PL’s beef processing​ site in South Carolina; the renovation of a mince plant​ to a cooked meat factory in Nebraska; and a $50m state-of-the-art distribution centre​ in Dodge City, Kansas.
The investment comes as the meat processor struggles with profit margins in the face of extreme volatility in the US beef market​. Third-quarter revenue for the agri-food trader dropped by 11% to $25.2bn, according to trading figures published in April​.October is Black History Month in the UK! I’ve had two owned books on my TBR for a really long time that are perfect to read for this month so I’m excited to finally be able to get around to them. In addition, Halloween is at the end of the month and I have two ARCs which are being published in October as well, so there’s quite a lot of books to fit into the next 31 days.
I bought the beautiful hardback edition of Black and British when it was first published in 2016 and shamefully still haven’t read it. As someone who was studying History at university at the time, I was sick to my stomach of seeing Black British history being erased all the time and wanted to educate myself more. David Olusoga’s Black and British provides an excellently rich and nuanced approach to Black British history which traces all the way back to Roman Britain. He looks at how central Black people have been to the development of Britain and how entwined our histories are.
Small Island is another book which I have wanted to read for many years. It is possibly one of the most famous fictional books about Black British history and explores the intersections of four lives in Britain in 1948. In it, we follow Hortense and her husband Gilbert as they arrive in London from Jamaica and attempt to navigate a new home which is hostile towards Black immigrants, and their white landlady Queenie and her husband Bernard. Small Island provides a snapshot into the lives of the Windrush generation arriving in Britain and deals with so many important themes in Black and British history. In the UK, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding our government’s treatment of Windrush immigrants and I wanted to read something which touched upon this history.
I had a long list of books that I wanted to read for Halloween but there’s just not enough time to get through them in addition to the other books I want to read. I’ve chosen to focus on one classic horror, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein which I still haven’t read omg, and this amazing anthology, Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein, that I was kindly sent by Rebellion Publishing.
When I received an ARC of In the Vanisher’s Palace from Aliette de Bodard in my inbox, oh my god I was so freaking happy. I recently read The Teamaster and the Detective by Aliette and really loved it, plus Aliette is an all-around excellent person who I am looking forward to being able to support via a review of their latest book which is out on the 16th October. In the Vanishers’ Palace is an f/f retelling of Beauty and the Beast, where the Beast is a dragon and is inspired by Vietnamese myths… Need I say any more?!
I was approached a few weeks ago by the publishers of Invasions. It’s not something that was on my radar at all but I’m always happy to read and review books my smaller authors, and was intrigued by the sound of this. Invasions is an anthology of 15 queer stories by Calvin Gimpelevich which explores the boundaries between realism and surrealism, gender, class, relationships, space, and transgressions. I haven’t had a great run of queer speculative fiction recently, but I’m hoping that Invasions will break that run!
I’m really looking to reading these books over the next month, as well as attending some great events for Black History Month. What books are you planning on reading for October? Are you taking part in any reading themes?
Black and British seems like a really interesting, though very long read.
I haven’t read Frankenstein either and it’s getting embarrassing at this point. (Same with Jane Austen’s books, which are very different but the feeling is the same :D) I also really enjoyed two other anthologies by Rebellion publishing by that editor, so I’ll need to look up Creatures.
Invasions sounds like it could be a hit or miss for me, so I think I’ll wait until you read it before (if) I add it to my TBR.
In September I did more whining about not being able to read than actual reading, but I hope October is better in that regard.
I am reading Black and British! I was kindly gifted a copy and started reading it ‘normally’ (i.e. cover to cover), but when I started studying Empire I found myself dipping in and out all over the place throughout! It was so useful for my studying and I actually used it in several essays.
A fiction book you might be interested in for BHM is ‘Dread Nation’ by Justina Ireland. It’s a zombie apocalypse book with a black protagonist… that takes place after the US Civil War! The dead begin to reanimate during the Battle of Gettysburg. It’s the first part of a series, but the others are still being written. I loved it and can’t wait for the next ones.
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Hi everyone, i've got a pic that i'm pretty sure came off this site some time ago. and with all the talk of big swords recently, i've been looking over my collection of pictures that i have on 2 handed swords. well this one is getting my attention more than any of them but this is the only pic i have. i was wondering if any of you knew this sword or have any other pictures showing the entire blade.
i'm refereing to the center sword with the parring lugs. i could probably make up a drawing estimating the blade's taper but i'd only be guessing at what the tip of the blade might be like.
i'm looking at this one for a possible custom project. my jobs (all 2 1/2 of them) and my life are at a point where i think it might be time to splurge on myself with something and who's collection isn't complete with a big two hander? i'd love to make it myself but my metalworks hobby shop is quite limited in it's capacity to make something of this size.
Although it is not the exact same sword, here is a picture off of the Christies Site. Looking at the taper on the blade of the image you posted, It is likely that it is similar to this one.
thanks for the finding, a lot of these swords i've been looking at have a taper in the opposite direction and a very blunt styled tip.
i'm kind of curious as to how these swords balance out with a hexagonal cross sections and if the parrying lugs cause a lot of distortion.
i'll have to make up a sketch and get some opinions of what i have in mind. i like the blade style shown - but i would be looking to lighten it up a bit.
if the sword in the second picture has the sort of taper and point you are talking about then you are looking at a feder which was a blunt training sword. some sharp swords did have parrying lugs like the one pictured above but it seems much more common among surviving swords that parrying lugs are mostly on feders. sharps with parrying lugs would generally be either of the above type but I'm sure there were a few outside of that.
Thank you for the article Tom, I was under the assumption that this sword shown was under the classification of a type of Zweihander, but most examples I have of these are very big broad blades and some showing a taper out to the tip (instead of in) that comes to a point in almost right angels.
This sword is currently for sale by Jürgen H. Fricker of http://www.fricker-historische-waffen.de.
It is object # 881 and appears in their "Blankwaffen" gallery under "Items for Sale".
There are some better shots of the pommel/ricasso engravings, but strangely none of the whole blade.
mr Dickinson thank you for the information, the pics do leave a lot of mystery. in fact from that limited disclosure it would make me believe it's entirely blunt with no edge bevels.
i'm sorry but i'm going to try to shift this thread a little bit, i've recently learned about this sword through a correspondence that will remain nameless. I'm also removing my previous drawing.
sorry but i'm gonna kinda leave you guys in the dark about the project for the time being.
i'd like to change the conversations a little bit. as i've been looking at this sword, i'm wonder about the a hexagonal cross section as opposed to a diamond cross section.
i know that diamond corss section would reduce the weight of a sword, but does it loose rigidity?
Mr. Wallace, i believe that its quite the contrary, a