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The Verdict on Air France 447
One big factor in the accident: uncertainty as to who was flying the plane.
Steve Satre
Over the past couple of weeks I've had the chance to talk with other pilots about the tragic Air France accident that occurred on June 1, 2009. These discussions were prompted by the recent release of the final accident report and the transcript of conservations in the cockpit.
In the initial aftermath of the crash, there was a lot of speculation that the plane had broken up in flight after encountering a severe thunderstorm over the Atlantic Ocean. The in-flight break-up, so the conventional wisdom went, resulted from the pitot-static system icing up, thereby giving erroneous information to the pilots who inadvertently over-stressed the airframe.
It was nearly two years later, in April 2011, that the main debris field was located. The pattern of debris suggested that the plane had been intact upon impact with the ocean. Incredibly, the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) was located, followed by the discovery of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) a week later. With the information provided by these "black boxes," the story of what happened becomes much clearer.
The Air France 447 Cockpit Voice Recorder, found on the ocean floor (Photo: BEA)
A few things about this accident jump out at me when I read the transcript. There never seems to be any clear understanding between the two First Officers as to who is actually flying the plane. The more junior FO is the designated "flying pilot" at this point, while the Captain is on his rest break, but the other, more senior, FO makes control inputs at some points. Basic crew resource management requires that one pilot be flying at any given time and that the division of duties is always made clear (e.g. "You have the airplane", "I have the airplane").
Here's the part that I believe was a major contributor to the accident. On the Airbus, when one pilot makes a control input (e.g. pulling back on the sidestick), the other pilot has no indication of this control movement. Compare this to more traditional aircraft, which have control yokes in front of both pilots. On these planes, when one pilot moves the yoke, the other pilot's yoke moves in tandem. If I hold full back stick, this is glaringly obvious to the other pilot. Apparently this is not so on an Airbus. In addition, when both pilots move their respective control sticks, the inputs are averaged. So, when the senior FO made an attempt to lower the nose of the plane, his efforts were stymied by the junior FO who was holding back stick throughout the descent.
Though all of these things were major contributors to this accident, the root problem seems to be a lack of basic airmanship. The initial response by the junior FO to the loss of airspeed information (initiating a climb) was not something an experienced pilot should ever do, particularly when already at a safe altitude. But this initial mistake was still very recoverable. All that was needed was to lower the nose to regain airspeed and fly out of trouble. Instead, he compounded the problem by continuing to hold back pressure throughout the descent, causing a perfectly good plane to stall all the way to impact.
Like every other pilot, I'd like to think that I wouldn't have made these mistakes. But I wasn't there, so I don't know how the confusion of the situation would have affected me, and I hate being the Monday-morning quarterback. I am glad that the black boxes were recovered so we don't have to wonder about some mysterious gremlin that might pop up unexpectedly on some other flight. Somehow, it's reassuring to me to know that the cause was more mundane, and eminently avoidable.
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Steve Satre got his pilot's license in 1977 and became a full-time commercial pilot in 1993. He currently flies the Boeing 757/767 on both international and domestic routes. The opinions expressed are his own and do not reflect the views of his employer or the Smithsonian Institution.


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Young Lawmaker Wants to Teach Other Dems to 'Be Savvy' on Social Media | LifeZette
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Young Lawmaker Wants to Teach Other Dems to 'Be Savvy' on Social Media
Democratic shared 'instructions' on Colbert's show
By MomZette Staff | January 22, 2019
It is really, really simple, says newly elected lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
She was talking about the instructions and guidance she's been giving to her Democratic colleagues in Congress about how to use social media in the best way possible — now that she's joined the House of Representatives and is working in Washington, D.C.
Appearing on Stephen Colbert's late-night show on Monday night, Ocasio-Cortez, who is 29, explained to him how she's been instructing others on the most effective use of Twitter.
"I give them more of my general theory and approach to social media."
"I said, you know, rule number one is to be authentic, to be yourself and don't try to be anyone that you're not," she said.
Related: Ocasio-Cortez: 'World Is Gonna End in 12 Years if We Don't Address Climate Change'
"So don't try to talk like a young kid if you're not a young kid. Don't post a meme if you don't know what a meme is, is literally my advice" — at this, the audience laughed.
"And I said, 'Don't talk like the Founding Fathers on Twitter.'"
In summary, she said, "If you're a mom who likes to garden, talk like that — and that's all you've got to do."
Earlier on Monday, the Democratic socialist, who began her term as an elected lawmaker on January 3 with the 116th Congress, also said the issue of climate change is a "generational" one.
"I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we're like, 'The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. And your biggest issue is — your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it? And this is this is the war, this is our World War II," Ocasio-Cortez said during an event in New York City to honor Martin Luther King.
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The biggest, most prominent drug dealers in the UK are NHS doctors. My Zopiclone addiction started with being prescribed the sleeping medication due to my step-mother being crazy and my anxiety levels being sky-high. I was aged 19-20, and whilst Zopiclone is only supposed to be taken for 2-3 weeks, I was on it for 20 years. The number of repeat prescriptions I had during those years led to me having a pretty severe, if controlled, addiction. 15mg a day – sometimes more if I needed to travel down the road, was anxious, had a gig to perform or go to, or dined out before 6pm. I was a Zopiclone addict.
Are you a Zopiclone addict? If you are, you may be able to relate to some of this.
A friend once asked a psychiatrist to prescribe them Zopiclone, and he told them no, as it was harder to kick than heroin. Yes, Zopiclone is readily available on the NHS.
Having been off it now for 22 months (my second anniversary is 25th May), I can honestly say that I miss it every day. Sometimes I miss it every hour. I miss it right now.
Would I go back on Zopiclone? After the agony I went through coming off it – going to a drug clinic, nearly wrecking so many relationships – yes, I think I would.
What Are The Benefits of Zopiclone?
Calm. Sleep. A relaxed state, with less anxiety, stress, over-working mindset, and it makes everything taste great, as your appetite hits overdrive levels.
For a great many years I couldn't travel. I couldn't even sit in a car. But, when I worked out that taking Zopiclone before travelling quelled my "worst case scenario" panic mindset and I actually was able to enjoy travelling, I went from not being able to travel by car five minutes down the road, to travelling from York down to Winchester, and even as far as the Isle of White. Quite simply, Zopiclone is the best travel sickness tablet there is!
It gave me confidence. I lost my inhibitions and had thriving ambition. I could eat and not get anxious. I would go out and have a good time! But then the meds would wear off, and by morning I was a gibbering wreck again, freaked out by plans I'd made the night before, deeply regretting things I'd said or done, and guilty that I'd given off the impression I was successfully coping with my anxiety disorder.
Zopiclone is better than Valium for anxiety, fear and panic. If ever I was having a panic attack (mainly due to my Emetophobia), I'd take 7.5mg and BOOM. Cured. Relaxed. Party guy.
I ended up not taking Zopiclone for a sleep disorder, or insomnia, but to cure and deal with my anxiety. I'd go to group therapy sessions, and if I was anxious, I'd pop a pill. If I was stressed at work, I'd pop a pill. If I was low, depressed, angry, frustrated.. I'd pop a pill.
One thing (amazingly) didn't lead to another, and I don't think I ever took more than 22.5mg of Zopiclone a day (when taking extra). And, if I did, 30mg max. I've read a lot about people starting at 3.75mg and within a couple of years they were taking 50mg+ daily.
Aged 41 and married with a 4-year-old daughter, I again don't travel. I struggle to eat in public sometimes, and don't like socialising much – which isn't ideal when you're a musician and you want people to come see you perform. I've never taken Robin to the beach. I've only left York with her once or twice as a baby, and freaked out and had to get my wife to drive us home. I may never take her to the beach. I may never go out-of-town shopping with her. If she went to visit the in-laws and was involved in an accident, I probably wouldn't be able to rush to her side. I could only ever do those things under the influence of Zopiclone. My Zopiclone addiction offered me some kind of flawed, fake life – but at least it gave me a life. Without it, I struggle to see a future filled with travel, adventures, dreams coming true.
The benefits of Zopiclone for me were that they allowed me 'not to be me'. They allowed this Clark Kent to be Superman. Like Red Bull, they gave me wings.
How To Come Off Zopiclone?
I did some foolish things. I was lost in the inhibitions of the drug. I was an idiot. I had to quit it.
The ONLY way to get off Zopiclone is to taper off it. Please do not go cold-turkey. I tried. It was hell.
From 15mg, I went down 3.75mg at a time, slowly, over the course of a year. Surprisingly, getting down to 3.75mg a night wasn't that hard. Getting off that last drip feed was a tough battle though.
My doctor referred me to Life Line – a York based drug counsellor clinic – where, over a few months, and a few missed targets, I managed to quit.
The small steps sometimes need giant leaps of faith. I had a week's holiday from work, and for one reason or another I decided that would be when I would stop.
The number of times I'd sat downstairs and could not get off the settee without taking a pill – as the fear inside that if I went to bed I would actually be trying to quit.. well, I just couldn't physically or mentally do it.
With some Valium to hand, I stopped. The first day was tough, as it was my mum's birthday (26th May) and we went out for a meal. I really needed the tablet. Badly!
The second, third, fourth days.. I barely moved off the settee. I watched TV. I trembled. I shook. I got extremely edgy, anxious, stressed, upset and depressed. I stuck to my guns.
29th May, my birthday. I was getting clean. My 40th birthday. Happy birthday, Marck.
I didn't celebrate – cancelled a party and felt down on myself. What a 40th. What a party-pooper to be around.
The week took forever, but I went back to work, clean.
How Long Does It Take To Come Off Zopiclone?
Once an addict, always an addict. It took me over a year to ween (or taper) off Zopiclone, but I still crave it. I still want it and would smash through a Boots Chemists' window during the night to get my hands on a freshly baked batch. I still carry a small medicine bottle with a handful in. I can't get rid of them.
The mental health services in the UK are failing us, badly. Zopiclone saved me, daily. Without it, the services are back again, failing me.
I've tried CBT for my Emetophobia, but the quack told me I couldn't continue, as trying to come off Zopiclone at the same time would hamper my chances – and negatively affect her stats. It took me another year to get referred again to see another counsellor. This time things went more smoothly, but I am still ravaged, like a debilitating disease, by my Emetophobia. Oh, how Zopiclone would kick that fear into touch.
Like alcohol, heroin, cocaine, or other Class A addictive drugs, Zopiclone is for life and not just for a few weeks of decent sleep. The NHS will happily leave you on it. Please, seek help and get off it. I sat in a drug clinic with neighbours to a relation of mine, who were the scum of the earth. I was around people crying out for a hit of heroin, with faeces under their fingernails, snot running down their faces, clothes that hadn't seen a washer since the last good downpour. I sat there amongst people who didn't want to quit, but were there due to legal systems, benefit claims, etc. Was I above them? My cleanliness certainly was, but my addiction wasn't – we were one and the same. Sure, I had a decent job, but so do many alcoholics. Ignore the surroundings of a drug clinic. Forget any stigma, you are a drug addict, that's the cold hard truth. The difference is that you want to quit.
There's so many stories to tell, but sadly I was too stoned on Zopiclone to remember most of them.
Playing gigs, when high on Zopiclone, always led to a massive post-gig comedown. I mentally attacked myself after every gig. I really was too hard on myself and should've been having the time of my life – but the wild mood swings associated with my Zopiclone addiction ruined it every time.
I was horrid to be around. I'd make plans with people, and the next day do my utmost to rid myself of any responsibility. I'd say nasty things. I became two-faced. I was this person, this Jekyll and Hyde character. I was a drug-fuelled Gemini! I loved myself when high, and despised myself when low.
One time, I went on a break to Manchester. One of those very rare times I got out of York for the night. I went there for the week to watch Ryan Adams and Fleet Foxes. Stopping at Tesco in York to get a fresh prescription of pills, I grabbed some shopping and it wasn't until I got to Manchester that I realised I'd forgotten the pills at the chemist section! I rang my GP surgery in a panic and got through to the ogre doc. He accused me of being a drug-dealer and asking for a second script as I'd sold the first. I screamed at him and hung-up. 10 minutes later he rang me back and apologised, saying he'd read my notes and that I was not a "drug-dealer". I honestly couldn't care less for the street value of Zopiclone – I just wanted to not be stuck in Manchester with no pills.
So, doctors think you're a drug-dealer if you lose your Zopiclone prescription? Nice! In reality, they are the rampant drug-dealers. It's sad, but true.
After 20 years of being addicted to Zopiclone, I am about to reach my second anniversary being clean of it.
I still miss it every hour of every day.
Life, as a recovering Zopiclone addict.
Hi, I'm wondering how you're doing today and if you found some other type of calmative to help?
I came across your article while googling Zopiclone. I take it to help me sleep and find it works wonders so I started to wonder if it could be addictive. Thanks for writing this.
Sorry for the delay in replying to your message – I had a couple of website issues (changed from .info to .co.uk!).
I am on Amitriptyline (50mg a night), and have been for a lot of years. Maybe that's helping me a little with my anxieties, alongside 2mg of Valium as and when I need it – max one a day.
Zopiclone is addictive – so I've read and been told by doctors – from after just two weeks of regular use. People have different tolerances, and some can stop class A drugs with no side-effects, whilst others go through hell. I found it extremely hard emotionally and psychologically, and still do to this day, some three years later.
If you have no issues with it, and your doctor is happy continuing to prescribe it to you, I wouldn't worry. I found that I was under its influence too much, and was not happy with its effect on me towards the end, so I wanted to get off it. I would go back on it now though, after three years and still having an anxiety issue that Zoplicone used to help with.
I hope you're well and thanks for sending me the kind comment. It really is a life-changing drug!
I have taken Zopiclone for about 10 years I take 7.5 mg every night. I have never had any urge to increase the dosage and because, I suppose , I take it for insomnia I have had none of the " highs" you talk about. Am I addicted , perhaps but I am also 68 years old and don't really care. I would rather have a good night's sleep then worry about whether I am addicted to this drug. Since this drug makes me sleepy I find it hard to relate to what you are saying this drug does for you ( sorry DID for you ) but I congratulate on coming off it . I hope you can find something to replace it with. Have you tried CBD, from the HEMP plant ?
Thanks for your comment and for reading my post. Sorry for the delay, I was busy trying to update some of the things behind the scenes on the site.
If you take Zopiclone before sleep, that's great. I was taking it hours before sleep to calm my anxiety and eventually to get a buzz. It worked – too much. So, I ended up using it as an anti-anxiety and not as a sleeping medication. Since coming off it, many of my anxieties are 'worse', in that I have no way of treating them as successfully as Zopiclone did. With my Emetophobia, I have tried CBT, unsuccessfully. I would try it again – and hopefully will one day.
Addiction – since writing this post, I see it differently. I was addicted, and it did 'rule' my life. But it made my anxieties better, and I miss that. I miss feeling well from taking it and not being so anxious.
There's not a day goes by when I don't think of it – taking it again. Oh well.


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I LOVE how the veil attaches at the back of her head. It feels almost medieval, which is brilliant given that, you know, they're in an actual medieval building. SIGH.


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This show was a hell of a ride. I still remember the days in season one when everyone was all "Wait a second guys, I think this show is actually trying to be good. And they're kinda doing it?" I was not expecting them to go so deep with the premise of the machine. And then the show actually became popular enough for us to not have to worry about it getting canceled after 1 or 2 seasons.
I would have rather had a full season to close out on, but we got what we got and I'm glad. I do think this truncated season was still better than season 4. The ideal world never happens for a TV show. They had to deal with things like Nolan being busy with other things, Taraji Hensen leaving, Shahi getting pregnant, Caviezel being struck by lightning while crucified and struggling to relearn how to act, losing NCIS as a lead-in, CBS being the CBS that they are, etc. Instead of thinking about the missed potential I'll say hats off to everyone involved for not letting any bullshit stop them from making a drat good show for five years. Rolling with the punches like that is what separates the greats from the almost-greats.
This show had great use of music. POI is old enough that it started in the era of "every drama episode ends with a sappy montage to a song" but they never abused that. You could play any song that played in the show and anyone who watched could tell you when that song played. Afraid of Americans, Hurt, Sinnerman, Fortune Days, Welcome to the Machine, The Day the World Went Away. I'll always think of this show when I hear those songs now. And the score by Ramin Djawadi was great. Just the right amount of emotional, paranoia-inducing, bombastic and overblown to set the show apart from its non-badass counterpart crime shows.
John went out like a loving boss. Capping waves of goons with a big smile on his face, until he eventually got shot a bunch of times, then kept gunning down fools until he got chewed apart by machine gun fire then getting blown up by a cruise missile. We can all but hope to die so well.
As cool as a spinoff would be I have no idea where they'd take it. I am sure they could come up with something if they really wanted. But really how do you take the number-of-the-week premise and end up topping two battling super AIs that have both infected the entire world? The show can still work on a smaller scale though.
I am going to miss you, POI threads. I didn't post much but I've read every post starting from season 1. You guys hardly ever got bitchy or stupid for too long, and that may not sound like much but it's very high praise for any long-running show's thread anywhere on the internet. Seeing other people's reactions, thoughts, jokes, and predictions really added to my enjoyment of the show.
# ? Jun 22, 2016 04:26
Slamhound
TALAMANTES
TALAMAS
TALAS
TALLIS
I''d say due to the spacing, it's gotta be John Talas.
Could be Talents. Like in the Parable.
JossiRossi posted:
Decima were there to guard him, after all this was the man who was going to secure Samaritan got the gov't feeds. He was never in any danger. The machine spit out his number as the potential cause of a lot of deaths, the only solution to which was killing him.
If he was never in any danger, then guard him from whom? And again, if he's the potential cause of a lot of deaths, that would make him Relevant and the Machine would have given it to Northern Lights/Indigo. Team Machine only gets Irrelevants.
bring back old gbs
by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
uhhh Talbot?
lol where is this definitive list of names coming from??
bring back old gbs posted:
Just having some fun, someone posted a link to a generic list of last names, The gravestone says TAL, and Zaggit said we saw the last letter is 's' in season 1.
Hollismason
My reluctance to enjoy clown-based movies indicates to my friends that perhaps I hold a sinister clown-based secret...
Just some dumb website I found that had a list of last names.
Talas makes sense because TAL______S So first 3 letters are TAL and last 1 is S. Plus it fits on the tombstone.
Hollismason posted:
Never knew bout the last letter being an S, yeah I guess that'd be it.
violetdragon
Sober posted:
If you can hear this, you're alone.
The only thing left of me is the sound of my voice.
I don't know if any of us made it. Did we win, did we lose? I don't know.
But either way it's over. So let me tell us who we were. Let me you who you are.
Someone once asked me if I had learned anything from it all. So let me tell you what I learned:
I learned everyone dies alone.
But if you meant something to someone...
If you helped someone...
Or loved someone...
If even a single person remembers you...
... then maybe you never really die.
And maybe...
... this isn't the end at all.
I can't stop sobbing. :[
monster on a stick
The Man in the Suit should have been John Taylor
The Iron Rose
Cat Army
some of the best TV I've seen. season 1 was, hah, by the numbers, but it's been really incredible since episode three.
I take it you don't want my autograph, then.
Just to clarify, does the Machine still have Root's voice? Or is it back to being voiceless?
Nolan: The Machine is still Root. Because of how the finale works, there's not a lot of time to get to it, but the idea being that the Machine has been destroyed, and [is] rising out of the ashes of it all. It's going to be holding on to certain pieces of what it left behind; a code it leaves to decipher who it was, which is why the season began with essentially the Machine telling the Machine who it was, in an effort to jump start that conversation. Like an amnesiac coming to, and finding notes that remind it who it was, and point it in the direction of [the team]—in posterity, here are the people you're going to work with. So by the time Shaw picks up the phone, she is talking once again to Root as the Machine. That team, that pairing, which is such a fantastic pairing, goes forward.
Ignis posted:
in posterity, here are the people you're going to work with.
Don't know who Asian Kid, 11th Doctor, and Mirror Santa are, but sounds good.
Dr Kool-AIDS
I know the short season/cancellation is unpopular with a lot of the show's fans, but I think the short season and even the schedule fuckery (once it actually started airing) really added to the sense of urgency. A full season might have been able to bring back a couple more characters from previous seasons, but it would have had a lot more filler that would have slowed everything down too. This was the last network show I was watching, so maybe I'm biased, but the idea that any show actually needs 22 episodes to tell a story seems ridiculous to me. Obviously if you love the characters and the world of the show and enjoyed the number of the week episodes, you may have wanted more just to have more, but I think 13 was a blessing in disguise.
Generic American
I love my Peng
You know, alongside the praise that everyone else has already said... I'm really glad that they managed to wedge Amy Acker in there proper with Harold's hallucination and as a visual proxy for The Machine's presence. Getting cut from the show right before the big finale (even if she still had the narration) would've felt a little off for how big a part she played on the team these past few seasons. That was a nice touch.
Generic American posted:
I kinda think Finch should have been a little more alarmed that his Machine decided to take on the persona of someone who worshiped it as a god, but it was a nice move from a sentimental perspective on the showrunners' part. Did anyone else think it was pretty weird when the Machine started flirting with Shaw though?
It makes sense that The Machine would flirt and talk with Shaw like that. It's clearly established The Machine does feel love and has the ability to simulate personalities.
Also, the Machine has duplicated itself and as stated earlier Root lives on in the Machine.
StarkRavingMad
Yams Fan
That was really good and now I'm really sad. Going to go drink some whiskey in honor of John.
I haven't been this bummed about a show ending since Justified.
Pussy Cartel
Lipstick Apathy
This was an amazing series(especially considering how, uh, rote the first season was), the best portrayal of AI I can think of, and one of the best scifi shows in years. Despite how great this ending was (and it really was great), I'm really gonna miss this Person of Interest.
Whatever happened to Gabriel, anyway?
NieR Occomata
Glory to Mankind.
It was a good ending with really powerful moments that didn't quite work as well as it should have.
I do like the idea of the Machine recursively teaching a future version of itself/her daughter, that was a neat idea and closes out the season opener really well. But it's just sort of a disjointed mess off the back of the penultimate episode, which although rushed was at least clean. This finale I honestly had very little to no idea what was going on or what people were doing outside of the big sweeping moments, like I was at best very unsure what Finch and Reese were doing and why most of the time during the finale.
The irony is that the single most powerful moment of the finale is that subplot with the two cops in the terms of a tonal/thematic conclusion to the series as a whole, which honestly just feels wrong. Basically all the roof stuff and Machine Root flashback-ing stuff was all fantastic, but basically the plot as written was a convoluted mess.
NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jun 22, 2016
Bruceski
The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.
Um... at the end, for the PoI title card it zoomed out to satellite view and there was a red triangle over part of NY. Was that always there this season or does Samaritan live on in the skies?
nine-gear crow
Bruceski posted:
That's been there since Season 4. Before it was the Machine's yellow box over the title card, but it was flipped to Samaritan's red triangle. This season it starts off as the red triangle but gets overridden with a yellow box at the last second. I guess they just didn't have time to create a "clean" version for the finale to show that the Machine had won and Samaritan was gone for good, even though it already existed for Seasons 2 & 3...
GrandpaPants
Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!
I would watch Memento starring The Machine.
The Dark Id posted:
Now that the series is over, I'm disappointed nobody kicked that dipshit little kid Samaritan was using as a speech puppet in the face at any point. Everything with that kid was loving dumb.
For what it's worth, when this happened:
Crusader posted:
I pictured that smug kid screaming in mortal terror.
Zaggitz
My urges are becoming...
I bet that kid is gonna spend the rest of his life in an asylum after flipping out that the voice in his head is gone and trying to tell people about the ai gods and the great filter.
Zaggitz posted:
Again, I'd like to imagine that the last thing that kid heard from "God" was Samaritan screaming "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! " into his cochlear implant
Party Plane Jones
by Reene
Fun Shoe
What was with the editing on that roof scene though? Reese killed one guy at least twice and he still shows up in the next shot.
Priss In Plate
Well. That was something.
Yeah, it did feel a little rushed and convoluted, but, all things considered, I'm happy with the way it went. Sure, a full season would have been nice, but I get the feeling it would have been a bit much. v v
Toxxupation posted:
The irony is that the single most powerful moment of the finale is that subplot with the two cops in the terms of a tonal/thematic conclusion to the series as a whole, which honestly just feels wrong.
In a show all about how irrelevant people matter, the core theme/lesson for the machine to learn and the viewer to then experience coming from one of those irrelevant threads seems very much intentional to me and not some stumble that ironically stands out.
We never found out what Root did in Russia
Nameless Pete
Get a load of those...
All these years John thought he had escaped death-by-cruise-missile when he was merely delaying it.
Missiles, man... Those fuckers play the long game.
Kegslayer
John's not really dead. He just retired to a farm upstate with Carter and Root.
It's a shame LaToya Ferguson only got the review the last 3 episodes of the show for the AV Club, she really understands the show and all its nuances in a way that Alexa Planje just made no effort to.
Her review on the finale pretty much lines up with my feelings on the ep 1:1.
http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/moment-truly-matters-person-interests-last-episode-238603
Daedalus1134
Great show.
I will begrudging be content if this is how it has to end, but if Netflix could decide this season was all a simulation and throw a proper last season or two on that would be great; thanks in advance.
Oasx
I didn't understand why the show wanted us to hear the same speech three times in the same episode, but it makes sense that it was the previous machine leaving notes for the new version.
A great ending to a great show.
Mr. Horyd
REDHEADS WILL BE MY DOWNFALL!
"Try not to die."
"Yeah, I love you too."
Even though a few narrative elements in the final season were unused or seemed to go nowhere, the emotional impact of this last chapter is going to haunt me for a day or two the way only a few of the best told stories can.
Edit: Agreed on the AV club review being excellent.
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PaybackJack
You'll hit your head and say: 'Boy, how stupid could I have been. A moron could've figured this out. I must be a real dimwit. A pathetic nimnal. A wretched idiotic excuse for a human being for not having figured these simple puzzles out in the first place...As usual, you've been a real pantload!
Solid ending. I gotta admit the Deus Ex fan in me wanted the Machine and Samaritan to merge in space and comeback to Earth as a single AI, taking the best aspects of both to police the world and help people without controlling them and removing their agency completely.
Harold needed the happy ending and John going out made sense. I think a lot of their ideas in general sounded better on paper than they actually played out but really the show peaked with Carter's death and subsequent revenge episode so wrapping up the AI stuff with a limited budget even though it made no sense in many ways, was about as good as we were going to get.
Shaded Spriter
I have watched two series finale this year (this and Castle.) and out of both of them this was satisfying. I am not sure if the new machine is 100% the Machine's child or not...or if it took some of Samaritans' programming with it.
I always thought that the end of this storyline would be a new machine which was a combination of the both of them in a Ghost in the Shell "Where does the newborn go" sort of sense.
CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:
Samaritan did nothing wrong
Metropolis posted:
Yeah, I'll miss you thread, too.
And I would like to remind everyone that Mister Reese is a bad pun for Mysteries since that was my first post in the Season 1 thread.
docbeard
Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end."
A solid ending to a flawed (but by no means bad and in many respects excellent) season, and to an overall fantastic series.
I almost liked Amy Acker's turn as the Machine (especially in this episode where we got to see her) more than I liked her performance as Root, and I thought she was fantastic as Root. I also thought (and I'm sure this is what they were hinting at) that the Machine's half-remembered "everybody dies alone" lesson while it was in such a morbid mood was a callback to John's last words to Jessica: "Everybody dies alone and no one's coming to save you." And I'm glad it turned out to be something different.
Alas poor Blackwell, we hardly knew ye (and cared even less).
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NLDS Preview – Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs
Published September 30, 2008 • Updated on September 30, 2008 at 1:36 pm
(Sports Network) - In case you haven't heard, it has been 100 years since the Chicago Cubs last won a World Series title. Their quest to end the longest drought in baseball history begins with the best-of-five National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field on Wednesday.
Chicago was the NL's best team from start-to-finish this season and captured its second straight NL Central crown with a 97-64 mark. Hopefully, the Cubs postseason experience lasts a little longer than their trip last year when they were swept in three games by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Finishing with the best record in the NL is not always a recipe for success, as the team with the best record has won the World Series only once in the last 22 years (the 1995 Braves). Of course, the Cubs are still searching for their first World Series title since 1908.
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Joe Torre's first year in Los Angeles has to be considered a success, as the Dodgers are back in the playoffs following a one-year absence by virtue of winning their first NL West title since 2004 with an 84-78 mark.
Things didn't look good for Torre's crew midway through the season, but the team went out and acquired slugger Manny Ramirez at the trade deadline and never looked back.
At the time of the deal Los Angeles was two games back of the Arizona Diamondbacks and finished the year two games up.
Like the Cubs, Los Angeles' last postseason appearance ended in a sweep, as the Mets took three straight from them in the 2006 NLDS. In fact the Dodgers have just one postseason win since winning the World Series in 1988.
These two storied franchises have never met in the postseason, but Chicago won five of the seven matchups between the clubs this season.
A lot of Chicago's key offensive performers had down years, but the Cubs still have the best and deepest lineup in the National League and led the Senior Circuit with 855 runs scored.
Despite playing in just 109 games, Alfonso Soriano led the Cubs with 29 home runs, while batting .280. He may not be your prototypical leadoff hitter, but he is one of the most feared sluggers in the game.
Soriano, though, has struggled in the postseason. In his last three series he is just 11-for-66 with a home run and five RBI. He managed just two hits in 14 at-bats last year, as the Cubs were swept by the D'Backs.
Third baseman Aramis Ramirez more than picked up the slack left at times this season when Soriano was down, hitting .289 with 27 home runs, 111 RBI and 97 runs scored. While his power numbers may not be as gaudy as Philadelphia's Ryan Howard or St. Louis' Albert Pujols, you will be hard pressed to find someone more important to their team than Ramirez was to the Cubs this season.
Ramirez, though, also has some demons to erase after going hitless in 12 at- bats last season against the Arizona.
If Ramirez was not the team MVP than rookie catcher Geovany Soto was. In addition to his fine work behind the plate, the soon-to-be Rookie of the Year, batted .285 with 23 home runs and 86 RBI.
Of course Mr. Reliable Derrek Lee mans the other corner and had yet another productive season, hitting .291 with 20 homers, 90 RBI, with 93 runs scored, while playing magnificent defensively.
If there is one downside to the Cubs lineup it is that it is a little to right-handed heavy. They will need some help from the other side of the plate, specifically Kosuke Fukodome, if they are going to make a real run.
Fukudome hit .279 in the first half, but batted a paltry .217 after the break.
To say Los Angeles' lineup got a huge boost with the addition of Manny Ramirez, a 12-time All-Star and former World Series MVP, may be the understatement of the season. In 53 games with the Dodgers, Ramirez batted .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBI.
He won't win the league's MVP, but find me an everyday player that meant more to their team in the second half of the season than ManRam.
Aside from Manny Ramirez, the other real home run threat in the Dodgers lineup is right fielder Andre Ethier, who seemingly came out of nowhere to hit .305 with 20 home runs and 77 RBI in 141 games.
Center fielder Matt Kemp could be the key to the Dodgers' lineup. He has all the makings of a big-time hitter, but has yet to put it all together. Kemp is as likely to belt three home runs in a game as he is to pick up a Golden Sombrero.
Torre has a decision to make on two of his veterans: shortstop Rafael Furcal, who has missed most of the season with a back injury, and second baseman Jeff Kent, who was sidelined most of September after knee surgery. Both are healthy, but Torre has stated he will likely not play both in the same game.
Despite Kent's assertions that one thing had nothing to do with the other, it's hard to argue that Kent did not benefit from hitting in front of Ramirez, as he batted .343 in the month following the deal.
Kent is not the best defensive second baseman around, but the 40-year-old can still hit and batted .280 this season with 12 home runs and 59 RBI.
EDGE: CUBS
STARTING PITCHING
Joe Torre has named Derek Lowe his starter for Game One. Lowe had one of the better seasons of his career this year, going 14-11 and pitching to a career- best 3.24 earned run average as a starter.
Lowe was especially strong down the stretch for Torre, winning his final four and six of his last seven decisions. Lowe last lost August 26 and in his last 10 starts, he pitched a 1.23 ERA.
Following Lowe will be 24-year-old right-hander Chad Billinsgley, who went 16-10 this season with a 3.14 ERA, winning his last four and seven of his last eight decisions.
This will be Billingsley's first postseason start. He made two relief appearances in the 2006 NLDS against the Mets, tossing two scoreless innings.
Japanese righty Hiroki Kuroda will go for the Dodgers in Game Three. Kuroda was up-and-down in his first major league season, posting a 9-10 mark to go along with a 3.73 ERA.
He was, however, 1-1 this season against the Cubs, allowing just a one earned run in 15 1/3 innings of those outings.
Ryan Dempster was one of the biggest surprises in baseball this season and will get the call for the Cubs in Game One. After serving as the Cubs' closer the last three years, Dempster was inserted into the rotation and thrived, going 17-6 with a 2.96 ERA in 33 starts.
Dempster faced the Dodgers twice this season, going 1-0 against them, giving up four runs in 12 1/3 frames.
Getting the call in Game Two will be big struggling right-hander Carlos Zambrano. The Big Z missed some time in September with a sore shoulder, but returned on September 14 and threw the Cubs' first no-hitter since Milt Pappas in 1972.
Zambrano, though, has been battered in his two starts since, surrendering 13 runs and nine hits in 6 1/3 frames. He is 14-6 on the year with a 3.91 ERA.
Rich Harden will toe the rubber for the Cubs in Game Three. Harden, who was picked up from Oakland shortly after Milwaukee's acquisition of CC Sabathia, thrived in the National League, posting a 5-1 mark to go along with a 1.77 ERA.
He had been 5-1 with a 2.34 ERA in 13 starts before the trade.
If the Cubs have one question mark heading into this series it is their bullpen, namely closer Kerry Wood.
In his first year as the team's closer the former starter saved 34 games, while pitching to a 3.26 ERA. However, things were never easy for him and he blew six saves. At some point this series he is going to have to get Manny Ramirez out. How he fares in that spot may go a long way in determining the Cubs' ultimate fate.
Setting up Wood will be rookie right-hander Jeff Samardzija, who held hitters to a .226 average over 26 games, and veteran righties Bob Howry and Carlos Marmol. Jason Marquis will also serve as the long relief man for Piniella, while Neal Cotts will be called upon to get left-handed hitters out.
Los Angeles, meanwhile, was dealt a blow in early July when closer Takashi Saito went down with a strained ligament in his right elbow. Jonathan Broxton, though, filled in admirably, saving 14 games in 16 chances after that.
Saito, though, is back and Torre has another tough choice to make on who is going to be finishing games.
Righty Chan Ho Park has done a fine job for the Dodgers in the bullpen this season and will be joined out there by lefty Joe Beimel and righty Cory Wade. Should Torre opt to go with Greg Maddux as his fourth starter, phenom Clayton Kershaw could be called upon in a big spot.
EDGE: DODGERS
This series features two of the best managers the game has ever seen in Chicago's fiery skipper Lou Piniella and LA's laid back Joe Torre.
Torre, of course, is in the postseason for the 13th straight year after going to the playoffs the last 12 years with the Yankees. Only Bobby Cox, with 14, has a longer streak in baseball history (and no other manager has been even six years in a row).
Piniella, meanwhile, will be appearing in the postseason for the second time in as many years with the Cubs. While he may not have as many World Series titles as Torre does as a manager, Piniella is no stranger to postseason baseball, guiding the Cincinnati Reds to a championship in 1990, as well as leading the Seattle Mariners to the playoffs four times.
One of the things that made Torre's Yankees so good during their championship run was the depth on their bench. Here in LA Torre has as deep a bench as he ever had with the Yankees.
Juan Pierre may not be able to hit a lick, but he can steal a base late in games and is still one of the best defensive center fielders in the game.
Depending on who Torre decides to start at first he will have either James Loney or veteran Nomar Garciaparra on his bench. Loney (.289, 13, 90) will likely get the start.
Blake Dewitt should probably be starting somewhere in the infield, but Torre is loyal to a fault to his veteran players, meaning, of course, Dewitt will likely see time late in games as a defensive replacement.
The same can probably be said about Angel Berroa, who filled in admirably for Kent during the final month of the season.
Unlike Torre, Piniella has no problem starting his younger players or backups. Both outfielder Reed Johnson and infielder Mike Fontenot will see a lot of action, as will center fielder Felix Pie.
Jim Edmonds was a very underrated pickup by the Cubs in early-May. Edmonds (.256, 19. 49 with Cubs) will likely get a majority of the starts ahead of Pie, given the Dodgers right-handed-heavy staff.
EDGE: LOS ANGELES
Logic tells you that the Cubs should advance. Their lineup is stacked and are one of the few teams that can go three deep in their rotation. Everything tells me to pick the Cubs here, but I am not so sure. I question whether or not Carlos Zambrano is healthy. Plus Rich Harden is always a pitch away from blowing up. And I do not trust Kerry Wood in a big spot. On the other hand, few pitchers finished the year the way Derek Lowe and Chad Billingsley did. Add that in with the fact that Manny Ramirez is one of the few players in the league that can single-handedly carry a team on his back. Sorry Cubs fans, your misery lingers. I am going with the upset.
Prediction: DODGERS in FIVE
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Amid rumors of an impending Gibson Guitar Corp. bankruptcy. I wanted to see if I could get behind the headlines and connect you, the Inc.com reader, with Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman & CEO of the Gibson Guitar Corp.
I have been a Gibson Guitar devotee and collector and, as an artist, had my own guitar line through Epiphone guitars, a Gibson owned guitar company, for several years.
The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was established in 1902. The guitars carrying the Gibson brand have been and currently are all manufactured in the United States. In 1952, after partnering with jazz guitar legend Les Paul, Gibson started to manufacture the Les Paul model guitar which has become one of the most legendary and iconic guitar models in the history of recorded popular music.
In 1986, after a period of what is considered a dark decade of poor quality control and mismanagement, Henry Juszkiewicz, Dave Berryman and Gary A. Zebrowski bought the Gibson company three months short of closing its doors permanently and have, since then, brought the quality of the Gibson, and Epiphone guitar brands specifically, back to their former glory.
Over the last several years, Gibson--through Juszkiewicz's entrepreneurial guidance--has moved beyond the acquisition of musical instrument companies by acquiring several Japanese consumer electronics companies such as TEAC Corporation (Teac and Esoteric brands), Phillips, Cerwin Vega, Stanton, as well as professional audio equipment from KRK Systems and TEAC Corporation/TASCAM.
What follows is an excerpt of my exclusive interview with Henry Juszkiewicz that took place in February 2018.
Henry, how close is the Gibson guitar company to filing for bankruptcy?
Gibson is not going to file for bankruptcy. It's not our intention.
We're in compliance with all the bonds. We've paid interest, and it is our intention to refinance these bonds. We have a very good investment bank called Jefferies that has been working on refinancing for well over a year. They're very confident that we're going to refinance the business. That's normally what happens, because bonds always expire, and there's an effort to find new investors and to refinance the business.
We've talked to lots of people already who are potential investors. Gibson guitars are doing really well. Our sales have grown. Our profitability has increased in the guitar business and we expect to have an even better year. We're just going through our 2019 model year. Guitar Center (the nationwide retail chain) is back in a big way and our numbers with Guitar Center are spectacular for the last few months, well above the last year. And, things are going generally well with the MI (musical Instrument) business. Our KRK studio monitors are doing really well. We're still number one with Yamaha and others. The consumer electronics side (Onkyo, Pioneer, TEAC, Esoteric, Cerwin-Vega) has been challenged since we bought it in 2013.
Does that cover the TEAC, Esoteric and Philips lines, or do each one of these companies have their own particular issues?
Yeah. TEAC is really independent. I mean, they're a publicly traded company in Japan. You know, they are what they are. I can't say they're spectacular, but they're doing okay.
When you originally used the financial tools to infuse the company with capital, did you ever think this was possible?
Was this a scenario that you even could have imagined where you are now?
You know, sure. I've been in trouble for 30 years. I think I have a very difficult business assignment, and I knew that the CE (consumer electronics) business was going to be a lot of work. While it wasn't as bad as Gibson was when we took it on, it wasn't a company that was really solid. It needed a lot of work and the only difference is that I thought management had some time.
The currency crisis that was caused in the first year really kind of derailed that plan. And it ended up being a whole lot more work than anticipated. I'm an entrepreneur, so disaster can always come. That's the nature of risk. If you knew what the disaster would look like, then it wouldn't be risk. Any time you do something that is challenging, it's always possible for something to happen.
What is the price point of guitar sales that is the most effective, and is the premium, high-end market pretty much over?
When we bought Gibson, everybody said the guitar was dead and keyboards would take over. Do you remember that?
Yes, it was the early, early '80s.
Yep. You know, it was all electronics. The Japanese electronics companies were making these MIDI [Music Instrument Digital Interface] guitars. Everything was electronic and it would take over all acoustic instruments. It would be dead. And every [guitar] store [in the U.S.] was underwater with guitars. I started with that.
But the death of guitar sales didn't happen. I did really well with guitars. They didn't die. They actually did really well. And then there was John Travolta and disco music, and that was all the rage. Everybody was saying, "Guitars are going to die." And they didn't die. They did really well through that period. People are still playing the Beatles. In fact, the kids are listening to older music [produced] before they were born than ever before. Music is, because of streaming, much more eclectic.
So the guitar business and the music instrument business, in general, is a plus or minus 3 percent growth business since the 1900s. It's a very stable business. It continues to be. Our industry is up 3 percent, which is a big growth for our business. Guitar sales are up.
What is the hottest price point for a guitar, in your estimation?
Based on what I'm seeing, over 3,000 bucks. The second thing is, high-end [electric] guitars are hot. It's just that there aren't a lot of them in terms of units.
I play Epiphone guitars exclusively live. I've been playing them for over 15 years. And I happen to think they're amazing guitars, and they're priced at some unbelievable street prices for the quality, which are about $499. I would think, numerically, you must sell boatloads of that stuff. Am I correct?
Oh, yeah. We probably sell three or four to one. Epiphone to Gibson brand. But we make more money on the Gibson side. We are priced effective. The whole point is we want to give really great value to the consumer, right? And we do. Dave [Berryman, president of the Gibson Guitar Corp. and head of the Epiphone duitar division of Gibson] is just doing a bang up job and the guitars keep getting better.
Henry, is that era of the six, seven, eight, nine thousand Collector's Choice Les Paul model [a super-premium, Gibson custom-shop recreation of legendary Les Paul 1950's models] pretty much done or do you think there's room in that era still?
If Jerry Seinfeld buys a guitar, it's not going to be a $500 Epiphone, right? He's going to buy high-end stuff. The point being, there's a lot of high end--it's a beautiful piece of art and it has history to it. That connection is forever.
If you hold on, is the future about acquiring more companies outside of the music instrument business?
Right now I'm focused on making this company really perform well so we can do best in the field. I'm not even thinking about that. I am focused on today.
You saved this company [Gibson] from the Norlin era once already. Is there a future for Henry Juszkiewicz at Gibson?
Yeah, I think there is. I have to pass it on to another generation of people to do cool things with. I'm going to die being in the guitar world, but if I do the brand justice, I have to bring up fresh young management with their own aggressive ideas.
That's what I want to do. As long as I can be in there, I'm going to be in there. But for the company, I got to bring in new blood. And that's my intention.


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The World Falls Away
by Wanda ColemanWanda Coleman
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The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their "conversation." The contemplative and philosophical have entered her voice as she continues to explore the conflicts and confusions that shape the aesthetic terrain of Southern California and beyond—as she continues to grapple with cultural bias, malignant domestic neglect, poverty, and the damages of racism, yet broadening her palette of social ills to include the privacies of grief, loss and transcendence. A nominee and finalist for Poet Laureate of California, she continues to reflect the ethnic scramble of Los Angeles, where she has been honored by proclamations from the city's elected officials, including the mayor's office, the city council and the Department of Cultural Affairs.
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pitt Poetry Series
Wanda Coleman is a poet and writer from Los Angeles, California. Her numerous poetry collections include Mercurochrome: New Poems, nominated for the National Book Award; Bathwater Wine, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Ostinato Vamps. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Emmy Award as a writer for Days of Our Lives.
Contents Poems I. Visitations and Sightings They Abandon the Search for Federico On Cleaning Up All These Ashes in the Sand Dolls (3) The Essential Flavors of the Finite Nothing to Take Back 1959 Greening Over Them Blues Winter Morning, Venice Beach, 2006 Red Toile Lets Call It Chicago Sassafras & Morphine Anthony Jerome Ashes Scatterd at Sea To the Chef's Widow—This Breaking of Bread Crossing Campus A Mutant Angel Speaks San Diego State of Mind Sangria Sangria New Love's Mastery Quasheba Essay on a Marriage O Soul Concealed Below Detroit Left at the Moon The Hives Where My Blues Done Gone II. Channelings Ouphe & Barghest Ode to a Lost Piece of Hose Ending the Arts by Parts 9/11, The Reznikoff Variation Port Aransas Second Hand Rosy Babe Footnote to an Unfinished Poem Nefertari Speaks What the Gin Rummy Queen Taught Me No Houdini Breakthrough Yet Footnote to an Unfinished Poem (2) Black Beans and Rice Tell It to the Walls Mom Coltrane's "Naima" Narrative Transmigrated by Himself Love Without Summers My Neruda Auguries (7) III. Bleatings Lioness White Pepper Unspoiled My Crowning Glory A Talk with My Grandson, Age Six Stagnation and Return Fear of Screaming Endless Mornings Spent in Nameless Rage Shitworker in GeneralL (2) Noise (3) Darkest Shadow of the Self The Warnings in a Mad Dog's Eyes The Blood this Morning Morning Again Dearest One I Followed My Dream Footnote to an Unfinished Poem (3) How We Differ: Quasheba to Eve Blacker than Black Orb Weaver The War of Wars Orb Weaver (2) What Littel I Know About Truth IV. Throbs Morning in Kentwood Espantalalepsis (4) Jimi Jam Ses Once Upon a Kiss—A Celebration The Jinn Abandoned Inside the Trap of Your Knowing The Hives (2) Yardwork Prelude to a Stroke One Man Acts Alone Against Death A Romantic Marriage The Crying Man Night Drives Going to Blazes My Own Private Resurrection Untitled The Mingus Effect Southerly Equinox Notes Acknowledgments
In The World Falls Away, Wanda Coleman's poems glow with an almost radioactive edginess. Yet, there is also range and substance giving her intense American voice staying power. To use Whitman's word, her work has 'amplitude.'"
—Diane Wakoski
"Wanda Coleman's hard-edged new collection interrogates death's nearsightedness. Mother outlives son. Feet wear out before the heart. And the truth-teller dies before truth frees her. These poems don't go gently. Elegy turns protest: 'there is a never and there is a too late.' These are sharp warnings from death's 'small mean domain,' it's not too late to heed them."
—Douglas Kearney
"What strikes me first about The World Falls Away is Wanda Coleman's musical inventiveness. These poems are sonically complex and technically riveting, Coleman's lyric poems buzzing with energy, constantly shifting rhythms, and surprising wordplay. But along with this musical dexterity comes a poetic mind of great subtlety. Whether Coleman meditates on her own life—her youth in LA, the heartbreaking death of her child—or, more broadly on music, history, or African American identity, she writes with clarity, wisdom, and piercing intelligence. This is an admirable book from start to finish."
—Kevin Prufer
"Coleman presents a series of subtle and revelatory poems in her new collection. . . . Coleman's ability to simultaneously conjure the tactile and the abstract makes her works crackle with life and inspire multiple interpretation. . . . Coleman's aching and meditative poetry gives voice to inquiries and echoes."
—ALA Booklist
"Pulses with energy. This vibrant collection . . . offers some excellent poems."
This new collection from Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winner Coleman (Bathwater Wine) pulses with energy, and though the interesting topics range from jazz greats to explaining skin color to a grandchild, dark themes predominate: aging, racism, death, and the failures of the body. Coleman describes life's joys and sorrows ("call what I do a lope, a stagger, a trudge/ i'm moving, if slowly, upward—cloud by cloud") with accomplished wordsmithing, though many lines seem dashed off or hard to interpret ("this then is// the this then/ a rainbow of/ rhythms arcing the sky of perception"). She has a real feel for dialect ("jes' ain't effin' funnn"), but sometimes her word choices veer toward the comical: "I engage in scopings for mange-free strays to adopt." In the prose poem "A Mutant Angel Speaks," Coleman gives us an irreverent take on religion—"i cling to God/ with sticky hands. when he shakes, i shimmy. i say yeah, DaddyMan." Most touching are the poems that honor a dead son, "the long-limbed man child with palms to his knees." VERDICT This vibrant collection could have been winnowed but offers some excellent poems as Coleman "steal[s] words like bread like gold like bones."—Doris Lynch, Monroe Cty. P.L., IN
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Five reasons why you should rent "Frozen River"
For those of you who aren't already in the know, "Frozen River" is the definition of indepenent cinema and one of the best movies of 2008. Since it was just released on DVD I figured I would give you, my faithful readers, five reasons why you should see this little gem.
1. The obvious reason: it's star Melissa Leo, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role. "Frozen River" would be nothing without the ferocity Leo brings to the role of Ray. It's the role Charlize Theron would have clawed her way to the top to play and thank God Leo scored it. Leo plays Ray, a single mother who's husband has left her family without any warning or way of tracking him down; so in effort to make ends meet and to afford the double decker trailer she wants for her family, Ray starts smuggling immigrants across the Canada border into upstate New York.
2. Charlie McDermott. Playing the role of Ray's son, T.J., McDermott completely humanizes a role that could have been taken to a new level of douchebag-edness had it been left in the wrong hands. I actually didn't like McDermott's character in the beginning but as the movie went on you are, yes, introduced to his flaws, but also what makes him such a good person. The scene where he goes out of his way to buy his little brother the Christmas present he wants the most is one of the most touching of the movie.
3. The opening shot of Ray smoking a cigerette, teary-eyed, and looknig extremely pissed is probably one of the most striking shots to grace movies in a while.
4. These characters are played by real people, not just Hollywood actors. I think it would have been kind of hard to imagine Angelina Jolie as a struggling single mother who was desperate to make money. No offense to Jolie but she's too much of a celebrity to play a role like this. Even though Leo has been in dozens of films, most people have never even heard of her. In a recent article with Filmmaker magazine, Leo discussed how for a while she just took what roles were given to her but throughout it all has always done acting for the love of it, not the fame. And I think in one of the most interesting pieces of info that has come out recently, Misty Uphom who plays Lila had to work a double shift at her job at the dry cleaners the day after she attended the Oscars because she couldn't find someone to cover for her. So when I heard that McDermott, Leo, and Uphomm had been nominated for Spirit Awards for this movie I was completely beaming with pride when I saw them at the awards show. It's stories like these that make me really appreciate the actors who give everything to play a role like this.
And the final reason you should see "Frozen River":
5. the film has one of the most touching and inspiring messages about self-less love I've seen in a long time. It's ending heartbreaking, moving and absolutely realistic all in one. It made me hope that one day, more people could be as self-less as Ray was.
If you still need more convincing (and you shouldn't), here's the trailer:
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Q: Instances of SQL Server I used my connection string as
Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=dbTestSharing;Integrated Security=True

On development computer it works fine.  But when I made setup (using Visual Studio) and installed on my home computer, it says

"Can not connect the database dbMyTest requested by the login, the
  login failed. Login failed for user p4\admin"

My questions are:

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*I did not include the database to setup. Do I need to do so?

*Does my user need to make servers and instances when SQL Server to run my application?
I installed another application based on SQL Server Express, that did not have anything like that.

Please guide.

A: You're not very clear what you're asking and what you're trying to do.....
The SQL Server instance name is chosen at the time of the installation and cannot be changed after the installation. So what are you trying to do here???
Before a user can use your application that requires SQL Server, yes, he or she will have to install SQL Server. And if you require a specific instance name, you need to describe that in an installation manual or readme file or something!
But honestly: you shouldn't require a specific instance name - the user should be able to pick that instance name himself and just adapt your connection string as needed.
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My questions are:

I did not include the database to setup. Do I need to do so?

No - you don't have to. If you make it very clear in your installation guide / readme.txt file that a SQL Server instance is required as a prerequisites, then it's up to the user to make sure he/she has a SQL Server instance ready before they install your application.
However, it would be helpful and is often almost expected that you would include at least e.g. a SQL Server Express MSI file so that the user - if he doesn't already have a server installed - can do the installation right from your app, instead of having to hunt and search for a SQL Server before installing your application.

Does my user need to make servers and instances when SQL Server to run my application?

Yes - your connection string shows that you're connecting to a SQL Server instance - so there must be a SQL Server instance available for this.
If you don't want this, you would need to switch to e.g. SQL Server Compact Edition which contains all data in a single .sdf file and all the code for accessing the database is available in a set of DLLs that you can ship with your application - no prior installation needed.

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The Challenges of an Essential Strike: Patriarchy, Racism and Exploitation in the Multi-Service Sector
Striking Social Reproduction
Interview to M. (Non Una di Meno Transterritoriale Marche, Italy)
We publish an interview to M., activist and sanitation worker. Women are 70% of the workers in the multi-service sector (providing services such as sanitation of factories, schools and hospitals), and most of them are migrants. They haven't had a contract renewal for 7 years and for this reason on Friday 13th November they went on strike. M. discusses how the definition as "essential" worker goes hand in hand with an economical devaluation of the jobs and with limitations to the right to strike. Starting from this, she states that any general claim that does not take into account the way in which women and migrant women are hit specifically in pandemic times, risks to do the interests of the employers. While the feminist movement in the world and Non Una di Meno in Italy are getting organized for November 25th (the international day against male violence), the challenge is to articulate a collective action that can give voice to the essential struggles of women workers and migrants who are stubbornly fighting to assert themselves against the violence of exploitation. A very important contribution towards the discussion in the public online assembly of E.A.S.T. on Sunday 29th.
First published on Precarious Disconnections.
On Friday, the multi-service sector went on strike because the national contract has not been renewed for more than seven years. What was the participation and composition of the strike?
First, it must be considered that the strike was different from the past: since the government defined us "essential workers", you understand that those who carry out primary activities cannot escape from providing the service because their jobs are considered essential for the health and security. The last Decree issued by the Prime Minister actually affects the right to strike. Being an essential worker becomes a trap. It is not by chance that the Confederation of Entrepreneurs suggested the word 'essential' in the first Decree in March, making it a noose around the neck. For this reason in many workplaces it could not be called an 8-hour strike because the needs of sanitation did not make it possible and the strike had to be fragmented. However, the participation was very high: 80% in companies and 100% in public and private nursing homes. The strike was called for the renewal of the national contract, which sucks.
Women are 70% of the workers in this sector, and most of them are migrants. Within the trade union platform there is never any reference to these conditions. What does this indifference produce within the struggle?
When we talk about struggles and strikes, differences are often made invisible by using a neutral terminology. But we know, as feminists, that nothing is neutral. Not talking explicitly about certain conditions means not considering those asymmetries of power and domination linked to race and gender. We talk about class struggles of sanitation workers or other sectors, but we forget that not to talk explicitly about women or migrants means not to see the differences that also exist in the possibilities to struggle. As a white person, I can strike more easily than a black or migrant worker. Writing the claims, without taking this into account, turns out to help the employer.
Employers' violence exploits these differences to affect and prevent alliances between women workers. Non-white women often have to accept any condition in the multi-service sector. That is why they are over-exploited. Struggles are not all the same and we are not all the same in the workplace. There is a difference between women workers and men workers. If we do not consider this difference, it's problematic. Participation in the strike was 80%, but for example migrant and non-white women preferred to go on strike for only two hours. Not because they were less combative, but because they can be more easily blackmailed. Wage conditions are always linked to material conditions of class and race… This is also clear in the way they select workers in the multi-services: employers choose single women, over 40 years' old, migrants and of foreign origin. They did not expect that we would strike, but you have to know that it is not possible for everybody and you have to acknowledge the effort made in going on strike. The feminist strike of the last five years in this sense has taught a lot and this vision should pass through all unions.
How is the relationship between women workers in your sector and the union?
Until March, the number of women unionized in Italy was 20%, but I had none in my workplace. After the decree of March, "Ricresci Italia!", there was a considerable increase… I keep on quoting the decree because if you read it you could rewrite the whole class history that happened in the last 7 months. A clause stated that companies that have workers positive to Covid have no legal responsibility towards them. At that point, the presence of trade unions became very important. We can see how unionized women are mostly white and Italian women, and yet in my sector most are migrant women with a residence permit, but they are not members of trade unions because they are afraid of losing their jobs. Moreover, it is often migrant women who substitute us while we are on strike: they are the shock absorbers… This is a challenge for all trade unions: to protect migrant women. Given the low employability of women in general, and those with a residence permit in particular, they are the ones to whom employers change shifts more abruptly. I think that the multi-service struggle is also central to the feminist movement.
This strike took place during a second lockdown during which the schools closed. How do women workers manage to struggle under these conditions?
Precisely because of the lockdown, I think that a reflection on work should play a central role in the feminist movement at the moment. We worked at a panic pace on Friday: 20 people in quarantine and 8 positive cases in the wards. Imagine a woman with a residence permit thrown to work in this situation. It is absurd: she has no one, she is alone. And even more absurd is that none of us have been tested. We are the only sector where it is not done, I had to do it privately, paying 75€, where can a migrant woman find them? The issue of health is closely linked to work and we have to keep it in mind. The threads that link race, gender and class are constantly coming back. These connections are continually re-proposed by the patriarchal system.
Could you tell us something more about how have working conditions changed in the months following the first lockdown? How did the fact of being women and migrants affect the reorganization of work?
I look at the world and society from the factory, I didn't study, but reading the texts of some feminist comrades, the processing is automatic for me in the workplace. In this period there were possible connections of struggles that could intertwine and have a potential… But I also see the limits of this condition, which is still not exploding. What feminism can do now is a complex reading of reality. The factories are like an open-air sociology manual and it is interesting to look at how human resources are trained because they already have the preparation to face these conflicts, a preparation that we often do not have, we have the instinct on our side. As I said before, the conditions of a strike are different for women and men. The male workers in my sector are lucky enough to be able to strike for eight hours. Well, the wife at home has already prepared everything: ironed, cooked, cleaned, looked after the children… the woman, on the other hand, has to do those four hours of strike fighting with twice as much work. Even the unions often blame women. I think it is important not to blame women because they are shopping while they are on strike: we have to acknowledge the problematic knot that locks them in a gender role that we have to fight constantly. The double role of women's work, paid and unpaid, is never recognized.
How does the "hour bank" and the shift system that characterizes this sector work? How does it affect the lives of women workers and how are these forms of "flexibility" used by employers?
The hour bank is a sort of mixed part-time system. In multiservice sector the contract is 65/70 hours per month and is closed: it means they pay you based on those hours. The hours worked, however, are more and more and are part of the extra hours that the company requires, including sanitation. They should be paid more because they are extraordinary, but instead they are "frozen" and counted according to the company's needs. For example, when you should have holidays they use these hours as days off or during production stops. In this way they are used as shock absorbers and are not paid extra, but normally. In multiservice sector this system is very heavy: there are always extra hours to do, especially during this period, with sanitation. In addition, these "frozen" hours are used when there is quarantine, instead of the wage integration fund. Some companies have only started the redundancy fund after these extra hours have been used up, thus saving on labour.
Have the subsidies provided by the government during these months, such as the babysitter bonus, produced a real improvement in the lives of women and working migrants?
The babysitter bonus is in fact the state that provides you with a rate of 8 euros per hour, but in fact the hours worked are always much more than those declared. I am totally against this bonus because it puts into circulation a system of exploitation by the State. I am really puzzled by the emphasis it has put on promoting it: it is a help for women at the price of exploiting other women. It is a patriarchal measure. In fact, it happens to be usually migrant women. But do we really have to treat migrant women like that? A woman cannot live with 500 € per month: on one side we have a worker in the multiservice who takes 650 €, on the other side another one who takes 500 €… Can't women aspire to anything more? Women have to be the poorest. This is what the babysitter bonus tells us: in order to work we have to exploit another woman. Some feminists have supported this measure, claiming the need for services and equal rights. But at what price? By exploiting other women. I refuse, my independence will not be written on the skin of others.
In the decrees and legislation produced in these pandemic times, they talk about "essential jobs". Beyond the definition made by the confederation of entrepreneurs, it is clear that these essential jobs are the result of a specific patriarchal and racist devaluation of labour. How is it possible, starting from these conditions, to give a boost to feminist initiative, towards and beyond November 25th and the mobilization against male violence?
As you say, the head of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs gave the definition of "essential", when it called the unions, which are also partly responsible for this definition. But who is essential? We have schools, healthcare, social services, multiservices, carers… all places where there is a very high rate of women employed. These are the essential areas and it is clear that there is a patriarchal system. The challenge that feminism has to accept towards and beyond November 25th is to react to this systemic violence that constantly refers to the maternal leverage and the caring nature of women. They told us the same thing; they told us that "self-denial" was necessary. With the decrees they rewrote our biorhythm. We must know that the violence we suffer at work adds to the violence that many of us live in their own homes! It is all connected, we need to know it and visualize this connection because it is very strong. We are not always strong, we are saturated, full stop! When a woman struggles is because she really can't take it anymore! This 25th of November will be complex, but I think it is important to start from where we are, and it is the challenge that the pandemic also poses to us, we have to understand how we can struggle now. Perhaps, what the feminist movement still needs to do is to read the effects of the management of the emergency on women's lives. Even within Non Una di Meno we must always keep in mind that you always start from the bottom and then you go upwards. We must not respond point by point to the government's measures, but understand from it what our future battles are. We know that mass layoffs will fall on women, they are always the first affected. We know that women have pensions under 700€, and that women suffer the most this situation. 25th November is not only gender-based violence, but violence in various forms and work is central to this. Those of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs, when we went on strike, insulted us! They would like us to be silent and submissive. But we don't keep quiet, and they didn't like that all the newspapers reported our struggle! Our struggle was very powerful, because all the women were there, all of us! Because the struggle of the multi-service sector is a class struggle, because we are the last, but we know how to do the math in our pockets and we have no intention of stopping.
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But I do have fun binding them. The magazines are placed for a few days in the book press to be flattened. Then I take the stack out and holes are plugged into the center line of the magazines after which they are placed in the sewing bench to be sewn on sewing tape. The next step for me is to transform it a decent book block with endpapers, mesh and headband.
Then I will create covers on which the numbers are foil pressed with gold foil (at 114 degrees Celsius). A precise job, because the number of the magazine does need to be neatly printed in the middle of the cell. And when that is done the book block is glued into the cover after which it needs to dry a few days between two shelves in the book press.
The way I describe this process may sound like it is pretty easy. I can assure you that it took me a couple of years to be able to deliver such a correct bounded book.
Thanks to social networks (Instagram, Twitter, Bloglovin' en Facebook), email and photos, I can make something beautiful not just for people living near Leiderdorp or Leiden but also for YOU if you live further away.
a birth announcement card or a favorite color. That's why I often ask for a photo of the card or atmosphere.
I communicate the image via email to the customer. This ensures that you can get an idea about how the product can be made and make a good decision, from the comfort of your home. I estimate I've never met 90% of my clients. That is pretty weird. I sympathize quite a bit with the couples to the wedding day and on the day itself I usually think of my ring box, envelope box, reception album of marriage certificate booklet. As you can imagine I really like it to see this special day captured in a photo.
At the moment I am working on a ring box for a beach wedding.
The box is lined with natural linen with a tiny speck in it, like grains of sand.
1000en1boeken staat vermeld in de allernieuwste Wit Wedding en dat maakt me heel erg blij. Guusje is ook zo trots, het tijdschrift heeft een prominent plekje in haar boekenrekje gekregen.
Als ik al het moois in het tijdschrift zie, krijg ik wel weer een beetje trouwkriebels ook al ben ik al 6 jaar getrouwd. Mocht ik het overdoen, dan zou ik het wel weten :-).
Destijds heb ik zelf een trouwalbum gemaakt, maar elke keer als ik zulke leuke albums en dozen verstuur, moet ik aan mijn eigen album denken en daar ben ik niet meer zo blij mee. De afgelopen jaren heb ik zoveel nieuwe mooie dingen ontworpen en met zoveel bijzondere materialen gewerkt. Dus afgelopen december heb ik eindelijk de knoop doorgehakt en ben ik met een nieuw eigen trouwalbum en doos bezig. Als ze klaar zijn laat ik ze zeker aan jullie zien.
A couple of years ago I created the logo and business card for 1000en1boeken together with my good friend Michelle Wiegman.
This final logo is the result of a real fun process of brainstorming, making tests of wooden print letters, choosing fonts, etc.
Our starting point was my set of wooden print letters, which we printed using a small press and black ink. I regularly come across this sheet in my paper cabinet and I intend to frame it one day and give it a nice spot on the wall. After all, it has been the starting point of my logo.
Michelle has drawn the letters and incorporated them in this beautiful logo, for which I am still very thankful. We wanted the card to be in the form of a booklet, hence a card that opens.
For the inside of the card we created a composition of all kinds of wooden and lead typeface letters from my own collection.
If you look closely you can see that we have only used the letters and numbers from my company name with an occasional exclamation mark.
A while ago I was approached by the editors of the travel magazine Méditerranée (formerly Joie de Vivre) whether they could feature my Sparrow album. Of course I said yes! Last Christmas I received that particular issue at home and they really made a nice article of it.
And even more important: after reading this beautiful magazine, we are now longing for the summer! Let's just skip the cold winter and move on directly to Spring. Let me know if you agree!
PS: the lyrics are from Luc Steeno, don't know him, but the text just made me happy.
On an early Wednesday morning in September I drove all the way towards Friesland, to a small village called Tersoal, to spend a day making paper with bookbinding friends Rudolf, Betsy, Thora & Dygna from the lessons in Warffum. What a fine day, the whole day with my hands in pulp from milk cartons. And such a beautiful location, an old Frisian farmhouse.
I'm impressed by Siska's blog. Last year she made beautiful cards with an angel from the Hema imprinted.
So, it was about time to try that myself. For weeks we have been saving milk cartons and cook them with detergent to be able to get the plastic layer of.
Rudolf made several movies of my paper scoop actions and we 'stitched' them together (click on the image above). I must warn you though: I'm wearing my oldest sneakers.
Right after the paper creation I need to put the card between newspapers and bread boards before having to stand on them to get the moisture out.
Did you notice I have a new album in my collection, called the Sparrow? It's a small photo album especially suitable for small shoots: vacations, newborns, love shoots, city trip or any other special event. It is inspired on a very old album.
On the ribbon, you can attach one or more tags, for example, with a special date, place or name.
101 Woonideeën, because they are allotting two of these Sparrows albums, each completed with two tags.
What a beautiful publication 1000en1boeken received once more in Bruid & Bruidegom, this time edition #4!
Something I just have to share here. We are so very proud that our little girl is featured with the ring box in the magazine!
And the little girl herself? She also wants to get married.
Preferably in a sand castle wearing a dance dress. And with whom? She's hasn't made up her mind yet. For now she's just practicing with mom's wedding shoes.
If you want to see the article: in the press!
For example, I own an ironing device with a heart and another with a star. I use them to dry my work under some weight. I have a tub full of them, but I'd love to have some more! So, do you have some weights or ironing devices in your attic, in a barn or at grandpa & grandma's?
Please contact me, I would be very happy with them!
De afgelopen jaren heb ik een kleine verzameling gewichten en oude strijkijzers bij elkaar gespaard. En ben er stiekem een beetje verliefd op geworden … ssst!
Zo heb ik een strijkijzer met een hartje en een ster. Ik gebruik ze om werk onder bezwaar te laten drogen. Ik heb een teiltje vol, maar er kunnen er altijd meer bij. Graag zelfs! Dus heb je op zolder, in een schuurtje of bij opa & oma nog gewichten of strijkijzers staan?
Neem alsjeblieft contact met me op, ik ben er reuzeblij mee.
After a summer break of more than three weeks I am back to business. During this break we went on a wonderful holdiday to the far end of Brittany, France.
Ile de Batz. A "petit" island you can only reach by ferry.
Guusje (almost three years) was pretty much impressed by the trip on the ferry, but did not show it. Although she kept on softly whispering in Rabbit's ear: "You need not be afraid, I'm very close to you. Do not worry." So cute!
On Ile de Batz, it's lovely for cycling as you will not be disturbed by cars, since they are not allowed. A stray tractor can occassionaly be spotted in the village streets, parked just for lunch. And beautiful deserted beaches where we searched shells for hours and build sand castles.
P. S. during this time I also worked very hard for a photo shoot for the Christmas issue of a very nice Dutch magazine. Cannot wait to share this with you but like you I have to wait until mid November.
I had seen that I was featured in the Bruid & Bruidegom magazine?
I knew something was coming, but had the idea that the magazine was only to appear in June.
Quickly put my work under some weight and jumped on my bike towards the mall. On arrival there, I looked inside the magazine together with the lovely ladies from the bookstore.
I never dreamed that I would feature in such a beautiful magazine with my marriage certificate booklets and especially as part of wedding trends! I think this is so special!
Guusje recognized the wedding picture in the marriage certificate booklet, but was more keen on the delicious cakes above.


At the end of January a news station ran a story about how the prices in the Target app switch when you walk in the store. I'm here to tell you, this really isn't news folks! Target has always stated that their prices vary store to store and online as well. They also agree that they will price match Target.com if you see a cheaper price. If you choose the store location you will see the store price. If you don't choose location services you will see the Target.com price. If you want to see if Target.com has a cheaper price you can simply visit Target.com via your web browser and not through the Target app. It's that simple!
Here is an example of the in-store price of $299.99, the app based price when it was set to my store location of $299.99 and when I used my web browser to check the price at Target.com it was $249.99. So if I wanted to buy this product I would simply go to customer service and show them the price at Target.com (not via the app).
Many people are saying that in order to get the best deal you want to make sure that you have your app's location services set to "never" and I am going to disagree with that. This pricing works both ways, there may be newer items that are cheaper online, but if you want to know the lowest clearance price of an item you will want your app set to the location you are visiting. Here are a couple of examples of how items were actually lower in store with my app set on the exact location vs. when I didn't have the location set on my phone.
These images shows that it doesn't necessarily make the most sense to have your app set to never allow location services. In both of these cases the app will show a higher price than the actual in-store price if you have it set to never allow location access.
I'm all about the best clearance deals when it comes to shopping Target, so I don't really use the app all that much except maybe to check for Cartwheel offers, but you can use the app to check for clearance prices too and this won't work unless your setting allow for location access.
My point for sharing this is to show that I don't believe Target is no trying to pull a fast one on us, the prices you are seeing are all app based. When you are in the store and your app is set to the location you will see the in-store price (some will be lower and some will be higher than Target.com). If you turn your location services off you will see the Target.com prices (again some will be lower and some will be higher). If you are buying an item and want to make sure you are paying the best price, use your web browser to check not only Target.com, but Amazon.com, Walmart.com and any other competitor.
Please fell free to share you thoughts. Do you use the Target app regularly? What do you have your location services set on?
I had this exact scenario when trying to buy a clearance item that was out of stock online but available in my store. It showed as $19.98 on the app as the store price but was $39.98 in store. When I went to target.com, it wouldn't pull a price since it was out of stock. I was so frustrated because I drove there specifically knowing they would price match target.com even if they had a higher price in store, but neither the app nor target.com would pull up the cheaper price once I was in store so they wouldn't price match.
in that instance you could take a screen shot since the price will change once you're in the store.
Off this subject, I am curious about items that scan with no price. A manager told me they are salvage and I should be given the 90% off price that I paid after Christmas. That day I gave the register clerk his name and she complied but most often they look at me in disbelief and will only mark down to 70%. Have you run into this?
In the Target app, click on "account" and then click on "app settings". You will find it there.