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Devon Still had some pretty strong words for the assembled media at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis this weekend, claiming that he thought he was the best defensive tackle in the entire draft. That remains to be seen, but his spot on the board could fluctuate pretty strongly with his performance in the testing aspects of the Combine on Monday. SB Nation came out with a new 2012 NFL Mock Draft at the beginning of the weekend that has Still going to the Broncos with the No. 25 pick in the Draft, one slot after the Steelers.
Denver's defense was lights out in 2011, and adding Still will make an already tough interior defense even tougher. It could also adds some years onto the career of their outstanding young linebacker, Von Miller.
Still would be a good fit for a Broncos team that could still use some playmakers along the defensive line. And he would certainly enjoy the attention that Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil will receive along the outside, freeing him up to make plays. It would be a pretty good spot to work on backing up his claim.
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It was back in 1997 when 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe-Major Bill Livingstone transferred his piano-playing talent to his pipe band for the first time, and now band piper James MacHattie will be playing the guitar at the band's April 18th concert in Cleveland, Ohio, not coincidentally the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
While MacHattie's guitar ability is not yet comparable to Eric Clapton's, he has been playing for some 15 years, but never until now at a pipe band concert. He will be just one player in "A Folk Thing," a Celtic folk group comprising other band members Sean McKeown, Todd Henwood, Zak Read, Jeremy Keddy, Dave Fenton and Johnny Rowe.
Click here for a preview of "A Folk Thing" playing part of its "James Brown-like" selection.
The use of extended musical talent is perhaps emblematic of a trend in pipe band concerts over the last 12 years.
"I am certainly not a technical guitar player," MacHattie said. "However, the group that was put together needed a guitar that would add texture, colour and most importantly backing rhythm, and that's what I could offer."
MacHattie was tasked with writing the guitar parts, including that for his own popular 4/4 march composition, "At Long Last."
"I learned more about my own composition through this exercise – I hadn't fully realized that some of the Fs in the piping score work best with a minor guitar chord, even when the piping harmonies are major – low-A and F – and others with a major chord."
McKeown is an experienced Celtic folk musician, playing professionally with his group, The Tartan Terrors. MacHattie says that "A Folk Thing" plans to stay together after the Cleveland concert to work on more material.
The show, which will be at the Cleveland Masonic & Performance Arts Center Auditorium where the band has previously played, is the pipe band's first concert performance since November 2007.
The concert will of course feature the actual pipe band, and will be the first public airing of the band's new competition medley, which Livingstone says features "terrific new music" by himself, McKeown, MacHattie, Fred Morrison and Don Bradford. "The stuff is extremely unique and fresh," Livingstone commented. "Fred's composition is 'Tony's Tune,' which is a very tantalizing reel type of thing, with bars of music in three, four and five. Don Bradford's 'Alicia's Dance' is the finisher, with a truly jazzed up arrangement featuring simulated horn shots and tons of syncopation."
He said that "My Lagan Love" will be "re-ignited." The band first played the traditional Irish song in the early-1980s and produced a new version in the early-1990s. Among other pipe band highlights Livingstone said will be a "fresh airing" of the group's 1990s suite, "In Celtic Times," and a version of the band's well known "Journey to Skye" with "new and powerful percussion."
Livingstone said that the concert will also feature a drum fanfare performed sitting down, using orchestral snare-drums, as well as duets by SL-78th Fraser Highlanders' members Karissa Whiting on harp and Jeremy Keddy on Uillean pipes and a demonstration by accomplished drum-major Kevin MacHeffner, who is also a tenor drummer with the band.
Tickets for the concert are available directly via the SL-78th Fraser Highlanders' website.
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SAN ANDREAS (2015) review
written by: Carlton Cuse
produced by: Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia and Tripp Vinson
directed by: Brad Peyton
rating: PG-13 (for intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language)
runtime: 114 min.
U.S. release date: May 29, 2015
From the director of "Journey 2: Mysterious Island" and "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore", comes a movie I never want to see again. I'm not kidding. This one did me in. It's not because "San Andreas" is awful, but the latest entry in the disaster genre, that Warner Bros. is counting on summer blockbuster glory, isn't that great either. This movie, which is swaying side to side with heavy 3D CGI and is tipping over on account of its predictable corny dialogue, was just too much for me. Most of all though, this is a movie that has helped me realize that I've outgrown natural disasters and insurmountable death tolls as entertainment – and for that, I thank "San Andreas".
In case you didn't know, this movie stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (if you didn't, maybe you've been living under one – sorry, humor may be my coping mechanism in the wake of this movie), so many will it as "The Rock vs. The Earthquake". I've come to appreciate Dwayne Johnson for what he does both on (well, I haven't seen "The Tooth Fairy") and off-screen, so I was really curious what drew him to "San Andreas". I'm going to assume he saw his role as a rescue pilot as a tribute to all those real-life men and women who risk their lives to save others and based on the trailer alone, this movie looked quite harrowing and definitely a movie where we'd find Johnson's character in over his head – or at least dangling down a crack in the Earth.
The movie opens with probably the most gripping rescue scene since the opening of Renny Harlin's "Cliffhanger" (thankfully, the outcome isn't the same). It's an obvious establishing scene, setting the nail-biting tone found throughout "San Andreas", and, of course, an opening that introduces us to Chief Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson), a no-nonsense Los Angeles Fire and Rescue helicopter pilot, who brushes off his over 600 saves with a "I go where they tell me to go" humble bravado. Ray and his crew (Colton Haynes and Todd Williams), have a ride-along reporter (Archie Panjabi) and her cameraman on board, capturing their courageous maneuvers and providing a clichéd gateway to our protagonist.
After the daring and successful rescue of a cute California blonde dangling over a crack in the earth in her Subaru, we learn that Ray plans on driving his daughter, Blake (Alexandria Daddario), up to San Francisco where she'll start college. "They grow up fast", Ray tells a colleague. Ugh. Of course, his daughter is introduced as a busty babe sitting poolside in a bikini. Oh stop, it turns out she's really nice and just as resourceful as her superhero pop! In no way is her sexualized intro and presence an homage to countless other disaster flicks.
While we're figuring out where certain characters land, like Emma (Carla Gugino), Ray's estranged wife – who just served him papers and is about to move in with smarmy billionaire architect, Daniel Riddick (played by the seemingly ageless, Ioan Grufford) – the building ominous score by Andrew Lockington ("Journey 2: Mysterious Island", surprise!) tells us we're about to meet the tectonic plate shifting antagonist.
But first stop is the CalTech seismology department, where we meet the token expert, in this case, Dr. Lawrence Hayes (a wide-eyed Paul Giamatti), a professor, who along with his partner, Dr. Chung (Will Yun Lee, "The Wolverine"), has created a device that can predict when an earthquake will strike. Alarming seismic activity leads the pair to the Hoover Dam, where they unfortunately find out their device works really really well as they get caught in a off-the-charts quake which destroys the dam (how many times has this iconic dam been destroyed on-screen?), a whole lot of people and triggers the San Andreas fault line that stretches up and down the California coast.
With the titular character triggered, devastation begins and events are set into motion to reunite Ray and his fractured family. The hero just so happens to be flying a rescue chopper solo when he receives a call from Emma that she's trapped in an L.A. high-rise. Get to the roof, he tells her. Sure thing. Not long after that rescue, he receives a call from Blake, who is trapped in the parking garage in one of Daniel's buildings. How did she get to San Francisco after Ray was called to duty? Daniel's private jet, of course. But, Emma's new man showed his true colors when he left her daughter for dead once the quake hit.
Thus begins Operation: Save My Family, without our hero receiving a call from LAFD or checking in with them (so much for, "I go where they tell me to go"). Ray can seemingly fly around in a vehicle owned by the fire department, singlehandedly save his wife from atop a crumbling rooftop – giving the two a change to conveniently reconnect as they work their way to San Francisco – all without informing, well, anyone, where he is.
To prove she's daddy's little girl, Blake winds up leading the British brothers who saved her life, Ben (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) and Ollie (Art Parkinson "Game of Thrones"), to the highest point of San Francisco. That's how daddy trained her. This proves to be quite a challenge when those high points are crumbling (because, as Giamatti's character exclaims, "the quake isn't stopping!" and more importantly, we still have an hour left of this movie!) amid a mass exodus. Nevermind that – daddy is coming! Why do Ben and Ollie stick with Blake? Because they're crushing on her. Better to stick with a hot girl you just met, even if it means getting crushed by falling debris, right?
There's really not much to tell you about the rest of the movie. Absolutely no one dies on The Rock's watch. No one. He and Gugino go from one death-defying escape to the next with all but a few scrapes and bruises. Despite cruise liners, naval battleships and cargo barges are flipped upside down and thrown all over the Bay area due to a tsunami – these characters are a-okay. All the characters we are invested in or he is focusing on survive. That's the kind of movie this is. If you think that's spoiler territory than you haven't seen that many movies or at least that many movies starring The Rock.
The screenplay for "San Andreas" has many fingerprints on it, but ultimately the one name it lands on is Carlton Cuse (ABC's "Lost" and AMC's "Bates Motel"). It was his "Lost" co-writer, Damon Lindelof's turn last week with "Tomorrowland" and now Cuse steps up to the plate, marking this movie the first time he's written for the big screen. Cuse will usurp Lindelof at the box office, but Cuse had to have written this in his sleep. It's amount of over-foreshadowing is ridiculous. You can literally recite a line of dialogue before it comes out of an actor's mouth. When a reported asks a frenzied Giamatti who they should alert, guess his response? "Everybody". When The Rock's Ray is trying to save his daughter from drowning, he says – wait for it – "Don't you give up on me!" At the end of the movie, when the reunited family and the two British blokes are standing on a mountainside, overlooking a decimated San Francisco, Gugino's Emma asks, "What do we do now?" What else does The Rock say but, "We rebuild". Groan.
Now no one expects a screenplay for a disaster movie to receive praise, but we expect that a screenwriter has seen one or two disaster movies before. Maybe – I know it's crazy – Cuse could've aimed for some kind of originality in this story and possibly include dialogue that isn't so clichéd. This is why I want to believe that Cuse was just handed a story, gave it a once over and gave his stamp of approval. After all, story credits are given to Chad and Carey Hayes ("The Conjuring") as well as Andre Fabrizio (who penned crappy Bruce Willis VOD flicks "The Prince" and "Vice") and Jeremy Passmore (who wrote that 2012 "Red Dawn" remake). Since Cuse's TV writing on "Lost" and "Bates Motel" is solid, which leaves me puzzled.
It's too bad, since I like Dwayne Johnson and I like him reteaming with Carla Gugino (they were in "Race to Witch Mountain" and "Faster") here. They have good chemistry and work off each other well with charisma and charm to boot. They're acting isn't bad at all here, it's just this awful story they're in with the terrible dialogue they're subjected to. It's also important to note that Johnson and Gugino are both 43 years old. It's not often that a lead actor is paired with an actress the same age. Now everyone else in the movie, well they're either looking like CW extras or working up a sweat as they gaze at charts and monitors (Oscar nominee, Giamatti).
I'm also puzzled and troubled as to how a movie with a death toll in the millions, due to a natural disaster, is considered entertainment. Disaster movies have always been around, with the best of them coming from the 70s, like "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno", but those movies took time with their characters and they actually talked the way normal people talk, not in sound bytes. Even within the past 20 years, movies from Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, from "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012", showed mass destruction and apocalyptic drama, but there is something extremely unsettling about the catastrophe in "San Andreas". It has to do with how most of what Peyton and his unquestionably talented cinematographer Steve Yedlin ("Looper") show us is the kind of terrifying images we see on the news.
From the earthquake aftermath in Nepal to the footage of the devastation in Haiti five years ago, not to mention the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, we've been inundated with troubling images of death and loss as well as recovery and survival. There are times when films that revolve around such events can prove to be very compelling and moving, like "The Impossible" for example, but even that was a challenge to get through. I've gotten to the point though where it's very hard to consider toppling buildings, people falling to their death, walls of water washing away cities and people drowning, as entertainment. In fact, I can't.
But, what do I know? Walking out of the screening in a daze and a headache, I noticed a couple of dudes in the lobby confirming, "that was awesome!" Anyways….
Peyton tries to keep the movie focused on a family fighting to reunite, but the loudness and the constant destruction all around them that has viewers squirming in their seats is just too jarring. If I wasn't groaning at the dialogue in "San Andreas", I was cringing from the destruction. The images are just too life-like because of what we've seen and still see in real life. Who wants to repeatedly see such calamity on a big-screen in 3D? Not me. There was a time, but not anymore.
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When the weather turns cooler, there's an opportunity to rock a dress with your best pair of boots. While any dress will do, even those chiffon maxi dresses, I do love the look of a frock that takes advantage of the color block trend. While we can easily participate in color blocking by pairing a jewel-toned top with a bright pant and unique shoe, I love a dress that can give me a "one stop shop" and create and instant outfit. It's also a bonus if they don't break the bank. Each of these dresses are under 35 dollars and can be worn through the fall, winter, and even next spring.
I love this orange, white and navy color block dress for Fall. It may have something to do with the Fall holidays, but I think it's mostly because of how flattering the panels are. I can see this dress paired with dark brown riding boots, tights with booties, or even an elegant black pump.
This apricot, white and navy sleeveless zipper dress has the perfect length. Hitting right below the knee, it's meant to be paired with a mary jane heel. Add in a moto leather jacket and you have a great date night outfit. Because of the muted tones in the dress, you could make this even more edgy by wearing a bright or textured pair of tights.
I love that this green sleeveless plaid belted dress not only follow the color block scheme, but it places a black and white pattern on top. With the pattern placed on top, you can keep things simple by adding a dainty necklace or no necklace at all. Oh, and you get a belt with it! You have to love included accessories in an outfit.
The detail of this blue V neck button embellished dress makes it my favorite one of the collection. It gives off a 1960s flight attendant vibe, but in a great way. I love the high waist and the button accent. The blue panels on the side create a beautiful shape to enhance any woman's figure. The V neck makes is a perfect candidate for a statement bib necklace. I can see a red pump paired with this to give it a nautical feel.
Which of these color block dresses is your favorite?
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The Doodling Collective
It's hard to unlock the creative spirit within us when we are always on the go, always performing, always tied to our plans and calendars. Join Olga and Amanda for a no-pressure, no-planning, no-performance time of letting your mind and your pencil wander.
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Have you noticed that some of your best ideas have come when you step away from your desk, your phone, your to-do list? We all have creative energy within us - the kind of energy that can help us live well at home, at work, and in our own skin - but it gets trapped when we go through the world as fast as we do, performing, feeling the pressure to make something "good." During this online gathering, we will provide space and prompts for you to doodle. Just doodle. No grading, no end goal, no judgement. We'll see what happens, what comes forward. And even if you leave without your most brilliant idea or a doodle you throw straight in the trash, you will have spent an hour of your life in good company, smiling, wandering, and being present for yourself.
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"Children must deny and ignore what causes them pain. Children must cling lovingly to those who abuse them, because given the choice between an abusive person and no one at all, there is no choice. The difference between someone and no one is the difference between life and death. . . . If a parent is absent, unavailable, abusive or dead, it is extraordinarily useful and often necessary to create a fantasy world in which that parent or a parent figure is alive, available, and loving."
"Being loved in the present brings up all the ways in which we were not loved in the past. No amount of love in the present, not a single person, not ten thousand people loving us all at once, can make up for or take away the pain of the betrayals of the past. . . .The only insurance against repeating the pain in the past is to allow ourselves to feel it fully and release it in the present."
"Intimacy is showing another person the parts of ourselves that we believe to be unworthy and thereby risking that they will turn from us the way our parents did. (A voice inside us screams: 'It was excruciating the first time and now you're asking me to go through it again?') Intimacy brings with it tenderness and humor, companionship and affection, but it also demands that we relive the most agonizing moments of being a child."
"We act as if we were . . . children -- conniving, waiting, demeaning ourselves for love. We are not attracted to people who are tender with us; rather we attract relationships that repeat the wounds of the past."
"We were not responsible if we grew like a twisted plant reaching for a shaft of light in a darkened room. We didn't know better. But then, neither did our parents. They too grew up with parents who thought that children were always wrong and parents were always right, that children should be seen and not heard. Many of them grew up waiting for someone to toss them a scrap of dignityl"
The author has been conducting nationwide workshops on eating disorders since 1979. She has been a guest on television and radio shows and has written for and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Time, Ms, Family Circle and New Woman magazines. She lives in northern California with her husband, Matt. Her next workshop will be held in Atlanta in October, 1999.
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This article is part of The Survival Stage section of 📕 Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business.
When Buffer started being radically transparent, the entrepreneurial community was enthusiastic. A brighter future of collaboration, shared learning, openness, and lifting the disadvantaged was on the horizon. Revenue, Salaries, Compensation: everything was made public for everyone to see. Recently, Buffer closed off its public revenue dashboard. Other bootstrapped companies such as Transistor.fm have gone through the same progression of opening and later closing off their revenue data. Why is that?
Two common patterns emerge when you read the explanations and comments made by those who resorted to turning off their public dashboards. Either the data is incomplete and paints a picture that is distorting the reality of the business or the publicly available gives the competition a one-sided information advantage.
I'll show why it's beneficial for young companies to share their data publicly, when and why it starts becoming a problem, and what consequences can be expected if a business shares their data for too long.
Transparency in the bootstrapped world became a widely appreciated topic when Buffer made their salary and revenue information public starting in 2013, talking publicly about their numbers and values on the Open Buffer blog. Many interviews and news articles followed, lauding the bold move towards transparency as a blueprint for how a successful business should be talking about how much they pay their employees and how much revenue they generated.
Many companies followed their example. The Baremetrics Open Startups page filled up with other SaaS businesses committing to publicly sharing their revenue information.
Yet, after a while, some businesses stopped sharing their numbers. A number of those reversions have happened in recent months. The most prominent example is Buffer, who dropped from the Baremetrics Open Startups page. It most recently happened again when Transistor.fm made their revenue information private after having it public for over a year.
While Buffer has been almost ironically private about not being public anymore, Transistor.fm was much more transparent about not being transparent anymore. On their podcast, Build Your SaaS, Justin and Jon talked about going public with their revenue information in May 2018. Now, in November 2019, they laid out the arguments on why they turned off their publicly available dashboard and revenue numbers.
The Transistor.fm story sheds some interesting light on why companies choose to be radically transparent. First off, let's look into motivation to start sharing business internals with the public. It boils down to a few reasons:
- Social Proof: Fellow entrepreneurs, potential customers, and even investors can see that your numbers are real. You're not bullshitting anyone, as your financials are right there for everyone to see. This builds a lot of trust in a world where everyone is inflating their numbers to appear bigger and more successful than they truly are.
- Public Accountability: You're motivated to increase the numbers, not to have growth stalling. Someone, somewhere, is watching you. People will keep up with your success or lack thereof. If you commit to goals publicly, stakeholders have the means to track your progress. While this can be the source of high anxiety, it can also energize and encourage you to work towards your goals even more.
- People Love Underdogs: You will find a lot of goodwill and support when people can see that your little company is doing its best to grow and become an established business. Advice and help will appear in unexpected ways. Customers will root for you, as they might also be a small business trying to make it. In the end, this kind of transparency is marketing. You're marketing the business as a real company lead by a real person. This kind of intimacy does not exist for most business relationships, and people will relate to your business differently than to an opaque, faceless, anonymous company.
- The "Whisper Network" Effect: By being transparent about your numbers, you equalize the playing field: historically disadvantaged groups and minorities benefit from things being in the open. This is particularly effective if you share salary information, as well. When Buffer opened up their salary information to the public, they were overwhelmed with resumes. People love an employer who is not playing games.
With all these benefits, what then would cause a business to stop sharing?
Wherever you look, it seems to be one unifying problem: Competition.
Every single one of your competitors can look into your numbers. They can see what happened when you pushed out your big marketing campaign, as they will see the immediate impact in your numbers. They can find out if your recent pricing changes worked for you or didn't.
Essentially, you are giving your non-transparent competition the information advantage. You can only see your own numbers, but they get to see yours and their own. They get your learnings without sharing their own struggles.
Transparency may even encourage people to start a competing business because they see you not paying attention to a part of your business. A segment of your customers may be churning more than others because the product does not fully align with their needs. Competitors might find that information in your data before you do.
It may even encourage copycats that will chip away at your primary customer base. While copycat businesses don't have the same drive, determination, and experience that you have, giving people actionable information such as how your subscription plan levels are working for your audience is a risk. You paid dearly experimenting with your plans, just for someone to copy your business model with all those learnings for free.
That is a lot of risk for minimal upside. It breeds anxiety if you always wonder who might be scheming against you after having analyzed your data. Don't mistake this for paranoia. In a time where a SaaS business is easy to set up, this is a realistic scenario. It's just too many eyes looking and probing at your business. It is a distraction for founders who would prefer to work on their business instead of wondering who might be inspecting their numbers.
And that's what happened to Transistor.fm. For Jon and Justin, it felt like they had to justify having their numbers in the open. With public scrutiny come expectations. Justin didn't want to be a performer anymore, caring more about the public image than the actual value the business provided.
And I can understand this completely. At FeedbackPanda, we did share our revenue numbers on IndieHackers. Still, we never went fully public with all of our revenue, churn, retention, and subscription details being available like on the Baremetrics Open Startup page. The public MRR was enough for us to attract interested parties. However, any would-be-competition didn't have any additional insight.
Sometimes, it's the nature of the business that makes accurate and comprehensible transparency practically impossible. When Tyler Tringas had the business metrics for Storemapper in the open, it quickly became apparent that they were showing an incomplete picture. So he turned off the public dashboard again.
I think that there can be too much transparency. Not just because there is competition, but also because numbers don't exist in a vacuum. Let's say you have a 16% churn over the last 30 days. What does this mean? Did a large number of customers cancel? Did you weed out a few accounts that were abusing the system? Did you increase prices, and while a lot of people churned, you are still making 200% profit on the ones that stayed?
The numbers are not enough. They can be misleading or meaningless. Radical transparency is highly contextual, and without knowing the context, the figures can lead to misunderstandings. For a young bootstrapped business, this context might be quite clear, as most bootstrapped entrepreneurs go through the same struggle. However, once you grow to a specific size, some factors are unique to your business, your niche, your customer base. Those might not be even apparent to you, so how could a person who knows very little about your business understand those complex interactions.
So what should a bootstrapped founder do?
I recommend being transparent but in a measured way. Share your Stripe-verified revenue on IndieHackers, and regularly communicate what's going on in your business. Create a narrative that gives context to the numbers. Share successes and failures. Keep people who are interested in the business updated with regular summaries. Every month, talk about what worked, what didn't, how the important numbers moved.
Make sure having those numbers out there does not detract from your overall goal of building a sustainable, life-changing business. Because in the end, transparency is not the goal. It is secondary to you achieving a life of independence and control.
Transparency is a great way to show that you are a real person working on a sustainable business. Let the numbers work for you instead of working for the numbers. Just like you want to the business to work for you instead of you working for the business.


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Toon Tuesdays feature cat & dog cartoons made by the peeps over at Shoebox Greetings (a tiny little division of Hallmark) - where our mom works, too!
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hahaha!!!! I LOVE this!!!
I swear, Shoebox has the BEST cat cards!
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Mommy was laughing so hard, koolaide comed out her nose! It was really funny as it was purple!
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TLM Technologies has announced a partnership agreement with bespoke Workforce Management solutions provider ShopWorks.
The cloud-based staff rostering software developed by ShopWorks gives companies greater control over its staff management, providing improved efficiencies in payroll. Their bespoke service controls staff management for forecourts and convenience stores, and can seamlessly combine in one system the growing trend of having coffee and food-to-go outlets on the same site, with customers saving as much as 10% on staff costs.
After installing the ShopWorks solution earlier this year, The Kay Group senior management accountant Nicola Cotton said: "The structure offers a really versatile rota management system, which has simplified our process, making it easier for managers covering a number of different sites."
TLM group operations director Bob Laidlaw said: "At TLM, we want our customers to benefit from the very best technology on offer to maximise profit and increase productivity. That's why we partner with 'best in class' technology providers like ShopWorks. Having established successful relationships with valued TLM customers such as Kay Group, we are confident that ShopWorks are the best provider for Workforce Management solutions in our sector."
Mike Hennessey, director of operations at ShopWorks, said, "We are delighted to be working with TLM Technologies; they are experts in their field and are a widely-known and well-respected technology supplier to this sector. Despite the significant cost savings that can be achieved through Workforce Management solutions, it is estimated that 75% of fuel retailers still rely on outdated paper and spreadsheet based systems. ShopWorks and TLM will work together to aid a digital transformation in the market, so convenience & fuel retailers can continue to see the benefits of using technology to increase efficiency, productivity and profit."
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Read this short interview with Matthew Burger, Director, Flow at our Columbus manufacturing site.
9 February 2021
Case Study
- Explain your job in 15 seconds. I'm responsible for the Solids Manufacturing department for our generics business. I also have responsibility for Production Support activities and the Manufacturing Execution System team for all of Columbus Operations.
- What excites you the most about your job? The challenges of leading a department that is integral to the Columbus site and Hikma's generics business.
- What does "better health within reach" mean to you? We make medications that are key to saving and bettering lives. Our mission is to make them widely available to all people regardless of their economic or social position.
- What are three words to describe life at Hikma? Fast-paced, challenging, rewarding.
- Why do you think Hikma is a good place to build a career? Hikma is a great place because it truly cares about its people and provides motivated employees with the tools to own their career by sitting in the developmental driver's seat.
- What changed in your work/ how did you adapt your ways of working during the pandemic? The pandemic brought a lot of changes to the operation that made managing it considerably more challenging. However, being flexible and recognizing that we are in uncharted waters- and then effectively and transparently communicating to the teams about it has helped smooth the change process for all.
- What's the best thing about working at Hikma? Working for a growing and stable company that is big enough to have the resources to sustain its own growth and development and that of its people, while still being small enough for one person to be able to have a large impact on the organization.


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Through Child's Eyes is a video about the shame and guilt the victims of sexual abuse, molestation and sexual trauma very often experience. Why do they feel shame and guilt when they did nothing wrong? The answer lies in the unique child's eye view of the world. Victims can learn that they are not to blame, and that there is hope, that they can get better.
This video is presented as a public service by Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD, author of the new book Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity, A Revolutionary Approach To Treatment & Recovery From Sexual Abuse and PTSD, and www.sexualabusesolution.com. ,
The book, Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity, A Revolutionary Approach To Treatment & Recovery From Sexual Abuse and PTSD, by Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD. is a revolutionary revisioning of the impact and treatment of sexual abuse, molestation and sexual trauma that gives new hope to the survivors of sexual abuse and trauma. Survivors, family members or friends, practitioners, policy makers or simply interested readers will have their sense of themselves, or of the victims of sexual abuse, molestation and sexual trauma, transformed by this book. They learn about the many famous, creative, dynamic and powerful victims of sexual abuse, people who have transformed our world. They will also learn the hows and whys of the effects of sexual abuse, how trends in therapy have not worked to the benefit of sexual trauma victims, and a new revolutionary perspective on treating sexual abuse, molestation and sexual trauma.
*About The Famous Victims of Sexual Trauma
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I am a MALE survivor of CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. This is my place to offload, share and let go. This blog also contains articles from other sources and guest posts. Have a seat, kick off your shoes and join me. Leave your prejudices at the door, open your mind and learn. Please leave a comment, I appreciate feedback. WARNING some of the contents of this blog might cause triggering. Caution.... This blog may contain nuts. All posts ©
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Antigua opposition legislator files defamation lawsuit against PM
ST JOHN'S – An opposition member has filed a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Gaston Browne for allegedly making "outrageous" statements against him in Parliament recently.
The lawsuit was filed on Thursday and Browne received the documents on Friday media reports here said.
Wilmoth Daniel, a member of the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) through his lawyer, Charlesworth Taber, had claimed that Browne had made the statement during a crosstalk in the Parliament Building on January 2, after the Speaker of the House, Sir Gerald Watt, had suspended the sitting due to a disruption in electricity.
They said that the allegations reportedly made by Prime Minister Browne were therefore not under the protection of parliamentary immunity, since the Speaker had already suspended the session.
Daniel had given Prime Minister Browne a two week deadline to apologise indicating that failure to do so would result in the lawsuit for defamation.
The January 10 letter to Prime Minister Browne also made reference to the comments he allegedly made on January 6, while speaking on a radio station, which he owns.
Daniel said he had been further injured by statements made by callers and is asking the court for aggravated damages. (CMC)


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Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels. With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart. Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.


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I have mid-length hair with a thick fringe/bang. I have never had a problem with it up until the last couple of weeks. I'm away for a month so I decided to get some less expensive shampoos while I was away, but they were still H&S and Pantene. Back home I use Frizz Ease shampoo and conditioner.
I have used both H&S and Pantene in the past and have never had any problems. But recently straight after washing, my fringe feels like I've loaded half a can of moose into it. It's stiff, greasy and really not that nice to look at. I wash my hair every 2 days, as I have for about 15 years. My hair isn't coloured either, I thought I'd point that out as that seems to be a common link to greasy hair - but I don't have that.
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I'm trying to write an episode that is actually interesting, but it hasn't been going well. And that was before "Bela Lugosi's Dead" came on the TV/Internet/Radio music distribution system.
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Signs of medical emergency
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Recognize these crucial signs as soon as possible and contact ambulance services or emergency doctors.
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Ambulance is pre-hospital setup, which includes qualified team professionals –
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Ambulance type can be selected on the patient's emergency needs.
Modern emergency air transport is chosen for many reasons.
- Air transport is the only means to transfer patient quickly and safely
- Patient is very ill and cannot travel long distance.
- People moving and hurt but reside in remote areas, which cannot be reached quickly using road, due to lack of development.
Equipments aircraft carries
The aircraft ambulance is equipped with advanced life support systems like –
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- Generally, hospitals or your state's Emergency Management System manage helicopters to transport critical patients.
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Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a type of intelligent design process that allows for complete three dimensional representation of the physical space and functional characteristics of a facility. These programs facilitate coordination of all trades during the design and construction phases. This is done by moving what used to be coordinated in the field during construction, to being digitally analyzed and coordinated within the respective design consultants' offices during design.
With BIM, an owner or facility manager can review multiple design scenarios and determine the most beneficial options available for their building. Architects and engineers are able to design using a 3-D BIM process rather than typical 2-D, allowing for greater accuracy in design and constructability. All parties involved in a project have access to a rendered model to see the finished product throughout the design process before construction even begins, allowing the team to visualize, simulate and ultimately improve the performance of a building.
Who is Using BIM and Why?
Estimates suggest that over half of the industry is now using BIM or BIM related tools. Architects and engineers use BIM to help them justify and implement their sustainability goals, while contractors use BIM for coordination and as a reliable cost estimating tool. Providing a progressive approach to design and construction, experience with BIM projects provides design and construction companies with an advantage over their competitors and aids in the design and potential cost saving measures of more complex projects. Owners want to save money, designers want to maximize their energy efficient designs, and contractors want to minimize field changes. BIM provides a winning strategy to accomplish each of these interrelated project goals.
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Some BIM software can provide an important tool for clash detection or interference checking. When a team is working on a BIM project, all parties can combine their design models within one central project model that is updated on a regular and frequent basis. By doing this, the intelligent component of the program can tell the designers where there are conflicts or "clashes."
"After working on a project in Revit, we feel more comfortable with how the components of our design will fit within our clients' buildings. Being able to have a weekly clash detection meeting consistently reminds us of the areas that need more attention and allows us to work through any issues before the drawings arrive in the hands of the contractor," said Mo Ardebili, president of Energy Systems Design. This process can be effective, saving time and money that would have been spent on field changes.
BIM, Energy Modeling and Sustainable Design
The ability to evaluate different types of design practices and sustainable design measures is another important component of Building Information Modeling. For example, changes to various architectural systems can have numerous effects on mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems. Three-dimensional modeling creates a comprehensive view into the physical operation of a building. This allows the designers to test out alternative design strategies to attain higher operational efficiency and performance. 3-D modeling of the various building systems can reduce materials usage by highlighting the best and most practical routing and installation methods. A building space can also be maximized and utilized in a more efficient manner. Another important factor in the sustainability of a project is creating a baseline of expectations of how your building should perform after construction is completed. BIM also adds an important value to a building's site selection and its effect on the environment and its surrounding area by analyzing how it will tie into the existing infrastructure or how its size, shape and orientation will affect the final design.
When considering a new design or renovation of your own facility, BIM is an invaluable tool which allows you to make informed decisions during the design, research and development phases of a project. It has proven to save time and money for the owner, design professionals and contractors, making it a priority in efficient design and construction. In the complex world of the built environment, minimizing headaches by means of thorough design investigation is the key to a successful project. BIM has become a clear leader in this process and should be standard practice in future projects.
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Halleh Landon is a vice president and electrical engineer at Energy Systems Design, an MPE engineering firm.


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ICSTI, Rome, Italy 17-18 May 2012 Definition of Membership Arrangements for INIS (document GOV/INF/2000/21 issued on 5 September 2000) INIS is cooperative, dynamic and decentralized Working Staff –Cuban INIS Centre INIS Centre; Information management Manuel Álvarez González- ILO; Irayda Oviedo Alternate ILO; inputs process; Miriam Amado- inputs process; Belkis Yera- RRIAN; Marianela Parés- search; Ramiro Guerra- metrics studies; Jesús Gil- web manager Isotopes management; nuclear medicine Adela Peña Tornet- RRIAN Nuclear application Natacha Quintana- inputs process; RRIAN Mathematics and Physics Nilda Garzón- information collection Nuclear safety Luz María Cusidó; Mileydis Lageiras – information collection Teaching Lauren Elías, nuclear knowledge management; María Teresa Sánchez Rivera, thesis information collection 113 Producers and recipients of nuclear literature (27, 60, 20, 6) Source: Homemade Cuban INIS Activities Promotion and Training International Information Congress, INFO (2010, 2012, 2014 show the INIS development) Yearly training to the national INIS staff Fundamentals of Radiation Protection. 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The Los Angeles Galaxy are ready for the first leg of a two-leg East Coast swing tonight at PPL Park when they take on the Philadelphia Union (7:30pm, MLS Direct Kick).
The Union enter with some confidence after posting a 1-0 road victory against the Chicago Fire, while the Galaxy look to rebound after a pair of recent losses, including a 3-1 setback against the Vancouver Whitecaps.
There are two matches involving MLS teams tonight, with the Vancouver Whitecaps take on the Montreal Impact in the first leg of the Canadian Championship Final. The Impact are favored as they look to carry over their impressive showing in league play against a Whitecaps side that only recently snapped a lengthy winless streak.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Guest Author Interview: Cate Masters
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Thanks again for having me here, Alexis!ReplyDelete
I love the idea of every woman embracing her inner goddess -- fabulous concept! And the excerpt was great, too! Looking forward to reading both Dancing with the Devil and The Magic of Lavender.
My pleasure, Cate. I've always been a fan of Greek Mythology, I've even written a romance around a Greek god, but the publishers keep telling me Greek Mythology doesn't sell . So glad you have a series out with my two favorite subjects, Romance and Greek Mythology :-)ReplyDelete
Don't need to win the book, but wanted to say that Cate really threw conflict into Lily's background and makeup.ReplyDelete
Thanks Marie! I love stories that empower women. Thanks for the kind words!ReplyDelete
Thanks Marie! I love stories that empower women. :) Thanks for the kind words too!ReplyDelete
We can both prove them wrong, Alexis! :)
Thanks Alex!
This is a must read for me it sounds amazing I cant waitto dive into this story.Happy Mothers Day everyone I hope you are all having a most wonderful day .ReplyDelete
Glad to hear it, Wanda! :) Happy Mother's Day to you.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed the interview and excerpt. The book sounds very good.ReplyDelete
- LyndeeMay 14, 2012 at 12:51 AM
Great concept, Cate. Yes, I deserve to be treated like a goddess, but in truth, around this house I'm just a domestic goddess, lol. Was wondering who you read or what author inspires you other than ancient Greek writers, of course ;).ReplyDelete
Great excerpt, btw. Good luck with this interesting series!
Thanks BN!ReplyDelete
Any great blurb might grab me, Lyndee. I tend to favor paranormal, fantasy/urban fantasy, but my bookshelves (and now Kindle!) are filled with anything and everything!


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Freed Egyptian Al Jazeera Journalist Returns Home After 4 Years in Prison
Mahmoud Hussein, a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, arrived at his home in greater Cairo Saturday after four years in an Egyptian jail, an AFP journalist reported, amid thawing relations between the countries.
The 54-year-old Egyptian national was released on Thursday from a Cairo prison, a security source and his daughter Azzahra Hussein confirmed to AFP, but bail conditions at a police station in southern Cairo were still being finalised.
"His father died before witnessing this moment, he was waiting for it for a long time," Hussein's mother told AFP before her son's arrival.
Clutching a necklace with a photo of Hussein on it, she was surrounded by throngs of relatives and supporters who had set up colourful lights to celebrate his return.
Neighbours handed out drinks while children lit fireworks as women clapped and ululated. Others rushed to hug him in the small village on the outskirts of Cairo.
Qatar's Al Jazeera -- which had run a daily campaign calling for his liberation -- had repeatedly said he was being held "without formal charges nor trial".
According to Egyptian law, detainees can be held in pre-trial detention for up to two years, but authorities regularly prolong the periods.
"Even though there are bail conditions... Dad is out of the police station, thank God. Freedom to all those oppressed," his other daughter based in Paris, Aya Hussein, said on Twitter.
Hussein's release comes just over two weeks after Egypt and Qatar restored diplomatic ties, following a three-year Saudi-led freeze on relations with Doha, with a particular focus on Al Jazeera's coverage.
Cairo has been critical of the pan-Arab network's stance, considering it a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood.
The group was outlawed after general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi led the military overthrow of Islamist Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
"Al Jazeera Media Network welcomes the news of Mahmoud's freedom, and believes that no journalist should ever be subjected to what Mahmoud has suffered for the past four years for merely carrying out his profession," the Doha-based network said in a statement Saturday.
"While he was incarcerated, Mahmoud had become a symbol of press freedom across the globe," Al Jazeera added.
Three Al Jazeera journalists were previously arrested in 2013, including Australian Peter Greste, drawing international condemnation. They were freed in 2015.
"This has been a colossal and shameful travesty of justice by Egypt purely for political ends," tweeted Greste, hours before Hussein's arrival home.
Egypt is the world's worst jailer of journalists behind China and Turkey, according to press freedom group the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Ministers reelected to Riigikogu giving up pay until new government seated
The ministers of Jüri Ratas' (Centre) outgoing government who were reelected to the Riigikogu in the 3 March general election have for the time being waived their right to receive an MP's salary.
All members of the current government elected back to the Riigikogu have submitted an application to administrative services stating that they are giving up their salary as MP until the new government has been appointed to office, spokespeople for the Riigikogu told BNS.
Members of the outgoing government elected to the XIV Riigikogu include Mr Ratas, Riina Sikkut (SDE), Jüri Luik (Isamaa), Indrek Saar (SDE), Katri Raik (SDE), Kadri Simson (Centre), Mailis Reps (Centre), Sven Mikser (SDE), Tarmo Tamm (Centre), and Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa).
Kaja Kallas, chairwoman of the Riigikogu election-winning Reform Party, was officially tasked by President Kersti Kaljulaid with the formation of a new government on 5 April.
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This idea is not completely new, but pretty obscure and most likely you will be unfamiliar with it. It was first published by Bob Ostin in his 1974 living and dead test entitled 'Vampire'. Later, Tom Stone published a small variation on Bob's effect under the title 'Giudichar' in the Swedish lecture notes Coercri (1992). It was (more famously) seen again in Lee Earle's magazine Syzygy (1995).
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More than twenty years ago, Andre Jacomet discovered Somatic Experiencing® (SE) – Peter Levine's work for trauma healing – during his search for relief from a complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Prenatal factors as well as adverse conditions in childhood and adolescence had led Andre into addiction and into a life that was dominated by fear and disorientation.
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Andre's journey has led him to so many different experiences and wonderful people, for whom he feels enormous gratitude. To name some of the many on his journey, he is most grateful, as an SE practitioner, for the hundreds of client sessions and people of the SE community; there is Urs Honauer (SE teacher and owner of the Swiss Centers for SE and Polarity Therapy); and also Jim Feil, to name just a few of the most important companions on this path. Also, assisting or participating in workshops with Jaap van der Wal, Ellert Nijenhuis, Fritz-Albert Popp, Gerald Hüther, Alexander Lauterwasser and many others has been inspiration and enrichment beyond all that could have been imagined in 'the life before SE'. As the deep gratitude for these companions is expressed here, there is also the gratitude for the energy that led and guided Andre on his way and through the work as a counselor for addicts on their way to recovery.
With almost 1,000 hours of training and exams in 2013 and 2023 Andre fully completed the Polarity Therapy training with Jim Feil and obtained the Polarity Practitioner Diploma. The knowledge and the experience from this wonderful, rich area, adds to the work with SE in an ideal way, and opens a wide field of options for bodywork.
In addition to the sessions in his office in Zurich and the trainings in which he participated, Andre Jacomet assisted Peter Levine's advanced trainings in Switzerland for more than 10 years in different roles. Also, he has assisted three three-year trainings for Somatic Experiencing Practitioners® in Switzerland and Germany.
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Ursula K Le Guin said it best, "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable–but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings". Refused is taking Le Guin's battlecry and carefully observed the chaos and destruction in the world in which we claim to be our habitat, and said, "if you're just going to stand idly by, it's time for us to make some noise one more time". This past Friday, the punk/post-hardcore band Refused out of Sweden released the masterpiece entitled "War Music" via Spinefarm Records.
We've seen what crony capitalism has done to our Mother Earth and to the inhabitants of it. We've stood idly by and watched powerful lobbyists and corporations sell our politicians down the river by influencing and making the law, effectively stripping that power from the people to make laws that benefit the greater good. Refused took all this righteous anger and frustration, bottled it up, shook up the contents of the bottle, and watched the contents spontaneously combust onto the canvas in "War Music".
This record shows the anger, and the art that Refused has trademarked. You hear chilling, hollow cry of the woman proclaiming "One more revolution my love/One more time through the fire/One more revolution/Once more we'll walk/Into enemy fire", then Refused combusts with the track "Rev001". This track sets the pace perfectly in their thematic album "War Music". "Rev001" serves as a battlecry for the voiceless and the disenfranchised as Refused carries the banner demanding that we deserve better for ourselves and for our children.
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"Malfire" sounds like a sequel to "New Noise". Something about the lyric "It's a different type of war, when the wolves are at the door", can be a battlecry for the right and left to unite and come together to fight the evil in this corrupt government. The way the song builds up is nothing short of remarkable.
At the 11th hour, Refused has came to the rescue to awaken our slumber with eloquent lyrics and intense arrangements in an effort to bring about meaningful discussions once again in our country. Refused doesn't need us, we need this band to be our battlecry towards the corruption in our government, business, and society. This is the most important record of the year as it awakens sleeping giants. Madness To Creation gives this the 100% seal of approval as record of the year finalist. "If you hear this, you're a weapon".
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- Violent Reaction
- I Wanna Watch The World Burn
- Blood Red
- Malfire
- Turn The Cross
- Damaged III
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- The Infamous Left
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Check out Refused on tour in United Kingdom and Europe in 2019 and North America in 2020 with special guests Youth Code:
Sat. 10/26- O2 Academy in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sun. 10/27- Barrowlands in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Tue. 10/29- O2 Academy in Bristol, United Kingdom
Wed. 10/30- O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, United Kingdom
Thu. 10/31- Club Academy in Manchester, United Kingdom
Fri. 11/1- Rock City in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Sun. 11/3- Melkweg in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mon. 11/4- Carlswerk Victoria in Koln, Germany
Tue. 11/5- Grosse Freiheit 36 in Hamburg, Germany
Thu. 11/7- Ancienne Belgique in Bruxelles, Belgium
Fri. 11/8- Elysee Montmartre in Paris, France
Sun. 11/10- Alcatraz in Milano, Italy
Mon. 11/11- TonHalle in Munchen, Germany
Tue. 11/12- Huxley's Neue Welt in Berlin, Germany
Wed. 12/11- VEGA in Kobenhavn V., Denmark
Thu. 12/12- Mejeriet in Lund, Sweden
Fri. 12/13- Pustervik in Goteborg, Sweden
Sat. 12/14- Berns in Stockholm, Sweden
Sun. 12/15- Vulkan Arena in Oslo, Norway
Tue. 12/17- The Circus in Helsinki, Finland
For tickets and further information on Refused's U.K./European tour, click here.
2020 North American Tour:
Fri. 2/21- 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.
Sat. 2/22- Brooklyn Steel in Kings County, New York
Mon. 2/24- Mtelus in Montreal, Canada
Tue. 2/25- Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Canada
Wed. 2/26- The Intersection in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Thu. 2/27- St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Michigan
Fri. 2/28- The Rave/Eagles Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sat. 2/29- Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tue. 3/3- Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon
Wed. 3/4- Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, Canada
Thu. 3/5- The Showbox in Seattle, Washington
Sat. 3/7- The UC Theatre in Berkeley, California
Sun. 3/8- Ace of Spades in Sacramento, California
Mon. 3/9- 1720 in Los Angeles, California
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R. Lee Fryar's FLIPPING, pitched as an enemies-to-lovers mash-up of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Money Pit, in which a gay ghost and a psychic house flipper duke it out over a haunted house with an agenda of its own, to Lisa Green at Mystic Owl, in a nice deal, for publication in November 2022.
Digital artist BLUEBIRD, in which a lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space, against her home faction, with a mysterious bounty hunter to protect her sister and the entire galaxy, to Gemma Creffield at Angry Robot, in a nice deal, for publication in February 2022, by Lauren Spieller at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world English).'s
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Authors of THE GAY AGENDA and THE QUEER TAROT and owners of the Ash + Chess stationery store Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham's ABC-DECONSTRUCTING GENDER, an illustrated ABC book, with each page featuring a word and then an illustration that shows that words can be neutral or not tied to one specific gender, disrupting the notion that words are typically gendered or related to either "masculine" or "feminine" associations, drawn in their singular brightly colored, risographed style, to Julie Matysik at Running Press Kids, in an exclusive submission, by Meg Thompson at Thompson Literary Agency (world).
Young Adult Fiction
Author of A LESSON IN VENGEANCE Victoria Lee's THE GIRL THAT TIME FORGOT, pitched as a sapphic The Umbrella Academy with time travel, in which a teenage girl, one of five adepts training in a mysterious new magic, discovers that her fellow adepts have recently murdered someone and are planning to kill again, to Krista Marino at Delacorte, for publication in spring 2023, by Holly Root and Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary (NA).
STUNT GIRL, in which real-life historical figure Nell Nelson—one of the early undercover female journalists called stunt girls—investigates working conditions in the garment factories of New York City in the summer of 1888, while also falling in love with real-life historical figure and queer icon Alice Austen, the first female street photographer, illustrated by , to Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown Children's, for publication in winter 2025, by Wendi Gu at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates for the author, and by Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary for the illustrator (world).'s
Lambda, Stonewall, and PEN Center USA Literary award-winning author DESTINATION UNKNOWN, a story about two teen boys—one bold and headstrong, one hesitant and yearning—who find each other in 1987 New York City and try to figure out love, sex, and identity as AIDS decimates and galvanizes the gay community, to David Levithan at Scholastic, for publication in May 2022, by Linda Epstein at Emerald City Literary Agency (NA).'s
Composer Edward Underhill's debut ALWAYS THE ALMOST, about a trans classical pianist who resolves to spend his junior year winning back his ex-boyfriend and defeating his arch-nemesis at the biggest piano competition of the year, only to have his carefully-laid plans in both love and music disrupted when a new boy moves to town and makes a play for his heart, pitched as for fans of Becky Albertalli and Phil Stamper, to Sylvan Creekmore at Wednesday Books, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2023, by Patricia Nelson at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world).
Minister of outreach and media strategy at Middle Church Benjamin Perry's LEARNING TO CRY: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF OUR TEARS–AND HOW THEY MIGHT CHANGE THE WORLD, in which a queer minister and activist explores our rich legacy of weeping, why we stopped crying, and how tears can change both our culture and our future, to Valerie Weaver-Zercher at Broadleaf, for publication in spring 2023 (world).
British journalist, editor, and artist THE TRANSGENDER ISSUE: AN ARGUMENT FOR JUSTICE, an overview of the oppression faced by transgender people, the relationship of trans rights to feminism and gay and lesbian liberation, and a call for a trans rights movement that can bring a more joyful world for us all, with a new introduction for US readers, to Jessie Kindig at Verso, in a nice deal, for publication in September 2022, by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander (NA).'s