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This is a follower submitted rec and, as such, we cannot guarantee that the tags are 100% accurate. From bulletin #64:
Down by the Water by Cas_Wings [NC-17, 88,400 word count]
recced by Olivia
When Castiel loses everything dear to him due to a botched river crossing, including his supplies, livestock, covered wagon, and even his wife, he has no where to turn, no way to survive stranded in the middle of his journey. That is, until he meets Dean Winchester, who offers him a life saving deal: In exchange for help on his farm, Dean offers to provide much needed room and board. But how will this decision affect Castiel as he moves through his grief, and discovers feelings he never would have expected? Fighting with injury, pain, grief, and even the threat of death, Dean and Castiel find themselves in the one place they would have never expected: down by the water, struggling to accept their unforeseen love. ((Set in 1853. AU.))
'Til the Last by miss_grey
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 75,100
Summary: When the war came, Dean Winchester was determined that he was not going to get involved. He had more important things to worry about than some rich man's fight. He had work on the farm and he had taking care of his family. Nothing else was worth his worry. But in August in the Year of Our Lord 1863, when the soldiers came knocking, they weren't asking. They dragged Dean away. Dean and Cas have been best friends since they were kids. When Dean is drafted into the Confederate army, to what lengths will Castiel go to ensure that Dean makes it back home alive?
The US Civil War is the violent backdrop to this story about duty, love and family. The author tells the story of Dean and Castiel, beginning with their entry into the war in the summer of 1863. The stark realities of the battlefield are interleaved with flashbacks from their childhood and letters from home. The author describes specific battles with an intimacy and accuracy that immerses the reader in each horrifying moment. It takes an excellent storyteller to keep readers engaged when the outcomes of events like Sherman's (now Gabriel's) March to the Sea are known. In this case, the story is also told from the perspective of Southern soldiers and the conflicted views held by these comrades-in-arms simmer just under the surface.
The greatest strength of this story is in its contrasts and of the greatest of these is Castiel himself. The flashbacks reveal a gentle and kind boy with a core of steel. Even as an abused child, he couldn't stand to see the slaves of his parent's plantation brutalized. He worked to protect them when he could, and ease their pain when he couldn't. This is contrasted with the sharp-shooter he becomes, carefully placing one bullet after another into oncoming forces to protect the one he loves.
Canon elements are woven throughout. The single-minded ruthlessness of Dean rampaging through the union camp in search of a captured Cas harkens to purgatory and his search for the Angel. Cas rebels against his family and their plans for his future to enlist in the infantry so he can watch over Dean. War changes everyone it touches, yet the hope and faith in Dean and Cas' story stands against the horrors that surround them and provides a path through the storm.
Nine Times We Met (And One Christmas We Parted) by almaasi [author spotlight]
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 58,000
Summary: On the last day of school before Christmas vacation, Mr. Castiel Quinn discovers that one of his young students has smuggled male pornography into the classroom. Upon being told that the photos belong to the boy's uncle, Castiel vows to himself that he will keep the other man's preferences a secret. It's 1947; a man experiencing attraction to another man or fantasising about his sexual touch are transgressive faults, which could potentially result in imprisonment - or worse. But then the uncle walks in. The photos are of him: Dean Winchester, a rogue with an empty pocket and a child to feed. Castiel doesn't know it yet, but his life is never going to be the same again. Years pass between chance meetings, but even though they live their lives apart, Dean and Castiel's story is proof that absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.
Castiel and Dean only meet once every few years, and these chance encounters over decades change their lives. The fear of discovery in a homophobic world is palpable and it shapes their choices. These are not perfect people and they make mistakes as they try to balance their fears with their desires. Yet there is an honesty in their awkwardness that is very human.
The author's summary, tags and warnings at the beginning of this fic tell you most of what you need to know to decide if this story is right for you. Many may be scared off by the major character death warning but remember, a good life and a good death often go hand in hand. I won't deny that I needed to put my pillowcase in the dryer when I was done reading, yet my heart was light.
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We also ran a search ("great depression") and got these:
Close to Broken we have unofficially recced it here
Gone for Good [T, 3,000 word count]
1930's- The Great Depression AU. Dean is riding the rails looking for work when he meets Castiel, looking for a worker.
ETA: An anon pointed out this one:
Cheap Venetian Blinds (unofficially recced here)
This is a follower submitted rec and, as such, we cannot guarantee that the tags are 100% accurate. From bulletin #41:
The Good, The Bad and The Angel by shellygurumi [M, 27,800 word count]
recced by mbrry
In January of 1862, Castiel died alongside Samuel Colt, trying to close the Devil's Gate in Sunrise, Wyoming. Only, he wasn't supposed to die. An Angel, Dean, rescued him from Hell and brought him back to Earth to finish his mission. The Devil's Gate must be closed in order to prevent a grave disaster 150 years in the future. The demon, Alastair, however, will do anything to stop this from happening. Will the good guy be able to stop the bad guy with the help of the angel? Time will tell.
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As The Sparrow by hubrisandwax
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 19,000
Summary: It's 1947. Dean is an ex-marine fighting crime and a very different sort of war to the one he faced in the Pacific as a detective on the streets of LA. This city isn't all the glitz and glamor it's made out to be, however, and Dean finds himself tugged in to a world of life-threatening unknowns when Daphne Novak's body is discovered. Castiel Novak, her husband, was one of Dean's battalion mates in the war, and he's just as deadly and dangerous as he was two years ago when he saved Dean's life during the Battle of Okinawa. Except now he's wanted for his wife's murder, and Dean just doesn't believe Cas is capable of that.
Is Cas really who he says he is, though? And what will Dean have to sacrifice in order to repay the debt he feels he owes?
Here's a lovely historical au fic with a very distinct film noir feeling. I particularly liked how all the layers of the story interacted with each other and came together in the end - the murder mystery, the war memories, and their civilian life with their pretty wives. But above all, every bit of the story is thoroughly soaked with unabashed UST between Dean and Cas. There's not a moment when Dean doesn't think about Cas. There's not a moment when Cas doesn't want to protect Dean. Ah, I really wish this story would have gone on a little bit longer.
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For Love, For Glory by bellanovaskies
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Rating: M
Word Count: 84,000
Summary: It's the 1940's, the war is tearing Europe in half, and the Nazis have a plan to uncover an ancient weapon belonging to the Egyptian gods that can tip the scale in their favor. With the help of a librarian named Castiel, it's up to Sam and Dean Winchester, respectively a professor of archaeology and treasure hunter, to get to the Lost City of Amun-Ra and stop the Third Reich from achieving world domination. But with a missing father, secret societies, and an unexpected romance, things get more than a little complicated in this race against time. Loosely based on the Indiana Jones franchise.
Well, here it is – an Indiana Jones inspired destiel fic starring one Dean Winchester as a ruggedly handsome treasure hunter, Sam Winchester as an esteemed archaeology professor, and a certain Castiel Milton as a quiet librarian who is more important to their quest than he ever suspected. The fic has a lovely historical flair and colorful descriptions of different cities but, most importantly, the author pays due attention to the societal taboo that surrounded gay relationships at the time. Just like the movies, the fic is brimming with adventures and action sequences. Our favorite trio travels across Europe looking for clues to an old mystery while trying to evade Nazis at every turn. In the end, all adversaries meet in Egypt where some serious business is going to happen. Let's just say that Dean has a chance to speak to some gods, again, while the Men of Letters and Thule society are scheming in the background. I'm pretty sure that The Riders of the Lost Arc and The Last Crusade movies have also inspired a few scenes. Overall, the story has a nostalgic, old fashioned movie feel while the ending, sigh, the ending reminded me of Casablanca.
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This is a follower submitted rec and, as such, we cannot guarantee that the tags are 100% accurate. From bulletin #31:
Milton Manor by dream_of_flight [NC-17, 60,000 word count]
recced by anon
When stable boy Dean Winchester and Lord Milton's son Castiel first meet they become friends instantly. But seven years away at boarding school change the young master and their bond seems to have faded into obscurity. Can Dean find his way back into Castiel's heart or is there nothing left to return to?
The Angle of Repose by standbyme
Rating: M
Word Count: 45,000
Summary: by the year 1972 the state of kentucky had produced over 100 million tons of bituminous coal. when castiel, the new continuous miner operator at the venus coal camp's no. 6 mine, begins to sense something strange is happening underground, the lines between the possible and the impossible begin to blur, and dean may be the only one who is willing to believe him.
DeanCas Big Bang season is finally upon us! (More info here.) This work caught my attention during art claims (when summaries are posted) and my love of Loretta Lynn as a child is
probably definitely to blame. Highly atmospheric and with great regional flair, I was pretty impressed by this story. The mine and town are basically characters and both felt very authentic (you'll likely need to google some mining terms). The town was simultaneously small and expansive, and the regional tone was enjoyable. There was even a brief clogging scene! Though this is a historical AU, there isn't any gay panic or homophobia (even if there are a few scenes that imply they are hiding their relationship). While inaccurate, I was totally fine with it being glossed over.
I loved how well the author fit the characters into this AU. The occupation of coal mining aligns surprisingly well with hunting (high risk, low monetary reward, blue collar). I found myself very drawn to Sam's storyline and his character journey (influence by pre-series!Sam). Then there's Dean bearing the brunt of familial responsibility but loving his work, and Cas as the outsider working alongside Dean and offering support Dean's never had.
The story focuses more on the overall human drama, with the romance taking a backseat (with not just Dean and Cas, but Sam and Jess as well). This is also a supernatural horror piece. All the mine scenes were fantastically confining and at times creepy and chilling. Though I personally would have liked to see more horror, what's there is well done.
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We've been asked this a few times before, so figured we'd start a new tag ("as kids") and lay out some fics for those interested.
First of all, relevant tags: underage!cas, underage!dean, deaged (particularly this ask about them both deaging), high school, weechesters. We also have a "youth" section on the tags page you might be interested in. In this list below, we'll differentiate between young teenagers (12-16) and kids (< 12).
I. From this ask (best friends tag, growing up together without flashbacks, as kids):
II. Other fics where they're kids (in the beginning or throughout fic):
III. Fics where they're young teenagers (in the beginning or throughout fic):
IV. Flashbacks to being children:
V. Flashbacks to being young teenagers:
VI. Mostly from our weechesters tag, Cas as an angel watching over/interacting with kid!dean:
New unofficial recs:
Category I:
A Long Time Coming [T, 1,500 word count]
Dean and Cas have been friends for as long as they can remember. It might be the slowest love story in history.
For Every Second Chance [PG-13, 5,000 word count]
Prompt - High school/college AU. Castiel and Dean - friends since they were very, very small. But suddenly there's this weird distance and Cas can't understand why. (I think we all know why.) Bonus points if Gabriel is in there somewhere, maybe as Cas' brother or friend, making disparaging remarks about Dean. (I'd prefer no Sam/Gabriel, but whatever the author wants to do) And, double double bonus points, to repair their friendship/relationship after doing something especially dumb, Dean makes some sort of public declaration of his ~feelings.
Milton Manor [NC-17, 60,000 word count] historical!au
When stable boy Dean Winchester and Lord Milton's son Castiel first meet they become friends instantly. But seven years away at boarding school change the young master and their bond seems to have faded into obscurity. Can Dean find his way back into Castiel's heart or is there nothing left to return to?
Category II:
Childhood Valentine [G, 5,000 word count]
St Valentine's Day in the Sioux Fall Kindergarten. Ms. Ellen Harvelle teaches her students what so special about today. Lots of chocolates ensue.
Paper Heart [G, 2,500 word count]
Written for the prompt: Kindergarten AU in which Dean is determined to make his friend Castiel a valentine, and John very gently tries to persuade him not to because little boys don't give other little boys Valentine's Day cards. Your choice on how Dean deals with the news, and what happens afterward.
Category IV:
The Crown and the Lance [NC-17, 37,000 word count]
War has passed and peace is upon the Kingdom of Salvation. Jousts are now common affairs, which Sir Dean of Winchester competes in to earn prizes for his ailing county. Yet when Dean is bested by an unknown competitor and saves Prince Castiel from a failed assassination attempt his life is torn apart as he is forced to confront old nightmares and memories. A medieval AU rife with assassins, treachery and emotionally crippled princes and knights.
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OG reading below 1.0?
Hello all, first time posting to the forum but love the wealth of information available! That being said, I had a problem that I didn't see covered anywhere. I have just started brewing and use extract. I have made 2 beers so far that have seemingly turned out pretty good.
The problem is, I just started using the hydrometer and taking readings on a new batch, and have gotten an OG with a number below 1.0. I know all the tricks of spinning it to get bubbles out and letting the sample sit for a while, but nothing produced different results. The hydrometer seems to function fine in water, reading at 1.0 as it should, but for whatever reason, the samples from the carboy have been coming up below that. I have read that this happens when a beer has been infected, but this is impossible since it hasn't undergone any fermentation yet.
How is this possible?, and what can i do to fix this batch currently in the primary?
Much appreciated!
OG or FG?
Attention new brewers, yes your original gravity reading is wrong. Don't panic.
Could this be your answer?
I did notice this thread, however, I was confused because my original gravity readings are below 1.0 (which, as you know is water's reading). How can this be when the additional sugar added via extract should cause it to have a higher gravity? I guess what im trying to say is how is my OG reading below 1.0 if its a bunch of water (1.0) and wort (higher than 1.0). Mathmatically it doesn't seem to equate.
I know it's confusing to me, that's why I asked if you thought it was an issue.
A couple other random thoughts. Look at the paper core of the hydromter, does it look solidly in place? The core sometimes slips out of alignment.
Also check it for any cracks or anything, that might be changing the boyancy?
How well did you mix your wort with the top off water (if you topped off)? It is possible that when you added water, it didn't mix well and you have water on the top of the wort. This doesn't explain why you are reading below 1.000, but it could explain some of the error.
Have you by any chance tested your hydrometer in clear water? The two possibilities I can see (because both have happened to me...) are your hydrometer is out of tolerance or you are reading the wrong scale (not poking fun, it's EASY to get confused on some hydrometer scales). I always have at least two hydrometers on hand at all times for two reasons - 1. sanity check in case I'm getting readings I didn't expect from one and 2. they are way easy to break (usually right in the middle of a brew day lol). Sure that doesn't help you now, but maybe something to consider next time your making an order or at your LHBS.
It could be that you are reading the hydrometer incorrectly:
1) are you reading the correct side
2) go out three digits past the decimel. Because you are only giving us one digit past the decimel, I wonder if you are confusing what less than 1.0 is. What is your actual reading (to three digits)? If it is 0.999 then that is less than 1.0 and you have a problem. If it is 1.042 or something like that, then it is not less than 1.0 and you are fine.
If it's reading 1.0(00) in water, you're right, it can't be reading < 1.0(00) in wort. I guess it could if you're measuring 200° wort right out of the boil, maybe, but at any reasonable room temperature, it's going to be within a few points of the correct reading.
I suggest taking a picture of the hydrometer and posting that here. I think Pappers suggestion of misreading the hydrometer is the most likely. It's not quite as simple as it looks if you haven't done it before, plenty of people use them incorrectly.
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Binjara Traders re-opened Friday, Dec. 4, at 362C John Ringling Blvd., on St. Armands Circle, three weeks after smoke damage from a Nov. 13 fire damaged its entire inventory.
The new location is across the street from the women's clothing and jewelry store's old spot at 327 John Ringling Blvd.
According to owner Cleon Dixon, who was in Australia when the fire occurred, the fire began in Binjara Traders' upstairs storeroom. The cause of the fire is unknown. Dixon plans to move back to the old location after the building is rewired.
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Who is the rule 63 Black Widow?
Today is International Women's Day, aka Working Women's Day, a holiday with socialist roots that was officially adopted in the Soviet Union following the October Revolution. So, internet. Let's talk gender.
Once upon a time ComicsAlliance commissioned a mock-up of the Avengers movie poster line-up. All the dudevengers were replaced with a female counterpart— She-Hulk, Thor Girl, American Dream. Black Widow got, uh, Dead Husband.
I wasn't lying!
The comments section brags about its vast collection of Dead Husband™ merchandise and, in the grand tradition of comicfan pedantry, lists some possible alternatives. Like Red Guardian, Natasha's real actual occasionally dead husband, or Winter Soldier, Ed Brubaker's one-man world tour attempt at making Bucky Barnes relevant. But I'm gonna call it, the picture is right. There is no male counterpart. Here's why.
It's a True Thing about hero comics: most of the popular girls live in the wardrobes of popular guys. Supergirl, Batwoman, X-23, She-Hulk, Spider-woman, &c &c. These aren't just ladyheroes inhabiting a male character's legacy, these are some of the most iconic ladyheroes we've got. Consider last few stabs at a female led ongoing Marvel has thrown at us, going back to their Year of Women: Red She-Hulk, Sif (via Journey Into Mystery), Captain Marvel, Ghost Rider, X-23, She-Hulks, Spider-girl, Black Widow. That's 6/8 for the guy spin-off category, and that's me being generous and not counting Sif. Marvel's got plenty of non-legacy women, especially when we head into mutant territory, but when it comes to bankable solo leads, you go to distaff island.
It makes sense. It's easier to create a working hero story if you're not starting from scratch, if you have some themes to explore and villains and settings all built in. And it's not like guys don't take advantage of distaff island. Red Hulk, Genis-Vell, Danny Ketch, Daken, Venom, just to line up with that list I gave you earlier. In a marketplace where consumption is driven by brand loyalty, you stick with the familiar.
I confess a grudge against the knee-jerk that "legacy hero" means "less than". Because we need legacies, we need characters like Spider-girl and Batwoman, and new lady Black Panthers. And it's not just that sticking a bat on a title will make it sell thousands more copies. It's because a character like Miles Morales says to little brown kids that hey, you can be Spider-man too. Kate Kane's existence says, look, Gotham has room for lesbian asskickers. These symbols, these iconic cultural symbols, they really are universal things, not just stuff for specific white dudes to aspire to. Legacy characters, spin-offs, they deepen the shared universe.
But I believe strongly that we need female characters whose origins aren't inexorably linked to more prominent male characters. We need women who fight under their own banners, under their own symbols, and they need to be treated like big names, and comics should tell us, over and over, how important they are.
There are a number of lady legacies in the grand corporate narratives, and they tend to be lady legacies of the no boys allowed stripe. Some of them have mythic logic to follow— the Amazons, the Valkyries. Some of them, like Black Canary, seem more supposed on the fact that men don't wear fishnets. The struggle for a real unisex but female-originated legacy is a complicated one. Because, on the one hand, there is this disturbing sense we get from posters like the one above: that it's all good and acceptable to have women adopt symbols and costuming that men had first, but the vice versa is a vast Siberia of featureless Dead Husbands. But to the contrary I still wince whenever I see Carol Danvers's recent namechange referred to as a promotion. I think it's a smart move brandwise and a logical in-character direction, but if going from feminine-signified to unisexy is felt as a step up, well, we gotta examine that feeling. (Especially when no one's suggesting Spider-man be "promoted" to Major Spider.)
The solution, as ever, is more female characters with more varied sorts of origins and powersets and backgrounds, more visible and more important and made to sell more comics. But easier blogged about than done.
Natasha, though, belongs squarely to the no boys allowed school of legacy codenaming. She wasn't introduced as a collective— the Red Room was a relatively late c. 1999 addition to her mythology, and I think that gets lost for the worse when that's the only aspect of her background comics want to talk about. Her origins and essential themes aren't there, they go back further. But when it's used well the Red Room is a powerful storytelling backdrop that adds color and depth to Natasha's world without taking much away.
It was introduced as something besides a child-solider factory, fyi, just your typical super ninja spy training ground that comes with the comic book territory. What also comes with the territory is the idea that Black Widow operatives are replaceable, a product of good manufacturing. Tools to be used.
General: Was there something more?
Lubyev: She truly loved colenel Starkovsky, General. If she ever learns that this was all an exercize, that we were responsible for his death, she could go rogue. You'll have to kill her.
General: If it comes to that, Captain. We can always make another Black Widow…
They were also always female. And no matter how the Red Room shifted, from different eras of Soviet bureaucracy or just wildly inconsistant comic book writing, every Red Room trainee was female. This makes some historic sense, in that early women's combat units like the Nachthexen were segregated. But Ed Brubaker, in probably the thing I like best about his Natasha-retcons, took this a step further:
The Wolf Spider experiment. I hadn't thought of it in decades. The male trials f the Black Widow procedure. It never produced an operative Department X's Red Room was satisfied with.
So, they tried, with the dudes. But it didn't work, the mysterious chemical treatment just drove them unaging but insane. (Sidenote: this explains Ivan really nicely.)
Of course, there were never going to be any Russian Man Spider operatives before Brubaker came along and put it down in panels. He was just finding a way for the storyline to match up with the symbols. If the fungible Soviet leaders who oversaw the Black Widow program were, deep down, snivelling 1950s sexists afraid of giving laides guns, then it doesn't make much sense for them to have a special "give ladies guns" initiative. But they were, and they did. And they called her Black Widow.
Because reality check, that is not a codename you call a guy. The latrodectus widow spiders are famous because they are poisonous and because, oh yeah, the lady spider eats the male after they're done mating. We have a whole femme fatale trope that mixes danger and power and sexy, because women who operate outside the boundaries of appropriate conduct inevitably spell doom for the men they encounter. It's a trope about women, but it can be very dude framed, dude oriented. The 588th Night Bomber Regiment didn't come up with the name Night Witches; that was the Germans they fought.
But this is what Black Widow is really about: taking a lot of these tropes and suppositions and hewing them into a sort of heroic origin. And that turns the whole story on its head— it remakes the codename someone else gives you into a knife you wield for yourself. But the power there comes from these pre-existing gender tropes, from subverted expectations. It's why the men grouped around her at the beginning of the Avengers film can know her reputation and still believe they've got her cornered, and why some people can watch that whole movie and still come away with the idea that she's useless.
That's why her "male counterpart" is Niko Constantin, doomed to an existence of asterisk, or dead husband, bland and nameless and dead. And it's why, though I want so many other things for women and comics, I'm glad there is a Black Widow.
Natasha: So what did Imus promise you? What got your panties so wet you had to facilitate an assault on both my life and freedom?
Government Goon: Watch your mouth. You're nothing but a criminal. A spy.
Natasha: I'm the Black Widow. I could eat you for lunch. Maybe not in one sitting, though. I have my limits.
Image by Chris Haley, panels from Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #3, Captain America #617, and Black Widow #5.


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HEARTBEAT OF THE REVOLUTION: As the hometown of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, Lebanon played an important part in the War for Independence. Gov. Trumbull, a merchant , hosted many strategy meetings in his store, later called the War Office. Those attending included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, the Marquis de Lafayette and Comte de Rochambeau.
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The board announced over the weekend that it has found probable cause to investigate Ackley's complaint.
Board Chairman K. Robert Lewis said in a press release that the board had voted 6-1 to find that probable cause exists that Buscetto violated the city's Code of Ethics.
Ackley filed a formal complaint against Buscetto following closed-door meetings of the City Council in which her retirement contract was discussed. She asked at the time that Buscetto recuse himself from the closed discussion because she alleged that Buscetto had interfered with her management of the police department.
Ackley also has said she may sue the city over Buscetto's conduct. In a letter to the Board of Ethics, Buscetto maintained that Ackley gave no explanation for why he should recuse himself and that he had no financial or personal interest in the matter.
The hearing will be conducted much like a court case, according to Lewis. Both sides will be able to present witnesses.
"I fully expected this. I actually requested that everything be made public," Buscetto said Sunday. "Now I will have the opportunity for the first time for people to hear my side of the story."
In his letter to the Board of Ethics, Buscetto also argued that he had the right to defend the allegations against him. He also said he did not have the opportunity to vote on Ackley's retirement contract.
Ackley signed a retirement agreement in April with the city manager and said Buscetto was causing her "ongoing distress" by meddling in police affairs. In a letter to the city attorney, Thomas Londregan, Ackley's lawyer, Shelley Graves, said her client had a basis for a lawsuit based on gender discrimination and harassment.
Ackley did not respond Sunday to an email request for comment. According to a news release from the board Saturday, Ackley and Buscetto had 14 days to reach a settlement on the matter but failed to do so by the Thursday deadline. A hearing must now be scheduled within the next 90 days.
When it meets tonight at 7 at the New London Public Library, the board is scheduled to discuss the hearing procedure and choose a date and location.
"Everything is transparent and the hearings will be public," Lewis said. "It's our desire to have them in the Council chambers so that it can be taped and televised. If people have an interest, they should be able to see what's going on."
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My training commenced again on Monday. My last year of University will begin in around 2 weeks, at which time I will be incredibly busy as I will continue with the gym, along with my website development at the same time. For this reason I may just post my workouts in future instead of a full breakdown of foods eaten etc. I will post my diet plan/calorie goals etc.
I will continue my old routine until the gains stop coming rapidly, at which time I may change to a different form of training (most likely HST, or some variation).
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About last night…
So a lot of folks were disturbed by my post last night about the pilot using my laptop and wi-fi card to find a new route. I would have explained last night, but we didn't get to Dallas until after 1am and I went right to sleep.
There were two or three different lines of storms in the west and south that were effecting all Newark outbound air traffic. There is no mechanism on a 737-500 to look at weather. The radar they have only works in flight, and even then it can't show what's happening outside of about 50 miles. We were 50th—yes 50th—on line for takeoff and the captain said that at that point air traffic control really does not care anymore. Their number one priority is international flights, then they get to domestic. So he wanted to see if he could figure out a new route around the storms that he could propose to air traffic control. Neat.
So they used my laptop to go to this site: http://www.intellicast.com. The best part was that neither of them knew how to drive a Mac, let alone Safari, so I surfed for them. It was cool to listen to them talk about different flight plans. This went on for a few minutes and then they got on with air traffic control and someone found a new route. I'm not sure if it was us or air traffic control, but I'd like to think it was us.
I was really hoping for a pair of wings or an honorary junior captain's badge or something but all I got was an extra cookie from the flight attendant. That was pretty cool.
Oh, one more thing. I'll never be able to help when the "is there a doctor on board" announcement comes over the PA system. But when the "is there someone with wi-fi who knows how to use the internet on board" announcement is made, I'm there.
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From Paula's Best Dishes Episode: Hog Heaven
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Servings: 4
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 10 min
Difficulty: Easy
1/4 cup finely chopped salted fatback
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup finely chopped Vidalia onion
1 cup grated white corn, with all pulp scraped from the cob
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon sugar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Lemon juice
Place the cold fatback into a saute pan and begin to heat over medium-low heat. Allow the fat to melt and render as slowly as possible to insure that the pieces are completely rendered but remain very light golden brown. Add the butter to the pan, then the onions and allow the onions to sweat until very soft. Mix together the corn with the heavy cream and sugar, and add to the pan of fat and onions. Increase the heat to high and stir vigorously to emulsify the mixture. Once the mixture has reached a boil, turn off the heat and continue to stir for 30 seconds. Season with salt, black pepper and lemon juice. Serve immediately.
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Creating more inclusive environments for people who experience autism
The audience is seated, waiting for the screening of the latest blockbuster to begin. It is the cinema experience we all know and enjoy, but if you look closely you will notice there are some subtle differences. For instance, the sound has been turned down and the lights left up at a low level. The trailers have been removed also, to reduce anxiety, and people have been allowed to bring in their own foods to help them cater for their special diets. Filmgoers have also been told they can feel free to make a noise and walk or run around the cinema as nobody is going to complain and spoil their fun.
Since August last year, autism-friendly film screenings have been held across the country in an effort to create more inclusive environments for people who experience autism.
The partnership between the not-for-profit Dimensions, an organisation which supports people with autism and learning disabilities in England and Wales, and ODEON cinemas was the first of its kind in the UK and started as a one-off. But when over 3,000 people attended the first screening in more than 40 ODEON cinemas it was decided to roll the screenings out to more cinemas across the UK on a monthly basis.
Since then, more than 22,000 cinema tickets have been sold. Director of practice development at Dimensions, Lisa Hopkins, says they have been "completely floored" by the positive reaction from the autism community and says the demand for the service demonstrates there was a real need to improve access to the cinema for people with autism and learning disabilities.
"At one of the screenings I went to I met a dad who brought his two sons to the cinema – he has autism but his two sons don't. It was the first time in his life he had ever been able to go to the cinema with his children because he was so overwhelmed by the noise and the darkness previously. His two sons were so proud of being able to go to the movies with their dad."
The screenings can be a stepping stone to full inclusion and Hopkins says that in another instance, they even led to an employment opportunity.
"We've now got one person with autism in Telford near Birmingham who has been able to get a job with the ODEON cinema as a result of going to the autism-friendly films, becoming more comfortable with the cinema environment and now they have employed him. So there are some great outcomes that are coming out of people being just included in society."
Last November the Scottish Government and COSLA set out their vision for supporting people with autism in Scotland in their joint Scottish Autism strategy, which was backed by £13.4m of resources to help deliver improvements. The strategy runs until 2015 and while it is early days, Robert Moffat, national director of the National Autistic Society, says he is pleased with progress so far, adding that the strategy has also been largely welcomed by people with autism and their families as it has raised awareness of the "hidden condition".
"For individuals there are no outward signs so people can't immediately see or know that people have autism. Linked to that is the whole nature of families struggling away on their own thinking that they are the only family in their locality that is dealing with this problem. So, they warmly welcome that autism has been recognised by the Scottish Government."
The commitment of resources, as well as expertise, to address the problems people face is also welcome, he says. Last month the Scottish Government announced that £1.12m is being made available to local authorities to develop strategies and action plans, while around 30 organisations from across Scotland will receive funding through the Autism Development Fund of £644,000 to develop new support services for people with autism and their families.
Announcing the funding, Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said the funding will have "a real impact" on delivering the strategy.
"Our autism strategy was launched in November to ensure people with autism and their families are supported by the widest possible range of services including social care, education, housing and employment," Matheson said.
"We are beginning to make a real difference to the lives of people with autism by improving support services available to people who need them. One year on, we are making good progress."
Moffat agrees but says the challenge will be to translate the national strategy down to this local level.
"That is where it will really make a difference to families' lives. But I think the fact that it is a partnership between [the] Scottish Government and COSLA is a step towards doing that. The recognition that government seems to recognise that a national strategy is a starting point but it actually has to make a difference at a local level. So I think that is what we should be aiming for, to translate the strategy down to a local level across all 32 local authorities."
Another important strand of the strategy's work is a project to map autism services across Scotland. Moffat says there is a postcode lottery of services across Scotland and so the mapping exercise is a necessary development.
"This exercise is much needed as it will map out what is there but more importantly, where the gaps are. We are very much hoping the Scottish Government will then take that final piece of research and use that to address the gaps and achieve consistency in service."
Alan Somerville, chief executive, Scottish Autism, has also been impressed with the "mature" approach of the Scottish strategy and says there are now some really important projects under way that will grow our understanding of autism spectrum disorder, build on our knowledge base and accumulate evidence for good practice in Scotland. In particular, he highlights a study on microsegmentation that is being led by Professor Tommy MacKay of Strathclyde University and Professor Martin Knapp of the LSE.
"The idea of microsegmentation goes against the grain of social services where people don't like to discriminate between different types of the condition because it is a spectrum. But the spectrum goes from people who need 24/7 care to people like Gary McKinnon," Somerville explains.
"So that is a vast range of abilities and obviously not all of those individuals need the same sort of package."
Somerville hopes the research will help establish the escapable costs of autism through early and appropriate interventions.
"For the first time the minister will have at his disposal a menu of costed interventions and will be able to understand what kind of return, talking in purely financial terms, the Government will get for an investment in a particular area."
And yet, while Scotland is actively trying to improve its understanding of autism, Somerville says some parts of Europe still don't recognise that it exists.
"Europe is enormous and there is an enormous range of people but in practice, some people don't recognise autism exists. Some of the eastern European countries are back in the Middle Ages in their attitudes to disability and the French treat it as something which you can basically control rather than support."
However, while he says the fuse burns slowly in Europe, he believes they are open to big ideas.
Somerville is keen to export the success of the Scottish strategy, as well as those from around the UK, and as such the Celtic Nations Autism Partnership will be hosting a reception at the European Parliament in Brussels on 6 November about the potential for an autism strategy for Europe.
"There is a vast range of things that are going on and there is genuine interest that there are these four tiny wee countries on the edge of Europe who are in agreement, broadly, about the way to do it," he says.
While this longer-term strategic thinking and planning is undoubtedly important, back at home, Hopkins says the key message for them is that little changes can also make a big difference.
Demand for the autism-friendly screenings has been so high that in addition to the partnership with ODEON, Dimensions will soon launch another monthly initiative with Cineworld, which will double the opportunities for people to attend screenings and Hopkins says it is their aim that people will have the chance to go to an autism-friendly screening every weekend.
However, she adds that the overwhelming response to the cinema initiative indicates that there are a lot of people who are struggling to access everyday public spaces. Hopkins says they conducted a poll to determine if there are other public spaces people would like to see made more autism friendly. Restaurants and supermarkets were the most identified places so Hopkins says they are now working with national chains in both areas to try and address some of the barriers.
"One is queuing up as queuing up can be really tough for people with autism and it can cause a lot of anxiety to have to wait," she explains.
"We also need a wider range of caffeine and gluten-free food in supermarkets. People say that when they go to the toilet they don't want to have the loud hand dryers, that auditory noise can cause sensitivity for people. Turning off the music in supermarkets could be useful so when you go in it is a little bit quieter. Providing a map in advance of where foods are located in a supermarket so that it can be predictable for people as to which aisle they need to go down before they get there so they can plan a route, that predictability is really, really important.
"So it is a few changes like that that people are asking for and we are hopeful that we can make that happen."
Making such small accommodations can open up a whole new world for people with autism and their families by enabling them to share in everyday experiences.
"That is really the message that we are trying to get out there: people with autism can be included in society to the full extent as everybody else," she says.
"They just need a few little changes to be made and then we can celebrate autism because we will see the gift that people with autism have to offer society."


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TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Most cases of bloodstream
infections (sepsis) among newborns in the United States are caused
by group B streptococci (GBS) and E. coli, a new study finds.
Sepsis, also known as blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria
invade the bloodstream and cause a system-wide infection. It can
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Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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pregnancy for GBS and antibiotics for those who are colonized, the
researchers noted that many health providers fail to do such
screening, even for some at-risk women.
This nationwide study of nearly 400,000 newborns found that the
overall rate of sepsis was 0.98 per 1,000 live births, with 0.41
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GBS is the most common cause of sepsis in full-term newborns and
E. coli is the most common cause in pre-term newborns.
"Infections occur in almost one case per thousand live births," lead investigator Dr. Barbara Stoll, professor and chair of the department of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, said in a university news release.
"With approximately 4 million births a year in the United States, this equates to a substantial burden of disease. We estimate that approximately 3,000 infants a year develop early-onset sepsis. With current mortality rates, approximately 300 to 350 deaths per year are associated with neonatal sepsis."
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than 72 hours old.
"Our findings suggest that accurate point-of-care diagnostic tests at the time a woman comes in for delivery would enhance our ability to identify at-risk women," said Stoll, who also recommended increasing the use of electronic medical records.
"A community health record that links the medical record in a physician's office with the hospital where the woman gets care could enhance identification and therapy for at-risk women," she said. "If a woman has been screened for GBS and is known to be colonized, that information should be available to the health care team taking care of her at the time she is in labor."
The study was published online April 25 and appears in the May
print issue of the journal
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In May, I noted the thirtieth anniversary of Moonraker, which debuted in 1979. Ten years later, in the summer of '89, I was back in the theater for Licence To Kill, which marked the end of one Bond era while foreshadowing another.
Right up front, I want to make clear that I've always considered Timothy Dalton one of the best James Bonds. To my mind, he was perfectly cast, with the right looks, physicality and the dramatic weight the character deserved. I also feel that Dalton, arguably, came the closest to Ian Fleming's literary conception of the character. I would have been thrilled if he'd headlined a full half-dozen 007 epics.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way, and through no fault of his performance, both of the series entries he starred in were deeply flawed. The Living Daylights began as a Roger Moore (or Pierce Brosnan) vehicle and had to be hastily re-tailored to better suit Dalton's interpretation of the role. It also suffered from a ham-fisted "safe sex" approach to the character and a very uninspired villain, leading to an unsatisfying climax.
Licence To Kill was tailored to Dalton's style, however, with a grim 'n gritty 007 the likes of which we wouldn't see again until 2006. The script posited a very atypical mission for Her Majesty's Secret Servant, a mission born out of loyalty and personal loss. I frequently see LTK dismissed as a "typical revenge film," but there's more to it than that. Not only is Bond seeking vengeance for the maiming of his friend and the murder of his friend's wife, but it's strongly suggested that he's trying to make up for not having brought his own wife's killers to justice years before.
BTW – I'm going to assume here that everyone reading this blog has seen and is familiar with the plot of the movie. I don't have the energy to write a detailed synopsis. And this isn't a review, anyway; it's just my personal thoughts and musings on this polarizing film.
Bond goes rogue – and the scene at Hemingway House in Key West where he resigns to a startled M is one of my favorite scenes in the canon (though the "Farewell to Arms" gag doesn't work on the pan & scan TV and VHS versions of the movie, since the sign identifying the historical residence is cropped out and never seen). When the MI6 sniper actually opened fire on the fleeing ex-007, I actually let out with a "holy shit!" in the theater.
Pursuing his own vendetta against Central American druglord Sanchez, Bond keeps screwing up other people's plots (Hong Kong Narcotics agents, the CIA, etc.) against the villain. And I love that. It's so rare to see Bond make mistakes, and even rarer to see him own up to them, which he does in LTK, once he realizes how his actions are messing things up.
Unfortunately, this strong, personal story is undercut by other factors, and that's made the movie quite controversial among Bond fans, many of whom outright hate it.
There were budget and tax problems, so the movie was mostly shot in Mexico and Key West, Florida instead of England and more exotic locations. The story's milieu, with it's Noriega-styled heavy and drug running scheme, resembles a lot of other 80s action flicks, mostly of the "B-movie" variety. And, for some reason, Eon chose to cast this film out of Los Angeles, filling the cast with too-familiar American character actors. Robert Davi, Don Stroud, Anthony Zerbe, Priscilla Barnes, Wayne Newton(?) – these people are good performers, but to American audiences, they were too familiar, mostly from TV. We tend to expect fresh new faces (usually of the European variety) in our Bond films.
Oh, and that "happy Felix" tag at the end. WTF?
Still, LTK is one of my favorite Bond movies. Not since On Her Majesty's Secret Service had the mission involved any personal stake for Bond (an element, you'll note, they tried to force into most of Brosnan's subsequent outings). Bond demonstrates his skills and detective ability rather than having M and Moneypenny lay everything out for him. He uses virtually no gadgets (not even the "signature gun" – he's attacked before he can actually fire it). He's smart, using his brains – and charm – to insinuate himself into Sanchez' good graces. It really is a great exploration of the James Bond character, and Dalton plays it masterfully.
When LTK was released twenty years ago this month, it opened against Ghostbusters 2, Lethal Weapon 2, Star Trek 5, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade... and Batman. With its overly-familiar trappings and horrible promotional campaign, it never had a chance. And then, the producers got tied up in legal proceedings that led to seven years without another 007 movie... and Dalton, understandably, declined to return with the series in the 90s, opening the door for Brosnan to finally claim the role.
When I saw Licence To Kill in '89, I loved it. From the pre-credits sequence to Maurice Binder's (final) titles – to the last frame of the film, I loved it. I was pleased to see elements of the Live & Let Die novel and a couple of Fleming's short stories woven into the plot, I enjoyed seeing David Hedison return as Felix Lieter, but most of all, I loved seeing James Bond off the reservation, kicking ass and taking names. ... and all with style, class and intelligence, and never descending to the level of a thug.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Spy-Fi Flashback: LICENCE TO KILL
3 comments:
- Keith said...
I'm a huge fan of Timothy Dalton as 007. I think he captured so much of what Bond is in the Fleming novels. It's a shame he only did two films.
- July 19, 2009 at 7:18 PM
'Licence To Kill' did the 'Bond goes rogue' idea better than 'Quantum Of Solace'. Had it been released in Winter 1989, it would have been a hit.
- July 20, 2009 at 6:29 AM
Holy Crap!
More actual human beings!
I've got a friend who agrees with me on this very thing; he's the one who sent me to your page.
Thank you!
You are completely correct.
- July 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM
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