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Posted: Jan 7, 2022 / 07:20 AM CST / Updated: Jan 7, 2022 / 09:22 AM CST
This undated photo, provided by the Connecticut Education Association, shows English teacher Meghan Hatch-Geary, the 2020 Connecticut Teacher of the Year, at Woodland Regional High School, in Beacon Falls, Conn. "I had a friend say to me, 'You know, three weeks ago we were locking our doors because of school shootings again, and now we're opening the window for COVID.' It's really all a bit too much," said Meghan Hatch-Geary. (Connecticut Education Association via AP)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages.
In Cincinnati, dozens of employees from the central office were dispatched this week to schools that were at risk of having to close because of low staffing. The superintendent of Boston schools, Brenda Cassellius, tweeted she was filling in for a fifth grade teacher.
San Francisco's superintendent, Vince Matthews, has called on all employees with teaching credentials to take a class.
"This is the most challenging time in my 36 years as an educator," Matthews said Thursday during a break from filling in as a substitute sixth grade science teacher. "We're trying to educate students in the middle of a pandemic while the sands around us are consistently shifting."
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Staff absences and the surge driven by the omicron variant have led some big districts including Atlanta, Detroit and Milwaukee to switch temporarily to virtual learning. Where schools are holding the line on in-person learning, getting through the day has required an all-hands-on-deck approach.
"It's absolutely exhausting," said history teacher Deborah Schmidt, who was covering other classes during her planning period at McKinley Classical Leadership Academy in St. Louis. On Thursday, she was covering a physics class.
In a school year when teachers are being asked to help students recover from the pandemic, some say they are dealing with overwhelming stress just trying to keep classes running.
"I had a friend say to me, 'You know, three weeks ago we were locking our doors because of school shootings again, and now we're opening the window for COVID.' It's really all a bit too much," said Meghan Hatch-Geary, an English teacher at Woodland Regional High School in Connecticut. "This year, trying to fix everything, trying to be everything for everyone, is more and more exhausting all the time."
Labor tensions have been highest in Chicago, where classes were canceled after the teachers union voted to refuse in-person instruction, but union leaders in many school systems have been clamoring for more flexibility on virtual learning, additional testing and other protections against the virus.
This undated photo shows special education teacher Jennifer Graves, at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School, in New Haven, Conn. When her classroom aide didn't show up for work and no substitutes were available for the day because staffing levels have been decimated by the surge in COVID-19 infections, she borrowed paraprofessionals from other classrooms for short stretches to get through. (Courtesy Jennifer Graves via AP)
In New Haven, Connecticut, where hundreds of teachers have been out each day this week, administrators have helped to cover classrooms. When her classroom aide did not show up for work Wednesday, special education teacher Jennifer Graves borrowed paraprofessionals from other classrooms for short stretches to get through the day at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School — an arrangement that was difficult and confusing for her young students with disabilities.
"It's very difficult to get through my lesson plans when somebody doesn't know your students, when somebody is not used to working with students with disabilities," Graves said. "Some students need sensory inputs, some students need to be spoon-fed. So it's very hard to train someone on the spot."
Even before infection rates took off around the holidays, many districts were struggling to keep up staffing levels, particularly among substitutes and other lower-paid positions. As a result, teachers have been spread thin for months, said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association.
"All of these additional burdens and stresses on top of being worried about getting sick, on top of being stressed like all of us are to after a two-year pandemic … it just compounded to put us in a place that we are now," Pringle said in an interview.
Some administrators have already been helping for months in classrooms and cafeterias to fill in for sick and quarantining staff.
"We're not in love with the circumstances, but we're happy to do the work because the work is making sure that we're here for our kids," said Mike Cornell, superintendent of the Hamburg Central School District in New York, who spent time this fall on cafeteria duty poking straws into juice pouches and peeling lids off chips to fill staffing gaps.
In San Francisco, 600 of the district's 3,600 teachers were out Thursday. Even with administrators, curriculum developers and teacher coaches filling in, there were not enough substitutes to cover all classrooms and some classes needed to be combined, said Matthews, the superintendent.
Among the schools that went virtual this week because of staffing shortages was second grade teacher Anna Tarka-DiNunzio's school of roughly 200 students in Pittsburgh. Some taught their students despite being sick with the virus, said Tarka-DiNunzio, who was disappointed to hear some characterize staffing shortages as the result of teachers arbitrarily taking off work.
"It's not just people calling off. It's people who are sick or who have family members who are sick," she said.
Exposed to COVID? How long to quarantine, according to CDC guidelines
The strains on schools this week might have been even tougher if not for large numbers of students being absent themselves. In New Haven, teachers say classes have been only about half full.
Jonathan Berryman, a music teacher, said some of his students haven't shown up for weeks. He worries what that will mean for the performance targets set for students and their teachers.
"Before omicron came along, there was fairly smooth sailing. Now the ship has been rocked," he said. "We get to make midyear adjustments in our evaluation system. And some I'm sure are wondering whether we should even be concerned about that academic progress piece."
Graves, who is in her 12th year of teaching in New Haven, said that she is grateful for administrators who have been helping out in classrooms and the aides who have pitched in, but that her students have struggled with the lack of consistency in staffing.
She also has been frustrated with quickly changing health protocols, and worried about the health of herself and her extended family. Most of her young students are not able to tolerate wearing masks for long stretches, and many have been coughing lately.
"This is the hardest year I've had," she said.
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Jackson Field Office announced regional support for the FBI's Violent Gun Reduction and Interdiction Program (VGRIP). The support will be used to combat the increase in violent crime in the City of Jackson.
According to officials, local law enforcement with a presence in the tri-county area have agreed to devote officers to the effort of VGRIP. The additional officers will supplement the work of Jackson police and assist the department in the investigation of violent crimes that happen in the city.
Mississippi man chased by police found dead days later


As some of you may have guessed, the Class 45 Diesel D123 suffered a "Caravan-Related Injury" recently during the filming of BBC Top Gear's railway special at the GCR. But before anyone gets upset let me say that it was all discussed before hand and agreed by the association, by our engineers and, more importantly it fitted in with planned maintenance: for some time the Peak has been in need of bodywork repairs and a re-paint, so to have Messrs Clarkson, May and Hammond offering a hire fee was too good a chance to miss. Once filming was finished the peak went to hide her bent nose in the shed until the programme came out – it was all hush-hush until it aired, since which time the team have been busy with filler, grinders, sanders and assorted other implements of restoration. At the moment she's in possibly the most unattractive stage – all rubbed down and covered in patches of filler, with a few holes in the bodywork waiting to have patches welded in. Give her a little while and she'll run out of the shed resplendent in her new livery. New Livery? You'll have to wait until she appears to find out exactly which livery will be applied, but one thing's certain: she will look a lot better than she has done recently.
The Brit (No. 70013, "Oliver Cromwell" Pride of the National Collection) is still at Southall, having recently received attention to the valves and pistons: a routine inspection revealed bits of ring in the cylinder drains, closer inspection showed that not only did she need new rings, but the piston rod needed attention as well, easily sorted. Well easy if you like dismantling huge unwieldy bits of metal, manhandling them onto a van, transporting them to Loughborough, shifting them down to the machine shop at the far end of the shed, lifting them onto the lathe, doing the "magic bits" with the machine, and then reversing the process to get the piston back down to Southall and re-installed on the engine. I've talked about "easy" jobs on here before, haven't I? Having been re-assembled, 70013 is due to leave Sunny Southall later this week heading for Crewe where she'll join the 'Crewe Pool' for her Summer work.
Meanwhile, the Arthur (30777 "Sir Lamiel" also pride of the collection – I can't admit to bias now can I?) is at the Wensleydale railway – I've just had a report through from one of the other support crew volunteers, so I'll post that shortly.
45305 is, as I type, hopefully working her way from Preston to Carlisle and back on the Mersey Moorlander. I haven't had any news to say otherwise, and I hope to get a report from one of the support crew in due course, or at the very least one of 5305la's famous laconic "The engine did what it had to do and we got back".
14055, the third support coach is progressing at the back of the shed: the roof has now been fully painted and someone has been busy with a cutting disk removing the rotten bits of body skin ready for welding in new patches, it looks drastic, but it's a big step in the right direction.


Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the finely chopped onion. When the onion begins to soften, add the diced pumpkin and stir for 5 minutes. Add the water, salt, red and black pepper. Put the lid on the pot and cook until the pumpkin is tender, about 15 minutes. When the pumpkin is done, mash it with a wooden spoon. Serve warm.
I will definitely try this recipe next time when I cut pumpkin for pilaf. Is this a Turkmen dish?
Thanks Kumiko! Yes, this pumpkin soup is an ancient Turkmen dish. I've never tried pilaf with pumpkin but seeing the photos on your blog makes me want to try 🙂 I'm impressed that you're learning Turkmen!
Made this last fall and loved it, and now i want to make it again with some pumpkin puree I've had in the freezer. How much would I use of the puree to get the right amount for this recipe, skipping the mashing step?
Glad you like it! Sorry for replying so late but I tried this yesterday with a can of pumpkin puree (15 oz/425 g) and it worked well with the recipe.
Also, definitely looking to trying more of these recipes.
Thank you for your Website and great recipes!


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SOUND BOOK PROJECT
Well it has been a while!
Last year, we had a bit of a break after playing at the Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Studies at Coventry University.
(see https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/)
This year we were invited to play at an amazing event at a currently empty manor house in Llangoed on Anglesey. "Sui Generis - The Possibilities of a House" is a project of Julie Upmeyer who brought 62 projects from 64 creatives together to fill the house with painting, installation, sound, music, photography, collage, performance....I could go on! (see https://www.plasbodfa.com/sui-generis)
It was an amazing space to play in (and it really felt like play - in a room of fellow artists and makers!) and we were also able to install 'Sound Books' by Sterly and Snell as well. See plasbodfa Facebook and Instagram pages for pictures. All the best to Julia, who wants to eventually create artist residencies and more exhibitions at the house in the future.
Here's to new projects!
We had a great time in Cardiff at the Printhaus - a great venue with some pretty great people keeping it all going! There were some fantastic artists' book stalls and performers all day. AND it will all happen again next year, so keep your ears peeled for the date. We will be there!
From that gig, we made a new contact from the Letterpress Collective in Bristol, and we will now be playing at their end of year WAYZGOOSE (look it up!) on the 9th of Dec. Hooray!
We have added 2 more exciting performances to this years' gig line-up. The first on the 6th of July to launch the 'Telling in Full' exhibition for the Lancaster Words Festival at Lancaster University. And with PJ Harvey and Paul Muldoon performing afterwards, it should be a great event!
And later in the year on the 9th of September at the Printhaus in Cardiff which will feature artists' books stalls and spoken word events.
Thanks especially to the Printhaus for printing our tote bags, which will be available at the gigs!
We have a new video on YouTube that has been posted from Sonic Arts of us performing at the festival in Waterford last year. You can see the creative spirit flowing with help from the great lighting effects provided by the venue!
Happy New Year to all Sound Book fans! We had such a busy year last year, ending with a fantastic gig in Waterford, Ireland at the Sonic Dreams Festival! An amazing group of artists and performers came together to make a magic weekend!
We have one last gig in at Oriel Davies in Newtown - my local patch - before we have a break to write some new stuff and pursue some separate projects. 4th of February! See you there!
We have a twitter account (finally!) - the link is on the bar at the bottom of the page....get tweeting!
Sound Book Project has been invited to perform at the Sonic Dreams Festival in Ireland! A very exciting festival to take part in and we are all looking forward to it! We will be playing on Saturday the 24th of September. It will be the final performance of this year after traveling around the UK at some amazing festivals and venues.
In other news, Ant Dickinson has moved to sunnier climates down to the south of Spain, so will not be performing with us for the next few gigs. Hopefully he will be in the UK some time next year and will be involved in Sound Book Project again, whether playing or developing a new digital sound book!
MOST EXCITING NEWS - airplay on BBC 6 Music on Tom Robinson's Mixtape Show! A great privilege! And it was in a mix of some really interesting music. Thanks Tom!
We had a great time in London performing at the Colour House Theatre at Merton Abbey Mills, hosted by Object Book and Chloe Spicer, who is an amazing book artist herself! We also did a 'Sound Book' workshop which was well attended and created some new book music!
We have released a limited edition EP and sound book! A book that makes it's own sounds, and creates it own poems! It includes a CD with four tracks by Sound Book Project. You can play along with the 'Rubberband Piece'! An edition of 30 and available on our Facebook page for £10.
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The NFL's Decision on Deshaun Watson Has Been Made, Fans React
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The newest quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, Deshaun Watson, has been suspended for six games by the NFL for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Watson was accused of sexual misconduct, and disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson handed down the punishment.
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Яков Хехт () е израелски учител, педагог, световно признат пионер в областта на т.нар. демократично образование.

Хехт е лидер и визионер за демократично образование и промяна в обществото. През 1987 г. основава Демократичното училище в родния си град Хадера, Израел – първото училище в света, което нарича себе си демократично. След успеха на училището в Хадера Хехт основава мрежа от демократични училища в Израел. През 1993 година провежда първата международна конференция на демократичните училища. Тя прераства в ежегодна среща на учители, училища и организации, свързани с демократичното образование.

През 2010 година Хехт съосновава организацията "Образователни градове – изкуството на сътрудничеството", фокусирана към преобразуване на образованието в централен инструмент за растеж на градовете, в които се прилага демократично.

Публикации
 Democratic Education – The Beginning of a Story, 2005, Hebrew
 Democratic Education – A Beginning of a Story, 2011, English
 "Демократичното образование", 2013 – на български език

Учители
Израелци
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 X11 protocol client for node.js

 Implements core X11 protocol, as well as Xrender, Damage, Composite, Big-Requests, Dpms, Screensaver, XFixes, Shape, XTest, XC-Misc, GLX and Apple-WM extensions.
# install

`npm install x11`

Windows users:
1) install [XMing](http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/) or [Cygwin/X](http://x.cygwin.com/)
2) get node-x11 copy (using [git](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3) or from [Github](https://github.com/sidorares/node-x11/archives/master ))

#CI build status:

[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/sidorares/node-x11.png)](http://travis-ci.org/sidorares/node-x11)

# example

Core requests usage:

    var x11 = require('x11');

    var Exposure = x11.eventMask.Exposure;
    var PointerMotion = x11.eventMask.PointerMotion;

    x11.createClient(function(err, display) {
        if (!err) {
            var X = display.client;
            var root = display.screen[0].root;
            var wid = X.AllocID();
            X.CreateWindow(
                wid, root,        // new window id, parent
                0, 0, 100, 100,   // x, y, w, h
                0, 0, 0, 0,       // border, depth, class, visual
                { eventMask: Exposure|PointerMotion } // other parameters
            );
            X.MapWindow(wid);
            var gc = X.AllocID();
            X.CreateGC(gc, wid);
            X.on('event', function(ev) {
                if (ev.type == 12)
                {
                    X.PolyText8(wid, gc, 50, 50, ['Hello, Node.JS!']);
                }
            });
            X.on('error', function(e) {
                console.log(e);
            });
	    } else {
		    console.log(err);
        }
    });

# Screenshots

  ![tetris game](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RCRY9A7WwnA/Tlww0FHP7NI/AAAAAAAAAwo/nxfSxsw6xow/s400/tetris.png)
  ![XRENDER gradients](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VS0BMYYmq6M/Tlww0Y1ij0I/AAAAAAAAAws/pVWsPZ63Yeo/s400/render-gradients.png)
  ![OpenGL glxgears](http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4123/37511094.30/0_81712_6c2ebb11_L)
  ![OpenGL teapot](http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4132/37511094.30/0_81713_82a5ac48_L)

# Protocol documentation

  - http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/
  - http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xproto/x11protocol.pdf
  - C Xlib to X11 request mapping table http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/appendix/a.html

# Other implementations

  - C: XLib - http://www.sbin.org/doc/Xlib/ http://www.tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/ http://www.x.org/docs/X11/xlib.pdf
  - C: XCB - http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
  - Python:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-xlib/ ( github fork: https://github.com/Ademan/python-xlib-branch pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Python%20Xlib )
  - Python/twisted:  https://launchpad.net/twisted-x11
  - Perl: http://search.cpan.org/~smccam/X11-Protocol-0.56/Protocol.pm

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Q: MapThread and AssociateTo I am attempting to add a key-value pair to a list of associations, but am having trouble.
Minimal Example:
Given the list {<| a->1 |>, <| a->2 |>} I would like to add a 'b' key to each association resulting in the final list {<| a->1, b->1 |>, <| a->2, b->2 |>}. With the a and b values not necessarily equal within an association.
I have attempted this using MapThread
MapThread[AssociateTo, {{<|"a" -> 1|>, <|"a" -> 2|>}, {"b" -> 0, "b" -> 1}} ]

But receive the error AssociateTo::rvalue: <|a->1|> is not a variable with a value, so its value cannot be changed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bonus:
Ultimately I would like the 'b' value to be a function of the 'a' value -- E.g. b -> a^2 + 3.
Thanks!
Edit:
I have solved the issue using Table
Table[AssociateTo[assoc, "b" -> Function[assoc["a"]^2 + 3] ], {assoc, assocList} ]

But would still like to know why MapThreadgives an error out of curiosity.

A: Use Append or Association instead of AssociateTo.
MapThread[Append, {{<|"a" -> 1|>, <|"a" -> 2|>}, {"b" -> 0, "b" -> 1}}]

AssociateTo is the analogue of AppendTo: its argument must be a variable that it will modify. Append (and Association) do not modify their argument.  Instead they return a new value.

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The Sugababes are an English pop girl group based in London, consisting of members Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen. The Guinness Book of World Records have named the Sugababes as the most successful female act of the 21st century with six UK number one singles and eighteen UK top ten hits.
The Sugababes were formed in 1998 by founding members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan. In August 2001, after just one album and some initial success, Donaghy departed and the introduction of Range later in the year was met with the commercial success. The group survived a second line-up change in December 2005, when Buena left the band and was subsequently replaced by Berrabah. In September 2009, it was confirmed that after eleven years in the band, Buchanan was no longer part of the group and had been replaced by Ewen.


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Dan & Connie's Secret Recipe for a Successful Tabletop Kickstarter (Chai)
philryuhPosted 7 months ago
Back in January (2019), Dan and Connie completed their highly successful Kickstarter campaign for Chai and simultaneously gained 1K+ Facebook members. So what was the key to their success?
Hey Dan and Connie, thank you for making your time! First up, could you tell us a bit about yourselves?
Thanks for having us, Phil! For sure. We're a husband and wife team out of Calgary, AB (near Banff) in Canada. It's a bit weird talking about ourselves in the 3rd person, but we're both gamers. Dan was in humanitarian aid and community development for five years, and Connie is currently in her second year of teaching junior high special needs. We're both avid gamers and on the side we shoot a bit of wedding photography, which has a nice carryover into shooting board game pictures.
It's my first time interviewing a couple! So if you don't mind me asking, how did the two of you meet? Was tea involved? :)
Hah, you're right! Our first date actually involved ordering London Fogs (Earl Grey tea with steamed milk and a touch of honey or condensed milk) at Starbucks. Connie worked at the University of Calgary as a Resident Advisor after graduating at Queen's in Ontario. We met through church and Dan offered Connie a book to read. She invited him to talk about the book and "get to know each other a bit more." Dan wasn't the brightest at the time, but on the drive realized she was asking him on a date instead of a book study. We were engaged nine months later, and after a summer wedding (with an outdoor giant chess board, of course!) we've been married for nearly four years.
All couples have their own unique dynamic, so I'm curious, how do the both of you balance out one another as a team?
Connie is wonderful at giving constructive feedback as she's able to identify gaps. Dan's really good at finding innovative ways to solve problems and create, and Connie helps curve this ideation in a helpful way. Connie is great at figuring out strategic pathways, and if anything is the string while Dan is the idealist balloon! It was fascinating taking the StrengthsFinder test to see where we both excel at, instead of approaching things from a deficit perspective (what we're bad at) and trying to improve those.
Now let's talk about Chai! For those who might not be aware, could you give us a short overview of the game?
Absolutely. Chai is an immersive game of combining tea flavours to make your perfect blend as a tea merchant. It's geared towards families as it plays 1-5, but we've designed it with the gamer in mind. If you mixed Splendor and Century: Spice Road together with some abilities players can use, and a bit of the popular phone game Bejewelled, you'd sip something like Chai. On a player's turn, you're able to visit the market to purchase ingredients such as jasmine, mint, berries, lavender, lemon or ginger. Tiles that match up can be bought for the same price, which is a neat puzzle mechanic. You could instead go to your pantry and select honey, milk, vanilla, chai spices, or sugar, which are requested ingredients for some customers. Lastly, you can reserve a customer for your tea shop while performing a special ability (with new ones cycling each round). At the end of your turn you can optionally complete a communal order or fill the cup of a customer in your tea shop. People love clanking the bits into physical tea cups before flipping over a tip token!
What was the trigger behind the initial ideas about the game—did the theme come first, or the mechanic?
Great question! Dan attended a board game design conference early last year with a submarine game (hopefully we'll release it in the next few years), and we figured it'd be better to work on a more accessible design first. To our surprise there were little tea games out there, so we brainstormed different mechanics that would fit the theme. "Chai" is a word that means tea in many languages, so we're glad that people can easily discern what our wee tea game is all about by just glancing at the box cover. We realize a lot of designers work from mechanics towards theme, and just prefer to start with the theme first.
What do you think are the main strengths of the game and what kind of audience does it tend to draw?
We set out to create a game for five players that plays in under an hour, and are really excited to have reached that goal. Vibrant colours in the box art and game graphics were also a must, which has helped it feel a bit whimsical, especially with characters like Van Gogh and Alice in Wonderland each craving a cuppa. Our theme is definitely a strength, and we've had the most interest in the sliding mechanic we use in the main market board for purchasing tea ingredients. This part is interactive too, as other players usually chime in with different combinations they see to help the current player. Chai is also really inclusive, featuring women and men from different nationalities, and we especially wanted our game to be illustrated by ladies. Sahana Vj is from India, and Mary Haasdyk is here in Calgary, Canada. Diversity is beautiful!
What was the biggest hurdle you faced during the campaign? Is there anything you'd do differently in your next campaigns to prevent this issue?
To be completely honest, we weren't sure how to incorporate stretch goals at the start! We put them up the next day after a strong showing on Day 1, but we needed to quickly brainstorm new ones in the weeks to come as we went through the initial ones very quickly. A good problem to have, and our communi-tea offered great feedback to suggest relevant things they wanted to add. We're glad that we reached all of them, and the playmat has especially been very well received. A local friend is working on a Chai companion app too, which we're really excited about.
One thing that particularly stood out to me was that Chai was created to be color blind friendly and language independent. What led to this decision and how much extra work/time does it take to make this into a reality? Would you say it was worthwhile to achieve this?
Thanks for the compliment! Yes, having Chai be colourblind friendly and language independent were two design goals we had from the start. We're just working out some localization and distribution deals internationally right now, so printing copies with just a changed box and rulebook will speed up the process. We have many friends who are colourblind (and interestingly there's a higher percentage in the gaming community), so we had some excellent feedback initially to make sure that the eleven ingredient colours and five unique tea tokens all featured different iconography. It's hard to see every game become colourblind and language independent, but it's wonderful seeing the industry moving towards this within the broader inclusivity discussion.
There's an aroma about Chai that is warm and inviting, and the same quality seems permeated throughout your fanbase. Could you share some instances of when the level of support from your community surprised you?
We truly couldn't have produced Chai without our incredible communi-tea! They've blown us away in all respects. From strangers editing the rulebook, to sharing tea recipes, to introducing family and friends to help playtest the game, the 1K+ members have made the game a reality. If it takes a village to raise a child, our community certainly helped with our wee game. By the start of the Kickstarter, over a thousand unique people had given Chai a try, which was essential in helping blind playtest. Having the rules and mechanisms played by so many people has helped tweak different things, such as one oolong card not having a needed ingredient to help properly balance the game.
What would be your advice to many Kickstarter hopefuls out there who'd love to have such a wonderful community backing them?
It's been quite the adventure! It normally takes a few years for a game to reach the market, and we tried our best to make it happen in nine months. Each day we're learning something new, so don't be overwhelmed at the number of soft-skills you'll need to continue developing as we continue to as well on the journey. We're a bit more introverted, so we realized we had to be more active on social media. Augment your strengths, and bring in other people to help where you have blindspots. For example, we're definitely going to bring in a customer service person on our next project, as it's been challenging answering all the inquiries while working on other priorities. We're trying to enjoy the journey and be honest and open about feedback and where the game needs to be improved. Although we're perfectionists, we're making sure we set some deadlines to guarantee we complete different tasks. While working on our game(s), we're also looking for ways to give back to the board game community as well. Volunteer, play in local meetups and conventions, and have an open attitude as you figure out what makes other games successful, and the expectations we all bring to the table.
What was your most memorable moment working on Chai?
We'll never forget the adrenaline we experienced pressing the "launch button" on Kickstarter! Dan was at PAX Unplugged and got home the night before on a delayed flight, so we worked through the night to bring everything together. It was incredible seeing the project come alive; the culmination of our work and the community's over the past few months. Seeing people's print and plays pop up across the world has also been extremely humbling and rewarding. Just to see different gamers enjoy Chai has been a dream come true.
What would you like to say to all of your fans out there?
We're honoured you'd take the time to read or listen to us and our story! We're gamers first of all, so we hope to meet in person. Come say hi to us at an upcoming convention like GenCon, SHUX, and Essen, or if you're in Calgary visiting the Canadian Rockies. Maybe we can squeeze in a game or a tea!
Lastly, are there any exciting developments in the works you could share with us? What would be your dream project?
It's perfect timing to announce that we're just launching the print and play for Chai: Tea for 2 this week! Mary Haasdyk (who did Chai's box art) has sent us the box drafts already, so we're eager to hear the community's preferences and how blind playtesting goes. If everything goes smoothly we'll be launching the Kickstarter late this year. We're working on a bubble tea expansion for the base game as well, plus a few other steeping ideas. It'll be an exciting next few years!
Thanks Dan & Connie for making your time to share about Chai and your awesome communi-tea! I know for sure my wife would be thrilled at the idea of a Boba expansion :)
And lovely readers, what do you think was the key to their success? The approachable theme, accessibility of the game, the duo's authenticity, or is it perhaps Dan's inspiring dedication to his puns? Comment below with your thoughts and feel free to give feedback/suggestions for future interviews!
Please support Dan & Connie by following the links below:
Dan and Connie's social media: twitter, instagram, facebook
Website: http://www.steepedgames.com/
Chai Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CHAI.game/
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Victoria Ying, artist of Bargain Quest
Alexandr Elichev, artist of Gloomhaven
Atha Kanaani, artist of the Pandemic series
Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games
Victor Pérez Corbella, artist of Champions of Midgard
Sabrina Miramon, artist of Photosynthesis
Ruwen Liu, artist of Cake Duel
Kyle Ferrin, artist of Root
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Last night was Krakatoa's first appearance outside the Island of Montreal... we did not got very far, we landed in Laval, and played at the Bistro Last Call. This bar has recently changed owners, and their goal is to make the place a known site where people go see good live music. The Last Call has room for about 40 people, and yesterday we got the place almost packed. We were treated very well by both the patrons and the people attending the bar.
For this gig we were prepared to deliver 2 and 1/2 hours of music, which requires a fair amount of effort, but it seems in spite of the accumulated fatigue throughout the week, the whole equipment loading/downloading, and the insane temperatures we are having these days, we were able to pull this off. The feedback we got was very positive, and we had a lot of fun playing at this site. If you want to check the place out, the Last Call is at 4910, Boul des Laurentides, Laval.
Below are some photos taken during the gig. Thank you Erin and Bea for the great pictures you took yesterday!!!


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Publisher: Small Beer Press
Categories: creepy, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, ghosts, Horror, Short Stories
Authors: Joan Aiken, Kelly Link, Lizza Aiken
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Apex Magazine Issue 50
Bloody Fabulous: Stories of Fantasy and Fashion
The People in the Castle
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This week on #LeVarBurtonReads we travel to England for a fanciful Victorian Gothic tale by Joan Aiken, FURRY NIGHT, from her collection THE PEOPLE IN THE CASTLE@smallbeerpress.#bydhttmwfihttps://t.co/QoJ423l2tL
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Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won't let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you'd checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark. Here are tales of suspense and the supernatural that will chill, amuse, and exhilarate.
"The particular joys of a Joan Aiken story have always been her capacity for this kind of brisk invention; her ear for dialect; her characters and their idiosyncrasies. Among the stories collected in this omnibus, are some of the very first Joan Aiken stories that I ever fell in love with, starting with the title story "The People in the Castle," which is a variation on the classic tales of fairy wives."
— Kelly Link, from her Introduction
Read the introduction and title story on Tin House.
"A welcome anthology of fantasy stories by a 20th-century master. The author of the beloved classic gothic for children The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Aiken (1924-2004) also wrote hundreds of works of popular fiction that spanned the genres, from fantasy to horror to historical fiction, including several Jane Austen sequels. Naturally the tone of her books and short stories varies with their content, but its main notes include sophisticated, spritely satire and the darker moods of literary fairy tales. Fans of Wolves will recognize the honorable orphans and cruel guardians who populate these tales. Typically the wicked meet with fitting fates and the innocent triumph, though for Aiken, a good death counts as a happy ending. She plays with the contrast between the eldritch and modern culture and technology: ghosts and dead kings out of legend who contact the living by telephone, a doctor who writes prescriptions for fairies, a fairy princess who's fond of Westerns. Her metaphors and similes surprise and delight: "the August night was as gentle and full as a bucket of new milk"; "He was tall and pale, with a bony righteous face and eyes like faded olives"; across a field, "lambs [followed] their mothers like iron filings drawn to a magnet in regular converging lines." Sprightly but brooding, with well-defined plots, twists, and punch lines, these stories deserve a place on the shelf with the fantasies of Saki (H.H. Munro), Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Susanna Clarke."
"There's so much to love about this slender collection… The juxtaposition of mundane and magical…feels effortless and fresh. The language is simply splendid, so evocative, as though the stories were actually very dense poems. And it brilliantly showcases Aiken's affectionate, humorous, deft portrayals of female characters… Aiken's prose is extraordinary, impossible to do justice to in this small space. Her skill with the language of folk tales—specifically the oral storytelling native to the British Isles—is unparalleled… These stories both feel very 20th century and somehow timeless."
— Publishers Weekly, Boxed, signed review by Rose Fox, Senior Reviews Editor
Introduction by Kelly Link
"The Power of Storytelling: Joan Aiken's Strange Stories" by Lizza Aiken
Cold Flame
The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green
Furry Night
Humblepuppy
The Lame King
The Last Specimen
A Leg Full of Rubies
Lob's Girl
The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick
The Mysterious Barricades
Old Fillikin
A Portable Elephant
A Room Full of Leaves
She Was Afraid of Upstairs
Some Music for the Wicked Countess
Sonata for Harp and Bicycle
Watkyn, Comma
Joan Aiken (1924–2004) was born in Rye, Sussex, England, into a literary family: her father was the poet and writer Conrad Aiken and her siblings, the novelists Jane Aiken Hodge and John Aiken. After her parents' divorce her mother married the popular English writer Martin Armstrong.
Aiken began writing at the age of five and her first collection of stories, All You've Ever Wanted was published in 1953. After her first husband's death, Aiken supported her family by copyediting at Argosy and working at an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction full time. She went on to write for Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, Women's Own, and many other magazines.
She wrote over a hundred books and was perhaps best known for the dozen novels in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. She received the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards for fiction and in 1999 she was awarded an MBE.
Cover art "The Castle in the Air" by Joan Aikman, 1939. © Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis
Praise for Joan Aiken's stories:
"Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising, this collection-like the mermaid in a bottle-is a literary treasure that should be cherished by fantastical fiction fans of all ages." — Publisher's Weekly
"Darkly whimsical stories…Aiken writes with surpassing spirit and alertness, her elegant restraint and dry wit never fail to leave their mark." — Kirkus Reviews
"Each story has a surprise or twist. Many are ironic, go-figure pieces. They are just like real life, only more so. VERDICT: This book will appeal to readers of short stories and literary fiction. Highly recommended." — Library Journal
"Aiken's pastoral meadows and circus chaos, gothic grotesques and quirky romances… have a dream-like quality executed with a brevity and wit that is a testament to her skill as a story-teller." — California Literary Review
"From a bottled mermaid brought home from a sailor's adventures at sea to a vicar reincarnated as a malevolent cat, fantasy is combined with magic, myth and adventure to form weird, wonderful and immersive tales." — For Book's Sake
Best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (1924-2004) wrote over a hundred books and won the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards. After her first husband's death, she supported her family by copyediting at Argosy magazine and an advertising agency before turning to fiction. She went on to write for Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, Argosy, Women's Own, and many others. Visit her online at: www.joanaiken.com.
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Headphone maker Sennheiser is facing the music after being caught compromising the security of its customers.
The vendor's Headsetup and Headsetup Pro applications install both a root certificate and its secret private key on Windows and Mac computers, which can be used, for instance, by scumbags to intercept and decrypt users' encrypted HTTPS web browsing. In effect, installing the Headsetup software leaves you open to having your web connections snooped on or tampered with, and any sensitive information like passwords stolen.
A report out this week [PDF] by Secorvo Security Consulting details the blunder.
We're told Headsetup is a tool that connects voice chat websites to posh Sennheiser headsets. The software installs a trusted root security certificate, and uses that to open a local secure web socket, through which the website in the browser can access the swanky headphones using HTTPS. This secure link uses a TLS certificate chained to the installed root cert.
This is, we're told, required to avoid running afoul of cross-origin resource sharing rules put in place by modern browsers. The web socket requires a custom certificate because it must be assigned to the reserved IP address, 127.0.0.1 aka localhost. So Headsetup opens a web socket and presents a HTTPS certificate that is chained to the installed trusted root cert. The browser uses the installed root cert to check the socket's certificate is legit, and off it goes.
What is concerning to the researchers is that by having both the certificate and key present on the machine, an attacker can reuse the key – which is common to all installations – to create arbitrary HTTPS certificates for other websites and have them trusted by Headsetup users because the bogus certs are chained to the installed trusted root security certificate. This also means intercepted SSL/TLS connections can be decrypted, and malware can be digitally signed and trusted as legit software. This is music to the ears of determined hackers.
"We found that – caused by a critical implementation flaw – the secret signing key of one of the clandestine planted root certificates can be easily obtained by an attacker. This allows him or her to sign and issue technically trustworthy certificates," Secorvo explained.
"Users affected by this implementation bug can become victim of such a certificate forgery, allowing an attacker to send e.g. trustworthy signed software or acting as an authority authorised by Sennheiser."
For example, an attacker could create a malicious password-stealing website that masquerades as a bank or shopping site, then place a link to the website on a support forum frequented by Sennheiser headset owners. When a Headsetup user visits the fake page, the site presents a HTTPS certificate chained to the HeadSetup root cert to pass itself off as a legit secure website. The bogus site would then ask for a username and password – something like "please login to continue" – and swipe the credentials before redirecting to the real site. That would require the fake site to have a carefully crafted domain name like store.amazom.com.
However, if it's possible for the hacker to control the victim's DNS lookups, the bogus website can appear even more legit by using a familiar domain name and having a little green padlock to show it's secure. A man in the MIDI, sorry, middle attack could also use the root cert and key to intercept and decrypt HTTPS connections to legit websites on the fly. Precautions can be taken to mitigate these kinds of shenanigans.
All in all, though, even if Sennheiser customers were in no immediate danger, this shabby approach to security is not a great look.
Fortunately, Sennheiser has already posted an update to rectify the issue by removing the certificates and keys. Now the software relies on a key that only Sennheiser privately keeps a copy of.


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Wayne McLaren, an American model who portrayed the Marlboro Man in the famous cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer?
James Blake Miller, made famous in a 2004 photograph during the Second Battle of Fallujah as the "Marlboro Marine", suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and was discharged exactly one year after his picture made worldwide news?
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Ahir, avui i demà (títol original en italià: Ieri, oggi, domani) és una pel·lícula italiana dirigida per Vittorio de Sica, estrenada el 1963 i doblada al català.

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Pel·lícula en 3 parts: Adelina, Anna i Mara.

La primera història explica com una venedora de cigarretes aconsegueix esquivar una multa durant anys valent-se d'un subterfugi legal: les lleis italianes no permeten tancar a la presó per un delicte menor a una dona embarassada o en període post-part. Així que cada any Adelina porta un nou fill al món, fins que el seu marit queda esgotat i no pot complir, generant un divertit conflicte a la parella.

El segon episodi relata el conflicte d'una rica dona i la seva passió per un interessant periodista de classe mitjana. Al final, la diferència de classes i la frivolitat de la dama s'imposen amb un ruptura còmica, com si De Sica s'hagués penedit del to amb el qual va començar aquesta història en particular.

L'últim relat ens porta un personatge més estereotipat, la típica prostituta de "bon cor" que realitza la seva bona acció del dia en ajudar a la seva moralista veïna a que el seu net segueixi en el seminari.

Repartiment
 Sophia Loren: Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara
 Marcello Mastroianni: Carmine Sbaratti / Renzo / Augusto Rusconi
 Aldo Giuffrè: Pasquale Nardella (la part d'"Adelina")
 Agostino Salvietti: Dr. Verace (la part d'"Adelina")
 Lino Mattera: Amedeo Scapece (la part d'"Adelina")
 Silvia Monelli: Elivira Nardella (la part d'"Adelina")
 Armando Trovajoli: Giorgio Ferrario (la part d'"Anna")
 Tina Pica: Àvia Ferrario (la part de "Mara")
 Gianni Ridolfi: Umberto (la part de "Mara")

Premis
 Oscar a la millor pel·lícula de parla no anglesa.
 BAFTA al millor actor per Marcello Mastroianni

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Pel·lícules d'Itàlia del 1963
Pel·lícules del 1963 doblades al català
Pel·lícules de comèdia d'Itàlia
Pel·lícules guanyadores de l'Oscar a la millor pel·lícula de parla no anglesa
Pel·lícules de comèdia del 1963
Pel·lícules ambientades a Itàlia


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Represented Texas's 2nd Congressional District. This is his 7th term in the House.
André Carson
Represented Indiana's 7th Congressional District. This is his 6th term in the House.
Ted Poe and André Carson are from different parties and disagreed on 72 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
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Sept. 7, 2017 — Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico Amendment No. 31
Sept. 7, 2017 — Castro of Texas Part B Amendment No. 75
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NEW ORLEANS � Oregon freshman women�s golfer Cassy Isagawa finished second overall while the Ducks were tied for eighth at the finish of the three-round Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate.
No. 20 Oregon fell two spots on the final day at English Turn Golf & Country Club on Tuesday.
Isagawa fired a 4-over 7 the day after tying the school record with a 7-under 65. She finished with 212 overall, one stroke behind Colorado�s Alex Stewart, who closed with a 5-under 67.
Oregon (294-302-301�897) actually was led by Raphaela Dyer in the last round after she shot a 71 to finished at 225 to tie for 30th. Freshman Cali Hipp tied for 25th, shooting a final-round 76 to finish at 223.
In the team standings, No. 13 Duke (295-294-288�877) shot an even-par Tuesday, jumping up one spot into first.
LONG BEACH, Calif. � Oregon men�s golf beat UC Davis, 3 1/2-1 1/2, and then No. 6 USC in a tiebreak, at the Del Walker Match Play event at Virginia Country Club.
In the final round against the Trojans, Duck winners included Eugene Wong (No. 1, 2 and 1) and Daniel Miernicki (No. 2, 3 and 2). Rak Cho tied while losing were Robbie Ziegler (No. 3, 4 and 2) and Andrew Vijarro (No. 4, 4 and 2).
Oregon State�s men lost their two matches on Tuesday.
First was a 4 1/2-1/2 loss to UCLA in the semifinals, before a 4-1 loss to California in a final.
New Hope Christian men�s basketball players Harley Turner and Forest Stolk were named first-team all-West Region by the NCCAA on Monday.
Turner, a freshman forward from Sheldon High, led the Deacons (8-24) with 14.1 points per game. Stolk led the NCCA Division II with 345 total rebounds this season.
He also led the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference with 52.7 percent shooting from the floor and total blocked shots with 67.
Several Lane women�s basketball players and their coach were named all-Southern Region by the NWAACC on Tuesday, as voted on by Southern Region coaches.
Lane�s Greg Sheley won coach of the year. Kersey Wilcox was named to the first team and was the region�s freshman of the year. Reed Levings and Megan Shields earned second-team honors and were named to all-sophomore and freshman teams, respectively.
Joleen Chanco was all-freshman and all-defense, and Reed Levings joined her on the latter.
For the men�s Southern Region team, Lane�s Tyler Coleman was named second team, Nick Lindsey was honorable mention and Levi Strandberg was all-freshman.
CORVALLIS � Former Oregon State two-sport standout Jess Lewis is one of 76 Bowl Subdivision players to be included on the 2012 College Football Hall of Fame enshrinement ballot, the National Football Foundation announced Tuesday.
Lewis, an Aumsville native, competed in both football and wrestling.
In football he was honored as a two-time all-Pac-8 Conference defensive tackle and was recognized as a 1967 all-American. His tackle of O.J. Simpson in 1967 preserved the Beavers� 3-0 upset of No. 1 USC.
On the wrestling mat, Lewis won two NCAA heavyweight titles.


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Maverick Name Meaning & Origin
Pronunciation: MA-və-rik (key)
Mav, Rick
US Popularity of Maverick Over Time
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Comments and insights on the name Maverick: | Edit
We came across the name Maverick in 2006 when I was pregnant with our first child together. We found out we were having a girl. But my Husband loved this name because believe it or not my Husband's name is Starsky and our Son's name is Hutch,we figured that name went well with Starsky and Hutch. So in 2008 when we found out we were pregnant with a boy. There was no doubt in our minds about what we were going to name him. Then the "McCain-Palin" thing started and I was worried about people comparing his name. When people hear his name they say "Daddy must be a Cowboy".
I named my son "Maverick" before McCain-Palin started using the name!!!
My son's name is Maverick and he is very smart. I also love that there is no one else around or in his school with the same name. I like different.
My name is Maverick, middle name Blaise (blaze) and i was born in 1990. I was looking up a name for my child and found this website. Can't lie i'm pretty upset that other people share my name.. :( :( lol but i'm just going to have to get over it. By the way i was named after Top Gun.
My names Maverick too. I always get when people read my name off in school they always ask if I was named after Top Gun. NOOO I wasnt i say that i wasnt name after the mel gibson movie maverick either. My dad is condsidered to me a cowboy and just loves all the western movies and that way of life and so the classic tv western named Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly is the show that I was named after. So when you go to wath the Mel Gibson version which is also a good movie, Cooper the Marshall I beleive or Coop is James Garner. He is the original Bret Maverick.
I named my son Maverick in 1991, but I had wanted to use the name since the Maverick TV series. I wanted to give him a name with a meaning he could live up to, one that nobody else in the family had, and one that would not invite ridicule from other kids as he was growing up.
There were twins my age when I was in high school named Maverick and Marshal, they were very popular and well liked. I always thought the name Maverick had a major cool factor.
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My son Mavryck (spelling change because i like to sub i for y and visa versa) was born in 2002. I got this name for my son from the movie Maverick (Mel Gibson) my husband being a huge fan of Top Gun (Tom Cruise) thinks that's where it came from. I love the country life, I wanted a son that would ride bulls and I wanted his name to sound tough and sexy so when he stared dating parents were skeptical about letting their daughter go out with him. I named my youngest son Hawkyns (2005), needed something just as tough for the next boy. So far they have exceeded expectations from their names, however, skateboarding and dirtbiking will out rank bull riding anyday. Oh well. My firstborn (daughter) is Bethani.
I have loved the name for a while from Tom Cruise in Top Gun to when McCain was running for President.I thought "Maverick" is such a Great name, masculine, non conforming, independent and strong. Even down to the flight emblem under it on McCains political stickers. It did it for us! i think we have a winner with this name!and its unique. I dont know any Mavericks on the playgrounds.
When I got pregnant with our son back in 1997 I was set on the name "Hunter". Well wouldn't you know, everyone named their boy Hunter that year. I've always had Maverick in the back of my mind so when hubby and I sat down to go over names I just blurted out "Maverick". He looked at me and said "That's cool, I like it". We get mixed reactions from "Wow, that's sooo cool" to a sweet little old lady saying "Why in the world would you name your son after a cow?". Our son definatley lives up to his name!
My cousin named her first child Maverick Robert. When I first found out that she was planning to name him Maverick, I thought it was a little strange, but I liked it after a little consideration. Then when I found out that his middle name was Robert, I lauged because now we can call him Ricky Bobby. HA! Anyway, he now has a little sister named Abby.
Nicknames for Maverick: | Edit
Rick, Mav, Mack, MavMan , Avi, Mick, Pete Mitchell, Ricky, Mavie, Mickey
Meanings and history of the name Maverick: | Edit
A 19th century Texas rancher with the surname of 'Maverick' refused to brand his calves. The name has since been used to describe an "independent" person or way of thinking.
It's not simply following a minority way of thinking, it's being different and unique entirely and not following the general view of things if it isn't something you believe in.
Maverick - means unbranded calf
Maverick -- also means "rebel"
Famous real-life people named Maverick: | Edit
A 17-year old named Samuel Maverick was killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. This was the trigger event for the American Revolutionary War. Maverick Square in Boston is named for him.
One Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870), was a Texas rancher, legislator and a signer of the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence.
Maverick Reed McKinney, son of Taylor McKinney & Maci Bookout on Teen Mom.
Maverick Burnett - Bassist of Australian band Forever Ends Here.
Maverick Baker (b. 2000)- Tiktok star and pop singer
Maverick in song, story & screen: | Edit
LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is the hero of the 1986 film "Top Gun"
Brothers Bret and Bart Maverick from the '50s-'60s tv Western "Maverick"
Titular character from the Mel Gibson Western "Maverick"
How does Maverick sound to you?
Current Popularity of Maverick by State
Global Popularity of the Name Maverick
#202 in Canada (Quebec)
#511 in United States


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Nearly White Hot Stamper
This superb pressing of Graceland offers Nearly Triple Plus (A++ to A+++) sound from first note to last - just shy of our Shootout Winner
These side are doing it all right -- big, rich and Tubey Magical yet still clean, clear and present with lovely breathy vocals
Guaranteed to TROUNCE the well-reviewed but nevertheless awful Heavy Vinyl LP in every way, or your money back and the shipping is on us
5 stars: "An enormously successful record, Graceland became the standard against which subsequent musical experiments by major artists were measured."
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These Nearly White Hot Stamper pressings have top quality sound that's often surprisingly close to our White Hots, but they sell at substantial discounts to our Shootout Winners, making them a relative bargain in the world of Hot Stampers ("relative" being relative considering the prices we charge). We feel you get what you pay for here at Better Records, and if ever you don't agree, please feel free to return the record for a full refund, no questions asked.
This vintage Warner Brothers pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records rarely even BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing signs of coming back. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to "see" the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with Paul Simon, this is the record for you. It's what vintage all analog recordings are known for -- this sound.
Both sides here have more weight down low and more presence to Simon's vocals. There's a pleasant smoothness here, standing in sharp contrast to the typically grainy, spitty copy.
Super transparent and hi-res with no attendant sacrifice in the low end or fullness, this is about as tonally balanced as Graceland gets.
What the best sides of Graceland have to offer is not hard to hear:
The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space
The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes even as late as 1986
Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low
Natural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre
Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space
No doubt there's more but we hope that should do for now. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.
Piles and Piles
We listen to piles of pressings of Graceland regularly. We know the range of sound on the album, what constitutes good, better and best, and we know precisely what qualities the premier copy must have in order to win one of our shootouts.
Above all the thing Graceland has going for it sonically is CLARITY. It has many other good qualities as well: It can be open and spacious, tonally correct, with punchy, tight bass and present, breathy vocals.
The better copies have all these qualities to some degree, but the one quality a good copy must have is clarity because that's what's especially good about the sound of the record.
Without clarity, the music doesn't work. The shortest definition of a Hot Stamper is that it's the pressing where the music works. You can be sure that any Hot Stamper copy on our site has at least that going for it.
Graceland Issues
The biggest problem with the sound of Graceland that we encounter in our shootouts is GRAIN. If you've got a copy lying around, throw it on and listen closely to the vocals. Odds are that you'll hear more grain than texture, and that's not the most pleasing way to hear this music.
Other big issues were lack of energy, an overall dark quality, thickness, and congestion. We had to play a bunch of copies to find those that were both smooth and involving, but it was worth the trouble when we heard how correct and musical the best pressings sounded.
What We're Listening For on Graceland
Less grit - smoother and sweeter sound, something that is not easy to come by on Graceland.
A bigger presentation - more size, more space, more room for all the instruments and voices to occupy. The bigger the speakers you have to play this record the better.
More bass and tighter bass. This is a rock record. It needs weight down low to sound the way Roy Halee wanted it to.
Present, breathy vocals. A veiled midrange is the rule, not the exception.
Good top end extension to reproduce the harmonics of the instruments and details of the recording including the studio ambiance.
Presence and immediacy. The vocals aren't "back there" somewhere, way behind the speakers. They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt -- Roy Halee in this case -- would have put them.
Last but not least, balance. All the elements from top to bottom should be heard in harmony with each other. Take our word for it, assuming you haven't played a pile of these yourself, balance is not that easy to find.
Our best copies will have it though, of that there is no doubt.
Not only is it hard to find great copies of this album, it ain't easy to play 'em either. You're going to need a hi-res, super low distortion front end with careful adjustment of your arm in every area -- VTA, tracking weight, azimuth, and anti-skate -- in order to play this album properly. If you've got the goods you're gonna love the way this copy sounds. Play it with a budget cart/table/arm and you're likely to hear a great deal less magic than we did.
Mint Minus Minus is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)
Those of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of later pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic that is a key part of the appeal of these wonderful recordings.
Heavy Vinyl
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With Graceland, Paul Simon hit on the idea of combining his always perceptive songwriting with the little-heard mbaqanga music of South Africa, creating a fascinating hybrid that re-enchanted his old audience and earned him a new one. It is true that the South African angle (including its controversial aspect during the apartheid days) was a powerful marketing tool and that the catchy music succeeded in presenting listeners with that magical combination: something they'd never heard before that nevertheless sounded familiar.
As eclectic as any record Simon had made, it also delved into zydeco and conjunto-flavored rock & roll while marking a surprising new lyrical approach (presaged on some songs on Hearts and Bones); for the most part, Simon abandoned a linear, narrative approach to his words, instead drawing highly poetic ("Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"), abstract ("The Boy in the Bubble"), and satiric ("I Know What I Know") portraits of modern life, often charged by striking images and turns of phrase torn from the headlines or overheard in contemporary speech.
An enormously successful record, Graceland became the standard against which subsequent musical experiments by major artists were measured.
Where did this thick, dull, bloated, opaque turd come from? Having played at least 50 copies of the album over the last ten years, I can honestly say I have never heard one that sounded remotely like this new version. (Maybe some record club copy we picked up by accident did, can't say it never happened.)
Can that possibly be a good thing?
Well, in favor of that proposition I guess you could say it sounds less like a CD now. On the other side of the ledger, it now sounds a great deal more like a bad LP.
We listen to piles of pressings of Graceland regularly. We know what the album generally sounds like, the range from bad to good, and we know what qualities the very best copies must have in order to win one of our shootouts.
Above all the one thing Graceland has going for it sonically is CLARITY. It can be open and spacious, tonally correct, with punchy, tight bass and present, breathy vocals. The best of the best copies have all these qualities, but the one quality any good copy must have is clarity, because that's what's good about the sound of the record. Without clarity the music doesn't even work.
The new version has been "fixed". It got rid of all that pesky grit and grain and CD-like sound from the original digital mix by heavy-handedly equalizing them away.
Cut the top, cut the upper mids, boost the lower mids and upper bass and voila - now it's what Graceland would have sounded like had it been all analog from the start, AAA baby!
Or at least analog for those who don't know what good analog sounds like.
But it never was all analog, and trying to make it sound that way just ruins the one quality that it actually had going for it -- clarity.
You can adjust your VTA and other table settings until you're blue in the face, you'll never get this pressing to sound right, and you'll certainly never get it to sound very much like any Sterling original pressing I've ever heard.
The digital spit and grit is still there, under the darker EQ. And now it's even worse -- Simon's voice has a thick, dull blanket over it, but you can still hear the spit underneath it.
You could probably take the CD and equalize it to sound like this record. But what would be the point of that?
Well, perhaps there is a point to this equalization madness.
The CD already exists. It has a sound.
The original record has a sound too, and it's a fairly common LP in the used bins. You could buy two or three for not that much money and try to find one you like better than the vinyl version you probably already own.
Or, dissatisfied with the sound of the original records and CDs above, and not in the market to spend hundreds of dollars on a good copy from us, you could look at the new Heavy Vinyl pressing as another option, a different take, a new approach, something along those lines.
Just don't think that by doing so you're going to hear Graceland the way Paul Simon, Roy Halee, or the folks at Sterling wanted you to hear it.
They produced millions of copies that mostly sound one way, and now some fellows -- at least one of whom was involved with the old project, to be fair, but that was 40 years ago (!), and it's fair to point that out too, right? -- some new fellows have produced a few thousand copies that sound another way.
It's clear to us who got it right, but based on what I've been reading in preparation for writing this commentary, the audiophile reviewers and at least some of the audiophile public at large see the matter differently.
We are more than happy to let you decide the issue for yourself. Rather than throwing up our hands and saying "we give up", we actually would like to help you make an informed decision.
To that end we will happily send you our copy of the Heavy Vinyl version along with your purchase of any Hot Stamper of Graceland on the site. Play them head to head and let the chips fall where they may.
The only thing we ask is that you return it to us so the next person who wants to compare the two can do so. (Assuming you like the Hot Stamper better of course. If you don't, send them both back for a full refund, including the domestic shipping. No, really, we insist.)