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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the We are divine enough to ask and we are realist adjusts the sails. important enough to receive. Wayne Dyer William Arthur Ward Good, better, best. Never let it rest.

Never doubt that a small group of ‘Til your good is better and your better thoughtful, committed citizens can is best. Saint Jerome change the world; indeed, it’s the only It always seems impossible until it’s done. thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Nelson Mandela

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. If you don’t know where you are going, Albert Einstein you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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Beverly Ostler Pictured: Beverly on her houseboat, Another Life, moored in Key Largo

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Adventures of a Young Widow

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For those who have visited our studio at Royal Palm Pointe, you may remember being greeted at the door with the warm smile of Beverly Ostler. She had called Rhett and said she wrote a book and wanted to be on the radio. She mailed the book and waited. Then she decided to drop by the studio one afternoon and this interview was arranged. Something about her made Rhett ask her on the spot to be the studio concierge and she accepted! Her desire and perseverance to be interviewed led her to our door and the encounter has turned into a wonderful friendship.

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e’re continuing our conversation with Beverly Ostler who wrote a book called Act II, the Unpredictable Adventures of a Young Widow. We left off last month when your husband suddenly died.

Do you know statistics say the most stressful thing that can happen in your life is to lose a loved one? And then you know what happens? Fear sets in. “I’m alone. Where is my rock?” And that’s what happened.

For two years I was numb. I had a business, Classic Age, a talent modeling agency for people over 40, and it was very successful, but I had no interest anymore, my rock was gone. He would encourage me when I had bad days, and he did my books for me.

So giving up that position just made my life emptier. I just couldn’t function as well. On the outside I looked fine.

So I want you to know my friends and family were so wonderful. They were there supporting me – not pitying me, just supporting me. And then I decided after two years of living this life alone in my house – a big house with bedrooms, bathrooms that I didn’t need – I decided I wanted to be warm, and I decided that I would come to Florida.

And that’s how my life in Florida started.

But I had to travel alone. I had to drive as far as Lorton, Virginia, to get on the Auto Train. I was terrified. And the next morning I got off the train and I thought, “I’ll call somebody and maybe they’ll let me stay overnight until I find a job.”

to support myself. So I got a job as a Recreation Director at Harbor’s Edge, a retirement home. That was really wonderful.

What did you do there?

I was an escort for 35 people on a cruise to South America. And let me tell you, that was really quite an experience! In fact, during the cruise on the way to Venezuela, somebody had a heart attack on the ship in front of me, and somebody fell down the stairs, but fortunately they weren’t my guests. So I had a really interesting experience. I planned all their activities to keep the people happy.

I also worked at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, a very posh club. That was kind of an interesting way for me to enjoy my job, because I was a model, and I had to model around the swimming pool and act really poised like I loved what I was doing. It was fascinating.

A lot of my jobs are just for one season.

Every winter when I went to Florida I had a different job that would last for three or four months.

And you did this purposely?

Oh, yes.

Now, the training you got with John Travolta’s mom in acting, did that help you in these jobs?

Well, it gave me confidence, because with modeling you have to be self-assured.

And also in the bookstore, I had to be articulate.

You were also a model at Chico’s Clothing Store?

So you landed in Sanford, got off the Auto That’s another part-time job Train, and you knew not where you were in Florida. A lot of jobs you going? could do in the evening. The I had friends in Fort Lauderdale and they bookstore was the evening, were wonderful, they made me feel very and some of the shops were secure, but I still felt very alone. And I had to evening. And then during the find a job. day I worked at the retirement community.

Tell us about some of your jobs.

When I went to Florida, I decided that I would If you work in the evening like to be in an interesting environment. I it keeps you from being at was employed at Liberties Bookstore in Boca home alone.

Raton and I met some famous authors. I And that’s exactly why I did it, met Nora Roberts, Michael Connolly, and I yes. interviewed these famous authors.

Now, you worked at a jewelry You mean in front of a live audience? store. Were you a model at Yes. I really enjoyed that, yes. the jewelry store?

But jobs down in Boca Raton paid very I sold fine jewelry and beautiful little money so I needed to find another way handbags.

And I know you were a concierge for us at our radio studio for a number of years, right?

Oh, yes. I greeted the people and I also was a co-host, and that I found to be really fascinating. And that’s where my theater background helped.

What about jobs in Stowe when you went back north?

Well, I was a guide on the trolley and I took them all around Stowe, up to the mountain, to the Trapp Family Lodge, and I showed them where the swimming holes were.

Now, the Trapp Family Lodge, tell us succinctly what that is.

Well, that’s where the von Trapp family lived when they came from Austria after their singing tour. And then Maria became famous because of her book... nd the movie The Sound of Music?

And The Sound of Music. So when my husband and I moved here, he became her right-hand man and he was such an asset to her. She liked to give money away to charities, and also when she was in front of many people, he was able to safely escort her, because everybody wanted to touch her and get her autograph. So he had an interesting position.

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force within me, it said, “You have to live, you have to try.”

So anyway, when I was still in Vermont I had lunch with somebody at a marina and I saw some houseboats there, and I said to myself, “I’m going to have a houseboat.” So before I went to Florida, I kept telling people, “I’m going get a houseboat,” and everybody laughed at me and thought I was crazy. But it’s like what Wayne Dyer says: “If you believe it, you will see it.” So I kept believing I was going to buy a houseboat.

Now, as the trolley tour guide, how did you ferret out interesting historic information? ecause I lived there for many years. There are so many favorite spots, and as we passed spots, I could give them stories. I even had a story about one of the Kennedys walking around nude in front of the chambermaid up on the mountain, because they frequented Mt. Mansfield. So people loved hearing those stories.

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What other jobs did you have?

I was hostess at a pancake house. That was fun. I learned a lot about people. In fact, one person calling to give me his name to reserve, he said, “It’s Sponge Bob.” And I didn’t know anything about Sponge Bob. I was very naïve. [chuckle] I was also looking for night work and I saw an ad in the paper that said “phone actress.”

I thought, “That’s right up my alley.”

Uh-oh.

So I went and I was interviewed and I found out it was for sex talk! The job was from 1:00 to 5:00 AM, and they had people behind the curtain. And I said, “Well, I’ll give it a try.” And he said, “You look too young and innocent to be doing this,” so that ended that job.

They didn’t hire you?

No, they didn’t even hire me. [chuckle] Thank goodness!

The law of attraction, absolutely.

So I got to Florida and I had other friends who wanted to put me up, Nancy and There was the job opening at the LiberCal. And I said to them, “I’m going to buy a ties Bookstore where I acted as a hostess houseboat,” and they really literally laughed there, introduced the authors and explained at me. I said, “No, that’s going to be a nice their background, and then it was only a way to live,” and they just said, “Oh, Bevy, no, nighttime job. In the daytime I worked at no, that’s ridiculous.” the Boca Pops Orchestra answering phones Where did you find the power not to listen and helping out, encouraging people to to the naysayers? There’s always somecome to different shows. body there, a voice saying, “You can’t do it.”

What gave you the courage to write your Boy, if I knew that secret! I don’t know. own book?

Well, you have it.

Well, I’m fortunate that my husband’s best I don’t know why. Because as a wife, I was friend is a writer, Jack Drake. Every winter I subservient. Not that he ordered me around, used to stop and see them in Florida, and he but I just leaned on him. “You make the big said, “You’ve had an interesting life. We need decisions, you take care of the checkbook.” I to write about it.” So that’s what we did. was just into the arts, like floating around.

Did he charge you a fee, or just help out?

I paid the publishing fees CONTINUED PAGE 11 and we shared the profits, whatever we received.

I wasn’t in it to make monBeverly was the hostess at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo

I know you were a hospital volunteer.

When I came back to Florida I thought, “I’ve got to give some of my time to other people.” ey; I was in it to share that So I was an advocate, I was a person who was there’s a way to live, to keep there for people. on living, and not to give up.

And you volunteered at Riverside Theater It’s living. I was determined to enter life and stay there. and the art museum.

I’m amazed when I look back at all the enNow, you said you have ergy I had! I don’t have as much energy any some stories about a more, but my enthusiasm is there. houseboat. Was this And you know what’s interesting? And before your husband’s I want people to realize, be open to people death or after? helping you. Don’t be proud and say, “That’s Oh, this is after. not me; I can’t live off somebody else.” I was You bought a boat? able to support myself, I had money from Yes. I did things in life my agency and that’s what I survived on. But that I never thought I people helped me, and they would say, “Oh, would do. There was a there’s a job opening.”

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ll those years you were waiting to blossom and it took his death to show the strength that you actually had.

Isn’t that a positive out of a negative?

Absolutely!

Years ago I used to think, “Oh, my gosh, if George dies, I’ll literally fall apart.” And I didn’t fall apart. But it was rough going, I did a lot of crying.

So the next morning my friend said, “Oh, okay, Bev, we’re going to go along with your idea.” And they took me down to a marina and I saw this junky old houseboat. This shows you I was very naïve. And I think that’s an asset because you don’t think of all the negatives! [laughter] It worked for Forest Gump; he just kept going forward. You know what I mean?

Yes! So they showed me this junky boat and it was a low price, like $20,000. I was so naïve, I thought, “Oh, I can fix it up, I can do it.” And I said, “Let me find a place where we can moor it.” That’s the most expensive part of being a boat owner.

I went up and down the whole East Coast, and I was just about ready to give up. And I pulled into the first marina in Key Largo, and I went to the office and the man said to me,

“What are you looking for?” I said, “A houseboat, but I can’t afford much.” And he said, “Well, do you already have something?” And I said, “No, I haven’t decided yet.”

So he took me out on the dock, and all of a sudden I saw this beautiful houseboat, and he took me inside and I thought, “This is ridiculous, I could never afford it.” And he said, “We can negotiate.” And I said, “How much would this cost me a month?” And he said, “$200.”

The man lost his wife and he wanted to get out of owning a houseboat. And right then and there I said, “Sold!” and it only cost me $18,000. [laughter] So for $200 a month you had virtually a brand new beautiful houseboat. How did you learn to pilot it?

I didn’t; I just lived on it for a while.

always want to pray for other people, but this time I was praying for me! I was down there with all the water, and I was thinking, “I don’t know whether we’re going to make it,” and I said, “Please, God, help us get out of this.”

And so we just were able to clear the water out, and then we went back to normal. But it was a life-and-death experience, because the whole front of the boat was down, and I’ll never forget that.

So this was not a romantic affiliation with this captain, he was just a hired captain?

No, it was romantic. I was looking for a companion.

So what happened to the captain?

It lasted for a while. But I was still judging, I was comparing. When you’ve had a steak, you don’t want hamburger. [chuckle]

How did you get to Vero Beach?

I visited my cousin Carole Scully who lives off A1A, and I observe this community, and for Ah, you met “ze capitán!” the arts this is the greatest.

Yes. And he said, “Let’s travel around I have to give credit to my co-writer, Jack Florida.” And we did. We started at Key Largo, Drake. When I came down every winter, I went to Islamorada, and went around to Fort would stop and visit he and his wife Dee. And Myers and Naples. But while we were gone I said, “Jack, another adventure,” and he said, and we were traveling there on the Gulf of “Bev, we would like to hear about your adMexico, a tremendous storm came up. And ventures.” So two years ago he said, “You’ve this shows you how naïve had so many adventures, you need a book.” I I was. I had such faith said, “Oh, no, no.” He said, “You need a book,” in this captain that the and he said, “I want to guide you. You’ve got storm came up, and these to write this book, because it’s a sharing, and huge waves were hitting women will find out they’re capable of surthe bow, and they were viving on their own.” Not only women, I know about 10 feet high, and I men are fearful of being alone, too. Being remember thinking, “Oh, alone is a terrible fear. this is really exciting!” o really your book is for women [chuckle] and men?

He looked at me like, Exactly. So it was Jack and Dee, they “Bev, I think we’ve got inspired me. And fortunately I kept a problem. Look at how journals. My memory was pretty good for this low the bow is.” The age, and I was able to relay all the events that boat was taking on wa- happened in my life. ter and then suddenly The title of the book is Act II: The UnpreI realized this was dictable Adventures of a Young Widow, by serious. So he went Beverly Kraft Ostler and John D. Drake, down below and found PhD. “For all who have lost loved ones and out the bilge pump must find their way alone.” Get it at Amawas clogged. So I was zon.com. Thank you, you’re an encouragedown there, and boy, I ment to many. don’t pray very much Thank you for the privilege of sharing. for me because I Oh, you didn’t go anywhere?

And then I met a captain.

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t the time the United States was founded most people were farmers or worked in trades. Then the Industrial Revolution began when the Scottish inventor James Watt developed a steam engine to pump water out of coal mines. Steam and water were soon harnessed in the early 19th century to power pumps, railroads, ships, and factories which mass produced products such as textiles. This led to the creation of factories which could mass produce items inexpensively.

Originally, there was no Federal Income tax.

The Federal Government was financed primarily from excise taxes on items like salt, tobacco, liquor, and tariff taxes imports. Tariffs made products imported from European factories more expensive, causing consumers to buy the less expensive products made in American factories which were located in Northern states.

The problem was, the tariff taxes that helped the Northern states hurt the Southern states, as the South was predominately agricultural and had few factories to protect.

At one point, nearly 90 percent of the Federal Budget came from tariff taxes collected at Southern ports fueling the animosity between the states leading up to the Civil War. After the Civil War, the North passed even more tariff taxes which successfully allowed Northern factories to grow enormous.

Manufacturing produced items like clothes, glass, dishes, and farm tools for a fraction of the previous costs. Machines freed women up from tedious daily tasks, such as hand-weaving thread, hand-sewing cloth, and hand-washing clothes.

Instead of carrying water from a well, pumps and pipes brought water directly into homes. New ways of making stronger iron and steel led to the building of bridges, skyscrapers, steamboats, and mining machinery. Railroads began taking people safely and inexpensively across the entire nation, opening up unprecedented mobility and opportunity.

Inventions and advances in manufacturing made more goods available at cheaper prices resulting in Americans experiencing the fastest increase in the standard of living of any people in world history.

As to labor, factories had a continual source of workers from the millions of immigrants who not only got a job, but learned the language and trade skills. Immigrants were not a financial burden on the government as there were no welfare programs. Extended family members, individual charities and churches provided the welfare net.

They were anxious to assimilate and learn the English language.

An example of the ideal factory was one created by George Pullman, founder of the Pullman Railroad Sleeping Car Company just outside of Chicago. He saw that workers needed a place to live, so he built houses in a safe little village around the factory. Rent was simply deducted from their paychecks. Workers were paid company “scrip,” similar to food stamps, which were redeemable at the company-owned grocery stores.

It was thought to be a utopian workers’ community and worked well for over a decade.

Then something happened. There was a nationwide economic depression in 1893 and orders for railroad sleeping cars suddenly dropped off. To keep the company afloat, George Pullman had to make cuts in wages and lay off hundreds of employees, though rent and groceries stayed the same price. ome immigrants from Europe had brought with them Karl Marx’s idea of a class struggle. Employees were distraught, as they had grown completely dependent on the company. Some employees walked off their jobs, demanding lower rents and higher pay, being unaware that the reason for the cuts was that the company needed to stay in business during the national economic crash.

The growing discontent was a seedbed for the socialist-communist agenda of redistribution of wealth.

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A leader of the strikes was Eugene V. Debs.

A high school dropout, Debs got a job cleaning grease from freight engines. He was promoted to locomotive fireman and rose in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman. He briefly served as a Terre Haute city clerk and one-term Indiana state representative. hen the nation experienced the financial crisis, Debs agitated and organized a strike of railroad workers in 1894. Soon railroad workers across the nation boycotted trains carrying Pullman cars. There was rioting, pillaging, and burning of railroad cars, destroying an estimated $80 million worth of property.

A New York Times editorial, July 9, 1894, called Debs “a lawbreaker at large, an enemy of the human race.”

“Debs’ Rebellion” became a national issue when it interrupted the trains delivering mail.

President Grover Cleveland declared the strike a federal crime and deployed 12,000 troops to break the strike. More violence erupted, and two men were killed.

Debs was arrested for mail obstruction and put in jail for six months where he read Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. Marx and Friedrich Engels explained (Marx and Engels Collected Works, Vol. 10, p. 318):

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Conspirators by no means confine themselves to organizing the revolutionary proletariat. Their business consists in ... spurring it into artificial crises ...

For them the only condition required for the revolution is a sufficient organization of their own conspiracy. They are the alchemists of the revolution.

Since 1894 was an election year, President Grover Cleveland thought it would improve his chances of getting re-elected if he appeased workers with a national “LABOR DAY.” He chose the first Monday in September.

Though strike-organizer Eugene Debs went to prison and Grover Cleveland lost the election, Labor Day remained a national holiday.

William Federer is a nationally-known speaker, best-selling author, historian, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America’s noble heritage. Visit americanminute.com for more historical stories.

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Building a Classic!

by Mark Rodolico

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hen it comes to hair there are two schools of thought: “trendy” and “classic.” I for one tend to embrace the classic, and here’s why. When building a classic you are literally sizing up, tailoring if you will, according to not only your client’s facial shape but, believe it or not and even more importantly, their skull shape.

Each and every one of us have movements of our skull, face, hair cowlicks and other structural hair cutting/coloring features that are uniquely ours. In order to build a classic style/look, one must tailor the hair to fit precisely to that person. We each possess two or three styles that look best on us, and these help complement the overall picture.

Trends come and go, such as the “hombre” look where people have dark roots and then some sort of lightening toward the ends. This came about somewhere around 2008 during the Great Economic Recession when people couldn’t afford to get their hair done as frequently so they decided to use the root situation to create a trendy look. A few movie stars did it; a lot of us did it.

When people of all walks of life come in to our place and begin to talk organically about things, that’s when I know, it’s time to Ask The Hair Guy.com.

This trend birthed things like the “balayage” technique where they paint a few pieces of lighter color into the dark roots to diffuse the look. Now they’ve begun introducing highlights to diffuse it even more along with the painting and other technique combinations – which are tending to go back to the more classic look.

Classic looks never go out of style. Whichever side of the coin you might fall on is up to you, but both are purposeful decisions.

One never goes out of style and looks best on you forever while the others are what embarrassing pictures of you in high school are made of.

Hope you found this helpful. Send your questions to askthehairguy.com and catch the Ask the Hair Guy Minute on Rhett Palmer’s NEW Vero’s Voice Radio every Monday at 9:30 am and repeating every four hours throughout the day. Available through the iPhone and Android apps, streaming 24/7 on rhettpalmer.com and verosvoice.com, and “Alexa, open Vero’s Voice!”

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TRAVELS

Books That Inspire

BY S T E V E N

by Steven Eidelberg

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ast month I focused on some of the movies that have inspired travel, and this month the focus will be on books. Books are often more of an inspiration to me than movies when written by authors who know how to describe a sense of place. A good travel book tells you where to go; a great travel book lets you imagine you are there!

Top: Aiguines Castle, Provence, France Center: The Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, Paris, France Bottom: New Orleans, USA

A Year in Provence – The first in a series of entertaining, funny and fast reads by Peter Mayle. His books take you through the trials and tribulations of moving to Provence, France, and then once settled, of the gastronomic wonders and quirkiness of this wonderful area of the world. From truffle hunting to frogs’ legs festivals and of course wine, these books made me fall in love with Provence and southern France before I ever set foot there. Leave Paris behind, and discover the area’s wonders.

A Movable Feast – Speaking of Paris, my desire to travel to the City of Lights began once I read this fantastic Ernest Hemingway memoir. Centered around his friends and acquaintances who frequented the now-gone original bookstore Shakespeare & Co., the author’s expert prose makes you want to travel to a Paris where glimpses of that fascinating period between the wars existed (a second Shakespeare & Co. became a bohemian hangout in the 50’s and is still there).

A Confederacy of Dunces – Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Kennedy Toole which takes place in New Orleans.

It focuses on odd characters which are lovable at times and despicable at times, but paint the true color of the city. Having lived there and returned numerous times (read an article I wrote in an earlier issue), the way to truly know the city is to get into the mind of the residents, and this hilarious romp through the French Quarter will do that.

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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA

On the Road – A classic by Jack Kerouac, this novel defined the “Beat” generation. While I was just born when beatniks were fading out and hippies were fading in, my love of Greenwich Village as a teenager in New York City began with this novel and developed to my passion for road trips to this day. Criss-crossing the country to San Francisco and down to Mexico City with stops in Denver and elsewhere, Kerouac illuminates an interesting slice of American life during this most interesting time post-war.

At my birthday dinner with Geisha.

Castle ruins in Surry, England

Red Torii gates in Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan

Memoirs of a Geisha – a novel by Arthur Golden so compelling it draws the reader in from the very beginning and gives interesting insight into the mostly misunderstood life of a Geisha. When in Tokyo a few years ago, I made a point to take the bullet train to Kyoto, stayed in a traditional Ryokan, and with my friends had a celebratory birthday evening entertained by a Geisha which I will never forget. A must-read for those interested in a trip to Japan, taking the reader from post-war until modern day.

A Room with a View – E.M. Foster’s classic novel takes place between the magical city of Florence, Italy and Surrey, my favorite area of Southern England. It’s an insight into how far we have come as a society with our mores and values, taking place at the turn of the century. The plot twists and turns and is interwoven with wonderful descriptions of the area surrounding the chaos. Definitely a novel for those who love travel as a way to head back in time. Each visit to Florence and Tuscany as well as to Surrey, only an hour or so from London, transports me to a time gone by because of this book…and that is the definition of a truly great romantic novel.

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hese suggestions will give you a taste of what inspired my passion for travel to these wonderful places. I always find it fascinating to visit somewhere for the first time, yet have a feeling of “déjà vu” simply because I have immersed myself in a novel or memoir having taken place in the same destination. Hopefully this short reading list will inspire you as well. Enjoy!

Steve Eidelberg is the owner of Cousu Main Travel, an affiliate of Cruise Brothers Travel 401-369-8477 seidelberg@cruisebrothers.com, cousumaintravel@gmail.com

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very time I drift towards canceling HBO, I find yet another original series that is fantastic. Rarely do you see a show like this that has so much ambition in what it’s trying to accomplish, and more rarely do you see it succeed like this in its attempt in doing so.

Let me introduce you to The Wire, the best TV show put on the small screen. The show that will, after you’ve finished it, leave you empty inside because you’ll never find another TV show that can rival it. With its five seasons, The Wire raised the bar of quality for TV shows, the bar that no TV show to date has managed to reach.

The story is set in the city of Baltimore.

It’s about its slow fall: the pointlessness of the war on drugs, the bureaucracy and corruption that infest both the police force and drug-dealing gangs, class war against the labor unions, and the city’s dysfunctional public schools system. It’s all shown through the perspective of law enforcement and drug dealers.

As the story goes, you’ll encounter well-thought-out plot twists. You’ll see a lot of characters die because, as creator/ writer David Simon said: “We are not selling hope, or audience gratification, or cheap victories with this show. The Wire is making an argument about what institutions—bureaucracies, criminal enterprises, the cultures of addiction, raw capitalism even—do to individuals. It is not designed purely as an entertainment. It is, I’m afraid, a somewhat angry show.”

And that makes the show so great, because deaths have meanings and consequences and aren’t just there for the shock factor like in Game of Thrones. It also helps that Simons knows what he’s talking about since he wrote for the Baltimore Sun and saw a lot of things on the streets that are portrayed in the show.

One of the things I really love about The Wire is that the characters aren’t all good or all bad; they’re gray when it comes to their morality. Simon challenges the viewer to like characters. Characters will do bad things, but you’ll probably agree on a lot of them given the situation they’re in.

The writing is just great. The Wire has a web of characters and the show spins them well. From McNulty to Stringer Bell, there are complex and well-written characters.

But there are also some weaker ones, which is to be expected, because the show has more than 100 characters and you can’t expect that they’ll all be up to the same level of complexity. There is no plot armor in this show. A lot of characters will die and, as I’ve already said, their deaths have consequences and aren’t just meant to be a shock factor.

The acting team consists of familiar HBO actors and real cops and criminals, and they all did a pretty damn good job. Some are weaker, and that is most notable during Seasons 1 and 5, but weak actors aren’t that usual in the show so don’t worry. I’d say the best actor is easily Dominic West as McNulty, who stole the show for me – but since I’m biased towards McNulty, don’t take my word for it.

n the end, The Wire did what little to no TV show could hope to do: it succeeded with its extremely ambitious, and I’d say almost impossible mission to tell a story of Baltimore’s crumble. The social commentary, the writing of the characters, the well-thought-out plot twists, great directing, and David Simon’s expertise on the case made The Wire one of the best television shows ever seen on small screens.

Enjoy the ride while it lasts because once it ends, you’ll be left with an empty hole within yourself, because they’ll never be a TV show that could rival The Wire.

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I can never find enough ways to enjoy blueberries! This recipe makes a 2-layer 8-inch lemon cake with juicy blueberries topped with a delicious fluffy cream cheese frosting.

INGREDIENTS For the cake: 2 1/4 cups cake flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 cups low-fat buttermilk 4 large egg whites 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature 1/2 teaspoon pure lemon extract 1 1/2 cups blueberries (if frozen do not thaw) 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour (for the blueberries) For the frosting: 8 ounces full-fat cream cheese, softened 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 3 cups powdered sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon lemon zest 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Pinch salt

DIRECTIONS • Cake: Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 8-inch cake pans, line with parchment paper, then grease the parchment paper.

• Sift together cake flour, baking powder, and salt. In a large measuring cup, whisk together the buttermilk and egg whites.

• In your mixer bowl, place the sugar and lemon zest. Rub them together with your fingers until the sugar is moist. Add the butter and beat on medium speed for 3 full minutes, until very light and fluffy. Beat in the lemon extract.

• Keeping your mixer on medium speed, add one-third of the flour mixture, then half of the egg/buttermilk mixture and beat until combined. Add the next third of the dry ingredients, then the remaining eggs/ buttermilk. Beat until the batter is smooth.

Add the remaining dry ingredients. Beat for 2 minutes more on medium speed.

• Toss blueberries with 1 tablespoon flour.

Gently fold into the batter.

• Spoon batter evenly into cake pans and bake 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool completely.

• Frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter together on medium speed until smooth, 3 minutes. With mixer on low, add powdered sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla extract, and salt. Increase to high speed and beat for 3 minutes more. (If frosting is too soft and you don’t want to add sweetness, use 1 tablespoon cornstarch.)

• Frost cake. Garnish with blueberries and lemon slice if desired. Refrigerate.

• Serve the cake as close to room temperature as possible.

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TECH INSIGHTS

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oom meetings are here to stay, yet many meetings I’m on indicate to me that people still do not yet understand that they are on video. That means we can see you and all you do or don’t do during a meeting. The other day I was on a call and one of the people in the meeting started changing their clothes. Literally took their shirt off and were about to start changing their pants when the moderator of the meeting killed the video from their camera. They were not responding to “Hey, we can see you!”

That is an extreme example, but I have many more: kids screaming in the background, spouses walking in and out of camera, cats parading across desks, and my favorite, walking around with your camera on as you move to a different location – or worse, into the bathroom with video and audio on. All of this says to me that it’s time to provide some simple tricks to have the Zoom experience, whether for a meeting or a Zoom birthday, be more effective and enjoyable for everyone.

First, pick a place where you will hold Zoom meetings that has good lighting and is in a quieter location. If your home office or workspace that has been turned into an office is not ideal, there are things you can do to make it better. Lights over or behind your camera help to even out lighting. Cover windows that are behind your head to prevent your face being too dark and people being unable to see your features. Remove cluttering objects or artwork that might distract a viewer from looking at you. Place your microphone near your mouth to improve sound quality. There is nothing worse (other than the bathroom zoom) than not being able to hear someone.

Second, if there are a lot of people in your home that just cannot be quiet while you are on Zoom, consider getting a headset with a boom microphone that positions in front of your mouth. Using one will help eliminate external sounds that you don’t want on your call. It is also helpful when you have a room with a lot of hard surfaces that cause echo. Here in Florida we have lots of tile floors and wood furniture.

Those hard surfaces cause sound to bounce off them. Quick tip if you do not want to use a headset/microphone combo: place a rug on your floor and fabric on your table. If need be, hang a tapestry on your walls or purchase self-stick acoustic tiles for your walls and ceiling.

And last but by no means least, position your camera so that it is eye level. If you are using an iPad or smartphone, this may mean buying a case or tripod mount that lets you position the device off your desk or table. If using a laptop, you can use books to raise the laptop off the table to position it at eye level. I would say use phone books but no one has those anymore! If you use a computer and separate monitor with a USB webcam, you can raise or lower the monitor the same way with books or a piece of wood or buy a special mount. hy is camera placement so critical? No one likes looking up your nostrils if you have the camera too low, or your forehead if the camera is pointing downward.

These are just a few ideas to help you and the other people on your Zoom meeting have the best experience possible. Most of all remember, if you are going to change your clothes, go to the bathroom, or talk to someone else in the room, use the Mute audio button and the Stop video button – they’re there for a reason!

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Laura Steward is a certified geek, business strategist, international speaker, award-winning author and beach lover.

She lives in Sebastian, FL and can be reached at Laura@LauraSteward.com or via phone at 772-202-2138.

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by Beth Walsh Stewart

Good Night, Sleep Tight

Quality self-care is all about the basics. Clean air, quality food, regular elimination, and enough sleep will keep us in fighting condition. With the onslaught of new worries and anxieties this year, many weren’t capable of ensuring these crucial components of good living.

Insomnia set in as we struggled with the emotional roller coaster known as 2020.

When the mind is active, it is difficult to sleep. Stress burdens the already busy brain by engaging thoughts of fancy. We imagine possible future catastrophes as we swim in the ones we are dealing with today. While dealing with job loss, lay-off, unmet financial commitments, and future uncertainties, the tendency to worry once the house is quiet is common. So, what strategies can we employ to minimize this tendency?

Insomnia often he year 2020 will go down in history as one comes from chaos in of the most tumultuous of all time. Pandemic, the mind. Because violence in our streets, political mudslinging, of that, structure storms out of season, and personal and and schedule play governmental upheaval in finances are some an important role in of the earmarks that will be remembered. fighting the late-night New terms, like social distancing, were wandering brain. coined and enforced. Masks became a statement of This is especially compliance or rebellion. Speculations and theories were true if your workload plausible in the most fantastic ways, and travel became a has been cut back treacherous proposal. or discontinued in Stress. It surrounded each one even when standing response to the pansix feet away from another. Fear. It found a new thread of demic. Set a timeattack with each statistic reported. Financial insecurity. It table for your days rocked the core of our hardworking citizens as they fought and stick to it. This to make it through the threat without losing everything. will help at the end of the day. Crossing Then, sleep evaded us. While we were worried about our things off a to-do list makes a frenzied health, we tossed and turned. While we fought for the basic mind find closure. Falling into bed after necessities to maintain households, we counted sheep into accomplishing assigned items can lead to the thousands. Fearing for our immune systems, we weak- better sleep. ened them because our minds were full to overflow, and COVID-19 has caused some isolation, when the house got quiet those thoughts went on parade. but it doesn’t have to cause inaction. A

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brisk walk, a swim on a hot day, reorganizing the garage or a closet can be the ticket to keeping it moving. Avoid naps during the day, too. Save any shuteye for overnight success.

Medications can interrupt good sleep as well. Let go of that morning coffee and limit your alcohol intake if sleep is your nemesis. Nicotine can also disrupt body chemistry and cause unrest. Ask your doctor if there is anything in your health routine that should be changed. If you have pain from arthritis or trauma, this is a topic of discussion with your physician that must be addressed. Sometimes sleep is disrupted because of treatable states.

Finally, watch what you eat and drink within three hours of going to bed. Digestion is a physical mechanism that demands its own responses. Don’t start the machinery before you shut down the factory. Time your meals and beverages responsibly, even if that’s never been a problem for you before. This crazy calendar year has brought with it pressure and stress unlike any other time in your life. What used to be okay may be a stumbling block to dreamland now.

Insomnia can be a consequence of life’s ups and downs. If your body is letting you know you’re on overload, take precautions to alleviate distress. This season will pass, but until it does, take good care and sleep well.

“While dealing with job loss, lay-off, unmet financial commitments, and future uncertainties, the tendency to worry once the house is quiet is common.”

Beth Walsh Stewart is Cofounder of BethWe, a nonprofit dedicated to rescuing the stragglers lost in the shadows of the road of life.

Best-known for her weekly blogs, regular articles in Vero’s Voice, and workshops aimed to help people live their priorities, Beth is a Biblical Counselor and Professor at New Covenant Bible College in Vero Beach, FL. You can find more of her work at BethWe.com.

Beth Walsh Stewart

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If I Were the Devil

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n 1965 Paul Harvey wrote about America’s decay. Fifty years later, almost everything he said has, in some way or other, come about in our day. The devil is very active in the affairs of men.

Make no mistake about it. “Like a roaring lion,” St. Peter says, “the devil prowls about…seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8.

The following is a cautionary tale that is worth heeding in our day:

good is square. And the old, I’d teach to pray after me: “Our Father, who art in Washington.”

And then, I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and If I were the Devil; if I were the prince of darkness, nations at war with themselves, until each in its turn I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness, and I’d was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings, I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its pop- have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. ulation, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the If I were the devil, I’d encourage schools to refine ripest apple on the tree: Thee. So I’d set about, however young intellects but neglect to discipline emotions-just necessary, to take over the United States. let those run wild, until before you know it you’d have I’d subvert the churches first. I’d begin a campaign to have drug-sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I’d whisper schoolhouse door. to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” To the Within a decade, I’d have prisons overflowing. I’d young I’d whisper that the Bible is a myth. I’d convince have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict them that man created God instead of the other way God from the courthouse and then from the schoolaround. I’d confide that what is bad is good, and what is house, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches, I’d substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I’d lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls and church money.

If I was the devil, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I’d take from those who have and I’d give to those who wanted until I had killed all incentive to earn on your own. And what will you bet I couldn’t get whole States to promote gambling as the way to get rich. I would caution against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be.

Thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure.

In other words, if I were the devil, I’d just keep right on doing what he is doing.

Radio Broadcaster Paul Harvey

Editor’s note: Paul Harvey featured this many times over the course of his career and updated it over the years. This is a later version, courtesy of Father Duffy’s Blog. Check out the YouTube video with the original recording of Paul Harvey speaking in 1965.

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Peace

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Every one of us has a great desire to have peace. The dictionary defines peace as “freedom from disturbance.” I think we all have a desire to not have any disturbances and live a life free from stress.

The peace that comes from God gives you an assurance that no matter what, everything will be okay, and that no matter what, God will get you through it! I have been amazed in my life how I can be in the midst of a crisis, and pray, and this The real difficult thing to deal with is unbelievable supernatural peace, totally having peace when we are in the middle abnormal, comes over me when God’s of a storm. Can you imagine having peace peace shows up and floods my soul. when you are going through a financial crisis, or while struggling with one of The Bible teaches us that peace is a result your kids, or when you lose a loved one? of the kingdom of God. That explains why Well … this is the peace that the Bible Jesus said, “Seek first the kingdom of God promises us. and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you.”

The peace the Bible promises us and the peace that the world offers us are two dif- We need to know God and have a relationferent things. We normally only get peace ship with Him. If we do this and we seek in the world when things change and get Him, we will see the hand of God in every better, whereas the peace that God gives situation. I’m not saying as Christians we us comes even when we are in the middle don’t have problems and crises; we most of a storm. definitely do, but we can have peace during these crises. So go ahead, seek the Lord Jesus said… Peace I leave with you, and you will be amazed to find this wonderMy peace I give to you; not as the world ful peace that surpasses understanding. gives, I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Peace be with you.

John 14:27 (NKJV)

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 14:27 (NKJV)

saiah 46:5-11 tells us that man-made idols cannot help us.

No matter if they are made of gold or silver, they are powerless.

God is uniquely Himself.

There is no one else like Him. He knows the end from the beginning. He knows it all.

What He has spoken, will happen. What He said, will occur.

He knows the past, present and future.

Jesus is the “Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” Rev. 1:8; 22:13 That’s great news. Nothing takes Him by surprise. He’s never confused or ignorant.

Therefore, we can trust Him with everything and everyone.

He’s the only “know-it-all.”

Put your past, present and future in His Hands. He is in control.

Jesus can be trusted with your life and every situation in life.

God bless you and keep you, Pastor Rich

Pastor Rich Ienuso

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