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The fine folks of the airline industry work extra hard this time of year so that the rest of us can enjoy the holidays. As if that weren’t enough, some of them volunteer to help share seasonal spirit with people in need. As one example, United operates “Fantasy Flights” that bring children experiencing significant medical issues or other hardships to visit Santa at the North Pole. We were able to …

Sara Reish Desmond’s debut collection, What We Might Become (out now from Cornerstone Press), has been hailed as both “vivid” and “haunting.” Filled with complex and riveting characters, her stories will stay with you for a good while after you have turned the last page. Bloom sat down with Sara to talk about her journey and her process. Shabana Kayum: First, congratulations on your debut collection! Often, agents and others …

Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Kathy Reid, I'm currently finishing a PhD at ANU's School of Cybernetics, where I've investigated voice dataset documentation - like metadata and datasheets, from various angles, as a way to help create speech technology that works better for more people. I do a lot of reading and annotation of PDF files - most academic papers, and do a lot of writing …

Merry Xmas everyone, or Happy Holidays if you prefer. As I said to a few people in our Facebook Group The post Combat Patrol Contents Issues 21-40 Revealed appeared first on FauxHammer.

2024 was the year in which Bristol Old Vic continued to make new writing the heart of its programming, Welsh National Opera dazzled yet lost its South West berth, the Tobacco Factory slowly started to produce again after a difficult period and the Theatre Royal Bath kept producing classical revival after classical revival with big names and a commercial model that is the envy of all regional spaces. These were …

"Sabin Bălașa was a contemporary Romanian painter, writer and director of animation films. His works are described by himself as belonging to Cosmic Romanticism."Among Bălaşa’s most notable works are several large-scale fresco paintings, such as those decorating the inside of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania. These 19 murals depict the history and mythology of the Romanian people, expressed through archetypal figures immersed in a romantic and cosmic …

I find myself in a bit of a dichotomy. On one hand, I feel as though I need a break from my own historical costuming, dressing for events, and making clothes in general. I’ve even envisioned selling off a good portion of fabric/materials stash. (This thought is in conflict with knowing the cost of replacing […]

. What. A. Year. Thank you to all of the amazing thinkers who generously shared their writing with us during rough waters worldwide. During those times when our work feels like we’re screaming underwater, it’s especially important that we’re still out here making waves. A special shout out in gratitude to our readers, who are listening even harder during our 15th year, and rocking the boat along with us into …

By: Tazmin ChilesAs we're wrapping up our project with Youth Futures Foundation (YFF) after its final phase, it's a moment to reflect on what we've achieved with them. Our goal was to build an open data platform that would enable YFF and their network to understand and make decisions about the youth employment market. We wanted to help them answer questions such as: where are the data gaps for understanding …

During the holiday season my parents would invariably designate one evening before Christmas to invite friends over for an open house. My mom, a dedicated holiday baker, used the occasion to haul out all the fruitcakes she'd made—one packed with whole nuts and citron barely held together with batter, an applesauce bread studded with nuts and raisins, another cakey version that had been wrapped in a brandy-soaked cloth—plus cookies filled …

The trickle of news from Sweden and Finland has continued when it comes to the firearms programs. To begin with, the deliveries of AK 24 are up and running, with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) having run their verification testing – including a 30,000 round service life test – and the formal delivery of the first batch of 1,200 series-produced rifles from FMV to the Swedish Armed Forces took …

"What's the Showstopper?""A feature, of course. The other two, calling cards or proof of concept. This is the biggie." — "It's got evyerthing from the previous films?" — "All that and more. I mean, it's different, but the same." — "I get this OJ vibe." — "You're not off. You like the amibiguous shit after all, right?" — "Sure I do." — "So what's to say we doing have IP …

On our year-end publishing break, we reflect on how 2024’s contradictions reveal a fractured world grappling with inequality, digital activism, and the blurred lines between action and spectacle. Circuito de playas in Lima, Perú. Image credit alobos life via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. As we prepare to take our annual publishing break, the question on everyone’s minds is: what should we make of 2024? In this moment of global certainty, …