Laughter is well on its way at Bay Street Theatre. The comedy "Lend Me a Tenor" launched a season of laughter on Saturday with more to come with the Monday Night Comedy Club. The stand up comic series opens tonight at the theater on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor. The comedy series takes place during a time when the mainstage productions are taking the night off. Together, the theater is live every night of the week for most of the season. Following "Lend Me a Tenor" are two more comedies, ensuring the season will be a fun one.
"It's going to be a summer full of laughs, that's for sure," noted Tracy Mitchell, executive director of Bay Street Theatre, in a recent release.
"Lend Me a Tenor," directed by Don Stephenson, opened on June 1 and runs through June 23. Charles Ludlam's "The Mystery of Irma Vep," directed by Kenneth Elliott, runs from July 2 through 28. Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," is presented from Aug 6 to Sept 1. The musical's book is by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. It is directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
"Lend Me a Tenor" cast, show production team and Bay Street Theatre team. Photo by Barry Gordin.
The Bay Street Comedy Club kicks off tonight (June 3) with the return of Ralphie May. Voted one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch" in 2008, May has filmed a record-setting three separate one-hour Comedy Central Specials in the past three years, all of which were among the network's most highly-rated.
Ralphie May. Courtesy of Bay Street Theatre.
Jim Breuer returns to Bay Street's Comedy Club on Monday, June 10. Breuer has been a stand-up comedian since his school days at Valley Stream Central High and went on to success in "Saturday Night Live," feature films and to much acclaim on Comedy Central.
Jim Breuer. Courtesy Bay Street Theatre.
On Monday, June 17, the All-Star Comedy Showcase takes the stage. It is hosted by Joseph Vecsey and features rising stars from the stand-up scene with comedy by Kenny Garcia, Vic Henley, Chris Clarke and Mark Riccadonna.
Additional Monday Night Comics slated to appear include Dom Irrera, Paul Reiser, David Brenner, Amy Schumer, and Paula Poundstone. Keep your eye on the Bay Street Theatre website for details.
Amy Schumer. Courtesy Bay Street Theatre.
Adding extra laughter will be a separate evening by comic Colin Quinn. He's scheduled to appear on Saturday, June 29, with his Off-Broadway show "Colin Quinn Unconstitutional!" Quinn is a Saturday Night Live veteran and Bay Street Theatre regular. Tickets are $62 for members and $69 for non-members.
Opening the mainstage's summer of comedies is "Lend Me a Tenor." Set in 1934, "Tenor" tells the story of the renowned opera singer "Il Stupendo,"who is accidentally given a double dose of tranquilizers while staying in a Cleveland, Ohio, hotel, causing a chain reaction of mistaken identity, double-entendres and musical mayhem. "Lend Me a Tenor" was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber on both London's West End (1986) and Broadway (1989). It received nine Tony Award nominations and won for Best Actor and Best Director. As a Broadway revival, "Lend Me a Tenor" opened in 2010. The play has been translated into 16 languages and produced in 25 countries.
The cast for the Bay Street production of "Lend Me a Tenor" includes Judy Blazer, Scott Cote, Betsy DiLellio, Donna English, Nancy Johnston, Noah Plomgren, Steve Rosen and Roland Rusinek.
Judy Blazer. Courtesy Bay Street Theatre.
Following "Lend Me a Tenor," the mainstage season continues with "The Mystery of Irma Vep" (July 2-28) starring the newly announced cast of Tom Aulino and David Greenspan under the direction of Kenneth Elliott. This satire of several theatrical and film genres, which first opened in 1984 Off-Broadway, includes Victorian melodrama, farce and the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rebecca" (1940).
The play is written for two actors who, between them, play eight characters of both sexes. Played in camp style, it contains the occasional jibe of an adult nature, but is largely acceptable for younger audiences. Time Magazine and The New York Times both named "The Mystery of Irma Vep" one of the Best Plays of the Year, and in 1991, it was the most produced play in the United States.
BASIC FACTS: Monday Night Comedy Club Lineup begins on June 3 and continues on Monday nights through August. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Comics slated to appear include Ralphie May, Jim Bruer, Joseph Vecsey, Kenny Garcia, Vic Henley, Chris Clarke, Mark Riccadonna, Dom Irrera, Paul Reiser, David Brenner, Amy Schumer, and Paula Poundstone. Tickets are $15 in advance and $25 on the day of the event.
"Lend Me a Tenor" opened on June 1 and remains on the mainstage through June 23. Tickets are $59.50 and $69.50.
"Colin Quinn Unconstitutional!" takes place on Saturday, June 29. Tickets are $62 and $69.
RELATED: "'Lend Me a Tenor' Launched the Mainstage Season at Bay Street Theatre." Published May 31, 2013.
We saw "Lend me a Tenor" this weekend on Opening Night. What a breath of fresh air has come into Bay Street this season! The fun is back and with it, some wonderful talent who take to the stage in this brilliant farce that puts smiles on everyone's faces. The audience loved it! It's going to be one great season at Bay Street!


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Google showed this phone mockup that might be the next Nexus
Updated: May 29, 2015, 6:18 AM
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Android M has gone official, and it's bringing some significant improvements to six key areas: app permissions, web experience, app links, mobile payments, fingerprint support, and power and charging.
What is particular interesting, though, is that Google showed a mockup of a phone that might be a hint of what the next Nexus phone would look like. Of course, this is just a mockup used for illustration that future devices will ship with USB Type-C, the new connector type that enables much faster charging, but it's also curiously similar to the Nexus 5.
LG's Nexus 5 was one of the best received Nexus phones, but Google has recently discontinued the phone, leaving the ecosystem with no regular-sized smartphone (the Nexus 6 is a monstrous 6-inch phone).
So hopefully, this little slide serves as inspiration for a future Nexus 5 successor, as it does look mighty sleek, doesn't it?

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In this article, we'll discuss Nicki Minaj's dating life, net worth, age, birthday, family & relationship information, facts, and biography.
Who is Nicki Minaj dating right now?
Nicki Minaj is not dating anyone and is married to Kenneth Petty.
Nicki Minaj Net Worth
She makes money through her endorsements, her deals with different record companies, and her shows. The rapper has a net worth of $130 million.
Networth: $130 Million
Primary Income Source: Singer
Nicki Minaj – Biography / wiki
Nicki Minaj is a popular American and Trinidadian Rapper, Actress, Songwriter, Singer, Model, and Social Media Personality. She graduated from the performing arts school in New York City. She and her mother moved to New York City after 5 years of her birth. Her fan's following is increasing day by day, and she has composed a few music albums. She has done a lot of commercials and music videos. She was born in a country in the Caribbean that was well-settled in her family.
Full Name: Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty
Other names: Nicki Lewinski, Nicki The Harujuku Barbie, Roman, Nicki The Ninja
DOB: 8-Dec-82
Birth Place: Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean
Ethnicity: Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian Descent
Hometown: Queens, Borough, New York City
Lives in: Los Angeles
Nationality: American and Trinidadian
Residence Address: Los Angeles
Occupation: Rapper, Songwriter, Singer, Actress, and Social Media Personality
She is currently 40 years old. Her date of birth was December 08, 1982. She was born on a Wednesday.
Nicki Minaj place of birth is Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean. Her hometown is Queens, Borough, New York City.
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Her elder brother is in jail for predatory sexual assault, her younger brother is a social media personality, and her twin sister is also a social media personality. Before marrying Kenneth Perry, he dated several other people, including Drake who is an American rapper, Nas who is an American rapper, and Emmitt who is an American rapper. Carol Maraj is a singer with Trinidadian ancestry. Papa Bear was born on September 30, 2020. Robert Maraj is a financial executive and a part-time singer.
Spouse: Kenny Petty (m. 2019)
Husband: Kenneth Petty
Boyfriend: Kenneth Petty, Safaree Samuels (Ex), Drake (Ex), Meek Mill (Ex), s (Ex), Eminem (Ex)
Children: Papa Bear (Nickme) (Son)
Parent Name: Robert Maraj, Carol Maraj
Father's Name: Robert Maraj
Mother's Name: Carol Maraj
Sister's Name: Maya Maraj (Half-Sister)Ming Maraj
Brother's Name: Jelani Maraj, Micaiah Maraj
A beautiful and very hot actress, singer, model, and music artist named nicki minn is currently in the American film and television industry. She is 5 feet and 2 inches in height and has a body weight of 62 kg. She has long black hair and dark brown eyes. She has nice body measurements. She has a very hot figure with her figure measurement measuring 40 to 45 inches.
Height: 5' 2″
Weight: 62 kg (136 lbs)
On March 29, 2010, she released her first single, Massive Attack, which was dropped from the album due to poor commercial performance, but her second single, Yours Love, peaked at number 14 on the Hot 100 and Number 1 on the Billboard Rap songs chart. Her highest-charting single in the US to date was her song "Anaconda", which was released in August. The records for the most Hot 100 entries by any female artist were broken by her three singles. It reached Number 3 on the Hot 100 and was certified Octuple Platinum in the US. On December 15th, The PinkPrint was officially released and became the second Number 2 on the US Billboard 200 with huge sales receiving positive comments from the critics.
Debut: Music Video: Pink Friday (2010), Film: Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Famous Role: Steffie in the Film Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Twitter: @NICKIMIJ
Facebook: @nickimij
Instagram: @nickimij
School/High School: Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, New York City, US
Things were not great between Miley Cyrus and Nicki. Clive Janaka, a Chicago-based artist, sued her in September of last year, accusing her of plagiarizing his work. In the year 2015, the famous pop star Taylor Swift wasn't nominated for the MTV, VMA for Best Video and hence she sent an emotionally wounded retort. The father had a violent temper.
Zodiac / Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Compatible Sign: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Opposite sign: Gemini
Zodiac Sign Gemstones: Topaz
Birth Flower: Narcissus
Birth Stone: Blue Zircon, Turquoise, & Tanzanite
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What is Nicki Minaj's current age?
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How tall is Nicki Minaj in real life?
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Is Nicki Minaj married?
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How much is Nicki Minaj worth?
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Saturday, June 23 | 7:45pm
Tivoli Cinemas in Westport
Young gay men on the threshold of adulthood. From first crush to first encounters. From one night stands to what happens next. It's all here...including a new film that picks up from where a gay classic left off. This exclusive Saturday night fourplay is our homage to the legendary gay film series, BOYS LIFE, which began in 1994 and became the most popular gay anthology DVD series ever made with its enticing stories of love, lust and liberation.
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Carson, a gay twenty-something looking for love on all the wrong apps. After being shamed by an online hookup for being too "femme", Carson must confront his own notions of masculinity and gender roles within the LGBTQ community. Set in Hell's Kitchen, the center of New York City gay life, Carson embarks on a hilarious journey towards self discovery and acceptance by way of a manic existential crisis. Along with 8 million others.
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Halometallate-based ionic liquid catalysts
Leu, Meike K. (2022) Halometallate-based ionic liquid catalysts. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
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This work focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of halometallate ionic liquids (ILs), including Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), In(III), and Fe(III) metal halides. Due to their Lewis acidic nature, halometallate ILs are promising candidates as catalysts. In addition, ILs show advantageous properties (e.g. low vapour pressure and good ionic conductivity) for their use in catalytic applications using inductive heating methods such as microwave (MW) radiation or magneto-thermal heating. As for any catalyst the understanding of the catalytically active species and the properties of the respective catalyst are fundamental to explain the catalytic process. As to the best of our knowledge, no phase diagram has been reported for mixtures of [C1C4Im]Cl/CoCl2 and [C1C4Im]Cl/NiCl2, these were prepared to further understanding of discrete anion formation. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to prepare the phase diagram and it is demonstrated how small changes in mole fraction lead to significant changes in thermal behaviour. In addition, Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were used to find additional evidence for anions formed. However only the formation of [MCl4]- could be observed.
Furthermore, dielectric properties are investigated as they are crucial to a future application of halometallate IL catalysts in MW radiation. The data was analysed and showed dependency regarding change with temperature and frequency. Conductivity was calculated from the obtained data and was confirmed by impedance spectroscopy. The observed dielectric constants vary depending on the metal and are in a range from ɛ' = 3.4-13.9.
Finally, mechanistic and kinetic studies were carried out to determine the catalytically active species of the novel IL [C1C4Im][Fe(NO)2Cl2], which was used as a catalyst for carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion. Full conversion with good selectivity to the desired product was observed at optimised reaction parameters (neat, 40°C, 2 bar CO2, 24h, 5 mol% catalyst loading).
Licence, Peter
Alves Fernandes, Jesum
Dimitrakis, Georgios
Halometallate ionic liquids, Catalysts
Q Science > QD Chemistry > QD450 Physical and theoretical chemistry
Leu, Meike


Year 6 have been enjoying visits all over London since the end of SATs and have been using their knowledge from these trips to create a fantastic guide book to London.
As well as finding out about lots of London attractions, the children have also been doing some art of the iconic London buildings. Take a look at some of our brilliant work!


I made a couple cards for the Hero Arts October challenge found here. There are several challenges to play, but I chose a sketch for my cards. I stamped the background panel with cool grey ink, adding red "clock hands" in those spaces between the letters. The clock image was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink, and clear embossed. The hearts border is by SNSS and I inserted black hearts for a little contrast. Dsp is by BoBunny Crush and the stamp set used was Hero Arts "All the Time" set for OWH. I love clocks, and love that all the sentiments in this set are perfect for making OWH cards!
Here's the 2nd one I made, using the smaller clock image in the set, and pairing it with a scrap of dsp from my stash. I used the MS arch lattice punch for the fancy edges, and added some blue mini brads to the clock and sentiment panel. The background was embossed with the CB clockworks ef.
There you have it for today's cards. I wish you all a wonderful weekend!
These r pretty sweet. I like these.
Love the clean lines on these, Carol! You totally rocked this sketch!
Love both cards with the clocks!
Great sketch, image, papers, everything! Great cards!
My goodness!! These are gorgeous!! As always, your color combos are perfect!
Carol, these clock cards are awesome. Wonderful embossing and punches. Great sentiments for the images.
Great job with the sketches. Nicely done.


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Meet These Trailblazers
This Women's History Month, we're highlighting LGBTQ+ women trailblazers from history!
First up is Ivy Bottini – a writer, women's rights activist, and one of the first out lesbian comedians.
After working at Newsweek magazine in the 1950's and "loving women, but not having any idea what to do with it," she joined the National Organization for Women where her activism shone through as the organization fought for women's equality across the nation. She sparked important discussions on how feminism was a lesbian issue and vice versa.
In 1972, she developed her signature pro-woman comedy show, "Many Faces of Women," to pave the way in showcasing the then-taboo topics of menstruation, contraception, lesbian dating, and more in a humorous way for the first time.
Ivy passed away last week surrounded by loved ones. Honor her memory and watch how she became an activist for women's and LGBTQ+ rights (and took control of the Statue of Liberty?!)!
Lucy Hicks Anderson was born in 1886 in Kentucky, Lucy expressed her feminine identity from a young age and preferred to be called "Lucy" over her birth name. Doctors encouraged her parents to follow suit and raise her as a girl.
As an adult in the 1920's, Lucy married her first husband and gained a reputation as a socialite, hosting lavish dinner parties, winning baking contents with her chef skills, and running a boarding house that secretly sold liquor during Prohibition.
After her second marriage, she was tried for perjury in an argument that accused her of failing to disclose that she had been assigned male at birth on her marriage license. Though she was convicted, she and her husband lived a peaceful life in Los Angeles, and her trial laid the groundwork for the fight for marriage equality to come in later years.
Lorena Hickok was a journalist… and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's lover!
After a tumultuous childhood housekeeping for wealthy families, Lorena graduated school and became a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and eventually New York's Associated Press, becoming America's best-known female reporter by the 1930's. She was well-known for covering beats that were normally reserved for men, like sports and "hard" news stories, and was the first woman to have a byline in The New York Times.
Lorena had multiple relationships with women throughout her life and eventually met Eleanor Roosevelt when assigned to interview her. The two quickly formed a romantic relationship, with Lorena even living in the White House! During their time apart, the two exchanged love letters. Eleanor even kept a picture of Lorena in her sitting room, which she kissed good night and good morning every day.
Drag queen, trans rights activist, and community worker Sylvia Rivera was born to Puerto Rican and Venezuelan parents in New York City, raised primarily by her grandmother who disapproved of her feminine behavior. After living on the streets at 11 years old, she was taken in by the local drag queen community.
Her LGBTQ+ activism began in the early 1970s, when she joined the Gay Activists Alliance and co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with Marsha P. Johnson to serve homeless queer youth and fight for discrimination protections.
Throughout her life, Slyvia was also a fierce advocate for low-income LGBTQ+ youth and LGBTQ+ people of color, which often caused conflict with LGBTQ+ organizations that were primarily made up of white and middle-class members. Today, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project lives on dedicated "to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence."
Put on your tennis shoes as we learn about Renée Richards! A sports star all her life, Renée was offered an invitation to play baseball for the New York Yankees, became the captain of Yale's men's tennis team, and played competitive tennis while in the Navy.
After her gender-affirming surgery and HRT use was outed by the news media in the mid 1970's, The United States Tennis Association required all female competitors to verify their sex with a chromosome test. Renée applied to play as a woman in the U.S. open anyway, and refused the test, denying her entry.
Renée then sued the USTA, causing a stir of controversy, but the ruling was in her favor, stating the chromosome test was "grossly unfair, discriminatory and inequitable, and a violation of her rights." She was thus allowed to play in the US Open, where she made it to the finals in doubles. She eventually retired from tennis, now practices as an ophthalmologist, and was inducted in 2013 into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
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In the previous article we had a look at AsyncTask as saw how it simplified the process of performing background tasks, but saw some potential pitfalls to the newbie, and also saw how it leaves the potential to leak a Context. In Honeycomb Loader was introduced and in this article we'll have a look at what this offers us.
The Loader mechanism is specifically geared toward loading content either from a SQLite database, file storage, or from a network resource as a background task. That said, it can be used quite effectively to perform other tasks as well.
The next thing that we must do is implement LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks which are callback methods which will create a loader, and get called when the loader either finishes, or is reset. These will all be executed on the UI thread, and we will typically implement them within our Activity / FragmentActivity. The simple fact that we implement these in a separate class from the Loader provides a logical separation between the code which runs on the UI thread and that which runs on the background thread because they are in separate classes. This reduces the risk of running into the issue we discussed in the previous article of running a network call in the wrong method of AsyncTask. The simple fact that the methods invoked on the UI thread are implemented within our Activity / FragmentActivity is a strong hint that we shouldn't be doing anything too heavy in them and make sure that code goes in to the Loader itself.
I have only scratched the surface on what you can do with Loaders, but there are some really good tutorials an samples on developer.android.com.
In the next part of this series we'll change tack a little and have a look at when and how to use Services to perform your background processing.


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Tales from the Tannoy
Even robots have a story to tell
Have you ever wondered about the lives behind the people who provide the soundtrack to your life? Probably not. Did you even realise they are real people? Perhaps.
Did you know that two of the voices on the London Underground are a married couple who work together all day long, even though one of them is dead?
Did you know that the voice in your SatNav has a broken heart?
Did you know that the calm, reassuring voice that accompanies your daily life has had a life punctuated by tragedy?
Tales from the Tannoy tells the true life stories behind the voices.
Underground Love
Episode 1: The true story of the married couple still working together on London Underground, even though one of them is dead.
Episode 2: The voice of Siri and Sat Nav talks about broken hearts and despatching bodies.
The Year the News Broke
Episode 3: The smooth voice of the news, whose life became anything but.
The Tiger Who Came to Breakfast
Episode 4: When life was not so grrrrrrreat for Tony the Tiger.
May Contain Nuts
Episode 5: The tantalising voice of the aisles, whose life took a tragic turn.
In A World...
Episode 6: One man's meteoric rise from driving trains to voicing trailers.
Spliced and Sliced
Episode 7: The cool sound of music radio whose tattoos hide the hurt.
Unexpected Item
Episode 8: The voice of the self-checkouts who lived on the breadline.
Black Voices Matter
Episode 9: The sound of Capital Xtra gives a voice to black lives.
From Belfast to Bins
Episode 10: The life and times of the X Factor man.
Episode 11: The dynamic voice of America who tried to starve herself happy.
Scooby Doo's Big Headache
Episode 12: The voice of Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Thunderbirds and more, whose big headache turned into a very good day.
Episode 13: Two well known voices, who experienced the same tragic loss from two very different perspectives.
Goats and Gay Bars
Episode 14: The voice of the BBC's World Service on life with HIV. (And goats.)
Showgirls, Springer, and Shepherd's Bush
Episode 15: The voice of London's buses who's come a long way from dancing in Mexico, and now says Barking for money.
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Terrorist Criminal Trials and the Coming Jihad
By Abraham H. Miller
After the bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi, the police found amid the belongings of one of the perpetrators a list of the unindicted co-conspirators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York. The list had been submitted to the lawyers for the defendant, Sheik Abdel Rahman, and signed by Mary Jo White, the United States attorney. Under the rules of discovery in a criminal trial, the defendant had every right to the list. If you read through the names of the unindicted co-conspirators, one name will jump off the page and grab your attention. It is Number 95: Osama bin Laden.
If ever you needed a reason why terrorists have to be dealt with as foreign combatants, and not as criminals, it would have stared you in the face from the discovery process of Sheik Rahman's trial. But there was more. Rahman's activist attorney, Lynne Stewart, used her position to pass information from the cleric to his terrorist followers in Egypt. Stewart was later disbarred and sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison.
Stewart is not an anomaly. Radical lawyers bent on using the legal system to further a political agenda will be falling all over themselves to represent the five alleged terrorists who will now stand trial in New York City. These lawyers will put American foreign policy on trial for the events of September 11, 2001. In putting September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators into the criminal justice system, Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama have given the jihadists an incomparable stage for their propaganda.
What, then, possessed the Obama administration to ignore the obvious and to try these defendants in civil and not military proceedings? It most certainly is not to showcase the American justice system to the world. In a consummate act of legal stupidity, both the president and the attorney general have announced to the world that not only are the defendants guilty, but they are also going to be sentenced to death. If ever a national jury pool was tainted, this one is. In the Islamic world, no one remotely sympathetic to the defendants could ignore the hypocrisy of this conduct.
Obama is willing to compromise intelligence and provide the jihadists with a propaganda platform because he needs to placate the extremist elements of his political base. By taking these terrorists out of the military's hands and putting them into the criminal justice system, Obama is redefining terrorism as a criminal justice issue and not as irregular warfare. In this, Obama is beginning a process that will reshape the meaning of terrorism in consonance with the sympathetic, minimalist notions of leftist ideology.
Terrorist trials in the media capital of the world will be a magnet for the inspired publicity of jihadism. All terrorism finds its inspiration in violence as theater. The theater in the courtroom will be overshadowed by the inevitable carnage in the streets.
Terrorists have always wanted a lot of people watching, a lot of people asking, "Why?" From Abane Ramdane, who moved the Algerian insurrection against the French out of the anonymous Sahara and into the media-saturated streets of Algiers, to George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who blew up airplanes, terrorist leaders have thrived on the oxygen of publicity.
It is inconceivable that the jihadists will not find New York during the terrorist criminal trials a place for statements to be written in blood and punctuated by explosions.
Innocent blood will flow in the streets of New York because Obama chose to make a political statement rather than confront the reality of what terrorism is and how it works.
Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science and former chairman of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association.


With a spritz of fun colour, the Berlin City Skyline Print Art from Americanflat gives a kick of contemporary creativity to your décor.
Americanflat's range of designer artworks offers something to suit every taste, from contemporary, abstract, art-deco, realism and many more. Americanflat work with individual artists and photographers from around the world to obtain the best modern designs for their artwork. Printed on fine-quality paper, these pieces are sure to make a statement and revitalise any room.


The Long Sleeve Classic Shirt is an essential that should be in every wardrobe this winter. Made from a mix of 97% cotton and 3% elastane, the shirt is lightweight and breathable, making it perfect for layering this winter.
97% COTTON / 3% ELASTANE. WARM MACHINE WASH WITH LIKE COLOURS.


World Series of Poker (WSOP) – the premier poker tournament across the globe, has announced a new deal. The WSOP main event will be held at Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in July of 2017. This will be the 48th running of the poker tournament series. Ahead of the Las Vegas event, WSOP has decided to get rid of their November Nine format. However, the tournament is still a bracelet event, so all players need to pay to play.
As of 2017, the World Series of Poker has signed a deal with Poker Central. The deal includes the global television and digital media rights for the event. Over 40 hours of gameplay will be broadcast on ESPN and ESPN2 during the finals. Any coverage that doesn't air on ESPN will be stream on Poker Central's channels.
ESPN has been the official broadcaster of the WSOP since 2002, and have signed a decade-long deal with the World Series of Poker. Poker Central and ESPN have brokered a deal to broadcast all of the action. From the first day until the final table finishes, Kiwi players can tune in and watch all of the action unfold.
While the main event was previously held in the Amazon room of the Rio, the WSOP decided to move the table to their Brasilia room across the hallway. Veteran players will notice the differences from previous years while playing.
The Player of the Year Award will be sponsored by Kings Casino Rozvadov for the first time. Based in the Czech Republic, the land-based casino has one of the most famous poker rooms in Europe. More so, the Player of the Year winner will win seats to the World Series of Poker 2018 Main Event. They will also win seats at the WSOP Europe main event.
In 2017, Poker is one of the most popular table games in land-based and online casinos. Almost every version of the game is enjoyed across the globe. From Texas Hold'Em to Omaha, every shape and form of the game can be enjoyed by new and veteran players alike. Learn how to play like a pro with our online poker guide. So practice your skills, and you might just be a bracelet event finalist at the next WSOP main event.


All MUIC faculty, staff and students are automatically eligible for complete membership at MUIC library. Their ID cards are issued with the library barcodes and can be used to check-out various resources at MUIC library or at other faculty libraries in Mahidol University.
Student library membership expires at the end of each trimester but will be automatically renewed if student register for the next trimester.
Full-Time : Membership is valid for one academic year or according to contract period.
Part-Time : Membership must be renewed everytrimester during the specified time.
The Staff library membership is valid for only one year and will be automatically renewed according to the contract period. Part time staff cannot apply for the library membership but can use MUIC library resources.


I have no problem posting comments. Once I sign in the first time, I stay signed in. And this thread belongs in the Comments & Suggestions forum, not here.
This is the software ALL TEAMS in the NHL have been moved to. The NHL now oversees the Team Websites and Message Boards to provide Unity from one team to another. There are a lot of changes from our old board, and they will take some time to get used to. The messages have all been brought over from the old board, and we are in the process of trying to make it a little more like the old board was.
I have brought to the attention of the host that at times the board does appear slow. Please post here if you notice the system running slow, so we can get an idea of what time of day it is occurring. Keep in mind that all 30 teams Websites and Message Boards are now housed on these server(s).
While there is nothing we as admins can do about the boards, voices are heard. As I said, we are doing all we can as admins to make the board a little more like the one you were used to, and will continue that task as they open more features up to us.
I have noticed that on my Mac using Safari the board loads slow and it's usually the background graphic that takes the longest to load, but over on the PC with Firefox it loads super fast with no issues. Those are my observations, hope they help you figure stuff out!
Any updates on whether or not we'll be able to retrieve our screen names?
Very, very slooooooow on my PC!
Slower than the old board on my PC (using Firefox), but it's tolerable. If I had just one suggestion, please please re-instate the "view new posts" function.
please please re-instate the "view new posts" function.
Unfortunately that isn't an option yet on this board.
Anything? If there's an actual solution being worked on I'll be patient...but if we're just waiting for some NHL techie to put down his Cheetos and respond, that probably means this is low on the priority list.
Sorry about this, but I too am wondering if I can get the posts from my former screen name (ladyduck) to my new screen name (Ladyduck). My login name (djrudd) transferred over as my screen name, which I do not want to use on the MB. I had to register with a new account to get the screen name I had used prior to the move. It's really daunting to think I have to start over with my posts. I don't care about all the info, but just the number of posts. It's so disheartening to see so many of the members that were able to keep their posts.
I haven't read anything as to if there is a solution to this or not and I know that I'm not the only one that would appreciate hearing something. I know that you guys are super busy with this move, but I don't think I'm the only one who hates having to start over again.
Thank you all for your efforts in getting this move made for us. I'm sure this wasn't easy for all of you either.
is there a way to ignore a user with this software?
The solution is forthcoming. The problem was our old software allowed a different login and screen name, and when they pulled everyone over the login took precedence. They are working on it for us. This is the last time I will respond to the screen name questions. If you absolutely have to have the old screen name and are too impatient to wait a little while, you will lose all the post counts, and anything else on the old screen name. They will not make any duplicates. Give it some time people, they ported all 30 teams over within a short time and there are some things that need to get worked out.
On my screen, and I don't know if it is on yours or not, on the left side under the users name there is a drop down button Interact. One of the choices on the drop down is ignore. If it does not appear on yours, I will see if there is another way for you to do it. It does work for me, trust me.
Will we always have to re-log in every time we visit the board?
I've not found any option to allow storage of my screen name and/or my password. I really liked NOT having to relog in each time I wanted to jump on quickly and check a thread. It's not a huge thing, just a minor pain.
I'll take a stab at this part. I'm pretty sure the reason you lost post counts is because the new software is only counting posts from the threads that were salvaged from the old boards. The count on the old boards was a grand total from several years; even though the threads from 2006 are long gone the board still "knew" that people made posts in those threads. The new board has no way of retrieving post counts from threads that are more than a couple months old.
this is the EXACT same reason why i lost all of my posts of a post count around roughly 350.
They are working on it for us. This is the last time I will respond to the screen name questions. If you absolutely have to have the old screen name and are too impatient to wait a little while, you will lose all the post counts, and anything else on the old screen name.
If the NHL had someone posting from their Toronto/NY Message Board Control Room, or wherever the heck they control these things, I'd bug him instead. And I'd tell him that my uncle's smoothie shop has a better server farm. But one of the consequences of central planning is that you get X asking Y to tell Z to implement A, and...meh.
When I type in a keyword, the old message board would take me to all the posts with that key word, and then highlight it. Now, I have to go through every post to find what I want to find. How can I get it to highlight my keyword again????
On the top right of the window it has my profile name Canauhtli but when I add a post it gives me Azrael8. how do i fix this?
They figured out what caused the problem and it is taken care of now. Let me know if you notice anything like this happening again.
Canauhtli']On the top right of the window it has my profile name Canauhtli but when I add a post it gives me Azrael8. how do i fix this?
When I log in, my screen name shows up as bklanning. How can I change this? I would like to change it to evergreen duck.
My e-mail is bklanning@q.com. Thanks for any help.
We are still waiting for them to get it set up for us to put the users original screen names. Hang in there, they are taking care of all 30 teams, so it isn't going to happen over night.


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Butte Country
Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The site of a legendary battle between the Sioux and Crow Indians, Crow Butte, lies directly to the south. It was also a pioneer landmark for Indians, soldiers, and cattlemen. To the west are the Red Cloud Buttes. From these well known buttes, one may see the town of Crawford to the east, Fort Robinson to the south, and the site of the Red Cloud Agency to the southeast. The escarpment stretching north from the buttes was also a prominent early landmark. Approximately half a mile northwest of this point is the site of the Treaty Tree. There in September, 1875, while thousands of members of the Sioux Indian Nation looked on, the Allison Commission made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the Black Hills area from the Indians. It was not until after the bloody campaigns of 1876 that the Sioux Commission, headed by George Manypenny, succeeded in purchasing the area.
Crow Butte, RG5895.PH0-000008: View of Crow Butte, 1875. This image is believed to be one of the earliest know view of Crow Butte. ~ Source: RG5895 Red Cloud Agency, 1874-1877, Nebraska State Historical Society ~ Date: 1875
U.S. 20, 4 miles east of Crawford
"Butte Country," Explore Nebraska History, accessed January 27, 2023, https://mynehistory.com/items/show/120.
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I am is a sixth generation South Carolinian. I have degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from East Carolina University and the University of Tennessee, respectively. Following a career in the nuclear industry, I have returned to my earlier love of history with this book of family Civil War letters. I reside in Aiken, S.C. where I operate a small bookselling business specializing in Civil War, Caroliniana, and Southern fiction.
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I worked hard to identify the people in A South Carolina Upcountry Saga, but genealogical information can be hard to find. If, in reading the book, you find information about the people mentioned in the letters, I'd like to hear from you so I can update a future revision with new information.


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A London based artist with a fiercely independent streak, Scarlet Baxter is a female singer-songwriter who has been described as 'Lauren Hill meets Jimi Hendrix'. A killer combination of stellar vocals and soulful guitar backing thanks to co-writer Dominic Ireland, Scarlet Baxter is an artist with a genuine chance of breaking through having turned the heads of some the industry's top names.
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With a new EP 'Stuck' due for release soon, lead single 'Backsliding' is a classy introduction to Scarlet's powerful sound. Having worked on the EP with producers including John McLaughlin (known as 'The Hit Man' thanks to previous successes), Jud Mahoney (Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Chris Brown, Usher, Mariah Carey) and Natalie DeLucia (Britney Spears), this is music not only well written but also superbly captured by a team of industry heavyweights.
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The LTC3801/LTC3801B are constant frequency current mode step-down DC/DC controllers in a low profile (1mm max) 6-lead SOT-23 (ThinSOT) package. The parts provide excellent AC and DC load and line regulation with ±1.5% output voltage accuracy. The LTC3801 consumes only 195µA of quiescent current in normal operation, dropping to 16µA under no-load conditions.
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To further maximize the life of a battery source, the external P-channel MOSFET is turned on continuously in dropout (100% duty cycle). High switching frequency of 550kHz allows the use of a small inductor.
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Q: Federated learning weighted aggregation I would like to add different weights to clients in Federated learning, so in the aggregation stage, each client has a different impact on the global model.
For example:
Client_1 has 2X impact
Client_2 has X impact

I am looking for suggestions to implement this approach.

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I was born in the UK in 1982. As a child I had no interest in what seemed somehow to entertain other children; I could not see what the attraction of kicking a football around the school yard every break- and lunch-time was. I think I began from an early age to withdraw and started to live in my own intermediate domain, in a semi-fantastical world which was above the mundanity around me, yet still constrained by reality. I never for instance dreamt of super-powers or space travel or other such nonsense. Merely, I longed for something more exciting than the limits of the school grounds, and would happily stare out of windows, or beyond the edge of the sports field, imagining what lay beyond.
Throughout the insecurities and uncertainties of adolescence, I think I lost sight of this domain. I presume that for most people, this is the process of 'growing up', where one resigns one's dreams to pure fantasy and accepts a life of mundanity; work, career, family, retirement, death. When I was eighteen, I happened to discover that there was a world out there, available just by the act of travelling into it, where I could live out these fantasies; of brilliant blue skies, endless golden sand dunes unfolding to a distant horizon, soaring, snowcapped mountain ranges, towering castles perched above rolling grassy steppes, rugged coastlines falling into a turquoise ocean. Where these images came from, and why they mean so much to me, I am unsure of, lost most likely in the vivid imagery of childhood. But they were out there for me to collect. I just had to avoid 'growing up'.
My early trips to Africa and South America focused very much on pure imagery, and it is through this that I developed a pressing urge to photographically document my travels. Not just as memory triggers for posterity, but to capture these fantastical images for myself, to keep. In June 2003 I embarked on what was to be a life-defining trip; my first trip to Asia, travelling overland from Istanbul to Beijing. In addition to truly sublime scenery, I started to appreciate cultural richness; that there were cities out there filled with beautiful architecture, cities so ancient and rich with human activity that they seemed to be living organisms, and to be of interest in themselves, unlike the soulless piles of brick and concrete which I usually find Western European cities to be.
The biggest discovery however were the people. I found people who were warm, welcoming and open. People with whom one could very quickly strike up a relationship, despite sometimes very considerable cultural differences. In contrast to what the media projects through foul television channels and worthless gutter newspapers, the outside world was full of decent human beings who were disarmingly kind and trustful. I am a committed atheist, but to my surprise I found kindred spirits in the people of faith whom I met. Like myself, I suppose, they too live in a state of detachment from mundanity, living in a dream-world dictated by scripture, with faith as their fantasy. For the first time I was surrounded by people who placed value in the abstract and immaterial, and not in simply money and possessions.
I never looked back from my 2003 trip, and have focussed on little other than travelling since this time. In 2006 I made a series of very short trips with rental cars in the Middle East, and realised that for me, travelling with one's own vehicle was a far superior means of travelling than relying on public transport. In the more than five years of the Odyssey described on this website, I fulfilled what felt like my lifelong ambition. For me, I cannot imagine anything more rewarding than the freedom of being self-sufficient (on a short time-scale) in a capable off-road vehicle and having free access to much of the Eurasian continent.
At present, I have to split my time between travelling and mundanity, between the real world where I can travel and fulfil my dreams, and the narrow, colourless, flavourless mundanity of working and spending time in Western Europe – specifically the Netherlands. This has left me with something of a bipolar life, with fantastic highs of freedom, discovery and friendship separated necessarily (at present at least) by dull periods of lonely settled life, surrounded by people who are often ignorant, if not fearful of the world around them.
In the future, I would like to spend a few years exploring Africa; perhaps a year in South America. I'd like to own a yacht and sail around the world, spending a year or two sailing around the coast of Asia, through the islands of the Pacific, and Southern Oceans. I'd like to find a partner who shares my passion for travel. I'd also like to try living somewhere pleasant, and turn my back permanently on the grey, lifelessness of Western Europe, to see if settled life elsewhere can satisfy my imagination. I get no real kicks from making money as such (though I am privileged to make enough to comfortably afford such trips), and would like one day to help others who were not born in a country where the basics in life may be taken for granted.
But as I grow older, and grapple with my addiction to travel, it becomes ever easier to lose sight of that youthful belief; the belief that anything is possible, and that life, with its endless sensations and opportunities, is really just beginning. In the words of Colin Thubron: 'I can understand how a journey can be seen as a metaphor for life, a voyage through time as well as space; time seen as a road'. Where this road leads to, I have no idea. Increasingly, I suspect there is no destination at all.
This website portrays my life from the age of twenty-five onwards, separated by hiatuses of mundanity. There are photographs of the places I have seen, and sometimes the people I have met. These are the images of my imagination. Around these are my attempt to describe the physical journey, retrospectively, from notes, photographs and memory. I hope you enjoy what you see and / or read.
Questo Video me lo sono proprio gustato !!! spettacolo !!
oggi qualche cosa di speciale.. sicuro che Giba apprezzerà!
Fantastiche foto d'epoca.. quella che mi ha piu colpito é vedere il centro di Kalemie (Albertville, nel Congo Belga, oggi DRC) nel 1959.. lo vedeste adesso (ci sono stato qualche anno fa... ).. oltre al fatto che oggi la città é raggiungibile solo via aereo o battello dal Lago Tanganika.. in quanto la vecchia strada é stata mangiata dalla giungla..
questa galleria di foto di Bukavu di come era/come é adesso é illuminante..
i due tipi non fanno un sorriso....mi sa che non dura..
Tra ventanni sarete più delusi per le cose che non avete fatto che per quelle che avete fatto.
mollate le cime, allontanatevi dal porto sicuro.
"Il mio desiderio è fuggire.
Non voglio più vedere questi volti, queste abitudini e questi giorni."
da "Il libro dell'Inquietudine di Bernardo Soares" di Fernando Pessoa.
Essere altro costantemente perché l'anima non abbia radici!
Le radici sono importanti, nella vita di un uomo, ma noi uomini abbiamo le gambe, non le radici, e le gambe sono fatte per andare altrove.' da "Un po' per amore, un po' per rabbia"
sentirsi sotto i piedi il granito del globo.
Dove stai andando? Butta via la cartina! Perché vuoi sapere a tutti i costi dove ti trovi in questo momento? ....D'accordo: in tutte le città .....la segnaletica.... con le frecce che ti dicono: devi andare per di là, non confonderti.... Lasciali perdere, snobbali pure. Perché vuoi combattere contro il labirinto? Assecondalo, per una volta. Non preoccuparti, lascia che sia la strada a decidere da sola il tuo percorso, e non il percorso a farti scegliere le strade. Impara a vagare, a vagabondare. Disorientati. Bighellona.
Parlando di Russia... strada delle ossa transiberiana, un'avventura da 16.000 km.
grazie cauntry... bello, bello, bello..
mi sto giusto leggendo I post sulla Kolyma..
cauntry ha scritto: Parlando di Russia... strada delle ossa transiberiana, un'avventura da 16.000 km.


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By Charles Freeman	On January 2, 2018
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April Fools Day from best april fools pranks pictures , source:en.wikipedia.org
April Fools' Working day, occasionally called All Fools' Working day, is Among the most gentle-hearted days on the calendar year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as being a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while some imagine it stems through the adoption of a completely new calendar.
New Calendar year's Working day Moves
Historic cultures, which include All those of the Romans and Hindus, celebrated New Year's Working day on or all-around April one. It closely follows the vernal equinox (March twentieth or March 21st.) In medieval situations, Considerably of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new calendar year.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII purchased a brand new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to switch the old Julian Calendar. The new calendar identified as for New Year's Day to be celebrated Jan. 1. That 12 months, France adopted the reformed calendar and shifted New 12 months's day to Jan. 1. In keeping with a popular rationalization, many people possibly refused to just accept the new date, or did not study it, and continued to rejoice New Year's Day on April 1. Others began to make entertaining of such traditionalists, sending them on "fool's errands" or wanting to trick them into believing a thing false. Inevitably, the observe unfold throughout Europe.
Problems With This Clarification
You'll find a minimum of two issues with this particular clarification. The primary is it doesn't absolutely account for your spread of April Fools' Day to other European countries. The Gregorian calendar wasn't adopted by England until eventually 1752, for example, but April Fools' Day was now effectively recognized there by that time. The second is always that We've no direct historic proof for this explanation, only conjecture, Which conjecture appears to are made more lately.
Constantine and Kugel
One more rationalization of your origins of April Fools' Day was supplied by Joseph Boskin, a professor of background at Boston University. He explained which the observe commenced throughout the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters and fools told the Roman emperor that they might do a far better career of running the empire. Constantine, amused, permitted a jester named Kugel for being king for at some point. Kugel passed an edict contacting for absurdity on that day, as well as custom turned an annual party.
"In a method," stated Prof. Boskin, "it had been an incredibly serious working day. In These occasions fools were being actually intelligent Gentlemen. It was the function of jesters To place points in viewpoint with humor."
This explanation was brought to the general public's attention in an Linked Press post printed by many newspapers in 1983. There was only one catch: Boskin made The complete point up. It took a handful of months with the AP to realize that they'd been victims of the April Fools' joke on their own.
It's well worth noting that numerous cultures have had days of foolishness throughout the start of April, give or take a couple of weeks. The Romans experienced a Pageant named Hilaria on March 25, rejoicing during the resurrection of Attis. The Hindu calendar has Holi, as well as Jewish calendar has Purim. Probably you will find something concerning the time of 12 months, with its transform from winter to spring, that lends alone to lighthearted celebrations.
Observances Worldwide
April Fools' Day is observed all over the Western world. Methods incorporate sending anyone on a "idiot's errand," on the lookout for things which You should not exist; enjoying pranks; and attempting to get individuals to imagine ridiculous points.
The French simply call April 1 Poisson d'Avril, or "April Fish." French kids in some cases tape a picture of a fish on the again of their schoolmates, crying "Poisson d'Avril" if the prank is uncovered.
if you see footage of penguins flying, Verify your calendar. There's a superior prospect It really is April 1! The initial day of April every year is celebrated as April Fools' Working day (from time to time termed All Fools' Working day).
Even though it's not a lawful holiday break, April Fools' Day is celebrated all worldwide as each day filled with practical jokes and general silliness. You may want to be somewhat more careful or skeptical on April 1, because loved ones, good friends, neighbors, co-staff, and in some cases lecturers might attempt to tickle your humorous bone with a useful joke or possibly a hoax of some type.
So how did this custom of craziness start off? In fact, it remains a thriller, although there are many theories about how April Fools' Day acquired started off.
Some believe the primary Affiliation among April 1 and actively playing tricks can be found in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales from 1392. In "The Nun's Priest's Tale," a fox methods very pleased rooster Chauntecleer on syn March bigan thritty dayes and two.
Though Chaucer in all probability intended 32 times just after March (Could 2), several viewers evidently misunderstood the line to indicate March 32 — or April one.
Many others think that April Fools' Working day was the result of a desire to celebrate the turning from the seasons about springtime. In truth, quite a few cultures have historically held these kinds of celebrations close to the start of April.
For example, The traditional Romans experienced a Competition named Hilaria on March twenty five. The Hindu Pageant known as Holi is held in March and celebrates the arrival of spring.
Even now Many others think April Fools' Day acquired its start because of the adoption of a new calendar in 1582. Lots of historic cultures celebrated New Yr's Day around April one.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII requested the usage of a new calendar, referred to as the Gregorian calendar, which celebrated New Year's Working day on January one. In accordance with legend, Many of us refused to acknowledge The brand new calendar or just failed to know about it. These people today continued to celebrate New Yr's Working day on April one.
At some point, Other individuals began to make enjoyable of such "fools" by sending them to look for things which didn't exist (termed a "fool's errand") or tricking them into believing one thing Untrue.
On the subject of our unofficial holiday seasons, April Fools' Day is among the weirder kinds. It's a people vacation of pranks and mild humiliations, through which little ones get to drag one particular about on their mothers and fathers or instructors, and vice-versa; in which media shops could make matters up, all in fantastic pleasurable. But exactly where did it originate from?
"Arranged festivals and spontaneous individual acts that rejoice the absurd by means of pranks exist entire world-broad," writes folklorist Nancy Cassell McEntire in her examination with the origins and which means of All of this merriment. For Europeans, April Fools hearkens back to the transition to the Gregorian calendar from the sixteenth century. The pre-Gregorian calendar experienced finished the calendar year near the finish of March, coinciding with the beginning of spring. While using the new Gregorian calendar, the beginning from the year was moved to January. The calendar modify was sluggish to consider maintain and there was resistance to it, but people who continued celebrating the new yr at first of April, old design, had been ultimately shamed as "fools."
The coming of spring itself also is apparently a large Portion of the custom of sensible jokes and purposeful deception. Winter season is ending, but not very in excess of still. The day becomes certainly one of celebrating the changeover between seasons. It's relatively akin to Halloween, but embracing, rather then the darkness of winter, the light of spring. The pranks are lighter in spirit, way too, compared with "Hell Night's" more nameless and probably dangerous tips.
most likely harmful tricks.
Usually, an April Fools prank was 1 through which a "fool" is tricked, or sent on some ridiculously undoable errand, like searching snipe, snarks, or frog-whiskers. McEntire offers some fantastic examples of the vintage fool's errand: "the sufferer is sent for a still left-handed screwdriver or wrench, a board-stretcher, a keep on with one particular finish, a bucket of striped paint, a bucket of steam, pigeon milk, a jar of elbow grease or maybe a fallopian tube."
Needless to say, the pranks aren't just individual-to-person. Mass media has long been ripe for April Foolery since mass media grew to become a point. McEntire acknowledges, "no Device is simpler than the Internet" in suckering fools on April 1st, but the media's willingness to Participate in alongside started out long in advance of there was any such issue. Between McEntire's media illustrations is just one within the BBC display Panorama of April one, 1957, which launched viewers into a relatives of Italian spaghetti farmers. Spaghetti was then a relatively new food in Britain. Hundreds referred to as in wanting to understand how they might get spaghetti trees of their very own, because who wouldn't want their own personal refreshing spaghetti growing within the backyard garden?
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