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davisrestoration9 · 2 years

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Why water damage restoration is required?

Water can cause a lot of damage if not taken care of in time. Many times, homeowners ignore the water damage that is caused due to a leaking pipe, faulty plumbing, or even a leaky roof, and this results in a lot of loss. Not just financial loss but also personal belongings get damaged due to water. It is important to repair the damage as soon as possible to minimize the loss that may be caused by water. You can either do it yourself or hire a professional service for water damage restoration.

Water damage restoration is required to repair the damage that water causes. Water damage can be caused by various reasons like clogged toilets, burst pipes, heavy rains, etc. In fact, in some cases, water damage can also be caused by a leak in the roof or a faulty appliance. Water has to settle somewhere and if it does not find an exit route it will eventually create trouble for you. Hence, when water settles in your house you need to get rid of it quickly as otherwise, it could lead to major problems.

Here are reasons why it is important to take care of water damage:

Prevents mold growth: Mold causes severe health issues and they can even destroy your property. A lot of moisture in the air due to dampness encourages the growth of mold which can spread very fast. To prevent this, you must fix all the leaks immediately so that there is no dampness in your house.

Reduces health risks: There are many health issues such as allergies, skin infections, etc that occur because of water damage and mold. You should fix any leaks immediately to prevent these problems from occurring. Also, make sure you clean up any wet areas to avoid bacteria from growing and causing diseases.

How to do water damage restoration

Have you been searching for water damage restoration near me? As water damage can be a disaster, whether it is a burst pipe or a broken household appliance. In either case, you usually don't have much time to react. Even if the water has been turned off, you should act quickly to remove the water and clean any surfaces that were exposed to water.

Following are some of the important steps that you should follow while doing water damage restoration,

Remove standing water as soon as possible

For large areas, use a wet vacuum. for small areas, use a towel or mop. make sure to wear rubber gloves and boots at all times when working with standing water

If you have a basement, check your sump pump to make sure it works properly. if not, call a professional

After removing water, dry out the area. open windows and doors and use fans to increase ventilation and speed up drying time

Remove carpeting if possible and cut away damaged drywall

If you have an insurance company, call them immediately and let them know what happened. take pictures of the damage for documentation purposes.

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marzipanandminutiae · 9 months

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Questions because I'm curious! What is your 'holy grail' doll to collect? Have you ever tried making a whole doll from scratch? What's your favourite part of doll restoration? What are your favourite haunts for doll hunting? What doll collectors/restorers do you admire most? And lastly, if you could go back to any period(s?) to get a doll when it was new, what time period(s?) would you go to

Ooooh doll questions! let's go!

Holy grail doll to collect. I already have at least one of them- a late 1860s French fashion doll with an articulated wooden body. She survived the fire and I love her even more for it; her name is Leonore. A few "wouldn't be nice" dolls I don't have yet include:

Antique 18th-century English wooden doll (I have a lovely repro at the moment, Amy)

Simon and Halbig 1159 lady doll

A wax fashion doll. I lost all of mine in the fire, unfortunately

Lenci boudoir doll

Miniature china-headed doll with an articulated wooden body

A Black French fashion doll (SUPER rare, but they did exist)

2. Have I ever made a doll from scratch? Yes, out of polymer clay with jewelry headpins baked in to string her together. She was floppy and had anime eyes drawn on with Sharpie. Not the most successful experiment.

3. Favorite part of doll restoration? Cleaning. They just look so much happier after a bath!

4. Favorite doll-hunting haunts? EBay. Sadly, one doesn't come across the sort of doll I collect in the wild much anymore, though I've had some luck with French fashion doll clothes at the Brimfield Antiques Fair.

5. Admired doll collectors/restoration artists? My friend and Amy's maker, Paul Robinson. Michael Canadas and David Robinson. Kathy Libraty (also a friend- a dealer who does restoration). Illiandra Alvey (another friend). Samy Odin. Kat Davies. Bradley Justice Yarborough (a LOT of these are people I'm friends with). Linda Wall.

6. Time travelling to get a doll when new? 18th-century English wooden. Unless you get VERY lucky, they retail for like $20K right now- the pretty ones in decent condition, that is.

Or an Albert Marque doll, to sell and make like $300K off of.

#ask #anon #dolls #doll collecting #antique dolls

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contemplatingoutlander · 11 months

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FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year

In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump’s orbit

We KNEW the DOJ was avoiding investigating Trump for January 6th. According to this report by Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis for The Washington Post, the DOJ dragged its collective feet in starting the Trump investigation--for over a year. It was not until the House Jan. 6th committee and others started to investigate Trump's involvement in the attempted coup, did the DOJ become embarrassed enough to start their own investigation.

In this regard, contrary to what certain Republicans claim, the DOJ was NOT AT ALL "weaponized" against Trump. Rather, they were trying to avoid investigating him.

Below are some excerpts from this report:

A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation. A wariness about appearing partisan, institutional caution, and clashes over how much evidence was sufficient to investigate the actions of Trump and those around him all contributed to the slow pace. Garland and the deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco, charted a cautious course aimed at restoring public trust in the department while some prosecutors below them chafed, feeling top officials were shying away from looking at evidence of potential crimes by Trump and those close to him, The Post found.

[See more under the cut.]

[...] Whether a decision about Trump’s culpability for Jan. 6 could have come any earlier is unclear. The delays in examining that question began before Garland was even confirmed. Sherwin, senior Justice Department officials and Paul Abbate, the top deputy to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, quashed a plan by prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office to directly investigate Trump associates for any links to the riot, deeming it premature, according to five individuals familiar with the decision. Instead, they insisted on a methodical approach — focusing first on rioters and going up the ladder. The strategy was embraced by Garland, Monaco and Wray. They remained committed to it even as evidence emerged of an organized, weeks-long effort by Trump and his advisers before Jan. 6 to pressure state leaders, Justice officials and Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Biden’s victory. In the weeks before Jan. 6, Trump supporters boasted publicly that they had submitted fake electors on his behalf, but the Justice Department declined to investigate the matter in February 2021, The Post found. The department did not actively probe the effort for nearly a year, and the FBI did not open an investigation of the electors scheme until April 2022, about 15 months after the attack. The Justice Department’s painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the department’s recent investigations of both Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Inside Justice, however, some have complained that the attorney general’s determination to steer clear of any claims of political motive has chilled efforts to investigate the former president. “You couldn’t use the T word,” said one former Justice official briefed on prosecutors’ discussions. [...] “A decision was made early on to focus DOJ resources on the riot,” said one former Justice Department official familiar with the debates. “The notion of opening up on Trump and high-level political operatives was seen as fraught with peril. When Lisa and Garland came on board, they were fully onboard with that approach.” Some prosecutors even had the impression that Trump had become a taboo topic at Main Justice. Colleagues responsible for preparing briefing materials and updates for Garland and Monaco were warned to focus on foot soldiers and to avoid mentioning Trump or his close allies. [...] That fall and winter, a House committee pursuing its own investigation into Jan. 6 conducted interviews with top Trump administration officials. Privately, its chief investigator, Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. attorney, had alerted prosecutors in the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office to a few details his team had uncovered about Trump’s pressure on Justice Department officials and Pence to block the election results, according to a person familiar with the exchanges. But eye-grabbing news accounts about the committee’s discoveries fueled public criticism that the Justice Department appeared to be lagging. [...] [Between January and February 2022 there was renewed interest in looking at the role of Trump and those close to him in the "fake elector" scheme.] One person directly familiar with the department’s new interest in the case said it felt as though the department was reacting to the House committee’s work as well as heightened media coverage and commentary. “Only after they were embarrassed did they start looking,” the person said.

This is a very long article and you will have to read the rest for yourself. But after reading this article, it now seems clear that if the Jan. 6th Committee and others had not begun to investigate Trump's involvement in the attempted coup, the DOJ would have never gotten involved.

#trump #merrick garland #department of justice #january 6th #delay in investigating trump #the washington post

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thebeautifulbook · 2 years

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MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF JAPAN by R. Hadland Davis. (London: Harrap, 1912) Thirty-two illustrations by Evelyn Paul.

This has to be one of the loveliest collections I’ve ever seen. I wish I could post all of Evelyn Paul’s exquisite illustrations but you’ll need to follow the link to see the rest. The color has been restored on those I’ve shared here to match the book’s plates. [New editions are available.]

‘Evelyn Maude Blanche Paul (1883 – 1963) was an artist best known for her book illustrations, including those replicating the style of medieval illuminations. Her work shows a variety of influences including Gothic, Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts. Most significantly, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti has been identified as one of Paul's major influences.’ —Wikipedia

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #vintage books #children’s book #japanese folktale #japanese folklore #japanese mythology

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iam-the-egg-boi · 2 years

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In response to your Paul rewriting history ask:

I think Paul does engage in a little bit of revisionism (not necessarily lying, but just portraying things as generally more positive than they were). But the examples you mention are wrong or misleading I think!

The biographer who said Paul won’t tell you about the Beatles history is Philip Norman, author of the book Shout! (1981). While this is a very popular Beatles bio, it is also very well known that it is biased against Paul, dismissing his contributions in order to promote John Lennon. Here’s a quote from the book: “John Lennon was three quarters of the Beatles.” Norman was so criticized for his anti-Paul bias that he actually ended up writing a bio of Paul in 2016 partly to restore his credibility as a biographer, admitting his past mistakes. So I’d take what he said about Paul in 1987 with a grain of salt.

As for Blackbird, Paul talked about writing it in response to the civil rights movement in November 1968! In private too, so there’s an extra layer of credibility since he wasn’t just saying what he thought sounded nice for an interview. I think he has given some conflicting accounts in interviews actually, but there is a recording of him mentioning the civil rights origin to Donovan in the recording sessions for Mary Hopkin’s album “Post Card.” Go to the timestamp 3:54 on this video for the clip: https://youtu.be/VLUFLxKpDCo

For “In My Life,” Paul seems to genuinely think he wrote the melody for that one and was actually frustrated with for forgetting his contribution to it (John said Paul only helped with the middle eight). He mentions his frustration about this in an “off the record” phone call with Hunter Davies in 1981 and said that it was a song that he and John disputed in the Playboy Interview in 1984. There’s no way to know who is truly misremembering (I’m inclined to think Paul wrote less of it then he remembers), but I don’t think Paul’s lying about thinking he wrote the melody. And John did the same thing, claiming he wrote most of the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby when by all other accounts he contributed a few lines. I can’t think of any other examples of songs where they significantly disagree on the authorship.

Sorry for the long response! :)

No worries thank u pal!

Love when people know what they’re talking about I just chat shit!! Good job some people do their research unlik moi

Here u go Paul fans

I will continue to say Paul is a liar bcos it is funny to ME 🧍🏼

#the beatles #paul mccartney #lets go Paul haters

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pauldavisfranchise · 1 month

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brookston · 4 months

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Holidays 1.1

Holidays

Baby-Boomer Day

Betsy Ross Day

Black Nazarene Fiesta (Philippines) [thru 9th]

Bonza Bottler Day

Buckle-Up Day

Bulbasaur Day (Pokemon)

Celebration of Life Week [1st 7 Days]

Clay Day (French Republic)

Commitment Day

Daddy Frost Day

Daisy Day

Daydreamers' Day

Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil)

Diffendoofer Day (Dr. Seuss)

Emancipation Day

Ethics Day

Euro Day

Flag Day (Lithuania)

Founding Day (China)

Get a Life Day

Global Family Day

International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day

Jump-Up Day (Montserrat)

Kalpataru Day (Ramakrishna)

Kamakura Ebisu (Japan) [thru 1.3]

Kissing Day (Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota)

National Davis Day

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Zygmunt Gorazdowski

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Gifting Day

Hangover Handicap Run (Cover d’Alene, Idaho)

National Black Eyed Peas Day

National Bloody Mary Day

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National Hangover Day (UK)

National Pizza Day (Sweden)

1st Monday in January

Divorce Monday [1st Monday]

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The Most Depressing Day of the Year (UK) [1st Monday]

National Rondling Day [1st Monday]

National Thank God It’s Monday Day [1st Monday; also 1st Monday in June]

National Weigh-In Day [1st Monday]

Independence & Related Days

A1 (a.k.a. Federated Republics of A1; Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Cameroon (from France & UK, 1960)

Conewiw and New HanChih (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Elim (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Free State of Sabini (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Gardenia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Haiti (from France, 1804)

Justin Republic (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Falcar (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Loveland (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Lovely (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Pöllömaa (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Lazonesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Anglia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Principality of the Northern Forests (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Restoration of the Czech Independence Day (Czechia)

Sudan (from UK, 1956)

Wattania (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Adalard of Corbie (Christian; Saint)

Alfred Stieglitz (Artology)

Another Friggin’ Year Day (Pastafarian)

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Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Slovakia)

Day of Volos (god of pets and farm animals; Slavic Pagan)

Day Sacred to Janus (Ancient Rome)

Eighth Day of Christmas

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Kwanzaa, Day 7: Imani (Faith)

The Kamu (Celebrating Nature Spirits; Shogatsu/Shinto New Yea’s Festival)

M’Moreal Day (The Season of Bob’s Nativity, which is Everyday; Church of the SubGenius)

Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)

Octave Day of Christmas

Prometheus (Positivist; Saint)

Qi Baishi (Artology)

Radish Dude (Muppetism)

Sacrifices to the Wind Gods (Ancient Greece)

Season of Chaos begins (Discordian)

Shichi Fukujin (Seven Deities of Luck Celebration)

Shusho-e Matsuri (Japanese Buddhists)

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas (Catholic Church)

Taos Pueblo Turtle Dance (Native American)

Telemachus (Christian; Saint)

Tewa Turtle Dance (Tewa Native Americans)

Twelve Holy Days #7 (Libra, the adrenal glands; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #8; Feast of the Circumcision [Anglican, Lutheran] (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

World Day of Peace (Catholic Church)

Zygmunt Gorazdowski (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

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Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [1 of 24]

Evil Day [1 of 32]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [1 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [1 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [1 of 71]

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Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because born with a hangover, and you will probably end up breaking your new years resolutions before anyone else.)

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [1 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [1 of 60]

Premieres

Alice on the Farm (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1873)

Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1607)

The Astroduck (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Barry Lyndon (Film; 1975)

Bay Psalm Book (Book; 1640) [1st book printed in North America]

Beau Geste, by P.C. Wren (Novel; 1924)

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Novel; 1963)

Big Man from the North (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)

Blue Suede Shoes, by Carl Perkins (Song; 1956)

The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (Book; c. 1645)

Brain Games (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1932)

Calling Fearless Leader or Whistle for the Missile (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 191; 1963)

Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1945)

The Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1963)

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Novel; 1980)

The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (Novel; 1924)

Daffy Duck & Egghead (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Das Kapital, by Karl Marx (Book; 1867)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), by Harry Belafonte (Song; 1956)

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Novel; 1842)

Der Fuehrer’s Face (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series; 1993)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser (Poem; 1590)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne (Novel; 1863)

Flatland, by Edwin Abbot (Book; 1884)

The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (Violin Concertos; 1725)

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (Novel; 1818)

Gigi, by Colette (Novella; 1944)

GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, by Ween (Album; 1990)

The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1962)

Gumby (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Heaven and Earth Magic (Animated Film; 1962)

The Hotel New Hampshire, by John IrvingJohn Irving, from "The Coder House Rules," (Novel; 1981)

I and Thou, by Martin Buber (Book; 1923)

If A Man Answers (Film; 1962)

Journey to the East, by Herman Hesse (Novella; 1932)

The King James Bible (Book; 1604)

King Solomon’s Mines, by. H. Rider Haggard (Novel; 1885)

The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Novel; 1959)

Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1925)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle (Novel; 1883)

The Mick (TV Series; 2017)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #10]

Mrs. Brown’s Boys (BBC TV Series; 2011)

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Novel; 1862)

Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (Novel; 1887)

The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Novel; 1918)

The NeverEnding Story, by Michael Ende (English Translation of the Novel; 1983)

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1915)

Paradise Lost, by John Milton (Poetry; 1667)

Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (Book; 1670)

Pizzicato Pussycat (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (The Bridge over the River Kwai), by Pierre Boulle (Novel; 1952)

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (Book; 1532)

Rocky Takes the High Road or Missile in the Thistle (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 192; 1963)

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)

A Room with a View, by E.M. Foster (Novel; 1908)

Samuel Pepys’ Diary began (Diary; 1660)

The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (Comic Series; 1989)

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1811) [#1]

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (Novel; 1861)

Songs of Innocence, by William Blake (Poems; 1789)

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1913)

The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 86; 1961)

The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 85; 1961)

The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss (Novel; 1812)

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (Novel; 1938)

The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber (Fairy Tale; 1950)

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Novel; 1889)

Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Book; 1883)

Top of the Pops (BBC Musical Variety TV Series; 1966)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1984)

Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1905)

Whose Body?, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Mystery Novel; 1923) [1st Lord Peter Wimsey]

The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Novel; 1962)

Zip Zip Hooray! (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)

Today’s Name Days

Maria, Wilhelm (Austria)

Vasil, Vasilena, Vesela, Veselin, Veselina (Bulgaria)

Fulgencije, Marija, Raimund (Croatia)

Nový rok (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Algo, Alo, Esmo, Uno, Uuno (Estonia)

Maria, Neujahr (Germany)

Telemahos, Vasiliki, Vasilis (Greece)

Fruzsina (Hungary)

Maria (Italy)

Laimnesis, Solvita (Latvia)

Masław, Mieczysław, Mieczysława, Mieszko (Poland)

Vasile (Romania)

Courtney (Slovakia)

Emmanuel, Jesús, Manuel, María (Spain)

Basil, Bohdan, David, Vasylyna (Ukraine)

Arleen, Arlen, Arlene, Arlette, Pablo, Paul, Saul (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 1 of 2024; 366 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 20 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 19 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 1 White; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 19 December 2023

Moon: 71%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Moses (1st Month) [Prometheus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 11 of 31)

Calendar Changes

White (Month 1 of 12; J Calendar)

Gantan-sai (Shinto New Years)

January (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 1 of 12]

Moses (a.k.a. The Initial Theocracy) [Month 1 of 13; Positivist]

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 4 months

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Holidays 1.1

Holidays

Baby-Boomer Day

Betsy Ross Day

Black Nazarene Fiesta (Philippines) [thru 9th]

Bonza Bottler Day

Buckle-Up Day

Bulbasaur Day (Pokemon)

Celebration of Life Week [1st 7 Days]

Clay Day (French Republic)

Commitment Day

Daddy Frost Day

Daisy Day

Daydreamers' Day

Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil)

Diffendoofer Day (Dr. Seuss)

Emancipation Day

Ethics Day

Euro Day

Flag Day (Lithuania)

Founding Day (China)

Get a Life Day

Global Family Day

International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day

Jump-Up Day (Montserrat)

Kalpataru Day (Ramakrishna)

Kamakura Ebisu (Japan) [thru 1.3]

Kissing Day (Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota)

National Davis Day

National Day of Resolutions

National Ellis Island Day

National Ivanhoe Day (Sweden)

National Shepherd Day

National Tree Planting Day (Tanzania)

New Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

New Year's Day (a.k.a. ...

Amanor (Armenia)

Amateur Hangover Day

Ano Nova (Cape Verde)

Año Nuevo (Spain)

Anul Nou (Moldova, România)

Apple Gifting Day

Día de Año Nuevo (Puerto Rico)

Draw ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Bad Hangover Day

Dita e Vitit të Ri (Albania)

First Day

First-Foot Day

Grandfather Frost Day (Russia, Ukraine)

Jaungads (Latvia)

Maskarada (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba)

Mummers Parade (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Navy God Day (Russia)

Nieuwjaarsdag (Suriname, Sweden)

Nova Godina (Croatia, Macedonia)

Nyårsdagen (Sweden)

Sjoogwachi (Okinawa)

Solar New Year’s Day (North Korea)

Tahun Baru (Indonesia)

Viti i Ri (Kosovo)

Yangi Yil Bayrami (Uzbekistan)

New Year’s Dishonor List Day

New Year's Banished Words List Day [ 2024 list ]

Party Party Day

Paul Revere Day

Penguin Plunge (Rhode Island)

Polar Bear Swim Day

Public Domain Day

Punch Your Tallest Friend Day

Scout’s Day (Burma)

Shogatsu (Japan)

Snake Eyes Day

Thoroughbred Day (Northern Hemisphere)

TMC Foundation Day (Trinamool Congress; India)

Tournament of Roses Parade (Pasadena, California)

Triumph of the Revolution Day (a.k.a. Liberation Day; Cuba)

Universal Fraternity Day (Macau)

White Rabbit Day

World Day of Peace

Z Day

Zygmunt Gorazdowski

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Gifting Day

Hangover Handicap Run (Cover d’Alene, Idaho)

National Black Eyed Peas Day

National Bloody Mary Day

National Brandy Alexander Day

National Hangover Day (UK)

National Pizza Day (Sweden)

1st Monday in January

Divorce Monday [1st Monday]

Handsel Day (Scotland) [1st Monday]

The Most Depressing Day of the Year (UK) [1st Monday]

National Rondling Day [1st Monday]

National Thank God It’s Monday Day [1st Monday; also 1st Monday in June]

National Weigh-In Day [1st Monday]

Independence & Related Days

A1 (a.k.a. Federated Republics of A1; Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Cameroon (from France & UK, 1960)

Conewiw and New HanChih (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Elim (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Free State of Sabini (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Gardenia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Haiti (from France, 1804)

Justin Republic (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Falcar (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Loveland (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Lovely (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Pöllömaa (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Lazonesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Anglia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Principality of the Northern Forests (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Restoration of the Czech Independence Day (Czechia)

Sudan (from UK, 1956)

Wattania (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Adalard of Corbie (Christian; Saint)

Alfred Stieglitz (Artology)

Another Friggin’ Year Day (Pastafarian)

Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Dabucuri assaby, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)

Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Slovakia)

Day of Volos (god of pets and farm animals; Slavic Pagan)

Day Sacred to Janus (Ancient Rome)

Eighth Day of Christmas

Feast of Fools (Medieval Europe)

Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Christian)

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church)

Feast of the Human Sacrifice (Church of the SubGenius)

Fulgentius of Ruspe (Christian; Saint)

Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (Christian)

Goddess Fortuna's Day (Ancient Rome)

Jesus Christ Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Jupiter & Juno's Day (Old Roman)

Kalends: Day of the Moerae (Pagan)

Kalends of January (Ancient Rome)

Kwanzaa, Day 7: Imani (Faith)

The Kamu (Celebrating Nature Spirits; Shogatsu/Shinto New Yea’s Festival)

M’Moreal Day (The Season of Bob’s Nativity, which is Everyday; Church of the SubGenius)

Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)

Octave Day of Christmas

Prometheus (Positivist; Saint)

Qi Baishi (Artology)

Radish Dude (Muppetism)

Sacrifices to the Wind Gods (Ancient Greece)

Season of Chaos begins (Discordian)

Shichi Fukujin (Seven Deities of Luck Celebration)

Shusho-e Matsuri (Japanese Buddhists)

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas (Catholic Church)

Taos Pueblo Turtle Dance (Native American)

Telemachus (Christian; Saint)

Tewa Turtle Dance (Tewa Native Americans)

Twelve Holy Days #7 (Libra, the adrenal glands; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #8; Feast of the Circumcision [Anglican, Lutheran] (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

World Day of Peace (Catholic Church)

Zygmunt Gorazdowski (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Binary Day [11] (1 of 9)

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 1 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [1 of 24]

Evil Day [1 of 32]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [1 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [1 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [1 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [1 of 32]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because born with a hangover, and you will probably end up breaking your new years resolutions before anyone else.)

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [1 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [1 of 60]

Premieres

Alice on the Farm (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1873)

Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1607)

The Astroduck (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Barry Lyndon (Film; 1975)

Bay Psalm Book (Book; 1640) [1st book printed in North America]

Beau Geste, by P.C. Wren (Novel; 1924)

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Novel; 1963)

Big Man from the North (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)

Blue Suede Shoes, by Carl Perkins (Song; 1956)

The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (Book; c. 1645)

Brain Games (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1932)

Calling Fearless Leader or Whistle for the Missile (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 191; 1963)

Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1945)

The Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1963)

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Novel; 1980)

The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (Novel; 1924)

Daffy Duck & Egghead (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Das Kapital, by Karl Marx (Book; 1867)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), by Harry Belafonte (Song; 1956)

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Novel; 1842)

Der Fuehrer’s Face (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series; 1993)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser (Poem; 1590)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne (Novel; 1863)

Flatland, by Edwin Abbot (Book; 1884)

The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (Violin Concertos; 1725)

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (Novel; 1818)

Gigi, by Colette (Novella; 1944)

GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, by Ween (Album; 1990)

The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1962)

Gumby (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Heaven and Earth Magic (Animated Film; 1962)

The Hotel New Hampshire, by John IrvingJohn Irving, from "The Coder House Rules," (Novel; 1981)

I and Thou, by Martin Buber (Book; 1923)

If A Man Answers (Film; 1962)

Journey to the East, by Herman Hesse (Novella; 1932)

The King James Bible (Book; 1604)

King Solomon’s Mines, by. H. Rider Haggard (Novel; 1885)

The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Novel; 1959)

Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1925)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle (Novel; 1883)

The Mick (TV Series; 2017)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #10]

Mrs. Brown’s Boys (BBC TV Series; 2011)

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Novel; 1862)

Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (Novel; 1887)

The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Novel; 1918)

The NeverEnding Story, by Michael Ende (English Translation of the Novel; 1983)

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1915)

Paradise Lost, by John Milton (Poetry; 1667)

Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (Book; 1670)

Pizzicato Pussycat (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (The Bridge over the River Kwai), by Pierre Boulle (Novel; 1952)

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (Book; 1532)

Rocky Takes the High Road or Missile in the Thistle (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 192; 1963)

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)

A Room with a View, by E.M. Foster (Novel; 1908)

Samuel Pepys’ Diary began (Diary; 1660)

The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (Comic Series; 1989)

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1811) [#1]

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (Novel; 1861)

Songs of Innocence, by William Blake (Poems; 1789)

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1913)

The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 86; 1961)

The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 85; 1961)

The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss (Novel; 1812)

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (Novel; 1938)

The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber (Fairy Tale; 1950)

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Novel; 1889)

Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Book; 1883)

Top of the Pops (BBC Musical Variety TV Series; 1966)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1984)

Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1905)

Whose Body?, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Mystery Novel; 1923) [1st Lord Peter Wimsey]

The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Novel; 1962)

Zip Zip Hooray! (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)

Today’s Name Days

Maria, Wilhelm (Austria)

Vasil, Vasilena, Vesela, Veselin, Veselina (Bulgaria)

Fulgencije, Marija, Raimund (Croatia)

Nový rok (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Algo, Alo, Esmo, Uno, Uuno (Estonia)

Maria, Neujahr (Germany)

Telemahos, Vasiliki, Vasilis (Greece)

Fruzsina (Hungary)

Maria (Italy)

Laimnesis, Solvita (Latvia)

Masław, Mieczysław, Mieczysława, Mieszko (Poland)

Vasile (Romania)

Courtney (Slovakia)

Emmanuel, Jesús, Manuel, María (Spain)

Basil, Bohdan, David, Vasylyna (Ukraine)

Arleen, Arlen, Arlene, Arlette, Pablo, Paul, Saul (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 1 of 2024; 366 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 20 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 19 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 1 White; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 19 December 2023

Moon: 71%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Moses (1st Month) [Prometheus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 11 of 31)

Calendar Changes

White (Month 1 of 12; J Calendar)

Gantan-sai (Shinto New Years)

January (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 1 of 12]

Moses (a.k.a. The Initial Theocracy) [Month 1 of 13; Positivist]

#Holidays

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sewagecleanup · 8 months

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Restoring Hope: Ottawa's Premier Emergency Restoration Companies

Introduction:

Disasters can strike at any moment, leaving behind a trail of destruction and despair. In times of crisis, the services of professional restoration companies become invaluable. Ottawa, the beautiful capital of Canada, is no stranger to natural calamities like floods, fires, and storms. In such trying times, the city relies on its trusted emergency restoration companies to bring life back to normal. In this blog, we'll explore the vital role these restoration companies play in Ottawa and highlight some of the best in the business.

The Importance of Emergency Restoration Companies:

Emergency restoration companies are the unsung heroes of disaster-stricken communities. They provide immediate relief by swiftly responding to emergencies and restoring homes and businesses to their pre-disaster conditions. These companies are equipped with the expertise, experience, and state-of-the-art equipment required to tackle a wide range of disasters, from water damage to fire and smoke damage.

Restoration Companies in Ottawa:

Ottawa is home to several reputable restoration companies that specialize in emergency restoration company and disaster recovery. Here are a few of the standout names in the industry:

ServiceMaster Restore Ottawa: ServiceMaster Restore Ottawa is a trusted name in the region. With years of experience, they offer comprehensive restoration services, including water damage restoration, fire and smoke damage restoration, and mold remediation. Their highly trained technicians are available 24/7 to respond to emergencies promptly.

Paul Davis Ottawa: Paul Davis Restoration has a strong presence in Ottawa. They offer a wide range of services, from water and fire damage restoration to mold remediation and contents cleaning. Their commitment to professionalism and customer satisfaction has earned them a solid reputation in the community.

PuroClean Ottawa East: PuroClean is known for its efficient and effective restoration services in Ottawa. They specialize in water damage restoration, mold removal, and biohazard cleanup. Their team is dedicated to providing compassionate and rapid assistance during emergencies.

FirstOnSite Restoration: FirstOnSite Restoration is a nationwide company with a strong presence in Ottawa. They offer a full spectrum of restoration services, including fire and smoke damage restoration, water damage restoration, and environmental services. Their rapid response teams are always ready to assist when disaster strikes.

The Restoration Process:

Emergency restoration companies follow a structured process to ensure a successful recovery:

Assessment: The first step is a thorough assessment of the damage to determine the extent and nature of the restoration needed.

Mitigation: Immediate action is taken to prevent further damage. This may involve water extraction, securing the property, or setting up containment for mold issues.

Restoration: The restoration process includes cleaning, repairing, and rebuilding damaged areas. This may involve structural repairs, odor removal, and mold remediation.

Final Inspection: After restoration work is completed, a final inspection ensures that everything meets industry standards and the client's satisfaction.

Conclusion:

Ottawa's emergency restoration companies are lifelines in times of crisis. They bring hope and comfort to communities affected by disasters, helping them rebuild their lives and properties. Whether it's water damage, fire and smoke damage, or mold infestations, these companies have the expertise and dedication to restore normalcy. The next time disaster strikes in Ottawa, you can rest assured knowing that these trusted restoration companies are ready to respond and restore your peace of mind.

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sbknews · 10 months

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Auction showcasing the essence of Italian design and sprezzatura

Classic vehicle auction house, H&H Classics, is set to sell over 40 classic Italian-made scooters and motorcycles, from 11 different manufacturers, at the National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, on 12 July. The highly anticipated auction will bring together a diverse range of 248 motorcycles and scooters with a total estimated value of £1.5 million. A rich heritage of brands such as Ducati, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Vespa, Lambretta, and many more, will take centre stage at the auction. Among the strong lot line-up is the 1996 Bimota YB11, a rare 1000cc thoroughbred superbike utilising the best of Italian and Japanese engineering of the late 1990s. The YB11 used the iconic Yamaha Thunderace engine in a beautiful twin spar frame, and has an estimated price of £4,500 to £5,500. Fans of trail bikes will not be disappointed either, the 1973 Moto Guzzi Tuttoterrenois a rare all-terrain trail bike authentically restored back to its original condition. The two stroke, 125cc all-terrain bike is expected to fetch between £2,250 - £2,750. The 1972 Benelli 125 Sport Special could be an ideal purchase for a buyer looking for a recently restored Italian import. Presented in the trademark metallic green racing colours, this sporty single cylinder motorcycle is expected to reach between £3,500 - £4,500. Regarded by many as the most beautiful motorbike ever made, the 2000 MV Agusta F4 modern classic could be considered a steal at £7,500 - £8,500. MV Agusta rightly holds legendary status in the motorsport world having won 270 Grand Prix races, 38 World Riders' Championships and 37 World Constructors Championships. Those interested in Italian scooters will be excited for the 1966 Lambretta SX225 ‘BelAir 2’ which is argued to be the finest scooter Innocenti ever produced, whereas the 1978 Vespa (Douglas) Rally 200 represents an original scootering icon, with a mere two owners from new. The hand built 1971 BSA X-75 Hurricane Prototype will also be offered for sale, commanding a price of £28,000 - £32,000 due to its historical significance and scarcity. Just two prototypes were built, but this example has been under sole ownership since 1982. Mike Davis, motorcycle specialist at H&H Classics, said: “We are excited to present a remarkable collection of motorcycles and scooters at the upcoming National Motorcycle Museum auction. This varied assortment features a range of lots from well-known Italian manufacturers, truly capturing the essence of Italy's rich motoring heritage. The collection exemplifies the ingenuity and passion that characterises the Italian motorcycle and scooter industry, evoking a variety of emotions and captivating the interest of collectors and enthusiasts worldwide. From iconic scooters that have stood the test of time, to high-performance superbikes, each lot represents a cherished work of craftsmanship and design.” Bidders and enthusiasts alike can explore the full catalogue of exceptional lots, each with its own distinctive story. Other lots include the prestigious 1949 HRD Black Shadow, which held the title of fastest road vehicle until the early 1960s. Paul Weller’s 1968 Lambretta SX200 will be up for sale, as well as the historically fascinating 1986 Vespa PK125 which belonged to Italian gangster Valerio Viccei. Interested buyers can participate in the auction both in person at the National Motorcycle Museum, or remotely via online or telephone bidding. Detailed information on the bidding process, registration, and the complete auction catalogue can be found on the official H&H Classics website. More auction news can be found on our dedicated page here: Motorcycle Auction News For more info on H&H Classics head to their website: https://www.handh.co.uk/ Read the full article

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What Does "The Importance of Quick Response Restoration Services in Tampa" Do?

When calamity strikes, it may be mind-boggling and mentally draining. It's tough to know where to switch for help, especially when your residential property has been wrecked. That's where Tampa's ideal reconstruction companies come in - they can easily help rejuvenate your building to its previous magnificence. Listed here are some of the leading renovation companies in Tampa that you can easily count on when you need to have them the a lot of: 1. ServiceMaster Restore: ServiceMaster Restore is a relied on name in the remediation market. They supply a wide array of services, including water damage renovation, fire damage repair, mold removal, and additional. Their crew of professionals is readily available 24/7 to respond promptly to emergencies and begin the restoration procedure as very soon as achievable. 2. SERVPRO of West Tampa: SERVPRO of West Tampa is another highly-rated reconstruction business in the area. They specialize in water damages repair, fire damage repair, mold remediation, and biohazard clean-up. Their professionals are approved and experienced in handling all styles of disasters.

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lancold9 · 1 year

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epochinspace · 1 year

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EPICSPACE

EPICSPACE is an indie rock band. The band consists of Maris Rousseau (vocals, rhythm guitar), Cori Grey (lead guitar, backing vocals), Soren Merle (drums) and Shiloh Davies (bass). [Unnamed] left the band in 20XX. Basil Grey manages band.

The band came together during Maris's uni years after meeting Cori at a party. She introduced Maris to Soren and their unnamed original bassist. Cori's brother was part of a well-known band at the time.

In the current timeline, Maris & Co have recently parted ways with their last bassist (they have been having a hard time finding a filler ever since their original bassist left), and Basil introduces them to a bassist that he knows who is currently casually playing with a jazz/experimental group that is about to go on hiatus. Basil and Shiloh have prior history and Cori is immediately like "something's sus over here".

TECHNIQUE AND STYLE

Maris is the primary composer and songwriters, though every member has their own input and each member has written their own songs. They largely consider the process involving every member.

Cori is well known for her left-handed playing and technical skill on guitar. In earlier years, reviewers would draw comparisons between her and Basil, which she hated, lol.

BASIL GREY

Basil's old Band (Unnamed)

In his 20s, Basil was part of a well-known band as their lead guitarist. The band was very successful and well known in their industry. Eventually the group had several internal issues which caused the band to break up in his late 20s. Basil chose to go into the business side and now manages EPICSPACE as well as some other talents.

Present day (Basilica)

Basil in the meantime is making some music for himself w/o caring about the charting/success/etc and releases some music on under his alias 'Basilica'. He rarely performs in public, with the exception of a special feature with EPICSPACE

Mostly unknown to the general public, Basil also restores and customizes guitars as a hobby, and has helped Cori customize her main guitar.

INSTRUMENTS

Cori - Plays left handed

custom Ibanez miKro GRGML - customized with Basil's help. She plays on a smaller guitar because of her size, so the customized parts are all tailored to her playing style.

Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar (Left handed) - 3 Color Sunburst - This was gifted to her. Plays this for certain songs.

Maris - Epiphone 1959 Les Paul Standard - Aged Dark Cherry

Soren - Kit - Yamaha Custom Birch, Vater Drum Sticks

Shiloh - Fender American Original 60's Jazz Bass - Sonic Blue - He played on a different guitar with his previous band, but this what he plays on with EPICSPACE

Basil -

Fender Stratocaster in Aubergine (Modified) - the main guitar he used when playing with his previous band. It's collecting dust these days.

Ibanez Hollowbody Electric Guitar - Black - guitar he's playing with these days for his personal songs.

PAIRINGS

Soren x Maris - They have been publicly together for years and don't hide it. All of their long time fans/stans know that they're practically married. Newer fans usually don't realize that Soren and Maris are together at first because Soren is usually in the bg and his bandmates are more eye-catching.

Basil & Shiloh - They knew of each other back when Basil was more in the underground band scene, and were at the same after parties and hooked up regularly. Because Basil had his own band issues at the time and Shiloh was also tied up with other things, they never progressed to a relationship and have quite a few unfinished strings they never resolved.

Cori + Reid - Cori meets Reid at some awards event where his company is one of the major sponsors.

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Founded in 1871 to raise money for their struggling college, the Fisk Jubilee Singers soon became a musical sensation. The current ensemble, here performing at a church in Nashville last June, carries on the legacy.

HISTORY & CULTURE | RACE IN AMERICA

The Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Amazing Story, From Slavery To Stardom

They introduced Black spirituals to the world—and saved their university from financial ruin.

— Photograph By Lynsey Weatherspoon | October 6, 2022 | By Bill Newcott

A hush fell over Ryman Auditorium, Nashville’s “Mother Church of Country Music.” On the same stage where Hank Williams wailed “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and Patsy Cline wondered if she might be crazy, nine young African American singers entered from the wings, their voices blending in a mesmerizing, almost whispering rendition of the timeless slave song “Steal Away.”

“The trumpet sounds within my soul,” they sang, and you could almost hear that horn, muted and mournful. “I ain’t got long to stay here.”

On that night last fall, the Fisk Jubilee Singers—founded 151 years ago to raise money for the South’s oldest historically Black university—took hold of 2,000 hearts and, almost instantaneously, squeezed them to the point of tears.

Among the tearful was Paul Kwami, the group’s musical director for 28 years. A former Fisk University student himself, he came to Nashville after a childhood in Ghana.

“It happens sometimes,” he told me several months after that concert. “I’m crying, the singers are crying, we’re all crying.”

Now, everyone is crying again: Kwami, a legend in the preservation and performance of African American spiritual music, died unexpectedly September 10, less than a month before the group’s 151st anniversary.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers, pictured here during their first tour of Europe in 1873, sang before spellbound audiences. During their early days in the U.S., their powerful spirituals often shamed racist hecklers into silence—even weeping. Historia/Shutterstock

On the day I sat down with Kwami last spring, we were in the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ rehearsal room in Jubilee Hall, a towered Victorian-era edifice at one end of the Fisk University campus in Nashville. The school was founded in 1866, at a time when hopes ran high that Reconstruction would bring a measure of restoration to America’s formerly enslaved people. The initial response was phenomenal: 900 students, virtually all of them recently enslaved, enrolled.

The bad news was that by 1871 the university was strapped for cash and in danger of going under. Desperate to find a new source of revenue, the school’s music professor and treasurer, George L. White, hit on a plan: He would take Fisk’s fledgling choir—then just four men and five women—on tour to raise money.

“At first the choir performed standard Western classical music,” said Kwami. “And it wasn’t going very well.”

That all changed during a church concert in Oberlin, Ohio. Performing from the balcony, the singers were dismayed to see the congregation wasn’t listening. In fact, they were walking around and talking among themselves.

Left: First published in 1876, a popular history of the Fisk Jubilee Singers included music and lyrics for more than 120 songs from the group’s early repertoire. Heritage Images/Getty Images Right: The late Paul Kwami led the Fisk Jubilee Singers from 1994 until his death on September 10, 2022. Under his direction the group won its first Grammy and was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Photograph By Lynsey Weatherspoon, National Geographic Image Collection

Top Left: The Singers sign posters before a concert at Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium last June. One reviewer described the performance as “a joyous celebration of Black spirituality.” Top Right: Singer Andrew Davis leads the ensemble in a warm-up exercise during a rehearsal at Jubilee Hall. Bottom: The late Paul Kwami leads a rehearsal in Jubilee Hall on the Fisk University campus in June 2022. A large portrait of the original Singers (background) was a gift from Queen Victoria following a command performance for Her Majesty in 1873.

“Finally,” said Kwami, “one of the singers said, ‘If they’re not going to listen to us, then let’s just sing for ourselves.’ And they did. They started singing ‘Steal Away.’”

Almost immediately, the crowd fell silent. A northern audience, it turned out, had never heard anything remotely like this.

“They thought Negro music was what they’d heard in minstrel shows,” Kwami said. “The Negro spiritual was completely new to them.”

The Fisk Jubilee Singers soon became a sensation, performing throughout the East and Upper Midwest, roughly tracing the path of the Underground Railroad. Among their most ardent admirers was Mark Twain, who grew up in the south hearing these same songs.

“I do not know when anything has so moved me as did the Jubilee Singers,” he wrote in 1873. “One must have been slave himself in order to feel what that life was and so convey the pathos of it in the music.”

During that first 18-month tour, the group raised about $40,000. But success came at great cost to the original Jubilee Singers. Due to their years traveling the country raising money to save the university, the first nine never earned degrees.

“It’s ironic,” Kwami said. “They sacrificed everything for this school. Only a few years ago were they given posthumous diplomas.”

Among Kwami’s final wishes was to see a cluster of statues outside Jubilee Hall honoring the original nine. Among them was Thomas Rutling, who was born into slavery and never knew his father. His only memory of his mother was kissing her goodbye as she was taken from him when he was just two years old.

The Singers’ 1909 U.S. tour included a stop in Lexington, Nebraska. "I would walk seven miles to hear them sing again," wrote Mark Twain, an ardent fan. History Nebraska

“Can you imagine someone living with that?” Kwami asked me, shaking his head. “And yet he gave up his education to prevent the closure of this university.”

"Legacy of Music and History"

It was a 90-degree day in Nashville, but Jeffrey Casey and Kemani Iwu arrived to chat with me at Jubilee Hall impeccably dressed in jackets and ties. The pair graduated from Fisk last spring, but respect for their choir and teacher compelled them to dress up for the occasion.

Casey plans to pursue a theater career; Iwu is exploring entertainment law. But even as they leave the school, these two decidedly 21st-century men are still inspired by the Fisk singers who came before them.

“Every time we step on a stage we're enjoying the opportunities those original singers dreamed of,” said Iwu, who is Nigerian American. “We’re branches of a tree, and that tree just keeps on growing.”

The Singers give their attention to each other during a performance at the Ryman Auditorium. Director Kwami did not conduct the group, as was his practice. “The communication is all between them,” he said.

So connected are today’s Jubilee singers to those original nine that every October 6—Fisk University calls it Jubilee Day—members of the group travel around Nashville and visit the graves of the four who are buried there.

“All they wanted was to save this university, but they ended up creating this amazing legacy of music and history," said Casey. "It’s our obligation to uphold that legacy.”

The Jubilee Singers’ first Grammy Award—for their 150th Anniversary album “Celebrating Fisk!”—has heightened interest in the group’s history and music. During Kwami’s years as director, first-time concertgoers were often surprised that he didn't conduct the group, choosing instead to rely on their mutual feel for rhythm and dynamics.

The Singers perform “Heavn Heavn” in concert at Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium last June.

“I don’t want to come between the singers and the audience,” he told me. “The communication is all between them.”

That leads to a unique dynamic that’s impossible to miss. The performers don’t look forward, but instead their eyes move among their fellow singers, catching each other’s glances. They smile and nod like old friends greeting each other.

“We’re watching each other to make sure we’re all on the same page,” says Casey. “But that’s not all. We’re also saying to each other, ‘I’ve got your back.’”

Virtually every stream of American popular music—rock, jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel—flows back to Africa. And to a large degree, in their earliest days the Fisk Jubilee Singers were a funnel through which much of America got its first taste of the rhythms and call-and-response song structures that informed everything that was to come.

“It was always my dream,” Kwami told me, “to take this group to Africa, to bring the Negro spiritual in its polished form back to its musical roots.” In 2007, the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s independence, he did just that.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1936, on their way to Windsor Castle to perform for King Edward VIII. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Getty Images.

A painting in Jubilee Hall depicts the Singers performing in front of Queen Victoria in May 1873. Photograph By Lynsey Weatherspoon, National Geographic Image Collection

The Fisk Jubilee Singers in June 2022. Stewards of a powerful musical tradition, they continue singing the songs of their ancestors. Photograph By Lynsey Weatherspoon, National Geographic Image Collection

“We performed in Accra, the capital, in a full hall,” he recalled, closing his eyes as if to relive the moment. “We sang our songs. We also sang some Ghanian songs—and the audience just joined in. They couldn’t help themselves.”

But the most moving moment came, he said, when the group recorded a selection of Negro spirituals in the courtyard of Ghana’s Elmina Castle, the infamous, 17th-century depot from which enslaved people were shipped to the Americas.

Standing in the castle’s courtyard, their voices echoing against the same walls that once groaned with sobbing and rattling chains, the singers intoned a solemn rendition of “We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace,” drawn from Psalm 23. (“Though I walk through the shadow of the Valley of Death, I will fear no evil.”)

Kwami nodded softly.

“This was a circle closing,” he said. There were tears in his eyes.

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