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2020 Haylor Timeline
Timeline Tag, or years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
21 January - Andrea treated for brain tumor and chemo
29 January - Harry shoots the watermelon sugar MV in Malibu. The director later says “The production process was fast! We shot in a location in Malibu. It was a private beach at this amazing house. Harry actually owns a watermelon farm in a secret location that we can’t disclose. So the day before the shoot we went with our whole crew, make-up artists, set decorators, focus pullers you name it! We all rolled up our sleeves, got stuck in and did the biggest harvest anyone in the USA has ever seen!”
31 January - Miss Americana documentary released.
2 February - Harry at Glenne Christiaansen's (Jeff's GF) birthday in Los Angeles. Huge whale cake that gets on his face.
14 February - Harry played Two Ghosts on Radio 2, the only time since 2018, anniversary of Style MV release. He also covered Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi. Taylor also in London for NME awards, Joe goes with her. Harry is robbed at knifepoint.
18 February - Harry at Brit awards, went to same after party as Kendall
23 February - Harry's Tiny Desk Concert recorded in LA, the Lover CD Is in the background. Taylor was there in October.
24 February - Taylor and Joe in London for his birthday, arrived under umbrellas carrying a dictionary, Ed laughing.
26 February - Harry on today show in colour block cardigan. Xander watches with Jeff rumour he then visited Xander Ritz in phlli.
28 February - Harry's Sirius XM Secret Session for Fine Line. Harry tells a story about wawa with Xander. Seen with Xander in ny
1 March Harry photographed in the “but daddy I love him shirt” in Phili with a fan
2 March - Harry's last pre-pandemic show is at the Bowery Ballroom. Replaces the Beachwood cafe with Bowery ballroom in falling.
5 March - When Howard Stern asked Harry about marriage his response was "People’s relationships are different now, everyone’s open 👀 and people have different things."
13 March - US Travel ban (except UK), California Shelter in place orders. 17 March UK Travel ban. 16 March Taylor posts asking fans to cancel plans and stay home, shares photo so Meredith
17 March UK travel ban
18 March - Harry driving in La with Xander
27 March - Harry releases “at home with Harry styles” pandemic playlist with Zane Lowe. ‘This will be our year’ is #13, 27 songs
March - June Taylor and Harry stuck in LA for 3 months. Harry told Zane Lowe he was in LA, stayed home for 6 weeks then booked and went to Shangri-la studio to record. LNT, Daylight, keep driving and Sushi. (24 Mins)
4 April - Harry seen riding a motorcycle beside Kendall Jenner and Fai Khadra.
5 April Harry seen in la and again
17 April - 2020 Lover Fest tour postponed to 2021, later cancelled. Told Zane Folklore started then. Joe IG photo of Benjamin
18 April - Taylor soon you'll get better
29 April - Joe instagram photos
19 May Taylor releases City of Lover
25 May - date Too Much Sauce leak recorded. Still in LA
31 May - Taylor records video in Long Pond about home studio. Joe school thing
9 July - Harry Styles Sleep story
18 July - Harry back in uk, drove to Italy and back he talks about this in the Zane interview. Driving moustache photo in HH CD
20 July folklore announced 17 hours before its release. William Bowery is credited for Exile and Betty. Released on 1D's 10 year anniversary. In the Zane interview, Taylor says they continued working on Evermore.
31 July - Harry driving tractor in Italy
13 August - Harry followed Yan Yan on IG and liked some posts
17 August Harry in Studio in Bath. Recorded Daylight, Sushi, Keep Driving and Late night talking in this period.
3 September - Taylor posts about iHeartAwards from home
? September - Long Pond was recorded with Joe as WB and Tis the Damn Season written, Doretha already written.
11 September, Olivia Wilde met and cast Harry in Don't worry Darling, filming began October.
16 September - Taylor performed Betty in person at ACM awards in Nashville.
18 September Harry in London
22 September - Harry driving in La filming golden
27 September Harry in LA
13 November - Harry on cover of Vogue, after this the Peace ring only appeared occasionally.
12 November Deux Moi posts that a “one direction heartthrob” and “a list singer” used the same private chef
25 November long pond sessions on Disney + Joe announced as William Bowery
26 November Harry returns to la to film DWD, California maybe written here
11 December evermore, taylor’s zane lowe interview, at 49:34 she pauses a lot and struggles to talk about Joe being William Bowery.
19 December Harry jingle ball seems flat
30 December - 7 photos of Joe and Taylor thought to be taken 31 December 2016 hack/leak. Only 7 photos?? She is wearing a pink wig while he shaves.
Continue to 2021
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Pairing: TWICE Nayeon x fem!reader.
Word Count: 4k
Genre: Fluff, Angst.
TW: Cursing, Alcohol, Cigarettes.
Clarifications: Non-Idol AU.
2011, April.
16 years old.
There was always this thing between you and being late everywhere. No one around you ever understood how someone so extremely meticulous had such a flaw.
And on that tuesday in april, as usual, you arrived at school fifteen minutes after the hour your first class started. But something differed from your messy routine. Despite the fact that you consistently arrive at this time, you had never witnessed any anomaly where another student coincided with you.
Until that tuesday in april.
You were walking along, calm. You were already late, two minutes or so wouldn't prevent a reprimand from the teachers. But this girl was running as if she was escaping from a dog that wanted to bite her. She looked so anxious and desperate that you instantly realized that it was, quite possibly, the first time she was late for school.
She stopped in front of the entrance, thinking about something, nervous. She was probably worried about being scolded. At that moment she noticed the presence of someone else.
You hadn't noticed that you had stopped to look at her, that you were no longer moving.
Four minutes more or four minutes less, you were still late.
At the time you couldn't tell why, but you wanted to help her.
She turned her head towards you, you both looked at each other somewhat embarrassed. That's when you first heard her voice.
"Do you think I'll be punished for coming at this hour?"
2014, November.
19 years old.
Nayeon. Im Nayeon.
That time you walked her to the classroom, so that she would be calmer, and as children who see everything simpler do, she started to see you as a friend.
She always saw everything simpler than you.
She began by greeting you in the hallways, talking to you if she saw you alone, accompanying you home since you lived far away. Until one day you realized that you were inseparable. Nayeon knew everything about you, and you knew everything about her.
And if your secrets are kept with one person, you go wherever that person is.
So you decided to take the entrance exam and apply to the same university. Hence, all year long you were having study meetings where you sometimes took mock tests.
On the calendar it read the third thursday in November. That was it. Possibly if this didn't work out and you ended up at different universities you would still see each other, but it would be more complicated. You just wanted to always be by each other's side.
"y/n" your friend mentioned your name with that restlessness that always bloomed inside her moments before something big happened.
You turned to look at her. Her brown hair slicked back, held back by a white headband, dressed in her perfectly groomed uniform, nothing out of place. Her eyes, her big brown eyes, crystallized, filled with tears.
You became alarmed, approaching her in strides, taking her face in your fingertips and lifting it so that your pupils found each other.
"What's wrong, Nayeonie?" You asked in alarm, with concern "It's okay, yes? We studied a lot, we prepared for this every second we could, you'll do well, you always do well, you're brillia-"
"Promise me you'll always be by my side." She asked desperately, cutting off your inspirational speech.
"Of course I will, Nayeon."
"No, y/n" she raised her hands towards yours to hold them "promise me that no matter what happens today or any time in our lives, you're not going to leave me, because I know I won't, and I've never been so afraid of losing someone."
Actually, no one was ever afraid of losing you before.
As you held each other, and your surprised eyes blended with her teary ones, the promise was already made. A friend is a light, the place you go when all you know is darkness. A friend is someone you can trust, who will always be there for you. And you are her best friend.
"I promise." You affirmed, smiling.
"Swear it for what's most important to you." She demanded in a somewhat threatening tone, standing on her tiptoes, pressing her index finger to your chest accusingly and with a defiant look.
"I swear on all the memories we have together," you repeated "I will never leave you."
2018, June.
22 years old.
If someone were to ask you for three warnings before talking to Nayeon for the first time, they would be:
Im Nayeon is very loud.
Im Nayeon requires a lot of attention.
Im Nayeon always gets what she wants.
You have proof for the last one. As she wanted to go to the same college as you, she got that.
You were in your third year of college life, on a friday. She had insisted that she wanted to come to this party thrown by some older kids.
The whole damn student body was on the sixth floor of the dorm building, going in and out of room 302.
Damn Korea and its lack of fraternities. Y'all could be at a huge house with the Kappa Kappa Somethings, not this.
You were sober. Since you're not good with alcohol you avoid drinking too much. Not that you like the bitter taste of it either.
You're used to sweet things in your life, like Coca Cola, your mother's orange cake, the scent of azaleas in your grandmother's backyard, and Nayeon.
For her, well, she was completely intoxicated. With cheap beer coursing through her veins.
When she got drunk it was impossible to stop her, her energy levels rose drastically. It made you happy to see her in such a state, she was the life of the party.
You were standing on the sidelines, but seeing your favorite person having so much fun, you felt you had to be part of the moment. Moving your body subtly to the sound of the music, marking the rhythm with every step you took, you slipped through the crowd, appearing next to Nayeon.
The moment she saw you, she began to dance with you. Her hands rested on your shoulders without stopping moving, giving you a glance at times, accompanied by that smile she has when she is secure of herself. With each beat you moved closer to each other. Her palms began to move up the expanse of your neck, resting on the back of your neck, causing you to wrap your arms around her waist to make the position less uncomfortable. Your faces so close that your noses delicately caressed the other's, you both knew the song that was playing and sang every word of it with vigor.
You looked at each other creating a tension between you that to be cut you would have to bring a chainsaw. You had always thought Nayeon was attractive, you're not blind, but you had never looked at her the way you were doing at that moment. You never wanted to kiss her the way you did while dancing at that party full of sweaty, stupid people.
Her eyes scanned every faction of yours, her hand slid from the back of your neck to your cheek. Your grip on her waist firming even more, if that was even possible. She finally stopped to look at your lips, like you look at a plate of food after you haven't had breakfast, lunch or even a snack. Like you look at the lips of the person you've most wanted to kiss since you were sixteen.
But you were not that person for Nayeon.
She moved quickly, turning on her heels, her back towards you. She continued dancing, but now with another friend she had made in a subject in her undergrad. You came back to reality, your mind again recognizing the place and situation you were in, and what had just happened.
You needed to go to the bathroom.
You walked away and after splashing a lot of water on your face and taking a couple of deep breaths, you went back to where the people were. You didn't know what to do, as going with Nayeon was not an option, and your other friends were nowhere in sight. You went to get a beer, your first of the night, and simply leaned against a wall to drink it.
You felt a hand on your shoulder and when you turned your head to see who it was, you found Mina, an exchange student from Japan that you usually sit with in one of your classes. She greeted you and stood chatting with you.
Mina was a shy girl, but she had always been comfortable with you. Nayeon says you have the vibe of a friendly and warm person, so people feel at ease around you.
You would never have thought that you would create such a nice atmosphere that Mina would dare to interrupt one of your sentences by kissing you. Holding onto your neck with a delicate touch and resting her weight on your hand laying on her back.
Breaking away, you gave her a shy little smile, and she gave you an equal one. But yours disappeared as soon as you looked to your side and found your best friend witnessing everything, with a serious expression. And then she simply walked away, leaving the party.
You didn't follow her. You don't know if you should have followed her, maybe you should've, but at that moment you just thought that it wasn't the right thing to do to Mina to just run after the person you had almost kissed before her.
A while later you accepted it, that friday you actually wanted to kiss Nayeon.
2018, December.
23 years old.
After that party, you two didn't speak to each other for two days, but you couldn't resist not being glued together all the time, so you eventually pretended that night never happened and that's surely the one thing you two could never deign to talk about.
Everything was fine for a while, and you never thought that you might have feelings for your friend. Even with the events of that night, it never crossed your mind. It wasn't until christmas of that same year that those doubts awoke in you.
Neither of you were able to spend the holidays with your family, so you decided to spend it together with a few other friends.
Nayeon had said she wanted to introduce someone to you.
And that's when it was.
At a table in a fairly cheap restaurant near campus, surrounded by the people you loved on christmas day. On a tuesday, just like the day you met.
It was then that you realized you had feelings for Nayeon. In the worst way anyone can find out they love someone.
When Nayeon introduced Hyunwoo that night, you gave him your three warnings about her, as if you were giving her away.
The next morning you began the most abrupt detoxification process anyone has ever undertaken.
The night before you realized that you loved her and at the same time that you had just lost her. That morning you'd have to start getting over her.
2021, March.
25 years old.
You're not good at organizing meetings, you've never been, Nayeon takes care of that. But at her engagement celebration, she couldn't be the one in charge of the plans.
Luckily there's Jihyo, who took care of everything, and you just had to send a message to a group chat.
Last night Hyunwoo proposed to your best friend and she accepted. So today, on a wednesday, at her apartment, all her friends gathered to congratulate her.
You weren't over her, how do you get over Im Nayeon, really? You knew everything about her, but not that, not what you needed to know most.
Every day since you realized what was going on inside you about her, the feeling only continued to increase, you found in every moment and action something new about Nayeon that you had noticed before, but now it made your heart race.
And you hated Hyunwoo for being all that was right for her. You hated him because he deserved her, and because he was what she deserved. You hated him because he was indeed going to marry her, and you have no argument to tell your friend not to.
The dinner continued quietly, you chatted about various topics, ate delicious food, had a good time, and above all, drank a lot. As always, not you. You were fresh, fully conscious.
Finally everyone left and only Nayeon and you were left to sleep at her place. You were preparing her bed, as she was in no condition to do it on her own, when you heard her footsteps. You turned around and she was leaning against the door frame. You gave her a smile and continued to put the sheets on. Only a few seconds passed before you felt her arms around your waist and the warmth of her body embrace you. You took a big breath of air to calm the wave of emotions that appeared at the contact, but you couldn't stop your skin from bristling when she kissed the back of your neck softly.
"Nayeon, what are you doing?"
"I love you." She suddenly blurted out.
"I love you too." You replied bringing your hand to one of hers to give her a small caress.
"No, y/n," She inhaled deeply and brought her head up to rest it on your shoulder "I love you." She repeated "As in I'm in love with you."
You've been waiting for years for that, those exact words that came from her lips. You've been waiting years for her to confirm that what you feel is reciprocated. But there you had it, what you've wanted for so long, and it feels sour, bitter. It feels wrong.
"I'll put a mattress down and then you can go to sleep, I'll find some comfortable clothes for you to wear." You took her arms, pulled them away from your torso and began to walk out of the room with quick steps.
"y/n" she called out to you, but you didn't stop "y/n!"
"What?" you stopped moving roughly.
"Aren't you going to say anything?"
"What do you want me to say, Nayeon?" You faced your body to hers "That I'm in love with you too, is that what you want to hear?" your tone was an angry and overwhelmed one "Yes, that's right, I'm in love with you too."
Something inside you felt lighter after saying those words. She finally knew, you had said it, you had let her know that you didn't just see her as your best friend. It felt liberating, but at the same time it felt bad.
"But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter anymore." You brought your hands to your face, rubbing your temples out of frustration.
"It does matter, y/n, why wouldn't it?" She moved closer to you and tried to touch your face, but you wouldn't let her.
"Because this is not the time you should have told me." You explained, tears appeared "I've been in love with you for years, but I never told you because I felt it wasn't correct because you were with someone else, but then you go and just choose the day after you got engaged to tell me."
You looked into her eyes, those that could lead you to do the most stupid things for her, the ones that always told you the things she didn't know how to say in words, your home, your safe place, the source of your adoration for Nayeon. You looked into her eyes, for the first time, with disappointment.
"If you say you love me as I love you, I will give up everything, y/n, I have always been willing to give up everything for you."
Nayeon always saw everything simpler than you. Her solutions were always the obvious, what you would do based on what you desire, but you analyzed everything more thoroughly, counting the consequences and everything that could go west. At the time, perhaps, she saw you as the love of her life, but for you, in front of you, stood an unfortunate crush from which you would never emerge unscathed.
"Not like this, Nayeon." You shook your head "Not when you got engaged to someone else last night." She crossed her arms and turned away, as if she didn't want to listen to you anymore "Not when you could have told me this three years ago, but you're only doing it now because you feel like you're running out of time and it scares you." You knew her feelings were maybe honest, but not the reasons why she was letting them out "Not when you only seem to love me when you're drunk."
Finally she turned her face to you again and you could see that it was full of teardrops. Any other time you would have run to her, wiped away her crying, kissed her forehead, and done everything you could to make her feel well. Any other time, you would have given her everything she wanted. But that wednesday in march you decided to put yourself before her.
"I'd better go, I don't think it's the right thing for me to sleep here." You announced and left her room, heading for the living room, where you had your things.
She followed you without saying a word, used to the fact that the very act of existing made you weak before her and led you to do everything to please her. You took some of your belongings that were scattered in different places and then your backpack. When you were in front of the door, that's when she realized that you were serious, that this time you wouldn't do what she asked you.
"You promised me you would never leave me." She remembered in a vain attempt to stop you.
"I'm not leaving you, Nayeon, but we both need time away from each other."
2022, January.
26 years old.
Those chaotic moments before you get married bring out your true yearnings, and that's why so many people run away from their weddings.
It's also why you shouldn't get married, to never have that epiphany where you realize that the person waiting for you at the altar is the last thing you want in the world.
Nayeon had ten months, almost a year, to realize that it was you who should be waiting for her to join her for life. Instead she spent all that time arranging a wedding and convincing herself that you were just a whim, that she didn't really love you like she thought she did.
Right there, she was moments away from walking down the aisle, and it all came crashing into her head, a long list of everything she denied all that time.
First of all, she loved you, more than she had ever loved anyone, more than she ever loved Hyunwoo. She has loved you for years.
Second, you loved her too.
Third, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with you and not Hyunwoo.
Fourth, she would have to give Hyunwoo a very big and expensive gift to apologize for this.
Fifth, she was not getting married that saturday in january.
Sixth, she wasted a year convincing you to be the maid of honor at the wedding of the love of your life. Geez.
And finally, seventh, she spent atrocities on a wedding she was about to ditch.
Nayeon stood up suddenly, startling the stylist who was arranging her hair. With an expression of despair in her eyes.
"y/n" she muttered, the poor hairstylist not understanding what she was talking about "y/n!" she repeated shouting this time, alerting everyone in the room "I need to find y/n" she explained.
"Nayeon, it's only a few minutes away, y/n must be positioning herself with the other bridesmaids." Replied her mother who was with her.
She ran out of the room she was in, even with how hard it was to run in her wedding dress. She reached where the bridesmaids were, which luckily was not a place visible to those present at the celebration, as they hadn't taken their place yet.
"Nayeon?" spoke Chaeyoung alerted upon seeing the bride, drawing the attention of all the others "What the fuck are you doing here!?" She asked in a whisper-yell.
"y/n" she repeated breathlessly "call y/n" she demanded.
"y/n is not here, she went out." Jeongyeon warned.
"What do you mean she went out? Where did she go? It's my wedding day and she dares to do whatever the hell she wants" She spoke confused and exhausted.
"She went to the backyard." Added the same girl.
Her friends were about to start asking her questions, but they couldn't, because the moment she knew where y/n was, the girl started running again, as fast as she could.
She really wasn't very fast.
She came outside and saw you, you were standing on the side of the fountain, watching the water fall, smoking. You were the most ethereal thing she had ever seen in her life and she instantly thought about how she never stopped to appreciate your beauty since knowing she loved you.
"y/n" She said for like the eleventh time that day, to which you looked at her.
"What are you doing here? The ceremony is about to start." You threw away your cigarette and walked toward her swiftly.
"It's not like you're where you need to be either." She alluded that you weren't getting ready with her other friends "Let's go."
She took your hand, directing you towards a gate at the back of the place that led to the street.
"What are you doing?" You asked as you stopped her.
"Let's go." She grabbed you again and tried to walk.
"Nayeon, stop it, what are you doing?" You reiterated.
"We're going to be happy together for the rest of our lives." She explained simply, holding you again.
"Nayeon." You took a step back, letting out a sigh.
"No." She stopped you now "Nayeon nothing." She said seriously "I'm not drunk, or delirious. Is this an impulse? Yes, it is, but it's the most honest impulse I've had in my twenty-six years of life."
She took a few steps toward you and put her hand behind your head, causing you to bend down a little, so that you could rest your forehead with hers.
"I love you, quite possibly since our third year of college." She confessed "When I told you the first time I let you go, I understood your point of view, I understood I did things wrong," she assumed "this time maybe I'm doing things wrong again, but I'm not going to let you reject me and leave like that time."
She raised her other arm to throw it softly, in an adoring way around your neck so she could catch you in a kiss, your first kiss. You didn't deny it, you didn't pull away, there was no point in doing that. You discovered that her lips were another of your weaknesses, of which all included her.
"y/n" she said yet again once the kiss was broken "we're going to leave this wedding, we're going to make sweet love, and then you're going to help me figure out how to apologize to Hyunwoo." You laughed, somewhat bitterly, as you felt bad for the man "And after that we're going to love each other forever, yes?"
"Yes."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
—O—O—
the image of nayeon running around with her wedding dress out of breath is actually so pathetic😭
—ica.
#kpop imagines#kpop#twice reactions#twice headcanons#twice scenarios#twice nayeon#twice imagines#nayeon imagines#nayeon x reader#nayeon reactions#nayeon#nayeon scenarios
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George Harrison and Paul McCartney in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s; photos by/© Paul (?), ITV/Shutterstock, Leslie Bryce, Jim Marshall, Linda McCartney, and a screenshot from The Beatles Anthology.
Happy birthday to Paul!
Q: “You met Paul first.”
George Harrison: “Yeah, Paul went to school with me. I met him when I was about twelve years old. So I had this guitar, the one I just talked about, and Paul had a trumpet for some reason. His father, in his earlier days, had been involved in a little dance band. He was a piano player. So there was a lot of music in Paul's house too. But [then] we started hanging out together.” - WNEW-FM, 1987
“George put on do-do-do-do [sings the signature riff] which is very much a part of the song [‘And I Love Her’]. Y’know, the opening riff. That, to me, made a stunning difference to the song and whenever I play the song now, I remember the moment George came up with it. That song would not be the same without it.” - Paul McCartney, MOJO, November 2011
“Paul always writes nice melodies.” - George Harrison, Scene and Heard, 8 October 1969
“‘The thing about Paul,’ George says, ‘is that apart from the personal problem of it all, he’s having a wonderful time. He’s going riding and he’s got horses and he’s got a farm in Scotland and he’s happier with his family. And I can dig that.’” - early 1970s; The Blacklisted Journalist, 2001
“I’ve always preferred Paul’s good melodies to his screaming rock & roll tunes. The tune I thought was sensational on the London Town album was ‘I’m Carrying.’” - George Harrison, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1979
“[N]ow we don’t have any problems whatsoever as far as being people is concerned, and it’s quite nice to see him. But I don’t know about being in a band with him, how that would work out. It’s like, we all have our own tunes to do. And my problem was that it would always be very difficult to get in on the act, because Paul was very pushy in that respect. When he succumbed to playing on one of your tunes, he’d always do good. But you’d have to do fifty-nine of Paul’s songs before he’d even listen to one of yours. So, in that respect, it would be very difficult to ever play with him. But, you know, we’re cool as far as being pals goes.” - George Harrison, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1979
“But we do, actually, we do get on. […] I still love him, and it doesn't matter, I’m going to continue my friendship with him regardless of his attitude, because I don’t have time to screw around anymore, you know.” - George Harrison, The Midday Show, February 1988
“Actually, I love Paul, he’s my mate, and it doesn’t matter what they say in the papers, they’re not gonna get much mileage out of that one.” - George Harrison (regarding the media’s claim of a feud between Harrison and McCartney at the San Remo Festival in 1988), Aspel & Company, 5 March 1988
“There’s always a place in my heart for Paul… and Linda.” - George Harrison, Musician, March 1990
Q: “Does Paul still piss you off (tell us the truth)”
george_harrison_live: “Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass — You know his faults — Then let his foibles pass.”
george_harrison_live: “Old Victorian Proverb.”
george_harrison_live: “I'm sure there's enough about me that pisses him off, but I think we have now grown old enough to realize”
george_harrison_live: “that we're both pretty damn cute!” - Yahoo web chat, 15 February 2001 (x)
#Paul McCartney#George Harrison#quote#quotes by George#George and Paul#Happy Birthday Paul#1950s#1960s#1990s#screenshots#Linda McCartney#PaulMcCartney80#fits queue like a glove
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“I am ready for my next assignment,” a beaming Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had declared at a People’s Action Party (PAP) convention last November.
“I am all in, heart and soul,” he said, adding that he has been working hard to get ready for what would be the “biggest responsibility” of his career – to take over the baton from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Singapore’s next leader.
Now, the assignment has come as Mr Lee announced his retirement on Monday (Apr 15).
Mr Wong will officially take over the leadership reins on May 15, when he becomes Singapore's fourth Prime Minister.
RISE THROUGH THE RANKS
The 51-year-old entered politics in 2011 after being elected as a Member of Parliament in West Coast GRC. He was given his first political office two weeks after the election – as Minister of State for education and defence.
In the 2015 General Election, Mr Wong moved to contest in the new Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, where he has been anchor minister ever since.
By then, he had risen steadily through the ranks with positions in various ministries, including the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth where he was appointed acting minister in 2012 and made full minister two years later.
After the elections in 2015, he moved to head the Ministry of National Development where he stayed on until July 2020.
In 2020, Mr Wong was tasked to co-chair Singapore’s multi-ministry COVID-19 task force with then-Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.
Together with Mr Gan, and later, new Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, he helmed the country’s pandemic response and fronted key announcements at frequently held press conferences.
Political observers later said that it was Mr Wong’s steady leadership style during COVID-19, clear explanation of policies and grasp of details that put him in pole position to take over as the country’s next leader when Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat took himself out of the running for the top job in April 2021.
Mr Heng, then 60, had cited his age as the reason and that he would have “too short a runway” should he become Prime Minister after the pandemic.
Mr Wong, who was then Education Minister, took over the Finance Ministry from Mr Heng in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle, providing the first hint of his frontrunner position given how the high-profile finance portfolio has traditionally been helmed by PAP heavyweights.
Questions about political succession were finally laid to rest in April 2022 when Mr Wong was named as the leader of the PAP’s fourth-generation, or 4G, team.
Two months later, he was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister in another Cabinet reshuffle, while holding on to his finance portfolio.
Since cementing his standing as Singapore’s next Prime Minister, Mr Wong has fronted major speeches, such as delivering the keynote speech at the May Day Rally last year in place of Mr Lee.
He has also launched the Forward Singapore exercise, which provided a glimpse of how he and the 4G team intends to take the country forward.
A CIVIL SERVANT AND GUITAR LOVER
Prior to entering politics, Mr Wong was a civil servant for 14 years.
He began his career at the Ministry of Trade and Industry in 1997 before moving on to other roles in the finance and health ministries.
Mr Wong became principal private secretary to the Prime Minister in 2005.
In 2008, he joined the Energy Market Authority as deputy chief executive and was promoted to chief executive in 2009.
Two years later, he stepped down from the post to enter politics as the youngest of five candidates tipped to form the core of the PAP’s 4G leadership.
The Straits Times reported previously that Mr Wong had resigned from the public sector to enter politics, a year short before reaching 15 years of service. Administrative Service officers were eligible for pension after 15 years of service.
“It was a loss, but it was not something that factored into my consideration at the time,” he had said.
On the personal front, Mr Wong grew up in what he described as an “ordinary family” in the Marine Parade HDB estate.
His late father was born in China’s Hainan Island, went to Malaysia as a young boy before moving to Singapore to work in a sales job.
His mother was a teacher. Describing her as a disciplinarian both in school and at home, Mr Wong has spoken highly of his mother in several interviews and public speeches for managing to teach while caring for him and his brother.
Mr Wong is an alumnus of Haig Boys’ Primary where his mother taught. In his teens, he attended Tanjong Katong Secondary School, which he chose because it was near his home, and later on, Victoria Junior College.
He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He also holds a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Outside of work, Mr Wong, who is married to Ms Loo Tze Lui, is known to be an avid music lover and skilled guitar player.
His love for the guitar goes back to when his father gave him his first guitar at the age of eight. He spent his weekends borrowing guitar books from the old Marine Parade library and when he got a government scholarship to study in the United States, he made sure to bring his guitar along.
Mr Wong has said that playing the guitar helps him to destress and unwind.
The incoming Prime Minister has posted several videos of him strumming his six string, including an acoustic rendition of American pop star Taylor Swift’s hit song Love Story as a tribute to educators on Teachers’ Day last year.
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Happy New Year! I wanted to shout out “some” posts of 2022 that I really loved. I want to say thank you to all fellow gif makers to put in the time and effort to share their creations.
Please do not feel bad if you’re not on the list. I have a running queue on my blog, so my post number per month is fairly huge. So I may just have missed your post.
Feel free to share, and please, if you like a post, please reblog and share the love.
January 2022
Morgana Pendragon ▶ Season 3, Episode 02: “The Tears of Uther Pendragon: Part Two” - @katieskeep
YENNEFER APPRECIATION WEEK | favorite outfit - @yenvengerberg
— New Year’s Day by Taylor Swift - @antoniosvivaldi
WOLF MOON | S1E1 - @teenwolfgifs
February 2022
‘cause we never go out of style… - @jumpthensfall
HAPPY 32ND BIRTHDAY TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT - @newrcmantlcs
March 2022
the wheel of time gifset - @scinnlaece
allison argent gifset - @bericas
bau ladies + tarot cards - @cabotism (deactivated)
HARRY POTTER film series based on the novels by the same name (2001-2011) - @yourstarfuckerworld (deactivated)
stiles stilinski & lydia martin TEEN WOLF (2011-2017) - @crazysjane (deactivated)
MISTY & NATALIE in Yellowjackets | Season One [insp] - @queencalanthes
April 2022
Charmed | Patty & Prue & Piper | Head Above Water - @littletonpace
NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES: The Marauders - @some-people-call-it-tragic
Man the boundaries. Protect us. Do your duty to our school. - @hermoiine
THE DORA MILAJE aka “THE ADORED ONES” - @rachelschu (deactivated)
May 2022
ALL MY GIRLS LIKE TO FIGHT. - @bericas
↳ ingrid, the snow queen - @thewildmother
hogwarts houses common rooms aes - @ostara-goddess
harry potter meme: [1/3] colours. teal - @19-17
laura’s 10k celebration (top 30 ships as voted by my followers) ✵ 21 ➳ buffy summers & spike - @katherineebishop
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) dir. David Yates - @mike-mills
June 2022
i got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined - @learned-civility
the big seven + planets symbolism (insp.) - @hermiione
July 2022
doctor who appreciation week day three ☆ favorite season/era - @benoitblanc
Taylor Swift in 2021 - @wishfulthinkinglove
AU SPUFFY - they can be a romcom if they want - - @l0veisntbrains
taylor swift gifset - @treachreous
August 2022
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - @drsattlers
↳ SCOOBY-DOO (2002) dir. Raja Gosnell - @wakandasforever
— Taylor Swift on 💜 Last Kiss 💜 - @antoniosvivaldi
September 2022
#MetalMonday | ✟ Rest in Peace ✟ (Dorothy) - @x--daughters-of-darkness--x
October 2022
TEEN WOLF APPRECIATION WEEK ☽ day one: female character(s) - @unspokenstydia
MERLINWEEK2022 | DAY 02 Favourite scene or season : season 04 (insp) - @thebookluvrr1816
#the journey - @payidaresque
MERLIN WEEK 2022 day 1: favourite character ➛ arthur pendragon + dnd character sheet (in/sp.) - @arthurpendragonns
DAILYMARVELSTUDIOS 5K CELEBRATION: FAVORITE MARVEL DYNAMIC - @dailymarvelstudios
November 2022
Bridgerton Siblings + Love Interest - @marlenadia
laura’s 11k celebration (top 40 characters as voted by my followers) ✵ 40 ➳ emma swan - @katherineebishop
Grace & Frankie + final scenes - @jakeperalta
Vampire Appreciation Week [2022] October 27th ~ Favourite Vampire/Vampire Dynamic - @sulietsexual
Bridgerton Couples + Tropes - @marlenadia
VAMPIRE APPRECIATION WEEK 2022 - day one: favorite vampire CAROLINE FORBES - The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) - @naiey
December 2022
EDWINA & KATE SHARMA — The Sun & The Moon - @gifshistorical
WEDNESDAY CHARACTERS as TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUMS - @reputayswift
favorite non-romantic dynamic MISS EDWINA AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE - @edwinadaily
WEDNESDAY (2022) + RAINBOW - @usergif
marvel characters - @annelisters
WELL! THE PLAN HAS SOME FLAWS, ADMITTEDLY. - @phoebehalliwell
Favorite Romantic Pairing — Colin and Penelope Bridgerton - @wandarogers
WEDNESDAY: SEASON 1 (2022) - @vanessacarlysle
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Back to the "start" [early days 2009-2012]
My college story [pre-diagnosis]: In 2009, I graduated high school. Transfered into the local community college for biology.
Fall 2009: The first semester went great, though I struggled with the History of Western Civilization. That's probably because of unmedicated ADHD and having listened to Western Civ most of my HS experience. That's also when I started reading Glee fanfiction, so I'd often read that instead of study.
Spring 2010: much the same. The vicious combo of Chemistry I, Calc I, and Intro to Literature kicked my butt. However, Western Civ II was amazing.
Summer 2010 [diaster begins] My advisor said the only way I could graduate on time was if I took Calc II and Chem II in the summer. BOY, she screwed me over in so many ways. A D in the Chem II -4 credits [transferable, but have to retake; and F in Calc II -5 credits]. Tanked my GPA and was a sign of something more going on.
I couldn't remember things, I was tired in the morning, and alert in the evening. I could eat a lot without gaining weight, but still feel hungry and awful. I was both high-energy and exhausted. Later, my first Endocrinlogist and my high school anatomy teacher described it as being on uppers and downers at the same time. Or having the gas and break going and spinning in circles burning yourself out.
I continued on with school because I didn't really know what was happening. I was barely 19 and have since learned that both ADHD and LADA can cause issues with mind and body communication.
Fall 2010: I took Bio, Anatomy, U.S. History, and Intro to Psych.
The time of day really impacted how I was doing. I got an A on my first Bio exam at 9 am. Then I proceeded to fail the next 3. U.S. History I couldn't retain the information, disliked it in the first place, and also had it earlier in the day. Anatomy and Psychology were later in the day so I could pass them.
In late October 2010 my dad noticed I had a puffy neck when going to visit relatives. He told my mom to take me to the ER. I had am EKG that had showed concerning results especially witj my heart rate being above 160. They told me I needed to see an endocrinologist. My dad set me up with his. The worst bedside manner known [well probably not] to man, but he saved my life.
Because I could get medicated, I withdrew from two of my classes for medical reasons and managed to pass the other two [no idea how tbh]. I was diagnosed with Graves' Disease with a severe Hyperthyroid and Goider that was impacting my breathing. I was on drugs every 2-4 hours. Then I got my blood drawn, and right before I drank a juice box because it's all I had at the time.
My blood sugar was 512 mg/dl, and my A1C was 11. Type 2 runs in my family, so there was an assumption that that's what it was. I was put on novolog 70/30, but two weeks later, he sent me for antibody testing. 10 days before US Thanksgiving 2011, I got the call that I am Type 1 insulin dependent.
I was immediately taken off the 70/30 and placed on Levemir and Novolog. Relatively high doses as having two autoimmune conditions at once on fire seemed to make my body more resistant to go below 170 ever.
My then endocrinologist said my thyroid was making everything worse, including my airway. Radio active iodine wouldn't shrink it enough. So, I was scheduled for a total Thyroidectomy on April 6, 2011.
Ironically, the area I struggled the most to learn while sick was anatomy, I had to withdraw from Anatomy II 3 different times while in treatment [and once post].
Following the total Thyroidectomy on April 6, 2011, my blood sugar stabilized with low imsulin. I was slowly lowered from 20 levemir twice a day, down to 18 levemir once a day. I was only taking 1-2 units per meal where, before, I was taking 5-7 depending on the carbs. My ratio was still 1:15. My endocrinologist wanted to start me on this "new GLP-1 RA, Victoza" and said he suspected I am LADA, not just Type 1. This means I might have a little pancreatic function left, and using Victoza might foster that insulin sustaining. Taking Victoza allowed me to stop taking fast acting insulin and my A1C was still in the non diabetic range.
I returned in Fall 2011 to continue my degree and was doing really well, primarily getting A's with an occasional B. Unfortunately, with the F and D on my final grades, my GPA was on the lower side, so I had to do really well to get that up. I was very lucky that I was in a guaranteed admissions program from high school that lowered the requirements [though they'd gone up in that time]. So I just needed more than a 2.75 [non-program needed 3.0].
I was able to get it up to 3.93 before I graduated and was able to transfer to a 4-year college.
To be continued...
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All the shows I’ve seen in NYC!
The first time I ever set foot in New York City was in April 2011, ever since then NYC has been fueling my theatre obsession with some amazing shows, from musicals & plays to operas, concerts & cabarets. So I thought I would compile a list (to the best of my knowledge/memory) of all the shows I have seen in this wonderful city.
23/4/11 - Wonderland (musical)
27/4/11 - Il Trovatore (opera)
28/4/11 - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)
29/4/11 - Orfeo ed Euridice (opera)
30/4/11 - The Addams Family (musical)
10/4/12 - Jesus Christ Superstar (musical)
11/4/12 - Anything Goes (musical)
11/4/12 - Manon (opera)
12/4/12 - Evita (musical)
13/4/12 - Die Walkure (opera)
14/4/12 - La Traviata (opera)
14/4/12 - A Midsummer Nights Dream (play)
15/4/12 - The Book of Mormon (musical)
15/4/12 - Godspell (musical)
2/1/13 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical)
3/1/13 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play)
4/1/13 - Bare (musical)
4/1/13 - Peter and the Starcatcher (play)
5/1/13 - Les Troyens (opera)
5/1/13 - The Barber of Seville (opera)
5/1/13 - Johnny Gallagher (concert)
6/1/13 - Golden Age (play)
6/1/13 - Annie (musical)
7/1/13 - Turandot (opera)
8/1/13 - Maria Stuarda (opera)
8/10/13 - Pippin (musical)
9/10/13 - The Glass Menagerie (play)
9/10/13 - Romeo & Juliet (play)
10/10/13 - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (immersive musical)
11/10/13 - Big Fish (musical)
12/10/13 - Eugene Onegin (opera)
13/10/13 - Kinky Boots (musical)
13/10/13 - Johnny Gallagher (concert)
14/10/13 - Norma (opera)
15/10/13 - First Date (musical)
15/10/13 - First Date at 54 Below (cabaret)
12/4/14 - The Realistic Jones (play)
12/4/14 - Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning (immersive theatre)
12/4/14 - All The Way (play)
13/4/14 - Jasper in Deadland (musical)
13/4/14 - Queen of the Night (immersive theatre)
14/4/14 - Heathers (musical)
15/4/14 - Aladdin (musical)
16/4/14 - The Bridges of Madison County (musical)
16/4/14 - Les Miserables (musical)
17/4/14 - Newsies (musical)
17/4/14 - I Puritani (opera)
18/4/14 - Of Mice and Men (play)
19/4/14 - Arabella (opera)
19/4/14 - If/Then (musical)
20/4/14 - Reefer Madness (benefit concert)
20/4/14 - The Cripple of Inishmaan (play)
20/4/14 - Casa Valentina (play)
21/4/14 - Sleep No More (immersive theatre)
22/4/14 - Easter Bonnet Competition (benefit concert)
22/4/14 - Bullets Over Broadway (musical)
23/4/14 - Violet (musical)
23/4/14 - Cosi fan tutte (opera)
24/4/14 - Cinderella (musical)
24/4/14 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)
25/4/14 - Cabaret (musical)
20/2/15 - The Elephant Man (play)
20/2/15 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)
21/2/15 - A Month in the Country (play)
21/2/15 - Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle (opera)
22/2/15 - It’s Only a Play (play)
22/2/15 - Pretty Filthy (musical)
23/2/15 - Brooklynite (musical)
24/2/15 - Ghost Quartet (immersive musical)
25/2/15 - Honeymoon in Vegas (musical)
25/2/15 - La Donna del Lago (opera)
26/2/15 - Nevermore (musical)
26/2/15 - Into the Woods (musical)
27/2/15 - On the Twentieth Century (musical)
28/2/15 - One Day (musical)
28/2/15 - Les Contes d’Hoffmann (opera)
28/2/15 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)
1/3/15 - The Iceman Cometh (play)
1/3/15 - Hamilton (musical)
1/3/15 - Altar Boyz Reunion Concert at 54 Below (cabaret)
2/3/15 - The Dutch Courtesan (play)
2/3/15 - Replay: A Broadway Preview (cabaret)
3/3/15 - Constellations (play)
3/3/15 - This Will Be Our Year at 54 Below (cabaret)
4/3/15 - The Heidi Chronicles (play)
4/3/15 - Cabaret (musical)
5/3/15 - Big Love (play)
5/3/15 - A Very Very Rock Show at 54 Below (cabaret)
12/1/16 - Spring Awakening (musical)
13/1/16 - Fun Home (musical)
13/1/16 - Something Rotten! (musical)
14/1/16 - Lazarus (musical)
15/1/16 - School of Rock (musical)
16/1/16 - The Color Purple (musical)
16/1/16 - Hamilton (musical)
17/1/16 - Allegiance (musical)
17/1/16 - A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (musical)
18/1/16 - Johnny Gallagher & LAKES (concert)
18/1/16 - Spring Awakening (musical)
19/1/16 - Finding Neverland (musical)
20/1/16 - Fiddler on the Roof (musical)
20/1/16 - A View from the Bridge (play)
21/1/16 - The Phantom of the Opera (musical)
21/1/16 - Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (opera)
22-24/1/16 - BroadwayCon 2016 (convention)
25/1/17 - The Front Page (play)
25/1/17 - Roméo et Juliette (opera)
26/1/17 - The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (immersive theatre)
27-29/1/17 - BroadwayCon 2017 (convention)
29/1/17 - Dear Evan Hansen (musical)
31/1/17 - In Transit (a cappella musical)
½/17 - Waitress (musical)
½/17 - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (musical)
2/2/17 - Sunset Boulevard (musical)
23/2/18 - Romeo & Juliet (ballet)
24/2/18 - The Band’s Visit (musical)
24/2/18 - Cruel Intentions (musical)
24/2/18 - Hello Dolly! (musical)
25/2/18 - Fire and Air (play)
25/2/18 - Sweeney Todd (musical)
28/2/18 - Anastasia (musical)
28/2/18 - Semiramide (opera)
1/3/18 - Elektra (opera)
2/3/18 - Carousel (musical)
3/3/18 - Farinelli and the King (play)
3/3/18 - Kings (play)
4/3/18 - Come From Away (musical)
4/3/18 - Lobby Hero (play)
5/3/18 - Once on this Island (musical)
6/3/18 - Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (play)
7/3/18 - Hamilton (musical)
7/3/18 - Angels in America: Perestroika (play)
8/3/18 - Frozen (musical)
3/1/19 - The Lifespan of a Fact (play)
4/1/19 - Adriana LeCouvreur (opera)
5/1/19 - The Ferryman (play)
5/1/19 - Mean Girls (musical)
6/1/19 - To Kill a Mockingbird (play)
6/1/19 - Clueless the Musical (musical)
9/1/19 - Pretty Woman (musical)
9/1/19 - Network (play)
10/1/19 - American Son (play)
11-12/1/19 - BroadwayCon 2019 (convention)
12/1/19 - The Prom (musical)
28/2/20 - Tina - The Tina Turner Musical (musical)
29/2/20 - Wicked (musical)
29/2/20 - Hadestown (musical)
1/3/20 - The Inheritance Pt 1 (play)
1/3/20 - The Inheritance Pt 2 (play)
2/3/20 - Der Fliegende Holländer (opera)
3/3/20 - Agrippina (opera)
4/3/20 - West Side Story (musical)
4/3/20 - Jagged Little Pill (musical)
5/3/20 - Company (musical)
6/3/20 - Beetlejuice (musical)
7/3/20 - Medea (play)
7/3/20 - Moulin Rouge (musical)
8/3/20 - Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
8/3/20 - LAKES (concert)
8/3/20 - Emojiland (musical)
11/2/23 - Kimberly Akimbo (musical)
11/2/23 - Pictures From Home (play)
12/2/23 - Leopoldstadt (play)
12/2/23 - Cornelia Street (musical)
13/2/23 - SIX (musical)
14/2/23 - Funny Girl (musical)
18/2/23 - A Beautiful Noise (musical)
18/2/23 - Bad Cinderella (musical)
19/2/23 - Some Like It Hot (musical)
19/2/23 - & Juliet (musical)
20/2/23 - Without You (musical/cabaret)
21/2/23 - Parade (musical)
18/10/23 - Back to the Future (musical)
19/10/23 - The Great Gatsby (musical)
19/10/23 - Here Lies Love (musical)
20/2/23 - Gutenberg! The Musical! (musical)
21/10/23 - Harmony (musical)
21/10/23 - Here We Are (musical)
22/10/23 - The Shark is Broken (play)
22/10/23 - Purlie Victorious (play)
23/10/23 - Chicago (musical)
24/10/23 - Merrily We Roll along (musical)
Unfortunately the following shows were Covid cancelled:
12/3/20 - Flying Over Sunset (musical)
13/3/20 - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (play)
14/3/20 - Mrs Doubtfire (musical)
14/3/20 - SIX (musical)
I've also had a couple of snow cancellations - The Hunchback of Notre Dame & possibly one other show I can't recall...
There have also been numerous 'shuttering early' cancellations, which I won't bother listing.
That’s the list so far. Obviously there will be more to come… stay tuned! (Shows booked so far for 2024: Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, The Who's TOMMY, The Hours & Water For Elephants)
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Marshawn Lynch Net Worth: What Is His Career To Success In Her Life?
Ex-American football running back Marshawn Terrell Lynch played for the NFL for a dozen years. on April 22, 1986, he entered this world in Oakland, California. In the NFL, he was known as "Beast Mode" for his time with the Seattle Seahawks.
Marshawn Lynch Net Worth
There is a total of $35 million in Marshawn Lynch's bank account as of 2018. After playing college football at Berkeley, he was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the 2007 NFL Draft. He has now racked up 17 games in which he has run for 100 yards, which is a Cal record.
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Marshawn Lynch Career.
The 22nd of April, 1986, was a good day for Marshawn Lynch to be born in Oakland, California. At a young age, he started on the Oakland youth football scene.
His mother, Delisa, set the record in the 200-meter dash at Oakland Technical High School, where she also reared Marshawn and his three elder siblings. He eventually ended himself at Oakland Technical High School, where he became a star football player. we hope you like this article Erika Alexander Net Worth.
Marshawn played college football at UC Berkeley, where he studied social welfare, after graduating from high school. While attending college, he excelled to the point that he was named First Team All-American, First Team All-Pac-10, and Bowl MVP in 2006.
Marshawn Lynch Career Earnings.
Just from his salary, Marshawn Lynch made $56 million during his NFL career. The endorsements contributed at least $10 million to his overall earnings, and possibly as much as $20 million, bringing his career earnings to an estimated $66–$76 million.
Marshawn announced in 2016 that he had not yet spent a dollar of his NFL earnings, instead choosing to rely only on the money he made through endorsements. This was a couple of years before his final season in the NFL. check this Lisa Barlow Net Worth.
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Marshawn Lynch NFL Career.
Marshawn declared his intention to pursue the NFL draught in 2007. Buffalo Bills selected Marshawn Lynch 12th in the first round. He signed a six-year, $19 million contract with Buffalo. Lynch played for the Bills from 2007 to 2010.
Marshawn became a Seahawks superstar. Marshawn has called Lynch "Beast Mode" during games. Marshawn trademarked "Beast Mode". Lynch broke nine tackles on a 67-yard touchdown run against the New Orleans Saints in his debut postseason game on January 8, 2011. Locals called this run "Beast Quake." In 2011, he started 15 regular season games.
Seattle paid him $31 million for four years in 2012. Lynch replaced Frank Gore in the NFC Pro Bowl on January 24, 2012. He started all 16 regular season games and both Seahawks playoff games that year.
He gave 100% of his six-figure "Beast Mode" licensing royalties to charity in 2013. In Week 2, he had 98 running yards and two touchdowns, ranking 24th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2013.
Lynch scored a career-long 79-yard touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals in week two of this season. Lynch was fined $11,050 four days later for falling back and clutching his crotch while celebrating the score. The league called his celebration "obscene." You might also be interested to read about Cody Longo Net Worth.
Lynch signed a $24 million two-year deal in 2015. At Super Bowl XLIX Media Day on January 27, 2015, he answered every question with "I'm just here so I won't be fined" in a five-minute press conference. He has a history of media aversion.
Lynch won a Super Bowl with the Seahawks from 2010 through 2015. In 2017, he rejoined the Oakland Raiders after retiring from the NFL. Oakland signed him for two years at $9 million with a peak of $16.5 million in 2017. Lynch was a four-time Pro Bowler. 2013 and 2014 NFL rushing touchdown leader. He was First-team All-Pro in 2012 and Second-team in 2014.
Lynch rejoined the Seahawks with old colleague Robert Turbin in the last week of the 2019 season. Week 17 versus the 49ers on "NBC Sunday Night Football" was his second Seahawks debut.
Lynch ran 12 times for 34 yards and a touchdown in the 26–21 loss. Lynch tied Terrell Davis and John Riggins for fourth place on the all-time postseason rushing touchdown tally with three more touchdowns in the 2019-2020 NFL playoffs. Must read this article Four Good Days.
He was asked if he would return to the Seahawks in 2020 during a postgame interview on January 12, 2020. "We'll see," he said. Marshawn told Conan O'Brien in December 2020 that he will join a Super Bowl contender.
Lynch appeared in FX's sixth season of "The League" outside of football. In "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" season 4, "The Fugitive Part 1," he parodied himself. Lynch joined "Westworldthird "'s season in May 2019. The show debuted in 2020.
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Today is the ten year anniversary of Elisabeth Sladen's death
#elisabeth sladen#sarah jane smith#doctor who#this was actually a really big deal for me when it happened#i was 17 and a freshman in college#and my friend donny had just gotten me into doctor who#and sarah jane was my favorite character#and on april 19 2011 i was at school all day#and me and donny used to stand in the parking lot and talk about doctor who for like 30+ minutes before either of us got in our cars#and that particular day i was telling him about sarah jane and how important she was in classic who#(donny was really only familiar with NuWho; i outpaced him very quickly after he got me into the show)#i didn't have a smartphone at the time so i didn't know what was happening in the outside world until i got home that evening#so then when i got home and went on facebook and found out that lis sladen had died that day#it was like.....idk.....especially devastating#like....i was just talking about her fifteen minutes ago#i haven't been obsessed with doctor who for a long time#but that day is burned into my memory#and ten years feels especially momentous so i wanted to make a post commemorating the day
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Meeting Strangers - General Timeline
While there is a general masterpost for Meeting Strangers//Spiegelbilder with stories I’m working on, I needed a somewhat simple timetine that covers the major milestones, so here we go. I’ll be adding links to posted chapters and/or WIP posts to the single events. Things with * are currently worked on most and likely to be posted next. There’s a lot of unrelated oneshots to be found in the other masterpost, that are not linked to these major milestones and thus not listed here.
You can find all posted chapters on AO3 here. General rambling and WIPs on tumblr under this tag. Edits for characters/places/scenes found here.
1956: David Stephen Rossi is born May 9th
1974: Dave enlists with the military age 18, Alex Dancy is born Nov 16th as Alexandra Anatevka Orlowa in New York City to an American father and a Russian mother
1976: Alex’ family moves back to Leningrad, soviet Russia, to care for her grandmother after her husband passed away, Alex grows up in Leningrad
1978: somewhere along the way Dave gets married to Carolyn Baker Rossi, they have a son named James David who dies the same day he is born (April 26th), Dave is 22
1983: after their marriage has been difficult for months already Carolyn leaves Dave after he repeatedly forgets their special dates, Dave is 27
1985: Dave lives a summer marriage with Hayden Montgomery, the marriage only lasts some happy months spend together in Paris (he’s 29), Hayden ends it
1987: in February Alex’ grandmother dies, Alex is 12
1988: on Christmas eve Dave is witness of a nightmare case at work that will haunt him for decades (s03e14), while Alex gets in serious trouble with the local police in Leningrad/St. Petersburg
1989: Dave has a very short Las Vegas marriage with Krystall, his black jack dealer, the marriage lasts 48h; the same year Anya, Alex’ bigger sister, dies, and a little later her father leaves her mother with two small children and a troubled 14yo
1990: in March Alex’ gets thrown out of home by her mother, after some troublesome months she finds a new home with streetworker and ex-cop Yuri Volkov in a condemned house where he runs a safe place for street children**
1991: Alex starts working in a factory, while the USSR falls apart
1992-94: Alex goes back to school and graduates while working at the factory, age 17-19
1995: Alex moves from St. Petersburg to London to study social work after meeting a social worker in a foreign committee visiting St. Petersburg
1997-2007: Dave goes into early retirement to write books about his work with the BAU and do private counseling
2000: by accident Dave and Alex run into each other for the first time while he’s on book promotion tour in London (—> The First Chapter), Dave is 44, Alex 26
2003: after staying loosely in contact Dave tells Alex about a job opportunity in the States, which she ends up taking, she moves close to Washington DC and helps build the FBI’s Victims Assistance Unit, she also joins the local BACA chapter (Bikers Against Child Abuse) and volunteers at the BACA run youth club “Safe Haven”**
2007: on Halloween, Dave rejoins the BAU age 51 after Jason Gideon left with short notice (s03e06)
2008: the relationship between Alex and boyfriend of several years Frederick Fry goes down with violence, leaving her in a pretty messed up head space (—> Enough**), her superior at the VAU suggests taking a temporary job opportunity at the West Coast, Alex spends ten months at the West Coast to help build another VAU office (Alex is 34)
2009: Alex returns to Arlington, VA, and ends up in a chaotic summer relationship with long time BACA friend Tonks, they have the summer of their lives but end up parting because Tonks falls for someone else (—> A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
2011: when Emily Prentiss “dies”, Alex joins the BAU to fill the vacant spot
2012: Dave throws JJ’s wedding (big party), later that year he and Alex end up in a friends-with-benefits kind of relationship (he’s 56, she’s 38)
2013: Alex gets shot at work, while she’s on sick leave she decides to quit with the BAU and go back to the VAU; Emily joins back with the BAU
2014: Alex&Dave decide to finally screw “no strings attached” and enter a committed relationship**; Alex starts being stalked
2015: the stalking case goes down horribly, leaving Alex at rock bottom (—> City of Blinding Lights series), a hard year ends with Dave proposing to Alex**
2016: Dave&Alex buy a house together
2017: after an unplanned pregnancy Alex loses the child in the first trimenon, both Alex and Dave have to deal with child losses they suffered in their past ( —> Another Life**)
2018: Vick, a teenager Alex knows from work, moves in with Alex&Dave temporarily and later becomes a permanent family member (—> Family is Something You Chose**), Dave is 62, Alex 44
2019: when Alex’ mother dies, she has to go back to her past
#fic talk: Spiegelbilder#the Spiegelbilder masterpost#the Spiegelbilder timeline#feel free to ask about any of these#thought as I won't be posting in any chronological order I might as well do a reference timeline
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Today we remember the passing of James Garner who Died: July 19, 2014 in Los Angeles, California
Garner was born James Scott Bumgarner on April 7, 1928 in Denver, Oklahoma (now a part of Norman, Oklahoma). His parents were Weldon Warren Bumgarner, a widower, and Mildred Scott (Meek), who died five years after his birth. His older brothers were Jack Garner (1926–2011) and Charles Bumgarner (1924-1984), a school administrator. His family was Methodist. After their mother's death, Garner and his brothers were sent to live with relatives. Garner was reunited with his family in 1934, when Weldon remarried.
Garner's father remarried several times. Garner came to hate one of his stepmothers, Wilma, who beat all three boys (especially him). He said that his stepmother also punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public. When he was 14 years old, he fought with her, knocking her down and choking her to keep her from killing him in retaliation. She left the family and never returned. His brother Jack later commented, "She was a damn no-good woman". Garner's last stepmother was Grace, whom he said he loved and called "Mama Grace", and felt that she was more of a mother to him than anyone else had been.
After the war, Garner joined his father in Los Angeles and enrolled at Hollywood High School, where he was voted the most popular student. A high school gym teacher recommended him for a job modeling Jantzen bathing suits. It paid well ($25 an hour), but in his first interview for the Archives of American Television, he said he hated modeling; he soon quit and returned to Norman. He played football and basketball at Norman High School, and competed on the track and golf teams. However, he dropped out in his senior year. In a 1976 Good Housekeeping magazine interview, he admitted, "I was a terrible student and I never actually graduated from high school, but I got my diploma in the Army."
Shortly after his father's marriage to Wilma broke up, his father moved to Los Angeles, leaving Garner and his brothers in Norman. After working at several jobs he disliked, Garner worked as a merchant mariner in the United States Merchant Marine at age 16 near the end of World War II. He liked the work and his shipmates, but he suffered from chronic seasickness.
Garner enlisted in the California Army National Guard, serving his first 7 months in California. He then went to Korea for 14 months, as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Team during the Korean War, then part of the 24th Infantry Division. He was wounded twice, first in the face and hand by shrapnel from a mortar round, and the second time in the buttocks from friendly fire from U.S. fighter jets as he dived into a foxhole. Garner received the Purple Heart in Korea for the first wound. He qualified for a second Purple Heart (eligibility requirement: "As the result of friendly fire while actively engaging the enemy"), but he did not actually receive it until 1983, 32 years after the event.
In 1954, Paul Gregory, a friend whom Garner had met while attending Hollywood High School, persuaded Garner to take a nonspeaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, where he was able to study Henry Fonda night after night. During the week of Garner's death, TCM broadcast most of his movies, introduced by Robert Osborne, who said that Fonda's gentle, sincere persona rubbed off on Garner, greatly to Garner's benefit.
Garner subsequently moved to television commercials and eventually to television roles. In 1955, Garner was considered for the lead role in the Western series Cheyenne, but that role went to Clint Walker because the casting director could not reach Garner in time (according to Garner's autobiography). Garner wound up playing an Army officer in the 1955 Cheyenne pilot titled "Mountain Fortress." His first film appearances were in The Girl He Left Behind and Toward the Unknown in 1956.
In 1957, he had a supporting role in the TV anthology series episode on Conflict entitled "Man from 1997," portraying Maureen (Gloria Talbott)'s brother "Red"; the show stars Jacques Sernas as Johnny Vlakos and Charlie Ruggles as elderly Mr. Boyne, a librarian from 1997, and involved a 1997 Almanac that was mistakenly left in the past by Boyne and found by Johnny in a bookstore. The series' producer Roy Huggins noted in his Archive of American Television interview that he subsequently cast Garner as the lead in Maverick due to his comedic facial expressions while playing scenes in "Man from 1997" that were not originally written to be comical. He changed his last name from Bumgarner to Garner after the studio had credited him as "James Garner" without permission. He then legally changed it upon the birth of his first child, when he decided she had too many names.
Nominated for 15 Emmy Awards during his television career, Garner received the award in 1977 as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Rockford Files) and in 1987 as executive producer of Promise. For his contribution to the film and television industry, Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1990, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame that same year. In February 2005, he received the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role that year, for The Notebook. When Morgan Freeman won that prize for his work in Million Dollar Baby, Freeman led the audience in a sing-along of the original Maverick theme song, written by David Buttolph and Paul Francis Webster.
Garner was a strong Democratic Party supporter. From 1982, Garner gave at least $29,000 to Federal campaigns, of which over $24,000 was to Democratic Party candidates, including Dennis Kucinich (for Congress in 2002), Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, and various Democratic committees and groups.
On August 28, 1963, Garner was one of several celebrities to join Martin Luther King Jr. in the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". In his autobiography, Garner recalled sitting in the third row listening to King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
For his role in the 1985 CBS miniseries Space, the character's party affiliation was changed from Republican as in the book to reflect Garner's personal views. Garner said, "My wife would leave me if I played a Republican."
There was an effort by California Democratic party leaders, led by state Senator Herschel Rosenthal, to persuade Garner to seek the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in the 1990 election. However, future United States Senator and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein received the nomination instead, losing to Republican Pete Wilson in the election
Garner was married to Lois Josephine Fleischman Clarke, whom he met at a party in 1956. They married 14 days later on August 17, 1956. "We went to dinner every night for 14 nights. I was just absolutely nuts about her. I spent $77 on our honeymoon, and it about broke me." According to Garner, "Marriage is like the Army; everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number of people who re-enlist." His wife was Jewish.
When Garner and Clarke married, her daughter Kim from a previous marriage was seven years old and recovering from polio. Garner had one daughter with Lois: Greta "Gigi" Garner. In an interview in Good Housekeeping with Garner, his wife, and two daughters, conducted at their home, and published in March 1976, Gigi's age was given as 18 and Kim's as 27.
In 1970, Garner and his wife briefly lived separately for three months. In late 1979, Garner again separated from his wife (around the time The Rockford Files stopped filming), splitting his time between living in Canada and "a rented house in the Valley". The two resumed living together in September 1981, and remained married for the rest of his life. Garner said that the separations were not caused by marital problems, instead stating that he simply needed to spend time alone in order to recover from the stress of acting. Garner died less than a month before their 58th wedding anniversary.
Garner's knees became a chronic problem during the filming of The Rockford Files in the 1970s, with "six or seven knee operations during that time". In 2000, he underwent knee replacement surgery for both of them.
On April 22, 1988, Garner had quintuple bypass heart surgery. Though he recovered rapidly, he was advised to stop smoking. Garner quit smoking 17 years later.
Garner underwent surgery on May 11, 2008, following a severe stroke he had suffered two days earlier. His prognosis was reported to be "very positive".
Garner was a private and introverted man, according to family and friends, On July 19, 2014, police and rescue personnel were summoned to Garner's Los Angeles-area home, where they found the actor dead at the age of 86. He had suffered a "massive" heart attack caused by coronary artery disease. He had been in poor health since his stroke in 2008.
Longtime friends Tom Selleck (who worked with Garner on The Rockford Files), Sally Field (who worked with Garner in Murphy's Romance) and Clint Eastwood (who guest-starred with Garner on Maverick and starred in Space Cowboys) reflected on his death. Selleck said, "Jim was a mentor to me and a friend, and I will miss him." Field said, "My heart just broke. There are few people on this planet I have adored as much as Jimmy Garner. I cherish every moment I spent with him and relive them over and over in my head. He was a diamond." Eastwood said, "Garner opened the door for people like Steve McQueen and myself."
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We’ve Got A File On You: Win Butler
In a year when a lot of our plans have been on hold, Win Butler has been busy. In April, the Arcade Fire ringleader let us know that the band had been working on music shortly before lockdown, and then he let us hear some of it. Last week, on the night of the election, the band debuted a new song called “Generation A.” Apparently, Butler was one of the people who found quarantine more inspiring than suffocating. Just a couple weeks ago, he amended his previous hints with the update that he’s written “two or three” Arcade Fire albums thanks to having to stay still all year long.
It seems like there’ll be a whole lot of new Arcade Fire goings-on to parse sometime on the horizon, but that isn’t the reason Butler and I got on the phone one recent October afternoon. Butler’s not quite ready to talk about forthcoming music yet, aside from saying this era of writing gives him flashbacks to that which preceded The Suburbs and promising “The new shit is about some of the best shit we’ve ever done” as we say goodbye.
In the meantime, there have been some milestones this year: The Suburbs turned 10; Butler turned 40. There is, of course, a whole lot of rich Arcade Fire history between their early ’00s origins and now. There are too many high-profile collabs to dig through, too many pop culture crossovers to cover, in just one conversation. But before Arcade Fire’s next chapter begins, while we both had a moment of quiet at home in the year 2020, Butler and I took some time to dig back through highlights and surprises from across his career.
Appearing In Bill & Ted Face The Music (2020)
How did this happen?
WIN BUTLER: They were filming in New Orleans. I’m kind of the exact age where Bill & Ted really has a soft spot in my worldview. [Laughs] That was just like, yeah, of course I want to be in the Future Council. That’s the part I was born to play. No, it’s funny, it was just one of these random things that come through the email. Usually, it’s, “Nope, nope, nope, nope.” But this was, “Tell me when, tell me where, I’ll be there.” It was on soundstages. When we were filming it, Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe was back there, and he sort of disappeared at some point. I got to bring my son, who’s six. He was hanging out and we were talking to Keanu about Canada and punk bands back in the day. It was a pretty sweet hang. It was a bright spot in 2020, let me put it that way.
You say you get these emails — is that random stuff they want Arcade Fire to do, or there’ve been other cameos you turned down?
BUTLER: Oh, no, it’s mostly random licensing or stuff that goes to the junk box. But every once in a while, it’s like, “Hey, that sounds like a nice way to spend the day.” I started out in film. I went to Sarah Lawrence College in New York around 2000. I had really wanted to go to film school, and I could never get in. [Laughs] Initially, the song “The Suburbs” was an idea I had for a film and it seemed easier to make a song than a film.
The Suburbs (2010)
That was a convenient segue. The Suburbs just turned 10. I was wondering if you have gone back and revisited it much amidst that anniversary.
BUTLER: The whole experience of Funeral was such a rollercoaster. We were on the road so long. We didn’t have much of a break going into the second record. For The Suburbs, Régine and I — I don’t think we saw anyone for a year straight before we even started demoing or anything for that record.
It was a time in my life… I don’t know, I was in my late twenties, and there were all these details of my childhood in Houston. You know, I moved to Canada when I was 19. [Houston] almost felt like this other life I had. I would close my eyes and imagine riding my bike through town and trying to find the edges of my memory. There was kind of all this emotion that came up through that, and I wanted to capture it. It’s funny, as a songwriter, most of the time I feel like my mind is living in the near future. You’re listening for these little signals in the air. This was almost inhabiting the emotional space of these memories but thinking about it as the future.
When you say it like that, I’m curious if the album feels different to you now that you’re a father yourself and another 10 years down the line. Like another layer to that refracted youth, sort of?
BUTLER: Totally. In a way, I feel like the last year has been a parallel to that year before The Suburbs. Then I was kind of a hermit by choice, and this has more been the world conspiring to make me a hermit, but it has been a really introspective. In a sense, the material that we’ve been working on feels the same way, this hybrid of your emotional landscape and the future.
It’s almost seasonal, like a trade wind that blows in once in a while. I remember we played with Neil Young when he was still doing the Bridge School Benefit and hearing him sing “Old Man” as an old man, almost like he wrote the song when he was 22 to sing when he was 80. I think there’s an element on that Suburbs record that’s like that as well.
Winning The Grammy For Album Of The Year (2011)
Obviously that was a huge turning point for Arcade Fire because you won the Grammy the following year. As a suburban indie fan at the time, I had no real grasp on how big certain bands were. From where I was, it was pretty trippy that you guys won that.
BUTLER: I mean, tell me about it. It was definitely pretty trippy.
There are very, very early moments of you guys getting linked up with some iconic artists. Arcade Fire got plenty of respect from the beginning. But at the same time, the Grammys is something different. That’s a moment of mainstream insurgency. Ten years on, you’re one of the big indie bands of your generation, but also one of the only rock bands to get to that level in recent times.
BUTLER: I don’t know it was the best record that year, but it was definitely the best record nominated that year. I mean, we were up against a Lady Gaga remix record and like, Katy Perry. We weren’t up against a great Eminem record, we were up against a not-that-great Eminem record. In a certain sense, I was like, “Well, I think we should win.” [Laughs] I think we had the best record.
I remember in high school Radiohead and Björk were the two [new artists I loved]. I bought The Bends the day it came out, I bought Homogenic the day it came out. And then everything else I listened to was artists that had broken up 20 years earlier. I remember watching the Grammys the year OK Computer was nominated and it didn’t win, and I was just like, “Oh, that thing must not mean anything then.” I remember Dylan won, and it’s a really great Dylan record, but objectively OK Computer was the best record. So if that didn’t win, then what the hell does that thing mean? After that, I didn’t think about the Grammys that much. It wasn’t on my list of my dreams of my career and what I could accomplish and what I wanted to do.
For me, I was looking more at a band like the Cure or New Order, these bands that were really just artistic entities but you would hear them at a pharmacy once in a while. Like, I’d hear “Bizarre Love Triangle” come on in the pharmacy in Houston and just be like, “Is this from outer space? What the fuck is this?” My dreams for our band was to do for other people what those bands did for me, which was just throw me a fucking lifeline. Because I was just like, “What is this world, and where are my people, and how can I feel OK existing?” My grandfather played in big bands and played with Louis Armstrong, and he bought me a guitar when I was 15. I held on to that thing — if I didn’t have that I don’t think I would’ve made it out of high school. It literally saved my life. I don’t think I could exist without that.
For me, the Grammy thing was strangely moving. Even up until the moment we won, I just felt like an interloper. Even when we won, people looked at us like aliens. Like, “Who? What?” You know, I’m a competitive person. It was really exciting. Cool, awesome, the universe makes sense for one second. It’s interesting, I didn’t expect it to mean anything until we won, and then it meant something.
David Bowie (2005, 2013, Throughout)
I alluded to this earlier but: The Grammys were like an industry stamp of approval. From the beginning, however, you guys were embraced by a lot of elder artists — particularly artists who were influences on the band. One I wanted to talk about was David Bowie. He was a very early supporter; you performed together in 2005, which turned into a live EP. Then he shows up on “Reflektor” in 2013. Somewhere around 2015, you talked about how you’d come to regard him as this professor-type character in your life. He came to your first New York show, right?
BUTLER: Our first headlining show, when we played at the Bowery, Bowie and David Byrne came to that show.
Wow, no pressure huh.
BUTLER: It sort of set the table. Like, “Well, I guess this is how it’s going to be right out of the gate.” [Laughs] It’s funny, I have a photo of David in my studio that I look at when I’m working sometimes. It’s just him in a dressing room with one of those kind of Hollywood mirrors behind him. He really… I don’t know, he felt some sort of spiritual connection with us. It wasn’t like he wanted anything from us. I just think he wanted to say, “Hey guys, you’re going on the right path, keep going.”
I was emailing him over all those years. I don’t know if you have anyone close to you that’s died and you go back and read those emails, it’s really these strange digital fragments of someone you care about. After he sang on “Reflektor,” Régine and I bought him a painting in Haiti as a thank you gift. We were supposed to mail it to him and we got busy and forgot about it, and in the interim he passed. I knew he wasn’t well, but I didn’t know he was dying. Maybe a couple months later I remembered the painting and I dug it out and it was a painting of a black star. A voodoo painting of a black star with rays coming out of it.
I didn’t know anything about his record being Blackstar or anything like that. Now it’s on the wall of my bedroom. Shit like that sometimes happens in my life. I take it for what it is. I don’t know exactly what that means and I just feel grateful… I don’t know man. Even just how inspiring, what he put into his art even in death. He’s someone I think about at least on a weekly basis.
Backing Up Mick Jagger On SNL (2012), Playing With The Rolling Stones (2013)
Obviously that was an ongoing relationship, and you’ve worked with David Byrne too, and you referenced playing with Neil Young. Still: Being onstage with the Rolling Stones seems particularly daunting.
BUTLER: We were Mick’s backing band on SNL. SNL is maybe one of my favorite American institutions. I don’t know if it’s the Canadian thing since Lorne [Michaels] is Canadian. The first time we did it, it was just like, “This dude is my friend.” I don’t know if Lorne’s kids like Arcade Fire or something. But I was in New York randomly and he was like, “Mick’s doing a thing,” and I said, “We do a pretty amazing cover of ‘The Last Time,’” and he said “Come on down, let’s do it.” Then we’re Mick’s backing band. I don’t know, pretty fucking cool.
What is Mick Jagger like to work with?
BUTLER: Mick is like: As soon as the light goes on, he’s a different person. When he turns it on, it’s like this muscle memory — like if you were with the greatest ballet dancer ever, and you say go and this energy comes out of him that is so practiced. It’s someone who’s an absolute master, after practicing something for decades and decades and decades. That was pretty amazing to see. You’re chatting with someone, we’re at the piano and we’re talking about an arrangement, “OK, let’s do a run,” and then, “Boom! Shit!” There he is.
It’s this other level. I feel like people at that level, music’s not something they’re fucking around with. [Laughs] Music is a spirit. You hear something, and if it strikes a chord with you, it connects something at your deepest core. People like that, when you see them do their thing, it really is this other plane. It’s not this show thing. It’s more of a possession. You can hear it in the music.
I feel like I’ve listened to more music during COVID than any time since I was like, 18. I had this moment when I was listening to these amazing records from the 1950s. You can hear the room. It’s almost like audio VR — you can hear the drummer here and the bass player over here. There’s a sense of space, particularly to that older music. It’s a snapshot. If you hear “La Bamba,” right now, that is what it is. It’s a spirit captured on vinyl, on a piece of tape. It’s alive within that.
With people like Mick, they’re a little bit closer to the spirit of rock ’n’ roll — a literal spirit, not a figurative spirit. Bowie was the same. When he played with us in Central Park, the second he hit the stage he’s illuminated. You’re like, “Oh, shit, that’s what it is.” He’s a human when you’re talking to him and as soon as he’s in it, he’s touched by another thing.
SNL (2007-Present)
I’m glad you brought SNL up, because you’ve been on it a bunch of times, but you’re also one of the musical acts they’ve brought into skits. Like, they actually wrote a game show around you. How does that work? Did they write that sketch with you guys, or you walked in and they’re like, “Hey, by the way…”
BUTLER: I can’t remember, I think we’ve been six or seven times. We’ve been there for a couple different casts at this point. The Lonely Island dudes, those are so my dudes. In another life, I would’ve been in Lonely Island, that would’ve been my dream to just fuck around with my friends; when we were first writing music we were kinda joking around because you’re too insecure to try. A lot of times [at SNL], we’ve played for the staff when we’re there, because you get so fired up to play one or two songs and you’re playing live so your endorphins are running so we just sort of keep playing afterwards. I feel like they appreciate that, it kinda feels like you’re on the same team or something.
I was backstage at SNL once last year, and it is pretty crazy to see it all from the inside like that.
BUTLER: It’s so crazy. They write it all that fucking week, and then to see the differences between the dress rehearsal and the live show. They do a little meeting in Lorne’s office. They’ve done the dress rehearsal and it’s still this tiny office and every cameraman and every cast member is crammed in this little office and Lorne’s like, “Make it a blue light instead of a green light at minute 23, and change this word to this word, I don’t think that’s funny, change that, OK, go,” and everyone’s got pencils writing this down. It’s still fucking that. And you know, it hits and misses sometimes, but they’re doing it.
How long did you have to work on your De Niro impression for that skit?
BUTLER: It’s actually more of a Billy Baldwin impersonation, but it seemed to work for De Niro as well. [Laughs] My only real impression is I can look exactly like Billy Baldwin if I want to. If there’s any casting directors reading this and you need a Billy Baldwin impersonator, I’m your man.
LCD Soundsystem’s Goodbye Show (2011)
You’re the one who ended up serendipitously coining the title of the live album.
BUTLER: [Laughs] That is true. That was genuine. He was being a little talky.
I moved to New York before I moved to Montreal, and I would go to the city and go to shows and I didn’t see one fucking thing that was good in the whole year. I was like, “Wait, I thought New York was the shit, where is it?” All I saw was bad, very industry bands. I couldn’t find anything, I wasn’t cool enough to figure out what was going on. There’s very few bands that I really think of, like bands of my generation where I heard them and thought “These are my people.” For me it was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD, and Wolf Parade. When I heard those bands, I thought, “These are my fellow pilgrims.” It was art, DIY, no bullshit, just trying to make something great that communicates to people. It’s real and emotional.
James is really just one of us. He’s just such a great engineer and really into the way things sound and really passionate about details. It’s rare to meet people like that. James was working with us when Bowie came in, when we were in Electric Lady. James had never met Bowie before. The first 7” he ever bought was “Fame.” We’re in this studio, and the last time Bowie was there he had cut “Fame” with John Lennon, in the same studio. We were all like, “This is the right place to be.”
James is just a man after my own heart. We did a tour with them on Neon Bible. We were playing to a thousand people in Salt Like City and I was like, “Man, in a couple years a lot more people are going to wish they were at this show.” What a fucking great live band.
Scoring Her (2013)
What kind of headspace did you have to get into for this vs. making an album?
BUTLER: Spike [Jonze] came to a bunch of our early shows on Funeral. The second I met him he was just immediately one of my best friends. He thinks about the world the same way. Even though we work in different mediums he was someone I knew I’d be working with in some capacity. I was visiting LA and I was staying with Spike just randomly one time, in the early days of him working on the script for Her. I was reading the script and immediately thinking about how it could sound, and I was like, “Well, we should fucking do the score to this movie.”
When you’re working on a record, it’s so rigid, what works on a song and what doesn’t work on a song. It can be so limiting in a way. Within the band, there’s so many different talents and color palettes and things people bring to the table, so it was cool to do something where the boss is the picture. It doesn’t matter how anyone feels about a piece, if it’s working for Spike, if it’s working in harmony with the picture, that’s what the boss is — the emotionality of the picture. It’s not about you, it’s in service to this bigger thing. It was a cool opportunity for all of us to use different aspects of things we do, and to work with Owen [Pallett], who had done a lot of strings on our records. It uses a totally different part of your brain.
Do you want to do more of that kind of work, or was it this specific story from Spike that spoke to you?
BUTLER: I can say pretty confidently that I’ll work with Spike in the future. It definitely takes a lot of energy. It’s definitely something I’m interested in, but I feel like while I’ve got the juice it’s good to spend as much energy writing songs as we can. It’s pretty fucking hard to make a record, believe it or not.
Future’s “Might As Well” Sampling “Owl” From Her(2017)
Are you a big Future fan?
BUTLER: I love Future. There’s something in the rhythm of the thing he does that actually reminds me of some music from Haiti, in this really deep, subtle way I can’t put my finger on. There’s something almost mystical in the way he sounds, and I thought that was really cool that they sampled that soundtrack. His shit does sound like the future still. I think it’s pretty special.
The Reach Of ”Wake Up” (2004-Present)
This song has had this big pop-culture reach over the years. U2 used it as their walk-on music in the ‘00s. It was used in the trailer for another Spike movie, Where The Wild Things Are. Macy Gray and John Legend both covered it. Microsoft ripped it off for a commercial. It was used in a commercial for LA’s bid for the Olympics.
BUTLER: That Microsoft money went to Haiti, by the way. They did rip it off. [Laughs] Thank you Microsoft.
As far as I know that’s far from an exhaustive list, too. It’s just one of those songs that’s gone out and become a part of the atmosphere. Even a lot of big bands don’t necessarily have a song like that. What do you think it is about “Wake Up” that’s registered in so many different contexts?
BUTLER: From the time we wrote that song to now, the biggest difference in my life is I’ve traveled the world and I’ve been able to play music in all these different cultures and feel the ways different countries feel music. Not only listening to the music in other countries but seeing how they feel the music I play.
I remember around The Suburbs we played in rural Haiti. It was our first time playing in a place where nobody in the audience had any of the reference points of the music we played. We were playing in the mountains, there were people walking in barefoot to the concert. We were playing these songs we had been touring the world with, and the energy from the crowd was so different. The things they responded to, the things they felt, it actually fundamentally changed the way I heard my own music. It made me start to think about music not just from my own perspective but culturally how people hear it and feel it.
I think the one thing that kind of transcends everything across all cultures is melody. Régine was playing that melody on piano in our rehearsal room. I hear it like it was yesterday. It was like, “That’s the shit.” [Laughs] Being present and being in the room, hearing something and really giving yourself to it, just singing that shit like it really meant it and feeling the power of that melody and trying to push it until it breaks. That’s something I think about, just how great it is to have people to play music with. To say it like you mean it.
I remember singing that song in Montreal, in these lofts. Most of our early fans, the first time we played that song, they were like “Fuck this shit, I want the acoustic shit.” People were so negative. I remember a lot of early fans didn’t come to our shows after that because we were suddenly screaming at the top of our lungs and playing electric guitars. It was like, “Everyone here hates this, that means we must be going in the right direction.” [Laughs] But yeah, don’t be discouraged if people hate something. It doesn’t mean shit.
https://www.stereogum.com/2105395/win-butler-interview-spike-jonze-arcade-fire-snl-mick-jagger-david-bowie/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/
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DC Sidekick Age References
Here’s a dump of all the references I’ve found. Know I’m missing a lot, and quite a few were found on other sites that didn’t give me the most precise info.
If you know of anything else, can correct a mistake you see, or want to discuss comic book aging - please send me an ask, message, or reblog!
?? - means I don’t know where the info is from, “quotes” are direct copies of the wording in the comic
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?? Parents died when Bruce was 8
Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) – Batman introduced
Detective Comics #38 (Apr 1940) – Dick is (8 when parents killed/9 when Robin) 12 when he becomes Robin, it's Bruce's 3rd year as Batman
More Fun Comics 73 (Nov 1941) – Green Arrow Introduced
1962 - JLA formed
1964 – Dick teams up with Wally and Garth
Teen Titans 1 (Jan-Feb 1966) – Teen Titans form, Donna is introduced (all 5 are 14ish?)
Detective 359 (Jan 1967) – Babs introduced, has PhD, has graduated
Batman #217 (Dec 1969) – Dick graduates high school, enrolls in University (starts 3 months later)
1971 - Roy discovered using drugs by Ollie and Hal in a drug den (he was trading arrows for drugs), retcon has Wally and Dick discovering him at tower and making him promise to get help
Justice League 116 (Mar-Apr 1975) Charley Parker is 16
Batman Family 10 (Mar-Apr 1977) – Dick is teenager, Babs is 25
Teen Titans 53 (Feb 1978) – Dick, Wally, Donna, Vic all started college at same time
DC Special Series: The Flash Spectacular (May 1978) – Wally graduates high school
New Teen Titans 1 (Nov 1980) – Raven forms New Titans, Gar is 16 during run
New Teen Titans 2 (Dec 1980) – Slade meets team, Grant dies
1981 - Dick drops out of university after 1 semester, he never really was interested
New Teen Titans 20 (June 1982) – Vic turns 19, Donna already is
Tales of the New Teen Titans 2 (July 1982) – Raven turned 18 just before forming Titans
Batman #357 (Mar 1983) – Jason’s first appearance
Detective Comics #526 (May 1983) – Bruce adopts Jason, Dick is there and approving
New Teen Titans 34 (Aug 1983) – Terra turns 16
Batman #368 (Feb 1984) – Dick gives Jason the Robin costume, Jason becomes Robin
Blue Devil(84) – Eddie is 11/12
Tales of the Teen Titans (May 1984) – Joey introduced, Author describes him as 17?
New Teen Titans #39 (Feb 1984) – Dick stops being Robin, Wally quits being a superhero/the team
Tales of the Teen Titans 50 (Feb 1985) – Terry and Donna's wedding (she got married while 19)
New Teen Titans 10 (July 1985) – Kole says she's at least 18
Crisis on Infinite Earths 7 (Oct 1985) – Supergirl dies in Superman’s arms after mostly destroying the Anti-Monitor, who has to flee reality
New Teen Titans 18 (Mar 1986) – Dick turns 20 (“Dick Grayson celebrates his birthday away from home with a traditional Tamaranean feast.” (While sulking because Kory got space-married))
New Teen Titans 20 (May 1986) – Roy locates baby Lian, Terry Long is 29
?? Roy is 22(when he gets Lian)
Batman #404 - Batman Year One (Feb 1987) – Bruce is 25, spent 12 years training, became Batman at 26, Barbara Gordon is pregnant, her and Jim move to Gotham
Detective Comics #571 (Feb 1987) – we see Bruce’s fear gas induced vision of Jason’s tombstone (birth: 1974 – death: 1986, so he’d be 12)
Secret Origins 13 (April 87) – 15 years ago, it was Dick’s 5th birthday. Soon after tenth birthday, parents are killed. [Set during New TT 18])
Batman #409 (July 1987) – Jason becomes Robin (In Detective Comics, Jason has been Robin the whole time, but is still being wwritten with Pre-Crisis personality)
Flash 1 (June 1987) – Wally turns 20
New Teen Titans Ann 3 (Nov 1987) – Danny Chase is 13 and introduced
Batman #416 (Feb 1988) – Dick in Gotham, meets the new Robin on patrol. Confronts Bruce later, says he was ‘fired’ less than a year ago (since then he was briefly in college), makes Bruce admit he missed him. Dick finds Jason again, expose the drug dealers, and Dick gives Jason his old costume (symbolically, since Jason already has one) and a phone number, Dick was Robin for 6 years
Batman #427 (Winter 1988) – Jason dies
Batman #436, Batman: Year Three (Aug 1989) – 2 years since Dick stopped being Bruce’s sidekick (When he became Nightwing? Or when he quit?), parents died 10 years earlier
Batman #441, A Lonely Place of Dying (Nov 1989) – Tim 13, was 7 when Dick’s parents died
Robin #1 (Jan 1991) – Tim debuts as Robin
New Titans 84 (March 1992) – Joey dies
Deathstroke, the Terminator #15 (Oct 1992) – Rose introduced
Team Titans 3 (Nov 1992) – Robert Long is born
Adventures of Superman 500 (June 1993) – Kon appears and escapes from Cadmus with Newboy Legion, John Henry Irons first appearance, Eradicator and Cyborg Superman also appear for first time
Batman: BTAS: Robin’s Reckoning (1993) - 'Richard 'Dick' Grayson: Age 10'
Detective Comics 668 (Nov 1993) – Tim gets license (because dad is disabled) even though he hasn’t turned 16 yet, gets beat up by Jean-Paul
Flash 92 (July 1994) – Bart aged to 14
?? Shortly after Knight’s End – Tim is 15 and in the 10th grade
Flash 0 (Oct 1994) – Wally is 23
Damage 1(94) – Grant is 16
Deathstroke, The Terminator Annual 4 (Aug 1995) – Rose is 14, “What would that do to a kid? A fourteen-year-old girl whose father is an assassin she’s never met?”
Wonder Woman 105(95) – Cassie is 14
Tempest 1(96) – Garth spends many months in other dimension
Aquaman 20 (May 1996) – Garth aged 3-4 years in other dimension, now older than other Titans
Teen Titans 1 (Oct 1996) – Argent, Risk, Joto, Prysm all turn 16(they were conceived by seed things on same day)
Superboy Annual 2 – to Kon: “Happy birthday, Kid - - number one in a long successful series, we hope.” “He will effectively remain sixteen years old - - forever!”
Green Lantern 82(97) – Robert Long is 3
Wonder Woman 121(97) – Terry and Robert die
Secret Origins Giant 1(98) – Bart is “Three. Fifteen. Depends.”, “you’re almost 15, Tim.”
Titans 5(99) – Donna is 23
Titans(99) – Lian is 4
Sins of Youth(99) – Kon 16, aging normally again
Aquaman 63 (Jan 2000) – Future Garth tells granddaughter Donna about Cerdian being born (think this is his weird birth issue)
Wonder Woman Secret Files (2002) – „Wonder Girl is a precocious outgoing 15-year-old named Cassandra „Cassie“ Sandsmark.“
Bruce Wayne: Murderer (2002) – Oracle says Tim is 15
Batgirl #37 (April 2003) – “Cain said ... today was ... my birthday.”
Batgirl #39 (June 2003) – “I see an eighteen-year-old girl, who’s out of her depth.” (Babs about Cass)
Robin #116 (Sept 2003) – Dana: “Oh, I’m so glad we’ll all be together on Thursday ... !” Tim: “Why? What’s Thursday?” Jack: “Yeah. What’s Thursday?” Dana: “Wait a minute – seriously? Tim: “Yeah. Tell. Us.” Dana: “It’s nothing – never mind. Just leave your schedules open for a nice family dinner.”| Jack: “Dana, what’s – “ Dana: “Shh! Thursday ... the 19th of July ... ?” Jack: “Um ... oh! Right!” | Steph: “So – Thursday!! Are you excited? Got any ideas for it, yet? ... Tim ... ?” [Tim is asleep.] | [Ives and Steph come over, with pizza that says “Happy B-Day Tim.”] Ives: “Sixteen spankings – get that boy up!!” | Dana says: “I remember when I was in 11th grade.” | he also gets the first ‘clue’ for Bruce’s ‘birthday present.’
Teen Titans 1 (Nov 2003) – Gar is 19, Is this Joey’s return?? (He’s puppeting Slade)
Teen Titans ½ (2004) – Rose’s early years, with a ‘6 years ago’ flashback, she was raised in a brothel her mom ran, tutored, never allowed the outside world, but had relationships with kids her age
Detective Comics #790 (Mar 2004) – Jason’s 18th birthday “he would have been 18 today”
Teen Titans 8 (April 2004) – Raven looks 'barely older' than Cassie
TEEN TITANS #1/2 [2004]: The flashback panels totally sync up with my age theories; Flash to 10 years ago: Dick Grayson’s parents die. Flash to 6 years ago: Rose Wilson is schooled at home by her mother, Lili. Flash to 5 years ago: Ravager I is killed. Flash to 3 years ago: Slade is forced to kill Jericho. Flash to 2 years ago: Cadmus attempts to clone Superman. Flash to 18 months ago: Rose deals with the death of her mother. Flash to one week ago: Bart Allen is shot by Slade.
Identity Crisis 4 (Dec 2004) –(Tim still 16)
Green Arrow 47(05) – Mia is 17
Return of Donna Troy 3(05) – Cassie barely 16
Nightwing: Year One(05) – Dick is 26
Batgirl #65 (Aug 2005) – Cass decides to figure out if Shiva is her mom, Jason and Cass roughly the same age
Flash(05/06) – Wally is 26
?? Robin #136 – Tim still 16 ???
Detective Comics #868 (Oct 2010)– Kate is 32 years old??
One Year Later(Mar 06)
Flash 1(06) – Bart 4 years older(20?)
Blue Beetle 2 (June 2006) – Find out Jaime was in space/a pocket dimension for One Year Later
?? Just prior to 52 (July 2006-July 2007)– told Tim is 17 (long before he’s also 17 in Red Robin, 52 is 1 year long)
Teen Titans 42 (Feb 2007) – Eddie is 17
Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds 3-4 (Apr-June 2009) – Bart and Kon back, same as when died
Batman 677 (July 2008) – Batman over 30
Batman: Battle for the Cowl (May-July 2009) – Damian is 10, Ends with Dick and Damian becoming Batman and Robin
Brave & The Bold 2 (May 2007) – Kara is 17, “You have food in the refrigerator older than her, Hal. Who are you, Ollie? No bad thoughts. She’s seventeen.”
Batgirl #1 (Oct 2009) – Steph starting college
Batgirl #7 (Apr 2010) - Damian is "what happens when you work with a 10-year-old."
Red Robin #12 (July 2010) – Tim spent “a few months” looking for evidence before returning to Gotham, becomes emancipated minor
Detective Comics #871 (Jan 2011)– Mention that Dick and Babs went to prom together
Red Robin #25 (Sept 2011) – Tim “and you are only 17”
The Batman Files (Oct 2014) – Jason was 15 at death (seen on death certificate)
?? Rebirth Young Justice series – Cassie: “didn’t mean to end up back in high school feeling - - like I did back when I went to high school.” Later, she says she’s in Metropolis “Working. Going to school in the fall.” So she’s probably starting college.
?? Bart in some Rebirth comic: “Am I six? Am I nineteen? That’s a really freaky thing, right?”
?? At some point: Donna says shes a little older than Kyle
#gecko's lists#dc comics#teen titans#young justice#about 3/4 of these can be compiled into something that makes sence#*sense#but choosing which 3/4 is tricky
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#DegrassiOnThisDay
Lately I’ve been wanting to do a Degrassi re-watch, but I always struggle with where to start. Do I start with a recent season like S13, or should I go all the way back to Degrassi Junior High or TNG Season 1? Then today I was thinking about making a #DegrassiOnThisDay Twitter thread to share what episodes premiered on this date and how long ago. This got me thinking that I could also watch the episodes that premiered on this day. It would be a fun way to re-watch random episodes throughout the year from all different eras of Degrassi. I made a calendar of what episodes premiered when, and I thought I’d share it in case anyone else wants to participate.
How to read this:
Each date indicates which episodes premiered on that day and also the year (e.g. KODS Episode 108 premiered on January 2, 1983 and TNG Episode 609 and 610 premiered on January 2, 2007).
I used short form for each ‘era’ of Degrassi
KODS = The Kids of Degrassi Street
DJH – Degrassi Junior High
DH = Degrassi High
TNG = Degrassi: The Next Generation
DNC = Degrassi Next Class
For each episode, I indicated the very first date it aired. Most of the time this is also the Canadian airdate, but some episodes did premiere in the US first and in those cases I called this out. However Australia airing DNC S2 first is not included
For DNC, I indicated both the Netflix release date and the Family Channel TV premiere, so the episodes are spread out more
I also included the airdates of some of the Degrassi documentaries/specials from over the years
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January 2
KODS 108 – 1983
TNG 609/610 - 2007
January 3
TNG 214 - 2003
January 4
KODS 115 – 1985
DJH 201 – 1988
DNC 101 - 2016
January 5
KODS 126 – 1986
School’s Out – 1992
TNG 212/213 – 2003
DNC 102 - 2016
January 6
TNG 110 – 2002
TNG 1411 – 2015
DNC 103 – 2016
DNC Season 3 Netflix Release - 2017
January 7
DH 210 – 1991
DNC 104 – 2016
January 8
DNC 105 - 2016
January 9
DH 109/110 – 1990
TNG 611/612 – 2007
DNC 301 - 2017
January 10
TNG 215 – 2003
DNC 302 - 2017
January 11
KODS 116 – 1985
DJH 202 – 1988
DNC 106 – 2016
DNC 303 - 2017
January 12
DNC 107 – 2016
DNC 304 - 2017
January 13
TNG 1412 – 2015
DNC 108 – 2016
DNC 305 - 2017
January 14
DH 211 – 1991
DNC 109 – 2016
January 15
DNC 110 – 2016
DNC Season 1 Netflix release - 2016
January 16
DJH 308 – 1989
DH 111 – 1990
DNC 306 - 2017
January 17
TNG 216 – 2003
TNG 417 – 2005
DNC 307 - 2017
January 18
KODS 117 – 1985
DJH 101 – 1987
DJH 203 – 1988
TNG 809 – 2009
DNC 308 - 2017
January 19
TNG 218 – 2003
DNC 309 – 2017
January 20
DNC 310 - 2017
January 21
DH 212 - 1991
January 23
DJH 309 – 1989
DH 112 – 1990
January 24
TNG 418 - 2005
January 25
KODS 118 – 1985
DJH 102 – 1987
DJH 204 – 1988
TNG 810 - 2009
January 26
TNG 217 – 2003
TNG 314 - 2004
January 27
TNG 111 - 2002
January 28
DH 213 – 1991
TNG 1317 - 2014
January 30
DJH 310 – 1989
DH 113 – 1990
TNG 514 - 2006
January 31
TNG 419/420 - 2005
February 1
KODS 119 – 1985
DJH 103 – 1987
DJH 205 – 1988
February 2
TNG 219 - 2003
February 3
TNG 112 – 2002
February 4
TNG 1318 - 2014
February 6
DJH 311 – 1989
DH 114 – 1990
February 7
TNG 421 - 2005
February 8
KODS 120 – 1985
DJH 104 – 1987
DJH 206 – 1988
TNG 708 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 811 - 2009
February 9
TNG 220 – 2003
TNG 315 – 2004
February 11
TNG 1033/1034 – 2011
TNG 1319 - 2014
February 13
DJH 313 – 1989
DH 115 – 1990
February 14
TNG 422 - 2005
February 15
DJH 105 – 1987
DJH 207 – 1988
TNG 709 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 812 – 2009
TNG 1231 - 2013
February 16
TNG 221 – 2003
TNG 316 - 2004
TNG 613 – 2007 (US aired it first)
February 17
TNG 113 – 2002
February 18
TNG 1035 – 2011
TNG 1320 - 2014
February 20
DJH 314 – 1989
TNG 515 – 2006
TNG 1132 – 2012 (US aired it first)
February 22
DJH 106 – 1987
DJH 208 – 1988
TNG 710 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 1232 - 2013
February 23
TNG 222 – 2003
TNG 317 - 2004
February 24
DT 101 – 1992
TNG 114 – 2002
TNG 1133 - 2012
February 25
TNG 1036 – 2011
TNG 1321 - 2014
February 27
DJH 315 – 1989
TNG 516 - 2006
February 29
DJH 209 – 1988
TNG 711 – 2008 (US aired it first)
March 1
DJH 107 – 1987
TNG 813 – 2009
TNG 1233 - 2013
March 2
DT 102 – 1992
TNG 1134 - 2012
March 3
TNG 115 – 2002
March 4
TNG 1037 – 2011
TNG 1322 - 2014
March 6
DJH 316 – 1989
TNG 517 - 2006
March 7
DJH 210 – 1988
TNG 712 – 2008 (US aired it first)
March 8
DJH 108 – 1987
TNG 318 – 2004
TNG 814 – 2009
TNG 1234 - 2013
March 9
DT 103 – 1992
TNG 1135 - 2012
March 11
TNG 1038 – 2011
TNG 1323/1324 - 2014
March 13
TNG 518 - 2006
March 14
DJH 211 - 1988
March 15
DJH 109 – 1987
TNG 319 – 2004
TNG 815 – 2009
TNG 1235 - 2013
March 16
DT 104 – 1992
TNG 1136 - 2012
March 18
TNG 1039 – 2011
TNG 1325 - 2014
March 20
TNG 519 - 2006
March 21
DJH 212 - 1988
March 22
DJH 110 – 1987
TNG 320 – 2004
TNG 816 – 2009
TNG 1236 - 2013
March 23
DT 105 – 1992
TNG 1137 - 2012
March 25
TNG 1040 – 2011
TNG 1326 - 2014
March 28
DJH 213 – 1988
TNG 614 - 2007
March 29
DJH 111 – 1987
TNG 321 – 2004
TNG 1237 - 2013
March 30
DT 106 – 1992
TNG 1138 - 2012
March 31
TNG 713 – 2008
April 1
TNG 1041 – 2011
TNG 1327 - 2014
April 2
TNG 915/916 – 2010 (US aired it first)
April 4
TNG 615 – 2007
TNG 714 – 2008 (US aired it first)
April 5
DJH 112 – 1987
TNG 322 – 2004
TNG 817 – 2009
TNG 1238 - 2013
April 6
TNG 1139 - 2012
April 8
TNG 1042 – 2011
TNG 1328 - 2014
April 11
TNG 715 – 2008 (US aired it first)
April 12
DJH 113 – 1987
TNG 818 – 2009
April 13
TNG 1140 - 2012
April 15
TNG 1043 – 2011
TNG 1329 - 2014
April 16
TNG 616 – 2007
April 18
TNG 716 – 2008 (US aired it first)
April 20
TNG 1141 - 2012
April 22
TNG 1044 – 2011
TNG 1330 - 2014
April 23
TNG 617 – 2007
April 25
TNG 718 – 2008 (US aired it first)
April 27
TNG 1142 - 2012
April 28
TNG 717 – 2008
May 4
TNG 1143 - 2012
May 7
TNG 618 – 2007
TNG 917 – 2010 (US aired it first)
May 11
TNG 1144 - 2012
May 12
TNG 719 - 2008
May 14
TNG 619 – 2007
TNG 918 – 2010 (US aired it first)
May 18
TNG 1145 - 2012
May 21
TNG 919 – 2010 (US aired it first)
May 26
TNG 720 - 2008
May 30
KODS 104 – 1982
June 2
TNG 721 – 2008
June 3
TNG 1331 – 2014
Degrassi Unscripted Stacey Farber - 2005
June 9
TNG 722 – 2008
June 10
TNG 1332 – 2014
Degrassi Unscripted Aubrey Graham - 2005
June 16
TNG 723 – 2008
June 17
TNG 1333 – 2014
Degrassi Unscripted Melissa McIntyre - 2005
June 21
TNG 1239/1240 - 2013
June 23
TNG 724 – 2008
June 24
TNG 1334 – 2014
July 1
TNG 1335 – 2014
July 3
DNC 401 – 2017
July 4
DNC 402 – 2017
July 5
DNC 403 – 2017
July 6
DNC 404 - 2017
July 7
DNC 405 - 2017
DNC Season 4 Netflix Release - 2017
July 8
TNG 1336 – 2014
July 10
DNC 406 - 2017
July 11
TNG 1301/1302 – 2013
DNC 407 – 2017
July 12
DNC 408 – 2017
July 13
DNC 409 – 2017
July 14
DNC 410 - 2017
July 15
TNG 1337 - 2014
July 16
Degrassi Takes Manhattan – 2010
TNG 1201 – 2012
July 17
TNG 1202 - 2012
July 18
TNG 1101/1102 – 2011
TNG 1203 – 2012
TNG 1303 - 2013
July 19
TNG 1001 – 2010
TNG 1103 – 2011
TNG 1204 – 2012
DNC 201 - 2016
July 20
TNG 1002 – 2010
TNG 1104 – 2011
TNG 1413/1414 - 2015
July 21
TNG 1003 – 2010
TNG 1105 – 2011
TNG 1415 - 2015
July 22
TNG 1004 – 2010
TNG 1338 – 2014
TNG 1416 – 2015
DNC Season 2 Netflix Release - 2016
July 23
TNG 1205 – 2012
TNG 1417 - 2015
July 24
TNG 1206 – 2012
TNG 1418 - 2015
July 25
TNG 1106 – 2011
TNG 1207 – 2012
TNG 1304 - 2013
July 26
TNG 1005 – 2010
TNG 1107 – 2011
TNG 1208 - 2012
DNC 202 - 2016
July 27
TNG 1006 – 2010
TNG 1108 – 2011
TNG 1419 - 2015
July 28
TNG 1007 – 2010
TNG 1109 – 2011
TNG 1420 - 2015
July 29
TNG 1008 – 2010
TNG 1339/1340 – 2014
TNG 1421 - 2015
July 30
TNG 1209 – 2012
TNG 1422 - 2015
July 31
TNG 1210 – 2012
TNG 1423/1424 – 2015
Degrassi’s Most Talked About Moments Documentary - 2015
August 1
TNG 1110 – 2011
TNG 1211 – 2012
TNG 1305 - 2013
August 2
TNG 1009 – 2010
TNG 1111 – 2011
TNG 1212 – 2012
Don’t Look Back – 2015
DNC 203 - 2016
August 3
TNG 1010 – 2010
TNG 1112 - 2011
August 4
TNG 1011 – 2010
TNG 1113 - 2011
August 5
TNG 1012 – 2010
August 6
TNG 1213 – 2012
August 7
TNG 1214 - 2012
August 8
TNG 1114 – 2011
TNG 1215 – 2012
TNG 1306 - 2013
August 9
TNG 1013 – 2010
TNG 1115 – 2011
TNG 1216 – 2012
DNC 204 - 2016
August 10
TNG 1014 – 2010
TNG 1116 - 2011
August 11
TNG 1015 – 2010
TNG 1117 - 2011
August 12
TNG 1016 – 2010
August 13
TNG 1217 - 2012
August 14
Degrassi Goes Hollywood – 2009 (US aired it first)
TNG 1218 - 2012
August 15
TNG 1118 – 2011
TNG 1219 – 2012
TNG 1307 - 2013
August 16
TNG 1017 – 2010
TNG 1119 – 2011
TNG 1220 – 2012
DNC 205 - 2016
August 17
TNG 1018 – 2010
TNG 1120 - 2011
August 18
TNG 1019 – 2010
TNG 1121 - 2011
August 19
TNG 1020 – 2010
August 22
TNG 1122 – 2011
TNG 1308 - 2013
August 23
TNG 1021 – 2010
TNG 1123 – 2011
DNC 206 - 2016
August 24
TNG 1022 – 2010
TNG 1124 - 2011
August 25
TNG 1023 – 2010
TNG 1125 - 2011
August 26
TNG 1024 – 2010
August 27
Degrassi Unscripted Miriam McDonald - 2004
August 29
TNG 1126 – 2011
August 30
TNG 1127 – 2011
DNC 207 - 2016
August 31
TNG 1128 - 2011
September 1
KODS 102 – 1980
KODS 103 – 1981
KODS 109 – 1983
TNG 1129 – 2011
The Degrassi Story Documentary - 2005
September 3
Degrassi Unscripted Adamo Ruggiero - 2004
September 6
DNC 208 - 2016
September 7
TNG 401/402 – 2004
September 8
Degrassi 40 Most Go There-est Moments Episode 1 - 2006
September 10
Degrassi Unscripted Cassie Steele - 2004
September 12
KODS 101 - 1979
September 13
KODS 105 – 1982
DNC 209 - 2016
September 15
Degrassi 40 Most Go There-est Moments Episode 2 - 2006
September 17
TNG 301/302 – 2003
Degrassi Unscripted Jake Epstein - 2004
September 19
TNG 501 – 2005
September 20
DNC 210 - 2016
September 21
TNG 403/404 – 2004
September 22
Degrassi 40 Most Go There-est Moments Episode 3 - 2006
September 24
Degrassi Unscripted Lauren Collins - 2004
September 26
TNG 502 - 2005
September 28
TNG 201/202 – 2002
TNG 405/406 – 2004
September 29
TNG 601/602 – 2006 (US aired it first)
Degrassi 40 Most Go There-est Moments Episode 4 – 2006
September 30
The N Degrassi Behind the Scenes 1-Hour Special - 2005
October 1
TNG 303 – 2003
October 3
TNG 503 – 2005
TNG 1309 - 2013
October 4
TNG 901/902 - 2009
October 5
TNG 407 – 2004
TNG 701/702 – 2007 (US aired it first)
TNG 801 - 2008
October 6
TNG 203 – 2002
TNG 603 – 2006 (US aired it first)
October 8
TNG 304 – 2003
TNG 1025 - 2010
October 10
TNG 504 – 2005
TNG 802 – 2008 (US aired it first)
October 11
TNG 904 – 2009
TNG 906 – 2009
TNG 1310 - 2013
October 12
TNG 408 – 2004
TNG 703 – 2007 (US aired it first)
TNG 1221 – 2012
October 13
TNG 204 – 2002
TNG 604 – 2006 (US aired it first)
October 14
TNG 101/102 – 2001
October 15
TNG 305 – 2003
TNG 1027 - 2010
October 16
TNG 903 – 2009 (US aired it first)
October 17
TNG 505 – 2005
TNG 803 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 1311 - 2013
October 18
TNG 905 - 2009
October 19
TNG 409 – 2004
TNG 704 – 2007 (US aired it first)
TNG 1222 - 2012
October 20
TNG 205 – 2002
TNG 605 – 2006 (US aired it first)
October 22
TNG 306 – 2003
TNG 2028 - 2010
October 24
TNG 506 – 2005
TNG 804 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 1130/1131 – 2011
TNG 1312 - 2013
October 26
TNG 410 – 2004
TNG 1223 – 2012
Degrassi of the Dead – 2007 (US aired it first)
The Curse of Degrassi – 2008
October 27
TNG 206 – 2002
October 28
TNG 1401 - 2014
October 29
TNG 307 – 2003
TNG 1029 – 2010
October 30
Degrassi Between Takes Documentary - 1989
October 31
TNG 507 – 2005
TNG 1313 - 2013
November 1
TNG 907/908 - 2009
November 2
TNG 411 – 2004
TNG 705 – 2007 (US aired it first)
TNG 1224 - 2012
November 3
TNG 207 – 2002
TNG 606 – 2006 (US aired it first)
November 4
TNG 103 – 2001
TNG 1402 - 2014
November 5
DH 201 – 1990
TNG 308 – 2003
TNG 1030 - 2010
November 6
DH 101/102 - 1989
November 7
DJH 301/302 – 1988
TNG 508 – 2005
TNG 805 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 1314 - 2013
November 8
TNG 909/910 - 2009
November 9
KODS 110 – 1984
TNG 412 – 2004
TNG 706 – 2007 (US aired it first)
TNG 1225 - 2012
November 10
TNG 208 – 2002
TNG 607 – 2006 (US aired it first)
November 11
TNG 104 – 2001
TNG 1403 - 2014
November 12
DH 202 – 1990
TNG 309 – 2003
TNG 1031 - 2010
November 13
DH 103 - 1989
November 14
DJH 303 – 1988
TNG 509 – 2005
TNG 806 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 1315 - 2013
November 15
TNG 911/912 - 2009
November 16
KODS 111 – 1984
TNG 707 – 2007 (US aired it first)
TNG 1226 - 2012
November 17
TNG 209 – 2002
TNG 608 – 2006 (US aired it first)
November 18
TNG 105 – 2001
TNG 1404 - 2014
November 19
DH 203 – 1990
TNG 310 – 2003
TNG 1032 - 2010
November 20
DH 104 – 1989
TNG 1227/1228 – 2012 (US aired it first)
November 21
DJH 304 – 1988
TNG 510 – 2005
TNG 807 – 2008 (US aired it first)
TNG 1316 - 2013
November 22
TNG 913/914 - 2009
November 23
KODS 112 – 1984
TNG 413 – 2004
November 24
TNG 210 - 2002
November 25
TNG 106 – 2001
TNG 1405 - 2014
November 26
DH 204 - 1990
November 27
DH 105 - 1989
November 28
DJH 305 – 1988
TNG 511 - 2005
November 30
KODS 113 – 1984
TNG 414 – 2004
TNG 808 - 2008
December 1
KODS 121 – 1985
TNG 211 - 2002
December 2
TNG 107 – 2001
TNG 1406 - 2014
December 3
DH 205 - 1990
December 5
DJH 306 – 1988
DH 106 – 1989
TNG 512 - 2005
December 7
TNG 415 - 2004
December 8
KODS 122 – 1985
December 9
TNG 108 – 2001
TNG 1407 - 2014
December 10
DH 206 – 1990
TNG 313 - 2003
December 12
DJH 307 – 1988
DH 107 – 1989
TNG 513 - 2005
December 14
KODS 114 – 1984
TNG 416 – 2004
TNG 1229/1230 - 2012
December 15
KODS 123 – 1985
December 16
TNG 109 – 2001
TNG 1408 - 2014
December 17
DH 207 – 1990
TNG 311/312 - 2003
December 19
DH 108 - 1989
December 20
KODS 106 – 1982
December 22
KODS 124 – 1985
December 23
TNG 1409 - 2014
December 24
DH 208 - 1990
December 27
KODS 107 – 1982
December 29
KODS 125 – 1985
December 30
TNG 1410 - 2014
December 31
DH 209 - 1990
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i turn 29 next week (and i am trying to be ok with it lol) so im having an internal review of the past 10 years. LONG POST ALERT
2011 (18-19) - i had a nervous breakdown in march and things were really terrible all year. i dont think i was ever the same after this. (but then - are you ever the same after anything?) i had graduated from high school in 2010 and had no plans or direction for the future really, and things were difficult at home, with my gran dying in march as well, which was my first real bereavement. i was quite lonely as everyone had gone to uni apart from me. i basically spent my time at home, going to appointments, and dodging inpatient care. my mum took time off work to make sure i didnt kill myself, and i think this is the only reason i didnt get commited. i met ben in the summer on tumblr. we were both in a bad place mentally and i was dating someone else (ana, for the drama fans), but he was always very kind to me during the worst year of my life. (the worst year SO FAR!) i may be wrong on the timing here, but 2011 or 2012 was the year my mum was first diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.
2012 (19-20) - i did one final a-level (i ended up with A*AAEU LOOOL) from my bedroom still shaky, but improved enough to go to uni in september to study english literature & linguistics. once there i decided studying literature was an absolute waste of time and not something i’d enjoy anyway so changed to full linguistics. this was something of a rough year too - i hated uni at first and there were a lot of tearful phonecalls home, absolutely hated it. it was the first time i’d been away from home for longer than a few nights. but i stuck it out and managed to get to a point where i didnt exactly enjoy it, but was not crying the entire time, and i was completing all the work anyway. i was still very depressed and anxious the majority of the time, so not a great year.
2013 (20-21) still at uni! in april, I let ben visit me in person for the first time, after months of increasingly intense communications. it went well and very soon afterwards i suspected we’d probably be in it for the long haul. in september i moved out of dorms to a tall and skinny and wildly 70s house in lewes, and the uni experience DRASTICALLY improved. i hate change, so i was still very anxious after moving there, but after i got used to it i really grew to love the town, and i still miss it now. i’d move back in a heartbeat, but it’s probably never going to happen. (coastal, so a bad idea already, and insanely expensive). i was still kind of nuts but slowly improving i think - the lows weren’t as bad as they’d been before.
2014-2015. (21-23) I’m pressing these two together because honestly not much changed. still at uni. did my dissertation on gendered differences in computer-medicated communications. got a 2:1 for the degree. graduated. i was really proud of myself for this, because uni was incredibly difficult to get through, and i managed it. in 2014 i fell in love with a doll (lottie dolls) in a local lewes store (wickle), googled them, and discovered the whole online doll world. i was really inspired to start painting dolls myself, and started doing this in my spare time at uni. moved back home after uni, and decided to see how viable an option this was for a career. it immediately took off, and thankfully i never had to look for a typical job, because i to this day dont think i could cope with one.
2016 (22-24): continued working on dolls from my parents’ house. i transitioned fairly quickly from painting fashion dolls to making wigs for ball-jointed dolls, and that change was very lucrative for me. ana offered me and ben the opportunity to move in with them, because they didn’t want to live in this house alone (lol). i moved here with ben and ana in june. i was still quite unstable, and there were some quite grim periods involving some nasty self-harm.
2017-9 (24-7): literally cannot remember anything that sticks out from these years lol? basically the same as the previous year - living in worcs with ben and ana, working on doll wigs. started playing chess on a whim. started writing fanfiction again in 2018 after nearly a 10y break. joined discord in 2018 and became friendly with a group of people, some of whom im still friendly w/ today. still unstable, still liable to get very distressed at small shit. i spent the majority of 2019 in (private!! >:() therapy, after i became extremely distressed after ben got a cold, but i dont think it helped much.
2020 (27-8): PANDEMIC BABY! also holy fuck can we believe its been 18 months of this shit like seriously? its gone so fucking fast? i, like a lot of other people, had been half-expecting a pandemic for years, so it was not really a shock to me when it happened. i also have OCD so i was already doing everything advised except for masking. basically stopped going outside in 2020, but other than that had a pretty decent time of it hanging out with ben and ana the entire time. as a quite solitary person, it didnt hit me particularly hard, and i think if anything my mental health improved during this period lol. mum’s cancer came back in august, but the doctors believe they got it all (again), and she has the all-clear for now.
2021: (28-9) hello :) here we are! ben proposed in march and i said no! (no sorry not funny i said yes.) slowly but surely improved at chess - now i am quite good. got a second job working for li/chess. passed the anorexia torch to my sister, who is (as of right now) in hospital for it.
at 19: i was frightened, depressed, extremely anxious - so anxious i couldnt eat, most of the time - had little identity outside of mental illness. hobbies were mostly: tumblr, painting, piano.
at (nearly) 29: i am less frightened and less anxious and less depressed. i feel like a real person now. hobbies now: chess, piano, dolls, dioramas, miniatures, ben, tumblr, writing, writing fanfiction specifically. (lol.)
if i have regrets - i regret letting my own insecurities dictate so much of my life. this is still something i am struggling with now - and i hate that it is. i regret letting so many friendships fall by the wayside - or even not giving them a chance - bc of my inability to open up to other people and let them in. i regret letting my own hatred of my body stop me making connections with people. i regret that, because i have done it in the past, but i also still do it, so this is something i need to work on fast so i dont lose any more time to this. i regret spending so much time focusing on everything i hate/d rather than focusing on my capability and potential for joy, fun, humour, learning, skill.
my hopes for the next ten years: marry ben (sooner rather than later, 2023 i hope.), become better at chess (maybe get a title). make new friendships - this is important to me. maybe have an affair for japes. (this is a joke i swear). make peace with my body and my physicality. become better at everything i already do. maybe pick up some more skills on the way, but i dont know what they are yet. pick up relationships that ive dropped in gutters somewhere. become more financially responsible.
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Sunday, September 12, 2021
Americans less positive about civil liberties: AP-NORC poll
(AP) Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, after 20 years, not as much. Far fewer people now say the government is doing a good job protecting rights including the freedom of speech, the right to vote, the right to bear arms and others. For example, the poll finds that 45% of Americans now say they think the U.S. government is doing a good job defending freedom of speech, compared with 32% who say it’s doing a poor job and 23% who say neither. The share saying the government is doing a good job is down from 71% in 2011 and from 59% in 2015. Dee Geddes, 73, a retiree in Chamberlain, South Dakota, said she was frustrated at the government’s apparent lack of ability to safeguard the amount of private information available, especially online. “It bothers me when I can go on the internet and find pretty much anything about anybody. It makes me feel sort of naked,” said Geddes. About half now say the government is doing a good job protecting freedom of religion, compared with three-quarters who said the same in 2011.
20 years later, fallout from toxic WTC dust cloud grows
(AP) The dust cloud caught Carl Sadler near the East River, turning his clothes and hair white as he looked for a way out of Manhattan after escaping from his office at the World Trade Center. Gray powder billowed through the open windows and terrace door of Mariama James’ downtown apartment, settling, inches thick in places, into her rugs and children’s bedroom furniture. Barbara Burnette, a police detective, spat the soot from her mouth and throat for weeks as she worked on the burning rubble pile without a protective mask. Today, all three are among more than 111,000 people enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program, which gives free medical care to people with health problems potentially linked to the dust. Two decades after the twin towers’ collapse, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to the attacks.
US producer prices jump an unprecedented 8.3% in August
(AP) Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month from August 2020, the biggest annual gain since the Labor Department started calculating the 12-month number in 2010. Inflation has been stirring as the economy recovers from last year’s brief but intense coronavirus recession. Supply chain bottlenecks and a shortage of workers have pushed prices higher. Food prices were up 2.9% last month after falling in July. Over the past year, wholesale food prices have climbed 12.7%, including surges of 59.2% for beef and 43.5% for shortening and cooking oil. Energy prices rose 0.4% from July and are up 32.3% over the past year.
Wigged out: A Venezuelan spymaster’s life on the lam
(AP) Wigs, a fake moustache, plastic surgery and a new safe house every three months—these are just some of the tools of deception authorities in Spain believe a former Venezuelan spymaster relied on to evade capture on a U.S. warrant for narcoterrorism. The two-year manhunt for Gen. Hugo Carvajal ended Thursday night when police raided a rundown apartment in a quiet Madrid neighborhood where they found the fugitive in a back room holding a sharp knife in what they described as a last desperate attempt to evade arrest. Nicknamed “El Pollo” (“The Chicken”), Carvajal has been a thorn in the side of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2014, when he was arrested in Aruba on a U.S. warrant only to go free after President Nicolás Maduro’s government pressured the small Dutch Caribbean island to release him. While on the lam, he was rumored to be in Portugal, then a hideout in the Caribbean. The reality was much simpler: The 61-year-old had never left Madrid. His last hideout was a mere 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from the headquarters of the National Police.
Denmark lifts all coronavirus restrictions and celebrates ‘a whole new era’
(Washington Post) Some countries are setting records for daily covid-19 infections. Others are pursuing sweeping rules to mandate vaccination. But in Denmark, something like normal life has resumed. After nearly 550 days, the Scandinavian country has lifted the last of its domestic pandemic-era restrictions, declaring that the coronavirus is no longer a “critical threat to society.” Denmark appears to be the first European Union member to issue such a declaration, potentially providing a glimpse into the future of the bloc’s recovery—or serving as a cautionary tale of a nation that moved too quickly. The country’s leaders have pointed to its high vaccination rates—among the best in the world, with nearly 75 percent of residents fully immunized—as evidence that the step is justified.
Russia begins major military drills with Belarus after moves toward closer integration
(Washington Post) Russia and Belarus began a massive week-long military exercise on NATO’s borders Friday after President Vladimir Putin and Belarus’s leader agreed on a new effort toward integrating the nations, including creating a “single defense space.” The Zapad 2021 exercise, involving 200,000 personnel, has NATO members and other neighboring countries on edge, echoing worries this spring over an unannounced Russian military buildup near Ukraine. The Zapad (meaning West) exercise is held regularly, but this iteration comes as Russian relations with NATO are increasingly fraught.
Pope Francis to visit impoverished Roma quarter in Slovakia
(AP) Pope Francis is paying a visit next week to a neighborhood in Slovakia most Slovaks would not even think about going, which until recently even the police would avoid after dark. Francis will make the visit to the Roma community in the Lunik IX quarter of Slovakia’s second largest city of Kosice one of the highlights of his pilgrimage to “the heart of Europe.” Francis will be the first pontiff to meet the most socially excluded minority group in Slovakia. A fitting place to go for the “pope of the peripheries,” Lunik XI is the biggest of about 600 shabby, segregated settlements where the poorest 20% of the country’s 400,000 Roma live. Most lack basics such as running water or sewage systems, gas or electricity. “It’s a huge honor for us,” said Lunik IX mayor Marcel Sana, who has been a local resident since he was 2. “Even if he says just a few words, his presence will be a big boost for all those living here, the socially disadvantaged and poor people who need such support.”
Fleeing China, Hong Kongers flock to Britain
(Los Angeles Times) He has no job, he’s still grappling with English and the climate is often cold and wet, but Dennis Chan is still grateful to be setting up his life in Britain. The 34-year-old arrived in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, alone in April after quitting his job as a cargo officer for Cathay Pacific airlines in Hong Kong. He had never set foot in Britain before. But he also felt he didn’t recognize his own homeland any longer amid China’s relentless crackdown on political dissent and civic freedoms. After Beijing imposed a sweeping new national security law on Hong Kong in July of last year, he felt an urgency to leave. Within two months of making the British National Overseas visa available in January, the British government received 34,000 applications. It estimates that about 300,000 people could take up the offer within five years; others say the figure could wind up being closer to 500,000. For many new arrivals like Chan, who is still living in a rented room and finding his bearings, the transition has not been easy. Although Britain boasts a well-established Chinese community, many of the Hong Kongers who have immigrated in recent months have found it difficult to land a job and make connections, especially in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. They miss—or even fear for—loved ones left behind, and they sometimes feel the sting of racism here in the land that ruled Hong Kong for 156 years as part of its globe-straddling empire.
Lebanon gets a new government after 13 months of collapse
(Washington Post) Lebanon finally got a new government Friday, after 13 months of tortuous negotiations that left the country leaderless and paralyzed during the worst economic and financial collapse in its history. The formation of the new cabinet, headed by billionaire tycoon Najib Mikati and seemingly supported by almost all factions, means the country will be able to get down to the business of steering its way out of the crisis, which has wiped billions of dollars from the banking system and impoverished millions. Mikati, the new prime minister and one of the country’s wealthiest men, seemed to fight back tears as he delivered his inaugural speech, describing the problems of parents who cannot afford to feed their children, send them to school or find medicine to treat them when they are sick. But given the country’s kleptocratic system of government, there are few reasons to believe that Mikati’s administration will be capable of undertaking the radical reforms that are essential if Lebanon is to climb out of its depression, analysts say.
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