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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Rewatch: “Maybe Today”

The basics: While Kilbride visits his son, the team works a cold case from 2003.

Written by: Samantha Chasse & Matt Klafter

Samantha Chasse co-wrote “Kill Beale Vol. 1”, wrote “Impostor Syndrome” (one of season 12’s best episodes) and “Murmuration”.

Matt Klafter co-wrote “Smokescreen Part II”, “A Fait Accompli” and “Hard for the Money”. Was the sole writer for “Where Loyalties Lie”.

Directed by: Eric A. Pot directed “Resurrection”, “Windfall”, “Traitor”, “Internal Affairs”, “Home is Where the Heart Is”, “Forasteira”, “Reentry”, “Hit List”, “The One Who Got Away”, “Kill Beale Vol 1” (co-written by Chasse), “Fortune Favors the Bold”, “A Fait Accopli” (co-written by Klafter), “Imposter Syndrome” (written by Chasse), “Indentured”, “Sorry for Your Loss” and “Survival of the Fittest”.

Guest stars of note: Christopher Gorham as Alex Kilbride, Rose Abdoo as Special Agent Daisy Van Zandt, Eva Tamargo as Mrs. Perez, Kevin McCorkle as Jack Baker, Cuyle Carvin as Aaron Baker, Courtney Cunningham as Jen Anderson, Jhey Castles as Melissa Baker, Keenan Henson as Kevin Phillips and Joe Keyes as Taxi Driver.

Our heroes: Deal with parents and children.

What important things did we learn about: Callen: Not afraid of strong women. Sam: Senior Chief, Special Warfare Kensi: Couldn’t imagine what a mother would feel about a missing child. Deeks: Working well with LAPD. Fatima: Listening to old interview cassette tapes in Kilbride’s truck. Rountree: Not a fan of old case files in moldy, charred boxes. Kilbride: Finally listening to his son.

What not so important things did we learn about: Callen: Looking for a Sam’s plus one for the wedding. Sam: No interest in Callen’s plus one-ing. Kensi: Wants Rosa to participate in extra circular activities. Deeks: Wants Rosa to be protected from all types of danger. Fatima: Office bound. Rountree: See Fatima. Kilbride: Spending the night on his son’s couch.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? Not a mention.

Who's down with OTP: Kensi and Deeks have debates over keeping Rosa safe. Callen is comfortable marrying a confident woman.

Who's down with BrOTP: Callen is looking for a Sam love connection which is a complete change in roles from the first five seasons.

Fashion review: Callen wore a midnight blue sweater. Another long-sleeve black tee for Sam. Kensi wears a long-sleeve top that has a graduated color scheme that starts white around her shoulders, pink and grey across her chest and black the rest of the way down. Deeks has a light blue henley on. Fatima has a thick brown sweater. Rountree is wearing a black hoodie. Kilbride is casual with a thick dark blue sweater over a lighter blue plaid button down shirt.

Music: “Killer” by Phoebe Bridgers plays in a montage near the end of the episode.

Any notable cut scene: Yes, one, after weeks of nothing. Driving to Jen Anderson’s, Kensi and Deeks discuss the case moving from a missing persons case to a death. Kensi is down on local law enforcement for not doing more. Deeks is a bit more sympathetic. Missing persons aren’t always missing persons, sometimes people just walk away from their lives. After a while, the police have other cases to solve.

Kensi hears from Rountree – the local news stations have picked up the story. Deeks checks his phone – national news, NPR, the BBC are all cover the story. Kensi and Deeks realize that the killer, who lived 20-years without anyone knowing there was a killing, now knows they are the focus of a national news story.

Quote: Callen: “How can we help?” Daisy: “Stay close by. Try not to get in the way. First cold case?” Callen: “Yeah.” Daisy: “Couple of virgins. This'll be fun. I've been working cases since '04. Solved more of them than the next two agents combined.” Callen: “I like your modesty.” Daisy: “Confidence in a woman make you uncomfortable, Agent Callen?” Callen: “Well, if it did, then I'm about to marry the wrong woman.”

Anything else: A car is driving down a rural road. 2003 shows up on the screen. The radio in the car is playing an address by then President George W. Bush about major combat operations ending in Iraq. A man steps out of the vehicle and puts on some gloves. Inside the vehicle is a woman wearing a Navy sweatshirt who looks like she’s out cold. There’s duct tape on her mouth and her hands are bound.

As the man walks away from the vehicle to use a payphone, the woman is awake and alert. She takes off the seat belt holding her to the car seat. She tries to open the car door but the man finished his call and is returning to the vehicle. Again, playing unconscious, she waits until the man nears the car door. She opens the door with great force, knocking the man to the ground. She flees on foot. She gets the bindings off her hands and removes the tape on her mouth as she runs. The man starts the car to chase her. She calls for help as she runs into a wooded area.

In 2024, a car is pulled from a lake. The license plate and the vehicle are from the 2003 scenes. A female NCIS agent confirms “it’s hers” and calls for the best NCIS team in the area.

Walking into the office, Kensi and Deeks are talking about Rosa, extracurricular activities and college applications. Kensi thinks Rosa needs them, Deeks thinks Yale won’t care since you can get into law school there by twirling a baton. Baton is color guard, Kensi correct Deeks, Rosa is interested in doing gymnastics, Deeks is worried she’ll get hurt. Kensi lists a number of activities Rosa could join – track, water polo, AV Club – where Deeks has a reason she could get hurt - shin splints, chlorine poisoning (obviously), electrocution. Kensi tells him to stop. He is half-joking but he wants her safe, Kensi says they can’t cover Rosa in bubble wrap. Deeks is looking more for small packing peanuts.

In Ops, Kensi asks if they have a new case. Fatima and Rountree explains it is more a like an old one. Navy Petty Officer Britney Perez, Fatima starts to explain but Kensi thinks the name sounds familiar. It was – there was a documentary series about Perez recently. A hiker at Castaic Lake saw a car in the lake – water levels are so low it was easy to see on a trail. Deeks thinks this may be the one time where climate change is good. He knows it sounds wrong. The four talk about bringing Kilbride into the case but Deeks wants Kilbride to spend time with his son. Callen and Sam on their way to the crime scene. Kensi asks about next of kin. Perez had a mother who has not been informed about the car. Kensi can’t fathom being a mother to a missing child. She and Deeks are going to see Mrs. Perez, maybe offer some answers.

Walking up to an apartment door, Admiral Kilbride sighs before knocking. A man in his mid-to-late 40’s answers the door and says hello Dad. Dad Kilbride replies with just “Alex.” Inviting his father into the apartment, Alex explains the set-up is temporary, he’s still trying to work things out with his wife Deb. It is a rather generic one-bedroom apartment with rather generic furniture.

Kilbride asks where he can hang his coat and hat as Alex pours the two some coffee. Opening a closet, Kilbride sees it is full of fancy diplomas, an expensive desk name plate. There is a hook so the hat and jacket go there. Kilbride asks Alex about work and Alex replies “great.” He has a new client working on a cryptocurrency exchange. The silence after that is uncomfortable.

Callen and Sam pull up at the crime scene. They’re talking about Stacy, Anna’s maid of honor. Sam is adding drama according to Callen. The two address Special Agent Daisy Van Zandt, the female agent who supervised the car being removed from the lake. Callen and Sam are investigating their first cold case - “a couple of virgins” according to Daisy – so she asks them to stay close but also stay out of the way.

Daisy has been working cold cases in 2004 and has solved twice as many cold cases in her time than the next two agents combined. Callen admires her modesty. Daisy asks if confidence in woman worries Callen. If it does, Callen tells her, he’s going to have a problem with the woman he’s about to marry. Daisy tells Callen and Sam that the case of Brittney Perez “had my number”. There’s never been any evidence until now. An agent calls for Daisy. The car truck is opened and the skeletal remains of someone are inside.

Calling Kensi and Deeks, Callen says the coroner ID’d the body as Brittney Perez. Hanging up, he returns to Sam and Daisy. Kensi and Deeks will be telling Perez’s mother. Daisy doesn’t envy that task. Callen asks about the original case agents. Two local field office agents, Walker and Haskins, had the case originally. Walker retired to Florida a few years back, Haskins is dead. Sam asks Daisy what she thought of all this. “There’s good work, there’s sloppy work and there there’s whatever the hell this was. It’s no wonder why this case wound up with us.”

Callen asks about suspects. There was one suspect – Petty Office Aaron Baker. A witness said Baker and Perez were arguing outside a bar. Perez slapped Baker. Sam wondered about the argument but Daisy doesn’t know what it was about. Neither does Baker, according to Daisy, who was too drunk to remember according to Walker and Haskins. They didn’t bother to push him on what he could and couldn’t remember. He’s third generation Navy. Callen is stunned.

When Perez went missing, Baker was home according to his bunkmate. The two were watching video games all night. Looking at the truck, Sam asks for a vial. He found a tooth in the trunk. Perez’s body is still in the trunk and it is obvious she has all her teeth. Sam believes Perez fought until the end. There will be a DNA test and while teeth and bone are really strong for finding DNA, 20-years in the water isn’t a good environment. Callen and Sam are off to talk to Baker.

In the boat shed, Kensi and Deeks are comforting and kind to Mrs. Perez. Mrs. Perez shares photos of Britney stored on her phone. Britney was strong and smart and funny. Mrs. Perez explains that she was a single mom. She and Britney only had each other. That’s why she never believed the investigators who thought Britney went AWOL, fearing she would be deployed. Asked if Britney was worried about being deployed, Mrs. Perez said her daughter loved the Navy. Besides, she would never leave without saying goodbye.

Before she went missing, Britney was upset and a frazzled. There was something about her roommate Jen, there was a bad situation. Britney wouldn’t tell her mother the whole story. She wanted to protect her mother. Mrs. Perez tells Kensi and Deeks that she was waiting for this day for the last 20-years. Now she’d like to have one more day of not knowing that someone killed her daughter. Grabbing Kensi’s arm, Mrs. Perez asks that they not give up on Britney this time. Kensi promises.

In Ops, Rountree has been looking into Aaron Baker. At 18, Baker was arrested for assault and battery, a charge that was pled down to a misdemeanor. While he got away with that, his DNA is now in the system so it should be easy to match anything that can be retrieved from the tooth. Fatima is still waiting for the files for the case to be sent – it is taking hours.

Fatima is also investigating Petty Officer Jen Anderson, Perez’s roommate. Anderson went AWOL days before Perez disappeared. Rountree gets a text – the files are downstairs. Fatima is surprised, her tablet didn’t beep when the files were sent. The files were sent – physical files. They are in charred yet damp banker boxes. Daisy sent a note – the burn marks are from wildfires in 2009, the dampness from flooding in 2015. Rountree leaves, saying “you’ve got this, right.” Fatima is not pleased.

Callen and Sam approach a man asking if he’s Aaron Baker. It’s Jack Baker, Aaron’s dad. He’s working on a boat in the garage. Jack Baker explains he’s been living with Aaron and Aaron’s wife Melissa since his house burned down in the Bell Canyon fires. Aaron’s out and Jack is happy to tell him that NCIS stopped by – why were they stopping by. When Callen says a cold case from 2003, Jack reacts poorly. Since the documentary series, the family has gotten late night phone calls, people just showing up at the house, death threats. Callen is sorry they had to go through that. Before they leave, Sam fixes a knot on a boat. Jack is impressed and asks if Sam is Navy. When Sam says Senior Chief, Special Warfare, Jack is a bit more open. Since Aaron and Melissa went shopping and will be back soon, Jack’s fine with Callen and Sam waiting inside the house.

Inside the house, Jack is showing some photos he has of his time during Desert Storm. He was a Chief Petty Officer running the Beachmasters unit. Aaron and Melissa arrive. When Callen explains they are from NCIS and it is about Britney Perez, Melissa wants no part of the interview – the family has been through enough. Callen tells them about Britney’s body being found. “The sooner we have answers, the sooner this will be over for everyone,” Sam says. Jack seems supportive of Callen and Sam so Aaron is open to answering questions.

Asked about what he was arguing about with Britney, Aaron doesn’t remember. Jack is cheerleading for his son during the interview. Things happened 20-years ago, hard to remember. Sam asks if Aaron remember his roommate for 20-years ago. He does – Kevin Phillips and they were friends at the time. The two haven’t spoken in over a decade. Before they plan on leaving, Callen asks if Aaron was willing to turn over his dental records. Melissa puts her foot down – she considers this harassment. She’s calling a lawyer and if they want his dental records, Callen and Sam need a warrant.

Leaving the home, both Callen and Sam are sure Aaron remembers more than saying and Melissa knows that too. They want Rountree to find Kevin Phillips to see what he remembers. Callen gets a text from Daisy – they found DNA in the tooth. They don’t need a warrant for Aaron’s dental records, they already have his DNA on file.

Coming down the stairs, Rountree asks how Fatima is doing with the physical files. About half of the files belong to different cases. What belongs to this case is either burned or moldy. She also thinks there is something live in one of the boxes. Rountree found Jen Anderson, who is living in Sun Valley. She was arrested for drugs about five years ago and is currently on parole. Kensi and Deeks are on their way to see her.

Fatima finds a box of cassette tapes of interviews, amazed at the lack of technical prowess of the original investigators. Rountree isn’t sure where they would find a cassette player. Fatima is – Kilbride’s truck is in the carport. He’s on vacation, probably having the time of his life, according to Rountree. They can listen to the tapes in Kilbride’s truck.

Not having the time of his life – Kilbride. Alex is explaining how the coffee he’s serving is from a farmer’s market downtown that has a direct connection with a coffeehouse in Guatemala. The Admiral doesn’t much care about the coffee. The Admiral knows what’s going on. Alex admits he’s back in rehab, sticking with the program and going to meetings. The Admiral is happy to hear it. Alex thinks everything is so weird. Kilbride is willing to go back to the last conversation the two had. Things are going downhill fast.

When Kilbride complains that things aren’t that easy for him either, Alex asks why Kilbride is even there. Alex realizes “Mom asked you to come.” Alex is annoyed that his mother couldn’t leave well enough along. “If you were ‘well enough’ she never would have asked,” Kilbride replies. He’s angry that Alex was given every opportunity, given anything a person could ask for. Alex tells his father he didn’t ask for what he’s got now. Kilbride replies he didn’t turn it down either.

Exasperated, Alex says he wasn’t born ready to take on the world like Kilbride was. Kilbride disagrees – the only difference between the two of them was “I didn’t fold up like a cheap suit every time life got hard.” Imitating his father offering advice like “suck it up” and “take it like a man”, Alex asked if he missed any not helpful pieces of advice. Pausing a beat, Kilbride tells Alex he’s there to help. Alex thinks that help is 40-years too late. “I don’t want your help. Just go.” Alex is sure Kilbride has more important work to do. Grabbing his coat and hat, Kilbride leaves.

In the cold case lab, Callen brings up Emily instead of Stacy, another possible plus one for the wedding. Callen thinks Emily is a much better fit for the wedding. Daisy arrives. The tooth is inconclusive when it comes to a match for Aaron Baker. The pool of suspects is basically anyone living in Los Angeles in 2003. Callen asks about forensic genealogy – that’s how they found the Golden State Killer. Daisy says TV makes that all look too easy. They would have to build out a family tree, that takes time, and other family members who put in their DNA for genealogy. But she’ll get her staff working on that. When Daisy leaves, Sam mentions he really likes Daisy. Callen wants to know if that’s in a plus-one sort of way. Rountree calls – he found Kevin Phillips. Phillips has been working in Long Beach for a masonry firm. Before that, several years in prison for wire fraud and falsifying records. Baker’s alibi was from a convicted liar. And it is a non-violent crime so Phillips’s DNA wouldn’t be in the system. Callen and Sam want to talk to Phillips.

While Fatima listens to some really bad detective work in Kilbride’s truck, Rountree pretends the Admiral has returned. Fatima isn’t all that amused. She updates Rountree on what she’s learned. Perez spoke to her CO before she disappeared. The CO on the tape said Perez wanted to report a crime for her roommate but he thought it was just a he said/she said situation. If they reported every he said/she said situation to NCIS, NCIS would stop taking the base’s calls. Perez was forced to take matters in her own hands by confronting Baker. But since she already reported the crime, Baker would have no reason to silence Perez. Unless she was willing to take her claims to a larger audience.

Continuing his litany of dangerous things for Rosa to stay away from, Deeks has vetoed the Girl Scouts, academic decathlon, choir and ceramics. “What sort of a manic lets minors around a kiln?” Deeks asks. At Jen Anderson’s door, Deeks knocks and someone starts shooting through the door. Kensi goes out back to find Anderson washed all her sheets and they’re all hanging on clothes lines. A man shoots at Kensi. She returns fire, hitting him on the leg. When Deeks joins Kensi in the backyard, they hear something at the back door. It is Jen Anderson.

The man shooting at Kensi is Anderson’s friend Marcus, “a narcissistic idiot”, who thought Kensi and Deeks were there to arrest him. Seems he had a lot of drugs with him. Marcus is going to jail for a long time for drugs and shooting at Federal Agents. Deeks asks Anderson about Aaron Baker and Britney Perez 20-years ago. When Anderson asks if Kensi spoke to Baker about “it”, Kensi said they did. Anderson walks away while Deeks deals with LAPD.

Gently, Kensi pushes Anderson to talk about what happened with Aaron Baker. They can’t solve Perez’s case without her. Anderson tells Kensi that Baker “assaulted” her. Took her life away while his went on without a worry in the world. Anderson left the Navy. Perez was the only person who knew what happened. She was a good friend to Anderson who wouldn’t let Baker walk around free as Anderson was losing her career. Perez reported the crime against Anderson’s wishes. Anderson left the day Perez reported the crime. A few days later, Perez’s disappearance was all over the news. Anderson didn’t speak to investigators – if they didn’t believe Perez, they weren’t going to believe her.

Kevin Phillips is on the wrong side of the desk in Interrogation. Aaron Baker may have been Phillips’s best friend but he wouldn’t lie for him. Sam asks if Phillips is lying for himself. He swears he had no reason to kill Perez. Sam sees a way that Philips, knowing that Baker had a Navy family, would protect Baker from the harm caused Perez’s accusations. Phillips is firm – Baker didn’t kill Perez and he didn’t kill Perez. Callen asks Phillips to prove it – provide a DNA sample. Phillips agrees.

As Callen goes to speak with Daisy, Sam questions Phillip about his reaction to Sam’s Navy-oriented question. Sam wonders how serious Aaron Baker was about the Navy. Phillips admits that Baker liked the Navy because it helped his dating life. When Baker would get blackout drunk – which was all the time – he’d speak about his father. Jack Baker would bully his son, calling him a failure and a disgrace to the family. Sam asks if Jack Baker knew about Perez’s accusations. He did.

Daisy puts the kibosh on a DNA test for Kevin Phillips. A deeper look into the DNA again a genealogy search matched Aaron Baker – a partial match. Sam arrives, asking if it a 50% match. It is. Daisy would need to see a DNA sample for Jack Baker. Callen has just the man for the case.

Wearing Artie, Deeks is trash pail diving around the Baker home. He’s not happy about the assignment. Kensi is taking photos of Deeks to support the chain of custody. Under the Abandoned DNA Act, any genetic material left in a public place can be used by law enforcement. Chanting he has a law degree and loves his job, Deeks is picking through the regular trash.

Jack Baker leaves the home, dropping paint cans and rubber gloves into the recycling pail. The gloves would have DNA so Deeks goes to retrieve them, muttering all the way. As Deeks gets into the recycling pail, Jack Baker tries to run Deeks off. Deeks knocks down the pail, yells “I am Spartacus” and shows Kensi he has the gloves. Fatima and Rountree listen in to all this.

As Kilbride is Ubering back to the airport, the driver mentions that a tough day can be forgotten by showering and a good night sleep. Kilbride instead, returns to Alex’s apartment. Alex asks why Kilbride is there. Kilbride replies he’s there to do something he should have done years ago.

In the cold cases lab, Daisy confirms to Kensi and Deeks that the DNA on the gloves is a 100% match. Kensi calls that into Ops – they’ll meet Callen and Sam at the Baker home but Jack Baker is gone. He left to go to the hardware store – LAPD had him under surveillance – but lost him in the store. Fatima is trying to track his truck with GPS. He was at a storage facility in Van Nuys. Rountree has security cam photos of Jack Baker removing a rifle from his storage unit and putting it in his truck. Kensi sighs – Jack Baker knows NCIS is coming for him, “and that’s not good,” according to Deeks.

On the freeway, Callen and Sam are trying to find Jack Baker. He’s going north – to Castaic Lake. Kensi and Deeks are about 15-minutes behind Callen and Sam. There was a hit and run by Aaron Baker’s house – with Baker’s BMW. Kensi and Deeks are going to Aaron Baker’s home to see if Aaron was making a run for it. Callen and Sam will deal with Jack Baker.

At Castaic Lake, Sam looks around Jack Baker’s truck – the rifle is gone.

Kensi and Deeks cut off Aaron Baker, ordering him out of his car. Saying he doesn’t have time for this, he’s afraid his father is going to hurt himself. Or something worse.

On comms, Kensi warns Callen and Sam that Jack Baker may be on a suicide mission. Callen and Sam realize Jack Baker wants to kill himself but wants Callen and Sam to do the actual killing. Sam sees Baker and starts approaching him. When Baker stops, he complains “that bitch” was going to ruin his son’s life. Sam disagrees – Aaron ruined his own life by his actions. Baker claims he was doing what any father would do – protect his son. Again Sam disagrees – Baker killed a woman who was doing the right thing. Baker promises he won’t die in prison. He turns his gun on Sam and tries to fire. Sam shoots Baker. Looking at the body, Sam realizes Baker had the safety on.

“Great, I miss all the fun,” Daisy says as she pulls up to the crime scene. She wanted to know how the story ends. Callen asks if they can send back the file boxes. The OSP would like the file boxes to be returned. Asked what she’s going to do now, Daisy has lots of cold cases – she’ll work on them until there are none left. Callen wonders how many cold cases are there. She doesn’t keep count. She’d like Callen and Sam to join her – she could always use another body or two. Probably phrased wrong.

As Daisy goes to see what’s going on, Callen gets a text. Stacey has a date for the wedding but Emily is still looking for a plus one. Sam is sure Emily can find a date for the wedding. Callen pushes until Sam relents. He’d like to get to know Emily – really know her as his plus one. Maybe Callen, Sam, Anna and Emily can go for a fancy dinner Friday – Callen’s treat. Then next Friday, pricey sushi – Callen’s treat. Then there’s a private chef that will cook for couples. Callen walks way, even threatens to walk home. Sam is sure his days of fending off plus one offers are done.

Jen Anderson texts Kensi. She’s going public with her accusations against Aaron Blake. Maybe her telling the truth will give strength to other victims. Deeks puts his arms around Kensi.

Mrs. Perez lights a floating candle at Castaic Lake.

Daisy puts the tooth and DNA into an evidence bag. Putting it all in a freezer where there are thousands of vials of DNA, she says, “one down, hundreds to go.”

In his apartment, Alex explains to his father that his marriage is over. Kilbride wants to know what can he do for Alex. “Talking help,” he explains. Admitting the truth, Alex says he doesn’t have a new client, his firm let him go. Kilbride already knew. Alex found talking to his father “nice.” Alex notes that Kilbride was going to miss his flight – until he realizes that Kilbride already missed the flight. Kilbride will be sacking out on the couch, enjoying another cup of coffee with his son.

What head canon can be formed from here: There are probably two really good episodes here but because the Drona drama has to eat up lots of episodes, the two great storylines were crammed into one good but not great episode.

There were two really good episodes in this episode but by cutting and pasting them together, there was one good episode instead.

Cramming the two episodes together, you had a theme of parents and their children. Fathers – Deeks, Kilbride and Jack Baker – and mothers – Kensi, Mrs. Perez. Deeks had the easy part – he was playing it for laughs but with his history in the public defenders office, the LAPD and now with NCIS, he knows how badly things can go for young people in the world. Also knowing how badly things can go for young people in the world is Kilbride. Kilbride wound up with the career and code in life to live by. That wasn’t want Alex needed and Kilbride did not have the ability to deal with his issues. Jack Baker seemingly forced his career on his son who had no interest in the code a man should live by. So Jack Baker murdered an innocent woman to keep his son’s future bright.

With Kensi and Mrs. Perez, you have two women who want/wanted their daughters to go out into the world to be the best versions of themselves. Deeks’s over-the-top worries about Rosa’s safety is undercut by how Britney Perez did all the right things – protected and friend, fought for justice – and spent 20-years drowned in the trunk of her car.

There should have been a solo episode about Britney Perez’s disappearance and one solo episode about Kilbride with his son/Kensi and Deeks dealing with Rosa’s future.

Loved, loved, loved Daisy. Memo to the surviving NCIS and the possible new NCIS. Find something for Daisy to do in either 2024 or in the past with the young Gibbs/young Mike Frank. This was a program that spent years with limited recurring characters – how great would it have been to have Hetty and Daisy mixing things up in season four.

One good episode that could have been two great hours.

Episode number: This is episode number 319, the 17th episode of season 14.

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In 2003, senior White House officials outed me as a covert CIA agent. They leaked my identity after my then-husband, U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote an op-ed stating that the George W. Bush administration lied about the threat posed by Iraq ahead of its decision to invade the country.

I have spent a lot of time in the decades since processing the trauma of that experience. It endangered my assets, ended my covert career, and unsettled my family. Even events that happened much later took me back to that time, such as then-President Donald Trump’s 2018 pardon of Scooter Libby, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, who was convicted of perjury and lying to the FBI during its investigation into the leak. In those years, I was called a liar, a traitor, and—in the words of one Republican congressman—a “glorified secretary.”

Yet when I read journalist Liza Mundy’s new book, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of the Women at the CIA, uncomfortable memories came up that I had not grappled with since my time as a spy. The book touched me in ways I did not expect. I realized that I had mostly repressed the toll inflicted on me and my female colleagues from the many years of working in a man’s world.

When I was a child, the U.S. government passed Title IX, which prohibited sex-based discrimination in any school that received federal funding. By the time I was a teenager, my suburban Philadelphia high school had a variety of sports teams for me to choose from that were just as robust as what the boys had. I was fortunate to have parents who never suggested that my gender should dictate what I could pursue. In fact, my father made it a point to tell me that I could “do anything I wanted to, if I put my mind to it.” Even my college years passed in ignorance of the sexism ingrained in U.S. society.

Then, as a young woman, I joined the CIA. Suddenly, it became clear that the real world operated on a different set of principles.

The CIA that I entered at the height of the Cold War was very much a man’s world. The agency had only recently started to recruit women into intelligence operations, rather than into secretary positions and other support roles. A deep network of male officers still called the shots.

As I began the rigorous training to become a field operations officer, I looked around at the women already in the CIA. The more senior ones—none of whom were in the highest ranks—tended to be unmarried, childless, sometimes embittered, and tough as nails. Even then, I recognized that my opportunity to succeed came at the expense of their trailblazing.

I also knew I didn’t want to become like them. Couldn’t I be a successful officer and have a family? The terms “sexual harassment” and “gender discrimination,” much less “microaggression” and “unconscious bias,” had no meaning to my small cohort of female ops officers. We simply had to accept the casual misogyny that the agency’s alpha males tossed around.

Sometimes, it was explicit: My friend was told by her boss, the station chief at her first assignment in Africa, that she should go home, get married, and have a baby—and what the hell did she think she was doing in operations anyway? Other times, it was implicit: Promotions went to young male bucks over female colleagues who were just as successful in running and recruiting spies.

The contributions of female spies to the CIA—and the barriers they faced—are the focus of Mundy’s deeply researched and highly readable book. The Sisterhood starts off slowly, with a recap of women who entered the U.S. intelligence services during World War II. Thousands of women flocked to the job opportunities that the war opened up at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA’s predecessor, as men were sucked into the giant war-fighting machine. These OSS workers were among the first women in U.S. history to be formally recruited into intelligence work.

As Mundy recounts, these early recruits were told to report to an unassuming brownstone in Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood. The men were instructed to change into Army fatigues in an attempt to strip them of social class, job, or military rank before the interview process. The women were taken to another room and asked to remove their coats and hats; since they were women, Mundy writes, “no further equalization was thought to be needed.”

Many of the women recruited into the OSS in the 1940s were highly educated, sophisticated, and multilingual. The test designed for female recruits assessed how well they could file papers. Yet once they were inside the agency, a few of these women moved into field intelligence operations. They demonstrated verve, bravery, and intellect at every turn as they set up effective spy rings, solicited intelligence from Nazi and other Axis officials, and passed important intelligence back to Washington.

After the war, a collective amnesia seemed to settle over Washington. As the country quickly forgot the vital role of women in the war effort, women were once again relegated to support jobs. The 1950s and 1960s looked something like Mad Men, where secretaries wore white gloves and pantyhose to the office and deferred to their male bosses. President Harry S. Truman established the CIA in 1947, but the agency did not begin to hire more than primarily white men with Ivy League degrees for another couple decades. It was not until the 1970s and 80s that it recruited women of equal intelligence, nerve, and—as my father would say—moxie to do clandestine work. I was a beneficiary of this sea change. I joined the CIA because I wanted to serve my country, it would get me overseas, and it seemed like it would be a lot more interesting than what my peers were doing.

Mundy’s book picks up steam as she delves deeper into the era when women were admitted, grudgingly, into the heart of secret CIA missions. She follows a few of them closely, including Lisa Manfull, a top student at Brown University from a cosmopolitan family, who was hired in 1968 to join the CIA’s career training program at a lower paygrade than male recruits. Manfull eventually became a successful clandestine operative despite higher-ups trying to keep her in desk jobs for years. Mundy also highlights fearsome agency legend Eloise Page, who started as a secretary to the OSS’s founder and became the CIA’s first female station chief in 1978.

Despite not being allowed to take the full operational courses at “The Farm,” the CIA training facility in Virginia, into the 1970s, these women proved their worth. They succeeded in work as varied as negotiating with terrorists who highjacked a plane in Malta and dealing adroitly with intelligence “walk-ins”—when a potential foreign agent shows up unexpectedly at an officer’s home or an embassy with promises to provide intelligence in return for something they desire.

The 1991 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas were a catalyst for change. During the hearings, the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee listened as Anita Hill, a Black woman, calmly testified that Thomas had sexually harassed her a decade earlier. The Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas—and Hill faced criticism and death threats from the public—but the hearings brought a newfound awareness of gender-based discrimination to Washington. They influenced the election of 1992, which media outlets dubbed “The Year of the Woman” after a record number of women won seats in the Senate.

In 1992, the CIA also commissioned a “Glass Ceiling Study,” which found that men rose to much higher ranks than women in the organization. Women filled 40 percent of the agency’s professional positions but only 10 percent of the jobs in the Senior Intelligence Service, comprised of top agency executives. Mundy writes that female CIA employees responded to the study with a sense of relief—maybe, they thought, the agency’s culture would finally change. The men, by and large, seemed puzzled by it.

Then-CIA officer Janine Brookner sued the agency in 1994 for federal sex discrimination after being falsely accused of professional misconduct and threatened with a demotion and criminal sanctions. The lawsuit ended with a cash settlement and Brookner’s resignation. Brookner went on to law school and used her degree to specialize in federal discrimination cases. Around the same time, female case officers filed a class action suit, claiming that the CIA had a pattern of sex-based discrimination; in the 1995 settlement, Mundy recounts, the CIA admitted that it “discriminated systematically against its women secret agents for years,” as the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

Mundy is at her sharpest when she writes about the women in Alec Station, a CIA unit that followed al Qaeda when few in Washington thought it was a threat. The analyst who led the unit, Mike Scheuer, filled his overlooked and underfunded team with women. Scheuer had no qualms about hiring women. As he told Mundy, women were “experts at minutiae, putting pieces of information together” that men might miss.

As the search for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden intensified, the women tracking him diligently compiled intelligence, but the George W. Bush administration seemed to put their increasingly dire predictions on the back burner. On Aug. 6, 2001, CIA analyst Barbara Sude wrote a memo titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US.” The Bush cabinet did not meet until Sept. 4, 2001, to discuss the threat. A week later, 9/11 happened.

The grief and guilt of the women who had warned the U.S. government for years about a potential attack is palpable in Mundy’s book. As one undercover case officer told Mundy, “For two years of my life, I was trying to do the right thing, and people died, and you felt like it was your fault. … And it really, it affected us a lot.” Their rage was channeled into the hunt for bin Laden that ultimately led to his capture.

Mundy’s book left me both inspired and disheartened. Many of the women in her book are now retired or dead. At great personal cost, they poured their lives into their intelligence careers. As I read it, I found myself empathizing with their hardships and remembering my own.

On the first day of my initial overseas assignment, I was told to go see the chief of station, a highly respected CIA officer. As I nervously entered his paneled office, he leaned back in his chair, feet on the massive wooden desk and unlit cigar in his mouth. He didn’t say anything to me. He merely took the cigar out of his mouth and motioned with it for me to turn around, a little twirl. Confused, I spun around and faced him again with a quizzical look. He broke into a smile. “Oh, you’ll do,” he said. I realized he was evaluating how I looked. It was crushing.

Thankfully, as Mundy shows, a lot has changed since then. Female CIA officers today have it better but still face quiet discrimination and barriers to success, as nearly all professional women do. Although the professional advances women have made are heartening, Mundy lets some women in the agency off the hook.

For instance, she glosses over the 2018 confirmation hearing of the CIA’s first female director, Gina Haspel, who admitted to a significant role in one of the agency’s darkest hours: the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” otherwise known as torture, in the aftermath of 9/11. The same can be said for Freda Bikowsky, an ex-CIA analyst known as the “queen of torture” who helped in bin Laden’s capture. I would have liked to see Mundy acknowledge that female officers in positions of power and responsibility—just like their male counterparts—have caused harm, exercised terrible judgement, and failed to mentor other women.

While Mundy’s book is a compelling and very good read, The Sisterhood is probably misnamed. It’s true that female CIA officers find comfort in their female friendships and can be supportive of each other as they advocate for equal rights in a male-dominated environment. But years of fighting for scraps—not just against their male counterparts, but against each other—has extracted a price. A climate of suspicion and unhealthy competition remains, and ultimately, this weakens U.S. national security.

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Obsessed much

I have been going on one of my ADHD fueled obsessions where I do not want to watch anything or do anything unless it involves the particular subject that I am currently obsessed with. So how do I channel this current hyperfixation--well lets see who has been paying attention.

I watched Taxi (2015), Pixels (2015), The Boss (2016), Cyrano (2021), She Came to Me (2023), Knights of Badassdom (2013), The Station Agent (2003). Living in Oblivion (1995) in one weekend.

His wife is on notice...

I need an intervention perhaps.

#peter dinklage #obsessive thoughts #actually obsessive #actually obsessed #sexy voice #i need help please #i want him so bad

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Events 3.16 (after 1970)

1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors. 1978 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73. 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity. 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991. 1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded. 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. 2001 – A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades. 2003 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home. 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. 2010 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire. 2012 – Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket. 2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. 2016 – A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. 2016 – Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18. 2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%. 2021 – Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day. 2022 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

#Events

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THE STATION AGENT- 2003 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An unexpected delight.

Fin (Peter Dinklage) is obsessed with trains. He is reclusive and introverted. Probably because of the way people treat him as a little person.

His only friend dies and leaves a New Jersey train depot to him in his will. He moves there to fix it up and enjoy some peace and quiet. However, a few people that live in the neighbourhood have other plans....

Joe (Bobby Cannavale) works in the food truck right outside the train depot. He talks too much and is deadset on becoming friends with Fin.

There's also Olivia (Patricia Clarkson). After running Fin off the road (twice) she goes by his place to apologise.

Slowly but surely they form an unlikely trio. Its a challenge at first as they couldnt be more different people and they have nothing in common. Fin being so standoffish and quiet is also a problem at first.

After a while though, they get comfortable with each other and start to hang out a lot. Eating dinners, smoking weed, train chasing, lovely stuff. Its so heartwarming when they hit it off.

The Station Agent is a perfect example of a simple film done right. Theres only a few characters, a narrative that pulls you in and gets you invested, and some brilliant acting.

While all three of the lead actors were tremendous and gave a great performance, my favourite was Bobby Cannavale who stole the show as Joe. I cant remember the last time i laughed this much at a character in a film.

Hes clearly very bored running his dads food truck and sees Fin as the solution. Hes completely undeterred by the fact Fin wants no part of him. As a viewer youre initially frustrated by Fin brushing him off as hes so likable and you them to be friends. Which makes it more enjoyable when it does happen.

Was pleased to see Peter Dinklage and Bobby Cannavale became good friends on this movie and stayed in touch ever since.

Just when i thought this movie couldnt get any better, Michelle Williams appears out of nowhere! Ive yet to watch her in a movie she doesnt immediately make better.

Michelle plays Emily, she works at the library, flirts a little bit with Fin and they become friends also. Shes just found out shes pregant and the dads a total bozo. The scene where he confronts them at the bar was quite sad.

There were a lot of sad scenes actually. Fin getting drunk at the bar alone was very sad.

The Station Agent received great reviews and was the directorial debut of Tom McCarthy.

It made 8.7 million on a 500,000 dollar budget.

One of my favourite movies ive seen this year.

#the station agent #movie #film #movie review #indie movie #drama #comedy #2000s movie #peter dinklage #michelle williams #patricia clarkson #bobby cannavale

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howardhawkshollywoodannex · 11 months ago

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Peter Dinklage as Finbar McBride in The Station Agent (2003). Pete was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and has 84 acting credits from Living in Oblivion (another honorable mention) to 2023. His entry among my best 1001 movies is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. His third honorable mention is Elf. Pete has four Emmy awards for 67 episodes of Game of Thrones.

His other notable credits include an episode of Oz, The Baxter, X Men: Days of Future Passed, a voice in The Angry Birds Movie, Avengers: Infinity War, My Dinner with Herve, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Cyrano (a singing role), and a voice in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

#peter dinklage #station agent

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The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime filmdirected by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, and written by David Mamet. The film is loosely based on the book of the same name (1957) and the real-life events it was based on, but most of its plot is fictionalized. The film stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro (in the third collaboration between De Palma and De Niro, following 1968's Greetings and 1970's Hi, Mom!), and Sean Connery, and follows Eliot Ness (Costner) as he forms the Untouchables team to bring Al Capone (De Niro) to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Award–nominated score was composed by Ennio Morricone and features period music by Duke Ellington.

The Untouchables premiered on June 2, 1987, in New York City, and went into general release on June 3, 1987, in the United States. The film grossed $106.2 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for four Academy Awards; Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

While the film is based on historic events, most of the film is inaccurate or fictional, the raid at the Canada–United States border never happened,and neither did the courthouse or railway station shootouts, Ness did not kill Nitti, (he died by suicide in 1943, 12 years after the trial) and Ness's unit had very little to do with Capone's final tax evasion conviction. Perhaps the most significant creative liberty of the film is that in real life Capone had the Chicago Outfit actively avoid killing or even physically harming Ness and other Treasury agents sent to Chicago. Although Capone frequently tried to bribe them, he decided that violence against them would lead to greater retaliation from the federal government.

The Untouchables opened on June 3, 1987 in 1,012 theatres where it grossed $10,023,094 on its opening weekend and ranked the sixth-highest opening weekend of 1987. It went on to make $76.2 million in North America. According to producer Art Linson, the polls conducted for the film showed that approximately 50% of the audience were women. "Ordinarily, a violent film attracts predominantly men, but this is also touching, about redemption and relationships and because of that the audience tends to forgive the excesses when it comes to violence".

Despite receiving the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance, Connery was voted first place in a 2003 Empire poll for worst film accent because his Scottish accent was still very noticeable.

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Holidays 12.5

Holidays

AFL-CIO Day

Bathtub Party Day (a.k.a. Party in the Tub Day)

Battle of Longewaia Day (India)

Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day (Thailand)

Blue Jeans Day

Boycott Day

Celebrate Shelter Pets Day

Children’s Day (Suriname)

Colorado Gives Day (Colorado)

Day of Military Honor - Battle of Moscow (Russia)

Day of the Ninja (a.k.a. International Ninja Day)

Die Like a Pirate Day

Discovery Day (Dominican Republic, Haiti)

Father’s Day (Thailand)

Female Community Health Volunteers’ Day (Nepal)

Folding Chair Day

Fraternity Day

International Ninja Day (a.k.a. International Creep Like a Ninja Day)

International Volunteer Day

International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (UN)

Irrational Exuberance Day

Klozum (Netherlands)

Let's Get Organized Day

Montgomery Bus Boycott Anniversary Day

National Communicate with Your Kids Day

National Commute With Your Baby Day

National Day of the Coral Reef (Colombia)

National DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Day

National Devon Day

National Johnny Day

National Kings of Prohibition Day

Ninjas vs. Krampus Day

Play Hookey Day

Roe Deer Day (French Republic)

Quito Day (Ecuador)

Tinsel Day

World Biomedical Engineering Day

World Soil Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Comfort Food Day

National Pigs in a Blanket Day (UK)

National Repeal Day

Sacher Torte Day

Swap a Christmas Cookie Recipe Day

World Turkish Coffee Day

1st Tuesday in December

World Trick Shot Day [1st Tuesday]

Feast Days

Abercius (Christian; Saint)

Bassus of Nice (Christian; Saint)

Clement of Alexandria (Episcopal Church)

Crispina (Christian; Saint)

Dalmatius of Pavia (Christian; Saint)

David Bomberg (Artology)

Faunalia (Honoring Faunus; Ancient Rome)

Faunalia Rustica (Pagan)

Festival of Faunalia (for Old Roman God Faunus)

Gerbold (Christian; Saint)

Ghidra and Mechaghidra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saints)

Huyghens (Positivist; Saint)

Justinian of Ramsey Island (Christian; Saint)

Nicetius (a.k.a. Nizier; Christian; Saint)

Niels Stenson (Christian; Blessed)

St. Nicholas Eve [Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, UK] (a.k.a. ...

Avond (Leewvarden, West Friesland, Netherlands)

Bonhomme Noel (Celebration of “Goodman Christmas”)

Klausjagen (Switzerland)

Krampus

Krampusnacht (a.k.a. Krampuslauf; Austria)

Sinterklaas (The Netherlands)

Zwarte Piete (Black Peter, companion of St. Nicholas who keeps track of good/bad kids)

Nones of December (Ancient Rome)

Pelinus of Brindisi (Christian; Saint)

Remember the Spanish Inquisition Day (Pastafarian)

Sabbas the Sanctified (Christian; Saint)

Wes (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [66 of 71]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Anne of Green Gables (TV Mini-Series; 1985)

Band on the Run (Album; 1973)

Beverly Hills Cop (Film; 1984)

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (Film; 1962)

The Borrowers (Film; 1997)

Bucks for Boris or The Green Paper Caper (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 132; 1961)

Bye Bye Baby, by Mary Wells (Song; 1960)

Cadillac Records (Film; 2008)

Café Flesh (Adult Film; 1982)

Charade (Film; 1963)

Chef Donald (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Come and Get It, by Badfinger (Song; 1969)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Film; 2008)

Damaged, by Black Flag (Album; 1981)

Flash Gordon (Film; 1980)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani (Novel; 1962)

Good Will Hunting (Film; 1997)

Hop Skip and Junk or Bullwinkle’s Big Tow (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 131; 1961)

Juno (Film; 2007)

Let It Bleed, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1969)

Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez (Novel; 1985)

Made in America, by The Blues Brothers (Album; 1980)

The Matchmaker, by Thornton Wilder (Broadway Play; 1954)

Ocean’s Eleven (Film; 2001)

The Pearl, by John Steinbeck (Novella; 1947)

Pioneer Days (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Serpico (Film; 1973)

The Station Agent (Film; 2003)

Symphonie Fantastique, by Hector Berlioz (Symphony; 1830)

Tweet Dreams (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

The Village Smithy (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Anno, Gerald, Niels, Reinhard (Austria)

Sava, Silva, Silvana, Silviya, Stanislav (Bulgaria)

Krispina, Sabina, Slavka (Croatia)

Jitka (Czech Republic)

Sabina (Denmark)

Selma, Selme (Estonia)

Selma (Finland)

Gérald, Gérard (France)

Gerald, Niels, Reinhard (Germany)

Diogenes, Savas, Savvas (Greece)

Vilma (Hungary)

Giulio, Lucia (Italy)

Klaudija, Klaudijs, Sabīne, Sarma, Sarmīte (Latvia)

Eimintas, Geisvilė, Grafas, Gratas (Lithuania)

Ståle, Stine (Norway)

Anastazy, Gerald, Geraldyna, Kryspina, Krystyna, Pęcisława, Saba (Poland)

Anastasie, Nectarie, Sava (Romania)

Oto (Slovakia)

Anastasio, Elisa, Sabas (Spain)

Sven(Sweden)

Pandora, Sabas, Savas, Wallace, Wally, Walt, Walter (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 339 of 2024; 26 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 23 (Ding-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 22 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 22 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 9 Zima; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 22 November 2023

Moon: 46%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 3 Bichat (13th Month) [Huyghens]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 73 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 14 of 30)

#calendar #Holidays

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“Travelling to New Foundland” from “Station Agent” soundtrack Composed by Stephen Trask, performed by Ben Ross, Julian Koster, Ann West and Stephen Trask

#the Station Agent #Stephen Trask #Julian Koster #Ben Ross #Ann West #audio #2003

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Spider-Man:

Online Arrests Filed, through "Glamour Girl":

1996: Andrew Wachowski, "nil".

1997: Carrie-Anne Moss, "Damn-Yankee".

1998: Brian Monaghan, "qwerty".

1999: Keanu Reeves, "Howie".

2000: Rich Kyanka, "Toggan".

2001: Anthony Weiner, "Betty".

2002: Larry Wachowski, "Apathy".

2003: Hugh Jackman, "Ghul".

2004: Sayed Adnan, "Petula".

Hannibal Rising:

Michael Charlebois: "Cain", a spy's accountant, out of "Chutzpah", a political artist.

Alice O'Neill: "Kilpatrick", a female spy, out of "U'Niall", a spy's slaver.

Kenny Winston: "Weinstein", a Gentile's banker, out of "Cromwell", a German fire fighter.

Ryan Taylor: "Gaylord", a Buddhist assassin, out of "Polk", an optometrist.

Katie Stevens: "Stevenson", a Jamaican drug runner, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Matthew Lennox: "Satan", a Jewish king, out of "Nigger", a Parisian actor's mother to Scipio Africanus.

John Remby: "Roosevelt", a poverty demanded leader, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Pasquale Acosta: "Ibn Rashid", a Medina Arab, out of "Princeps", a Central Powers mercenary.

William Morgan: "Davis", a Southern cotton obsessive, out of "Hamilton", a treasurer's informant's officer.

Mark Salib: "Harding", a munitions developer, out of "Gilgamesh", a sugar salesman.

Cassie-Leigh Stock: "Donalban", a Puerto Rican Aryan, out of "Gould", a fascist writer for Francisco Franco.

Alexandra Gaetano: "Crowley", an Irish priest, out of "Brian", the victim of Christ.

Jenna Williamson: "Bundy", a Canadian spy, out of "Booth", a Mossad hired assassin.

Zach Savell: "Morales", a firefighter's inventor, out of "Aragorn", the first cowboy.

Maureen Harrison: "Harrison", a poisoner artist Gadze, out of "Cornwallace", a disgraced general.

Jen McDade: "Aensley", a British banker, out of "Lemerise", a British cop family.

Jeremy Stevens: "Mosley", a Group Force Leader, out of "Oswald", a British undercover agent.

Raven Bush: "Desperado", a Comanche Sheriff, out of "Joseph", a defeated Greek.

David Cohen: "Adolph", a German Turkish spy, out of "Ataturk", a cigarettes salesman.

Nicholas Maynard: "Hayes", a patent swindler, out of "Bourbon", a female transgender.

Allison Haimes: "Chi Minh", a CIA undercover, out of "The Duke of York", a professional British knife fighter.

Greg Connolly: "Visser", an Afrikaans Irish, out of "Lan Ray", a Boer Holocaust victim.

Brian Monaghan: "Myers", a KGB Ireland, out of "Carnegie", a Scottish Knight.

Ivan Tomasic: "Dahmer", a professional first strike mutually assured destruction pilot, out of "Ljudovich", an Austrian Black Shirt.

Christopher Sweeney: "Sween", a Black Baron Schultzstaffel, out of "Washington", a Romalian Boelyn.

Joshua Moen: "Van Zant", a professional raconteur assassin, out of "Chaucer", a Knight's Guard.

Bernice Lamb: "De Salvo", a Nietzschean Ubermensch, out of "Panzram", a sculptor author.

Joshua Golden: "Eshkol", an intelligence programs founder, out of "Mosaic", a Hittite Prince.

Uma Thurman: "Magnusdotter", a bodybuilder assassin, out of "Catherine", a surmised monarch.

Joseph Biden: "Capone", a police officer criminal, out of "James of Scotland", a legal reformer.

Lloyd Ahlquist: "Agnew", a Rabbinical entomologist, out of "Bin Laden", a prison convicts manager.

Will Ferrell: "Adams", a carnival's lover, out of "Pedro II", a harbormaster.

Joseph Kennedy III: "Kenway", a pork meats distributor, out of "Kennedy", a Tepes, a cannibal.

Star Wars Episode 1-3:

Leadership:

"Duo": Shaun Wilcox, Hawaiian Coastal Engineer, US Navy Japan.

"Libra": James Holmes, DC Comics Development, Mossad Counter-Bay Station.

"Leo": Jeffrey Lange, Cleveland Rotary Association, Finance and Debitures Apartment.

Duo:

"Blueberry": Police code on APB scanner, to catch "ranger patrols", off cented Mounted and Royal Mounted sections (Canadian-German, Protestant Universalist).

"WTC Location Grab": Profiling of Osama Bin Laden, three days after 9/11, to DC Comics Location and Transition Wards, Mossad Afghanistan; Tora Bora Prison Complex.

"San Andreas": Capture of Toris Nelby, British Co Anchor Author, "Crack Underground"; while in live transit of threat of CIA agent Peter Tsapatsaris, "Nails", posing as "Peebo" on internet as fraud of Russian-Jewry infiltrating CIA Annex Three; Winchester Frauds, IDF Biotech Experiments. Toris Nelby, "Peebo", detained and "destroyed", by fired rounds, from Eric Frein.

Libra:

"British Exemplar": Takeover of Japan by Warerra Party, masquerading Clone Wars film, recently released, by "Lucas Arts", as actual factual plan of attack; Pearl Harbor, as represented by "Kleinmen", Rohypnol dealers for Mossad.

"Gutwill Five": Seizure of criminal resources and allies of Framingham Narcotics, rogue Israeli Defense Forces section of Massachusetts cops, out of Jewish gangsters in Ohio; biker gangs, Canadian Freemasons.

Leo:

"Assassin's Creed": Creation of Assassin's Creed concept, as alternative to parents pamphlets to place children in Mossad underground as "Moslems" or "Mussulman".

"Guantanamo Live Range Agent": Use of third degree interrogator's training from mother's Marine NCO doctor, "Glen", to hunt his killers inside INTERPOL's top ranks; Gwenn Pratt, John Washburne, Steven Charlebois, Brian Monaghan, Alexandra Gaetano, and John Kerry.

"Philips Freemasons of Boston": Stage point of removal of Ted Bundy catchem code, to take over Boston Triads for FBI and State Police, through Cyber Command aegis helix on Los Angeles Police Department server scans; return of Chinese to American policing, as FBI informants and cover agents, against rising tide of Taiwanese nationalism; unions and Russian-Jewish consortiums of film and media logic.

"Pinkville": The strike on the Hell's Angels as a capture turn of the Canadian Freemasons for operating criminal ventures in factories, sports leagues, and boarding schools, to turn children into slaves and writers and prison convicts; the French and British Freemasonic attempt to undo Bill Clinton's peace for labor, athletics, and prison inmates.

"Hideous Karl": Use of Jack Unterweger's serial killer profile, tying a necktie for a business meeting, taught by Scoutmasters in male and female scout troops, for any career or American act, to pen research work for Christopher Nolan, MGM, and FOX.

"The Steroids Scandal": Outing American-Japanese pharmaceuticals, and MI-6 doctors, for selling performance enhancing steroids, Suboxone, for decades, under different brands and claim of brands; the public lawsuit against Dr. Joshua Golden, of United Health Associates, by the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey.

"The Kennedy Campaign": Legalized marijuana, certified safe and non-sprayed by tree surgeons elected by towns, free from media myth presented on Holland and British telecasts, or by journalist work by High Times magazines authors. Held under tax stamps, through the State Police.

"Spiral": The culmination of three decades of work, as an NSA, from kindergarten to the mid-thirties, in the takedowns of INTERPOL, On Leong Tong, the Unitarian Church, and MI-6. The culmination of years of experience, placed in two blog reformatories, "Lex Luthor and the Sudbury Boys", and "Spiral - The Batman Killer", the prior academic references, the latter actual career references. The shutdown of the "United Nations Security Council", by planting a forged work on American Marxism from 2003, from an economics business professor at UMass-Amherst, Gerald Friedman, through the actual United Nations; published independently overseas, by those dependent on the United Nations as an American CIA entity; falsely framed as MI-6. The same NSA trick, used on Stephen Glass, a Vatican affiliated lawyer out of the Italian government's Nortel structure.

Spiral:

Joshua Moen: Keep the President's secret about Raven Bush getting stoned, or Cam Hollopeter marries your wife. But you don't have a wife, you're in love with Superman. Not Batman.

Method: Men's writing and literature styles, conflict terms of endearment in imago transformation.

Keanu Reeves: Clear Ben Brown of raping Raven Bush, or place yourself in perpetuity of your film, "The Matrix 1", being owned by the Crown Government.

Method: RTS counselor first sight response, however on public Majesty's review in Court.

Jenna Williamson: Place wired testimony through VFW, and accept your draft into the United States photographic corps unit for an upcoming military conflict.

Method: Coverage of the USS Cole bombing, being varied into a "K", the "Kierney" Amish mark on Marlboro cigarettes.

Ben Brown: Admit into economics program despite not earning a valedictorian's GPA through gymnastic and academic marks in highschool, or a military tour on apprenticeship to warrant officer status.

Method: US Presidential merits and statuses of badge, passed, during freshman year orientation.

Matthew Lennox: Separation from Raven Bush, under her alias, "Silver Laventi", at UMass-Amherst; attempting to engage for Elks Club, the Drake family, to remove from David's vicinity and allow him to take a law career for the Winchester CIA undercover in Israeli biotech medical testing on "Goyim", humans that have done DXM.

Method: Interjection through a Coen, the "Chutzpah" family, and placement of Raven inside the German underground as a medical advisor.

Peter Tsapatsaris: Outing that the name and alias used, is false, linking instead to a black drug dealer murdered on the MUSH.

Method: Interpreting with the actual alias, as the individual being extorted by the claimed name, out of Brian Monaghan's connection to NEWS Harvard, the studio print for the Boston Herald.

Brett Norman: Moving between ExSec operations controller, Andre Berube, after being recruited for role, and a permanent incarceration in Pembroke, watched by Steven "The Rifle" Flemmi.

Method: Placement in Pembroke military ward facility, to remove Rhode Island judge in league with Israeli Medical Authority.

The Matrix:

British Commonwealth (UK) Positions:

Boris Yeltsin: Claim, working through America for economic reestablishment.

Elie Wiesel: Claim, working to prevent anti-Semitism in United States.

Stan Lee: Claim, working in an MI-6 brand to teach police morals.

Queen Elizabeth II: Claim, defending British Isles against Adolf Hitler's traditions.

George W. Bush Jr.: Claim, Shriner's Freemasonic Lodge of England.

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) Roles:

Boris Yeltsin: National Rifle Association.

Elie Wiesel: Romalian Federation.

Stan Lee: Hitler Youth.

Queen Elizabeth II: Catholic-Sepulchre Jewish Orthodoxy.

George W. Bush Jr.: Kaiser's Lodge.

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Kovan Jewel

Kovan Jewel (Former Kovan Lodge)

We're Sole Marketing. No Agent Commission Payable. Freehold 5 minutes walk to Kovan MRT TOP VERY SOON! ✔ Exclusive 34 units of 1BR to 4BR Penthouses ✔ Freehold Large Floor Plate at Kovan District 19 ✔ 6 mins Walk to Kovan MRT ✔ Near to many eateries, hawker, wet market, supermarket and mall ✔ Top schools within 1KM i.e Paya Lebar Methodist Girls Primary School & Xinhua Primary School ✔ Efficient layout, High Quality Fittings ⚡Attractive Price Guide: ❤️‍🔥 1BR 624sf frm $1,323,000 ❤️‍🔥 1BR + Study 721sf frm $1,518,000 ❤️‍🔥 3BR 1076sf frm $2,326,700 ❤️‍🔥 3BR + Study 1141sf frm $2,340,000 ❤️‍🔥 2BR + 2 Study 1238sf frm $2,718,800 ❤️‍🔥 4BR/4+S & Penthouses 1991-2153 frm $4,088,800

Kovan Jewel TOP soon "Your Way of Living" Quick LinksVirtual Tour Scale Model Virtual Tour 1BR +S Virtual Tour 3BR Official Brochures/ Floor Plan ⭐Price Guide⭐ Kovan Jewel is a freehold New Launch Condo located at Kovan Road in District 19. It is estimated that Kovan Jewel will house up to 34 units. Kovan Jewel is a short 5 minute walk to Kovan MRT station. Kovan MRT station is sandwiched between two interchange stations - Hougang and Serangoon MRT station. Kovan MRT station is just one station away from Hougang MRT station which is an interchange station for the Cross Island Line, set to be completed in 2029.

Kovan Jewel is equipped with comprehensive amenities around the area, as residents can head to Fairprice Finest just opposite for groceries, or walk slightly further to Heartland Mall kovan for other facilities, and Kovan Sports Centre for recreational activities. Residents that are foodies can also look forward to trying out Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe, Tian Xin Vegetarian, Urban Table Cafe and Amber Ember cafe which are a few minutes walk away. Furthermore, residents enjoy proximity to NEX, which is a major shopping mall with a plethora of retail, food and recreational options. Nature enthusiasts would not be disappointed as they can head down to the several neighbourhood parks nearby, such as the Surin Avenue Neighbourhood Park or head to Coney island at Punggol, where residents can challenge the Coast-to-Coast Trail which is 36km, spanning across Singapore. Besides, Coney island is part of the Northeast Riverine Loop Park connector and residents can further explore the area through the connector.

Kovan Jewel is located close to prestigious schools such as DPS International School, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School, Xinghua Primary and Yuying Secondary. TypeDescriptionsProject NameKovan JewelDeveloper NameSoon Lian Realty Pte LtdLocation51 Kovan Road Singapore 548534 (District 19)Tenure of LandFREEHOLDExpected Date of Completion (T.O.P.)Q1 2024Site areaApprox. 2,516.8 sqm / 27,091 sqftTotal No. of Units34 units + 1 Shop Unit in 1 block of 5-storeysCar Parks34 Lots + 1 handicap lot + 6 bicycle lots (include 2 EV Charging) Updated Fact Sheet for Kovan Jewel

Kovan Jewel Freehold is a boutique development by renowned local developer Soon Lian Realty Pte Ltd. Incorporated in March 1973, the company’s principle activity is hospitality, real estate development and asset/portfolio and property management with extensive management subsidiaries worldwide. Soon Lian and its subsidiaries are amongst the largest landlords in Singapore. Soon Lian Realty and its subsidiaries’ past track records include Boonview @ Bishan (completed 2003), Tresalveo (completed 2011) and Roots @ Transit Road (completed in 2019) Soon Lian Realty continues its 50 year proud traditionin providing quality homes in good locations and value to its present and future customers.

The Team Behind Kovan Jewel - Rare freehold Near Kovan MRT Near to eateries, hawker, wet market, supermarket and mall. Very convenient! Proximity to Recreation and other amenities – Serangoon garden, Kovan and Serangoon MRT, Serangoon Nex, Heartland Mall Beautiful landscape area design Efficient unit layout Kovan Jewel residents have access to a variety of public transportation options. The new launch condo is within 500m of Kovan MRT station, which makes it easy for residents to travel throughout Singapore. For those who prefer to travel by bus, the bus stops at The Helping Hand and Charlton 18 are almost right at your doorstep. Access to the expressways is convenient and nearby. These include the Pan Island Expressway, Central Expressway and the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway.

Kovan Jewel Location Map

Diagonally across the street at the exit C of Kovan MRT station, residents will be able to get a variety of local fare at the Kovan Food Centre and Market. More food options are available at the Heartland Mall right beside the food centre. One MRT stop to the south west brings one to the Nex Mall and MRT Interchange, the largest retail mall in the North East region. Explore more with an MRT stop to the northeast where one can find malls like the Hougang Mall, Kang Kar Mall and Midtown Mall. Trains (MRT) • KOVAN MRT NE13 496m • SERANGOON MRT CC13 NE12 1.18 km Groceries/ Shopping • Kovan City - Coffee Shops, Bakeries & Convenient Stores 500m • NTUC Fairprice (Hougang Blk 202) 490m • Heartland Mall-Kovan 568m • Nex Shopping Mall 1.2km Schools • DPS International School 470m • Xinghua Primary 870m • Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (primary) 900m Others 1km to 2km: CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel, Holy Innocents Primary, Maris Stella High, Monford Junior, Rosyth, Zhonghua Primary, Yangzheng Primary Kovan Jewel truly brings home the essence of living in a lap of luxury with exclusive 16 residential units, where each unit comes fully furnished with various imported fittings and appliances. Equipped with a collection of extravagant facilities, this residence is the ultimate choice for your dream home in the metropolis. Some of this exciting areas include recreational facilities on 1st storey including swimming pool, gym, wet deck, kids' pool etc -- all of which are designed with the sole intention of promoting a truly holistic and luxurious living experience. .

Kovan Jewel DC Chart Simplicity extends into Kovan Jewel's interior in a minimalist touch that combines the timeless elegance with the modern flair of Scandinavian design. The hybrid style combines art and nature for a balanced and perfect blend of function and form. Live with top quality finishes of chic and sleek and spacious layout that is meticulously designed with luxury and elegance in mind. Each individual space is fitted with best of fittings and finishes with you in mind. Unit Mixes: 1BR (624sqft) -8 units (24%) 1+S (721sqft) -7 units (21%) 3BR (1076 to 1345sqft) –8 units (24%) 3+S (1141sqft) –6 units (18%) 2BR + 2 Study PH (1238sqft) –1 units (3%) 4BR PH (2153sqft) –2 units (5%) 4+S PH (1991sqft) –2 units (5%) Typical Ceiling Height: 2.9m Flooring: Porcelain/ Teak Fitting & Fixtures brands: Bosch, Duravit, Handsgrohe, Franke.

Kovan Jewel unit mixes Floor Plan & Virtual Tours: Virtual Tour Scale Model Virtual Tour 1BR +S

1BR Type 1

1BR Type 8

1BR+S Type 4

1BR+S Type 5

Penthouse 2BR Type PH4 Virtual Tour 3BR

3BR+S Type 6

3BR+S Type 6a

3BR+S Type 3

3BR Type 8g

3BR Type 7g

3BR Type 7

3BR Type 7a

3BR Type 2

3BR Type 2a

Penthouse 4BR Type PH2

Penthouse 4BR Type PH7

Penthouse 4BR+S Type PH3

Penthouse 4BR+S Type PH6

Official Brochures/ Floor Plan E-brochure & Floor Plan ⭐Price Guide⭐ ❤️‍🔥 1BR 624sf frm $1,323,000 ❤️‍🔥 1BR + Study 721sf frm $1,518,000 ❤️‍🔥 3BR 1076sf frm $2,326,700 ❤️‍🔥 3BR + Study 1141sf frm $2,340,000 ❤️‍🔥 2BR + 2 Study 1238sf frm $2,718,800 ❤️‍🔥 4BR/4+S & Penthouses 1991-2153 frm $4,088,800 Please Contact Us at +65.84188689 It is important to only engage the Official Direct Developer Sales Team to assist you to enjoy the best possible direct developer price. There is no commission required to be paid.

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