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Le Orme - Felona E Sorona [Deluxe Edition]
The concept album that gave Le Orme a chance to break the door down for the Italian Prog bands to sink their teeth into, the story about two different planets one filled with joy and love while the other filled with isolation and darkness that remains one of the finest albums in Progressive Rock history in the Italian structures. Released in 1973 on the Philips label and then on Charisma, this marks the first time here the English version translated by VDGG's Peter Hammill, that would have the trio lending their voices in a different speaking voice that is beyond the beyond.
Le Orme decided to give the dark sci-fi rock opera with haunting passages, ELP-sque time changes, and classical folk boundaries which would have given George Lucas pissing his pants if he had heard this album from start to finish while he was writing Star Wars. Keyboardist Tonu Pagliuca, Vocalist/Bassist/Guitarist Aldo Tagliapietra, and drummer Michi Del Rossi, they wanted to set the tone of the outer limits which combined them to go into space and time and not just that, but to give the listener a real jolt whenever he or she listens to the album and makes you think that this isn't your typical hero-save-the-day nonsense, this is a dark adventure that you are about to embark on for years and years to come.
That taken care of, Felona E Sorona is a dark and beautiful storytelling fairy tale that will send a shiver down your spine. Beginning with the swirling keyboard nightmare territorial Sospesi Nell'Incredible (In Between) and the folksy embracement Felona, each of the members could have written a score for Disney's Fantasia. The homage to Emerson Lake and Palmer is very spot on with La Solitudine Di Chi Protegge il Mondo/L'Equilibrio (The Maker) while the spookiness of the annihilation on Sorona describes the loneliness and the pin drop of the city that Paglicua does to set the atmosphere on Ritratto Di Un Mattino (The Plan) and then it all comes down the sneering climatic climax between both planets as they fight in the jaw-dropping thunderstorm finale on Ritorno Al Nulla (Return to Naught).
Throughout the piece you can tell that each of the band members were having a showdown as they clash the instruments from the keyboard giving a sinister composition and then bass and drums come in as they go in a battle to see who can give the ass-kicking around, but the three members are both winners and show that this isn't just a game, this is music and how they can send score so good, you won't believe your ears. The deluxe edition features again the English version that was meant for David Jackson to come and help out and give Le Orme a VDGG feel, but never saw the light of day which the record label felt that he was too "ahead" for the band's sound.
It's a shame that Jackson's sax music wasn't used, but it would have been great to hear how it would have sounded like with the sneering sax for David to use on the concept album. The English version might have you scratch you're heads, but the original Italian version is one of the most mesmerizing albums to come out of 1973.
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William D. Drake - The Rising of the Lights
Like a crossover alumni album takeover between Egg's first album and Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste, former member of the Cardiacs, William D. Drake and his new album, The Rising of the Lights is a very fun and quirky album in the realm of the two bands that has a whimsical sense of humor that carry the sounds of the Canterbury scenery. Throughout the entire album that has twelve tracks on there, written and conducted by Drake, the album has a mysterious and dark passageway of a haunting musical set in the late 1890s and Drake discovered and understood the scenery and he takes the listener into a journey into the gothic side of London.
Though it plays like music for a twisted ballet, Drake is a true mad scientist and is very damn good when he plays the keyboards, he plays it very well. He isn't like Wakeman or like Emerson, but more like Kerry Minnear of Gentle Giant and Dave Stewart of Egg, plus his vocals will remind listeners of Richard Sinclair from Caravan/Hatfield and the North. He is no fluke, nor showing off, but showing you how he can take the listener by the stroke their jacket and take them to a world have they never seen before in all of its glory.
Songs like the romping introduction Super Altar and Ant Trees have a whimsical feel inside the English Countryside to write funny pieces in a Beatle and Caravan-sque way while the mellowing touching beauty on In An Ideal World deals with the 18th century world of London as if it the music was set to a steampunk film and the Victorian scenery would definitely fit the atmosphere right on the street alley. Then we get to The Mastodon.
Featuring thumping drums, swirling piano and mind-blowing organ sections, it makes it a perfect dance move that would have audiences gasping and completely blown away as Drake plays it like Dave Sinclair that provides In The Land of Grey and Pink-era. Then, on Ornamental Hermit it becomes a mournful yet tear-drop orchestral dark beauty that deals with the 19th century families in England and how they struggle to maintain a normal life as it goes back into the picture with the time-changing thump of Wholly Holey reminds me of Hatfield and the North, another antidote of Canterbury homage right in there.
You have to admit Drake has a sense of humor and I might believe the Canterbury Scene might had a huge impact in his childhood days growing up as he goes into the Jazzy night time with piano and drums on the title track as he does a lot of Thelonoius Monk passages in there to set the jazz-psych spook thrills in the atmosphere. While the psych hip-hop short of Song in the Key of Concrete is operatic, the haunting composition between a male and female duet vocalization on Me Fish Bring has sort of a late '70s vibe. Zieger has a 1920s sounding as Laburnum sounds like a mournful funeral song.
Then we get to the last track, the 9-minute Homesweet Homestead Hideaway, which starts off as a cat purring and then it goes into the storytelling complex song and has us asking, "what the hell did he just do here?! This is amazing!" He gives the listener a chance to listen throughout the track and gives us a chance at the very end to decide where the music goes through here. How much did I enjoy the album? Well here it is.
I have been listening to The Rising of the Lights about 12 times now and Drake is no show-off and what kind of sound that he gives, is evidential on the table. If you want to sink your teeth into William D. Drake's music, buy The Rising of the Lights. You will not be disappointed.
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Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Despite having three albums already in the can and establishing the minds of the Beatles and in the footsteps of the Days of Future Passed-era of the Moody Blues in a prog-baroque pop sound, singles had put ELO into the forefront and for Jeff Lynne, it was time for a change. This time it would be a concept album telling the story about daydreaming in the rein of Walter Mitty like character who goes into different worlds and trying to escape the real modern world in which he's pissed off at, as he goes into the world of Eldorado.
Originally released in 1974, Eldorado was a huge success in the States as they broke down the door and hit into the mainstream, but didn't sell well in the UK. But it's a wonderful Disney-like alternate soundtrack is very much to the realms of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or The Three Caballeros set to glorious prog-pop music that could have been re-released during that time period. Jeff decided to use a 40-piece orchestra instead of two violins; this would mark the first time that it would change the bands direction and into superstardom.
From the eerie atmospheric dream-like introduction turned bright glory with Eldorado Overture to the soft romantic rock balladry on Can't Get It Out of my Head and Mister Kingdom, makes it realize that this isn't just your Beatle-sque rock album, but a spiritual journey that you'll never forget and a ride that will take you to the other side of life. The shining symphonic powerhouses of Boy Blue with melodic structures while Laredo Tornado is a touch of the Beatles Revolver-era with a wonderful guitar introduction that Marc Bolan could have helped out the band out.
Later, comes the orchestral rockin' romp sounds of Poorboy (The Greenwood) as it goes into the Cabaret Jazz scene with the glory days of broadway with Nobody's Child. The track makes it very upbeat and almost like a nightclub scene out of a play in the '40s where Jeff deals with a painted lady as if he's Danny Elfman singing to this broken down woman who was once famous is now singing to table goers in the audience. And while they go into the rein of the 1950s rocking scene in the realms of The Move's California Man on Illusions in G Major, the 5-minute emotional pop beauty of the title track makes you want to feel like if you want to come back to the fantasy world and stay there for eternity.
After the release of the album, ELO went into various changes from Prog to Disco and helping Olivia Newton-John out and deciding to call it a day in the mid '80s, Eldorado remains one of the most finest albums that the Electric Light Orchestra made and still is considered the most finest concept albums of the 20th century.
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Ache - De Homine Urbano / Green Man
The Danish scene was a magical-era of the late '60s in the psychedelic and prog territory. Bands like Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Culpepper's Orchard, and of course The Savage Rose, blew the outside world away. But it also can remain a mysterious atmosphere. Take a band like Ache who was formed in 1968 by keyboardist, Peter Mellein, a graduate at the Danish Academy of Music. He was influenced by what was going in England during that time period and soon he formed the band and created a dark yet haunting debut album that would have the ballet dancers knock their socks off and dance to different time changes.
Originally released on the Philips label in 1970, De Homine Urbano was their concept to write a ballet rock instrumental and it works fine magically. The music was dark, evil, hidden, and sinister that would have filled the theatre to a shocking surprise at the end, combining with dooming guitar sounds and venomous organ sounds, it would have made Ache's musical composition pieces set to a horror score, but the passages and time signatures that would have listeners say, "How the hell did they do that?!"
The opening 19-minute title track, starts out as mourning guitar sounds and the organ starting off the ceremony in a gothic cathedral, then goes into a field day, fuzz tone territory, swirling adventures, and the last 5-minutes of the piece is their homage to Procol Harum's In Held 'Twas In I. The 18-minute sci-fi rocker, Little Things, is an early reincarnation of Julian's Treatment's A Time Before This filled with spoken-words narrative, adventurous storytelling complex songs, filling that with; organ, crash of the ride cymbal, demonic guitar and bass lines come in together, this is a ride that you'll never forget.
The theatrical movement was in the band's mind and that was where the direction they wanted to go and that resulted in their second album. 1971's Green Man kept in touch of the dark theatre in the realms of Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft and concentrated on the focus on musical rock theatre. Instead of 18 and 19-minute epics, let's say the tracks are a little shorter; however it kicks plenty of asses. They are very much rock operatic though, Ache's music still carries the sound of the debut album, but more of a darker version of Sgt. Pepper.
Songs like the melodic turned thunderous passages opener, Equatorial Rain and the soaring bluesy flashback narrative story of a young girl named Sweet Jolly Joyce makes the Pretty Things wish they could have put this song in S.F. Sorrow. And while the 5-minute epic, The Invasion is a swirling whirlpool of terror mixed with guitar solos and Hammond touches that sends passages into darker territories, the sinister single in the realms of Procol Harum, Shadow of a Gypsy, still carries like a real punch in the gut with its mysterious lyrics and darker territories that would have made the band open for the English band.
The title track goes into an acoustic/harpsichord classical adventure as it goes into a raga-rock clapping psychedelic hippie power house while Acheron clouds into Morrison Hotel-era of a Jazz Blues Rock section before closing the album with a funky groove improvisation of the Beatles classic, We Can Work It Out as they go into a psychedelic jam for the last 5-minutes. These albums stood the test of time and gave the beast a chance to run free and go buck wild. Obscure Prog at its finest.
Tempest - Tempest/Living In Fear
Truly one of the most unearthed trio bands that were a combination of Grand Funk Railroad meets Blue Cheer meets Mountain, this was a band that were one of the most underrated. With the sounds of Fusion, Blues, and dare I say the early beginnings of Heavy Metal, Tempest was formed out of the ashes of Colosseum. The band released two albums in 1973 and 1974 on the Bronze label and they are a dosage of thundering guitar solos, pounding drum work, and a touch of mind-blowing bass lines that was a nod to the sound of Noel Redding and towards the early beginnings of Colosseum.
The band featured drummer Jon Hiseman, bassist Mark Clarke, and up-and-coming guitarist Allan Holdsworth. While Hendrix brought the early beginnings of Hard Rock in the late '60s, Tempest brought the torch to the Olympic Stadium. Their first sole self-titled debut album is magnificently untouchable. It has an aggressive approach, as shown in the opener, the folksy turned beast-like rumble of Gorgon. Like a door opening so hardcore, Allan Holdsworth rips into a shredding guitar solo while Paul Williams vocals roar viciously as if he could have replaced Paul Rodgers for Free as they exhibit more of the fierce tones that echo Wishbone Ash's Argus.
Songs like Foyers of Fun and Up and On, they breach on the reminiscent of Cream and impressing the underground scene like an explosive dynamite that would grab you by the ears screaming out for a warm reception, you could tell that they would have embraced the Album Orientated Rock sound with a mighty bang. However on Brothers, it's more of a fast-speeding jazz rocking bullet train in the style of Colosseum and Italian Prog maestro's Goblin combined together, it's a shuffling adventurous guitar race, Mark's bass line is almost a fusion run through, and Jon's drumming is in the style of Billy Cobham that would have your heart pounding faster.
Living in Fear, released in 1974, sees Allan Holdsworth leaving the band to pursue work with Soft Machine as the late Ollie Halsall entered the picture to lend more of an early beginning on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal which is evidential on the opener Funeral Empire which had an earlier reminiscent of UFO's Dreamin' off on Mechanix that makes Ollie's guitar playing sound like Michael Schenker while they revamp the Beatles classic Paperback Writer as a straightforward rocker and staying true to the classic. Stargazer is a funk-rock attitude as Mark Clarke brings the genre as almost an FM hit in the realms of Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti-era.
Dance to My Tune is very volcanic rock while Waiting for a Miracle sees the band in a Prog-Rock momentum featuring some heavy duty moog solos on the two compositions as they have a great time and lay back to get the groove flowing. After the release of the two albums, Tempest decided to call it a day. Although they were ahead of their time and might receive a lot of attention, Tempest's music still shines through the soaring lost treasures of hidden classics. Hugely recommended.
In the style of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, "We're off on the road to Fort Worth"
To fellow blogsters,
I will be out of town next Thursday, but coming back next Sunday. But I will get a review published either this weekend or next week before I go out.
See you on the dark side,
The Fierce and the Dead - If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe
Already having two EPs in the can, newcomers of the post-rock scene The Fierce and the Dead have been creating some fine music lately since forming in 2010, however the sound is becoming more of a futuristic atmosphere of the 22nd century in a realism of a score in the sci-fi world a-la Blade Runner style. So what do you do when you have Matt Stevens, Kev Feazey, and Stuart Marshall who follow in the lead of Porcupine Tree and the 21st century sounds of King Crimson meets Radiohead?
Well when you add those three up, it's about time that you make a first album and their debut album, If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe, they have made the music into an soundtrack for our lives. Sure, it has an indie rock flavor and prog-like boundaries that could have made Thom Yorke work with the Arcade Fire or the Decemberists, but The Firece and the Dead shows that they are not show-offs, but carrying the torch of making lukewarm alternative instrumental rock beauty that would have you're skin crawling up and down of all places.
The eerie and haunting compositions makes it a dooming and post-apocalyptic annihilation as Matt's guitar sends in with experimentations that light up the thunder and bringing the looping sounds into a mind-blowing experience, you almost began to wonder "How in the hell does he do that?" as drummer Stuart Marshall plays like a Mad scientist in his footsteps of: Bill Bruford, Neil Peart, and Phil Selway. Pieces like the fierce punk-prog Crimson hardcore sound on Landcrab is an in-your-face-fuck you attitude while the wildly avant-garde touches on the opener, Flint pays tribute to Scotland's own post-rock band Mogwai. The Miles Davis Jack Johnson-era fusion touches are in there with Daddyies Little Helper before becoming a soaring upbeat tempo finale. It's when everything starts to click and gets their mojo working around the clock.
As Woodchip becomes a Tangerine Dream moog adventure, it goes into the sounds of the '80s with the Joy Division-sque moody punches on 10x10 and the era of OK Computer might come in handy on Part 2, but the trippy and psych finale on the 6-minute epic, Andy Fox takes the listener into the Outer Limits and into the Solar System to view different planets as guitarist Matt Stevens creates some haunted guitar work that shines throughout the piece to bring the music closer like a knot that is tight and won't let loose as Marshall calms his drums down to set the film noir scenery that makes you imagine this piece as in a dramatic movie.
The Fierce and the Dead have a long way to go, let's hope they got something in their sleeves years and years to come. Maybe writing a film score? We don't know, but this is the big push for them and they got a good start here.
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I'm a blogger/freelance writer from Houston, TX who writes album reviews because I enjoy it. Even though, I'm not the best writer, there is no stop sign for me. I have a love of Progressive Rock music, Jazz Fusion, and Early Heavy Metal music from the '60s to the early '80s. I went to HCC (Houston Community College) for nine years and have completed my degree in Music in Performance: Jazz Studies. I've been writing Progressive Rock and Symphonic Metal reviews starting back in 2008 on my blogsite and it never gets old.
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At Least Stevens Has The Whalers On His Side
October 28, 2008 / 6:15 PM / The Politico
Whether Ted Stevens goes down in electoral defeat, resigns or gets kicked out of the Senate, he'll always have the Eskimo whalers.
In a statement that seemed to reach a bit on a day in which a growing number of fellow senators called for his resignation, Stevens announced that the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission has endorsed him. In that same release today, Stevens announced that retired Air Force Lt. General Tom McInerney, who is the former head of the Alaska Command, has also backed Stevens.
Stevens was convicted Monday of seven felony counts of failing to disclose $250,000 in gifts and services from an Alaskan contracting firm. He remains on the Nov. 4 ballot and has defiantly maintained his innocence.
The endorsement of the Eskimo whalers was the only statement released by the Stevens campaign on Tuesday. Stevens has pushed for the Department of Commerce to issue whale hunting quotas for the Eskimos, so they've returned the favor with their endorsement — one of the few Stevens has received in the past 24 hours.
The native population is a signficant voting bloc in Alaska, so this endorsement may grab some Alaskan votes, but it may not be enough to put Stevens over the top.
"The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission has unanimously endorsed Sen. Ted Stevens for reelection to the United States Senate," said Harry Brower, chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. "Sen. Stevens has protected Alaska Natives' rights to hunt the bowhead for over 30 years."
First published on October 28, 2008 / 6:15 PM
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Musée d'Orsay – Top Museums in Paris
The Musée d'Orsay, one of Paris's most popular museums, owns roughly 6,000 works of art, which are mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including 2,600 paintings, 1,250 sculptures, furniture, and photography. It is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces (the largest in the world) by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Situated on the Left Bank of the Seine River in Paris' 7th arrondissement, the museum is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The building itself could be seen as the first "work of art" in the museum. Its square displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row and a huge clock, which still works.
The rail station renovation project highlighted the great hall of the rail station, using it as the main artery of the visit, and transformed the magnificent glass awning into the museum's entrance. The glass canopy, measuring 25,000 sq. meters (269,098 sq. ft.) in size, offers excellent illumination to the exhibit hall below. Both natural and artificial light is used, in order to create the variations in intensity needed for the different works of art presented.
The Musée d'Orsay is organized on three levels: the ground floor, where galleries are distributed on either side of the central nave, which is overlooked by the terraces of the median level, these in turn opening up into additional exhibition galleries, and the top floor, which is installed above the lobby. The museum also houses a restaurant, a bookshop and an auditorium.
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Artashes Minasian, a 30-year-old Armenian grandmaster, won the prestigious New York Open Tournament, which ended on March 22 at the New Yorker Hotel. He was awarded the $14,000 first prize for his top score of 8-1. With a 7 1/2-1 1/2 score, Minasian's compatriot, the grandmaster Smbat Lputian, took the $7,000 second prize in the nine-round, Swiss-system event.
Third place was shared by the grandmasters Vladimir Akopian, also of Armenia, and Vladimir Epishin of Russia, who were each awarded $2,625 for a 7-2 tally. The tourney sponsor and organizer, Jose Cuchi, proved his love for quality by loading the roster of 194 players with 65 grandmasters.
Minasian has a deceptive style, in which he can begin tamely and still build to a victory by direct attack. This resemblance to the former world champion Boris Spassky can be seen in his defeat of the Bulgarian grandmaster Kiril Georgiev. And his opening choice bears a close likeness to one that Spassky used off and on for many years.
The game started out as a Sicilian Defense, but after 5 f4, it had become a King's Fianchetto Attack, a rather slow, positional development much like a Reversed English. Spassky used to get substantially the same schema with 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 g3 and so on.
Instead of 6 . . . Nf6, experience says that 6 . . . e6, followed by 7 . . . Nge7 gives a more reliable defense because it keeps the way open for Black to block the kingside with a timely . . . f5, if the need arises.
Minasian's 10 f5 gave over the e5 square to Black's control, but in this formation he must press on with his kingside attack and hope he can create something before the opponent opens the other wing.
It was unpleasant for Georgiev to loosen his king position with 13 . . . f6, but he could not move his queen and allow the stifling 14 f6.
If 17 . . . Nc4 18 de, the black d pawn will soon come under siege, but 17 . . . Nf7 made it difficult to defend the black king. The knight limited the power of Georgiev's rook at f8.
Minasian's 21 g5! was a powerful breakthrough; 21 . . . ef 22 ef Bf5? loses to 23 Rf5! Re3 (or 23 . . . gf? 24 gf) 24 Ne3 gf 25 g6! with a winning attack.
Georgiev gave up rook for bishop and pawn after 22 . . . fg 23 f6 Re3 24 Ne3 Bh6, but Minasian kept the initiative with 25 Bd5 Re8 26 Nc4.
After 28 Re1 Bd5 29 Re8 Qe8 30 Qd5, Qc8 31 Kg2 g4 32 h4, Georgiev's situation was dismal because he had no scope for his pieces.
After 34 Re2, Georgiev could not play 34 . . . d5 because of 35 Nb6 de 36 Nd7 ed? 37 Re8!
After 40 Re8!, Georgiev had to lose a piece. After 40 . . . Qf6 41 Rf8 Kg7 42 Qe8! Qf3 43 Kg1, he gave up in view of 43 . . . g3 44 Rf7 Qf7 45 Qf7 Kf7, leaving Minasian a piece ahead.


Interesting….Guess it's much the same for francophones who have great trouble hearing – and therefore pronouncing – the English 'h' sound. Even after many years, I still have to remind my husband to say 'h-h-uman' instead of 'uman'. Conversely, I have trouble marking the pause that the French 'h' requires on many words that start with 'h'.
Hmm, that's a really big problem… But guess what? You can easyly go over it!! How? For those who spend time teaching themselves another language, there's some really helpful resources to get better in one language. I'm talking about the International Phonetic Alphabet. The IPA will allow you know exactly how make the sounds of any language. It teachers you how to move your tongue and your lips. Probably there're lots of youtube videos about the IPA of your targed language. So, take a look at it. I hope it to really help you if you decide to take sometime to learn the IPA.


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Q: How to enable the GoalioRememberMe ( Remember Me feature for ZfcUser ) i`m trying to use https://github.com/goalio/GoalioRememberMe to get the "Remember Me" functionality for "ZfcUser" module for Zend Framework 2.
What i did to enable the plugin :
add 'GoalioRememberMe' modeule in:  /config/application.config.php
copy  in: /config/autoload/goaliorememberme.global.php
database: import schema.sql
no sign of this working
( should a "remember me" checkbox appear on the login page ? - for me there isn't one)
( also no cookie with the name "remember_me" is created upon login )

A: I just updated the module with more documentation and providing an example login page that adds the checkbox. It overwrites the default ZfcUser login view and should be what you expect.
Hope that helps. If you have any other problems, just drop me a note, open an issue on github or whatever. Will try to answer as quick as possible.

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02:15 pm - 30 May 2019 ByRasanah
I have participated in 30 difficult and bloody operations against ISIS. I have been wounded on three occasions. The IRGC officials did not make good on the promises they made to us. They even refused to treat those who were injured among the Fatemiyoun Division. I am now wounded. I cannot work, and I am trying to return to Afghanistan. But I have reached the conclusion that our doctrine and our need have been exploited. These were the words of Mohammed Dansh after four years in the ranks of the Fatemiyoun Division. He is now homeless in Iran due to the injuries he sustained during the battles in Syria.
He was earning his living in Iran as a worker. He joined the Fatemiyoun Division earlier in 2015 when ISIS expanded its control over parts of Syria and Iraq. At the time, the IRGC had been preparing an army made up of the Afghan migrants in Iran.
Dansh says that he was wounded on three occasions during the war against ISIS. He was sent to receive treatment at the IRGC hospitals. But they did not receive him. He said that he was disappointed and frustrated due to the promises that the IRGC did not fulfill. He is looking for ways to return to Afghanistan. Dansh, along with hundreds of Afghan migrants in Iran, was used for the war in Syria. Currently, Iran desires, or is being compelled, to drive these forces out of Syria. Members of the Fatemiyoun Division oscillate between returning to Afghanistan or enduring the circumstances of remaining in Iran.
Are Members of the Fatemiyoun Division Mercenaries or Indoctrinated Combatants?
The Fatemiyoun Division was formed on May 12, 2013 by the commander of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, with the aim of fighting ISIS. It was first under the command of Alireza Tosli, known as Abu-Ahmed, who is one of the Afghan migrants in Iran. This Division played a pivotal role in the war in Syria. A year ago, its troops totaled 36,480 recruits. Although the activities of this Division are being conducted under the guise of defending the shrines of Ahlul-Bait, combating the ideologies seeking to wipe out Shiites and serving Shiism, the generous promises made by the IRGC officials to the Afghan migrants, who left their country due to poverty and hunger, are considered the main factors in mobilizing recruits for this Division in the Syrian war. An Iranian ID, monthly wages for the recruits and their families and the continued support for the families of those killed in the war were among the promises that encouraged thousands of Afghan migrants over the past five years to join the raging frontlines in Syria.
International human rights organizations, as well as the Afghan government on several occasions, blasted the recruitments being carried out by the Iranian government among the Afghan migrants, who are sent to fight in Syria and Iraq. They considered this a flagrant breach of the international norms and practices related to migrants. But the Iranian government formed a 34,000-strong army. It is a large army made up of migrants. Iran paid no heed to all these criticisms. Now the war in Syria has ended and thousands of the Fatemiyoun Division's fighters returned to Iran and Afghanistan. Several of them say that the Iranian government exploited and used them as a tool in the Syrian war. The wage of each member in this Division never exceeded three million tomans per month, which is equal to the wage of a soldier in the Afghan army.
False Promises
Dansh is one of the immigrants who joined the Fatemiyoun Division. He spoke to the Zamaneh website. He said that he and many other members of the Fatemiyoun Division went to Syria to defend the holy shrines and join the war against ISIS. His principal drive was money, religious belief and trusting the promises of the IRGC. None of these promises were kept. According to Dansh, after Soleimani spoke to Khamenei about the end of ISIS's control in Syria, families and those injured among members of the Fatemiyoun Division were ignored.
Ferhad Amiri, who is based in the province of Sari Pul north of Afghanistan, is one of the members of the Division. Over the past two years, he has participated in 15 operations against ISIS in different parts of Syria. He says that he travelled to Iran five years ago due to poverty and unemployment in Afghanistan. There, he received the pay of a worker. He was attracted by the propaganda of the IRGC calling for joining the Fatemiyoun Division. He said that the IRGC officials promised him and his colleagues that they would get an Iranian ID card if they survived and returned alive from the war. At the time, Ferhad could barely survive with his wounded body in the city of Sari Pul. A year ago, and after the severe wounds he sustained, he returned from Syria to Iran to receive treatment with the aid of the IRGC. When he went to the IRGC in Tehran to get financial aid and treat his wounds, he was sent to the Afghan border. He is no longer fit for the battleground. Therefore, they expelled him from Iran with his threadbare bag of clothes and wounded body.
Ferhad says: "The IRGC made countless promises to attract migrants to partake in the war in Syria. But afterwards, we realized that all these promises were false. If they made good on these promises, I would retain my health now, and my body wouldn't be devastated by war. And I am looking just for a piece of bread to keep me alive." He expressed regret over Iran's exploitation of the poverty and ideology of the migrants who had placed their trust in Iran.
He has horrific stories to tell about the war in Syria and the death of his comrades. In an operation in Damascus, he went with 1,700 of his colleagues. Only 300 were able to survive after ten hours of fighting.
Many Families With No Earner
Mahmoud Sadat, one of the commanders within the Fatemiyoun Division who partook in military operations from 2014 till late 2018, says that over the past six years, nearly 5,500 members of the Division have been killed, 12,000 recruits have gone missing and nearly 7,000 people have been wounded. Mahmoud, who worked in different military ranks in the Division, says he participated in 90 percent of the Division's operations in different parts of Syria such as Damascus, Idlib, Jorin and Aleppo. He was wounded four times. Although he believes that he fought in defense of the holy shrines, he is annoyed by the IRGC's heedlessness towards those wounded and the families of those killed in the Syrian war. He says that he personally does not expect to get money or an Iranian ID from the IRGC, but the promises made to the families who lost their breadwinners and their men who were killed in Syria should be implemented.
Social media platforms and the Telegram channel of the Fatemiyoun Division speak of holding ceremonies everyday to appease the women and children of those killed in Syria. But members of the Division say that the program is merely a lie and a deception. Visiting the shrines of the war dead, celebrating the birthdays of the sons of those killed and the condolences sent by the Supreme Leader's representatives to the mothers of those who died are among the programs promoted daily on the social media outlets affiliated with the Division.
Dansh says that over the last six years, the heavy death toll of Afghan migrants in the Syrian war has meant that thousands of families in Afghanistan have lost their breadwinners.
According to Dansh, the IRGC promised the Fatemiyoun Division's members that if they were killed in battle, their families would get Iranian IDs and they would receive permanent aid from the government.
But it seems that the only thing that happens now is holding birthday parties for the orphans and visiting the graveyards of those killed.
Children are Recruited as Soldiers in the Fatemiyoun Division
The consequences of the war in Syria also hit migrant children in Afghanistan. The Human Rights Observatory announced in October 2016 that the IRGC had sent children who are under the legal age of puberty, 18 years, to fight in Syria under the banner of the Fatemiyoun Division. The Observatory said that a graveyard including corpses of eight children was spotted. They were killed in Syria. The Observatory said that this act by the Iranian government is evidence of the war crimes it committed. In an interview with the Zamaneh website, members of the Fatemiyoun Division confirm that there are children under 18 being recruited in the Division. Mahmoud Sadat said that hundreds of migrant children in Iran were being recruited to the Fatemiyoun Division voluntarily or through the propaganda of the IRGC. Many of them were killed due to the lack of military expertise.
Mahmoud believes that poverty was the principal factor causing the migrants to join the Fatemiyoun Division, particularly the children. This is because the pay of workers has declined in recent years in Afghanistan due to the slump in the value of the Iranian currency on the global market.
The Telegram channel of the Fatemiyoun Division published an advertisement on the adolescents who died in the Syrian war dated March 9. This document was published on its social media platform entitled 'Anniversary of the Martyrs Killed While Defending the Holy Shrines' with pictures of several adolescents being posted featuring them wearing the military uniform. Other images were published by media outlets affiliated with the Fatemiyoun Division featuring the fighters of the group. The presence of adolescents was clear in these pictures. This indicates that the IRGC spared no means to achieve its aims in Syria.
The International Criminal Court stipulates that forced or voluntary recruitment of children under 15 years in the armed forces or using them to partake in armed struggles, constitutes a war crime.
Razia Mousavi, a media activist in Mazar Sharif, whose brother joined the Fatemiyoun Division without the family's permission due to the propaganda and promises of the IRGC, says Iran exploits the needs and ideology of the migrant Afghans in its military adventures mercilessly."
Mousavi, who prepared several documentary reports on the Afghan presence in the Syrian war, says that she knows many families who lost their sons. They were under 18. She said that although the Iranian government did not fulfill the promises it made regarding the Syria war dead and wounded, it did not exert the faintest effort to transport families from Syria to Afghanistan for their families to bury them. Mousavi believes that migration is a natural phenomenon and is a human right. But the Iranian government exploits the Afghan migrants as a tool for war and a means to exert pressure within its diplomacy.
The War is Over, but for the Fatemiyoun Division, it is Not
Now, as the war has ended, part of the Fatemiyoun Division remained in Syria and another part returned to Iran and Afghanistan. Mohammed Dansh is still in Iran. He is based in one of the camps of the Fatemiyoun Division. He quotes two leaders of the group, Mortazavi and Sayed Javad, as saying that there is a plan to select 7,000 recruits from among the 34,000-strong force to join the Quds Force of the IRGC. It remains unknown why the IRGC wants to keep 7,000 armed recruits inside Iran. This measure raised concerns that this force will be used to repress protests inside Iran.
Translated from (radiozamaneh website)
Rasanah
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Phnom Penh Post - Tourism plan looks to China
Tourism plan looks to China
Sor Chandara | Publication date 27 January 2016 | 07:27 ICT
Chinese tourists exit the Royal Palace yesterday in the Kingdom's capital. The Ministry of Tourism has released a plan to attract 2 million Chinese visitors a year to the country by 2020. Pha Lina
Wed, 27 January 2016
Sor Chandara
Cambodia's Tourism Ministry has released a white paper for capitalising on the rapid growth in Chinese inbound tourism, with the aim of drawing and catering to roughly 2 million Chinese tourists per year by 2020.
The tourism sector development guide, titled "China Ready for Cambodia Tourism", includes a five-year strategy for increasing the share of Chinese tourists to the Kingdom to about a third of the overall 7.5 million annual tourists projected by 2020.
Tourism Minister Thong Khon said at the white paper's release on Monday that despite the swift increase in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Cambodia – ranked second of all travellers in 2015 – the ministry's focus would be on improving the quality of Cambodia's tourism product through targeted marketing.
"Marketing Cambodia as a tourist destination in the Chinese market is still limited and tourism facilities are not meeting the expectations of Chinese tourists," Khon said.
Southeast Asia received close to 13 million Chinese tourists in 2014, with only 560,000 visiting Cambodia, while other neighbouring countries like Thailand and Vietnam received 7.9 million and 1.6 million respectively, he added.
The white paper lists steps to be taken by tourism authorities to facilitate visits by Chinese tourists, such as providing Chinese signage and documents for visa processing, encouraging local use of the Chinese yuan currency, and ensuring that food and accommodation facilities are suited to Chinese tastes.
It points out that the Chinese tend to be high-end tourists. They prefer to stay in four- and five-star hotels, are less price-sensitive than other foreign visitors, and like to shop for expensive brands.
This observation was mirrored by Chea Seng, manager of Hong Yi Travel Service, a travel company that caters to tourists from China and Taiwan, who said the Chinese were big spenders, and enjoyed shopping and nightlife activities while travelling.
"They will spend money if we can create services for them," he said. "And if they are happy, they will come back again."
Seng added that reports of dirty cities, bad transportation facilities and too many poorly-trained Chinese speaking guides has deterred many Chinese tourists from visiting Cambodia. They also detest the prevalence of price-gouging and product knock-offs, he said.
Travel industry expert Ho Vandy, an advisor to the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, said one of the main impediments to luring Chinese tourists to Cambodia was the limited number of direct flights, which makes travel packages more expensive than trips to Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.
"If there are more direct flights to Cambodia, the price of packages will be lower and more Chinese will come here," he said.
Vandy said it was critical to understand the specific requirements of Chinese tourists, who would pick the temples of the Angkor Wat complex as their first port of call, followed by other entertainment options like casinos.
Besides providing these services to cater to Chinese preferences, Vandy said there needs to be more cooperation between Chinese tour operators and local operators.
"If all the services are provided by Chinese businesses, Cambodians might lose out, but by cooperating with local businesses it would benefit the Cambodian economy," he said.
According to the white paper, of the 648 tourist operators in the Kingdom, 33 were Chinese-owned, with Chinese companies owning six hotels and seven restaurants across the country.
Contact author: Sor Chandara
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Excellence in Governance: Sevierville
In order to bring better, more efficient services to their citizens, the city of Sevierville recently completed an $8 million downtown streetscape project that not only replaced aging water and sewer lines but also used the opportunity to bury other utilities, like electricity, cable, and telephone services. The massive, coordinated effort to do so has revitalized the appearance of Sevierville's downtown, and is one of several major investments the city has made to improve quality of life and services for residents.
Through innovation and a dedication to positive and productive working relationships between elected officials and municipal staff, the city of Sevierville works to provide both top-notch traditional municipal services while finding new and unique ways to provide those services to citizens.
In recognition of the city of Sevierville's both best-management and best governance practices, the Tennessee Municipal League is pleased to present Sevierville with an award for Excellence in Governance.
Finding better ways to serve and deliver service to the community is the motto adopted by both elected officials and municipal employees in Sevierville. Both members of the city's Board of Mayor and Aldermen and city staff work together to create, design, and implement new approaches to standard service delivery in ways that are both tangible and intangible.
Sevierville recently completed an $8 million downtown streetscapes project that turned the need to replace aging water and sewer lines and address stormwater drainage into an opportunity to provide underground electricity, telephone, and cable services. City departments participated in a massive coordinated effort with contractors, construction officials, and others for management, design, construction, and installation of both these utilities and landscaping and beautification projects following them.
The city recently issued a $100 million bond to fund expansion of its police headquarters, community center, water and wastewater treatment plant, and construction of a new East Sevierville Park. This comes on the heels of the completion of a $6.5 million new fire department headquarters building and a $4.7 million new downtown fire station building that will improve city response times.
Providing stellar emergency services has been another goal for Sevierville. In coordination with the county EMA, the city enacted the Code Red Alert System to alert residents and tourists of critical events. The Sevierville Fire Department has expanded from 38 full-time positions to 52 full-time positions, and has also seen the adoption and training of Ember, a Dalmatian who will serve a vital role in fire safety education and outreach.
Likewise, the Sevierville Police Department has increased its sworn officers from 58 to 65 with all patrol officers equipped with body cameras and automated citation devices purchased and deployed for police patrolmen. Police interaction with the community has also increased through programs like Coffee With A Cop and National Night Out.
Recently, leadership completed a parks and recreation master plan with the involvement of parks staff. Several unique parks and recreation programs are now underway in the city, including the construction of new pickleball courts and a partnership with the city of Pigeon Forge for the management of Youth Baseball programs in Sevier County. The city is also working with the local chamber of commerce to begin a historic landmark signage program for the benefit of both tourists and locals.
In addition to their hard work on the downtown streetscapes project, Sevierville Public Works employees have been hard at work around the city. Major bridge rehabilitation projects are underway around the city as well as repairs to a massive sink hole. New self-watering technology is keeping downtown flowers beautiful while saving the city hundreds of hours of labor and thousands of gallons of water. Thousands of feet of sidewalks, hundreds of curb ramps, and dozens of accessible pedestrian traffic signals have been added as part of the city's ADA transition plan.
The city has created an overall connected traffic network that allows for real-time data retrieval and manipulation of intersections, controllers, and video detection remotely through centralized software. The city's traffic signal system is responsive enough to change timing to meet the needs of current traffic conditions.
To meet growing water needs, the city has added two new sewer lift stations, upgraded or replaced 28 lift stations, added a new water booster station, and upgraded eight others. Nearly 14,000 customers have had their meters replaced with automatic readers while 50 miles of sewer and 30 miles of water mains have been added.
As the city continues to expand, Sevierville has also streamlined several processes aimed at boosting local growth. The city has implemented the submittal and review of plans and permitting electronically while creating a "one stop shop" for the business application and permitting process. Working with private entities, the state, and local programs, Sevierville has brought in more than 1,800 new housing units since 2017 with more than half of those subsidized through local and state program to make them affordable.
By keeping a customer-oriented focus and working together to find unique solutions despite limited resources, the city of Sevierville has shown how strategic planning, teamwork, and coordination can make better government and a better city.
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Returned last night from a long weekend in Dallas, TX. Some of you don't know me personally. My education and first career was in music. I'm been a slave to all forms of musical pageantry since my sister put a dress on me and stood me beside the piano bench singing "Oh, yippee-i-o-ki-ay, yippee-i-o-ki-ay". I may live in a world of home fashion and FABULOUS events but my passion will always be deeply rooted in marching bands, drum and bugle corps, colorguards and any opportunity to parade, process or promenade.
I'm very fortunate to be involved with Tim Newburn and the cast of Cypress Independent Colorguard from Houston, TX. This weekend we were in competition at the Winter Guard International Southwest Championship at The University of North Texas. I got to enjoy the company of incredibly generous and gifted staff members Krystle, Juan and Tim as well as see the amazing adroitness of the cast face to face.
Cypress had a wonderful weekend of growth. Their soundtrack is a really fresh version of Carole Kings "You've Got a Friend" performed by my dear friend Tommy Keenum. You can download the project at iTunes…just search Tommy Keenum. Cypress' 2013 program "Soon I Will Come Knocking" captured the regional title for the second year in a row. Pardon my redundancy but after judging in the activity for many years I'm so blessed to move to the "other side of the table" and work alongside such great "friends"…nil magnum nisi bonum.
Okay, I know most of you are saying where's the food. I'm starting you off with a SHOCKER!!! We left after lunch on Thursday and stopped in Texarkana for the evening…are you ready?
Red Lobster for dinner…with gift cards!!! It was fresh and delicious, the margaritas were perfect and the service was great. We had a very enjoyable dinner, Brandt schooled them on the hazards of standing water on the kitchen floor, we used our gift cards and WALKED next door the TownePlace Suites by Marriott…which was contemporary, clean and comfortable…AND less expensive on the Marriott website than at Priceline…hmmm!!!!
Friday we drove to Dallas but not before stopping in Mt. Pleasant for the incredible Beef Brisket at Blalock's BBQ. We found it several years ago and make a point to stop going and coming…Texas Q at it's best.
We are both Francophiles at heart…we love all things French…especially French Country cooking. While all the East Memphis homes are dripping in French Country fashion…there's not one Provencal dining establishment in the Bluff City. Thus, on our travels I always shop for good French Classic or Country restaurants. This time I found Boulevardier…OH MY!!!
This little jewel is in the Bishop Arts District…on a side street…and feels just like you're in Avignon. They tried to seat us at a two top with wooden chairs. I asked to be moved to the chic chair and a half banquette in orange and khaki and the hostess winked at me and moved us right on over. Great food and atmosphere, very attractive and attentive staff and just downright enjoyable.
We started with the "Big Platter"…an amazing presentation of in-house Charcuterie. Country pate, smoked salmon, beef tongue, ham pastrami and pork rillettes with the perfect accompaniments and beautiful, thinly sliced, lightly charred baguettes.
I'm a fool for Moules and Frites. I had six incredible gulf oysters to start but had to have these beautiful Mussels, as well. They should bottle the broth for the mass market…just spectacular.
Brandt had the Steak Frite…hangar steak, medium rare with crispy frites accompanied by American Ketchup and a tangy Garlic Aioli.
We finished the meal with Boulevardier Beignets accompanied by Granny Smith Apple and Fennel with the perfect ice cream.
Friday and Saturday evenings we stayed in Arlington at a very clean, comfortable and contemporary Hyatt Place. I don't mean to take you on a culinary roller coaster but it is what it is. Saturday, we had breakfast/lunch at Cracker Barrel. Believe it or not we only wanted a few minutes to be seated and Brandt had a delicious breakfast with some incredible Southwest sausage and I had their "like mammas" Chicken and Dumplings. Again, it is what it is…good food is good food…it doesn't always have to always be dressed up.
Sunday after the show we drove back to our favorite hotel in Dallas…Hotel Palomar. It had been several years since we stayed there and can only do so when we find it on one of the discount websites. It's beautifully designed and the amenities are over the top. Wine on welcome, milk and cookies before bed, coffee/tea in the morning and great customer service.
I could easily live in the lobby.
Sunday evening we enjoyed the company of our sweet friend Sandra Clark at Spoon Bar & Kitchen. What an incredible way to top off an already wonderful weekend. Sandra originally from Drew, MS, an Ole Miss alum and member of "The Group" is always a joy and Spoon far exceeded all our expectations.
I kinda made our own tasting menu. We began with three selections from the Crudo and Appetizer selections. We had Singapore Style Chili Lobster…certainly one of the top three sauces I've ever tasted…absolutely competitive with Marc Forgione. I would love to try them side-by-side. We also enjoyed a Hamachi Tartare in Tomato broth which was a breath of spring in Crudo form. And, we had a succulent Scallop Ceviche with dried corn…hear me and hear me clearly…the presentation was only surpassed by the perfectly complex composition of flavors.
We also had three entrée sized portions. I allowed the chef to choose one entrée and he selected the Maya Shrimp with Kimchi Pancake. Again, only the perfect combination of flavors superseded the work of art that was the presentation. The Gray Sole was so delicate and the gnocchi that danced around the plate made for the perfect starch to marry the fish to the citrus and mustard sauce. Finally, we had Skate over potato puree with pineapple and peppers…fresh, inventive and very tasty.
The service was impeccable and the interior is a reflection of the East Hampton kitchen of Chef John Tesars mother. The whole place is so unassuming. For us it would be considered a special occasion destination…you have to pay for attention to detail. We enjoyed an amuse bouche, a pre-dessert and a post-dessert. And, yes we actually had a dessert, too…making it a ten-course tasting dinner…plus, a glass of Bouvre Champagne and Artesa…a beautiful spanish Albarino chosen from the wine selection ON AN iPAD!!!
This is a combination of Caramel and Chocolate in every texture you can imagine…smooth, soft, hard, crunchy, velvety, warm, cold and PERFECT!!! Over the top visually but the perfect confectionary end to an amazing dinner.
We saw several lovely "houses", visited/worked with some great friends and YES a good time was had by all!!!
Fantastic photos! Sounds like a fun trip.


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Surprisingly, there's people out there that don't realize reindeer are real animals. Though obviously they don't really fly or have red noses, they can be trained to pull sleds.
Most artists have no idea what reindeer look like, so they draw Rudolph to look like Bambi. Actual reindeer have gray or muted brown fur with pale neck-ruffs in winter, flat and wide muzzles, large hooves and an entirely white short tail. (For reference, Bambi is a white-tailed deer, a relatively small species that is essentially a pest animal that lives significantly south of the caribou/red deer latitudes).
Strangely enough, people should know about the real species of deer because they go by another name in North America: caribou. Most people don't know that they're the same animal.
Some people are unaware that a wolverine is a real animal, and not just an X-Men character. It is, in fact, the largest member of the mustelidae family (that includes weasels, ferrets, and otters).
Amusingly, Hugh Jackman himself was one of those people when he was first cast as Wolverine.
Many people are shocked to learn that narwhals are real and not some type of mythical creature on par with unicorns. Just check the comments on this clip or this hilarous blog post .
There are also people who believe that Tigons and Ligers are fictitious, and that photographs of them are actually fake.
Snipes are real. Well, there is a type of bird called a snipe. The thing you're sent hunting for might or might not be it, if it's anything at all (the trope/term comes from the difficulty of shooting or catching them, as does the word "sniper").
Some people don't realize Tasmanian devils exist until they look it up (they look very little like the cartoon character, though they can be similarly aggressive).
Australian fauna in general is a major offender, because of how weird it may appear and how little-known it is outside of Australia itself. Historically, most people didn't believe platypuses existed because the idea was too-farfetched. The bandicoot is a real animal too (and looks nothing like the video game character). In fact, Australian fauna was so weird for westerners that the Bunyip is an inversion.
Some people apparently believe that dinosaurs were made up by Steven Spielberg, and/or claim that they "grew up" and stopped believing in them, conflating them with dragons. Some Young-Earth creationists don't believe in dinosaurs either, for religious reasons (though most creationists are fine with dinosaurs being real things that existed, they just have doubts as to when and how they lived and died).
Similar to the Tasmanian devil example above, some people are unaware that roadrunners are real birds, and not just a fictional character created by Looney Tunes. This belief is especially strange when held by people in the southwestern US, since many of them would just have to take a nature walk outside to find out they exist. Granted, real roadrunners have little in common with their cartoon counterpart, being much smaller and possessing a different coloration. (And being vicious little predators.)
The giant squid was generally thought to be a fictional animal until one was found in 1880 foundered at Newfoundland shore. Then they found a species of squid that was even bigger and had to call it the "colossal squid ".
Many people think that hedgehogs are fictional creatures too, due to the fact that they only live in certain parts of the world and are common in those places but rare elsewhere (and they are often more often found as roadkill). The American media were not sure Sonic the Hedgehog would take off in the US due to the obscurity of the animal — Sega had to clarify with them that hedgehogs are indeed common in Japan. To this day, many people automatically think 'Sonic' when they think of a hedgehog.
Some Americans have been surprised to find out that storks actually exist. They only know storks as the bird who delivers the babies, and since babies obviously aren't delivered by birds, they think the bird itself is fictional too. Storks don't naturally live in most of North America, with only the wood stork being a rare breeder in a couple of the southern states, and since the typical "baby delivery stork" is the white stork which doesn't live in America at all, they'll never see a real stork to disprove their assumptions (unless they go to a zoo with white storks, of course).
Some people don't believe in zedonks, the zebra-donkey hybrid. But, believe it or not, zedonks are real .
Vampire bats are real. Since vampires are already heavily associated with bat motifs, many people think that the idea was easily made up and something too obvious to be true, when in fact real vampire bats likely influenced the association of vampires with bats.
Some people make the opposite mistake and think all bats are Vampire bats. In truth, there are at least 950-1,200 species of bat, and only 3 feed on blood. Most of the rest eat insects, fruit and nectar, and small animals such as lizards and mice. Some even eat fish and birds.
Electric eels are real (though they're not really eels). Some people treat them as legendary creatures.
Britons are prone to this misunderstanding about bluebirds- probably because of their genuinely incorrect appearance in the iconic 1940s hit There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover. This is a case of Misplaced Wildlife: the lyricist was an American who didn't realise bluebirds don't exist in Britain, but they do in America (they were a fashionable motif in songwriting at the time for peace and joy.).
Gorillas were believed to be a local myth until European explorers actually encountered them.
Historical people and events
The Moon Flight Skepticism could well be the Trope Codifier.
Or Holocaust denial, unfortunately. Of course, attempted genocides and politically-motivated mass murders have a nasty habit of getting forcefully swept under the rug. There are many people around the world still unaware of the murders committed under Stalin or Mao. And it took the U.S. generations to even start to come to terms with its history regarding Native Americans. Some people still have problems with said history.
Santa Claus. Most people cannot see the name is an alteration of St. Nicholas, a Christian saint, who most definitely has been a historical character (Bishop Nikolaos of Myrna) and whose grave, containing his earthly remains, is in Bari, Italy. That said, the image of the jolly old man in red everyone knows is still fabrication, though the red fur-trimmed hat has some basis in reality .
This also often applies to many historical figures who have attained an almost mythological status in popular culture, such as Blackbeard (real name Edward Teach), Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, and (Grigori Yefimovich) Rasputin.
Jan Rogozinski's "Pirates" lists "Blackbeard" as a fictional character separate from Edward Teach on the grounds that he's been mythologised beyond recognition... but also lists Grace O'Malley as straight-up fictional. (She's been mythologised too, but she did exist.)
It may be because of this trope that historians still can't agree on whether Robin Hood was a real person or not.
Or King Arthur, for that matter. While nobody disputes that the legend as it now exists is the result of centuries upon centuries of wild embellishment, there is some written evidence that a local ruler named Arthur or something close to it did live in post-Roman Wales and won several important battles against the Saxons, including the Battle of Badon Hill. How authoritative those old documents are is disputable, of course.
Macbeth was certainly a real guy, although he didn't hang out with witches. Ditto for Richard III and most of the subjects of Shakespeare's historicals. Others like Hamlet and King Lear were legends in Shakespeare's day that may or may not be based on truth.
Count Vlad "Dracula" Țepe&#537, aka Vlad the Impaler was definitely a real guy, albeit not a vampire.
There was a real historical figure named Hiawatha. He was a peacemaker among the tribes of what would become the Eastern U.S. and the founder of the Iroquois Confederation. He has absolutely nothing to do with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Narrative Poem "The Song of Hiawatha," though. Longfellow just liked the name.
Quite a few people just cannot accept that 15th century London really did have a Lord Mayor called Richard Whittington, and he was indeed elected three times (although he probably didn't have a cat of any note).
Twitter reaction to the media coverage of the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic disaster revealed that a disturbing number of people apparently believed that James Cameron made up the whole story from scratch.
In fact, there are two Italian cartoon mockbusters of James Cameron's Titanic (1997), both of which are presented as being new takes on a fanciful story, instead of stories based on a real tragedy.
In the same vein, the Costa Concordia disaster which took place in early 2012 was described by several news outlets such as Entertainment Tonight as being like a "Real-Life Titanic".
Pirates still exist.
Likewise, cowboys (and -girls) still exist. Depending where you are, they may well be "Indians", since a lot of Native Americans took to ranching as a means of subsistence. Not having got their expectations for their own existence from Hollywood, they're unlikely to consider it ironic.
The samurai effectively lost their status in 1876, but many samurai held onto parts of the tradition well into the 20th century. To this day, many Japanese families maintain their claim to the title "shizoku", which originally meant "ex-samurai" but has come to mean "would have the inherited right to be a samurai if there were still samurai". There is a lot of subversion associated with the samurai, however. A lot of alleged samurai traditions came to be enforced only after the victory of the Tokugawa clan effectively ended feudal warfare of the Sengoku Era. Samurai traditions were emphasized again in the early 20th century, as part of political propaganda in an era of ultranationalism and militarism, decades after the samurai class was abolished.
There's some evidence that Japanese intelligence during the Imperialist period (from the Meiji Restoration till the end of World War II) was partly set up by former members of the O-Niwa Banshu, the Tokugawa shogun's bodyguard-spies. At least some O-Niwa Banshu methods were inherited from the ninja of Koga and Iga. That's well under 200 years ago that there were people you might call "ninja" in Real Life.
The Mafia. Members of the organization historically claim it doesn't exist rather than they are not members. It still exists today even though it doesn't have the power it used to.
A lot of people think Chef Boyardee was fictional and Betty Crocker was real. It's actually the other way around.
As the Trope Namer indicates, there are people out there who don't believe that the Eskimos (a.k.a. the Inuit people of North America) exist. Some people don't believe that American Indians in general still exist (despite the existence of reservations and casinos, along with millions of Indians living independently ).note The former is generally due to assuming that the Eskimos seen in cartoons as children were made up for the cartoons, while the latter is generally because of the assumption that the Native Americans have all been wiped out. This kind of thing doesn't help. ◊ Unfortunate Implications abound for both, of completely different types.
You'd be surprised how many people believe that Romani people — that is, "gypsies" — are either entirely fanciful and fictional, like swarthy, fortune-telling leprechauns, or no longer exist. This is particularly the case in America; in many places in Europe active antiziganism, or prejudice against Romani people, is still going strong and they're seen as quite real, just subhuman social pests. Even some people who believe in "gypsies" have the impression that they consist of a volitive subculture akin to hippies or metalheads rather than a distinct ethnic group.
Despite historical evidence to the contrary, you'll find some Japanese people claiming the Shinsengumi and all of its most famous members were the product of Jidai Geki epics.
Some clips on YouTube of Colonel Sanders making appearances on tv shows such as "What's My Line?" have quite a few comments from people who are surprised to find he was an actual person, and not just a company mascot.
Captain Beefheart's late 60s co-lyricist, Herb Bermann, was so reclusive that many fans assumed he didn't exist. This was compounded by Beefheart apparently introducing band members to different people who he claimed were Bermann. Bermann resurfaced in the 2000s after fan effort to track him down, and released a book "The Mystery Man From The Magic Band".
The Tokyo neighborhood Nerima does exist. However, because Ranma doesn't, some people think the neighborhood itself doesn't exist either. For that matter, the Bāyánkālā Mountain Range in China also exists.
Azabu-juban (home of Sailor Moon) also exists. Likewise the Hikawa Shrine is real, though Rei obviously doesn't live there (and it uses the kanji for ice rather than fire in its name). Crown Game Center also used to be real, but was shut down and replaced with a McDonald's.
Similarly some people don't believe Scranton exists because of the American version of The Office (US). Or its UK counterpart Slough, for that matter.
According to a now deleted Facebook post, Australia doesn't exist. People are actually being sent to an island off the coast of South America and anyone who says they are from Australia is a paid actor. Many conspiracy theorists saw this post and immediately believed it. Though it's quite possible that the person who made said post was joking and some took it too seriously.
The Italian town of Narni is also known as Narnia, the same name as C. S. Lewis' enchanted country; he was possibly inspired by the real town for the name. Another explanation, though, is that C. S. Lewis used bits of Tolkien's early Elvish, in which "narn" means "tale": Thus,"Narnia" would mean "land of tales".
There is a humorous notion about in Germany that the town of Bielefeld does not actually exist , but is simply a conspiracy. There's also the Bielefeld-conspiracy-conspiracy, a conspiracy that the Bielefeld-conspiracy doesn't exist. Looks like we have entered an endless recursion of time.
Brazilians also joke about the non-existence of the state of Acre, a small and distant part of The Amazon annexed after a war with Bolivia (or according to Bolivian president Evo Morales, traded in exchange for a horse).
People who watch El Chavo del ocho might be surprised to learn that Tangamandapio, birthplace of Jaimito el Cartero, is a real town in Mexico. In fact, the town has erected a statue of Jaimito because "he helped to put them in the map".
The former president of Mongolia, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, recounted how he was detained by an immigration official when visiting England as a young man. The immigration official apparently thought that Mongolia was a fictional country, until finding it in an atlas.
Timbuktu has been used as shorthand for "far away" and/or "middle of nowhere" for so long some people assume it's merely made up instead of a real town in Africa (Mali to be precise, and it was a very important city back in the the Middle Ages). A surprising amount of people in the UK thought it didn't actually exist (due in good part to people referring to it as part of an And I'm the Queen of Sheba snark). Roger Hargeaves's Timbuktoo books probably didn't help either.
Kathmandu (Nepal, the capital, no less, and the heart of a metropolis of nearly 3 million people), Kalamazoo (Michigan), and Uryupinsk, Volgograd Oblast fare a little better.
The stone cities of Zimbabwe inspired so many fantastical Lost World stories about Darkest Africa that many people have no idea that the cities themselves exist.
Plus Abu Dhabi (capital and second-largest city in the United Arab Emirates) for fans of Garfield.
If Plutarch is to be believed, many Romans believed Britain wasn't real until Julius Caesar invaded it.
Many ancient Europeans believed that Asia and Africa were fictional places.
Some people believe that Greenland and Iceland are fairytale places, like Mordor.
Star Wars: Tatooine is a real place, although it's not another planet; it's a city in Tunisia .
Some Shakespearean scholars — usually the ones afraid of research — believe that Twelfth Night's setting of Illyria is a mythical land of Shakespeare's own invention. It's actually the Greco-Roman name for the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea — what is now Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, and Slovenia — and a perfectly reasonable place for an Italian ship to run aground, as happens at the beginning of the play.
Played with by Dave Barry in his 1987 year-in-review column: "Libya is defeated by some place called Chad in some kind of war. This really happened." There have been multiple comedic expressions of disbelief that there is a country called "Chad".
Madagascar is a real country and was not made up by Dreamworks. In fact, everything that appeared in the Madagascar of the films are real, including the lemurs, the cat-like fossas, and the tall, fat, finger-like trees (Grandidier's baobab ). The only unreal thing is the films depicting it as a human-less nature paradise (in reality there are nearly 26 million people, though considering the total area it is admittedly not a very crowded place. Still, there is got to be at least a coast guard around...).
A man in Alaska is reported to have stated in public that Aragon never existed. (Hint: It's a country that is now part of Spain.)
A running joke that started in the early '90s in Chile and just won't die is that Combarbalá (a small town in northern Chile) doesn't actually exist and it's on the map because of a conspiracy/propaganda campaign by the State's tourism department; people from the place hate this. Made doubly hilarious because the town is known mainly for its artisanal figures made out of combarbalita (an ornamental rock that is available in abundance in close-by mountains and pretty much nowhere else). Combarbalita is even the country's "national stone", having replaced lapis lazuli in 1993... which only adds fodder to the "conspiracy" angle.
In America, people have tried to kick off a similar joke around Wyoming, though it hasn't gained as much traction.
It apparently started out as an anecdote on Reddit, with a single poster complaining about their weird family and their weird beliefs, but then the thread exploded, the idea spread, and now there are people out there who honestly believe that Finland (as in, the actual country) never existed.
To elaborate: according to the conspiracy theory, after WWII Japan had their fishing rights restricted and Russia needed more food. So, to solve these issues, they created a false landmass on the maps, "hiding" the sea where the Japanese could fish without any international restrictions, and the Russians in turn would receive part of the catch for being accomplices. Also, they named the fake country Finland, because fishes have fins. Why Russians would make up a name based on an English word when the Russian word for fin sounds nothing like Finland is anyone's guess.
According to interviews during a retrospective, even some of the cast of The Good Life were surprised to learn that the London borough of Surbiton was a real place, only finding out when they started location shooting. Although to be fair, the fact that its name sounds like it should be a fictional Stepford Suburbia might well have influenced the decision to set the series there.
Whataburger, because of its appearance in King of the Hill, is thought to be a fictional fast food chain by many who have never been to Texas, but it's not only real, it's even expanded across the American southeast.
Similarly there are people who are astonished that saguaro cacti and tumbleweeds are real and not just cartoon props (being shorthand for "desert", including deserts that aren't part of the southwestern United States, probably doesn't help).
Many outside of America find it hard to believe that Chuck E. Cheese-style restaurants are a real thing.
Apparently some people don't realize American two dollar bills are a real thing and not just a mistake made by clueless counterfeiters. This page lists some examples.
Likewise, young or forgetful Americans often mistake Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea dollar coins for foreign coinage, not realizing they're actual (albeit not successful) U.S. currency.
Thomas Jefferson expressed disbelief that an entire species could go extinct or that falling meteorites might be real. In fairness, they were both very new ideas at the time.
Eskimos Aren't Real


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'Game Of Thrones' Jessica Henwick Joins Sofia Coppola's 'On The Rocks'
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EXCLUSIVE: Game of Thrones star Jessica Henwick is set to co-star in Sofia Coppola's Apple-A24 movie On the Rocks.
She joins previously announced cast members Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans. On the Rocks follows a young mother (Jones) who reconnects with her larger than life playboy father (Murray) on an adventure through New York.
Henwick recently wrapped the co-lead of Paramount Players' Monster Problems and stars in Warner Bros./Legendary's 2020 release Godzilla vs. Kong. She played Nymeria Sand for three seasons on HBO's Game of Thrones, and Colleen Wing for two season on Netflix/Marvel's Iron Fist, as well as the studios' Luke Cage and The Defenders. She has lent her vocal talents to Netflix's upcoming original anime series Gods & Heroes.
Henwick is represented by CAA, Curtis Brown in the UK, and Jackoway Tyerman.
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We have a FTP to PI to FTP scenario. This afternoon during a period of 15 minutes we had messages that were in the queue for up to 10 minutes.
the "End"-time I get about 10 minutes.
After 15 minutes the Start-End times look okay again. Why would messages stay in the queue for so long?
This is difficult to monitor. But I have many questions for you. Does this happen often or you noticed it for the first time? You may check the default trace at server level. In case you had errors during that period, it must have been logged there. Were there some other scenarios running successfully at the same time without any delays? Could you find any error in communciation channel monitoring? How large were the files being processed?
I checked the logfiles but I could not find any errors in them. That makes me think that there was a connection problem on network level.
I have to check with network people.
Look like the problem seems outside PI.
I would recommend you to see the below server level directory log.
You might want to check ICM logs too.
Couple of other possible reasons: If the file system goes space disk out of memory or any other process at OS level takes more memory which might have slowed down the process. Check with your unix adminstrators whether any network slowness or similar issues during this time.
Note: So if the problem occurs again, you might want to check the above areas.
I checked the log files like you suggested but could not find any errors. I will talk to the network people and hope they find an issue on their side.
I guess you message are getting stucked in the DLNG status in the messaging system queue.
Check SAP Note 1604091 & 1473299 and set Maximum Concurrency and poolWaitingTime parameter.
Additional check this blog http://scn.sap.com/community/pi-and-soa-middleware/blog/2011/01/26/tuning-the-pi-messaging-system-queues and also increase the file adapter thread with the Messaging System parameter specified in SAP Note 791655.
(name=File_http://sap.com/xi/XI/System, messageListener=localejbs/AFWListener, exceptionListener=localejbs/AFWListener, pollInterval=60000, pollAttempts=60, Send.maxConsumers=10, Recv.maxConsumers=10, Call.maxConsumers=10, Rqst.maxConsumers=10).


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NHL Rumors: Blues, Blackhawks, Flames, More
In today's NHL rumor rundown, there are updates out of St. Louis where Patrick Maroon is finding he may not get what he wants, the Chicago Blackhawks feel they are a much better team in better salary cap shape but might not be done yet and the Calgary Flames are looking for the right deals, just not finding them. Are the Vancouver Canucks and Brock Boeser closer to a deal and did something go down between the Islanders and Robin Lehner?
Maroon Wants to Stay
Lou Korac of NHL.com is reporting that unrestricted free agent forward Patrick Maroon really wants to stay in St. Louis. Maroon went home to St. Louis and signed a one-year contract last summer. It was for a lower value than he wanted but the hope was that he'd impress and get a longer-term deal. Despite playing well in the second half of last season, it appears that plan hasn't worked out.
St. Louis Blues left wing Patrick Maroon and Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski (Billy Hurst-USA TODAY Sports)
Korac reports that limited salary cap space is going to see Maroon exit the Blues organization. There are too many restricted free agents on the Blues that need to be locked up and the risk Maroon runs by waiting is having what happened last offseason happen again. He waited too long and lost millions of dollars.
Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic reports Maroon has several one-year offers from around the league but is waiting for the right fit and at least a "couple years."
Sticking with the Blues, they have no plans to trade goaltender Jake Allen this offseason, according to Jeremy Rutherford. Allen has two years left on his deal and even with the emergence of Jordan Binnington, Allen is a part of the Blues future.
Related: Oilers News and Rumors: Broberg, Chiasson, UFA's, More
Chicago Blackhawks Not Done
Despite being one of the busier teams so far in the offseason, the Chicago Blackhawks are not necessarily done making moves. Charlie Roumeliotis of NBC Sports Chicago reports the Blackhawks still have three open roster spots, some restricted free agents and a player who might be a bit easier to trade now.
Artem Anisimov, Chicago Blackhawks, Nov. 9, 2017 (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Artem Anisimov received his $2 million bonus last week and he no longer has a modified no-trade clause. He carries a $4.55 million cap hit but only $5 million in salary for the next two seasons. For a team that isn't in cap trouble, he could be a viable option.
Flames Haven't Found the Right Deal
We reported a couple days ago that one of the reasons the Calgary Flames haven't been active in signing free agents is because they are looking to take care of some internal business first.
Flames GM Brad Treliving's acknowledged to reporters, including Postmedia's Kristen Anderson, that the team hasn't found a deal that makes sense just yet.
Anderson writes:
Treliving said they've been "active to try to create" cap space, but haven't been able to find things that fit and expects this "internal business" to take up the "lion's share" of the summer.
source – 'Flames GM Treliving calculating equations with impending contracts for Tkachuk, Rittich, Bennett' – The Calgary Sun – Kristen Anderson – 07/06/2019
Related: NHL Rumors: Big-Ticket Free Agents, Flames, Penguins, More
Boeser Interested in a Four-Year Deal
During a spot on TSN Radio Vancouver, Ben Kuzma said regarding the negotiations between the Vancouver Canucks and restricted free agent Brock Boeser, "I've learned the Boeser camp will do a 4 year deal with the #Canucks"
Lou and Lehner Had Something Go Down
It surprised many when Robin Lehner didn't re-sign with the Islanders and when the team then went and signed 31-year old Semyon Varlamov to four years at $5 million per season.
New York Islanders goaltender Robin Lehner (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Larry Brooks of NY Post is reporting there is some belief that something personal may have happened between GM Lou Lamoriello and goaltender Robin Lehner during contract talks. What that something was remains unclear, but it might explain why a goaltender that played so well for the Islanders and was key to their season wasn't really welcomed back and at the same time, the goaltender happy enough to leave.
Related: NHL Rumors: Devils, Oilers, Canadiens, More
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