An ancient family curse, dark forebodings, and a resolute girl on a mission
A daughter makes it her life’s mission to make her mother return to their beloved home in India. There’s a family secret to unravel and a horrible wrong to set right in the process: the 25-year-old protagonist takes it all upon herself.
Radhika, born and brought up in the U.K., hasn’t had much of an exposure to her mother’s hometown of Madras apart from the occasional visits as a child. But the pull of her roots is strong and she soon finds herself chatting up old relatives and long-forgotten acquaintances from Thiruverkadu to Kumbakonam, to find out about an old “curse” that might have caused a couple of untimely deaths in the family. Is the curse the reason behind her mother’s self-imposed exile in a foreign land?
While the pandemic has dealt a crippling blow to the live performance industry, many artists have taken advantage of the forced downtime to focus on writing and recording new music. Even if it means sharing and merging audio files online or cautiously returning to a studio with fewer bodies around.
That’s how it was for Jason Ringenberg, whose new album
Rhinestoned drops on March 5. It was a process that mostly involved just himself and producer/engineer/multi-instrumentalist George Bradfute. Bradfute’s recording studio is in the basement of the former home of late “gentleman country crooner” Jim Reeves (“He’ll Have to Go,” “Four Walls”). Steve Ebe (drums), Fats Kaplin (steel guitar/fiddle), and Ringenberg’s own daughter Addie and Camille (vocals, piano) also pitched in.
Maryland Sheriff: Biden’s Immigration Policies Will Increase Crime
By Help Save Maryland, February 23, 2021
Recently appearing on Fox News, Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, of Frederick County, MD, opined that “Americans should be ‘outraged’ over Biden’s immigration actions, [and the] ‘dismantling’ of ICE.” Jenkins also argued that through his actions, Biden is telling Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents to “stand down.”
Maryland and the nation are fortunate to have law enforcement officials like Sheriff Jenkins speaking out especially during this tumultuous time.
Here’s an interview the Sheriff did, in 2018, when he talked about MS-13, the international criminal gang which, tragically, has a presence in the Maryland suburbs near Washington, D.C.
Tobin is not an indigenous Irish name, but the family can be regarded as having become completely hibernicized. Its Irish form, Toibín, is a gaelicized version of the Norman ‘St. Aubyn.’ Another interpretation is that the name was first called de St. Aubyn and the original bearers were from Aubyn, in Brittany, France.
According to the renowned Irish historian and genealogist, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), the family came to Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion and by 1200 were settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, from where they spread to the neighboring counties of Waterford and Cork. They are still found in considerable numbers in those counties, though the name is relatively rare elsewhere in Ireland. The Tobins became so influential in Co. Tipperary that in medieval times, the head of the family was known as Baron of Coursey, though this was not an officially recognized title. According to Clyn in his annals, the fourteenth century Tobins were a turbulent sept
Pac Roots Cannabis Corp.: PacRoots Closes $1.34M Private Placement
Pac Roots Cannabis Corp.
(CSE: PACR)
( PacRoots or the Company ), announces the closing of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (see press release dated January 25, 2021).
Aggregate gross proceeds of $1,340,685.90 were raised through the issuance of 7,448,255 units (each a Unit ). Each Unit consists of one common shares and one share purchase warrant. Each warrant is exercisable at a price of $0.30 per share until February 23, 2024.
Aggregate finder s fees of $75,294.51 in cash and 408,303 finder s warrants (each a Finders Warrant ) were paid to registrants. Each Finders Warrant is exercisable into one common share at a price of $0.18 per share until February 23, 2024.