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Top Ten Tuesday – Halloween Recommendations!
October 27, 2015 by Erin 5 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the awesome and wonderful people over at The Broke and The Bookish
So I'm not really one for creepy, scary books, but I have read some books that would make some great halloween reads! You might have played along with us this past Wednesday when we did our Halloweenish Themed WYAKW and we featured 5 ks there and I wanted to highlight them again here!
Check out some books that I would consider great reads for the Halloween season!
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.
Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.
Yet she spares Cas's life.
There are whispers of a ghost in the slaughterhouse where sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic—a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. When one of the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor, humiliates Wen, she makes an impulsive wish of her own, and the Ghost grants it. Brutally.
Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including their outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the Ghost and learns he has been watching her… for a very long time.
As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen must confront her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wen's, and her need to appease the Ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threat—real or imagined. She must decide whom she can trust, because as her heart is torn, the factory is exploding around her… and she might go down with it.
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family…
Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.
The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals–well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.
Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem–staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is.
If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.
Philadelphia 1876. The Dead are rising. A zombie delivers a letter to Eleanor Fitt. Whoever controls the Dead Army has her brother. She avoids her mother's choice of husband for the lab of Spirit Hunters, including the maddeningly stubborn yet handsome Daniel. The situation threatens her reputation, and the lives of everyone in the city.
Here are 5 we didn't feature but that I still think would make amazing reads for the season!
The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming…
This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth.
In that place where you're more asleep than awake any more, I hear something else. A phrase uttered in a child's voice, no more than a whisper: Night Night.
Something freaky's going on with Sunshine's new house . . . there's the chill that wraps itself around her bones, the giggling she can hear in the dead of night, and then the strange shadows that lurk in her photographs. But the more weird stuff that happens, the less her mum believes her. Sunshine's always had a quirky affiliation with the past, but this time, history is getting much too close for comfort . . .
If there is something, or someone, haunting her house, what do they want? And what will they do if Sunshine can't help them?
As things become more frightening and dangerous, and the giggles she hears turn to sobs and screams, Sunshine has no choice but to accept what she is, face the test before her and save her mother from a fate worse than death.
Eighteen-year-old Arcadia wants adventure. Living in a tiny Florida town with her dad and four-year-old brother, Cadie spends most of her time working, going to school, and taking care of her family. So when she meets two handsome cousins at a campfire party, she finally has a chance for fun. They invite her and friend to join them on a road trip, and it's just the risk she's been craving-the opportunity to escape. But what starts out as a fun, sexy journey quickly becomes dangerous when she discovers that one of them is not at all who he claims to be. One of them has deadly intentions.
Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary–including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby's assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it's an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it's a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police–with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane–deny.
Doctor Who meets Sherlock in William Ritter's debut novel, which features a detective of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the macabre.
Three students: dead.
Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace.
Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, "the girl of nowhere."
Kaitlyn's diary, discovered in the ruins of Elmbridge High, reveals the thoughts of a disturbed mind. Its charred pages tell a sinister version of events that took place that tragic night, and the girl of nowhere is caught in the center of it all. But many claim Kaitlyn doesn't exist, and in a way, she doesn't – because she is the alter ego of Carly Johnson.
Carly gets the day. Kaitlyn has the night. It's during the night that a mystery surrounding the Dead House unravels and a dark, twisted magic ruins the lives of each student that dares touch it.
Debut author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves together a thrilling and terrifying story using psychiatric reports, witness testimonials, video footage, and the discovered diary – and as the mystery grows, the horrifying truth about what happened that night unfolds.
There you go! My list of books that you should read this Halloween season! What do you think? Have your read any of these? What are your Halloween reads? Let us know in the comments!
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Due to the demand of Mr Harriss performing vasectomy reversals for those who live overseas or even far from Nottingham in Wales, Scotland and Ireland, we have put together some information to assist you.
All can fly home the following day but please note that you will not be able to leave the hospital until around about 10am so please plan all arrangements with this in mind.
For those planning to fly long-haul (Dubai, Saudi Arabia, China, Phillipines, New Zealand for example) will be supplied and fitted with anti-embolism stockings whilst in the hospital. These will need to be worn home on the plane.
Where can I stay before or after the vasectomy reversal?
Some people have decided to stay the night elsewhere before they need to attend the BMI The Park Hospital. Others have decided that they wanted to spend a night or so close by before they flew home. We have had very favourable reports from the Cockliffe Hotel which is about a 3 minutes drive from the hospital. They offer a discounted rate for those attending the BMI Park Hospital, Nottingham where your surgery will take place. Through their website you can book online.
Where do I have the 3 month post op analysis?
We do not expect you to fly back but if you do plan to return, even if it isn't at exactly 3 months post -op, then you can have your analysis performed then. It will need some planning so if this is your intention, please complete the form here around 3 weeks before you intend to travel to the UK. CARE Fertility will only see you for your analysis Monday to Friday afternoon appointments only.
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Do you know of any taxi firms that can help get to the airport?
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O Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol Feminino Sub-20 é uma competição de futebol feminino organizada a cada dois anos pela Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (CONMEBOL) para jogadoras com até 20 anos de idade. Na primeira edição, apenas jogadoras até 19 anos eram permitidas.

É disputado desde 2004 e classifica as seleções participantes para a Copa do Mundo de Futebol Feminino Sub-20. A Seleção Brasileira foi campeã de todas as oito edições já realizadas.

Em 2002, seria realizado em Córdoba, na Argentina, o I Sul-Americano Sub-19, mas a desistência da Argentina, e posteriormente da Colômbia, resumiu a disputa da vaga para o Mundial do Canadá em partidas eliminatórias entre Peru e Brasil. O Brasil venceu por 6 x 0 em Lima, dia 17/03/2002, e também por 6 x 0 em Cuiabá, em 28/03, garantindo a vaga.

Resultados

Resultados por país

Classificação geral
Atualizado até o Sul-Americano de 2018

Artilheiros

Desempenho na Copa do Mundo
Até as Copas do Mundo de 2002 e 2004, a América do Sul tinha direito a apenas uma vaga para o mundial. Em 2002, Brasil e Peru disputaram um play-off de ida e volta, com a vitória do Brasil por 12 a 0 no placar agregado. A partir de 2006 a América do Sul passou a ter direito a duas vagas no mundial.

QF = Quartas de final
FG = Fase de grupos

Ver também

 CONMEBOL
 Campeonato Sul-Americano Feminino
 Campeonato Sul-Americano Feminino Sub-17
 Copa Libertadores da América de Futebol Feminino

Ligações externas

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Q: Methods for managing configuration files between multiple environments Problem
We use java WAR files and keep config files in s3 buckets. Our environments: DEV,QA, Stage, and PROD each have their own config files and s3 buckets. If I add a new field, such as "Polling_RATE=5000", it must be manually added to each env because these config files also store passwords so they can not be tied to the application or kept inside Github. Not every engineer has access to each env so you must remember to inform the upper level engineers (DEVOPS) before the prod deployment date to add the new field for the application to work. Its a really messy process currently.
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Is there a utility or architectural design pattern meant to deal with this? How do you "version control" sensitive configuration fields that you can not store within github?

A: Recognizable problem.
Usually config fields with sensitive information like passwords change a lot less often than non-sensitive configuration fields. A possible solution is to split the config in two parts:

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*Config that's environment-specific but doesn't contain sensitive information. I would advise you to keep these files together with your source code and if possible, generate the files and automatically upload then to your configuration store (S3 in your case) at build time. They must be versioned and tied to the version of your application.

*Config that contains sensitive information. Looking at the question, not all team members are allowed to read/write this information. You could store these in S3 with specific access rights so that only authorized members can access them. You would need a mechanism to join the files back together at deployment, or change the app to read from different config files.
However, this will only solve part of your problem. The ops guys will still need to perform changes when sensitive config keys change. Whether this is acceptable depends on how often sensitive config keys change.

An alternative to S3 could be to run a private Git repository (AWS's CodecCommit, for example). You'd have better version control and easier access for the devs to perform changes, since you're already using Git. You'll still have to fix the split access rights between dev and ops, or let that go (since DevOps is about trust and cooperation, that might be a good idea). You could apply a similar pattern here as I described above.
Another solution could be to move the configuration of sensitive values from property files to the system configuration. When you already use a provisioning system like Puppet or Chef, this will feel natural for the ops guys. Or set all sensitive values like passwords as environment variables and have the app read it as system properties.
Hope this helps!

A: We have been using dynamodb for keeping config values. The advantage with this approach is that the values are easily readable from console and validated.
Also another advantage is that we periodically check the values from dynamodb so if any value needs to be changed we just change it and the app automatically picks the new value instead of starting it again.
Sensitive values are stored encrypted using KMS keys and only the ec2 role that is running the application has right to decrypt using that Key.
We enhanced the Netflix archiaus project to fit our needs. May be you can check that out.

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Q: Does BEGIN statement starts a new transaction in Redshift? I perform the following operations in Redshift -

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*COPY from S3 to a temp table

*BEGIN

*more commands...
I see that that no new transaction is created after the begin and the commands continue running under the transaction of the COPY command. Does this make sense?
I use JDBC driver 1.2.8. Saw a different behavior in 1.1.7.
Is this by any chance changed in the driver? (didn't find any connection though)
Doc -
https://s3.amazonaws.com/redshift-downloads/drivers/Amazon+Redshift+JDBC+Release+Notes.pdf

A: Sounds like you have a different autocommit setting since the change in driver.


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SICK THEORIES
A Trans-Discplinary Conference on Sickness & Sexuality
Navigation About Accessibility Conference Organizers SCHEDULE Keynote Events
Johanna Hedva in conversation with Margeaux Feldman
about Hedva's novel On Hell
Date: Friday, November 9, 4:30-6pm
Address: Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100, 170 St. George Street, Toronto.
For the keynote of Sick Theories, Margeaux Feldman and Johanna Hedva will be in conversation about Hedva's new novel On Hell (2018). On Hell rewrites the Icarus myth from a crip perspective, setting it in 21st-century Los Angeles and exploring the insurrectionary capacity of the crip, queer, sick body. Hedva and Feldman will roam topics like crip futurity, the U.S. prison industrial complex, body horror as a generative genre for disability justice, astrology, and the ways in which health circulates as currency. To close, there will be a brief Q&A with the audience. This talk is free and open to the public.
On Hell transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, hacking itself away from contemporary society. Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory, takes the ferocious compulsion to escape (from capitalism, from the limits of the body-machine, from Earth), and channels it into an evisceration of oppression and authority. Equal parts tender and brutal, romantic and furious, On Hell is a novel about myths that trick and resist totalitarianism. The book is available through Sator Press.
Content warning: racism, homophobia, transphobia, intergenerational trauma, incarceration, ableism, self-harm.
Photo by Pamila Payne
Johanna Hedva is a fourth-generation Los Angelena on their mother's side and, on their father's side, the grandchild of a woman who escaped from North Korea. Hedva is the author of the novel, On Hell (2018, Sator Press). From 2012 to 2015, their series of queered Ancient Greek plays, The Greek Cycle, was performed in Los Angeles, in venues like a Honda Odyssey being driven down the freeway. Their works of performance, design, and sound have been shown at Machine Project, Human Resources LA, PAM, High Desert Test Sites, the Getty's 2013 Pacific Standard Time, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Hedva has published books in handmade limited editions, and their fiction, essays, and poems have appeared in Triple Canopy, The White Review, Black Warrior Review, Entropy, Mask, 3:AM, Asian American Literary Review, The Journal Petra, DREGINALD, and others. Their ongoing project This Earth, Our Hospital includes the essays Sick Woman Theory, In Defense of De-persons, and Letter to a Young Doctor.
Photo by Angela Lewis
Margeaux Feldman is a writer, educator, and activist living in Tkaronto. She's currently finishing up her PhD in English Literature at the University of Toronto, where she's also a part of the collaborative program with the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Her dissertation, Hideous Girls, Sick Women, traces the legacy of hysteria into our contemporary moment, looking at different sites where teen girls and young women continue to have their sexuality pathologized. Margeaux also holds a Certificate in Community Engaged Learning from the University of Toronto. Her creative and academic writing have been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, GUTS Magazine, The Vault, Minola Review, The Puritan, FEELS Zine, Hook & Eye, and she has a piece forthcoming in Invisibilities Zine. She's currently at work on a memoir entitled The Bed of Sickness: Essays on Care, which chronicles the legacy of sickness in her family, including her mother's death from cancer, her father's diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and her own diagnoses of complex-PTSD, anxiety and panic disorders, and fibromyalgia.
love for On Hell:
I mean, fuck. How do we get there, this rooted, brutalized, devastating space where we are forced to experience the capability of language to create a world in which all the noise around you is distortion, escape is a splintered hope, and the performance of life is the performance of bloody meat, existence as persistently crossed and breath an interstitial dream of falling. Fuck, I say, as NIN's "Starfuckers, Inc" is playing in the back of my head and the swells of this world become the swells of my own blood pumping through my yet-to-be-corpse. Brilliant. Fervent. Unafraid and unapologetic. This text will consume you. — Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn't Blue
At some point while reading On Hell, I had the sensation that my heart had pushed through my chest, my brain had pushed through my skull, and my guts had pushed through my abdomen, and that I was, in solidarity with Hedva's writing, wearing my insides on the outside of my body. Only writing this nakedly vulnerable could be this intensely embodied, and only writing this intensely embodied could be this insurrectionary. — Brandon Shimoda, author of The Desert
On Hell is a story of a 21st-century Icarus-as-hacker, a wild dreamer who builds a set of wings from the internet woods. Hedva writes with fierce clarity on the perimeters of global power and the skyscraper stakes of truth, where "the money is closest to the sun," and those confined to the prison-yard ground have a bird's eye view to this endless machine of technology and body mass. This book thrives inside the meat of my terrors and the clouds of my hopes. It's affirming to read work that recognizes technology as a real-life blood web that has the capacity to both free and enslave the human spirit. — Nikki Wallschlaeger, author of Crawlspace
A hundred white-screen articles might never get in your blood like On Hell. — Overland
It's fucking brilliant. I'm in love. If there have to be novels, On Hell is what they should do. — Anne Boyer, author of Garments Against Women and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate


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NASHVILLE — Following the Nashville Potential predators scored for any fifth period, on a excellent spin-o-rama objective from Rocco Grimaldi that will didn't precisely reflect nicely on Pheonix Copley, Wa Capitals chief Alex Ovechkin skated the size of the glaciers to give their goaltender a good encouraging faucet on the parts. It was framing up to become a rough Wednesday night for the whole team — but specifically Copley, that wouldn't receive the benefit of the mercy catch from their coach.
In one associated with Washington's most severe losses from the season, the particular Capitals had been routed with the Predators, 7-2, to drop their particular third directly game. Their own lead within the Metropolitan Department has evaporated — the particular Columbus Glowing blue Jackets have got pulled in to a tie along with 59 factors — which can formally be considered a midseason slump. Wa has dropped six from the past 9 games, and it also scored the first five-on-five goal (courtesy of Capital t. J. Oshie) in 3 games whenever there was lower than four mins left within the third time period. The Capitals already trailed by 6 at that point.
Goaltender Braden Holtby was initially planned to start contrary to the Predators, yet after a stay got via his cover up and trimmed him within the left attention Saturday evening against the Glowing blue Jackets, the particular Capitals made a decision to play this safe together with his health. The team speaker said prior to the game that will Holtby has been capable of actively playing, which is why this individual was accessible in a back-up capacity for another straight video game, but "the club has been extra careful with your pet as he completely recovers together with his injury. " After the online game, Coach Todd Reirden mentioned the group learned just a couple hours just before puck fall that Holtby "wasn't likely to be able to enjoy, " plus there was not time to remember another goaltender.
That supposed Copley is at net for your second amount of time in as many evenings, and as the overall game got lopsided, it designed he would definitely stay in internet, short of a personal injury.
Copley's teammates did not exactly create things simple on your pet. Playing upon tired hip and legs after web hosting the St Louis Doldrums on Mon, the Capitals allowed too many odd-man pushes in the initial period.
Following a Tom Wilson cross-ice move in the unpleasant zone did not reach the intended focus on, Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm got ownership and leapt Viktor Arvidsson for a breakaway with a extend pass. Arvidsson scored a few: 45 in to the game for any 1-0 direct. Predators middle Nick Bonino added to the particular cushion ten: 33 to the period, completing on a two-on-one opportunity.
Poor met even worse less than 2 minutes in to the second time period when defenseman P. Nited kingdom. Subban's photo from the stage was deflected in front simply by Arvidsson just for his 2nd goal from the game. Criminal offense generated ahead of the net like this is some thing Reirden wished to see associated with from their own team. Entering Tuesday night time, Washington is at a rating slump along with just one objective in all of its previous two video games and with not one coming with five-on-five.
While the even-strength production went cold, the ability play provides started to switch the corner, the sliver of the silver liner. On the Capitals' first possibility of the game, middle Nicklas Backstrom redirected the pass through defenseman Sara Carlson to slice the Predators' deficit in order to two seven: 07 in to the second time period. Washington after that controlled enjoy enough in order to earn an additional man-advantage possibility 11: 41 into the body, when forwards Calle Jarnkrok went to the particular penalty container for stumbling.
That eventually cemented the particular Capitals' undoing. Just twenty-seven seconds in to the power perform, Washington converted the puck over on the failed area entry, plus Arvidsson obtained on a shorthanded breakaway, compelling hats hitting the snow in special event of their third objective of the evening. The Potential predators kept adding it upon, scoring 2 more targets before 2nd intermission, which includes one through Bonino along with six mere seconds left.
The 2nd game of the back-to-back towards one of the league's best groups was constantly going to be considered a challenge for your Capitals, specifically with Copley forced to enjoy two video games in 2 nights just for the second amount of time in his youthful NHL profession. But that will doesn't reason how badly Washington performed.
Halfway with the season, the particular Capitals show up fatigued, maybe both mentally and physically, after final year's long term to the franchise-first Stanley Mug championship.
Whenever Jarnkrok have scored the 7th goal just for Nashville, Capitals defenseman Shiny Niskanen clicked a stay on the Wa bench, a film of aggravation for a group that has appeared lost recently.


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Restaurant Ko's Nine Courses to Happiness
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Story By: Michelle Lee | Photos by: Anthony Consillio
Most likely you have driven past Restaurant Ko many times, perhaps even hundreds of times without realizing the culinary magnificence that lies behind its crisp, white walls. Replacing what was formerly Ninniku-Ya in Kaimuki, Restaurant Ko successfully elevates traditional Japanese kaiseki with a modern panache.
Dating back to centuries ago, kaiseki offers a traditional Japanese dining experience, consisting of a series of dishes meticulously and thoughtfully put together. While still remaining true to authentic Japanese-style fare, Restaurant Ko's delectable menu also boasts hints of European fusion.
"Where I come from in Osaka as well as in other parts of Japan, people are embracing foods from other lands," says Nariaki Nakano, executive chef at Restaurant Ko.
Diners looking to experience Nakano's contemporary take on kaiseki may choose from either the Ko Course ($55) or the Asahi Course ($40). Similar in style, the Ko Course offers eight to nine dishes comprised of a number of popular menu items. The courses, which vary slightly from month to month, utilize fresh seafood from both Hawaii's local fish market as well as the famed Tsukiji market in Japan.
Included in the course menu is Lotus Root Manju ($7), which features sliced lotus root with ginko nuts and savory crab gravy generously seasoned on top. Customers also frequently order Salmon and Ikura Kamameshi ($12) and Unagi Kamameshi ($13), which are beautifully set atop a steaming bowl of kettle rice.
Ko Course ($55). Pictured with Prime Beef Steak, and Salmon and Ikura Kamameshi.
Ahi Carpaccio ($11)
Sashimi (part of Ko Course)
Ko Course (pictured with Snow Crab, Salmon and Ikura, and Unagi Kamameshi)
Prime Beef Steak ($18)
Grilled Butterfish (part of Ko Course)
"Instead of using an electric rice cooker, we cook all of our rice using an iron pot," explains Nakano. "It allows the rice to be juicier and hold more flavor."
In addition to plentiful seafood and vegetable options, diners also will enjoy Restaurant Ko's unique take on meat dishes. The popular Prime Beef Steak ($18) infuses the meat overnight with a fermented rice mix of shoyu and koji, a traditional seasoning that allows the meat to stay tender when grilled.
By utilizing European-style cooking components with his Japanese-influenced expertise, Chef Nakano successfully blends the two cultures. The much praised Ahi Carpaccio ($11), which features slices of fresh ahi soaked in a mix of shoyu, wasabi, dashi and sesame oil, is a prime example.
"It looks like an Italian dish, but the flavors are very true to authentic Japanese custom," he says. "We like to employ different, more out-of-the-box cooking techniques that really add depth of flavor to the ingredients."
Restaurant Ko is also available for large parties, both indoors as well as outside, on its picturesque lanai space.
Restaurant & Bar Ko
3196 Waialae Ave., Honolulu
Sunday, 5 p.m.-midnight
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So the phone started ringing late Saturday night in the middle of the storm. We rounded up the troops and headed south with a three truck convoy. It was amazing driving down Route 57 when half way through Weston we started to see more and more trees down and then we arrived at the Westport border where it was like a war zone with trees, power lines and telephone poles everywhere. Every third road was closed and the GPS really got a work out trying to get us to our clients house who had a 4o inch diameter cherry tree that came through their roof, it took 45 minutes to go 2 miles with about 7 u-turns but we got there.
After we removed the large uprooted tree off of the roof and tied down a tarp so as to stop the waterfall in the kitchen it was on to all the neighbors who had approached us to help them out. Since that day we have been removing trees and storm damage debris full time every day across Westport and Wilton. Tomorrow we are headed to Stamford to remove downed trees at a condo complex and remove a pine that's leaning on a house then back to Westport and Weston to continue cleaning up of storm damage through the weekend.
Mulching your landscape trees and shrubs can potentially kill if done improperly. A recent and serious trend has been over-mulching landscape plants, also called mulch volcanoes. Not only is over-mulching a waste of mulch, (and a potentially costly one at that), it is rapidly becoming the number one cause of death to shrubs and trees.
One of the most common causes of stress by over-mulching is suffocation of plant roots. Repeated applications of mulch can contribute to a waterlogged soil and root zone by slowing soil water loss through evaporation. Roots must respire (breathe) and take in oxygen, unlike leaves which give off oxygen. When oxygen levels in the soil drop below 10 percent, root growth declines. When too many roots decline and die, the plant will eventually succumb.
It is most important to remember that the problems caused from yearly over-mulching are not immediate, but progress slowly with time. The symptoms may take 3 – 5 years to express themselves and sometimes longer, depending on the species and sod type. Unfortunately, by the time the symptoms are recognized it's generally too late to apply corrective measures. At this point, the plant has usually gone into an irreversible decline and will most likely die.
A second major cause of plant decline and death from over-mulching comes from the piles of mulch being placed against the stems of trees and shrubs. The above ground stem and trunk tissue is very different from root tissues. Roots have evolved many mechanisms to survive in continually moist environments, the trunks of most woody species have not. Above ground stems must be able to freely exchange adequate amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide through lenticels. When mulch is piled onto the trunks, gas exchange decreases with phloem tissue eventually becoming stressed and later dying. When the phloem dies, roots are malnourished and weakened to the point where they suffer reduced water and nutrient uptake, which subsequently affects the health of the whole plant.
A third mortality factor which is associated with the application of mulching next to stem tissue involves fungal and bacterial diseases. Most plant diseases require moisture to grow and reproduce. Trunk diseases are no exception and will usually gain entry into the stressed, decaying bark tissue caused by the homeowners unknowingly piling the mulch next to the tree trunk. Once established, even secondary fungal invaders such as Phytophthora and Armillaria species will eventually kill the inner bark, thereby starving the roots, and ultimately killing the plant. Many times, bark beetles and borers (which are also attracted to the stressed trees) will assist in the decline of the tree and allow other fungal pathogens entrance into the tree. This has been observed with clearwinged borers which normally attack higher on the stem.
Excess heat can also be generated when wet mulch layers placed up against the stem begin to decompose. Similar to composting where inner mulch layers may reach 120° to 140° F., the heat may kill young tree and shrub phloem, or, may prevent the natural hardening off process plants must go through to prepare themselves for winter.
The continuous use of the same type of mulch may also contribute to plant stress by ultimately changing the soil's acidity level, commonly referred to as soil pH. Acid mulches like pine bark may have a pH of 3.5 to 4.5 and when applied year in and year out, may cause the soil to become too acid to grow many alkaline requiring plants. Due to the increased solubility of many micronutrients in acid soil, toxic levels of nucronutrients may lead to additional plant stress which in turn allows secondary pathogens and insects to invade. Conversely, hardwood bark mulch, which is initially acidic, may cause the soil to eventually become too basic or alkaline causing acid loving plants to quickly decline because of micronutrient deficiencies. Soil pH's above 6.5 – 7.0 usually create micronutrient deficiencies of iron, manganese, and zinc for many common, acid-loving, landscape plants. Small changes in soil acidity can be avoided by periodically monitoring soil pH and rotating the type of mulch used.
Placing piles of mulch adjacent to tree trunks can also kill plants by providing cover and habitat for chewing rodents such as small mice, meadow voles, etc.. With lots of cover from predators, the rodents will usually live under the warm mulch in the winter and chew on the tender and nutritious inner bark to get at the sugars. This chewing off of the bark many times goes unnoticed until the following spring or summer when the tree doesn't look good. If the chewing is extensive or goes around the whole tree, there is little that can be done to save the tree. Bridge grafting with strips of bark over the girdled area can be done but is time consuming and most arborists are not willing to go to those extremes.
Finally, many fresh or non-aged mulches may cause nitrogen deficiencies in young trees, shrubs, and flowers. Decomposing bacteria and fungi which ultimately break down mulch must have an ample supply of nitrogen to do their job. Most landscaping mulches are comprised of bark or wood which have high carbon to nitrogen ratios and have very little nitrogen available for the decomposing bacteria. Hence, the bacteria in the soil utilize the existing nitrogen to break down the mulch. This process may cause nitrogen deficiencies on new growth. Although nitrogen deficiencies may occur, they are usually considered temporary as the mulch will eventually release its nutrients into the soil and the decomposition will taper off.
Allelopathic mulches are mulches which contain toxic elements which will inhibit the growth of other plants. These toxic chemicals can be produced in the leaves, roots, trunk, or fruit of some plants and will slow the growth of some plants and in some cases, kill the competing plant. The classic case of allelopathy found in nature is the black walnut. This species along with other close relatives produce the toxic chemical juglone and juglonic acid which inhibits the growth of many trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. Juglone is found in all parts of the plant including leaves, twigs, trunk and roots. Hence, fresh wood chips and sawdust should not be used as a mulch unless adequately composted and even then, small amounts of juglone can be detected. Besides Black Walnut, other allelopathic mulches include sawdust of Redwood and Red Cedar and the bark of Spruce, Larch and Douglas Fir. All of these materials may reduce root growth and deform or kill some trees and shrubs. Evergreen bark sometimes releases toxic volatile gases that can be especially harmful to plants including tomatoes and other vegetable crops as well. To neutralize the allelochems found in these toxic species, compost the mulch with nitrogen at two pounds of actual nitrogen per cubic yard of mulch.
If you have shallow rooted species and those species are growing on somewhat poorly drained soil, mulch depths should not exceed a 2 inch depth. For perpetually wet soils which need as much oxygen as possible, it may be more advisable to control weeds with a combination of a systemic post-emergent herbicide and pre-emergent herbicide such as Round-Up and Surflan herbicides.
On the other hand, if you have more deeply rooted species growing on well drained loams or sandy soils, your plants would benefit from a 2-4 inch depth of mulch. With coarser textured mulches you can go a bit deeper due to the better oxygen diffision through the mulch and 'into the soil. Be more cautious with the finer, doubleshredded mulches on the market. A 2 inch layer may be all you need to keep weeds down and prevent unnecessary soil drying in the summer.
The best way to determine if you have a problem with excessive mulch piling in your landscape is to go out and simply dig through the mulch layer to see how thick it really is. A light raking of the existing mulch is all that is needed to break up any crusted or compacted mulch layers that can repel water and to give it that finished landscape appearance. As a rule-of-thumb, keep the mulch a minimum of 3 – 6 inches away from the trunks of young trees and shrubs and 8 – 12 inches away from mature tree trunks.
What Can Be Done If My Trees Were Over-Mulched?
Conducting a visual inspection of the root flare is the best way for an arborist to check a tree or shrub for a possible root collar disorder. If no root flare or buttress roots are found, the chances are good that at least some of the root crown has been buried. When burial is suspected, the arborist must first carefully probe downward to determine the extent and depth of burial. If the root collar is buried, you must remove the soil or mulch below the surface of the Junction of the roots and the trunk collar (without damaging the roots or collar) to expose the root collar. This is necessary to allow the collar to dry out and begin respiration of essential oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Arborists may also take a small strip of bark and sapwood from the root collar following excavation to determine the presence of fungal pathogens such as Phytophthora or Armillaria species. The resulting exposed well must be left open unless the root collar disorder is so severe that the resultant tree decline or hazard potential warrants tree removal.
According to tree expert scientists, an amazing number of plants have improved rapidly in color and vigor within months of a root collar excavation. Observations also indicate far less winter injury in such plants because the healthy roots, once an excavation has been conducted, produce the growth regulators responsible for above ground winter hardiness.
Of course, pruning of any dead and or dying branches should be conducted to reduce the introduction and spread of disease in treated trees. A light fertilization with a low salt index, slowrelease, nitrogen fertilizer (at 1 – 2 pounds of actual nitrogen per 1000 square feet) may also be required of trees treated for root collar disorders to renew vitality and growth.
In summary, over-mulching and root collar burial is needlessly killing many landscape trees and shrubs by oxygen starvation of the roots, lack of gas exchange and death of inner bark, promoting stem and root diseases, prevention of hardening off via increased mulch temperatures and declining root vigor, rodent girdling, development of water repelling mulch layers, allelopathic mulches, potential short-term nitrogen deficiencies, and nutrient and acidity problems from sour mulch.
Fortunately, most of these problems can easily be prevented with periodic inspections.


The population density in Shadow Hills is 93% lower than Los Angeles.
The median age in Shadow Hills is 43% higher than Los Angeles.
In Shadow Hills 86.95% of the population is White.
In Shadow Hills 0.18% of the population is Black or African American.
In Shadow Hills 6.25% of the population is Asian.
In Shadow Hills, 48.6% of people are of Hispanic or Latino origin.
Source: The Shadow Hills, Los Angeles, CA demographics data displayed above is derived from the 2016 United States Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS).


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Adele Hilariously Reacts to Fan Using Face Filter With Heavy Makeup on Her
The 'Easy on Me' hitmaker looks shocked after a female fan at her Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace uses a face filter with heavy makeup to record a video with her.
AceShowbiz –Adele is apparently not a fan of face filters. The "Easy on Me" hitmaker has hilarious reaction after a female fan applied a face camera filter with heavy makeup to film a video with her.
In footage that has since gone viral on social media, the chart-topping artist could be seen interacting with a female fan who wanted to take a photo with her during her Las Vegas residency on Sunday, November 27 at Caesars Palace. At one moment, the pop star realized that the fan turned on the face filter.
Adele was shocked as she apparently couldn't recognize herself. The "Turning Tables" hitmaker then hilariously asked the fan, "Oh my god, what have you done to my face??" She later asked the woman, "Get that filter off of my face!" before saying, "We don't look like that darling."
Adele's fans found her reaction funny after the video made its way out on social media. "that girl was like having an emotional breakdown and adele is like that one silly happy friend that is just too curious about everything. i love her [laughing with tears emojis]," one person tweeted. Another said, "Oh i love Adele…and my new fave meme," adding a photo of Adele looking shocked with the heavy makeup filter on her face.
A third remarked, "And then saying it all into the microphone for everyone to hear sksksksksks, she's so messy." Someone else added, "Just can't stop laughing watching this video, her reaction to seeing the filter [laughing with tears emojis]."
The face filter wasn't the only thing that made headlines from her show. Adele freaked out over Shania Twain who came to see her. Making use of her Instagram Story, the "Someone Like You" singer uploaded a photo of herself performing in front of Shania.
Adele freaked out after noticing Shania Twain attended her Las Vegas residency.
"Thank god you had a hat on @shaniatwain. I would have self combusted had I seen it was you!!" Adele wrote over the snapshot. She then gushed, "I adore you, I can't believe you came to my show [red heart emoji]."
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The need to attract and retain emerging professionals and young executives to events should never be an excuse to stereotype participants. There will always be individual differences in all generations. Instead, it's important to collect information regarding the preferences of your specific target market and event participants. In other words, don't design event marketing or programming based on assumptions. Surveys and participant profiles incorporated into the registration process can be extremely helpful.
Keeping this caution in mind, one cannot ignore the fact that in-depth research into demographic trends can help event professionals identify trends and some approaches that are likely to resonate with their target demographics. There are some important takeaways from this data to identify strategies to consider before, during, and after events and conferences to make event marketing and content more engaging to younger generations.
Instead of letting smartphones become a distraction, they should be leveraged for event marketing and content delivery. Invest in Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram marketing.
Based on its analysis of U.S. Census data, The Brookings Institute highlighted racial and ethnic diversity as one of the key characteristics of the 18 – 34 demographic.
Yet, one would never know it by looking at the keynote speakers, entertainers, and composition of most conference and event panels.
Remember, shorter attention spans do not translate into a parade of wall to wall talking heads. So, make sessions interactive with live polls, Q&A, and more!
It should come as no surprise that entertainment preferences shift with the generations. It is extremely important for meeting and conference organizers to keep abreast of entertainment trends and embrace them to keep programming, themes, and entertainment fresh and engaging.
Music: Based on its analysis of 20 billion tracks, Spotify revealed that hip-hop is the most popular musical genre globally. Royal Society Open Science Journal's study of Billboard Hot 100 Charts since 1960 highlighted the fact that hip-hop, rap, and related styles are the most important musical genres of all times. Yet, many conference and event planners exclude it from their programming as it does not appeal to their personal tastes. Pushing your own hot buttons instead of appealing to participant preferences is a surefire strategy for declining enrollment.
It is extremely important to note that the #1 ranking was for Sunday Night Football and 5 of the top 10 most viewed programmes for the 18 – 34 demographic are football related. Yet, few conference and event organizers incorporate football themes into their programming, speaker line-ups, or entertainment.
Flavour and the Menu's Generational Flavours Report highlighted the fact that food and beverage preferences vary significantly with the generations. Based on their studies, local, fresh, and unprocessed menu options are most likely to be appealing to younger participants. The report also suggest experimenting with cajun spices, saffron, miso, and wasabi.
According to Technomic Inc.'s Generational Consumer Trends Report, in addition to pizza and burgers, the most appealing dishes for younger demographics include Chinese food, Mexican dishes, BBQ, and chicken dishes. How Millennials Will Shape Food in 2017, published by Forbes, stressed the importance of delivering a multi-sensory experience. The article also highlighted the importance of high quality food photography to build excitement and the importance of ethnic cuisine and customizable menu options when catering to the 19 – 34 demographic.
Since younger employees engage more on mobile apps than other demographics, this is an excellent channel for reaching them throughout the year. They are more likely to engage through apps than via websites or email. With EventMobi's new Association app and Multi-Event app, year-round engagement has never been easier. An end-to-end approach that incorporates a range of strategies for every aspect of the event has the best probability for success in engaging younger participants.


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Take Note of these April Events in Vallarta-Nayarit
Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit are getting set to welcome thousands of tourists for Holy Week, Easter Week and Spring Break.
The gourmet scene and sporting events shine in the destination during the month of April, from tacos and oysters to descents through the city by bicycle, a colorful race and swimming in the open waters. If you're planning to visit Puerto Vallarta or the Riviera Nayarit during this time, take note of the following events.
Open Water Swimming Tournament
Date: April 1st
After six years, with the support of the Riviera Nayarit Tourism Board, this tournament was able to enter the Global Swim Series. Now in its seventh year, it takes place in the town of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle with 16 categories for different ages, and distances ranging from 500 meters to 3.75 kilometers; plus two professional categories divided by gender, with a distance of 5 kilometers.
Registration has a cost of $800 pesos; last day to register is March 31.
Puerto Vallarta Taco Festival 2017
Dates: April 15th and 16th
As one of the most iconic dishes in the country, the taco deserves a grand festival. During the event, 20 of the best taquerías in Puerto Vallarta gather at Puerto de Luna hotel to serve locals and visitors.
In addition to tacos, the festival features lucha libre, live music, pairings, tastings, raffles and contests. It's an event for the whole family and even for pets, as the hotel is pet-friendly.
Wild on Festival "Sayulita Paradise"
Dates: April 21st and 22nd
An unprecedented event with an enormous production of electronic and urban music combined with the sublime beaches of Sayulita. For the first time, the Riviera Nayarit is hosting the Wild On Festival.
Get set for two days of theme parties, shows and spectacles, DJs, food trucks, lounge bars, sports tournaments and camping. Tickets for two days have a cost of $800 pesos each.
Date: To be confirmed
An icon of Bucerias is the Oyster Festival, where the divers of the region are celebrated as they search for the largest oyster. In addition to a great time with the warmth of the locals, everyone enjoys dishes like ceviche and fried fish.
Cuisine of the Sun
Dates: April 26th to 29th
The Four Diamond Villa La Estancia Riviera Nayarit resort presents the second edition of the gourmet Cuisine of the Sun festival – Four days of cocktails, cooking classes, dinner under the stars, Fashion Show and more.
Down Puerto Vallarta 2017
Urban bike race Down Hill Urbano includes descents, climbs, narrow alleys, ramps and amazing jumps, and it's coming to the port for the first time!
The streets of Puerto Vallarta will freeze during these two days – the competition goes from the Cerro de la Cruz to the malecón.
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The International Gourmet Festival proceeds to delight palates, once again
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International Academy players Isaac Duncan-Daley, Daniel Da Silva & Evan Velonas speak to morecambefc.com during their stay with the club.
Shrimps' Academy Under 8s visit the Globe Arena to train with the first team.
Morecambe FC Academy has announced a new partnership to identify talented young players for football scholarships.
Morecambe FC Academy have released new dates for their International Academy programme.


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Don't Wanna Be Your Monkey Wrench – A Recap of Teen Wolf's "A Novel Approach"
The problem with supernaturally "gifted" do-gooder heroes like Scott McCall, is that they tend to be a bit boring judgey. There are only so many times one person can vanquish the Big Bad, sacrifice his safety for that of the group, rescue the helpless, rally the troops, mentor the naïve, and champion the misunderstood, without it going to his head . . . without the hero starting to believe that everyone he cares about must live by his rigid moral code, or else.
Back in the early seasons of Teen Wolf, Scott McCall was a character who was still figuring things out. He struggled with violent impulses toward his adversaries, as he managed his new wolf-like temper. He battled with lust, and found himself giving in to temptation with Lydia, even though Stiles was in love with her. His pride kept him on the lacrosse team, despite the fact that his superhuman strength gave him an unfair advantage against most of his teammates and opponents. And Peter's seductive offers of power, made him seriously consider turning to the darkside, on more than one occasion.
Now, in Season 5, Scott McCall is a different animal (pun intended) entirely. He's even-tempered, virtuous, unfailingly loyal and almost monk-like in his incorruptibility (except for that one episode where he wore a bear mask for ten minutes, but we don't need to get into that). Alpha Wolf Scott McCall's world is a 1950's monochrome. Everything is either good or evil, black or white. There is no in between.
Unfortunately, for Saint McCall, his pack mates still reside within the shades of grey. They recognize that some people can't be trusted, and aren't worth saving. They understand that there are some times when good ends are justified by bad means. They are unmistakably human in mind and spirit, even if not entirely in body. And it is that flawed humanity that is throwing some serious monkey wrenches into Scott McCall's plans to Save the World from the Dredd Doctors.
And, in the case of Scott's bestie, Stiles, this just happened to come in the form of an actual monkey wrench. . .
This week on Teen Wolf, everyone's favorite Naked Garbage Man makes another pickup. Malia continues to confirm every bad stereotype that ever existed about female drivers. Third Eye guy becomes, Just Some Middle Aged Dude with a Hole in His Head. And Kira confirms her suspicion that electrocuting one's boyfriend truly is the best form of foreplay.
Very Superstitious
As if we needed any more confirmation that the superstition stating that it's bad luck to walk under a ladder is 100% true, Teen Wolf proudly presents . . .
The Not So Tragic Death of Donovan . . .
I gotta say, as cold opens go, this one was one of Teen Wolf's stronger submissions. I mean sure, unlike the typical Teen Wolf open, where a character we've never met before is put in peril, and we are legitimately uncertain as to whether they will live or die, Stiles' surviving this "hand with a mouth drawn on it" mauling . . .
. . . was not in question here. And yet, despite that, Dylan O'Brien's ability to silently (apart from some seriously heavy breathing that seemed in desperate need of an inhaler) convey Stiles' utter terror, as Donovan tracked him from the car to the library, his impulsive decision to use the monkey wrench to loosen the screws on the ladder nearest to the one he was ascending, and his conflicting feelings of guilt, horror, relief, and even a slight bit of satisfaction at Donovan's gory demise at his own hand, was riveting to watch.
Also, let's face it. Some people in this world just deserve to be made into a human shishkabob.
Then, we get to the part where Stiles calls 911 to report the dead body, and returns to the scene just seconds later, only to find it scooped up by our Naked Garbage Man. (Who just so happened to be wearing clothes this week. What's the fun in that?)
So, now we know that Naked Garbage Man doesn't just retrieve bodies, carry them to the Nemeton, and burn them out of existence with his hot bod, he also cleans up crime scenes like a champ.
Clearly, Parrish is much better at his Naked Garbage Man job than his cop job . . .
But it does beg the question, of how Parrish got there so fast. Do the Dredd Doctors have him on speed dial? Does the playing card with Lydia's face on it scream at him, banshee style, whenever he needs to pick up a new corpse? (Typical nagging cardboard girlfriend!) Does he just hang around Scott and Stiles, knowing that these guys are pretty much guaranteed to produce a supernatural corpse in the cold open of every episode?
More importantly, does being a Naked Garbage Man come with a 401K plan?
Scott McCall's Book Club
Having already read all the books in the 50 Shades of Grey series, including that astonishingly bad one from Christian's perspective, Scott's wolf pack decides to read something a bit more relevant to their lives . . . that book about the Dredd Doctors they stole from Now-Dead Tracey's house! Kira kindly offers to make a photocopy of the darn thing, which, anyone who has ever tried to photocopy a teeny tiny soft cover paperback will tell you, is pretty much the most mind-numbingly awful job ever. (No wonder she electrocuted Scott later in the episode, to get him back for making her do it.)
SO MANY PAPER CUTS!
"If you want to be in our pack, you have to participate in our book club," Scott tells Theo, in no uncertain terms, as he shows him the copy of the Dredd doctor book.
"Wait, you guys are in a book club? But I thought you were all virtually illiterate," Theo wonders out loud.
"Malia and I are virtually illiterate," Scott explains. "But Stiles is only illiterate when he's void Stiles, and everyone else can read to us just fine. Lydia even does these really great character voices, which make me giggle. Do you do character voices, Theo? Because you will be much more likely to get into the pack if you can."
"Hey check out the back page of this book," Theo demands, as he laughs maniacally and winks at the camera.
"Why?" Scott asks, flustered. "Nobody reads the acknowledgement page in a book, except the people being acknowledged, because it's basically the book equivalent of the boring part of Oscar acceptance speeches, only without the pretty dresses and manufactured tears. I'm a functioning illiterate, and even I know that."
Theo rolls his eyes. "Look, it's imperative that you read the acknowledgement page of this book, read Dr. Valack's name on it, and go visit him in the mental hospital, because he wrote this book, and my bosses, the Dredd Doctors, need you to see him, for reasons."
"But if he wrote the book, why didn't he put his name on the front cover, as the author?" Scott question. "This way I would absolutely read it, unlike the acknowledgement page, which nobody reads."
"Whatever, Scott," Theo replies exasperatedly. "Just do what I say mindlessly, and leave the thinking on this show to the smart characters like Stiles and Lydia. I've got to go worship the Devil, torture some live puppies, and brainwash Malia into being my loyal sex slave. Peace out."
When Something is Lost, Always Consult Your Fox Costume . . .
Later that night, Scott and Kira are sleeping together, because Kira's parents think there is absolutely nothing wrong with their only minor daughter sharing a bed with her werewolf boyfriend, and are not at all worried that she will one-day wake up to find she's given birth to a litter of were-fox babies, who will ruin her young life. (Note: Scott's mom would probably be bothered by this, but, seeing as she's the only nurse / anesthesiologist / coroner / doctor / sometime surgeon left alive in Beacon Hills, she works 24-hours a day, and hasn't been out of her scrubs since approximately 1996.)
"If I think really hard, I can still sort of remember a time when I used to get laid . . ."
Kira starts speaking Japanese in her sleep, and Scott appears totally turned off by it. But, of course, he has to pretend he's not turned off by it, because being turned off by it most probably makes him a racist.
Later, when Kira's ugly ass belt (seriously, that thing is hideous) goes missing, she asks Scott to look at her with his red hangover eyes to help her find it. When Scott turns on his Creepo-vision, he sees Kira's fox head (which looks oddly bear-like for a fox, no?) helpfully pointing out the belt's location for Scott.
Ummm . . . so basically, this was the writers' clever way of illustrating that Fox Kira and Kira-Kira aren't the same entity? So Fox Kira knew where the ugly ass belt was, but Kira-Kira didn't? If so, why didn't Fox Kira just tell Kira-Kira where the ugly ass belt was, instead of going through Scott's Creepo-vision?
Anywhoo, Kira now has her belt. And they all can live unfashionably ever after . . .
Driving Miss Crazy
Because Malia used to be a mental patient at Eichen House, and could possibly decide she likes it better in the nuthouse where she had a better haircut, than at Beacon Hills, if she returns, our sassy were-coyote isn't invited on the pack's Journey into Evil this week.
Instead, she is stuck reading that crappy book, into which the author nonsensically inserted himself into the Acknowledgement page. "Hey, Malia, want to ride my car?" Theo asks, looking so shady as he confronts her, that he might as well be curling an evil black mustache, and strangling an angel child with his bare hands, as he speaks.
"Is that a euphemism for sex?" Malia wonders, as Evil Theo not-at-all subtly undresses her with his eyes.
"Absolutely, but I'd like you to almost murder me in my own car, before we sleep together, just to make sure we really like one another," responds Theo.
In Theo's car, he tries to impress Malia with how not frightened of death he is, by instructing her to speed, and drive with her hands at the bottom of the wheel, like she's a pimp in a rap video. Because everybody knows that those who are incapable of driving like "normal" people are always the absolute best at driving like "cool people."
(This reminds me of the time when I was learning how to drive, and my dad instructed me to do it by resting my knees on the steering wheel only. Basically, I think he just wanted to take the piss out of my mom, who was in the backseat at the time, clutching the armrests for dear life. . .)
Inevitably Malia goes into her usual PTSD mode, and nearly crashes the car, only to have Theo, inexplicably, roll out of the car on top of her, so he can "stare lovingly into her eyes."
This time, however, Malia actually remembers a useful piece of information during her fourth traumatic brush with death-via-motor vehicle of the year. "Hey, my evil mother shot at my adopted mom and sister, the day I thought I turned into a were-coyote and killed them inside the family car. This makes me potentially innocent of murder! It also means my parents are even more despicable humans than originally imagined!"
Eichen Louse
Though Stiles was once a mental patient just like Malia, and is clearly experiencing PTSD, himself, from that one time earlier this episode when he murdered a dude, he still decides to accompany Lydia to see Dr. Valack, because he luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuves her. (Which is totally cool by the way, because sex between Malia and Evil Theo is inevitable this season, obviously).
I like how Lydia recognizes immediately that something is up with Stiles, and that he is injured and sad, lets him know that she knows, but doesn't judge him or press him for information until he's ready to talk about it. She instinctively understands that he needs to be there for Lydia, while they do this, just as much as Lydia needs him.
This, when Scott, who has been friends with Stiles for way longer, is completely clueless . . . so clueless in fact, that he "confides" in his friend, that he thinks Kira might be turning into a terrible person, because she almost killed the evil scorpion thing that was trying to murder them all at the Random Dancing night club.
"Ummmm . . . maybe she did it in self-defense?" Stiles offers, hopefully, as he contemplates telling his friend about his own dalliance with freak-of-the-week murder.
"No way," responds Scott. "All murderers deserve to rot in hell for the rest of eternity. Now, what was it you wanted to tell me earlier? Something about you and Donovan?"
Stiles whistles uncomfortably, as he, Scott, Kira and Lydia enter Eichen House.
Once inside the nuthouse, Kira is immediately forced to take off her hideous belt, so it doesn't frighten the mental patients with its ugliness. Then, Scott and Kira learn that they can't cross into Valack's chamber, because it's protected by mountain ash, and they are supernatural creatures. (Not sure why Lydia wasn't kept out too, seeing as she's a banshee and all, but . . . details.)
"Hey Third Eye Guy," Lydia and Stiles begin conversationally. "What's up with this crappy book, you wrote, but pretended you didn't, by writing your name on a page of it that nobody will read?"
"I wrote it so you crazy kids would remember the Dredd Doctors, and how the last time they came to Beacon Hills, they gave you all anal probes, and made you bark like dogs, for five straight hours, just for fun. Oh yeah, and then they buried a bunch of teenagers in holes, and turned them into Wuzzle Killing Machines."
"Ha, joke is on you," responds Stiles. "Because Lydia and I are the only people in Beacon Hills who know how to read."
"Hey, can you do me a favor?" Third Eye Guy asks. "Scream into this tape recorder, Banshee, so I can press it against the glass holding me in this cell, shatter it, and escape."
"But if I'm screaming in front of your cell, won't that break the glass anyway, without the tape recorder?" Lydia wonders out loud.
"Oh, absolutely, but this makes it way more dramatic," Third Eye Guy Explains.
Meanwhile, out at the entrance to Eichen House, Kira is starting to short circuit, and the electric currents she shoots out of her body, totally screw with Eichen House's security system, allowing the Dredd Doctors to enter, as was their original plan. Scott carries Electric Kira to safety, suffering severe burns all over his body in the process.
"Hey, I remember I told you I loved you in last week's episode!" Scott exclaims.
"Glad all it took was an electrocution to get you to recall something you said less than 48 hours ago," replies Kira. "Just be thankful you are pretty."
Inside Eichen House, the Dredd Doctors extract Third Eye Guy's third eye, immediately converting him from somebody cool, into just some dumb schlub who doesn't understand that no one reads the Acknowledgement page on books.
"Now, the party don't start, til we walk in!"
Then, now Boring Two-Eyed Valack plays the tape Lydia made for him about ten minutes ago, and her scream from the recorder, breaks the glass of his cell, even though her scream in real life did not. He escapes into the night, rendering the population of Beacon Hills just a bit more filled with crazy-eyed insane-os than it was at the beginning of the episode . . .
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Dream a Little Dream of Liam – A Recap of Teen Wolf's "Time of Death"
Greetings Werebangers! This week the Scooby Gang came up with a devious plan to force the Benefactor out of hiding, and possibly get him to reveal his identity . . .
. . . it failed miserably . . .
. . . also, lots of people slept . . .
. . . some people boned . . .
. . . and Lydia, once again, found herself on an entirely different show than everyone else . . .
[As always, special thanks to Andre for the fantabulous screencaps you see here. I most definitely wouldn't have "visual confirmation" of Derek's six pack each week without him. Thanks to whatever the heck Kate (or Peter?) did to him, the dude may be less of a wolf than he once was, but he's clearly just as much Man Meat as he always was!]
Embrace the Little Spoon
The Politics of Bedsharing are arguably the most complicated and highly sensitive points of negotiation, when navigating a new relationship (second only to Matters Involving the Toilet Seat and Where To Hide the Feminine Hygiene Products). Are you a sleeper who requires personal space, while your significant other is a cuddler? Do either of you happen to be blanket or pillow hogs? Do you have a tendency to kick people in your sleep? Do both of you crave the side of the bed closer to the door, to avail yourself of easy escape in the event of a surprise zombie attack? Does one of you talk in your sleep, or (gasp) snore?
Though Stiles opening sequence dream was obviously less of an actual dream, and more of a nostalgic memory, I enjoyed it for its subtlety, in the same way I enjoyed Stiles' arguably more plot-relevant dream sequence, which kicked off Season 3A, and cleverly foreshadowed his nogitsune possession.
At the beginning of the Season, Stiles complained to Scott that Malia had, immediately upon starting a relationship with Stiles, taken it upon herself to become his regular bed mate. He also gripes that Malia has insisted that Stiles consistently function as the "little spoon" during their cuddle sessions.
We see that there's at least a bit of truth to Stiles' initial complaint, as one of the lone representatives of Team Human on the show tosses and turns in bed, bemoaning how, for years, he slept comfortably alone at its center. Meanwhile, Malia continually insists that his sleeping arrangements have now changed, so he best get used to it. Malia's matter-of-fact insistence that, as Stiles' "mate", she automatically earns the right to sleep in his bed, even if it interrupts his normal sleep pattern, is either admirably feminist, or annoyingly clingy. How you view it, probably says a lot about how you view Malia as a character.
The veracity of Stiles' second complaint is called into question, however, when we learn that, while it is Malia that first suggests the position of Little Spoon to Stiles, he is actually the one likes it best, as it offers him both the ability to have his center of the bed sleep uninterrupted, while offering him the added benefit of his girlfriend's warmth and affection. As far as Bed-sharing Negotiations go, this one actually seems to have gone rather smoothly . . .
(Even if it has caused Stiles to feel a bit neutered by his girlfriend in the process, hence his need to lie to Scott about how the whole Little Spoon thing actually came about . . .)
"It'll be our little secret."
Of course, all of this is basically a long of saying that Stiles has come to rely on Malia's Big Spoon Comfort to get him through the night. And now that he finally has the bed back to himself, is surprised to find that it feels lonelier and emptier than he remembered . . .
All together now . . . AWWWWW!
Something Borderline Idiotic . . .
The first time I ever suspected Papa McCall as possibly being a Benefactor suspect was this week, when (1) a ridiculous amount of time was spent on him recapping the events that led to the Chemist's demise using the phrase "visual confirmation," (2) an even more ridiculous amount of time was spent on him telling Scott about how the key to murdering dangerous individuals was to become cold and emotionless (and when that fails, drink yourself silly, (3) and then Scott's dad proceeded to conveniently take himself out of the picture for the entire episode at the precise time when Scott was calling out the Benefactor directly and attempting to meet him face-to-face.
Also worthy of note: Papa McCall is kind of hot. The fact that I noticed this around the same time I pegged him as a possible sociopath says a lot about my taste in men . . .
Also on my list of Teen Wolf eligible bachelors . . .
Definite Sociopath #1
Potential Sociopath #2
Evil Wendigo . . .
Nogitsune Stiles . ..
Nuff said . . .
But enough about me, let's talk about the Scooby Gang and their self-described "Borderline Idiotic" plan to track down the Benefactor . . .
First, what the Scooby Gang got right. A spider has eight legs, cut off one or two, and the creature can still survive quite well. If you really want to defeat a spider you have to smush it chop off its head.
And so it goes with the Benefactor and his seemingly endless supply of Assassins of the Week. Up until this point, the Scooby Gang has focused on trying to catch assassins before they made their next kill.
The Mute
The Orphans
The Chemist
But to really protect the folks on the Deadpool, the Scooby Gang has to cut off its source of funding.
Now, if I were part of the Scooby Gang, my suggestion as to how to do this would be as follows: fake a convincing death shot of Scott . . .
. . . get the money from the Benefactor . . .
. . . hire a very good hacker (like Danny) to trace the funds back to their original source . . .
. . . bring down the Benefactor . ..
. . . take my friends on a much needed vacation to Tahiti . . .
Now, admittedly, that wouldn't make for a very good show, which is probably why the Scooby gang decided to NOT show the benefactor visual confirmation of the deceased in order to "cull him out" . . .
. . . but "kill" Scott anyway, in a highly risky supernatural procedure, just for sh*ts and giggles . . .
Geez! Haven't they learned anything from the whole Bathtub Death Fiasco of Season 3A?
I think as soon as we heard the plan, most of us Werebangers figured it wouldn't work. After all, last we checked, the Benefactor wasn't a moron. So, even if he did send someone to obtain "visual confirmation" of Scott's demise (he didn't), there's a good chance he'd use a pawn completely unrelated to the whole Deadpool thing . . .
In the Scooby Gang's defense, the "brains" of their operation was otherwise occupied . . .
Leaving our stalwart crew a bit like an eight-legged headless spider themselves . . .
Besides, this episode wasn't really so much about the Benefactor, as it was about Scott's unresolved romantic feelings for Little Liam, right? (hint, hint, wink, wink)
Playing Dead . . .
In Season 3A, Scott McCall went swimming in an ice cold bath tub and "died in a bathtub for eight hours . . . waking up with no obvious signs of brain damage (apart, of course, from the brain damage that was there before).
But this time around, Scott's death is going to be by Kira-induced electric shock, which means he only has 45 minutes . . .
"Light as a feather, stiff as a board . . . light as a feather, stiff as a board."
"Kitsune-gasm?"
No worries, this gives Scott plenty of time to have not one, not two, but three three homoerotic dream sequences, and some time left over to watch this old movie trailer to get in the appropriate mood . . .
In slightly less cynical news, Scott's fake death was well done . . .
. . . not to mention ridiculously well-acted by Mama McCall, who . . . considering she was in on the act, the whole time, and wailed on cue, like a champ . . . should seriously consider quitting her ridiculously underpaid and underappreciated job as The Only Living Medical Professional in Beacon Hills Who Isn't a Total Moron . . . and heading to Hollywood, baby!
In which, Derek and Braeden "Heal Each other's Wounds" . . . Biblically
Much like the Lydia scenes in this episode, Derek's and Braeden's Fun with Guns Sexpisode seemed like it came from a completely different show. (Was Derek left in the dark about the Scooby Gang 's plan because Scott and Stiles don't want to give him and Peter back their money? It's never really explained.)
And yeah, Derek's and Braeden's "romance" never really had much in the way of "background" or "character development."
But hey, no complaints here. I'd watch Tyler Hoechlin Wereporn anyday (and twice on Monday nights).
Plus, from a plot perspective, given Derek's diminished were powers, and the fact that his hand-to-hand combat abilities haven't really been up to snuff since Season 2, it's high time our Adult Wolf learned how to a handle a gun and "bend" into exotic sexual positions the rules of combat. Don't you think?
And who better to be his Sensei then Weapons Expert, Chris Argent That New Chick He's Boning?
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Beacon Hills, Chris Argent and Stiles are engaging in a friendly G-chat with the Benefactor, using the handle "G" (for Guest? Good Guy? Greenberg?)
"Can we use gravestone and skeleton emojis?"
Stiles argues that the chat could be a bit more colorful, and contain a few more high-scoring words . . .
(He forgets that this is the same guy that calls his secret weapons stash, Argent's Arms.)
When careful prodding doesn't work, Chris the Badass resorts to threats . . .
Message sent and received . . .
Argent then wires the security cameras to the Scooby Gang's laptop, so they can track absolutely nothing the point in time where a guy wearing a t-shirt that says "I'm the Benefactor" casually waltzes into the hospital to take Scott McCall's pulse . . .
We'll be back, after this enlightening Dream Sequence Brought to You by Scott McCall . . .
Homoerotic Dream Sequence One: Liam Gets Forked by the Mute!
Scott McCall is in the closet. He climbs out. Hooray! (Good for you, Scott.)
Now, he's at school, and sees Liam.
Liam tosses Scott his balls.
Scott catches and fondles the balls. Then Liam jogs very slowly away from Scott (playing hard to get, I guess, emphasis on "Hard"). Scott chases him.
He finds a laptop in the classroom. The keyword is his name. The targets are The Mute, The Orphans, and The Chemist, all of whom are already dead, so Scott gets no payment for killing them. Liam wants Scott to kill them AGAIN anyway, because homoerotic characters in dream sequences have the memory capacity of fruit flies.
Scott refuses, so the Mute comes back from the dead, and jams his big stick into Liam hard and repeatedly, thus proving that even ugly deceased Albinos without lips get more action than Scott.
Snooze you lose, Alpha!
Malia, I am your father the Desert Fox is your mother . . .
Malia breaks into the Hale vault again to visit her bio dad. They bond together by punching walls . . .
. . . and reading Malia's bloody illegible adoption records. Peter promises Malia he will help her find her mother, The Desert Wolf, whose name makes her sound vaguely like an exotic dancer Peter met at a sleazy night club on the Las Vegas Strip . . .
It would certainly explain a lot about Malia's nascent erotic dancing abilities . . .
Speaking of parental bonding . . .
Ashes, ashes, we all fake our deaths!
And here we thought Gerard Argent was the only faux-deceased geriatric in Beacon Hills . . .
When Lydia's mom follows her to the Lake House, the latter attempts to ply her with information about her late grandmother's connection to late Meredith Walker.
Apparently, the two were roomies at Eichen House, who shared the same Boy from Sixth Sense tendencies, and possibly a magical mystical Bottom of the Cereal Box Benefactor Decoder Ring?
Lydia's mom tells Lydia that her grandmother wished that Lydia, specifically, be the one to scatter her ashes on the latter's 18th birthday. But then, Lydia's mom figures, "hey, in TV time, my daughter's 17th birthday was about 3 years ago. So, screw that old coot. Let's scatter them now."
Lydia dutifully opens her grandmother's urn and is surprised to find that it's not filled with ashes at all but with . . . wait for it . . .
Lydia then inexplicably determines that the entire house is made of mountain ash, which any of the Three Little Pigs will tell you is a bad construction idea . . .
(In other news, Mountain Ash has just been upgraded to a series regular in Season 5.)
Homoerotic Dream Sequence Two: Liam Gets Forked by the Mute, the Sequel (Now with more fangs and slightly less forking!)
"My what big teeth you have," Liam muses to Scott, after the latter climbs out of the closet, and fondles Liam's balls, just like before.
"Do you think it makes me sexier?" Scott inquires, more or less.
"No, it just makes me deader," Liam replies, as he falls into Scott's arms, forked again, by the Mute.
Damn Scott . . . so close, yet so far away . . .
Elsewhere in Awake Land, Live Liam is having only slightly greater luck, as he and Kira go to investigate a power outage on the roof, and find themselves facing off against those hulking Berserker things who are boredly kicking their teenybopper asses . . .
(Newsflash Kira: The power to electrocute people > the power to blindly wave around a knife and hit absolutely no one, before falling on your ass and daydreaming about your boyfriend, while napping . . . just saying)
Meanwhile . . . at the Hospital That Only Main Characters Can Leave Alive . . .
Kira's mom fights Berserkers . . .
. . . and does even worse than Kira . . . Ruhr oh!
And Kate attempts to battle her brother Chris for Scott's not-quite-so-dead body . . .
But after a little coaxing from her big bro decides to leave empty-handed
Homoerotic Dream Sequence Three: Scott Finally Forks Liam (while the Mute watches)
Out of the closet again . . .
But this time, it's not Liam's balls that Scott is fondling, it's his bloody stick . . .
The Mute comes by to instruct Scott on the most effective thrusting motion . . .
. .. and then . . . it's FORK TIME!
Now, that's one satisfied Scott!
Alls well that ends . . .
Things happen kind of fast from here . . .
Scott wakes up . . .
The Scooby Gang is relieved . . .
So are Peter and Kate . . .
Malia returns to Stiles . . .
Annnnnd then she leaves again, wondering if sociopathy may be a hereditary trait . . .
Speaking of hereditary traits, apparently the Benefactor may be a banshee and/or Lydia's grandmother . . . .
Next, week on Teen Wolf . . .
WE FINALLY GET TO SEE DEPUTY PARRISH NAKED, HOORAY!!!!
Until then, Werebangers!
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Werepocalypse! – A Recap of Teen Wolf's "Weaponized"
Just when you thought it was safe to take your PSATs . . .
(Coming soon to a high school located on a Hellmouth Beacon near you . . .)
In a season that was in grave danger of becoming the Assassin of the Week, Teen Wolf decided to change things up a bit this past Monday, by . . .
. . . having another assassin of the week.
In all fairness though, The Chemist was not your run-of-the-mill One Episode Baddie. While his predecessors preyed on the viewers' basic fears of things like . . . people without lips . . .
. . . and people who looked like the kid from Home Alone . . .