Monday, March 04, 2019

 The Water Dancers ๐Ÿ•บ: Janusko with Samira

The Water Dancer

Raindance : Australia's longest summer - a story of conspiracy and betrayal / A.C. Flanagan
Malchkeoun’s mate Alice wrote this story in early 2000 and used exotic eyes ๐Ÿ‘€ on the first edition cover  of the book ๐Ÿ“š Raindance by A.C. Flanagan


2006, English, Book edition: Raindance : Australia's longest summer - a story of conspiracy and betrayal / A.C. Flanagan. Flanagan, Alice.

Raindance, her first book, was inspired by the changes drought had brought to Australia in the early 2000s. In a ‘what if’ story Raindance explores the decisions poverty imposes on a mother as she is manipulated into becoming a terrorist in a time when drought and war has brought the western world to her knees.


15 Towns without water Q & A


Set in a fictional Riverina town at the height of a devastating drought, Scrublands is one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia.
In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself. 

Scrublands - Chris Hammer - 9781760632984 - Allen & Unwin ...


Knights of the water table reboot Bradfield scheme in grand vision

MILLER HIGH LIFE: GMO Beer that Can Produce a High Like Marijuana.“Researchers at UC Berkeley have produced brewers yeast that contains THC and CBD.”



Prodigy dancer and vocalist Keith Flint found deadaged 49

Bez of the chemical generation made an indelible mark on British music









Calls to close access to dangerous social media favourite Figure Eight Pools



There are calls for a popular NSW tourist destination to be closed following multiple deaths at the site in recent years including a tourist missing since Monday who is now presumed dead.



Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage — and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child — but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn’t understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram’s private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he’s ever known.

The NY Times has a bit more info here about the book.



SMILE, YOU’RE ON CANDID CAMERA: Yikes, are the airlines spying on you?

A PRODUCT PEOPLE WANT TO BUY, AT A PRICE THEY”RE WILLING TO PAY:Make Big Money Writing Fiction


















WELL, GOOD: Vitamin D may have even more benefits than previously known.


Bike Commuters Are Dying in Record Numbers


Outside: “According to a report from the League of American Bicyclists released last month, 2016 went down in the record books as the deadliest year for U.S. cyclists since 1991. The report cites data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which recorded 840 cycling fatalities in 2016—the first time the annual death toll has crept above the 1991 figure of 836.

THEY DON’T LEARN TOO WELL:  Four Lessons Hollywood Still Hasn’t Learned And Won’t.





In January, BuzzFeed News came out with a story that President Donald Trump directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s business dealings in Russia. But the office of special counsel Robert Mueller put out a statement disputing parts of the report. BuzzFeed News stood by its story. Since then, no news organization has been able to either confirm or shoot down BuzzFeed News’ report.


Then came Wednesday when Cohen testified before Congress. Did he help or hurt BuzzFeed News’ credibility on that story? Uh, maybe both, writes the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan.


On one hand, in his written testimony, Cohen wrote: “Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress.’’


So that disputes BuzzFeed News, right? Hold on. Cohen continued: “That’s not how he operates.”


What Cohen is claiming is that Trump made it clear he was to lie. Cohen testified: “In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me, ‘There’s no business in Russia,’ and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing. In his way, he was telling me to lie.”


So, if you believe Cohen — and not everyone does — BuzzFeed News seems to be vindicated. Ultimately, we might have to wait for the Mueller Report to get a better sense of how accurate BuzzFeed News’ story was.