 the help of the residents of the Barbary Lane including the gay but fretful Michael, the slightly lost Mona, the carnally hungry Brian, and the extremely well adjusted but mysterious Anna Madrigal. These characters, their lovers, and friends make for a most realistic, funny, and charming portrait of gay and straight life in the seventies in San Francisco. The overall plot involving a nice guy with serious enigmatic phobias is the least reason for enjoying these books. The real reason to enjoy these books is to see the various character's lives intersect in the most unexpected ways and for them to treat each othernice people of any sort deserve. (which excludes the dastardly Beachamp Day) The narration by Cynthia Nixon is the best so far. (I've heard four of these books now.) Nixon's tender voice is an excellent match for the gentle souls of this series. She reads with the perfect blend of narration and acting skills. Rachel Maddow's (oh and that's... "sweet but all-too-short") preface hits just the right note for this ground-breaking series that, rightly, treats being gay as a perfectly normal preference given to some people at birth. If you are considering this, be sure to buy the first book "Tales of the City" first. The whole thing makes far more sense when experienced in order. Not recommended for the close-minded or prudish with lots of frank sexual discussion.
More Tales of the City has the same great narrator as the first book of the series. It's light, funny, colorful and heartwarming-- a good antidote to and respite from the serious realities of life. Since I am conservative culturally and politically, I was amazed at finding them entertaining, rather than offensive.
I cannot stand her squeaky voice. She is terrible at characters, too. I won't be finishing this one.
Cynthia Nixon is dreadful at narration.
I did enjoy the story, but there were two major issues with this recording. The first is technical, the playback skipped over portions of the text. I haven’t had this issue with other audiobook series. I double checked by rewinding, stopping playback and listening again but the skipping happened again. The skipping problem also happened with the previous “Tales” audiobook. Is it just with this series? The second is Ms. Nixon’s inability to create actual characters. I found myself waiting for names to be mentioned in order to determine who was speaking. It also appeared that Ms. Nixon was feeling fatigued during parts of her narration with misreadings and mispronunciations like “lumbar picture” instead of “lumbar puncture.” Is it possible to get a refund?
I felt so absorbed by Cynthia’s voice. Good story and plots. I loved it. I really enjoy listening Cynthia’s voice.
Excellent story! Great to go back to Barbary lane BUT………………… What’s with Cynthia Nixon’s pronunciation???? Halcyon was mangled every time! Like she was sounding out a word at the age of four! It was so jarring and every time I knew the name was coming up I’d find myself cringing! Piña colada was another one! Quite distracting. However excellent depiction of the other characters. Especially Mother Mucca. 9/10.
Well, I really got into this 2nd book in the series, felt really in touch with the characters & love the devious goings on. Narration was perfect for this story.
Love these books. Every one is a compelling treat.


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OXFORD United'ame United's ASM Stadium was hit by heavy overnight rain and following a pitch inspection it was deemed the game should be called off.
The U's have beaten Reading City and Colchester United to reach this stage.
The winner of this match will host either Preston North End or Bristol City, who meet next Monday, in the next round.
Elsewhere, there are two matches involvingtonight.
Fresh from their win at leaders Corby Town on Saturday, Thame United will be looking to pull off another upset when they visit third-placed Halesowen Town.
Victory for Mark West’s men would take them to the brink of the top five.
North Leigh also take on another side in the play-off positions, as they welcome Welwyn Garden City to Eynsham Park.
A win would put the Millers into the top ten.


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Elizabeth seems to be an ideal candidate for personal coaching. Coaching initiatives need to be informed by the person’s CPP profile as well as their current work-related challenges. Coaching highlights the current strengths and weaknesses of a person’s problem solving approach. The objective is to make the person more aware of their thinking processes and problem solving styles.
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Kids weren't being studied. Now that kids are being studied, they can get it and they can spread it. There is some ongoing discussion about maybe kids don't spread at the same rate based on some preliminary studies, but even that may be more a function that kids weren't exposed at the same rates as older people, not any physiological differences.
It's not nearly rare enough for kids to get cases based on just this first week of school openings and what's already being reported.
Individual workers could band together and work it out as a babysitting collective.
Or we can do like so many people do and just wish harder that some government will solve all our problems because life is hard and it's never an individual's responsibility to sort out their own problems. People who are great at contingency plans seldom work those non-medical, disposable front line jobs for long ... .
That's an incoherent false analogy, dismalist. It just is. You see, don't you, Buffett's point regarding the horrifying inequities in American public k12 ed funding, something which is going to only get terrifyingly worse as we go through the pandemic, and the process of trying to get schools back open as soon as is reasonable, but to do so safely, and in a way that ensures ed standards are maintained.
The worry I have is the privileged people don't stay home and contribute to the spread making more people sick, which means more die.
However, people who can do the professional jobs I've held will not be spending much time in the jobs that a middleschooler of adequate physical size and ability can learn to do. They will move up to management or they will get another job elsewhere to move up a different career ladder.
I say that as someone who started in below modest circumstances and know first heffectively.
By pure chance I found a statement by Ed Glaeser that the other Warren, Elizabeth, [propounds an] Accountable Capitalism Act [that] expects all large firms to obtain a “new federal charter” obligating them to pay heed to the interests of “corporate stakeholders”—from employees to surrounding communities.
Whilst I do believe that some of her regular nemeses around here have mistreated Polly over the years, sometimes, and sadly increasingly so in recent months, she just says dumb stuff. Stuff that owes more or less everything to the Gospel according to Ayn Rand. In a parallel universe.
2) The only viable solution is not possible.
Trucking companies. Railways, bus services, public transit agencies. We are facing a shortage of aircraft mechanics in our area and the airlines are ramping up training.
My BIL is a mining equipment mechanic. He and my sister recently moved several provinces over. He has a new job doing mechanical work for the forestry and oil industries.
But his old job still flies him back periodically to work on the mining equipment.
Skilled big truck mechanics do have many more specific skills than most of these displaced workers we are talking about here, and yes, there are places that would hire em. But age discrimination is still there, and, of course, all the problems attendant with moving to the location where jobs may be found remain, and moving is actually harder in one's mid-50s, by a lot, than it would be for someone even in their 30s.
I taught in a rural super-dinky. This rural area that I was in was devastated by the closure of the primary economic driver (manufacturing) of their small community.
Coming back to the original topic, my urban area is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases in the schools (k-12 and higher-ed). Not big, yet, but significantly trending upwards. If we don't contain it, we are screwed. Bringing back the topic of those that are socioeconomically dis-advantaged, the USA in their response to COVID-19 is uniquely positioned to fail. We simply do not have the social safety net and social programs in place to encourage people to socially distance. And our culture ridicules the unemployed. Parents from lower socioeconomic rungs are sending their kids to physical school because they have no choice, if they want to go to work. It's no wonder that we are failing.
Our local public schools start back tomorrow, with two days (M and W, I think) in-school, three days at home per week.
I once subbed in this system. I have mixed feelings about the prognosis. Some families will be good, careful, and compliant. Others, not so much.
Iy're back to fully online....I suspect sooner rather than later, although they might make it work.
However, a college's individual faculty, staff, and admin who are privileged with a good job, can at least recognize their challenges and make their day-to-day interactions with them one of dignity. That begins with not advising people to move and get a job and to wipe the smug air of superiority off of our faces and not make our degrees and academic titles the differentiator between us and "the other."
You're conflating two completely different things - treating people without academic degrees or title with smug superiority and as the "other," and recognizing on the other hand that sometimes leaving is the only viable option, which is semetimes true also for academics. I've known enough fools with PhDs, or toxic, nasty, dysfunctional or dishonest people with them, or other higher degrees, to not assume a PhD says anything much about a person outside of a very narrow professional context, and I am or have been close to people who don't have a PhD or indeed, a higher degree. But I also have little sympathy with people who are doing badly in a place that is doing badly (or worse, a dying town) but choose to make no attempt to leave. This is partly due to my own experience - I've lived in three different parts of my own (developing) country, which has convinced me that if a region is persistently doing badly, then all the can-do risk-takers will either succeed locally or leave, whereas if a place is doing comparatively well it will attract can-do risk-takers, while people who won't leave narrow comfort zones will stay put in either case - which in turn creates different local cultures which perpetuate economic differences.
Of courseharder it is to move - indeed, the harder it is to do pretty much anything, but the lower on the scale also means the less you have to lose by leaving.
There is no solution that saves those lives while letting the rest of us have good lives in a modern American sense.
But, sure, the problem is I'm dumb for knowing too much about reality instead of reality being very dire at this point., even though I did move in middle age before the college closed and we had no options. Super Dinky will not be open fall 2021.
Back to topic of thread.
Most of the schools in this area are online temporarily. At least one has face-to-face on alternating days, with students doing self-study with worksheets on their at home days. Reactions of parents I know range from “it’s going better than I feared” to “it’s a total disaster.” Some of the difference is clearly related to what the school’s implemented, while some is related to age and abilities of child. No one seems to have any idea when schools will return to usual schedules.
My university will open spring registration soon. We have a faculty member seriously considering asking for unpaid leave for spring semester. His spouse is hospital physician, so he’s trying to handle remote school for two young children while teaching online himself. It’s not going well. I may have to sub for him this semester if school stays remote.
This pandemic has certainly made the role of public schools as childcare providers for working parents evident. It’s also rather frightening to see just how much of safety net depends on children attending school, as child nutrition programs, medical screenings, vaccinations, and other programs were funneled through schools. It makes me wonder how teachers have time to do any teaching.
We've had a rash of quarantines at our high school, including much of the football team. Not many active cases thus far.
Of course there are options. Is there some magic bullet that could fix problems of deindustrialization? No, but there are lots of things that could improve the situation. They would just cost money.
We're now up to over 20 active cases in our county. I assume that they are largely associated with the schools.
Our active cases in small rural county is increasing and schools opened yesterday.
Our local schools have found offering in-person instruction five days a week so awkward that they are going to start going online-only on Mondays.
Wrong link? That doesn't say what you implied.
In Little Rock the teachers' union received such negative feedback that they reversed themselves on the refusal to teach in-person.
The new link you provided said they reversed after 68 of them were disciplined.
"Negative feedback" implies the public (parents) were angry at the strike action. That isn't what the link you shared says.
To me, discipline seems like a pretty definite form of "feedback." I can see how my choice of words was inexact. Sorry.
I wonder if there will/can be any repercussions of the discipline that was handed down (what ever that was). In my union, we're told that if we get a direct order that violates the contract, we should do as ordered and then grieve. "The Contract" isn't a good reason to refuse, and may lead to firing for "insubordination"
I have no idea if that is true, but it is what we've been told.


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Notes for AUD #1: Missing everything after 'Love Buzz'. Everything after 'Love Buzz' is AMT #1b. This source is currently only available on this commercial release; see Live Nirvana's Bootography Guide To Nirvana Bootlegs for more information on commercial releases of this show.
Notes for AUD #2a: 'Come As You Are' cuts in and there is a cut within 'Endless, Nameless'. A better sounding and more complete version of this source is circulating, but from a higher generation tape (see AUD #2b below). This source also features on the bootleg CD 'More Live Tits', but in lower quality; see Live Nirvana's Bootography Guide To Nirvana Bootlegs for more information on commercial releases of this show.
Notes for AUD #2b: Same source as above and higher generation, but better sounding and more complete.
Notes for AMT #1a: Amateur video, shot from an elevated position, back right of the venue (far-shot). 'Jesus ...' cuts in and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' cuts out. A 1st generation tape has been transferred to DVD; see Live Nirvana's DVD Guide for more information. The audio portion from the 1st generation tape is also circulating on CDR.
Notes for AMT #1b: Includes only the audio from this source and it's missing everything up to 'Come As You Are'. See Live Nirvana's Bootography Guide To Nirvana Bootlegs for more information on commercial releases of this show.
Notes for AMT #1c: Amateur video, shot from an elevated position, back right of the venue (far-shot). Missing 'Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam' and everything after 'Breed'. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' cuts out. The video files are compressed but higher quality than AMT #1a.
Notes for AMT #2: Amateur video, shot from an elevated position on the right (close-shot). A unknown generation version is circulating on DVD; see Live Nirvana's DVD Guide for more information.
Notes for PRO CLIP #1a: Single camera PRO-shot video. Includes 15 seconds of clips of 'Lithium'. Appear on Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!; see Live Nirvana's DVD Guide for more information.
Notes for PRO CLIP #1b: Single camera PRO-shot video. Featured on a MVT Europe News and includes clips of 'Lithium' and short clip of 'Endless Nameless'. Has voice over most of it. Appear on the "Nirvana On TV 3" DVDR.


The Manor Club Extra features six digital episodes and three printed brochures which will be widely distributed to older people across the county. Each episode of the Manor Club Extra will be broadcast on YouTube and remain there for you to watch at your convenience.
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Bruce Anstey, riding for the Valvoline Racing by Padgetts Motorcycles, has taken "the chequered flag with a margin of just over ten seconds from PBM Kawasaki's Ian Hutchinson" on the famous Isle of Man circuit.
"I can't believe it – I've been waiting a long time for this. I've won all the other classes but this is the one I wanted. The bike ran perfectly", Anstey told the BBC.
After a speedy pitstop the New Zealand racer started the fifth lap as a leader leaving Ian Hutchinson and James Hillier on second and third place.
On his final circuit Anstey also set the fastest lap of the day at 131.977mph.
The second and third placed racers led the field at Glen Helen on the first lap and swapped first position back and forth before being overtaken by the New Zealander.
Another contender, Dunlop seemed to be on for lap record and a solid third place until a crash at the Nook which also involved Scott Dixon.
John McGuinness came fourth, William Dunlop fifth and Michael Rutter sixth.
Bruce Anstey is a New Zealand professional motorcycle road racer. He holds the Isle of Man TT lap record (17 min 6.682 s), at an average speed of 132.298 mph set during the 2014 Superbike TT Race.
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Water company scoops top prize at industry awards.
Anglian Water is celebrating success today after winning three accolades last night at the Water Industry Awards including the coveted Water Company of the Year award.
The awards are a highlight for the water industry; thacross the UK. Last night was the 12th annual event, held in Birmingham and Anglian Water ended the night by scooping the prestigious title.
“The challenges that face the industry are greater than they have ever been - from climate change and environmental threats to growth and the engineering skills gap, all alongside continuing to deliver the high level of efficient service our customers expect. Everyone at Anglian Water including our partners and contractors, are working extremely hard to meet these challenges. This award is for every one of them.”
In addition to the Water Company of the Year award, Anglian won Health & Safety Initiative of the Year and Wastewater Innovation Project of the Year which was a brand new category for 2019. The Health and Safety award won by the Anglian Water @One Alliance team rThe award was given due to the company being able te which goes beyond statutory requirements.
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Trump, Miss Universe and Philippine ArtNov 08, 2020 4:00 pm
Just how much we are enamored with the good ol’ United States of America can probably be counted by the number hours we spent following the Miss Universe pageant and the recent US elections. (Incidentally, both have Mr. Trump in common, who at one time owned the beauty contest franchise for almost 20 years.)
The US, of course, had to have everything bigger, brighter and better. For the St. Louis World Fair in 1904, they decided to commission — not Juan Luna, the king of Philippine art who reigned with the preferential protection of the Spanish royal court — but his nemesis, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo to create a giant allegorical work. Entitled “Per Pacem et Libertatem (Through Peace and Liberty),” it was a thinly veiled message that submission to Lady Liberty a.k.a. the United States would bring not only a dreamy serenity but also the flourishing of the arts, education, commerce and industry. The Philippines was depicted as offering an olive branch in one hand while laying down the bolo clenched in the other. America, on the other hand, was dressed like Joan of Arc but compassionately kept her sword sheathed. Around her danced cherubs symbolizing all the material satisfactions of this harmonious world. Hovering over her was a goddess carrying the torch of discernment.
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The painting, which was almost as big as Luna’s “Spoliarium,” measured 15 feet across and towered 20 feet high. The Philippine Exposition Board paid 25,000 francs to Hidalgo, according to Lopez Museum notes, the equivalent of $180,000, or as it put it, “the price of elegantly presented propaganda.”
One of these had been safeguarded by Hidalgo’s relatives and has surfaced at the year-ending León Gallery Kingly Treasures auction set for Saturday, Nov. 28 at 2 p.m. at the gallery premises in Eurovilla I, Legazpi Village, Makati.
There are other mementos of those halcyon days, after people like Hen. Luna were put to the sword. Speaking of which, a completely stunning aparador owned by the mother of his colorful arch-enemy Felix Buencamino is also a highlight of the upcoming November sale. The intertwined initials — in delicate Baliuag inlay — are the monogram of Doña Petrona Siojo de Buencamino, the über-ancestress of the Buencamino clan of San Miguel de Mayumo town in Bulacan province, says society scholar Toto Gonzalez.
A massive work called “Homage to Turing” by another former émigré, Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera, is a highlight of the auction. It is a book piece measuring a monumental 3.75 x 7 feet. Arturo Luz is himself represented by another immense work, titled “Two Men on Wheels.”
Fernando Amorsolo chimes in with a portrait ofwho survived all that only to be cut down during an ill-fated flyby past his girlfriend’s home in Pila, Laguna in 1954. Captain Teofilo A. Benitez was the golden boy of the Benitez clan. (One of his aunts, Emma, would later become Mrs. Luis Araneta; the other actress Leila Benitez.) He was aide-de-camp of General Carlos P. Romulo, who rumor had it was once almost offloaded from Quezon’s submarine during World War II so that the presidential son’s comic book collection could be stowed. (A good thing for all of us, more logical heads prevailed.)
Finally, a stupendous work by Lee Aguinaldo, entitled “Linear No. 36.” It was created in 1966, when this “bad boy of Philippine art” was actually coming off consecutive wins at the path-finding annual competition of the influential Art Association of the Philippines (AAP.)
Lee Aguinaldo, “Linear No. 36,” the Miss Universe of his works, from the collection of Don Geny Lopez
In 1965, “Painting No. One” took home the AAP top prize again. It was an intense work with bands of black, white and gray and is embryonic of this work at hand. “Linear No. 36” is thus at the pinnacle of Aguinaldo’s subtle gradations of light and shadow, creating a remarkable and uniquely serene work. Fernando Zobel, another American-educated artist, would praise the “Linear” series as “having a quality that is particularly elusive in hard-edged painting, i.e. that is personal and distinct.”
That, along with its origins from the Lopez collection make it, in the words of one art critic, “the Miss Universe of Lee Aguinaldos.”
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August 17, 2009	in Motion Pictures, Reviews, Things I'm Fired Up For
District 9 – Review	District 9 just may be my favorite film of 2009. A few weeks ago i posted a blog about how 1982 was chocked full of awesome sci fi and other geek films and that it was a shame that this whole year has been nothing short of lackluster. With all of the remakes and sequels and licensed pictures that come out, it starts to gets really frustrating when original films get overshadowed by cookie cutter crap. My three favorite films that have come out this year all were released within a week from each other between May 29th-June 5th. Up, The Hangover and Drag me to Hell are three of my favorite films this year and are the only films that weren’t adapted from a book, toy, video game or comic.
The last film i saw was Transformers 2. Even though i liked the original a lot, the second one left such a bad taste in my mouth that it made me rethink seeing a lot of movies this summer up until two days ago. District 9 was a film that iback i heard that Neill Blomkamp was going to direct the Peter Jackson produced Halo film. Back then, all of us Halo fans said “Who the hell is Neill Blomkamp?”. So we all started looking him up and had all come across Alive in Joburg a short film about an alien race that was forced to live in a walled off shanty town patrolled by the military. We all ate it up. We thought that the movie was badass enough for us to “allow” this guy to make Halo. Even though Neill Blomkamp’s Halo short films were amazing and Peter Jackson has proven that he could produce a blockbuster film, Halo fell through and so they started working on the feature length version of Alive in Joburg aka District 9.
With any great science fiction film, there is some social commentary, but not to worry, D9 is not as heavy handed as the commercials will lead you to believe. There is some hints of race riots, concentration camps and the civil rights movement, but a lot of that is abandoned by about the fifteen minute markdocumentary aspect of the film was also abandoned really early on, which would be my only gripe. The movie is set up like a documentary with pieces of news footage, interviews and field camera work, which made a scene between two aliens discussing the construction of an alien technology a bit jarring. For a few minutes i was taken out of the film. I kept thinking, who is the camera man that is shooting this conversation?
Once i got used to the fact that D9 was no longer a documentary, but a scripted story shot in a documentary style, i got into this film big time. Tnone of the advertisements tell you about. This film is about a man named Wikus Van De Merwe who is the head of a government program that oversees the alien inhabitants of District 9. During an operation in which he is relocating the alien “Prawns” he gets sprayed with a chemical that slowly begins to alter his DNA and turns him into a half man half alien being. The government wants Wikus due to the fact that he is the only “human” that can operate the Prawn’s biochemical weapons. Long story short, Wikus escapes and seeks refuge in District 9 where he becomes partners with an unlikely Alien creature. They both need each other to get what they require and the film turns into an all out buddy action film. I know what you may be thinking, here is just another movie that takes the low road by filling the last half with action, but this actually works. The action is driven by the drama and never feels forced.
With the brutal nature of the beginning of the film, you know that there is real danger around every corner. You root for the two heroes knowing that either of them can die at any moment. The fact that both Wikus and “Christopher” the Prawn have such different missions, you have no idea if the film will allow for two happy endings, which heightens the drama. Will one of them die? The chances are highly likely and that fact alone kept me on the edge of my seat.
District 9 is such a breath of fresh air! It is an original idea with many familiar element from science fiction films of the past. D9 takes from such classics as The Fly, Evil Dead 2, Logan’s, Run and Alien Nation. It also takes from some of the greatest buddy action films of the past thirty years and was unapologetically self aware of that fact. The film is full of imagery that will be considered classic moments in sci-fi cinema. The final shot of District 9 is one of those iconic shots that are reminiscent of films like The Planet of the Apes and Evil Dead 2.
As soon as District 9 was over, i decided that i was going to buy the Blu-Ray as soon as it hit the shelves. I cannot wait to see this film again and i highly recommend that you check it out if given the chance. District 9 is probably the greatest science fiction film of this century!
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