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Apartments for rent in Venus

This charming apartment for rent in Venus, The Park at Heritage Hills, is a top pick if you are in search of an exceptional neighborhood where comfort and elegance coexist harmoniously, offering the allure of premium living. These sleek, contemporary apartment houses are nestled in the highly sought-after Midlothian School District. They feature a timeless, sophisticated design and a host of carefully curated amenities to enhance your quality of life. From the well-equipped fitness facility and clubhouse to the inviting pool and lively pickleball court, each element has been thoughtfully designed to enrich your daily experience. Some homes also offer the added benefit of private fenced-in yards, creating a tranquil retreat at your doorstep. Reach out to The Park at (682) 277-9597 for more information about this delightful Venus apartment for rent.

Employment in Venus, TX

Venus, Texas, has limited job opportunities, but its proximity to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex makes employment opportunities. The leading employers in Venus are local businesses like retail stores, restaurants, and gas stations. Job options are concentrated in retail, service industries, and light manufacturing. Venus' proximity to the metroplex offers a wide range of job opportunities in finance, healthcare, and technology. However, commute time can be significant. To find employment near Venus, you can explore general job boards like Indeed or Monster and specific Dallas-Fort Worth job boards. So if you’re planning to move to Venus and you’re worrying about employment, don’t because you can find any jobs here or in Dallas. 

Fort Worth Stockyards

This Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district showcasing the region's rich Western heritage. It was originally a hub for cattle drives in the 19th century; it has evolved into a popular tourist destination, offering cowboy culture, rodeos, and Western-themed shops and restaurants. The visitors can witness the Twice-Daily Cattle Drive, explore shops, watch live music at Billy Bob's Texas, and visit the Cowtown Coliseum, the world's first indoor rodeo arena. Then, the Stockyards Museum offers historical insights, and the Texas Longhorn Museum showcases the American Longhorn. The area offers a variety of restaurants, family-friendly activities, and guided tours to provide insights into the history and culture of the Stockyards.

Yellowstone drama films on Venus

Crews are transforming a North Texas town into a perfect backdrop for scenes of the hit drama "Yellowstone." The series will be filming in Venus tomorrow, with the town square repainted and the Montana town of Hardin replaced by the Zion Café. The historic look of the square is a big draw for the production, which follows the drama surrounding a Montana cattle ranch and the family who owns it. The season five premiere of "Yellowstone" has reportedly drew 8.8 million viewers, a 10% increase from last season. The town, in preparation for the filming, has made significant changes, with the town square repainted and the Montana town of Hardin replaced by the Zion Café. The Venus Police Department is bringing in extra officers to deal with street closures and crowds. All streets in the town square and some surrounding roads will be shut down for the day, with sporadic closures of FM 157 as well.

Link to maps

Fort Worth Stockyards 131 E Exchange Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76164, United States Take N Main St to TX-280 Spur 10 min (3.2 mi) Continue to Mansfield 21 min (22.5 mi) Follow US-287 S and US-67 S to your destination in Ellis County 10 min (10.5 mi) The Park at Heritage Hills 261 Heritage Hills Pkwy, Venus, TX 76084, United States

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2019 Year in Review

Tagged by @aahsoka

Top 5 films

1. Parasite

2. Us

3. Knives Out

4. Little Women

5. The Favourite

(I stuck to films released this year for this, but first-time watches released outside this year that might crack the top five: both Paddington films, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Coraline)

Top 5 TV shows

1. The Good Place

2. One Day at a Time

3. Hilda

4. Gourmet Makes / Game Maker’s Toolkit / NESWorks / Unraveled / Be Kind Rewind / Jenny Nicholson / Lindsey Ellis / One Hit Wonderland / Bernadette Banner / Patrick Willems

5. Miraculous Ladybug

Top 5 songs

1. “Harmony Hall” / “This Life” / “Stranger” - Vampire Weekend

2. “Time, as a Symptom” - Joanna Newsom

3. “Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile” - The New Pornographers 

4. “Everything He Needs” - Carly Rae Jepsen

5. “Summer Girl” - Haim

Top 5 books

1. The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir

2. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

3. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

4. Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon

5. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green

5 positive or happy things that happened this year

1. Healed from a debilitating bout of depression and burnout at the beginning of the year in time for the last eight months to be so good that, overall, this is probably the best year I’ve had in years!

2. I published in two consecutive issues of my university’s undergrad literary criticism journal AND went to a big conference for my main research interest over the summer!

3. I bought a car!

4. I learned how to make bread pretty well and learned enough about cooking to have friends over to do bake with me!

5. Gained a sincerely close circle of local friends for only the second time ever in my life!

tagging: @merlissa @curtailedwhale @theraisincouncil @thelilliellama @obesecamels (with the standard disclaimer that none of you should feel obligated to fill this out and that anyone else who wants to can join in)

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Year In Review

I was tagged ages ago I think by @aceofstars16 and more recently by @thelordismygod-blog :)

Top films you watched in 2018:

Black Panther

Avengers: Infinity War

Incredibles 2

Ant Man and the Wasp

... I actually think these are the only movies I watched this year that I hadn't seen?

Top shows:

My Hero Academia

Hilda

3 Below

Trollhunters season 3

Brooklyn Nine Nine season 5

Ducktales 2017

Top songs:

Odd Future - AmaLee cover (I've been in a very MHA mood for half the year lol! Very upbeat)

Waking up Slow (piano) - Gabrielle Aplin

I'm Yours - Influencers (friends of mine, Christian music)

Notion- Tash Sultana

Don't Take the Money- Bleachers (that 80s style synth)

Somebody's Love- Passenger

Also some classics I've been jamming to all year:

Africa- Toto (every year)

Maneater- Hall and Oates

Take me Home, Country Roads- John Denver

April Come she Will- Simon and Garfunkel

Jolene- Dolly Parton

Top Books:

Castle in the Air and Howl's Moving Castle- Diana Wynne Jones

A whole bunch of DadMight and Toshinko fanfiction

Anne of Green Gables- L.M. Montgomery

I also re-read Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park

Top video games:

Breath of the Wild!! Favourite game!

Detroit: Become Human (I only watched a playthough, didn't actually play myself)

Pokemon Soul Silver (on emulator)

Zelda TP (for the first time in years)

Top content creators:

Drawfee- hilarious, fun art

CinemaWins- I love the optimism

JackSepticEye- I watched his DBH playthrough

Lindsay Ellis- fun to learn film theory

Safiya Nygaard- I enjoy her humor

Good/positive things that happened to you in 2018:

I've actually had a very difficult year, in October last year I became sick and I've been struggling with chronic fatigue ever since. Much of the year has been doctor's appointments and sleeping, but good things have happened in between.

I sold one of my small paintings online for about $200

I got to help a very depressed young man I've known since he was 9 get to his prom (I helped him hire a suit and got dad to take him in his modified holden premier)

I took a young teen I've sort of helped raise since she was 3 (I was 15 when we took her and her sister in for respite care) to the hairdressers to get her hair fixed for school. She's had a very hard year, and she'd never really had her hair done professionally so I thought it would help give her a boost. It took about 4 hours but she was really pleased.

I got Breath of the Wild and thoroughly enjoyed playing it. I actually lent it to my pastor's family (and ended up letting them keep it and buying myself another copy) after finishing it and got their 7 and 14 year old hooked on it. The 7 year old in particular I have had many hilariously nerdy conversations with, she just loves it! So much so that her parents banned her from talking about it for 2 weeks because she was driving them all insane lol

I had my cousin's engagement party and had quite a good time catching up with everyone.

I got Leesi the bunny

I starting following some great people on here and posting memes and anything I found amusing instead of trying to keep an "asthetic" art blog

(As I wrote these down and reflected on the year I realised the things that I most enjoyed were things I've been able to do for others. I guess they made me happy because I was reminded I can still have a positive impact on the people around me even though I'm sick and can't do very much.)

Uuuh I figure if you see this and you want to do it then your tagged?

[ninja-muse]

Read in 2018 Masterpost

Italics = 7-8 out of 10; Bold = 9-10 out of 10; Struck = unreviewed

Fantasy

Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire Phantom Pains - Mishell Baker Malice of Crows - Lila Bowen The Furthest Station - Ben Aaronovitch Tricks for Free - Seanan McGuire All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault - James Alan Gardner Olympus Bound - Jordanna Max Brodsky The Silenced Tale - J.M. Frey Strange Practice - Vivian Shaw How The Marquis Got His Coat Back - Neil Gaiman Sparrow Hill Road - Seanan McGuire Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik Stray Souls - Kate Griffin Dreadful Company - Vivian Shaw Night and Silence - Seanan McGuire Between Two Thorns - Emma Newman

DNF Keeping it Real - Justina Robson DNF A Spoonful of Magic - Irene Radford DNF Kill the Farm Boy - Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

Reread: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Night Watch, Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, Hat Full of Sky, Going Postal, Thud! (Terry Pratchett)

Finished a reread: Smoke and Ashes (Tanya Huff)

Science Fiction

Cibola Burn - James S.A. Corey Artemis - Andy Weir Barbary Station - R.E. Stearns Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke Nemesis Games - James S.A. Corey Vengeful - V.E. Schwab

DNF The Amateurs - Liz Harmer DNF The Big Ship at the End of the Universe - Alex White

Alternate History

At the Table of Wolves - Kay Kenyon One of Us - Craig DiLouie Karen Memory - Elizabeth Bear

Graphic Novels

Saga, Vol. 8 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples Monstress, Vol. 1 - Marjorie Liu Moonstruck, Vol. 1 - Grace Ellis Rivers of London, Vol. 4 - Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London, Vol. 5 - Ben Aaronovitch Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4 - G. Willow Wilson Crosswind, Vol. 1 - Gail Simone

Mystery

The Con Artist - Fred van Lent Death by Dumpling - Vivien Chien The Mangle Street Murders - M.R.C. Kasasian Dim Sum of All Fears - Vivien Chien

DNF Cremains of the Day - Misty Simon DNF Twelve Angry Librarians - Miranda James DNF The Readaholics and the Gothic Gala - Laura DiSilverio DNF Of Books and Bagpipes - Paige Shelton

Young Adult

Tash Hearts Tolstoy - Kathryn Ormsbee Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann Dreadnought - April Daniels Ship It - Britta Lundin The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde Puddin’ - Julie Murphy The Supervillian and Me - Danielle Banas Fat Girl on a Plane - Kelly DeVos Pulp - Robin Talley The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee Geekerella - Ashley Poston I Was Born For This - Alice Oseman

DNF Kill the Boy Band - Goldy Moldavsky DNF Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe - Preston Norton

Middle Grade

La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman Aru Shah and the End of Time - Roshani Chokshi City of Ghosts - Victoria Schwab Better Nate Than Ever - Tim Federle The Chronicles of Faerie - O.R. Melling The Book of Dreams - O.R. Melling

Other Fiction

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Mansfield Park - Jane Austen The Alice Network - Kate Quinn The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan The Children’s Book - A.S. Byatt Trickster Drift - Eden Robinson Dear Mrs. Bird - AJ Pearce London - Edward Rutherfurd The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith The Huntress - Kate Quinn

DNF Inferno - Dan Brown DNF The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Poetry

Killer Verse - Harold Schechter and Kurt Brown, ed Poems Dead and Undead - Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust, ed.

Non-Fiction

Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell Dead Wake - Erik Larson Bad Days in History - Michael Farquhar Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman I’ll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara A Story as Sharp as a Knife - Robert Bringhurst The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte Born to Be Posthumous - Mark Dery Reread: The Science of Discworld II (Terry Pratchett)

DNF Deliver Us From Evil - Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool DNF Sons of Cain - Peter Vronsky

Other

Where’s My Cow? - Terry Pratchett

Stats

First Read: 77/76 Finished: 3 DNFs: 15 Rereads: 8

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Watch below as BANDSTAND's Laura Osnes, Corey Cott, Joe Carroll, Brandon J. Ellis, James Nathan Hopkins,Geoff Packard, Joey Pero, Carleigh Bettiol, Mary Callanan, Max Clayton, Patrick Connaghan, Andrea Dotto, Andrew Leggieri, Erica Mansfield, Kevyn Morrow, Becca Petersen, Keven Quillon, Ryan VanDenBoom, James Nathan Hopkins, Joey Pero, Geoff Packard perform 'Love Will Come and Find Me Again,' 'Right This Way' and 'Nobody.'

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So I'd really appreciate if you guys helped me out here. This is my current list of LIW's to watch. As you can tell, there are copies of some of the Jane Austen and Shakespeare ones. If you've seen any of them, please tell me which one is the best! Also, specifically the Romeo and Juliet ones because we're reading it in school and I really want to watch along in a webseries!! And if there are any that are REALLY bad or deviate COMPLETELY from the source material, tell me that too! Thank you for even reading this far!!! Jane Austen: Elinor and Marianne Take Barton // Sense and Sensibility Project Dashwood // Sense and Sensibility Mars and Elly // Sense and Sensibility From Mansfield With Love // Mansfield Park Northbound // Northanger Abbey North Hangin' // Northanger Abbey Autobiography of Jane Eyre // Jane Eyre The Elliots // Persuasion Death Comes to Pemberley ⭐️ // P+P sequel The Jane Games // Jane Austen in general Shakespeare: Jules and Monty // Romeo and Juliet Any Other Vlog // Romeo and Juliet Tragicomic // Hamlet Hamlet the Dame // Hamlet A Document of Madness + The Better Strangers // Hamlet Kate the Cursed // The Taming of the Shrew Call Me Katie // The Taming of the Shrew A Midsemester Night's Dream // A Midsummer Night's Dream The Soliloquies of Santiago // Othello Twelfth Grade (or Whatever) // Twelfth Night Shakes ⭐️ // Shakespeare plays in general Fairy Tales: Grimm Reflections // Snow White Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros // Cupid myth Cindy // Cinderella My Name is Mulan // Mulan The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy ⭐️ // Peter Pan Or So the Story Goes // Peter Pan University Ever After // Princesses in general Other Books: Carmilla // Carmilla Green Gables Fables // Anne of Green Gables East and West // North and South Nick Carraway Chronicles // The Great Gatsby Jamie Watson and Sherlock Holmes // Sherlock Holmes Baker Street / 221B // Sherlock Holmes Masked // The Scarlet Pimpernel Misselthwaite Archives // The Secret Garden A Little Princess Vlog // A Little Princess Middlemarch: the Series // Middlemarch Away from it All // Far From the Madding Crowd The Gray Tarmac Road // Wizard of Oz Project Green Gables // Anne of Green Gables Other Plays: In Earnest // The Importance of Being Earnest Adventures of Serena Berg // Cyrano de Bergerac Notes by Christine // Phantom of the Opera Multiple: The Writing Majors // (Lives of) Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare Blankverse // Shakespeare, Marlowe, Johnson Classic Alice // Classic literature in general

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The Big Meta Book List

9.5 | Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell 9 | Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov 9 | Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce 9 | The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9 | Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie 8.9 | Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley 8.9 | The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner 8.8 | The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien 8.8 | The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck 8.8 | Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen 8.6 | Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy 8.6 | Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison 8.6 | The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger 8.6 | Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller 8.6 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8.6 | Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell 8.5 | Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess 8.5 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee 8.5 | The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien 8.5 | Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8.5 | The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 8.5 | Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo 8.4 | To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf 8.4 | On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac 8.4 | War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy 8.4 | Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison

8.3 | The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka 8.3 | Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell 8.3 | The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8.3 | Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte 8.3 | Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding 8.2 | Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut 8.2 | Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens 8.2 | The Master and Margarita (1973) by Mikhail Bulgakov 8.2 | The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus 8.2 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll 8.2 | Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad 8.2 | Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8.2 | The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) by Alexandre Dumas 8.2 | Hamlet by William Shakespeare 8.2 | Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes 8.2 | Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte 8.2 | East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck 8.2 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey 8.1 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde 8.1 | The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco 8.1 | The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood 8.1 | Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot 8.1 | The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8.1 | The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann 8.1 | The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway 8.1 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams 8.1 | The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker 8.1 | Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker 8.1 | Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury 8 | Fairy Tales (1812) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 8 | Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright 8 | Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace 8 | American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis 8 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 8 | The Fault in Our Stars (2012) by John Green 8 | And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie 8 | Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen 8 | Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier 8 | The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells 8 | The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini 8 | House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton 8 | Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 8 | Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck 8 | Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry 8 | Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas 8 | Pale Fire (1989) by Vladimir Nabokov 8 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) by James Joyce 8 | The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins 8 | Emma (1815) by Jane Austen 8 | The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo 7.9 | Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London 7.9 | Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence 7.9 | A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving 7.9 | The Stand (1978) by Stephen King 7.9 | Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott 7.9 | Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh 7.9 | Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell 7.9 | Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen 7.9 | Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf 7.9 | Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank 7.9 | Othello by William Shakespeare 7.9 | Maus by Art Spiegelman 7.9 | Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner 7.9 | King Lear by William Shakespeare 7.9 | Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham 7.9 | Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert 7.9 | Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman 7.9 | A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens 7.9 | As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner 7.9 | Odyssey by Homer 7.9 | Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift 7.9 | Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley 7.9 | Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe 7.9 | Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton

7.9 | Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers 7.9 | Harry Potter (1997) by J.K. Rowling 7.9 | Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller 7.8 | Iliad by Homer 7.8 | Watership Down by Richard Adams 7.8 | Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston 7.8 | Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak 7.8 | Room With a View (1908) by E.M. Forster 7.8 | Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E.B. White 7.8 | Green Eggs and Ham (1988) by Dr. Seuss 7.8 | Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 7.8 | A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) by George R.R. Martin 7.8 | Oliver Twist (1837) by Charles Dickens 7.8 | Blindness (1995) by Jose Saramago 7.8 | In Search of Lost Time (1927) by Marcel Proust 7.8 | Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster 7.8 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky 7.8 | The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7.8 | The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss 7.8 | The Pillars of the Earth (1989) by Ken Follett 7.8 | The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame 7.8 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera 7.8 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 7.8 | The Help (2009) by Kathryn Stockett 7.8 | Matilda (1988) by Roald Dahl 7.8 | Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell 7.8 | House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski 7.8 | Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath 7.8 | Watchmen (1987) by Alan Moore 7.8 | Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon 7.8 | Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson 7.8 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by Roald Dahl 7.8 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle 7.8 | American Gods (2001) by Neil Gaiman 7.8 | Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron 7.8 | The Magus (1977) by John Fowles 7.8 | Flowers for Algernon (1959) by Daniel Keyes 7.8 | Schindler’s List (1982) by Thomas Keneally 7.8 | Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 7.8 | It (1986) by Stephen King 7.8 | Tender Is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7.8 | World War Z (2006) by Max Brooks 7.8 | Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel 7.8 | Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein 7.8 | Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 7.8 | Book of Mormon by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 7.8 | American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser 7.8 | Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville 7.8 | Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa 7.8 | A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens 7.8 | The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007) by Patrick Rothfuss 7.8 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque 7.7 | A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry 7.7 | Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Orczy 7.7 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) by Eric Carle 7.7 | Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens 7.7 | The Giving Tree (1964) by Shel Silverstein 7.7 | Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster 7.7 | Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.A. Milne 7.7 | Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery 7.7 | The Heroes of Olympus (2010) by Rick Riordan 7.7 | His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 7.7 | Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk 7.7 | The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy 7.7 | Metamorphoses by Ovid 7.7 | Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry 7.7 | Looking for Alaska (2005) by John Green 7.7 | The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth 7.7 | Roots (1976) by Alex Haley 7.7 | Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy 7.7 | The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles 7.7 | Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert 7.7 | Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 7.7 | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7.7 | The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough 7.7 | Good Omens (1990) by Terry Pratchett 7.7 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson 7.7 | Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) by E.L. James 7.7 | The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal 7.7 | The Book Thief (2006) by Markus Zusak 7.7 | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 7.7 | Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce 7.7 | Ficciones (1956) by Jorge Luis Borges 7.7 | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 7.7 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe 7.7 | The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy 7.7 | I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves 7.7 | Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand 7.7 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick 7.7 | The Green Mile (1996) by Stephen King 7.7 | The Shining (1977) by Stephen King 7.7 | Aeneid by Virgil 7.7 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) by Haruki Murakami 7.7 | Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen 7.7 | Women in Love (1920) by D.H. Lawrence 7.7 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig 7.7 | A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) by Khaled Hosseini 7.7 | Cat in the Hat (1985) by Dr. Seuss 7.7 | Outsiders (1967) by S.E. Hinton 7.6 | Zorba the Greek (1946) by Nikos Kazantzakis

7.6 | Trainspotting (1993) by Irvine Welsh 7.6 | Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells 7.6 | We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver 7.6 | Macbeth by William Shakespeare 7.6 | The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 7.6 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) by Mark Haddon 7.6 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon 7.6 | Night (1956) by Elie Wiesel 7.6 | The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins 7.6 | Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare 7.6 | The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger 7.6 | Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Emil Frankl 7.6 | Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan 7.6 | In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote 7.6 | Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut 7.6 | Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen 7.6 | Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind 7.6 | V for Vendetta (1989) by 7.6 | Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne 7.6 | Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 7.6 | The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass 7.6 | The BFG (1982) by Roald Dahl 7.6 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1985) by Dr. Seuss 7.6 | Candide (1759) by Voltaire 7.6 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) by D.H. Lawrence 7.6 | Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand 7.6 | Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad 7.6 | Little Princess (1905) by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7.6 | Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar 7.6 | Mere Christianity (1952) by C.S. Lewis 7.6 | Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster 7.6 | David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens 7.6 | Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown 7.6 | The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick 7.6 | Time to Kill (1989) by John Grisham 7.6 | Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse 7.6 | Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neil Stephenson 7.6 | The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro 7.6 | Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami 7.6 | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 7.6 | James and the Giant Peach (1961) by Roald Dahl 7.6 | Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce 7.6 | Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak 7.6 | Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith 7.6 | Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) by Arthur Golden 7.6 | Essential Rumi by Rumi 7.6 | Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann 7.6 | Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy 7.6 | Hiding Place (1971) by Corrie Ten Boom 7.6 | The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman 7.6 | All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren 7.6 | The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett 7.6 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain 7.6 | Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori 7.6 | Plague (1947) by Albert Camus 7.6 | Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton 7.6 | The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson 7.6 | Shogun (1975) by James Clavell 7.6 | A Town Like Alice (1950) by Nevil Shute 7.6 | Ambassadors (1903) by Henry James 7.6 | Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy 7.6 | No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy 7.6 | The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka 7.6 | Phantom of the Opera (1910) by Gaston Leroux 7.6 | Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides 7.6 | The Book of the New Sun (1994) by Gene Wolfe 7.6 | Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray 7.6 | Heidi by Johanna Spyri 7.6 | Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison 7.6 | Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand 7.6 | Pippi Longstocking (1945) by Astrid Lindgren 7.6 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles 7.6 | North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell 7.6 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2005) by Rick Riordan 7.6 | Gilgamesh by 7.6 | The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare 7.6 | Millennium series by Stieg Larsson 7.6 | Cat’s Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut 7.6 | Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen 7.6 | The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt 7.5 | Screwtape Letters (1942) by C.S. Lewis 7.5 | Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 7.5 | The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving 7.5 | A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole 7.5 | Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks 7.5 | Dandelion Wine (1957) by Ray Bradbury 7.5 | Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner 7.5 | The Glass Castle (2005) by Jeannette Walls 7.5 | People’s History of the United States (2010) by Howard Zinn 7.5 | Lamb by Christopher Moore 7.5 | Water for Elephants (2006) by Sara Gruen 7.5 | Moneyball (2003) by Michael Lewis 7.5 | Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome 7.5 | Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair 7.5 | The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman 7.5 | Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 7.5 | Number the Stars (1989) by Lois Lowry 7.5 | Siddhartha (1951) by Hermann Hesse 7.5 | Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 7.5 | Misery (1987) by Stephen King

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Why does Lady Bertram look like a ghost

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Arlington On Tap! Show Notes for BizTalk Arlington with O.K. Carter, 3-4pm Every Tuesday.

Arlington on Tap! On The Mark Joeckel Show Check Out Show Notes Below By

O.K Carter. May 9, 3-4pm 

Topics Include: Local Elections/Run-Offs, High Speed Rail, Sanctuary Cities, Food Truck Fridays, Inter-Urban Find, Texas Live and More

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Yeah, we know there was a local election Saturday. Slightly more than 10 percent of Arlington’s registered voters showed up (terrible but in a good way since the average turnout is closer to 5 percent). Ten percent is about 20,000 voters. Here’s what happened:

A $45 million senior citizen center killed it, passing by about 69 percent

Firefighters got civil service on their third try by about 53 percent

Incumbents Mayor Jeff Williams, Councilmembers Kathryn Wilemon and Michael Glaspie won by big margins, more than 60 percent.

Two council races will have runoffs. Incumbent Lana Wolff barely missed a win with 47 percent. She’ll face Dakota Loupe. In the only slot without an incumbent, Marvin Sutton led with 45 percent to Roxanne Thalman’s 35 percent, so another runoff there. Wolff has been the target of an expanded social media campaign that has made much of her husband’s historic financial issues, but she’d still have to be favored to win the runoff.

When is the runoff? June 10.

 On the AISD, incumbents Bowie Hogg and Kecia Mays took easy wins.

Congratulations as well to community activist and longtime friend Kathy Stein, who won an alderman (person) slot in Dalworthington Gardens.

Kennedale – In the midst of a hassle about water utility increases, one councilmember abruptly resigned, though it was too late to take him off the ballot. So he lost anyway, and two other incumbents were also bumped. Kennedale governance will have new faces with Rocky Giley, Sandra Lee and Jan Joplin all about to be sworn in as new councilmembers…a political massacre in Kennedale, call it what it is.

Mansfield ISD…bond proposal passed with 65 percent. There’ll also be a school board trustee runoff and two city council runoffs.

The Tarrant County College board of elected trustees tends to fly under the radar, but let us note that Diane Patrick was elected with a plus-60 margin on the board…she’s now been a school board member, a state board of education member, a state rep and now a TCC trustee…also a prof at UTA. Congrats as well to the Rev. Michael Evans, elected without opposition as a new trustee representing south Arlington, Mansfield and Dalworthington Gardens.

You might ask what happens to Fire Department Civil Service now and how does it work? In the fall the city will set up a civil service board with three appointees…who appoints them? The City Manager, though the council has to approve the appointees, who will serve staggered terms of three years. The system will have to conform to state requirements…testing for promotions and the like. Also, disciplinary actions – even firing – can be appealed to the board. It is not true that nobody can be fired…people are fired under civil service all the time, though the process can clearly be more laborious. THE PREDICTION – police and other city employees will likely try to follow suit.

Not all the controversial issues are concluded…Council tonight is supposed to consider a second reading of an expanded and vehemently disputed smoking ordinance. They could approve it. Table it again. Or maybe, just maybe, move it to a referendum for voters in November…I’d bet on that being the strongest possibility. Smoking advocates say this is the option they’d prefer...probably not the smartest move.

Arlington on Tap tonight…

Hey all you barstool philosophers, it’s the last Arlington on Tap of the 2016-17 season tonight, 6 p.m. at Maverick’s Bar and Grill…features humorist and story teller Donna Darovich with tales about the old-time Arlington Citizen-Journal. Should be both funny and interesting.

Also Tony Pompa will show up to provide a brief preview of the upcoming first Santa Fe International Folk Art Market in Arlington, rated the Best Art Festival in America by USA Today. Taking place June 16-17 at The Green at College Park, on the University of Texas at Arlington campus, the market will feature 35 master artists and their handmade goods from such diverse countries as Italy, Ghana, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Ukraine, South Sudan, Myanmar, and Peru, among others.

The folk market was created to help artists from around the world become self-sustainable, while sharing their indigenous cultures. Yes, it’s a big deal and more proof that downtown Arlington is becoming a sort of festival center…big crowd for the East Main Street Arts Fair Saturday. Easy to see why downtown was recently designated a Texas Cultural Arts District.

Shades of the old Interurban…Years ago, fire marshal J.W. Dunlop told me that part of the old Interurban tracks were buried under Abram Street near City Hall…I said…ehhhh. Darned if Dunlop wasn’t right. Last month construction crews excavating near City Hall unearthed a rusty wheel and a section of track – relics from the “Interurban” electric trolley service that once ran between Fort Worth and Dallas. The Interurban Line, which included a station at what is now Abram Street and Center Street in downtown Arlington, operated from the early 1900’s to the 1930’s. The last train made the Interurban run through Arlington on Christmas Eve 1934, according to the Arlington Historical Society. Credit Steve Barnes, Arlington Historical Society president, with spotting the buried wheel and section of track. 

TEXAS LIVE adds Loews Hotel to mix. Texas Live! will include a $250 million world-class dining, entertainment and hospitality hotel destination, a $150 million flagship hotel, Live! by Loews – Arlington, TX, will be the first of its kind in the country blending sports and entertainment with first-class hospitality and superior amenities. It’s all part of a $4 billion vision for the Arlington Entertainment District that includes the Rangers new $1 billion ballpark and preservation of Globe Life Park. The game plan for the project is to become a resort-style destination for sports fans, visitors, and families, as well as a spectacular location for meetings, special events and conventions.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS…the Arlington Parks and Recreation Department’s Food Truck Fridays lunch series continues the next couple of Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Friday at 

Founders Plaza

, 100 W Abram Street (Yes, that’s the Levitt Pavilion across from city hall. .Bring a lawn chair.

Each Friday will feature a new lineup of food trucks, allowing visitors the opportunity to taste and try out different fare.

KB Brats

Rockin’ Ricks

Bellatrino

Holy Frijole

Rockin’ Rooster Sno Cones

Pokey O’s

New Tarrant College President Eugene Giovaninni likes to be a go-to source for corporate training, a good example unfolding yesterday. Toyota and Tarrant County College will partner to bring a state-of-the-art automotive training program to the TCC South Campus aimed at turning out highly skilled technicians for good-paying jobs with Toyota and Lexus auto dealers.

Toyota clearly serious about it…the company showed up yesterday for the announcement with 37 new cars donated for students to work on.

Students will attend classes three days a week and work as interns at area Toyota or Lexus dealerships…a pretty good learn and earn deal.

 It’s a cliché and also true when it is said that all politics is local (for example if the fed action drops 24 million from insurance rolls and you are one of them), but state changes often rolls down to impact cities in a hurry.

Sanctuary city business…

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a ban on "sanctuary cities" into law on Sunday at night (used Facebook to telecast it), allowing police to inquire about the immigration status of people they lawfully detain. 

Senate Bill 4 makes sheriffs, constables, police chiefs and other local leaders subject to Class A misdemeanor charges if they don’t cooperate with federal authorities and honor requests from immigration agents to hold noncitizen inmates who are subject to deportation. It also provides civil penalties for entities in violation of the provision that begin at $1,000 for a first offense and climb to as high as $25,500 for each subsequent infraction. The bill also applies to public colleges. 

What exactly is a sanctuary city? There’s no exact definition. A sanctuary city is a city that limits its cooperation with the national government effort to enforce immigration law…sometimes formally and sometimes with a sort of wink wink. Some people say Dallas is a sanctuary city and I’ve even heard Arlington listed in the category.

Other state stuff with local implications…the legislature wants to toughen gambling laws (on-line slots are a particular target) to strengthen bingo for cash winners because bingo parlors contribute a portion of profits to charitable groups. Bingo for money was approved in 1981. Last year Texas bingo parlors took in $761 million, gave back $579 million to players  (75 percent) plus another $33 million (5 percent) for assorted state and local taxes…almost 81 percent. The bingo halls take expenses from the remaining 19 percent and then make donations to charities.

How much? About a billion bucks over the past 28 years or an average of $37 million a year, spread across the entire state. Arlington has roughly a dozen bingo parlors…who by the way were the only entity exempted from the tougher Arlington smoking ordinance.

CAR Inspections needed? Believe it or not, Texas is one of only 15 states requiring annual auto safety inspections. There’s a bill in the Texas Senate getting rid of the practice, though auto drivers in counties with high pollution would be required to get emission tests only (Yes…that includes Tarrant, Dallas, Denton, Collins and Ellis counties). The main objections include safety of vehicles and also that about 50,000 mechanics depend on inspection income. Yet somehow 35 other states seem to get along without the inspections.

Like that bullet train from FW through Arlington to Dallas to Houston idea?  landowners opposed to a high-speed train line between Dallas and Houston 

took to the Capitol

  to warn lawmakers that the project would ruin rural lifestyles and prevent growth in the counties between the two cities. Despite that there are no less than four bullet train bills.

The multibillion-dollar project 

Texas Central

 has been developing for several years — a 240-mile bullet train line that promises to shuttle passengers  between downtown Dallas and northwest Houston in 90 minutes on a 200 mph train. The company promises to get the $12 billion project done without taking public dollars other than through loans but would need eminent domain to do it.  Though the company has drawn support from investors, federal officials and officials representing the cities at each end of its route, the project has drawn intense opposition from many communities in between.

Not all Texans like the border wall…more than 90 Texas landowners are filing lawsuits resisting efforts to take their property for President Trump’s wall..Texas has 1,254 river miles bordering Mexico and the wall would hinder access to both the Rio Grande river and a couple of big lakes…oddly, resistance is strongest in the Rio Grand Valley area of far south Texas, which is also a hotbed for smuggling of drugs like marijuana and cocaine and also entry point for thousands of illegal immigrants. Despite that sanctuary city legislation the Legislature in general seems to be on the property owners’ side.

Heart patients with problems so serious they can’t exercise are in a catch 22…they can’t exercise because of their condition and their condition gets worse because they can’t exercise.

With help from National Institute of Health $308k grant, at UTA, gerontological nursing research professor Mark Haykowsky and a team of researchers are studying exercise intolerance and its improvement with endurance exercise training in older heart failure patients. It’s called preserved ejection fraction.

It’s the fastest growing type of heart failure, found mostly in older individuals. The mortality rate for these patients is high. Drug therapies improve survival in many heart failure patients but not with this type of exercise intolerant patients.  The researchers are looking at peripheral non-cardiac factors that affect exercise tolerance and their improvement with exercise training – often they’re finding muscle sympathetic activity is over active. Using carefully monitored patients over 60 they’ll be looking for ways to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, aerobic endurance, functional performance and quality of life.

Who needs a swimming pool?

Groundbreaking for Pantego’s new Splash Pad is at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Wed) in Bicentennial Park, 3206 Smith Barry Road (Smith Barry off Bowen a few blocks south of Park Row). The splash pad includes a water recycling system. Play features will include: 

• 3 water hoops 

• tall dumping bucket 

• tall & mini mushroom showers 

• lots of ground sprays … works for kids of all ages…in short get wet and get some sun. Lots of interactive features. The Splash Pad should be up and running by mid-summer.

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Two episodes in and I’m really enjoying this version of Mansfield Park so far. It is slow, which might normally bug me, but after the hectic pace of the two film adaptations, I’m really liking this one for all the little scenes from the book that were omitted from the movies, especially including the field trip to Sotherton and the scene of solidarity between Fanny and Mr Rushworth.

Speaking of which, Fanny is the right mix of shy and quiet and kind and lively, which is such a breath of fresh air. Edmund is actually pretty likable (though not as handsome as he is per the book). He’s kind to Fanny, yet unlike his successors, he’s neither secretly in love with her nor creepy. He’s just a good dude who’s being slowly blinded by Miss Crawford’s beauty.

Though I must say, I feel like this adaptation lowkey wants me to ship Fanny and Tom. They’ve only had a handful of moments, but they’ve been sweet and you can tell they’re friends.

Excited to continue!

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Also I think k-dramas have influenced me to the point where I’m able to enjoy Mansfield Park (1983) this much, because before I used to absolutely yawn at those slow-paced pre-90s miniseries, but since getting into slow-paced dramas such as Tell Me That You Love Me and Would You Like A Cup of Coffee? I’ve developed a better appreciation for the little moments, a longer attention span, which is why I’m no longer bored at those long conversations and slow scenes in older shows.

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Hand me the golf clubs rn

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WHAT did i just witness

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Episode 5 is… not my favorite. Why is Fanny getting hysterical after refusing Crawford? This is the kind of crying and wailing you do when you’ve seen a ghost, not when your uncle scolds you.