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2023.03.22 01:10 Jean_dodge67 First draft o a narrative timeline of the chaotic medical evacuation /aftermath, combining what has been made public - livestream, news accounts, b-roll videos, helicopter footage, etc. - needs input pls
TLDR This is a crude and rough initial attempt to place many known events into a narrative order with some semblance of a time stamp to them. It concerns the time of 12:50 to aproximately 3pm? or later the day of the shootings.
lengthy intro, feel free to skip this part
You will see I don't get too far on the time stamp part, and I'm sure I'm leaving out known and likely vital events we know of, too. But the sources are scattered and their narratives jumbled as well. It does begin to sketch a picture though, to tell the story as best as I can from the top of my head. I'd like to make this a lot more factual and probably should make it a lot less "editorial," as well. But it is like the old joke, what do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the lake? "A good start."
I'm POSITIVE some of this is wrong. But I wanted to start somewhere before it all gets turned to mush in my brain. I keep notes but later they don't always make perfect sense to me because all the information comes in from every angle and it's spinning like a top, usually as well. . I'm not a historian, or a true crime reporter. I'm an amateur on the internet in this regard, please forgive me and help me get it right where you can. I dont mean to offend anyone, either. Hopefully we are all in this together, to establish the truth here. How can we have any real opinions or accountability or make the best policy decisions moving forward, or honor the fallen, or sue the heck out of one another, for that matter, without first establishing the basic facts.
It's just what sloughed off my keyboard this morning as I woke and once again tried to make sense of what makes no sense. why, ten months on we have to peice this together from corporate news accounts' hastily assembled snippets of B-roll, local rumor, internet conjecture (mine and yours, dear readers), leaks and bodycams edited and truncated by a hired PR firm for the city of Uvalde, and other odd sources coming across the ether and "over the transom," meaning we don't know who told us this.
This will be a partial timeline from a shattered afternoon where almost everyone present was in some sort of a state of shock, yet waving cheap and crude videocameras of various sorts and disordered eventual custody around in back of a school no one paid much attention to before, and that will soon be razed to the ground. And about which NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE other than to board up the windows and wipe up the blood. One important source seems to be a "whistleblower" who may in fact be a "bad actor" working to just help spread out bad news as slowly and poorly as possible, selectively omitting the worst of the worst. Who can say?
It's a portrait of chaos, drawn from chaos. A vision of hell from someone who wasn't even there, but can't stop imagining it somehow. I have little idea why. Some of my friends' children were there, but they were not in the 4th grade. It's probably all none of my business, my only real connection is that my children go to public schools in Texas. And I helped pay for these public records that are so well hidden. That at least means something to me. The rest just seems to spring from common decency and having an empathetic heart. I couldn't rightly say why any of us are here almost a year later but we are. It all started with a bang. And it all ends in sin and tears, like my grandmother would say.
The TLDR is that 21 people were murdered and a bunch of people who were only attempted to be murdered were mishandled by idiot cowards and dragged hither and yon while parents were tackled, tased and traumatized. The rest is just the gory sad details.
Don't read it if you can can help it. Horesman, pass by. But if you must, know this: it isn't pretty and it likely won't fix much of anything. But maybe just maybe it's part of path towards eventual healing or as Senator Gutierrez says, looking forward someday to "a slightly duller ache of pain."
There is no good place to start this narrative, the story of the "Aftermath." This is the wrong place but it's where I began so here it is:
Draft Narrative:
If it was Noah and AJ who ended up in an ambulance with Mayah, it seems like one of them may have originally been on the bus but taken off fairly quickly. The narrative from the lawsuit by the bus driver seems to say a boy was put on her bus but quickly taken off because of the seriousness of his injuries, or perhaps like with Mrs Mireles, the frantic cops seemed to have tunnel vision and couldn't find the ambulances at first and when one was finally right in front of them, they stumbled towards it instead.
It's also related that a dead child was placed into one ambulance, and that's why there were three in the other. Extrapolating from there it's also possible Mrs Mireles was eventually taken off the sidewalk and put in the ambulance with the dead boy still inside, or maybe she was moved to an ambulance the finally arrived from Main Street holding area.
The WP/TT/PP story has an excellently detailed animation of where ambulances and school busses came and went, beginning with the initial two ambulances. But it doesn't say who was placed inside any of them. The lead bus leaves the line at the funeral home where at least two livestream cams had caught the frantic scramble of LEOs to march and carry kids from the school to the bus. I'm not sure how many kids were on the bus. I haven't even re-read the lawsuit account yet.
Finding a sync point in order to put time stamps to the animation and the citizen livestream recordings for us poor saps denied full versions of public records videos is difficult. It seems likely the bulk of vehicle movement animation is drawn from DPS helicopter video and of course the funeral home cameras. We don't have those, but we can see snippets of them her and there the DPS helicopter at least. It's the one with the rangefinder marking and what looks almost like a weapon system crosshairs superimposed on screen. The story itself mentions LEO bodycam as well. Don't forget Crimson Elizondo is said to have ridden the "BORTAC express" school bus and wore an operating bodycam.
But the buses began to move - then stalled - before 1:01. That seems to tell us a few things - the "triage" was perfunctory and swift in getting the kids who could walk - and some who were carried - from the school to the BORTAC Express. But it took more than just one or two minutes, it seesm like it took almost ten to get children onto the BORTAC Express, but less than ten probably. We know one child was so wounded he was taken off the bus and put into an ambulance. likely the one manned by the EMT who treated thee kids, Mayah, AJ and Noah. That's not certain tho.
Two busses in the lead turn left onto Geraldine. Others go right. Were some on a route to civic center? Or to hospital? I need to check routes.
In a sick, sad moment on the Adam Ladezma livestream, seemingly after 12:50 and before 1:01 a US Marshall threatens parents, telling them harshly to move behind the busses or else their kids won't be brought out, and that the present delay is their fault, for standing on the grass off the street north of the busses, blocking no one and nothing. It seems like the scrum of agents are waiting inside, calling and stalling for a path to be cleared for them, rather than trusting that the public wants the same thing they want - for medical aid to be swift.
Some 5-10 minutes earlier the news had spread by word of mouth that the shooter was "in custody" or dead, it seems. The crowd is indeed increasingly distraught, frantic and hostile to LEOs. Some had likely seen a stretcher come out of the school. possibly with the dead child who was locked into an ambulance. And then abandoned, visibly, to some who could see it just across the street, undoubtedly. An air of pandemonium was cresting. No doubt many heard the gunfire at 12:50 or at minimum saw the LEOs n the west doorway courtyard react, after more than an hour of standing around trying to look tough, or whatever.
Then, a gaggle of LEOs, possibly BORTAC and seemingly although not visibly, DPS Crimson Elizondo among them rushes the scrum of children to the first bus, number 17, as seen on a livestream video from the parking lot at a distance in a blurry video. All hell breaks loose. On the door side/ funeral home side, a livestream cam catches some of the chaos as a distraught father is tackled by LEOs who prevent him from reaching his son. The crowd screams in protest, and women begin to loudly and openly wail in abject agony. They've seen THEIR children are bleeding, wounded, in shock, or worse. and all they are told is to "stay back" by the same people who didn't go in an hour ago and get them out.
They should be livid and they should be cursing and shouting, IMO. In some regards, these cops are accessory to murder IMO. A judge will never likely assess that. But they've kidnappend the kids and held them in police custody, arguably but not prevented the shooter from killing them at will for 82 minutes. And they've physcialy blocked those who were willing to immediately intervene.
On the other side of the bus, citizen Adam Ladezma, whose nieces and nephews go to Robb "films" or livestream-captures a child who, on encouragement from his family crawls out the back window of bus 17, the "BORTAC Express" as I'm calling it and is helped down and spirited away from the custody of the lawmen. As you watch, it's likely you feel a sigh of relief. These are poor custodians of children, one is likely assured despite the breakdown order occurring. Anyone would want to get away from their custody and the child readily complies. "When you find yourself going thru hell, keep going."
So there are all these things happening and more, and I'm attempting to put them into a coherent timeline. This is a bad, preliminary attempt to do so but I think the clues exist to do a much better job of outlining the actions. Perhaps the first pass should just be to name all the things that we see or know happened, in whatever order we have. I'm sorta doing that here but not in bullet-outline form, pardon the very poor choice of words.
But as the busses soon get moving, we know the BORTAC Express driver has locked the back door and that she sees Eva Mireles "dead" on the sidewalk being given CPR or at least lying there bleeding. And we know a child is taken off the bus by who she says is BORTAC, I think. She's made her initial turn onto Geraldine and the bus behind her follows her. lead. Does it have kids on it, the #2 bus? Does it have a LEO on it, or instructions where to go? I don't think so. It's just going. There may be a picture of aaLEO on the street speaking to the driver, IIRC, Ill try to find it. The driver wants the heck out of there, who wouldn't? Maybe it hopes to pick up more students and wishes to be closer. Seemingly, no one is put on board as it waits on Gerldine that I can see evidenc of however. It follows the Express off the scene.
The busses move far enough that the #3 and 4, 5, busses can turn right. As they do so, they too seem to stall as a helicopter comes in to land. I think it is the DPS chopper but I cannot be certain. If so, it's potentially one of the things that has delayed the arrival of the medical Air Flite choppers, although that sounds like mainly an oversight or foible of the Medina Fire chief, too. One of the choppers has blood supplies. The end up not getting used at the scene. I'm not sure if they go to the Uvalde hospital, the blood supplies, or back to a Trauma 1 center in San Antonio.
Dust covers the sky and drifts eventually onto the wounded (Eva Mireles, probably, gets covered in it) and and the ambulances that are newly arriving. A famous long-lens photo shows what looks like a 9/11style ash blizzard or. snowstorm-from-hell on the scene looking down Geraldine from the front of the school to chaos, disorder. We move quickly from two ambulances, one locked with a dead child inside and the other overcrowded with kids bleeding on the captains chair, to six or eight ambulances.
As the DPS helicopter moves towards the playground, the camera swings back to the west entrance and the bus lane. A stretcher gurney seems to be going IN to a newly arrived ambulacne. (See the first video WP/TT/PP story) Another gurney seemingly is OUT of another folded low on the ground by the tail of a ambulace. The tail end of the #2 bus is still there but begins to leave.
DPS tactical from all the way up in Austin has arrived somehow at 12:58 (too late, they were always going to be too late for the kids) in the midst of the bungled evacuations. Somewhere before all this they sprint to the courtyard by the west door, choking the passage of anyone. News helicopter seems to capture some of it, as well as news cameras down at the front of the school, and still photogs, too. it looks to all of them like something important is happening. It isn't. Not there, and not with them.
Somewhere in here SWAT from San Antonio enters the mix. I'm very loose on that timing. They're hard to tell apart from DPS tactical or SRT or whatever they are called. Is it them that runs as a big squad? I'm unsure. Nor can I spot where BORTAC huddles up afterwards. I think they stay inside the building because we don't spot them outside, not at tthe west and not at the south. They didn't all stay on the bus they commandeered. DPS Crimson Elizondo did, but who else?
We know ambulances have crawled across peoples yards, criss-crossing like a post apocalypse freeway scene to get around abandoned cop cars blocking the roads. They start arriving all from one direction as the second bus behind BORTAC Express finally manages to scoot off from the front of the school.
There's some sort of "load and go, load and go" action here that we don't have much information about unless we extrapolate what child was wounded how and eliminate the trio of AJ, Noah and Mayah from them, possibly.
At least one medical helicopter manages to land, to no avail at some point. Everyone is racing somewhere in an ambulance. Xavier, to his demise somewhere west of Hondo. Mrs Mirales never leaves the ambulance at the curb, as she desperately attended to possibly at near-gunpoint after UPC cops and attending EMTs have seemingly furiously pumped what little blood she had left onto the sidewalk, because her heart stopped from the traumatic way she was dragged from the room, seemingly and of course her multiple gunshot wounds from an AR-15. The "load and go" kids must also include the teacher from 111, who has first been placed in a cop car, or attempted- he didnt fit - and then onto the tailgate/ lift gate of a fire department truck? Possibly the one in the funeral home lot, which must have freaked the crowd out to witness, then finally into one of the "maze runner" arriving ambulances.
Again, I refer us all to the WP/TT/PP animation for clues to that. Somehow, "load and go" period ends. When? When the ambulances stop moving, whenever that is.
And then, finally, Rangers lock the scene down, even closing the gate to the west door. It's now a crime scene and they are in charge of the investigation. The Justice of the Peace, acting as coroner is enroute to pronounce the less than 18? bodies as dead. Unsure on the math here. Three left the classroom with a pulse who died. 21 died. (plus the shooter, #22). One body was locked in an ambulance. How many left in the classrooms when the rangers lock it down? 22 minus three who died and one who was improperly removed and locked in a (much needed) ambulance. 18 bodies including the shooters, is that right?
Eventually each is designated a letter of the alphabet and DNA sampled on site so the pieces of children and teachers can be sorted and reassembled, or at least distributed to the funeral homes in the right batches. Several are said to be more or less headless. On one, a pair of Green converse with a little heart-shaped sharpie drawn on the toe, that aids in identifaction.
Parents have been told to go to the civic center. Many are going to race to every hospital they can think of, including San Antonio instead. Mothers, fathers and grandparent must all separate to cover more ground, adding to the panic and desperation. Some have been told to go to the high school, but the high school gets some sort of possible gun threat? Again, NO ONE IS IN CHARGE.
On the curb near the front of the school sits Lexi's Rubio's mother and deputy father, utterly bereft. He's been kept out of the classroom but seems to have been told the definite news their child is not coming out. Curious news crews videotape and photograph them in their grief, until the mother of one parent seemingly arrives to join them. Eventually, they thread their way onto the campus to get away from the news anchors assembled by the school sign in the same intersection where Officer Hill had parked to witness Coronado's "wild ride" at 11:31 or so. 82 minutes and then some have passed, as have at least 19 souls? by now, some still fighting for life, the shooter one among the many dead, yet separate in category only. The blood of all spreads to mingle in the footprints and pools of fluids on the floors the gruesome CSI process begins in earnest.
In the queue on the video projector's mechanism, "Lilo and Stitch" awaits the Disney happy ending. Elvis won't be singing the finale BURNING LOVE today. Elvis has left the building. Elvis is deader than Elvis. And the children are going to meet him in Heaven, if you believe what the King does and loved to sing about. "Farther along, we'll understand it./ Farther along, we'll understand why."
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lengthy intro, feel free to skip this part
You will see I don't get too far on the time stamp part, and I'm sure I'm leaving out known and likely vital events we know of, too. But the sources are scattered and their narratives jumbled as well. It does begin to sketch a picture though, to tell the story as best as I can from the top of my head. I'd like to make this a lot more factual and probably should make it a lot less "editorial," as well. But it is like the old joke, what do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the lake? "A good start."
I'm POSITIVE some of this is wrong. But I wanted to start somewhere before it all gets turned to mush in my brain. I keep notes but later they don't always make perfect sense to me because all the information comes in from every angle and it's spinning like a top, usually as well. . I'm not a historian, or a true crime reporter. I'm an amateur on the internet in this regard, please forgive me and help me get it right where you can. I dont mean to offend anyone, either. Hopefully we are all in this together, to establish the truth here. How can we have any real opinions or accountability or make the best policy decisions moving forward, or honor the fallen, or sue the heck out of one another, for that matter, without first establishing the basic facts.
It's just what sloughed off my keyboard this morning as I woke and once again tried to make sense of what makes no sense. why, ten months on we have to peice this together from corporate news accounts' hastily assembled snippets of B-roll, local rumor, internet conjecture (mine and yours, dear readers), leaks and bodycams edited and truncated by a hired PR firm for the city of Uvalde, and other odd sources coming across the ether and "over the transom," meaning we don't know who told us this.
This will be a partial timeline from a shattered afternoon where almost everyone present was in some sort of a state of shock, yet waving cheap and crude videocameras of various sorts and disordered eventual custody around in back of a school no one paid much attention to before, and that will soon be razed to the ground. And about which NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE other than to board up the windows and wipe up the blood. One important source seems to be a "whistleblower" who may in fact be a "bad actor" working to just help spread out bad news as slowly and poorly as possible, selectively omitting the worst of the worst. Who can say?
It's a portrait of chaos, drawn from chaos. A vision of hell from someone who wasn't even there, but can't stop imagining it somehow. I have little idea why. Some of my friends' children were there, but they were not in the 4th grade. It's probably all none of my business, my only real connection is that my children go to public schools in Texas. And I helped pay for these public records that are so well hidden. That at least means something to me. The rest just seems to spring from common decency and having an empathetic heart. I couldn't rightly say why any of us are here almost a year later but we are. It all started with a bang. And it all ends in sin and tears, like my grandmother would say.
The TLDR is that 21 people were murdered and a bunch of people who were only attempted to be murdered were mishandled by idiot cowards and dragged hither and yon while parents were tackled, tased and traumatized. The rest is just the gory sad details.
Don't read it if you can can help it. Horesman, pass by. But if you must, know this: it isn't pretty and it likely won't fix much of anything. But maybe just maybe it's part of path towards eventual healing or as Senator Gutierrez says, looking forward someday to "a slightly duller ache of pain."
There is no good place to start this narrative, the story of the "Aftermath." This is the wrong place but it's where I began so here it is:
Draft Narrative:
If it was Noah and AJ who ended up in an ambulance with Mayah, it seems like one of them may have originally been on the bus but taken off fairly quickly. The narrative from the lawsuit by the bus driver seems to say a boy was put on her bus but quickly taken off because of the seriousness of his injuries, or perhaps like with Mrs Mireles, the frantic cops seemed to have tunnel vision and couldn't find the ambulances at first and when one was finally right in front of them, they stumbled towards it instead.
It's also related that a dead child was placed into one ambulance, and that's why there were three in the other. Extrapolating from there it's also possible Mrs Mireles was eventually taken off the sidewalk and put in the ambulance with the dead boy still inside, or maybe she was moved to an ambulance the finally arrived from Main Street holding area.
The WP/TT/PP story has an excellently detailed animation of where ambulances and school busses came and went, beginning with the initial two ambulances. But it doesn't say who was placed inside any of them. The lead bus leaves the line at the funeral home where at least two livestream cams had caught the frantic scramble of LEOs to march and carry kids from the school to the bus. I'm not sure how many kids were on the bus. I haven't even re-read the lawsuit account yet.
Finding a sync point in order to put time stamps to the animation and the citizen livestream recordings for us poor saps denied full versions of public records videos is difficult. It seems likely the bulk of vehicle movement animation is drawn from DPS helicopter video and of course the funeral home cameras. We don't have those, but we can see snippets of them her and there the DPS helicopter at least. It's the one with the rangefinder marking and what looks almost like a weapon system crosshairs superimposed on screen. The story itself mentions LEO bodycam as well. Don't forget Crimson Elizondo is said to have ridden the "BORTAC express" school bus and wore an operating bodycam.
But the buses began to move - then stalled - before 1:01. That seems to tell us a few things - the "triage" was perfunctory and swift in getting the kids who could walk - and some who were carried - from the school to the BORTAC Express. But it took more than just one or two minutes, it seesm like it took almost ten to get children onto the BORTAC Express, but less than ten probably. We know one child was so wounded he was taken off the bus and put into an ambulance. likely the one manned by the EMT who treated thee kids, Mayah, AJ and Noah. That's not certain tho.
Two busses in the lead turn left onto Geraldine. Others go right. Were some on a route to civic center? Or to hospital? I need to check routes.
In a sick, sad moment on the Adam Ladezma livestream, seemingly after 12:50 and before 1:01 a US Marshall threatens parents, telling them harshly to move behind the busses or else their kids won't be brought out, and that the present delay is their fault, for standing on the grass off the street north of the busses, blocking no one and nothing. It seems like the scrum of agents are waiting inside, calling and stalling for a path to be cleared for them, rather than trusting that the public wants the same thing they want - for medical aid to be swift.
Some 5-10 minutes earlier the news had spread by word of mouth that the shooter was "in custody" or dead, it seems. The crowd is indeed increasingly distraught, frantic and hostile to LEOs. Some had likely seen a stretcher come out of the school. possibly with the dead child who was locked into an ambulance. And then abandoned, visibly, to some who could see it just across the street, undoubtedly. An air of pandemonium was cresting. No doubt many heard the gunfire at 12:50 or at minimum saw the LEOs n the west doorway courtyard react, after more than an hour of standing around trying to look tough, or whatever.
Then, a gaggle of LEOs, possibly BORTAC and seemingly although not visibly, DPS Crimson Elizondo among them rushes the scrum of children to the first bus, number 17, as seen on a livestream video from the parking lot at a distance in a blurry video. All hell breaks loose. On the door side/ funeral home side, a livestream cam catches some of the chaos as a distraught father is tackled by LEOs who prevent him from reaching his son. The crowd screams in protest, and women begin to loudly and openly wail in abject agony. They've seen THEIR children are bleeding, wounded, in shock, or worse. and all they are told is to "stay back" by the same people who didn't go in an hour ago and get them out.
They should be livid and they should be cursing and shouting, IMO. In some regards, these cops are accessory to murder IMO. A judge will never likely assess that. But they've kidnappend the kids and held them in police custody, arguably but not prevented the shooter from killing them at will for 82 minutes. And they've physcialy blocked those who were willing to immediately intervene.
On the other side of the bus, citizen Adam Ladezma, whose nieces and nephews go to Robb "films" or livestream-captures a child who, on encouragement from his family crawls out the back window of bus 17, the "BORTAC Express" as I'm calling it and is helped down and spirited away from the custody of the lawmen. As you watch, it's likely you feel a sigh of relief. These are poor custodians of children, one is likely assured despite the breakdown order occurring. Anyone would want to get away from their custody and the child readily complies. "When you find yourself going thru hell, keep going."
So there are all these things happening and more, and I'm attempting to put them into a coherent timeline. This is a bad, preliminary attempt to do so but I think the clues exist to do a much better job of outlining the actions. Perhaps the first pass should just be to name all the things that we see or know happened, in whatever order we have. I'm sorta doing that here but not in bullet-outline form, pardon the very poor choice of words.
But as the busses soon get moving, we know the BORTAC Express driver has locked the back door and that she sees Eva Mireles "dead" on the sidewalk being given CPR or at least lying there bleeding. And we know a child is taken off the bus by who she says is BORTAC, I think. She's made her initial turn onto Geraldine and the bus behind her follows her. lead. Does it have kids on it, the #2 bus? Does it have a LEO on it, or instructions where to go? I don't think so. It's just going. There may be a picture of aaLEO on the street speaking to the driver, IIRC, Ill try to find it. The driver wants the heck out of there, who wouldn't? Maybe it hopes to pick up more students and wishes to be closer. Seemingly, no one is put on board as it waits on Gerldine that I can see evidenc of however. It follows the Express off the scene.
The busses move far enough that the #3 and 4, 5, busses can turn right. As they do so, they too seem to stall as a helicopter comes in to land. I think it is the DPS chopper but I cannot be certain. If so, it's potentially one of the things that has delayed the arrival of the medical Air Flite choppers, although that sounds like mainly an oversight or foible of the Medina Fire chief, too. One of the choppers has blood supplies. The end up not getting used at the scene. I'm not sure if they go to the Uvalde hospital, the blood supplies, or back to a Trauma 1 center in San Antonio.
Dust covers the sky and drifts eventually onto the wounded (Eva Mireles, probably, gets covered in it) and and the ambulances that are newly arriving. A famous long-lens photo shows what looks like a 9/11style ash blizzard or. snowstorm-from-hell on the scene looking down Geraldine from the front of the school to chaos, disorder. We move quickly from two ambulances, one locked with a dead child inside and the other overcrowded with kids bleeding on the captains chair, to six or eight ambulances.
As the DPS helicopter moves towards the playground, the camera swings back to the west entrance and the bus lane. A stretcher gurney seems to be going IN to a newly arrived ambulacne. (See the first video WP/TT/PP story) Another gurney seemingly is OUT of another folded low on the ground by the tail of a ambulace. The tail end of the #2 bus is still there but begins to leave.
DPS tactical from all the way up in Austin has arrived somehow at 12:58 (too late, they were always going to be too late for the kids) in the midst of the bungled evacuations. Somewhere before all this they sprint to the courtyard by the west door, choking the passage of anyone. News helicopter seems to capture some of it, as well as news cameras down at the front of the school, and still photogs, too. it looks to all of them like something important is happening. It isn't. Not there, and not with them.
Somewhere in here SWAT from San Antonio enters the mix. I'm very loose on that timing. They're hard to tell apart from DPS tactical or SRT or whatever they are called. Is it them that runs as a big squad? I'm unsure. Nor can I spot where BORTAC huddles up afterwards. I think they stay inside the building because we don't spot them outside, not at tthe west and not at the south. They didn't all stay on the bus they commandeered. DPS Crimson Elizondo did, but who else?
We know ambulances have crawled across peoples yards, criss-crossing like a post apocalypse freeway scene to get around abandoned cop cars blocking the roads. They start arriving all from one direction as the second bus behind BORTAC Express finally manages to scoot off from the front of the school.
There's some sort of "load and go, load and go" action here that we don't have much information about unless we extrapolate what child was wounded how and eliminate the trio of AJ, Noah and Mayah from them, possibly.
At least one medical helicopter manages to land, to no avail at some point. Everyone is racing somewhere in an ambulance. Xavier, to his demise somewhere west of Hondo. Mrs Mirales never leaves the ambulance at the curb, as she desperately attended to possibly at near-gunpoint after UPC cops and attending EMTs have seemingly furiously pumped what little blood she had left onto the sidewalk, because her heart stopped from the traumatic way she was dragged from the room, seemingly and of course her multiple gunshot wounds from an AR-15. The "load and go" kids must also include the teacher from 111, who has first been placed in a cop car, or attempted- he didnt fit - and then onto the tailgate/ lift gate of a fire department truck? Possibly the one in the funeral home lot, which must have freaked the crowd out to witness, then finally into one of the "maze runner" arriving ambulances.
Again, I refer us all to the WP/TT/PP animation for clues to that. Somehow, "load and go" period ends. When? When the ambulances stop moving, whenever that is.
And then, finally, Rangers lock the scene down, even closing the gate to the west door. It's now a crime scene and they are in charge of the investigation. The Justice of the Peace, acting as coroner is enroute to pronounce the less than 18? bodies as dead. Unsure on the math here. Three left the classroom with a pulse who died. 21 died. (plus the shooter, #22). One body was locked in an ambulance. How many left in the classrooms when the rangers lock it down? 22 minus three who died and one who was improperly removed and locked in a (much needed) ambulance. 18 bodies including the shooters, is that right?
Eventually each is designated a letter of the alphabet and DNA sampled on site so the pieces of children and teachers can be sorted and reassembled, or at least distributed to the funeral homes in the right batches. Several are said to be more or less headless. On one, a pair of Green converse with a little heart-shaped sharpie drawn on the toe, that aids in identifaction.
Parents have been told to go to the civic center. Many are going to race to every hospital they can think of, including San Antonio instead. Mothers, fathers and grandparent must all separate to cover more ground, adding to the panic and desperation. Some have been told to go to the high school, but the high school gets some sort of possible gun threat? Again, NO ONE IS IN CHARGE.
On the curb near the front of the school sits Lexi's Rubio's mother and deputy father, utterly bereft. He's been kept out of the classroom but seems to have been told the definite news their child is not coming out. Curious news crews videotape and photograph them in their grief, until the mother of one parent seemingly arrives to join them. Eventually, they thread their way onto the campus to get away from the news anchors assembled by the school sign in the same intersection where Officer Hill had parked to witness Coronado's "wild ride" at 11:31 or so. 82 minutes and then some have passed, as have at least 19 souls? by now, some still fighting for life, the shooter one among the many dead, yet separate in category only. The blood of all spreads to mingle in the footprints and pools of fluids on the floors the gruesome CSI process begins in earnest.
In the queue on the video projector's mechanism, "Lilo and Stitch" awaits the Disney happy ending. Elvis won't be singing the finale BURNING LOVE today. Elvis has left the building. Elvis is deader than Elvis. And the children are going to meet him in Heaven, if you believe what the King does and loved to sing about. "Farther along, we'll understand it./ Farther along, we'll understand why."
2023.03.22 00:09 itisjafar 29 [M4F] Midwest/Online/Anywhere - This Must Be the Place
You can listen to this post, and listen to my voice, here! https://vocaroo.com/1k9zBxaV29AC
It's been a particularly tough couple of years to be a teacher, but now that we're past spring break, I've been able to catch my breath a bit. Lately I’ve been catching up on reading, workouts, and those recipes I’d bookmarked who-knows-when ago, but I’d like to start catching up on my social and dating life too, and I'm looking for people who want the same.
About Me:
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It's been a particularly tough couple of years to be a teacher, but now that we're past spring break, I've been able to catch my breath a bit. Lately I’ve been catching up on reading, workouts, and those recipes I’d bookmarked who-knows-when ago, but I’d like to start catching up on my social and dating life too, and I'm looking for people who want the same.
About Me:
- My hobbies include learning languages, baking, smoking meats, and playing music. The Killers and The Talking Heads are two of my favorite artists.
- I’m a huge fan of theater, anything in the outdoors, and craft beer.
- I’m blonde, 5’10, with green eyes. I have an average build, though I run and workout regularly. I’m told I have a great smile and an even better laugh.
- Slytherin (it’s Pottermore official)
- While I wholeheartedly reject the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I’m presumably an INFJ.
- I love to tell terrible jokes and I am liable to keep them coming until you tell me to stop.
- Mountains > Beaches
- Chicago > APA
- Any other style of pizza > Chicago
- I’d love to talk with someone who is caring, passionate, fun-loving, and spontaneous. Some overlap in our hobbies or interests could be great, too – but over and above all, be you.
- Please be single; I am not looking to get involved with someone already involved with someone else.
- If you’ve read this far, tell me your favorite color in your first message!
- Please be 18+, but beyond that I don’t have an age cutoff provided you and I can have a mature discussion.
- I’m looking to make a more-than-friends connection.
- Given the state of the world right now, I’m looking for a connection that’s largely online for the time being, unless we happen to live very close by.
- I’m more than happy to share photos of myself (random selfies throughout the day are fun!) I’m also happy to verify myself and I will ask you to do the same.
- I will never ghost you. Things fall apart; if we don’t work out, I will be upfront about it. I ask that you be willing to do the same should things come to that point.
2023.03.21 23:38 oobraphone Palm Springs - Coachella Valley Desert - Rush Hour
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2023.03.21 23:15 Ready-Ad-4549 Afterglow lyrics meaning - Ed Sheeran
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
Stop the clocks (3AM Mercy hour),
it's amazing (White 4)
(3AM-6AM zigzag cocaine during heroin high)
You should see (White 4) the way (Grey 5)
the light (White 4) dances (Grey 5) off your head (White 4)
[Anti-Christ heroin man]
A million colors (Blue 2) of hazel (Grey 5),
golden (Grey 5) and red (Red 1)
Saturday morning (Blue 2) is fading (Grey 5)
The sun's (Red 1) reflected (White 4)
by the coffee (Grey 5) in your hand (White 4)
My eyes (Grey 5) are caught (Grey 5)
in your gaze (White 4) all over (White 4) again
[Anti-Christ heroin man]
We were love drunk (Blue 2), waiting on a miracle (White 4)
Tryna find (White 4) ourselves (Grey 5) in the winter snow (White 4)
So alone (Grey 5) in love (Red 1) like the world (Red 1) had disappeared (Grey 5)
Oh (Red 1), I won't be silent (Grey 5) and I won't let go (White 4)
I will hold on tighter (Grey 5) 'til the afterglow (6AM Black)
And we'll burn (Grey 5) so bright (White 4) 'til the darkness (Grey 5) softly clears (6AM Black)
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
The weather outside's (White 4) changing (Grey 5)
The leaves (White 4) are buried (Grey 5) under six inches of white (White 4)
The radio (Grey 5) is playing (White 4), Iron (Grey 5) & Wine (White 4)
This is a new dimension (White 4)
This is a level (Grey 5) where we're losing track of time (Grey 5)
I'm holding nothing (Grey 5) against it (Grey 5),
except you (White 4) and I (Grey 5)
[Anti-Christ heroin man]
We were love drunk (Blue 2), waiting on a miracle (White 4)
Tryna find (White 4) ourselves (Grey 5) in the winter snow (White 4)
So alone (Grey 5) in love (Red 1) like the world (Red 1) had disappeared (Grey 5)
Oh (Red 1), I won't be silent (Grey 5) and I won't let go (White 4)
I will hold on tighter (Grey 5) 'til the afterglow (6AM Black)
And we'll burn (Grey 5) so bright (White 4) 'til the darkness (Grey 5) softly clears (6AM Black)
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
---------
Cocaine Rock Heroin Roll cycle
Kingdom of Light = forever, always = all cocaine, History = His Story
9PM-12AM only cocaine during cocaine high
9PM Christ cocaine born (Christmas)(cocaine shot right arm)
10PM Father God cocaine (cocaine shot left arm)
11PM Holy Ghost cocaine (cocaine shot both arms)
12AM Anti-Christ wakes inside Christ cocaine when Christ cocaine shoots heroin
Rocking = Christ cocaine dominant, cocaine addiction
(12AM-3AM zigzag heroin during cocaine high)
(zigzag between Red 1 and Blue 2)
shoot (heroin) to thrill (cocaine)
sometimes, something = some heroin
American Pie
1AM Red = some heroin mostly cocaine (black dot white bar)
I (Christ cocaine)
baby, the sun,
hope, happy, light, easy
here, now, do
body, head, eye, see,
free, loose
young, girl,
wind, mountain, breeze,
queen,
everyone,
everything,
all, whole,
knows, nose, teach,
believe,
spring,
stop, walk, stand,
mile,
story, speak, write, words, letters,
reason, why, want, how, knowledge,
diamonds, business, work, make, build, give,
city, world,
buy, got, rich, strong, right, million, style,
one eye open, black hole sun, spick, wake up,
pinky (1), index finger (1 or 4), horns sign thumb out (1,4&5), shaka sign (1&5), A,
love, sex,
think, thought, logic,
forest, rock,
battered
2AM Blue = more heroin mostly cocaine (white bar black outline)
I (Anti-Christ heroin)
the moon
everywhere,
million colors, rainbow, bright,
rain, air, sea, sky, cry, summer, blue moon, bawler, bawl, endless day
Saturday mourning, morning,
run, dance, lie down, action,
road, church, ocean, earth, bed,
what, anything,
song,
king, fool, 17, illegal, boy, student
change, sell, take
poor, weak, soul, mind, pay
go, speed, play, vacation, holiday, move,
bruised, part,
superstition, wild,
dare, risk
heard, no words, numbers, hearts,
fake, matter, use, try, blow,
feel, hopeless, sad, heavy thoughts,
wrong, fine, well, wish,
trauma, bleeding, hard, challenge,
the blues,
hum, say,
B, 2, 5, thumb,
material,
smell, rape, lust, love drunk,
something's wrong, better way,
3AM Mercy hour
lavender, purple, violet
Anti-Christ heroin kills Christ cocaine, mostly cocaine syringe becomes mostly heroin syringe
(stop the clocks)
(3 = middle finger = Anti-Christ heroin fucks over Christ cocaine)
(Ouroboros = Dragon heroin addiction consumes body of Christ cocaine addiction)
(the day the music died)
Rolling = Anti-Christ heroin dominant, heroin addiction
3AM-6AM zigzag cocaine during heroin high
(zigzag between White 4 and Grey 5)
play (cocaine) to kill (heroin)
somewhere, somehow = some cocaine
4AM White = some cocaine mostly heroin (white dot black bar)
Anti-Christ heroin woman
my son,
you, your, your light, help yourself, your heavenly body, your gaze,
wine,
tonight, fall, today,
leaves,
let go, (let it go)
train station, town, wherever, frontline, lost, free from sin,
shine, reflected, star light,
alright, tucked in, flying
crazy, wonder,
dove, little bird, cat,(dead cat bounce), prey,
smoke, sweat, tear, speck, pool, bone, ball, pillow, skeleton, (skeleton in the closet), grain of sand, first star, apple, winter snow,
apart, only, just, so, the (the light), just think, so far, so bright,
Sisyphus, orphan, little one, bastard, rock star, wife, mother, sister, mama, hitchhiker, them,
whistle, sing, ringing, noise
photograph, TV,
one in a million, times like these, waiting on a miracle, new dimension,
bounce, around, (she'll be coming around the mountain), all over,
amazing,
sleep, pray, forget
message, answer, call, (call of the wild), SOS, meaning of things, pretend,
symbol, clubs, agriculture, (sowing the seeds of love),
good luck,
blind,
wedding,(White wedding),
should, would, will, you will be
wanna, gonna, gonna make, tryna find,
5AM Grey = more heroin (black bar white outline)
Anti-Christ heroin man = Blackjack, (the ace of spades), (shot caller), liar, yeah, um, no,
me, my, mine, my eyes,
alone, so alone,
it, it's, it's a shame
winter, last night,
nowhere, buried, underground, grave, closet, deep down, hole, so low, inside, south,
trunk,
yellow, golden, hazel, brown, glow, faded, broken, disappeared,
feeling, peace, pain, warm within, burn, shame, lucky, insane
the way, turn,
thing, bad habit, shadow, time,
transportation, truck, train, horse,
drink,
need, hunger, necessity, hopeless itch,
object, clock, gun, telephone, radio, hair, cannonball, pistol, bullet, horn, shotgun, bottle, cup of coffee,
iron,
rat, bat, wild, predator, wolf, beast,
nature, sand,
hush, silence,
remember, found,
papa, chosen one, father, husband, brother, keeper, guide, finder, ourselves, us,
catch, kill, die, dream, bite, take, race, (brothers in arms),
force, pressure, gravity, fire, squeeze, tight,
hand, hold, grip, (hold on tight)
game, symbols, star, V, 5, spades, 21, ?, bell, (hell's bells), bad sign, horns sign thumb in (1&4), thumb, lucky star,
fight, military, brawler, war,
fear, restless, sleepless,
6AM Black = (Black bar) all heroin
Devil, Dragula, Sandman, yeah-yeah, Lord above, mother nature
Devil heroin castle, (The Wall), home, hell, never never land,
green, black,
grass,
sunrise, afterglow,
softly clears
jealousy, greed,
---------
More Metaphors:
cocaine: stone, Dutch, pink, letters, white, hills, sweet, sugar, northern, 9, uptown, highlands, new, west, fly, truth, smile, hard, touch, silver, paper, sheets, sail, urban, west, god, hope, ...
heroin: slip, strangle, slam, smack, dig, ditch, soft, velvet, sun, sunshine, Italian, country, man, downtown, southern, poison, 8, rural, shelter, east, dark, misery, dirt, luck, mud, frown, low, mule, madness, weak, lonely, gone, watch, strange, stranger, spread, nobody, nothing, bad, lies, trouble, ...
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Stop the clocks (3AM Mercy hour),
it's amazing (White 4)
(3AM-6AM zigzag cocaine during heroin high)
You should see (White 4) the way (Grey 5)
the light (White 4) dances (Grey 5) off your head (White 4)
[Anti-Christ heroin man]
A million colors (Blue 2) of hazel (Grey 5),
golden (Grey 5) and red (Red 1)
Saturday morning (Blue 2) is fading (Grey 5)
The sun's (Red 1) reflected (White 4)
by the coffee (Grey 5) in your hand (White 4)
My eyes (Grey 5) are caught (Grey 5)
in your gaze (White 4) all over (White 4) again
[Anti-Christ heroin man]
We were love drunk (Blue 2), waiting on a miracle (White 4)
Tryna find (White 4) ourselves (Grey 5) in the winter snow (White 4)
So alone (Grey 5) in love (Red 1) like the world (Red 1) had disappeared (Grey 5)
Oh (Red 1), I won't be silent (Grey 5) and I won't let go (White 4)
I will hold on tighter (Grey 5) 'til the afterglow (6AM Black)
And we'll burn (Grey 5) so bright (White 4) 'til the darkness (Grey 5) softly clears (6AM Black)
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
The weather outside's (White 4) changing (Grey 5)
The leaves (White 4) are buried (Grey 5) under six inches of white (White 4)
The radio (Grey 5) is playing (White 4), Iron (Grey 5) & Wine (White 4)
This is a new dimension (White 4)
This is a level (Grey 5) where we're losing track of time (Grey 5)
I'm holding nothing (Grey 5) against it (Grey 5),
except you (White 4) and I (Grey 5)
[Anti-Christ heroin man]
We were love drunk (Blue 2), waiting on a miracle (White 4)
Tryna find (White 4) ourselves (Grey 5) in the winter snow (White 4)
So alone (Grey 5) in love (Red 1) like the world (Red 1) had disappeared (Grey 5)
Oh (Red 1), I won't be silent (Grey 5) and I won't let go (White 4)
I will hold on tighter (Grey 5) 'til the afterglow (6AM Black)
And we'll burn (Grey 5) so bright (White 4) 'til the darkness (Grey 5) softly clears (6AM Black)
[Anti-Christ heroin man speaking to Christ cocaine]
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
Oh (Red 1), I will hold on (Grey 5) to the afterglow (6AM Black)
---------
Cocaine Rock Heroin Roll cycle
Kingdom of Light = forever, always = all cocaine, History = His Story
9PM-12AM only cocaine during cocaine high
9PM Christ cocaine born (Christmas)(cocaine shot right arm)
10PM Father God cocaine (cocaine shot left arm)
11PM Holy Ghost cocaine (cocaine shot both arms)
12AM Anti-Christ wakes inside Christ cocaine when Christ cocaine shoots heroin
Rocking = Christ cocaine dominant, cocaine addiction
(12AM-3AM zigzag heroin during cocaine high)
(zigzag between Red 1 and Blue 2)
shoot (heroin) to thrill (cocaine)
sometimes, something = some heroin
American Pie
1AM Red = some heroin mostly cocaine (black dot white bar)
I (Christ cocaine)
baby, the sun,
hope, happy, light, easy
here, now, do
body, head, eye, see,
free, loose
young, girl,
wind, mountain, breeze,
queen,
everyone,
everything,
all, whole,
knows, nose, teach,
believe,
spring,
stop, walk, stand,
mile,
story, speak, write, words, letters,
reason, why, want, how, knowledge,
diamonds, business, work, make, build, give,
city, world,
buy, got, rich, strong, right, million, style,
one eye open, black hole sun, spick, wake up,
pinky (1), index finger (1 or 4), horns sign thumb out (1,4&5), shaka sign (1&5), A,
love, sex,
think, thought, logic,
forest, rock,
battered
2AM Blue = more heroin mostly cocaine (white bar black outline)
I (Anti-Christ heroin)
the moon
everywhere,
million colors, rainbow, bright,
rain, air, sea, sky, cry, summer, blue moon, bawler, bawl, endless day
Saturday mourning, morning,
run, dance, lie down, action,
road, church, ocean, earth, bed,
what, anything,
song,
king, fool, 17, illegal, boy, student
change, sell, take
poor, weak, soul, mind, pay
go, speed, play, vacation, holiday, move,
bruised, part,
superstition, wild,
dare, risk
heard, no words, numbers, hearts,
fake, matter, use, try, blow,
feel, hopeless, sad, heavy thoughts,
wrong, fine, well, wish,
trauma, bleeding, hard, challenge,
the blues,
hum, say,
B, 2, 5, thumb,
material,
smell, rape, lust, love drunk,
something's wrong, better way,
3AM Mercy hour
lavender, purple, violet
Anti-Christ heroin kills Christ cocaine, mostly cocaine syringe becomes mostly heroin syringe
(stop the clocks)
(3 = middle finger = Anti-Christ heroin fucks over Christ cocaine)
(Ouroboros = Dragon heroin addiction consumes body of Christ cocaine addiction)
(the day the music died)
Rolling = Anti-Christ heroin dominant, heroin addiction
3AM-6AM zigzag cocaine during heroin high
(zigzag between White 4 and Grey 5)
play (cocaine) to kill (heroin)
somewhere, somehow = some cocaine
4AM White = some cocaine mostly heroin (white dot black bar)
Anti-Christ heroin woman
my son,
you, your, your light, help yourself, your heavenly body, your gaze,
wine,
tonight, fall, today,
leaves,
let go, (let it go)
train station, town, wherever, frontline, lost, free from sin,
shine, reflected, star light,
alright, tucked in, flying
crazy, wonder,
dove, little bird, cat,(dead cat bounce), prey,
smoke, sweat, tear, speck, pool, bone, ball, pillow, skeleton, (skeleton in the closet), grain of sand, first star, apple, winter snow,
apart, only, just, so, the (the light), just think, so far, so bright,
Sisyphus, orphan, little one, bastard, rock star, wife, mother, sister, mama, hitchhiker, them,
whistle, sing, ringing, noise
photograph, TV,
one in a million, times like these, waiting on a miracle, new dimension,
bounce, around, (she'll be coming around the mountain), all over,
amazing,
sleep, pray, forget
message, answer, call, (call of the wild), SOS, meaning of things, pretend,
symbol, clubs, agriculture, (sowing the seeds of love),
good luck,
blind,
wedding,(White wedding),
should, would, will, you will be
wanna, gonna, gonna make, tryna find,
5AM Grey = more heroin (black bar white outline)
Anti-Christ heroin man = Blackjack, (the ace of spades), (shot caller), liar, yeah, um, no,
me, my, mine, my eyes,
alone, so alone,
it, it's, it's a shame
winter, last night,
nowhere, buried, underground, grave, closet, deep down, hole, so low, inside, south,
trunk,
yellow, golden, hazel, brown, glow, faded, broken, disappeared,
feeling, peace, pain, warm within, burn, shame, lucky, insane
the way, turn,
thing, bad habit, shadow, time,
transportation, truck, train, horse,
drink,
need, hunger, necessity, hopeless itch,
object, clock, gun, telephone, radio, hair, cannonball, pistol, bullet, horn, shotgun, bottle, cup of coffee,
iron,
rat, bat, wild, predator, wolf, beast,
nature, sand,
hush, silence,
remember, found,
papa, chosen one, father, husband, brother, keeper, guide, finder, ourselves, us,
catch, kill, die, dream, bite, take, race, (brothers in arms),
force, pressure, gravity, fire, squeeze, tight,
hand, hold, grip, (hold on tight)
game, symbols, star, V, 5, spades, 21, ?, bell, (hell's bells), bad sign, horns sign thumb in (1&4), thumb, lucky star,
fight, military, brawler, war,
fear, restless, sleepless,
6AM Black = (Black bar) all heroin
Devil, Dragula, Sandman, yeah-yeah, Lord above, mother nature
Devil heroin castle, (The Wall), home, hell, never never land,
green, black,
grass,
sunrise, afterglow,
softly clears
jealousy, greed,
---------
More Metaphors:
cocaine: stone, Dutch, pink, letters, white, hills, sweet, sugar, northern, 9, uptown, highlands, new, west, fly, truth, smile, hard, touch, silver, paper, sheets, sail, urban, west, god, hope, ...
heroin: slip, strangle, slam, smack, dig, ditch, soft, velvet, sun, sunshine, Italian, country, man, downtown, southern, poison, 8, rural, shelter, east, dark, misery, dirt, luck, mud, frown, low, mule, madness, weak, lonely, gone, watch, strange, stranger, spread, nobody, nothing, bad, lies, trouble, ...
2023.03.21 21:35 mtnbkr1880 Help Needed Stopping Land Swap in S. Utah
TL;DR - If you're familiar with or have been to southern Utah, then you may have been to Sand Hollow or Sand Mountain in St. George, UT. There's a land swap proposed between the BLM and a land developer that would trade 1050 acres of BLM land for 89 acres the land developer currently owns. If you have time, please submit a public comment via email to blm_ut_sgfo_[email protected] and express your concerns.
The Issue:
BLM and the Washington County Water Conservancy District have proposed a land exchange that would involve swapping 1050 acres of the Western Edge of Sand Mountain near Warner Valley with 89 acres of land in Washington near Green Springs, apparently owned by His Family/Brennan. Washington County is designated as the Facilitator of the Exchange. You can learn more at the BLM E Planning website, EplanningUi (blm.gov). You can also see the Public Scoping Notice which is attached.
We also obtained plans by the City of Washington to annex much of the acquired area into their City, which may be a significant influence in the exchange.
The proposed action just entered the Public Scoping phase, which is scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM on April 13, 2023. UPLA, DRATS, Mayor Nanette Billings (Hurricane), BlueRibbon Coalition, and Tri State ATV have been meeting with BLM, Water Conservancy, and the City of Washington to learn more about the project.
We were previously informed when the reservoir was done, we would lose the lower parts of Fault Line and Sandcutter, as well as the camping/staging area near Hwy 7, but when we learned that, we constructed the Ridgeline Trail at substantial expense to maintain access from Warner Valley.
We are extremely concerned for many reasons, including the following:
What we need you to do:
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to involve the public in the planning process and seek their input through a scoping process. Effective NEPA scoping comments for BLM should pose the questions or issues to be looked at, not provide answers.
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The Issue:
BLM and the Washington County Water Conservancy District have proposed a land exchange that would involve swapping 1050 acres of the Western Edge of Sand Mountain near Warner Valley with 89 acres of land in Washington near Green Springs, apparently owned by His Family/Brennan. Washington County is designated as the Facilitator of the Exchange. You can learn more at the BLM E Planning website, EplanningUi (blm.gov). You can also see the Public Scoping Notice which is attached.
We also obtained plans by the City of Washington to annex much of the acquired area into their City, which may be a significant influence in the exchange.
The proposed action just entered the Public Scoping phase, which is scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM on April 13, 2023. UPLA, DRATS, Mayor Nanette Billings (Hurricane), BlueRibbon Coalition, and Tri State ATV have been meeting with BLM, Water Conservancy, and the City of Washington to learn more about the project.
We were previously informed when the reservoir was done, we would lose the lower parts of Fault Line and Sandcutter, as well as the camping/staging area near Hwy 7, but when we learned that, we constructed the Ridgeline Trail at substantial expense to maintain access from Warner Valley.
We are extremely concerned for many reasons, including the following:
- BLM will give up 1050 acres of Sand Mountain in exchange for 89 acres in St George
- We will lose access to the West Rim Trail, the Restroom on Pipeline Road, the disbursed camping areas, and possibly the Ridgeline Trail we constructed to mitigate the reservoir loss.
- We will lose staging and camping in Warner Valley
- There has apparently been no decision about what agency would oversee recreation in the newly acquired area, but it seems likely it will become a fee area.
- If access to Sand Mountain is impaired from Washington Dam, it will impact the load on other roads including our newly constructed Waddy’s Corral Staging area.
- We are extremely concerned that the City of Washington will be annexing the land surrounding Pipeline Road and West Rim, and that they may permit development on top of the Rim; the views over a lake will skyrocket land values. Development would bring a whole host of issues including loss of the tremendous views from above by having buildings/homes on top of the ridge, user conflicts between residents/occupants and OHV users.
- We only have 30 days to inform the public and submit scoping comments.
What we need you to do:
- Submit Your Comments Electronically using your choice of methods:
- By email sent to [blm_ut_sgfo_[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with a copy to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
- Visiting Blueribbon Coalition’s Action Alert at https://www.sharetrails.org/stop-the-sale-of-sand-mountain/#/104/
- The deadline has been extended till Midnight April 19, 2023.
- Stay Engaged. We are only in the first inning of an overtime game. If you’re not getting the UPLA and DRATS Emails, sign up for them today to stay informed. UPLA site link.
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- Discussion of any potential long-term impacts of the proposed project on the environment and local communities.
- Request for BLM to consider the full range of alternatives and potential impacts, rather than limiting the analysis to a narrow set of options.
2023.03.21 20:42 y58kpz2av7 WIBTA by sharing a landscaping estimate with my neighbors whose weeds are out of control?
UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I checked out the HOA bylaws and they specifically state that the owner is responsible for maintenance and upkeep - in this case, the landlord company. So I emailed my HOA rep and asked them to contact and tell them to get their asses down here and do some got dang maintenance on their got dang property. I appreciate everyone who responded and it was my privilege to read each of your perspectives. Thank you!
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I live in Arizona, and we have enjoyed a gloriously rainy winter and early spring. I've kept my weeds under control, but my new (<1yr) rental neighbors have let their backyard weeds flourish into a truly incredible density. There's a little mini habitat for birds and critters next door and it's actually cute in a wild kinda way.
As any Arizonans know, however, with shade and overgrowth comes scorpions, spiders, and other pests - even with regular pest spraying, their insects are absolutely going to come into our property. Not to mention fire hazard when the summer heat desiccates the entire wee jungle.
[Backstory: I've stepped on a scorpion before (while literally watching Spider-Man: Homecoming with absolutely zero manifestation of super powers), and it sucked. One of my indoor cats has been stung twice in the past several years, the first time it was pretty bad - vomiting, crying, and shivering (she had recovered by the time the emergency vet got us in). The second time was much more mild, but I don't want to put my precious girl - or my foot! - through that again.]
So I asked my landscaper this week to peek over our stone wall into the neighbor's yard and give me an estimate of what he would charge to clean up the wilderness next door - he quoted me $250, which is much lower than what I was expecting.
I now have this handshake quote and my landscaper's cell number, but I don't have my new neighbors' contact details yet - so I was going to write them a "waddup neighbors, I got an estimate for two fiddy and here's his number, oh and I'm also real sorry for being so presumptuous" note.
My question is... would I be the nosy asshole neighbor fussing about a yard that isn't my business, even with the insect/environmental risk? Should I perhaps talk to the HOA and let them sort it out with the rental company so it's all business? Or would a (hopefully) friendly non-Karenish note be... okay? I want to share the option and the cost but in a respectful, helpful neighbor kinda way - not a fussy shit neighbor who's crossing a line by worrying about other peoples' yards (even though I'm mostly worrying about spillover into my own yard/house).
I have a photo of their back yard and my note, but I don't want to break da rules by linking out to an external image. It's a glorious weedfest, but it would honestly probably only show that I'm a nosy prick taking pictures of my neighbors' yard.
WIBTA? Thanks in advance!
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I live in Arizona, and we have enjoyed a gloriously rainy winter and early spring. I've kept my weeds under control, but my new (<1yr) rental neighbors have let their backyard weeds flourish into a truly incredible density. There's a little mini habitat for birds and critters next door and it's actually cute in a wild kinda way.
As any Arizonans know, however, with shade and overgrowth comes scorpions, spiders, and other pests - even with regular pest spraying, their insects are absolutely going to come into our property. Not to mention fire hazard when the summer heat desiccates the entire wee jungle.
[Backstory: I've stepped on a scorpion before (while literally watching Spider-Man: Homecoming with absolutely zero manifestation of super powers), and it sucked. One of my indoor cats has been stung twice in the past several years, the first time it was pretty bad - vomiting, crying, and shivering (she had recovered by the time the emergency vet got us in). The second time was much more mild, but I don't want to put my precious girl - or my foot! - through that again.]
So I asked my landscaper this week to peek over our stone wall into the neighbor's yard and give me an estimate of what he would charge to clean up the wilderness next door - he quoted me $250, which is much lower than what I was expecting.
I now have this handshake quote and my landscaper's cell number, but I don't have my new neighbors' contact details yet - so I was going to write them a "waddup neighbors, I got an estimate for two fiddy and here's his number, oh and I'm also real sorry for being so presumptuous" note.
My question is... would I be the nosy asshole neighbor fussing about a yard that isn't my business, even with the insect/environmental risk? Should I perhaps talk to the HOA and let them sort it out with the rental company so it's all business? Or would a (hopefully) friendly non-Karenish note be... okay? I want to share the option and the cost but in a respectful, helpful neighbor kinda way - not a fussy shit neighbor who's crossing a line by worrying about other peoples' yards (even though I'm mostly worrying about spillover into my own yard/house).
I have a photo of their back yard and my note, but I don't want to break da rules by linking out to an external image. It's a glorious weedfest, but it would honestly probably only show that I'm a nosy prick taking pictures of my neighbors' yard.
WIBTA? Thanks in advance!
2023.03.21 19:13 Apart-Entrance3452 Beginner Hexannacht Stash Review
Hi everyone! I’m new at this but I wanted to review my Hex stash because I haven’t been able to find reviews for some of them, and some of them have just been different with my skin chemistry. Let me know if there's anything I could do better next time.
Pumpkin Peachcrème - This was my first indie scent. I was (and still am) looking for a nice complex peach scent and I thought this one would be perfect for fall based on the scent description (pumpkin pie, peach pie, cream soda). To me, it smelled more like a pumpkin spice latte or a fall candle. Not bad, but not what I was looking for. It didn't have a lot of sillage, but it lasted for a long time on my skin. 2/5
Harvest Cider - Described as "pumpkin pie, nutmeg, allspice, apple cider, ginger beer, honey, black pepper," I actually found it significantly less PSL/Fall candle-like than Pumpkin Peachcreme. On me, the apple cider not definitely stood out, and I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of drinking hot apple cider on Hanukkah. If you've ever smelled the Bath and Body Works Leaves candle, it is kind of like that but less candle. Great fall scent. 4/5
Mossypeach - As many others have said, it is a very realistic and beautiful peach note. The scent description (peach, sun-warmed meadow, cedar, sandalwood, vetiver, tree moss, oakmoss accord) includes the other woody/grassy notes, but on me, it read as just straight freshly mowed grass. I find that the peach fades very quickly on me, leaving just the grass. It's still a pretty scent, just not exactly what I was hoping for. 3/5
Brightening the Daybreak - This scent is supposed to be grass, clover, hay, sun-warmed cornfields, muguet, honeysuckle, acacia, ozone, meadow air, tree moss, oakmoss, fir balsam. For me, it makes me smell like I just rolled around in a field, which isn't necessarily bad, but wasn't what I was looking for. I was hoping for more of a summer, frolicking in a meadow type scent, and I didn't get that. It ends up being the same grassy note as Mossypeach. I think I'll probably wear it more in the spring. The fact that I had this issue with both Mossypeach and Brightening the Daybreak makes me feel like maybe my skin just really amps the grass note. 2/5
Cathedrále - Described as "a layering accord of offertory resinoids - myrrh, frankincense, benzoin, and faintly smoke-tinged brass thuribles".I never would have ordered this for myself, but she sent it to me as a sample and I loved it. On my skin, it reads closer to tree-sap than to incense, but it is still very warm without being spicy. Kind of reminds me of when my dad would come into the house after spending the afternoon chopping wood. 4/5
Velvet cocoon - I ordered this one after liking Cathedrále and getting some recommendations on here. The scent description is "labdanum, benzoin, frankincense, burnt caramel, guaiacwood." It smells like it has the same resin note as Cathedrale, and like Cathedrále, it reads more tree-sap-like on me. I like the burnt caramel note, it is not overpowering, it just adds a slight sweetness and bitterness. 5/5
Moon in the Twelfth House - I got this one (prickly pear, white sage, black sage, red musk, cedarwood, sandalwood, amber, ozone, hot sand, pink pepper, jammy fir balsam) as a sample with Velvet Cocoon. After my initial sniff, I thought it smelled like the scent description but with the balsam reading as rosemary, but I definitely thought it smelled like something specific and I couldn't put my finger on it. I asked multiple of my housemates what they thought it smelled like and they all said it smelled like the fancy French violet soap their grandmothers used to buy. It's not a bad scent, but it definitely does smell like that. To me, it kind of reminds me of walking into the kind of store in Portland, SF, or Santa Cruz that's run by an older woman with a lot of time on her hands that sells crystals, incense, sage, and various cultural objects like dream catchers and buddhas. Not necessarily a bad scent. 3/5
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Pumpkin Peachcrème - This was my first indie scent. I was (and still am) looking for a nice complex peach scent and I thought this one would be perfect for fall based on the scent description (pumpkin pie, peach pie, cream soda). To me, it smelled more like a pumpkin spice latte or a fall candle. Not bad, but not what I was looking for. It didn't have a lot of sillage, but it lasted for a long time on my skin. 2/5
Harvest Cider - Described as "pumpkin pie, nutmeg, allspice, apple cider, ginger beer, honey, black pepper," I actually found it significantly less PSL/Fall candle-like than Pumpkin Peachcreme. On me, the apple cider not definitely stood out, and I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of drinking hot apple cider on Hanukkah. If you've ever smelled the Bath and Body Works Leaves candle, it is kind of like that but less candle. Great fall scent. 4/5
Mossypeach - As many others have said, it is a very realistic and beautiful peach note. The scent description (peach, sun-warmed meadow, cedar, sandalwood, vetiver, tree moss, oakmoss accord) includes the other woody/grassy notes, but on me, it read as just straight freshly mowed grass. I find that the peach fades very quickly on me, leaving just the grass. It's still a pretty scent, just not exactly what I was hoping for. 3/5
Brightening the Daybreak - This scent is supposed to be grass, clover, hay, sun-warmed cornfields, muguet, honeysuckle, acacia, ozone, meadow air, tree moss, oakmoss, fir balsam. For me, it makes me smell like I just rolled around in a field, which isn't necessarily bad, but wasn't what I was looking for. I was hoping for more of a summer, frolicking in a meadow type scent, and I didn't get that. It ends up being the same grassy note as Mossypeach. I think I'll probably wear it more in the spring. The fact that I had this issue with both Mossypeach and Brightening the Daybreak makes me feel like maybe my skin just really amps the grass note. 2/5
Cathedrále - Described as "a layering accord of offertory resinoids - myrrh, frankincense, benzoin, and faintly smoke-tinged brass thuribles".I never would have ordered this for myself, but she sent it to me as a sample and I loved it. On my skin, it reads closer to tree-sap than to incense, but it is still very warm without being spicy. Kind of reminds me of when my dad would come into the house after spending the afternoon chopping wood. 4/5
Velvet cocoon - I ordered this one after liking Cathedrále and getting some recommendations on here. The scent description is "labdanum, benzoin, frankincense, burnt caramel, guaiacwood." It smells like it has the same resin note as Cathedrale, and like Cathedrále, it reads more tree-sap-like on me. I like the burnt caramel note, it is not overpowering, it just adds a slight sweetness and bitterness. 5/5
Moon in the Twelfth House - I got this one (prickly pear, white sage, black sage, red musk, cedarwood, sandalwood, amber, ozone, hot sand, pink pepper, jammy fir balsam) as a sample with Velvet Cocoon. After my initial sniff, I thought it smelled like the scent description but with the balsam reading as rosemary, but I definitely thought it smelled like something specific and I couldn't put my finger on it. I asked multiple of my housemates what they thought it smelled like and they all said it smelled like the fancy French violet soap their grandmothers used to buy. It's not a bad scent, but it definitely does smell like that. To me, it kind of reminds me of walking into the kind of store in Portland, SF, or Santa Cruz that's run by an older woman with a lot of time on her hands that sells crystals, incense, sage, and various cultural objects like dream catchers and buddhas. Not necessarily a bad scent. 3/5
2023.03.21 19:06 takememissmyers [WTS] Radian forward assist, Sprinco blue, Midwest Ind end plate sling adapter
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2023.03.21 15:45 Repuggid82m2w [East Village, NY] Dealing with stalker who's been harassing me [43F] for 19 years... what to do now?
I'm 43, and now live in East Village.
Way back in 2004 when I lived in Nevada and worked in a liquor store in Spring Valley, I had this 16-year-old girl, Krista (not her real name), try to buy alcohol from me in a liquor store near Las Vegas (but NOT near The Strip) and I told her a very firm NO, she kept insisting she'd be back. She did come back 2 days later, eventually my boss banned her and her 8 friends from the store, although the 8 friends' ban was rescinded at some point 2 years later IIRC. I'd done that job for 2 years at the time.
Krista was wearing a tiny crop top and denim skirt at the time and kept asking me for cans of beer and some vodka but I wouldn't sell it to her and her group of 8 friends.
But over the years, she's somehow found out where I live; in 2008, I had to get the cops after she came to the apartment I was living in when I lived in Chicago, no idea how she found out where I was living.
I moved in 2008 to Chicago for a new job in a boutique as a change from liquor stores.
She declared her love for me via a note that said:
She explained how she'd come from Spring Valley, NV to see me
I went to the cops about this, told her that this was harassment and that my boyfriend was upset about this, but no action was taken.
I moved to Los Angeles in 2014 with my husband (then-fiance), 34 at the time, for his job, and Krista showed up to my job and asked me if I was single.
I told her I wanted to hear no more from her and that I'm not leaving my fiance (now my husband).
She then left, I didn't hear from her for months.
Christmas 2015, Krista turned up again, somehow found my LA address, hand-delivered a parcel which contained 3 copies of Motor Trend (from the 2000s), 6 candy bars and a 2TB hard drive.
I didn't do anything with them but kept them and the note for evidence. The note read:
Moved to East Village in March 2017 (this time, due to me being a freelancer and new clients), things went quiet until August 2018 when Krista turned up at the same take-out pizza place near me and I had to grin and bear it. She gave me a gift which surprised me; some Lululemon athletic wear and it had a note which said:
2019 - not a word from her, a breather, thank the lord.
Then 2020 came with the pandemic, and not a word from her, either, not even during quarantine. Quarantine was tough for me as I couldn't work from home but at least I had a breather from my stalker...
Although she did send me several emails which I never responded to - around 84 from a .mailfence.com account I'd never heard of, sent sexy lingerie photos.
Until last week, I had Krista turn up at my apartment and she demanded to talk to me and asked me if I'd be willing to come to a burlesque class she'd joined in Las Vegas.
I do take part in burlesque classes - have done since 2018 here in NYC and had no idea Krista did this, but politely told her no, and also said to her that I never wanted to hear or speak to her again.
How did she know - I'm not even on social media - I only have a Facebook account for buying from the Marketplace, and ebay isn't social media as such.
My husband had recorded the whole conversation as footage on his Android phone.
He knows EVERYTHING about this situation and wants us to go to the NYPD or Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department about it.
But is this situation FBI-worthy due to how long it's been going on for, and also the fact Krista's in Nevada, I'm in NYC?
I feel like I'm in a real-life Lifetime movie and it ain't fun (sorry for the black humor here.... no, before you get woke, not African-American humor, you know, comedy that makes fun of human suffering).
Looking for legal advice - do we need an attorney?
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Way back in 2004 when I lived in Nevada and worked in a liquor store in Spring Valley, I had this 16-year-old girl, Krista (not her real name), try to buy alcohol from me in a liquor store near Las Vegas (but NOT near The Strip) and I told her a very firm NO, she kept insisting she'd be back. She did come back 2 days later, eventually my boss banned her and her 8 friends from the store, although the 8 friends' ban was rescinded at some point 2 years later IIRC. I'd done that job for 2 years at the time.
Krista was wearing a tiny crop top and denim skirt at the time and kept asking me for cans of beer and some vodka but I wouldn't sell it to her and her group of 8 friends.
But over the years, she's somehow found out where I live; in 2008, I had to get the cops after she came to the apartment I was living in when I lived in Chicago, no idea how she found out where I was living.
I moved in 2008 to Chicago for a new job in a boutique as a change from liquor stores.
She declared her love for me via a note that said:
We are destined to be together because He said so and He wants us to be a couple. It is a foregone conclusion that He will make us the couple we will be. KristaKrista is a pseudonym.
She explained how she'd come from Spring Valley, NV to see me
I went to the cops about this, told her that this was harassment and that my boyfriend was upset about this, but no action was taken.
I moved to Los Angeles in 2014 with my husband (then-fiance), 34 at the time, for his job, and Krista showed up to my job and asked me if I was single.
I told her I wanted to hear no more from her and that I'm not leaving my fiance (now my husband).
She then left, I didn't hear from her for months.
Christmas 2015, Krista turned up again, somehow found my LA address, hand-delivered a parcel which contained 3 copies of Motor Trend (from the 2000s), 6 candy bars and a 2TB hard drive.
I didn't do anything with them but kept them and the note for evidence. The note read:
Hi sexy, enjoy the gifts. Please come and see me some day.I reported this to the local cops as harassment, they said they'd look into it, no action taken as she's out-of-state in Nevada.
Photo of Krista in lingerie posing on living room floor and in bathroom as selfie
Moved to East Village in March 2017 (this time, due to me being a freelancer and new clients), things went quiet until August 2018 when Krista turned up at the same take-out pizza place near me and I had to grin and bear it. She gave me a gift which surprised me; some Lululemon athletic wear and it had a note which said:
Hi sexy, please, please, please leave your husband or boyfriend for me, we'll be a great femme couple, you're a hot femme lady. KristaI reported this to the cops but nothing was heard back from them weeks later.
2019 - not a word from her, a breather, thank the lord.
Then 2020 came with the pandemic, and not a word from her, either, not even during quarantine. Quarantine was tough for me as I couldn't work from home but at least I had a breather from my stalker...
Although she did send me several emails which I never responded to - around 84 from a .mailfence.com account I'd never heard of, sent sexy lingerie photos.
Until last week, I had Krista turn up at my apartment and she demanded to talk to me and asked me if I'd be willing to come to a burlesque class she'd joined in Las Vegas.
I do take part in burlesque classes - have done since 2018 here in NYC and had no idea Krista did this, but politely told her no, and also said to her that I never wanted to hear or speak to her again.
How did she know - I'm not even on social media - I only have a Facebook account for buying from the Marketplace, and ebay isn't social media as such.
My husband had recorded the whole conversation as footage on his Android phone.
He knows EVERYTHING about this situation and wants us to go to the NYPD or Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department about it.
But is this situation FBI-worthy due to how long it's been going on for, and also the fact Krista's in Nevada, I'm in NYC?
I feel like I'm in a real-life Lifetime movie and it ain't fun (sorry for the black humor here.... no, before you get woke, not African-American humor, you know, comedy that makes fun of human suffering).
Looking for legal advice - do we need an attorney?
2023.03.21 15:40 ladyofthelathe Actual Farmhouse build: How it started - one year ago; and how it's going - moved in this weekend. Lots more to do, but we're in.
2023.03.21 13:37 RyluminYamata 34[M4F] Florida/Caribbean/Online - First vacation in years. Maybe a first date in over 10 years?
I’m a simple guy. I work, pay bills, run errands, and enjoy my hobbies. Growing up, life was always envisioned as becoming highly educated, married, a nice house, children - the whole white picket fence story.
Life never goes the way one might think, especially when you grew up trying to please everyone but yourself. The past few years, I’ve worked on myself - lost 70lbs, cooking for myself, learning to say no, and indulging in the little things in life that brings me joy.
I believe I’m finally in a place where I’m happy with the way things are, except for one thing. I’ve always put romance on the back burner. While I know I have a lot of love to give, I lacked confidence and was always insecure about my weight. I’m down to 155lbs from 225lbs (thanks Keto!) and it feels amazing to not be uncomfortable in my own skin. I’m still aiming to lose 10lbs more before my trip to Disney Springs (there won’t be any dieting on vacation). It may sound like a low weight for a guy, but I’m not all that tall at 5’6”.
I come from a close-knit family, and my friends are basically my second family. This is a part of the Caribbean lifestyle. Yes, I live in the Caribbean. Location doesn’t matter when getting to know one another, and LDR isn’t a problem, but if things progress then living apart isn’t something I want. Of course there’s no rush, and I don’t expect either of us to pick up our lives and move without a proper meeting(s) and seeing how well we mesh in person. As I will be in Florida on vacation, it would be great to get some dating experience if the opportunity arises. I’ve been out of the dating scene for over 10 years and have no clue what I should be doing. Maybe dinner and a movie? Exploring Disney? Maybe that’s all too old-fashioned? I’m open to suggestions!
In terms of communication, I would like to stick to messages at first before voice chatting. I am an introvert and social anxiety bares it’s head every now and then, but I’ve also worked on both of those things during my weight loss journey. We can message on Reddit at first then move to Discord if it’s more convenient as it’s my main messaging app. I’m not big on social media, so no Snapchat or Instagram, but that’s my personal preference as I’m a fairly private person.
As I’ve mentioned Discord, I will say now that I’m a nerdy guy. Video games, Marvel, DC, Anime, Technology, etc. are all interests of mine. While I would love to have someone who shares interest in all of these things, it’s definitely not required. I consider myself well-versed in many subject matters, and my personality allows me to fit into various social groups. I can separate my hobbies from life in general. Of course, if you’re into any of these things, it would be awesome, but again, it’s not required.
I also enjoy building model kits, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and working with my hands. I know my profile lacks food pics, but I promise I have tons of pics of things I’ve made that are all Keto friendly and look delicious. There’s also things that I’ve baked for family and friends too. One hobby that I would like to get into more is traveling. I’ve only been to a few places outside the Caribbean, and I’m hoping to travel more in the future. Hence, why I’m taking a vacation as it’s been over 3 years since my last trip.
I grew up in a strict Christian home, but I don’t consider myself to have any specific religious affiliation. I left that lifestyle behind after high school and while there are some values I still hold true, I don’t discriminate against anyone or push those values on others. I am monogamous, respectful, and a listener. I don’t have a problem with any religious affiliation once it’s not pushed onto me.
In truth, I’m not sure what I expect from this post. I’ve lurked on R4R for some time and have messaged a few people that caught my interest, but nothing came of it. I guess while I’m happier in life now, the loneliness has become more apparent and led me here. Meeting up to chill at Disney isn’t a requirement to send a message. It’s just a hopeful idea. I’ll be happy just to hear from anyone whose interest I gathered.
As appearances matter for many people, I don’t mind sharing a picture of myself upon request. I’m just not comfortable posting it in this message. If you do request a photo, I ask that you respond in kind with your photo as well.
Side Note: To all the guys who have messaged me wishing I was a woman, I’ve had a good laugh and appreciate the compliments.
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Life never goes the way one might think, especially when you grew up trying to please everyone but yourself. The past few years, I’ve worked on myself - lost 70lbs, cooking for myself, learning to say no, and indulging in the little things in life that brings me joy.
I believe I’m finally in a place where I’m happy with the way things are, except for one thing. I’ve always put romance on the back burner. While I know I have a lot of love to give, I lacked confidence and was always insecure about my weight. I’m down to 155lbs from 225lbs (thanks Keto!) and it feels amazing to not be uncomfortable in my own skin. I’m still aiming to lose 10lbs more before my trip to Disney Springs (there won’t be any dieting on vacation). It may sound like a low weight for a guy, but I’m not all that tall at 5’6”.
I come from a close-knit family, and my friends are basically my second family. This is a part of the Caribbean lifestyle. Yes, I live in the Caribbean. Location doesn’t matter when getting to know one another, and LDR isn’t a problem, but if things progress then living apart isn’t something I want. Of course there’s no rush, and I don’t expect either of us to pick up our lives and move without a proper meeting(s) and seeing how well we mesh in person. As I will be in Florida on vacation, it would be great to get some dating experience if the opportunity arises. I’ve been out of the dating scene for over 10 years and have no clue what I should be doing. Maybe dinner and a movie? Exploring Disney? Maybe that’s all too old-fashioned? I’m open to suggestions!
In terms of communication, I would like to stick to messages at first before voice chatting. I am an introvert and social anxiety bares it’s head every now and then, but I’ve also worked on both of those things during my weight loss journey. We can message on Reddit at first then move to Discord if it’s more convenient as it’s my main messaging app. I’m not big on social media, so no Snapchat or Instagram, but that’s my personal preference as I’m a fairly private person.
As I’ve mentioned Discord, I will say now that I’m a nerdy guy. Video games, Marvel, DC, Anime, Technology, etc. are all interests of mine. While I would love to have someone who shares interest in all of these things, it’s definitely not required. I consider myself well-versed in many subject matters, and my personality allows me to fit into various social groups. I can separate my hobbies from life in general. Of course, if you’re into any of these things, it would be awesome, but again, it’s not required.
I also enjoy building model kits, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and working with my hands. I know my profile lacks food pics, but I promise I have tons of pics of things I’ve made that are all Keto friendly and look delicious. There’s also things that I’ve baked for family and friends too. One hobby that I would like to get into more is traveling. I’ve only been to a few places outside the Caribbean, and I’m hoping to travel more in the future. Hence, why I’m taking a vacation as it’s been over 3 years since my last trip.
I grew up in a strict Christian home, but I don’t consider myself to have any specific religious affiliation. I left that lifestyle behind after high school and while there are some values I still hold true, I don’t discriminate against anyone or push those values on others. I am monogamous, respectful, and a listener. I don’t have a problem with any religious affiliation once it’s not pushed onto me.
In truth, I’m not sure what I expect from this post. I’ve lurked on R4R for some time and have messaged a few people that caught my interest, but nothing came of it. I guess while I’m happier in life now, the loneliness has become more apparent and led me here. Meeting up to chill at Disney isn’t a requirement to send a message. It’s just a hopeful idea. I’ll be happy just to hear from anyone whose interest I gathered.
As appearances matter for many people, I don’t mind sharing a picture of myself upon request. I’m just not comfortable posting it in this message. If you do request a photo, I ask that you respond in kind with your photo as well.
Side Note: To all the guys who have messaged me wishing I was a woman, I’ve had a good laugh and appreciate the compliments.
2023.03.21 13:34 RyluminYamata 34[M4F] Florida/Caribbean/Online - First vacation in years. Maybe a first date in over 10 years?
I’m a simple guy. I work, pay bills, run errands, and enjoy my hobbies. Growing up, life was always envisioned as becoming highly educated, married, a nice house, children - the whole white picket fence story.
Life never goes the way one might think, especially when you grew up trying to please everyone but yourself. The past few years, I’ve worked on myself - lost 70lbs, cooking for myself, learning to say no, and indulging in the little things in life that brings me joy.
I believe I’m finally in a place where I’m happy with the way things are, except for one thing. I’ve always put romance on the back burner. While I know I have a lot of love to give, I lacked confidence and was always insecure about my weight. I’m down to 155lbs from 225lbs (thanks Keto!) and it feels amazing to not be uncomfortable in my own skin. I’m still aiming to lose 10lbs more before my trip to Disney Springs (there won’t be any dieting on vacation). It may sound like a low weight for a guy, but I’m not all that tall at 5’6”.
I come from a close-knit family, and my friends are basically my second family. This is a part of the Caribbean lifestyle. Yes, I live in the Caribbean. Location doesn’t matter when getting to know one another, and LDR isn’t a problem, but if things progress then living apart isn’t something I want. Of course there’s no rush, and I don’t expect either of us to pick up our lives and move without a proper meeting(s) and seeing how well we mesh in person. As I will be in Florida on vacation, it would be great to get some dating experience if the opportunity arises. I’ve been out of the dating scene for over 10 years and have no clue what I should be doing. Maybe dinner and a movie? Exploring Disney? Maybe that’s all too old-fashioned? I’m open to suggestions!
In terms of communication, I would like to stick to messages at first before voice chatting. I am an introvert and social anxiety bares it’s head every now and then, but I’ve also worked on both of those things during my weight loss journey. We can message on Reddit at first then move to Discord if it’s more convenient as it’s my main messaging app. I’m not big on social media, so no Snapchat or Instagram, but that’s my personal preference as I’m a fairly private person.
As I’ve mentioned Discord, I will say now that I’m a nerdy guy. Video games, Marvel, DC, Anime, Technology, etc. are all interests of mine. While I would love to have someone who shares interest in all of these things, it’s definitely not required. I consider myself well-versed in many subject matters, and my personality allows me to fit into various social groups. I can separate my hobbies from life in general. Of course, if you’re into any of these things, it would be awesome, but again, it’s not required.
I also enjoy building model kits, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and working with my hands. I know my profile lacks food pics, but I promise I have tons of pics of things I’ve made that are all Keto friendly and look delicious. There’s also things that I’ve baked for family and friends too. One hobby that I would like to get into more is traveling. I’ve only been to a few places outside the Caribbean, and I’m hoping to travel more in the future. Hence, why I’m taking a vacation as it’s been over 3 years since my last trip.
I grew up in a strict Christian home, but I don’t consider myself to have any specific religious affiliation. I left that lifestyle behind after high school and while there are some values I still hold true, I don’t discriminate against anyone or push those values on others. I am monogamous, respectful, and a listener. I don’t have a problem with any religious affiliation once it’s not pushed onto me.
In truth, I’m not sure what I expect from this post. I’ve lurked on R4R for some time and have messaged a few people that caught my interest, but nothing came of it. I guess while I’m happier in life now, the loneliness has become more apparent and led me here. Meeting up to chill at Disney isn’t a requirement to send a message. It’s just a hopeful idea. I’ll be happy just to hear from anyone whose interest I gathered.
As appearances matter for many people, I don’t mind sharing a picture of myself upon request. I’m just not comfortable posting it in this message. If you do request a photo, I ask that you respond in kind with your photo as well.
Side Note: To all the guys who have messaged me wishing I was a woman, I’ve had a good laugh and appreciate the compliments.
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Life never goes the way one might think, especially when you grew up trying to please everyone but yourself. The past few years, I’ve worked on myself - lost 70lbs, cooking for myself, learning to say no, and indulging in the little things in life that brings me joy.
I believe I’m finally in a place where I’m happy with the way things are, except for one thing. I’ve always put romance on the back burner. While I know I have a lot of love to give, I lacked confidence and was always insecure about my weight. I’m down to 155lbs from 225lbs (thanks Keto!) and it feels amazing to not be uncomfortable in my own skin. I’m still aiming to lose 10lbs more before my trip to Disney Springs (there won’t be any dieting on vacation). It may sound like a low weight for a guy, but I’m not all that tall at 5’6”.
I come from a close-knit family, and my friends are basically my second family. This is a part of the Caribbean lifestyle. Yes, I live in the Caribbean. Location doesn’t matter when getting to know one another, and LDR isn’t a problem, but if things progress then living apart isn’t something I want. Of course there’s no rush, and I don’t expect either of us to pick up our lives and move without a proper meeting(s) and seeing how well we mesh in person. As I will be in Florida on vacation, it would be great to get some dating experience if the opportunity arises. I’ve been out of the dating scene for over 10 years and have no clue what I should be doing. Maybe dinner and a movie? Exploring Disney? Maybe that’s all too old-fashioned? I’m open to suggestions!
In terms of communication, I would like to stick to messages at first before voice chatting. I am an introvert and social anxiety bares it’s head every now and then, but I’ve also worked on both of those things during my weight loss journey. We can message on Reddit at first then move to Discord if it’s more convenient as it’s my main messaging app. I’m not big on social media, so no Snapchat or Instagram, but that’s my personal preference as I’m a fairly private person.
As I’ve mentioned Discord, I will say now that I’m a nerdy guy. Video games, Marvel, DC, Anime, Technology, etc. are all interests of mine. While I would love to have someone who shares interest in all of these things, it’s definitely not required. I consider myself well-versed in many subject matters, and my personality allows me to fit into various social groups. I can separate my hobbies from life in general. Of course, if you’re into any of these things, it would be awesome, but again, it’s not required.
I also enjoy building model kits, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and working with my hands. I know my profile lacks food pics, but I promise I have tons of pics of things I’ve made that are all Keto friendly and look delicious. There’s also things that I’ve baked for family and friends too. One hobby that I would like to get into more is traveling. I’ve only been to a few places outside the Caribbean, and I’m hoping to travel more in the future. Hence, why I’m taking a vacation as it’s been over 3 years since my last trip.
I grew up in a strict Christian home, but I don’t consider myself to have any specific religious affiliation. I left that lifestyle behind after high school and while there are some values I still hold true, I don’t discriminate against anyone or push those values on others. I am monogamous, respectful, and a listener. I don’t have a problem with any religious affiliation once it’s not pushed onto me.
In truth, I’m not sure what I expect from this post. I’ve lurked on R4R for some time and have messaged a few people that caught my interest, but nothing came of it. I guess while I’m happier in life now, the loneliness has become more apparent and led me here. Meeting up to chill at Disney isn’t a requirement to send a message. It’s just a hopeful idea. I’ll be happy just to hear from anyone whose interest I gathered.
As appearances matter for many people, I don’t mind sharing a picture of myself upon request. I’m just not comfortable posting it in this message. If you do request a photo, I ask that you respond in kind with your photo as well.
Side Note: To all the guys who have messaged me wishing I was a woman, I’ve had a good laugh and appreciate the compliments.
2023.03.21 13:23 plainenglish2 “Mr. Queen” (historical and cultural backgrounders for international viewers, with references to other K-dramas)
 | https://preview.redd.it/c457fbhcu2pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a0dca102a3c06acfe92c85fac05b2feb05f86cd submitted by plainenglish2 to KDRAMA [link] [comments] Index: Introduction; K-dramas are meant first (or primarily) for Korean viewers and only second for international viewers; A. The historical figures who were fictionalized in this drama; the rivalry between the Andong Kim and Poonyang Jo clans and “sedo politics” (royal in-law politics); lawsuit filed by descendants of a historical figure against “The Princess’s Man”; connections of “Mr. Queen” to “Moonlight Drawn By Clouds” aka “Love in the Moonlight” and to “Kingdom” Season 2, Ep. 4; B. Eps. 8 and 10: Persecution of Catholics during the Joseon Dynasty; the only K-drama I’ve seen that depicted the Catholic persecution in Joseon Korea is “Yi San, Wind in the Palace” (2007); C. Ep. 8: Korean seesaw (“neolttwigi”); D. Ep. 12: Surit-nal (Dano Festival); ceremonial robes and head gear of Joseon kings; E. Ep. 14: Ice as a valuable commodity during the Joseon Dynasty; F. Ep. 14: Donghak (religion, movement, peasant revolution); G. Ep. 16: Difference between “Jo” and “Jong” in the posthumous (temple) names of the Joseon kings; the Joseon kings’ royal portraits and dramas such as “Painter of the Wind” and “Saimdang”; H. Ep. 16: Secret Royal Investigators during the Joseon Dynasty; secret royal inpectors as depicted in “100 Days My Prince” and “Under The Queen's Umbrella”; I. Miscellaneous notes: Ep. 11: the fight with fans as weapons; “jangot” or head covering for noblewomen during the Joseon Dynasty ; the beautiful bridge across the pond in Ep. 1 and other episodes Introduction K-dramas are meant first (or primarily) for Korean viewers and only second for international viewers. Just like in other dramas, the historical, cultural, and political references in “Mr. Queen” are well known to the Korean viewers. On the other hand, we, the international viewers, must dig deep into Wikipedia and other sources (or post questions in forums like this) so that we can understand what’s going on. For example, some people who have seen “Mr. Queen” said that they couldn’t stand the court politics or the infighting between the different factions because the drama didn’t provide any context. Well, the court politics and the infighting between the different factions happened between the Andong Kim and Poonyang Jo clans, which are well known to Korean viewers and thus, no context was necessary. When “Saimdang” was first broadcast in 2017, I joined the on-air discussions of the drama in the Soompi Forums. In that forum, whenever I had questions about the drama, I had two go-to persons: for questions about Korean language, culture, and history, I asked “gerrytan8063”; whenever I had questions about Chinese characters used in the drama, I asked “liddi.” I haven’t joined the Soompi discussions after I found reddit, and so I don’t know if “gerrytan8063” and “liddi” are still active there. Where can we turn to when we, as international viewers, have questions about Korean language, culture, and history as they relate to K-dramas? There’s Quora, of course; “bodashiri” in Tumblr has a form in his website where he/she says, “Ask me anything.” Also, since 2012, the “Annals of the Joseon Dynasty” is being translated in English, with the project supposed to be finished in 2034. Certain portions of the English translation are available online, as you can read in “Globalization of Korean history” from the official Korean government history website. Oh, maybe we can also use ChatGPT in learning about the historical, cultural, and language issues that we come across in K-dramas. The very first K-drama that I watched in full was the 2014 blockbuster “My Love From The Star” starring Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun. In this drama, I first heard the term “Joseon Dynasty” and learned how the dynasty heavily influenced what Korea is today. Before “My Love From The Star” however, I had seen one or two brief scenes from the 2003 blockbuster drama “A Jewel in the Palace” (aka “Dae Jang Geum”) starring Lee Young-ae. Sometime in 2005 or 2006, “A Jewel in the Palace” began sweeping the Philippines. Every night at around 6 o’clock, the streets would become empty, with people shouting to each other as they rush to their homes, “Jang Geum na!” (in English, “It’s Jang Geum time!”). Since that time, “A Jewel in the Palace” has been broadcast in the Philippines five times; that’s how popular it is among Filipinos. I watched “A Jewel in the Palace” in its entirety only in 2015. Since then, I’ve seen each episode around four or five times already; whenever I feel depressed, I rewatch Ep. 6 where Jang Geum was exiled to the herb garden outside the palace. Needless to say, Lee Young-ae is the love of my life. Next to Lee Young-ae, I love Han Hyo-joo (“Dong Yi”), Han Hye-jin (“Jumong”), Han Ga-in (“The Moon That Embraces The Sun”), Moon Chae-won (“The Princess’s Man”), Park Shin Hye (“The Royal Tailor”), Shin Se-kyung (“Six Flying Dragons”), Park Ha-sun (Queen In-hyun in “Dong Yi”), Nana (“Into The Ring”), and Go Ara (“The Joseon Magician”), in that order. A. The historical figures who were fictionalized in this drama; lawsuit filed by descendants of a historical figure against “The Princess’s Man” (Soompi); the rivalry between the Andong Kim and Poonyang Jo clans and “sedo politics” (royal in-law politics) The main characters in “Mr. Queen” are So-yong (Queen Cheorin), played by Shin Hye-sun, and King Cheoljong, played by Kim Jung-hyun. Some of the secondary characters are Queen Sunwon (Grand Queen Dowager) of the Andong Kim clan and Queen Shinjeong (Queen Dowager) of the Poongyang Jo clan. “Mr. Queen” is fictional, with the following genres: historical, comedy, time travel, and body swap. But its characters and background events are inspired by historical figures and events. For example, the lead character (King Cheoljong) and his background facts — growing up destitute on Ganghwa Island, puppet of the Andong Kim clan, relatives persecuted as Catholics, etc. — are all based on history. Also, the conflict between the Andong Kim clan and Poonyang Jo clan is historical. King Cheoljong in “Mr. Queen” is a highly fictionalized character that’s different from the historical King Cheoljong. The drama portrays him to be secretly plotting to establish himself as a strong ruler against two warring political factions — the Andong Kim clan (led by Grand Dowager Queen Sunwon) and the Pungyang Jo clan (led by Dowager Queen Sinjeong). A-1. Historical figures who were fictionalized in “Mr. Queen”: (1) King Cheoljong The 25th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (25 July 1831 – 16 January 1864), he was a second cousin to the heirless Heonjong of Joseon, as well as a great-great grandson of Yeongjo of Joseon. He was chosen to become King by Senior Dowager Queen Sunwon (King Sunjo’s widow) and the powerful Andong Kim clan because he was illiterate and thus easy to manipulate. The only surviving [cropped] image of King Cheoljong (2) Queen Cheorin: wife of King Cheoljong, also known as Queen Dowager Myeongsun (27 April 1837 – 12 June 1878). Queen Cheorin belonged to the Andong Kim clan. (3) Grand Dowager Queen: Queen Sunwon (8 June 1789 – 21 September 1857), also known as Queen Dowager Myeonggyeong, was the spouse of Sunjo of Joseon. She served as regent of Korea from 1834–1841 and from 1849–1852. (4) Queen Dowager: Queen Shinjeong, also known as Queen Dowager Hyoyu, (21 January 1809 - 4 June 1890) was the only wife of Crown Prince Hyomyeong of Joseon and mother of King Heonjong of Joseon. Queen Shinjeong belonged to the Poonyang Jo clan. A-2. “Mr. Queen” was criticized for distorting history. Among the things that was criticized is the drama’s portrayal of the Queen Dowager (Queen Shinjeong in history) as being heavily involved in shamanism. From “Descendants of Sin Sook-joo sue The Princess’ Man” (Soompi): “According to the Seoul District Court, 108 descendants of old Sin claimed a damage suit of KRW 3 billion [2.2 million US dollars] against the broadcasting company and the writer for negatively distorting the image of their ancestor Sin Sook-joo from the Chosun era.” This lawsuit was filed in 2011; I couldn’t find any information about what happened to this lawsuit. A-3: Andong Kim clan, Poongyang Jo clan, and “sedo politics” (royal in-law politics) From New World Encyclopedia: At the beginning of the 19th century, the Andong Kim clan, who had provided the Joseon state with several queens, had seized power almost everywhere in Korea. The social stagnation that resulted was a breeding ground for unrest. Corruption and embezzlement from the treasury and its inevitable exploitation were taken to extreme levels, and reached staggering proportions. One rebellion after another was accompanied by natural disasters. From “Exactly how much power did the Andong Kim Clan have in the Joseon court? How did they attain such power?” (Quora, by Michael L. Best) : “How did the Andong Kim clan attain power? By intermarrying with the royal family, enthroning young and easy to control men as king, purging political rivals, and, very likely, killing off any king when they begin to threaten their power.” The term “sedo politics” (royal in-law politics) describes the period 1800 to 1863 when national politics in Joseon was exclusively led by a few powerful royal in-law families, most notably the Andong Kim and Poongyang Jo clans. From“Collusive Oligopolistic Politics: Sedo and the Political Structure of Early-Nineteenth-Century Choson Korea” by Tae Yeon Eom (2012 thesis, University of British Columbia): In contemporary Korean historiography, the reign periods of King Sunjo (r. 1800-1834), King Hŏnjong (r.1834-1849), and King Ch’ŏlchong (r. 1849-1863) are generally called “The Era of Sedo Politics” in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910). In contemporary Korean historiography, the political theme of sedo predominated after the death of King Chŏngjo (r. 1776-1800), when national politics was exclusively led by a few powerful royal in-law families, most notably the Andong Kim and P’ungyang Cho clans, for sixty-three years. Obviously, those two major clans enjoyed extensive political authority and high social status in the nineteenth century. Notes: (1) Queen Shinjeong was portrayed by Chae Soo-bin in the 2016 hit “Moonlight Drawn By Clouds” aka “Love in The Moonlight." Queen Shinjeong’s husband Crown Prince Hyomyeong (King Munjo) was portrayed by Park Bo-gum. (2) In Season 2 , Ep. 4 of “Kingdom,” Crown Prince Lee Chang visited in Ganghwa Island his distant relative Prince Noseong, an impoverished member of the royal family. The drama portrays Prince Noseong as a lowly fisherman but who’s a well-read man. This character was probably based on King Cheoljong (1831-1864), the last puppet king of the Andong Kim clan. Unlike the drama, however, in history, King Cheoljong was illiterate, which made it easy for him to be controlled by the Andong Kim clan. “Kingdom” Season 2, Ep. 4 B. Eps. 8 and 10: References to the persecution of Catholics during the Joseon Dynasty B-1. In Ep. 8, at around the 43:00 mark, Bong-hwan (Queen Cheorin) remembers what he learned in history classes about King Cheoljeong; among other things, he remembers that King Cheoljong’s “grandmother and aunt got killed by getting baptized.” In Ep. 10, at around the 46:57 mark, the Royal Chef tells Queen Cheorin (Bong-hwan) that he lives alone because all of his family were killed in 1839. Queen Cheorin (Bong-hwan) then recalls that he was referring to the “Gihae Persecution.” B-2. Some of the well-known persecution of Catholics during the Joseon Dynasty were the Sinyu Persecution of 1801, the Gihae Persecution of 1839, the Byeongo Persecution of 1846, and the Byeongin Persecution of 1866. Relevant discussions: From “A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Korea” (WSJ) : “The Sinyu Persecution - In 1801, more than 300 people were killed as the ruling Joseon Dynasty, under newly ascended King Sunjo, staged a clampdown on the Catholic Church in Korea, ostensibly because the religion clashed with ideals of Neo-Confucianism and threatened the social hierarchical system. Yi Seung-hun was among those executed.” From “Korean Catholicism marked by volatile history“ (Korean JoongAng Daily) : “Catholic believers suffered numerous rounds of persecution - the Sinhae Persecution (1791), the Sinyu Persecution (1801) and the Byeongin Persecution (1866) to name just a few - with about 10,000 missionaries and believers killed over a century.” B-3. The only K-drama I’ve watched that depicted the persecution of Catholics during the Joseon Dynasty is “Yi San, A Wind in the Palace.” In Eps. 60-61, the brother of FL Sung Song-yeon and his fellow Catholics were blamed and arrested for an assassination attempt against King Jeongjo. C. Ep. 8: Korean seesaw (“neolttwigi”) In the early part of Ep. 8, Queen Cheorin and her attendant play on a “neolttwigi” (Korean seesaw). 2nd photo from National Geographic by W. Robert Moore, circa 1931 From Folkency: “Neolttwigi (lit. jumping on a board) refers to seesawing, a traditional entertainment practiced mainly by women during the Lunar New Year season. A large rectangular board is supported in its middle by a round hay bundle and two players take turns pushing hard on their end of the board with their feet in order to make the other end spring up.” It is thought that Yangban women developed “neolttwigi” to see over the walls that surrounded their homes, as women in traditional Korea were rarely allowed out of their living compounds, except at night. (Wikipedia, citing Rodney P. Carlisle, Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society, Volume 1) D. Ep. 12: Surit-nal (Dano Festival); ceremonial robes and head gear of Joseon kings In Ep. 12, King Cheoljong presides over the Royal Banquet during the celebration of the Surit-nal (Dano Festival). His ceremonial robe is called “gujangbok,” while the head gear is called “myeonryugwan” (The Talking Cupboard) . https://preview.redd.it/kpaoer4z13pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9a1e536f919350963e9de1ecd4fbf2ba20d6cfa The robe and head gear were worn by the King and the Crown Prince during special events; with the head gear, the more the number of strings, the higher the rank. The jade object that he’s holding is called the “hol” (or “okgyu” depending on the type of jade used to make it. E. Ep. 14: Ice was a valuable commodity during the Joseon Dynasty. In Ep. 14, the Grand Queen Dowager tells Queen Cheorin (Bong-hwan) that ice is a valuable commodity in Joseon. From “Summer on ice: How ice became an essential part of summer life in Korea” (Korea Herald): During the Joseon era (1392-1910), ice was a national asset under the control of the king, and accordingly, a luxury for noblemen. From “Keeping food cool, the ancient way” (Korea JoongAng Daily) : “Since the year 505, or the 6th year of King Jijung’s reign, until the arrival of freon and electricity centuries later, Koreans used stone bunkers to store blocks of ice throughout the year. These seokbinggo, literally “stone ice storage,” were located around the country. Local governments sometimes delivered ice to palaces, but mostly used ice as a means to prevent special local products from spoiling on the way to a palace.” From “Feeling the heat: The luxury of ice” in Joseon (Korea Times) by Robert Neff: The Korean government maintained two large ice storage facilities at Seobinggo and Dongbingo, where huge slabs of river ice (nearly two meters long and about 12.5 centimeters thick) were covered with straw and preserved throughout the year. Court officials and others who possessed “bingpae” ― an ice ration card ― were regularly able to obtain a certain amount of this valuable commodity (based on their rank) for their own use. Notes: (1) “The Grand Heist” is a 2012 South Korean historical comedy film about a gang of 11 thieves who try to steal ice blocks from the royal storage, Seobingo, during the last years of the Joseon era. (2) In Ep. 9 of “A Jewel in the Palace,” crisis hits as Lady Han falls sick and Jang Geum, with Keum Young, is left to prepare the food for the king and his entourage in the royal hunt. When the Head Eunuch tells Jang Geum and Keum Young that the king wants cold noodles, he asks them if they brought ice with them. (When I first saw this scene back in 2015, I thought, “What’s the big deal with ice?”) (3) In Ep. 2 of “The Tale of Nokdu,” Yul Mu prepares for Dong Joo a dessert for breakfast. The gisaengs around him become awestruck after the package that his bodyguard brought turns out to be a small block of ice. What Yul Mu prepared for Dong Joo is similar to “patbingsu” (“bingsu).” Bingsu was introduced to Korea during the Japanese colonial period, but according to “Snowy delights and variations on bingsu” (Korea Herald) , shaved ice treats existed even during the Joseon Dynasty. https://i.redd.it/n78c477zy2pa1.gif This is a bit off-topic, but notice two things after Yul Mu’s bodyguard finishes chopping the ice into smaller pieces: (a) Before sheathing his sword into the scabbard, the bodyguard makes a downward slash with his sword and with a quick wrist flick; he did this to get rid of the water that may create rust in his sword. A swordsman also does this after slashing an enemy; blood may also cause the sword to become rusty. (4) In Ep. 7 of Mr. Sunshine, Ae-shin and her servant Haman enjoy “patbingsu” (“bingsu”) in the French bakery. F. Ep. 14: Donghak (religion, movement, peasant revolution) In Ep. 14, the ministers threaten King Cheoljeong that if he does not order the execution of Dam Hyang (the little girl who saved Queen Cheorin from being poisoned), they will consider him as a supporter of the “Donghak” religion and its followers. From Wikipedia: Donghak (lit. “Eastern Learning”) was an academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism founded in 1860 by Choe Je-u. The Donghak movement arose as a reaction to seohak (“Western learning”), and called for a return to the “Way of Heaven.” While Donghak originated as a reform movement and revival of Confucian teachings, it gradually evolved into a religion known today as “Cheondoism” in Korea under the third patriarch. Related resources: “Gov’t to commemorate Donghak Peasant Revolution for 1st time” ; “Korea celebrates 125th anniversary of Donghak Peasant Revolution in 1894 (2020)” G. Ep. 16: Difference between “Jo” and “Jong” in the posthumous (temple) names of the Joseon kings; the Joseon kings’ royal portraits and dramas such as “Painter of the Wind” and “Saimdang” G-1. In Ep. 16, during the Royal Portrait painting session, Queen Cheorin wonders about the difference between between “Jo” and “Jong” in the posthumous (temple) names of the Joseon kings. The subtitles say that “jo” is added to the name of a king who’s honored for doing something great; on the other hand, “jong” is added to the name of a king who’s honored for his virtue. Well, this is just one of two reasons for the difference. The website “dramasROK” in its in-depth article cites Korean historian Sul Min Suk who gives two reasons for the difference: (1) Relationship of the king to his predecessor: “If the successor was the king’s son – or next in line to the throne – then that king was given a posthumous title ending in JONG. (2) “The ending JO was given to the founder of the dynasty – Taejo – for great achievements establishing a new dynasty. And then his descendants were supposed to be named JONG. So in a way, the title JO could be considered superior to JONG. And from now on this was the case. JO was seen as a more elite title to JONG. It started with King Seonjo…” Relevant discussions: Why was King Sejong named "Sejong" instead of "Sejo"? and “Rulers of the Joseon Dynasty and KDrama Interpretations” G-2. The Joseon kings’ royal portraits and dramas such as “Painter of the Wind” and “Saimdang” Only seven portraits of five Joseon kings remain today as the others were destroyed during the Korean War (1950-1953). These surviving portraits are those of King Sejong, King Yeongjo, King Jeongjo, King Cheoljong, King Gojong, and King Sunjong. You can view these portraits at the Royal Portrait Museum in Jeonju, Korea. https://preview.redd.it/0nxhjw1ez2pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51dd5a7e7da44d8ca156664e85c355c1b13dbc6c For a more detailed depiction of how the Joseon kings’ royal portraits were drawn according to strict standards, you can watch “Painter of the Wind” (2008; Eps. 10-11) and “Saimdang” (2017; Ep. 22). H. Ep. 16: Secret Royal Investigators during the Joseon Dynasty; secret royal investigators as depicted in “100 Days My Prince” and “Under The Queen's Umbrella” H-1. In Ep. 16, King Cheoljong sends his trusted man Hong as a secret royal investigator to the most corrupt place in south Joseon. In his confrontation with a nobleman in a gisaeng house, Hong displays his “mapae.” From “Amhaeng-eosa - secret royal inspector in Joseon Kingdom”: “They were undercover officials directly appointed by the king and were sent to local provinces to punish corrupt officials and comfort the sufferings of people while traveling incognito. The amhaeng-eosa system was one of the most excellent inspection systems in the world, the likes of which is very unique and hard to find in other countries.” The book “Corea, The Hermit Kingdom” (1888) by William Elliott Griffis states several interesting things about the secret royal inspectors. They were called “The Messengers on the Dark Path,” and to prevent them from abusing their powers, they were secretly monitored by a “yashi” or “Night Messenger.” Griffis states: “An E-sa, or commissioner, who is to be sent to a distant province to ascertain the popular feeling, or to report the conduct of certain officers, is also called ‘The Messenger on the Dark Path.’ He receives sealed orders from the king, which he must not open till beyond the city walls. Then, without even going to his own house, he must set out for his destination, the government providing his expenses. He bears the seal of his commission, a silver plate having the figure of a horse engraved on it. In some cases he has the power of life and death in his hands. H-2. Secret royal inspectors as depicted in "100 Days My Prince" and "Under the Queen’s Umbrella": In Ep. 7 of “100 Days My Prince,” a royal secret inspector (“Amhaengeosa”) saves Yul and Hong-shim from the corrupt magistrate and Master Park. Hong-shim previously recognized that the man sleeping in her father’s room was a royal secret inspector because he was holding a “yuchuk” (a brazen ruler that inspectors used for several purposes, including making sure that the measurement system for taxation was correctly followed). https://preview.redd.it/fp2wmm7kz2pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbb8423675f5ae42963be7a4c1843021afde71bb In Eps. 8-10 of “Under The Queen's Umbrella, as part of the contest, the Grand Princes and the princes disguise themselves as “secret royal inspectors” (“amhaeng-eosa”) in pursuit of the assignments given by King Lee Ho. In some scenes, you can see the inspectors’ seal (badge) and tool: the “mapae” and the “yuchuk.” I. Miscellaneous notes: Ep. 11: the fight with fans as weapons; “jangot” or head covering for noblewomen during the Joseon Dynasty ; the beautiful bridge across the pond in Ep. 1 and other episodes I-1. Ep. 11: During the festival, King Cheoljoeong and Kim Byeong-in fight using fans as requested by the Grand Queen Dowager. While they’re using ordinary fans, there’s actually a martial art system using a fan as a weapon. https://preview.redd.it/xifgh51b23pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58765eca5345effd9c2f3bbc9d82699a523d54f2 From Wikipedia: Tessenjutsu (Japanese; lit. “iron fan technique”) is the martial art of the Japanese war fan (tessen). It is based on the use of the solid iron fan or the folding iron fan, which usually had eight or ten wood or iron ribs. The use of the war fan in combat is mentioned in early Japanese legends. In Ep. 11 of “Saimdang,”Lee Gyeom fights off Min Chi-hyung’s men using his fan. Related resources: War Fan Tessen Techniques and Why Samurai Carried and Fought with Fans Made of Metal I-2. “Jangot” (alternative spelling ”changot”): similar to the outer jacket of a hanbok but with a collar and a ribbon for tying both sides; according to the principles of the Joseon Dynasty’s Confucianism, women were ordered not to show their face to men, so they would cover their faces in many ways while going out. (Wikipedia) https://preview.redd.it/r06c2mioz2pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=975e4ba5fdaafc0a05a793fdc61010abc336fdbd From “Veiling of Korean Women: The Neo-Confucian Influence in Comparison to the Veiling of Muslim Women” by Hye Ok Park (Claremont Graduate University, Department of History) : Different types of veils I-3. The beautiful bridge and pond shown below are used as the location for several scenes in “Mr. Queen”, starting with Ep. 1. This bridge is located in the Gungnamji Pond (Historic Site No. 135) in Seodong Park; it is Korea’s first artificial pond and was created by King Mu from the Baekje Dynasty. The bridge and pond have been used in other dramas such as “The Flower in Prison,” “The Joseon Gunman,” and “The Tale of Nokdu.” https://preview.redd.it/mloxzq7tz2pa1.jpg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e015dccd9623cffb9b1abe21f33158f999ff054 Notes: (1) In digging up the historical and cultural backgrounders of the K-dramas that I watch, I rely on English language resources on the Internet. I don’t speak or read Korean, and so I can’t search through Naver. Those of you who read Korean or are more knowledgeable about Korean culture and history should correct whatever errors or omissions there may be in this discussion. (2) Other discussions that I have posted on the historical and cultural backgrounders of K-historical dramas: “Hotel Del Luna” (some cultural backgrounders for international viewers) (3) This discussion is rather long and may be a bit boring for those of you who don't like history. If you got tired reading this discussion, you can energize yourself by listening to Band-Maid’s performances during their 2022 USA tour. Band-Maid is an all-female Japanese band that mixes genres such as rock (hard, progressive, punk), metal, pop, jazz, and blues. Listen for example to “Freedom" (anthem; watch out for the drum solo); “Daydreaming" (power ballad; watch out for the lead guitar solo); “Wonderland” (rock-jazz-blues). |
2023.03.21 13:15 lurpeli 30 [M4F] St. Louis - Would love to find my life partner
I've been on the search for my life partner for years. It's been a difficult journey and doesn't seem to want to get any easier. I've posted here before, I spend time on all the apps, but progress doesn't seem to want to happen, but hope springs eternal.
A little about me. I have a PhD in Computational Biology and I work in the pharmaceutical industry on fun things like those mRNA vaccines you've heard all about. I enjoy what I do and get to tackle some very fun, cutting edge, science problems. Outside of work I enjoy videogames, photography, cars, and animals. I have two cats who I just adopted in February and they're slowly opening up more over time.
I love coffee shops and going to the zoo or doing other fun things in the city. (City Museum is always a hit.) But I also love staying in and doing absolutely nothing at all.
I'm looking for a similar accomplished life partner who has a job they enjoy, life passions, and a drive to always do new and fun things. I do not want children and have had a vasectomy, so definitely no children for me!
Here's a few photos of me.
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A little about me. I have a PhD in Computational Biology and I work in the pharmaceutical industry on fun things like those mRNA vaccines you've heard all about. I enjoy what I do and get to tackle some very fun, cutting edge, science problems. Outside of work I enjoy videogames, photography, cars, and animals. I have two cats who I just adopted in February and they're slowly opening up more over time.
I love coffee shops and going to the zoo or doing other fun things in the city. (City Museum is always a hit.) But I also love staying in and doing absolutely nothing at all.
I'm looking for a similar accomplished life partner who has a job they enjoy, life passions, and a drive to always do new and fun things. I do not want children and have had a vasectomy, so definitely no children for me!
Here's a few photos of me.
2023.03.21 12:54 Topre_Mike [UK] [H] Realforce R1 87u, Realforce R2 with MX sliders, Frog TKL, MT3 Godspeed R2 Apollo base and Milky Way kit, SA Espresso, Zealios v2 78g switches, Frosty Flake Controller [W] PayPal
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Selling few things (prices not including delivery):
Mito MT3 Godspeed R2 keycaps - brand new, Apollo base kit, Milky Way kit (caps, caps) - £119 (or split, base £100, Milky Way £30)
Realforce R1 87u 55g black - £350
SA Espresso keycaps brand new, Alphas and TKL (modifiers) kits - £119
FROG TKL kit, brand new, F13 TKL black, hotswap rgb pcb, added free Durock v2 stabilisers - £380
Zealios V2 78g switches (88) lubed with Krytox mix (205+105) and springs with 105 - £99
Realforce R2 TKL ANSI ivory 55g keyboard - new, modded with latest Deskeys and Novatouch sliders (photo) - £279
Frosty Flake Controller for Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid keyboards, used (photo) - £55
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Selling few things (prices not including delivery):
Mito MT3 Godspeed R2 keycaps - brand new, Apollo base kit, Milky Way kit (caps, caps) - £119 (or split, base £100, Milky Way £30)
Realforce R1 87u 55g black - £350
SA Espresso keycaps brand new, Alphas and TKL (modifiers) kits - £119
FROG TKL kit, brand new, F13 TKL black, hotswap rgb pcb, added free Durock v2 stabilisers - £380
Zealios V2 78g switches (88) lubed with Krytox mix (205+105) and springs with 105 - £99
Realforce R2 TKL ANSI ivory 55g keyboard - new, modded with latest Deskeys and Novatouch sliders (photo) - £279
Frosty Flake Controller for Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid keyboards, used (photo) - £55
2023.03.21 10:06 _xwtk Duplics • HUGE Discord 100 Members Special Giveaway!
Hey everyone!
I am happy to announce that we are announcing our first giveaway as a celebration of our Discord community growing over 100 members!
To expand our Reddit as well, we have decided to run the giveaway here!
What are the prizes?
Even though we are a new community, the prizes are still many enough! Attention, 9 units + 1 sale organized by our Verified Sellers!
Dyson
1x AirPods 2 - V3.1 Airoha 1562U
2x AirPods 3 - V1.1 Huilian A10
HiCity
3x AirPods Pro 2nd Gen - V4.6 BES 2600IHC
Jenny
2x AirPods 2 - Airoha 1562E
1x AirPods Pro - Airoha 1562AE
And discount!
Kasen
10% Discount for AirPods Max (write "Duplics" in the additional notes when ordering to get the discount!)
Giveaway Transparency
All the units have been sponsored by the sellers from their own will, no one was or will be ever forced to participate in a giveaway. We do not receive any commissions per sales when you order from our Verified Sellers.
How to Participate?
In my standard fashion, the giveaway isn't going to be a simple reaction or a comment, instead, we have photo challenges! This giveaway's theme is Spring!
• Take a photo of your environment
Photoshoot your city, or your garden, anything symbolizing the nature!
Remember! Spring isn't always about green and sun, it is also about the crazy rains! So do not hesitate to participate if the weather isn't good!
Giveaway Rules
• Editing is allowed! However keep it in limits, placing things that haven't existed in the original photo isn't allowed, you can do various color corrections.
• Photo must be original, copying from internet is strictly forbidden, if we find you doing that, your account will be blacklisted from future giveaways.
• Only 1 entry per person! Please do not use any alt accounts to circumvent this rule, we are here to make a friendly place.
• Computer generated images not allowed.
• NSFW not allowed.
How to upload?
You can use any file hosting service, best choice would be Imgur! After uploading, post it in the comments!
How long will the giveaway submissions be open for?
You will be able to submit your entry until 27.03.2023 00:00 (GMT+4)
When will the results be published?
Within 27.03.2023
How will the entries be checked?
We will be objectively rating every entry for their creativity, area, how much editing was involved, and more.
submitted by _xwtk to duplics [link] [comments]
I am happy to announce that we are announcing our first giveaway as a celebration of our Discord community growing over 100 members!
To expand our Reddit as well, we have decided to run the giveaway here!
What are the prizes?
Even though we are a new community, the prizes are still many enough! Attention, 9 units + 1 sale organized by our Verified Sellers!
Dyson
1x AirPods 2 - V3.1 Airoha 1562U
2x AirPods 3 - V1.1 Huilian A10
HiCity
3x AirPods Pro 2nd Gen - V4.6 BES 2600IHC
Jenny
2x AirPods 2 - Airoha 1562E
1x AirPods Pro - Airoha 1562AE
And discount!
Kasen
10% Discount for AirPods Max (write "Duplics" in the additional notes when ordering to get the discount!)
Giveaway Transparency
All the units have been sponsored by the sellers from their own will, no one was or will be ever forced to participate in a giveaway. We do not receive any commissions per sales when you order from our Verified Sellers.
How to Participate?
In my standard fashion, the giveaway isn't going to be a simple reaction or a comment, instead, we have photo challenges! This giveaway's theme is Spring!
• Take a photo of your environment
Photoshoot your city, or your garden, anything symbolizing the nature!
Remember! Spring isn't always about green and sun, it is also about the crazy rains! So do not hesitate to participate if the weather isn't good!
Giveaway Rules
• Editing is allowed! However keep it in limits, placing things that haven't existed in the original photo isn't allowed, you can do various color corrections.
• Photo must be original, copying from internet is strictly forbidden, if we find you doing that, your account will be blacklisted from future giveaways.
• Only 1 entry per person! Please do not use any alt accounts to circumvent this rule, we are here to make a friendly place.
• Computer generated images not allowed.
• NSFW not allowed.
How to upload?
You can use any file hosting service, best choice would be Imgur! After uploading, post it in the comments!
How long will the giveaway submissions be open for?
You will be able to submit your entry until 27.03.2023 00:00 (GMT+4)
When will the results be published?
Within 27.03.2023
How will the entries be checked?
We will be objectively rating every entry for their creativity, area, how much editing was involved, and more.