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Book Review: We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole

Author: Fintan O’Toole Title: We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Narrator: Aidan Kelly Publication Info: Highbridge Audio, March 15, 2022 Summary/Review: Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole takes the Billy Joel approach to the history of his nation by starting with the year of his birth.  In 1958, when O’Toole was born, the republic was lead by conservative veterans of the…

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Museum-Worthy from AICP on Vimeo.

It's Hard to make museum-worthy art. It's harder to make museum-worthy ads. Enter the 2024 #AICPAwards by 11:59pm PDT on Tuesday, March 12th. Winning work will join the film archive at MoMA.

AICP Awards Entry Site: aicpawards.awardcore.com Production Co: O Positive Executive Producers: Ralph Laucella & Marc Grill Producer: Grayson Bithell Director: Brian Billow Director of Photography: Bob Yeoman

Head of Production: Devon Clark Executive Producer: Ken Licata Production Supervisors: Deryck Highbridge, Ivan Zigas Production Coodinator: Nicolas Laucella 1st AD: Paul Norman 2nd AD: Don Johnson Creative Concepts & Consulting: BBDO ECD, Writer: Marcelo Nogueira ECD, Writer: Peter Kain SCD, Writer: Dan Oliva SCD, Writer: Scott Mahoney CCO of the Americas: Chris Beresford-Hill

Editorial: Cutters Managing Director: Craig Duncan Executive Producer: Heather Richardson Producer: Brittany Maddock Editors: John Dingfield & Aaron Kiser Editorial Assistant: Benjamin Porter Color: Company 3 Head of Production: Blake Rice Producer: Nick Krasnic Colorist: Jenny Montgomery Finish: Flavor Managing Director: Neal Cohen Executive Producer: Kate Smith Producer: Brittany Maddock Finish: Ryan Esboldt & Rob Churchill Audio/Mix: Another Country Managing Director: Tim Konn Executive Producer: Louise Rider Producer: Josh Hunnicutt Sound Designer/Mixer: Logan Vines Audio Assistant: Nora Strickstein

Additional Production Credits Camera B Cam Op: Eric Laudadio 1st AC – A Cam: Riley Keeton 1st AC – B Cam: Kyle Petitjean 2nd AC: William Hayes DIT: Matt Love Lighting Chief Lighting Tech: Jeremy Launais ACLT: Adrienne Subia SLT: Anthony Peluso SLT: Hootly Weedn Grip Key Grip: Robert Arroyo BB Grip: Chad Pearce Grip: Colby Dunford Grip: Keith Markham Art Department Production Designer: Maia Javan Art Dept Coordinator: Quentin Burchill Set Decorator: Lulu Stewart Prop Master: Matt Huish Leadman: Chad Axman Set Dresser: Roger Shay Barnickle Set Dresser: Donald Ghio Set Dresser: James Axle Set Dresser: Collin Pulsipher Set Dresser: Ryan Wallace Script / Sound / VTR Script Supervisor: Kristen Calabrese Sound Mixer: Joe Hettinger Boom Operator: Lucien Eagle-Jack VTR: Tom Myrick Make Up / Wardrobe Key Make Up: Linda Barcojo 1st Make Up: Jennifer Gerber 2nd Make Up: Theresa Broadnax 3rd Make Up: Anna Novikova Key Costumer: Laura Eckert 1st Asst Costumer: Craig Ryan 2nd Asst Costumer: Jed Carter Location / Transportation Location Manager: David Nakata Gang Boss: Craig Ash Electric Driver: Daniel (DJ) Hausfeld Grip Driver: Gary Cheek Art 5 Ton Driver: Darren Giarrusso Chef Driver: Jesus de los Santos Production Support Craft Service: Danny Tilbury Craft Service: Jayna Mims Medic: Axel Montoya On Set Layout: James Galeana Site Rep: Christina Rusboldt Compliance Coord.: Marques Jackson Production Assistants PA – P: Steve Rea PA – W: Danny Kellermeyer PA – C: Oscar Reyna PAs: Honour Norman, Jackson Shane, Steven McAnnally, Caris Yeoman, Colby LeMaster, Ryan Llanes, Riley Aronson

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Museum-Worthy from AICP on Vimeo.

It's Hard to make museum-worthy art. It's harder to make museum-worthy ads. Enter the 2024 #AICPAwards by 11:59pm PDT on Tuesday, March 12th. Winning work will join the film archive at MoMA.

AICP Awards Entry Site: aicpawards.awardcore.com Production Co: O Positive Executive Producers: Ralph Laucella & Marc Grill Producer: Grayson Bithell Director: Brian Billow Director of Photography: Bob Yeoman

Head of Production: Devon Clark Executive Producer: Ken Licata Production Supervisors: Deryck Highbridge, Ivan Zigas Production Coodinator: Nicolas Laucella 1st AD: Paul Norman 2nd AD: Don Johnson Creative Concepts & Consulting: BBDO ECD, Writer: Marcelo Nogueira ECD, Writer: Peter Kain SCD, Writer: Dan Oliva SCD, Writer: Scott Mahoney CCO of the Americas: Chris Beresford-Hill

Editorial: Cutters Managing Director: Craig Duncan Executive Producer: Heather Richardson Producer: Brittany Maddock Editors: John Dingfield & Aaron Kiser Editorial Assistant: Benjamin Porter Color: Company 3 Head of Production: Blake Rice Producer: Nick Krasnic Colorist: Jenny Montgomery Finish: Flavor Managing Director: Neal Cohen Executive Producer: Kate Smith Producer: Brittany Maddock Finish: Ryan Esboldt & Rob Churchill Audio/Mix: Another Country Managing Director: Tim Konn Executive Producer: Louise Rider Producer: Josh Hunnicutt Sound Designer/Mixer: Logan Vines Audio Assistant: Nora Strickstein

Additional Production Credits Camera B Cam Op: Eric Laudadio 1st AC – A Cam: Riley Keeton 1st AC – B Cam: Kyle Petitjean 2nd AC: William Hayes DIT: Matt Love Lighting Chief Lighting Tech: Jeremy Launais ACLT: Adrienne Subia SLT: Anthony Peluso SLT: Hootly Weedn Grip Key Grip: Robert Arroyo BB Grip: Chad Pearce Grip: Colby Dunford Grip: Keith Markham Art Department Production Designer: Maia Javan Art Dept Coordinator: Quentin Burchill Set Decorator: Lulu Stewart Prop Master: Matt Huish Leadman: Chad Axman Set Dresser: Roger Shay Barnickle Set Dresser: Donald Ghio Set Dresser: James Axle Set Dresser: Collin Pulsipher Set Dresser: Ryan Wallace Script / Sound / VTR Script Supervisor: Kristen Calabrese Sound Mixer: Joe Hettinger Boom Operator: Lucien Eagle-Jack VTR: Tom Myrick Make Up / Wardrobe Key Make Up: Linda Barcojo 1st Make Up: Jennifer Gerber 2nd Make Up: Theresa Broadnax 3rd Make Up: Anna Novikova Key Costumer: Laura Eckert 1st Asst Costumer: Craig Ryan 2nd Asst Costumer: Jed Carter Location / Transportation Location Manager: David Nakata Gang Boss: Craig Ash Electric Driver: Daniel (DJ) Hausfeld Grip Driver: Gary Cheek Art 5 Ton Driver: Darren Giarrusso Chef Driver: Jesus de los Santos Production Support Craft Service: Danny Tilbury Craft Service: Jayna Mims Medic: Axel Montoya On Set Layout: James Galeana Site Rep: Christina Rusboldt Compliance Coord.: Marques Jackson Production Assistants PA – P: Steve Rea PA – W: Danny Kellermeyer PA – C: Oscar Reyna PAs: Honour Norman, Jackson Shane, Steven McAnnally, Caris Yeoman, Colby LeMaster, Ryan Llanes, Riley Aronson

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[Free Audiobook] Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold & The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck [Award-Winning YA Contemporary Fairy Tale Fantasy & Horror Retelling]

The annual SYNC Summer of Listening program encouraging literacy among teens by giving away a themed weekly pair of audiobooks—usually 1 modern or non-fiction, 1 classic or drama—returns for another year, courtesy of sponsor AudioFile Magazine and participating publishers.

This 12th week's theme is “Transformative Legends, Legends Transformed”, featuring contemporary reworkings of fantastic old tales about character change, available from Thursday July 13th through Wednesday July 19th:

Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold, read by January LaVoy from HarperAudio. This is a YA contemporary dark fantasy/horror/social drama retelling of “The Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale, set in the Pacific Northwest, as a teenaged girl deals with the fallout from fending off an attack by a wolf in the woods, when a predatory high school classmate is found with the same wounds after. The audiobook reading of this won AudioFile Magazine's own Earphones Award.

The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck, read by Piper Goodeve, from Highbridge Audio. This is a YA urban fantasy novel inspired by Washington Irving's spooky classic “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” as well as other tales, centred around a once-mortal boy conscripted centures ago as a “lantern” watching over the crossroads between realms, and a young witch drawn into the dangerous Otherworld, and the ensuing obligatory quest to avert a terrible fate.

The freebies are available via Overdrive's Sora service (listenable via browser on their website, or via their mobile app for iOS & Android devices). To claim them, you'll need to register on the SYNC website with a valid email address to use in a Sora account, using the setup code and directions in the instructions in SYNC's FAQ (no need to re-register if you've participated in previous years' giveaways), clicking “Borrow” to add them to your Sora library as a permanent loan. NB: if you need to free up space on your device later, follow the instructions in the FAQ to only “delete files” and DO NOT “Return” the title, which would remove your future access.

Offered worldwide through Wednesday July 19th until just before midnight Eastern Time, available via the Sora website and app. You can also browse AudioFile Magazine's planned season list to see what will be offered in the weeks ahead and if there's anything you'd especially like to get.

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Ready for a bedtime story?✨📖

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Thank you to @librofm @highbridgeaudio and Andrew Krivak for those ALC of The Bear. This book is poetically beautiful and reminiscent of a folktale or story passed down to the next generation in front of a campfire.

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Synopsis from the publisher: In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen.

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This was an amazing story about love, loss, grief, and the perseverance to survive. This story had a lovely sense of magical realism where you aren’t sure if there really is an other worldly power at play, or it might just be the way the girl copes with loss and life after it. This was a short audiobook with beautiful narration. The perfect book to spend and afternoon or evening with.

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Do you enjoy books that you can read entirely in one sitting?

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Review | The Bear by Andrew Krivak

The Bear by Andrew Krivak is one of those books that is beautiful in its simplicity. Take a look at my review to see if it is the perfect book for you. #BookReview #BookBlogger

Title: The Bear Author: Andrew Krivak Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Genre: Science Fiction / Dystopian Publisher: HighBridge Audio Publication: 2/11/2020 Read: February 2020 Format: Audio Length: 4 Hours Rating: 4 Caffeinated Stars Trigger Warnings: Death, Hunting, Survival

Rating: 4 Caffeinated Stars Goodreads Summary:

Cover from Goodreads.com

In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live…

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A long time ago, on a radio far, far away...

May the Fourth Be With You!

It's one of the biggest Star Wars days in recent memory, with the success of The Mandalorian and the promise of even more stories from the galaxy on Disney Plus. When this date rolls around each year, I fire up my 4Ks (formerly Blu-rays, formerly DVDs, formerly multiple incarnations on VHS) and I revisit the Star Wars Radio Dramas.

Yes. Star Wars on the radio. As a kid who was both discovering the world of old time radio and a rabid Star Wars fan, these shows were like manna from heaven when I first heard them in 1995. I first learned of them in a retrospective article in the glossy quarterly magazine published by the Lucasfilm Fan Club (I was a card carrying member ), and when they appeared in a catalog close to my birthday, it was the only thing I wanted. My parents got me cassette collections of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, and I couldn’t tell you how many times I ran through those combined 23 episodes through middle and high school.

The radio adaptation of Star Wars aired in between the theatrical releases of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Coming to the airwaves at a time when American radio drama was all but extinct, this joint production of NPR and the BBC dramatized the first film in the Star Wars trilogy as a thirteen-part series. Not only did it feature several cast members recreating their roles - Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and Anthony Daniels as C-3PO - but it also featured the classic sounds of the film (Chewbaca’s roar, R2-D2′s blips and beeps, the hum of TIE Fighters streaking through space) and John Williams’ fantastic score.

Science fiction author Brian Daley expanded upon the film script - the plot of the movie proper doesn’t kick in until Episode 3 of the radio series. Episode 1 focuses on Luke Skywalker’s life on Tatooine as he watches the stars and dreams of life beyond the farm. Years before scenes were added in the Star Wars Special Edition, Brian Daley added scenes between Luke and his best friend Biggs Darklighter, an Imperial cadet who confides in Luke that he intends to join the rebellion against the Empire. These early scenes give their reunion later in the story more weight as they take part in the mission to destroy the Death Star.

Episode 2 is all about Princess Leia. It establishes her espionage bona fides before she ever comes into possession of the plans for the Death Star. She uses an Imperial officer’s leering advances to her advantage and gets him to reveal the secrets of the Empire’s ultimate weapon.

It isn’t just Luke and Leia who get additional shading. In another move that preceded the Special Edition, Daley adds a scene with Han Solo and a Tatooine mob boss in the hangar of the Millennium Falcon. It isn’t Jabba the Hutt but it plays almost exactly the same - and frankly, it plays better than the scene with a young Harrison Ford and a crudely rendered Jabba. Daley wrote three Han Solo novels, and he plugged in perfectly to the seedier side of the galaxy far, far away.

It’s scenes like these that give the new actors a chance to put their own spin on the characters, an easier task when they don’t have to say the iconic lines of the film. Ann Sachs does a great job as Leia, and Perry King is charmingly roguish as Han Solo. And in a particularly inspired bit of casting, Brock Peters - miles from Tom Robinson - plays the dastardly Darth Vader.

The Empire Strikes Back followed two years later with the whole cast returning plus Billy Dee Williams recreating his screen role of Lando Calrissian and John Lithgow taking the role of Yoda. He’s terrific - Lithgow doesn’t do a straight impression of Frank Oz, but he captures the character and injects him with additional shading.

There’s less original material here - perhaps a testament to the wonderful screenplay penned by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan? - but Brian Daley adds a nice prologue that finds a Rebel convoy cut to shreds by a TIE Fighter ambush. It helps to set the scene for the darker second act of the trilogy. The ten-part series is wonderful, and while some additional “new” scenes might have been nice to include, you really can’t go wrong with the story presented.

Plans for a Return of the Jedi radio drama fell through and the final chapter wasn’t released until 1996, and even then it was produced by Highbridge Audio and not broadcast on NPR. This may adhere the closest to the film story, save for a nice scene where Luke Skywalker constructs his new lightsaber. Most of the cast is back, but Mark Hamill was sadly absent (though he was enjoying a second career as a voice actor - the farm boy from Tatooine was the Clown Prince of Crime in Batman: The Animated Series). Joshua Fardon does a fine job as Luke, but it would have been a treat to hear Hamill revisit his iconic role thirteen years later. John Lithgow comes back as Yoda, and Ed Asner growls his way through a performance as Jabba the Hutt.

This six-part show suffers a bit in comparison to the first two chapters (as does the movie itself), but it’s still engrossing entertainment with all of the music and magic of Star Wars.

I’ve been revisiting the series and it’s as much fun as it was when I first heard it as a kid. The entire trilogy is available in a great CD collection from Higbridge Audio. If you’re a fan of audio drama and/or a Star Wars fan, or if you are looking for a gateway to introduce someone to radio theater, check these shows out and take a trip to a galaxy far, far away.

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I only knew the broad outline of Malcolm X's life, and a new book explores the people and influences that led him to prison, where he reevaluated his life. Revew--> #Bookthreads #Booksky #BookBlogger #BookReview #MalcolmBeforeX #HighBridgeAudio #MalcolmX #PatrickParr #ALCReview #ARC #NetGalley

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Book Review: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Author: Catherynne M. Valente Title: Space Opera Narrator: Heath Miller Publication Info: Highbridge Audio, 2018 Summary/Review: Aliens arrive on Earth and invite humanity to join other sentient beings in a galaxy-wide Eurovision-style contest.  The Earthlings have to avoid finishing in last place or the aliens will completely eradicate humanity. Representing the Earth are the two surviving…

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history of audiobooks : From Silk to Silicon by Jeffrey E. Garten | History

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Written By: Jeffrey E. Garten Narrated By: Tom Perkins Publisher: HighBridge Company Date: March 2016 Duration: 11 hours 30 minutes

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NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go (The NPR Driveway Moments Series)

NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won’t Let You Go (The NPR Driveway Moments Series)

Price: (as of – Details) Publisher ‏ : ‎ Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (March 1, 2021) Language ‏ : ‎ English Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1665166541 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1665166546 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 5.7 inches

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This 2017 book entitled: “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” by Bruder provides an insightful look at older workers and how they move about the United States to meet Amazon’s peak labor needs. Bruder writes: “THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ITINERANTS, drifters, hobos, restless souls. But now, in the second millennium, a new kind of wandering tribe is emerging. People who never imagined being nomads are hitting the road. They’re giving up traditional houses… and apartments to live in what some call “wheel estate”—vans, secondhand RVs, school buses, pickup campers, travel trailers, and plain old sedans… Some call them “homeless.” The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they’ve adopted a different word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as “houseless… As I write, it is autumn. Soon winter will come. Routine layoffs will start at the seasonal jobs. The nomads will pack up camp and return to their real home—the road—moving like blood cells through the veins of the country. They’ll set out in search of friends and family, or just a place that’s warm.” Bruder writes: “For the first time the Jeep is towing Linda’s home: a tiny, pale yellow trailer she calls “the Squeeze Inn.” (If visitors don’t get the name on first mention, she puts it in a sentence—“ Yeah, there’s room, squeeze in!”)… Linda is making this journey for work. It’s her third summer employed as a campground host: a seasonal gig that’s equal parts janitor, cashier, groundskeeper, security guard, and welcoming committee… she and other… hosts are hired “at will,” according to the company’s written employment policy—meaning they can be fired “at any time, with or without cause or notice”… Those feelings were grounded in hard fact: Wages and housing costs have diverged so dramatically that, for a growing number of Americans, the dream of a middle-class life has gone from difficult to impossible. As I write this, there are only a dozen counties and one metro area in America where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. You’d have to make at least $ 16.35 an hour—more than twice the federal minimum wage—to rent such an apartment without spending more than the recommended 30 percent of income on housing.” Bruder writes: “Management in 2015, gave the company a one-star review on Yelp, claiming she and her husband were often on the job for twelve hours or longer in a given day but weren’t allowed to file for more than eight. “Them doing this to elderly couples that needed the income was wrong and needs to be investigated!” she wrote… In another complaint, a former camp host for California Land Management in the Sequoia National Forest wrote: I received very harsh migrant labor-type treatment . . . I was employed at $ 8.50 an hour for “forty hours” but routinely had to work fifty to sixty hours plus for the same forty-hour pay with no overtime or even straight time.” Bruder writes: “There seemed to be no way off the treadmill of low-wage jobs. By her sixties the question loomed: How would she ever afford to stop working? She had spent most of her life living paycheck to paycheck, with no savings to speak of. Her only… safety net, Social Security, was perilously thin. What would retirement look like on around $ 500 a month?... According to 2015 census figures, among older women living alone, more than one in six are below the poverty line. Nearly twice as many elderly women in America are poor (2.71 million) than their male counterparts (1.49 million). And when it comes to Social Security benefits, female recipients get on average $ 341 a month less than men because of lower total payroll tax contributions, an under-recognized consequence of the gender wage gap. In 2015, women were still making just about 80 cents on the male dollar and more likely to work as unpaid caregivers… to young children and aging parents… On June 1, 2012, Linda May turned sixty-two. The next month, her first Social Security check arrived in the mail. “I shouldn’t have started collecting until I was sixty-five,” she later reflected” Bruder writes: “Empire felt like a town suspended in the 1950s, as if the postwar economy had never ended... On December 2, 2010, that history came to a sudden stop… Empire was shutting down… U.S. Gypsum, valued at $ 4 billion, had taken heavy losses in 2010, hemorrhaging $ 284 million by the end of the third quarter… Demand wasn’t high enough for what Empire made anymore… AT THE SAME TIME Empire was dying, a new and very different kind of company town was thriving seventy miles to the south. In many ways, it felt like the opposite of Empire. Rather than offering middle-class stability, this village was populated by … temporary laborers doing short-term jobs in exchange for low wages. More specifically, its citizens were hundreds of itinerant workers living in RVs, trailers, vans, and even a few tents. Early each fall, they began filling the mobile home parks surrounding Fernley. Linda didn’t know it yet, but she would soon be joining them… Their employer was Amazon.com… Amazon had recruited these workers as part of a program it calls CamperForce: a labor unit made up of nomads who work as seasonal employees at several of its warehouses, which the company calls “fulfillment centers,”… The workers’ shifts last ten hours or longer, during which some walk more than fifteen miles on concrete floors, stooping, squatting, reaching, and climbing stairs as they scan, sort, and box merchandise. When the holiday rush ends, Amazon no longer needs CamperForce and terminates the program’s workers.” Bruder writes: “There’s no clear count of how many people live nomadically in America. Full-time travelers are a demographer’s nightmare. Statistically they blend in with the rest of the population, since the law requires them to maintain fixed—in other words, fake—addresses. No matter how widely they wander, nomads must be officially “domiciled” somewhere… And living nowhere, it turns out, means you can live anywhere you want, at least on paper. So many folks opt for residency in the places with the fewest hassles—Florida, South Dakota, and Texas, which lack state income taxes, are longtime favorites—… The rules for becoming a South Dakotan are especially laid-back. Spend one night at a local motel and register with a South Dakota mail forwarding service. Then show both receipts to the state department of public safety and you’re in… Kampgrounds of America (KOA), a major employer of workampers, hires some 1,500 couples each year for its resorts and franchises across the country … Meanwhile, “living in a van, or ‘vandwelling,’ is now fashionable,” proclaimed The New York Times Magazine in late 2011, adding that 1.2 million homes were predicted to be repossessed that year and noting that van sales were up 24 percent… Jeff Bezos has predicted that, by the year 2020, one out of every four work campers in the United States will have worked for Amazon,” Bruder writes: “The Apperleys used to think they would retire to live aboard a sailboat, funding that dream with equity from their three-bedroom house in Beaverton, Oregon. They’d bought the home for $ 340,000 at the top of the market and put another $ 20,000 into it. Then the housing bubble burst and its value tumbled to $ 260,000. Before the crash, they’d been doing alright. Bob worked as an accountant for a timber products firm—he hated that job, but it paid the bills—while Anita was an interior decorator and part-time caregiver. Neither could imagine spending the rest of their lives servicing a loan worth more than the value of their house. So they bought a 2003 Cardinal fifth-wheel trailer and hit the road. “We just walked away,” Anita said. “We told ourselves, ‘We’re not playing this game anymore.’” Bob blamed the bad guys on Wall Street. He spoke almost defensively about his decision to abandon the house. He rushed to add that he’d always paid the bills on time and kept good credit. His downfall was putting his faith in the gospel of ever-increasing home prices. “I never had any experience that a house would drop in value,” Bob said, shaking his head… Among the people I met, some had their personal savings wiped out by bad investments or saw their 401( k) s evaporate in the 2008 market crash. Some hadn’t been able to create enough of a safety net to withstand otherwise survivable traumas: divorce, illness, injury. Others had been laid off or owned small businesses that folded in the recession.” Bruder writes: “Workampers are plug-and-play labor, the epitome of convenience for employers in search of seasonal staffing… They aren’t around long enough to unionize. On jobs that are physically difficult, many are too tired even to socialize after their shifts. They also demand little in the way of benefits or protections… Amazon reaps federal tax credits—ranging from 25 to 40 percent of wages—for hiring disadvantaged workers in several categories, including aging recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and anyone on food stamps. Savvy CamperForce members know all about that incentive. “The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is the reason Amazon can take on such a slow, inefficient workforce,” noted one itinerant worker on her blog…. “Since they are getting us off government assistance for almost three months of the year, we are a tax deduction for them.”… MANY OF THE WORKERS I met in the Amazon camps were part of a demographic that in recent years has grown with alarming speed: downwardly mobile older Americans. In the heyday of … the era of a strong middle class, complete with job stability and pensions—their circumstances had been virtually unimaginable.” Bruder writes: “Morrissey [stated] “We’re facing the first-ever reversal in retirement security in modern U.S. history,” she explained. “Starting with the younger baby boomers, each successive generation is now doing worse than previous generations in terms of their ability to retire without seeing a drop in living standards.” THE VERY IDEA OF RETIREMENT is a relatively new invention. For most of human history, people worked until they died or were too infirm to lift a finger, at which point they died pretty fast anyway… German statesman Otto von Bismarck created the world’s first old-age insurance. Adopted in 1889, Bismarck’s plan rewarded workers who reached their seventieth birthdays with pensions.” Bruder writes: “Many industrialized nations followed Germany in adopting some form of old-age insurance. But the United States, land of the rugged individualist, lagged… Americans who grew too old to work had two choices. They could move in with their kids, if they had any. Or they could go to the poorhouse, a dismal institution… President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a Democratic Congress passed the Social Security Act of 1935… which… required future retirees to chip in to a common fund throughout their working lives… After the New Deal, economists began referring to America’s retirement-finance model as a “three-legged stool.” This sturdy tripod was composed of Social Security, private pensions, and combined investments and savings. In recent years… two of those legs have been kicked out… employers have been replacing defined-benefit pensions that are funded by employers and guarantee a monthly sum in perpetuity with 401( k) plans, which often rely on employee contributions… 401( k) s are vastly cheaper for companies than pension plans… “Over the last generation, we have witnessed a massive transfer of economic risk… onto the fragile balance sheets of American families,”… Jacob S. Hacker writes in his book… The Great Risk Shift. The overarching message: “You are on your own.”… All of which is to say that Social Security is now the largest single source of income for most Americans sixty-five and older.” Bruder writes: “FACING AN INSURMOUNTABLE PROBLEM—her low Social Security benefit… Linda had discovered CheapRVLiving.com, the creation of… Bob Wells… “The key is eliminating the single highest expense most of us have, our housing,” Bob wrote. He urged readers to eschew traditional homes and apartments in favor of what some nomads call “wheel estate”: a van, car, or RV… Bob couldn’t imagine living full-time in his tiny camper, but he started to mull over other options… In 2005, Bob started CheapRVLiving.com. The website began as a modest collection of how-to articles… After the financial meltdown of 2008, traffic to CheapRVLiving.com exploded… Cast out of the middle class, these readers [found] Bob’s website… By moving into vans and other vehicles… people could become conscientious objectors to the system that had failed them. They could be reborn into lives of freedom and adventure.” Bruder writes: “If you’ve not exercised regularly, consult your physician about a conditioning program, then get active! Here’s a low cost suggestion: Get out and walk! Walking is a great form of exercise. It doesn’t cost anything and is easier on the joints than other forms of exercise… Meanwhile, Amazon’s treatment of warehouse workers had been making headlines since 2011… When summer temperatures exceeded 100 degrees inside the company’s Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, warehouse, managers wouldn’t open the loading bay doors for fear of theft. Instead, they hired paramedics to wait outside in ambulances, ready to extract heat-stricken employees on stretchers and in wheelchairs, the investigation found… (Apart from the mental pressure, Laura’s body rebelled against the demands of the device, which directed how she walked from ten to twenty miles a day on concrete in the 915,000-square-foot complex for $ 11.25 an hour… After her introduction to stowing, Linda finished her first week with what Amazon calls “work-hardening”: a series of half-days to acclimate newcomers to walking on concrete, so they’ll be able to do it for ten hours or more when the orientation period ends.” Bruder writes: “When someone raised the topic of making money while traveling, one vandweller revealed that he was an itinerant poker dealer. Casinos all over the country hire short-term dealers to staff tournaments and the job can easily pay $ 30 an hour, with free food during the workday. At his first gig, the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he made $ 11,000 in seven weeks… The truth as I see it is that people can both struggle and remain upbeat simultaneously, through even the most soul-testing of challenges… the nomads I’d been interviewing for months were neither powerless victims nor carefree adventurers.” Bruder writes: “For many nomads I met, missing teeth were the badge of poverty of which they were most ashamed. Some tried to avoid smiling when my camera came out, or asked me not to share pictures that revealed empty sockets. (It’s sad—but not surprising—that teeth have become a status symbol in a country where more than one in three citizens lack dental coverage, which isn’t included with standard medical insurance.)… I’d met hundreds of folks living this way—workampers and rubber tramps and RVers from coast to coast” Bruder writes: “More than half of the country’s sugar beet fields—some 680,000 planted acres—lie in the Red River Valley, which spans western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota… This region is a national anomaly, boasting nearly full employment, which makes hiring workers very difficult… For beet producers throughout the Red River Valley, the first two weeks of October are a race against the weather… [Starting]… at midnight on October 1. Farmers rush to pull beets from the fields before the ground freezes, hoping temperatures stay cool enough to stave off rot… At peak, American Crystal’s more than three dozen receiving stations get some fifty thousand truckloads a day. I was assigned twelve-hour shifts on the ground crew at “Piler Number One.” Our station was inside “the shed,” a colossal refrigeration facility that resembled an open-ended airplane hangar with a concrete floor… Many of the other stations were outdoors. We were told we were lucky because we’d be protected from rain or snow” Bruder writes: “In recent years America has put unprecedented pressure on people who don’t live in traditional housing. The New York Times reported the following in 2016: A battery of laws that effectively criminalize homelessness is sweeping the nation… By the end of 2014, 100 cities had made it a crime to sit on a sidewalk, The number of cities that banned sleeping in cars jumped to 81 from 37 during that same period. The crackdown comes amid the gentrification that is transforming cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington and Honolulu, contributing to higher housing costs and increased homelessness… Such laws prioritize property over people… In Arizona’s Coconino National Forest, rangers have been interrogating campers in vans and RVs about their home addresses… Many of the modern nomads I’ve interviewed, however, say they’re never going back. They have no plans to get reabsorbed into mainstream housing.” Bruder writes: “At one seminar, Bob had mentioned REAL ID, the program that was tightening security standards for driver’s licenses. For years, nomads had been establishing residency by using the addresses of local mail-forwarding services. Now many DMV clerks had started looking up each address online. If it belonged to a business, they demanded an actual residential address. Intended to root out terrorism, this also made things harder for nomads, pushing them to come up with bogus information—to claim they lived at a family or friend’s place or borrow the address of a random property they’d seen was for sale. “The government wants you to live in a house,” Bob warned them. “They know what we’re doing and they’re tightening the grip all the time.”” Bruder writes: “My first stop was Douglas’s main street… The sidewalks were deserted. It was hard to believe that this had once been the largest town in Arizona… the local smelter, Douglas Reduction Works owned by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, managed to skirt the new [EPA] standards until the 1980s. By then it had become the biggest emitter of sulfur dioxide in American manufacturing, belching out some 950 tons each day of the pollutant… The [EPA] ordered Phelps Dodge to install emissions controls at a cost of half a billion dollars. The company shut down the smelter instead… That rankled the citizens of Douglas, even those who still had work. “I wish they’d ship all those S.O.B.s that had anything to do with closing the smelter to Russia “As far as I’m concerned, it’s communist-inspired.”’ Bruder writes: “While researching her new home, Linda had encountered something ominous. “There’s been quite a drug smuggling problem because Douglas is right on the Mexican border,”… Linda had learned about the town’s most famous drug bust. It dated back to 1990, when agents found a 300-foot-long tunnel running below the border… the tunnel was five feet tall and air conditioned, lit with electric lights and protected from flooding by a sump pump… [Discussing what life might be living nearby] … I mentioned Linda and asked what life was like out here. The manager told me he ran a herd of fifty Brangus cattle—hybrids of Brahman and Angus, bred for heat and drought—and that he’d been living on this land for twenty-six years. Things were mostly quiet here, he said, but sometimes drug mules came tromping through with heavy backpacks… He’d been shot at twice. Now he kept an AR-15 in his pickup.” Bruder writes: “For Linda, the job was all about earning money to start building her home. Her heart was set on that… Though Linda was initially assigned to work as a stower, shelving merchandise, later in the season she’d tell me managers were considering transferring her…  to more strenuous positions as pickers… one picker had …  logged eighteen miles and forty-four flights of stairs.”

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The twins and I just finished listening to How To Be A Good Creature by Sy Montgomery on @audible and loved it! The book is read by the author herself and highlights animals that she has known and loved in her life and career as an author and scientist. This audiobook is based on a book for young readers with beautiful illustrations so I would definitely recommend both formats. I did love the audiobook though because of how emotional many of these stories are and the author is talking about animals she loved, raised, and sometimes even rescued. In the book the author does talk about her struggles with depression after losing pets and even thoughts of suicide. This was a good opportunity to have a conversation with my 9 going on 10 year old about these feelings and how suicide is never the answer. Parents should be aware though before diving into this book. While all three of us really enjoyed this book we kind of wished there had been slightly more variety in the animals discussed, and in the afterword she mentions a great many she could have talked about. Many of the animals talked about in this book are different dogs she has had throughout her life, which is wonderful, but we would have liked to hear about some of the other animals. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️