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This red coat with broderi in front is worn two times in Murdoch Mysteries, First worn on Zoe Fraser as Agnes Macphail in Election Day (2015) and later worn on Jeni Ross as Vicky Parsons in Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas (2016)

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Spellbound (1945, Alfred Hitchcock)

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Shop Assistants at the Room At The Top Club, Chalk Farm London, 1985.

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Speyburn 11 Year (2010), Gordon & MacPhail Cask 431 for Broken Barrel Club

Review by: Whiskery Turnip Distillery: Speyburn. Bottler: Gordon & MacPhail. Region: Scotland/Speyside Single Malt. ABV: 65.7%. Age: 11 Years. Distilled in 2010. Bottled on 12 September 2022. Cask type: First Fill Oloroso Sherry Hogshead. Nose: Massive waves of sherry fruits, brown sugar, and caramel; peppercorns, currants, prunes, brown sugar cakes, subtle lacquered wood and burning…

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Review: HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - CHAPTER ONE - Costner Builds a New Western Epic

With it's release on Max, Kevin Costner's HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - CHAPTER ONE - hopes to find the audience for it's future releases. The three hour epic has incredible sequences, but goes very loose ties with its story.

Few directors create instant gravitas like Kevin Costner. The actor-turned-director has lifted projects from obscurity and become a laughing stock for his failures. Yet Costner has held a prominent place in Americana and pop culture since the 1980s. It’s part of what makes Horizon: An American Saga such an ambitious project. Like Clint Eastwood before him, he plays with his iconography on…

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The new remastered and expanded release of Will Anything Happen is something of a revelation, it proper chimes and rings and squeals and pops and sings and rumbledethumps along, it's fab, it's gear, it's a solid gold happening and ginchy ginchy goo, for real.

When it was released originally way back when, I remember feeling somehow disappointed, it just didn't seem quite as vital as the Shopping Parade EP or Safety Net 45 that preceded it.

But v'kids all loved it apparently, so I'd perservere, it was still the Shoppies after all, I'd pop it on every so often, wondering why I wasn't quite feeling it like I wanted to feel it... I never gave up on it, I have previously owned at least two reissues and I got this one on a whim- expectations middling, I'll admit- the extras seemed worth the price of admission, I'd have another go on it.

And... the whole thing is just fantastic, the stars aligned or something, I feel like I'm hearing all the magnificence that previously eluded me. It's brilliant! You probably knew that already.

Highly recommended for those of you that appreciate that kind of thing.

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the return of the rat, graham cutts 1928

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HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA:CHAPTER ONE (15)

HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA: CHAPTER 1 (15) Director: Kevin Costner Runtime: 3h1m Cast: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Owen Crow Shoe, Tatanka Means, Ella Hunt, Tim Guinee, Danny Huston, Colin Cunningham, Scott Haze, Tom Payne, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Will Patton, Georgia MacPhail, Douglas Smith, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alejandro Edda,…

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Ficlet Week Challenge (schedule here)

Day 5: (Not) Out of Character - if the character is usually a “goody” make them do something “bad” and vice versa if they’re a “baddie”

Hugh Macphail - His Dark Materials

It was disheartening to see that those around Father MacPhail prioritized faith beneath power and earthly pleasures. No wine is so sweet that it can make up for the eternity of bliss that was waiting in the Kingdom. MacPhail had his ambitions, but it was only in service to the Authority and spreading His word. It was completely selfless. Anyone with any sense should be able to see that. His restraint was comparable to none, more than those who have always abstained from their desires. It is much more difficult to be consumed and find your way out to become clean once again.

Forgetting is much harder, and no amount of work on his spirit or flesh has been enough to remove it from his mind. He can see it in others, stains on their hands that cannot be hidden no matter how well they perform.

His colleagues thought Mrs. Coulter had a bright future ahead of her and for a while he agreed. He didn’t pay her as much attention as others liked to, not his cup of tea, but he understood that she had a charm that was useful. Hugh was not as gifted with words as she, and it was difficult not to envy that skill. But she lacked MacPhail’s composure, she was on the edge at all moments. Even she hadn’t already, her fall would come soon.

Her husband was a pleasant man to do work with though he liked to stay friendly with all parties. Eventually he would have to choose, and part of MacPhail’s job was making sure that when compromise was no longer an option, Edward Coulter would favor the Magisterium.

“It’s good to give them room to keep them docile,” MacPhail said, “but we don’t want them getting any notions, do we?”

Edward’s face looked like he heard a joke, “Notions? Father MacPhail, I think we are far away from any of those.”

The stream before MacPhail ran black in the night. A new moon was in the air and there was no natural light to guide him, only the artificial anbaric lights from the fundraising gala behind him. The Magisterium had set up a young man to become the face of the next generation of Brytain. This support was all done in double speak and convoluted pathways for the money to be deposited in the right bank accounts. The Coulters were there to show they were good sports and didn’t mind the subtle challenge to Edward’s status in the Brytish government. MacPhail correctly assessed that he was a competitor at heart and would adjust his sails to whoever provided the strongest gust of wind. Already he was amending his public talking points. 

Thanks was owed to Mrs. Coulter for securing her husband more allies than he possibly could have collected on his own. There was a reason the Magisterium was eyeing the two as a package deal.

But MacPhail was slouching on his duties by sulking alone away from the crowd. A face in the crowd looked like someone from a past he had put behind him, the shock was enough to stop his heart if he didn’t get his nerves under control. Octavia, his more disciplined half, whispered words of encouragement as he sped away. It probably wasn’t even the man Hugh thought it was.

Octavia crawled from one shoulder to the other. “Lord Boreal is expecting to speak with us. We best go back inside before he senses instability.”

MacPhail nodded and gathered the long skirts of his robe before making his strides uphill to those pale lights.

“Shhhhh!”

MacPhail turned his head to his daemon wondering what she must have spotted, but her head was turned elsewhere. It wasn’t her voice that made the noise.

A young couple embraced in the darkness with only the soft reflections off the satin fabric giving away their movements. At first, it was not disgust that came over Hugh, but appreciation. He found nothing abhorrent about a couple in matrimonial bliss enjoying the privileges of their union. It was those that stole those privileges that made him sneer. MacPhail recognized the laughter of the woman, and he knew that the man from his stature, was not her husband.

The sneer was present on Hugh’s face and he was already placing the weight on his toes ready to spring forward and expose those two as the frauds and adulterers they were.

But.

The motion of the man’s hand down the woman’s side poked at a familiar bruise in Hugh’s mind. It was enough to make a lump form in his throat. That little movement rendered him speechless and turned his feet to stone. Bliss.

Hugh turned his head to the sky and muttered a prayer to the Authority to release him from this spot on the earth and let him be free to go anywhere else as long ass it was away from this terrifying vision. He felt drops of rain make impact on his face. The prayer had been answered and MacPhail managed to put one foot in front of the other to walk away. But the mercy was done by half, and he found himself brought to silence.

Lord Boreal’s hand gripped his. “Father MacPhail, I��ve been looking for you.”

“Apologies, Lord Boreal, I needed to take some air. I don’t find nights like these as amusing as others do.” His tone was flat and emotionless, as he needed it to be.

Octavia crawled up MacPhail’s sleeve to hide. Hugh wanted to open his mouth and tell the entire gala what he had bore witness to just minutes earlier. Something in him would not allow it. The man he thought he recognized, the one who struck him to the bone, was leaving the room. Only the back of his head was visible.

It’s been recorded that the sinners receive mercies of their own. Hugh MacPhail would regret giving this one to those two.

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Music with MacPhail

In 1907, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra member William S. MacPhail founded the MacPhail School of Violin. In 1924, the MacPhail School of Music, as it was then known, moved to a new headquarters at 1128 LaSalle Ave. For 80 years MacPhail educated generations of local musicians from that location. Over the decades, the school's class offerings have included everything from toddler music classes to college degrees. When under the umbrella of the University of Minnesota in the 1960s, MacPhail Center for the Performing Arts introduced one of the nation's first Suzuki Method music programs for young learners. Since its founding, MacPhail has counted many esteemed local musicians, including Minnesota Orchestra members, among its faculty. Photos of many of these MacPhail teachers and students are available in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

In 2008, the school moved to a new home on the Mississippi riverfront. From the new building and satellite locations throughout the metro, MacPhail Center for Music continues to educate musicians of all ages, including through programs at our libraries.

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Saco commission abruptly cancels presentation regarding UNE's controversial pier proposal

Following a sometimes-awkward conversation, members of Saco’s Coastal Waters Commission abruptly voted 5-1 Tuesday to remove an item from the top of their December 10 meeting agenda. The citizen commission was poised to hear a presentation regarding how the University of New England’s controversial pier proposal might impact the city of Saco. According to James Katz — the commission’s…

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On September 21, 2011, the State of Georgia executed Troy Davis despite evidence of his innocence. Mr. Davis, a Black man, was sentenced to death in the 1989 fatal shooting of white off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. Supporters of Mr. Davis, including the NAACP, Amnesty International, former President Jimmy Carter, and Pope Benedict XVI, had been encouraged by a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing Mr. Davis to present evidence of his innocence in court. But when the federal trial judge denied relief, the Supreme Court refused to review the case and an execution date was set.

In Georgia, the state Board of Pardons and Paroles—not the governor—has exclusive authority to grant clemency. Two days before Mr. Davis’s scheduled execution, the board held a full clemency hearing and heard statements from Mr. Davis's attorneys and supporters, prosecutors, and the victim's family. By that time, seven of the prosecution's nine key witnesses against Mr. Davis had either recanted or backed off their trial testimony, while new witnesses had come forward to give sworn statements that a different person had confessed to the shooting.

The new evidence of Mr. Davis’s innocence was so compelling that three of the original jurors who sentenced him to death in 1991 urged the board to stop the execution. In addition, more than 600,000 people worldwide signed petitions supporting clemency and expressed concerns that executing a man amid so much uncertainty about his guilt would deeply undermine the public's confidence in the justice system.

Despite these developments and broad-based support, Georgia's Board of Pardons and Parole denied clemency on September 20, 2011, clearing the way for Troy Davis to be executed the next day. In his final words, Mr. Davis professed his innocence, expressed condolences to Officer MacPhail’s family, and expressed appreciation to his family and supporters. Mr. Davis was executed by lethal injection on September 21 and pronounced dead at 11:08 pm. He was 42 years old.