one hand and cramming the other inside, the man withdrew a small black handgun. He racked the slide, checked the chamber, then pressed it to his temple while pulling the trigger all in one, swift motion.

Click.

Nothing.

With a sound more akin to a deflated, sarcastic balloon, the man threw the gun back in the dresser drawer and spun his body lackadaisical, throwing himself onto his bed. A fine, dirty little mess of dust particulates flew up into the air, drifting back down to the bed as if it was monochrome confetti, celebrating the fact he hadn’t indeed blown his brains out.

The thing was, if he took that gun in his hands right now and pointed it anywhere but at himself, it’d fire. Hundred percent. It wasn’t a fault of the gun, nor his own last-second inaction, it was just. That’s just how things worked. If he leapt from a skyscraper, he’d black out just before he hit the ground, landing with the softest thump. If he attempted to light himself on fire, it simply wouldn’t catch. Machines broke themselves apart or stopped altogether if he was anywhere close to danger. Each example was both more puzzling and more irritating than the last.

So what did it all mean in the end?

For some reason, Julian Copeland just couldn’t die.

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Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition — S-T (You’ve Changed)

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Country songs turn into spiritual jazz reveries in this collaboration between Fiver, a Toronto-based singer named Simone Schmidt, and the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition, a free-jazz trio made up of Bianca Palmer (drums, percussion), Nick Dourado (lap steel, piano, vibes, sax), and Jeremy Costello (synths, bass, voice). The tension between the gentle lilt of country waltzes and free-wheeling improvisation colors the first half of the album, but by the end, the experiment gets out of the bottle to take hallucinatory shape.

Schmidt has been working in traditional and not-so-traditional folk and country forms for more than a decade, contributing to a wide variety of under-the-radar Toronto bands and pursuing her own solo work as well. She first joined forces with the Atlantic School in the 2020 EP You Wanted Country: Vol. 1, which covered Gene Clark, Willie Nelson and Johnny Paycheck with reasonable faithfulness. The self-titled is far less constrained by convention. It lets the musicians of the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition be a good deal more spontaneous and allows their avant-garde side — honed through work with Beverly Glenn Copeland — to come to the fore.

The album’s arc is more or less that of a butterfly easing itself out of the confines of a chrysalis to unfurl multicolored wings. Early on, songs like “Yeah But Uhh Hey,” “Leaning Hard (on My Peripheral Vision)” and especially “Sick Gladiola,” hew pretty close to folk-country tunefulness, only a sparkle of abstract piano or the lumbering antics of acoustic bass giving a hint at the band’s free-jazz capabilities. Here Schmidt predominates with her soft, eccentric voice. A rough husky alto, with a warm, eccentric phrasing like Karen Dalton and a bit of a Dolly Parton-ish trill, she expands the contours of the melodies with trills and slides and embellishments, shifting emphases and deconstructing phrases. “Sick Gladiola,” a hard times song with lyrics about re-wearing single-use panty hoses and bedraggled convenience store flowers, sways atop a bittersweet waltz-time tune, the simplest of bass lines marking the ones. And yet as it goes, the instruments increasingly set out for the cosmos, a feverish piano lofting away from reality, as the drumming grows more urgent and less beat-centric.  

The last three songs — “Death Is Only a Dream,” “Paid in Pride” and “For Your Sake” — are the best and least songlike, the most free form and unspooling. Here on that final song, ghostly, wordless, spiritual vocals float disembodied amid fluctuating textures of synth and high twinkling notes of piano. It’s beautiful and unfathomable, in the way that may remind you of Annette Peacock or even Alice Coltrane, where the song sheds its physical trappings (the notes, rhythms and harmonies) and comes to you directly, like a dream.  

Jennifer Kelly

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10 Gift-Wrapped Holiday Flicks

The holiday movie season is officially upon us, and in between shopping sprees and social gatherings, sometimes a break inside a darkened theater provides the perfect entertainment diversion. With so many great new films to choose from opening between now and Christmas Day, we've narrowed down the field to 10 that we're excited about and feel could be worth your hard-earned cash.

The Oscar-bait entries offer some truly interesting and transformative performances and characterizations, while the family-friendly popcorn arena is populated by the expected array of sequels, spinoffs and new riffs on familiar territory. Either way you choose to go this holiday season, these gift-wrapped movies promise to be both entertaining and thought-provoking experiences.

THE OSCAR BAIT

Welcome to Marwen (Dec. 21)

The compelling true tale of artist Mark Hogancamp comes to life with Steve Carell in the starring role. A man who loses his memory and motor functions after he's severely beaten by Nazis, Hogancamp retreats to his own miniature world, which he populates with dolls decked out in military uniforms and hardware. There he photographs his installations, pieces his life back together and plays out his revenge fantasies. Leslie Mann is Mark's neighbor who helps him to find the courage to face his enemies in this blend of live-action drama and CGI fantasy from director Robert Zemeckis, who finds plenty of warm-hearted inspiration amid the tragedy.

Watch the trailer here.

Kiki Layne and Stephan James in If Beale Street Could Talk

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If Beale Street Could Talk (Nov. 31)

Oscar-winning Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins is back with an adaptation of James Baldwin's acclaimed, 1970s-set novel of a love affair, family drama, and a new life born into a complicated situation. Stephan James and Kiki Layne play Harlem sweethearts Fonny Hunt and Tish Rivers, who are torn apart and must fight for justice after Fonny is framed for a crime he did not commit. With Regina King, Colman Domingo, Brian Tyree Henry, Diego Luna, Pedro Pascal and Dave Franco also starring, expect some serious emotional fireworks and memorable performances.

Watch the trailer here.

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Nicole Kidman in Destroyer

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Destroyer (Dec. 25)

Nicole Kidman once again transforms her appearance for a tour-de-force performance as Erin Bell, an undercover LAPD detective whose assignment with a gang goes tragically wrong. Years later, when the gang's leader emerges, Bell must dive back into her emotionally jarring past to pick up the shattered pieces of her life and set things straight. Director Karyn Kusama helms this gritty crime thriller from a script by her husband, Phil Hay, and his writing partner, Matt Manfredi. Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Jade Pettyjohn and Scoot McNairy also star.

Watch the trailer here.

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Felicity Jones stars as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, with Armie Hammer as her supportive husband, in biopic On the Basis of Sex.

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On the Basis of Sex (Dec. 25)

Don't let the tricky title fool you. The notorious R.B.G. gets her own compelling biopic tale this Christmas, with Rogue One star Felicity Jones portraying Supreme Court justice–to-be Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The period drama zeroes in on her legal struggle to bring a groundbreaking gender-discrimination case before the U.S. Court of Appeals — a case that threatens to topple a stack of laws that uphold similar discrimination. Directed by Mimi Leder, the film also stars Kathy Bates, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Armie Hammer as Ruth's supportive husband — plus a cameo by R.B.G. herself.

Watch the trailer here.

Yes, that is Christian Bale under that makeup, as Dick Cheney in Vice.

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Vice (Dec. 25)

Who knew a film about Dick Cheney could be so entertaining? Adam McKay follows up The Big Short with an insider look at how business bureaucrat Cheney landed the No. 2 spot next to George W. Bush and then manipulated the duties of the country's second-most-powerful post, with repercussions that are still felt today. Christian Bale transforms himself physically to play Cheney and deliver a stunning performance opposite Sam Rockwell's Bush, with a supporting cast that includes Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Tyler Perry as Colin Powell.

Watch the trailer here.

THE POPCORN FLICKS

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Mackenzie Foy, left, and Keira Knightley update the holiday classic in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Nov. 2)

This ain't your grandparents' Nutcracker! The perennial Tchaikovsky holiday classic gets an Alice in Wonderland–style CGI makeover with Mackenzie Foy as Clara, who finds a magical key needed to unlock a box containing a priceless gift. When the key is lost to a mysterious and fantastic parallel world, Clara must team up with a soldier (Jayden Fowora-Knight) to battle the tyrant Mother Ginger's (Helen Mirren) evil forces (with mice! lots and lots of mice!), reclaim the key and bring peace to the four realms. Keira Knightley, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland and Morgan Freeman add star flavor to this colorful extravaganza.

Watch the trailer here.

EXPAND

Eddie Redmayne returns as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Nov. 16)

Bring your magic wands! J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World universe continues to expand with the highly anticipated follow-up to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which finds Jude Law as a young Albus Dumbledore recruiting magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to face off against the tricky wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp). Featuring a welcome return to the halls of Hogwarts, the action takes audiences to London and Paris locations for plenty of magic, mystery, pyrotechnics and fierce/cuddly creatures. Mainstay Harry Potter director David Yates helms once again, with returning cast members Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Alison Sudol and Katherine Waterston.

Watch the trailer here.

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John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman reprise their characters in Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to surprise hit Wreck-It Ralph.

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Ralph Breaks the Internet (Nov. 21)

The animated cast of Wreck-It Ralph is back and ready to break out of the video arcade. When Vanellope von Schweetz's (Sarah Silverman) Sugar Rush video game is threatened, she teams up with lumbering pal Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) to scour the Internet for a replacement part. Alongside a gaggle of Disney princesses, Star Wars characters and other Mouse House properties populating the World Wide Web, keep your eyes open for plenty of other corporate branding jokes to make you smirk, roll your eyes and prompt you to do more online shopping. Taraji P. Henson, Gal Gadot and Alan Tudyk are among the new voices joining in the fun.

Watch the trailer here.

Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone are back in Creed II.

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Creed II (Nov. 21)

Amazingly, the eighth installment of the four-decades-and-still-standing Rocky franchise looks like it will go the distance. Michael B. Jordan is back as Adonis Creed, with Sylvester Stallone's veteran fighter Rocky Balboa by his side, this time ready to face off against the son of Rocky's toughest opponent and the man who killed his father — Ivan Drago. Yep, Dolph Lundgren's there to stare down Rock as the next generation looks to break each other inside the ring. With original Creed director Ryan Coogler now on Black Panther patrol, Steven Caple Jr. takes over directing duties, guiding Florian Munteanu as the intimidating Viktor Drago and Tessa Thompson as Creed's love/conscience.

Watch the trailer here.

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Emily Blunt stars in Mary Poppins.

Walt Disney Enterprises

Mary Poppins Returns (Dec. 18)

Expect this reboot/sequel to go down like a spoonful of sugar. Five decades after Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke delighted audiences in Disney's musical adaptation of the P.L. Travers novel, Emily Blunt floats into the title role as the magical nanny, signature umbrella in hand, to win over a whole new generation. Now grown up, siblings Michael and Jane Banks (Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer) struggle with finances while Michael's children fall into line for Poppins, who takes them on another colorful adventure of animated delights. Lin-Manuel Miranda sings, dances and tries on a milder Cockney accent as a street lamplighter, Colin Firth is the stodgy banker boss, and Meryl Streep and Angela Lansbury (and the returning Van Dyke!) bolster the fairy-tale cast, directed by Rob Marshall.

Watch the trailer here.

Source: https://www.laweekly.com/film/10-gift-wrapped-holiday-flicks-10001961

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NY Times: The Trump Resistance Will Be Commercialized

Stories about President Trump so dominate the news that brands in search of a traffic bump need to find their place in that narrative. Some corporate leaders — like the Yuengling owner, Dick Yuengling Jr., and the Under Armour chief executive, Kevin Plank — have expressed support for the president’s business policies in interviews. But when it comes to viral marketing, the resistance is hot right now.

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The trend can draw attention to activist messaging, but it can also dilute, deflect and distract from the cause, leading audiences away from the hard work of political action and civic organization and toward the easy comfort of a consumer choice.

Thinx is one of the more outspoken Trump-resisting companies, but it is not alone in wrapping its brand identity in the aesthetics of protest. When Emily Weiss, the creator of the makeup line Glossier, attended the Women’s March in January, she held a protest sign that doubled as an ad — “WE’RE IN IT TOGETHER” printed over a glossy photograph of models’ intertwined fingers and emblazoned with the Glossier “G” — then shared an image with her 200,000-plus Instagram followers.

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Designers at last month’s New York Fashion Week reversed the game, refashioning the runway as a protest space. Robert James, a purveyor of $1,700 suits, had his models hold signs that read “#NotMy Govt” and “#FightFascism,” while the label Private Policy painted models’ faces with words including terrorist and refugee.

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The fashion label Private Policy recently painted models’ faces with words including terrorist and refugee during New York Fashion Week. Credit Ben Sklar for The New York Times

Even 84 Lumber, a company owned by the Trump supporter Maggie Hardy Magerko, mined the mood of resistance with a Super Bowl ad viewed as critical of President Trump’s immigration policies. Ms. Magerko said she hoped to recruit potential employees in their 20s.

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Such statements are not without their risks to companies’ bottom lines. Though political marketing by Thinx stands to stir up excitement among its most loyal customers, the company has also heard from some who’d prefer their period panties without the politics. (After all, conservative women bleed, too.) So just as liberal pundits and politicians have stressed the need to reach across the aisle, Thinx is hoping to expand by staging pop-up events in red states where it has never focused before, with a dual aim of pushing product and opening “hearts and minds.” (First up: Missouri.)

Still, Thinx’s resistance-themed strategy works because its target demo — young women willing to ditch their tampons and shell out $24 to $39 for one pair of underwear — probably already shares those political sympathies. More damaging to the brand is a recent report from the fashion site Racked maintaining that Thinx’s internal company culture is less feminist than its marketing campaigns. Ms. Agrawal recently called the claims “unfounded” but stepped down as the company’s chief executive.

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As Mr. Plank of Under Armour recently discovered, the biggest risk in the newly politicized marketing space is in offending the core consumers who drive the cultural conversation around its wares. When Mr. Plank called Mr. Trump “an asset,” it didn’t sit well with brand ambassadors like Stephen Curry and Misty Copeland, or the customers they’re paid to attract. The conflict caused a media sensation, and the stars prevailed: Mr. Plank walked back his Trump endorsement in a full-page ad in The Baltimore Sun.

Companies may be drawn to the resistance out of obligation or opportunity, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily assets to the cause.

Political slogans that ricochet across the internet can be flattened once they’re co-opted. In a now-infamous February exchange, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, cut off Senator Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter by Coretta Scott King in a debate over Jeff Sessions. Mr. McConnell’s rebuke — “nevertheless, she persisted” — went viral. Three days later, Reebok’s website was offering a T-shirt featuring the phrase. Ms. Warren’s political argument — that Mr. Sessions was not qualified to be attorney general because of a history of racism — was repurposed as an inspirational workout slogan.

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By the time I found the merchandise, the shirt was sold out. But the corporate messaging remained: “As a women’s-first brand, we stand behind the Women’s March and believe we have the resources and platform to contribute to the cause in a meaningful way.” Reebok invited me to submit an email address to “stay updated on all our women’s stories.” Instead I received a 15-percent-off coupon for my next order.

And so political outrage is distilled into slogans that get printed on T-shirts that direct our attention away from politics and send us clicking through the virtual racks of a multinational corporation.

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All of this political branding came to a head during the recent International Women’s Day, when feminist organizations, including leaders of the Women’s March, called for women to strike to raise awareness for women’s labor causes. On this “Day Without a Woman,” women were urged to take the day off from work, avoid shopping and to wear red in solidarity. A branding bonanza ensued. On Instagram, Morton Salt’s girl mascot exited the logo: “Changing into something red,” the caption explained. (Morton Salt is a subsidiary of K+S, a German chemical company whose top executives are all men.) The sportswear designer Tory Burch also chose the day to start her new “Embrace Ambition” campaign, a kind of “Lean In” rehash but with more celebrity endorsements and greater integration with Tory Burch products. And United Talent Agency, a news release told me, observed the day “by holding off-site events for its female employees in its offices in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.”

These days, even a labor strike can be corporatized and repurposed as P.R.

The typical refrain from brands that take on a cause is that they are “using their platform” to “raise awareness” about an issue. But the internet has complicated the transaction. Modern news audiences are bombarded with too much information, and right now, it all seems to be news for or against President Trump. Brands that enter the fray aren’t so much “raising awareness” as they are jostling for their own messaging to be seen amid the rush of signals.

Mr. Trump’s election has sparked great interest in civic engagement — joining community groups, organizing protests, showing up at town hall meetings. The resistance brand presents another option: Buy this thing, not the other. Is that the kind of awareness that needs to be raised?

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Lolina: Who is experimental music?

Looping and manipulating voices into strange, lumbering beatbox fugues, Inga Copeland undercuts expectation at every turn.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. | Florence rolls ashore in Carolinas, tears buildings apart

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WILMINGTON, N.C. | Florence rolls ashore in Carolinas, tears buildings apart

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Florence lumbered ashore in North Carolina with howling 90 mph winds and terrifying storm surge early Friday, ripping apart buildings and knocking out power to a half-million homes and businesses as it settled in for what could be a long and extraordinarily destructive drenching.

More than 60 people had to be pulled from a collapsing motel at the height of the storm, and many more who defied evacuation orders were hoping to be rescued. Pieces of torn-apart buildings flew through the air.

More ominously, forecasters said the onslaught would last for hours and hours because Florence was barely creeping along at 6 mph (9 kph) and still drawing energy from the ocean.

There were no immediate reports of any deaths.

Florence made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane at 7:15 a.m. at Wrightsville Beach, a few miles east of Wilmington, not far from the South Carolina line, coming ashore along a mostly boarded-up, emptied-out stretch of coastline.

Its storm surge and the prospect of 1 to 3½ feet of rain were considered a bigger threat than its winds, which dropped way down from a terrifying 140 mph — Category 4 — earlier in the week.

Forecasters said catastrophic freshwater flooding is expected well inland over the next few days as Florence crawls across the Carolinas.

Coastal streets flowed with frothy ocean water, and at least 490,000 homes and businesses were without power, mostly in North Carolina, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks the nation’s electrical grid.

At 9 a.m., the center of Florence was wobbling about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of Wilmington, its winds down to 85 mph (140 kmh), according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane-force winds extended 80 miles (130 kilometers) from its center, and tropical-storm-force winds reached out 195 miles (315 kilometers).

Sheets of rain splattered against windows of a hotel before daybreak in Wilmington, where Sandie Orsa of Wilmington sat in a lobby lit by emergency lights after the power failed.

“Very eerie, the wind howling, the rain blowing sideways, debris flying,” said Orsa, who lives nearby and feared splintering trees would pummel her house.

Forecasters said Florence’s surge could cover all but a sliver of the Carolina coast under as much as 11 feet (3.4 meters) of sea water.

The rising sea crept toward the two-story home of Tom Copeland, who lives on a spit of land surrounded by water in Swansboro.

The water “is as high as it’s ever been, and waves are breaking on my point, which is normally grass,” said Copeland, a freelance photographer for The Associated Press. “Trees are blowing down in the wind. Nothing’s hit the house yet, but it’s still blowing.”

In Jacksonville, next to Camp Lejeune, firefighters and police fought wind and rain as they went door-to-door to pull people out of the Triangle Motor Inn after the cinderblock structure began to crumble and the roof started to collapse.

A gust of 105 mph (169 kph) was recorded at the Wilmington airport, surpassing the power of Hurricane Fran two decades ago.

Farther up the coast, in New Bern, about 150 people waited to be rescued from floods on the Neuse River, WXII-TV reported. The city said two Federal Emergency Management Agency teams were working on swift-water rescues, and more were on the way.

The worst of the storm’s fury had yet to reach coastal South Carolina, where emergency managers said it was not too late for people to get out.

“There is still time, but not a lot of time,” said Derrec Becker of the South Carolina Department of Emergency Management.

More than 12,000 were in shelters in North Carolina and 400 people in Virginia, where forecasts were less dire.

North Carolina corrections officials said more than 3,000 people were relocated from prisons and juvenile detention centers in the path of Florence, and more than 300 county prisoners were transferred to state facilities.

Officials said some 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to evacuate, but it was unclear how many did.

Forecasters said that given the storm’s size and sluggish track, it could cause epic damage akin to what the Houston area saw during Hurricane Harvey just over a year ago, with floodwaters swamping homes and businesses and washing over industrial waste sites and hog-manure ponds.

Florence was seen as a major test for FEMA, which was heavily criticized as slow and unprepared last year for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, which was blamed for nearly 3,000 deaths.

Not everyone was taking Florence seriously: About two dozen locals gathered Thursday night behind the boarded-up windows of The Barbary Coast bar as Florence blew into Wilmington. Others were at home hoping for the best.

“This is our only home. We have two boats and all our worldly possessions,” said Susan Patchkofsky, who refused her family’s pleas to evacuate and stayed at Emerald Isle with her husband. “We have a safe basement and generator that comes on automatically. We chose to hunker down.” ___ Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington; Jeffrey Collins in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Jennifer Kay in Miami; Gary Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina; Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie in Richmond, Virginia; Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina; Skip Foreman in Charlotte, North Carolina; Jeff Martin in Hampton, Georgia; David Koenig in Dallas; Gerry Broome at Nags Head, North Carolina; and Jay Reeves in Atlanta contributed to this report.

By JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press

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Copeland Lumber, The Sign of the Black Cat

Corner of Broadway and Monroe.

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Stories about President Trump so dominate the news that brands in search of a traffic bump need to find their place in that narrative. Some corporate leaders — like the Yuengling owner, Dick Yuengling Jr., and the Under Armour chief executive, Kevin Plank — have expressed support for the president’s business policies in interviews. But when it comes to viral marketing, the resistance is hot right now.

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The trend can draw attention to activist messaging, but it can also dilute, deflect and distract from the cause, leading audiences away from the hard work of political action and civic organization and toward the easy comfort of a consumer choice.

Thinx is one of the more outspoken Trump-resisting companies, but it is not alone in wrapping its brand identity in the aesthetics of protest. When Emily Weiss, the creator of the makeup line Glossier, attended the Women’s March in January, she held a protest sign that doubled as an ad — “WE’RE IN IT TOGETHER” printed over a glossy photograph of models’ intertwined fingers and emblazoned with the Glossier “G” — then shared an image with her 200,000-plus Instagram followers.

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Designers at last month’s New York Fashion Week reversed the game, refashioning the runway as a protest space. Robert James, a purveyor of $1,700 suits, had his models hold signs that read “#NotMy Govt” and “#FightFascism,” while the label Private Policy painted models’ faces with words including terrorist and refugee.

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The fashion label Private Policy recently painted models’ faces with words including terrorist and refugee during New York Fashion Week. Credit Ben Sklar for The New York Times

Even 84 Lumber, a company owned by the Trump supporter Maggie Hardy Magerko, mined the mood of resistance with a Super Bowl ad viewed as critical of President Trump’s immigration policies. Ms. Magerko said she hoped to recruit potential employees in their 20s.

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Such statements are not without their risks to companies’ bottom lines. Though political marketing by Thinx stands to stir up excitement among its most loyal customers, the company has also heard from some who’d prefer their period panties without the politics. (After all, conservative women bleed, too.) So just as liberal pundits and politicians have stressed the need to reach across the aisle, Thinx is hoping to expand by staging pop-up events in red states where it has never focused before, with a dual aim of pushing product and opening “hearts and minds.” (First up: Missouri.)

Still, Thinx’s resistance-themed strategy works because its target demo — young women willing to ditch their tampons and shell out $24 to $39 for one pair of underwear — probably already shares those political sympathies. More damaging to the brand is a recent report from the fashion site Racked maintaining that Thinx’s internal company culture is less feminist than its marketing campaigns. Ms. Agrawal recently called the claims “unfounded” but stepped down as the company’s chief executive.

Continue reading the main story

As Mr. Plank of Under Armour recently discovered, the biggest risk in the newly politicized marketing space is in offending the core consumers who drive the cultural conversation around its wares. When Mr. Plank called Mr. Trump “an asset,” it didn’t sit well with brand ambassadors like Stephen Curry and Misty Copeland, or the customers they’re paid to attract. The conflict caused a media sensation, and the stars prevailed: Mr. Plank walked back his Trump endorsement in a full-page ad in The Baltimore Sun.

Companies may be drawn to the resistance out of obligation or opportunity, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily assets to the cause.

Political slogans that ricochet across the internet can be flattened once they’re co-opted. In a now-infamous February exchange, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, cut off Senator Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter by Coretta Scott King in a debate over Jeff Sessions. Mr. McConnell’s rebuke — “nevertheless, she persisted” — went viral. Three days later, Reebok’s website was offering a T-shirt featuring the phrase. Ms. Warren’s political argument — that Mr. Sessions was not qualified to be attorney general because of a history of racism — was repurposed as an inspirational workout slogan.

Continue reading the main story

By the time I found the merchandise, the shirt was sold out. But the corporate messaging remained: “As a women’s-first brand, we stand behind the Women’s March and believe we have the resources and platform to contribute to the cause in a meaningful way.” Reebok invited me to submit an email address to “stay updated on all our women’s stories.” Instead I received a 15-percent-off coupon for my next order.

And so political outrage is distilled into slogans that get printed on T-shirts that direct our attention away from politics and send us clicking through the virtual racks of a multinational corporation.

Continue reading the main story

All of this political branding came to a head during the recent International Women’s Day, when feminist organizations, including leaders of the Women’s March, called for women to strike to raise awareness for women’s labor causes. On this “Day Without a Woman,” women were urged to take the day off from work, avoid shopping and to wear red in solidarity. A branding bonanza ensued. On Instagram, Morton Salt’s girl mascot exited the logo: “Changing into something red,” the caption explained. (Morton Salt is a subsidiary of K+S, a German chemical company whose top executives are all men.) The sportswear designer Tory Burch also chose the day to start her new “Embrace Ambition” campaign, a kind of “Lean In” rehash but with more celebrity endorsements and greater integration with Tory Burch products. And United Talent Agency, a news release told me, observed the day “by holding off-site events for its female employees in its offices in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.”

These days, even a labor strike can be corporatized and repurposed as P.R.

The typical refrain from brands that take on a cause is that they are “using their platform” to “raise awareness” about an issue. But the internet has complicated the transaction. Modern news audiences are bombarded with too much information, and right now, it all seems to be news for or against President Trump. Brands that enter the fray aren’t so much “raising awareness” as they are jostling for their own messaging to be seen amid the rush of signals.

Mr. Trump’s election has sparked great interest in civic engagement — joining community groups, organizing protests, showing up at town hall meetings. The resistance brand presents another option: Buy this thing, not the other. Is that the kind of awareness that needs to be raised?

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NY Times: The Trump Resistance Will Be Commercialized

Stories about President Trump so dominate the news that brands in search of a traffic bump need to find their place in that narrative. Some corporate leaders — like the Yuengling owner, Dick Yuengling Jr., and the Under Armour chief executive, Kevin Plank — have expressed support for the president’s business policies in interviews. But when it comes to viral marketing, the resistance is hot right now.

Continue reading the main story

The trend can draw attention to activist messaging, but it can also dilute, deflect and distract from the cause, leading audiences away from the hard work of political action and civic organization and toward the easy comfort of a consumer choice.

Thinx is one of the more outspoken Trump-resisting companies, but it is not alone in wrapping its brand identity in the aesthetics of protest. When Emily Weiss, the creator of the makeup line Glossier, attended the Women’s March in January, she held a protest sign that doubled as an ad — “WE’RE IN IT TOGETHER” printed over a glossy photograph of models’ intertwined fingers and emblazoned with the Glossier “G” — then shared an image with her 200,000-plus Instagram followers.

Continue reading the main story

Designers at last month’s New York Fashion Week reversed the game, refashioning the runway as a protest space. Robert James, a purveyor of $1,700 suits, had his models hold signs that read “#NotMy Govt” and “#FightFascism,” while the label Private Policy painted models’ faces with words including terrorist and refugee.

Photo

The fashion label Private Policy recently painted models’ faces with words including terrorist and refugee during New York Fashion Week. Credit Ben Sklar for The New York Times

Even 84 Lumber, a company owned by the Trump supporter Maggie Hardy Magerko, mined the mood of resistance with a Super Bowl ad viewed as critical of President Trump’s immigration policies. Ms. Magerko said she hoped to recruit potential employees in their 20s.

Continue reading the main story

Such statements are not without their risks to companies’ bottom lines. Though political marketing by Thinx stands to stir up excitement among its most loyal customers, the company has also heard from some who’d prefer their period panties without the politics. (After all, conservative women bleed, too.) So just as liberal pundits and politicians have stressed the need to reach across the aisle, Thinx is hoping to expand by staging pop-up events in red states where it has never focused before, with a dual aim of pushing product and opening “hearts and minds.” (First up: Missouri.)

Still, Thinx’s resistance-themed strategy works because its target demo — young women willing to ditch their tampons and shell out $24 to $39 for one pair of underwear — probably already shares those political sympathies. More damaging to the brand is a recent report from the fashion site Racked maintaining that Thinx’s internal company culture is less feminist than its marketing campaigns. Ms. Agrawal recently called the claims “unfounded” but stepped down as the company’s chief executive.

Continue reading the main story

As Mr. Plank of Under Armour recently discovered, the biggest risk in the newly politicized marketing space is in offending the core consumers who drive the cultural conversation around its wares. When Mr. Plank called Mr. Trump “an asset,” it didn’t sit well with brand ambassadors like Stephen Curry and Misty Copeland, or the customers they’re paid to attract. The conflict caused a media sensation, and the stars prevailed: Mr. Plank walked back his Trump endorsement in a full-page ad in The Baltimore Sun.

Companies may be drawn to the resistance out of obligation or opportunity, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily assets to the cause.

Political slogans that ricochet across the internet can be flattened once they’re co-opted. In a now-infamous February exchange, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, cut off Senator Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter by Coretta Scott King in a debate over Jeff Sessions. Mr. McConnell’s rebuke — “nevertheless, she persisted” — went viral. Three days later, Reebok’s website was offering a T-shirt featuring the phrase. Ms. Warren’s political argument — that Mr. Sessions was not qualified to be attorney general because of a history of racism — was repurposed as an inspirational workout slogan.

Continue reading the main story

By the time I found the merchandise, the shirt was sold out. But the corporate messaging remained: “As a women’s-first brand, we stand behind the Women’s March and believe we have the resources and platform to contribute to the cause in a meaningful way.” Reebok invited me to submit an email address to “stay updated on all our women’s stories.” Instead I received a 15-percent-off coupon for my next order.

And so political outrage is distilled into slogans that get printed on T-shirts that direct our attention away from politics and send us clicking through the virtual racks of a multinational corporation.

Continue reading the main story

All of this political branding came to a head during the recent International Women’s Day, when feminist organizations, including leaders of the Women’s March, called for women to strike to raise awareness for women’s labor causes. On this “Day Without a Woman,” women were urged to take the day off from work, avoid shopping and to wear red in solidarity. A branding bonanza ensued. On Instagram, Morton Salt’s girl mascot exited the logo: “Changing into something red,” the caption explained. (Morton Salt is a subsidiary of K+S, a German chemical company whose top executives are all men.) The sportswear designer Tory Burch also chose the day to start her new “Embrace Ambition” campaign, a kind of “Lean In” rehash but with more celebrity endorsements and greater integration with Tory Burch products. And United Talent Agency, a news release told me, observed the day “by holding off-site events for its female employees in its offices in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.”

These days, even a labor strike can be corporatized and repurposed as P.R.

The typical refrain from brands that take on a cause is that they are “using their platform” to “raise awareness” about an issue. But the internet has complicated the transaction. Modern news audiences are bombarded with too much information, and right now, it all seems to be news for or against President Trump. Brands that enter the fray aren’t so much “raising awareness” as they are jostling for their own messaging to be seen amid the rush of signals.

Mr. Trump’s election has sparked great interest in civic engagement — joining community groups, organizing protests, showing up at town hall meetings. The resistance brand presents another option: Buy this thing, not the other. Is that the kind of awareness that needs to be raised?

Continue reading the main story

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