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Music connects the soul to the mind and emotions to actions. Since music has existed, people have utilized it to communicate with each other. Similarly, music is a great way to convey a person's emotions. Sometimes, listening to classical music can help you better calm down or understand your feelings.
Some people think that sad classical music will always be popular. People will always enjoy listening to it in different ways. It can make you feel romantic, happy, or relaxed. People of all ages like listening to sad violin classical music, because everyone has their own opinion about what is good.
We'll talk about some of the saddest classical compositions ever written in this blog post. These songs are sure to make you feel all of the feels. So grab a box of tissues and get ready for a roller coaster of emotions!
Rezso Seress – Gloomy Sunday
Many people think that the song is one of the most tragic songs ever written. Some people even say an urban legend is associated with the song. But you don't have to be that miserable. You can enjoy the tune and enjoy the roller coaster of life. The song has a very eerie tone, and it seems like the author was feeling depressed when he wrote it.
The songwriter became sad when their date didn't appear on a Sunday morning. They wrote about how Sundays are unpleasant in this song. The music is heartbreaking and worth a listen.
Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel
If you want something less sad, this might be a good choice. This ballad is beautiful. It has nearly all the instrumental parts. It is very well composed, and some people might say it is art. It is a blend of piano and violin that will soothe your eardrums. The virtuosic sound starts slow in the first movement. Still, it catches your attention with its beautiful melodies in its second and third movements. This song is perfect for relaxation. Spiegel Im Spiegel means Mirror in Mirror. This song was written and composed by Arvo Pärt just before he left Estonia. It has been used in many Television shows and movies.
Frédéric Chopin (Nocturnes)
If you're down and depressed and need a pick-me-up, this gem is for you. It's a cheerful classical piece with superb piano work. Frédéric Chopin was a prominent Polish composer who excelled at the piano and violin. He was a great pianist as well.
Frédéric Chopin is known for his many works of art. Some of his pieces are still famous today. Nocturnes are considered one of the best classical sad pieces of music that have ever been written.
Arie de Saint-Saens My Heart Expands When I Hear Your Voice From Samson and Delilah.
Listen to Charles-Camille Saint-Sans if you want to hear some lovely music that is also a little sad. Among his many accomplishments as a musician was the composition of several notable works. His song "Your Voice" is still one of my favorites.
The song "My heart opens itself to your voice" was originally composed without any vocals. Still, it has been given a new operatic spin with the modern era. Opera is a very famous type of art, and when combined with modern music, the result is something truly special.
GHEORGHIU & ALAGNA – La Bohème – Sonoandati?
You may have heard of the song chef-d'oeuvre. Many movies have used this music, and it's often sold as a good thing to do when you're down. The song was composed by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (a very famous composer). He originally wrote it for an opera with 4 acts. But the song became popular because of its lyrical melodies, depth, and emotion.
Edward Elgar | Serenade for Strings
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a Russian composer famous for his classical music. The majority of his work is regarded as a standard of excellence. One of his pieces, the Serenade for Strings, is a beautiful and emotional piece that evokes thoughts and feelings in people. The Orquesta version of this piece creates a trance-like atmosphere that is gentle to the ears and beautifully balanced.
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Gorecki combined the sorrow of a Holocaust victim trapped in The Gestapo. He tried to capture an 18-year-old, understanding why this was happening to her. World War 2 was brutal and cruel indeed. Gorecki beautifully captures all of the strong emotions in one masterpiece song.
Rigoletto: "V'ho ingannato" (Gavanelli, Schafer)
The song was featured in a play about 3 acts. People thought the song was a great choice when they were feeling down. The play itself was very good, and people liked it. The music played during a scene where the main character was given a bag with his enemy's dead body. Still, he found out that the bag contained his daughter's dying body.
Rigoletto's daughter was stabbed, and there was nothing he could do to save her. The music in this scene shows the unconditional and never-ending love of a father and daughter. The father and daughter sing this duet together, melting our hearts into pieces. This song was written and composed by Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (an Italian guy with a long name). Verdi was born and raised in Italy, and from there, he created beloved music that is still considered classic today.
Come, Sweet Death by J.S. Bach
The song was written and composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, a German composer well-known for his music. Johann's work has many different textures and sounds, and it's always in balance. He's famous for a lot of his work, but today we'll talk about Come, Sweet Death. It's such an interesting title that I'm sure the music is just as captivating.
Patricia Racette: Senza mamma
Opera has produced many classic songs throughout the ages. It is still providing us with great music today. Some of this music is about the holocaust and other sad things. The opera play we are talking about is a one-act play, but it is very powerful. The composer of this opera is Giacomo Puccini.
Read more: Lesson of the Day: 'The Songs That Get Us Through It'
Frequently Asked Questions about Classical Sad Song
Why Is Classical Music So Sad?
Classical music can often cause strong emotional responses in people. This can sometimes lead to tears, not just tears of sadness. People might cry because they feel relieved after a performance.
What Is a Classical Song Called?
Classical music can take many forms, such as the symphony, concerto, oratorio, opera, sonata, fugue, or any dance movements such as suites. Short tunes will be developed and changed in many longer compositions during the piece.
Why Is Violin Music Sad?
Instruments can make people feel sad because of the dark and rich tones they produce. For example, people feel sad when darker tones are tapped on a violin. Violins are often used in classical music to create more emotional responses, like sadness.
What Is a Violin Concerto Called?
Violin concertos are a type of concerto. They are for one or more violins and an orchestra. Since the Baroque period, they have been around, and people still write them today.
How Much Is a Violin Teacher?
Privately, solo violin lessons typically cost $15-35 for a half-hour. If you want to learn with a more qualified teacher, the price can go up to $40-100 per half hour. Group violin lessons usually cost around $40-100 per month. They are a good addition to private lessons, but they are not enough on their own to learn how to play the violin.
What Is an Orchestra Plays?
Orchestras play the opening melody from many different styles, including symphonies, opera and ballet overtures, and concertos for solo instruments. Orchestras may also be used as pit ensembles for operas, ballets, and some types of musical theatre.
What Is It Called When You Play the Violin?
The abbreviation for pizzicato is "pizz". But some people don't use this word because they prefer the word "fiddling." Fiddling usually refers to violin playing, which self-taught violinists often do.
What Instruments Did John Williams Learn To Play?
John Williams started playing the piano when he was six years old. By the time he finished grade school, he could play the bassoon, cello, clarinet, trombone, and trumpet. John Williams went to UCLA to study composition.
What Are Musical Expressions and Dynamics?
Dynamic markings in music tell the musician how loud or soft to play the music. Dynamic markings can be words or abbreviations of words or symbols. Expression markings are symbols that describe other modifications, such as an increase in tempo.
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What vegetable was used for jack-o'-lanterns before pumpkins?
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Originally turnips were used, because of their durable exterior. Pumpkins only became available with the discovery of the New World in the 16th century.
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What was used to make Jack-o-Lanterns before pumpkins?
Turnips were used before pumpkins to make Jack'O Lanterns.
What vegetable was originally used to make jack o lanterns?
Turnips were originally used. They were used because they looked like skeletons head. These were considered to contain (the heads) wisdom and the spirit and were stuck to the door to scare away the demons by the Celts. The Irish did it to remember Stingy Jack who wandered the earth with a turnip ...
Which vegetable was originally used to carve jack-o-lanterns?
Turnip. The tradition of carving a lantern started in the British Isles and was originally carved out of a turnip. By Gurjot Singh Sodhi
What vegetable were jack-o-lanterns carved?
Historically, people in Ireland and Scotland, carved scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away wandering evil spirits. The English used large beets. Once immigrants came to the United States they discovered that pumpkins, a fruit native t...
What type of pumpkin is used for jack o lanterns?
The Jack-O-Lantern variety is the most common for carving, but white Lumina pumpkins are a beautifully creepy choice for Halloween, too.You can essentially paint any kind of pumpkin, but you'll want to start with a bump-free canvas.
What vegetable was originally used to make a jack-o'-lantern?
Originally, root vegetables sucha s turnips, parsnips, and potatoes were used. In America, the pumpkin was used instead as time went on because it was larger and easier to carve.
What was the originally vegetable used to make jack-o-lanterns?
The tradition comes from Ireland and the original lanterns were made from Turnips or Potatoes (pumpkins began to be used once the tradition moved to america).
Why are the vegetable lanterns called jack-o'-lantern?
See the link below, and scroll down to the stories about "Jack of the lantern".
Can jack o lantern pumpkins be used for pies?
Yes! You can eat the seeds and the flesh of big pumpkins as long as they haven't been carved and sitting around.Those big pumpkins may not be as sweet as the smaller "sugar pumpkins" or "pie pumpkins", but you can still use them for everything from roasted veggies to oatmeal, to soups, loaves and...
What vegetable did Irish and Scottish children use for making jack-o'-lanterns?
Originally, they used turnips, they switched to pumpkins later.
Why are the vegetable lanterns called jack o lanterns?
cuz when jack lost his face he made a design of his face and so he could see he but a lantern so yeah
What percent of pumpkins are used as Jack O Lanterns?
Jack-o-lantern fun facts 80% of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October.Jack-o-lanterns are believed to have originated in Ireland in the 19th century.
How was Halloween celebrated before jack-o-lanterns?
Originally, turnips were used instead of pumpkins. The origin of the turnip being set out on the step began in Scotland, where Gaelic pagans would use them to ward off evil spirits during Samhain.
What vegetable were Jack o lanterns originally carved from?
The vegetable was a turnip. It was a turnip because the Celts believed that the head contained wisdom and the energy of the body. They would "headhunt" them and stick them to the doors to frighten off harmful spirits. Pumpkins are usually carved to make jack-o-lanterns.
What is the popular vegetable used to carve jack-o-lanterns during Halloween?
Pumpkins, and in some European nations, turnips.
What vegetable was traditionally carved into a jack-o'-lantern in Scotland?
The vegetable was a turnip. It was a turnip because the Celts believed that the head contained wisdom and the energy of the body. They would "headhunt" them and stick them to the doors to frighten off harmful spirits.
What was not used to make jack o' lanterns?
Many things were not Jack-o-lanterns. Anything that isn't a pumpkin, turnip, or rutabaga was not used to make jack-o-lanterns. There is not a lot of other material to make one with either.
Can you eat pumpkin after using jack o lantern?
Pumpkins and Jack 'o Lanterns – Edible or Not? Yes! You can eat the seeds and the flesh of big pumpkins as long as they haven't been carved and sitting around.
When the immigrants came to America what vegetables did they use to make jack-o-lanterns?
Originally, the Irish and English would carve scary faces on turnips, beets and potatoes and place them in windows to frighten wandering evil spirits on Halloween. When they immigrated to America, they started carving pumpkins (a fruit native to America) and found they were much better suited ...
What is a popular vegetable used to carve jack-o-lanterns during halloween?
Pumpkins and squash are most common, but they are fruits.
What was the first jack-o-lantern?
In America, the tradition of pumpkin carving began in 1834. It was associated with the harvest season in general, not Halloween when it began.
What are Jack-o-lanterns used for on Halloween?
Jack-o-lanterns were put out in the old days to ward off evil forces, such as demons and vampires, partially because of the face they have is quite terrifying, and also it is said that vampires dislike pumpkin even more than garlic. Now they are just used for decoration during the measly candy co...
Why are pumpkins called Jack o Lanterns?
Why Carved Pumpkins Are Called "Jack O' Lanterns" The name "Jack O' Lantern" was originally one of the numerous names given to ignis fatuus (Medieval Latin for "foolish fire"), another of which is "Will O' the Wisps", basically the odd light that can occasionally be seen over marshes, swamps, and...
What was used before Jack O'Lanterns before pumpkins?
The Irish immigrants quickly discovered that Pumpkins were bigger and easier to carve out.So they used pumpkins for Jack O'Lanterns.Other Tales of Stingy Jack: JACK-of-the-TURNIP According to legend, the Turnip was the predecessor of the Halloween pumpkin.
What celebration uses jack o lanterns?
Halloween, hence your category. That's it.
Can you eat jack o lantern pumpkins?
What are jack o lanterns used for in Minecraft?
Jack-o-lanterns are meant as decoration, but they can also be used to create snow golems and iron golems, instead of pumpkins.
What were the lights of jack o lanterns used for?
to light up a special dark place
Why are Jack O '- lanterns called jack o '- lanterns?
Who are jack-o'-lanterns named for? By the mid-1800s, what was called a turnip lantern became known as a jack-o'-lantern.Young boys used these hollowed-out and lit-up gourds to spook people.Irish legend has it that this use of jack-o'-lantern was named after a fellow named Stingy Jack.
When was the jack o lantern invented?
The term jack-o'-lantern has been used in American English to describe a lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin since the 19th century, but the term originated in 17th-century Britain, where it was used to refer to a man with a lantern or to a night watchman.
What does Jack O Lantern stand for?
to warn off spirits Homie
What type of lantern was used before a pumpkin?
So they used pumpkins for Jack O'Lanterns.Other Tales of Stingy Jack: JACK-of-the-TURNIP According to legend, the Turnip was the predecessor of the Halloween pumpkin.
When was Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern created?
Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern was created in 1908.
What percent of pumpkins become jack o lanterns?
65% of pumpkins are used by people to make Jack-O-Laterns.
Why are Jack o' Lanterns made out of pumpkins?
Who was jack in the name jack-o'-lanterns?
It comes from an Irish legend about Stingy Jack. Stingy Jack went drinking with the devil. He convinced the devil to turn himself into a coin so they could have some alcohol. The devil did. Then stingy Jack put a silver cross next to the coin so the devil could not turn back. Finally he agreed to...
What were the first jack o lanterns used to scare?
kids with down syndrome
Why did people first carve pumpkins into jack o lanterns?
There are theories why the first people carved pumpkins. One, is the man teased the devil into a tree so he couldn't get out. When the man died the devil cursed his soul to walk the earth with a gourd lantern. Which then people started carving the pumpkins instead of gourds. Another is, people ca...
Why do they call carved pumpkins jack o lanterns?
A jack-o'-lantern (or jack o'lantern) is a carved pumpkin, turnip, or other root vegetable lantern associated with Halloween.Its name comes from the phenomenon of a strange light flickering over peat bogs, called will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern.
What percentages of pumpkins are used to make Jack-O-Lanterns?
Pumpkins are great for pumpkin pies, but that's not their main usage. It is estimated that 99 percent of the pumpkins grown in the US are used to make Jack-O-Lanterns.
What uses do pumpkins have besides making them into jack o lanterns?
pumpkin pie pumpkin bread
What was the first jack o lantern carved from?
The original jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips, potatoes or beets.
Why is a carved pumpkin called a jack-o'-lantern?
The lamp is called a "jack-o'-lantern" or "jack of the lantern" because the term was already used for the mysterious light phenomenon also known as a "will-o'-the-wisp" (swamp gas or bioluminescent gas known as ignes fatuus). The origin of the name may be the legend of Stingy Jack, a lazy thief w...
Why do we call carved pumpkins jack o lanterns?
Why are carved pumpkins called Jack o Lanterns?
What root vegetable were some of the original jack o lanterns made from?
On all Hallow's eve, the Irish hollowed out Turnips, rutabagas, gourds, potatoes and beets.They placed a light in them to ward off evil spirits and keep Stingy Jack away.These were the original Jack O'Lanterns.In the 1800's a couple of waves of Irish immigrants came to America.
What was the original purpose of Jack-O-Lanterns?
To scare away beasts - like gargoyles.
Why do people call pumpkins jack o lanterns?
History.com has the story: The practice of carving Jack o Lanterns originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed "Stingy Jack." According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced ...
What is Jack o lanterns?
Jack-o-Lanterns are pumpkins that have the pulp and seeds removed from the inside, and are carved into different designs and faces. Usually, a candle is placed inside of them so it will glow in the night. Jack-o-Lanterns are primarily used for Halloween decor and celebration.
Can you eat the pumpkin that you have used to make your Jack-o'-lantern?
Answer Yes! You need to cook it though. You could use it in a curry or a soup too. I always toast the seeds and sprinkle them in salad. The "meat" can also be used in pumpkin bread, cookies, cakes. I don't think that's sucha good idea, the pumpkin has been sitting out all day and accumulates ...
What country uses turnips as Jack-o-Lanterns?
Ireland and other northern-European countries used to.
What is used to light a jack-o'-lantern?
Candles are used to light jack-o'lantern.
What was the first jack-o'-lantern carved from?
They were carved out of turnips.
Why is a carved pumpkin called a jack o lantern?
What do they carve in Ireland for Jack O Lanterns?
Ireland used Turnips as "Jack "O" Lanterns"
What did Celtics originally use as jack o lanterns?
The original jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips, potatoes or beets.In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wanderin...
What did the Irish use as Jack-O-Lanterns?
Turnips, or mangold roots (mangelwurzel, related to beets).
What did immigrants use to make a jack-o'-lanterns?
What did the Irish use for jack o'lanterns before pumpkins?
Turnips, mangelwurzel (field beets), or large beets.
What vegetable other than pumpkins have people used to carve as lanterns for Halloween?
squash and any other large hard vegy
When were pumpkins first used as jack-o'-lanterns in the US?
The 1600's when the first Irish immigrants came.
Who invented jack o lanterns?
The Irish brought the tradition of carving pumpkins into Jack O'Lantern to America.But, the original Jack O'Lantern was not a pumpkin.Pumpkins did not exist in Ireland.Ancient Celtic cultures in Ireland carved turnips on All Hallow's Eve, and placed an ember in them, to ward off evil spirits.
When was the first jack-o'-lantern created?
There is no way to tell for certain, but the practice in its holiday context dates back at least 700 years. The Irish carve other vegetables, such as beets and turnips. Pumpkins originated in the United States, originally as a part of harvest celebration and Thanksgiving.
Why was the jack-o'-lantern afraid of the candle?
becase didnt have any guts
What are jack o '- lanterns named after?
Irish legend has it that this use of jack-o'-lantern was named after a fellow named Stingy Jack.Stingy Jack thought he had tricked the devil, but the devil had the last laugh, condemning Jack to an eternity of wandering the planet with only an ember of hellfire for light.
What do jack o lanterns symbolize?
Jack-o'-lanterns were also made at Halloween time in Somerset (see Punkie Night) during the 19th century.By those who made them, the lanterns were said to represent either spirits or supernatural beings, or were used to ward off evil spirits.
What keeps jack o lanterns fresh?
Rub the carved or cut surfaces with petroleum jelly or vegetable oil cooking spray.This will keep out new bacteria and molds and help prevent your jack-o'-lantern from dehydrating.Keep your pumpkin out of direct sunlight and keep it as cool as possible – but above freezing.
What country started the jack o lantern?
What is the Jack o lantern mushroom?
the jack lantern is when you cut the pumpkin and take all the things in it and put the light in it that called jack o lantern
What does jack-o'-lanterns look like?
a carved out pumpkin face like a pumpkin
What is the myth for carving Jack O Lanterns?
Because people once believed that on Halloween, ghosts of the dead returned to earth, they would carve scary faces into potatoes, turnips and beets and place them in their windows to ward off evil spirits.
How was the jack-o'-lantern introduced to America?
The Irish carried the Hallow's Eve tradition with them. They would originally carve out squash-like vegetables and make lanterns out of them. The only squash-like ones they had in America were pumpkins. A native (of America) saw them and called it a Jack O' Lantern. Then it stuck.
What does the o mean in Jack-o'-lantern?
AnswerIt's short for 'Of' as in Jack Of The Lantern or Jack Of Lantern,
What does the O in jack o lantern mean?
The term jack-o'-lantern has been used in American English to describe a lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin since the 19th century, but the term originated in 17th-century Britain, where it was used to refer to a man with a lantern or to a night watchman.We know where 'jack-o'-lantern' come...
What do you do before you start carving your jack-o'-lantern?
You would prep the area. Put down newspaper or some other disposable cover. Put out bowls and a scoop. Wash the outside of your pumpkin with a sponge and water to get off any crust or dirt. Towel dry the pumpkin, and set it on your prepped area. You can go ahead and cut out the area around the st...
What is another name for a jack o lantern?
A poisonous luminescent orange fungus, Omphalotus olearius, is commonly known as the jack-o'-lantern mushroom!
What did the people from Ireland and Scotland use for jack-o-lantern?
See the Wikipedia article: Jack-o'-lantern for details.
What are some cool designs for jack o lanterns?
There are many good patterns for Jack O- Lantern patterns and here are some of them, an original pattern is good such as a spiral or a smile face. But something a little more original is a cat or a zombie... Etc.
What is a another name for a jack-o'-lanterns?
no there is not another name
Who is jack in jack o lantern?
This is an old tale that should explain things (from pumkinnook.com) "Stingy Jack was a miserable, old drunk who liked to play tricks on everyone: family, friends, his mother and even the Devil himself. One day, he tricked the Devil into climbing up an apple tree. Once the Devil climbed up the ap...
What vegetable is carved for Halloween before the pumpkin?
Pumpkin carving, it is perhaps the biggest tradition of Halloween.But, pumpkins were not the first vegetable to be carved.Long before pumpkin carving became popular, Celtic people in Ireland were carving turnips and lighting them with embers, to ward off evil spirits.
What does a Jack-o-Lantern symbolize?
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What do jack o lanterns scare away?
Demons and dead souls.
What country are jack o lanterns from?
I think they are from china? or stuff like tht
What does Jack o lantern mean?
jack was a man that was a prankster that played a joke on the devil he said to climb a tree and he got stuck but the devil got the last laugh jack was doomed to roam the earth forever with only a little tunnip lantern and pumpkins were more populated in fall so that why we have jack o lanterns bu...
History of Jack o lantern?
A guy named Jack was tanting the devil
Where did the use of jack 'o lanterns originate from?
To the best of my knowledge, basically, in the very old days, people would use turnips (used in Ireland and Scotland), potatoes, etc., to carve spooky faces in and supposedly scare off evil spirits. North American immigrants then realized pumpkins would do the job even better, as they are softer,...
What were jack o lanterns original purpose?
To scare evil spirits.
What country did Jack o Lanterns start?
The Celts would carve lanterns from turnips or rutabagas in the shape of skulls which they believed would ward off evil spirits. The Iritsh, Welsh, and British would carve turnips and nail them onto their doors or bring them to fires to hear their wisdom.
What were the first jack o lanterns?
Jack put the piece of coal in to a carved-out turnip to make a lantern to light his way.The Irish called this ghost "Jack of the Lantern," or "Jack o'Lantern." To ward off Stingy Jack and other malicious spirits, the Irish would carve their own jack-o'-lanterns made from turnips, beets, and potat...
What year did jack o lanterns start?
The term jack-o'-lantern was originally used to describe the visual phenomenon ignis fatuus (lit., "foolish fire") known as a will-o'-the-wisp in English folklore.Used especially in East England, its earliest known use dates to the 1660s.
What do Jack-O-Lanterns represent?
The tradition of carving pumpkins originated from an Irish legend of Stingy Jack, doomed to wander endlessly through dark nights with only a burning coal in a turnip that had been hollowed out for light. People would carve scary faces into turnips and place them in their windows to keep "Jack of ...
What did the Jack-o-lantern do?
When the first Jack o lanterns were made, they were meant to scare away demons and vampires.
What happen to Jack of jack-o-lantern fame?
The term Jack-O-Lantern is not a person nor was a person. The term Jack-O-Lantern was originally used to describe the unusual phenomenon ignis fatuus or "foolish fire" known as a will-o'-the-wisp in English folklore. This was used especially in East England, its earliest known use dates is circa ...
What do jack o lanterns represent?
What does the jack o lantern symbolize?
What is a jack-o'-lantern?
A Jack-o-Lantern is a pumpkin that has been hollowed out and has had something carved into it. A candle is generally placed inside to create a glow. This causes an implied object. Coolmusic answer: A jac -o-lantern is a punkin and has been hollowed out and has been carved or is ready to carve the...
What are facts about jack o lanterns?
There are plenty of Jack o Lantern facts you could learn. You could learn that Jack o Lantern making is a popular activity in the United States.
Why are they called Jack o Lanterns?
Why do they make Jack O' lanterns?
To scare off vampires.
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M(Adam) Butterfly: A Brief Introduction
The gist: Life really does imitate art, in case you thought that was a fake thing. Also, Weezer!
Generally, I know next to nothing about opera. I can talk books and movies and TV and music and games and even certain kinds of live performance, to a degree, but I just don't know opera, have never been taught opera and, indeed, have never watched an opera, at least in the strictest sense of the term. I mean, I attended one, but I was blindfolded so I couldn't watch it. What a weird birthday.
Just recently, however, I wikistumbled into limited knowledge about the opera Madame Butterfly. It happened as a result of running late to work. When Morning Becomes Eclectic starts in, I know I'm my computer monitor is conspicuously blank. On this particular slow-moving morning, I was behind enough that I heard all of the show's first song, a strange blend of operatic singing, spoken word and that very 80s variety of pop that sounds familiar even if you haven't heard it before. The song, it turns out, was an experimental piece by Malcolm McLaren, a guy I know primarily for managing The Sex Pistols and being responsible for that downtempo remix of "She's Not There" that plays during the Mexican hotel scene at the end of Kill Bill, Vol. Two. That song I like. This opera-influenced one I can't recommend, exactly, but it's enough of a curiosity that music buffs should want to give it a spin, just for the "This exists?" factor.
It's a riff of the Madame Butterfly story, complete with the more famous parts of Puccini's opera. Not knowing the story, I looked it up. Here's a quick synopsis, via Wikipedia:
In 1904, an American navy man, Pinkerton, marries a Japanese woman — Cio-Cio San, nicknamed Butterfly — while he's staying in Nagasaki. She converts from Buddhism to Christianity for him. However, he leaves and does not return for years. Butterfly insists that Pinkerton will come back to both her and the son she bore in his absence. When Pinkerton does return to Japan, Butterfly spots his ship and spends the entire night waiting for him. Pinkerton eventually arrives at Butterfly's house, but he brings the new wife and the news that he intends to collect his son. Butterfly, heartbroken, apologizes to Buddha and then kills herself.
Very sad stuff, of course — it is a tragic opera, after all — and there's something particularly moving in the image of the woman waiting up all night, thinking that the person she loves will come running back to her at any moment, when everybody but her knows that he will not.
Now, knowing that Madame Butterfly is also called Madama Butterfly, I assumed that M. Butterfly — a play that became a movie that I know mostly by virtue of it being one of the only major David Cronenberg-directed work that I haven't seen — must be yet another version of the same story. It is not. M. Butterfly is, in fact, a separate but related work inspired by the opera.
Here is another quick synopsis:
Rene Gallimard works in the French embassy in China, where he falls in love with a beautiful opera singer, Song Liling, not realizing that the Beijing opera casts men in all the roles. Song does not explain this to Gallimard, and they fall in love anyway. Ultimately, Song comes with Gallimard back to France, where Song's true gender is revealed. Gallimard is jailed and then commits harakiri.
You can draw parallels easily — the enmeshing of orientalism with occidentalism, trans-Eurasian love, deception leading to suicide. But here's the thing: M. Butterfly is also based on real events.
A third quick synopsis:
In 1964, Bernard Bouriscot was a 20-year-old employed at the French embassy in China. Finally out of school and off in a foreign land, he sought to fall in love with a woman, having previously only experienced sex with other men. He met Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese opera singer who told him that he was a woman dressing and posing as a man. The two fell in love, allegedly only having sex in the dark so that Bouriscot believed Shi was female and shy-in-a-Chinese-way about her body. At some point, he began giving Shi the kind of documents you're not supposed to give to other countries. Shi, meanwhile produced a boy — actually purchased the kid, but whatever — and claimed it was Bouriscot's. Finally, 20 years into the affair, Shi was found out when Bouriscot attempted to bring him to France to live as his wife. The couple's treason was revealed and, during the subsequent trial, so was the truth of Shi's biological gender. Bouriscot slit his own throat. He survived. Shi remained in Paris, working as an opera singer. The two had no contact with each other in their remaining years, and their son grew up in France.
Bouriscot is still alive. Shi, pictured below, died in 2009.
Bouriscot once commented, "When I believed it, it was a beautiful story." And it is, in its own strange way. In fact, the strangeness of it all may actually make it especially beautiful, even if these quirks ultimately caused the story to end. In my estimation, of the three stories I've told in this post, the one that actually happened is the best. Beneath the political and anatomical levels lies a story about two people who felt something so profound that it eclipsed every limitation imposed on it. I'm fascinated how roles swap and shift between Madame Butterfly, M. Butterfly and the real-life events that occurred between the two works — who's deceiving whom, who's exhibiting that constant, unbreakable type of love that should elicit both admiration and pity in anyone observing it. And I'm awed that such a similar story could play out three times, over the course of a century, in such an observable way.
There's a bit more to be done with the story, a few more cultural connections to make, as if the story didn't already pull enough together. For example, I can't say whether David Henry Hwang, the author of M. Butterfly, did this intentionally, but what his play lacks and what Madame Butterfly has, on a phonetic level, is Adam, a name that effectively means "man." The notion of masculinity being hidden, even in the title, even on the phonetic level, is too enticing for me not to mention.
The other link I can make between this swirling mass of Madame Butterfly-ness is one that people with my taste in music probably made when they hit the fifth paragraph: Weezer's second album, Pinkerton. I'd always thought that the title referenced the detectives or at least was a color-coded entry between The Blue Album and The Green Album. But in thinking all this over, I realized the title had to have come from the opera. I mean, come on — "Across the Sea"? "El Scorcho"? The cover art?
Here is that cover art, by the way: "Night Snow at Kambara," in its original cropping:
Of course, the very plausible connection between Pinkerton and Madame Butterfly was noted by better-educated Weezer fans years ago and is plainly stated on the album's Wikipedia page. But it's a good connection to note, and I just want to say that I thought of it on my own, and it was that kind of "Oh, that's what that is" moments that I don't have often enough anymore.
Oh, and regarding the Malcolm McLaren video? No, I don't know why it has a bunch of white ladies in flesh-toned one-pieces bathing together in a seductive manner. I can't connect all the dots.
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KJ 10:09 AM
This finally explains a very confusing moment from my adolescence, watching what must have been M. Butterfly on PBS and thinking "This is NOT what I thought this opera was about!!!"
Love the "lacking Adam" connection, great thought.
Godaigamer 9:38 PM
Very nice post and interesting read!
I'll just add a bit of my beloved Japanese trivia by saying that if Cio-cio san looks like the Italian transliteration of "chou chou san" which basically translates to "Madam Butterfly." Nice to see Puccini did his homework!
Nora 7:05 PM
It's been three days since you posted this entry, which I read with much interest. I even clicked the Pinkerton link to Wikipedia and came away having learned even more.
Then I moved on down your blog. In the course of writing my comment on the Claudine Longet entry, I needed to pop over to Wikipedia again, this time to the front page...where I discovered that Pinkerton was today's featured article.
Tell me that's not spooky.
Drew Mackie 4:40 PM
KJ: Yeah, I had a similar experience, but that was confusing M. Butterfly and the similarly gay Kiss of the Spiderwoman.
Godaigamer: Nice note. I love it when translation from one language to another makes something barely recognizable. And I love it even more when someone points out there little connections.
Nora: I saw that, actually. Yeah, what are the odds?
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Quality Professional Products was founded by Ron Cook II and father Fred Cook in 2007 to service their own funeral homes located in Western Michigan. It was their desire to lower their casket cost and increase their profit margins while offering better casket values to the families they serve. In this changing industry they saw alternative ways to purchase caskets which led to the birth of QPP. Today Ron Cook II is the owner of QPP and five funeral homes. His vision for QPP is to help other funeral homes improve their gross profits by providing them with superior casket values and service. Ron began his career in the family funeral business after graduating from Grand Valley State University with a business degree. He resides in Western Michigan with his wife and 4 children and is an avid sportsman.
Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver began with QPP in the spring of 2009. Prior to assuming the role of President in 2016 he focused on improving QPP's product offering, increasing sales and building relationships with funeral home owners in Western Michigan. Prior to his arrival at QPP Jeff spent 33 years in the furniture industry where he held numerous positions with the companies he served including National Sales Manager, VP Sales & Marketing, Manager of Product Development and Purchasing Manager. Jeff holds a graduate degree in business from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY and an under graduate degree from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. Jeff enjoys spending time with family and friends, golf, skiing and antique cars. He resides in Western Michigan with his wife, five sons and six grandchildren.
Mike Schermer
Mike Schermer joined the QPP team in the spring of 2012. He has focused on improving QPP's operations in the areas of customer service, delivery, inventory management, warehousing and internal processes. Prior to joining QPP Mike spent 36 years in the furniture industry holding positions such as Systems Analyst, Master Scheduler, Sales Forecast Analyst, Manufacturing Manager, Project Manager and Director of Operations. Mike is well versed in international business and importing. Mike enjoys spending time with family, skeet shooting and golf. He resides in Western Michigan with his wife, four daughters and five grandchildren.
Jeff Cox
Western Michigan and Northern Indiana Sales Representative
Jeff was born and raised in High Point, NC. After graduating from Appalachian State University in 1984 he began a long sales related career supplying the high-end furniture industry with inlaid plywood, architectural plywood, fancy faced veneer and other wood related products. He went on to be co-owner of a plywood manufacturer in Southern Indiana. He sold his shares in this company in 2014 and started his career with QPP in 2016. Jeff loves spending time with family and resides in Western Michigan with his wife. He has one son, two daughters and three grandchildren.
Email: jcox@qppllc.com
Tom Zupko
Ohio Sales Representative
Tom was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. He attended Olivet College before graduating from Wayne State University School of Mortuary Science in 1987. He has spent most of his career dedicated to the pre-need area in funeral service. This has afforded him keen insights toward the impact of the casket cost, both at point of sale and claim.
Most notably, Tom worked ten years as a Senior Account Executive for Assurant Pre-need and seven years as a Regional Vice President for National Guardian Life where he traveled extensively. This gave him a unique view of funeral services across many demographics. Tom lives in Livonia, Michigan and has two sons, Dylan and Ethan. He is a member of St. Aidan Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus #3292.
Email: tzupko@qppllc.com
Johnny Lynch
Eastern Michigan Sales Representative
Johnny was born and raised in Flushing, Michigan. After attending Barry University, he spent 13 years as an Orthopedic Technician at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Michigan. Concurrently, he worked for Covell Funeral Homes as a Funeral Director Assistant. Johnny joined Thompson Surgical Instruments in 2001 as an International Sales Manager where he traveled extensively working with medical personnel and building strong business relationships. Johnny was also a Store Manager at a family owned business franchise store, Art Van Furniture in Owosso, Michigan. He was one of 16 children and has a daughter, Caitlin, who lives in Traverse City, Michigan. Johnny is an avid outdoorsman and loves to spend time attending his niece's and nephew's sporting events.
Email: jlynch@qppllc.com
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College Drug and Alcohol Statistics
Recreational Alcohol use
Illicit Drug use on College Campuses
Performance Enhancing
Addressing Substance use Disorders
College is a stressful time in the life of a young adult. Many students pay their way, taking out hefty loans to get their education. On top of that, they may feel pressure from their parents and peers to perform well in school. All this occurs during a time when adolescent brains are still developing, and a new level of freedom and responsibility is thrust upon them. Blowing off steam is a big part of the college experience. Unfortunately, this often leads to the use of drugs and alcohol.
The expectation to perform well academically isn't the only way college students feel pressure. In the United States, college is seen as a time when young adults need to experiment, flex their newfound independence, and try new things.
Alcohol is often lumped into that experience, and binge drinking may be seen as a rite of passage on many campuses. Many college students are exposed to a high degree of drug availability on college campuses and may be exposed to more substances than they were at home. High drug availability is a significant risk factor for substance use disorders.
Learn more about the scope of alcohol and drug use on college campuses.
Recreational drug use is common among all adult age demographics, but it often begins with college-aged young adults. Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive substance for its perceived pleasurable effects.
Alcohol and marijuana are the most common recreational substances in the U.S., especially among young adults. Though both substances are illegal for college students under age 21 to use recreationally (in states where recreational marijuana is legalized), they are fairly easy to obtain. Alcohol, in particular, is associated with severe, immediate consequences, including alcohol poisoning and auto accidents.
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), around 55 percent of college students drank in the past month before a 2018 national survey. About a third of students engaged in binge drinking. Binge drinking involves drinking more than three drinks for women and four drinks for men in two hours.
Not all students who binge drink develop an addiction, but about 20 percent of college students have alcohol use disorder (AUD), a serious disease that can lead to long-term alcohol dependence, health issues, strained relationships, and financial issues. Early exposure to alcohol may increase a person's likelihood of developing a substance use disorder at some point in their lifetime.
Alcohol can lead to other consequences besides substance use disorders or alcohol poisoning. NIAAA reports around 1,825 college students between ages 18 and 24 die in alcohol-related car accidents and other injuries each year.
Alcohol also seems to increase instances of assault and sexual assault among college students. Each year, 696,000 students are assaulted by other students, and 97,000 students are sexually assaulted in alcohol-related situations. Binge drinking is also associated with higher instances of unsafe sex, suicidal actions, crime, and injuries.
Though alcohol is the most common substance to be used recreationally, it's not the only drug of choice among college students. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in states where recreational marijuana use isn't legal. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 703,759 full-time college students used marijuana on an average day in 2012.
After marijuana, opioids are among the easiest illicit drugs to access in the country. Heroin and other opioids have been driving addiction and overdose rates up in the past few years. In 2013, around 5.4 percent of college students misused prescription opioids. Five years later, in 2018, there was a significant drop, and only 2.7 percent of students reported prescription misuse.
According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 0.5 percent of people between ages 18 and 25 reported using heroin in the past year. That accounts for about 157,000 college-aged people. In the same age group, around 0.8 percent, or 273,000 people reported past-year methamphetamine use. An even higher percentage of this age group reported using inhalants like volatile solvents, aerosols, and gases. Around 1.5 percent or 495,000 college-aged people used this category of drugs.
One of the most misused drugs in the college-age group is benzodiazepines (benzos), a central nervous system depressant. Benzos are sleep medications that can cause similar effects to alcohol when they're misused. Some users combine benzos with alcohol or opioids for more intense but extremely dangerous effects. Mixing in this way can quickly lead to respiratory depression and death.
Benzos may also be used to counteract some of the uncomfortable effects of amphetamines or other stimulants, but that, too, can be dangerous. Around 4.5 percent or 1.5 million people reported misusing benzos in the past year of the survey.
Stimulants like cocaine are also popular; 874,000 people over age 12 started cocaine use in 2018, and 616,000 of these people were in the college-age range.
Not all substance misuse on a college campus is done for recreational purposes. Amphetamines are often used to enhance academic performance. Amphetamine drugs are used for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and they may be easy to obtain on a college campus. Students use the drugs because they believe it will help them study and retain more information.
Stimulants can help increase wakefulness, which may be useful during all-night study sessions. Drug use may come as a result of academic pressure, especially if a student is competing with classmates who they believe are also taking stimulant drugs.
The misuse of amphetamines can result in substance use problems, anxiety, insomnia, and physical and psychological issues related to sleeplessness. In some cases, misusing stimulants can cause dangerous heart-related issues. In the 18 to 25 age group, about 2.2 million people reported misusing prescription stimulants in the past year in 2018.
Not every student who misuses drugs or alcohol will become dependent. However, drug misuse increases your risk factors for developing a substance use disorder. Around 2.6 million college-aged young adults had a substance use disorder related to illicit drugs in 2018, while 3.4 million had AUD.
Early exposure to drugs and alcohol can lead to a substance use disorder later in life. Addiction is a chronic disease that can take over several aspects of your life, including your health, relationships, and finances. Young adults that misuse drugs or alcohol may need early intervention services, which is the lowest level of care in addiction treatment. This level may involve education about the risks of alcohol and exploring any co-occurring issues like anxiety or depression that may be related to substance misuse.
A more severe substance use problem may require the full continuum of care in addiction treatment involving detox, inpatient, or outpatient services. Addiction treatment addresses multiple needs that may be related to addiction. Effective addiction treatment will also be personalized to your individual needs and may involve a variety of treatment options, including behavioral therapies, group therapy, family therapy, and individual therapy.
Signs of Substance Use in College Students
Written by: Joseph Raspolich
About Joseph Raspolich: Joe is a writer for the Palm Beach Institute and has dedicated his career to creating well-researched content so that those that are in search of treatment can find the help they need.
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Lipari, R. N., Ph.D., & Jean-Francois, B., Ph.D. (2016, May). A DAY IN THE LIFE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS AGED 18 TO 22: SUBSTANCE USE FACTS. from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2361/ShortReport-2361.html
National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2020, October 01). Drug and Alcohol Use in College-Age Adults in 2018. from https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/infographics/drug-alcohol-use-in-college-age-adults-in-2018
National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2020, April 13). What are inhalants? from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/inhalants/what-are-inhalants
NIAAA. (2020, February 10). College Drinking. from https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/college-drinking
SAMHSA. (2018). Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States. from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/cbhsq-reports/NSDUHNationalFindingsReport2018/NSDUHNationalFindingsReport2018.pdf
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WELCOME TO BLOCKMAN LINK!
The Blockman Link website aims to provide you with comprehensive coverage of the Combination Warrior Blockman toyline marketed by Takara in 1984, and released internationally as Robotech Robolinks and Robotech Changers.
If you are looking for the history of Blockman as well as seeking help identifying products or parts, then you are in the right place! I hope that you enjoy the site!
Who or What is Blockman?
Blockman (or ブロックマン)was a line of modular robot construction toys marketed by Japanese toy company Takara in 1984 and 1985.
All Blockman sets came with one or more robots that were able to tessellate together using a 5mm peg system. The robots were made predominantly of plastic, with a metal torso plate. Each Blockman robot featured four pegs and ten holes to facilitate different combination configurations.
Two moulds of Blockman robot were released: the light type (officially denoted CD-1-R, although it should really be CD-1-L) and the heavy type (CD-1-H). Although slightly different in appearance, there were no functional differences (e.g., in unit size or peg and hole configuration) between the two types. The "CD" in the official codes presumably stands for "combination droid". Light-type and heavy-type Blockman robots were available in a wide range of colours.
Blockman sets also came with accessories (typically packaged on sprues) that together with the Blockman robots allowed you to build a range of vehicles, spacecraft, super-robots, and even dinosaurs.
Check out this Japanese television commercial from 1984 to quickly familiarise yourself with the wonder that is Blockman (a massive thank-you to YouTube user 銀河宇宙太 for uploading this!):
International Acclaim
The original line, Combination Warrior Blockman, was released in Japan in 1984 and 1985. The 1984 assortment consisted of 12 individual sets, with the six smaller sets available in two different colour variations each (increasing the total to 18 sets). Three giftsets, collecting the small, intermediate, and large sets, were also released in December 1984.
In 1985, Japan saw the three intermediate and three large sets rereleased in new colours and with individual box-art rather than stock photography. Two large dinosaur sets were also released.
Japan's Combination Warrior Blockman releases had their packaging translated for multilingual English/Suomi releases in Finland. These releases are quite rare so there is little concrete information on them. However, the presence of box-art means that the Finnish releases presumably took place in 1985, or in both 1984 and 1985. It is possible that Finnish Blockman releases were exclusive to a specific store, as is known to have occurred with other contemporary Takara products.
Combination Warrior Blockman was also released in Korea by Samsung Plastic Toy Co. (presumably a branch of the very same Samsung known today for its mobile phones). Similar to the Finnish releases, Korean Blockman sets are quite rare, and I am currently unsure whether they were produced and marketed under license, or are actually knock-offs infringing on copyright. Unlike the Finnish releases, their packaging is not simply the Japanese design with translated text.
Blockman was marketed in the USA in 1985 by Ceji-Revell as Robotech Robolinks. Most of the Japanese 1984 releases were available, along with two large sets that were planned for Japan but never saw release there. As well as being available in the USA, Robotech Robolinks were also available from certain stores in Australia.
Blockman was also produced and marketed in France in 1985 by Ceji-Revell/Joustra. The French sets were released as Robotech Changers (not to be confused with a variety of model sets that were also released internationally as Robotech Changers). The range was similar to Robotech Robolinks in the USA, but included three "new" sets (consisting of a piecemeal assortment of parts from other sets). Notably, two of the large Japanese giftsets were also released. It is likely that Robotech Changers were also available in other parts of mainland Europe, and they may have seen limited release in Britain.
Tracking the correspondence between internationally released Blockman sets can be really confusing, so I've made the table below to help out.
Unlicensed Gumball Releases
In the USA, Blockman designs were miniaturised to create gumball machine premiums (presumably packaged in small plastic eggs). Each gumball Blockman came with its own little instruction sheet. The instruction sheet displays the brand name "Robolinks", although these were not a licensed spin-off from Robotech Robolinks.
The miniaturised Blockman robots are made entirely of plastic, with articulated limbs. Although not intended for this purpose, the limbs can be removed and replaced (which isn't really feasible on a proper Blockman robot). Gumball Blockman robots were available in white or yellow, and in both light-type or heavy-type moulds.
All of the smaller single-Blockman armour and vehicle sets (the Japanese A series) appear to be represented in gumball Blockman form, with the accessories coming in a few different colour variations (e.g., red, purple, turquoise-green). The gumball Blockman cockpit windshields were made of clear translucent plastic.
I've yet to meet anybody with a comprehensive set of gumball Blockman, so if you've collected a lot of these please get in touch via email or through the Blockman Link Facebook group. Although technically a knock-off product, gumball Blockman are pretty cool!
Comments and Questions?
If this website leaves you with any unanswered questions (or you're able to answer some of my unanswered questions!), please don't hesitate to get in touch via email (watermarked on all of the photographs) or through the Blockman Link Facebook group.
This website is for information purposes rather than as a trading post, but I'm always looking to expand my Blockman collection, so feel free to get in touch if you've got anything for sale!


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Giant signs proclaim high prices
Rob McKinley
1.35, 1.19, 1.24, 1.17 (plus GST).
Those are just some of the swings in prices for regular fuel seen across the Lakeland today. Some are even being seen across the street from each other.
It makes little sense. Why are Lac La Biche fuel stations constantly selling fuel at the highest prices? How can fuel stations operating across the street from each other in Bonnyville today have prices up to 11 cents per litre different than each other? Heck the two Petro-Canada stations in Bonnyville today are selling fuel at different prices. How is that justified?
It's frustrating for customers. And because these giant price discrepancies are mounted on giant 40-foot banners along our rural Main Streets — it's a giant-sized embarrassment for our communities. The signs may as well be saying, "Welcome — we are going to gouge you." Visitors to our community will likely think every purchase they may make in our little communities is tainted with the same, unexplained surcharge. Even locals notice the un-checked pricing, and often travel to larger centres for better deals — ironically, fuelling up at better prices while they are at it.
But before fuel retailers and their pump-pals get riled up about their challenges and industry costs and staffing costs, lighting, maintenance ... this isn't about private business not being able to make a buck — it's about the mystery behind how much is being made.
Grudgingly, we should expect slightly higher fuel prices in rural Alberta than the tighter markets in larger cities. That's simply a Business 101 formula where more competition means (or is supposed to mean) more attractive pricing, and lower product transport costs mean lower retail pricing. No, it's not the prices that are infuriating— it's the random nature of that pricing. In no other retail category are there daily — and unexplained — price swings at these levels. Consumers know that even with the rising prices of groceries, there is some semblance of reason to current price tags — even on heads of lettuce. A pair of shoes, a hockey stick or a hair cut doesn't go up in price 30 per cent on a Thursday, another 10 per cent on the following Sunday and then drop 15 per cent on Monday.
But we are told to simply accept those price swings when it comes to the fuel pumps. And worse yet, we're not told why, or how those head-shaking differences in price from one gas station to the next are formulated.
Over the last six months, the cost-per-barrel of WTI crude oil has dropped more than 35 per cent in value, trading at around $75 barrel this week. Industry officials say that more than 50 per cent of the retail pump price is based on that value alone. Across Canada, fuel prices at the pump have seen an equal percentage drop in prices since last summer.
So are our gas stations hurting? That's the thing. We don't know.
It's hard to feel pity for the fuel retailers when the prices drop — because they've convoluted the idea of retail pricing so badly, we're not sure what's happening anymore. Worse yet for those retailers — and it's another part of that Business 101 lesson — they have played an active role in tanking their own sales by creating a system offering no real sense of measure for their customers. The confusion has jaded many customers; travel plans have changed, wallets have been tapped, fuel-efficient vehicles have replaced higher consuming vehicles, and simple, pure annoyance has impacted their businesses. if demand for fuel drops as world oil reserves stay as they are, and commodity values continue to fall, prices at the pump will be forced to come down to bring customers back.
The issue is not a Lakeland-only one. Brian Jean, Alberta's current Minister of Jobs and Economic Development campaigned in his recent leadership bid that he would create a better retail fuel environment for Albertans. Last August, the Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche MLA called for studies and investigations into the entire process from pipeline to pump. Last week, Alberta NDP's Energy critic Kathleen Ganley said those investigations need to get rolling.
"Alberta's NDP is once again calling for a full audit of gas prices." she said, explaining that January 1 marked the start-date of another "fuel tax" holiday announced by the UCP government — but few retail prices on those giant marquee billboards changed. "Albertans deserve to know what is driving cost, and to know that their government will take action to prevent any price gouging."
Fuel for thought.
About the Author: Rob McKinley
Rob has been in the media, marketing and promotion business for 30 years, working in the public sector, as well as media outlets in major metropolitan markets, smaller rural communities and Indigenous-focused settings.
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Sky Show, Imagine the Moon.
Maybe you knew that December 24, 2018 was the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. Instead of watching the moon rise from earth, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders saw the earth rising from the lunar orbit, photographed it and did a live broadcast.
Almost 50 years from that memorable date, the Adler Planetarium put together a plan not just to mark the Apollo 8 crew's occasion (which they did with a program that included Lovell) but to put it into a long lasting perspective.
The result is Imagine the Moon, a fun and exciting half-hour movie in the Grainger Sky Theater that includes Apollo 8's earth-rising moments, the Apollo 11 landing with Neil Armstrong's famed first words and a lot of literary and historic views.
The show explores thoughts about the moon and even how to reach it that it considers are mythological along with early astronomical associations plus literary references and wishful attempts such as the use of a bullet and cannon.
After the show, I was able to speak with Adler's Nick Lake.
Me: "The new sky show, Imagine the Moon, presents a new theory on how the moon was formed—this is quite different from past theories, could you comment on that?"
Nick: "Imagine the Moon shows a custom-made simulation of a new scientific theory of how the Moon formed. A theory of a massive collision forming the Moon has been around for decades, but this imagines a much higher-energy impact that would completely vaporize the proto-Earth and allow for the Moon and Earth to form out of the same vaporized cloud. This helps account for the fact that the Moon rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are so similar to Earth rocks."
The show packs an amazing amount of information in its 30 minute run but does so in an entertaining and informative manner that I believe should appeal to a broad range of ages from children as young as six to adults of all ages.
So, go. Sit back in the theater as far as you can, look up and enjoy. I promise that after seeing the show you will never look at the moon in the same way again.
For ticket and other show information visit Adler Imagine the Moon or call 312 922-7827. To see some of the stories in the show scroll down to exhibition on the Adler website.


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SEPTENTRIONAL
1. T. Crowther: Pa. is rel. to Tenn. roughly (anag. & lit.; ref. approx. geography of Pennsylvania & Tennessee).
2. J. R. Tozer: Pop person, one with talent, high in charts (anag. incl. I; i.e. at the top of the map).
3. G. H. Willett: No plain setter could devise such brilliant lights (anag.; ref. northern lights).
T. Anderson: Intense polar winds keeping temperature arctic (t in anag.).
D. Arthur: Northern seaport with inlet developed to harbour navy (N in anag.).
M. Barley: Set in the polar North, possibly (obscure term for such) (anag. incl. N less h, & lit.).
B. Cheesman: Southerner's beyond Watford but could be late in Preston (anag.).
N. C. Dexter: Potent side of note Sir Alex almost entirely rebuilt in the North (anag. incl. n less x; ref. Man. United).
W. Drever: Northern Rock plan, with zero interest (anag. incl. 0; ref. poor rates offered by bank after bail-out).
R. Gilbert: As was said of North: peculiarly inept … lost, ultimately, former empire in America (anag. incl. r e n a; ref. Lord North).
D. V. Harry: It's near north pole, centre of wintery storms (anag. incl. N, t, & lit.).
P. F. Henderson: Listen to Opera North broadcast, missing nothing – like the company? (anag. incl. N less 0; ON based in Leeds).
R. Hesketh: Northern Line stop (not Circle) near to Barking? (anag. less O; ref. London tube lines).
J. Hood: Polar tint seen flashing like aurora borealis (anag.).
B. Jones: Northern Rock pension rate lost extremely large cut (anag. less OS; ref. failed bank).
J. C. Leyland: Northern Rock inept loans management finally leads to embarrassing run (anag. incl. t and e r; ref. failed bank).
M. A. Macdonald-Cooper: Northern Ireland's potent brews unsettling head in Down or Derry (anag. less D).
D. F. Manley: At pointers line must start for one to find —— source of illumination (comp. anag. incl. i, & lit.; start = spring out of place; ref. Plough constellation).
P. W. Marlow: Northern clan learnt in battles to defend essential character of Scots (sept + o in anag.).
T. J. Moorey: Northern Rock new line at present netting one next to nothing (I 0 in anag. incl. n l; ISA 2010 offered by NR at 0.8%).
R. S. Morse: Club at Preston and Line, suggesting North and Northern (anag.; club vt; ref. Preston North End FC).
F. R. Palmer: Arctic tern: ultimate in travel, top in sea roaming (anag. incl. l).
R. J. Palmer: Put another way, it's near t' North Pole (anag. incl. N, & lit.).
D. H. Tompsett: Like reindeer moss's habitat: antlers open it up (anag.; up = in an excited state).
B. Wilson: This line's a rotten piece of public transport (anag. incl. p; ref. much vilified London tube Northern Line).
D. Appleton, D. & N. Aspland, M. Barker, J. & J. Barnes, J. G. Booth, Dr J. Burscough, D. A. Campbell, Mrs M. J. Cansfield, P. Cargill, M. Coates, Ms S. Curran, V. Dixon, C. J. Ellis, Dr I. S. Fletcher, P. D. Gaffey, M. Goodliffe, G. I. L. Grafton, D. Grice, J. Grimes, Dr C. Hales, M. J. Hanley, D. Harris, Ms S. B. Hart, R. J. Heald, P. Heffernan, R. J. Hooper, Ms M. Irvine, Ms M. Janssen, Ms A. Jeevendrampillai, Mrs S. G. Johnson, J. R. H. Jones, D. R. Laney, D. Lester, J. P. Lester, W. F. Main, K. Manley, P. McKenna, K. Milan, C. G. Millin, C. J. Morse, R. Murdoch, T. D. Nicholl, S. O'Melia, M. L. Perkins, A. Plumb, Major J. D. Plummer, T. Railton, W. Ransome, Ms H. Richardson, Mrs L. J. Roberts, P. Sansun, R. J. Sharkey, S. J. Shaw, D. P. Shenkin, N. G. Shippobotham, I. Simpson, P. L. Stone, A. W. Taylor, Dr A. J. Varney, L. Ward, A. J. Wardrop, R. J. Whale, A. Whittaker, S. Whyld, K. J. Williams, D. C. Williamson.
242 entries, no mistakes. Equal favourite clues of the month, with 12 nominations each: 'Ghost, headless cleric wanders here? Trick's involved!' (CLOISTER-GARTH) and 'Paddy having a bit of an eye for the lady?' (IRISHER). Some of you commented on the unusual presence in the puzzle of four 13-letter across entries. Grid construction is not something I often mention, but I do try to vary bar patterns as much as possible within what I regard as generally acceptable parameters (a maximum of one unchecked letter for 4- and 5-letter words, two for 6-, 7- and 8-letter words, three for 9-, 10- and 11-letter words, and four for 12- and 13-letter words). Unlike some crossword setters I am not restricted to a prescribed number of grid patterns, so the number of permutations is potentially very large for 12 x 12 and 13 x 11 grids. If I do repeat myself, this is not deliberate (though perhaps inevitable from time to time).
There were a few raised eyebrows at the third 12- or 13-letter clue word in a row. This was not intentionally planned – I pick what seems the most promising word each time before embarking on the cluing process and without reference to previous months, so this bunching up may occur from time to time. (I could add that longer words often lend themselves to a greater variety of treatment, while mentioning that next month's will be considerably shorter than recent juggernauts.) All of that said, SEPTENTRIONAL offered a real bonanza for anagram fans and was duly exploited in this way, with some brilliant results. Is it an archaic or obsolete word? Chambers suggests not, without being totally clear about it, though the OED, the only Oxford dictionary even to include the word, labels it 'Now rare', the most recent citation being from 1887. In the circumstances I decided not to make its currency an issue, though I applaud those, like Mr Gilbert above, who made an effort to indicate the word's distinct datedness.
I must apologize to Mr I. Simpson, whose clue to WATERMANSHIP last month was judged VHC in the paper but was mysteriously downgraded to HC in the slip. For the record it was: 'A half minute and tap washer will be fixed – good, it'll avoid a terrible row' (anag. incl. min). And may I, once again, appeal to all competitors to observe the requests religiously repeated every month in connection with competition entries? Please firmly attach your clue sheet to the entry grid you cut from the paper and always give your name and address on the clue sheet as well as on the entry grid. Those who obediently do this every month would be amazed at how many competitors fail to do so.
Heists plus road works, I assert, will satisfy such! (7)
Second prize winner by P. F. Henderson in competition 869


It's not a month out of warranty and the TT has had it's first ever "check engine" light incident. Using a handy tool I ordered, I was able to discover the fault for about the cost of having the dealership diagnose the problem. The message is a little cryptic, but provides a good hint as to what is awry.
Googling the error code provides a plethora of results discussing what causes this error. The first step in confirming the problem was to figure out if the coolant temperature sensor was actually misbehaving. I cleared the code out and then had Eileen keep an eye on the laptop's graph for the coolant temperature sensor as we drove to some errands.
Sure enough, as the engine coolant slowly rose to operating temperature, for a couple seconds at a time the sensor would send an absurdly low reading and then return to showing the correct value. While the problem didn't look like it was happening that often and may not be enough to trigger another fault, it's obvious the sensor is not feeling quite right (that is unless there are chunks of ice flowing around in the coolant system).
On the way back home we stopped by Chaplin's VW and visited their parts desk. I had the part numbers, but the parts guy knew exactly what I was after when he read the description I had on the Post-It next to the part numbers. Apparently this isn't too uncommon a fault for the 1.8T motor that the TT shares with some A4s and a variety of VW models.
Evidently the accounting for warranty repairs between Volkswagen AG and the dealerships encourages them to make the parts for frequently needed warranty repairs cheaper. In this particular case, the parts were $9.10. There was some suggestion that the mass airflow sensor was cheaper nowadays ($60 rather than $300) for similar reasons.
It turns out there are some nice articles online at AudiWorld about replacing the flakey coolant temperature sensor that causes this. I think I may try to document the repair process myself with some more pictures. We'll see how that goes.
I have same issue with my VW Golf 1.8T (GTI). I wonder how much it cost here in New Zealand where everything is too expensive because it has to be shipped. How did you go with the replacement?


Manages the replication agreements of an IPA server.
To manage IPA replication agreements in a domain, use IPA CLI or Web UI, see `ipa help topology` for additional information.
- Adds a new replication agreement between SERVER_A/localhost and SERVER_B. Applicable only for winsync agreements.
- Removes a replication agreement between SERVER_A/localhost and SERVER_B. Applicable only for winsync agreements.
- Removes all replication agreements and data about SERVER. Removes data and agreements for both suffixes - domain and ca.
- List the replication IDs on this server.
- Run the CLEANALLRUV task to remove a replication ID.
- Cleans all RUVs and CS-RUVs that are left in the system from uninstalled replicas.
- Abort a running CLEANALLRUV task. With --force option the task does not wait for all the replica servers to have been sent the abort task, or be online, before completing.
- List all running CLEANALLRUV and abort CLEANALLRUV tasks.
When a master is removed, all other masters need to remove its replication ID from the list of masters. Normally this occurs automatically when a master is deleted with ipa-replica-manage. If one or more masters was down or unreachable when ipa-replica-manage was executed then this replica ID may still exist. The clean-ruv command may be used to clean up an unused replication ID.
NOTE: clean-ruv is VERY DANGEROUS. Execution against the wrong replication ID can result in inconsistent data on that master. The master should be re-initialized from another if this happens.
The replication topology is examined when a master is deleted and will attempt to prevent a master from being orphaned. For example, if your topology is A <-> B <-> C and you attempt to delete master B it will fail because that would leave masters and A and C orphaned.
An IPA master host cannot be deleted or disabled using standard commands (host-del, for example).
An orphaned master may be cleaned up using the del directive with the --cleanup option. This will remove the entries from cn=masters,cn=ipa,cn=etc that otherwise prevent host-del from working, its dna profile, s4u2proxy configuration, service principals and remove it from the default DUA profile defaultServerList.
When deleting a master with the --force flag, remove leftover references to an already deleted master.
Do not perform DNS lookup checks.
Password for the IPA system user used by the Windows PassSync plugin to synchronize passwords. Required when using --winsync. This does not mean you have to use the PassSync service.
IPA uses the 389-ds Distributed Numeric Assignment (DNA) Plugin to allocate POSIX ids for users and groups. A range is created when IPA is installed and half the range is assigned to the first IPA master for the purposes of allocation.
New IPA masters do not automatically get a DNA range assignment. A range assignment is done only when a user or POSIX group is added on that master.
The DNA plugin also supports an "on-deck" or next range configuration. When the primary range is exhaused, rather than going to another master to ask for more, it will use its on-deck range if one is defined. Each master can have only one range and one on-deck range defined.
When a master is removed an attempt is made to save its DNA range(s) onto another master in its on-deck range. IPA will not attempt to extend or merge ranges. If there are no available on-deck range slots then this is reported to the user. The range is effectively lost unless it is manually merged into the range of another master.
- The range must be completely contained within a local range as defined by the ipa idrange command.
- The range cannot overlap the DNA range or on-deck range on another IPA master.
- The range cannot overlap the ID range of an AD Trust.
- The primary DNA range cannot be removed.
- An on-deck range range can be removed by setting it to 0-0. The assumption is that the range will be manually moved or merged elsewhere.
The range and next range of a specific master can be displayed by passing the FQDN of that master to the dnarange-show or dnanextrange-show command.
Performing range changes as a delegated administrator (e.g. not using the Directory Manager password) requires additional 389-ds ACIs. These are installed in upgraded masters but not existing ones. The changes are made in cn=config which is not replicated. The result is that DNA ranges cannot be managed on non-upgraded masters as a delegated administrator.
Creating a Windows AD Synchronization agreement is similar to creating an IPA replication agreement, there are just a couple of extra steps.
A special user entry is created for the PassSync service. The DN of this entry is uid=passsync,cn=sysaccounts,cn=etc,<basedn>. You are not required to use PassSync to use a Windows synchronization agreement but setting a password for the user is required.
The following examples use the AD administrator account as the synchronization user. This is not mandatory but the user must have read-access to the subtree.
You will be prompted to supply the Directory Manager's password.
PassSync is a Windows service that runs on AD Domain Controllers to intercept password changes. It sends these password changes to the IPA LDAP server over TLS. These password changes bypass normal IPA password policy settings and the password is not set to immediately expire. This is because by the time IPA receives the password change it has already been accepted by AD so it is too late to reject it.
IPA maintains a list of DNs that are exempt from password policy. A special user is added automatically when a winsync replication agreement is created. The DN of this user is added to the exemption list stored in passSyncManagersDNs in the entry cn=ipa_pwd_extop,cn=plugins,cn=config.


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Dispatch From: Shanghai, China
After eight years as an expatriate, first in Switzerland and then in Taipei, Taiwan (with a stint in Chicago along the way), Kathy van Wilgenburg (BBA '87) found the transition to Shanghai three years ago fairly easy. All subway signs and many signs in the heart of the city are in English and Mandarin, which helped, and the first place she and her husband, a Dutch national, lived was a service apartment where the staff was able to help with translations and other minor duties.
"At the time we moved to Shanghai, it was the No. 1 destination in the world for expats, with almost a million foreigners," she says. "Therefore, it's a super friendly city for foreigners."
Probably the biggest challenge she faced had to do with banking. In China, bank accounts are in the name of one person only, and to further complicate things, women in China don't take the husband's last name. In the end, they chose two different banks to serve their different needs — one account with a local Chinese bank to take care of the low-dollar requirements and one with a U.S. bank to handle their international needs.
"There was a tremendous amount of bureaucracy to set these up, but fortunately, each bank has online tools in English and offers English-language ATM services," she says.
As far as everyday life, van Wilgenburg says things in Shanghai aren't all that different from life in any big city, keeping in mind that it has a population of 25 million.
"When you stand in the middle of the city, there are skyscrapers as far as you can see in every direction," she says.
After earning a business degree with a major in accounting, Kathy van Wilgenburg went on to receive her CPA license and spent the bulk of her career at DSM before getting married and becoming an expatriate. "My education at Augusta University provided a solid background to begin my work professionally," she says.
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