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16 FIGHTING LONGER THAN THE UNITED STATES Y’KHIEM AYUN’s Vietnam War lasted from 1967 until 1991. He fought four times as long as any U.S.-born veteran was in the field, and over twice as long as the country in which he now lives and is becoming a citizen of was officially involved.

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MISSION PIZZA NAPOLETANA will go down (so far) as the fastest-selling Chef’s Table ever, selling out in less than five hours. We may have not expected such a fast sell-out for a Neapolitan-style pizza place known for more than just its pizza, but we did expect every bit of excitement that came with the announcement that Peyton Smith, a self-taught, self-proclaimed “pizza maker-in-chief” would be the featured chef of the February dinner.

10 Crystal Eadie Miller and her son Miles Eadie are bringing their art together for an EXHIBITION from March 1-3 at the Sternberger Artists Center, located at 712 Summit Ave. in Greensboro.

11 Since opening in 2010, A/perture Cinema in Winston-Salem has hosted an annual “RED CARPET PARTY,” which just so happens to coincide with the annual Academy Awards broadcast.

12 Produced by James Cameron and directed by Robert Rodriguez, ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL is a visually ugly and unseemly movie — and that’s meant as the highest compliment possible.

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On Feb. 17 I attended the play “THE TAMING OF THE SHREW” at the Paul Robeson Theatre on the campus of NC A&T State University.

18 “Venezuela says plane from Miami delivered WEAPONS for use by enemies of Maduro,” a Feb. 7 McClatchy D.C. Bureau article by Tim Johnson, identified the aircraft as a Boeing 767 owned by the GREENSBOROBASED CORPORATION 21 AIR LLC. 19 Victoria Woodhull tried to do it. So did Belva Lockwood and many others. In fact, 34 women have run for PRESIDENT, representing a total of 17 different political parties, and while all of them tried, none were able to break the glass ceiling that has kept women out of the Oval Office for the past 230 years.

All that may change next year.

20 The love parents have for their child protects, nurtures, sacrifices, and gives room for the child to become who they dream or aspire to be. For Marsha Hierl, this kind of love is what moved her to help start a new THEATRE COMPANY, and now Winston-Salem is reaping the benefits.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FEBRUARY 28 FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF CHARLOTTE AVENUE (S.R. 1009) FROM SEYMOUR STREET TO N.C. 200 (DICKERSON BOULEVARD) AND WIDENING OF N.C. 200 FROM CHARLOTTE AVENUE TO GOLDMINE ROAD IN UNION COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-6031 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of Charlotte Avenue (S.R. 1009) from Seymour Street to N.C. 200 (Dickerson Boulevard) and the widening of N.C. 200 from Charlotte Avenue to Goldmine Road in Union County.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, February 28 from 4-7 p.m. at Union Baptist Association located at 1744 Williams Road in Monroe. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to feedback regarding the project. The opportunity to submit comments will be provided at the meeting or may be done via phone, email, or mail by March 14. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/Pages/.

For additional information, please contact Travis Preslar, NCDOT Highway Division 10 Project Manager, at 12033 East Independence Boulevard, Suite H, Matthews, N.C. 28105 or (980) 262-6290 or TJpreslar@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or (919) 707-6072 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. www.YEswEEklY.com

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EVENTS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS | BY AUSTIN KINDLEY

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LEVENELEVEN FIRST ANNIVERSARY PARTY

WHAT: Corey Smith, the fan-made man, has sold over 1 million concert tickets, 1.5 million digital singles and over 220,000 albums. Smith has amassed an unfailingly devout fan base, not only in his native Southeast region, but all around the nation, simply by telling it the way it is. He has released 10 albums—including 2011’s Top 20 release The Broken Record.

WHEN: 7-10 p.m.

WHERE: The Ramkat.

170 W 9th St, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $20-50 tickets.

WHAT: Formed in Athens, GA in 2012, JGBCB has been filling a hole in the Grateful Dead scene by offering up spirited covers of classic songs pulled exclusively from the repertoire of the Jerry Garcia Band, Garcia’s long-running side-project. JGBCB has played shows from Key West to Colorado, exciting audiences with performances of beloved Garcia tunes.

WHEN: 8-10:30 p.m.

WHERE: Muddy Creek Cafe & Music Hall Bethania. 5455 Bethania Rd, Winston-Salem.

MORE: $10 tickets.

WHAT: Celebrate our 1st year with our 1st bottle release, live music and a food truck.

WHEN: 12 p.m. - 11:59 p.m.

WHERE: Leveneleven Brewing.

1111 Coliseum Blvd, Greensboro.

MORE: Free entry.

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SAT 23 WINTER JAM 2019 WHAT: Winter Jam’s 2019 blockbuster lineup continues with one of the most popular groups in Christian music history, Newsboys United; “American Idol” finalist Danny Gokey; hitmaker Mandisa; Northern Ireland’s “Count Every Blessing” worshippers Rend Collective; Skillet drummer LEDGER; tour creators and hosts NewSong; and Gotee recording artist Hollyn.

WHEN: 6 -10 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

1921 W Gate City Blvd, Greensboro.

MORE: $15 admission.

SAT 23 THE CASTLE PRESENTS: MARDI GRAS 2019 WHAT: Join us for a Night full of sizzling entertainment and enticing costumes at the 17th annual Mardi Gras Masquerade! Bring your bare as you dare attitude and prepare to mix, mingle, see, and be seen. Roam the grounds of Castle McCulloch, an almost, 200 year old Castle while indulging in live music, fire performances, amazing DJs and other fantastical entertainment.

WHEN: x p.m.

WHERE: Blank Center, 123 Oak Street, Winston-Salem MORE: Must be 21+ to enter.

Masks required. $24-79 tickets.

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*Editor’s note: For her safety, Treasure Club’s manager requested that she be referred to in this article by the name that is known to Treasure Club guests.

The Treasure Club is an “award-winning gentlemen’s club and sports bar” located at 7806 Boeing Dr. in Greensboro.

“We are not a strip club, we are a gentlemen’s club with an entertainment venue with proof of our Sports, UFC, gaming, and incredibly beautiful women,” wrote Treasure Club’s manager Lexi in an email.

Lexi wrote that The Treasure Club chain began in Asheville in 2008 and continued to grow to locations in Greensboro, Hickory and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Lexi wrote that Treasure Club’s focus was to bring “back hospitality in gentlemen clubs.”

“With the first Treasure Club being a success, a demand was being sought for hospitality-driven entertainment.

Because of the hospitality model, Treasure Club has been nominated and won numerous awards and still hold the best reviews by the people,” she wrote.

“The club’s philosophy is slow and steady expansion and providing the best guest experience possible.”

Lexi wrote that Treasure Club is known for the various styles of lap dances offered and its “Exotic Limo Ride.” Lexi wrote that Treasure Club offers singles and couples “the ultimate night out,” with “the most beautiful entertainers and jaw-dropping pole performances.”

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the club is the Treasure Club Game Room, a private room for those interested in anything from Fortnite to Madden and other popular Xbox and PlayStation 4 games.

“We offer great perks, including topof-the-line surround sound headphones, game accessories, comfortable gaming chairs, and more,” Lexi wrote. “Another option for the game room is a request for entertainer(s). We’ve even gone so far, as to promote advanced reservations for requested anime/cosplay dress-up, which our ladies are extremely excited about!”

Lexi wrote that Treasure Club stands out from other similar clubs in the area because “we actually listen to what people want.” She wrote that Treasure Club staff take reviews and requests from visitors and build on them to “provide a better guest experience.”

“The art of sensuality mixed with stage performance is never lost here. Plain and simple, we actually care about our guests and employees,” she wrote.

Lexi wrote that her favorite part of Treasure Club is the happy work environment.

“We attract the best of all kinds here including our guests. Everyone here is so nice and easy to get along with. It’s easy to say; I love my job.”

Lexi wrote that the club will continue to expand throughout the Southeast and will have more locations to come. The Treasure Club is open Monday-Thursday from 11:30 a.m. until 2 a.m., on Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. and on the weekend from 6:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. For more information, visit the website or Treasure Club’s social media pages. !

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A Chef’s Table at Mission Pizza Napoletana

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ission Pizza Napoletana will go down (so far) as the fastest-selling Chef’s Table ever, selling out in less than five hours. We may have not expected such Kristi Maier a fast sell-out for @triadfoodies a Neapolitan-style pizza place known for more than just Contributor its pizza, but we did expect every bit of excitement that came with the announcement that Peyton Smith, a self-taught, self-proclaimed “pizza maker-in-chief” would be the featured chef of the February dinner.

We featured Smith, a Winston-Salem native and Wake Forest grad, in an indepth Triad Foodies articles in the Nov. 7, 2018, issue of YES! Weekly. We highly recommend you read it. Smith explained, at that time, his “a-ha moment” while enjoying Neapolitan-style pizza on the streets of Naples, Italy. And when we say he’s self-taught, know this: Smith, who has worked in just about every capacity there is in the restaurant business, from serving to washing dishes to culinary staff, literally Googled his way to “pizza geek” status, researching his heart out, along with a good bit of hands-on experience, with the hopes of one day opening a Neapolitan-style pizza restaurant. The market crash of the early 2000s made for an uncertain future for a start-up restaurant, so Smith opened Forno Moto, his pizza food “trailer.” It literally was “trial by food truck.” Little did folks know that they were getting their delicious pizza from a man who was admittedly learning “on the job.” He was great at it then and his expertise a few short years later with MPN has made him a trusted and respected peer among those legacy pizza makers who have generations of experience to add to their name.

One thing I’ve always appreciated about Peyton Smith is his unabashed ability to tell it like it is. From his quippy responses to Yelp reviews (some that have taken on a life of their own) to his fine grasp of the English language, he’s an entrepreneur who wears his heart on his sleeve when it comes to his business and loving what he does. Very seldom at any of our Chef’s Tables, has the chef kneeled down next YES! WEEKLY

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Course One Citrus Salad with Radicchio, Clementine, Marinated Anchovy, Dressed in Batistini Farms Olive Oil and Siano Whey “The idea was a riff on a staple citrus salad, incorporating Italian chicory, sweet/ ripe citrus, and funking it up a bit with anchovy,” Smith said. “Simple, clean flavor.”

The whey was used with the olive oil as the dressing for the salad.

Course Two Rigatoni all’Amatriciana with Guanciale, Pancetta, Soppressata, Pecorino, Basil “One of the classic Roman pasta sauces,” Smith said. “It uses a lot of guanciale and a lot of Pecorino Romano, balanced with just enough tomato in the sauce. This dish is all about deep savory flavor and mouthfeel. It should feel rich and unctuous in the mouth. The character of the sauce and a well-cooked al dente pasta makes for a dish that feels good to eat. If your lips aren’t coated in pork fat upon finishing the dish, we got it wrong.”

Course Three Pork Belly Burnt End over Polenta with Chimichurri and Braising Jus “The idea was to take a humble, oftused Italian cut of pork and do it North

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Course Four Pizza Marinara with Garlic and Oregano Peyton Smith’s favorite pizza on the menu because it’s the quintessential Neapolitan-style pizza in its simplest form.

“Simply the best pizza in the world,” Smith said. “Simple, clean, nothing to hide behind. It requires a perfectly baked pizza and allows the bread to shine while complemented by bright, sweet tomato, just enough garlic for flavor and interest, and a lot of herbs is how I like it. A showcase on how different pizzas require different baking, even if you only have 70-90 seconds to do it,” he added. “Lacking the dairy sweetness of Fior di Latte cheese, the Pizza Marinara requires a bit harder bake on the Cornicione--or crust-in order to bring out more nutty flavor and sweet aroma of a well-caramelized crust, rounding out the pizza against a bright tomato. However, the bottom crust, in order

to retain the desired character, must be baked softer than a pizza with more toppings. This is a great vehicle to showcase the skill and intent of the pizza maker.”

Course Five Zeppole “Simple, perfect 3-bite dessert,” Smith said. “Ours contain a lot of egg, and we like to fry them to a deep, dark, golden brown. The result is a crispy, rich exterior and an eggy, custard-like interior. Combined with powdered sugar and an almost burnt caramel, the flavor overall is balanced sweet vs. savory, rather than simply a sugar bomb like many desserts.” This dessert is standard fare on MPN’s menu.

I think guests of the Chef’s Table left with a new-found appreciation of Smith and his culinary team’s ability to “bring it” and he certainly proved that even though Neapolitan-style pizza is what MPN is known for, the restaurant is really an Osteria, “a full-service tavern that happens to be pizza-centric,” in Smith’s own words.

By all means, get a pizza when you’re here. But do yourself a favor and experiment with some other dishes as well. Your taste buds will thank you. !

KRISTI MAIER is a food writer, blogger and cheerleader for all things local who even enjoys cooking in her kitchen, though her kidlets seldom appreciate her efforts.

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Mother and son present art together at Sternberger Artists Center

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rystal Eadie Miller and her son Miles Eadie are bringing their art together for an exhibition from March 1-3 at the Sternberger Artists Terry Rader Center, located at 712 Summit Ave. in Greensboro.

Contributor Miller began painting in 2010 and became more of a full-time artist in 2012. She had her first showing at Honeycomb Restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, and a week later, her art was featured at Domain Interiors. Miller has been a faux-decorative finisher by trade for over 17 years and has studied in Denver, St. Louis, Charlotte, Atlanta and Chicago. She has worked with interior designers in re-creating single spaces to entire houses. She said she moved to South Carolina in 2008 during downtime in her Triad business, Newlook Finishes, along with her need to be more creative. Miller has been back in Greensboro for three years, but her studio house has been turned into an Airbnb, now that she paints full-time in her studio at Sternberger Artists Center.

When Miller was first commissioned to do a faux painting canvas for someone, she said she brought the canvas home and didn’t know what she was going to do with it, but her need for money motivated her. Miller paints with acrylic and other mixed mediums. Gold, silver and

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(photos of her art stretched on 1 ½-inch canvas bars and sometimes artistenhanced to add authenticity and color).

She credits “her giclée guy,” Kent Porth of Columbia, South Carolina for “making her art look good.”

“I continue to push myself in painting,” Miller said. “It is an ever-growing process. Just when you think you’re there, you learn that you’re not. I keep going.

People are very attracted to my son, Miles Eadie’s paintings. He takes his time and baby-sits his pieces til he gets them just right. He has a unique pour-on method and he attracts a young audience.”

Eadie began painting in 2014 and he attributes his start to his mom. Eadie is also a musician who plays guitar, Business Analysts, IT Client Support in High Point, NC (multiple openings): Supports the keyboards, drums. Four information systems component of the comyears ago, he was writpany’s business; performs IT service manageing progressive rock and ment processes; fosters and maintains ongometal music when he got ing client relationships; configures systems; tendinitis in both hands writes specifications for new development and couldn’t play music and system enhancements; and performs and coordinates quality assurance testing; for a while. It was during while taking direction from senior IT analysts this hiatus that he saw and managers. Up to 25% travel within U.S. one of his mom’s blank Requires: (1) Masters + 3 yrs. exp. OR (2) Bachcanvases and decided to elors + 5 yrs. exp. Please mail resume with try painting just for fun. cover letter to: XPO Logistics Supply Chain After a week of playing Corporate Services, Inc., 13777 Ballantyne Corporate Pl., 4th Floor, Charlotte, NC 28277, Attn: around, he covered an enRecruiting, Refer to job code 2018-09-0283. tire canvas with paint and

copper metal leaves are added to every painting as her signature style and then sealed with shellac after layering in composition. She said she likes to paint over some of the metallic foil leaving some exposed to shine through and attributes her skills with metal leaf application to taking gilding (the process of applying metal leaf) and furniture making classes.

Most of her abstract expression paintings are large-scale from 30-inch by 40-inches and 36-inch by 48-inches to 48-inch by 48-inches.

Miller said one of her strengths is in her professionally photographed pieces that are enlarged as prints and giclées

said, “it was pretty cool to me, it rocked my world.”

Eadie’s medium is acrylic paint and he said he always uses the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. After his first three months of painting, he began incorporating black and white into his pieces.

The average size of his paintings are 36-inch by 48-inches with a few bigger pieces, but he said he mostly does a lot of 16-inch by 20-inches that he considers his specialty size. For now, Eadie is working part-time as a delivery driver, but his goals are to continue with his art and to eventually make a living selling his paintings.

“I am extremely passionate about this art,” Eadie said. “It is almost too much for me to look at the work some days. As I am progressing to get better at it, I do things I have never done and I never repeat myself, so each piece is different.”

Regarding his mom, he said he is very excited about doing a combined show of their work.

“We just love to paint and we love each other,” he said. “We share that common artistic trait in our brains and we are both determined and feisty in our work.”

Miller said that while there will be specially-priced paintings at the show, she knows that unless someone really loves a painting, they are not going to buy it and take it home.

“One of the most exciting things as an artist for me is in bringing a piece to completion, there is such a satisfaction in that and then again when someone wants to invest in my art,” she said. !

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Celebrating Hollywood’s best at A/perture Cinema Since opening in 2010, A/perture Cinema in WinstonSalem has hosted an annual “Red Carpet Party,” which just so happens to coincide with the annual Academy Awards broadcast. The Mark Burger event has proved so popular that, after A/perture transiContributor tioned to nonprofit status in 2017, it was redesigned to become its signature fund-raising event for the year.

“The 2019 Red Carpet Annual Party” will be held Sunday, and promises to be the biggest – and tastiest – yet. Sue Wall and Ben Baker are the honorary chairs for this year’s event, and Harrison Littell, the executive chef of Five Loaves Catering in Winston-Salem, has mapped out a mouth-watering menu of dishes inspired by this year’s Best Picture nominees.

“One of the things I love about this event is the way we’ve been able to incorporate food into the mix,” said Lawren Desai, A/perture’s executive director and curator. “Chef Harrison Littell creates a unique menu item for each of the Best Picture nominees. He’s come up with some great concepts the past two years and, based on what I’ve seen for this year, it’s going to be the best menu yet based on the diversity of titles.”

Of course, the classy cuisine isn’t the only incentive to attend. DJ J. Mik will be spinning tunes from many of the nominated films throughout the evening, and there will be a silent auction featuring items from CopperTide, Sfeer & Co., The

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Given the variety of films nominated this year, including many independents, A/perture Cinema screened a significant number during the last year.

“We’ve screened 18 of the 37 nominated films and all of the short films this year, so there are a lot of films for us to cheer on, and many of those films – such as The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman, Isle of Dogs, RBG and Free Solo – were all hits for us in 2018,” she said. “I’m excited about the Best Documentary and Best Foreign-Language categories this year; 2018 was a great year for documentaries. RBG and Free Solo, which are both nominated (for Best Documentary Feature), broke into our 25 highest-grossing films ever, and it is fantastic to see a foreign film like Cold War not only get a Best Foreign-Language Film nomination but also ones for Best Director (Pawel Pawilowski) and Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zal).” !

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In addition, there will be bingo, a movie raffle, Oscar ballots, and attendees will be gifted with “SWAG bags” (“SWAG” standing for “Stuff We Always Get”), just like at the Academy Awards and other Hollywood events. Guests can mingle or settle down to watch the ceremony, and there’s bound to be a surprise or two along the way.

“We’ve been growing our audience for

the event over the past few years and have gotten pretty close to filling up our seats,” Desai said. “We try to make it a pretty festive, but laid-back, event all about celebrating film.”

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The “2019 Red Carpet Annual Party” will take place 6:30 pm Sunday at A/perture Cinema, 311 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem. Individual tickets are $100, a block of six tickets is $600, a block of eight tickets is $800, and student tickets are $45 each. For advance tickets or more information, call 336.722.8148 or visit http://www.aperturecinema.com/.

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roduced by James Cameron and directed by Robert Rodriguez, Alita: Battle Angel ( ) is a visually ugly and unseemly movie — and that’s meant as the highest compliment possible.

Adapted from Gunnm (aka Battle Angel Alita), a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro back in 1990, this expensive endeavor takes place in a post-apocalyptic future in which the masses toil in squalor, the one percent live in the cloud city of Zalem, and the most popular sport is a death-and-destruction game called Motorball (basically Rollerball, minus James Caan).

Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) is one of those scraping together a living on Earth, and he’s excited when he discovers the remains of a female cyborg in a junk heap.

Possessing a functional human brain, this cyborg is rebuilt and brought back to life

by Ido, who calls her Alita (Rosa Salazar).

That was actually the name of Ido’s murdered daughter, and this new christening annoys his ex-wife Chiren (Jennifer Connelly), who’s presently working alongside a corrupt businessman known as Vector (Mahershala Ali). It turns out almost everyone — Chiren, Vector, the mysterious Nova (an uncredited cameo by a threetime Oscar nominee), the murderous cyborgs Zapan (Ed Skrein) and Grewishka (Jackie Earle Haley) — wants a piece of Alita, and it’s all the poor girl can do to stay alive and intact. Luckily for her, it’s soon revealed that she’s not some docile

teenager but rather a fierce, ages-old warrior with uncanny fighting abilities.

As far as the world-building is concerned, Alita: Battle Angel isn’t as eye-popping as 2017’s Ghost in the Shell, another anime property that was transformed into a live-action offering. It also isn’t any more impressive than what was conjured for last December’s box office bomb Mortal Engines. Where the movie excels is in the design of its metallic characters. There’s something both unsettling and exciting in seeing human faces grafted onto otherwise all-hardware bodies, and it’s the only instance in which the film feels like it’s breaking any new ground.

Otherwise, there isn’t much in Alita: Battle Angel that warrants attention or excitement. Alita herself is an interest-

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ing creation, but Salazar is limited in her ability to breathe life into this CGI construction — since it’s a motion-capture performance, perhaps Andy Serkis should have been tapped to play the part (just kidding … kind of). Ido is also a potentially fascinating character — a scientist who doubles as a hunter-killer (aka a bounty hunter, not a Gerard Butler flop about a submarine) — but Waltz plays the part as too much Geppetto and not enough Dr. Frankenstein. Waltz has no problem piling on the twitchiness (Inglourious Basterds, Big Eyes), but here’s he’s too sweetnatured to be believable as a man who bludgeons fugitives in his spare time.

Narratively, Alita: Battle Angel is so focused on the sequels that (may or may not) lie ahead that it cobbles together too many story strands and then rushes through them anyway. This results in some lapses in logic (Alita doesn’t recognize anybody in that rigged Motorball game?) as well as a serious deficit in defining key characters. Connelly’s Chiren does a moral about-face that would scarcely be believable in an old episode of Highway to Heaven, let alone here. On top of all this clutter, there’s a romance between Alita and a pretty-boy street kid (bland Keean Johnson) that turns out to be particularly insipid.

The romance also skims over what should have been one of the defining themes of the film had it been directed at adults instead of young children: Alita’s sexual identity. Here’s a 300-year-old half-human, half-cyborg who’s modeled after a man’s dead daughter, who’s given breasts on her metallic child-like body, and who’s engaged in a relationship with a teenage boy. I daresay Freud, Kinsey and Dr. Ruth would all have had their hands full trying to sort this one out.

When it comes to a movie dealing with a multiverse or a parallel universe or an alternate universe or whatever the kids are calling it these days, Happy Death Day 2U ( ) unfortunately skewers closer to the lameness of The Cloverfield Paradox than the giddiness of SpiderMan: Into the Multi-Verse. It should also be noted that it frequently bolts away from the original Happy Death Day. In other words, this is one time when (with apologies to Herman’s Hermits and that jolly Henry VIII) the second verse — multi or otherwise — is not the same as the first.

Released in 2017, Happy Death Day added a Groundhog Day wrinkle to the traditional slasher flick and took that no-

tion about as far as it could go. The result was a fairly clever and fairly entertaining murder-mystery — and a standalone film that absolutely did not require a sequel.

But when your movie costs $5 million and grosses $55 million stateside and another $70 million worldwide … well, I think even the U.S. Constitution states that a followup must be made.

Happy Death Day 2U is only partly a repeat of the first film. The rest of the time, it feels more of a piece with Back to the Future Part II (actually referenced in this new movie), Real Genius, Weird Science, My Science Project, and other teen-centric sci-fi flicks from the hallowed 1980s. But the results are more grasping than ingenious, never disguising the fact that this new slant muddles rather than enhances the appeal of the initial premise.

Jessica Rothe returns as Tree, this time learning that her never-ending loop of a day — one in which she died over and over again, only breaking the cycle once she identified the killer — was the result of a science project conceived by Ryan (Phi Vu), the roommate of her boyfriend Carter (Israel Broussard). More mishaps result in an attempt to get the science project under control; instead, the inadvertent result is that Tree has to again relive that same nightmarish day over and over again — only this time in an alternate universe, and with a different murderer wielding the knife.

It plays out as desperately as it sounds, and it strips the original film of the raw power of its premise (Tree even states as much in this new movie). Worse, the murder-mystery angle is now completely obliterated in favor of the rote sci-fi shenanigans as well as a barren side drama involving Tree’s mother (Missy Yager).

Whereas the original offered up a number of suspects, this entry basically has one — and, yeah, that’s who it turns out to be.

On the plus side, Rothe is again terrific as Tree, and here’s hoping she starts landing more prominent movie roles (so far, she’s mainly been guesting on TV series and popping up in obscure indies).

On the negative side, Happy Death Day 2U ends with a setup for yet another installment, one that will doubtless head off in an even more nonsensical direction.

If Happy Death Day turned to the ‘90s (Groundhog Day) and Happy Death Day 2U borrowed from the ‘80s (Back to the Future Part II), then will Happy Death Day 3Peat lift from the ‘70s? And will Travis Bickle or Sheriff Buford T. Justice be making an appearance? !

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n Feb. 17 I attended the play “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Paul Robeson Theatre on the campus of NC A&T State University. The play is about the classic Shakespeare romantic comedy that explores the relationship between Petruchio and Katharina. The play confronts many of today’s issues in society concerning gender roles, with women taking on new roles and “not being tamed.”

After waiting in a brief line, I was seated inside the theatre, which was packed with an audience prepared to see the show. The show started promptly at 7:30 p.m. with an action-packed opening scene. The first thing that caught my attention was the elaborate details of the costumes, which are symbolic for the gender roles of the play’s main characters Katharina and Petruchio.

The modern spin of the production made this Shakespeare play very interesting to watch. Katharina, who was played by Jaylynn Pasley, and Petruchio, who was played by Ishmael Muhammad, were absolutely phenomenal. Their act-

ing style and sense of humor make the play exciting and worth watching.

The director Xulee-Vanecia J. is a graduate from NC A&T Theatre Program.

As an African American director, she has dealt with critics who doubted her talent and work. Critics once said that Shakespeare was too complicated for the black theatre. With this production, she has certainly silenced those critics.

Overall, I think that “The Taming of the Shrew” was excellent and is a must-see.

Unlike some other Shakespeare plays I have seen, this one was thrilling from beginning to the end. Katharina’s monologue in the final scene of the play was very moving, in my opinion. She confronts the main ideas of the play about her changes to conform to the roles and duties of a wife . I don’t think that Petruchio was successful in taming the shrew, but go see for yourself! The show runs from Thursday, Feb. 21 beginning at 7:30 p.m. to Sunday, Feb. 24 beginning at 3 p.m. The cost for adults is $17, for senior citizens and non-A&T students are $11, children 12 and under is $6, and A&T students are free with their Aggie One card. For tickets, call (336) 334-7749 or visit www.ncataggies.com !

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In Mumbai, India, 27-year-old Raphael Samuel, an apparent follower of antinatalism, is suing his parents (both attorneys) for giving him life. Samuel says he was conceived Chuck Shepherd without his consent, so his parents should pay him for his life. “I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure,” Samuel explained to The Print.

“My life has been amazing, but I don’t see why I should put another life through the rigmarole of school and finding a career, especially when they didn’t ask to exist. ...

Other Indian people must know that it is an option not to have children, and to ask your parents for an explanation as to why they gave birth to you.”

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Pavlos Polakis, Greece’s deputy health minister, did not take kindly to a recent reprimand from European Union Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who

admonished Polakis for smoking in public. Andriukaitis was in Athens Feb. 4 to mark World Cancer Day, reported Reuters.

He also complained that the health ministry smelled of cigarette smoke and that nobody wears ties. Polakis replied in a Facebook post about the casual dress: “That’s a lie ... the security guard at the entrance wore one. I don’t. It’s the suits which passed through here who bankrupted our country.” As for the scold about smoking, Polakis retorted: “I’ll decide when to stop smoking, on my terms.”

Greece has the highest rate of smoking in the EU.

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When researchers at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand thawed out some frozen leopard seal excrement in January, which they use to study the animals’ health, they discovered “deep inside the scat” a USB stick containing vacation photos from Porpoise Bay. Reuters reported the defrosted poo had been placed in the freezer in November 2017, and the USB stick was left to dry for a few weeks before volunteers tried it out.

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Exterminators were called to the Rogers County (Oklahoma) courthouse on Feb. 4 after an attorney appeared in a third-floor courtroom with bed bugs falling out of his clothing. “Hard to imagine someone doesn’t know ... bed bugs are crawling all over them, certainly in abundance,” remarked Sheriff Scott Walton to KJRH TV. Courthouse officials met and decided to close the building at noon until exterminators could eliminate the pests. “I was told the individual that had them also shook his jacket over the prosecutor’s files,” Walton said. The buggy attorney, however, seemed unfazed by his parasitic companions, and it was not clear who would pay for the extermination.

PEOPLE WITH ISSUES

The Harlem Romantic Depot lingerie store in New York City was the target of a vandal’s political rage on Jan. 26. In surveillance video, the man can be seen pacing up and down in front of the store window, where two mannequins were on display: one of President Barack Obama dressed as a prince, and one of President Donald Trump, dressed as a princess and wearing a MAGA hat. Taking a brick or stone from a nearby construction site, the man used it to smash through the window, store owner Glen Buzzetti told the New York Daily News. Next, he yanked the Obama mannequin out of the window and threw it on the ground. A member of the store’s security team was able to chase the man down the block and catch him, Buzzetti said. But Obama fans in the street weren’t happy with him, either. “We had to protect him from the crowd,” Buzzetti said. “He could have been killed. We had women trying to kick him in the head.”

He said the man kept repeating that “he hated Obama” and that “the (Obama) mannequin was looking at him bad.”

POLICE BLOTTER

— When firefighters responded to a house fire Feb. 5 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, resident Holly Williams, 37, was happy to tell them how it started. She and Michael Miller, 38, keep their car fuel in a container in the house, and they were arguing (about his drinking), and he was trying to take their car, so she flushed the gasoline down the toilet, reported the Altoona Mirror. Miller threw a lit cigarette in the toilet and as flames spread, Williams ran out of the house and called 911. Miller was arrested for arson, risking catastrophe and

recklessly endangering another person; later Williams was charged, as well.

— Phillip Lee, 27, was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of simple robbery and simple battery after his attempt to take cash from a New Orleans Popeyes restaurant went south. The Times-Picayune reported that Lee arrived at the restaurant around noon and tried to steal money, but he couldn’t get the cash register open. So instead, he took some fried chicken and fled. Police caught up with him later, and the judge set his bond at $13,500. Popeyes is good, but wow.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL

Richard J. Betters Jr., 44, of Schenectady, New York, has encountered police detectives in nearby Rotterdam before, which explains why he had one officer’s phone number in his contacts list. So on Feb. 6, The Daily Gazette reported, when a detective mistakenly received a text from Betters offering drugs, it was a law enforcement slam dunk. The detective played along with Betters, offering to meet him at the Taco Bell in Rotterdam, where he arrested Betters for criminal possession of a controlled substance (Oxycodone pills).

He was held on $20,000 bail.

RECURRING THEME

It’s happened again. In Fairhope, Alabama, 2-year-old Ezra Ingersoll visited Rotolo’s Pizzeria with his family for dinner and game-room fun on Jan. 4. Soon, his sister alerted mom Kelsey that Ezra was in the claw machine. Ezra, hoping to get a toy, had crawled through the opening, but the flap inside wouldn’t swing the other direction, so he was stuck. AL.com reported that police and firefighters responding took the machine apart to free the tyke, who received a free toy for his trouble.

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE

And you thought smartphones were cutting edge! Samsung’s Family Hub smart refrigerator offers a new app, Refrigerdating, that works something like Tinder. Instead of uploading a profile pic of yourself, according to United Press International, you lure mates with a photo of the inside of your fridge. “Let the world know what kind of person you are,” the app’s website suggests. “Refrigerdating will then hook you up with a variation of fridges, of different tastes, to pick and choose from.” It even offers a little philosophical advice: “Remember, it’s the unexpected mixes that make the three star restaurants.” !

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’Khiem Ayun is working on his United States citizenship, but he fought in Vietnam far longer than any native-born American veteran did.

Ian McDowell The official period of direct U.S. military involvement in that Contributor country is 1964-73, but those nine years are only part of the conflict, or series of conflicts, collectively known as the Vietnam War. That larger war is described by most Western historians as lasting 19 years and 180 days, from Nov. 1 of 1955 until April 30 of 1975.

During the USA’s official involvement, its average draftee served for either 12 or 13 months, depending on whether in the Army or Marines. Medal of Honor winner Col. Robert L. Howard has been cited as the U.S. citizen who spent the most time in actual combat, with five tours of duty between 1965 and 1971.

Ayun’s Vietnam War lasted from 1967 until 1991. He fought four times as long as any U.S.-born veteran was in the field, and over twice as long as the country in which he now lives and is becoming a citizen of was officially involved.

A Montagnard of the Rhade tribe, Ayun was trained by Green Berets much like the ones quoted in my Jan. 9 article “Trump administration raises concern in the Triad Montagnard community.” As a member of the Civilian Irregular Defense Forces (CIDF), he fought alongside and under the command of U.S. Army Special Forces from 1967, when he joined at the age of 14 until the U.S. withdrawal in 1973. But unlike the U.S. soldiers who trained and initially commanded him, his war didn’t end then.

He kept on fighting, as part of both the CIDF and ARVN (the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, also known as the South Vietnamese Army or SVA), until 1975, when the crumbling and corrupt Saigon government surrendered to the one in Hanoi, and the country was forcibly unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Y’Khiem Ayun tural minorities had long been oppressed and despised by both the capitalist South and the communist North. Seemingly abandoned by the U.S. they so fiercely supported, they now faced retaliation from the winning side. Ayun kept on fighting as a member of the loosely-organized United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races, or FULRO (the acronym is from the French “Front Unifié de Lutte des Races Opprimées”).

FULRO was originally a political nationalist movement seeking freedom for not just the overwhelmingly Christian Montagnards but the Muslim and Hindu Cham and Buddhist Khmer Krom, all of whom had been long oppressed by the ethnic Kinh Vietnamese. After 1969, it evolved into a fragmented guerrilla insurgency

against both the communist South and anti-communist North, being opposed to all forms of Vietnamese rule. Cambodia was the primary supporter of FULRO, although some aid was sent by China.

Often operating out of Cambodia, Ayun fought the army of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam until his capture in 1991. His Vietnam war lasted a quarter of the 20th Century.

When I interviewed Ayun on Jan. 29, I asked him if he any idea why they didn’t kill him, as the special forces veterans I’d interviewed last Fall claimed was routinely done by North Vietnamese soldiers to Montagnard prisoners. Through his interpreter, Ayun indicated he didn’t know why he was spared, although he said it’s possible that his being able to walk might

have been a factor, something his injured older brother hadn’t been able to do when captured 23 years before.

For whatever reason, he was not shot in the head and dumped beside a jungle trail like his sibling, whose captors, according to Ayun, hadn’t wanted to carry a wounded prisoner on a stretcher. Instead, Ayun was sent to prison. After his release a year later, he lived in Pleiku, which had once been a stronghold of the Bahnar and Jarai tribes of Montagnards, but was now predominantly Kinh. There he remained, released but not a free man, and under constant police observation until 2001.

In that year, Ayun became a fugitive after taking part in an anti-government protest. He and some friends fled to Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province, a six-hour walk through the jungle from Pleiku.

For the next year, he lived in a series of refugee camps established by and under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a U.N. organization that’s twice won the Nobel Peace Prize for its mandate to protect refugees and assist in their voluntary repatriation or resettlement to a third country. In June of 2002, he was brought to Greensboro by Lutheran Family Services and has lived in Greensboro ever since.

His life here has not been easy. Despite his struggle to learn English, he was able to find employment for some years, but age and his old injuries gradually took a toll, and he suffered a stroke in 2014 that left half his face paralyzed. He’s had two surgeries for his decades-old wounds and nearly died from an infection caused by shell fragments still in his body.

He’s never had a Greensboro home of his own. He never married, has no children, and no family. He currently sleeps on a bed in the living room of a younger Montagnard friend who rents an apartment in the Summit Avenue apartment complex where five Congolese immigrant children died in a fire last May. He’s on Medicaid and gets SNAP benefits, but has no other source of income.

That’s why Liana Adrong of the Montagnard Dega Association of Greensboro created the GoFundMe “Y’Khiem, a Forgotten Soldier.”

Adrong told me she first met him in 2017 when he came to her office at 611 Summit Ave. because he had an upcoming doctor’s appointment in a nearby town and needed a ride. She found a volunteer to drive him, with an intern riding along as interpreter.

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U.S. Army Ranger trains CIDF Montagnard guerillas “Now, he is 65 years old with no money and with no family, and he is unable to work due to the injuries he suffered fighting in support of our American troops,” wrote Adrong on the GoFundMe. “Our goal is to raise $5,000 to help him with medical co-pays, prescription costs, and to make his life easier.”

When I interviewed him in his friend’s small apartment, which is cleaner and better-maintained than the complex’s dilapidated exterior, in which several units are condemned. I began by asking about his life before his 24 years as a soldier and guerilla fighter. Through his interpreter, he told me that he was born in 1953 in Ban Mê Thuot, the capital of Ðak Lak Province and the largest city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and that he began in his training with U.S. Army Special Forces when he was 14.

“When they formed the group, it was for the Montagnard people,” he told me with the help of Liana Adorng’s translation. “So, everybody was just joining because it was formed for them, for the Montagnard people only. I heard about it from friends who had joined.”

I asked him about the Americans he worked with.

“I remember their names, but I don’t know if they’re still living or have passed away. In my company, some of the names were Queen [possibly “Quinn”], Lloyd, and Wood. A man named Jackie was the company leader. Those are the only names I remember; it’s been so long!”

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for MIKE Force, the acronym for Mobile Strike Force Command, in which U.S. Army Special Forces, and sometimes the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), trained and led the indigenous CIDF. Ayun told me that he fought with them for eight years, which would mean he did so for two years after the official U.S. withdrawal. He said that during this time he received four major injuries.

The first he said, came in 1971 from “a communist B40 shell,” citing an alternate name for the RGP-2, a shoulderfired anti-tank weapon supplied by the Soviets.

“Shrapnel went through the right side of my thigh and emerged on the left. And then on the left shoulder. That one incident got me twice, both times shrapnel.”

In 1973, he was injured by the same type of shell. “This was the worst one. My left leg was broken, and fragments were embedded all over my entire left side. I got one in my stomach, too.”

Later that year, he said he was hit in his left thigh. “Again, shrapnel.” Then, in March of 1974, “that one still fresh in my head,” he was hit again in the abdomen.

“That fragment is still inside.”

He said that, after American withdrawal, he never back went back to his village.

“I joined in the FULRO group, and fought with them all the way into 1991 when the communists captured me in Pleiku.”

For the next 16 years, he said he was almost constantly in battle. “We fled to Cambodia and fought from there because there was no homeland to remain on. The

local people in that region hid us from their own communists while we fought the Vietnamese ones” after Cambodia’s own communist party took control of that country in 1975 and ruled until 1979.

But that fighting often took him back across the border, “I was captured in 1991, and they put me in prison until 1992.”

For the first month of his year-long captivity, he said he was tortured. “The room I and another man were kept in was about this big, with no lights, no windows. Each day were given a bowl of rice, a cup of water and a cup of salt, not each, split between us.” Describing this, he wept.

“We were in that room in darkness for a month; then they transferred us to another room with a group of people. Our feet were shackled, and our hands were tied. We were still receiving the same amount of rice and salt, but the room was bigger, and there was light and other people. Sometimes they gave us dried corn. Eventually, they gave us more water and food, and not so much salt, not a big bowl like before.”

He said he believes the purpose of the salt was so that, when hungry and in darkness, they would eat it, and with so little water, die from dehydration. After that first grueling month, he was regularly interrogated for the rest of the year and then released.

“Some of the group I’d been fighting with, and who had not been captured, had just been brought to the U.S.” Ayun said he believed that the Vietnamese government knew about this, and it was why he was released, as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was seeking better relations with its former enemy.

“I just wanted people to hear about his story,” Liana Adrong told me after the interview. “He’s not the only one who’s like this. Many of the elders in our community are in this situation. Getting his story out there will help more with our fundraising goals. He can’t apply for disability or anything like that, because he’s not a citizen yet. He is having his us citizenship interview in February. That’s one positive thing he’s looking forward to.”

Since that interview was conducted, Adrong messaged me that Ayun passed his citizenship interview, and is waiting for his swearing-in ceremony to be scheduled.

Before we left that day, Ayun told me a bit more about his long-dead family.

“My parents were older than many in our village and didn’t have the money to send me to school. The only option was the army. But nobody forced me, it was my own free will, and I wanted to make a difference.”

His parents had four sons, but no daughters and three of those sons were killed by either the Viet Cong guerillas or the North Vietnamese army.

“My older brother, in our town’s police, they shot in front of everybody. My second oldest, they captured and took out into the jungle. He never came back. My last died around 1968. He was the wounded one it was too much trouble transporting.

I’m glad to share, so the truth is known.

Once you have it on the paper, it will be good for people to read.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Venezuela alleges Greensboro company transported weapons *Editor’s note: This article was initially published online (www.yesweekly. com/venezuelaalleges-greensborocompany-transported-weapons/) on Feb. 13 On Feb. 5, VenezuIan McDowell ela’s deputy minister of security, General Endes Palencia Ortiz, Contributor announced (www. carabobo.gob.ve/ gobierno-nacionalincauto-material-belico-en-valenciaproveniente-de-eeuu/) a weapons seizure at Arturo Michelena International Airport in Valencia, Venezuela’s third largest city. According to Ortiz, the contraband included 19 assault rifles, 118 ammunition cartridges, and 90 military-grade radio antennas, and arrived Feb. 3 on a flight from Miami International Airport.

Ortiz said the U.S.-owned aircraft, bearing the registration N-881-YV, “is operated by cargo-carrier 21 Air,” and that the weapons were “destined for criminal

groups and terrorist actions” in Venezuela. The shipment, alleged Ortiz, was “financed by the fascist extreme right and the government of the United States.”

“Venezuela says plane from Miami delivered weapons for use by enemies of Maduro,” a Feb. 7 McClatchy D.C. Bureau article by Tim Johnson, identified the aircraft as a Boeing 767 owned by the Greensboro-based corporation 21 Air LLC. 21 Air is a privately held company with headquarters at 202 Centreport Dr. in Greensboro, and an operations center at Miami International Airport. Its website, (www.21air.us) describes it as created in

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2014 “to provide an innovative, flexible and competitive alternative to ACMI, CMI, and Charter needs worldwide.”

The acronym ACMI designates an aviation lease contract, also known as a wetlease, in which the lessor provides aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance (ACMI) to a lessee acting as a broker of air travel.

An ACMI or wet-leased aircraft may be used to fly services into countries where the lessee is banned from operating.

Air 21 executives include CEO Michael Mendez and chairman/majority owner Adolfo Moreno, both based in Miami, director of operations David Norgren, and director of quality control Michael Steinke.

According to their Linked-In profiles, Norgren resides in Greensboro and Steinke in Walnut Cove.

A Feb. 8 Miami Herald article by Martin Vassolo, Tim Johnson and David Ovalle described Steinke and Moreno’s past connections to Gemini Air Cargo, a nowdefunct airline headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, with bases in Miami and New York, which operated worldwide cargo flights on a wet-lease basis from 1995 to 2008.

According to the Herald article, Steinke worked for Gemini in 1996-97 and Moreno registered two businesses at an address in Northwest Miami later used by a Gemini subsidiary.

The April 2006 Amnesty International report Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’ (www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ AMR51/051/2006/en/?fbclid=IwAR3u 781TyA36w4UddKgykDWxKn-mKt0rIoRgTiR_JJgMOzkM_5nJGH2WHsE) lists Gemini as one of multiple U.S. airlines utilized by a CIA rendition program to transport suspected terrorists to secret third-country “black sites” for interrogation.

The Miami Herald article quoted Alberto N. Moris, a lawyer for Air 21, as stating any cargo aboard the aircraft belonged to GPS-Air, the company that chartered it, and that the Transportation Security

Administration “is going to investigate the party responsible for the cargo.”

It also quoted GPS-Air manager Cesar Meneses as stating that “the arms shipment report was a fabrication by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to make himself appear as a victim.”

Tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela have escalated in recent weeks, with national security advisor John Bolton appearing to disclose a plan to send “5,000 troops” to neighboring Colombia, according to a Washington Post article. In September of last year, Venezuela’s foreign minister accused the U.S. of plotting a coup against Maduro.

The Herald described Meneses as stating the aircraft’s cargo was consigned to a third party and “doesn’t belong to 21 Air and it doesn’t belong to GPS-Air.” According to the Herald, Nestor Yglesias, spokesman for Homeland Security Investigations in Miami, declined to comment on whether there is an ongoing investigation.

A Feb. 9 Business Wire announcement

by Air 21 CEO Michael Mendez acknowledged news reports of the Venezuelan seizure, stating the aircraft was on “a charter flight for an indirect air carrier.”

Mendez stated that, as soon as Air 21 became aware of the incident, “TSA was immediately notified and the company started conducting its own exhaustive internal investigation, which showed that all security procedures and documentation were followed.”

He stated that 21 Air “has not received any formal notification from the Venezuelan government regarding any irregular shipments to the country,” but that the company has made the “preventative measure” of discontinuing all flights to Venezuela “until the situation is clarified to ensure the safety and security of our crews and assets.”

This writer’s calls and messages to Mendez at the phone number and email address listed by Business Wire were not returned as of Wednesday, Feb. 13. Neither was a call to Steinke at 21 Air’s Greensboro headquarters, to which the receptionist responded by saying he was temporarily out of the office.

The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of professional translator Ana Resende in quoting statements made by Venezuela’s deputy minister of security, General Endes Palencia Ortiz. !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Who will break the glass ceiling?

Victoria Woodhull tried to do it. So did Belva Lockwood and many others. In fact, 34 women have run for President, representing a total of 17 different political parties, and while all of them tried, none Jim Longworth were able to break the glass ceiling that has kept women out Longworth of the Oval Office for at Large the past 230 years.

All that may change next year. For one thing, the Me Too movement has given a new momentum to the six women who have already declared for the 2020 race. Of course, there have been other movements in other eras, and this is not the first time we’ve had multiple women vie for the top spot in the same election cycle. It happened in 1972 when Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and three other women threw their hats in the ring. Five more women ran in 1992, and in 1996, 11 women tried to unseat Bill Clinton. And so, while the ladies who have announced this year are not breaking new ground, they may have the best chance to finally break that pesky old glass ceiling once and for all.

Thus far, six Democratic women have announced their intention to win their party’s nomination and send Donald Trump back to his tower.

Tulsi Gabbard, 37, is a political anomaly.

For one thing, she’s a Democrat who supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. And, when it became clear that the DNC was stacking the deck in Hillary’s favor, she resigned her post as Vice Chair. She’s also a nouveau liberal who now believes in equal rights, but she’s had to apologize for her earlier anti-gay rhetoric and associations while serving in the Hawaii State House. After pulling a tour of duty in Iraq and Kuwait, she was elected to Congress, where she has since modified her more conservative positions.

Kirsten Gillibrand, 52, is the ultimate flip-flopper. While representing a mostly rural district in Congress, she was a conservative Democrat who was easy on guns (she once received an “A” rating from the NRA) and tough on immigration. But once she was appointed to fill out Hillary’s term in the Senate, Gillibrand recanted her old positions, including calling for the abolishment of ICE. She also positioned herself as a faux leader of the Me Too movement by calling for fellow Democratic Senator Al Franken to resign for having engaged WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

in a couple of minor, non-sexual groping incidents. Her grandstanding probably cost the Dems control of the Senate.

Kamala Harris, 54, is a former prosecutor and California Attorney General who was elected to the Senate in 2016. Last year, she gained national attention for grilling Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Despite supporting Medicare for All and other liberal policies, she has come under fire from some Democrats for her conservative prosecutorial record. As the child of a mixed-race marriage, Harris would become the nation’s first woman President of both Asian and African American heritage.

Amy Klobuchar, 58, is a former prosecutor, and now a moderate Democratic Senator from Minnesota who believes she can capture the rust-belt vote that eluded Hillary in 2016. She wants to overturn Citizen’s United and supports legislation that would automatically register young people to vote when they turn 18. Klobuchar has one of the highest rates of staff turnover in the Senate, a fact that has given credence to recent charges of her being verbally abusive to her employees.

Elizabeth Warren, 69, came to national prominence as an advocate for consumers who had been screwed over by banks and insurance companies during the last recession. President Obama put her considerable expertise to work by naming Warren as special adviser to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Her political positions are closely aligned with those of Bernie Sanders, including Medicare for All and free college education. Recently she has had to apologize for falsely claiming to be a Native American when applying to the Bar Association.

Marianne Williamson, 66, is a Los Angeles-based author, teacher, and spiritual adviser to celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Katie Perry, and Kim Kardashian.

She wants African Americans to receive $100 billion in reparations for slavery, with monies going for economic renewal. One of her slogans is, “We need to wage peace.”

Another is, “Love should be our bottom line”.

There are those who believe that some of these women are only trying to raise their profile in hopes of being the VP pick if Joe Biden gets in the race. That may be true, but if he doesn’t run, my money is on Harris to get the nomination and give Trump a run for his money. I can hear the glass starting to break already. !

JIM LONGWORTH is the host of “Triad Today,” airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).

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ARTC moves labor of love to Winston-Salem

BY DAVID WILLARD The love parents have for their child protects, nurtures, sacrifices, and gives room for the child to become who they dream or aspire to be. For Marsha Hierl, this kind of love is what moved her to help start a new theatre company, and now Winston-Salem is reaping the benefits.

“My granddaughter’s love of theatre is what motivated me to become a part of the theatre scene,” Hierl said. “She began acting at age 12. She was acting in various shows all over the area. Walter Boyd; a theatre patron, producer and actor, heard about her and started following her performances.”

Hierl said Boyd and her granddaughter Gill Thornton started the Alamance Repertory Theatre Company (ARTC) in 2017.

The original concept was that it could be a learning platform for Thornton to aid in her homeschool education. With this platform, Thornton could learn all aspects and grow in her love of theatre. Now, the vision has expanded with the move to downtown and takes its labor of love to theatergoers in Winston-Salem.

“They formed the Alamance Repertory Theatre Company as a way for her to immerse herself in theatre, learning all aspects from directing and producing to writing and acting,” Hierl said. “What started as a year-long project for her homeschooling experience turned into a growing theatre company that has founded its own theatre in the Downtown Arts District of Winston-Salem.”

Although the company just recently moved to the downtown Winston-Salem at the former Garage music venue (110 W. 7th St.), it has spent the last two years

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Cast of Stanley & Alice opening March 8 building its reputation of putting on quality productions that can touch home for its viewers.

“We have grown into a respected theatre company that strives to bring current plays to our audiences,” Hierl said. “We dare to touch on social issues that other companies shy from. We are a theatre company for the young at heart, run by the young…and not so young. Alamance, loosely, means ‘all mankind.’ The goal of ARTC is to bring theatre to all people in multiple areas. We have performed in Alamance, Guilford, and Forsyth counties.

Opening our own theatre in October 2018, allows us to do more shows.”

Hierl said the first ARTC production was “The Rose of Treason,” and it was performed in Burlington at the Paramount Theater.

“I learned that theatre is fun and rewarding,” she said reminiscing on ARTC’s first play. “Seeing a play go from auditions, to cast selection, to rehearsals and developing the relationships between actors, to tech week, and finally to performances is such a wonderful feeling. You feel like even your small bit in the whole scheme of things was important.”

Hierl said ARTC has other plans for the theatre space that will impact other businesses and artists in the community.

“In the future, ARTC hopes to have regular shows at the theatre,” she said.

“We also want to share the space with other local community theatres, and with companies coming from out of the area.

We continue to work on the inside. Now

David Piner and Leigh Somerville are Stanley & Alice that we have lights and seating, we want to work on professional lighting, a soundboard, expansion of the stage, and more cosmetic undertakings.

“Currently, we are fully functional, acoustics are fabulous and don’t require mics, but we always want to improve. In the entrance hall, we are having artist Donell Williams paint a mural. We want other artists to leave their marks on the hallway, as well.”

Hierl said ARTC is looking to make an impact on the area and has already shown that love and community can make dreams come true and bring people together.

The first show of the 2019 season will be “Stanley & Alice,” a comedy by Greensboro playwright Cindy Argiento. The show runs March 8, 9, 10, 15 and 16. !

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FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Feb 22: Nobody’s Fault Feb 23: Chris Hedrick Mar 1: Burnt Biscuits Mar 8: Kristen Leigh

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6000 Meadowbrook Mall Ct | 336.448.5330 Feb 23: Essick-Tuttle Outfit

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REEVES THEATER

129 W Main St | 336.258.8240 reevestheater.com Feb 22: Big Daddy Love Feb 23: Wayne Henderson & Friends Mar 1: Reeves House Band Mardi Gras celebration Mar 2: The Martha Basett Show, Minton Sparks

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ARIzONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Feb 22: 1-2-3 Friday Apr 6: Alesana & The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Feb 22: DJ Dan the Player Feb 23: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BARN DINNER THEATRE

120 Stage Coach Tr. | 336.292.2211 May 4: Stephen Freeman: The Gospel Side of Elvis

BEERTHIRTY

505 N. Greene St Feb 22: Susanna MacFarlane and Jamie Pruitt Mar 1: Starstruck Acoustic Duo Mar 8: Gerry Stanek Mar 15: Chad Barnard Mar 22: Dave Moran Mar 29: Dana Bearror

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Feb 22: Create ft. K.L.O. w/ Ultrasloth, Vctre, Big City Feb 23: Pinegrove Feb 24: Amanda Fish Mar 1: The Steel Woods w/ Tennessee Jet

THE CORNER BAR

1700 Spring Garden St | 336.272.5559 corner-bar.com Feb 21: Live Thursdays

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1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Feb 22: Tone-X Feb 23: Tone-X Mar 1: Rich Guzzi Mar 2: Rich Guzzi

COMMON GROUNDS

11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888 Feb 20: Matty Sheets Feb 22: Camel City Songwriters Feb 23: Sunshine Knights Mar 14: Will Overman Mar 30: Mtroknwn

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117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Mar 8: Here Come The Mummies Mar 15: Ben Rector Apr 9: Cradle of Filth w/ Wdnesday 13 and Raven Black

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348 South Elm St | 336.510.9678 Feb 21: Good Morning Bedlam Feb 22: Jared + Hannah Feb 23: Guerrero Street Trio Mar 1: Wright Ave Mar 2: Liam & The Nerdy Blues

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5105 Michaux Road | 336.282.0950 rodystavern.com Mar 16: Stereo Doll

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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road) from N.C. 24 (W.T. Harris Boulevard) to I-485 in Mecklenburg County.

The purpose of the project is to reduce congestion on N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road) between N.C. 24 (W.T. Harris Boulevard) and I-485, and to provide multi-modal accommodations along N.C. 115 (Old Statesville Road).

The open-house public meeting will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at the Independence Hill Church located at 10220 Independence Hill Road in Huntersville from 4-7 p.m. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation.

Maps will display the proposed concepts and project team members will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or by email or mail by March 8, 2019. Comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/Pages/U-5772-2019-02-21.aspx For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Travis Preslar, P.E., by phone at (980) 262-6290 or by email at TJpreslar@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Samantha Borges via email at smborges@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707-6115 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak, or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING MARCH 5 FOR PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO N.C. 68 FROM FOGLEMAN ROAD (S.R. 2129) TO N.C. 150 / OAK RIDGE ROAD (S.R. 2137) GUILFORD COUNTY STIP PROJECT NO. R-5725

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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed project to improve N.C. 68 from Fogleman Road (S.R. 2129) to N.C. 150 / Oak Ridge Road (S.R. 2137) in Oak Ridge.

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The purpose of the project is to increase safety and traffic flow along this section of N.C. 68, which includes intersection improvements at Linville Road (S.R. 2022), Marketplace Drive and N.C. 150 / Oak Ridge Road (S.R. 2137). The project will also address connectivity for bicyclists and pedestrians.

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The meeting will take place Tuesday, March 5 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Oak Ridge Town Hall located at 8315 Linville Road in Oak Ridge. The public may drop in at any time during the meeting hours.

Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by March 20. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings.

For additional information, contact Brian Ketner, P.E., NCDOT Division 7 Project Engineer, at bkketner@ncdot.gov or 336-487-0075.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Samantha Borges, Environmental Analysis Unit at smborges@ncdot.gov or 919-707-6115 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? I cherish being able to meet and build friendships with people from all walks of life.

Some of my closest friends I have met while behind the bar. It’s a blast interacting with people you might not otherwise ever cross paths with.

That’s definitely my favorite part of the job!

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? I’ve really been into tequila for a while.

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WHAT WOULD YOUR RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? A good bourbon/old fashioned is perfect after a meal, but I also love mixing equal parts Grand Marnier and Frangelico together to sip if I want something sweet.

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WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? Well being a bartender means you wear a LOT of hats, which means you also encounter a lot of bizarre situations. We see it ALL! I think my favorite story though is the time I watched a guy get down on his knee and propose. The girl’s face starting turning extremely red and she wasn’t saying anything.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING MARCH 14 REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO WIDEN N.C. 16 (PROVIDENCE ROAD) FROM REA ROAD EXTENSION (S.R. 1316) TO WAXHAW PARKWAY (S.R. 3530) IN UNION COUNTY STIP Project No. U-5769 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to widen N.C. 16 (Providence Road) between Rea Road Extension (S.R. 1316) and Waxhaw Parkway (S.R. 3530) in Union County.

A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, March 14 at Weddington United Methodist Church, 13901 Providence Road.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings.

The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by March 28, 2019.

For additional information, please contact Travis Preslar, NCDOT Division 10 DM-STIP Project Manager at 12033 East Independence Boulevard – Suite H, Matthews, N.C. 28105, 980-262-6290 or TJpreslar@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Matthew LeShure, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1598, at 919-707-6087 or maleshure@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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I am almost 50 but look much younger, and I’m noticing that a number of the guys who are pursuing me are in their early 30s. I’m flattered but not really interested, as Amy Alkon I want to get married again and I’m Advice thinking that these guys are too young Goddess to consider that and probably want to have babies. Am I a magnet for guys with mommy issues? What gives? — Puzzled Nothing like rolling up to your guy’s band’s gig and having everybody be all “Mike, your mom’s here!”

As for these young whippersnappers’ intentions, chances are the only “aisle” they’re looking to walk down with you is the one from the front door to their bedroom in the pizza box graveyardslash-apartment they share with a bunch of dudebros. Of course, men, just like women, can get to a point where they’re ready for cuddlyschmuddlywuddly forever — which is to say, a relationship. However, evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains that there’s strong evidence from a good deal of research that men (who don’t have to worry that they’ll get pregnant from sex) evolved to “have a greater desire for short-term mating” — casual sex with a variety of partners.

Buss notes that there are some stumbling blocks for men in short-term mating mode. A major one is “the problem of avoiding commitment.” That’s where you older but still hot ladies sometimes come in. Older women are less likely to demand a relationship with an ageinappropriate partner. Of course, older women are also likely to be sexually experienced and sexually adventuresome in a way younger women aren’t. And, unlike younger women, who are often shy about expressing what they want in bed, older women can stop just short of going all Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: “Faster, you maggot, faster! And 3 millimeters up and a centimeter to the left!”

The thing is, sometimes two people with the most casual of sexual intentions unexpectedly fall for each other.

But if you and the young hardbodies can stay in the sex-only lane, your having regular sex might help you take your time getting to know dates with real partner potential for you rather than flying right into bed. Finally — generally speaking — there’s the obvious plus in sex romps with the young Turks: fewer occasions when the manparts are like papier-mache fruit — for decorative purposes only.

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I’m a woman with a male business partner. He just got a new girlfriend, and he pretty much goes MIA whenever he goes to visit her. It can take him up to two days to return my phone calls, and I’ll have to call or text two or three times to get him to respond. (I’m contacting

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him about business, not social stuff.) He is usually — well, used to be — very available by phone. His disappearing act when he’s with the girlfriend is really annoying and detrimental to our business and, frankly, pretty disrespectful. I’ve made jokes about it, but nothing’s changed.

Help. — Annoyed “Hello, Search and Rescue? Can you send out a team? I think my business partner is lost in his girlfriend’s pants.”

Tempting as it must be to blast your partner for constantly leaving you in the telephonic lurch, you’d be better off simply telling him that it feels really crappy to have your calls and texts go ignored for days; you feel disrespected.

Research by social psychologist C. Daniel Batson and his colleagues suggests that we have an evolved motivation to try to alleviate others’ pain, to help other humans who are struggling emotionally (or are otherwise in need). However, there’s a caveat: If a person’s pain or need is expressed with an attack on our behavior, we’re likely to go into fight-back mode instead of “there, there, lemme see what I can do to make things better” mode.

As for why you have yet to get through to him, you write, “I’ve made jokes about it, but nothing’s changed.” Jokes are just the thing if you’re putting on a show with a two-drink minimum; not so much if you’re trying to communicate your needs (especially to a man). The same goes for hints. Instead, opt for healthy assertiveness — from the start. Figure out what you need — how soon you’d like to have a callback — and then express that.

You may not get exactly the timetable you want, but this at least opens up a discussion: “Call you back within three hours?” he responds — countering with “Ehh...how about five hours?” You should ultimately find this approach vastly more productive than going snarky and, say, suggesting that he and his girlfriend make love like they do in the movies — specifically, the video in which Paris Hilton answers the phone in the middle of having sex. !

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