#she is a mascot for a... funeral service..!!?

[tuchu]

[oh-gh0st]

sable told me this mascot was shinrei. do u guys agree

[yasoldat]

𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔: 𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙶𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝚃𝚈. 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧: 𝙹𝚄𝙳𝙰𝙸𝚂𝙼.

Content warning for in depth discussions of antisemitism, mentions of concentration camps, and Nazis during WWII. Read at your own discretion.

James    Buchanan    'Bucky' Barnes    was    born    to    George    Barnes,    Indiana    local    and    well-regarded    U.S.    Army    soldier,    and    Winnifred    Barnes    (née    Warszawski)    ⸺    a    Jewish    immigrant    from    Poland.    Winnifred’s    family    had    emigrated    from    Ząbki    in    1907    when    she    was    a    child,    due    to    the    rise    of    nationalism    in    Europe    and    subsequent    spread    of    antisemitism    throughout    the    early    1900’s.    Her    family    entered    the    United    States    through    Ellis    Island,    settling    in    New    York    until    1921.    Decent    sized    populations    of    Jewish    communities    seemed    to    be    moving    further    west,    with    the    Warszawskis    following    suit    and    landing    near    Shelbyville,    Indiana. It    was    here    that    Winnifred    met    George    Barnes,    a    born    and    raised    local    of    German    and    English    descent.    He    was    raised    a    non-denominational    Christian,    resulting    in    a    blended    household    at    the    time    of    their    marriage,    and    sequentially,    their    son’s    birth    in    1925.

Bucky    was    born    on    base    in    Shelbyville,    with    the    first    nine    years    of    his    life    spent    with    his    sister    and    him    predominantly    being    raised    by    their    mother,    who    always    made    sure    that    her    children    were    aware    of    their    heritage    and    traditions.    Though    the    family    was    cautious    and    kept    their    status    as    Jewish - Americans    under    wraps,    they    tended    to    celebrate    major    holidays    within    the    comfort    of    their    own    home,    abided    by    kosher    food    laws,    and    attended    Jewish    services    led    by    chaplains    when    possible.    

In    1935,    tragedy    struck    when    Winnifred    died    from    a    bout    of    pneumonia    ⸺    leaving    her    two    children    behind.    The    family    decided    to    incorporate    elements    of    traditional    burial    rituals    into    her    funeral    without    making    it    obvious,    such    as    opting    to    not    have    her    embalmed    and    burying    her    in    a    plain    box.    Though    a    shomer    was    not    necessary,    Bucky    used    the    common    orthodox    practice    of    having    someone    watch    over    the    body    of    the    deceased    to    disguise    the    fact    that    he    was    not    ready    to    leave    his    mother’s    side,    memorising    the    lines    of    her    face    while    he    still    could.    The    experience    of    being    in    such    close    proximity    to    a    dead    body    would    only    prepare    him    for    what    was    to    come.

Shortly    after    her    passing,    the    Barnes    family    was    relocated    to    Camp    Lehigh    in    Virginia,    where    Bucky    then    spent    another    large    part    of    his    youth.

After    the    death    of    his    father    and    separation    from    his    sister,    Bucky    began    to    stray    from    religion    as    a    whole,    as    it    was    becoming    more    and    more    dangerous    to    be    outwardly    Jewish,    and    his    focuses    fell    on    combat    training    within    the    military    and    becoming    the    camp’s    mascot.    By    the    1940’s,    he    had    been    sent    overseas    to    England    to    receive    further    training,    the    only    remnants    of    his    faith    now    a    Star    of    David    necklace    kept    hidden,    burying    his    past    and    never    making    mention    of    his    lineage    to    anyone.

As    Barnes    became    involved    with    Captain    America    as    a    teenager,    he    became    a    counterexample    to    Hitler    Youth    ⸺    helping    extensively    with    freeing    Nazi    prisoners,    and    later,    aiding    in    liberating    concentration    camps.    Though    incredibly    proud    of    the    work    that    they    were    doing    to    defeat    the    Nazi    Party    and    the    likes    of    Red    Skull,    being    on    the    front    lines    and    acting    as    a    firsthand    witness    to    the    genocide    of    his    own    people    was    an    undoubtedly    scarring    experience;    after    having    his    memories    restored,    Bucky,    to    this    day,    still    suffers    from    night    terrors    ⸺    forced    to    relive    every    moment,    plagued    by    the    recollection    of    faces    from    the    days    of    liberation,    haunted    by    the    memories    of    falling    into    a    pile    of    corpses.    

Nowadays,    Bucky    is    incredibly    lax    when    it    comes    to    practicing    Judaism,    though    he    still    observes    some    major    holidays    such    as    Hanukkah,    Rosh    Hashanah,    and    Passover    whenever    he    is    able    to,    though    it    mostly    just    consists    of    lighting    candles,        and    a    lot    of    cooking    or    baking,    as    he’s    a    very    food    motivated    individual.    He    still    wears    a    Star    of    David    necklace    tucked    underneath    his    shirt.

If    you    ask    him    why    he    chooses    to    do    so,    he’ll    tell    you    it’s    to    honor    the    memory    of    his    mother    ⸺    an    act    of    defiance    on    behalf    of    those    who    died    for    the    right    to    observe    their    own    religious    beliefs.        A source    of    comfort,    to    nurture    his    inner    child    who    never    got    the    chance    to    just    be    a    kid.

[yasoldat-archive]

                                                  𝑰𝑰𝑰.      𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑮𝑰𝑶𝑵 & 𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑰𝑻𝒀.                                                          𝑺𝑼𝑩𝑱𝑬𝑪𝑻.      𝑱𝑼𝑫𝑨𝑰𝑺𝑴. TRIGGER WARNING FOR DISCUSSIONS OF ANTISEMITISM, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ﹠ NAZIS DURING WWII.

james   buchanan   barnes   was   born   to   george   barnes,   indiana   local   ﹠   well-regarded   U.S.   Army   soldier,   ﹠   winnifred   barnes   ( nee   warszawski )   –   a   jewish   immigrant   from   poland.   winnifred’s   family   had   emigrated   from   ząbki   in   1907   when   she   was   a   child,   due   to   the   rise   of   nationalism   in   europe   ﹠   subsequent   spread   of   antisemitism   throughout   the   early   1900’s.   her   family   entered   the   united   states   through   ellis   island,   settling   in   new   york   until   1921.   decent   sized   populations   of   jewish   communities   seemed   to   be   moving   further   west,   with   the   warszawski’s   following   suit   ﹠   landing   near   shelbyville,   indiana. it   was   here   that   winnifred   met   george   barnes,   a   born   ﹠   raised   local   of   german   ﹠   english   descent.   he   was   raised   a   non-denominational   christian,   resulting   in   a   blended   household   at   the   time   of   their   marriage,   ﹠   sequentially,   their   son’s   birth   in   1925.

bucky   was   born   on   base   in   shelbyville,   with   the   first   nine   years   of   his   life   spent   with   his   sister   ﹠   him   predominantly   being   raised   by   their   mother,   who   always   made   sure   that   her   children   were   aware   of   their   heritage   ﹠   tradition.   though   the   family   was   cautious   ﹠   kept   their   status   as   jewish-americans   under   wraps,   they   tended   to   celebrate   major   holidays   within   the   comfort   of   their   own   home,   abided   by   kosher   food   laws,   ﹠   attended   jewish   services   led   by   chaplains   when   possible.    in   1935,   tragedy   struck   when   winnifred   died   from   a   bout   of   pneumonia   –   leaving   her   two   children   behind.   the   family   decided   to   incorporate   elements   of   traditional   burial   rituals   into   her   funeral   without   making   it   obvious,   such   as   opting   to   not   have   her   embalmed   ﹠   burying   her   in   a   plain   box.   though   a   shomer   was   not   necessary,   bucky   used   the   common   orthodox   practice   of   having   someone   watch   over   the   body   of   the   deceased   to   disguise   the   fact   that   he   was   not   ready   to   leave   his   mother’s   side,   memorising   the   lines   of   her   face   while   he   still   could.      ( the   experience   of   being   in   such   close   proximity   to   a   dead   body   would   only   prepare   him   for   what   was   to   come. )

shortly   after   her   passing,   the   barnes   family   was   moved   to   camp   lehigh   in   virginia,   where   bucky   then   spent   another   large   part   of   his   youth.

after   the   death   of   his   father   ﹠   separation   from   his   sister,   bucky   began   to   stray   from   religion   as   a   whole,   as   it   was   becoming   more   ﹠   more   dangerous   to   be   outwardly   jewish,   ﹠   his   focuses   fell   on   combat   training   within   the   military   ﹠   becoming   the   camp’s   mascot.   by   the   1940’s,   he   had   been   sent   overseas   to   england   to   receive   further   training,   the   only   remnants   of   his   faith   now   a   star   of   david   necklace   kept   hidden,   burying   his   past   ﹠   never   making   mention   of   his   lineage   to   anyone.

as   barnes   became   involved   with   captain   america   as   a   teenager,   he   became   a   counterexample   to   hitler   youth   –   helping   extensively   with   freeing   nazi   prisoners,   ﹠   later,   aiding   in   liberating   concentration   camps.   though   incredibly   proud   of   the   work   that   they   were   doing   to   defeat   the   nazi   party   ﹠   the   likes   of   red   skull,   being   on   the   front   lines   ﹠   acting   as   a   firsthand   witness   to   the   genocide   of   his   own   people   was   an   undoubtedly   scarring   experience;   after   having   his   memories   restored,   bucky,   to   this   day,   still   suffers   from   night   terrors   –   forced   to   relive   every   moment,   plagued   by   the   recollection   of   faces   from   the   days   of   liberation,   haunted   by   the   memories   of   falling   into   a   pile   of   corpses.   

nowadays,   bucky   is   incredibly   lax   when   it   comes   to   practicing   judaism,   though   he   still   observes   some   major   holidays   such   as   hanukkah,   rosh   hashanah,   ﹠   passover �� whenever   he   is   able   to   (   even if it   mostly  consists   of   lighting   candles,   ﹠   a   lot   of   cooking,   because   he’s   a   very   food   motivated   individual.   )    he   still   wears   a   star   of   david   necklace   tucked    underneath   his   shirt.

if   you   ask   him   why   he   chooses   to   do   any of this,   he’ll   tell   you   it’s   to   honor   the   memory   of   his   mother   –   an   act   of   defiance   on   behalf   of   those   who   persecuted for their religious beliefs.   a reminder that his people will always persist   –   ﹠     a   source   of   comfort,   to   nurture   his   inner   child   who   never   got   the   chance   to   just   be   a   kid.

[taiblogcomics]

Irk-some and Irritable

Hey there, strawberry wiffle bat. It's almost that spooky time. So let's finish this first Goosebumps story arc, shall we~?

Here's the cover:

It also serves as our recap! So our little pink Horror friend Irk has been slowly bonding with the gals she helped trap inside HorrorLand, while Slappy has continued his usual trait of being a douchebag. Slappy's gotten under Irk's skin, so Irk got something else under her skin: Monster Blood. The classic Goosebumps growth formula! Now she's as monstrous as she feels, and is ready to take it out on everyone around her. A pretty good cover, really. Our heroes in peril, and at least reasonably spooky~

The story continues pretty much from the cover, with Irk bursting out of the mausoleum and going on a rampage, chasing Ginny and Mia. She scoops them up, and Ginny in particular continues to plead with her how they're becoming friends. She's finally feeling scary, and Slappy continues to encourage these feelings. But Ginny just keeps up her pleading, reminding her of all their interactions. She also reminds Irk that it was Slappy belittling her (lierally, he was mocking her smallness) just a few minutes ago, and that gets through. Irk somehow shrinks back to normal size and embraces Ginny.

So while Irk's having her heel-face turn and holding off the other monsters (including former series mascot, Curly the Skeleton), the girls escape into the funeral parlor that looks suspiciously like their grandmother's house. Irk shouts over her shoulder not to believe what they see, and the reader ought to heed the same advice. Because this is where it actually gets properly scary. So, the whole place looks like their grandmother's house, aye? So naturally, who do you think they first meet upon entering~?

The lighting and shadows really help sell the horror here, as they encounter a hideous simulacrum of their granny. She's got them long Jhonen Vasquez teeth, and her hands and smile are full of worms. She says some creepy things and reaches out to them with her wormy grip, intending to worm her way into their hearts or maybe esophaguses. However, Mia has had enough. She knows this isn't her gran, and bodily throws one of her crutches through the octogenarian apparition like a javelin, standing up to her fear and dissipating the horror before her. Way to go~

This moment of sweetness is followed quickly by another. Irk is dragged in by another monster, and she lies limply. But as soon as Slappy enters and goes into smirky taunting mode, Irk reveals she's playing dead and satisfyingly clocks Slappy in the face. The kids go running, and Irk directs them to a particular room where the linking books are held. Irk also body-checks the door, splintering it open. Turns out a monster is a pretty good thing to have on your side. Irk keeps the other monsters at bay while the girls search for the book that will presumably take them home.

They soon find the right book: it contains a profile of the creepy shopkeeper from the bookstore as a child. They reason out that she must've been stuck on the other side for years and years, and that accounted for her bitter attitude. I think it's her participation in the service industry that accounts for that, but not important. The sisters read aloud from the book, and they begin to vanish. Irk is staying, now that she's convinced of her strength and scariness on her own terms. And she and Ginny share a tearful farewell as the girls finally fade away in a green glow...

And within moments, the glow reappears, just in the street outside Cursed Editions, the spooky bookshop. With her crutches gone, Mia leans on Ginny to hobble home, not wanting to encounter the shopkeeper while they have the chance. And a few days later, Mom #1 comes to pick them up and drive them home. There’s a little aside about how they reacted poorly to Grandma’s going-away present of gummi worms, because isn’t it funny when the children are traumatised~?

But the twist is: In the car, a bored Ginny casts her book aside into the back area (it’s a station wagon of some variety). The girls hear a thump and a familiar-sounding voice’s cry of pain, and request a stop at the nearest convenience store to check. And indeed, hidden in one of their suitcases is Irk! She knows how to read, and thus followed them. But she's not the only one who can read... Because the convenience store clerk reveals herself to be the bookstore owner. And Slappy steps out of the backrooms to welcome them once again...

Questionable Grandparenting: Gran is so terrified of Mia injuring herself further or setting off Ginny’s allergies, she won’t even take the kids inside a bookstore. I guess she intends for Mia to just stare at the walls all summer. The Platonic Boy/Girl Relationship: Alas, the only male character is Slappy, and we’d rather not think about his relationships. Our interest in hearing any more out of his mouth disappears halfway through the comic. R.L. Stine Shows He’s Down With The Kids: He’s finally licensed his works out to comic book publishers, a medium well-known for being only for kids and certainly isn’t being bought and reviewed by someone in their mid-30s right now~

This seems like a perfectly adequate story to bring the world of Goosebumps into the modern world of comics. (Never you mind the Goosebumps Graphix series, those were merely adaptations of the original novels.) It hits on some of the series mainstays--Slappy, HorrorLand, Monster Blood, even Curly the Skeleton is there--and is a fairly all right spooky romp. And when it actually wants to be scary, it lends itself to that rather effectively. The covers here in these reviews are indicative of the interior art, so it’s surprisingly honest about that, which is a rarity both among Goosebumps covers and comics in general. A good lead-in to the spooky season for the kids. It won’t terrify any age bracket, but it’s modern Goosebumps, we hardly expect it to~

By next week, Halloween will be over. But our look into the Goosebumps comic series will have only begun! I fully intend to look at all four miniseries in this line all in a row. It’s about time the spooky month pushed back and encroached on Christmas’ territory for a change, don’t you agree~?

[rosemaryfm]

『ANYA TAYLOR JOY ❙ CIS FEMALE』 ⟿ looks like LYDIA MONTGOMERY is here for HER JUNIOR year as a COMMUNICATIONS student. SHE is 21 years old & known to be HOPEFUL, IDEALISTIC, DEPENDENT & MALLEABLE. They’re living in PERKINS, so if you’re there, watch out for them. ⬳ JAMES. 21. EST. SHE/THEY.

hllo. .. sorry fr switching muses so suddenly .. bt lydia will stick. i swear. as always gib this a like if u’d like 2 plot <3

TW ABANDONMENT, DEATH MENTIONS, BORDERLINE IMPLIED

aesthetics.

knee highs and platform mary janes, tulle skirts and bubbles and beads and lace, and heart-shaped mirrors and heart-shaped bruises, gaudy mirrors and gaudy faucets and gaudy frames and chandeliers and gaudy gold, handwritten love letters and kiss-stained envelopes, flowers braided in hair and dying flowers in vases and flowers pressed in between pages, vintage perfume bottles and old ballet slippers and discarded head-shots, short skirts and satin slips and tiny cardigans, melted candles and burnt fingertips and dripping wax, floral baths and beach waves and seashells and summer breezes, renaissance paintings and statues and praying hands and rosaries and empty beds, masks and identities and sobbing and crying and yearning and wishing and learning and wanting and needing and the cycle repeating and repeating and repeating.

basic info.

full name: lydia rosemary montgomery

nickname(s): lydia delia, lyds

b.o.d. - june 22nd, cancer

label(s): the allegiant, the chameleon, the crestfallen, the facade, the gregarious, the grifter, the malleable, the marionette, the neophyte, the obsequious, the rose-colored glass, the sybarite, etc. ...

height: 5′7″

hometown: new york city, new york

sexuality: bisexual

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inspired by: amy march (little women), lydia bennet (pride & prejudice), lucy pevensie (narnia), daisy buchanan (the great gatsby), moira rose (schitt’s creek), karen smith (mean girls)

biography.

the product of an affair between christian montgomery, an esteemed doctor at his hospital - and one of the nurses there, allison dermont. the half sister of caleb montgomery (shoutout 2 alli!)

named after her maternal grandmother (deceased before lydia even turned one) and rosemary because it reminded allison of her childhood (rosemary always in the air, growing from pots on their porch and baked into the bread they’d eat)

growing up, lydia never knew her father. but she knew of him - her mother told her stories often of him, and the work he did to save others. built him up as a hero, a role model, someone admirable and brave and just despite the fact he’d no longer look her in the eyes when crossing paths in the hospital’s hallways. lydia idolized him.

was a very lonely child - her mother worked long hours, and babysitters were often distant. tended to attach herself to them, anyways, clinging to legs and arms and having to be peeled off and scolded (which then resulted in tantrums, of thrown toys and stomping feet and red, tearful faces)

her schoolmates were cruel to her, an easy target as a child - she followed behind the girls who seemed the most well liked, trying to mimic how they were. it’d always been a little off, and a little off-putting, and she cried often.

abandonment issues led to an obsession with perfection - as if she accomplished the most, her father would be blown away with her talents when he finally reached out. it’d always been a hope for her - her father contacting her, bringing her into his life. being a full family, loved and attended to. 

strove for the highest marks in all her classes, though there’d been hiccups here and there. she’d done ballet for a number of years before her dance instructor had essentially told her she’d never make it to a company, which led to her abruptly quitting. even put out a portfolio and contacted modeling agencies - she’d done a few small photoshoots as a teenager, but she’d never made it to anything big.

tried her hardest to act and work the part of someone important, elegant and better than who she really was. it showed in the aesthetics she indulged in (thrifted nearly everything she owned, from trinkets to her clothing) and the way she acted. in high school, she trailed behind the popular girls. molded her personality to cater to them, to be more like them. a mean girl, in a way. 

did the same when it came to boyfriends and lovers - she’d mold herself into exactly what they wanted, tried to be the perfect girlfriend for them, or sexual partner, or anything. she just wanted the attention, the love. had a myriad of relationships in high school (and it bled into college, too) where she’d give her all, and ultimately end up used and disappointed.

never felt like the first choice, only the second. always the bridemaid, never the bride. never good enough, no matter how hard she tried. but always remained hopeful - idealistic, always thinking that she’d get her turn one day. optimistic, but with lowering self-esteem and a mountain of insecurities.

became something of a habitual liar, in the process - always wanting to seem better than she was, so she lied about where she lived (instead of a measly apartment, she lived in a penthouse) and her accomplishments and her experience, and her feelings and who her parents were.

found something she was genuinely good at during her senior year of high school, when she’d chosen a fashion elective for one of her class periods. the practical aspect, she was good at - creatively? she had nothing to offer.

because of her lack of ideas, she never pursued it further. in college she chose to go into communications, specializing in public relations, though she’d never thought of actually finishing college. it was just a way for her to find a beau, to marry - to leave new york and have children. has always wanted to be a housewife with a white picket fence and 2.5 kids. to be loved and held for the rest of her life.

without cliques in college, it was hard for her to find her footing among peers. joined a sorority, molded her personality once more into something they would desire, and was accepted. got a frat boyfriend until it burned out, and another, and another, until she had something of a reputation.

with all of these expenses adding up - lydia’d never wanted to work a retail job, or food service, or anything measly like that - she found use for her sewing skills in the back of npc shops. worked in a shady operation producing fake designer items. she’d been excellent at producing exact replicas.

it wasn’t a very safe job and it’d ended her up in danger on some occasions, but it paid, and she was desperate.

met caleb for the first time at his mother’s funeral and became obsessed with the idea of having a brother, of being closer to her father somehow. cyberstalked him as much as she could and found radcliffe, where she eventually transferred to when caleb had decided to go back. practically followed him like a lost dog.

got into perkins because she literally pre-wrote her essay to get in and basically sobbed her story in front of secretaries and deans and housing faculty until she’d been granted permission to move in.

currently interning at a company where she has control over their social media accounts, alongside a team of other interns. when she’s feeling particularly upset she’ll post passive aggressive or straight up distraught, distressing messages (tweets, captions, etc.) on their official accounts, sometimes featuring the mascot of the company/brand. they haven’t figured out its her, yet.

personality.

i won’t lie. she’s a bit of a mess. 

constantly changes her personality to fit whoever she’s talking to, desperate for their approval in even the most minimal ways. consistently lies about literally ... whatever, sometimes for no reason, if it’ll make her seem cooler or better in some way. type of person who wants to one-up others.

excessive, in that way. clingy and pushy, she tends to latch onto people and designate her ‘favorites’ - their opinion means the world to her, and when it falters she essentially crumbles as a person.

pretty fragile as a person - emotional, and unable to be yelled at because she’ll wind up crying. takes a lot of things very personally, and always accuses herself as being the problem, which leads to her changing aspects of herself.

loves often, and viciously, will fall for someone at the drop of a hat. yearns, often. sulks often, too.

still has a ballerina’s posture, model’s demeanor, very upright and it could be mistaken as intimidating, though the facade cracks immediately when she speaks. loves gossip and unintentionally - or, intentionally - spreads it at the drop of a hat.

can get very possessive, and jealous, and outright mean. very highly defensive at times, when pushed (it doesn’t take much to push her)

sentimental to a fault - she still has her last pair of ballet slippers despite the fact that she’d dropped that pursuit when she was fifteen.

her room is adorned with mirrors, handheld and mountable and tabletop - they’re all heart-shaped.

has an obsession with hearts, actually, and florals, and gold, when it comes to decor. has hanging plants and flowers falling from her ceiling. her sink is a gold swan (her favorite animals are swans) faucet that she paid to get installed without permission from perkins.

basically her decor is very gaudy. loves fur coats and silk slips and mini skirts, brandy melville, platforms and socks. very specific style that she doesn’t falter from, often.

takes baths often to distress but setting them up is an hour-long process in itself, flowers and herbs and candles surrounding her tub. she’ll stay in there until she’s pruny and the water’s gone cold.

likes to garner sympathy when she can - though she herself tends to be a very sympathetic, compassionate, person. cries for others even when they’re not crying themselves. it’s a lot. tends to make things about herself, in some way.

a smoker, and a bad one at that, does it whenever she feels the slightest amount of stress. she’s very stressed, very often.

likes the aesthetic of art, like renaissance paintings and roman statues, but isn’t deeply knowledgeable on them.

very impressionable, easy to impress, and is loyal to a definite fault. doesn’t tend to give up on people, and holds out for the best.

a dreamer, excessively hopeful and idealistic - is often let down. wears rose-colored glasses and doesn’t see it, anyways. can be vicious, but ultimately just wants to be loved. obsessed with the idea of it.

very finicky and picky, but is also? a hypocrite? says she’s a vegan but she isn’t - she has indulged in mcdonalds nuggets more than once.

very materialistic in that she loves high-end things that she ... can’t afford, but is also financially irresponsible and loves to spend her money on things she absolutely doesn’t need. selfish and immature, at times.

vastly insecure, likes reassurance. double texts. overthinks. romanticizes.

laughs when she’s nervous - laughs a lot.

patient until she’s impatient, the reason why she burns her tongue and the roof of her mouth so often on hot teas and coffee and treats.

is either over-prepared or under-prepared; over-prepared in academics, always doing the upmost she can do (still a perfectionist) and under-prepared when it comes to dressing out - never wears a jacket and is always cold (anemic, too) because she’s hoping that a handsome stranger will give her theirs’

wishes on dandelion puffs and shooting stars and each and every 11:11, wishes for a lot of things - they never come true, but she keeps wishing.

loves romance novels, and period / historical dramas/romances especially. like, frankly obsessed

has a collection of erotica novels, too.

sleeps around often but there’s no guarantee that she won’t get attached to who she’s sleeping with.

la croix fan :/

got onto the cheer team the same way she got into perkins. crying to the coach. but she does have immaculate form, so.

can’t say no to anybody, about anything and for anything its a genuine Problem she feels like she always Has to do what people ask because that’s how you get people to like you (no it isnt!)

tdlr; she listens to marina and the diamonds, lana del rey, and mitski far more than any normal fucking person would and that should be enough to describe her.

wanted connections.

okay so i kind of imagine her as being New to radcliffe so these may not be instantaneous but.

a ride or die... someone tht she wld probably die fr at the drop of a pin or w/e, they dn’t have to be Her ride or die though,, y’know what i mean

bad influences... she’s very impressionable and wants to fit in with people... they cld get her to do anything...

people she annoys... she does that a lot :/ she’s just intense. high care. needy.

friends! just friends... please ... give her friends ... she’ll lay down her life for them ...

a drug dealer... y’know ... just fr funsies.

party pals... needless 2 say ...

unrequited feelings... mostly if not entirely on her part, because she’ll ‘fall in love’ with just about anybody

attachments... that she has on other people. just won’t quit!

new yorkians... who might’ve known her in her youth! she went to a public school.

associated with caleb... people who only know her because she’s caleb’s bastard sister

bad time... something went wrong along the way of their friendship and now it’s ... super bad ... 

enemies... she’ll probably cry to your face or maybe even yell at u! who knows! u hate each other.

perkins roommate... i repeat, mayhaps a perkins roommate? who got thrust with her in the middle of the semester?

something soft... idk what ... cld be cute

the world is our oyster ... we can always brainstorm too... idk!! she’s new in town!! john mulaney vc !!

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Episode 16 Review: Jean Paul’s Latest Detained Guest

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I wasn’t going to start working on another review until next week at the earliest, but I have been re-watching the Agatha episodes from Desmond Hall and, oh my Great Serpent, are they terrible! I don’t wish to spoil too much of what happens then because those reviews are a long way in the future, but I will say that (1) I can’t stand Agatha Pruitt and (2) while some episodes of Desmond Hall Part I have decent writing, in others the writing is very, very, very bad. I can’t help but feel sorry for the fans of both this show and Dark Shadows in early 1970, because Agatha would have been swanning around Desmondton getting on everyone’s nerves during the same period as one of the least-loved arcs on DS, the Leviathan arc.*

Normally, I would type out my complaints about Desmond Hall in the OneNote notebook where I take screencaps and save them for when I write those episode reviews in a year or two. However, I felt that I had to mention the awfulness of Episode 91 in this post, because that is what compelled me to return from my hiatus early. I needed to remind myself why I like this show enough to dedicate a whole blog to it, and so I took a (metaphorical) trip back to Maljardin to re-watch and review Episode 16.

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On the last episode, Jean Paul hired Reverend Matt Dawson to conduct a funeral service for his wife Erica, still frozen in the cryonics capsule  and awaiting her resurrection by THE DEVIL JACQUES ELOI DES MONDES. Now Jean Paul--who has changed into a very nice pinstripe suit--is showing Matt the crypt at Maljardin where the capsule is located. “Even with the electrical connections, the compressor and cryonics capsule, I think this probably will be the best place for the service,” he says to the horrified minister. “Don’t you think, Reverend Dawson?” All Matt can do is smile and nod in response while privately questioning the life choices that led to this moment.

He’s probably thinking, “I left my ministry to stalk a 20-year-old full-time for this?!”

Jean Paul continues interviewing him. “You have no objection to a service without a burial?”

“No,” Matt shakes his head. “I have officiated at many such services, where the body is usually placed in the family crypt.” Considering that the vast majority of families don’t have family crypts--at least not in their basements--I think that he’s humoring Jean Paul. After all, he’s seen so many red flags already--the isolated island, the extreme secrecy, Jean Paul’s reluctance to tell anyone about Erica’s death, the whole cryonics/resurrection thing itself, and now his insistence on conducting the funeral service around a cryonics capsule.

He questions the idea that a body held in cryonic suspension can be brought back to life, and Jean Paul continues to deny that Erica is forever dead. He also continues to insist that the usual laws of nature don’t apply on Maljardin, and that on that island he is God:

Yes, Reverend Dawson, your new client thinks he’s God. There’s another red flag for you, Matt, that Jean Paul Desmond is not a client that you want to work for and you should probably cancel the agreement, give up on Holly, and try to get off the island while you still can.

Jean Paul tells him of a man who was allegedly brought back to life after dying in a blizzard, and who lived three decades as “a soulless corpse, like a zombie” before dying again. After saying “zombie,” the camera cuts to Quito who is spying on them, confirming that Quito is indeed a zombie--although, considering that Quito has emotions (which he expresses through body language) and pets whom he clearly loves, the “soulless” part is unlikely.

Did he offend Quito when he called zombies “soulless corpses,” I wonder?

It’s at this point that handsome devil Jacques takes over and starts trolling Matt. “You are a theologian trapped by your own logic and teachings,” he remarks with a mocking smile. “When you run out of answers, look to the fire god. He’s got some new ones, new for even you.” Which goes over about as well as proselytization usually does: that is to say, not at all, especially without one of those poorly-written smiley-face tracts that are absurdly popular with Christian fundamentalists. But Jacques, unfortunately, is straight out of copies of SMILE THE FIRE GOD LOVES YOU and so has to resort to confusing Matt (and us) with non sequiturs instead:

Jacques: “I don’t advocate or procrastinate.” (That has to be a line flub.) “I live and let live.”

I’m surprised he didn’t bring up the age-old theological question about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin and awkwardly try to connect that to the situation as well.

Matt storms out and Jacques stays behind to gloat. “I haven’t had so much fun,” he quips, “since one of my colleagues fiddled while Rome burned.” This reference to the Roman emperor Nero is without a doubt the clearest evidence so far that Jacques is indeed supposed to be the Devil, who at some point came to occupy the body of Jean Paul’s ancestor.

Back in the great hall, Matt returns to stalking Holly, who once again rejects him, because stalking only leads to mutual love and committed relationships in bad romance movies. He insists that he has something important to say to her, and she agrees to listen, but only for five minutes. He insists that Elizabeth doesn’t like him and that he followed her to Maljardin because he “thought [she] might need [him] for protection, guidance, maybe even comfort.”

According to StrangeParadise.net, this is an allusion to a real person, Reverend Harold Davidson, described in more detail on this page. I won’t copy Davidson’s bio on here because of its length, so I’ll just quote Holly by calling him a “lecherous minister.”

She rejects him, he leaves with his proverbial tail between his legs, then she proceeds to mope while sprawled in Jean Paul’s favorite chair for arguing with Jacques. Alison finds her there and asks what’s wrong, so she starts to explain before Matt arrives again and interrupts by insisting that he’s not trying to keep her from her inheritance like she claims. He’s right, but that doesn’t change the fact that Elizabeth is using him to do just that. Now it’s Holly’s turn to flounce, and she does it with more gusto than Reverend Stalker.

He talks to Alison, who fills him in on the whole situation, speaking again about how Jean Paul thinks he’s God and also about how Matt is now a prisoner on Maljardin.

Alison explaining the concept of a detained guest to Matt.

Matt suggests that Alison get Raxl to try to reason with Jean Paul, unaware of how well that didn’t work out a week before, He insists, though, that “perhaps these Tarot cards [that Vangie gave him in Episode 14] will sway her.” Although Alison is skeptical and so is Raxl upon her arrival, that all changes when he gives her the pack of cards and tells her that Vangie said “that [she] should use them for everyone’s good.”

She knows instantly that Vangie has predicted that Maljardin is doomed.

An interesting conversation between the two follows. Matt reveals to her that she should contact Vangie at “the third hour” (3 AM, also known as the “witching hour” or “demonic hour”), which means nothing to him but “everything” to her. She recaps for him about Jacques Eloi des Mondes, the conjure doll, and the silver pin, mentioning that “the power of the Great Serpent made him an eternal prisoner” for three hundred years.

Raxl: “Jacques Eloi Des Mondes! It must be he who walks. It must be!"   Matt: "Impossible!" Raxl: "You believe in God, but what about His work?” [I think this is a line flub for “word,” which would make more sense in context.] “I trust the Tarot cards, but what about the words of the woman who reads them?" Matt: "I'm a messenger, not a convert." Raxl: "One conjure doll, one silver pin. If that pin were still driven into that doll's head, we would all be safe."   Matt: "Raxl, that is witchcraft!" [And reading Tarot cards--a form of divination--isn’t?] Raxl: "Do you feel safe, Reverend?"

He gazes at the portrait of Jacques without another word until Jean Paul returns, explaining that he had to apologize to Quito after inadvertently hurting his feelings earlier, most likely with what he said about zombies. He asks Matt if he’s started preparing a speech for the funeral service, and an argument erupts between the two of them:

Did I mention yet that Jean Paul is more than a bit of a control freak?

Jean Paul decides that maybe Jacques had the right idea as far as the detained-guest thing went, and so puts the island on lockdown: “There will be no further trips to the main island and no trips even for mail until a matter between the Reverend and his conscience is resolved.”

Jean Paul is a male example of what is known in certain fandoms as a yandere, or a character who is madly in love, enough to hurt and even kill anyone who they believe is standing between them and their love interest.

Meanwhile in the basement, Raxl performs a ritual to contact the Conjure Man using Vangie’s Tarot cards while Quito enters the Not-So-Hidden Temple. And with that, the episode ends.

Raxl and the Tarot cards.

This was an interesting episode, with Matt as the central character for a change. The major theme of this episode seems to be belief, and how, whether seen through the lens of science (Alison), Christianity (Matt), or voodoo (Raxl), Jean Paul’s plans to revive Erica appear crazy at best and dangerous and/or sacrilegious at worst. There’s also the suggestion that Erica might return as a zombie, which does not seem to bother Jean Paul as much as it should (make of that what you will). Did it make up for the badness of Episode 91? Yes. It’s genuinely a good episode, even though some of the lines don’t make sense--but I think that at least most of those are line flubs.

Coming up next: Raxl sends a message to the Conjure Man, so Jacques decides to interfere. Also, Jacques’ portrait becomes much stranger.

Notes

* I don’t know the exact original airdates for most episodes of Strange Paradise. Maljardin aired from October 20, 1969 to January 19, 1970 in Canada according to StrangeParadise.net, but the show premiered in the United States on September 8, making the US six weeks or 30 episodes ahead of Canada. The YouTube user retronewfoundland has the endings of several episodes on their channel with the original Canadian airdates. The nearest episode to Episode 91 that retronewfoundland has a clip from is Episode 84, with the airdate of February 17, 1970 (a Tuesday). This means that (according to my calculations) Episode 91 would have most likely aired in Canada on February 26, and in the US six weeks earlier on January 15. Either date places it contemporary with the Leviathan arc, which lasted from November 14, 1969 to March 27, 1970 (source).

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AoS Positivity Week Day 6: Fanworks Appreciation Day

oh boy do I have fic recommendations

(everything is rated G or T)

let the girl go by dirgewithoutmusic - A beautiful (now Jossed) exploration of Melinda May’s character. Good line: "She stopped wanting to grow up to be Steve Rogers. She started wanting to grow up to be Peggy Carter."

The wrong chin for Captain America by nyargles - Expanding on Ward’s comment about Skye cosplaying as Black Widow, Phil, May, and the S1 Bus Kids discuss their cosplaying experiences.

Good line: “‘It would have been odd dressing up as him once I'd seen him naked.’

Skye makes a noise a bit like a dying fox as her brain shuts down, attempting to abort all mental images.

(In the corner, scarfing down wontons, Fitz-Simmons are just giggling to themselves.)”

beside you (the whole damn time) by TLvop - FItz and Simmons meet much earlier in life than at the Academy.

Good line: “Her professors let her off for the funeral. Leo's don't, except his history teacher. He skips two labs, three classes, and a math midterm ("it's only Linear Optimization, Jemma,") to follow her home.”

Mascot by philote_auctor - Skye finds a puppy at a crime scene and the Bus Kids get a dog!!!

Good line: Fury just cocks an eyebrow at Coulson. “I thought I said no pets.”

“Actually sir, I believe you said ‘no fish tank.’”

the worst (best) thing by @agentcalliope​ - A gorgeous (and sadly now AU) exploration of Fitz’s mindset after the Framework as the team helps him deal with his trauma.

Good line:

“The worst thing, Fitz decides, is that Coulson had his mind messed up. Again

“The best thing, Coulson replies, is what are the odds of it happening? Again?

“Fitz laughs for the first time in weeks.”

linger on, your pale blue eyes by @dilkirani​ - Jemma and Fitz get ACTUAL THERAPY after the Framework.

Good line:

“Jemma curls up to Fitz’s side and he shifts in his sleep so that he’s pressed more firmly against her. She wraps her arms around his waist and lets one hand rest against Linda’s [Fitz’s mom’s] knee.

“‘Just rest, love,’ Linda says soothingly, and she does. She really does.”

Spark by Siria - Mike Peterson meets Pepper Potts.

Good line: “She holds one hand out, palm upwards. She takes a breath, and then there's flame there, sheltered in the curve of her hand; her eyes glow golden, but there's no tension in the lines of her face, no sign of the anger that had made Mike feel like he was going to break apart at any moment. The flames flare briefly brighter, then fade away, and Potts looks up at Mike with a smile. ‘Now I don't have to let it use me.’”

The Wonderful, Excellent, Not Bad, Very Good Fitzsimmons Betting Pool by @grapehyasynth​ - The team takes bets on when they think various milestones will take place in Fitzsimmons’s relationship.

Good line: “‘As you can see I’ve listed the major points in their trajectory: first kiss, first date, first bow-chicka-wow-wow, love confession, engagement, marriage, babies.’”

Third Wheel by MechBull - Mack’s POV in “The Singularity”

Good line: “They finally arrived well after Mack hoped they would, and he chose to believe the room service took longer than expected rather than that they…got distracted again. He also chose to believe that their clothes were rumpled because it had been a long, fight-filled night, and that was also why Fitz looked three-quarters asleep, that the stubble burn on Jemma’s face and neck was just a flush from the cool night air, and that she absolutely did not have sex hair.”

(welcome to the fallout) by sleeplessmiles - Jemma and May deal with returning to SHIELD in early S3, Jemma after Maveth and May after her break, and end up helping each other heal.

Good line: “Between the two of them, they've always balanced each other out pretty well. Jemma's chattiness makes up for May's shortness of words; Jemma's comforting touches are few and far between, ever-conscious of May's aversion to contact. But now, the balance is off. And May knows that in order to bridge that gap, she's going to need to overcompensate. She needs to somehow provide the human voice Jemma so sorely seeks, and she needs to reach out.

“She needs to be the one to reach out.

“It will be horrendously difficult to navigate, battling Jemma’s reflexes and May’s own shortcomings, but it’s necessary.

“Jemma needs it.

“And really, to Melinda May, that’s all that matters.”

My Big Fat British Pregnancy (by Leopold Fitz) - Fitzsimmons have their first baby in hilarious fashion.

Good line: "‘Besides, we've got the perfect name picked out, haven't we?’

"‘We have?’ Jemma eyed him like a mistrustful squirrel.

"‘Of course. It works for a girl or a boy.’ Fitz puffed out his chest, enjoying the attention. ‘Which is why the first name's definitely going to be… Agent.’

“A chorus of groans went up around the room. From behind the couch, however, Director Coulson nodded his approval.”

There’ll be Stars in our Eyes by Bus_Kids_Burgade - Post S4, May, Jemma, Daisy, Yoyo, and Bobbi go on a much-needed vacation.

Good line:

“May turns around to face them squarely and crosses her arms. ‘We’re taking a vacation.’

“She’s met with three blank looks.

“‘A what now?’ Daisy asks.

“‘Is she a robot again?’ Elena’s hand hovers over her icer.”

Because You Asked by clearascountryair - A season 5 spec fic, written back when we all thought S5 was just going to be set in space, not in future!space. Jemma helps Fitz deal with the aftermath of the trauma he experienced in the Framework.

Good line: “‘In every world, you were last kissed by me. In every world, you were last kissed because you asked to be.’”

Faults and Faultlines by buckysbears - After the Framework, Fitz leaves S.H.I.E.L.D. May keeps showing up for tea.

Good line: “‘So … until I start thinking about myself differently, I- what?’ He holds up his cup. ‘Sit around drinking tea?’

“She tilts her head. ‘Or … you get off your ass and learn how to fly again.’

“He realizes that they’re not just talking about him anymore (thinks that maybe they never were). Somehow, this is the thing that comforts him more than anything else she’s said.”

Fathers Here and Fathers There by @besidemethewholedamntime​ - Fitz and the team reflect on the effects all the fathers in his life have had on him.

Good line: “Leopold Fitz’s father was one that was in front of him the whole time and he never realised it.

“He clapped him on the shoulder and gave him smiles. He used words like big brain and heart and it’s alright. Words like Son.”

I’d marry you again (& again) by @dilkirani​ - How Fitzsimmons’s future turns out in five different universes.

Good line: “‘Do you ever think about...with all the time jumps, there must be some version of us that never experienced this, right?’

“‘No,’ Fitz says, voice firm. ‘Everything was always going to lead us here.’”

In Other Eyes by ddagent - The team’s reactions to Philinda.

Good line: “Another shriek. ‘Why do you have Agent May’s underwear?’

“Coulson just stood, staring at [Fitz] intently. ‘I’ll give you a minute.’”

The Enemy of My Enemy by @sholiofic​ - Post S5 AU. Coulson and Talbot deal with the effects of Thanos’s snap.

Good line: “‘Heroes,’ Glenn starts, ‘protect --’

“‘Heroes save.’ Coulson looks more than half dead, but his gaze on Glenn is steady. ‘Heroes save people, General Talbot. And there are a lot of people out there who need saving.’

“Glenn stares at him. Coulson stares back. It's a good old-fashioned stare-down, and Glenn is the one who looks away first.

“‘Well, this just about dills my pickle,’ Glenn mutters to himself as he peels back the roof and launches himself out of it.”

@recoveringrabbit​ has written so many gorgeous Fitzsimmons fics:

Wander On Our Winding Way - Fitzsimmons and their baby Archie take a day trip!

Good line: “‘Honestly.’ She rolls her eyes. ‘Mummy knows Daddy can fix the engine because Daddy is one of the best engineers of the century. Mummy does doubt that Daddy can fix it and put it all back in a timely manner, because she thinks he’s forgotten that our food supplies do not extend to dinner and that we didn’t bring a torch.’”

Think of the Man You Want to Be - An adorable meet-cute AU. Jemma works at a department store. Fitz needs a suit.

Good line: "If she had to guess, he had been a scrawny kid who grew up into a nicely shaped man without noticing."

More Than _______ - After the Event Horizon, Fitzsimmons talk about what Will meant to Jemma--and what Fitz has always and will always mean to her.

Good line: “‘The only thing,’ she says slowly, but without pausing, as though she has been planning this speech for months, ‘that I am more sure of than the fact that you are the best man I’ve ever known is that I love you first, last, best, and most. And I have since we were sixteen and I will until I die.’”

The Waiters - The people who work at the restaurant where Fitz made the reservation speculate on his relationship with Jemma.

Good line: “‘So you’ve been holding a table for months?’

“‘Yes.’

“‘And you’re going to keep doing so?’

“‘Yes,’ Edward says, fully aware he may have just signed his death sentence.

“‘Mm.’ The owner sets the pencil down and sighs. ‘Well, it doesn’t seem to have affected business before. Just don’t let this happen again.’

“‘No, ma’am.’

“‘And, Edward, if she ever does come, you give them a bottle of wine on the house.’”

Mine’s Just Right for Me - Deke visits Fitzsimmons over the years.

Good line: “Apparently, upon realizing the world was not going to be destroyed Deke went on a bender: a six-pack of Zima, seven bags of gummy bears and one of sour gummy worms, and sort of orange-flavoured sugar in a plastic tube. Then he got into a boat, thinking it would get to the ocean eventually, and went to Canada instead to have a brief dalliance with Border Security. . . . ‘I guess you were in space then,’  he said. ‘It would have been nice if you had left a note or something.’”

So has @bookishandbossy​!

Arrangements - An arranged marriage between 19th-century Fitzsimmons--such a good slow burn!

Good line: “‘I'm not Miss Simmons anymore, though,’ she reminds him with a small smile. ‘You could call me Jemma now. If you'd like.’

“‘Jemma.’ That's all he says but he says her name like it's a gift and when she rests her gloved hand on top of his for a moment, he lets her.”

you can read it in her eyes - Jemma starts a book club. Fitz attends.

Good line: “Fitz was going to woo Jemma Simmons. Because she was smart and kind and beautiful and she had a way of making everything else seem just a little brighter, because she was a million little things that seemed to add up to the inevitable: he had to try or he'd probably end up regretting it for the rest of his life. He'd only decided it in the past half hour, four drinks in to a night out with Hunter, Trip, and Mack, but he was still going to woo her like no one had ever been wooed before. It would be a fest...a festival of wooing.”

Sense and Simmons and Pride and Persuasion - Skye drags Jemma to an Austenland vacation, where Fitz happens to work as a cast member.

Good line from “Sense and Simmons”: “‘I see you already found a suitor,’ Skye said smugly when they got back to their room that night. . . .

“‘Not a “suitor”,’ Jemma corrected. ‘A friend. We're going to complain about being here together.’”

Good line from “Pride and Persuasion”: “‘Is this the kind of situation that requires a suit?’ Fitz asked, phone pressed to one ear and the contents of his wardrobe spread out across his floor. ‘Do things have to match?’

“‘You're not going to prom, man,’ Trip said. ‘Just find a nice button-down shirt and some pants that fit right. And shoes.’”

[bigyack-com]

Super Bowl 2020 Commercials: Funeral for Mr. Peanut, Tears for Google

An audience expected to be around 100 million. Big companies paying as much as $5.6 million for 30 seconds of advertising time. In addition to deciding the National Football League champion, the Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year for TV commercials.For the most part, the commercials have were light and bright.Blasts From the PastNostalgia was an early theme, with companies marketing their products with ads that showed love for the ’80s and ’90s.Cheetos had the rapper MC Hammer and his zoot-suit-inspired pants in an ad that aimed to popularize the word Cheetle, Frito-Lay’s term for the orange dust the snack leaves in its wake.Squarespace sent Winona Ryder, the Gen X star who has made a comeback thanks to Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” to Winona, Minn., where she was born. Bill Murray, with a sidekick from the rodent family, relived the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day” for Jeep, and Mountain Dew Zero riffed on the 1980 film “The Shining” with an assist from the “Breaking Bad” actor Bryan Cranston.A commercial for Avocados From Mexico features Molly Ringwald, the star of “Pretty in Pink” and other ’80s comedies.The nostalgia mixed with sentimentality. And three simple commercials seemed to have left the deepest impression on viewers.A spot from Google — about the 85-year-old grandfather of a Google employee searching for ways to remember his partner, Loretta — inspired a flood of “I’m not crying, you’re crying” social media posts. New York Life Insurance explored various forms of love using several real couples and relatives, without a celebrity in sight. WeatherTech’s commercial focused on the chief executive’s golden retriever, Scout, and the doctors who saved him from cancer.A Stunt Ad Lights Up Social MediaAfter much hype in recent days, Planters ran a commercial showing the funeral of its mascot, the monocled creature Mr. Peanut. Other brand avatars were at the grave site, including the Kool-Aid Man and Mr. Clean. After the Kool Aid creature shed a tear, something sprouted in the dirt. And then a baby version of Mr. Peanut sprang to life, squeaking like a dolphin, saying, “Just kidding, I’m back,” and asking for a monocle. The reaction on social media was not kind.The unusual Planters campaign, which involved the character dying in a car crash, was put on pause last week, after Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash. In recent days, its parent company, Kraft Heinz, swapped the position of a Heinz ad with the Planters ad, putting footage of Mr. Peanut’s funeral before a halftime show that was scheduled to include a tribute to Mr. Bryant.The Streamers Are HereThe New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spent this Super Bowl as a Hulu spokesman, saying in a commercial for the streaming service that “it’s time to say goodbye to TV as you know it” before slyly adding, “but me, I’m not going anywhere.”An ad from the short-form streaming service Quibi, featuring bank robbers who pause to watch a quick show on their phone screens, made one thing clear: how to pronounce “Quibi.” (It’s kwi-bee, not kwee-bee.) A spot from Amazon Prime Video is expected late in the game.Unity Amid DiversityIn other Super Bowl ads, Verizon, Sabra and other companies are emphasizing — and celebrating — what Americans have in common beneath their differences. Don’t we all complain about the same things? Don’t we all defy cultural stereotypes? And don’t we all love hummus?Those are some of the messages that figure in the sunny portrait of a nation that will emerge from the more than 80 commercials scheduled to appear during the Super Bowl LIV broadcast.“We’re at a moment in the country where it’s important that we all contribute to things that unite as opposed to things that separate,” said Diego Scotti, the chief marketing officer of Verizon. “It’s a sensitive point — we’re a big company and we have many, many customers, and our intention is in no way, shape or form to have a political message.”To fill advertising slots costing as much as $5.6 million for 30 seconds — a high — New York Life Insurance and Snickers were among the brands with big-budget commercials showing a wide variety of Americans embracing their differences.Sabra cast two former contestants from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Kim Chi and Miz Cracker, making it possibly the first Super Bowl commercial to feature drag queens. One Million Moms, a conservative activist group that recently pushed the Hallmark Channel to pull ads featuring brides kissing each other, circulated a petition demanding that the Sabra spot be removed, to no avail.Companies are also slipping into other companies’ commercials. Pringles paired up with the animated Adult Swim series “Rick and Morty” for an ad filled with horrifying child robots. Tide, which overran the Super Bowl 2018 with crossover commercials, teamed this year with Bud Light and the Fox show “The Masked Singer.” Pop-Tarts, which featured the flowing hair of Jonathan Van Ness of “Queer Eye” in its commercial, called out Hyundai’s Boston-accented spot “Smaht Pahk” by posting on Twitter: “Pahp-Tahts.”Politics Crashes the TV PartyThe first of two 30-second ads from President Trump’s campaign, which together cost more than $11 million, aired at 6:55 p.m. in the first commercial break after kickoff. The spot focused on Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who was serving a life sentence in federal prison on charges related to cocaine distribution and money laundering when her case was brought to Mr. Trump’s attention by Kim Kardashian West, the reality television star. Mr. Trump commuted Ms. Johnson’s sentence in 2018.It was the first Super Bowl to feature national ads from two presidential candidates, and the political tone of the ads has stood out in a broadcast filled with companies trying to avoid sensitive topics the day before the Democratic caucuses in Iowa.Just before the second half kickoff, the billionaire presidential candidate Michael R. Bloomberg presented an ad about gun control that featured Calandrian Simpson-Kemp, whose football-loving son died in a shooting in 2013. Mr. Bloomberg has swarmed the Democratic field with more than $275 million in advertising, according to the ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics. But this is not his first foray into the Super Bowl while talking about gun laws — he did the same in a 2012 ad with Thomas M. Menino, who was then the mayor of Boston.The Jay-Z InfluenceAnother exception to the escapist fare is a spot on police shootings. Surprisingly, it comes from an organization that has shied away from the issue: the National Football League. The spot shows the retired 49ers wide receiver Anquan Boldin reflecting on the 2015 death of his cousin, who was shot by a police officer, and it includes a dramatic re-enactment of the killing.The commercial promotes the N.F.L.’s Inspire Change initiative, a social outreach program that the league has put together with Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by Jay-Z. Colin Kaepernick — Mr. Boldin’s onetime 49ers teammate — set off an uproar a year after the killing by kneeling during the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality. The N.F.L. struggled with its response for years.More PositivityBut the great majority of Super Bowl LIV spots are jaunty and optimistic. TurboTax has a commercial involving people of many races, genders, ages and walks of life dancing to a bounce-inflected earworm of a jingle, “All People Are Tax People.”The mood continues a trend toward tonally light commercials that became pronounced in 2018. In 2017, the first year of President Trump’s administration, Budweiser and Coca-Cola, among other brands, touched on immigration, equal rights and fair pay.A Bud Light Seltzer commercial posited that the brain of Post Malone — the pop star and songwriter known for melding disparate musical styles — is operated by a diverse group of technicians in a control room who all bear his distinctive tattoos. Martin Scorsese, who is nominated for an Oscar this year for “The Irishman,” was also involved in a Super Bowl commercial, but not behind the camera. Instead, he appeared in an ad-from Coca-Cola, waiting anxiously at a party for Jonah Hill, whom he had directed in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” to muster enough energy to join him. Mr. Hill, who was cast first, suggested Mr. Scorsese when the company asked him to recommend someone to play the out-of-place friend.Space RaceWhile many ads looked to the past for inspiration, Turkish Airlines and others were fixated on the cosmos. Olay alludes to the first all-female spacewalk last year in an ad featuring Lilly Singh and Busy Philipps with the retired astronaut Nicole Stott. A spot from the home carbonation company SodaStream, which includes a cameo by Bill Nye, showed astronauts finding water on Mars. And Walmart crammed references to “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” “Mars Attacks!,” “Men in Black” and “Arrival” into its commercial.Tech FirstsFacebook’s first Super Bowl ad is expected to pair Chris Rock with the “Rocky” actor Sylvester Stallone. Microsoft’s ad features Katie Sowers, the San Francisco 49ers assistant coach who will be the first woman and openly gay person to help lead a team to the big game. Other tech ads included Amazon’s commercial with the ubiquitous pitchwoman Ellen DeGeneres. Read the full article

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1st viscount montgomery of alamein: A neighborhood of cyclists are touring all by diagram of the utter to raise awareness of rural poverty and civil rights. The neighborhood Civil Rides stated in a news liberate that 20 cyclists took portion within the lumber on Saturday and Sunday. Civil Rides stated the neighborhood sees poverty as a contemporary civil rights self-discipline in The united states. The cyclists made stops at web sites crucial to the civil rights hobble. Riders traveled from Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in 1st viscount montgomery of alamein and by diagram of Selma and Alabama’s Unlit Belt. The lumber ended Sunday in Birmingham at Kelly Ingram Park. The lumber additionally raised money for the Together for Hope program and Out Starvation, a starvation initiative.

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Juneau: The Juneau Faculty District has supplied a fresh computer monitoring program prompting concerns over student privacy and records series. The district assign in and launched the Bark program Sept. 13, the Juneau Empire reported. An electronic mail changed into despatched Sept. 15 with initial small print and that more files would be supplied to college students, of us, workers and board members. The software program displays for say deemed flawed collectively with college shooters, self-afflict, pornography and cyberbullying, college district officers stated. The district despatched a 2nd electronic mail final week to take care of concerns after a college meeting Oct. 8, district representatives stated. Superintendent Bridget Weiss additionally sat down with college students Friday to chat relating to the program and hear any concerns and feedback. There shouldn't be any make a choice-out choice, which some college students stated infringes on their rights. Some of us shared concerns about who changed into viewing the machine’s alerts and records. Faculty officers stated the software program is intended to video show the phrases college students exhaust on college computers, flag doubtless harms and send alerts to officers. It may perhaps well perhaps well not be venerable to read emails or paperwork that haven’t been flagged. Bark is a California-basically basically based company that sells monitoring software program, the corporate web pages stated. Greater than 1,300 college districts nationwide exhaust the program. It is unknown how many Alaska college districts are the usage of it.

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Phoenix: The Arizona Republic reported that followers and teams were evacuated for an hour from a football game at a high college on Friday after experiences of photos being fired nearby. The newspaper stated gunshots will almost definitely be heard because the game changed into being played about 7: 50 p.m. at Betty Fairfax High Faculty. A contract creator covering the game for the Republic heard a couple of photos and witnessed players ducking and leaving the self-discipline, then the stadium being evacuated. By about 8: 50 p.m., players were motivate on the self-discipline and followers were allowed to re-enter the stadium, the Republic reported. Phoenix police Detective Luis Samudio stated photos were fired shut to the school but no one changed into injured. He stated the gunfire did not occur at the school.

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Fortress Smith: College of Arkansas at Fortress Smith college students will web a fresh writing heart on myth of of a federal grant from the Department of Education. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported the university fair not too lengthy within the past announced that it had bought the 5-yr, $2.25 million grant. The grant is portion of the Title III Strengthening Institutions Program and can enable the university to designate a devoted campus writing heart, present accelerated literacy programming by diagram of a Summer season Bridge Program, and give a boost to college vogue in academic literacy teaching recommendations. The grant changed into co-authored by Cammie Sublette, professor of literature and head of the university’s English division, and Monica Luebke, an companion professor of English. Sublette stated the writing heart will likely be located on campus in portion of the veteran fitness heart, that can also fair be fully renovated and equipped with utter-of-the-artwork expertise.

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Twentynine Hands: A revamped entrance and visitor centers are within the works to lend a hand ease crowds after a surge in tourism to Joshua Tree National Park. Annual attendance has nearly doubled within the past 5 years, main to hour-lengthy waits to enter the park 140 miles east of Los Angeles and stuffed parking loads, The Wasteland Solar reported Saturday. The Park Service has plans to spoil a price sales area and invent a fresh one with extra entry and exit lanes and computerized price pay stations. That project is expected to be carried out by 2022. There are additionally plans for fresh traffic’ centers to accommodate better crowds. A 5,000-square-foot visitor heart in Twentynine Hands – which can change an novel 600-square-foot area – will consist of educational shows and an originate air stage for community events. On the other facet of the park, the Park Service will change a trailer that serves as a heart for visitor files with a fresh constructing with area for sales and shows. Officers additionally have confidence plans to redesign a park campground following a rise in tent camping there. The park is identified for loopy-limbed bushes with clusters of green spikes.

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Pueblo: Zookeepers at the Pueblo Zoo have confidence announced the demise of Mongo, a penguin believed to be the oldest African penguin in captivity in North The united states. The Pueblo Chieftain reported Thursday that 38-yr-veteran Mongo died in a single day Wednesday while in captivity at the zoo. Scientists stated the endangered African penguin lives a median of 20 years. Zoo workers stated Mongo faced diversified health challenges collectively with hormone concerns. Zookeepers stated Mongo lived at the metropolis’s zoo because it opened its penguin point to in 1992. He changed into transferred from the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, the put he fathered 9 chicks. Workers stated Mongo is survived by greater than 100 descendants worldwide. Zookeepers stated his first partner Tess changed into the oldest African penguin in captivity in North The united states before her demise in 2015. She changed into 40 years veteran.

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Storrs: The College of Connecticut’s ragged mascot is recovering from a health apprehension. Alpha Phi Omega stated Jonathan XIII changed into by a cluster of seizures final weekend and changed into taken to a veterinary sanatorium in Middletown. The carrier organization stated doctors have confidence Jonathan XIII suffered a stroke earlier this yr that went undiagnosed. He's expected to web successfully. The 12-yr-veteran all-white Husky served because the school’s mascot from 2008 to 2014 but changed into retired on myth of he turned fearful in entrance of huge crowds. He changed into modified by Jonathan XIV, a dark-and-white Siberian Husky. The organization is raising funds to lend a hand pay for the clinical therapy, which integrated an MRI. It had bought greater than $4,000 by Friday afternoon and stated any excess funds will likely be donated to the sanatorium.

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Wilmington: A whole bunch of of us gathered to mourn three young brothers who died after their automobile plunged into a canal. The Recordsdata Journal reported a funeral changed into held Friday in Wilmington for 18-yr-veteran Willis Lindsey Jr., 16-yr-veteran Kyree Lindsey and 6-yr-veteran Ethan Lindsey. The boys were remembered as enthusiasts of all issues originate air who loved spending time with family. The three died along with a cousin nearly two weeks within the past. They were touring to a adolescence football game when they took a flawed flip and ended up on a gravel avenue along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Willis Lindsey Sr. has stated the auto pushed by his eldest son plunged into the canal as they were trying to gain their arrangement motivate to the predominant avenue. The newspaper reported a funeral for the fourth victim, 12-yr-veteran Eric Lindsey, changed into area for Saturday.

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Washington: Police are hunting for two teenage sisters missing from Northeast, WUSA-TV reported. Caylynn Blakeney and Carlisa Blakeney were final considered within the 200 block of 45th Boulevard Northeast on Saturday. Police described Caylynn, 13, as a dark female with medium brown hair. She's 4-foot-7, weighs 130 kilos and has brown eyes and blonde hair. She changed into final considered wearing dark pants and a blue sweater with dark-and-white Jordan sneakers. Fourteen-yr-veteran Carlisa Blakeney is described by police as a dark female with a medium complexion. She's 4-foot-7, weighs 130 kilos and has brown hair and brown eyes. Blakeney changed into final considered wearing a blue jacket, blue pants and purple, with white-and-dark sneakers. Police are asking anyone with files on the whereabouts of the sisters to name (202) 727-9099.

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Fortress Myers Beach: Scientists stated a crimson tide bloom is making its arrangement into southwest Florida bays and killing sea turtles. The Fortress Myers Recordsdata-Press reported turtle conservationists have confidence considered seven unnecessary Kemp’s ridley sea turtles and one unnecessary loggerhead at Bonita Beach and Fortress Myers Beach. Boats struck three of the turtles, but it undoubtedly shouldn't be determined within the occasion that they were unnecessary when that took jam. Crimson tide happens on myth of of the presence of nutrients in salt water and additionally causes respiratory irritation in of us. Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation’s water quality scientists stated that stipulations are not as imperfect as in 2018, when the bloom killed hundreds of sea turtles and dolphins.

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Fortress Stewart: Scientists studying the crimson-cockaded woodpecker in Georgia forests stated the rare fowl is making a return. The fowl changed into likely long-established lengthy within the past, but has been belief of as endangered currently, WABE Radio reported. Habitat loss changed into the predominant squawk for the fowl. It’s homes – the longleaf pine forests of the South – were instant disappearing. Now, the small dark-and-white fowl will almost definitely be on the verge of becoming an environmental success story in Georgia and all by diagram of the South. It is doing successfully enough that there were discussions about downgrading its protections. The population at Fortress Stewart is so stable that researchers prefer crimson-cockaded woodpeckers on the injurious and transfer them to other places that need lend a hand build up their populations of the endangered birds, the radio put reported. In step with the U.S. Fish and Natural world Service, the fowl will likely be stumbled on in nearly a dozen states, collectively with Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.

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Kahuku: The vitality company that desires to form a wind farm on Oahu’s North Shore stated they respect of us’s compatible to oppose the project. Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard stated 55 of us were arrested for refusing to transfer out of the arrangement of a convoy bringing tools to the wind farm construction area. Label Miller, AES Corp.’s U.S. chief working officer, stated in an announcement Friday the project is critical for Hawaii’s renewable vitality future. He stated they are going to continue to answer to questions and take care of concerns of these locally. Some opponents stated they’re impressed by the success of protesters blocking construction of an huge telescope on the Nice Island. Opponents stated the mills pose health risks and are noisy. AES stated wind mills are stable and the noise is identical to gentle traffic.

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Ketchum: Questions are being raised after an Idaho Department of Fish and Sport officer killed an orphaned dark undergo cub in Hailey final week in desire to send it to a rehabilitation facility. Terry Thompson of the Idaho Department of Fish and Sport told the Idaho Mountain Recount that the company in overall doesn’t have confidence in solutions huge-game animals for rehabilitation. Thompson stated the company killed the cub in desire to send it to a rehabilitation facility on myth of success isn’t assured, and Idaho already has a healthy dark undergo population. Sally Maughan of Idaho Unlit Endure Rehab stated that facility has had masses of success raising undergo cubs without habituating them to other folks and releasing them into the wild. Off 225 cubs, 212 were released into the wild. Simplest four were euthanized on myth of of human-undergo conflicts. She stated the public cares about what happens to orphaned and injured cubs.

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Chicago: Urban farming has change into more long-established in Chicago neighborhoods, and now lawmakers have confidence begun pushing for stricter regulations. The Chicago Tribune reported that an ordinance supplied final month would ban roosters from residential areas within the metropolis and enable no greater than six hens and two cattle animals per family. Metropolis Council member Raymond Lopez stated in desire to limiting urban agriculture, he desires the ordinance to begin a conversation about it as a determined boost industry for the metropolis. The proposed law would additionally require a $25 cattle enable from the metropolis’s Successfully being Department that will almost definitely be rejected if a majority of neighbors internal 500 toes drawl.

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Lafayette: A dark soldier who changed into buried in an unmarked grave got appropriate recognition for his militia carrier in World Battle I nearly a half-century after his demise. The memorial for Leonard Inman, who died in 1973, changed into Saturday at Spring Vale Cemetery in Lafayette and featured a 21-gun salute, the retiring of colours and faucets by the American Legion Post 492, the Journal and Courier reported. Inman, whose name is spelled “Inmon” within the 1919 Tippecanoe County World Battle I Honor Roll e book, served all by diagram of the battle within the 809th Pioneer Infantry, Company C. The Total de Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has assign in a headstone for Inman, which the cemetery paid for in commemoration. Born in 1893 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Inman moved with his family to Lafayette in 1908. He enlisted into carrier 10 years later. As an African American, he changed into not well-liked to raise in converse fight. Since the American militia changed into not desegregated till 1948, Inman likely served below French picture, in step with the chapter’s analysis. Following the battle, he returned to Lafayette and worked for the Murdock family, judicious one of the essential successfully-identified families dwelling within the home at the time. In 1943, he started working for Alcoa to lend a hand with the battle effort in producing aluminum, staying there till 1958. He had no kids and died Nov. 25, 1973, in his dwelling after suffering an obvious coronary heart assault.

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Northwood: The proprietor of a northern Iowa dog breeding operation has been stumbled on responsible of animal neglect. The Mason Metropolis Globe Gazette reported that 66-yr-veteran Barbara Kavars of Manly changed into stumbled on responsible Friday of 14 counts of misdemeanor animal neglect in reference to the operation of a pup mill. Prosecutors stated Kavars changed into keeping Samoyed canine in inhumane stipulations when officers raided her operation on Nov. 12 and took about 150 canine. Court records stated 17 canine had fur raveled by feces, skin stipulations main to fur loss, painful wounds, intestinal parasites and other maladies. One dog wanted to be euthanized. Officers stated the canine’ kennels lacked meals and had water containers stuffed with ice. Kavars denied wrongdoing and testified she fed and gave water to the canine daily.

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Salina: Officers stated an African lion that died at the Rolling Hills Zoo suffered from encephalitis attributable to a fungal an infection. The lion, named Sahar, died Sept. 27. Zoo officers announced Thursday that a necropsy conducted at Kansas Notify College stumbled on the an infection brought on lesions on the lion’s brain and a lung. It stated Sahar had no outward signs of illness till the day before his demise. The fungus shouldn't be contagious. The Salina Journal reported Sahar changed into born in January 2010 at the Bronx Zoo/ Natural world Conservation Society. He changed into moved to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago in 2012 along with 5-yr-veteran littermates, Kamali and Zalika. The three lions moved to the Salina zoo in June.

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Hazard: The remains of a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor were identified as these of a Kentucky soldier. WYMT-TV reported militia officers made the announcement Thursday. Seaman 2d Class Hubert Corridor, 20, changed into judicious one of 428 crewmen on the united statesOklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, when it changed into struck by Eastern torpedoes. It took several years to web successfully and bury the remains. The militia identified 35 of them in 1947, but fresh forensic expertise turned available in 2015 and clinical examiners venerable DNA evaluation, dental records and circumstantial evidence to finally establish Corridor. The remains are now being despatched to his family. He’s area to be buried next yr at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the put his name changed into recorded on the Walls of the Missing.

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Lake Charles: Building has begun on a Culinary, Gaming and Hospitality constructing at a community college in southwest Louisiana. SOWELA Technical Community Faculty stated in a news liberate that the $10.2 million vogue on its Lake Charles campus will hide 28,000 square toes. This would perhaps well also be venerable to declare college students for jobs and careers in Louisiana’s $18.8 billion hospitality industry. Citing figures from Louisiana’s Crew Price, SOWELA expects the utter to sight a almost 15% raise in hospitality jobs by 2026. SOWELA stated utter funding changed into licensed by Gov. John Bel Edwards final yr. Building of the constructing is scheduled to be carried out in March 2021.

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Portland: A neighborhood representing Maine’s lobstermen stated it’s now willing to work with the federal authorities on a draw to present protection to compatible whales after withdrawing its give a boost to for the draw this summer season. The Maine Lobstermen’s Affiliation is judicious one of the essential predominant stakeholders in converse to better give protection to the North Atlantic compatible whales, which quantity excellent about 400 and are susceptible to entanglement in fishing tools. A federal draw that’s being developed to lend a hand put the whales would exercise away miles of lobster trap rope from the waters off Maine. The lobstermen’s affiliation issued a public assertion on Oct. 11 announcing it appreciates that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service has supplied a “optimistic response” to its concerns about whale security. However, the assertion additionally stated the lobstermen composed ponder the whale draw focuses too mighty on fresh restrictions for his or her industry. The organization stated it believes NOAA Fisheries must additionally have confidence in solutions the affect other fisheries have confidence on the whales. The neighborhood hopes its letter sends a message that finding a model to place the whales is composed judicious one of its priorities, stated Patrice McCarron, its govt director, in a phone interview.NOAA Fisheries shouldn't be commenting on the lobstering neighborhood’s assertion, company spokesman Jennifer Goebel stated. However, the regulators have confidence additionally fair not too lengthy within the past expressed desire to work with the lobstermen, who have confidence stated the whale security draw positioned too mighty onus on their industry, which is an industry critical to Maine’s financial system.

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Rockville: Discrimination in step with hairstyles in overall associated to mosey would be illegal, below a proposal that’s being belief of as in 1st viscount montgomery of alamein County. Recordsdata stores reported the 1st viscount montgomery of alamein County Council on Tuesday heard from of us who stated they were told to wear their hair particularly styles to preserve a ways off from showing “unprofessional” or “distracting.” Residents stated they regularly undoubtedly feel compelled to abide by “Eurocentric standards of beauty.” The law would bar the suburb from discriminating in opposition to hairstyles collectively with braids, locks, Afros, curls and twists. Violators would face an attractive of up to $5,000. The director of the county’s human rights jam of industrial, Jim Stowe, stated it hasn’t handled any hair cases this past yr. A vote on the invoice is determined for this tumble. Contemporary York and California have confidence passed identical regulations.

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Boston: The Boston Public Library, judicious one of the essential metropolis’s most ancient institutions, is giving four lucky couples the prospect to interchange marriage vows free of charge internal its outdated halls. The library’s marriage ceremony giveaway announced this week is a social gathering of the McKim Building’s 125th anniversary. The marriage ceremony package at the Central Library in Copley Sq. entails a preceremony breakfast, bouquets and boutonnieres, song, photography, an in a single day terminate at the Westin Copley Arena, and ceremonies officiated by a Magistrate. The ceremonies for up to 10 pals will likely be held Feb. 2 while the library is closed to the public. The on-line-excellent registration length for the randomly chosen marriage ceremony purposes has started and ends Nov. 15. The library, basically based in 1848, is judicious one of the essential metropolis’s most sought-after marriage ceremony areas.

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Spring Lake: The National Weather Service stated Wednesday’s storm that battered Lake Michigan’s shoreline swept away up to 20 toes of dunes in just a few of Michigan’s lakeside communities. The climate carrier stated wind-pushed waves mixed with already shut to-sage high lake levels to designate long-established lakeside erosion, threatening some homes in western and northern Michigan. Spring Lake resident Sammie Congleton stated the waves broken portion of her dwelling’s deck and extra eroded dunes that as soon as extended 300 toes to the water. She told WOOD-TV the dwelling she and her husband supplied within the early 1990s has been “a runt bit piece of paradise.” Now, they’re wanting ahead to authorities approval to set up huge rocks to retain the closing dunes in jam. Forecasters demand the lake’s high waters to continue into early next yr.

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Foley: Authorities in central Minnesota are hunting for a missing emu described as a “recurring runaway.” The Benton County Sheriff’s Arena of industrial stated the massive fowl went missing from the Foley home on Saturday. Foley is set 70 miles northwest of Minneapolis. Emus are the 2nd-excellent birds on this planet by prime within the motivate of the ostrich. Animal experts stated the flightless native Australian birds can toddle at up to 30 mph. The sheriff’s jam of industrial stated there were two emus and a dog that additionally wandered away, but judicious one of the essential emus and the dog were located.

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Ripley: Tippah Electrical Strength Affiliation board members voted this month to designate a broadband net subsidiary. The cooperative’s 13,500 members in Tippah, Benton, Union, Prentiss and Alcorn counties are now voting by mail on amending its incorporation structure. On the least 10% of members must vote. Of these, not not up to 60% must prefer the trade for it to pass. Total Supervisor Tim Smith told The Northeast Mississippi Day after day Journal that if Tippah Electrical goes ahead, constructing a community will exercise in to just a few years. Tippah shouldn't be not up to the sixth of Mississippi’s 25 cooperatives to notify net plans. The moves advance months after utter legislators allowed rural electrical suppliers to enter the industry. Lawmakers cited complaints that fresh suppliers weren’t serving rural areas.

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St. Louis: Scientific doctors were hoping the coronary heart transplanted to Brett Meyers would final 10 years. In its put, the St. Louis man is marking 30 years since he bought the fresh coronary heart as an toddler. KMOV-TV reported that Meyers changed into exact just a few months veteran when he bought a coronary heart transplant in 1989 at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He changed into, at the time, the youngest affected person at the sanatorium to endure the procedure. Meyers as born without his left ventricle. On the time, transplants for babies were irregular. Currently, Meyers is lively and dealing, along with volunteering. The sanatorium stated that beforehand yr, transplants were a success in all 41 pediatric patients who bought fresh hearts.

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Missoula: The U.S. Home of Representatives has passed a invoice to name a native submit jam of industrial in honor of Jeannette Rankin. The Missoulian reported Thursday that the approval got right here Wednesday to rename the constructing after the Missoula-born Republican identified because the principle woman to retain federal jam of industrial within the US. Officers stated the invoice changed into supplied to the Home and Senate in March. Rankin changed into elected to Congress in 1916 and reelected in 1940. Officers stated she secured the particular to vote for females in Montana in 1914, six years before ratification of the 19th Modification that granted females the particular to vote nationwide. A stretch of Interstate 90, a hall on the College of Montana campus, traditional colleges, a park and peace heart additionally raise her name..

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Lincoln: Notify game and natural world officers are providing options to motorists to preserve a ways off from collisions with deer this tumble. The Nebraska Sport and Parks Price stated deer are more lively now as crops are being harvested and deer breeding season is in fleshy swing. The company quick motorists strive to await the doubtless of a deer on the avenue and be willing to pause all of sudden – in particular around wooded areas and all by diagram of spoil of day and dusk, when deer are more lively. Steer clear of braking too sharply or swerving. Motorists are additionally urged to wear seat belts and to honk their horns and flash their headlights within the occasion that they put a deer shut to the avenue to strive to apprehension it away.

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Las Vegas: The U.S. Census Bureau stated Clark County has judicious one of the essential fastest-rising Native American populations within the country. The bureau estimated that between July 2017 and 2018 the bogus of Native Individuals dwelling within the county that entails Las Vegas grew at a quicker charge than any other huge county within the nation. Consultants told the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal more Native Individuals are transferring to the county on myth of of its stable financial system, employment opportunities and proximity to reservations in Arizona, Utah and Southern California. Currently about 50,000 of us who self-establish as Native American live in Clark County – about 2% of the county’s population.

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Harmony: Four teachers were honored with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. They are Bryan Smith, who teaches fourth grade at Bethlehem Fundamental Faculty; Gregory Snoke, who teaches sixth grade at Captain Samuel Douglass Academy in Brookline; Elise Catalano, who bought the award for her work at Rye Junior High Faculty and now teaches seventh grade at Cooperative Center Faculty in Exeter; and Angela Lennox, who fair not too lengthy within the past retired from Exeter High Faculty. It’s her 2nd time receiving the award. She first won in 2013. Established in 1983, the award is the very excellent recognition that a kindergarten-by diagram of-12th-grade science, expertise, engineering, arithmetic, and/or computer science teacher can gain for outstanding teaching.

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Trenton: Hunters have confidence killed 185 dark bears since the hunt started first and predominant gentle on Monday. Most of the bears harvested were in Sussex, Warren and Morris counties. The predominant three days were restricted to hunters the usage of bows and arrows. However, archers and muzzle-loading rifle hunters were allowed starting up Thursday they most ceaselessly can also fair participate till the hunt ended a half-hour before sunset on Saturday. The undergo hunt for firearms excellent starts Dec. 9. The hunt is proscribed to 5 zones. Gov. Phil Murphy has prohibited hunting on utter lands. Hunters killed 225 bears in 2018, the lowest quantity since 2003.

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Albuquerque: Professors and adjunct teachers at Contemporary Mexico’s excellent university have confidence voted to unionize. The College of Contemporary Mexico announced Friday the adjunct and college counseled two proposals in prefer of union illustration after two days of voting. Outcomes showed members of the school’s long-established college voted 500-304 in prefer of unionization. Adjunct college voted 256-26 in prefer of forming their very have confidence union. The transfer comes after a college union petition changed into filed in February. Faculty members have confidence complained that College of Contemporary Mexico professors are among the many lowest-paid within the country.

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Saranac Lake: The realm of a sanitarium that made this Adirondack village important for treating tuberculosis has been supplied. The Adirondack Day after day Endeavor reported the veteran Trudeau Sanatorium property changed into supplied Thursday for $2.65 million to Medication Cottage Model. The 29-constructing property had been owned since 1957 by a Contemporary York Metropolis-basically basically based govt training company. Edward Livingston Trudeau, a Contemporary York physician who survived tuberculosis, basically based the clinical care area in 1885. He’s the massive-grandfather of “Doonesbury” sketch creator Garry Trudeau. Saranac Lake turned identified for treating TB sufferers, with many staying in what were identified as “treatment cottages.” Understanding to be one of the essential traders told the newspaper they are interested to stabilize buildings and host weddings and other events associated to the chapel by the spring.

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Fayetteville: A cemetery has canceled plans for a Halloween-themed movie night after complaints from of us with cherished ones buried there. WTVD reported the free public tournament at Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayetteville changed into going to consist of snacks and a child-pleasant movie. A assertion from the proprietor stated the park has “a aesthetic green area with masses of room to retain such an tournament without infringing on any burial areas.” But the assertion stated when families’ concerns turned glaring, the tournament changed into canceled “out of respect to all.” Sam Simpson, whose daughter is buried at the cemetery, told the put he and his family didn’t indulge in the belief of crowds of of us sitting around, presumably mistreating gravestones or leaving trash.

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Fargo: Plenty of Kurdish Individuals and others took to the streets of downtown Fargo waving signs and flags to drawl assaults by Turkey that were ignited by President Donald Trump’s resolution to drag U.S. troops out of Syria. Direct organizer Kawar Karok told KVRR-TV that Saturday’s demonstration changed into supposed to draw attention “to the reality that our of us are composed being slaughtered, our youngsters are being massacred, and nothing has modified.” He stated Kurdish combatants who worked alongside Individuals to battle ISIS terrorists are being left within the chilly. Fargo native Shakar Abdulla stated “runt youngsters and wives and families” are being killed by a dictator and that goes in opposition to American values. He stated it’s time to total the mindless violence. Karok stated his community has “very president of us” and there is on the total more protests till one thing is accomplished.

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Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Zoo’s most fresh toddler bearcat is willing to gain its debut because the College of Cincinnati’s next live mascot. But first, she wants a reputation. The zoo showed off the fresh child bearcat Friday. Zoo workers is asking traffic to counsel a reputation for the young bearcat. The fresh name will likely be announced at Cincinnati’s homecoming game in opposition to Connecticut in early November. Stay mascots from the zoo have confidence represented the school for 35 years. Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard stated the final one, named Lucy is alive and successfully but has entered retirement. Her successor changed into born in Nashville zoo in Nashville, Tennessee, four weeks within the past. She weighs 2 kilos.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: Native American tribes in Oklahoma will meet with utter officers to chat about clashing views on the tribes’ playing settlement. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt stated the tribes’ 15-yr playing compact will expire on Jan. 1 except a renewal is negotiated. Tribal officers have confidence countered that stance, announcing the settlement must renew automatically. The Oklahoman reported that the perimeters are meeting on Oct. 28 to iron out their differing interpretations of the settlement. Oklahoma’s Native American tribes pay the utter exclusivity costs ranging from 4% to 10% of earnings for the perk of working particular styles of casino games within the utter. Stitt stated he believes the tribes must pay better exclusivity costs. Closing yr, the utter composed greater than $139 million in costs, which largely went to present a boost to training.

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Salem: Robb Campbell changed into completely soaked, shivering, his moist drowsing earn covering him within the suitable refuge he may perhaps well well in finding – a pit lavatory in a closed campground – after getting misplaced in a blizzard in Oregon while hiking the Pacific Crest Path. Campbell changed into saved on Friday by a search team from the native sheriff’s division, who stumbled on his footprints within the snow. Heavy snow changed into forecast by diagram of Saturday night within the Cascade Differ. Campbell, a native of the Philadelphia home, started hiking the successfully-known Pacific Crest Path on the U.S.-Mexican border on Would possibly perchance also fair 4, particular to gain it your whole arrangement to the other spoil, on the Canadian border, 2,650 miles away. Closing yr, he hiked the Appalachian Path from Georgia to Maine, he stated. Those who stroll all of the gap of these multistate trails are called by diagram of-hikers. Campbell’s troubles started Wednesday night. Snow changed into falling, the principle chilly climate storm of the season. He stayed awake all night, punching the inner tent walls to knock the collecting snow off. As he hiked on Thursday, the snow buried the path. A smartphone app that changed into alleged to point to the arrangement didn’t lend a hand. Straying miles off the path and into a boulder self-discipline, he stepped into a crack hidden within the snow, trapping his foot. He struggled for five minutes and had to unlace his shoe before he may perhaps well well free himself, Campbell stated.

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Pittsburgh: Leaders of a synagogue the put 11 worshippers were fatally shot final yr stated they are interested to renovate the constructing into what they hope will likely be a “heart for Jewish existence within the US” and a symbol in opposition to hatred. Plans unveiled Friday for the Tree of Existence synagogue integrated places for cherish; memorial, training and social events; classrooms and exhibitions. Tree of Existence Govt Director Barb Feige stated returning to the constructing will honor these killed on Oct. 27, 2018. Federal prosecutors have confidence charged 47-yr-veteran Robert Bowers within the bloodbath. They are hunting for the demise penalty. His attorneys stated the case would be over by now if prosecutors had licensed his responsible plea in return for a existence term without parole.

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Windfall: Rhode Island has been awarded federal funding to present protection to college students from lead in college ingesting water. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed stated the utter health division will gain a $703,000 federal grant to take a look at for lead in ingesting water at native colleges and childcare centers. The Rhode Island Democrat stated of us, college students and teachers have confidence a compatible to know that water is stable at colleges and childcare facilities. The fresh grant is poke by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It would be venerable to present free analytical water trying out and lend a hand communities put in force plans to decrease lead in ingesting water. The health division stated it goes to exhaust the grant to expand college trying out that started in 2017 and earn up to 20 samples at every public college.

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Charleston: Crews are willing to originate construction on a museum chronicling the history of African Individuals within the Western Hemisphere. The International African American Museum will retain a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday. The museum is determined to originate in 2021. The museum sits on the ragged area of Gadsden Wharf in downtown Charleston, the put nearly half the slaves brought to The united states first arrived. Used Charleston Mayor Joe Riley has been pushing for the museum since 2000 and has helped raise $90 million from governments and greater than 2,200 folks and firms. The museum will expose the story of slavery, but additionally other struggles and accomplishments by African Individuals within the U.S. This would perhaps consist of comprehensive genealogy libraries to lend a hand of us imprint their family history.

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Fleet Metropolis: Authorities stated a misplaced hunter has been stumbled on stable in western South Dakota. Pennington County sheriff’s authorities stated the 72-yr-veteran man from Alexandria, South Dakota, changed into elk hunting with chums when he changed into reported missing around 9 p.m. Thursday. A sheriff’s deputy stumbled on the man about 90 minutes later. The Fleet Metropolis Journal reported the man changed into not injured. The hunt integrated the usage of a thermal drone. The person is the 2nd hunter reported missing in October within the Unlit Hills. On Oct.1, 66-yr-veteran Larry Genzlinger of Howard changed into hunting shut to Deerfield Lake in western Pennington County when he changed into reported missing. Searchers were out some other time Friday hunting for Genzlinger.

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Nashville: Agriculture officers stated an invasive tick that can perhaps well threaten the health of cattle has been stumbled on in eight Tennessee counties. Federal and utter officers stated in a news liberate Thursday that invasive Asian longhorned tick has been stumbled on in Claiborne, Cocke, Jefferson, Knox, Putnam and Sevier counties. The parasitic arachnids were detected in Roane and Union counties in Would possibly perchance also fair. Officers stated there are concerns that the tick can also transmit Theileriosis in cattle. Consultants stated heavy infestations can trigger blood loss and murder cattle. The Centers for Illness Management and Prevention stated within the assertion that there may perhaps be not a evidence that the tick has sickened other folks within the U.S. Cattle and canine are inclined to tick bites. Livestock producers and dog house owners are told to take a look at their animals for ticks.

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Houston: The Navy Corps of Engineers has proposed 14-foot-high pure sand dunes within the most fresh model of it is up to $32 billion draw for safeguarding the Houston-Galveston areas from storm-associated storm surges. The Houston Story reported the draw requires organising roughly 44 miles of dunes and floodgates to toddle from High Island to San Luis Pass, to boot to ecosystem restoration farther south. The sand dune self-discipline is among a series of revisions the Corps fair not too lengthy within the past made to the draft coastal barrier alignment released final yr. The update is more ambitious than the -called “Ike Dike,” proposed by Texas A&M researchers and named for the 2008 storm that flooded parts of Galveston. The Corps will submit a closing proposal for the coastal barrier to Congress for funding in 2021.

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Springville: Two siblings are continuing their family’s custom of taking half in mariachi song by performing the song at weddings, gala's and other events in a nod to their Mexican heritage. The Deseret Recordsdata reported Sam Castillo and Karlysue Castillo Pereyra formed a mariachi neighborhood in 2016 after transferring to Provo to relief Brigham Young College. Their father and grandfather discovered easy play mariachi of their native Mexico and encouraged the siblings to continue the custom. Mariachi song has been experiencing a rebirth within the U.S. Southwest as storytelling and a stable symbol of Mexican culture. Castillo Pereyra stated the song is empowering and an increasing number of favorite with non-Latino audiences. Both siblings stated they hope to continue taking half within the song for a truly lengthy time.

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Lyndonville: A White River Junction company desires to form a say voltaic vitality self-discipline on this northern Vermont community. Kevin Davis of Norwich Solar gave a presentation to the prefer board final week. The Caledonian Story reported that Davis stated his company is asking into organising a 500-kilowatt project along the railroad tracks within the motivate of the ragged Kennametal/Tap & Die constructing on Predominant Boulevard. He requested the prefer board if the city of Lyndonville desired to earn just a few of the flexibility produced, announcing it can perhaps well put an estimated $800 yearly if it does. But Bill Humphrey, Lyndonville Electrical Department’s usual supervisor, stated web metering arrangements are draining property from small electrical utilities. He stated the division gets no earnings from these arrangements but must enlighten the flexibility to web metering customers.

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Norfolk: A fresh artwork point to explores Thomas Jefferson’s extremely influential architectural solutions and his imaginative and prescient for buildings that symbolize liberty and democracy. But the point to additionally strives to highlight just a few of the enslaved workers who helped invent masses of the buildings that Jefferson designed. The purpose to opens Saturday at the Chrysler Museum of Artwork in Norfolk. The purpose to presents one more reckoning over the founding father’s legacy and the characteristic of enslaved Individuals in U.S. history. Present curator Erik Neil stated Jefferson envisioned buildings for a fresh republic, not veteran-world kings. The domes and columns in his designs purposefully recalled veteran Greece and Rome. But he stated it’s very not going to chat about Jefferson without talking relating to the subject of slavery and mosey in The united states.

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Shelton: The National Weather Service stated a tornado touched down Friday night shut to Shelton. KOMO-TV reported the tornado had winds up to 100 mph. The tornado started on land and traveled greater than a half-mile before transferring over the waters of Pickering Passage and changing into a waterspout. It dissipated after transferring over the water. On land, the tornado cleave a course about 90 yards huge. It changed into on the bottom for about 5 minutes. The tornado uprooted bushes. Falling bushes broken not not up to 2 homes. The tornado changed into the 2nd within the South Sound this yr. A venerable tornado touched down Oct. 4 shut to Tenino.

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Charleston: West Virginia’s better elevations composed have confidence essentially the most efficient tumble colour as warmer temperatures in September delayed this yr’s tumble foliage point to. The West Virginia Tourism Arena of industrial stated essentially the most efficient areas this weekend will likely be in areas equivalent to Randolph County. Descend colours are peaking along U.S. 250 between Elkins and Durbin. Hillsides in southern counties and decrease elevations are starting up to point to yellows, oranges and reds. Tourism officers are urging vacationers to submit photos with the hashtag “Almost Heaven.” Particular person photos are up thus a ways day after day on the Tourism Arena of industrial’s live leaf tracker draw at wvtourism.com/tumble. The Tourism Arena of industrial and West Virginia Division of Forestry is getting willing weekly tumble foliage updates.

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Madison: Students at a Madison West High Faculty skipped lessons to drawl the firing of a dark security guard who repeated a racial slur while telling a student now to not name him that observe. Some college students walked out of lessons Friday to drawl the firing. A livestream of the walkout that showed what looked as if it would be not not up to just a few dozen college students milling around on sidewalks. Marlon Anderson stated he changed into responding to a name on Oct. 9 about a disruptive student. He stated the student, who is dark, called Anderson obscenities, collectively with the N-observe. Anderson stated he told the student now to not name him the N-observe and repeated the slur all by diagram of the difference. Madison colleges have confidence a nil-tolerance protection prohibiting workers from uttering racial slurs.

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Cheyenne: Notify officers stated a Cheyenne man has grown a pumpkin that weighs utter-sage 1,491 kilos. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Thursday that Andy Corbin grew the gourd in his yard. For point of view, scientists stated fresh child elephants weigh about 200 kilos on moderate. Corbin stated the pumpkins he grows at his east Cheyenne dwelling require a handmade tripod to transfer them. He stated his pumpkins require yearlong upkeep and may perhaps well well murder dozens of kilos a day all by diagram of the rising season. Corbin stated he hopes to grow three pumpkins weighing greater than 4,000 kilos mixed.

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Slang Used In My High School

I went to a weird school that lumped every grade from 7th to 12th together in the same buildings and this resulted in a hot mess of angry teenagers and trends changing every five minutes . It was in Southern Utah , the SOUTHERN AF part of South Utah. But every Southern is different and MY southern childhood was a haze of too much denim , hideous bedazzled cowboy hats , the scent of faded leather boots , and lots of angry red neck elderlies who lived in houses that looked like death. Anyway , here's the common slang from my hellscape high school years. Brought to you from Piute High !( yeah my school stole the name of a local Native American tribe , the Paiutes , as did the county I lived in. White Colonization at its finest.... Nasty place to grow up in tbh) ~ " On The Peck " Code for - that person is pissed as Fuck , or alternatively, that person just had a make out session . Confusing tbh " Artistic Degradation " Inside joke that started in art class when my pal Indi fell asleep in class while drawing and thus turned his would-have-been masterpiece painting into a mess. He woke up and turned it in unfinished and called it " Artistic Degradation " . The teacher , Georgi , thought it was funny and hung it up on her art wall. It became a meme in our school to name various acts of sleeping while doing things " Artistic Degradation " " We'll Do It In A Mormon Minute !" My community was a largely Mormon one , and the Mormons in my area were notorious for being slow af in doing anything so this phrase sprang up as a joke "Post-apocalyptic baseball " We had a baseball field that looked as if it had survived eight wars in three months and so whenever we had a game there we called it post-apocalyptic ball " the wings know all " Started in my theater class because the kids in the ' wings ' listened to all the gossip , but it got popular since our school mascot was a Thunderbird " The Dew Crew Special " So there was this gang of dude-bros who drank Mountain Dew like it was their religion and they were known for doing stupid shit so anytime someone made a fool of themselves we called it a Dew Crew Special " Holt Beatdowns " This one is about an amazing girl , who got known for smack talking boys so well that they'd switch schools. Her last name was Holt . ( Like Pidge!:) Whenever a girl went off on a boy we called it a Holt Beatdown " The Weeb Wars " Slang for whenever someone was arguing over anime topics " The Aubrey Challenge " I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS A THING UNTIL RECENTLY BUT APPARENTLY I GOT FAMED FOR BEING A SARCASTIC REBELLIOUS PUNK And " The Aubrey Challenge " is slang for when a kid takes on someone in ruthless verbal warfare, starts an act of rebellion , or derails a class discussion by spewing conspiracy theories . Can't believe I'm a slang term " Passive Aggressive Stage Diving " The trust fall exercise, but stage dive style . ( There were concussions and the coach got mad so we stopped ) " Alternative Methods Of Murder " A joke started in biology when our teacher Sherida lectured us on how to successfully kill someone in the event of us becoming fugitives ???? ( I love her she's an icon ) " Funeral Potatoes Or Death " So there's this amazing potato dish that the local Mormons made only for funerals and it's So Good that you forget other food exists . We used to actively keep tabs on local funerals just to get the opportunity to enjoy the free lunch provided at the service. Think Au Gratin potatoes but with heaps of cheese , sour cream , onions , chives , bacon bits .... They're literally to die for I swear . " Indignant Death " Term used for when one of us theater nerds would pretend to fall dead out of sheer offense " Spider-Man isn't a good hero" - dramatically- " A MORTAL BLOW, FOUL VILLAIN!" - falls down in slow mo - " Code Demigod " Slang for when we'd all fuck with the substitute by seriously claiming our demigod roots , Percy Jackson style " Miss Holt , what are your parents like ?" " Gosh , I only know my dad! My mom's too busy , she's Persephone,you know. Queen of Hell. " " WHAT." " Existentially Noping" Slang for depression and for all the slacker kids " The Mormon Mortal Sins " Term for anything the Mormons said was evil ( which includes tea???? What did tea do to hurt you, Mormons????) " A Dalton Cure" A joke that started because the two most influential families in town, the Daltons and the Blackwells , were also rivals. The Daltons were a well-groomed White Christian family , and literally all of them look like models. Super-nice folks but they all have this deceptive kind of air about their smiles.( might actually be fairy people I'm not sure , they don't seem to age like humans anyway ) Whenever something bad got fixed mysteriously , it was known as a Dalton cure because we all knew it had to be a Dalton who fixed it. Anything bad that happened was called " Blackwell Wishes "

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Take a Look at This LSU Superfan’s Home for Sale, All Memorabilia Included

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One of the most recognizable landmarks in Metairie, LA—a three-bedroom, 2-bath shrine to Louisiana State University—is now up for sale, after its owner was shot dead during an argument with his next-door neighbor.

The modest 2,400-square-foot house is located on Bonnabel Boulevard—a major thoroughfare in Metairie—and is known locally as the “LSU house,” because of the gold-and-purple lawn ornaments, LSU flags, cartoon cutouts of Mike the Tiger, and brightly painted lion statues that once graced the front yard.

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The late “Big Lee” Martin once told reporters he spent more than 20 years amassing a private collection of Louisiana State University memorabilia, which he packed into his house and displayed at his business, Big Lee’s Towing Company. That includes his custom LSU pool table, and his purple-and-gold casket, which was used in his funeral service in mid-May.

After his death, Martin’s family decided to put the entire house, including its contents, on the market for $350,000. They’re hoping a fellow LSU superfan will step in and keep the landmark alive, rather than selling off the memorabilia and repainting its exterior.

Inside, the home’s foyer is festooned in LSU purple and gold, with flags, a football helmet cutout, framed championship sports pages from The Times-Picayune, pennants, and photos of the school’s mascot, Mike the Tiger.

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Just off the entrance was Martin’s office, which included—among the pile of memorabilia you’d expect—a purple-and-gold LSU office chair and framed posters of Marilyn Monroe.

Martin seemed to like Monroe: She also appears on the walls of his living room and dining room, alongside photos of Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, and a life-sized cardboard cutout of John Wayne.

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Dining room and casket

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The listing photos suggest Martin was a diehard Republican—there’s a “Trump 2016” sign attached to the front of his house, and large posters from the political campaigns of former Louisiana governor and onetime presidential candidate, Bobby Jindal, lieutenant governor Billy Nungesser, Louisiana state senator Danny Martiny, and failed sheriff’s candidate John Fortunato.

Elsewhere, the house has a screened-in patio, bar, and hot tub.

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In early May, Martin and his next-door neighbor, Wayne Higgins, 78, got into an argument that escalated when Martin apparently sprayed Higgins with a garden hose, police say. Higgins, who was licensed to carry a concealed firearm, allegedly shot Martin once in the chest, walked back inside his house and waited for police to arrive and arrest him.

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Lucy Decides To Redecorate

S2;E8 ~ November 18, 1963

Synopsis

Lucy decides she would like some remodeling done in her home, but Mr. Mooney will only allow enough money for a few small jobs. Lucy and Viv figure they can do the big repairs themselves.

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney), Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael), Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley)

This is just the second episode in the series to only feature only the regular cast.  The last time this happened was in “Lucy Buys a Boat” (S1;E30).

To give the series a face lift and maintain viewer interest, changing the look of the scenery was an easy solution. The first 22 minutes were filmed before “The Lucy Show” went on summer hiatus after season 1. The last scene showing the Carmichael home's new look was filmed after production resumed in September.

Lucy refers to President John F. Kennedy's fitness program. President Kennedy was assassinated four days after this show first aired. Next week's episode will be pre-empted for news coverage of his funeral. Lucy Carmichael met Kennedy in “Lucy Visits The White House” (S1;E25).

Lucy wants a new lampshade, upholstery for the chair and ottoman, fixing the springs in the sofa, and refinishing the coffee table – all of which she estimates will cost $200. She plans on asking Mr. Mooney for $500 for new wall-to-wall carpeting, but she knows she'll need to compromise. In today's money, $200 would be like asking for $1,700.  

Viv compares their painting to that of Picasso. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is known for co-founding the cubist movement and the invention of constructed sculpture. Viv previously mentioned Picasso in “Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room” (S1;E11).  

Viv remarks that the living room would get the 'Bad Housekeeping Seal of Approval' a joke about the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. In 1909, the magazine established the it  to indicate that products advertised in the magazine were tested by their research institute and backed by a two-year limited warranty.

The coffee table is full of cigarette burns, all of which have suddenly appeared for this episode.  Viv mentions her boyfriend Eddie Collins, who was last seen in “Lucy Goes Duck Hunting (S2;E6). Viv mentions that he is a cigar smoker. The character was played by Don Briggs, who made his seventh and final appearance on that episode.  The only time smoking was featured on “The Lucy Show” was briefly in “Kiddie Parties Inc.” (S2;E2) when a client lit up, not Lucy or Viv.  

Seeing the burn marks on the coffee table, Mr. Mooney asks if “Smokey the Bear knows about you people?” Smokey Bear is an advertising mascot created in 1944 to educate the public about the dangers of forest fires.

Lucy says she got the idea to spray paint the sofa from Young Moderns Magazine. This appears to be a fictional publication, named in order to make an age joke at Lucy's expense.  There actually was a Young Modern Magazine in the 1960s, but it was only published in Australia, and was unlikely to be seen by Lucy or Viv.  

Viv's car is a 1953 Ford Crestline Sunliner convertible. The vehicle will turn up again in “Lucy, the Meter Maid” (S3;E7).  The last time we saw Viv's car was in “Lucy Buys a Sheep” (S1;E5) where she owned a 1949 Packard Super Deluxe Eight convertible.  This is the first time we have seen inside the Carmichael's garage.  

Callbacks!

Desilu had used redecorating as the theme of several episodes of “I Love Lucy.”  “Redecorating” (ILL S2;E8) also finds Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance doing DIY home redecorating with dubious results.  

Later that season, Lucy and Ethel undertook “Redecorating the Mertzes Apartment” (ILL S3;E8).  

Trouble with a paint sprayer was a comedic highlight of “The Celebrity Next Door,” a 1957 episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” where guest star Tallulah Bankhead was the victim.  

Blooper Alerts!

Memory Lapse! When Lucy and Viv can't access their bedrooms because the stairs are wet with paint, they forget that they rebuilt the basement as a rumpus room in “Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room” (S1;E11).

Stumble! When Jerry comes running down the stairs after the car crash, he falls to the floor on the last step, but quickly gets up and joins the other kids.

Logistics!  Backing through the living room wall imply that the garage is free-standing and that it would be accessed from a driveway with a turn in it. Not impossible, but unlikely.  

Pantry Plot!  The final remodeling of the living room incorporates a shuttered service window to the kitchen, very similar to the one the Ricardos had on “I Love Lucy.”  In the past however, those going through the doorway to the kitchen had to pass through the pantry, which now looks to have been eliminated.

“Lucy Decides to Redecorate” rates 4 Paper Hearts out of 5  

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Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we’re sharing things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. You can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com.

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One Painter’s Portrayal of Blackness

In a rather short period of time, Jordan Casteel has become one of the most interesting painters of her generation, working predominantly in the medium of portraiture. Casteel’s subjects are people of color — neighbors in Harlem, where she lives, or her students at Rutgers University, Newark, where she teaches — and they are rendered with a kind of beautiful vulnerability that is both honest and rare. Her work, which is now on view at the New Museum, Casteel’s first solo museum exhibition in New York, is something like the vibrancy of Matisse filtered through the intensity of Alice Neel. Her 2013-14 series of nudes of young black men, called “Visible Man,” is especially striking, with its use of greens, pinks, oranges and reds, all in the service of expanding upon a painterly definition of blackness. “I’m going to paint black men as I see and know them,” she recently told The Times about her artistic intention. “I wanted to get other people to see them in their humanity.” “Jordan Casteel: Within Reach,” is open through May 24 at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, newmuseum.org. And for more, watch Casteel discuss her favorite artwork and the affinity she feels for its creator.

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In Maine, a Cozy New Restaurant With a Haunted Past

Greg Mitchell is best known as the co-owner of the retro Palace Diner in Biddeford, Maine. But last year, the proprietor launched his first solo act, Flood’s, in Portland. The restaurant is attached to the city’s Francis hotel, a 19th-century mansion by the architect Francis Fassett — who designed many Portland buildings after the area’s great fire of 1886 — that has also served as a funeral parlor. When it came to design, Mitchell mixed contemporary elements with nostalgic ones that pay homage to the building’s past: Alongside a still-life photograph by his wife, Meg Mitchell, of knafeh (a Palestinian dessert) are old maritime paintings, found family snapshots and other flea-market knickknacks that take on a new mythology in the tavern-style space. Like Palace, Flood’s offers creative comfort food like juicy burgers and pancetta toast with apple butter, as well as a laid-back environment personified by several unofficial and irreverent mascots from the minds of the Atlanta-based design and consulting group Office of Brothers, Inc., such as a beanie-wearing, cigarette-smoking fish. “I’m not in the business of challenging people with my space or my food,” Mitchell told me. Rather, Flood’s is about feeling like you’re a regular. floodsme.com.

Though I can’t speak to the fit, I can still remember the first white button-down I purchased (on sale at the mall) with my own money and the feeling that it would add a great deal of sophistication to my sixth-grade aesthetic. Pierpaolo Piccioli’s use of crisp shirting is, it turns out, even more elevated: The Valentino creative director has included various nods to the classic white shirt in his last few couture collections. Now, thanks to the fashion house’s Le Blanc pop-up, debuting at its New York flagship next week (before making stops in Los Angeles and Dallas), mere mortals can get a taste of the bespoke experience. Shoppers will choose between two basic shirt styles in white poplin, one longish and one cropped, and then work with a seamstress to customize the piece as they please, which might mean adding a bib, ruffles, floral embroidery, a feather detail or white-on-white monogramming. The idea, as Piccioli often says, is to bring couture to the streets. Through Feb. 28, 693 Fifth Avenue, valentino.com.

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A Sustainably Designed Hotel Over the Kalahari Desert

Habitas, the experience-led members club and eco-hospitality group, recently closed its clubhouses in New York and Los Angeles to focus on building hotels for its community of wanderlusting millennials. The brand’s two-year-old flagship sits on a beach in Tulum, Mexico, and, while other locations are planned for San Miguel de Allende and Todos Santos, its first outpost opened earlier this month in Namibia. A 45-minute drive from Hosea Kutako International Airport, the brand’s take on a safari lodge has 15 sustainably designed suites — each a modular, 3-D-printed mini-lodge filled with custom furnishings and local crafts — and a private villa that sleeps 10. It all sits on a hilltop that overlooks the Kalahari Desert savanna, some 119,000 acres of which Habitas is recultivating as a wildlife reserve. Guests can explore by Land Cruiser, electric mountain bike or on foot with San tribesmen as their guides. They might also help an anti-poaching unit track cheetahs and rhinos, forage indigenous plants for spa treatments and medicinal workshops or go for an outdoor sound bath before heading back for a communal “bush braai” dinner and a drum circle (or DJ set) under the stars. habitasnamibia.com.

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Take a Look at This LSU Superfan’s Home for Sale, All Memorabilia Included

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One of the most recognizable landmarks in Metairie, LA—a three-bedroom, 2-bath shrine to Louisiana State University—is now up for sale, after its owner was shot dead during an argument with his next-door neighbor.

The modest 2,400-square-foot house is located on Bonnabel Boulevard—a major thoroughfare in Metairie—and is known locally as the “LSU house,” because of the gold-and-purple lawn ornaments, LSU flags, cartoon cutouts of Mike the Tiger, and brightly painted lion statues that once graced the front yard.

Exterior

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The late “Big Lee” Martin once told reporters he spent more than 20 years amassing a private collection of Louisiana State University memorabilia, which he packed into his house and displayed at his business, Big Lee’s Towing Company. That includes his custom LSU pool table, and his purple-and-gold casket, which was used in his funeral service in mid-May.

After his death, Martin’s family decided to put the entire house, including its contents, on the market for $350,000. They’re hoping a fellow LSU superfan will step in and keep the landmark alive, rather than selling off the memorabilia and repainting its exterior.

Inside, the home’s foyer is festooned in LSU purple and gold, with flags, a football helmet cutout, framed championship sports pages from The Times-Picayune, pennants, and photos of the school’s mascot, Mike the Tiger.

Foyer

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Just off the entrance was Martin’s office, which included—among the pile of memorabilia you’d expect—a purple-and-gold LSU office chair and framed posters of Marilyn Monroe.

Martin seemed to like Monroe: She also appears on the walls of his living room and dining room, alongside photos of Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, and a life-sized cardboard cutout of John Wayne.

Living room

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Dining room and casket

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The listing photos suggest Martin was a diehard Republican—there’s a “Trump 2016” sign attached to the front of his house, and large posters from the political campaigns of former Louisiana governor and onetime presidential candidate, Bobby Jindal, lieutenant governor Billy Nungesser, Louisiana state senator Danny Martiny, and failed sheriff’s candidate John Fortunato.

Elsewhere, the house has a screened-in patio, bar, and hot tub.

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In early May, Martin and his next-door neighbor, Wayne Higgins, 78, got into an argument that escalated when Martin apparently sprayed Higgins with a garden hose, police say. Higgins, who was licensed to carry a concealed firearm, allegedly shot Martin once in the chest, walked back inside his house and waited for police to arrive and arrest him.

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