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Consumed in 2012-2014

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
Wolverton Station, Joe Hill
The New Gothic, edited by Beth K. Lewis

Goblin Market and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (re-read; audiobook)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris (re-read; audiobook)

Sleep Donation, Karen Russell
The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan

A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin

The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa
Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
The Giver, Lois Lowry

Through the Woods, Emily Carroll
Crooked House, Agatha Christie
A Farm Dies Once a Year, Arlo Crawford

The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (re-read)
Books of Adam: The Blunder Years, Adam Ellis
The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters

Yes Please, Amy Poehler
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, Ben Loory (re-read)
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Bird Box, Josh Malerman

Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
Tenth of December, George Saunders

Short Fiction:

“Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying,” Alice Sola Kim, Tin House, Issue 61

“The Doll,” Daphne du Maurier, The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
“The Ball Room,” China Mieville, Looking for Jake: Stories
“The Bloody Chamber,” Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“The Bees,” Dan Chaon, Stay Awake (re-read)
“Patrick Lane, Flabbergasted,” Dan Chaon, Stay Awake
“Night Music,” Joe Fassler, Recommended Reading, Electric Literature, October 22, 2014

All This Bad Blood, Bastille (2013)
Freedom, Rebecca Ferguson (2013)
In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery, Capital Cities (2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack, (2013)
Nirvana – EP, Sam Smith (2013)

When The Night, St. Lucia (2013)
Broods – EP, Broods (2014)
Deeper – EP, Ella Eyre (2013)
Little Red, Katy B (2014)
Fun Machine – EP, Lake Street Dive (2012)
Bad Self Portraits, Lake Street Dive (2014)

Truth Serum – EP, Tove Lo (2014)

St. Vincent, St. Vincent (2014)
Slow Dancing – EP, Betty Who (2014)
Tremors, Sohn (2014)
Warrior – EP, Queen of Hearts (2012)
A Dotted Line, Nickel Creek (2014)
Food, Kelis (2014)

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Original Cast Recording (2014)
Elements, Kina Grannis (2014)
I Never Learn, Lykke Li (2014)
Do It Again, Royksopp and Robyn (2014)
In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith (2014)

Overgrown, James Blake (2013)

Life is Easy, Bright Light Bright Light (2014)
1000 Forms of Fear, Sia (2014)
Laura Welsh – EP, Laura Welsh (2014)
Phox, Phox (2014)

Trouble in Paradise, La Roux (2014)
EP1, FKA twigs (2012)
EP2, FKA twigs (2013)
They Want My Soul, Spoon (2014)
LP1, FKA twigs (2014)
The Golden Echo, Kimbra (2014)

Goddess, Banks (2014)

Queen of the Clouds, Tove Lo (2014)
Take Me When You Go, Betty Who (2014)
Hozier, Hozier (2014)
Evergreen, Broods (2014)
Aquarius, Tinashe (2014)
Tough Love, Jessie Ware (2014)
Aphex Swift, David Rees (2014)
1989, Taylor Swift (2014)
Chapter One, Ella Henderson (2014)

Nostalgia, Annie Lennox (2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Various Artists (2014)
Blood Oranges in the Snow, Over the Rhine (2014)
The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj (2014)

American Hustle (2013), directed by David O. Russell (re-watch)
Her (2013), directed by Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
12 Years A Slave (2013), directed by Steve McQueen
Moonrise Kingdom (2012), directed by Wes Anderson (re-watch)

Frozen (2013), directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
August: Osage County (2013), directed by John Wells
Drinking Buddies (2013), directed by Joe Swanberg
Camp Takota (2014), directed by Chris and Nick Riedell
Black Swan (2010), directed by Darren Aronofsky (re-watch)
Up In The Air (2009), directed by Jason Reitman

Camp (2003), directed by Todd Graff
Passion (2012), directed by Brian de Palma
Maverick (1994), directed by Richard Donner (re-watch)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), directed by Jonathan Demme (re-watch)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), directed by Wes Anderson
West Side Story (1961), directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (re-watch)
Fargo (1996), directed by Joel Coen
Contracted (2013), directed by Eric England
Oculus (2014), directed by Mike Flanagan
Movie 43 (2013), directed by Bob Odenkirk, et al.

Mean Girls (2004), directed by Mark Waters (re-watch)
In Your Eyes (2014), directed by Brin Hill
A Fish Called Wanda (1988), directed by Charles Crichton (re-watch)
We Are What We Are (2013), directed by Jim Mickle
Not Another Teen Movie (2001), directed by Joel Gallen (re-watch)
Scoop (2006), directed by Woody Allen (re-watch)
Blue Jasmine (2013), directed by Woody Allen

Evita (1996), directed by Alan Parker (re-watch)
Annie Hall (1977), directed by Woody Allen
+1 (2013), directed by Dennis Ilaidis
Haunt (2013), directed by Mac Carter
Sunshine (2007), directed by Danny Boyle

Snowpiercer (2014), directed by Bong Joon-Ho
Airplane! (1980), directed by Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker (re-watch)
Under the Skin (2013), directed by Jonathan Glazer
The Host (2006), directed by Bong Joon-Ho
The Haunting (1999), directed by Jan de Bont (re-watch)

The One I Love (2014), directed by Charlie McDowell
The Congress (2013), directed by Ari Folman
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), directed by James Gunn
Stage Fright (2014), directed by Jerome Sable
Black Rock (2012), directed by Katie Aselton
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), directed by Jonathan Levine
Enemy (2013), directed by Denis Villeneuve
The Double (2013), directed by Richard Ayoade
The Giver (2014), directed by Phillip Noyce
Dark Touch (2013), directed by Marina de Van

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010), directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
Hellraiser (1987), directed by Clive Barker
Entity (2012), directed by Steve Stone
The Ward (2010), directed by John Carpenter
Hook (1991), directed by Steven Spielberg
The Sacrament (2013), directed by Ti West
The Lair of the White Worm (1988), directed by Ken Russell
You’re Next (2013), directed by Adam Wingard (re-watch)
Divergent (2014), directed by Neil Burger
TiMER (2009), directed by Jac Schaeffer (re-watch)

Honeymoon (2014), directed by Leigh Janiak
Night of the Demon (1957), directed by Jacques Tournier
The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton
Horns (2014), directed by Alexandre Aja
Gone Girl (2014), directed by David Fincher
Byzantium (2012), directed by Neil Jordan
The Moth Diaries (2011), directed by Mary Harron
Another Me (2013), directed by Isabel Coixet
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), directed by Francis Lawrence (re-watch)
The Conjuring (2013), directed by James Wan (re-watch)
Much Ado About Nothing (2012), directed by Joss Whedon (re-watch)
V/H/S (2012), directed by Adam Wingard, et al. (re-watch)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), directed by Steven Spielberg (re-watch)

Rent (2005), directed by Chris Columbus (re-watch)
In a World (2013), directed by Lake Bell
Amélie (2001), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Graduate (1967), directed by Mike Nichols
Interstellar (2014), directed by Christopher Nolan
Romancing the Stone (1984), directed by Robert Zemeckis
The Babadook (2014), directed by Jennifer Kent
Love Actually (2003), directed by Richard Curtis (re-watch)
The Rebound (2009), directed by Bart Freundlich

Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014), directed by Francis Lawrence
Prometheus (2012), directed by Ridley Scott (re-watch)
Upstream Color (2013), directed by Shane Carruth (re-watch)
A Christmas Story (1983), directed by Bob Clark
Into the Woods (1991), directed by James Lapine (re-watch)
Into the Woods (2014), directed by Rob Marshall

30 Rock, Season 7 (re-watch)
Sherlock, Season 2 (re-watch)
Happy Endings, Season 1 (re-watch)
Happy Endings, Season 2 (re-watch)
Sherlock, Season 3
Happy Endings, Season 3

Amish: The Shunned – American Experience
Party Down, Season 1 (re-watch)
Party Down, Season 2 (re-watch)
Downton Abbey, Season 4
House of Cards, Season 2

True Detective, Season 1

Carnivale, Season 1

Game of Thrones, Season 1 (re-watch)
Carnivale, Season 2
Game of Thrones, Season 2 (re-watch)
The Thirteenth Tale

Orange is the New Black, Season 2
Six Feet Under, Season 1 (re-watch)

Corpse Party: Tortured Souls

Six Feet Under, Season 2 (re-watch)

Going Deep with David Rees, Season 1
The IT Crowd, Season 1 (re-watch)
The IT Crowd, Season 2 (re-watch)
The IT Crowd, Season 3 (re-watch)

The IT Crowd, Season 4 (re-watch)
Enlightened, Season 1 (re-watch)
Enlightened, Season 2 (re-watch)

Six Feet Under, Season 3

Black Mirror, Season 1
Black Mirror, Season 2
Six Feet Under, Season 4
Six Feet Under, Season 5

The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick
The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women, Nora Ephron

The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell
This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper

Revenge, Yoko Ogawa
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
The Walk Up Nameless Ridge, Hugh Howey

NOS4A2, Joe Hill
Double Feature, Owen King

The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
Joyland, Stephen King
The Colorado Kid, Stephen King
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Twittering from the Circus of the Dead, Joe Hill
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson

Christine, Stephen King
Under the Skin, Michel Faber (re-read)
The Courage Consort, Michel Faber
Night Film, Marisha Pessl

Save Yourself, Kelly Braffet
Harrowgate, Kate Maruyama
Hell House, Richard Matheson
The Hurricane, Hugh Howey
Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin (re-read)

Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage., Rob Delaney
Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo and David Malki

Human Condition, Part 2: Sanguine, Wynter Gordon (2013)

The 20/20 Experience, Justin Timberlake (2013)

Look Around, Eden Espinosa (2012)
O’Farrell Street, Shoshana Bean (2013)

Music from Baz Luhrmann’s Film ‘The Great Gatsby’ (2013)

The Movement, Betty Who (2013)
The Love Club, Lorde (2013)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 2012 Broadway Revival Cast Recording
Blueprints – EP, Bright Light Bright Light (2013)
Bad Blood, Bastille (2013)

Meet Me at the Edge of the World, Over the Rhine (2013)

Once I Was An Eagle, Laura Marling (2013)
The Civil Wars, The Civil Wars (2013)
Halcyon Days, Ellie Goulding (2013)
Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara (2013)

The Electric Lady, Janelle Monae (2013)
Make Me Believe In Hope (Blueprints Version), Bright Light Bright Light (2013)

Pure Heroine, Lorde (2013)
The 20/20 Experience—2 of 2, Justin Timberlake (2013)
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, Neko Case (2013)
Days Are Gone, Haim (2013)
The Bones of What You Believe, Chvrches (2013)
Prism, Katy Perry (2013)

PTX, Vol. 2, Pentatonix (2013)
Foreword, Tori Kelly (2013)
ARTPOP, Lady Gaga (2013)
Night Time, My Time, Sky Ferreira (2013)
Britney Jean, Britney Spears (2013)

Wrapped In Red, Kelly Clarkson (2013)
Bare Bones – EP, The Civil Wars (2013)
Hemiplegia – EP, HAERTS (2013)
Tribute, John Newman (2013)
Sing to the Moon, Laura Mvula (2013)
BEYONCE, Beyonce (2013)

Young Adult (2011), directed by Jason Reitman
Looper (2012), directed by Rian Johnson
Brave (2012), directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Silver Linings Playbook (2012), directed by David O. Russell
Les Miserables (2012), directed by Tom Hooper
Chungking Express (1994), directed by Wong Kar-Wai (re-watch)
The Return of the King (1980), directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Compliance (2012), directed by Craig Zobel
Zero Dark Thirty (2012), directed by Kathryn Bigelow
The Avengers (2012), directed by Joss Whedon (re-watch)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), directed by John Madden
The Lion King (1994), directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (re-watch)
Shakespeare in Love (1998), directed by John Madden
Bluebeard (2009), directed by Catherine Breillat
Anna Karenina (2012), directed by Joe Wright
The Artist (2011), directed by Michel Hazanavicius (re-watch)
Django Unchained (2012), directed by Quentin Tarantino
Lincoln (2012), directed by Steven Spielberg

Pitch Perfect (2012), directed by Jason Moore
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), directed by the Coen Brothers
Tiny Furniture (2010), directed by Lena Dunham
Mama (2013), directed by Andres Muschietti
Les Diaboliques (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jackass 3 (2010), directed by Jeff Tremaine
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), directed by Colin Trevorrow
The Master (2012), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Life of Pi (2012), directed by Ang Lee

Death at a Funeral (2007), directed by Frank Oz
Jeff, Who Lives At Home (2011), directed by Jay and Mark Duplass
Friends with Kids (2011), directed by Jennifer Westfeldt
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
Silent House (2012), directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau
Creepshow 2 (1987), directed by Michael Gornick
Raising Arizona (1987), directed by the Coen Brothers

Pride and Prejudice (2005), directed by Joe Wright
LOL (2012), directed by Lisa Azuelos
The Awakening (2011), directed by Nick Murphy
The Baby’s Room (2006), directed by Alex de la Iglesia (re-watch)
Ju-on: The Grudge (2004), directed by Takashi Shimizu
Session 9 (2001), directed by Brad Anderson (re-watch)

The Devil’s Carnival (2012), directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Reservoir Dogs (1992), directed by Quentin Tarantino
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1995), directed by Bryan Spicer
Holy Motors (2012), directed by Leos Carax
The Fountain (2006), directed by Darren Aronofsky (re-watch)
Upstream Color (2013), directed by Shane Carruth
House at the End of the Street (2012), directed by Mark Tonderai
The Great Gatsby (2013), directed by Baz Luhrmann
Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock (re-watch)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), directed by J.J. Abrams
Silver Linings Playbook (2012), directed by David O. Russell (re-watch)

Stranger Than Fiction (2006), directed by Marc Forster
Primer (2005), directed by Shane Carruth (re-watch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), directed by Wes Anderson
Superbad (2007), directed by Greg Mottola
The Orphanage (2007), directed by Juan Antonio Bayona (re-watch)
V/H/S/2 (2013), directed by Simon Barrett, et al.
Much Ado About Nothing (2013), directed by Joss Whedon

Beautiful Creatures (2013), directed by Richard LaGravenese
The Conjuring (2013), directed by James Wan
She’s All That (1999), directed by Robert Iscove

Much Ado About Nothing (2011), directed by Josie Rourke
Jurassic Park (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg (re-watch)
My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (2013), directed by Mike Birbiglia
The NeverEnding Story (1984), directed by Wolfgang Petersen
My Neighbor Totoro (1988), directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), directed by Zhang Yimou (re-watch)
Fear(s) of the Dark (2007), directed by Blutch, et al.

The ABCs of Death (2012), directed by Nacho Vigalondo, et al.
Mulan (1998), directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook
Our Idiot Brother (2011), directed by Jesse Peretz
You’re Next (2011), directed by Adam Wingard
Happy Together (1997), directed by Wong Kar-Wai
Conan the Destroyer (1984), directed by Richard Fleischer
The Shining (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick
Room 237 (2012), directed by Rodney Ascher
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), directed by James Wan
Can’t Hardly Wait, (1998), directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan
Side Effects (2013), directed by Steven Soderbergh
Street Angel (1928), directed by Frank Borzage
The Docks of New York (1928), directed by Josef von Sternberg

Applause (1929), directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock (re-watch)
Deliverance (1972), directed by John Boorman
The Legend of Hell House (1973), directed by John Hough
Hocus Pocus (1993), directed by Kenny Ortega (re-watch)
The Exorcist (1973), directed by William Friedkin (re-watch)
Fright Night (1985), directed by Tom Holland
The Ring (2002), directed by Gore Verbinski (re-watch)
Perfect Blue (1999), directed by Satoshi Kon (re-watch)
Fright Night (2011), directed by Craig Gillespie
Evil Dead (2013), directed by Fede Alvarez
Gravity (2013), directed by Alfonso Cuaron
Carrie (2013), directed by Kimberly Peirce
Stoker (2013), directed by Park Chan-wook
Rosemary’s Baby (1968), directed by Roman Polanski (re-watch)
Wait Until Dark (1967), directed by Terence Young (re-watch)
The Others (2001), directed by Alejandro Amenabar (re-watch)
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), directed by Wes Craven

The Emperor’s New Groove (2000), directed by Mark Dindal
Cabaret (1972), directed by Bob Fosse (re-watch)
Sharknado (2013), directed by Anthony C. Ferrante
The Hunger Games (2012), directed by Gary Ross (re-watch)
Frances Ha (2012), directed by Noah Baumbach
The Princess Bride (1987), directed by Rob Reiner (re-watch)
Thor (2011), directed by Kenneth Branagh (re-watch)
Clue (1985), directed by Jonathan Lynn (re-watch)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), directed by Francis Lawrence

The Book Thief (2013), directed by Brian Percival
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), directed by Peter Jackson
American Hustle (2013), directed by David O. Russell
Side Effects (2013), directed by Steven Soderbergh (re-watch)

Girls, Season 1

House of Cards, Season 1
Enlightened, Season 1
Enlightened, Season 2
Twin Peaks, Season 1 (re-watch)

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (webseries)
Frank Herbert’s Dune (re-watch)
Hemlock Grove, Season 1
Children of Dune (re-watch)
Veep, Season 1 (re-watch)

Seinfeld, Season 8 (re-watch)
Seinfeld, Season 9 (re-watch)
Broadchurch, Season 1
Bates Motel, Season 1
Arrested Development, Season 1 (re-watch)
Arrested Development, Season 2 (re-watch)
Arrested Development, Season 3 (re-watch)

Arrested Development, Season 4
Orphan Black, Season 1
The IT Crowd, Season 1 (re-watch)
The IT Crowd, Season 2 (re-watch)
The IT Crowd, Season 3 (re-watch)
The IT Crowd, Season 4 (re-watch)
Doctor Who, Series 3

Doctor Who, Series 4
Spaced, Season 1 (re-watch)
Doctor Who, Series 5
Doctor Who, Series 6
Spaced, Season 2 (re-watch)

Orange Is The New Black, Season 1
Better Off Ted, Season 1 (re-watch)
Doctor Who, Series 7
Better Off Ted, Season 2 (re-watch)

Parks and Recreation, Season 1 (re-watch)

Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23, Season 1
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23, Season 2
Parks and Recreation, Season 2 (re-watch)
The Wrong Mans, Season 1
Parks and Recreation, Season 3 (re-watch)
An Adventure in Space and Time
The Catherine Tate Show, Season 1 (re-watch)
The Catherine Tate Show, Season 2 (re-watch)

The Catherine Tate Show, Season 3 (re-watch)
Parks and Recreation, Season 4 (re-watch)
Doctor Who, Series 1 (re-watch)
Parks and Recreation, Season 5 (re-watch)
Beyonce: Life is But a Dream
Doctor Who, Series 2 (re-watch)
Sherlock, Season 1 (re-watch)
Doctor Who (TV Movie)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
1Q84, Haruki Murakami

Waking The Moon, Elizabeth Hand
100 Heartbeats, Jeff Corwin
Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Walking Dead: Compendium One, Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (re-read)
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
Stay Awake, Dan Chaon
Last Chance To See, Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

School Mermaid, Yoshitomi Akihito
Uzumaki, Vol. 1, Junji Ito
Uzumaki, Vol. 2, Junji Ito
Uzumaki, Vol. 3, Junji Ito
Boogiepop and Others, Kouhei Kadono

Patti LuPone: A Memoir, Patti LuPone
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling
Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Locke and Key: Head Games, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories, Mike Birbiglia

Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?, Nick Miller

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Very Bad Men, Harry Dolan

Dracula, Bram Stoker
Wool: Omnibus (Wool I – V), Hugh Howey
The Hungry Ghost Festival, Jen Campbell
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, “Leslie Knope”
Weird Things Customers Say In Bookstores, Jen Campbell
The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
Carrie, Stephen King

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Rage, Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
Gerald’s Game, Stephen King
Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
The White Devil, Justin Evans

The Fifty Year Sword, Mark Z. Danielewski
A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness

The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Look, I Made A Hat, Stephen Sondheim

Songs For A Sinking Ship, April Smith and the Great Picture Show (2010)
On A Mission, Katy B (2011)
Eli Lieb, Eli Lieb (2011)
Born To Die, Lana Del Rey (2012)
Beatrix Runs, Elizaveta (2012)
Human Again, Ingrid Michaelson (2012)

Our Version of Events, Emeli Sandè (2012)
Making Mirrors, Gotye (2011)
Vows, Kimbra (2011)

O, You Sinners, Eliza Rickman (2012)
Ghostory, School of Seven Bells (2012)
The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond, Various Artists (2012)
Birdy, Birdy (2011)

MTV Unplugged, Florence + The Machine (2012)
Reign of Terror, Sleigh Bells (2012)
All American, Hoodie Allen (2012)
Hadestown, Anais Mitchell (2010)
Anything Goes: 2011 Revival Cast Recording (2011)

Out of the Game, Rufus Wainwright (2012)
Hello, Karmin (2012)
Listen Up!, Haley Reinhart (2012)
Young Man in America, Anais Mitchell (2012)
Port of Morrow, The Shins (2012)
A Joyful Noise, Gossip (2012)
Thank You Camellia, Kris Allen (2012)
Treats, Sleigh Bells (2010)
What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, Regina Spektor (2012)

Luck of the Draw, Bonnie Raitt (1991)
Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp (2008)
Once: Original Broadway Cast Recording (2012)
Anything Goes: 1988 Revival Cast Recording (1988)
The Lion The Beast The Beat, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (2012)
Covered Up With Flowers – EP, Lissie (2011)
The Idler Wheel…, Fiona Apple (2012)

Channel Orange, Frank Ocean (2012)
Walk the Moon, Walk the Moon (2012)
Cerulean, Baths (2010)
Inclusions, Ben Sollee (2011)
Gossamer, Passion Pit (2012)
Casey Abrams, Casey Abrams (2012)

Places to Go, Leftover Cuties (2011)
Is Your Love Big Enough?, Lianne La Havas (2012)

Knock Knock Get Up, David Wax Museum (2012)
Safe Travels, Jukebox the Ghost (2012)
Fall to Grace, Paloma Faith (2012)
Carrie: The Premiere Cast Recording (2012)
Babel, Mumford and Sons (2012)
Push and Shove, No Doubt (2012)
Devotion, Jessie Ware (2012)
Electra Heart, Marina and the Diamonds (2012)

Human Condition: Doleo, Wynter Gordon (2012)
Halcyon, Ellie Goulding (2012)
Glassheart, Leona Lewis (2012)
Red, Taylor Swift (2012)
Jekyll & Hyde: 2012 Concept Cast Recording (2012)
Make Me Believe In Hope, Bright Light Bright Light (2012)
Blackout, Britney Spears (2007)

The Fire, Matt Cardle (2012)
Paradise, Lana Del Rey (2012)
Tales of a Librarian, Tori Amos (2003)
DNA, Little Mix (2012)
True, Solange (2012)

Right Place, Right Time, Olly Murs (2012)
Warrior, Ke$ha (2012)
Now. Here. This. Original Cast Recording, (2012)
PTXmas, Pentatonix (2012)
The Gregory Brothers Live: Christmas 2012, The Gregory Brothers (2012)
City of Angels Original London Cast Recording, (1993)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swedish), directed by Niels Arden Oplev
Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Midnight in Paris (2011), directed by Woody Allen
Antichrist (2009), directed by Lars Von Trier
Trick ‘r’ Treat (2007), directed by Michael Dougherty
The Departed (2006), directed by Martin Scorsese
Being John Malkovich (1999), directed by Spike Jonze
Shaun of the Dead (2004), directed by Edgar Wright
The Tree of Life (2011), directed by Terrence Malick
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Moneyball (2011), directed by Bennett Miller
The Help (2011), directed by Tate Taylor
50/50 (2011), directed by Jonathan Levine
The Artist (2011), directed by Michel Hazanavicius

The Woman In Black (2012), directed by James Watkins
Drive (2011), directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Gosford Park (2001), directed by Robert Altman
Blue Valentine (2010), directed by Derek Cianfrance
The Descendants (2011), directed by Alexander Payne
The Eye (2002, Singapore/Hong Kong), directed by the Pang Brothers

The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), directed by Volker Schlöndorff
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2005, France), directed by Michel Hazanavicius
The Hunger Games (2012), directed by Gary Ross
Hugo (2011), directed by Martin Scorsese
Congo (1995), directed by Frank Marshall

Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek (2004, Japan), directed by Shuuhei Morita
A Restaurant of Many Orders (1993), directed by Tadanari Okamoto
Uzumaki (2000, Japan), directed by Higuchinsky
Like Crazy (2011), directed by Drake Doremus
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), directed by Sean Durkin
The Cabin in the Woods (2012), directed by Drew Goddard
I Am Legend (2007), directed by Francis Lawrence

Silent Hill (2006), directed by Christophe Gans
Thankskilling (2009), directed by Jordan Downey
Office Space (1999), directed by Mike Judge
The Avengers (2012), directed by Joss Whedon
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), directed by Brad Peyton

Pet Sematary (1989), directed by Mary Lambert
Blood and Roses (1960), directed by Roger Vadim
The Phantom of the Opera (2004), directed by Joel Schumacher
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), directed by Tim Burton
Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott
Prometheus (2012), directed by Ridley Scott
Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott
The Sting (1973), directed by George Roy Hill
I Walked With A Zombie (1943), directed by Jacques Tourneur
Shame (2011), directed by Steve McQueen
Dracula (1958), directed by Terence Fisher
Freaks (1932), directed by Tod Browning
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), directed by Timur Bekmambetov

Moonrise Kingdom (2012), directed by Wes Anderson
Chicago (2002), directed by Rob Marshall
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), directed by Marc Webb
Thor (2011), directed by Kenneth Branagh
This Means War (2012), directed by McG
Suspiria (1977), directed by Dario Argento
Anaconda (1997), directed by Luis Llosa
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), directed by Rupert Sanders
Chronicle (2012), directed by Josh Trank
The Dark Knight Rises (2012), directed by Christopher Nolan

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), directed by Benh Zeitlin
Anchorman (2004), directed by Adam McKay
Little Children (2006), directed by Todd Field
Serenity (2005), directed by Joss Whedon
The Wicker Man (2006), directed by Neil LaBute
Merlin (1998), directed by Steve Barron

Mulholland Drive (2001), directed by David Lynch
The Hobbit (1977), directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Sleepwalk With Me (2012), directed by Mike Birbiglia
Clue (1985), directed by Jonathan Lynn
Atrocious (2010), directed by Fernando Barreda Luna
V/H/S (2012), directed by Adam Wingard, et al.
Carrie (1976), directed by Brian DePalma

The Innkeepers (2011), directed by Ti West
Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007), directed by Kim Tae-kyeong
The House of the Devil (2009), directed by Ti West
Clueless (1995), directed by Amy Heckerling
Trainspotting (1996), directed by Danny Boyle
Velvet Goldmine (1998), directed by Todd Haynes
Into the Woods (1991), directed by James Lapine
Jekyll & Hyde (2001), directed by Don Roy King
Company (2007), directed by John Doyle
Grave Encounters (2011), directed by The Vicious Brothers
The Tall Man (2012), directed by Pascal Laugier
The Last Exorcism (2010), directed by Daniel Stamm
Devil (2010), directed by John Erick Dowdle
The Omen (1976), directed by Richard Donner
Halloween (1978), directed by John Carpenter
The Blair Witch Project (1999), directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez

10 Things I Hate About You (1999), directed by Gil Junger
The Ceremony (2008), directed by James Palmer
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011), directed by Troy Nixey
Troll 2 (1986), directed by Drake Floyd
Skyfall (2012), directed by Sam Mendes
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010), directed by Eli Craig

Black Death (2010), directed by Christopher Smith
Wet Hot American Summer (2001), directed by David Wain
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), directed by Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), directed by Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), directed by Peter Jackson
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), directed by Peter Jackson
Sunday in the Park with George (1986), directed by James Lapine
Passion (1994), directed by James Lapine
Putting It Together (2000), directed by Don Roy King
Memphis (2011), directed by Don Roy King
Gypsy (1993), directed by Emile Ardolino
Follies in Concert (1986), directed by Michael Houldey
A Little Night Music (1977), directed by Harold Prince
The Room (2003), directed by Tommy Wiseau

Workaholics, Season 1
Spaced, Season 1
Downton Abbey, Season 1

Spaced, Season 2
Downton Abbey, Season 2

The Catherine Tate Show, Season 1
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The Catherine Tate Show, Season 3
Portlandia, Season 1

Le Portrait de Petit Cossette
When They Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) – Complete Series
Sherlock, Season 1

Game of Thrones, Season 2
Veep, Season 1

Workaholics, Season 2
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Doctor Who, Series 1

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Flaw means that the part that carries the flaw is more perfect than the flaw.  We all have character flaws which we must work on to bring ourselves closer to perfection.

THE FLAW                                                    CORRECTION SUGGESTION

EGO                                                                    never, ever talk about yourself

LIBIDO                                                               eliminate sexual aggrandizement

NOZY                                                                  don’t try to know what the other person
needs to know-let it come naturally

MISUSE OF PROFANITY                                learn how to better use offensive words
don’t be cussin’ all over the place

GOSSIP                                                               stop exaggerating the truth about someone/it often turns into a lie.

BRAGGING                                                        don’t talk about your stuff or it’ll get dragged off

ASSUMING/PRESUMING                              wait for the evidence/don’t think something is going to happen just because you think you know the person.

GLUTTONY                                                          force yourself to fast for 24 hours every time you “pig out”.   The last thing you want to do when overeating is increase your libido, which it does.

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Travelers are forever being told the whens and wheres of the city: when the church was reconstructed, where the Romans took their baths, how the rains affect the rosemary crop, but all they really want to know is why the sad man shuffles on his knees from one end of town to the other, starting at the granary in the morning and tracking the weary sun throughout the day to the bruised clouds just before dusk above the little chapel. A woman waits for him there, but turns her back as he draws near. “He’s no sadder than anyone else,” we tell them. He was a charming young man, athletic and witty, who had his pick of girls. She was underendowed but aloof. They should never have met and hadn’t before he helped her onto a tram. One phrase only of what they said is repeated every day: “Not in your lifetime,” she told him, he tells us, we tell them. Their courtship was a riddle no one could solve, their engagement unexpected as a tuba, but the biggest surprise were the wedding invitations which went only to the unlikeliest single women and men, “plus one.” The chapel brimmed with unprecedence. “I know a reason why this couple should not wed,” said a woman carrying a baby boy, though she needn’t have: everyone knew at least one. When the bride saw the look that passed between this woman and the groom, she crushed the bouquet underfoot and walked away. “This is the woman he crawls to every day?” ask the tourists. “No,” we tell them. “She was pregnant at the altar; this woman is her daughter.” “The man is making amends to his daughter?” the tourists persist. “No. He has long since died. The crawling man is his son.”

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Fun Fold - Double Z Fold Card - SUO #119

The challenge with SUO (Stampin' Up Only) is to make a card that is folded differently than just in half.

I chose to make a double Z fold card, using mainly SAB products.

Card closed

Inside of Card

I started with a piece of Whisper White cardstock 11 by 4 1/4" and scored it at 2, 4, 8 and 10".  The card was then folded in half, and then the front was folded back to form the Z.

SAB DSP was attached to the inside , and 2 different patterns of the same DSP were adhered to the front.

A piece of Coastal Cabana cardstock was attached only to the front half.  On the Whisper White piece that was adhered to the Coastal Cabana, two images of the bird from "A Happy Time" were stamped using the masking technique.  Both were coloured with markers, and the background sponged with Soft Sky ink.  A Butterfly, from the stamp set "Nature's Perfection" was stamped in a remnant of watercolour washed background watercolor paper, cut out,and adhered to the lower left corner using glue dots.  A tiny flower was punched from the same remnant and adhered over the front sentiment.

On the inside I used 2 stamp sets for the sentiment:  "Simply Wonderful, and "A Happy Time"

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Anti Vaxxers Call Emergency Séance To Seek Guidance From Spirit World

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (CT&P) – Leaders of the Criminally Negligent Parents Association and the Vacuous Housewives Club of Orange County, the two largest anti-vaccination groups in the country, have called a crisis meeting this weekend to discuss how to respond to the barrage of criticism the groups are receiving over the measles outbreak currently sweeping the country.

Officeholders of both organizations will be present at the emergency summit as well as several luminaries and public advocates for the misguided cause. Former Playmate and Rhodes Scholar Jenny McCarthy, serial killer and conspiracy theory kook Jeffrey John Aufderheide, virus rights advocate Senator Thom “Typhoid” Tillis (R-NC), and New Jersey governor and planetoid Chris Christie will all be in attendance.

Anti-vax leader and serial killer Jeffrey John Aufderheide will be the keynote speaker at the emergency meeting

The emergency summit will commence on Saturday morning with a series of round table discussions on how to best deflect the criticism of nearly every sane person in the United States and carry on with the asinine policies that have loosed a once-eradicated disease on an unsuspecting public.

The discussions will be followed up with a gala dance featuring West African witch doctors and shamans on loan from obscure Brazilian rain forest tribes.

Late Saturday night, VIP guests will be treated to a gathering where famous medium and charlatan John Edward MaGee Jr. will conduct a séance in an attempt to reach long-dead anti-intellectuals and enemies of science to seek their advice in averting a catastrophe for “The Cause.”

Aufderheide has repeatedly warned visitors to his website that lizard people from outer space are attempting to take over our planet

Mr. MaGee will enter the “spirit world” and try to speak with such revered personalities as Puritan John Cotton, Chairman Mao of China, various former leaders of the Spanish Inquisition, and most importantly, leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge guerrillas, Pol-Pot.

“We’d like to get some advice on just how we can keep this dumb ass anti-vaccination movement going,” said Jenny McCarthy, president of the Vapid Blonde Models Society. “I’d really like to get in touch with General Fransisco Franco of Spain to get some advice on how we could initiate our very own ‘White Terror’ campaign. After all, I think we can all agree that intellectuals and scientists are Public Enemy #1 in this country.”

Anti-vax leaders invited New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to attend the summit in hopes that the gravitational field that surrounds him will attract long dead personalities from the spirit world to their fucked up seance

Jeffrey John Aufderheide agreed with McCarthy saying: “We have to nip this criticism in the bud. Most of it is coming from alien lizard people from outer space posing as cable TV pundits anyway. If we don’t find some way to stop this invasion from Planet 10, the earth is doomed.”

Most pundits believe that the summit meeting has a snowball’s chance in hell of stemming the tide of criticism for the anti-vax crowd. “Even the mentally deficient American public has enough sense to see the logic in protecting our kids from the ravages of preventable diseases,” said Bill O’Reilly of Fox News.

Even in California the tide seems to be turning against the dunderheads in the anti-vax crowd. State politicians from both sides of the aisle are proposing legislation to join 32 other states in limiting exemptions for childhood vaccinations.

“We’ve got to get a grip on things before these morons fuck things up for the rest of us,” said California State Senator Richard Pan, a pediatrician from the 6th District. “If these idiots don’t want to vaccinate their kids, fine. Let them live in total isolation from the rest of us. The nitwits don’t make any valuable contribution to society anyway. Fuck ’em!”

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Advancing gospel initiatives among the Roma (Gypsies) in Europe and other marginalized people.

Tom Becker

Tom Becker

USA representative for Roma Networks

Tom Becker is a Catalyst for ministry among marginalized people with EFCA ReachGlobal and the USA representative for Roma Networks. He is also a board member of The Welcome Network. Working with mission teams and national partners, he works to advance gospel initiatives among marginalized people. After 16 years of church planting in the Czech Republic and Eastern Europe, he is joining in God’s work among the 12 million ROMA (Gypsies) across Europe.

The path of mobilizing the church to be involved in ministry is as follows:

Advancing Research

Creating Awareness

Mobilizing Prayer

Networking Broadly

Facilitating Partnerships

Multiplying Coaching


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Alon Hillel-Tuch

Managing Partner

Stacked Capital & Stacked Venture Builder

Launched and sold crowdfunding platform RocketHub. Active entrepreneur, advisor, investor, and founding member of Forbes Technology Council.

Call Rates

Duration Price
15 minutes $120.00
30 minutes $160.00
60 minutes $220.00

equity crowdfunding regulatory technology cryptocurrency government partnerships lobbying augmented intelligence big data analytics cyber security brand partnerships crowdfunding renewable energy venture capital

My last venture, RocketHub, launched in 2009. We built one of the world's largest and most recognized crowdfunding brands, and in spring of 2015 our company was acquired by EFactor Group Corp in a deal valued at $15 million. One year after selling my company I joined a team of established entrepreneurs to create a venture building group providing innovation resources to startups and large-companies (we sometimes make investments as well). I know what it takes to build and operate multiple products at varying stages of their life cycle, and the serious resource trade-offs involved. Strong background in strategy, technology, operations, finance, business development, and regulation. Ping me if you have anything to bounce off me!

Recognized as an industry voice, I have had the opportunity to testify twice in front of U.S. Congress, co-author three acclaimed whitepapers on the JOBS Act, and was selected to lead FINRA's Capital Markets Series on crowdfunding and regulatory innovation. I am a frequent speaker, leading talks for organizations and conferences including American Express, TEDx, Make Innovation, as well as signature conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia.

I have led advancements in technology, and created new ways of transacting, securing, and processing large volumes of consumer funding at high speeds, and at a global level. I love identifying patterns within market noise and future-proofing platforms! Big fan of partnerships.

I have overseen partnerships with some of the coolest brands out there, including the White House, U.S. Department of State, Wieden+Kennedy, Fulbright Foundation, Cisco, Microsoft, Chrysler, A&E Network, Ovation TV, Whirlpool, Freshdirect, Bon Appetit, Chrysler, Popular Science, and many others! M.Sc from Columbia University, and was a fellow at the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium of Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4); specializing in the morbidly complex field of genocide prevention and social network theory.

Managing Partner

Stacked Capital
August 2017 - present

Early Stage Venture Platform

Managing Partner

Stacked Venture Builder
March 2016 - present

Boutique venture building team consisting exclusively of succesful entrepreneurs. Group selects 5-6 companies to directly work with every year.

Founder, CFO & CTO

January 2011 - March 2016

RocketHub ( is an online platform providing alternative finance solutions through crowdfunding. RocketHub was acquired April, 2015.

Responsibilities Include:

• Business & Product Operations & Finance
• Partnerships (brand, technology, community, strategy)
• Product Development (architecture, innovation & implementation)
• Public Engagement (industry voice), Press & Outreach
• Revenue Growth & Management (scaling, future proofing)
• Corporate Strategy (resource trade-offs, market patterns, positioning)
• Contracts & Negotiation (top-tier media network, agencies, emerging players & Fortune 500 firms)
• Regulation, Compliance & Security

Featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, NY Times, NPR, CNN, Billboard, Variety, and others.

Columbia University

Master's Degree
- 2011

Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.

Awarded Research fellowship at the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium of Conflict, Complexity, and Cooperation.

Hillel-Tuch, Alon, Developing Focal Point Networks for State-Centered Genocide Prevention (May 2011). Available at SSRN:

Video: Conflict Resolution Alumni Career Panel & Mixer

Hamilton College

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor of Arts: Economics and Chinese Language & Culture
Thesis:“Innovation in Perfectly Competitive Markets”
Honorary Member Phi Sigma Iota Honor Society

Article: Social Entrepreneurs Urge Students to Connect Their Interests With Society’s Issues

Regulation of Crowdfunding: Building on the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
RocketHub | Securities & Exchange Commission
May 2012

This paper explores the CROWDFUND Act and likely rulemaking, and suggests approaches to rules that will permit the crowdfunding industry to play an important role in financing entrepreneurs, while adequately regulating activities for the protection of investors.

Implementation of Crowdfunding: Building on Title III of the JOBS Act
RocketHub | Securities & Exchange Commission
October 2012

This whitepaper elaborates on opinions expressed in RocketHub’s first whitepaper, “Regulation Of Crowdfunding: Building On The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act”. The focus is crowdfunding best practices, and JOBS act implementation.

Implementation of Crowdfunding: Building on Title III of the JOBS Act, response to proposed rules (Release No. 33-9470)
RocketHub | Securities & Exchange Commission
February 2014

This whitepaper analyses the proposed rules (Release No. 33-9470) set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The paper has endeavored to bring operational insight, and an experienced
crowdfunding & technology industry perspective to the discussion of the proposed rules. This paper is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the proposed rules ever completed.

Developing Focal Point Networks for State-Centered Genocide Prevention

Written as a Research Fellow at the Columbia University Earth Institute - Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity.

While genocide, at times, appears to be sporadic in its emergence; it, in fact, requires diligent planning, strategy, and execution; inferring potential prevention through effective response. Within the last decade, there has been an increased attention on the need for governments to respond effectively to potential genocides. One manifestation of this concern has been an effort to construct governmental systems that can foresee the development of such politics (early warning) and transmit this information for decision makers to respond effectively to the threat (early action).

Dutch English German Mandarin

Beneficiary Crowdfunding

March 2013

A platform can receive information about a product including a product cost. The platform can also receive a registration message that can designate the product and at least one beneficiary. The platform can provide a description of a campaign associated with the product and the beneficiary to at least one funder. One or more funders can fund the campaign. The funding amount for the campaign can be stored by the platform. The platform can determine that the campaign meets or exceeds at least one campaign threshold. Examples of campaign thresholds can include a time limit, a minimum funding amount, a maximum funding amount a minimum number of funders and a maximum number of funders. Based on the determining that the campaign meets or exceeds the at least one campaign threshold, the platform can cause the ownership of the product to be transferred to the beneficiary.

Managing Partner

August 2012

Offers are presented to one or more users of a crowdfunding platform based upon information gathered from multiple users' activities across one or more campaigns. An offer may be provided to the fundraiser based on a campaign category, a campaign keyword, a campaign profile, offer profile or user activity history. A user profile may be used to determine an offer by comparing the profile to attributes of one or more offers. The selected offer can be presented to users such as funders, fundraisers and others.

6/20/2017 4:41:55 PM,
Alon Hillel-Tuch replied:
To be honest, I am trying to not invest in too many. The market is oversaturated, with too many flavors of the same thing. I am trying to identify those trying to evolve out of the consumer market and make it relevant for more than just the consumer market. Crowdfunding is just a moniker being used as a catch-all for way too many things. Something we're seeing with 'blockchain' terminology as well... There is a lot of noise out there, with winners emerging in certain spaces (donation for sure). The issue we're facing is that many entrepreneurs are building a 'crowdfunding' platform for the first time, and really do not have the exposure and insight into how to responsibly manage, scale, and protect all involved parties. It's one of the reasons why groups such as the CfPA play such an important role in shaping the industry.

How could venture accelerators work with crowdfunding platforms?

How could venture accelerators work with crowdfunding platforms?
4/21/2017 2:18:55 PM,
Alon Hillel-Tuch replied:

In short, in numerous ways. I would have to get a better sense around what particular perspective you are taking. Remember, there are many different flavors of crowdfunding (equity, donation, debt, and more). Keep in mind, traditional venture capital groups are not competitive to crowdfunding; they are highly complementary. The earlier stages of a venture are often friends and family rounds, not VC, traditionally they have seen relatively poor structure and limited protection to both entrepreneur and investor(s). Accelerators, such as Dreamit, are more interested in post-seed companies. We use crowdfunding as one of several measuring sticks by which to assess a venture.

Feel free to call me if you want to discuss further.

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    Bonham, Texas Issued T41

    Manuscript Endorsement "A.S. Cabell" T41 $100 1862 PF-25 Cr. 318A.
    A great note that has penned on the back in red ink, "Issued Bonham Texas Feby 19th 1863 A.S. Cabell Capt[ain] & A[ssistant] Q[uarter] M[aster]." There are now four Cabell notes documented by Michael McNeil, but this is the first he has come across in red ink. The actual signature is by Cabell, but the rest of the endorsement was written by a clerk/soldier with much better penmanship. Cabell served in both Paris and Bonham, Texas. He then spent time at Fort Washita, Indian Territory (now Durant, Oklahoma). His final post was in San Antonio. This PMG Very Fine 30 note is well margined with the bottom margin extending into the following note. There is also another penned name and date in black ink on the back that we will leave to our bidders to investigate.

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Martin Marietta

Returning Candidate?

Construction Project Assistant

Construction Project Assistant

Requisition ID
Job Locations
US-NE-Fort Calhoun
Midwest Division

More information about this job

Recently debuting at #57 on Fortune magazine’s list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in the world, Martin Marietta, a member of the S&P 500 Index, employs more than 8,500 employees at operations spanning 26 states, Canada and the Bahamas. A leading supplier of aggregates and heavy building materials, dedicated teams at Martin Marietta supply the resources for the roads, sidewalks and foundations on which we live.

At Martin Marietta, we are always looking for the best and the brightest, for people who have the potential to be the Company's future leaders. We are building on our foundation of success by selecting the finest people and helping them realize their potential. When you decide to build your career at Martin Marietta, you'll know what it's like to be respected, challenged and rewarded.

The Project Clerk will be responsible for a variety of tasks ranging from office to production work.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  1. Ensure contractors and vendors are in compliance with MSHA and Company Safety and Health expectations.
  2. Provide a high level of accuracy and efficiency with MS Word/Excel Programs for data entry, developing tracking and auditing systems.
  3. Provide accurate inventory support.
  4. Supports the Project Manager by efficiently and accurately auditing for safety compliance and inventory integrity.
  5. Ability to safely operate construction equipment.
  6. The ability to perform other duties as assigned.

  1. Ethical Conduct
  2. Teamwork
  3. Detail Oriented
  4. Self-starter
  5. Communication
  6. Relationship Building
  7. Customer Service
  8. Responsibility

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have direct reports.

Work Environment

This job operates 65% of the time in an office setting. 35% of the time will be in the Quarry and Mine environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. This position regularly requires long hours and weekend work.

Occasional travel will be required.  Out-of-area and overnight travel will be expected.

Required Education and Experience

  1. High School Diploma Required

AAP/EEO Statement

Martin Marietta will provide equal opportunities to all employees and all applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, marital status, United States military veteran's status, or mental or physical disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

  • Medical
  • Prescription Drug
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Health Care Reimbursement Account
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Doctrine versus Experience

(by The Rev. Dr. Curtis I. Crenshaw, Th.M., Th.D.)

Once upon a time, there was the great Reformation that formally began under Martin Luther when he nailed up the 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, challenging the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church regarding Indulgences. An Indulgence is a work a Christian does to lessen the time he must stay in purgatory to be cleanses of his sins before he can go to heave. The Reformation, practically speaking, began at least 200 years earlier under John Wycliff in the 1300s and Jon Hus in the 1400s, both of whom were declared heretics by Rome. By the time of the Reformation, Wycliff was dead, but they exhumed his bones to undo his Christian burial. Hus, even though Rome gave him safe conduct to and from his meeting, was burned at the stake. So were Anglican scholars Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, and Hugh Latimer in the 1500s.

The title of this article is Doctrine versus Experience, but the word “versus” need not be there. Indeed, Paul—and the Bible in general—do not see a necessary contrast between doctrine and experience, and Paul bases experience on doctrine.

But we must be careful to define these two things. Doctrine is easy enough: it is what Holy Scripture tells us about God, ourselves, the Son of God, sin, and so on. Experience is how we live in light of such unchanging truths. The problem develops when we try to establish doctrine based on our experience, or when we think that doctrine is just spouting off propositions about God with no thought of living for Him or having His joy, peace, love, etc manifested in our lives. Experience without doctrine is heat without light; enthusiasm without knowledge quickly leads one into heresies of all kinds. Doctrine without experience is cold, ineffective, quickly becomes mean spirited, like quoting Greek conjugations just with the idea of getting them over. Once learned and recited, they can be quickly discarded.

We have both kinds of Christians in various denominations, and though I’ll give some examples (from my denomination also, the Reformed Episcopal Church), I do not mean that there are not fine exceptions in each denomination. On the one hand, in Presbyterianism, there can be—and too often are—egg head Christians, those who have knowledge without love. These people love to blast other Christians, demonstrating how much more knowledge they have than other Christians, as if propositions alone meant one knew and loved God. As I grew up, we used to say one could know God with his head but not his heart, and is that not what St. Paul stated?

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (1 Cor. 13:2).

One the one hand, though I’m not charismatic, what are we to think of the experience of millions of charismatics worldwide who claim to be able to heal others and to speak in tongues? Does experience have no place?

On the other hand, in Charismatic circles there is the tendency to derive doctrine from one’s experience. I’ve heard many times, “I know tongues are for today because I have experienced them.” No amount of biblical exegesis would convince Charismatics otherwise. My point is that this is a wrong priority.

Surely, there must be a balance somewhere. As Presbyterian theologian James Henley Thornwell (died 1862) stated:

Truth must be exhibited warm and glowing from the fullness of the Christian heart. It must be not nakedly truth, but truth according to godliness. The writer must know it, because he has been taught by the Spirit and feels its power. This living consciousness of its preciousness and sweetness and glory is absolutely essential to save a system from the imputation of a frozen formalism. Infuse life, and you have a noble organism. (The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell, 1:35)

So what is the point? It is that we must have objective truth based on the unchanging written word, but also truth that moves us, that has the fire of the heart and the Holy Spirit to make us new. It is a shame to hear the word written, confessed, sung, preached, and tasted in communion, and have the people sit like a pile of stones with grim faces, afraid to express any emotion lest they be considered weird. I’d rather be weird for Jesus. But emotion in itself without truth means nothing, and truth without emotion is deal formalism, but at least the latter has the gospel.

I took some postulants to the ministry to a church growth seminar provided by the ACNA (Anglican Church in North America), of which we (Reformed Episcopal Church) are a part. We were supposed to hear about how to do church growth. Instead, we constantly heard “God told me” such, how one pastor followed the leading of the Spirit with subjective feelings and grew a church. What was conspicuous by its absence was anything from God’s written word. Another told us how to receive the Holy Spirit, as if we could be Christians without Him: “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Rom. 8:9). It seems that just using the Bible and common sense is not enough, but we must divine God’s will apart from Holy Scripture. How is one to know that it was God speaking to him and not the pizza one had?

Now consider this experience: I’m not charismatic, but there has been a phenomenon in the last 100 years as noted by several modern church historians. Throughout our planet, there has been a huge movement of charismatics, a movement of the Holy Spirit they would say, a revival of huge proportions.

But consider that what the historians report (Alister McGrath; Christianity’s Dangerous Idea; Philip, The Next Christendom): of the two billion Christians in the world, about half of those are Protestants, and of those more than half are charismatic in some form. They may be distinct, independent churches, various denominations, or within various denominations, and virtually all denominations, such as Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican, Baptist, to some extent Eastern Orthodox, and even the Roman Catholic Church, have had charismatic growth. Though we may question some of their “experience” with good doctrine, yet how are we to account for so many coming to know Christ? Of course, we all know that no church is infallible; even Rome does not claim that except for the Pope and that on rare occasions. Is it possible that many can be converted without their doctrine being perfect? I suggest there is no other way any of us are converted to Christ except through imperfect humans with imperfect doctrine.

And what is their origin? We now know they came from everywhere, at the same time, and independent of one another. As modern church historian Alister McGrath has recently stated:

A number of roughly contemporary movements with recognizable shared beliefs and expectations emerged in the first decade of the twentieth century, but without any obvious indication of reciprocal causality.

The picture that is now becoming clear is that a series of local “Pentecostalisms” emerging in the first decade of the twentieth century. The 1906 revival at Azusa Street was one of them. So was the 1903 revival in Pyongyand, Korea; the 1906-7 revival at Pandira Ramabai’s Mukti Mission in Poona India. The Manchurian revival of 1908; the revival in Valparaiso, Chile, in 1909; the revival that broke out in the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, and the Liberian Kru in 1914; and other revivals in Norway, China, Venezuela and elsewhere. (Alister McGrath, Christianity’s Dangerous Idea, p. 422).

The Pentecostal movement is leading the way south of our border and in Africa. Moreover, there are numerous Muslims who are saying that Jesus has appeared to them, telling them to leave Mohammad and seek out Jesus in some particular church, and they are being converted to Christ. But—and here is the point—they begin to read the Bible, to trust in the Triune God, and to worship with other believers. If one of them came to my church, I would not want to try to talk him out of his vision but to point him to Holy Scripture and to worship.

Were all these movements gospel centered, with the Son of God presented as the center? I don’t know, but we do know that the Holy Spirit exalts Him (John 16:14). Pentecostal or charismatic growth has been explosive the last hundred years, especially the last 50 years (in my lifetime). It is Protestant, holding practically to the Apostles’ Creed, though perhaps they do not say it in their worship services. Of course, there are heresies, such as the “Oneness” movement spawned by charismatics, who deny the Holy Trinity, believing that Jesus is the Father and is the Holy Spirit. In other words, God is role playing, not having three persons but one who manifest Himself as three different persons at various times. But this is a small movement, and Protestantism has had its heresies that it has created before Pentecostalism came along, though Pentecostalism itself is not a heresy. Moreover, the word-faith movement also tends to be heretical, saying either that the Son of God was not God while on earth or at least did not manifest His divine attributes while on earth. They say things like Jesus did his miracles only by the power of the Holy Scripture, not by His own attributes; and since we have the same Holy Spirit, we can do all that He did. Since charismatics are long on experience and short on doctrine, they are easy prey to those who claim to have the same kinds of experiences. I’ve written a book on the word-faith movement: (

I repeat that I am not charismatic, and I could never hold to their view of the baptism of the Holy Spirit (my doctrine over their experience), but can we not at least recognize that something most unusual has happened, that millions of people have come to Christ through this movement? God has been striking straight blows with crooked sticks for many centuries. Pentecostalism began all over the world at the same time, with basically the same expressions, and with the same basic gospel? How do we explain that? My view is that their sensationalism is wrong but their gospel emphasis a good one.

Those who reject charismatics based on their doctrine do not seem to understand that what really matters, according to the Church for the past 2,000 years, has been given to us in the three creeds, especially the Nicene Creed, but the Apostles’ Creed and Athanasian Creed also. It is not the claiming of supernatural gifts that makes one heretical (or orthodox) but the denial of the historic Church’s teaching as given in the creeds. I may disagree with someone over speaking in tongues and over the so-called “word of knowledge” they allegedly receive, but that does not mean they are condemned as heretics to suffer in hell forever. Orthodoxy is the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation of the Son of God, His death and resurrection, Ascension, Second Coming, forgiveness of sins, and Church and Sacraments that make up the essence of the Gospel—not tongues.

For me, doctrine is always the foundation for experience, never the reverse. The bottom line for me is to obey Holy Scripture, obey those over me in the Lord (Heb. 13:7, 17), and do what I like. AMEN.

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CHICAGO — Nearly an hour before the bulk of his teammates arrived at the United Center and 10 hours before tipoff of yet another regular-season game in his 15th go-round in the league, Dwyane Wade stood at center court and bounced a ball right on the face of the Chicago Bulls’ bright red logo, capturing the scene on his Snapchat account.

Was this his Terrell Owens celebrating a touchdown on the star at the Dallas Cowboys’ 50-yard line moment? Was this Wade announcing his return to his hometown arena, signaling that a pounding was in store for the team he played for last season?

“I’m not petty,” Wade told ESPN after the Cleveland Cavaliers beat Chicago 113-91 on Monday to run their winning streak to 12 games. “I was just at the gym early.”

And come game time, he continued to be as reliable as he has been of late, scoring 24 points off the bench to go with six rebounds and two assists and amassing a plus-minus of plus-20 in 26 minutes of action to help the Cavs beat the Bulls.

There are plenty of ways to explain Cleveland catching fire after looking like, well, a dumpster fire through its 5-7 start. The defense is dramatically improved. Outside shots are falling. LeBron James is putting up the type of numbers that make you wonder if his prime will ever end. The team is in better shape after looking gassed early on following a shortened training camp. The new personnel has been given a chance to jell with one another.

And somewhere on that list right near the very top is the personal play of Wade, who has become a leader of the Cavs’ second unit that looks as formidable as any bench in the league.

“Just to say we have a future Hall of Famer say he wants to come off the bench,” said Cavs coach Tyronn Lue. “That was the first step.  That’s kind of his unit. He runs and controls that unit.”

Coming into the Bulls game, Wade had scored double-digits in a season-high six straight games, putting up 15.8 points, 2.8 boards, 3.8 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks on 52.8 percent from the field and 54.5 percent from 3-point territory in that span.

The run did not go unnoticed, with LeBron James declaring over the weekend that Wade was “probably the No. 1 candidate” for the Sixth Man of the Year Award, much the way Bill Walton won it with the Boston Celtics in 1985-86 as an aging star coming to a new team to push it over the top.

Wade, who ruffled some feathers in Cleveland when he first came in for requesting to start even though it was not what Lue advised, handled the Sixth Man talk with a humility that was lacking upon his arrival.

Kyle Korver should be the guy getting the Sixth Man attention, Wade said, considering Korver’s plus-minus numbers were the best on the team. The 2006 NBA Finals MVP even said he was “a little uncomfortable” with the praise he was getting for his bench role.

Korver, when asked by ESPN about Wade inserting his name into the Sixth Man conversation, gave all the credit right back to Wade.

What is the difference, Korver was asked, between the Cavs’ bench that ranked 28th (28.3 points per game) in the league in scoring last season and their second unit that’s 5fifth (40.5 points per game) this year? “Him,” Korver said.

“I mean, he can say whatever he wants, but there’s no doubt he’s done a great job of leading that second unit,” Korver told ESPN. “And I think there’s been growth in a lot of areas with that second unit. We just got tons of motion going on. Tons of movement. But you can’t just have five guys doing that. You got to have someone in that group who is making that pass or commanding that double team or getting the ball into the paint and then with the movement and pieces that we have, kind of making it fit together well. So, I really think the way I look at it, we have two of the greatest basketball minds in the history of the game and one is leading the first unit and one is leading the second unit.”

Not surprisingly, the guy leading the first unit is all for how Wade has carved out his niche.

“I mean, he’s run a franchise before,” James said. “He’s ran units before. There’s not one situation that he hasn’t been in, so it’s a luxury for our team to be able to have him to come off our bench and be able to lead that group. The way he’s playing right now, he’s just in a great groove. And you guys know me, I’m extremely happy to have him.”

And Wade is happy to be a part of a championship contender once again after being out of that conversation the past three seasons while playing for the Bulls and the post-LeBron Miami Heat — even if it means that he’s a featured role player instead of a featured starter.

“I’ve played with a lot of talent,” Wade said. “It’s just, it’s the quality of here. Because I think anybody on that court can explode and have a 20-point game that’s out there at all times. Right now, I’m the beneficiary of it, but we have multiple guys who can do that and have done it this year. Right now, today was my day.”

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Noem gets seat on Ag committee

Rep. Noem’s office announced the freshman congresswomen will add another committee to her duties — the Ag committee.

Good for Noem.  Will this improve her ability to do her job for SD?  I’m inclined to suggest she was able to do just fine on Ag issues without the committee assignment….that being said — her addition to the committee puts a smart, experienced farmer/rancher at the table as discussions about the next Farm Bill start.

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  1. Guard

    Yah, an “experienced farmer/rancher” who will make darn sure that federal government subsidy money and the subsidy money for the crop insurance companies keeping rolling on into their coffers for the next 2 years while everyone else is expected to sacrifice their benefits for fiscal prudence in a time when everyone (including crop insurance companies) should be sacrificing. I guess Medicare recipients, the hard-working responsible ones who have paid into the system with their earnings their entire lives should just suck it up and have the program turned into another abused and fraudulent program run by another crooked insurance company. That’s what FOX News’s Representative Noem wants by supporting that disastorous Ryan Budget. But, make no mistake, her cash cow will continue to get milked.

  2. anonymous

    I don’t think Stephanie Herseth is relevant anymore.

    This will be known as the day Herseth officially lost her rematch. Her elected career in politics is over from this day forward.

  3. anon

    The Dems don’t have anyone who can challenge her. I have heard Turbak Barries name from Watertown mentioned and do think she’d be the best option for them but realisticly Noem is cleaning up right now.

    1. caheidelberger

      Cleaning up? With what broom? She hasn’t done anything! You guys are all image and no substance. SHow me one solid accomplishment so far. Call me when she makes one solid accomplishment on the ag committee — and if all she does is protect farm subsidies, crop insurance, ethanol subsidies, and other big-government handouts to South Dakota farmers, I will laugh very, very hard.

  4. cornerstone

    The Dems r done. Nesselfluff couldn’t even organize an anti noem Medicare rally at het town halls. They can’t even cheerlead right so how do they expect to win anything? Oh I know… send out another press release…

    1. Name

      This is especially true for her supporters. To check either one of her Facebook pages makes one quite concerned for the the writing skills of people in South Dakota.

      1. anonymous

        Yeah the Ryan Plan is supposedly really unpopular with Dems and Nesselhuf couldn’t even organize an anti Noem rally. What does that say about Noem’s standing? She’s kicking butt.

        Obamacare must have been really unpopular since the tea party organized itself without GOP support in organization.

        The D’s are pathetic…

        1. Name

          You may be a member of the same party as Mr. Quayle, but that is no excuse for poor grammar.

          “Yes, the Ryan Plan is supposedly very unpopular with Democrats and Mr. Nesselhuf couldn?t even organize an Anti-Noem rally. What does that say about Ms. Noem?s standing? She?s ahead.
          The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 must have been very unpopular since the Tea Party organized itself without GOP support in organization. (In fact this sentence is not true).

          The Democrats are pathetic.”

          I believe that was at least ten corrections.

  5. Guard

    Please, get Stephanie back in there. This woman, Kristi has managed to screw things up so bad in just 4 months that it took Steph 6 1/2 years to build. We have lost our voice for the veterans, we have lost our voice for responsible tax payers, we have lost our voice for South Dakota and for what? A Fox News talking piece. 2012 can not come soon enough.

    1. Ron

      What did SHS do and how did Rep. Noem dismantle it in four months? If that is truly the case, then perhaps SHS didn’t do such a good job in the first place.

  6. Guard

    As for “cruising to victory” lol….Stephanie could comeback and kick Noem’s but in heart beat, especially after the 2% swing voters are waking up to the fact that Kristi was never ready for this job.

  7. Duh

    one thing remains constant, when pinheads don’t have a valid comment or observation to make, they start their personal attacks. Grammar? Get real. 50% of these last pinhead posts had errors. What a joke you all are.

  8. anon

    Well we all know Varilek has senatorial experience if he runs against Noem since he and his fellow colleagues have been making the decisions for Senator Johnson since 2008.

    Johnson wasn’t all bad until this term and he’s totally gone liberal.

  9. Charlie Hoffman

    I know Kristi Noem personally. After spending two years sitting in meetings with her, talking to her about her family and life, and arguing the finer points of law I differed with her on, came to the conclusion that treating her with respect always would be my best choice. In the legislative sessions we worked together she was articulate, outspoken on important issues, snappy but fair, and extremely hard working. Though we like to call all politicians in DC stupid and out of touch and arrogant most of them get there through hard work and touching base with many in their home districts. It is obvious to me that the pols in DC see the same thing in Kristi Noem that I saw here at home in Pierre working for all of SD. She is still working for all of SD but with a national scope of authority and a masters of agriculture as her backbone. At the end of the day what the majority of South Dakotans want is someone who cares and listens and responds and one whom mostly votes and does what we sitting around the coffee table would do.

    And I guarantee you that when a crisis occurs she won’t need to look at a manual printed by some engineer to figure out what to do. That is what growing up in rural SD did for her and impresses the hell out of those DC pols.


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6/19/2013 UPDATE: Hawaiʻi Island police have located 15-year-old Kaiini Nihoa of Pāhoa, who was reported missing. Police made contact with her in Pāhoa on Wednesday morning.

Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for a 15-year-old Pāhoa girl who was reported missing. Kaiini Nihoa was last seen at Spencer Beach Park in South Kohala at 11:30 p.m. Saturday (June 15).

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