#tommy duckworth

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The Alabama Republican’s ‘bizarre’ protest injects culture wars into national defense, Tammy Duckworth says

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Alaska - Lisa Murkowski / Dan Sullivan

Hawaii - Brian Schatz / Mazie Hirono

Washington - Patty Murray / Maria Cantwell

Oregon - Ron Wyden / Jeff Merkley

California - Alex Padilla / Laphonza Butler

Arizona - Kirsten Sinema / Mark Kelly

Nevada - Catherine Cortez Masto / Jackie Rosen

New Mexico - / Ben Ray Lujan

Colorado - Michael Bennet / John Hickenlooper

Utah - Mike Lee / Mitt Romney

Wyoming - Jon Barasso / Cynthia Lummis

Idaho - / Jim Risch

Montana - Jon Tester / Steve Daines

North Dakota - John Hoeven / Kevin Cramer

South Dakota - John Thune / Mike Rounds

Nebraska - Deb Fischer / Pete Ricketts

Kansas - / Roger Marshall

Oklahoma - James Lankford /Markwayne Mullin

Texas - Jon Cornyn / Ted Cruz

Minnesota - Amy Klobuchar / Tina Smith

Iowa - Chuck Grassley / Joni Ernst

Missouri - Josh Hawley / Eric Schmitt

Arakansas - / Tom Cotton

Louisiana - / John Neely Kennedy

Tennessee - Marsha Blackburn / Ben Haggerty

North Carolina - Tom Tillis / Ted Budd

South Carolina - Lindsey Graham / Tim Scott

Kentucky - Mitch McConnell / Rand Paul

Alabama - Tommy Tubberville / Katie Britt

Mississippi - / Cynthia Hyde-Smith

Georgia - Jon Ossoff / Raphael Warnock

Florida - Marco Rubio / Rick Scott

Illinois - Dick Durbin / Taamy Duckworth

Michigan - Debbie Stabenow / Gary Peters

Wisconsin - Ron Johnson / Taamy Baldwin

Indiana - Todd Young / Mike Braun

Ohio - Sherrod Brown / J. D. Vance

Pennsylvania - Bob Casey, Jr. / John Fetterman

New York - Chuck Schumer / Kirsten Gillibrand

New Jersey - Bob Menendez / Cory Booker

Maryland - Ben Cardin / Chris van Hollen

Delaware - Tom Carper / Chris Coons

Virginia - Mark Warner / Tim Kaine

West Virginia - Joe Manchin / Shelly Moore Capito

Connecticut - / Chris Murphy

Rhode Island - Jack Reed / Sheldon Whitehouse

Massachusetts - Elizabeth Warren /

Vermont - Bernie Sanders / Peter Welch

New Hampshire - Jeanne Shaheen / Maggie Hassan

Maine - Susan Collins / Angus King

i have genuinely one of the weirdest skills to be able to brag about

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/26/meet-ex-food-writer-advising-tommy-tuberville-national-security/?s=09

"When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) wanted to stop a new Defense Department policy that helped ensure access to abortions for service members after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the former college football coach sought advice from his top military aide, a former food critic.

“I explained all his options to him,” said Morgan Murphy, a Navy captain who once sold his own line of bacon products and who now serves as Tuberville’s national security adviser. The option the senator ultimately chose was to single-handedly stall the promotion of more than 200 senior U.S. military officers.

It was spicy dollop of political brinkmanship into a process that is often blandly nonpolitical. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a military veteran herself, said Tuberville was “holding the entire nation’s national security hostage for his own personal social agenda.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the top-ranking Republican in the Senate, said he disagreed with the maneuver. Lloyd Austin, the secretary of Defense, has called Tuberville’s blockade “a clear risk to U.S. military readiness.”

But Murphy — who, like his boss, took an improbable route to Washington in the wake of Donald Trump — thought the gambit could work as long as Tuberville could stand the heat.

“The goal was to get the secretary to respond,” Murphy told me on a recent Friday afternoon outside the Dirksen office building, peeling soft-boiled eggs and dropping them into a glass jar filled with fresh salad fixings. “If you don’t write back, if you don’t answer letters, if you don’t answer queries … the nice way to say it is, ‘Fool around and find out.’”

Austin’s response so far has been mostly to call the scope of Tuberville’s gridlocking maneuver “unprecedented.”

Since Trump’s presidency, it seems that things in Washington have gotten more and more…. unprecedential. That may be in part because of the arrival, in Trump’s slipstream, of politicians who were elected specifically because they came from outside the traditional political pipeline.

The rise of political novices has, in turn, elevated the importance of the advisers who influence them. And when it comes to Tuberville’s one-man blockade of Pentagon appointees, the Alabama senator may never have known which norm to break without Morgan Murphy, whose past life included a stint at Vanity Fair, a tour in Afghanistan and multiple appearances on the home-shopping network QVC.

When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) wanted to stop a new Defense Department policy that helped ensure access to abortions for service members after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the former college football coach sought advice from his top military aide, a former food critic.

“I explained all his options to him,” said Morgan Murphy, a Navy captain who once sold his own line of bacon products and who now serves as Tuberville’s national security adviser. The option the senator ultimately chose was to single-handedly stall the promotion of more than 200 senior U.S. military officers.

It was spicy dollop of political brinkmanship into a process that is often blandly nonpolitical. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a military veteran herself, said Tuberville was “holding the entire nation’s national security hostage for his own personal social agenda.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the top-ranking Republican in the Senate, said he disagreed with the maneuver. Lloyd Austin, the secretary of Defense, has called Tuberville’s blockade “a clear risk to U.S. military readiness.”

But Murphy — who, like his boss, took an improbable route to Washington in the wake of Donald Trump — thought the gambit could work as long as Tuberville could stand the heat.

“The goal was to get the secretary to respond,” Murphy told me on a recent Friday afternoon outside the Dirksen office building, peeling soft-boiled eggs and dropping them into a glass jar filled with fresh salad fixings. “If you don’t write back, if you don’t answer letters, if you don’t answer queries … the nice way to say it is, ‘Fool around and find out.’”

Austin’s response so far has been mostly to call the scope of Tuberville’s gridlocking maneuver “unprecedented.”

Since Trump’s presidency, it seems that things in Washington have gotten more and more…. unprecedential. That may be in part because of the arrival, in Trump’s slipstream, of politicians who were elected specifically because they came from outside the traditional political pipeline.

The rise of political novices has, in turn, elevated the importance of the advisers who influence them. And when it comes to Tuberville’s one-man blockade of Pentagon appointees, the Alabama senator may never have known which norm to break without Morgan Murphy, whose past life included a stint at Vanity Fair, a tour in Afghanistan and multiple appearances on the home-shopping network QVC....."

The story continues. Bottom line, a republican senator is getting advice on how to hurt women and stop abortion from Morgan Murphy, a rich, conservative, gay man. No quotes needed from the ex-wife. It's damn clear and women need to know exactly the kind of men who are trying to destroy their rights. No one should be held to a rule protecting someone who uses their money and position to hurt others.

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She’s certainly got a way with the fellas..

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Oh seeing Rick Neelons face again just reminds me of everything that happened with him, Tina and Tommy and I miss them so much 😭😭❤️

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Kendrick Lamar & 50 Cent On “POWER”.

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ducktales x dsmp au

I’m gonna try and bullshit this, let’s go fuckers:

Techno is Scrooge and lives in a giant mansion dubbed “The Antarctic Empire” (who knows why we’re here for bs aus not naming reasons)

Phil is Donald and Bench Trio are the triplets (except they aren’t triplets Phil just adopted them all)

Wilbur is Della

Fundy acts as Webby I suppose?

So In this Techno and Phil are/were friends, they used to be adventurers and both of them are immortal (think like Scrooge’s parents)

Then Phil met Mumza (who I’m gonna say is the Goddess of Death and is on Ithaquack) and had Wilbur and Tommy (who I suppose by this logic are immortal and/or Demi-gods)

Adventures were put to a stop for a bit (much to Techno’s displeasure) while Phil raised Wilbur and Tommy in the mansion

Time passes fast in this au, so when Wilbur is in his twenties he meets a siren named Sally and we end up with Fundy (who is a half siren half god maybe immortal fucker who’s a fox for some reason omg what is his biology?-)

Anyway when Fundy is just a tiny baby Sally leaves (or dies idk) and Wilbur sets out to sea (he steals the submarine)

Wilbur gets lost at sea and Techno and Phil argue (Techno blames Phil for not being attentive enough and Phil gets defensive)

Basically Phil takes Tommy and leaves (he leaves Fundy with Techno and Niki and Jack (who act as Beakley and Duckworth))

Phil gets a houseboat and raises Tommy, he also takes in Tubbo and Ranboo during this time (finds Tubbo in a box and Ranboo in a field or something idk)

Anyway one day Phil can’t find a babysitter and even tho the boys are 17 he doesn’t trust them to not burn the houseboat down so he sucks it up and asks Techno for help

We get Woo-oo! Basically where the boys (+Fundy who in this au is 14, so basically they come back 14 years after rather then 10) get Techno back into adventures (he gave it up after Wilbur dissapered, said it felt wrong without his... ‘friends’ he means family)

Blah, blah, blah, Phil agrees to move into the mansion with the boys and they start adventuring again ha zah.

Anyway long story short Tommy wants to find out what happened to his brother, and he enlists Fundy’s help because yunno Fundy is Wilbur’s son it’s only right.

On one of their adventures they go to Ithaquack where Tommy and Fundy meet Mumza (aka their mom and grandma respectively) and they get some information on Wilbur (idk what that information is figure it out)

Soon they find letters and clues and they aren’t rlly sure what happens but it’s looking like Wilbur betrayed the family (though Tommy insists this isn’t true because from the very little he can remember of Wilbur that doesn’t seem likely)

Tubbo and Ranboo eventually find out what Tommy and Fundy have been doing (and ofc it happens in a very stressful moment on an adventure cuz ofc) and they argue (because they feel betrayed Tommy didn’t tell them as his best friends) until eventually they apologize and make up and shit and agree to work to find the truth together

Then in another high stakes situation Tommy demands the truth from Phil and Techno and the kids discover what happens yunno? And the kids end up blaming Phil (because essentially Phil wasn’t very present for Wilbur or at least Wilbur always felt like Phil wasn’t there for him and they believe that that influenced a lot in his decision to leave)

Fundy is also hurt cuz yunno, his Dad just up and fucking left him behind so now he’s bitter about that and refuses to talk about Wilbur anymore

Phil ends up leaving the mansion and going to Ithaquack on his own to stay with Mumza while the kids stay at the mansion and stew

That is until Nikki calls Phil and demands he comes back and sits everyone down and makes them talk until they reconcile

Everything is good for awhile, a few months, they go on adventures, they fuck with Quackity (who in this au is sorta like Glomgold, while Purpled is Owlson and Charlie is just there to have a good time) and everything is fine

Until Wilbur comes back

See what happened was Wilbur didn’t plan on leaving forever. He stole the sub and planned to stay in their ocean lab for a few months to get a grip on himself. It’s just that while he was there complications arose that broke the place down and he got stuck. With like zero technical skills it took him fithteen (because at this point a year has passed since they other have been back) fucking years to get everything working again and get back to the mansion.

When Wilbur gets back he sort of behaves like Della did, inserting himself and kind of acting like nothing has changed. He babies Fundy and Tommy, treating them like they’re still little kids instead of fifthteen and eighteen and he gives Tubbo and Ranboo cold shoulders. He’s also detached from Phil and sort of just ignores him, but he’ll speak to Techno just fine.

It’s just a lot of adjusting and drama and arguements (they’re trying it’s just complicated)

In the end things work out though, and Tommy gets Wilbur to see a therapist (the kids all already see Puffy)

So yay, happy family <3

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Biden Transition Goes to Work

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Nov. 7, 2020.--Calling the election, Associated Press and all major networks declared 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden president-elect, with only 74-year-old President Donald Trump and his diehard faithful not caught up that the 2020 presidential election is over.  But Covdi-19 or not, Trump predicted correctly that universal mail-in ballots would do him in, not necessarily for the reasons he thinks but for getting the biggest election turnout in U.S. history.  Whether there was some fraud or not, the overwhelmingly large turnout brought millions of new voters into the fold, beating Trump and the Republican Party with its historic registration disadvantage.  Let there be no mistake, the sheer volume of Democrat, independent and crossover votes did Trump in.  When you consider how competitive the race, it’s a testament to how fiercely Trump battled in the campaign’s final days.     

        Now Biden’s transition team gets to work, as they have for some time, picking a Cabinet to run his Democrat government.  “We’re not waiting to get the work done and to start the process,” Biden said today in Wilmington, De.  Most of Biden’s glamorous jobs like Secretary of State, Defense Secretary and Attorney General are up for grabs with some old an new faces popping up. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was named as a possible Treasury Secretary, despite possible opposition from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should he stay in power.  With two Georgia GOP Senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler facing runoffs, it’s possible that Biden won’t have to pick a moderate or consensus candidates.  But Biden has made the hallmark of his 2020 campaign to bring the country together, showings signs that he’ll resist pressure from his Party’s left wing.       

      So given Biden’s pledge to reach out to both sides, Warren is an unlikely pick for Treasury Secretary.  Looking far more likely is 58-year-old Lael Brainard, currently serving the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.  Brainard was an undersecretary of the Treasury under former President Barack Obama.  When it comes Secretary of State, 55-year-old former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice would be a top pick, except for her baggage with unmasking Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn when they were wiretapping Trump’s campaign.  If McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader, Biden could have some problems with Rice.  On the other hand, 58-year-old long-time Biden foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken could be a moderate alterative or candidate for National Security Adviser. While Sen. Chris Coons (R-Md.) is mentioned, he’s needed in the Senate, though his replacement would be Democrat.      

       Frontrunner for Defense Secretary is Michele Flournoy, who worked in the Defense Department for 74-year-old former President Bill Clinton and for Obama.  Serving as a adviser to former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta.  Flourney would be the first woman Defense Secretary in U.S. history and is the odds on favorite, with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Il.) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I. distant seconds.  When it comes to Attorney General, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Al.), defeated Nov. 3 by Tommy Tuberville (R-Al.), is considered a frontrunner but could be replaced by 59-year-old  Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Obama Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, putting a Latino in Biden’s Cabinet.  Favored for Secretary of Homeland Security, 60-year-old former Obama deputy secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.     

        Rounding out Biden’s Cabinet picks, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) is considered the favorite for Secretary of Health and Human Services, with former Obama Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy a distant second.  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, 49, looks like the favorite for Transportation Secretary.  Former 64-year-old Hewlett Packard [HP] and Ebay CEO Meg Whitman, a former Republican candidate for Calif. governor, is considered a favorite for Commerce Secretary.  Former Obama Energy Secretary 75-year-old Ernest Moniz might get his old job back but 51-year-old former Obama Deputy Secretary of Energy and Georgia Institute of Technology Prof. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall would be a better pick.  New Mexico Sen. 72-year-old Tom Udall looks like the favorite for Interior Secretary   Former 65-year-old Sen. Heidi Heitcamp (D-N.D.) looks like a shoe-in for Agricultural Secretary.      

       California’s Secretary of Labor and Workplace Julie Su looks like the favorite for Labor Secretary, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt. ) less likely because Bernie’s better served pushing hard for his socialist agenda in the U.S. Senate.  Replacing Dr. Ben Carson at Housing and Urban Development looks like 58-year-old former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown.  Taking the baton from Betsy Devos, 65-year-old National Education Association [NEA] President Lily Ekelsen-Garcia looks like the favorite for Education Secretary, with Stanford Education Prof. Lind Darling-Hammond a distant second.  Former 38-year-old South Bend Mayor and Democrat Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been named for Veterans Affairs Secretary but not certain.  Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), 45, looks like a favorite for U.S. Trade Representative with 71-year-old former Obama Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman favored for U.N. Ambassador.

 About the Author 

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Chris Fountain reveals he suffered mini stroke: Hollyoaks and Coronation Street star says he was left 'speaking like a toddler' after blood clot | Ents & Arts News

Chris Fountain reveals he suffered mini stroke: Hollyoaks and Coronation Street star says he was left ‘speaking like a toddler’ after blood clot | Ents & Arts News

Former Hollyoaks and Coronation Street star Chris Fountain has revealed he is to undergo surgery after suffering a mini stroke which left him “speaking like a toddler”, according to a newspaper report. The 35-year-old star said he might have died had he not got to hospital as quickly as he did. Fountain, who played Justin Burton in Hollyoaks from 2004 to 2009, and Tommy Duckworth in Coronation…

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Wimbledon 2022, Day 1: Play suspended on outside courts due to rain

Jun 27, 2022 17:39 IST London , June 27 (Always First): The opening day of Wimbledon has been interrupted by rain, with play at the grass-court Grand Slam in London suspended at 11:40 a.m. local time on Monday. Centre Court and Court 1 at the All England Lawn Tennis Club are both fitted with a roof, meaning their schedules will commence as planned regardless of the weather. Defending champion Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and home favourite Andy Murray kick off their campaigns at Wimbledon on Day 1. Opening day also features Hubert Hurkacz arriving at Wimbledon off the back of one of the performances of the season so far in his straight-sets win against Medvedev in Halle. The 2021 semi-finalist must pass a difficult opening test, however, in Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. British No. 1 Cameron Norrie kicks off the action on Court 2, where the ninth seed will take on Pablo Andujar. Norrie reached the third round for the first time in 2021 before falling to eight-time champion Roger Federer, and he arrives in London having already added two ATP Tour titles to his collection in 2022. Wild card Ryan Peniston, who upset Casper Ruud en route to the quarter-finals in Eastbourne, opens against Henri Laaksonen. Third seed Ruud seeks to respond strongly to that shock defeat against Albert Ramos-Vinolas. The Norwegian is seeking his maiden main draw win at Wimbledon, while Spaniard Ramos-Vinolas chases his first win on the London grass since he reached the third round in 2017. The 2014 semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov is also in action, taking on Steve Johnson. Four seeded Americans also begin their campaigns Monday, led by the big-serving duo of Reilly Opelka and John Isner. The 15th seed Opelka is up against Carlos Taberner, while 20th seed Isner faces French qualifier Enzo Couacaud. Their countryman Frances Tiafoe, the 23rd seed, takes on Italian qualifier Andrea Vavassori, while 30th seed Tommy Paul meets Fernando Verdasco. Top seed Novak Djokovic takes on Soonwoo Kwon on Centre Court at 1:30 p.m local time, with two-time champion Andy Murray in action later on against James Duckworth. On Court 1, the play starts at 1:00 p.m. local time, with Carlos Alcaraz facing Jan-Lennard Struff. (Always First) Read the full article

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Aussie quartet surge into ATP third round

Aussie quartet surge into ATP third round

Alexei Popyrin, Alex Bolt, James Duckworth and Jordan Thompson have led a stacked local contingent into the third round of the Melbourne Summer Series. Bolt wrestled to a three-set win over Mackenzie McDonald to book a showdown with top-seeded former Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, while Popyrin accounted for another American in Tommy Paul , 6-4 6-3. Duckworth scored a rousing 7-6 (8-6)…

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Eleanor Fitzsimons: The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit Duckworth 2019

There is only one way [to understand children]: to remember what you thought and felt and liked and hated when you yourself were a child. […] There is no other way.

Daisy Nesbit, Edith Bland and Mrs Tommy Tucker: just three of the many sides to one extraordinary character. One a fearful yet imaginative child, deprived of a father at an early age, shifting from pillar to post, to and fro across the English Channel; the second a dedicated socialist married to a prodigious womaniser, soon to become a successful writer of children’s fiction and friend to established and aspiring literati; the last a widow, remarrying for love but plagued by health issues, finally buried in a Kentish churchyard on Romney Marsh.

Edith Nesbit’s singular life — spanning over six decades, encompassing the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and witnessing momentous movements and events — is fully documented in this new Nesbit biography, the second in as many years, complete with references, a detailed index and a selection of some dozen images.

Exceedingly well researched, The Life and Loves of E Nesbit largely lets contemporary documents speak for themselves so that the reader may hear authentic voices and individual opinions, both so important in gauging the impact this woman had on those who met her, knew her, and read her.

Eleanor Fitzsimons has done Nesbit’s personality and legacy proud. Twenty-two chapters, headed with suitable contemporary quotes, chart her life in roughly chronological order. Beginning with the trauma she suffered seeing the Vault of Mummies in Bordeaux (as recounted in Long Ago When I Was Young), the text takes us through her family background and early years, times when she attended a variety of schools or relocated to France with her mother for the sake of her sister’s health. We then hear of her marriage to Hubert Bland and of their shared interests in poetry, stories and socialism.

That social concern lead to the couple being instrumental in the setting up of the Fabian Society, attracting a host of luminaries on the left of political life, notably George Bernard Shaw and H G Wells among others. At the moated Well Hall in Eltham, South London, and in the Kent marshes at Dymchurch she held court to friends, family, protégés and paying guests (‘PGs’), organised fundraisers and devised entertainments for disadvantaged children and their families, was active in the proceedings of the Fabians, and put the grounds of Well Hall to good use for fun and recreation, for fêtes, and, around the time of the Great War, for dairy produce, flowers and fruit.

Edith as a young woman, before she began parting her hair in the middle

Above all she wrote: reams of poetry, her first love; plays for charity as well as the theatre; tales of terror, inspired by her early trauma and lively imagination; adult novels, often in collaboration with Hubert or a young protégé; political tracts, articles and correspondence to the papers; and of course, increasingly, the children’s fiction for which she is largely, and rightly, remembered.

And, all around her, her extended family, from which came both happiness and tragedy. Her philandering husband who loved too much, even fathering two children by Alice Hoatson whom Edith brought up as her own; the death of their young son Fabian, from which she never quite recovered; her falling out with prominent Fabians over matters like women’s suffrage (which, as a putative feminist, she uncharacteristically opposed); the dwindling popularity of her adult fiction which let her to greater financial straits; and finally the death of her first mainstay Hubert even as her own health and strength was failing. But there were fun times too, with parties and charades and seaside holidays.

With her bohemian life and appearance — a loose-flowing Liberty dress, jangling bangles up to her elbows, and an ever-present lit cigarette in a long holder — her unconventional approach stemmed not from a desire to outrage but from a deep-seated concern for those less fortunate than herself, combined with a sense of a magical world just beyond one’s grasp. She was forever badgering people for story plots, which she then wove into an imaginative narrative full of novel insights with not a little dash of what we might now call autobiografiction.

What made her writing for young readers different from the stock moralistic fodder of the time? Edith herself declared that she was among those who “feel to the end that they are children in a grown-up world”. In the biography’s final pages Fitzsimons quotes extensively from Wings and the Child — correctly, in my opinion — with Edith writing that she was one of those who

just mingle with the other people, looking as grown-up as any one — but in their hearts they are only pretending to be grown-up: it is like acting in a charade. […] And deep in their hearts is the faith and the hope that in the life to come it may not be necessary to pretend to be grown-up.

In these final, beautifully expressed paragraphs I must confess I shed a little tear — for Edith, for myself, and for all the children “disguised by grown-up bodies”. For a few authors like her the ability to write for children in their language, about their concerns, allows these disguised children to let their façades slip so that they can be recognised for what they truly are.

For such a detailed book I spotted relatively few typos — 1889 for 1898 at one point, for example, or ‘Pavlova’ misspelled (though corrected in the US edition). The indexing was meticulous (even a brief reference in the endnotes usually merits an entry) though I was surprised the seemingly self-effacing Alice Hoatson wasn’t given an entry in her own right, being included only under Edith’s entry; also under this entry were listed ‘major and significant works’ in place of a separate select bibliography.

What I missed though was a timeline of principal events in her life and, though I suppose the chapters provided a sufficient chronological outline, I’m probably being greedy in wanting it all.

But these are all trifling quibbles: the author is to be hugely congratulated for such a meticulous and microscopic picture of a wonderfully contradictory yet admirable woman. Do I detect, under Fitzsimons’ relatively dispassionate account, someone very much in sympathy with her subject?

* * * * *

Here are links to my reviews of some of Nesbit’s children’s books:

Long Ago When I Was Young is a series of vignettes of her early childhood. The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, and The New Treasure Seekers all concern the Bastable children and their friends. A collection of short stories entitled The Magic World along with The Enchanted Castle are a mix of fairytale and fantasy. Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet are the first two titles in the Psammead series, followed by The Story of the Amulet.

This review of Irish writer Eleanor Fitzsimons’ recent biography for today, St Patrick’s Day, is a contribution towards Reading Ireland Month 2020 as well as for Women’s History Month.

Pretending to be grown-up Eleanor Fitzsimons: The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit Duckworth 2019 There is only one way : to remember what you thought and felt and liked and hated when you yourself were a child.

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US Open 2024 - Men’s Singles Draw:

Jannik Sinner (1) (ITA) vs Mackenzie McDonald (USA)

Eliot Spizzirri (Q) (USA) vs Alex Michelsen (USA)

Mattia Bellucci (Q) (ITA) vs Stan Wawrinka (WC) (SUI)

Christopher O'Connell (AUS) vs Nicolas Jarry (26) (CHI)

Arthur Fils (24) (FRA) vs Learner Tien (WC) (USA)

Jaume Munar (ESP) vs Gabriel Diallo (Q) (CAN)

Max Purcell (AUS) vs Aleksandar Vukic (AUS)

Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) vs Tommy Paul (14) (USA)

Stefanos Tsitsipas (11) (GRE) vs Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)

Nuno Borges (POR) vs Federico Coria (ARG)

Tristan Schoolkate (WC) (AUS) vs Taro Daniel (JPN)

Jakub Mensik (CZE) vs Felix Auger-Aliassime (19) (CAN)

Flavio Cobolli (31) (ITA) vs James Duckworth (AUS)

Zizou Bergs (BEL) vs Pavel Kotov

Fabian Marozsan (HUN) vs Hamad Medjedovic (Q) (SRB)

Dusan Lajovic (SRB) vs Daniil Medvedev (5)

Carlos Alcaraz (3) (ESP) vs Li Tu (Q) (AUS)

Denis Shapovalov (PR) (CAN) vs Botic Van de Zandschulp (NED)

Facundo Diaz Acosta (ARG) vs Hugo Gaston (FRA)

Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) vs Jack Draper (25) (GBR)

Alejandro Tabilo (22) (CHI) vs David Goffin (BEL)

Borna Coric (CRO) vs Adrian Mannarino (FRA)

Fabio Fognini (ITA) vs Tomas Machac (CZE)

Corentin Moutet (FRA) vs Sebastian Korda (16) (USA)

Alex De Minaur (10) (AUS) vs Marcos Giron (USA)

Otto Virtanen (Q) (FIN) vs Quentin Halys (Q) (FRA)

Mariano Navone (ARG) vs Daniel Altmaier (GER)

Daniel Evans (GBR) vs Karen Khachanov (23)

Matteo Arnaldi (30) (ITA) vs Zachary Svajda (WC) (USA)

Matthew Forbes (WC) (USA) vs Roman Safiullin

Constant Lestienne (FRA) vs Jordan Thompson (AUS)

Timofey Skatov (Q) (KAZ) vs Hubert Hurkacz (7) (POL)

Casper Ruud (8) (NOR) vs Yunchaokete Bu (Q) (CHN)

Gael Monfils (FRA) vs Diego Schwartzman (Q) (ARG)

Jan Choinski (Q) (GBR) vs Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)

Juncheng Shang (CHN) vs Alexander Bublik (27) (KAZ)

Ugo Humbert (17) (FRA) vs Thiago Monteiro (BRA)

Dominic Stricker (PR) (SUI) vs Francisco Comesana (ARG)

Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) vs Matteo Berrettini (ITA)

Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG) vs Taylor Fritz (12) (USA)

Holger Rune (15) (DEN) vs Brandon Nakashima (USA)

Arthur Cazaux (FRA) vs Pablo Carreno Busta (PR) (ESP)

Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) vs Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)

Reilly Opelka (PR) (USA) vs Lorenzo Musetti (18) (ITA)

Francisco Cerundolo (29) (ARG) vs Sebastian Ofner (AUT)

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) vs Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG)

Alexandre Muller (WC) (FRA) vs Adam Walton (AUS)

Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) vs Alexander Zverev (4) (GER)

Andrey Rublev (6) vs Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA)

Christopher Eubanks (WC) (USA) vs Arthur Rinderknech (FRA)

Hugo Grenier (Q) (FRA) vs Mitchell Krueger (Q) (USA)

Marton Fucsovics (HUN) vs Jiri Lehecka (32) (CZE)

Sebastian Baez (21) (ARG) vs Luciano Darderi (ITA)

Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Tallon Griekspoor (NED)

Rinky Hijikata (AUS) vs Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP)

Kyrian Jacquet (Q) (FRA) vs Grigor Dimitrov (9) (BUL)

Ben Shelton (13) (USA) vs Dominic Thiem (WC) (AUT)

Luca Nardi (ITA) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)

Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ) vs Dominik Koepfer (GER)

Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) vs Frances Tiafoe (20) (USA)

Alexei Popyrin (28) (AUS) vs Soonwoo Kwon (PR) (KOR)

Pedro Martinez (ESP) vs Maks Kasnikowski (Q) (POL)

Laslo Djere (SRB) vs Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)

Radu Albot (Q) (MDA) vs Novak Djokovic (2) (SRB)

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Podcast #307: Make Your Bed, Change the World

A few years ago a commencement speech given at the University of Texas by a retired Navy SEAL and Navy Admiral went viral. The message of the speech? Make your bed and you can change the world. My guest today is the man who gave that speech and he’s recently published a book where he expands on the ideas he told UT college students back in 2014. His name is Admiral William McRaven and his book is Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life… And Maybe the World.  Today on the show, Admiral McRaven and I discuss why something as simple as making your bed every day can lay the foundation for success in every aspect of your life, how a parachuting accident taught him an important lesson on avoiding self-pity and learning to rely on the help of others, and why rolling in the sand as a SEAL trainee taught him how to become more resilient to the whims of life. We end our conversation by talking about how a leader can remain hopeful and share that hope with his team when all seems hopeless, and what you have to do to avoid “ringing the bell.”  This podcast will leave you fired up to make your bed, and become a better man.  Show Highlights * How can making your bed change the world? * While nailing your first task of the day makes all the difference * Why it’s okay to not get and/or expect praise for doing things well * Admiral McRaven’s parachuting accident and how he overcame that setback * What are “sugar cookies” in SEAL training and how does it build resilience? * How failure can make your stronger — literally * How you stay your best in dark moments * Why you should sing in the mud * The iconic bell of SEAL training, and how to stop yourself from ringing it * Taking it one evolution at a time Resources/People/Articles Mentioned in Podcast * Make Your Bed, Change the World original commencement speech * How to Make Your Bed With Hospital Corners * How to Create Habits That Stick * What It Really Means to Be Self-Reliant * My podcast with Eric Greitens about building resilience * My podcast with Angela Duckworth about the importance of grit * General John Kelly * Tommy Norris * The Navy SEAL bell Make Your Bed is a quick read, but is packed with actionable advice. Makes a great gift for a recent grad, and get a copy for yourself while you’re at it. Connect With Admiral Bill McRaven Bill on Twitter Bill’s blog Listen to the Podcast! (And don’t forget to leave us a review!) Listen to the episode on a separate page. Download this episode. Subscribe to the podcast in the media player of your choice. Podcast Sponsors Pocket Wallet. Having trouble finding the perfect Father’s Day gift? Look no more. Visit rogueindustries.com and use promo code “MANLINESS” for free shipping on your entire order. Hanes Modal Undershirts. Whether you are on a long flight or car-ride, this undershirt can keep you feeling fresh in even the most uncomfortable situations. Head over to Hanes.com and purchase yours today. Dollar Shave Club. New members get their 1st month for $5 with free shipping. You can only get this offer exclusively at DollarShaveClub.com/manliness. Read the Transcript Coming soon! The post Podcast #307: Make Your Bed, Change the World appeared first on The Art of Manliness. http://dlvr.it/PFWmHv