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19 Death Wish
Coffee Thoughts: World Book Day – Can Genre Fiction Change Your Life For The Better?
It's funny how professional life as an adult can drastically affect the reading habits one develops growing up. I was voracious reader from the time my mother taught me to read (somewhere around three years old; I could read when I went to school, which in the U.K. was at 4 years old in the seventies). My love of books, comics, television, film and genre started in those single digit years, almost all of it thanks to my mum and her open-minded attitude towards my choices and developing taste. You can trace the greater chunk of the pleasures I take in these arenas to then: historicals (Henry Treece's Viking novels, Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman books, Roger Lancelyn Green's retellings of British myths and legends), fantasy (Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters and The Hobbit) and SF (Patrick Moore's Scott Saunders series, the Target novelisations of Doctor Who, Arthur C. Clarke's Islands in the Sky and Of Time and Stars). Detective and crime fiction would come to define the beginning and end of my teenage years, soft-boiled first, hard-boiled last, and I would try to keep up with my faves in all these genres across the nineties, until the poverty of being a professional secondary teacher forced me to cut back to only what libraries had.
As a teacher of History and English, there was a lot to read just for the job, so what I found relaxed me were things I didn't always have to teach, even if they were tangentially related. SF faded slightly in favour of fantasy and crime, although some historicals continued to exercise a fascination despite the day job: Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe sequence, Lindsey Davis' Marcus Didius Falco series, and Patrick O'Brian's superlative Aubrey & Maturin novels. When I left the teaching profession for the private sector and new media, SF became a focus again, particularly Ken MacLeod and Richard K. Morgan. Then something strange happened. I read less and less and less, other than for work. As with my love of music, working in DVD/film/TV just somehow dampened all that down.
At the time I thought it was just a matter of the music and books that were coming to my attention, the creative choices being made by bands, solo artists and authors I had been following for years by then. I still feel now that English-language science fiction in particular as a genre lost its way in the first decade of this century, evinced in particular by the turning of a significant number of creative voices to the thriller genre, or some to the fantasy genre. It was as if arriving in the long-dreamt-of, much-anticipated 21st century robbed so many of them of their extrapolative visions. But then, I felt the same way about fantasy and horror, including their unholy mutant offspring urban/dark fantasy, while crime fiction seemed to become about nothing more than typical middle-class fears or fantasies, trailing behind what television and film could and would say (spy-fi was even worse off; like the intelligence services themselves, four years behind the curve they needed to be on to staff up adequately against the latest global threats of this century, the fiction would scrabble around for relevance for years). Much as I enjoyed the books of, say, George Pelecanos, there is no question in my mind that being part of the collective that created HBO's The Wire was and is the more significant achievement for myself as a consumer of fiction. (That statement in no way affects his works, his success, or the feelings anyone reading this has about his works, of course.)
Youth makes it easy to labour under the illusion one has milked a particular genre or strand of media dry, so intent is one on absorbing as much as possible of it. One sees this in particular with the most dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core fans of any medium, from painting to sculpture to cinema to music (popular or otherwise) to videogames. At their best, those obsessed with a particular focus may utilise their detailed knowledge to become experts in relevant fields, disseminating that knowledge and their thinking on to others; at worst, they will bore you with masturbatory theorising and irrelevant minutiae in blogs like this one, instead of as they used to do by hijacking conversations down the pub. However, depending on where the evolution of said medium is at the point one first encounters it, there is every possibility one is indeed witness to a key moment in that medium's existence, be it one of prodigious quality across the output or a transformational shift that is recognisable even to those not enamoured of the medium. Separating one's own point of view from the actual broader ebb and flow of history is one of the many things one learns to do as one grows older; indeed, the ability to recognise that the separation between opinion and factually-supported statement actually exists and has value is part of the maturation process itself.
I now understand that whatever else was happening in those genres, whatever economic, cultural and political factors were impacting creatively in them, who I was and what I was going through is in the end the emotional matrix under which I laboured and interpreted them. There was also something else, something in the kind of life I was living working and going out in London, which meant I just didn't make time or use energy to devote to past passions in quite the same way. New technology made keeping up with music on the move easier, while the new portability of DVD players and then media players made TV and film easier to take in on the commute. Bizarrely for someone raised like myself, reading faded from a passion to a skill, a sad, sad thing indeed to recall and write down here. This has nothing to do with the writers or the genres collectively, even if there may be some truth in my perceptions of them.
I had to disentangle myself from the media and all the toxicity I had fully embraced as normal and desirable to start to recover my mental and physical health over these last two years. In that time, insomnia has propelled me back to the bad habits of my youth, reading late into the night, unable to sleep until a book was finished no matter if that meant seeing the sky lighten outside the curtains. (Spare a thought here for my poor partner, desperate for sleep before her next working shift, putting up with my bad habit here. Sorry Kim!) But at least I'm reading again, and it's been a joy to do so, to refresh, re-examine and enjoy all over again the written word and the pictures painted by them inside my head.
Which brings me to the Matthew Scudder novels. Lawrence Block is a giant in the crime fiction arena. He would be just based on his prodigious output, but the quality is also consistently exceptional, and his peers recognise this, granting him awards and Grand Master status of the Crime Writers' Association of America. Of the five series he has maintained over the course of his career – Bernie Rhodenbarr, Keller, Evan Tanner, Chip Harrison, Matthew Scudder – it was the latter I was drawn to last year. Having now read the entire series, it not only clearly stands out as the monumental achievement that many others have already expounded upon, and occupies an interesting place within the evolution of the genre itself, but it became something more than mere entertainment for me. It became part of my therapy.
Scudder is, like many leads of crime fiction, a former cop, in this case a New York detective. A hard-drinking white male of Irish origin, capable of violence but not prone to it or seeking it out like some, he is at first, when the series opens in the seventies (the books are pretty much set when they were written, except for two flashback novels), a man without direction. He seems content to get up each day in the hotel room he rents, go down the bar he frequents, have breakfast, order coffee, and start putting bourbon in it. As the day wears on the coffee will go and the bourbon will stay. He wasn't fired, drummed out some scandal, in fact quite the opposite; he was decorated for a shooting in which he killed two criminals, but a stray bullet caught a little girl through the eye, ending her life. Scudder walks away from the job, his wife and kids, into this New York life that allows him to drink and not much else, until he starts to use his training and instincts to look into matters for others. No license means no legal protections but no legal limits either; he calls the process doing favours for gifts, i.e. cash. And he starts to find something in this life, something that is his beyond whatever it is he is carrying that no amount of drink seems to be able to wash away.
Block's sense of place and dialogue means the books function as a chronicle of a changing New York over the decades as much as of a man growing and changing over that time. Unlike other crime series, Scudder evolves as a man, changing with his surroundings, friendships, and the passage of time. Along that path he does things that are morally questionable if not downright reprehensible, without the cloak of law or an innate moral certainty of justice, but he debates and considers these actions rather than dismissing them or celebrating them, and that in itself makes him stand out from so many other morally compromised protagonists of the genre. His actions indicate someone wrestling with himself, with his past, with his present, with the very idea of a future. It takes a book or two for readers to realise his drinking isn't simply a genre cliché, but a very real drowning of sorrows that takes him over, leading to those morally questionable incidents and actions. Where this leads was as much a surprise to me as I imagine it came to those who read the books as they were published in real time: Scudder comes to realise he is an alcoholic and, after experiencing serious blackouts, finds his way to AA and their programme. No macho celebration here of the ability to drink until one passes out - how refreshing for the genre!
A simplistic reading of my own feelings over the course of these novels would be: Scudder enters a form of therapy, I'm doing therapy, bingo! Association made, perceived connection, false resonance. If that were all, however, then I would not be writing this piece. Block's masterful use of the genre to his own ends offered me a parallel vision of a man (seemingly completely unlike me) and his place in the world at a time when I was without one, lost, unable to see any kind of future that resembled or meant anything real to me. How he felt about work and family had resonances for me given my own departure from my last profession. It also made me realise to what degree I was reliant on alcohol for many, many years, something that even diabetes didn't cure me of completely until last year. (Or at least the medication I am on did.) And when I wasn't reliant on alcohol, I was on food, or all the media & fiction consumption mentioned above. All my life I have moved from crutch to crutch, seeking refuge in consumption of one sort or another. Block's writing, Scudder's journey, did more than entertain me through dark insomniac nights; it offered examples of a way forward. Scudder needed to do more than come to terms with being responsible for the death of a girl; he also had to find a way to be someone day to day in the now that encompasses who he was in all facets, and gives him those things that he gradually realises he needs.
This is not to dismiss or decry consumption of fiction, or to damn my past actions and self. I realise now I cannot be a person who does not read; I am not someone who does not enjoy reading fiction. It has been part of me for so long now I realise how badly I missed it when I didn't, like listening to music (this post has been written to a soundtrack of The Who, Scarlett Johannson and the Mark Lanegan Band). At times in my life fiction has helped me cope, get by, but now is the first time I can honestly say it has helped me survive. This has, in its own way, been one long ode to the joy and value of books and reading, but also a heartfelt thank you to Lawrence Block and Matthew Scudder; if a DJ can save your life, why not an author too? Just maybe, I see a future now for me too.
Sunday Coffee Thoughts: Adrift on the Oceans of Cinema
It is odd what personal impulses emerge over time as predominant traits in oneself. I used to define myself, sadly, by the many media I was obsessed with, convinced that my understanding of them gave me easy insight to other people (which, to be fair, it used to; less so now in the pick 'n' mix culture of the West today) as well as rendering me more transparent. However, after so many decades of being a film fan, a comics fan, a reader of genre fictions, and a lover of music of all sorts from around the world and throughout time, I appear to have come unstuck from my moorings, and only now am I beginning to appreciate that maybe sailing the open waters in search of new horizons is the better place to be.
It began with the immersion back into modern television that becoming editor of Cult TV Times required. Working in DVD and film limits massively what one watches for pleasure; I had let entire trends (Nordic Noir, HBO, the U.S. cable revolution) pass me by while focusing solely on what I had to watch for work (independent film screeners, archive film and television). When film-goers (people who actually pay to see films, as opposed to those who see them free for professional reasons or pirate them) complain about whether those who work in the film business actually watch films or even like them, their bewildered enquiry has some merit; many of those who do, don't, however much they did. This, obviously, contributes significantly to the evident disconnect between the tastes of those funding film and what viewers would actually watch if they had the choice available to them. Becoming the person who could justifiably carry the name of editor meant I could no longer be that kind of person; I had to go back to a love previous to film, and immerse myself in that world once again: widen my knowledge base, test my taste, examine the critical discussions ongoing and question the consensus.
Over the course of the last (nearly) two years of editing the site and magazine, something radical happened to my taste in films. It was already changing; in pursuing a personal policy of watching older films I had not seen before releases of their remakes or new films heavily influenced by them, I was finding how much I preferred the older films. Dario Argento & Daria Nicolodi's magnificent Suspiria was so much more my kind of film than Black Swan (which I still enjoyed, particularly as a distaff take on director Darren Aronofsky's great debut Pi, and a working through of his interest (obsession?) with the late Satoshi Kon & Sadayuki Murai's Hitchcock riff and pop culture dissection Perfect Blue); Henry Hathaway & John Wayne's adaptation of True Grit was, despite my dislike of Wayne, in another league from the wan, anaemic remake by the Coen Brothers (and make no mistake, despite their claim that is a stand-alone adaptation of the same novel, there are scenes which are original to the earlier adaptation and not Porthis' novel; it's a remake all right), and yet another failure in my eyes from them. The original 3.10 To Yuma also outclassed completely the modern remake in every single way except budget & production design, the latter and the action & scenery afforded by the former were the only things that kept me watching the new version to the end. The capper to all this was when I came to show my partner Kim Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly after she had enjoyed A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More; the blu-ray only offers the modern restored version, with re-discovered scenes cut back in and dubbed by the aged then-surviving stars alongside voice actors. With no theatrical cut to compare to, these scenes still stood out to Kim like forced additions, while to my own perception they took the dreamlike rambling and disjointed nature of the cut many of us had fallen in love with (and lived with for decades) and weighted it down with prosaic explanations, mood-breaking moments under echoey modern dubbing that broke the spell the rest of the movie kept casting over us. Thank goodness that superlative, immense finale remains intact; any tampering with that would have been insult added to injury.
I was, frankly, horrified at how little I enjoyed the film that had been at number two on any list anyone asked me to put together of favourite films of all time. For just shy of thirty years, when asked that question, the first two were easy, the other eight would be hard; they would also change every time. There are so, so many films I have watched over the years that, although still not a patch on my friends who remain true to the faith of film and cinephilia itself, to me a Top Ten or Top Twenty or whatever is a limiting exercise that serves no real purpose. Mood is as important to watching a film as the individual viewer's experiences, background, inclinations, or what they did five minutes before watching. I will make lists in no particular order for people who ask, to introduce them to a cinema they are unfamiliar with, or explore or exemplify a theme or genre. Taste, however, is a fickle quality, and is not always to be trusted to tell another person about the films listed. (On the other hand, a taste-based list can always be trusted to tell the reader something about the list-maker.)
With the number two spot holder in its current iteration no longer able to justify holding on to that place, a further shock awaited me, and it would be this that made me realise I was adrift on open water. Prior to seeing Interstellar it seemed time to introduce Kim to my top spot holder for nearly three decades, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went badly; after a tiring day at work she fell asleep twenty minutes in (and has expressed a willingness since to tackle it again); I decided myself to persevere with it, as well as finally watch Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's Sunshine afterwards. To my shock and horror I found 2001 to drag and drag, taking far too long to do anything with anything, standing far too still to appreciate how gorgeous and ambitious and ground-breaking it was busy being. Great and powerful moments early on, so beautifully conceived and executed as to retain their function when extracted as still images, now seem like momentary gusts of wind in an otherwise becalmed sea, pushing the boat of the narrative on in moments that are few and far between. When the story finally switched to the Jupiter mission, my first thought was "oh FINALLY, things are going to pick up", except of course, they didn't. Only as the ship neared its destination and Kubrick starts to ratchet up the tension, often adopting HAL's eye viewpoints, does the film start to get down in the existential dirt with its subjects, instead of affecting a godlike distance. And so it is only in the film's second half or final third that it gripped me all over again the way it used to last century on repeated viewings in multiple formats, and I enjoyed the final sequence as much as I had done since that first time. (It has never been a mystery to me, so has become a litmus test for people I meet: do they claim to not understand this sequence or not?)
And so I found myself cast adrift, unmoored from tenets of faith I had professed for decades. How could this have been my Number One Favourite Movie Of All Time for so long? How had I, or my taste, changed so much with age? What was wrong with me? After all, this is a film that has always had its detractors as well as its fervent admirers, of which I was one - yet here I was, firmly crossing over from one camp to the other. A simple, realisation that seems meaningless to most was to me as great a moment as the devout of an older religion than cinephilia walking away from all they had professed and believed in all their lives up until then. Even now writing about it, I am shaking slightly, the uncertainty on which I am adrift at the edge of so dark and scary that looking back to the comfortable well-lit shore seems like the obvious thing to reach for. Yet how can I? I cannot undo what I have felt, even though I believe firmly that every story must find its best length and pace for itself, not for me.
There is also something deeper, more troubling to my way of thinking as a science-fiction fan of a certain age, racial and cultural background. In reaching forward to create a future world extrapolated from the decade they made it in, Kubrick and his team prove more than capable of imagining and then realising believable advancements in space-faring and communications technology, dated aesthetics aside. However, they cannot conceive of a world in which the Cold War has ended, or women and people of colour are by and large anything but servants (there are some exceptions with regards to women, but noticeably the female scientists we meet are from the Eastern Bloc). It is the world I grew up in, but thankfully isn't exactly (from a racial perspective) the world I live in today. These lacks are in keeping with the limitations of the creators, but it speaks to one of the fundamentals of science fiction in general, then as now: creators who do not take advantage of having all of space and time to play in to move beyond their own limitations are not utilising the genre to its fullest potential. How is a writer or film-maker supposed to transcend their own limitations, one may ask? Surely that is exactly why one writes; not only to record, or to repeat, but to impact, to transform, to reach for something greater and leave behind a mark more lasting than those one's own life will leave behind. Maybe that is asking too much of some writers, or even of many; but given the expressed ambition of Kubrick et al to make realistic science fiction with 2001, it seems fascinating that to my eyes now they only succeeded as they imagined the story from the perspectives of an A.I. and a human undergoing an alien-led transformation. Those sequences transcend in a way that the more prosaic opening third or so no longer do for me.
Watching Sunshine afterwards cemented all that I felt. I loved this film from the outset, wondering which camp Boyle and Garland each fell into regarding 2001. It also demonstrated Boyle's own unabashed cinephilia, with him making use of a tremendous range of techniques to tell his story that almost all worked. I was annoyed with myself for not having watched it sooner (six years from purchase to viewing; still not my longest record, however), and cannot wait to watch it again. Interstellar had more in common with it then Kubrick's film. Still, an interesting and illuminating double-bill, and life-changing as only a film double-bill can be for a cinephile. One thing is for certain: 2001 retains its importance for me, and part of its power, but I now no longer have any firm entrants in any future Top Ten I am asked to write. This is terrifying and yet it is also liberating, and that, in the end, is perhaps the best consequence of all.
Postscript: Thankfully for my cinephiliac malaise I am not alone in it now, it seems. Writer-director-producer Steven Soderbergh has recently recut the film for his blog, having lived with and loved it for four decades. Unfortunately he has taken it down at the request of both Warner Bros. and the Kubrick Estate, but Jordan Blackwell details here some of the changes made. I would have liked to have seen this version, as it appears to address quite specifically my own new issues with the film, other than that final troubling one; it definitely makes me look forward now to doing the Solaris double-bill I still need to do, having long ago seen Tarkovsky's but not Soderbergh's.
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Your Mileage May Vary: Living as a Human Laboratory
One of the fun things about being a Type 2 diabetic with a nut allergy is the weighing up of risk when shopping for food and drink, cooking and eating. Every decision to purchase has to be based on a number of factors: are the sugars contained in the product listed as 10g per 100g or below? (Given there can be up to a 20% variance allowable there.) Are the saturated fats also below a certain level? What are the overall carbs, and are they complex and/or low GI? (that's Glycaemic Index for those unfamiliar with the abbreviation.) I then have to add in whether nuts are listed somewhere in the ingredients. If they are, I don't buy it. If they are not, but the mysterious phrase "flavourings" is listed, then I have to consider the risk.
When you start shopping around this matrix, then several aisles of the supermarket or store become off-limits. One retrains one's eating habits and the satisfactions from them away from much of what constitutes a "normal" diet to folks raised around the U.K. The majority of cereals are off limits, so other than porridge or specialist brands of flakes of various sorts, one starts to breakfast on other things. Meat and vegetables become important in the first meal of the day. Not all sweeteners are good for you, or even work as they are described to on one's blood sugars, so "diet" and "light" items are not an instant alternative. (The title of this post comes from something I learnt in my initial diabetes awareness sessions that Surrey NHS ran back in 2006 when I was diagnosed: each and every diabetic reacts differently to their intake as compared with other diabetics. In other words, what is good for one person is not always good for another; hence, Your Mileage May Vary or YMMV for short.) Juice and fruit can be dangerous, and smoothies can be lethal, given the sheer volume of sugars delivered quickly to the system by these methods, so one has to work harder to keep up the recommended "five a day". (When I allow myself juice I drink at least half and half with water; in some bars and pubs I've had to ask for a third juice and two-thirds water given the amount of added sugar in the brands they stock.)
Lately, however, the nut allergy side of things has become more complicated, just when it should be becoming simpler. As companies look to keep their profits, pricing down the various elements in their supply chain, a number of companies from whom I bought products in the past have moved from having no nuts or warnings for nuts on their labels to still having no nuts listed in the ingredients, but carrying a warning about the place of manufacture used. These latter clearly are locations where cross-contamination is possible, for whatever reason. Until a few months ago, this was something I would have to weigh up and consider the relative risk of, as unlike friends of mine with severe allergies, my own seemed to react to direct ingestion and not mild or trace cross-contamination. All that has now changed, and called into question the fact that I have lived by for many years now, which is that when all the research is said and done, in the end you have only your own body as a lab for testing products; after all, YMMV.
I have had a bad allergic reaction to something unknown - presumably nut-based - once a month now for four months, breaking a five year streak of no serious reactions. In two of those cases my partner and I could narrow down the possible culprits, and have had to stop using products from companies that only a week or a day before I was eating without problems. The other two involved home-cooked food I made myself from ingredients that should not in any way have contained nuts, and certainly carried no listings to that effect. The most recent incident - this past Friday night - was bad enough that I had to use an epi-pen for the first time, which was not enough by the time I used it, and the paramedic, ambulance staff and A&E staff all did what was necessary to help me get the swelling under control (many thanks to Buckinghamshire South Central Ambulance Service and Stoke Mandeville A & E yet again!). In the end, it took another two days for the swelling to go down and the side-effects, diabetic and otherwise, of having been administered 100mg of hydrocortisone to go away. I resolved to do that thing which friends with more severe dietary issues than I had been egging me on to do, and decided to bake for the first time since junior school. (That was the seventies, in case you were wondering.) The results have proven to be so effective on both allergic and diabetic fronts that I intend to do more of the latter. (See the main image above for the flapjacks made from a Sweet Freedom recipe.)
There is just one problem with doing more baking at home. In the past, I inquired with a number of flour manufacturers about nut-free status and possible contamination, back when I first considered baking things at home. NOT ONE OF THEM WOULD GUARANTEE THAT THEIR FLOUR PRODUCTS WERE NUT-FREE. Not plain, not wholemeal, not spelt, none of them, all due to manufacturing methods. This is in keeping with the guarantee, or rather legal shield covering their asses, on the product I ate Friday night - you can read it for yourself below.
Note that there are no nuts used in the recipe, and none in manufacturing. In theory, this should guarantee a nut-free product. However, the company in question state that they cannot guarantee their ingredients to be nut-free. This begs a number of questions: where are they sourcing these from? Why are the source companies not offering guarantees of their own? (See the flour issue above, perhaps.) If any of the ingredients might be suspect, why is no specific warning listed on the label (an additional asterisk or cross next to each ingredient that might be contaminated, with the nomenclature listing that symbol for "Cannot guarantee nut-free)?
While the answer for myself is clear - despite eating the companies products in the days before the allergic reaction with no problem, I am will not now buy anything from them again - what worries me here, as always, is the bigger picture. If ingredients themselves cannot be offered with guarantees of being free from nuts, then two thoughts occur to me:
- Making my own food at home from scratch is no longer a method guaranteed to keep me safe from harm, unless I start making vegetable substitutes for items, e.g. cauliflower "flour" for baking alternatives;
- Clearly the process of ensuring one or more processing/manufacturing lines in any factory/plant handling/packing ingredients remain nut-free is considered too time-consuming and expensive to do, whether in-house or out-sourced. This might be why companies are opting to print warnings instead of actually do the more expensive work to offer a safer product for those of us who suffer from such allergies. (Peanut allergy affects 1 in 50 young infants in the U.K., and four out of five of those will continue to suffer from them as adults; tree nut allergy sufferers are on the rise as well.) After all, profit is more important than customer safety, as all consumers well know; the mathematics of the free market have ever dictated thus.
The NHS will be retesting me to see if my allergy is the same or has changed over time at the end of March. However, the suddenness with which this has all come on, the fact these reactions have occurred on days when I have taken antihistamines in the morning (120mg of Fexofenadine is my usual dosage), and that they are occurring with products that were previously safe for me to eat, has me convinced that the wider issue of the supply chain is where I need to look for the culprit. The question now is: can I make yet another set of fairly major changes to my diet without incurring additional expenses of time and money? I'm not sure I have a choice in the matter now.
Introduction to the Blog: "Heart has nothing to do with it any more. It's all in the caffeine."
Det. Frank Pembleton: "You know, every day I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in. I can focus my eyes again. My brain starts to order the day. I'm up, I'm alive. I'm ready to rock. But the time is coming when I wake up and decide that I'm not getting out of bed. Not for coffee, or food or sex. If it comes to me, fine. If it won't, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live, the less I know. I should know more. I should know the coffee's killing me. You're suspicious of your suspicions? I'm jealous, Kay; I'm so jealous. You still have the heart to have doubts. Me? I'm going to lock up a 14-year-old kid for what could be the rest of his natural life. I got to do this. This is my job. This is the deal. This is the law. This is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions about it. Heart has nothing to do with it any more. It's all in the caffeine."
Welcome to the third incarnation of It's All In The Caffeine, a blog formerly hosted at WordPress and then Tumblr. The title comes from the above quote from Homicide: Life on the Street aka "the best damn show on television" as spoken by Detective Frank Pembleton, played by the inestimable Andre Braugher, to Detective Kay Howard, played by the sublime (and now Academy Award® winner) Melissa Leo. You can read my reviews of the first six seasons of the show over at what was DVD Times, but is now The Digital Fix:
Homicide: Life on the Street S1 & 2 R1 DVD set review
Homicide: Life on the Street S3 R1 DVD set review
Homicide: Life on the Street S4 R1 DVD set review
Homicide: Life on the Street S5 R1 DVD set review
Homicide: Life on the Street S6 R1 DVD set review
This blog will ramble on about the many things that I continue to find interesting: books, comics, music, television and movies; the process of adaptation between them; genre and structure; food, drink and cooking; various matters of health and environment; and ongoing debates about race, gender and economics. More rarely it might touch on matters of politics, astronomy, and physics; we shall see. Anyone along for the ride, I hope you enjoy it.


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Do you know Genoveva Añonma? First, she's a woman. She's also an Equatoguinean footballer who was asked to strip down naked to prove her "womanhood" to World Cup officials. Yeah, this is the kind of world we live in. Check out her story of humiliation. She's not the only one, this is a practice in sports against women.
International sports star Genoveva Anonma revealed that she was asked to strip naked to prove her "womanhood" in front of World Cup officials. Not only was her personal torment mortifying, but it further opened the once closed-door on sports and their debate of gender and power when it comes to female athletes.
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Such a thing as "gender-testing" actually exists and it is when female players undergo procedures that either "determine" their sex or decrease any high levels of testosterone because their prowess are deemed too strong to be of a woman. This usually comes to the forefront when under-performing teams and players, jealous of the success of their female rivals, go to the ebbs of their jealously and accuse these players of looking masculine or men posing as women, making it easier to compete and get around rules and regulations
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Today we are heading from Collins, OH, to Hollow Rock Camp Meeting for the last 10 days of our tour. Instead of getting all sappy and nostalgic about the summer, I'll just fill you in on how our week has been.
When we arrived Saturday afternoon in Collins, we met at the church with Donna and Pastor Josh to go over the plans for the week before heading to get settled in at our host homes. Cliff and Micah stayed with Jerry and Florence, a very loving elderly couple who had lots of wisdom to share with our guys. Brandon and Conner stayed with Ron and Chicky, a couple whose hospitality goes above and beyond what we could ever have expected. Ron and Chicky made snacks for us every night after VBS and really loved on our whole team. The girls stayed with Brian and Casi, their boys Wesley and Collin, and their dog Scooby. Brian and Casi were incredible hosts, and a lot of fun to talk to and get to know.
On Sunday morning we loaded up and went to the first of three church services. Ariane shared about our team and Acts 20:17-27, Kat talked about the story of Jonah, and Micah gave a bit of his testimony. Then we loaded up and went to West Hartland UMC and did the same thing all over again, this time with Christa giving her testimony. After the second service, we loaded up and went back to Collins to do it all over again — needless to say, it was a long morning.
After lunch at the church and some prep time for VBS, we all went back to our host homes for a power nap before we started VBS that night. The VBS theme this week was G-Force, which focused on God's love in action. Kat and Ariane helped lead the songs each night, adding a whole new collection of kids' songs to the team's repertoire. Micah helped out in the craft room, Cliff helped with games, and Brandon took his puppeteering experience from last week and put it to good use playing the role of Checkers the cheetah puppet. When he wasn't puppeteering, Brandon was helping with the preschoolers. Christa helped lead the 1st grade group, Conner and Ariane helped with the kindergarten kids, and Kat was a leader in the 3rd and 4th grade group. As usual, we all absolutely loved getting to know the kids, and saying goodbye Wednesday night was really hard.
Our mornings were spent helping with odd jobs for the VBS like mapping a color run and sorting papers, followed by free time swimming, fishing, and even visiting Lake Erie. We got to visit with lots of families from the church and enjoy the wonderful weather this week… That's sarcasm. The weather was bipolar and annoying all week.
When the church found out we were a band, they asked us to play for them. We ended up setting up a full-band worship night in a barn Wednesday night and playing for an hour or so for the people from the church. They provided snacks and a fire pit, and we provided the music. It was an appropriate send off, and we really enjoyed getting to worship with them.
Looking Ahead
Now we are heading to Hollow Rock Camp meeting to finish out our tour. As we go into our last 10 days, please be praying for supernatural endurance for our team so that we can finish well. Also pray that we would minister well at Hollow Rock. We are really looking forward to reconnecting with people we met at Finley, and to playing music together again.
Thank you for your prayers and support! To those of you at home, we'll see you soon!
Picture: The barn made for an awesome set up for a worship night.


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Gozleme is one of the most famous Turkish pastries known by tourisits visiting our country. How has it become that famous? Local people make and sell it at almost all tourist attractions. You can see them everywhere you visit in Turkey. It doesn't matter where you go, it could be a historical place, beach or a plateau. You can even find gozleme at roadside restaurants when your bus has a break.
Local people don't need to have a restaurant for this. Just a stand and fire will be enough for them. It's not surprising to see women making gozleme even at the back of a pickup truck. They generally use a very thin iron plate on fire to bake pastries. It works with electricity and very practical. People use wood fire in villages and gozleme baked on it is absolutely more tasty.
It has several fillings from minced meat to cheese, you can create your own filling too. It is generally made savory, but I've tasted a gozleme filled with cream and honey once at a roadside restaurant. It wasn't so bad, but my choice is always savory ones. We generally have it with cold ayran or Turkish tea.
We filled ours with a mixture of goat cheese and herbs like fennel, parsley and scallion. Also, we used whole wheat flour unlike local people, so ours is more brownish.
If you feel lazy to make dough yourself, you can use phyllo pastry (yufka) for an easy gozleme.Print
Turkish Gozleme
Gozleme filled with goat cheese and herbs.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Lunch
- Method: Cooking
- Cuisine: Turkish
- Dough:
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup lukewarm water
- ½ tsp salt
- Filling:
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup goat cheese, chopped
- 2 scallions, chopped
- ½ cup chopped fennel
- ¼ cup chopped parsley
- Salt to taste
- ¼ cup olive oil to coat gozleme
- Mix everything for the filling.
- Mix flour, salt and water and make a non sticky dough.
- You can add a little extra flour or water to have the right result.
- Divide them into small balls and cover them with wet cloth to prevent them from drying.
- Dust the counter with a little flour.
- Roll the balls thin here.
- Put some filling on one side and fold.
- Seal it with your fingers and cut the excessive parts.
- Heat a non stick pan over medium heat and put one or two gozlemes on it.
- Cook its one side about 20 seconds.
- Turn it over and brush it with olive oil and cook the other side for 20 seconds.
- Turn it over again and brush the other side with olive oil.
- Turn it over again and cook that side for 10-20 seconds.
- Both sides are coated with olive oil and get a nice brown color this way.
- Repeat these steps until your finish the balls.
- Serve it warm with ayran or tea.
Keywords: gozleme, Turkish gozleme


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During warm weather months, folks gather on a shady hillside in Saxapahaw to spend the evening listening to musicians perform. A farmer's market is set up, crafts people sell their wares, food trucks bring in munchies and families settle in for all kinds of fun.
It's community at it's best.
Jonathan Byrd and Johnny Waken...just awesome.
Much bubble fun!
Tree climbing, show watching fun!
Families having fun!
Listen to "I am an Oak Tree" here. Jonathan Byrd and the Pickup Cowboys!


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LtGen Michelle Johnson Newest USAFA Superintendent
LtGen Michelle Johnson, USAFA Class of 1981, recently took over as the Superintendent of the US Air Force Academy, replacing outgoing LtGen Mike Gould.
Many references to her new command have noted she is the first female to be Superintendent. (A few quick-to-report articles said she was the first woman to lead a 'major' or 'DoD' service academy. The qualifier is necessary since RADM Sandra Stosz has led the Coast Guard Academy since 2011, and the CG Academy is not part of the DoD and is sometimes considered 'minor.') The official Air Force Academy story had a much more broad storyline. It did note she was the first female cadet wing commander when she was a cadet. Her Class of 1981 was the second to graduate after women were integrated at the service academies in 1976.
Michael Weinstein had previously called for LtGen Gould's head, and he has not yet publicly spoken on the transition or LtGen Johnson. (Given his vituperative after the Chief of Staff retired, it is likely something similar is in the works.)
In an interesting generational note, as a 1976 grad LtGen Gould would have been a senior cadet to Weinstein's Class of 1977. When Weinstein graduated, LtGen Johnson's Class of 1981 replaced his.


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On 25 April 2019, LTA awarded a contract for the Procurement of 3-Door Euro 6 Double Deck Diesel Buses (Contract Ref. PT342) to 2 different tenderers. Each tenderer will deliver 50 buses each.
|Sum Awarded
|50 Three-Door Double Decker Buses
|Alexander Dennis (Singapore) Services Pte Ltd
|SGD ~34 million 1/
|50 Three-Door Double Decker Buses
|ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd
|SGD ~30 million 1/
- 1 – As per LTA Press Release
- 2 – Price Listed in GeBIZ, Singapore Government's one-stop e-procurement portal
The 100 Three-Door Euro 6 Double Decker Buses enter revenue service from 2020. Details regarding the depot and bus service allocation for the buses will be announced closer to the implementation date.
Tender PT342 for Procurement of 3-Door Euro 6 Double Deck Diesel Buses was put up by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on 15 May 2018. As part of the tender, 100 buses will be procured.
Similar to the previous tender of Euro 6 Double Deck buses released in December 2017, these new buses are Euro 6 (or Euro VI)-compliant, representing the latest in emission standards which came into effect since 1 January 2018 for all new diesel vehicles registered in Singapore.
Similar to the ADL Enviro500 Mock-Up Bus exhibited in 2016, the 3-door double-deck bus will have one entrance and two exit doors. The rearmost exit door will be behind the rear axle. In addition, the bus will have two staircases and built in a fully-low-floor design. The bus is limited to a maximum length of 12.5 metres. A third artist's impression of the bus features window panels lining both front and rear staircases, a design used on the Wright Gemini III-bodied Volvo B8L and Kowloon Motor Bus's latest batch of ADL Enviro500 buses.
New requirements imposed by the LTA for new buses include an enhanced Passenger Information Display System (PIDS) comprising LED text displays, LCD display screens and interior speakers. In addition, an exterior-facing display screen and an external speaker is included. An Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), driver anti-fatigue detection system, high-definition CCTV cameras, and passenger counters at entrance and exit doors of the bus are among the additional specifications required by LTA.
The buses will also be equipped with 2 wheelchair bays. The Diesel-Hybrid buses (Volvo 7900 Hybrid), conventional Euro 6 Double Deck Diesel buses and Electric buses will also feature 2 wheelchair bays.
Design Challenges
Prior to this tender, European bus manufacturers typically made fully-low-floor chassis for the left-hand-drive (LHD) market, such as in Europe where similar 3-door, fully-low-floor buses are operated. Given that the tender called for a right-hand-drive (RHD), full-low-floor diesel bus with a third door at the rear overhang, it would be a challenge for bus manufacturers to modify their existing designs to deliver this (relatively) small batch of buses to LTA in the most economical way.
The second staircase at the rear will likely be of a spiral design to conserve seating space on the upper deck, much like the ADL Enviro500 Mock-Up Bus. It is believed that feedback from the revenue service trial of the MAN Lion's City DD L Concept Bus (SG5999Z) was unfavourable with regards to the safety of the front-facing rear staircase, which put passengers at risk of falling forwards when the bus had to brake suddenly. A retractable barrier was retrofitted after its debut, which prevents upper deck commuters from accessing the rear staircase when the bus is in motion, and only opens when the bus is at a stop.
Tender Process
Stage 1 Tender
As of tender closing time on 23 July 2018 at 4:00PM, participants of the tender are as follows:
- Alexander Dennis (Singapore) Services Pte Ltd
- ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd
- Volvo East Asia (Pte) Ltd
(Now Known As: Volvo Construction Equipment Singapore (Pte.) Ltd.)
In this first-stage tender, tenderers submit a base offer for 100 Buses.
Stage 2 Tender
After the Stage 1 Tender was closed on 23 July 2018, tenderers who submitted bids were invited again to submit their quotations for 100 & 50 Three-Door Buses separately.
The Stage 2 Tender closing time was extended once to 6 September 2018, 4:00pm.
Submitted Price Proposals for Stage 2 Tender are as follows:
|Base Offer 1 – Provision of One Hundred (100) Units of 3-Door Euro 6 Double Deck Diesel Buses
|Alexander Dennis (Singapore) Services Pte Ltd
|ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd
|Volvo Construction Equipment Singapore (Pte.) Ltd.
|Base Offer 2 – Provision of Fifty (50) Units of 3-Door Euro 6 Double Deck Diesel Buses
|Alexander Dennis (Singapore) Services Pte Ltd
|ST Engineering Land Systems Ltd
|Volvo Construction Equipment Singapore (Pte.) Ltd.
- For Base Offer 2, Volvo submitted 6 Alternative Offers, while Alexander Dennis submitted an alternative offer for 200 buses.
On 15 April 2019, the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) (Exemption for 3-door Omnibus) Order 2019 was made, which exempts the 3-Door Omnibuses procured by LTA to the following rules under the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use):
- 6(1) – The overall length of a motor vehicle, other than an articulated vehicle, shall not exceed 12 metres.
- 44(1) – Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the overhang of a motor vehicle shall not exceed 60% of the distance between the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle which passes through the centre or centres of the front wheel or wheels and the foremost vertical plane from which the overhang is to be measured as defined in rule 2.
- 60(1) – Every vehicle shall be so constructed as to be capable of turning in either direction in a circle which does not exceed in diameter 19 metres.
- 77(1)(d) – Every entrance and exit of a vehicle registered — on or after 15th February 2006 as an omnibus shall be at least 1,200 millimetres and shall be fitted with a centre stanchion bar in such manner as the Registrar may specify.
Previous Three-door Bus Trials
Previous three-door bus trials included the MAN Lion's City DD L Concept Bus with Tower Transit (on Bus Service 143), the MAN Lion's City SD 3-Door trial with SMRT Buses (on Bus Service 190 & 901), as well as the Alexander Dennis Enviro500 Concept Bus Mock Up featured during the Our Bus Journey Bus Carnival in 2016.
Currently, the MAN Lion's City DD L Bus is operated by SBS Transit on Bus Service 7.
MAN Lion's City DD L Concept Bus:
MAN Lion's City SD 3-Door Bus:
Alexander Dennis Enviro500 Concept Bus Mock Up:
🇸🇬 Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded Alexander Dennis an order for 50 new Enviro500 double deck…
Posted by Alexander Dennis Limited on Friday, 26 April 2019
See Also:
- ADL Enviro500 3-Door Concept Bus
- ADL Enviro500 3-Door Concept Bus – 2018 update
- MAN Lion's City DD L Concept Bus
- MAN Lion's City SD 3-Door Bus


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According to Jeffrey Rosen, the EU has now proposed internet forgetting as a universal right - and not in the context of expiration, but rather in the context of individual requests:
The proposed right would require companies like Facebook and Google to remove information that people post about themselves and later regret—even if that information has already been widely distributed.So if your 2007 duckface pic embarrasses you in 2012, you can delete it from Facebook. If your friends shared it, you can ask Facebook to delete it from their streams too. A journalistic exemption exists, presuming you can make a case for it - if you can't, and you remove it anyway, you face a million-Euro fine. And
Moreover, the right to be forgotten can be asserted not only against the publisher of content (such as Facebook or a newspaper) but against search engines like Google and Yahoo that link to the content.So if you're Rick Santorum, you can tell the search engines to remove content.
As Rosen argues, this EU law conflicts with US First Amendment rights. The impact on US companies doing business in the EU - such as Google - remains unclear.


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The sustainability management was implemented within the company by establishing a steering board and a sustainability coordinator. The steering board is responsible for decisions on sustainability topics. Due to our medium-sized corporate structure sustainability is managed by the highest executive level. All projects are assisted by members of the second executive level.
The steering board accompanies projects and their progress as well as the individual measurements within the framework of the sustainability commitment of the CHT Group and makes the necessary decisions. Through a regular communication of our sustainability activities to all stakeholders such as our staff, the supervisory body as well as our business partners and NGOs the board contributes to a clear positioning of our company as reliable and trustworthy partner in the market.


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It seems these days everyone is trying to build an online presence in search of fame. Everywhere you turn, travel blogs abound. So, when one is planning their vacation and looking for the latest trends and insights in world travel, where can one go? We have a treat for you. We dug deep down into cyberspace and fleshed out the best of the best in the world of travel blogs. These writers truly have a passion for travel and it shows through each of their unique writing styles. There were so many great writers, it was very difficult to choose the top one. Following, we present to you our picks for the top 9 travel blogs.
9. Journey Woman – Evelyn Hannon takes you on a journey around the world as a solo traveler. She provides great insights and tips, with many interesting pictures thrown into the mix. Her style is laid back and sometimes you feel as if you are there on the adventure with her.
8. The Vacation Gals – A trio of professional travel writers shares their adventures and great tips for travelling the world. Their blog includes family travel, romantic getaways and even girls only adventures.
7. Gadling – The variety of writers that contribute to this blog all convey their messages with humor and intelligence. If you need a mini-vacation, step onto this site for a nice refreshing break.
6. Wandering Earl – Fun, witty and informative, Earl shares details of his now 14 year trip around the world. His adventures have taken him through more than 85 countries, as he gives us the goods of each location. Earl also provides great advice on exploring the world on a budget.
5. Uncornered Market – This fun couple shares delightful tales of their travels across the globe. Both are quite creative, which is reflected in their words and photography. They even share how you too can transform your life into one big travelling adventure.
4. The Planet D – Deb and Dave take us on a journey through their amazing adventures. From a cowboy ranch in central Oregon to the pristine coast of Queensland, this duo has travelled over 80 countries in all 7 continents and share stories and pictures along the way.
3. Nomadic Matt – this blog gives great tips for traveling on a budget. Matt's writing style is fun and engaging, while being very informative about the things tourism sites won't tell you. His posts are filled with lots of beautiful, colorful pictures of his adventures too.
2. Everything Everywhere – Travel around the world and back again with Gary Arndt. Gary gives us an inside look into his great explorations in quite an engaging way and also shares with us his beautiful award-winning photography.
1. The Travel Detective – Peter Greenberg, known as The Travel Detective, was named as one of the most influential people in the travel industry by Travel Weekly. His blog presents an insider's guide to travel, the best luggage for each type of travel, safety, how to save money and more.
Before planning your next vacation, why not check out these blogs and get a better idea of what's out there that might suit your fancy? Who knows, it could turn into the best adventure of your lifetime!


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What is a charter school?
Paul Cuffee School is an independently-operated public charter school for school-aged students in kindergarten through grade twelve who live in the City of Providence. All charter public schools in our state are required to submit annual reports to The Rhode Island Department of Education to ensure continuously improving academic achievement, highly qualified teachers, fiscal sustainability and leadership accountability. Paul Cuffee School's Board of Trustees, faculty and staff are committed to meeting and exceeding those requirements every year.
Why choose Paul Cuffee School?
Parents and students choose to attend Paul Cuffee School, instead of one of the local district schools, because of its reputation for success, innovative programs, excellent teachers, smaller class sizes, respectful school culture, and other features that meet their needs.
Who can attend Paul Cuffee School?
All school-age children residing in the City of Providence are eligible to apply.
Is there an application fee?
No. There is no cost associated with applying to Paul Cuffee School. Mailing costs for application materials may be avoided if applications are completed online.
How old must my child be to be admitted into kindergarten or first grade?
Students must be 5 years old on or before September 1 to be admitted into kindergarten and 6 years old on or before September 1 to be admitted into first grade.
How are students admitted to the school?
All parents or guardians must submit an application for their son or daughter's admission before the annual application deadline to be included in the state-monitored, random admissions lottery. Rhode Island law governing charter school admissions mandates such a lottery when more students apply than the school can accommodate. Students selected from our school's annual lottery are awarded admission based on their randomized rank order and the number of vacancies available in each grade level.
Is there an application deadline?
Yes, however the application deadline has yet to be determined yet. Once the date has been determined, all required application materials must be received by that date in order to be included in the lottery.
When will the lottery take place?
The lottery date for the 2021-2022 school year has yet been determined. Please note that this date is selected by the Rhode Island Commissioner of Education.
Do siblings of current students receive special consideration?
Yes. Enrollment preference is given to applicants whose siblings are already enrolled at the school. When a lottery takes place, siblings will be admitted first if space is available.
May I schedule a class visit?
After the lottery (date to be determined), if your child has been offered a spot for the upcoming school year, arrangements can be made for a class or school visit. Because we receive more than 1,000 applications each year, we cannot accommodate visit requests for students who have not been admitted, but encourage all prospective students and their families to attend a Paul Cuffee School Open House in December or January.
How many openings does the school anticipate each year?
On average there are 60 openings in kindergarten, 3 openings in sixth grade, 25 openings in ninth grade, and limited openings in all other grades.
What is the average class size?
There are 21 students per grade in our middle and high school programs, and approximately 20 students per class in the elementary school. Teaching partners are employed at each building and grade level to provide classroom support and lower the student-teacher ratios.
Does the school provide transportation?
Yes, student eligibility for school bus transportation is determined by the distance from the household to the school. For kindergarten through sixth grade, students must live 1 mile away or more. Students in seventh and eighth grades must live 1½ miles away to be eligible. High School students in grades 9-12 must live 2.5 miles away to qualify for a free RIPTA bus pass.
Are Advanced Placement Courses Offered at Paul Cuffee High School?
To fulfill their grade-level requirements, high school students in good standing may take Advanced Placement courses and exams to earn college credit. Current AP classes include:
- AP Biology
- AP English Language + Composition
- AP Human Geography
- AP Psychology
- AP Spanish Language + Culture
- AP Statistics
- AP Studio Art: 2D Design
- AP US Government + Politics
What about College Placement and Career Readiness?
To encourage students to work hard in school and make choices that will positively impact their future, college visits and career fairs are offered at the Paul Cuffee Middle School every year. By the time students reach high school, college and career guidance and instruction is offered during their Skills, Enrichment and Academic Support (SEAS) periods. In these sessions, students do everything from exploring different careers and college majors to selecting and completing applications for colleges, universities and post-secondary training programs that would be a good match for their career aspirations. In addition to SEAS, the Academic Dean and Post-Secondary School Teaching Partner are available to provide one-on-one assistance.
What about after-school programs and sports?
PCS offers a broad range of after-school extracurricular activities for students at all grade levels. These include sports, clubs, homework help and other enrichment activities as well as the After-School Club, which provides supervised programming for K-8 students until 5:30 p.m. Fees are based on household income and eligibility for free and reduced lunches. Parents or caregivers must pick up their son or daughter by 5:30 to avoid paying late fees.
- Elementary School Athletics (Grades K-5)
- Co-ed Soccer
- Co-Ed Basketball
- Middle School Athletics (Grade 6-8) – Both Interscholastic and Independent School Leagues
- Boys and Girls Soccer
- Co-Ed Volleyball
- Girls Basketball
- Boys Basketball – A Team
- Boys Basketball – B Team
- Softball
- Baseball
- Co-ed Track and Field
- High School Athletics (Grades 9-12)
- Boys Soccer
- Girls Soccer
- Co-Ed Volleyball
- Girls Basketball
- Boys Basketball – Junior Varsity
- Boys Basketball – Varsity
- Softball
- Baseball
- Co-ed Track and Field


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Who We Are
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, headquartered in Andalusia, Ala., is a generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative providing the wholesale power needs of 20 distribution members — 16 electric cooperatives and four municipal electric systems — in Alabama and northwest Florida.
In 1941, PowerSouth was formed by 11 cooperatives to generate and sell electricity. First known as Alabama Electric Cooperative, the name was changed to PowerSouth Energy Cooperative in 2008 to better reflect the cooperative's geographical service territory and to position the company for future growth opportunities. Today, as one of 62 G&T cooperatives in the United States, PowerSouth is a trusted energy provider for the distribution members, who serve end-users in 39 Alabama and 10 Florida counties.
With a combined generating capacity of more than 2,000 megawatts, PowerSouth owns and operates six generation facilities and holds ownership interest in an additional facility. Utilizing a diverse generating mix that includes natural gas, coal, water (hydro), compressed air energy storage technology, and a disciplined fuel supply hedging program, PowerSouth minimizes the impact of significant fuel cost increases. In addition, PowerSouth maintains long-term purchased power agreements to ensure economic and reliable power supply for the members.
PowerSouth's most important asset is a workforce of almost 600 men and women at nine PowerSouth locations. These employees set the bar for safety excellence in the electric industry, boasting an impressive safety record. Safety is PowerSouth's number-one core value, and it is evident through a Recordable Incident Rate (RIR) and Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rate well below the national average.
Distribution members vary in size, number of employees and service area characteristics. Most of PowerSouth's 20 distribution members serve primarily rural areas; however, the service areas of some extend into rapidly expanding suburban areas. Regardless of size or energy usage, each distribution member holds equal ownership in PowerSouth, governing via a 40-member board of trustees composed of two voting delegates from each distribution system.
For specific information about our distribution area and members, visit the Distribution Members page.
In addition, PowerSouth employees work with national, regional and state leaders to educate the public about environmental change and PowerSouth's role in developing a broad approach to environmental concerns affecting the industry. PowerSouth strives to be a positive environmental steward of natural resources while ensuring no adverse economic effects on the rural communities it serves.
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PowerSouth's Business Retention
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PowerSouth's BREPS program is centered on creating partnerships that reinforce customer service and success, as the team strives each year to visit as many companies as possible throughout the members'service areas. These on-site visits, along with additional communications, provide vital information as to the resources and incentives businesses need to be successful and to expand in Alabama and Northwest Florida.
Expansion Consultations & Existing Industry Incentives
PowerSouth's BREPS program is centered on creating partnerships that reinforce customer service and success, as the team strives each year to visit as many companies as possible throughout the members'service areas. These on-site visits, along with additional communications, provide vital information as to the resources and incentives businesses need to be successful and to expand in Alabama and Northwest Florida.
New Business Recruitment
Business Investment Solutions
PowerSouth's Business Development team works to attract new companies—which results in more jobs and investments in the areas the members serve—and to engage existing businesses and industries to help them grow in a sustainable way. PowerSouth is committed to serving communities and corporate citizens to help them achieve lasting success in a dynamic, prosperous region. Working in concert with key partners—regional, state and community organizations—PowerSouth offers site selection services, incentives, research and technical assistance to help companies locate, stay and expand existing operations in the region.


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I decided that I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. I mean, I don't want to sound like a Scrooge but come on. The pressure to do all the crap that needs to get done in a short period of time is friggin' ridiculous. Unfortunately, I am not a Type A personality like my mother. She had her gifts bought and wrapped by August. I kid you not. But the thought of having my shit together so early kind of scares me. I wouldn't even know who I was. Besides, with the condition of my memory lately, I probably would forget where I put half of it come December.
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So here I am, writing this post when I should be putting stamps on my Christmas cards. Christmas cards that I don't even like because the kid wanted a family picture this year. My neck looks like a side of beef, my boobs are a little floppy and I'm doing that stupid hand on hip pose that I hate but completely understand why it's done because not all 46 year old women can get away with sleeveless dresses so it's a great trick at alleviating arm fat (that thought deserved a run-on sentence…sorry grammar freaks, including me). I could have orchestrated a new photo shoot. But that requires time. And I felt like doing that like I feel like cleaning dog crap off the bottom of my shoes. So a picture that was taken in May was the winner based on the fact that we are smiling AND all eyes are open. That right there is a miracle…and a keeper.
I think I need Holiday Hell Counseling. Seriously. I don't care what, but we need to start a chapter somewhere. But, until we can get HH Anonymous going, this is my therapy. Thanks for listening. Bah Humbug. I mean, Merry Christmas!


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You would like information on preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and conversion for your Act! database.
This document is intended to be an all inclusive, one-stop shop for information on maintaining the integrity of your Act! database. The information provided below will assist with regular database maintenance, troubleshooting database issues, sending the database to Database Services for repair, and converting an old database to a newer version of Act!.
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Preventive Maintenance
Database Backups
- Perform regular backups of your database within the How to back up and restore an Act! database, as backups may not be successful if you use a 3rd-party backup utility. It is our recommendation that you make daily backups of your database. This process can be automated using the Act! Scheduler. Please refer to the following Knowledgebase Article for more information:
Title: How to Automatically Back Up Your Database
Answer ID: How to use the Act! Scheduler to automatically back up your Act! databaseTitle: Using Third Party Software to Back Up Your ACT! Database
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Diagnostic Maintenance
- Copy your database backups to a secure, off-site location.
- In Act!, under the Tools menu, select Database Maintenance and click Check and Repair... as detailed in Act! database rebuild and repair procedures article.
This task can be scheduled to occur automatically using the Act! Scheduler. Please refer to the following Knowledgebase Article for more information:Title: How to Automatically Perform Database Maintenance
Answer ID: How to use the Act! Scheduler to automatically perform database maintenance
- Perform database diagnostics and repair within the actdiag utility as detailed Act! database rebuild and repair procedures .
General Database Maintenance:
- Remove outdated, cleared activities from within the database by performing How do I remove old data from my Act! Database? . We recommend that you check to remove 'Cleared Activities Older than' with the number of 0 days (this information is still retained in History) as well as any other data that you are comfortable removing.
- Perform a test How to back up and restore an Act! databaseto ensure quality.
Self-Service Troubleshooting
In the event that an error does occur within your database, there are many steps that you can take to attempt to Act! database rebuild and repair proceduresthe problem yourself prior to submitting to Act! Database Services. Below are some troubleshooting steps that can be taken for some of the more common issues; however, you can also search our online Knowledgebase for additional articles.
NOTE: Prior to performing any of the following troubleshooting, make sure you How to back up and restore an Act! database.Activities
Activity corruption may occur because of lack of preventive maintenance, power failure/surges, or incompatibilities with Operating System, Hardware, or software versions or service packs. To troubleshoot these issues yourself, we recommend that you perform the following:
- Delete all Cleared Activities prior to 0 days. The cleared activities are retained in History so the customer is not losing any data. If this corrects the issue and they really insist that they need this information for historical purposes, than you can restore the backed up database with a new name that they can reference when needed.
- Perform all checks, repairs, reindexes, and rebuilds within Act! and ACTDiag, especially Fix Known Activity Data Issues.
- If you are unable to view activities in the Task List or Calendar, can you view activities for any user or is it limited to just one user or a select few? If possible, narrow the problem down to a specific user, activity type, priority, and date range. It may be quicker and easier for the customer to create a new user and reassign the contacts and information than to submit the database for repair.
Follow Knowledgebase Article: How To Improve the Performance of ACT!
- Check RAM memory and recommend upgrading, if necessary
- Ensure required Hard Drive space is available on server and workstations
- Check Hardware Acceleration settings
- Delete Temp files
- Turn off other background applications that may compete for resources
- Run all database maintenance: Checks, Repairs, Reindex, and Rebuilds
- Purge Cleared Activities
Also, in ACT! 2009, you can run the Field Usage Analysis Report. This report shows incredibly handy usage statistics on fields within Act! and will provide performance improvement suggestions, such as removing unnecessary fields and/or shortening field lengths. We DO NOT recommend removing system created fields, however, these can generally be shortened, if needed.
- Launch ACTDiag
- Go to the Database tab
- Right-click on the database
- Select Database Structure
- Select the Field Usage Analysis Report
There are two possible types of Schema errors that may occur when updating the database:
- "Exceptions occurred while executing Database Schema Update Script. Check the errors in..."
- Follow Knowledgebase Article Error: "Exceptions occurred while executing Database Schema Update Script. Check the errors in..." When Attempting to Open Your Database After Updating ACT! to the Current Versionfor troubleshooting.
- "Act! Schema Update failed"
- Follow Knowledgebase Article Error: "ACT! Schema Update failed" After Updating to ACT!for troubleshooting.
There may be a variety of reasons why a database will fail to open. Below are some of the more common scenarios that can be remedied:
- "The database <Database name> could not be accessed. In order to access this database, check your network connection and verify that your database server is available. It may be necessary to disable any firewall software..."
- "Could not access the specified database"
- Follow Knowledgebase Article Error: "Could not access the specified database"for troubleshooting.
- "Cannot Access Specified Database..." and the Database is Listed as SUSPECT in the Act! Diagnostics Utility
- Follow Knowledgebase Article Error: "Cannot access specified database..." and the database is listed as SUSPECT or RECOVERY in the Act! Diagnostics Utility.for troubleshooting.
- "I/O error (torn page) detected..."
- Follow Knowledgebase Article Error: "I/O error (torn page) detected during read at offset 0x0000 in file 'C:\filename" or "SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error: torn page..."for troubleshooting.
- "Device Activation Error: The physical filename ...<Database_Name>.ALF may be incorrect."
- Follow Knowledgebase Article Error: "Device Activation Error: The physical filename 'C:\Documents and Settings\\Database\ACT\ACT for Win 7\Databases\.ALF may be incorrect." When Attempting to Open Your Databasefor troubleshooting.
Database Repair Services
Request Database Repair
- Backup your database.
- Follow Knowledgebase article How to back up and restore an Act! databasefor complete backup instructions.
- If you are unable to backup your database, you can optionally detach your database files and submit the database .ADF and ALF files by following Knowledgebase article How to detach an Act! database from the Microsoft SQL Server (ACT7) instance.
- Upload your database to a file hosting service such as DropBox or Google Drive, and e-mail the download link to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Contact Sales or Customer Service to make payment arrangements for this service
- Print the attached form, complete it and send a scanned copy via email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Service Charges
- Database Conversion: $99
- Database evaluation and simple repair to corruption: $198 maximum of 2 hours allocated time.
- Corrupt database repair (Database Corruption): $99 minimum. Any additional work outside of that is changed at $99 per hour and will be agreed and billed before work continues.
- Any Data Repair Service charges incurred under this agreement are in addition to, and are not included with, any fees paid for any Subscription, Support, Maintenance, or Business Care plan you may have purchased.
- Payment must be received prior to ordering repair service. Any credit card information will be collected prior to completion by a Swiftpage representative.
Service Limitations
- Depending on the extensiveness of damage, some database structure and/or record information may not be recoverable
- Most database repairs are completed within 1 to 3 business days. You will be notified of any exceptions to this.
- If the technician determines that there is significant data loss, you will be contacted prior to completion. At that time, you'll have the option to cancel the job.
- Before we are able to process your database repair request, we will need to have your Act! Data Agreement form and the database.
- Database can only be submitted for repair through a secure file-sharing service.
IMPORTANT: Any data entered into your current database while your data is in repair service is your responsibility to re-enter into the repaired database.If you need assistance with getting your database or authorization forms to us, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
To submit your database for conversion, please follow the steps in the Database Repair Services section of this document.
How to convert an ACT! 3.x, 4.x, 5.x (2000) or 6.x (2004) database to versions 2005 and higher
Answer ID How to convert an ACT! 3.x, 4.x, 5.x (2000) or 6.x (2004) database to versions 2005 (v7) through v19.1
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