#shanna miles

[oddcryptidwrites]

@kk7-rbs tagged me in this oc picrew chain! I'm leaving it as an open tag, so if you want to hop in, feel free to do so and tag me in your creations!

For this one, I did the two of the oldest characters in NYTF: Councilor Shanna Miles and Commander Mateo Lopez!

@thetruearchmagos might want to see this one

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: For All Time

Author: Shanna Miles

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, romance, fantasy, contemporary, historical fiction, magical realism, science fiction

Blurb: Tamar is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. Fayard is a pioneer, a hustler, a hopeless romantic. Together, Tamar and Fayard have lived a thousand lives, seen the world build itself up from nothing only to tear itself down again in civil war. They've even watched humanity take to the stars...but in each life, one thing remains the same: their love and their fight to be together. One love story after another. Their only concern is that they never get to see how their story ends...until now. When they finally discover what it will take to break the cycle, will they be able to make the sacrifice?

[nats-reads-reviews]

For All Time by Shanna Miles 2/5 ⭐️

This book was really hard for me to rate. There were some aspects I loved - time traveling love story, each life having a tragic ending. That, I loved, as well as the different genres the author was able to incorporate - there was elements of realistic fiction, historical fiction from different periods of time, and a science fiction element as well. But this book definitely lost me at certain points. There was too much back and forth between their lives and the characters and yes, the characters are supposed to be a little confused about changing lives but I felt like I as the reader was equally as confused. I maybe wouldn’t recommend this book with full confidence someone will love it but I think there’s definitely a crowd who can appreciate this book for what it was better than I.

[blogthefiresidechats]

Latest haul!

I made another visit to my local book store and you’ll be able to see what I purchased below. I’ve come to realize this year that reading books and purchasing books are two completely different hobbies of mine. With as many books that I have in my collection at the moment, I’m surprised that people aren’t stopping by my house thinking that another branch has opened up that’s apart of the city…

[kaebedom-me]

hiiii!!! Kaebe!!!!! long time no see!!!! its so funny that you JUST came back again, like 3 days ago I was scrolling through my tumblr follows and I came across your blog and was like "damn, I hope theyre doin okay"

also, good timing, I just got home from ✨✨Top Surgery✨✨ so finally got that off my chest (hehehehe)

I hope youre doing okay (and if youre not that life will turn around soon❤️❤️ you got this ❤️❤️)

chaarrleyyy!!! i- :') im so glad to see you arooound aaa!!!!!

i am doing ok!! thank you for thinking of me!!

LMAO AUDFFGJD I hope your recovery was good!! also congrats!!! <3

anything else new with you LOL are you still into genshin? HAHAHAHAHHA

[duckprintspress]

Mid-Year Book Freak Out

Yoinked from @profiterole-reads

Number of books you’ve read so far: depends how you count, but Storygraph has me at 148, which includes 20-something DPP short stories. (like a hundred of these are graphic novels/manga/manhua/manwha, they're quick...)

Best book you’ve read so far in 2024: I can't pick one. Best novel: The Imperial Uncle by Da Feng Gua Guo. Best non-fiction: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel or Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe. Best graphic novel...extremely hard choice. I'm gonna go with Brooms by Jasmine Walls, I really liked that one. or The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz.

Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2024: I have no idea how to define "sequel" in any way relevant to what I read, sorry.

New release you haven’t read yet but want to: Qiang Jin Jiu by Tang Jiuqing.

Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: the last books of Thousand Autumns and Guardian.

Biggest surprise favorite new author (debut or new to you): Da Feng Gua Guo (new to me)

Newest fictional crush: Jing Chengjun.

Book that made you cry: I can't recall that any of these made me cry??? I almost never cry at media, sorry.

Most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received): Beautiful as in...literally physically attractive? idk this isn't something I pay attention to much, they're all just books? I do love the art in the 2ha English releases.

Book that made you happy: several of the above, and a whole lot of others, let's go with Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier, it was super cute.

What books do you need to read by the end of the year?: so many, I'm trying to get through my entire TBR. Next up is three Katherine Addison books starting with The Goblin Emperor, and then after that is Rose and Renaissance by Zhi Chu. That's the next 7, after that I'm not sure what's next, maybe The Fall of the House of Tatterly by Shanna Miles? There's like 15 books on my TBR (there's also The Missing Piece by Kun Li Wei You, Babel by R. F. Kuang, The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin, Venus of Delta by Anais Nin, and probably a couple others I'm forgetting)., and I've got pre-orders that'll be coming in too. And there's the library books, with more there every time I go. oops. too many books.

Tagging @pterawaters @mayarab @deathbycoldopen @hullosweetpea and @sarnakhwritesthings

[sevasey51]

What about Luna in some AU tackling teen pregnancy maybe? How would her and Chris deal with it?

Welcome to my first event for my sleepover event! This first request is something I haven’t done before so I just want to preface that it did take a lot of thought to be comfortable with this, but @f10werfae is an absolute angel. It’s slightly different to the ask but I hope you all enjoy this sleepover event! - K 🩵

Part of the Luna Grey Evans Verse

positive lines

Warnings: Talk of pregnancy, teen pregnancy, fear of being abandoned, panic, crying, anxiety.

Guest appearance form Uncle Scott and toby 🩵

Am I a disappointment? Will he be mad? Will dad disown me?

That’s all that was spiralling found in Luna’s head, she’s pregnant those positive lines staring deep into her eyes like they’re trying to burn and stay forever.

All she can hear is the shouting of her heart pounding in her head, the unthinkable she ever would would happen has.

She was pregnant.

They were careful, they thought her body couldn’t handle pregnancy. Her uterus too hostile but in some fucked up way apparently the unthinkable can still happen.

Happiness hit her like a train on a track, but coming towards her was the suffocating anxiety and unsettling sadness of no turning back. Something that should be the happiest moment of a females life. Her brain was telling her to run so she did with the test in hand and all the evidence to her uncles house.

Luna couldn’t face her dad right now, she didn’t even know if she ever could with this news; she thought Scott would be the rational one in this situation. She needed someone.

Just anyone, because by the end of this her dad in her brain could possibly not be her dad anymore.

Panting she knocks on her uncles door in tears, test in hand ready to break all over again.

“Luns, what - what’s wrong? Come here sunshine” Scott pulls her close concerned at what has his niece so worked up. “Hey sweetie, let’s go sit down Toby is here let’s just go calm down hmm and we can talk okay. He gives her the best reassuring sense he can while his mind runs at a million miles an hour trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Then the penny drops.

Luna had placed something on the coffee table, he knows what it is without even having told to fully process what it was.

The blue capped, white stick stared back at him.. it makes him think of all those times he’d sit and wait with his anxious sisters for the most beautiful thing to become a reality.

Scott looked back at his niece, who was in a ball next to Toby - with great endearment. She was safe so how could’ve this happened but he’s not one to judge.

“Lou, you wanna talk about it?” He whispered coming in closer to comfort her using her favourite name he has for her.

All she can bring herself to say is “he’s going to hate me, he won’t love me anymore.” A small broken voice vocalised. He didn’t even have to ask who “he” was Scott’s stomach dropped twisting in despair for Luna. His Lou.

Hugging her tighter into his chest, he’ll say the same promise he’s always said.

“Listen to me Lou he won’t hate you - she squirmed in disagreement; I promise he’ll understand. He will, your dad is the most understanding person ever besides me of course.” Letting out a breathy laugh as he says it making Luna start to giggle too.

“Lou you know why he’ll understand?” He asked

“Why scotty, why will he” she tiredly questions

“Because he was the one who supported aunt Shanna when it happened to her.” The look on Luna’s face was the look of someone who was confused but not because of her aunt but because she’d never expected that specifically. She started to cry again.

“Hey I’m serious though Lou - he moves to wipe her tears away with the pads of his thumbs - he would, because grandma was confused and just couldn’t understand why it happened to her so early. But he was there though it all to support her even when she didn’t believe she could herself. He did it for her, he’d do it for you no questions asked. He loves you Luna, we all do.” He finished talking and kissed her on the nose to calm her more like he would when she was a baby; it worked then and it still does.

“Really?” Luna blurted out

“Really Lou, I promise. Pinky promise” Scott finished holding his pinky out.

An hour later, Chris had come over to Scott’s to get Luna. He knew she was there and he knew Luna wanted to tell him something.

That something he had no clue about.

“Bubba, what did you want to talk about?“ he questioned with a slight tilt of his head like the golden retriever he is.

“So you know Brandon, and how we are active and very protective” she whispered scared of what was going to happen. Scott squeezed her hand to let her know it was okay to continue. “Well I thought I missed my period because of how weird they are and sometimes they don’t appear, but I didn’t think much of it until my stomach felt weird, like I would be really tired and nauseous all the time. I thought it was my other meds but I took a test just because we are active and well….” She took a deep breath she was about to change the whole dynamic.

“Positive lines appeared. Bright positive lines” she starts to cry again. Chris stared in confusion but in pure joy and concern. Hell he was nervous but Luna was ten times worse right now. She just needed her dad.

“Sweet girl, it’s okay - she stared in disbelief Scott was right. - I promise we’ll get though this together whatever happens. - he says that knowing her endometriosis could hinder this situation - I take it Scott told you the story about aunt Shanna? He asked his beautiful girl.

“Mhmhm” that’s all Luna had the energy to reply with whilst she was essentially cocooned into Chris’ chest.

So you know, I love you always. We’re gonna get though this together as a family alright, do you wanna go get some curly fries and have a movie night in my bed?” Chris knew she’d say yes, it was her comfort and right now she needed all the comfort she could get.

“Yeah, thanks dad I love you” Luna replied smiling slightly at him

“I love you sunshine”.

I’m not saying I’ll ever do something like this again but it’s not completely off the table, I hope you guys enjoy this. Not only because it’s my first post of my sleepover but it’s my first proper post in months. Thank you to all who have stayed around whilst I’ve essentially ghosted my blog not because I wanted to but because I’m an adult with a life and a very adult job. I know i don’t have to explain myself but if you guys have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask! Also please send in an ask if you want to be added to the tag list not only for this but any of my other posts!

I can’t thank you all enough, enjoy 🩵

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[srmilesauthor]

#firstchapterfriday is an easy way to get your students or campers reading!

Check out the first chapter, read aloud to you by the author, of my spooky Southern Gothic middle grade series.

"Despite a lifetime of breaking the rules, twelve-year-old Issa Igwe never expected to land in witch prison. At least that’s what she calls The Siren School outside of its hallowed halls. It’s actually the country’s most prestigious boarding school for magically gifted girls, and Issa’s parents insist that she attend . . . even though the school’s creepy history is the stuff of legend."

[pcttrailsidereader]

Norovirus on the PCT . . . How an outbreak spreads along the trail

September 24

By Pien Huang for NPR

I was just corresponding with another PCT-hiking friend about the few times we have felt unsafe on the trail. All of our examples related, not to bears or rattlesnakes or even lightning (I might have included lightning had I thought about it more), to human encounters. A lost soul or two on the trail, hunters combining alcohol and firearms, a camping area near a road. Now here is another thing to worry about . . . norovirus. It is a good reminder not to abandon hygiene in the wilderness. RH

EIS officer Arran Hamlet walks into the Government Meadows site to conduct environmental sampling for norovirus.

Last September, Kevin Quinn was trekking through a remote, mountainous region in central Washington state, when he started feeling sick. "At first, I thought it was just a stomachache," he says, "But when we got to the campsite I started throwing up, and it started coming out the other end as well."

Quinn was on the trail with his daughter, who had left her job so they could hike together. After months of hiking, he found himself wiped out at a campsite in the middle of nowhere.

"I had heard about the norovirus for years, but it was always in the context of 'Oh, there's a cruise ship in the Caribbean,'" he says, "You don't think about this being an issue when you're out on the Pacific Crest Trail."

Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that can cause serious gastrointestinal distress for several days. It's often associated with enclosed, crowded settings like cruise ships, health care facilities and childcare centers.

But it also crops up in the wilderness – like in an outbreak among hikers like Quinn last year which was documented in a recent investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Call in the disease detectives

After a stream of sick Pacific Crest Trail hikers came through the Washington Alpine Club Lodge near Snoqualmie Pass last summer, a volunteer named Robert Henry closed the dorm-style lodge and emailed health authorities.

"My concern at the time was to make sure that the hikers on the trail didn't get any worse, and to make sure that the volunteers at the Washington Alpine Club didn't contract whatever it was they were bringing in," Henry ways. He also worked to warn other hikers about the threat.

EIS officer Dr. Arran Hamlet observes a water source being tested for environmental contamination of fecal waste and norovirus.

Hamlet focused on a 70-mile stretch of trail south of the Lodge, where ill hikers were coming from. One common rest stop, he learned, was a remote log cabin in the meadows, with a pit latrine and a stream that's used for drinking water.

Hamlet and his team hiked out to the cabin and tested water from the stream. They also swabbed the toilets, the door handles, the tabletops, the poker chips – anything people were touching. While the water samples came back clean, "every single [surface] swab tested positive for fecal contamination," he says.

"This doesn't mean that we can see human feces on things," he adds, "but at some point in time, there was transmission of human fecal contamination onto every surface in the cabin we swabbed, and also everywhere in the latrine."

The results of the investigation were published this month in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Investigators concluded that there was an outbreak of norovirus on the trail last summer that was spreading between hikers and that "exposure to contaminated surfaces within the cabin and ... latrines likely amplified transmission."

EIS officer Dr. Arran Hamlet swabs a backcountry pit latrine for norovirus sampling during an investigation for an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness among Pacific Crest Trail Hikers in 2022.

Shanna Miko, a nurse epidemiologist at CDC, was part of the field team on the Pacific Crest Trail study — and it wasn't her first norovirus-in-the-woods investigation. Last year, she traced an outbreak at the Grand Canyon, among people who were backcountry hiking and whitewater rafting.

"These are very well-planned trips. For many people, they're once-in-a-lifetime," she says. Travelers often read books and blogs in preparation, and get advice from others who have done the trip before them, accumulating trail wisdom – "places where people frequently stop, or places that have shelters where people frequently sleep over," good places to get water, or use the bathroom, she says.

These hubs, which seem so remote, see thousands of people – in varying levels of wellness – pass through in a season. They may not leave visible traces but some may leave germs, like norovirus, that can live on environmental surfaces for a long time, Miko says. (According to the CDC, this hardy virus can stay alive on surfaces for "days or weeks.")

Hand sanitizer doesn't cut and other advice for staying well

With norovirus, hand sanitizer and common water filters don't work. The virus is small, and "extra sticky" on skin, Miko says. And it takes just a few dozen viral particles to make a person very ill.

Miko says there are ways that hikers can cut their risks.

Always wash your hands with soap and water after you have a bowel movement – and wash them again before you eat. "The soap is a great detergent to remove the virus from your hands," she says. While any soap and water will work, she recommends biodegradable soaps in protected national parks and backcountry woods to reduce the impact on the environment.

Make sure to drink and cook with good, clean water. Pay attention to where the water comes from, and treat it properly. "Boiling for at least three minutes is the best way to kill everything you would typically come across," Miko says. And note: Most water filters are good at removing bacteria and common parasites but they don't cut it when it comes to norovirus. You'll need to layer on either chemical treatment or UV light treatment to kill the virus. (Here's the CDC's breakdown of what works for which pathogens.)

If you do fall ill, shelter in place if you can. This is for your own safety, and for the sake of others, "so you aren't seeding norovirus particles along the trail and putting others at risk," Miko says. This is not the time to try to push ahead but to rest and hydrate. "If possible, try to keep your defecation far from the trail and bury it, and don't prepare food anywhere near where you're using the restroom or vomiting," she says.

The worst of the symptoms usually passes in two to three days, though "you can still spread norovirus after you feel better," Miko says. She recommends waiting at least two days after symptoms have resolved before continuing on.

Norovirus was the last straw

Kevin Quinn set out to hike the Pacific Crest Trail with his daughter, Katie, who had left her job so they could hike together. Norovirus derailed their plans.

He was thirsty, he was really tired – and while he filtered the water, he skipped the additional, chemical treatment. Soon, he knew he'd made a mistake. "I was completely debilitated. I didn't have the energy to set my tent up," he recalls, "All I was doing was, like, every 15 minutes, going off into the woods and either throwing up or having diarrhea."

After a night of being very ill, Quinn and his daughter made a long, slow trek out of the woods. "We never made the whole trail," he says, "We just decided to call it quits."

Earlier in the summer, he caught COVID, which derailed his trail plans for a month. Up ahead, there were wildfires and trail closures. For Quinn, getting norovirus was the last straw.

A year later, he still regrets that he didn't take the time to treat the water properly.

To other hikers – he says: heed the signs, wash your hands and make sure your water is clean. In his experience, it's not worth the risk.

And, we would add, that water treatment options like the Steripen (using UV technology), would seem to be more effective.

[merelyroleplayers]

Please take your seats in the Studio

for a rare completely standalone episode of Merely Roleplayers that's a little bit Carry On Doctor.

It’s time to push the boundaries of modern medicine, and maybe to make out with a bitter rival in the on-call room!

For the next 5 weeks, instead of a 5-episode arc of one game, we're playing a selection of individual micro-roleplaying games from The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'Amato! Look out for:

Event Planning in Zero G by Jenn Martin

Hero Dog Saves Town by Alex Roberts

Wild Rovers by Shanna Germain

Summer Break! by Joey Barranco

Wonders by Alex Flanigan

Follow us on your usual podcast app - search Merely Roleplayers or head to www.merelyroleplayers.com

FACILITATOR: Josh Yard

STARRING:

Josh Yard as Dr Artery Hartwell and Penny

Natalie Winter as Dr Miranda Anderson and Steph O’Scope

Strat as Dr Henry Mole and Chris Wandsworth

Ellie Pitkin as Dr Cynthia Cutting and Marjorie Hartwell

Matt Boothman as Dr Achilles Miles and Jonathan Blackhead

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Heartbeats by Keith Baker and Jenn Ellis, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D’Amato

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse Elevator

SEASON PLANNED BY: Strat

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

[oddcryptidwrites]

Councilor Shanna Miles

Piers came to stand beside Councilor Miles... In her bare hands, she held the original copy of the modern Constitution, a thick, leather bound book. She began to recite her lines, voice amplified by the tiny microphone clipped to the collar of her deep blue shirt. (Knight of Dawn, Chapter 1)

Quick Facts

Full Name: Shanna Blaire Miles

Pronouns: she/they

Title: Councilor of the Savannah Zone of Safety (formerly: Mayor of Savannah)

Gender: Demifemale

Sexuality: Lesbian

Birthday (Age at start): November 16th, 2146 (64)

Parents: Ronan Miles, Elisha Miles (deceased)

Siblings: Jonathan Miles, Christina Miles, Sarah Miles (deceased)

Notable physical features: grey hair dyed blonde

Personality: great public speaker but socially awkward, selfless, quiet, intelligent, quick witted, calculating, devoted

Extended Intro

Councilor Shanna Miles is the longest-serving and Chief Councilor. While she initially presents herself as an enemy to Piers, the two eventually warm up to one another and grow to be close allies. Shanna was born and raised in the Savannah Zone of Safety, and their family traces their roots in the area to pre-Fall times. She grew up relatively comfortable, not rich but her parents made enough to put all four of their children through their higher education. Their mother worked as a biofuel engineer with the Royal Guard Navy, while their father was a speechwriter for several local Savannah politicians. While all of her older siblings joined the Royal Guard Academy, and eventually all became officers of varying rank in the Navy, Shanna shadowed under their father, gaining political experience and eventually becoming an intern/aide to the Mayor at the time. Eventually, Shanna worked her way up, serving as Mayor for five years before being elected to serve in the Council at age 42, and has continued to serve since. Despite being bullied constantly by Adele, Shanna has stood up for her Zone and has earned their respect.... and Shanna has also become the biggest pain in Adele's side. However, now that she's no longer Queen, Shanna finds herself in a complicated position with Piers, unable to tell their true intentions while also trying to prevent them from becoming as much of an asshole as Adele was. Shanna was married for over 20 years and had two children during that time. However, their wife and children disappeared 15 years ago and have not been seen since.

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[beardedmrbean]

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – The 61-year-old man arrested in connection with the targeted ambush shooting of a father of four in Jacksonville Beach last year appeared before a judge Thursday morning on charges of murder, conspiracy, accessory and felony child abuse.

Henry Tenon has been in police custody since August on unrelated charges after he was arrested during a traffic stop on Edgewood Avenue North.

On Wednesday, Tenon was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder with a weapon, accessory after the fact to a capital felony and felony child abuse — all directly related to the murder of Jared Bridegan, according to Jacksonville Beach Police Department Chief Gene Paul Smith.

During his first appearance, bond was set on the other charges, but Tenon was ordered to be held without bond on the murder charge. He was also appointed a public defender.

He will be arraigned on the charges on Feb. 16 -- a year to the day that Bridegan was gunned down on a dark stretch of road near the Sanctuary neighborhood with his toddler daughter in the back seat of his sport utility vehicle.

Bridegan, 33, had just left the home of his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, the night of the ambush. He dropped off the twins he shared with her, and then the attack occurred just miles away as he headed to his home in St. Johns County.

According to detectives, the Microsoft manager was shot at close range several times after he stopped to move a tire out of the road. That tire, investigators believe, was part of the setup.

“He was gunned down in cold blood. Nothing was stolen from him. His 2-year-old daughter remained strapped in the car seat in the back. This was a planned and targeted ambush and murder,” Smith said during a Wednesday news conference. “The ruthless homicide has pained our community.”

State Attorney Melissa Nelson explained that the child abuse charge against Tenon stems from the fact Bridegan’s 2½-year-old daughter was “directly in harm’s way when her father was shot and killed in front of her.” The child was not injured.

She also said the conspiracy charge against Tenon is significant.

“We know Henry Tenon did not act alone,” she said.

[pantiesandpamperssissypart2]

Life in a small town had a lot of benefits. Low cost of housing. Low crime. Good schools. Fun downtowns. Everyone knows everyone.

And Sam and Shanna's small town was even blessed with its own clinic and doctor, a rarity in today's health care landscape.

Except that's not so good when you have an affair on your wife and your wife knows about it but doesn't tell you so uses her friend--that very same town doctor--to exact a cruel revenge on you. Such was life for Sam after he slept with Carrie, the bartender at the one joint in town. They kept it SO secret, but not quite secret enough. Instead of slapping Sam or leaving him, Shanna plotted.

She teamed up with her galpal, Dr. Helen Morrison, and used a few secret drugs to induce a bedwetting problem in her hubby. Hey, better than the wives who poison their hubbies to death, right!

The poor thing didn't know what do do so of course Dr. Morrison, SO empathetic, suggested diapers for his new problem.

Few more drugs and the poor thing started wetting himself during the day! Shanna truly enjoyed going to the bar one night where the skank Carrie worked and as she came to get their order at a table, Shanna started rubbing the back of hubby's back and made sure his shirt lifted to show off his Pampers to his former lover. Shanna saw Carrie's eyes go wide and the little jokes she made the rest of the night made it clear to both her and Sam that Carrie was not going to have anything to do with him any longer.

Sadly poor Sam's self-esteem plummeted and he became depressed. Not suicidal or anything though Dr. Morrison and Shanna told the nearest loony bin, 85 miles away, that he was suffering that badly. Got him committed without too many issues. Dr. Morrison made sure to add a note that Sam, while incontinent, could also be abusive and tried punching her at times and also was incapable of stopping masturbating in his diapers. All lies, but what the hell. Shouldn't have affairs.

And so as Shanna goes and visits her poor hubby in the mental institution, where he might just be staying quite a while, she couldn't help but chuckle at seeing the diapered imbecile. Stuck in mittens to make sure he couldn't do any naughty stuff. He was crying as she stepped into his rooms. So confused about what happened to him and his bladder. She soothed him by rubbing his head and telling him everything was going to be okay. She even tormented him by giving him a little rub on the front of his Pampers and encouraging him to make a cummy in his didees.

Then she went and told an orderly he tried attacking her. Which meant she was pretty sure the next time she visited he'd be diapered, mittened, restrained on the bed and, since she also told them he tried biting her, gagged as well.

Small town life. So fun!

[kaetrinsmusings]

Review at AudioGals

Review at AudioGals: Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, narrated by Robin Miles.

I’m over at AudioGals with a review of Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, narrated by Robin Miles. I did not love the narration but the story held up pretty well, considering.

[o-the-mts]

Book Review: For All Time by Shanna Miles

Author: Shanna Miles Title: For All Time Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Praatt and Landon Woodson Publication Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021 Summary/Review: Set after the COVID pandemic, For All Time is a young adult romance about teenage sweethearts – Tamar and Fayard – who spend some moments together at the airport in their hometown of Columbia, South Carolina before their world is…

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Earthquake Damage in Türkiye

8 February 2023

The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and western Syria on 6 February 2023 caused widespread destruction in both countries.

The initial earthquake emanated from a fault 18 kilometers (11 miles) below the land surface.

The shallow depth meant the earthquake produced violent shaking that affected areas hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter.

The first quake was followed by a 7.5 magnitude event about nine hours later, as well as hundreds of smaller aftershocks.

As news of the event spread, scientists at space agencies around the world—including NASA—began processing and analyzing satellite data relevant to the event.

“These were very large and powerful earthquakes that ruptured all the way up to the surface over a long series of fault segments,” said Eric Fielding, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“This generated extremely strong shaking over a very large area that hit many cities and towns full of people. The rupture length and magnitude of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake was similar to the 1906 earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.”

The preliminary damage proxy map above shows parts of the cities of Türkoğlu, Kahramanmaraş, and Nurdaği.

Dark red pixels represent areas likely to have severe damage to buildings, homes, and infrastructure or changes to the landscape, while orange and yellow areas are moderately or partially damaged.

Each pixel measures about 30 meters across (about the size of a baseball infield).

The map is derived from data collected by the PALSAR-2 on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) on 8 February 2023.

The satellite carries a synthetic aperture radar, a sensor that sends pulses of microwaves toward Earth’s surface and listens for reflections of those waves to map the landscape, including buildings.

By comparing the February 8 data to observations made by the same satellite before the earthquake (on 7 April 2021 and 6 April 2022), scientists tracked the changes and began to identify damaged areas.

The ALOS-2 data were provided by Sentinel Asia and analyzed by the Earth Observatory of Singapore - Remote Sensing Lab in collaboration with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech.

“The map covers only the central part of the affected area due to the narrow, 70-kilometer swath of the ALOS-2 fine-beam data used, but it includes the epicenters of both the magnitude 7.8 main earthquake and the magnitude 7.5 aftershock,” said Fielding.

“Note that the time intervals between the ALOS-2 acquisitions are up to a year apart, so the accuracy of the damage proxy map may be lower in areas of vegetation, such as in the mountains, due to seasonal variations.”

Some of the areas marked as damaged in vegetated areas may not have been damaged, and some areas showing no damage in vegetated areas may be damaged.

Members of the disasters program area of NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences, as well as their national and international collaborators, are in the process of sharing the damage proxy map and the data used to generate it with organizations, such as the U.S. State Department, the California Seismic Safety Commission, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief, and the World Bank.

The team is also participating in ongoing coordination calls hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assess the needs of stakeholders in the region and provide scientific expertise to support risk assessment and recovery efforts.

“We’re monitoring this event closely,” said Shanna McClain, the manager of the program.

“In addition to mapping damage to the extent possible from satellites, we’re using satellites to track increased landslide risks, power outages, and weather that could pose challenges to response efforts.”

As new data become available, the team is posting near real-time imagery and data products related to the earthquake on its mapping portal.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ALOS-2 data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/JAXA and the Earth Observatory of Singapore Remote Sensing Lab.

Story by Adam Voiland.