#hayward legacy

[strangertorpedo]

From the OC Asks Game, I'd like to know #2. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate or other? and #6. What kind of books comfort them? What books help them heal after a hard day? both for Flora, please!

i may have abandoned this account but i am an attention whore and love when people want to know things (i still am a lover of the hayward girls but posting their story fucked my computer so ya know..)

anywaysssssss

2. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate or other?

Okay so Flora we see in the story (1890s girlie) is very much a milk girl. she will never have a hot drink, never. she drinks like 700 gallons of milk a day. if anybody is not lactose intolerant, its her. however modern!flora drinks 700 monsters a day. it is indeed a problem. and confusing how her heart still works

6. What kind of books comfort them? What books help them heal after a hard day?

Flora likes easy-reading. she doesnt like books that are super long or complicated. genuinely she just wants to be happy. even as she gets older, she always reads childrens books and childrens stories. something like alice in wonderland is her sorta jam. again modern!flora would read exactly two things and it would be 1) comic books and 2) fanfiction

[grimm-haven]

Everyone had gone home, but Damien stayed. It had been a long time since they faced each other, a long time since she found out he had gotten her sister pregnant. Dorothea thought it was over. It should have been over, so when he reached out with the practiced affections of an old lover, with a touch so familiar she had almost given in, it took her a minute before she could push him away. It was only a minute. It only took a minute, but Holden had seen it all.

If he had any ounce of faith in her before that day, it had all disappeared in that one minute she failed to reject Damien's advances.

Beginning of Gen 1 // Previous // Next

[thesiltverses]

oddly enough, our brief interlude with Tainsley in this latest episode ended up reminding me of a plot point from the Eragon books, of all things - an infant child is blessed with magic to be "shielded from pain", but the spell is mistranslated, and instead she's blessed to be "a shield from pain", which compels her to experience and attempt to prevent the pain of everyone around her, a curse so powerfully traumatising that it forces her to physically and mentally age rapidly beyond her years just to cope with the strain. it's one of my favourite moments of pure gut-churning horror that i've ever encountered in fiction, and the connective tissue between that and Tainsley's fate - that being the destructive power of apparent blessings which, thanks to carelessly worded statements made by individuals clumsily wielding power beyond their own reckoning, become cruel and unusual punishments - really struck me. so i thought you might find it interesting to hear about a very silt verses-esque moment in an otherwise completely unrelated story.

That does sound like a great conceit!

In general, I think one of our biggest challenges this season - seriously hard to thread into the storylines of a small-cast audiodrama, but in my opinion important enough to make the effort worthwhile, even when it's arguably led to excess narrative sprawl here and there - has been demonstrating those ripple effects you talk about. The large-scale and indirect consequences of the core characters' actions across the greater world of the show, for good and for ill.

The world will inevitably outlast Carpenter, Faulkner, Paige and Hayward. And their actions and words and the memory of who they were and what they meant...all of these things will live on beyond them in ways they couldn't have possibly predicted. That's the sanctifying power and the imprisoning curse of legacy, baby!

[love-lightning-forethought]

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Brooklyn Hayward

Colour: Pink

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Birthday: 28th june, 2007

Godly parent: Aphrodite

Status: Dating my super hot amazing wonderful partner @childofthewargod 🥰

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Powers: Healing with love (Physical affection heals people), Biokinesis (Can change my appearance), Emotional Influence & Enhanced Hearing

Weapon of choice: Two daggers that have purple handles

Fatal Flaw: Blames herself for everything

time at camp: 4 months

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Anastasia Baird

Colour: Red

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Birthday: 9th may, 2009

Godly parent: Chaos, Legacy of Ares

Status: Single

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Powers:

Ares: Insane reflexes, heighten senses, Telumkinesis, Odikinesis, Necromancy (Limited to soldiers on the losing side of a battle), Enhanced strength

Chaos: Pyrokinesis (limited to primordial flames), psychokinesis, can see through mist, Teleportation/Shadow travel (though she prefers shadow travel), element control (limited), object summoning, temporary power copying, immortality (limited), healing, night vision? (can see past true darkness), can see and understand gods and goddesses true immortal forms, blessings (can bless other demigods and boost their powers), Necromancy (yes again), can see the past present and future, and can enter and exit the underworld and Tartarus.

Weapon of choice: a ring that turns into a dagger if she turns left or a sword if she turns right

Fatal Flaw: Perfectionism

time at camp: 2 months

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Finley Zavala

Individual Blog: @braving-the-storm

Colour: Blue

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Birthday: 3rd of August, 2007

Godly parent: Zeus

Status: Single babes single

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Powers: Atmokinesis (weather control), Electrokinesis, Aerokinesis (air manipulation) and weather prediction.

Weapon of choice: mid length sword

Fatal Flaw: Lack of self worth

time at camp: 3 months

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Dorothea Baird

Colour: Purple

Age: 13

Gender: Female

Birthday: 2nd march, 2011

Godly parent: Poseidon

Status: I have no friends 😀👍

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Powers: Hydrokinesis (duh), Telekinesis (Limited to ships for some reason?) Underwater breathing (Once again, obviously), Zoolinguism (Limited to sea creatures and horses), I just defy physics when water’s involved (DeFYiNg GRaviTY), I'm built different in water, Air bubble creation, I also defy wetness (Yes, sometimes as a child I’d just choose to not get wet and make bath time very frustrating), Night vision (Limited to underwater), Healing (with water) Liquid manipulation, Atmokinesis (Limited), Siren voice (Basically charmspeak but I can find fatal flaws and deepest desires and manipulate people. Don’t worry, I don’t do it often, that’s too much effort), water traveling (Water is like a portal for me. Ik mad flex), Body water manipulation (I can manipulate the water in people’s body and use them as a puppet. Once again, I don’t use this often cause creepy. Also can do this on dead bodies so…)

Weapon of choice: The blood of my enemies (literally) but I have a celestial shank (don’t ask how I got this)

Fatal Flaw: I don’t think before I act

time at camp: 2 hours

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[vexalia]

completely unable to listen to episode 1 without picturing the body in the reeds as faulkner’s

i shall praise him!! / dont, the sacrifice didnt take, and he waited to long to escape because he thought it was a test of faith, she worked in silence over his body

we should push him out, it’s only right to see he’s taken / if we leave him here they’ll never find him, it’s the least we can do for the person who made the sacrifice vs i watch him as he goes, until long after the little white dot disappears

you wouldn’t want your family’s legacy to come to nothing vs nana glass’s song is carpenter’s song but she can’t quite remember it and we never hear where nana glass is buried nor do we know if carpenter even died, the only grave we know she has is so far from where her body could ever get

come on i want a goddamn cappuccino / maybe ill catch up with paige and hayward but the closest she’ll ever be to hayward again is sitting under a tree reaching for the sky which he never managed to become and paige is long gone but it’s about the going toward something better

the details of the body: the birds got to his eyes, the muscle is sloughed off. faulkner’s blonde hair. he could be any body from her childhood. he isn’t.

[krispyweiss]

Moody Blues Co-founder Mike Pinder Dies at 82

- Keyboardist was the last surviving original member of “the Magnificent Moodies”

Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues co-founder whose work on and with the Mellotron was the stuff of legend, has died, his family said.

Pinder, 82, “passed peacefully” April 24, the family said. No cause was given.

“His authentic essence lifted up everyone who came into contact with him,” Pinder’s family said. “His lyrics, philosophy and vision of humanity and our place in the cosmos will touch generations to come.”

Pinder was the last surviving member of the lineup that recorded 1965’s the Magnificent Moodies. He stayed with the band as composer, singer and master of the Mellotron until 1978’s Octave.

“Mike was a natural-born musician who could play any style of music with warmth and love,” Pinder’s former bandmate Justin Hayward said in a statement. “His re-imagining and rebuilding (literally) of the Mellotron gave us our identifiable early sound. He was a huge part of my own musical journey.”

To Fernando Perdomo, Pinder was a “genius.” And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said the keyboardist “leaves behind a legacy of exhilarating, groundbreaking music that has influenced countless musicians.”

“Pinder’s technological contributions, especially his pioneering use of the Mellotron - an instrument he is said to have introduced to the Beatles - was key to the Moody Blues’ forward-thinking musical brilliance and the development of progressive rock,” the hall said.

4/25/24

[bearterritory]

EUGENE, Ore. – Presented with the opportunity to carry on a proud hammer tradition for California track & field at Hayward Field, it took Rowan Hamilton just three throws to find himself in a position that no Golden Bear has in over a century.   The last Cal athlete to win a title in the men's hammer was Jack Merchant in 1922. Now, that distinction belongs to Hamilton, whose personal-best throw of 77.18m (253-2) surpassed 2023 champion Kenneth Ikeji of Harvard's top mark by just two inches; he also became the program's first NCAA men's champion in any event since 2011 (Mike Morrison, decathlon).   "Those are things that people take for granted, but that's hard to do, to keep stepping up when somebody else steps up," said Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Robyne Johnson.   Hamilton, who hails from Chilliwack, B.C., is also the first Canadian man to win the event since Scott Neilson in 1979. He was the favorite to win after leading the NCAA standings for nearly the entire season and climbing to No. 8 in the all-time men's collegiate hammer standings.   "Rowan was really stable today," assistant coach Mohamad Saatara said. "That's what we were trying to do – we were expecting these other guys to really get going, so for him to succeed, he had to be very stable and just execute. I think there are some really big throws in his future."

 "I think it's really special, just being able to carry on the legacy at Cal that was set by (women's hammer alum) Camryn Rogers, (who won) three consecutive national championships," Hamilton said. "I'm happy that I can come here, compete with Mo, the Cal Bears, and represent the school very well."   Teammate Ivar Moisander joined Hamilton in the men's hammer as the other half of Cal's first-ever duo in the event. Moisander's mark of 68.13m (223-6), while not enough to earn him another three attempts, still earned him a second-career Second-Team All-America nod and his highest career placement (13th) at the NCAA Championships.   The 4x100m relay squad of Chase Williams, George Monroe, Mason Mangum and David Foster followed up Hamilton's school record with one of their own, racing to a time of 38.90 in the semifinal to demolish the program's previous best of 39.11 that had stood since 1975 – old enough that the time itself had been adjusted from a 4x110y result. It was good enough for 12th place overall, earning Williams, Monroe and Mangum their first career Second-Team All-America honors and Foster his second. Foster then competed in the 100m semifinal just over an hour later, finishing third in his heat and 14th overall with a time of 10.28 to become a Second-Team All-American for the third time this season.   In the pole vault, Skyler Magula passed on the first two heights before clearing his first attempt at 5.37m (17-7.25), eventually matching his season best of 5.52m (18-1.25) to tie for sixth with Penn's James Rhoads and earn First-Team All-America status. It was the best overall finish by any Cal men's pole vaulter since Robert "Bubba" McLean in 2001, who was also the last to make the First Team (2002).

Jeff Duensing, who qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials at the Pac-12 Championships, closed out the night – and the Cal Athletics season – in the shot put, posting a mark of 18.99m (62-3.75) on his third attempt to finish in 13th place and notch a spot on the All-America Second Team; he became the first Cal men's shot putter to repeat as an All-American since Peter Simon in 2017-18.   In total, Cal's men collected nine All-America honors, tying a program record from 1982.   "I am so, so proud of this group," Johnson said. "They worked hard all year and they did what they needed to do at the right time."

[teaspoonnebula]

I've apparently had this fanfic idea lying around in my docs for ages and I have a feeling I'm not going to write it because it's a mashup of Sherlock Holmes with Dorian Grey and I haven't got plans to reread Dorian Grey anytime soon, so... enjoy this rough outline I guess.

Holmes has been engaged to investigate the disappearance of the socialite Dorian Grey. An elderly man has been found stabbed, but wearing Dorian’s rings, next to a strange painting.

Holmes investigates Dorian’s past and discovers that the painter of the portrait (Basil Hayward) vanished after supposedly going to France. 

He and Watson both travel to France. Throughout this section of the story, Watson should be written in the most stereotypically Jam Watson way possible - the bumbling comic relief. “Well I never, Holmes! However did you deduce that! I say!” etc etc.  Holmes manages to track down a traumatised Basil Hayward who was disfigured by an attack (but the signs of him being a painter are all on him, to Holmes!)

Basil explains his story how he made a Faustian deal and his friend Dorian’s soul and the painting became linked.  Holmes listens, but does not believe it.

The fact that he has come all the way to France to be fobbed off with fairy stories infuriates him, and he mooches around his and Watson’s hotel in a funk. Suddenly, Watson’s attitude changes. He sits Holmes down and explains that everything Basil said is true - the reason he knows it is true is because he personally has committed the same sin. 

He adored Holmes, and wished desperately to immortalise him with his pen. Wished desperately enough that... something... heard him, and granted that wish.

At first all was well, Holmes legacy and immortality was assured, but over time he has changed from being a real man to an idea.

From being flesh and blood, to being a character. 

Once, he (Watson) was a valued friend, now he is just there to ask questions and be silent, nothing more than a habit. 

“I have explained all this to you before, Holmes. You will forget. You have a great mind, but to understand this requires a great heart, and I do not know if you have that left. I am sorry. I am so, so sorry.”

The next day they head home for London. Sure enough, Holmes has apparently forgotten all about this revelation and is busy explaining how he solved the case of how Dorian Grey was killed (a humdrum explanation) but he feels it isn’t one for Watson’s books. 

Then - the Three Garridebs moment. 

Watson is shot, and for a moment it is an echo of the old Holmes which Watson sees, fighting the curse to get out to him. For a moment, it's the old loyalty and love there again.

It gives Watson hope that his friend isn’t totally lost to the curse. 

While Watson is recovering from his injury, Holmes writes a story (The Lion’s Mane), leaves it for Watson to find, and disappears.

After reading the story, Watson realises what Holmes has done: by writing a retirement story for himself, he’s broken himself free from the spell - allowing the myth of Sherlock Holmes to live on, but the real man to slip off into obscurity. 

Watson goes to find him in Sussex, and discovers that he is back to his old self again - the man tending the bees with joyful exuberance is the same human man who worked with chemicals in the lab at St Barts. 

The curse is broken, but Holmes gives a note of caution: 

“I believe we must mostly stay apart, dear fellow. You have made ‘Holmes and Watson’ together have a touch of the mythic, and I believe that curse will begin to stir once more should our association remain too close. The occasional weekend visit, however, I feel cannot do much harm.” 

“I have made you give up everything you love. I have condemned you to be alone.”

“Not so, Watson. The art of detection was my vocation, certainly, but you have forgotten that I have had many interests in my life. I wished to be a beekeeper long before I wished to be a consulting detective.”

Watson is going to get the train back to London, overjoyed that Holmes is well, but heartbroken that they cannot see each other often lest they wake the curse. He isn't sure what to do now. He has no desire to go back into medical practice.

He ends up overhearing about the need for a schoolmaster at a local coaching establishment. He says he would be willing it take on the job. 

He gives his name as Stackhurst. 

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Jill Tucker

Published: Feb 3, 2024

A Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning.

The Woke Kindergarten sessions train teachers on concepts and curriculum that’s available to use in classrooms with any of Glassbrook Elementary’s 474 students. The sessions are funded through a federal program meant to help the country’s lowest-performing schools boost student achievement. 

But two years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten, a for-profit company, student achievement at Glassbrook has fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well-spent given the needs of the students, who are predominantly low-income. Two-thirds of the students are English learners and more than 80% are Hispanic/Latino. 

English and math scores hit new lows last spring, with less than 4% of students proficient in math and just under 12% at grade level in English — a decline of about 4 percentage points in each category.

Efforts to reach the organization were not successful, with an automated response saying the founder, who also provides the training, was recovering from surgery.

District officials defended the program this past week, saying that Woke Kindergarten did what it was hired to do. The district pointed to improvements in attendance and suspension rates, and that the school was no longer on the state watch list, only to learn from the Chronicle that the school was not only still on the list but also had dropped to a lower level.

The decision to bring in Woke Kindergarten, rather than a more traditional literacy or math improvement program, aligns with the belief by some parents and educators that the current education system isn’t working for many disadvantaged children. 

The solution, these advocates say, is for educators to confront legacies of racism and bias in schools, and to talk about historic white supremacy, so that students feel safe and supported. As such anti-racism programs have spread, several more conservative state legislatures have moved to restrict or ban them. 

At the same time, some education experts say struggling schools need research-based literacy and math interventions that ensure all students have the basic skills to succeed. Examples of success include San Francisco’s John Muir Elementary, which has piloted a math intervention program that has led to a more than 50% proficiency rate, up from 15% prior to adopting the coaching and student-led coursework.

Woke Kindergarten, aimed at elementary-age students, is founded on the relatively new concept of abolitionist education, which advocates for abolition, or “a kind of starting over,” said Zeus Leonardo, UC Berkeley education professor. The idea is that certain things can’t be reformed, tweaked or shifted, because they are inherently problematic or oppressive. It’s not about indoctrinating or imposing politics, “but making politics part of the framework of teaching,” Leonardo said. 

But some Glassbrook teachers have questioned the decision to bring in the program, saying Woke Kindergarten is wrongly rooted in progressive politics and activism with anti-police, anti-capitalism and anti-Israel messages mixed in with the goal of making schools safe, joyful and supportive for all children.

This tension is reflective of the nation’s ongoing culture wars, where the right and the left battle to influence what happens in classrooms. 

The Woke Kindergarten curriculum shared with schools includes “wonderings,” which pose questions for students, including, “If the United States defunded the Israeli military, how could this money be used to rebuild Palestine?”

In addition, the “woke word of the day,” including “strike,” “ceasefire” and “protest,” offers students a “language of the resistance … to introduce children to liberatory vocabulary in a way that they can easily digest, understand and most importantly, use in their critiques of the system.”

Teacher Tiger Craven-Neeley said he supports discussing racism in the classroom, but found the Woke Kindergarten training confusing and rigid. He said he was told a primary objective was to “disrupt whiteness” in the school — and that the sessions were “not a place to express white guilt.” He said he questioned a trainer who used the phrasing “so-called United States,” as well as lessons available on the organization’s web site offering “Lil’ Comrade Convos,” or positing a world without police, money or landlords.

Craven-Neeley, who is white and a self-described “gay moderate,” said he wasn’t trying to be difficult when he asked for clarification about disrupting whiteness. “What does that mean?” he said, adding that such questions got him at least temporarily banned from future training sessions. “I just want to know, what does that mean for a third-grade classroom?”

Another Glassbrook teacher said Woke Kindergarten offered one perspective on issues and that there was no tolerance for questions. “It slowly became very apparent if you were a dissenting voice that it’s not what they wanted to hear,” said the teacher, who requested anonymity for fear of pushback at the school. 

The teacher did not find the training helpful or productive. “Our reading scores are low,” they said. “That could have gotten us a reading interventionist.”

Hayward Superintendent Jason Reimann said the decision to hire Woke Kindergarten, which was approved by the school board, was made by the school community, including parents and teachers, as part of a federal improvement plan to boost student achievement by improving attendance.

The school community, including parents, teachers and staff, identified a provider to help them do that, Reimann said. He noted a subsequent improvement in student attendance, with 44% of students considered chronically absent last year, down from 61% the year prior. A similar improvement  was seen districtwide.

Glassbrook has been on the state’s Comprehensive School Improvement list since 2020, slightly improving in 2022 and then being reassigned to the lowest-performing level this school year.

Reimann said the district didn’t hire Woke Kindergarten for its politics, but rather its work in restorative practices, helping eliminate suspensions and removals from classrooms while luring more students back into seats.

“We are in favor 100% of abolishing systems of oppression where they hold our students back,” he said. “What I do believe is we should pick providers based on their work and how effective they are.”

The superintendent said Woke Kindergarten wasn’t hired to improve literacy and math scores, but that “helping students feel safe and whole is part and parcel of academic achievement.” He added, “I get that it’s more money than we would have liked to have spent.”

Woke Kindergarten was founded by former teacher Akiea “Ki” Gross, who identifies as they/them and describes themselves as “an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten.”

They established the for-profit company in 2020 in Maryland, although the Woke Kindergarten website says it is “primarily community sustained” and relies “primarily on donations.”

Education policy experts said that while the name of Gross’ organization and the words “abolitionist education” were provocative, many parents, teachers and others are feeling politically empowered after pandemic battles over masking and when to reopen schools.

“It doesn’t feel necessarily new, but more common right now is that some schools and some leaders are being intentionally provocative,” said Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institute, a nonpartisan policy think tank. It feels, he said, like people are “leaning into these culture battles in schools,” whether on the left or right, although he said he couldn’t speak specifically about Woke Kindergarten.

And to a degree, these battles — whether over book bans, LGBTQ issues or the war in Gaza — are expected given schools are largely under local control, meaning they reflect their communities, said Joseph Kahne, professor of education policy at UC Riverside.

“How loud particular groups have become on the left and right and how organized and commercialized these agendas have become, that seems new,” said Bruce Fuller, a UC Berkeley education professor. 

Julie Marsh, a professor of education policy at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, cautioned that it can be “problematic when teaching strays too far into the political ideology realm. It’s just a big distraction from some of the bigger purposes of education and what we should be focusing on.”

Craven-Neeley, the Glassbrook teacher, said he had experienced the pull of the nation’s culture wars from both sides of the political spectrum. As a veteran teacher in Modesto, he sued the school district after it prevented him from talking about his husband, or talking about LGBTQ history, including gay rights icon Harvey Milk. He said he settled out of court.

Woke Kindergarten “had a lot of good things. I think race should be addressed. Children should be aware if they are being discriminated against,” he said. “But as a teacher of Hayward Unified, I shouldn’t have to get on the bandwagon of defunding police or insulting our country.”

==

"Woke Kindergarten"'s website is clear up front: their primary goal is to conduct a revolution. And well educated, well read, language and math-literate students are antithetical to an uprising. What revolutions want and seek is people who are illiterate, uneducated, scared and angry.

The mistake is thinking the decline in scores was a bug or accident. It's not. It's a feature.

[brookfinleyanastasia]

Introduction

Main account: @love-lightning-forethought

Name: Brooklyn 'Brook' Mackenzie Hayward

Individual Blog: @rayof-damnsunshine

Colour: Pink

Pronouns: She/Her

Godly Parent: Aphrodite

Sexuality: Pan

Age: 17

Birthday: 28/06/2007

Powers: Healing with love (Physical affection heals people), Biokinesis (Can change my appearance), Emotional Influence & Enhanced Hearing

Weapon/s: Two daggers that have purple handles

Hobbies: Embroidering, Jewellery Making, Vinyl Collecting, Ballet, Painting, Cooking/Baking, Woodwork & Reading

Fatal Flaw: Too Forgiving

Personality: Bubbly, Vibrant, Trusting, Kind, Caring, Honest, Trustworthy, Adventurist, Loving, Hopeful

Mortal Parent: Cameron Hayward

Adopted by: @demigod-jack-hearth

Years at Camp: 2 months

Dating my super hot amazing wonderful partner @childofthewargod 🥰

Face claim:

Anastasia Baird

Godly Parent: Khaos, Legacy of Ares

Adopted by: You guess it @demigod-jack-hearth

individual Blog: @practicemakes-perfect (Old)

Colour: Red

Age: 15

Birthday: 9/5/2009

Weapon/s: a ring that turns into a dagger if she turns left or a sword if she turns right

Powers:

Ares: Insane reflexes, heighten senses, Telumkinesis, Odikinesis, Necromancy (Limited to soldiers on the losing side of a battle), Enhanced strength

Khaos: Pyrokinesis (limited to primordial flames), psychokinesis, can see through mist, Teleportation/Shadow travel (though she prefers shadow travel), element control (limited), object summoning, temporary power copying, immortality (limited), healing, night vision? (can see past true darkness), can see and understand gods and goddesses true immortal forms, blessings (can bless other demigods and boost their powers), Necromancy (yes again), can see the past present and future, and can enter and exit the underworld and Tartarus.

Fatal Flaw: perfectionism

Face claim:

Name: Finley Rose Zavala

Individual Blog: @braving-the-storm

Colour: Blue

Godly Parent: Zeus

Head counsellor of Cabin 1

Adopted by: Plot twist @demigod-jack-hearth

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 16

Birthdate: 3rd of August, 2008

Height: 5'11

Weight: N/A

Powers: Atmokinesis (weather control), Electrokinesis, Aerokinesis (air manipulation) and weather prediction.

Weapons: None/A sharpened stick?

Fatal Flaw: lack of self worth

Disabilities: ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism

Mortal Parent: Michelle Zavala

Time at camp: 2 months

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Hello

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[riordanverserpdatabase]

hi! i would like to add rogelio ibarra ( @gellyhelio )! son of aphrodite, legacy of hephaestus, but u can put him in the aphrodite section, thank you!

Thank you user gellyhelio for your contribution to the database!!! Let's call your head counselor to welcome you!!

Head Counselor: Brooklyn Hayward @love-lightning-forethought

and here are some of your siblings!!!

Faith Ellis @little-miss-lover-girl

Haven Arcadia @sweetxloverxx

Isabel @oneofaphroditesmanykids

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Jinka Medali @jinkas-heart-filled-meadows

Leora Caory @therosesonofaphrodite

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Sara Davies (Matchmaker Extraordinaire) @camp-half-bloods-resident-cupid

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Mayor Elihu Mason Harris (August 15, 1947) is a retired politician and college administrator. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 46th Mayor of Oakland (1991-99); he served for 12 years (1978–90) as a member of the California State Assembly. He was the Chancellor of the Peralta Community College District (2004-10.

Born in Los Angeles, he moved to Berkeley during childhood and graduated from Berkeley High School.

He earned a BA in Political Science from California State University, Hayward, where he served as student body vice president. He received a MA in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from UC Davis School of Law. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

He has served as a California Uniform Law Commissioner since 1981. He co-owned Oakland radio station KDIA. He co-owned Fresno radio station KFIG.

He ran in a 1999 special election in hopes of regaining the California State Assembly seat he held but lost to a Green party challenger.

His legacy in Oakland includes the naming of the Elihu M. Harris State Office Building after him.

He and his wife own a Berkeley funeral home that his parents once owned. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi

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Claudette Colbert - The Perfect Star

Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Chauchoin in in Saint-Mandé, France on September 13, 1903) was a French-American actress who became one of the few major actresses during the Golden Age of Hollywood who worked freelance, independent of the studio system. With her impeccable makeup, trademark bangs, and stunning legs, she became known as "The Perfect Star" during her heyday.

At three years old, Colbert emigrated to Manhattan in order for her parents to pursue more employment opportunities. She studied at Washington Irving High School, which was known for its strong arts program and made her stage debut at the historic Provincetown Playhouse. Intending to become a fashion designer, she attended the Art Students League of New York. While studying, she appeared on the Broadway stage in a small role in The Wild Westcotts (1923).

After appearing in plays in Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, and Connecticut and the London's West End, producer Leland Hayward casted her in her first film role in 1927. The following year, she signed with Paramount Pictures, where she made films in both French and English.

Colbert's career was boosted when she played the supporting role as a femme fatale in Cecil B. DeMille's historical epic The Sign of the Cross (1932). In 1933, Colbert renegotiated her contract to allow her to appear in films for other studios. This resulted in her most memorable movie, the screwball comedy Columbia Pictures' It Happened One Night (1934), which won her Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1936, Colbert signed a new contract with Paramount, making her one of Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Colbert spent the rest of the 1930s alternating between romantic comedies and dramas. Still, she found time to volunteer with the Red Cross and participate in the Hollywood Victory Caravan during WWII.

In 1940, Colbert was offered a new contract with Paramount; she declined and continued to work as a freelance artist, securing roles in several prestigious films and television broadcasts in her later years, even winning a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Series in 1988. Colbert also intermittently appeared in Broadway productions, most notable in The Marriage-Go-Round, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award.

After retiring from acting in 1987, Colbert divided her time between her Manhattan apartment and her 18th century beachfront home in Speightstown, Barbados, nicknamed Bellerive, where she passed away at 92 years of age after suffering from a series of strokes during the last three years of her life.

Legacy:

Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934) and nominated two more times: Private Worlds (1935) and Since You Went Away (1944)

Is the only actress to date to star in three films nominated for Best Motion Picture in the same year: It Happened One Night (1934), Cleopatra (1934), and Imitation of Life (1934)

Won the Photoplay Awards - Best Performances of the Month in 1933 and 1943

Won the 1951 Golden Laurel for Top Female Dramatic Performance for Three Came Home (1950)

Nominated for the Tony Award Best Actress for The Marriage-Go-Round in 1959

Listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America’s top-10 box office draws in 1935, 1936, and 1947

Was Hollywood's highest-paid actress in 1936 and 1938

Named the 14th top money-making woman in the US in 1937 and the 6th in 1938

Won the Sarah Siddons Award in 1982 for The Kingfisher

Received the Film Society of Lincoln Center Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984

Won the Drama Desk Special Award in 1985 for Aren't We All

Received of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation in 1986

Won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)

Was the recipient of the 1989 Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award

Presented with the Donostia Award at the 1990 San Sebastián International Film Festival

Named the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999 by the American Film Institute

Inducted in the Online Film & Television Association Hall of Fame in 2010

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for June 2021

Hosted a number VIPs at her sprawling oceanfront Barbados vacation home, including President Ronald Regan and First Lady Nancy Regan, Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow, Princess Margaret, W. Averell and Pamela Harriman, John and Drue Heinz, Bill and Babe Paley, and Slim Keith

Bequeathed $100,000 in trust to UCLA Medical Center

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6812 Hollywood Boulevard for motion picture

[anyoneknowwhatbrexitmeans]

Edwin Hayward

@edwinheyward

(Long - please expand the tweet.)

1. The Tories will keep on wrecking things faster and faster as the GE approaches. They'll act like irresponsible teenagers who know they don't have to clean up in the morning after a wild drunken binge.

Why?

A) It's their last chance to firehose cash at their friends and cronies.

B) It's an opportunity to further feather their own nests before they're out of office.

C) It stuffs Labour even more - we'll return to this soon enough.

D) The more chaos they cause and the more scandals they trigger, the less chance there is of any one case of wrongdoing being investigated.

From a Tory POV, the best stuff to break is anything that's unfixable. For instance, the closure of all train ticket offices. Once those have been turned into coffee concessions and the staff fired or moved elsewhere, both the facilities and the expertise will be gone for good.

2. Regardless of actual policies, Labour will win the GE on a desperate tide of people wanting to Get The Tories out. However (and this will prove vital later) their future freedom to manoevre will be severely limited by the bright red lines they've been laying down on stuff like Brexit.

Related aside: Remember, the losing party has a blank slate. The electorate thumbed their noses at the manifesto, so they have total freedom to bin it. ("Nobody liked what we had to offer, so we need to do something different.") But this isn't true of the winning party. Even though pledges do get broken and manifesto commitments forgotten, they are still constrained by what they promised to win office.

3. Labour will start trying to fix the stuff the Tories broke. It will prove very expensive. Mending stuff is always more expensive than breaking it. It will be slow going too. And Labour will be trapped by the need to be "fiscally responsible" in a way the Tories never would, because our mainly RW media is waiting to tear them a new one if they spend as much as a single brass penny without accounting for where it came from.

Related aside 2: Is the political playing field level when it comes to British media? Absolutely not. It's totally unfair. But this is a known known, so Labour have to find ways to win - and win repeatedly - despite being hobbled by the press.

4. Labour will try to Make Brexit Work. The RW tabloids will tear bigger strips off them than usual, painting even minor concessions as a Great Betrayal. (If you're not paying attention, you need to realise that the tabloids pillory Labour every. single. day. So this will be a ramping up rather than a different attitude.)

Related aside 3: Since anything Labour does to "undo Brexit" will be portrayed as a betrayal, no matter how insignificant, they might as well take huge lumbering steps rather than teeny tiny ones. It won't make the tabloids more rabid than they're inevitably going to be.

5. Make Brexit Work won't. Work, that is. You might as well try and put the toothpaste back in the tube after you brushed your teeth with it. Brexit is inherently unworkable by its very nature. The small improvements won't be nearly enough for Rejoiners, will infuriate still-Leavers, and will barely move the dial on Britain's Brexit problems.

Related aside 4: Young voters who came of voting age since the referendum already break 86/14 in favour of Rejoin. By the time we get through a first Labour term, anyone under 32 will be overwhelmingly keen to re-enter the EU.

6. Meanwhile, Labour will also have to spend more and more and more to keep stuff from literally falling apart. Think sewers, water pipes, collapsing schools, crumbling hospitals. The legacy of Tory underinvestment has played havoc with already fragile infrastructure. Again, stern questions will be asked about where the money is coming from.

7. The rump of the Tory party, whatever's left after the GE wipeout, will sit on the sidelines laughing and jeering. "Typical Labour. Always spending money they don't have." They will point to every single broken thing, claiming they're all Labour's fault - and the RW media will amplify the message.

8. If they're very lucky, Labour will go into the GE-after-next with the overall situation in Britain slightly better than when they took office. We'll only be knee-deep in metaphoric (and maybe literal) sewage, rather than thigh-deep.

9. The Tories and RW press will continue their tag-teaming attacks. ("Same old Labour. Can't be trusted with the economy. Can't get anything working. Can't even fix Brexit, despite all their lofty promises.)

10. GE2: Electric Boogaloo.

Labour are stuck. The taunts about their flagship Make Brexit Work policy hit home - because they're true. And that lubricates the way for all the other lies the Tories and the RW media are spinning about them to slip down like honey.

If Labour pivot towards SM/CU/Rejoin to try to win GE2, they might as well tattoo "we wasted the last 5 years and prolonged the damage because we didn't know what the hell we were doing" on their foreheads. They may pivot anyway, because the alternative is even worse. This is where those bright red lines (remember them?) will come back to bite them in the fundament so hard, they won't be able to sit down for a month. The press will scream "U-turn" and again it will be absolutely true: a U-turn so big, it's visible from the Moon.

Related aside 5: There's no Get the Tories Out vote in GE2. Why? Because they're already out. The impetus to keep them out won't win over disgruntled voters who already lent their votes to Labour once with gritted teeth, despite Labour not doing what they wanted on things like Brexit and PR.

11. Labour lose GE2. A one-term wonder, and they're done. The Tories do what they do best: they blame all Britain's ills on Labour, and start wrecking the country afresh with a clean slate. Heck, they're still bleating about the "No money left" letter today, so we know exactly how this stuff plays out.

Related aside 6: From the standpoint of history, being PM is perhaps 100x more important than being Leader of the Opposition. A place in posterity for eternity is the grand prize that even very rich people can't buy (though their wealth can certainly help towards attaining it). So Keir Starmer won't be nearly as disappointed as you might imagine. If he makes it a full term, that's already longer than May, Johnson, Truss (!) and Sunak managed. His standing is assured. Put another way: his incentives are not our incentives.

12. Another ruinous decade or so of Tory rule. (We know how hard it is for Labour to win. They need the Tories to mess up so badly that a tide of outrage carries them over the finish line. That tide is unlikely to rise again over a term dominated by constant reminders of "Labour's failings" playing out 24/7 in the RW press and on RW TV and radio.)

Deep breath. Have a coffee and a biscuit. You've earned them. We've seen the problem. Now it's time to tackle the solution.

Scroll back up through the scenario above. Notice how Brexit runs through it, like a vein pumping poison.

That's why Labour need to change their fundamental attitude towards Brexit, and they need to do it now - not just before the GE.

Stop ruling things out. Not saying you won't do something isn't the same as saying you will do it. Read the previous sentence a few times - it does make sense. Think along the lines of "Labour will do whatever it takes to mitigate the damage Brexit is causing Britain". The actual message can be polished by the pros. It's the intent that matters. Without the red lines on SM/CU/Rejoin, anything becomes possible.

By making the change now, it blunts the moaning in the media. Why? Because it dilutes the impact of the u-turn over a year or more, rather than concentrating it into the last month of intense scrutiny just before the GE.

The other vital ingredient is PR.

Simply put, PR is the only hope we have of achieving any sort of long-term stability.

Why? Because many of the problems Britain faces will take 2, 3, 4+ election cycles to fix. And they need fixing. But the only conceivable way of unlocking the time to fix them is to form long-term partnerships in the national interest. In other words, PR.

PR rids us of the short-termism mindset that has dragged Britain down for decades. Though the exact balance in Parliament will change from GE to GE, even under PR, a coalition will almost certain be possible without involving the Tories or other RW parties. It is better to have a share of power forever than absolute power for a few years before the other lot come in and undo everything you worked towards.

Related aside 7: Don't think of GEs in terms of a 5-year cycle. When the party in power changes, their first year is spent trying to pick through the mess and understand what's going on. And the final year of every 5-year cycle is focused on the next GE. So there are really only ever 4 (and more often 3) years of actual governing possible under FPTP in every 5-year election cycle.

Summary: Labour needs to adopt a completely different attitude to Brexit (stop ruling stuff out, and make the change now) and move to introduce PR.

Phew, we're very nearly done. Congratulations on making it this far.

In parting: You may disagree with what you just read. You probably will. But please take a big step back and evaluate whether your disagreement is because it's just too horrible to think about the real world in the stark terms I painted above. Also, please consider whether your support for a particular party is blinding you to the reality of what they can hope to achieve in a short 5-year (really 3) period in office.

Thanks for your interest, and have a great day.

By @edwinheyward

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Flo Milli, Moodymann, J. Dilla Tribute & More At The Broad For Mickalene Thomas Exhibition

The Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles has announced a new season of programs for the Mickalene Thomas: All About Love special exhibition. The show opened on May 25, 2024, and will travel to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the Hayward Gallery, London. The show's title is taken from late feminist icon bell hooks and the exhibition is a celebration of Black feminist creativity, critiques, communal care, and thinking about new ways to love. Tickets are on sale now at thebroad.org. 

There will be Live music, workshops, comedy and a night of films by LGBTQIA+ directors. The Broad is making Black and queer voices prominent within the context of Thomas's exhibition which comprises 20 years of work. The concert series includes a night dedicated to J.Dilla led by Moodymann on July 19th. Rapper Flo Milli will do a show with singers Fousheé and METTE on July 20th. The shows are for all ages and the tickets include access to all galleries including Mickalene Thomas: All About Love.

Program Schedule 

Summer Concerts at The Broad: Dilla’s House Friday, July 19, 2024 | 8-11 pm Tickets: $65 Event Location: East West Bank Plaza at The Broad, First Floor Galleries It’s the summer of J Dilla in Los Angeles, and The Broad joins the festivities by honoring the revered artist who would have been 50 this year. On the heels of Dilla Jazz at The Ford, Dilla’s House at The Broad features artists who knew and worked with Dilla, who have been inspired by his pioneering methods, and who exemplify a spirit of cross-pollination that Dilla and other artists cultivated, including the dearly loved and recently departed Amp Fiddler. With a special focus on the uplifting and soulful side of house and dance music through the lens of Dilla’s legacy, the event will have guests dancing under the stars on the museum’s outdoor plaza. An ensemble performance helmed by Detroit’s Moodymann will feature fellow Motor City icons Dames Brown on vocals, Dez Andrés on the ones and twos and percussion, and Mark de Clive-Lowe on keys and beat machines. The evening will warm up fast with LA’s ownDJ Ashley Younniä; local music maven DJ Rashida will keep the energy levels up to close out the night. The evening will be hosted by The Yancey Boys AKA Illa J + Frank Nitt and is co-curated by Mahogani Music and Fusicology.

Summer Concerts at The Broad: Flo Milli + Fousheé + METTE Saturday, July 20, 2024 | 8-11 pm Tickets: $75 Event Location: East West Bank Plaza at The Broad

Continuing the celebration of Black creativity in music and art, The Broad and RCA Records partner on a special night featuring Flo Milli, Fousheé, and METTE. Tonight, with music we celebrate The Broad’s Special Exhibition: Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. The artists performing embody powerful, positive depictions of Black women that can also be found in the Mickalene Thomas’s exhibition.

Enjoy intimate yet electrifying live sets by these talented Black artists on the East West Bank Plaza, headlined by multi-platinum rapper Flo Milli. Hailing from Alabama, Flo rose from viral TikTok sensation in 2018 to garnering a #1 at Urban Radio and making Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for her hit “Never Lose Me,” which is a testimony to both her talent and tenacity. Flo dropped her latest album Fine Ho, Stay in March of this year and she’s currently a special guest on Gunna’s The Bittersweet Tour. Also on the bill for this special evening under the stars is Grammy-nominated songwriter Fousheé, whose genre-bending repertoire melds alt-rock and soul, and METTE, a boundless artist unrestricted by the need to align with one genre, whose creativity has already earned her an Ivor-Novello nomination for her song, “Mama’s Eyes.”

RCA shared this statement about partnering with The Broad: “We’re thrilled to work with The Broad on this special artist event in celebration of the incredible work of Mickalene Thomas. We believe deeply in the intersection of art and music and our participating artists, Flo Milli, Fousheé and METTE are true creatives, visionaries, songwriters, and performers. We look forward to a continued partnership with the fantastic team of curators at The Broad as we work together to bring art & music to life in new and innovative ways.”

For more information regarding programming and L.A. Intersections, please visit TheBroad.org