#there are thirty eight time zones. not 24.

[mistle-foe]

some time zones are off by 45 minutes instead of 30. how are you meant to keep track of that.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.15 (after 1900)

1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. 1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. 1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps. 1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan. 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". 1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. 1983 – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. 2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. 2009 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module. 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. 2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. 2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. 2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

[vancouverislandtotoronto2023]

Day 18, Tuesday, June 13: Garden City to Oakley, Colby and Atwood, Kansas to Trenton, Nebraska to Holyoke and Julesberg, Colorado to Sidney, Nebraska, 552 km.

Garden City is a small town of 28,000 in the western part of Kansas. Its main claims to fame are Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological park in Western Kansas.

Leaving Garden City, the days ride is typified by back roads, small towns, and weather, but what I mostly want to talk about are the Great Plains.

In Canada, this is the area on the leeward side of the Rockies, commonly referred to as Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

In the US it consists of parts of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, and I have been riding through it for most of the past week.

What I have been mostly noting is the richness of its geography, but today in Oakley, Kansas, I was connected to the richness of its history. Although not born in Oakley, Annie Oakley did leave her mark on the Great Plains as did other notables such as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, George Custer, Davy Crockett, Bill Cody and William McCormack. Both the latter were scouts for the army with the added responsibility of supplying it with meat. This being the Great Plains, that meant Buffalo. It was just outside of Oakley in 1868, where Bill Cody cemented his reputation as Buffalo Bill by defeating McCormack in a buffalo shooting contest, shooting 69 buffalo from horseback in eight hours compared to McCormack's 49. Buffalo Bill would go on to establish his wild west show that ran as a premier world attraction for 30 years from 1883 to 1913.

One of my favourite books is The Grapes of Wrath. Accordingly, ever since I hit Oklahoma, I have been interested in how the Great Plains recovered from the dust bowls of the thirties. Yesterday, I talked about trees.Today, I have included a picture of another technique. If you look closely, you can see that when harvesting the wheat, they left the stalks in the ground and how now replanted corn amongst the stalks. This technique serves to anchor the soil and make it harder to wash or blow away.

My ride today again focused on back roads and small towns, some with populations as little as 24. It stayed dry until I hit Nebraska when the heavens opened. I knew it would be dry in Garden City in the morning and wet in the afternoon and vice versa for Sidney. I guessed wrong, however, that I might be able to ride around it instead of through it.

In an unusual move, I passed through three states today, picking up the NE corner of Colorado at Julesberg. Interestingly enough, this is where the pony express, a ten day ride from Missouri to California, cut through Colorado. What most people don't know is that notwithstanding its outsized reputation, the Pony Express only lasted 18 months, after which time it was replaced by the telegraph.

I unexpectedly passed back into the Mountain Time Zone today, so I actually gained an extra hour in my day. It meant that long ride notwithstanding, I arrived in Sidney mid afternoon, so again, I had time to relax, research the days ride, buy some beer, work on my blog, and plan my next day. It's going to be a good one - at last, I'm going to see Mt Rushmore.

[seattlites]

╰ ❛   💉 — › monica raymund.  cis woman.  she/her.  .  ╯ have  you  met maya rodriguez yet  ?  this  thirty-four  year  old  aries  has  been  living  in the seattle  area  for a few years.  she  makes  a  living  as  a  emergency medicine doctor,  which  is best suited for their resilient, decisive, impulsive and impetuous personality.

trigger warnings: car accident, death, heart attack

maya rodriguez was born in april 8th in calgary, alberta, canada to a single mom who fully intended to give her daughter the best life she possibly could. it didn’t matter that the father was an one night stand that returned back to toronto and changed numbers so allison wouldn’t contact him again. what mattered was the little family of two they would create together.

although life wasn’t easy as a single mom, they were both happy. maya was growing to be a fierce, brave little girl who loved to play in the streets with her neighbours and was too curious for her own sake.

all of that came to an end in the tragic day of may, 24, 1993 when maya was waiting for her mom to pick her up from kindergarten but who showed up was an older woman with a bad fashion style and with dark circles of someone who was simply too tired to be doing her job. allison had immediately died in a truck accident on her way to her daughter’s school, something that maya had difficulty to grasp her mind around for a long time.

merely six years old, maya was placed in a foster family a few miles away. changing schools was not the change she needed at such a hard time but it was the only family available in such short notice. maya, however, had other plans. through tantrums and acting out to blatantly plan ways to be kicked out, the little girl moved through an insane amount of house for the next couple of years.

it was only at eight years old that she found someone that cared for her. to this day, she’ll say mrs. ferguson was the one to see right through her, the one that had found maya and not the opposite. the woman was past her 60s and lived alone - soon enough it would be just the two of them. maya refused to forget her mother, nor did the woman wished that for her, so they came to an agreement - she’d become granny, avoiding some uncomfortable questions at school.

the one person that helped maya through the troubled years was bradley brooks. the two kids, at first as different as water and oil, fit together like a puzzle and you’d never find one without the other. maya would come to protect brad from the bullies and help him with his school work, while brad would provide the family and comfort maya had been lacking.

it was with his help and granny support that maya applied for a few us colleges, eventually getting in university of washington. seattle wasn’t as far away from calgary as other cities would be, so she could visit granny as frequently as possible. brad and her had a deal to call each other every weekend with updates and gossip, and holidays would be spent either visiting each other or their hometown.

the one thing she was mostly excited about college was sharing a dorm with someone and just like every cliché movie she had watched with the brooks, her roommate would soon be her new best friend. matilda chambers was nothing like she expected. but by living together, and eventually both being pre-med, the two girls pushed each other out of their comfort zone - maya wouldn’t allow matilda to skip any of the parties and matilda would remind maya to stay a few more hours in the library before their finals.

spring break of her sophomore year, instead of going to california with some friends, maya chose to go home. brad wouldn’t be there and granny had told her to go and have fun - but something in her told her she had to be at home. at the end of her trip, she came home to find granny collapsed on the floor, without a pulse. at best of her knowledge, maya started performing cpr. as the doctors would tell her, she had had a heart attack and nothing she could have done would make the outcome any different. this would change maya’s entire life course.

she would come back to college with no family left but a goal to pursue. with hard work and persistence, maya got in boston university medical school. she wanted to learn from the very best and match into emergency medicine, where she would make sure no one had allisons and mrs. fergusons in their lives.

despite her new sense of purpose, maya didn’t stop living her own life. after all, life could end in a blink of an eye. as someone who had never been shy with her personality or sexuality, it was at one of the most lgbtq clubs that she met lucy fields. what started as an one night stand, suddenly they were bumping each other in coffeeshops and libraries. it turned out lucy was also a med student, just from the classy side of boston. the two women were more alike than maya gave them credit at first and a beautiful (and sometimes chaotic) friendship blossomed.

matching into emergency medicine was her biggest dream and accomplishment but unfortunately, it wasn’t in her first choice. instead of going to sunny california, maya packed her bags and moved to denver, colorado. it was the second best program and it was only four years of her life. it turned out, denver wasn’t so bad after all and maya stayed an extra couple of years.

she only moved back to seattle when she was offered a job at sgmw that she simply couldn’t refuse. putting behind her trauma, and knowing her college best friend was there as well, maya moved across the country. soon after, bradley joined her and she has finally felt like she belongs.

in the meantime, maya has slept with a few ton of people, including the woman who destroyed matilda’s marriage, unknown to her. but then again, the one married wasn’t laurel, was she?

wanted connections: if someone was in denver while maya was, exes and exes and exes. have i mentioned i want all the messy exes? a girlfriend that ultimately didn’t want the same things but who knows, maybe they’re in the same place in life now. give her all the girls to flirt and f*ck and date, thank you.

[mxrcayong]

the avatar series: 01.13

masterlist.

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chapter twelve

~ flashback to 24 hours before ~

Roddie was practically imprisoned in the mayoral home. Guards were deployed all over the mansion, basically preventing her from even thinking about sneaking out past curfew, which was put at 7pm. Before, she wasn’t even done with her transit from school at 7pm. She was banned from leaving any time before 9am or after 7pm without ‘proper supervision’, making her essentially trapped in the same home as the father she despised.

It’s not like she has despised him all her life. In fact, he was an amazing father growing up. He was the one who taught her about how bending was ingrained and imperative in their culture, who taught her about the history of bending. Consequently, when he became mayor and eight years ago and his opinion rapidly changed, Roddie could practically recognized the man she called her father. Her confusion quickly changed to anger. Yes, before he was mayor – there was a mayor before who implemented the anti-pro-bending laws, but growing up; he always enthused to Roddie how much he would like to take her to one. Once he got the position of power, it seemed like he completely changed and became worse than the person before him. And when he started acting on his position of power, Roddie didn’t hesitate in separating herself from her father.

Consequently, for the last few days since the attack on the abandoned warehouse, Roddie has barely left her room. Her hopeless plans of avoiding her father initially consisted of her napping throughout the day and then working throughout the night, essentially giving her a completely different time zone from her father. However, her father was a politician. He’s practically always working. Not only that, but the staff in the home would always wake her up for meals – her mother insisting on hosting family dinners.

Being a politicians’ daughter made all eyes on them, especially now when the current news focuses on the politics of their society. Often, Roddie would use her attention to call out the government – which did nothing to repair her relationship with her father – however, this is the first time she’s been forcibly banned and censored by her parents and the staff.

Roddie cannot complain about this attention, especially if it meant that their family meals would almost always be interrupted by calls from other government officials or the press. Fortunately, this means her time with her father was interrupted.

Tonight’s dinner felt like the ordinary; a tense silence, the awkward clinking of utensils, the small conversation between her parents, and the resounding noise of chewing that took over any silence. Underneath the table, Roddie had her phone out – using her utensils with one hand and her other hand was texting her friends.

to: (glopo nerds + roddie): I actually hate this so much

to: (glopo nerds + roddie): kill me now pls

from jeyes (glopo nerds + roddie): can you just say you need to study?? we do still have an exam in a month

from lele (glopo nerds + roddie: I see why you call him a nerd now.

to (glopo nerds + roddie): excuse you you’re included

from lele (glopo nerds + roddie): I would offer to come over but I’m in a similar situation lol

One benefit from living in the mayoral estate rather than her dorms? She’s literally a street away from Chenle. Normally, she’s an elevator ride and multiple hallways away. Chenle was quite literally her neighboring home. It was why she saw him as a brother – for the last eight years, they lived next to each other.

to (glopo nerds + roddie): group call in 30??? Imma try to eat fast and get the hell outta here

from nana (glopo nerds + roddie): sorry too social for you guys 💁♀️  

from jeyes (glopo nerds + roddie) even for me??? 🥺

to glopo nerds + roddie: we literally have no other friends, shut up

from nana (glopo nerds + roddie): why you gotta expose me like that 😡  I s2g ik what parents mean when they say raising children ain’t worth it

Rolling her eyes at her friends, Roddie chewed her food faster but struggled due to the texture. She was debating asking one of the chefs to put the food aside for her to eat later, but she knew her mother would only make her finish eating now. Roddie was hungry – but her hunger couldn’t even motivate her to stay around her father longer. The anticipation to leave didn’t last long as a phone call soon brought her father away from dinner and to the other room.

Usually, he closes the doors – wanting the meetings to be private, especially if Roddie was there. She was known for calling out the government, and if she knew any of their secrets? He was certain they would be all over the news the next day.

But this time, he left the door open.

“Zhong, Amon,” His voice was faint and muffled by the door, but Roddie basically did everything she can to focus on what he was saying. “Don’t you think this is going too fast?” Robotic yelling could be heard from the phone. “Wait, what do you mean a reporter has been asking you questions?” Could he mean Tari’s so-called ‘best friend’? Roddie thought. “Why does this have to speed up-“He was interrupted…and he started walking away from the door. But, Roddie couldn’t deny the panic rising in his voice. In her eighteen years of life, Roddie has never heard her father’s voice rise in octave and spill quickly.

Her eyes widened, and this didn’t go unnoticed by her mother. “Aye, anak,” When her mother speaks in her family tribe’s native language, Roddie knows she’s about to get in trouble. “You know this is serious times. Please do not escalate things. You do not know what is going on.” Roddie remained silent, rolling her eyes. She didn’t want to be like her mother – standing idly by, being submissive to her father just because of the traditional roles she was raised to live by.

Practically stuffing her face – Roddie stopped caring about the possibility of choking. “IM DAHN.” Roddie screamed, her mouth still full of food. Ignoring her mother’s critique on her manners, she sprinted up to her room on the second floor.

As soon as she got into her room, she let her back land on the back of her door. Sliding down to a squatting position, she started texting one of her best friends.

To lele: hey hey emergency, can we meet?? Your dad isn’t there right???

From lele: he just left, why? Whatsup?

To lele: was it after a call?

From lele: ye how’d you know?

To lele: I overheard the calls…do you wanna be the Watson to my holmes?

To lele: the bess to my Nancy?

To lele: the hastings to my Poirot?

From lele: I’m in ONLY if you stop comparing us to famous detectives

From lele: the teachers in class heard you once and I think they genuinely thought my name was watson for a month

From lele: also im not always the sidekick smh 🤬 I s2g can I be appreciated more pls

From lele: whats up?

“Are you sure it’s safe to invite them?” Chenle asked Roddie as the two waited in the foyer for their bending friends. “They’re benders… they’re more at risk than us.”

Roddie rolled her eyes, “It’s nothing. Honestly, Jeno barely bends unless in a designated area. We know him, he’s a damp towel when it comes to bending.” Chenle laughed at the joke shared between them that Jeno is nowhere at all funny. The laugh, hopefully, covered up his fears he had for the safety of his friends. “Plus, Jaemin is my partner-in-crime, the Robin to my Batman, the-“ Roddie was about to continue listing characters, but the look on Chenle face practically threatening to leave right now stopped her. “I can’t do activist shit without him.”  

“How are you expecting us to leave your house by the way?” The younger boy furrowed his brows, “I was allowed because I’m legit a minute away. My guards saw me enter your house. But how do we get out of here?” The older girl and mastermind behind the plan pulled out her best puppy dog eyes, making Chenle’s eyes practically roll to the back of his head. “What is it?” He practically growled.

Roddie started swaying, trying to act cuter. “Do you remember the old mannequins I had when I was into fashion for like a month?” Chenle nodded. “Can you help me look in the basement for them? We can say we’re sleeping over.”

“Where will our legs be?” Chenle almost yelled but hushed it to a whisper as guards started walking past them. “Your mannequins are legless.”

“Pillows?” Roddie said, more as a question.

“You didn’t think this out properly, did you?” Roddie ignored his question. “Do you even know where they have gone?”

Her eyes went wide momentarily, before she pulled put her phone. “I may or may not have taken photos of some documents I’ve seen laying around, maybe the address of the factory is in one of them.”

“Factory?” Chenle clarified. “Do you mean the factory on Bumi Boulevard?” Roddie’s eyes widened. How did he know classified information? “Listen, because you have a bad relationship with your father doesn’t mean I have one with mine!”

After thirty minutes of rummaging through the basement for the old mannequins and some wigs that could even remotely match their hair color and some of her father’s old college shirts to put on the mannequins. Scattering the four mannequins around the room in a somewhat cohesive manner, they had two mannequins lying down on a beanbag and two on the bed – both lying down facing the opposite direction. Roddie couldn’t help but be more thankful that Jaemin had dyed his hair bright blue or else they may not have been able to find a wig.

Screaming out her room saying they’re ‘going to be studying and then ‘having a sleepover’, Roddie blasted music in the room and the three took off. Roddie knew all the secret exits, and although the house is more guarded than usual, the four are all wearing black and due to the darkness of the night, can easily be concealed. Additionally, the guarded element of her life comes from her designated guard checking in on her every hour.

Another thing Roddie couldn’t be happier for? Jeno having a driver’s license. Bumi Boulevard, although is connected to the train station, Chenle mentioned how its in more of the outskirts of the city. “You do realize I’m not some valet.” Jeno teased, climbing into the driver’s seat with Jaemin in the shotgun.

The car lifted off the ground. “Every time you invite me to go out at night, it’s either a sleepover or when you need a ride.”

“Don’t take it personally, Jeno.” Jaemin commented from beside him. “It’s just because you don’t like parties and the only time Roddie goes out at night, other than with us, is to party.”

“That’s a noble reason!” Roddie tried to convince him, “I’m respecting your preferences.”

“Whatever.” Jeno was teasing of course. As much as they say he isn’t funny, he’s quite funny and Roddie cannot deny it. “Okay, so let’s go over a game plan. We can’t just waltz in.”

“We can’t?” Roddie asked, genuinely confused. She’s pretty much used to getting access to most government buildings, unless her father has told the police to ban her from entering. That usually happened once she breaks in. She didn’t even know about the factory yet, so it’s practically impossible that she’s been banned.

“Jaemin, I can’t give her the look or else my eyes will be off the road.” Jeno groaned. “Can you glare at her with disappointment for a minute? Maybe for even twenty? Never have I heard a more stupid statement in my life.” Jeno teased. Roddie slapped the head rest of Jeno’s seat in offense. None of them expected Jaemin to actually give Roddie a disappointed look for five minutes as Chenle started brainstorming ideas.

Jaemin interrupted Chenle’s idea of ‘dressing up like barbeque delivery guys’ with even more disappointment than Jeno implied him giving. “You guys are literally their children. Does anyone-“ Jaemin let out a soft ‘ah’ when he saw Jeno with a backpack, “Just say that you have something in your bag you have to give to your dad.”

“Okay, well it’s probably best to me.” Chenle noted. “Everyone knows how much Roddie hates her dad.”

“What if they go through the bags?” Roddie asked, remembering the security checks in the government building. “Jeno, did you pack anything that can somewhat resemble a gift?”

“I think?” Jeno questioned himself, voice full of uncertainty. “I mean, at this point, because of school and stuff, I just carry the bag out of habit. I haven’t actually touched it or opened it and saw everything inside for like…a month?”

Roddie cringed in disgust. “Okay, well, as long as there are no condoms in there or snotty tissues, I can imagine it being okay.”

Unfortunately, it wasn’t okay. “Sorry to ask, but what exactly of these are you giving to your dad?” The security guard asked. Somehow, they managed to convince them that Chenle needed to bring his friends inside to reduce his anxiety about being in a government facility. Honestly, Chenle was glad this person was someone he hasn’t seen before – or else they would know Chenle basically lives in the city hall when he wasn’t with friends.

He was faced with the contents of Jeno’s bag; some lint, a beaten up water bottle, protein powder, a ‘5 free coffees’ card that expired a month ago with only three coffees being used (Jaemin scowled so hard at Jeno for not letting Jaemin use it at the sight of it), and a laptop in a casing that definitely didn’t belong to a government official.

“Oh, he left his…personal laptop at home.” Chenle lied, scratching the back of his head. “He messaged me saying he needed it…I couldn’t find his laptop case though, so I put it in…mine.” The laptop case in question? A plain white one, which had some unfortunate drawings of penises on it with sharpie (Chenle can take credit for the first penis on there- having drawn it when Jeno fell asleep during a lecture).

The security guard nodded, obviously somewhat skeptical. They sighed. “Okay, well, he’s in the meeting room with Amon so just leave it in his office. I think they’re having a private talk.” They noted, “All the guards were told to leave that floor.”

Chenle quickly nodded. The four of them nod politely and thanked them, before running to the closest map they could see inside the factory. The factory seemed to be completely made out of metal and with more levels underground than over it. Thousands of rooms surrounded the edges, but something about the factory felt like an auditorium. The floors above the very bottom floor seemed to act like balconies looking down at the center. She could see what happens on the bottom floor, which she would say is approximately 17 floors below her on ground level, from her position next to the map on the pillar. “Okay, so my dad and your dad are in the office with…Amen?”

“Amon.” Jaemin and Roddie said in-sync, remembering his name from all the news reports he’s been on.

“Right, Amon…” Chenle trailed off, before trying to understand the language on the map. It wasn’t something he’s seen before. In fact, they weren’t even words. They were numbers in some sort of sequence that doesn’t quite make sense to him, despite practically being an expert in math. “Uh…I don’t get it.”

Roddie decided to look around. Chenle and Jeno were the best at numbers. Her and Jaemin? Not so much. He once said 20 – 10 = 0 during a quickfire round of trivia. So her best bet is to observe while Jeno and Chenle analyse the plaque of the map on the pillar.

“Do you think we can find a lab coat or one of the uniforms?” Roddie asked, breaking away the trance of her friends on the plaque. “So we can get into more rooms easily.”

Jaemin snapped, grinning widely as he looked at his partner-in-crime. “Okay, I bet we can find a broom closet somewhere.” And that’s what Jaemin did. With no regards to walking into a private meeting or caught, he started trying to open any door he could see that seemed unlocked.

Behind the first door was a female bathroom, the second door was a weird test-tubey room, the third was something Roddie couldn’t even describe. It felt like some perverse and illegal version of the ‘Price is Right’ with the prices becoming more and more obscure.

Until finally, they got to a room resembling a locker room. And luckily for them, saw a cabinet labelled ‘extra uniforms’. “Thank fucking Roku.”

It felt like they were in the metal labyrinth for hours. Their hearts were consistently racing, worried about getting caught. Roddie and Chenle eventually had to disguise themselves – many guards offering to escort them to the office, to which they would always say ‘I’m heading to the bathroom’. They couldn’t feel luckier there were only so many workers here that they haven’t come across the same one twice, or else they would look like they’re having quite serious bladder problems.

They had no sense of time. The only thing that reminded them of the time was the clocks on the walls, notifying them it was now one in the morning. They got here around 10. That means they spent three hours trying to locate their parent’s secret office.

But normally, they’d be done with their meetings by now, right? Roddie thought back to all the times her father’s meeting went over time…it’s usually when something didn’t go to plan or it’s something with more risks than they thought. Shit, Roddie started biting her lip so hard – it bled at first contact with the tip of her tooth. We’re really in trouble. But she started praying they just went home by now. I hope.

It felt like a miracle the moment they got into a room that resembled an office. It required some failed attempts at lockpicking from Roddie and Jaemin, before expertful lock-picking from Jeno, who refuses to tell anyone how he learnt it. “Maybe Jeno is cooler than you guys.” Chenle teased, sneaking in behind them into the office. But the cocky words that left his mouth were the last of the same tone.

He was full of awe. This was Roddie’s dad’s office. Around the room had photos of Roddie as a child and family photos. While he was frozen in place, everyone else went searching around the room. It wasn’t long before they opened every drawer, every file (Chenle used his hacking skills to good use to open every computer file), every potential secret entrance handle – everything was turned upside down and sideways.

Everything they saw broke their hearts. Chenle’s and Roddie’s due to the destruction of their nation and Chenle’s disillusionment of his father, but Jeno’s and Jaemin’s because they could no longer feel safe.

But one folder revealed a lot. The folder title was ‘BENDING RALLY 001 – THE INITIAL STAGE’. Dozens and dozens of files and blueprints describing an event happening in a few days fell out as soon as they opened it.

“What is this?” Chenle said, almost as if he wasn’t there himself. He wasn’t like Roddie where he believed the worst in his family, particularly his father – but the documents proved otherwise.

Plans and blueprints of technology that would remove one’s ability to bend. Plans to temporarily disable their bending in order to ‘make a safer world’. But the blueprints show a sprinkler with an ‘anti-bending’ chemical in it, bracelets that look like Apple Watches with a band comparable to a single side of a handcuff. Both were made to suspend people’s bending – although there was minimal information on the blueprints if this will be permanently or temporarily suspended. A plan was made to have a registration event, mandatory for benders to come at a certain time and pick up the tool that’ll be oppressing them. There was another note saying they have to have a backroom for Amon ‘to do his magic’. What magic?

There were thousands of lists on the desks. From names of every citizen to the city to the lists of confirmed benders forced to register their bending ability due to their profession, the duo noticed that all lists focus on potential or confirmed benders living in Sooman. But one list caught Roddie’s attention.

On the top, the list showed how the official filtered and created this list. The categories were the birth year and which tribe their family has come from, according to their social identity information.

The list contained ten people and a message on top ‘to investigate these ten immediately’ and ‘nullify their risk’. Roddie couldn’t even imagine how they will be ‘nullified’.

There was one name that shouted at her, as if the black text suddenly became bold and red and underlined a million times. There was no way, Roddie thought – trying to recall her every interaction with them. It can’t be …but they don’t know that, they might kill them. She took out her phone and texted someone who could get to the bottom of this. Only once her information is confirmed will she tell them. She didn’t want to panic them.

But even as she left, the visual of ‘Tari Kotala’ dead center in the list of identities haunted her like a devil on her shoulder.

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[maridelgado]

( jeanine mason, cisfemale, she/her ) i took a trip into town and ran into MARIGOLD "MARI" DELGADO at the general store. isn’t that the NATURALIST you told me about last week? the one who is THIRTY-ONE, as well as SELF-RELIANT and ABRASIVE? well, we didn’t chat for long because they had to get back to their job as FLORIST & FARMER, so i can’t say for sure, but i think you might be onto something…they even mentioned they want to START A NEW LIFE like you said.  ( + britt, 24, she/her, est )

name; marigold alma “mari” delgado birthday; 05/01/1989 pronouns; she/her orientation; pansexual occupation; florist & farmer

TW: Car Crash+Injury / full bio will be coming eventually but here’s some bullet points. i just copied the points i had for ben’s relationship page stuff that i just realized i hadn’t opened for people to view so here it is just because i tried not too include too much of her and ben’s relationship on here.

an only child.

has two best friends who are basically brothers to her: ben and oz.

piano prodigy as a child. also a genius when it came to guitar.

at eight-years-old, her father died. her mother started drifting away after the unsuspected tragedy. 

two years after her father’s death, her mother got remarried to an absolute bastard. they only gave mari the time of day when it came to her piano practice. they wanted her to perfect her piano skills to become a world famous pianist.

around this time, mari was zoning more into playing the guitar thanks to the band that the trio had formed: mari on guitar, oz on drums, and ben on bass.

the summer before their freshman year of high school, she was forced to move to california with her parents to attend some private school for the arts to really hone in on her piano playing.

she ended up running away, going back to new york.

hasn’t spoken to her mother since she was disowned. she was a teenager when it happened. mari moved in with one of her best friend’s, ben and his parents after this happened.

stopped playing the piano and focused solely on guitar.

worked part time at ben’s aunt rosalia’s flower shop delivering flowers. 

after graduating high school, her and oz moved to new york city together. they got an apartment with the latest addition to their band, a new drummer since oz took ben’s position of bass.

started off playing small shows, ben was there for each one. one of those shows is how all three of them met perri.

at this point their friend group which consisted of ben, mari, oz, emery, and perri mainly, oz proposed they all get tattoos. so they each got their birth month flower after mari suggested it.

marigold’s tattoo was of a lily of the valley which she got on  her right collarbone.

started a relationship with a guy andrew stark, moved in with him six months into their relationship.

TW *once they moved in together, the whirlwind romance turned into a lackluster one. at the point of her about to break it off, the two of them got in a terrible car accident. mari’s side of the car got the worst of it; her hand ended up pinched between the door and the seat, getting pulverized. andrew had been the one driving and the cause of the accident. at the hospital, she found out that she’d never be able to use her hand quite as well therefore not be able to play guitar or piano like she used to. That news was followed by the news that she was pregnant.*

found work at a flower shop in the city, started focusing her passions there because she had loved working in rosalia’s flower shop. even went back to school to pursue a degree in  floriculture.

was thinking of moving to the valley for the past 3 to 4 years, but after a certain even she felt it would be best for her and her son. she wants to give her son the best life possible and be the best mom she can for him. 

head-cannons/random facts

as i get to know my boy more, i’ll be adding new random facts about him here!

still close to oz, and is very happy and proud he was to achieve their dream and become a famous rock star.

not really into sports, but does have a little interest in soccer since both her best friends and her son like the sport.

mari’s love languages are ranked as the following: quality time, physical touch, acts of services, receiving gifts, and words of affirmation.

her son, jason edmundo delgado, will be ten-years-old on november 8th. he is named after ben (jason was inspired by his middle name jae) and mari’s father (edmundo delgado-fernández.)

jason’s father, andrew, gave up custody not too long after he was born.

has a golden retriever that used to belong to ben and perri. his name is pie. technically ben gave it to jason, but mari refers to him as her second son.

owns a 1970 ford truck that her father and his best friend fixed up together. felix, her father’s best friend, gave it to her when she was sixteen.

potential connections

people she butts heads with! that may or may not turn into friends later on. or turn into enemies!

i don’t know besides that! she will be new, so ben’s the only connection she has in the valley. she would be familiar with names and minor details of some of his friends in the valley. like what they’re occupation is and how ben feels about them which may or may not impact how she interacts with them.

[hawkvalley]

Broncos Regular Season Week 8

Hawk Valley

Quick Review

The Broncos lost to the Chiefs 43-16. The game was not as close as the score might suggest.

A longer review

Kansas City started the scoring off, it was a run to the left side, on first down with 9:08 left in the first quarter. On Denver's next drive, the offense stalled. They punted the ball back to Kansas City with 8:15 left in the quarter. On first down, the Chiefs fumbled and the Broncos recovered. Lock then connected with Patrick for a 26 yard gain. On third and goal, Lock scrambled to the right for a Denver touchdown. McManus missed the point after touchdown. After the miss, the announcers had a ref in New York review the catch by Patrick and he said the catch would have been ruled incomplete had Kansas City challenged the play.

With the ball back in the hands of Mahomes, the Chiefs wasted no time on offense moving down the field. On first down they picked up 17 yards on the ground. On second down, Mahomes completed a pass for a thirty-eight yard gain. At this point in the game, the Denver defense toughened up and held Kansas City to a field goal on that drive. At this point, the score was 10-6 Kansas City, with two minutes left in the first quarter.

The Broncos started their new drive by handing the ball off to Lindsay on first down. He picked up a first down, on first down. Drew Lock followed that up with an incomplete pass. On second down, Gordon picked up 7 yards, but someone on the Broncos was flagged for holding, wiping out the run. On second and twenty, the Broncos tossed the ball to Gordon for a gain of two yards. On third and 18, Lock completed a pass to Gordon, but he fumbled and Kansas City recovered. Mahomes then threw an incomplete pass to end the first quarter.

Two plays into the second quarter, the Broncos sacked Patrick Mahomes. Kansas City punted the ball and downed it on the two yard line. Gordon rushed for 8 yards on the first two plays of this drive. Lock then found Jeudy for a 7 yard gain and a first down. Lock then threw a deep pass to nobody at the 12:12 mark. Lindsay bailed him out by picking up 20 yards on the very next play. Lindsay picked up another 9 yards on first down. Fangio then rotated Gordon into the game and he picked up a first down. Lock lost three yards on first down. On the very next play, Lock threw a pick six. Kansas City now lead the Denver Broncos by 11 points with 9:18 left in the second quarter.

Over the next two downs, Lindsay picked up 25 yards. Then Vannett caught a pass from Lock for a 19 yard gain. At that point, the Denver drive stalled and the Broncos ended up kicking a 43 yard field goal. Kansas City returned that kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown, increasing their lead to fifteen points. The Broncos drive that followed the Chief's kickoff return, failed to get a first down and they punted with 4:15 left in the half.

Kansas City earned one first down on their next drive before they had to punt. The Broncos returned to Lindsay on the next drive and he picked up five yards but he was injured on the play. Gordon came in and picked up 10 yards. Then Lock was sacked for an eight yard loss with 1:37 left in the half. Lock shrugged that off and hit Okwuegbunam for a gain of 17 yards. On first down, Lock completed a pass to Hamilton for a 13 yard gain. Kansas City was flagged for defensive holding on that play. Lock was then sacked for a nine yard loss. On second and nineteen, Lock threw the ball away as he was being sacked. He was flagged for intentional grounding. As the first half ended, Lock completed a pass for a 21 yard gain.

The Chiefs started the second half off with the ball, but thanks to a sack on that drive, Kansas City ended up punting. The punt was 44 yards and the Bronco fielding the punt dropped it. He ended up recovering the ball. Gordon ran for a one yard loss on first down. Patrick then caught a pass for a twelve yard gain. On first down, the Broncos tried a reverse and gained eleven yards. Then the Broncos tried a flea flicker which was intercepted.

On third down, what looked to be another Kansas City touchdown pass, ended up falling incomplete when their wide receiver dropped the ball as the Denver defense arrived. Kansas City then kicked another field goal. The score was now 27-9 Chiefs. The next Broncos drive gained four first downs before it stalled. On fourth and five, the Broncos tried to get a first down, but don't make it. Kansas City responded with a gain of 16 yards on first down and then another gain of 17 yards. The Denver defense then forced the Chiefs into their "short game" offense and with 2:03 left in the third, Kansas City kicked another field goal. Kansas City lead 30-9 at this point.

Back on offense, Denver quarterback Drew Lock scrambled and looked to have injured his knee on the play. It turns out that his knee brace got stuck in the turf. The Broncos made Lock remove his knee brace that he had been wearing since high school. Rypien came in and handed off to Gordon. Kansas City was flagged for a personal foul on the play. Lock came back in and ran out the clock in the third quarter.

On the first play of the fourth quarter, Lock threw an interception. In less than two minutes, the Kansas City offense gained about fifty yards. With about 11:21 left in the game, Mahomes threw a touchdown pass. Kansas City extended their lead to 28 points.

Denver got the ball back and had their most successful drive of the game, it lasted a little over four minutes. The Broncos ran the ball three times out of four, for a gain of 7 yards. The one non-running play was a pass was to Hamilton for a 13 yard gain. On third and five, Lock connected with Fant for an eleven yard gain. Lock went right back to Fant for a gain of 24 yards. On second down, Lock hit number 85, the big O, for a gain of 14 yards. At the 7 minute mark, Gordon ran into the end zone. The score was now 37-16, Kansas City.

Denver tried an onside kick, but Kansas City recovered. Andy Reid pulled Mahomes at this point and put in their backup quarterback. He moved the ball into the red zone. On first down, they ran up the middle for a two yard gain. On second and goal, a quarterback scramble lost three yards. On third down, they ran the ball for a two yard gain, but there was a flag on the play. First down Kansas City, with 3:48 left in the game. On second down, the backup quarterback scrambled into the end zone. Their kicker ended up missing the PAT. The score was now 43-16 Chiefs, which ended up being the final score. On the next Bronco drive, Lock threw four consecutive incomplete passes. Kansas City took over on downs and entered victory formation with 1:36 left on the clock.

The Game Stats

Denver

Time of Possession

33:24

Passing Attempts

40

Passing Yards

254

Rushes

33

Rushing Yards

177

Chiefs

Time of Possession

26:36

Passing Attempts

25

Passing Yards

213

Rushes

22

Yards

101

Player Stats

The Running Game

* AYPC is average yards per carry

PlayerCarriesAYPCLongTD(s) Fumble(s) Gordon1741112 Lindsay992000 Freeman34600 Lock33410 Hamler1101002

The Passing Attack

* He was targeted once

PlayerReceptions%LongTD(s)Fumble(s) Okwuegbunam7100%1700 Patrick375%2700 Fant343%2400 Hamler267%2102 Jeudy250%1300 Hamilton267%1300 Gordon250%1002 Vannett267%1900 Freeman150%500 Cleveland*00%000

The Quarterbacks

Lock

Passing

compypaTD(s)INT(s)LongRating 60%6022758

Rushing

AttYardsLongTD(s) 3841

Sacked

TimesYards LostFumble(s) 3200

Mahomes

Passing

compypaTD(s)INT(s)LongRating 65%91038107

Rushing

AttYardsLongTD(s) 0000

Sacked

Time(s)Yard(s) LostFumble(s) 3250

Henne

Passing

compypaTD(s)INT(s)LongRating 100%7001194

Rushing

AttYardsLongTD(s) 4-211

Sacked

Time(s)Yard(s) LostFumble(s) 130

During the week

There was a full press by the media to promote Drew Lock. They even suggested that the Broncos draft better receivers, hire a new offensive coordinator and only use offensive sets with three tide ends and two running backs so that Lock would look better. The problem with this approach is, those people that the media wants to replace, looked great when Rypien was behind center.

Once again, people blamed the front office. During this discussion, a point was made that John Elway doesn't have much time left on his contract. So maybe, change will be coming soon? *soon, as in the next two years.

Both the Broncos and Chargers tested positive for Covid this week. The Broncos offensive line coach has been quarantined and on Sunday, it was announced that the Broncos defensive coordinator tested positive. An offensive linemen for the Broncos will not play today due to a positive Covid test. The game is still scheduled for today.

Afc West Standings

Vs the Division

TeamGame(s) PlayedWinning %Net Las Vegas1100%+8 Kansas City367%+22 Los Angeles10%-3 Denver10%-27

Vs the Conference

TeamGames PlayedWinning %Net Kansas City4100%+53 Los Angeles2100%+13 Denver450%+8 Las Vegas20%-23

vs the NFC

TeamGames PlayedWinning %Net Las Vegas367%-11 Los Angeles30%-15 Denver10%-18 Kansas City00%0

Today's teams ranked by stats

Broncos (2-4)

28th

28th

26th

16th

6

5

13

93%

0

18

0

0

0

0

-8

Lost 1

Chargers (2-4)

21st

4th

5th

13th

12

5

9

69%

0

12

0

0

0

1

-2

Won 1

Outlook

For this game, lets look at how each team played against common opponents. Both teams have played the Bucs and the Chiefs. The Chargers lost to Tampa Bay by 7, the Broncos lost by 18. Both teams have played against the Chiefs, the sole divisional opponent for both teams. The Chiefs beat the Chargers by 3 points, but they beat the Broncos by 27. Both teams are 2-4, in their four loses the Chargers have been outscored by 18 points or close to 5 points per game. In the games the Broncos have lost, they have been outscored by 52 points or almost two touchdowns per game.

Game Time

Sunday November 1 @ 2:05 PM MT

[bearsinpotatosacks]

TrekTober2020- Day 14- Medbay

Also on AO3

~~

He felt dead on his feet, all three of them did. How long had he been awake now? He couldn't think.

All his mind was focusing on, through the overwhelming fatigue that made his brain feel like it was melting, was sleeping in a bed. Any bed he could, which just to be happened to be his own. 

There had been another crisis, a Klingon ship and a possible Federation deal to fight over, just another day in the 'Fleet. He'd been woken up halfway through his sleeping shift by the shockwave rippling through the ship and before he finished his coffee he was already elbow deep in a patient. 

M'Benga had carried on his shift, despite already doing eight hours straight, and Chapel had been right behind him, just as tired as the rest of them. 

He couldn't honestly say he remembered enough to write a report, not that he was thinking of that at all. Yet again, his one track mind was solely focused on that bed. The glorious, warm, comfortable bed. 

The bridge crew had gone to bed at the end of Beta shift, but now Gamma shift was almost ending and Leonard wasn't even sure if any of this was real or just a bad dream. He couldn't deny he was jealous, as much as he loved them all, there was always a subtle annoyance at the Bridge crew. 

He knew it wasn't right, but when were feelings ever right. They had to make difficult decisions, yes, but who was still suffering the end results of missions gone wrong even weeks afterwards? Everyone on the ship knew stress but there was nothing quite like the hot, seething rage that stress brought on when there were already three surgeries going on, two people waiting and Jim just hobbled in with a broken leg, broken arm, possible concussion and that grin on his face.

He was just tired. Needed to collapse for a good sixteen hours and get more than an hours nap in the on call room. 

He couldn't deny these rages were becoming more common though, and he knew he should probably write it all down, consult his staff and hold a meeting about it but he let himself forget until it happened again, and then again. He was going to forget again, he'll probably combust before he actually addresses it. 

"Leonard, you're zoning out," Christine said, her words slurred as she pokes him. "You need to unlock the door,"

They'd all been staying awake from hypos, coffee and stress for the past thirty hours and finally it was wearing off. 

"Computer, remind me to write down all the issues I have with the current relationship between the Bridge and Medbay and also remind me to schedule a meeting with the Bridge Crew when I wake up," Leonard said as he stabbed the code in to lock the door again.

Their shoes, socks and blue shirts were discarded on the dusty red rug. His eyes felt itchy and skin was shiny with a layer of grease and sweat. 

He collapsed first, flopping face first onto the side of the mattress against the wall. Christine slid into a ball next to him and Geoffrey went smack, spread-eagle on the rest of the mattress left over. 

This wasn't the first time they'd done this, he'd lost count how many times they'd passed out in each other's beds and fell into a dreamless sleep. He knew he'd regret sleeping in his uniform in the morning, and not brushing his teeth, and not getting something to eat.

But, luckily, his thoughts cut off as he slipped away into unconsciousness.

~~

Jim was humming to himself, happy that they'd averted another crisis, happy that no one had died and happy that they'd have an easy few days. Hopefully.

As he was on his way to the bridge, the Boatswain's Whistle went off, Uhura's slightly fatigued voice coming through the COMM system.

"Captain, Dr. McCoy, Dr. M'Benga and Nurse Chapel have not turned up to their shift, can you please investigate it?" 

He quickly answered and turned on his heel to the turbolift, mind switching to anxiety as he thought up all the possibilities of Bones' whereabouts. Now he thought about it, he hadn't seen him since he tried to be diplomatic, had a misunderstanding and arrived in the overflowing main ward with the usual broken bones.

Leonard hadn't spoken too much. His eyes were masked with a feign of calm, which Jim immediately saw through as he was saved his normal lecture and pushed towards the lift as soon as he was healthy again. 

They'd all worked too hard, too long, too much. Scotty had almost fell asleep directly on the floor of the crowded engine floor, Chekov almost changed their entire course of direction when his head dipped onto the desk. 

He couldn't imagine how tired the medical staff were, from the few bits he'd heard in one of the mess halls, they'd been fixing the crew for a full 24 hours. This wasn't even unheard of, everytime they faced a new challenge, sickbay was overwhelmed with injuries, surgeries, check ups, rescheduling appointments, physicals, vaccinations and cures. His mind hurt just thinking about it all.

He stopped outside the door, a plaque saying 'Dr. Leonard H. McCoy' was placed next to it. The lock was on. He took a deep breath and prepared his best 'wake up' smile, tapping in his Captain's override and strolling in.

Only to stop in his tracks. 

His CMO was furthest away, his arm instinctively thrown over Christine next to him as a low grumble, that turned out to be him snoring, drifted through the air. Geoffrey was on the end, his hand hanging over the edge as his other arm lay on the pillows his head was resting on. Christine was wedged comfortably between the two in a ball, a small smile on her face as she nestled deeper into the covers.

He whispered into his communicator as he stepped backwards, "They're resting, give them as much time as they need and please supply extra staff if they're required," 

His smile returned just as the doors closed and he made his way back up to the Bridge, where his similarly tired friends sat.

[brajeshupadhyay]

08:28 (IST) Coronavirus in Goa Latest Update Seven Mumbai-Goa train passengers tested positive Three more passengers - a total of seven people - who travelled in Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 during TrueNat testing. The total number of active cases in Goa has reached 29. 08:13 (IST) Coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh Latest Update 95 new cases in Madhya Pradesh's Indore Indore reported 95 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the total number of positive cases in the district to 2,565. 08:12 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Dont' criticise, hold talks with Opposition: Ashok Gehlot to Centre Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot responded to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's statement urging the Congress to work with the Centre and in a humane manner towards solving the migrant issue. "Instead of criticising Rahul Gandhi, Centre should have held talks with opposition on what help they need for arranging facilities for migrant workers. It'll take six to eight months for them to reach home if migrants travel by train. We should arrange vehicles for them," Gehlot said. 07:56 (IST) Coronavirus in Maharashtra Latest Update 9 deaths, 223 new cases in Pune district Nine new deaths and 223 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in Pune district over 24 hours, as of Sunday night. The total positive cases in the district are 4,018, including 206 deaths and 2,014 cured patients. 07:44 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Lockdown 4.0 begins today: Activities that are allowed Hospitality services meant for housing health/police/government officials/healthcare workers/stranded persons shall be operational. Canteens at the bus depots, railway stations and airports will also be operational. Restaurants will be permitted to operate kitchens for home delivery of food items. Sports complexes and stadia will be permitted to open; however, spectators will not be allowed. Online distance learning shall continue to be permitted and shall be encouraged. Inter-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses, with mutual consent of State(s) and UT(s) involved, except in containment zones. All States/UTs shall allow inter-state and intra-state movement of medical professionals, nurses and para-medical staff, sanitation personnel and ambulances. All States/UTs shall allow inter-state movement of all types of goods/cargos, including empty trucks. All shop owners must also ensure that customers maintain 'do gaz doori' (minimum six feet distance) and that not more than five people are allowed inside at any given time. Persons below 10 years and above 65 years of age, those with co-morbidities, and pregnant women shall stay at home except for essential and health purposes. 07:39 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Lockdown 4.0 begins today: Prohibited activities All domestic and international air travel of passengers. The movement of individuals will remain strictly prohibited between 7 pm and 7 am, except for essential activities. All metro rail services will remain suspended. School, colleges, educational/training/coaching institutions etc, will continue to remain shut. Hotels, restaurants and other hospitality services shall remain suspended. All cinema halls, shopping malls, gymnasiums, swimming pools, entertainment parks, theatres, bars and auditoriums, assembly halls will remain closed. All social/political/sports/entertainment/academic/cultural/religious functions/other gatherings and large congregations will not be allowed. All religious places/places of worship shall be closed for public, and religious congregations are strictly prohibited. 07:36 (IST) Coronavirus in Goa Latest Update 4 test positive in Goa, taking state's total to 26 Declared a green zone last week after it reported no new coronavirus cases and all patients were discharged, Goa now is witnessing a resurgence of infections. The state reported 19 new infections, taking the state's total to 26. The new cases including four persons who had travelled in the Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday and TrueNat tests had given a positive result for them. The samples have been sent for confirmatory tests and 100 passengers who had travelled in the train were tested. On the same day, another train passenger had tested positive for coronavirus. At the time that Goa was declared a green zone, seven patients undergoing treatment were discharged. Ever since then, 19 new cases have been reported. 07:33 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Confirmed cases climb to 90,927 According to figures released by the health ministry, the number of coronavirus cases in India stood at 90,927, including 2,872 deaths as of Monday morning. India had seen the highest spike in cases between Saturday and Sunday over 24 hours, even as the nationwide lockdown was extended till 31 May. Coronavirus Outbreak LATEST Updates: Three more passengers - a total of seven people - who travelled in Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 during TrueNat testing. The total number of active cases in Goa has reached 29. The country is set to enter the fourth phase of the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus on Monday, as the National Disaster Management Authority issued an order to continue the lockdown measures till 31 May. Subsequently, the home ministry issued a set of guidelines for the fourth phase, in which it directed that air travel, hotels, restaurants and public gatherings will remain prohibited throughout the country. Earlier in the day, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the fifth and final tranche of the government's stimulus package to revive the coronavirus-hit economy. She said the stimulus package includes the Rs 8.01 lakh crore of liquidity being made available by the RBI. The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,872 and the number of total positive cases climbed to 90,927 Sunday morning, registering an increase of 120 fatalities and a record jump of 4,987 new cases in 24 hours, since 8 AM Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 53,946, while 34,108 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. Lockdown guidelines The Union home ministry issued guidelines listing the dos and don''ts during the lockdown 4.0 that has been clamped in the country to cut the chain of coronavirus infection. The guidelines said all domestic, international air travel of passengers, except domestic air ambulance, will remain prohibited. Metro rail services, schools, colleges will remain closed till May end, the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said. Hotels, restaurants, cinema halls, malls, swimming pools, gyms will also remain shut even as all social, political, religious functions, and places of worship will be closed till May 31, it said. The MHA said inter-state movement of passenger vehicles, buses will be allowed with mutual consent of states involved during the COVID-19 lockdown 4.0. States and Union Territories have been given the powers for delineation of Red, Green and Orange Zones as per COVID-19 situation, the MHA said. All shops, except those in containment zones and malls, will be allowed to open from Monday with staggered timings during lockdown 4.0, it said. Further, state governments and Union Territories have been asked to decide on the demarcation of red, orange and green zones based on the parameters set by the Centre. Also significantly, the new guidelines permit inter-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses with the mutual consent of the states or Union Territories. State-wise cases and deaths Of the 120 new deaths reported since Saturday morning, 67 were in Maharashtra, 19 in Gujarat, nine in Uttar Pradesh, seven in West Bengal, six in Delhi, four in Madhya Pradesh, three in Tamil Nadu and two in Haryana and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan Of the total 2,872 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,135 fatalities, Gujarat comes second with 625 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 243, West Bengal at 232, Delhi at 129, Rajasthan at 126, Uttar Pradesh at 104,Tamil Nadu at 74 and Andhra Pradesh at 49 The death toll reached 36 in Karnataka, 34 Telangana and 32 in Punjab Haryana has reported 13 fatalities due to the disease, Jammu and Kashmir has 12 deaths while Bihar has registered seven and Kerala has reported four deaths Jharkhand, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha have recorded three COVID-19 fatalities each, while Assam has reported two deaths Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Puducherry have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry data. The ministry's website says more than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities According to the health ministry data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 30,706, followed by Gujarat at 10,988, Tamil Nadu at 10,585, Delhi at 9,333, Rajasthan at 4,960, Madhya Pradesh at 4,789 and Uttar Pradesh at 4,258 The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 2,576 in West Bengal, 2,355 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,946 in Punjab It has risen to 1,509 in Telangana, 1,179 in Bihar, 1,121 in Jammu and Kashmir, 1,092 in Karnataka and 887 in Haryana Odisha has reported 737 coronavirus infection cases so far, while Kerala has 587 cases. A total of 217 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 191 in Chandigarh Tripura has reported 167 cases, Assam has 92 cases, Uttarakhand has 88, Himachal Pradesh has 78 cases, Chhattisgarh has 67 and Ladakh has registered 43 cases, so far Thirty-three COVID-19 cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Goa have reported 17 COVID-19 cases, while Meghalaya and Puducherry have registered 13 cases each Manipur has seven cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have reported a case each till now. Sitharaman announces final tranche of economic stimulus The Centre has announced suspension of new bankruptcy filings on loan defaults for one year and raised the threshold for insolvency as it moved to ease COVID-19 pain for the industry. It also announced a new policy for companies under state control saying public sector undertakings under the non-strategic sector will be privatised while those in the identified strategic sector would be capped by not more than four by merging some of them. In the fifth and final tranche of the economic stimulus package, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raised allocation for employment guarantee scheme by Rs 40,000 crore over and above the Rs 61,000 crore budgeted earlier for MGNREGS, to provide employment to migrant workers moving back to their states. This, she said, will help generate nearly 300 crore person-days in total. For industries, she said the minimum threshold to initiate insolvency proceedings will be raised to Rs 1 crore from Rs 1 lakh, which largely insulates micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from bankruptcy on defaulting on loans. Also, a special insolvency resolution framework for MSMEs under Section 240A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) will be notified soon, she said adding that fresh initiation of insolvency proceedings will be suspended up to one year depending upon the pandemic situation. Coronavirus-related debt will be excluded from the definition of "default" under the IBC for the purpose of triggering insolvency proceedings, she said adding that the changes will be effected by promulgating an ordinance. Additionally, minor technical and procedural defaults under the Companies Act such as shortcomings in CSR reporting, inadequacies in board report, filing defaults, and delay in holding AGM will be decriminalised. Last week, the government pledged a Rs 20 lakh crore (nearly 10 per cent of gross domestic product) package to support the economy headed for its first full-year contraction in more than four decades. With inputs from PTI

http://sansaartimes.blogspot.com/2020/05/coronavirus-outbreak-live-updates-goa.html

[idombledore]

How to lose 30 kilos in 6 months and love every minute

Part 1 > Revelation in France Three years ago, my wife and I decided to call time on our marriage. It was a sombre final chat in the kitchen, sharing the last bottle we might ever share. We were sad but it made perfect sense. We’d tried. My wife said she’d move out down to her parent's house in the country and she asked me what I'd  do, I picked something random from the top of my idiot head and said “Spain.” “Spain?” she said and “Spain” I repeated. No idea where it came from. Maybe I just wanted my departure to be more triumphant, a little more exciting than moving in with parents. Whenever we’d have a fight, that’s what she’d do. I'd run my consultancy for twenty odd years and over that twenty odd years, my role had evolved into taking clients to lunch, dinner, shows and spectacles.  Nice if you can get it but it took its toll on my fitness. By the time I drove off to the Channel Tunnel, I was eighteen stone and I hadn't played a meaningful game of football in years. For some reason, a revelation always hits me a while after the event, more autopsy than eureka. Something that seemed so clear suddenly fogs up in deference to the new truth. Of course she was right, idiot. You always knew that. “If you can’t respect your own body,” she said. “How can anyone else?” And there it was. Respect your body. Respect your mind. Fitness. Breathe new air. Everything is going to change. If my automated blurting of “Spain” was taking me to Spain, then let it be Spain. I would return  triumphant, slim, toned and sleek and everyone would say how awesome and happy and better-without-her I was. I was more than halfway from Calais, driving to a small French town called Île de Ré, an island off La Rochelle on the West Coast. I remember the exact spot because the signs had shown their first direction to Le Mans. From that sign, 300km shy of my target, facing three more driving hours, I lost a lump of time I can’t account for. The next thing I knew there were signs for La Roche Sur Yon. I remembered it from my planning stage because it was pretty close to where I was headed. The sat nav confirmed I was suddenly only an hour from Ile de Rey in what seemed like a blink. I couldn't tell you why it happened and I have no idea what, if anything, I was thinking in the missing time. What I can tell you is the clarity on the other side. My new start. My new energy. My mission. Maybe the universe had supplanted a new person into me. Maybe it took me time to reboot. It felt like it. At that moment, I couldn’t possibly have imagined anything else. I’d booked a little room overlooking the harbour at Le Colonnes. I was soon checked in and I unloaded laptop and cables to start the mission I hadn't quite fleshed out yet. 6 foot 1. 18 stone. I fumbled my finger over the Body Mass Index chart, into the blue, sailing past green and into the orange, and just before getting into the red, there it was. My number. My target. 32.  I was actually clinically obese. I needed to be 24 to fit into that little green zone of health and fitness. 25% of my bodyweight was surplus. This was a holy **** moment as I pulled back from the screen. I closed the laptop and swore foulness on that 25%. My mission had shown its numbers and my plan had started. That night would be the finest French cuisine a man can enjoy and the next day, everything would change. Part 2 > Mission Planning I woke up remembering Le Skipper in the harbour, the fillet steak with crushed pea purée and dauphinoise potatoes that would serve as my turning point.Something I wouldn’t deserve again until my mission was accomplished. I was still buzzed. Normally, revelations are flushed with the first order of the day but not this one. The morning  after a revelation is a test of human willpower. If you fold at such an early point, there is literally no hope for you. If the stakes are this important and you fold, you, my son, are an idiot. As one lady said to me more than once, “It’s not a rehearsal, boy.” I wasn't sure if I was still an idiot or not yet as all manners of sweet and savoury things greeted me in the  breakfast room at the hotel. Bacon, eggs croissants, jam, cheeses and hams, but hang on, my eyes focused on something else, like they were being moved by another force. The fruit section. Normally I'd  be starting a three course mini marathon under the guise of getting the day some energy. Today though, I took a little bowl and filled it to the top with melon and orange, mango, cherries and all colour of things and I sat down with orange juice and looked over at big people and little people, busy people and relaxed people. I knew I was on a different level to them, just for now, in the light still shining on me. Your willpower gets a serious shot in the arm. I had more research to do about the exact food groups I'd  need but I knew this was right. Then the first glimmers of insubordination popped up briefly and reminded me that I had a fallback and that fallback was called lunch and every day I had a fallback plan to the next meal. Maybe fruit wasn't enough, surely a bit of bacon and cheese? No, fuck off, I said, turning a head or two in the dining room. I gestured an apology and then I smiled at the last cherry in my bowl. I munched that little cherry up. There would be no bacon or cheese. Those dark little glimmers were crushed and squished and left pleading as I got up and left the room. I was smiling as I approached Bordeaux. Today's destination was about six hours over the Pyrenees to Pamplona in northern Spain. This is where they do the bull run every July. Basque country, and the Bordeaux signs told me I was about a third of the way there. The night before had included two bottles of Fitou. Le Skipper was quiet and the staff had time to chat. After dinner, I was pretty much the only punter there so they wrapped it up and took me to Bar Kokot with their Austrian Rum. So, there hadn’t been time to do the work I needed but what a fine farewell to my old life. Yet another sign flashed my licence plate and said I was going too fast and I anticipated a box full of speeding tickets waiting for me whenever I got back to London. But I didn't care. I couldn't wait to get to Pamplona and get the laptop out, make my plan. A few hours later I was in my room at the Pamplona Catedral Hotel doing just that. I already knew how much weight to lose. Thirty kilos, almost 5 stone. One of the first results, I found out about the Okinawa diet. Okinawa, a little island off the south of Japan has the longest living humans on the planet. Taxi drivers are ninety years old and still dance. People eat whatever grows near them and that’s it. One photo I saw was of an elaborate table. You could sit about ten people round it. The table was a tea making machine. A few strips of bamboo were hooked up to an inlet and brought mountain spring water into the table. Most of the water would trickle out and continue down the mountain, unsure of why it had been put through the bother,  but when you turned a little handle, the water would be diverted around a spaghetti of pipes and on towards the bowels of the table. It would slip and slide through channels lined with fresh tea leaves and elements gradually heating it up as it travelled. Turn one of the eight  little taps under the  table edge and you have a steaming cup of the freshest tea. So, the fine people from Okinawa told me how you could eat perfectly well and get everything a body needs. And you didn't need meat or anything processed to do it. My first culinary casualties. I also learned that my whole eating schedule had been wrong all my life. The best way to do it is to eat small but eat often. I'd  been so proud of myself some days when I was too busy to eat anything and had six tons of dinner at about 9pm. Wrong. The body is a sensitive little baby. If it doesn't get fed often enough it throws its toys out the pram and truly believes it’s starving. It then converts what you do eat into fat, sensible storage for a rainy day when maybe you do starve. How a brain can fail to tell a body that it’s ok, no-one's going to starve is beyond me but apparently it does. So, by the time I'd  showered and got ready to see what this former bastion of the Roman empire had going for it, I had successfully mapped out my new diet. And it was all the stuff I like to eat anyway. I'd  start with some fruit, in deference to the first successful morning. Then give it a couple of hours and a little low fat cottage cheese on a wholewheat crispbread, and a few crushed walnuts sprinkled on it. Before what was probably the main mini meal of the day, about two o'clock, it was exercise. My wife’s brother had told me the body prefers to exercise then eat as it’s still burning, rather than the other way round. Maybe A little tuna steak with bok choy, a bit of spinach, greek yoghurt and some kidney beans or chickpeas. Amazing things chickpeas, fibre and protein all in one little pill. It wasn't a problem designing these mini meals, the problem was there was too much choice. If you're going to have pasta, have wholewheat pasta. If you're going to have rice, have wild rice or brown rice and not too much of either. Your 5 or 7 a day is so easy to achieve and better. Let your milk be zero fat milk, let your greens be asparagus, broccoli, kale, spinach, artichoke, sprouts and bok choy. Eat nuts, almonds, walnuts. Eat pulses. Kidney beans, chickpeas. Prefer fruits of the forest over others, raspberries, blackberries and the like. Loads of antioxidants. And let your booze be anything but beer, predominantly white wine and a glass of red a day comes straight from the doc. All the stuff I already knew. Lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, celery, onion, garlic. Jesus I could do a meal planner for a month without getting bored.   This was going to be tasty. I could still love my food but carry that aloof grin that comes with a man shedding timber and having fun doing it. I'd  know exactly how many calories came with each mini meal and how much exercise to do to burn them off. The laptop was closed up and my phone map and I set off to explore Pamplona. The city is called Iruna in the native Basque language and there was an ever-present but subtle show of the independence from Spain the Basque people had been after for a long time. Basque flags were draped over balconies and stuck on cars but a local told me, do not take a flag out in public or you’d get carted off. One local comedian had added a bit of graffiti to a low wall, poorly translated as “Anything but a free state is just a load of bulls.” Back in the hotel room, I tackled the exercise aspects. Swimming would always figure, especially in Spain, but what else? Running can be high impact, shin splints and the like. It would be rowing. It’s got everything, loads of muscles getting tickled gently, great cardio and hang on here we go, I can get a machine for the house for a couple of hundred euros. I'd join a kayak club or some such but winter was on its way and even the Spanish winter doesn't lend itself to being in the sea. And that was it, a meal for all moods and occasions and an all year round exercise regime. When it was too cold to swim, double up on the rowing. Just make sure you get in some form of water as soon as you finish exercising to loosen up your muscles. I also learned how little anyone should need a gym (apart from my little rowing machine of course). We really do have everything we need around the house. First of all, a running machine? What? Just run around the block. If you want to run uphill, run uphill. Muscle tone is also important. If you’re shedding tonnage, you want the tonnage that’s left nice and tight. Push ups, pull ups, weights, dips, pec toning, ab toning and your core. You can pull up on anything, a couple of chairs, backs together, get your balance and you’re away. Climb something. I'd  start slow. An hour on the rowing machine, weights and core stuff and finally fifteen minutes of laps in the pool. It was all mapped out. That evening, I sat down in a little restaurant I’d spied earlier, down some steps to a little square, live jazz music in the middle. The menu didn’t have much of the stuff I needed and I’d definitely give the “grosse crevette” and “assaulted pasta” a swerve.   I wondered if this would be a problem going forward. I remembered many menus and I wasn’t sure many of them were fit for my new purpose. But then I saw the celery and walnut salad. Fine, little glass of chablis to go along and everything was still on track. Part 3 > Execution The next day around four o'clock, I arrived at my final destination. A little town called Javea, a hundred kilometres south of Valencia. Look at Spain. There’s a little nose about two thirds down the east coast. Tip of that nose. That’s us, pressed against the sea by the mountains. It felt like its own little island.   First priority after wandering around was the supermarket. Go get the super foods. My place was in Cabo la Nao right up on the point near the lighthouse. My mission hadn’t been created when I booked it, but with my new mission head on, the remoteness of my location would be a good thing. When I went outside to get back in my car, I was reminded it had just carried me from London to south east Spain. Over those 1800 miles, the front of the car had accumulated a second skin of unfortunate insects. Insects of all shapes, colours and sizes had become one single cloak of wonder food for any bird that took a fancy. And they did. A feeding frenzy was underway and even this one approaching human and a mystery cat that seemed to appear from nowhere couldn’t scare them off. They each had an allocated section of bodywork to pick at and they did well but still couldn’t get it all off. The earlier casualties were part bug, part Audi. The nearest supermarket was down in the Cala Blanca bit and was called Consum. It was the strangest supermarket shop I'd  ever done. A hundred euros of good healthy stuff. I'd  never put walnuts in a shopping cart. But I carried the same internal smugness of someone whose every passing minute is making them healthier than everyone else. It was a hot day and I knew if I didn't get it all fridged up quick smart, for the whole six months here, there would be a sea bass, salmon, octopus and monkfish essence in my car. The pool was warm enough not to have to thrash around like a perishing salmon and it was my first test of where I was fitness-wise. It was a fifteen metre pool. Breaststroke was the best all round stroke for  what I was after so I took off up and down. I'd  have to do this for at least 30 minutes every day so how close was I? I managed about 15 minutes and thought it was a good start for day one. My own salmon was ready to go under the grill and I was hungry. Baby steps. The house and garden had to provide me with my makeshift gym. Soon, I had two sturdy wooden outside chairs back to back for pull ups, a couple of buckets from the gardener’s shed filled with pool water. The rest would need no props. The push ups over there next to the pool and that little wall would do the ab stuff. Suspend myself on it and hold myself there for ten seconds, ten second break, repeat until knackered.   I had a little go at all my disciplines. The props held up just fine and my routine was set. There was only one thing missing and it would be the majority of my cardio workout. The rowing machine.   In five days time, it would be on my doorstep. I carried on with my eating regime and stepped up the swimming and workout aspects and on day five, the rowing machine arrived. It was lovely and orange and it went right where I hoped it would, between two columns on the terrace. Then I suddenly realised, apart from the supermarket on day one, I hadn't been out yet. The days had been formed around my mini meals and exercise and going out didn't sound as healthy as staying in. But I had to prove to myself I could carry on the mission in or out. That night, I did go out, met some nice folks, Lee and Tracey from Southend and a drummer called Hector, saw a band and drank white wine and had lubina a la plancha,  grilled sea bass, asparagus and a few slices of grilled aubergine, every so slight drizzle of local honey. My taxi got me home at a reasonable hour and I got out without that heavy feeling I’d get when I went out back home. Always too much beer and always too much red meat. I took a quick stroll round my makeshift gym and my new rowing machine and then slept better than I had for ages. Tomorrow, a full programme for the first time. The rowing machine soon got me sweating. The readout was like trying to wish away the miles in the car, watching calorie after calorie clock away, minute after minute. The machine was fine, nice and easy, smooth strokes, keep your back straight. Pretty soon I'd  done my hour and I took a break for water. The weights and pull up and everything else was becoming faster and I was doing more of them. By the time I got into the pool, I was feeling muscle burn and my heart felt reawoken. With the help of a great little tool called Supertracker, I had it all mapped out. Today I would eat 1200 calories and  burn off 2000. And so it was for the next couple of weeks. The cats started popping in to see what this strange noise was an hour every day and soon they stuck around for some cheeky tuna and I had one or two pusscats to talk to while I worked out. The hour a day on the rower needed a bit more entertainment than the readout. By now I knew my pace and you just have to finish the hour come what may. Being in my own head was amusing enough but I needed a bit more autopilot. The laptop was enlisted to provide comedy shows and every so often, this Spanish course I was taking. The hour started to go by like the missing time I'd  felt in La Roche Sur Yon. I was doing more miles to the hour, I was doing more laps in the pool and I was looking forward to every stage more and more. Pretty soon though, the pool became unswimmable so I got a wetsuit but that only really extended it a few weeks. My regime changed and I doubled up on the rowing. My daily meal plans were sometimes not planned, just cobble together the right food groups in the right quantities. Some of the taste combos were worth jotting down, others didn't really work but still, the scales in the bathroom were starting to show results. I'd got down to 100 kilos from 108 in the first 3 weeks. I couldn't believe the progress. I was never hungry, I felt great and the pounds were escaping with ease. I'd have this done in a few more weeks. I started a weight chart and logged as much as I could, something to be proud of. Then the rate of weight loss slowed. I checked the scales. How could doing exactly the same thing every day cause a different result? I changed the scales so that it seemed more of a dramatic reduction. A bit more research told me the scales were fine, the programme was fine. It’s just the first bit of weight drops off you because you're reducing your water retention. After that, you work just as hard for half the initial result. And don't forget, the programme is increasing muscle mass as well, which weighs more than fat. That's fine. So be it. This was the realistic rate. Months not weeks. And I was enjoying it. I was enjoying succeeding, winning. This wasn't so hard. A couple more weeks went past and still the pounds tumbled. Sometimes the reductions were erratic, same programme, 2 pounds off one day, half a pound off the next. I didn't really need to know why as long as the weight kept dropping. The thing was, I had been looking at myself in the full length mirror by the door every day after my workout before the shower and I still didn't look any different. I knew all the machinery and logic associated with my mission couldn’t all be wrong at the same time so I was pretty sure there would be a decent reason for it and so there was. What you’re doing initially is sorting out your core. That’s where you’re losing the initial weight and water. Your core is what’s getting beefed up and fit, out of sight. It made sense enough to a layman but you still like to see changes. And then it happened. My jeans had been feeling a little looser than normal for a few days and then I realised I needed the belt in another hole. There it was, the first sign. I couldn't confirm it from the mirror but this was incontrovertible. Maybe it was something psychosomatic in my head showing me something, but soon after that, I started to see some definition around my middle, not so much abs per se, just prepping the ground for them. The pounds kept shedding off my weight chart. I will freely admit, I did have one or two blowouts, the need for a kebab and a cold beer, and I knew the numbers would show it, but I was now not actually fitting into trousers and shorts and some shirts looked like nightdresses. I needed healthy persons clothes. I have never felt so happy about an impending cost. I looked good, like I did in my 30s. By the time four months had passed, my target of 80 kilos remained and I was only a couple off at 82. I had two months to drop that and I knew I would. I looked at photos of me in london 6 months before and it was incredible. I looked like a different person altogether. I looked tired, heavy, dreading the next flight of stairs. Warning. This is a pivotal moment. When you’re ahead of the curve and bossing it, its easy to entertain the notion that you can ease off a bit. Physically, you’re probably right but don't do it. It changes your mindset from achieving something to already having achieved it but it’s not yet achieved. Rabbit and the hare. Achieve it first, then reward yourself with easing off. I hit my 80 kilos with five weeks to go and the next five weeks kept me there. It was done. I'd  smashed the shit out that 25%. It was gone. I took off from Valencia and landed at Gatwick requiring second glances at my passport photo. Yes, folks that really is me,  just an awful lot more of me. By the time I wandered down the street to the pub, I'd  already decided I wasn’t going back to the UK for good. Spain was my home now. My mission, my new life was born on the French highways and realised in the Spanish mountains. I wasn't even really thinking of the reaction I’d get when I walked in. I didn’t need reactions. I knew what I’d done. Me and my water buckets, pussycats, rowing machines, the glorious island of Okinawa and singing, dancing Spain. The reaction was complete astonishment. Not just someone telling you you look well. This was holy **** across the board. My choice of a pink leather coat to mark the occasion drew its own conclusion but I was stronger and fitter and more vibrant in mind and body.  And I looked it and we all knew it. Life’s new plateau had been reached with a simple regard for my own well being. A respect for my only asset. And it was simple, inspiring and very enjoyable.

[holidayvillagehq]

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I can’t believe I just saw LUKE PASQUALINO walking around Holiday! Oh wait, that’s just  CORVUS HURLEY. They are THIRTY YEARS OLD and CAME INTO TOWN FIVE MONTHS AGO. Holiday Village is HOME SWEET HOME. They’re a bit SKEPTICAL and IMPATIENT but if you get to know them they can also be COMPASSIONATE and TRUSTWORTHY. Can’t wait to see HIM at the next holiday festivity! (kris, 24, mountain time zone, they/them)

I can’t believe I just saw CONOR LESLIE walking around Holiday! Oh wait, that’s just  INEZ LEWIS. They are TWENTY EIGHT and WERE BORN IN TOWN. Holiday Village is A HELL SHE CAN’T SEEM TO ESCAPE FROM. They’re a bit MOODY and PESSIMISTIC but if you get to know them they can also be EMPATHETIC and INDEPENDENT. Can’t wait to see HER at the next holiday festivity! (kris)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.15 (after 1900)

1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. 1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. 1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps. 1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan. 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". 1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. 1983 – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. 2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. 2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. 2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. 2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. 2021 – Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash.

[andrebearakovsky]

This Week in Caps: Preseason

Welcome to This Week in Caps, a weekly newsletter where I recap everything important that’s been going on in the world of the Washington Capitals this past week.

This week, I’m wrapping up the entire preseason.

Also note that for every game, I will make a note about who wears the alternate captain’s A’s that game if Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, and Brooks Orpik are not in the lineup.

Preseason Games

09/16/18 @ Boston Bruins, L 1-2 (SO)

It’s the Caps’ first game on the ice as the reigning Stanley Cup Champions, and their play was...a little sloppy. To be fair, most of the Bruins were in China and the Caps only dressed five players who played in the finals, so this was mostly a prospects game and not expected to be great.

The guys did find other ways to contribute — four minutes into the game, defenseman Tyler Lewington dropped the gloves against Zach Senyshyn. A quick bout, nothing noteworthy, though it did occur right in front of the net and caused goalie Pheonix Copley to have to take cover.

The Bruins struck first, late in the first period. Jakub Lauko scored from the slot on the second chance, five-hole on Copley, to give the Bruins the 1-0 lead.

Pheonix Copley exited the game about halfway through the second period after stopping 21 of 22 shots, giving way for Vitek Vanecek to go the rest of the way.

Late in the second, Brett Connolly received a great pass from Christian Djoos in the slot and sniped one top shelf. Tie game, 1-1.

No one scored for the rest of regulation or overtime. Neither team could get it done on the power play; the Bruins went 0/4 and the Caps went 0/3, two of which came on a two-man advantage in overtime; alas, they were unable to convert.

Danton Heinen scored the first goal in the shootout for the Bruins, and that would be the only goal scored. For the Bruins, David Krejci and Jakub Lauko failed to score. For the Capitals, Andre Burakovsky, Christian Djoos, and Jakub Vrana all failed to score. Bruins win the shootout, 1-0, and Bruins win the game, 2-1.

Not the most put together game, by any means. The team had far too many giveaways, and they were outshot 34 to 22. But again, the game was mainly prospects and guys looking to make the team, they haven’t been practicing together very long, and there is still more room to grow. The Caps were better than the B’s physically, Jayson Megna had some good looks shorthanded, and both Copley and Vanecek looked very strong in net, with Copley saving 21/22 and Vanecek saving 12/12.

Today’s alternate captains: Andre Burakovsky, Brett Connolly, Christian Djoos

09/18/18 vs Boston Bruins, L, 2-5

It was the Caps’ first game on home ice since the Stanley Cup win, and they were still trying to work things out and give players a look. There was a small handful of players who were on the ice for the Finals, but for the most part the Caps were playing their prospects and players competing for a spot on the roster.

The Bruins got to work quickly. Less than two minutes into the game, Cameron Hughes scored on a deflection to make it 1-0 Bruins. The Caps responded in kind just a few minutes later, with Riley Barber deflecting an Alexander Alexeyev shot to tie the game at 1. With a minute left in the period, Jakob Lauko was sprung from the penalty box on a breakaway and scored five-hole on Braden Holtby to make it 2-1. And what’s a preseason game without prospects fighting? Connor Hobbs fought Tanner Pond five minutes into the second period.

A little less than halfway through the second, Holtby left the net in favor of Caps’ top prospect Ilya Samsonov, getting his first North American game action. He was greeted rudely: eight seconds later, Zach Senyshyn came in on a breakaway, and while Samsonov saved the first shot, he couldn’t get the rebound. 3-1 Bruins.

More fights! Liam O’Brien proved that some things never change by making his perennial preseason fighting appearance, with this fight’s victim being Mark McNeill, with five minutes left in the second. But the Bruins scored again, yet again in the last minute of the period, with Senyshyn flipping in a puck into a crowded net to make it 4-1.

After getting a power play on a tripping call, Matt Niskanen scored on the power play off a Bruins turnover to make it 4-2 two minutes into the third. But the comeback efforts were fruitless, and Sean Kuraly scored on an empty net to seal the 5-2 win for the Bruins.

The first half of the game was a little shaky, but the offensive effort came around in the third. They had many power play chances but couldn’t manage to convert; their power play was 1/7, while the Bruins were 0/2. They had a good look on the first unit with the regulars (T.J. Oshie, Nicklas Backstrom, Dmitry Orlov, Niskanen) and Shane Gersich. Niskanen probably got more shots from the Ovi spot than he’s had in any one game in his life. The Caps outshot the Bruins overall, 33-20. The two goalies weren’t tested very much, with Holtby saving 6/8 and Samsonov 9/11.

The Caps had the edge in faceoffs; Nic Dowd won 71% of his draws, and had a strong showing overall. They were good physically, and Oshie was especially physical. The line of Shane Gersich - Travis Boyd - Riley Barber was especially great, and drove most of the even-strength offensive play.

Today’s alternate captains: [Nicklas Backstrom], Matt Niskanen, T.J. Oshie

09/20/18 @ Montreal Canadiens, L 2-5

This game took place in Quebec City, where the Caps (and the NHL) haven’t been for many years. It was also the preseason debut of the top line (Alex Ovechkin - Evgeny Kuznetsov - Tom Wilson), and beginning of the Kuznetsov on the penalty kill experiment. However, the unique locale did not prove friendly for the Caps.

The Canadiens scored early and often. Three minutes into the game, a turnover led to a two-on-one led to a Brendan Gallagher goal. Three minutes later, the Caps were stripped of the puck in the zone, and it was passed to Michael Chaput right in front of the net, and he scored. And with about thirty seconds left in the first, Jacob de la Rose collected the puck after a lazy turnover and made it 3-0 Canadiens. It didn’t get better in the second. Andre Burakovsky had a shorthanded attempt, but the Habs scored in transition on the power play via Artturi Lehkonen to make it 4-0 two and a half minutes into the second.

The Caps, to their credit, did not leave the scoresheet blank. Five minutes into the second, Ovechkin scored from the Ovi spot on the power play, on his first shot of the preseason. Eight minutes later, Connor Hobbs scored on the power play as well, making it 4-2 Habs.

As scheduled, starting goalie Pheonix Copley left between the second and third periods to make way for Vitek Vanecek, who would go the rest of the way.

The Habs scored one more time, halfway through the third — Rinat Valiev from the point to make it 5-2 Habs and seal the game.

The Capitals got very good looks on the power play and the penalty kill: the Caps were 2/4 on the power play, while the Habs were 1/6. It was not Copley’s best game of the preseason, but he still stopped 20/24, while Vanecek, barely tested, saved 3/4.

Axel Jonsson-Fjallby looked very impressive, and his speed was on display. Brooks Orpik was up to his old habit of bad turnovers, and it would be great if he could clean that up a little bit. The Caps leaked too much early to ever truly be in this game, but they were tight in the third, barely giving up any shots in that period. If the Caps can play a more consistent game, things should be looking up.

Today’s alternate captains: [Alex Ovechkin], [Brooks Orpik], Tom Wilson

09/21/18 @ Carolina Hurricanes, L 1-5

The Caps just did not have a great day against practically the full Carolina Hurricanes lineup.

Valentin Zykov scored on a power play two minutes into the game. Halfway through the period, Jaccob Slavin’s centering pass hit Jordan Staal in front and bounced into the net. One minute later, Nicklas Backstrom slammed home a pretty pass from Aaron Ness to cut the Canes’ lead, making it 2-1. But that wouldn’t last, as a minute later, an ugly turnover lead to a Jordan Martinook shorthanded goal. 3-1 Canes.

The second period was uneventful, as was much of the third. The Caps made a planned goalie switch from Braden Holtby to Ilya Samsonov between the second and third periods. Nothing much happened until three minutes left in the game, when Slavin tucked in a power play goal, and Martin Necas later sealed it with an empty netter. 5-1 Canes.

Really just ugly for the Caps all around. Their passing wasn’t crisp, they didn’t have good communication, and overall they just looked flat. Sergei Shumakov, in his North American debut, had a roller coaster game. He took a penalty less than two minute into the game that led to a Canes goal, and he had some trouble early on, though he looked a little better as the game continued. The only person who really stood out was Liam O’Brien, hitting everything in sight like he always does. Nice to see some things don’t change.

The Caps were outshot 26-18, and they went 0/4 on the power play, while the Hurricanes went 2/5. Holtby saved 15/18 shots, while Samsonov saved 6/7. Faceoffs were about even with slight edge to the Canes, while Lars Eller, in his preseason debut, had a great day at the dot with 80%.

The Caps weren’t great on offense, and they weren’t great on defense either. They were outplayed by the Canes, who just looked like they wanted it more.

Today’s alternate captains: [Nicklas Backstrom], Matt Niskanen, T.J. Oshie

09/25/18 @ St. Louis Blues, W 4-0

Still winless so far, the Caps went to St. Louis to face practically their regular season NHL lineup. And they had by far their best game of the preseason.

In every game thus far the Caps had given up the game’s first goal, and in the last three contests they had let it up early in the first. That was not the case this game. Halfway through the first, Riley Barber drove up the ice, touched the puck back, and it was picked up by Shane Gersich who had come flying into the zone, and he roofed it top shelf. 1-0 Caps to give them their first lead of the preseason.

Halfway through the second period, John Carlson threw a slick pass from behind the net to Nathan Walker on the doorstep, who scored into a wide open net. 2-0 Caps.

By this point, the game had gotten incredibly physical, and it was only going to get worse as the game continued. Four minutes after his goal, Walker got into it with Brayden Schenn, who had cross-checked him, and they were both sent to the box. At the same time, Liam O’Brien got fed up with Patrick Maroon, who had earlier gotten a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct against the Washington goaltender, and O’Brien and Maroon fought a heavyweight battle. Just a minute later, two more Caps were sent to the box (giving them a total of four guys in the sin bin) and the Blues had a five-on-three, but they failed to score. Just seconds before the second ended, more rough stuff, this time between Schenn and Tom Wilson, lead to some four-on-four that would carry over into the third.

The third period opened eventfully. Less than a minute into the period, Madison Bowey redirected Alex Ovechkin’s shot to make it 3-0 Caps, but while the play was happening. Michal Kempny got hit in the head and fell to the ice, staying down for an extended time. He was eventually able to leave under his own power, but he did not return to the game.

About five minutes into the third, Robert Bortuzzo, who had hit Kempny and a number of other Caps during the game, boarded Gersich and finally got sent to the box. Immediately upon getting out of the box, he fought with Wilson, seeking to stick up for his teammates. An empty netter by Chandler Stephenson (who had previously missed on a breakaway) made it 4-0 with about ninety seconds left and ended an eventful preseason matchup.

Neither team was successful on the power play (Caps 0/5, Blues 0/3), the Blues badly beat the Caps in the faceoff dot (winning 62.5%), and the Caps were outshot 42-37, but this was by far their best offensive output and their best game of the preseason. They looked faster, crisper, and just better overall. They were skating better, passing better, and they looked like they were more into it. The game was highly physical, rough, and heated, which is a bit unusual for a preseason game.

Pheonix Copley was absolutely phenomenal in net. He saved all 42 shots he faced, was very solid, and made numerous spectacular saves. He played the whole game, and looked very ready to snatch that backup goaltending role. Gersich was also really noticeable, using his legs and his speed, scoring a goal, and even once attempting a pretty spinorama move.

Today’s alternate captains: [Alex Ovechkin], [Brooks Orpik], John Carlson

09/28/18 vs Carolina Hurricanes, L 4-5 (OT)

The gang was just about back together in this one; all but a few regulars started as the team was getting in their regular season groove. Both teams played NHL lineups, and this was a pretty good preseason tilt that went down to the wire.

Alex Ovechkin got the party started eight minutes into the first, scoring from his office on the power play to make it 1-0 Caps. The Canes responded ninety seconds later, with Teuvo Teravainen cleaning up a rebound by the net to tie the score at 1. With a minute left in the first Sebastian Aho scored on an odd-man break to make it 2-1 Canes. Halfway through the second, Andrei Svechnikov scored with a quick shot on the left circle on the power play. 3-1 Canes.

The lead was cut nine seconds later when Jayson Megna got loose on a breakaway and made it 3-2. With less than three minutes left in the period, Ovechkin tallied his second of the game after he shoveled in a rebound, and the game was tied 3-3.

About five minutes into the third, Valentin Zykov scored on a weird angle on the power play, making it 4-3, but the Caps responded at the thirteen minute mark when Andre Burakovsky scored from the slot. The 4-4 game would require preseason overtime. But the Canes would get the last laugh, with Aho scoring just nineteen seconds into OT, his second of the game, giving the Canes the 5-4 win.

Even though it wasn’t the result they wanted, the Caps looked good in their tune-up game. The regulars looked to be coming together, and the fringe guys trying to make the roster also got a good look. Megna was impressive, and Jonas Siegenthaler looked very impressive on a pairing with John Carlson.

The Caps were outshot 36-29, and Braden Holtby, who played the whole game, saved 31/36. They were badly beaten on faceoffs (the Canes won 57.4%), and did not take full advantage of power play chances; the Caps were 1/6 on power plays, while the Canes were 2/3.

Today’s alternate captains: [Alex Ovechkin], [Nicklas Backstrom], John Carlson

09/30/18 vs St. Louis Blues, W 5-2

It was the final preseason tilt, and the Caps put in what they anticipated to be their opening night lineup, getting ready for their first official game this Wednesday. They faced a less-than-full Blues lineup for their final tune-up.

After a first period of a combined five fruitless power plays, the Blues started the scoring about five minutes into the second when Robert Thomas shoved in the puck at a scrum at the net, making it 1-0 Blues. But the action didn’t really start until about a minute later, when Tom Wilson threw a hard, controversial hit at an unsuspecting Oskar Sundqvist in open ice, leaving the Blues’ forward down and hurt. He had to be helped off the ice, while Wilson was given a match penalty and ejected. He is expected to have a hearing and receive supplemental discipline. Andre Burakovsky would serve Wilson’s penalty, and subsequent roughing would lead to four-on-four before the Blues went to the power play.

Brett Connolly tied the game with two minutes to go in the period, throwing in a wrist shot from the slot just after a power play wound down.

The offense exploded in the third period. Alex Ovechkin scored less than a minute into a period, slamming the puck home with a slapshot after it was turned over directly onto his tape. T.J. Oshie scored a minute later, cashing in off another Blues turnover. 3-1 Caps.

Halfway through the third, Jordan Schmaltz scored on a shorthanded breakaway to make it 3-2, but two minutes later, Nic Dowd scored on a wrist shot from the slot to make it 4-2. Devante Smith-Pelly scored an empty-netter to seal the Caps’ 5-2 win.

On the stats sheet, the Caps had the much better play. They outshot the Blues 26-23, and they dominated on faceoffs — 61.5%, with Nicklas Backstrom and Lars Eller both winning 67%, and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Dowd both winning over 50%. Braden Holtby played the full game and saved 21/23, and neither team had any luck on the power play — Caps were 0/6, while the Blues were 0/4.

The Capitals did not have the most fantastic of preseasons. But they looked good over their last three games with the majority of the regulars in, which is what you want to see. There will be some interesting roster questions to fill with the injuries and likely suspension to come up, but the Caps look ready to take on the regular season.

All regular captains and alternate captains were in the lineup

Preseason Record: 2-3-2

What’s Going on in the World of the Caps

Fourth Line Center Battle With the departure of Jay Beagle, the fourth line center position was up for grabs, and the main battle looked to be between Travis Boyd and Nic Dowd. Both centers looked strong in camp and at the beginning of the preseason, so it was looking to be an interesting fight to see who would come out on top. Unfortunately, an injury to Boyd cut that fight short — he injured his foot blocking a shot in St. Louis, and he’s out week-to-week. So it looks like Dowd has the job for now. And with Boyd out, it’ll give opportunities for more guys to fill some spots on the roster. But we’ll see if that center position is once again up for grabs when Boyd comes back.

Goalie Performance Philipp Grubauer, the best backup goalie in the NHL, departed over the offseason to hopefully start in Colorado, leaving the untested Pheonix Copley as his heir apparent. One of the big questions coming into camp was if Copley would be ready to be a full-time NHL backup, something he hasn’t done before. He made three appearances, looked shaky in one of them, but looked solid the rest of the way. He saved 83 out of a total of 88 shots, including turning in a 42 save shutout in his only full game against the full St. Louis Blues lineup. That boils down to a .943 save percentage. If these numbers hold, then he should be just fine. But he still has to be tested in a proper NHL environment.

Kuznetsov on the Penalty Kill Evgeny Kuznetsov expressed the desire to be used on the penalty kill this season, and we saw him utilized on the PK during his four preseason games. He was used pretty sparingly, and generated a couple of shorthanded chances. We’ll likely end up seeing this in the regular season, but it’s unknown how much or if it will stick long-term.

Kempny’s Concussion Michal Kempny was hit in the head by Blues’ defenseman Robert Bortuzzo during the Caps’ preseason game in St. Louis, and he now has a concussion. He missed the rest of the preseason. He’s not expected to be out very long, but there’s a chance he might miss the first game or two of the season. This will likely give Madison Bowey a chance to get back into the lineup, and it might make way for another defenseman to crack the roster.

Wilson’s Discipline During the Caps’ final preseason game, Tom Wilson made a questionable open-ice hit on Blues’ forward Oskar Sundqvist, which left Sundqvist injured. Wilson is scheduled to have a hearing, and will likely be suspended for an undetermined amount of games to start the season. This means someone else is going to have to step into his role on the top line, and another forward is going to have a chance to both make the roster and play opening night.

Player of the Preseason

Jonas Siegenthaler impressed during the preseason. He didn’t score a lot, but no one player on the Caps scored significantly enough to stand out. In his four preseason games, he averaged 18:55 TOI, he was strong on his skates and good physically. He looked good skating next to Carlson, and he’s made significant improvements to his game that impressed the Caps’ staff. He wasn’t even on my radar to make the roster this season, yet he played well enough to make it to the last round of cuts, if not make it onto the roster for opening night. With the injury to Michal Kempny, his play might have earned him at least a temporary spot on an NHL roster for the very first time.

Social Media Post of the Preseason

siegenthaler34: Got to meet the legend himself tonight! #rooooooney

It was a soccer-filled final weekend of the preseason for the Caps. After the Premier League trophy visited the locker room on Thursday, a number of the Caps (Wilson, Boyd, Burakovsky, Djoos, Vrana, and Siegenthaler) went to the D.C. United game on Saturday and got to meet Wayne Rooney. Cue endless fangirling by Andre Burakovsky.

Upcoming Milestones

Nicklas Backstrom is 1 point away from 800 career NHL points Nicklas Backstrom is 10 assists away from 600 career NHL assists Nicklas Backstrom is 2 power play goals away from being tied for 5th in Caps history in power play goals (67) John Carlson is 3 assists away from being tied for 5th in Caps history in assists among defensemen (259) John Carlson is 3 power play goals away from being tied for 7th in Caps history in power play goals among defensemen (25) Matt Niskanen is 2 points away from 300 career NHL points Dmitry Orlov is 6 assists away from 100 career NHL assists Madison Bowey, Travis Boyd, and Shane Gersich are all searching for their first NHL goals

Next Week’s Upcoming Games

10/03/18 vs Boston Bruins (7:30 PM) 10/04/18 @ Pittsburgh Penguins (7 PM)

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1907

Jan 21  Korea's king, or emperor, Gojong (also Gwangmu), has made statements hostile to the Japanese to international newsmen, such as, "The United States does not realize what Japan's policy in the Far East is and what it portends for the American people. The Japanese adopted a policy that in the end will give her complete control over commerce and industry in the Far East." The Japanese force his abdication and will keep him confined to his palace until his death in 1919.

Feb 24  In an agreement with the US, Japan promises to restrict the emigration of Japanese laborers to the United States but allows the emigration of wives, children and parents of Japanese already in the United States. Some in the US are describing the few Japanese among them as agents of Japan's emperor.

Mar 5  In Russia, the new Duma in opened in St. Petersburg, and Russian troops disperse 40,000 demonstrators

Mar 16  In Finland, elections to a new parliament are the first in the world with universal suffrage and women candidates. Nineteen women are elected.

Mar 22  Taxis with meters begin operating in London.

Mar 29  In Romania, class unrest in the countryside has turned violent and has spread. A few city dwellers own much of the country's agricultural land. issues have been the leasing of lands to peasants, desire for land and fear of unemployment and hunger. Authorities blame the revolt on Jews. Foreign revolutionaries are also blamed. The uprising is to be called the Great Romanian Peasant Revolt of 1907. Romania's army is mobilized, and in the coming days it will sabre and shoot peasants. Historians will put the number of deaths between 3,000 and 18,000, with the most common figure at 11,000.

Defendants left to right, Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone

Jun 3  In Russia, Prime Minister Stolypin has accused Social Democrats of preparing an armed uprising. He demands the exclusion of 55 of their representatives from the tsar's legislative body, the Duma. The Duma refuses. Stolypin and the tsar dissolve the Duma.

Date Unknown   This year the American chemist Bertram Boltwood discovers the rate at which the radioactive element s uranium and thorium break down. He finds lead to be the final product of radioactive decay, and he uses the proportion of lead in uranium ores in rocks as a measure of time. This allows geologists to date the earth's age at 2.2 billion years. Eventually the age will be extended to 4.4 billion.

Jul 29  Since May 9 the labor leader Bill Haywood has been on trial for the murder of Steunenberg. The witness for the prosecution is a confessed participant in murder, Albert Horsley, who has describes Hayward as having ordered the murder. Haywood is represented by the famous lawyer Clarence Darrow . His cross examination of Horsely leaves the jury with the impression that Horsley's testimony is worthless. Haywood appears to have been framed and is found not guilty. Of the other two union leaders charged with Steunenberg's murder, George Pettibone will be acquitted in January and charges against Charles Moyer will be dropped.

Aug 1  Japan's order that the Korean army disband creates a rebellion within the Korean army, and disorder spreads through the country, countered with violence by the Japanese.

Aug 31  With Russia's defeat by Japan, the British see Russia as less of a threat to their interests. Britain signs a treaty with Russia. Russia agrees that Britain should have controlling influence in Afghanistan and Tibet, and the two powers end their rivalry in Iran by dividing that land into two zones of influence.

Sep 8  Catholic "modernists" have been trying to institute what they consider intellectual reforms. Thirty-eight of their 65 proposals are biblical criticisms, Pope Pius X labels these proposals as heretical. In an encyclical the pope describes "modernism" as an alliance between faith and false philosophy.

Sep 26  New Zealand rises above colony status and joins Britain's Commonwealth, as does Newfoundland.

Oct 15-16  In the US, financial manipulations create what will be called a Bankers' Panic. The New York Stock Exchange falls to almost 50 percent of its peak in 1906. There will be numerous runs on banks and trust companies.

Oct 17  Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

Nov 1  In Russia, Tsar Nicholas has given greater electoral value to the votes of nobility and landowners. These conservatives will dominate a new "Third Duma." Meanwhile, the tsar's police are cracking down on leftists. Jews are being attacked in Odessa.

Nov 16  In the US, Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.

Dec 6  A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.

Dec 19  A coal mine explosion kills 239 in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Dec 21  In Chile, soldiers shoot at striking mine workers, killing more than 2000.

Dec 21  Klara Hitler dies of cancer after expressing concern about the well being of her 18-year-old son Adolf. Adolf is grief stricken.

Dec 31  By now, eight percent of US households are wired for electricity.

to 1906 | to 1908

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Worldwide Writeathon Oct. 2021

My weekend before the madness that is NaNoWriMo

Back in August 2020, a YouTube writing project was created. Twenty-four hours of live streams. Since then, it’s developed into thirty-six hours and now it’s at forty-eight hours to combat time zones and there’s chatting for those moments when you want to hang out with people, but you need a break. I’ve done it the three times it’s happened before, and this past weekend (22-24 October) was the…

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Since radio signals can cross multiple time zones and the international date line, some worldwide standard for time and date is needed. This standard is coordinated universal time, abbreviated UTC. This was formerly known as Greenwich mean time (GMT). Other terms used to refer to it include 'Zulu time' (after the 'Z' often used after UTC times), 'universal time,' and 'world time.'

UTC is used by international shortwave broadcasters in their broadcast and program schedules. Ham radio operators, shortwave listeners, the military, and utility radio services are also big users of UTC. All of the times and dates found here at DXing.com at UTC unless otherwise indicated.

Greenwich mean time was based upon the time at the zero degree meridian that crossed through Greenwich, England. GMT became a world time and date standard because it was used by Britain's Royal Navy and merchant fleet during the nineteenth century. Today, UTC uses precise atomic clocks, shortwave time signals, and satellites to ensure that UTC remains a reliable, accurate standard for scientific and navigational purposes. Despite the improvements in accuracy, however, the same principles used in GMT have been carried over into UTC.

UTC uses a 24-hour system of time notation. '1:00 a.m.' in UTC is expressed as 0100, pronounced 'zero one hundred.' Fifteen minutes after 0100 is expressed as 0115; thirty-eight minutes after 0100 is 0138 (usually pronounced 'zero one thirty-eight'). The time one minute after 0159 is 0200. The time one minute after 1259 is 1300 (pronounced 'thirteen hundred'). This continues until 2359. One minute later is 0000 ('zero hundred'), and the start of a new UTC day.

To convert UTC to local time, you have to add or subtract hours from it. For persons west of the zero meridian to the international date line (which includes all of North America), hours are subtracted from UTC to convert to local time. Below is a table showing the number of hours to subtract from local time zones in North America in order to convert UTC to local time:

The second table is direct conversion from UTC to U.S.A. timezones.

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A major source of confusion when using UTC is that the date also follows UTC. Suppose your local time zone is Central standard, and you want to hear a shortwave program scheduled to be broadcast at 0400 UTC Saturday. You do the math, and find that 0400 UTC is equal to 10:00 p.m. Central standard time. If you tune in at 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, however, you won't hear the program. Since the date is also UTC, you need to listen at 10:00 p.m. Friday to hear the program.

To hear the latest time in UTC, you can tune to stations WWV, in Fort Collins, Colorado and WWVH, Kauai, Hawaii on 2500, 5000, 10000 and 15000 kHz to hear the time announced in UTC each minute. WWV uses a man's voice to give the time, while WWVH uses a female voice. If you live in the central or eastern United States, and those frequencies aren't usable, you can tune to station CHU, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 3330, 7335 7850 and 14670 kHz, to hear the current UTC time. If you're like many radio hobbyists, you will soon add a second clock set to UTC to your collection of radio gear. Click here for information on 24 hour clocks

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