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DEADGIRL: DAYBREAK Gets a Publish Date (and a Cover)

Big announcement for the 4th Deadgirl novel

Hey everyone! If you’ve been following me or my books, you know it’s taken a while for this last novel in the Deadgirl series to hit the streets, as the kids say (the kids do not say this). Turns out a three-year serious family medical journey and a pandemic is a real kick in the nards to creativity. Anyway! I have good news and hopefully not bad news for those excited to read the final…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

At Elizabeth’s Wildlife Center in Abbotsford, B.C., the number of small mammals and birds in need of care is already overwhelming. “We can have 50 in here easily. Baby robins, baby this, baby that,” Elizabeth Melnick, the owner of Elizabeth’s Wildlife Center told Global News. Melnick and other staff never turn animals away and care for injured, orphaned wild birds and small mammals and have done so since 1986. “I don’t even know how many animals we have in here right now and it’s just going to get busier, and busier and busier,” Kristie Johnson, a staff member said. But the ability to pay for added staff and supplies has reached the breaking point.

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Info .4) REGION MAP

-> Cities, towns, villages, rivers and most prominent and well known mountain peaks and hills.

"Region" stands for the general area we will see and hear of in the comic, it is not a definition for a "country" or "province/state" of any kind.

-> Region areas, some are named after certain cats and act under a single government, meanwhile some are simply names that act as a geographical descriptor (woodlands, tundra, grasslands)

After the infection originated in the city of Ardham, it spread along the rivers during the first wave of infection. After a contaminated brought it up to Houlston, it caused a mass outbreak and spread down stream into smaller towns. Eventually it was caught near the coastline, and spread throughout there until most towns in the region were abandoned. Some towns remain active, such as Mistvale which locked itself away from the mainland. Others transformed into large scale shelters and facilities, the most well known being H.R.A.R.S which is the only shelter which will accept stage 1 cats in hopes of saving them before they turn, and Project Seawater which aims to find a fast and efficient way of filtering the oceans water due to the risk in drinking freshwater on land.

Protagonists are (as of chapter 1) situated at Mount Johnson.

Biomes and Climate

Climate is determined based off the Köppen climate classification system. Biomes and environment are generally based off Canada (most precisely B.C.), around 30-40° from the pole.

More information to come on locations soon! But god am I happy to finally share this with everyone! If you have any thoughts or questions on any locations or environments I'd love to see them! I'm very passionate about this region and try to think of some lore for every little town and location! So feel free to reblog or reply! Anon questions will open soon!

[lesser-known-composers]

Charles François Dieupart (c.1667-c.1740) - 'Suittes de Clavessin', Suite in B minor for Recorder & B.c (1701)

00:00 I. Ouverture 04:11 II. Allemande 06:47 III. Courante 08:06 IV. Sarabande 10:40 V. Gavotte 11:22 VI. Menuet 12:35 VII. Gigue

Marsyas Baroque :

Paula Pinn, recorder; María Carrasco Gil, violin; Konstanze Waidosch, cello / viola da gamba; Sara Johnson Huidobro, harpsichord; Simon Linné, archlute

[bearterritory]

EUGENE, Ore. – Presented with the opportunity to carry on a proud hammer tradition for California track & field at Hayward Field, it took Rowan Hamilton just three throws to find himself in a position that no Golden Bear has in over a century.   The last Cal athlete to win a title in the men's hammer was Jack Merchant in 1922. Now, that distinction belongs to Hamilton, whose personal-best throw of 77.18m (253-2) surpassed 2023 champion Kenneth Ikeji of Harvard's top mark by just two inches; he also became the program's first NCAA men's champion in any event since 2011 (Mike Morrison, decathlon).   "Those are things that people take for granted, but that's hard to do, to keep stepping up when somebody else steps up," said Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Robyne Johnson.   Hamilton, who hails from Chilliwack, B.C., is also the first Canadian man to win the event since Scott Neilson in 1979. He was the favorite to win after leading the NCAA standings for nearly the entire season and climbing to No. 8 in the all-time men's collegiate hammer standings.   "Rowan was really stable today," assistant coach Mohamad Saatara said. "That's what we were trying to do – we were expecting these other guys to really get going, so for him to succeed, he had to be very stable and just execute. I think there are some really big throws in his future."

 "I think it's really special, just being able to carry on the legacy at Cal that was set by (women's hammer alum) Camryn Rogers, (who won) three consecutive national championships," Hamilton said. "I'm happy that I can come here, compete with Mo, the Cal Bears, and represent the school very well."   Teammate Ivar Moisander joined Hamilton in the men's hammer as the other half of Cal's first-ever duo in the event. Moisander's mark of 68.13m (223-6), while not enough to earn him another three attempts, still earned him a second-career Second-Team All-America nod and his highest career placement (13th) at the NCAA Championships.   The 4x100m relay squad of Chase Williams, George Monroe, Mason Mangum and David Foster followed up Hamilton's school record with one of their own, racing to a time of 38.90 in the semifinal to demolish the program's previous best of 39.11 that had stood since 1975 – old enough that the time itself had been adjusted from a 4x110y result. It was good enough for 12th place overall, earning Williams, Monroe and Mangum their first career Second-Team All-America honors and Foster his second. Foster then competed in the 100m semifinal just over an hour later, finishing third in his heat and 14th overall with a time of 10.28 to become a Second-Team All-American for the third time this season.   In the pole vault, Skyler Magula passed on the first two heights before clearing his first attempt at 5.37m (17-7.25), eventually matching his season best of 5.52m (18-1.25) to tie for sixth with Penn's James Rhoads and earn First-Team All-America status. It was the best overall finish by any Cal men's pole vaulter since Robert "Bubba" McLean in 2001, who was also the last to make the First Team (2002).

Jeff Duensing, who qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials at the Pac-12 Championships, closed out the night – and the Cal Athletics season – in the shot put, posting a mark of 18.99m (62-3.75) on his third attempt to finish in 13th place and notch a spot on the All-America Second Team; he became the first Cal men's shot putter to repeat as an All-American since Peter Simon in 2017-18.   In total, Cal's men collected nine All-America honors, tying a program record from 1982.   "I am so, so proud of this group," Johnson said. "They worked hard all year and they did what they needed to do at the right time."

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Sometime on Wednesday, it's likely that the tailor at 40 Broad, Mr. G, began to feel an odd sense of unease, accompanied by a slightly upset stomach. The initial symptoms themselves would be entirely indistinguishable from a mild case of food poisoning. But layered over those physical symptoms would be a deeper sense of foreboding. Imagine if every time you experienced a slight upset stomach you knew that there was an entirely reasonable chance you'd be dead in forty-eight hours. Remember, too, that the diet and sanitary conditions of the day – no refrigeration; impure water supplies; excessive consumption of beer, spirits, and coffee – created a breeding ground for digestive ailments, even when they didn't lead to cholera. Imagine living with that sword of Damocles hovering above your head – every stomach pain or watery stool a potential harbinger of imminent doom.

City dwellers had lived with fear before, and London, of course, had not forgotten its Great Plague and its Great Fire. But for Londoners, the specific menace of cholera was a product of the Industrial Age and its global shipping networks: no known case of cholera on British soil exists before 1831. Yet the disease itself was an ancient one. Sanskrit writings from around 500 B.C. describe a lethal illness that kills by draining water from its victims. Hippocrates prescribed white hellebore blooms as a treatment. But the disease remained largely within the confines of India and the Asian Subcontinent for at least two thousand years. Londoners first took notice of cholera when an outbreak among British soldiers stationed in Ganjam, India, sickened more than five hundred men in 1781. Two years later, word appeared in the British papers of a terrible outbreak that had killed 20,000 pilgrims at Haridwar. In 1817, the cholera “burst forth...with extraordinary malignity,” as the Times reported, tracking through Turkey and Persia all the way to Singapore and Japan, even spreading as far as the Americas until largely dissipating in 1820. England itself was spared, which led the pundits of the day to trot out an entire military parade of racist clichés about the superiority of the British way of life.

But this was merely cholera's shot across the bow. In 1829, the disease began to spread in earnest, sweeping through Asia, Russia, even the United States. In the summer of 1831, an outbreak tore through a handful of ships harbored in the river Medway, about thirty miles from London. Cases inland didn't appear until October of that year, in the northeast town of Sunderland, beginning with a William Sproat, the first Englishman to perish of cholera on his home soil. On February 8 of the following year, a Londoner named John James became the first to die in the city. By outbreak's end, in 1833, the dead in England and Wales would number above 20,000. After that first explosion, the disease flared up every few years, dispatching a few hundred souls to an early grave, and then going underground again. But the long-term trend was not an encouraging one. The epidemic of 1848-1849 would consume 50,000 lives in England and Wales.

All that history would have weighed like a nightmare on Mr. G, as his condition worsened on Thursday. He may have begun vomiting during the night and most likely experienced muscle spasms and sharp abdominal pains. At a certain point, he would have been overtaken by a crushing thirst. But the experience was largely dominated by one hideous process: vast quantities of water being evacuated from his bowels, strangely absent of smell and color, harboring only tiny white particles. Clinicials of the day dubbed this “rice-water stool.” Once you emitting rice-water stools, odds were you'd be dead in a matter of hours.

Mr. G would have been terribly aware of his fate, even as he battled the physical agony of the disease. One of cholera's distinctive curses is that its sufferers remain mentally alert until the very last stages of the disease, fully conscious both of the pain that the disease has brought them and the sudden, shocking contraction of their life expectancy. The Times had described this horrifying condition several years before in a long feature on the disease: “While the mechanism of life is suddenly arrested, the body emptied by a few rabid gushes of its serum, and reduced to a damp, dead...mass, the mind within remains untouched and clear, – shining strangely through the glazed eyes, with light unquenched and vivid, – a spirit, looking out in terror from a corpse.”

By Friday, Mr. G's pulse would have been barely detectable, and a rough mask of blue, leathery skin would have covered his face. His condition would have matched this description of William Sproat from 1831: “countenance quite shrunk, eyes sunk, lips dark blue, as well as the skin of the lower extremities; the nails...livid.”

Most of this is, to a certain extent, conjecture. But one thing we know for certain: at one p.m. on Friday, as baby Lewis suffered quietly in the room next door, Mr. G's heart stopped beating, barely twenty-four hours after showing the first symptoms of cholera. Within a few hours, another dozen Soho residents were dead.

 —   The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (Steven Johnson)

[rabbitcruiser]

English Language Day

English Language Day is celebrated on October 13 to commemorate the day Parliament was opened for the first time by a speech in English, in 1362, rather than in French. The day also celebrates the universality of the language, and how it has evolved over the centuries. Scholars believe that there is no true version of the language, as over 7,000 variations of English can be found in the world right now. English has also adopted many words from other languages. Other than speech, English has also become the primary language for movies and TV shows, literature, and music.

History of English Language Day

The English Project launched the world’s first-ever English Language Day on October 13 in 2009. English Language Day is celebrated to commemorate October 13, 1362, when Parliament was opened for the first time by a speech in English, instead of French. In the same Parliament, a Statute of Pleading was approved that allowed members in debate to use the English language. This made English the official language of law and law-making.

English is a vast language. There are more than 250,000 words in an Oxford Dictionary — minus a lot of technical, scientific, and slang words. English is probably the only language with as many synonyms for many of its words, largely because of its enormous absorbing capacity — borrowing words from as many languages as possible, including German, Greek, Portuguese, French, Latin, and even the language of the colonies where it became widespread. Years of colonialism meant that English now also had words from Asian, the Caribbean, and African cultures. The English language has always been eager to adopt and adapt words and phrases from other languages. The willingness to adapt itself is probably what makes English so different from other languages, such as French.

The English language is easily the most broadly used and spoken language on the planet, and it enjoys a good reputation for adapting words, concepts, and cultural influences from around the world. This adds to the language’s enormous vocabulary, one that is full of odd rules, spellings, and grammar. English Language Day remembers and celebrates the incredible popularity of the language and even its eccentricities!

English Language Day timeline

5–7th Century A.D. Origin of English

English originates from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Anglo-Saxon migrants.

1500 Early Modern English

The English used by William Shakespeare begins to develop.

17th Century Modern English is Established

Proper modern English similar to that spoken today, is in place.

1755 The First Dictionary

Samuel Johnson publishes the Dictionary of the English Language.

English Language Day FAQs

Why is English Language Day celebrated?

English Language Day is observed to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity by exploring the language.

How many countries speak English as a first language?

English is recognized as an official language in a total of 67 different countries, as well as 27 non-sovereign entities.

What is the oldest language on earth?

As far as history goes, Sanskrit stands as the first spoken language because it dates to as far back as 5000 B.C. Yet new information indicates that although Sanskrit is among the oldest spoken languages, Tamil dates further back.

How To Celebrate English Language Day

Learn more about the language

Read your favorite author

Volunteer at a class

You would be surprised to find out how so many common English words actually have roots in a different language. Try identifying these words and learn more about their origins on English Language Day.

The best way to celebrate English Language Day is by reading your favorite English language books and authors.

Offer to volunteer at a spoken English class. You can teach the language to people of all age groups and help them get better at speaking the language.

5 Facts About The English Language That Will Blow Your Mind

Shakespeare coined many English words

The alphabet is smaller than before

English is the official language of the air

The longest word in English

Some words are more commonly used than others

Shakespeare added over 1,000 words to the English language.

Originally, English had 29 letters instead of the current 26.

English is the official language of airplane travel.

‘Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ is a medical term that refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling sand dust or ash.

The most commonly used adjective is ‘good.’

Why We Love English Language Day

It’s one of the most popular languages in the world

Celebrates history

Celebrates arts and culture

English Language Day celebrates one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It’s the day to cherish the universality of the language.

The English language has a long history. Learning the history of the language also helps us understand the politics that have shaped the modern world.

English is also a common medium for music, movies, literature, and other works of art. English Language Day also celebrates the role that the language has played in contributing to arts and culture.

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BLOG INTRO!!!

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btw!!!!! @bc-johnson’s new book, the fourth and final novel in his Deadgirl series, is out!

[bc-johnson]

Subplots: When Do They Suck?

How can writers avoid the dreaded D-level B-plot? Today we're talking about how to identify and bolster weak subplots.

I saw this topic spring up online recently, and it got me thinking: what makes a subplot bad? As a writer, it’s an important question—the fewer bad subplots, the more money we make. The more money we make, the faster we become eccentric weirdos hammering away on a typewriter in our custom-built, cliff-perched, storm-wracked Enya castles. I mean, the more fulfilling art we can make or…

[how2fit]

April is finally here. With warmth, longer days and nature all around us reviving and starting to blossom. It’s a time of new beginnings. Of new hope. And of new energy to go after your goals and dreams. In today’s post I’d simply like to share 85 of the most inspirational, positive and funny short April quotes. I hope you’ll find something here that’ll help you to appreciate April a little extra this year and to have a wonderful and a less stressful month. Short Positive April Quotes to Welcome This Spring Month “April is the sweetest month of the year, the mellow season of rebirth and renewal.” – Mary Sojourner “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.” – Hal Borland “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” – S. Brown “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.” – Frances Mayes “Sweet April showers do bring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.” – Sara Coleridge “I shine in tears like the sun in April.” – Cyril Tourneur “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan “April is a reminder that life is a beautiful, ever-renewing cycle.” – E.E. Cummings “Sweet April’s tears dead on the hem of May.” – Alexander Smith “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs “Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.” – Geoffrey B. Charlesworth “April is a promise of what’s to come.” – Gladys Taber Short Motivational April Quotes for Work “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer “Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” – B.C. Forbes “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “No rain, no flowers.” – Haruki Murakami “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” – George Santayana “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.” – Yoko Ono “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” – Marty Rubin “Renewal is rooted in gratitude for what has been and hope for what can be.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot Short Hello April Quotes for Inspiration “Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies. Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!” – Charles G.D. Roberts “April, the joy of the green hours, clothes with flowers over all her locks of gold.” – Remy Belleau “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “Sweet April-time – O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow of promise, and red lips with longing paled.” – Dinah Craik “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, ‘Go!'” – Christopher Morley “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.” – Robert Browning “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.”

– Byron Caldwell Smith “If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” – Buddy DeSylva “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” – Yip Harburg “Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!” – William Hamilton Gibson “April weather, rain and sunshine both together.” – English Country Saying “The April winds are magical and thrill our tuneful frames.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.” – Robert Frost “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” – Virgil A. Kraft “April splinters like an ice palace.” – Ruth Stone “When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the raindrops glisten.” – Lucy Larcom “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne Short and Funny April Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” – Charles Lamb “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party!'” – Robin Williams “Snow in April is abominable, like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.” – L.M. Montgomery “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” – W. Earl Hall “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin “Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Louise Erickson “The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn’t even get the late worm.” – Charles M. Schulz “I’m 100 percent sunshine.” – Lil Yachty “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” – Edgar Bergen “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” – L.M. Montgomery “Although I was born in April, I’m quite certain I was not fully awake until October.” – Peggy Toney Horton “Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.” – Akash B Chandran “Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.” – P.J. O’Rourke Short Happy April Quotes for Your Letter Board and Instagram “April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.” – Vita Sackville-West “My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” – Terri Guillemets “April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” – Gustav Mahler “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Bishop Reginald Heber “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” – Susan Polis Schutz “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” – Virginia Woolf “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde “Always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” – E.E. Cummings “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – Unknown “Spring is shoving up the front windows and resting your elbows on the sill, the sun burning your nose a little.” – Ruth Wolff “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn “A kind word is like a spring day.” – Russian Proverb “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” – Victor Hugo “The coming of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.” – Henry David Thoreau “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette Want

more spring inspiration? Then have a look at these inspirational April quotes, the positive spring quotes here and also these short spring quotes and the short spring captions in this post.

[noideamyguy]

In early 1995, U.S. Maple was born out of the ashes of two groups at Chicago's Northern Illinois University. Lead singer Al Johnson and "high" guitarist Mark Shippy were in Shorty, while drummer Pat Samson and "low" guitarist Todd Rittman spent their time with the Mercury Players. After the breakup of the two bands, the members met to see how they could deconstruct rock, only to leave its most basic elements. Since their development, they have released three different albums. The band recorded their first single at Easley Recording Studios in Memphis, TN in September 1995. It included the song "When a Man Says Ow!," which would later reappear on their first full-length album, backed with a number called "Stuck." Doug Easley manned the production boards for the session. Chicago independent record label Skin Graft took notice of the band and signed them on in the fall of that year. Shortly afterwards, the label released the "Stuck" single. Later in the same year, U.S. Maple stepped into Solid Sound Studios at Hoffman Estates in Illinois. It was there that they recorded their first full-length album, Long Hair in Three Stages, with renowned indie producer Jim O'Rourke. The record was released in October 1995. Before the band would go into the studio to work on their follow-up, they recorded a new single, as well as a contribution for a tribute album. Released on the Sonic Bubblegum imprint in early 1996, the band tackled and disfigured the 1961 Dion & the Belmonts' hit "The Wanderer." It was backed by a new original entitled "Whoa Complains." Then, in May of that same year, they re-recorded the AC/DC song "Sin City" for a tribute album on Skin Graft. U.S. Maple appeared alongside other Chicago bands like Shellac and Big'n. In early 1997, the group stepped back into Solid Sound Studios once again with the help of O'Rourke. What resulted was Sang Phat Editor, released in June. The fall of 1998 was a time of change for U.S. Maple, as they left Skin Graft. The band needed more support from the label due to their extensive touring schedule. It was early in 1999 that the group signed to Drag City Records, another Chicago-based independent label. Their interest in Drag City was a result of their contact with some of its artists one of which included O'Rourke. In late January of '99, U.S. Maple returned to the studio. However, they were now recording in Brooklyn, NY at B.C. Studios, rather than Illinois' Solid Sound. Not only did the surroundings change, but the producers did, too. Michael Gira, former lead singer of the goth rock band the Swans, was in charge of the recording sessions. What resulted was their third full-length album, Talker, which was released the following year. Acre Thrills arrived in spring 2001. That summer, Samson left the group and was replaced by Adam Vida, who had also played with Drag City artists like Edith Frost

[localbizprofiles]

Continuing a family legacy of automotive sales dating back to 1953, and previous ownership of Ford, Mazda, Suzuki, and marine dealerships in South Eastern B.C.

[weather-usa]

Bomb cyclone batters Seattle area with powerful winds, leaving at least two dead and cutting power to hundreds of thousands.

A woman was killed in the Bridle Trails neighborhood of King County when a tree fell onto her home shortly after 7 p.m., according to a Bellevue Fire Department social media post. At the same time, South County Fire officials reported that another woman died in Lynnwood when a tree collapsed onto an encampment.

A rapidly intensifying bomb cyclone struck the Seattle area on Tuesday night, killing at least two people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as fierce winds brought down trees and power lines across western Washington.

Officials reported that a woman was killed in Bellevue when a tree crashed into her home around 7 p.m. Tuesday, while South County officials confirmed another woman died in Lynnwood when a tree fell onto an encampment.

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Injuries have also been reported, including two people south of Seattle who were injured when a tree struck their trailer in Maple Valley, according to Puget Sound Fire. One person was quickly rescued, but firefighters took an hour to free the other individual, who was trapped in the wreckage. Both were transported to local hospitals, though their conditions have not been disclosed.

The Seattle Fire Department reported that late Tuesday night, a tree fell onto a car in the northeastern part of the city, trapping the driver. The person was rescued and transported to a hospital in stable condition.

An Amtrak train traveling from Vancouver, B.C., to Seattle struck a downed tree near the Stanwood station on Tuesday night around 8 p.m. Amtrak officials confirmed that none of the 47 passengers were injured. The train was delayed for four hours and had to be towed.

Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson reported Wednesday that at least 11 vehicles had crashed into trees in King County. The agency noted that no serious injuries were reported.

"Trees are coming down everywhere." Wind gusts in the Cascade foothills east of Seattle exceeded 70 mph, driven by a rapidly intensifying low-pressure system that underwent explosive development within hours as it moved off the Washington coast.

At the peak of outages on Wednesday, more than 700,000 people across western Washington were without power, according to PowerOutage.US. Over 100,000 of those affected were in Seattle. While the number of outages began to decrease by Wednesday afternoon, some utilities warned that power might take days to be restored in the hardest-hit areas.

By Thursday, the number of outages had fallen to more than 300,000.

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A wind gust reached 74 mph in Enumclaw before the wind gauge went dark, along with power throughout the town.

"The sound out here is unreal!" said Anthony Concannon. "The wind in the trees and power lines is deafening."

In Bellevue, the state's fifth-largest city, 52 mph gusts sent firefighters rushing to multiple neighborhoods where trees had fallen onto homes.

"Trees are coming down all over the city and onto homes," Bellevue Fire officials said. "If you can, move to the lowest floor and stay away from windows. Avoid going outside if possible."

State and local departments reported that multiple main highways were blocked by fallen trees and power lines, including stretches of State Routes 18, 516, and 169. Just before midnight, a tree blocked four lanes of Interstate 405 in Bellevue.

An exasperated Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue posted on X, "There are so many trees and power lines down, we could be listing the locations all night."

At Sea-Tac Airport, easterly winds reached 59 mph, creating a challenging crosswind for pilots attempting to navigate runways aligned for the region's typical southerly winds.

Bomb cyclone drops 66 millibars of pressure in 24 hours A historic storm rapidly intensified, transforming from an unremarkable low-pressure trough into a storm that tied the record for the strongest ever recorded in that part of the Pacific Ocean. Over the course of 24 hours, the storm's pressure dropped by 66 millibars, reaching a central pressure of 942 millibars, comparable to a major Category 4 hurricane. This dramatic strengthening easily earned the storm the "bomb cyclone" label, given to storms that intensify by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.

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Although the storm’s core remained hundreds of miles offshore, its position to the west of the Washington coast, coupled with cold, dense high pressure in eastern Washington, created a significant pressure difference across the western half of the state.

Winds from eastern Washington collided with the barrier formed by the Cascade Mountains, but gaps in the terrain along mountain passes allowed the winds to accelerate, rushing through the passes like air escaping from a balloon.

The winds battered towns nestled in the foothills along the highways that serve as gateways to popular hiking trails and ski resorts.

As the easterly winds reached the western edges of the Cascades and broke free, they raced across the Puget Sound lowlands, bringing rare easterly winds that caught the region's forested landscapes off guard, which are typically accustomed to southerly winds. The result was widespread tree falls across the Puget Sound region, from north to south.

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Transfer Day

A century ago, the United States made its final territorial acquisition with the purchase of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Located at the southernmost stretch of the Caribbean, the Virgin Islands are a group of three main islands — Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, and a cluster of 50 minor cays and islands. The day is celebrated throughout the Virgin Islands with great vigor. Parades are held at the state halls, and the American Flag is hoisted during the evening ceremony.

History of Transfer Day

The American military leadership began eyeing the Virgin Islands in the mid-1860s. The idea of the acquisition was put forward by the Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1867. For a negotiated price of $7.5 million, the Danish government ratified the sale. But the islands bore witness to intense catastrophe in the following year. Back home, the impending impeachment of President Andrew Johnson upset the proceedings even further, and the plan was finally dropped. Decades passed but the notion of a Caribbean naval base persisted with the top diplomats of the United States.

In 1900, the Secretary of State John Hay initiated the second round of negotiations, and a sale was agreed upon for $5 million. However, this time, the Danish waged their revenge and blew the deal out of the Panama Canals.

The relations between the two holdings remained sour for the majority of the early 20th century. However, the fear of European expansion in the Caribbean pushed the American diplomats to enter into a fresh round of negotiations. In March 1916, the United States offered $25 million in gold coins in exchange for the immediate cessation of the Virgin Islands. The deal was finalized in the same year, and the treaty was approved by the U.S. Senate on September 7, 1916.

Although the sale was ratified to establish a U.S. military stronghold in the Caribbean, the island proved to be a lucrative investment because of the booming tourism industry. Today, Virgin Islanders are American citizens with a seat in Congress and many constitutional protections. March 31 is celebrated to honor the peaceful cessation of the islands and the strategic expansion of the American empire.

Transfer Day timeline

1666

The Danish Occupation

Denmark occupies St. Thomas and begins consolidating the adjacent islands of St. John and St. Croix through siege and/or purchase.

1807

The European Tussle

The British acquire the islands after the fall of the Danes and hold on to them until the Danish win them back in 1815.

1917

The American Purchase

The United States of America purchases the three islands for $25 million.

1927

The Constitutional Grant

The American constitution grants citizenship to the inhabitants of the Virgin Islands.

Transfer Day FAQs

Is Transfer Day a federal holiday?

Transfer Day is a public holiday and the majority of businesses and schools stay closed. 

Which nationality do the Virgin Islanders have?

The Virgin Islanders are U.S. citizens. Because they derive their citizenship from a constitutional statute, the Islanders can not participate in federal elections but since 1970, they have been able to elect a delegate to represent them in the United States Congress. 

Do U.S citizens need a passport to visit the Virgin Islands?

U.S. citizens arriving from the mainland and Puerto Rico do not need to present a passport or visa to enter the Virgin Islands. 

How To Observe Transfer Day

Reenact the ceremony: It is fair to say that the Transfer Day ceremony had a bit of a dramatic flair. From the lowering of the Dannebrog (the Danish flag) to the swelling number of generals as the Star-Spangled Banner filled the air. On March 31, stage a skit of your own.

Read about the history: The U.S. Virgin Islands have been home to humans since 1000 B.C. From the native inhabitants to the Danish occupation, the islands have a rich and diverse history. The islands have also borne witness to mass ethnic cleansing, displacement, slavery, and other atrocities. On Transfer Day, take a quick crash course on America’s Caribbean territory.

Eat Red Grout: Red Grout is a traditional Danish pudding, made from guavas and tapioca. It’s a delicacy on the U.S. Virgin Islands and is served to locals every year on Transfer Day. The dish is easy to make and is enjoyed best with a scoop of vanilla cream.

5 Lesser Known Facts About The U.S Virgin Islands

A fight for freedom: A century before the United States outlawed slavery, the islanders led an unsuccessful slave rebellion in 1733.

The bioluminescent nightlife: Pockets of the Virgin Islands light up at night due to the clusters of tiny plankton, called dinoflagellates, spread all across the space.

The party of the pirates: The Virgin Islands remain a safe haven for the pirates, a practice that started in the 17th century when Governor Adolph Esmit allowed them to enter the area for lucrative trade opportunities.

Christopher Columbus coined the name: Columbus stopped by the islands in 1493 and named the cluster of lands ‘The Virgins’ in honor of Saint Ursula and her 10,000 virgins.

Home to Alexander Hamilton: One of the Founding Fathers of the U.S., Hamilton spent a sizable chunk of his youth on the streets of St. Croix, working as a clerk and experimenting with his writing.

Why Transfer Day is Important

It celebrates diversity: The islands stretch across the Caribbean and are home to a diverse community of Native, Black, and Latino Americans. Transfer Day illuminates the rich contribution of these societies to the fabric of America.

It uplifts the tourism industry: Tourism is the backbone of the Virgin Islands’ economy. Over 50% of the Virgin Islanders are employed in the hospitality and travel-related industries. Transfer Day educates us about the hidden beauty of the islands.

It honors the strategic triumph: The bloodless, strifeless transfer was made possible after years of strategic negotiations and good-faith politics. At the dawn of World War I, the acquisition prevented the establishment of a German stronghold across the Caribbean coast as well.

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