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It's time for Benicia and California to say no to bringing in crude oil by rail (CBR). This is the highly explosive and flammable Bakken crude from North Dakota, which exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47. This is what Valero wants to bring into Benicia and other refineries want to bring into the Bay Area. There have been 30 major crude by rail accidents since 2012, including the latest on July 17 in Montana that spilled 35,000 gallons from a train that was going the legal speed limit.
The refineries also want to bring in tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada. A spill of tar sands crude in water cannot be cleaned up. The substances that dilute the tar sands (like benzene) so it can be transported evaporate and the tar sands sink to the bottom of the water. $1 billion, yes that's right billion, has been spent on the Kalamazoo River spill of tar sands and the river is still not clean. Do we want a spill on the Benicia Rail Bridge into the Carquinez Strait or one in the Suisun Marsh? How about the Feather River Canyon where a train carrying corn recently derailed sending its cargo into the river?
Police arrested four Bay Area protesters after they suspended themselves from the Benicia-Martinez railroad bridge to hang a banner protesting oil trains. Photos here are of the protest in San Jose, California. Both protests were part of a week of action against oil trains.
Police arrested four Bay Area protesters after they suspended themselves from the Benicia-Martinez railroad bridge to hang a banner protesting oil trains last week.
Raging Grannies – NO MORE EXPLODING OIL TRAINS!
Elsewhere in California, Raging Grannies in Davis and San Jose enlivened protests there singing out, "No more exploding trains".
Oil trains go through almost every US state, disproportionately over poorer American communities. The crude oil moving by train is more toxic, explosive, and carbon intensive than conventional oil. It puts millions of Americans and Canadians at risk. Last week there were more than 80 protests and educational events in North America about this danger.
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster happened July 6, 2013, when a freight train carrying Bakken formation crude oil rolled downhill and derailed, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people died and many others injured. Last week's events were timed to coincide with the anniversary of that catastrophe.
Finally released and safe at home after 24 hours in custody (20 without food or water) at the Contra Costa Jail.
Yesterday morning, the courageous Emily Heffling and I repelled off the George Miller Bridge, 150 ft over the beautiful Carquinez Strait. The two of us, along with Charlie and Jay, were arrested attempting to hang a 2400 sq-foot banner to amplify the struggle of communities across North America fighting toxic, dangerous, and climate-killing oil trains.
Our banner …hang attempt fell on the two year anniversary of the oil train explosion that killed 47 people and incinerated the downtown of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, a date that both marks unfathomable tragedy and the emergence of resistance. This week, 80+ communities are organizing marches, rallies, forums, blockades, and other creative protests for the second Stop Oil Trains Week of Action.
Right behind us as we repelled down was a rail bridge along a route big oil companies want to use to import millions of gallons of toxic, explosive crude oil each day into the Bay Area and beyond, mostly through communities of color already overburdened by toxic pollution. As part of the week of action, we'll take to the streets in Richmond this Saturday to demand an end to oil by rail and the emergence of a just, clean, regenerative energy economy.
Though I am absolutely disappointed that we weren't able to fully deploy the banner, I am grateful for and recurringly inspired by the love, energy, and strength of our movement. Many thanks to all who contributed to this effort, who continue to fight for our health, safety, and climate every day, and to everyone who rallied all night last night and this morning to help the four of us get out of jail.
There is so much to learn from yesterday's events, and much yet to come, but the bottom line is that I am riding the crest of the wave of our movement, and we will continue to grow and fight and win.


So you've opened your doors, you've hired your first round of employees, and now you need to pay them.
While payroll may seem like an easy task, it's full of twists and turns that can trip up even seasoned bookkeepers.
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It's a safe bet that your employees want to know for certain when their paycheck is coming.
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In addition, you need to decide how you'll set up your payroll. Will you issue checks and/or offer automatic deposit? When is payday? Is it the first and the fifteenth or another combination of days?
Know the answers to these questions before onboarding anyone.
Some of these items depend on where you live, so stay up-to-date on the rules and regulations.
Another thing to note is what constitutes an employee. Why? You'll need to know this before taking care of the taxes.
You need to know who is paid hourly and therefore eligible for overtime for hours worked over 40. You also need to know who is salaried even though they are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Knowing your employees' classification is vital to their benefits such as overtime and unemployment insurance.
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You then need to make the employees' payments as well as your contributions to each agency.
Bottom line – payroll tax filing and reporting is your responsibility, not that of your staff.
Another important thing to remember is that you have to have money in the bank to pay your employees and the tax payments.
It can be tempting to use the money set aside for payroll taxes because it may sit in your account for several months before it's due, but you can't spend it on operating expenses.
If you manage your own payroll, set the tax funds aside until you're ready to send in the tax payments.
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You will need to set up a payroll account in your chart of accounts list.
This ultimately helps you print reports and manage your money better.
While you may have the best intentions when it comes to your payroll setup, maintenance, reporting, and accounting, it's usually best left to people who handle it on a daily basis.
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Be sure and research your options when it comes to payroll accounting as mistakes can be costly.
The average entrepreneur isn't a payroll expert, and outsourcing it is often a good option.


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Ixonympha is a genus of moths of the family Tortricidae.

Species
Ixonympha hyposcopa (Lower, 1905)

See also
List of Tortricidae genera

References

External links
tortricidae.com

Tortricidae genera
Taxa named by Marianne Horak
Olethreutinae

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Explore inspections for building permits in the Town of Cary.
This is the list of all permit inspections since 2011 in our building permits system. It is loosely based on the BLDS (permitdata.org) specification. At this time there is not a clean mapping between the Town of Cary inspection types and the InspTypeMapped values provided in the specification. As a result, we have left the field blank. Further we have provided additional fields that ensure that rows in the dataset are unique.
Please Note: This dataset only contains inspections for permits that are in the Permit Applications dataset. As such, it will not contain inspections for permits that were applied for before 2011.


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By Erik Assadourian, originally published by Gaianism
As I started writing Gaian Reflections in July of 2019 and sending them off into the infosphere, my hope was to find other people who self-identified as Gaians and build a community, as well as a set of shared practices that would reinforce our connection to the Earth, support a sustainable way of living, and make this community more resilient now and in the challenging times ahead (which turned out to be nearer than anticipated). I didn't know what to expect, and I certainly didn't think I'd find such passionate and committed Gaians to share this journey with me, spread across the biosphere—individuals who have become friends, confidantes, and who have helped me become a better Gaian.
While this virtual community has been a truly wonderful gift, from the beginning the hope has been to establish local Gaian groups and encourage others to do the same. That's for many reasons: to spread an ecocentric way of living to those who might be called to live this way but not know how to; to help the community one is physically rooted in (with ecocentric education, activism, and service); and because while a virtual group is great in connecting with like-minded people and nurturing one's 'Gaian-ness,' when things fall apart—and let's be clear, this is not always a slow and gentle process1—having a community you can trust (who is physically near and accessible without technology), and who understands the ecological way, will be valuable, and may even mean the difference between life and death.
I've said all that before (such as here), but what I have never discussed is what these groups are called. Honestly, that's both because I struggled with the right word for a long while (Communities? Fellowships? Pods?2), and because I wasn't sure the semantic breakdown of this term would make for a great reflection. But, no matter, the time has come to just get it out there. Why? Because we now have three local groups, who have already adopted the name.
Ok, if you haven't guessed yet, that name is "Guild." As in the Crescent City Gaian Guild in New Orleans, the Middletown Gaian Guild, and our newest local group, the Gaian Guild of Hawai'i Nei in Honolulu (Aloha!).
So What's a Guild?
While a bit elementary, it never hurts to start with a dictionary definition. Oxford Dictionary defines a guild as:
1 A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
1.1 An association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal.
1.2 (Ecology) A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community.
Let's start with 1.1. This, ultimately, is the hope. People supporting each other, providing mutual aid and pursuing the shared goal of a culture that is Earth-centric, where humans are in a restorative relationship with Gaia.
The Shakers became renowned for their craftsmanship, medicinal herbs, even their inventions (a Shaker invented the circular saw). Can Gaians one day do the same? (CC via Wikipedia)
Perhaps, too, over time, as the era of the consumer economy wanes, Gaians will develop trades they're skilled in and sought after (definition 1)—ones that apply ecological wisdom and knowledge to improve our and Earth's wellbeing (just as the Shakers were known for their exquisite furniture and herbal medicine). One obvious Gaian trade is: Permaculture. As Thomas Ellis has argued, permaculture is a natural 'praxis' of a Gaian philosophy. As many more humans turn to sufficiency farming as economic degrowth (or unplanned economic contraction) leads us there, having (and sharing those) skills in Earth-restorative agriculture could be a trade for many Gaians.
My favorite trade to daydream about is midwifery. This field is ripe for growth in the United States. Nearly a third of American women get Cesarean-sections each year, leading to less than optimal outcomes for mothers (trauma), babies (no proper gut biome cultivation), and the planet (as surgical births utilize significantly more resources than natural ones).3 And why? Medical system culture, convenience, litigiousness, and lack of options and education (of both the risks and the alternatives) of pregnant women. But imagine kind Gaian midwives and doulas correcting that. Just as Mother Theresa drew Indians into Catholicism by safely delivering babies in the slums of Kolkata, so too could Gaians provide this key, life-saving (and life-transforming) service.4
The main definition of relevance is actually the ecological term: a group of species, playing a similar role in an ecological community (an ecological community means species that interact in the same place).5 Gaians are (or could be) individuals serving their broader community in those roles I describe above—increasing sustainability, Earth-centeredness, and preparing people for the changes coming. What's interesting is that this term 'guild' has been used by other Gaian thinkers. Tyler Volk, in his book Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth, describes "biochemical guilds," which are "groupings of bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals that create similar chemical transformations in the biosphere." These, Volk argues, are what led to the creation of Gaia as a living holobiont (p. x).
More famously, Toby Hemenway uses the term in his writings on permaculture. As he explains in Gaia's Garden, guilds are "synthetic" plant communities, combining "natives, food plants, medicinal and culinary herbs, insect- and bird-attracting species, plants that build the soil, and others into synergistic, mutually beneficial groupings" to "form healthy, interacting networks that reduce the gardener's labor, yield abundant gifts for people and wildlife, and help the environment by restoring nature's cycles" (p. 12.)
An idyllic permaculture garden (Anastasia Limareva via CC by 2.0)
This is the pathway forward: cultivating nature in ways that heal both the landscape and provide for people.6 Gaian Guilds can mimic those holistic interactions to cultivate a restorative community: working to heal social ills in ways that also heal the Earth, whether that's engaging in environmental activism, or reconnecting children (and adults) to nature, healing the land through permaculture and gardening, or even currently unrecognized ways like helping to better establish and develop the practice of midwifery. It's the combination of all of these: the native plants, food crops, soil builders, medicinals, and pollinator-attractors that together create a healthy guild and a healthy garden community.
Moreover, As Hemenway notes, the "guild restores nature's role as the gardener's partner" (p. 154). By orchestrating the right plants and their right placements, a "right relationship" emerges. Gaians could help bring nature and humanity back into a true partnership—a right relationship—which improves the well-being of both.
Of course, right now, our guilds are small—or more correctly are a handful of itinerant seeds that have taken root in a few gardens around America. These seeds hopefully will grow strong and bear fruit, drawing birds that bring other seeds with them and help add to the diversity—and robustness—of the gardens they've landed in. Time will tell, of course, but at the least, we now have a name!
1. The destabilization of the US over the past four years hints at this, as do so many historical case studies, such as the Soviet Union.
2. Fellowship was a good one, especially with its Lord of the Rings connotation (with Gaians trying to stop the industrial devastation of Gaia against remarkable odds). And pods was a top contender for a while, with its use for cooperative dolphin groups, and as a seed pod that spread seeds. But fellowship has a male connotation and is often used by Christian groups, and pods connote pod people and those moving containers. So both fell short and were tossed into Mount Doom.
3. And, this wasn't even on my radar but Cesarean sections are affecting human evolution as well. As more children are born via C-sections, future generations may not even be able to be born without C-sections (being too big to fit through the birth canal). That's not to say we should let these babies die, but it's not hard to imagine a scenario in the collapsed future where infant survival depends on whether you're rich (and can afford a C-section) or poor (and cannot). Do we really want inequality to reach that extreme level? (And yes, we have already reached it in so many ways when regarding access to basic life-saving medicine—but as this shows, there's room to go even further.) One final note: midwives can help keep baby-size smaller by maternal education: limiting white flour and sugar (aka a healthy, or even a Gaian diet) can help keep developing babies smaller (in a good way)—and vaginally deliverable.
4. One day, I hope we'll create a Gaian Scholarship Fund for Earth-minded Doulas (midwife helpers). That could be a good means to help cultivate this trade. As well, moments of liminality, such as marriage, birth, and death, open people to a lot of changes. Thus engaging with these rituals is an excellent educational intervention point.
5. The definition of an ecological community is "a group of actually or potentially interacting species living in the same place. A community is bound together by the network of influences that species have on one another."
6. And, as Hemenway notes, the traditional way of Indigenous plant and landscape tending.
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I worked out 5 days a week before i suffered a cerebelar stroke. Its been 53 days since and i would like to return to the gym. My heart dr. said i could but have to go lite. Im waiting on having a hole in my heart repaired. My main question is if it is safe to take preworkout powders if im on blood thinners.


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Feeling different: Transgender woman shares story
Jasmyn LaBasha was born a boy but felt like a girl, helped organize the Gay Pride Festival
Feeling different: Transgender woman shares story Jasmyn LaBasha was born a boy but felt like a girl, helped organize the Gay Pride Festival Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/1RO8g3o
Mark Caudill, Reporter Published 6:46 p.m. ET July 21, 2015 | Updated 7:59 a.m. ET July 22, 2015
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MANSFIELD – Jasmyn LaBasha knew she was different at an early age.
LaBasha, 39, was born a boy.
"At 5 years old, I expressed my femininity in a roundabout way, through makeup and hair," she said.
LaBasha came out in 1994 at age 18 and then came out as transgender six months later. She is one of the primary organizers of Mansfield's first Gay Pride Festival, being held at noon Saturday at South Park.
LaBasha said she struggled with her gender identity and became a model as an escape.
"I was like a dog in a cage," she said. "I didn't know which way to go. I didn't know how to live."
When she was 18, with $1,500 to her name, LaBasha moved from her home in Roanoke, Virginia, to New York City, where she stayed at a local YMCA.
Many people said they weren't surprised when LaBasha came out.
"They tell me I made a beautiful boy," she said. "Now I make a beautiful girl."
Others were not so accepting. LaBasha's father disowned her, a situation that is not uncommon for gay and transgender people. The two haven't spoken in 14 years.
LaBasha's mother, Sandy Scott, still lives in Virginia. LaBasha calls her mom her biggest supporter.
"If anybody says anything about her, I let them have it," Scott told The News Journal. "We're very, very close."
LaBasha has been performing in drag for 14 years. She is the entertainment director at Sami's, the local gay bar.
LaBasha, who lives in Ashland, is studying to become a cosmetologist.
With the recent Supreme Court ruling to legalize gay marriage and the ABC interview with Caitlyn Jenner, LGBT issues have been all over the news in recent months.
"I love it," LaBasha said. "I'm happy that it has finally come to light."
She's also supportive of Jenner, who was an Olympic champion in the late 1970s when she was Bruce Jenner.
LaBasha said she was not surprised when Jenner came out.
She also is supportive of gay marriage.
"I see it as everybody becoming equal and allowing them to love who they love," LaBasha said. "If it takes a piece of paper, so be it."
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"I've always been involved with cars, I've loved cars from a very early age." says Commercial Director for Bearmach, Graham Payne. Founded in 1958, Bearmach distributes Land Rover parts and accessories all over the world and now exports to over 130 countries. To many dedicated owners of these iconic vehicles, the name of Bearmach has become synonymous with the Land Rover marque, contributing to its legendary status as a rugged, virtually indestructible work horse.
"Our business has grown rapidly in recent years and mirrors the enduring affection that Land Rover owners have for their vehicles" says Finance Director, Julian Burgess. With the car industry changing drastically in the last 5 years, communication is more important for companies likeBearmach than ever before. "Communication in our business is key, without our communication system we don't have a business" says Graham.


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Burkina Faso: Armed men kidnap the Grand Imam of Djibo
August 13, 2020 Geraldine Boechat News 0
The Grand Imam of Djibo, the capital of Soum province in the Burkinabe Sahel, was abducted by armed men on Tuesday, according to corroborating sources.
It was on his way back from Ouagadougou that an armed group stopped the public transport bus in which the imam of Djibo Souaibou Cissé, aged over 70, was travelling.
The attackers searched the bus and checked the identities of the passengers before leaving in the company of the Grand Imam, who is also the president of the Muslim community of Djibo.
According to testimonies, the town of Djibo has been difficult to access for several days, after armed groups blockaded a few kilometers from the town.
Armed men systematically carry out checks of the Burkinabe national identity cards (CNIB) of all coach passengers.
The chief of the village of Nassoumbou was also abducted on the same route by informants. More than two weeks after this abduction, the population is still without news of him.
As a reminder, the first kidnapping in the town of Djibo dates back to 2015 with that of a Romanian man working on a mining site.
The imam had also escaped an assassination attempt in May 2017. Shots were fired at his home and he escaped unharmed. It was after this event that he was placed under the protection of the gendarmerie until the beginning of this year when the protection was lifted without explanation. "A dozen gendarmes stood guard in front of his courtyard, checking the identity of all persons entering. But we didn't think that this would be lifted all of a sudden," explains one of Imam Souaibou Cissé's sons.
The Burkinabe authorities have so far not communicated about this abduction, which took place two weeks after that of the head of the village of Nassoumbou in the same conditions and on the same road.
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Community TV deserves government support
3 December 2007 1 Comment
Community television stations should be receiving government assistance to go digital. Small TV stations are needed to give some balance and an alternative to the big TV conglomerates. Funding is needed to enable community TV to be received by more Australians.
There are a large number of worthwhile programmes available on community TV, such as River To Reef (fishing), The Garden Tap, Deaf TV, Nu Country TV, 4WD TV, and even The Shambles (comedy). Notwithstanding some criticisms (such as some air-time is wasted on shows based upon non-mainstream sexually-focused lifestyles, as well as on ethnic TV shows – usually without sub-titles – that discourage assimilation into the mainstream Australian culture; and no doubt more air-time could instead be given to shows from regional and country areas), community TV is well worthwhile and should be supported.
Community television is one of the few places where regional news and sport get a showing. Also, although pay-TV has taken away a lot of the old favourites (like Get Smart) from free-to-air TV, at least some older black-and-white favourites can now be seen on community TV. And who can forget the sometime brilliance of Champagne Comedy, with great local stand-up comedians like Brad Oakes?
Some well-known media personalities got their start in community TV, such as Channel 10's Rove McManus (hosting The Loft Live) and SBS's Vasili Kanidiadis (hosting Vasili's Garden). Community TV has also been a great training ground for many technical staff.
Whilst community television is not perfect, it does fill a gap that is missing from the big TV networks. With more Australians moving over to digital TV, the government need to prioritise the digitalisation of community TV, to ensure that it does not lose its audience share, and to adequately support its survival.
Melbourne Channel 31's campaign to go digital
Community TV stations: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne & Geelong, Perth
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The Truth About Cars | Down On The Junkyard
Junkyard Find: 1982 Toyota Corolla Tercel
By Murilee Martin on September 4, 2013
I know it probably made perfect marketing sense for Toyota to piggyback their new subcompact's image atop that of the fantastically successful Malaise Era Corolla, in spite of the fact that the two cars were unrelated other than having the same their parent company, but the confusion caused by the "Corolla Tercel" name persists to this day. For that reason, these cars always attract my attention when I see them in wrecking yards; in this series, we've seen this '80 and this '81 so far.
Because of the Corolla/Tercel confusion that Toyota set into motion back in the early 1980s, many 24 Hours of LeMons fans still think that I gave the coveted Index of Effluency award to an undeserving factory-hot-rod Corolla a couple years back, in spite of my protestations that the Tercel EZ is one of the most terrible cars ever to be inflicted on us by the Japanese. The EZ came two generations after the Tercel we're admiring today.
The first-gen Tercel, however, wasn't a bad car at all. Fuel economy was phenomenal and it was incredibly reliable by the standards of the era.
It looks like a rear-wheel-drive car…
…but it's really front-wheel-drive, with the engine mounted above the transmission and sending power to a cute little differential.
Climate-control systems were simpler in those days. Holy mackerel, is that an air conditioning button? Such luxury!
I used one of these Toyota AC buttons as the main power switch on my homemade Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox project.
5-speed manual transmissions were boast-worthy.
By dirt-cheap Late Malaise Era Toyota econobox standards, these stripes were the height of frivolity.
The interior still looks pretty good at age 31 and 150,141 miles on the clock.
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30 Comments on "Junkyard Find: 1982 Toyota Corolla Tercel..."
Jeff S
My niece bought a new 1981 Tercel when she was a Junior in high school in Springfield, OH. She worked at McDonalds part-time. It was a light yellow 4 door with a 5 speed manual with no air. Great little car and relatively trouble free. Those early Tercels ran and ran and were very affordable.
Garak
Wow, I once again forgot these things ever existed. Nobody ever bothered to restore one, and now they're pretty much all gone.
probert
Not totally true – the sr5 hatch was mildly coveted and I know one guy who restored one. These were great cars.
CoreyDL
What surprises me is the lack of rust! And the high volume of badge on the back. With the interior in such condition, someone really cared for this car over the years. I bet 85mph was a little optimistic though.
Roberto Esponja
Yeah, wonder why someone decided to junk this car. It appears to have been very well cared for, for a number of years. Maybe grandma died, idiot grandkid got it, fried the clutch and that was that…I'm sure CrabSpirits will come up with a logical explanation as to how this (almost) creampuff ended up in the yard.
tkmedia
I always thought the it was the Corolla Tercel because in Japan it was sold in the Corolla stores. Later revisions depending on dealership were also called Corsa and Corolla II.
SCE to AUX (formerly gslippy)
There is a Tercel in my neighborhood that appears clean, but seems to be relegated to driveway queen now. If it runs, it's probably still worth something as a used car.
Pretty fancy compared to the 1982 Starlet I owned.
If I remember correctly, the Nissan Altima began life as the Stanza Altima, and then after a year the Stanza name was retired. Also, the Solara began life as a 2-door Camry badged as the Camry Solara…but thats kind of different because the Solara never replaced the Camry.
Attaching both names to a vehicle in the first model year may just be an effective way to warm the public to a model replacement.
Car Ramrod
Still see this from time to time. The latest example I can think of is the '04 "Pathfinder Armada." I can't think of a domestic example since all of Dodge's Rams.
flameded
Is it my imagination or is the "CORO" font larger than the "LLA"?
Does anyone know if it means something?
same size, it just looks bigger in the photo because of dirt and junk above the letter O
Looks like a nice little commuter / grocery getter car….
Thank you for posting this. I had one of these when they were already beaters and I thought it was one of the bet cars I ever had. A simple car with exposed metal sills, basic controls, a nice tranny, no power anything (maybe steering).It also had a great engine – hummed at 80 – 90mph and you could really toss it around.
The hatch was really the one to have but I didn't have it.
It also reminds me of the renaults and some of the british cars of the 70s – the styling was deceptively sophisticated.
Heck – while I was researching Renaults I came up with this – it kind of reminds you of how much more fun any sh*t box of the 60s vintage was than most modern cocoons. It ain't Godard but that's a good thing:
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q62A50Cy0Ps&feature=player_embedded)
I seem to recall the new Renault Fuego I was looking at buying had the same engine/driveline setup…
stevelyon
I once had a car exactly like this, except in YELLOW. I affectionately called it The Piss Yellow Shitbucket. Mine was a 5-speed too, and the 5th gear syncro let go one day, so I drove it for almost a year with just 4 gears.
When I moved to California, the DMV wanted $350 to register it (back in the days before Schwarzenegger lowered the fee). I'd only paid $300 for the car, so I kept driving it on expired Arizona plates until the city of San Diego took it away. I let 'em keep it.
Crabspirits
Marge was of the type born every minute.
"Mom…look…you just can't be driving around in that old Toyota. It's gonna break down, and then you'll be stranded." Marge looked the picture in the kitchen while tethered there by the phone cord. It was one of her favorites. Her, and her late husband Bob stood in the front yard with Eddie in his customary graduation ensemble. In the background was the sun-kissed Tercel, sitting in the driveway next to the Econoline. The Armor-all from the dealership was still fresh on it's pizzacutter tires. It was "Mom's new ride". That was a very long time ago. "There's nothing wrong with Barney. He's a good little car."
Marge looked at the picture with Bob grinning, almost prodding the photo for advice. Making decisions on her own was never one of her virtues. Bob made that grin when he approved of something. He would also grimace in agony, which could easily be confused for that grin. She sighed, and relented to her son's pressuring. He knew what was best for her after all. "Okay. But only if we find something I really like. And I want a good trade in for Barney." Eddie paused, and didn't exactly agree to those terms with "I'll stop by tomorrow, and we'll go check out some dealers.", before saying goodbye and hanging up.
She woke early the next day to pop a couple of pills for her arthritis. She was determined to accomplish something physical every day. A favorite task reserved for bad days was to dust where there was none. Sometimes, she would patrol for cobwebs in areas of the property nobody would ever go, or care about the presence of an odd spider. It was how she fought. Every day spent in front of the television seemed like another step towards becoming an invalid. Today was special though. There was a special task to perform. Marge pressed the garage door button. The loose chain de-slackened, and dragged the one piece door open with an almost steampunk nuance. She slid her hunchback, frail physique into Barney. The smooth running Toyota backed out of it's stall. Marge shut the Tercel down in the drive, then winced as she extricated herself from the seat. "Now let's get you spic 'n span." She returned fifteen minutes later with the tools necessary to give Barney a bath. The squirt of dish washing liquid was added to the bucket of water, and she set to work. She slowly toiled for hours, even erasing light road film from the voids with an old toothbrush. Marge circled with a rag. Her gait resembled that of a Scooby Doo villain, set in slow motion. She scrubbed the dealer badge affixed to the rear of the car, and became concerned. The wood trim on it had faded. "I hope they don't ding me for that." She was also worried about the temp control knob that had vanished long ago.
"Wow mom, you really cleaned it up nice.", Eddie said, stepping down from his Infiniti. They both got into Barney, and set off to the Ford dealer. "Ohhh Lincolns.", Marge beamed at the sign out front. Perhaps she would treat herself. She had plenty of money, after all. "Bob loved Lincolns", she recalled. The first car to great them as they entered the showroom was an MKT. "Oh my…", she confided to Eddie, "…it looks like a hearse." Eddie laughed. After a full tour, she found nothing that reminded her of Bob's old Town Car that was eventually handed down to Eddie. The salesman showed them into a new Taurus on the floor. "Nooo. Not with these old hips. I just feel so crowded." To her, there was even less room than her little tercel. "It looks like I'm seeing out of a mailbox slot." She fit well into an Escape. "I don't know if I want a truck.", she commented before staring aghast at the sticker. "I didn't know new cars were so expensive." Eddie reassured her. "You can lease it, Mom." They crunched the numbers. The salesman went outside to look at her trade in. He stopped at the left fender, and that's where his comprehensive inspection ended. He walked back inside. Barney was worth $700. "Well, that's the end of that."
Soon, the little Tercel was humming down to the far end of dealer's row. In the passenger seat, Eddie worked his mobile screen with a fingertip, looking for a solution. Marge smiled. "Remember when you used to play with the Speak 'N Spell in the back seat of this car for hours? We had to snatch that thing from ya, so we wouldn't go crazy." Eddie replied with a vapid "Yesss." Daylight was fading fast, and so was Marge's energy level. At a used car lot, they found an older Escape. The salesman focused on the Tercel first. His assessed value of $1000 was seen as almost offensive. "Okay okay, $1800's as high as I can go on this.", he said as he mentally tacked on $3000 above fair market pricing for the Escape.
Somewhere, a yellow tie strap was carelessly tossed over the hood of the auction-bound Tercel. It's heavy buckle swung into the thin fender like a wrecking ball. The perpetrator was hardly affected by the little accident. "Dam. Oh well."
Marge put away the photograph in the kitchen, swapping it out for an image of herself and Bob, wearing numbers from a dancing competition long ago.
"I bet some kid is out racing around in it."
rpn453
Thanks for bringing another one to life!
paulinvegas
Geez…between you and Kreutzer I've gotta bring tissue for some of these stories!
That was a good one, I enjoyed!
Very nice, as usual. You've got talent CrabSpirits, whoever you are. :-D
danio3834
Still waiting for the coffee table book. I'd pre-order, I swear!
I am a few days late reading your little story but it was good. I would like to find a little old lady like that and offer her $1,800 cash for that Tercel. Most car dealers new and used would not want to bother with a car that old and it would more likely be sold to a salvage yard. An old Tercel like that with continued proper maintenance would go for many more years. I have a 99 S-10 pickup that has been well maintained and runs like it will last forever, but I refused a trade-in 5 years ago when I bought a new truck. It is still worth much more than they offered me in trade.
davew833
That pinstripe is pure aftermarket. The dealer would charge you $50 extra for it if they put it on, or you could get a roll of Trimbrite striping tape for $2.79 at Pep Boys and do it yourself. It even came with the fancy pre-cut pointed ends.
ALL my cars in the '80s had that very same wide/narrow stripe, personally installed by yours truly!
My mom had one of these. It's her favorite car. Cheap to buy, excellent gas mileage, extremely reliable, lasted 15 years and something over 200K miles with nothing but scheduled maintenance and replacement mufflers, fairly high clearance so she could drive over forest service roads to geology sites. The muffler connections rusted due to the engine not warming up all the way on her daily drive from home to work; once she figured that out she drove a little out of her way and no more muffler problem.
Broo
I have been given an '81 that I will restore beginning this winter if my garage completed AND heated in time. Very similar to this one : 4 doors, but automatic. I will learn a lot from this. They have no value, but they are so rare, I like it.
Firestorm 500
The yellow X on the windshields on that row of cars probably means they have an appointment with the crusher very soon.
threeer
We had a 1981 Corolla in that same burnt orange metallic. While not a Tercel, that car ran…and ran…and ran. It started a 30 year loyalty to Toyota for my parents (1981 Corolla, 1993 Camry, 2003 Corolla that was just sold last year). Fast forward, my son drives a 1997 Tercel with over 200k on it. Sure, being a newly-commissioned 2LT in the Air Force, I'm sure he gets some strange looks when he pulls up. But that thing is completely indestructible (kinda like an MRAP…but there I go again, lionizing the military). There has been zero unscheduled maitenance repair and he plans on literally driving it until it falls to pieces. Which, given the quality of the interior and lack of rust, might be another five or six years. Sure, they are basic…and basic just doesn't sell in the US anymore. But that's a real shame. 5 speed, crank windows and approximately 40 MPG in a reliable, easy to drive car. Now that is a lost concept…
ex-x-fire
I wonder if the 5 speeds from these would work for a mid-engine car? Most likely they have a low torque rating.
Shawnski
2 door 5sp hatchbacks were fun in their day, one of the few I considered up there with the king of these early FWD sub-compacts: 78-80 Fiesta's. The Tercel hatchbacks reminded me of the iconoclastic Fiat 128s.
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New businesses typically don't have the money for most traditional forms of marketing. What you need are low-cost, yet highly effective ways to achieve rapid growth. That's where growth hacks come into play, and for my money, online courses are one of the most powerful growth hacks you can put to work.
And as we've learned from Sean Ellis, founder of Growth Hackers, that doesn't mean using any one specific strategy or tactic to grow your business. Rather, growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation across marketing channels and product development to identify the most efficient ways to grow your business. It's about baking the willingness to continuously test different growth strategies into the culture of your company.
That being said, while working as the content manager for Thinkific (a fast-growing startup in the online education space), I can vouch for online courses as a particular strategy that has helped some of today's most successful entrepreneurs scale their businesses.
As any company that is serious about content marketing will tell you, publishing useful information is one of the best ways to add value to your target market and become a trusted authority in your industry simultaneously.
Well, creating online courses is like content marketing on steroids. Garrett Moon, co-founder and CEO of CoSchedule, listed creating courses as one of the top 25 growth hacks that will amplify your content marketing.
In this article, I'm going to outline some of the main benefits of creating online courses, show you examples of people and companies that are creating courses successfully, and give you some specific steps to create and launch an online course that will take your business up a level or two.
For many entrepreneurs, the obvious reason for creating online courses is to sell them at a profit. And since the market for online learning has grown significantly over the past few years (the global e-learning market reached an enormous $255 billion in 2017), it comes as no surprise that so many people and companies are capitalizing on this growing demand.
Apart from payment processing, web hosting and/or online course platform fees, the cost to deliver an online course to a customer is extremely low. Since an online course is a digital product, the cost of creating it is incurred only one time, after which it can be sold over and over again to an unlimited number of people. This one-time creation cost, coupled with a low distribution cost, results in an exceptionally high profit margin.
And although Foundr did eventually become a profitable business from its magazine subscription revenue, it wasn't until they launched their first premium online course about Instagram marketing that they quickly grew to over 7-figures in annual revenue.
Top podcast host and New York Times-bestselling author Lewis Howes is another example of an entrepreneur who creates and sells online courses for profit. Alongside other revenue sources such as live events, mastermind groups, book sales, and public speaking, Howes has generated millions of dollars for his business from just a small handful of premium online courses over the past few years.
Another reason entrepreneurs and companies create online courses is to increase brand awareness and acquire new customers.
With brand awareness and customer acquisition as your primary objectives, you will most likely offer your course for free, with the goal of getting it into the hands of as many prospective customers as possible.
Hootsuite, a social media management platform, for example, offers numerous free social media marketing courses on Hootsuite Academy. Millions of people have taken free courses on their academy, many of which have become paying customers shortly thereafter.
To give you another example, in 2017 I had the privilege of collaborating with 30 entrepreneurs and course creators to create and launch Profitable Course Creator, an online course that teaches entrepreneurs how to build a profitable business selling online courses.
Thinkific produced the course, and we're donating 100% of the proceeds to Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit organization that builds schools in developing countries.
We accomplished two objectives with the launch of this course. We increased brand awareness and generated leads for Thinkific, and we raised some money for a great cause. Double win.
Another approach is to charge a nominal fee for your online course. Rather than trying to generate an immediate profit from the sale, your goal is simply to help recoup the cost of promoting your course and acquiring a customer.
Done correctly, selling a low-priced online course can actually bring your customer acquisition costs to zero, thereby increasing your profits on products or services that you upsell on the backend.
Dana Malstaff (Founder of Boss Mom), for example, helps women build their businesses and raise families at the same time. To acquire leads, she offers a free online course on how to use Trello (a popular project management tool).
Immediately after someone opts in for her free Trello course, she invites them to purchase her Trello board templates for a one-time reduced price of $27. Her goal here is not to generate a significant profit. It's to immediately separate the prospects from the buyers on her email list. Once someone becomes a customer, she knows they are more likely to purchase additional products or services from her in the future.
The third most common reason to create an online course is to train customers and increase customer retention.
This approach is particularly popular among SaaS companies, since teaching their customers how to use and get value from their software is a critical step in activating and retaining those customers. In many cases, completing some product training is a mandatory part of their customer onboarding process.
The logic behind this approach is simple: When you help your customers achieve success with your product, they tend to have higher lifetime values, lower churn rates, and are more likely to refer other customers to your business.
Wishpond, a SaaS company that provides a marketing platform for businesses, invested a single 10-day sprint in developing Wishpond Academy. Their goal was to create an engaging training experience to bridge the gap between customer acquisition and activation, and to ensure that each new customer had the knowledge and confidence to achieve their first WOW moment with their product as quickly as possible.
Did it work? You bet it did. According to Wishpond, customers who accessed their online training courses upgraded from trial to paid plans at a rate 380% higher than customers not accessing the training.
OK, so now that we've covered the main motivations, let's discuss how to create an online course.
I'm not going to dive into the specifics of creating content for your course (how to create video lessons, worksheets, quizzes, etc.). Instead, I'm going to focus on the critical steps involved in planning and launching your course.
Note: if you want to learn about course design and curriculum development, check out eLearning Industry. They've got some great articles and free resources.
Every product or service is a solution to a problem. Whether your product or service helps your customer lose weight, have better relationships, save more time, look better, make more money, etc.—being able to define that problem is critical.
To ensure the course you create attracts your ideal customers, I recommend unpacking a specific part of the problem that your product or service solves. This is why knowing your target audience is key.
If you're a financial planner, for example, one of the biggest problems your clients might face is struggling to save for retirement. If you unpack a specific part of that problem, you might discover that after paying their bills each month, they simply don't have enough money to allocate to savings and investments in order to achieve their retirement goals.
In this case, creating a course that helps them solve that specific problem will better position them to solve their bigger problem (saving for retirement), which, of course, your services can help with. A course on budgeting, or a course on how to negotiate a raise (if they're an employee), for example, would both be great topics to teach your client.
With a specific course topic in mind, the next step is to validate the demand for that course, before you create it. The goal here is to make sure that you've chosen a topic that your ideal customers actually want to learn, not that you think they want to learn.
To accomplish this step, I recommend using a tool (such as Typeform or SurveyMonkey) to create a survey to share with your audience. Sending a simple email to your list works well too.
Foundr executed this step perfectly earlier in 2017. They sent an email to their subscribers and asked them which topics they were interested in learning about. And when the responses came in, they listened.
It turned out that a significant percentage of Foundr's audience wanted to learn how to build a physical product business. This feedback led to the creation and launch of Foundr's next online course: Start & Scale Your Online Store.
Pre-selling a course (accepting payments from customers before you create it) is another great way to validate the demand for your course, but this approach only applies to paid courses. When someone tells you they will buy your course, you have proof of interest. When someone actually pays you upfront, you have proof of demand.
The goal of a Minimum Viable Course (MVC), often called a beta launch or pilot launch, is to create the first version of your course and get feedback from real customers as quickly as possible. Based on feedback, engagement, and completion rates, you would then make revisions to the course to make it better.
Since an MVC is just the first version of your course, you should charge a lower price than what you eventually intend to charge once you've expanded and improved the training. You might create one or two hours of audio or video training, a series of live webinars, or perhaps even just an email course.
The point is not to try to create the perfect course the first time. It's to create a course that is good enough to help someone, with the goal of improving it and increasing its price over time.
Daniel DiPiazza (Founder of Rich20Something), for example, decided to create an online course to teach freelancers how to get paid to write. He pre-sold the course, limiting it to 100 customers, before he created it.
I purchased his course, and just a few weeks later, Daniel sent me the login details to access the training (a two-hour audio course). When Daniel improves his course and re-launches it at a higher price point, I will be given access to the new version at no additional cost—my reward for being a part of his beta launch.
Once you have the content created, it's time to pick a platform for hosting your course. I won't go into too much detail here, but I will provide a brief overview of the three main options you have for hosting a course.
For more help with choosing an online course platform, check out e-learning expert Jeff Cobb's list of recommendations here.
Self-hosting means that you host your course on your own website (using WordPress, for example). With this approach, you'll likely need to install a membership site plugin such as OptimizePress or LearnDash, along with a few other integrations such as video hosting, payment processing, email marketing, etc.
The downside of self-hosting is that it can be very time consuming to set up, integrations sometimes break as plugins update to newer versions, and if your website is ever down then your online course/membership site will also be down (which may temporarily inconvenience your customers).
A Learning Management System (LMS) is a type of software built specifically for delivering online courses and membership sites. Think of them as a WordPress for online courses. Thinkific is an example of a LMS.
Most LMS's give you full control over your online course website: You can use your own domain or subdomain, customize your site's branding, control your pricing, manage your affiliates, integrate directly with your payment processing system and email marketing system, and a number of other features.
Overall, they're a great option if you don't have the technical expertise to set up and maintain your own self-hosted online course.
Lastly, there are online course marketplaces (such as Udemy or Skillshare). Some marketplaces have millions of students, so having a course in a large marketplace can be great for exposure. They can also a great place to validate the demand for your chosen course topic.
Since every marketplace has its own terms and restrictions that you must comply with, the downside of publishing your online course in a marketplace is that give you up a lot of control.
With Udemy, for example, there is a limit to what you can charge for your course, and regardless of the price you select, they often run steep price discounts in order to attract more students to their marketplace. It is not uncommon for courses that are priced at $100 or more by their instructors to be sold for as little as $10 or $20.
Plus, when someone purchases your online course on a marketplace, that person is technically not your customer. They are that marketplace's customer. As such, your ability to obtain their contact information and communicate with them outside of that marketplace will be limited.
Each of these options have their own advantages and disadvantages. I encourage you to do your own independent research before choosing a platform to host your course on.
Finally, once your course has been published and shared with an initial group of students/customers, it's time to improve and refine your training based on their feedback. If your course is a hit, great! If it needs improvement, that's great too!
The last thing you want to do is create a mediocre course and then promote it to as many people as possible. It's better to test your course with a small group of people first, refine and improve it if necessary, and then spend more time and effort promoting it to a larger audience.
Gamify the learning experience. Let your students track their progress and consider rewarding them for achieving certain milestones.
Hold your students accountable with email support, group calls, private discussion boards, etc.
Create different types of training to appeal to different learning styles.
Create small, bite-sized lessons for quick consumption.
Send progress updates and reminder emails to keep your students engaged.
Include action steps at the end of each lesson to help them implement what they learn.
Even if generating revenue is your primary goal for creating an online course, don't neglect to support your customers after the initial sale is made.
Acquiring a customer is just the beginning. Their purchase marks the beginning of your relationship with them, not the end of it.
This is where I see a lot of entrepreneurs go wrong. They spend the majority of their time focusing on acquiring new customers, neglecting the ones that have already bought from them.
A company doesn't stay in business because they are constantly attracting new customers. They stay in business because their existing customers come back more than once, often bringing their friends and family with them. I believe that the same is true for an online course business.
If you're constantly investing in marketing and promotional initiatives to attract new customers to your business, but you're doing nothing to ensure the success of those customers, it will be very difficult (and expensive!) for you to build a profitable and sustainable business.
On that note, I wish you the best of luck in creating online courses to help scale your business.
If you have any questions or comments about creating online courses, please leave them in the comment section below!
Tyler Basu is the Content Manager for Thinkific, the most trusted platform for creating and selling online courses. He is also a Podcast Host and Publisher of Lifestyle Business Magazine, and a contributor to numerous business and marketing publications.
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I am disappointed that more of the participants in the re-read and the discussion of TLWH last year have not dropped in to comment on TNOTB. We all have different insights and opinions and that makes interesting discussions. We are all Three Piners together.
Yes – we need to figure out how to invite more people over here – Perhaps Louise's publishers can put a bug in her ear about putting something on the FB page? Or in her next newsletter? What do you say, Paul?
Good ideas, Julie. I didn't think of that.
Yes I love hearing the variety of insight and opinion that everyone brings.
Perhaps everyone is too worried about spoilers to say anything.
When Adam went to get Fleming the one thing that struck me is how easy that was. One hopes that IRL, in real life, that removing a person like Fleming from a secure environment like that would involve more than one man in a car. I have visits of manacles and prison vans. For Fleming I would want police outriders and snipers, maybe a local army battalion. Anything to keep him away from my child. But seriously, it seemed a bit too easy. It was on thing that jarred me, albeit briefly. I reminded myself that this was important for the plot and moved on.
So my question is, how much are you as a reader, prepared to suspend reality in order to enjoy a good story? Does it vary between authors and texts? If it is otherwise brilliant do you shrug and move on or is it even more glaring? Depending on your background, you probably come across all kinds of inaccuracies in areas where you have intimate knowledge. Does it hurt your enjoyment?
As a writer and a reader I find such things interesting but also important. When I am writing about an area that is not one I am very familiar with I think it is easier to sketch in broad terms but sometimes detail is needed.
Anna, I was also surprised by the lack of security when moving Fleming. I expected something like the scenes I have seen on TV. Armored Vans, police in Riot gear, snipers, SWAT teams, helicopters and yes maybe some military or National Guard on hand. Don't know if Canada has Guard. But all the steps possible to prevent an escape. I felt sure he was going to escape because of the lax security. Really, I was shocked when he didn't escape.
When reading some of the lighter, cozy mysteries, I don't mind the strange inconsistencies. In fact I find them humorous, and read on unless it seems so contrived and just the work of a lazy or poor writer and that ends reading that author. I do think readers should not be assumed to be stupid and accepting of anything.
I hasten to add that we all know that LP is a brilliant author who certainly does her research and cares for her readers. I thought "She has her reasons". Then I thought that maybe there was no time for all out security. Also, so many agencies would have been involved.
I thought it was too easy, too – and I thought also that, knowing how little security it would result in, that it was kind of cavalier of Gamache to send Adam. Talk about a dangerous assignment! I do think it would be harder for someone to walk in and get a prisoner out than that, but Canada is a smaller, (at least in population – in Geographical size, it's huge) less savvy country in lots of ways, so it might just be closer to reality than we might want to think. In the end, that didn't bother me as much as Gamache just putting someone in that kind of danger. But – I know that the danger is something police officers face every day and have, hopefully, trained and prepared for.
When Gamache sent Adam Cohen to get John Fleming, I decided that it was Gamache's impossible decision, the sacrifing of one or a few to save the many. I was willing to accept just Adam going for that reason and suspend disbelief about procedure. I also felt that Adam knew the risk he was taking and was willing to accept his role, wherever it might lead. And it did lead to something horrible for Adam; he said Gamache's name and will have to live with that knowledge and guilt as the story progresses.
I too was a little apprehensive about Gamache sending Adam Cohen, hoping nothing bad would happen! It was a tense couple of minutes reading thru it; one thing I did pick up on, which was mentioned twice in Flemming's thoughts, was a reference to a betrayal. I' m not sure if it happened or was going to , or if it alludes to something in a future Louise book. Anyone else have any ideas? Did it have something to do with the phones?
I reread those sections Amy and I couldn't make complete sense of them either. Was the betrayal Fleming suspected to do with himself or Adam Cohen. Who was possibly betraying whom? I don't know. Or was he referencing the future mistake of Adam saying Gamache's name? It isn't written that way but that is all I can think of today.
I can't believe we have seen the back of Fleming though.
I don't remember the section on betrayal, but when I think about that as a general thing surrounding Fleming and his cohorts, I think of the betrayal of Gerald Bull. By that, I mean, that his murder was the result of a betrayal of one or more of the people he'd been working with. It's fuzzy with me now, and I'll have to re-read (I'll be rereading the full book next week, as I know I read it too quickly the first time). Even though I read so slowly, I just didn't get a lot of these nuances the first time through.
I needed to pull myself away with something else, though, and have rediscovered a favorite author – Anne Perry, who does Victorian era crime stories. She hooked me with the first of her Mr. Monk series because the main character wakes up in the hospital with no memory at all. Her description of the terror he experiences, which eventually subsides to a general foreboding, is really masterful. As the series goes on, Monk rebuilds his life, but never regains his memory, which makes him a different kind of character. What he discovers about his former self, however, fills him with self-loathing, as he realizes what a nasty person he was. In general, I love how he handles it all, and becomes a much gentler, noble person. He goes forward with his career as a police officer, and later as a private detective. Another major character is a woman who was a nurse with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, and this all seems to be very well researched. The series continued for quite a few more books than I knew existed, so I've been reading those that are new to me, and enjoying it quite a bit. Since it's all so long ago, it doesn't have the overpowering feeling of evil that TNOTB has for me. Fleming scared me quite a bit, hahaha.
Rereading one of the betrayal comments I thought this…..
Fleming is watching Cohen talking to his friend who is a guard. It was that friend Adam had given the papers for Fleming's release to as he was less likely to question them. In that sense Adam was taking advantage of the friendship if it all went wrong and Fleming escaped, then Adam would have betrayed that friendship.
I am sure Fleming has a good nose for potential betrayals as he has committed more than a few.perhaps this section is seeing the world from Fleming's perspective to give us a glimpse of how he views human interactions.
Julie, you do know who Ann Perry is don't you? It's an interesting story for those who don't know the background of this author. But if you don't want to know Julie don't read any further.
I saw the film Heavenly Creatures years ago, it is 20 yrs old. For those who haven't seen it and you may not have as it is a New Zealand production, the movie was directed by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings fame) and starred an unknown Kate Winslet as 15 y.o Juliet Hulme. Juliet and her friend Pauline Parker murdered Pauline's mother. They were convicted and served their sentences. After her release 5 years later, Juliet Hulme changed her identity and her life and became author Ann Perry.
Now there is enough material for a second movie of her life. I can well imagine Ann Perry draws upon that experience for her Monk character, the whole becoming someone else and finding out you were not a good person before. I haven't read any of her books but I will look.
I see interesting parallels between Perry's story and TNOTB. Part of the discussion of how the girls came to be murderers revolved around their rich fantasy lives, driven by Perry who had a difficult childhood without much formal education or stability due to her illness, tuberculosis. It made me think of Laurent and his imaginative over excitability (check the work of Polish Psychologist Dabrowski if you want to read about over-excitabilities).
The other parallel was with Al Lepage. The whole notion of reinventing yourself and trying to forget the horror you created in the past. And the fear that the past will find you. Perry talked about that at one stage, how she dreaded what she had done becoming known.
Wow! Anna – I'd had no idea. (Thank you for alerting me ahead of time that I might not want to read the post, but of course, that made me want to read it all the more, hahaha) It doesn't bother me – that's not the right word – but it doesn't make me see Anne Perry as anything less. When you read the books, they're obviously written by someone intelligent, and someone who has thought a lot about good and evil and the difference. She also seems to know that everyone is capable of murder, given the right circumstances. Her circumstances seem bizarre, but still – rife with the possibility. We think of the serious fantasy lives spurring young people to murder as being pretty modern, but this was in 1954! I will have to find the movie now – that's fascinating.
In general, I am fine with fictional murder, less so with real murder. I think what Fleming represents to me is all too real, and even though I now know something more about Anne Perry, her characters, and the murders in her books, are very much fictional to me. Odd, when you think that in a lot of ways, it's the other way around. That Louise (why does she seem like "Louise" to me – I know she deserves my respect, yet she has allowed us into her thought processes so much that I feel that I know her) does not know what it's like to murder someone and Anne Perry does.
At any rate – you haven't spoiled anything for me, so no worries. I know I said that I was escaping from the heaviness of Fleming, but I also know that Perry's books are not light reading – they're very well researched, and delve pretty deeply into the psyche. Very interesting. What makes for the "relief" for me is that they are set in a very stilted time when people never said things or did things overtly, and so even though awful things are done, they are never couched in that kind of language… I'm not expressing this well, but I think if you read one, you'll see what I mean. If you read them, start with The Face of a Stranger – how she deals with Monk's amnesia is amazing.
Anna, I think you've hit the nail on the head – Fleming is someone who can spot the "opportunity for betrayal" easily, and sees people only for how he can manipulate them to his own ends. He thinks of others only how he can use them, yet when he is used, he sees it as betrayal… interesting.


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Eastbridge Plans Evolve
November 1, 2014 / Carol Roberts / Central Park / 3 Comments
Evergreen Development has obtained feedback on their Eastbridge retail plans through numerous formal and informal community meetings and they have had a pre-application concept meeting with the City of Denver. Tyler Carlson, at the October Zoning and Planning (ZAP) meeting, said after getting ZAP input they will "aggregate the feedback and create a 2.0 version of their plan." They will take that plan to the Stapleton Design Review committee in November for an informal "sketch level" discussion. He explained this step will "catch them up with King Soopers," which had a comparable session with Design Review in April.
Evergreen's plans remain as previously described, with two one-story structures that face inward toward a public plaza, but with attractive architecture facing the street. The development will have about eight businesses—a combination of lifestyle and service—in 23,000 square feet.
At the October Zoning and Planning meeting, Joel Starbuck from King Soopers talked about the latest ideas being considered for their development at Eastbridge (located at MLK Blvd. and Havana). Tyler Carlson, center front in the photo, also made a presentation about Evergreen Development's plans.
Carlson is soliciting suggestions for possible tenants and says he is pursuing many of the ideas suggested by the community. Amenities requested have included a water feature and bike/stroller parking. One of the biggest concerns expressed by the community has been safe pedestrian access. Carlson says at their concept meeting with the city of Denver, "the City expressed an openness to considering a signalized pedestrian crossing. It is going to be subject to a traffic study. That's not yet resolved, but the fact that Denver is willing to look at it is great for a first step."
Joel Starbuck, from King Soopers' real estate division, reviewed their plans for the ZAP committee, pointing out the larger pedestrian area they created at the front and the separate entry to the indoor public sitting area (similar to the page 1 photo taken at the Leetsdale store) that opens to an outdoor sitting/eating area. "You don't have to buy our products to sit there," he says. The store is not planned to be open 24 hours—it will probably be closed from about midnight to 5 or 6am. He also added that the loading dock is designed so that trucks will not be passing through pedestrian or customer vehicle areas and walls will be tall enough to screen the view of the loading area from the adjoining street (Havana).
Safe pedestrian access and traffic flow are being analyzed in each version of the plan. In the above concept currently being considered, Geneva Court, at 30 feet wide, bisects the parking lot; the east-west sidewalk was widened to 8 feet and landscaping was added along it. The north-south sidewalk is six feet wide; bike traffic would be on the street. Starbuck points out that the reduction in parking to 192 spaces (3.9 spaces per thousand square feet) has not been submitted to their corporate office for approval and is much lower than their usual guidelines. In order to make these changes, parking spaces are narrower and have changed from diagonal to right angle.
ZAP chair David Netz said one of their committee's recommendations for calming traffic and improving access would be that the city consider adding bike lanes, where feasible, during the construction process. ZAP had previously discussed diagonal parking as a traffic calming measure, but, "if not diagonal parking, at least a narrowing through the site with a bike path is something we'd love to see," he said.
When questioned about the gas station, Starbuck confirmed it is still in the plan, adding, "There's always a problem when you have commercial property up against residential. If you have vacant commercial property across from your house, you are taking an inherent risk." Representatives from the city confirmed that as long as uses are allowed under the zoning, the city has to let the property owner have those uses. City regulations say 51% of the owners of the property would have to sign to say they agree to the rezoning. The property is currently owned by Forest City.
The plan was also presented at the October Stapleton Development Corporation meeting. SDC board member Stephen Miller commented on the importance of a controlled pedestrian crossing.
Bar Chadwick, who represents the city in many areas of the Stapleton development process, said, "If Geneva Court goes through, which is a huge issue for the City Planning office and the community (they both want it), you have a better position for the city to get a controlled intersection (on both the north and south sides)." Tom Gleason said at this time it is unknown whether Geneva Court will remain owned by Park Creek Metro District.
CAB chair Lucia Correll told the SDC board that the greatest area of community concern is that the gas station is so close to residential, and the very closest homes (approximately 80 feet) are affordable homes. Tom Gleason responded that the possibility of moving the gas station to the north side of the lot (further from homes) is under review now. When asked, he confirmed, "It's a possibility."
A comment from SDC member Chris Cramer from Commerce City, who works with their planning department, added an outside perspective from someone who works on these kinds of projects. "This is pretty shocking. The parking ratios? I'm pulling my jaw off the floor over what King Soopers is willing to do. The reason I say that is I understand the desire by the community and this board and the planning staff to continue to try and push, but it would be a little disingenuous not to recognize what they've done so far. Hats off to King Soopers, frankly. And hats off to you for coming up with a plan that doesn't fit their formulas. We hear this all the time. They have formulas that work to make money and you all need them to make money. They are breaking so many of their formulas for successful business I can't believe it. I would encourage you to acknowledge how far this has come. We haven't been this successful at getting these kinds of concessions."
King Soopers says the decor in the proposed Eastbridge store at Havana and MLK Blvd. will be like their store at Leetsdale and Cherry—and will have a sitting area similar to the one shown above. Although King Soopers has not yet signed a contract or formally submitted a design, they are continuing to modify their plans based on feedback they are receiving.
An update on King Soopers' and Evergreen Development's evolving plans is on page 38.
To maintain the city's street grid, Denver asked King Soopers to look at a plan that makes Geneva Court a through street. The plan at left shows the street bisecting the parking lot. Starbuck says parking was changed from diagonal to right angle and the total amount of parking is now 3.9 spaces per thousand.
3 comments on "Eastbridge Plans Evolve"
Doug Backer says:
we have seen King Sooper's "Fresh Fare" store concept elsewhere in the city and wish King's would consider that concept for this location. There is already a standard King's just of MLK/Quebec, and no "whole foods type" anywhere in the area, so why not fill the gap. I think this area would appreciate it more.
Allen Wright says:
The best quote in this article is from SDC member Chris Cramer from Commerce City, "but it would be a little disingenuous not to recognize what they've done so far. Hats off to King Soopers"
Having been in real estate at a national level for more years than I would like to admit, the WORST thing a community can do is make so many demands that a Tier 1 business simply declines to move forward. Having witnessed this situation multiple times the alternatives are worse; a series of Tier 2 and Tier 3 businesses with less capital backing start a cycle of businesses opening and businesses closing that ultimately lead to a "dead" commercial zone and decreased real estate values.
Welcome King Soopers, look forward to shopping at your new store.
Like many others, I'm hopeful that we get a better design without a 'giant parking lot' but if that can't happen I would propose a large pedestrian only walkway running east-west connecting retail area to grocer such that there is essentially 2 parking lots, a north (only accessible via westbound MLK) and a south (only accessible via eastbound MLK)?


Hot side aeration (HSA) is a myth, right? Or is it? I'm sure by now many of you have read the PDF put out by the German Brewing Forum that has caused a bit of a stir. The reactions I've read have either been "This changes everything!" or "This is complete rubbish!" with little in between. I don't want an Apple v. Android style fanboy dogfight. I want to talk facts and figures, science and chemistry. Let's eliminate the hyperbole and see if we can dig into what is and isn't really going on here. If you haven't read the PDF, it basically advocates using sodium metabisulfite (SMB) in the strike water and working towards lowering oxygen ingress at all stages of brewing.
We welcome your thoughts, discussion and experience if you try this process approach and recipe.
Note: Current link points to V.3 of the document, posted on October 30, 2017.
Roachbrau's approach to propagating and pitching yeast.
When we first arrived in Munich this summer, on our way to my wife's family's house we get to (well, I get excited about it) drive through the Hallertau and Danau river regions as we make our way north. This year that included stopping at Kloster Weltenburger, known for it's award winning Munich Dunkel. It's a monastery located along the Danau (Danube) River, upstream from Regensburg in northern Bavaria/Frankonia region. You drive through hop farms in Hallertau to get there. Not a bad way for a German beer lover to arrive in Munich. 2 hours after we land we're at a famous biergarten in the middle of a famous hop region.
The biergarten is located in the courtyard of the abbey and is a very picturesque German setting.
Their Munich Dunkel is a great beer! I was surprised how close it is to the recipe I have brewed several times (which I will post later). On the first sip I noted…Weyermann Munich 2! Very similar flavors.
Past the doors of the abbey takes you out to the 'beach', literally a stones throw from the Danube River.