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Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, or so the saying goes.
Brisbane's property market has felt a bit like that over the past several years, overshadowed by the exponential growth seen in Sydney and Melbourne.
While the two biggest capitals hogged the headlines, Brisbane was the quiet achiever and notched up a number of suburbs that experienced strong and consistent growth year in, year out for the past decade.
And many of them had one thing in common.
A terrific trio
For starters, let's have a look at the three best-performing locations over the past decade.
This data is from CoreLogic and the Property Investment Professionals of Australia, which looked at average annual growth rates.
Coming in at the very top of the list was Robertson.
It's not hard to see why this outer southern suburb, about 13 kilometres from the city, lures people in.
It's picture perfect, with tree-lined streets and lovely homes, and exceptional lifestyle amenity.
Connection to the city is also effortless – 20 minutes on a bus via the busway, good proximity to the motorway and near a dedicated bike path.
Its average annual growth over 10 years was 3.7 per cent. In 2010, its indexed median house value was a touch above $710,000, whereas it's now $1,019,930.
Second on the growth hotspot list is Tarragindi – another southern star.
It's about eight kilometres from the CBD, but you'll be there in 15 minutes max on the bus, and the road links are good, too.
It's also one of the rare Residential A-zoned suburbs in Brisbane, meaning oversized land blocks, huge parks and an abundance of bushland reserve. It feels a little bit bush but is a stone's throw from the city.
Despite its idyllic feel, it has a great cosmopolitan vibe, too, with plenty of cafes, restaurants and boutiques. It's also very close to a Griffith University campus.
Its average annual growth over 10 years was 3.6 per cent. In 2010, its indexed median house value was a touch above $571,000, whereas it's now $813,738.
And in the final spot of the top three list was New Farm in the inner-city.
It's perhaps not surprising that this trendy, young and vibrant suburb has performed so well, given how popular it is.
There's an eclectic mix of great apartments, both new builds and renovated existing dwellings, through to charming Queenslanders and spectacular trophy homes.
New Farm's lifestyle has just as much variety.
You're likely to walk by a posh art opening and a craft beer festival on the same block, plus the mix of residents goes from the uber-rich to uni students.
Its average annual growth over 10 years was 3.5 per cent. In 2010, its indexed median house value was $950,745, whereas it's now $1,340,392.
Picking up on a trend
What does the top three tell you about great long-term prospects in Brisbane?
Well, it might be useful to zoom out a little further and look at some of the other results in the research.
The suburbs will their average annual growth over the past decade are:
- Salisbury – Nathan: 3.4%
- Geebung: 3.4%
- Kangaroo Point: 3.4%
- Kedron – Gordon Park: 3.3%
- Moorooka: 3.3%
- Stafford Heights: 3.3%
- Brisbane City: 3.2%
- Stafford: 3.1%
- Chermside West: 3.0%
Putting aside the couple of city-centric results, what do you notice?
The majority are middle-ring suburbs. In my view? They're locations that allow buyers to have it all.
You can get to and from the city pretty easily. You can live in a nice home without paying an absolute fortune for it. There's a little bit of density but also sprawling parks, tree-lined streets and a slightly more suburban feel.
You can also get a good coffee, go out for a nice meal and get what you need at local shops.
Also, reasonably close by are major shopping centres, and major hubs like hospitals and universities.
These middle-ring strong performers appeal to a broad market. They're convenient. They're pleasant. They're sought-after.
What these results also indicate is that the best performing suburbs for capital growth over the past decade are those in consistent high demand with residents of all types.
Of course, that sounds a bit obvious. The more people who want to buy somewhere, the steeper the price growth trajectory.
But many of these suburbs are in demand across the board in many different ways.
They're popular with buyers and renters (therefore investors).
Plus, their demographics are broad and diverse, with people young and old, rich and modest, professional and retired, and single and family all wanting to live there.


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Authors: Nancy Holzner
Tags: #Fantasy, #General, #Fiction
All too soon I opened my eyes, and the problems of the past days elbowed their way back into my consciousness. My business was still crumbling. Maria and Gwen were still fighting. Simone Landry was still after Kane. And Pryce was still out there somewhere, probably getting ready to attack me again.
Welcome to another day in the life.
I checked my bedside clock and found it was only four thirty in the afternoon. I turned over, thinking I could catch another hour's worth of z's. But it was no good. All the things that were on my mind might as well be lined up by my bed, poking me with sticks. Sleep wasn't an option. I threw back the sheets and got up. I started some coffee, and took a shower while it brewed.
As I toweled off, I inspected my wounds from last night's Harpy attack. Everything was healing nicely. The edges of the wound where the Harpy had gouged my leg had knit together and scabbed over. There'd be a scar, but I couldn't do anything about that.
Dressed in jeans and a blue cotton sweater, I sipped a mug of strong black coffee. I turned on the phone's ringer and checked for messages. Just one—the exact number of clients I had left. I crossed my fingers.
Please don't let it be a job cancellation.
It wasn't. The number was Kane's. "Hi, it's me," he said. His warm, deep voice sent tingles shivering through me. "I've been thinking all day how great it would've been to have breakfast in bed with you. Couldn't get the idea out of my mind." He chuckled, and the tingles reached my toes. "Especially because I have to work tonight. Simone is giving a talk at a meeting of the Human-Paranormal Women's Business Association, with some potentially big donors in attendance, and I need to be there."
Funny how fast tingles can evaporate. "It wasn't on my calendar—I guess her assistant forgot to notify my assistant or something. Simone told me about it this morning, right after you left."
I'd bet she did. She was probably batting her eyelashes and telling him how much she needed him there before the door had closed behind me.
"I know you're working tonight, too," Kane went on, "so
maybe I'll see you tomorrow? Oh, not for breakfast, though. I've got another meeting with Simone in the morning. Always the way, isn't it? And this month's retreat is almost here. I hope we can get together before then. If not, I guess it'll have to be some time next week. Call me when you can."
Always the way
—well, yes and no. In some ways, it was a typical message from Kane. Our work schedules didn't have a lot of overlap, and one or the other of us was always canceling plans. But what wasn't typical was hearing another woman's name woven through his message.
Simone, Simone, Simone.
I knew what she was trying to do—push herself between us until the werewolf retreat, when she'd have him all to herself.
Why was he managing her campaign, anyway? Kane had never been interested in Deadtown politics before. He was all about getting the norms to recognize paranormal rights, preferably in Washington. How had she talked him into this?
Those triumphant green eyes. That smug assurance that she'd win.
I needed to talk to Kane. And not on the phone. It wasn't yet five in the evening, and he never left the office until six. If I went there now, maybe—just maybe—he could pencil me in for an appointment between Simone and Simone and goddamn Simone.
THE NORMS' RUSH HOUR WAS RUSHING FULL FORCE AS I walked along Tremont Street toward Kane's office near Government Center. Sidewalks and streets were choked with people, all in a hurry and yet not getting anywhere very fast. As I approached Kane's building, workers poured out the front door. Among them was a woman in an emerald green blazer. A woman with long, wavy chestnut hair.
She turned right, walking away from me. But there was no mistaking Simone Landry.
That damn shampoo-commercial-gorgeous hair of hers was so unfair. I ran a hand through my own hair—whatever I tried to do to it, after a shift it always returned to the same straight, short, strawberry-blonde style. How come werewolves lucked out with their luxurious hair?
Inside, I crossed the lobby and took the elevator to Kane's floor. Iris, the blonde human receptionist who kept things
running while the firm's werewolf staff was on retreat, was leaving. She smiled when she saw me.
"Is Kane still here?"
"Do you have to ask? He always beats me to work, and he's always here when I go home. Sometimes I wonder if he lives in his office."
"Me, too."
"Your timing is good. He just got out of a meeting."
"With Simone Landry?" God, my voice sounded tight. I coughed some of the tension out of it.
"Yes. She left a minute or two ago. I was waiting for her to leave so I could lock up." She held the door open for me.
"Thanks." I passed into the reception area.
"Must have been a good meeting," Iris remarked. "Simone was grinning like she won the lottery when she came out." She closed the glass door and turned the key. Then she waved and headed for the elevators.
I unclenched my fists and inspected the half-moon fingernail marks in my palms. Okay. Simone was hanging on Kane like a monkey on a banana tree. But she wasn't here now. I'd finally have him all to myself.
Kane's outer office looked like the offices of any other top-tier law firm in the city: elegant and understated. The reception area held black leather chairs and sofas, with accent lighting showing the tasteful artwork to its best advantage. Simone, in her tailored suits, would look right at home here. I glanced down at my jeans, wishing for a moment I'd dressed up. But that was silly. I shook my head and walked down the hallway. Kane's door was last on the right, the corner office.
I tapped on the door, cracked it open, and peered inside. Kane sat at his desk, his suit jacket draped over the back of the chair, his shirtsleeves rolled up. When he saw me, his don't-interrupt-me scowl morphed into a grin. Tingle alert. He pushed back his chair and came around the desk, then opened the door wide and drew me inside. His arms were strong and solid around me as he greeted me with a deep kiss.
Simone who?
Yet there was a lingering scent of perfume in the office, sweetly floral with spicy notes and a musky undertone. If I could detect Simone's perfume, to a werewolf's sensitive nose it was probably as though she were still standing right here. Which, no
doubt, was her intention. She was making sure that she'd register in some part of Kane's brain, even while his mind focused on other things.
I frowned and pulled away, wishing the big plate glass windows were the kind that open. The room needed air.
Kane curled his fingers around mine with one hand and smoothed his tie with the other. We sat in the visitors' chairs that faced his desk. "This is a nice surprise," he said. "Did you get my message?"
"I did. But I wanted to see you, not play our usual game of phone tag for the next couple of days."
"I'm glad." He held my hand in both of his and gazed at me. I saw no trace of guilt in his eyes, nothing but pleasure that I was here.
And yet Simone's scent floated between us like a ghost.
"I was finishing up a couple of things here, and then I was going to grab a burger before Simone's event. Do you want to get something to eat? It'll be quick, but—"
"Why are you managing Simone Landry's campaign?" Okay, so I'd blurted, but at least I'd asked the question. I watched his face, but all I saw there was surprise.
"You mean why am I wasting my time managing a bid for a figurehead position that has no real power?" He chuckled. "Good question. Well, Simone's a friend, and she asked me to. But…" He stopped and remained quiet for a moment. I leaned forward, my heart beating way harder than I wanted to admit, waiting to hear what came next. "But you're thinking there's more, and you're right. I've been wanting to discuss this with you, but work's been so busy I've hardly seen you."
my heart thumped.
No, no, no. Don't break up with me. Not over her.
If Kane saw what I was feeling, he didn't show it. He kept talking. "Simone's campaign is a practice run. I want to see from the inside how a political campaign works, because I'm thinking of running for Congress next year."
Congress. A werewolf could be elected to Congress about as easily as I could take a running jump and land on the moon, but so what? If anyone could pull it off, it was Kane. And I liked the sound of "I'm running for Congress" way better than "I'm starting a pack with Simone." I sat back, my heart no longer threatening to leap out of my chest.
His eyes shone, staring into some far-off place, perhaps the marble halls of the Capitol. "What better way to change the system than from the inside? I'm tired of standing on the outside, banging on the door and begging to be thrown a few scraps of justice." He refocused on me. "But that's a long way off. Right now, I'm just exploring the possibility. And as I said, my main reason for helping Simone is that she's a friend. Our families go way back."
My head was buzzing—it was too much to take in. "Does Simone know?"
"About—? Oh, you mean that I'm considering a run for Congress? Yes, I've mentioned it. Why?"
Simone didn't care about being reelected to the Council of Three. She was campaigning for a different job: politician's wife. I mean, who would look better standing beside Kane at political events—a successful politician with model looks and a tailored wardrobe, or a demon exterminator whose only dress was crumpled in a ball at the back of her closet? There was no contest, and Simone knew it.
Now, she was showing him what an asset she'd be to his political aspirations. And soon, at the werewolf retreat, she'd do whatever it is she-wolves do when they're after a mate. Kane didn't stand a chance.
didn't stand a chance.
"Don't look so stunned," Kane said, squeezing my hand. "I know running for office would be a big step. But like I said, I haven't decided yet, and we can discuss it after I get back from Princeton." Princeton was the location of the werewolf retreat closest to Boston, the one Kane—and, I had no doubt, Simone—attended each full moon.
I searched his eyes again. Why was I even looking for guilt? I had no special hold on this man—and after all, that was how I'd always said I wanted it. I wasn't cut out for the wife-and-mother routine. If he wanted to start his own pack, he'd find a suitable mate, and we both knew it wouldn't be me. I had no right to hold him back.
So why did I suddenly feel like I was choking on the cloying scent of that damn perfume?
"Vicky." Kane's hand traced light circles on the back of mine. "Was there something you wanted to tell me?"
I blinked. "What do you mean?"
"Well, most of the time I practically have to make an appointment to see you. Today you appear unexpectedly both before and after work. Don't get me wrong—I like it." His smile was warm. "I like it a lot. But you have to admit it's unusual."
The warmth of that smile. I didn't want Simone basking in it. I didn't want it shining on anyone but me.
"I…well, I was thinking that maybe I'd go to Princeton with you." The words were out of my mouth before I knew I'd say them.
Now it was Kane's turn to look stunned. His smile froze. His hand stopped moving on mine. "To the retreat?"
"Oh, well, if you don't want me to go…" If I backpedaled any faster, I'd be halfway across Boston in a minute.
"Want you to go? Of course I do. That invitation is always open. Always. And you know how long I've been hoping you'd say yes. But I didn't want to push you. No pressure." The surprise left his eyes as his smile went supernova. "So, when were you thinking of coming? Some time in the summer?"
"This month."
"But…have you looked at a calendar? This month's retreat is less than two days away."
"Maybe I don't want to lose my nerve." My attempt at a lighthearted laugh sounded idiotic. "Maybe I want to, you know, close my eyes and jump in at the deep end."
"Vicky, if you're worried about losing your nerve, perhaps you should wait." When I started to object, he held up his hand. "I don't want you to close your eyes and jump. I want you to be sure. You know, I'd accepted that it wasn't going to happen. But now you're sitting here telling me not only do you want to come, you want to come this month—that means the day after tomorrow. It's sudden."
"So you're saying you don't want me to come." I spoke slowly, as though that would keep my voice from shaking. It didn't.
"That's not what I'm saying at all. I want you there with me. Of course I do. But not on a whim."
"It's not a whim," I lied. "I've been thinking about it for a while. My schedule opened up—more clients canceled." Well, at least that much was true. I tried to decipher the concern on his face. Was it for me, or for a missed opportunity with Simone? "But if you'd rather wait until the summer…"
"The hell with summer." He pulled me from my chair onto
his lap. He nuzzled my neck, and I gasped at the touch of his lips. "If I could, I'd be running through the woods with you right this minute. Vicky, I have wanted this for so damn long. I can't even tell you how happy you've made me."
"I'm happy, too." At least, I thought I was. It felt so right to be close to Kane, surrounded by his strength, his warmth. Feeling his lips brush my skin, then press harder. Breathing his scent that always sent a shiver through me. Feelings I loved, that I never wanted to end.
But somewhere inside all that, a tiny voice whispered, "What have you done?" I wasn't a werewolf. I didn't want to pretend to be one.
I shook off my doubts and reached for him.
For the first time since I'd known him, Kane said his work could wait. We went out for a celebratory burger. Well, he had a burger; I had coffee. It was too early in my day for a heavy meal. The whole time, he talked about what to expect at Princeton. Picking me up and traveling there together. Checking in. How the day cabins were arranged. How packs were based around family units, and who belonged to which pack.
"What about Simone Landry?" I asked, trying to sound disinterested. "Does she have her own pack?"

subset: commoncrawl


text: Working on the Timeline - Bulls Community Centre June 18, 2020 Listen Now that we have a realistic budget in place for the Bulls Community Centre, it is time to address the timeline that will take us through to the completion of the Centre.Construction was halted for the duration of the COVID-19 Level 3 and 4 lockdown. This situation affected infrastructure and building construction across the whole country. And of course, no one can be blamed for this. The lockdown meant an automatic six week delay for the project.But with the lifting of level 3 lockdown, limited construction was able to resume. And while workers were back on site they were operating under a raft of restrictions that meant the rate of construction was much slower than normal.The basic social distancing rules under level 2 meant workers had to make sure they kept a metre space between each other; and hand and equipment sanitising was also necessary. These arrangements stayed in place until alert level 1, which meant work under the previous levels didn't flow as smoothly or as speedily as it usually would. Other work however continued during the lockdown period. Firstly, an interior designer has been employed to take charge of all things interior – from colours to curtains to signs. This will result in a cohesive and consistent look and feel for the Centre.Secondly, a Cultural Designer has been engaged. They will help us to bring to the Community Centre a design and decor that reflects the inclusive and multicultural nature of Bulls and the Rangitīkei District.Finally work continued designing a bus lane to the rear of the building and a town square to the front, for future Council consideration.So with these time considerations in mind, Council is planning for the construction of the Bulls Community Centre to be completed by the end of July 2020. There will be a period after that for 'fit-out and moving in' and a public/community opening will be planned for September.We have listened to your feedback and we agree the need to keep everyone up to date with progress on this project, so regular updates will be posted on Council's website; our Rangitīkei Connect page in the District Monitor; and on our social media channels.


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Now that our weather is getting a little sunnier and warmer, some of our birds are dressing up and preparing to dance. Yes, that's right, spring and summer means it's party time and males will put on a flashy outfit to impress the ladies and get their groove on. Hummingbirds I would argue are the flashiest at our Center with their iridescent feathers, especially our male Anna's Hummingbird, Calypte Anna. While it is considered the most common hummingbird in our park and most of Los Angeles, it is not over-rated and such a treat to see. Males get bright red/hot pink feathers all over their head that shine with the light of the sun. In order to catch a glimpse of the colors sometimes we have to be patient and wait for the right movement. The crazy keratin micro structure of hummingbird feathers act as prisms that twist, turn, and reflect light, providing these fascinating colors. In the hummingbird world, apparently that is not enough for a female to choose a male, so our male Anna's hummingbird then choreographs a dance to attract a mate called a display. If the female likes it, then maybe she will have and take care of his young, usually only two at a time.
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Three weeks into living in Nashville I had an exchange waiting for Thai food at one of the supposed great places in Nashville that much like the rest of the recommendations and promises were just that false and insincere, but there I met a transplant from New York who said to me as we got our food and began to part, "You will not be here four years from now." I laughed and thought he may be wrong or right it was early days yet and like that encounter I never set foot in that restaurant again nor ever encountered him again either. And that was like many of my encounters in Nashville, fleeting, frustrating, hopeful and downright bleak. The few that I met towards the end of my time there I have never spoken to again, not an email to inquire about my health, my well being or anything about my state of mind during this perhaps the most stressful one anyone anywhere is experiencing. And while I think that is actually quite commonplace anywhere else I find it most telling that in the buckle of the belt of the bible belting South, Nashville prides itself on its friendly outgoing nature. As I look back that myth of hospitality can go the way of the wind along with other such fraudulent proclamations as Southern Belle and Gentlemen. The women I met were cum dumpster and there was never a Gentleman within Covid spitting yards that ever encountered. My favorite still was the Doctor from Vanderbilt who hit on me in my home, while assessing the value of my belongings and telling me his wife would not care if he had a lover. Really? What he thought I thought of that was not of import, and that was the reality of the men in Nashville, they had no interest in what any woman thought as well again, we are just cum dumpsters.
I walked a great deal in Nashville being carless and knew the city better than some of the locals and clearly more than most of the transplants who relocated there as it was the "it" city with jobs aplenty for anyone willing to "work hard." Ah yes another myth that lends itself to the concept of American Exceptionalism. Well we have certainly found that not to be true haven't we? And on many street corners, buildings and parks there were markers that noted the significance of that place in history in relationship to Nashville. While the original Woolworths stood untouched, the original Department Store once central to the core of the city stood now as lofts and the rest of the city in transition from a little big town to a bigger little town the markers there stood as well. I doubt one single person ever read them and at times I used to think of them as warnings that if you too stayed too long you may end up having one placed to note your irrelevance. My favorite were two markers noting the former location of two Gay bars run by black residents that were eventually burned to the ground and now a parking lot sits with a fake prohibition saloon talking its place. Really two gay bars? The ones they had were largely marginalized and the others were strictly for Bridezillas and hardly a welcoming place for anyone in search of community. In fact one of the ones by my home where I spent my first Pride in Nashville is now gone, the other still there I am sure hidden from view. I went a few times and never felt welcomed there either. And that marked my time in Nashville, feeling very unwelcome.
It was not until I left that I understood the history and reasoning behind the South that they have a Code of Honor and a misplaced sense of history that again revolves around religion as they are the "chosen people." But there are other myths about the South and war that dominate history and in turn often are overlooked as to why it happened and why the South cling to the ideals that are now over 150 years old. But in the South that was not the first war they fought and that link to the Revolution plays a great deal in determining the cultural mindset and core values prevalent in the South and nowhere does it seem to be finally having a reckoning as it is today. Churches were bombed, children killed, adults killed and beaten. Homes and towns set afire, men and women killed in their homes all of it under the fear of civil rights and equality and today of all day's the awakening came at the death of a man who lived in all places the North. So if one of the 1000's that die at the hands of Police every year for the past five years (if not for many more) this one was not in vain and he will never have a marker in any of cities that have many about those who walked, who sat in, who protested and who died by mobs for their deaths will be mentioned in passing in books unread or ignored like the signs as they always have.
When I read about how American's attitudes were changing, my first thought was: What took you the fuck so long? Again me being a history teacher, child of first born Immigrant and another the child of one during WWII where the horrors of not being "pure white" or chosen as the Japanese believed perhaps may have something to do with my "awakening" from birth. But then time passes and the people in your life are reflections of you and your beliefs, its a nice bubblelator which allows a sense of moral and intellectual superiority. Then I encountered first hand the system of justice and the medical industrial complex in ways that we think do not exist or do but that it was rare and on most cases deserved. Really? Then the idea of innocent until proven guilty was proven to me first hand that is another myth on the ever increasing list of ones associated with equality and democracy. The Teacher of history got schooled real fast. I began to see up front the absurdity, then I began to read and research all the varying injustices that plague the American Judicial system. It is one thing to be against Capital Punishment it is another to realize how prevalent it is and how random it is performed until you live somewhere where it is openly practiced and done regardless of how the rest of America sees it. And that is when I learned in Tennessee that despite all the Churches and Bibles in hand that the South sees the world different. That Christianity is a dish served along side biscuits and sweet tea, all with a smile and a dose of passive aggressiveness. And then once I saw that ugly in my face I had to examine myself and my bubble in hard light. And yes Seattle is not better, not worse it just prefers coffee over tea. The schools are horrific, racist, segregated, the people elitist and white and money is the one shared value that crosses the Mason-Dixon line in perfection. Where Women are fat, funky and hairy in Seattle, the Southern woman is smooth, slick, stupid and can suck cock better than any sex worker. Are not all women? But not the Belle, as they are Ladies, but they are too they just don't have conventional sex until marriage. And the men with all their faux demeanors from those in Seattle who claim to be "Feminists" are just raging assholes, the difference in Nashville they are just less educated. And when you realize how similar they are you realize that America has not changed one minute over the decades of protest, of laws and wars and promises to be better, to do better. We are all abused spouses who just take it and stay with regardless of what end of the fist you are on. We have not changed one iota when it comes to the sexes and their roles and identities in the 21st Century.
Look at "social" media, the endless bullying, the obsession with "Karen's" as representation of all things racist. Funny all women, all the time and not a man among them except unless in the company of a Karen. Wow, outing, demeaning and shaming is a pass time shared now across the races. Fuck you, no fuck you. Fuck you again and lather, rinse, repeat. Do you feel better about yourself? I did not when I would walk into every school and hate myself at the end of the day subjecting myself to kids so angry so troubled that I was in denial about how bad it was and this was in Seattle. There were no fewer sexual assaults, scandals, shootings and violence, it was just swaddled in a liberal ethos and then I went to Nashville to get the pathos. I truly hated myself there. As it was there I truly saw the history of America and how that became the present. Again, lather, rinse, repeat. The legacy of a black community in Tulsa came to light over Trump's visit and the date that was marked in Texas history called Juneteenth. Again not a date of note, now today it is one of import, yes a day that finally someone told the truth that the Slaves were freed. A day in Texas freeing those already free. And this brings me to Tulsa, not the only black community destroyed by angry white mobs - Springfield, Slocum, Colfax, Wilmington, Elaine, and Rosewood. Even Atlanta had burned. So will these other towns be forgotten like the thousands of others killed before Mr. Floyd? People do die and they are murdered and often forgotten with no marker to designate their death or even their life.
I studied history too long and with the idea of teaching others about the legacy of this place, some their only home, some their new home but the idea to know where you came from can tell you where you are going is one I have never lost be it personally or professionally. That said I realize that we all will have left is a marker with our identity as to how it is seen by others, Mother, Sister, Wife, Daughter. For some we will have nothing but time on earth. But walk through a graveyard and read them and what does it tell you about them? Not much as a life cannot be placed on a marker and when I read those in the South I knew that it was just one part of a story created by the people who decide who gets them and why. Be it guilt, be it significance, be it of import it says nothing about anyone or how they got there and more importantly why. No marker will ever suffice to replace the narrative that is a life. And in reality this applies to the Statues that are being torn down at a rapid clip. There is little there to even tell you who they were that deserved the mention and who paid for it, approved it why it is there, and they have been ignored there for decades. No one cared until they did and then again someone died, a woman, over tearing one down. Really? Is there a marker there now marking her death or life and why it happened? So keep on keeping on with your hateful dog piling, holding, mocking those whom you do not agree, you do not know but you feel morally superior in doing so. Funny I bet those who destroyed lives and towns felt the same way. See we share more then we think and that is what is really fucking scary. Its how I felt in Nashville, afraid and angry. I don't live there anymore and there will never be a marker acknowledging that and for that it is one thing I am glad of. Nothing will change in Nashville and that much I know but I am not the only one. As I said at the top of this I left before a Tornado ripped up North Nashville, once again reminding everyone that nothing is permanent and it all returns to the land. Irony that for black faces that seems to be a consistent, so perhaps this may be different. But again we have done this dance before. Don't underestimate being angry and afraid.
History Repeats Itself in North Nashville
Fifty years after I-40's construction, a cycle of poverty and displacement churns again in 37208
Steven Hale | Nashville Scene
Jun 7, 2018 5 AM
By the time you read this, Lashananda Kee will have left.
The house on the 1500 block of 14th Avenue North where she has lived with her children and grandchildren is being sold out from under them, and they were the last ones to know it.
"We didn't even know that the landlord was selling the house," says Kee, who is 39. She's sitting on her front stoop holding an unlit cigarette as the afternoon sun beats down on North Nashville. Her grandson, 3-year-old Jeremiah, occasionally peeks out the front door and waves.
"He's been selling this house since September, and we just found out in December, around Christmastime, when we got a whole lot of people coming in and out of our house talking about how he was selling the house. We didn't know nothing about it."
The matter ended up in court, she says, and a judge gave the family two months to leave. On this afternoon, just days before the May 25 deadline, the house is nearly empty. Inside, part of the hallway ceiling is caving in — something Kee says her landlord hasn't bothered to address. Online listings market the house as suitable for gutting or tearing down. But at $675 a month, it was a place Kee could afford while living on government assistance — although toward the end of the month she has to ask around for help feeding the kids. Now she's moving the family to Dothan, Ala.
"I'm from Nashville, Tennessee," says Kee. "I don't know anything about Dothan. I just found somewhere cheaper where I can live and won't get thrown out of my house. Nashville, for a two-bedroom, it's $1,200 dollars."
372080061Lashananda Kee with daughter Zaquita and grandchildren Jeremiah, Marcus and Quinton outside their home on 14th Avenue NorthPhoto: Daniel MeigsKee grew up in this area, like her mother and her mother's mother. Along with her two youngest children — a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old — she also has custody of her 22-year-old daughter's four children, all of them 10 or younger. She doesn't know the 22-year-old's whereabouts anymore.
"She's on drugs so bad, I don't know where she is," Kee says.
The neighborhood is changing in some ways, but in other ways, she says, it's not so different from how it was when she was coming up. Kee says she's seen people killed, shot at and, in one instance, "a woman get her head busted with a brick over drugs."
This is 37208, the heart of historically black North Nashville and a community in which Nashville's proud progress has often had a poisonous side. The local and federal government's treatment of North Nashville for at least a century has ranged from neglect to outright racist hostility. Around 50 years ago, the construction of Interstate 40 displaced more than a thousand black residents, destroyed a business and cultural district on Jefferson Street that was thriving against all odds, and slashed across the neighborhood of the 37208 ZIP code, cutting it in half.
Now, some 150 years after freed slaves began settling here, the cycle of displacement is churning again. Gentrification driven by Nashville's ascendancy as a New South metropolis is uprooting scores of black families and sending shock waves through a community that has rarely known stability. All the while, the poisoned tree has borne fruit. North Nashville is plagued by a lack of opportunity and scant public investment, and alongside its rich cultural history is a history of poverty, crime, violence, aggressive policing and mass incarceration. A Brookings Institution study released in March looking at people born between 1980 and 1986 found that in the 37208 ZIP code, 1 out of every 7 people of that generation found themselves imprisoned in their 30s. That's the highest rate in the country.
From her stoop, Kee points up and down the street at houses that have been sold, the families who had been renting them put out with little warning.
"They're pushing all the black people out and putting all the white people in, and it's not fair. Y'all just pushing us out of our domain and where we live and what we know."
Later, she adds, "I don't think it's fair, and something needs to be done about it, but who am I?"
South of the house that will be her home for just a few more days, past another home for sale and another new build, the street runs into a thicket of trees with the interstate looming on the other side.
The Rev. Ed Sanders says he "stopped in Nashville for two years, 45 years ago."
Born and raised in Memphis, where he was pastored by famed civil rights leader James Lawson, Sanders left Tennessee for school but came to Nashville in the early 1970s to work at Fisk University. In 1981 he founded Metro Interdenominational Church, and he has spent the decades since leading his congregation and devoting himself to, among other things, providing care and services to people with HIV and AIDS.
The church still sits on Eleventh Avenue North where it was built almost 40 years ago, although it has recently gained some tall-and-skinny neighbors — trendy new homes in various stages of construction are visible from the church's property. The memory of segregation is never far away. Buena Vista Park is adjacent to the church, but in the neighborhood it's known as White City Park. City leaders closed its public pool in the 1960s rather than being forced to allow African-Americans to swim in it.
On a rainy May morning, Sanders is sitting in the empty sanctuary, talking about America's oldest disease, racism. He speaks in a deep voice, the kind that carries wisdom picked up over decades.
"The metaphor that I use in relationship to what has happened to this community is very much one that I relate to how HIV works," he says. "If you think of it in terms of HIV — and I want to call the virus racism, classism — if you end up being infected by the virus, if it goes untreated, then that's when it can evolve to where you have AIDS. When you get AIDS, what that means is that your immune system has become so compromised that it makes you vulnerable to opportunistic diseases that otherwise you would never be vulnerable to. I often describe what's going on with gentrification exactly that way. The immune system of our communities was undermined and destroyed."
That diagnosis can be made quite convincingly, even without reference to slavery and the racist terrorism that followed its abolition. Like black communities in cities across the country, starting in the 1930s, North Nashville was subject to a racist housing policy that would later become known as "redlining." So-called "security maps" adopted by the Federal Housing Administration color-coded neighborhoods, with red representing areas that were "hazardous" for lenders. These areas were almost invariably poor and black. The practice meant not only that African-Americans were largely excluded from homeownership and the chance to accumulate wealth through it, but also that any investment in their neighborhoods was discouraged by the FHA — the very agency that could ensure it.
We are still living in the society that those old redlining maps helped shape. In 2017, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released an analysis of the 1930s maps showing that lower-graded neighborhoods experienced an increase in racial segregation that began to decline as late as 1970. In lower-graded areas, they also found evidence of a decline in home ownership, house values and credit scores that "persists today."
Holc ScanA "security map" of Nashville produced by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation ca. 1935https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/But even as redlining and Jim Crow laws waged war on the economic health and physical well-being of African-Americans, the main thoroughfare in North Nashville became a vibrant street that African-Americans in Nashville could proudly call their own.
"Jefferson Street was something very special in the middle of Jim Crow," says Dr. Learotha Williams, an associate professor of African-American and public history at Tennessee State University, who runs the North Nashville Heritage Project. "But it wasn't like these folks had a choice, because this was all that they had. So they made it something almost magical."
Some of that magic is commemorated at Jefferson Street Sound, Lorenzo Washington's "mini-museum" of the street's history. Inside an unassuming white house near the intersection of Jefferson and 21st Avenue North, Washington preserves the memory of a strip that sizzled with R&B and jazz music emanating from clubs like the Del Morocco and Club Baron — clubs that hosted artists like Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Little Richard and Marion James. Washington laughs as he recalls how he met his first wife during the street's heyday: She and some friends were walking down Jefferson, trying to thumb a ride to the Del Morocco, and he picked them up.
An essay on the history of Jefferson Street written by Fisk University professor and Tennessee Historical Commission chair Reavis Mitchell Jr. describes how the street evolved. What was once a wagon road on which newly freed African-American women and children could be seen walking to a so-called "contraband camp" at Fort Gillem — the site where Fisk would later be established — became a thriving business and entertainment district.
"In the age of Jim Crow, black Nashvillians filled the Ritz Theater to enjoy first release movies, where they were free to enter through the front door and sit in the main audience," writes Mitchell.
The street also had department stores operated by Jewish merchants, and even some with integrated staffs.
"The life-affirming bustle along Jefferson Street flowed through bakeries, hardware stores, service or gasoline stations, dry cleaning establishments (some of which offered made-to-order men's apparel), insurance agencies, and shoe shops," Mitchell writes.
The corridor was, and still is, home to African-American colleges like Meharry Medical College, what would become Tennessee State University and Fisk University, the latter of which would provide an academic home for figures like the writer and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells and civil rights leaders like Diane Nash and John Lewis.
At the same time, white political leaders were becoming increasingly preoccupied with eliminating urban "blight." In Nashville, federally backed urban renewal projects — a redevelopment campaign that writer James Baldwin famously referred to as "Negro removal" — and the ostensibly anti-poverty Model Cities program sparked political and legal resistance from African-American communities.
But the cataclysmic event for North Nashville was the construction of I-40. It ripped through the 37208 ZIP code as the result of a deliberate calculation that black neighborhoods — and the culture and community within them — were more disposable than white enclaves. This was not unique to Nashville. In his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein writes that interstate construction was a popular slum-clearance tactic. He quotes Alfred Johnson, a leading lobbyist involved in the writing of the 1956 Federal Highway Act, recalling that some local government officials "expressed the view in the mid-1950s that the urban Interstates would give them a good opportunity to get rid of the local 'niggertown.' "
Discussion of potential interstate routes across Tennessee began in the 1940s and continued through the '50s and '60s. In his book The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City, historian Benjamin Houston writes that one possible I-40 route was abandoned because it veered too close to Belle Meade, the tony suburban home of the city's white elite, and threatened Vanderbilt University and Baptist Hospital. Another route that followed Charlotte Pike was more appealing, Houston writes, because it avoided Centennial Park and Baptist Hospital and allowed for the use of "the widened streets as physical dividers between white and black neighborhoods, a tactic frequently employed at the time in Nashville and elsewhere."
That route gained momentum despite some logistical and engineering concerns. Then something changed. Houston writes that what happened next is "murky," but that at some point in 1955 or 1956, a new route was chosen — it would parallel Charlotte before making a sharp turn near 28th Avenue and tearing into North Nashville.
"None of the plans nor their implications were discussed with local residents, even though the route would virtually disembowel North Nashville," Houston writes.
By 1967, a largely African-American 40-member group of community leaders called the I-40 Steering Committee had formed to fight the route. They argued that the interstate would isolate many black-owned businesses and destroy many others, and also displace residents. They said a shadowy planning process had prevented affected communities from knowing the plans until it was too late. The I-40 Steering Committee filed suit over the route in 1968, represented by attorneys Avon Williams and Z. Alexander Looby — eight years earlier Looby's house on Meharry Boulevard had been bombed by segregationists. Among the people named in the suit was then-Mayor Beverly Briley, who had been elected in 1963 and would serve until 1975.
White leaders were largely dismissive of the group's concerns. Sam Fleming, the president of Third National Bank at the time, urged the completion of the interstate. Interviewed by The Tennessean in January 1968, while standing next to black real estate developer Inman Otey, Fleming said, "I think that one of the great things about Nashville is that we always have known that the two races can work together.
"Working together, however, does not include the indulgence of whims that might delay by a year or more the completion of I-40's route through the city," he added.
The steering committee took its fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where its complaints were ultimately rejected. But the group's warnings proved prescient. According to Metro figures, 1,400 Nashvillians were displaced by the construction of I-40 and I-265 (which would become I-65). Houston writes that "the two-and-a-half-mile stretch of interstate would demolish a hundred square blocks" and lead to "the demolition of approximately 650 homes and 27 apartment buildings." According to the Tennessee State Museum, the value of remaining housing dropped more than 30 percent.
When the Rev. Ed Sanders got to Nashville in 1972, he says "the psychological scar, the community scar, the cultural scar was still very real." And for many in the community, it still is.
When the Scene mentions I-40 while talking by phone to 93-year-old Evelyn Suggs, a longtime resident of the area, she interjects.
"I was involved in it and want to forget it," she says. "It was terrible. I had to fight like hell."
Age hasn't diminished the fire in Suggs' voice. She says she wishes she could talk longer about the subject, but she's overseeing a roofing project at property she owns near Jefferson Street. As old newspaper clippings show, she did fight like hell, and she extracted one of the few concessions that highway planners made to the neighborhood. At one point, the interstate plan didn't even include an exit in North Nashville, adding insult to injury. But Suggs, armed with education in history and political science and her own studies at the public library, gave them hell until they relented.
After she confronted a visiting representative from the federal government at a public meeting, she says, he looked over to the project engineers and told them bluntly to "put the exit where she wants it." Says Suggs, the Jefferson Street exit, No. 207, is her exit. It comes off the highway right near Albion Street, where she lives.
"I tell you, we had to fight every step of the way," she says.
In 2012, in collaboration with the Jefferson Street United Merchants Partnership and Tennessee State University, among others, the city unveiled Gateway to Heritage Plaza at the I-40 underpass near the Jefferson Street exit. Columns beneath the interstate feature pictures and stories of people and events that, as a Metro press release put it, "have contributed to Jefferson Street's unique place in history."
Crystal deGregory is a scholar of black activism and historically black colleges and universities who lived in Nashville for nearly 20 years, earning history and education degrees from Vanderbilt, Tennessee State and Fisk before becoming the director of Kentucky State University's Atwood Institute for Race, Education and the Democratic Ideal last year. She calls Gateway to Heritage Plaza lipstick on a pig.
"The history of black Nashville is relegated to the underpass of the interstate that destroyed the community," she says. "And we're supposed to be happy about that!"
Mindy Fullilove, a professor of urban policy and health at The New School in New York, has coined a term for the unique trauma people experience after mass-displacement events like the ones that occurred in North Nashville in the mid-20th century. She calls it "root shock." Simply put, it is the result of seeing one's environment devastated — whether through natural disaster, government policy or gentrification — and it is an experience she believes is underestimated.
"Buildings and neighborhoods and nations are insinuated into us by life; we are not, as we like to think, independent of them," Fullilove writes in her 2004 book Root Shock. "We are more like Siamese twins, conjoined to the locations of our daily life, such that our emotions flow through places, just as blood flows through two interdependent people. We can, indeed, separate from our places, but it is an operation that is best done with care."
An underlying story in the history of North Nashville over the past century is the ripping away — maliciously at times, recklessly at others — of black people's "places." Their "life world," as Fullilove puts it.
"There are some things that evolved over generations in this community that are now lost," says Sanders of Metro Interdenominational Church. "And there's no clear evidence of how they'll be recovered."
He continues: "The question that people put to me sometimes when I'm very critical of what I see, they'll say, 'Well, what did you want, did you want it to stay a slum, did you want it to stay where things weren't developed?' I say, 'No, I wanted to see it developed, but I wanted to see it developed in a way that was by and in the interests of the people who had established community there before."
Black places and black people are disappearing again in North Nashville, demolished by development, raptured away by mass incarceration or in many cases, displaced amid gentrification. In December, The Tennessean published an analysis of new census data that showed a number of historically African-American neighborhoods had seen significant declines in their black populations over the past decade. In North Nashville, the black population dropped from 60 percent to 38 percent — the largest drop in the county.
Sekou Franklin, a Middle Tennessee State University professor and community activist, lives in 37208. The gentrification of this historically black community, he notes, has been enabled by some well-meaning black leaders who have backed pro-growth policies that haven't resulted in equitable benefits for black Nashvillians.
"My neighborhood was historically a working-class black community, probably 95 percent," says Sekou. "With gentrification, displacement taking place, probably greater than 50 percent of the neighborhood has flipped over or is on its way to flipping over."
The influx of developers and home-flippers has acted as a new interstate, chewing up the vulnerable and putting immense pressure on everyone else. Franklin says that as a middle-class family with education and some good luck, he and his wife and two daughters have been able to survive the tidal wave. But the calls and letters asking him to sell his home for well below market value number near 100 at this point, he says. It's much harder for some of his neighbors who are renters, living on a tighter budget or possibly experiencing a personal tragedy of some sort. Sekou says he knows of at least four cases in which a renter has been pushed out — one had been living there for 30 years.
When Learotha Williams first moved to Nashville, he put out a call for residents to take pictures of the built environment. He knew much of what he saw in the community even 10 years ago wouldn't last long.
"It's going to look completely different, it's going to have a new identity," William says. "And I'm cognizant of the fact that neighborhoods are like people in many ways — they're born, they mature, and then they die or they become something else. But I feel what we have going on in North Nashville is something akin to erasure, if you will."
In the meantime, 37208 is home to evidence of both the new abundance Nashville so loves to celebrate and the suffering it seems intent on ignoring. The ZIP code contains the decrepit house being sold out from under Lashananda Kee and her family, as well as new seven-figure brownstones.
"Poverty has been a constant feature of this community, and it sort of drives me crazy when I think about it," Williams says. "Things come out about Nashville being the 'It City' and all that, and that's all well and good. But it's very much like in the period of the 1890s in U.S. history, where you had great displays of wealth sitting right beside unimaginable poverty."
Kentucky State's deGregory speaks with resigned clarity when asked about the high poverty and incarceration rates in 37208.
"For better or worse, this will not be a reality for this ZIP code for much longer," she says. "The displacement of black people in general, and the black poor in particular, from the heart of Nashville has been in motion for well over half a century, probably approaching closer to a century at this point."
The dynamic is so familiar here, in this country and in this neighborhood, that the winners and losers seem almost predetermined.
"For [North Nashville's] residents, it is the weight of history, and for developers and investors it's the wind of history," deGregory says. "The wind is at their backs."
The Brookings Institution study released in March highlighted the unsurprising link between a youth spent in poor, racially segregated communities and future incarceration. It also suggested that interventions early in such children's lives can make a real difference. And in light of those factors, there is reason for both distress and hope to be found in North Nashville's schools. These schools have a chance to do right by a new generation of black Nashvillians growing up in the wake of the city's past failures.
Despite the significant demographic change in 37208 over the past decade — and more than half a century after desegregation — the area's schools remain made up almost entirely of African-American students. All four of the elementary schools in the ZIP code have student populations that have been more than 90 percent black in recent years. The area's only high school, Pearl-Cohn — which takes half its name from an old black high school and half from an old white high school — is the same.
The work being done at Pearl-Cohn, led by both students and staff, is compelling, though it also reveals the trauma many of the school's students have experienced. Sara Amos is a full-time social worker at the school who saw her position nearly eliminated during this year's budget crisis. She devotes most of her time to counseling sessions with students struggling with depression, anxiety, anger issues and unresolved trauma.
"I would say about 80 percent of my caseload, something those students are dealing with is having lost someone to gun violence at some point in their lives," Amos says.
Rasheedat Fetuga, founder of Gideon's Army — a local nonprofit focused on policing and mass incarceration — is also a regular presence at the school, where she's worked with students and the school to reduce suspensions and expulsions and to lead students in restorative practices. Recently, after 70 students signed up to be part of a leadership team that will work with the city on reducing youth violence, Pearl-Cohn's principal, Dr. Sonya Stewart, gave Fetuga a full day with the students for training. They explored root causes and solutions to youth violence. Among the root causes students named, Fetuga says, were lack of resources, lack of jobs and the emotional toll of displacement and upheaval.
"There's the physical act of being displaced, but then there's also the emotional stress of watching your community be taken over by people who don't really care about you, how it affects you or how it will affect your community in the long run," says Fetuga. "They don't care about the history, and especially in North Nashville, with the rich history, it is devastating. And they feel like the city could have done something and didn't."
A girls' grief group Fetuga leads recently met with the family of Akilah DaSilva, a 23-year-old victim of the April Waffle House shooting.
"Theirs was a mass shooting, but [with] the kids it is constant," Fetuga says. "It's constant shootings, it's constant killings. And they were able to speak to the DaSilva family and give them encouragement, even as children, because that's something they've been going through for years."
The ZIP code is also home to Buena Vista Elementary, which appeared on a list of the lowest-performing schools in the state earlier this year. To say the deck has been stacked against the school and its students is an understatement. Nearly all Buena Vista students are poor enough to meet the state's requirements to receive school lunch for free, and 20 to 30 percent of its students are experiencing homelessness in one form or another. (It is the zoned school for the Nashville Rescue Mission women's shelter.) The school also has high mobility rates, meaning many students either don't start or don't finish the academic year there.
Metro Councilmember Freddie O'Connell, who lives in the 37208 ZIP code and represents a portion of it on the council, started getting involved at the school when he moved to the neighborhood 10 years ago. He speaks with obvious frustration about the way Metro Nashville Public Schools officials have decreased funding to Buena Vista over the past several years. A "dollop" of extra funding through Metro's Innovation Zone a few years back, he says, allowed the school to put apprentice teachers along with lead teachers in every classroom, among other things. But those resources have been drained after the Innovation Zone was effectively dismantled.
All the more upsetting to O'Connell is the brief appearance of a charter school a few blocks away that was around only long enough to harm Buena Vista. That school, Rocketship, opened at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, lowering Buena Vista's projected enrollment and further draining the school of funding. But Rocketship ultimately shut down before the school year was even finished.
Amid all this, the young boys and girls of Buena Vista show up to school with burdens far too big for a backpack. The school has a Community Achieves program (as does Pearl-Cohn), which provides wraparound services — that is, assistance in all areas of a student's life — to students and their families. Megan McGuire, the school's site coordinator for the initiative, works to lighten the load students carry to school. Working with community partners — churches, neighborhood associations, food pantries and local businesses — she makes sure students have clothes and food, even to get them through the weekend. McGuire says incarceration inevitably comes up when her students play Monopoly in her room with their lunch buddies. The game's "Go to Jail" square prompts students to mention family members who have been locked up.
With community partners, McGuire stresses the difference between empathy and sympathy. She urges volunteers to participate not because they feel sorry for her students, but rather because her students deserve to be invested in.
"I don't want our kids and families defined by the external forces in their life — their socioeconomic status, the incarceration rates," she says. "That is a reality for this neighborhood, but I think our goal at this school is that you can lay that down when you walk in the door."
But it's summertime now, and the hot sun is beating down on Nashville, Tenn., 37208. The students at Buena Vista and Pearl-Cohn, the youth of North Nashville, are walking out into the world with the weight of history on their backs and a stiff wind in their face.


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Woman OK after deer nearly crashes through windshield in Alton
An Alton Fire Department paramedic provides initial treatment to the driver of a Dodge Charger who was cut by glass from her broken windshield Tuesday, after hitting a deer in the 4500 block of College Avenue in Alton. The deer came to rest on the top of the badly-damaged car. The driver was not seriously hurt, and declined transport to a hospital. The crash killed the deer, and it appeared the driver was lucky to walk away from the crash without more serious injuries.
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Cranberry Lemonade
With its pretty pink blush and tart refreshing flavor, Cranberry Lemonade is sure to satisfy, glass after glass after glass. Field director Darlene Brenden of Salem, Oregon shares this summer thirst-quencher.
Total TimePrep: 5 min. Cook: 15 min. + chilling
Makes4 servings
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup lemon juice
- 3 cups cold water
- 1 cup cranberry juice
- In a small saucepan, combine sugar and lemon juice. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Stir in the water and cranberry juice. Cool; pour into a pitcher. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over ice.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 184 calories, 0 fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 2mg sodium, 49g carbohydrate (45g sugars, 0 fiber), 0 protein.
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This refreshing lemonade is a real treat on a hot humid day. Add lots of ice and enjoy!
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sounds delicious hope it tastes a s good as it sounds
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This tasted a little too tart for me so I added a little more sugar. My family loved it!


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Brenda @ Its A Beautiful Lifehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-72949482181783655562012-10-16T17:57:05.483-05:002012-10-16T17:57:05.483-05:00I find a southern accent one of the most charming ...I find a southern accent one of the most charming sounds in the world. I wish I had one. I don't think southern accents in particular slaughter the English language - I think all regions contribute equally to that. Where I live it's not so much bad grammar as it's the word "like" and "you know" placed in a sentence every few words. Drives me nuts.karenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-72955898147205598182012-10-16T11:50:14.703-05:002012-10-16T11:50:14.703-05:00Please don't be offended, but it will be fine ...Please don't be offended, but it will be fine with me if the southern accent goes away. When it's combined with poor grammar, it's simply horrible. I'm certainly not accusing you of anything, though. I know you're grammatically correct.

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After lieutenant governor's intervention, Beaumont agrees police officers can conduct Bible study
The city of Beaumont has backed down from a decision banning four police officers from leading Bible study sessions in department headquarters during their lunch breaks.
The policy U-turn came after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick publicly supported the officers, calling the city's action "completely unacceptable."
"This is an infringement on their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution," Patrick said.
The dustup began when the officers send a blast email from a city computer inviting officers to attend their sessions.
No sooner had the message been sent, the Beaumont Enterprise reported, than the lead officer was summoned to the police chief's office and advised that Beaumont City Manager Kyle Hayes wanted the sessions cancelled. In a prepared statement, the city manager said that "city buildings are for public purposes and to conduct city business...therefore, city policy prohibits all non-business activities so that we treat everyone the same."
He later admitted that the resulting controversy was "more of a big understanding."
"What the city has done is wrong," said Briscoe Cain, lawyer for the officers. "They're expecting that we hide our religious faith, that we keep to ourselves or keep it within our houses. A government employee does not shed their First Amendment rights when they enter the workplace."
In a letter to elected officials, the officers said they had held their volunteer religious meetings in available department venues for about two years.


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Tech Support Manager
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- Oct 22, 2019
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- Science/R&D, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology
- Required Education
- Doctorate/PHD/MD
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Technical Support Manager
BPS Bioscience Inc. is a leading producer of recombinant proteins, assay kits, and recombinant cell lines for drug discovery and development. Currently we are looking for a technical support scientist to share the responsibility of growing company revenues and positioning the Company to take advantage of its unique market position.
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- To provide technical support to BPS Bioscience's sales managers, customers and international distributors
- Answer technical support inquiries in a professional, courteous and efficient manner
- Resolve quality concerns regarding BPS products. Provide detailed records to appropriate departments to facilitate the resolution of customer complaints
- Visit and introduce BPS products and services to customers
- Write technical notes to support the marketing group
- Prepare and present posters in scientific meetings
- Facilitate the training of international distributors and respond to technical calls that require advanced training and/or experience
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills; ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously; superb time management
- Ability to learn and communicate technical and scientific product-related information
- Ability to troubleshoot laboratory application problems
- Ability to present technical product seminars on complex products to a wide range of audiences successfully
- Ph.D. in cancer biology, immunology, biochemistry, cell biology, or molecular biology
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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
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PAZ data now available to users worldwide
ESA is pleased to announce the availability of the PAZ satellite products to the scientific community, for R&D activities and start-ups.
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Latitude Financial is helping customers get back in control of their finances through today's launch of Better Start, a debt consolidation loan with no repayments and no interest charges for the first three months.
Better Start will support customers wanting to clear their debts by consolidating them into one personal loan of $20,000 or more at interest rates starting from 6.99 per cent p.a. for secured loans and from 7.99 per cent p.a. unsecured. The lowest comparison rates currently available are 8.25 per cent p.a. and 9.24 per cent p.a. respectively*.
Better Start is the first debt consolidation loan of its type in Australia giving customers seeking to better manage their debts an upfront break from interest and repayments. Customers can also choose to make a head start on paying down their loan by voluntarily making a repayment in the first three months without attracting interest.
Australians consolidated in excess of $1.4b of debt in the 12 months to November 2019, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics, an increase of 23 per cent from the previous year.
Latitude grew last year to become the third biggest lender of new personal loans, gaining share from the big four banks.
"We want to help customers with better money habits. Latitude commissioned research in January, showing almost 60% of consumers are prioritising saving more money and looking to sort out personal finances in 2020. They want to get back in control of their finances, especially after Christmas, by consolidating their debts, having one single monthly repayment schedule, and be able to take a short-term break on their payments while they get organised for the year. Better Start addresses these needs in one simple and easy to understand product,'' said Latitude's General Manager Lending, Rohan Harrap.
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Latitude will directly pay out existing credit card balances or loans held by customers at other financial institutions when they consolidate their debt using Better Start to further simplify the process.
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From what I understand after investigating this issue, this happens with multiple TV types from Sony.
I got a new TV, Sony BRAVIA, 49XG8096, 4K Ultra HD.
The TV is cool, no issues with it at all.
My plan was to connect it with a Bluetooth headset too, so I can watch a movie without wires, even if my wife is sleeping next to me.
I first bought a JBL Tune 500 headset, just because that was on stock, and could not lose time searching for anything else. The headset was working fine, connecting with anything, but I couldn't get it to connect to the TV at all.
I looked up this issue and saw that there is a list of headphones that are on an Official list from Sony. I can't say I was happy, but I went back to the store, and changed the headphones to a Sony this time, model WH-CH500B.
According to the list, it should have worked.
Well, it didn't.
I investigated some more, and I found out that this is might be a software issue, with a very easy fix.
I went to the TV's Play Store, searched for Bluetooth, and installed the first 3rd party app that I found. The app connected the Sony Headset to the Sony TV in less then 5 seconds.
After this, I can just go to the TV settings, and the WH-CH500B is listed as paired, I can easily turn it on or off.
I am thinking that the JBL might have been working too if I used an app like this.
I am not sure why Sony cannot do this themselves, but I don't care anymore.