#timothy preston on the right

[danthediamondminecart]

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE ASKED FOR MORE RB BATTLES / TMA AU CONTENT BUT IT HASN’T LEFT MY HEAD SO HERE WE ARE :)

Seriously though, I’ve fallen in love with this AU and I don’t even intend to listen to The Magnus Archives in full. But FTA and other AU content fuels me so I HAD to draw more of it. Enjoy, and feel free to ask for more context :)

also I might remove the Collective plot,,,maybe idk

(Character descriptions under the cut, since I know they’re hard to read)

WELCOME TO THE ROBLOXIAN PARANORMAL INSTITUTE! (Aka, the RB institute for short. A bunch of AU doodles.)

(From left to right, top to bottom)

POKE ‘ZACHARY’ DIGER: Where has he gone?

NOT-POKE: Aka, the Not-Them! Totally Poke. Totally :)

DEEJAY MONOPOLI: When he’s not hunting monsters. Also technically Russo’s bodyguard.

TANQR TITANIUM: Murderous! That’s not a good thing.

LEGO P.G.H.L FILMS - HUNT!LEGO: Just a normal teenager. Sooooo normal. Yeah, he’s not normal.

SABRINA BRITE: Web ::( Evil lady?

PRESTON PLAYZ: Desolation :)

BOOSHOT MISTR: Hunt!

JAY-BEE BOLTER: The Web?

CREEP + SPIN HEADPHONE: Buried + Slaughter. The family that slays together stays together.

JUSTIN ‘THINK’ NOODLES: Ex-Archival Staff. Also, Zombies!

PINK LEAF: Tried to cheat death. Death punished him for it. 

(Both of these two are associated with the End. (TYPO: END, NOT THE EYE, WHOOPS)

OMINOUS NEBULA: Yes, he’s Night-Foxx’s brother.

ASHLEY UNICORN: Marked by the Buried.

DYLAN ‘HYPER’ PLAYS: The ‘Hyper’ stands for hyperventilating. 

TIMOTHY ‘TIMMEH’ EIRL: Actually, John Doe’s possessed him. I’m not making a child a major villain.

CHIZELED FLOCK: Avatar of the Lonely. Also joins the Collective.

NIGHT-FOXX NEBULA: Space induced depression!

RUSSO TALKS: Also the Big Bad. Horrible, evil >:(

KREEK CRAFT / ‘THE ARCHIVIST’: Our protagonist. You wanna get some trauma? 

DAN T.D. MINECART: DanTDM must make a cameo, my name is literally YanDan

DENIS DAILY: Lost his ability to feel fear. Whoops.

BELLA CINDER: Forced into the Collective. Maybe next time don’t take deals from children.

[petergerakaris]

Caravan (Owl Painting), 84 in. x 84 in., Oil on canvas. 2012. National Museum of Wildlife Art Permanent Collection (Jackson, WY). Purchased with funds generously donated by Adrienne & John Mars. Artwork & images ©Peter D. Gerakaris. All Rights Reserved. TRAVELING EXHIBIT: UN/NATURAL SELECTIONS: WILDLIFE IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Installation Views & Museum Preview at The Huson River Museum (Yonkers, NY)

OCTOBER 13, 2023 – JANUARY 14, 2024

From Julie Buffalohead and Kiki Smith to Walton Ford and James Prosek, the artists in this exhibition represent another stage in the evolution of animal art. Wild animals have been present in art since the first artists painted images on cave walls or carved figures in stone tens of thousands of years ago. Today’s artists continue to use animal imagery as away to address humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world. Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, explores the meaning of these creative expressions within the context of contemporary art. Featuring a diverse group of more than forty artworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition offers a wide range of styles in a variety of media, divided into four thematic sections: Tradition, Politics,Science, and Aesthetics. These realms act as overlapping chapters, investigating the ways we use animal imagery to tackle human concerns and responsibilities. The title of this exhibition is a play on Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection from his pivotal writing, On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin’s ideas contributed much to the development of wildlife art in the late nineteenth century, as artists began to represent animals in natural habitats, enacting natural behaviors. From Julie Buffalohead and Kiki Smith to Walton Ford and James Prosek, the artists in this exhibition represent another stage in the evolution of animal art: choosing to represent animals in alternative, unnatural spaces—spaces more often directly linked to civilization than to wilderness. LEARN MORE

FEATURED ARTISTS Troy Abbott • Timothy Berg and Rebekah Myers • George Boorujy • John Buck • Julie Buffalohead • Mark Dion • Mark Eberhard • Dave Eggers • Juan Fontanive • Walton Ford • Scott Fraser • Peter Gerakaris • Gillie and Marc • Penelope Gottlieb • Starr Hardridge • Nicola Hicks • Dennis Hlynsky • Barbara Kassel • Zoe Keller • Wendy Klemperer • Kollabs, Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey • Emily Lamb • Ruth Marshall • Wendy Maruyama • Robert McCauley • William Morris • Marc Petrovic • James Prosek • Shelley Reed • Preston Singletary • Allison Leigh Smith • Kiki Smith • Shawn Smith • Lauren Strohacker and Kendra Sollars • William Sweetlove • Leslie Thornton • Paul Villinski • JenMarie Zeleznak

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art is organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Generous support provided by Art Bridges.

[fridaythe13ththeseries]

The Maestro

Episode Recap #49: The Maestro Original Airdate: May 27, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Colm Feore as Anton Pascola Cynthia Preston as Grace Colwell (as Cyndy Preston) Karen Woolridge as Susan Cartier Patric A. Creelman as Thomas Manning (as Patric Creelman) Sonya Delwaide as Anne Marcotti Jadson Caldeira as Adam Brown Abbott Anderson as Gus Carole Galloway as Mrs. Eunice Lear

Written by Karen Janigan Directed by Timothy Bond

~~~~~~~~~~

A couple is laying on the floor, gasping for air, as their teacher bangs his cane on the floor and demands they keep dancing. They get to their feet, he restarts the old symphonia and tells them to follow along with the music. He records them as they dance, still exhausted and begging to stop. The music plays on, they begin to dance out of their own control as he continues to shout "Dance!" Suddenly, they both dance right out the windows and to their death. Anton closes the music box.

Later, Jack, Micki, Ryan and a young woman, Grace, are sitting in a theater for a performance of Anton Pascola's dance troupe. Micki said she saw him dance once, and Grace is thrilled that she's been asked to join his troupe. An announcer states that the leads of Romeo and Juliet will be played by other dancers, and Grace tells them the lead dancers committed suicide together.

The dance begins, and backstage, a woman, Anne, tries to talk to Anton. She wants a better role in the show. Anton roughly tells her she isn't good enough. She begs for another chance. He notices her desperation and tells her to come to his studio tonight.

After the show, Grace and the guys go to see Anton, and she is nervous. Anton welcomes Grace and Jack into his office. Seems Jack is a good friend of her father and is looking out for her. Anton says his dancers must be strict and follows his rules for no distractions, only live to dance. Grace is awed by Anton. Jack tells Anton he is looking forward to Anton's Lady of Sheba, and Anton says he has yet to finish the choreography. Anton gives Grace a videotape to study, and Jack notices an antique symphonia. Anton doesn't let Jack touch it. He then tells Grace he sees potential in her. She agrees.

At Curious Goods, Grace is studying the tape when Jack says he has spoken with her father, who is worried. Grace reminds Jack she is 18 and this is what she wants to do. Jack reminds her him and Micki and Ryan are here for her. Jack sees the tape and Grace says Anton is strict about who he allows in his studio. Grace tells Jack she has to concentrate.

Anton is watching the tape when the desperate dancer Anne arrives. He needs five more minutes of choreography to finish his dance. He has Anne place her hand on the symphonia and repeat that she dedicates her body and soul to the dance. He turns the machine on and she begins to dance.

At the store, Jack opens the manifest and looks for music boxes.

Anne continues to dance as Anton records. She is having pain and he pushes her on, the music box forcing her to do his bidding. She dances, in pain and out of control, bleeding. She collapses and dies. Anton is upset to have only gotten one new sequence from her.

The next day, Anton greets Grace as Ryan drops her off. Anton reiterates no distractions, thinking Ryan is a boyfriend. Ryan tells her he will pick her up later. The other dancers are worried that he hasn't finished the choreography, and that Anne hasn't arrived. Anton says she quit. Rehearsal begins.

Jack finds the symphonia in the manifest. He tells Micki Anton had one in his office. He is suspicious about that and the recent suicides. Micki begins to see Jack's point.

Anton pushes the dancers to exhaustion, demanding more. He tells them Grace should be a model for them all, impressed with her only.

Jack makes a call to the person who had purchased the symphonia but learns that person died. Ryan comes back and is filled in. Jack saw Anton using it on the tape Grace had. He tells Ryan to investigate when he picks up Grace.

Jack and Micki visit the mother of the dead man who originally bought the music box from Lewis. She is reluctant to talk about it. She says to ask the man who her son gave it to, Anton. Her son was a dancer with Anton when the man hurt his leg. Anton couldn't dance but worked her son to dance to his death. She can't prove it, but believes it to be true.

Anton wants Grace to dance his final, yet unfinished dance. She does as she is told.

Ryan arrives and finds the dancers in post-dance mode. A therapist is working on one of them, Ryan compliments them for their performances last night. Ryan prods them about the suicides, and hears the woman says Anne still isn't answering. He comments on Anton's perfectionism. They say he is good, whether dancers like it or not. They think he can create great art.

Anton is pushing Grace, telling her she can do it, even though she herself is unsure. He thinks she could be the one. He says he wants to teach her all he knows. She must live the dance, and to move in with him. She is surprised. He continues to flatter her, then has her place her hand on the symphonia and repeat the oath. Then he kisses her hand.

Ryan and Grace arrive back at the store, and Ryan tells a shocked Jack about Anton's offer. Grace is thrilled. But Jack is dumbfounded. She rushes off to study, and Jack is worried, but Grace trusts him and goes off to study. They then fill Ryan in that Anton does have the cursed item, and that each time he creates a new piece, dancers die. Ryan tells them six have been lost since he started this new dance, The Legend of Sheba, some missing, some dead. Jack seems to understand that the music box only gives the dancers a piece of the dance.

Grace watches the tape, studying the moves, not noticing how each bit is played by different dancers, and that the tape cuts off right before each died.

Anton addresses his troupe and tells them only one of them is good enough for the lead, and that it will be Grace, to the shock of the others. He ignores them. The female dancer confronts him about this, and he slaps her. Then strikes her harder and tells her to accept it or leave. She defiantly says she can complete the last few minutes he needs, so he tells her to come to his studio tonight.

Ryan and Micki arrive at the missing Anne's apartment and go inside. The place is empty, but the look to see if clothes are missing but find all in place. Micki then opens the other closet door and they find Anne hanging, dead.

At Curious Goods, our trio tries to figure out how to stop Anton. Jack goes to try and talk sense into Grace, who is packing to leave for Anton's. She is excited, and Jack struggles to change her mind. Grace says she has a lot of work to do, and not to worry. Jack mentions all the deaths, but it doesn't phase her. She trusts Anton, but Jack begs her to stay, and she eventually gives in.

At the studio, Anton again has the oath recited by the female dancer and she begins. At the store, Grace grabs her bags and sneaks out. Anton and the symphonia again push, the woman dancing past pain until she crashes through the mirror and dies. Anton is upset she didn't finish what he wanted. He doesn't realize Grace was watching.

At the next rehearsal, he is telling the troupe about dancing and pain and about Susan's death. He says it is opening night tonight, and wonders why Grace is late. She arrives, and they begin. The dancers get to the end of the choreography and wonder how they can go on tonight if he hasn't finished. He tells them to take a break, angry at them all.

Ryan tries to open Anton's cabinet, looking for the symphonia. Anton arrives and Jack tries to say they wanted to talk about Grace, but Anton tells them to get out. He opens a desk drawer and withdraws the antique.

Later, Grace arrives at Anton's request. He tells her the final duet will be an improvisation. She says she can do it if he believes she can. He is sad to have to lose her so soon, and they kiss. Soon the curtain rises.

Jack, Micki and Ryan try to plan what to do. Jack thinks Grace is safe, since Anton only uses the symphonia for choreography. Micki is worried, and finds the tape of Anton's choreography. They play the tape and see the dancers that have all gone missing or died. Jack knows the symphonia only gives him a piece at a time. Then they see the recording of Grace giving the oath. They rush to the theater, Micki and Ryan running when Jack is stuck in traffic.

At the dance, they arrive to see the performance and grab Grace to free her, but Anton hits Ryan with his cane. Anton wants the lead male to give the oath, but the man quits, so Anton takes his place. He turns off the music, goes on stage with the symphonia. Everyone quietly watches as he turns the machine on. He then recites the oath, standing with his cane, which he tosses aside. He then begins the dance with Grace, as a montage of all the deaths plays. The two continue to dance, and bleed, and push forward, eventually completing the dance and collapsing on the stage and dying. Jack arrives and turns off the symphonia, but is too late. And unaware audience gives a standing ovation.

Arriving back at the store, Jack angrily demands a rag to wipe the blood off the symphonia. He kicks over furniture and pushes Ryan away. He throws items off the counter, and Ryan grabs him. Micki tries to convince him Grace couldn't have been convinced to stop, and they both hold Jack as he breaks down and cries.

~~~~~~~~~~

My thoughts:

Grace only informs Jack and all that the lead dancers killed themselves after the announcer relates their replacements? Seems like that kind of news would be the first thing you tell them, and all over the local news!

The antique offers a different curse, making Anton to give more and more bodies to keep getting pieces of his choreography. Again, it feels like there is some sort of awareness to the curse. Like was their a specific demon in charge? Kidding, but it is weird.

The amount of deaths around Anton should be huge red flags to the cops, and the other dancers, but it all just seems like "oh well, such is the life of a dancer!" What?

Grace spying Anton pushing the woman to die seems like a moment she would snap out of it, and I thought maybe she was secretly working with Jack and all to stop Anton, but no. She just keeps on dancing and doing what Anton wants. Not the brightest. Or maybe, after giving the oath on the antique, she was already held in the grip of the curse and unable to do otherwise?

And with all the death surrounding them and the store, why did Jack even say okay to letting Grace stay with them? I mean, in the end, she was involved with Anton regardless of her connection to Jack, but seems like a bad idea.

At the end, when Anton knocks out Ryan, why didn't Micki do anything to stop the dance? She knew about the symphonia, but it isn't closed until Jack finally gets there and closes it. Micki is way smarter than that, and Ryan would have understood her leaving him for a moment to stop a cursed item. Not good.

Jack snapping at the end is good, though. He tried to figure out how to keep Grace away, but in the end, she wouldn't listen. Hate the phone call to her dad he has to make.

Next week: The Shaman's Apprentice

[gyerangyeran]

I don’t draw a lot of variation in sizes and shapes so when revising my old oc’s i decided to try it out. It’s wild that I have finally have an oc that doesn’t have the middle part hairstyle 

[worldofwardcraft]

The unconscionably untaxed.

November 22, 2021

They called it the Gilded Age — the period from the Civil War to the turn of the century. It was an era of astonishing economic growth and just as shocking wealth inequality. By 1913, the top 1% (including the likes of Rockefeller, Frick and Carnegie) owned 45% of the nation's wealth. Today, that 1% once again own nearly 40% of the total wealth. And their share is still climbing!

Sadly, it's our own government that is eagerly assisting these over-moneyed few in their unending quest to acquire even bigger bankrolls. It starts, of course, with the tax cuts whose benefits chiefly accrue to the rich that get pushed through every time the Republicans are in charge. But that's only part of how the federal government shovels money upward.

Take, for example, the $2.2 trillion COVID relief package called the CARES Act that was passed in March 2020. It included emergency payments to struggling American households. But plenty of non-struggling billionaires also nosed up to the trough.

Corporate raider Ira Rennert (worth $3.7 billion, according to Forbes) got a relief check from the government. So did prominent hedge fund manager George Soros (worth $8.6 billion), as well as Forrest Preston ($1.2 billion), founder of Life Care Centers of America, one of the largest long-term care companies in the US.

In fact, ProPublica found 270 well-heeled taxpayers who collectively disclosed $5.7 billion in income, according to their previous tax returns, but who were able to claim such massive deductions that they all listed negative net incomes on their tax returns. And therefore qualified for those relief checks.

That's right. Beyond not having to pay income taxes in the first place, our needy billionaires even get refunds. For instance, Timothy Headington is an oil mogul and real estate developer who's worth $1.4 billion and had $62 million in income in 2018. But after $342 million in write-offs, his income was negative $280 million.

Same for Rennert, whose $64 million in income that year was erased by $355 million in deductions, for a final total of negative $291 million. Then there's long-time tax dodger Robert Dart, former CEO of Dart Container (they make those red go-cups.) He reported income exceeding $300 million, but deductions left him with a taxable income of negative $39 million.

Asked what he thought about billionaires receiving stimulus checks, Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), responded, “The tax code is simply not equipped to tax billionaires fairly, or even ensure they pay anything at all.” He forgot to add, "Welcome to the new Gilded Age."

[australias-next-top-disaster]

DSMP CAMP CAMP AU

My adhd spiraling ass saw this video and started asking myself who other characters would be. I have now spiraled and here is what i have lmao

philza: mr campbell (cus hes hardly around lmfao. David also looks up to him at first so that works)

Wilbur: david (i feel like this just makes sense. Hes like a big brother to tommy, hes a bit chaotic and just overall gives off similar vibes)

Vilbur: daniel (i feel like this is self explanatory. Its also why i pushed to say willbur is david lol)

Techno: gwen (the nonchalant person who has to put up with shit and just wants to do something else def works. Hed rather be farming potatoes than looking after kids)

Tommy: max (hes mad, traumatized and has to deal with shit but also enjoys some things every now and then)

Tubbo: niki (if someone says tubbo isnt chaotic i will fight you.)

Ranboo: neil (the quieter one that constantly questions if something is a good idea but overall is along for the ride)

Ranboo in enderwalk: neil-bot (this just made me laugh cause the coincidence that this exists and ranboo is neil)

Dream team: flower scouts (idk exactly who is who but the idea of the dream team as a group being the flower scouts is DEF true. Also if dream was tabii thatd work for the whole ranboo situation but like not in the romantic sense that tabi is obsessed with neil)

Schlatt: either dolph or edward pikeman (im leaning edward pikeman just because tyranical leader fits)

Karl: preston goodplay? (Mainly cause of the stories of the dsmp)

Fundy: harrison? (Because of the magic he does in modding mc and stuff)

Callahan: scotty (he appears only once but he fits cuz neither speak and just ye)

Slimecicle: space kid? (Cause of his optimism and general innocence)

Hbomb: nerris (cause he likes what you could call roleplaying)

Eret: erin (cause of his coolness lol)

Also for the laughs:

DreamXD: quartermaster (because dreamxd has to deal with stupid things like techno "turning a end portal into a table")

Jeremy fartz: mexican dream (lmfao its not quite right but made me laugh)

Platypus: the egg (is chaotic. Tries to kill peple and just rabid lol)

Tubbo's nukes: timothy the eagle

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When Rock & Roll Was Young / Various Artists

All discs in like new condition.

This box set includes 140 tunes on 10 CDs.

Disc 1:

1. Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon

2. Big Boy Pete - The Olympics

3. One Kiss for Old Times' Sake - Ronnie Dove

4. Trouble in Paradise - The Crests

5. Once in a While - The Chimes

6. Running Bear - Johnny Preston

7. When We Get Married - The Dreamlovers

8. A Million to One - Jimmy Charles

9. Guardian Angel - The Imaginations

10. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddy Cannon

11. Timothy - The Buoys

12. Take Me as I Am - The Duprees

13. Valerie - Jackie & the Starlites

14. Willow Weep for Me - Chad & Jeremy

Disc 2:

1. Try the Impossible - Lee Andrews & The Hearts

2. Trickle Trickle - The Videos

3. What's Your Name - Don & Juan

4. The Gleam in Your Eye - Earl Lewis & The Channels

5. My Own True Love - The Duprees

6. Wine, Wine, Wine - The Nightcaps

7. Till Then - The Classics

8. Heart's Desire - The Avalons

9. Right or Wrong - Ronnie Dove

10. What Time Is It - The Jive Five

11. Pretty Little Angel - The Crests

12. The Closer You Are - Earl Lewis & The Channels

13. Action - Freddy Cannon

14. Feel So Fine - Johnny Preston

Disc 3:

1. One Summer Night - The Danleers

2. Tell Me Why - The Belmonts

3. Step by Step - The Crests

4. Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band

5. Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy

6. Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon

7. Baby Oh Baby - The Shells

8. Loop De Loop - Johnny Thunder

9. Why Don't You Believe Me - The Duprees

10. Dance by the Light of the Moon - The Olympics

11. Mountain of Love - Ronnie Dove

12. Don't, Don't Don't Drop Out - Ronnie & The Schoolmates

13. Teardrops - Lee Andrews & The Hearts

14. Pipeline - The Chantays

Disc 4:

1. Have You Heard - The Duprees

2. Peanut Butter - The Marathons

3. Sandy - Larry Hall

4. Mixed-up, Shook-up Girl - Patty & The Emblems

5. Cradle of Love - Johnny Preston

6. Moonlight Cocktails - The Riveras

7. Beach Baby - First Class

8. Solitaire - The Embers

9. Deserie - The Charts

10. Six Nights a Week - The Crests

11. Goodnight Baby - The Imaginations

12. Transistor Sister - Freddy Cannon

13. Say You - Ronnie Dove

14. You Gave Me Somebody to Love - The Dreamlovers

Disc 5:

1. Wild Thing - The Troggs

2. Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys

3. A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders

4. Western Union - The Five Americans

5. Hats Off to Larry - Del Shannon

6. California Sun - The Rivieras

7. Crimson & Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells

8. The Boy from New York City - The Ad-Libs

9. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las

10. Devil With a Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

11. Love Is All Around - The Troggs

12. Sugar Sugar - The Archies

13. The Game of Love - Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

14. I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells

Disc 6:

1. Jim Dandy - Lavern Baker

2. Lipstick on Your Collar - Connie Francis

3. Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee

4. Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes

5. Eddie My Love - The Teen Queens

6. Lollipop - The Chordettes

7. Born Too Late - The Poni-Tails

8. What a Difference a Day Makes - Dinah Washington

9. Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens

10. Ivory Tower - Cathy Carr

11. Teach Me Tonight - The DeCastro Sisters

12. Tonight You Belong to Me - Patience & Prudence

13. Don't You Know - Della Reese

14. Cry Me a River - Julie London

Disc 7:

1. Sixteen Candles - The Crests

2. Cara Mia - Jay & The Americans

3. At the Hop - Danny & The Juniors

4. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds

5. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry

6. Runaway - Del Shannon

7. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters

8. Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

9. Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters

10. This I Swear - The Skyliners

11. Maybe - The Chantels

12. Let's Hang On - The Four Seasons

13. La Bamba - Ritchie Valens

14. Shout! - The Isley Brothers

Disc 8:

1. Earth Angel - The Penguins

2. Since I Don't Have You - The Skyliners

3. You Belong to Me - The Duprees

4. Sherry - The Four Seasons

5. I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos

6. Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & The Imperials

7. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets

8. My Girl - The Temptations

9. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino

10. The Great Pretender - The Platters

11. Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

12. California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas

13. Do You Love Me - The Contours

14. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick

Disc 9:

1. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis

2. All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers

3. I Wonder Why - Dion & The Belmonts

4. You Cheated - The Shields

5. I'm So Young - The Students

6. Book of Love - The Monotones

7. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

8. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

9. Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

10. Stormy Weather - The Spaniels

11. The Angels Listened In - The Crests

12. Susie Q - Dale Hawkins

13. Short Shorts - The Royal Teens

14. Church Bells May Ring - The Willows

Disc 10:

1. Lightnin' Strikes - Lou Christie

2. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass

3. Downtown - Petula Clark

4. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett

5. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam

6. The Rain, The Park and Other Things - The Cowsills

7. My Booyfriend's Back - The Angels

8. No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry

9. But I Do - Clarence "Frogman" Henry

10. Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis

11. Wolly Bully - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

12. It's My Party - Leslie Gore

13. You're the One - The Vogues

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[curiosusdea]

Video Game Questionnaire

Tagged by @magicalcrusaderfruit

Rules: Fill in your answers and tag some friends!

<<GAMES>>

First game you ever played: Like first first would probably Super Mario World on the SNES. Being the youngest of 3 I only really got to play when one of my other sister would get tired of it since they’d tag team it as Mario and Luigi without me. 

Favorite game: Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines my dude. It’s the game that actually fully got me into gaming. Especially PC gaming. As a kid I for some reason thought PC gaming was a whole new horrible world since I grew up with consoles mostly. Bloodlines helped me realize I honestly prefer PC and that there’s a whole world out there of not co-op or multiplayer games (which I was restricted to growing up due to having siblings. We weren’t really allowed many non multiplayer or co-op games since that would leave people out and such).

Game you hated at first but now love: Arkham Knight. I was part of the group that went for the PC release and decided to power through the lag and terrible frames and just overall broken hell to finish it. It was a terrible experience but I needed it. After it got all fixed way later I actually came to really enjoy it.

Game you used to love but now hate: Knights of the Old Republic. Now, hear me out it’s a good game and all but I’ve just gotten kinda bored with it. Played it too many times I guess. Plus I’m actually not that huge of a Star Wars fan so there’s not a giant draw from a fandom level for me. 

Game with the best group / companion(s): Dragon Age: Origins

A game with your favorite ending: Portal 2.

A game with the worst ending: Imma agree with Magical here and say Fallout 4. Just, why?

Best character customization: That’s not a hentai game? Skyrim. Unmodded it’s already pretty good when it comes to variety but mod that shit and it’s beauty. 

<< HEROES AND COMPANIONS >>

Your favorite playable character: Zero from Borderlands. He’s a babe and I honestly just love Borderlands. Plus his skills are basically when I tend to go for in games so it makes for the perfect set up for me. 

The funniest playable character: My boy Timothy the Jack Doppleganger. Helps that one of his possible skills is Jack coming on to spew “inspiring” thoughts. 

Your favorite companion(s): 

Dragon Age - FUCKING CULLEN (he’s top tier husband material and I fucking waited patiently for Inquisition just to finally husband this bastard), Alistair

Skyrim- Cicero, Serana, Marcurio

Fallout - NICK!, MacCready, Curie (I may be biased due to name but you know she’s wife material), Dogmeat, Lily

Mass Effect - Liara, Tali

Star Wars - Carth, Atton

Companions you could live without: 

Fallout - Cait, Piper, Preston, X6-88, Clover, anyone in New Vegas minus Lily (seriously maybe part of my lack of fondness from the game stems from the fact I can’t stand any of the companions)

Mass Effect - Ashley, Jack, Kaidan

Dragon Age - Fucking Solas (I hate this bastard with a fucking passion like ugh I just I cant), Shale, Oghren, Vivienne

<<RELATIONSHIPS>>

Favorite game relationship(s): Inquisitor/Cullen, Geralt/Yen, Darien Gautier/FemVestige. Yeah I know it’s not like a full on relationship but but he’s beautiful and I love him. And I mean if you count Smolder Scrolls as being cannon it works.

Favorite companion banter: Dragon Age: Origins. Just but Alistair in with Morrigan and it’s a good time. Or Alistair with literally anyone. 

A relationship you loved but went bad: AGAIN DARIEN. My love. Why must we be separated. Also need I say Yuri from Doki Doki?

A relationship you weren’t sure of but loved: Honestly, when I started Mass Effect I wasn’t sure about Liara. Like I started with a thing with Kaidan but grew to dislike him and when I tried a second save I thought ok I’ll try Liara. Never looked back.

A character you wish you COULD romance: OK I’m not a furry buuuut Razum-dar. Let me romance that cat. Smolder Scrolls just made me want to romance him even more. Why do you tease me ESO. 

A minor character you wish could be a companion: Ser Gilmore. He deserved better

<<FUN>>

Shoutout to a random NPC: To that random merchant just happening to walk by a dungeon in Skyrim as I finished looting it and decided to carry fucking everything out- I love you. You know how long it woulda taken me to get back to a city to fucking sell that shit? You saved my life sir.

A game you love watching playthroughs for and want to play: Right now it’s Predator Hunting Grounds

Love watching playthroughs but won’t ever play: Dead by Daylight. I used to love the game but after some toxic hell I don’t play anymore. Still fun to watch though.

Online gaming or solo?: Solo unless it’s specifically with friends. I’m not fond of MMOs or playing with strangers. 

Why do you play video games?: Because it’s fun. I get to be whoever and get to explore without consequence. 

Uh I don’t really know who to tag so if you wanna try it go ahead. 

[peabodyawards]

Clark Johnson Accepting the 2001 Peabody Award for “Boycott”

Boycott returns to events that should by now be among the most famous and familiar accounts of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Once again, a movement takes shape. But in this retelling we go behind and beyond the public record. In Boycott we explore the personal emotions, the domestic struggles, and the unknown conflicts that precede and under gird courage. We explore the consequences of moral choices. And we are reminded that these and similar choices must still be confronted one by one, by individuals and by society, if we are all to live free at last.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/boycott

[letterspatentbrf]

1,000th Knight of the Garter - Prince William

22nd of April, 2008

(original press release via wayback machine)

weblink: https://web.archive.org/web/20080604123701/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page6247.asp

Buckingham Palace press releases

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW APPOINTMENT TO THE ORDER OF THE GARTER

22 April 2008 THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales to be a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Prince William becomes the 1000th Knight in the Register.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable the Lord Luce, GCVO, DL and Sir Thomas Dunne, KCVO, to be Knights Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Notes for Editors: Members of the Royal family are additional to the established number of 24 Companions.  The Duke of Edinburgh was created a Knight in 1947 by King George VI, The Prince of Wales in 1958, The Duke of Kent in 1985, The Princess Royal in 1994, The Duke of Gloucester in 1997 and Princess Alexandra in 2003.  The Duke of York and The Earl of Wessex were both created Knights in 2006.

The appointment of the Knights and Ladies of the Garter is in The Queen's gift (i.e. without Prime Ministerial advice).  Appointments to the Order of the Garter are therefore in the same category as the Order of the Thistle, the Order of Merit and the Royal Victorian Order which are also in The Queen's gift.  Today's announcement brings the number of Companion Knights to the maximum number of 24.

Lord Luce was Lord Chamberlain from 2000 to 2006.  Sir Thomas Dunne is Lord-Lieutenant of Hereford (since 1977) and Chairman of the Lord Lieutenants Association. Find out more about the Order of the Garter

THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER

SOVEREIGN OF THE ORDER THE QUEEN

LADIES OF THE ORDER HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL, 23rd April, 1994. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, THE HONOURABLE LADY OGILVY, 23rd April, 2003.

ROYAL KNIGHTS COMPANION HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, 19th November, 1947. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, 26th July, 1958. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF KENT, 9th October, 1985. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, 23rd April, 1997. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, 23rd April, 2006 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE EARL OF WESSEX, 23rd April, 2006 EXTRA KNIGHTS COMPANION AND LADIES OF THE ORDER HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GRAND DUKE JEAN OF LUXEMBOURG, 14th June, 1972. HER MAJESTY MARGRETHE II, QUEEN OF DENMARK, 16th May, 1979. HIS MAJESTY CARL XVI GUSTAF, KING OF SWEDEN, 25th May, 1983. HIS MAJESTY JUAN CARLOS I, KING OF SPAIN, 17th October, 1988. HER MAJESTY BEATRIX, QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, 28th June, 1989. HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY AKIHITO, EMPEROR OF JAPAN, 26th May, 1998. HIS MAJESTY HARALD V, KING OF NORWAY, 30th May, 2001.

OFFICERS OF THE ORDER Prelate The Bishop of Winchester (The Right Reverend Michael Charles SCOTT-JOYNT) Chancellor The Right Honourable Lord CARRINGTON, K.G., G.C.M.G., C.H., M.C. Register The Dean of Windsor (The Right Reverend David John CONNER) Garter King of Arms Peter Llewellyn GWYNN-JONES, ESQ., C.V.O. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Lieutenant General Sir Michael Alan WILLCOCKS, K.C.B. Secretary Patric Laurence DICKINSON, L.V.O. Richmond Herald of Arms COMPANIONS (maximum 24) The Most Noble Hugh Denis Charles, Duke of GRAFTON, K.G.  23rd April, 1976. The Right Honourable Gordon William Humphreys, Lord RICHARDSON OF DUNTISBOURNE, K.G., M.B.E., T.D.  22nd April, 1983. The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert, Lord CARRINGTON, K.G., G.C.M.G., C.H., M.C.  23rd April, 1985. The Most Noble Arthur Valerian, Duke of WELLINGTON, K.G., L.V.O., O.B.E., M.C.  23rd April, 1990. Field Marshal the Right Honourable Edwin Noel Westby, Lord BRAMALL, K.G., G.C.B., O.B.E., M.C.  23rd April, 1990. The Right Honourable Matthew White, Viscount RIDLEY, K.G., G.C.V.O., T.D.  23rd April, 1992. The Right Honourable John Davan, Lord SAINSBURY OF PRESTON CANDOVER, K.G.  23rd April, 1992. The Right Honourable John Francis Harcourt, Lord ASHBURTON, K.G., K.C.V.O.  23rd April, 1994. The Right Honourable Robert, Lord KINGSDOWN, K.G.  23rd April, 1994. The Right Honourable Sir Ninian Martin STEPHEN, K.G., A.K., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.B.E., Q.C.  23rd April, 1994. The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda, Lady THATCHER, L.G., O.M., F.R.S.  22nd April, 1995. Sir Timothy James Alan COLMAN, K.G.  23rd April, 1996. The Most Noble James, Duke of ABERCORN, K.G.  23rd April, 1999. Sir Erskine William GLADSTONE, Bt., K.G.  23rd April, 1999. Field Marshal the Right Honourable Peter Anthony, Lord INGE, K.G., G.C.B.  23rd April, 2001. Sir Antony Arthur ACLAND, K.G., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.  23rd April, 2001. The Most Noble Gerald Cavendish, Duke of WESTMINSTER, K.G., O.B.E., T.D.  23rd April, 2003. The Right Honourable Frederick Edward Robin, Lord BUTLER OF BROCKWELL, K.G., G.C.B., C.V.O.  23rd April, 2003. The Right Honourable John, Lord MORRIS OF ABERAVON, K.G., Q.C.  23rd April, 2003. Mary, The Right Honourable Lady SOAMES, L.G., D.B.E.  23rd April, 2005. The Right Honourable Thomas Henry, Lord BINGHAM OF CORNHILL, K.G.  23rd April, 2005. The Right Honourable Sir John MAJOR, K.G., C.H.  23rd April, 2005.

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[riley1cannon]

10 most read authors From @books-on-a-wire‘s post, there is a feature in Goodreads which shows your most read authors (as shelved in your collections).

Rex Stout 46 Yep, this would be from when I ploughed through his Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin books, many years ago now. I did recently read a pastiche by Robert Goldsborough, Murder in E Minor, which did a good job of capturing the feel of the books as best I remember. It has me tempted to pick out a few of the old books and revisit. My only other contact with Nero and Archie in recent memory was the TV series starring Timothy Hutton.

Elizabeth Peters 29 OK, if you add the seven books written under the name Barabara Michaels, plus her two non-fiction Egyptology books written under her real name of Barbara Mertz, this number jumps to 38. The bulk of that 29 is from a couple of years ago, when I managed to read through her entire Amelia Peabody series. (And having done that, a project for the new year may be revisiting that series as well, but at a slower pace.) The rest would be the Vicky Bliss books, a couple of Jacqueline Kirby’s, and some standalones.

Ellis Peters 24 Another one of fond memory. Just took the last Cadfael book off the shelf and was astonished to see it was published twenty-four years ago this month. It doesn’t seem that long. It’s starting to look like 2019 will be the year of the rereads... Hmm. But 24... Okay, that has to include one collection of short stories, another gorgeous hardcover that contains the text of the first two Cadfael novels, along with a section of text and photos related to the world of the books, and one book from her other mystery series... Aha! The George Felse one! (Had to look it up.) Throw in her A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury, written as Edith Pargeter, and this number gets bumped up to 25.

Agatha Christie 22 This one is a mix of rereading, and encountering some of other of her books for the first time, and is of recent origin. Didn’t get to too many this year, just Sleeping Murder (unless I sneak in one or two before the end of the year), but it’s been fun to go back and rediscover her. She holds up much better than first anticipated. Thanks has to go to the television adaptations, especially Poirot and Marple, and that 10th Doctor episode about Agatha’s infamous disappearance, for bringing me back into the Christie fold.

Martha Grimes 17 This is all the Richard Jury and Melrose Plant mysteries. Except it should be 19. Maybe I never recorded a couple of them? Will have to go and check later. And there are still four or five more to go. I like the first batch of the series better than some of the later books, but the characters are always such good company that flaws in the stories can be forgiven. A few of those first books have been reread so many times they’re starting to fall apart.

Douglas Preston 17 First, that should be Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I haven’t as yet read any of their solo novels. Second, and I had to check this, I cannot believe that number is real. (It is.) The bloom has gone off the rose and all that, but I can remember when it was a thrill to get my hands on the latest Agent Pendergast. 

John D. MacDonald 15 This would be the Travis McGee series, which I haven’t visited in quite awhile now. Someday I will resume and get back to where I started ages and ages ago, The Dreadful Lemon Sky, and then proceed to the last books in the series. No idea how Travis holds up in the 21st century, but hopefully any of his 1960s ‘sins’ aren’t so glaring they can’t be forgiven. 

Janet Evanovich 15 It kind of floors me that the Stephanie Plum series is up to twenty-five books at this point, not counting some sidetrip books that I never got around to having a look at. Make no mistake, when I first picked up One For the Money back in the day, I was happy to get on the Stephanie Plum train and stay there for a long time. Sometime around book eight or nine, though, the magic started to fade, and I hopped off for good at book fifteen. It was a treat while it lasted, and some of those first books got multiple readings, so that’s in no way a bad thing. 

Mary Stewart 14 Yes! Okay, four of these would be her Arthurian trilogy + her Mordred novel, where she did the impossible and made me sympathize with him. Then I discovered she had also written a batch of gothic romance/romantic suspense novels, and could not get my hands on them fast enough. There are still a couple of titles missing from my collection, and I have yet to give Thunder On the Right a second chance, but she is one of those authors that is as close to a sure bet as you can get. 

Robert Crais 13 This would be his Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series of private eye thrillers. I’ve been reading this one in a roundabout fashion for awhile now. Started with the first two, The Monkey’s Raincoat and Stalking the Angel, and then jumped ahead to L.A. Requiem, and fell into this pattern of reading one of the older titles, and then one of the newer ones, and finally got caught up in the timestream last year (although I’m a few recent books behind now). The climaxes are usually action-packed shoot-’em-ups that I tend to skim through, but that’s my only complaint. Well, and that we never get enough of the cat who loves Elvis and Joe and hates everyone else.

Honorable mentions: Charles Todd, the mother and son team behind the Ian Rutledge mysteries (shell-shocked Scotland Yard detective just back from the Great War, haunted by the battlefield and one particular soldier). Haven’t read their Bess Crawford books yet, but hope to soon. Victoria Holt & Nora Roberts, at nine books each. Victoria, alas, does not hold up well, but I’m still good with Nora. Rhys Bowen comes in with eight books; that would be four Molly Murphys, and four Lady Georgianas. I like Molly, but Lady Georgie is my favorite. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also comes it at eight. And Amanda Quick, Dorothy Sayers, David Eddings, and Lauren Willig all clock in at six. Willig will soon be seven; and Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz is likely to increase by several volumes in the new year.

[whatisonthemoon]

There Will Be No Ansu in Hyung Jin Because Hyung Jin Didn’t Believe in “Dae Mo Nim”

In the fall of 2021, Tim Elder assured a Vice reporter that there will be no ansu at the “new Cheongpyeong” being developed by the Sanctuary Church movement in Tennessee:

“There will be no ‘ansu’ activity,” Timothy Elder, director of world missions, wrote in an email. “We have no intention of repeating these excesses at the Tennessee property.” 

This is a relief to hear. So many 2nd generation have shocking experiences and traumas from ansu ceremonies, including the nude “medical ansu.” Nobody deserves to be in an atmosphere that can at times become violent—especially children!

This is also unsurprising in a sense, as Hyung Jin was clearly not a fan of Hyo Nam Kim’s Cheongpyeong providence, and the Sanctuary Church has a general wariness of spiritualism. (Richard Panzer: “Our community has a long history of mediums who started out well and ended up giving questionable or even negative influences.”) Yes, Hyung Jin gave speeches at Cheongpyeong during special workshops, and would stop by for church events, but he was never present during ansu and never publicly testified to Hyo Nam Kim’s power or ability to channel his family members. He lived in Korea, and was of course president of the church, so going to Cheongpyeong was but a formality. He never believed in this providence, and he saw Hyo Nam Kim, who was trusted by his mother, as a threat. Her expulsion in 2015 came too late, as Hyung Jin had already begun his schismatic Sanctuary church.

Hak Ja Han has always put a lot of faith and trust in spiritualists and mediums, including Kim during her reign. Prior to Hyung Jin’s departure, he had already gained enough trust from his mother to work together on manipulating Sun Myung Moon to write a statement against his brother Hyun Jin (Preston), But Han had grown closer and closer to Hyo Nam Kim, who Sun Myung Moon had grown to oppose for over a decade. Hak Ja Han even adopted Hyun Su Kim (Han), Mrs. Kim’s eldest son. He changed his last name to ‘Han’ so Hak Ja Han could have a “younger brother.” This was over a decade ago, Hak Ja Han even tried to make Hyun Su the controlling Chairman of the Tongil Foundation. (There are many questions since Hyo Nam Kim’s expulsion—what about Hyun Su? Is he still a Han?)

Hyung Jin was right to see Kim as a threat. Especially when considering that her assets amounted to up to 300 billion won (US$273 million). As noted by HWDYKYM, that is 300 billion won (US$273 million) of wealth that came from self-dealings and exploitation of corrupt practices such as illegal kickbacks and payoffs in the building and operation of the Cheongpyong Training Center. 

But anyway, think about it: Have you ever seen Hyo Nam Kim on stage with the “True Children”? If she hosts the spirit of both their brother and grandmother, why is she paid no lip service by the Moon children? With Cleophas, or Black Heung Jin, there was at least a campaign from the Moon family to support and publicly embrace the physical host of their brother’s spirit. As the 90s came along, the Moon kids could not muster up the strength to once again fake believing that some random church member was their brother. 

(For a time, only Hyun Jin Moon was in the spotlight in a public position, taking charge, with occasional appearances from the others. Hyo Jin was one of the more active and present children, but his protracted fall from grace had been too public for him to ever become the one to inherit the messiah’s position. The 90s-early 2000s were full of Moon children affairs, divorces, abortions, custody battles, addictions, etc—things were busy, and the church’s PR team and the Moon children’s fixers were very active. )

To think that Hyung Jin genuinely believes in Unification theology is absurd. He went along with Hyo Nam Kim for years because she made the church millions, even though he did not believe in her power. Hyung Jin is an opportunist, and a narcissist. Even if there’s no ansu in his new Cheongpyeong, being isolated by an opportunistic narcissist (who believes in the necessity of pikareum) in the middle of nowhere is not safe, for minors or anyone really.

[mikethemovieguy]

Los Angeles, May 7, 2020 - Vertical Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights to social media crime thriller Infamous starring Bella Thorne (Midnight Sun, The Duff), Jake Manley (Midway, A Dog's Journey), and Amber Riley (Glee, Straight Outta Compton).The film is written and directed by Joshua Caldwell and produced by SSS Entertainment and Lucidity Entertainment. It will hit virtual cinema and VOD June 12th. Highland Film Group is handling international sales.

Living in a small Florida town and working at a diner was never Arielle's (Bella Thorne) dream life. She's always wanted more. Fame. Popularity. Admiration. When she falls for a recently paroled young criminal named Dean, she drags him back into a life of danger, learning that posting their criminal exploits on social media is an easy way to viral fame. They embark on a dangerous adventure together that leads to robbery, cop chases, and murder.

The deal was negotiated by Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector at Vertical with Arianne Fraser of Highland Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers.

"We've always believed Infamous deserved a dynamic and exciting approach to its distribution and marketing so we couldn't be more excited to partner with Peter and his team at Vertical Entertainment on the release of Infamous. They are the perfect company to bring this movie to the viewing public," said the filmmakers.

"Bella Thorne is a force to be reckoned with in this high intensity crime thriller that provides a distinct take on the desire for social media fame,"says Rich Goldberg, co-president of Vertical Entertainment. "We're excited to bring this film to North American audiences."

Infamous is produced by Shaun Sanghani of SSS Entertainment alongside Colin Bates and Michael Jefferson of Lucidity Entertainment and Scott Levenson in association with Vertical Entertainment, Beer Money Worldwide and El Ride Productions. Thor Bradwell is producer. Sanghani also financed the picture via his financing arm SSS Film Capital.

About Vertical Entertainment Vertical Entertainment is a global independent distributor that offers a unique combination of full-service marketing and sales services. Dedicated to providing highly-effective and collaborative solutions, Vertical leverages unparalleled relationships to maximize revenue across all streams. The marketing and sales expertise from Vertical's seasoned team gives content partners a wealth of experience minus the studio costs.

Vertical won a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for Molly Shannon's role in "Other People" and the film won a GLAAD Award for "Outstanding Film Limited Release" as well. Vertical also had four other Indie Spirit nominations - three more for "Other People" (Best Lead Actor for Jesse Plemons, and Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay for filmmaker Chris Kelly) and one for Best International Film for Babak Anvari's "Under the Shadow," which was also the official UK submission for the 2017 Oscars, in addition to winning one BAFTA Award and three British Independent Film Awards as well.

Upcoming Vertical releases include "Open Source" starring Bruce Willis and Jesse Metcalfe; "Inheritance" starring Lily Collins, Simon Pegg, Chace Crawford and Connie Nielsen; "Archive" starring Theo James and Stacy Martin; "Yes, God, Yes" starring Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, and Alisha Boe; "Skylin3s", the third installment of the Skyline franchise, and "The Bay of Silence" starring Claes Bang and Olga Kurylenko. Other notable recent releases include "Human Capital" starring Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, Peter Saarsgard and Maya Hawke, "Code 8" starring Stephen Amell, Robbie Amell, and Sung Kang, "Can You Keep A Secret?" starring Alexandra Daddario, Tyler Hoechlin and Laverne Cox, "American Woman" starring Sienna Miller, Aaron Paul and Christina Hendricks; "The Professor and the Madman" starring Mel Gibson, Sean Penn and Natalie Dormer "Drunk Parents" starring Alec Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Jim Gaffigan, Ben Platt and Joe Manganiello; "Lying and Stealing" starring Theo James and Emily Ratajkowski; Keith Behrman's "Giant Little Ones" starring Josh Wiggins, Kyle Maclachlan, and Maria Bello; Rob Reiner's "Shock and Awe" starring Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Milla Jovovich, Jessica Biel, and Tommy Lee Jones; and Kevin Connolly's "Gotti" starring John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Chris Mulkey.

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[gordonwilliamsweb]

The Startling Inequality Gap That Emerges After Age 65

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In an era when “deaths of despair” — from substance abuse and suicide — are on the rise among middle-aged Americans, those who reach age 65 are living longer than ever.

But there’s a catch: Seniors in urban areas and on the coasts are surviving longer than their counterparts in rural areas and the nation’s interior, according to an analysis from Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s leading demographers.

This troubling geographic gap in life expectancy for older Americans has been widening since 2000, according to his research, which highlights growing inequality in later life.

Notably, 65-year-olds in “rural areas have had much smaller improvements than those in large metro areas,” Preston remarked. “And people living in ‘interior’ regions ― particularly Appalachia and the East South Central region [Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee] — have done worse than those on the coasts.”

These geographic differences emerged around 1999-2000 and widened from 2000 to 2016, the study found. By the end of this period, life expectancy at age 65 for women in large metropolitan areas was 1.63 years longer than for those in rural areas. For men, the gap was 1.42 years.

Differences were even starker when 65-year-olds who live in metro areas in the Pacific region (the group with the best results) were compared with their rural counterparts in the East South Central region (the group with the worst results). By 2016, seniors in the first group lived almost four years longer. (The Pacific region includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.)

“Areas with the highest life expectancies at age 65 have realized more significant improvements between 2000 and 2016, while areas with the lowest life expectancies have gained the least,” said Yana Vierboom, a co-author of the new study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany.

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Disparities were also highlighted when researchers examined life expectancy at 65 in the U.S. and 16 other developed nations, using 2016 data. Overall, the U.S. was near the bottom of the pack: American men ranked 11th while American women were in 13th place, behind leaders such as Japan, Switzerland, Australia, France, Spain and Canada.

But when only 65-year-old American men living in Pacific region metro areas were considered, they topped all other countries, with an added life expectancy of 20.03 years. Women from this advantaged group also jumped in the rankings to the No. 4 position, with a life expectancy of 22.79 additional years.

Pockets of this country “have a life expectancy at 65, which is on par” with that of leading countries, Jennifer Karas Montez, a professor of sociology at Syracuse University, wrote in an email. “We need to figure out what those places are doing right and then take those lessons and apply them to other parts of the country that are doing poorly.”

What distinguishes areas that are doing well from those that aren’t?

According to the new study, the most important factor is a reduction in deaths from cardiovascular illnesses, such as heart attacks and strokes — the biggest killer in America.

“It’s likely that medical treatments for cardiovascular disease have disseminated more rapidly in large metro areas than in rural areas,” which have fewer specialist physicians and hospitals, Preston said.

The second-most important factor, especially for women, was smoking, a contributor to cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and respiratory diseases.

“There are large differences in smoking rates across the country,” with more women in the South and rural areas taking up smoking and more women in metro areas who’ve given up the habit, Vierboom said.

While the analysis that Preston and Vierboom conducted didn’t examine race, income or education, it’s certain that these factors play a part in its findings.

“Geographic differentiation isn’t random: People who are poor, or who smoke or who are obese tend to be concentrated in certain places,” said Eileen Crimmins, AARP professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Meanwhile, the culture of different areas ― what people see others around them doing, the habits they adopt — tends to perpetuate these differences over time.

While enormous attention has been paid to “deaths of despair” in the younger and middle-aged population, the “real action” regarding mortality is with the 65-and-older population, Crimmins said. Of nearly 3 million people who die each year in the U.S., almost three-quarters are age 65 or older.

Deaths from opioids, alcohol or suicide aren’t significant in the older population; instead, deaths from chronic illnesses, which take years to develop and which are influenced by social conditions as well as personal behaviors, are far more important, Preston noted.

This helps explain another notable trend spotlighted in his new research: Life expectancy at age 65 has steadily increased, even in an era when “deaths of despair” have been on the rise.

The long-term trend is upward. In 1950, a 65-year-old could expect to live an additional 13.9 years, on average (15 more years for women, 12 for men). A half-century later, in 2000, life expectancy at age 65 had climbed to 17.6 additional years (19 for women, 16 for men). By 2018, it increased again, adding 19.5 years (20.7 for women, 18.1 for men).

This positive trend has persisted even as death rates due to drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and chronic conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes, rose for middle-aged adults over the past decade. With this surge in midlife deaths, overall life expectancy (starting at birth) in the U.S. declined from 2014 to 2017, followed by a slight uptick in 2018.

“I’m struck by how well older adults are doing because it contrasts with what’s happening at midlife,” said Anna Zajacova, an associate professor of sociology and a population health expert at the University of Western Ontario.

Why have older adults seen consistent life expectancy gains?

Much credit undoubtedly goes to medical advances and to Medicare, which extended health insurance coverage to all older Americans (age 65 and up) in 1966, improving access to care, said Scott Lynch, a sociology professor at Duke University and training director of Duke’s Population Research Institute. By contrast, tens of millions of younger and middle-aged adults are uninsured or underinsured.

Also, Social Security probably makes a difference by providing a minimum income — albeit one that hasn’t kept up with rising costs ― for most older Americans.

“Thank the Lord for social insurance programs above age 65,” David Cutler, a professor of applied economics at Harvard University, wrote in an email, while acknowledging that experts haven’t yet come up with definitive explanations for mortality trends in the older population.

But whether life expectancy trends at age 65 will remain on an upward trajectory is an open question.

In particular, “it’s yet to be determined what impact the explosion of obesity among prime-age adults will have when this population passes age 65,” said Timothy Waidmann, an economist and senior fellow at the Urban Institute. “My guess is it won’t be good. But that’s a story yet to be seen.”

The Startling Inequality Gap That Emerges After Age 65 published first on https://nootropicspowdersupplier.tumblr.com/

[stephenmccull]

The Startling Inequality Gap That Emerges After Age 65

Navigating Aging

Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues and advice associated with aging and end-of-life care, helping America’s 45 million seniors and their families navigate the health care system.

To contact Judith Graham with a question or comment, click here.

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In an era when “deaths of despair” — from substance abuse and suicide — are on the rise among middle-aged Americans, those who reach age 65 are living longer than ever.

But there’s a catch: Seniors in urban areas and on the coasts are surviving longer than their counterparts in rural areas and the nation’s interior, according to an analysis from Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s leading demographers.

This troubling geographic gap in life expectancy for older Americans has been widening since 2000, according to his research, which highlights growing inequality in later life.

Notably, 65-year-olds in “rural areas have had much smaller improvements than those in large metro areas,” Preston remarked. “And people living in ‘interior’ regions ― particularly Appalachia and the East South Central region [Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee] — have done worse than those on the coasts.”

These geographic differences emerged around 1999-2000 and widened from 2000 to 2016, the study found. By the end of this period, life expectancy at age 65 for women in large metropolitan areas was 1.63 years longer than for those in rural areas. For men, the gap was 1.42 years.

Differences were even starker when 65-year-olds who live in metro areas in the Pacific region (the group with the best results) were compared with their rural counterparts in the East South Central region (the group with the worst results). By 2016, seniors in the first group lived almost four years longer. (The Pacific region includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.)

“Areas with the highest life expectancies at age 65 have realized more significant improvements between 2000 and 2016, while areas with the lowest life expectancies have gained the least,” said Yana Vierboom, a co-author of the new study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany.

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Disparities were also highlighted when researchers examined life expectancy at 65 in the U.S. and 16 other developed nations, using 2016 data. Overall, the U.S. was near the bottom of the pack: American men ranked 11th while American women were in 13th place, behind leaders such as Japan, Switzerland, Australia, France, Spain and Canada.

But when only 65-year-old American men living in Pacific region metro areas were considered, they topped all other countries, with an added life expectancy of 20.03 years. Women from this advantaged group also jumped in the rankings to the No. 4 position, with a life expectancy of 22.79 additional years.

Pockets of this country “have a life expectancy at 65, which is on par” with that of leading countries, Jennifer Karas Montez, a professor of sociology at Syracuse University, wrote in an email. “We need to figure out what those places are doing right and then take those lessons and apply them to other parts of the country that are doing poorly.”

What distinguishes areas that are doing well from those that aren’t?

According to the new study, the most important factor is a reduction in deaths from cardiovascular illnesses, such as heart attacks and strokes — the biggest killer in America.

“It’s likely that medical treatments for cardiovascular disease have disseminated more rapidly in large metro areas than in rural areas,” which have fewer specialist physicians and hospitals, Preston said.

The second-most important factor, especially for women, was smoking, a contributor to cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and respiratory diseases.

“There are large differences in smoking rates across the country,” with more women in the South and rural areas taking up smoking and more women in metro areas who’ve given up the habit, Vierboom said.

While the analysis that Preston and Vierboom conducted didn’t examine race, income or education, it’s certain that these factors play a part in its findings.

“Geographic differentiation isn’t random: People who are poor, or who smoke or who are obese tend to be concentrated in certain places,” said Eileen Crimmins, AARP professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Meanwhile, the culture of different areas ― what people see others around them doing, the habits they adopt — tends to perpetuate these differences over time.

While enormous attention has been paid to “deaths of despair” in the younger and middle-aged population, the “real action” regarding mortality is with the 65-and-older population, Crimmins said. Of nearly 3 million people who die each year in the U.S., almost three-quarters are age 65 or older.

Deaths from opioids, alcohol or suicide aren’t significant in the older population; instead, deaths from chronic illnesses, which take years to develop and which are influenced by social conditions as well as personal behaviors, are far more important, Preston noted.

This helps explain another notable trend spotlighted in his new research: Life expectancy at age 65 has steadily increased, even in an era when “deaths of despair” have been on the rise.

The long-term trend is upward. In 1950, a 65-year-old could expect to live an additional 13.9 years, on average (15 more years for women, 12 for men). A half-century later, in 2000, life expectancy at age 65 had climbed to 17.6 additional years (19 for women, 16 for men). By 2018, it increased again, adding 19.5 years (20.7 for women, 18.1 for men).

This positive trend has persisted even as death rates due to drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and chronic conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes, rose for middle-aged adults over the past decade. With this surge in midlife deaths, overall life expectancy (starting at birth) in the U.S. declined from 2014 to 2017, followed by a slight uptick in 2018.

“I’m struck by how well older adults are doing because it contrasts with what’s happening at midlife,” said Anna Zajacova, an associate professor of sociology and a population health expert at the University of Western Ontario.

Why have older adults seen consistent life expectancy gains?

Much credit undoubtedly goes to medical advances and to Medicare, which extended health insurance coverage to all older Americans (age 65 and up) in 1966, improving access to care, said Scott Lynch, a sociology professor at Duke University and training director of Duke’s Population Research Institute. By contrast, tens of millions of younger and middle-aged adults are uninsured or underinsured.

Also, Social Security probably makes a difference by providing a minimum income — albeit one that hasn’t kept up with rising costs ― for most older Americans.

“Thank the Lord for social insurance programs above age 65,” David Cutler, a professor of applied economics at Harvard University, wrote in an email, while acknowledging that experts haven’t yet come up with definitive explanations for mortality trends in the older population.

But whether life expectancy trends at age 65 will remain on an upward trajectory is an open question.

In particular, “it’s yet to be determined what impact the explosion of obesity among prime-age adults will have when this population passes age 65,” said Timothy Waidmann, an economist and senior fellow at the Urban Institute. “My guess is it won’t be good. But that’s a story yet to be seen.”

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In an era when “deaths of despair” — from substance abuse and suicide — are on the rise among middle-aged Americans, those who reach age 65 are living longer than ever.

But there’s a catch: Seniors in urban areas and on the coasts are surviving longer than their counterparts in rural areas and the nation’s interior, according to an analysis from Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s leading demographers.

This troubling geographic gap in life expectancy for older Americans has been widening since 2000, according to his research, which highlights growing inequality in later life.

Notably, 65-year-olds in “rural areas have had much smaller improvements than those in large metro areas,” Preston remarked. “And people living in ‘interior’ regions ― particularly Appalachia and the East South Central region [Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee] — have done worse than those on the coasts.”

These geographic differences emerged around 1999-2000 and widened from 2000 to 2016, the study found. By the end of this period, life expectancy at age 65 for women in large metropolitan areas was 1.63 years longer than for those in rural areas. For men, the gap was 1.42 years.

Differences were even starker when 65-year-olds who live in metro areas in the Pacific region (the group with the best results) were compared with their rural counterparts in the East South Central region (the group with the worst results). By 2016, seniors in the first group lived almost four years longer. (The Pacific region includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.)

“Areas with the highest life expectancies at age 65 have realized more significant improvements between 2000 and 2016, while areas with the lowest life expectancies have gained the least,” said Yana Vierboom, a co-author of the new study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany.

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Disparities were also highlighted when researchers examined life expectancy at 65 in the U.S. and 16 other developed nations, using 2016 data. Overall, the U.S. was near the bottom of the pack: American men ranked 11th while American women were in 13th place, behind leaders such as Japan, Switzerland, Australia, France, Spain and Canada.

But when only 65-year-old American men living in Pacific region metro areas were considered, they topped all other countries, with an added life expectancy of 20.03 years. Women from this advantaged group also jumped in the rankings to the No. 4 position, with a life expectancy of 22.79 additional years.

Pockets of this country “have a life expectancy at 65, which is on par” with that of leading countries, Jennifer Karas Montez, a professor of sociology at Syracuse University, wrote in an email. “We need to figure out what those places are doing right and then take those lessons and apply them to other parts of the country that are doing poorly.”

What distinguishes areas that are doing well from those that aren’t?

According to the new study, the most important factor is a reduction in deaths from cardiovascular illnesses, such as heart attacks and strokes — the biggest killer in America.

“It’s likely that medical treatments for cardiovascular disease have disseminated more rapidly in large metro areas than in rural areas,” which have fewer specialist physicians and hospitals, Preston said.

The second-most important factor, especially for women, was smoking, a contributor to cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and respiratory diseases.

“There are large differences in smoking rates across the country,” with more women in the South and rural areas taking up smoking and more women in metro areas who’ve given up the habit, Vierboom said.

While the analysis that Preston and Vierboom conducted didn’t examine race, income or education, it’s certain that these factors play a part in its findings.

“Geographic differentiation isn’t random: People who are poor, or who smoke or who are obese tend to be concentrated in certain places,” said Eileen Crimmins, AARP professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Meanwhile, the culture of different areas ― what people see others around them doing, the habits they adopt — tends to perpetuate these differences over time.

While enormous attention has been paid to “deaths of despair” in the younger and middle-aged population, the “real action” regarding mortality is with the 65-and-older population, Crimmins said. Of nearly 3 million people who die each year in the U.S., almost three-quarters are age 65 or older.

Deaths from opioids, alcohol or suicide aren’t significant in the older population; instead, deaths from chronic illnesses, which take years to develop and which are influenced by social conditions as well as personal behaviors, are far more important, Preston noted.

This helps explain another notable trend spotlighted in his new research: Life expectancy at age 65 has steadily increased, even in an era when “deaths of despair” have been on the rise.

The long-term trend is upward. In 1950, a 65-year-old could expect to live an additional 13.9 years, on average (15 more years for women, 12 for men). A half-century later, in 2000, life expectancy at age 65 had climbed to 17.6 additional years (19 for women, 16 for men). By 2018, it increased again, adding 19.5 years (20.7 for women, 18.1 for men).

This positive trend has persisted even as death rates due to drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and chronic conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes, rose for middle-aged adults over the past decade. With this surge in midlife deaths, overall life expectancy (starting at birth) in the U.S. declined from 2014 to 2017, followed by a slight uptick in 2018.

“I’m struck by how well older adults are doing because it contrasts with what’s happening at midlife,” said Anna Zajacova, an associate professor of sociology and a population health expert at the University of Western Ontario.

Why have older adults seen consistent life expectancy gains?

Much credit undoubtedly goes to medical advances and to Medicare, which extended health insurance coverage to all older Americans (age 65 and up) in 1966, improving access to care, said Scott Lynch, a sociology professor at Duke University and training director of Duke’s Population Research Institute. By contrast, tens of millions of younger and middle-aged adults are uninsured or underinsured.

Also, Social Security probably makes a difference by providing a minimum income — albeit one that hasn’t kept up with rising costs ― for most older Americans.

“Thank the Lord for social insurance programs above age 65,” David Cutler, a professor of applied economics at Harvard University, wrote in an email, while acknowledging that experts haven’t yet come up with definitive explanations for mortality trends in the older population.

But whether life expectancy trends at age 65 will remain on an upward trajectory is an open question.

In particular, “it’s yet to be determined what impact the explosion of obesity among prime-age adults will have when this population passes age 65,” said Timothy Waidmann, an economist and senior fellow at the Urban Institute. “My guess is it won’t be good. But that’s a story yet to be seen.”

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