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The agony and the ecstasy of Ume
By Doug Freeman, Fri., Nov. 18, 2011
Storm Warning: (l-r) Rachel Fuhrer, Lauren Larson, Eric Larson (Photo by Jana Birchum)
Lauren Larson is frustrated.
Standing on the inside stage of Emo's, head down, her long, blond hair draped in a veil as she tunes her guitar, the Ume frontwoman can't get the sound she wants from her monitors. The sound check has gone on for nearly 15 minutes, and the patient crowd is growing restless.
Larson isn't trying to get the sound perfect; she just needs to get it right. The local trio's gear is cramped on the small stage in deference to the touring headliner's backline, an uncomfortable setup that leaves her bassist and husband, Eric Larson, pushed to the side and nearly on top of Rachel Fuhrer's drum kit. Somehow it's fitting this show doubles as the threesome's hometown CD release, because that's the struggle Ume's drawn out since forming in Houston in 2002. With new sophomore full-length Phantoms (see "Texas Platters," Sept. 9), the band's decade finally comes to fruition.
At 9pm sharp, as if planned all along, Ume launches into "The Conductor" from 2009's breakthrough EP Sunshower. Everything changes in the flash of hard-pounded percussion and a tight guitar riff. With a flick of her hair, Larson's apparent temerity transforms into a cold, hard stare penetrating the back of the room, and her voice, demure and hushed but a moment ago, wraps itself in an aggressive breathlessness around the throbbing bass rhythm.
By the time the trio crosses into "Rubicon," the lead track from the new LP, the singer-guitarist has consumed the club. The ephemeral pull of her vocals cuts with a sharper edge as she launches uninhibitedly center stage, attacking her instrument in a flailing tempest of hair contrasting with her short black dress. She's both possessed and in possession.
This is the essence of Ume, whose lyrically raw songs expose emotional uncertainty and wanting buffeted by the countering forcefulness of a power trio. Live, Larson's an ambivalent siren, letting the crowd feed on its own objectifying presumptions – of sexuality, admiration, innocence, vulgarity, or vulnerability – only to shatter all of that upon the rocks of her own complete immersion in the music, the melodic lull and devastating pummel of Ume.
"When people see an aggressive female rocker, there are certain misconceptions about it," Lauren Larson acknowledges a week later, the band gathered around a table at Rio Rita on East Sixth Street. "It cracks me up."
She speaks at a fast clip, excitable but direct, with an oddly foreign lilt that can't be accounted for by her small-town Southeast Texas upbringing in West Columbia. Her husband, Eric, strikes a more serious, poised tone, a dynamic resembling the couple's onstage presence. Rachel Fuhrer, drafted this year to replace original drummer Jeff Barrera, sits between them injecting levity into the conversation.
"It's kind of shocking, though, because everything I do is 100 percent genuine. I'm passionate about what I'm doing, and I'm going to have fun, and I see this as my one chance to hold nothing back, whether I'm writing a song or playing guitar. And people can interpret it however they want, but it's frustrating because a lot of times people expect me to be a total bitch.
"I think I've tried to turn it into a goal. I work a lot with Girls Rock Camp, and, in general, I would like for women to be able to take the stage and people not be surprised to see them there. They're surprised by what I do, and it catches them off guard and it's unsettling, but you shouldn't have to look a certain way to sound a certain way. I want to try to be one of the heaviest-rocking musicians out there.
"I don't know, I think I look pretty tough," she laughs.
That burden of breaking expectations has become a familiar ballast for the band, serving as both catalyst for its popularity and complication to a career. The furious energy of Ume's live show has cultivated a national fan base, yet the inability to easily box their music has also continually led labels and industry insiders to balk, even as they have courted the band. And then there's the married couple at the center of it all.
"We met when I was 15 years old, playing guitar in a punk rock/grindcore band called Twelve Blades," offers Lauren. "We were playing at a skate park in Baytown, and he was the first guy to come up and ask for my number. We've been together and playing music together ever since."
Now married for more than a decade, the couple's personal relationship has undoubtedly pushed the band forward where others would have fallen apart, and it has provided them with a more patient and dedicated view of the band's trajectory. Ume's debut, 2005's Urgent Sea, has served as a reminder to the band to take its time and get it right. Rushed and recorded after being approached by NYC-based label Pretty Activity, the album captured the band's raw intensity but with little direction or control.
"We had been playing for under a year when we recorded it," explains the singer, "and when we started the band, Jeff had never played drums before, Eric wasn't a bass player, and I had never sung. It was a real learning experience."
Not until 2008, when Lauren left graduate studies in philosophy at Penn State and returned to Austin, did Ume jell to the point of re-emerging with the stunning Sunshower EP.
Phantoms signals an equally powerful evolution for Ume, serving as both proper debut and antidote to Urgent Sea's false start. The disc also vindicates the band's crash course in the music business over the past couple of years, fraught with failed contract negotiations before finally teaming with local imprint Modern Outsider.
"A lot of people will come up to you and they're interested in what you're doing," says Eric. "But we work really hard at this, so we don't want someone to just come along and do the same thing that they do with everybody else and just assume that it's going to work. We don't expect that of ourselves, so why would we expect that of anybody else that wants to work with us? With Modern Outsider, those guys care about us as musicians and what we're trying to do, and it's been a really good thing. And we tried to make sure that whatever agreement we came to, it forced us all to work hard."
The delay in recording and releasing Phantoms ultimately served the band well, allowing for a more developed and nuanced sound that unveils a texture drastically different from the live experience, without compromising the aggressiveness that's come to define the trio live. "With Sunshower, we had finally learned to play together," opines Eric. "For Phantoms, when writing the songs, we wanted it to have a feeling, to have some tension and stress."
The album also proves Lauren coming into her own as a songwriter and a vocalist.
"This is an emotional record for me," she admits. "There's more intimacy to it, a little more personal tension that I don't think was on Sunshower. I was more emotionally invested in it in every way. I didn't even think we were necessarily going to finish it. I didn't know if I could finish it."
That evolution is best displayed on the re-recording of "Hurricane" from Urgent Sea, the original's jagged howl that breaks across the opening line "I unleash like a hurricane, raging" now wrought with a tone both more ominous and more seductive in the waves of her low, breathless hum. When it finally unravels into shreds of climbing guitar licks, the release is palpable – inevitable – yet still unexpected. It's the dichotomy that defines Ume, the agony and the ecstasy of control and release.
"There are so many preconceived notions with rock & roll," nods Lauren. "I want to help redefine it. And break it all apart again."
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Vietnamese, formerly known under French colonization as Annamese (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States. It is also spoken as a second language by some ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austroasiatic languages put together). Much vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, and it was originally written using the Chinese writing system. The Vietnamese writing system in use today is an adapted version of the Latin alphabet, with additional diacritics for tones and certain letters.
It seems likely that in the distant past Vietnamese shared more characteristics common to other languages in the Austroasiatic family, such as an inflectional morphology and a richer set of consonant clusters, which have subsequently disappeared from the language. However, Vietnamese appears to have been heavily influenced by its location in the Southeast Asian sprachbund—with the result that it has acquired or converged toward characteristics such as isolating morphology and tonogenesis. These characteristics, which may or may not have been part of proto-Austroasiatic, nonetheless have become part of many of the phylogenetically unrelated languages of Southeast Asia—for example, Thai (one of the Tai-Kadai languages), Tsat (a member of the Malayo-Polynesian group within Austronesian), and Vietnamese each developed tones as a phonemic feature, although their respective ancestral languages were not originally tonal.[citation needed] The Vietnamese language has similarities with Cantonese in regard to the specific intonations and unreleased plosive consonant endings, a legacy of archaic Chinese.
The ancestor of the Vietnamese language was originally based in the area of the Red River in what is now northern Vietnam, and during the subsequent expansion of the Vietnamese language and people into what is now central and southern Vietnam (through conquest of the ancient nation of Champa and the Khmer people of the Mekong delta in the vicinity of present-day Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnamese was linguistically influenced primarily by Chinese, which came to predominate politically in the 2nd century B.C.E.
With the rise of Chinese political dominance came radical importation of Chinese vocabulary and grammatical influence. As Chinese was, for a prolonged period, the only medium of literature and government, as well as the primary written language of the ruling class in Vietnam, much of the Vietnamese lexicon in all realms consists of Hán Việt (Sino-Vietnamese) words. In fact, as the vernacular language of Vietnam gradually grew in prestige toward the beginning of the second millennium, the Vietnamese language was written using Chinese characters (using both the original Chinese characters, called Hán tự, as well as a system of newly created and modified characters called Chữ nôm) adapted to write Vietnamese, in a similar pattern as used in Japan (kanji), Korea (hanja), and other countries in the Sinosphere. The Nôm writing reached its zenith in the 18th century when many Vietnamese writers and poets composed their works in Chữ Nôm, most notably Nguyễn Du and Hồ Xuân Hương (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry").
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Father 'learned lesson' after he and young…
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Father 'learned lesson' after he and young child were rescued from San Francisco cliff
The father and child were trying to get down to the ocean below one of Fort Funston's 200-foot-high sandy bluffs.
By Martha Ross | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 19, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. | UPDATED: September 20, 2020 at 7:11 a.m.
SAN FRANCISCO — A father said he "learned a lesson" Saturday about the dangers of climbing on coastal cliffs after he and his young child became trapped while trying to climb down a cliff at Fort Funston to the ocean below, fire officials said.
The pair were safely rescued after their walk at Fort Funston at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday turned treacherous, according to San Francisco Fire Lt. Jonathan Baxter. Fort Funston is known for its 200-foot-high sandy bluffs above the Pacific Ocean on San Francisco's southwest coast.
"They saw how beautiful the water was below, and they attempted to walk down the cliff, which is something we advise people not to do," Baxter said in a video posted to the department's Twitter account.
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When the pair got about halfway down the cliff, about 70 feet above the shore below, they realized they were stuck, Baxter said. "They couldn't go down, and they couldn't go back up," Baxter said.
Fortunately, the father was able to use his phone to call 911 and give the dispatcher pretty precise details of his location, Baxter said. Emergency crews had to hike into the area, about a mile from the parking lot. Three rescue rope lines were lowered and it took about an hour to bring the pair to safety, Baxter said.
"This could have had a much worse ending," Baxter said. "It could have resulted in injury or death."
Baxter said the father "did give some encouraging advice, that they had definitely learned a lesson today."
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Yorkshire Writer David Peace Helps Red Ladder Campaign
Author Donates Theatrical Rights for 'The Damned United' to Help Save Red Ladder
A piece of the play for everyone who sets up a direct debit through LocalGiving's 'Grow Your Tenner' match funding scheme
Author David Peace has put an overwhelming vote of confidence in Red Ladder Theatre Company, who lost their National Portfolio Funding in July, by announcing that he has donated the theatrical rights to his book The Damned United to the company. Or rather, Red Ladder has bought them from Faber & Faber for the nominal sum of £3.68 – to represent the 368 pages in the book.
The play will become the focus of the Save Red Ladder campaign – the campaign's £80,000 target will now pay for the book to be adapted and the play to be produced.
Localgiving, the charity network and online giving platform supporting Save Red Ladder's fundraising campaign, has launched its annual 'Grow Your Tenner' match fund. The initiative matches the first £10 of donations made through Localgiving.com, meaning that a £10 donation made to Save Red Ladder today will be worth £21.55 to the company, including Gift Aid. Red Ladder will be able to claim up to £2,000 of match funding from one-time donations, plus up to another £10,000 for monthly donations received as direct debits through the scheme.
Save Red Ladder is offering 'a piece of the play' to every person who sets up a direct debit (minimum of £5 for six months) from today (14 October) to the end of the Grow Your Tenner campaign. The company is yet to decide what this might be – a page of the script, a physical piece of the set – all suggestions welcome on their facebook page or via saveredladder.co.uk. There will certainly be an invite to a party with David Peace, Red Ladder and the cast, which is likely to include a 'name.'
David Peace said: "For me, after all the inspiration and support I got from Red Ladder, particularly with the Red Writers Group while I was back in the UK from 2009 and 2011, and all the enthusiasm and interest Rod Dixon and Chris Lloyd have shown in my work – they were so helpful and inspiring when I was writing 'Red or Dead' -– offering the theatrical rights for The Damned United for the minimum amount possible was the very least I could do to try, even in a such a small way, to help 'Save Red Ladder.'"
The campaign's current total stands at £12,600 towards its £80,000 target.
To help the cause follow @saveredladder, use the #GisATenner hashtag, visit www.saveredladder.co.uk or donate directly via www.localgiving.com/redladder
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Angel of Mercy: Nun surprised she survived ordeal
PINE APPLE &045;&045; Roseanne Cook is as surprised as anyone that she survived being robbed, stuffed in the trunk of her car, and shot at four times, left for dead by thugs.
But she was positively astounded to find that the whole episode landed her in the pages of The National Enquirer, right alongside the latest reports of Elvis being sighted and housewives from Yonkers being abducted by aliens.
She can no longer recall the exact headline that went with the story, but it was something along the lines of &uot;Angel of Mercy Miraculously Rescued.&uot;
She doesn't say if the experience changes her opinion of whether Elvis really is alive or not. Or about the existence of those aliens.
Cook is a Catholic nun of the order of Sisters of Saint Joseph. She is also a medical doctor with the Selma-based Rural Health Medical Program. The program maintains seven clinics in the West Alabama area, including the Pine Apple Community Health Center where Cook serves the needs of this tiny Wilcox County community, population 230.
She had been tapped to serve a remote village in Peru, but guerrillas destroyed the village shortly before she was to arrive. A fellow nun, nurse practitioner Jane Kelly, urged her to consider coming to Alabama's Black Belt.
Cook was appalled by what awaited her.
Most residents at the time got their water by loading up a pickup truck with plastic jugs and heading down to the local filling station.
Conditions at the clinic itself, which occupies an old school building, were not much better. When she first came to the area in 1980, Kelly admits &uot;it was sort of dismal.&uot;
The building had fallen into disrepair. There was one bathroom, with an inadequate septic tank which tended to back up regularly. &uot;Really ugly stuff,&uot; Cook says with an involuntary shiver.
Slowly, improvements were made. The clinic was renovated. A child care center and community center were added.
Today, the clinic sees an average of 25 to 30 patients a day, up from the five or six patients Cook saw when she first arrived. The clinic maintains a client base of around 5,000 people, some coming from as far as 50 miles.
The clinic receives some federal funding, which allows fees to be assessed on a sliding scale. There is even a charity medicine fund, which helps with the cost of prescriptions.
Cook became a nun at the age of 19 &uot;after much prayer.&uot; She began attending medical school at the age of 40.
The Sisters of Saint Joseph do extensive work in both the education and health care fields. Cook points out that the two share many similarities.
That explains why those same people were so upset when Pine Apple's &uot;Angel of Mercy&uot; found herself the victim of a crime which very nearly cost her her life.
It was Dec. 13, 2001. A Thursday. Cook was driving to the clinic when she saw three men with a car pulled over to the side of the road on Highway 10, between Pine Apple and Oak Hill. &uot;They were looking like they needed help,&uot; she says.
Cook stopped and the men used her jumper cables to start their car. Then one of the men pulled a gun.
She remembers the man with the gun saying, &uot;You're dead.&uot;
The man with the gun struck her in the head, and the other men put her in the trunk of her car. Then the man with the gun fired four shots into the trunk.
Only one of the bullets struck its intended target, lightly grazing Cook's face. &uot;If my head had been a little bit one way or the other, I'd have been a dead duck,&uot; she says.
The robbers then fled the scene, taking with them a 50-pound sack of dog food that Cook had purchased earlier.
In the end, it was the dog food that was the robbers' undoing. Other residents who had seen the three men stopped at the side of the road provided descriptions to law enforcement personnel. When the men were found, they still had the dog food in their possession.
Cook studiously avoids describing her escape from harm as a &uot;miracle,&uot; saying only that, &uot;I do consider that I was very much protected by a power other than a human power.&uot;
Of this much, however, she is positive: &uot;I consider that the Good Lord wants me here, doing what I'm doing.&uot;
Perhaps that's the biggest miracle of all.


Is poetry a part of your life? Do you find yourself humming tunes, reciting lines from memory? Is there a poem you learned at some point that comes to mind readily today?
As a child, I memorized one poem that I can recite now – four short, unremarkable lines from an unknown poet. Committing poetry to memory is very hard for me, despite my growing love of reading and appreciating poetry and even writing a few lines occasionally.
My love for poetry began during a 1995 week at Mexico's Rancho La Puerto, when renowned poet Galway Kinnell happened to have chosen the same week that I had chosen and offered guests the opportunity to gather for a couple of hours each afternoon. I listened to him read his own and others' poems and suddenly discovered the world of poetry fully present. For the first time, I wrote a few surprising lines that seemed to come unbidden. The discussion and feedback were riveting.
Following that week, my admiration and awe of the power of poetry never diminished. It precipitated my career change, graduate school and introduction to Poetry Therapy and its powerful healing potential.
If you've been reluctant in the past, now is the perfect time to invite poetry into your life. April is National Poetry Month, "the largest literary celebration in the world with tens of millions of readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, events planners, publishers, bloggers and, of course, poets" according to, The Academy of American Poets.
Choose a favorite poem to share with others.
Carry the same poem every day or choose new poems.
Make copies to carry and share with everyone you meet.
Read or recite the poem and give them a copy to help spread the message.
Share your poem on social media using #pocketpoem.
Text a poem to a friend.
Add your favorite lines from a poem to your email footer.
Write a poem, starting with Haiku then move on to free verse.
To receive regular poetry emails, simply go online and sign up.
The Writer's Almanacwith Garrison Keillor: http://www.garrisonkeillor.com along with selected archives from 1993-2017 https://www.writersalmanac.org/ is available again.
Read, write and share poetry this month and continue to let it enlighten, encourage and entertain you. It's the perfect prescription for slowing down and paying attention.


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This is not about my MDS but it will make my life hugely more comfortable.
I've been on council waiting list for Sheltered Accommodation for nearly 2 years.
They have a bidding system where all bidders are assessed before the property is offered.
There is only one property in Whitstable which I would wish to live in, a small block off 22 flats. I've been in the building when I was a postman years ago and was very impressed. To get to the good bit, I put in a bid the week before last never thinking that I stood a chance.
I found out Thursday it's been offered to me, of course I accepted in a flash. It just finished being decorated and the manky carpet of previous tenant has been removed. I take it over on Monday 12/11. That's Chemo week so I can't do anything then but I've rather overdone it the past week organising everything needed ie cooker fridge freezer wardrobe bedside cabinet and am out shopping with my ex wife shopping for extras. Cooker and f/f del 17/11 and carpet fitting on 20/11.
All self contained phone release entry main doors.
Flat has lounge with kitchen off, hallway bedroom with en-suite shower and wc, best part is the rent £103 pw including heating and water.
First time in twelve years that my income will be less than my outgoings.
This will add more time to my life I'm sure as the flat I'm in is cold damp and condensation and mould grows on the walls.
All this is probably of no interest to any of you, but I had to share my joy.
Delighted for you. Wow, you are an inspiration for many of us, without the fuss that appears on other sites. Never realised your situation and though it doesn't matter I really admire your grit and determination.
Enjoy your new home and you now have somewhere warm and comfortable to spend your time.
Good luck with your continuing treatment!


The 2015 NFL regular season has not turned out how the Dallas Cowboys wanted it to turn out at all. On Sunday, the Cowboys lost their seventh straight game as the lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated them, but that wasn't the worst thing to happen. It appears now as if tensions are rising among the team itself as defensive linemen Greg Hardy and Demarcus Lawrence got into it on the sideline and had to be separated.
Bleacher Report stated that, during the game, Hardy got into the face of his teammate and fellow lineman, Lawrence. It didn't seem to get too serious, but it got to the point where they actually needed to be separated.
Even though it may not have been too serious, things did get heated.
It is said though that Hardy and Lawrence quickly patched things up right before halftime and left the field together at Raymond James Stadium.
According to the Dallas News, Cowboys defensive end Jeremy Mincey later said after the game that there was no issue between his teammates.
Yes, this may not have been as big of a deal as some are making it out to be, but it's yet another problem with Greg Hardy. He already wasn't around for the first four games of the season, and then there are the constant off-the-field issues, and this isn't the first time he's had a sideline problem during a game.
During Week 7's loss to the New York Giants, Hardy had an altercation, of sorts, with Cowboys special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia. Hardy is a very good football talent and an asset to any team as a player, but his liability as a personality is making this season even worse for Dallas.
The huge losing streak, Greg Hardy, and countless injuries are just a few of the problems for the Dallas Cowboys this season.
Earlier this week, wide receiver Dez Bryant was at the center of a lot of controversy after he blew up on reporters for an open media day with the team. Not only was Bryant yelling at reporters and cursing them out, but he and one particular media member actually had to be separated.
All of this just keeps adding to the frustration of the bad season and sitting at 2-7 with the playoffs virtually out of sight. The hope is there that quarterback Tony Romo will be able to return to the team next week for the first time since breaking his left clavicle in in Week 2.
Today's incident may have been resolved quickly for the Dallas Cowboys, but it just keeps adding more fuel to the fire.
Greg Hardy has been productive for the Cowboys in his five games played with the team so far, but his distractions may end up proving to be too much. So far this season, he has racked up four sacks, one interception, and 15 total tackles.
Good numbers, but maybe not worth the longtime damage he could do to the Cowboys' locker room.
The images of Greg Hardy's ex-girlfriend Nicole Holder's bruises from him don't make matters easier either. Deadspin brought forth the pics a couple of weeks ago, and Hardy said that Holder had fallen in a bathtub. The charges of assault against Hardy were dropped after Holder disappeared and no-showed the trial.
Greg Hardy and Demarcus Lawrence may have exchanged words and come close to a physical altercation, but it was rectified quickly. The Dallas Cowboys' loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and seventh straight loss is not something that can be fixed so easily and it only adds to the pile of problems this season.


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Wizz Air Moves Base to Kiev's Zhuliani Airport
I recently wrote about the new routes between London and Eastern Europe and subsequently I received some rather exciting news from Wizz Air. The first Ukrainian low-cost airline is moving its operations from Kiev Borispol to Kiev Zhuliani, as of 27th March. The move will make a huge difference to passengers as this airport is located just eight kilometres from the city centre and is conveniently served by public transport. The new airport will also be more efficient, allowing Wizz Air to continue offering truly affordable fares.
I think there has probably never been a better excuse to book a trip to Kiev!
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New Airline Routes to Ukraine, Germany, Croatia & Macedonia
Last week Ukrainian airline, AeroSvit, the biggest in the country, launched its new route between London's Gatwick Airport and Kiev. The airline will be flying five times a week to the Ukrainian capital, catering for both leisure and business travellers. It is hoped that once travellers land in Kiev they will visit other regions such as Frankovsk, Lugansk and Odessa. It is expected that around 65,000 passengers will fly from Gatwick to Kiev this year on the new AeroSvit route.
Since BAA sold Gatwick Airport to to Global Infrastructure Partners it has gained no less than 18 new routes including airberlin flight to Hamburg and Nuremburg. easyJet has also launched a new route from London Gatwick to Zagreb this year – the airline's third route between London and Croatia.
However, Wizz Air attempts to maintain its premier position as the number one airline carrier from London to Eastern Europe, this year opening a new route to the Macedonian capital, Skopje. This brings the number of Wizz Air routes from London Luton to the region to 23.
So, it looks like if you want to travel to the region there's never been more flexibility! Long may it continue!
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Wizz Air Launches Flights from Romania to Grenoble
Wizz Air the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would launch new routes from Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca to Grenoble in France. The flights to the new winter destination will be operated once a week between 12 December 2009 and 27 March 2010 as seasonal ski services.
Tickets are already on sale with one-way all-inclusive fares starting from as low as 220 RON / 52,49 EUR from Cluj and 260 RON / 62,49 EUR from Bucharest on wizzair.com and via call center by calling 0903 760 100.
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Mariners option right-hander Andrew Moore back to Class AAA Tacoma
Originally published July 28, 2017 at 2:56 pm Updated July 28, 2017 at 5:18 pm
The Mariners recalled right-handers Cody Martin and Casey Lawrence to work out of the bullpen.
A change is coming to the Mariners starting rotation.
On Friday, the team optioned rookie right-hander Andrew Moore back to Class AAA Tacoma and called up right-handed relievers Casey Lawrence and Cody Martin.
After the morning's trade with the Rays that will bring back right-hander Erasmo Ramirez, who is expected to report sometime this weekend, in exchange for Steve Cishek, the Mariners had an open spot in their bullpen. With Moore's turn in the rotation not coming until Tuesday in Texas, they called up another reliever to fill his spot until then.
To make room on the 40-man roster for Martin, infielder Tyler Smith was designated for assignment.
Manager Scott Servais said Ramirez will slot into Moore's spot in the rotation, Tuesday against the Rangers.
"We're going to go ahead and slide him into the rotation," Servais said. "He'll make a start over in Texas."
Ramirez hasn't started a game since June 21 so he isn't quite as stretched out as the other option to take Moore's spot, Marco Gonzales, who started for the Rainiers on Monday and pitched six innings in his first start in the organization since Seattle dealt Tyler O'Neill for him.
The hope is that Ramirez can go 80-85 pitches in the outing. But don't label him just a starter. The Mariners won't limit his role going forward. It will adjust to their needs.
"He's versatile," Servais said. "He can step in and start for you. He can pitch multiple innings out of the bullpen. I don't know him personally; obviously a lot of people here to do. He was here before I was here. But listening to what everyone is saying, he should fit in very well with our club and take innings and compete his tail off and give us a chance in the days he's out there."
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Moore, 23, pitched well early in his call up to the big leagues, but struggled of late, particularly with the home run ball and command of his pitches. In six starts, he had posted a 1-3 record with a 5.65 ERA. In his last three starts, he'd allowed 14 runs on 21 hits, including six homers in 15 1/3 innings pitched.
What does Moore need to work on?
"Command," Servais said. "I think we saw him when he first came to us, the first couple outings, it was really, really good. I think the one outing against Detroit it was like 18 of 18 first-pitch strikes, and that is so key to him. When he gets behind 2-0, 2-1 or 3-1, it's been a challenge. He's made some mistakes. It happens with young pitchers. I'm certainly not down on him at all. I said it at the beginning: I think he's going to win a lot of games as a Mariner, and I still believe that today. But where we're at in the playoff situation, trying to chase a wild card, it will be best to let him regroup in Tacoma, go with the guy whose been in the league a little bit more and see where that takes us."
This will be Lawrence's third stint with the Mariners since being claimed off waivers from the Blue Jays. In six appearances, he posted a 5.71 ERA.
Martin returns to the big leagues for the first time this season. He started the season on the disabled list and returned to make three starts and five relief appearances for the Rainiers, posting a 3.81 ERA with a save. Last season, he made two starts and seven relief appearances for the Mariners, posting a 1-2 record with a 3.86 ERA.
Ryan Divish: 206-464-2373 or rdivish@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @RyanDivish. Ryan Divish covers the Mariners in Seattle and on the road. Look for his 'Extra Innings' podcast and weekly Sunday mailbag during the season.


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"OK, Trump voters are not idiots. We don't need to give America a moral education; they know that he's an asshole. They get it. They've just baked that in,"
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Home » Series » Choujin X » Choujin X Chapter 7 Analysis: Embracing The Beast Within
Tokio goes full Beastification mode in Choujin X Chapter 7. A new character jumps in to save him and Ely. Will this be the start of a training arc?
Previously, it was four days. For Choujin X Chapter 7, it's five. Five days for Viz to release a translation. You're supposed to go in the opposite direction Viz, and not increase the time gap. Oh what the hell, I'm guessing it'll take them 6 days to translate Chapter 8.
Speaking of time predictions, this chapter (raw) dropped on 21st August. Three days earlier than I expected. And it was longer than the previous one. The next chapter will focus on the lore more than action so, I think it'll have the same number of pages as Chapter 7. I'm guessing… September 5th. Yes, Chapter 8 will come somewhere around September 5th. Fingers crossed.
Coming back to our main topic, Chapter 6 introduced us to a new transformation – full Beastification. The snake Choujin and beauty incarnate, Nari, literally toyed with cuteness incarnate, Ely, tossing her up and down. With no other option, Ely told inferiority complexion incarnate, Tokio, to make a break for it.
Getting inspired by the buzzard flying above him, Tokio decided to not be a coward and unleash his own full beautification mode.
Now the moment we've all been waiting for. Will Tokio change for good? How will the duo escape the clutches of the venomous superhuman? Read on as I review the latest chapter of Tokyo Ghoul's sister series – Analyzing Choujin X Chapter 7!
Enter Vulture Choujin – Tokio Zaven Kurohara
Choujin X Chapter 7 mentions the story of the three arrows
The vulture mask broke!
A mysterious sword guy saves our heroes
Tokio meets Hoshi Sandaq
The chapter begins with Tokio as he embraces the nature of a vulture and its features. If you look closely at the first page, Tokio's body is getting re-created of sorts. And some glass pieces are falling from the sky. On the left, there's a glass piece that is cracked.
This is an interesting aspect to ponder. It probably signifies Tokio shattering his earlier persona (inferiority complex) and re-creating himself from scratch. Kinda like what Vegeta is going through in the recent chapters of Dragon Ball Super (If you're up to date with that Manga, check this link out for more details). But since the glass is only partially shattered, it could imply that Tokio hasn't re-created himself completely. He still has a long way to go, but it's is a start.
"One non-stop trip to hell, coming right up!" Damn, this was something I never expected Tokio would say. To straight up attempting to kill someone. Wow, what a jump. Tokio has finally done it! He's moved on from his inferiority complex. He is not a chicken anymore. He-
Sigh. Why? Why can't you move on Tokio? How many times will you keep on running? Be a man bruh. Be a man. Even the Loli girl has more balls than you. She prefers to fight than run. And here I was expecting a considerable change after that line. Oh well, post-training arc I suppose…
Speaking of Tokio's vulture form, its mask resembles the character below from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
It seems Ishida is a fan of Eva as well. That was a pleasant surprise. He really liked Rei a lot. Enough to draw her so damn sexy.
This form in Choujin X Chapter 7 looks slightly different from the one in Chapter 1. He retained his hair in that form. Now he's totally bald. There's an increase in the resemblance to a buzzard.
Anyways, as expected, Tokio feels lighter and can fly… to some extent. He's still getting used to this new form. But no matter how fast he runs or flies, Nari is already behind them. Her snake body is too big to escape from.
Looking for another way out, Ely sees no other choice but to fight. Then out of nowhere, Tokio brings the story about the three arrows. I thought it was weird. But I couldn't get it out of my head because; knowing Ishida, there'd be a hidden meaning behind it. He won't just randomly insert that detail without a purpose. I continued reading and saw this.
Three arrows intersect and in the midst of it a scissors
These are the flags of Yamato Mori, the private organization of nurturing good Choujins. Thanks to Reddit user u/Nietzsche_esque, I was able to get more clues on the whole thing.
According to his findings, one version of the story goes like this:
The name of the organization is Yamato 'Mori'. The meaning of the word "Mori" is forest. And there's a big plant in the place where Tokio is asleep. There's definitely some connection between the organization and the story. Perhaps a backstory is coming up soon… (My guess is Yamato Mori was originally in a forest but was later shifted to its current location).
Regarding the three arrows, it can mean two things:
Yamato Mori works with two other organizations to nurture and protect good Choujins and capture the bad ones.
The philosophy of Yamato Mori is – three people as a team can do a better job than a single person (three arrows are stronger than one). It could foreshadow Tokio teaming up with two other people as part of the organization. My candidates for the other two people are Ely, the swords guy and Azuma. I strongly believe Ely will partner up with Tokio. The third person could be the other two or a completely unknown character.
Tokio comes up with a brilliant idea of burning Nari from the inside using Ely's high-temperature smoke. The plan is, the Junpei look-alike gets closer to Nari's face while Ely positions herself.
Before he starts running, Tokio brings up the test. He doesn't know what it was for but the line "how about you give me my scooore!" is so damn good. The vulture form really improved his one-liners, for better or worse.
To recall, a mysterious man who resembles Furuta appointed Nari to capture and bring Tokio to him. The test was to see whether he's worthy. I think Chandra Hume tested Ely probably for the same reason. I compared Tokio's and Ely's qualities in my Chapter 5 review article and their test results so do check it out.
By jumping all over the place, he slowly makes his way towards the snake Choujin's mouth and opened it wide. Ely tries to unleash the smoke but nothing happens.
As I mentioned in my Chapter 3 review article, beginner Choujins require a trigger to activate their powers. Ely was able to do that when she pierced herself with a knife to save the goat-masked bikers. Now she has nothing to trigger herself. Training is required to make a Choujin release their powers at will. I reckon it's a not-so-easy task.
As Ely raises her hand, that's when it happened. Tokio's vulture-like mask shattered into pieces. Now, I'm not entirely sure what caused it. Maybe he couldn't stay in that form for long. It may have a time limit. And just like most stories, a crucial power-up wears off at a critical moment to increase tension.
But the good news is, he can now go to a convenience store or school without the need of covering his beak. He can eat properly too I suppose. So there's some light amongst the darkness.
Ely tries to release the smoke from the hand, but it's no use. Tokio's about to be crushed by Nari's rock-hard teeth. Things were about to get worse for our heroes when a member of Yamato Mori arrives to save the day.
A member of Yamato Mori rescues Tokio and Ely
We don't yet know what his name is. However, based on his words, we can deduce that he is a member of the organization's upper echelons. He appears to be aware of Nari's identity, and he intends to coerce vital information from her. The identity of the person who hired her for instance.
Regarding his powers, he seems to be in control of his Choujin powers. He doesn't need a transformation to activate them. Not a beast Choujin, that's for sure. Something new comes up every chapter huh.
The move he used to defeat Nari is called "Heaven set". Not gonna lie, I prefer the fan-translated name – "Heavenly installment". Anyway, to activate that power, he places two fingers on a sticker or a tattoo on his wrist and spells out the location where he wants to strike his target with a ginormous sword. What's more, he can duplicate them.
The technique might be a reference to the legendary Japanese sword and one of three Imperial Regalia of Japan called the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi. The sword's original name was "Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi" meaning "Heavenly Sword of Gathering Clouds" but later changed to the current name which means "Grass-Cutting Sword".
The God Susanoo wielded this sword to slay the eight-headed serpent demon Yamata no Orochi. Hmm… seems like a connection. If Ishida actually confirms to use this as a reference in upcoming chapters, I'll elaborate on this then.
Sword guy's heaven set technique
Pierced Viscera means to pierce the viscera which, according to anatomy, is the large internal organs of the body collectively, especially those in the abdominal cavity. This resulted in the de-fusion of the snakes which Nari used to enlarge her body, reverting to her normal human form. Poor Nari is now injured on the floor, her face bleeding. Nari simps will be very sad.
According to Prefecture Statutes, Choujins are required to be registered in order to use their powers in full. Nari is an illegal Choujin in that sense. So is Tokio. But he didn't know. And was using it for self-defense. Funnily enough, he mistakes Tokio's name for Zaven Kurohara.
That's because Japanese people would pronounce the word "the" as "ze". So when Tokio said "my first name is the ven…" and he fell down flat, not completing his sentence, he was referring to the poison that infected him. The sword guy heard "the ven" as "ze ven" which became "Zaven".
The sword guy calls for a helicopter to pick them up and they all proceed towards Yamato Mori. His attitude kinda reminds me of Kurapika from Hunter X Hunter. I'm more than in for it if Ishida writes a Kurapika-like character.
I guess Tokio faces what we all do – the fear of being late for school/college/work. It becomes part of our subconscious after we've been shoved into the system.
He looks around with a perplexed expression. Then comes the man we've been waiting for since Chapter 2 – Hoshi Sandaq aka personification of Ely's ideal hubby. Or at least looks like one.
Hoshi gave him a serum to cure the effects of poison. So he's out of danger. But his arm's wrapped with bandages so he needs rest. And plenty of it. Considering what and all he's been through lately, I won't be surprised if he takes a nap for an entire week.
Sandaq reveals his position at the organization. I reckon he'd be the main mentor or the key teacher of Tokio and Ely.
These scenarios remind me of Tokyo Ghoul a lot. Kaneki waking up at Anteiku after the fight with Nishiki, Kuzen offering him some coffee. Touka, after saving him from Nishiki, training the lad to defend himself. Basically teaching him how to live a life of a Ghoul. A similar set of situations might happen to our main character of Choujin X too.
The sword guy might be assigned as Tokio's instructor, while being supervised by Sandaq. I think that guy might initially be harsh with Tokio, just like how Touka was with Kaneki.
There are indeed many parallels between Choujin X and Tokyo Ghoul but, I'd like to see Ishida taking a different approach. Tokio might not be as serious of a guy like Kaneki, but the roads they take are similar. Let's see how this new chapter of Tokio's life leads him too.
All in all, Choujin X Chapter 7 was really well laid out. It paved the way for the story to access the world-building it needs. Now it's up to Tokio on how he wants to live his life from here.
I didn't quite find the artwork neat and tidy this time around. I observed some scribbles and patches here and there but Ishida knows how to portray strong emotions in his work and that was the case in this Chapter. Tokio calling out to Azuma while transforming and the shattering of glass conveyed just what the Bestial Choujin was going through, both mentally and physically.
The symbolism in this chapter was just brilliant. Can't wait to see how Ishida proceeds from here.
This marks the beginning of a new arc so to speak, if we're keeping in mind how Tokyo Ghoul played out. A training arc featuring Tokio and Ely. They will learn how to embrace their Choujin abilities and use them for the good of society. I'm waiting to see how Azuma will come back into the picture. Will he be reduced as a side character or will he opposing Tokio in some form or the other?


SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company's manned mission to the moon planned for 2023 will be livestreamed in real time, in virtual reality.
"It'll feel like you're there in real-time minus a few seconds for speed of light," Musk said.
If you didn't make the cut as one of the eight artists chosen to ride in SpaceX's 2023 mission around the moon, you might be in luck.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company plans to livestream the mission in real time, in high-definition virtual reality. "It'll feel like you're there in real-time minus a few seconds for speed of light," he said.
The tweet about the moon came as Musk faced new problems for another tweet. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that the Department of Justice had opened a criminal investigation related to Musk's August tweet announcing he had "funding secured" to take his electric car company Tesla private. The comment caused Tesla's stock to soar, and Musk said Tesla would remain public a few days later.
The mission, currently planned for 2023, will take place on Tesla's Big Falcon Rocket. A Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire named Yusaku Maezawa purchased all the available seats for the flight, and he plans to choose six to eight artists to join him on the mission. The rocket won't land on the surface of the moon, but will instead orbit around it.


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Customer up to the contract price and may opt to do so by making a deduction from the amount to be reimbursed. Reimbursement will be made by the Company using the same means of payment as the Customer used for the initial transaction, unless the Customer expressly agrees otherwise. In relation to a contract for the supply of Goods from Stock and associated services, the Company will not begin the supply of the installation service before the end of the cancellation period unless the Customer has so requested in writing and in such circumstances the Customer must pay to the Company an amount for the supply of the installation service for the period for which it is supplied ending with the time when the Company is informed of the cancellation which is in proportion to what has been supplied in comparison with the full coverage of the contract. In relation to a contract for the supply of Goods from Stock and any associated services, the Customer may use the Model Cancellation Form provided.
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j) all natural wood products used in the installation will be fitted by the Company's installers without any form of treatment being applied prior to use or installation and it shall be the Customer's responsibility to apply any appropriate treatments.
to any other right or remedy available to the Company, the Company may: (i) store the goods until actual delivery is rearranged and charge the Customer £30 inclusive of VAT per day to cover the cost of storage, insurance and transport; and/or (ii) sell the goods at the best price readily obtainable and after deduction of all expenses and costs account to the Customer for any excess over the Price or charge the Customer for any shortfall below the Price and the Customer shall pay such charge to the Company within 14 days of receipt of the Company's invoice for the charge.
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Patient as a mountain and wild as the seasons, Maqui and Camu Camu find their sweet and complex flavor in the richness of the wild soils of Patagonia and The Andes. Two antioxidant berries and raw sprouted almonds make this blend perfect for the adventurous at heart.
Jem Organics soak their almonds in pink Himalayan salt crystals and dehydrated at a low temperature to insure the nutritional integrity and improve the digestibility of the almonds. Soaking also reduces the phytic acid, a substance that reduces your body's ability to absorb minerals. We source only truly raw, non-irradiated and unpasteurized almonds from Spain.
This small purple berry grows in the Patagonia region of Chile. They have chosen to blend this super berry in our organic sprouted almond spread for its extremely high antioxidant quality, specifically the well known anti aging flavonoids, anthocyanins, and its mild tart flavor.


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A person's risk of SCD is higher during the first six months after a heart attack.
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Risk factors for coronary artery disease include smoking, family history of heart disease, and high cholesterol.
Ejection fraction of less than 40 percent, combined with ventricular tachycardia.
Prior episode of sudden cardiac arrest.
Family history of sudden cardiac arrest or SCD.
Personal or family history of certain abnormal heart rhythms, including long or short QT syndrome, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, extremely low heart rates, or heart block.
Ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation after a heart attack.
History of congenital heart defects or blood vessel abnormalities.
History of syncope (fainting episodes of unknown cause).
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a thickened heart muscle that especially affects the ventricles.
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Q. When does the first bus leave from Bangalore International Airport to Manipal?
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AK Patterson has been dubbed a 'woman possessed', disappearing to a place of fierce enchantment each time she sings. The foundations of Patterson's voice – which switches from a whisper to flashes of emotion – were laid growing up in a music-obsessed household in suburban Cambridge. The likes of Jeff Buckley and Bjork were played heavily, alongside a more unpredictable love for Portugal's traditional Fado singers. A curiosity for the unknown was deepened by travels including a period spent by Patterson living with monks in Japan, where meditation studies were fitted in alongside work in rice paddy fields.
An accomplished guitar and fiddle player, she and her bandmates, Alfie Weedon and Nat Reading, build a rich musical world. Classically trained, Weedon provides backing vocals and versatile double bass playing, having previously spent time in Senegal living with the country's traditional Griot musical storytellers and poets. Reading's restless multi-instrumentalism meanwhile, has led him to play everything from Balearic pop to classical guitar with the National Youth Guitar Ensemble.
I managed to get some time to speak with Patterson as she prepares to play at this weekend's The Great Escape Festival in Brighton.
Could you tell me about how you initially got involved with music and who influenced you most?
I first got into music because I grew up in a household full of jazz. My parents play double bass and saxophone, so the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane were always drifting through the house. They would hold late night jazz sessions in our living room when my sister and I had gone to bed.
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Could you tell me about how you came to choose the fiddle as your weapon of choice?
I grew up learning music by ear in a very organic way. I never studied it, I was often advised not to by my schools because they thought I wouldn't cope without knowing the theory! Instead, I would play in the pubs of Cambridge before the smoking ban in raucous Irish music sessions. I had two very influential fiddle teachers, Hazel Fairburn and Josie Newgent, who both taught me by ear and have no doubt shaped the way I write my own music.
I also love music from other cultures, I've done a bit of travelling in my time. I lived in Japan for a while and learned the Koto – a Japanese stringed instrument. I love the stories you pick up from people you meet when travelling and I try and weave as much as that into my writing as possible.
For those who are new to your music which three tracks would you encourage them to check out first and why?
New tracks: I would say listen to our first two releases, 'Shadows' and 'Lady Greyling.' They reflect the more acoustic, moody side of our music. The next one to look out for would be 'It's Not Over Till They Cry' which is coming out in June. Sonically it's very different than the others. It's one of our favourites because we were able to be very imaginative in the studio with our producer Charlie. Expect electric guitar, string arrangements, bell chimes, and even creepy nail scrapings in the background. It's much more theatrical and captures the emotionally intense atmosphere we try and create at our live shows.
I lived in Japan for a while and learned the Koto – a Japanese stringed instrument. I love the stories you pick up from people you meet when travelling and I try and weave as much as that into my writing as possible.
How do you feel when you share your music for the first time? Do you prefer to share new music live where you can see the crowd's reaction first hand or online perhaps?
We feel it's definitely best to test new stuff out on a crowd first. It's the way I grew up playing music as well. If something doesn't quite gel when you perform it live- often in its simplest form then it may not work as well as you'd like it to in the studio.
Will you get a chance to hang around The Great Escape and enjoy it after you've played?
We are a resident Brighton band so we will be around for the entirety of The Great Escape.
What can those fortunate enough to have tickets expect from your live show?
From our live show expect an emotionally charged performance, narrative-led songs accompanied with haunting instrumentation on cello, clarinet and double bass.
What does the rest of 2018 have in store for you?
We are playing Dot to Dot festival next weekend in Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham. You can catch us at Latitude this year at The Alcove stage and also Larmer Tree Festival.
If you're going to The Great Escape then you'll be able to catch AK Patterson at 2:15 tomorrow in the Latest Music Bar. For information about how you get your hands on day tickets for the festival, just visit the event's website which is linked below.
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For those of us in the Christian Right, we have known this since at least 2008, if not 1999 when we failed to impeach Clinton for perjury and the crime of sexual harrassment that would have gotten any kid having sex at McDonalds fired. We could even go back to 1973 and say that when a nation embarks on a holocaust that quickly surpassed that of Germany, any person who still has a moral sense knows that war will eventually result.
There are those on both the left and the right who call for American "unity." But these calls are either naïve or disingenuous. Unity was possible between the Right and liberals, but not between the Right and the Left.
How does one make "peace" with those who will kill 60 million innocents as has happened with abortion? By winning.
Liberalism – which was anti-Left, pro-American, and deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian foundations of America, regarded the melting pot as the American ideal, fought for free speech for its opponents, regarded Western civilization as the greatest moral and artistic human achievement, and viewed the celebration of racial identity as racism – is now affirmed almost exclusively on the right and among a handful of people who don't call themselves conservative.
I think Praeger is a bit of a Pollyanna as he looks at "liberals of old". Certainly there WERE many such liberals, but even at the time of Buckley writing "God and Man at Yale", it was clear that belief in God was becoming unacceptable at "liberal institutions", and Marxism was considered the winning hand over Capitalism. He is certainly correct however that the modern US and European Left is against every one of those values in the paragraph above at this point.
As long as conservatism was losing, the war was covert -- but with Tump win, we see it heating up. Can conservatism win without firing a shot as Reagan did against the USSR? I doubt it, but we can always hope. Apparently Praeger doesn't agree with me that the elected government of BOistan has become a SERVANT of the Administrative State and the courts. We shall see.
The article is not that long, highly recommend reading it all. This is how he closes.
With the defeat of the Left in the last presidential election, the defeat of the Left in two-thirds of the gubernatorial elections and in a majority of House and Senate elections, this is likely the last chance liberals, conservatives, and the Right have to defeat the American Left. But it will not happen until these groups understand that we are fighting for the survival of America no less than the Union troops were in the First Civil War.


RALEIGH— Concerned citizens at the NC General Assembly spoke out Monday about legislative proposals to shorten North Carolina's Early Voting period. HB451, aka "The Longer Lines to Vote Bill," would shorten the state's Early Voting period from 17 days to ten. Unaffiliated voters and educators joined Progress North Carolina, as PNC released new polling data showing that voters overwhelmingly support and use Early Voting. Fewer chances to vote early simply add up to longer lines at the voting booth. Voting should be free, fair, accessible and convenient because the right to vote is the basis for our democracy.
New poll results from Public Policy Polling show that an overwhelming 78% of North Carolina voters support Early Voting. 75% say they have used Early Voting in the past. If lawmakers chose to cut short Early Voting, then they are swimming against the tide of public opinion and common sense.
"The Longer Lines to Vote Bill" is not unprecedented. In 2012, Florida enacted similar restrictions on Early Voting. As a result, voters faced endless lines and waits of up to six hours to vote. Some estimate as many as 200,000 Florida voters gave up and never voted because of a dysfunctional election system which had cut Early Voting.
Today's press conference is just the first in a statewide tour of press events. Complete survey results are attached.