#terry collier

[veryslowreader]

The Heaven Makers by Frank Herbert

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?: "Affairs and Relations"

[6gigsofgroovies]

Date yourself for a while

Easy to dispense with: I haven't found anything quite as thrilling to me as "Lazy Line Painter Jane." Still, a few clicks through a Monica Queen YouTube search yields lovely, quaking results. To return to the Belle & Sebastian though, one sure sign of a great artist (I mean musical but maybe the rule can be extrapolated inter-medium) is an ability to get odd, compelling, often freer and singular performances from their collaborators – see, for example, Chief Keef on Hold My Liquor" or the whole of Pussy Cats. I always feel mild disappointment upon finding nothing elsewhere in their catalog that's quite as gripping as what is often my introduction to an artist. Which is certainly my problem. Another error: imagining that the performances that captivate me are Stuart Murdoch's or Kanye West's or John Lennon's doing alone or even for the most part, as if Monica Queen or Chief Keef or Harry Nilson aren't the ones I'm hearing, the ones actually making the sound.

Maybe I'm being excessively fair.

For your trouble:

[ocmerunaway]

Suzanne Collier gets her wrist broken by her then fiancé an hour after he quits the police force. She runs, of course, to Terri Driver, the woman to blame for her ex and his awful mood... but Terri has always been home and hope and love... but can Terri really make it better this time? 

[fashionbooksmilano]

Chic Clicks

Exhibition curator Ulrich Lehmann

Hatje Cantz Publ. , Berlin 2002, 150+140 pages, 23,5x30cm, ISBN 3-7757-1135-X

euro 90,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Catalogue reads from both directions, with texts in the center of the book, with hundreds of full color photographs by a range of artists including Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Anders Edstrom, Takashi Himma, Richard Prince, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Larry Sultan, Erwin Wurm, and many others. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held first in Boston from January 23-May 5, 2002, and subsequently at Fotomuseum Winterthur from June 15-August 18, 2002. 

Chic Clicks est la première publication traitant du conflit entre la revendication artistique et la réalité commerciale dans la photographie de mode. 40 photographes de renom présentent des travaux libres et inédits ainsi que des commandes publiées dans des magazines de mode ; cinq essais traitent de la photographie de mode dans sa signification culturelle et sociale.

Chic Clicks présente à la fois des clichés privés et expérimentaux de photographes qui se sont fait un nom avec des photos de mode, et des photos de mode de photographes qui se sont d'abord fait connaître par leur travail artistique et qui, par conséquent, ont reçu des commandes de magazines de mode et d'entreprises.

Les artistes : Fred Aufray, Laetitia Benat, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Koto Bolofo, Mark Borthwick, Jean-François Carly, Alex Cayley, Banu Cennetoglu, Donald Christie, Philippe Cometti, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Corinne Day, Horst Diekgerdes, Anders Edström, Alexei Hay, Takashi Homma, Mikael Jansson, Marcelo Krasilcic, Christophe Kutner, Tom Lingnau et Frank Schumacher, Glen Luchford, Richard Prince, Dmon Prunner, Blaise Reuterswärd, Terry Richardson, Satoshi Saikusa, Jimo Salako, Luis Sanchis, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, David Sims, Antonio Spinoza, Larry Sultan, Iké Udé, Javier Vallhonrat, Jonathan de Villiers, Matthias Vriens, Erwin Wurm

10/06/24

[help-im-a-medstudent]

(Audio)Book Review

Geneva - Richard Armitage

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Blurb: Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of Alzheimer’s disease as her father: memory loss, even blackouts. So she is reluctant to accept the invitation to be the guest of honour at a prestigious biotech conference – until her husband Daniel, a neuroscientist, persuades her that the publicity storm will be worth it. The technology being unveiled at this conference could revolutionise medicine forever. More than that, it could save Sarah’s life.

In Geneva, the couple are feted as stars – at least, Sarah is. But behind the five-star luxury, investors are circling, controversial blogger Terri Landau is all over the story, and Sarah’s symptoms are getting worse. As events begin to spiral out of control, Sarah can’t be sure who to trust – including herself.

Review: I mainly downloaded this because a) it was free with my audible membership and b) I was obsessed with Spooks and Richard Armitage and Nicola Walker. This did not disappoint, it's gripping, there are plenty of twists some that I guessed and some that absolutely FLOORED me, it's told from several perspectives which was easy to follow and I need this as a film/tv series with those two playing the main characters. I don't know how to review this without spoiling but I always feel a good book makes you feel things about the main characters (whether that's positive or negative emotions) and I got so invested in this and yelled a lot at certain characters so it definitely ticked that box for me. It's not super science/biotech focussed and isn't sci-fi it's more an imagining of medical tech that is not currently available but could be soon. Apparently it was originally written to be an audiobook but I think there is a print version, I don't know if that would affect it in any way.

Trigger warnings: Alzheimer's dementia, mentions of assisted suicide, emotional abuse, murder, violence, gun violence, car accident, depiction of hallucinations and dissociative episodes

[justforbooks]

The actor Brigit Forsyth, who has died aged 83, made her name as Thelma in the BBC television series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? One critic described Thelma as so prim that she could turn the lifting of a lace curtain into an art form.

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais’s creation, which ran from 1973 to 1974, was the sequel to the popular 1960s sitcom The Likely Lads, which starred Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, two single north-east England factory workers who share a flat and the same interests – women, drink and football.

Thelma Chambers was brought in as a girlfriend for the upwardly mobile Bob, now in the white-collar class with a house, car and annual holiday on the Costa Brava, scoffed at by Terry, who clings on to his working-class roots. Thelma and Bob were married halfway through the two series of the show.

“Up until then, I had done a lot of drama on telly,” said Forsyth. “If I wasn’t being murdered, I was murdering somebody or I was a disturbed art teacher. I was playing quite a lot of deranged people, so comedy was a nice change.”

She created laughs again with the sitcom Sharon and Elsie (1984-85), in which she co-starred as the middle-class Elsie Beecroft alongside Janette Beverley as the more down-to-earth Sharon Wilkes, two employees in a greetings card manufacturing company.

But Forsyth’s own favourite television part was Francine Pratt in Playing the Field (1998-2002), the on- and off-pitch women’s football drama created by Kay Mellor. Her character, who hates the game, is married to the Castlefield Blues’ sponsor, played by Ricky Tomlinson, and keeps him happy in return for designer clothes and other luxuries.

“I have never played awful glamour before,” she said. “I had a blond wig, six-inch heels, makeup and my bosom hitched up high.”

Forsyth was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, to Scottish parents, Anne (nee Forsyth), an artist, and Frank Connell, an architect and town planner, and brought up in Edinburgh. She was mesmerised by Stanley Baxter’s performances as a pantomime dame at the city’s King’s theatre and, aged 18, landed her own first lead role, as Sarat Carn, on her way to the gallows, in Charlotte Hastings’s play Bonaventure with the Makars amateur drama group.

But when she left St George’s school, Edinburgh, her parents insisted she learn a skill, so she trained as a secretary. After a couple of jobs, she headed for London and Rada (1958-60), where she won the Emile Littler prize.

She began her professional career back in Edinburgh with the Gateway theatre company (1960-61) before moving on to the Theatre Royal, Lincoln (1961-62) and the Arthur Brough Players in Folkestone (1962). With other actors already named Brigit McConnell and Bridget O’Connell, she changed her professional name to Forsyth on her return to Lincoln in 1962.

At the Edinburgh festival three years later, she played one of the witches in a headline-making production of Macbeth. “That show caused an absolute uproar because they wanted the witches to have the bodies of young girls and the faces of old women, and they wanted us to have our top half naked,” Forsyth recalled. “But the Earl of Harewood, who was running the EIF at the time, said ‘No’. So they put nipple caps on us, which looked absolutely disgusting – and they used to drop off each night. It was absolutely hysterical.”

Later, in the West End, Forsyth played Annie in The Norman Conquests (Globe, now Gielgud, and Apollo theatres, 1974-76) and Dusa in the feminist play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (Mayfair theatre, 1976-77). She put her TV breakthrough down to cutting her hair short. “It proved a tremendously lucky omen,” she said.

That break came with Adam Smith (1972), in which she played the younger daughter of the title character, a Scottish minister (Andrew Keir). The director, Brian Mills, then worked with Forsyth on the psychological thriller Holly (1972), when she took the part of a young art teacher kidnapped by a mentally unstable student. Forsyth and Mills married in 1976.

Television roles kept on coming. She was Veronica, one of the product-promotion team, in The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Harriet in the inter-generational sitcom Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982-83), and Helen Yeldham, a hotelier, in the 1989 series of Boon.

There were also appearances in soap opera: as GP Judith Vincent in The Practice (1985-86); Babs Fanshawe, Ken Barlow’s escort agency date who dies of a heart attack, in a 1998 Coronation Street episode; Delphine LaClair, a sales rep for a French company interested in buying Rodney Blackstock’s vineyards, for two short runs in Emmerdale (2005 and 2006); Cressida, mother of the millionaire Nate Tenbury-Newent, in Hollyoaks in 2013; and three roles in Doctors between 2000 and 2012.

Forsyth also played the miserable Madge, who frustrates her sister Mavis’s attempts at a relationship with Granville, in the sitcom sequel Still Open All Hours (2013-19).

A cellist from the age of nine, Forsyth starred as the real-life virtuoso Beatrice Harrison in a 2004 tour of The Cello and the Nightingale. Also on tour, she was a remarkably believable Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (2000) and played Marie in Calendar Girls (2008). “I’m Mrs Frosty-Knickers, the one who doesn’t approve of it all.”

In 2017, she played a terminally ill musician in the stage comedy Killing Time, written by her daughter, Zoe Mills, who acted alongside her. At the time, Forsyth revealed that her maternal grandfather, a GP in Yorkshire, had helped dying patients to end their lives. Declaring herself a supporter of euthanasia, she said: “He bumped off probably loads of people with doses of morphine.”

In 1999, Forsyth separated from her husband, but they remained friends until his death in 2006. She is survived by their children, Ben and Zoe.

🔔 Brigit Forsyth (Brigit Dorothea Connell), actor, born 28 July 1940; died 1 December 2023

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[ubu507]

'O lurcher loving collier…' Terry Lee (b.1932) UCL Art Museum

[maytheoddshq]

132nd Hunger Games - Recap

VICTOR: Nano, District 3

ARENA: Camp Nightlock

DURATION: 4 days

RECAP:

Camp Nightlock is a classic summer camp filled with activity cabins, communal spaces, and sleeping cabins numbered one through twelve. It's surrounded by a dense forest and there's a lake to the east. The camp has been abandoned, almost as if suddenly — as if everyone has disappeared overnight and left it to the tributes.

8 tributes die during the Bloodbath, which is fought in the center of the camp besides a large campfire. Collier Lignite (D12), in a rush to get away from Terri Kloth (NPC) after snagging a role of duct tape, kills Jay Elle (D2). Juliana Carnelian (D1) fights with her district partner Victor Sterling (D1) over a knife and forces him to land on his wrist, putting it out of commission; she walks away with the knife.

By the time the campers – tributes have scattered from the flagpole, eight cannons sounded. Collier Lignite (D12) in a rush to get away from Terri Kloth after snagging a roll of duct tape, kills Jay Elle (D2); Juliana Carnelian (D1) fights with her District partner Victor Sterling (D1) over a knife and forces him to land on his wrist, putting it out of commission and she walks away with the knife. Sawyer Bell (D6) and Cornelia Terra (D2) fight over a tube of antibiotic cream. Sawyer attempts to gouge out Cornelia's eyes, leaving Cornelia injured. Ellemora Datum (D3) and Edison Mitchell (D5) fight over some trail mix, and Mora throws dirt and rocks in Edison's face, but Edison wins the fight. Rowan Durum (D9) and Madge Boxcar (NPC) fight over a compass and Rowan is victorious.

Several tributes score kills early on during the Bloodbath, but afterwards, they scatter to different corners of the camp. And so the lines are drawn, but the lines are a bit wiggly. Alliances are unclear, trust is unclear — people move from one pairing to another, not landing on anything solid just yet. But that's about to change, as the second day dawns and the loudspeaker comes to life to announce that the tributes will be playing a mandatory game of Capture the Flag. They have been split into teams and told that if they win the game, they will receive the necessary supplies to survive Tuesday. The teams are as follows:

Blue:

Victor Sterling

Cornelia Terra

Edison Mitchell

Ren Ophio

Collier Lignite

Riley Durum*

Earl Leebird*

Spela Schmounton*

Orange:

Juliana Carnelian

Ellemora Datum

Nano Byte

Sawyer Bell

Rowan Durum

Madge Boxcar*

Terri Kloth*

(*NPC)

Underneath the loudspeaker, midway up the flagpole, is Roe Dyland (NPC), strung up by the ankle. A strange symbol is carved into the tribute's back. Nevertheless, the game must commence.

The orange team hides their flag in the high ropes course, a journey that costs Ellemora Datum her life as Sawyer Bell pushes her to her death (by accident? Perhaps.). The team creates a decoy out of an orange piece of fabric from the arts and crafts cabin and tie it around Roe's leg. Juliana guards the fake flag and several others search.

The blue team hides their flag under the docks. Ren and Cornelia are runners while Collier, Edison, and Victor guard their flag. Ren and Connie do end up finding the orange flag, but it's too late — Nano finds blue's flag first, ending the game. The orange team all receive a gift of sunscreen, half a canteen of water, and a s'more at dawn the next day. Ellemora isn't the only one to not survive the day, however, as Cornelia kills Victor before the day is through.

The next morning the sun is hotter and brighter than it has been before. Heat survival becomes very important and the tributes find their way into the cabins for what little relief the shade provides. The morning also brings another flagpole show: Spela Schmounton (NPC) has been hung up by the ankles. If tributes were awake early enough, they may have heard the screams of someone being... trapped? Hunted? Picked? — before the sun rose that morning. The symbol that was on Roe's ankle is on Spela's as well. It's clear that something or someone is haunting this camp.

Edison Mitchell is forced to kill Rowan Durum to put him out of his misery after he's attacked by the horse in the stables. She later dies of sickness in Nano's arms just moments before a vial of medicine reaches her.

The heat wave breaks at the end of the sweltering third day, but the night doesn't bring much mental relief. Each tribute is now being stalked by a shadow — something that moves steathily and follows them, just out of reach. If a tribute goes into a building, their shadow bangs on the windows and doors, unrelenting. The pursuits lasts all night, and in the morning, they find that every building has the same eerie symbol found on the flagpole victims carved onto the doors and in various trees throughout the woods.

During the night, Ren and Collier are running from the shadows when Ren mistakes Collier for her attacker. They run Collier through with a knife in self-defense before realizing who they've stabbed. Collier dies, leaving Ren shaken. Sawyer runs into Cornelia in the woods and is killed, partly in thanks to what might be a Gamemaker intervention giving Cornelia an advantage when Sawyer lets it slip that she may have cheated with the help of a Gamemaker.

The dawn brings the end of the shadows, but again, relief is short-lived, as that evening, the smell of smoke wafts through the camp. The creature who has been hunting the tributes makes herself known: an impossibly tall nurse whose coat has the symbol that's been carved into Roe and Spela's ankles as well as the buildings and trees in the camp. She is a monster, burning the camp down and forcing the tributes into the center to face her.

Juliana Carnelian is her first victim, with the nurse stepping on her chest and breaking her ribcage as well as piercing some of her organs. The situation is beyond repair and Ren ends her suffering.

Cornelia sacrifices herself so that Nano might have a chance at living, and the only two tributes who remain are Ren and Nano. Ultimately, Nano wins a fight between the two of them, but it's the nurse who finishes Ren off in the end. Nano emerges victorious, the sole survivor and the Victor.

Kills Leaderboard:

1st: Cornelia Terra - 5 kills

2nd: Nano - 3 kills

3rd: Juliana Carnelian // Sawyer Bell // Edison Mitchell // Ren Ophio - 2 kills

4th: Rowan Durum // Collier Lignite // Victor Sterling - 1 kill

5th: Ellemora Datum - 0 kills

Rankings:

VICTOR: NANO BYTE. DISTRICT THREE.

2nd: Ren Ophio - D7 - Killed by GM Event

3rd: Cornelia Terra - D2 - Killed by GM Event

4th: Juliana Carnelian - D1 - Killed by Ren Ophio

5th: Sawyer Bell - D6 - Killed by Cornelia Terra

6th: Collier Lignite - D12 - Killed by Ren Ophio

7th: Earl E. Byrd - D10 - Killed by Cornelia Terra

8th: Edison Mitchell - D5 - Killed by Nano

9th: Rowan Durum - D9 - Killed by Edison Mitchell

10th: Riley Durum - D9 - Killed by Cornelia Terra

11th: Spela Schmountain - D4 - Killed by Gamemaker Event

12th: Victor Sterling - D1 - Killed by Cornelia Terra

13th: Terri Kloth - D8 - Killed by Juliana Carnelian

14th: Madge Boxcar - D6 - Killed by Nano

15th: Ellemora Datum - D3 - Killed by Sawyer Bell

16th: Roe Dyeland - D8 - Killed by Gamemaker Event

17th: Lumen Essence - D5 - Killed by Edison Mitchell

18th: Axel Ottle - D4 - Killed by Sawyer Bell

19th: Alex Plaine - D10 - Killed by Nano

20th: Mort Ality - D12 - Killed by Juliana Carnelian

21st: Pete Reedish - D11 - Killed by Rowan Durum

22nd: Jay Elle - D2 - Killed by Collier Lignite

23rd: Nico Thyme - D11 - Killed by Cornelia Terra

24th: Will Durness - D7 - Killed by Victor Sterling

[no-sex-only-gender]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers ♡

- Singing with people

- Teaching students that like learning

- Reading neuroscience papers

- Stories (especially by Terry Pratchett)

- Anything Jacob Collier does

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[xionisgr]

ISBN:978-960-16-7818-4 Συγγραφέας: Mort Terry Εκδότης: Εκδόσεις Πατάκη Σελίδες: 431 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2018-11-01 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

[a078740849aposts]

ISBN:978-960-16-7818-4 Συγγραφέας: Mort Terry Εκδότης: Εκδόσεις Πατάκη Σελίδες: 431 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2018-11-01 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

[thelenazavaroniarchive]

17th May 2024.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. The weekend television pages listed Lena and Norman Collier as this weeks guests on Junior Showtime on ITV at 4.05 pm.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. In America, Radio & Records mentioned that Ma! was getting lots of plays on middle Of The Road radio stations.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕4. Variety had a full page advertisement for Lena.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕4.

𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟕. Lena appeared in The Royal Show at the Kings Theatre, Glasgow. Recorded by STV, to be broadcast on the 22nd. Lena sang He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands, Pinch Me Am I Dreaming and Razzle Dazzle accompanied on stage by the Brian Rogers dancers.

𝐒𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖0. There was An article about Lena in Cashbox magazine. page 32.

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟏. Lena appeared at The Grand Theatre, Leeds. in a charity gala night for the Jewish National Fund.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐. Record Business listed Lena’s new single.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒. In Australia, Channel 3 repeated one of Lena's shows.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟓. Lena was interviewed by Terry Wogan broadcast on BBC 1, 7.00pm - 7.40 pm. She spoke about her depression and anorexia.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔. The Irvine Herald ran a competition to win tickets to see Tommy Scott in concert.

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎. The Scotsman ran a piece about Anorexia with mention of and a photograph of Lena.

𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐. Anchor fm broadcast a programme about Lena's LP Ma!... as part of it's Bizarre Albums series.

[michelebrockent]

HIV and the Journey Toward Zero Part 2 from Journey Towards Zero on Vimeo.

The "HIV and the Journey Toward Zero" series sparks important conversations around the end of the HIV epidemic. What does “the end” mean for those who have been there from the start, those living with HIV today and those leading the way to an HIV-free future?

Part 2 of the series, "The Legacy," follows the everyday lives of younger advocates and people living with HIV. This next generation of leaders is at the beginning of their journey, and they offer a frank perspective on the realities and misconceptions shaping their world and the future.

Director: Chan C. Smith Producers: Alexis Jaworsky, Lisa Masseur, Chan C. Smith Executive Producer: Lisa Masseur Editor: Christina Stumpf Director of Photography: Chan C. Smith 1st Asst. Camera: Matthew Miele Assistant Camera: Mireillee “M” Lamort Production Coordinator: Julia Barr Production Business Manager: Mary Pat Forston Production Accountant: Lisa Bird Sound Utility: Patrick Bresnahan, Nicholas Fanelli, Nicholas Price, Shu Ling Yong Color by: ColorNation Colorist: Calvin Bellas Dialog Editor: Steve Wilke, Mix Kitchen Sound Effects Editor: Sophia Fishkin and Ava Shparago, Mix Kitchen Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer: Sam Fishkin, Mix Kitchen

Chicago Dept. of Public Health: Executive in Charge of Production: David Kern Chief Development Executive: Jorge Cestou Director of Creative Affairs: James Scalzitti Creative Executive: Riley Sorin Marketing Consultant: John Marth

Special appearances by: Carole Collier Dominique Savage

Music by: Slang Music Group

Additional music provided by: Audio Jungle, Musicbed

Archival and Stock Footage: Chris GotFootage Pond 5

Images Provided By: Terry Dudley Karma Munez Milani Varela

Special Thanks To: Anointed Vessel Ministries CALOR Carole Collier Center on Halsted Chicago Film Office Chicago Park District Dominique Savage El Rescate Eleven04 Fantasy Nightclub Hydrate Chicago Illinois Film Office Infinity Hyde Kentrele Shipp Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland Lotus Grand Ballroom Magnanimous Media Straight Outta Ballroom 8 & Aftermath Unique Williams The Varela Family Vivi Healthcare

Promotion provided by Bigmouth Creative

Filmed on Location in Chicago, IL

[miafreemanardn800]

Are You Making a Meal Out of Research? pp. 42-67

Reay, S., Khoo, C., Terry, G., Collier, G., Dallas, T., & Smith, V. (2023). Are you making a meal out of research?: A recipe for research success. Taylor & Francis. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/AUT/detail.action?docID=7211487

Following through the activities, it's becoming more clear to me that I align most with the chef and forager. I want to change the way people perceive disability and beauty, but I know that beauty is subjective. What one person thinks as beautiful will not be the same for the next person, so to change everyone's perception of beauty will be difficult. What I need to try and do is to just give people another way to look at beauty and to recognise how beauty ideals impact those who cannot meet them. Giving people new ways to view disability, removing the stigma, and just giving people a new way to think about beauty will hopefully create the change that I want to make.

Parts of the kaimahi process do appeal, like the ability to create connections between disabled people. Disability comes in many different forms and each is so unique, but disabled people can foster connections through their shared experiences. I'm hoping that my project can create some of those connections and be a voice of the disabled community.

[mrmikeyd-blog]

Hightower jumped

Recently, there was a fire at the largest multi-story apartment building in Florence, Alabama. It was on the 4th floor. One person died and one was seriously injured. The reason given was someone was smoking a cigarette too close to an auction tank and it exploded.

It was the largest thing that I can remember happening to the building since Hightower jumped. And he DID jump, or fell but contrary to whatever Lulu was telling at the time; I did not push him. Well, not that I remember. I have to admit though, things were kind of hazy that night. Let's get this story started.

Around 1982, Lucille Lowery moved to the top floor, the 14th, of Courtview Towers. It was new, maybe 3 years old then and was considered THE cosmopolitan place to live. The ONLY high rise in Florence! At the time I was making good money managing my daddy's rental and real estate business so I moved on the 12th floor. We were the queer version of the Jeffersons(Me) "Beans don't burn in the skillet" and Green Acres(Lucille) "I just adore a penthouse view". Of course, Lucille was on the top floor and considered socially over me but I viewed the east and her the west. I got sunrise, she got sunset. I overlooked the river and Wilson Dam so it was considered that I had the better view. My mother was impressed and went out and bought me new living room furniture and I had found a king-size platform waterbed. I was all set.

The queens were impressed. Sybil started coming by immediately after I moved in and even introduced me to one of her trashiest boyfriends, Terry Balentine. He was from what would be considered state line royalty. The Balentine name came from a long line of beer joint owners on the state line, bootleggers, car thieves, bank robbers and general outlaws. Terry's branch on the family tree was not as "prestigious" Mainly, drugs, drinking, fighting, breaking and entering and crimes of passion. What "trashy" outlaws do. Sybil had met him at the park and brought him up one night to show him off. He was rough trade gorgeous. He was 19years old with coal black hair and eyes, high cheekbones and a muscular body. Not lifting weight muscles, real country boy lifting cows muscles. Butch jobs: carrying loads of roofing shingles on his back and mixing cement MUSCLES! OHHH, I swoon just thinking about him! When we met, I threw everything I could think of at him. I bragged about my job and my new car (did he like Mustangs?) but knew to be careful around Sybil. "God help the sister who comes between me and my mister" was words the bitch lived by. I had a new set of radials on my car and truly did not want them slashed!

As I recall, the short time I lived there I really like living in "The Towers". I loved being able to run up to Lucille's to visit or drink or smoke. It was always yelled out at the door "Hon, got a cup of sugar?" We started calling each other Lucy and Ethel. Of course, I was Ethel. Her saying "Every Lucy needs an Ethel" has stuck with me all my life. And in my sitcom tv show life I have followed the pattern. I have always had a running sister. EXCEPT, I am LUCY!

Miss Lowery had already had several soiree's. These were the Van Pelts, the Tippers, Christine Collier, the artsy crowd, half of Trinity Episcopal church choir. The "upper crust" where only liquor was served but other novelties were available for the most daring. No trashy tricks invited along with no park cruisers. Queens allowed but they must be debutantes of the highest caliber. I had always been invited to all her party's but mainly filled the room just as furniture would and carried on very simple meaningless conversation until it was time to go. I was strictly filler. She was giving one the night in question.

This particular party was actually kind of dull. There was a quee call LuLu in attendance who was supposedly some third cousin or something of Miss Lowery. Her family came from the Leighton money same as Lucille's so she was one of the few younger queens allowed at the affairs. I had known her for awhile. We were not close but for some reason when I said goodnight at Lucille's she came with me down one floor to my apartment. Standing in the hall was Terry Balentine and some short boy I did not know. Yes, it had been a few weeks and of course I was getting with Terry on the side. He didn't care who he tricked with as long as the money was good you spent on him. A true hustler. Not a crackhead, or druggie a real bisexual who knew his craft and expected to be paid well for his services. Well, by Florence standards anyway. We didn't really have any rich old queens then, just closeted tricks who would pay as much as $100 to suck the right dick. I was never in that league but Terry didn't care. He liked me! My apartment was full of liquor and LULU had pot and poppers. As I recall, someone came over with some coke or maybe it was quaaludes. Anyway we all proceeded to get royally drunk and fucked up.

LULU knew better than to go for Terry so I told her in the kitchen to go for his friend. He had gone down the hall to the bathroom and I went into the living room with a drink for Terry and the next thing I know I hear the bedroom door close and lock. I went to the door and said "Look, whore this ain't a video booth, leave a quarter and make it quick" or some cute saying like that. We cut on MTV and started doing coke and smoking pot and snorting poppers and drinking and drinking and drinking and evidently we had sex because some time in the middle of the night, I got up off the floor, my pants were off and Terry was laying butt naked on the sofa. My mouth felt like the lower 40 acres so I went into the kitchen to get a glass of water,

The layout in these apartments is the kitchen is on the back wall next to the hallway. There is a large opening to a small dining room then on the far wall sliding glass doors to a small balcony with a high concrete wall. You can see all the way through from the kitchen. I looked out and there was the guy (LuLu's date or HIGHTOWER) as he would be nicknamed, sitting up on the ledge. I went to the sliding door and told him to get down he would fall. I walked back into the living room and woke up Terry to tell him to get his friend off the wall and when he went into the dining room there was nobody on the wall or balcony. I walked out on the balcony and looked down. The guy was laying on top of a roof used as a drive through. It was later determined that what saved him was this roof was constructed of steel beams with some kind of foam and tar in the middle of each square the medal beams form. He had landed perfectly in the middle!

Of course, all hell broke loose. Terry split, he had warrants. I woke up LuLu and we called 911. She kept asking me if I pushed him and I said no but it did seem like he wouldn't come down and I took his arm and told him not to fall. I went to the police station and told them what my muddled brain could remember. After all, I was still drunk and high! I think he broke an ankle or something, it was not serious, and when questioned it must have somehow got out that he was at a "queer" party so he made a statement that he did not know anyone at the party and the only reason he was there was because he was looking for a place to commit suicide and the door was open. He saw the ledge. It worked! It turned out he was about to go to state prison under the 3 strike rule but due to his mental state he got locked up in the local place for mentally ill patients, Riverbend. On a side note, as soon as he got out the state wanted to try him again so this time he climbed O'Neal bridge and threatened to jump: Sybil gave him the name "Hightower"

I moved out of Courtview probably the next month. I did keep slipping around with Terry Balentine until he went to Texas with one of his brothers and killed a guy in a gas station robbery. He was sentenced to the electric chair. Sybil called me up and said "Eva we are going to be prison widows" She knew all along.

There was a running joke about LuLu that nobody as far as I know would ever tell her to her face. "LuLu's got a killer booty, it drives her tricks to suicide"

This incident took place in probably 1982 or 1983 and is for the most part forgotten. Of the main characters alive, only me and Lu's killer ass remain!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"GLOWING HEALTH is the hallmark of air-women of the Royal Canadian Air Force and grace is the keynote of the physical training exercises given them to ensure that health. Gone are the stiff bending and stretching exercises reminiscent of the days when their mothers wore middies and bloomers for sports. Now the airwomen in their trim P.T. shorts and blouses are given movements that would make a Greek goddess high. Here seven air-women are silhouetted against Canadian skies as they execute a stretching exercise with rhythm in every movement. They are: - from left to right, AW2 Joan Gilbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gilbert, Toronto; AW2 Betty Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Roberts, Whiterock, B.C.; AW2 Elizabeth Collier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Collier, Toronto; AW2 Eve Alexander, daughter of Mrs. C. Alexander, Sault Ste. Marie; AW2 Marjorie Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Adams, Gilbert Plains, Man.; AW2 Geraldine (Terry) Austin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Austin, Haileybury, Ont.; and AW2 Dorothy Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jones, Nelson, B.C. (R.C.A.F. photo)" - from the Kingston Whig-Standard. September 13, 1943. Page 6.