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2019 AFL New Zealand Heritage Team
The AFL New Zealand Heritage Team has been selected for 2019, showing the depth of involvement New Zealanders have in AFL at the highest level.
The 2019 Heritage team boasts an exciting mix of established AFL stars such as Max Gawn from the Melbourne Football Club, Richmond Tigers star Dustin Martin, youthful talent and home grown New Zealand players.
Shane Savage, who has been selected in all seven Heritage teams believes a team representing the land of the silver fern is “not out of the question”. “One day down the track. There is a lot more work to do now. If the AFL can keep doing what it’s doing and gain more awareness with the people then it’s definitely a possibility,” Savage said.
To meet the criteria to be selected in the AFLNZ heritage team, each player must either have been born in New Zealand or have New Zealand parentage.
The 2019 team consists of 16 players currently playing in the AFL week in, week out for their clubs.
The development programmes run by AFL New Zealand have a vision of AFL as a New Zealand sport. At every level of the game, from teaching schoolchildren the fundamentals through the AFL KiwiKick programme, to high performance training for athletes looking for a pathway in sport, to regional leagues played around the country, AFL in New Zealand is on a roll. The introduction of the AFLNZ Youth Competition in 2015 was a major success in placing High School aged students on the pathway to AFL.
This is great news for the future of the sport in both countries. New Zealanders moving to Australia will have an understanding and enjoyment of the game, and Australian clubs will have a bigger pool of talented players to select from. The New Zealand Heritage Team is a reflection of the strong links that already exist between the two countries. A passion for AFL is one of those links that is growing stronger every year.
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February 2, 2009 by: Bargain Babe
The end of mall love?
For 50 years Americans have been shopping at malls, but in these troubled times many are re-thinking their relationship to spending centers, says a story in the Sunday NY Times business section.
“Fiscal health isn’t possible until money is again sloshing into cash registers,” the story says. “In other words, shopping was part of the problem and now it’s part of the cure. And once we’re cured, economists report, we really need to learn how to save, which suggests that we will need to quit shopping again.”
Reporter David Segal, who wrote the story, goes to the behemoth Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. to meet a young couple that gets married in the mall’s chapel, to talk to shoppers who brag about the prices they paid, and hear stories from retailers burdened by waves of returns and stingy customers.
The story is told through Americans’ love-hate relationship with the mall. “If we were actually in couples therapy with the mall, we’d have to confess to something: We have changed, not the mall. The economic crisis has caused shoppers to go into an essentials-only mode. But the mall has never trafficked in essentials.”
How does a mall survive when its bread and butter is vanilla-scented candles, buttered lobster bites, and virtual submarine rides? Read the whole story.
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Causes and Symptoms: One of the most insidious disorders of the metabolism, diabetes is a serious condition if it is not properly diagnosed and treated in the earlier stages. It is one of the hereditary disorders which run in the families and people with a defective diet and sedentary habits are more susceptible to it than others.
Diabetes is of two types: (i) diabetes insipidus; and (ii) diabetes mellitus. The first is characterised by excessive thirst and large volume of urine which has a low specific gravity, but which contains no abnormal constituents. Its cause is the lack or dimunition of the anti-diuretic hormone manufactured by the pituitary gland.
But the more common disorder is diabetes mellitus. A constitutional disorder, it is caused by the malfunctioning of the pancreas which produces insulin. Insulin, which is now being manufactured chemically, is the agent which helps assimilate sugar into the system when the pancreas stops its function or slows down, no insulin is injected into the system with the result that the sugar does not get assimilated and remains in the blood or is ejected through the urine of the sufferer.
The first symptoms of diabetes are failure of strength and loss of weight. The amount of urine increases to thrice its normal quantity. A troublesome symptom is the intense thirst to quench which the patient drinks more water and passes more and more urine, leading to the loss of sugar which should have been assimilated into the system. There is also a voracious appetite, but in spite of hearty meals the sufferer goes on losing strength and weight. The lack of absorption of sugar leaves the tissues weak and skin eruptions appear. There is an intense itch in the groins and also eczema. Sometimes, there is a tendency towards gangrene in the feet and any injury sustained by the patient is difficult to heal.
Diabetes, generally, advances slowly and unless the sufferer is very perceptive, it may remain undiagnosed for some time. In young people, unfortunately, the course of the disease is very swift. The younger the patient, the more swift is the onset of the malady. The advance of the disease brings along other disorders like dimness of vision, cataract, weakness and pain in the limbs, inflammatory chest infections, of which pulmonary tuberculosis is the most serious, and extreme exhaustion.
Diabetes is a disease in the cure of which diet plays more important a part than drugs. It is vital, therefore, that after the disease has been diagnosed and its severity estimated from an examination of blood and urine, the diet of the patient should be controlled. All sugary substances and those containing any percentage of carbohydrates should be banned. Sugar in any form, rice, potatoes, sweet fruits (except Rose Apple or Jamun) should be given up. Fat intake should be reduced. Vegetables like Karela (Bitter Gourd), Drumstick and Bimbi are particularly recommended. Recent researches by a team of British doctors have confirmed the anti-diabetic properties of Bitter Gourd which has been recommended by practitioners of Ayurveda in India for past many thousands of years. An age-old nostrum of taking two tender leaves of neem and Bilva each on an empty stomach in the morning has been found helpful in reducing the amount of sugar in the blood.
The second step before medication starts for a diabetic is to control the amount of food that he takes. If he is obese, a strict regimen of diet should be initiated to bring down his body weight. Juiced of the leaves of the Bitter Gourd creeper and its fruit should be administered in dose of one ounce twice daily. The seeds of Karela can be added to food in a powdered form.
Remedies: The other home remedies useful in cases of diabetes are: Seven leaves of Kanduri should be ground with seven grains of Pepper, strained and drunk. Or, one tola of Sankhaholi should be ground with seven grains of Pepper strained and drunk to reduce the amount of blood sugar. Another useful remedy is two tolas of the kernel of the stone of jamun and two tolas of the rind of poppy Capsule ground together and taken in three masha doses with whey or water in the morning and evening. Alternatively, four mashas of the dried powder of Kanghi Booti (Mellow) taken twice with Whey also helps control the amount of sugar in the blood. Six mashas of powder of dried Gilo and dried leaves of Jamun taken in equal quantities also helps.
Regimen: A yogic exercise Matsyendraasana is particularly recommended for diabetics. Diabetics should be careful to avoid injuries because the wounds have a tendency to take a long time to heal.
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April 16, 2009 By David Dickinson 1 Comment
Astronomy is often a solitary, contemplative activity. Sure, our passion for the night sky can have some communal facets, such as star parties and the like, but ultimately, we all find ourselves at one time or another alone under the skies. I believe this type of outward reflection is vital to a well rounded perspective, and necessary in today’s fast paced world. For this reason some astronomers I know abhor the idea of bringing any background music at all into the field, preferring instead to let the “music of the spheres” do the talking.
Others like the enhancement that music can bring for the very same reason. We here at Astroguyz would contend that you can indeed have both, at one time or another. Of course, music, like politics and bad movies, is very much a matter of taste; we probably wouldn’t blast Metallica at a busy star party or at a crowded campground. Still, when astronomy takes you out to the remote wilds, you can convince yourself that you’re the only soul in the universe. Music can add another dimension to that. Don’t worry, we won’t rehash the tired old choices of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Dark Side of the Moon; our intent is to reveal some progressive, hidden musical gems to stargaze by. Nor will we jump on the “What’s on our Ipod” bandwagon. Of course, classical music is always a natural choice, and could well be a post of its own.
What follows is a short list of some of our star gazing faves (play list tested in the field!) that are worth digging up;
Björk: Icelandic diva Björk Guðmundsdóttir has a voice and arcane style of her own. I have fond memories of watching a circumpolar Hale-Bopp from my apartment living room window in North Pole, Alaska, lights out and Björk playing in the background. Any of her albums are good, but I would especially recommend Telegram, which is her effort at her earlier album, Post, re-envisioned.
Nine Inch Nails: Say what? That earache of a group my teenager melted his brain on in the ‘90′s? Believe it or not, a careful selection of NIN can prove to be very spacey in an ominous sort of way. Give the album The Downward Spiral a listen through.
Evanescence :Very haunting music, to say the least. Play the first two albums the next time you’re out in the field. Your kids will be amazed that you could be so hip…can their minds successfully contain both concepts at once?
Pink Floyd: OK, I know we said we wouldn’t be predictable. But did you know that there’s more to Pink Floyd than Dark Side of the Moon? Wish You Were Here, Animals, and UmmaGumma are all suitably cosmic. Of honorable note is Echoes, a 20 minute plus opus which once occupied the entire flip side of the LP (remember actual records?) Meddle back in days of yore.
Rush: Every techno geek was first exposed to rock via Canadian icons Rush. The early to middle era prog-rock albums are the most suited to astronomy; start at Caress of Steel & 2112 and work your way forward to about Power Windows. Of special note: Cygnus X-1 off of A Farewell to Kings.
Tool: Progressive Metal lives! Tool is a thinking man’s metal. I’ve heard them blasting from the car stereo of more than one amateur astronomer… their companion band, A Perfect Circle, is of the same vein. Triad off of Lateralus is classic Tool.
Sonic Youth: Ultra-hip New York City rockers Sonic Youth are also given to producing a soaring, 20 minute opus or two. Again, mix all of their trippiest stuff for best results. Sonic Youth can range from extremely melodic to radical dissonance, so consider yourself warned. Some highlights are; The Diamond Sea (off of Washing Machine) and the entire albums of Sonic Nurse and the Destroyed Room. Real Mars Volta stuff. Listen if you dare!
Gregorian chant: Are your ears bleeding yet? Some Gregorian chant would definitely sooth the cosmic soul. The first album by the Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos is a definite star gazing staple.
Star Wars Soundtracks: So hokey, they’re just plain fun! People sometimes forget that the music really made the films… Darth Vader’s movement from the Empire Strikes Back is one of our faves. Lucas wisely stuck with John Williams to score the prequels, as well!
Apocalyptica: A Finnish cello quartet, this foursome moved from covering Metallica tunes on their first album to their own full length originals. And your kids thought cellos weren’t cool!
Requiem for the Americas: I bought this largely unknown album way back in the early 90′s, and its periodically made it on my stargazing play list ever since! Worth digging up in used music stores or Amazon, it features tributes to Native American culture from, among others, Suzanna Hoffs, Jim Morrison, and more!
Hamza El Adin: One of the few Arabic albums in our stash that isn’t kiosk dance music. Hamza is the master of the Oud. The music is as forlorn and spare as the desert…a perfect accompaniment for a night of astro-imaging!
Johnny Cash: One of the country western greats. Johnny makes the cut because of the expansiveness of his work. The poetry of his music sings true to the soul. I was especially glad that Rick Rubin managed to get American Recordings I-V out of him right before he passed on. Hey, Johnny even does a NIN song!
Hendrix: Of course, everyone knows that Hendrix was an alien anyway. Were else could he have come up with such out of this world riffs? Electric Ladyland was one of his best.
The Doors: I almost forgot one of the quintessential best; every teenager diagnosed with angst goes through a Jim Morrison phase. I listened to nothing but the Doors all of 1992. Ok, at 24, I was a late bloomer. But The End off of the self titled first album is a great star gazing tune!
…And the number one thing NOT to play at any astronomical gathering? How about the aptly named Spaced Out, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy’s ill fated journey into musical career-dom? This also works well to keep your house free of vermin!
So there you have it; feel free to experiment with these tunes on your next run out, and mention any of your own. Of course, some of you may prefer to simply observe in silence; we do the same from time to time. We promise not to park next to you in the dark and blast out Tool. But if used properly, we feel music can sometimes enhance the viewing experience. And hey, it’s better than listening to WWV time signal broadcast into the wee hours!
Tool + A Rising Moon…
Filed Under: Astronomy: a Philosophy, Observational Astronomy Tagged With: astronomy, bjork, music, observing, pink floyd, rush, the doors, tool, tunes
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Imagining Our Digital Futures: MUTEK_IMG 2019—August 20-22
Douglas Rushkoff Delivers Opening Keynote; Extraordinary A/V Artist Presentations; New Festival Headquarters Les 7 Doigts
The 5th edition of MUTEK_IMG, the festival’s professional forum on current practices in digital creation is thrilled to announce its 3 days of discursive activities and workshops will take place at the newly christened, multi-room venue Les 7 Doigts. A storied complex once occupied by the Just For Laughs Museum, the Cabaret performance hall, and back in 2003 the 4th edition of MUTEK—it has been reborn as a creation and production centre for Les Studios des 7 Doigts collective and configured into various research and state-of-the-art spaces.
Fueled by a wide variety of partners; private and public, local and international, forum programming reflects expertise that cuts a wide path through technological innovations and contemporary artistic practices. Covering mixed realities, artificial intelligence, and new iterations in audiovisual spectacle—from theory, to creative applications—the first contours of the conference program promise a stimulating range of fantastical and pragmatic contents.
Opening Keynote by Douglas Rushkoff
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Named one of the world’s 10 most influential intellectuals by MIT, acclaimed author, broadcaster and academic Douglas Rushkoff opens the conference with his recent manifesto based on his latest book Team Human, which examines the anti-human agenda embedded in our markets and technologies. A leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice he proposes strategies for crafting humanity’s best future.
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As with previous editions of Forum IMG, HOLO Magazine/CreativeApplications.Net will curate discussions and workshops injected with a healthy dose of criticality into the program, focused on topics with sweeping ethical and social implications. Revelatory work involving Montréal’s Jason Edward Lewis and Suzanne Kite (Initiative for Indigenous Futures - Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace) considers Indigenous epistemologies applied to new technologies, in particular artificial intelligence. British artists Bill Posters (aka Barnaby Francis) and Daniel C. Howe open space for interrogating computational forms of propaganda and what they call the wider digital influence industry. They present Spectre, an interactive installation that invites audiences to “pray at the altar of dataism”. The artists were just announced as winners of Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Alternate Realities Commission, supported by Arts Council England, Site Gallery, the British Council, and MUTEK.
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Even more artists whose work travels the cutting-edges of audiovisual creation confirmed to present their visionary projects include: German A/V artist Robert Henke, who will share his inventive, often bespoke art practice; Lawrence Lek (appearing in partnership with the William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History/McGill), whose recent virtual realities and simulations take on narrative forms that explore Sino-futurist worlds and alien AIs; and Iranian composer and filmmaker Ash Koosha who created the world’s first virtual reality album in 2015, and has since continued to employ algorithms and custom software, notably in his new holographic AI live performance YONA. Presented with support from the Consulate General of France in Québec, veteran audiovisualist Joanie Lemercier has been investigating all manner of installation, projection and screen work over his illustrious career and will be joined by long-time producer and curator Juliette Bibasse.
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The familiar VR Salon becomes XR Salon inside this edition of Forum IMG, reflecting the full spectrum of mixed realities. Taking place under the banner of Common Codes, it will link with the freshly founded Québec/Canada XR initiative, a project by Xn Québec, MUTEK, the Phi Centre, Montréal Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), and the Montréal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), with support by the Government of Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. This network of actors also joins the AFXR - Association francophone de XR, based in Paris.
This year also underlines one of the forum’s integral missions: to build bridges between the fields of education and research—and practitioners of digital arts and industry. Tapping into the rich milieu of local academic institutions, Forum IMG connects with the internationally engaged Hexagram network, dedicated to research-creation in the fields of media arts, design, technology and digital culture—as well as SYNTHÈSE - Pôle Image Québec, an initiative of Québec’s ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur (MEES), in order to integrate university content and facilitate access for students.
Long-time collaborators of the festival, Toronto-based company Derivative, creators of the visual design tool TouchDesigner, hold their own Summit in Montréal the weekend preceding Forum IMG, creating a dovetailing opportunity for those interested in attending both. Summit participants will have access to preferential prices on the IMG and Festival Passports, more information will be available at the TD Summit box office in early May.
And there’s still much more to come!
The IMG Passport, IMG Conference Pass, and combined IMG + Festival Passport are currently available through the MUTEK box office at Early Bird prices for a limited time.
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KUT's O’Dark 30 features the very best from the world of independent radio that we can find here on PRX and elsewhere. Sunday nights at 10 on Austin's KUT 90.5 we present 3 hours of a bit of everything from the big wide world of independent radio production.
Episode 180 (4-24) includes Clever Apes: Breaking the fossil record...Five Second Rule...Stories of Transformation...99% Invisible #65- Razzle Dazzle (Director's Cut)...The Mikie Show #49, Sheril...WTF Episode 204 with Todd Hanson...My First Travel Partner...Letter to My Mom: You Haven't Lost Me
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Clever Apes: Breaking the fossil record
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In this installment, Gabriel Spitzer discovers how an ancient specimen might rewrite prehistory, and maybe medical books, too.
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Dinosaurs loom large in our imaginations not just because they were in fact enormous, but also they are so ridiculously old. There has always been a big, impenetrable curtain separating us from prehistoric life. Sure, we have some ancient bones, but those had long since turned to stone. Any actual tissue, the stuff of flesh-and-blood creatures, is irrevocably lost, lasting only a few tens of thousands of years in most cases. Maybe a few stray organic molecules could persist for a few million if, say, they were frozen deep within primeval ice.
So, needless to say, it came as something of a shock when Mary Schweitzer discovered that she had some 68-million-year-old dinosaur tissue on her hands.
The find was and is controversial. Many scientists are skeptical or outright dismissive of the idea that tissue could have persisted inside the partially fossilized thigh bone of a T. rex. But since then Schweitzer and her collaborators have gradually built up evidence that the find is real. And most recently, Joseph Orgel of the Illinois Institute of Technology has begun to understand how mummified dino-flesh could possibly have survived a thousand times longer than was thought possible.
Orgel used x-ray diffraction, a kind of molecular imaging technique, to understand how the dinosaur tissue is structured in detail. The particular stuff they have in hand is collagen, a material found in our bones, tendons, blood vessels and skin. It is itself a hardy molecule, and Orgel found that the protein sequences preserved in their fossils came from the innermost, protected part of the collagen fiber. So it’s possible that collagen’s tough, ropelike structure preserved a tender bit of dinosaur jerky inside.
Keep in mind, this is not DNA. We will not be cloning Barney from this stuff. But understanding how these proteins can be shielded from decay for so long could hold practical lessons for modern medicine. If you’re repairing, say, a bone or cartilage, you might be able to leverage or mimic nature’s ability to make durable organic materials that don’t degrade, in effect, forever.
Also in today’s episode, we consider another example of design inspired by biology. Dr. Phillip Messersmith’s muse is the blue mussel – a bivalve that secretes a unique adhesive to stick itself to rocks or boat hulls or wherever it feels like sticking. This stuff turns out to have some key qualities that a surgeon would envy. It starts as a liquid and solidifies quickly, it functions well under water and it’s sticky as hell.
That’s a big advantage over the medical glues out there that doctors use to attach or repair tissues. The safest ones are too weak. The strongest ones (basically, super glue) are toxic. Messersmith and his lab-mates at Northwestern University are using the fundamentals of the mussel glue to design their own version, which they demonstrated for us on some sausage casing.
So someday, maybe they’ll be able to install a dino-inspired bone patch in your body, and lock it down with some mussel glue.
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Five Second Rule
From Ruth Eddy | 02:09
Most of us have heard of the five second rule, but how strictly is it followed and is there any truth to the bacteria defense of time.
Ruth Eddy
Five Second Rule | 02:09
From Atlantic Public Media | Part of the The Transom Radio Specials series | 54:00
Two audio diaries: a street kid who decides to wise-up and a person born in the wrong body
Atlantic Public Media
Two people talk about their own personal transformation. Finding Miles is the story of a person named Megan who began a slow and difficult transition into manhood. Running from Myself is the story of of boy who used to rob people and decided to stop.
Stories of Transformation | 54:00
99% Invisible #65- Razzle Dazzle (Director's Cut)
From Roman Mars | Part of the 99% Invisible (Director's Cut) series | 10:15
This is probably not what you think of when you think of camouflage.
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Becoming invisible with your surroundings is only one type of camouflage. Camofleurs call this high similarity or blending camouflage. But camouflage can also take the opposite approach.
Think about zebras: it's hypothesized that their stripes make it difficult for a predator to distinguish one from another when the zebras are in a large herd. The stripes also might make zebras less attractive to blood sucking horseflies. This is called disruptive camouflage.
When it comes to humans, the greatest, most jaw-droppingly spectacular application of disruptive camouflage was called Dazzle.
Dazzle painting emerged in the 1910s as design solution to a very dire problem: American and British ships were being sunk left and right by German U-Boats. England needed to import supplies to fight the Central Powers, and these ships were sitting ducks in the Atlantic Ocean. They needed a way to fend of the torpedoes.
Conventional high-similarity camouflage just doesn't work in the open sea. Conditions like the color of the sky, cloud cover, and wave height change all the time, not to mention the fact that there's no way to hid all the smoke left by the ships' smoke stacks.
The strategy of this high-difference, dazzle camouflage was not about invisibility. It was about disruption. Confusion.
Torpedoes in the Great War could only be fired line-of-sight, so instead of firing at where they saw the ship was at that moment, torpedo gunners would have to chart out where the ship would be by the time the torpedo got there. They had to determine the target ship's speed and direction with just a brief look through the periscope.
The torpedo gunner's margin of error for hitting a ship was quite low. Dazzle painting could throw off an experienced submariner by as much as 55 degrees.
A journalist at the time referred to these dazzling ships as "a flock of sea-going Easter eggs."
An American "Women's Reserve Camouflage Corps" did some of the painting.
Our expert this week is Roy Behrens, a professor graphic design at the University of Northern Iowa. He's published several books about camouflaue, and also runs the Camoupedia blog.
99% Invisible #65- Razzle Dazzle (Director's Cut) | 10:15
The Mikie Show #49, Sheril
From Michael Carroll | Part of the The Mikie Show series | 28:03
If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides being Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Project on Energy Communication, she has written or co-written three books about science, has given a TED talk and is a science advisor to NPR’s Science Fridays program. I asked her how to boil an egg.
Just kidding. We talk about the future of energy and women in science, many things. Plus, a few more guests come by, but they asked that I don’t reveal their names at this time. And there’s a quiz and some news, all the things you need to know if you know what to need!
A translation of that previous sentence would be appreciated.
The Mikie Show #49, Sheril | 28:03
WTF Episode 204 with Todd Hanson
From WTF with Marc Maron | Part of the WTF with Marc Maron series | 58:59
Marc sits down with Todd Hanson, one of the original writers for The Onion. Todd is responsible for some of the smartest, funniest satire of the past two decades. But something goes unspoken during this conversation, and prompts a second discussion about a major event in Todd’s life.
WTF Episode 204 with Todd Hanson | 58:59
My First Travel Partner
From Travel with Rick Steves | Part of the Mother's Day Features - Travel with Rick Steves series | 05:39
In honor of the first Mother's Day since the death of his own mother last year, the host of the public radio show "Travel with Rick Steves" talks about his first travel partner: His mother.
Travel with Rick Steves
My First Travel Partner | 05:39
Letter to My Mom: You Haven't Lost Me
From Curie Youth Radio | 02:21
A letter from daughter to mom about love, hope, and Chuck E. Cheese
Curie Youth Radio
Curie Youth Radio is a writing and radio production class at Curie High School on Chicago's Southwest side. Here, students create their own stories: fresh takes on everything from snowball fights to gang warfare. They see their stories as a way for teenagers in one Chicago high school to reach out to the rest of the world.
Letter to My Mom: You Haven't Lost Me | 02:21
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MONEY & SPENDING
Banks As a general guide, banks across the city are open for business Monday to Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Some banks in local shopping centres are also open Saturday and Sunday (with varying opening hours).
Automatic teller machines (ATMs) are located throughout the city and will recognise cards issued by most banks.
Credit cards MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Diners Club are accepted across the city by most outlets with an increasing number accepting China Union Pay.
Currency exchange Licensed money change services are available at the Brisbane Airport and at numerous Bureaux de Change located throughout the city. Most banks also offer currency exchange services.
Notes $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100
Coins 5¢, 10¢, 20¢, 50¢, $1 and $2
Pricing Australian prices occasionally end in a variant of 1¢ or 2¢. Where this occurs, at the cash register the price is rounded to the nearest 5¢ with a cash transaction.
A 10 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) applies to most purchases and is included in the final price. The Tourist Refund Scheme allows international travellers to claim a GST refund (subject to certain conditions) on some goods purchased in Australia. The refund applies only to items worn or goods taken on board as hand luggage when leaving the country. More information available through the The Tourist Refund Scheme allows international travellers to claim a GST refund (subject to certain conditions) on some goods purchased in Australia. The refund applies only to items worn or goods taken on board as hand luggage when leaving the country. More information available through the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Security.
Tipping is your choice. Hotels and restaurants don’t add a service charge to your bill. It is common to tip up to 10 per cent in upmarket restaurants. It is not custom to bargain in Australia.
Trading hours vary but most shops in tourist and city areas are open seven days until 6pm, with late-night shopping on Thursdays in suburban areas and Fridays in Brisbane City
Brisbane has an ideal subtropical climate and at least eight hours of sun per day. Wear a hat, sunglasses and SPF 30+ sunscreen (which you should re-apply regularly) and drink plenty of water if you’re in the sun all day.
Summer runs from December to February and temperatures range from 21–30˚C. Autumn goes from March to May and temperatures range from 16–26˚C. Winter is from June to August and temperatures range from 10–21˚C and spring is from September to November with temperatures from 16–26˚C
Mains supply in Australia is 220/240 volts AC, 50Hz with three-pin plugs used across the country. The Australian three-pin electrical socket differs from those found in most countries, and international travellers may require an adaptor socket. Standard outlets for 100-volt small appliances can be found in most hotel rooms.
Adaptors can be bought from the Brisbane Visitor Information and Booking Centre in the Queen Street Mall and from all good travel stores, chemists, and department stores.
Post offices are open from 9am–5pm Monday to Friday, with some open on Saturday mornings. Travellers can collect mail at post offices throughout Australia.
If you have a disability, there is a variety of disability services in Brisbane to meet your needs. nican.com.au
During a life-threatening or time-critical emergency contact police, ambulance and/or fire brigade by calling Triple Zero (000). The Triple Zero service is an operator-assisted service that connects callers to the most relevant emergency service organisation (police, fire brigade, or ambulance). Calls to Triple Zero are free and can be made from all telephones (landline, mobile devices, and payphones). When you dial Triple Zero services, the most important thing to remember is to stay focused, stay relevant, and stay on the line. Additionally, mobile users can dial 112 while the 106 emergency number connects to a text-based relay service for people who have a hearing or speech impairment.
Australia has a high-standard healthcare system offering a mix of public and private services. Several public hospitals with accident, emergency, and outpatient services are located close to inner-city Brisbane, while private medical practitioners can be easily located through the Yellow Pages website. Some international travellers will find their country has reciprocal healthcare agreements with Australia. As a general guide, these agreements provide for any ill-health episode requiring prompt medical attention. Comprehensive travel insurance is always recommended.
Smoking is banned in all enclosed places and outdoor public spaces including all bars, restaurants and The City’s Queen Street Mall.
The legal drinking age is 18 and identification is required to enter licensed premises or to purchase alcohol. It is an offence to drink alcohol or possess an opened alcoholic drink in a public place.
With Airtrain's fast and reliable service, delegates can reach Brisbane City in just 20 minutes. The express service runs every 15 minutes from the international and domestic terminals during peak hours stopping at five inner-city stations. Tickets can be purchased online, at the Brisbane Airport customer service counter (domestic terminal) and at Airtrain, city, and suburban train stations. For further information visit the Airtrain website.
Operating seven days a week, Con-X-ion Airport Transfers offers airport travellers a door-to-door bus shuttle service from the airport covering all major city-based accommodation. Con-X-ion services both the international and domestic terminals to meet all flights. Services should be pre-booked. Tickets can be purchased online or through the customer service counters located onsite at the international and domestic terminals. For further information visit the Con-X-ion website.
Brisbane Airport offers a complimentary Inter-terminal Transfer Bus that can transfer delegates between the Domestic and International Terminals.
Various vehicle rental companies, chauffeured cars, and charter services operate in and around Brisbane. Click here to search for a Brisbane transport operator.
Want to know the easiest way to get around town? Pick up a TransLink go card to travel seamlessly on bus, rail and ferry services across South East Queensland. They are available from Queensland Rail stations, over the phone or selected retailers. 13 12 30 | gocard.translink.com.au
The free City Loop and Spring Hill Loop bus services circle the city every 10 minutes, stopping at various locations in the CBD and Spring Hill precincts between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. weekdays. The CityHopper ferry service is also free and it travels along the river from North Quay to Sydney Street, New Farm.
CityCats glide along the Brisbane River and are perfect for sightseeing and to access key city spots. Buy your tickets on board, at newsagents or selected retailers, or use your go card.
A comprehensive bus service runs throughout the city, connecting the outer and inner suburbs, major shopping centres, railway stations and ferry terminals. Take advantage of special NightLink services run until late on Fridays and Saturdays. Plan your trip now on TRANSLink’s journey planner or call 13 12 30.
Brisbane’s train network provides direct access from Greater Brisbane region covered and provides direct access to the city, quirky neighbourhood precincts, and outer suburbs. The Airtrain service is completely integrated into the Queensland Rail suburban network, with regular trains running from Brisbane Airport directly to Brisbane City and the Gold Coast. Travel on a single ticket from any station in southeast Queensland to Brisbane Airport. Click here to search for a train or call 13 12 30.
Taxi ranks are located throughout the city and at the domestic and international airports. A standard taxi will cater for four passengers or less. For wheel-chair access or to transport five to 10 passengers, it’s best to order a multi-passenger taxi. There are two taxi providers: Black and White Cabs | 13 32 22 or Yellow Cabs | 13 19 24
Uber is a fast way to get around, ordered through the Uber App, for more information or to sign up go to https://www.uber.com/en-AU/cities/brisbane/
If you wish to drive in Australia you must hold a valid international driving permit and the licence issued in the country you live in. Please note Australians drive on the left side of two-way roads.
Make the most of Brisbane’s wonderful outdoor climate by biking around town. There is an extensive network of cycle paths throughout Brisbane offering a healthy and inexpensive way of getting around.. You can hire a Brisbane City Council CityCycle bike at inner-city destinations. 1300 229 253 | citycycle.com.au
English is the official language of Australia but many foreign languages are used by local communities, including Arabic, Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, and Chinese dialects. Translation and interpreter services can be accessed 24 hours a day by calling 13 14 50.
PASSPORTS & VISA
All international travellers must present a valid and approved travel document (generally a passport) as evidence of their identity and nationality to allow entry into Australia. In addition, all international travellers (with the exception of most New Zealand passport holders) must also obtain a valid visa before travelling to Australia.
As a general guide, travellers are encouraged to apply for their Australian visa well in advance of their planned departure date.
Visit the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection website for further information: http://www.border.gov.au/
A population of 2.2 million calls Brisbane home, making it the third-largest city in Australia, with a median age of 35, and more than a quarter of Brisbane residents born overseas.
THINGS TO DO IN BRISBANE
Brisbane’s abuzz with creative ways to spend your days. Get to know where the locals eat, drink and play in the inner-city and nearby urban villages. Soak up our subtropical climate, explore the river, parks and outdoor spaces, or delve into a calendar of internationally acclaimed arts, cultural and sporting events. It’s a great place to entertain the kids, or spend time without them! You’ll discover some of the best restaurants in the country as well as a vibrant live music, contemporary art and gallery scene. You can mix with the locals at weekend markets, shop for international brands and cutting-edge local designer fashion, or scour antique shops for just the right memento of your stay. Whatever your pleasure, Brisbane will inspire. Click here for more information.
Common country codes
0011 + 852
0011 + 1
Directory assistance: 1223
Emergency calls in Australia: 000
Brisbane operates on Australian Eastern Standard Time: GMT +10 hours. Daylight savings times do not apply in Queensland.
Stop by for local advice on what’s on, what to see and where to stay. Use the free booking service to purchase discounted tickets to a variety of tourist attractions, book accommodation and tours in Brisbane and beyond, plus find out information about events happening around Brisbane.
Brisbane Visitor Information Centre
Regent Theatre, 167 Queen Street Mall
Mon–Thu 9am–5.30pm, Fri 9am–7pm,
Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 10am–5pm
E: visit@brisbanemarketing.com.au
South Bank Visitor Information Centre
South Bank Parklands,
Stanley Street Plaza | 07 3156 6366
E: vicsouthbank@brisbanemarketing.com.au
Mon–Sun 9am–5pm
Brisbane Airport Ambassadors & Visitor Information
Visitor Information centres are also located at the Brisbane Airport in the arrivals hall of the international terminal and on the ground floor of the domestic terminal. Both centres offer a range of information and booking services for travellers.
International Terminal: Open for all arriving and departing flights.
Domestic Terminal: Lost Property: Monday to Friday from 9:00am - 2:00pm
Brisbane Airport Ambassadors: Monday to Sunday from 7:00am - 2:45pm
For more information on where to eat, drink, shop, play, and stay in Brisbane, go to www.visitbrisbane.com.au or click here for an insider’s guide to Brisbane
BCEC on Grey Street, the boutique expansion of the Centre’s convention space is one of Australia’s most flexible meeting and events venues. BCEC was recently voted the "Worlds Best Convention Centre" in 2016 from the International Association of Congress Centres (AIPC).
Located in picturesque South Bank, Brisbane’s unique riverside cultural, entertainment and dining precinct in the heart of the city of Brisbane. Set in lush subtropical riverfront parkland, it is a dynamic urban lifestyle and retail precinct that showcases Queensland's art and culture and is home to Brisbane's newest dining destination. Located on a one kilometre stretch of the Brisbane River, South Bank is home to the only sand and swimming beach in the heart of an Australian city. You'll be surprised at the diversity of attractions, with rainforest walks, more than 50 restaurants, cafes and bars, stylish shops, symphony orchestras, state opera companies, performing arts theatres and art culture including Australia's most celebrated Gallery of Modern Art.
Rydges South Bank
Rydges South Bank is ideally situated next door to the Brisbane Convention Centre.
Spacious rooms with one queen bed and large picture window. Many offer views overlooking Mt Coot-tha and the cosmopolitan village of West End. Each room has been recently refurbished and offers Free Wi-Fi; Refrigerator & Minibar; HD LED Television; Work Desk; Tea & Coffee Makin Facilities plus much more.
Room Only $249/night
Next Hotel
NEXT Hotel Brisbane is located in the Queen Street mall, with shopping at the door steps and short walk across to South Bank.
NEXT Hotel’s Standard Queen Rooms are located on floors 5 – 16 with city views. Each room has a DreamWeave Sleep System Queen Bed, Espresso Coffee Machine, Free Wi-Fi, 4 Free Mini Bar items per night, Free local calls, Free NEXT Lounge access. All NEXT Hotel’s Standard Queen Rooms have a 48′ TV.
Mercure Brisbane
Set in the heart of Brisbane CBD, Mercure Brisbane is among the leading hotels for business and holiday travel in the bustling capital of Queensland. It is a short 15 minute work across the river to the Convention Centre.
City View Room
Spacious rooms with one queen bed (twin available) with stunning City Views. Each room offers Refrigerator & Minibar; Television with internet access; High speed wired/wireless internet access; Te and coffee making facilities plus much more.
Ibis Brisbane
Ibis Brisbane is conveniently located in the city center, within easy walking distance of the Queen Street Mall shopping precinct, Treasury Casino, South Bank Parklands, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Roma Street Transit Centre.
Equipped with the new Sweet Bed by ibis bedding, the generous sized rooms offer everything you need for a comfortable stay: queen size beds, large desk area, internet, LCD TV. No rollaway. Twin Rooms are also available.
Mantra South Bank
Mantra South Bank is located on the southern bank of the Brisbane River and is right in the middle of everything you come to Brisbane for. Mantra South Bank is adjacent to the Brisbane Convention Centre.
Your gallery style kitchenette features sleek granite bench tops and gives you the convenience of a microwave and sink. Keep in touch with in-room internet access and direct dial ISDN phone. The Studio Apartment will suit your needs perfectly with mini bar, climate controlled air-conditioning and in-house movies.
The One Bedroom Apartments feature modern furnishings and boast spacious living areas to relax in. These apartments are air-conditioned and self-contained with a full kitchen, private balcony, internet access and LCD TV. There is one King or one Queen and two Single beds, a Sofa bed is available by request.
If there's a few of you, we recommend Mantra South Bank's Two Bedroom Apartments with full kitchen featuring cook-top, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher, stainless steel appliances and an additional touch of glamour with stylish stone bench tops.Relax in the modern and spacious surrounds with room to spread out and take it easy. Your private balcony is a great place for a pre-dinner drink. Inside you'll be most comfortable with two bathrooms, climate controlled air-conditioning, in-house movies, laundry facilities, Wi-Fi internet access, mini bar, and CD system.
Oaks Casino Towers
Occupying a coveted position opposite the Treasury Casino lies the 4.5 star Oaks Casino Towers, one of Brisbane’s most sought after hotels, offering a unique combination of luxury, serviced apartment accommodation and stellar leisure facilities. Oaks Casino Towers is perfectly complemented by a central CBD location on George Street. Standing at a statuesque 39 levels, Oaks Casino Towers fuses stylishly appointed 1 and 2 bedroom apartments with sleek designs, full kitchens complete with modern appliances, in-room conveniences including Internet access, spacious living and dining areas and sizeable balconies overlooking the city and Brisbane River below. Oaks Casino Towers is a short walk across the Victoria Bridge to the Convention Centre.
The 1 Bedroom Apartment offers a spacious balcony and living area accompanied by a full, European-style kitchen and laundry facilities.
Room Only - $153/night
Featuring modern European style finishes, the 2 Bedroom Apartments offer comfort and convenience with a full kitchen and a spacious balcony.
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Make Holidays (and every day) Brighter
So many holiday memories are created around the dinner table -- sharing and enjoying special meals with friends and family.
Unfortunately, not all Hoosiers are able to afford a nutritious meal this holiday season or throughout the year. One in four Hoosier children is at risk for hunger. "Eating and enjoying good food should not be a right of only those who can afford it," says Amanda Nickey, president and CEO of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, one of the United Way member agencies striving to eliminate hunger in our community.
United Way member agencies work hard to ensure everyone has sufficient food. At Community Kitchen, staff and volunteers provide meals to children and seniors struggling with hunger. Mother Hubbard's Cupboard sees around 400 new patrons each month, many of whom are working families having trouble making ends meet. At Hoosier Hills Food Bank, volunteers help make sure 3.2 million pounds of food is distributed annually. Vicki Pierce, Executive Director of Community Kitchen says, "We have seen continual increases in the need for food assistance and a decrease in food donations."
This year, please ensure all of our neighbors have access to nutritious food. Consider making a donation to United Way today. You make an impact. Today, tomorrow, and throughout the year.
Bloom Front Page Challenge: Winners Announced!
Local businesses and organizations taking part in Bloom Magazine's Front Page Challenge competition raised more than $42,000 for United Way, our initiatives, and our member agencies. Hats off to all who participated!
Partnering with United Way, Bloom issued a challenge to small, medium, and large local businesses and organizations to see who could raise the most money for United Way initiatives and member agencies.
The prize: The winner in each category would appear on the cover of the December/January Bloom.
So from June - October, businesses and organizations took the challenge, stepped up for their community, and creatively raised money and awareness.
Want to see the winners for yourself? Click Here >>
Happenings on the Campaign Trail
Workplaces throughout Monroe County are choosing to make an impact by hosting their own United Way fundraising campaigns. Thanks to the workplaces below for hosting fun activities to raise awareness about United Way.
IU Credit Union
The IU Credit Union is creating a stronger community with generous corporate and employee contributions! Your donations will help individuals and families meet their basic needs, while continuing to build job and life skills. Thank you to IUCU for making an impact!
A big THANKS to BKD for finishing up a successful United Way fundraising campaign! Thanks for helping to strengthen your community!
Hillard Lyons
Hilliard Lyons' employees made an investment in the community by increasing their contributions 12%. What a great way to support your neighbors!
LIFEDesigns, Inc.
LifeDesigns staff increased their giving 275%! Fun activities like Penny Wars and Jeans for a Cause helped lead to this increase. Thanks to all the great employees -- your contributions help improve our community!
It's easy! Just visit monroeunitedway.org and donate securely via credit card or download a pledge card and return it to our office. You can make a contribution with cash, check, credit card, automatic bank withdrawal, stocks and securities, or can choose to be billed.
Want to see your workplace in our next newsletter? Want to hold a campaign in your workplace? Contact Resource Development Director Lori Garraghty by email or call her at (812) 334-8370.
Forbes Magazine names United Way as one of its charity "All-Stars"
Forbes Magazine has named United Way one of the top five "All-Star" charities in the U.S. We couldn't agree more!
Thanks to our community for partnering, donating, and supporting initiatives that make us all stronger.
Financial Stability is always in season!
United Way team members met with residents at Stepping Stones, one of our member agencies, to talk about holiday saving and spending. We discussed holiday shopping tips, money-saving smartphone apps, and plenty of do-it-yourself gift ideas. Each Stepping Stones resident even made their own magnet board to give a friend as a gift this holiday season! Thanks to Stepping Stones for inviting us!
You help ensure our neighbors have employment support
Cheryl lights up any room she enters.
Her cheerful smile, strong work ethic, and positive attitude deeply touches the officers and staff at the IU Police Department - and earn her a spot as a valuable team member. Working at the IUPD has expanded Cheryl's world, developed her skills, and increased her independence.
A client of Stone Belt Community Employment, Cheryl works three days a week at IUPD shredding, cleaning, and lightening the load of her co-workers. Stone Belt provides educational, residential, employment, and clinical resources to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. This support prepares and empowers clients to experience self-determination while participating fully in the life of the community.
Your Impact: Making Holidays Brighter
Workplace Campaign Update
United Way is Recognized by Forbes Magazine
FSA/Stepping Stones Holiday Savings
Your Impact: Employment Support
Working to improve the lives of community members tomorrow begins with action today. Your donations make an impact. Every day.
Education... Of the high school seniors enrolled in mentoring programs at United Way member agencies, 100% graduated.
$1/wk can provide basic school supplies for one teen at risk of homelessness.
Earnings... 100% of participants in the Bank on Bloomington "Get on the Path to Financial Success" workshops reported that they are now better able to manage a bank account and maintain a budget.
$2/wk can provide assistance for an individual with disabilities in setting up and balancing a household budget.
Essentials... 88% of women at Middle Way House The Rise have developed a long-term housing plan for their future.
$5/wk can provide an at-risk child with a food-filled backpack each weekend.
Calendar of Upcoming Events:
It's Your Money: Talk To an Expert
Monroe County Public Library, Room 2C
Free and confidential one-on-one sessions with a financial expert.
It's Your Money: Saving & Paying for College
Monroe County Public Library, Room 2B
Find out how to fit paying for college into your financial plans. Aimed at ages 15-29. Please register here.
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United Way of Monroe County is a nonprofit organization that improves people's lives by addressing critical needs today and working to reduce those needs tomorrow. Through our Community Action Fund, Priority Funds, and grant initiatives, we work with 24 member agencies and community partners to focus resources on the building blocks for a better life: education, earnings, and the essentials.
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<p>15-year-old Kurosaki Ichigo is not your everyday high school student. He has from as far he can remember always had the ability to see ghosts and spirits. A fateful day arrives as Ichigo encounters the shinigami Kuchiki Rukia, who saves him and his family from a Hollow at the cost of injuring herself. During this encounter, with Rukia unable to defeat the hollow she transfers her shinigami powers into Ichigo. In the aftermath, unable to continue with her job, Rukia allows Ichigo to take on the role of a shinigami in her place as they together defeat the Hollows plaguing Ichigo's town. </p>
#action #comedy #fantasy #shounen
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Ring ni Kakero 1
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#action #shounen #sports
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#comedy #romance #school #shounen
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#action #adventure #comedy #ecchi #shounen #sci-fi
<p>Yakitate means "fresh baked", but the word "Japan" is actually a pun - pan means bread in Japanese, so Kazuma is out to make Japan, a unique Japanese bread to compete with the best bread from around the world!</p><p> Azuma became obsessed with bread when he was six years old. His sister yelled that their family should start having bread for breakfast sometimes, but their grandfather refused to even consider it, as he would only eat natto, miso soup, and rice for breakfast. Kazuma agreed, saying he didn`t like bread, but his sister kidnaps him and takes him to a bread store to show him the wonders of fresh-baked bread. Not only is Kazuma converted, but the owner discovers that Kazuma has the magical "Hands of the Sun" whose warmth makes them particularly suited to making bread. The owner packs up shop and goes to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of making Japan, but Kazuma continues his bread-baking dream as well, and ends up going to Tokyo himself when he`s sixteen, to compete for a spot at the foremost bread store in Japan - Pantasia!</p>
#comedy #shounen
<p>Mirai, an improved Kongou-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, is one of the newest and most advanced ships in the entire Japanese Self Defense Force (SDF). Her crew, also one of the newest, is lead by Capt. Umezu Saburo and Executive Officer Kadomatsu Yosuke. While running scheduled training exercises one day, Mirai encounters a fierce storm that throws their navigation systems into temporary disarray. After a few minutes of recovery, the crew is shocked to discover that they've been transported back in time to June 4, 1942—The Battle of Midway, during World War II. Letting history take its course for this battle, they manage to avoid the conflict firsthand and make a vow to remain annonymous, changing history as little as possible. However, when the crew comes across the dying Lt. Commander Kusaka Takumi, XO. Kadomatsu's instincts to save lives takes over, changing the course of history more than he could've imagined.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#action #drama #historical #military #seinen #sci-fi
<p>Tanaka Yukio, better known by his nickname Koyuki, is a 14-year-old who feels disconnected from life in general. Through the act of saving a mismatched dog, he meets guitarist Minami Ryuusuke, and becomes involved in Ryuusuke's new band BECK. Koyuki's life starts to change as the band struggles toward fame. </p>
#comedy #drama #music #shounen #slice of life
<p>Sakurada Jun spends his days online, ordering whatever he takes a liking to, only to return it before the payment is due. Due to psychological trauma from school, Jun generally keeps contact with people as little as possible. One day he finds instructions online that tell him to put his order into his desk drawer. Rubbing it off as a joke, Jun mindlessly does so only to find that his order instantly disappears from his drawer. A package suddenly appears, containing a beautiful antique doll. When wound up, this doll comes to life. Sadly for Jun, this doll Shinku views Jun as an equivalent for a servant. Despite the constant demands Jun now receives from Shinku, she slowly helps him overcome his fears of human contact as well as protect him from the deadly battles that come into his life due to her appearance. Based on the manga by PEACH-PIT.</p>
#action #comedy #drama #magic #seinen
<p>Sakura Mikan and Imai Hotaru are best friends, and Mikan is shocked to find that Hotaru is transferring to a school in Tokyo for gifted students like her—Alice Academy. Mikan hears rumors that the students are like prisoners there, and worried what would happen to Hotaru, she runs away to head to the school herself. She finds out all the wonderful things about this school. And she heads into a great adventure!!</p>
<p>Third grader Takamachi Nanoha stumbled upon an injured talking ferret after hearing his telepathic cries for help. The ferret turned out to be Yuuno, an archeologist and mage from another world who had accidentally scattered the dangerous Jewel Seeds throughout Earth. Without the strength to collect the Jewel Seeds, Yuuno had resumed a ferret form and needed someone else to take on the task for him. He gave a red jewel to Nanoha explaining to her with this she could transform and use magic to combat the monsters that threatened them due to the Jewel Seeds. But the monsters are the least of their worries, as Yuuno and Nanoha are not the only ones out to collect the Jewel Seeds.</p>
#action #comedy #drama #magic
<p>C.E. 73: While the second battle of Yachin Due brought the war between the Naturals and Coordinators to a close, tensions between the two races are at an all-time high. During a meeting between PLANT Chairman Gilbert Dullindal and Orb Representative Cagalli Yula Athha, a unit of soldiers hijack ZAFT's newly developed Gundams. ZAFT soldier Shinn Asuka along with his friends at the ZAFT ship Minerva sortie in attempt to deter this hijacking. With the assistance of Cagalli's bodyguard, Athrun Zala, the Minerva chases after the unknown ship that hijacked the Gundams until an even greater problem occurs leading to the start of the second Bloody Valentine war.</p>
#action #drama #mecha #romance #military #sci-fi
<p>Thirteen girls, each with the ability to materialize "Elements" and summon metallic guardians called "Childs" have been brought to Fuuka Academy to battle mysterious creatures called Orphans. Each with a different personality and background, they must decide who they truly care about and why they fight. </p>
#action #comedy #drama #fantasy #mecha #romance #school #magic
<p>Ever since their parents died a few years ago, Ryo and his sister Akane have been living alone together. Despite their difficult situation, they are still living reasonably happy and normal lives. However, everything is about to be flipped upside-down due to a secret government project. Due to increasingly low birth rates in Japan, the Japanese government is testing a program in which two young people are forced to marry. Ryo wants no part of it, but he is given little choice in the matter; his new fiancée, Shizuka, comes to his home late one night with several dozen government issued bodyguards, who are there to ensure the success of the new couple. Unlike Ryo, Shizuka couldn’t be more willing to go along with this new program, and eagerly goes about her wifely duties, despite his objections. With meddling friends, pushy bodyguards, and an overenthusiastic new fiancée, Ryo’s life has taken a turn in a direction the young man certainly didn’t expect.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#comedy #drama #romance #slice of life
Futakoi
With his mother dead and his father working abroad, Futami Nozomu returns to the town where he lived as a child, to attend high school and work part-time at a local shrine. He soon finds himself caught up in a local legend of twin girls loving the same man. And there are many twin girls in this town....
<p>The highborn Himemiya Chikane is cool and aloof, the perfect young lady of good breeding. Kurusegawa Himeko is devoted to her, and secretly her friend. Their lives are undisturbed in their school, until an ancient evil suddenly rears its head. To combat it, Chikane and Himeko must take on the roles of shrine maidens of the Moon and Sun. </p>
#drama #mecha #romance #shounen #magic
<p>Ichinomiya Kantarou grew up with the ability to see demons, but was isolated and bullied by others who did not share the same gift. Instead, he became being friends with the demons, gaining a great attachment to their existence. One day, Kantarou was told about the strongest demon, the one known as the ogre-eating Tengu. Amazed by the news of his strength, Kantarou vowed to find this demon who was far stronger then any other, deciding to call him Haruka when he did so. Since this time, Kantarou searched far and wide for the ogre-eating Tengu with no luck, making his living by becoming a folklore writer and demon-buster. On a particularly job, Kantarou had finally found news of a nearby shrine supposedly the place where the ogre-eating Tengu was sealed.</p>
#comedy #mystery #drama #fantasy #shounen
<p>Gankutsuou is an anime loosely based on the novel </p><p> by Alexandre Dumas. It tells the story of Albert Morcerf, a young aristocrat who happens to befriend a wealthy nobleman, The Count of Monte Cristo, through a series of bizarre events. Fascinated by the Count's charm, Albert invites him to meet his friends and family, all of whom happen to be part of the upper class society of Paris, France. Unfortunately, little does Albert realize that the Count has ulterior motives in mind.</p><p> [Written by MAL Rewrite]</p>
#mystery #drama #thriller #sci-fi
<p>Sasahara Kanji is a college freshman who decides to join a student society to share his hidden thoughts on manga, anime and gaming.</p><p> When he first visited Genshiken, short for "Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyuu Kai" (Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture), his groundless pride was destroyed by the plotting of Madarame, a sophomore student in Genshiken, but he still couldn't admit that he is an otaku.</p><p> However, as he participates in society activities such as visiting dojin (private publishing) shops and anime festivals, and hangs out with other society members Kosaka (a hardcore otaku despite his extreme eccentricities and good looks), Kosaka's girlfriend Kasukabe Saki (who isn't really an otaku), Ohno (a cosplayer) and the others, he opens his mind and resolves that he will make his way into the otaku world. With their help, Sasahara slowly adjusts to otaku life in Genshiken.</p><p> (Source: AnimeNfo)</p>
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Hachiyou Shou
<p>Akane Motomiya and her friends Tenma and Shimon are pulled by a demon into another world, where Akane becomes the Priestess of the Dragon God. The people of this world tell her that she is the only one who can stop the demons from taking over; meanwhile, the demons want to use her power for their own ends. Luckily, Akane has the Hachiyou, eight men with powers of their own who are sworn to protect the Dragon Priestess.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#fantasy #historical #shoujo #demons #magic
<p>* Based on a game by CAPCOM</p><p> “Movie Land” is a world where movie characters were real. There was en evil syndicate, Jado, they altered the movie contents at their own will, and they tried to rule the people in the real world by showing the modified movie to them.</p><p> One day, Joe went to the theater with his lover Silvia to watch a hero movie, “Captain Blue”. However, the movie ended with a tragedy no one expected. “Captain Blue” was helplessly beaten by the evil syndicate Jado. Then, the leader of Jado declared that they would conquer the real world, and they took Silvia into the screen.</p><p> To take her back, Joe turns into a super hero to battle against them. In the world of “Movie Land”, now begins the beautiful battle of Viewtiful Joe.</p><p> (Source: AniDB)</p>
#action #comedy #shounen #sci-fi
<p>Jouji Gouda is a new transfer student at Hakuryo High. He fell in love at first sight and boldly proposed to Akane Suzumiya, representative of his class, on his first day at the new school. Although Akane finds him very annoying, hot-blooded and simple-minded Jouji never gives up and would do anything to express his love towards Akane. </p>
#comedy #mecha #romance
Grenadier: Hohoemi no Senshi
<p>Rushuna is a blonde and very beautiful Senshi (gun expert) that travels through the world with one purpose. Which is to make the world a peaceful place by, instead of fighting with weapons, taking away the people's will to fight by giving them a smile. Although she doesn't want to fight, she is forced to, and shows amazing gun skills. In this journey she meets Yajirou, a mercenary that uses a sword to fight and joins her on her journey. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#action #adventure #comedy #ecchi #shounen
Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
<p>The first season begins with introducing the characters, their past and their ambitions. Orpherus, Eduard, Camus, Lui and Naoji are five noblemen who attend the prestigious Rozenstolz academy, and who are a part of the Strahl class – a class for potential candidates for the advisory positions in the royal palace in the small European country of Kuchen. Isaac is an English writer who visits Kuchen. While still students, the five noblemen are forced to deal with corrupted politicians, secret agents, attempted murder and ambitious individuals from both inside and outside of school who threatens to break the fragile peace in their country, and even assassinate the king.</p>
Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
<p>Morioka Kouhei wants to become a photographer. Unfortunately, he has the tendency to unintentionally capture the images of ghosts on film.</p><p> One day, he visits an old castle in Germany where he meets a vampire girl, Hazuki. It turns out that Hazuki is confined in the castle against her will. She tries to turn Kouhei into her slave by sucking his blood, with the intent to have him break the device sealing her in the castle. Although Kouhei proves to be immune to the vampire's curse, he is eventually forced to help her. Hazuki successfully escapes from the castle and leaves for Japan to look for her mother.</p><p> When she arrives in Japan, she goes to Kohei's house where he lives with his grandfather, who agrees to take in the girl. Due to his own childhood experiences, the sympathetic Kouhei agrees to aid Hazuki in her quest.</p><p> However, other vampires, including Elfried and Count Kinkell, manage to track Hazuki to Japan. They will stop at nothing to retrieve her.</p><p> (Source: AnimeNfo)</p>
#comedy #fantasy #romance #shounen #vampire #seinen
W: Wish
<p>Based on a game by Princess Soft</p><p> The main character, Junna has a twin sister Senna. He is an ordinal student of an elite school. However, in the past, a traffic accident deprived him of his parents and his memory. Junna survived the accident, and he has lived only with his sister though he has been looked after by his relatives.</p><p> And present...</p><p> The life with Senna in the same high school is so pleasant that he can forget the severe past. Because he has been in the world where there is only Senna, his lives in this town, such as the beginning of a new life, new environments, and the meetings, are so refreshing.</p><p> However, he begins to recall the memories he lost in the accident. Though he enjoys happy and pleasant days, he is tossed by the past, the present, and the future. What is the truth hidden in his memory?</p><p> (Source: AniDB)</p>
#drama #romance #school #harem #slice of life
Tales of Phantasia: The Animation
<p>Cless Alvein, a young swordsman from the town of Totus, along with his friend Mint Adnade, a healer with the talent of Mana, are sent back in time to defeat Dhaos, a sorcerer imprisoned by their parents decades ago. Along with the help of the archer Chester Barklight, the summoner Klarth F. Lester and the half-elf Arche Klaine, they seek to right the wrongs of Dhaos and return peace to the land. Based on the 1995 Super Famicom Game by NAMCO, "Tales of Phantasia."</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
Howl no Ugoku Shiro
That jumbled piece of architecture, that cacophony of hissing steam and creaking joints, with smoke billowing from it as it moves on its own... That castle is home to the magnificent wizard Howl, infamous for both his magical prowess and for being a womanizer—or so the rumor goes in Sophie Hatter's small town. Sophie, as the plain daughter of a hatmaker, does not expect much from her future and is content with working hard in the shop.
However, Sophie's simple life takes a turn for the exciting when she is ensnared in a disturbing situation, and the mysterious wizard appears to rescue her. Unfortunately, this encounter, brief as it may be, spurs the vain and vengeful Witch of the Waste—in a fit of jealousy caused by a past discord with Howl—to put a curse on the maiden, turning her into an old woman.
In an endeavor to return to normal, Sophie must accompany Howl and a myriad of eccentric companions—ranging from a powerful fire demon to a hopping scarecrow—in his living castle, on a dangerous adventure as a raging war tears their kingdom apart.
#adventure #drama #fantasy #romance
Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho
<p>In an alternate timeline, Japan was divided after losing World War II: Hokkaido was annexed by "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands were under US sovereignty. A gigantic yet mysterious tower was constructed at Hokkaido and could be seen clearly from Aomori (the northernmost prefecture of Honshu) across Tsugaru Strait. In the summer of 1996, three 9th-graders had made a promise that one day they'll build an aircraft and unravel the tower's mystery, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, began experiencing sleeping sickness and transferred to Tokyo for better treatment. Three years later, Hiroki Fujisawa accidentally found out that Sayuri had been in a coma since then, and he asked Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to revive her. What they don't know yet is that Sayuri's unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower and the world.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#drama #romance #military #sci-fi
Phantom: The Animation
<p>Zwei was an ordinary person, until one day, while walking the streets a night, he witnessed a brutal assassination. He managed to avoid the sniper, a young girl named Ein, but was soon captured, and had the memories of his former life erased. He is spared death only by accepting a condition: to train to become an assassin alongside Ein. Now, he must find a way to free himself from this shady world and reclaim his life once again.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#action #drama #shounen
InuYasha: Guren no Houraijima
<p>The mysterious island of Houraijima has reappeared after 50 years, and with its reappearance has brought the attack of four gods, the Shitoushin, who have their eyes set on the powers that protect and sustain the island. Now it's up to Inuyasha and his friends, along with Sesshoumaru, to find a way to defeat the powerful Shitoushin. </p><p> (Source: ANN) </p>
#adventure #comedy #drama #historical #romance #shounen #demons
<p>A group of enigmatic white-haired children has been spotted at different times and places in Europe for over 500 years. Always with the appearance of 11-year-olds, they behave far more mature than they should be, never grow old, and seem to have supernatural power. What they have been seeking is a girl, and the only clue they have is a picture with a crescent moon. Now, in the year of 2012, an athletic boy named Tohma is about to be involved in this centuries-long mystery.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#adventure #mystery #fantasy #romance #sci-fi
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX
<p>Duel Academy, one of the most prestigious schools in Duel Monster's history. There students learn the fundamentals of becoming not just duelists, but large business owners.</p><p> Yuki Judai is a new student with only one thing on his mind, to become the next King Of Games. Judai meets several friends, teachers, and even enemies at the large Dueling school. There he'll have to face off against several different Dorms to become number one duelist. Slifer Red, Ra Yellow, and Obelisk Blue are the three dorms. Will Judai be able to pass all of them?</p><p> Based on Kazuki Takahashi's world famous anime and manga Yu-Gi-Oh!.</p><p> (Source: Otakufreakmk2)</p>
#action #comedy #fantasy #game #shounen
Kakyuusei 2: Hitomi no Naka no Shoujotachi
<p> Many people have fond memories of meeting a certain teenage boy in their younger years. However, their ages vary widely, and each remembers him as a teen. This story follows the intricate intertwining of their various stories and how this young man, who apparently lives outside of time, has affected each of them. </p>
#comedy #drama #romance #school #harem
Sakura Taisen: Le Nouveau Paris
<p>After Ichiro Ogami's departure, the girls of the Paris Flower Defense Force are left debating who will be the next captain, while a centuries-old threat surfaces. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#adventure #mecha #shounen #sci-fi
Onmyou Taisenki
<p>All his life, Riku Tachibana has been raised by his grandfather. For some reason, the old man has always been fond of strange hand gestures, and they've rubbed off on Riku, who performs them almost subconsciously, to his classmates' great amusement. One day, however, it suddenly becomes clear to Riku what his grandfather has been surreptitiously teaching him. And the teachings could mean the difference between life and death for Riku. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
<p>Honda Shigeharu is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Hoshino Momoko is Goro's schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#comedy #drama #shounen #sports
<p>Chihiro Enomoto is a freshman that just got to a new school called Rikkyoin High School. He lost his parents in a traffic accident when he was 10. Since then, he has been living only with his elder sister Shinobu. He is good at cooking and cleaning, and does all the housekeeping jobs. He fell in love with Tokino at first sight when he met her in the school library on the first day of school. Another girl named Ritsuko, a childhood friend of Chihiro and the chair of student council, falls in the love with the boy instantly after this long-awaited reunion. But she is not the only one who is in love with him. This is the story about a one-year campaign among the candidates for the next students government leaders, who are also chosen by the lot (kujibiki), in order to gain the position.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
To Heart: Remember My Memories
<p>Time flies by; Hiroyuki and Akari are 12th-graders now. Both of them and their friends have grown up gradually in someway, physically or mentally, but one of their best friends is missing: the lifelike android Multi. To their surprise, Multi is brought to their campus again without notice, yet she is no longer the same Multi they have known. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#drama #romance #school #harem #sci-fi #slice of life
Uta Kata
<p>On the last day of the school year, 14-year-old Ichika Tachibana comes across an old, busted mirror in an unused campus building. When Manatsu, a mysterious girl from inside the mirror, steps out and offers her friendship for the summer, she also offers Ichika magical powers. Now, Manatsu must help Ichika unlock the powers of the 12 Djinn in order to complete her magic training... but perhaps this is something that will prove too difficult a task. Some offers may appear to be too good to be true and this one just may turn out to do more harm than good. </p><p> (Source: ANN) </p>
#drama #fantasy #school #magic
Nanami-chan
<p>Michi and her family have just moved into the Happiness House, a huge tree with all sorts of little buildings and houses built on and inside of it. Upon exploring what is to be her new bedroom, Michi finds an odd nut-like object. Before long, a strange creature, Nanami-chan, hatches out of it. The two become fast friends. Together, Michi and Nanami-chan learn all kind of new things, and everyday they meet more eccentric residents of the Happiness House. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
<p>After wandering through the desert for days, a bitter warrior named Munsu is lost and unable to continue. His life is unexpectedly saved by Mon-ryon, a young man who dreams of becoming a secret agent for Jushin, a once-great country that was recently destroyed. Mon-ryon's goal is to save his girlfriend, Chunhyan, a born fighter who is held captive by the evil Lord Byonand. Then, from out of nowhere, blood begins trickling from his chest. He has been fatally wounded by the Sarinjas, a cannibalistic breed of desert goblin. The quick-thinking Munsu convinces these beasts to spare his life, in exchange for the peaceful handover of Mon-ryon's appetizing corpse. Although skeptical of Mon-ryon's motives, Munsu sets out to continue the mission that the young idealist described. Accompanied by an army of ghost troops, unleashed using the powers of Angyo Onshi, Munsu liberates Chunhyan. After visiting her boyfriend's final resting place, she declares herself Munsu's bodyguard and, together, they set out on a mission to punish those who stripped Jushin of its original glory. </p><p> (Source: AniDB)</p>
#action #fantasy
Top wo Nerae 2! Diebuster
While Gunbuster's final mission destroyed the space monsters' star system, the intergalactic war still continues. Earth's only hope lies in the hands of "TOPLESS," an elite mecha group with children possessing supernatural powers and new Buster Machines. Among their ranks is a rookie named Nono and the ace pilot Lal'C—whom Nono looks at as a "big sister." Together with their teammates Nicholas and Chiko, they must aim for the top and protect all of mankind from the wrath of the space monsters.
#action #comedy #mecha #sci-fi
Netrun-mon the Movie
<p>"Netrun-mon THE MOVIE #1" is an original animation DVD convceived by Netrunner Magazine to celebrate their 5th birthday. This 30-min OVA is directed by Poyoyon Rock (of "Popotan" fame) and stars cute Netrunner characters Nin'i-tan and friends. </p><p> (Source: AniDB)</p>
Samurai Gun
<p>It is the beginning of the industrial revolution, and feudal Japan is in turmoil. The ruling Shogun are wielding their abusive powers to instill fear and dominance over their oppressed subjects. Beatings, imprisonment, rape and even murder are the adopted tactics chosen to maintain their reign. The bloodshed must end. A group of Samurai have banded together, and, with the development of new weapons and new technology, they have both the will and the hardware to stand up and fight. Ichimatsu is one of these fighters. By day, he works incognito at a local tavern, in the evenings he frequents the brothels, and by the dark of night, he doles out some big-time, gun-barrel justice. He is here to help. He is Samurai Gun. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#action #historical #seinen
Fuujin Monogatari
<p>Nao, an 8th grader, is one of the only two members of a Digital Camera Club, where she also serves as the manager. It's a mystery that she shoots nothing else but the skies and clouds. One day, she finds a cat on a rooftop where she usually shoots her camera. It's a cat that knows how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Shocked to find a strange animal, Nao loses her footing and falls off from the rooftop!</p><p> Miki is the other member of the club, and also Nao's best friend. Mr. Taiki is the teacher who's taught the cat how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Ryoko is a girl who has a huge crush on Mr. Taiki. And there's Jun, who helps Nao and Miki look for a cat that can fly. Then, there's Yukio, who is the widow of Mr. Taiki's deceased brother.</p><p> On the outskirts of this big city, a town off the "Wind Handlers," has been formed—and a mysterious Wind Festival is about to begin...</p><p> (Source: Production I.G)</p>
#drama #fantasy #school #slice of life
PostPet Momobin
<p>Momo and Komomo can deliver mail from anyone, to anyone. To anywhere in the world, the galaxy, or the universe. Under the sea, high up in the clouds, and around the corner. To the past, the present, or the future. They both work tirelessly to insure that the important letters of people are delivered, while Komomo also works hard to keep the ever distracted Momo on task.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
Ryuusei Sentai Musumet
<p>One day, seven shooting stars fell on to the ground. The shooting stars were colored by seven colors, and they had terrible powers. Those who took the shooting star were tuned into monsters by embodying their desires.</p><p> Dr. Mishina and Dr. Kishiwada obtained the red, green, and blue stars secretly, and they studied the stars. Finally, they could successfully control their power by putting a special helmet on.</p><p> The newly developed helmet, "Musumet", was as large as an automobile helmet. Putting Musumet on the head, it turned a person's body into the strongest one on the earth. Furthermore, it received the signal from the brain and amplified the inherent power and ability unlimitedly.</p><p> To utilize the power of "Musumet", to keep the world peace, and to protect from the disasters caused by the remaining shooting stars, Dr. Mishima and Dr. Kishida founded a secret organization "MET". However, he died before he accomplished his aim.</p><p> The bereaved daughters, Aoi, Midori, and Kurenai, made up their minds to become Musmet in order to execute the father's will.</p><p> Even if they turned into Musumet, their wearing wouldn't change except helmets, gloves, and boots. Therefore, they had to go to the scenes wearing their own clothes. The girls had to go to the incident spots occasionally wearing school uniforms, occasionally gymnasium suits, occasionally swimming suits, depending the case, they had to go there even if they were naked, and they would do great jobs. On the other hand, at other times, they were ordinal adolescent girls who were dreaming of lovely meetings with boyfriends.</p><p> Whether would they cope with the world peace and boyfriends at the same time? </p><p> (Source: AnimeNfo)</p>
#adventure #comedy #ecchi #romance #sci-fi
<p>R.D. is a delivery boy who works for a company called Mach Storm in order to earn money to search for the legendary Alpha Zoid. A Zoid that he heard rumours about from his dad that he passionately believes in. Mach Storm also doubles as a Zoid Battling team. In R.D.'s first Coliseum Zoid Battle, he encounters a team that can fuse Zoids. R.D. soon discovers that he has a Zoid that can computably fuse with his Zoid, Liger Zero. After this happens R.D.'s adventure to discover the truth about the Alpha Zoid begins.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
<p>A young man passes a pet shop on his way home, and seeing a kappa in the window, decides to buy it on a whim. He brings the creature home, and names him Kaatan. He's never owned a kappa before, so he relies heavily on a book he purchased on the subject of raising and training kappa. The books gives several good tips for bringing up a smart and well behaved kappa, and it all seems very simple. Unfortunately, putting these techniques into practice and actually making them work is not quite as easy as the book implies. Kaatan seems to understand things at first, but usually ends up either forgetting what he's learned, or isn't interested in learning in the first place. However, this particular young man has a lot of patience, and continues his possibly fruitless effort to raise Kaatan into a pet he can be proud of.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
Kimagure Robot
<p>A brilliant, slightly crazy, and extremely eccentric scientist toils away his days in his lab, creating robots to carry out different tasks. A robot to grant three wishes, a robot to help you write your diary, a robot that intentionally misbehaves in order to keep its master from becoming bored… the robots are each built for a very specific purpose, and can’t really do much of anything else. Luckily for mankind, however, these robots are much more useful than they appear to be at first glance… most of the time, anyway. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#comedy #fantasy #sci-fi
Wind: A Breath of Heart Specials
<p>Four 13 minute episodes that came with the DVDs. Episodes 9.5, 10.4, 10.8 and 12.5.</p>
Rockman.EXE Stream
<p>A comet burns in the sky, its brilliant light shining down upon the people of Earth. At that time, a giant army of viruses invade the real world, crushing everything in their path. Netto and Enzan use cross fusion to intervene, but are whisked away to an unknown location, only to be confronted by the one responsible for the attack - Duo! </p><p> (Source: Official Site)</p>
#action #adventure #game #mecha #school #shounen #sci-fi
Black Jack (TV)
<p>Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' life (as long as they have the money for it, that is), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
B-Densetsu! Battle Bedaman
<p>Raised by cats until he was five, Yamato Delgato's only dream was to play B'Daman-the official sport of the B'DaWorld. However, his dream comes true when he's chosen to wield the most powerful B'Daman ever; the legendary Cobalt Blade. Only he has skills to harness its power. This is his journey into the world of B'Daman as he learns valuable lessons and also tries to save the B'DaWorld from the evil clutches of the Shadow Alliance. </p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#adventure #fantasy #kids #shounen
Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven
<p>In the distant future, a mysterious floating object appears suddenly in the center of the city. The top secret mission unit "Alta Mira Agency" or AA is commissioned by the Defense Agency to deal with this mysterious invader. In charge of the robot training is Hunagai Otsuya. He must choose one of the girls to receive special training which she will receive in secret. They must use the "Battle Soles" to push back the enemy even at the cost of their lives.</p><p> (Source: ANN)</p>
#mecha #sci-fi
Maria-sama ga Miteru: Haru Specials
<p>Specials of Maria-sama ga Miteru: Haru released on the DVDs only.</p>
#drama #romance #school #shoujo #slice of life
MazeâBakunetsu Jikuu: Hot Springs
<p>This is the missing Hot Springs episode included in the unrated boxset of Maze: Mega-Burst Space.</p>
#action #comedy #ecchi #fantasy
Kagami no Genon
<p>A short amateur movie by Kojiro Shishido. Winner at the 10th annual Student CG Contest held in 2005.</p><p> It shows great sensitivity towards the delicate gradations of light and shadow in the natural world, with a matching delicate soundtrack by Shishido himself.</p><p> (Source: AniDB)</p>
Pororo Daemoheom
<p>It's a freezing winter morning and Christmas is just around the corner.</p><p> Pororo the penguin and his beloved friends return from the woods where they have cut a Christmas tree, ready to celebrate the festivity. They’ve just finished decorating the tree, when they receive a shocking message directly from Santa Claus!</p><p> Santa caught a bad cold, and he can’t bring his special Xmas glaze to the Candy Castle, where under the oversight of King Cream Puff the cookies for children all over the world are made. A Christmas without cookies will be quite sad!</p><p> Pororo and his friends decide to protect the Christmas spirit, and they leave for Santa Claus village to pick up the Christmas glaze and carry it to the Candy Castle.</p><p> But along the way, they met their old acquaintance: the wicked Witch of Winter who aims to steal the precious glaze and use it for her nasty schemes....</p><p> Will our heroes be able to carry out their important missions and save Christmas?</p><p> Follow with us the adventurous journey of Pororo and his friends to the magical Candy Castle!</p><p> (Source: theanimationband.com)</p>
Tottoko Hamtarou Movie 4: Hamtaro to Fushigi no Oni no Emon Tou
<p>Ayayam is a pretty hamster who excelled at everything–as a child-prodigy in school, sports and even drawing and writing. One day, however, she overhears her friends making fun of a picture book she loved and had given to one of them. She is so devastated that she decides she doesn’t need friends anymore, locks herself into the library and hasn’t taken a single step outside ever since. The God of Books sympathizes with her and gives her a Magic Quill with which she can effortlessly draw any picture and write any story she wants. Meanwhile, Hamtaro learns that Laura and her fellow students will put on "Sunflower Taro" as their next school play. Hamtaro and friends decide that they, too, want to try their hand at acting and prepare their own version of "Sunflower Taro". In the course of preparing for the play, they are suddenly sucked into a strange Picture Book Tower, where Ayayam tells them that they will be characters in her new book – a new and exciting version of the well-known fairy tale "Sunflower Taro". You can tell that things are getting off to an interesting start – as they always do when the Ham-Hams are involved!!</p><p>(Source: tms-e.com)</p>
Tottoko Hamtarou OVA 4: Hamuchanzu no Mezase! Hamuhamu Kin Medal - Hashire! Hashire! Daisakusen
<p>Considered the prequel to the fourth Hamtaro game (fifth in Japan). In this tribute to the 2004 Olympics, Hamtaro and the Ham-Hams are tasked by Prince Bo with lighting the everlasting torch to Hamcropolis. However, the Rainbow Girls will not allow this and pursue the Ham-Hams.</p><p>(Source: Wikipedia)</p>
Transformers Superlink Special
<p>Episode 43.5, "Distribution", is a comedic special show which commemorates 500 episodes of Transformers in Japan (however, since that total includes assorted Japanese series, the west is still some distance away from this number). When aired in Japan, it did not air in the usual timeslot for Superlink, and is not in any sort of chronological order - It features the Autobots playing a video game training simulator, which they certainly do not have time to do between episodes 42 and 44.</p><p>(Source: Wikipedia)</p>
#adventure #kids #mecha #sci-fi #shounen
Ton-Ton Atta to Niigata no Mukashibanashi
Pants Pankurou
<p>A series of minute-long animated shorts that aired on Japanese public television. Aimed at toddlers and young children, the comedic series is mostly about toilet training.</p>
Zettai Zetsumei Dangerous Jiisan (2004)
<p>Grandpa Danger is a world where the great protector is Grandpa Danger! He's an expert at falling off of cliffs, dealing with a principal who suffers from a severe inferiority complex, and escaping the hidden dangers of sleep! He's a nonsensical, utterly disgusting, relentless prankster. Grandpa Danger's excessive phlegm and farts frustrate Grandson to hilarious extremes, and make you laugh until your stomach splits!</p><p>(Source: AniDB)</p>
Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni: Operation Sanctuary OVA
<p>Episodes based on Mikoto scenario.</p>
#comedy #drama #romance #sci-fi #harem
The Green Wind
<p>Promotion video for 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.</p><p>(Source: aokijun.net)</p>
Sore Ike! Anpanman: Anpanman to Christmas no Hoshi
<p>A special Christmas episode.</p>
Genki Genki Non-tan: Utaou! Christmas
<p>A Christmas OVA of Non-tan that features eight classic Christmas songs sung and acted out by the characters.</p>
#kids #music
Akuei to Gacchinpo
<p>Surreal gag-packed story about curious kid and his companions.</p>
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Recap
<p>Recap episode aired between episodes 32 and 33.</p>
#action #comedy #parody #sci-fi #shounen
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Prized Pins Star London Olympic Mascots
(ATR) London pin specialist Paul McGill points the spotlight onto some of the 2012 Games mascot pins starring Wenlock and Mandeville. On your marks – get set – collect!
Mascot Launch
London 2012 has two mascots. Wenlock is the Olympic mascot and is named after the village of Much Wenlock where Pierre de Coubertin had the inspiration for the modern Olympic Games. Mandeville is the Paralympic mascot and is named after Stoke Mandeville, the hospital where the first Paralympic Games were held. The story goes that both mascots were made from the final drops of steel made for the construction of the Olympic Stadium.
The mascots were launched in May 2010 and alongside the publicity and promotional video came a boxed set of two pins – one of each mascot ‘riding’ on a rainbow. These sets were limited to 2,012 pieces and, helped by the publicity, sold out within a couple of weeks. The sets appear on auction sites every so often.
Moveable and Loveable Mascots
The next mascot pins to be released during the autumn of 2010 were animated pins that used sliders, springs and dangling elements to create more interest. None of these pins are particularly rare having issue sizes of 10,000 or 20,000.
In February 2011, a further boxed pair of mascot pins was released to celebrate Valentine’s Day. These pins saw both Wenlock and Mandeville standing in front of a Union Flag heart in the ‘welcome’ pose and ‘waving’ pose respectively. Although these sets were limited to 2,012 pieces, they are still available from select retailers.
Iconic Outfits
The spring and summer of 2011 saw the release of a range of pins that used both the Union flag and some of the iconic uniforms associated with London and the United Kingdom. Wenlock appeared in a policeman’s uniform complete with police hat and also as a Queen’s guard with bearskin. Mandeville was decked out in a policewoman’s costume and also as a Beefeater guard. Both mascots were available as pins completely coloured in the Union flag. Like most of the pins that use the flag design, sales have been brisk. The new designs of these pins were complemented by a range of redesigned backing cards and the mascot guards were featured in the second mascot video.
Each of these designs are available as enamel and printed pins and the enamel varieties available as individual pins or in a larger size as a boxed set. I presume that the boxed sets are designed to appeal primarily to visitors as they combine a great souvenir of both London and the Olympics. Issue sizes range from 10,000 to 500,000 depending on the design and production method.
Mascot Sports
By far the biggest range of mascot pins so far, and possibly the most popular with collectors and Olympic fans, have been the mascot sports pins. These show Wenlock and Mandeville trying out all of the Olympic and Paralympic sports respectively. Think of them as the pictograms brought to life by the mascots! In my experience, fans of particular sports are choosing the pictogram and corresponding mascot sport pins as a pair in order to celebrate their sport. Others are choosing to buy the mascot pins to wear as they have tickets for a particular sport. Each pin is limited to 10,000 pieces and whilst there are no sell-outs at the moment, I can foresee that some of the popular sports may be hard to find by the time the Games close.
Get-Set
The ‘Get-Set’ program is designed to engage school children from across the UK with the Olympics. As a part for this program, London 2012 ran a competition last year for children to design a mascot that represented their region. The winning designs were made into pin badges – 12 in all, one for each of the regions of the UK. The pins are printed to allow the fine detail to be reproduced and are each limited to 50,000 pieces.
London Scenes
A familiar theme running through the retail pins is the icons of London, be they streets, buildings or letter boxes. It’s no surprise then to see a range of pins with Wenlock and Mandeville pictured in some of these familiar London scenes. The design of these pins uses the ‘Landlines’ styling seen on several London 2012 pins. They are available in blue (printed) and white (enamel) and are limited to 50,000 pieces each.
At the end of 2011, London 2012 issued a pair of pins that showed both mascots enjoying the festive season. Wenlock is shown slam-dunking a present into a basketball hoop while Mandeville, dressed in a Santa hat, is carrying a large snowball. Both pins were issued in enamel and printed versions with issue sizes of 2,012 and 100,000 respectively.
In September 2011, to mark the return to school for children everywhere, a set of six pins were launched showing Wenlock and Mandeville going to school. Given their appeal of the mascots to children, these pins should be popular. They show the mascots with a blackboard, school books, a backpack and as a school crossing patrol. They are all enamel pins and limited to 2,012 pieces each.
Countdown Mascots
The final large set of mascot pins has been those that countdown to both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Since the 500 days to go mark, Wenlock has made an appearance at each 100 days to celebrate the fact we are getting closer to the Opening Ceremony. Each time he is seen in a familiar pose such as running, as a flag-bearer or peeping out from behind the pin. Mandeville joined him on the countdown pins from 400 days and each time takes up the same pose as Wenlock. On the latest pins – the 100 days to go due out this month, the mascots are breaking the finishing tape in their ‘winning’ pose.
The most recent mascot pins return Wenlock and Mandeville to their familiar ‘core’ poses, but rather than using the silver base and colored features as in the previous pins, these are completely silver or gold. They are a stylish alternative to the familiar mascot pins and will probably appeal to a different market from the original issues. All four pins in this range are limited to 100,000 pieces.
As always, this article provides only a high level overview of the pins available. If you would like to see more, then take a look at the mascot pins page on the London Pins website.
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Reviews of Welcome to Death Valley! A Guided Tour Through California's Death Valley National Park, written and illustrated by Janet Morgan
"Death Valley has many faces, but this is one deeply thought and profound!"
- Kurt Diemberger, Mountaineer
Forevermore The Raven
It's All About The Raven... with some horses and travel thrown in
Welcome to Death Valley - Book Review by Merri Melde
Artist and writer Janet Morgan, of Art & Adventures kindly sent The Raven her latest children's book, "Welcome to Death Valley!"
The book is near and dear to The Raven's heart, not only because he's hiked and flown around Death Valley National Park, and ridden through parts of it on horseback, but Janet's story is told by Ravenna and Ramón, two Ravens who live in the park and who know all its secrets!
Through observant and clever Raven eyes, Ravenna and Ramón give us a guided tour, from the lowest point in Death Valley, Badwater Basin, the salty playa 282 feet below sea level, to the highest point, Telescope Peak, at 11,043 feet; past Zabriskie Point and Gower Gulch, over the spectacular Sand Dunes, through Desolation Canyon, Mosaic Canyon, and Ubehebe Crater.
The Ravens also share other things not as well known: the secrets of the night life in the sand dunes; the special colors of Death Valley in different light; the geology of the mountains and alluvial fans and valleys and ancient waterfalls and lakes, now dry; and, in one of the hottest and driest places on earth, hidden oases with precious water.
Janet has created art around the world and spent much time exploring Death Valley and visiting with Ravens. Her bright and colorful illustrations demonstrate the beauty of Death Valley that the Ravens live in and see every day.
It's not just a children's book. It's also a Raven book, and it's a collector's work of art!
See Janet's website, or order her book, "Welcome to Death Valley!" at
www.artandadventure.com
Death Valley Children’s Book Animates the Arroyos
By Ann Japenga
On April 3rd 2012, at Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley, artist Janet Morgan unveils her new book on the park, along with a month-long exhibition of paintings by Janet and her husband, Gregory Frux.
Morgan was already on the leading edge of landscape art in her role—shared with Greg—as an adventure artist. Together the two have traipsed Peru, Patagonia, Antarctica and remote California deserts in the style of early expedition artists. Now the three-time Death Valley artist-in-residence leads the way again in her children’s book Welcome to Death Valley.
As two ravens, Ravenna and Ramón, explore the desert from on high, we learn about alluvial fans, virga (rain that doesn’t touch the ground) and Panamint daisies. But that is only the surface plot. Underneath the facts expected by parents and teachers is a landscape animated by a mystic’s consciousness. This is Agnes Pelton style transcendence disguised as a children’s book.
The raven duo tumbles in and out of Badwater Basin (“shiny blackness against the white salt”) and explores Telescope Peak. Meanwhile the mountains shift. The sky flares. Everything is in motion.
A belly dancer and former arts therapist who worked with cancer patients, Morgan has a feel for the forces just under the surface of the natural world. Ravenna and Ramón–and the reader by extension–become part of the swirling, exploding colorful desert. “It hums and rattles and caws,” Janet says of Death Valley. The same could be said of her book.
Along with the book launch, Janet Morgan and Greg Frux present paintings made over seven years of visits to the park, three times as artists-in-residence. Gregory Frux, too, delves deep into geology and natural forces in paintings informed by his close contact with the rock as a climber.
At the April 3rd opening, at 7 pm, the couple will present a slide show on their explorations as visiting artists. In addition to Welcome to Death Valley, a 48-page full-color catalogue of the exhibit will be available for $20. Death Valley: An Ongoing Exploration includes essays by James McElhinney, artist, scholar and instructor at Pratt Institute and The Art Students League, and Rowland Russell PhD., environmental educator.
Here in California, we’ll keep looking east to Brooklyn (where Janet and Greg live) for the latest in desert art.
"Your paintings are beautiful and offer a quality of imagery rarely found in children's books. The time, effort, and thought that you have invested in this project are readily apparent." - Tim Hopkins, Editorial Asssistant, Heyday Books.
"What a pretty book and your explanations and activities are enjoyable." - Karen Fisk, Children's Books, Tilbury House Publishers.
"I just went through it. You blew me of my socks! The idea of Ravenna and Ramone is great and your paintings and drawings are just superb. Incredible colours! What a feeling! And I knew you were just a fun story teller, bringing a good mix of fun and facts and history."
- the writer Ireen Houben"
"Death Valley has many faces, but this is one deeply thought and profound! “ - Kurt Diemberger, Author and Mountaineer
Joint Resume
Greg's Resume
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Gregory Frux Website
Janet Morgan Website
California Desert Art
Greg Frux Wikipedia
Janet Morgan Wikipedia
Janet Morgan Video
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All contents © 2011 Greg Frux & Janet Morgan
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United Foundation Agency Relations Department Records
Identifier: UR002532
Walter P. Reuther Library
The United Foundation Agency Relations Department Records consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, and proposals reflecting the operations of the department, including the United Foundation’s relationship with participating agencies and the processes by which agencies requested and received funding from the United Foundation.
Important Subjects: Detroit (Mich.) Public welfare United Foundation
Important Names: Cousin, Jacques Howell, H. Clay Huegli, Richard F. Laidlaw, Walter Liner, Myron L. Ridge, James A.
Series Description: Series 1: Priorities Committee, 1951-1992 Series 2: Allocations, 1949-1992 Series 3: Agency Fundraising, 1969-1988 Series 4: UCS Central Budget Committee, 1971-1987 Series 5: Program Reviews, 1971-1978 Series 6: Subject Files, 1949-1989 Series 7: Agency Files, 1948-1993
United Foundation (Detroit, Mich.) (Organization)
Material entirely in English.
Collection is open for research.
Refer to the Walter P. Reuther Library Rules for Use of Archival Materials. Restrictions: Researchers may encounter records of a sensitive nature – personnel files, case records and those involving investigations, legal and other private matters. Privacy laws and restrictions imposed by the Library prohibit the use of names and other personal information which might identify an individual, except with written permission from the Director and/or the donor.
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Walter Laidlaw established the United Foundation in 1948 through the merger of the Detroit Community Chest and other Detroit charitable organizations. The goal of the United Foundation was to centralize fund raising efforts and generate mass fund raising campaigns, such as the Torch Drive, which was first held in 1949. The United Foundation was closely affiliated with the United Community Services of Metropolitan Detroit, and became affiliated with the national United Way organization beginning with the United Way’s conception in 1970. The organization retained the name United Foundation until 1989, at which time it changed its name to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to better reflect its associated with the national United Way. It was known as such until its merger with the United Community Services in 1995, at which point it became known as the United Way Community Services. The United Foundation’s Agency Relations Department was responsible for organizational functions related to funding and communicating with participating United Foundation agencies, including determining United Foundation funding priorities, receiving and assessing agency budget proposals, allocating funds to agencies, and maintaining relationships with participating agencies.
Arranged in 7 series - Series 1 (Boxes 1-16), Series 2 (Boxes 16-21), Series 3 (Boxes 21-23), Series 4 (Boxes 23-24), Series 5 (Boxes 24-25), Series 6 (Boxes 25-28), Series 7 (Boxes 29-59). Folders in each series are simply listed by their location within each box. They are not arranged, so any given subject may be dispersed throughout several boxes within each series.
Records deposited by the United Foundation/United Way Community Services in 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1997.
United Community Services, United Foundation, United Way Community Services, and United Way for Southeastern Michigan collections.
[List and location of collection materials not stored with manuscript materials i.e., AV, microfilm, etc.]
Processed and finding aid written by Dallas Pillen on December 22, 2014. Modified by Kris Kniffen on October 29, 2015.
Guide to the United Foundation Agency Relations Department Records
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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Home » Weekly Torah Portion » The Weekly Aliyot of the Parsha - Vayishlach
The Weekly Aliyot of the Parsha - Vayishlach
With this parsha, Yakov is on his way home to his father Yitzchak's house after 22 years of being away. While he was away, he married four women, had 11 sons and a daughter, and acquired great wealth. Remember that he was away in the first place to escape the hatred of his brother Esav, and now he was heading back to face Esav.
In this first aliyah, Yakov sends messengers ahead to Esav, and they return to say that Esav has 400 men with him, which greatly distresses Yakov. As we'll see, Yakov prepares for meeting with Esav in three ways: prayer, sending gifts of appeasement, and readiness for war.
In the second aliyah Yakov sends lavish gifts to Esav. There are commentaries that say that on the way to Lavan's house 22 years earlier Yakov promised to give 10% of his income to tzeduka, but he delayed doing so, so he winds up having to give it away in this way. Other commentaries say specifically that he did already give 10% to tzeduka, and these gifts were from his remaining 90%. Also in this aliyah, is an all night wrestling match between Yakov and Esav's guardian angel. In this aliyah Yakov's name is changed to Israel.
In the previous aliyah the angel touched Yakov's sciatic nerve and caused Yakov to limp. In this third aliyah the Torah tells us that we don't eat that same area of otherwise kosher animals (like sirloin steak).
Yakov meets Esav, and Esav kisses him and they weep. The Midrash says that Esav actually tried to bite Yakov's neck, but it miraculously turned to marble and Esav's teeth cracked so he cried, and the bite hurt Yakov somewhat also, so he also cried.
In the fourth aliyah the meeting of Yakov's family with Esav continues. Three of Yakov's wives, the handmaids and Leah, approach Esav with their children following them. But in Rachel's case, her son Yosef knew his mother to be beautiful, so he went in front of her to avoid the evil Esav from seeing her. Rashi says that this is how Yosef earned the blessing that no evil eye can harm him. After the meeting Esav departs in peace. Yakov plans to someday meet Esav in mount Seir, which will be when Moshiach comes, may it be speedily in our days, Amen.
In the fifth aliyah, Yakov and his family are camped in front of the city of Shechem when Leah's daughter Dina ventures out by herself to look around. She is abducted by Shechem, the prince of the city, and raped. He subsequently wants to marry her, so he and his father approach Yakov to ask that Yakov's family and the people of Shechem become one people. Yakov's sons answer that it will be possible only if all the men of Shechem circumcise themselves. The people of Shechem agree and circumcise themselves.
On the third day following, when the pain of the circumcism is at its worst, Yakov's sons, Shimon and Levi, go into town and kill all the men, and retrieve Dina. The Torah says that despite this provocative act, Yakov's family moved on in peace because CHITAS [dread] of G-d was on the nations. "CHITAS" is an acronym for Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya, three things that we study on a daily basis that bring us blessing.
In the sixth aliyah, Rachel, daughter of Lavan, who was Yakov's wife and the mother of Yoseph, passes away during the birth of a second son, named Binyamin. She is buried in what in now called Bethlehem. Yakov wanted to bury her in the cave of Machpella, but buried her here instead, so that when the Jews would eventually be marched away to Bavel passing by this spot, she could pray on their behalf, which she did.
At the end of the previous aliyah, and continuing with the seventh aliyah, the descendants of Esav are enumerated. It once happened, that at a Torah reading of this portion a mistake was found in the Torah. A Taf in the word "Bat", when naming a daughter of Esav, was misspelled. The Torah was put away and a new one taken out, and the reading was completed. Later, the rabbi (Rabbi Schochet of Los Angeles) spoke and said that even when the mistake in the Torah is in the names of the most evil people mentioned in the Torah, the Torah cannot be used without it, and the whole Torah is considered unkosher. Similarly, the Jewish people, who are often compared to the letters of the Torah, are considered complete only if all its members are accepted and loved, no matter whom they are.
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Nolan Arenado drops agent Scott Boras; what’s it mean for Rockies?
By Patrick Saunders
Nolan Arenado. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
When Rockies all-star third baseman Nolan Arenado recently confirmed to me that he was dropping Scott Boras as his agent and hooking up with Joel Wolfe of the Wasserman Media Group, I immediately began thinking about what it meant for Arenado’s future with the Rockies.
Could the elimination of the powerful Boras mean a more favorable climate for a long-term deal between the Rockies and Arenado?
Arenado is first-time arbitration eligible this winter as a super-two, and he’s under the Rockies’ control through the 2019 season. I’m estimating that he will be looking at a $6-$6.5 million salary for the 2016 season.
While teaming with a new agency is no guarantee that the Rockies will sign Arenado to a long-term extension, it certainly won’t make it less likely. With the Boras in the picture, I thought there was no chance at all.
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Lothar Neethling deur Annette Jordaan is die storie van die polisie se slim en gewilde forensiese deskundige wat sy naam verdedig teen beweringe dat hy middels voorsien het om mense aan die slaap te maak of te vermoor. Hy wen uiteindelik die saak oor “die ergste naamskending denkbaar”, maar sy openbare beeld kry 'n skadu, en vrae en wanopvattings bly tot ná sy dood spook, met pynlike gevolge vir sy naasbestaandes.
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Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill is an epic story of violence, double-cross, and corruption at the center of which are the black hearts of two old friends whose lives unfolded in the darkness of permanent midnight. James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston's Italian mafia. But no one offered Boston protection from Whitey Bulger.
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Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev shows how between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, Caterina Sforza's life crossed the firmament of Italy's High Renaissance like a shooting star.
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Lives in Writing by David Lodge is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life-writing, and contributes several of his own.
Wilfred Thesiger - Alexander Maitland
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Galley Slave - Jean Marteilhe
Galley Slave by Jean Marteilhe is a remarkable memoir which tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, a Protestant condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion, who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, attempted, like so many French Huguenots, to escape to the more sympathetic Protestant countries bordering France. In 1700, heading through the Ardennes towards Charleroi, he was captured by French Dragoons and thrown into gaol. In 1707 he then found himself, like so many Huguenots, condemned to serve in the French Mediterranean galleys.
The Prince of Medicine - Susan P Mattern
The Prince of Medicine by Susan P Mattern offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure. Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society.
The Winter of Our Disconnect - Susan Maushart
The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart asks the question if Thoreau could last two years in the woods without the mod-cons of the early nineteenth century (running water), then surely Susan Maushart can survive six months without the technology of the twenty-first century?
The Millionaire and the Bard - Andrea Mays
The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession. When Shakespeare died in 1616 half of his plays died with him. No one-not even their author-believed that his writings would last, that he was a genius, or that future generations would celebrate him as the greatest author in the history of the English language.
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Mandela by Martin Meredith details the life of Nelson Mandela, one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
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Helen Suzman - Robin Renwick
Helen Suzman by Robin Renwick is a short but concise volume on the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner and parliamentarian. Suzman devoted, in Lord Renwick’s words, ‘her political career to the pursuit of high principles’, never lacking in energy, resourcefulness, intellectual rigour, and sharp-tongued humour in her decades of campaigning against apartheid and its manifestations, grand, petty and brutal, from forced removals to her support for Winnie Mandela during her banishment to Brandfort and over the inquest into the murder of Steve Biko.
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On the Wild West by Mark Twain concentrates on his journey through America's Wild West, tapping into the perennial interest in this period in history. From 1861 to 1867, a young Mark Twain travelled through the Wild West. Following an abortive foray into a career as a Confederate Cavalry man he opted instead to head off on a stagecoach road trip with his brother Orion, who had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory. Twain sets out on an epic voyage from Missouri to Sacramento.
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Michelangelo by Miles J Unger is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces. Among the immortals--Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso--Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself.
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Diageo converts premiumisation into cash
Around four years have passed since our last teasing story on Diageo, when we were broadly negative following a succession of unprofitable reported results. That hangover seems to be well behind with a healthy recovery since mid 2016. While the competition rages on between the group and Pernod Ricard (to a lesser extent, Remy Cointreau too), Diageo clearly leads the European spirits industry and confirms it is by far the most shareholder friendly. This comes with a price, i.e. a modest 7% upside potential.
Innovate relentlessly
Its global presence, both in developed and emerging markets, is Diageo’s strength. It implies continuously adapting its strategy to consumer trends, which obviously vary from one country to another. Innovation and portfolio reshaping are essential planks of Diageo’s strategy to keep its margin premium over rivals. It works as can be inferred from the following chart.
Compared EBIT margins. Diageo in pink
Raising the mix through the launch of premium spirits is expected to combine with volume growth at c.2%. The H2 operating margin nevertheless is seen as muted due to rising operating costs across the board especially marketing costs (9% in H1). We are still confident that Diageo will hit its goal to increase margin by 175bp by year-end.
Acquired top-line growth will be funded by two-thirds of its current £700m cost savings programme, i.e. will be modest. Discussing with management about future opportunities, it said that it is “happy” with the portfolio at the moment but is still on the lookout for attractive and complementary small brands. Ergo, this is not quite the time for industry reshaping big acquisitions. Floated ideas like going for Pernod are likely to remain investment bankers toying about. The ideal course of action would be to buy from LVMH (Add, France) its 66% in Moet Hennessy but this is a three decades old ideal that would come with a c.€20bn price tag.
Premiumisation driving North America and Asia Pacific
Diageo’s North American sales growth will henceforth be driven by a premium and above brands portfolio, in a clear shift away from the low end of the market. Diageo has shown its hand last November with the sale of nineteen low range brands for an aggregate consideration of $500m. Accounting for a third of Diageo’s sales and nearly half of its operating profit, North America remains the biggest market for premium drinks. With net sales growing by 8% over last H1 results, it seems that going further upmarket is paying off.
Asia Pacific also reported significant sales growth of +13%, pushed by the Indian market, with a strong start of the year. Indian net sales were up +12%, thanks to significant performances from the “prestige and above brands”, which grew by +17%. A slowdown is, however, expected in H2 due to the 2019 Indian general elections.
Forgotten but useful beer
Diageo’s beer segment accounts only for 8% of global volume, but nevertheless generates 15% of the group’s net sales. This activity has continued to grow in H1 by 5%, obviously driven by the iconic Guinness brand, whose net sales were up 4% with a strong performance in Europe. Beer is Diageo’s beach-head to African markets with Africa accounting for more than half of beer revenues. The group’s spirit brands are expected to piggy-back on beer penetration.
Will pay
The group now expects mid single-digit organic sales growth in FY19 and a 175bp organic EBIT margin expansion in the three years ending FY19 (implying 60bp expansion in FY19). This means only an 7% upside potential left on AlphaValue’s valuation metrics but this is not the point. The point is about the group’s capacity to deliver high total shareholder returns which does not seem to be remotely at risk. The chart below plugs Diageo’s superior pay-outs (in €m) and financial performance (ROCE ) vs. Pernod’s.
Diageo vs. Pernod: dividends payments and ROCE – 2013-20
With a £600m buy-back in progress and a 2.7% yield, Diageo is good to pay another £3.0bn. Cash in the pocket speaks for itself, while it is hard to find a weakness in what Diageo does. Buy to hold obviously.
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Killian Dane and Nikki Cross got engaged
I remember hearing they were an item before but didn’t realize they’ve been together ten and a half years
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Brother they got married
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My name's not fucking Warren
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Dane looks like a completely different person
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Married makes more sense - just saw a little blurb somewhere - sorry for the fake news
I would not recognize Dain in that picture at all
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I had no idea. Makes her riding on his back to the ring when they were in Sanity even more adorable.
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I love Nikki and Sanity is a great act. No clue why they're wasting them on SD (aka doing jack and shit with them when they could totally get over huge) and no idea why Nikki isn't with them.
I liked her RAW debut because she's great, and it didn't seem like the crowd knew her/how to respond but she got over during the course of it. I didn't watch SD yet but she randomly shows up "shaking the USO PEN' wtf.
Sanity's NXT run and the stuff with AOP and Undisputed Era, plus Nikki's solo stuff, was some of my favorite NXT shit in the last few years
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Sanity could never get over.
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damn i thought you guys were good little cucks who would shit themselfs so a POC could peacefully protest
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Sanity was always just a lower card filler tag act. Think the Bolsheviks from 30 years ago. AOP was a lot better so it is far more of a shame they are wasting them.
Quote from: Firmino of the 909 on January 17, 2019, 12:06:16 PM
Why the hell not? An oddball group of misfits who are presented seriously as crazy hardcore and badass? Yea, that's never gotten over in wrestling
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They aren't good enough in the ring to get over.
I had typed out a response about how they fuck up all the time but I decided to delete it. But, yeah, they aren't good enough.
I also don't think they have much of a personality (aside from maybe Cross). They are just dull. Say what you will about a team like the Nasty Boys, but they at least acted like insane lunatics even if they weren't great in the ring either.
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We already had the wyatts go on for years and years which were basically a different version of the theme too.
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WTF? I don't know how much much of Sanity in NXT you guys watched but Dane and Wolfe can both go for bigger guys, and Eric Young is a good "Michael Hayes" of the group who can work, bump and talk. They were a great Freebirds style trio, with a great chick added to the mix
The WarGames with them and Undisputed Era and AOP is one of my favorite NXT matches ever.
The idea that "they couldn't get over on the main roster" is absolute horseshit to me, but to each their own
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Dolph Ziggler, who has not appeared on WWE television since his steel cage match with Drew McIntyre on New Year’s Eve, is another name that is rumored to be leaving the company soon. Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com noted that Ziggler had reportedly turned down an offer to become a producer for WWE. Johnson added that ”sources claim he remains under a WWE deal (and some there have denied he is exiting at all) but others have been some pointing to 1/31 as an exit date.”
Nick Nemeth/Kenny Omega AEW invasion on Feb 1! Actually those two in a match would be pretty dope.
Adding fuel to the fire - he just opened a ProWrestlingTees store including merch with his real name.
Granted, Sami and KO still pop back up there and sell when they do angles about quitting and the Cruiserweights were maintaining shops on there but not as common for someone in Ziggler's spot.
Now looking at this Ziggler stuff, I just saw he is doing a stand up show at the venue across the street from the Rumble immediately after the Rumble. Bruce Prichard is doing a live show there that morning so I can only imagine the unique smells that venue will have.
I hope Ziggler goes, he's been incredibly stale and boring forever and ever. There are so many guys who deserve a main roster spot and he's just taking up space. I can't imagine ever wanting to see him doing a different gimmick or anything but anythings possible.
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Quote from: cobainwasmurdered on January 15, 2019, 11:38:26 AM
bah gawd a hotel key and he DONT KNOW. That was a ton of mini-segments in just a few minutes and they all forwarded the storylines. I don't think Becky looked like a punk. She also cut a really good promo at the start about how everyone is trying to copy her and the difference between her and asuka.
Oh, the promo was great. Which is a testament to how over Becky is, since I usually skip those things. I'm talking about how long it took her to dispatch Peyton Royce, compared to how Asuka made short work of Billie Kay.
Yeah but Billie Kay sucks.
Agree to disagree.
Lol, hard for you to know since I don't think I've ever opined on the subject but Billie Kay is my favorite wrestler. I was joking at how the WWE treats her, she's only had 1 singles win since being called up, two tag wins but Peyton got the pin in both of those. Even in nxt Peyton would always get the pin if they won (which was even rare there) and Billie would eat the pin if they lost. They book her like she's the literal worst wrestler ever even though in SHIMMER she was fantastic and really over with the crowd no matter who she was in there with. It's pretty sad.
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Same. Ziggler leaving is better for all of us.
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https://www.gerweck.net/2019/01/17/ziggler-turns-down-an-offer-to-become-a-wwe-producer/
Dolph Ziggler has removed his WWE name from his social media accounts, fueling speculation he may be leaving the company after January 31st. Ziggler last appeared on the December 31st episode of Raw, losing to Drew McIntyre in a steel cage match.
According to Mike Johnson, Ziggler turned down WWE’s offer to become a producer.
Ziggler announced in December that he would be touring the country doing a stand up comedy events.
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Right? Like, I know that my feelings about these two women are complicated by my memories of them on the indies, but I don't know how anybody can look at KC Cassidy and Jessie McKay, and think that KC is the better prospect, so I feel like the only reason why Peyton Royce is considered better than Billie Kay is because... Triple H decided. I stipulate to being super-biased in that regard.
I'm not super familiar with Billie outside of NXT but she's always been my favourite of the Iconic Duo. Her big boot delivery is on point to the level where I feel like she's actually kicking the face off of her opponent.
I don't like either one.
Peyton is like 5 years younger. That's the only logical reason that I can think of.
The boot is fantastic, I agree. When she hits it on girls of a certain height it's just brutal looking. On the indies she used a sitout uranage as a finisher that she executed really well. She also regularly hit hurricanranas which looked good because of her relative height. She had some great indie matches with people like Del Rey, Asuka, Ember Moon, Madison Eagles and most every other indie girl from the late-00s. I remember a really enjoyable 15-20 minute SHIMMER match with Nicole Matthews. And she was super over as a babyface for her whole run there.
Having said all that, she's in a different body now and I'm not sure how much of that she could even do anymore. I also think she has struggled with silent injuries for most of her time in nxt/wwe. She's had multiple concussions just that I'm aware of, and a few times she's just not wrestled for months.
I just Googled her pre-WWE name and I didn't even recognize her at first..
Yeah, you should definitely watch some of those pre-wwe matches, if you're at all into women's wrestling. If all you know is "Billie Kay" you're in for a real treat, imo.
That nickname didn't do her any favors, though: "Everybody's Favorite Girlfriend" is wild problematic. I'm sure that it was meant to intone "The Girl Next Door," but the unfortunate implications... man.
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Yeah, that's a terrible nickname and am shocked it wasn't meant with any implications.
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Jessie McKay was my first SHIMMER crush and I remembered she disappeared for a year and then somehow got signed. I thought she retired. But yeah, its clear they see more in Peyton than they do her.
https://www.gerweck.net/2019/01/18/wwe-allegedly-asked-the-revival-for-three-months-to-change-after-release-request/
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If this went down as described here, that’s pretty shitty on Maria’s part. I get that wrestlers can’t be expected to address every rumor out there, but if you think Ryan Satin is big enough that you have to shoot down his reporting after his story comes out, maybe he was big enough that you should have given more than a “no comment” when he gave you the chance to set the record straight before the article was published.
Hmm I wonder who is more trustworthy in this situation: the person who broke countless major entertainment and wrestling news stories for the past decade or the scammer who went on leave almost immediately after getting signed? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
— Erica Steiner (@SendARavenPlz) January 19, 2019
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Ummmm.....
Jesus..
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Maria Kanellis did scam WWE though. I don't see the problem in that statement.
Unless you have direct insight into their lives, and whether or not this was planned, and if it was planned whether WWE knew ahead of time and still signed them (they'd do it).. it's kind of shitty to call someone getting pregnant and going on mat leave a "scammer" just because it happened a few months after getting their new job. This happens in the "real world" all the time. Are those women "scammers" too?
I don't necessarily believe it was a scam but, it does indeed seem as though WWE was willing to work with Maria about her pregnancy. So, if it is true that she asked for her release, I am curious as to what would have changed between then and now that would make her decide to leave?
She didn’t like how she and her husband were being used or didn’t get along with other talent or many possible scenarios. Revival allegedly does the same and people react with a “good! I hope they go to AEW”. Maria potentially does the same thing and she’s a scammer because....?
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All hail Gritty!
Ryan Satin's an idiot. Nothing to see here.
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Quote from: Hawk 34 on January 19, 2019, 04:46:02 AM
Because she's a woman, duh.
These wrestlers don't owe whatever company they work for a goddamn thing.
She didn’t like how she and her husband were being used or didn’t get along with other talent or many possible scenarios.
Hasn't she been on maternity leave, while her husband was in rehab? How were they supposed to have been used?
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It's a "scam" because if you're a woman in WWE you're expected not to get pregnant. You're letting your personal life interfere with their plans, or something. They fired Dawn Marie for it many years ago and while they wouldn't do that now I'm sure their attitudes haven't changed.
I knew Mike and Maria were a dead act when they weren't even on the Smackdown right after the PPV where they debuted.
Or you can be a Bella or Maryse and having a kid on your various reality show platforms where they can get something out of it and then they come back basically to do the same act they were doing before and while those acts aren’t full time because they have other interests and obligations they fulfill for the company, it shows the company largely doesn’t see it as a scarlet letter as it once did. In fact, Maria was used essentially the same post pregnancy, which is to say, barely at all.
The old guard within the company certainly see female talent having pregnancies as a negative while the newer element of the company with how they’ve treated it at least publicly shows they have changed their perspective of it, mostly because they are more brand and socially aware with these things for the most part.
More importantly, WWE announced that Rey and Andrade will have 2/3 Falls Match on smackdown.
When you put it that way, it is surprising that WWE never integrated Maria into Total Divas. You'd have to think that, had they thought to create that show during her first run, it would have been built around her.
Allegedly and this has been debated by all parties but at one point, Maria as well as Maryse once claimed the Bellas played against them and kept them from appearing on Total Divas. Maryse obviously has since joined the show and got her own spin off, so either Maria wasn’t interested or she wasn’t asked.
Supposing, for the sake of argument, that there was any truth to those rumors, what would you reckon the chances are that renewed friction between Maria and the Bellas could have contributed to any potential dissatisfaction?
Let's focus on the REAL NEWS
MONGO outs OBAMA as a wrestling fan
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2019/01/steve-mongo-mcmichael-on-being-a-wcw-commentator-649990/
The Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl after the 1985 season, but they didn't get to visit the White House due to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. So when Barack Obama became President, he invited the team to the White House some 25 years after their victory.
"You know what [Obama] said to me," Mongo asked. "We're standing in line and he's shaking our hands and he said to me, 'You cut your ponytail off!' That's when I knew he was a wrestling fan. He knew me, he's from Chicago!"
Wrestling fans become presidents. Good news for President Tye Dye Guy in 2024!
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Childish Gambino @ Central Park Summerstage 06/25/12
June 26, 2012 / Jay Porks / 2 Comments
Childish Gambino – 6/25/12
Central Park Summerstage – New York City
Words/Photos/Video By Jay Porks
Damn, I wish I could keep this streak going of hitting epic shows every freaking night. What goes on people , welcome yourselves to the 73rd episode of the Jay Porks Never Ending Concert Series. After two days in Atlantic City at the Orion Music + More festival, it was time to get back in the New York groove as they say with a visit to Central Park, for Childish Gambino. Since this is Concert Confessions, I have a small confession to come clean with right now: I introduced ALL my peers at CC to this guy over a year ago! Then all of sudden Reverend Justito gets him at Coachella, then the entire NW chapter got him at Sasquatch in WA, even a confession from Mr Sparkly from a show in Moscow, ID on thenaturalstoner‘s birthday. Then Jakob got him at Bonarroo. I’ve read way too much about my new favorite rapper on this site not from me, it’s about damn time this Central Park show came around. Openers are Schoolboy Q and Danny Brown- “doors” at 6, show at 7 at the Summerstage, as a killer storm was just cleared up upon our arrival.
I don’t know if my head isn’t on straight or what, me and my buddy Chach got to the city at 6:30 and I took us all sorts of out of the way missing a bunch of trains. I’m the one who’s been to shows here after all. So we got in at like 7:30 and we heard Danny Brown on stage as we were entering. I thought it was going to be reversed and Schoolboy Q would be on first but it wasn’t the case. Danny Brown is a little too weird for my taste anyway. I can take him in small doses, and I’m sure he’ll be out here sometime later on tonight.
Schoolboy Q hit the stage at like 7:45 and was spitting lyrics to a hyped, packed out crowd who didn’t seem only into the headliner. During his set Danny Brown was walking around like the front of the stage by the crowd, taking pictures with people and stuff- like right when Schoolboy Q is up there trying to do his thing. I’d be pissed if someone was kinda stealing my thunder. His last song was “Hands on the Wheel”. He was off by 8:13PM
At about 8:32PM the stage was filled with smoke as Childish Gambino came out to a roaring ovation. Most of the crowd was chanting “Gam-Bino Gam-Bino”, just like they scream for Jay Z with the “HOVA” chants . Unreal. I never thought I’d see this many people as excited as me. Then like the 2nd song up was “Firefly”, which is a sick song. This guy is such a pro at what he’s doing. “Freaks and Geeks” hit us up next, the song containing such epic lines like “I’m in the back of the bush like Gaven Rossdale’s drummer”(get it? The female anatomy + 90’s Alternative rock band? Awesome). They’re was a video screen that I couldn’t see do to the fact I went far right to be as close to the stage as I could. He did a song or two off ‘Culdesac’, his first record (or mixtape). Besides a few people cutting in front of us and pissing me the hell off before they moved I was genuinely have such an awesome time. Even though I’m cramped in with a bunch of people being bumped from all sides-I feel like this is family.
Everywhere we looked there was weed being smoked..and not the typical “let me duck down and use this one hitter” type smoking. Everyone was smoking right in front of the event staff, they were watching and really could care less. There’s this couple in front of us (who earlier I was pissed at the dude for being in front of me, but he has since moved over) turns around and I see him talking to Chach and then he hands him half a joint, and it’s fat as hell. Chach goes “I don’t know, he said he was done smoking or something”. Sweet. Myself, not the type to shy away from the recreational use of the herbal, enhanced the night a little more by joining in with the rest of Central Park’s Marijuana Bonfire. People never share at shows, these are some good times right here.
The thing different about Childish Gambino, besides the way his punchlines emphasize the punch, is that he plays with a full band. These guys rock out. At one point during the set he says “Listen guys, this isn’t a Rap concert-This is a black rock concert!”. And tearing through “All The Shine” (tearing through it to epic proportions) and the “Rolling in the Deep” remix he does, with the two guitar players, two violinists, drummer and all of the above with one drum in front of them at all times creating all sorts of cool elements. Like, the guitar player bangs the drum for a little, hits the keyboard on another part of the song. All these guys are full with as much energy as Gambino. “L.E.S.”…….
“Heartbeat” and “Bonfire”(which was, like many tonight, full crowd sing-alongs as we all know the every single lyric) were all played before 9:27 when he said goodnight and headed off stage. I thought it was over before I looked at the time, because it felt like he played it all.
Comes back out like 3 minutes later, and says “I said it was a black rock concert, well now it’s time we turn this to a rap concert!”, then kicked a freestyle over the beat for a song called “Rack City” by Tyga.
Then he said “Ya wanna hear some new shit?” before jumping into songs recently released like “Eat Your Vegetables” and “Unnecessary Roughness” which Schoolboy Q was called out to perform his verse he has on the track.
One problem for Schoolboy Q, his mic seemed to be low or totally out. So Gambino, so aware of the situation, goes from just ad libbing the line to outright rapping Q’s entire verse for him. What a save. Now it’s Danny Brown time, I knew that weirdo would be out sooner or later. They drop a beat and Danny Brown ripped a freestyle, followed by Gambino ripping one of his own and then Schoolboy Q’s mic was fixed in time for him to rock one out too before the night was closed out with “Lights Turned On”. 9:55PM, right on time for the Summerstage curfew.
Wow. Seriously, wow. Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino comes home to destroy this place. Left it all on stage like he does in every town every time. I can’t wait til July 4th for the new mixtape to drop! This was some fun times tonight, so much fun had. If you’ve been keeping score at home, that’s two nights of Metallica followed by a barn burner by Childish Gambino. I’m wiped. Thanks for taking the time. Leave some comments! We have a new comment thing down there as of a few weeks ago. It’s cool tits.
Jay Porks here.. I used to be a contributor on here. I\'m a little more than that now. This used to be the place I\'d go spill my rants and raves about artists and music I love and loathe. I still do that. But now I host a weekly podcast to get things off my chest, and since I have you here I\'m gonna tell you about it: Used to talk about fun things like music and pop culture, but these days it\'s all flushing the fascist crime syndicate from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and taking back our country. A hostile foreign nation installed a corrupt racist rapist fake rich criminal to power and now he holds the nuclear codes. We have a lot of work to do to fix this nation and it starts with VOTING. Sometimes we go through the music headlines of the week along with other things I feel strongly about. Like ending Cannabis Prohibition, the sad state of affairs with the tri-state area sports teams, The struggles of an anti-social mess attempting to live in a social media world.
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Coldplay have today announced a run of Asian stadium shows for the acclaimed A Head Full Of Dreams Tour, including the band’s first-ever concerts in Taiwan, the Philippines and South Korea. They last played Japan in 2014 and Singapore in 2009.
1 Apr, Sat – National Stadium, Singapore, SINGAPORE
4 Apr, Tue – MOA Concert Grounds, Manila, PHILIPPINES 12 Apr, Wed- Taoyuan HSR, Taipei, TAIWAN
15 Apr, Sat – Olympic Stadium, Seoul, KOREA
19 Apr, Wed – Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, JAPAN
Tickets from $78 will go on sale to the public via all Sportshubtix channels on 21 November 2016 (Mon) at 10am. Limited VIP tickets at $298 also available. Standing tickets are available only to those aged 12 and above.
As the official pre-sale credit card, Citi® card customers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning 17 November (Thu), 10am through to 19 November (Sat), 11.59pm. For more information please visit sportshubtix.sg.
Live Nation Lushington mailing list subscribers will also have one-day access to purchase pre-sale tickets beginning 20 November (Sun), 10am to 11:59pm.
Since March of this year, the A Head Full Of Dreams Tour has played to 2.5 million people across Latin America, the US and Europe. The show was created by the band alongside celebrated production designers Misty Buckley and Paul Normandale. The tour reaches Australia and New Zealand in December.
A Head Full Of Dreams has sold more than 5 million copies since its December 2015 release, spawning the hit singles Adventure Of A Lifetime, Hymn For The Weekend and Up&Up, with more than a billion YouTube video views between them.
COLDPLAY – A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS TOUR
Date/Time: 1 April 2017 (Saturday), 8pm
Venue: Singapore National Stadium
Seated S$78, S$128, S$168, S$268
Standing* S$128, S$228
VIP Standing* (limited availability) S$298 includes priority entry, laminate/lanyard and official merchandise.
+S$4 booking fee applies
*Standing tickets only available to those aged 12 and above.
Citibank pre-sale: 17 November (Thurs), 10am to 19 November (Sat), 11.59pm
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Public on-sale: 21 November 2016 (Mon) 10am
Tickets available from www.sportshubtix.sg, hotline (65) 63158-7888, Indoor Stadium
Sportshub Box Office and all Singapore Post outlets.
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Deputy caught on video stealing from dead man's home
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Published April 2006 in Comparative Connections · Volume 8, Issue 1
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The agreement to conduct an expanded round of direct cross-Strait charter flights during the 2006 Lunar New Year could have marked the resumption of progress on practical cross-Strait ties. However, reacting to his party’s defeat in the recent county elections, President Chen announced Jan. 1 his intention to more “actively manage” – meaning to tighten restrictions on – cross-Strait economic ties. Nevertheless, President Hu Jintao and other Chinese officials continued to signal their interest in expanding cross-Strait transportation, economic, tourism, and cultural ties. In late January, President Chen announced his intention to abolish the National Unification Council (NUC). His motives were primarily domestic, but the implications of this proposal sparked a sharp response from Washington and Beijing. In the end, Chen stopped short of abolishing the Council. Cross-Strait rhetoric has been heated, but tensions have not escalated. In late March, Chen began announcing steps to implement further restrictions on investment in China. The most serious result of these developments has been that opportunities for expanding mutually beneficial economic ties and for making progress on practical cross-Strait issues have once again fallen victim to President Chen’s domestic political maneuvering.
The second round of direct New Year’s charter flights was conducted successfully by airlines on both sides between Jan. 20 and Feb. 15, but without the fanfare that accompanied the first flights a year earlier. The number of flights was increased to 72, the number of cities served was expanded, and the restriction that only Taiwan businessmen could use the flights was removed. Despite the continuing requirement that the flight paths go through Hong Kong airspace, the program was again seen as a success that proponents hoped would provide a basis for progress on other cross-Strait transportation issues. But that was not to be.
Chen tightens controls
On Jan. 1, President Chen Shui-bian announced plans to exert greater control over Taiwan’s economic ties with the mainland. In 2001, when Taiwan was in the midst of its first recession, Chen adopted a less restrictive cross-Strait economic policy under the slogan “active opening, effective management” that was designed to help Taiwan’s economic recovery. This policy had always papered over a contradiction between the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) business supporters who favor expanding cross-Strait economic ties and DPP fundamentalists who want to restrict them. In the wake of the party’s stunning defeat in the December 2005 county elections, Chen began signaling his desire to consolidate the DPP base among its core fundamentalist supporters. In rephrasing his early slogan this January as a new policy of “active management, effective opening” Chen was appealing to fundamentalists by placing priority on managing (that is restricting) rather than opening cross-Strait economic ties.
Chen also made it clear that in the planned Cabinet reorganization, all officials would be expected to support this new policy. In this respect, the most significant personnel shift was replacing Vice Premier Wu Rong-yi, a respected nonpartisan economist, with Tsai Ying-wen, a lawyer, a colleague of former President Lee Teng-hui and a person well known for favoring a cautious, restrictive approach on cross-Strait relations. The moderate outgoing premier, Hsieh Chang-ting, said in his departure press conference that he regretted not having been more successful in promoting a spirit of reconciliation in both domestic and cross-Strait contexts. More pointedly, Hsieh commented that he continued to favor progress on the “three links.” Despite considerable misgivings within the DPP, party and government officials have toed the line on Chen’s new policy.
Chen’s January announcement explains why a series of measures to liberalize cross-Strait economic ties that the business community had expected to be approved in late 2005 were not implemented. These measures included easing limits on the capital companies can invest in China and approvals for additional 8-inch wafer plant exports and for chip design and packaging firms to invest in the mainland. Economic Minister Ho told the press that Powerchip, one of the firms applying to export an 8-inch plant, should focus on investing in Taiwan. There is now no expectation that these measures will be implemented.
The first step to implement the new policy came in early January. Taipei indicted United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) Chairman Robert Tsao and Vice Chairman John Hsuan, alleging they helped establish a rival Chinese chip firm, Hejian Technology Corp. A few days later, UMC was fined NT$5 million for investing in Hejian without government approval. These moves were intended to signal the government’s intention to clamp down on unauthorized investments in China.
The administration began announcing its new controls in late March. The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) stated that “large investments” and those involving “sensitive technologies” would be subjected to a new political level “policy inspection” in addition to the normal Investment Commission review. Corporate executives making personal investments in China would have to obtain their corporate board’s approval. The Financial Supervisory Commission will consider ways to strengthen controls on loans for investments in China. The deposit required of travel agencies hosting PRC tourists will be doubled to NT$ 2 million and the fines imposed when a Chinese tourist overstays will be increased.
Despite Chen’s new policy, the business community has continued to press for easing restrictions. Shortly after the successful New Year’s charters, Taiwan airlines called on the government to authorize regular weekend cross-Strait charter flights. In March, TSMC chairman Morris Chang urged the government to authorize the transfer of 0.18 micron chip technology for use by Taiwan chip manufacturers in China.
Beijing remains positive
Many have concluded that Beijing has no intention of doing business with Chen during his remaining two years in office. It has long been clear that Beijing sees no hope or reason for political talks, as there is no prospect that President Chen will agree to Beijing’s one China condition. Nevertheless, there is considerable evidence that even now Beijing is open to having nongovernmental front groups negotiate not just the recent New Year’s charters but also other charter flights and tourism issues.
Not long after Chen’s new policy was announced and one might say despite that announcement, President Hu Jintao made an inspection trip to Fujian. While there he made a well-publicized visit to the Haicang Investment Zone, where he met with Taiwanese investors. Hu reiterated PRC policy to encourage Taiwanese investment, promote cross-Strait economic ties, and adopt measures beneficial to Taiwanese business. Hu urged nongovernmental organizations to start talks soon on the “three links.” On Jan. 18 just before the Lunar New Year, Jia Qinglin, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC) and number-four man on the Politburo Standing Committee, met with Taiwanese business association representatives and again called for nongovernmental organizations to negotiate on charter and tourism issues. On Jan. 25, Civil Aviation Association of China (CAAC) officer Pu Zhaozhou, who had negotiated the New Year’s charters for Beijing, called for negotiating additional holiday and weekend charters.
Two weeks later, after Chen announced his plans to abolish the National Unification Council (NUC), Pu Zhaozhou appeared at a Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO)-sponsored press conference and expressed an even more forthcoming view in calling for talks on both passenger and cargo charter issues. Cargo flights had been a Chen administration priority before Chen’s Jan. 1 announcement. At the end of the New Year’s charter flights, China National Tourism Association (CNTA) President Shao Qiwei urged progress on tourism issues. On Feb. 27, just when Chen’s announcement on the NUC was expected, the TAO called for nongovernmental tourism organizations to hold consultations on Chinese tourism to Taiwan. Just what contacts have been held between nongovernmental association representatives on charter and tourism issues is not clear, but each side has attempted to place the onus for delay on the other.
At the annual National People’s Congress (NPC) meeting in early March (shortly after Chen’s decision on the NUC), it was natural that senior Beijing leaders put emphasis on their determination to check Chen’s dangerous separatist moves. Nevertheless, the very brief references to Taiwan in Premier Wen Jiabao’s NPC work report were expressions of well-known PRC views, including a reference to promoting the three links on a comprehensive, direct two-way basis. When asked about Chen’s actions at the end-of-NPC press conference, Premier Wen began by criticizing Chen for trying to block the three direct links and restrict the development of cross-Strait economic ties, policies that Wen said would make Chen unpopular.
On March 22 during the visit of a KMT delegation, the KMT and TAO Chairman Chen Yunlin announced plans for a KMT-CCP co-sponsored conference on cross-Strait economic and trade issues in Beijing on April 14-15. Taiwan airlines and the KMT have proposed that charter flights patterned on the New Year’s flights be arranged on a weekly basis. It is planned that the conference will provide a forum for announcing some understandings on the technical aspects of how weekly passenger charter flights could work. The involvement of the KMT in this process will make it even more difficult for the Chen administration to accept the arrangements.
National Unification Council
At a press conference in his hometown during the Lunar New Year, President Chen surprised attendees by proposing that the moribund NUC and the policy under which it had been established, the 1991 National Unification Guidelines (NUG), be abolished. This was significant in part because in his first inaugural address Chen had made a commitment that the NUC would not be abolished. What was behind this proposal? Chen’s motives were domestic – to appeal to DPP fundamentalists and to undermine support for KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou by tarring him as a proponent of the Council and of unification, which Ma had ill-advisedly stated earlier to be the KMT’s eventual goal.
Washington reacted quickly and publicly by stating both that it opposed any unilateral changes to the status quo (implicitly including abolishing the NUC/NUG) and that it supported expansion of transportation and communications links and cross-Strait economic and cultural ties, a comment aimed at Chen’s restrictive approach to cross-Strait issues. Beijing’s reaction was again to accuse Chen of being a troublemaker who was sabotaging cross-Strait relations. The U.S. exerted heavy pressure on Chen not to abolish the NUC, by sending a senior NSC/State team to Taipei on a confidential mission to underline U.S. concerns directly to President Chen. On Feb. 27 Chen announced that the NUC would “cease to function” and the guidelines would “cease to apply.” A few days later after Taipei had made clear on the public record that these phrases did not mean abolish, Washington considered the issue acceptably settled. Beijing however was seriously concerned and also saw a propaganda opportunity. President Hu and Premier Wen called Chen’s decision deceptive and dangerous, and Beijing has continued to use the issue to mobilize international opposition to President Chen.
Ma enunciates his cross-Strait policy
In trips to Europe in February and the U.S. in March, KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou laid out his views on cross-Strait issues, which after a few missteps have settled into a consistent set of talking points. The KMT’s goal is to preserve the status quo; neither unification nor independence is a current issue. Independence is an option for Taiwan’s people, but it is not an option sought by the KMT. The KMT accepts the one China principle, but asserts that each side has its interpretation of it. In office, the KMT would seek to resume talks on the basis of the 1992 consensus and negotiate practical agreements on travel, tourism, and other issues to stabilize cross-Strait relations. The KMT would also seek an accord with Beijing to assure peace for 30-50 years and seek a modus vivendi on Taiwan’s international participation. Taiwan would strengthen ties with the U.S., Europe, Japan, and others. In Washington, Ma packaged these ideas under the slogan “five do’s” to contrast his positive approach to cross-Strait relations to Chen’s “five no’s.”
Such policy statements are quite in line with longstanding U.S. policy. This helps explain why Ma was very well received by the Bush administration when he visited Washington March 22-23. The official press in China reported favorably on Ma’s visits but omitted mention of his ideas concerning “one China, respective interpretation” and a long-term modus vivendi – an indication that these are problematic issues for Beijing. The TAO did restate that in talks conducted on the basis of the 1992 consensus Taiwan’s international participation could be discussed.
Statistics for 2005 indicate a mixed picture for cross-Strait economic ties. According to Taipei’s Board of Foreign Trade, Taiwan’s exports to China reached $51.8 billion, up 15.2 percent, while Taiwan’s imports from China totaled $19.9 billion, up 19.5 percent. While this growth was strong, the growth rate of total trade was the slowest since Taiwan recovered from its 2001 recession. While total cross-Strait trade thus reached $71.7 billion according to Taiwan statistics, Beijing’s figures put the total as usual at a higher figure, $91.2 billion. China remained Taiwan’s largest export market accounting for 27 percent of Taiwan’s global exports. Nevertheless, Taiwan’s share (11.3 percent) of PRC imports again declined slightly because China’s imports from other countries grew more rapidly than those from Taiwan. Taiwan is becoming less competitive in the China market.
According to Taipei’s Investment Commission, Taipei approved investments in China totaling $6 billion in 2005, down 13.5 percent from the previous year. Taiwan’s investment statistics are at best indicative only of trends. A poll of manufacturers conducted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs indicated that, despite the Chen administration’s efforts to discourage investment in China, for the first time over 80 percent of Taiwan’s global foreign direct investment went to the mainland in 2005.
Panda politics
At the end of the quarter, Taipei formally rejected Bejing’s gift of pandas offered to KMT Chairman Lien Chan last summer. Beijing had been propagandizing their offer both to symbolize the more positive and friendly aspects of Hu Jintao’s policy toward Taiwan and to score diplomatic points by offering the cuddly creatures free of charge, a feature that the PRC, a party to the Convention on the International Traffic in Endangered Species (CITES), could only offer for gifts made to its domestic (as opposed to international) institutions. The Chen administration of course does not want the pandas precisely because they symbolize the non-hostile aspects of Beijing’s policy and justifies its rejection of the gift as inconsistent with the fact that Taiwan is not part of the PRC and hence can’t accept them free of charge. The losers in this tit-for-tat game are again the people of Taiwan, the majority of whom would love to receive the pandas.
Given the political impasse, the private sector plays a large role in cross-Strait dealings, and ties are growing in many sectors. However, Chen Shui-bian’s discouragement of investment over the past year and his new policy of tighter controls are impeding the natural development of cross-Strait economic and cultural ties. The principal loser is Taiwan and Taiwanese companies whose economic competitiveness in the China market will continue to erode because of government imposed restrictions. The Chen administration’s decisions not to grant liberalizations long sought by Taiwan’s internationally minded firms contributes to Taiwan’s sub-par economic performance, discourages foreign direct investment in Taiwan, makes Taiwan a less attractive location for foreign business, and undermines Taiwan’s international influence. Beyond these significant costs, Chen’s new policy means that opportunities to negotiate arrangements to open cross-Strait travel and tourism for the benefit of Taiwan are being missed.
Uncertainty about Chen Shui-bian’s intentions will continue to cast a pall over U.S.-Taiwan and cross-Strait relations in the months ahead. While tensions remain low, Beijing is deeply concerned that Chen will take other steps to pursue what they describe as his separatist agenda. Nevertheless, Beijing does want to expand cross-Strait economic and cultural ties and will look for ways to accomplish this, working with the private sector and opposition parties and giving as little credit to the Chen administration as possible. As this is an unattractive proposition for the Chen administration, little progress on these functional issues can be expected.
Chronology of China - Taiwan Relations
Jan. 1, 2006: President Chen Shui-bian’s New Year’s address calls for new policy of “active management, effective opening.”
Jan.3, 2006: Chen asks British parliamentarians to review “one China” policy.
Jan. 5, 2006: PRC FM spokesman urges U.S. to contain Taiwan independence.
Jan. 6, 2006: TAO criticizes Chen; calls for progress on three links.
Jan. 6, 2006: MAC says Beijing using pandas for unification propaganda.
Jan. 9, 2006: United Microelectronics (UMC) officials indicted.
Jan 12, 2006: President Chen stops briefly in Los Angeles.
Jan. 13, 2006: Taiwanese and Chinese firms establish JV air cargo airline.
Jan. 14, 2006: Hu Jintao visits Haicang area in Xiamen; calls for progress on three links.
Jan. 14, 2006: Janes reports that U.S. turned down Taiwan request for info on JDAM and HARM missiles.
Jan. 17, 2006: President Chen criticizes KMT for “singing duet” with PRC.
Jan. 18, 2006: TAO Deputy Sun Yafu in Washington for consultations.
Jan. 18, 2006: CPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin meets local TAO heads; urges progress on “three links.”
Jan. 20, 2006: New Year’s charter flights begin.
Jan. 20, 2006: Premier Hsieh says he supports direct flights.
Jan. 20, 2006: KMT leaders pledge to push for weekly charter flights.
Jan. 25, 2006: CAAC’s Pu Zhaozhou says Beijing wants weekend and holiday charters.
Jan. 27, 2006: WHO secretariat rejects proposal giving Taiwan observer status.
Jan. 28, 2006: Beijing announces names for gift pandas.
Jan. 29, 2006: President Chen proposes scrapping National Unification Council (NUC).
Jan. 30, 2006: State Department reaffirms status quo in cross-Strait relations, but supports expanded political, economic, social, and cultural exchanges.
Feb. 2, 2006: KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou warns Chen not to break five “noes” commitments.
Feb. 5, 2006: PRC MOFA spokesman says Chen’s NUC comments strain peace/stability.
Feb. 7, 2006: KMT Chairman Ma’s interview in Asian Wall Street Journal.
Feb. 8, 2006: Chen says his NUC policy is response to Ma’s unification goal.
Feb. 8, 2006: TAO calls Chen a troublemaker sabotaging cross-Strait ties. CAAC’s Pu Zhaozhou urges Taiwan to negotiate on charters.
Feb. 12, 2006: National Security Council Acting Senior Director for Asian Affairs Dennis Wilder and Clifford Hart, director of the State Department’s Taiwan Desk, reportedly travel secretly to Taiwan to try to dissuade Chen Shui-bian from abolishing the National Unification Council.
Feb. 13, 2006: KMT Chairman Ma speaks at London School of Economics.
Feb. 15, 2006: New Year’s charter flights end. CNTA’s Shao Qiwei calls for tourism cooperation.
Feb. 15, 2006: Ma in Dublin says independence an option for Taiwan, but not KMT.
Feb. 15, 2006: UMC fined for investment in Hejian.
Feb. 17, 2006: EVA and other Taiwan airlines propose weekend charters.
Feb. 21, 2006: KMT’s Su Chi claims authorship of “1992 consensus.”
Feb. 22, 2006: Taipei press reports NSC & State officials visited Taiwan on weekend.
Feb. 22, 2006: TAO Chairman Chen Yunlin says abolishing NUC would jeopardize ties.
Feb. 22, 2006: KMT delegation discusses tourism & charters with TAO.
Feb. 24, 2006: Amb. Burghardt appointed AIT chairman; Stephen Young as AIT director.
Feb. 27, 2006: TAO official reaffirms PRC interest in facilitating tourism to Taiwan.
Feb. 27, 2006: President Chen announces NUC will cease to function.
Feb. 27, 2006: State Dept. reiterates policy, says Chen has stopped short of abolishing NUC.
Feb. 28, 2006: President Hu describes Chen’s actions as a “dangerous step.”
Feb. 28, 2006: Beijing reiterates that pandas will be free.
March 1, 2006: EU statement says ceasing NUC operations will not help stability in Strait.
March 2, 2006: Premier Wen urges international community vigilance against Chen.
March 2, 2006: State Dept. spokesman comments on NUC, seeks clarification regarding cease vs. abolition.
March 3, 2006: Taipei MOFA spokesman says “cease to function” is not abolition.
March 5, 2006: Premier Wen’s NPC Work Report addresses Taiwan in standard terms.
March 5, 2006: Jia Qinglin urges CPPCC members to reach out to DPP hardliners.
March 7, 2006: At hearing, U.S. Sen. John Warner warns Taiwan against provoking China.
March 10, 2006: Former Deputy Secretary Armitage visits Taipei.
March 14, 2006: At NPC press conference, Premier Wen calls Chen dangerous and deceitful.
March 17, 2006: Secretary Rice in Sydney says Taiwan has engaged in problematic behavior.
March 18, 2006: DPP holds demonstration against PRC threats to Taiwan.
March 20, 2006: Taiwan MND report says China gaining a military edge.
March 21, 2006: TSMC Chairman Morris Chang calls for export of 0.18 micron technology.
March 21, 2006: KMT chairman Ma at Harvard calls for cross-Strait modus vivendi.
March 22, 2006: KMT chairman Ma visits Washington; meets State Deputy Secretary Zoellick and others.
March 22, 2006: MAC announces some new measures to reduce reliance on China, tighten controls on investments to the mainland, and crackdown on smuggling.
March 22, 2006: TAO and KMT announce plans for April 14-15 economic and trade conference in Beijing.
March 24, 2006: DPP cancels planned “grand debate” on China policy.
March 26, 2006: In Jakarta, Jia Qinglin calls on friends to help defeat separatism.
March 31, 2006: Taipei announces Taiwan cannot accept pandas offered by Beijing.
March 31, 2006: Taipei’s rejects applications for zoos to import gift pandas.
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CCSU Welcomes Sacred Heart to Arute Field on Homecoming
Sacred Heart (4-3) 7 0 14 7 28
CCSU (4-4) 3 14 0 8 25
Pa: Jacob Dolegala - 251
Ru: Drew Jean-Guillaume - 142
Rec: Aaron Dawson - 51
Pa: Kevin Duke - 374
Ru: Jordan Meachum - 107
Rec: Andrew O'Neill - 170
It's been five weeks since the CCSU football team played at Arute Field. Since that time, a four-game road trip including the beginning of Northeast Conference play, the Blue Devils have posted a 3-1 record, and a 2-0 mark in league action. CCSU is now 4-3 overall and 2-0 in NEC action. Dating back to last season they have won eight straight league games, the longest NEC winning streak by any team in the league since Duquesne had an eight-game winning streak stopped by the Blue Devils a season ago. The last time an NEC team won nine-straight was Robert Morris from 2009-10 when they posted a conference winning streak of 12 games.
CCSU FULL GAME NOTES
Today's Game • The Blue Devils return home for the first time since Sept. 15 this afternoon, hosting Sacred Heart for Homecoming at 1 p.m. The home game follows four straight games on the road for the Blue Devils. They were 3-1 in that stretch, including back-to-back NEC road wins at Robert Morris and Bryant. Today marks the beginning of three home games in the final five weeks of the season for CCSU. They have just one road game remaining, at St. Francis U on Nov. 10. CCSU also has a bye on Nov. 3.
Two Weeks in a Row • The Blue Devils followed up a record offensive win at Robert Morris with another stellar performance in the win at Bryant on Saturday. Central posted 667 yards of total offense vs. the Bulldogs, which would have been a school-record if not for the 699 yards they had the previous week at RMU. Central rushed for 442 yards in the win in Smithfield, which is the second-highest single-game total in school history.
DJG Again • Junior running back Drew Jean-Guillaume was named the NEC Offensive Player of the Week for the second straight week on Monday. DJG rushed 23 times for 203 yards and a touchdown, and had 20 receiving yards on the day. In the last two weeks he has 360 yards rushing and 102 yards receiving, accounting for 462 yards of all-purpose yards. He has six touchdowns on the season, four coming in the last two weeks.
Two for 100 • Jean-Guillaume (157 yards) and sophomore classmate Aaron Dawson (102) yards became the first CCSU teammates to rush for 100 yards in the same game since 2011 (Chris Tolbert and Brian Fowler vs. Bryant, 11/19/11) in the win at Robert Morris on Oct. 7. They almost did it again at Bryant, when Jean-Guillaume rushed for 203 and Dawson posted 99.
Dolegala's Last Two Weeks • Senior quarterback Jake Dolegala has had a solid two weeks for the Blue Devils, leading to a pair of NEC road wins. In the last two weeks Dolegala is 33-of-42 for 566 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 145 yards and four scores. He has five rushing touchdowns on the season, and has thrown for nine scores, while posting just two interceptions. Dolegala set a new school-record for total offense with 408 yards in the win over Robert Morris on Oct. 6. His 341 passing yards matched a career-high. With his 225 passing yards against Bryant, Dolegala moved to 7th all-time in NEC history with 7,432 career passing yards. Dalton Easton (Bryant) is 6th on the list at 7,468. Brian Boland (Monmouth) is 5th at 7,812.
Don't Forget About Rush • Senior Courtney Rush has also posted an impressive two-game stretch, catching 11 balls for 313 yards and three touchdowns, including 100+ yards in each game. He now has 1,476 career receiving yards, and 11 touchdowns. His yardage is good for a top-10 spot in school history.
A Record Day for the Offense • The Blue Devils set a new school and NEC record with 699 yards of total offense in the 56-35 win over Robert Morris two weeks ago. Central rushed for 358 yards and passed for another 341 in the victory and had 31 first downs.
Lots of Points • CCSU has scored 104 points in the last two games, the highest point total in a two game stretch since they had 135 in wins over St. Peter's and St. Francis U in 2006. The 104 points marks the highest back-to-back total in NEC games in school history.
Most Since 2006 • The 56 points in the NEC win over Robert Morris marked their most points in an NEC game since 2006, when they beat St. Francis U 62-21 in New Britain.
Into the Record Book • First-year kicker Francis Cole, a junior, kicked his way into the football record book in the road loss at Lafayette two weeks ago. Just before halftime Cole kicked a school-record 50-yard field goal to put the Blue Devils up 17-14. It was the first 50+ yard field goal in school history, topping the record of 49 set by Mike O'Sullivan vs. Springfield in 1984.
Blocked Punts • Sophomore DJ Exilhomme blocked a key punt just before halftime three weeks ago in the road win at Fordham, leading to a CCSU touchdown with under a minute to play before halftime. The blocked punt was the third of the year for the Blue Devils. Exilhomme was named the NEC Special Teams Player of the Week.
Bagley to the House • Junior defensive back Tajik Bagley became the first Blue Devil since 2003 to return a punt for a touchdown when he returned a Columbia kick 82 yards for a score in the first quarter on Sept. 15. The last Blue Devils to return a punt for a touchdown, prior to Bagley, was former defensive back Donnie Rose, who returned a punt 90 yards vs. Monmouth on Nov. 1, 2003.
Mushaw WAS the Match! • For the past four years, head football coach Pete Rossmando and the Blue Devil football program have teamed up with the Be The Match Program to add more than 750 CCSU students, faculty and staff to the national bone marrow registry. This past year they got word that one of the people they had signed up had been chosen as a match. Junior linebacker Mike Mushaw was recently selected as a match, and this summer he donated his marrow to help save the life of someone he has never met. CCSU football has joined the efforts of Villanova football head coach Andy Talley to raise awareness of the need for marrow donors and helping patients receive life-saving transplants. Talley and others have helped recruit thousands of potential donors to the registry by encouraging their football players, other students and their peers on other teams to sign up, along with friends, family and teachers. Last year alone, close to 10,000 people joined the Be The Match Registry through Get in the Game. Save A Life. donor registry drives.
Northeast Conference Champions • The Blue Devils won their fifth Northeast Conference title with an undefeated 6-0 league record in 2017. It was the first unbeaten conference season for an NEC team since 2008. The league title is the fifth for CCSU since the 2004 season, and their first since 2010.
Eight Straight Wins • Prior to last season's loss to New Hampshire in the FCS playoffs, the Blue Devils won eight straight games in a single season for the first time in school history. The last streak of nine or more straight wins came from 1954-55 when CCSU won nine straight games (all six games of 1954 and first three of 1955).
Rossomando Coach of the Year and Eddie Robinson Finalist Head coach Pete Rossomando was named the NEC Coach of the Year last season. He was also an Eddie Robinson Award finalist for the National Coach of the Year Award.
Interceptions for a Score • The Blue Devils have now returned eight interceptions for a touchdown in their last 29 games, dating back to 2016. Junior Grant Ibeh intercepted a pass and returned it 19 yards for a score in the 24-13 win over Fordham on Sept. 22, 2018. CCSU tied an NCAA record by returning an interception in four straight games from Sept. 23 through Oct. 14, 2017.
Overtime, Again • The Blue Devils played one of the most memorable games in school history in 2017 topping Wagner 51-45 in 4OT on Staten Island. The game is the longest in school history and the ninth-ever overtime game for CCSU. The Blue Devils are now 6-3 all-time in overtime. Central had previously played three double overtime games and was 1-2 in those games. They lost 23-17 at Robert Morris in 2006, won 49-48 at Monmouth in 2010 and lost 51-44 at Lehigh in 2013, all in double OT.
NEC Front Row • Thanks to a continued partnership between the Northeast Conference and the Pack Network, live webcasts of NEC sports will be available free of charge on NECFrontRow.com. The site will carry every CCSU NEC football game this season, excluding those games designated by the NEC to air on ESPN3/ESPN+.
Social Media • Follow the Blue Devils all season long on Social Media:
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April 30, 2019 Football Partners with Team IMPACT and Signs Matthew Adamczyk
April 26, 2019 Jacob Dolegala Signs as Free Agent With Cincinnati Bengals
April 23, 2019 2019 Schedule Announced, Football Ends Spring Season With Scrimmage This Saturday
February 5, 2019 CCSU Football Announces Incoming Class on Signing Day
January 23, 2019 Rossomando Resigns as Head Football Coach, McCarthy Named Interim Head Coach
December 18, 2018 Brown Named Stats FCS Second Team All American
November 21, 2018 Football Places 11 Players on Northeast Conference All-League Squads
November 17, 2018 Football Ends Season with 38-31 Home Loss to Duquesne
November 16, 2018 Football Has NEC Title Hopes as Blue Devils Host Duquesne on Saturday
November 12, 2018 Exilhomme Named NEC Defensive Player of the Week on Monday
November 10, 2018 Football Remains Alive for NEC Title With Win at Saint Francis U
October 31, 2018 Dawson Earns New England Football Writers Gold Helmet Award
October 29, 2018 Aaron Dawson Named STATS FCS National Offensive Player of the Week
October 29, 2018 Dawson, Exilhomme Earn Northeast Conference Weekly Honors
October 27, 2018 Dawson Posts Record Day in Football's 49-24 Win Over Wagner
October 26, 2018 Football Back Home vs. Wagner on Saturday at 12 p.m.
October 20, 2018 Football's Rally Comes Up Short to Sacred Heart on Homecoming, 28-25
October 18, 2018 CCSU Welcomes Sacred Heart to Arute Field on Homecoming
October 15, 2018 Jean-Guillaume Named Northeast Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week
October 13, 2018 Football Wins Second Straight, Now 2-0 in Northeast Conference Play
October 8, 2018 Jean-Guillaume Named Northeast Conference Offensive Player of the Week
October 6, 2018 Football Opens NEC Play Today at Robert Morris
October 6, 2018 Record-Breaking Offensive Day Leads to Road Victory at Robert Morris
September 29, 2018 Football Drops Road Decision to Lafayette on Saturday night
September 28, 2018 Football Looks for Second Straight Win, Plays at Lafayette on Saturday at 6 p.m.
September 22, 2018 Football Evens Record With 24-13 Win on the Road at Fordham
September 20, 2018 First of Four Straight on Road for the Blue Devils, Saturday at Fordham
September 15, 2018 Football Falls to Columbia, 41-24, on Saturday Night
September 14, 2018 Football Back Home on Saturday at 5 p.m. vs. Columbia
September 7, 2018 Football Takes Home Opener Against Lincoln, 55-0
August 30, 2018 Football Opens the Season with Loss at FBS Opponent Ball State
August 27, 2018 Football Game Week - CCSU Opens at Ball State Thursday
July 24, 2018 Football Picked First; Seven Named Preseason All-NEC
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What RAB Means to Me
April 28, 2019 by Matt Imbrogno
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I don’t remember exactly when I first discovered River Avenue Blues. I’m pretty sure it was during my junior year of college, either in fall 2007 or early 2008. And I’m pretty sure I came to it via sidebar link from the Pete Abraham incarnation of the LoHud Yankees Blog. Once I started reading it, then commenting, then moving to Twitter “with” many of the people in the comments section back then, then still continuing to read, up until the moment I was asked to, I never thought I’d be writing for it, let alone doing so for over four years. But even before April 12, 2015, I knew that RAB was a special place for Yankee fans and for me personally.
Being a Yankee fan of a millennial age meant that my formative baseball years were spent online, seeking connections to other fans, and that’s what I found here. In an approachable, casual way, Mike, Joe, and Ben wrote about wide-ranging topics that were lacking in most Yankee outlets, from prospects to analysis. Like with my first reading of the site, I don’t remember the first time I waded into the comments section. But once I did so, I was hooked. Here was a place for–most of the time–reasonable, rational discussion about all things Yankees. Every day or night, no matter the team’s state or mine, I could count on the people here for consistency of connection. When I watched a game–even if I was home alone or the only one around watching it–I had hundreds of fellow fans “with” me as the game went on.
More than any other place, RAB’s comments also inspired me to do my own writing, which led me all over the baseball internet. From my own blogspot site to Bronx Baseball Daily, to The Yankee Analysts/IIATMS, and finally to here, I was able to share my thoughts with you and so many others, thanks to this website. Writing on the internet, about my favorite team, for over ten years has been a source of joy and pride, however small. In life terms, that’s a long time on its own; in baseball terms, that’s even longer.
The day of my first post at RAB–5/12/15–the Yankees beat the Red Sox 14-4. Of the Yankees who appeared in that game, only Brett Gardner, Masahiro Tanaka, Didi Gregorius, and (technically) Jacoby Ellsbury are still on the team. To include anyone on the 2015 roster adds CC Sabathia, Greg Bird, Gary Sanchez, Luis Severino, Dellin Betances, and Austin Romine. Just like the team has changed, I have changed over time. Almost nothing from my 2015 self is the same for my 2019 self.
This is all to say that my life would not be the same without RAB exactly when and how and why I found it. Reading this website made me join its comments section. Joining that comment section made me write on my own and join Twitter. Writing on my own and joining Twitter allowed me to meet my wife, which eventually led to the birth of our son. In a very meaningful way, River Avenue Blues is responsible for the life I lead now, for the family I have now. It is not a stretch to say that this is the most important website of my life. Thank you to Mike, Joe, Ben, Jay, and the myriad other writers who’ve penned words for this site and the countless others who’ve read faithfully for so long. You have made my life as a baseball fan, a writer, and a person all the richer for it.
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DotF: Miller, Katoh have big days in Scranton’s doubleheader
April 27, 2019 by Mike
Both RHP Trevor Stephan and RHP Nick Nelson were placed on the Double-A Trenton injured list recently. That’s not good. I’d say both are unlikely call-ups this year, but they are possible trade chips, and injuries could throw a wrench into things. Hopefully it’s nothing serious, whatever the injuries are.
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Game One (7-6 win over Syracuse in ten innings, walk-off style) completion of yesterday’s game, which was suspended due to rain after the top of the first inning
1B-2B Brad Miller: 2-5, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K — here’s video of the homer, which was a bomb … the team says it went 482 feet
SS Cliff Pennington: 1-5, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 SB — walk-off homer … three homers in 15 games … the MLB ball and Triple-A pitching makes for a hell of a combination
RF Trey Amburgey: 2-4, 1 2B, 1 BB
C Kyle Higashioka: 0-3, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K — first game since being sent down
2B-3B Gosuke Katoh: 3-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 E (fielding) — now hitting .353/.431/.686 through 15 Triple-A games
RHP Drew Hutchison: 5.2 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 5/3 GB/FB — 72 of 107 pitches were strikes (67%)
LHP Rex Brothers: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 2/0 GB/FB — 26 of 44 pitches were strikes (59%) … 15/4 K/BB in 9.1 innings
Filed Under: Down on the Farm Tagged With: Nick Nelson, Trevor Stephan
Yankees 6, Giants 4: Sanchez and Happ lead Yankees to 10th win in last 12 games
Another day, another win for the makeshift 2019 Yankees. Saturday afternoon’s 6-4 win over the Giants was their tenth win in their last dozen games. The game was not as close as the final score would lead you to believe. It wasn’t until garbage time that the Giants made noise.
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Kraken Attackin’
When Yankee Stadium is your home ballpark, it can be a shock to the system when you watch baseball in Oracle Park. The park is enormous — absolutely beautiful, but enormous — and it gobbles up long fly balls. Outfielders camp under balls that, off the bat, look like they have a chance to get out in the Bronx. Yankee Stadium and Oracle Park are polar opposites. I’m not saying one is better than the other. They just play very differently.
The Yankees scored their first run against Derek Holland in true National League fashion. Cameron Maybin worked a leadoff walk and two batters later J.A. Happ bunted him up to second base. The no-longer-slumping DJ LeMahieu got the run home with a hard-hit grounder to third base. Evan Longoria ranged to his left and appeared to be in position to make the play, but the ball clanked off his glove and carried on into left field. Maybin scored with ease.
It wasn’t until the fifth inning that the Yankees broke the game open. The bottom of the order set the table for the order. Maybin beat out an infield leadoff single and Thairo Estrada poked a single to right. Happ attempted to bunt the runners up, but it wasn’t a good bunt, and the Giants got the force out at third. No matter, LeMahieu walked to loaded the bases with one out.
All game long — he’s been doing it to every team all season, really — Holland busted the Yankees’ right-handed hitters inside with fastballs, similar to CC Sabathia’s pitching style. He crowds them inside, and home plate umpire Jim Reynolds was giving Holland the inside corner, so he kept going there. Look at his called strike locations to righty batters:
Hey, if the ump is giving you a few inches inside, keep going there. Holland did exactly that to Luke Voit with the bases loaded and he went too far inside — Voit had to skip out of the way of one inside fastball, then took another to the knee to force in a run. He’s fine, thankfully. Shook it right off. The Voit hit-by-pitch gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
Up to that point in the game, Gary Sanchez was 0-for-9 with seven strikeouts since returning from the injured list, including 0-for-2 with two strikeouts against Holland earlier in the game. Righty Trevor Gott had been warming, but because Holland handled Sanchez well in their first two at-bats, Giants manager Bruce Bochy stuck with the lefty with the bases loaded. Holland got ahead in the count 1-2. Gary then uncleared the bases.
? Two things there. One, don’t miss the casual “I don’t need this anymore” bat flip. Bat drop, more accurately. And two, look where catcher Buster Posey wanted the pitch and where it wound up. Holland was supposed to bust Sanchez inside yet again with another fastball, but he missed out over the plate, and Gary hit it halfway up the bleachers. The too close for comfort 2-0 lead was now a comfortable 6-0 lead.
At 467 feet, Sanchez’s grand slam is the longest grand slam since Statcast launched in 2015. It is also the fourth longest homer in baseball this year, grand slam or otherwise. And it is Sanchez’s first career grand slam too. I would’ve guessed he hit one at one point, but nope. Gary went into this game with a career .375/.361/.438 batting line with the bases loaded. I do enjoy a good AVG > OBP slash line.
Seven Innings For Happ
Everything was all set up for J.A. Happ to have success Saturday. The Giants are a terrible offensive team — they went into this game ranked 29th in AVG (.210), 30th in OBP (.273), 28th in SLG (.345), and 30th in wRC+ (64) — and Oracle Park is huge. Big ballpark, bad offense, and Happ took advantage. Five singles and no walks in seven shutout innings. Only two strikeouts, but an 85.4 mph average exit velocity allowed. Weak contact all day.
Only once in his seven innings did the Giants really threaten against Happ. Gerardo Parra led off the third inning with a single to left and Tyler Austin pulled a two-out single to left. Brandon Belt pulled a hard-hit ground ball into the shift and LeMahieu made an excellent play to end the inning. LeMahieu made an excellent play at second and Voit made an excellent scoop at first base. Check it out:
? Another leadoff single (Posey) and two-out single (Crawford) put two men on base in the seventh inning, but Sanchez had broken the game open by then, so it wasn’t a huge deal. Parra lined out softly to shortstop to end the inning and the threat and Happ’s afternoon. At one point he retired 14 of 15 batters faced and he did it with ease. I don’t remember one difficult defensive play during that 15-batter stretch.
Happ’s final line: 7 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K on 95 pitches. He went back to throwing more four-seamers (38) than two-seamers (seven), though he also threw a ton of changeups. Thirty-seven of them. Happ threw 39 changeups in his first five starts combined this year. Maybe it’s a classification issue and Statcast confused some two-seamers for changeups? His average changeup velocity was 86.6 mph and it topped out at 88.7 mph. That’s a little high. Well, whatever. As expected, Happ is the first Yankees starter to complete seven innings in multiple starts this season.
After a great 1-2-3 eighth inning, Luis Cessa made things unnecessarily interesting in the ninth. Two singles and a three-run homer (Yangervis Solarte) and a solo homer (Erik Kratz) turned a 6-0 lead into a 6-4 lead. Gah. Aroldis Chapman had to get the final out. Cessa allowed two earned runs in his first 12.1 innings this season before that messy ninth inning. Eventually the Yankees (or some other team) will turn Cessa into one-inning air-it-out reliever and be happy they did.
Three hits and a great defensive play up against the netting in foul territory for Gio Urshela. He is now 12-for-31 (.387) in his last eight games and he’s hitting .327/.387/.491 (133 wRC+) on the season overall. Urshela’s history suggests the other shoe is going to drop at some point, but wouldn’t it be something if keeps this up? Would be cool. LeMahieu had a single and two walks as the leadoff hitter.
And finally, Voit extended his on-base streak to 38 games with his bases loaded hit-by-pitch. It is the longest such streak by a Yankee since Mark Teixeira had a 42-gamer in 2010. Voit’s 13-game hitting streak did end though. First hitless game for him since the first game of the White Sox series.
Box Score, WPA Graph & Standings
For the box score and video highlights, go to MLB.com. ESPN has the updated standings and here’s our Bullpen Workload page. Here is the win probability graph:
Source: FanGraphs
The final game of the RAB era (!). Hard to believe. The Yankees and Giants will wrap up this three-game interleague series Sunday afternoon. That’s another 4:05pm ET start. Domingo German and Dereck Rodriguez are the scheduled starting pitchers. Dereck is the son of Hall of Famer and Yankees legend Ivan Rodriguez.
Filed Under: Game Stories
Game 27: Looking for another win by the Bay
The Yankees have won nine times in their last eleven games and, incredibly, they remain a top ten offensive team despite all the injuries. They are ninth in runs per game (5.31), ninth in AVG (.258), eighth in OBP (.340), eighth in SLG (.458), and tenth in wRC+ (108). The replacements have been great.
“It’s fun, man. No one thinks we should be winning these games,” Luke Voit told Coley Harvey after last night’s win. “And everyone in our clubhouse, before the game, after the game, it’s just like everyone’s cheering for each other and happy. And you know what, the confidence is through the roof, too.”
Of course, the pitching has been pretty good too. The Yankees as a team have a 3.86 ERA, ninth best in baseball, and their starters are seventh in baseball with a 3.57 ERA. Hopefully a weak Giants lineup and a homer unfriendly park allows J.A. Happ to dominate today. Here are today’s lineups:
1. 2B DJ LeMahieu
2. 1B Luke Voit
3. C Gary Sanchez
4. SS Gleyber Torres
5. 3B Gio Urshela
6. CF Brett Gardner
7. RF Cameron Maybin
8. LF Thairo Estrada
9. LHP J.A. Happ
1. CF Kevin Pillar
2. LF Tyler Austin
3. 1B Brandon Belt
4. C Buster Posey
5. 3B Evan Longoria
6. 2B Yangervis Solarte
7. SS Brandon Crawford
8. RF Gerardo Parra
9. LHP Derek Holland
It is partly cloudy and cool in San Francisco today. Not a bad day to spend at the ballpark. This afternoon’s game will begin at 4:05pm ET and you can watch on the YES Network. Enjoy the game.
Injury Updates: Miguel Andujar (shoulder) went 3-for-5 as the DH in an Extended Spring Training game today. He is going to rest tomorrow and play third base in an ExST game Monday, and if all goes well, he’ll begin an official minor league rehab assignment with High-A Tampa on Tuesday … Troy Tulowitzki (calf) played a simulated game yesterday and will play in an ExST on Monday … Aaron Hicks (back) is tentatively scheduled to begin playing in ExST games next Wednesday … Clint Frazier (ankle) played catch today and is expected to return right when his ten days on the injured list are up, or shortly thereafter. He is eligible to be activated Friday … Jacoby Ellsbury (hip) is coming along slowly with his rehab because “little things” keep popping up, Aaron Boone said.
Rotation Update: Domingo German starts tomorrow, Monday is an off-day, Masahiro Tanaka starts Tuesday, and CC Sabathia starts Wednesday. The Yankees flipped Tanaka and Sabathia. Tanaka will start Tuesday on normal rest and Sabathia gets an extra day. Disregard, Aaron Boone misspoke this morning. The Yankees are not flipping Tanaka and Sabathia. German tomorrow, off-day Monday, Sabathia on Tuesday, Tanaka on Wednesday. Everyone stays on turn.
Filed Under: Game Threads Tagged With: Aaron Hicks, Clint Frazier, Jacoby Ellsbury, Miguel Andujar, Troy Tulowitzki
Luke Voit is Carrying the Yankees. You Can Thank the Front Office.
April 27, 2019 by Bobby Montano
The Yankees, as of last October, have around 20 analysts employed in their front office, per Marc Carig and Eno Sarris of The Athletic (subs req’d). The next closest American League team employs 15 (Houston) and only Los Angeles has as many. In other words, the Yanks invest more capital and staffing into their analytical department than nearly any other franchise in the league—and Yankee fans should be extremely grateful for that. After all, without them, Luke Voit would likely still be in St. Louis.
The Yankees analytical staff had their eye on Voit since at least 2017, with Cashman saying that “[my staff] were all pushing his name hard” and that “he was somebody on our radar.” At last year’s deadline, they traded Gio Gallegos and Chasen Shreve for Voit, who proceeded to hit .333/.405/.689 (194 wRC+) with 14 home runs in 148 plate appearances for the Yankees down the stretch. A small sample size, but one buoyed by an elite batted ball profile that suggested that Voit might, in fact, be the real deal. Let’s take a look at what he’s done so far.
His performance in early 2019 continues to bolster his case, and he’s quickly becoming a fan favorite in New York. He’s hitting .276/.388/.551 (149 wRC+) with 8 home runs in the early going, walking 13% of the time and carrying a depleted and decimated Yankee lineup. In fact, as Mike noted last night, Voit is 11-27 (.407) with a .483 OBP in the six games since Judge went down. He has four home runs in that span, including one last night.
Here’s how Voit stacks up against the 31 qualified first basemen:
Batting Average: .276 (12th)
On-Base Percentage: .388 (8th)
Slugging Percentage: .551 (10th)
Home Runs: 8 (tied for 3rd)
wOBA: .396 (7th)
wRC+: 149 (8th)
fWAR: 9 (tied for 6th)
Voit is essentially in the top third in every relevant offensive category for his position this year after being the game’s best trade deadline acquisition last year. His average is climbing, he gets on base, he hits for power, he is good relative to his peers, and his expected stats are solid. Not bad for a guy nobody had heard twelve months ago, is it?
Still, though, this is only just about 100 plate appearances. That’s still not a lot (even when counting the 150 from 2018) and it’s still possible that there is a lot of small sample size noise. To really get a sense of what’s driving Voit’s success, we’ll need to take a deeper dive into his batted ball profile.
Batted Ball Profile and Approach
One of Statcast’s most useful statistics is the “barrel”, which is a term for the optimal batted ball event. In other words, it’s the best outcome a hitter can produce at the plate: it means he hit the ball hard and at the right angle. In 2016, for example, players hit .822 with a 2.386 slugging percentage on barrels.
201 players have put at least 50 balls in play (batted ball event, or BBE) in 2019 so far, and only three of them (Pete Alonso, Anthony Rendon, and Franmil Reyes) have produced more barrels per plate appearance than Luke Voit (13.5%). When it comes to converting BBEs into the optimal outcome, only Alonso is better. Just over a 5th of every ball Luke Voit puts into play is a barrel. That seems good!
What’s really encouraging about these figures is that they align with what he produced in 2018. Last year, Voit led baseball in barrels per plate appearance after the trade deadline (among batters with at least 100 BBE), hitting a barrel 12.4% of the time. Luke Voit hits the ball really hard and he does it at the right angle. Put simply, that suggests that there is much more to Voit’s success than a small sample size. In fact, Voit’s average exit velocity ranks in the 85th percentile in the league. If, somehow, you’re still on the fence about Voit, just remember: you can’t fake hitting the ball hard.
In fact, that’s exactly why Voit’s expected stats rank near the top of the league. Again, courtesy of Statcast:
Voit’s expected batting average, expected weighted on-base percentage and expected slugging percentage rank in the 72nd, 94th, and 95th percentile of the league this year respectively. What that tells you is that he’s not getting lucky on the balls he puts into play and that, in fact, his batted ball profile suggests he could even be a bit better than what he’s actually produced in 2019. The underlying data loves Luke Voit. It really does.
Finally, Voit has a good approach at the plate. He swings at fewer balls out of the zone (26%) than league average (30%) and he attacks the ball in the zone, swinging at 78% of all strikes he sees. Voit is aggressive but manages to lay off pitches out of the zone. That’s exactly what you want, even if he’s a bit below average when it comes to making contact. Good things happen when you swing at strikes and lay off the junk.
This is what the Yankees front office saw in Luke Voit at the time of the trade, though MiLB batted ball data is proprietary. We can’t see it. They believed Voit had the profile of someone poised for a breakout, a diamond in the rough. I think it’s safe to say that they hit a home run with this one, no matter what he does in the rest of his career. You can’t take away those plate appearances. They happened and they have helped the Yankees.
It can sometimes be easy to forget, as a Yankee fan who interacts with mostly other Yankee fans, why the rest of the country and league despise the Yankees. It’s not just that they haven’t been bad in 25 years or that they have the most championships in league history. That’s a big reason why, of course, but there’s more than that.
It’s because when they trade a minor prospect and worst reliever in their pen for a first basemen nobody has heard of, that first basemen turns around and hits .309/.398/.630 (174 wRC+) with 22 homers and 30 extra base hits in 264 plate appearances. Factor in the injuries the Yankees have faced during the end of 2018 and early going in 2019, and you can easily make the case that Luke Voit (!) has been the key cog in the Yankees offensive machine, keeping them alive. That’s why people hate the Yankees.
Filed Under: Players Tagged With: Luke Voit
Yankees 7, Giants 3: Voit leads Yanks to win over Bumgarner
Thursday’s blown four-run lead and series finale loss to the Angels is just that: one loss. Not the start of a losing streak. The Yankees rebounded with a not necessarily pretty 7-3 win over Madison Bumgarner and the Giants at Oracle Park on Friday night. They’ve won nine of their last eleven games.
More Like BadMum Amirite?
Bumgarner is not the pitcher he was two or thee years ago — I wonder how many casual fans will still want him at the trade deadline following this game? — and the Yankees wore him out Friday night. He pitched in six different innings and the Yankees scored in four of them, including a first inning two-spot. DJ LeMahieu doubled, Gleyber Torres doubled, and Cameron Maybin singled. Bang bang bang. Bumgarner threw 33 pitches in that first inning.
The Yankees scored their third run of the game in the third inning. Luke Voit shot a single to right field and Torres … bunted him to second? What? I get that he might’ve been bunting for a hit there, but goodness, I don’t like it. He’s the No. 3 hitter, Bumgarner had been giving up good contact all night, and Gleyber is one of the few legitimate MLB bats in the lineup. Yes, I know the replacements have been great, but still. Swing away, young man.
The bunt worked, at least. Torres moved Voit up and Cleanup Hitter Gio Urshela got the run in with a single to left. LeMahieu singled and scored on Voit’s double to right in the fifth inning, then three straight one-out singles potted a run in the sixth. Austin Romine to left, Mike Tauchman to left, Thairo Estrada to right. I’m glad we got to experience The Summer of Thairo at the big league level before RAB shut down. That’s pretty cool.
Bumgarner needed 104 pitches to get 17 outs and give up five runs on eleven hits. First time a single pitcher has given up at least eleven hits to the Yankees since Martin Perez last August. Also, the Yankees fouled away 27 pitches, their most against a single pitcher since last August, when they did it to … Jacob deGrom? Jacob deGrom. Bumgarner had allowed 27+ foul balls in a start only six times in the last three years. At-bat after at-bat was a battle.
The Yankees went 5-for-11 (.455) with runners in scoring position with Bumgarner on the mound and, really, they let him off the hook too. There was the unnecessary Torres bunt and Voit was easily thrown out trying to tag up at second and go to third on Gleyber’s fly ball in the fifth. Two gift outs right there. I swear, every day I look at the lineup and wonder how the Yankees are going to score, but they keep making it work. This season has been pretty fun so far and most definitely not in the way I expected.
Paxton Labors Early, Labors Late
How bad have the Giants been offensively this season? They went into Friday’s series opener with a .272 OBP and a .349 SLG as a team. For reference, Austin Romine went into the game with a .268 OBP and a .350 SLG in 2019. No offense to Romine, he’s carved out a nice little career for himself as a backup catcher, but imagine watching a team that collectively hits like Romine? Oy vey.
Naturally, the terrible hitting Giants scored in the first inning against James Paxton. Former Yankee Tyler Austin punched a single to right field, Brandon Belt lined a double to right field, and Buster Posey lifted a sacrifice fly to right field. Voit came maybe a few inches away from making the leaping catch on Belt’s line drive. If he makes the catch, he steps on first base for an inning-ending double play. Game of inches. Some stats:
It was the first run the Giants scored in the first inning this year.
It was the first earned run the Giants scored in the first inning in 44 (!) games.
Belt’s double was their first extra-base hit in the first inning this year.
This isn’t even a Giants blog and I am still compelled to note those stats. Voit hit two first inning home runs in the Angels series! The Giants did not have a first inning run or a first inning extra-base hit this season until Friday. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around that. It is bonkers. I’d be more upset about the Yankees allowing San Francisco’s first first inning run (and extra-base hit) had they hadn’t won the game.
The Giants made Paxton work in the first inning and in the sixth inning. A leadoff walk, a Buster Posey one-out double, and a Yangervis Solarte one-out single gave San Francisco their two sixth inning runs. Posey went down to get a cutter diving out of the zone …
… and he hooked it into the corner. The ability to hit that pitch in an 0-2 count down the line for extra bases is why Posey’s (possibly) going to the Hall of Fame. The Solarte single? That was a mistake out over the plate. Paxton’s 106th and final pitch might’ve been his worst, and I reckon the Yankees would not have let him throw that many pitches if there weren’t two off-days before his next start. He’s going to get plenty of rest now.
Between the tough first inning and tough partial sixth inning Paxton retired 13 of 14 batters with seven strikeouts. Four of those 14 batters hit the ball out of the infield. To me, this seemed like a classic “he needed some time to settle in early and ran out of gas late” start. Paxton’s final line: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 8 K. Not great, obviously, but also not all that bad either. When that qualifies as a down start, you’re doing a-okay.
The Super Good Enough Bullpen
Unlike Thursday night, the Yankees were leading when their bullpen got involved Friday, so Aaron Boone elected to use his good relievers. Hooray. Tommy Kahnle inherited a runner on first with two outs from Paxton and struck out Brandon Crawford to end the inning. Remember when he gave up two runs in two-thirds of an inning in Houston? Kahnle’s retired 28 of 33 batters with 13 strikeouts in his other ten appearances. That’ll work, Tommy Tightpants.
Zack Britton was on his way to an easy seventh inning before completely losing the plate with two outs. He got Pablo Sandoval to ground out and struck out Steven Duggar, and got ahead in the count 0-2 on Kevin Pillar. Everything was going swell … then eleven straight balls and three straight walks overall. Britton’s pitch locations:
Seems bad. Britton walked the bases loaded after two quick outs and an 0-2 count on Pillar. Adam Ottavino had to bail him out. Ottavino caught Posey looking at a slider strike three. Exhale. Britton has walked seven batters in eleven innings this season with a 14.9% walk rate. It’s still early and this outing certainly skewed his numbers, but also maybe throw strikes? Could be cool. Hopefully Britton gets reacquainted with the strike zone soon.
Anyway, Ottavino walked a batter of his own in an otherwise spotless eighth inning — to be fair, it appeared Solarte went around on the 3-1 pitch, but home plate umpire Ramon De Jesus never bothered ask third base umpire Mark Wegner for help — and Aroldis Chapman pitched around a one-out walk in the ninth. Would be cool to go one night without the bullpen walking three or four batters. Voit was kind enough to provide two insurance runs with a homer to dead center field against Mark Melancon in the ninth.
The 1-2-3-4 hitters: 10-for-18 (.556) with four doubles, one homer, one walk, one strikeout, six runs scored, and five runs driven in. Everyone else: 5-for-20 (.250) with no extra-base hits, no walks, and six strikeouts. The top of the order carried the Yankees in this game and hey, that’s perfectly fine. That’s why they’re atop the lineup. Nothing wrong with counting on your best players to be your best players.
Voit extended his MLB leading on-base streak to 37 games. It is the longest by a Yankee since Mark Teixeira had a 42-gamer in 2010. Voit went in 3-for-4 with a double and a homer in this game and is 11-for-27 (.407) with a .483 OBP and four homers in six games since Aaron Judge got hurt. Dude has stepped up huge lately. He’s hitting .276/.388/.551 (150 wRC+) on the year overall. Pretty awesome.
Estrada’s first career game in left field — first career game in left as a professional, majors or minors — went well. He had one fly ball hit his way and it was a routine catch, so yes, he survived. Wade pinch-ran for Estrada following his run-scoring single in the sixth. Wade’s not the most proficient outfielder himself, but he’s certainly more experienced than Thairo, so the Yankees put him in late for defense.
And finally, the Giants played a tribute video for CC Sabathia in the middle innings. Here’s (part of) the video. Sabathia grew up a little north of San Francisco in Vallejo. Neat gesture. The Giants are the first team to recognize Sabathia during his farewell season (to be fair, this is only the fourth road series).
Box Score, WPA Graph & Leftovers
MLB.com has the box score and video highlights, ESPN has the updated standings, and we have a Bullpen Workload page. Here’s the win probability graph:
The penultimate game of the RAB era. The Yankees and Giants continue this three-game series with the middle game Saturday afternoon. That is a 4:05pm ET start. Veteran lefties J.A. Happ and Derek Holland will be on the mound.
DotF: Gil dominates, Charleston flirts with no-hitter in win
RHP Chad Green will work as a starter/opener with Triple-A Scranton, manager Jay Bell told Conor Foley. In other words, they’re going to make sure he gets regular work rather than be subject to the ebbs and flows of bullpen life. They’re not going start him every fifth day and stretch him out. Green will instead throw two or three innings every three or four days, that sorta thing.
The Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders had their game suspended due to rain after the top of the first inning. Here’s the box score. The game will be completed as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
The Double-A Trenton Thunder were rained out. They’ll play a doubleheader tomorrow.
High-A Tampa Tarpons (5-3 loss to Clearwater)
CF Pablo Olivares: 0-5, 2 K
SS Oswaldo Cabrera: 1-5 — hitting .310/.363/.361 through 19 games … he turned only 20 in March, so there’s not much power yet, but everything else has been good
DH Dermis Garcia: 0-2, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K
LF Isiah Gilliam: 0-4, 1 R, 2 BB — threw runners out at first and second bases … seven assists in 17 games in the outfield this season … he had seven assists in 104 games in the outfield last year
C Donny Sands: 1-3, 1 BB
RHP Miguel Yajure: 5.1 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1 HR, 5/5 GB/FB — 64 of 98 pitches were strikes (65%) … 16 runs in 20.1 innings so far for one of my not top 30 prospects
Low-A Charleston RiverDogs (8-3 win over Columbia)
CF Brandon Lockridge: 2-5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 3B
SS Wilkerman Garcia: 3-5, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 CS — had been 2-for-12 (.167) in his first three games since being recalled from Extended Spring Training
C Josh Breaux: 2-5, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 K — multiple hits in three of his last six games after having multiple hits in three of his first eleven games
LF Canaan Smith: 2-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI
RHP Luis Gil: 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 8 K, 5/1 GB/FB — 49 of 80 pitches were strikes (61%) … 26/11 K/BB in 17.1 innings through four starts, and that’s pretty cool
RHP Shawn Semple: 4 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 4/5 GB/FB — 46 of 66 pitches were strikes (70%) … figures he has his first less than stellar outing of the season when they’re going for the combined no-hitter … he gave up the first hit leading off the seventh
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Cease, Cows
Featured Rare Flash
Wild Things by Ashley Kunsa
Once the sirens stopped, Max picked himself up from the pavement, donned a bear suit, and trudged across the 10th St. Bridge in search of food. Never in his life could he recall feeling such a hunger. It gripped his cavernous insides like moss to a stone wall.
Beneath an overpass he nosed at a discarded pizza box, batted Twinkie wrappers.
Suddenly a great jeering crowd in black and gold poured onto the sidewalk, their giant foam fingers pointing, pointing. Fear churned in Max’s belly. He pulled at the head of the bear suit but could not free himself; he tore at the paws to no avail.
“Hush,” intoned a voice behind him.
A wiry man bent over a barely flaming barrel combed smoke toward his face. “Hush,” though Max had spoken not a word. “They are not for you,” said the man.
He held out a fish.
Max shuffled forward, shyly, taking the lifeless thing in his paws. Then he raised it to his mouth, ripping the tender flesh with his teeth as the wild mass of humans washed, roaring, over the bridge.
Ashley Kunsa’s creative work has appeared in or is forthcoming from more than a dozen places, including Pembroke Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. She has been awarded the Orlando prize for flash fiction from the A Room of Her Own foundation and holds an MFA from Penn State University. Currently she’s completing a PhD in English literature at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she lives with her writer/librarian husband and dino-obsessed son. Find her online at www.ashleykunsa.com.
Lead image: “Fish” (via Flickr user Vincent-Lin)
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INTERVIEW: Thor Brenne – A Punk Approach To Film And Art
by Jarred Keane
From the extremes of human existence in the arctic circle, Norwegian filmmaker, Thor Brenne at age 37 has little more than 7 years of active experience, but numerous awards and features in NOWNESS, Pitchfork, Vice, NBC New York and more. His work has earned him ‘Best Music Video’ at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2010, ‘Best Director’ at the Nordic Music Video Awards 2015, as well as nominations at the UKMVA‘s and selections at Vimeo Staff Picks.
With his latest video for Ina Wrolden’s “Sea” (their second collaboration) getting incredible traction and recognition, we wanted to talk more in depth with him about his methods and processes, as we think he is a surefire star of the future, if not the present.
Here is the official video for Ina Wroldsen’s “Sea”
What was your path into filmmaking or music videos in general?
“I studied a little bit, but it was more a demotivating, than a motivating thing for me. I never liked school of any kind. I believe in passion and experience; for filmmaking and life in general.”
And your beginnings were in documentary?
“Yes, that’s right. I think I’ve worked with mixed formats all along. Short fiction… documentaries. I guess there is a little bit of everything dropped into my videos. I started shooting skate videos as a teenager. I liked shooting, editing and just putting it out. It was satisfying as well as being a lot of fun, and at the same time I was watching a lot of movies, of course. That is where the transition to a ‘filmmaker’ started, but I was very shy and insecure about how to approach filmmaking. It’s a tough industry, and it took a while before I got the confidence to step into it. Now though, I’m putting all that energy into interesting projects that I hope will make people laugh and cry. And get horny, maybe.”
Lars Vaular – ‘Ung heit gateflamme‘ (BTS Photo)
Where would you say your style came from?
“For me it varies a lot, but I guess most of the stuff I do has some form of loneliness and melancholy. I like lonely but strong individuals. Somehow it’s pretty crazy to have stuff like that as ingredients in music videos, since, at the end of the day, it’s a superficial, super commercial format. We all still see music videos as just, you know, selling the music, selling a product. At the same time I’m open to new angles on how to approach things, I don’t want to be too locked into a way of thinking or doing things. I want to experiment and feel. I don’t want intellectualise stuff too much, or to be forced to follow rules. I think I have more of a punk approach to film and art.”
Can you talk about those themes of loneliness? Your work has a few motifs that hint at this, whether it’s the lone person dancing in a room, or couples kissing?
“I tend to get deep into concepts / characters that are quite introverted, or are trying to reveal something inside them. I’ve watched porn everyday since my late teens and it has shaped an emotional distance and despondency inside me. It sounds pretty sad, but it’s now kind of flipped. I like raw aggression on the inside a tenderness on the outside. Inspiration can spring from anywhere, even from porn.”
Sondre Justad – ‘Ingenting‘ (BTS Photo)
Do you have a preferred musical taste and does it inform your decisions as a director?
“I really like all kinds of music: if the track is good, it’s good. I have worked with hip hop, electronica, indie, pop. I’m interested in the different musical landscapes and the culture and history that surrounds it. Its like having different movie genres. I enjoy both Die Hard and Dogville.”
How involved are you in the process of making the videos?
“It varies a lot. Some artists know exactly what they want when I come on board, and others, for whatever reason, give me a lot of freedom from the start. I’m open to everything now. It took me years to understand that it’s their video and not mine. Still, I’m very clear from the beginning that I want to put my art and style into it. If I can’t do that, I reject the offer. So, there’s a balance to be found, and I think I’m not interested anymore, whether because it’s what I personally want, or because it just makes for better videos in my opinion. I’m not a good “casual director” – artistic space/creativity has more value than money to me.”
Heyerdahl – ‘Mirage‘ (BTS Photos)
How do you run your sets, and how much control do you have in the process?
“I used to be a control freak when I started. You know, like the director should make every decision just to show that who’s the boss. Now, I´m very open to suggestions and I let the different professionals I’m working with have their space. There’s a reason why they are doing what they do; they want to express themselves, and by giving this freedom, the crew members tend to get more happy and inspired as well. It’s the same with actors. I’m more focused on choosing who I work with, and how it will work out on set, than on trying to control everything once we’re all on set. Filmmaking is so very intense so I want the process to be as peaceful as possible.”
Do you enjoy working in the Scandinavian film and music scene especially?
“The Scandinavian scene is doing pretty good these days. Both in feature films and in music videos. In film making in general! It seems like music videos are having a new renaissance after the dead mid 2000’s. The creative energy is back and there is a lot nice stuff out there, not just in Scandinavia, but everywhere.”
Where would you like to go from here?
“For better or for worse, I want to do everything at the same time. I think feature film is the ultimate goal for me. There are certain themes I want to explore, and ultimately, long format is the right position for them. I have three movies I want to do, and I would be pretty happy If I get the chance to do one of them. Beside that, I want to continue making music videos – I mean for me music videos and short films are not a school or prep for feature film. Each format is unique and I love telling stories in that manner.”
Pompeii – ‘Blueprint‘ (BTS Photo)
Thor is currently working on his first feature film and completed a new documentary called The Art Of Working In Pairs about an acrobatic duo that he formely worked with on a music video for ‘Alone’ by Aneli Drekker. Thor was one of the early signings at COMPULSORY and is a prime example of how fantastic representation can nurture and support talent to help them develop. He is also represented by PRYSERFILM in Norway.
Here is the official video for “Monster”
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Transit, traffic impact and road closures are expected
from 12 – 4 p.m. on Friday
Avon, CO – The Town of Avon is thrilled to host some of the best female road cycling professionals in the world for Stage 2 of the Colorado Classic on Friday, August 23rd. Stage 2, the Queen Stage, is really two stages in one. The race begins at 1:00 p.m., and the opening 35 miles on the flat 5-mile circuit for seven laps will be fast, technical riding and a thrill for spectators across the Avon town core. A final eighth lap of 15 miles will tackle one of Colorado’s most notorious climbs, the ridiculously steep Bachelor Gulch (fan accessible by bike or foot only). This climb through Beaver Creek and Bachelor Gulch on Daybreak Ridge hits grades of 14%. Racers will finish the lap with a fast, technical descent back into Avon, finishing on Lake Street. Please walk or ride your bike.
Nottingham Park
Join us in Harry A. Nottingham Park between 11:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. for all the excitement! The National Anthem and opening ceremonies will begin at 12:00 p.m. The park will be bustling with activity including gear and food vendors, a giant screen live-streaming the race, and a special performance from The Sweet Lillies beginning at 1:00 p.m. Avon’s town core will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning at noon, so be sure to get there early.
Main Street Mall and Benchmark Road
Catch the racers as they sprint through seven laps and, on the final lap, fight to the finish line. You can also pick up official Colorado Classic merchandise by Primal!
Line the sidewalk and make some noise as the peloton begins their uphill battle towards Bachelor Gulch, they’ll fly by again on their descent as they race toward the finish line!
Daybreak Ridge and Bachelor Gulch Trail will present the opportunity to view the high-speed descent from the summit. Please note that vehicular access is not available on race day.
One of the most exciting locations will be the Queen of the Mountain location, at the top of Daybreak Ridge in Bachelor Gulch. Note that bicycle access through Bachelor Gulch is not available after 12:30 p.m. on race day. Port-a-lets and limited water will be available at the summit of Daybreak Ridge.
Park at the Elk lot before noon with egress after 4:00 p.m.
Park at the Bear lot before noon with Westbound egress only until 4:00 p.m.
TRAFFIC IMPACT
Residents and visitors should plan for the following hard road closures, with crossing opportunities, beginning at 12:00 p.m. and ending at 4:00 p.m.
Lake Street
West Beaver Creek Boulevard
Post Boulevard
East Beaver Creek Boulevard
Hurd Lane
West Benchmark Road
Riverfront Lane
Our neighboring communities in Beaver Creek and Bachelor Gulch will experience the following hard road closures between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Holden Road
Daybreak Ridge
Bachelor Gulch Trail
Prater Lane
Avon Transit Impact
Thursday, August 22nd
Lake Street Closed, please use the Rec Center bus stop on Mikaela Way
Avon Rec Center West Lot Closed
Friday, August 23rd
Lake Street closed all day, please use the Rec Center bus stop on Mikaela Way before 12:00 p.m. and after 4:00 p.m.
No Avon Transit Service between 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
All other Avon Transit bus stops will operate as normally scheduled
ECO Transit Impact (details at avon.org/coclassic)
The following routes will be impacted:
Edwards Eastbound Highway 6
Eagle Vail Eastbound Highway 6
Vail Westbound Highway 6
Avon Westbound Highway 6
Eastbound and Westbound Valley Routes
Avon Recreation Center Impact
The Avon Recreation Center will have a delayed opening at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, August 23rd and the parking lots will be closed all day. There will be no fitness classes on that day. Avon Recreation Center will offer a punch card sale during the Colorado Classic, selling a 10-punch card for $62.
⇐Previous Music Lineup Announced for 970 AvonFestNext⇒ TOWN OF AVON SPECIAL EVENTS ADVISORY: COLORADO CLASSIC FRIDAY, AUGUST 23
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Wife Finale
오! 너무 좋아요!
Wife Finale Dec 28, 2003 10:25:41 GMT -5
Post by Soju on Dec 28, 2003 10:25:41 GMT -5
And one minor thing: How come his beard grew all scraggly in the hospital, but his fingernails remained well-manicured?
dreamie
Post by dreamie on Dec 28, 2003 12:48:25 GMT -5
Soju said:
Because they couldn't think of a plot device for them?
eyego
Wife Finale Jan 2, 2004 21:38:24 GMT -5
Post by eyego on Jan 2, 2004 21:38:24 GMT -5
I'm a bit late with my 2 cents worth but... I also think Sang-jin died. One reason is that the song they played while the wives were in the waiting room started out - "It's time to say good-bye". Of course I suppose that could also be taken as he lives and 1 wife will have to "say good-bye" to him.
I hate it when the writers want you to draw your own conclusion. Happy - Sad - I don't care, just give me an ending!
Post by yobo on Jan 3, 2004 21:00:21 GMT -5
I also objected to the non-end, but the more I think about it, I have to conclude that the way it ended was really the way it ended-- with SJ/TY a vegetable with no desire to return to the misery he was tortured with on both sides. Remember Min-joo's comment that he squeezed her hand in acknowledgement? I would have to believe she was not imagining this or lying about it; though she was sometimes hard to figure out, nothing was said to discredit her observation. Also Dr. Kim gave the opinion that it was up to the patient if he wanted to wake up or not, and obviously he didn't want to, and even though he was semi-aware of his surroundings, he rejected the responsibility of making a choice between his two wives. I suspect that if he could go back to a world with just his two beloved children, he may have felt differently. There was really not a solution to the dilemma, and the moral of the story is that he should have been left alone in his ignorant bliss with Hyun-ja and Eun-pyo, which I guess would make Hyun-pil the main culprit.
Roy Guzman
Wife Finale Jan 20, 2004 14:23:04 GMT -5
Post by Roy Guzman on Jan 20, 2004 14:23:04 GMT -5
I think they should of just gave us a ending,any kind of ending.I would like to think that Sang-jin should of gone with Hyun-ja and there son and lived with there friends.I dont think that the story should have had a cliff hanger ending.
Jimmy Roy Guzman
Post by Jimmy Roy Guzman on Jan 20, 2004 14:37:25 GMT -5
Hello again i just wanted to say that if the authors shows a new ending I bet that lots of people would wacth the show and let Sang-jin choose hyun-ja.If the author does put another ending let it be english subtitled and put the date on the internet so I can see if it will be on .
Cecile in Chicago
Post by Cecile in Chicago on Jan 23, 2004 19:28:20 GMT -5
I only discovered "Wife" after Sang-Jim was reunited with his family, and still adjusting. It didn't take long to get hooked, and I love all of these people. Minju makes me cry every time she does. And NaYoung is strong and of high character. I taped 5 episodes but missed the finale. However, I now see from this website that the conclusion was left to the viewers. This was a great show filled with true human emotions.
Wife Finale Jul 16, 2004 3:01:10 GMT -5
Post by alanna on Jul 16, 2004 3:01:10 GMT -5
I salute to all non-Koreans
who had all the patience to watch the ending of Wife.
Even to Koreans, the drama was probably the most dragging, obscurely ended story and lots of criticism fell after that.
Even my mom, who really loved the drama kept on asking me if exactly what happened at the end.
I had to go through their homepage to confirm that Sang-jin died and two wives went their path.
I really have no idea what made the writters dawdle so much. Wife was one drama that all the typical characteristics of Korean drama - pure love, beautiful screen, heartfelt dialogues, good acting...plus too much crying crying crying, lots of dragging and sloppy ending.
(Fortunately, these days many main actors are protesting against extra lengthening of episodes with the backing from their fans).
All three main actors were good - too bad the drama spoiled them.
Wife Finale Jul 16, 2004 10:50:50 GMT -5
Post by TheBo on Jul 16, 2004 10:50:50 GMT -5
Guest-alanna said:
...Even to Koreans, the drama was probably the most dragging, obscurely ended story and lots of criticism fell after that.
...I had to go through their homepage to confirm that Sang-jin died and two wives went their path.
...Fortunately, these days many main actors are protesting against extra lengthening of episodes with the backing from their fans...
Hello again, Alanna. I really thought this drama was beautiful, but quite repetitive. I'm sorry the website confirmed that he died, because I liked that the ending was ambiguous, as life is sometimes.
Are you saying that it's a common practice for the shows to be altered due to popular demand? Maybe that's why they sometimes seem to drag on and on, and the writing slows down; sometimes, it's actually painful. I know that happened with Dae Jang-geum, and it almost caused the ending to be ruined because Lee Young-ae was just plain tired and wanted to keep to the terms of her contract. Personally, I think the fans should leave the writing to the writers of the show. It can only be trouble when others interfere with ones work.
Post by Knov1 on Jul 16, 2004 16:16:26 GMT -5
TheBo said:
Are you saying that it's a common practice for the shows to be altered due to popular demand?
Yes, quite a few dramas have changed their ending due to the demand of viewers.
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St. Luke's Christian Day School Kindergarten and Grades 1-6. School Year 1950-51
The entire student body of St. Luke's Lutheran School (Kindergarten -6th grade)in academic year 1950-51, The first permanent school building had just been erected one year earlier and now the faculty was ready to publish its very first "School...
Sandspur, Vol. 19 No. 20, February 24, 1917.
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"The Slavian" 1955-56 edition of St. Luke's School annual
The cover of "The Slavian" the 1955-56 edition of the "Annual of St, Luke's Christian Day School- Slavia, Florida. (Volume VI, June 1956) As noted on the cover, this booklet was" Published by the Faculty. Sponsored by the PTA. "Individual and...
St. Luke's Christian Day School: student body, May, 1954
The entire student body of St. Luke's Christian Day School poses with 4 teachers (Vera Fabry, Marian Stanko, Emmeline Best,Elmer Bellhorn) on the stage of the school auditorium in May, 1954. (Individuals not identified in school annual.)
Christmas Pageant: December, 1954, St. Luke's Christian Day School
Students of St. Luke's Christian Day School portray the Holy Family in the school's annual Christmas Pageant, December, 1954. Students were not identified in this photo from the school annual
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St. Luke's School Chorus 1955-56
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Sixth Grade Class (1954-55) in classroom
The Sixth Grade class (1954-55) poses in their classroom at St. Luke's Christian Day School. 1954-55. Teacher, Elmer Bellhorn. Individuals in this photo not identified in school annual.
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Earning a degree in computer drafting opens up graduates for careers working in engineering and other technological environments as a graphic technical artist....
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New Mediterranean Quartet /
Giorgio Matteoli was born in Rome in 1966. He has a degee in recorder, cello, chamber music and music history from “La Sapienza” University in Rome. He is now professor of recorder and chamber music at the Aquila conservatoire.
Giorgio was involved CDs and radio recordings and won critic acclaim.
As a solo recorder player he has recorded the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone and MarcoF risina to the international co-production “The Bible” which won the cable ACE (American Television Oscar) for the best soundtrack of the year.
In 1994 Giorgio founded Festa Rustica (Fete Rustique) ensemble, Italian baroque ensemble with variable musicians (from triosonata to chamber orchestra). In addition to the numerous concerts performed in Italy and abroad (France, Spain, Albania, Montecarlo etc) they have produced several recordings for Milan’s Agorà and ASV Gaudeamus music companies.
His first worldwide recording of the Francesco Mancini recorder concerts for recorder and strings (CD Musicaimmagine Records MR 1004) obtained fantastic critics from national and international critics and according to the American magazine “Fanfare” is one of the world’s best classical music recordings produced in 1995 (“the want list 1995”).
Later on Giorgio has discovered, recorded and performed on original instruments all over Italy and Europe unknown beautiful music from the 17th and 18th Century.
The latest recording of Festa Rustica has been recently published by MAP Editions: Haendel’s complete Sonatas for recorder and Basso continuo.
Giorgio performed widely as a conductor with various orchestras (Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra Cantelli, Orchestra Mandolinistica Romana, Nuova Cameristica, Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana) and pubished several articles in different italian music Magazines (Orfeo, Amadeus, Cd Classics), about recorder tecnique, history of music, baroque composers and repertories.
Giorgio Matteoli is the President of Early Music Italia Association and founder of the Brianza Classica chamber music festival.
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Lovestruck: 8 Short One-Acts by Dale Griffiths Stamos
Playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos has conceived an intriguing world premiere evening of short one-acts, 10 -15 minutes each, called Lovestruck, all dealing with the theme of love: parental love, love based purely on sexual attraction, marital love, love for those over 70, homosexual love and even abusive love. Some are funny; some, exceedingly serious. With an outstanding company of 15 actors and 7 out of 8 directed by Maggie Grant (who also acts in two of them ) - the 8th is helmed by Barbara Bain - the play is in residence at the Beverly Hills Playhouse through May 27, which means you have only two more weekends to get lovestruck.
Identity, starring Barbara Bain, Peter Van Norden and Dave Roberts, offers an elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Hearing on the radio that a popular jazz musician has died, Roxanne (Bain) begins to vent some feelings that her son Paul (Roberts) does not understand. In fact the unsettling news that he hears from his father (Van Norden) sheds a whole new light on his relationship with both parents and makes for an unusually uncomfortable Sunday visit to the home where Roxanne resides. Bain steals the scene with merely a few scattered lines to say. Her discombobulated reactions and emotions are pulsating. Despite the heartbreak of the whole scenario, her delicately beautiful performance exudes a bittersweet joy that is enthralling.
Matchmade, co-starring Bain and Nick Ullett, is much lighter, very funny and terribly, terribly sweet. Meredith (Bain) owns a matchmaking agency for folks over 70 and her no-nonsense approach to not dating clients is put to the test when applicant Charlie (Ullett) turns out to be an old flame, her deceased husband's best friend in college. Both Bain and Ullett are awfully good as two people trying to express the awkward feelings of two older lovers who haven't seen each other for close to fifty years. Bain is especially riveting in a roller coaster mix of strength and vulnerability.
Of the two monologues Jeremy's Fear starring Eric Charles Jorgenson (pictured) as a closeted homosexual musician is the most engaging. Speaking with a pastor after his mother's funeral service, Jeremy (Jorgenson) describes the struggles/joys of love in the gay world, in spite of what religion has dictated. Stamos' detailed writing, which gives Jeremy free reign and Jorgenson's heartfelt work make this playlet a little gem.
Also of note on the lighter side are Amanda Split, The One, with a particularly enjoyable performance by Kirk Enochs as a silly man/child, and The Session. On a more serious note there's Dirty Little Secret with a wonderfully controlled performance by Maggie Grant as a therapist determined to exercise power over her volatile patient.
Praise as well to others in the cast including Samm Hill, Bob Ebinger, Molly Leland, Julianna Robinson, Ryan Cross, Matthew Brenher, Tara Windley, and Natasha Charles Parker. Highly skilled direction is to be noted from both Grant and Bain. Set art design by Adam Hunter - a bold contemporary painting representing love in all of its wild splendor and torture - offers amusement.
Lovestruck is a well acted, finely directed, and intelligently written evening of mini-plays by the versatile Stamos, that will entertain you, make you laugh, shed a tear or two and even think a little; at the very least they will open up your mind and surely your heart.
http://grigware.blogspot.com/2012/05/review-lovestruck.html
By Pat Taylor
A highly entertaining set of eight one-act plays, on the age old subject of "Love" ... this is a wonderful collection of stories. All penned by Dale Griffiths Stamos, with skill, humor, and a passionate sense of the intricate workings of the human heart ... she is, I feel, a truly gifted writer. Taking us from laughter to aching pain, to soulful life situations repeatedly, there is much to ponder here. Directed with inventive and "true to life" emotion by Maggie Grant, a fine cast of over a dozen actors spill their guts, bare their souls, and tickle your funny bones, as the evening plays out. Sadly, when reviewing "one act" productions, there's never enough space to feature every actor and scene individually ... so I must pick my favorites overall.
When her loving husband and adult son come to visit her at a retirement home (well played by Peter Van Norden and Dave Roberts) the Alzheimer-afflicted Roxanne reveals a shocking secret. A mesmerizing performance by Barbara Bain, in this beautiful play.
Jeremy's Fear
In a gutwrenching solo performance by Eric Charles Jorgenson, a man confesses and tries to justify his homosexuality over his mother's funeral casket ... There wasn't a dry eye in the audience!
Amanda Split
A clever and animated look at a "good girl-bad girl" fantasy piece. We hilariously view the "alter ego" of Amanda, as she struggles with her attraction to a "no good" unsuitable lover. Fun-filled depictions by Molly Leland, Julianna Robinson, and Ryan Cross.
A stunning older woman, running a "Love After 70" dating service, gets a surprise visitor. After 50 years, a male friend of her and her late husband turns up, hoping to court her ... and possibly build a romantic relationship. Taken totally by surprise ... Will she or won't she? This delightful play, played with plenty of "senior sassiness" by Barbara Bain and Nick Ullett ... was probably my favorite!
Too many to comment on all of the plays ... but each of them, and their actors, were commendable ... and perfectly cast! Triple kudos to Lila Cannon, who handled the set, sound, and lighting, for the entire production! This enjoyable grouping of "one act" plays is heart-touching, thought provoking, and a lot of fun at the same time, with life situations to consider, for theater lovers of all ages.
http://tolucantimes.info/section/theatre_review/i-had-a-busy-weekend-i-caught-two-productions-to-tell-you-about/
By Steven Stanley
Playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos follows her 2011 collection of family-based one-acts, Thicker Than Water, with an even bigger and better bunch for 2012, an octet of love-themed playlets aptly titled Love Struck.
TV legend Barbara Bain returns from Thicker Than Water, as do three of her costars along with director-star Maggie Grant, who has once again assembled an oh-so talented ensemble including headliners Peter Van Norden and Nick Ullett.
Spanning the comedic, the dramatic, and the in-between, Love Struck's eight pieces range from the just-okay evening's opener to a couple that are truly memorable.
Best of the eight are a pair of monologs, billed as a single one-act but in actuality two quite different "Confessions," both in setting and tone.
"Tracy's Sin" stars the extraordinary Tara Windley as a popular teen (think Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club) who learns that dropping a boy who could talk about "quarks, and black holes, and how one twin could space-travel near the speed of light" in favor of "the absolute cutest, hunkiest, every-girl-in-the-senior-class would-die-over guy" can have life-altering consequences.
Later, Eric Charles Jorgenson does his finest work yet as a gay man who, despite having found the love of his life, still fears eternal damnation, making "Jeremy's Fear" about as powerful—and topical—a piece on Christianity and homosexuality you're likely to see any time soon. (Oh, and Jorgenson solos expertly on the violin as well.)
Bain's two playlets are also quite terrific. In the first, "Identity," the star of TV's Mission Impossible and Space: 1999 is Alzheimer's patient Roxanne Carrington-Hunt, whose reaction to the news of the death of a former love has unexpected repercussions on her husband Paul (Van Norden) and adult son Lawrence (Dave Roberts).
In "Matchmade," the evening's finale, Bain is entrepreneur Meredith Reed of Love After 70, a matchmaking service for seniors, and Ullett is Charlie Baxter, who seeks Meredith's help in finding not quite the mate the matchmaker might have had in mind for him. Bain is quite marvelous in both—and versatile to boot, and there's not a weak link among her three splendid costars.
"Amanda Split" reunites Molly Leland and Julianna Robinson, who in Thicker Than Water played a wife confronting her husband's unsuspecting girlfriend. This time they are Amanda and Mandy, two sides of the same woman, one sensible, one daring, and "both" on a date with hunky Ethan (Ryan Cross). One of Stamos's cleverest pieces, "Amanda Split" has Leland and Robinson alternating who's in charge and Cross interacting with both prude and temptress to considerable comedic effect. Leland and Robinson once again prove themselves expert comediennes and soap-star-handsome-(and-built-like-a-brick-shithouse) Cross makes for a first-rate comic foil.
Grant's two playlets aren't quite as strong as those described above, but both have numerous entertaining moments. In "The Session," Grant and Bob Ebinger are married couple Angela and Harvey, attending their first couples therapy with wild-and-crazy Dr. Max Rightman (Samm Hill). Grant and Ebinger make for amusingly mismatched mates, and the fabulous Hill plays the would-be shrink with quirky abandon. In "Dirty Little Secret," Grant switches from hippy-dippy Angela to starched-shirted Anna, court-appointed therapist to domestic abuser Nick (an excellent Matthew Brenher), who may just have met his match in his power-suited shrink.
Least successful of the bunch, and therefore not quite the best choice to open the evening's festivities, "The One" has 30ish Cody (Kirk Enochs) paying a surprise visit on his high school girlfriend Laura (Natasha Charles Parker) with a surprising request. "The One" suffers from a lack of credibility, and though Parker and Enochs do their best to keep things screwball-bouncy, audience reaction remained muted on Opening Night. (UPDATE: "Amanda Split" now opens the show, with "The One" moved to the middle of Act Two.)
Still, with so much first-rate writing and acting, and Grant assuredly in the director's chair, the pluses far outweigh the minuses in Love Struck.
Lila Cannon's set design consists of furniture moved on and offstage between scenes to sound designer Cannon's well-chosen playlist of love-based hit tunes. Scene changes take place relatively swiftly, though Cannon might have thought of more ways to minimize the necessity of lugging sofas and tables on and off each and every time. Making this year's design head-and-shoulders above last year's is Adam Hunter's stunning artwork backing up each scene. Cannon wears the lighting designer's cap as well, and quite effectively. Uncredited costumes are mostly quite fine choices, with Mandy/Amanda's complementary outfits a particularly well-designed pair. Only Parker's neon green dress in "The One" clashes unattractively with the production's color palette, one with which all other costumes are in sync.
Love Struck is produced by Three Roses Players and Venice Sky Productions. Adryan Russ is associate producer. Alec Stamos is crew and Maurie Gonzalez stage manager.
As StageSceneLA readers may have noticed, this reviewer rarely attends one-acts, preferring full-length plays in the same way I invariably opt for novels over short stories. Still, there are times when I make exceptions, and in the case of Love Struck, I'm quite glad I did.
Note: Robert Miano plays Charlie and David Wells plays Dr. Max on May 18-20. A prerecorded James Horan is the Radio Voice in "Identity."
http://www.stagescenela.com/2012/05/love-struck/
"Love Struck" Many Faces of Love
At the Theatre with Audrey Linden
Maggie Grant of The Three Roses Players brings Dale Griffiths Samos "Love Struck" to the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Grant directs the delightful eight one acts about love. Each of the one acts stood on its own and though short, were very interesting and complete. We learned of the courage it takes to love a spouse with Alzheimers or dementia, that love is asking for forgiveness, love is the give and take between couples, and love is bigger than religious biases, wounded love stems from deep childhood hurt, and that it is never too late for the magic of romantic love to become active in our lives. Grant's direction of these well delineated and well written one acts was swift and she moved the action along at a good pace and got the most out of her performers. There was humor, pathos, sadness, and joy in these eight one acts. ‘Love Struck" made for an enjoyable evening of theatre.
Barbara Bain, Peter Van Norden, Nick Ullett, and Robert Miano are the stars of this series of one acts. All have long standing credits in theatre, film, and television. The rest of the cast bring solid background, boundless energy and insight into each of their one acts.
The evening opened with "Amanda's Split" with Molly Leland as Amanda, Julianna Robinson as Mandy, and Ryan Cross as Ethan. We saw two sides of Amanda's consciousness come to life. One side is serious and not into men and dating. This drives her other side into desperation and causes hunk Ethan (Ryan Cross) to run. Love is a balance and the gals work it out.
Barbara Bain as the demented Roxanne did a magnificent job of going in and out of the present as she looks into the mirror of her past. She thinks her handsome son, Paul, (Dave Roberts) is a former jazz legend she had loved. Peter Van Norden does an admirable job as her caring husband, Lawrence. The song at the top of this one act was perfect, "I Can Only Give You Love That Lasts Forever." Bain held us spellbound with her fine and effortless acting.
There were two solo one acts that were absolutely outstanding. "Confessions Part 1: Tracy's Sin" with Tara Windley was an exquisite performance piece. This young actress more than held her own among the more established talent. "Forgive me father, for I have sinned." Eric Charles Jorgenson as Jeremy in "Confessions Part 11: Jeremy's Fear" came on with a violin to "Amazing Grace" and is an accomplished violinist. He was playing at his mother's funeral and got into issues with the Church and the pious but judgmental pastor. Even God can forgive some sin that Jeremy was made to feel guilty for and cast out by his Church. Jorgenson's acting moved me to tears as he declared, "God is more loving than that."
"The Session" opened with Sinatra singing "Love and Marriage" and what a perfect choice as the lead-in to this fun one act about a couple in a counseling session. If you live and stay married long enough, couples do go through various incarnations, or at least Maggie Grant's Angela does, much to Harvey's chagrin. Bob Ebinger's Harvey no longer knows whom he is married to. He has seen Angela through so many phases and maybe Samm Hill, as the wacky psychologist, can get the couple to communicate….or not.
"The One" with Natasha Charles Parker as Laura and Kirk Enochs as Cody was cute. Again, the music at the top, "One Way Or Another, I'm Gonna Find You" was a telling lead-in. Old loves may remain love in memory, but , in reality people change and outgrow childish and immature love. Enochs gave a good portrayal of the once "cool" but now hackneyed old love from high school. He shows us some things are best left behind or in the yearbook. He was but a "hormone rush."
The acting by handsome Brit, Matthew Brenher was electrifying in "Dirty Little Secret." Maggie Grant as Dr. Anna Reynolds, the psychologist assigned to his court mandated case, is no match for his abusiveness. Brenher, with his Sly Stallone-like looks is more than a brute and just maybe Dr. Anna can manage to find the hurt child underneath this abuser.
And, what a way to end the evening with hope springing eternally with a lovely job done by both Barbara Bain as matchmaker, Meredith, and Nick Ullett as the warm and engaging Charlie from her past. "The Very Thought of You" with Sinatra again crooning, opened this well done one act. Both actors were charming and engaging and this one was one of my favorites. Charlie comes to matchmaker Meredith and he wants the "whole package." Meredith who was married for 53 years is well past all that and happy to be single fixing others up for a living, or is she? You will have to see this evening of one acts to find out. The evening ended with this charming and sentimental play and with the Beatles' song, "All You Need Is Love." These one acts made for an easy and delightful evening of theatre. See them with someone you love.
http://www.examiner.com/review/love-struck-many-faces-of-love
Love Struck Passionately Celebrates the Three Roses Players
by Margie Barron
Nurturing new works for the theater is the goal of the Three Roses Players. That is something the acclaimed North Hollywood-based theater company does very well. And once again they have struck newly minted golden prose with their presentation of Love Struck by award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos.
It was staged as an evening of eight one act plays, all embracing aspects of love by Stamos, who has received past accolades for her Thicker Than Water collection of one-act plays with a family theme.
Produced by Three Roses Players and Venice Sky Productions, with enormous help from associate producer Adryan Russ, the show was presented at the historic Beverly Hills Playhouse. Seven of the Love Struck stories were directed by Maggie Grant, who also performed in two of them. And one relationship story had Barbara Bain at the helm.
Barbara Bain, best known for her Emmy-winning iconic role on the original Mission: Impossible TV series, starred in two of the plays, joining a stellar ensemble that brought the collection of stories to life. Some were rib-tickling comedies that reflected amorous situations which everyone has experienced. And there were much more serious stories that presented thought-provoking themes.
There were two monologs, "Tracy's Sin" and "Jeremy's Fear," which were heart wrenching pieces that worked thanks to the actors who brought passion to the words. It was a showcase for Tara Windley as Tracy, and Eric Charles Jorgenson as Jeremy.
"Dirty Little Secret," about a therapist's office encounter with domestic abuse, featured an explosive Matthew Brenher and the multi-talented Maggie Grant.
"Identity" had a son dealing with his mother's dementia, and learning about a secret from her past. Bain played the mother, with Peter Van Norden as her husband, and Dave Roberts as her son.
On a lighter note, the "Matchmade" story had Bain playing a modern day matchmaker for the senior crowd. Her emotions go wild after the appearance of a long lost love (Nick Ullett), who wants to rekindle feelings from long ago. It's played for laughs but with the sensitivity that showcases the perfect marriage of performers and storytelling.
The entire cast deserves praise for acting from their hearts and making the show throb with passion. A fine example of that was the "Amanda Split" story. It was wonderfully played with two women (Molly Leland and Julianna Robinson) portraying the same person: one a proper lady, and the other wanting to give in to her sexual desires with hunky Ryan Cross. Guess who wins?
http://www.entertainmenttoday.net/theater/treview/14058/2012/06/love-struck-passionately-celebrates-the-three-roses-players/
Love Struck: A Theater Review
by Irene Rubaum-Keller
Love Struck is a series of eight one-act plays, written by Dale Griffiths Stamos, directed by Maggie Grant and produced by Three Roses Players and Venice Sky Productions. It's currently playing at the Beverly Hills Playhouse through May 27th.
The production starts out with Amanda Split, starring Ryan Cross, Molly Leland and Julianna Robinson. All three do a good job portraying the pull between mind and body when faced with a sexy, bad boy.
The Session follows with Maggie Grant and Bob Ebinger playing a married couple at their first therapy session. A standout comedic performance by Samm Hill as their therapist made this play really funny to watch.
Identity stars Barbara Bain as a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease who in her mental state reveals a shocking truth to her son, played by Dave Roberts. Peter Van Norden plays her husband and all three do an outstanding job.
Matchmade also stars Barbara Bain as a widow who runs a matchmaking agency for people over 70. Nick Ullett plays Charlie, a client with a secret. Barbara is mesmerizing on stage and still beyond gorgeous. Nick Ullett is a veteran actor and did a fantastic job. What fun to see the chemistry between them.
The One is a funny scene about a man returning to sweep his high school sweetheart away. The One featured Kirk Enochs and Natasha Charles Parker.
Tracy's Sin and Jeremy's Fear are both a pair of powerful monologues performed by Tara Windley and Eric Charles Jorgenson. My hat is off to both of them. As an actress myself, I always found monologues to be the hardest thing to do and they both did an amazing job.
Dirty Little Secret stars Maggie Grant as a therapist working with court ordered abusive men and Matthew Brenher as her client.
All eight short plays were excellent. Some of them were touching, some funny and all engaging. The staging, lighting and sets were very minimal and yet the talented cast transported us into each scene and we forgot we were sitting in a theater. To me that's the mark of a good production. Don't miss it!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-rubaumkeller-/love-struck-a-theater-rev_b_1514597.html
LA Review: 'Love Struck'
Three Rose Players and Venice Sky Productions at Beverly Hills Playhouse
Reviewed by Eric Marchese
The concept of Dale Griffiths Stamos' "Love Struck" play isn't anything new—an octet of one-act plays on various aspects of love. But Stamos understands the emotions and motives of her characters, whom she isn't afraid to either ridicule or empathize with. She also evinces an ear for dialogue and has keen insights into human nature. Those skills give director Maggie Grant and her cast plenty on which to hang their hats. The playlets range from lightly comedic to deeper and more penetrating, yet even the most somber vignettes are leavened with just enough humor to render them palatable and make them among the evening's most lifelike.
The show's comedies are admirably restrained, a product of Stamos' writing and Grant's direction. The most cogent of these is "The One," in which the pretty and brainy Laura (Natasha Charles Parker) receives a surprise visit from handsome and reckless Cody (Kirk Enochs), a guy she briefly dated while in high school. She has moved on, he hasn't, and he wants her back. As truths about their youthful acquaintance are revealed, "The One" turns heartfelt, leaving a bittersweet ending.
Intriguing but less satisfying are the comedies "The Session" and "Amanda Split" and the dramatic "Dirty Little Secret." "The Session" pits flaky artist wannabe Angela (Grant) against her stodgy husband, Harvey (Bob Ebinger), during their first visit to a therapist (Samm Hill, alternating with David Wells) whose wacky methods unite the couple. The fluffy, lighthearted "Amanda" involves the efforts of pretty lawyer Amanda (Molly Leland) to resist the advances of buff gardener Ethan (Ryan Cross); Julianna Robinson generates most of the laughs as the younger sister who can't believe Amanda is immune to Ethan's charms. Though as polished as the plays surrounding it, the two-hander "Dirty Little Secret" is a misfire. The story concerns the wealthy but potentially violent and emotionally stunted Nicholas (Matthew Brenher), who tries everything to escape court-ordered therapy with a woman therapist (Grant). The tense character study benefits from Brenher's portrayal of a worldly, filthy-rich SOB and Grant's countervailing work as the ultra-professional shrink determined to get through to him.
Two playlets named "Confessions" are sobering monologues about individuals seeking refuge in the privacy of their churches. In the first one, Teenager Tracy (Tara Windley) has dumped a sweet, brainy guy for a stud and is guilt-ridden now that her former beau has endured a life-changing physical calamity. The story soars on its thought-provoking ideas and Windley's impassioned reading. Even more affecting is "Confessions Part II," whose focus is Jeremy (Eric Charles Jorgenson), an almost comically conflicted man who loves being gay yet expects to be "condemned to eternal damnation." The studied laugh lines of his story make the piece's dramatic coloring all the more gripping as Jeremy unfolds a personal story that must echo that of gay men everywhere.
The production's star, veteran actor Barbara Bain, engagingly pulls off two contrasting roles. "Identity" presents her as Roxanne, a senior citizen awash in Alzheimer's. When Roxanne struggles with her memory, Bain effects a foggy look that screams "lack of recognition," her personality turning ingenuously little girl–like. Husband Lawrence (a solid Peter Van Norden) is devoted to the nuances of her personality—even those that wound him—while Paul (Dave Roberts), the couple's reliable son, can feel only shock and rage when his parents drop a bomb on him.
The show closes with the dramedic "Matchmade," with Bain as Meredith, a stylish 70-something who runs a matchmaking service for those over 70. Her newest customer is Charlie (Nick Ullett, alternating with Robert Miano), who loved her 50 years ago when his best friend first dated, then married her. Now that Meredith is a widow, Charlie wants a chance to have what he never could, but skeptical Meredith throws out every roadblock she can imagine. Ullett sketches his character's refinement and an impressive persistence clothed in courtesy, and Bain responds with a portrait of a deeply loving woman who has convinced herself that love is not integral to happiness.
Lila Cannon's sparse set is dominated by Adam Hunter's large canvas depicting a red heart swimming in waves of white and lavender, and her modular design, which moves various pieces of furniture and other props on- and offstage, individualizes each playlet.
http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/reviews/la-theatre-reviews/e3i4ad77a113a979bf788397751f6d79c75
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70 Years Later: March 10, 1945 firebombing in Tokyo, Japan
Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment World Japan, Tokyo, World War II
On March 10, 1945, U.S. B-29 bombers flew over Tokyo in the dead of night, dumping massive payloads of cluster bombs equipped with a then-recent invention: napalm. A fifth of Tokyo was left a smoldering expanse of charred bodies and rubble.
Today, a modest floral monument in a downtown park honors the spirits of the 105,400 confirmed dead, many interred in common graves.
It was the deadliest conventional air raid ever, worse than Nagasaki and on par with Hiroshima. But the attack, and similar ones that followed in more than 60 other Japanese cities, have received little attention, eclipsed by the atomic bombings and Japan’s postwar rush to rebuild.
Reporting by Elaine Kurtenbach and Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press
This combination of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows survivors commute through destroyed Nakamise shopping street after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows a visitor prays toward Sensoji Temple at the start of the Nakamise shopping street in Asakusa district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 Tokyo firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bombed-devastated Azuma Bridge area after the firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows people walk on Azuma Bridge in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bombed Matsuya Asakusa department store, center, after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows still-in-use Matsuya department store in Asakusa district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows survivors commute near an incendiary bombed Kamiya Bar, left, and Matsuya Asakusa department store, right after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows commuters walk past still-in-use Kamiya Bar and Matsuya department store in Asakusa district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bomb-devastated Matsuya Asakusa department store, seen from Azuma Bridge after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows Matsuya department store partially is seen among newer buildings in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bomb-devastated Azuma Bridge after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows a man walks near Azuma Bridge in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10,1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bomb-devastated area and Sumida-gawa Bridge after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows trains run over Sumida-gawa Bridge with Japan’s tallest building “Tokyo Skytree” in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows incendiary bomb-devastated area of Kameido district after Tokyo firebombing, seen from Kameido Tenjin Bridge. The bottom photo, taken 70 years later on March 7, 2015, shows people walk at Kameido District seen from the bridge in Tokyo. The B-29s flew much lower on March 10, in the dead of the night, dumping massive payloads of incendiary bombs on both residential areas and military targets. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10, 1945 firebombing. The top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows damaged Matsuya department store after Tokyo firebombing. The bottom photo taken 70 years later on Feb. 27, 2015, shows the structure still in use as train station and shopping mall complex in Asakusa district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko)
Haruyo Nihei speaks at a room depicting the situation at that time of WWII under the blackout order at the Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage. Nihei was only 8-years-old when the biggest attack of the war, the firebombing of central Tokyo, killed over 100,000 people and left hundreds of thousands more homeless. She fled with her family and watched as many others were burned alive. As the flames swept over her, she was sheltered by her father and many others who piled on top of them who suffocated or burned to death.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Yoshitaka Kimura sits at his toy store at the Asakusa Nakamise shopping area in Tokyo. Kimura, sixth generation heir to the familyís toy business, was just seven when his family fled during the firebombing from their shop near Asakusaís famous Sensoji Temple, heading toward the Sumida River. The blast from a falling bomb blew him under the half-closed shutter of the Matsuya department store, one of the few buildings left standing after the attack. He and others crowded inside survived. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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The New World Order.
The Truth About The EU.
These cunts make me fucking sick.
They have absolutely no perception of right from wrong what so ever.
You would have thought by the tone of his speech that Nigel Evans is quitting his job as deputy speaker because he has a serious illness, not because the vile cunt is up in court for Rape.
I mean, why in Dogs name is this ‘orrible’ perverted oik even being allowed to make a ‘farewell’ speech? Had he any sense of decency, he would have left by the back door when the story first broke.
As for being hugged and what not by his fellow MP’s… Whose wages we fucking pay… Well words fail me.
Although I’m not surprised.
They are after all, men after the sick, little cunts own heart.
They certainly are not my idea of representatives of the people.
A s far as I can see the Houses of Parliament is nothing more than a sick warped nonces club paid for by the people at great personal cost.
I’d hang the fucking lot of em… Perverted cunts.
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans delivers extraordinary Commons speech on faith and hugs from MPs the day after being charged with rape and sexual assaults
Nigel Evans charged with rape, 5 sexual assaults and 2 indecent assaults
Evans denies allegations but has now resigned his Commons post
Gave lengthy personal statement after Prime Minister’s Questions
By MATT CHORLEY, MAILONLINE POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 13:55, 11 September 2013 | UPDATED: 15:54, 11 September 2013
Nigel Evans today delivered an extraordinary Commons speech protesting his innocence after being charged with a series of sex offences against seven men.
Quitting as Deputy Speaker, he addressed hundreds of MPs including the Prime Minister about his desire to ‘robustly defend my innocence and seek acquittal’.
Quoting Churchill, he referred to the death of his mother and the spiritual support of Parliament’s chaplain before thanking fellow MPs for their ‘hugs, prayers and good wishes’.
Speech: Nigel Evans addressed MPs in a personal statement after Prime Minister’s Questions
Last night Evans was charged with the rape of a man between March 29 and April 1, 2013, five sexual assaults dating back to 2009 and two indecent assaults dating back to 2002.
The Conservative says he will continue to represent his Ribble Valley constituency in Lancashire but as an independent MP.
The decision to charge the openly-gay politician – a popular figure in Westminster – came after he was arrested for a third time yesterday morning.
Speaking immediately after Prime Minster’s Questions, he told a packed Commons chamber: ‘I hope you will bear with me while I make this statement, it’s been a few years since I made a speech in this chamber and I’m sad to say this is the speech.
‘As many of you will know following recent allegations, I was charged with alleged offences yesterday. I now have the opportunity to robustly defend my innocence and seek acquittal.
‘I have therefore decided the best course of action is for me to return to the backbenches and this is a decision I have made myself after careful consideration.’
When he left Preston police station last night, he gave a short statement before saying he ‘will not be making any further comment until after the case concludes’.
But in the Commons he spoke at length about the impact of the case on his.
Thanks: Evans listed the many people he says have shown him ‘compassionate consideration’
Evans said: ‘It was one of the happiest days of my life when I was elected deputy speaker in 2010, it was an endorsement of my abilities to do the job by my colleagues and for that I am grateful.
‘Since these allegations, I have not been able to fully fulfil my duties in the chair, which left me in a land of limbo.
‘None of us were elected to the fine office of Member of Parliament to be put in that invidious position, unable to fully fulfil the reason why we were sent here.’
‘I have had so many hugs, prayers and good wishes. I would like to thank everyone who has shown me such compassionate consideration’
Nigel Evans
He said he was ‘grateful’ for the ‘unstinting support’ he has revceived from Mr Bercow and the other two deputy speakers, Lindsay Hoyle and Dawn Primarolo.
Evans went on: ‘When I told Ms Primarolo on Saturday my decision, I even got a hug from her – thank you Dawn.
‘I have had so many hugs, prayers and good wishes since May 4 and I would like to thank everyone who has shown me such compassionate consideration, my family particularly, my association, who have been marvellous, and even seasoned, crusty journalists have displayed a heart I have never before witnessed.
‘I was told I would soon see who my real friends are and that has been true. But the truth is there have been so many of them – so thank you to my dearest loyal friends, including loyal members of my staff at Westminster and the Ribble Valley.
Grateful: Speaker John Bercow paid tribute to Mr Evans twice in the Commons
‘And to you, my colleagues, on all sides of the House who have spoken with me, looked after me and just shown loving attention. Party divisions disappear in times like this and they have, thank you.
‘Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Speaker’s chaplain, and Andrew Tremlett, the canon of Westminster Abbey, have given me superb spiritual guidance which has given me the one thing everyone in this world needs, alongside air, water and food: that is hope.
‘Hope is that essential key to giving us a fulfilled life and they have ensured I have retained that hope.’
Evans said: ‘This is clearly the most painful thing I have endured in my life alongside the loss of my mother in 2009 and the loss of my brother earlier this year.
‘Winston Churchill said when you are going through hell, keep going. Sage advice. And so I will see this through to the end with the support of the people that mean so much to me.’
The Ribble Valley MP added: ‘Returning to the backbenches gives me the opportunity to speak out on issues such as the over-building of new homes in the Ribble Valley, threats to the Slaidburn doctors’ surgery and cuts to rural bus services.
‘It’s the bread and butter of politics, giving support to the people who put me in the mother of parliaments, my home for the past 21 years and a place that has meant so much to me.
‘I am proud to serve the people of the Ribble Valley and the best tribute I can give them now is to get on with the job that they sent me here to do.’
Tory MP Nadine Dorries placed a hand on Evans’s shoulder as he sat down after his statement.
Earlier, at the start of Commons session, Mr Bercow said: ‘I have received his resignation with sadness. I wish to thank Nigel for his three years of service to the House as deputy speaker, in which he has proved to be highly competent, fair and good-humoured.
‘He has been a loyal and valued member of the team of deputy speakers who assist me in chairing our proceedings. I am warmly grateful to him.’
Evans will appear before magistrates in Preston on September 18.
The indecent assaults are alleged to have been committed between January 1, 2002 and January 1, 2004; the sexual assaults between January 1, 2009 and April 1 this year; and the rape between March 29 and April 1 this year.
Evans’s initial arrest in early May related to offences alleged to have been committed in Pendleton, Lancashire
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said: ‘Following an investigation by Lancashire police, the Crown Prosecution Service has received a file of evidence in the case of Mr Nigel Evans MP which concerns allegations of a sexual nature.
‘After careful consideration, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and that it is in the public interest to prosecute Evans.
‘Lancashire Constabulary has therefore been authorised to charge two counts of indecent assault, five counts of sexual assault and one count of rape relating to a total of seven alleged victims.
‘The decision in this case was taken by Joanne Cunliffe, an experienced specialist rape prosecutor, in consultation with John Dilworth, head of the CPS North West Complex Casework Unit and in consultation with an external and highly experienced criminal QC.
‘I have also been consulted on this case. The decision has been taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and the CPS legal guidance on rape and sexual offences.’
Evans, from Pendleton, Lancashire, stepped aside from his deputy speaker duties after his arrest but had continued to work as an MP.
He was one of three deputy speakers elected in a secret ballot of MPs in 2010. Later that year he came out as gay, saying he was ‘’tired of living a lie’’.
He was a vice chairman of the Conservative Party from 1999 to 2001. When Iain Duncan Smith became party leader in 2001, he was promoted to the shadow cabinet as shadow Welsh secretary – a post he held for two years.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417535/Nigel-Evans-Commons-speech-I-left-land-limbo.html#ixzz2edIQDtOf
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Thank you for the article.
There’s something fishy about this one. For one, it’s not usual for people to congratulate people on being charged with rape, nor allow them to do speeches. This one stinks of another Cointel Pro, like the one that Sally Bercow was involved in earlier on, with stage managing the loss of her alleged defamatory Tweet about the BBC’s most favoured of paedophiles, Lord McAlpine.
The Pedo’s Win Prizes PsiOp, is therefore complimented by this effort, and why not use the usual suspects one more time? If you canst your mind back to an instance where the same tactic ruse has been utilized before, in the Jamie Leigh Jones -v- KBR case (the one where she claims to have been locked in a container after being raped and reporting it, only for it to turn out that she was pissed up, and that she’d accused other people of rape back in the US, the last time she’d got so drunk she couldn’t remember and decided that the person she’d had sex with had raped her).
Whilst there’s a tendency to get so annoyed that they’re all congratulating a fellow miscreant, this is to cover for the underlying—as I see it inevitable—discrediting of the alleged victims, or a full confession of making it all up.
As I wrote to my long time pen friends at Carter-Ruck, who represented Sally Bercow, about the Scallywag Magazine article precluding any need for a payout, it fell on deaf ears. All of these people are getting so obvious now, but it doesn’t mean that poking them with a stick isn’t worth the while. One thing that I suspect is that Carter-Ruck are basically an intelligence front, or, they’re heavily controlled by the intelligence services. They would appear to be above the law and they’re involved with all that’s totally bent or needs to be covered up, having represented Jimmy Savile and the McCanns, who they presumably still so act for.
A little tip from me is this. If there’s a cover up, go to C-R’s website and google the list of their names or indeed their name, and put the scandal’s name into Google. If they’re involved, there’s something very bent going on. They seem to have a monopoly. I did this for the Bercow one. Adam Tudor seems to be the main man there now, but he wasn’t involved openly with the Bercow cover up to the best of my knowledge.
arm-urself-now
FFS how in God’s name can the Daily Gay Mail even call itself a newspaper , never mind shooting the scum in parliament those shit story tellers at that toilet roll factory called the DGM should be hung out to dry , even worse there are total dead brained sheep buying the crap and believing it , old saying but true , no smoke without fire , guess he will be the first MP to be cleared as its a “witch hunt” ,(bit late for that the evil peado witch is already dead), hence the Michael Le Vell acquittal , laying the ground for more not guilty verdicts , knew there a hidden agenda as those in parliament are being outed as the two side’s battle it out , more MP’s will soon be investigated but their laying the ground in the public’s mind that its all false allegations and a witch hunt , lock and load fuck this lot .
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Nigel Evans is quitting his job as deputy speaker because he has a serious illness,
Anyone think of AIDS ( anally injected death syndrome)
Brigitte Mehr
Hmm – did anyone identify why he had such a nasty wound on his head (albeit covered with very heavy makeup) a few months ago when the story originally broke. It was not the sort of bump one gets on ones forehead from hitting an open kitchen cupboard.
Pissed-off-Frank
September 12, 2013 @ 10:45 am
Well, that was a clear message from the Commons to all victims. Something like ” We don’t care about you; this is one of our own”. This fucking country is doomed.
Un Inspiring
I too found it absolutely beyond comprehension that this individual (whether guilty or not) was allowed to have a so called “farewell speech”
It was nothing more than a blatant attempt to prejudice any trial that will take place.
This is a guy that is to stand trial for sex crimes. What the fuck are the idiots in the Commons thinking? Treating the slack-jawed shit as some kind of hero. Fuck, I’m wondering if there are a single decent person in Parliament. I doubt it.
ann b
I hope he doesn’t have AIDS..if he has infected any of his victims he should be charged.
Alan B
I expect him to use the “Le Vell” defence:
” I was down the pub most nights yer honour, pissed as a fart, dunno why my accusers are making up all this shit. Felt suicidal..blah blah..etc…”
All he needs now is to wear an ill-fitting suit to court and give the thumbs up to the press photographers.
CuriousGirl
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans who quit after being charged with rape and sexual assaults in line for £9,000 pay-off
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418457/Deputy-Speaker-Nigel-Evans-quit-charged-rape-sexual-assaults-line-9-000-pay-off.html#ixzz2eleqtDET
fuck the state
I feel there are 3 options for his persistent bruise come scuff mark on his head.
1- He butts the wall during sex.
2- His gimp mask zip has caused chaffing.
3- He may have a K.S. lesion, as a result of contracting HIV. You know, like Tom Hanks discovered in that film, about a cheese spread.
Come to think of it; is there any reason to be surprised by the antics of the members of our Little Knesset? We know it’s filled with perverts of every possible persuasion, drunks, drug addicts and criminals that if we had a real system for justice would be jailed, all slobbering at the thought of easy money.
Parliament ought to be demolished, along with all it’s disgusting politicians. One of my pet hate objects is Margaret Hodge, of Islington disgrace. She has milked the public coffers for most of her adult life. A vile paedo-lover that shut her eyes to the fact that hundreds of children were sexually abused while she was Council Leader. She was in front of this particular cover-up, and was duly rewarded by Blair who later gave her the post as Minister for Children. How is that for irony? This fucking disgrace to humanity is still a “respected” member of the Commons. http://ukpaedos-exposed.com/p-i-e/margaret-hodge-childrens-homes-abuse-connections-to-p-i-e/
Nice pic of Bercow blowing him a kiss!
“And to you, my colleagues, on all sides of the House who have spoken with me, looked after me and just shown loving attention. Party divisions disappear in times like this and they have, thank you”
loving attention. Party divisions. I hope that’s not code!
(definition) Any way you slice it, division is the process of separating something
The People That Bugger can’t leave it alone!
dogman 15. I’ve been looking at pics of Bercow and his wife and sad to say, I don’t think the man is getting any. Maybe Evans, as a self-confessed arse-man, have been giving him the treatment in some toilet from time to time?
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was there a connection from the 60s re child abuse to today
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Vintoterra also qvevri-ferments their white wines, but for much longer than the Saperavi. The wine stays in the qvevri for six months and is stirred every four hours with a wooden paddle, before being moved to oak for longer aging. The result is a white with woody cedar top notes over hints of exotic dried fruits and nuts. Whole Food sells the Vinoterra Kisi for $17.99.
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According to a draft law published on the Senate’s website, the private managers that will be employed by state-owned companies will have monthly incomes equivalent to as much as 45 average gross monthly salaries, ‘Evenimentul Zilei’ informs.
That upper limit is for managers of state-owned companies that have an annual turnover of more than RON 1 bln and more than 10,000 employees. In 2010 Romgaz paid the highest average gross monthly salary in Romania (over RON 5,300). The manager of such a company could win more than RON 240,000 (EUR 56,000) per month. Apart from that, he could also earn a percentage of the company’s net profit, provided the latter is higher than the one established by contract.
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Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身) Review
Posted byalex 11/25/2012 03/17/2013 Leave a comment on Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身) Review
From Japan’s Hiroshi Nishitani comes the meticulously crafted suspense feature Suspect X, the story of an impromptu psychological match fought between two brilliant academics and set in the context of a murder inquiry. Convoluted to say the least, the film is fast-paced and intellectually stimulating as it consistently keeps its audience guessing with endless twists and turns reminiscent of other recent Japanese productions, most notably G@me (2003) and Death Note (2006). Suspect X is dream material for those less artsy types who can appreciate a unique and challenging cinematic perspective while also enjoying a good old rush of adrenaline.
The narrative opens innocently enough with the introduction of Tetsuya Ishigami (Shinichi Tsutsumi), a genius mathmatician and college professor who goes about his daily routine lost in thought, occasionally drinks with like-minded university colleague Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama) and spends nights at his desk looking for new ways to prove complex theorems. It is during one of these sleepless nights that Ishigami hears suspicious noises coming from the apartment of his next door neighbor – and unaware subject of secret affection – ramen shop owner Yasuko Hanaoka (Yasuko Matsuyuki). Upon going to investigate, Ishigami discovers what the audience has already been privy to: Shinji Togashi, Yasuko’s ex-husband is dead on the living room floor of his neighbor’s apartment as a result of a freak accident triggered by Shinji’s aggressive behavior towards Yasuko and her daughter.
Contrary to what most rational people would do in this type of situation, Ishigami, driven by his feelings for Yasuko, decides to help her cover up the murder and dispose of the body. To throw off the impending police investigation, which will naturally focus on Yasuko as a prime suspect in the disappearance of her ex-husband, Ishigami comes up with a complex smoke screen scheme, putting together a fake alibi for Yasuko and being careful to contact her with instructions exclusively via public pay phones at odd hours of the night. Even after these efforts, however, crime investigator Kaoru Utsumi (Ko Shibasaki) remains highly doubtful of Yasuko’s supposed innocence. Soon Ishigami receives a brief visit from Kaoru; of course, he claims he knows nothing. The battle of wits between Ishigami and the metropolitan police force takes on a new dimension when Yukawa notices a curious inconsistency in his colleague’s attendance record upon being asked to participate in solving the case. After further examination of finer details, Yukawa begins to sense something fishy about Ishigami’s story and decides to launch his own independent investigation into the matter.
A dangerous game of cat-and-mouse ensues between these two respected men of numbers, complicated by their longstanding friendship and the accidental discovery Yukawa makes about Ishigami’s true motives. Meanwhile Kaoru moves ahead with the official investigation and unlike Yukawa who, having made his own conclusions, is not inclined to bring Ishigami to task, she will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of this grand intrigue.
Suspect X is a different, highly cerebral and entertaining film to watch while enjoying a cup of hot green tea and some extra dark chocolate on a rainy day. While the work has little depth, it is uniquely positioned at the crossroads of mainstream popularity and the more artsy avant-garde, making it easy to recommend to serious Japanese cinema aficionados and more casual film buffs alike.
Suspect X (2008)
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Starring: Shinichi Tsutsumi (Tetsuya Ishigami), Ko Shibasaki (Kaoru Utsumi)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Runtime: 128 mins | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese
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On the association between Uralic expansions and Y-haplogroup N
Almost all present-day populations speaking Uralic languages show moderate to high frequencies of Y-chromosome haplogroup N. I reckon there are two likely explanations for this:
- the speakers of Proto-Uralic were rich in N because they lived in an area, probably somewhere around the Ural Mountains, where it was common, and they spread it with them as they expanded from their homeland
- Uralic languages often came to be spoken in areas of North Eurasia where N was already found at moderate to high frequencies
The major exception to this rule are Hungarians, whose language belongs to the Ugric branch of Uralic. Their frequency of N is close to zero and they don't differ much in terms of overall genetic structure from their Indo-European-speaking neighbors in East Central Europe.
This is an issue that has generated much debate over the years about the nature of Uralic expansions, who the Hungarians really were, and how the Hungarian language came to be spoken in the heart of Europe (for instance, see here).
But I never understood what the fuss was about, because based on historical sources alone it seemed rather obvious that Hungarian was introduced into the Carpathian Basin during the Middle Ages by a relatively small number of invaders from the east, probably from somewhere around the Ural Mountains, who imposed it on local Indo-European-speaking populations.
As far as I can remember, this has always been the academic consensus, and the results from one of the first ancient DNA studies of human remains soundly corroborated it. Back in 2008, Csányi et al. reported that two out of four skeletons from elite Hungarian conqueror graves dating to the 10th century carried the Tat C allele, which meant that they belonged to Y-haplogroup N (see here).
We've since had to wait over a decade to get a more comprehensive look at the Y-chromosome haplogroups of medieval Hungarians. The most useful effort to date, a manuscript courtesy of Neparáczki et al., was posted this week at bioRxiv (see here).
The results in the preprint suggest a much more complex picture than simply a migration of an obviously Uralic-speaking population rich in Y-haplogroup N into the medieval Carpathian Basin. But they do confirm the presence of N in Hungarian conqueror elites, and, in fact, of very specific subclades of N that link them to the present-day speakers of Uralic languages from around the Ural Mountains. Here are some pertinent quotes from the prepint:
Three Conqueror samples belonged to Hg N1a1a1a1a2-Z1936, the Finno-Permic N1a branch, being most frequent among northeastern European Saami, Finns, Karelians, as well as Komis, Volga Tatars and Bashkirs of the Volga-Ural region. Nevertheless this Hg is also present with lower frequency among Karanogays, Siberian Nenets, Khantys, Mansis, Dolgans, Nganasans, and Siberian Tatars 23.
It is generally accepted that the Hungarian language was brought to the Carpathian Basin by the Conquerors. Uralic speaking populations are characterized by a high frequency of Y-Hg N, which have often been interpreted as a genetic signal of shared ancestry. Indeed, recently a distinct shared ancestry component of likely Siberian origin was identified at the genomic level in these populations, modern Hungarians being a puzzling exception 36. The Conqueror elite had a significant proportion of N Hgs, 7% of them carrying N1a1a1a1a4-M2118 and 10% N1a1a1a1a2-Z1936, both of which are present in Ugric speaking Khantys and Mansis 23.
Population genetic data rather position the Conqueror elite among Turkic groups, Bashkirs and Volga Tatars, in agreement with contemporary historical accounts which denominated the Conquerors as “Turks” 38. This does not exclude the possibility that the Hungarian language could also have been present in the obviously very heterogeneous, probably multiethnic Conqueror tribal alliance.
Indeed, a large proportion of the 44 males from elite Hun, Avar and Hungarian Conqueror burials analyzed in the study belonged to Y-haplogroups that can't be plausibly associated with the earliest Uralic speakers, but rather with those of various Indo-European languages, such as I1 and R1b-U106 (these are Germanic-specific markers), I2a-L621 and R1a-CTS1211 (obviously Slavic) and R1a-Z2124 (largely Eastern Iranian).
If most of these results aren't due to contamination, then it's likely that both the early Hungarian commoners and elites were, by and large, derived from Indo-European-speaking populations. No wonder then, that present-day Hungarians are basically indistinguishable genetically from their Indo-European-speaking neighbors and, like them, show hardly any Y-haplogroup N.
Hungarian Conquerors were rich in Y-haplogroup N (Fóthi et al. 2020)
More on the association between Uralic expansions and Y-haplogroup N
Big deal of 2019: ancient DNA confirms the link between Y-haplogroup N and Uralic expansions
Labels: ancient DNA, Carpathian Basin, Finno-Ugric, Germanic, Hungarian, I2a-L621, Indo-Iranian, N1a, N1c, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic, R1a-CTS1211, R1a-Z2124, R1a-Z280, R1a-Z93, R1b-U106, Slavic, Ugric, Uralic, Urals
Davidski
But is it me or are they implying here that these guys were Turkic speakers ?
They're not. They're speculating that this was a motley bunch speaking various languages including Turkic and Uralic.
So maybe one of two scenarios. A language change forced by a Small Military Elite or an adoption of Uralic somewhere in or around the Ukraine by East Germanic people and Slavs which spread into Hungary...
This surely could complicate the Iberian Peninsula linguistic issue as well....
Well, it's the ancient Hungarians who show genetic links to Uralic speakers from around the Urals, not the East Germanics or West Slavs.
And I'm not aware of any Uralic languages ever being spoken in what is now Ukraine.
I thought this rather settles the issue ? This is what evidence of mixing, brothers-in-arms, confederacies, etc; should look like.
Maybe a migration through Ukraine from the the Urals picking up Slavic and Germanic peoples on their way to Hungary...Isn't there some Germanic R1bs among the Bashkirs ?
Isn't there some Germanic R1bs among the Bashkirs?
I think it's R1b-P312, which was actually found in a commoner Hungarian grave in this study.
But the R1b-P312 among the Bashkirs implies population movements from west to east, which does make sense if there were regular contacts between the Uralic and Turkic speakers in the Carpathian Basin and near the Urals.
The next question is what happened to this haplogroup N. Why it is practically inexistant among modern Hungarians. Mass killing of N clans ? o_O
@Aram
Didn't I explain in my blog post? Well, I tried anyway.
The Hungarian conquerors quickly absorbed a lot of Indo-European males with other Y-HGs into their ranks, which basically made Y-HG N disappear from the gene pool over time.
Huck Finn said...
The languages spoken in Pannonian Avar tribal union are unknown but their N-lineage seems to be related to current Buryats and such. However, that N-lineage is a brother clade to N-CTS10760, including nowadays not just Uralic speakers such as Finns but fex also many Balts and Scandinavians. Phenotypes of this whole ancient N-bunch seem to vary a lot. Some such as Avar N's are clearly Asians with dark eyes and hair, some Hungarian N's are blonde and have blue eyes, apparently with very European looks.
M. Myllylä said...
There are also other exceptions, Latvians and Lithuanians, both speaking IE-languages. Among them the frequency of N is equal to R1a. Which one was the conqueror? If R1a, did they speak Uralic language before it? I would expect higher Siberian admixture then... Another issue in theories connecting Uralic languages and HG N by looking at clade ages rather than real TMRCAs. People are often fooled to watch only haplotrees and clade ages. Actually clade ages can be what ever, because ancestral bottle necks and later expansions can happen absolutely regardless of the clade age.
@ Aram: I'd guess that many Hungarian N's got whacked in and after the Battle of Mohi by the Mongols. According to contemporary sources the whole army was practically killed in the battle.
@M. Myllylä
Y-HG N isn't found in any Coded Ware or Bronze Age remains from the Baltic region. They're all firmly R1a.
But it does show up suddenly in Tarand culture remains during the Iron Age that cluster with modern Estonians.
The Tarand culture has links to cultures to the east near the Urals and is associated with early Uralic speakers.
Balts absorbed a lot of Y-HG N near the edge of the Uralic expansion west. Other Indo-Europeans rich in R1a absorbed much less or none at all. Of course, (Uralic) Estonians also absorbed a lot of Indo-European R1a.
So I'm not seeing any dilemmas here at all.
I agree with you, Tarand graves are connected to Baltic Finnic languages by many historians. But only to Baltic Finns, not in general to Uralic langianges. Some of oldest Tarand graves in Baltic area exist in Sweden where the most common N clade L550, being older than in Latvia and Lithuania. My point was that do not watch frequencies and clade ages, because bottle necks and later expansions, let's now say after the Bronze Age, are always possible in small populations and didn't call for certain clade ages. The difference between clade age and TMRCA is crucial.
You didn't answer why Balts have such a low percentage of Siberian. My answer is that originally Baltic Finns, those using Tarand graves, had not Siberian admixture.
Well, I sort of did. I said that Balts absorbed a lot of Y-HG N, but that doesn't mean they absorbed a lot of admixture from the first waves of the Tarand grave people.
But it's a long way from the Urals to the Baltic, so it is possible that the earliest Tarand grave Baltic Finnic speakers didn't have much Siberian ancestry, considering that even Uralic speakers near the Urals are very far from being Siberian.
Well, I wrote this under multiple related posts, but it is especially worth a repeat here. 900 AD Hungarians being mixed Uralic-Turkic linguistically is not a new speculation, it is a the consensus for a long time. I was even taught so in school. It is based on a few things.
- On the fact that Hungarian envoys visiting the court of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII referred to themselves as Turks when asked about how they call themselves. In the same Byzantine account of the visit the envoys themselves said that Hungarians spoke two languages. Example words were given and one of the languages were identified by the Byzantines as similar to the contemporary Bashkir, while the other apparently did not ring a bell for them.
- A linguistic implication of the fact that there is a strong Turkic layer in the modern Hungarian language. Jusst by counting words the Slavic effect seems to be bigger, but the Turkic influence is deeper, reaching core layers of the language, like names of body parts.
- Later Medieval chronicles mentioning the fact that three of arriving tribes were Turks.
Now, the exact details and the dynamics of the Turkic-Uralic interaction are not known. Medieval sources says the Turkic tribes were mere vassals, but that could be a history written by the guys who won dominance later. Pretty much nothing is known about the internal politics of the Hungarians before the end of the 10th century.
As for the Germanic specific YDNA in the conqueror burials: it is much thinner in the Avar age layer, so it was possibly an Eastern Goth heritage bought by the Hungarians themselves (presumably by the Turkic side), not local admixture.
And of course the Iranic haplogroups were a widespread general steppe ancestry, I find it unlikely that those people were still Iranic speaking at the time.
As for the disappearance of the Hg N. As mentioned this study focused on elite burials. Depending on the exact population ratios this could be simply dilution. Of course it is also a fact that during the two big wars that caused huge population losses, both times the core Hungarian speaking regions took the heaviest hit (not to mention the huge loss of the elite against the Mongols/Tatars), and in both times it was followed by immigration and assimilation. So it could be dilution by selective population loss during wars. Until we have let's say 12th century samples with a representative Geography and amount, I withhold judgement on the exact ratio of this two effects. Probably both were at play.
The Bashkirs belong specifically to Eastern Bell Beaker marker P312+L2+. Already there was a Scythian P312+L2+ sample dated to 768-431 BC in central Ukraine, so it was to the east long before these conqueror samples.
Anthony Hanken said...
There was also this Avar study https://doi.org/10.1101/415760
14 out of 17 male elites carried N1c the rest being Q1a or Q1b. Much more homogeneous than the study above.
The Sargat kurgans that are thought to be proto-Hungarian were already a N1c, R1a mix. It seems clear that as the Magyars incorpated more peoples, so did their elite. The original N1c Uralic lines became less and less common (keep in mind they were probably only common amoung the elites to begin with). Combine that with massacares made by the Mongols and mass Slavic migrations and its easy to see why there is so little N1c in Hungary.
It doesn’t seem that N1c was very huge in Magyars to begin with, though
Only 3 of them. A couple other eastern lineages (C, Q1..)
I see 5 N out of 29 y dna in Conqueror period. That's making 17% of total. Adding Q1a. Makes 20%. We can go further and add that eastern Z93.
imho the broad picture is clear.
20% is not huge but it is not small.
Btw Finding 20% new Y dna in ancient Celtic context in Britain would be a huge sensation. :)
What's known about the phylogeny of N in Europe? All from the same ancestor at 4kya (or something like this), a la R1b-M269 expanasion etc, or substructured?
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(16)30160-4 seems like the most recent thing on trying to estimate split times and substructure within N. It is suggested that "the characteristic genetic marker of Uralic-speaking peoples is haplogroup N1c-Tat (Y-DNA)", however this coalesces about 12.5kya ago; that's more than twice estimated split time for Uralic langugaes (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeb.12107 - 5300 - 5600 YBP).
Their suggestion is: "The most striking aspect of the phylogeography of hg N is the spread of the N3a3’6-CTS6967 lineages (Figure 3). Considering the three geographically most distant populations in our study—Chukchi, Buryats, and Lithuanians—it is remarkable to find that about half of the Y chromosome pool of each consists of hg N3 and that they share the same sub-clade N3a3’6. The fractionation of N3a3’6 into the four sub-clades that cover such an extraordinarily wide area occurred in the mid-Holocene, about 5.0 kya (95% CI = 4.4–5.7 kya). ..... N3a3’6 has high frequencies in the patrilineal pools of populations belonging to the Altaic, Uralic, several Indo-European, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan language families. There is no generally agreed, time-resolved linguistic tree that unites these linguistic phyla. Yet, their split is almost certainly at least several millennia older than the rather recent expansion signal of the N3a3’6 sub-clade, suggesting that its spread had little to do with linguistic affinities of men carrying the N3a3’6 lineages. Although the initial spread of the hg N3a3’6 clades most likely ignored any existing language barriers, the subsequent diversification often occurred within linguistically defined metapopulations."
Another pattern involves the similarity in the range of hg N3a3’6, especially in the western part of Eurasia and the distribution of the Seima-Turbino trans-cultural phenomenon during the interval of 4.2–3.7 kya. Extending across northern Eurasia from Mongolia to the Baltic region, this phenomenon encompasses the cultures of nomadic forest and steppe societies with advanced metal-working technology. Taken together, these facts hint at the Seima-Turbino metalsmith-traders as the probable primary carriers of hg N3a3’6 lineages.
Katharós said...
If I understand the history of Hungary correctly, it appears for the first time as an organized national-state in correlation with the adaption of Roman-Catholicism. So, I would naturally suspect that the Uralic-speaking elite at one point, also composed the elite clerus of the time. So in other words, state and church were inseparable from each other. I would assume with the introduction of Christianity, that the language of the Christian-elite was slowly adopted by the native pagan elite and passed on to the masses, with the spread of Christianity.
There's a huge amount of data now from Scythians. Stretching from Moldova to China.
It shows, at dawn of European history (circa 500bc-500ad), in a continuous stretch of land from Ireland to western China people were roughly at least 40% Yamnaya-like derived & mostly Y DNA R1a/b. This was due to the Corded Ware, Bell Beaker, and Andronovo cultures.
In circa 1700bc, from Ireland to Siberia, many people were essentially identical. However, Andornovo was a foreign-colonizing population in Asia & quickly became mixed with Asians to create Sycthians.
I think it's pretty amazing. The, genetic shared ancestry between Indo European speakers would have been much more obvious back then. ancient DNA wouldn't be needed, to figure it out.
People actually had steppe ancestry stretching from Iberia to Mongolia and Central India during that time. It seems like steppe ancestry first spread in a latitudinal belt from France to Mongolia, then spread southwards to Iberia, Italy, Greece, South Central Asia, Iran and the Indian subcontinent. The Scythians arose close to the middle of that initial latitudinal belt.
I agree N3a3'6 or L1026 is a possibile Seima-Turbino line. With that being said many of the non Uralic speakers with high amounts of N-L1026 had historical contacts with them (mainly Siberian groups with founder effects).
The only line N-L1026+ that can't be connected at all to Uralic speakers is the Turkic/Mongolian N-Y6058 branch which split 4800ybp according to Yfull.
@Creative
Although the final fixation the mainly Uralic rooted Hungarian as the dominant language could be very well connected to the organisation of the Christian state, but I strongly doubt that the language of the elite clerus played a significant role in it.
- A considerable part of the early elite clerus was Italian and German.
- Most of the Slavs in region were already Christian by then and in fact the Hungarian language borrowed a lot of religious terminology from Slavic.
- The language of the elite clerus was pretty much Latin, especially since they were a rather multi-ethnic bunch in early times. (Fun fact: the sole official language of Hungary was Latin until well into the 19th century and Hungarian scarcely existed in written form until the Reformation. We have exactly one written Hungarian fragment from the entire 11th century (other than place and personal names of course) and it is some three words in an otherwise Latin text - the scribe was probably Hungarian and could not figure out how to say that particular phrase in Latin.)
Why I am saying it could be still connected? This is a pure speculation and mostly a second hand one (from somebody on a Hungarian discussion). The biggest-richest elite burial site of the first half of the 10th century is Karos (a lot of the samples of the linked article are from there actually). Karos is in the upper Tisza valley near to the modern Ukrainian border. Then we enter written history at the end of the 10th century and everything is in Transdanubia and the upper Tisza region is a total periphery. There are more than one possible explanations, including sampling bias, but one of the possible explanations is the existence of a upper-Tisza centered elite that lost power sometime in the second half of the 10th century. The Transdanubian (Western) clans rise to dominance after this and that lead to a drastic change in foreign relations (no more raid against German and Italian regions) and some groups were possibly relocated.
Now, we can speculate that the Eastern Carpathian Basin was the territory of the more Turkic-leaning groups and the more forested and hilly Western regions were the home of the more Uralic-leaning clans, so the discontinuity of the Karos burial sites and the increasing dominance of the Western clans meant the end of the Turkic clans as independent entities, while the Christian state was organised from the West. (The West, were the Slavic proto-states were before the conquest and a partial integration of their elite would explain the Slavic religious and state-administration vocabulary in the Hungarian language.)
But as I said this is just speculation. It could be dead wrong. The Church's elite is however seems to be an unlikely agent for the assimilation of the non-Uralic speaking groups.
@Antony Hanken
"The only line N-L1026+ that can't be connected at all to Uralic speakers is the Turkic/Mongolian N-Y6058 branch which split 4800ybp according to Yfull."
I don't see why that can't be connected. Do we even know where the ancestors of Turkic people lived 4800 years ago? They could very well draw partial ancestry from relevant parts of Siberia and then the Mongolian carriers could be descendants of assimilated Turks. It is speculative (as we do not have evidence) but I would not say it "can't be connected".
Jack Rusher said...
This post beings to mind Peter Schrijver's book _Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages_, in which he argues that the earliest stage of proto-Germanic resulted from a Finnic-speaking population learning to speak something very like proto-Baltic while largely retaining the accent (and a few speech patterns) of their own language.
4800 years ago PU would still have only been spoken in the Volga-West Siberia region. Proto-Turkic and Proto-Mongolian probably originate around Inner Mongolia. N-Y6058 is also found amound far East Siberian Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples.
Hard to connect these languages to Uralic this early on unless this branch spread east later, not to mention no modern Uralic speakers carrry this branch.
I'd guess that we shouldn't look too much at modern distributions of the single N lineages without keeping in mind the big picture. For instance N-M2019 i.e. "the Yakut lineage, Yakuts being Turkic speaking" was now found among ancient Hungarian samples and a basal form has previously been found in Estonia. Besides, there already are two Hungarian samples located downstream vs. N-M2019 in YFull. It is obvious that some part of the lineage either originally was or became Turkic speaking, but.
Besides, this Turkic/ Mongol/etc. N-M6058 is as said a brother clade to N-CTS10760, related fex to Finns, Latvians, Lithuanians and Scandinavians. Based on more ancestral N-L708(TMRCA 7500 years) it is not even impossible that this Turkic/Mongol/etc. lineage is originally coming from areas somewhere next to Ural mountains, as this ancestral form and some lineages based on that such as N-Y9022 are to be found in places such as Bashkortoshtan, Komi, Mordovia and Tatarstan. Also, we know with certainty that some or even many Bashkirs and Tatars there are language shifters from Uralic to Turkic.
@Jack Rusher
That is highly interesting feature shared in Finnish and Germanic, the fact that sound laws for consonants are different if followed by a stressed or an unstressed syllable. In Germanic it's called "Verners Law", the Finnish laws - they really look very similar - are considered part of what is called consonant gradation, the latter being part of a wider range of phenomena.
Now that last tidbit is exactly where stuff gets interesting, as the phenomenon is also found in the Samoyed language Nganasan, albeit not exactly similar. That means that it must have been part of Proto-Uralic, for Samoyed languages are considered the first split in Proto-Uralic, and even in alternative theories considered to be very old. And therefore the Germanic rule should be considered a Uralic substrate.
So Schrijver thinks this is proof that Uralic is a ancient North-European language. But that simply can't be maintained anymore in the light of recent developments. So how did the Finnish and Germanics got to share the feature? (Please look up what the two rules; they really have to be related) I can think of the following possibilities:
1) The connection of the Finnish feature and Samoyed is coincidental. Both the Finns and Germanics picked up a HG substrate.
2) The feature is part of WHG languages that managed to leave it in Scandinavia and the Kunda Culture, which is adjacent to what is often considered the PU homeland.
Anyway, it's a really interesting problem.
@ Slumberry
Perhaps youre overstating the Turkic thing here.
''Tourkai'' was reported generically by Byzantines for the steppe peoples of the time.
The fact that Magyars detached/ fled from the Khazars (themselves a Turkic speakers), could simply account fow whichever Turkic element existed
''And of course the Iranic haplogroups were a widespread general steppe ancestry, I find it unlikely that those people were still Iranic speaking at the time. ''
Given that the Khazar conglomeracy was centred on the Saltavo-Mayaki culture, I find it highly likely that there were Iranic peakers on the steppe at this time.
What's known about the phylogeny of N in Europe?
It's not very important.
I'd say that the snippets of info that we've received in recent months about ancient DNA associated with early Uralic speakers is more useful in this context than anything that has been published to date on modern Y-HG N.
As things stand, the main things to know are that N first appeared in the East Baltic with Tarand grave people and that Iron Age Finns had a frequency of N close to 100%.
Hopefully the relevant papers are published soon.
Thank you for the insight.
(Just to clarify what I meant.)
Sure the language of the (elite) Catholic clerus was Latin, but they also preached in the native tongue of the people. This would be naturally, whatever language the inhabitants spoke. But, here's the thing with "Catholics", they were pragmatic and flexible when it came to appealing or converting local nobles. In addition Catholic missionaries (even if they were foreigners) would correspond with the ruler, in the native tongue of the ruler. So, I kind of see what this hierarchical structure could lead to; you have missionaries targeting local nobles in their native tongue. So, I would presume that this internal (State) church structure would lead to the passing down of ecclesiastical knowledge in the native language of the elite, from high to low. This may also explain Slavic religious terms in Hungarian, in the sense of intermingling based on religion on a state level. As you also mentioned, an existing form of administration would actually fasten the transformation and in addition you have a common religion, which is actually another plus.The ones on top can easily force the administration to speak their language. But their also has to be some common ground within the belief system of different groups that will ease and fasten the adaption of a new language through religion. Or maybe I am just making things-up, as I go along...
As a native G2a2b1 guy from the Philistine-coast, it is my predestination to look for answers from the perspective of religion. ;-)
I am not trying to suggest N-L1026 expanded from the east. It seems to me pretty likely it expanded from west of the Urals or at least close to them. I was trying to make a point that N-L1026 probably did in fact expand with Uralic languages. As I said N-Y6058 can not be connected to Uralic because it is not found in any Uralic speaking populations. Maybe the founder of this lineage spoke PPU or PU but his language was clearly lost during its expansion.
I would argue that the fact this branch is so wide spread among so many different language groups supports the idea that it spread quickly over a vast amount of space with Seima-Turbino, going through founder effects regionally and then spreading again among Tungusic/Turkic and Chukotko-Kamchatkan speakers during the Iron Age and historical times.
Davidski: It's not very important.
Well, I mean, YMMV but it seems like it could pretty useful to inform things really. For'ex, if European R1a was assembled from a bunch of separate expansions following a split 15kya, we'd draw different conclusions than it were associated with a single recent expansion 5kya, and so on.
For'ex, if European R1a was assembled from a bunch of separate expansions following a split 15kya, we'd draw different conclusions than it were associated with a single recent expansion 5kya, and so on.
Well, that's sort of what the working theory was for R1a in peer reviewed literature based on modern data.
And that's why IMHO inferences about N in scientific literature based on modern data aren't all that important. They'll almost certainly be significantly modified once ancient DNA comes into play.
At this stage, I'd say that the two points I made about N in my blog post pretty much cover all plausible scenarios, but we'll need a lot of ancient DNA data to figure out the details.
@Davidski: Well, that's sort of what the working theory was for R1a in peer reviewed literature based on modern data.
Not really, they worked out that there was an explosive founder effect at around 4-5kya well before adna said so. That's what Karmin 2015 "A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture" said, then subsequently validated within ancient dna, and Poznik 2016 "Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences" repeated.
I don't see any reason any attempt using the same methodology to understand N expansions would be flawed. Why would the dates on their phylogeny be off?
Why would the dates on their phylogeny be off?
Obviously because they're based on modern DNA. It's not a precise science.
Keep in mind that almost all of these ancient samples from Hungary are from elite burials.
So your figure of 20% for the ratio of Y-chromosome lineages that can be attributed to invaders in Conqueror period Hungary isn't a reliable one.
But I can see your dilemma...
If a relatively small band of warriors could shift the language of a whole nation in the medieval Carpathian Basin, and in such a way that this language is still being spoken there today, then how is it that waves of Bell Beakers migrating into Copper Age Iberia couldn't do the same there?
Well, maybe they did, because they may have been the speakers of Proto-Basque and/or Iberian. That's the point I've been making all along in regards to that issue.
My understanding was though, that once you have the mutation rate right, it is a fairly exact science. Karmin 2015 computed the phylogeny and split dates without reference to any adna samples and got results for all the modern samples that stand up to adna when it did come through. You'll miss some basal branches, but you won't get split dates wrong on orders of 3x-4x time. Once you've got the mutation rates right, you'll get basically the right result, as much as others before that study may have used the wrong mutation rate and got it wrong.
Kristiina said...
@ Anthony Hanken & Matt
«I agree N3a3'6 or L1026 is a possibile Seima-Turbino line.»
However, ancient Hungarians carried N-M2004 (the Yakut line) which is N(xL1026) and the phenotype of these N-M2004 guys was European.
A connection with Seima-Turbino is ok, if it is meant to refer to a movement of N lines from west to east. We already have PLENTY of ancient yDNA from Altai/Yenisei/Baikal area, and the Uralic lines detected in ancient Hungarians have not been found there. To my knowledge, in Altai and Baikal area, only N-P43, N-Khakass line and maybe the Botai line have been found.
@ Anthony Hanken
«Proto-Turkic and Proto-Mongolian probably originate around Inner Mongolia.»
Please explain this statement and give us the reasoning behind this conclusion?
@Kristiina
Right, but I doubt that they had much in common with the early Uralics of the Ural region in terms of overall genetic structure and phenotype.
Just take a look who they were buried with.
Karmin 2015 computed the phylogeny and split dates without reference to any adna samples and got results for all the modern samples that stand up to adna when it did come through.
Maybe, maybe not. That still needs to be checked against a comprehensive ancient dataset.
In any case, part of the reason why I said this isn't all that important is because there can be no such thing as a disjointed Y-HG N phylogeny in the context of the Proto-Uralic expansion.
There might be subclades of N which experienced slow or rapid expansions before the expansion of Proto-Uralic, for whatever reasons not linked to the Proto-Uralic expansion. We should also expect to see some subclades of N that aren't present in all Uralic populations, but instead shared between some Uralic groups and other linguistic groups, because they may have expanded late locally on the back of the Uralic or Turkic expansions.
There are all sorts of scenarios that can explain the complexity in the distribution of N subclades. The main point is that the Uralic language family came from somewhere in the Eurasian forest zone, which also just happened to be N country, so the two are correlated to some degree, and indeed it seems that when Uralic languages spilled over into areas outside the forest zone during the metal ages and medieval period, so did N.
@ Davidski “Just take a look who they were buried with.”
In case you are hinting at the possibility of the phenotype of N guys coming from the daughters of R1a1 males, let’s take a look at the data;
Blue eyes:
K2/6 E1b1b1a1b1a,
KEF2/1027 N1a1a1a1a2
MH/16 I2a1a2b
MH/9 I2a1a2
Skin colour:
KEF2/1045 N1a1a1a1a2 very pale
MH/15 I2a1a2b pale
MH/9 I2a1a2 pale
K1/10 R1a1a1b1a2b intermediate/pale
K2/29 N1a1a1a1a2 intermediate/pale
MH/16 I2a1a2b intermediate/pale
KEF1/10936 Q1a intermediate/pale
SH/41 R1b1a1b1a1a2b intermediate/pale
SH/81 J2a1a intermediate/pale
K2/29 N1a1a1a1a2 light/blond
MH/16 I2a1a2b light/blond
MH/9 I2a1a2 light
K2/6 E1b1b1a1b1a light/red
KEF1/10936 Q1a light/red
KEF2/1045 N1a1a1a1a2 light/brown
K2/52 I2a1a2b light/brown
K2/18 R1a1a1b1a2b light/brown
K3/13 R1b1a1b1a1a1 light/brown
SH/41 R1b1a1b1a1a2b light/brown
SH/81 J2a1a light/brown
None of the R1a1 or R1b guys have blue eyes. Two N-guys have blue eyes.
There is only one sample with a very pale skin and it is KEF2/1045 carrying N1a1a1a1a2-Z1936, which is the haplotype carried by aproximately a half of the Finnish males. R1a1 and R1b guys have intermediate skin colour except for one R1a1 guy.
Only one R1a1 guy has light/brown hair, while the only light/blond guys belong to the haplotypes N1a1a1a1a2-Z1936 and I2a1a2b. There are six R1a1 guys and only one of them is light/brown, the rest are dark/brown x2, dark/black x2, dark brown x1 and one who is defined 100% EA is NA for all three phenotype criteria.
How about the daughters of the I2a1a2 guys?
If you mean that N-L708, R1a1 and R1b-M269 became "white" due to the influence of the European Mesolithic/Neolithic population carrying yDNA I2, you may be right.
I didn't mean that.
Let’s check the mtDNA of the N guys KEF2/1027 N1a1a1a1a2, KEF2/1045 N1a1a1a1a2 and K2/29 N1a1a1a1a2.
KEF2/1027 N1a1a1a1a2: mtDNA N1a1a1a1a
K2/29 N1a1a1a1a2: mtDNA J1b1a1e
N1a1a1a1a is still found at least in Komis and Buryats, but it is not very frequent in modern Uralics. However, N1a1a1a1a (16189C) seems to have been present in the Sargat Culture in Western Siberia (Pg1 c. 500-0 BC). She is a woman. N1a has also been found in Gulyukovo in medieval Volga Ural. This is what is explained about the Gulyukovo site:
The material of Gulyukovo cemetery of the culture was investigated. … The cemetery shows connections with the supposedly Ugric, semi-nomad population of the Ural area, therefore majority of the archaeologists in the region identify this material as the heritage of the Hungarians who stayed in the east and had later been found by Friar Julian in the 13th century. This assumption can be reinforced by the presence of kurgan burials, shrouds placed on the eyes and mouths, handmade pottery with stamped decoration and the sporadic remains of partial horse burials. This material appears in the Trans-Ural region as well.
Therefore, the two N-bearing ancient Hungarians seem to carry a mtDNA haplogroup from the Uralic area.
J1b1a1e has been detected in two ancient Hungarians and in one Roman period individual in York (71-200 AD, BrMA). Upstream haplogroup J1b1a1 has been detected several times on the steppe, so J1b1a1 probably developed on the Bronze Age steppe without any connection to I2a1a2b as I2a1a2b has not been detected in Afanasievo or Sintashta.
"However, ancient Hungarians carried N-M2004 (the Yakut line) which is N(xL1026) and the phenotype of these N-M2004 guys was European".
The "Yakut line" is the result of a founder effect or a relatively recent bottleneck in that population. It amoung Hungarians, I would guess means it had a presence on the Steppe with Turkic(?) speakers. I don't see a problem with that or why their physical appearance matters in such ethnically diverse region. N-L708 probably didn't originate farther east than the Altai as it is absent in BHGs.
"A connection with Seima-Turbino is ok, if it is meant to refer to a movement of N lines from west to east. We already have PLENTY of ancient yDNA from Altai/Yenisei/Baikal area, and the Uralic lines detected in ancient Hungarians have not been found there. To my knowledge, in Altai and Baikal area, only N-P43, N-Khakass line and maybe the Botai line have been found".
Specifically N-L1026+ branches. ST spread late in the BA and the migrating population size is unknown so I'm not suprised we haven't found it in any aDNA yet. N-Y6058 would have spread with ST east. Netted Ware derived cultures seem to have ST influences in their metal working hinting at a connection west of the Urals.
"Please explain this statement and give us the reasoning behind this conclusion?"
Early Turks/Mongolians are both attested to in early Chinese records as living just north of them. Proto-Mongolian seems to have been spoken in the Rouran Khagnate, possibly as well as Turkic. I am no expert but this is what seems to be accepted.
@ Anthony Haken
“Early Turks/Mongolians are both attested to in early Chinese records as living just north of them.“
That is not correct. According to Wikipedia [and if you do not trust Wikipedia, please correct me]:
The Tiele (Chinese: 鐵勒; pinyin: Tiělè, Turkic *Tegreg "[People of the] Carts"), also transliterated as Chile (Chinese: 敕勒), Gaoche (Chinese: 高車), Tele[3] or (Chinese: 特勒), were a confederation of nine tribes living to the north of China and in CENTRAL ASIA, emerging after the disintegration of the confederacy of the Xiongnu. Chinese sources associate them with the earlier Dingling. The Tiele were a collection of tribes of mostly Turkic ethnic origins.
The Dingling (Chinese: 丁零) were an ancient people mentioned in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE lived in Siberia. They are assumed to have been an early Proto-Turkic-speaking people, whose original constituents mainly assimilated into the Xiongnu and Xianbei groups. They originally lived on the bank of the Lena River in the area WEST OF LAKE BAIKAL, gradually MOVING SOUTHWARD to MONGOLIA AND NORTHERN CHINA.
“Proto-Mongolian seems to have been spoken in the Rouran Khagnate, possibly as well as Turkic.”
Rouran Khaganate is not the same as Inner Mongolia:
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Inner+Mongolia,+China/@43.9488193,93.7117869,4z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3605cc4bd26914df:0xd59746816dc2e950!8m2!3d43.37822!4d115.0594815
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouran_Khaganate#/media/File:Asia_400ad.jpg
Regarding the comparison between language shifts in Hungary and Bronze age Iberia, there is a reasonable explanation.
Bronze Age Iberia was dominated by small scale societies. There wasn't any mechanism for imposing language over large distances. Language shift dynamics were probably dominated by social structure and kinship networks. Literacy was nonexistent or confined to a small elite.
Medieval Hungary was a state society with a central government and a literate clergy. There is evidence of written Hungarian liturgy from shortly after the adoption of Christianity. Since the language had the official backing of the government administration and was sanctioned for religious use, it likely became dominant in a top down process.
@Kristiina-"If you mean that N-L708, R1a1 and R1b-M269 became "white" due to the influence of the European Mesolithic/Neolithic population carrying yDNA I2, you may be right"
Can you explain this theory a bit better?
The Dingling connection seems to be attested but agian I am no expert so I can not say. Old Turkic seems to be nested within the same region as Proto Mongolian however Proto-Turkic may be more northern/western as you have said.
My original comment was that Proto-Mongolian originated around Inner Mongolia, not necessarily within it. The Rouran Khagnate did however encompass parts of Inner Mongolia.
If the Xiongnu/Huns were Turkic they seem to be high in Q and R1a not N going by the aDNA we have.
@ Gaska
It was a very general, polemic remark, so do not take it too literally.
However, I have the impression that the “whitest” ancient population is EEF-rich Globular Amphorae and also Corded Ware was quite pale. Yamnaya was quite dark. In any case, all three (pale skin, light hair and blue eyes) have the highest concentration in northern Europe, and many of you repeat over and over again that the IE-speaking R lines are from the steppe.
- Yamnaya culture - dark hair pigmentation; mixed eyes (light and dark colours); darker skin
- Catacomb culture - predominantly dark pigmentation just like in case of Yamnaya culture
- Bronze Age Altai: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rFgh7T7Bp78/U5FOfhxpgwI/AAAAAAAAJoM/q7nbDxZPuDs/s1600/hollard.png
@ Anthony
The fact that "The Rouran Khagnate did however encompass parts of Inner Mongolia" is not much evidence for the origin of Proto-Mongolic in Inner Mongolia. Jinggouzi pastoralists with yDNA C2b1a-F1699 are, however, attested in Inner Mongolia c. 1000-500 BC, but they were newcomers from the north. C2b1a haplotypes are found in American aborigins and Koryaks who cannot be taken as speakers of Proto-Mongolic in Inner Mongolia.
Obviously the U152 guy was a commoner, because he was a local who had been living in "Hungary" since at least Bell Beaker times. Hungarians were not native to "Hungary".
From Wikipedia,
"Proto-Mongolic can be clearly identified chronologically with the language spoken by the Mongols during Genghis Khan's early expansion in the 1200-1210s."
The Rouran Khagnate was established in 330AD. The Jinggouzi pastoralists inhabited Inner Mongolia much earlier than any Proto-Mongolians.
@Kristiina said- "However, I have the impression that the “whitest” ancient population is EEF-rich Globular Amphorae and also Corded Ware was quite pale"
That's the truth, the Anatolian farmers (not only GAC and CWC) had pale skin, even a few had blue eyes
"Yamnaya was quite dark. In any case, all three (pale skin, light hair and blue eyes) have the highest concentration in northern Europe, and many of you repeat over and over again that the IE-speaking R lines are from the steppe"
Not me, I´m Diego, and I have always said that L51/P312 is Western and that it is not related to the Yamnaya culture. Mesolithic WHgs were generally swarthy and had blue eyes, so I asked you, because there are R1b (Villabruna for example) with blue eyes, but there are also I2 and C1a2 with blue eyes. It is therefore not related to a specific male or female uniparental marker. They are mutations of which we still lack information but on which the environment also influences. That pigmentation is one of the reasons why a mass migration to Western Europe seems impossible.
Exactly. I agree on that. We do not have much evidence to link Donghu/Jinggouzi in Inner Mongolia with Proto-Mongolic.
Тels said...
@ Synome
"Medieval Hungary was a state society with a central government and a literate clergy etc."
I think there is no Hungarian liturgy, You think Latin one? By the way I think the introduction of Hungarian language is easy to explain: the very same process happened in medieval England.
There is Hungarian speaking elite (pagan) and Slavic speaking peasants (mainly Christians, Constantinople oriented).
The question is why the melting between these two population was so instant? I think these DNA findings are obvious answer.
(by the way what is your explanation of language shift in medieval Wallachia?)
"There is evidence of written Hungarian liturgy from shortly after the adoption of Christianity."
The earliest one is from 200 years after the adoption of Christianity.
Leron said...
I wonder how tall the Yamnaya and related men were. If they were quite y’all it might explain their success with farmer and forager women. “Tall, dark and handsome” men providing a new subsistence amidst failing crops could explain to a lot of the ydna replacements.
Kristina: Donghu tribes could be proto-Tungusic speakers. Ghengis Khan saw his ancestors among the Xiongnu, so further north and west.
@Leron, In my opinion the intermarriage between 'Steppe' men & 'Farmer' women wasn't consensual. Steppe tribes subdued, conquered, farmer tribes. They did the same thing to other Steppe clans.
In the end, anthropologist & what not will answer the question why this happened. The cause was probably extreme male-localism & female exogamy in Steppe clans. Males never left clan, often married women from different clans. Result, is hyprid population of local males & foreign women.
Obviously the U152 guy was a commoner, because he was a local who had been living in "Hungary" since at least Bell Beaker times.
The commoner classification was based on the burial site (the Sárrétudvari–Hízóföld cemetery).
There were two samples from this commoner cemetery in the paper, one belonged to U152 and another to J2a1a.
Nope, it's actually quite likely that there were some Iranian speakers in the early Avar armies. I remember reading about this ages ago, and Wikipedia has a few lines on the topic here...
Wikipedia: Pannonian Avars
Obviously, these sorts of claims should never been taken too literally, but the presence of lineages under Y-HG R1a-Z93 in the Hun and early Avar samples that also appear to be basically of West Eurasian ancestry does suggest that in this instance they're basically correct.
I've got a feeling that when the genome-wide data for these and similar samples are released, some of the individuals with R1a-Z93 will essentially come out like this guy from early Iranian speaking territory.
An early Iranian, obviously
Looks like Mauri has been dipping into the topic of ancient Finns and Y-haplogroup N lately too...
Iron Age Finns in Southwestern Finland belonged to N-haplogroup
@Davidsky
I misunderstood you, I thought you meant the Iranic lines in the Hungarian burials. I agree that some of the sampled Avars could be Iranic speakers at the time.
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2017/03/southern-european-blues.html
AND +
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2018/09/early-anatolian-farmers-were.html
So it means, that: 1. Neolithic Farmers were an admixed population of WHG (or "Iron Gate" HG) and Natufians (later Levant_N) with a later strong bidirectional infusion of extra Natufian genes (with Natufians becoming also more Anatolia farmers-like). And: 2. A similar or close population to Anatolian farmers was already residing in Southern Europe before the LGM so that explains why there was almost a non-existent WHG population there, unlike in Eastern or Northern Europe.
Am I correct?
European Neolithic farmers were a mixture of European Mesolithic foragers and Anatolian Neolithic farmers, and Anatolian Neolithic farmers were mostly derived from Anatolian Mesolithic foragers, with some minor gene flow from the Neolithic populations of the Levant and eastern Mesopotamia. Natufians weren't involved in any of this directly.
And Southern Europe was inhabited by foragers very similar to those who lived in Northern Europe.
old europe said...
From Anthrogenica : average CWC with I6561 ( Sredni Stog)
sample": "CWC_Germany:Average",
"fit": 3.4882,
"Ukraine_Eneolithic--I6561 : 85,
"EHG": 8.33,
"Globular_Amphora_Ukraine": 3.33,
"LBK_N": 1.67,
"SHG": 1.67,
"WHG": 0,
Davidski- have Pinarbasi and Dzudzuana made it onto the G25 yet ?
I don't have the genotype data for these samples yet. Probably will soon.
Repetition is the most basic technique for learning ;) Basically it is vaste of time to search origins of languages by watching present-day ydna's and haplotrees. Often TMRCAs of whole living branches, for instance in Finland, are below 2000 years old and one man barely forwarded any language. The problem setting is fundamentally different from the assumptions we make. We can postulate that during the TMRCA of now living clade NOT ONLY ONE MAN belonged to the this clade in question, but he had brothers, cousins and even more distant cousins. Subsequently all other brother clans died out and so they didn't forward their own mutation chains to the present. This idea keeps our idea alive, but still proves nothing. It is mostly vaste of time to speculate until we have ancient dna showing who lived on the road of supposed speakers of any language, this assuming that we have no textual evidences. Even in case we have ancient texts we can be wrong, because wars, migrations and invasions change genome, for instance Egypt.
And going ahead with this scheme. If only one man forwarded his ydna to the present, it is also possible that lineages of real language distributors died totally out and the only thing they left us is language. The difference between one and zero man is not a big business.
Desdichado said...
@Slumberry
It's quite anachronistic to treat those labels as if they were linguistic labels, however. Most likely if they called themselves Turks or others called them Turks it had more to do with their lifestyle than what language they spoke.
Not that I don't agree with the general conclusions that the Magyar invasion was probably multi-lingual and that Hungarian developed early on with some form of contact with Turkish, but it's also not a coincidence that the Magyars lived in the same way as, say, the Bulgars nearby. When they called themselves Turks I don't think it was because they spoke a Turkic language, because the concept of a Turkic language being integral to their identity is a modern one, not a contemporary one.
If the Yamnaya were "quite dark" and the CWC were "quite pale" and yet 1) CWC is 75% Yamnaya at a genome wide level, and 2) the paler genetics, especially with regards to eye color, are known to be recessive, then it strongly suggests that there's some kind of sampling bias that's skewing our results in some way. It doesn't make much sense that a minority population with recessive genes nevertheless contribute so strongly to the phenotype that it has been remarked upon by everyone who's ever written about them from the ancient Greeks to the modern day.
The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
The indigenous populations of inner Eurasia, a huge geographic region covering the central Eurasian steppe and the northern Eurasian taiga and tundra, harbor tremendous diversity in their genes, cultures and languages. In this study, we report novel genome-wide data for 763 individuals from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. We furthermore report additional damage-reduced genome-wide data of two previously published individuals from the Eneolithic Botai culture in Kazakhstan (~5,400 BP). We find that present-day inner Eurasian populations are structured into three distinct admixture clines stretching between various western and eastern Eurasian ancestries, mirroring geography. The Botai and more recent ancient genomes from Siberia show a decrease in contribution from so-called “ancestral North Eurasian” ancestry over time, detectable only in the northern-most “forest-tundra” cline. The intermediate “steppe-forest” cline descends from the Late Bronze Age steppe ancestries, while the “southern steppe” cline further to the South shows a strong West/South Asian influence. Ancient genomes suggest a northward spread of the southern steppe cline in Central Asia during the first millennium BC. Finally, the genetic structure of Caucasus populations highlights a role of the Caucasus Mountains as a barrier to gene flow and suggests a post-Neolithic gene flow into North Caucasus populations from the steppe.
@ Dragos Re:PinarBasi
There is 10-dimensional PCA in the supplement. You can use nMonte to model PinarBasi using samples that overlap with G25 and then reproduce this mix in G25.
PinarBasiProxy,0.11970307,0.177423102,0.026734022,-0.07229449,0.0691441,-0.039026244,-0.00263908,-0.003213524,0.048037786,0.08303808,0.006186028,0.015364004,-0.021311422,0.00128482,-0.02863736,-0.002867188,0.017070854,0.004468212,0.0099483,-0.005011178,-0.00538335,0.009126694,-0.005916702,-0.014088696,-0.004060192
@Desdichado said...
"It's quite anachronistic to treat those labels as if they were linguistic labels, however. Most likely if they called themselves Turks or others called them Turks it had more to do with their lifestyle than what language they spoke."
Generally I would agree, but there is a context and the usage of this ethnonym alone is just a small part of the argument.
Two further notes:
If the Byzantines could ignore language in ethnonyms, so could the Hungarians. They could very well used "Turk" or "Onugor" as an alternate ethnonym at some point.
The source material (De Administrato Imperio) used the specific names of other known Turkic groups (like Pechenegs). Ironically Hungarians are the only group consistently called Turks in that text, even when they are mentioned together with Turkic groups.
BTW, the Uralic root won in the language and there is no reason to assume that they weren't the main group from the beginning. The point is: they intertwined with actual Turkic groups on multiple levels. The melting pot of the Steppe.
To be clear; I don't disagree with the conclusion at all. I just don't think this particular line of evidence means in context what it's being presented as.
the question of language shift by elite dominance comes up strongly in this topic. Based on the heavy dilution of YDNA some assume that the Hungarians were a very small elite group, let's say not more than 5% of the population and then assimilated everybody. Business as usual, isn't it? No, it is not. I yet to know even a single documented historical example where this happened with these population ratios in a situation where the elite had no live/intensive connection to a homeland behind them. The latter is important, because it protects the small elite group from counter-assimilation, but the Hungarians did not have that. I do not say it is impossible, but it is not as evident as some seem to see it.
@Slumbery - What you're missing is two things:
1 - This was a two step process. First, the Magyars took the leadership of a multiethnic coalition, imposing/spreading their language on/to various nomadic holdovers. Then that coalition migrated to Hungary. The frequency of haplogroup N would already have been very diluted by that first step, and causing your estimate of the size of the elites to likely be low.
2 - The local populace was itself multiethnic and multilingual, with Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and a host of Avar-linked languages being spoken. There was no majority to be assimilated into.
I am not missing any of these. The Hungarian speakers already having a more favorable number around 900 AD (not being limited to the elite) is one of the obvious answers to the paradox. However there are people even in this topic, who propose that the language was bought in by a _small_ elite group. So my question stands.
BTW, there was no romance speaking population in the Carpathian Basin or Transylvania around 900 AD or just in very small numbers at best and the Germanic presence was also arguably small by the number of native speakers and limited to one sub-region. Also many speculate that most of the Avars were already mostly Slavic speakers at the time (especially Slavic historians love to assume that everybody was Slav there, but well, maybe there is some truth in it in an extent).
@Slumberry - Why are you assuming 5% if you took that into account already? Hungary is what, 5% haplogroup N? So probably more like 10-15% at least.
Also re: romance survival - Gesta Hungarorum disagrees with you.
I do not assume it was 5%. I am criticizing that assumption.
And Gesta Hungarorum is a nice origin story told to the contemporary aristocracy and is proven to be anachronistic. It was written 300 years after the conquest and projected the ethnic groups of its time back. The lack of Romance toponyms and personal names in the 11th century Transylvania (despite the fact that the texts were written in Latin) tells a different story. And that is just one point of evidence agains the Gesta's story.
Depends on how tightly you define the geography. The Romanians didn't come from nowhere, nor from outside. They were probably Romanized Dacians, although I admit that I'm not very familiar with the genetic continuity (or lack thereof) of the area during the time period in question. But a hybrid of Dacians with a Roman admixture and Romanized culture and language is the prevailing consensus of the ethnogenesis of the Romanians and Moldavians.
@Desdichado
Sure, but we know that:
- History says the Roman population of Dacia was evacuated into the South in the second half of the 3th century.
- Archeology says that the Roman settlements were indeed abandoned here at the time.
- Linguistic says that the modern Romanian language developed in contact with Albanian.
- Genetics says that modern Romanians are genetically _much_ closer to Bulgarians than to any other of their neighboors.
BTW, most of the Balkan was Greek speaking in Roman times, but Dacia was Latin + Dacia was evacauted into the region where Romanians emerged later (give or take), so it is very likely that the Romance population of the Balkan had its roots in the population of Dacia at least partially. But there was some migration in between.
But this is a controversy, because it touches natioanlistic sensitivities. Some people think modern rights should be based on millienia old arriving orders. :P
I've suddenly lost all confidence in the the theory that steppe males would steal farmer women.
https://nerdist.com/article/9000-year-old-teenager-facial-reconstruction/
Michalis Moriopoulos said...
^ She's likely a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer, though, living just before the Neolithic people showed up. She'd probably plot like Iron Gates, or possibly like Croatia HG or Romania HG. No doubt a WHG, not a farmer.
Physical anthropology tells us most ANFs/EEFs were morphologically Classic/Gracile Mediterranean, so they probably would have been the best-looking people around for miles, at least by modern standards. Not that it matters much; our AMH ancestors bred with Neanderthals and Denisovans for crying out loud-- we're clearly not that picky. I'm sure Dawn looked just fine to her contemporaries. ;)
WHG does not predate EEF in Greece, Mesolithic Greek samples are 95%+ EEF.
gL said...
There are also other exceptions, Latvians and Lithuanians, both speaking IE-languages. Among them the frequency of N is equal to R1a. Which one was the conqueror? If R1a, did they speak Uralic language before it?
I don't see them as exceptions at all. It is not like Latvians/Lithuanians originally spoke Uralic... Exception in Baltic actually are Estonians, who lost their Baltic languages due to migration of Uralic speaking L550 from NE.
Latvian and Lithuanian L550 variation(centered around Lithuania) differs from Estonian. L550 migration to Estonia was Baltic Finn speaking, but L550 branch that migrated to Latvia and Lithuania was Baltic speaking - most probably also mixed with M558. The branch that migrated to Estonia arrived there later(by 1000-2000 years) than the Baltic speaking branch of L550, that migrated from east. Some of the reasons why Baltic L550 pushed to west was also arrival of Slavonian tribes in that area.
There are not much information about bigger differences in M558 variation of R1a in Baltic, so it is hard to tell how much of R1a is native and how much came together with L550.
It is not always black and white question of conquerors and subjugation - but acquiring better advances in technology. Are English/Americans conquerors of 21st century, because we communicate in English? Are we subjugated?
In a big picture - Uralic became agricultural and settled down under influences of Baltic, where Uralic has many terms borrowed from Baltic about agriculture and other topics. The area of those metamorphoses are located to the east of current Balts. Some of the Uralic switched to Baltic in process. At least some of the Russian sources I've read, have identified some cultures as culturally Uralic(burials, clothing style) who used Baltic language.
The way left-wingers in Britain used WHG's dark skin to further their agenda was messed up. But, it is also annoying how every ancient people are depicted as European/white. Even Neanderthals were depicted like northern Europeans.
That 9ky greek girl is given northern European-like complexion. If, they looked at ancient DNA research they'd know she was probably mostly WHG & had brown skin. If, she was EEF she would still probably have brownish skin.
Everything you wrote is wrong. WHG was never in Greece, and the earliest EEFs from Anatolia and the Aegean were light skinned.
This is for samples 6000 B.C. Same age as this Greek girl.
Given that the Aegean is the likely origin of European Neolithic farmers, we used Bar8 and Bar31 as putative sources to assess the extent of hunter-gatherer admixture in European farmers through the Neolithic. f4 statistics of the form f4 (Neolithic farmer, Anatolian, HG, ‡Khomani) indicated small but significant amounts of hunter-gatherer admixture into both Spanish and Hungarian early farmer genomes, and interestingly, the Early Neolithic Greek genome. Our mixture modeling analysis also inferred a small genetic contribution from the Loschbour hunter-gatherer genome (3–9%) to each of the Early Neolithic Hungarian and German genomes, but evidence of a smaller contribution to any Aegean genomes (0–6%). These results suggest that mixing between migrating farmers and local hunter-gatherers occurred sporadically at low levels throughout the continent even in the earliest stages of the Neolithic. However, consistent with previous findings (3), both f4 statistics and ADMIXTURE analysis indicate a substantial increase in hunter-gatherer ancestry transitioning into the Middle Neolithic across Europe, whereas Late Neolithic farmers also demonstrate a considerable input of ancestry from steppe populations (SI Appendix, SI8. Proportions of Ancestral Clusters in Neolithic Populations of Europe and Fig. S32).
Aegean individuals are homozygous for the derived rs1426654 T-allele in the SLC24A5 gene, and four carry at least one copy of the derived rs16891982 G-allele in the SLC45A2 gene. This suggests that these reduced-pigmentation–associated alleles were at appreciable frequency in Neolithic Aegeans and that skin depigmentation was not solely a high-latitude phenomenon (SI Appendix, SI12. Functional Markers). The derived rs12913832 G-allele in the HERC2 domain of the OCA2 gene was heterozygous in one individual (Klei10), but all other Aegeans for whom the allelic state at this locus could be determined were homozygous for the ancestral allele, indicating a lack of iris depigmentation in these individuals.
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/25/6886
@Roulus, That study sequenced genomes from Greek farmers not hunter gatherers. No genome from a Greek hunter gatherer has been sequenced.
Two mtDNA genomes from Greek hunter gatherers has. They belonged to K1c. K1c has been found in Iron gate/Serbia hunter gatherers. Also, the Greek HGs share extra mutations with a K1c from Iron Gate confirming a relationship between the two. So, those Greek Hgs had at least somekind of common ancestry with Serbia HGs. It is still equally likely they were EEF as it is they were WHG.
No one said she was an HG but YOU and she is from the exact same time period as the samples from the study I linked you to. You are a moron, seriously.
I got that from Mike Jedi. He said thinks she's way a hunter gatherer. Anyways, it is always interesting to prehistoric reconstructions. Thanks for sharing it!
@gL
A typical example of ethnocentrism in which you depreciate your neighbour and minimize their genetic, linguistic and cultural contribution and value and overrate your own.
We now know for sure that N-L1026 arrived in Estonia c. 700 BC with the Tarand Graves Culture.
It is amazing that you manage to make L550 even 4000-5000 years old in the Baltics when you claim that it arrived in the area with R1a1-M558 c. 2700-1700 BC! Have a look at https://www.yfull.com/tree/N-Z4908/
@ Kristiina and related to "We now know for sure that N-L1026 arrived in Estonia c. 700 BC with the Tarand Graves Culture.". 700 BC, plus or minus something, indeed seems to be based on those facts which are available. Besides and related to M. Myllylä's previous comments: it is very unclear to what extent we're able to connect the older i.e. non-classical Tarand burials to Uralic speakers. These older Tarands are like circular, many times rather non-symmetric low walls or rings made of stones. Classical, younger Tarands are basically quadrilateral squares, basically just like house basements made of stones (which they possibly or even probably are, related to the older House of Death burial tradition of Volga-Kama, fex in Dyakovo culture ). In other words, these older Tarands may or may not be Tarands at all, just circular burial structures also made of stones and possibly related to other people than Uralic speakers, fex Proto Germanic speakers in the area.
@Davidski @Kristiina I've seen the Wikipedia entry re: Yamnaya Culture where the skin color was changed by some "editor" from "moderately light but slightly darker than contemporary Northern Europeans" into "significantly darker than the average modern European", with some bogus drivel about their tendency to tan rather than burn. I presume some Southern Europeans/Middle Easterners have altered the data deliberately.
@Arza "Finally, the genetic structure of Caucasus populations highlights a role of the Caucasus Mountains as a barrier to gene flow and suggests a post-Neolithic gene flow into North Caucasus populations from the steppe."
Does it explain why Adyghe and other North Caucasus populations look closer to "European" compared to Georgians and Armenians? Would you attribute it to a post-Neolithic Steppe influx?
@Romulus @Mike The Jedi "I've suddenly lost all confidence in the the theory that steppe males would steal farmer women.
Her skeleton bone structure and facial features are very close to those of "Otzi the Iceman", don't they? She looks like "Dawn" and "Otzi" both sprung from the same or similar, closely related populations (either WHG or EEF, perhaps an admixture thereof).
@ Huck Finn
You are right in particular if N-L1026 is considered a Proto-Germanic marker. When we look at the yfull tree, the age of N-L550 around the Baltic Sea seems to correspond to the arrival of early Tarands.
In any case, in order to be really able to argue to which modern population the old Tarands belong, we need autosomal DNA. Without yDNA and autosomal DNA it is very much speculation.
However, I know that some people would be very happy if Proto-Germanic were spoken in Estonia.
@Andre,
Yes. Adygei, Ossestian, Lezgin are basically Maykop/Georgain+something Steppe/European.
@Samuel Andrews "That 9ky greek girl is given northern European-like complexion. If, they looked at ancient DNA research they'd know she was probably mostly WHG & had brown skin. If, she was EEF she would still probably have brownish skin."
Do you agree then that light skin came from the Steppe?
Also, doesn't she remind you of Otzi when it comes to her skull's shape?
Different Tarand Graves can be caused by cultural shifts and not including a linguist evidence, but sure there is an obvious connection between the appearance of Finnic language in Estonia and Tarand graves. I have to mention in this context that all those great remains under research in Iron Age Finland (Luistari), including many N men, were from inhumation graves, not from cremation graves, and Tarand graves were mostly cremated. Cultural shift was obvious again. There is on debates like this one ignorance, misleading information or even biased opinions, inoffensively or goal-directed. Tarand graves are sure some kind of evidence of the Finnic language, but the whole history of Baltic Finns is much more complicated. Just a side note to the discussion ...
I can't say that I share your passion for human physical traits. The reason being that such traits can change rapidly in populations even without any significant foreign admixture coming in, due to selection and/or environmental factors.
The other issue is that inferring complex physical traits like skin color with DNA in prehistoric populations is often guesswork, because no one really knows whether the markers that are associated with various traits in modern populations were also associated with the same traits in populations that are a few thousand years old or older.
And it might be useful to keep in mind that facial reconstructions of ancient humans are more often than not total BS. It's not something even worth discussing.
@Romulus "No one said she was an HG but YOU and she is from the exact same time period as the samples from the study I linked you to. You are a moron, seriously."
Dawn (Avgi) is actually from 7000 BCE, not 6000 BCE. 7000 BCE is about the start of the Neolithic transition in Greece, so MAYBE she is a farmer, but the Greek scientists describe her as a Mesolithic sample. Maybe that's inaccurate OR maybe Mesolithic Greeks were similar to Anatolian farmers/hunter-gatherers in the first place. Either way, there's no reason to be uncivil or call Sam a moron.
New tools for ancient DNA will be available soon:
https://twitter.com/vagheesh/status/1115976576427077632
OT: Some abstracts from a conference at the close of last month, may be of interest to Frank and some other archaeological detail oriented commentors :
https://crossdem2019com.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/crossdem2019-abstracts-2.pdf
Scaffolding Irish Demography with ancient genomes
Lara Cassidy and Dan Bradley (Trinity College Dublin)
Ireland provides a relatively contained microcosm in which to study the defining demographic events that have shaped European populations. It has acted as the geographic terminus for major migrations in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age, while its island status has afforded it some level of genetic continuity over the past four millennia. We explore the impact of such events on the genomes of over 100 ancient Irelanders. These encompass all eras of the island’s history, from the Mesolithic to Early Modern period. Dense sampling across time intervals of known demographic flux allows us to examine the complex interplay between geography and culture in the assimilation of new peoples to the island.
We find persistence of older divergent ancestries in the western extremes during both the Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions, suggesting geography may drive recurrent genetic and demographic trends time and time again. Genomic sequencing to a median of 1X allows for the imputation of diploid genotypes, providing haplotypic data to dissect subtle patterns of population structure and relatedness among more homogenous Irish populations during periods of demographic continuity. With these methods we find cultural drivers of structure during the Irish Neolithic period, related to burial type.
Diploid data can also be used to define genomic runs of homozygosity, the size distributions of which give insight into both ancient and recent inbreeding bottlenecks. Most strikingly, two Irish Mesolithic genomes show the highest recorded levels of short homozygous segments, suggesting an isolated restricted island population.
Signals of genetic continuity and change after the initial establishment of the modern Irish population in the Bronze Age are also explored, with haplotypic diversification evident across the four millennia.
(tbc.)
The Beaker transition in Britain: an integrated view of the funerary evidence
Anna Bloxam (UCL)
The first appearance of the Beaker phenomenon in Britain marks the transition from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic, with the changes seen in this period setting the path for future developments across the Early Bronze Age. This ‘Beaker period’ (c.2450-1950 BC) is also associated with widespread indications of demographic change: the archaeological evidence indicates the sudden appearance of new ways of life and approaches to death; the osteological evidence reveals morphological changes to the people present in burials; and the genetic evidence suggests that the period saw a near-total genomic replacement of the pre-existing Neolithic peoples of Britain. While some of these findings have been considered in conjunction with each other (for example in Olalde et al.’s 2018 genetics paper), our archaeological interpretations of the period have yet to catch up with the availability of new forms of evidence. Perhaps more crucially, a re-evaluation of the funerary practices of this period suggests that our existing understanding of the Beaker phenomenon in Britain may be overly reliant on outdated assumptions of the homogeneity of cultural expressions across the period.
In this paper, I present new work on the burial practices of the Beaker period, including new archaeological, osteological, and radiocarbon analyses, and compare my findings to the published genomic research. I seek to move past existing stereotypes surrounding the archaeological data, in order to explore the evidence for cultural diversity and inter-group interaction across this transitional phase in British prehistory. In incorporating a wide range of the available data, I aim to provide a more nuanced consideration of the nature, scale, and temporality of the cultural and population changes of the Chalcolithic. I argue the importance of avoiding a return to the culture-historical narrative of a ‘Beaker Folk’, and demonstrate that by integrating multiple strands of evidence it is possible to both enrich and continue to develop our understandings, even in intensively-studied periods and place
(For a flavour of this author's research, check out her profile and conference abstracts at - http://ucl.academia.edu/AnnaBloxam and https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/research-students/anna-bloxam. Seems like she is particularly a skeptic of the idea of a caesura of cremation during the British Beaker period - practiced in late Neolithic Meldon Bridge period, where we have extremely limited adna (because of cremation?), ceased with Beaker, resumed in EBA, approx. 300 years later. Whether that idea is right or not, generally methodology in abstract above exactly the sort of thing I am hoping to see, as well as in Iberia for periods under discussion, ideally supplement with some more extensive rechecking of dna, sample by sample, than even Olalde's papers did.)
Wrt Avgi. If truly a Greek Mesolithic, she would be neither Anatolian farmer nor WHG; but along a more archaic HG- cline from Europe to Anatolia. Perhaps somewhere between AHG & Iron Gates
But I suspect she’ll actually be Neolithic , unfortunately
According to Lang early Tarand type graves are found on the coastal parts of Sweden and Finland. Similer to the distribution of Akozino type celts.
Early branches of L550 are found in Sweden and Southwest Finland. I don't think it's a stretch to say it came with early Tarands and possibly engaged in trade with Proto-Germanics even possibly adopting both languages.
The Stone-Cist graves in the same study are thought to be of Scandinavian origin. All men were R1a.
Matt, there are two problems with her reasoning:
1. There are plenty of Neolithic skeletons up to the Bell Beaker period in Britain, and unlike the case in Iberia, they stop abruptly. It makes no sense that incoming Bell Beakers only replaced those that practiced inhumation and not those practiced cremation.
2. Up to the Roman period, dozens of samples all belonged to L21. Hard to believe that a substantial I2a population kept practicing cremation for two thousand years and not revealing themselves heavily in Celtic burials.
“”but the Greek scientists describe her as a Mesolithic sample”
Oh I see. That’s awesome
Knowledgeable Geneticist said...
"Does it explain why Adyghe and other North Caucasus populations look closer to "European" compared to Georgians and Armenians?"
This is absolutely absurd. If there is an ethnic group in the Caucasus that doesn't look European, it is the Adygheans and some Dagestani groups. A lot of Adygheans have noticeable Mongoloid features. It is not clear when the Mongoloid people were absorbed into Adygheans, but since it is often speculated that Adygheans originally moved from Anatolia when they were fleeing Indo-Europeans, the admixture with the Mongoloid peoples would be a result of the Turkic and Mongolic migrations.
If there is a group of people in the Caucasus that can be described most "European-looking", by which you prolly mean every part of Europe except the extreme South, then the primary contenders are the Vainakh, who have the highest frequency of haplogroup J2, which spread from the Northern Levant. The Vainakh do have a very heterogenous mtDNA, though.
Also, Georgians look quite similar to Central Italians, Albanians, Northern Spaniards, Sardinians and I have heard from some people even to Yugoslavs, though I don't see the similarity.
You need to clarify what a "European" look is.
@Anthony Hanken
What's the source for the former?
Mike the Jedi said...
"OR maybe Mesolithic Greeks were similar to Anatolian farmers/hunter-gatherers in the first place"
this is an important point imo - there had to be transitional population(s) who were both recent HG and early farmer (obvious but worth explicitly reminding now and then).
Samuel Andrews
"That 9ky greek girl is given northern European-like complexion. If, they looked at ancient DNA research they'd know she was probably mostly WHG & had brown skin."
*if* depigmentation is a result of needing better vitamin d absorption in high latitudes
*if* HGs living in high latitudes but near the coast could get their vitamin d from seafood
then it seems highly likely to me there could have been a divergence in pigmentation between populations along the coast and populations in the interior.
(e.g. the SHG samples who iirc had various depigmentation genes)
(on the other hand i agree that until the pigmentation thing is fully understood the choice of skin color will often be subjective)
@Knowlegeable Geneticist "Also, Georgians look quite similar to Central Italians, Albanians, Northern Spaniards, Sardinians and I have heard from some people even to Yugoslavs, though I don't see the similarity."
Not necessarily: Stalin would've looked indistinguishable amongst the populace in Syria, whereas the Russians typically refer to Kartvelians and Armenians as "Churki". The average Armenian or Georgian pass off more as a Middle Easterner than as a European. (I know that @Davidski is not happy with me talking about and bringing up Physical Anthropology but it fascinates me how come modern Europeans and ME'ners share many common populations, including Anatolian farmers yet are so different by-and-large nowadays, appearance-wise; or how come as soon as one leaves Geographic Europe into Siberia or Central Asia, and all of the sudden people look noticeably different).
Speaking of the Caucasus and Vainakh etc, I'm wondering whether the much-talked about "Uruk expansion" and Halafian Culture's role in the formation of the Meshoko Culture, Kura-Araxes or even Maykop might be misplaced. Isn't it more plausible that the large-scale migration wave into the Caucasus 4000 BCE was basically more of an Anatolian farmer variety? After all, Georgians and Armenians along with other Caucasus populations share an almost identical ratio of CHG vis-a-vis EEF (30%-35%)?
I'm still trying to make out how Caucasus language families came about: for me it's an interplay of Anatolian farmer languages (Kartvelian?), CHG ones (Adyghea?) and Vainakh (Iran Neolithic)?
@Grey there was a more widespread admixture between HG's and Farmers than have been so far acknowledged. Maybe Otzi is both. His mtDNA is K1f which seems to be an ancestral population to both.
BTW, are modern Swedes closer to Motala or to Goeken? I've read a study claiming that Nordics have more HG's in them than Farmer aDna, although the actual SHG ratio is fairly low to non-existent. So I'm guessing it has to do more with an WHG proper, maybe the Ertebolle Culture component within Funnel Beaker/GAC?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.kirj.ee/public/Archaeology/2012/issue_2/arch-2012-2-91-117.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiI69SorMjhAhULW60KHRrqD4MQFjAIegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw0ipY7AsikEKdD68BEvb1Km&cshid=1554996378431
Aparently there are even bronze objects of Danish origin in some of the Estonian graves.
There are also more works done by Valter Lang on the subject.
"However, I have the impression that the “whitest” ancient population is EEF-rich Globular Amphorae and also Corded Ware was quite pale. Yamnaya was quite dark."
if wetlands foragers living around the black sea (and/or various lakes) got their vitamin d from fish then they might not have had the same selective pressure for lighter skin.
it seems to me that pressure - if that is the cause of depigmentation - would be highest on HGs out on the steppe itself i.e the combination of high latitude and no fish.
"people of the carts"
pet theory: i think kilts are a clue there might have been a "wagon IE" expansion before the full "horse IE" expansion.
"are modern Swedes closer to Motala or to Goeken?"
i haven't been keeping up so dunno what the current idea is - all i recall is some time ago there was an idea that various depigmentation genes were mostly spread by EEF (and maybe they were) but the presence of those genes in SHG seemed to me to imply EEF originally got them from SHG and they spread rapidly among the EEF cos something about those genes was adaptive for people who had switched to the farmer diet.
(my guess is the first farmers originally lived around lakes and were relatively dark but when they expanded away from marine sources of food they needed more vitamin d)
@Andrzejewski- "I've seen the Wikipedia entry re: Yamnaya Culture where the skin color was changed by some "editor" from "moderately light but slightly darker than contemporary Northern Europeans" into "significantly darker than the average modern European", with some bogus drivel about their tendency to tan rather than burn. I presume some Southern Europeans/Middle Easterners have altered the data deliberately"
The truth is that your comments as well as being funny and absurd, show that you should travel a little more and stop saying stupid things. There are a lot of topics about the Northern and Southern Europeans that are not true. The Poles have always been a friendly people for the Spaniards, because they have had a sad history and are Catholics, but hearing you speak we are beginning to think that we prefer the Germans. At least they have learned the lessons of history. Obviously the Europeans are mainly white thanks to the Anatolian Neolithic farmers and the environmental adaptation and we have blue eyes thanks to the WHGs. Everything else is racist stupidities.
You also need to travel a little more and stop using absurd clichés. Who do you mean the Northern Spaniards, the Basques, the Cantabrians, the Galicians? You should know that there are more blond, blue eyed Andalusians than Galician and that despite the fact that Galicia is considered Celtic land.
No wonder that Davidski does not like to talk about these issues here, because in addition to demonstrating a supine ignorance, it shows that in the attempt to bring the BBs of the steppes lies a clear racist intention.
@ Matt -
Unlike Rocca, I think Anna Bloxam is right, many mitochondrial haplogroups of the islands survived the pretended conquest of the BBs, which shows a clear mix with indigenous women. They were able to maintain those cremation rituals. The works that I know (Cassidy and Brace) show that the vast majority of these haplogroups are identical to the Iberian ones, which shows the existence of commercial and migratory routes between Iberia and Ireland since the Neolithic. These routes were maintained during chalcolithic as some Irish archaeologists have already shown.
@Rocca- They don't stop abruptly. A good percentage of the mitochondrial haplogroups of the British BBs are autochthonous Neolithic. I can give you some examples.
"Romulus said...
I've suddenly lost all confidence in the the theory that steppe males would steal farmer women."
if humans were pretty much two-legged wolves for most of history i'd guess the main cause of attraction for most of that time was scent.
"Obviously the Europeans are mainly white thanks to the Anatolian Neolithic farmers and the environmental adaptation and we have blue eyes thanks to the WHGs."
WHG: dark skin, light eyes, dark hair
EEF: light skin, dark eyes, dark hair
is where did the light hair come from?
seems like you'd need a third population.
@Grey
As far as I understand it, the Scots got their kilts from the Norse. The Irish wore some kind of one piece wool robe, and with a fancy brooch pin for the wealthy.
@Grey "seems like you'd need a third population"
Actually, everything is a bit more complicated, but I try to simplify it so that our Polish friend understands something.
"One of the two major Caucasoid depigmentation mutations, in the gene SLC24A5, is now found at or near fixation in all Caucasoid populations. Two copies of this mutation were present in almost all of the samples, including the hunter-gatherers, whose ancestors inhabited Europe during the Upper Paleolithic, and the first farmers, whose ancestors inhabited the Middle East during the Upper Paleolithic"
The selective sweep for the SLC24A5 mutation started 19.000-11.000 years ago. It’s also consistent with that Afontova Gora2, an Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer who lived 17.000 years ago in Siberia had the SLC24A5 mutation. The 2012 paper estimated that the selective sweep for the Veddoid depigmentation mutation in the gene KILTG started 30.000 years ago, but we know for the 45.000 years-old Ust’-Ishim genome that selection for the Veddoid depigmentation mutations began far earlier. The other major Caucasoid depigmentation mutation in the gene SLC45A2 is now found at or near fixation in almost all European populations, but it is found at significantly lower frequencies in the Caucasoids of the Middle East and North Africa.
Sandra Wilde, Adrian Timpson (2.014)- 63 Copper and Bronze Age samples from the Pontic Caspian steppe. Those results showed frequencies for the light skin mutation in SLC45A2, the blue eyes mutation in OCA2/HERC2 and the light skin mutation in TYR that were lower than the frequencies found in modern day Europeans.
The derived alleles at both rs1426654 and rs16891982 positions are found at extremely high frequencies in present-day European populations (where the former allele is virtually fixed and the latter is ~90%), an observation that has been interpreted as the signature of recent positive selection in Europeans.
The dark skin and blue eyes phenotype combination was likely very common among WHGs- La Braña, Lochsbour, Cheddar man, Villabruna etc..
The Karelian-EHG presents high probabilities of being brown-eyed (0.99), and having a dark hair (0.96). Samaran individual exhibits high probabilities of being blue-eyed (0.88), light hair shade (0.99); most likely being blond (0.75).
Light eye pigmentation variants were present at high frequencies in WHG, SHG, EHG and EEF (not present in PEHG), while the blue-eye color founder haplotype h-1 was found in the La Braña, Loschbour, Villabruna WHGs, SF12, Motala1 and Motala12 SHGs and at least one early farmer. Such results suggest that the blue eye-color allele is rather old. Using an ABC modeling approach Nakagome et al, predicted that the light-pigmentation allele at rs12913832 emerged around 42,000 years ago or earlier; a date close in time to the initial peopling of Europe.
The large effect light-skin alleles at rs16891982 and rs1426654 were present in SHG, EHG, CHG and EEF but absent in WHG and PEHG. Similarly, the C11 haplotype is present in hunter-gatherers (SHG, EHG and CHG but not WHG and PEHG) throughout Europe, as well as in at least two early farmers. This pattern is consistent with reports that the rs1426654 derived allele arose ~22,000-28,000 years ago, and that the light-pigmentation allele at rs16891982 arose only once in Eurasians. A possible geographical origin for these two major light-skin alleles is West Asia or the Near East.
Later migrations across the Caucasus (CHG) and Eastern Europe would have brought it to Scandinavia, while EEF migrations introduced both alleles into central Europe. Moreover, suggested that selective sweeps on rs1426654 and rs16891982 (light-pigmentation alleles), started at between ~15-19 kya (under a dominant model) and ~11-13 kya (under an additive model), respectively.
These results, of a high frequency of rs1426654 light-skin allele in Mesolithic Scandinavia
and Eastern Europe, at a time when it is not seen in central Europe, supports a scenario of environmental adaptation to northern latitudes
You don't need to, I've already seen the ancient DNA data, both on the Y-chromosome and autosomal side. What you didn't answer is the absurdity of Bell Beaker men only replacing men that practiced inhumation. Did the conversation go something like this?... "Excuse me sir, do you practice cremation? You do, OK then I won't kill off your lineage." It's the same lame argument that some online Brits were using to say that the Neoltihics were P312 but practiced cremation.
@Rich, what do you mean by: There are plenty of Neolithic skeletons up to the Bell Beaker period in Britain, and unlike the case in Iberia, they stop abruptly.?
Are you talking about burial rite?
If you're talking about samples genetically typed by Reich lab as having a Neolithic ancestry profile, we can't talk about them stopping abruptly with Beaker, as there are about two samples from Orkney and a femur from Cheddar with very low coverage, not really in any world anyone's idea of "plenty".
See - https://i.imgur.com/Pxi74Hy.png
If there are in fact plenty of inhumations in England at during the transitional phase in question (and I don't know enough about burials to know), and their gap is not due to cremation practice, then the performance of Olalde 2018 in sampling two Orkney passage graves and a ultra-low coverage femur is pretty bad, and hopefully in the future they will be able to improve it.
Also what do you mean by "dozens of samples all belonged to L21"? Precisely, Olalde 2018 had 57 male post-Neolithic samples, 3 were I2a2a, 1 was F, 1 unassigned, 52 were R1b1a, in percentage terms I2a2a 5%, R1b1a 91%.
Though the sample count is too low to be reliable on exact percentages.
I'm not totally sure what her argument is from her abstracts though; I assume something compatible enough with evidence to not demolishable by two lines of text.
Matt, my point is that, if she is arguing for a much larger British Neolithic survival, there is nothing in the DNA to substantiate it. Simply saying "well people were cremating" doesn't cut it either because the DNA of those cremators would have eventually made their way into the Y-chromosome record. As you stated, the I2a survival was minimal up until the Roman period.
@Richard, I don't know if she is arguing for more survival in genomic terms, rather to me seems about talking about how people interacted "on the ground" and the cultural influences and interactions that may have occurred despite by and large genetic replacement.
Genomically a greater survival to a small extent (maybe 10% less than their 90% replacement) may be plausible if there was some "hiding" of samples due to burial rite and a slightly more steppe rich set of Beaker people entering Britain than the later Dutch samples which are used as their proxy suggest (if those samples have some introgression of local EEF ancestry themselves), which there I think there may be some support in that their two earliest Beaker samples in Britain have much less steppe ancestry and possibly about 10% more than the Dutch average.
But not to a large extent. But I don't think she is arguing for a large extent.
It may also be that the practice of cremation was not totally foreign to the BBC, in Iberia there are burials with partial cremations, and also secondary burials (leaving the bodies in the field for wild animals to eat them, and then burying the bones ); These practices were carried on the Castilian Plateau until the arrival of the Romans with three types of burials- Children before their teeth came out, on the floor of the houses, the warriors were left in the field to be eaten by vultures and the rest of the population incinerated. Thank God in Iberia there are dozens of skeletons of children recovered in the Bronze and Iron Age sites. Maybe the same thing happened on the isles.
I am also convinced that other haplogroups besides R1b-P312 have to appear in Iberia during these periods, especially in very hierarchical societies such as El Argar, that would explain the survival of I2a and G2a in Spain to this day.
Cremation doesn’t explain the disappearance of lineages throughout the Atlantic
Given the current evidence, Bloxam’’s arguement that there were no “BB folk” is not even wrong
However cremation does explain difficulties in the Celtic period; which did introduce cremation in significant quantities
Eg in Iberia - a whole new horizon in Celtiberian lands
“This new archaeological group could be defined by the following elements: 1) the appearance of the first hill-forts (locally called castros, small settlements in high areas with natural defences and man-made defensive structures); 2) the establishment of the first cremation cemeteries (Burillo 1990); and 3) a whole range of ceramics and new metallic objects, many of which were forged from the new metal, iron. Such objects had not previously existed in local pottery and metallurgy traditions ..”
What are your thoughts in recent suggestions that Slavic expanded with haplogroup E?
Slavic expanded with haplogroup E
durnota - lack of common sense; senseless thing, Polish
दुर्नीत durnIta - lack of good sense; foolishness, Sanskrit
Cy Tolliver said...
I saw you mentioned Dzudzuana earlier in the comments, hopefully you can get that genome soon. A bit off topic, but there was an interesting discussion on that North Africa paper from last year over on Anthrogenica recently about the so-called "Ancestral North African" component that contributed to Taforalt, Natufians, and what have you. Do you have any opinion on whether this somewhat mysterious "ANA" population could plausibly be called SSA or some kind of very diverged Eurasian? Maybe once you have Dzudzuana, we can start to get more clarity on deep Eurasian structure.
At the end of the day, how do we explain the Centum Indo-European Languages if R1b were not originally Indo-European speakers ? I really think some Tocharian and Hittite samples will come in handy to clear up some of these issues...
At the end of the day Homo Sapiens remains were found in the Near East since at least 100 000 years ago. So I doubt that Dzudzuana +- 70 000 years later, will throw more light on an Unadmixed Basal Eurasian population....And even if "Modern Humans" left Africa about 60 000 years ago there are still some 30 000 years of potential admixture to account for..."Modern Humans" could have hung around in North Africa and the now deserty Middle East since 300 000 years ago. 90 000 year old "Modern Human" like technology in Northern India complicates things even more... And there is still some questions about precisely when and where the Neanderthal line split from the Modern Human line. The fact that the earliest Modern Human presence in Europe and Siberia seems to point at a migration into these areas at around 45 000 years ago doesn't really exclude a much Older presence in other parts of Eurasia...
The presence of a R1b sample in the Neo-Hittite States (Syro-Hittite) could point to the possibility that that R1b originated from the Hittites and as we all know Hittite was after all an Indo-European Language and probably the closest example we have to PIE....Unless you think that Hittite spread with Non-Indo-Europeans from the West, Heheheeh...
Or did Urnfield, Unetice, Bell Beaker or Corded Ware reach all the way into Anatolia ? I think by this time we can see that R1b from the Steppe clearly was Indo-European. Whatever happened in France and Iberian Peninsula could be interesting but not actually throw a spanner in the Works of the Majority Steppe R1b being Indo-European...Just my thoughts.
@Ric - I think R1b-Z103 was clearly Indo-European, even if other non-Z103 branches are not. It is well attested early in Yamnaya and is found in all living and dead IE branches. That's what made it to Anatolia and the Tarim Basin.
@Ryan&Ric
I'm still expecting to find that the Royal Neš, whenever they get sampled, were carrying R1b-Z103, that probably was *the* PIE marker.
But those P312 guys in the western BB groups, for whatever reason, were speaking some farmer language by the time they got to the Atlantic, I'd bet on that too.
@ Ryan
Yes, I think from R1b-M269 onwards. We just need some more samples from Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland and all this talk of R1b-L51 being Non-Indo-European will be something from the past...
Mem said...
Can you tell me where you have the Hittite results?
R1b in Hittite is very interesting.
@ Bob Floy
Compare the situation to Hungarian and a score of new possibilities flares up for the Linguistic landscape of the Iberian Peninsula...
@ Mem
A while back there was a R1b sample found in the Neo-Hittite States, dated to +-900 BCE if I remember correctly. So anything is possible...
"Compare the situation to Hungarian and a score of new possibilities flares up for the Linguistic landscape of the Iberian Peninsula... "
Hungary and Iberia are very different, but if we do compare them in that context, it seems to me that IE(Celtic, in this case) probably was to Iberia what Magyar was to Hungary.
Please don't link to that crackpot blog here. The only thread where you can discuss that blog is this one.
Indo-European crackpottery
Doesn’t N3a2 show a Bronze Age expansion? Couldn’t that fit with an FU expansion ?
There’s little similarity betweeen the Conquering Hungarians and BB, but please elaborate ...
@ Dragos
Where is the evidence that Tartessian, Iberian etc. etc. were spoken by the Bell Beaker people ? As far as I remember the earliest attestation of those Languages date to +- 700 BCE or later. A lot could have happened in more than a thousand years within Iberia. Even something similar to what happened in Hungary. A little can go a long way....
Where is the evidence that IE was spoken in Iberia, or in the British isles, for that matter, before the same time period?
Precisely. Some people speak as if everything is a certainty. So if Irelands Linguistic Landscape could have been changed by Minimal Cultural Influence, and Hungarian by Minimal Genetic Influence why then not the Iberian Peninsula as well Post-Bell Beaker ?
Evidence for the presence of Indo-European languages can come in very different forms and doesn't necessarily need to be direct to be convincing.
However, the problem with Iberia is that its male population was solidly R1b-M269 from the late Copper Age to the Iron Age, precisely until the Celts and Romans (ie attested Indo-Europeans) arrived there.
So that is a problem, even though it doesn't preclude Indo-European languages from theoretically being spoken in Bell Beaker, Bronze Age and pre-Celtic Iron Age Iberia, as well as in the British and Irish Isles during these periods. But it is a big issue.
Medieval Hungary is a different kettle of fish altogether. Just look at the wide range of Y-haplogroups among the Hungarian Conquerors and in present-day Hungarians. If the Y-haplogroup landscape was just as diverse in post-Beaker/pre-Celtic Iberia we wouldn't be having this discussion.
@Ric Hern
"A while back there was a R1b sample found in the Neo-Hittite States, dated to +-900 BCE if I remember correctly. So anything is possible.."
Ho, I missed that one! What paper was that?
@Ric: The situation in Medieval Hungary was very different in so many ways from BB Iberia, its difficult to decide where to begin with the refutation.
Also, if Magyars prove anything, the proof is that even an extreme case of elite dominance language transfer is usually accompanied by a significant impact on the male lineages.
You see foreign, non-local males flooding Pannonia, even the Eastern provinces.
That the Magyar core was not too big in the samples analysed so far is of secondary importance.
If it tells us something for the prehistoric West, its about the introduction of IE and Celtic in particular.
But where is the incoming element in Iberians and Basques?
It would be like Roman Pannonians starting first with Germanic, switching to Avar and Slavic, finally speaking Hungarian and German with no genetic change, no new male lineages, just like that.
That to assume would be absurd, wouldnt it be?
But still people propose it for Iberia.
Who knows all the divisions among people with steppe ancestry? The exact story of p312?
But what we know is steppe Beakers most likely spoke some sort of Proto-Basque before they came to Iberia
Certainly a lot can happen in 700 years
But what did, in south Iberia ? Colonisation of Phoenecians and Greeks, but we know they spoke Semitic & Greek, resp
What about north Iberia - Urnfield , La Tene impacts
It seems everything we need to fit in the various pre-Roman languages is there
The importance of the Hungary case is that it finally demonstrates what elite conquest or minority language impact is like- it doesn’t matter whether one sees Uralic to have originally been linked to I2a1 (highly unlikely) - -> N1-Tat (most probable); it shows how a group which is an absolute but not relative minority can impose
Linguistic shift . In this specific case; given the diversity of elite lineages- it must have been perceived mutual benfit rather than coercion
By contrast - Bronze Age Iberia - whether elite or commoner; down in Portuguese Tagus or the northern Cogotas region; all
Males are R1b-L51. And here’s the interesting thing- despite their common “organic” origins- the various Iberian BA groups moved along their own cultural trajectories; so much so that some of our friends believed that something is amiss, and we’re missing samples of exotic post-BB migrants . But to me it dovetails with why those non-IE languages in Iberia aren’t quite a family
And how precisely did Hittites become Indo-European according to the Current Genetic evidence of so called "Hittites" in Anatolia ? Any R1a or R1b samples ? Nope ? So I will agree to disagree about painting all R1bs in Western Europe as Non-Indo-European.
My link to this text was aimed to show some foolish ideas, namely the idea of the Germanic homeland in Volga region, cherished by some Finns, nothing about the origin of IE-languages. So shortly, here is a tendency to move the origin of Germanic languages to the Kama Volga region, because oldest Germanic loan words are dated to the era of supposed Finnic home land in the same area. It is not my problem, but an obvious problem of linguists searching the way to place the origin of Baltic Finnic languages there. Here is however much more probable explanation for those early Germanic loan words, if we don't nail our opinions to the Volga origin. I will not change my outcome until western linguists prove that Germans came from Volga.
I'm not sure we can say that the Celts had "Minimal Cultural Influence" on Ireland. Their languages and culture had come to dominate all of Atlantic Europe prior to the rise of Rome.
And how precisely did Hittites become Indo-European according to the Current Genetic evidence of so called "Hittites" in Anatolia?
No idea yet, but it's best to keep an open mind about these things, especially as more ancient DNA comes in from attested Indo-Europeans and non-Indo-Europeans living close in space and time to each other.
This is what we've got so far...
- Anatolia EBA (pre-Hittite) to Anatolia MLBA (Hittite-era) practically no change
- Minoan Crete (pre-Greek) to Mycenaean Greece (Greek) not much of a change
- BMAC (pre-Iranian?) to Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Central Asia (Iranian) not much of a change
- Bronze Age Iberia (pre-Celtic?) to Iron Age Iberia (Celtic) not much of a change
- Bronze Age Ireland (pre-Celtic?) to present-day Ireland (Anglo-Celtic) not much of a change
So let's see what else ancient DNA shows in this context. Maybe despite the large scale migrations from the Bronze Age steppe, Indo-European expansions often failed to have a significant demic impact?
Can you point me to the Massive amount of Archaeological Evidence of Hallstatt in Ireland ?
@Ric- Where is the evidence that Tartessian, Iberian etc. etc. were spoken by the Bell Beaker people ?
This is the evidence
I1312d-Can Roqueta (Barcelona) (1.782 BC)-HapY-R1b-Df27-Z195-Hap Mit-HV0+195
I4559-Galls Carboners (Tarragona) (1.600 BC)-HapY-R1b-P311- Mit-J1c1
I4563-Galls Carboners (Tarragona) (1.600 BC)- Hap Y-R1b- Df27-Z195-Hap Mit-H1/H84
I1836-Cova del Gegant (Barcelona)- (1.593 BC)- Hap Y-R1b-L151-Hap Mit- U5a2/b3
I8570-Tossal Mortorum (Castellón) (1.400 BC)- Hap Y-R1b-L151- Hap Mit-J1c3
I12641-Can Revella (Barcelona)(665 BC)-Hap Y- R1b-M269- Hap Mit-HV0d
I12640-Can Revella (Barcelona)(618 BC) HapY-R1b-P312-Hap Mit-H1t
I8211-Ampurias (Gerona) (475 BC)- Hap Y-R-Hap Mit-HV0+195
I8344-Ampurias (Gerona) (450 BC)-HapY-R1b1a/1a-Hap Mit-H3
I12410-Mas Den Boixos (Barcelona)(445 BC)- Hap Y-R1b-P312-Hap Mit-H
I12877-Mas Den Boixos (Barcelona)(445 BC)- Hap Y-R1b-M269- Hap Mit-J1c1
I8210-Ampurias (Gerona) (425 BC)- Hap-Y-R1b1a/1a2-Hap Mit-U5b3
I8209-Ampurias (Gerona)(425 BC)- Hap Y-R1b-P312- Hap Mit-U1a1/a
I8212Ampurias (Gerona) (425 BC)-Hap Y-R- Hap Mit-H27+16093
I8341-Ampurias (Gerona) (425 BC)-Hap Y-R1b-P312-Hap Mit-H1
I3323Puig de Sant Andreu (Gerona) (284 BC)-- Hap Y-R1b-L151-Hap Mitl-X2b
I3324- Puig de Sant Andreu (Gerona)(276 BC)-Hap Y-R1b- DF27-Hap MitH1
I3496- Turó de Can Oliver (Barcelona) (250 BC)--Hap Y-R1b- Df27-Hap Mit-H1e1/a
I3326-Puig de Sant Andreu (Gerona)(225 BC)- - Hap Y-R1b-P297- Hap Mit-J1c
I3327-Puig de Sant Andreu (Gerona)(225 BC)- Hap Y-R1b-L52- Hap Mit-J2b1/a
I3321-Els Estrets-El Racó de la Rata (Castellón) (200 BC) Hap Y-R1b-P312-Hap Mit-U3a
I3320- Els Estrets-El Racó de la Rata (Castellón) (200 BC)-Hap Y-R1b-Df27-Z225- Hap Mit-I1
I8206-Ampurias (Gerona) (200 BC)- -Hap Y-R1b- Df27-Z195-Hap Mit-H7a1
In Iberia there are 8 cultures of the Bronze Age according to the different regions and territories. These examples are from the Bronze culture in the Northeast (Catalonia and Valencia). Everyone will be able to see;
1-Evident genetic continuity from BB culture to the Iron Age in uniparental markers. For those who do not know, in addition to finding P312 in Iberia from 2,500 BC, the BB culture also lasted much longer than in other regions of Europe (1,800-1,700 BC)
2-The examples of the Iron Age belong to different Iberian peoples (Indiketes, Layetanos, Ilerkavones), all of them with testimonies written in the Iberian language (NO IE)
3-The Iberians spoke the same language as their grandparents of the Bronze Age and their great grandparents of the BB culture.
4-Absolute domain of HApY-R1b-P312-Df27, so we are seeing a massive founder effect in Iberia
5-The same happens in the rest of the Iberian Bronze Age cultures
6-In the Iron Age the Tartessians and the Iberians were also R1b-P312, we suppose that the rest of the peoples except Celtiberians (I2a) and perhaps Lusitanians were P312.
Then the genetic continuity is the best evidence that the BBc at least in Iberia and France did not speak IE. You have to remember that in Aquitaine and Occitania up to the river Rhone, Basque-Aquitanian and Iberian were spoken. P312 never spoke IE because he was never in steppes. His relative Z2013, was there then is the best candidate to participate along with R1a and I2a in the expansion of IE towards the West.
In fact R1a-I2a are in the CWC and Z2013 and I2a in the eastern BBs.
Yes thanks. I just can not see R1b on the Steppe as being Non-Indo-European. That is why I said that actual Hittite and Tocharian samples are needed to clear up this issue. Also samples from Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland....
As Davidski said; keep an open mind and look to dynamic scenarios
Nobody is saying “BB was Basque “, although some academics propose it was Celtic; or CWC was proto-Germanic
These are static models which soon will be sidelined
It’s all about the journey and becoming
"Can you point me to the Massive amount of Archaeological Evidence of Hallstatt in Ireland ?"
Hahaha no, I can't(although there is plenty of La Tene stuff there), but I don't think we need that to suppose that Ireland was Celticized during the iron age(as opposed to the Beaker period), there are plenty of other reasons to suspect that. But, like Dragos said, the important thing is to keep an open mind and await further data, we're just getting started here.
Yes I do keep an open mind and that is why I said let's wait for actual Hittite and Tocharian samples before running the "Basque Language From The Steppe" thing...
Finding the origins of loan words in space and time is not a precise science.
So the argument that so and so claim that all Finnic languages contain Proto-Germanic loan words, therefore the Finnic homeland couldn't have been near the Volga, because the old Germanic homeland wasn't, can fall down in multiple ways, such as...
- what if these old Germanic loan words don't actually exist in all Finnic languages?
- what if some of these words are actually Proto-Indo-European?
- what if some of these old Germanic loan words actually just spread from Scandinavia to the Volga with a few migrants or via trade links?
Surely it's a much bigger problem to argue that the Indo-Uralic homeland was on the North Pontic steppe, that the Uralic homeland was near the Baltic in the Corded Ware complex, and R1a-M417 was the Proto-Uralic marker that somehow became most common in two linguistically closely related ancient Indo-European speaking groups: Balto-Slavs and Indo-Aryans.
This is the fantasy that the blog that you linked to is propagating. The guy who's pushing it really needs help, but you're not helping him by linking to his work.
Bob Floy
Like I said in some of my previous posts. The Rhine seemed to have been a barrier since the Neolithic. So let's first look at what happened in France along the Rhine before jumping on the "Basque From The Steppe" train.
No massive migrations of Halstatt; but certainly some modest evidence.
Also of La Tene.
They were minimised in the past; pretty much by the same sort of views which also thought BB was indigenous
What we can learn from the expansions from the steppe is that it was never about the language which was spoken. Even genetic traits are more impactful than languages.
But before anything else it was always the cultural package, the ideology, toolkit, way of life and domesticated animals.
There could have been different ethnicities in tribal alliances and sometimes this, another time that part gave the language during ethnogenesis.
But thats the issue with Iberians: There was just one part of significance and continuity since then. I might stress: Absolute and truly remarkable continuity in Basques, much more than needed to make the argument.
Long before genetic testing Anatolian IE were always the outsiders. Its the early elite that matters.
IE groups in the East seem to have made alliances with local elites as soon as they settled down and could profit from the local males workforce.
BB and their descendents were really hard and more on the genocidal side.
Whereever IE could be attested or made likely, we have the BB rule broken or transformed from outside.
The greatest and longest continuity we see at the Western fringe in Britain and Iberia, where there impact was huge, little of the preceding male population was left alive.
And there we find non-IE ethnicities!
"Basque From The Steppe"
For the record, this is not what I'm pushing. I'm not actually pushing anything, but I've come to suspect that at least some Beaker groups, or perhaps even some western Yamnaya groups before them, came to speak a farmer language one way or another. Maybe this even had to do with the split between them and their Sintasha cousins? Obviously we can't know right now, but this latest data from Iberia makes the Beakers bringing IE to western Europe look less likely, and the total lack of attested languages there prior to the Iron age dosen't help things.
Don't you see how you try to equal a 90% Population replacement in Britain and a 40% Population replacement in Iberia ? So let's wait for more samples from France.
"- Anatolia EBA (pre-Hittite) to Anatolia MLBA (Hittite-era) practically no change
There is a big change between BMAC and Iranian speaking Iron age central Asia.
Evidence, some ancient Anatolians had Steppe admix is the fact Greek Islanders are mostly Anatolian but have 15% Yamnaya ancestry. IMO, southern Italians mostly descend from ancient Anatolians/Aegeans like this.
Like I said in the previous thread about the issue, I would rather look for Italy than France and Iberia.
The Western fringe BB were non-IE, but which lineages can be associated with the introduction of IE in Italy?
Can R1b linked to attested IE speakers there? Or will that be a failure too.
Anything new about that?
@Ric- Yes thanks. I just can not see R1b on the Steppe as being Non-Indo-European.
You already have R1b in the steppes, specifically R1bZ2103 and R1b V1636, together with their brothers R1a and I2a, and probably linked to IE. The problem is that you still see P312 in the steppes when it is a clearly Western haplogroup. The only thing we have to find out is when their ancestors came from the steppes because they certainly did not do so in relation to migrations from the Yamnaya culture. That is to say, the theory of the Kurgans as it has been interpreted by some geneticists does not make sense unless you find L51 / P311 / P312 / Df27 etc in the steppes.
It is indifferent where, how and when P312 acquired that Neolithic language that gave rise to the Proto-Basque and the Iberian. It can be a language linked to the Neolithic farmers of Anatolia or the Caucasus (and therefore dominant in all European Neolithic cultures).Taking into account the antiquity (approx 2,700 BC) of P312, it is evident that it was a language spoken by its parents, and inherited from European Neolithic traditions.
Yes Italy as well...
@Ric: Its the males that matter. Nothing of what you can find can change things for Iberia, but it might help to solve how steppe Beakers came into existence and whether R1b switched the language in Western Europe and how long it was present in the West already.
But again, that has nothing to do with Iberia and little with Britain, its about the developments before, which is actually even more interesting.
This is all good and well if you can show me some P312 or their immediate ancestor in Neolithic samples across Europe...
Wasn't R1a found in Urnfield?
In any case, the situation on the islands had to be quite different than in Iberia. I am not an expert in the Bronze and Iron Age in Great Britain and Ireland, but there, the genetic continuity related to L21 is also evident, and yet in Roman times they spoke an IE language. Is there evidence of invasions from mainland Europe in those times? Because it is assumed that if Df27 spoke Proto-IBerian, so would his brothers L21 and U152, then when L21 lost his language ?.
@Ric "This is all good and well if you can show me some P312 or their immediate ancestor in Neolithic samples across Europe..."
This is all good and well if you can show me some P312 or their immediate ancestor in Neolithic samples across the steppes...
We already have R1bP297 and L754 during the mesolithic throughout Europe
And we have the Brother of L51 in the Steppe...
The core group samples from Unetice we have are I2.That alligns well with a break with BB proper,but more samples are needed and BB seem to have been integrated at the fringes.
Buta language shift from BB to Unetice seems much more likely than BB adopting an Iberian language late on the peninsula.
Not saying Unetice was IE speaking for sure.
Some Western European pre-BB might very well have spoken Mesolithic languages after the original Neolithic colonisators were displaced by local lineages by the way.
Dont forget the shift from G and E early Neolithics to I2.
Are the I2a from Unetice steppe derived or from GAC? Can that be determined at all?
Yes, Ric, but if your reasoning is valid for L23, then it would also be valid for Iberia. Since we have DF27 in abundance and is a brother of L21 that means that L21 also has to be in Iberia, and as of the date we have not found Df27 in the islands or L21 in Iberia (Bronze and Iron Age). Each haplogroup has a different story and in the case of L51 it is evident that there was a bottleneck that will make it very difficult to solve the mystery, unless the French and the Italians decide to help us.
For the solution of the expansion of the IE languages, it must be taken into account that during the final Bronze Age (1250-800 BC), all of Europe experienced a period of relative tranquility with a strong increase in population, agricultural and livestock production , commercial exchanges, and construction of fortified cities throughout the continent. Funerary customs became practically Pan-European (incineration) without the need for migrations.
Pliny the Elder- "It is a universal custom not to burn any child before the eruption of the teeth (N.H. VII, 16)"
This funerary practice is demonstrated from the Languedoc to Andalucia during the Bronze and the Iron Age, although I do not know if it was used in other European cultures. The words of Pliny show that cremation was also universal, hence the scarcity of remains throughout Europe. If the cultural customs were universal (European) this could also be the time of the expansion of the different Indo-European languages (Urnfield. Hallstatt, La Tene), but obviously at this time no single uniparental markers could be linked to linguistic expansion, because all cultures would be an evident mixture of haplogroups. Look what has happened with the Visigoths in Iberia
I completely agree with you. I copy here three of the old Germanic loanwords in Finnic languages and the whole range of possible cognates in a wide range of languages. Finnish historical linguists usually only take into account the Germanic cognate word.
’leaf’: FINNISH lehti, ESTONIAN leht, SAAMI lasta, ERZYA ĺist RUSSIAN list, LITHUANIAN lakštas, POLISH liść
The Proto-Germanic etymology is the hypothetical construction *bhləhtó -> SWEDISH blad
’cattle’: FINNISH nauta (bovine), SAAMI naw'de (wild animal, fur animal, wolf), LITHUANIAN naudà (profit, benefit, use), LATVIAN naûda (money), OLD NORSE naut (bovine), ICELANDIC naut (valuable assets)
What if the cognates include the ancient Greek «nāthá» (help) Nenets «ńadʔma» (help) and Arabic «nadžā‘a» (to benefit)? On top of that, what if also the Mandarin Chinese «niú» and Nuosu ȵi³³ (cattle) and Yukaghir nodo/nada (wolf, bird) are related?
’field’: FINNISH pelto, ESTONIAN põld, HUNGARIAN föld (earth), OLD HIGH GERMAN feld (field), FRISIAN polder (land), LITHUANIAN paltís (meadow, swamp), LATVIAN bęl[u]te (field in a swamp), RUSSIAN bolóto (swamp), BULGARIAN bláto (swamp), Proto-Slavic *bólto
Mouthful said...
"Finnish historical linguists usually only take into account the Germanic cognate word."
Well obviously if the word only exists in Finnic branch it likely came from Germanics or Balts. By the time Finnic speakers existed as a separate branch they probably weren't far away from Baltic sea or at the Baltic sea coast already and even if cognates exists in like Arabic or Mandarin Chinese they surely didn't get from them as they were nowhere near them.
Also not that I completely write off the idea that some of the loanwords couldn't be acquired trough long distance trade routes, but it's clear there was Germanic presence in Finland at least as we've seen even in genetics for ex. Levänluhta sample. Of course some etymologies are dubious and can't be explained very simply.
@ Mouthful
IMO, 'lehti' with all the Western Uralic cognates is Proto-Indoeuropean. 'Pelto' has a Corded Ware distribution around the Baltic Sea. 'Nauta' is the oldest as it has a pan-Eurasian distribution. The Finnish words 'pelto' and 'nauta' could be related to the Corded Ware cultural horizon from where it spread to the Balto-Slavic, Germanic and Uralic area.
Here's some datings of supposed loanwords by Santeri Junttila from Helsinski University of course as other mentioned they shouldn't be taken 100% for truth, as it's not very possible to date the exact time of borrowing but only the general gist of it, when some sound changes occurred within different language branches and you more or less can pin point at what stage it happened.
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/santerijunttila/files/2019/01/Poster-Santeri-Junttila-2017.pdf
So that is a problem, even though it doesn't preclude Indo-European languages from theoretically being spoken in Bell Beaker, Bronze Age and pre-Celtic Iron Age Iberia, as well as in the British and Irish Isles during these periods. But it is a big issue."
There might be another way, using circumstantial evidence, to probe the language of BB. The river name "Meuse" comes from French. It's derived, via the Latin name Mosa from a proto-Celtic "Mosa". The Dutch name for it however is "Maas", which is derived from a proto-Germanic "Maso". The vowels in both names make sure that neither can be a loanword from the other. However, they cannot be any doubt the names must have the same origin. That means that both proto-Germanic and proto-Celtic must have been derived from a previous substrate.
The name "Mosa" or "Maso" is connected to an IE root connected to "maze", possibly due to its winding meanders. It's clear that both Celts and Germanics didn't arrive in the area of the Meuse until the iron age, just like Spain.
That means that a pre-Celtic/pre-Germanic IE language must have named the river, which means that pre-iron age NW Europe spoke a IE dialect. And that is also an area with a lot of R1b-M269, albeit not so abundant as Spain.
"what if some of these old Germanic loan words actually just spread from Scandinavia to the Volga with a few migrants or via trade links?"
This is the only way to explain these pre-proto-Germanic loan words in Volga Kama. Other explanations lead to conflict with main stream linguistic theories.
"Surely it's a much bigger problem to argue that the Indo-Uralic homeland was on the North Pontic steppe, that the Uralic homeland was near the Baltic in the Corded Ware complex, and R1a-M417 was the Proto-Uralic marker that somehow became most common in two linguistically closely related ancient Indo-European speaking groups: Balto-Slavs and Indo-Aryans.
This is the fantasy that the blog that you linked to is propagating. The guy who's pushing it really needs help, but you're not helping him by linking to his work."
I didn't know that he is such a controversial figure. I only saw that there was some good points regarding the Finnic home land. Whatever he has written about IE-languages is out of my competence.
That area is quite far north and within former Corded Ware territory, so the name might have been coined by the Single Grave people, and obviously we don't have any samples from them.
But in any case, as I said above, Iberia was solidly R1b-M269 when it was home to attested non-Indo-Europeans, and then things changed when the attested Indo-Europeans (Celts and Romans) got there.
I'm sure that the irony of this isn't lost on anyone posting here.
I only saw that there was some good points regarding the Finnic home land.
His theory concerns the Indo-Uralic and Uralic homelands.
And it's not based on any good points. He just uses whatever fits and ignores what doesn't, and makes things up as he goes along.
@Kristina and Mouthful,
I am not qualified to argue against linguists, so I am taking their best loan word classifications without mistrust. Kristina, it is not in my hands and I don't understand how your reckonings can help me, or anyone else. I appreciate if you can somehow (linguists can, not me) validiate your ideas about IE/Germanic loan words. Basically there is individual loan words and umbrella theories and as far as I know the (pre-)proto-Germanic loan words in Finnic languages is a acknowledged theory. But am a logical person and if I see contradictions in their theories, it sure makes me suspicious.
Some myths die hard
R1b-M269 in the Bronze Age Levant
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"Killing Eve" season one is a hoot. Darkly funny spy actioner that subverts most of the usual tropes and cliches of the genre, with considerable wit, and Sandra Oh is terrific. The show, and the cast, have been showered with awards and it's not hard to see why.
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Trump has "set a standard" for presidents "that most mortals won't be able to meet. He out-works them, he out-thinks, he is remarkably resourceful, he's bright, his judgment is second to none."
Just a quick nod to David E. Kelley and yet another great series from him, "Big Little Lies." It's remarkable how he takes themes and plot setups that could easily devolve into high-grade trash and makes real drama and social commentary bloom from them. And with considerable help from the formidable cast, which includes Laura Dern, Shailene Woodleigh, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman. Though I was initially prepared to hate the show, I was quickly drawn in by Witherspoon's rendition of a suburban mom as Tracy Flick All Grown Up. The tone starts out suggesting we are in for satirical comedy, but in the next four episodes darkens as we learn of the violence that lies in some of the characters pasts and present marriages. There are still plenty of comedic moments, but the show moves beyond just poking fun at helicopter parenting and the rigors of affluence. Great stuff.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwexw/disney-and-the-mandalorian-are-driving-people-back-to-torrenting?utm_source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR1Uak4rqaS6jHydb-exd-fxN-ucEotYdxNUpx1vVm70HLXm6bhT-st96XY
Too steep a price for the casual watcher... but easily accessible by the casual techie watcher, who is their target audience. Oops..
The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress, and he became the judge and jury." ~Lindsey Graham
Quote from: barton on November 18, 2019, 01:17:25 PM
Thanks. Sounds like it's worth a looksee!
Big Little Lies was a book adaptation
Kelley killed Robin Williams when The Crazy Ones wasnt a hit.
At least get the facts on Lewy body dementia before trolling. CBS cancelled the series. Williams' death was a result of LBD, not his last gig.
Rene Auberjonois has shape-shifted for the last time. RIP.
As well as his famous role as "Odo" on ST:DS9, he was the original Father Mulcahy in MASH. And appeared in other Altman films.
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"Interregnum" by SJA Turney (reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
Official Simon J. A. Turney Website
Order "Interregnum" HERE(US) and HERE(UK and Overseas)
Read the First Three Chapters from "Interregnum" HERE
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INTRODUCTION: Several days ago I found about this very promising new author absolutely by chance and I got hooked on the epic fantasy "Interregnum" excerpt linked above; I immediately asked for a pdf review copy and read the novel after I had finished the then-current read, vaulting it to the top of a huge pile of books containing quite a few well known recent/soon tbp novels. It was this exciting and interesting for me!
A military fantasy novel set in a late Imperial Rome like world and a page turner end to end.
SJA Turney is also the author of the recently released "Marius' Mules" which as the title suggests, is a novel about the Roman Legions of the Late Republic; the novel is based on the early Julius Caesar's Gaul campaigns and I read it last week. While less polished than this one, "Marius' Mules" is an excellent adventure historical fiction with a strong military component and I plan to include it in a July/August feature on "Legions of Rome: Novelizations" alongside the first two installments of James Mace' superb military Soldier of Rome series.
OVERVIEW: "Interregnum" starts 20 years after the death of the last emperor Quintus who went mad, declared himself a God, was imprisoned by the Senate in his palace and died in an escape attempt engineered by his most loyal marshal Kiva Caerdin.
Later, general Caerdin shattered by the death of his Emperor and resting at his estate was caught in the war between the 3 other marshals and when his villa was burned with his wife and son inside, he died looking for vengeance.
At least this is the official story.
Only the political marshal Avitus who later took the name of the Imperial capital as Lord Velutio walked away alive from the big battle but the Empire fell to pieces with the army splintering in local units, lords claiming independence, while Velutio could retain only a stronghold around the capital.
The offhsore island of Isera, home of the Emperor's Palace and hard to reach due to reefs and treacherous currents, became a "jail" for the important politicians of the Empire as Velutio pondered his options.
20 years of fighting led to the rise of 34 year old Sabian a general believed to be on par with the last great Imperial general Caerdin and who became Lord Velutio's army commander despite the mistrust between the two; Sabian thought that only Velutio, unsavory, cruel and all, can reconstitute the Empire while Avitus has never been much of a general despite his rank so he needed a great soldier at his side.
In an obscure corner of the Empire, weary mercenary leader Kiva Tregaron fights one more battle for some losing lordling, while a strange young boy, escaping other mercenary captors asks for help in return for a considerable sum of money.
On Isera, former minister Sarios leader of the exiles has been grooming two young promising boys Darius and Quintilian in the arts of fighting and government.
The novel stands at about 440 pages divided into five parts with multiple POV's, most notably Kiva, Quintilian, Darius and Sabian and quite a few other important characters. There are some maps at the beginning and an epilogue at the end, which adds a "historical" touch to the novel.
ANALYSIS: Interregnum is a very compelling page turner from the opening skirmish in the never ending minor wars between various lords to its epilogue some 440 pages later. I could not put this novel down unless I *really needed* to since I was drawn into its world and wanted to find out what happens.
The novel has a combination of the expected and some twists and turns I did not see, so while I could glimpse where it goes, there were quite a few surprises on the way. The characters are well drawn and believable. It is also a blood and guts novel, brutal at times with quite a lot of fighting, gore, summary killings as well as drawn out crucifixions and as it behooves such, the main characters are men, with only serving maid Sathina who seizes her chance for a better life and helps our heroes, as the one woman featuring somewhat prominently.
While the novel has great narrative flow and the prose is very clear, the one noticeable though minor niggle is the use of anachronisms like "planet" - in reference to the world of the story which implies a subtle cosmological worldview or "genetic" which implies a subtle scientific worldview, and those leaped from the pages to my attention as quite discordant.
The fighting, either hand to hand or long distance with crossbows and throwing knives is very well done, brutal, merciless and with no theatrics, while the characters' combination of honor and expedience is very believable too. There is a lot of intrigue, political maneuvers and all you can expect from the kind of novel "Interregnum" wants to be and succeeds magnificently as it happens.
Of the characters Kiva is the best drawn one, haunted by the past, believing himself cursed by the gods. Sabianus as his "modern" incarnation tries very hard to maintain the balance between honor in the abstract and actually doing honorable things, while the two youngsters Quintilian and Darius start as relatively inexperienced, but that changes quickly in the heat of the events.
One superb touch of the novel is in showcasing the contradiction between wanting to do well and even doing the immediate honorable thing, which may actually have quite unforeseen terrible consequences, and doing the expedient, "practical" and sometimes even brutal and murderous thing for personal gain, but which may lead to peace for the land and a tolerably better life for many.
Can you have both in terrible and dangerous times? Honor and practical results, or doing the "right" thing and doing the "practical" one are exclusive? And who is a hero then?
The straight one whose actions lead to death and misery for many, or the crooked one whose action leads to some improvements in the life of the many? The novel tries to show both options and it succeds to a large extent.
A great debut and excellent military fantasy, highly recommended and a personal favorite.
PeterWilliam said...
Thanks, Liv. You know I've been waiting for this one.
This sounds pretty interesting. Thanks for the info, Liviu. I'll have to look up more details. Is it out yet, or coming later this fall?
Thank you for your kind words; the book is out
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Comment: Football And Cryptocurrency Together Forever?
As we all know, football is more than just a sport – it’s a global passion. Nothing really brings people together more, at least positively, than the beautiful game. Therefore, clubs are always looking for new ways to reach out to fans, and to help bring more people into the game.
With British clubs also courting overseas fans and supporters, there is a big push to try to be as inclusive as possible. Is the way forward to inclusivity through cryptocurrency? What exactly does digital money have to do with football, anyway?
Cryptocurrency in brief
Let’s look at crypto cash in brief. Cryptocurrency such as bitcoin and Ethereum is digital funds that people can ‘mine’. They use a system, or digital ledger, called blockchain. Blockchain allows users to record transactions and to effectively print money.
It’s popular with many people because it doesn’t have any kind of central bank control. It is also very quick and easy to trade in, with transactions generally taking place over seconds. It also appeals to people across countries and borders because it is a free-roaming, global way to trade. In a world where many people struggle with transaction fees and exchange times, it makes sense to adopt a system that’s less of a hassle.
Where football comes in
Here’s where we join everything together. As crypto offers people the chance to trade money online through global currency, there are no boundaries. Standard cash, or fiat money, needs time and extra handling fees to process. There are also always exchange rates.
Football clubs could be missing a trick, in that to appeal to international fans and supporters, they could sell tickets and merchandise with crypto in mind. They could price up fan gear in bitcoin, for example, which will bring in more trade. As there is a bigger push than ever for football to grow more inclusive, there may be no better way than to embrace a global currency.
While some will say that bitcoin and other crypto is volatile – in that it dips and peaks regularly on the markets – many others will tell you that it’s never been easier to start trading. For example, it might only take a few minutes for everyday investors to use this bitcoin auto-trading software to find the best opportunities. Auto-trading, as you might guess, means that all the hard parts of investing and trading fall to a bot or program. Football clubs, therefore, perhaps need to sit up and start taking notice of these rising trends.
Bitcoin already has a place in football
Believe it or not, football and crypto are already working together. One club, in particular, is embracing bitcoin to help educate the masses, and to help international fans access their matches and merchandising easier than ever before. This club is Watford FC.
Watford is emerging as a leader in bringing cryptocurrency into the game. Their aim is to break down barriers and to show fans the worth of bitcoin. It’s a brave move, especially considering that many people still see crypto investment as more risk than it might be worth. However, Watford bosses have seen that there are rising trends pushing digital money further into the mainstream, and that’s just one reason why they are opening their doors to crypto payments and processing.
Cryptocurrency trends show that investors aren’t shying away from the exchanges. While many businesses and banks are still shaky on where we’ll be with bitcoin in a few years, Watford’s decision to emerge as crypto leaders could put them in a very powerful position. It is movements like this that could change the way that we pay for, and appreciate, football for good.
Is it all worth it?
As stated, crypto is not going away any time soon. While you might not assume that your average armchair pundit will be reaching for the digital wallet, there are more crypto adopters in the crowds than you may believe. For that reason, arguably, more clubs at least need to think about where they stand on bitcoin and altcoins moving into the future.
2020 promises to be an interesting year for cryptocurrency, meaning that clubs might do best staking their claims while they can. Facebook, for example, is set to launch digital money in the form of its Libra project. Quite how this will fare, no one is sure. What is certain, however, is that more people will know about crypto, and by that logic, more people will want to start trading. Football is in a great place to start thinking about how to embrace the emerging tech.
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Europe March 2018
Leaf Amazes in Records Storm
The European passenger plug-in market hit unprecedented levels last month, beating a two year old record (34,000 units in December ’15), by registering over 40,000 registrations, growing 41% regarding the same period last year, and pulling the Year-to-date counting to 87,000 deliveries (+37%), allowing the 2018 market share to reach 2% (2,2% in March), and the good news do not end here, as BEVs (+44% YoY and 52% of PEV market) grew faster than PHEVs (+38%), thus reducing the disadvantage it has over plug-in hybrids in the 2018 count (51% PHEV vs 49% BEV). Will we see all-electrics surpass plug-in hybrids in April?
This historic result was the result of a perfect sales storm, not only Renault decided to put all hands-on deck and pull a record result for the Zoe, trying to end its waiting list, but most importantly, this was the first full deliveries month of the new Nissan Leaf and the result was…Earth-shattering. The 6,000-plus result is not only a new monthly record for a BEV in Europe, but the second-best result ever in for a plug-in car in the Old Continent, only behind the 6,485 units made by the Outlander PHEV in December 2015, when an incentive change in the Netherlands inflated all PHEV sales.
And remember, this was the Leaf first full deliveries month…Talk about landing with a bang!
But we must mention a few more important pieces for the Record Puzzle: Both Teslas delivered what they hadn’t managed to do in previous months, with the Model S performing its best result in 27(!) months, with other honorable mentions going to the BMW i3, that with 2,300 deliveries, had its best result in 18 months, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV recorded 2,514 units, its best result in 2 years, while the VW Passat GTE had its best result (1,482) since December ‘16, and the recent Kia Niro PHEV broke for the first time the 1,000 units barrier, boding well for its upcoming BEV version.
Interestingly, looking at March Best Sellers, 6 out of the Top 7 are BEVs, which is telling on the direction the plug-in market is taking in Europe…
Looking at the Monthly Models Ranking:
#1 Nissan Leaf – Simply Amazing. The 2.0 version of the most popular plug-in in the world had its first full deliveries month in Europe last March and by registering 6,053 units, the Nissan hatchback recorded the second best result ever in Europe for a plug-in, and with the orders list at over 15,000 units, expect the Leaf to remain at around 5,000 units in the coming months, limited only by the Sunderland production capacity. But back to March, the main markets were Norway (2,172 deliveries, new all-time record for a single model), UK (1,500), France (719), Germany (346) and the Netherlands (299).
#2 Renault Zoe – The 4,248 deliveries in March meant a new record for the French hatchback, as Renault is running to end the Zoe waiting list, now that LG has more batteries to provide the French automaker. As for individual market performances, the domestic market did the heavy work, by registering a record 2,245 units, with other positive numbers coming from Germany (523 units), Norway (347), Portugal (161 units, new all-time record for a single model), Austria (152) and Spain (150).
#3 Tesla Model S – Due to the automaker focus on the production of the Model 3 earlier on, Tesla starved the Model S deliveries in Europe, but then March came, and boatloads of S’s landed on this side of The Pond, with deliveries up 26% YoY, to 2.791 units, the nameplate best result since 2015. It appears the Model 3 reveal not only didn’t hurt sales, but actually helped it, as many buyers preferred not to wait and buy now the older model, instead of waiting for ages for the Model 3 to cross the Atlantic. Looking at individual countries, besides Norway’s usual contribution (676 units), the Netherlands (588 deliveries, a new record) and Germany (304) were also heavy contributors, in a generally positive month throughout the Continent for the Sports Sedan. Looking ahead, logic would say that deliveries should start falling as the year advances and the Model 3 arrival gets closer, but the Model S has surprised us before, so...
#4 BMW i3 – The German Hot Hatch sales remained positive (+16%) in March, with 2,300 units being delivered, and with the Leipzig factory going on full steam, do not expect the Bavarian carmaker to be worried with its angry-puppy-faced EV sales performance. Looking at individual countries, Norway is once again leading sales (528 units), with Germany (459) following suit, and France also presenting a strong result. Looking into the remaining months of 2018, expect deliveries to remain stable, as demand does not seem to wane.
#5 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – Solid as a rock, the Japanese SUV managed to secure another Top 5 presence in March, thanks to 2,541 registrations, with sales even growing 7% YoY. The Mitsubishi model continues to profit from its unique mix of space, AWD, range and affordability (40.000€), to make it popular in markets like the UK (1,300 units), Norway (438) or Germany (153). Looking forward, the Japanese SUV is expected to receive an update soon, so it can keep wearing its crown as Europe’s Best Selling PHEV in the foreseeable future.
Record result for the Panamera PHEV in March
Looking at the 2018 ranking, the headline goes to the new Nissan Leaf, jumping four positions to Second, and already endangering the Renault Zoe leadership, while both Teslas profited from their usual end-of-quarter peak to climb in the ranking, but this time the tide was higher than expected, with the Model S jumping 14(!) positions to #6, while the Model X joined the Top 20, in #14.
The other significant changes in the Top 20 were the BMW 530e climbing two positions to #12, while two models had significant drops, with the Mini Countryman PHEV stumbling 6 positions to #18, and the Porsche Panamera PHEV sliding down four positions to #19. And this despite the fact the German Sports Sedan registered 766 deliveries, a new monthly record for any Porsche plug-in…
Outside the Top 20, records were also abundant, like it was the case of the Hyundai Ioniq PHEV (494 units), Smart Forfour ED (592), or the Volvo S/V90 PHEV (615), with the Swedish twins discreetly approaching the Top 20 status.
Looking at the manufacturers ranking, last year winner BMW (16%, down 1%) is still in the lead, with the runner-up Volkswagen (13%, down 3%), losing ground to the rising Renault (10%, up 1%), and (most importantly) Nissan, that doubled its share, to 10%.
Considering the April first indications also predict another smashing month from the Japanese automaker, it won’t be surprising to see Nissan jump from Fourth to Second in the next edition.
Published by José Pontes at April 26, 2018
Why Not? April 26, 2018
Amazing month and no-doubt only a harbinger of things to come. It is great to see EVs finally taking off in Europe.
Three things I find remarkable, besides the many you pointed out. The Tesla Model X outsold the VW E-Golf. Amazing!!!
There are only eight models under 1,000 units. How long before selling a Grand will be the entry ticket into the top 20?
Lastly Nissan sold/produced over 6,000 Leafs in Europe but only around 2,000 in North America (1,500 in US and 423 in Canada) even though they started production at roughly the same time. Why is the production in the US so much slower?
José Pontes April 26, 2018
Thanks for the interesting points, regarding the Leaf, i was wondering about that today, i believe three reasons can help to explain it:
1) The PEV market is less developed in the USA (+/-1% PEV Share) than it is in Europe (+/-2%);
2) Lower gas prices and higher range needs in the US, mean mainstream buyers are less keen to change there, than on this side of the Atlantic;
3) European buyers are less "sensible" to (pseudo) media scandals (Rapid gate, battery degradation gate...) that the Leaf sometimes sufffers.
Unfortunately, Nissan has the largest installed production capacity for the Leaf in the US (8-10k/Month), whereas in the UK production tops at 4-5k/month and in Japan production maxes out at 4k/month.
In case we get into a "Leaf-craze" in Europe, we might even see Nissan exporting units from the US to Europe.
drobchak April 27, 2018
What about Nissan Leaf in China? When and where they are going to produce it?
The Leaf in China will be made there, but it won't be Nissan's priority, the carmaker will bet heavily on the recently unveiled Nissan Sylphy EV, a sedan version of the Leaf, i believe it should sell a lot in that market, maybe over 2k/month.
Tanstaafl April 27, 2018
The sales model in the USA and Canada is "build to stock" and in Europe it is "build to order".
In the USA the dealers are getting stocked now and start calling people on their reservation list asking whether they are still interested in a Leaf.
In Europe the customer simply gets a phone-call that his/her car has arrived, please pay the remainder and come pick it up.
The USA takes longer to get up to numbers.
Makes sense, thanks for the input.
US buyers can also consider the Bolt. Whereas in Europe you must be pretty lucky to catch one of the ~100/month that are sold.
Sven Dubai April 29, 2018
Great info/statistics! Thanx
Any data about Switzerland, Austria and Portugal from March?
EVAUTOMOTO April 30, 2018
Encouraging results for Europe with NISSAN LEAF being near the top of the ranking. The big explosion, however, will be with the arrival of German manufacturers from 2019 where we will see impressive numbers in sales as a whole
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It's not just TEPCO, which provides electricity in Tokyo, but also other nuclear power plant operators, as Sankei Shinbun hints.
Again, so much for the Tokyo governor race being just a provincial, local race where jobs and social welfare should be the top issues.
The election to choose the head of a prefecture with over 10,000,000 electoral votes may be on par with a national election to choose the head of the state in mid- to small-size European countries.
It is really funny and sad at the same time (or schadenfreude) that all of Japan's mainstream media, including Sankei, started covering the nuclear issues as presented during the Tokyo gubernatorial election campaign, as soon as the election was over at 8PM on February 9, and continues to do so now.
During the election, they made sure they didn't cover the issue, and were very busy downgrading the issue, ridiculing the one candidate who put an enormous emphasis on the issue, and ridiculing his extremely vocal supporter. They didn't even show their faces in the video clips.
During the election, they completely buried the coverage of Hosokawa/Koizumi in their reporting. Now, almost all of them now say it was Hosokawa, with the strong support from Koizumi, that the Abe administration feared.
From the unabashedly pro-nuclear and pro-Abe Sankei Shinbun (2/10/2014; part) on the reaction to the election result from electric power companies:
「建設的な議論ができる人という印象だ」。東京電力幹部は舛添氏をこう評す。舛添氏の勝利に電力業界にも安堵の空気が広がる。「原発ゼロ」を唱える細川元首相が当選すれば、各社が待ち望む原発再稼働が遠のく恐れがあったからだ。
"Our impression is that he is someone whom we can hold a constructive talk," executives at TEPCO commented on Mr. Masuzoe. The electric utility industry breathes a collective sigh of relief on Mr. Masuzoe's victory. It is because there was a chance that the restart of nuclear power plants that all [nuclear power plant] operators have been waiting for might have been further delayed if former Prime Minister Hosokawa, who was calling for "Zero Nuke Plant", had won.
Still, the supporters of the "socialist attorney" who came in the victorious (to him) second in the election are still busy dissing the Hosokawa supporters, or in rare cases telling them, "Let's work together again, let bygones be bygones."
Work, like carrying a banner in one of those festive demonstrations with chants and songs and dances, probably.
Labels: Governor of Tokyo, nuke plant restart, TEPCO, Yoichi Masuzoe
After re-starting the nukes, these events are likely to occur like dominos: after more diplo-pouches are delivered the Shinzoid Abe will get more F-35 components built in Japan. Will the Japanese people countenance a Hitler-like re-arming of Japan?
That 8pm deadline is pure newspeak. How do these media employees reconcile such restrictions? Do they interview their own people, ever, to poll their views on such requirements made of them?
And the new Fukushima is in the making. And the Japanese voted for that by themselves.
According to my Japanese friend, there are no more ignorant people than the Japanese. So I asked are they that stupid? Answer, you have no idea...
I just realized what February 9 was. It was a Sunday in the middle of the long weekend for many people. Tuesday February 11 is a national holiday (National Foundation Day) in Japan. Many people took Monday off to have a 4-day vacation. Thus the extremely low turnout, which wasn't helped at all by snow.
A very smart move by someone who wanted to make sure the turnout was low. (I'm just being paranoid.)
I wouldn't call it paranoia. Just the results of secrecy games.
The Diaoyu/Senkaku thing is really almost certainly a "pissing match" between navy's in that region, and ADIZs are the face they decided to give to what is really submarine intrusion activity by all the actors. Basically a budget in search of a donor.
" .. small diesel-electric submarines are difficult to detect and destroy in shallow coastal waters .. Nuclear submarines are larger and suited to open waters. .. The U.S. Navy had previously leased a Swedish Gotland-class submarine, and found that its air-independent propulsion system made it quieter than other non-nuclear submarines .. Diesel-electric submarines cost 60-85 percent less than nuclear submarines to build and can sometimes be quieter even in open water. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarines_in_the_United_States_Navy#Post_Cold_War_.281991.E2.80.93Present.29
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20121219.aspx
China apparently has its counterparts to Japan's outrageous statement Statesmen,
"China also claims all of Taiwan and some Chinese officials are suggesting that a case can be made for all or part of the Philippines being part of “Greater China.”
https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/phillip/articles/20140208.aspx
A Song for AEGIS, lol
http://allamericanblogger.com/12773/chinese-sub-surprises-u-s-aircraft-carrier-battle-group/
Masuzoe thinks that nuclear energy is no business for Tokyo governor. Both he and his voters have possibly forgotten that, in a worst case scenario, Tokyo would have to be evacuated. Such scenario is not that far fetched because the US military authorities indeed evacuated the families of their personnel stationed in Yokosuka, which is farther from Fukushima than Tokyo.
sangell said...
Japan's decision on whether or not to operate nuclear power plants is one thing. Whether to restart the ones they have is another. I'm no expert but the events that happened at Fukushima have show that those reactors were not safe to operate even absent a tsunami causing a station blackout. Reactor pressure relief valves did not operate, staff were unable to determine if isolation condensors were operating or not. They didn't even have procedures to test these components in place. The location of backup power systems, batteries, you name it was simply wrong. They haven't even been able to conduct a thorough examination of the reactor and piping to understand if seismic bracing was adequate.
In short, restarting any reactor that has anything in common with Fukushima is premature until the KNOWN deficiencies have been corrected and has that taken place anywhere?
Not only the reactors' innards, sangell, but their decision to build an ice wall between the reactors and ocean is a big mystifier.
How could it not have been obvious it needed to be done upstream of the reactors??? first??
Penny-wise pound-foolish yen-crazed?
But then again perhaps it is foolish to attribute sanity, even temporarily, to corporations that promote nuclear disaster energy.
Ginned-up conflicts to sell nuke subs instead of clean diesels, NASA even would have you believe plutonium is needed to power space probes while Dyson-Harrop satellites would be more than sufficient anywhere in the solar system.
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Beyond Smart
by Ronda Muir – American Bar Association (June 01, 2018)
Everyone is familiar with "IQ"—intelligence quotient. Most lawyers put their IQ scores up there with their SAT and LSAT scores as generally acknowledged evidence of their competence. But what is your emotional...
Business & econo...
Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food
by Arlene B. Englander – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 08, 2018)
Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food is for anyone who would like to eat whatever they like, yet stop just at the point of satisfaction without overeating.
Written by a Columbia University trained...
Phone Coaching in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
by Alexander L. Chapman – The Guilford Press (September 20, 2018)
This is the first comprehensive guide to phone coaching in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)--an integral part of treatment that many clinicians find challenging. What are the principles and goals of phone...
Multilinguals' Verbalisation and Perception of Emotions
by Pia Resnik – Multilingual Matters (June 01, 2018)
This book investigates the interplay of language, emotion and gender in a multilingual context and provides rich insights into the complexities of bilingualism and the field of emotion research, as well as the...
Language arts & ...
Emotional Competence
by Eveline Lonoce – Panoma Press (April 10, 2018)
Did you know your emotions are powerful resources? Or do you deal with them when they pop up, either wanting them to stay when the feelings are nice or to go away when they are unpleasant? Every human being...
Emotions and Spirituality in Religions and Spiritual Movements
by Erika Wilson – UPA (July 23, 2012)
Applying recent psychological and neuropsychological studies of emotions, Wilson explores the role of emotions in major Eastern, Western, and primal religions, as well as in some contemporary spiritual movements....
Religion and Soc...
by Peter D. Ladd & Yasmeen Zaidi – Hamilton Books (December 21, 2017)
This book is an interactive workbook where clients, students, and everyday people can understand and find step by step solutions for regulating of their emotions. Each chapter allows the reader to find out for...
When Panic Attacks
by Aine Tubridy – Gill Books (February 23, 2018)
Hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland suffer from panic attacks and anxiety; but many struggle to access any meaningful help for these conditions.
Prompted by years of working with patients suffering from...
by Ingrid Fetell Lee – Little, Brown and Company (September 18, 2018)
Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people -- regardless of gender, age, culture,...
Before and After Violence
by Salman Akhtar, Suzanne Benser, Vamik Volkan & Vincenzo Sanguineti et al. – Lexington Books (December 18, 2017)
From childhood onwards, humans use their environment’s responses to construct models or schemata to link feelings and impulses with actions and effects. If the environment during those formative years is unreliable,...
Unmasking the Face
by Paul Ekman & Wallace V Friesen – Malor Books (October 15, 2017)
Using scores of photographs of faces that reflect the emotions of surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness, the authors of UNMASKING THE FACE explain how to identify correctly these basic emotions...
The Shy Child
by Philip G Zimbardo & Shirley L. Radl – Malor Books (October 15, 2017)
Two out of every five people in the U.S. regard themselves as "shy." Yet, shyness can be cured, says Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the nation's leading authority on shyness. With co-author Shirley Radl, Dr. Zimbardo...
Interpersonal Re...
The Moral Psychology of Anger
by Myisha Cherry & Owen Flanagan – Rowman & Littlefield International (December 21, 2017)
The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in philosophy and the...
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by Graham Mallard – Agenda Publishing (July 27, 2017)
Graham Mallard introduces the topic of behav-ioural economics to a beginning readership, explaining its approach and methodology and assessing its successes and weaknesses. He begins by tracing the evolution...
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Excursus: Archive — wharton esherick
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Gamespot Score: 6.0 (Fair)
(+)Pros: - Great first impressions and starting few hours, - Maneuvering your Warframe around the maps with creative ways is fun and entertaining, - Plenty of weapons that you can add to your arsenal, - Mod customization is addictive and can power up your Warframe in many ways, - Diverse variety of select-able Warframes, each with their cool looks, abilities and specialties, - 4 player co-op is thrilling for some of the more challenging maps.
(-)Cons: - Severe lack of map and enemy types, - Lack of PvP mode is a huge wasted potential, - Hunting for ingredients to craft better items is highly repetitive.
Gameplay time: -
Ever want to run around walls like a badass space ninja? Wield katanas, hammers, great swords and kunais in space? Shoot at your enemies with dual sub machine guns, shotguns and snipers? Or how about conjuring forth elemental powers to scorch, freeze or electrify your enemies? Warframe seems like a really cool game to have all this things in them, and in reality, it actually is. You get to do all those things and more, this is a game PACKED with content. There's a lot to do, a lot to craft and there's sure as hell a lot of things to kill to satisfy your lust for battle as a badass space ninja. Warframe makes players feel badass by infiltrating massive enemy ships with just their lonesome selves, taking out every single enemy in their path with their skills alone. As a co-op game, having your fellow space ninja join you makes the experience all the more rewarding, and Warframe brings out the best of its arsenal to please its players there.
In Warframe, you play as the Tenno, a group of descendants of an ancient mystical art. The Tenno have great ability in each and everyone of them, using those abilities they complete all missions given to them with unmatched precision. They have been asleep for centuries, only to awaken to fight against warring factions that pose a threat to them. The Tenno, being the strong, self centered group they are, fight to repel all their enemies, trusting only each other, they work as a powerful, coherent force that can destroy anything in their path, to bring an end to their opponents.
Space ninjas use guns too, because f**k you
When you first step into the game...you're going to be wowed, that's for sure. When you first take control of your Warframe, everything feels just right. You're going to be shooting enemies, killing them with your katana, and blasting them away with your Tenno abilities. Your mobility feels off the charts and you feel like you can do everything. That's just the wonderful first impressions that you're having. The first few hours of the game feel great, exploring everything you can do as a Warframe and executing all these tiny little maneuvers and abilities just makes you feel like a badass. You're going to have a very fun first few hours into the game.
The best part about playing Warframe is feeling the insane mobility you have for yourself. All Warframe types have different speeds, but their methods of maneuver still feel ridiculously good. You can sprint, jump, do back flips, jump on walls, climb UP walls, run ON walls, do a jump kick and much more. On many occasions when you're running through hallways without enemies, you can't resist but do a trick or two, to earn style points and get to places quicker. Creative maneuvers will quickly reveal many shortcuts around maps, and you'll feel like a badass on top of everything. Feels like a parkour game at times.
Customize your load-out to make yourself feel like a boss
You may be a space ninja, but even space ninjas need weapons. Fortunately, there are a ton of them available for your selection. There are 4 weapon types available for each and every Warframe. Your primary weapon branches out to stuff like shotguns, assault rifles, snipers or even bows. Your secondary weapons are your pistols, your third weapons are melee weapons, which come in a variety as well. Katanas, swords, fists, hammers or pole sticks....take your pick. You also have a sentinel to take along, a little floating robot that acts as your ally, either helping your defensively, or attack enemies offensively. You can take 4 weapons to the field at once, and using them grants them EXP, helping them level up. Leveled weapons get stronger and gain more mod slots.
Mod slots are the capacity which your weapons can store....I'm talking mods of course (this sentence made no sense). The higher your capacity, the more mods you can store. Mods are little cards that you pick up throughout stages, they drop as you beat enemies. Different weapons have different mod types, and each weapon can be equipped with their own set of mods. Some mods increase damage, others bullet capacity, firing rate or even armor piercing to deal damage to armored enemies. Some mods even grant elemental damage to your weapons (fire, ice etc), while others let you shoot THROUGH enemies to hit enemies behind. Since there are tons of different mods for each sub category, you can easily spend a lot of time on this. And what if you can upgrade mods by fusing it with other mods? It adds a whole new level to the depth of mod management and customization.
Mod time bitches!
Throughout the game there are plenty of Warframes for you to pick from, and this is easily my favorite part of the game. Each and every Warframe looks incredibly different from one another, and all are cool as f**k. You can choose one of three Warframes from the start, Excalibur (a melee, tank focused Warframe with powerful melee abilities), Loki (a fast, balanced Warframe with stealth and deception abilities) and Mag (a weak, shield focused Warframe with a mix of defensive and offensive abilities). Each Warframe you choose plays differently from one another, and they have their own unique skills. There are other Warframes that you may also choose to craft after getting sufficient ingredients from elsewhere.
I described the 3 starter Warframes up above, but there's so much more you can make! Ember is a fire elemental based Warframe that comes with tons of fire abilities to burn up enemies. Volt is a lighting based Warframe with tons of supercharging self buff and offensive abilities. Rhino is a super tank Warframe with the ability to stun lock enemies (great against bosses). Nyx is a Warframe that thrives on disruption of regular enemies, using mind control. Ash is a stealthy, assassin type Warframe specializing in taking out single targets and getting out fast. Trinity is a support Warframe with plenty of healing and defensive traits. Frost is a tanky, ice based Warframe with frost abilities and huge scale disruption. Saryn is poison based, with skills that inflict damage over time on enemies (great against bosses as well).
An example of the bosses you will be facing in game.
What Warframe you choose affects how you play, and if also affects your role in a team. There are more Warframes than the ones I mentioned above (Banshee, Nova and others), but it means the same thing. What different types of Warframe you bring to a team changes how you take on missions. Embers are great against infested enemies, Rhinos are great against bosses. Things like this can always change how a mission can go, and the possible combination of Warframes in a team make co-op missions with others a thrill to play. Like weapons, your Warframes level up, and have their own set of mods, boosting health, speed and jump distance...among others.
The game lets you team up with up to 4 players, and its safe to say that co-op is the way to go for this game. Playing alone is fine, but some missions are incredibly difficult to tackle alone (you can still do it, you just have to be a f**king genius at the game). And when you do tackle these maps as 4, it becomes way more fun and has more structure to it. Sure some players are just scumbags overall, but if you play with friends the game quickly becomes more enjoyable, and you can see that Warframe was meant to be a team game. Tackling on bosses as a team makes you feel badass, as you flank him and hit from from different directions at once, plummeting him with an array of different skills.
Here, have some space zombies!
With so much content, how can I only rate the game as decent (7.0-7.4 is decent in my books)? Well, to put it bluntly, the game is just a huge mindf**k of repetition. Throughout the game you'll be fighting 3 factions of enemies, the grineer, corpus and infested. Each faction of enemy has about 3-4 enemy types....that means that there are less than 15 enemy types TOTAL in this game. If you combine all the explorable areas in every solar system...there are easily over 90 stages in the game. 90 stages...spread out across 15 enemy types. Also, there are 90 stages and by the time I quit the game, there were only THREE stage types. F**KING, THREE. A cave, a spaceship and an ice map....AND NO, THE DARKENED SPACESHIP DOES NOT COUNT AS A SEPARATE MAP TYPE.
So you'll be seeing the same maps and same enemies throughout your entire journey through the game, that enough is BAD. The lack of a PvP mode is also a wasted potential. I mean you look at the game, and you think of the mechanics....PvP would be perfect here. A 16 player deathmatch would be f**king beast....and f**king chaotic at the same time. Also, when you go ingredient hunting, you will absolutely HATE yourself. It is soooo repetitive....SO repetitive. Visiting the same map 20 times to get f**king rubido is the worst shit ever, or having to kill the same boss 10 times to get all 3 ingredients to craft a Warframe can get INFURIATING.
SLASH!
So that's Warframe guys. It has tons of things that other FREE MMOs do not provide, but its also what we call "Repetition at its finest". Its one of the most repetitive games I have ever played, and also one of the most creative ones at the same time. There's a lot to like about Warframe, but at the same times there's a lot to hate as well. Its currently still in open beta, so you can go check it out, but if I were you I'd wait for the full actual release. The game is getting its own release for the PS4, which I will be looking forward to when it comes. The game has a good deal of potential to be good, but currently, the game really needs some diversity in its enemies and map types. Still a good experience for those looking for something different.
Enjoy some would be female faces of the female Warframes!
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Iranian Photographs Gallery-Section:Event
includes: Ceremonies, Events, Occasions, Gatherings, Meetings, Festivals, Demonstrations, Sports, Drills
A protester holds up sign that reads Pahlavi Street in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution that toppled the last Iranian monarchy in Feb, 1979. The majority of Iranians have been supporting the Islamic Republic despite shot-comings and ups and downs. Iran starts a major railway project in Chabahar sporting the Iranian Flag using explosives. Construction of 1,350 kilometers Chabahar- Zahedan-Mashhad railway, extending from southeast to northeast of the country gets started with 3 billion euro credit. President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pays last tribute to late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez who passed away after a long struggle with cancer. During Nowruz celebrations in Tajikistan, historically part of the Greater Iran the Spring Bride holds the Sabzeh (green grass) an element of Haft-seen setting while riding on a car decorated with flowers.
Every year, many Iranians celebrate Nowruz at Pasargadae by the Mausoleum of Cyrus The Great, the founder of Iran. Sabzeh (green grass) is an essential part of Haft-Seen setting for an agricultural culture wishing fertility and abundance. Presidents of Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Tatarstan attend the fourth World Nowruz Festival Ashgabat, March, 2013 promoting greater regional cooperation in security, trade, and collaboration in energy. Iranian President Ahmadinejad attends celebrations of the fourth World Nowruz Festival in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. March, 2013. After registration of Nowruz with UNESCO on Sep, 30, 2009, an initiative to mark the day started in Iran on March, 27, 2010. A memorable shot from the Iranian Revolution of 1979 by Bahman Jalali. Revolutionary fighters carry a wounded person during clashes with the imperial guards of the Pahlavi regome. Jalali was a renown photographer who also documented the Iran-Iraq War.
A special Haft-Seen setup for Norooz with Hajir Firooz dressed in red in Tehran's Shariati Park, March 2013. Sekkeh (Coins) , Seer (Garlic), Colored eggs, apples, Senjed (dried oleaster fruit) - symbolizing love are parts of the traditional celebration. Recreation of Mosaddegh's Death in confinement in Ahmadabad on March 5, 1967. He was Iran’s first democratically elected Prime Minister overthrown in a CIA engineered coup in 1953. Shah prevented his body to be buried at Ibn-Babwayah cemetery. Recreation of Ayatollah Taleghani's Death a key revolutionary cleric On September 10, 1979 in his home in tehran. Taleghani was a moderate cleric, a member of the Freedom Movement who spoke the language of people on the street and opposed extremism. Pre-school children in Natanz celebrate the Arbor Day known as National Tree Planting Day, and the week of Preservation of Natural Resources March 2013. Throughout the country individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees and care for nature.
leaders pose for a group photo during the summit of the Nonaligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.The summit was attended by leaders of 120 countries, including 24 presidents, 3 kings, 8 prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers. During one of first gatherings of the Majlis (parliament) during the Constitutional Revolution, representatives listen to the speaker Bahaolvaezin. The first session of the Iranian Parliament took place at the Golestan Palace and then in Baharestan Sq. Students show off their hands with anti-American slogans during annual state-backed rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Nov. 2, 2012 marking the anniversary of the Hostage Crisis in 1979 to protest US failure to hand over the toppled shah. A greeting card for the occasion of Bahmangan, one of ancient Iranian festivities. The Bahmangan symbol flower Zardak-e Sahra, Shaqaqol (parsnip) blooms in the month of Bahman (January-February) Special treats for celebration were made using Shaqaqol.
A greeting card for Yalda, one of the oldest Iranian Festivities on the longest night of the year, winter solstice is celebrated as Shab-e Yalda after which days grow longer and it's considered the victory of light (God) over darkness (Evil). Prptesters burn a portrait of the Shah as a sign of protest against his regime. Tehran, December 1978', from the series 'IranDiary' by Abbas Attar, a veteran photojournalist who has been covering world events since the 1970s. Anti-Zionism Protests at the Enghelab St. of Tehran on Aug, 17, 2012, on the occasion of Al-Qods day: an annual pro-Palestinian rally when Israeli and British flags are burnt on the last Friday of Ramadan introduced in Iran by the Imam Khomeini in 1979. On March 16, 1988, after two days of conventional artillery attacks, Iraqi planes dropped gas canisters on Halapcha. Chemical weapons supplied by Germany and Netherlands killed at least 5000 immediately and injured numerous civilians in Halabja.
Public Execution of a Bandit named Asgar Khan during the Qajar era c.1911 in Shiraz.The newly formed police force in their neat uniforms and scores of people pose for a photograph taken by Mirza Fathollah Chehrenegar. Soldiers of the Iranian Army during parades of 33rd Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of Iran at Azadi (Freedom) Square, Tehran Feb, 2012. Iran is one of few countries in the world whose army is greatly independent and logistically self-sufficient. Azargoon Flowers ((Gol-e Hamisheh Bahar or Calendula persica) are symbols of Azargan, one of ancient Iranian festivities that takes place in the month of Azar, the 9th month of Persian Solar Year.Azar is the deity protecting fire in ancient mythology. A painting shows Iranian traveler Naser Khosrau and his brother in Basra where they was refused entry to a public Hamam because they looked so poor and shaggy. He recounts humiliation after children chasing them with stones in public indifference.
A Happy Abangan Greeting Card for 1391.Abangan Ceremonies generally take place on 10th of original Aban, and 4th Aban in official calendar (Oct, 25) to honor Anahita, the Persian deity of flowing waters. A postcard for Mehregan, one of the most important Iranian Festivities.Ceremonies may start any time during the month of Mehr depending on traditions. Mehregan; a name-day feast, is to honor the Yazata of Mehr, deity of friendship, affection and love. Ayatollah Seyyed Abdolhossein Dastgheyb was a prominent Shiite cleric who had fought against the Pahlavi regime. On Dec, 11, 1981, on his way to Friday prayers, he was assassinated by MKO and became the third Martyr of Altar. From right to left: Dr. Najafi, Dr. Ebtekar, Mr. Chamran, Mr. Dabir (members of the council) and Mrs. A'rabi in a meeting of the City Council of Tehran on 23 July 2009 listening to complaints regarding allegations of fraud in presidential elections.
Tehran's Azadi Stadium formerly (Aryamehr) during the 16th Tehran Derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal F.C in May, 1975. G.Mazloumi(11,62) M.Mojdehi(47) scored 3 for Esteghlal and S.Iranpak(53) scored for Persepolis. Tehran's Azadi Stadium hosting the 58th Tehran Derby between Persepolis F.C. and Esteghlal F.C on Feb, 25, 2009. Enayati(53) M.Fekri(87) P.Ghorbani(90+3) scored 3 for Esteghlal and S.Rezaei(67) S.Entezari(84) scored 2 for Persepolis. An Iranian protestor holds the sign of Pahlavi Street now known as Valiasr Street of Tehran, adding the text toppled under it after the regime changed during the revolution of 1979. The street built by Reza Shah is the longest in the Middle East, Quds Day demonstrations in Bojnourd, Friday, Aug, 17, 2012.On Aug, 7, 1979, Imam Khomeini invited the Muslims around the globe to march in solidarity with Palestinians on the last Friday of Ramazan to support the oppressed against the oppressor.
Iranian Girls from Behesht High School in the city of Shahin Shahr are given safety training in case of an Earthquake 2010. The city was founded in the mid 1960s by six sons of a bug land-owner transforming 40,000 acres of Amirabad farmland to residential A photograph in STERN magazine; Ayatollah Khomeini is being cheered and crowded as he returns to Tehran from exile on Feb,1 1979. A moment earlier, a supporter had, in the exuberance of the moment, knocked the turban off his head. Postcard for the occasion of Mordadgan or Amordadgan, one of ancient Iranian Festivities. Mordadgan is mostly celebrated on the 3rd day of the month of Mordad or July, 24th in Gregorian calendar.Iris (Zanbagh-e Gilan) is the Flower symbol of Amordadgan. Hostage Crisis ended after signing the Algiers accord on Jan, 19, 1981. Two days later, first group of Americans are release and they arrive at the US base in Stratoliner Germany. Unfortunately, US remained hostile not following the path towards peace.
A stand presents posters of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah at the Digital Media Expo in Tehran, 2009. Ancient Iranian Fiore Festivals such as Charshanbeh Souri or Sadeh required making a big fire and dancing around it. Molavi the Iranian peot says: Love is like flames here, and wisdom is smoke. When love comes wisdom is gone! The Regional Computer Based Training on Anti-Money Laundering was jointly organized by the Financial Intelligence Unit in the Islamic Republic of Iran and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (Iran UNODC) from 12 to 15 February in Tehran. 9/2011 American delegation leaves the General Assembly as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11 terror attacks in an attempt to assure Israel's survival.
Embossed figues show a Greeting Ceremony in Perspolis where Xerxes is holding a lotus, behind him the Crown Prince holds a Nymphaea flower, behind them stand the ceremonial guards.This artwork was originally located in the middle of the Apadana stairway. Fresco of the Persian embassy envoy of Shah Abbas 1st to Europe (1609–1615) visiting Pope Paul V in Rome, painted in 1615-1616. Sala dei Corazzieri, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. This period marks a significant advance in Iranian foreign policy. Public Execution by Hanging in the holy city of Mashhad. Two young men were convicted with rape.On April 27, 2011, human rights group Amnesty International condemned the sharp rise in the rate of public executions in Iran. Defying sanctions, military threats and assassination of scientists, a new celebration has been added to Iranian Festivities for Nuclear achievements on Farvardin, 20 (April, 8) indicating the willingness to experience rights to peaceful nuclear energy.
On July, 15, 2009, the Caspian Airlines Tupolev jet's impact plowed a deep, long trench into agricultural fields outside the village of Jannat Abad, and the aircraft was blasted to bits killing 153 passengers and 15 crewmembers. Iran-USA Volleyball teams in World Cup match in Fukuoka, Japan Nov, 2011.Iran went into the match with great hopes as a giant killer with victories over Poland, Serbia, Japan and Argentina along with a loss to Cuba, but lost the game to US. A boy and his teacher watch Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi writing a text on a black board during a visit to a new school school part of a program called Sepah Danesh Corps in the context of White Revolution in 1963. A group of people join OWS activists to protest US Sanctions against Iran in Zaccuti Park New York during the new year celebrations of 2012. Most Iranians believe that US sanctions are unfairly damaging ordinary Iranians creating enemies.
Tehran municipality distributes Green Men throughout the city for the occasion of Norooz 2011. Sabzeh (Green sprouts of wheat, barley) symbolizing rebirth is an essential of the Haftsin set and people grow grass on almost everything decorative. A window shop in Tehran has used Seeb (Apple), Sabzeh (Greens), Samanoo (Persian pudding), Senjed (oleaster), Sir (garlic),Sumac and Serkeh (vinegar) to set up the 7 essentials of 7seen (Haftsin) table set for Norooz celebrations. Norooz is an occasion for some Iranians to do some business. Students dressed all in red as Haji Firooz have died their face black. They sing and dance in the middle of the streets and collect tips from people passing by. People in Tehran are shopping for Haftsin items of Norooz and naturally Sabzeh (Greens) and Flowers are essential symbols of the spring decorating Iranian homes.Norooz shopping creates an occasion that boosts local businesses.
Iranians shopping Norooz items for 7Seen reads Haft-Seen in Persian stands for seven "S" as the first letter of items used to set a traditional table for Norooz. 2. Sabzeh (Green sprouts of wheat, barley) symbolizing rebirth is very essential item. A Qajar era Painting shows the day of Ashura where Imam Hossein and his followers were tortured and slain in Karbala. The unique collection of paintings in Moghaddam Museum of Tehran are priceless in terms of their historical value. Students clash with Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and members of Basij militia hurling stones outside Tehran University Entrance during Protests the followed presidential Elections on June, 14, 2009. A sketch showing Achaemenid Shah Cambyses capturing Pelusium in 525BC using cats from the book Greatest Nations : Greece published in the early years of the twentieth century contains ten volumes, and covers most of the major countries of world history.
A Russian sketch from Army officers after they captured Derbent in 1722.The declining Safavi dynasty was an opportunity for Peter the great, to deploy 22,000 men and his newly built Caspian fleet and easily capture Darband in southern Daghestan. A Protesting student sets a vehicle with diplomatic license plate on fire at cultural branch of the British Embassy in Gholhak, Tehran on Nov, 29, 2011, a day after Majlis voted to severe diplomatic ties with UK. The Wedding at Susa ate 19th century engraving: Macedonian Alexander takes the daughter of last Achaemenid emperor Dariush 3rd Princess Barsineh (Statira 2nd) as his wife in order to make himself accepted among Persian nobles. Roxana was the daughter of a Sogdian nobleman named Oxyartes who was killed by Alexander. After his father's death, Roxanne became the official wife of Macedonian Alexander. People speculate that Roxana caused Alexander's early death in 323BC.
Sisygambis, mother of Dariush 3d and the rest of his family: his wife, daughters, and 5 year old son became captive after Dariush deserted at the Battle of Issus against Macedonian Alexander. Sisygambis denounced his son for being coward. Anna is one of Occupy Wall Street Protesters in New York holding up a poster in support of Mohsen Safayi Farahani, a jailed Iranian activist. This is is third narration of the 99 Campaign named after "we are the %99" slogan. A miniature from Padeshahnameh shows Safavid governors of Ghandahar Surrendering the Citadel to Shah Jahan in 1638. Shah Abbas 2 personally leaded an army and drove Indian invaders out of Ghandahar on Jan, 3, 1649. Every year Zoroastrian community celebrates Sadeh in Tehran Fire Temple.The most elaborate report of the celebration of Sadeh after the dominations of Muslims over Iran comes from the 10th century AD during the reign of Mardaviz of Ziyarid dynasty.
Legandary Kiani/Pishdadian King Houshang established the Sadeh tradition. He threw a rock at a snake, it hit another rock causing a spark, fire broke out and the snake escaped. Houshang blessed the fire as a light from God for which we must be thankful. Group of Iranian women in chador holding flowers gather during Iranian Revolution demonstrations in Tehran for some special occasion probablly 17 Shahrivar martyrs, Sep, 7 1979. First Friday Prayer after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 took place at a football field in Tehran University. Ayatollah Taleghani leaded the sermon on Aug, 16, 1978. Sadeq Ghotbzadeh, Ebrahim Yazdi, Hasem Seydjavadian, Ahmad Sadr were praying behind him. Iranian Women in black chadors packed in the trunk of a car atTehran's Behesht Zahra cemetery in September, 1979, at the funeral of Ayatollah Taleghani: an Iranian theologian, humanist, reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shia cleric of Iran.
PHOENIX, AZ - OCTOBER 17: Ken Alandt attends the occupy Phoenix protest October 17, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona.OWS: Occupy Wall Street Movement started in New York in Sep, 2011 triggering general awakening among Americans that spread accross the world. Painting shows Safavid Ambassador of Persia at the court of Louis XIV of France on Feb, 19, 1715. Wishing to reinforce exchanges with France, Shah Hossein sent an Embassy led by Mohammad Reza Beg. A vendor is cooking Zoolbia of Fouman. Zoolbia is a special sweet treat mostly popular during the month of Ramazan throughtout Iran. It's made a bit differently in Fouman where it's thicker, more juicy and lighter. Fouman is famous for Kooloocheh cookies. On June, 2, 1967 Mohammad Reza Shah visited West-Berlin. This picture from Der Spiegel shows the tragic moment of Benno Ohnesorg’s death, a student who was shot during anti-Shah protests. A female student is holding his head.
Iranian Protester Akbar Amini on top of a crane in Tehran on Feb, 14, 2011. The significance of his protest was high as it sparked demonstations accross Tehran. The crane has been used for executions in Iran to hang people and show it off in public. Elamite era rock reliefs in Kulefarah Archeological site in Izeh-Khuzestan. It shows a greeting ceremony where the Queen is sitted accepting guests. This can be an event at a palace or temple with multiple floors such as Choghazanbil in Susa. Qajar Naseroddin Shah in Britain sitting between Princessed of Wales and Russia at a concert in Robert Hall. Shah's European trips to indulge his lust cost the nation alot as he ran out of money and gave away concessions to borrow money. Pahlavi Cabinet of Ministers of 1959 :Ali-Akbar Zargham (far left), Teimur Bakhtiar (4th from left), Manuchehr Eghbal (center), Jafar Sharif-Emami (left of Eghbal), Jamshid Amouzegar (right of Eghbal), Asadollah Alam (far right)
Taghebostan Kermanshah: Embossed figures of Sassanid king of kings Ardeshir 1 during coronation ceremony of Ardeshir 2. Zoroastrian deity Mithra on the left is honoring the deal. Taghebostan rock reliefs is a well preserved Sassanid collection. Pahlavi Princess Shahnaz Wedding ceremony with Ardeshir Zahedi. Born October 27, 1940 Shahnaz is the first child of the late Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Princess Fouziyeh of Egypt. When the king of India sent the chessboard to Sassanid king Khosrau Anoushirvan, Bozorgmehr not only won the Indian ambassador in the game but also invented backgammon. The story is depicted in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi in Persian poems. An Iranian girl smiles showing off her water-gun at Tehran's Water & Fire or Ibrahim Park. Water fight games among the Iranian youth triggered a police crackdown and arrests as the regime sees threat in social gaherings similar to the Arab Springs.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi is honoring wrestling champion Gholamreza Takhti, presenting him a medallion but Takhti does not bow his head even in front of the Shah depicting the fact that it takes much to be a Pahlevan. Destruction of Susa of Elam by Ashurbanipal, 693(647?) BC, relief. flames rise from the city as Assyrian soldiers topple it with pickaxes and crowbars and carry off the spoils.Ashurbanipal avenger for the humiliations of the non-semitic Elamite Empire. Chehelsotoon Palace of Isfahan: A well preserved Safavid painting shows the battle of Marv, in 1510 in which Shah Ismail defeated the Uzbek army headed by Sheybak Khan. Tehran; The second National Front was created in 1960 which consisted of prominent people such as Sanjabi, Bazargan, Saleh, Bakhtiar, Boroumand, Parsa, Forouhar, Sadighi, Khonji and others during a congress in 1962 holding up Mosaddegh's portrait.
Kulefarah valley in Izeh/Khuzestan. Embossed image of an Elamite ceremonial Sacrifice scene where the tall king or goddess is presented with cattles around 3000 BC. Behind him there are a group of small people. Iranian paratroopers wait at Shiraz Air Base to board a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft for a training mission during CENTO Exercise, on Aug, 1 1977. .CENTO was adapted by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the UK It was dissolved in 1979. Armed female militia parade during the first anniversary of Islamic Revolution of 1979 on Feb, 11, 1980. Some women used a headscarf as hijab and others preferred head-to-toe Chador. Kerman vocational Girls School in Sep, 1950 on the occasion of the visit by head Zoroastrian priest from Bombay. Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster AKA Zarathustra or Zartosht.
Qajar Army Music Band Orchestra in early 1900s. Band members were usually young teenagers. They used a variety of ragged uniforms and headgears including normal caps or brass or tin helmets. Blue Soccer Team in 1941. The first Iranian football team was formed by Abadan Refinery workers in 1910s after exploration of oil fields in southern Iran. In 1972, first national football league was inaugurated. 4 years later Abadan adopted Brasil colors. Assassination attempt against Qajar king Mozaffaroddin Shah while riding in his Coach in Paris on Au, 2, 1900. On his way to purchase some automobiles a French man approached the coach but before he could pull the trigger Hakimolmolk grabbed his hand. Firing Squad in Iran, taken by Jahangir Razmi on Aug, 27, 1979 and published anonymously in Ettelaat Newspaper winning Pulitzer Prize but the identity of the photographer was not revealed until 2006.
Pahlavi era late 1930s. Staff of the Tabriz Railway Station pose in their Uniforms. The station first became operational with inauguration of the Tabriz-Jolfa route (150km) in 1916. In 1958, it was connected to Tehran with a 750 km railroad in 1958. The Iranian Consulate documents the massacre of Muslim Azarbaijani Activists in Baku. About 12000 were killed between March 30 and April 2, 1918 by Russian forces. Because of a weak central government, Iran did not respond to this tragedy in time. Execution of Iranian democracy Activists by Russians who pose with their drawn Swords in Tabriz/Azarbaijan.(circa 1909-1910) crushing first democracy movements in Iran, while promoting Iranophobia and separatism among Turkish and Kurdish citizens. A group of beautiful Iranian School Girls are Mocking enforced Hijab, taking their headscarf off and posing in front of a propaganda sign promoting Islamic dress code which has been imposed on the female society by force.
Iranian Women Voting. During what the Pahlavi regime called the referandum on White Revolution in 1963, Iranian women experience their right to vote for the first time on major issues such as land reforms. At a resting Camp of Ghashghayi Ashayer Tribe during their Migration. Camels and horses carry some of the heavy load while modern Ashayer prefer to send most of it by truck together with the elderly and children. Iran Air (Homa) Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed near the city of Urmia on Jan, 9, 2011. Authorities blame the incident on snow and bad weather conditions which doesn't change the fact that one of the world's most reliable airlines is now a risky one. Byzantine Emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicaea. The burning of Arian books by holy fathers is illustrated below. Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius (ca. AD 250–336), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria,
An artwork in Tehran Metro, Taleghani Station showing Norooz ceremonies. A group of musicians (commonly known as Motreb) are performing around the 7seen table with all icons such as grass, red fish, apple, etc making 7 items that start with S in Persian. Qajar era Ashura Ceremonies during the lunar month of Moharram. These mourning rituals took place every year among Shiite Muslims after the massacre of Karbala in 680 AD where Imam Hossein and his followers were martyred. Flow of Refugees, mostly women and children from the Khuzestan area during the Iran Iraq War. Some of these people who were displaced from their homes never made it back home and they changed demographics of some of neighboring provinces. US hostages departing from Germany on an airplane after being held for 444 days. The US embassy staff were engaged in acts of espionage. US backed coup of 1953 and hostility towards Iran were among causes of extremism by revolutionary students.
Pahlavi era: Ayatollah Kashani is seen with Imam Khomeini in 1952 in Qom during a special mourning ceremony in honor of Ayatollah Khansari. Senator Mehdi Farrokh, inaugurates the new Mausoleum of Firdowsi in Toos, Khorasan in 1956.Ferdowsi died in 1020 at the age of 85 and because of his faith zealots did not admit him to the cemetery. Same happens to many Iranian thinkers, poets, writers,.. US Hostage Crisis : Protests in support and against hostage taking of US diplomats in Tehran.The 600 plus attendees are fairly evenly split between MCOB supporters, and anti-Iranian protestors. November 16, 1979 US Pahlavi era: Around 200 Students, mostly Iranains protest against the Shah and US involvement in Iran on Nov, 17, 1978.
Pahlavi II, Mohammad Reza Shah on July, 8,1955 visits Indian delegate inquiring about Indian development projects after the ceremony talking to India’s Trade Commissioner in Tehran Protesters clash with security forces during post Election unrests on Ashura day (1388H). Rival candidates accuse President Ahmadinejad of rigging the election, a charge that was denied. IRI Police attacks a peaceful demonstration by Women Rights Activists in 2007. Iran's totalitarian regime is accused of violating the rights of women, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as ignoring international human rights conventions. Gathering of a group of people in San Diego/US show their support for post-election protests in 2009. The protests were brutaly suppressed and voices of dissent were silenced.
Iraqi soldiers taken as POWs, poster of Imam Khome liberation of Khorramshahr in 1982. Persistence and martyrdom were key elements of this victory. However, during years that followed the war became institutionalized. A. Screenshot from our homepage in IRI-2010 as one of most visited pages in Iran: A new achievement of Aniranian Mongols: Access to Fouman.com has been banned for Iranian internet users since Oct, 26, 2010 for undisclosed reasons. The POWs: About 19,000 Iraqi soldiers were taken prisoner after liberation of Khorramshahr which was occupied for 578 days. During the Beytolmoghaddas Operation 6,000 Iranian soldiers were killed and 24,000 were injured. Chicago University staffs pose as inspecting one of tens of thousands of Achaemenid Foundation Tablet lent in 1937. Unfortunately, even after 73 years, a comprehensive digital catalog of this world heritage has not been prepared to be used by researchers.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a ceremony at the Ancient Iran Museum of Tehran comments on the Cyrus Cylinder, an artifact from Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great, known to be the first chapter of human rights in history. A traditional Qajar School called Maktab in Tehran which were elementary schools until the 20th century; boys were instructed in Quran recitation, reading, writing, and grammar in maktabs, which were the only means of mass education. Tehran Toopkhaneh/Sepah Square (Imam Khomeini Sq.)Aug, 1953. Toodeh Party Demonstrations destabilized the political power of the democratic government of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh leading to the coup that brought back the dictator (statue seen on the horse) Four Qajar Guards holding Rifles take a souvenir photograph with four Prisoners in Chain. The captives might have been of some importance probably followers of the Bahai sect but no information is available regarding their identities.
Two rows of 31 Iranian Flags .on each side of Hakim Bridge on Shahid Bakeri intersection in Tehran July, 2010. Iran celebrated 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution with more self esteem with more development projects using domestic know-how. Tehran 1943: Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister shakes hands with his appointed puppet king Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. On the left Ali Soheili, the Iranian Prime Minister who provided for Tehran Conference is seen. Corpses of the victims of IR655 flight recovered from the Persian Gulf. The IR655 can be considered mass murder in broad day light, as a savage US military unit attacked an unarmed civilian passenger aircraft twice, clearly aiming to kill on July 3, 1988. Iranian female students of arts, during a test session called Konkoor at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University. Each year, some 1,300,000 students enter this race to be admitted to the higher education program in 2010 Exams.
Iranian girls take a test in Isfahan. The university admission Exams known with a strange word "Konkoor" has been the gateway to higher education in Iran, part of a selection process to choose from the best with some exceptions of privileges and quotas. Teams from Lorestan, Hamedan, Markazi, and Kermanshah gather in Boroujerd for a Motorcycle cross Race on July, 2, 2010. Young fans on top of a tanker try to get a better glimpse of the new excitement. Two pairs of Iranian twin girls are entertainiing themselves by various activities such as games and sing along songs. Every year Iranian twins gather at Isfahan's Twins Festival taking place at the Noor Garden in June, 19, 2010. Tehran University Demonstrations in support of Dr. Mosaddegh that turn into a general demonstration on Mar, 2, 1953. Left and right groups instigated opressed Iranian people to take it to the streets on every occasion.
Tehran Declaration: LTR; Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, President Lula Da Silva, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Turkish PM Recep Erdogan join hands after a historical agreement on May, 17, 2010. IRI Iranian Team attending the opening of the 21st Winter Olympics in Canada / 2010. Skier Maryam Kalhor is holding the Iranian flags. The Iranian team composed of 9 persons, 4 of which were sports people. Tehran Charshanbeh Souri Fireworks 2010: Each year ancient festivities to celebrate the last Wednsday of the year causes nationwide alert because of casualties, and public disturbance due to use of illegal explosives and combustibles. A caravan of horses, donkeys and mules carry the heavy load in front of the Majlis (parliament) around 1927. Iranian flags and two photos most probably from Reza Shah show a special event maybe acknowledging the Pahlavi dynasty founded in 1926.
Pahlavi era : Queen Farah Diba during a state visit to the city of Yazd escorted by military personnel and greeted by the band at the airport. Farah was an active person in cultural and charity activities. World War II: Occupation forces entering Kermanshah. Iranians watch British Tanks parading in city streets. World War II: British occupation forces enter Abadan refinery. The British colonial establishment has a racist aristocratic attitude towards other nations giving themselves the right to kill, steal, spy and justify any wrongdoing in the name of the queen. Tehran Toopkhaneh Square 1950s : Different groups of people in a Demonstration supporting Nationalization of Oil Industry.
Qajar kings promoted Ashura Ceremonies for their own political agenda. Subscript on this photo from 1905 says that mourners in white demanded release of a convict. A young man makes a V sign for victory. Iran Iraq War Refugees fleeing their cities after resisting the invaders with bare hands. Tehran, November, 21, 1997 Protesters shout slogans against Ayatollah Montazeri after Friday prayers, for questioning Ayatollah Khamenei's authority. A painting depicts Stoning to death in Qajar era, a form of brutal capital punishment for Adultery from Middle Ages.
Two Iranian girls wearing chador pose for a photograph by a Tank captured from Iraqi invaders. The boy on the tank is holding a G3 machine gun. Reza Shah Pahlavi's Navy Drown by a sting attack from the British during the World War II Iran Iraq War :A young Iranian boys stands guard by Iraqi Prisoners Of War (POW) An Iranian Girl Protesting 2009 IRI Election results that the Iranian regime called a foreign backed velvet revolution. Protests were brutally suppressed.
A very strange ceremony: Qajar Smoking Party called chopogh-keshan A poster showing Tehran conquest, a decisive victory for Constitutional Monarchy Movement. in July 1909. The two men on horse are Sardar Asad and Sepahsalar Azam Tankaboni. Soldiers and Tanks guard the Iran Radio building while general Zahedi is broadcasting his coup announcement. Qajar era Iranian Jews special gathering in front of Jewish (Kalimi) synagogue
Mohammad Reza Shah presents a gift at the wedding of his daughter Shahnaz from first wife Fouzieh with Ardeshir Zahedi. Shahnaz later married Khosrow Jahanbani in February of 1971. Tehran 2009 Iranian boys hold US and Iranian Flags during Takhti Wrestling Cup as part of sportsman diplomacy. South Lebanon: Army of Iran backed Hezbollah (Party of God) during the 33 days War with Israel destroys a Merkava Tank Tehran Airport: One week after the coup, the military junta awaits exiled Mohammad Reza Shah in 1953
Tehran A Peykan Taxi is on Fire. Passengers escape the scene 2008 Tehran: Iranian Girls attend a Soccer Show 2009 Tehran Mozaffaroddin Shah Qajar signs Constitutional Monarchy decree 1906 Greek fleet under Demetruis Poliorcetes & engaging the Persian fleet under Ptolemy I of Egypt during the 2nd naval Battle of Salamis, 306 BC
Iran-Arak first Iran-made container Ship Hormozgan Aug, 20 2009 State delegate during inauguration of the Amirkabir Dam Nationalization of oil:1950 Iranians hanging a sign that reads Interim board of directors of Nationalization of Oil industry. Dish Terminators gathering satellite receivers from Iran roofs 2009
Iran US Youth Volleyball Teams posing during a friendly match in 2009 Militia plain clothes break in student dormitory doors after post-election protests due to widespread fraud in 2009. Foreign supporters of a Iranian opposition. Iran-South Korea soccer match 2009 that ended with a 1-1 draw disqualifying national team in the world cup tournament. Ferdowsi wears a green shawl. Mousavi supporters gather around Ferdowsi Sq. to protest big fraud in 10th presidential elections. The famous poet has been inspiring Iranians since the completion of Shahnameh in 1010 AD.
Young Iranians during Norooz Celebrations by Cyrus The Great's Tomb Reza Shah Pahlavi's ceremonial funeral in Egypt after his exile and death in Johannesburg 1944 A newspaper clip showing Iranian girls team playing soccer(Football) during 1970s before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. After wrestling which is considered national sports, Football has been a great temptation for Iranians specially during world cup. 1948 Iranian International Music Society Orchestra performing
Naseroddin Shah Funeral Ceremony. Naser al-Din was assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani, a follower of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, when he was visiting and praying in the shrine of Shah-Abdol-Azim. Unrest in Tehran in front of the Majlis: Pro-shah Soldiers surround the Parliament building in Tehran on 19 August 1953. Mosaddegh was rounded up as the CIA-backed coup came to a successful end. Russian Cossacks greet the imperial Qajar coach Iran 1910. The Persian Cossack Brigade was an elite cavalry unit formed in 1879 in Iran and modeled after Russian Cossack formations. A group of Iranian women demonstrating against enforced hijab that came with Islamic Republic
Public execution of convicts which was an ususal scene in Iran, drawing international criticism because it was abused by western corporate media. The guy in the middle seems to be happy though. Anti-riot police seen during demonstrations against western countries Ashura Ceremonies Modern Times; Every day is Ashura and every land is Kerbala refers to modern day injustice and inequality in the world. Despots and dictators still suppress freedom movements which can not be found anywhere in the world. Iranian Girls Group Performing Arts
Shiraz Karimkhan Arc : A convict, probably a rebel is tied to a cannon Naseroddin Shah Ceremonial Funeral. He was buried in the Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, in Rayy near Tehran, where he was assassinated. His one-piece marble tombstone, bearing his full effigy, is now kept in the Golestan Palace Museum Iranians gather to get a glimpse at the first baloon to fly over Tehran skies, Iran 1877 1925 Ghashghayi tribe in their Winter tent hosting members of the oil Company
Iranian Air Force officers visiting leader Ayatollah Khamenei Tents erected in the back of Persepolis ruins during 2500 Years Celebrations in 1971 —designed to remind the world that Shah ruled Persia with the extravagance of a modern-day Xerxes or Dariush. Persian Army Tehran 1880 Mullah march during an anti American Demonstration
People dressed as Sanatas Carry Iran and US Flags while skiing Queen Farah Pahlavi receives the crown from Mohammadreza Shah Authorities including Khalkhali watch US Air Force rubbles left from unsuccessful Tabas Fried Eagle operation which proved to Americans that Iran was no more their playground. Demonstrations during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Protesters hold up posters of Imam Khomeini, Dr. Mosaddegh and Takhti. The upcoming conservative regime however suppressed different views and Mosaddegh and his ideas were maltreated.
Iranian Militia Faav Liberation Iranian girl and boy celebrating victory of the revolution Iranian front : Collection of photos from Iran Iraq war scenes Norooz 1388, young Iranians Celebrating the new year by the tomb of Cyrus The Great
Falak was considered a minor punishment in Qajar times. A photo from 1905 shows the convict beaten on his feet in public. Feb, 2004 : Photographs from the scenes of an Iranian runaway train derailed near Neishabour and exploded killing more than 400 people Scenes from the Iranian Fokker-50 Kish Air Plane Crash in Sharjah, Emirates 2004 killing 38 people onboard Scenes from a C130 Plane crashing near Mehrabad airport killing 128 onboard
As the hero of the Battle of Salamis, Themistocles is honored during cermeony at a Spartan temple celebrating the Athenian defeat of Persian naval forces Civil disorder and street fighting in Tehran 1979 The Hostage Crisis: Angry Iranian militants calling themselves, students in the path of Imam outside the US Embassy in 1979 Sassanid Infantry 2500 Years Celebrations
Shredded Documents US Embassy US Embassy Hostages Qazvin Gendarmerie June Parade 1941 Mossadegh at the junta court. On December 21, 1953, he was sentenced to death. Later, Mosaddegh's sentence was commuted to three years in solitary confinement in a military prison, followed by house arrest in his Ahmadabad residence, until his death
Iranians Burning US Flag Siege Tower Achaemenid 2500 Celebrations Demonstrators supporting Mosaddegh gather in front of the Majlis.After negotiations for higher oil royalties failed, on 15 March Majlis voted to nationalize the British-owned and operated AIOC, taking control of Iran's oil industry. Qajar Ahmad Shah Ceremony
Ayatollah Khomeini casting vote near his residence in Jamaran Mohammadreza Shah Farah Diba Engagement Falak Punishment Beating Feet Qajar Chariots Achaemenids 2500 Celebrations.Shah flew in dignitaries from all over the world, along with dinner from Maxim's in Paris, one of the finest restaurants in Europe, an arrogant display of imperial wealth and Western decadence.
1979 Revolution Children British Sailors Seized in Iranian waters are freed during a ceremony after 15 days Operation Fried Eagle Iran Tabas: After Iranian students took over the Spy Den, the US attempted a military attack called the Operation Eagle Claw on Apr, 24, 1980 which failed after helicopters were damaged by a sandstorm. Iranair IR655 , the flight was shot down by USS Vincennes on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg, which resulted in 290 civilian fatalities from six nations including 66 children. 38 non-Iranians were aboard also. Iran calls US action : A barbaric massacre.
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum tell story about "Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn..".
Cast : Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Anjelica Huston, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jerome Flynn, Jason Mantzoukas, Boban Marjanović, Tobias Segal, Randall Duk Kim, Margaret Daly, Robin Lord Taylor, Susan Blommaert, Unity Phelan, Andrea Sooch, Sergio Delavicci, Cecep Arif Rahman, Yayan Ruhian, Tiler Peck, Baily Jones, India Bradley, Olivia MacKinnon, Sarah Villwock, Eliza Blutt, Harrison Coll, Maxim Beloserkovsky, Charles Askegard, Stefaniya Makarova, Jeff G. Waxman, Aïssam Bouali, Mustapha Adidou, Alexey Golousenko, Arjon Bashiri, Faith Logan, Tiger Hu Chen
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7 day ago - Just like the Matrix series, the John Wick series is the child of; interesting concepts, mediocre direction, bad writing, bad dialogue, fine (ok) acting and good to great fight choreography... John Wick 3 outstays its welcome and becomes tedious with all the boring twists and uninspired resolutions. you'll watch it once, forget it ever existed and then never watch it again.
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9 day ago - If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) I don’t have a written review for each of the previous films, but I did watch both and thoroughly enjoyed them! John Wick (2014) is one of the best movies of that year and one of the best action films ever. However, John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) is a bit more convoluted and messy regarding its story and how it brings our protagonist back into the game, but the franchise’s outstandingly choreographed fight sequences still make it tremendously entertaining. And it’s precisely the mind-blowing, bone-crushing, jaw-dropping, extraordinarily long and brutally choreographed action scenes that make John Wick one of the most badass characters in the history of cinema! The Academy has been looking for something new to make the Oscars more popular, and the creation of new categories has been their number one idea. Well, nothing fits the show better than Best Stunt Work. Obviously, franchises like this one or Mission: Impossible would become major successes at this award show. These two sagas are undeniably the most important and crucial for the survival of truly real action. What you see, it’s what you get. Nowadays, viewers already have their eyes set to acknowledge everything as CGI or some sort of visual effect. I’ll never forget when I left my Mission: Impossible - Fallout screening and while getting out of the theater, a group of friends was laughing around saying something along the lines of “of course that scene is fake and this moment is CGI, how can you believe that?! You’re such a moron!” They were roasting one of their friends, thinking he was the dumb one when he was probably the one who was laughing the hardest. This definitely leaves me sad. Sad that people won’t realize how incredible movies like these are. How they genuinely work like crazy to provide the audience with real and authentic stunts. Yes, it’s over-the-top. Yes, CGI and visual effects are still applied, but just to little details like bullets, blood, falls or knife throwing, which never distract you. And yes, it requires the audience to suspend their knowledge of physics in a few particular moments. But that’s the thing: if you’re pumped to watch a third film of a franchise, you’re a fan. You know what it’s about and what’s its tone. John Wick established itself in 2014 as a pure revenge story and an unbelievably realistic action movie, the closest we will ever get to an assassin origin tale. John Wick: Chapter Two deeply explored the institution that governs these assassins and all of the rules that they are bound by. It’s a bit messier than the first one, but it’s still a blast of entertainment. Parabellum has the best of both installments. It has the best-choreographed action ever seen on a big screen and some of the most impressive camera work I’ve ever witnessed. In addition to this, the narrative makes more sense, and the characters decisions are logically or emotionally justifiable, contrary to the second film. The sound design is powerful, and the cinematography plus the set design look stunning. I would still argue that the pacing could have been better controlled. The transitions between long action sequences and the respective pauses to move the plot forward aren’t always smooth. Some comedy bits that I don’t think they really belong in this saga were added, and while some work just fine, others really don’t fit this world. Besides that, I don’t really have much to complain about. The cast is absolutely impeccable. Keanu Reeves is battling with Tom Cruise for the biggest action movie star alive. While Cruise puts his life more in risk by performing especially dangerous stunts, Keanu has the resiliency and agility of a beast, providing us with high-speed and hard-to-do fight sequences. Halle Berry (Sofia) is one hell of a surprise! I had no idea she was (still) capable of moving as she does in this film. The stunts that she performs are crazily good! Laurence Fishburne (Bowery King), Ian McShane (Winston) and Lance Reddick (Charon) also have their own shining moments, but Sofia‘s dogs are deadly cute, and they steal the show. Regarding the action stunts, they’re all pretty memorable. From a throwback to Chapter Two‘s mirror room to an astonishingly riveting chasing scene through the streets of New York, everything Chad Stahelski and his talented crew throw at the audience is absolutely perfect. I also love how the final act resembles the experience of playing a videogame. You know when you have several levels, each of them with their respective boss, but the final boss is at the top of them all? It’s kind of like Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time when Link has to eliminate an enemy in each floor in order to move up to the next one until he reaches Ganondorf. It might be the must nonsensical analogy that I have, but it’s what my memory triggered. In the end, there are tons of set pieces for everyone to enjoy. All in all, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is everything fans of this franchise desired: brutal, bloody, long, loud and beautifully-choreographed fight sequences, accompanied by a decent story that explored even more the assassins’ world. Chad Stahelski is a master filmmaker, who knows how an action movie should be filmed. There are no sloppy editing or quick cuts here. Only extensive one-take scenes, filled with outstanding stunt work from a phenomenal cast. Keanu Reeves is one of the most incredible action film stars ever and Halle Berry surprises with her physical abilities. With better control of its pacing and tone (and a bit less defiance of physics), this could have easily been the best action movie of the century. “One of the best” it’s still one hell of a tagline. Rating: A-
Gimly
2 day ago - Strong contender for best John Wick movie to date. And that ain't faint praise. I've been strong invested in the franchise ever since it was first announced John Wick would be a playable character in _Payday 2_. Then when I actually watched that first movie? Forget about it. I fuckin' love this guy. And now, here we are with a trilogy cappin' _Parabellum_. Strength to strength to goddamn strength. _Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._
Leon Pin
6 day ago - John wich Chapter Three, Is the best action shooting movie in 2019
JPV852
3 day ago - Not the best of the three movies (so far), but still one hell of a ride and excellent fight sequences. Keanu Reeves once again is in his element, though emotionally not much is asked of him from his character.
5 day ago - **_The franchise keeps getting better_** >_Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum._ - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus; _De re militari_ (4th or 5th century AD) >_It wasn't just a puppy._ - John Wick (21st century AD) Directed by stuntmen turned directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, and written by Derek Kolstad, the original _John Wick_ (2014) was something of a sleeper hit, earning almost $90 million against a $20 million budget. The 2017 sequel, however, was a bona fide blockbuster, earning $171 million against a $40 million budget. And now we have _John Wick: Chapt__er 3 - Parabellum_, which has maintained the franchise's monetary trajectory, earning $230 million against a $75 million budget. Indeed, _Parabellum_ earned more in its opening weekend in North America ($57 million) than the original did in its entire North American theatrical run ($43 million). The three films were also critical successes, and have come to form the basis for the "Wickiverse"; an expanded universe that includes the forthcoming _Chapter 4_, a spin-off prequel film (_Ballerina_), a TV show (_The Continental_), and two video games (_John Wick Chronicles_ and _John Wick Hex_). Not bad for a franchise that began life as a story about a guy getting revenge on the thugs who killed his puppy. Except, of course, it wasn't just a puppy. With Stahelski back in the director's chair for the third time, and with a script by Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams, as with the previous films, _Parabellum_ is built on the foundation of Sir Keanu of Reeves's zen-like stoicism, a quality he can deploy to make a violent swordfight look about as stressful as sleeping on silk linen with "Fur Elise" playing in the background and a cat gently purring on the pillow beside you. And although this third entry in the franchise does flirt with a few themes amidst the mayhem (honour, fealty, destiny), it's not trying to be something it isn't, well aware of its own identity as a completely over-the-top orgy of violence. This is a world wherein even the most innocuous of items can be rendered lethal, and where the endless deaths by gun, knife, fist, dog, horse, motorbike, sword, pencil, and book of 18th century Russian folklore, are so excessive as to transcend any possible accusations of irresponsibility or glorification of violence. In short, the film leans into its status as basically a live-action episode of _Itchy and Scratchy_. Sure, it can become a little repetitive at times, and there's next to no plot or character development, so if you want to be reductionist, you could argue that it essentially gives us more of the same, except bigger, louder, and more elaborate. But that's to ignore how aesthetically accomplished it is, how funny it is, how compelling it is, and how unapologetically entertaining it is. Beginning only moments after _Chapter 2_ and about a week after _Chapter 1_ (it's easy to overlook the fact that the three _John Wick_ films span two or three weeks at most), _Parabellum_ opens with legendary assassin John Wick (Reeves) attempting to flee New York. Although known as the only assassin ever to have successfully retired from the Assassins' Guild, Wick was pulled back in when the puppy his dead wife Helen (Bridget Moynahan) left him was killed by Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen), son of powerful Bratva mobster Viggo Tarasov (the late great Michael Nyqvist). Having killed both Tarasovs, Wick's mission of vengeance ultimately led him to kill Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), the Camorra crimelord who helped Wick retire several years prior. D'Antonio was a newly elected member of the High Table (the ruling body of the Guild, the members of which are considered off limits), and to make matters worse, Wick killed him on the grounds of the Continental Hotel (an assassins' hub in which violence is strictly prohibited). Declared "excommunicado" by the Table, and with a $14 million bounty on his head, Wick's friend and Continental manager Winston (Ian McShane) gives him one hour's grace before the contract goes live. Meanwhile, the High Table dispatch an Adjudicator (an eerily calm Asia Kate Dillon) to look into the unsanctioned help given to Wick by Winston, Continental concierge Charon (Lance Reddick), and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), the leader of a group of vagrant assassins. Chiding them for helping Wick, the Adjudicator gives them seven days to either resign their positions or face the consequences. To lead the pursuit of Wick, she hires Zero (a scene-stealing Mark Dacascos), a highly-skilled assassin (and part-time sushi chef), who hates guns and is a huge fanboy of Wick. With every assassin on the planet hunting him, Wick's travels bring him into contact with a litany of underworld characters - there's The Director (Angelica Huston), a former assassin who trained Wick and who currently runs a ballet academy; Sofia (Halle Berry), the manager of the Casablanca Continental, and an old friend who owes Wick a marker after he successfully hid her daughter away from the Guild; Berrada (Jerome Flynn), the assassins' Master of Coin and a member of the High Table; The Elder (Saïd Taghmaoui), the only person above the Table, and who Wick hopes may be able to clear the bounty; the Tick Tock Man (Jason Mantzoukas), an associate of the Bowery King; two of Zero's pupils (Cecep Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian), who insist on fighting with honour at all times; and Ernest (Boban Marjanović), a towering assassin and Dante Alighieri aficionado. Okay, first things first, _Parabellum_ looks absolutely gorgeous. I mean really, really gorgeous. _Chapter 1_ and _Chapter 2_ both looked great, but _Parabellum_ is in another class altogether and is genuinely one of the best looking films I've seen all year. Part of the reason the film looks so good is the symbiosis between the various component parts of the aesthetic - the lush cinematography by Dan Laustsen (_Le pacte des loups_; _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_; _The Shape of Water_); the busy production design and complementary art direction by Kevin Kavanaugh (_The Dark Knight Rises_; _Nightcrawler_; _Only the Brave_) and Chris Shriver (_The Lovely Bones_; _The Wolf of Wall Street_; _Ocean's Eight_), respectively; the relatively slow editing by Evan Schiff (_Everly_; _Revolt_; _Proud Mary_); and the complex sound design by Martyn Zub (_Ghost in the Shell_; _Deadpool 2_; _Velvet Buzzsaw_). Everything looks and sounds amazing, working in immersive harmony to ensure the action grabs the viewer's attention and doesn't let go. The first half of the film, which takes place at night in New York, and is essentially one long almost real-time scene, is rain-soaked and bathed in glorious neon (mainly blues, greens, and reds), which reflect off the wetness on the road and bounce back towards their source, creating a dazzling display of light. When Wick nips inside a store, the vibrant colours are pulled out completely, with the brown of the store's walls and cabinets coming to dominate, so when he heads back outside, the richness of the palette really pops. The Moroccan section of the film is predominately gold, brown, and yellow, creating a sense of serenity that contrasts nicely with the hyperactive tone of the New York scenes which surround it. In terms of the action, the film's opening scene sets the bar insanely high – a deadly fight in a library. The visceral brutality of this scene is emphasised both visually and aurally; when someone gets slammed against a wall or has a hardback book driven into their skull, you really feel the thump on the soundtrack, whilst the close-quarters nature of the combat makes for interesting shot compositions and editing rhythms (as does the fact that Wick is fighting someone over a foot taller than himself). The nature of the fight also leads to some inventive uses of the _mise en scène_, as the combatants are forced to improvise. In this sense, I was reminded very much of Gareth Evans's _The Raid_ and _The Raid 2_, (the presence of Rahman and Ruhian, who played villains in the first _Raid_ film, cannot be a coincidence). These two films effectively redefined action cinema by shunning the frenetic editing that had become the norm over the previous decade, instead employing longer takes that showcased the performers' physicality. You know that seizure-inducing scene in Pierre Morel's _Taken_ (2008) when Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) jumps a fence, and there are literally 15 cuts in five seconds? There's none of that in _Parabellum_, with the editing altogether calmer, allowing the audience to focus on the organic progression of the ballet-like hand-to-hand combat, creating what can only be described as a symphony of excessive violence. With Jonathan Eusebio's magnificent choreography paying homage to everyone from Harold Lloyd to Buster Keaton to Andrei Tarkovsky (seriously), _Parabellum_ doesn't just give us rote action scenes, it gives us immersive works of performance art. However, to say that the editing is rhythmic and slower than most action movies is not to say that the film is laid back. It isn't, and it includes any number of scenes that really shouldn't work, so batshit insane are they. There's the initial library fight where books become as deadly as knives; a scrap that takes place in an antique knife shop, where Wick and his opponents only realise that they're surrounded by literally hundreds of knives when they run out of ammo; a horse versus motorbike gauntlet (with swords) on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge that has more than a passing resemblance to a similar scene in Jung Byung-gil's magisterial _Aknyeo_ (2017); an aborted confrontation in Grand Central Terminal (damn girl scouts); a huge to-do in a Moroccan bizarre involving two people and two dogs against a legion of hired thugs; an old-fashioned shootout in the Continental as Wick and Charon face down the Adjudicator's team; and a climactic gunfight cum sword fight in a room made entirely of glass. Subtle it isn't. Entertaining it most certainly is. And the fact that the film can pull off such ludicrous scenes without becoming a parody of itself is as good a testament to the craft on display as anything could be. Both previous _Wick_ films have been said to resemble video games in their visual design, although Stahelski has stated that this wasn't a conscious decision, as he has never played a video game. Conscious or not, _Parabellum_ is even more indebted to video games than the previous films, not just in its aesthetic, but in some of its narrative beats. For example, each fight is harder than the last (i.e., the difficulty level is increasing), with a few boss fights thrown in for good measure. A scene in a stable where Wick uses a horse to take out two thugs is essentially an environmental assassination straight out of the _Hitman_ franchise (and Wick dresses a lot like Agent 47 too). There's a single driving level (there's always a single driving level), and a non-combat level where Wick must reach his destination before dehydrating. To make it to the final battle, Wick must face down a platoon of heavily armoured soldiers, each of whom requires multiple hits before going down, whilst Wick himself has to pause at one point for a weapon upgrade. Then we have a mini-boss fight, followed by the real boss fight against Zero. The narrative is literally structured like a video game, and has a similarly insane kill ratio to the previous films (he killed around 80 in _Chapter 1_, about 130 in _Chapter 2_, and 94 in _Parabellum_). And this is not a criticism. On the contrary, part of the film's charm is its resemblance to a violent, hyper-stylized, morally questionable video game in which one must kill waves of faceless opponents à la _Doom_ (1993), _Manhunt_ (2003), or _Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas_ (2004). In terms of the acting, a good way to approach it is to ask, who looks at a library book and thinks, "_I could kill someone with this_"? The answer, of course, is John Wick. And the fact that we go along with such insanity is a testament to both the film itself and Reeves's performance, which grounds even the most ridiculous of scenes, taking everything in his stride as if it's the most normal thing in the world. His serene monotone delivery is also responsible for easily the funniest moment of the franchise thus far. When a thug shoots one of Sofia's dogs (don't worry, it's a non-fatal hit), she goes ballistic, laying waste to everyone around her, despite knowing that there could be serious consequences. Looking at Wick, she points out, by way of explanation/apology, "_he shot my dog_." To which Wick replies, in that half-asleep and still stoned from the night before surfer-dude voice of Keanu Reeves, "_I get it_". That line prompted a few people to applaud at the screening I attended. Of course he gets it. And so do we. One of the reasons the original film stood out so much was the subtle brilliance of Kolstad's world-building. It wasn't just a movie about a former assassin being pulled back into the trade. Instead, Kolstad created a fascinating underworld featuring an international Assassin's Guild, a hotel for assassins in which violence is prohibited, and even an assassins' currency. In _Chapter 2_, he expanded this further, introducing the person who helped Wick retire, the High Table as the governing body of the Guild, blood markers, and the Bowery King, who seems to operate slightly outside the purview of the Table. _Parabellum_ continues the expansion, introducing the person who trained Wick, the ballet school, the master of coin, the Elder, the adjudication process, excommunication, and deconsecration (when a hub such as the Continental is declared no longer a safe space and no longer protected by the Table). The mythology has deepened with each film, and the fact that it has so many religious overtones drives home the sense of old-world ideologies being applied to people who must be ultra-modern in how they conduct themselves. Are there some problems? Well, any film this violent is going to have immediate detractors, who will oftentimes speak out against the film without actually seeing it, and of course, there will be cries of "_Hollywood preaches against the 2nd Amendment but then makes movies celebrating the destructive power of guns_." Fair point. But the thing is, the movie doesn't take itself too seriously, nor does it expect the audience to, so the question of its irresponsibility when it comes to violence is kind of a moot point. Of course it's irresponsibly violent. It's supposed to be irresponsibly violent. Does it treat guns and knives fetishistically? Yes, to a certain extent it does. But is it celebrating guns and violence in a realistic socio-political manner? No, not in the slightest. Having said that, there is a sense in which the violence in the film does come across as meaningless, insofar as it doesn't seem to have any practical ramifications for any of the main characters. John Wick has literally killed over 300 people in the course of a few weeks, but there's not a hint of any kind of psychological consequence. Related to the disassociation that presenting violence like this can have, there's the problem that simply by virtue of logistics, almost all of Wick's opponents are nameless and faceless extras, anonymous hordes there to be killed. Indeed, at one point, Wick is literally pursued by two busloads of such villains (a bit of meta-commentary on the genre, which I personally thought was hilarious). The one criticism that I would definitely echo is that the structure of the narrative is a little awkward, and on several occasions, actions and decisions reached over the course of multiple scenes are simply undone just a couple of scenes later. However, this is a _John Wick_ film, not a Marcel Proust novel. The narrative structure is not really where your attention is supposed to be. Generally speaking, I don't do blockbusters. I just don't like them, and can rarely get anything from them. I consider the medium of film to be an art form before it is entertainment, and I approach every film from that perspective. But attempting to parse a summer blockbuster in this manner doesn't tend to yield much in the way of interesting analysis. Nevertheless, every year, there are one or two blockbusters that I will go to see. The first such example this year is _John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum_. And I absolutely loved it. Easily the best in the franchise thus far, it's more ambitious, more ridiculous, more violent, and more entertaining than its predecessors. It's also funnier, and the Wickiverse continues to provide a fascinating _milieu_. Sure, themes such as fealty, honour, fate, and religion come and go without much engagement. But, as I've said, that's not what the film is about. It simply doesn't follow the rubric to which others must try to adhere - character development and motivation, a well-structured plot, insightful dialogue, and thematic undercurrents. Instead, Stahelski has crafted an action film that features extraordinary aesthetic elements and a wonderfully vibrant visual design. _Parabellum_ doesn't just unapologetically revel in its excessive violence. It makes art out of its excessive violence.
Per Gunnar Jonsson
5 day ago - Let’s make one thing perfectly clear. This is a movie you watch for the action and not much less. But then, that not really a surprise is it? The movie takes off literally minutes after the last one ended. John Wick is on the run and that’s the story for most of the movie. Well, not entirely. He does have a plan but first he has to escape the many assassins trying to cash in the 14 million dollar bounty on his head. This movie is all about action. The movie is R-rated although I honestly do not understand why. Sure there’s lot of action and a lot of killing but still, I wouldn’t say it merits an R-rating and apparently the French ratings organisation didn’t either since here in France it France it got a 12+ rating. That is, it is only restricted for those younger than 12 years. Anyway, as I wrote above, this movie is all about Keanu Reeves and action. Lots and lots of action which usually ends up in one or more persons getting killed by John or some of his remaining friends. Is the story and the action realistic? Hell no! But it is fun to watch even though most of the bad guys shoots as accurately as imperial storm troopers. Most of the time at least. Towards the end I did think it got a bit silly. The fight against Zero and his last two students was pretty rubbish. It was kind of kick, hack and slash for a few minutes and then stand of and wait until the other guy got up again. Then rinse and repeat. Silly indeed. Also, they could really tone down on the ludicrous survivability of John Wick. I mean, come on! He gets hit by cars and walks away. Not to mention the final scene were he falls something like six seven floors, bounces (and I mean bounces!) off a fire escape and a trash container and apparently survives. I probably should rate the movie a star less for that kind of stuff but I wont. This is something as refreshing as a Hollywood movie apparently meant to entertain and nothing else. There’s really no political or social preaching or any other such nonsense which is really rare today. That alone gives it a few extra stars in my book. The movie has a 7.7 rating on IMDb at the time of writing this which is well deserved, even a bit low. Even the rubbish SJW site Rotten Tomatoes claims the movie is “fresh” which is surprising given what I wrote above. Of course there is a whole bunch of “reviews” that claims it is so bad and so on and so forth. Some of these reviews are actually repeated several times. That really pisses me off since these people seem to write reviews just to complain. It’s the third movie in the Franchise for Christ sake! You knew what you were getting yourself into. Don’t watch the movie if you do not like these kind of movies. Claiming there is no story is bullshit since the first one didn’t really have much more story but then the concept was bit more new of course. Some “reviewer” claimed it was the worst movie he had ever seen. He cannot have seen many movies then. What a load och bollocks! Bottom line, this was two hours of great entertainment.
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Episode 9b: Beer in Mesopotamia
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Join Emily, Meredith, and Frank as they discuss the role of beer in ancient Mesopotamia, including its origins as a woman-dominated industry, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Code of Hammurabi.
Beer in the Ancient World via the Ancient History Encyclopedia, including this section from the Code of Hammurabi quoted in this episode:
If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight in payment of drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water.
If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death.
If a “sister of a god” open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.
History of Beer by Fjordman
History of Beer – Where Does Beer Come From? via History for Kids
Bust of Hammurabi, via Wikimedia Commons user Mbmrock
Sumerian tablet created during the 45th year of the reign of Shulgi, the King of Ur, in 2050 BC. It is a dated and signed receipt written by a scribe called Ur-Amma for the delivery of beer, by a brewer named Alulu. The text translates as “Ur-Amma acknowledges receiving from his brewer, Alulu, 5 sila (about 4 1/2 liters) of the ‘best’ beer.” Public Domain
Annual balance sheet of a State-owned farm, drawn-up by the scribe responsible for artisans: detailed account of raw materials and workdays. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Shamhat from the Epic of Gilgamesh introducing Enkidu to beer. Public Doman.
This small 11 x 9.5 x 3 cm clay tablet is a survived fragment of tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. It narrates how Gilgamesh and Enkidu entered the Cedar Forest and killed Humbaba and his seven sons. From modern-day Babel Governorate. Old-Babylonian period, 2003-1595 BCE. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. Image via Wikimedia Commons user Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP, [Creative Commons 3.0 licence]
Enkidu conquering the lion : From the palace of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (now Khorsabad, near Mossul), 713-706 BC. CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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27th Apr 2018, 3:17 AM
"You may live, for I am a merciful PC"
What was a time that you or a party member spared the life of an enemy? Did anything ever come out of this.
murphieschecker
yeah, new quest to rescue the hostages being used to force them to follow orders, followed by my character borrowing a pin from the munitions store room
KefkaesqueXIII
5e campaign started with all the soon-to-be party members on a boat to the same city. Said boat gets attacked by some pirates. Most of them go down with their ship, but we spare the 4 that made it to ours.
Our bard decides to spend the remainder of the trip teaching 3 of them how to be bards as a new trade. Rolls a nat20, so they end up being innately talented at being a Stomp-esque percussion group.
Since then, we'll occasionally run into them performing at a tavern or hear rumors about how they're doing.
Rastaba
27th Apr 2018, 12:03 PM
I am probably not the only one wondering this...I sure hope I’m not. But what happened to the fourth? You spared 4 but the bard only taught 3.
27th Apr 2018, 9:39 PM
The 4th one said some things that pissed the Bard off, so he got excluded from the lessons.
My character was able to convince that one to try at being a farm hand, but he was never brought up again after we arrived at port.
Vanacan
"GM of this particular story"
My group has a weird flip flop on mercy. The murdered an entire goblin village of mostly civilians by herding them into one area and then spewing fire to burn them all to death. And then a week or two later forcefully recruited what few goblins weren’t in that room at the time, to have them work with the kobolds they sorta betrayed earlier.
They haven’t seen them since, but the two groups are consolidating power in the forest, and might be useful later.
After murderizing through the front half of a dungeon, the decide to offer the last three goblins in a room the opportunity to surrender... and then offered them jobs.
From the then on, "defeat means employment" became a standard practice, leading to the need to form a mercenary company to send all these hirelings on their own missions.
Also, one of the three original goblins became our trial PC for drop in players, and eventually a regular party member.
27th Apr 2018, 10:20 AM
In one of the published 5e adventures, I think it was the one about the elemental princes, we found a 10 year old in a cultists' lair being horribly punished. On the one hand, it was tortuous punishment that bordered on sacrifice, but on the other he seemed to still love his father. We immediately stopped killing the cultists, and instead knocked them out when we could, tied them up, and brought them to the authorities. We didn't want to be the ones who killed a ten year old's beloved father, when many of the cultists were also showing signs of being under an enchantment / charm.
I once played a droid revolutionary in Star Wars who made it a matter of principle to avoid killing people. After all, a Droid going on a killing spree isn’t likely to endear much support for his goal of seeing droids recognized as full citizens with full rights by the Old Republic. Unfortunately we were effectively playing Black Lagoon in space, so nothing came of it other than my droid growing steadily more depressed, until I eventually just hijacked a Basilisk War Droid, flew to M4-78, deleted my mercy protocols, and turned the planet into a death world for organics. Because violence seems to be the only language you squishies understand
Zilfallion
"I'm an NPC collector."
So once upon a time, I was playing a fairly OP character who really enjoyed the fighting itself. At some point or another in the campaign, we went on a bounty-mission to hunt down a Witch. My character enjoyed the semi-challenging fight, and after catching the witch that turned into a bird to flee, after the witch had baleful polymorphed me into a cat(turned out, a good chunk of my abilities still worked as a cat).
So, my character, obviously having enjoyed the fight, wanted to fight the Witch (that was wanted dead or alive by some foreign noble guy) AGAIN. So, I talked to the party about it(after they dispelled the polymorph on me), and people were on the fence, because we wouldn't get the bounty money. And then a whole-party boss-fight encounter the GM had planned showed up, so we started running away from the Huge-category slug-thing with arms wielding a spear and shield. So I bargained with the party: If I go kill that alone, I get to keep the witch. They agreed since we'd also seen a bounty mission for it earlier, so we'd still get money. Then like 12 combat rounds later of 1v1 combat, like a 200-foot radius section of forest on fire from it's weird flaming-goo cone attacks that left persistent flame hazards, it's core escaped by burrowing underground during one of the moments I had to retreat out of the fire during the fight, because that was honestly doing more damage to me over time than the boss was.
The witch had actually been hunting the slug thing after it destroyed her village, so she was fine sticking with the party to finish hunting it down(and it's 2 friends we found it with later), and the bounty had been because she "stole" a revolver from the noble she won in a bet. She ended up sticking with the party for the rest of the campaign after we killed the slug things invading inland having come from the sea(The opening round was fantastic. I got to insta-gib a mini-boss level enemy before it got a turn).
Later the campaign, something similar happened with me sparing an enemy gunslinger(who honestly wasn't much of an enemy until other party members really started pissing her off), who then during downtime later-on hired my character to assassinate someone in a heavily guarded mansion-fortress place. Was fun infiltrating the place without the use of any magic since there were a lot of detection spells setup to find magic in a private session.
Captain Bacon
You fought a slug that spit napalm.
It was described as closer to exploding out of it's body than spitting. But yeah. Apparently all it's slime was super flammable as well, so anywhere it moved got set on fire after it initially erupted flames at me.
Rathonje
The first campaign I ever played in involved tracking down some monsters (the intelligent kind) that were preying on a town. Unfortunately, they were quite elusive, and the PCs never arrived at the scene of an attack until it was already littered with corpses. Then when the fight was over, the PCs would find some small, vague clue, and then be reduced to waiting for the next attack.
It took three such attacks, and many dead guards, before someone had the idea to take prisoners and use Detect Thoughts to interrogate them.
In my party's minds, subdual damage is simply not something you use when resolving conflicts... though the good-aligned ones might use it when escaping the police, or on fellow party members.
"Beaky"
Ressurecting enemies isn’t a great idea. A few years ago the group I’m in was in a 4e Chaos Scar campaign. We started off following the published adventures, but when the DM and a player switched roles the story became more homebrew. The chaos crystals and shards could compel minds when in close proximity and would irradiate and mutate those who maintained exposure, usually causing the growth of purple tendrils. Relatively early on we fought the first of a group of fanatics that were irradiating themselves and fighting to corrupt the area. One was a halfling or gnome that was fighting while riding his pet griffin. We killed the griffin and everyone else and he broke down and started mourning his pet Beaky. We got him to surrender and tried to convince him to live an honest life in return for reviving his griffin. He agreed to let us cut off and cauterize the tendrils, including one that his arm had mutated into and our cleric got to casting resurrection. I want to say that it was originally the cleric’s idea and they covered the 500g component expense. He left on his pet not so happily. Turns out he didn’t take our advice and went back to the Crimson Robes thus allowing him fight us two more times until we finally killed them both in the next-to-last adventure of the campaign 8 levels later. Sadly that fight also ended with my character’s elderly NPC goblin companion dieing as we did not save him from bringing sacrificed in time after being goblin-napped while we were in the previous fight. Some party members kept parts of the griffin as trophies, and we still make jokes about spending gold to revive enemies.
i once had a character for which it was stantard practice for everything that was'nt really too evil. Instead of killing the NPC, i would give them a message of some sort and tell them to go and convey it to as many people as they could, until it spread far and wide, most of the time telling them to keep the identity of the one sending the message hidden, and telling thm to just say someone told it to them the same way they're telling it now.
messages like: "The ruler of that city in the south is plotting a coup to overthrown the king. Under his reign, non-human will suffer and adventurer will be hunted like game. Traveler pass this messages to you fellow travlers. Gather south, warriors! And be ready to battle. if you don't believe that message, check for yourself. conduct your own investigations on it and you'll see it for you own eyes". after all, there's is'nt a reason why we should be the only one to fight just because we're PC, what are the other adventurer on that world doing.
"Don't go to the shop of mister Doleron in that town, he his a jerk, and a crook, and i heard he eat little puppy and kitten alive." yes, that's petty just for a annoying NPC (who of course did'nt eat any pet), but it was a rather vindicative character.
"A swarm of magical metal-eating moth have been spotted in the mountains, do not go bring any if you go there." to try to reduce the concurrence for the object of plot importance in said mountain to a bunch of unarmed guy and squishy mages squishier than ever.
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“TV Dinners and Tang” The GRB Show 2-19 2011
Hey you kats and kittens, trying something, well it's another fine mess we're in. Thanks for hanging out with us. Long time no see, hope things are well.
We have our first movie poster up for you to have some fun with. Take a cruise through the site and play with some fish or catch up with some of our other shows.
Thanks for all the emails and suggestions. Glad you guys are chat'n it up. Don't forget to try our sitcom challenge. Can you get the 7 opening TV sitcom theme songs?
We're starting to develop something more with Youtube so keep check'n back.
Everything we yaked about is hanging ready for you kiddies.
Nanoo, Nanoo!
Shane and (Mindy) Tori
80’s TV Shows – 240+ shows then – how many now? Replaced by reality shows
What was your favorite you didn’t want to miss?
Hanging out watching with TV dinners
TV Dinners/Microwave Dinners – mention name is still being used although obsolete
The term TV dinner is a generalized trademark originally used for a brand of packaged meal developed in 1953 for C.A. Swanson & Sons. (The name in full was TV Brand Frozen Dinner.) In the United States, the term is now synonymous with any prepackaged dinner purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home, although Swanson stopped using the name "TV Dinner" in 1962.The name TV dinner came from the shape of the tray it was served on.[2] The main entree was in a bigger compartment on one side of the tray and the vegetables lined up in smaller compartments on the other side. The arrangement was similar to that of the front panels of a 1950s television set: a screen on the left and speakers and control on the right. There were other theories about the name of the TV dinner. One reason was that early packaging featured the image of a TV set. Another was that many families would eat these in front of a TV set.
Expansion of frozen aisles, frozen pizza – new TV Dinners with local fish, etc.
Fast food and delivery taken over?
Tang – Myth not created for space flight but used in space flight
Tang is a sweet and tangy, orange-flavored drink, from the United States. Named after the tangerine, the original orange-flavored Tang was formulated by William A. Mitchell for General Foods Corporation in 1957 and first marketed in powdered form in 1959.
It was initially intended as a breakfast drink, but sales were poor until NASA used it on Gemini flights in 1965 (researched at Natick Soldier Systems Center; Tang was heavily advertised as the drink first used on John Glenn's Mercury flight). Since then it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the misconception that Tang was invented for the space program. Tang was famously used by some early NASA manned space flights. In 1962, when Mercury astronaut John Glenn conducted eating experiments in orbit, Tang was selected for the me and was also used during some Gemini flights. A NASA engineer working on Gemini explained how and why it was used
Discovery final flight for NASA 2/24/2011
NASA is ending its space shuttle program this year after 30 years of spaceflight to make way for new exploration plans that call for sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in the 2030s. Once the shuttle fleet retires, NASA will rely on unmanned spacecraft built by Europe, Russia and Japan to deliver cargo to the space station until American-built commercial spacecraft become available
Tori’s Technology Corner
NASA Offers Space Shuttle Tiles to Schools and Universities
Japan may send chatty humanoid tweet-bot to space
Japan's space agency is considering putting a talking humanoid robot on the International Space Station to watch the mission while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the micro-blogging site Twitter. Japan's space agency JAXA announced this week that it is looking at a plan to send a humanoid robot to the space station in 2013 that could communicate with the ground through Twitter - primarily feeding photos, rather than original ideas - and provide astronauts with "comfort and companionship."
Gov't says up to 10% in US lack good Internet
As many as one in 10 Americans can't get Internet connections that are fast enough for common online activities such as watching video or teleconferencing, and two thirds of schools have broadband connections that are too slow to meet their needs. Those are some of the conclusions from the Commerce Department as it unveiled a detailed, interactive online map showing what types of high-speed Internet connections are available - or missing - in every last corner of the country
Between 5 percent and 10 percent of Americans lack access to broadband access that is fast enough to handle downloads of some Web pages, photos and video or simple video conferencing services
Two-thirds of schools surveyed have Internet connections that are slower than 25 megabits per second - well below the 50- to 100-megabit connections that state education technology directors say are needed to serve roughly 1,000 students
Only 4 percent of libraries have connection speeds that are faster than 25 megabits
Only 36 percent of Americans have access to wireless connections that are fast enough to be considered fourth generation, with download speeds of at least 6 megabits per second, although 95 percent of Americans have access to third-generation wireless service.
Obama’s Tech Toast
Oracle, Netflix, Apple, Facebook and Yahoo, chief executives, the event was meant to discuss new investments in Silicon Valley
The president specifically discussed his proposals to invest in research and development and expand incentives for companies to grow and hire
The group also discussed the importance of new investments in education and the new White House initiative Startup America, a partnership with the private sector aimed at supporting new startups and small businesses.”
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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
SUBHEAD: Most predictions for 2012 are flawed. More likely each of the difficulties we had in 2011 will get a little worse.
By John Michael Greer on 4 January 2012 for Archdruid Report - (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/waiting-for-great-pumpkin.html)
Image above: Snoopy and Linus waiting for the arrival of the gift giving Great Pumpkin. From (http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/cartoons/pages/snoopy-waiting-for-the-great-pumpkin.shtml).
With the coming of the new year, predictions of what’s in store during the next twelve months are showing up here and there in the peak oil blogosphere: a feature of the season, really, as reliable as the icicles that hang from the roof’s edge outside the window of my study. Like the icicles, they’re enticing to look at; like the icicles, equally, a great many of them are guaranteed to drop to the ground and shatter at some point in the months to come.
That’s all the more remarkable in that, by and large, the peak oil community has been pretty much spot on when it comes to the general shape of the future. Five or ten years ago, it bears remembering, nobody else was predicting the sustained oil prices on the far side of $100 a barrel and the global economic gridlock that have become fixtures of the contemporary scene; the peak oil scene had that one nailed.
A healthy skepticism toward whatever the current speculative bubble happens to be—tech stocks back in the days when the peak oil blogosphere was first getting under way, real estate in the runup to the 2008 crash, shale gas and shale oil now—has also been a common feature in the peak oil scene throughout its history, even when almost everyone else was cheering along the bubble du jour as the wave of the future. Why, then, all the annual predictions that misfire—and in particular, why the same annual predictions that have misfired for years in a row?
Why, for example, the relentless annual round of claims that the coming year will finally see a sudden and total economic collapse? That one’s been made time and again, often by the same bloggers, and the fact that each year goes by without anything of the kind happening somehow never manages to affect the next year’s confident insistence that this time around the wolves really, truly are about to eat all the sheep.
It would be funny, really, except that pointing out the long string of failed predictions has become a standard rhetorical trick in the arsenal of those—either madmen or economists, to use Kenneth Boulding’s useful taxonomy—who want to insist on the possibility of limitless growth on a finite planet. Now of course it’s only fair to point out that there are at least as many predictions on the other side of the picture that are still being recycled this year after an equivalent track record of failures.
Hope springs eternal—or rather, as I suggested in last week’s post, the facile optimism of the privileged that masquerades as hope in too much of contemporary culture springs infernal—in the minds of the many bloggers who expect some shiny new technological gimmick to overturn the laws of thermodynamics and give us a glossy new future straight out of The Jetsons.
The technological savior du jour, to be sure, changes even faster than the bubble du jour; we’ve seen ethanol, big wind turbines, and now shale gas touted as game-changing developments; neither ethanol nor wind turbines changed much of anything, of course, but when shale gas lands in the same category—as it will—there will be another candidate for the role.
For that matter, those who insist that petroleum can’t run out because we want it so badly have had just as dubious a record, if not more so. I’ve reminded my readers several times already about Daniel Yergin’s 2004 prediction that new petroleum discoveries would keep the price of crude oil at a plateau of $38 a barrel, and he’s far from the only pundit who’s made claims that absurd and still had the media fawning at his feet.
More generally, have you noticed that every couple of years, we get to hear some new claim that a vast new oil discovery somewhere is about to solve the world’s energy troubles? They’re as regular as clockwork or, these days, as speculative bubbles; the actual results, once the hype gives way to the business end of a drilling bit, range from modest to none at all; still, none of that slows down the missionaries of the religion of limitless petroleum.
It’s all uncomfortably reminiscent of the Peanuts character Linus, with his enduring faith that this year, despite all previous disconfirmations, the Great Pumpkin really will show up with candy for all on Halloween. Still, as I look back over the last dozen years or so, I notice a feature common to the predictions I’m discussing that Linus’ lonely vigil in the pumpkin patch doesn’t share.
Is it just me, or do my readers also catch the note of increasing desperation in a good many of the latest round of familiar predictions? On the cornucopian side of the picture, certainly, that note is hard to miss. One measure of this is the extent to which the most remarkable evasions of fact have been finding their way into the media of late when the subject of US energy production comes up.
The example I’m thinking of just now is the claim, recycled by any number of supposedly serious pundits in the last few months, that the United States has become a net exporter of petroleum. As it happens this is—well, let’s be polite and call it an inaccuracy; a less courteous though arguably more accurate phrase would be "bald-faced lie." The US last year imported around two-thirds of the crude oil it used, just as it did the year before, and exported very little crude oil.
Follow the footnotes, though, and they lead in interesting directions. What has happened over the last few years, in fact, is that the US has become a net exporter of refined petroleum products. For many years before then, along with the vast floods of crude oil shipped in from abroad to feed domestic refineries, the United States imported a modest amount of petroleum products that had been refined overseas, and shipped a smaller amount of its own refineries’ products to other countries.
As the current depression has tightened its grip on the country, though, consumption of gasoline and other petroleum products has dropped by more than ten per cent, and US refineries have found it profitable to sell more of their products overseas as the domestic market contracted.
The total shift is not that large, and since what’s driving it is the ongoing contraction of the US economy, it might be better treated as a warning sign than a reason for fatuous misstatements. Still, beyond the misinformation and disinformation, fatuous and otherwise, there’s a common thread running through all the various predictions I’m discussing here, and it’s a thread worth tracing.
All of them—the claims that a crash is imminent, or that a technological breakthrough is imminent, or that an abundant new source of fossil fuels is imminent, or what have you—are at bottom claims that the troubled situation in which the industrial world currently finds itself can’t continue in anything like its present form. I’d like to offer instead the counterintuitive suggestion that it can, and most likely will. What that would mean in practice can best be judged by thinking back a year or two, to the early days of 2011.
The year that had just ended was a troubled time, with political turmoil, economic crises, a larger than usual number of natural disasters, and a pervasive (and in many cases quite accurate) sense on the part of many people that life was getting tougher and the solutions being offered by politicians weren’t solving much of anything.
Once we got past the annual flurry of predictions about game-changing events of one kind or another, what actually happened? The game didn’t change at all. Instead, each of the difficulties I’ve just noted got a little worse.
There was more political turmoil; the economic crises became somewhat more frequent and more severe; the number of natural disasters went up again—there were, as I recall, 32 weather-related disasters causing more than US$1 billion each in damages, which is a new record—and across the industrial world, people’s faith in their government’s capacity to do much of anything declined further.
That’s what happened in 2011. I’d like to suggest that when we take a backwards look in the early days of 2013, we will most likely see that that’s what happened in 2012, too: a slow worsening across a wide range of trends, punctuated by localized crises and regional disasters.
I’d like to predict, in fact, that when we take that backward look, the US dollar and the Euro will both still exist and be accepted as legal tender, though the Eurozone may have shed a couple of countries who probably shouldn’t have joined it in the first place; that stock markets around the world will have had another volatile year, but will still be trading.
Here in the US, whoever is unlucky enough to win the 2012 presidential election will be in the middle of an ordinary transition to a new term of office; the new Congress will be gearing up for another two years of partisan gridlock; gas stations will still have gas for sale and grocery stores will be stocked with groceries; and most Americans will be making the annual transition between coping with their New Year’s hangovers and failing to live up to their New Year’s resolutions, just as though it was any other year.
That is to say, nothing much will have changed, if by the word "change" you mean exclusively the kind of dramatic break with the existing pattern of things that so many people are predicting just now. From any other perspective, plenty will have changed.
Official US statistics will no doubt insist that the unemployment rate has gone down—do you ever get the feeling that when the Soviet Union collapsed, the people who used to churn out all those preposterous propaganda claims for their government got hired by ours? I do—but the number of people out of work in the United States will likely set another all-time record; the number of people in severe economic trouble will have gone up another good-sized notch, and public health clinics will probably be seeing the first wave of malnutrition-caused illness in children.
If you happen to have spent the year in one of the areas unfortunate enough to get hit by the hard edge of the increasingly unstable weather, you may have had to spend a week or two in an emergency shelter while the flood waters receded or the wreckage got hauled away, and you might even notice that less and less gets rebuilt every year. Unless that happens, though, or unless you happen to pay close attention to the things that don’t usually make the evening news, you may well look back in the first days of 2013 and think that business as usual is still ongoing.
You’d be right, too, so long as you recognize that there’s been a stealthy change in what business as usual now means. Until the peak of world conventional petroleum production arrived in 2005, by and large, business as usual meant the continuation of economic growth. Since then, by and large, it has meant the continuation of economic decline. And the repeated predictions that the situation can’t go on?
I’ve come to think that what motivates such predictions, and gives them their present popularity, is the growing sense of apprehension that it can go on—that the troubles currently pressing in on the industrial world could just keep on getting worse, day after day, year after year, for decades to come, following the same gradual curve that the industrial world followed in the days of its growth, but in reverse: descending into impoverishment and relocalization along some broad equivalent of the same bumpy course that brought the ascent to prosperity and global integration back in the day.
When you think about it—and in the back of their minds, I suspect, most people have thought about it—that’s really a terrifying prospect. What makes it most unnerving is that it’s not simply a matter of, say, having your standard of living ratchet down by five per cent every year, though there will be a fair amount of that. It’s far more a matter of never knowing when your number’s going to come up and land you out of work, out of money and out on the street, next to the others who landed there before you.
How much of the popular sport of blaming the poor for their poverty, I wonder, and how much of the current pseudoconservative fad of insisting that the poor aren’t actually poor, comes from people who are desperately trying to convince themselves that their jobs are irreplaceable, their retirement funds secure, and the sudden dizzying fall into the ranks of the impoverished can’t possibly happen to them? If the downward arc of business as usual in an age of decline is what we’re facing, though, that sort of tortured logic is a pretty fair guarantee of final failure.
The only way out of the trap, as I’ve argued here rather more than once, is to accept a steep cut in your standard of living before it becomes necessary, as a deliberate choice, and to use the resources freed up by that choice to get rid of any debts you have, get settled in a location that has a fair chance of keeping a viable degree of community life going, and get the tools and learn the skills that you will need to manage a decent life in an age of spiraling decline. To those who cling to the idea that they can maintain their present lifestyles, admittedly, it’s hard to think of any advice less welcome, but the universe is in no way obligated to give us the future we want—even if what we want is a sudden blow that will spare us the harder experience of the Long Descent.
INDEX: Apocalypse , De-Industrialize , Future , Peak Everything
Will Sea Cucumbers save the Reefs?
Report that blows up the Eurozone
Eric Schneiderman - Hero or Goat?
Jive Talkin
Greek default playing with fire
Never been so scared!
Hawaii law to spy on web users
Protesting Monsanto on Maui
GMOs Uber Alles
Superferry U-Turn?
Entrix tricks of the trade
Myth of the Machine
Kitchen Grudge Match
Fincancial market is collapsing
Romney speaks truth to banking
Ancient cypress may ne cloned
Stop KIUC Smart Meters
Gutting Environmental Protection
Abercrombie and armed force
Somewhere in New Mexico
Extra security at Kaunakakai Harbor
Trust Horizon & Murmuration
CIA mining social networks
Former Vegan becomes Butcher
Map of US Trees
A Truly Old Day
A Truly New Day
Keysone XL pipeline fate
Waking Up, Walking Away
Mayans and Mother Earth
PIPA Support Evaporates
Google Petition
Wikipedia Blackout
5th oldest tree in world destroyed
Chevron screws Amazon
Chinese urban population passes rural
Bloated London Banks Shrinking
Last Days - Last Words
Kauai Power Down - Round II
The Hero's Way
Family farmers are not criminals
Pulp Fantasy
In the Light of Reverence
Confessions of an Environmentalist
Gasaholic Cure
Green in Seattle
War with Iran
Alaska seals and walruses dying
Saving Koloa Camp
This Ripe Moment
2012 Winter Heat Wave
Death of an Institution
Exiles on Main Street
Nuclear power falls behind
Cargo Tricycles
US pushes Iran towards war
Climate Change coverage collapses
Montana rebukes US Supreme Court
The Chinese Wheelbarrow
Storm Surge of Decentralization
2012 Vampire Squid Watch
2012 Forecast - A Bang & a Whimper
Superferry return from the dead
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Category Archive: Character names
Win the name game in style: 11 ways to dream up an original, effective character name.
All advice articles, Character names, Characters, Fiction, Novels
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Good Character Names Part Three: Methods 7 to 11
Think of dynamite names for your characters and win the battle for characterization at the reader’s first glimpse of you character. Your hero’s essential traits will hit readers in the face before she even opens her mouth.
This is the third and final part of a series on creating terrific names for your characters, whether you write novels, short stories, screenplays or any other genre. The series presents this topic in three bite-sized chunks. For lots more information and tips, have look at Parts One and Two as well.
So let’s make haste, and finish up our list of ways to create winning names:
7. Pay attention to the time period, race, nationality and other background factors.
Producers chose the name “Mr. Sulu” because they thought in sounded cool and Japanese. When the show aired in Japan, his name was changed to a real Japanese name. The character is a great success, and was named in a previous era. If you make up an imaginary name to describe someone from a non-imaginary place, be careful or you will face criticism in our day and age.
If you are looking for a realistic name, keep the real world in mind. Names come into fashion and go out again. Many writers choose a name that is popular now, and not when the character was born. See our website resources post for a way to find this information. http://goldenkeyscribes.com/web/2015/06/09/babyname-com/ Author Elizabeth Sims used the name Gary Kwan for a Japanese-American criminal defense attorney, but it is a Chinese name.
Some steps to take when choosing a realistic name:
Think about the most popular names in the year your character was born. http://www.babycenter.com/0_most-popular-baby-names-through-history_1508595.bc
Another great resource here. https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi
You can search around for information on the web about names popular with different demographic groups, for example here, a site found with a simple Google search. http://www.babycenter.com/0_popular-african-american-names_10329236.bc
Some online random name generators let you select by nationality. http://www.behindthename.com/random/
Fine a name translator like this one. http://www.behindthename.com/names/translate Google Translate also does this.
You can generate a Chinese name based on the meaning (the way the Chinese themselves do). http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
8. Avoid similar names to prevent confusion
The Dynamic Duo. Both named after things that fly. Bats are dark and scary, robins are small and cute. The same, but different. This is a great example of choosing contrasting, but somehow similar names for partners.
Avoid names of the same gender that start with the same letter in the same book. For example, don’t call one boy Jimmy and the other Jack.
In the same vein, use names of differing length and syllable stress: Debby and Barbara and Annette, Dax and Roberto.
One last point in this section: Owing to the sort of society that we live in, the problem disappears across gender lines. If you want to call one twin Dora and the other Dave, then go ahead. We can well believe that parents might do this, and most people will never mix them up across the gender barrier. The similarity will invite us to compare them, but not confuse them. They might have similar, or contrasting character traits and the similar names would invite us to think about that.
9. Create a duo whose names match in some way
As with the other methods, use this approach only if it suits your story. Statistically, more people names Joseph marry women named Mary than you would expect, just as more Adams marry women named Eve.
This could be a simple as having two characters starting with the same letter, but usually if they are of different genders, otherwise readers will confuse them.
Partner names can be similar:
Although usually having similar names for different characters may confuse readers, this very quality may be a plus for partners.
Rhyming names:
Heckle & Jeckle
Alliterative names:
Beauty and the Beast: not their real names, but a good example of alliteration with different genders.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Beavis and Butt-head: Here we have some alliterative names of the same gender, but they are duo, inseparable, and we may wish to emphasize their similar qualities.
Very similar names create a comic effect. There even used to be a cartoon show call Ed, Edd and Eddy.
Different but complementary: The name of your duo may also boast some other similarity of sound. Mulder & Scully have the same vowel in the first syllable, and create a subtly effect of similarity, as though they belonged together.
Or the names may contrast:
Lady & the Tramp: The names of this classic pair contrast in meaning – one rich and one poor – in addition to sounding rather different. More about them later.
Starsky and Hutch, Tango and Cash or Jekyll and Hyde: Here the first name has two syllables, and the and short second. Cory and Shawn and Lady and the Tramp also fit here.
Methods of naming can be combined. The names Tango and Cash, both indicate on the one hand a wild and fast lifestyle. On the other hand, it was Tango who had more cash, not his partner Cash, who was broke. This is a great example of irony in naming, or an inaptronym. Read more about inaptronyms in Part Two.
Or names may recall famous brands (or places or personages or whatever):
Statler & Waldorf
Be careful to avoid trademark infringement, though. Your name should be different enough to stand on its own.
So go ahead. Name your characters Ben and Jerry, if that suits the tone of your work.
You may say that some names just “sound good,” but if you look closer and analyze, you can see the hidden reason and employ it in your own character names.
Calvin & Hobbes: two great philosophers for the modern era. These names play the syllable game very well, and also make reference to historical personages.
10. Avoid real names and names of famous people
Obviously, you will want to avoid lawsuits. Authors even avoid giving any middle name to a murderous character, to limit the number of people who have the exact same name, and who might be offended or see a chance to get a few bucks.
11. Make your names easy to pronounce, even if they appear in science fiction, fantasy or foreign settings.
I’m sure real aliens have names that are impossible to pronounce, but readers will want to remember them and be able to say the names of your fictional ones. If they can’t say them, they will skip them, and the character will seem less real without a name. Superman’s Mister Mxyzptlk was cute, and is a classic now, but unless you know you can pull off the gag (and it is a gag) then just don’t.
Think instead of great alien names in fiction. Spock. Gort. Klaatu. Na’vi. Kal-El.
And in fantasy: Aragorn. Frodo. Conan. Tarzan. Granny Weatherwax.
Each and every one of these names immediately calls certain appropriate characteristics to mind, and fits in perfectly to the milieu created by the author.
The Gorn. A good character name because it’s short but sweet, and definitely not from around here. It is a species name, like the Vulcans, another great name, like a glaciered, sleeping volcano, dormant and cool, but with heat and power underneath.
Don’t think that the name types I have enumerated above are somehow unusual or just not done. My problem in writing this post, I assure you, was what names to leave out, not hunting up names to include. The only exception was finding inaptronyms. There don’t seem to be many of those. That indicates that this provides a good source of new names, names that are not overdone.
I can’t stand it, some of these are so delicious, I can’t stand to leave them out. I’ll throw them out there:
Humbert Humbert, Lolita.
Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter
Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Lady Brett Ashley, The Sun Also Rises
Pip, Great Expectations
Ichabod Crane, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Mustapha Mond, Brave New World
Jeeves, The Man with Two Left Feet and many others
Major Major Major Major and Milo Minderbender, Catch-22
This breaks the rule about names that begin with the same letter, but let’s face it, when you usually call one character Major Major Major Major, and you other character Milo, people won’t get confused.
Stephen Daedalus and Mina Purefoy, Ulysses.
Henry Higgins and Ramona Quimby, Beezus and Ramona and others
Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy, very evocative names. They elicit severity, the sibilance of a snake, a sniping, critical or underhanded character, the dragon (Draco) and bad faith (Malfoy).
Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love
He lives forever.
Benny Profane, V
Mrs. Malaprop, The Rivals
Dr. Beeper, Caddyshack
Hiro Protagonist, Snowcrash
Neo, Trinity, Rail, Beat, Motoko, Molly Millions, The Dixie Flatline and other Cyberpunk names.
The series M*A*S*H – as well as the novel it was based upon – burst with great character names. Besides “Radar” O’ Riley and Hawkeye Pierce, pictured, we could find Corporal Klinger, Lt. Colonel Donald Penobscott and Charles Emerson Winchester III, just to name a few. All of these names told us something important about the character and created a vivid image in our minds.
A last word:
Don’t choose your character name gratuitously. Give it some thought. Consider what impression you want to make with your character. Dramatic? Humorous? Fearsome? Timid? Would a subtle reference work better for your story, or an obvious one? Choose a method of naming. You’ll find many!
If you haven’t already, get the full story and lots of extra tip and info in Parts One and Two of the Series
Win the character name game in style: 11 ways to dream up an original, effective name. Pt. 2
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Great Character Names, Part Two: Methods 4 through 6
This part two of a series on choosing great character names, breaking the topic into three bite-sized chunks. To get the whole picture, check Part One here.
Think of super names for your characters and win the race on characterization at the starter’s gate. Your hero’s essential traits will strike readers before a single word is uttered.
Let’s get right to the next three tactics to sharpen up your characters through smart naming:
4. Evocative names
“aptronyms”
Han Solo. A great appropriate name – or aptronym – for this independent, self-reliant buccaneer. Even if Han actually does have a partner and technically does not go it solo. It echoes Napoleon Solo, the man from U.N.C.L.E, with the short first name, the word solo looms large, at 2/3 of the whole name.
The aptronym, that is, a name that is especially apt for a person’s character or profession, stands out as the most common type of interesting character name. Reconsider the names Sarah Suckling, Clark Kent and Peter Parker, in Part One of this series. You probably get some idea or their character just from hearing the names. Sarah Suckling creates – intentionally! – a very negative impression. Clark Kent, which begins and ends with hard consonants, invokes a solid, strong character with traditional, Anglo-Saxon values. Peter Parker begins and “middles” with relatively strong consonant sounds, but ends with softer r sounds. In keeping with this, Peter has strong values, but also a sensitive side. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes implies refinement and intellect. The first sound, sh, suggests the hush of covert investigation.
More examples include the Bond women:
Bonita,
Plenty O’Toole
And more. Some have a sexual or romantic meaning: Bonita, Mary Goodnight, Kissy Suzuki. Note that the least sexily named of these, Mary Goodnight, Bond never manages to bed. Fittingly, she has the first name of a virgin, and her last name sounds more like a not-tonight-I-have-a-headache sort of moniker. But on the sexier side, let’s not forget Chew Mee. Others sound dangerous, like Fiona Volpe, whose job was to lure men to their deaths. In contrast, Patricia Fearing had to be rescued by Bond.
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore. Honor Blackman, because it is real name not an imaginary – character – name, proves that great monikers are not necessarily unrealistic. Her first name could be an aptronym – an apt name – and her last name “black-man” is its opposite, the inaptronym or inappropriate name, since she is a white woman.
Note that the most blatantly evocative names originate from the more humorous Bond films. Subtler names appeared when moviemakers went for a more dramatic effect. Good character names should match the genre of your story for humorous or dramatic or subtle effect.
Consider these evocative names:
Vince Majestyk, played by Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk
How different this film would have been with a different name, like Mr. Weiner.
Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane
He sounds rich.
Snake Plissken in Escape From New York
Here we not only have the reptile name, but the sibilance ss in the surname. Perfect for Snake’s sneering insouciance.
Buckaroo Banzai in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
This wonderfully whimsical name (which is also alliterative, just to make sure) sets up just the right offbeat expectation for this off-center all-time cult favorite with elements of comedy and satire.
Till the prequels came out, we didn’t know what the heck this name meant, but it implied menace. “Darth” sounds like “death” and “Vader” sounds like “invader.”
Shakespeare’s Mistress Quickly, full of bawdy innuendo, whose name may be a pun on “quick lay”, though “quick” also had the meaning of “alive”, so it may imply “lively”, which also commonly had a sexual connotation.
These are not a rarity in fiction at all. In fact, have found too many to list.
“Inaptronyms”
Above we covered aptronyms, when a name clearly suits a character, but what their opposite, the inaptronym? (I’m not making these up.) This refers to a character whose name stands in sharp contrast to her personality.
Mr. Big, Zootopia
He is an arctic shrew, no taller than 3-4 inches.
Little John, Robin Hood
His real name is John Little, but he’s actually a huge fellow.
The Ancient One, Doctor Strange
She looks no more than thirty.
The suicidal Happy Franks, The Impostors
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, The Fifth Element
Jean-Baptiste was a Christian saint, as for Emmanuel, well, it is another name for Jesus.
Thing is, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg is an insane and callous weapons magnate with a fetish for “creative” destruction.
Captain Murderer from Snuff
He’s a smuggler.
Mike Stoker, Emergency!
Stokers kept fires burning in places like metal foundries and steamships. Mike is a firefighter, and puts them out.
John Singer, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
He’s a deaf mute.
Cartoon names: Judy Hopps and Mr. Big. “Gram-mama taught me respect, determination, and above all else, the importance of family. She was the whole cannoli.”
Captain Keene, Horatio Hornblower
Not at all keen (meaning enthusiastic), the good captain is an old and tired gentleman who keeps coughing and breathing heavily, who barely manages to captain his ship, preferring to make gnomic, sarcastic, sometimes bitter, asides.
Lucky, Waiting for Godot
He suffers the most abuse in the play. However, maybe is secretly lucky because, unlike the others, is not looking forward to anything, and will not be disappointed.
See from this list that such names can be given either flippantly, or with deeper irony.
As a side note, you can use this, and all of these methods to name other things, as well. Charming is a town in Sons of Anarchy – with a long history of gang violence. Prague is a novel about Budapest.
In real life, knew a man called Adam Eve. So referencing historical and literary names is not unrealistic.
But avoid overkill
Go ahead and use names like Ralph Kramden (whose bulky frame is “crammed in” to his driver’s uniform and also into his small apartment) or Holden Caulfield (who wants to “hold on” to childhood), but avoid names that sound like porn stars or romance heroes unless you write in those genres.
If you are hesitant to give your character an evocative name, if you find it trite or obvious, try an Inaptronym. Call the surgeon who saves your protagonist Dr. Slaughter. Or name an ugly character Mr. Kiss. Or give him cold sores.
Your readers will give you credit for irony.
5. Modern-sounding names:
Zachary Quinto as Skylar from Heroes. Using a modern name is a way to get people to take notice of you character.
Modern sounding names can be used either as aptronyms or inaptronyms, but merit a section of their own.
First let’s see some examples, listed here with the years these names became popular:
Liam, 1967
Mia, 1964
Harper, 2004
Aiden, 1995
Avery, 1989
Jayden, 1994
Aubrey, 1973
Zoey, 1995
Addison, 1994
Dylan, 1966
Aria, 2000
Layla, 1972
Brooklyn, 1990
Riley, 1990
Skylar, 1990
Jaxon, 1997
Paisley, 2006
Ariana, 1978
Grayson, 1984
Aaliyah, 1994
To sum up, use a modern-sounding name to accentuate or contrast with a character’s innate qualities, whether the character is forward thinking and modern, or old fashioned. Despite some people’s initial reactions, this type of name is not unrealistic. Just think here of actress America Ferrera.
6. Reference names
Rank Xerox, the anti-hero monster Robot. Part aptronym, part reference name. Be careful! Rank Xerox had to change his name in the USA and the UK after a lawsuit for infringement on the Xerox trademark.
In addition, your names can reference characters and people and events in their entirety, rather than characteristics like majestic. Take, for example, Bambi and Thumper from Diamonds Are Forever, or Jaws, also from the Bond series. Bond has to fight the two women, Bambi and Thumper, but in a playful way that makes these impish names perfect for the occasion. Bambi can also imply elegance and beauty, and Thumper, fighting prowess.
Meanwhile Jaws, with is steel teeth, humorously evokes the hit Spielberg film of the same name, which still loomed large in the public consciousness at the time.
Alternatively, your character can be partly named after other literary or historical characters. Here we can take Napoleon Solo (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an example.
Just a note: In real life, knew a man, I kid you not, called Adam Eve. So referencing historical and literary names is not unrealistic. Just consider real names like George Washington Carver and Francis Scott Fitzgerald (named after Francis Scott Key), both taking their names from historical personages. However, you needn’t reference only other characters and literary works when you select a name. Jack Bauer, already mentioned above for his Bond-like initials, references the game euchre. In that game the Jack card ranks highest in the trump suit, and is called ‘The Right Bower.’ He is a trump card and trounces his enemies.
Reference name: Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H) was named after the character Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans.
An intentional use of a name with negative associations can be great. Go for it!
PS: If you liked this post, find out a lot more about winning character names in Character names: Part One here.
Win the name game in style: eleven smart ways to dream up original, effective character names.
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Terrific Character Names Part One: Methods 1 to 3
Have great character names and get a head start on characterization from the firing of the starter’s gun. Your protagonists’ core characteristics will hit people before the first word or action of your stories, before readers even see their faces.
You’ll find myriad ways to achieve this. Let’s review a few of them.
1. Alliteration
Hannah Helene Horvath, Marnie Marie Michaels, Jessamyn “Jessa” Johansson and Shoshanna Shapiro, Girls. In many genres names don’t have to be totally realistic, just memorable.
Alliteration, when both first and last name start with the same letter, produces a strong, easy-to-remember name. People will remember your character longer, and you will have better brand recognition.
Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey
Selina Suckling, from Emma
Mimi Mamoulian and Billy Battuta from The Satanic Verses
Tom Tulliver from The Mill on the Floss
Clark Kent, Peter Parker and many, many other comic book characters.
Binx Bolling, from The Moviegoer
Dick Dastardly. What a great name for a bad guy to send up the old melodramas! It is not only alliterative, but evocative, too. See Part Two for that. Dastardly and Mutley is also a great name pairing, as we will see in Part Three.
Alliteration provides your character with a snappy, unforgettable name. Memorable names increase brand recognition, and make your character spring to mind more often. After all, if you cannot remember the name of a character, you will think of that character less easily and less often.
Remember, you want a name that springs to mind. But bear in mind: too many alliterative names in one work can seem humorous or absurd. Another caveat: some genres use this more than other – just examine the list above. This device could set up expectations in people’s minds of what sort of story they are about to read. This effect declines if fewer characters have alliterative names, and if the alliterative character is not the main character.
Note from the above list that the alliterative moniker may not be just a proper name, but a nickname or title.
2. Avoid character names with an unintended negative association
References are great, but you should be aware of them and in control. Think about the implications of you name. Has a story with a similar name recently been published? Has the name been in the news in an unflattering context? For example, in the series The Greatest American Hero, creators named the protagonist Ralph Hinkley. But when a man with a similar name, John Hinckley Jr., shot then-president Ronald Reagan (a great name, by the way!), Producers changed it to Hanley.
Is your name shared by a figure in the news? Or another character from a classic or very recent book? Do you want that association?
Think of super character names and win the race on characterization at the starter’s gate. Your hero’s essential traits will strike readers before he utters a single word.
3. The so-called “meaningful monogram”
Furthermore, a good name can give insight into your character or foreshadow their fate. For example, tried and true (some would say overdone, but the trend lives to this day), giving your character the significant monogram JC invokes Jesus Christ and martyrdom. Sharp readers will expect them to meet a bad end for a greater cause. Examples number too many to list but here are a few. In these cases, the lives of the characters back up the Christ comparison.
Let’s just take a look:
Jim Conklin in The Red Badge of Courage
He sacrifices his life like Christ, but apparently without any noble reason. An ironic Christ figure. One the other hand, his death may teach his friend, Henry, something about life, death, and manhood. The author, Stephen Crane, backs up the Christ comparison with his mention of a “whipping,” a “solemn ceremony,” and “bloody hands,” as well as an injury in his side (where Jesus was stabbed with a spear). Crane even describes the dying man as “a devotee of a mad religion.”
Jesse Custer in Preacher
Appointed by God to take his place.
Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio
His name itself is a euphemistic replacement for the oath “Jesus Christ!” in general parlance. He teaches Pinocchio morals and warns him against temptation. A mini “Christ the Teacher.”
John Connor in The Terminator
Sent on a mission of salvation for the sake of all mankind, and gives up his life for the cause.
Computer-game hero JC Denton
Also out to save the world, and he may actually be descended from Jesus. According to the theory, JC names subliminally get us to connect these characters with another, more famous person who had them..
Proviso:
But bear in mind that some people claim the whole JC thing has grown fusty and flat. Usually, though, critics feel this way, mostly about unpublished manuscripts, rather than readership after the work has seen the bookstore shelves. Regardless, once your work hits the market, no one will question it, just as in the examples above.
JB-JB-JB & JB
Furthermore, you character could have the initial of some other important personage: JFK, MLK, FDR. Or your JC character could be like Julius Caesar. Or resemble Jesus Christ, but be a woman. Joke initials like FU or WTF are always available for comedies or parodies.
Just look around and you will find other famous initials to borrow. The initials needn’t be those of a real person. Think also here of the many “JB” spies and action heroes:
Jack Bristow
To remind people of James Bond?
Finally, remember that whatever you do with your names, have fun. Your readers will, too.
For more effective ways to grab attention for your characters with a standout name, please have a look at Character Names: Parts Two and Three,
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7 journalism educators to receive JEA Medal of Merit
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Seven individuals who have contributed significantly to scholastic journalism throughout their career will be recognized by the Journalism Education Association as Medal of Merit recipients Nov. 18 at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Dallas.
The award recipients are Jeanne Acton-Shanks, University Interscholastic League, Austin, Texas; Kelly Furnas, Elon (North Carolina) University; Nancy Hastings, Highland, Indiana; Brian D. Hayes, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana; Aaron Manfull, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri; Margie Raper, Highland Park High School, Dallas; and Mitch Ziegler, Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, California.
Jeanne Acton-Shanks has spent most of her career helping scholastic journalism grow in Texas while also supporting advisers from around the country. For the last 13 years, however, Acton-Shanks has spent a large portion of her time overseeing the journalism programs in all of Texas, including a revision of the essential knowledge and skills. When she isn’t helping in Texas, Acton-Shanks is advising new teachers at the Reynolds Institute and helping NSPA. Jeanne is at the heart of everything good about journalism, nominator Cindy Todd said. She is a compassionate leader who is determined to give both teachers and students the best experience and most opportunities possible.
Kelly Furnas, MJE, used his role as JEA executive director to extend the reach of the organization throughout his tenure from 2010-2016. During this time, he helped conceive the curriculum initiative, provided continual support for the Scholastic Press Rights Committee and made connections to Career and Technical Education. His efforts as JEA’s executive director made the organization stronger in its programming, structure and finances, nominator Sarah Nichols, MJE, said, but more importantly, Kelly made each of its leaders better through his teaching.
Nancy Hastings, MJE, retired from teaching and advising after 38 years and has stayed involved as JEA’s Indiana state director for more than two decades. Hastings has maintained her commitment to journalism and her education as a journalism workshop instructor despite being out of the classroom. She continues to help lead other state directors, providing her insights in the JEA State Directors Guide foreword. Her positive energy, sense of humor and personal approach [are] just what members need as their introduction to scholastic journalism and to JEA in particular, nominator Sarah Nichols, MJE, said.
Brian D. Hayes, MJE, has had a wide variety of experiences in journalism, but his expertise in design and graphics stands out. He has served as the design and graphics team leader for the JEA Curriculum Initiative, served on the Certification Committee and provided instruction at the JEA Advisers Institute. Brian reaches out beyond Ball State, nominator Kim Green, MJE, said. He volunteers to help both JEA and the Indiana High School Press Association at every turn.
Aaron Manfull, MJE, has spent numerous hours dedicated to programs beyond where he teaches. As the JEA Digital Media chair, the Media Now summer camp director, and the MJEA Outreach director, Manfull has managed to share his experiences and expertise with many students and advisers across the country. Aaron goes above and beyond with logic, details and vision, nominator Mitch Eden, MJE, said. He thinks what is best for kids every time we discuss journalism and the direction a program should be pointed.
Margie Raper, MJE, has extended her outreach beyond Texas in a quiet, behind-the-scenes manner. She has had her hand in many aspects of scholastic journalism, from writing curriculum to teaching convention sessions, from helping design logos and T-shirts to presiding over the Texas Association of Journalism Educators. She brings a wealth of knowledge in all areas of scholastic journalism as a 15-year teacher and a former broadcast journalist, nominator Cindy Todd said. Margie prefers to work behind the scenes. She is constantly thinking, planning and searching for ways to provide enriching experiences for both teachers and students.
Mitch Ziegler, CJE, may be an expert in all areas of journalism and photojournalism, as nominator Mary Kay Downes, MJE, said, but his contributions extend far beyond his knowledge. As a current member and former president of Southern California JEA, Mitch has helped support journalism in Southern California. As an extension of that group, he chaired the Anaheim JEA/NPSA national convention in 2008, and he helped the local committees for both the 2011 and 2016 conventions. Mitch is a true professional, continually seeking to improve his skills as a teacher and photographer, and an amazing friend and colleague, nominator Brenda Gorsuch, MJE, said.
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Review: The Rivals (Arcola Theatre)
Review: Anything Goes (Wimbledon Theatre)
Lorna Dallas (Live at Zédel)
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Dear Evan Hansen (Music Box Theatre)
The unique selling feature of a $200-a-ticket Broadway musical which sets it apart from our home made West End ones is often a vast stage filled with forty hoofers and a dozen ginormous sets. What makes Dear Evan Hansen so good and special is it has none of these.
Conceived before Benj Pasek and Justin Paul earned plaudits for their work on the dubious La La Land it marks an advance in both their own progress, and that of the character-driven American musical. I hear echoes of Matilda and Next to Normal in the score, but never to the point that you could say this music wasn’t smartly original. The comparison with Next to Normal is interesting because there lies another superb contemporary musical that didn’t cross the pond.
And I don’t think Evan should.
Not because it isn’t brilliant, but because we’ve done the marginalized-teenager-makes-good exhaustively with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
In a modern American folk tale, withdrawn high school senior Evan communicates better online from his darkened bedroom than in person. A self-motivating letter he’s asked to write by his psychotherapist is misinterpreted as a bully’s suicide note to his ‘best friend’ Evan, who transforms into Billy Liar inventing stories to please the people newly interested in him.
It’s delivered with economy and class, the music grows organically from situations whether it’s the scene-setting ‘Looking Through the Window’ or the first act closer ‘You Will Be Found’ which has become both an anthem for the teenage outsider, and a hashtag some have had tattooed on their inner arms.
Taylor Trensch now plays the title role, and he’s as fresh faced and fresh voiced a blend of youthful energy and awkwardness as you’ve never heard of. Evan is a character you could easily blend with a spell as Christopher Boone in Curious Incident and Barnaby Tucker in Hello, Dolly to forge a lasting Broadway career.
A refreshing feature of the score and musical direction is that the actors don’t often lurch into a ‘rock voice’ and sing a musical theatre score with musical theatre voices. Effortlessly, especially Trensch and Rachel Bay Jones as his mother, somewhat stereotyped as a single parent and nurse, and hampered with some predictable lines in Steven Levenson’s otherwise convincing book, and a straw wig that makes her look like Amanda Seyfried.
Evan’s a Holden Caulfield for the Snapchat generation, whose bad deeds go unpunished.
That’s very refreshing for American fiction, let alone musical theatre.
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The Worldwide Crisis of Islam => The Truth About Islam => Topic started by: Joe Bruno on February 03, 2014, 05:37:42 PM
Title: Honor Killings In The Moslem World
Post by: Joe Bruno on February 03, 2014, 05:37:42 PM
Four arrested in Iraq 'honor killing'
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/18/iraq.honorkilling/index.html
• Four arrested in "honor killing" in northern Iraq
• Two suspects were members of girl's family
• The 17-year-old was dragged from home and stoned to death
• Cell phone video of killing broadcast worldwide
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (CNN) -- Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested four
people in connection with the "honor killing" last month of a Kurdish
teen -- a startling, morbid pummeling caught on a mobile phone video
camera and broadcast around the world.
The case portrays the tragedy and brutality of honor killings in the
Muslim world. Honor killings take place when family members kill
relatives, almost always female, because they feel the relatives'
actions have shamed the family.
In this case, Dua Khalil, a 17-year-old Kurdish girl whose religion is
Yazidi, was dragged into a crowd in a headlock with police looking on
and kicked, beaten and stoned to death last month. (Watch the attack,
and what authorities are doing about it Video)
Authorities believe she was killed for being seen with a Sunni Muslim
man. She had not married him or converted, but her attackers believed
she had, a top official in Nineveh province said. The Yazidis, who
observe an ancient Middle Eastern religion, look down on mixing with
people of another faith.
Each year, dozens of honor killings are reported in Iraq and thousands
are reported worldwide, said the United Nations. The practice has been
condemned around the world by governments and human rights groups. A
yearly vigil protesting honor killings is held in London, England.
Two of the four arrested are members of the victim's family, police in
Nineveh province said Thursday. Four others, including a cousin thought
to have instigated the killing, are being sought.
The killing is said to have spurred the killings of about two dozen
Yazidi men by Sunni Muslims in the Mosul area two weeks later. Attackers
affiliated with al Qaeda pulled 24 Yazidi men out of a bus and
slaughtered them, a provincial official said.
The violence ratcheted up tensions between Yazids and Muslims in
Bashiqa, the victim's hometown, a largely Yazidi city in Nineveh province.
Provincial officials don't think much could have been done to stop the
honor killing, but at least three officers are being investigated and
could be fired.
"The climate, the religious and social climate is such that people can
do that in daylight and that authorities do not intervene," said the
spokeswoman for the Organization of Womens' Freedom in Iraq, Houzan Mahmoud.
Also, the top police official in Bashiqa is being replaced.
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London Piano Institute on Johann Sebastian Bach
London Piano Institute is the U.K.’s only adults-only piano school. Located in central London, London Piano Institute offers the highest quality instruction in classical, jazz, pop, rock and blues piano using the latest and most effective adult instructional methods. Here a top instructor at London Piano Institute discusses one the greatest keyboard composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Information Nation: Almost everyone recognizes the Bach name.
London Piano Institute: That’s because he is universally recognized as one of the greatest composers and musicians in history.
Information Nation: When did he live?
London Piano Institute: He was born in 1685 in Eisenach, in what is now central Germany, and he died in 1750 in Leipzig, not far from his birthplace.
Information Nation: What period in musical history is that?
London Piano Institute: He lived and composed in what is known as the Baroque period.
Information Nation: Was he born into a musical family?
London Piano Institute: Yes, his father taught him violin and music theory and all of his uncles were professional musicians. Their posts included church organists, court chamber musicians and composers.
Information Nation: Where did he first encounter the keyboard?
London Piano Institute: One uncle introduced him to the organ, the primary keyboard instrument of the day, since most of the music that ordinary people heard was performed in churches.
Information Nation: Who else instructed him?
London Piano Institute: After both his parents died when he was only 10, he moved in with his older brother, a church organist in a nearby town, who continued to instruct him in organ and clavichord (an early form of piano) and introduced him to the music of other composers.
Information Nation: Was he formally schooled in music?
London Piano Institute: At the age of 14, Bach was awarded a choral scholarship to study at the prestigious St. Michael’s School in Lüneburg.
Information Nation: What was his first professional job?
London Piano Institute: After graduating from St. Michael’s, he was appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar where his reputation as a keyboardist grew.
Information Nation: When did he begin composing in earnest?
London Piano Institute: After several other brief postings as a church organist, he married and returned to the ducal court at Weimer where he worked with a large contingent of professional musicians. This was the start of a long period of composing keyboard and orchestral works.
Information Nation: What are some of his best-known works for the keyboard?
London Piano Institute: The Well-Tempered Clavier contains a prelude and fugue in each of the 24 major and minor keys. It is thus used as a primary exercise book for keyboardists in their training.
Information Nation: What does “well-tempered” mean?
London Piano Institute: A temperament is the system of tuning used to make it possible to play in a number of musical keys. In Bach’s time, that was an innovation.
Information Nation: What are some of his other keyboard works?
London Piano Institute: The 15 Inventions and Sinfonias, Partitas for keyboard, and the Goldberg Variations are among the best-known.
Information Nation: Did he continue to perform?
London Piano Institute: Yes, he was organist and composer at a number of churches during the remainder of his life and achieved notoriety as a court musician.
Information Nation: Did he achieve fame in his lifetime?
London Piano Institute: While he was recognized by important noblemen and other German composers like Handel, he was not widely known until long after his death.
Information Nation: Where is he buried?
London Piano Institute: He is buried in Leipzig where a statue is erected in his honor.
Information Nation: Why is he revered as a composer?
London Piano Institute: There are many reasons, but if I had to summarise it would be that the technical complexity and beauty of his music are unparalleled.
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The central government would set up a fund called ‘The Coal Regulatory Authority Fund” to credit all grants, fee and charges received by the authority. After passing of the Coal Regulatory Authority Bill, 2013, details would be worked out and submitted to the government for appropriate financial sanction for the initial start-up funding, a government press release said. The government said this in a press release after the cabinet cleared the proposal for setting up of an independent regulatory
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Anna Pollatou was born in Argostoli, Kefalonia on the 8th October 1983. She started Rhythmic Gymnastics with the local “Athletic and Gymnastic Association of Eptanison” in 1988 at the early age of 5. With the coaching of her trainer Mrs Bozena Bartkovska-Basiardis she excelled both in Panhellenic championships and in international competitions.
In 1997 she was summoned to join the Ensemble National Team with which she distinguished herself and won all the titles: European Champion, World Champion and Olympic Medalist. In particular, in 1999 she won with the ensemble 3 gold medals at the Budapest European championship in group all-round competition and at the apparatus finals. In the same year, at the World championship in Ozaka, Japan, she won with the ensemble 2 gold medals in the apparatus finals and 1 silver medal in group all-round competition. In 2000, at the Olympic Games in Sydney, she competed with the Ensemble National Team of Greece winning the bronze medal in group all-round competition.
Unfortunately, on the 17th May 2014 she lost her life in a car accident leaving an irreplaceable gap behind her.
The Organizing Committee of the Festival and her local Sports Club Eptanison to honour her for what she established and offered to her home island, Kefalonia, and country Greece, decided to name the event after her name. And thus, international festival Gymnastics for all ‘’ANNA POLLATOU’’ was born since the year 2014.
Kefalonia Gym Festival
Day 1: Arrival of the teams
Day 2: Parade of the teams-Opening Ceremony
Thursday 25/06/2020 - Time: 21.00
Day 3: Event at Lixouri
Friday 226/06/2020 - Time: 20.00
Day 4: Event at Fragata
Saturday 27/06/2020 - Time: 20.30
Day 5: Main event at Argostoli
Sunday 28/06/2020 - Time: 18.00
Day 6: Departure of the teams
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Internet Law: Can You Get A Video Removed If You’re In It?
Originally Posted: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
An actress is trying to get a video, in which she performed, taken down from YouTube;
Discussion of “fixation” as it relates to Internet intellectual property law; and
Contact information for an cyberlaw attorney.
In a recent blog post, Eric Goldman deconstructed Garcia v. Google – a copyright lawsuit that could profoundly impact Internet law standards. The case basics: an actress wants to copyright her performance in a YouTube video so she can then file a DMCA take down request. Why does she want to get the material removed from YouTube? A possible fatwa.
The case is noteworthy because it could potentially upend established case law related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. And a “wrong” ruling in Garcia v. Google could warp-drive us into what Goldman dubs a “parallel-copyright-law-universe.”
The Issue: Actress Looking To Escape Cultural Offense Wants Video Removed From YouTube
Actress Cindy Garcia appeared in the controversial video “Innocence of Muslims” — for a mere five seconds. In the finished film, her voice wasn’t used; her screen time features a voice over. Unfortunately for Garcia, some Muslims were offended by the dubbed audio statement accompanying her visage in the film. So, to shorten a long and controversial story, some factions suggested a fatwa against the actress.
Looking to avoid conflict, Garcia asked YouTube to remove the video – Google (YouTube’s mother ship) refused. Determined, Garcia did the next best thing and tried to gain copyright control of her performance so she could file a DMCA takedown notice.
Important Internet Law Legal Consideration: Does Garcia Have The Power To Get The Video Removed From YouTube?
As an actor, Garcia didn’t have an executive stake in the film. So, she tried to claim ownership of her performance.
Goldman explains that the legal crux in Garcia is “fixation”: for a party to have a legitimate copyright claim, the work in question must be “fixed” – as Goldman puts it – “in a tangible medium.”
A performance written, produced and directed by other people, however, should not be a viable stake on which a copyright claim can be waged. If it were, actors of all stripes – from extras to superstars – would become an unstoppable copyright troll horde. Every single one of them would be able to exercise legal control over any work in which they appeared.
An appeals panel is currently hearing arguments in the case. In the meantime, Goldman’s article is well worth the read and explains the issue at hand in more detail.
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Originally from New York City, Cathie returned to Illinois in the fall of 2004 after living overseas with her husband (three years in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and then three years in Grenoble France). Since completing her Master of Fine Art degree in 1987 from Bradley University in Peoria, IL, she has concentrated on the color reduction woodcut.
Her work has been included in more than three hundred exhibitions, twenty-five solo exhibitions, seventy juried national shows and fifteen international juried exhibitions since completing a BFA from The Ohio State University. Crawford has won over thirty-five awards at both the national and regional level. Her prints have been exhibited in 26 states as well as France, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and the UK.
Cathie Crawford ‐ Likeness of Being (24x19)
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Athens News Agency: News in English (PM), 98-02-09
From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr>
Athens, Greece, 09/02/1998 (ANA)
MAIN HEADLINES
Greece refutes Turkish claims
OA cancels five flights
Gov't extends hand to disaffected farmers
Greek, Turkish journalists concerned over tension
Turkish freighter refloated
Commission president Santer to visit Athens
12% increase in British tourists projected
Quake recorded
NEWS IN DETAIL
Government spokesman Dimitris Reppas today confirmed a report that Greece had sent a non-paper to NATO refuting Turkish claims that Greece was giving support to Turkey's Kurdish minority.
The report, which appeared in Sunday's issue of the Athens daily "Kathimerini", said the non-paper also presented NATO with data indicating that Turkey was undermining the normalisation of Greek-Turkish relations.
With regard to the referral of bilateral differences to the International Court of Justice, Reppas said Greece's position was unchanged.
As reiterated by Prime Minister Costas Simitis in parliament last Wednesday, the only issue that the two countries could jointly refer to the International Court was the question of the continental shelf, he said.
If Turkey recognised the Court's jurisidiction, something which Reppas did not think likely, then it would be able to take recourse to that Court over any issue it wished.
"It is not necessary (for Turkey) to raise these issues by means of irregular military action," he added.
Olympic Airways announced the cancellation of five flights today and merger of two other flights in a bid to ease problems caused by the ongoing dispute between the government and the Union of Flight Attendants and Stewards.
It said two flights from Athens to Thessaloniki and one flight each to Chania, Paris and Rome were cancelled, while its Geneva-Zurich and Stuttgard-Frankfurt flights were merged, while assistance would be sought from Olympic Aviation in carrying out OA flights when possible.
Travellers are advised to contact local airports to confirm flights.
OA managing director Theodoros Tsikiris said Sunday that OA would unilaterally set up flight plans if no agreement was reached with the Union at the end of the two-month deadline.
Protesting farmers today continued a week-long blockade of national highways in norther Greece as the government set up a team of troubleshooters in a bid to end the standoff.
The team, headed by Agriculture Minister Stephanos Tzoumakas and comprising Finance undersecretary George Drys, Agriculture undersecretaries Dimitris Sotirlis and Vassilis Geranidis, and governor of the Agricultural Bank of Greece Petros Lambrou, invited protesting farmers' representatives to the Ministry for talks on Thursday.
The farmers have said they will intensify blockades this week and continue their protest until their demands are met for state subsidies and cheaper petrol for agricultural use.
Farmers are blocking the national road arteries at several points in the prefectures of Thessaloniki, Pieria and Imathia, causing serious disruption to traffic and forcing drivers to use side roads.
They plan a two-hour blockade near the Greek-Yugoslav border post at Evzoni beginning at 2:00 p.m. today.
A group of Greek and Turkish journalists today expressed concern over the "perpetuating tension" in relations between Greece and Turkey and called on the two sides to avoid any provocative military or other actions.
A resolution issued after a three-day meeting in the Turkish city of Izmir, which ended last night, said:
"We consider negative for both countries, the implication in Greek-Turkish relations of foreign military formations regardless of how they are manifested, as they entail the danger of war or an arbiter's role".
More than 250 journalists, politicians and intellectuals attended the "2nd solidarity meeting of Greek and Turkish journalists" organised by the "Journalists in the Aegean and Thrace for Peace" movement, in a follow up to the first meeting last year on the Greek island of Chios.
The resolution expressed "deep concern over the perpetuating tension in relations between Greece and Turkey".
It reiterated the journalists' "firm position that the problems between the two countries can and should be resolved through the application of the rules of international law, bilateral treaties, and full respect of the existing borders".
It called on both sides to "finally decide to avoid every provocative military or other action".
The resolution said that "any hesitation on the path of dialogue, often the result of pressure from nationalistic circles in both countries, and every hesitation in respecting international law only intensifies the crisis and gives rise to interventions by third parties that serve only the arms dealers at the expense of the standard of living of the two peoples".
Regarding the Cyprus problem, the resolution stressed "the need for demilitarisation of the island and solving its internal problems to the benefit of the two communities".
At another point the resolution stressed that "the minorities in Greece and Turkey could form a bridge of friendship among the two countries," adding that "we feel compelled to demand the implementation of any human rights that are violated today".
The delegates said that the next solidarity meeting would be held in Alexandroupolis, Thrace next year.
Greek tugboats refloated a Turkish freighter that had run aground in the shallows off the islet of Matrhaki, northeast of the island of Corfu, harbour officials said today.
They said the Ecuador-flagged "C. Osman", which ran aground last Friday while en route to the Yugoslav port of Veka, was refloated late last night by two Greek tugs after transferring part of its cargo to a Greek cargo ship.
Meanwhile, the Piraeus harbour authority said that the 2,037-ton Greek tanker "Aegean VI" ran aground this morning in the sandy shallows off the island of Poros.
The tanker's nine-member crew were all safe, and efforts were being made to refloat it.
European Commission president Jacques Santer will pay a formal visit to Greece from April 9 to 13, an ANA dispatch from Brussels said today.
While in Athens, Santer will meet with the state and political leadership of the country.
He will also be the keynote speaker at a banquet in the context of an international conference on "Greeting a new Business Age" being organised in Athens by The Economist magazine on April 9.
Santer is further scheduled to visit the island of Crete, where he will meet with representatives of the local authorities and producers.
It will be Santer's third official visit to Greece since assuming the helm of the Commission in January 1995.
Greece expects a 12 percent increase in tourist traffic from Great Britain, according to recent figures from the Greek National Tourist Organisation in London.
Bookings in December 1997 were up by 35 percent compared with the same month in 1996, with bookings for January 1998 already over the December figure.
The most popular destinations for holidaying Britons were: Athens (up 195 percent), Lefkada (up 72%), Cephallonia (up 62 percent), Skiathos (up 61 percent), Corfu (30 percent), Rhodes (22 percent) and Zakynthos (20 percent).
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was recorded at 16.00 today, its epicentre located 20 km. east of Athens in the sea bed near the port of Rafina, according to an announcement by Athens seismologists.
The tremor was felt in Rafina, Loutsa and Athens, particularly the northern suburbs. No damages have been reported.
Cloud and scattered showers are forecast for most parts of Greece today, with light snowfalls in mountainous regions. Northeasterly stong to very strong winds will reach gale force in parts of the Aegean Sea. Athens partly cloudy, with possible light rain and temperatures from 3-10C. Thessaloniki will be overcast with temperatures between 1-6C.
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Auditions for “Wizard of OZ”
Limelight is looking forward to our upcoming professional and student productions of “The Wizard of Oz“. We have already cast the professional production and we are excited to see this cast come to life! Auditions for the student productions will take place on Sunday, January 29th. Please e-mail auditions@limepac.com for more information.
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Meet Lisa McCusker Sherer
Posted on April 25, 2016 April 25, 2016 by admin
Meet Lisa McCusker Sherer – a performer, supermom, lover of the arts and passionate about bringing smiles to children every day. We have known Lisa for many years — performed together onstage at Upper Darby Summer Stage back in the day and have kept in touch over the years. Like many — she’s a hardworking, super proud mother of two amazing kids — who believes in the value of exposing children to performing arts as a fun way to build the value of teamwork, instill self-confidence and self-expression. We think you’ll love her story!
Lisa – thanks a million for participating in our Limelight Interview series. We love your story because it could apply to so many moms and dads who are thinking of how to get their kids involved in activities that work on the inner child. You have a long love-affair with the arts. Whether it is performing or supporting — it’s clear it is important to you. How was this instilled in you?
From an early age I loved TV. I had a wonderful dance teacher who saw I could sing much better than I could dance and took me to the Al Alberts Showcase taping at the ABC Studio on City Line Avenue. I was hooked and knew if my mom could curl my hair, I could be the next Shirley Temple. Al Alberts, is a Philadelphia kids talent show that no one knows of today, unless you are in a certain age group and Shirley Temple who kids are clueless about!
That’s great — and yes — you really do need to be of a certain age to remember Al Alberts. Tell us about your first show. What are your memories of that experience?
My first high school show was at Cardinal O’Hara, my grammar school took a bunch of us kids (I was in 3rd grade) to audition and I was the only blonde princess in the King and I. A classmate who was Asian also was cast and he needed a “traveling buddy” so I got chosen. For the shows I had to shoe polish my hair to look the part.
And that led to your first lead role — what was it and how was that experience?
My first lead was at Upper Darby Summer Stage. I was a Junior in high school and auditioned for the role of “Mrs. Darling” in Peter Pan. I was typing in the theater office and Harry Dietzler (Founder and Director) told me to audition – I got the part and Matt Cloran was my first summer stage director, I did shows in high school but was a chorus girl. It was magical and frightening! I cried on stage I was so scared. Matt told me my solo was amazing and that I had nailed the role as a mom who was worried for her kids. LOL! The 2nd show was a little better! I performed for 4 days and it was awesome!! My confidence grew each show.
We love Matt – doesn’t surprise us that he was so supportive. How did that exposure to the performing arts guide you in your adult life?
Well, for example in my business, I have had to stand in front of several people and give presentations. That takes self-confidence. I have had several jobs over the years where my lessons learned during the summer stage years stuck with me and the confidence was there to “perform” in the corporate world.
So true! We hear that a lot. Let’s change gears to your children — obvious you love them like crazy and are a huge supporter of their endeavors. I heard you once say something along the lines of “exposing my kids to the performing arts was not about encouraging them to be professional actors — but more about giving them critical skills to be successful in any career”. What specifically did you mean there?
To give kids a foundation in the arts in my opinion is priceless. The confidence you see grow, the leadership skills developing over time, even knowing you need the proper diction and enunciation for doing presentations at an early age has given my kids a head start. For example – Matthew, my oldest, was given a ‘job’ in middle school (he attended a private college prep school). During visitation weeks, he was giving tours of the school by 7th grade. The head master told me he was the only boy in the class who did not “grunt” when he spoke. He was able to be a role model for the school during a marketing period which normally is left to adults. You learn loyalty and dedication and a true love of something.
That’s great! Your kids — they do it all — marching band, movies, stage, TV – is it more of a hobby or a passion for them now?
Both! Matthew continues to model and act. He now has his own apartment at 22 years old and auditions for background acting jobs in New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. He is a waiter during his down time to ‘pay the rent’.
Olivia loves music and has leadership values that will take her to Penn State this fall. One of her college goals is to be “on stage for THON” and to be in a leadership role that will require her to wear a headset and radio while studying business and sports management.
How will this exposure better prepare them for their adult life?
They are both actually shy kids. But because of their love for the arts they step out of their comfort zone once they feel the warmth of the stage lights. Both are responsible and have life skills and leadership skills that were formed during their younger years. They have patience which is rare for kids today. Being on a set for a TV show is very much “hurry up and wait”. I enjoy live stage better, but have done work with Matthew on TV during his younger years. He has more patience than I do while on set!
They often say – the friendships you form in a theatrical show are lifelong. Is that really true? Why are they so lasting in your opinion?
Yes. It’s really true. Being a theater kid is being special. Years ago, you were a geek with nowhere to go — today there are several day camps, summer theater programs all which sell-out because parents realize that importance of the theater — you learn to be in a team, you learn patience and determination. Not everyone wins a lead, you earn it – you learn respect for your fellow cast members and bond to them. Being on a live stage you need to trust the cast and crew around you. I am still friends with my summer stage friends from 1980. Before it was hours worth of telephone calls, now we are all on Facebook and we don’t skip a beat.
You performed in the 40th Anniversary Season at Upper Darby Summer Stage last summer — what was it like getting on that stage again? Were you a bundle of nerves or was it like riding a bicycle?
It was so much fun and just like riding a bike I loved every moment of it. I saw people where conversations picked up where they left off and harmonies that I had not sung in years stuck in my head for weeks after our performances!
It was clear you were having a blast — and you were great in those numbers. What was the role that got away? If you could turn back the hands of time (or even now) — what juicy part would you be sinking your teeth into?
As a kid, it was the role of “Star To Be” in Annie in 1984. You see, this little bratty kid showed up to audition and blew the house down with an amazing set of pipes. To this day, it’s one of my favorite roles, not because I performed it, but because I saw a kid who deserved to have that role and do an amazing job. I have done the show Annie several times, I performed in several different roles but never as “Star To Be”. Oh – and that bratty kid — we formed a friendship that year that has lasted to this day. Now she runs an amazing theatre studio in Chester County!
Hahaha – that is hilarious! Wait until Ann (Ann Pinto McCarney, founder of Limelight Performing Arts Center) reads this — you will surely be getting a phone call.
Let’s talk about your passion with kids. You do some pretty incredible work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation – surely some performing is present when you engage with those courageous children. What skills are you drawing from to succeed in that role?
I perform every time I meet a Wish Child. From wings, to wand, crazy-colored sneakers and of course a tiara. I meet the children either at their homes or in hospitals. My job is to interview them and being the magic of their wishes.
What is the most rewarding part of your work there and how do you remain such a positive light for the kids?
To see the kids’ faces when we return with the paperwork or ‘go light’ for a wish to be fulfilled is amazing. After paperwork, there are still medical approvals that need to be done. My job is to make sure at the initial interview that no matter what the outcome — that day was a fun and exciting day spent dreaming and not thinking about “I’m too sick” for anything. Being with Wish Kids is truly the most amazing, magical, humbling, sad, and frustrating of adventures. No child deserves to have a life-changing illness as a child.
Wow! What a job — and we can’t think of a better person to fill those crazy-colored sneakers and tiara.
Do you have any parting words for moms and dads reading this interview?
I would only say to young parents, don’t miss out on the joys of the world of live theater. My generation is the last generation of “before too much technology” when kids played outside, created shows in the back yard, played house and recreated shows from watching family TV shows that are a lost art. Sports are great, I played softball, my kids played sports but being involved with the arts is so different. It’s magical. So take your kids to see shows, go to see summer theater productions, participate and feel the magic and let it touch the imagination of the next generation.
Love that!!! So true — well thanks Lisa for sharing your thoughts — lots to think about. We understand that directing is your passion these days but we hope to see you back onstage someday soon — maybe at Limelight?!
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Meet Rebecca Stern!
Posted on February 4, 2016 February 5, 2016 by admin
Meet Rebecca Stern! A familiar face at Limelight – an extremely versatile actress in a variety of mediums who is enthusiastic, focused and hard-working with talent galore and best of all — one of the friendliest kids you will ever meet. She has graced our stage in such roles as Annie (Annie), Flounder (The Little Mermaid) and most recently as Jojo (in Limelight’s recent professional production of Seussical) — but wait until you see what other cool things she’s accomplished at such a young age. Enjoy getting to know this terrific young lady — she’s a favorite for sure!
Tell us about your experience playing Jojo in the professional production of Seussical?
My experience playing JoJo in the professional production of Seussical was one of the best experiences of my life, onstage and off. I loved playing the role because it can be interpreted many different ways. It was also amazing being able to work with such talented and kind professionals. I loved everyone in the cast and it was definitely a huge bonding experience for the kids. There were a lot of laughs and I looked forward to every rehearsal. When the weekend when I was playing JoJo was over I was sad, but it was a lot of fun seeing my friends do the role how they envisioned it. I miss it tremendously and I loved every minute of it.
That’s great and you did an awesome job — a true pro on your own but what was the single most thing you learned working with those talented professionals?
Thank you! The biggest thing I learned from the professional actors was to try anything to the biggest level you can. When Chad (Director) asked them to try doing something differently, they completely went for it and changed their whole performance of that particular scene or song. It was amazing how they were never nervous about how they looked to the other cast members and just went for it. I strive to do what they made look easy.
What a great lesson so early in your career. Who is your role model today — both onstage and off?
My role model has to be Amanda Jane Cooper. She is a phenomenal actress who went to my high school, Great Valley, and then graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Musical Theater. She is currently playing Glinda in the National Tour of Wicked for the second time. She has been in many TV shows and it is so cool that she went to my high school. She has many accomplishments on stage, but she is also one of the nicest people offstage as well. When I was doing Annie at Limelight, she gave me a lesson to help me prepare for the show. She was so helpful and kind and even sent a follow-up email wishing me good luck and vocal exercises. She is definitely my role model.
You are so lucky to have a trusting mentor. Let’s change gears – What Broadway musical is the most heavily played in your song list lately?
I have to say Into the Woods or Beauty and the Beast. I love the music in Beauty and the Beast and I am so excited to participate in Into the Woods for Limelight’s middle school spring show. I have definitely been singing those shows around the house constantly.
Tell our young readers why you think participating in the performing arts is beneficial to their overall character.
When I was younger, I was shy and not very confident. My mom had me audition for my first student film on a whim because she saw it late at night and thought it looked cool. I became obsessed with performing and the more projects I did, the more confident I became. The more auditions I went on, the less scared I became at the next one. I believe that participating in the performing arts gives kids a stronger voice and more confidence. If you can sing in front of an audience of 100 people, then you feel much more comfortable asking a question in class. Some of my best friends are involved in musical theater, and they have shaped me. Some of the best people you will ever meet are musical theater people. If I had not done that student film and started my journey of performing, I can guarantee, I would not be the person I am today.
Wow – that’s fantastic… and it’s not just theatre for you — you have branched out into voiceover and industrial film work — how has that experience been and what else is on your bucket list?
It has been really fun doing voiceover and commercials. I love doing voiceovers because I am on the taller side for my age but I have a younger voice so I can play someone much younger. I was able to do many commercial voiceovers for Playmobil, which has been amazing and crazy for me to hear my voice on television and during the holiday season to see my Playmobil® video displayed at Toys R Us! I also sang the remake of “Number 9 Martian Beauty” renamed “A Real Martian Beauty” for Sesame Street. It aired on an episode called Abby’s Too Cool for School and when the episode aired, the song was on TV. It is on Sesame Street’s You Tube channel as well. I was shocked to hear my voice on Sesame Street. It was an amazing experience and I learned that it takes a huge team of people and a lot of work to make one music video. They had to make a puppet for the song and I had to go into New York City twice to record. It was over a year until the episode premiered. On my bucket list are more professional theater productions and more non-voiceover commercials and TV shows.
So awesome and such an iconic show as Sesame Street – what a great experience. You are a very versatile performer — is there one area you feel deserves more attention for further education and development?
Thanks! I feel I would like to put more attention and development on dancing. I currently take only Tap, but I feel that I should educate myself in more musical theater dance and other styles. I have taken Ballet, Tap, and Modern dance classes for years, but I now am just focusing on Tap because it fit into my schedule the best. I also would love to take Improv and other Acting classes.
You know what they say — try to be as well-rounded as you can — all of those classes are building your overall talent. They also say the best experience is to audition a lot — how often are you out there “pounding the pavements” looking for that next part?
I completely agree. The more auditions you go on, the better you get at them. I would say around 10 auditions a year. They are a mix of commercial, film, and theater auditions. Lately I have been doing mostly theater auditions.
Quickly – what is your dream role?
I can’t decide between Belle in Beauty and the Beast and Gertrude in Seussical! I love Belle and she is my favorite Disney® Princess. I like how she is such an avid reader and challenges the life that others have imagined for her. I also love Gertrude because she seems like she would be a really fun role to put your own spin on. She has a lot of funny lines and allows the actress who is playing her get goofy and awkward and have a great time.
I can totally see you being great in both roles. Is performing something you see yourself doing as a hobby as you get older or something you want to really pursue as your career?
That’s a hard question! I love performing, but I am also really into engineering and robotics. At this point in my life, I think I will stick to performing as a hobby, or maybe double major in engineering and performing arts. I would love to be a vocal teacher and help other kids get to their maximum potential. My vocal teacher, Susan Brizick, is amazing and I would like to teach voice to kids just like her.
Sounds perfect! What is on the near horizon for you?
Coming up soon for me is the auditions for Into the Woods, Jr. with Limelight! I am so excited to be in this amazing show! I have a lot of friends participating, so I think it will be a lot of fun!
Thanks Becca for taking the time to talk with us — something tells me we will only see bigger and brighter things for you in the years ahead. Keep smiling and laughing too because the fun is in the journey!
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Meet Lauren McAlee
Posted on January 8, 2016 July 13, 2016 by admin
Meet Lauren McAlee!
She’s a singer, dancer and actress extraordinaire… and she’s only in 4th grade! Lauren has been keeping busy with performing at Limelight – it’s all about Seussical lately– first playing in the professional production, the kids cast and then starring as Jojo in the High School production…that’s a lot of Seuss!
Lauren brings such a fresh enthusiasm to performing – we thought you’d love to read about this sweet and energetic young lady – enjoy!
Lauren – thanks for taking the time be interviewed for our “You In The Spotlight” blog series. You are fresh off the heels of Limelight’s professional production of Seussical The Musical. Lots of rehearsal and 3 weekends of shows — you must be exhausted. Was it a lot of work or a lot of fun for you to be in that production?
It was definitely tons of fun. At times it was tiring and a lot of hard work. We rehearsed every Sunday for months for nine hours so some of the Mondays I was very cranky. But at the end it was all worth it!
What is the single most thing you miss the most about it being over?
I really miss the cast! I learned so much from rehearsing with the grownups and the older kids. We were together a lot so all the kids in the ensemble became really good friends. I still talk to the kids and we are hoping to get together soon for a reunion. I don’t miss the Seussical script and songs though because now I am rehearsing for January’s Seussical Kids (grades 1-5) as a Bird Girl and Seussical, Jr.(high school) as JoJo! I am really excited to be Jojo! That’s a lot of Seuss!
Tell us about the first time you knew you wanted to be onstage performing before a live audience. What was it that inspired you to say “I want to do that!”
Well, I started dance classes when I was 2.5 years old so I was on stage for many Christmas shows and recitals. I always loved to sing, dress up and pretend but I didn’t do any theatre stuff. When I went to my first West Chester Summer Stage audition I was really nervous but I got a part and I was very excited to see what it was like. I LOVED West Chester Summer Stage and that’s when I got the acting bug. So I guess I’d say WCSS and Mrs. McCarney inspired me.
You have such a spark on stage – I remember your performance as Ariel in The Little Mermaid – you really seemed to understand the character and it shined off of your face. You were wonderful in that role — how was that overall experience for you?
Thanks! Well, of course Mermaid was an awesome experience for me! I felt the pressure at times during practices but the other kids and Mrs. McCarney made me feel better. We would work together as a team and I think we did a great show.
How did you prepare for the auditions for that part? Were you surprised when you saw you were cast in the lead role?
When I have an audition coming up I sing the songs and practice the lines over and over and over. I practice so much that my brothers throw me out of the room! But it is so much fun to practice and I get so excited to audition. When I found out I was Ariel I was in shock! I couldn’t believe that I was Ariel after all those years of pretending to be a princess.
Tell us about the favorite roles you played or productions you were in and what you learned about yourself while performing in them.
I loved being an angel in the Nutcracker at the Rock School West. I haven’t really had time to do it again but I hope to some Christmas soon. I am finally old enough to be in the talent show at school this year too so I am looking forward to that.
What roles do you hope to play one day if given the opportunity? What is it about those roles that interest you?
I would love to be Annie someday. She is very feisty and I like that she can light up a room with a song. I would also love to be Little Red Riding Hood from Into the Woods because the songs are amazing. I never saw the play but I loved the movie. I cannot wait to see the professional version of Into The Woods at Limelight. I think Mrs. McCarney will be the perfect witch!
We often hear that young people who participate in performing arts helps to build confidence and improve school grades because it requires you to manage your time wisely, be accountable for meeting deadlines, speak in front of others, working with a team, etc. — can you say you have seen any improvement as a result of you being involved in the performing arts?
Being involved in theatre has helped me in many ways. I am more confident to do speeches or read in school. I also play the flute, basketball and take two dances classes each week so I am pretty busy. But I like busy – I get bored easily! I definitely have learned that I need to plan out my homework and projects around preparing for and going to Limelight classes or rehearsals.
What is your favorite part of performing — acting, singing, dancing? What comes easiest and what comes hardest?
I definitely like singing the best because it comes easy to me. I find the acting part the hardest because I always get nervous about missing a cue or forgetting lines and messing up who goes next. There was this one line in Mermaid that I always messed up. I’d go over it a hundred times but I think I’d get so nervous that I was going to mess it up that I couldn’t think straight. So of course I messed it up and I messed up King Triton —but we recovered.
Why do you think it is important as a young person to constantly challenge yourself and learn new skills?
I think it helps me to grow up! As I do new things in theatre or in anything I like, that new skill helps me get one step further. So all those little skills I learn along the way get me ready for the next thing I think is a big deal at that time.
Tell us what Broadway musical you are singing all the time lately? Is it your all-time fave?
I was singing songs from the Secret Garden because I had a couple of auditions last month but now I am back to singing Seuss all day. Seuss is definitely my fave right now!
I was really surprised to learn you have a hearing impairment. Most would think it’s hard to sing and act with this but obviously you don’t have any difficulty do you?
Yes, I am 100% deaf in my left ear. Many people do not know I have a hearing problem until they go to whisper in my ear. It’s kind of funny because they look at me like …What? Huh!? The inside of my left ear is shaped differently which causes the hearing problem but I am lucky because most people that have this problem have it in BOTH ears! We didn’t know that I had a problem until I was almost four. Apparently one day in the movie theater (during the Princess and the Frog) my mom was whispering in my ear about popcorn and I told her angrily to “use the other ear”! My parents said it was scary at first but they say it didn’t and still hasn’t really caused many problems for me. My mom always says my right ear is “supersonic” because I hear everything even when she’s whispering! HA! I have learned that I really need to pay attention in certain places like in class, near traffic, in the gym when playing basketball and places like that. I have worked with hearing teachers who taught me not to be shy about asking for things to be repeated or for a better seat so I can hear better. Sometimes it bothers me and I wish I could hear better but when I think about kids who have so many other BIG problems than I know I am lucky it’s only an ear!
Thanks so much for sharing that information as well as sharing your love for the arts with us! Thank you, this was fun!
Well there you have it folks – come see Lauren as Jojo at Limelight Performing Arts Center – this girl is going to be a big star one day – get your chance while you can .
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Meet Nora Fitzgerald
Meet Nora Fitzgerald – currently knocking our socks off as Amazing Mayzie in our professional production of Seussical The Musical.
Nora – Thanks for taking the time to allow us to learn more about you and your love for the performing arts. Honestly, you do it all — actress, choreographer, dancer, director — tell us what you are working on today.
Well, after taking a break from performing for several years, I am finding my voice again–Literally! The voice is a muscle and I gotta get back in the gym! Being a part of Seussical at Limelight has been a fun challenge. After directing/choreographing students for so long, it has been a humbling experience stepping into the student/performer role again!
Let’s talk about your performing life first – Tell us about your start — how old, dancing, acting?
I started dancing when I was four, continuing into high school taking ballet and jazz. My first show was Bye Bye Birdie in sixth grade. I joined the musical because my older sister did it and I wanted to be like her. I was in the ensemble but then got to play the part of Margie one of the two nights because two girls skipped rehearsal one day to go watch a volleyball match and as punishment, one of their performances was taken away. We had more auditions and I got the part. At age 11, it was terrifying. We didn’t have many body mics then so the song was done with hand mics. We had to hand it off after each solo. I only had two lines, trembled through each one and then it was over. My first night in the spotlight was pretty anticlimactic.
Not to mention terrifying. What are some of your favorite roles or memories from stage performing?
After college, I got to perform with some of my dearest friends from school for several years. We all stayed in the area and auditioned for the same shows. Favorite roles would be Velma in Chicago (twice–I loved it that much) and Anita in West Side Story. Also, my first big role was Winifred in Once Upon a Mattress in eighth grade so that will always hold a special place in my heart.
That’s great – What do you love the most? What is your true north when it comes to performing arts?
I truly love directing and choreographing teens. It is such a vulnerable age. I enjoy challenging them with movement and encouraging them to be brave, giving themselves permission to make choices that are not always comfortable in “real” life.
Let’s not forget your commercial acting career — you seem to be on every channel some days — how fun is that?
Commercial acting is a totally different medium and often looks more “glamorous” on screen than it is behind the scenes. Working in front of the camera taught me a lot about myself and gave me valuable experience to share with my students.
How did you know it was time to jump back in — besides knowing you’d be in the company of some of Philly’s finest?
When the notice came out that Limelight was doing an adult production, I hoped I’d have the chance to be part of something professional where I might have the opportunity to grow. I find as I get older that I welcome moments in which I can be a student again!
Every actor has a story — what was the funniest thing that ever happened to you on stage — planned or unplanned?
This is a tough one. There’s always so many stories, which one to choose? I guess one of the funniest things that happened was at Three Little Baker’s Dinner Theatre. I was a swing for the Easter Show. This means you understudy several roles and are ready to go on for any of them at any time. We knew I was going on for one girl who was going to miss a show so there was an understudy rehearsal ahead of time. I knew the general blocking and dance steps but I never had the opportunity to run the show with full tech—sets, props, lights. I got through the whole show with some lip syncing and faking of steps. The other actors push you around too if you are not sure where you are supposed to be. Just keep a smile on your face and the audience won’t notice. So we get to the last big finale number—an Irvin Berlin tribute. The girls are wearing long gowns with gloves and little black bob wigs and the men in tails and top hats. We hit our end pose and I think I made it, I’m in the clear. Baker’s stage was a very large thrust stage that had audience on three sides. I am all the way downstage at the edge. The furthest down you can be from the back of the stage. I am leaning in a pose extending my leg and leaning back with my hand flexed in my “tah-dah” pose. I smile and hold waiting for the final blackout. And wait. And smile. And wait. I start to subtly peek over my shoulder and see the stage has cleared. No one told me there is no black out and I have been holding my final pose and smiling for what felt like forever. Even the audience applause has started to fade, probably wondering why this girl is still standing on stage and what she is going to do. So I make a dramatic, intentional turn around and take my very long walk to exit the stage. At the same time the “host” of the show comes on stage clapping and thanking the audience and laughing as he looks to me and gives me an extra clap and thank you for my extraordinary exit.
Nora – that is both hilarious and horrifying at the same time — thanks for sharing that with us. Let’s change gears a little – I know you have a special affiliation with Dance – including forming your own dance company, Confidance®. How frustrating and rewarding has that endeavor been?
Thank you yes, I believe that everyone can dance. It can bring so much joy and release and does not have to look a certain way. Starting my own business has been a mix of emotions. I have many days when I say, “Why on earth did I do this?” and many days when that question is answered and I feel great about the positive influence I am trying to bring to my world. After one school visit I received a handwritten letter from a seventh grader that said, “We haven’t been together long but you made the biggest boost in my confidence. You are forever in my heart.” These are the moments that make it all worth it.
What is your philosophy when teaching dance?
Positivity and encouragement. If you don’t know the step, make it up and make it your own.
With respect to your directing career — every Director has their favorites – Tell us about your favorite directing experiences with your students?
Pippin and Kander and Ebb’s The World Goes Round with Twisted Art summer theatre program in West Chester were the first two shows I directed/choreographed with teens. I remember how much time and creativity I enjoyed putting into the productions. I never thought I would be interested in directing but all it took was an opportunity and I fell in love with the process! More recently my shows at Rustin High School have been my favorites specifically Les Miserables, which is probably the largest production I have ever put together and Peter Pan cause it was just so much imagination and fun.
At our West Chester Summer Stage program — you choreographed the Mainstagers for a few years. A program where teens literally put a full blown musical on its feet in roughly two weeks. What has that experience been like?
Awesome. The students come in with such enthusiasm and energy. It’s exhausting for sure but incredible how hard everyone works with the same goal of creating a major production in record time. I am always so impressed with how quickly the students memorize lines, learn dance moves and how dedicated the production team is to making it the best experience possible.
Tell us about your bucket list — the roles you want to perform, the shows you want to direct, the dances you want to choreograph.
I would love to play Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone and Kari in the play The Pavilion by Craig Wright. I always wanted to Direct/Choreograph Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for teens because it was my favorite show as a teenager.
Clearly some great choices there for sure. What’s on your horizon — after Seussical – what do you have in store?
I recently received my 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training certificate and am currently teaching Vinaysa Flow yoga at Simply Yoga in Exton. I also teach a program called Let Your Yoga Dance® at the Yoga Barn in Kennett Square that combines yoga, dance and breath. I have taken a great interest in my own well-being and helping others to find their strongest self. I plan to use my training and Confidance® program to travel more and spread the joy!
Thanks again for sharing your experiences and wisdom — our young readers in particular will find this most helpful. In the meantime —break a leg on the Seussical The Musical – with only two weekends remaining. You are awesome in the show and your hard work has really paid off.
Tickets for this family friendly production can be purchased online at www.limepac.com – I encourage you to get your tickets today to see Nora and the rest of this amazing cast!
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William Mayo
Please Meet the Incomparable William Mayo
He is the Vocal Instructor at Limelight Performing Arts Center. Bill goes way back with Limelight’s owner Ann Pinto McCarney – in fact he was once her vocal instructor many moons ago. Bill is a busy guy — a member of the professional actors union (AEA), a member of the Temple University Voice Faculty, a voice teacher at Limelight, and the Musical Director at our West Chester Summer Stage and Limelight PAC. He is also at a handful of other theatres where he puts his best talent to use, teaching, motivating and inspiring voice students to reach their absolute best in voice performance. Bill has such a wealth of experience and we just had to share it with you all. Enjoy!
You have been teaching voice for many years and it is clearly obvious the joy you have with instructing your students — what is the most exciting part of vocal instruction?
Actually, the reward for me is two fold: Providing a beginning student with an informative start on how voice production takes place in their own voice and leading a student to an “ah-ha” moment in their singing.
How old were you when you started to sing and when you knew this would be a lifelong passion?
I actually came late to singing compared to some students. I entered college on a trumpet scholarship and after my first semester, I realized that I had a voice and that I wanted to pursue it.
When you were a young singer — did you have any mentors or instructors that really impacted your approach or philosophy to singing?
Yes, the organist at my second professional church singing job became a lifelong musical mentor and friend. He was a Curtis Institute of Music graduate and was and still is inspirational concerning voice and music.
Tell us about your credentials and education for teaching.
I currently have a Master’s Degree in Opera Theater and a Professional Certificate in Vocal Performance. I lived, studied and performed in NYC for ten years before coming back to Philadelphia and teaching in the Voice Department of Temple University which I’ve done for the past 30 years.
What a great accomplishment! Share with us some of the highlights of your own signing career?
While in New York City I premiered several new compositions for voice, opera and oratorio. I sang for two years on the National Tour of the historic Men of Song. We were a quartet of professional singers who backed up one of the leading Bassos at the Metropolitan Opera. In those two years I believe I sang in all five provinces of Canada all but four states of the United States. After I returned to Philadelphia, I had the honor of auditioning and being chosen to sing at Vice President Biden’s father’s funeral. I then sang for his mother’s 90th birthday party two years before she passed. That was quite an honor.
Wow – what an honor indeed! What can a prospective student expect to learn while under your vocal instruction?
I teach all of my students how their voice works, all three aspects: Breathing, phonation or making sound and resonation, the natural amplification of the human voice. I also include musicianship, style, diction and posture and song presentation.
What are the top 2-3 things you see today’s singers doing that are not healthy for their voices?
Young singers for the most part, don’t see the relevance of connecting breath support with the act of singing. Young female singers, try so hard to mimic the current female singing stars that all they want to do is use their “belt voices” often disregarding the need to develop their “head voices.” For me, those two items are truly the main issues. You MUST develop the whole voice not just part of it.
Good point! On that note — what tips do you prescribe to your students to protect their voice?
First and foremost, study voice privately so that you can learn how your voice actually works. Avoid screaming and talking too much. Singers must monitor the use of their voice and take care of it. Also, sleep. Young singers need plenty of sleep.
You spend quality time with your students teaching them to breathe and sing properly — why is that so important and how do you keep the student interested when all they want to do is sing?
You develop the technique of singing so that your voice will be free enough to tell stories by way of the music. The better your vocal technique, the freer you are as a performer to tell your story through song. I always try to give students songs that are just in reach of the level of their technique.
I love that — “the better your vocal technique — the freer you are as a performer to tell your story through song”! I know you are all about helping students characterize their songs — what are some of the ways you instruct your students when preparing for an audition?
All songs are stories. If there weren’t any melody, the words would probably be a monologue or a scene with other characters. Singers have to treat their songs as if they WERE monologues with emotional levels and a beginning, middle and an end. We also talk about the emotional design of a song. Rarely is the character in a song just ONE emotion throughout the whole song. Just like a spoken acting seen, the song takes the singer through a range of human emotion and these shifts MUST be identified in the song. You just can’t sing pretty notes!!
I have read articles in the past where business executives will take singing/vocal lessons as a means to improve the strength of their speaking voice — projecting, enunciating, breathing — the works. As a result — some execs have described improvements in their posture and body language when speaking in front of large groups as an added benefit. How often do you hear students share with you the benefits of lessons in their personal/business life aside from just improvements when singing?
Often. The study of vocal presentation benefits everyone in every capacity. I have worked with CEO’s, teachers, actors, public speakers, students and people from all walks of life. Your voice is one of the most PERSONAL unique “identities” a person owns. Using your voice with quality and confidence promotes assurance and positivity in everything we do. I believe we ALL benefit from speaking and carrying ourselves in a positive manner!
From a performing perspective — explain the joy you get when teaching a student during the entire cycle — from struggling to get the lyrics and notes correct to belting out the big number with full confidence on stage?
The satisfaction of helping a young singer develop confidence while performing is immense for me. It’s why I’ve been doing this for over 30 years. There is no nobler aspiration that I can think of than wanting to be a “teller of stories.” Creating ART raises the HUMANITY of all communities and enhances the dignity of ALL human beings. I can’t imagine doing anything else.
There you have it folks – some sage advice and tips from the Master himself… Thanks Bill for sharing – hoping we will see you onstage very soon sharing your vocal talents as well. Hmmm – maybe something at Limelight perhaps?
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Sherer Family
Posted on October 8, 2015 October 8, 2015 by admin
It’s Thank You Thursday — Tinkerbell Style!
It is time to thank some very special people again, folks who have been big supporters of Limelight – our great friends the McCusker-Sherer family.
Our relationship goes way back – Ann attended Prendie H.S. with Lisa and they shared several years together at Upper Darby Summer Stage, too. Over the years the arts kept them in touch – with Lisa working a season at our West Chester Summer Stage and her son Matt participating in several productions that Ann directed and produced. In fact – Matt was a huge help last year when we went through the exhausting task of moving 15 years worth of costumes, scenery, set pieces, props and other theatre stuff to our new location. On days like that — you need all the help you can get and when a big, 6’4″, strong young man with endless energy arrives to help — you are grateful to have him there and we certainly appreciated his eagerness and enthusiasm (did we mention he is also a model and actor?).
Lisa has always been a huge advocate for the arts in many ways. She’s a great supporter of people in general — always there to cheer you on and give you that friendly push to do your best. When we opened the doors at Limelight – Lisa and her husband Stephen (who also shares the same gift of helping others) were at our sides with lots of encouragement and support. They jumped at the chance to fund one of our studio classrooms, Lisa chose the Peter Pan theme and our talented scenic designer, Peggy Fotusky came through with the design — they made a great team. We absolutely LOVE the embellished classroom. Please swing by the studio and —check it out yourself.
Much thanks to Lisa, Stephen, Matt and Liv for your continued love, support, encouragement and being a champion of the arts. You all have such a wonderful “service to others” mentality which makes us proud to be in your company!
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Mullin Family
Posted on September 30, 2015 October 8, 2015 by admin
It’s THANK YOU THURSDAY!
Seussical Studio Dedicated to Nick Mullin
We would like to thank some very special people for supporting Limelight. When we began our GoFundMe campaign last year our dear friends made some very thoughtful contributions. We are eternally grateful and to show our appreciation we dedicated space in our Performing Arts Center and our set designer, Peggy Fotusky, really outdid herself with her design and beautiful artwork.
Tom and Dee Mullin’s son Nick was involved in our West Chester Summer Stage Program during his battle with cancer. Despite his struggles, he lit up our stage with his huge talent and a smile that inspired everyone he encountered. One of our studios is now dedicated to Nick – a beautiful tribute to him and the show Seussical he starred in (in fact – we are proud to display his unicycle and red converse sneakers that he used in our production). It is our privilege to honor Nick and his courageous parents who are succeeding at keeping his memory strong and making a difference through their Nick Smiles on the Arts Foundation.
Honestly – the pictures don’t do the studio justice – we encourage you to visit our performing arts center and see this studio for yourself – it’s a great place for learning. Thanks Mullins for allowing us to share Nick’s story with our students and for your continuous loyalty and support of Limelight!
For more information on the Nick Smiles on the Arts Foundation and the wonderful causes it supports – please visit: www.nicksmiles.org
For more information on Limelight Performing Arts Center –please visit: www.limepac.com
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Meet Chad Parsons!
A talented Philadelphia actor, director and acting teacher – Chad keeps himself busy with his own personal artistic endeavors as well as enriching the talents of our students in various acting and musical theater classes at Limelight. In addition – he has directed many shows at both Limelight and our own West Chester Summer Stage. His high energy, big smile and enthusiasm for working with his cast and students sets him apart – he truly wants each actor to reach their absolute best performance in every single production. We found it only fitting to let Chad “Step Into The Limelight” – we hope you learn a thing or two from this veteran performer. Enjoy!
Welcome Chad! You might be one of the busiest Actors/Directors in the Philly area – what are you working on now?
I am currently Directing Seussical The Musical here at Limelight and I couldn’t be more excited. Last year was an incredible first season with Broadway Bound, Annie Jr., Grease and Little Mermaid – but this year it’s all about Seussical for the Fall Series and most exciting is the introduction of our first Professional production with many of the area’s most talented, professional actors. What’s even more exciting is we cast several young artists to join the cast – it’s an incredible experience for them to be onstage and in the presence of working professionals. It will be like an acting intensive for them every rehearsal. I’m interested to see how they will grow as a result of this experience – they are already hugely talented kids but trust me – they will grow!
That is so exciting. At what point in your life did you decide “this is my profession” and fully commit to being a working professional?
After a year at Mansfield University studying Elementary Education (following in my parents footsteps) I had a moment when I found out that Mansfield was making big cuts to the theatre program and one of the cuts included the yearly musical. The thought of not being able to perform killed me . . . So I left. It was at this moment I really decided to push forward and pursue a passion that I had no idea where it was going to take me. I knew I was going to have tough times, I heard it about a MILLION times from my parents. But I made a decision to immerse myself into theatre. I still struggle with performing vs. behind the scenes as to which one I “like” more, and the truth is, I love it all. I love how we as artists interpret characters and story. How we show our audience what we want them to see. That fascinates me.
Along those lines…If you’re not acting, you’re directing and vice versa – what is the most rewarding to you personally?
That is a tough question because I LOVE sharing a character with an audience. But I found Directing to be more rewarding for me. Because it’s like my head explodes on the stage. And it’s a really cool feeling to see it come to life. You sit back and smile because you have an awesome cast with an amazing production team that all collaborated together to make this fully realized show. And sometimes you have no words for that but “Thank You”.
For the young actors who perform in our productions, or who decide to enroll in a class to further their education: what is the one thing you want them to get out of the experience that will benefit them in the future? What do you really want to see more of from them as well?
I want my students to walk away knowing that hard work pays off. Focus pays off. You learn so much about yourself and others as a theatre professional. I want them to learn about who they are. Regardless if you continue to pursue theatre as a profession or not, you will always remember the times you had when you were “in a show.”
As a seasoned performer who auditions a lot – AND – a working director who auditions actors a lot: What advice can you give new actors on the audition process? How should they prepare, approach and execute the audition?
To quote Billy Porter “When you get to a certain level. Everybody can sing, everybody can dance, everybody can act and EVERYBODY is cute . . . You have to find out what makes you stand out, what makes you special.” You will never be the person next to you or 10 people in front of you who you just heard belt her face off and you know you don’t sound like that. Don’t let that intimidate you! From experience being on the other side of the table, the director is looking for his/her vision of the character. You must always bring YOU. How do you prepare to audition?. . . AUDITION! You learn so much every time you go on an audition, no matter what the outcome is. Of course you should always be prepared and research the show you’re going in for. And make sure you prepare anything that is specifically asked of you.
Be honest – when you are directing someone and you offer a specific way to read a line – do you want them to just say it the way you said it while having them believe they thought of it?
Partially . . . but I want more the essence of what/how I say the line. I usually give line readings to the younger students who are not yet willing to come out and say things using their intentions.
Let’s change gears and focus on you as the actor:
What was your favorite role and where did you perform it?
My favorite role was Mendel in Fiddler on the Roof at Fulton Opera House.
What a great venue and show – Fiddler always seems to be at the top of list for many an actor. Share with us a little – If we were to see you backstage minutes before your entrance – what would we find you doing?
If it’s my first entrance in the show I am super focused and in a zone, and running through things in my head. Sometimes I start to walk around backstage physically getting into character. But once we start rolling I’m a little more relaxed backstage but overall I’m quiet and stay focused on the show that’s going on so I don’t miss a cue (which I have done before so I have learned my lesson). It happened to be while I was talking about a person who had just missed their cue . . . so Karma!
Have you ever been cast in a role where despite all your preparation – you never fully felt like you were doing your best work?
YES! I was cast as MacDuff in “MacBeth” It was COMPLETELY outside my comfort zone. But it was one of the most rewarding experiences in the end. I never felt like I connected fully to it in moments, and wish I had more time and training to fully develop what I only felt like I was skimming the surface of.
You landed the role – what comes next – character development and preparation or memorizing those lines?
UGH! I am SO BAD at memorization!! I research first. I visualize and physicalize my character and get in it’s brain while reading through and taking notes in the script. I let it develop more when I begin to be active with my scene partners. Memorization for me comes through repetition and connecting thoughts and actions in the blocking.
What was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you onstage?
I made up a whole verse of “Surrey With A Fringe On Top”:
“All around is all around, the cows will moo in the clover, and just when you’re thinking everything is still, oh guess what it’s not over” . . . then I forget what I said next, I was a sweaty mess and blanked out . . . but I’m sure it was brilliant, but I finished with “The frogs will hop, and the stars will . . . pop!”
That’s hilarious – terrifying I’m sure but now you probably have gotten more laughs about it. Tell us about a role you really wanted but didn’t get – what did you learn from the process?
I really wanted to be cast in the National Tour of “Wizard of Oz”. I had just played the tin man at a regional theatre and went to the tour call. I made it down to the final 3 Tin Men and they ended up casting someone who was already on tour with them. That was a moment I learned it’s sometimes “who you know”. I also learned that either of the other two guys could have played the role as well. We all had our own qualities in the character and that was a cool thing to see how slightly different each of us were. You can learn a lot from observing other actors.
What genre of performing arts just doesn’t do anything for you?
Bizarre Street Performance Art . . . I try!!! I respect them.
I’m with you on that one…Which do you prefer most: Sinking your teeth into a gritty dramatic role or an outrageously funny role? Why?
I LOVE funny roles!! Duh!! But lately I have wanted to sink my teeth into more dramatic roles just to challenge myself and see how far I can go with a role.
Tell us about your dream role – the one you haven’t performed yet.
Seymour from “Little Shop” hands down! I love that show and that character! Plus anytime three girls riff it up and sing tight harmonies, I’m in!
You heard it here folks – cast this man as Seymour fast before someone else grabs him! Chad – thanks for taking the time – we can’t wait to see what you have planned for Seussical the Musical!
Seussical opens November 6th – visit www.limepac.com for more information on dates, times and how to purchase tickets or email tickets@limepac.com.
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Please Welcome Andrew Blank!
Posted on September 1, 2015 November 29, 2015 by admin
Andrew has a long history with us — from his many performances at West Chester Summer Stage to local school productions and here at Limelight, too. We have watched him grow and mature over the years into a fine, talented young man and actor onstage. He’s the kind of young man who pushes himself, takes risks and keeps education as a priority in life. Given his love and commitment for theater — we thought other young performers may relate and learn from his approach. Enjoy!
Andrew – Welcome to Limelight’s “Step Into Your Spotlight” interview series. It’s hard to keep up with you — tell us what you are up to these days.
Right now, I am just getting ready for school to start again. I am president of the Choir so I have been doing things to prepare for that. It’s a big job but it’s going to be a lot of fun! I am also Vice President of the Ambassadors Club at Bishop Shanahan High School and they are very active at the beginning of the new year to welcome new students! Auditions for our musical, White Christmas, is coming up so we are all preparing for those auditions. Also, there are papal choir practices so I have been very busy!
Wow – you are busy for sure! You have a long history with West Chester Summer Stage – how old were you and what was your first production?
My first show was actually when I was five or six years old. I did Little Rascals for one year but then took a break and didn’t do it again until the summer after 5th grade.
What do you remember most about it?
I do not remember anything from my Little Rascals days but from my 5th grade year, I remember having a few little solos and loving performing. It really began my passion for theater!
And then last year you scored two lead roles in Limelight’s production of Grease – what did you do to prepare for that audition?
Well, this actually wasn’t my first time in Grease. I played Eugene in Grease at Notre Dame my freshman year so I already knew the show and all of the songs. Being in this show before definitely helped with my preparation because I knew exactly how each character could be played. I was able to just think about how I would say each line or walk into a scene as that person. I just had to add my own personal touches to it.
I remember your performance as Eugene too — three roles from the same show — that’s pretty awesome. For a young man — you keep pretty busy with performing — tell us how many shows you have done to date?
I have been in 19 shows total (Starting my 20th very soon)!
Amazing – that’s a lot of stage time. What was your favorite role and why?
My favorite role that I have played was Kenickie in Grease! Kenickie was so far from who I am, so I had to step out of my comfort zone to do this. There were some many things that he would say and do that I would never have, but it gave me the opportunity to portray that person. The character himself is so fun because he really doesn’t care what people think and just did whatever he felt like.
Clearly you are a good student of the arts – Share with your fellow performers what you do to continue learning and broadening your craft?
I take voice lessons with Kim Russell Voice Studio once a week which is truly important. Taking voice lessons really strengthens your ability as a singer and a performer, and I suggest everyone take them! I have also taken classes at Limelight to help with acting and performing. My biggest thing is just to be in as many shows as I can. I am usually in three shows per year but if I have the opportunity, I try to be in more! Working with different actors, directors, choreographers, and musical directors has taught me so much because they all have their own ideas and techniques.
Very good point — the exposure to those Directors and Choreographers during the rehearsal process is like taking performance classes in itself. So given that — what comes hardest for you: script memorization, singing, choreography, acting? Share with us what you do to work harder on those skills that don’t come as easy.
Acting has always been the hardest for me. To work harder, I go over my lines all the time in my head. Being memorized early on really helps because then I’m not as focused on what the words are, but more what I am really saying and how it should be said, as well as, how it would be said as that character.
That’s a good tip — get off the script as early as you can so that more time can be spent on further character development. Was there ever a time when you didn’t land the role you wanted despite putting in the proper preparation? How did you bounce back?
There has been a few times that I have not gotten parts that I really wanted. I always asked my directors afterwards what they thought that I needed to improve on. I took their feedback and really worked on what they had to say so that I was ready for my next audition.
Always learning — love that. What was the funniest thing that has ever happened to you during a live performance?
In Grease, a friend of mine who was playing Danny completely messed up a famous line in the song “We Go Together”. Everyone on stage just kind of looked at one another in disbelief that he really did mess up. It was so hard to not laugh on stage but we were in the middle of the song so we all tried to just keep it together. It was all we talked about during intermission though!
Can you directly link how your dedication to stage performance has helped you succeed in other areas of your life?
Stage performance has helped me build my confidence. At the beginning of High School, I was an extremely shy kid and I didn’t talk to many other students. Performing on stage and having to be up there in front of so many people helped me come out of my shell and become more confident and sociable.
What’s the one piece of advice about performing that someone gave you that you’d like to share with your fellow actors?
One thing that I always struggled with was being confident in my self and my acting choices. I wouldn’t go full out or do things that I thought could work because I was afraid it may look dumb. I realized that taking those chances, and really going for it can make your performance amazing!
Let’s change gears a second to something very special to us. You were a recipient of the prestigious West Chester Summer Stage Nick Mullin Scholarship Award that recognizes young performers who possess the same bright outlook on life and enthusiasm for the arts that Nick had — tell us about that experience?
Receiving the Nick Mullin Scholarship Award was an honor. Being a part of West Chester Summer Stage and the Fine Arts Department at Bishop Shanahan, I had heard so much about Nick and who he was. Everyone who knew Nick has so many wonderful stories of his character and passion for the arts and his name brings a smile to their face. Winning this award and being recognized for possessing similar qualities to Nick was such an amazing and humbling experience!
That’s awesome — and choosing you came easy — you have those same gifts and talents.
Tell us about this exciting little (ok maybe this once-in-a-lifetime chance) to sing for the Pope? You must be pretty excited about that, huh?
Singing for the Pope is going to be amazing! I’m so excited! There are about eight rehearsals total before the big day, and two of them are at the Kimmel Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra. That will be so fantastic! The whole day and weekend is going to be so wonderful and I’m so glad and blessed to be a part of such a momentous and historical occasion!
It really is an incredible opportunity. I think all the years you devoted to your craft has prepared you for this opportunity — so you are very deserving. High School will be wrapping up soon — do you think you will continue to perform in college and after?
I would love to continue performing. Performing is my passion and I would never want to give that up. I plan to minor in musical theater to allow myself to continue doing what I love and working on my skills!
Terrific – keep doing what you do best. We look forward to seeing your last few performances before college life. Thanks for talking with us Andrew – as they say, “Break a leg”.
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5 Examples of Juror Misconduct That May Be Grounds for an Appeal
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When it comes to appeal a criminal conviction, there are very strict rules about what qualifies as grounds for an appeal. A defendant cannot appeal his or her case simply because they disagreed with the decision that was made.
There must be evidence that some sort of legal error was made during the trial that obviously impacted the outcome of the case. Furthermore, the defendant’s lawyer must have “preserved the error, meaning he or she objected to it on the record during the trial in order to give the trial court an opportunity to correct their own error.
One situation that often qualifies as grounds to have an appellate court review a trial court’s decision is known as juror misconduct. In a jury trial, the jurors are required to follow strict protocols to ensure that they are able to give a fair and unbiased ruling as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant. If a juror commits some form of misconduct, it may be grounds for a retrial or to have the jury’s decision overturned on appeal.
Below we have detailed five common types of juror misconduct to could qualify as grounds for an appeal.
1) Inappropriate communication
Inappropriate communication with regard to a juror can occur in many forms. Essentially, if a juror engages in communication that in any way compromises his or her ability to make an impartial judgement, that is considered inappropriate communication. This could include discussing the case with another juror outside the deliberation room, or even discussing the case with a witness or an attorney.
2) Juror Experiments
Jurors are supposed to make their own judgement based on only the evidence that was presented in court and within the bounds of the law as described to them by the judge. If a jury members investigate or in any way seek to learn more about a case for themselves outside the evidence that was presented in court, this is a form of juror misconduct known as juror experiments.
3) Refusal to deliberate
If a juror or members of a jury refuse to deliberate a case for any reason, this is considered juror misconduct and is grounds for appeal.
4) Substance abuse
If it can be shown that a member of the jury was abusing drugs or alcohol in some way during their time as a juror, then it can reasonably be assumed that his or her judgement in making a decision about the case was impaired. Juror substance abuse is a major violation that could be a huge asset to an appeal.
5) Concealing information that is relevant to the case
If a juror willfully conceals aspects about their past that could be relevant to the case, and could reasonably lead to some sort of bias, then they have engaged in misconduct. For example, if a juror does not disclose that a family member was killed by a drunken driver, and they are selected to serve as a juror in a DUI case, then they have concealed very important information about themselves that clearly would impact their ability to make an impartial decision.
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Burgh House
New End Square, NW3 | 35 minutes walk from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
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38 City Road, Shoreditch, London EC1Y | 4.5 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
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Barbican - Curve Gallery
Ground Level, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City, London EC2Y | 4.6 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
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Barbican Conservatory
Gallery Floor (Level 3), Silk Street, City, London EC2Y | 4.6 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Home to over 2,000 species of tropical plants and trees, the Barbican's Conservatory is a hidden tropical oasis in the heart of the city. So... More
Bowman Sculpture
6 Duke Street, St James's, London SW1Y | 4.9 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Bowman Sculpture in St James's is a presitgious gallery where art collectors with deep pockets can get their hands on an original Rodin. Specialising in... More
Broadgate Ice Rink
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Exchange House, 12 Primrose Street, City, London EC2A | 4.9 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
London's longest-running outdoor ice rink, Broadgate Ice Rink, can be found between mid November and the end of February in Exchange Square, only a couple... More
British Optical Association Museum
42 Craven Street, WC2N | 4.9 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Run by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers the British Optical Association Museum in Charing Cross features historic examples of London-made spectacles... More
The Boiler House
91 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London E1 | 5 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
The Old Truman Brewery's celebrated Old Boiler House, which dates back to the 1830s, a warehouse with spectacular soaring ceilings and houses the landmark Truman... More
Bank of England Museum
Bartholomew Lane, City, London EC2R | 5 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Sorry, no free samples here but you can get your hands on a real gold bar. Housed within the Bank of England, the Bank of... More
Bloomberg Arcade
London > Attractions
3 Queen Victoria Street, EC2R | 5.1 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Running through the site of Bloomberg's new European headquarters, the covered pedestrian Bloomberg Arcade is home to... More
Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton Street, Bankside, London SE1 | 5.2 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Bankside Gallery is the home of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers - the oldest societies of their kind in the... More
Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London E1 | 5.2 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
London's own "Curry Mile", Brick Lane is home to so much more than first-rate spiced food, it also plays host to Jewish bagel shops, Indian... More
Buckingham Palace Road, SW1A | 5.3 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
England's most famous royal palace, and the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace opens the doors of its State Rooms to the public... More
Parliament Square, St Margaret Street, Westminster, London SW1A | 5.5 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Sir Charles Barry sought advice from Benjamin Lewis Vuillamy - clockmaker to the Queen - and Augustus Pugin when it came to designing the... More
Brompton Oratory
Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 | 5.6 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Built in 1884, in the Italianate Baroque style, the Brompton Oratory is an exact imitation of the Church of the Gesu in Rome and sports... More
Brooks Farm
Skeltons Lane Recreation Ground, 135 Skeltons Lane, E10 | 5.8 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Part of Capel Manor College, Brooks Farm, is a place to study and it's also a wonderful visitor's attraction with goats, sheep and... More
Circus West, Sopwith Way, Battersea, London SW8 | 6.6 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
The masterpiece of architect Giles Gilbert Scott, the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station has taken on an iconic status in the capital. With its... More
Brunel Museum
Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, Southwark, London SE16 | 6.6 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Within the original engine house in Tunnel Road, SE16, this permanent exhibition commemorates the world's first subaqueous tunnel built by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel assisted... More
Brompton Cemetery
Fulham Road, Fulham, London SW10 | 6.8 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Opened in the mid-19th century Brompton Cemetery was set up as one of the 'Magnificent Seven' series of cemeteries, which included Highgate Cemetery, established to... More
Battersea Park, SW11 | 6.9 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Battersea Park Children's Zoo is home to a host of glorious creatures. There are farmyard animals, lemurs, otters and monkeys, as well as peacocks which... More
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
4 Battersea Park Road, SW8 | 6.9 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Helping out man's best friend since 1860, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has become a national institution. It has played a part in several historical... More
Balfron Tower
St. Leonards Road, Tower Hamlets, London E14 | 7.4 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Commissioned by London County Council, Balfron Tower, was designed by Erno Goldfinger as "a beacon of social housing in 1968" (The Guardian). This 27 storey... More
336 Brixton Road, SW9 | 7.7 miles from Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Highgate
Founded in October 2011, Block 336 is an artist-run project space, studio provider and UK registered charity. Located in Brixton, the gallery has... More
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Two Studies Report Good News for Unified Communications
Tuesday Nov 9th 2010 by Carl Weinschenk
Infonetics Research and ABI Research found that interest in unified communications is going up. The most intriguing and promising finding, from Infonetics, is that 96 percent of respondents have their eyes on eventually rolling out a unified communications platform.
Two research reports containing good news for unified communications were released during the past week.
ABI Research describes the progress of UC within the context of its elements, which include VoIP, fixed mobile convergence, contact center technology, hybrid IP/TDM PBXes, messaging and conferencing and collaboration. The firm says the overall category will produce revenues of $4.8 billion by 2015.
The release shifts to the present and suggests that IP PBX vendors will ship more than 35 million IP and/or IP/TDM PBX lines this year. Two things will drive "robust growth" during the study period: convergence of the IP platform and competition between CPE vendors – those selling gear to end users – and hosted VoIP providers, the study says. Structural issues, such as an improving economy, more hiring and a distributed workforce, will be positive and set the stage for the growth. The hosted IP PBX segment will increase 15.3 percent worldwide to $3.4 billion this year, the study says.
The other study is from Infonetics Research. The firm found that 96 percent, in other words, pretty much all the companies that participated in the survey, intend to eventually move to a UC platform.
Besides that surprisingly high figure, Infonetics verified many things that generally are accepted as common wisdom. For instance, the firm found that Cisco is the leading IP telephony vendor in North America, while Microsoft leads in e-mail and IM. Microsoft is being challenged by Google, the firm said.
The reasons found for deploying UC also are not surprising. They include improving employee productivity, reducing opex and simply satisfying the whims of executives. The biggest growth areas are video, short messaging and social networking. Infonetics found that the main UC end point today is a desktop, but mobile devices are gaining steam.
Taken together, the two studies suggest that unified communications will grow in the enterprise – and, in time, become the main platform for corporate communications.
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Nobody can save you from Kyokai's Death Perception.
First Impression – BTOOOM!
By Overcooled, posted under ANIME, BTOOOM!, First Look
Not many people get to live and learn from the mistake ‘don’t get blown up.’
When in doubt, name your anime after a sound effect. In this universe, K-ON! would be called JAKKA JAN, Initial D would be called VROOM!, Naruto would be called POW, and Black Rock Shooter would be called NNNYYEEEHHHHHHHHRRRRERARRERElesbians. Luckily, this trend is used sparingly. I’m starting off my review of episode one of Btooom! with a boom (forgive me) so hang on tight!
What’s BTOOOM!?
Everyone’s a badass online until their mom walks in on them
Enter the world of Sakamoto Ryouta – an expert player of the game BTOOOM!. It’s an FPB (first person bomber) that plays exactly like a typical shooter, except you use explosives instead of guns. Ryouta is addicted to this game, and spends all his time playing it instead of getting a job or being nice to his mom. He refuses to work anywhere but at a game company, which is a bit of a pipe dream for someone with no experience whatsoever. But enough about jobs, because Ryouta is abruptly shipped off to an island to play a real life version of BTOOOM! where you blow up real people with real bombs. For real.
The basis of the first episode is getting to know Ryouta as both an incredible player and a royal asshole, then seeing him reduced to a gibbering fool when put in the real life equivalent of the game. Ah, divine retribution in the form of kidnapping! The general tone is pretty dark and focused more on either watching Ryouta suffer or reminding us how much he deserved this twist of fate. The action is more of a subfocus, surprisingly enough. It’s only towards the end that the bombs get used in a more creative fashion that could promise some Mirai Nikki-esque battles of wits and cool powers. Every player has a unique type of bomb, which could be really cool. So far we’ve seen time bombs and proximity bombs, but there could all sorts of crazy stuff like landmines, gas bombs, stun bombs and…well, that’s about all I know about bombs, but there’s the potential for some mighty clever battles. So if you like violence, explosions, psychological torment and a series that’s just dumb fun then look no further. It may not actually deliver on the strategy front, but it will most certainly contain as much dumb fun as any typical action flick.
Sometimes I forget this isn’t a zombie anime.
Production notes: Madhouse is at the helm of BTOOOM!, animating it in that dark and edgy way that it does best – albeit with a more generic coat of paint on top. You’ve got Kotono Watanabe directing this, which probably doesn’t ring any bells since she’s only done work on a few episodes here and there and hasn’t ever directed a full anime. Those “few episodes” include the likes of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica and Chihayafuru though, which could be a good omen.
Considering that this anime revolves around blowing people up with explosives, the opening episode was actually quite focused on Ryouta as opposed to “WOW, LOOK AT THESE EXPLOSIONS!” It takes the opposite approach that K does, instead laying out the groundwork of everything first while sacrificing style points. It’s a very stable start, but a bit unremarkable as a consequence. If anything, the next episode should be more of a dealbreaker since all the rule-explaining exposition is (hopefully) out of the way. I’m a fan of the Battle Royale type of death match situation since it always brings out the worst in people. Not only do I expect all manner of emotional malfunctioning to occur, but the lengths these kids will have to go to survive (and slaughter one another) should be a good enough hook to keep me content.
The only real issue here is how the upcoming battles pan out. I like that Ryouta starts off incredibly shocked and confused, instead of starting out as a total ace at the real world version of BTOOOM! just because he was good at pressing buttons. Most anime try and get that period of uncertainty and disbelief in the absurdity of the situation over with quickly, but I like that he tried to cling to the naive hope that maybe things would work out. It was more believable. That being said, his initial reaction to the timed bombs and how to use them was dumb. He learned through firsthand experience that they explode with a timer. He watched it count down. There is no way he wouldn’t put two and two together unless he’d never heard of a time bomb before – and oh, wouldn’t you know it? – he most certainly has because he plays a game where ALL YOU USE ARE BOMBS. However, he makes up for it in the end by concocting a wonderful strategy. Well, okay, it was pretty simple, but I liked it. Just don’t ask me how he could understand that glowing = sonar, while equating time bomb = a fucking time bomb put too much of a strain on his neural networks.
I like BTOOOM! because it’s senseless violence with a lovely dose of human suffering on the side, even if the way its served is a bit crude. There’s nothing really smart or cutting here. It’s not like some Lord of the Flies stuff is going to happen since everyone is already at each others throats from the start. It’s harmless fun! Even if the only female characters are there for eye candy, I really don’t mind. As long as Himiko is useful at least sometimes, then I don’t mind if her ass is pressed right up against the camera for the rest of the episode. I think it’s best to start with no expectations for her, especially since she’s getting (almost) raped in the preview for next week’s episode. As a girl who plays video games, I’ll let you guys know if I’m offended next week. For now, I’m just transfixed by all the pretty explosions.
Preview: Himiko doesn’t try and blow up the main character. Instead, she tells him about her past, which somehow leads into her getting almost raped later on. Uh, yeah. Bombs!
Tags: BTOOOM!, explosions, first impressions
15 Responses to “First Impression – BTOOOM!”
I’m intrigued, another good anime this season. Looks like a show you can sit back, turn off your brain and watch the glorious mindless violence (YES!!! This and the upcoming Jormungand: Perfect Order!!). I’m calling it now: This show is potential sadist magnet. The premise is like a combination of Deadman Wonderland and Mirai Nikki with “The Hunger Games”. My god, I’m making it sound like we, the viewers, are spectators watching a gladiator match in ancient Rome.
Ryouta’s old lifestyle was pretty much an ideal example of people today losing themselves into gaming and ignoring everything else. Ryouta’s reaction on the island is believable. It’s one thing to be the best in a video game but it’s another story when you’re actually fighting for your life. To his credit, he’s quick to adapt to his situation. I’ll be looking forward to seeing him snap under the pressure.
I thought his reaction was a bit too slow and dim-witted. Maybe it can be hand-waved away with a ‘well, he never expected it to become real’ explanation, but it just felt bleh to me.
I had a feeling you’d like this. Focus on just the violence and it’s pretty good! The whole “throw kids in a deathmatch free-for-all” has become a very popular trend nowadays. Guess we haven’t come that far from ancient Rome days.
His reaction was slow, but I think it’s quite believable aside from not realizing bombs that his bombs were timed. Forgetting to push the switch in a flurry of panic or trying desperately to befriend a killer because he can’t believe it’s happening make sense. Considering he’s a NEET, he could also just be a bit dumb too lol and that’s okay! It shows what really happens when you ditch school/work!
I did a head-desk…multiple times while watching this one. Pedantic is almost too kind. The chase was tiresome on top of repetitive, and the exposition of the online world mas mediocre.
About the only thing that got my interest was the preview for the next show, and as Overcooled has already said, it looks like it will cash in Rape Points for drama; looks can be deceiving. I’m detecting my first “three then dump” show this season.
I can see how it could seem repetitive and forced. I don’t know, I actually liked that for once a main character wasn’t automatically a pro at something, and that their improvement was gradual.
Pretty sure BTOOOM! aims to shock with all the subtlety of the bombs it’s famous for, so the rape scene will most likely be very flashy. It’s certainly got me curious though. How the hell is she going to get out of it, and how often is this sort of thing going to happen to her?
Once again, skylion is in my head on this one. The show didn’t do anything good for me, although it didn’t do too much bad, so I’m willing to give it another episode (unlike K). I am also with OC that the MC was a complete jerkass in the real world, and then turned into a complete idiot after being dumped on the island. He’s spent how much time playing a game with different bombs? He pushed the button and watched it countdown and got scared and threw it away and then it blew up? And THEN it takes him 3 more tries to even get a bomb to go off right, because he can’t figure them out?
If it does go for rape next episode, it might be an immediate drop for me if there aren’t severe consequences. I’m good with twincest (so it’s not all taboo things), but not consentless sex.
Wow, you’re done with K? I’m surprised.
Ryouta is a huge jerk, so seeing him run around being inadequate and stupid-eyed all the time was actually kind of satisfying. I can generally tell myself “oh, he was just scared and confused!” for everything he does except his inability to comprehend that something that ticks, counts down, then explodes is a time bomb.
Not sure how far the rape scene will go or what the tone will be. It’s hard to tell how bad or offensive it will be without the context. Hopefully it’s not a fullblown rape/sex scene, because I’d rather not sit through that either.
Yeah, I hope the battles get much more interesting. I doubt the show as-is will hold my interest.
The highlight each week is stuff blowing up, so BTOOOM! better do that well at the very least!
POWUH: 500-599 with 519 comments
This anime looks interesting in concept. Nothing like a battle royale type show to watch humans suffer. XD I felt it to be a bit slow but I’m just hoping that it is just first episode explanation everythingness and the focus will go back on survival and bombs soon. And fanservice since that’s the only reason Himiko is there. -_-
I’m always down for a group of people blowing each other up. =w= I can turn my brain off when there’s fanservice and be relatively unperturbed by it, but we’ll see how far BTOOOM! pushes it with Himiko. There are others girls too, so maybe they’re useful for something other than making guys drool?
MikADo says:
POWUH: 600-699 and Wingman with 655 comments
sounds like another survival game show 😛
this type of show depends on how you can focus on to the main character and how the metal state of each character is described. lots of brain play would be nice too, but i would love to see some of the philosophy each main character should have. so far it was mediocre, but we will see how it goes
this show is on the list
btw we will see if you get offended OC 😛
I would love for it to take a more internal approach and show us some of the thoughts racing through their heads as they go on killing sprees. More than just “ahhh where am I? Huh? What’s happening?!” of course. We’ll see how BTOOOM! develops over time. I think this show will be a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.
Yes, we shall see who gets offended! Not just me, because I think everyone is waiting in anticipation for that rape scene…
I want to kick MC’s ass SO BAD. Though, I should not be taking this show too seriously. Reminding me so much of HoTD but we’ll see about more fighting. Some people should die soon, yo!
YotaruVegeta says:
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
Spoilers: in the end, all the participants die due to brain trauma from nearly getting blown the hell up so much. Plus rape.
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Major Spoilers Question of the Day: The Other Guys Edition
By Matthew Peterson on June 8, 2017 3 Comments
I can’t tell you guys how happy I was to hear that Black Lightning would be getting his shot in the DC TV Universe over guys like Hawkman, Nightwing or, perish forbid, Hal Jordan. As a fan of the character since the earliest days of ‘Batman And The Outsiders’, Jefferson Pierce is one of The Other Guys of the DCU: Characters who get to be part of ensembles but seldom get solo series, and when they do they’re usually short-lived, no matter the critical acclaim. It’s a stratum of comics that also includes the likes of The Spectre, The Black Knight and Monica Rambeau, all of whom should be higher profile than they are, leading to today’s under-represented query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) might even put Batgirl in that company as well, especially given the endless restarts and new women under the pointy-eared cowl, asking: Which characters who fall into the category of ‘The Other Guys’ most deserves their place in the sun?
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Once upon a time, there was a young nerd from the Midwest, who loved Matter-Eater Lad and the McKenzie Brothers... If pop culture were a maze, Matthew would be the Minotaur at its center. Were it a mall, he'd be the Food Court. Were it a parking lot, he’d be the distant Cart Corral where the weird kids gather to smoke, but that’s not important right now... Matthew enjoys body surfing (so long as the bodies are fresh), writing in the third person, and dark-eyed women. Amongst his weaponry are such diverse elements as: Fear! Surprise! Ruthless efficiency! An almost fanatical devotion to pop culture! And a nice red uniform.
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Lemmy Caution (@_Lemmy_Caution) on June 8, 2017 12:02 pm
The one and only true Captain Marvel: Monica Rambeau. And Jack of Hearts and Stingray. And the Aquarian. Basically, any character that Gruenwald would have let shine!
Matthew Peterson on June 8, 2017 5:37 pm
Seconded Captain Marvel… And also the part about Mark Gruenwald.
Brenning Dragonbred on June 8, 2017 8:15 pm
Ninja Captor, a Tokusatsu series made by Toei from the early days of Sentai that was originally considered the second series of the franchise, but by the 10th anniversary was no longer included (alongside Gorenger and J.A.K.Q., which were eventually brought back into the overall Super Sentai umbrella in 1995). We’re seeing a LOT of old shows incorporated in the various series lately, including the revival of Metal Heroes and the inclusion of other series characters (such as Kikaider, Zubat, Inazuman and others) in both Kamen Rider movies and the big crossover Super Hero Taisen series, so I REALLY would love to see Ninja Captor get some love.
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Episode 51: GA Tech Head Coach Josh Pastner
In this exciting new episode of Marching to Madness, hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross are joined by Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner. They discuss the rebuilding process, the difficulties of climbing the ladder in the ACC, and so much more. It's yet another must-listen episode of Marching to Madness! As always,...
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The guys have officially reached Episode 50 of Marching to Madness! To celebrate, hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross welcome in MTSU head coach Kermit Davis to the show. They discuss the upset victory over Michigan State, how the Blue Raiders roster is shaping up heading into the season, and so much more. It's yet...
Episode 49: Ole Miss Head Coach Andy Kennedy
On the newest episode of Marching to Madness, host Blake Lovell is joined by Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy. They discuss the development of Sebastian Saiz, how newcomers DeAndre Burnett and Cullen Neal will add to the Rebels' depth, and so much more. It's yet another exciting episode of Marching to Madness! As...
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In this exciting new episode of Marching to Madness, hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross are joined by Belmont head coach Rick Byrd. They discuss the development of Evan Bradds, Belmont's ascent up the mid-major ladder, and so much more. It's yet another jam-packed episode of Marching to Madness! As always,...
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Economist, Writer, and Speaker | Women, sex, love, and work
Marina Adshade, Ph.D.
Dollars & Sex
Beyond Consenting, Women Actually Want to Enjoy Sex (with Neil McArthur)
by Marina Adshade
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The long-held idea that women ‘give’ sex to men to get something else is thankfully on its way out. But the belief still persists, as is evident in exchanges like the one that took place between Aziz Ansari and an anonymous woman who told her story this week. What if, instead of treating a woman like a passive player capable of merely granting a yes or no, men focused on her pleasure?
The persistent belief that men have sex for pleasure while women have sex in exchange for things they want – love, marriage, a promotion, or even just the chance to spend a night with a famous person they admire – has convinced many people that once a man has gained a woman’s permission to have sex, he can pretty much do anything he wants. The widespread acceptance of this transactional approach to sex has given us a model of consent – which some call the “gatekeeper model” – that is failing to protect women from very unpleasant sexual experiences. We need a new one. And there is reason to believe a new model of consent is indeed emerging.
With this model, partners will be expected to ask for more than just a “yes” – the question will be whether both are actually taking pleasure in the encounter. But for a society that is still grappling with “no means no,” this reconceptualization of consent still has a long way to go.
Events this week have made this clear. On Monday, the website Babe published an account of a sexual encounter between a woman known as Grace (not her real name) and the comedian and actor Aziz Ansari. Grace says she agreed to go on a date with Mr. Ansari, which ended at his apartment. Once there, the two engaged in sexual activity that left her feeling violated and assaulted. Mr. Ansari doesn’t challenge that the night took place, but says that “by all indications [it] was completely consensual.”
Society’s ideas about consent have evolved dramatically in the past decades. For a long time men took for granted that “no” at least sometimes meant “yes” – that a refusal was negotiable, if only they persisted. Feminists fought a long battle to replace this idea with the clear standard of “no means no.” These two concepts – “no sometimes means yes” and “no means no” – may seem diametrically opposed. But in fact, they share a particular model of what consent is – what feminist and activist Jaclyn Friedman calls the “gatekeeper model.” According to this model of consent, men initiate sex, and women either give or deny them access. Period.
The gatekeeper model is linked to another idea, that sex between men and women is basically a transaction. Traditionally, the transaction in question took place in the context of marriage. Women, it was thought, gave men access to sex, and in return they received the income and security that came with being a wife. A woman’s withdrawal of sexual access was a violation of that contract, just as abandonment was a violation on the part of the man. For this reason, a man did not need consent to have sex with his wife. It wasn’t until 1983 that Canada reformed its laws to allow for the possibility of marital rape, and the notion that rape can occur within a marriage unfortunately remains far from universally accepted.
The transactional model’s roots go far back in human history. Traditional agrarian lifestyles gave men an economic advantage, as they produced the food that financed the household, and led to women’s roles being as caretakers of children and minders of the home. This arrangement was advantageous for families, but it made women dependent on men for their survival. It also encouraged unmarried women to feign sexual disinterest, in the interest of marrying men who valued faithful wives. The result? A society that (falsely) believes that women are biologically hardwired to be disinterested in sex and a social order in which men essentially gain access to women’s bodies through the long-run commitment of marriage.
Since the sexual revolution, it has been increasingly acceptable to have sex outside marriage. But the transactional view endures. Some people have suggested that the only difference is that now women are willing to trade sex for something else: a relationship, financial support, or just the prestige of being intimate with a high-status male. Just in the last year, a book by sociologist Mark Regnerus, titled Cheap Sex, gained significant media attention by arguing that as a result of social change, the price of sexual access for men has fallen – that, in other words, women now ask for less from men in exchange for granting them access to their bodies. Men now can have sex with very little emotional or economic investment. He thinks that this cheapening of sex has hurt women, because sex is how they extract resources from men. The less they gain from having sex, the worse off they are.
It seems not to have occurred to purported experts such as Mr. Regnerus that women have sex for another reason: because they intend to enjoy it. Recent research has found that women will engage in casual sex just as frequently as men if they can reasonably expect it to be a satisfying experience. The author of several studies of women’s experiences with one-night stands, Terri Conley, points out that women who avoid casual encounters often do so because they have every reason to believe it will be unlikely to give them much pleasure. Statistics show that women only orgasm 35 per cent as often as men do during encounters with first-time sexual partners, in large part because those partners invest little effort in the other person’s satisfaction.
Once we accept that women might actually expect pleasure from sex, the transactional view collapses. And with it goes the gatekeeper model of consent. We need a better one, one that gives us the tools to deal with encounters such as Grace and Ansari’s. Grace says that Ansari “ignored clear non-verbal cues.” Legal experts have said such non-verbal cues would not, given the circumstances, be enough to successfully prosecute Mr. Ansari. Bari Weiss wrote in the New York Times that Mr. Ansari was “guilty of not being a mind reader.” But once we shift from thinking about their encounter using the gatekeeper model – did she or did she not open the gate and consent to sex – there is much less ambiguity about the whole situation. Reading Grace’s account, and Mr. Ansari’s statement, it is possible to believe that Mr. Ansari misread her signals so completely that he thought she had consented to at least some of what happened. It is not possible to believe that he thought she was actually enjoying herself.
Thankfully, the societal belief that sexual pleasure is not important to women is unravelling, and with it the notion that sex for women is purely transactional. It is not surprising that these changes have brought with them a movement towards an entirely new understanding of consent. A number of different models have been proposed, which we call inter-relational models of consent. These include ideas such as “affirmative consent,” “contextual consent,” and “enthusiastic consent.” All of these are intended to change how we perceive women’s roles during sex. By affirming that women might actually be in it for pleasure, they encourage a man to ask himself whether, during this particular encounter, his sexual partner is actually enjoying herself. If Aziz Ansari had asked this question, things would surely have gone very differently that evening. Instead of acting out his own sexual fantasies on Grace, they might have come together for a sexual experience they both enjoyed.
Originally published in the Globe and Mail.
Neil McArthur is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.
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FL Studio is likely one of the world’s most-downloaded DAWs and has, over the past decade or so, matured right into a extremely capable music production environment. It’s nonetheless a Windows-solely system, though there may be credible talk of a Mac version in the very late stages of development. Because it stands, you’ll need a current version of Windows and a moderately powered PC as a baseline, or something just a little more critical to run heavier projects.
To briefly recap, FL Studio started life on the more entry-degree finish of the market, but now all save probably the most primary version of the software can handle full audio monitoring, modifying and arrangement – in addition to the MIDI sequencing and programming that it’s had all along.
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Muamar Gaddafi’s Prophecies
Note: Views Expressed in this article are solely the opinions of the writer and should not be misconstrued as representing the editorial policy of Muslim Inc.
Qaddafi noted on many occasions that the Libyan Revolution had a sacred duty to help all those who were in legitimate need and suffering persecution, since this was in accordance with the teachings of the Quran, which was Libya’s constitution The bedrock of Islam is to enjoin that which is good and condemn that which is wrong and unjust. Any Muslim, regardless of their interpretation of Quranic teachings, will admit that the Quran clearly states that the weakest response to injustice is to hate it in your heart, the second weakest response is to speak against it and the strongest response is to oppose it in every way possible.
“I will not go into exile to any foreign country. I was born here in Libya, and I will die here. This country was a dessert, and I turned it into a forest, where everything can grow. No one Love this land more more than its citizens. If Europe and America tells you that they love you, be careful. They love the wealth of your land. The oil and not the people. They are helping you to fight against me but, it will be more wise for you to fight against them because they are fighting against your future and progress. My message to you the people of Libya is, they are helping you to kill me but you will pay the price because you will suffer. And my message to you America and Europe is, you will kill me, but be ready to fight a never ending TERRORISM.
Before you realize your ignorance, terrorists will be hitting you at your doorstep.”
“Sometimes the enemy is the best teacher”
Kwame Ture, revolutionary Pan- Africanist and former executive member of the World Mathaba, opined that sometimes the enemy is the best teacher. He instructed us to study the enemy’s strategy and tactics and to remember that the enemy only goes after those whom they deem to be a real threat to their imperial interests. Pan-Africanist and former president of Guinea, Ahmed Sekou Toure, said that,
“if the enemy is not bothering with you, then know that you are doing nothing”.
The forces of US-EU imperialism were always bothering Muammar Qaddafi. They were bent on discrediting, demonizing and finding a way to obliterate him and the Libyan Jamahiriya from its inception in 1969, until they finally achieved their nefarious objective in 2011.
16 Real Reasons Why Col. Gaddafi Was Killed
#1. There was no electricity bill in Libya, electricity was free for all its citizens.
#2. There were no interests on loans, banks in Libya were state-owned and loans given to all its citizens were at a 0% interest as mandated by law.
#3. The home was considered a human right in Libya. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home.
#4. All newlyweds in Libya received $60,000 Dinars (US$50,000) from the government to buy their first apartment.
#5. Education and medical treatments were free in Libya. Before Gaddafi, only 25% of Libyans were literates by his killing in 2011 that figure stood at 83%.
#6. Libyans that wanted to take up farming as a career received farm land, a farming house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farming activities all for free.
#7. If Libyans couldn’t find the education or medical facilities they needed in Libya, the government funded them to go abroad for it.
#8. In Gaddafi’s Libya, if a Libyan bought a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
#9. The price of petrol in Libya was $0. 14 per liter.
#10. Libya had no external debt and its reserves amounted to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
#11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she were employed until employment was found.
#12. A portion of Libyan oil sale was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
#13. A mother who gave birth to a child under Gaddafi, received US $5,000 as child benefits upfront.
#14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya were costing $ 0.15
#15. 25% of Libyans had a university degree
#16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man- Made River Project to make water readily available throughout the desert country. If this is called “Dictatorship”, I wonder what type of Leadership Democrats have!
Was He A Terrorist?
Few can answer this question fairly, but if anyone could it would be the Libyan citizens who lived under his reign. Whatever the case, it is rather apparent that he did very many positive things for his country despite the infamous notoriety surrounding his name. That’s worth remembering.
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Book Review - Double Cross by DiAnn Mills
An FBI: Houston Novel book 2
by DiAnn Mills
SHE PUT HIM IN PRISON.
NOW HE'S THEIR ONLY LEAD
IN A DEADLY NEW CASE.
FBI AGENT LAUREL EVERTSON'S INVESTIGATION into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to a felon she arrested on her last undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Morton Wilmington – and what she sacrificed to put him away – he is now her best lead.
Houston Police Officer Daniel Hilton dears his grandparents ma be the scammers's next targets, and he'll do anything to protect his family, including force interagency cooperation. But he's quickly drawn to Laurel's zeal and agrees to follow her lead . . . even if it means teaming up with a felon.
As the unlikely trio uncovers disturbing evidence suggesting the scam is more deadly than they imagined, Laurel and Daniel find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer. Together they must decide if they can trust Wilmington's claims of redemption, or if he's leading them straight into a double cross.
Who can they trust?
I picked up Double Cross and a could hardly bear to put it down. DiAnn Mills had me me so drawn into the story that even when I had to put it down I was still thinking about it, still trying to figure it all, out.
DiAnn Mills knows her craft well. I usually have fairly decent instincts about characters but I had NO CLUE if Wilmington was genuine or not, sometimes he seemed so honest and I was sure he was doing the right thing and then a couple pages later he had 'GUILTY' written on his forehead in three-foot high letters. A dozen times I almost flipped to the end just to find out, but, each time I managed resist the temptation and the ending came as a bit of surprise.
Double Cross is a great romantic suspense story with some rather emotionally complex characters. Of those characters my favorite actually wasn't the hero or heroine, it was Abby who just happens to be Daniel's grandmother. Abby is is smart, feisty, and loves her family more than anything except God. I had to admire both Laurel and Daniel for the patience and respect they show to the elderly victims of the scam.
I only had one small problem and that is that once again the Christian character gets romantically interested in a non-Christian. But that aside, Double Cross is a great suspense story and I can't wait to find out what DiAnn Mills has in store for readers in the next book.
Double Cross is a great story that any suspense fan will be sure to enjoy!
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Double Cross by DiAnn Mills a 4 Bark rating.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (March 20, 2015)
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,
and whose hope the Lord is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river,
and shall not see when heat cometh,
but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 KJV
Book Review - Bachelor To The Rescue by Lorraine Beatty + Giveaway
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Bachelor To The Rescue
Home To Dover book 5 – Love Inspired
by Lorraine Beatty
Building a Romance
Young widow Lainie Hollings will do anything to protect her daughters – even if it means accepting help from Shaw McKinney. Though she blames Shaw for her husband's death, he's the only one she can turn to when a robbery forces her to take shelter in his home. Soon she's surprised by the handsome contractor. He's kind, charming and determined to protect her and her girls. Being with Lainie makes Shaw want to give up his bachelor life and become a family man. But he'll need to win over the pretty librarian and prove to her he's the right man for her future.
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I had all six of the May Love Inspired contemporary releases sitting in front me. All equally good books but I had to start somewhere so I chose one at random. I'm glad I picked Bachelor To The Rescue first, it's about a librarian and the Friends of the Library play a big part in some important scenes. Now, I love librarians but I am also a Friend of the Library so this book was a little extra special.
Lorraine Beatty has written a sweet romantic tale of love, forgiveness, and moving on. Tragedy binds Lainie and Shaw, circumstance brings them together. Forgiveness can mean the world to them both.
Sweet story, perfect for an evening when you want a light read with a happy ending. Read Bachelor To The Rescue to find out what happens when you mix two little girls, a willing dog, a princess club, and a guy who can't say no...
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Monday Movie - Kidnapped
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Peter Finch ■ James MacArthur
EXCITEMENT...DANGER...SUSPENSE as this classic adventure story sweeps across the screen.
Robert Louis Stevenson's exciting saga of a young man's quest for his rightful inheritance bursts upon the screen in this faithful Disney adaptation. Award-winning actor Peter Finch stars as the daring rebel, Alan Breck, who joins forces with young David Balfour (James MacArthur) to do battle with scurvy sea dogs and ruthless Redcoats. A strong supporting cast features the memorable screen debut of Peter O'Toole. Filmed in the majestic Scottish Highlands, Disney's KIDNAPPED, with its swordplay, storms at sea, and heroic bravery, is a classic adventure of epic proportions!
I grew up on Disney live action films, I can't tell you how many times I've seen The Swiss Family Robinson, and have become quite a fan as evidenced by the VHS rack and box of DVDs.
One of the best things about the film is that it was mostly filmed in Scotland which is where it takes place. A lot of Disney movies were filmed on a sound stage so that makes the scenery even more interesting and little bit special.
Kidnapped is one of my absolute favorite of the Disney adventure films. It is the story of young man as he tries to maintain the gentle Christianity that he was taught, while living through the experiences that will forge him into a man. Years ago boys, and even girls, thrived on books filled with derring-do, later on that morphed into adventure movies, with Kidnapped you get the best of both. As one would expect there is some nearly bloodless violence.
A little history + some adventure = a really great Disney film for the family to watch.
Peter Finch...Alan Breck Stewart
James MacArthur...David Balfour
Bernard Lee...Captain Hoseason
John Laurie...Ebenezer Balfour
Niall MacGinnis...Mr. Shaun
Finlay Currie...Cluny MacPherson
Miles Malleson...Mr. Rankeillor
Duncan Macrae...The Highlander
Andrew Cruickshank...Colin Campbell
Peter O'Toole...Robin MacGregor
Alex Mackenzie...The Ferryman
Oliver Johnston...Mr. Campbell
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Robin MacGregor: [when it is suggested that he and Alan Breck Stewart battle it out on the pipes instead of with the sword] Well Sir, have you music?
Robin MacGregor: [after Alan Breck Stewart has taken his turn to play the pipes] It's the God's truth. You're a creditable piper - for a Stewart.
Alan Breck Stewart: [when Robin MacGregor starts to play the pipes] Enough. You can play the pipes. Make the most of that.
[MacGregor smiles and continues playing]
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Prism Book Tours GRAND FINALE BLITZ for Becky Wade's A Love Like Ours + Giveaway
On Tour with Prism Book Tours.
We're blitzing the GRAND FINALE for:
A Love Like Ours
Did you miss any of the excerpts or reviews for this tour? There's still time to check them out and to order your copy of A Love Like Ours by May 17th to have part of your proceeds go to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (more details on the Launch).
Launch - Letter from Author Becky Wade
"I'll be giving a percentage of my earnings on A Love Like Ours from whenever the book starts selling through May 17th to IFHF."
Babs Book Bistro - Review
"...this is the first book I have read by this author and it will not be the last."
Min Reads and Reviews - Excerpt
Turning, he squinted beneath the brim of his black Stetson and tried to make out who was coming toward him. A small woman with long, wavy blond hair. She wasn’t on the barn staff; that he knew. He angled toward her more fully.
And then, very slowly, recognition began to slide over him. The hair on his arms rose.
It couldn’t be her. Not after all this time. And yet the rational part of his brain understood that it could be. He knew she’d moved back to Holley. His mom had been nagging him to see her ever since, but he’d wanted no part of that, no part of her.
Yet here she was.
Bookworm Lisa - Review
"Jake was a marine. The wounds he carries from his time in Iraq are not all visible to the eye. He has a scar on his face, but his real battle is in the PTSD that is a part of his everyday life. I really liked that the book looked into a topic that is the battle that extends long after a soldier leaves the military. The book looks at how everyday situations can impact a person struggling with PTSD."
Wishful Endings - Excerpt
Jake’s poor face. His poor, ravaged face, both undeniably handsome and unbearably exhausted. As big and strong as he was physically, he was also wounded. He needed someone to care about him.
Following pure instinct, she stepped forward and reached up to place her hands on either side of his face.
“No,” he rasped, trying to pull back.
“Shh,” she replied, firm. She’d purposely placed her hands in the same position on both sides of his face, favoring neither the perfect side nor the scarred.
Katie's Clean Book Collection - Review
"Tackling a serious issue that many in our military face is no easy feat, but Ms. Wade does it well. The story isn't too heavy, as it's balanced with romance, fun, family, horses, and religion. I love reading about this Porter Family and can't wait for more!"
Pieces of Whimsy - Excerpt
He had only two goals where Lyndie was concerned: to interact with her as little as possible and to keep her safe.
Whispering Creek Horses took every precaution with their exercise riders. In the past, a few had sustained minor injuries but none had been seriously hurt. There was no reason to worry about Lyndie.
He should be more concerned about himself. He couldn’t afford to let a pretty blonde mess with his head.
Getting Your Read On - Review
"The slow progression for Jake is so satisfying to read. I loved the flow of the book and I loved learning in bits about both Jake and Lyndie. This is one of those "feel good" books leave you so content in the end. It's a great addition to this Porter Family series. I loved it!"
I Am A Reader - Excerpt
How long had it been since she’d experienced a stirring of desire for anyone? Ages. A couple of years at least. It was fun and harmless to . . . tingle . . . over someone again. It wasn’t as if Jake was in danger of returning her feelings. Or as if this altered her intentions toward him.
She was determined to help him and his horse. The kind of help she had in mind for Jake had nothing to do with Valentine’s Day emotions and everything to do with God’s power to redeem.
Mommabears Book Blog - Excerpt
Jake stopped at Silver Leaf’s stall. The horse had his head down, chewing hay. It took Jake a moment to spot Lyndie’s small form in the dim space. She sat to one side, her back against the wall, her knees drawn up and her arms wrapped around them. She must have heard him coming because she was already gazing up at him. Her lips tipped into a gentle smile.
For a long moment Jake stared at her. Foolish woman, sitting in a horse stall for hours every day. Even more frustrating, looking at him as if she liked him and trusted him. Looking at him as if she believed he was worthy of her friendship and trust. Raw pain gathered in his chest.
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"A Love Like Ours was another special read from Becky Wade. I loved the characters and finally reading Jake's story...which was such a sad, yet beautiful story."
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"Character-driven, A Love Like Ours was a joy to read — and re-read. As Lyndie and Jake get to know one another again, Lyndie breaks through the walls Jake has built (and those surrounding Silver Leaf) to be an instrument of hope and healing. Wades characters are flawed individuals, ones the reader can relate to and cheer for. Her novel captivates the reader from the prologue."
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(Porter Family #3)
Christian Contemporary Romance
May 5th 2015 by Bethany House Publishers
Deeply scarred from a day he wishes he could forget during his military service, Thoroughbred trainer Jake Porter has given up on love. He struggles against symptoms of PTSD, lives a solitary life, and avoids relationships.
When Lyndie James, Jake's childhood best friend, returns to their hometown of Holley, Texas, Jake cautiously hires her to exercise his Thoroughbreds. Lyndie is tender-hearted, fiercely determined, and afraid of nothing, just like she was as a child. Jake trusts her with his prized racehorse, Silver Leaf, then battles his hopes for his horse against his increasing fear for Lyndie's safety.
Though Jake and Lyndie have grown into very different adults, the bond that existed during their childhood still ties them together. Against Jake's will, Lyndie's sparkling, optimistic personality begins to tear down the walls he's built around his heart. A glimmer of the hope he'd thought he'd lost returns. Will Jake ever be able to love Lyndie like she deserves, or is his heart too shattered to mend?
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During her childhood in California, Becky Wade frequently produced homemade plays starring her sisters, friends, and cousins. These plays almost always featured a heroine, a prince, and a love story with a happy ending. She's been a fan of all things romantic ever since.
Becky and her husband lived overseas in the Caribbean and Australia before settling in Dallas, Texas. It was during her years abroad that Becky's passion for reading turned into a passion for writing. She published three historical romances for the general market, put her career on hold for many years to care for her kids, and eventually returned to writing sheerly for the love of it. She’s delighted to be penning warm, wry, and heartwarming contemporary romances for the Christian market. She's the Carol Award and Inspirational Reader's Choice Award winning author of My Stubborn Heart, Undeniably Yours, and Meant to Be Mine.
These days Becky can be found failing but trying to keep up with her housework, sweating at the gym, carting her kids around town, playing tennis, hunched over her computer, eating chocolate, or collapsed on the sofa watching TV with her husband.
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Book Review - Buried Secrets by Irene Hannon
Buried Secrets
Men Of Valor book 1
by Irene Hannon
THEY BOTH WANTED QUIETER, SAFER LIVES.
BUT CRIME NEVER SLEEPS . . .
AND KILLERS KEEP KILLING.
After years as a Chicago homicide detective, Lisa Grant is ready for the kinder, gentler life of a small-town police chief. But the discovery of a human skeleton by a construction crew at the edge of town taxes department resources. Enter ex-Navy SEAL Mac McGregor, the detective sent by the county to assist on the case. As they work to solve the mystery behind the unmarked grave, danger begins to shadow them. Someone doesn't want this dead person telling any tales – and will stop at nothing to make certain a life-shattering secret stays buried.
Lies, manipulation, and murder!
This is only my second Irene Hannon book but I can guarantee it won't be the last. I really enjoy her brand of suspense, a little technical, a little spooky, and always keeps you guessing.
Buried Secrets was a little different than most suspense books, in that, instead of the big reveal at the end, the reader knows pretty early on who did it and we get to follow along with Lisa and Mac while they piece things together and prove it.
Buried Secrets is all about motivations and the darker way the human mind works when in self preservation mode. That psychological edge really made the story in my opinion. It kept me on the edge of my seat and trying to guess what might happen next. There was a lot more in the romantic arena, which surprised me. But all in all it was pretty good.
You have to pay attention to the special cover that Buried Secrets has. The designers added some texture so that when you hold it at the right angle it appears 3-D. It gives some delightfully spooky connotations to the booted foot digging the shovel into the dirt. The Revell design team really outdid themselves.
Irene Hannon has started off the Men Of Valor series with a bang and I eagerly await the next book.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Buried Secrets by Irene Hannon a 4 Bark rating.
Publisher: Revell (April 7, 2015)
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A first-year college student adjusting to life in the States.
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A mysterious phone call from a girl who's far too young to be pregnant.
from award-winning suspense novelist Alana Terry
After volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center, Kennedy Stern finds herself a pawn in a deadly game of intrigue, at the mercy of those who consider a few innocent lives a small ransom to pay for victory.
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Book Review - Every Bride Needs A Groom by Janice Thompson
Every Bride Needs A Groom
A Brides With Style Novel book 1
SOMEWHERE IN A SEA OF TULLE
AND TAFFETA, SATIN AND CREPE,
KATIE FISHER NEEDS TO FIND A KEY INGREDIENT OF THE PERFECT
WEDDING – THE GROOM
Small-town girl Katie Fisher is busy planning her fairy-tale wedding. Sure, her boyfriend hasn't managed to pop the question just yet, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't enter a contest in Texas Bride magazine to win the dress of her dreams, right? Anyway, she's sure he'll be getting down on one knee any time now. And a one-of-a-kind designer dress doesn't just fall out of the sky right when you need it. But when Katie's boyfriend takes a job in another town and breaks up with her – on the very same day she wins her dream dress – her world is turned upside down. Dare she go to Dallas to claim her prize? And will the hunky pro basketball player who runs the beyond-swanky bridal shop – yeah, you read that right – discover her humiliating secret if she does?
Janice Thompson at her best!
Janice Thompson does it again! Every Bride Needs A Groom is hysterically funny while still bringing truths, sometimes a little irreverently, forward. I'm a fan of Janice's, especially the Weddings By Design series, so I was thrilled to see she had a new series coming out. Then I saw the title. Boy, did it strike my funny bone. I just HAD to read it!
Every Bride Needs A Groom introduces readers to the Fisher family in all of their predictable, routine..... zaniness. Katie leads a safe, boring, predictable life, she even has every detail of her wedding planned out before her boyfriend has even proposed. But God doesn't leave Katie in comfort zone any more than He leaves those of us in real life. Nope, He takes Katie, and us, in totally unexpected directions.
The cover is pretty and matches the story. But, Oh! It's the pages inside that are so deliciously fun to read! This book is like a filled cupcake, pretty decorations on a mound of frosting but the real treat is in the middle. Janice Thompson is a master at romantic comedy, she knows how to catch reader's attention and then keep them giggling until the last page.
I really enjoyed Every Bride Needs A Groom and am definitely looking forward to book two! But can I manage to wait THAT long???
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Every Bride Needs A Groom by Janice Thompson a 4.5 Bark rating.
Publisher: Revell (April 21, 2015)
Free Friday - Another Stab At Life by Anita Higman
Another Stab at Life
(Christian cozy mystery)
The Volstead Manor Series Book 1
by Anita Higman
She has nowhere to go, except the dilapidated mansion she's just inherited from her Granny Minna. Unfortunately, Bailey discovers the house has a history as shadowy as its hidden passages and finds the neighborhood overflowing with some rather quirky folks. Bailey suddenly feels like she's trapped inside the pages of a gothic novel - but with a comedic twist. In order to honor her grandmother's wishes and stay at Volstead Manor Bailey must unravel a string of mysteries and secrets, which all seem determined to stay happily ever buried.
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Book Review - Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey
Alaskan Courage book 5
by Dani Pettrey
Finally Returned Home, Reef McKenna
Finds His Beloved Alaska
Facing Its Greatest Threat
GROWING UP, GOODY-TWO-SHOES KIRRA JACOBS AND TROUBLEMAKER REEF MCKENNA WERE ALWAYS AT ODDS. Now as they work search-and-rescue together for Alaska's arduous Iditarod race, a growing attraction seems to be forcing aside old arguments. Then Reef catches Kirra sneaking from camp in the middle of the night.
Kirra's uncle, a musher in the race, has disappeared. Kirra and Reef quickly track the man, but what they discover is harrowing: Frank's daughter has been kidnapped. Kirra and Reef, along with the entire McKenna family, are thrown into a race to stop a shadowy villain who is not only threatening a girl's life – but appears willing to unleash one of the largest disasters Alaska has ever seen.
Romance & suspense on the Iditarod trail!
Iditarod. What a magic word. And when you pair it with the name Dani Pettrey you have the winningest combination on the trail. If I hadn't already fallen in love with Dani Pettrey's suspense stories, and the McKenna family, I would have picked this book up solely based on the cover. I had been looking forward to this book since the cover and blurb were first revealed to fans. Believe me, it didn't disappoint.
Sabotaged was such a fun book to read. Not only was it my favorite genre and from a favorite author, but it also features my favorite sporting event of the year. It was so neat reading those oh-so-familiar checkpoints. And the suspense? Sabotaged is full of Dani's trademark adventure and romance. I found myself breathlessly turning pages as they edged closer and closer to probable disaster and the final showdown. If you've read any of the previous books in the Alaskan Courage series you will know how much of a nail-biter they can be.
Wonderful cast of characters, I really liked Reef and Kirra, with appearances from all of the McKenna clan. I'm just sorry that Sabotaged is the last book in the series, I really don't want to say goodbye. One of the things that really stood out to me is how people often don't, and won't, fit into the boxes we create for them. Just when you think you've really got them pegged, they surprise us. Past mistakes, thoughts, and attitudes, are just that, past.
Sabotaged is a wonderful tale of adventure and suspense set in the Alaskan bush during one of the toughest and most exciting races in the world. Iditarod!
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey a 4.5 Bark rating.
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (February 3, 2015)
Fun with #TiffanyGirl
From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive “New Woman”—the girl behind Tiffany’s chapel—and the love that threatens it all.
Tiffany Girl
by Deeanne Gist
Author Deeanne Gist has put together some fun things to do while waiting
for the May 5th release of her much anticipated novel Tiffany Girl.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity,
I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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Monday Movie - Witness To Murder
Barbara Stanwyck ■ George Sanders ■ Gary Merrill
No one would believe what she saw that night ... not the police ... not her friends ... no one -- but the murderer himself!
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer ('George Sanders'), who first takes steps to convince police she is crazy, but she has ally in a sympathetic policeman (Gary Merrill).
I found this movie while skimming around Netflix bored and looking for something to watch. And even though I'm not really a fan of Barbara Stanwycke I decided to give it a shot. I as quite pleasantly surprised, in fact, I think this is now easily my favorite movie with her in it. Yeah, it's pretty predictable. But there are still some tense scenes, like the entire section in the psych ward.
One of the most impressive things about this film is the use of shadows to add drama to the scenes. Sometimes what you don't directly see is what actually makes a scene, or a movie.
I've been a fan of mysteries, suspense, and Film Noir for years and am always in search of another good book or classic movie. Witness To Murder fit the bill perfectly. An enjoyable way to spend an hour-and-a-half.
Barbara Stanwyck...Cheryl Draper
George Sanders...Albert Richter
Gary Merrill...Lawrence Mathews
Jesse White...Eddie Vincent
Harry Shannon...Captain Donnelly
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George Sanders and Gary Merrill had previously worked together on All About Eve.
Released less than a month before Rear Window (1954), to which the film bears plot similarities.
When Cheryl Draper is reading the newspaper article about the dead girl's body being discovered, the top part of the article is about the girl; the rest of the article is about the stock market.
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Lakewood board of education cans 32 employees
Friday, January 4, 2008 7:10 PM EST
Parents and teachers packed a Lakewood board of education meeting in a failed attempt to save the jobs of 32 staff members.
The jobs were cut to help the district deal with a $1 million deficit. Despite the opposition to the move, the board passed the motion. Among the layoffs are eight teachers and three guidance counselors.
Opponents of the move pleaded with board members to reconsider the firings. ?Obviously they're not your kids, or you wouldn't be making the decisions you're making,? parent Glenn Bradford told the board.
Laid-off special education teacher Mary Gouvei disputes board members? assurances the layoffs won?t affect class sizes. She says her students will be merged into other classes now that she?s gone and worries about the quality of their education.
"I have multi-disabled students that rely on routine, order and organization everyday,? says Gouvei. ?I can't imagine how they're going to survive."
This is the third time in seven years that the district has worked under a deficit. News 12 New Jersey has learned more layoffs could be coming.
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Free CarFit For Older Drivers Offered By Auto Club, Rancho ...
Free CarFit For Older Drivers Offered By Auto Club, Rancho Los Amigos
To help older drivers to remain mobile, the Automobile Club of Southern California, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center/Rancho Research Institute and the Barbara J. Riley Community and Senior Center in Downey will host a CarFit® event. Designed to help seniors over 55, CarFit® helps older drivers learn how the effects of aging can change the way they fit in their vehicle and how their driving can be affected. The event is also being held in recognition of 100 years of Occupational Therapy.
The free appointment-only CarFit event will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, at the Barbara J. Riley Community and Senior Center, 7850 Quill Drive 90242. Appointments can be made by calling Mary Hernandez at 562-385-7464.
CarFit’s 12-point, 15-minute checklist on the driver and the car includes evaluating:
Seat-belt adjustment
Car pedals
Seat and steering wheel positioning
Visibility through windows and mirrors
Often, adjusting these vehicle components will help senior motorists drive more comfortably and safely. Rancho Los Amigos occupational therapists specializing in driver rehabilitation will offer ways a driver can maintain and strengthen their driving health, including places to go for further evaluation.
California has the most adults over age 65. “If 75 percent of seniors are licensed in 2025, that adds up to 6.5 million licensed mature drivers,” said Anita Lorz Villagrana, the Auto Club’s community affairs and traffic safety team lead.
“The Auto Club believes that people should be able to keep driving as long as they want to – if they can do so safely,” said Lorz Villagrana. The Auto Club, and agencies it’s trained, have provided 4,000 CarFit checks to Southland senior motorists.
CarFit was developed by the American Society on Aging with AAA, AARP and American Occupational Therapy Assoc.
Lorz Villagrana noted that aging affects vision, flexibility and strength, range of motion and even size and height. “CarFit helps drivers make adjustments so they’re more comfortable and controlled behind the wheel,” she said.
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David was a part of the beginning of No Más Violencia with a group of men in Argentina while he was a missionary with the International Mission Board in 1997. He returned to the United States in 2004 with a vision of taking the message of NMV to many more countries, and has continued to do just that. He also is Associate Pastor of a church in Dallas, Texas. David is married to Deborah Balyeat, author of Spanish with a Mission, and they have four children.
Richard Gomez, Secretary
Richard was a part of the beginning of No Más Violencia with a group of men in Argentina while he was the Director of JEBA, the Association of Baptist Youth of Argentina, in 1997. He now pastors a Hispanic Church in Dallas, Texas, while continuing the work of NMV throughout Latin America. Richard is married to Adriana, and they have a daughter.
Norberto Palmitano, Director
Norberto began his work in the ministry of NMV as a part of a key church in Argentina, participating in the soccer stadiums, schools and communities. He then was the first NMV missionary, taking the ministry to El Salvador, along with his wife and four children. He now lives in Dallas, Texas where he works at a church and also continues the work of NMV in Latin America and the U.S.
Diego Morcillo, Treasurer
Diego joined NMV International as the treasurer with his experience in the financial industry. He is passionate about good stewardship and also about NMV. He has been a part of the ministry since the beginning as a part of the Argentine Baptist Youth and participated as a volunteer at soccer games passing out fliers and taking the flag onto the soccer fields in Argentina in 2000-2002. As a part of the team now, he seeks to use the resources available wisely and to the glory of God. Diego is married to Alicia, and they have two small children.
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Understanding Egg Quality and Egg Quantity
September 30, 2019 /0 Comments/in FAQ, News /by Parents Life
The decline in fertility as we age is almost entirely a result of the decline in egg quantity and quality. We know this because older women who use donor eggs have pregnancy rates similar to younger women. But what does egg quality mean? Broadly, it describes the potential of an egg to become a viable pregnancy after fertilization. And this is no trivial matter – the vast majority of fertilized eggs simply do not have what it takes.
Egg Quality Is Everything
For any embryo, the first few weeks after fertilization represent a major hurdle, and many embryos stop developing at some point during this time. In fact, most naturally conceived embryos are lost before a woman even knows she is pregnant. Only about a third of fertilized embryos actually survive to become a baby. The odds may be even worse in the IVF context, where many fertilized eggs are unable to progress to the five-day embryo stage (known as the “blastocyst” stage), and those that do make it to this stage and are transferred to the uterus often do not successfully implant, resulting in a failed IVF cycle.
The fact that most fertilized eggs never become a successful pregnancy is an issue that receives very little attention because there is a common misconception that getting an egg fertilized is the real challenge in conceiving. Most natural fertility advice therefore focuses on ovulation and timing to achieve fertilization. This approach misses the mark because the potential of a fertilized egg to continue developing is often a much bigger issue. In reality, egg quality plays a critical role in how long it takes to become pregnant, whether naturally or through IVF, and the secret is in the egg’s DNA.
Although an embryo’s potential to develop into a pregnancy depends on many factors, by far the most important is having the correct number of copies of each chromosome. Chromosomal abnormalities in eggs have a profound impact on fertility because at every stage of development from fertilization onward, an embryo formed from a chromosomally abnormal egg has much less potential to continue developing. This may manifest as an inability to get pregnant or as early miscarriage. For many women, chromosomal abnormalities in eggs become the greatest obstacle to conceiving and carrying to term.
It comes as no surprise that poor egg quality is significantly more common in women who have had a difficult time conceiving. High rates of chromosomal abnormalities are seen in eggs of women who have a history of multiple miscarriages, women who have had repeated IVF cycles in which embryos were transferred but no pregnancy occurred (so-called “repeated implantation failure”), and women with polycystic ovary syndrome. For example, the proportion of abnormal embryos in women with a history of repeated implantation failures in IVF cycles can be up to 70%.
Chromosomal errors in eggs not only impact the ability to get pregnant but are also a major cause of miscarriage. Miscarriages are unfortunately very common, occurring in about 10–15% of recognized pregnancies. However, most pregnancy losses are not even noticed because they happen so early – before the woman knows she is pregnant. When such pregnancies are taken into account, up to 70% end in miscarriage. Part of the reason for this incredibly high rate is that from the moment of conception, a continuous process of selection against chromosomally abnormal embryos is taking place.
In fact, chromosomal abnormalities cause more miscarriages than every other known cause of miscarriage combined. In one study in Japan involving almost 500 women with a history of 2 or more miscarriages, 41% of miscarriages were found to be caused by a chromosomal abnormality in the fetus, whereas all the other known causes of miscarriage together accounted for less than 30% of pregnancy losses. Other studies have found that more than half of all first-trimester miscarriages are caused by chromosomal abnormalities. It is also important to note that these studies were investigating miscarriages from recognized pregnancies only, and the rate of chromosomal abnormalities is likely to be much higher for losses that occur in the short time after fertilization.
A common reaction to this information is that chromosomal errors in eggs are beyond our control, but recent scientific research is showing that is not true. The proportion of eggs with chromosomal abnormalities can be influenced by nutrients and lifestyle factors you can control. As will be discussed later in this chapter, research suggests that one-way external factors can influence egg quality is by boosting or compromising the egg’s potential to produce energy at critical times – energy that provides the fuel for proper chromosome processing.
The best-known example of a chromosomal abnormality originating in the egg is Down syndrome, which becomes much more common as women age and egg quality declines. In 95% of cases, Down syndrome is caused by the egg providing an extra copy of chromosome 21, which results in the fetus having three copies instead of the usual two. For this reason, Down syndrome is also called Trisomy 21.
Down syndrome is just one example of a chromosomal abnormality, but it is perhaps the best known because it is one of the few in which the affected fetus can survive to term. Some babies with Trisomy 13 or Trisomy 18 (an extra copy of chromosome 13 or 18) can also survive to term, but with life-threatening medical problems. An extra copy of other chromosomes will prevent the embryo from developing past the first few days or weeks, or will cause an early miscarriage. This is why we rarely hear about chromosomal errors involving extra copies of these other chromosomes, even though they are very common.
While having an extra copy of a chromosome is the most common type of chromosomal abnormality, occasionally a missing chromosome or more complex errors can also occur.
An egg with the incorrect number of chromosomes is called “aneuploid.” An embryo created from one of these aneuploid eggs will also be aneuploid and will have very little potential to successfully implant in the uterus. Even when aneuploid embryos are able to progress to a pregnancy, the vast majority of such pregnancies end in an early miscarriage.
In women over 40, more than half of eggs may be chromosomally abnormal. In fact, by some measures, the rate of abnormalities in women over 40 is as high as 70–80%. Studying chromosomal abnormalities in eggs, we see an exponential increase in the fertility challenge faced with age, starting in the mid- to late 30s. But egg quality has an impact in all age groups, and chromosomal errors in younger women are much more common than you might expect.
Even in women under 35, up to a quarter of eggs are aneuploid on average. This means that if you are a young, healthy woman without any fertility issues, there will still be many ovulation cycles in which you have little potential to conceive. If the egg that you ovulate in a given month is chromosomally abnormal and unable to support a pregnancy, using ovulation prediction kits and charts to achieve fertilization with perfect timing will not make any difference; you will probably not be able to conceive until the next cycle in which you ovulate a good egg.
The dramatic impact of chromosomal abnormalities on the chance of conceiving and carrying to term is particularly apparent in the IVF context. If this factor is taken out of the equation, the pregnancy rates skyrocket. We know this from an exciting new approach to IVF in which embryos are first screened for abnormalities in every chromosome, and only the normal embryos are transferred.
This is very different from the traditional measure of “embryo quality” in the IVF context, which is based on the growth rate and overall appearance of the embryo. A slow-growing embryo with irregular-looking cells is less likely to lead to a pregnancy, but it has become clear in recent years that assessment of embryo quality based on appearance or “morphology” is no guarantee. What matters much more is screening for embryos that have normal chromosomes.
When comprehensive chromosome screening was introduced for poor-prognosis patients, the difference was dramatic. Instead of the usual 13% of transferred embryos successfully implanting for patients 41–42 years old, selecting only chromosomally normal embryos boosted the implantation rate to 38%. As a result, the proportion of women in this age group completing an IVF cycle who actually took home a baby doubled.
While chromosomal screening represents a very significant advance, it is not a cure-all. One of the main problems is that screening may show that none of the embryos created in an IVF cycle are chromosomally normal. As a result, there will be no good embryo available to transfer. This happened to about a third of patients in one study, demonstrating that egg quality will still remain a limiting factor to becoming pregnant, even with new screening methods.
Yet chromosomal screening does hold great promise and shows the dramatic impact of egg and embryo quality on pregnancy rates. Interestingly, this impact is not limited to “poor-prognosis patients.” A group in Japan set out to determine how much they could improve pregnancy rates in IVF cycles by choosing to transfer only chromosomally normal embryos, but this time they were looking at women under 35 with a good prognosis and no previous miscarriages. In the control group, in which embryos were chosen by appearance alone, 41% of patients became pregnant per IVF cycle and carried to at least 20 weeks. In the group in which embryos were chosen by chromosomal screening, the pregnancy rate jumped to 69%. The miscarriage rates were also very different: 9% in the control group and just 2.6% in the screened group.
The lesson we can take away from the positive results of chromosomal screening is that having a chromosomally normal embryo has a huge impact on the chance of a successful pregnancy, no matter how you are trying to conceive. Even if trying to conceive naturally, your chance of becoming pregnant and carrying to term is very much determined by your egg quality. Luckily, egg quality is not entirely predetermined by your age or fixed in time. It can change.
There is, in fact, an enormous variation in chromosomal abnormality rates between different women of the same age. One 35-year-old may ovulate very few chromosomally normal eggs over a given time frame, while another woman’s eggs may all be normal at the same age. This was shown in a study of IVF patients in Germany and Italy in which the percentage of chromosomally normal eggs ranged greatly between different women of the same age. The number of normal eggs also varied widely over time for each woman, which was seen as a significant difference in the proportion of normal eggs between two consecutive IVF cycles. The researchers described the variation over time and between different women as random and unpredictable, but only because they did not connect their research to the many other studies showing specific influences on the rates of chromosomal abnormalities. The fascinating research discussed in the remainder of this book establishes that this variability is not purely random; on the contrary, a wide range of external factors impact egg quality.
Countless clinical studies have shown that avoiding certain toxins and adding specific supplements can increase the percentage of eggs that can develop into a good-quality embryo, increase the percentage of embryos that implant in the uterus, and reduce the risk of early-pregnancy loss. There is strong scientific evidence that some of these improvements are due to a reduction in the proportion of eggs with chromosomal abnormalities, confirming the fact that egg quality is something we have the power to change.
How Do Eggs Become “Chromosomally Abnormal”?
The process of egg production is very long and error-prone. The development of each egg begins before a woman is even born, in the newly forming ovaries during the first trimester of pregnancy. A girl is born with all the eggs she will ever have, and each egg exists in a state of suspended animation until a few months before ovulation.
Approximately four months before ovulation, a small pool of immature eggs begin to grow, and while most will die off naturally, one lead egg is selected from the pool to finish maturing. The fully-grown egg completes ovulation by bursting from its follicle and traveling down the fallopian tube, ready to be fertilized.
During the decades-long interval between early egg development and ovulation, eggs have many opportunities to accumulate damage as a part of normal aging. The traditional belief is that by the time a woman is 40, her eggs have already accumulated chromosomal abnormalities, and nothing can be done to change that. But that is not scientifically correct, because most chromosomal errors actually occur shortly before ovulation, in later stages of a process called “meiosis.”
An egg ends up with the incorrect number of chromosomes when meiosis goes awry. Meiosis involves carefully aligning chromosome copies along the middle of the egg, then pulling one set to each end of the egg with a network of microscopic tubules. One set of chromosomes is then pushed out of the egg in what is called a “polar body.” A developing egg actually does this twice – it starts out with four copies of each chromosome and, if the process goes correctly, ends up with just one copy of each chromosome.
If this process fails at any stage, the end result is an extra or missing copy of a chromosome. Although the first round of meiosis begins before a girl is born, most of the chromosomal processing activity happens in the months immediately before an egg is ovulated.
The critical point to note – and a point that many fertility doctors are not aware of – is that most of the chromosomal abnormalities in eggs do not accumulate gradually over 30 or 40 years as an egg ages, but instead happen in the couple of months before an egg is ovulated. In other words, aging does not directly cause chromosomal abnormalities; rather, it creates conditions that predispose eggs to mature incorrectly shortly before ovulation.
This means that by changing those conditions before ovulation, you can increase the odds of an egg maturing with the correct number of chromosomes. In short, you may be able to influence the quality of eggs that you ovulate a couple of months from now because chromosomal errors in those eggs have probably not occurred yet.
This leads us to the fundamental issue: How can an egg be predisposed to mature with an incorrect number of chromosomes, and what can you do about it? Every chapter in this book addresses different aspects of that question, but a common theme is the egg’s energy supply.
Energy Production in the Egg
It takes an enormous amount of energy for the egg to process chromosomes correctly and do all the other work necessary to mature properly. It turns out that the energy-producing structures inside eggs change significantly with age and in response to nutrients and other external factors. These structures, called “mitochondria,” are found in nearly every cell in the body. They act as miniature power plants to transform various fuel sources into energy that the cell can use, in the form of ATP.
ATP is quite literally the energy of life. It moves muscles, makes enzymes work, and powers nerve impulses. Just about every other biological process depends on it. And it is the primary form of energy used by eggs. A growing egg needs a lot of ATP and has a lot of mitochondria. In fact, each egg has more than fifteen thousand mitochondria – over ten times more than any other cell in the body. The follicle cells surrounding the egg also contain many mitochondria and supply the egg with additional ATP. But these mitochondria must be in good condition to make enough energy.
Over time, and in response to oxidative stress, mitochondria become damaged and less able to produce energy. Without sufficient energy, egg and embryo development may go awry or stop altogether. A growing body of evidence suggests that the ability of an egg to produce energy when needed is critically important to being able to mature with the correct number of chromosomes. It is also vital to an embryo’s potential to survive the first week and successfully implant.
Poorly functioning mitochondria may be one of the most important reasons some women’s eggs are more likely to end up with chromosomal abnormalities or otherwise lack the potential to become a viable embryo. What you can do to help “recharge” your mitochondria and thereby boost your eggs’ energy supply is the subject of several chapters later in this book, but first we turn to another contributor to chromosomal errors in developing eggs – the toxin BPA.
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Welcome to the Trainz Wiki Main Page - the online home for detailed information about the Trainz Simulator product range!
1 Latest News
1.1 Trainz Plus
1.2 Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019
1.3 Trainz: A New Era
1.4 Trainz Model Railroad 2017
2 Trainz Versions
3 Help Pages
4 How-To Guides
5 Community
6 Content Creation
6.1 Content Creation Tutorial Website
7 Updating the Trainz Wiki
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Simply log in to MyTrainz to find out more.
The best ever Trainz release is here.
To find out more about the product, visit TRS19 or [the TRS19 Landing Page].
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Trainz: A New Era
Released May 15, 2015. Promoted through Kickstarter in late 2013 and then through http://anewera.trainzportal.com, the development of Trainz: A New Era (TANE) was originally supported by 1792 "supporters", then by signing up with Koch Media/Deep Silver to help us complete development. With a brand new game engine and a range of new features, TANE set a new benchmark for train simulators around the world.
Trainz Model Railroad 2017
To celebrate 15 years of Trainz, N3V Games unveiled "Trainz Model Railroad 2017" (TMR17). Released December 2016, this edition focuses attention on a range of smaller "model" layouts, complete with walls, floorboards, fascia curtains and that real model layout feeling.
Trainz Versions
Trainz now operates on PC, Mac, iOS and Android systems. New sections of this wiki are being added continually to update the different versions for different systems. More information on the history of Trainz versions can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainz.
For information on Trainz on Mobile go to: Platform-Mobile
TRS19 Introduces a new in-game Help Page
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019 (and TANE SP3) introduces several new ways to find out answers to all your Trainz questions. Simply click on the ? on the top menu bar in-game to bring up the new Help Home Page.
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You can also type your search query in the left hand margin Search box, or in the in-game Search box that opens when you click on the (?) icon.
While functionality may differ in some versions of the game, the concepts are generally similar between versions.
For more general information about how to complete a certain goal, such as How to Create a Session, check out the "How-To Guides" (also accessible from the link in the left hand column).
Please be aware that the wiki is a source of information, similar to a book. It is not intended as an interactive chat or helpdesk. If you can't find what you are looking for here, general questions should be asked via the Trainz Forums.
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Browsing page 5 of words meaning to win or lose (54 words total)
acronym for "person with narcolepsy" or "people with narcolepsy". Rare.
I am a newly-diagnosed pwn and would like to learn more about medications used to treat it...
Last edited on Aug 16 2015. Submitted by Anonymous on Apr 13 2015.
Alternate spelling of own.
Likely originated from a misspelling of "own" due to the proximity of the "O" and "P" keys on the QWERTY keyboard. A term mostly used by computer gamers.
Get ready to be pwned!
Citation from "Epic Win", Slate, Christopher Beam, Oct 15 2008 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: alternative spellings or pronunciations (list of).
See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
See more words with the same meaning: to win, defeat.
Last edited on Apr 14 2010. Submitted by Matt from Radcliff, KY, USA on Jan 04 2003.
to own someone with a pistol. Usually in a video game.
See more words with the same meaning: to shoot.
Last edited on Feb 04 2005. Submitted by Tensore @. on Feb 04 2005.
Folk etymology: from "power" + "own".
See more words with the same meaning: contractions (list of).
Last edited on Aug 04 2008. Submitted by Jacob M. on Aug 04 2008.
to abuse or damage, usu. to the point of uselessness or maximum damage.
I raped my credit card at the mall.
That car cut in so close it almost raped me.
Last edited on Oct 08 1998. Submitted by Philip T. from Chicago, IL, USA on Oct 08 1998.
to defeat greatly - figuratively or literally.
I am going to rape you at basketball.
Man, I totally got raped on that math test.
Your team got raped in the football game.
Greg raped me at soccer today.
Citation from "Chapter 12", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 6 (2010) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Graham W. from Ontario, Canada on Feb 02 2000.
to take advantage of, for example financially.
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Last edited on Nov 10 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 10 2015.
to strongly defeat during a competitive activity. Etymology: someone that was "schooled" has been "taken to school." That is, taught how to do something. And then they are badly beaten in the process.
Man, we schooled that team!
I got schooled playing tennis today.
Last edited on Jun 12 2013. Submitted by Mike K. from Temple City, CA, USA on Nov 04 1997.
to be shown up badly during a competitive activity that requires some skill (tennis, darts, shooting pool, football, etc.) You have been "taken to school." You were taught how to do it, and got beaten badly in the process.
to tell a person about; to try and teach or educate a person about.
Don't try to school me on music - I know all about it.
Does he know I'm studying to be a mathematician? He was trying to school me on math yesterday.
Last edited on May 11 2013. Submitted by Amanda F. from Dayton, OH, USA on Dec 30 1999.
to win at something by a large margin.
Man, I really schooled your ass in paintball yesterday!
Last edited on Jun 12 2013. Submitted by Derrick P. from Edmonton, AB, Canada on Dec 16 2001.
to defeat someone by a large margin.
I schooled you, man!
Last edited on Jun 12 2013. Submitted by Gordon M. from Vashon, WA, USA on Feb 24 2003.
screw the pooch
to make an irreparable (possibly tragic) mistake. Originated in the US Air Force.
Well, Jim, we lost the account. Looks like you really screwed the pooch on this one.
Obama really screwed the pooch with his debate performance.
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Citation from "School Lies", American Dad (TV), Season 6 Episode 14 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err.
Last edited on Oct 10 2012. Submitted by kim c. from Janesville, IL 62435, USA on Feb 18 1999.
to fail completely. Originated in the US Air Force.
Q: How did you do on the exam?
A: I totally screwed the pooch.
Oh man! You just screwed the pooch!
See more words with the same meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail.
Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Steve O. from Austin, TX, USA on Jan 17 2003.
to waste time; "mess around".
Quit screwing the pooch and come help me.
See more words with the same meaning: to waste time.
Last edited on Jan 04 2011. Submitted by Andrew G. from Spokane, WA, USA on Jul 19 2003.
to die.
I heard from Fred that old Barney screwed the pooch.
See more words with the same meaning: to die.
Last edited on Mar 08 2010. Submitted by Kenn C. from Emmaus, PA, USA on Jan 18 2006.
See also "fuck the dog", "screw the badger".
Last edited on Jan 04 2011. Submitted by John C. from Kansas City, MO, USA on Aug 07 2006.
a cigarette.
Can I get a smoke?
Citation from "Fear", Wilfred (TV), Season 1 Episode 3 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Pilot", American Dad (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (2005) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Roger Codger", American Dad! (TV), Season 1 Episode 5 (2005) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: cigarette, cigar.
Last edited on Feb 22 2013. Submitted by K-dub on Aug 30 2004.
marijuana.
You got any smoke?
See more words with the same meaning: marijuana.
Last edited on Aug 19 2015. Submitted by Sharon J. from Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA on Dec 01 2005.
verb - ambitransitive
to perform fellatio.
I smoked him.
She doesn't smoke.
See more words with the same meaning: fellatio, 'blowjob'.
Last edited on Aug 02 2010. Submitted by Stephan O. from Bangkok, Sao Chingcha, Bangkok, Thailand on Mar 09 2003.
to move quickly.
The cops were chasing him and he was smokin' down the highway.
See more words with the same meaning: driving and driving maneuvers.
See more words with the same meaning: fast, quick, quickly.
See more words with the same meaning: to move.
Last edited on Aug 02 2010. Submitted by Robert G. from San Jose, CA, USA on Apr 29 2004.
to smoke marijuana.
Do you want to smoke?
Does your girlfriend smoke?
Citation from "Doubt", Wilfred (US TV), Season 1 Episode 11 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: to smoke marijuana.
Last edited on Oct 25 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.
to drive very quickly.
See more words with the same meaning: to hurry.
Last edited on Aug 02 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 14 2009.
to be great.
See more words with the same meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun.
to kill, usually with a firearm.
He got smoked.
See more words with the same meaning: to kill.
Last edited on Aug 02 2010. Submitted by D L. from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Nov 14 1997.
to administer disciplinary punishment though physical exercise. Military slang.
I'm gonna smoke Private Snuffy until he pisses himself.
See more words with the same meaning: military (related to).
See more words with the same meaning: to punish.
Last edited on May 18 2011. Submitted by Will J. on Mar 10 1999.
to defeat.
Citation from "Chapter 4", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 1 Episode 4 (2009) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 14 2009.
an emphatic and comprehensive win.
Your boys got a spanking!
Last edited on Oct 23 2012. Submitted by Matthew R. from Blackpool, United Kingdom on May 31 2004.
"Spanking" is also the progressive tense of "spank".
Last edited on Oct 23 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 23 2012.
We're gonna stomp Central at the game on Thursday.
impression; thoughts.
Citation from "Pilot", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Jul 25 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 25 2011.
to rob or extort.
We took them for $1 million.
See more words with the same meaning: to steal.
Last edited on Sep 21 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
to defeat in a fight. Always used in a question or affirmation.
What are you talking about? I can take him!
Citation from "Acid Queen", Reaper (TV), Season 1 Episode 13 (2008) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Never:
I sure took him!
Last edited on Dec 30 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 30 2010.
to be pierced with ammunition from a firearm.
He took two to the chest.
Last edited on Mar 31 2019. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 31 2019.
take an l
"take a loss", i.e. to suffer a loss in a competition.
We took an l at the football game.
I took an l on that race.
See more words with the same meaning: abbreviations (list of).
Last edited on Dec 03 2015. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 02 2015.
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Citation from "Might Have Been", Rookie Blue (TV), Season 2 Episode 2 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Jul 24 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
to physically take a person from their upright position to the ground.
Citation from "Of Ice and Men", American Dad! (TV), Season 2 Episode 7 (2006) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: to attack, to fight.
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Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? - The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli
West, Emma 2016. Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? - The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli. In: Allmer, Patricia ed. Intersections - Women Artists/Surrealism/Modernism, Rethinking Art's Histories, Manchester: Manchester University Press,
Elsa Schiaparelli has been variously portrayed as a surrealist, a modernist, an artist and a designer. Described by Chanel as ‘that Italian artist who makes clothes’, in her three decades as a couturier Schiaparelli drew on, engaged with and transformed schools of modernist and surrealist art and design, working with figures such as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí. This article considers Schiaparelli’s interactions with both modernism and surrealism, asking how her experience as a woman and designer affected her status as artist/surrealist/modernist. In reference to writing about and by Schiaparelli, her fashion designs, and theorisations of modernism and surrealism, I question the usefulness of such categories while also utilising them to explore the vicissitudes of Schiaparelli’s liminal position – both and neither artist/designer, modernist/surrealist. Throughout her oeuvre, Schiaparelli exhibits hallmarks of each category: her surreal incorporation of the trompe l’oeil and objets trouvé and her externalisation of subliminal desires; her modernist preoccupation with architectural purity, colour and form; her commitment to vanguard aesthetics over conventional ideas of beauty; and her shrewd marketing of the new, shocking and daring. In incorporating elements from these often contradictory categories, all within the “feminine” sphere of fashion, Schiaparelli’s work destabilises prevailing definitions of modernist and surrealist art, revealing parallels and tensions between the two movements. In performing aspects of both modernism and surrealism, Schiaparelli’s designs resist definition as either. Drawing on the work of Yuri Lotman, I argue that her designs are ‘cultural translations’ of both surrealist and modernist art. In them, she adapts, embodies and popularises niche, abstract, ‘masculine’ notions into garments that women actually wore, subverting ideas of femininity, the ‘modern woman’, fashion, and modernist/surrealist art in the process.
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Т.59,№ 2,г.2012,С.209-215 Change in Antioxidant Responses against Oxidative Damage in Black Chickpea Following Cold Acclimation
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 12:00:00 am
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Change in Antioxidant Responses against Oxidative Damage in Black Chickpea Following Cold Acclimation1
© 2012 M. Nazari, R. Maali Amiri, F. H. Mehraban, H. Z. Khaneghah
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Received October 22, 2010
Cold stress is an important factor affecting chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) plants in winter and early spring. We evaluated the effects of cold stress by measuring lipid peroxidation, membrane permeability, and some enzyme activities involved in the ROS-scavenging system under acclimation and non-acclimation conditions in black chickpea ‘Kaka’, a popular genotype planted, and accession 4322, as a landrace genotype. Under non-acclimation conditions, the genotype 4322 prevented the H2O2 accumulation more efficiently, which led to a decrease in lipid peroxidation and membrane permeability compared to Kaka. Studying the activities of antioxidant enzymes showed that catalase was more effective enzyme in cell protection against H2O2 in 4322 plants. Such response in acclimated plants was more pronounced than in control and non-acclimated plants. In this study, the increase in guaiacol peroxidase and ascorbate peroxidase activities did not preserve cell membranes from oxidative damage in Kaka plants. It was observed that short-term acclimation can induce greater cold tolerance upon the increase of oxidative stress in chickpea plants. This was due to low levels of MDA and electrolyte leakage index, indicating the lower lipid peroxidation and higher membrane stability under the cold stress compared to non-acclimated plants.
1 This text was submitted by the authors in English.
Abbreviations: ANOVA - analysis of variance; APX - ascorbate peroxidase; CAT - catalase; ELI - electrolyte leakage index; GPX - guaiacol peroxidase; PPO - polyphenol oxidase.
Corresponding author: Reza Maali Amiri. Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the University of Tehran, 31587-77871, Karaj, Iran. Fax: 98-261-222-7605; e-mail: rmamiri@ut.ac.ir
Keywords: Cicer arietinum - antioxidant enzymes - cold acclimation - cold stress - electrolyte leakage - lipid peroxidation - oxidative damage
Chilling stress, like other types of abiotic and biotic stresses, induces oxidative processes in plant cells. These processes are initiated by reactive oxygen species (ROS), which arise from disturbed operation of electron transport chains and bring about various manifestations of chilling damage [1]. ROS interact nonspecifically with many cellular components, triggering peroxidative reactions and causing significant damage to essential macromolecules, such as photosynthetic pigments, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids, and especially damaging the membranes [2]. Cold stress increases membrane permeability characterized by the electrolyte leakage from tissues [3]. Cell membranes also are damaged by ROS, resulting in membrane lipid peroxidation that can be used as a biochemical marker of cold stress in plants [4]. These changes all occur before visual morphological changes manifesting after chilling stress. Therefore, monitoring and controlling of ROS levels is vital for plant cold tolerance. Plants acclimate to environmental low temperature changes by scavenging ROS primarily due to a number of cellular mechanisms that are associated with a vast reprogramming of gene expression and cause the changes in the membrane composition and accumulation of cryoprotectants and antioxidants [5].
Cold-tolerant genotypes have some advantages for chickpea cultivation in Iran under low temperature, because chickpea winter-sowing, when temperatures rarely fall below -10°C even in short-term periods has advantages over traditionally spring-sowing, such as the higher seed yield, water-usage efficiency, and moist growing conditions during relatively mild winter. The main disadvantage of chickpea winter-sowing is the risk of winter-kill. Therefore, there is potential for expanding the range of chickpea winter-sowing by using traditional and nonconventional breeding for improved cold tolerance. The black chickpea plants are believed to be more tolerant to environmental stresses [6], but few studies have been reported on their physiological properties under low-temperature stress. However, cold tolerance is a complex phenomenon, which depends on the nature of cold stress, its interaction with other environmental stresses, and the wide range of plant responses. The study of physiological responses of leaves in accessions (as an indicator of chilling injury) under controlled conditions can be used for genotype evaluation and understanding some mechanisms underlying cold stress. In some places, chickpea is cultivated in winter and experiences cold temperatures from December until February.
In this study, two genotypes of black chickpea were compared in their physiological responses to cold stress under non-acclimation and acclimation conditions.
Plant material and growth conditions. The study was conducted with two Iranian accessions of black chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), Kaka and 4322, which are known as a local and a landrace accession, respectively. These accessions were provided by Gene Bank of the Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding of University of Tehran. Genotype 4322 is distributed in Ardabil province - cold region on Iranian plateau in the north-west of Iran. According to our previous studies, genotype 4322 can be a good candidate for cold tolerance studies with black chickpeas.
After sterilization with 10% sodium hypochlorite for 5 min and soaking in distilled water, seeds of each accession were germinated in Petri dishes at 25°C in darkness and then sown at the rate of 5 seeds per pot. Plants were grown in a growth chamber under the luminescent lamps producing white light of 200 µmol/(m2 s) irradiance, 16/8-h day/night regime, at 25°C and 75% relative humidity for 21 days. Chickpea winter-sowing in Iran, where temperatures rarely fall below -10°C even in short-term periods, has advantages over traditional spring-sowing. Short acclimation is a common event in agricultural systems because most plants are exposed to low above-zero temperature before starting intense cold stress. Therefore, we used such short-term low temperatures in order to assess cold tolerance of accessions. Low temperatures that induce ice formation result in plant death. Low temperature treatment should induce discernible changes in cell membranes without ice formation. The cooling regime adopted in our experiments allowed us to differentiate the examined accessions in terms of their tolerance to low-temperature stress.
Cold stress treatment was started after 3 weeks of seedling growth under optimum conditions. For this treatment, one group of 3-week-old plants was maintained under optimum temperature and other plants were subdivided into the two groups. During experiments, one group of plants was placed into a climatic chamber preliminary chilled to 0°C. The temperature was lowered gradually to -10°C, and plants were incubated at this temperature for 15 min. Leaves were harvested immediately after removing the plants from the cold exposure room for analyses. Another plant group was also treated according to this scheme, but after one day at 10°C used as an acclimation temperature. The cold regime (i.e., the combination of temperature and incubation period) was chosen in preliminary experiments.
Analysis of lipid peroxidation in chickpea leaves. The rate of lipid peroxidation in leaves of chickpea genotypes was determined from the accumulation of MDA [7], the product of secondary peroxidation of lipids. MDA was determined from the color reaction with thiobarbituric acid (TBA) and a subsequent measurement of optical density using a Shimadzu UV-160 spectrophotometer (Japan). To this purpose, the samples of leaves without petioles (300 mg) were selected from the middle part of 3-5 plants. Leaves were homogenized in the extraction buffer (0.1 M Tris-HCl, pH 7.6, containing 0.35 M NaCl). Then 2 ml of 0.5% TBA in 20% trichloroacetic acid were added to 3 ml of the homogenate and incubated on a boiling water bath for 30 min. Samples were centrifuged at 5000 g for 10 min, and optical density of the supernatant was measured at the wavelength of 532 nm with a Shimadzu UV-160 spectrophotometer. The extraction buffer with the reagent served as the control. The concentration of MDA was calculated from molar extinction: C = D/EL, where C is the concentration of MDA (µM); D is the optical density, E is the coefficient of molar extinction (1.56 × 105/(M cm)), and L is the length of the solution layer in the vessel (1 cm). The content of MDA was expressed in µmol/g fr wt [8].
Electrolyte leakage index (ELI). Plants chilling tolerance was assessed by ELI in tissues damaged by cold treatments as described previously [9]. The leaves (80 mg) were incubated at different temperatures, and these samples were washed in distilled water for 5 min to remove electrolytes from the leaflets surface. Then, they were placed in glass tubes, poured with 10 ml of distilled water, and subjected to vacuum infiltration until the disappearance of regions not filled with water. Capped tubes containing samples were placed on a shaker (150 rpm) for 30 min. The water extract containing ions released from tissues was placed in a cell with electrodes, and the electrical conductivity (µS/cm) of the extract was measured using a digital conductivity meter (“Inolab”, Germany) at 25°C. The measurement was repeated after placing the tubes with leaf tissues in a boiling water bath for 10 min followed by shaking for 30 min. The ELI (I, %) was calculated according to the formula: I = [(Lt - L0)/(Lb - L0)] × 100, where Lt is electric conductivity of the sample after cold exposure, L0 is electric conductivity of the sample at temperature of growth, and Lb is an electric conductivity of the same sample after boiling [10]. The ELI represents the leakage of electrolytes from the damaged tissues as the percent of leakage from tissues completely destroyed by boiling (100%). The results were treated statistically using the Paired t-test for pair samples.
Estimation of the H2O2 content. H2O2 content was determined according to Loreto and Velikova method [11]. Leaf fragments (0.35 g) were ground in liquid nitrogen with a mortar and pestle and then homogenized in an ice bath with 5 ml of 0.1% TCA. The homogenate was centrifuged at 12 000 g for 15 min, and 0.5 ml of the supernatant was added to 0.5 ml of 10 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) and 1 ml of 1 M potassium iodide. The absorbance of the supernatant was measured at 390 nm with a Shimadzu UV-160 spectrophotometer. The content of H2O2 was calculated by comparison with a standard calibration curve previously made with different concentration of H2O2 and expressed in µmol/g fr wt.
Enzyme extraction and assay. All extraction procedures were carried out at 4°C, and enzyme activities were determined with a Shimadzu UV-160 spectrophotometer. Total soluble protein content was determined using a commercial Protein Assay (“BioRad”, United States), based on the Bradford method [12]. Samples (0.5 g fr wt) were ground in liquid nitrogen, and enzyme extraction was carried out at 0-4°C. Samples were taken from mid leaflets and homogenized in the extraction buffer (Tris-HCl, pH 7.8) containing 10% glycerol. Extracts were centrifuged at 15 000 g, 4°C for 15 min. The supernatant was used for assaying of catalase (CAT), guaiacol peroxidase (GPX), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), and polyphenol oxidase (PPO).
CAT activity. CAT activity was determined by monitoring the initial rate of H2O2 disappearance [13]. The reaction mixture contained 3 ml of phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), 5 µl of 30% H2O2, and 50 µl of crude enzyme extract, and a decrease in absorbance was recorded at 240 nm. CAT activity was expressed in µmol of H2O2 decomposed/(mg protein min).
GPX activity. The reaction mixture consisted of 3 µl of guaiacol and 10 µl of H2O2 (30%) in 3 ml of sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. The 50 µl of crude enzyme preparation was added to 3 ml of the reaction mixture [14]. Changes in absorbance at 470 nm were recorded in 20-s intervals, and the activity of guaiacol peroxidase was expressed in µmol of guaiacol oxidized/(mg protein min).
APX activity. APX activity was measured by recording the decrease in ascorbate content at 290 nm, as ascorbate was oxidized [15]. The assay mixture contained 100 µl of enzyme extract, 600 µl of 0.1 mM EDTA in 1.5 ml of 0.05 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), and 400 µl of 0.5 mM ascorbic acid. The reaction started with addition of 400 µl of 30% H2O2, and absorbance was recorded after 3 min. The activity of APX was expressed in µmol of ascorbate oxidized/(mg protein min).
PPO activity. PPO activity was determined by the method of Kar and Mishra with slight modification [16]. The standard reaction mixture consisted of 50 µl of 0.01 M pyrogallol, 3 ml of phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), and the addition of 50 µl of crude enzyme extract initiated the reaction, which was measured spectrophotometrically at 420 nm at 20-s intervals. PPO activity was determined by oxidizing pyrogallol and measuring the absorbance of the reaction products. The results were expressed in µmol of purpurogallin formed/(mg protein min).
Statistical analysis. Recorded data were processed by the analysis of variance (ANOVA) in a factorial experiment on the basis of Randomized Completely Randomized Design (RCRD). The data were analyzed using computer MSTATC software. Main and interaction effects of experimental factors were determined. We presented the results in the form of combination of treatments, and not separately or individually. The means were compared by Duncan’s multiple range tests.
Lipid peroxidation (MDA)
Low-temperature treatment of non-acclimated plants enhanced strongly the MDA content (lipid peroxidation) in Kaka plants, while in plants 4322 it did not have any effect. After 24-h acclimation at 10°C, MDA content declined to near the control level. Thus, 4322 plants were more cold-tolerant than Kaka plants (fig. 1a).
Electrolyte leakage index (ELI)
The effect of low temperature on ELI is shown in fig. 1b. Levels of ELI in both genotypes did not change by stress after acclimation, while treating the plants with subzero temperatures without acclimation provoked an increase in leakage in leaves of 4322 plants and local genotype of chickpea. Also ELI in the 4322 genotype was lower than that in Kaka plants under all conditions.
Changes in the content of H2O2
The effect of cold stress on the content of H2O2 in two genotypes of chickpea, under both acclimated and non-acclimated conditions, is represented in fig. 1c. Compared to control, hydrogen peroxide accumulation increased under non-acclimated conditions in both genotypes. Acclimation of the accession 4322 led to a decrease in the content of H2O2 after stress, which was lower than that in control leaves. However, its content in local genotype Kaka after acclimation was higher than in the 4322 genotype.
CAT activity in these genotypes increased differently (fig. 2a). CAT activity in 4322 plants under control, acclimated, and non-acclimated conditions was dramatically higher than that in the local genotype. Compared to non-acclimated plants, CAT activity of acclimated plants increased, although it was significantly higher in the genotype 4322.
GPX activity
In response to cold stress, a regular increase in the activity of guaiacol peroxidase was shown in both acclimated and non-acclimated local plants (fig. 2c), but GPX activity did not change significantly in 4322 plants under these conditions. Except control plants, in which peroxidase activity was approximately equal in local and 4322 genotypes, this activity in local plants was higher than in both acclimated and non-acclimated 4322 plants.
APX activity
It was observed that APX activity of both genotypes increased under cold stress in non-acclimated plants, although in Kaka plants it was higher (fig. 2b). In acclimated plants, the level of APX activity in Kaka plants increased while in the 4322 genotype it did not change. Also APX activity in Kaka plants was always higher than that in 4322 plants.
PPO activity
This enzyme activity in two genotypes responded differently to cold acclimation. Although leaves of both genotypes under optimum temperature had almost similar PPO activity, differences were remarkable after cold stress. Accession 4322 had greater PPO activity after stress in both acclimated and non-acclimated plants. No significant difference was detected in PPO activity in both genotypes between cold acclimated and non-acclimated plants (fig. 2d).
We evaluated effects of short-term chilling on lipid peroxidation, membrane permeability, and oxidative stress in two black chickpea genotypes, Kaka and 4322. We observed a dramatic cold-induced increase in the MDA level and ROS accumulation in the non-acclimated Kaka genotype. The ELI was used to assess the magnitude of injury to the cell membrane after exposure to short-term low temperature. The higher ELI of the Kaka genotype after cold stress indicates the lower stability of its cell membrane, which may be related to the enhanced lipid peroxidation caused by ROS and changes in membrane lipid compositions that influence membrane permeability [17].
The content of H2O2 changes in response to cold treatment are very important because H2O2 can promote the formation of hydroxyl radical, another and more toxic ROS [18]. We demonstrated that, cold treatment of non-acclimated Kaka plants resulted in H2O2 accumulation that probably was one of the reasons for the increase in the MDA level. Moreover, H2O2 has a signaling role in chilling perception and could motivate some confrontation metabolisms [19]. In order to study this assumption, we measured the activities of antioxidant enzymes CAT, GPX, APX, and PPO. These enzymes are implicated in the ROS detoxification and plant resistance to the cold-induced oxidative stress [20]. Although the H2O2 level in the leaves could be a signal for antioxidant responses but, in the first place, high H2O2 accumulation indicates the lack of antioxidant activity. In the case of cold-sensitive plants, CAT is more implicated than other enzymes [2119].
In our study, CAT activity in Kaka plants did not change significantly under cold stress. Peroxidases as enzymatic antioxidants are thought to be essential for ROS detoxification during normal metabolism and particularly during stress. In the Kaka genotype, GPX and APX activities had similar patterns. The increase in peroxidase activity could be a sign that plants responded to ROS accumulation. But in spite of increasing activity of GPX and APX compared to CAT in Kaka plants, an accumulation of H2O2 and consequently lipid peroxidation occurred. Thus, it seems likely that defense mechanisms in the Kaka genotype could not cope with cold stress damages.
In the 4322 genotype, we observed only slight increments in the MDA content and ELI, which indicates the higher membrane stability in non-acclimated plants, however, the level of H2O2 in leaves increased. Small changes in MDA and ELI are probably a sign that this level of H2O2 could not be considered as an intense damage. Also the H2O2 level in tissues is different for various plants [22убрали]. In this study, the H2O2 level in the 4322 genotype was higher than in Kaka plants under optimum conditions. Moreover, determination of enzyme activities in this genotype showed that in non-acclimated plants induction of CAT in comparison with GPX, APX, and PPO is more important in cell protecting from oxidative damage and is therefore a main factor in the early response to cold stress. Considering the sudden changes of temperature in some regions and the importance of rapid plant responses to these conditions, we conducted experiments with short-term acclimation. Short-term acclimation is a common event experiences by most plants before environmental temperature reaches to low above-zero temperature or freezing.
In acclimated plants, the content of MDA was approximately similar in the two genotypes. This indicates that sensitive plants may also increase capacity for adaptation to low temperatures due to diverse physiological and biochemical mechanisms functioning during acclimation, but the degree of their adaptation could be different and in 4322 plants the level of MDA was slightly less than in Kaka plants. Furthermore, cold acclimation reduced the ELI and improved the membrane stability as compared with non-acclimated plants of both genotypes. A decrease in membrane stability of Kaka plants reflects apparently the extent of lipid peroxidation caused by ROS. However, 4322 plants always had the lower damage index, which could be due to effective scavenging of oxidant molecules. The H2O2 level measurement verified this hypothesis: after short acclimation a dramatic decrease in the H2O2 happened in 4322 plants. Regarding to these results, it is probable that the high activity of antioxidant enzymes in the tolerant genotype (4322) suppresses H2O2 accumulation and lipid peroxidation, thus weakening membrane injury. Short acclimation before cold stress induced a dramatic increase in CAT activity in 4322 plants; in Kaka plants, CAT activity changes were insignificant. Thus, after cold treatment, Kaka plants, which are less resistant to low temperature, showed no change in CAT activity, while in the more resistant plants (4322), the activity of this enzyme significantly increased. These data suggest that CAT activity may directly correlate with the degree of cold tolerance. This result agrees with previous data that CAT is the first enzyme that takes part in H2O2 detoxification [20] and an increase in its activity may decrease the level of H2O2, especially under acclimation conditions. It was reported that under cold stress GPX activity was significantly higher in tolerant genotypes than in sensitive plants [13].
However, in this study we did not observe any association of GPX with cold tolerance. It should be noted that, in our experiments in both cold-susceptible and in cold-tolerant accessions, CAT and peroxidase activities behaved differently. In cold-tolerant accession, early response to short-term low temperature may be related to CAT activation, whereas APX activity was not changed. But at longer cold stress it may be that other enzymes cooperate or replace CAT activity. These results confirm the findings of Willekens et al. [2320] demonstrating opposite changes in CAT and peroxidase activities: plants with higher CAT activity had lower APX activity. Thus, it seems likely that peroxidase activity may be involved in the cold tolerance of chickpea genotypes, but it may be not correlated with the degree of cold tolerance after short acclimation. In this study, no significant changes were seen in PPO activity of two genotypes after cold acclimation. But little increase in PPO activity after acclimation may show that PPO activity needs more time for acclimation.
In conclusion, the black chickpea seedlings showed the capacity of cold tolerance increase when exposed to short acclimation. Some antioxidant enzymes may be activated by such acclimation and this can make chickpea plants ready to encounter lower temperatures. In Kaka plants, cold treatment of non-acclimated and acclimated plants caused a significant increase in GPX and APX activities and did not affect PPO and CAT activities. However, this treatment elevated H2O2 content and therefore stimulated lipid peroxidation and electrolyte leakage. In 4322 plants, such conditions significantly increased CAT and PPO, but not GPX and APX activities, which led to a significant decrease in H2O2 content and stability of cell membranes as compared to Kaka plants. Therefore, different activities of the H2O2-scavenging enzymes in cold-susceptible (Kaka) and cold-tolerant (4322) plants resulted in different intensity of lipid peroxidation in acclimated and non-acclimated plants. In this study, it was observed that 24-h plant exposure to 10°C can trigger necessary mechanisms for cold acclimation in cold-tolerant plants more efficiently than in cold-susceptible plants (Kaka). Therefore, short acclimation can provoke defense systems and alleviate cold damage in 4322 plants. From the results obtained, it may deduced that CAT was more effective enzyme in cell protection against H2O2 under cold stress in cold-tolerant 4322 plants and such protection systems in acclimated plants were more active compared to control and non-acclimated plants. It means that early response to short-term low temperature in 4322 plants may be induced by CAT but not peroxidase. However, under longer cold stress other enzymes may cooperate or replace CAT activity. Thus, it is of interest to study other elements of the defense system and obtain information on expression levels of the related genes functioning under short-term and long-term cold stress; this helps to understand plant strategies under cold stress. Since chickpea plants are cultivated in Iran under dryland conditions, they face drought stress after finishing cold season. The Desi type of chickpea is believed to be more tolerant to drought stress [6]. Therefore, the cold-tolerant genotype 4322, which is rapidly acclimated and survives winter cold can be a good candidate as an alternative plant in high and drought regions, where kabuli chickpeas do not have successful performance. It seems likely that these plants may be used for extending the growing season and geographical range of black chickpea.
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FIGURE CAPTIONS
Fig. 1. Effects of low temperature on MDA content (a), electrolyte leakage index (ELI) (b), and H2O2 content (c) in the leaves of two black chickpea genotypes grown under acclimation and non-acclimation conditions.
1 - accession Kaka, 2 - accession 4322. Different letters above columns represent statistically significant differences based on Duncan’s multiple range tests.
Fig. 2. Antioxidant enzyme activities in the leaves of two Desi-type acclimated or non-acclimated chickpea genotypes subjected to cold treatment.
a - catalase; b - ascorbate peroxidase; c - guaiacol peroxidase; d - polyphenol oxidase. 1 - accession Kaka, 2 - accession 4322. Different letters above the columns represent statistically significant differences based on Duncan’s multiple range tests.
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Musings, observations, and written works from the publisher of Eckhartz Press, the media critic for the Illinois Entertainer, co-host of Minutia Men and Free Kicks, and the writer of "EveryCubEver", "The Living Wills", "$everance," "Father Knows Nothing," "The Radio Producer's Handbook," and "Records Truly Is My Middle Name"
I'm heading out of town for the weekend, but I've left you with a few goodies.
Today is Barry Keefe's last day on the air at WTMX, and I interviewed him the other day about that. The interview is posted already at Chicago Radio Spotlight. I'll post it here when I get back in town.
Also, if you're near a radio on Saturday morning, tune in WLS. I'll be on with John Records Landecker at 7:30 to talk about his favorite feature from Just One Bad Century--This Week in 1908.
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Media Notebook (April 10, 2008)
Collected and Edited by Rick Kaempfer
Highlights and links to the big stories in the news this week about the media. This column appears twice a week at MEDIA NOTEBOOK
CBS considering outsourcing news gathering to CNN
(New York Times) I'm starting to scare myself with the predictions in my novel...here's another one that is really happening. Tim Arango writes: "CBS, the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting, has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday. Over the last decade, CNN has held intermittent talks with both ABC News and CBS News about various joint ventures. But during the last several months, talks with CBS have been revived and lately intensified, according to the executives who asked for anonymity because of the confidential nature of the negotiations. Broadly speaking, the executives described conversations about reducing CBS’s news-gathering capacity while keeping its frontline personalities, like Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor, and paying a fee to CNN to buy the cable network’s news feeds."
CBS News, Katie Couric likely to part ways
(Wall Street Journal) Rebecca Dana writes: "After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 -- possibly soon after the presidential inauguration early next year...Her departure would cap a difficult episode for CBS, which brought Ms. Couric to the network with considerable fanfare in a bid to catapult "Evening News" back into first place. Excluding several weeks of her tenure, Ms. Couric never bested the ratings of interim anchor Bob Schieffer, who was named to host the broadcast temporarily after "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather left the newscast in the wake of a discredited report on George W. Bush's National Guard service."
Excerpts of this weekend's NYT magazine piece on Chris Matthews
(Fishbowl DC) "We've got an advanced copy of Mark Leibovich's piece on Chris Matthews, entitled 'Chris Matthews, Seriously. (O.K., Not That Seriously),' which will appear in this Sunday's NYT magazine. Not only is it a great read (typical for Leibovich), but if you're into media gossip...man. This has got good stuff on Matthews rivalries with David Gregory, Keith Olbermann, Tim Russert...and that's just scratching the surface of the gems this piece unearths."
AARP Launches An On-Line Social Network
(Circulation Management) Insert your own punchlines. Jason Fell writes: "The creation of AARP Bulletin Today is part of a larger relaunch of AARP.org. In addition to a redesign, the site now includes content from AARP the Magazine and an online social network. With nearly 40 million members, AARP this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. The association was founded in 1958 by Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. AARP the Magazine was launched in 2002."
The Power 50: the most powerful gay men and women in America
(Out) As you might expect, many of them are in the media--including Anderson Cooper at #2. Tom Ford writes: "Although power is often subjective and defies a ready definition, we determined that to earn a spot on our Power 50 list, candidates have to be gay and American or working primarily in the United States (sorry, Elton) and have significance in our culture at large. To work out each person’s power ranking, we used a weighted system of criteria, awarding scores based on (1) political clout; (2) pop-culture resonance; (3) individual wealth; and (4) current personal profile. Whether they’re raking in millions, advancing the gay rights movement, entertaining us with snarky celebrity gossip, or selling us $2,000 cashmere sweaters, we’re confident that these VIPs have exerted considerable sway over how we think, look, and act."
C-SPAN launches YouTube election channel
(Webpronews) Mike Sachoff writes: "The private nonprofit cable public affairs network C-SPAN is launching its own channel on YouTube. The C-SPAN channel on YouTube will be focused on the upcoming Pennsylvania primary and is inviting voters to answer the question 'What issue in this election is most important to you, and why?' Users will be able to upload their videos to C-SPAN's YouTube channel and share what they believe is the most important issue in the election. Users who upload a video should focus on a single issue and include their name and hometown. A selection of videos will air on C-SPAN beginning Sunday, April 13 on 'Road to the White House.'"
Tribune Turns To Radio To Revive Empire
(Wall Street Journal) Schechner & McBride write: "As real-estate magnate Sam Zell tries to rejuvenate ailing newspaper and television empire Tribune Co., he is turning to another, more freewheeling medium: radio. An influx of veteran executives from radio -- including several hired in recent days from Clear Channel Communications Inc., which has been buffeted by the departures -- is likely to upend Tribune's once-staid culture. Under the direction of Mr. Zell and his No. 2 at Tribune, radio veteran Randy Michaels, pinball machines and a jukebox have been installed at the company's corporate headquarters in Chicago. Another radio veteran, newly hired Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams, he floated some provocative ideas for reviving Tribune's newspapers, including front pages primarily composed of colorful maps."
Sam Zell: A Tough Guy in a Mean Business
(NY Times) Perez-Pena writes: "Since taking control of the Tribune Company in December, Sam Zell has drawn a lot of attention in journalism circles for speeches laced with profanity, political incorrectness, insults and self-deprecating humor. But all the twittering and tut-tutting over Mr. Zell’s remarks — and his suggestions that some reporting jobs are not needed — masks a more serious concern. With the newspaper industry going through an unexpectedly sharp contraction, Tribune is struggling under $12.8 billion in debt, and its financial condition has deteriorated, creating what specialists say is a very real risk of credit default in the next year or so."
Rifts in Family Hang Over Redstone Legacy
(New York Times) Tim Arango writes: "In mid-March, the media mogul Sumner M. Redstone was in Palm Beach, Fla., for a Wall Street firm’s annual media conference when he was asked about his legacy. 'I guess I’d like to be known as a loving and supportive father and grandfather,' Mr. Redstone said. This was an uncharacteristically wistful note for Mr. Redstone, the chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, which together represent one of the world’s largest media empires. Despite Mr. Redstone’s sentiments, his relationships with family and business associates remain complicated. Like many who have risen to preside over large business empires, Mr. Redstone, who turns 85 next month, has left a trail of tattered relationships — with family members, executives and, in his case, one very famous movie star."
Clear Channel and iTunes Tagging
(Radio Online) Clear Channel announced a milestone Monday in the radio giant's implementation of HD Radio's iTunes tagging feature on more than 340 of its primary HD outlets. These stations are capable of transferring a song heard on the radio to an Apple iPod using tagging. Additionally, CC is making use of its own technology to enable the purchasing and downloading of music on these stations.
24/7 Stress: Writers Blog Til They Drop
(NY Times) Matt Richtel writes: "They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment."
Justice Department Sues Fox
(Variety) Cynthia Littleton writes: "The Justice Department has taken on the role of the FCC’s enforcer, filing a lawsuit Friday against Fox and Sinclair Broadcast Group to collect $56,000 in fines levied in the long-running indecency case involving Fox reality skein 'Married by America.' The Justice Department’s unusual move came on the same day the FCC rejected Fox’s request for a review of the FCC’s most recent decision to fine a handful of Fox affiliates for carrying the sexually charged reality program in a timeslot in which the FCC has indecency enforcement authority. The Justice Department filed suits against eight stations in federal courts in Washington, D.C.; Iowa; West Virginia; and Tennessee. In a statement, Fox said it was prepared to argue its case against what the media giant views as an arbitrary standard applied in the FCC’s indecency rulings."
The Disappearing TV Critic
(Broadcasting & Cable) Marisa Guthrie writes: "The fraternity of the nation’s television critics at daily newspapers was once a thriving milieu, dominated by a great diversity of committed voices. The critics’ opinions were sought, revered -- in many cases, even feared -- and blurbed in network on-air promos. That reality has changed drastically of late as the ranks of critics have grown noticeably leaner. Caught in the financial turmoil roiling the newspaper industry, they have become a beleaguered lot, a growing part of the collateral damage of the digital revolution. In the past two years, more than one-dozen longtime critics at major-market dailies -- including the Dallas Morning News, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, New York Newsday, New York Daily News and Houston Chronicle -- have been either let go, shunted to different beats or been forced to take the ubiquitous buyout proffered by bean-counting corporate bosses."
(Rick's note: We lost a good one in Chicago too, Sun Times critic Doug Elfman)
An interview with Bob Hale
(Chicago Radio Spotlight) Last weekend I spoke with original WLS Rock-Jock, Bob Hale. He told some incredible stories from the early days of rock radio, including the night of Buddy Holly's last concert in Iowa (he was the MC that night), and the first day that WLS played rock and roll (he was the overnight guy). He also talked about his days on the Today Show. A great read. Coming this weekend, long-time WTMX news anchor Barry Keefe.
Suburban Man: Blue Velvet
By Rick Kaempfer
The year is 1980. It is the height of the Cold War.
A sixteen-year-old boy is attending his junior prom in Heidelberg, Germany. The setting of the prom is magical. It is being held at the Heidelberg Castle, a beautiful, 17th-century structure built high in the hills above the Neckar River. The boy is wearing a blue velvet tuxedo; as soft and fuzzy as the “mustache” on his lip. His date, a diminutive gymnast, is wearing a pale gown. There is a slight chill in the air on this May night, but as the sun sets over the mountain, two Defense Department officials are in the bushes, witnessing the festivities from afar.
Their orders are direct and simple: keep an eye on the sixteen year old, and take whatever precautions necessary to avoid being recognized. They sit at a table on the other side of the castle courtyard, sipping tea and watching the boy dance. After the dancing, they follow him down to the restaurant district where a group of the youngsters stop for a Coca-Cola. There is a close call when one of the officials sneezes, and the young man turns in their general direction—but he sees nothing in the darkness of the evening.
When the car arrives to pick up the boy and his date, the driver somehow instinctively knows which girl is the teenager’s date—even though he hasn’t been told her name or what she looks like. The nervous and uncomfortable teen doesn’t recognize the rookie mistake. The surveillance is another Cold War success.
That’s a true story.
The very real Defense Department officials were my father and one of his coworkers. The sixteen year old they were following around that night was me.
I didn’t find out about it until several years later. By then I was in my early twenties, and we were living in America. My dad’s friend and his wife came to town for a visit, and accidentally spilled the beans. During dinner he turned to me and said, “I understand you have a girlfriend now. Do you still walk ten paces in front of her like you did with your prom date?”
That comment elicited howls of laughter from everyone in the room . . . my dad, my mom, my dad’s friend, his wife, my sister and my brother. I was the only one in the room that wasn’t laughing.
“Did somebody spy on me or something?” I asked.
“You really didn’t know?” my dad’s buddy asked between cackles. “I thought it was a dead giveaway when your dad knew which one was your date. How did he know? You wouldn’t let him meet her before the prom, remember?”
“One lousy mistake,” my dad protested, as if he had heard this taunt a thousand times. “I told you he didn’t notice. Plus, you were the one that sneezed at the restaurant. You could have blown our cover, too.”
“I thought you were looking right at me,” my dad’s buddy admitted to me.
“You both spied on me?” I asked.
“C’mon, put yourself in my place,” my dad explained. “You were being so mysterious about this date. You wouldn’t even tell me her name. I was curious.”
“At least you didn’t poke that poor girl trying to pin on her corsage,” my mom added. “It was a good idea to just hand it to her.”
“Mom, you were there, too?”
She nodded. I looked at the wife of my dad’s friend. She nodded, too.
“I had to see that blue velvet tuxedo,” she added.
I know I should have been mad, but by my early twenties I was all too aware of how entertaining it must have been to watch the awkward and uncomfortable 16-year-old me wearing a blue velvet tuxedo, struggling through a very expensive date with a girl I barely knew. To think that these two couples made my disaster into their own double date seemed somehow appropriate.
“So, did I put on a good show?” I asked.
Everyone laughed again. When they regained their composure, I got the best picture of what it must have been like to watch me that night.
“By the way,” my dad’s friend said, “‘Play That Funky Music, White Boy’ is not a slow dance.”
This article originally appeared in NWI Parent Magazine.
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Joke of the Week: Contributed by "K"
Love and Marriage!!!
A man took his wife to the rodeo and one of the first exhibits they stopped at was the breeding bulls.
They went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said,
'THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR'
The wife playfully nudged her husband in the ribs and said, 'He mated 50 times last year.'
They walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said,
'THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR'
The wife gave her husband a healthy jab and said, 'That's more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him.'
They walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters,
The wife, so excited that her elbow nearly broke her husband's ribs, said, 'That's once a day. You could REALLY learn something from this one
The husband looked at her and said, 'Go over and ask him if it was with the same old cow.'
The husband's condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and he should eventually make a full recovery.
Bonus Jokes: In yesterday's NY Post, the 50 funniest jokes
Stories you might have missed
1. How does Steve Bartman get the last 4 1/2 years of his life back?
(Moises Alou now says he wouldn't have caught that ball.)
2. Pregnant Man makes an appearance on Oprah's show
(This is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. Video at the link)
3. Wanted: Drinker to go to pub with dad
(Have you ever felt you were born for a job?)
4. Hawk attacks girl at Fenway
(And no, this isn't referring to former Red Sox player Andre "The Hawk" Dawson)
5. Football player arrested for attempting to urinate on dance floor
(And he wasn't successful? Wow, and I thought I had an enlarged prostate.)
Video of the week: RIP Charlton Heston. "Take your stinking paws off me..."
Picture of the week: My friend "D" sent me this with the tagline "I told you soccer was gay." I happen to love soccer, but I think this picture is funny...
Regarding $everance
"I’d rather read this book than watch most guys take a shower! Zagorski Rules!"
--S (female)
"This is the kind of impact your book had on me. When I saw that Charlton Heston died, the first thing I thought about was your hilarious 'Ben Hur' chapter in $everance."
--K
"Even you have to be a little freaked out how closely reality is following your crazy story line in $everance. Are you getting any royalties from those a******s that run the media companies or are they just using the book as a roadmap?"
--D
Regarding Suburban Man: "Green Living Idiot"
"You're doing a lot better than I am. I'm impressed."
--J
"You may be 'living green' but I've seen your lawn during the summer. Are you sure that 'living brown' isn't more appropriate?"
Rick responds: Actually using the word "living" and "lawn" in the same sentence isn't allowed at my house. I prefer to think of that patch of land as a grub farm.
Regarding "Just One Bad Century"
"I heard you on WLS with John Landecker. I must tell you I am grateful for all your hard work. It is so neat to think of someone like you taking on a century of info and pulling it together for all of us die-hard Chicagoans. Your conversation just opened the floodgates of my memories. My grandparents came to Chicago from Ireland thru Ellis Island to Chicago, and my family still lives in the Chicago area. But baseball is and always was the pastime for my parents, family, and friends. Even now I work with severe die-hards with interest in every aspect of Cubs memorabilia and stats year around. Keep up the good work!"
--N
"I am sooo loving your site. It manages to strike the perfect balance between Cubs love and Cubs hate. In short, it's the perfect Cubs experience."
--A
Rick responds: Thank you. I do love/hate them very much.
288 days until we get a new president.
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Chicago Radio Spotlight: Bob Hale
Bob Hale is a legendary radio and television broadcaster who spent most of his career gracing the airwaves of Chicago.
RADIO-OGRAPHY
Began at WHA-AM/FM/TV Madison Wisconsin while at the University of Wisconsin in Madison – 1952-1957
1958-KRIB Mason City , Iowa as RnR DJ. In February of 1959 was emcee of the Winter Dance Party of ’59 after which Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson were killed in the plane crash that shocked the world!
From there, I joined WMAY, Springfield in Fall of 1959…and 4 months later joined WIRL, Peoria .
In April of 1960 I joined WLS –Chicago as the host of East of Midnight; one of the original Swinging Seven who changed the sound of Chicago radio.
In Spring of 1964 I went to WMAQ Radio and stayed with them until 1966 when I joined WFLD-TV, as their first announcer. Also did weekday sports, and weekend news anchoring.
April 1967 I was offered a contract from WMAQ-TV as host of Today in Chicago, remaining there for 16 years.
I went to WLEX-TV In Lexington, KY as Principal News Anchor for 6 years, returning to Chicago to join WJJD in 1989. I retired in 1996 when WJJD changed to satellite talk and then switched formats to become The Score!
Since then I have been doing freelance writing and photography. Travel is a pastime – USA , South America, Europe primarily.
Rick: I know you've had to answer this question a million times, but please indulge us by answering it one more time. You were the Master of Ceremonies on February 2, 1959 in Clear Lake, Iowa--the last concert by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Describe the scene backstage for us, and explain your part in that ill-fated coin-flip.
Bob: The bus with Valens, Holly, Richardson, Dion, and Frankie Sardo arrived in the late afternoon…actually around 6PM . We hurriedly got them something to eat, and then all pitched in to set up for the performance. Those days were pre-high-fi days, so we had to deal with only one microphone. The tour manager was Sam Geller of the GAC Corporation (which would go on to purchase Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus). As the set-up was taking place, Buddy was playing the piano. Sam and I were listening and he said to me, “This guy is going to be one of the greatest popular music composers of our time. He’s so talented – he can play so many instruments, and he creates such interesting music.”
Buddy’s talents were put to use during the concert as he played the drums during the Dion set. The regular drummer, Charlie Bunch was in the hosp[ital in Green Bay , Wisconsin , having suffered frostbite on the broken down bus! Buddy would play the drums for Dion’s set, which began the second half of the show. The first half was Frankie Sardo, and Big Bopper.
The second half, Dion and the Belmonts, followed by Buddy.
When Dion’s set was over, I sat down with him on the riser in front of the drum set and asked him to introduce his musicians. (Photo: Dion & The Belmonts 1959) When it came time for the drummer Dion said something like: “This fellow is taking the place of Charlie Bunch, our regular drummer who is in the hospital in Green Bay suffering from frost bite. Um...let’s see…the drummer’s name…is…ah, oh yeah! BUDDY HOLLY!”
Buddy jumped up, grabbed his guitar and began singing “Gotta Travel On.” The backup men quickly changed places and joined Buddy before he was half way through the first stanza.
There was some drama taking place off-stage, even before we got started, actually. At one point Bopper (photo) was sitting with my wife, Kathy, and me in a booth. Kathy was expecting our first child, and Bopper said something like, “That’s what I miss most…being around my wife when the baby moves. Kathy, may I feel your baby moving?” Kathy took Bopper’s hand and placed it on her stomach as the baby moved. Bopper smiled: “I can’t wait to get home to do that.”
Interestingly, no such conversation took place involving Buddy. We didn’t even know at that point that Maria was expecting.
During intermission the back-and-forth conversation between Bopper and Waylon Jennings took place, resulting in Waylon giving up his seat to Bopper. At that point Waylon uttered a phrase that would haunt him all his life – “Well, OKAY, but I hope your plane crashes!”
Years later, at a social gathering in Kentucky, Waylon (photo) and I recalled that night. He said: “Man, there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t wish I could take back that comment. The next day when I got the news in Fargo, I went nuts. I cried, I yelled. And I began to drink. Drugs helped along the way. Of course, I realized years down the road I was killing myself, so I quit. I don’t know, maybe deep inside I was so damned guilty, I was trying to kill myself!” He admitted that no matter how long he'd live, he’d always be haunted by Feb 3rd 1959.
After the show was over that night, Tommy Allsup, pressured by Ritchie Valens, said, “Let’s flip a coin.” It’s at this point that two versions of the coin flip emerge. Tommy maintains he flipped the coin; I maintain that as soon as he suggested it, he reached into his pocket and realized he had no money – he was still in his stage clothes. He asked me if I had a coin. I took out a 50 cent piece, said to Ritchie, “OKAY, Ritchie, you want to go, you call it.”
“Heads!”
“Heads it is, Ritchie, you’re flying.”
Tommy said, “OKAY,” and went out to the car to retrieve his bags which he’d already put in Carroll Anderson’s car. Regardless which version of the coin toss you hear or accept neither Tommy nor I demand “ownership.” We’ve talked about this, and have no emotional investment in either version. What we agree on is that night was a tragedy and an extremely emotional one for us all.
Rick: What was that next day like?
Bob: February 3rd would be a painful day for family, friends, fellow-musicians, and for those who attended the Winter Dance Party. Within minutes of my announcing the plane crash – I was pulling the 9 to noon shift on the 3rd, teens began arriving at the station (KRIB) just to talk. It became a day-long wake, Pepsi and Coke distributors brought extra cases to our studios – we had so many people just “hanging around.” Parents came, too. Many had been at the Surf the night before. It was the custom of Carroll Anderson to invite parents to the weekly record hops free of charge. Many teens and parents were in tears.
Some students from Waldorf College had been at the Surf the night before. Some came to the studios. I interviewed college as well as high school students. What I didn’t know at the time was that Waldorf, a two-year Lutheran college, did not condone dancing! The school had a rigid Danish-Lutheran background which was extremely conservative in social activities – “Sad Danes,” they were called in Lutheran circles. When the school heard about the students who’d been to the Surf, they immediately suspended the dozen or so students for a couple of weeks. No comments on the deaths – just on “school policy.” Fortunately time has given Waldorf a more enlightened school administration, as well as transforming the college into a four-year, well respected liberal arts college.
On the way home in the afternoon, after conducting about two-dozen telephone interviews with radio stations across the country, I drove by the crash site. The bodies had still not been removed, as the ambulances were still in the corn field. I could not bring myself to walk the hundred yards to the site – and to this day, I’ve not been able to make that walk!
Rick: One of your former colleagues from WJJD, Bob Dearborn, also became known for a connection to the Buddy Holly story in a way. His analysis of Don McClean's "American Pie" (a song inspired by the Buddy Holly plane crash) is considered by many to be the best and most thoughtful one out there. I'm sure the two of you discussed the subject a time or two. What is your feeling about that song?
Bob: Bob Dearborn (photo) and I have talked about his analysis of "American Pie." While I take McLean at his word when I asked him about the several theories out there - " Oh, heck, I took words that rhymed, and some thoughts I had, and tied them together. If they sounded good I kept them in."
I think Don has begun to see the value in all the "deciphering" going on - it's good for sales, even today! - that he's backed off that open and honest statement these days. But, As far for which one strikes home the most - Dearborn's, as far as I am concerned. Of course, I have to be up-front here; I am hoping to get Bob to the Surf next year for his interpretation presentation.
Rick: You were one of the original rock jocks at WLS in 1960. Talk about those early days and the way the city embraced the WLS personalities. Do you still run into people who connect you with that time?
Bob: Oh boy...this could a long bio-piece, but I'll cut to the chase, as the cliché goes. In early 1960 I had moved to WIRL in Peoria. At KRIB and WMAY I was sending a tape every two weeks to Sam Holman the to-be-program director of WLS. One afternoon, home in bed with a fever, and a couple of shots of Dr. Jack Daniels with honey and lemon - the late winter cold had struck - I received a call.
"Bob, it's Sam Holman at WLS, in Chicago."
Instant sobriety! INSTANT!
"Yes, Sam, how are you?" Actually, I didn't care how he was; I wanted to know why he called!!!
"Bobby, (right then I knew I was in! - 'Bobby') I'd like to come on to be my all-night man starting May 2nd. Interested?" Oh yeah...was I interested! "Besides, Bobby, you keep sending me all those tapes---I've got no room for more."
Dick Biondi and I were brought in early so that the three of us could make the rounds of newspaper people, record promoters and writers. Within 20 hours of that call two record promoters drove from Chicago to "meet me, and say hello." I had arrived!
When I came to WLS that first day at the old Prairie Farmer Building on West Washington Blvd, Sam and Dick and I were taken to lunch at Fritzel's--THE place to be seen! We weren't there more than 10 minutes, guests of Archie Levinson, well-known record promoter and husband of Fran Allison, of Kukla, Fran and Ollie fame, when we were joined by Milton Berle! I leaned over to Sam and said, "I wonder who they'll fly in tomorrow to impress us?"
(Photos: Steve Allen with Bob Hale in WLS Studios)
That night Sam, Dick and I hung around WLS after midnight sign-off and the new chief engineer, Fred Zellner, fired up the transmitter out in a south-west suburb (Tinley Park) to see how far we were reaching. We'd take collect calls from anywhere in the US. Oh boy, did we run up a bill, fast. Calls from, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, New Hampshire, and a couple of ships-at-sea. And, I, as the in-coming midnight man, and Biondi as the incoming 9 to midnight man, knew we had a tiger of a radio station to play with! Damn, that was fun!
Biondi is the only one of the "old crowd" I see on rare occasions. Other than Dick, Jim Dunbar and me, the rest have died: Sam Holman, Mort Crawley, Ed Grennen, and Gene Taylor...all gone.
(Photo: Gene Taylor, Bob Hale, and Sam Holman at 1985 WLS Reunion)
Rick: What was that like working there in those days?
Bob: The midnight shift at WLS was incredible – we reached 42 of the 50 states. Signals just roar in the nighttime, especially when you have 50,000 watts on a clear channel, as we did back in 1960. I had a fan club at a secret Air Force base near the Arctic Circle . The guys called sometimes via a link up with an air base in Indiana . I had to promise to NOT dedicate anything to a name. I’d couch it by playing a tune for some of my “nightly listeners north of Chicago, who I know are listening to me with one ear, and other conversations with the other ear.” They were monitoring the Russian airwaves!
Two extras came my way. First, the record hops. It wasn’t long before promoters were calling to hire the WLS DJs for outside activities. The station approved them, knowing it was great promotion. Because I was working nights, Friday and Saturday night hops were out for me…unless I could make short appearances. I did many Sunday hops…sometime three on a Sunday. Some weeks we could match out salary. Biondi (photo) could match all our salaries put together!! (even today, he’s a hot commodity! Seventy-five going on 23!)
Secondly, the Lutheran youth association, called the Walther League, asked me to write a monthly column in the youth magazines. From that I was invited to local youth rallies, and our International Walther League conventions in such places as Fargo , Squaw Valley , and Washington D. C. On Sundays I’d drive or even train to Midwest youth gatherings. I wasn’t there to play records, but rather to speak, sometimes as a keynoter. My interest in theology helped me make sufficient cogent points. I found that to be the most satisfying addendum to the radio on-air work.
Rick: How did you make that transition from radio to television?
Bob: In 1964 I made a switch to WMAQ radio, the NBC station in Chicago. They were trying to regain lost listeners from their very low-key and bland format. I remained with them a year and a half, and while I was there, in January of 1966 I joined WFLD-TV, which was owned by the Sun-Times and Daily News.
WFLD was a UHF station – Ch 32 – in a heavily VHF market. That's where I made the switch to news. I did street reporting, weekend anchoring, and weekday staff announcing and on-camera sports reports. I also did many interviews. At the same time I joined WFLD, WMAQ-TV asked if I could a once a week youth interview program. I was given permission by WFLD to do it, and that slot was the entry-point for a full time WMAQ-TV spot a year later. I filled in for the host of Today in Chicago, 6:30 AM to 7AM weekdays.
I was told on my first fill-in day that it was actually an audition, and that if I handled it well, I’d be offered the job full-time. After that first broadcast I made a comment that I liked the format, and that I was hoping to shape something similar at WFLD in the near future. The next day – my second fill-in day - I was met by the program director who never showed up at 7AM before! He called me into his office and made an offer I could not refuse.
That same day I went back to WFLD and submitted my resignation (three weeks hence). Coincidently our General Manager, Red Quinlan, also submitted his resignation that day, for reasons I never did learn. The conversations centered around “WFLD is now a sinking ship when two of the officers jump ship.”
I remained at WMAQ-TV for 15 years, adding a Sunday two-hour version of that program, and serving for a year as the Midwest Editor for the network’s TODAY Show with Frank McGee and Barbara Walters (photo: Today Show set in New York). Eventually new management came in to replace retiring “good guys.” The new GM dropped my three contracts I had with Ch 5, and I was out of work.
For a year or so I was traveling host of the Illinois State Lottery drawings, which had weekly jackpot drawings in various locations around the state.
Rick: This was the early 80s?
Bob: Yes. In 1981 (I believe) I accepted a position as Principal Anchor at WLEX-TV in Lexington , Kentucky . They’d hired an expanded staff to get them out of the 4th place in a three-station market that they’d sat in for a few years. Six new people were hired, and after three years we got to number 1. Two years later, they decided they could make just as much money as #2 or #3 and let four of us go.
Rick: Is that when you came back to Chicago?
Bob: Actually, Kathy was offered a job that we’d been looking at for many months. In Chicago the new Lutheran Church in America was shaping itself after the merger of three Lutheran bodies. Kathy, as a CPA became the head controller for the Lutheran Foundation – which supported many universities and institutions around the world. As I was being let go at WLEX, she was being asked to come to Chicago . So, after all the previous moves based on my employment, we “came home” because of her career. She remained in that spot for 13 years.
Rick: And you ended up back on the radio...
Bob: Yes. Thanks to some help from Dick Biondi and Clark Weber (photo) – former WLS teammates – at WJJD-WJMK. They pitched me to do vacation news for both stations, and that resulted in an offer to be the drive time DJ at WJJD at the end of the summer replacement period. I held on there for six years, even through a format change that saw WJJD drop all music and import talk shows from the two coasts. But when the union contract ran out in 1999, we accepted a nice buy-out offer.
Rick: Even though you're out of radio now, you're certainly not retired, are you?
Bob: No, I hit the free lance trail. I immediately hooked up with a firm that was looking for freelance photographers for their work on high school year books. I am in my 8th year with them. I also write a travel column for Midwest Today magazine (located in Iowa ) and I do a once a month travel radio piece for the radio edition of the magazine.
Rick: Thanks, Bob. This has been a pleasure.
Bob: If all this information results in a movie offer, I’d be happy to play myself!
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12:30 PM PT1:30 PM MT2:30 PM CT3:30 PM ET7:30 PM GMT3:30 AM 北京时间12:30 PM MST2:30 PM EST, Sep. 21, 2019
Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Attendance: 42,056
Trick play helps Pitt upset No. 15 UCF 35-34
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
By WILL GRAVES
PITTSBURGH (AP) Pittsburgh offensive coordinator Mark Whipple installed the play he dubbed "Pitt Special" during the second week of training camp.
Whipple had his first-stringers run it once against the starting defense and it worked. So he made sure the Panthers practiced it during Thursday walkthroughs and tucked it in his back pocket just in case.
Just in case arrived late Saturday afternoon with Pitt trailing 15th-ranked UCF by six and a minute to go. Facing fourth-and-2 at the UCF 3, an official came over and told Whipple the Panthers could still get a first down if they got to the 1.
"Nah, we're going to score," Whipple said.
In way that could prove to be the turning point in Pitt's season. UCF's, too.
Running back A.J. Davis took a direct snap from center, ran to his left and flipped the ball to Aaron Mathews, who was heading right. Matthews, a former high school quarterback, thought he might have to make a run at the pylon. When two UCF defenders closed in, Mathews pulled up and found quarterback Kenny Pickett in the end zone, giving the Panthers a euphoric 35-34 victory.
"Kenny claims he has the best hands on the team," Mathews said with a smile. "He's one for one."
One very big one.
On a day Pickett threw for 224 yards and a score and added 61 on the ground despite exiting for a couple of series late in the third quarter after bruising his right (throwing) shoulder, his heady decision to find a spot in the UCF zone defense and wait for the ball ended UCF's 25-game regular-season winning streak.
UCF had won 27 of its last 28 overall, including the Knights' American Athletic Conference championship game victories the last two years along with their Fiesta Bowl loss to LSU last year.
The play borrowed heavily from the "Philly Special" run by the Philadelphia Eagles in their Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots two seasons ago. The Panthers put their own spin on it. While Eagles quarterback Nick Foles was wide open in the end zone, Pickett's job was more complicated. He faked a block and then turned into a tight end while waiting for Mathews to find him.
"We were all pumped up about (the call)," Pickett said. "I know Aaron was. I have a touchdown catch before him. He was a little (ticked) off about that. We switched roles for a play."
KNIGHTS STOPPED
UCF (3-1), which hadn't lost since a non-bowl game or conference championship game since falling to South Florida in November 2016, had one last-gasp drive but went nowhere. The Panthers sacked true freshman quarterback Gabriel Dillon twice to deal the Knights' shot of earning a spot in a New Year's Six bowl as the nation's top Group of Five team a serious blow.
"I just think that we did some things - coaches and players - that you can't do on the road if you want to beat a good football team," UCF coach Josh Heupel said. "This one is going to hurt for a while, but we'll get back on Monday and get back after it."
Dillon passed for 338 yards and two touchdowns but also threw his first two interceptions of the season. Gabriel Davis hauled in 10 passe for 151 yards and two scores, but the Knights' high-tempo offense didn't run as efficiently as it had during three blowouts to start the year.
UCF finished with 423 yards, 180 under its season average. Dillon was sacked six times in all and the Knights were unable to finish off Pitt despite a 31-point outburst spanning the second and third quarters that turned a 21-point deficit into a 10-point lead.
"Give credit to Pitt," Heupel said. "They played a good game and found a way to be plus-one on the scoreboard. I'm proud of the way our kids competed and played."
Trailing by three touchdowns for the first time since a blowout loss to Michigan in 2016, UCF responded emphatically, with a little help from the Panthers.
Davis fumbled deep in Panther territory with 5:41 left in the first half. Adrian Killins scored four plays later and UCF was off and running. Gabriel found Gabe Davis for two third-quarter touchdowns sandwiched around an 87-yard punt return for a score by Otis Anderson, who broke several tackles while racing down the left sideline to the end zone.
Yet Pitt rallied. The Panthers were coming off an emotional seven-point loss to rival Penn State last week, a defeat in which head coach Pat Narduzzi took significant heat for opting to kick a field goal deep in Penn State territory in the final minutes instead of trying to go for a game-tying score.
Backup quarterback Nick Patti threw his first touchdown while Pickett tested out his injured shoulder and when the defense forced UCF to settle for a field goal with 4:36 left to keep the game within reach, Pickett guided Pitt 79 yards in 12 plays, the last three coming on a reception that UCF didn't see coming.
"You guys always want me to go for it on fourth down," Narduzzi said. "We may never punt again ... That's a big-time victory."
Expect UCF to fall behind No. 20 Boise State in the polls and lose the inside track on being the Group of Five representative in a New Year's Six bowl.
UCF: Gabriel should have a stranglehold on the starting job even with Darriel Mack Jr. on the way back from an ankle injury suffered in July. Notre Dame transfer Brandon Wimbush figures to be out of the picture completely. He played just one snap, getting tackled for a loss in the first quarter.
Pitt: The Panthers face an uphill climb in the ACC's Coastal Division after opening the season with a loss to No. 21 Virginia, but Pitt could be a handful once conference play starts in earnest next month. The secondary plays with swagger and Pickett is becoming more comfortable by the week in Whipple's system.
UCF: Hosts UConn in its American Athletic Conference opener next Saturday night.
Pitt: Finishes up nonconference play by hosting Football Championship Subdivision opponent Delaware next Saturday.
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Home Carousel Display Films & Entertainment New Bollywood Release Main aur Charles Team Celebrates Film’s Success in Kolkata
New Bollywood Release Main aur Charles Team Celebrates Film’s Success in Kolkata
Bollywood Hindi Film Main aur Charles Kolkata Promotions
Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda, music composer duo Sougat Upadhyay-Subhradeep Das along with director Prawaal Raman was in the city to celebrate the success of the recently released film Main aur Charles.
The story of this film is based on Charles, who is an enigmatic con man and a vicious killer, he touched the lives of many with his mysterious personality and charm. Randeep Hooda who played the role of Charles in the film lamented the fact that the team of Main aur Charles should have been in Kolkata before. He also felt that the viewers in the city will be more appreciative of the film.
Randeep Hooda who described the life of Charles Sobhraj as entertaining and larger than life said “The film has been made in such a way that the audiences will have to pay attention to the film. The starting of the film confuses them, then the facts are set up and in the second half, the problem is solved. This is a unique way of narrating the life of this enigmatic man”.
Kolkata boys Sougat Upadhyay and Subhradeep Das who are part of the rock band Bally Grunge have composed the two tracks of the film namely Ya Rabba and Jee Lo Yaaron. Randeep Hooda was highly appreciative of their efforts and said “They have done a great job. Both the songs help in showcasing the Hippie life. The audience likes the song which is also great”. The duo sang a few lines from the songs at the press meet too.
Randeep also shared his experience of meeting the actual Charles Sobhraj. “He was actually happy with Main aur Charles. He also mentioned that he wanted to stop us from making the film. But we had Amod Kanth (the inspector who arrested Sobhraj) on our side, so he let it go. He liked my portrayal of him in the film”.
Main aur Charles is not a biopic on Charles, revealed the director Prawaal Raman. “It is more of how the man was and the mental games he played that we have shown in the film. There is no gore in the film” added the director.
Main aur Charles is running in many theatres in the city. If you haven’t watched it, make sure you watch it to experience the hypnotism and enigmatic personality of Charles Sobhraj!!
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The Future of Sirius XM and The Internet
March 25, 2009 (8:08 pm) By Brandon
When Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio merged into Sirius XM Radio, few people noticed that the word "satellite" had been quietly removed from the new company's name. Ironically, the founder of Sirius recently made headlines in stating that Satellite Radio had missed its opportunity and that streaming free Internet radio represented the future. She may prove to be right for the wrong reasons.
"Free" Internet radio as well as terrestrial radio for that matter first have a huge hurdle to overcome in the way of performance royalties. By their own admission, this "industry" which made a total of 75 million dollars combined in 2008 will fold if it is forced to pay rates similar to what Sirius XM Radio already pays. Internet radio seems to forget that it made that money using products that it did not create and that it does not own. Its sense of entitlement when it comes to pirating the works of others for its own gain is mind boggling, and that is why it's heading to court.
When the dust settles, Internet based radio stations will be forced into adding more commercials if they wish to continue operations. Terrestrial radio is already proving that radio advertisers are few and far between. Which leads me to challenge those who would doubt Sirius XM's future.
In recent weeks we have learned that Sirius XM has plans to bring its subscription based service to electronic devices such as the iPod and iPhone. We have seen the company raise both the quality and price of its own Internet service in advance of this, citing royalty rates as the primary culprit. A new promotional event this weekend underscores the company's desire to expand itself via the Internet. It appears that Sirius XM is quietly preparing for the demise of free Internet based services, and positioning itself to be the first choice of Internet radio users worldwide.
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28 Responses to “The Future of Sirius XM and The Internet”
David G. Pope says:
I think bringing Sirius XM to the iPhone and Blackberry is a major step in getting the company back on its feet. I own an iPhone and I can’t wait to access my XM radio service from it. My wife would like XM and an iPhone when it’s released.
The fact that AT&T is offering a NO CONTRACT iPhone starting tomorrow is a great move for Apple, AT&T, and Sirius XM.
still sirius says:
I have not heard about NO CONTRACT Iphone. That will be huge for ATT and Apple. When Iphone app is released, huge for SiriusXM as well!!!!!!!
Fuzzy Bear says:
Free internet Radio is coming to an end and welcome to the radio of the future, Sirius XM radio.. This is going to be a huge money making company couple years down the road.
paratrooper rick says:
Damn good article – hopefully the light bulbs will start to light as people realize what’s on the way.
Brandon Great article! any idea how long and when these existing internet radio stations would be called out on what they are doing and when they may actually be forced to pay royalties?
Sirius000 says:
Have never had a doubt that SIRI will be the main source of media for US and perhaps globally, why, because Mel is the man that has more experience than anyone else in the radio business. People hate to admit that, but it’s true. Translating all that to common share holders PPS, etc, now that’s a different story for NOW.
Newman says:
They need to move much quicker to get market share now instead of just waiting for internet radio stations to start folding and then pick up the peices.
The XM online player is very buggy for me. I have a ton of problems. I have not seen any improvement in the system in years. From what I understand, Sirius is in the same boat. Their look is old and bland. They need to spruce up their offerings, give their player and their website a new, young, happening, SEXY look to it. That would be a good start.
MUSCLE13 says:
The car will always be the main distribution point for radio. And Sirius has deals with all the carmakers. Radio has been and will always be out of home media, where it doesn’t have to compete with TV. There are many more cars in this country than homes.
That being said home based internet has already established itself as a radio distribution point for all of terretrial radio and sat radio. It will never be a big money maker because its far too fragmented a business with hundreds of thousands of internet radio stations.
The really exciting part of internet radio is its out of home potential.The cell phone is a new distribution point of radio and thats exciting. But going from transistor radios to walkmans to boomboxes to cellphones, only about 5% of radio listening is done in handheld mobile mode. So the car will always be where radio listening is done and where the money is made. By the time the internet gets to the car Sirius will already have all the subs, the brand name and most importantly all the content. Internet radio doesn’t stand a chance against Sirius.
Brandon have you followed radio before Sirius? Just curious.
frigginregan says:
With all due respect Muscle….NOW is the time for Sirius to think BEYOND the car. Yes, the car is the “natural” home of radio.
True, there is much more competition for our attention at home.
BUT….what about local businesses? Think of all the businesses that need commercial free music pumped into their stores to create a nice shopping environment. Now that the company Musak has gone belly up…this is a HUGE market and there for the taking.
I just convinced my boss to become a subscriber.
Also the internet and global possibilities are mind boggling. Sirius has the content and the edge. Especially with the possible death of Pandora and Slacker as we know them looming. Soon they will have to pay the same royalties as Sirius and be FORCED to run commercials or charge ALOT more to stay alive. And they don’t have the content that Sirius does.
Now that Mel has some breathing room, and begins to actually MARKET this amazing product to the masses….all I can say is WOW.
Car. Internet. Local Businesses. It’s looking good. A true monopoly is forming. Me likey. 🙂
vapor says:
Friggin…Good post!!
Marketing Marketing Marketing!! I agree with Newman also, they need to move as quickly as they can to put pressure on the internet radios stations and then let the royalties hit them.
If we can pick up market share in other areas, internet, phone,musak,and with Mel trying to get 70% sat radios in all new cars, when the car business does picks up the numbers will be very impressive.
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imromo24 says:
Portables like the XMP3 are going to get in the hands of the younger business persons. Seeing them at work, at the gym etc is going to raise interest.
Im now excited that the XMP3 has that antenae knob on top and not buried in the unit like some have asked for…it separates it from the crowd, product recognition is going to take off.
I sense people are growing tired of their ipods and the stale content….
I can record 40 hours of new content overnight to listen to at work (5 channels at once in 8 hours of sleeping) My office does not allow streaming from websites.
frigginregan – My opinion is all this other stuff is good to get people’s attention that Sirius is out there, but radio makes its money in the car. Always has and always will. Going back decades and decades. There are 240 million cars on the road in this country and once Sat radio hits used cars bigtime, there are 3 to 4 times the amount of used cars sold each year compared to new cars sold. The market is absolutely enormous.
I hope cellphone radio makes its way into the car too. The listeners and the money is on the road.
I have very high hopes for the iPhone app.
Pinball Wizard says:
Yes, Brandon. I couldn’t agree more with this article. You have it right.
Unfortunately they have really botched up the first step by the misleading wording of the ‘lock in’ prootion. All it takes to fix this is some kind of public statement about what the online deal really is. The uncertainty is driving us nuts!
Todd Cory says:
They need to not just consider the quality of the streaming, but the quality of the programming. Since Sirius took over XM the music channels have become “FM without the commercials”. Shallow playlists, motor mouth DJ’s, endless, annoying, repetitive bumpers and channel IDs… sigh. Do they really think people are going to pay for this? Why can’t we have a few “adult” channels that play 20 to 30 minute UNINTERRUPTED sets of music with deep, inspiring playlists?
Ha….Sirius XM will continue to go down the drain just like it has been. Internet radio is here to stay. Eventually, a deal will be struck and internet radio will continue to thrive. Why would I pay $$ for an online version of terrestrial radio when I have plenty of free choices on the internet from iTunes, Shoutcast, etc.
Additionally, there are many efforts to help small internet broadcasters be able to make royalties affordable to even the smallest of broadcasters.
Why are you posting here? If you don’t like SiriusXM, why waste your time and ours? Your just another past investor who crapped his pants and sold his position. Now that the company is fixing to turn the corner, all you can do is bash, bash, bash. Hate to tell you my friend, we are laughing at you all the way to the bank. What a chicken shit! Pissed his pants when the SP tanked. Go away!!!
Awww… I am sorry that I don’t worship the ground that Sirius walks on.
There was no self promotion about that post. I was replying to the author’s comments regarding that royalties will be the demise of internet radio…which is not true at all in my opinion.
And no…I am not a past investor…I am a paying subscriber to XM which continues to see Sirius change XM to that of of a format of failed terrestrial radio. XM had it all going until it decided to sell to Sirius. One of the few outlets that were “beyond AM, FM” was now gone.
I would never invest even the meager $.37 that Sirius is worth right now. 😉
dadaa006 says:
What about Apple? Back in 06, I thought I heard something about them buying Sirius, or XM.
Is that still a possibility? Couldn’t the outcome of streaming through the ipod, and iphone be a a test run, and a deciding factor? That would be a “sexy” new look. 🙂
mrk says:
i think siri should start getting in touch with a product that is made for the american worker, a raidio built for the constuction site, hard working men and women would have one, and the can pay for it
Apple, AT&T, and Sirius Xm radio need to partner together and produce a product something like a iCar radio. The device would be a phone, satelite radio, internet access, navigation, television, wifi access, & emergency help line. This would be all on one subscription. That would sell, and would probably start the online revolution in the cars. Sirius already have the contracts with the car dealership on lock. Someone need to make this happen. I definitely would purchase that device.
otone says:
Brandon, during your tour did the discussion on getting sports over to their internet feed come up? If dropping satellite from their name is going to mean anything, they need to provide all the content.
Sirius should copy Pandoras model and let their customers create their own stations in the way that Pandora does. Now wouldn’t that be cool?
Joey P says:
Guys if today’s outage of ONLR is any indication of the future Sirius/XM we are in trouble. XM was always the better technology. Guess they fired their people with the merger
Moviemakr says:
Great perspective Brandon. Thanks for writing in a way we can understand and feel confident in the future and potential of SiriusXM. My work has me on the road quite a bit and I don’t know what I would do without it!
I have been producing a documentary about this subject (as well as other SIRI issues such as market manipulation and short selling) and plan to be in Phoenix, Arizona next week to interview Sirius fans and critics. Please feel free to contact me if you are in the area and have an opinion you’d like to share! Documentary is due out Memorial Day, 2009. moviemakr@gmail.com
…Internet radio seems to forget that it made that money using products that it did not create and that it does not own. Its sense of entitlement when it comes to pirating the works of others for its own gain is mind boggling…
What an outrageous, inflammatory and factually inaccurate statement! Wow. That sentence alone discredits your entire story. Shame. Internet radio *does* pay royalties.
So there’s no piracy involved, and the notion that airplay does not also advertise the music and entice people to buy CDs and attend concerts is also questionable. You really should get better information before making allegations about things like piracy.
What *is* true, is that the royalties for internet radio are unfair. Let me illustrate…
Let’s say a group of 1000 people listen to music on a radio station 24 hours a day for the entire month of May, 2010.
To pay the RIAA/SoundExchange for those 1000 concurrent listeners all month long, under the rate structure as it stands right now, a radio station would owe:
$0 – if the radio station is FM/Terrestrial
$700 – if the radio station is on Satellite or Cable*
$19,152 – if the radio station is Online**
*1000 people each paying $9.95 a month subscription for the music channel, 7% royalty rate
**$.0019 per song, 14 songs/hr, 24hrs/day, 30days/month, 1000 listeners
The issue that’s the focus of disupte for Internet Radio isn’t whether or not to pay royalties. They do. The issue is the RATE, and whether it’s fair to make them so much higher than they are for other broadcast methods.
Johnny Fever says:
Rah Rah Rah!
Guess what? Launching a satellite into orbit is expensive. And it’s not a good way to distribute content. We know this. Even Sirius is dropping the “satellite” in its name.
You people should sell now. Get out while it’s still higher (higher than .09cents that is). Ipods, Pandora, Slacker, AOL Radio, Slacker, LastFM are all looming.
The toothpaste is out of the tube…you can’t put it back in! Face reality.
youknowme says:
But, when is the case going to be closed? It could take forever – just like everything else, the iPhone app, etc…
They can’t get it together! and it’s really under my skin!
Get it together Sirius! We are tired of waiting, and waiting, and waiting….
This could be tied up in court for years, unless someone tells me different. The merger took only 1 1/2+… and if I remember, everyone thought that was going to happen “soon”, as well.
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Man shoots himself after 8-hour standoff on Queen Anne
by Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor
A robbery suspect shot himself after an 8-hour standoff with police in Queen Anne on Monday. According to the charging documents filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court the man has been charged with first-degree armed robbery of a man he met on the Gay hookup app Grindr.
The charges allege Alik Lebedev, 41, a registered sex offender, went to the victim's condominium on Roy St. in Seattle on March 25 after the two connected on Grindr. But after the two men met in person, the alleged victim said he wasn't interested anymore, although he told police that he and Lebedev were friendly and talked for a while. He gave Lebedev a glass of water, and then Lebedev left that night.
The victim alleges he had a change of heart and contacted Lebedev again on Grindr, and asked him to come back to the condo where he was in bed waiting for Lebedev to return. Prosecutors say Lebedev came into the room, threatened the victim with a handgun, and stole cash, two watches and a credit card, according to charges.
King County prosecutors described the robbery as 'sophisticated,' in part, because they say that before he left, Lebedev took the victim's phone and removed the SIM data card, wiped his prints from a credit card he touched but left behind and forced the victim to delete the messages they'd exchanged.
The victim remembered that Lebedev had drank the water he offered him when they first met. He found the glass and put it in a storage bag to preserve it for police and, according to law enforcement officials, detectives were able to use DNA and fingerprints they recovered from the glass to identify Lebedev.
Detectives then obtained a search warrant and, according to officials, a SWAT team tried to serve a warrant at a residence in the 400 block of W. Galer St. Lebedev, however, barricaded himself inside the home and threatened to shoot himself or police and refused to surrender.
The man released a juvenile male from the residence about 8 a.m. Police initially reported it was the man's adult son, but later reported the person was a minor with an unclear relationship to the suspect.
At 2:40 p.m. Seattle police reported that officers found the suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest inside the residence. Medics rushed the victim to Harborview Medical Center and he is expected to live.
Court records indicate Lebedev, a Russian citizen who has lived in the U.S. for 16 years, served two years in prison after he was arrested in 2006 in an Internet sting for trying to solicit sex and sending pornographic photos and videos to a police officer in New Hampshire posing online as a 14-year-old boy.
Lebedev also was arrested in 2000, when he was caught using a stolen car and trying to steal $4,000 worth of rings in a burglary at the Everett Mall Sears. He spent almost three years in prison for the burglary and 2-1/2 years in prison for the sex-offense charges. He was released the second time in April 2009.
Lebedev was in trouble with the police again in 2010, when he failed to register his address when he moved. While Seattle Gay News does not profess to tell our readers how and where they meet for hookups or dates, it is important to note that crimes linked to dating apps Tinder and Grindr, including rape, child sex grooming and attempted murder, have increased seven fold in just two years. SGN reminds Grindr users to be careful when using the app. Each year hundreds of crimes are reported to police by people claiming they met their attacker, blackmailer, or thief on a dating hookup app.
In June, 2013, 30-year-old Ali Muhammad Brown murdered two Gay men in Seattle, in a brutal hate crime that police say was premeditated and arranged on Grindr.
The bodies of two Gay men, 27-year-old Ahmed Said and 23-year-old Dwone Anderson-Young were found in the early morning hours not far from Capitol Hill, where the three men were last seen leaving R Place in Said's car.
According to police, Anderson-Young and Said were both executed by Brown no more than 17 minutes after they had picked him up via Grindr. Both victims were shot in the head and there was no evidence of a struggle, robbery, exchange of drugs or any other type of crime. Neither of the victims had a criminal history, leading police to believe the crime was motivated exclusively by hate.
After Brown was apprehended by authorities, he revealed to detectives that he had, indeed, targeted the two men for murder and was charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder. Seattle police also identified Brown as a convicted sex offender.
According to media reports the murder of Anderson-Young and Said was not an isolated incident, unfortunately, and police remind people that apps like 'Jack'd' and 'Scruff' sometime prove to be just as dangerous.
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Celebrating the 1st Annual Mixed Heritage Day at Dodger Stadium
August 28, 2016 Shannon Luders-Manuel
What happens when a young, mixed race boy asks his mother what ethnic day is meant for him? The Los Angeles Dodgers have special days for certain ethnicities, but none celebrating mixed race heritage… until now.
Nice day at the Dodgers vs. Cubs game.
Sonia Smith-Kang and her business partner Delia Douglas approached the Dodgers about creating a Mixed Heritage Day. The Dodgers obliged, and yesterday about 200 people came to celebrate at a game against the Chicago Cubs. I arrived with my friend Jennifer, and at first I had trouble trying to find Delia and Sonia in the bleachers. I scanned the faces of the children and adults, trying to spot a large grouping of people set apart by varying skin tone and racial admixture. Funnily enough, I had difficulty finding them in the crowd, because the bleachers were filled with fans of all different hues. There wasn’t much that set this group apart, and that was the point. Los Angeles is becoming increasingly diverse and increasingly mixed, and having a day to celebrate a mixed race heritage is thus tremendously important for children who grow up in interracial families.
Sonia and her family at the game. Photo courtesy of Sonia.
The Dodgers displayed “Mixed Heritage Day” on the jumbotron in between innings, just as they do for other cultural days at the stadium. This day was a bit different from most, however, because Sonia and Delia were presented a certificate by the Los Angeles mayor, who himself identifies as mixed race. Adults, children and families gathered together in celebration and community as they cheered their team to victory. It was a victory not just for the players, but also for the families who saw their love recognized and validated just like any other.
Sonia and Delia plan to make Mixed Heritage Day a yearly tradition. Follow them on Facebook and Twitter to see what went down in 2016!
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AMA & MotoAmerica Announce Updated Rules for 2015 Road Racing Series
AMA announces rule updates for MotoAmerica 2015
PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- December 23, 2014 -- The AMA and MotoAmerica, the new home of the AMA Superbike Series, have announced updates to the rulebook for MotoAmerica, an AMA national championship series and an FIM North America championship. The changes include adding weight to motorcycles in the Superstock 1000 class and a change to the spare-motorcycle requirement in the Supersport class.
The updated rules are available at www.americanmotorcyclist.com/racing/roadracing/roadracingrules.aspx.
To match the recently released FIM Superstock rules, motorcycles competing in the Superstock 1000 class must now weigh a minimum of 170 kilograms (374 pounds) -- up from the previously announced weight of 168 kilograms (369.6 pounds). Additionally, motorcycles competing in Supersport and Superstock 600 must comply with a new lowered Superstock Kit ECU price cap of Euro 2,500.
The AMA has also made a change to its spare-motorcycle requirement in the Supersport class with riders and teams now permitted to use their backup motorcycles in the warm-up sessions. Previously, the spare motorcycle could not be used in any practice/warm-up sessions. Teams and riders must, however, declare their primary and spare motorcycles during the initial tech inspection and prior to any on-track activities.
Additionally, the AMA has created an Annex A to all classes, which is basically a rule-change list. Teams and riders can now refer to the Annex A list to more easily track rule changes.
The AMA will also publish approved equipment lists and requirements for suspension and electronics. There will be no fees associated with the application to include components to the approved equipment lists; and there will be no approved equipment lists other than the aforementioned suspension and electronics lists. To receive an application, please submit your request to technicaldirector@motoamerica.com.
About MotoAmerica
MotoAmerica is the new North American road racing series created in 2014. MotoAmerica is an affiliate of KRAVE Group LLC, a partnership that includes three-time 500cc World Champion, two-time AMA Superbike Champion, and AMA Hall of Fame Inductee Wayne Rainey, ex-racer and former manager of Team Roberts Chuck Aksland, motorsports marketing executive Terry Karges, and businessman Richard Varner.
About the American Motorcyclist Association
Founded in 1924, the AMA is a not-for-profit member-based association whose mission is to promote the motorcycle lifestyle and protect the future of motorcycling. As the world's largest motorcycling rights and event sanctioning organization, the AMA advocates for riders' interests at all levels of government and sanctions thousands of competition and recreational events every year. The AMA also provides money-saving discounts on products and services for its members. Through the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in Pickerington, Ohio, the AMA honors the heroes and heritage of motorcycling.
For more information, visit www.americanmotorcyclist.com.
Media contact: James Holter
E-mail: jholter@ama-cycle.org
Labels: AMA Road Racing, AMA Superbike Championship, MotoAmerica
Team Honda Ready for 2015 Version of the Dakar Rally Which Gets Underway on January 4
Dakar 2015 Team preparations 24/12/2014
Final rehearsal for Team HRC ahead of the Dakar 2015
Team HRC’s five official riders, and various team members have taken part in a special training session prior to the Rally Dakar 2015. This will be the final revision done before the great test commences.
The Rally Dakar is all set to get underway in just ten days time in Buenos Aires. Once there, the culmination of nearly 365 days work will be on display, as the riders go in pursuit of the prize at the end of the world’s toughest race. They will take in over 9,000 kilometres of track on the way. Everything has been prepared down to the minutest detail, no matter how insignificant it might seem. To stand a chance of winning the Dakar requires far more than mere training and speed on the track; methodical groundwork and analysis are needed too.
The bikes are already in Argentina after setting off from the French port of Le Havre one month ago, and soon the mechanics will have the Honda CRF450 RALLY ship-shape to embark on the big adventure too.
Elsewhere, the riders continue their physical preparation, be it in the gym, on the bicycle, or carrying out mountain crossings to get the body used to the altitudes that await them.
But there are many other factors in play if victory is to be theirs; and that includes the mechanical side. Not leaving anything to chance, Team HRC riders Joan Barreda, Paulo Gonçalves, Hélder Rodrigues, Jeremías Israel and Laia Sanz have made a further step towards total understanding of the machine: after the three day ‘stage’ the Instituto de Seguridad Honda facilities at Honda Spain, oversaw how the riders were able to strip down and rebuild the Honda CRF450 RALLY. This task will set the participants up for the two gruelling marathon stages that the Dakar will have in store this year. The final training session as the great challenge draws near. Ready to rumble…
Wolfgang Fischer Team HRC
This is a final preparation for the Dakar 2015, and we are here with almost all the team and riders in the North of Spain, spending a week of final training and fine-tuning, and putting in the final preparations ahead of the Dakar. We’re happy to be in a very nice place with ideal weather conditions in Spain, and great support from Honda Spain, close to the headquarters here in Barcelona.
After these days, everyone is confident and looking forward to meeting again in Buenos Aires, and starting the next great adventure, with a determined approach to getting a top result.
For sure, this Dakar 2015 will be a big challenge with two marathon stages in the race, and it’s the last chance now to bring everybody together before we go there and switch from preparation mode to race mode, and attack.
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Labels: Dakar Rally, Team Honda
AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days Scheduled for July 10-12, 2015 at Mid-Ohio
Dates announced for AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days: July 10-12, 2015
PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- December 17, 2014 -- The American Motorcyclist Association has announced that next year's premier celebration of vintage motorcycling, AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, will be July 10-12, 2015, at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.
"AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days has a long and rich history as one of motorcycling's most fun, feel-good events," said AMA Chief Operations Officer Jeff Massey. "From the vintage racing to the bike shows to the enormous swap meet, there is something for everyone at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days. If you love motorcycles, there is no better place to be."
A fundraiser for the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame, AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days features classic motorcycles of all makes and styles, and honors the riders who made them famous.
Activities include the AMA Vintage Grand Championship, which features road racing, motocross, hare scrambles, trials and dirt-track racing. Another top attraction is North America's largest motorcycle swap meet with parts, bikes and memorabilia from all eras. Bike shows bring out examples of some of history's most beloved motorcycles. Stunt shows, such as the American Motor Drome Wall of Death, and demo rides of current production bikes keep attendees entertained, while seminars on numerous topics by noted motorcycling experts keep them informed.
A spectator checks out a sweet looking '83 Honda CB1100F at the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days event held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in July 2014. The dates for the 2015 event were announced earlier this week. Photo courtesy of the American Motorcyclist Association by Jeff Guciardo.
AMA members who buy tickets directly from the AMA before May 29 receive an exclusive price discount. AMA members can call (800) 262-5646 to purchase a weekend pass for $45, a $5 savings off the regular advance rate, and a one-day pass for $25 for Friday or Saturday and $20 for Sunday, a $5 savings off the regular advance rate. There is no service charge for AMA members when purchasing through the AMA.
AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days is a family-friendly event. Children 12 and under get in free with paying, supervising adults.
All proceeds from AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days benefit the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. The mission of the Hall of Fame, located on the AMA campus in Pickerington, Ohio, is to tell the stories and preserve the history of motorcycling's legends and heroes. For more information, call (614) 856-2222, or visit the Hall of Fame's website at www.motorcyclemuseum.org.
Labels: AMA Vintage Days
Team Drive M7 Aspar's Nicky Hayden Looking Forward to Riding Again in the 2015 MotoGP World Championship
17/12/14. NICKY HAYDEN INTERVIEW
“My main objective for 2015 is to enjoy riding again”
Nicky Hayden is currently enjoying a hard-earned rest at home following a long and difficult season. The DRIVE M7 Aspar rider is one of the most experienced men in MotoGP and a throwback to the old-school hard men that inspired him. After what he has been through over the past twelve months, the 'Kentucky Kid' could be forgiven for turning his back on the sport for good but racing is in the Hayden family's blood and nothing can stop Nicky from enjoying his one true passion, which also happens to be his job. As he spends the Christmas period relaxing with his family and allowing his wrist more crucial time to recover, Nicky Hayden's mind remains very much on the job at hand in 2015.
First things first - how is your hand and what are you doing to get it back to 100%?
I feel better every day. It wasn't easy to get back on the bike after the type of surgery I went through. It was a serious operation, they had to remove three bones from my wrist. I was able to control the pain and ride again, even though I wasn't back to my normal level, but gradually I recovered strength and feeling. It is good for me that the season is over because it's a chance to continue the recovery. Since the end of the season I have been having injections of platelet-rich plasma. I have let my hand rest but I have also been doing a lot of work with the physio.
How have the new additions to your technical staff settled in? Are you happy?
I am really happy with the new additions. I have a new Crew Chief in Matthew [Casey] and new electronics and suspension technicians. We had chance to get to know each other at Valencia but we couldn't get much work done because of the rain. At least we gathered a little experience with the new bike in the wet. I feel comfortable with the new members of the team, the communication is good and we understand each other well. There is good chemistry between us all and that makes me feel calm and confident. We have a lot of work ahead of us but the initial signs are good.
How about your new team-mate? What do you think he can bring to the team?
I didn't get much chance to talk to Eugene at Valencia but he seems like a normal kid, very focused on his job. He is coming from a successful career in World Superbikes so I think he will be competitive and I am sure he will adapt his style quickly to MotoGP. I'm also sure there will be a good relationship between the two of us, he comes from a racing family like me and he has two brothers who are both good riders too.
What are your first impressions of the Honda RC213V-RS after the Valencia test?
My first impressions were positive. Without doubt the biggest thing I noticed was the extra power, as well as the usual reliability and performance characteristics of a Honda. We were able to confirm the development that has been done with this bike so far and now we have to work on it more ourselves to understand it more and unlock its potential.
How much potential does this bike have?
We will see what level it is at when we ride alongside the others at Sepang. In the meantime I need to focus on returning to full fitness.
Do you think the 'Open' bikes will be closer to the factory models this season?
Yes, I am sure we will be more competitive in 2015 than we were last season. There is still some development to be done with the electronics but I think we are on the right path. We had a great chassis last season but we were down on power.
What are the strong points of the Honda RC213V-RS?
The new Honda RC213V-RS has quite a lot of horsepower, which will help us close the gap to the guys at the front. Until we have had more time to test it I can't really give much more of an opinion, but the first impression suggests that we have a solid base to work from.
The chassis of the Honda RC213V-RS seems promising…
Yes, the new chassis works really well, but so did the 2014 version. It has always been a strong point of the Honda.
New bike, new team-mate, new challenge for 2015... what are your objectives?
This will be my second season with the DRIVE M7 Aspar Team and my main objective is to enjoy riding again. I don't want to talk about last season anymore, it's over. I am focused on getting back to full fitness, riding like I know I can and getting some good results to put 2014 behind us. Right now I am the only American rider in the World Championship. That's not a fact I like but it is my responsibility to represent my country until the next generation come through. Hopefully I can do the best job possible to make my people proud.
What are you plans for the winter break and the Christmas period?
Nothing special, just recovering and preparing for my return to action. I really enjoy Christmas, especially now that we have young kids in the family. We have a big family and even though we don't organise anything special Christmas is always a special time. I want to thank my family, my team and my sponsors for the support they always give me. And I'd also like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2015.
Labels: MotoGP, Nicky Hayden, Team Aspar
AMA Releases 2015 Technical Rules for MotoAmerica Superbike, Superstock and Supersport Classes
AMA publishes technical rules for 2015 professional road racing classes
PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- December 16, 2014 -- The American Motorcyclist Association has published the technical rules governing MotoAmerica's professional road racing classes for the 2015 season.
Rules announced today cover the technical specifications for Superbike, Superstock 1000, Supersport and Superstock 600 classes. The rules may be downloaded fromwww.americanmotorcyclist.com/racing/roadracing/roadracingrules.aspx.
Any questions should be directed to technicaldirector@motoamerica.com.
Technical rules governing the KTM RC390 Cup, sporting rules and license requirements will be announced shortly.
The classes will be featured in MotoAmerica-promoted events. MotoAmerica holds exclusive rights to professional motorcycle road racing in the United States and is the sole U.S. promoter authorized to run FIM North America professional road racing events.
Labels: AMA Racing, MotoAmerica
Jared Mees Comes Up Just Shy of Getting Around 2014 Superprestigio Dirt Track Race Champion Marc Marquez During Yesterday's Event in Barcelona, Spain
2014 AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Champion Jared Mees ended up with the best finish of the American contingent of riders that headed across the pond to contest the 2nd annual Superprestigio Dirt Track Race held in Barcelona, Spain yesterday. Mees won all of his heats races in order to punch his ticket to the main event, but came up just shy of equaling 2013 AMA Grand National Champion Brad Baker's inaugural win in the event held in January. Double MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez was able to take the win after crashing out of last January's event while battling with Baker for the lead.
Mees, Shayna Texter and Baker were all great representatives at the event for the American-based AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Championship series, but Baker crashed early in the day during one of the practice sessions that saw the former champ take a nasty highside and dislocate his shoulder. Texter wasn't able to qualify through the hectic system in order to represent the Americans in the main event, but American Kenny Noyes, fresh off winning the 2014 FIM CEV International Superbike Championship, was able to bring his ride home in 3rd-place to round out the podium and show the world his title in Spain's high-ranking road racing series was not only not a fluke for the popular rider, but that he hadn't forgotten his flat track skills along the way.
In the shot above, Mees and tuner Kenny Tolbert put the finishing touches on changes to The Jammer's Honda CRF450R 'A' bike in the #1 Montgomeryville Cycle Center/National Cycle/Rogers Racing-sponsored pit area between the practice session and qualifying sessions held at the Peoria TT on August 11, 2013.
You can check out the final of the Superprestigio event here thanks to YouTube and you can also view all of the results here on the official website of the Superprestigio Dirt Track Race. AMA Pro Racing's press release can also be checked out below.
A big congrats to The Jammer, Jared Mees for a stellar 2nd-place finish, to 2013-14 MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez for taking the victory in Barcelona yesterday, and to all of the contestants and representatives of the United States for giving it their all in one of the premier 'off-season' events of the year!
Jared Mees, Marc Marquez thrill international audience in Superprestigio flat track event
BARCELONA, Spain (Dec. 13, 2014) - The world was able to witness the excitement of flat track racing on Saturday, and it was able to see reigning AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Champion Jared Mees come up just short in a thrilling battle with Spanish road racing superstar and two-time defending MotoGP champion Marc Marquez.
Barcelona, Spain played host to the Superprestigio short track exhibition race, featuring some of the best riders from nearly every form of motorcycle racing in the world, including an American contingent representing AMA Pro Flat Track, the world's preeminent flat track racing series.
Marquez held off a hard charge from Mees in the showcase's main event, the Superfinal. Mees settled for second in the race, which was broadcast around the world.
2014 AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Champion Jared Mees displays his 2nd-place trophy after coming up just short of the win in yesterday's 2nd annual Superprestigio Dirt Track Race in Barcelona, Spain. Photo courtesy of AMA Pro Racing.
"I had an amazing time, it was my first time in Spain," Mees said. "I can't say enough for everybody that invited me, Marc Marquez and everybody that put the event on. It was amazing, I had a lot of fun. ... I hope I can come back next year."
Mees dominated both heat races and all three finals to win his Open class. But in the Superfinal, Mees got caught up behind a downed rider in the first corner and nearly stalled his bike while running wide to avoid the crash. He was in the middle of the pack for the first time all night and one spot in back of Marquez.
Methodically and impressively, the two picked off riders before they found themselves in front. Mees drew even with Marquez's back tire by the final lap, but ran out of time before being able to make a move for the lead. He settled for a hard-fought and well-deserved second."
Marquez is a large supporter and fan of flat track racing, and uses it, like many top road racers, to train. In January, the 2013 AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Champion, Brad Baker, won the Superprestigio after a thrilling battle with Marquez. This time around, the practice Marquez put in specifically in hopes of winning the Superprestigio really showed.
"He kept his wheels in line very well," Mees said. "Keeping the wheels in line is the faster way to go around the race track, so hat's off to him. He definitely had amazing style for being a road racer (primarily)."
Baker suffered a shoulder injury in practice on Saturday morning and was unable to compete. Leading up to the event, he had been the fastest rider in practice.
"First and foremost, I would like to say thanks to Jared. He came from America to here, and also Brad," Marquez said. "I was worried for (Brad) because the crash this morning was scary."
AMA Pro Flat Track's Shayna Texter, the only female rider in the event, crashed in her first heat race and found herself in unlucky spots on the track during later heats. She eventually bounced back and finished fourth in her Last Chance Qualifier.
Fellow American and 2014 FIM CEV SBK International Superbike champion Kenny Noyes was third in the Superfinal. All three riders on the podium are current champions in their respective series.
Additional AMA Pro Flat Track flare was provided by flagger Kevin Clark, who was invited to return for a second time to the event.
The thrilling exhibition stoked plenty of interest in the sport, and fans only have to wait until March 12-13 for the 2015 AMA Pro Flat Track season to get underway with a doubleheader at DAYTONA Flat Track. Like the Superprestigio, every AMA Pro Flat Track race in 2015 can be seen live atFansChoice.tv.
AMA Pro Racing is the premier professional motorcycle racing organization in North America, operating a full schedule of events and championships for a variety of motorcycle disciplines.
Learn more about AMA Pro Racing at www.amaproracing.com.
Labels: 2012 AMA Grand National Champion, 2014 AMA Grand National Champion, AMA Flat Track, AMA Pro Racing, Jared Mees, Kenny Tolbert, Peoria TT, Superpretigio
MotoAmerica, AMA and Several Road Racing Groups Meet in Ohio to Discuss Future of Road Racing in America
Groups explore areas of cooperation for advancing road racing in America
PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- December 12, 2014 -- Representatives from the American Motorcyclist Association, MotoAmerica and seven regional and amateur road racing organizations met at AMA headquarters on Thursday, Dec. 11, to discuss ways they can work together to improve road racing in America.
"The AMA is committed to creating a brighter future for all levels of road racing competition," said AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman. "MotoAmerica is demonstrating exceptional dedication with respect to the professional national and continental championship series. This meeting was an important step to extend that level of collaboration to the grassroots level, where tomorrow's stars will get their first taste of competitive road racing."
MotoAmerica principals Wayne Rainey and Chuck Askland attended the meeting, as well as MotoAmerica Race Operations Manager Niccole Cox.
In addition to Dingman, the AMA was represented by Chief Operations Officer Jeff Massey, Racing Director Bill Cumbow, Director of Pro Racing Relations Kevin Crowther and Track Racing Manager Ken Saillant.
Representatives from other road racing groups included Evelyne and Sean Clarke from WERA Motorcycle Roadracing; Kevin Elliot, president of ASRA/Championship Cup Series; Greg Nulman, owner, and Mana Claus, timing and scoring, with Moto West Grand Prix; Walter Walker, director of competition for the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association; Dana Wilson with the Utah Sport Bike Association; Jim Wilson, president of the Motorcycle Roadracing Association; and Berto Wooldridge, president of the American Federation of Motorcyclists.
"Our goal is to create a better path from the amateur ranks to national championship competition and, ultimately, to help American riders ascend to the MotoGP World Championship," said Rainey, a three-time world champion and an AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer. "That work begins at the club level. The more cooperation and standardization that we can create across the board, the easier it will be for amateur racers to one day become pros in MotoAmerica."
L-R: Mana Claus (MWGP), Walter Walker (CMRA), Ken Saillant (AMA), Berto Wooldridge (AFM), Greg Nulman (MWGP), Niccole Cox (MotoAmerica), Dana Wilson (USBA), Kevin Elliot (ASRA/CSS), Wayne Rainey (MotoAmerica), Kevin Crowther (AMA), Sean and Evelyne Clarke (WERA), Rob Dingman (AMA), Jim Wilson (MRA), Chuck Askland (MotoAmerica), Jeff Massey (AMA), Bill Cumbow (AMA). Photo: Jeff Guciardo/AMA.
Askland reported that the industry has expressed ongoing support for MotoAmerica's progress. He asked the other organizations in attendance to work closely with the AMA to build a framework for long-term viability.
"We also want to create value for the sport," Askland said. "If all of our organizations can be aligned on key classes, develop standardized race procedures and work together to homogenize certain rules, the foundation will be in place for sustainable success."
Representatives examined several ways they can work together. In addition to classes and race procedures, discussions included license processing, technology sharing and racer promotions.
As part of its responsibilities as the sanctioning body for professional road racing in America, the AMA licenses riders and manages the advancement process. In addition, as the U.S. affiliate of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme and a member of FIM North America, the AMA administers MotoAmerica's FIM North America Continental Union sanction.
MotoAmerica, with consultation of the AMA, is responsible for maintaining a competitive and commercially viable class structure, drafting the rules of competition and event procedures, selling series sponsorships, negotiating with tracks, processing crew and media credentials, and engaging with fans.
The AMA will announce licensing criteria and procedures soon at www.americanmotorcyclist.com.
Labels: AMA Road Racing, MotoAmerica
MotoAmerica Signs TV Deal with CBS Sports Network for 2015 'AMA' Superbike Series Races
MotoAmerica Announces Multimedia Agreement
Costa Mesa, Calif. (December 5, 2014) — MotoAmerica, the new home of the AMA Superbike Series, today announced a multimedia agreement for extensive coverage of the series starting in 2015.
All MotoAmerica events will be telecast on CBS Sports Network, as part of a multi-year agreement between Torque.TV and CBS Sports Network announced earlier this year. Programming will air on CBS Sports Network on weekend afternoons and in primetime. The 2015 television schedule will be released at a later date.
Extensive digital coverage of the MotoAmerica Series, including event highlights, features and other content will also be featured on www.Torque.TV, North America’s new online destination for motorsports action and the high-performance lifestyle.
Josh Hayes #4 and Roger Hayden #95 battled during the 2014 AMA Superbike Championship Series. MotoAmerica announced late yesterday that they had signed a new TV deal for the 2015 season with CBS Sports Network to air the full season schedule next year. Photo courtesy of MotoAmerica by Brian J. Nelson.
“Having television and online coverage of our MotoAmerica series is key,” said three-time 500cc World Champion and MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey. “It’s important to our fans, our teams, our racers, and the entire industry. We’re happy to report that we’ve been able to finalize these arrangements, ensuring fans around the country will be able to watch and enjoy the on- and off-track action our series will provide.”
The provisional 2015 MotoAmerica Series schedule is as follows:
• April 10-12 Circuit of the Americas – Austin, Texas
• April 17-19 Road Atlanta – Braselton, Georgia
• May 15-17 Virginia International Raceway – Alton, Virginia
• May 29-31 Road America – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
• June 12-14 Barber Motorsports Park – Birmingham, Alabama
• July 17-19 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca – Monterey, California
• August 7-9 Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Indianapolis, Indiana
• Sept. 11-13 New Jersey Motorsports Park – Millville, New Jersey
MotoAmerica is the new North American roadracing series created in 2014. MotoAmerica is an affiliate of KRAVE Group LLC, a partnership that includes three-time 500cc World Grand Prix Champion Wayne Rainey, ex-racer and former manager of Team Roberts Chuck Aksland, motorsports marketing executive Terry Karges, and businessman Richard Varner.
To learn more, please email info@motoamerica.com
3186 Airway Ave Unit D, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 / / Info@MotoAmerica.com
Labels: MotoAmerica
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