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The Review Geek
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
She The People – Season 1 Episode 8 Recap & Review
Standing On Business Episode 8 of She The People begins the finale of part 1 with Antoinette ringing Kelly off the back of her successful dinner. She's looking to bring in some new staff, and wants Kelly Washington to be part of what they're building. After being woefully undermanned for much of the season, not to mention Henry's henpecking and racist digs, it's time for a much-needed change in office. Antoinette manages to get Kelly onboard with her to fight back against this pipeline. They need to get to the Capitol early, and Shamika is there right alongside her. Antoinette and Shamika try to sneak out at 5am but Basil is waiting in the wings. He calls out for Lola and Titus, who show up and confront their mum about the video. This is the same video that convinced Kelly to come and fight with her, and it's certainly a point of contention here for the kids, as they know Antoinette has been avoiding them. Lola challenges her mum over the shorts she was wearing but Antoinette promises to talk to them later after their busy day. Meanwhile, Henry finds himself on the backfoot when he realizes he's been dropped as Chief of Staff. Kelly is here to take over his role, while the others in the hallway are ready to kick out the rest of her hand-picked staff. Of course, this prompts the Governor to perk up and get involved. Antoinette is called into Governor Harper's office, who hands over a pre-written speech about the pipeline that she needs to read out. Harper shrugs off her concerns, reinforcing that she only needs to agree with everything he says but Antoinette pushes back. She doesn't want to just be a pushover anymore, and after standing up for many kids in the community, she's finally ready to make her stand. Its taken her the entire season to actually grow a spine and stand by her principles, especially during Harper's continuing demeaning comments and retorts like 'good girl' and his vapid comments about her clothes. She does this right as the stage is passed over to Antoinette after publicly showing his racism. Antoinette decides not to follow the script that Harper has written out. She brings up how they've never had a chat about the pipeline, and in fact she wants it moved two miles to the north so it only goes through the farmland. The pair wind up with a public spat about this, alongside the upcoming plant being built too. Harper is pissed at Antoinette's in subordinance and back in his office, she brings up how she's doing what's right for the State and they need to work on this together. 'Never outshine the master,' Harper blurts out, which of course does not sound good given the dynamics at play here! Antoinette challenges Harper and tells him that he needs to respect her but he's not happy. He projects his own struggles getting into office and all the metaphorical shit he's had to shovel to get there. It's actually quite an ironic analogy because, if you'll remember, he sent Antoinette out with that silver shovel at the apple orchard earlier in the season so it all ties together nicely. As Antoinette passionately expresses herself about being seen and heard, he wants the lawsuit dropped but of course that's not going to happen. Antoinette, riding the high, comes back to the team and celebrates. Well, for a few seconds anyway. Unfortunately, Governor Harper winds up with a heart attack, leaving this first part hanging in the balance. The Episode Review So the first part of She The People ends with a big cliffhanger as we see there's no resolution for the current drama inside the Capitol Building. However, we do see a good deal of growth for Antoinette here, who begins as this timid, bumbling politician in over her head to finally standing up to Governor Harper's clear biases against her. However, his heart attack could prove to be a massive undoing for our characters, especially if this is spun into a race war. Could Harper stoop to this level? Well, after his comments to Antoinette, nothing's off the table for this guy! The rest of the cast are obviously here playing second fiddle to Antoinette, and it's a bit of a shame we haven't had more depth from some of these guys. Antoinette's story is center-stage but it would have been good to see extra subplots come to the foreground too. We'll have to wait and see where the second part of this story goes but for now, we're left wondering what will happen next for our characters! Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Forbes
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
A Smattering Of 2023 Spring Rosé And White Wines To Sample
Rosé wine. getty Rosé wines can be consumed within about three years. Often longer. I am still enjoying bottles of rosé created five years ago by a winemaker from Bourg, Bordeaux. They are magnificent. Below are 2023 French Bordeaux and one Armenian rosé wines, as well as one Bordeaux white to consider for livening up a spring terrace lunch or porch dinner. Rosé de Malleret. Vin de Bordeaux. 2023. 93+ points. Pale peach color. Snappy, somewhat chalky aromas of white flowers, fresh peaches and slight mint. Mildly sweet on the attack with a balanced and crisp mid palate. Lovely oily mouth feel with a rainbow of pastel flavors—mandarins, red cherries, white pear and pineapple. A beautiful finish with crisp acidity. A light, wispy and well made wine that will pair with poultry or hummus, or a fig and goat cheese and pine nut plate. Antoinette. Cap-Castera. Bordeaux Rosé. 2023. 90 points. Medium pink orange color to this wine with snappy young fruit aromas, as well as some limes. Linear but also a rich, mildly spicy and textured mid palate filled with oranges and light plums and peaches. An easy drinking wine for starting a spring afternoon gathering. Château Haut-Fontenelle. Bordeaux Rosé. 2023. 93-94 points. From Vignobles Alain Pascal in Lussac, this 12.5% alcohol wine has a pale light orange color. A mango blast of aromas, followed by creamy banafi pie and chunks of juicy pineapples. A billowing mid palate of balanced and gushing fruit flavors that include green apples and yellow pears, with a caramel lick on the finish. Precise but generous acidity. Compact and delightful. Château George 7. Blanc. Fronsac. 2023. 92 points. A 70/30 Sauvignon Blanc/Sémillon blend with 12.5% alcohol from Sally Evans. Aged six months in Burgundian oak. Brisk aromas of white flowers, lime and slight salinity. Honeyed and delicately crisp mid palate flavors include tropicals. Rich and balanced with a complex finish and acidity that is lit but on slow burn. Pair this with paella. Famille Todeschini. Mangot. Rosé. Bordeaux AOC. 2023. 90 points. This 100% Merlot has the color of pale peaches. Forward and strong set of aromas of marshmallows and strawberries with slight granite. A light mouthful of soft flavors, beginning with lime and lemons, trending mid palate to red plums and raspberries and finishing with a peach plum rinse. Light and luscious. Pair with apple pie or a clafoutis dessert. Acidity is quite strong, but not out of the bounds for maintaining overall balance. Tozot. Volcani Rosè. Armenia. 2023. 92 points. From Voskeni, this rosé has the color of watermelon juice and includes 13% alcohol. It comes from the Ararat Valley in Armenia and celebrates Queen Tamar the Great sharing wine with Prince Zakare in the year 1199. Aromas of lime, red fruit and wild flowers and flavors of rich red cherries and sherbet. Well enfolded juicy acidity.
CNN
28-03-2025
- Science
- CNN
These 60-year-old geckos could be the world's oldest
At 64 and 60 years old, Antoinette and Brucie-Baby are thin and bony. Their skin hangs looser than it did in their youth, but their eyes still gleam with energy. But these aren't just any sexagenarians we're talking about; these are geckos, believed to be the world's oldest on record, discovered on a small island in New Zealand. Marieke Lettink, an expert on reptiles and amphibians, was part of the team that found the pair of Waitaha geckos on Motunau Island, off the coast the country's South Island. It was an 'exciting' moment, she said, adding that it was humbling to realize 'that these animals are older than us and still out there doing their thing.' They were found during a five-yearly survey on the island. 'That also means it's worth going back in five years' time because we don't actually know how long they can live for. Every time we go, every trip we've done … the oldest gecko we catch is always older than us,' Lettink said. During each survey, the team sets up a grid of traps on the small island, typically catching a few hundred geckos over a few days. The geckos come out at night – so the team also goes trekking in the dark with flashlights to look for geckos perched on leaves and bushes. The surveys have been going on since the 1960s, when the late conservationist Tony Whitaker began marking geckos on the island with a practice called toe clipping – which involves clipping a certain number of toes on the geckos, each with a unique pattern. The practice is no longer used by New Zealand's Department of Conservation. It was Whitaker's markings on Antoinette and Brucie-Baby – named after Whitaker and fellow conservationist Bruce Thomas – that helped Lettink identify the lizards. 'It made me think of Tony, who started the work. It was quite a poignant moment,' she said. Both geckos were fully grown when they were marked – so they could be even older than the 60 and 64 years recorded. That's far older than the average lifespan of geckos worldwide, at only about a decade. And this discovery places Waitaha geckos in the top ranks of other long-living lizards – most of which are far larger and better known. 'It's now actually bypassed all the older lizards, with things like the iguanas and the big Komodo dragons – you know, really big lizards that are quite famous,' Lettink said. 'And this is a humble, drab brown gecko that's not famous at all.' There are a few reasons it may have lived so long – the main one being that Motunau Island is predator-free, without any of the introduced species that have decimated native animals across mainland New Zealand. The success of reptile survival in predator-free spaces is one reason conservationists across the country are trying to establish more safe sanctuaries – for instance, building a fenced area to keep predators out and eliminating invasive predators within. But skewing the ecosystem that way can allow mice populations to thrive. They can prey on geckos, posing another problem, Lettink said – so some groups have set up specific sanctuaries just for lizards and geckos. There are other factors behind their longevity too – like the cool climate and the island lifestyle, said the Department of Conservation's Biodiversity Ranger Kaitlyn Leeds, who was on the survey team with Lettink, in a news release. The team had actually seen Antoinette once before, about a decade ago, and they assumed that would be the last time. 'And here, 10 years later, they look no different – they're still going,' Lettink said. It makes her hopeful that by the next survey, in five years, they might be able to find a few more of the original geckos tagged in the 1960s. Or better yet – there might be many older geckos out there that just haven't been found yet. 'That would be really exciting,' she said.
CNN
28-03-2025
- Science
- CNN
These 60-year-old geckos could be the world's oldest
At 64 and 60 years old, Antoinette and Brucie-Baby are thin and bony. Their skin hangs looser than it did in their youth, but their eyes still gleam with energy. But these aren't just any sexagenarians we're talking about; these are geckos, believed to be the world's oldest on record, discovered on a small island in New Zealand. Marieke Lettink, an expert on reptiles and amphibians, was part of the team that found the pair of Waitaha geckos on Motunau Island, off the coast the country's South Island. It was an 'exciting' moment, she said, adding that it was humbling to realize 'that these animals are older than us and still out there doing their thing.' They were found during a five-yearly survey on the island. 'That also means it's worth going back in five years' time because we don't actually know how long they can live for. Every time we go, every trip we've done … the oldest gecko we catch is always older than us,' Lettink said. During each survey, the team sets up a grid of traps on the small island, typically catching a few hundred geckos over a few days. The geckos come out at night – so the team also goes trekking in the dark with flashlights to look for geckos perched on leaves and bushes. The surveys have been going on since the 1960s, when the late conservationist Tony Whitaker began marking geckos on the island with a practice called toe clipping – which involves clipping a certain number of toes on the geckos, each with a unique pattern. The practice is no longer used by New Zealand's Department of Conservation. It was Whitaker's markings on Antoinette and Brucie-Baby – named after Whitaker and fellow conservationist Bruce Thomas – that helped Lettink identify the lizards. 'It made me think of Tony, who started the work. It was quite a poignant moment,' she said. Both geckos were fully grown when they were marked – so they could be even older than the 60 and 64 years recorded. That's far older than the average lifespan of geckos worldwide, at only about a decade. And this discovery places Waitaha geckos in the top ranks of other long-living lizards – most of which are far larger and better known. 'It's now actually bypassed all the older lizards, with things like the iguanas and the big Komodo dragons – you know, really big lizards that are quite famous,' Lettink said. 'And this is a humble, drab brown gecko that's not famous at all.' There are a few reasons it may have lived so long – the main one being that Motunau Island is predator-free, without any of the introduced species that have decimated native animals across mainland New Zealand. The success of reptile survival in predator-free spaces is one reason conservationists across the country are trying to establish more safe sanctuaries – for instance, building a fenced area to keep predators out and eliminating invasive predators within. But skewing the ecosystem that way can allow mice populations to thrive. They can prey on geckos, posing another problem, Lettink said – so some groups have set up specific sanctuaries just for lizards and geckos. There are other factors behind their longevity too – like the cool climate and the island lifestyle, said the Department of Conservation's Biodiversity Ranger Kaitlyn Leeds, who was on the survey team with Lettink, in a news release. The team had actually seen Antoinette once before, about a decade ago, and they assumed that would be the last time. 'And here, 10 years later, they look no different – they're still going,' Lettink said. It makes her hopeful that by the next survey, in five years, they might be able to find a few more of the original geckos tagged in the 1960s. Or better yet – there might be many older geckos out there that just haven't been found yet. 'That would be really exciting,' she said.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
These 60-year-old geckos could be the world's oldest
At 64 and 60 years old, Antoinette and Brucie-Baby are thin and bony. Their skin hangs looser than it did in their youth, but their eyes still gleam with energy. But these aren't just any sexagenarians we're talking about; these are geckos, believed to be the world's oldest on record, discovered on a small island in New Zealand. Marieke Lettink, an expert on reptiles and amphibians, was part of the team that found the pair of Waitaha geckos on Motunau Island, off the coast the country's South Island. It was an 'exciting' moment, she said, adding that it was humbling to realize 'that these animals are older than us and still out there doing their thing.' They were found during a five-yearly survey on the island. 'That also means it's worth going back in five years' time because we don't actually know how long they can live for. Every time we go, every trip we've done … the oldest gecko we catch is always older than us,' Lettink said. During each survey, the team sets up a grid of traps on the small island, typically catching a few hundred geckos over a few days. The geckos come out at night – so the team also goes trekking in the dark with flashlights to look for geckos perched on leaves and bushes. The surveys have been going on since the 1960s, when the late conservationist Tony Whitaker began marking geckos on the island with a practice called toe clipping – which involves clipping a certain number of toes on the geckos, each with a unique pattern. The practice is no longer used by New Zealand's Department of Conservation. It was Whitaker's markings on Antoinette and Brucie-Baby – named after Whitaker and fellow conservationist Bruce Thomas – that helped Lettink identify the lizards. 'It made me think of Tony, who started the work. It was quite a poignant moment,' she said. Both geckos were fully grown when they were marked – so they could be even older than the 60 and 64 years recorded. That's far older than the average lifespan of geckos worldwide, at only about a decade. And this discovery places Waitaha geckos in the top ranks of other long-living lizards – most of which are far larger and better known. 'It's now actually bypassed all the older lizards, with things like the iguanas and the big Komodo dragons – you know, really big lizards that are quite famous,' Lettink said. 'And this is a humble, drab brown gecko that's not famous at all.' There are a few reasons it may have lived so long – the main one being that Motunau Island is predator-free, without any of the introduced species that have decimated native animals across mainland New Zealand. The success of reptile survival in predator-free spaces is one reason conservationists across the country are trying to establish more safe sanctuaries – for instance, building a fenced area to keep predators out and eliminating invasive predators within. But skewing the ecosystem that way can allow mice populations to thrive. They can prey on geckos, posing another problem, Lettink said – so some groups have set up specific sanctuaries just for lizards and geckos. There are other factors behind their longevity too – like the cool climate and the island lifestyle, said the Department of Conservation's Biodiversity Ranger Kaitlyn Leeds, who was on the survey team with Lettink, in a news release. The team had actually seen Antoinette once before, about a decade ago, and they assumed that would be the last time. 'And here, 10 years later, they look no different – they're still going,' Lettink said. It makes her hopeful that by the next survey, in five years, they might be able to find a few more of the original geckos tagged in the 1960s. Or better yet – there might be many older geckos out there that just haven't been found yet. 'That would be really exciting,' she said.
