#vice admiral bluegrass

[bottlepiecemuses]

Ding Dong, Saturd's Dead

Next to Orochi's death this guy's death has brough me so much joy despite how horrific it is. The pain he put on Kuma and Bonney has made me hate his guts that I was wishing and thinking of how he would finally get it but it's fitting he gets it from the master he served. Who knew a nightmare fuel death would put a smile on my face?

General One Piece fandom reaction to his death:

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

Hi! hope you are having a great day! I was just idly curious about what Bluegrass & Hound are saying on page 4 of ch 1108? I've seen her line vary wildly and am wondering if Hound is asking if the Buster Call will be called off or if he is suggesting they call it off.

also now that you've read 1109 what is Saturn saying on the final page panel 2? Is “summoning” an accurate term?

thank you so much for always answering my silly questions

hey!! yeah, for sure. so bluegrass is talking about how destroying the pacifistas still incurs a loss for the marines, since they're government property. the first thing she says is 張り切れないんだよ/harikirenainda yo, which is like “i/we can’t get too overeager/enthusiastic,” and then 倒しても損失/taoshitemo sonshitsu which like is “even if we take them down, it’s a loss (for us).”

hound is wondering it's possible for the buster call to be stopped/interrupted (once it's started) (the word he uses is 中止/chuushi, 'stoppage' or 'calling off') even though such an action would be 'unheard of/unprecedented' (前代未聞/zendaimimon). so his line is like "could it be possible to put a stop to the buster call? it would be historically unprecedented, but...!"

to me, it reads like he's musing on the possibility (as a result of the unprecedented resistance being put up by the strawhats+vegapunk and company), not actually suggesting or recommending it.

and then for 1109 (i waited to answer this until the official came out, but i still haven't been able to find clean raw scans), saturn's line on the last spread is very simply 呼ぶぞ/yobu zo.

yobu is the verb 'to call,' and then zo is a particle that adds emphasis. with sentences like this in japanese the subject and object are only implied by context, so most directly it would be "(i'm) calling (you/it/etc)", with both the "i" and "you" being implied rather than explicit in the sentence. 'summoning' is indeed also a valid translation.

[danwhobrowses]

One Piece Chapter 1118 - Initial Thoughts

And we're back

It looks like it's time to leave Egghead, with Vegapunk's message cut off by the Gorosei's attack on the Iron Giant

Is there another twist in the tale left? We'll have to wait and see

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After a handful of covers prepping, Yamato's finally setting off on his voyage, and he's already eating from the bento

Picking up from the attack on the Iron Giant, the attack sends it flying into the ocean

The marines not privy to the situation are just collateral

The last fragments of Vegapunk's message continues as the den den mushi gets waterlogged

'And their name was...'

The Iron Giant once more laments not finding Joy Boy

The Marines who witnessed the fall also spot Warcury's boar form, but believe it to be part of the island

The world watches and wonders how Vegapunk's message got cut off

They also start to wonder who could've killed Vegapunk

Koza stays quiet as speculation occurs

Alas, Morgans' earlier headline leads speculation to where we expected, with Luffy taking the fall

Vegapunk tells you a man made weapon caused the whole island of Lulusia to disappear and yet people still don't believe that the WG wouldn't silence someone for breaking a taboo

Laws which also wiped out Ohara, a whole nation of scholars, as well

The former Mr 9 and Miss Monday with their little kid in Whiskey Peak also don't seem convinced by this rhetoric

Only Leo is convinced and that's because Tontatta are gullible, Rebecca looks to set him straight

York is messaged by the Gorosei, asking how many more Vegapunks remain

York confirms Atlas and Lilith, nothing about Edison though, he mustn't have been using Punk Records

The Gorosei now intend to wipe out the other two, believing that York will get the full capability of Punk Records' genius with just York

The Giants and Luffy make it onto the longboat, with Luffy happy to be on there and greet the other giants

Luffy also asks about Usopp and Chopper, since they would've loved to be on the longboat too

Doll and Bluegrass got de-aged by Bonney, which limited their threat level, the little weaponized sea beast got kiddified too

Reminds me of the Toys R Us giraffe now XD

As Luffy greets Oimo and a recovering Kashii, and Bonney makes fun of the vice admirals, Sanji checks on the Sunny

Nami notes that they need help landing, to which Sanji claims he will rescue the ladies - Usopp chiming in to note to save all of them

Franky also chimes in to look after the ship, not the rest of the crew XD

Marcus Mars however has swooped down from above, intent on killing Atlas and all those who stand in his way

Luffy's straight into the kitchen, with the giants knowing him well enough to already have food prepared

Mars has fire breath, but it's blocked by Oimo and Kashii

The fire however has spread to the ship, which means they can't quite escape without putting out the fires and dealing with Mars and the Navy

Bonney and Atlas look to move the Stella body and Kuma away from the action, so Atlas will not be getting too violent at this point

The Giant captains lament that the monsters will chase them given that they can fly, with Mars stating his intent to leave no survivors

Franky notices something though, given the sound effect and what happens next, it's likely Nika back for another round

Luffy can also make the sea rubbery! Which the navy mistake for an earthquake and the rising of sea levels

Luffy still doesn't know why Bonney keeps calling him Nika

Dorry and Brogy are also dancing...but the ship's still on fire

Luffy invites Bonney to fight with him, but Bonney doesn't think she can

By his encouragement though, Bonney remembers how Luffy described Gear Fifth when she asked about his wanted poster

And with a Distorted Future where she is most free, there are now TWO SUN GODS

Kuma, thinking back to his promise to Ginny, bears witness to two different versions of Nika

Mars is most likely panicked now, the consequences of your actions are ready to punch you in the face

Ju Peter and Warcury sense the presence of another Nika, unnerved and deciding to hurry

And in the sea, the Iron Giant once again stirs, having found where Joy Boy is

That chapter absolutely flew by for me!

Bonney's fruit pays dividends because now she can believe in a future where she can be Nika, where she can be free, as opposed to when she couldn't do that against Saturn.

There's still death flags hovering over Atlas and Lilith though, it's likely that Saturn and V. Nusjuro will attempt to attack the Sunny while the rest take on the Longboat, the landing is still a question mark.

I wonder if Edison died, or if he's just being a lil' sneaky sneak, maybe someone able to catch York out. CP0 could do that too, since she did order the Seraphim to silence them.

As expected though, Luffy is likely to get issued the blame for Vegapunk's death, and all the other shit going on in Egghead (well, the shit he's not responsible for). Overall this still feels more like a WG win more than an incident, but stuff still looks like it can turn around or at the least break even. The Vegapunk transmission is likely done, or will have a big chunk missing after the Den Den Mushi dries out, but the Iron Giant is likely not.

[daybreakerreal]

ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1094

This is a review I guess of the new chapter, I'm gonna skip over fights and plotlines and whatever else that were already set up in the last chapter and focus on the new stuff

Spoilers under the cut

Vice Admirals

Glad to see Vice Admiral Steiner (my name for him) and Vice Admiral Bluegrass (Oda's name for them) showing off their powers. Very awesome Oda's power system is always cool, I really like the Stick-Stick Fruit I think if this were literally any other chapter this would be a highlight sort of like the Jacket-Jacket fruit in Dressrosa, as it stands this is probably gonna be one of the more underrated devil fruit powers and I hope we see more of Vice Admiral Raccoon Steiner

2. Bonney (part 1)

What the fuck Bonney. I legitimately think Bonney and Law have the two coolest devil fruit powers, I like how all of Bonney's abilities so far line up with the "age" thing, like being able to turn things back into oil, showing people their future, de-aging people. I can't wait to hear what her fruit is called. Imagine if it's the toki-toki no mi and Toki just awakened her devil fruit

3. Saint Jaygarcia Saturn

This is straight up a page from the chapter. Literally changed the fucking artstyle of One Piece for a hot second look at this shit. This doesn't even look like One Piece LOL

we go back to normal when we confront him.

Also Luffy fucking was fun as shit in this chapter, I feel someone could make a post that's just all of Luffy's panels in this chapter. Saint Jaygarcia's reveal was kinda fucking insane and overshadowed literally everything in this chapter unfortunately, I've got a lot to say about Bonney though so I'm probably gonna make a post about that later today LOL

[theviceadmiralswife]

One piece chapter 1122

Salute recruits and soldiers to this stormy Sunday ⚓️🌊⚓️🌊⚓️🌊⚓️🌊⚓️🌊⚓️🌊⚓️

Let's start the blogs 3. Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 with a bang bang with screenshots of the last chapter 1122.

• the previous chapters have been dragging along

• Honestly Bonney being a second Nika, is just plain plot armour. She is 10, and she acts that age.

• Also interesting in chapter 1121, Stella runs her mouth, and I'm glad to see that the Gorosei tell her to shut up, meaning her deal with the Gorosei is on thin ice she ain't save either

• on an unexpected side note. Wow vice admiral Doll and Bluegrass look cute as kids

• as for chapter 1122, it looks Coby is going to destroy someone's dram but it's ambiguous if its Luffys dream or Blackbeard

• Imu has used his haki to what looks like to me "force teleport" the Gorosei back to Mariejois

• which is what concerns me the most, if Imu still has some power left he can destroy Egghead Island and that means killing thousands of Marines, 9 vice admirals from which most are new ones to us, (and hubby Doberman) and of course admiral Kizaru will be killed too.

Do without further redue here are some screenshots of chapter

[yamatossideboob]

One Piece 1117 spoilers!

This week's philosophisings:

I fucking love Yamato hugging Daddy Cat, happy father's day son

So I did not cop this until I saw people raving about it but. Gin lives babes.

And he made it back to the New World with Dong Krieg and Pearl...

I'm genuinely stunned by this, I can't lie. Oda is stuffing in cameos from E V E R Y O N E.

This is so strange. On one hand I feel like I should be cross that Oda has not only cowarded out of ANOTHER character death, but the fact that 1) it's after 20 literal fucking years after we saw him last, which is genuinely just hilarious, and 2) its fucking GIN!!!!! OUR GUY FUCKING MADE IT!!! HE DEFIED THE GRIM REAPER BEFORE ZORO!!!!! DON GIN FOR LIFE BAYBEEEEEEEEE

also nice callback to the City of Gold myth from Skypiea

oh hi Saruyama lads

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Kujaku...

DRAKE??????????? glad you're alive I guess now you can do something interesting

SMOKER ON THE FUCKIN DUNE BUGGY ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN

This fella channeling the entire readership for what feels like months now

One inch closer to gtfo Egghead, real den den mushi pace to this escape manouvre lmao

Nusjuro is easily the scariest-looking of the Elders, the fucked up skeletaur form is just peak nightmare fuel. fuckin SMT shit

'Fishman Jiu-jutsu Piggyback' doesn't quite hit the same as 'Fastball Special' but FUCK if it doesn't otherwise tick those Hype Shit boxes, gwan Jimbei and Mosshead

Zoro stanboys creaming themselves reading this, power scalers succing themselves thru their jorts at this display

Fr though good on swordsman repelling a fucking Elder to let the crew have more time to flee, ditto Jimbei on the slick catch

also Zoro sword deemed significant somehow woowee

shit, what are the chances we get another crew split a la Whole Cake? Doubt it at this late stage buttttttttt

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah (thats Luffy yellin)

the Giants delight in their carnage yay yippee

I cannot help but read Bluegrass in a Cork accent.

VICE ADMIRAL DOLL ILYSM PLEASE BETRAY THE WORLD GOVERNMENT MWAH MWAH

I guess some VAs being not useless is good for stakes. On the Giants tho.

LOTSA D'S HERE HI DRAGON HI BLACKBEARD HI IMPLIED TRAFALGAR LAW

AND VIVI EVEN IF SHE DOESNT KNOW YET

go Giant Robo... you gave us nothing.. lol I'm not yet convinced that the Iron Giant is kaput yet, it just seems too hardy for that even with the Elder assault going on. but that signal is banjaxed now, probably for good. Which suits me fine, Robin can still have her big moment in due time this way.

What's the deal with the D though... I can't wait til we finally find out... mamma mia

Thankfully another chapter is due next Sunday. This is likely the end of this colossal lore drip feed by Vegapunk, but next time will surely be immensely exciting now that we can finally get off the island and off to Elbaf! I'll meet ye there nakama!

💪✖️

[shutupdevvie]

i had a dream last night where safari song era josh saw me on barricade before their show and invited me backstage because he thought i was pretty 🥺🥺 and after their set, my great-grandpas bluegrass band played on the same stage and josh held my hand and watched them from backstage with me 🥺🥺

i'm imagining meeting him backstage and asking why he wanted you back there and he's all blushy and smiley talking about how he thought you were really pretty and that he couldn't miss his chance to talk to you :(( and you're talking and it's a little bit awkward at first but it's so sweet and eventually, everything is flowing and you're laughing together and i need to stop

also the thought of doing that super cliche shit where one person is super into the show they're watching, and the other is admiring them while they're not paying attention. it would absolutely be me admiring him because he's just too pretty to not stare at. but like you're really into the music and he's watching you enjoy it or vice versa. i am literally going to sob.

[cptn-m]

One Piece chapter 1108 review

Ooh, this is actually heating up right when I was expecting Egghead to start winding down and continue cutting off sources of tension. There was a point a year and a bit ago where the question might have been asked, 'why this arc, on this island?' If Oda is rushing to the finale, what does Egghead offer that Elbaf doesn't, and what will it add to contribute to the macro-level plot? Up til now, aside from wrapping up stories for supporting cast members like Bonney and Kuma, it seemed that maybe the main thing here was getting the scientists in the party and setting up more Void Century teases to develop more later. Well I think now we're getting the big thing that made Egghead unskippable.

But first we've got a Jump cover here, the latest in a long line of 'Luffy is about to punch you' covers, now in Gear Five form, and a very relaxed colour spread. Sure, why not give Uta another appearance in the manga. But what's that going on between Reiju and Tashigi? But my favourite thing here is the dapper canines in the portraits in the background. Cute stuff.

Caribou's scene feels like more of a recap than anything. I'm actually surprised to see him and the Blackbeard Pirates again so soon, I would have been satisfied if their time on Egghead wrapped up with the last chapter. Of course, there's no chance they choose not to take him with them, even if Oda leaves it ambiguous.

Now, I'm not a firearms guy. I don't live in one of those countries where you see them regularly. But is it just me or is Augur's form with the rifle really bad here, with the stock all the way out the back. You're meant to use that thing to brance for the recoil, right? So if he pulls the trigger this weird way he's holding it, the whole thing just slips between his arms and goes flying backwards, wouldn't it? I'll accept corrections for anyone who does know guns on this point.

I love getting names for all the vice admirals here. It's the details. Guillotine is still my favourite design of the batch.

The talk about taking back control of the Pacifistas by eliminating Bonney feels odd though. Is that how it works? So a person of equal rank in the hierarchy can't override orders, but the death of the current top dog will let someone lower down cancel their standing orders? Pacifista control is a mess, and for all the ways Egghead has been a breath of fresh air post-Wano, it's complicated contrivances like this that drag it down in the end-of-arc retrospective.

The giants' meetup with Franky's group has some interesting points. First: they don't recognise Franky because his bounty picutre was changed to the Sunny's figurehead. But that's still weird. It can't have been done just to set up this half-second misunderstanding. Franky's ready to square up, making the at this point safe assumption they've come as enemies, which is great from him. We learn that Usopp's been talking about his time with the giants to the crew since Franky joined. You have to assume that kind of offscreen bonding is happening, but it's always nice getting the little confirmations of it.

Glad to see one of the weaponised sea beasts survived. And Bluegrass and Doll manage to look very cool riding it back to Egghead. I wonder if Doll's connection to Saul is setting up a bigger arc or moment for her, or if it's just an excuse to remind casual readers of his name.

Saturn is truly terrifying in his new form. That's fantastic design. Even before Sanji points it out, you can see something is wrong with his eyes. That is one intense stare. And the fact that he doesn't speak once in the whole chapter makes him feel all the more inhuman. What is this man now, if he's still a man at all?

But where did Borsalino go after the last chapter's standoff. Has there been a little offscreen clash with Luffy and Sanji he's just retreated from? Was he forced to get out of the way as demon Saturn stampeded in? I'd rather have seen either of those things than releared what Caribou knows at the start of the chapter. It's not a hard one to explain, but it still feels like a continuity glitch, which is frustrating. It came up during the 'who fed Luffy' discussions in the past week that Luffy's position changes before and after the flashback, last seen in Franky's hands going in, then lying a decent way away from the group with no apparent action taken by him or Franky after. If there was one thing you could absolutely say in the Onigashima battle's favour, it's that it was intricately and carefully mapped. We had the layout of the whole castle and knew where everyone was inside it. No one teleported from one side to another in a single page, they got at least a little bit of offscreen time to travel before popping up somewhere new. The attention to detail was a highlight there, which makes it all the more disappointing that this battle's staging misses beats like this.

I can't help feeling really bad for Vegapunk as he lays dying here. Not because I'm super personally invested in him, but just because it feels so wrong for the character design. He's so goofy and cartoony with the apple head and forever-lolling tongue that he feels like he should be incompatible with blood. This guy should be giving me the tutorial of an edutainment game, not having his guts blasted out. Like a child, or a housepet, the apparent innocence makes it feel even crueller to attack him. (Apparent innocence only, we all know his morality is questionable at best given the horrors he enabled for the World Government.)

Borsalino getting to finish the job is a shock, and yeah, the monitor at the end does make me think the job is finished. Rough, and unexpected. I was better on Kuma's death and Vegapunk's rescue, but it looks like I got it the wrong way around. Luffy's giant transformation is an awesome panel, with just the intensity you want for a moment like this. No notes. I also love the smaller panel of the page showing him from ground level, towering over the buildings. Would love a bigger and more detailed form of that next week please.

And then the stinger. Vegapunk seems to have set up a dead man switch with some big secrets. This is great. Perfect thing for the smartest man in the world to do, especially considering how long he'd been expecting an attempt on his life was coming. And it has the potential to be huge for the world. A turning point. Potentially the start of a war or several. I don't think we're getting the full Void Century here, of course, but it's hard to imagine it playing out without at least one major reveal. And how will the Government respond? With the Buster Call running too slow, will Imu turn the Mother Flame on Egghead, triggering an escape sequence (and maybe cutting the exposition dump short because this is One Piece). The potential for this is huge. Huge.

I'm always happy to be getting three chapters in a row, but I'm so glad this one didn't line up with a break. See you all next week when the bombs drop.

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[onestowatch]

Turbo’s “Heart Stop” Is Proving Country/Hip-Hop Is More Than a Passing Fad [Q&A]

Photos: Joseph Morrison

In a space defined by viral, meme-worthy tracks like Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” and RMR’s “RASCAL,” enters Calgary-born artist and producer Turbo. The country/hip-hop crossover artist and his latest single “Heart Stop” combines traditional rap beats with acoustic guitar and catchy lines like “you wanna party with a rock star?” The song is confident and honest, honoring the defining features of each genre without the exaggeration typically seen in other crossover tracks.  

The son of a prominent bluegrass guitarist, Turbo grew up with country music but also drew inspiration from unlikely sources. Drawn to rap and hardstyle at an early age, he cites Avicii’s “LE7ELS” as the reason why he began producing. 

After quitting music for years, he ultimately came back to it after high school and became obsessed with production, perfecting his skills. Eventually, this persistence led him to the creation of “Heart Stop,” released via 10K Projects / Homemade Projects / Internet Money Records. 

Ones to Watch got to ask the rising artist about his father’s influence, taking his friend to the hospital during the making of “Heart Stop,” and his thoughts on country/rap crossovers. 

Ones To Watch: You grew up the son of a famous bluegrass musician. How has your father's career in music influenced your own? Has he given any good advice?

Turbo: My father’s talent has always been a huge inspiration. He’s also very wise and gives good advice for the decisions I’ve been making here. Bluegrass is a very unique form of country music. It’s almost an acquired taste, once you appreciate the skills of a bluegrass musician, you can’t get enough of it. I’ve always admired my Dad’s confidence and presence when he’s on stage shredding brass and singin’. 

You started producing at a young age, but you stopped working on it for a few years until you turned 18. Why did you take such a long period off, and what was the turning point for you that made you want to commit yourself to music again?

I set aside my creativity around the age of 12 and became enveloped in trying to make friends at school and fit in with certain groups. I can’t remember a time where I felt secure/safe in school. My grades were awful. I was both bullied and the bully at times. I eventually got sick of trying to fit in and just went with the flow and by high school I made an amazing group of friends that actually supports me and trusts me, and I would die for them. 

Like I said, my grades were bad, so I didn’t get into university after high school. I didn’t even know what I wanted to do with my life, I just wanted to go to school with my friends, wherever that be. I enrolled in online courses at a learning centre to upgrade. That ended up being a disaster… At the end of the first semester, I was jumped in the school parking lot by group of idiots. I dropped out because I refused to go back to the school itself, and the school never transferred my grades online.... rubbish. My parents felt a lot of concern for me, so they let me hunker down and take time off school. I got a job at a liquor store. 

It wasn’t long before I picked up old hobbies, including producing music. I remember I would lay on my bed after all of this happened, listening to the new music that was coming out, becoming obsessed again, sparking a vision. I pretty much spent 100% of my free time producing music after that. Every day it slowly pieced itself together, I had no idea I’d make it this far.

Your music has both hip-hop and country influences which, before the days of "Old Town Road," was practically unheard of. Did you ever expect this kind of crossover to become mainstream, and why do you think people are finding hip-hop and country crossovers so appealing?

In the 21st century, there’s heaps of music, let alone genres. People don’t tend to listen to one genre. As a matter of fact, people will just name the genre they don’t like instead. Musicians are like this too. Music inspires music, so I think country-hip-hop was inevitable. I tried to be the first big artist, but Lil Tracy x Lil Uzi beat me there. Then Lil Nas X came shortly after. I believe that meme culture is the gateway for this genre. It’s not being taken too seriously. That’s the fun in it. Just let go and get hillbilly and be open minded. My mission, though, is to show people that this is the start of something enormous, not a temporary trend.  

How did your debut single, "Heart Stop," come together?

I made “Heart Stop” with Alec Wigdahl, Cody (CXDY), Henry (Pharaoh Vice), Edgard Herrera, Taz Taylor and myself. Right away I went in the studio with a large group of Internet Money producers and the mission was to create brand new music on the spot. Nothing came out of me. It wasn’t looking good for Turbo. 

The session came to an abrupt stop when Taz suddenly got rushed to the hospital because he wasn’t feeling well. A few hours later we found out Taz was doing okay, so we got back to work. The vibes were now really strange, aside from my nervousness. We sat back down in the studio and started from scratch again. I wanted guitar, so the famous, Alec Wigdahl, laid it down, and then Cody, Henry, and Tanner laid down the beat.

I was freestyling a bit but couldn’t come up with much, so Alec stuck around and wrote the chorus with me. I started with, “You wanna party with a rockstar?” Alec rhymed it with “I’m not afraid to make your Heart Stop,” and we just looked at each other and smiled because it was such a fit for the night that just went down. I wrote the verse myself, Edgard engineered it, and the next day Taz woke up in the hospital bumping that shit. I’ll never forget that feeling. 

You are quoted saying "the best songs come from me sitting in a room alone and just taking my time." What part of song creation do you love most? 

My favorite part is writing hooks. I know how to make something stick in your head. There’s no formula, I usually just imagine a crowd at a concert or party singing the lyrics. I like to be alone because when people are in the room, it feels as though you have to perform for them, which may not be 100% genuine. Although collaboration does go a long way and Alec was the first person I made a song with, and it went great. Most of my songs on my new project were written when I was alone. 

What is a typical day in quarantine for you?

Typical day of quarantine contains waking up around 2pm, making a cup of coffee while FaceTiming my manager Niall, playing guitar for at least an hour, then I hit the Xbox with the fellas. The past few weeks has been busy with my music video and song release. No time for toys, boy’s gotta work. I haven’t worked on too much new music since quarantine because I’m stuck at home... I’m ready to get back in the studio soon. 

Who are your Ones to Watch?

My Ones to Watch are currently Alec Wigdahl, lil spirit, Ty Fontaine, Moe Young. I know these are people beside me, but this roster is honestly unmatched. Taz Taylor has the next generation under his wing, and it’s a matter of time before we take over.

Listen to “Heart Stop” below: 

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Vows: The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part

The writer Anne Lamott recently sat in the living room of her Fairfax, Calif., house, wearing her signature dreadlocks, a loose cotton shirt and baggy jeans (skinny jeans are definitely not her style). At 65, she was about to get married for the first time.

When asked why she stayed single so long, she replied that she was shy and introverted and hated leaving the house, particularly for parties.

“If I go to a party, I become a Roz Chast character with my arms hanging at my sides and I feel like I’m developing a tic,” said Ms. Lamott, who has published 18 memoirs and novels, many about being a recovering alcoholic, single mother, incessant worrier and late-in-life churchgoer.

Yet in recent years, she found herself admitting to friends and fans (otherwise known as “Annieholics”) that a good marriage was the one thing she wanted but had not achieved. So she joined OurTime, a matchmaking site for people over 50, and forced herself to go on dates and make small talk. “Then, I saw this really handsome, soulful guy on OurTime and he was like me,” she said. “He was hard-core left wing, an intellectual, spiritual seeker.”

His name was Neal Allen, and she contacted him in August 2016. He promptly wrote back: “You rejected me already!”

He reminded her that they had exchanged messages on the site a few months earlier, but she had stopped communicating with him after learning he was allergic to cats (she sleeps with hers, which could also explain why she hadn’t found a partner sooner). Mr. Allen, 63, had left his job as a vice president for marketing at the McKesson Corporation in San Francisco to become a writer. He lived alone in a house in the woods in Lagunitas, Calif., and he had a wide range of interests that included Plato, bluegrass music, the New Testament and Vipassana meditation. He sounded much cooler than she remembered. “I said, ‘Take me back! Take me back!’” she said.

On Aug. 30, 2016, they met for coffee at the Two Bird Cafe in San Geronimo, halfway between their homes. “My first impression was that he was so handsome and I loved his nose,” she said.” We were just jamming. Life, God, books, movies. Life, God, books, movies.”

Mr. Allen, who was divorced twice and has four children, loved her “casual prettiness, “trippy dreads,” “kissable lips” and willingness to tell him everything, absolutely everything, about herself. “That kind of openness, it was like being sucked into a spider web,” he said.

The coffee date was followed, she said, by a “period of not only being in love but being sickeningly in love, it being like a mental illness.”

They spent every day together. They had long, heart-to-heart talks on her secondhand couch about things like how to approach death more mindfully or mistakes they’d made in the past as parents and as lovers. They took daily walks, either on the many trails that cover Mount Tamalpais, or up and down the aisles of Good Earth, a health food emporium in Fairfax, where they invariably bought too much chocolate. He said the only downside of falling in love with Ms. Lamott was that he gained 17 pounds in the first six months.

In some ways, they are opposites. She is afraid of almost everything, whereas he’s afraid of almost nothing. “It never occurs to me that anything will go wrong,” he said. Whenever she got overly anxious about a deadline, or climate change, or whether that shaking sensation was an earthquake, Mr. Allen made a cheese omelet for her. “Neal cooks, he cleans and yet he’s still a man’s man,” said Annette Lopez-Lamott, Ms. Lamott’s sister-in-law. “He respects women and that was very important to Annie who’s very power to the people, women’s rights.”

Crucially, Mr. Neal said, they got each other’s jokes “95 to 98 percent” of the time. “I have never, ever spent time with somebody as funny, as brilliantly funny,” he said. “Living with Annie is like being in a comedy sketch.”

Seven months after their first date, they bought a dilapidated house on a narrow, hidden lane in Fairfax. Now renovated, the house is airy and uncluttered inside, like a sentence with all the extra words removed. Ms. Lamott has her first new couch (all the others have been hand-me-downs) where she and Mr. Allen spend their evenings watching the news on television, dissecting the news, eating dinner and bingeing on dark Scandinavian movies, which they both love. “The level of brown bear-like comfort we find in each other is just amazing,” she said.

There’s also a renovated barn behind the house where her son, Sam Lamott, 29, and grandson, Jax Lamott, 9, live part time. When asked if everyone gets along, Ms. Lamott said, “It’s kind of like a wedding where there are all these disparate elements and you just hope there’s enough love and compromise that everything will work out fine, and most of the time it does.”

On Aug. 30, 2018, exactly two years after their first date, Mr. Allen pressed the pause button while they watching the United States Open and proposed.

They were married April 13 at Deer Park Villa, an events space near their house, in a redwood grove with Christmas lights swooping between the trees. The 150 guests were asked to “dress happily” and the Grateful Dead song, “Ripple,” played through speakers as the wedding party, ranging in ages from 9 to 80-plus, entered the grove in no particular order and at no particular pace. There was the sense that anybody could have joined them if they wanted to.

The tall bridegroom towered over everyone, looking somewhat like a basketball player in a black suit, while the bride wore a calf-length white dress she bought on eBay, Mary Jane shoes and a furry white cardigan.

The ceremony reflected the couple’s idiosyncratic patchwork of spiritual and political interests. The officiant, the Rev. William Rankin, an Episcopal minister and a founder of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, read a passage from the benediction at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, pushing for racial equality, global peace and turning tractors into tanks. Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist meditation teacher, presented the couple with his version of a “ring,” a Tibetan singing bowl and a wooden mallet. He suggested they tap the bowl and listen to its ring whenever they had a “How did I get into this feeling?” mood as husband and wife.

The Rev. Tom Weston, a Jesuit priest, also stood with the couple. He didn’t speak much, but he did exude a kind of fatherly benevolence, as he does in some of the bride’s memoirs.

Sam Lamott, the man of honor, read an E.E. Cummings poem; and Marina Allen, a daughter of the groom, sang “Let Me,” a sweet, quirky love song she wrote for the couple.

The bride and bridegroom each took out a piece of paper, and their reading glasses, and recited the vows they had written. Hers were neither writerly nor weighty. She just made a few simple observations like, “Your love has given me permission to be softer, wilder and more real.” His were also spare, mere brush strokes of promises and intentions. “I’d very much like to continue our exploration of love indefinitely,” he said politely, as if he were asking her to dance. The couple have a light touch with everything, especially each other. Out in public, friends said, she’ll just barely hold on to his belt loop, or his sleeve.

They left the grove to the Van Morrison song, “Into the Mystic.” Meg Lundstrom, a longtime friend of the bridegroom, said afterward, “I’ve been telling my friends that the smartest person I know is marrying the kindest person I know but I don’t know which is which.”

Everyone gathered inside the “villa,” a rustic house next to the grove, for dinner at long tables that were decorated with pink paper runners and colorful leis. It looked like a child’s birthday party.

Laura Neely catered the dinner, along with her staff of mostly middle-age women who called themselves “the old gangster catering crew.” Ms. Neely said she particularly admired Ms. Lamott for not leaping into marriage, until now. “Getting married now is the best thing ever because that’s for sure going to be your toe-tag husband,” she said.

Now that Ms. Lamott has found her lifelong partner, does she have any advice for those who might still be looking? “If you’re paying attention and making your own life as beautiful and rich and fun as it can be, you might just attract someone who’s doing the same thing,” she said. “You can give up on tracking someone down with your butterfly net.”

A natural cheerleader, especially for underdogs, she also posted this on her Facebook page: “Never give up, no matter how things look or how long they take. Don’t quit before the miracle.”

[bottlepiecemuses]

One Big Fuck Up!

So nope no adventures in Elbaf for our admirals and Saturd.

[blackpjensen]

Top Technology Trends

Blueprints, mechanical time clocks, two-way radios and messy stacks of paper reports — these are just some of the exhibits one may find in the Green Industry History Museum if we constructed one. While it’s fun to reflect in jest, the technological landscape has changed rapidly over the past couple decades, and the alarming rate of technologies being swapped for newer counterparts seems to increase as time presses on. To run a successful company in the lawn and landscape industry requires being able to change over and over again. Legislation, technological advances, consumer behaviors and culture itself are shifting, progressing and refining every day. We must not only be OK with change, we must be excited about it. Our businesses depend on it. These shifts and developments are often met with new technological solutions to meet the demands. What worked just a year or two ago may be becoming obsolete, and it’s important to keep tabs on what leaders in our industry are finding to be the top technology trends to follow.

New trends

While individual technological advances may lead to an exhaustive list, industry experts and savvy company owners are seeing these main trends being adopted and used widely.

1. Virtual and interactive landscape design software.

The majority of landscape companies utilize some sort of drafting program to create scale landscape plans via a computer. While the blueprints of just 10 to 15 years ago have been traded in for newer technology producing full-color renderings and 3-D sketches, that common method is now becoming a passing trend.

Noah Nehlich, founder of Structure Studios, a professional pool and landscape design software solution, is excited about not what just the past two years have brought to the design world, he’s also enthusiastically embracing the very near future. His clients are not only using 3-D video for presentations, they’re moving to virtual reality (VR).

“Not only can the designer sell more with VR, customers are demanding it.” With VR sets becoming mainstream for recreational purposes, pioneers in the landscape industry are getting their prospects to strap on a headset and take a peek at their new outdoor space.

But Nehlich says an even more exciting future is not as far away as we may think. Virtual reality has led to rapid development to augmented reality (AR). “In the next 9-12 months, expect to see AR.” Using augmented reality takes elements from the real world and puts them directly into a phone or tablet. Looking through a device, a prospect will be able to turn and move about outdoors, virtually seeing a design in their own space as it existed in real life. “Today they are just novelty items, but by end of next year (2018) they will be incredibly useful.”

2. Automated marketing and sales software.

“I feel that we are ahead of our time compared to most of our competitors,” states Claude Kershner IV, president of Reef Tropical Pool & Landscape in Key Largo, Florida. The company offers not only a cutting-edge portfolio of high-end design projects but uses the latest technology to automate much of their sales and marketing processes.

“Customers want information now. They don’t want to wait or meet, they want descriptions, pictures, graphics, and have user-friendly proposals to sign and send back.” The increasing speed of buyer behaviors has led Reef Tropical to utilize an inbound marketing approach that uses their website to deliver a robust array of useful content to prospects and integrates with their CRM to continue to nurture lukewarm leads into closed deals. Kershner says that it allows his sales team to “step back and have opportunities to come to when the prospect is ready.”

Smart marketing and sales automation tools such as these help green industry companies prioritize their efforts and close a greater percentage of jobs.

3. Interconnected landscape business software.

Green industry companies who remain competitive in their markets, maximize the most profit, and minimize the most internal headaches are relying on software to help them run the many processes of their business from sales to operations to billing to financial reporting.

Crew leaders and technicians who use devices to video call their teams and access vital information in their companies’ databases are the present reality. They’re part of the present reality. Buddy DeLong, vice president of Bluegrass Landscaping & Maintenance in Bridgeton, Missouri, is continually finding new ways for technology to improve his business.

From mobile technology that instantly imports data into a united landscape business software program, DeLong keeps tabs on what is valuable to his business. “At the end of the year, you’re able to see how many hours were spent on each job, which ones weren’t estimated high enough, and which ones made us money.”

“We used to never know how much we used in materials and now finally we have exact figures on how much we used. Thanks to technology we saved a ton of money because we audit estimates and red flag certain quantity issues. Those kinds of errors mean a lot of time and money. The bigger you get, the more things you need to keep track of this stuff. Everyone sees the data coming out off the software.”

Using technology such as an integrated business software solution allows company owners like DeLong to make educated decisions versus relying on gut instincts.

Researching and adopting new technology

In the admirable pursuit of improving your company, it’s important not to hang your profit-generating hats on any one piece of technology. “We find people are buying software in hopes it will solve their process problems. It won’t fix it, they need to fix their processes first,” warns Ken Thomas from Envisor Consulting. Over the past 30 years in the green industry, Thomas has helped grow successful landscaping companies.

Thomas always puts process improvement before technology adoption, but he suggests green industry companies need to keep advancing. “In 10 years, we are going to be in a different world. Our industry needs to evolve because it will limit the size of their business if they don’t adopt technology.”

Our industry as a whole is categorized by outsiders as late adopters to many technological trends. However, times are changing. Nanette Seven, vice president of Include Software, which offers a landscape business software solution, is hopeful because of what she’s seen in the past couple years.

“With the millennials entering the workforce, the next generation is very open to new technology,” she says, adding that technology is even being easily adopted by Spanish-speaking H-2B workers in the industry at a surprising rate.

With so many new technological options, it’s important to research solutions extensively as you incorporate tools into your improved processes. “Do your homework and research” Seven adds. “Go online and research software and other technology.

Talk to industry peers, people you respect. Ask them what challenges they faced, and what has worked for them.”

When it comes to moving your company onward and upward, facing forward to the future is the key. Use your past experiences, but utilize new technology to move you past the age of blueprints and two-way radios. It takes some guts, but with the right resources, you can make more money, provide better services and stand out among your competitors. As Seven says, “You have some risk involved in adding technology to your company, but you have to be a forward thinker and take a chance to propel your business.”

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One Piece Chapter 1117 - Initial Thoughts

The breaks always feel long but they always end

because One Piece is back! Which means we have to see more of Vegapunk's transmission and the Straw Hats' escape

Let's not linger on it, let's see what we have!

Spoilers for the Chapter, Support the Official Release too!

Yamato is still yet to start his voyage, this time stopping by Nekomamushi and Hyou's neck of the woods

Seems Neko is living among the Yakuza, which to be fair does fit his style

The reveal last chapter that the Roger pirates knew about the world sinking causes some to wonder if the One Piece is underwater

Or at the least, great treasure hidden at the bottom of the sea

Seems the Polar Tang wasn't the only known ship able to dive underwater, but they're expensive

Also made myself sad because we lost the Polar Tang...and the Victoria Punk

EDIT: I didn't even see it the first time but the Krieg Pirates are there, you see Pearl even more decked out, Krieg has a mane and GIN! HE'S ALIVE!

There are however 2 other ships that know how to dive, an alliance of Romance Chasers

Montblanc Cricket and the Saruyama Alliance react to the news, and consider doing some more diving to investigate a new romance

Cricket also notes how it was before Noland's time, so it would be uncharted territory, just regulate yourself so you don't get the bends again

In the G-5, the SWORD agents lick their wounds

Hibari is defrosted, and Koby is struggling to process everything

Kujaku notes how a captain is recovering, but I'm not sure who that is, Koby's the only known SWORD captain and he's in the panel, plus they use male pronouns so it can't be Tashigi

Koby looks to Grus about the shitstorm about to go down, which Grus is also concerned about, Kujaku however relishes a chance to step up

X DRAKE'S ALIVE

He's out of Wano and in a recovery bed, what about Hawkins? Did he make it?

Tashigi's also making a call to Smoker

Missed ya Smokey, driving all badass across water with your motorbike, no need to guess who you learned that from

Vegapunk continues his message, noting that anything else would be speculation so he won't delve deeper - much to audience chagrin

Back to the Labophase and the barrier has been lifted by Stussy

Nami and Chopper notice that the clouds have also stopped moving, but Usopp assures that they can make it to the sea

Lilith however notes the ships they'd be landing on, some of them friendlies as well

Brook charges up the Coup de Burst so it's all waiting on Jinbe and Zoro

Speaking of whom, they are nearly there, but they're on the tail of something bigger: V. Nusjuro

Nami thinks Zoro and Jinbe ended up getting distracted and chasing a monster, but I would assume Zoro (since Nami wouldn't take that tone with Jinbe as often I don't think) notes that they're going the same direction

Whoever it is, they note the Gorosei's 'special presence'

Usopp, Chopper and Lilith go into an eye pop as the Gorosei prepares to bisect the Sunny

Jinbe and Zoro are doing the Fastball Special!

V. Nusjuro blocks Zoro's Nitoryu, though the clash isn't a simple swat away

Zoro confirms what we've theorized with V. Nusjuro having the final and most powerful Kitetsu blade, Shodai Kitetsu

The impact sends both swordsmen being knocked back, and the twitter fans go wild

Jinbe catches Zoro, as Zoro tells Nami to launch the ship anyway, intending to latch on before it flies away

With Sanji's group, he, Bonney, Atlas and Franky are still waiting for Luffy, but they're also under heavy fire

Comms are down, but Luffy's voice is unmistakable

Dorry and Brogy also call on Oimo and Kashii to get the ship ready, sending the legendary Giant Warrior Pirates into action

Out they come taking on a warship each by themselves, the one in the lower middle looks like he's about to eat a dude

Bluegrass isn't some easy shmoe though, using a commandeered Weaponized Sea Beast to attack and encouraging the marines to step up

The laser blast from the sea beast blows a hole in the longboat, and then Kashii is battered by Doll's Rock n' Roll Blaster (which seems to be a Gatling-esque series of punches)

The marines much like they do with Hina fawn over Doll when she gets violent, wonder if she trained under Garp with such fisticuffs?

The felling of Kashii has motivated the marines to not back down from the giants either

Luffy meanwhile is curious where Warcury went, since he's no longer on their tail, but the giant captains are too relieved to wonder about that

Alas, all but V. Nusjuro surround the Iron Giant, realising that it's the same one that attacked Marejois

Of course this is where Vegapunk is about to deliver a closing juicy statement

'To those who carry the letter 'D.' in your name' !!!???

Dragon with the classic ellipsis, Sabo thinks of his brothers, Koby thinks of Luffy and Garp, Blackbeard interest piqued, and Bepo calls out to his captain - so Law is very much alive

'Among you there is mo-' and the giant is knocked down, along with the transmission

And a collective wail among the audiences of the world in and out of the manga is heard

Morgans, Vivi and Wapol react to the cut off, as the Gorosei and York breathe a sigh of relief that the transmission is over.

Well god damn

We expected the blueball and yet it still sucked to be blue balled XD Unless we aren't that is. Pride comes before the fall maybe?

I would say it's 70/30 on the side of the Gorosei succeeding, we don't need to know any more at this stage right now - but I do blame the 10 minute delay for picture. But what could 'mo-' - the chapter's title - mean? What more was it. Among you there is mo-what? Someone with the D. has something, and it's important.

But it does look like we're reaching the final escape from Egghead. I hope Sentomaru made it out, X Drake can survive and leave Wano after all. There are still some fights going on among the Giants and the Marines, plus we don't know how the CP0 lot will resolve itself, but we tend to take for granted just how insanely jam-packed Egghead has been, and Elbaf is next!

Glad Zoro got a little bit more cred back for matching V. Nusjuro, plus I liked it was a fastball special it's just fun when groups fight in sync with each other. Also kinda glad we put some respect on Bluegrass and Doll, shows there are levels to vice admirals outside of just Garp.

All the cameos were good too, would've liked to have seen Tashigi and Bogard again but happy to see Smoker and Cricket was a nice surprise.

Unless Vegapunk has one last trick up his sleeve, it's time to get off this island.

[yesilovehorses-blog1]

UK Freshman Receives Legacy Equine Foundation Scholarship

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UK Freshman Receives Legacy Equine Foundation Scholarship

Dion Compton hopes to become a horse farm manager or work in a similar role where he can impact a farm’s business side.

Photo: University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Dion Compton, a University of Kentucky (UK) freshman and Lexington, Kentucky, native majoring in equine science and management and minoring in business, recently received an inaugural scholarship through the Legacy Equine Foundation.

The Legacy Equine Foundation is a Lexington-based nonprofit organization that encompasses the Legacy Equine Academy and the Legacy Ball. The academy identifies promising African-American youth and other students of color in an effort to educate them about horse industry opportunities. Proceeds from the Legacy Ball help fund scholarships and community-based alliances that foster equine industry diversity, inclusion, and growth.

Compton was formally awarded the scholarship by representatives of the Legacy Equine Foundation at a ceremony hosted by UK’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. The value of the scholarship is $1,000 per year, and is renewable for each of his four years in school.

"Dion epitomizes the Legacy Equine Foundation program as a true ‘Legacy Leader,’” said Ronald W. Mack, executive director of the foundation. “I've admired his passion for equine studies, as well as his determination to make that passion into his life's work. He also represents his family, his school, and his community with the excellent qualities we look for in our next generation of equine professionals. We are so proud and excited to present Dion Compton with our inaugural Legacy Equine Foundation Scholarship.”

Compton attended Tates Creek High School and Locust Trace AgriScience Center, where he was vice president of their Future Farmers of America chapter from 2016-17. He also received the Junior Achievement “business competition” award in 2017, served on the Principal’s Advisory Council at Tates Creek and Locust Trace; and received the William C. Parker Scholarship in 2017.

On being selected for the inaugural scholarship, Compton said, “It’s definitely an honor. It makes me feel special, but at the same time gives me motivation to go down the road in life and ultimately help other kids get to the same spot.”

Compton said he originally wanted to be a farrier and planned to attend farrier school. At Locust Trace, he learned about the Legacy Equine Foundation and met Mack, who encouraged him to pursue an equine degree at UK and make his mark on the equine industry when he graduates.

Compton is excited about that prospect and would ultimately like to become a horse farm manager or work in a similar role where he can impact a farm’s business side.

In the meantime, he now teams up with Mack to speak in classes to other youth interested in becoming part of the equine industry.

“We are thrilled for UK Ag Equine Programs to be involved in the first Legacy Equine Scholarship with a great new freshman student,” said Nancy Cox, PhD, dean of UK’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. “Thanks to the Legacy Equine Foundation for the confidence they are placing in our program, and thanks to Dion for signing on for a great education.”

Created in 2016 by Mack, the Legacy Equine Foundation partners with Fayette County Public Schools to sponsor the Legacy Equine Academy.

“Students with an interest in equine-related studies are intentionally recruited and tagged as legacy leaders starting in middle school,” Mack said. “With this scholarship ceremony, we are accomplishing our goal of bridging the historical contributions of African-American trailblazers in horse racing history to the modern traditions and future opportunities in the equine industry."

The Legacy Ball was held for the first time in 2017 and will be an annual event. Mack said the Legacy Ball benefits Lexington and the surrounding community through an equine scholarship outreach program targeting African-American rising high school seniors interested in pursuing the equine industry as a career. The program was developed to promote and improve self-esteem by empowering local youth with knowledge of their heritage, which is key in developing leadership in the community.

“Dion is a wonderful representative of what we hope for in our students in the Ag Equine Programs; his enthusiasm and his passion will take him far, both at UK and as a part of the equine industry,” said Mick Peterson, PhD, director of UK Ag Equine Programs. “He is a perfect fit for the first year of the Legacy Equine Scholarship, which reflects the rich history of horse racing.”

Holly Wiemers, MA, APR, is communications director for UK Ag Equine Programs.

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Vintage Tunes About Shipwrecks

Even though considerably has been prepared, recorded, and exploited about the sinking of the Titanic over a hundred years ago, other shipwrecks have gotten small interest. A handful of have obtained some notoriety by way of films, even though all but 1 of those flicks has essentially disappeared. One particular famous sea disaster owes its renown not to a motion picture, but a tune. titans 09 season The Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on November tenth exactly forty several years back, was the subject matter of a smash hit for Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot. The song narrates fairly exactly what happened to the freighter on the working day it capsized in Lake Exceptional. It was transporting a large load of iron ore from Excellent, Wisconsin when it was caught in hurricane power winds. All 20 one of the gentlemen aboard perished when it capsized, only two hours from its spot. titans jaguars Like the Edmund Fitzgerald, the tale of other ships have been instructed in tracks. The Titanic has been, of training course, the most typically employed, most just lately by famous songwriter Bob Dylan on his album The Tempest. There is also an exceptional bluegrass tune about the Titanic, "The Excellent Ship" by an Ohio team referred to as the Dry Branch Fire Squad. Listed here are five other music that refer to shipwrecks, none of which at any time came shut to the chart achievement of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." "The Thresher" by Phil Ochs This U.S. Navy submarine, which was wrecked 220 miles east of Boston on April 10 of 1963, resulted in the decline of all 129 of the individuals aboard. The people singer wrote about the world's worst submarine disaster for a tune on his album All the News That's In shape to Sing. "Ruben James" by the Kingston Trio In 1941 a German U-Boat torpedoed this Navy destroyer, ensuing in the deaths of a hundred life even before the United States had entered Globe War II. titans east part 1 The folk trio managed to switch the occasion into a well-known ballad with a catchy chorus. "The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns" by Phil Ochs Formally known as the Yew, this ship nicknamed following a spider was transferred to the French Navy in 1944. Although it did not sink till two years right after his demise, Ochs' ballad from his Rehearsal for Retirement album referred to the ship's leaving the United States to in no way return. "Andrea Gail" by the Cobblestones and "Fishermen's Track" by Jari Makala Both of these tunes concern the vessel made well-known by The Best Storm, the Academy Award movie starring George Clooney. The initial is a rock music, while the other mixes touches of Irish and Scottish tunes. "Lord Grenville" by Al Stewart The ship in this opening tune from The Year of the Cat was named the Revenge, on which the title Vice Admiral was commander. He steered the ship in course of Spanish treasure in 1591, only to turn out to be separated from the rest of the fleet. An all-evening battle with fifteen Spanish ships discouraged his males to the level in which his crew surrendered. Despite the fact that Grenville experienced been mortally wounded, the 49 yr outdated explorer was taken prisoner and died aboard an enemy ship.

[sensitivefern]

At almost the same time that Pruitt-Igoe went down, the Oriental Gardens project went up in New Haven, the mosel city of urban renewal in America. The architect was one of America’s most prestigious compound architects, Paul Rudolph, dean of the Yale School of Architecture... The Oriental Gardens were made of clusters of prefabricated modules. You would never end up with more disadvantaged people than you bargained for. You could keep adding modules and clustering the poor yobboes up until they reached Bridgeport. The problem was that the modules didn’t fit together too well. In through the cracks came the cold and the rain... By September of 1980 there were only seventeen tenants left. Early in 1081, HUD itself set about demolishing it.

Other American monuments to 1920s Middle European worker housing began falling down of their own accord. These were huge sports arenas and convention centers, such as the Hartford Civic coliseum, which had flat roofs. The snow was too much for them – but they collapsed piously, paying homage on the way down to the dictum that pitched roofs were bourgeois.

[From Bauhaus to Our House]

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Puritanism threw away its best chance in England, because all its parties – even the democrats – assumed as an axiom that no one who was not a Puritan was to share in the Government. With this idea they had gone into the war; with this idea they had tried to settle the nation in the first hour of victory; and with this idea Cromwell ruled.

[England Under the Stuarts]

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Sometimes a lost man will be so beside himself that he will not have sense enough to trace back his own tracks in the snow. [...] Jan. 12 [1855]. PM – To Flint’s Pond via Minott’s meadow. Perhaps what most moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer. How we leap by the side of the open brooks! What beauty in the running brooks!... The cold is merely superficial; it is summer still at the core, far, far within. [...] What is that mint whose seed-vessels rubbed are so spicy to smell – minty – at the further end of the pond by the Gourgas wood-lot? [Lycopus.]

[Thoreau, Journal]

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As for the Indians, evidence suggests that they tended to view Europeans with disdain as soon as they got to know them... Europeans, Indians told other Indians, were physically weak,... atrociously ugly, and just plain smelly. (The British and French, many of whom had not taken a bath in their entire lives, were amazed by the Indian interest in personal cleanliness.) A Jesuit reported that the ‘savages’ were disgusted by handkerchiefs: ‘They say, we place what is unclean in a fine white piece of linen, and put it away in our pockets as something very precious, while they throw it upon the ground’.

[1491]

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The Morton Arboretum... identifies 4 basic types of common hawthorns:

The downy hawthorns (Crataegus mollis, etc.)

The cockspur hawthorns (Crataegus crusgalli, etc.)

The thicket hawthorns (Crataegus coccinea, etc.)

The doffed hawthorns (Crataegus punctata, etc.)

‘Popular ornamental hawthorns include the Washington-thorn (C. phaenopyrum), the mayhaw (C. aestivalis), and 2 alien hawthorns: single-seed hawthorn (C. monogyna) and English hawthorn (C. laevigata). Hawthorns somewhat resemble crab apples (Pyrus) in general form, but thorns of crab apples, unlike those of hawthorns, often bear buds or leaves, and they occur on older wood rather than on twigs, as in hawthorns. The medlar (Mespilus germanica) is a closely related Asian shrub’.

[The Book of Field and Roadside]

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❚David Frum The Wall Street Journal editorial page fires an editor for insufficient suck-uppery to Trump

Rolling Stone David Bowie has six #GRAMMYs, winning five of them tonight

Al Jarreau, Grammy-winning jazz singer, dead at 76

The U.S. Department of Education Misspells W.E.B. Du Bois, Apologizes, Misspells Apology

Bruno Mars tries his best to follow Bey Grammys 2017 live updates: Beyoncé's performance brings crowd to their feet while she sits in a chair...

During her tribute to the late singer George Michael, pop superstar Adele stopped her performance and started again. The singer, who was in the middle of performing Michael's 1996 song "Fastlove," paused and, with a look of sorrow on her face, cussed and said, "I'm sorry for swearing and I'm sorry for starting again. Can we please start again?"

Pope Francis speaks out against 'insults'

Yale University announced on Saturday that it would finally relent to pressure to rename Calhoun College—named for former vice president and white supremacist John C. Calhoun—to something a little more befitting of the year, if not the times themselves. The school’s trustees settled on Grace Murray Hopper, a computer scientist and Navy rear admiral who earned both her master’s degree and doctorate from the university.

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) suggested Sunday that he thought President Trump was suffering from poor mental health and claimed some of his Republican colleagues felt the same way. "We all have this suspicion that he... that he lies a lot, that he says things that aren't true," Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" star-turned politician, said, referring to Trump's debunked voter fraud claims... "That is not the norm for a President of the United States, or actually for a human being," he said. While several politicians have questioned Trump's "fitness" for the presidency, no one in the Senate or House has explicitly expressed concerns about his mental health. Mental health professionals, on the other hand, have all but confirmed they think Trump is ill.

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