Dear Readers, I was in Somerset this week visiting my 91 year-old Aunt Hilary. Her garden really is a delight – at the moment it is absolutely full of cyclamen, but I have already waxed lyrical about them here, and here, so I have turned to the more subtle delights of this little fern. Maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes) is in the same genus as another common fern of these parts, hart's tongue fern, but this plant is an altogether shyer character. It is easily identified by the delicate lozenge-shaped leaflets emerging from the jet black stems. Many ferns are known as spleenworts, because it was thought that the spores, which appear on the underside of the leaves, resembled the shape of the spleen. Under our old friend the Doctrine of Signatures, this was believed to mean that God was posting a message on the plant about how it could be used by humans.
Walls are a very special habitat, and only a few plants have learned the art of surviving on them. There is very little soil for the roots to anchor themselves in, nutrients are scarce, and, depending on whereabouts on the wall you germinate, it can be very dark or very exposed. Water too may be ever present (at the bottom of a shady wall) or very transient. All in all, wall-living plants have to be resilient and well-adapted.
Maidenhair spleenwort is happy growing in any kind of substrate (see below) and it also likes the damp, shadier conditions of a north-facing wall. The plant that I was admiring has a couple of relatives hiding close by. It all looks very Victorian somehow, the Victorians being great pteridophiles.
The spores of the plant are produced on the underside of special leaves called sporophylls (a normal leaf that produces sugars via photosynthesis is called a trophophyll). I love the spores of ferns, they have a kind of geometrical precision that delights me.
The story of the maidenhair spleenwort is rather more complicated than you might think, however. For a start, it is a true 'citizen of the world'. It is native to every continent except Antarctica, and it has evolved to have a variety of different subspecies, each with a different 'lifestyle'. One subspecies, Asplenium trichomanes trichomanes prefers acidic rocks such as basalt and sandstone, and is found mainly in mountainous northern areas in Europe and North America. Another, Asplenium trichomanes quadrivalens, prefers alkaline rocks such as limestone and will grow in mortar, so I suspect that this is 'our' plant. It is much commoner in Europe than in North America. Majorca, Madeira and the Azores also have their own subspecies of the plant. Furthermore, where the subspecies intermingle they can also hybridise. I suspect that botanists who specialise in ferns will have plenty of work sorting that lot out for generations to come.
It just goes to show that some supposedly 'primitive' and simple plants have staggeringly complicated backstories, just as it's often the quietest and most self-effacing people who have lived the most extraordinary lives.
The Plant Lives website describes how, in North America, maidenhair spleenwort was used by the Native American Hopi tribe as part of their rain-making rituals – the plant was soaked in water, and the water was then painted onto prayersticks. For the Cherokee people, the plant had many medicinal uses, including for liver and uterine problems, and was also used to make cough mixture. In County Cavan in Ireland, the plant was boiled with honey and oatmeal as a cure for dysentery.
In Slavic folklore, it was believed that anyone who found a 'fern flower' would be happy and rich for the rest of their lives. The fern was believed to flower only once a year, on Midsummer's Eve. As ferns are not flowering plants I fear that the search for a bloom would have been in vain although maybe the hunt provided an opportunity for young people to go off into the woods on their own on this magical shortest night of the year.
Now, as you know, this blog takes me to some fascinating and unlikely places. This week, it's taken me to the paintings of Gerard David (1460 to 1523), a Netherlandish painter who was renowned for his use of colour. However, he was also a painter of extraordinarily detailed plants, which often seem to pop up everywhere amidst his portraits of religious figures. One of his paintings, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, features two ferns including Maidenhair Spleenwort growing out of the wall behind Mary and Joseph.
'While the setting of the painting could simply depict the common state of stone buildings during the Middle Ages, I believe it also demonstrates a love for the bucolic, ramshackle idyll of nature. This same sentiment is witnessed in the modern Gothic folly (an ornamental building with no practical use), or in a recreated medieval ruin set amidst a garden. Then, perhaps even more than now, weedy or opportunistic species like ferns and dandelions were much appreciated. The artist's careful attention to the ferns softened the setting and emphasized how much the medieval world was fundamentally connected with plants.
And finally, a poem. As you might expect, the canon is not exactly snowed under with poems that specifically mention the maidenhair spleenwort, but my search for the mention of ferns in general has brought me to Theodore Roethke, an American poet who had his problems with mental health and alcoholism but who wrote some of my very favourite poems. Here is an excerpt from his 1948 poem 'A Field of Light'. It seems to me to conjure that ecstatic feeling that I sometimes get when I'm walking in nature, alone, on a late spring morning. See what you think.
The dirt left my hand, visitor.
I could feel the mare's nose.
The sun glittered on a small rapids.
Some morning thing came, beating its wings.
The great elm filled with bird.
I could watch! I could watch!
I saw the separateness of all things!
The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.
And a bee shaking drops from a rain-soaked honeysuckle.
The worms were delighted as wrens.
I moved with the morning.
This entry was posted in London Plants on February 27, 2019 by Bug Woman.
Dear Readers, I was delighted to spot a witch hazel in flower in Borough Gardens in Dorchester last week. I have always been fascinated by those strange, strap-like, dishevelled petals, and the way that they stand out when everything else is still in bud. The plant itself is a member of the Hamamelidaceae family, which is now confined to eastern North America and Central America, eastern Africa and Madagascar, and the Far East, though it was much wider spread before the Ice Ages in the northern hemisphere. 'Our' witch hazel comes originally from China, and was collected from there by the plant hunter Charles Maries. There was (and still is) a lot of money in plants, and the Victorians in particular had a craze for species from China and Japan to complement their 'oriental' schemes, and to add novelty. Although not an especially showy plant, witch hazel became popular because of its winter colour and unusual flowers.
Witch hazel is not a hazel, as we have seen, but neither is it particularly linked to witches, with the 'witch' in the name thought to come from the Middle English word 'wych', meaning 'bendable' or 'pliable'. In the US, where there are several native species of witch hazel, the plant is used for dowsing (the detection of underground water, minerals or other buried objects), while in the UK hazel is used. Although this practice is described as a pseudoscience, with no clear proof of its efficiency, I find it interesting that 10 of the 12 water companies in the UK still use it to find leaks, along with other methods.
Because of its winter-flowering, witch hazel is wind-pollinated (most self-respecting insects are tucked up in hibernation or pupation at this time of year). When the seedheads are ripe they explode, sending the seeds flying through the air. They can travel up to 30 feet, which is enough distance to give them a chance of germinating without being overshadowed by the parent plant, and explains the alternative name of 'snapping hazel'.
The flowers have a most attractive scent, which is another reason for its popularity with the cognoscenti. It is also extremely frost-resistant. However, it is slow-growing, which may explain its relative expensiveness here in the UK if compared to plants like the ubiquitous forsythia. You need to be patient if you buy a small witch hazel, and rich if you want to buy a more mature one.
Witch hazel is a regular ingredient in many medicinal and cosmetic products: witch hazel water is made by boiling up the leaves, bark and roots and then distilling the result. There is a lot of tannin in witch hazel, which is why it is often used as an astringent, for drying up acne, or dissuading piles. The North American species have been used extensively by native peoples, for everything from sore throats to haemorrhage. However, it should be noted that using the bark directly can cause skin disfigurement, so best to get stuck into that distilling process. Witch hazel ointment sometimes also contains arnica, and is used for minor injuries and bruising.
It is said that those explosive seeds are edible (if you can find them before they're catapulted into the stratosphere), and the twigs can be used as a replacement toothbrush if you find yourself in need of emergency oral hygiene.
It doesn't surprise me that witch hazel attracted the attention of Charles Rennie Mackintosh better known as an architect and furniture designer. I love the print below, with its simple elegance. The style is said to be more indicative of Mackintosh's wife, Margaret MacDonald, who was an art student at Glasgow School of Art when the two met. At the time that it was painted (1915), the pair were living in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk, where Mackintosh was accused of being a German spy and briefly arrested. This may have been the impetus for a later move to Port- Vendres in Southern France in 1923, a warmer, sunnier and cheaper place to live.
And to complete the post this week, here is a poem by Robert Frost. I have a somewhat ambivalent relationship to this poet's work: there is a kind of down-home folksiness to it that I just don't get (and I was once accused of not realising that the poet was trying to be funny, which was extremely embarrassing at the time). I have something of a problem also with his double-syllable rhyming scheme, which skitters along on the edge of doggerel, to my ear at least. And yet, I rather like this poem, all in all. He is talking about the American witch hazel, which flowers in the autumn, rather than the one that I saw. Indeed, if he had seen the Chinese witch hazel blossoming in mid winter he might have had to write a completely different poem.
This entry was posted in London Plants on February 20, 2019 by Bug Woman.
Dear Readers, this week I was in Dorchester, spending some time with Dad and doing the practical things that follow on when someone dies – going to the bank, meeting with the solicitor. I felt sad as I headed to the nursing home: Dad was always a quintessential patriarch, in command of himself and head of the family, and it's hard to see him become more vulnerable as his dementia gets worse. So, I walked into the lounge with some trepidation.
'They made us walk uphill! For 83 miles! And we're all old-aged pensioners', Dad announced as I sat down next to him.
A group of the residents had been for a nature walk in the nearby woods, and Dad had thoroughly enjoyed it, for all the hard work involved. He'd also taken the opportunity to correct the unfortunate person who was leading the walk.
'He said that the holly leaves are pricklier at the top than they are at the bottom of the bush, but that's the Wrong Way Round', said Dad. 'It's to stop the animals grazing so why would they be pricklier at the top!'.
Since it was largely Dad who piqued my interest in nature as a child, I was not the least bit surprised that he was right. He still wins in all the general knowledge quizzes too.
It's strange how the brain works. Dad can remember the capital of Iran but not who he is, at least not consistently. He was moaning about my behaviour the previous night (when I had apparently been demanding tea and generally wandering about) even as I was sitting there, bemused. I have learned not to contradict or correct him, because that didn't go down too well when he was compos mentis and there's certainly no point in doing it now. Instead, I am learning to be curious about what's going on for him, and where he is at this particular moment.
I am also aware that vascular dementia tends towards silence, towards the end of speech, and so I want to wring every drop of meaning out of my relationship with my Dad while I still can.
Dad was always such a raconteur – my brother and I used to find the way that his stories grew and grew hilarious when we were callow teenagers. He'd been to Venezuela when he was working as a gin distiller, sometimes staying for months at a time. While there, he'd eaten the best steaks he'd ever had. And the size!
'They were the size of this table!' he'd tell the assembled friends and family , while Mum got on with the carving of the much smaller piece of beef that she was trying to stretch out so that everyone got served. My brother and I would imitate him afterwards.
We would weep with hysteria at our own cleverness. It was only later that we grew to realise that Dad's exaggeration was the result of his never feeling quite good enough for the company that he kept, in spite of his extraordinary achievements. He left school at 14 to support his mum and sisters, but he ended up travelling the world, learning Spanish and, finally, running the heritage centre for Gordon's Gin. For all that, he never felt that his true stories were interesting enough, and so they were embellished until they were unrecognisable.
Seen in this light, the 83 mile walk is typical Dad.
And outside, spring is pushing through. It seems almost an insult. How dare life be going on when I feel so frozen! Bloody crocuses, busting forth so hopefully! And look at those honeybees and bumbles, already bustling about and looking for nectar and pollen. Life goes on relentlessly, whether I want it to or not.
I take a walk to Borough Gardens, a tiny municipal park close to the nursing home, which has everything you might want, and a few other things besides. Like the fine clock tower in the first photo, and this lovely bandstand, surrounded by some ruthlessly pollarded trees.
But it's the plants that get me, every time. I start off marching along and end up dawdling, my eye drawn to the buds and the patterns in the leaves, and the sheer abundance of life just waiting to burst out.
A variety of pampas grass ?
The herring gulls stand like sentinels, waiting for the rustle of a crisp packet.
Even in this tiny park with its swings and fountain and tennis courts and greenhouses, there is a sense of the natural world leaping into action, taking the opportunity to wake and breed and flower, and I feel that same force entreating me to take action, to move, to awaken to possibility. Part of me wants to linger in stillness, and part of me is filled with an urge to make something new, to carry the baton forward. And so I stand, oscillating, between two poles, eager for rest and called to movement. It's an uncomfortable place to be, but also strangely exhilarating.
Outside the park, there is an avenue where the crows are already starting to repair their nests. At the foot of each great tree there is an explosion of crocuses. I find that I am most moved by the damaged ones, those that have been trampled by passing dogs or crushed by a child's foot. I suppose that they remind me of me, bruised and imperfect, but still trying to flower.
When I go back to see Dad, he's leafing through one of the big lever-arch files that contain medical records. One of the nurses must have left it on the table. I watch him for a while. He seems to be trying to do something, but I'm not sure what. I see the man who used to organise conferences and dinners for the pensioner's association after he retired, the man who used to run a whole distillery in a language that wasn't his own. He seems very calm, contemplative even. I sit beside him as he 'works' away, and finally closes the file. The nurse comes by and collects it.
'Thank you for helping us, Tom', she says.
Dad nods. 'You're welcome', he says.
It is possible to honour and respect someone even when it's not clear what they know, or understand. It's possible to meet them where they are. I am being shown that holding on to what someone was is not helpful, for them or for us, and that being curious can be a useful tool in trying to rebuild a relationship with someone who is in a state of flux. Just as the natural world is always cycling, changing, adapting, so is Dad, and so will I.
This entry was posted in Bugwoman on Location on February 16, 2019 by Bug Woman.


A local group of riders called "Our Mother the Mountain" or OMTM, puts on some really great unofficial, unsupported rides. People drive in from all over the PNW and beyond to ride these routes through amazing forests and backcountry.
Japanese Hollow is stuck just south of The Dalles, Oregon and is mostly farmland to cherries and other fruit.
AJ and I went out there to ride with the group, along with most of the staff from Ride with GPS. AJ crushed the whole route on his touring Bike Friday. So many comments from other riders.
We took our time riding as we had no chance in keeping up with the main pack, but we did our best and enjoyed the mild weather.


Many new features introduced in Blood Money. This includes the ability to overcome other obstacles, improved unarmed combat, an NPC as a human shield with a weapon (and leave the unconscious later) dead or unconscious bodies in containers, improved animations character design, a new game engine and the Ability to remove weapons and equipment. Five hooks in the game since there can be several components, such as bombs and tanks can be improved. Each level contains a way to make it look as if the death of the target group as an accident; For example, the change of a grill when ignited, Rigg explodes a chandelier on an object to fall, or simply push on the target balcony. There are also improvised weapons like pistols, a gun for children, kitchen knives, screwdrivers, knives, swords, sticks, fire extinguishers, hammers and shears.


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Q: Pass URL parameter to shiny plot function Following this answer I'm trying to create an app that will output a plot based on the value I will pass to the app via URL
library(shiny)

shinyApp(
  ui = fluidPage(
    mainPanel(
      plotOutput("plot")
    )
  ),
  server = function(input, output, session) {
    observe({
      query <- parseQueryString(session$clientData$url_search)
      if (!is.null(query[['text']])) {
        n <- query[['text']]
      }
    })
    output$plot <- renderPlot({
      # Add a little noise to the cars data
      plot(cars[sample(nrow(cars), n), ])
    })
  }
)

Yet I don't know where/how I should store/pass the value of the variable n so to transfer it from observe() to renderPlot().

A: Try this. Note that n is defined as a per-session global variable, and notice the global assignment operator <<-
library(shiny)

shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
        mainPanel(
            plotOutput("plot")
        )
    ),
    server = function(input, output, session) {
        n <- 5
        observe({
            query <- parseQueryString(session$clientData$url_search)
            if (!is.null(query[['text']])) {
                n <<- query[['text']]
            }
        })
        output$plot <- renderPlot({
            # Add a little noise to the cars data
            plot(cars[sample(nrow(cars), n), ])
        })
    }
)

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Sofia's third film is not only as good as her previous ones, but it was one of the best films made in the year of its release. Loved by some, but hated by others, Marie Antoinette could be seriously understood as "the work of a mature filmmaker who has identified and developed a new cinematic vocabulary to describe a new breed of post-postpostfeminist woman", in the words of a film critic. Nevertheless, this is a film made for girls, that enchants their eyes and understands their inner emotions.
Perhaps only nerds like me loved this film, the greatest surprise I had during a film festival last year. I'm not a big fan of traditional westerns, but I tend to love films that get inspired by this classic Hollywood genre while building it up in a new context. Johnny To's camera created a beautiful and eye-pleasuring ballet of guns in slow motion. The frame which the shooters are seen from a top angle is a picture to remember. Watch the trailer here.
Yes, it was a homage to Grindhouse pictures, but Tarantino is not Rodriguez, and Thank God for that! It's hard to comment on this particular scene I have in mind without spoiling it to the ones who haven't seen it, so I shouldn't say much. Just one advice: don't take it too seriously and have fun. I laughed a lot.
It must be a few people out there who disliked this film, and seriously, not even Freud could explain why. Deep inside, Ratatouille is nothing but that same story already told hundreds of times before, about crossing beyond all borders and prejudices and truly following your heart to achieve your dreams. And yes, it's told through the point of view of a little mouse who wanted to become a chef in an important parisian restaurant. That's cinema. This is another scene hard to describe while not spoiling it, but I'm sure many who saw it would agree this is "the scene".
I liked Michael Clayton, although I think it was a little overestimated in the current awards season. I found the plot interesting and its editing is really relevant to the story, as that seemed a little confused, and without a good editing, it could have been ruined. This is the scene I truly liked Clooney's acting. Watch the trailer here.
Pip: HELLhmmOhh… (…) *impersonating Giselle* (…) Ean Appooh? (…) No, thank you. (…) It's goooh. (…) Hmmmf. Ommk.
The prince: You feel you'd die without me here!
Tomorrow, I'll post some of the most bizarre movie moments.
>Romeika, nunca é tarde para se publicar a lista de melhores de 2007, ainda mais em se tratando do fato de que estamos nas vésperas do Oscar.Das cenas citadas, só conheço quatro: a de "Maria Antonieta", a de "Ratatouille", a de "Conduta de Risco" e "Encantada".Acho que a minha favorita seria o flahsback de "Ratatouille". Sensacional! E a fala do Anton Ego é linda.Você selecionou a melhor parte de "Conduta de Risco", na minha opinião.E minha cena favorita de "Encantada" é Giselle cantando "That's How You Know" no Central Park. Pena que não veremos Amy Adams repetindo isso no domingo, no Oscar, já que ela só irá cantar "Happy Working Song".Beijos e bom final de semana!
>Adoro todas as cenas dessa lista qye já vi, sua lista está ótima! Minha preferida é a de "Ratatouille", que para mim ficou para a história – na (talvez) melhor animação de todos os tempos. Esse momento de "Michael Clayton" é sensacional, fico arrepiado só de lembrar (Oscar para a Tilda Swinton!). E a cena de "Encantada", que revi aqui no seu blog há um tempo atrás, é muito engraçada!Abraço.
>Mto bom! Adorei também as cenas que vc citou de Ratatouille, Maria Antonieta e Encantada.Bjs!
>Cool! Loved your picks. I havent seen Enchated or Exiled though and will see Eastern Promises very soon. I loved the Ratatouille, Death Proof, Michael Clayton and Marie Antoinette scenes. Really sensational, thrilling, satisfying and delicious, respectfullyCiao!
>Romeika, eu fiquei tão frustrada porque a Amy só vai cantar uma música no Oscar. Eu queria que ela cantasse as duas, ou de preferência "That's How You Know" (que é meio que o signature number da Giselle). Mas, eu acho que a Kristen Chenoweth fará justiça à canção amanhã.
>Vixe, nem conheço essa Kristen.. Mas realmente, a Amy Adams deveria cantar as duas. Lembro da enxurrada de Beyonce em outros anos (ninguem merece!), pq não dose dupla de Amy?
>Marie Antoinette is such a beautiful movie!


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Jem, também conhecido como Jem e as Hologramas, é uma série animada de televisão que foi exibida de 1985 a 1988 nos Estados Unidos, criada pela Hasbro.

O show apresenta a empresaria de música, Jerrica Benton, que certo dia recebe 1 par de brincos; capazes de fazer hologramas altamente realísticos, junto de suas irmãs Kimber, Aja e Shana elas decidem montar uma banda para deter Eric Raymond, um empresário de música que pretende tomar posse da Starlight Music.

A série foi feita pela Hasbro, Marvel Productions e Sunbow Productions, a mesma equipe responsável por GI Joe e Transformers. A criadora da série, Christy Marx, também tinha trabalhado como escritora para os programas acima mencionados. A animação foi produzida pelo estúdio japonês "Toei Doga" (agora Toei Animation).

Produção
Hasbro contratou a agência de publicidade Griffin-Bacal Advertising, os fundadores da Sunbow Productions, para criar a série de animação de 65 episódios. Eles, assim como a Marvel Productions, previamente criou a série G.I. Joe para a Hasbro. A escritora de G.I. Joe, Christy Marx, foi contratada para criar a série baseada na linha de bonecas e no conceito original, que consistia de duas girl bands, As Hologramas e As Desajustadas. Marx criou as biografias das personagens, assim como desenvolveu os relacionamentos dos personagens, incluindo o "triângulo amoroso" entre Rio e Jerrica Benton / Jem, a Starlight Music, a Casa Starlight, as meninas Starlight, o vilão Eric Raymond e vários personagens secundários. Mais tarde, Marx foi convidado a desenvolver novos personagens que seriam introduzidos.

Marx escreveu 23 dos 65 episódios. Outros escritores para a série incluem Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Paul Dini, Buzz Dixon, Ellen Guon, Steve Mitchell, Michael Reaves, David Wise, Marv Wolfman, Mary Skrenes, Beth Bornstein, Roger Slifer, Richard Merwin, Sandy Fries, Cheri Wilkerson, Misty Stewart-Taggart, George Arthur Bloom, Jina Bacarr, Barbara Petty, Chris Pelzer, Michael Charles Hill, Eric Early, Clare Noto, Carla Conway, e Evelyn A. R. Gabai.

Os produtores executivos foram Joe Bacal, Jay Bacal, Tom Griffin, e Margareth Loesch. Os editores da história foram Roger Slifer e Christy Marx, e o diretor de voz era o veterano da indústria,Wally Burr. Diretores do show e os supervisores de animação incluíam muitos veteranos do estúdio DePatie-Freleng incluindo Gerry Chiniquy, John Gibbs, Norm McCabe, Warren Batchelder e Tom Ray.

Elenco
Samantha Newark foi escolhida para fornecer as vozes tanto de Jem quanto de Jerrica. Apesar de ter sido cantora infantil na África ela acabou não fazendo a voz de Jem. O elenco de voz nunca fez teste para o lado da musical do show e vice-versa. As músicas para Jem eram gravadas em Nova York e Atlanta e os dialógos eram feitos em Burbank, Califórnia. Eles no final combinavam os diálogos e as músicas no processo final. Britta Phillips, que nunca tinha trabalhado profissionalmente como cantora, foi escolhida como a voz de Jem após uma audição em que ela foi levada por seu pai, que trabalhou com jingles em Nova York. A tomada inicial dos testes foi usada como a primeira música tema de abertura, "Truly Outrageous". As hologramas restantes foram dubladas por Cathianne Blore (Kimber Benton / Aja Leith), McGee Cindy (Shana Elmsford) e Linda Dangcil ('Raya' Carmen Alonso).

Aa vozes das Desajustadas nos diálogos foram fornecidas por Patricia Alice Albrecht (Phyllis "Urânia" Gabor), Samantha Paris (Roxanne "Roxy" Pellegrini), Susan Blu (Mary "Eléctra" Phillips), e Louise Dorsey (Sheila "Jetta" Burns), a filha de Engelbert Humperdinck. Ellen Bernfield foi a voz cantando de Urânia.

Os Stingers foram dublados por Townsend Coleman (Rory "Riot" Llewelyn), Ellen Gerstell (Phoebe "Rapture" Ashe), e Kath Soucie (Ingrid "Minx" Kurger). Gordon Grody, um treinador vocal que mais tarde trabalhou com Lady Gaga, fez a voz de Riot cantando.

Outros membros notáveis do elenco notáveis incluem Charlie Adler, que já tinha tido uma longa carreira como cantor, fez o vilão Eric Raymond, Vicki Sue Robinson, famosa pelo hit de 1970 da discoteca "Turn the Beat Around", que forneceu as vozes cantando de Rapture e Minx, e Ari Gold, a cantora e compositora pop, que forneceu a voz para Ba Nee.

Dublagem

 Créditos da dublagem brasileira:  Estúdio de dublagem: Estúdios de Dublagens do SBT - SP.

Episódios
As três temporadas foram exibidas no SBT de 8 de março de 1988 até 1993, os episódios foram dublados junto com todas as músicas adaptadas para português brasileiro, alguns episódios foram disponibilizados em VHS em Portugal pela Ecofilmes.

Piloto
A série gira em torno de Jem, a vocalista misteriosa do grupo de rock "Jem e as Hologramas". Ela também é Jerrica Benton, proprietária e gerente da Starlight Music. Jerrica adota essa "personagem" com a ajuda de um computador holográfico, conhecido como Energia, que foi construído pelo pai de Jerrica para ser "o sintetizador de entretenimento áudio-visual", deixado para ela, depois que ele morreu. Jerrica é capaz de comandar Energia para projetar "a holograma Jem" sobre si mesma por meio do controle remoto micro-projetado em seus brincos, camuflando suas características e roupas permitindo-lhe assumir Jem, sem ser reconhecida. Enquanto disfarçada como Jem, Jerrica é capaz de mover-se livremente sem restrições e em várias ocasiões, outras pessoas podem entrar em contato físico direto com ela sem interromper a projeção holográfica. Jem, através da utilização dos brincos, é também capaz de projetar hologramas em torno dela e usa esta capacidade ao longo da série para evitar o perigo e proporcionam efeitos especiais para o desempenho do seu grupo.

O grupo de Jem consiste em Kimber Benton, a irmã mais jovem de Jerrica, tecladista e principal compositora da banda, Aja Leith, guitarrista, e Shana Elmsford, que toca bateria. Aja e Shana também são amigas de infância e irmãs adotadas de Jerrica e Kimber, tendo vivido com a família Benton desde que eram jovens. Shana brevemente deixa o grupo para seguir uma carreira na moda, surgindo uma nova personagem, Carmen "Raya" Alonso, sendo apresentada como sua substituta. As Hologramas são conscientes de identidade secreta de Jem e da existência de Energia. A segunda temporada da série começa quando Raya está ciente involuntariamente dess segredo antes de entrar para o grupo.

As Hologramas têm duas bandas rivais, "As Desajustadas" e "Os Stingers". As Desajustadas são compostas de Pizzazz - Urânia, uma menina petulante rica (nome real Phyllis Gabor) e suas companheiras: Roxy (Roxanne Pelligrini) e a bondosa e sensível Stormer - Electra (Mary Phillips). Elas são unidas depois pela saxofonista Jetta (Sheila Burns). Os Stingers aparecem no início da terceira temporada, quando chegaram na cidade e agitam as coisas para os dois grupos se tornarem co-proprietários da "Sound Stinger", com Eric Raymond. Os Stingers são compostos de Riot, o egoísta vocalista (Rory Llewelyn), o guitarrista / Rapture - Extasê (Phoebe Ashe), e o tecladista Minx (Ingrid Kruger).

Os episódios da série freqüentemente giram em torno dos esforços de Jerrica para manter suas duas identidades separadas, protegendo Energia daqueles que poderiam explorar a tecnologia holográfica, e poder apoiar as 12 filhas adotivas(futuramente haveria mais uma que só apareceria em um episódio) conhecidas como as "Meninas Starlight", que vivem com ela e as Hologramas. As Desajustas freqüentemente tentam afastar Jem e as Hologramas, muitas vezes quase resultando em danos físicos. Esta rivalidade é incentivada e manipulada por seu empresário e vilão central da série, Eric Raymond, o ex-proprietário da Starlight Music que agora é dono da Misfits Music (depois de Stinger Sound).

Durante a série, Eric Raymond constantemente tenta tornar-se proprietário da Starlight Music e tenta se vingar de Jem e as Hologramas pelo fato de ter perdido o controle da empresa com a ajuda de vários capangas, entre eles Zipper, que não hesita em sujar as mãos para fazer trabalhos sujos, e Techrat, um cientista louco que está sempre inventando novos aparetos e não gosta de ser tocado por ninguém, exceto por Minx. Jerrica também lida com um complexo triângulo amoroso e emocionalmente desgastante envolvendo sua identidade secreta, Jem, e Rio Pacheco, o namorado de longa data de Jerrica. Rio romanticamente persegue as mulheres não sabendo que elas são a mesma pessoa, embora aja rumores de que ele sabe desse segredo, mas imagina que as Hologramas não saibam. Mais tarde na série, Jem também está romanticamente apaixonada por Riot, o vocalista dos Stingers, que se apaixona por ela, acrescentando novas complicações para seus relacionamentos.

No episódio final da série, as Desajustadas e Jem declaram uma trégua quando Ba Nee, uma das meninas mais problemáticos adotivas da Casa Starlight, foi reivindicada por seu pai, que havia sumido há muito tempo, encontrado por Jem e as Hologramas com a ajuda do pai de Riot, que volta a falar com seu filho graças a ajuda de Jem.

Música
A inclusão de vídeos de música em Jem era resultado do sucesso e popularidade da MTV na época, que começou a ser exibida quatro anos antes. A colocação das canções ao longo de cada episódio foi feita para complementar a história e o uso de vídeos de música no show foi considerado "radical" para a época. O show contém um total de 187 vídeos de música com 151 canções.

O formato do show pediu três canções totalmente produzidas para os vídeos de música existentes em cada episódio. Letras de músicas em destaque no show foram escritas por Barry Harman. A música tema de Jem - Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous foi a abertura e tema de encerramento para o show até o final de 1987, quando o segundo tema de Bryant, JEM GIRLS se tornou tema de abertura do show para a maioria dos episódios e JEM – Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous foi mantido como encerramento permanente. Os vídeos de música contaram com um estilo que foi dirigido para o espectador ou o estilo mais tradicional. Os vídeos de música eram feitos ao estilo de vídeos de rock encontrados na MTV na época com edição rápida, um ritmo rápido, e efeitos especiais

Ellen Bernfeld, atuando como Urânia, Britta Phillips, atuando como Jem, e Gordon Grody, atuando como Riot, o vocalista dos Stingers, juntamente com Diva Gray, Florence Warner e Capelli Angela eram as vozes do pop, funk, música eletrônica e punk, feitas pelo pai de Britta Phillips, o pianista Peter Phillips e pelo guitarrista Steve Bill, o baixista Tom Barney e o baterista Tom Oldakowski. Anne Bryant, que escolheu os cantores e músicos, criou um som puro pop jovem para Jem e as Hologramas apoiados por instrumentos acústicos. O som das Desajustadas foi trabalhado como estritamente eletrônico com a adição de guitarras e um solo de sax ocasional quando o personagem de Jetta foi introduzida as Desajustadas. Isto foi feito para criar um estilo de música eletrônica identificável punk em contraste com os seus grupos rivais. Na terceira temporada, Bryant introduziu um som mais lento, suave e sexy para o terceiro grupo que entrou no show, Os Stingers.

Nenhuma trilha-sonora para Jem foi lançada, no entanto, muitas das músicas da primeira temporada foram lançadas em fita cassete com bonecas ou play-sets.

Recepção
Jem ficou na posição #1 do Nielsen, como melhor desenho animado em novembro de 1986 e em 1987 foi o terceiro programa infantil mais assistido com 2,5 milhões de espectadores por semana. Jem foi ao ar em vários países, incluindo Austrália, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Alemanha, Holanda, Itália e França. O show foi indicado para o Young Artist Award duas vezes, uma em 1986 nas categorias "Exceptional Young Actresses in Animation: Series, Specials, or Film Features" pelo desempenho Samantha Newark, em seguida, em 1988, para "Melhor Série de Animação".

A popularidade das bonecas Barbie, produzidas a uma longa data pela Mattel levou a uma competição entre a linha de brinquedos da Hasbro e a linha de brinquedos Barbie and the Rockers, uma linha similar a Jem feita pela Mattel, que resultou na redução das vendas de ambos os produtos. Hasbro descontinuou a linha de brinquedos Jem no final de 1987 depois que ele não conseguiu cumprir as expectativas de vendas, mas, apesar disso, o show continuou e foi ao ar até 1988. Jem foi liberada parcialmente em DVD em vários países, com um conjunto completo disponível, pela primeira vez em 2011. Em 2011 começou a ser exibida no canal The Hub nos Estados Unidos, causando um aumento significativo nos índices de audiência para o canal. Ele também foi ao ar no Teletoon Retro no Canadá.

Exibição no Brasil
"Jem" teve sua estreia no Brasil em 1988 pelo SBT. Primeiramente o desenho era exibido em um programa noturno de desenhos chamado "Carrossel". Em 1990 "Jem" começou a passar de segunda à sexta-feira no programa da apresentadora Mariane e ficou no ar até 1991. Depois disso foi exibido em 1992 no programa Show Maravilha da apresentadora Mara Maravilha  e desde 1993 o SBT nunca mais exibiu nenhum episódio do desenho.

Há alguns anos atrás o extinto canal de TV por assinatura Fox Kids exibiu um compacto com os 5 primeiros episódios de "Jem". Por motivos desconhecidos o canal optou por redublar esses episódios (deixando as músicas na versão original em Inglês) ao invés de usar a dublagem feita pelo SBT. "Jem" também pôde ser vista no Brasil até o ano de 2001 através do canal mexicano de desenhos animados chamado ZAZ. Esse canal fazia parte da grade de programação da DirecTV. Todos os episódios exibidos estavam na versão dublada em espanhol. A última vez que "Jem" foi vista na televisão brasileira foi pelo próprio SBT no segundo semestre de 2003 através do programa "Falando Francamente" da jornalista Sônia Abrão. O programa exibiu, durante aproximadamente 5 minutos, várias cenas do desenho, incluindo sua abertura, em um quadro do programa chamado "SBT 21 Anos".

Situação atual da franquia
Em 2004, Christy Marx manifestou a ideia de criar uma nova série, para poder renascer com a franquia, porém, muitos problemas de direitos sobre a série, o impediram de fazer isso. A Hasbro conseguiu readquirir os direitos de suas franquias, referentes a "Hasbro Classic", que inclui Jem. Depois do sucesso de GI Joe e Transformers nos cinemas, a Hasbro se mostrou interessada em fazer uma adaptação em live-action para a série ou uma nova animação.

Em 2011, a Shout! Factory anunciou que iria lançar a série em DVD. Depois de 20 anos, Jem voltou a ser exibida nos Estados Unidos, pelo canal The Hub. Em 25 de julho de 2011, o Teletoon Retro, um canal canadense dedicado a exibição de desenhos animados, anunciou que Jem faria parte de sua grade. Em 8 de setembro de 2011, a Hasbro mostrou durante o evento New York Comic Con, uma nova linha de brinquedos, que inclui Jem e as Hologramas.

Em 5 de abril de 2012, a Hasbro anunciou que Jem, juntamente com várias outras franquias da Hasbro, estará disponível no Netflix. Em 27 de junho de 2012, Integrity Toys, Inc., anunciou seus planos de lançar uma nova série de bonecos colecionáveis de moda baseados na série de TV. A edição especial Hollywood de Jem estarão disponíveis no estande da Loja de brinquedos Hasbro durante a Comic-Con International, em San Diego, a um preço de varejo aproximado de US $ 135. A boneca Jem vendida no segundo dia da Comic Con. Em 5 de outubro de 2012, os quatro próximos bonecos colecionáveis da edição limitada da linha Integrity Toys foram apresentados com fotos: Jem Classic, Jerrica Benton, Synergy e Rio Pacheco. O preço sugerido nos EUA é de $ 119,00 e a data estimada de envio é final de novembro de 2012. Pré-encomendas já são aceitos via rede de distribuidores Integrity Toys autorizados.

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The Battle of Imjin River (Japanese: 臨津江の戦い) was a battle during the 1592 Japanese invasion of Korea. Gim Myeongweon's northern defense was defeated and the Japanese were able to cross over and invade northern Korea.

Background
The Joseon royal family left Hanseong for Pyeongyang on 9 June, a few days before the Japanese took the city on 12 June. When the Japanese arrived they found the city destroyed and in anarchy. After resting for two weeks in Hanseong, the Japanese armies resumed their advance on 27 June. The Japanese vanguard was the army under Konishi Yukinaga and Sō Yoshitoshi, followed by the army of Kato Kiyomasa and the army of Kuroda Nagamasa. The Japanese forces arrived at the Imjin River without difficulty, but found that the Koreans had finally managed to mount an effective defense, and had 10,000 soldiers amassed on the far bank under the command of Gim Myeongweon.

Battle
Although the Korean forces were in an ideal position, able to cut down the Japanese as they crossed the river in small numbers, the Korean army was hampered by the lack of a clear chain-of-command. Some of the defenders were not under Gim's command, including 3000 men from northern Korea under the government minister Han Ung-in.

Seeing that the Koreans would not budge after waiting for ten days, the Japanese forces conducted a false retreat to lure them into attacking. The Koreans took the bait. One inexperienced commander, Sin Hal, immediately ordered his men to cross the river and attack the Japanese. A more experienced commander, Yu Geuk-ryang, was unable to dissuade him and ended up leading the charge himself after being accused of cowardice. Some of Han Un-in's veterans, experienced in Jurchen tactics, were also reluctant to follow, suspecting it to be a ruse, but they were executed. Gim Myeongweon thought the attack was a bad idea, but could do not stop it since he did not have full control over the entire army.

A portion of the Korean army thus crossed the river and rushed past the abandoned Japanese campsite into the ambush. The Japanese fired on them with muskets and chased them to the river, where they were slaughtered. Yu Geuk-ryang and Sin Hal were both killed. A civil official on the north bank of the river fled. Surrounding soldiers thought that he was Gim Myeongweon, so they panicked and fled as well, abandoning the defense.

Aftermath
The Japanese crossed the river by 7 July and took Kaesong without a fight. Afterwards the three divisions split up. Konishi Yukinaga went north to Pyeongyang, Kuroda Nagamasa went west to Hwanghae, and Katō Kiyomasa headed northeast to Hamgyeong.

On 10 June, King Seonjo began preparations to abandon Pyongyang for Yongbyon further north and by 16 July the vanguard of Konishi Yukinaga's forces had reached the south bank of the Taedong River within sight of the walls of Pyongyang.

In popular culture
This battle is celebrated in Activision's video game Shogun: Total War under "Imjin". The historical error in the game is that the Koreans have infantry forces only, while Japanese have balanced combined armed forces. Also the game shows the river having a bridge, which was not the case until the 20th century.

See also
List of battles during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
Timeline of the Japanese invasions of Korea

Citations

Bibliography

 桑田忠親 [Kuwata, Tadachika], ed., 舊參謀本部編纂, [Kyu Sanbo Honbu], 朝鮮の役 [Chousen no Eki] (日本の戰史 [Nihon no Senshi] Vol. 5), 1965.

See also
 Battle of Chungju
 Battle of Sangju (1592)
 Imjin War

Imjin River, Battle of
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1592 in Japan
Imjin River 1592


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Oxford's girls basketball team has used first-year coach Cliff Ormon's defensive system to spark a run to Jackson for the first time in four years. The Chargers will take on Hattiesburg in the MHSAA Class 5A quarterfinals Friday.
BUYING IN: Chargers thriving in Ormon's defensive system
Published 12:02 pm Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Shayne Linzy started it. Cliff Ormon tweaked it.
Oxford's girls basketball team has made it a point this season to try to perfect it.
Ormon was pegged to be the Chargers' next head coach last spring after Linzy made the move across town to take the same post at Lafayette. In his first season, Ormon, who came to Oxford from Ripley, has led Oxford to Jackson for the first time since the Erika Sisk-led squad in 2012 won the Class 5A state championship.
Oxford (25-4) will take on Hattiesburg in the state quarterfinals Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Jackson State University. The Tigers (25-4) are back in the quarterfinals after making it in the 6A classification last season.
"When we met (Ormon), he was talking about how we're going to get to business and our goal is to get to state," senior center Kyla Malone said. "To get to Jackson, but to win state as well and how we were going to work every day and not play around and get down to business."
That meant running a defensive system that doesn't allow for much rest for the weary.
Ormon brought with him a style that's simple in theory: Keep the opponent uncomfortable by applying as much pressure as possible for as long as possible. It's similar to what the Chargers did the previous six seasons under Linzy, who has Lafayette in the 4A quarterfinals, though Ormon's system has a subtle difference.
"Coach Linzy, his system was more of like zone and transition," Malone said. "With Coach Ormon, it's all about man-to-man and pushing. Same thing, just more intense kind of."
Said Ormon, "I try to tell them that if we're playing hard and making them play every play having to think and play fast, we're going to benefit more than the other team will."
Ormon took over a roster short on size but loaded with guards, which made the Chargers' personnel a perfect fit for the waves of pressure he wanted to apply from one end of the court to the other. But skill only goes so far when trying to play relentless man defense for 32 minutes.
It took the Chargers some time to get acclimated to the frenetic pace in practice, but Ormon soon found out he had a group that was willing to put in the effort to transform a good defense into a suffocating one.
"It was a lot of hustle, moving and running everywhere," senior guard Aliyah Herod said. "When we're doing the next drill, we're running to the next one. We weren't really used to that, but it was all about hustle."
First line of resistance
It starts with Herod and fellow guards Emma Schultz and Tiara King on the perimeter, whose quick feet and active hands make it difficult for opponents to advance the ball. Oxford is allowing just 38.7 points a game and yielded just 29 in its second-round win over Vicksburg, its 17th straight victory heading into Friday's game.
"You have Emma Schultz, who's small but a bulldog," Ormon said. "She'll latch on and give anybody all she can at 5-foot-2. Same thing with Tiara King and Aliyah Herod. … Those three kind of are our table-setters as far as defensive intensity."
Everybody plays a part. Malone, by far the tallest player among Oxford's regular rotation at 6-0, is there as insurance in the lane to alter shots and rebound should opponents break the press.
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Uptight (1968)
By Toronto Film Society on March 31, 2020
Toronto Film Society presented Uptight (1968) on Monday, December 6, 1982 in a double bill with Murder Most Foul as part of the Season 35 Monday Evening Film Buffs Series "B", Programme 3.
Production Company: Paramount. Producer: Jules Dassin. Director: Jules Dassin. Screenplay: Jules Dassin, Ruby Dee and Julian Mayfield, based on the novel The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty. Photography: Boris Kaufman. Production Design: Alexander Trauner. Music: Booker T. Jones. Performed by Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
Cast: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne, and introducing Julian Mayfield.
Uptight is a film largely unseen since its original release in 1968. Simply put, where John Ford's The Informer was the story of a man, Uptight is the story of a movement.
In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby calls Uptight "an earnest hybrid of a movie . . . the transportation of The Informer from Dublin at the time of 'the troubles' to the Cleveland of 1968 in the hours immediately following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis.
The betrayed Irish patriot has been turned into a black militant, and the British Occupation Force into the White Establishment.
Canby is frank in his assessment: "None of this really works . . . but Uptight is such an intense and furious movie it is impossible not to take it seriously. It is the first American film to deal bluntly with the mind and mood of the black man who has move beyond the range of the white man's voice."
Canby continues: "Dassin's first American film in more than 20 years . . . jumps into the middle of a social phenomenon which has been carefully avoided by almost everybody except a few documentary film-makers. . . and the national magazines.
He terms the effect on the big theatre screen "stunning and hair-raising."
"The central character, Tank, is played by Julian Mayfield, in his first movie role. Herein lies one of the major differences between The Informer and Uptight. The subsidiary characters here are all more interesting than Tank himself. . . whereas Victor McLaglen was the key figure in The Informer."
Both Mayfield and Ruby Dee, who plays his mistress, were involved in the writing of the screenplay. Raymond St. Jacques has a fine role as the militant leader, and Frank Silvera also performs well as the conciliatory black man. The crowd scenes as staged by Dassin are extremely well-done.
Canby concludes: "Uptight is so important in its essentials that it may not be possible to judge it simply as an entertainment movie." Other critics were well divided in their opinions. Leonard Maltin calls it "a tough remake of The Informer . . . ghetto style," and awards three stars. Angela and Elkan Allan, in Movies on Television, say the use of newsreel footage simply shows up the phoniness of the rest. Halliwell's Film Guide calls it "too schematic to make any dramatic or human impression."
ABOUT JULES DASSIN: He was born December 18, 1912, in Middletown, and began with a series of shorts on such personalities as Arthur Rubinstein (1941) (1941) and Pablo Casals, in the same year. For MGM he produced a memorable short version of The Tell-Tale Heart in 1941.
His first feature was turned out in 1942–Nazi Agent. Others of note include The Canterville Ghost (1944), Brute Force (1947), Nakes City (1948), Never on Sunday (1959), and Phaedra (1961).
He was one of several American Filmmakers driven out of Hollywood by the McCarthy witch-hunt of the 1950s, and developed a new career in Europe. From 1936 to 1940 he had been a stage actor, producer, and radio scriptwriter.
He worked for RKO for a year, then joined MGM to direct shorts. After the successful trio of Brute Force, Naked City and Thieves' Highway in Hollywood, he built an even more successful career in Europe with Rififi, He Who Must Die, and Never on Sunday.
In an interview, Dassin explained his philosophy: "What interest me is truth. The cinema is a mass art, and the cheapest form of entertainment. You discover in my films a blend of documentary and poetry. This is my poor search for an expression of truth.
In a 1963 interview in Films an Filming, Dassin was obviously still bitter, telling the interviewer: "The international Hollywood business octopus still uses the infamous blacklist as an excuse to keep certain people out of the world film arena if their 'profitability' is uncertain.
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Immigrants Set Up Illegal Camp In Hyde Park
Last Updated: 1:58am BST 05/04/2007
Unemployed immigrants from eastern Europe are sleeping in tents in the middle of Hyde Park. Groups of Romanians and Bulgarians seeking work in London are taking the desperate measures because they are homeless and penniless.
The immigrants refuse to return home, even though Westminster council has offered to pay for their travel
The men and women, who have no money to pay for accommodation, are typically choosing secluded wooded spots in the park and setting up camp once it gets dark.
Many will pitch their tents in one spot for a few nights, then pack up and move to another. They say they are able to get away with camping in the park, which is illegal, because there are no wardens and they rarely see any police.
The immigrants refuse to return home, even though Westminster council has offered to pay for their travel, because they are convinced they will be able to find work.
Piles of packed down cardboard boxes, empty food packets, drinks cartons and discarded plastic bags litter the area that the immigrants have vacated.
The camp has sprung up despite regulations limiting the number of low-skilled workers from the two countries being employed in Britain.
Nicolai Haji, 31, from Romania, said he had spent several weeks camping in the park. "Life is hard in Romania," he said. "There is very little work for people like me with no qualifications and no chance to earn much money. Sleeping in this park is not ideal, but it is free and better than returning home.
"I came here to earn money for my family. I will find work like many of my friends have and until then I will be happy with my tent.
"It will be summer soon so the weather will be hotter and the nights will be warmer. I think it will be a beautiful place to stay but at the moment it is cold." Tsvetana Jovtchev, 27, from Bulgaria, said it was much more difficult to find work in England than she expected.
She said: "I have not been here for long, just a couple of weeks, but I haven't found a job yet. It is upsetting but I do not want to go home.
"Many of my friends are homeless like me and we all stick together and we all really want to find work, but it is hard. We are homeless because there is no choice.
"I will stay here for the summer and, if I still haven't found a job by the end, then I will have to go home."
Emerich Dinu, 22, from Romania, said many people slept in the park because there was no one to stop them. He said: "There are lots of people doing what I do, even if someone catches you, you just move on to a different spot.
"If you sleep under the trees it is quite warm and not windy. It is quite comfortable.
"I don't want to be here forever, but there is nothing else for me to do."
26 September 2006: Bulgaria and Romania to join EU next year
19 September 2006: Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants to be restricted
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Are we watching the death of a Sydney radio giant?
Damn it. We've just lost another big name in radio...
Well, she's all over for another year
by Frank Avis | January 6, 2020 | 2010s
Well, she's all over for another year and the Alan and Ray Show ended the ratings, owning Sydney's overalls...
Well, she's all over for another year and the Alan and Ray Show ended the ratings, owning Sydney's overalls, clear of FM challengers, Smooth and Kiis. Good old CH bounced up nearly a point and says goodbye to 2019, rating just under 4.5. I was surprised to hear that Ch. 9 had decided to switch ex-MIX colleague Deborah Knight on to 2GB after the end of her contract with the TODAY show. I'm not sure how often we'll get to see her now on Ch. 9 6 O'Clock news but as she just happens to be one of the top 3 TV news presenters in the nation let's hope she continues her regular work in this high-profile arena. I guess if you are going to radio it's nice to be heading off to the city's No. 1.
The attached photo is courtesy of TV veteran, Bill Lee, aka Unka (for Uncle) or Mr Grumps (er, don't go there) and shows a stack of survivors from TVT 6, HOBART in a recent reunion shot.
I joined TVT/7HO in the late '50s which is where I met up with Bill. I did quite a few booth shifts, read a bit of news and actually pioneered the first IN HOBART TONIGHT with Tom Warne, Graeme Smith and Bill as Director. I think we all have affectionate memories of those early days.
Sadly I really don't remember a lot of people in this photo -- my fault, not theirs -- but I do recall several colleagues -- Tony Kingston, Tony Kendrick, Lyndon Michell, Jan Gough, Stan Draper and Winston Henry. I salute you all.
Yes, I was wired on to the lounge during the recent British Brexit Election. I think I spent up to 8 hours on Sky News UK following the astonishing drama as BoJo wiped out Jeremy and his bizarre manifesto which promised everything to everybody while he went after business and the wealthy with a political cosh. Oh yes, and then we had the spectre of nationalisation and his "should we... shouldn't we... oh don't look at me, I haven't got a clue" policy for Brexit. It was a disaster for Labour as its old heartland cried "enough! I'm getting outta here". And boy, they did.
The whole Brexit saga was incredible really as I've argued for years. We even had one major party campaigning openly on the basis of refusing to accept the recent Brexit vote, and telling The Brits they'd have to vote again, presumably until they voted to stay IN the European Union. These people actually refused to accept a national plebiscite which voted to leave. I don't get that. Needless to say, that party did not have a good night at the ballot boxes. These remainers had spent every day since the nationwide vote moaning about the decision. Commentator JANET ALBRECHTSEN -- writing in the Weekend Australian -- labelled them the "remoaners"...
We had one of those iconic moments you hang on to this week when we saw a Willie Wagtail in our yard. Haven't seen one for ages. Haven't seen any Blue Wrens, Swallows or sparrows either. They've all been hunted out of our suburbs by a combination of aggressive imported species and marauding cats allowed to roam and hunt through the night. Maybe, the return of the Wagtail marks a new era... We might even get to see the occasional Kookaburra?
If you want to know what happens when Big Business falls into the hands of bureaucrats here is an alarming story. A young High School student turned up for his casual shift at a local Supermarket... Won't go into names but this is one of the biggest names in the country... and he saw a lady looking a bit lost. So he approached the customer and was able to direct her to the appropriate aisle. The two had a brief chat and the happy customer departed feeling a lot better for the experience of talking face-to-face with a human. Shortly afterwards the young worker was pulled aside by his supervisor, who was clearly irate. "What are you doing?" she demanded to know. "You broke one of our main protocols. You never INITIATE contact with a customer: you respond to any questions and move on as quickly as possible. Oh yes, and your exchange with that lady lasted longer than one minute... also breaking another one of our key customer protocols". The worker stood there for a while and then looked the Supervisor in the eye, responding... "You've got to be kidding me?" To this she replied angrily... "One more outburst like that and you'll be facing the Manager on a charge of insubordination". I think that might be from episode 3 of Faulty Towers... No hang on... I've just found it on page 10 of Jeremy Corbyn's Manifesto.
You all know of my unrelenting search for a decent crime drama on TV. Well, I recently rediscovered the original "pilot" episode of the British masterpiece Waking the Dead. I'd forgotten how brilliant it was... the script, the direction and the wonderful ensemble cast. A couple of weeks back we sat down to watch a promising detective series from Wales.
Sadly, we could hardly understand anything they said so -- without the aid of sub-titles -- we just had to pull the plug after half an hour and give up. It looked good but we had no idea what the characters were saying. How politically incorrect is that?
Have a good 2020.
by Frank Avis | December 2, 2019
Are we watching the death of a Sydney radio giant with the announcement that the experiment with Macquarie Sports on the old 2UE is over?
I see that Alan Jones continues to defy the "great sock crisis"...
by Frank Avis | October 23, 2019
Radio, Alan Jones, Graeme Turpie and Ian Nicholls, Brexit, Richmond AFL and TV.
We lost another famous name in the industry recently
by Frank Avis | September 13, 2019
Loss of Malcolm T Elliott, Sydney radio market, "put a sock in it", catch up with Brendan Sheedy, Brexit, and dog washing...
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College Basketball Daily Fantasy Helper: Wednesday 12/30/20
Matt Hiatt Dec 30th, 2020
Connecticut's James Bouknight is a player worth targeting on tonight's six-game slate.
College basketball season is finally here, and we have a six-game slate today.
March Madness is a ways off at this point, but you can get in all the college hoops hype by playing daily contests at FanDuel today. If you've played NBA DFS before, it's quite simple: pick a total of eight players -- four guards, three forwards, and one utility spot you can use for either position. Stay within the $50,000 salary cap and field the team you think will score the most fantasy points.
Where scoring differs from NBA is in the blocks and steals categories, with each worth two FanDuel points apiece rather than the three you get in daily NBA contests.
Now that you're in the know, we can attack today's slate, which locks at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Which players should you be targeting, and why?
James Bouknight, Connecticut ($7,800) - The Connecticut Huskies' guard owns an eye-popping 30.3% usage rate, 120.6 offensive rating, and he's taking 31.4% of the team's shots when he's on the floor, per KenPom. He'll play nearly the entire game and he's in a fantasy-friendly spot as the Huskies take on the DePaul Blue Demons. DePaul loves to push the tempo and they aren't particularly interested in playing defense. The Blue Demons are 35th in KenPom's tempo rankings and 84th in KenPom's defensive rankings.
Moses Moody, Arkansas ($6,900) - Moody is an intriguing target since he can dent the box score in a variety of ways. The freshman has an impressive 135.5 offensive rating (per KenPom), 60.1% effective field goal percentage, is a willing rebounder, and is active on the defensive end of the court. He leads the Arkansas Razorbacks in scoring (16.9 per game) and minutes played (29.4 per game). He's also averaging 2.1 blocks/steals per game.
Armaan Franklin, Indiana ($6,300) - Franklin has been one of the best players in the B1G Ten over the last two weeks. In his last four games, Franklin is averaging 19.5 points, 3.25 rebounds, 2.25 assists, and 2.75 blocks/steals in 31.8 minutes. Throw in a matchup with a vulnerable Penn State Nittany Lions team and his stellar play figures to continue for a fifth straight game. Penn State is 71st in KenPom's defensive rankings.
Caleb Love, North Carolina ($6,200) - Love has been a bit of a disappointment this season as he was one of the nation's top recruits in the 2020 class. He's connecting on a putrid 28.7% from the field. On the plus side, the freshman owns a 25.8% usage rate and he's taking 27.4% of the North Carolina Tar Heels shots when he's on the floor, per KenPom (both lead the team). The matchup with Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets is a fantastic spot for the struggling shooter. The Yellow Jackets rank 291st in three-point field goal percentage allowed and 144th in two-point field goal percentage allowed, per KenPom.
Aljami Durham, Indiana ($5,000) - The Indiana Hoosiers' point guard is a boom or bust type player depending on whether his jumper is falling. He's the Hoosiers' fourth-leading scorer (8.8 per game), fourth-leading rebounder (4.1 per game), and leading assist man (3.1 per game). There is reason for optimism, though, as his shooting percentage figures to rebound as the season progresses. Durham is currently connecting on 37.9% of his field goal attempts which is down significantly from last season (44.1% a season ago). A matchup with Penn State could be the cure as the Nittany Lions are 277th in two-point field goal percentage allowed, per KenPom.
Sandro Mamukelashvili, Seton Hall ($7,700) - I like Mamo to bounce back on Wednesday night after struggling in a win over Georgetown last weekend. The Seton Hall Pirates center will play as many minutes as he can handle. That's enticing since Mamo has a 27.5% usage rate and he takes 29.4% of the Pirates shots when he's on the floor, per KenPom (both team highs). He's also a willing passer and owns a 21.4% assist rate, which ranks second amongst the Pirates. The matchup with Xavier Musketeers is pretty good too. The Musketeers are 67th in KenPom's defensive rankings. Traycie Jackson-Davis ($8,200) is also a great play despite the high salary.
Armando Bacot, North Carolina ($6,800) - Bacot leads the Tar Heels with a 124.0 offensive rating, per KenPom. The sophomore is also a solid rebounder (both his offensive and defensive rebounding rates are 15-plus percent, per KenPom) and an elite shot-blocker (5.2%, per KenPom). Bacot stands out as one of the better forward plays as he faces off with a below-average Georgia Tech defense (as mentioned above).
Garrison Brooks, North Carolina ($6,400) - Brooks consistently had salaries in the high $7,000's to low $8,000's last season. However, his salary has taken a hit this season due to his performance this season. That said, there's reason to believe that Brooks will regain his form from last season. The senior is a career 54.6% shooter from the field -- he's only connecting on 47.4% of his field-goal attempts this season. His minutes also figure to increase as the Tar Heels' big man has been limited to 27.5 minutes over the last two games due to foul trouble. As noted above, the matchup with Georgia Tech should provide the Tar Heels plenty of open looks on Wednesday night.
John Fulkerson, Tennessee ($5,600) - Fulkerson is an efficient scorer and an excellent rebounder. The Tennessee Volunteers forward is averaging .91 FanDuel points per minute. At that production level, he should pay off his salary in 24.6 minutes of action. Fulkerson has logged 28 minutes in each of the last two games. Additionally, he averaged 30.1 minutes per game a season ago.
Ike Obiagu ($4,200) - Obiagu is not an offensive threat but he is one of the better value plays due to his ability to rack up the defensive statistics. Obiagu's 14.5% block rate ranks sixth nationally, per KenPom. He's also averaging 5.1 rebounds per game, which ranks third amongst the Pirates. His minutes have also been extended recently as he's averaged 29.5 minutes per game over the last two games (up significantly from his season average of 22.6 minutes). Josh Carlton ($4,200) is also a viable source of salary relief if he draws the start for Connecticut.
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2019 Week 2: Packers vs. Vikings
Packers start hot, hold on to beat Vikings 21-16
Green Bay jumped out to a 21-0 lead and held on for dear life as the Packers defense once again stepped up against the NFC North rival Vikings.
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Week 1 can be a liar. Conference contenders can look discombobulated, while future also-rans fly out of the gate with alacrity. Defenses who will soon tarnish will shine and offenses who inevitably fade, glow red hot. As Aaron Rodgers and the offense struggled against the Bears, the call for play-action grew. First play against the Vikings: Rodgers finds Davante Adams for 39 off a run fake. If Week 1 wasn't a harbinger of things to come with the Packers offense, the first play of Week 2 was, at least for the rest of the first half. Green Bay marched down the field, punching the ball in the end zone on a screen to Jamaal Williams.
It was the best of what Matt LaFleur's offense can be. Earlier in the drive, they showed a swing pass to Aaron Jones. Off the same look inside the red zone, Rodgers faked the swing, came back to Williams on the screen who powered into the end zone. It the first of three touchdown drives as the Packers took a 21-0 lead as they held on for the 21-16 win.
Against the Bears, who consistently threw two and even three defenders at him, Davante Adams managed four catches for 36 yards. The burgeoning superstar hung 87 on five catches on Xavier Rhodes and Co. in the first half alone, ending the game with 106 yards on seven grabs.
Aaron Jones, whose first-down production in particular buoyed the Packers, followed a similar path. After getting bottled up by Chicago for 39 yards on 13 carries in Week 1, Jones creased the Vikings for 14 carries for 63 yards and a touchdown through two quarters, finishing with 116 yards on a career-high 23 totes.
Most importantly, Rodgers rebounded, carrying a perfect passer rating well into the first half with 151 yards and two touchdowns through two quarters. And it could have been even more. Geronimo Allison fumbled with the Packers pressing into Vikings territory for a score that could have put the game out reach. Green Bay led 21-7 after a 75-yard Dalvin Cook burst, but maintained control of the game at the time.
But they are both that team, one capable of lighting up one of the best defenses in football, and the one who sputtered, flubbed, and whiffed most of the second half. That's the offense we saw in Week 1 without the creativity, the effectiveness, the crisp execution, and mostly importantly, the points. After starting 10-11 for 137 yards and two touchdowns, Rodgers went 8-19 for 72 yards.
After the Vikings cut the lead to 14, Allison failed to pick up the first-down on an option route on third-and-1. A play later, the Vikings stuffed the Packers on fourth down, already in field goal position, robbing Green Bay of at least three points. Green Bay could have realistically hung 30+ on Mike Zimmer's defense without its third and fourth cornerbacks due to injury.
Speaking of defense, Mike Pettine's group didn't suffocate Kirk Cousins the same way it did Mitch Trubisky, but the passing attack never really got on track outside of a 61-yarder to the son of former Packers receiver Don Beebe to set up a field goal. That play, a magician act from Cousins to avoid a sack and dump the ball off, preceded a called touchdown to Stefon Diggs, but a booth review determined Cook blocked a Packers defender (actually, it was two) in the end zone, and overturned the score. Green Bay's defense held to a field goal and took a 21-10 lead into halftime instead of 21-14.
The ferocious, disruptive, playmaking group once again showed up, harassing Kirk Cousins, blanketing receivers, and turning the ball over. Kenny Clark whipped the Vikings offensive line up and down the field, including for a first-half strip sack. Darnell Savage forced a fumble and tripped a pass that Preston Smith caught for a pick en route to forcing Cousins into the fewest first-half completions (four) of his career.
Not every week will be as dominant as Week 1, but this side of the ball showed what they did against the Bears was not a mirage. No lying eyes from the start of the season; this Green Bay defense is legitimately good. For the second straight week, they saved a critical score with an interception in the end zone, this one from Kevin King after a rough day for him.
On the other side of the coin, the Packers protected the ball extremely well against the playmaking Bears defense. Sloppy turnovers kept Minnesota in the game, allowing them to hang around when Green Bay dominated run of play for most of the day. While the Packers defense made life miserable for Cousins, he did burn them for a 45-yard touchdown to close the lead down to one score at 21-16 in the second half, but penalties struck on Minnesota a week after they shot themselves in the foot constantly with penalties. The unsportsmanlike conduct call on Diggs for taking off his helmet cost them 15 yards on the extra point try that Tony Brown eventually blocked.
Play-to-play, the Packers defense executed the gameplan, but some missed tackles and chunk plays gave Minnesota life. Penalties and off-target throws blunted what could have been an even more productive day for the Vikings offense starting in the middle of the second quarter as they started to find a rhythm Those have to get cleaned up moving forward as guys like Kevin King, Savage, Jaire Alexander and this young secondary makes progress together.
Likewise, we shouldn't be surprised the offense slowed down after a blazing start. This is a group in progress with LaFleur adjusting to Rodgers and vice versa. With the running game working, LaFleur's philosophy should be hitting fifth gear, but instead, the offense bogged down starting with the Allison fumble. When they go play-action, the offense works in harmony, punctuated by the first down the Packers picked up to help salt the game away on a boot to Davante Adams.
The run game got going. Adams found his groove. Rodgers looked more comfortable. And Green Bay's defense showed out, forcing two picks and three fumbles (recovering two). For now, that's the recipe to win games as the scheme takes root. More pass-catching need to step forward after another forgettable game from Jimmy Graham and Marquez Valdes-Scantling. Trevor Davis never saw the field and Jake Kumerow only found spot duty.
They're still figuring things out, and against a good defense, jumping out to a 21-0 lead points to progress. The offense may be high-variance for a few more weeks, potentially even all season. But with Jones, Adams, and this group of defensive playmakers, they've proven through two weeks, they can be whatever they have to be in order to win, even if it's tough to look at.