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nelysmuses · 8 months

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CENTRAL DE PERSONAGENS !

escritos por nely (+21, ela/dela), que possui os seguintes gatilhos: processos intravenosos e talassofobia (em específico, imagens do fundo do mar e de animais marinhos grandes). player dos seguintes personagens: maximilian, sanderson, percy, flora, hopper, gothel e lefou.

max ( flautista ) — @piedpipcrofhvmelin

veio de uma vilarejo pequeno, de uma família de pastores de ovelha. mas suas ambições sempre foram maiores do que só aquilo, queria mesmo era ter fama e dinheiro, e acreditava que conseguiria isso através da música. infelizmente, levou um baita de um caldo quando contou pra família, que o ridicularizou, e decidiu sair de casa em busca do sonho. resultado: só fez se ferrar com sua flautinha e só conseguiu algum sucesso depois de conhecer um mago estranho que enfeitiçou o instrumento depois de um acordo suspeito que o fez ir até tão tão distante atrás de Rumpelstiltskin. resultado de novo: achou que ia fisgar o peixão, mas quem foi fisgado foi ele. acabou se tornando o caçador de recompensas oficial do rei - coisa que já fazia antes de chegar ao reino, em troca de qualquer moedinha que pudesse obter -, mas jura de pé junto que um dia vai matar o desgraçado. é super ambicioso, carismático e resiliente, mas acaba sendo muito exigente, manipulador e violento, devido à vingança que jurou obter.

sandy ( sandman ) — @scndmvn

caiu na terra de paraquedas (praticamente) - já que era um piloto estelar, assim como a mãe foi, em seus tempos de "extraterrestre" -, e já recebeu no colo a batata quente de cuidar de todo o universo do sono e dos sonhos e ainda proteger as crianças, mas ele ama o que faz. não se comunica com palavras, mas sempre tem muita coisa pra dizer: é um verdadeiro tagarela de ilustrações de areias douradas - e língua de sinais -, e um excelente contador de histórias fantásticas, tanto é que sempre se voluntaria em bibliotecas e planetários, para "ilustrar" as histórias que são contadas. é bem cabeça quente e um tanto literal (muito literal, na realidade), mas tem uma imaginação fantástica e muita coragem pra defender as pessoas que ele gosta, tanto é que abraça toda oportunidade que tem pra cair na porrada com o Breu.

percy ( coelho ) — @whitcrvbbit

minha pequena fonte particular de falta de amor próprio, que nunca conseguiu se desculpar por não ter resgatado a Alice há tempo (por causa de um antigo erro estúpido que o levou a ser amaldiçoado com o "atraso eterno", palavras dele), e, por causa disso, vive enchendo a cara, fumando feito uma chaminé, e usando glamour pra escapar de seu corpo real (de coelho). é muito covarde (tanto é que até hoje trabalha pra rainha de copas, mesmo fazendo parte do exército da Rainha Branca contra ela) e super nervoso, mas, no meio dessa zona toda, é um poço de compaixão e de empatia, além de ser um amigo super leal.

flora — @florv

ativista porradeira à favor dos direitos das fadas, mas que sempre quis, no fundo, ter uma vida mais tranquila. e ela até veio, mas ao custo da perda da amada e de sua própria mobilidade - por um período - durante um protesto violento. e por mais que quisesse tocar fogo no universo por conta disso, tanto seus irmãos, quanto seu próprio corpo, à convenceram de que a ideia era péssima. acabou que isso à levou a 'se alistar' à tarefa de cuidar de Aurora, que supostamente estava destinada à grandezas futuramente. atualmente apaixonada pela vida que leva, é extremamente leal e bem prática, apesar de ser bem emocionalmente distante e cabeça-quente, e não ter esquecido totalmente da vingança.

hopper — @mvstergunncr

veio de uma família de pescadores que moravam em um vilarejo, e teria continuado por lá, trabalhando com os familiares e ajudando o negócio à prosperar, se a cidade não tivesse sido atacada e destruída por um grupo de piratas. no desespero, ela se separou dos pais e dos irmãos e acabou fugindo de canoa. resultado: ficou à deriva até ser encontrada pela tripulação do Hook, que acabou se tornando uma segunda família. atualmente, ela é a mestre de armas do Jolly Roger - depois de muito esforço. é persistente e inteligente pra caramba, e bem engraçadinha também, mas tende à ser desconfiada e impaciente, além de acreditar em todas as lendas marítimas existentes (e morrer de medo delas)

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bllsbailey · 5 days

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Pro-Hamas Protests Rage Into the Night at Columbia University

Are these even American Citizens, and if not why haven't they been deported ?

The ongoing protests at Columbia University heated up Saturday with approximately 200 demonstrators partaking in yet more anti-Israel, pro-Hamas displays.

A notable incident occurred when a student was taken away on a stretcher and received medical attention from Columbia University EMS, a university spokesperson told The New York Post. A group of student protestors used black umbrellas and a tarp to obstruct the view of the woman as she was taken away on a stretcher. The exact condition of the student remains unclear.

The charged atmosphere included "death to Israel" chants and police in riot gear clashing with the protestors outside of a locked university campus gate at West 115th Street and Broadway in New York City.

Attempts by protestors to break down the gate as well as climb over the barrier were captured on livestream video.

Counter-protestors also assembled waving the flag of Israel. A pro-Hamas supporter stood nearby with a sign that read, "Al-Qassam's next targets," and an arrow pointing to the Jewish students. "Al-Qassam" refers to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 attacks on Israel.

New York City council members Shahana Hanif, Alexa Aviles, Sandy Nurse, and Tiffany Caban visited the demonstration in the afternoon, along with actress Susan Sarandon and Shellyne Rodriguez, the former CUNY professor who once threatened a Post reporter by holding a machete to his neck.

NYC Professor Gets Axed From Hunter College After Holding Machete to NY Post Reporter's Neck

In the last several days, police have intervened by taking down pro-Hamas encampments, where the occupiers demanded that the university divest from Israel. NYPD made over 100 arrests when the protests turned violent. Columbia University responded to the incident by suspending the students, including Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota's Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

The American Association of University Professors at the sister schools provided a statement to The Post following a “mass emergency meeting” of faculty on Friday.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department. We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University suspensions and charges be dismissed immediately and expunged from the students’ records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.

The protests have raged through the night and continued into the early hours of Sunday morning. RedState will bring you updates as warranted.

Ilhan Omar's Daughter Suspended After Participating in Pro-Hamas Protest at Columbia University

Pro-Hamas Protesters Return to Columbia University, Vow to 'Hold This Line'

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discoversuncoasthomes · 7 months

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eelhound · 3 years

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"Business owners around the country are offering up a lament: 'no one wants to work.' A McDonalds franchise said they had to close because no one wants to work; North Carolina congressman David Rouzer claimed that a too-generous welfare state has turned us all lazy as he circulated photos of a shuttered fast-food restaurant supposedly closed 'due to NO STAFF.'

Most of these complaints seem to be coming from franchised restaurants. Why? Well, it’s not complicated. Service workers didn’t decide one day to stop working — rather huge numbers of them cannot work anymore. Because they’ve died of coronavirus.

A recent study from the University of California–San Francisco looks at increased morbidity rates due to COVID, stratified by profession, from the height of the pandemic last year. They find that food and agricultural workers morbidity rates increased by the widest margins by far, much more so than medical professionals or other occupations generally considered to be on the 'front lines' of the pandemic. Within the food industry, the morbidity rates of line cooks increased by 60 percent, making it the deadliest profession in America under coronavirus pandemic.

Line cooks are especially at risk because of notoriously bad ventilation systems in restaurant kitchens and preparation areas. Anyone who has ever worked a back-of-the-house job knows that it’s hot, smelly, and crowded back there, all of which indicate poor indoor air quality. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Environmental Protection Agency recommended increasing indoor ventilation to fight the virus, but such upgrades are costly and time consuming. There is no data available on how many restaurants chose not to upgrade their ventilation systems, but given how miserly franchise owners are with everything else, one could guess that many, if not most, made no upgrades at all.

Ventilation issues are deadliest for line cooks and other back-of-house jobs, but there are other reasons why food workers’ morbidity rates shot up. Food workers are much more likely to be poor and/or a racial or national minority, and poor people and black and Latino workers are much more likely to die of complications from the coronavirus.

Restaurants are often intentionally short staffed, making it difficult to take time off, so sick workers likely still came to work (and infected others in the process). Bars and restaurants are COVID-19 hotspots, and service workers and customers alike get sick after prolonged restaurant exposure. The difference is that many of those customers have health insurance and other safeguards to prevent them from dying of the illness; 69 percent of restaurants, on the other hand, offer their employees no health benefits at all.

When coronavirus is spread at restaurants, and restaurant workers make little money and rarely earn health benefits, it’s no wonder morbidity rates are so much higher for food service workers. But rather than collectively grieve the deaths of tens of thousands of the people who serve us and keep us fed, and keep such tragedies in mind when considering the state of the food-service industry labor market today, business owners and their political lackeys call these workers 'lazy.'

There are, of course, also living, breathing people who have decided they do not want to risk their lives for $7.25 per hour and no health benefits. That is a perfectly rational decision for the homo economicus to make. Given how dangerous restaurant work is during a viral pandemic, if restaurant owners really wanted more workers, they would offer living wages, health benefits, and adequate personal protective equipment. But all the wage increases in the world won’t bring back the dead.

There aren’t enough people working in the service industry, and service bosses have somehow turned that into our problem, into something we ought to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t fall for it. Profits accumulate because of labor — without workers to exploit, the owning class can’t get richer. Capitalists cannot exploit the labor of the dead, so when large swathes of the working class die, they turn their ire on the living.

This is a barbaric response to mass tragedy. Workers across the country and the globe are dead or grieving. We shouldn’t risk further tragedies for a paltry minimum wage."

- Sandy Barnard, "Service Workers Aren’t Lazy — They Just Don’t Want to Risk Dying for Minimum Wage." Jacobin, 5 May 2021.

#sandy barnard #quote #quotations #covid 19 #food service industry #labor rights #minium wage #economics #democratic socialism #healthcare #work #neoliberalism #libertarianism #capitalism #classism #worker exploitation #poverty #eat the rich

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thehikingviking · 3 years

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Tunnabora Peak (13,563 ft) via Cleaver Col & Mt Carillon (13,553 ft) via Russell-Carillon Col

After some light autumn storms, we had an unseasonably warm stretch of weather across late November. The daily satellite views showed very little lingering snow in the southern portion of the High Sierra, which gave me an opportunity to complete my goal of climbing 20 SPS peaks in the 2020 calendar year. I was two peaks short of this goal, so I hoped to find a twofer. After some research I learned that Tunnabora Peak and Mt Carillon can be climbed together in a manageable 20 mile day. Asaka gave me her blessing, knowing that I had been keenly focused on this goal for several months, so I drove down to Lone Pine by myself where I spent the night at Trails Motel. The next morning, I drove up Whitney Portal Road feeling lonely and wondering what I had gotten myself into. I parked right in front of the Mt Whitney Trail sign around 5am and began my hike up the main trail shortly after. I felt a sense of calm seeing the line of headlamps up the canyon ahead of me. I wasn’t the only psychopath on the mountain that frigid morning. I took a right up the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek, which was much steeper than the Whitney Trail. It had been a few years since I had been up this route, but my memory served me well and I had no route finding challenges, even in the dark. The town of Lone Pine twinkled in the predawn light.

As it got brighter, I could spot people ahead of me and behind me. I would see multiple parties throughout the day, but I never crossed path with anyone else. After about an hour and a half of climbing, I reached Lower Boy Scout Lake. The morning alpenglow was just touching the tip of Mt Whitney.

From here I split off form the Mt Whitney Mountaineer’s Route and climbed north out of the canyon towards Cleaver Col. There is a use trail which I didn’t find at the start, but it didn’t matter because the terrain was very easy.

At around 10,800 ft, the route becomes more gradual and follows a creek. I considered filling up water here, but I decided to wait until a little higher up.

When I was finally ready to top off my water, I couldn’t find any that was accessible. Most of it was underground, and I didn’t feel like climbing back down. I thought there would be a tarn beneath the cleaver, but I struck out. I didn’t expect to find any accessible water until my way back down, since I fully expected Lake Tulainyo to be frozen over. Spoiler alert; I was right.

I would have enough water if I rationed what I had a little. I aimed for the weakness in the granite walls which led to Cleaver Col.

I found my pace severely slowing at this point. The elevation combined with general fatigue was making itself known.

I cut back left, finding some class 3 options that took me higher to easier terrain.

Gambler's Special stood behind me. The Inyo Mountains stood further back across Owens Valley. Mt Inyo and Keynot Peak were easily identified.

I made it to the top of Cleaver Col 4.5 hours after starting off. My pace was acceptable, however I hoped to have been faster. Tunnabora Peak stood across the frozen Lake Tulainyo.

To my immediate right was The Cleaver. When climbing over Cleaver Col, you don’t climb over the lowest point, but slightly to the southwest of the saddle.

I descended directly down to the shore of Lake Tulainyo. Mt Russell stood to my southwest.

-Table Mountain

I considered walking across the top of the ice, but I felt it was safer to just walk around.

Sections of the shoreline walk were tedious. There was steep sidehilling and loose rock in certain sections. As I walked along, I tried throwing several large rocks onto the ice to see if I could break through to get some water, but it was thick and solid. There was no chance that I could break through.

Once at the northern shore of the lake, I began climbing back up towards the ridge. I encountered some terrible loose sand. It was extremely difficult to get any reliable footing, and I quickly regretted my route. I had ignored my preloaded track which accessed the ridge further east. After a miserable slog, I made it to the top of the ridge. While I still had several hundred feet to climb, I at least could avoid the sand for the rest of the way.

I began to really feel the effects of being over 13,000 ft. I wasn’t acclimatized like I was in the summer, so I focused on deep breaths and finding a methodical hiking pace. I felt very dizzy at times and I was slow, but it was the best I could manage.

After a false summit, the true summit came into view.

I made it to the summit just after 11am, 6 hours after starting off.

To the north were Mt Barnard, Mt Tyndall, Trojan Peak and Mt Williamson.

To the northeast were White Mountain Peak and Waucoba Mountain.

To the east were Mt Inyo, Keynot Peak and New York Butte.

To the southeast were Telescope Peak, Lone Pine Peak and Mt Langley.

To the south were Mt McAdie, Mt Whitney and Mt Russell.

To the west were Mt Kaweah, Red Kaweah, Black Kaweah, Kern Point, Milestone Mountain, Midway Mountain, Table Mountain and Thunder Mountain.

That was 19 SPS peaks for the year. I was on the cusp of achieving my goal of 20. I descended the southern slopes, hoping for easy passage along the western shore of Lake Tulainyo towards the Russell-Carillon Col.

-Kaweah Peaks Ridge

I passed by what were most likely bighorn sheep tracks.

-The Cleaver and Mt Carillon

-Mt Russell

The traverse over to the base of the col was fairly easy, with some minor ups and downs over talus fields at the end. There was still no accessible water anywhere, but by this time I felt I would make it to the end without any serious trouble.

And so began the final push. In the week leading up to the hike I had worried about snow and ice on this north facing slope making my climb more difficult, but there were no extra challenges to be had.

-Tunnabora Peak

I heard some voices and spotted a couple climbers making their way along Mt Russell’s East Ridge.

The final bit of class 3 to reach the col was very straightforward.

I took a break here, drained, but knowing there was only about 200 feet of climbing remaining.

I picked a route just to the right of the top of the ridge. I again started to feel the effects of altitude, and I resumed my pressure breathing.

-Mt Whitney

There was a short scramble to reach the high point. For some reason I had expected a walk up. I reached the summit at 12:40pm, about 1.5 hours after leaving the summit of Tunnabora Peak. Down below me to the east was Gambler’s Special. Beyond that were the Inyo Mountains.

To the northeast was The Cleaver.

To the north were Lake Tulainyo and Tunnabora Peak.

To the northwest was the Great Western Divide.

To the west was Mt Russell.

To the southwest were Mt Muir and Mt Whitney.

To the south were Lone Pine Peak and Mt Irvine.

I tried to sign the summit register but it was wet and a complete mess. Rather than sign the register to prove my ascent, I decided instead to snap a photo of the register.

-Lake Tulainyo

I could just make out people still making their way up along the East Ridge Route. I was already done with my second peak of the day, but they still hadn’t reached their first.

Once back at the saddle, I crossed gradual sandy slopes down the standard route of Mt Russell. It had been many years since I last did Mt Russell, so I didn’t have a clear memory of what exactly to expect. There were a lot of footprints in the sand and multiple cairns. Then came the big drop down to Upper Boy Scout Lake.

This was a long loose descent. My memory was slowly coming back to me, and I had a lot of “oh yeah” moments.

I laid down in the soft sand near Upper Boy Scout Lake, taking a well deserved break. I looked at Lone Pine Peak above, which I had considered as a possible bonus peak, but I had had enough.

I felt the most dangerous part of the day was crossing the iced over North Fork of Lone Pine Creek. I put on my MICROspikes for the crossing, but I still felt vulnerable on these slippery sections. A fall here would spell disaster.

I lost the use trail for a short time and thrashed around in some brush. Lower Boy Scout Lake was visible down below.

Once at the outlet of the lake, I spotted the use trail leading towards Cleaver Col, officially closing my loop.

The rest of the hike down was steeper than I recalled. There was a lot of pressure exerted on my feet and knees. I took it slowly.

-Ebersbacher Ledges

I felt a big sense of relief once I made it to the Whitney Trail. I enjoyed the gradual trail the rest of the way.

I started to develop a big headache from my lack of water, but this would go away after rehydrating in the car over the next several hours.

It felt really good to complete my goal of 20 SPS peaks in the 2020 calendar year, especially with all the challenges this year had put in front of me. Maybe next year I will go for 21 peaks.

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 5 years

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♿️Disabled Characters in YA♿️

The thing I’m most passionate about when it comes to books is finding positive, accurate and respectful representations of physical disability and chronic illness. So often when we talk about diversity we focus on race or sexuality but disabled people make up the largest portion of marginalised people with almost 1 in 5 people around the globe having some sort of illness or disability. Disability intersects with every other kind of identity but this group still goes underrepresented almost everywhere.

I’ve put an asterisk (*) next to books I’ve read and recommend and I’ve also marked which ones are #OwnVoices (a hashtag that was actually created by a disabled person - Corinne Duyvis, a YA author and co-founder of Disability in Kidlit). I’ve only included characters with physical and neurological disabilities as I’m planning a separate list for books about mental illness.

For more recommendations, check out Disability in Kidlit on their website or follow their reviews on Goodreads.

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens (numerous disabilities) #OwnVoices *

A Taxonomy of Love by Rachael Allen (Tourette’s Syndrome)

Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo (cane-user, PTSD) #OwnVoices *

A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard (sign language users, mutism) *

Magisterium series by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare (limp) *

The Siren by Kiera Cass (sign-language users) *

The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle (autism & ADHD) #OwnVoices

One by Sarah Crossan (conjoined twins) *

On The Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (autism) #OwnVoices

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (mutism, leg amputee)

Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank (Crohn’s disease)

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (limp) *

I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale (autism)

Meet Me In Outer Space by Melinda Grace (auditory processing disorder) #OwnVoices

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall (hearing loss) *

I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson (cerebral palsy, autism) *

Girl in the Window by Penny Joelson (chronic fatigue)

Run by Kody Keplinger (visual impairment) #OwnVoices

Things I Should Have Known by Claire LaZebnik (autism)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (epilepsy) *

Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom (visual impairment) *

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott (cystic fibrosis) *

The State of Grace by Rachel Lucas (autism)

This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp (lupus, uses mobility aids) *

Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee (Type 1 Diabetes)

Kids Like Us by Hilary Reyl (autism)

Far From You by Tess Sharpe (chronic pain, uses mobility aids)

Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry (Tourette’s Syndrome, anxiety, OCD) #OwnVoices *

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (autism, anxiety) #OwnVoices

Odd and True by Cat Winters (polio, uses mobility aids)

More of my recommendations

#book recommendations #book recs #disabled characters #disability in kidlit #disability in ya #booklr #bookblr #trcc original

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stainedglassgardens · 5 years

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Favourite woman-directed films I saw in 2018

It’s funny because when the year started I thought I could never watch 52 films by women, considering that I usually barely watch fifty films a year, total. Then I watched 306 new-to-me films, out of which 105 were directed by women.

I saw so many good woman-directed films that I thought it would be hard to choose ten to make this list, but then I realised that I only had to include those films that absolutely blew my mind, and bam! Ten already.

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)

The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)

Raw (Grave, Julia Ducournau, 2016)

M.F.A. (Natalia Leite, 2017)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová, 1966)

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016)

Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

Very broadly speaking, these ten can be divided into three categories. There’s gorey, imaginative, feminist genre -- Revenge, M.F.A., Raw; there’s visually and/or narratively boundary-expanding cinema -- Daisies, Always Shine, The Midnight Swim, We Need to Talk About Kevin, On Body and Soul; and then there are the indie stories about marginalised people, which might be my favourites of all -- here, River of Grass and Winter’s Bone.

When 2018 started I had only seen one film by Kelly Reichardt, and none by Debra Granik. Now they’re both among my favourite filmmakers. When I saw my first Kelly Reichardt film, years ago, I thought Wow, some people do make films about actual people. I’ve seen all of them now, and I liked all of them, but it wasn’t that hard picking River of Grass for this list -- there’s something so Carson McCullers, so Flannery O’Connor about the story, and visually it is so dreamlike.

I put Debra Granik together with Kelly Reichardt because their stories feel similar in many ways (and both feel similar to Agnès Varda’s), and seeing Winter’s Bone I was just completely blown away. It’s one of those films I would unreservedly call a masterpiece, and recommend to absolutely everyone. What places it above Leave No Trace (which I put as my number one new release of 2018) is the plot, and the ending especially, both completely surreal and mundane, like a cherry on top of spectacular acting and visuals worthy of Dorothea Lange .

Another slap in the face was We Need to Talk About Kevin. Together with a few other films in this list, it made me ponder what film can really do in terms of creating intricate, media-specific experiences that ultimately serve to provide a more rounded understanding of reality and what it means to be a person. We Need to Talk About Kevin was the first of these and probably had the biggest impact on me. Lynne Ramsay really is one of the few people with a completely unique vision.

I put Daisies, Always Shine, The Midnight Swim and On Body and Soul in the same category, although they don’t have a lot in common with each other, because they all have this aspect of visual and/or narrative boundary-pushing. It is so incredible that Daisies still feels like that to a first-time viewer today, even though it came out more than fifty years ago.

I saw Always Shine and The Midnight Swim around the same time and keep associating them in my mind for the nods to David Lynch, indie feel, and non-linear storytelling. Probably The Midnight Swim impressed me more, because it was the first time (and only, so far) that I saw a first-person narrative that looked quite like that.

On Body and Soul belongs in the same area of this mental map mainly because of the dream sequences. Before I saw it I probably would have found it impossible to talk about dreams in a way that didn’t feel recycled, but this managed just that. The juxtaposition of the wild forest animals at night with the cattle in the slaughterhouse during the day walks such a fine line between surrealism and social commentary, and the slaughterhouse sequences are all filmed with such incredible tact -- which only serves to make them more shocking.

Then there are the great genre films. Raw was fantastic, in part because it is so rare for a French person such as myself to find a French film to her liking, but also because everything about it felt so different -- it is firmly set in the horror genre, but it also draws from such a wide range of influences. M.F.A. and Revenge mirror each other in many ways, because they’re both rape-revenge films, a sub-genre I am incredibly glad and grateful that women are tackling in such interesting and challenging ways. I liked M.F.A. better, maybe, because it felt more real, and the ending better-thought-out, but if anything, I’d recommend a double-feature night to watch both.

Great films that didn’t quite make the cut, in no particular order:

Addicted to Fresno (Jamie Babbit, 2015): best sex comedy about actual grown-ups

I Think We’re Alone Now (Reed Morano, 2018): best post-apocalyptic “everyone is gone from the surface of the Earth but us” film

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012): best Cold-War England drama

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010) : best contemplative Western

Into the Forest (Patricia Rozema, 2015): best post-apocalyptic survivalist feminist film

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda, 1984) : best film shot in my area of France

Khadak (Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2006): best science fiction film that takes place in Mongolia

Over time, I’m finding it easier and easier to watch more woman-directed films, both because I know where to look and because I’ll find it easier to relax and get into any genre at all when I know there’ll be infinitely less chance of rampant misogyny ruining an otherwise perfectly good film. It seems barely believable, now, to think that five years ago I didn’t know one single woman director, when clearly the quality and the variety are there, the work is there, and it stands so tall on its own.

Full 105-film list under the cut!

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016)

Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders, 1992)

Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)

American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)

A United Kingdom (Amma Asante, 2016)

Addicted to Fresno (Jamie Babbit, 2015)

The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard, 2013)

Novitiate (Maggie Betts, 2017)

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)

Blue My Mind (Lisa Brühlmann, 2017)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, V��ra Chytilová, 1966)

The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo, 2018)

Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge, 1983)

Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013)

Lick the Star (Sofia Coppola, 1998)

The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017)

17 GIrls (17 Filles, Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, 2011)

The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016)

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean, 2017)

Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985)

Raw (Grave, Julia Ducournau, 2016)

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)

Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel, 2018)

Deidra and Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland, 2017)

Twinsters (Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, 2015)

The Trader (Sovdagari, Tamta Gabrichidze, 2018)

The Lifeguard (Liz W. Garcia, 2013)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)

They (Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, 2017)

Tig (Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York, 2015)

The Deuce of Spades (Faith Granger, 2011)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)

Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)

Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green, 2017)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)

Axolotl Overkill (Helene Hegemann, 2017)

The Firefly (La Luciérnaga, Ana Maria Hermida, 2015)

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017)

The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)

The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener, 2018)

Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins, 1998)

Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)

The Quiet Hour (Stéphanie Joalland, 2014)

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)

By the Sea (Angelina Jolie, 2015)

Sweet Bean (あん, An, Naomi Kawase, 2015)

Lovesong (So Yong Kim, 2016)

I Feel Pretty (Abby Kohn, 2018)

Radius (Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, 2017)

Irreplaceable You (Stephanie Laing, 2018)

The Feels (Jenée LaMarque, 2017)

Breathe (Respire, Mélanie Laurent, 2014)

Galveston (Mélanie Laurent, 2018)

Octavio is Dead! (Sook-Yin Lee, 2018)

M.F.A. (Natalia Leite, 2017)

Aloft (Claudia Llosa, 2014)

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell, 2008)

A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)

Dude (Olivia Milch, 2018)

The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015)

I Think We’re Alone Now (Reed Morano, 2018)

Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy, 2017)

Girl Asleep (Rosemary Myers, 2015)

Tout ce qui brille (Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran, 2010)

I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012)

Beneath the Harvest Sky (Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, 2013)

Angels Wear White (嘉年华, Vivian Qu, 2017)

Cargo (Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, 2017)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017)

River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)

Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)

Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)

Into the Forest (Patricia Rozema, 2015)

Before I Fall (Ry Russo-Young, 2017)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Lorene Scafaria, 2012)

The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig, 2014)

Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2009)

Everything Beautiful is Far Away (Pete Ohs and Andrea Sisson, 2017)

Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)

Laggies (Lynn Shelton, 2014)

Outside In (Lynn Shelton, 2017)

Berlin Syndrome (Cate Shortland, 2017)

Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2016)

The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)

Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith, 2016)

The Lure (Córki dancingu, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015)

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016)

Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting, 2015)

Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016)

Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnès Varda, 1962)

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda, 1984)

Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2018)

Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis, 2015)

Mr. Roosevelt (Noël Wells, 2017)

Woman Walks Ahead (Susanna White, 2017)

Khadak (Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2006)

Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

#women directors #52 films by women #films #2018 in review

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carmenvicinanza · 2 years

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Laurie Anderson

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/laurie-anderson/

Laurie Anderson, che ama definirsi una narratrice di storie, è una musicista, cantante, performer e autrice di suggestivi show multimediali.

La sua carriera è stata caratterizzata da una infinità di progetti comprendenti spoken poetry, performance, installazioni, collaborazioni a balletti, opere teatrali e, ovviamente, dischi.

Artista visiva, compositrice, poeta, fotografa, regista, ventriloqua, maga dell’elettronica, ha coniugato la sperimentazione con un linguaggio accessibile al grande pubblico.

Nata a Chicago il 5 giugno 1947, ha iniziato a suonare il violino a cinque anni, le sue prime esibizioni sono state nella Chicago Youth Symphony.

Nel 1966 si è trasferita a New York, dove ha frequentato il Barnard College e si è laureata in scultura alla Columbia University nel 1972, anno in cui ha iniziato a dedicarsi alle performance per strada.

La prima è stata Automotive, concerto per automobili in cui ha orchestrato i suoni dei clacson.In Duets on Icesuonava un violino che, grazie a un registratore nascosto all’interno, produceva dei loop di suoni che duettavano con la musica che ella stessa eseguiva. Indossava un paio di pattini le cui lame erano immerse in due blocchi di ghiaccio. Quando il ghiaccio si è sciolto ha smesso di suonare perché non era più in grado di reggersi in piedi.Il violino è stato spesso protagonista nelle sue esibizioni.Per mantenersi, all’inizio della sua carriera, lavorava come intervistatrice freelance e critica d’arte. In quegli anni è entrata in contatto con musicisti decisivi per la sua maturazione artistica, da Philip Glass a Brian Eno, da John Cage al compagno della sia vita, Lou Reed.

La sua prima opera musicale importante è stata United States del 1980. Presentato per la prima volta alla Brooklyn Academy of Music nel 1983, è durato più di sei ore e conteneva più di 1.200 foto, cartoni animati e video. Un’ideale opera teatrale d’avanguardia con una spiccata coscienza politica, con momenti pungenti, umoristici, desolanti in una visione della realtà occidentale, fatta di robot antropomorfizzati e uomini-automi, alienazione e inquietudine latenti.

Con O Superman si è imposta alla ribalta internazionale conquistando critica e pubblico, il disco è arrivato secondo nelle classifiche britanniche.

Il suo è un linguaggio universale, fatto di trovate spettacolari, come l’uso in scena di un violino digitale, e di una ricerca incessante sulla voce, che è il suo strumento musicale per eccellenza.Nel 1994 ha pubblicato un libro del suo lavoro intitolato Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective, 1972-92 con cui ha intrapreso un tour multimediale in cui univa performance di lettura, musica, recitazione, danza, video, canzoni e la simulazione di un tornado.Nel 1995 ha prodotto, Puppet Motel, CD interattivo della durata di circa 12 ore.Nel 2003 è diventata la prima artista ufficiale della NASA dalla cui residenza è nato lo spettacolo The End of the Moon.L’anno successivo ha suonato alla cerimonia di apertura delle Olimpiadi di Atene.Il 12 aprile 2008 si è sposata con Lou Reed, suo compagno da una vita che il 27 ottobre 2013 è morto. Lo ha commemorato in una toccante lettera diffusa dai principali organi di stampa.Nel 2018 la sua collaborazione con il Kronos Quartet per Landfall, ispirato all’uragano Sandy in cui ha perso la casa e tanti beni, ha vinto un Grammy Award per la migliore performance di musica da camera/piccolo ensemble. Come pittrice, ha tenuto varie mostre personali in tutto il mondo.Negli anni, Laurie Anderson ha realizzato anche diversi video e film, e composto colonne sonore per film di Wim Wenders e per vari balletti. Ha scritto brani per la National Public Radio, la BBC e l’Esposizione di Siviglia, nonché diversi pezzi da orchestra.La sua carriera si può leggere anche come un percorso a ritroso, dall’uso della tecnologia alla riscoperta degli strumenti tradizionali.In una delle sue ultime performance ha indossato la divisa di cassiera per servire i clienti di un McDonald’s newyorkese, “per vivere dentro la globalizzazione e provare cosa significa far parte di questo processo massificato“.Eclettica, curiosa, intraprendente, intelligente e contemporanea, Laurie Anderson non smetterà mai di ricercare nuove forme espressive, variare nelle sue molteplici attitudini artistiche e portare la sua voce e il suo grande contributo alla narrazione contemporanea.È un’artista paragonabile a nessun’altra, raffinata, ricercata ma anche carnale e dissacrante.Una vera regina della scena culturale degli ultimi cinquant’anni.

#unadonnalgiorno

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"These Wetlands Helped Stop Flooding From Sandy. Now a BJ’s May Move In." by BY ANNE BARNARD via NYT New York https://ift.tt/3kBWdab

#NYT #news

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The $119 billion Sea Wall that could defend New York … or not

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By: New York Times | New York | Published: January 18, 2020 10:59:18 am

The barrier debate comes as New York City is still struggling to respond to Sandy and the larger need to carefully reshape an entire region’s infrastructure to adapt to climate change. (The New York Times/File)

Written by Anne Barnard

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whatstheweather · 4 years

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The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not

By Anne Barnard A six-mile-long barrier would help protect the city from floodwaters during fierce storms like Sandy, but critics say rising seas make the option inadequate. Published: January 17, 2020 at 08:11AM from NYT New York https://ift.tt/30vy2Rv via IFTTT

#IFTTT #NYT

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izayoi1242 · 4 years

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The $119 Billion Sea Wall That Could Defend New York … or Not

By BY ANNE BARNARD A six-mile-long barrier would help protect the city from floodwaters during fierce storms like Sandy, but critics say rising seas make the option inadequate. Published: January 17, 2020 at 11:11PM from NYT New York https://ift.tt/30vy2Rv via IFTTT

#IFTTT #NYT #NEWS

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mmilesgoodrich · 6 years

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all my @s are @mmilesgoodrich

Commission me: [email protected]

Subscribe to my blog, Completely Different: mmilesgoodrich.substack.com

Narrative Nonfiction

Purple Pain (Longreads)

The End of a Family, The End of The World (Catapult)

My Parents’ Divorce Forced Me To Face My Depression (Brooklyn Magazine)

The Millennial Trauma of Sandy Hook (LA Review of Books)

Politics

Dallas Climate Activists Won a Major Investment in Green Transit. We Can All Learn From Their Fight. (In These Times)

The Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want This Climate Charter to Succeed (The Nation)

The Willow Oil Project Won’t Make Us Safer (The Nation)

Biden vs. Musk is the War America Needs (The New Republic)

Reflections on Youth Turnout During the 2022 Midterms (Jewish Currents)

We Can Thank Green New Dealers for the Inflation Reduction Act (The Nation)

Food Prices Are Up. A “Bean New Deal” May Be The Answer. (The Nation)

Fossil Fuels Beget Dictators (The Nation)

Democrats Must Stand Firm on Funding the Civilian Climate Corps (The Nation)

The Climate Movement’s Decades-Long Path to the Green New Deal (Dissent)

Learning from Fannie Lou Hamer (Dissent)

Al Gore’s Pivot to Idiocy (The Baffler)

The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr. (In These Times)

LePage Should Feel the Heat for Denying the Threat of Climate Change (Portland Press Herald)

A Climate Change Litmus Test for Democrats (HuffPost)

A Progressive Foreign Policy Should Revolve Around Climate Change (HuffPost)

As quoted in

The New York Times, “’Sense of Disappointment’ on the Left as the NYC Mayor’s Race Unfolds” by Katie Glueck and Dana Rubinstein

NPR’s “All Things Considered” with Sam Sanders

The Washington Post, “Protestors sent a message to the New York governor on a birthday cake: Make billionaires pay” by Kayla Epstein

Politico, “New York Takes Lead in Climate Change Fight” by Marie French

The New Republic, “Climate Change Is the Ultimate ‘OK, Boomer’ Issue” by Rachel Riederer

The Daily Beast, “How Dimes Square Became The New York City Neighborhood We Love To Hate” by Helen Holmes

The New York Times, “Biden Attends Fund-Raiser By Top Player In Fossil Fuels” by Anne Barnard and Katie Glueck

The Intercept, “Who’s Afraid of the Green New Deal” by Kate Aronoff

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “Grant Makers Urged to Stay Focused on Climate Change in Biden Administration” by Alex Daniels

Bloomberg Businessweek, “How Much Have Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Scott Donated of their Net Worth to Charity” by Sophie Alexander and Ben Steverman

The Boston Globe, “’Nobody in America cares’ who’s Speaker, Christie says” by Hannah Perrin and Robert Way

New York Daily News, “Socialist green gang hosting boot camp to train budding agitators to push New York State to take public ownership of utilities and immediate climate action” by Denis Slattery

Al Jazeera, “Beware the Climate Kids: US Youth to Join Strike for Climate” by Ben Piven

Columbia Journalism Review, “How Teen Climate Activists Get – and Make – Climate News” by Abby Rabinowitz

Gothamist, “Joe Biden Vows Not To Take Fossil Fuel Money At UWS Fundraiser Hosted By Fossil Fuel Leader” by Jake Offenhartz

Audubon Magazine, “Climate Policy Urgently Needs Adults in the Room – So Teens Are Stepping Up” by Geoff Dembicki

HuffPost, “Andrew Cuomo Walks Back Statement Saying He’ll Stop Taking Fossil Fuel Money” by Alexander C. Kaufman

New York Daily News, “Green New Deal champ Costa Costantinides accepts Oil Heat PAC cash, gives it up when called out” by Shant Shahrigian

Gotham Gazette, “As Cuomo Chooses Democratic Unity, Party Activist Base Chooses Nixon” by Dave Colon

InsideClimate News, “Rope-Line Questions Push Hillary Clinton to Address Climate, Energy Issues” by Sheila V Kumar

Gotham Gazette, “Pushed on Climate Legislation, Cuomo Tries to Set Himself Apart” by Caitlyn Rosen

InsideClimate News, “How a Climate Group that Has Made Chaos Its Brand Got the White House’s Ear” by Keerti Gopal

Panels and Conferences

“Climate Change and the Green New Deal” at Housing Works Bookstore with Kate Aronoff, David Wallace-Wells, Robert Hockett, and Arielle Dumaine-Ross

To The End theatrical premiere panel at Village East Cinemas with Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Alexandra Rojas, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, and Dan Cogan

“The Green New Deal and Environmental Justice” at the New School with Eddie Bautista, Omar Freilla, Maria Lopez-Nunez, and Nicky Sheats

Reportage

“You Are Fake News:” Navigating Northside Report’s Eponymous Panel (Brooklyn Magazine)

Reading the #Resistance: A Dispatch from the Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn Magazine)

Interviews And Reviews

Dirty Projectors

Julia Holter

Girlpool

Alvvays

illustrator Eli Valley

investigative journalist Marie Brenner

Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris

Podcast and Radio Appearances

Invested In Climate Ep #68 - Sunrise Movement & young people’s fight for bold climate action

SiriusXM - Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang

Connect the Dots on Progressive Radio Network - “Sunrise Springs Up: Two Sunrise Youth Leaders Talk Upcoming Town Halls”

The Cable #32 “Meet The Sunrise Movement”

Inherited Podcast - Episode One, “The Young and Naive”

Book Appearances

Génération Ocasio-Cortez by Mathieu Magnaudeix

The AOC Generation: How Millennials Are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics by David Freedlander

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The James M. Townsend House - 318 West 75th Street

The house to the right was constructed simultaneously for James W. Townsend, Jr.

Mansion architect C. P. H. Gilbert was busily designing a number of townhouses on the Upper West Side in 1895. Unlike the rows of speculative houses rising throughout the district, most of Gilbert's were direct commissions.

Late that year the architect was hired by James M. Townsend and his son to design side-by-side homes at Nos. 318 and 320 West 75th Street respectively. Gilbert treated the two homes independently with no attempt at melding the designs.

The James Mulford. Townsend home would stand slightly taller than No. 320. Its sandy-colored brick upper floors sat on a limestone base. Its somewhat rigid Renaissance Revival design was softened by delightful carvings of scallop shells and squiggly ribbons below the third floor cornice. The shell-and-ribbon motif was repeated in the panels between the fifth floor windows; and a line of shells decorated the primary cornice.

Townsend was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1852. He graduated from Yale University in 1874 and then from Columbia Law School. He married Harriet Bailey Campbell, the daughter of Professor John Lyle Campbell of Washington and Lee University, on November 15, 1882. Theirs would be a large family. The couple had six children--Harriet Campbell, James Mulford, Jr., John Campbell, Edward Howard, and twins Virginia and Donald.

The Townsends maintained a summer home at Pelham Manor, New York; described by The New York Times in July 1896 as "one of the most secluded localities on the Sound." The article mentioned "No trade is carried on inside the manor limits."

When James Mulford Townsend moved into the 75th Street house, he was the senior member of the law firm Townsend, Avery & Button. from Men of Progress, 1898 (copyright expired)

Townsend's social status was evidenced in his club memberships. Men of Progress in 1898 said "He is identified with many of New York's most prominent clubs." Among them were the University, the Colonial, the New York Athletic and the Barnard Clubs.

Harriet's entertainments in the house were not lavish. Society columns commented on teas and receptions rather than sumptuous dinners and dances. Such was the case on February 26, 1900 when she hosted an 11 a.m. lecture by Mrs. Ruutz Rees on "Buddhism."

The Townsends remained at No. 318 until early in 1909 when it was sold to Dr. Frederick Merwin Ives. An unlikely combination of physician and civic engineer, he was born in Rome in 1866, where his well-known sculptor father, Chauncey Ives, maintained his studio. Ives had graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889 and was married to Edith Wetherill, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.

The couple had not lived in the home long before one of their servants was the near-victim of a robbery. James Hanley had fallen asleep under a tree in Fort George Park on the evening of June 22, 1910. His reverie was abruptly broken by uninvited movements. He awoke "to find a sailor in full uniform bending over him and fumbling at his pockets," reported The New York Times the following day. "He noticed, too, that his gold chain, worth $10, was missing."

Hanley jumped up and wrestled with the sailor, drawing the attention of a passing policeman. The uniformed man was arrested and Hanley's watch chain was found in his pocket. At the station house the crook said he was Thomas Doyle, attached to the U.S. cruiser the Franklin, and he had come to New York from the Norfolk Navy Yard on furlough. The police were not quick to accept his story, telling reporters they "believed he is one of several fake sailors who beg in uniform for a living."

When the United States entered World War I Ives joined the Medical Department of the Army, with the rank of captain. It may have been his absence that led to the 75th Street house being leased. In September 1919 Albert Gran rented it. But if the couple intended to return, it does not appear they ever did.

On July 30, 1920 an advertisement in The Sun offered "Charming rooms, overlooking Hudson, two doors Riverside Drive." And then on September 7, 1923 The New York Times reported that Edith had sold the house for $65,000--more than $930,000 today.

The buyer was real estate operator Henry Schwamm. Reports said he purchased it "for a client." Apparently the client was himself for he and his wife, Clara, moved in. Like Ives, Schwamm was multi-faceted. In addition to his real estate business, he was an authority on medical and dental jurisprudence and wrote extensively on the subject.

The couple had five children, Gustave, Sidney, Blance, Camille and Frances. They received the privileges of well-to-do families and extensive education.

When son Gustave's engagement to Norma June Wexler was announced in December 1932, for instance, newspapers noted he "was graduated from the College of Arts and Pure Science and the School of Law at New York University." Gustave was still living at home and practicing law at the time.

The Schwamm's well-educated daughters Camille and Blanch attended the Institut Fisher at Montreux, Switzerland. Camille then studied at Syracuse University, and New York University. Blanche went on to Columbia University's Teachers College.

Dr. Henry Schwamm died at the age of 64 on July 22, 1943. Three years later the house was converted to apartments, two on each floor except the top, which had three.

Despite the unfortunate apartment entrance doors and an inexplicable coating of paint over the limestone of the first floor, C. P. H. Gilbert's stately design endures between two other contemporary Gilbert houses.

photographs by the author

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-james-m-townsend-house-318-west.html

#read more #see more #check it out #interesting #learn more

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 5 years

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🔎 YA Under the Radar 🔍

For a while, I’ve been thinking about doing a recommendations list of YA novels that don’t get as much love as they probably deserve. So here are 50 of my favourite YA novels and series that (as of December 18th 2018) have less than 10,000 ratings on Goodreads.

All of these books are from my “read” shelf on Goodreads and I fully endorse them. Some are contemporaries, some are speculative fiction, all are awesome. Many of the authors on this list are from the UK or Australia as well.

Please feel free to add your own so that we can spread the love for these hidden gems of the genre!

The Yearbook Committee by Sarah Ayoub

A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard

How To Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

All This Could End by Steph Bowe

Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy

Close Your Eyes by Nicci Cloke

Stranger Than Fanfiction by Chris Colfer

Moonrise by Sarah Crossan

We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan

A Thousand Perfect Notes by CG Drews

Ida by Alison Evans

I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman

Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough

Been Here All Along by Sandy Hall

The Next Together duology by Lauren James

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson

Dreamology by Lucy Keating

Riders of the Apocalypse series by Jackie Morse Kessler

The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury

Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan

Are We There Yet? by David Levithan

Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom

A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom

Neverland by Margot McGovern

The Orphan Queen series by Jodi Meadows

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman

Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige

Summer Days, Summer Nights by Stephanie Perkins

My New Crush Gave to Me by Shani Petroff

Tone Deaf by Olivia Rivers

The Taste of Blue Light by Lydia Ruffles

Unspeakable by Abbie Rushton

Never Ever duology by Sara Saedi

All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder

When My Heart Was Wicked by Tricia Stirling

A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland

From Where I Stand by Tabitha Suzuma

A Note of Madness series by Tabitha Suzuma

Hurt by Tabitha Suzuma

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

More of my recommendations

#book recs #book recommendations #underrated books #booklr #bookblr #ya fiction #ya fantasy #ya science fiction #trcc original #loveozya #2018 #revive booklr #reviving booklr

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