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Vasmora by Keri Lake – A Book Review by The Bookish Elf

Vasmora by Keri Lake – A Book Review by The Bookish Elf

Published by Jenni Sidey

The second book ended with a fall into the great chasm. The third opens on the near side of it, with what is left. Maevyth is dragged through a dying forest by soldiers in golden armour, the passage back to the mortal lands sealed behind her, a curse burned into her wrist so that neither her bone whip nor her Corvugon will answer. Within a few pages she is shoved through a cleaved portal onto white marble veined with gold, inside the palace of the general who once owned the man she loves. Vasmora by Keri Lake begins by taking everything from its heroine at once, and then spends 657 pages letting her decide what to take back. Where It Sits in Keri Lake’s Eating Woods This is the third and final book of The Eating Woods, which Lake describes in her opening note as her first move into gothic dark fantasy. Readers who know her from the Nightshade duology, the Juniper Unraveling books or standalones such as Nocticadia and Master of Salt & Bones …

Revel review – broken Barbies and a splash of Swan Lake as older dancers limber up

Revel review – broken Barbies and a splash of Swan Lake as older dancers limber up

Published by Sam Flores

The inevitable aches and sprains of an ageing body take on heightened significance for a seasoned dancer turning up to work each day. Revel by Company Chordelia is a whimsical rumination on these changes, and a personal riposte to the fear that you might “make a spectacle of yourself” if you don’t stop at the “right” moment. It is conceived and staged by the artistic director Kally Lloyd-Jones, who performs with the co-creator Steinvör Palsson, a well-known teacher and choreographer in the Scottish dance community. Revel opens on an apparently empty dressing room, until Lloyd-Jones suddenly appears from underneath a discarded puffy dress, and Palsson creeps out of a storage crate. The backstage PA system delivers a message: they have – only! – nine hours to get ready. Long stretch … the pair must prepare properly for their performance. Photograph: Brian Hartley Each dancer’s warm-up manifests differently: Palsson serenely wafts through her qigong routine, while Lloyd-Jones prefers a strenuous running, lunging, shaking approach. They must do their checklist (but first get their reading glasses). Multivitamins? …

Lake Ontario is now Lake America. Residents of Trump-voting Ontario have thoughts

Lake Ontario is now Lake America. Residents of Trump-voting Ontario have thoughts

Published by Sam Flores

ONTARIO, N.Y. — Serafino Rosso lives in a big home in this tiny town overlooking the Great Lake it’s named after. When President Donald Trump renamed the lake, Rosso thought: Why stop there? “I would like it if they changed the name here to the Town of America: The Town of America on the Lake of America,” Rosso, a 41-year-old telecoms manager, said proudly while standing outside Ontario’s lone grocery store. “It makes me feel really patriotic. It felt Canadian before.” Source link

Seneca Nation fights Trump’s “Lake America” rename

Seneca Nation fights Trump’s “Lake America” rename

Published by Sam Flores

The Seneca Nation is calling on President Donald Trump to reverse his decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” arguing that the move disregards centuries of Indigenous history and the United States’ treaty obligations. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Interior Department to change the lake’s name in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System within 30 days, extending his second-term penchant for rebranding landmarks with the “America” name. Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca called the order “blatant disrespect” for Indigenous people and said Trump cannot erase their history through political action. “Lake Ontario is not owned by the United States,” Seneca said. “The President cannot assert ownership over our culture or erase it through irresponsible political action.” The name Ontario itself predates both the United States and Canada and has Indigenous origins. It is derived from an Iroquoian word commonly translated as “lake of shining waters.” The province of Ontario, established in 1867, was named after the lake — not the other way around. The Seneca Nation also pointed to the 1794 …

Trump Officially Renames Lake Ontario To “Lake America”

Trump Officially Renames Lake Ontario To “Lake America”

Published by Jenni Sidey

Now, on to important matters…  On Thursday, US President Donald J. Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move he’s been teasing in recent days on Truth Social – including writing that America doesn’t “expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer” amid an ongoing trade spat with Canada.  On Tuesday, Trump posted an image of the lake with ‘Lake Ontario’ crossed out and ‘Lake America’ above it – with an American flag on the Canadian side. “The United States is the greatest protector of the Great Lakes, including the body of water currently known as Lake Ontario,” Trump wrote in the EO, adding “The Lake will continue to play a pivotal role in shaping America’s future and the global economy. In recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people, I am directing that the Lake officially be renamed as Lake America.”  The order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to update the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) within 30 days, and requires all …

Scalable robot fish can easily swim in a creek or lake

Scalable robot fish can easily swim in a creek or lake

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Robot fish have come a long way from the novelty Big Mouth Billy Bass of the late 90s. Today, marine life researchers worldwide embed various types of more advanced robots into fish habitats (instead of on basement walls). These sophisticated fish-bots do everything from monitoring at-risk coral reefs to waging war on invasive species.  But there’s a core limitation to most of those designs. Each fish robot is just one size. That means researchers who want to conduct parallel observations of fish in a small pond or a large lake typically need to seek out multiple distinct robots. A team of engineers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and Queensland University of Technology says they have a solution, and it involves …

Inside the maximalist apartment of a Silver Lake stylist

Inside the maximalist apartment of a Silver Lake stylist

Published by Sam Flores

“More is more and less is a bore.” ― Iris Apfel After spending decades collecting clean-lined Midcentury Modern furniture and accessories, stylist Wendi Weger felt it was time to give her Silver Lake apartment a playful update. “Everything was brown,” Weger says as she sits on a plush sofa covered in pink and chartreuse striped Christian Lacroix fabric. “It looked like a UPS truck in here. I mean, look at me,” she adds, fluffing the ruffles of her Accidente Con Flores dress, her intricately manicured fingers decorated with colorful Zuni Toons rings. “That is not me.” In this series, we spotlight L.A. rentals with style. From perfect gallery walls to temporary decor hacks, these renters get creative, even in small spaces. And Angelenos need the inspiration: Most are renters. Indeed. Weger, who grew up in Madison, Wis., studied cinema during graduate school at NYU and later moved to Los Angeles to work in Hollywood as a producer and stylist, is no minimalist. Always expressive, she describes her style as more akin to a “Victorian parlor …

Shipwreck found in Lake Constance: what surprised the underwater archaeologists

Shipwreck found in Lake Constance: what surprised the underwater archaeologists

Published by Sam Flores

Off Lindau in Lake Constance, underwater archaeologists have discovered wooden parts of a shipwreck that are apparently much older than first assumed. “The tip came from a recreational diver who knows the area very well. He had already suspected that it might be a wreck,” says archaeological research diver Prof. Dr Tobias Pflederer when asked by Euronews. Pflederer is a cardiologist in Kaufbeuren and a professor at the University of Erlangen, and also honorary president of the Bavarian Society for Underwater Archaeology (BGfU). “What was particularly exciting was that we were really able to identify the wooden remains as a wreck. That was not at all clear from the outset. They could just as well have been other pieces of timber. But once several frames and fragments of the hull were protruding from the lake bed, the interpretation quickly became clear,” explains Pflederer. A frame is a load-bearing structural element of a boat, a ship or an aircraft. Connected frames form the hull of a ship, like ribs. The BGfU underwater archaeologists had previously discovered …

See a ‘Crystal Lake’ Teaser and Pics from Peacock

See a ‘Crystal Lake’ Teaser and Pics from Peacock

Published by Daniella Wilson

Peacock has released the first look its Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, and it appears to be a lighthearted story about kids enjoying summer camp. Just kidding. The first photos and a short teaser for the A24-produced series show Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, the mother of the film series’ big bad, Jason, becoming increasingly desperate after her son drowns (which is, of course, the inciting event for the whole movie franchise). In the teaser (watch it below), a character speculates that “It’s like someone put a curse on this town. It all started when that kid drowned last summer. There’s something in these woods, and all it knows how to do is kill.” Crystal Lake centers on Cardellini’s Pam, “who has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before,” the show’s description reads. “When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal …

Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey

Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey

Published by Jenni Sidey

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the Salt Lake Valley for days at a time. Its particles were contaminated with byproducts of decades’ worth of human activities—including mining and smelting—that had both leached from nearby tailings ponds and been deposited onto the lake from the air. The lake’s water level fluctuates naturally, filling in the spring with runoff from the surrounding mountains and evaporating during the summer months, and rising and falling in multiyear cycles. But for the past ninety years, even despite an anomalous spike in the 1980s, it has followed a clear downward trend. This is partially due to the increasingly dry winters and hot summers caused by climate change, but it has much more to do with upstream diversions. The lake relies on inflows from three freshwater rivers, and nearly two thirds of their waters are rerouted into dams and canals at dozens of points along their courses. Over 70 percent of the …