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The following account is from Boys for Sale. A Sociological Study of Boy Prostitution by Dennis Drew & Jonathan Drake, New York, 1969, pp. 141-52.
There is little evidence that boy prostitution was very common in the early days of the founding of the United States of America. This was due to the fact that boys were available through other channels. In a society which was short of women, "bonded" boy apprentices, sent from England, and indentured servant boys from Germany and Scandinavia were used sexually in the absence of their female counterparts. The prostitution which did exist was largely of servant boys employed in taverns and hotels in seaport towns. They presumably catered to the sailors' lust for anal intercourse. Needless to say, their owners or "masters" pocketed the profits.
San Francisco, 1849
The earliest large scale boy prostitution was in the west, notably in San Francisco during the gold rush. (The same was true, to a lesser extent, in gold-rush Alaska.) There were the well-known "peg-houses" in San Francisco from 1840 through 1910. There are still a good many men alive who were inmates of such houses — not only in San Francisco, but also in Denver, Chicago, New York and Atlanta, as well as other large cities — the idea had gradually spread across the nation from the Bay City. Interviews with some elderly men who recall their youthful experiences in such houses have recently provided insight into these brothels that was not previously available.
The term "peg-house" was an old seafaring name for a boy brothel. The terminology stems from a custom in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ports where brothel boys were required to sit upon benches through which a peg had been hammered. The peg was greased and the top portion slipped into the anus of the sitting boy. Since the bottom of the peg stuck out underneath, it was an easy matter for sailors or other customers to gauge the size of penis that a boy was capable of encompassing. Since few customers wanted a boy whose anus had been distended beyond their own physical proportions, the system allowed them to select a boy exactly suited to their size organ.
Pegs also served another purpose. As long as the boys' anuses were kept dilated in this manner, they could permit penetration by a customer easily and painlessly. It made it physically easier for the boy and his customer, as well as insuring that a boy need not necessarily over-dilate or stretch (after which he would be less desirable to other patrons). The regularity of the peg allowed as many as ten customers a night with very little discomfort, especially considering that quite a large number of men are premature ejaculators. Furthermore, the boys in peg-houses were trained to perform fellatio as a preliminary to arouse a man as much as possible so that there would be a rapid turnover of clients.
We have few records of boys in American peg-houses actually sitting on the benches with any regularity but we know that wooden cylinders were used by their trainers to prepare them for their profession.
Most of the boys in the coastal peg-houses were poor runaways who had gone West in search of adventure. They were easily preyed upon and seduced by wily agents who received anywhere from $100 to $500 for each boy they delivered to the brothel syndicate. At first, the boys were sent to a farm or "camp" where they were fattened up, beautified and trained. (It is worth noting here that tastes at the turn of the century favored "chubby" physiques rather than the skeletal look so seemingly in today. Boys were not sent to the regular $1.00 houses until they were twelve or else quite large for their ages at 10 or 11. They usually stayed in the peg-houses until they were 16 or 17. Upper class, or "$10 houses" as they were called, (though prices varied for special features) had boys from 6 to 16. These expensive houses were luxury apartments, with special entertainments and demonstrations, dancing and liquor. Opium was sometimes available too. The boys in these houses were usually narcotics addicts and therefore easy to keep under control (through drugs) for as long a time as they remained desirable for sexual purposes.
Inside San Francisco, 1849
In the common "$1.00 houses", the boys served dozens of customers a day. These boys were kept in line with a whip, more often than not, but most of them seemed content and, if not, managed to conceal the fact fairly well. They were fearful of the strange "disappearances" of their fellow inmates from time to time. Some feared that when a boy gave trouble, he ended up in a sack of rocks at the bottom of the Bay. However, viewed from a strictly "business" angle, it seems improbable that the syndicate would waste one of its investments. What was more likely was that the boy was "transferred" or possibly sold to a brothel in Mexico, China or the Middle East. Ship captains, who purchased them for resale elsewhere, often ended up keeping them for themselves.
Up to 1900, there was considerable international traffic in little boys, similar to the "white slave traffic" in women that continued into the middle of this century, and is still going on in some areas.
Some men who patronized these turn-of-the-century brothels tell of houses where the inmates would be chained, strapped, and otherwise brutally handled by sadistic customers. There is no real evidence of the existence of such houses in the United States. Possibly, misbehaving boys were threatened with being sent to China. Poorly educated boys would not even know where "China" was, but doubtless assumed that it would be, at best, some rough part of San Francisco, and certainly not a port they wished to move to, wherever it was.
Although the peg-houses disappeared from San Francisco and Marin county by the beginning of World War I, San Francisco has continued to be a center of boy prostitution. A recent study of its Tenderloin district reported as many as 200 boy prostitutes operating there, some as young as 9. Many more were reported in two other well-known sections of the city. Recently, one of the authors talked with a 12-year-old boy prostitute in New York City. Two weeks later, in interviewing boy prostitutes in San Francisco, we met the same 12-year-old soliciting on Market Street. A man had picked him up in New York as a sexual travelling companion for an auto trip across the country and dropped him off in San Francisco. In our interviews with boys, we have encountered prostitutes in Chicago and Toronto whom we had interviewed just a few weeks earlier in Miami and New York.
We found no evidence of organized boy prostitution in San Francisco as conclusive as that we dug up in Miami and a few Canadian cities (as well as New York, of course). For the most part, the boys in San Francisco are amateurs — lone-wolf operators. Many are former reform school inmates. (One very young boy in the Bay area, reported that his introduction to anal intercourse was under the tutelage of the superintendent of his reform school). A large number of these kids are runaways, so, in a sense, they continue the ancient tradition of the old San Francisco brothel days.
In recent years, however, they are runaways from within the state of California. It is easier for the police to find and deal with runaways from other states than it is to handle suburban delinquents. The major source of boy prostitutes today is that of youngsters from fatherless homes in impoverished slum neighborhoods. They lack sophistication and are more easily entrapped than boys from inner-city slum areas.
Photo in California, Forever Yesterday by Kai Z Feng
Other than walking the streets, the most common means of boy prostitution in the West (and elsewhere) is hitch-hiking. This is most frequent of all in Los Angeles. Boys in high school and junior high all regard the boy who hitch-hikes as a hustler, or, at the very least, maintain that he is making himself available for a possible sexual approach. Men, in search of boys, go cruising for them in automobiles. In many cities there are well-known hamburger joints where teens "hang out" and where a man has only to park a popular model sports car for a few minutes before he is aware of several youngsters offering their company.
The growing acceptance of passive anal intercourse by high school and junior high boys in today's youth-oriented culture, has made it easier for boys to approach men less clandestinely than in the past. But, when a boy gets into a car and goes off to another city — to a strange place where he is lost, he often finds himself trapped. A man may take him to a house where several other men are waiting to have the boy "participate" in a "gang rape". Once the boy is made half-drunk, he offers little resistance. Usually he will have to go through a large variety of sexual acts. Thus, properly initiated, his head turned by the large amounts of money he can earn so easily, a boy can develop an easy method for going on with prostitution.
Although these young hustlers operate as lone wolves, they inadvertently aid the syndicate by patronizing the cheap hotels, motels and bars which are syndicate-controlled. Thus, without any involvement in boys' personal affairs, mobsters still can mint coin for his prostitution.
With the disappearance of boy brothels and with the constant danger of disease and/or arrest facing the man who involves himself with amateurs on the street, several new types of operations have developed on the North American continent.
There are, for example, resort hotels which deliver boys to the rooms of guests via the back stairway. In such hotels, all of the staff and employees are part of the system, even the women employees and the "house detective." One such Southern hotel is completely booked year-round and one can hardly get a reservation there without the recommendation from a friend who has been a past guest. The prices are abnormally high at these resorts and most of the customers are men, although there are enough unsuspecting women guests to give an outwardly respectable tone to the establishment. Most of the boys come from an adjacent town and the rural area surrounding it. A few actually live at the hotel.
Many men bring their own boys. For those who do not, the management can offer anything desired — any age, sex, color and activity, at very "reasonable" prices. It is referred to as "Companion Service." Most of the guests spend an average of five days on their visits.
Photo in The Boy: A Photographic Essay, 1964
Another new form of operation is a type of summer camp, operated in remote rural areas. Most of the activity is on weekends during the summer months. Occasionally, a customer brings his own boy but, for the most part, boys are supplied by the management. The local boys are from 7 up through college age. The camp is often a lakeside farm with its barns remodeled and divided into small rooms. When one arrives at the lake, he checks over the many naked boys swimming in the lake. This gives him an excellent chance to pick his roommate for the weekend.
The weekend price for room, board and boy is $500. Nearly all of the boys are runaways picked up by the management and placed in private homes where they live and go to school — visiting the farm only on weekends.
Patrons come from as far away as 2,000 miles for a weekend at the camp. The boys are well trained and most of them look forward eagerly to the weekend forays with adults. One interesting aspect of the operation is that the boys are never deliberately seduced. They are brought to the camp as neophytes and left to their own devices, being exposed to sexual activity only visually. If they join in, it's at their own initiative. When they discover that there is a good deal of money to be earned, they beg for seduction and subsequent training. This method eliminates many potential problems because the boys determine their own careers.
A third common means of operation in commercial boy prostitution is the "string of boys" who live in apartments. Such "strings" are operating today in New York and in other large cosmopolitan areas across the country.
There are many older persons in the United States who can still give first hand testimony to the earlier forms of boy prostitution — having been customers or prostitutes themselves. We report a few such cases where we have been able to obtain information from our interviews.
Case One: A baby boy was abandoned by a female prostitute in San Francisco. "Adopted" by the owner of a combination "saloon-whorehouse," he was cared for by the women prostitutes. While they adored and spoiled him, the only education they gave him was sexual. By the time the child was five, he was an expert at cunnilingus, a specialty which men paid good money to see him perform. He soon learned to perform oral caresses on male customers who paid well for this privilege. Complete fellatio was out of the question at his age. By the time he was 8, he was an expert young boy in satisfying men. He was able to be entered anally, which gave him great pleasure both physiologically (via his prostate gland), and psychologically because he was able to provide such real enjoyment for his men friends. In later life, perhaps identifying with the women around him, he was completely homosexual in his desires, eagerly servicing any man who showed the slightest interest in him. His most frequent duties were increasing the pleasure of men being serviced by women — they would be on one side of the man, and he would take the other. He grew up in the brothel, knowing hardly anything of the world outside.
Boys stripping bark at a lumber camp
Case Two: Similar to "lone wolf" amateurs of today were the many young boys who worked in all-male environments. Henry, at 14, signed on at a Western lumber camp. Like most adolescents, he had earlier been very much aware of homosexual desires and these were once again aroused at the communal bathing sessions on Saturday nights. Because of the shortage of hot water and heat, the men bathed together. Henry was amazed at the way the men seemed so intimate with one another — joking, making obscene remarks about penis sizes, and some even masturbating themselves openly with little or no concealment. The men around him immediately became aware of Henry's tender teenage softness, and the smooth roundness of his buttocks was a favorite topic of conversation on bath nights. He was often teased and men jokingly (?) propositioned him. Following his eventual rape by an overseer, and after a few casual relations during which Henry allowed other men to employ his anus, he began to take advantage of the propositions. With the help of the overseer, Henry soon set himself up in business Saturday nights, often working into the dawn hours. All of the men were eager to patronize him. The scene of operations was a blanket-draped bunk provided by the overseer who used Henry free-of-charge as compensation.
After a few months, the men talked openly of spending time in Henry's saddle, as they referred to his rear end. Henry took a commercial view of the whole thing. Though he did not anticipate any special pleasure from the intercourse, he admitted and appreciated the fact that most of the men were gentle in their relations with him.
One man, appropriately nicknamed "Hoss", because of his physical endowment, had never found any partner, with the exception of Henry, willing to permit penetration. As a result, "Hoss" fell desperately in love with the boy and eventually took him away to San Francisco where they lived almost as man and wife until the man was killed in a barroom brawl. Henry, then 18, quit homosexuality and prostitution, got married and fathered a large family.
Shoeshine Boy by John George Brown, 1896
Case Three: Mike was a 12-year-old Irish boy who worked as a bootblack in the San Francisco of the 1890's. He was always hanging around outside saloons, hustling for business. But, if Mike's mother thought that shining shoes was his only occupation, she would have been rudely surprised. Mike was one of the many boy-bootblacks who were much more "polished" at masturbating or fellating a customer than at waxing his boots. In darkened outhouses and alleyways, a small kneeling bootblack could easily fellate a customer. If anyone approached, the man could cover himself with his hat while the boy returned to giving the shoes a lick and a promise — resuming their more exciting activity after the intruder had gone on.
Mike admitted that his masturbation fantasies often centered around his being "shanghaied" and being forced to perform both orally and anally for the crew of a ship. In reality, since he found anal penetration rather painful, he much preferred fellating a man. On his heaviest day, he claims, he fellated thirty men, mentioning that most of the men were "pretty quick" about it. Many of his clients were married seafaring men and lumberjacks. When Mike came into casual contact with some of them years later, few of the men were able to recognize him as the young bootblack who had given them a few moments of pleasure in some alley years before.
Many sailors and lumberjacks (who bragged to their buddies about the good times they'd had in brothels) actually got most of their "kicks" with bootblacks like Mike. In the parlance of the day, to have a boy masturbate one was termed "getting a manicure," corresponding to today's "hand-job." Many of the boys did it for the money, but most agreed that they enjoyed seeing a man reach a climax. Some of them said they did it for the "danger" involved. Not only did they risk police intervention, but boys were filled with the idea of being shanghaied, a quite common practice in those days.


- Paulino De Los Santos Marcos flied out to left on a 1-0 count.
- Holguin Santos Gabriel Antonio struck out swinging on a 1-2 count.
- Linarez Ambiorix homered to center on the first pitch.
- Oviedo Mejia Jonathan Dionicio singled up the middle on a 1-0 count.
- Mordan de la Rosa Vladimir flied out to right on a 1-0 count.
- Sedin Robert singled up the middle on a 1-1 count.
- Watanabe Tatsuhiko safe at first on error by third baseman Morban Jose on the first pitch, Sedin Robert to second.
- Siegrist Tobias grounded into fielder's choice to third on a 1-2 count, Sedin Robert out at third, Watanabe Tatsuhiko out, third to second.
- Sanders James William lined out to first on the first pitch.
- Morban Jose hit bunt single to third on the first pitch.
- Del Muro Orlando hit sacrifice bunt, pitcher to first on a 0-1 count, Morban Jose to second.
- Morban Jose caught stealing, catcher to third.
- Delgado Ramirez Henry tripled to left on a 1-1 count.
- Reyes Cuello Jesus Alberto struck out looking on a 2-2 count.
- Nepomuceno Carlos Miguel struck out looking on a 2-2 count.
- Colindres Barrios Francisco struck out swinging on a full count.
- Martinez Marin Jesus Manuel singled to right on a 2-2 count.
- Steffen Simon struck out swinging on a 1-2 count.
- Paulino De Los Santos Marcos flied out to shortstop on a 2-0 count.
- Holguin Santos Gabriel Antonio singled to left on the first pitch.
- Linarez Ambiorix safe at first on error by shortstop Sedin Robert on the first pitch, Holguin Santos Gabriel Antonio to third.
- Oviedo Mejia Jonathan Dionicio struck out swinging on a 2-2 count.
- Mordan de la Rosa Vladimir flied out to left on a 3-1 count.
- Cinardi Luigi doubled to center on a 1-1 count.
- Sedin Robert singled through the right side on a 0-1 count, Cinardi Luigi scored.
- Watanabe Tatsuhiko grounded out, third to first on a 2-2 count, Sedin Robert to second.
- Sedin Robert to third on defensive indifference, Siegrist Tobias to second on defensive indifference.
- Sanders James William walked on a full count.
- Nepomuceno Carlos Miguel grounded into fielder's choice to second on a 2-2 count, Sedin Robert scored, Siegrist Tobias to third, Sanders James William out, second to shortstop.
- Colindres Barrios Francisco grounded out, third to first on the first pitch.
- Morban Jose singled to center on a 1-1 count.
- Morban Jose safe at second on Siegrist Tobias wild pitch.
- Del Muro Orlando grounded out, third to first on a 2-1 count.
- Delgado Ramirez Henry walked on a 3-1 count.
- Reyes Cuello Jesus Alberto hit sacrifice bunt, pitcher to first on the first pitch, Morban Jose to third, Delgado Ramirez Henry to second.
- Paulino De Los Santos Marcos struck out looking on a 2-2 count.
- Martinez Marin Jesus Manuel singled to center on a 1-2 count, Martinez Marin Jesus Manuel to second.
- Bernet Garcia Oliver grounded out, second to first on a 1-2 count, Martinez Marin Jesus Manuel to third.
- Cinardi Luigi intentionally walked.
- Sedin Robert grounded into double play, second to first on the first pitch, Cinardi Luigi out, shortstop to second.
- Holguin Santos Gabriel Antonio grounded out, third to first on a 0-2 count.
- Linarez Ambiorix grounded out, third to first on a 2-1 count.
- Oviedo Mejia Jonathan Dionicio singled to right on a 3-1 count.
- Mordan de la Rosa Vladimir flied out to right on a 1-1 count.
3B: Delgado Ramirez, H. (1,Sanders).
HR: Linarez, A. (1,1st inning off Patrone 0 on,2 out).
S: Del Muro, O., Reyes Cuello, J..
Team RISP: 0-5 (Paulino De Los Santos, M. 0-1, Oviedo Mejia, J. 0-1, Mordan de la Rosa, V. 0-1, Del Muro, O. 0-1, Reyes Cuello, J. 0-1).
CS: Morban, J. (1,3rd base by Sanders/Cinardi).
E: Morban, J. (2,ground ball).
DP: 2(Morban J.-Reyes Cuello J.;Paulino De Los Santos M.-Reyes Cuello J.-Linarez A.).
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: Lopez, N. 6-1.
Game Scores: Lopez, N. 44.
RBI: Sedin, R. (1), Nepomuceno, C. (1).
GIDP: Sedin, R., Siegrist, T..
Team RISP: 1-6 (Sedin, R. 1-2, Siegrist, T. 0-1, Nepomuceno, C. 0-1, Colindres Barrios, F. 0-1, Bernet Garcia, O. 0-1).
E: Sedin, R. (1,ground ball).
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: Patrone, S. 0-2, Sanders, J. 1-2, Siegrist, T. 4-1.
Game Scores: Patrone, S. 46.


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No mystery here: Linda Greenlaw to release new swordfishing book
By Kris Osgood — September 1, 2009
Fans of Linda Greenlaw are in for an unexpected treat. Greenlaw recently finished her first nonfiction book in five years; publication is set for spring 2010.
The book, tentatively titled Seaworthy, chronicles the 52-day swordfishing voyage Greenlaw made last fall, in which she returned to the industry after a nine-year absence.
Those anticipating Greenlaw's third Jane Bunker mystery have an indefinite wait ahead of them. After completing Fisherman's Bend, she and publisher, Hyperion, came to an agreement releasing Greenlaw from her contractual obligation to write a third work of fiction.
According to Greenlaw, of Isle au Haut, halfway through her work on Fisherman's Bend the editor she had always worked with at Hyperion quit his job. "I really liked him," she said, "he had become a good friend." He continued to work with Greenlaw to finish Fisherman's Bend, but that was it.
After that, Greenlaw's literary agent encouraged her to make a move, and she did. Her relationship with Hyperion "ended on a good note," she said, "I didn't burn any bridges." Greenlaw explained, "I enjoy my non-fiction books more than my fiction. That's not to say I won't write a third Jane Bunker someday."
After her release from Hyperion, Greenlaw's agent was able to get her a new deal with Viking/Penguin for two books of non-fiction. The first of these is Seaworthy. Greenlaw felt that her return to swordfishing was fresh fodder for a non-fiction book, and wanted to "strike while the iron was hot."
This trip, which began September 16, 2008, made headlines last fall when Greenlaw was arrested for illegally entering and fishing in Canadian waters. The arrest came at the beginning of the trip, after the first set of the season. Though Greenlaw admitted to being technically guilty of the charge (she crossed the international line accidentally), after a lot of thinking she pleaded not guilty in order to have an opportunity to tell her side of the story in Canadian court. "I wanted to get the facts out," she said. "There was a lot of misinformation after my arrest." The boarding of her boat, her arrest and her day in court are detailed in the book.
The second book in the contract, according to Greenlaw, will be a follow-up to The Lobster Chronicles. It will update the reader on changes in the community on Isle au Haut, as well as in Greenlaw's personal life. Most notably, Greenlaw will write of how she recently became the legal guardian to a 17-year-old girl, and all the changes that come with parenting a teenager. When pressed for details, Greenlaw demurred, because "I want to save it for the book."
In a separate contract, Greenlaw will also write a second cookbook with her mother, Martha Greenlaw.
Linda Greenlaw returned to swordfishing as part of Discovery Channel's latest documentary series "Swords: Life on the Line" which premiered August 11. "Swords" is a "Deadliest Catch"-style show that follows several swordfishing boats and their crews through the 2008 swordfish season.
The series premiere highlighted Greenlaw and the trouble she and her crew had with their boat, Sea Hawk, before they even reached the fishing grounds. The show earned high Nielsen ratings, ranking second among primetime ad-supported cable telecasts, and number 11 among all networks, surpassing several primetime broadcast programs, including ABC's "Better Off Ted" and CBS's "Medium," according to tvbythenumbers.com.
The show was produced by Original Productions, which had a tentative deal with NBC. After that deal fell through, it was uncertain whether the show would ever make it to the air. Eventually Discovery Channel picked it up. Producers had little communication with Greenlaw for months after taping ended, so it came as a bit of a surprise when she was told the premiere date early this summer. She says she was pleased with the end result. "I thought they did a good job keeping the tension," she said. "I was on the trip and I know what happened, and I was still nervous. It was sort of exciting."
There is already speculation about whether there will be a second season of "Swords," and consequently another fishing season for Greenlaw. "I am hoping to know that very soon," she said, as swordfishing season begins in September. Though, as Greenlaw noted, "It depends if Discovery wants to do season two. And then do they want Linda Greenlaw? I have been hearing things, but not from the right people." Greenlaw was absolutely clear on one point. If there is a second season of "Swords" in her future, "I'm not going in that boat," she said. "I want a better boat."
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Only one figure was seen walking through the darkness. This woman, with long flowing hair and a gorgeous voice, stood ready at the keyboards. Glitbiter, hailing from Los Angeles, kicked off the two-nights of Echosynthetic Fest with a shimmering synth-led opening; the command of the stage was already in check. Her dreamy "Airship" was taking off.
And, swept up in the emotion of the moment, I had to catch my breath: the song was a favorite of mine and had kicked off many a fine playlist I have made for myself and others. In fact, as I was sharing with her earlier in the evening, the song was the first I listened to on my flight to Atlanta. And now she was performing it LIVE.
"I'm looking for stories," she sang . . .
Her set was a strong one, made perfect by the ease with which she took the stage.
Even the crowd, some who had made the trek to Atlanta for two years in a row, commented on the confidence as Glitbiter, while the lights turned a bold red, dove straight into a cover of Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain". To say that she silenced us all with her performance is an understatement.
Then the lights came up and all mouths hung open. She had a stunning effect on the audience.
Those mouths would only be closed only by the cherry red keytar of Watch Out For Snakes. And for good reason.
Stomping through an aggressive display of greased-up chiptunes and dark synth beats, Watch Out For Snakes simply destroyed the stage on Friday night of Echosynthetic Fest. He made it his own. His fury was instantaneous and nonstop as he plowed through his set with keytar in hand. Heads were banging and hearts were pounding in response to "Torn" and his set remained lit.
As drenched in sweat as the crowd was, it only took the first few minutes of Cemetery Gates' haunted set to cool them down. The performance, complete with live drums, was a blistering arrangement of vocalized songs. Mesmerizing and moody, the group ripped through their latest release, Slow Death, The Worse Is Over, and put the crowd, including myself, into a trance-like state where the pleading of "slow death, the worst is over" over and over became a rally cry.
Leave it to Ethereal Delusions, with his sexually suggestive exercise videos and his on-point cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" to shake the audience free from the "Cemetery" spell. In merely a few short minutes, the crowd was spiraling with glee into the cosmic dreamwave that is this artist's specialty.
Look up Electrofunk in the dictionary and you could probably see a colorful photograph of Ethereal Delusions, with his pink hat and his blazing red beard, as the only definition provided (or needed). His performance, as he navigated between keyboards and the microphone, was a masterful expression of glitch and tonic IDM. In other words, for a Friday night as chilly as this one was, his performance was perfectly executed.
Glitch Black explains, "As an artist who performed at both the first and second Echosynthetic Festivals, it's been fascinating to see how other returning artists have evolved from a year ago. From holding a stronger stage presence to displaying better visuals, everyone continues to get better and better." As far as I am concerned, his thoughts expand to himself because Glitch Black, in full regalia, whipped the crowd into a righteous fury.
With his closing, there was only the headliner left: Vampire Step-Dad. The cool! The charisma! The sweater! The guitar! Uncle Steve! And the songs! Vlad did not disappoint. He was upbeat, had great banter with the audience, and made the audience dance their asses off. His set, featuring "The Skating Rink" and "Night: Shift Theme" was simply unstoppable. So, too, was his enthusiasm for the crowd and their energy. His parental love was felt by everyone in the audience and made for one hell of a nightcap on the opening night of EchoFest 2018.
As stated by Ethereal Delusions, "Echosynthetic did an amazing job setting the festival up and put us all in a position to make us look fantastic and have an amazing time." For my money, that extended to the audience as well. Everyone was smiling. Everyone looked great – especially those in sequin capes – and, yes, Saturday night would have to bring it hard in order to match the intensity and sheer awesomeness of the opening night.
Don't worry, kiddos, Saturday night's line-up, including a blistering performance from the night's headliner Gregorio Franco and the EPIC live debut from Unholy Rat King, was definitely up to the challenge . . .


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Sárkuti Dugovich Imre (Kiscell, 1862. március 2. – Székesfehérvár, 1921. május 7.) hírlapiró.

Életútja

Dugovich Miklós megyei hivatalnok és Hock Jozefa fia. A család Mátyás királytól kapta a nemességet Sárkuti előnévvel. Csáktornyán végezte a négy osztályú polgári iskolát és Szombathelyen a főgimnázium négy évét, ahol érettségi vizsgát tett. 1881-ben mint növendékpap a veszprémi szemináriumba lépett; azonban 1884-ben a papi pályát elhagyta s a magyar királyi belügyminisztériumban mint irattárnok nyert alkalmazást. Innét 1887. augusztus 1-jén a szófiai császári és királyi diplomáciai ügynökséghez küldték és 1887 decemberében kinevezték dragománnak. 1892-ben betegeskedése miatt kénytelen volt állását elhagyni és ezután Budapesten volt hírlapiró. Beszélt és írt magyarul, németül, horvát-szerbül, bolgárul, franciául és olaszul; oroszból is fordított. Halálát tüdővész okozta. Felesége Bertrand Anna volt.

Hírlapi cikkeket írt a Svoboda c. bolgár lapba (1889–90.) Munkatársa volt a Strausz Adolf által kiadott Népköltési gyűjteménynek. A Nemzetnek 1891. július 23-tól levelezője volt (Bulgária, Románia és Szerbiából); e lapba írt A bolgár mythologia ereklyéiről (1891. karácsoyni szám.) Az Egyenlőségbe A spanyol zsidók Bulgáriában c. cikksorozatot írta (1892) és a Magyar Salonban jelent meg Carmen Sylva Marie c. regényének fordítása. Szerkesztette a Fejér megyei Friss Hirek c. lapot.

Munkái

 Budapest. Bpest, 1888. (Bolgárul. Előbb a Svobodában jelent meg.)
 Bolgár nyelvtan. Iskolai és magán használatra. Uo. 1892. (Strausz Adolffal együtt.)

Jegyzetek

Források

 Budapesti Hírlap, 1921. május 11.

Magyar újságírók
1862-ben született személyek
1921-ben elhunyt személyek

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Urs Lüzi (5 de julio de 1957) es un expiloto francés que disputó en Campeonato del Mundo de Motociclismo entre 1986 y 1989.

Biografía
Urs comienza su carrera internacional en el Campeonato Europeo de Motociclismo en 1985 en la que conseguirá una victoria en Portugal en la categoría 250 cc con Yamaha, cerrando su temporada en la quinta posición. Continúa su experiencia europea en 1986 y mejoraría su clasificación al acabar tercero en la general con un tercera posición en Donington como mejor clasificación. Sería ese año en el que debutaría en el Mundial en el manillar de una Yamaha del equipo Wintershall Racing. Tuvo algunos problemas al inicio de la temporada pero logrará acabar en Holanda y San Marino. Integrado en el equipo La Parisina - ELF con Jacques Cornu como compañero, Urs mejoraría sus prestaciones en 1987 con un sexto lugar en el Gran Premio de Checoslovaquia para terminar la temporada en la vigésima posición de la clasificación final. Todavía dentro de la misma estructura en 1988 solo pudo puntuar en el Gran Premio de Portugal y finalmente se clasificará en posición 43 del Mundial de 250cc.

Resultados de carrera

Campeonato del Mundo de Motociclismo

Carreras por año

Sistema de puntos desde 1969 a 1987:

Sistema de puntos desde 1988 a 1992:
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%;"
|-
! Posición
| width=20| 1.º
| width=20| 2.º
| width=20| 3.º
| width=20| 4.º
| width=20| 5.º
| width=20| 6.º
| width=20| 7.º
| width=20| 8.º
| width=20| 9.º
| width=20| 10.º
| width=20| 11.º
| width=20| 12.º
| width=20| 13.º
| width=20| 14.º
| width=20| 15.º
|-
| | 20
| 17
| 15
| 13
| 11
| 10
| 9
| 8
| 7
| 6
| 5
| 4
| 3
| 2
| 1
|}

(Carreras en negrita' indica pole position, carreras en cursiva'' indica vuelta rápida)

Referencias

Nacidos en 1956
Pilotos de motociclismo de Suiza
Pilotos de 250 c.c.
Pilotos de Yamaha
Pilotos de Honda en motociclismo


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\title{Majorana neutrino versus Dirac neutrino \\
       in ${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$ \\
       through radiative corrections}
\author{Y.~Katsuki, M.~Marui, R.~Najima$^{*}$,\\
        J.~Saito$^{**}$ and A.~Sugamoto}
\address{Department of Physics, Faculty of Science,
         Ochanomizu University, \\
         Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112, Japan \\
         \\
         $^{*}$
         Department of General Education,
         Yokohama College of Comerce, \\
         Kanagawa 203, Japan \\
         \\
         $^{**}$
         Suzugamine Women's College, \\
         Hiroshima 733, Japan}
\abst{Radiative corrections to
      ${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$
      from Majorana neutrinos are studied in the context
      of the see-saw mechanism.
      Focusing on the effects of the fourth generation neutrinos,
      we calculate W-pair form factors, the differential cross sections
      and the forward-backward asymmetries for the polarized electrons at
      one-loop level.
      The behaviour of the form factors at the threshold of Majorana
      particle pair productions
      is found to differ from that of Dirac particle pair productions.
      In the cross section for unpolarized electrons,
      the radiative corrections, depending on the mass parameters of
      the see-saw mechanism,
      are found to be $\sim 0.5\%$ at the energy range of the LEP200 and
      the next generation linear colliders.}
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Precision experiments can probe new physics beyond the standard model,
because heavy particles do not necessarily decouple in low-energy processes
\cite{KL}. In the processes
${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm f}\overline{{\rm f}}$
observed at the current colliders (LEP, SLC), the dominant effects of heavy
particles appear only in the corrections to the self erergies of gauge bosons.
These effects can be summarized into three parameters $S$, $T$ and $U$
\cite{PT} or $\epsilon _{1}$, $\epsilon _{2}$ and $\epsilon _{3}$ \cite{AB},
which have been estimated in various models. On the other hand , in the
process ${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$
which is the most important process in the LEP200 experiments, the effects
of heavy particles appear not only through the self energies of gauge bosons
but also through the trilinear gauge vertices
AW$^{+}$W$^{-}$ and ZW$^{+}$W$^{-}$.
Radiative corrections to this process in the standard model with heavy Dirac
fermions or heavy scalars have already been studied
\cite{APLS}. In this letter we investigate
radiative corrections to
${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$ from heavy
Majorana neutrinos in the context of the see-saw mechanism \cite{See-Saw}.
Focusing on the fourth generation neutrinos, we calculate W-pair form factors
and the differential cross sections for the polarized electrons and W bosons
at one-loop level.

We consider a model containing the fourth generation leptons having no
mixing with other generations \cite{HP}. Recent measurements at LEP and SLC
do not rule out the existence of the fourth neutrino but constrain its mass
to be greater than $45$ GeV. We assume the following mass term
for the neutrinos
\[
{\cal L}_{{\rm mass}}
  =-\frac{1}{2}\overline{(N_{{\rm L}}\; N_{{\rm R}}^{{\rm c}})}
       \left( \begin{array}{cc}
                0           & m_{{\rm D}} \\
                m_{{\rm D}} & M_{{\rm R}}
              \end{array} \right)
       \left( \begin{array}{c}
                N_{{\rm L}}^{{\rm c}} \\ N_{{\rm R}}
              \end{array} \right)
     + \mbox{h.c.},
\]
where $N^{{\rm c}}=C\overline{N}^{{\rm T}}$ is the charge-conjugated state of
$N$. We expect that the Dirac masses of neutrinos $m_{{\rm D}}$ generated by
the vacuum expectation value of ordinary Higgs bosons are comparable to
the masses
of their charged lepton partners $M_{\rm E}$. On the other hand, the
right-handed Majorana mass $M_{{\rm R}}$ originates from \lq \lq beyond the
standard model". In order to get positive mass eigenvalues, we diagonalize the
mass matrix and perform the chiral transformation. The result is given by
\[
{\cal L}_{{\rm mass}}
  =-\frac{1}{2}\overline{(N_{1}\; N_{2})}
      \left( \begin{array}{cc}
                M_{1} & 0    \\
                0     & M_{2}
             \end{array} \right)
      \left( \begin{array}{c} N_{1} \\ N_{2} \end{array} \right), \\
\]
where
\begin{eqnarray*}
 \left( \begin{array}{c} N_{1} \\ N_{2} \end{array} \right) & = &
  \left( \begin{array}{cc}
            i\gamma _{5}c & -i\gamma _{5}s \\
            s             & c
         \end{array} \right)
  \left( \begin{array}{c}
            N_{{\rm L}} + N_{{\rm L}}^{{\rm c}} \\
            N_{{\rm R}} + N_{{\rm R}}^{{\rm c}}
         \end{array} \right), \nonumber \\
 M_{1,2} & = &
  \frac{1}{2}(\sqrt{M_{{\rm R}}^{2}+4m_{{\rm D}}^{2}} \mp M_{{\rm R}}),
\\
 \tan \theta & = & \frac{M_{1}}{m_{{\rm D}}}
               = (\frac{M_{2}}{m_{{\rm D}}})^{-1} \qquad (M_{1}<M_{2}),
\end{eqnarray*}
where $s=\sin \theta, c=\cos \theta $.
In the fourth generation the smaller mass eigenvalue $M_{1}$ should be greater
than $45$ GeV. Moreover, the Dirac mass $m_{{\rm D}}$ is bounded above because
of the requirement of triviality; $m_{{\rm D}}$ is of the order of the weak
scale. Consequently, it turns out that the Majorana mass $M_{{\rm R}}$ cannot
be so large, and the two mass eigenvalues $M_{1}$ and $M_{2}$ are also the same
of order of magnitude, {\em i.e.}, the see-saw is almost balancing in the
heavy neutrino sector. In this case, the existence of the right-handed
Majorana mass $M_{{\rm R}}$ affects various weak processes through the large
left-right mixing. Contributions to $S$ and $T$ parameters in this model have
already been calculated and turned out to be negative when
$\tan \theta \sim 0.4$ \cite{BS,GT}. We will pay attention to this Majorana
mass region, because the precision mesurements at LEP favor negative values for
$S$ and $T$ \cite{Neg-ST}.

With the self-conjugacy of the majorana fields $N_{1}$ and $N_{2}$
under the charge conjugation operation,
the fermion currents can be written in terms of mass-eigenstates,
\begin{eqnarray}
 J_{\mu }^{Q} & = &
  Q^{\rm E}\overline{E}\gamma _{\mu }E,
\nonumber \\
 J_{\mu }^{3} & = &
  I_{3}^{\rm E}\overline{E}\gamma _{\mu }\frac{1-\gamma _{5}}{2}E
  +I_{3}^{\rm N}\left(
   -\frac{1}{2}c^{2}\overline{N_{1}}\gamma _{\mu }\gamma _{5}N_{1}
   -\frac{1}{2}s^{2}\overline{N_{2}}\gamma _{\mu }\gamma _{5}N_{2}
   +isc\overline{N_{2}}\gamma _{\mu }N_{1}\right),
\nonumber \\
 J_{\mu }^{+} & = &
   \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}
    \left(-ic\overline{N_{1}}+s\overline{N_{2}}\right)
     \gamma _{\mu }\frac{1-\gamma _{5}}{2}E,
\nonumber \\
 J_{\mu }^{-} & = &
   \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}
    \overline{E}\gamma _{\mu }\frac{1-\gamma _{5}}{2}
    \left(icN_{1}+sN_{2}\right),
\label{eq:currents}
\end{eqnarray}
where $E$ refers to the
charged lepton field. We note that the Z coupling to
neutrinos with the same masses is axial vector, while it becomes a vector
coupling when mixing the neutrinos with different masses.

We now consider the radiative corrections to
${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$
at one-loop level.
Because the mixing between heavy leptons and an electron is probably small
and negligible, if it exist,
the radiative corrections appear dominantly in the self energies and
the corrections to the
trilinear vertex corrections of gauge bosons. These corrections belong to
\lq \lq oblique" ones \cite{KL}.
A renormalization
program for oblique corrections is proposed by Kennedy and Lynn on the
concept of effective lagrangian \cite{KL}. The extension of their formalism
to the process of
${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$ is given by
Ahn, Peskin, Lynn and Selipsky \cite{APLS}.
They express the s-channel amplitude at one-loop level for on-shell W bosons
with running coupling constant $e_{*}$, the running wave-function
renormalization
constant of W boson $Z_{{\rm W}*}$ \cite{KL} and the vertex function
$\Gamma ^{\mu \alpha \beta }$ into which A and Z vertices are combined:
\[
{\cal M}_{s}^{{\rm 1-loop}}=
     -\frac{ie_{*}^{2}}{P^{2}}Z_{{\rm W}*}\overline{v}\gamma _{\mu }u
     \Gamma ^{\mu \alpha \beta }
     \varepsilon _{\alpha }^{*}(q)\varepsilon _{\beta }^{*}(\overline{q}),
\]
where $P,\, q$ and $\overline{q}$ are momenta of V, ${\rm W}^{-}$ and
${\rm W}^{+}$,
$u$ and $v$ are spinors of ${\rm e}^{-}$ and ${\rm e}^{+}$ and
$\varepsilon _{\alpha }(q)$ and $\varepsilon _{\beta }(\overline{q})$
refer to the polarization-vectors of ${\rm W}^{-}$ and ${\rm W}^{+}$,
respectively.

Here, we define the modified vertex function
$\overline{\Gamma }^{\mu \alpha \beta }
 =Z_{{\rm W}*}\Gamma ^{\mu \alpha \beta }$
and express it in terms of W-pair form factors $f_{i}^{\rm V=A,Z}$
and canonical Lorentz structures $T_{i}$, following
Hagiwara {\em et al.} \cite{HPZH}.
(In ref.~\cite{APLS}, $Z_{{\rm W}*}$ is omitted in the definition of
W-pair form factors and is multiplied to the cross sections afterward
as the overall factor.)
\[
\overline{\Gamma }^{\mu \alpha \beta }
 =\sum_{i=1}^{7}(Qf_{i}^{{\rm A}}
  +\frac{I_{3}-s_{*}^{2}Q}{s_{*}^{2}}\frac{P^{2}}{P^{2}-m_{{\rm Z}}^{2}}
  f_{i}^{{\rm Z}})T_{i}^{\mu \alpha \beta },
\]
\begin{eqnarray*}
T_{1}^{\mu \alpha \beta } & = & (q-\overline{q})^{\mu }g^{\alpha \beta },
\qquad \qquad
T_{2}^{\mu \alpha \beta }=-\frac{1}{m_{{\rm W}}^{2}}
                          (q-\overline{q})^{\mu }P^{\alpha }P^{\beta },
\\
T_{3}^{\mu \alpha \beta } & = & P^{\alpha }g^{\mu \beta }
                                -P^{\beta }g^{\mu \alpha },
\qquad
T_{4}^{\mu \alpha \beta }=i(P^{\alpha }g^{\mu \beta }
                            +P^{\beta }g^{\mu \alpha }),
\\
T_{5}^{\mu \alpha \beta } & = & i\epsilon ^{\mu \alpha \beta \rho }
                                 (q-\overline{q})_{\rho },
\qquad \quad
T_{6}^{\mu \alpha \beta }=-\epsilon ^{\mu \alpha \beta \rho }P_{\rho },
\\
T_{7}^{\mu \alpha \beta } & = &
  -\frac{1}{m_{{\rm W}}}(q-\overline{q})^{\mu }
  \epsilon ^{\alpha \beta \rho \sigma }P_{\rho }(q-\overline{q})_{\sigma },
\end{eqnarray*}
where $s_{*}$ is the running weak mixing angle defined by Kennedy and Lynn,
$Q$ and $I_{3}$ are the charge and the isospin of ${\rm e}^{-}$, respectively,
and we use the Minkowskian convention with $\epsilon _{0123}=1$.
Form factors can be written in terms of the self energies $\Pi _{XY}$ and
the vertex corrections $\Sigma _{X}^{i}$
\begin{eqnarray}
f_{1}^{{\rm A}} & = &
 1+g_{*}^{2}\bigl[\Sigma _{Q}^{1}+\Pi' _{11}\bigr],
\nonumber \\
f_{1}^{{\rm Z}} & = &
 1+\frac{g_{*}^{2}}{c_{*}^{2}}
  \bigl[(\Sigma _{3}^{1}-s_{*}^{2}\Sigma _{Q}^{1})+c_{*}^{2}\Pi' _{11}\bigr]
  +\frac{M_{{\rm Z}*}^{2}-m_{{\rm Z}}^{2}}{P^{2}-m_{{\rm z}}^{2}},
\nonumber \\
f_{3}^{{\rm A}} & = &
 2+g_{*}^{2}\bigl[\Sigma _{Q}^{3}+2\Pi' _{11}\bigr],
\nonumber \\
f_{3}^{{\rm Z}} & = &
 2+\frac{g_{*}^{2}}{c_{*}^{2}}
  \bigl[(\Sigma _{3}^{3}-s_{*}^{2}\Sigma _{Q}^{3})+2c_{*}^{2}\Pi' _{11}\bigr]
  +2\frac{M_{{\rm Z}*}^{2}-m_{{\rm Z}}^{2}}{P^{2}-m_{{\rm z}}^{2}},
\nonumber \\
f_{i}^{{\rm A}} & = &
 g_{*}^{2}\bigl[\Sigma _{Q}^{i}\bigr],
\nonumber \\
f_{i}^{{\rm Z}} & = &
 \frac{g_{*}^{2}}{c_{*}^{2}}
  \bigl[(\Sigma _{3}^{i}-s_{*}^{2}\Sigma _{Q}^{i})\bigr],
\qquad \qquad i=2,\, 4,\, 6,\, 7,
\label{eq:form-factors}
\end{eqnarray}
where we adopt the notation of ref.~\cite{APLS},
$g_{*}$ and $M_{{\rm Z}*}$ is the running coupling constant and the running
Z boson's mass defined by Kennedy and Lynn, respectively, and
$\Pi '_{11}\equiv \Pi '_{11}(m_{\rm W}^{2})$.
These form factors, especially in the limit
of low energies, are controled by gauge or global symmetries
\cite{APLS,HPZH,H,AW}.

Using the currents in eq.(\ref{eq:currents}), we can now calculate
the one-loop corrections in eq.(\ref{eq:form-factors}) due to the leptons
in the fourth generation. First, we present the expressions for the self
energies
\begin{eqnarray}
16\pi ^{2}\Pi _{QQ} & = &
 -(Q^{\rm E})^{2}8P^{2}\bigl[\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
 - {\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\bigr],
\nonumber \\
16\pi ^{2}\Pi _{3Q} & = &
 -(Q^{\rm E}I_{3}^{\rm E})4P^{2}\bigl[\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
 - {\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\bigr],
\nonumber \\
16\pi ^{2}\Pi _{33} & = &
 -(I_{3}^{\rm E})^{2}
 \bigl[4P^{2}\{\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               -{\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}
      -2M_{\rm E}^{2}\{\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               +{\bf b_{0}}(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 -(I_{3}^{\rm N}c^{2})^{2}
 \bigl[4P^{2}\{\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               -{\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{1}^{2})\}
      -4M_{1}^{2}\{\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               +{\bf b_{0}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{1}^{2})\}\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 -(I_{3}^{\rm N}s^{2})^{2}
 \bigl[4P^{2}\{\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               -{\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\}
      -4M_{2}^{2}\{\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               +{\bf b_{0}}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\}\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 -2(I_{3}^{\rm N}c^{2})(I_{3}^{\rm N}s^{2})
 \bigl[4P^{2}\{\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               -{\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\}
\nonumber \\
 & & \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad
      -(M_{1}-M_{2})^{2}\{\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               +{\bf b_{0}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\}
\nonumber \\
 & & \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad
       +(M_{1}^{2}-M_{2}^{2})
        \{{\bf b_{1}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{2}^{2})
          -{\bf b_{1}}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{1}^{2})\}\bigr],
\nonumber \\
16\pi ^{2}\Pi _{11} & = &
 -c^{2}\bigl[2P^{2}\{\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               -{\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}
              -\frac{1}{2}(M_{\rm E}^{2}+M_{1}^{2})\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
\nonumber \\
 & & \qquad \qquad \quad
         +M_{1}^{2}{\bf b_{1}}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})
         +M_{\rm E}^{2}{\bf b_{1}}(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{1}^{2})\}\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 -s^{2}\bigl[2P^{2}\{\frac{1}{6}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
               -{\bf b_{3}}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}
              -\frac{1}{2}(M_{\rm E}^{2}+M_{2}^{2})\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
\nonumber \\
 & & \qquad \qquad \quad
         +M_{2}^{2}{\bf b_{1}}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})
         +M_{\rm E}^{2}{\bf b_{1}}(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\}\bigr],
\label{eq:pi}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}$ is the divergence of the dimentional
regulatization,
$\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}=2/(4-D)-\gamma+\ln 2\pi$.
The vertex corrections can be written as follows
\begin{eqnarray}
\Sigma_{Q} & = &
 \frac{1}{2}Q^{\rm E}c^{2}\bigl[
  H(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{1}^{2})
  -G(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{1}^{2})\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 +\frac{1}{2}Q^{\rm E}s^{2}\bigl[
  H(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{2}^{2})
  -G(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\bigr],
\nonumber \\
\Sigma_{3} & = &
 \frac{1}{2}I_{3}^{\rm E}\bigl[
  c^{2}H(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{1}^{2})
  +s^{2}H(P^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2},M_{2}^{2})\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 -\frac{1}{2}I_{3}^{N}\bigl[
  c^{4}\{\tilde{H}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})
        +\tilde{G}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}
\nonumber \\
 & & \qquad \qquad
 +s^{4}\{\tilde{H}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})
        +\tilde{G}(P^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}
\nonumber \\
 & & \qquad \qquad
 +2s^{2}c^{2}\{\tilde{H}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})
              -\tilde{G}(P^{2},M_{1}^{2},M_{2}^{2},M_{\rm E}^{2})\}\bigr].
\label{eq:sigma}
\end{eqnarray}
The functions $H$ and $G$ in the above expression are
\begin{eqnarray}
16\pi ^{2}H(P^{2},m_{1}^{2},m_{2}^{2},m_{3}^{2}) & = &
 T_{0}\bigl[-\frac{2}{3}\overline{\epsilon }^{-1}
  +{\bf c_{0}}+{\bf c_{1}}
  -\frac{m_{\rm W}^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}({\bf c_{4}}-{\bf c_{5}})
  -\frac{P^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}({\bf c_{6}}+{\bf c_{7}})\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 +T_{2}\bigl[-4\frac{m_{\rm W}^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}{\bf c_{7}}\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 +T_{3}\bigl[{\bf c_{0}}-3{\bf c_{1}}
  -\frac{m_{\rm W}^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}(2{\bf c_{3}}-5{\bf c_{4}}+3{\bf c_{5}})
  +\frac{P^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}({\bf c_{6}}+3{\bf c_{7}})\bigr]
\nonumber \\
 & & \mbox{}
 +T_{5}\bigl[{\bf c_{0}}-3{\bf c_{1}}
  +\frac{m_{\rm W}^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}({\bf c_{4}}-{\bf c_{5}})
  -\frac{P^{2}}{\mu ^{2}}({\bf c_{6}}-{\bf c_{7}})\bigr],
\nonumber \\
16\pi ^{2}G(P^{2},m_{1}^{2},m_{2}^{2},m_{3}^{2}) & = &
 (T_{0}-T_{3}+T_{5})
   \bigl[\frac{m_{1}m_{2}}{\mu ^{2}}({\bf c_{2}}-{\bf c_{3}})\bigr].
\label{eq:HG}
\end{eqnarray}
Here $T_{0}\equiv T_{1}+2T_{3}$ is the only Lorentz structure at tree
level, $\mu $ is a reference point and the ${\bf c_{i}}$ have arguments
$(P^{2},m_{1}^{2},m_{2}^{2},m_{3}^{3})$.
We ommit gauge anomaly terms in eq.(\ref{eq:HG}), because they should cancel
themselves if we consider the full fourth generation.
The functions $\tilde{H}$ and $\tilde{G}$ are obtained by reversing the sign
of $T_{5}$ in eq.(\ref{eq:HG}). The reduced Passarino-Veltman functions
${\bf b_{i}}(P^{2},m_{1}^{2},m_{2}^{2})$ and
${\bf c_{i}}(P^{2},m_{1}^{2},m_{2}^{2},m_{3}^{3})$ in eq.(\ref{eq:pi}) and
(\ref{eq:HG}) \cite{APLS,PV} are defined as folows
\begin{eqnarray*}
 [{\bf b_{0}},{\bf b_{1}},{\bf b_{3}}] & = &
  \int \! dxdy \delta (1-x-y)\ln (D_{2}/\mu ^{2})[-1,x,xy],
\\ \mbox{}
 [{\bf c_{0}},{\bf c_{1}}] & = &
  \int \! dxdydz \delta (1-x-y-z)\ln (D_{3}/\mu ^{2})[1,z],
\\ \mbox{}
 [{\bf c_{2}},{\bf c_{3}},{\bf c_{4}},{\bf c_{5}},{\bf c_{6}},{\bf c_{7}}]&=&
 \int \! dxdydz \delta (1-x-y-z) (\mu ^{2}/D_{3})
\\
 & & \quad
 \times [1,z,z^{2},z^{3},xy,xyz],
\end{eqnarray*}
\begin{eqnarray}
 D_{2}&=&-xyP^{2}+xm_{1}^{2}+ym_{2}^{2}-i\epsilon ,
\nonumber  \\
 D_{3}&=&-z(1-z)m_{\rm W}^{2}-xyP^{2}
  +xm_{1}^{2}+ym_{2}^{2}+zm_{3}^{2}-i\epsilon .
\label{eq:bc}
\end{eqnarray}

We note that Lorentz structures $T_{4}$, $T_{6}$ and $T_{7}$ disappear
in eq.(\ref{eq:HG}). The W-pair form factors corresponding to these Lorentz
structures are $CP$ variant \cite{HPZH}, and hence should vanish explicitly
in $CP$ conserving models such as we consider here.
We also note that the
threshold behaviour of the form factors for ${\rm N}_{1}$s'
(${\rm N}_{2}$'s) pair production
and for ${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$ production are different.
In the self energies, this difference can be seen easily from eq.(\ref{eq:pi}),
as a differnce in the power of $\beta _{ij}$;
$\beta _{ij}\equiv [1-(M_{i}+M_{j})^{2}/P^{2}]^{1/2}$.
The leading terms of $\Pi _{33}$ at ${\rm N}_{1}$s' (${\rm N}_{2}$'s)
pair production threshold
and
at ${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$ production threshold
are proportional to $\beta _{11(22)}^{3}$ and
$\beta _{12}$, respectively \cite{M}.
We will discuss the threshold behaviour of the form factors containing
the vertex corrections afterward.

Now, we peform the numerical calculations using the method in ref \cite{FSKO}.
We fix the following parameters to the
values at energy scale of $m_{{\rm Z}}$:
\[
\alpha ^{-1}_{*} = \frac{4\pi }{e_{*}^{2}} = 128.0, \qquad s_{*}^{2} = 0.2319,
\qquad
m_{{\rm Z}} = 91.187\; \mbox{[GeV]},
\]
where we neglect the running effects of $e_{*},\, s_{*}$ \cite{KL,PT}.
We also set $m_{{\rm W}} = 80.22$ [GeV].

The real parts of the corrections to W-pair form factors
$\Delta f_{i=1,2,3,5}^{\rm Z}$
from heavy neutrinos and charged
leptons are shown in fig.1(a) and 1(b),
where neutrinos are Dirac and Majorana particles, respectively.
The form factors $\Delta f_{2}^{\rm A,Z}$ are quite small,
as can be seen in fig.1, since these form factors correspond to the
dimension $6$ operators \cite{APLS,HPZH}.
Therefore the radiative corrections due to the heavy fermions mainly
appear in the other form factors.
We can see cusps in the $\Delta f_{1,3,5}^{\rm Z}$-lines at the
Dirac neutrino threshold in fig.1(a) and in the $\Delta f_{5}^{\rm Z}$-line at
${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$ threshold in fig.1(b). The enhancement at
${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$ threshold is very small because of the small
couplings including the mixing angle in eq.(1). On the other hand,
$\Delta f_{1,3,5}^{\rm Z}$-lines are not cusped at ${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{1}$
threshold as seen in fig.1(b). In self energies, as mentioned above,
the difference of threshold behaviours depending on the neutrino types
has been checked analytically.
Numerical calculations including vertex corrections also suggest that
threshold behaviours are scalar-like for ${\rm N}_{1}$'s (${\rm N}_{2}$'s)
pair production, but Dirac fermion-like for ${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$
production. This is caused by the difference in the coupling types between
$Z\overline{N_{1}}N_{1}$ ($Z\overline{N_{2}}N_{2}$) and
$Z\overline{N_{1}}N_{2}$ in eq.(\ref{eq:currents}).
It is also helpful to recognize that the two Majorana particles of
the same kind (${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{1}$ or ${\rm N}_{2}$-${\rm N}_{2}$) are
produced by the p-wave from the spin 1 photon or Z boson, in the same manner as
the scalars' pair production, whereas the different kinds of neutrinos
(${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$) are produced by the s-wave,
which happens in the ordinary Dirac fermions' pair production.
The difference appeared in the threshold behaviours may be understood as
$\beta ^{2l+1}$ for the $l$-th wave with the relative velocity $\beta $.

Next, we present the results on the differential cross sections
$d\sigma /d\cos \Theta $ and
the forward-backward asymmetries $A_{FB}$.
Since the vertex corrections, on which we concentrate in this paper, appear
only on s-channel gauge boson exchange diagrams, we plot $d\sigma /d\cos \Theta
$ and $A_{FB}$ for right-handed polarized electrons in fig.2 $\sim $ fig.4.
Hereafter we consider the full fourth generation with
degenerate quarks, and set $M_{\rm U}=M_{\rm D}=M_{\rm E}=500[\rm GeV]$, where
$M_{\rm U}$, $M_{\rm D}$ and $M_{\rm E}$ are masses of up-type quark,
down-type quark and charged lepton, respectively.
In fig.2, we plot the differential cross section $d\sigma /d\cos \Theta $
at scattering angle $\Theta = \frac{\pi }{2}$
in units of the point cross section $1R=4\pi \alpha ^{2}_{*}/3s$ with $s=P^{2}$
and $\alpha_{*} =1/128.0$.
We find that the differntial cross sections depend on the neutrino types, i.e.,
Majorana neutrino or Dirac neutrino, and their masses, although no
sizable peaks
can be seen except for the charged particles' pair production threshold.
The anguler distribution of the differntial cross section is shown in fig.3.
At any scattering angle, the heavy fermions make the correction less than
about $1\%$ at $\sqrt{s}=170$ [GeV] and
less than about $4\%$ at $\sqrt{s}=300$ [GeV].
In fig.4 we plot the forward-backward asymmetry $A_{FB}$ for
${\rm e}^{+}_{\rm L}{\rm e}^{-}_{\rm R}\! \rightarrow {\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$
with unpolarized final W's,
in the angular range $|\cos \Theta |\le 0.98$. For this initial polarization
, $A_{FB}$
is controled by two form factors $f_{5}^{\rm A}$ and $f_{5}^{\rm Z}$ which
vanish at tree level. At one-loop level, these form factors also vanish when
we consider a full generation with degenerate Dirac fermions.
(Note that the functions $\tilde{H}$ and $\tilde{G}$ in eq.(\ref{eq:sigma})
are obtained by reversing the sign of $T_{5}$ in eq.(\ref{eq:HG}).)
Hence the non-vanishing $A_{FB}$ is solely due to the Majorana mass
$M_{\rm R}$ in line(B) or due to the Dirac mass spliting in line(D).

To discuss the observability of the radiative corrections at LEP200 or at the
next generation linear colliders, we estimate the cross section for
unpolarized electrons.
At tree level, the cross section $\sigma $ in the angular range
$|\cos \Theta |\le 0.98$ is $16.80$ [pb] at $\sqrt{s}=175$ [GeV] and
$11.45$ [pb] at $\sqrt{s}=300$ [GeV]. The effect of radiative corrections is
$0.6 \sim 0.7\%$ at both energies. At LEP200 with an integrated luminosity of
$500$ [pb$^{-1}$], it is difficult to measure the deviation from the tree level
value.
However, at the next generation linear colliders with
$\sqrt{s}=300\, [{\rm GeV}] \sim 1.5\, [{\rm TeV}]$ and an integrated
luminosity of $5\times 10^{4}$ [pb$^{-1}$], the deviation depend on the
neutrino types and their masses will be mesureable.

In summary, we have investigated the one-loop corrections due to the heavy
Majorana neutrinos in the process
${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}\! \rightarrow{\rm W}^{+}{\rm W}^{-}$ which will be
seen in LEP200 and the next generation linear colliders.
We have estimated W-pair form factors in terms of reduced Passarino-Veltman
functions.
We have found that the threshold behaviour of these form factors is
scalar-like for a pair of
light neutrinos (${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{1}$) or a pair of heavy neutrinos
(${\rm N}_{2}$-${\rm N}_{2}$) production, while that is Dirac fermion-like for
light and heavy neutrinos (${\rm N}_{1}$-${\rm N}_{2}$) production.
We also have estimated the differential cross section and the
forward-backward asymmetry, numerically,
and have found them depending on the Dirac mass and the mixing angle in the
see-saw mechanism even at low energies.
The deviation of the cross section from the tree level one will be measurable
at the next linear colliders.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
The authors would like to thank N. Nakazawa and K. Kato who offered
the computer program useful for performing Feynman Parameter integrals.
They are also grateful to T. Inami, C.S. Lim and I.Watanabe for discussions.
This work is in part supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (No. 05640336).
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A star battalion chief at the Fire Department of New York was killed Tuesday morning when a house explosion rocked a Bronx neighborhood, jolting residents out of their beds, authorities and witnesses said.
Michael Fahy, a 17-year veteran and a father of three, was rushed to a hospital but could not be saved.
The house and surrounding buildings, in the Kingsbridge neighborhood, had been evacuated before the 7:30 a.m. blast following a gas leak report. Fahy was directing operations from the street when he was hit by falling debris, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro and Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a hospital briefing.
Investigators were working to determine whether the location was a marijuana grow house, said police Commissioner James O'Neill.
The force of the blast moved mugs in a cabinet several houses away, according to resident Mary Lahti, who also had dust covering her furniture.
Fahy, who was promoted to chief in June 2012, had a doctorate from New York Law School. He got his undergraduate degree from New York's Binghamton University in 1994 and his master's degree at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security's Naval Postgraduate School, according to education records.
"He was on the rise; he was a star," said Nigro. The chief said he was a contemporary of Fahy's father, who had been a fire chief before his son.
Residents milled around in the aftermath: debris strewn on the street and covering parked cars; the former house a mangled heap of walls, wiring and twisted metal. Authorities said the house had renters, and they were looking into who they were.
"The explosion felt like a bomb on my house," said Nicholas Kolotouros, who lives across the street. "We got scared, and we jumped out of bed. We didn't know what it was."
Within minutes, police told him to leave his house, one of a lineup of two-story homes on a tree-lined street.
Lahti woke up around 6:30 a.m. "smelling something odd, but I wasn't sure what it was," she said. "It didn't smell like gas, really."
She went back to sleep. The explosion woke her up an hour later. "I thought it was a car that ran into the house, the way the house shook. I was jolted out of bed," she said.
"When I looked out the window, it was a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke," Lahti said. Hours later, occasional whiffs of smoke still floated over the neighborhood.
"It's scary," she said. "And that's why you have to be aware of what's going on around you."
Associated Press writers Kiley Armstrong and Ula Ilnytzky in New York and Michael Sisak in Philadelphia contributed to this report.


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Golf Town, the official retailer of the Future Links, driven by Acura Golf in Schools program, has adopted 93 elementary schools in support of the second annual Adopt a School Week.
In total, Golf Town's donation is valued at over $44,000, a number that further reinforces their commitment to the future of Canadian junior golf since joining as a program sponsor in August. The 93 adoptions were made possible through a fundraising initiative at Golf Town stores across Canada, giving customers the opportunity to donate towards the adoption of a school in their local area.
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Alexander Zverev's holiday in the Maldives will be that much more enjoyable next week after the 21-year-old followed in the footsteps of fellow German Boris Becker, who won the last of his three season finale titles in 1995, with victory over Novak Djokovic at the Nitto ATP Finals on Sunday. Zverev has also finished the year among the Top 4 in the ATP Rankings for a second straight season.
Zverev, who was emotional and admitted to being dazzled by the silver trophy in his post-final press conference, admitted, "This trophy means a lot, everything, to all the players. I mean, you only have so many chances of winning it. You play against the best players only. How I played today, how I won it, for me, it's just amazing."
As the youngest singles champion at the season finale since Djokovic clinched the crown in 2008, aged 21, when the event was played in Shanghai, Zverev fell to his knees in celebration on court after beating World No. 1 and five-time former titlist Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 at The O2 in London.
"I fell to my knees, so my knees kind of hurt," said Zverev. "Apart from that, I was very happy. Obviously, it's quite astonishing, winning this title, beating two such players back-to-back, Roger [Federer] and Novak, in semi-finals and final. It means so much. I'm incredibly happy and incredibly proud of this moment right now."
Zverev recovered from a 6-4, 6-1 round-robin loss to Djokovic on Wednesday to become the first player to beat Roger Federer (in Saturday's semi-finals) and Djokovic at the Nitto ATP Finals. He is the first player since 1990 to beat the top two seeds, replicating the feat of Andre Agassi who knocked out Becker in the semi-finals and Stefan Edberg in the final.
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Zverev completed the season with an ATP World Tour-best 58 match wins on the season (58-19 overall), which includes three other trophies at the Mutua Madrid Open (d. Thiem), the BMW Open by FWU (d. Kohlschreiber) and the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. (d. De Minaur).
"[Djokovic and Federer] are still going to be the guys to beat at the big tournaments," said Zverev. "[But] I will do everything I can to get better, to compete with them always. I feel like I'm doing that. But I still have a lot of things to improve. I'm still very young. Hopefully, next year, I'll be able to play better tennis than I did this year, even though it's been a good year."
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Benidorm - Austrian Maria Steinmayr, one of 17 competitors taking part in Benidorm's annual World Championship BASE jumping competition, was lucky to survive after crashing into the building on her way down.
BASE jumping is an activity where participants jump from fixed objects and use a parachute to break their fall. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
Steinmayr, a 22-year-old BASE jumper, had already completed a successful leap from Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Tower at 320 metres.
However, Steinmayr was not so lucky when competing in the Valencian city of Benidorm.
Steinmayr started losing control soon after jumping off Benidorm's Hotel Bali, Europe's tallest hotel standing at 210 metres. After leaping from the 52-storey hotel on Friday and opening her parachute, she was propelled back towards the building and crashed into the skyscraper on her way down.
She managed to land on her feet on one of the hotel's upper floors and quickly made the attempt to complete her jump, pushing herself off the ledge and out into the void again. However, this move was unsuccessful and within seconds she was heading toward the building yet again, with no control over her landing.
Steinmayr went legs-first through the glass window of a balcony on the 10th floor and narrowly escaped the concrete beams on either side.
A British couple who were reportedly staying down the hall heard Steinmayr banging on doors for help and tended to her many cuts until medics arrived. She only suffered bruises to her elbows, knees and nose.
And for those wondering, Steinmayr's helmet cam ran out of batteries so she didn't capture the unexpected adventure.


Body: Always pushing our creative boundaries, L-SPARK approached us about creating some clean, short alumni stories. We interviewed 5 CEOs of past L-SPARK companies and the result launched last week. Check it out here!


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31st Dec '13
2013 Contest Winners Announced
This year the Lorian Hemingway Short Story competition, now in its 33rd year, received 1,197 entries from the United States and around the world. Stories were received from Singapore, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, India, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, and Nigeria, to name a few. We are honored, as always, to have had these remarkable stories entrusted to us.
Our first-place winner will receive a cash prize of $1,500 and publication inCutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, founded by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. Second and third-place winners will receive cash prizes of $500 each. Please know that Honorable Mention are listed in no particular order.
Carol Farrelly: Edinburgh, Scotland, for her story "The Telephone Man"
Bryan Allen Fierro: Anchorage, Alaska, for his story "Beto Ordonez"
Eva Lomski: Victoria Australia, for her story "When the Dirt Starts Moving"
Homa Mojtabai of Santa Monica, California, for her story: "Berries"
Courtney Isbell Fowler of Tempe, Arizona, for her story: "The Patron Saint of Girls"
Elan Zafir of Washington, D.C., for his story: "Cloud Stop"
Pat Spears of Tallahassee, Florida, for her story: "Stranger at My Door"
Ian Caskey of Brooklyn, New York, for his story: "Night at the Oasis"
C.M. Wade of Fort Worth Texas, for his story: "What's So Wrong"
Marilyn Warner of Colorado Springs, Colorado, for her story: "August Blood and Ransom"
D.C. Gallant of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, for her story: "The Coin Purse"
Adam Stanley of Rome, Georgia, for his story: "To Lie Down in Green Pastures"
Milly Heller of New Orleans, Louisiana, for her story: "Beckoning"
Marie Vernon of St. Augustine, Florida, for her story: "Blind Faith"
Pamela Hawthorne of Lake Wylie, South Carolina, for her story: "Keep We From Ebil"
Rigel Madsong of Mill Valley, California, for his story: "A Language for Allye"
Christi Cartwright of Syracuse, New York, for her story: "The Rain"
John V. Breen of Lymm, Cheshire, United Kingdom, for his story: "The Long Hate"
Katherine Hardy of (No city or state given), for her story: "Minnow"
Samuel Joseph Taibi of North Kansas City, Missouri, for his story: "Angel Pop"
Fate Thompson of Folly Beach, South Carolina, for her story: "Buck Snort"
Chukuemaka Smith of St. Petersburg, Florida, for his story: "Jumping High"
Randy Coates of Toronto, Ontario Canada, for his story: "Casino"
Michael J. Franich of Milton, Washington, for his story: "Une Lettre a un Amie"
Michael J. Shepley of Sacramento, California, for his story: "What She Said"
Cathy Worthington of San Diego, California, for her story: "Laid Off"
Micah Ward of Colorado Springs, Colorado, for her story: "Eye Contact"
Audrey Ward of Saint Helena, California, for her story: "Finding Real"
Patrick McCusker of Delgany, Wicklow County, Ireland, for his story: "Illusions in the Flow of Dreams"
Vickie Weaver of Hagerstown, Indiana, for her story: "The Shootist"
Kate Zahnleiter of Annerley, Queensland, Australia of for her story, "The Missing Places"
Karen Stevens of Coulee City, Washington, for her story: "All Things Relative"
Lottie Brent Boggan of Jackson, Mississippi, for her story: "The Chosen"
Patrick McCusker of Delgany, Wicklow County Ireland, for his story: "The Quarry Gang Kids"
William Pei Shih of Flushing, New York, for his story: "Big Fish"
Jim Dane of Wayzata, Minnesota, for his story: "Annie Without Flowers"
Nikki Cole of Douglasville, Georgia, for her story: "These Thoughts"
Daphne Kingma of Santa Barbara, California, for her story: "Light"
Shaun T. Griffin of Virginia City, Nevada, for his story: "Welton"
Daphne Kingma of Santa Barbara, California, for her story: "Her Father's Body"
Steve Lautermilch of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, for his story: "Au Sable"
Amanda Futrell of Antioch, Tennessee, for her story: "What Allen Took"
Lindsay M. Mixer of Fullerton, California, for her story: "Muscle Memory"
Karen Stevens of Coulee City, Washington, for her story: "The Eight Horse Motor and Other Warnings"
Wynona Bice-Stephens of Honolulu, Hawaii, for her story: "Crossville"
Laura O'Gorman of Singapore, for her story: "Water and Spice"


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"Once upon a time, the gods decided . . ."
"One day, Paul Bunyan picked up his ax . . ."
"Have you ever heard the story about the fisherman and the three magical fish . . . ?"
What exactly is a myth? And what's a legend or a folktale? Are they just different names for the same thing?
The word myth comes from the Greek mythos, which means "story." Unlike a legend or a folktale, the word myth is reserved for stories about gods and their interactions with humans. Greek or Roman, Hawaiian or Hindu, a story about a god, hero, or supernatural being is known as a myth. Myths explain the reason things are the way they are: how humans began; where the Moon, Sun, and stars came from; why leopards have spots and elephants have trunks.
Legends are about humans rather than gods. Although legends are often based on facts and believed to be true, they can have supernatural elements.
Folktales are traditional stories told by "common folk." Usually, folktales focus on everyday life.
Myths, legends, and folktales have some clear differences. They're also similar. The lines between these types of stories sometimes blur like flavors in a fruit salad. Even experts have a hard time agreeing on exact definitions of these terms.
One thing they have in common, however, is oral tradition. This means they are usually passed from one person to another by talking. In general, storytellers around the world do not invent their stories. Instead, they hear and repeat them, adding their own personal touch as they go. This goes on from generation to generation.
Sometimes, an ethnologist hears and records stories. Ethnologists study and compare cultures. For example, ethnologist William Drake Westervelt is known for his study of ancient Hawaiian traditions, including storytelling. In his search for myths about Pele, goddess of fire, he collected both oral and written stories.
Myths, legends, and folktales also appear in paintings, sculpture, music, dance, and drama. The Ramayana, an epic story from Hindu mythology, relates the adventures of Rama, a prince who takes on the power of Vishnu, god of the universe. On the island of Bali, the Ramayana is enacted with shadow puppets, with music played on gongs, chimes, and drums.
In the African country of Mali, the Dogon people tell stories about the universe. They make paintings on the ceilings of caves that tell these stories, and they carve wood to depict the gods.
Through the ages, myths, legends, and folktales remain alive in the memory of the people.
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Kurt, can you tell us about the style of your newest premiere for FBP?
My style of movement has always been rooted in the use of momentum, weight, gravity and risk taking. I am fascinated by crafting and creating patterns that manipulate the space to create different visual textures. I pushed the dancers to explore their use of falling into the floor. This idea is not always utilized in ballet dancing so it was a challenge. I enjoy introducing and trying different ideas that may not always work. I believe trying many different options until I find the one that flows and make sense. My new work is called "Sojourn" and I am truly proud of what the dancers and I have created together.
Tell us about the beautiful music the dancers will be reacting to. Did you find the music before you began working on the movement?
Yes! I have been wanting to work with this piece of music for a while now. The minimalist style of music inspires me and allows my imagination to soar in a multitude of different directions. The music is truly magical.
It really is. So once you have the music, where do you find inspiration?
I find inspiration from many different places. I am particularly inspired by the environments I come in contact with and the diversity of different people around me. I love the outdoors and the unpredictability of nature. The dancers bring inspiration to me by just bringing their vulnerability into the rehearsal process.
I love how you keep mentioning this partnership between you and the dancers in the creation process. What has the experience been like?
The dancers at FBP are truly stellar artists in every way. The community here at FBP is super supportive in and out of the studio. The energy in a room is incredibly important during my creative process. The dancers bring their A game every time we work together, and for that I am truly grateful to them.
That's so inspiring. Hopefully the audience can feel that as well! How do you think the Providence audiences will respond to this piece?
I think the Providence audiences will enjoy watching the beautiful dancers of FBP move in a contemporary way. They will enjoy the opportunity to get lost in the beautiful score and of the intricate visual patterns that the dancers create. The dancers truly make this piece their own and tell their own stories through the movement. I think that anyone who comes to see Up Close on Hope: Program 1 will not be disappointed.
This is an entire program of premieres! How do you think people will react to seeing Sojourn in the Black Box Theatre?
The audience will accompany the dancers as they journey a from one unknown place to another. I hope that after seeing this work in the Black Box Theatre the audience's imaginations will be sparked in a new and creative way. Hopefully they will reflect and celebrate their own journey's after experiencing the work.
Up Close really is a special kind of performance, isn't it? Does the Black Box present any challenges or unique opportunities choreographically?
One aspect about making a work in the Black Box Theatre is the intimacy of the space. The relationship between the dancers and the audience is special because the audience sits extremely close to the action happening on stage.
To see Sojourn and the rest of the premieres at Up Close On Hope, click here for tickets.