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Tyr / Alestorm / Suidakra Opera House, Toronto ON March 23
By Sean Palmerston
One of the more interesting metal tours currently making the rounds is the Pagan Knights package. Featuring three quite different musically, yet similar thinking groups of various European descents, the tour only managed to make it to Canada for a few shows, the first of which was in Toronto.
Germany's Suidakra were the first international band of the night. Although together for the better part of a dozen years, this was their first ever Canadian performance and the band were clearly delighted to be there. Expanded to a quartet for live performances, they did a good job delivering their distinctive brand of Celtic metal, even if the accompanying bagpipes and tin whistles were on a laptop.
Up next were Scotland's Alestorm, easily both the most popular and controversial act of the evening. The band lovingly refer to their style as true Scottish pirate metal; it is something you either love or loathe - there's no middle ground with this bunch. Their highly energetic set had the majority of the crowd pumping their fists in adulation, with a number of attendees even dressed in full pirate gear just for the occasion.
Out of the three touring acts, the only one making a return visit to Toronto was Tyr (pictured). Hailing from the Faroes, a remote group of islands north of Scotland and west of Denmark, the quartet were both the most musical and most exotic act of the evening. Tyr are a band with their own distinctive sound, one that is both heavily influenced by traditional Scandinavian folk songs as well as pounding '80s metal.
What really set them apart from the pack however was their strong vocal harmonies. Few metal bands are willing to start a song a cappella with three distinctive voices singing in Norwegian. These guys did exactly that with their second song of the night, set highlight "Sinklars Visa," and proved why they were indeed the definite headliners of the bill.
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OMG Open Thread
by wj
Because we are way overdue for a new open thread. And this
https://deadspin.com/minor-league-baseball-team-wins-on-a-three-run-walk-off-1828308390
is just way too good not to share!
Posted by SuperUser at 01:34 PM | Permalink
Two lodestars in my life:
I love baseball.
Baseball will break your heart.
Posted by: Countme-a-Demon | August 14, 2018 at 02:49 PM
Oh sure, I check in and there's this...
Go nats.
Is that a polite way of saying balls ?
Posted by: Nigel | August 14, 2018 at 03:22 PM
/spittake
Which brings to mind, Gonad the Ball Bearing.
I love hockey.
Hockey will break your teeth. And ankles. Collarbone. Nose fer sure.
But your beer stays colder longer.
Posted by: Pete | August 14, 2018 at 07:12 PM
This afternoon was the third time since June 1 where we got enough rain that I was willing to hit the rain delay on the sprinklers. Lots of the Denver metro area around us has been hammered repeatedly, but it's been a long dry disappointing monsoon at the Cain household.
Don't try to play both bridge and golf. No one can take that much annoyance.
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose"
a great quote.
Posted by: ral | August 14, 2018 at 10:15 PM
Oh, Mr. Gallagher, Oh, Mr. Gallagher,
What's the name of the game they play upon the links?
With a stick you knock the ball
Where you can't find it at all,
And the caddie walks around and thinks and thinks.
Oh, Mr. Sheen, Oh, Mr. Sheen,
You can't even tell a divot from a green!
For it's very plain to see,
(both) Yes it's very plain to see
-That it's croquet, Mr. Gallagher.
-No it's tennis, Mr. Sheen!
Posted by: dr ngo | August 15, 2018 at 01:01 AM
...with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose...
Stipulating the task at hand -- propel a small ball lying on the ground a significant distance in a particular direction -- contemporary golf clubs are exquisitely well suited to the job. Almost anyone can learn to hit the ball 150 yards with one of them.
Compare it to driving a motorcycle: handlebars (of use only at low speeds), a clutch operated in one hand, a gear shift mechanism operated with one foot, a throttle and front brake operated with the other hand, and a rear brake operated with the other foot. Ill-suited for driving? Again, almost anyone can learn to do it.
Both better regarded as demonstrations of the human brain's fantastic adaptability to tools of any sort.
Posted by: Michael Cain | August 15, 2018 at 10:59 AM
To Pete:
I lost the vision in one eye to baseball at age eleven.
I'm still playing center field.
Now, like Quint in "Jaws", show me your shark bite scars.
My jaundiced view of golf is doubtless influenced by having almost been killed by a golf ball.** It's the kind of experience that makes a serious impression.
** Landing a small aircraft, solo. Approach over a golf course (which is not uncommon, since people hate planes landing just over their roof.) Guy on the driving range skys one. Ball thru the prop unscathed, thru the windscreen, and only a fast head jerk saves my eye -- but it took off the headphones and my glasses. If I hadn't move fast, it would have been ugly.
Progress continues!
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/15/sumter-county-ala-just-got-its-first-integrated-school/
Albeit not particularly rapidly in some places.
As Bob Uecker might intone, "JUST ... a little outside."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-really-sarah-sanders-just-corrected-an-alternative-fact-2018-08-15?siteid=bigcharts&dist=bigcharts
The Council of Hack Racist Economic Revisors
wj, that's one of the best golf stories I've ever heard.
Glad you didn't do a nose plant in the water hazard.
And I've still got the golf ball.
Ball thru the prop unscathed, thru the windscreen, and only a fast head jerk saves my eye -- but it took off the headphones and my glasses.
Amazing. Did you make the news?
Well, cricket and golf do not mix:
Did you make the news?
Nope. It was back in the 1980s, when the 24 hour news cycle wasn't quite so hungry for stories.
All that happened was, after I told the tower I was doing a full stop (I had been doing touch-and-goes) and caught my breath, I taxied around to the flying school. Where I was mostly worried that they would be charging me for a replacement windshield. (Honest! That was the top thought in my mind.) I figured out later that they were mostly worried that I might sue them -- heaven knows on what basis. We both got off without financial damage.
On July 3rd, 1984, an airplane on a training flight over a golf course was struck by a golf ball. But that was in Melbourne, Australia and the ball only dented the metalwork. :)
I was going to post a link to something about a political group I like,the DSA, but this seems to be a golf thread and so I am back to my usual negativity. I hate golf. Golf courses are pretty though, and " Tin Cup" was a good movie, almost as good as " Bull Durham".
RIP, Aretha Franklin.
She gave us a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diwF1-xJwZM
This is good to know:
One of the clauses that he cites as objectionable, Section 1233, expresses "the sense of Congress" that the U.S. "should support a Europe whole, free, and at peace" through strengthening such institutions as NATO and the European Union and that it should adopt policies to defeat Russian aggression.
A "sense of Congress" resolution explicitly has no binding authority whatsoever; it merely expresses an opinion. By definition, it cannot interfere with a president's authority to conduct foreign policy. But apparently Trump's hostility to NATO and the EU runs so deep that he couldn't let this stand even as a token gesture.
It's not even a mandate (although there are apparently a bunch of those that he proposes to ignore. It's just a Goddamn Sense of Congress statement! But apparently supporting our allies instead of Russia (he also objected to the provision mandating that we do nothing to accept Russia's annexation of Crimea) is too much for Trump.
Oh no, Aretha. It's so sad. Soon after that performance, more than one person sent me the same link the Count posted saying they had watched it with tears of joy and exhilaration.
Alabama : putting the "deliberate" in "deliberate speed" ever since 1954!
Posted by: russell | August 16, 2018 at 12:29 PM
It's just a Goddamn Sense of Congress statement! But apparently supporting our allies instead of Russia (he also objected to the provision mandating that we do nothing to accept Russia's annexation of Crimea) is too much for Trump.
Crapping in a golden bowl is apparently not enough to satisfy him. He needs to crap all over our national history, our alliances, and our best interests as well.
What will the Donald crap on next?
he'd better keep his fool mouth shut about Aretha
He'll only say nice things about her. After all, she may be black, but she's dead -- and so can't say anything nasty (accurate) about him.
stay gold, Fox News.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-remembers-aretha-franklin-with-photo-of-patti-labelle_us_5b75bbcfe4b0182d49b1e165
"hold my beer!" says potus...
"I want to begin today by expressing my condolences to the family of a person I knew well. She worked for me on numerous occasions. She was terrific — Aretha Franklin — on her passing," Trump said during a cabinet meeting
Open thread, right?
For light relief, a reasonably entertaining piece about the rightwing panic at the thought of Idris Elba playing James Bond. Money quote (from Richard Spencer):
Make no mistake,a black James Bond would be an act of dispossession far greater than a flotilla of a million refugees.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2018/aug/16/far-righters-james-bond-not-on-your-team-idris-elba?CMP=share_btn_tw
Actually, I agree entirely.
Albeit not the way that the author meant. I'd say it shows just how trivial a flotilla of refugees is!
OK, which would have been better/worse, a black James Bond or a female James Bond?
Some links, obviously old, for background
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/female-james-bond/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/15/you-dont-deserve-a-female-james-bond-or-a-lady-indiana-jones/#3ac05d4b169a
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/rachel-weisz-female-james-bond#~o
My wife and I went to see the new Ocean's Eight, half because she wanted to see it, half because the air conditioning. Not to spoil anything, the way they reset why Debbie Ocean (sister of Danny Ocean) wants to rob the jewels is interesting, but it didn't really have the excitement of the first one. Why that is (or why I may think so) is interesting.
FOX News mistook Patti LaBelle for Aretha Franklin, and I suspect tomorrow they will run a photo of Sidney Poitier, mistaking him for Idris Elba, the possible new Bond.
If FOX interviews Elba and they ask him his character's name, instead of replying "Bond ... James Bond", I hope he answers "You can call me Mista Tibbs."
Actually, the runner at FOX assigned the task of hunting up stock photos, when asked by the FOX producer to "find a picture of Franklin ... or any Negro will do .. but NOT Omarosa" found only pictures of William Thomas Junior in FOX's slim Negro file, the actor who played Buckwheat.
Idris Elba is also rumored to be up for the part of Rhett Butler in the remake of "Gone With The Wind".
He reportedly said he would take the part only under the condition that Richard Spencer play Mammy, the part Hattie McDaniel made memorable.
Spencer said he's rather play Iago to Elba's "Othello", because he wants to be typecast as a cruel, manipulative conservative pigfucker.
"You own the libs twice..."
white people - they have a good 500 year run, in the ~100,000 year history of humanity, and they think they own the place.
Oh, a remake of Gone with the Wind would have to downplay the slavery angle anyway and cut out all the racism in order to not get torn to pieces by the modern conservatives. A black Rhett would be perfect*. The question is, whether Scarlett (Johansson) should use yellowface or not.
*one of the millions of slaves that Jefferson Davis freed and who fought for the South from day one.
Posted by: Hartmut | August 18, 2018 at 02:57 AM
Regarding the whole Asian representation thing, it's become a concern of western media in recent years, as reaction to the latest movie shows...
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/the-joy-luck-club-needs-to-be-forgiven-by-asian-americans.html
As the BBC article points out, rightly, I think, much of this is almost beside the point, with the rapidly growing importance of Asian cinema and TV.
Right now, probably around half my own viewing is Korean TV, which gives a very different popular culture perspective.
Nigel, if you have a Netflix account and you haven't done so already, take a look at Mr. Sunshine, a Korean historcal drama series.
I saw a couple,of episodes, and I'm not completely sold on it.
The cinematography is quite jarring - oversaturated and implausible colours - which is unusual for Korean drama of recent years, where the standards are exceptionally good compared to much western fare. I thought the plotting of the first couple of episodes extremely sketchy... though that isn't unusual either for even the better Korean stuff, so I might give it another go.
Also, it's on Netflix, and their subtitling is vastly inferior to that of the crowd sourced Rakuten Viki, which despite its faults gives a far better feel for the nuances of Korean language.
With the Netflix connection, the production company may have felt it could spend a lot more on sets and cinematography and overdid it a bit. It's certainly the most lavishly produced Korean drama I've seen so far. The subtitling may be suffering from making episodes available on Netflix shortly after broadcast in Korea. But, being a joint venture, you'd think they could have done them in advanced. Maybe they did and did it not very well anyway. I think, after the first few episodes, the series improves a bit. The first episodes have to introduce a lot of characters, provide backstories and flesh out current circumstances. I like the series but can understand why someone wouldn't. One criticism I've seen is that it's too much of a soap opera.
I like the Viki subtitling too. They provide a more literal translation and then explain the puns and wordplays. Although, with a recent Chinese drama series, the translation was so literal as to be incomprehensible. I had to switch to Drama Fever to understand what was happening. But, with Drama Fever, it's often difficult to tell whether the characters are using phrasing similar to English or the translators are making wholesale substitutions of English idioms and word usage. Viki also subtitles song lyrics which almost no one else bothers to do.
Any time I think of subtitles, I'm put in mind of the ones in the kung fu movies we saw in college. Inevitability, at some point the heroine would get beaten up. The hero (having vanquished her attackers) holds her dying body in his arms and, according to the subtitles, says
Brace up!
I have no idea what an accurate translation would be. But that one always had us giggling.
A lot of the chopsocky movies dubbing and subtitles were translations into American gangland. One time, being bored, I watched one of the movies dubbed in Spanish. Pretty funny as the Spanish dubbing was a translation from the gangland dubbing.
Viki creates subtitles in other languages using the English subtitles. Must make for some sometimes strange translations from the original Korean.
And here may be a look at "what's next?" If Trump chooses to be inspired by his Austrian soulmate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/austrias-far-right-government-ordered-a-raid-on-its-own-intelligence-service-now-allies-are-freezing-the-country-out/2018/08/17/d20090fc-9985-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html
and NC GOP is talking about impeaching (or even packing the court to render moot) any NC Supreme Court Justices who vote against the GOP's attempt to put a bunch of "conservative" nonsense into the state constitution via ballot items.
https://www.wral.com/impeachment-of-justices-possible-gop-chief-says/17776194/
The modern GOP does not support the right to vote.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/08/the-art-of-the-troll
Violence against the entire conservative/republican malignity can't come too soon.
Conservative vermin government:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ice-arrests-undocumented-man-driving-pregnant-wife-to-deliver-baby
The conservative vermin who support conservative government and want to kill anyone who disagrees.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/man-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-congressmans-kids
Count, though the linked article doesn't point it out, the congressman in question is a supporter of Trump's immigration policies, and that support is what so upset the man now under arrest.
Posted by: Jim Parish | August 18, 2018 at 04:24 PM
the man now under arrest.
the dude is 68 years old.
the geezers are the ones to watch out for, they've lived their lives and don't have all that much to lose.
and no, I'm not making a joke.
meanwhile....
h/t Duncan Black
Can't say I can remember anything quite like this happening before. Even including Watergate stuff.
Funny times.
In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president's furor toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it.
Rather odd use of the word "furor" I would have thought. What do the correct usage police say, Janie?
You rang? ;-)
My best benefit of the doubt guess is that the writer meant "fury."
If I didn't have actual work to do, I could produce a lengthy blog post every day of instances like this where either there's little to no copy editing being done in the first place (if they thought deadlines were tight back in the day of print media, well....), or if there are in fact copy editors involved, they're not as literate as they should be. Add in the effect of autocomplete.......aiy. (And as with the link someone posted a while back to some self-styled expert on trans issues, the internet has let loose a lot of people who aren't as literate as the more pedantic among us could wish, but who make up for it with pretentiousness.)
Okay, sounds snobbish. But it's irritating to see these high-level, so taken with themselves pundits misusing relatively common words.....The link is to an article in what BJ-ers call FTFNYT, for crying out loud.
Now and then, especially late at night, I write little instructional emails to editors mentioned on web pages. I've done it with boston.com and with our local paper (based in Maine's capital city), and sometimes I get a note back, always gracious, or see an almost immediate correction. Which leads me to believe that the responsible people do care.
I am bemused by statement that McGahn had "at least" three interviews totaling 30 hours.... Those are some danged long interviews....I hope they fed him once or twice along the way.
Mr. Trump's lawyers still had a chance to keep Mr. McGahn's insider knowledge from the special counsel. By exerting attorney-client privilege, which allows the president to legally withhold information, they would have gained the right to learn what Mr. McGahn planned to tell investigators and what he might reveal that could damage the president
So glad the doctor (or the correct usage policeperson) is in!
I agree that fury made more sense, and moreover I would have thought that in this extract they meant "asserted" as opposed to "exerted". Damn, I thought the NYT was supposed to be a stickler for this sort of thing.
Geez, I didn't actually read much of it (I rarely read the NYT, why would I want to read a publication that employs Ross Douthat? :-), but I certainly agree with you about exert/assert.
Haberman is one of their stars, isn't she? And the fine print at the bottom of the article says that it appeared on page A1 of the print edition.
Decline and fall.....
That's "asserting" for "exerting", obvs.
Crossed.
Thanks Jim Parish.
My drone attacks sometimes turn out to be friendly fire.
For a lawyer to share so much with investigators scrutinizing his client is unusual.
Except isn't McGahn, as White House Counsel, actually an employee of the US government? That is, his real client is NOT the President, but the nation. Of course, Trump has demonstrated (not least with the Attorney General) that he has no clue that government employees are not his personal employees -- like employees of the Trump Organization are.
Even including Watergate stuff....
Yes, but Nixon was a trained lawyer with some idea of what he was doing; Trump is just flailing around, albeit with the capacity to do serious damage.
Love you both, JanieM and GftNC, but problems with copyediting being the end of the world is so 2016.
I would have thought that in this extract they meant "asserted" as opposed to "exerted".
OTOH, "exerting the privilege" has some interesting possible connotations.
Let me rephrase:
Problems with copyediting being the end of the world is an issue that is so 2016.
I hope I've redeemed myself!
Then how much more so the wasting of time chiding people about it?
You can't possibly imagine that I'm going to jump off of my bandwagon and climb onto yours.
I thought that you would recognize that it was good natured. Obviously, I misjudged the seriousness of the situation. Sorry.
Just to be clear, I was joking, and failing perhaps, but in the spirit of friendship.
My "bandwagon" has nothing to do with grammar. I'm most concerned these days about immigrants being treated as subhumans, and being deprived of their children. Also, possibly, being treated as slave laborers.
Don't get me wrong, JanieM. I think your concern with grammar is lovely and fine. Grammar isn't my "bandwagon". Not for grammar or against grammar. I prefer good grammar, but it's not my "bandwagon."
sapient, I apologize for the snark. But this seems to be a common refrain of yours: why are people here talking about something that's not as important as what you want to talk about?
You may be able to arrange your life so that you are able to think of nothing else, and talk of nothing else, and do nothing else that's non-essential to your daily life and wage-earning, until all this stuff is resolved, but I'm not, and/or don't want to. I give money to causes, work for a couple of causes, occasionally nag my legislators, but -- I'm not going to stop everything, quit my job, go to law school or social work school, and take a bus down to Texas to work with immigrants. (Or even Portland, where we also have immigrants.)
To the extent that my bandwagon comment wasn't snark, it too was lighthearted. More seriously, commenting about grammar is not equivalent to doing what I can about the immigrant situation. It's more equivalent to, let's say, listening to music, or reading a book, or visiting with friends, or taking a walk in the park, or eating ice cream. Have you done none of those things since parents starting being separated from kids at the border?
I should do more of what you suggest, JanieM.. Some things in my life have come up that have interfered with my focus.
Thanks for responding as you have. I hope your life settles down and you get your focus back into shape. My own focus seems to get less manageable the older I get.....yikes.
After triggering this, I foolishly went to bed! But from there, and on phone, I would just like to say (and anybody might find this farfetched and disagree), that I think there is a connection, albeit tenuous, between sloppy writing, sloppy thinking, and the phenomena of Trump et al. You don't even need the constant denigration of the "elite" to illustrate it. But anyway, I don't believe noticing and talking about these things detracts from one's concern about the state of the nation.
I don't believe noticing and talking about these things detracts from one's concern about the state of the nation.
Hope you wake up early, GftNC.
Please read the following with the lightest of hearts
You do realize, I hope, that standardized grammar and spelling coincided with factories, and standardization of all kinds, good and bad.
That's not to say that clarity of grammar and spelling is a bad thing, but do you really think that, prior to the18th century, people didn't have clear thoughts or were unable to express themselves clearly?
Y'all are neoliberals, are you not? [Just making trouble, and being a pest.]
So, thinking about grammar, form, formulae, etc., what do you think about poetry? Free verse? Rap? What's it all about?
I try not to make mistakes [not so much here]. I'm deeply embarrassed when I do (especially a spelling mistake, and I made a serious one lately). But I don't want to see the US adopt a "literary language" that's at odds with the common vernacular, or what people can say, and have understood, without rules.
Also, GftNC, I think your insistence on some rigorous definition of "fascism" or "Nazi" has skirted the fact of what's happening here in Trumpville. Trump Nation is the American equivalent of Nazi, Fascism. And it just keeps conforming itself more and more to its prototype. We're going to be lost. Maybe because people, early on, refused to call it what it is.
You do realize, I hope, that standardized grammar...coincided with factories...
This is nonsense. But I will leave it to our resident linguistics professor to elaborate, if he should so desire.
what do you think about . . . Rap?
What I mostly think about Rap is that it's fascinating that we found it necessary to create a new form of "music" to disguise the fact that what was really happening was a revival of poetry. Apparently it wasn't thinkable that poetry could be recited in public and appreciated by substantial audiences.
In my opinion, most Rap is mere doggerel. Pretty poor, even for doggerel. But then, that is true of most poetry, too.
Clearly it's not only politics where people have challenges calling things by their right names. ;-)
what I thought was notable about the nyt piece was that the white house counsel spent 30 hours talking about God knows what with Mueller's team.
it seemed, to me, remarkable.
bad English usage is, sadly, hardly noteworthy. even at the times.
to me, rap is sort of a victim of its own success.
if you ever get the chance to check it out in its original habitat - a dj, a sound system, some good smart rhymers, and a party - I think you will dig it. maybe. the spontaneous back and forth is beautiful.
some of the better rappers go well beyond doggerel. not my area, really, if Eric was still around he'd have some thoughts to share.
On 12 July 2000, I read a story in the Boston Globe that has stuck in my memory for two reasons:
1) It included the phrase "former tool and dye factory". This annoyed me, because I believe that no tool and "dye" factory has ever existed in the entire history of manufacturing. Alternatively, I believe it's no wonder that a company manufacturing both tools and dyes went out of business.
2) It reported that the leader of the S&M club which was renting the former factory for its, uhm, meetings was charged with "lending or exhibiting articles for self-abuse", which you have to admit was either made up on the spot by the DA or else have been a fun statute for our legislators to write.
I thought at the time that ignorance of the tool-and-die business on the part of reporters and editors might have something to do with the alleged decline of American manufacturing. But I may have been wrong. Attempting to look up that article just now, I naturally googled "tool and dye" and got many thousands of hits which were want-ads for "tool and dye makers", not just in newspapers but also in trade mags.
As a Thing That Is Wrong With The World, this "tool and dye" malapropism ranks lower than frayed shoelaces, of course. But still. And while I'm at it:
You LEVY a tariff; you LEVEL an accusation.
You MUTE a microphone; you MOOT an argument.
To REPORT (or ruhport, as Bob Woodward pronounces it) is to CONVEY information, not GATHER it.
You clip a COUPON; I have no clue what you do with a KEWPON.
The COUP DE GRACE (koo de grasse) is the final touch, the finishing blow. If "koo de grah" means anything, it means a drink of fat.
While we do what we can to Make America Decent Again, trying to Make America Literate Again is probably a waste of time, of course. But collusion with sloppy English should still be refudiated.
Posted by: Tony P. | August 18, 2018 at 10:47 PM
You people sure are full of furor about this grammatilogical whatchamacallit.
TP, I was smiling along for a while, then "KEWPON" made me laugh out loud.
Next to "koo de grah" you can put "memwah" and "oMAZH" -- MEMOIR and HOMAGE pronounced by people who apparently think they're French words.
Between 2008 and 2012, half the people on the radio decided that the cool kids say "candiduht" instead of "candidayt." I'm pretty sure I never heard the former pronunciation before 2012, although I've since read that it has been around in the upper Midwest for a long time. It's just an example of how fast these changes can move. Transitional-phase-wise, I've heard people use both pronunciations in the same sentence.
As the upper Midwest mention implies, some of the pronunciation stuff is a matter of regional dialects. You should hear how "roof," "root," and "route" are pronounced out where I grew up (NE Ohio). The former have the same vowel sound as "took," and the latter is pronounced like "rout."
On first coming to New England, I wondered why path didn't always rhyme with bath, or half with calf. Funny, I now say roof, route, and root the New England (?) way. But I still say the "a" in path, half, calf, and bath the way I grew up saying them. (Same sound as in "fan," what the nuns taught us to call "short a.")
Finally, for tonight, having consulted a few sources other than my own irritable sensibilities, I see that "furor" can mean rage or anger, although acc' to Garner its use for that meaning is rare.
And I'd always spelled it furore....
Although it is more or less the business of the WTO to level tariffs....
furore/furor: British vs American spellings, acc' to sources.
There's plenty of that going around.
E.g. from here (part of Oxford University Press):
Verbs in British English that can be spelled with either -ize or -ise at the end are always spelled with -ize at the end in American English.
We had go-rounds about this back when I was doing a lot of editing at work. We're an international company, and European clients often wanted "British English." I had to tell my bosses that I could leave British English intact where I recognized it, but couldn't really generate it ad hoc -- this isn't my real work, after all, nor am I British. Anyhow, I said, if the Brits can't decide amongst themselves whether to use -ize or -ise, I felt perfectly justified in doing it the American way.
TP -- by the way, I can see remembering "tool and dye" and "lending or exhibiting articles for self-abuse," but is there some reason why you remembered the date of the article as well?
I mean, I remember a lot of trivia (less--or is it fewer?--than when I was younger, to tell the sorry truth), including a lot of dates. But the date of a newspaper article? That's impressive.
Posted by: JanieM | August 19, 2018 at 12:19 AM
Janie, Janie, Janie,
Have I ever given you cause to believe I have such a steel-trap mind as all that?
No, the whole credit belongs to the Globe's archive database (subscription required) and its search capability. Unable to remember the exact phrasing of the charge -- which I was NOT about to try all variations of as search terms -- I searched for "tool and dye" and the article (including its date of publication of course) came up.
BTW, one of the articles the search kicked up had to do with the notorious case of the British nanny who was being tried for murder in the death of a baby in Newton(?). The judge in the case ruled that involuntary manslaughter was the only appropriate charge. A glitch occurred when the judge tried to issue his ruling on-line to meet some sort of procedural deadline: the judge's ISP was a Brookline company called "Software Tool and Die", a provider that can reasonably claim to be the world's first public ISP, and can surely claim to have a decent sense of humor. At the critical moment, a Boston Edison crew working in the street outside the STD office unintentionally cut power to the building, causing the judge's ruling to be published late. Sure enough, the Globe article on the matter referred to the company as "Software Tool and Dye".
Posted by: Tony P. | August 19, 2018 at 01:22 AM
I can do without either candy dates or candy duds.
Anyhow, I said, if the Brits can't decide amongst themselves whether to use -ize or -ise, I felt perfectly justified in doing it the American way.
I realise you're trying to get a rise out of me, but you must recognise it's not going to work.
My own personal favoirite is licence/license - noun/verb in English.
You are entirely sensible to have dispensed with the -ce version.
I will leave it to our resident linguistics professor to elaborate
You rang? Sorry, I was defeating the forces of fascism had an orchestra practice for the weekend. Sapient, while I can see why you might suggest there was a correlation between grammar correction and factories (i.e. the Industrial Revolution) (and certainly mass media and greater social mobility creates the conditions where language is used as a marker and is therefore subject to use to maintain social divisions) a little thought would suggest that standardization comes whenever a language is set out in written form. This is from Nicholas Ostler's book Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin.
Scholars' adaptations of grammatical theory to Latin gave the language a new source of status, putting it effectively on a par with Greek even at this, most abstract level. But there was another motivation for developing grammar, one that brings us back to the schoolroom. Foreigners aspiring to learn the language well, especially as it began to change, needed instruction on what was good style; seeing examples of it held up for imitation was no longer enough for learners. Grammatical theory began to be presented, often in simplified form, in the classroom. The word barbaros / BARBARVS came to at least as commonly used to denigrate failures in grammar and style (in Greek or Latin) as to point something out as truly foreign. A. Gellius, a scholar of the second century AD, naturally described a correct usage as NON BARBARE DICERE, SED LATINE 'saying it not barbarously but in Latin'.
And while such implicit snobbery against the outsiders continued to prevail, a curious fact was missed. Already by the first century AD, Latin scholars had demonstrated that Greek was not the only language reducible to rule, even if those very rules were inspired by looking at Greek. Other languages too could have a grammar.
Lest one think that I'm suggesting that Janie and GftNC are engaging in snobbery, I am not, just trying to indicate that standardization didn't come in with the first factory, so the argument seems more like a 'oh, and by the way, your tie is ugly' kind of argument i.e. an argument tagged on the end to piss another person off.
The question of Rap is also raised. I don't share wj's view that it is 'mere doggerel'. In the episode on Black English in America from The Story of English (1986), they present a street poet and it's easy to see the line from the oral poets to rappers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UutNB2OzUjs
check out about 41:00
Is it doggerel? Well remembering Sturgeon's law, if you were around when Homer and the other bards were singing for their supper, you might say yeah, that's crap, so wj is probably right that 'most Rap is mere doggerel", but failing to see that it is a Western (and human) heritage is a mistake, imho.
This I didn't know: the likely origin of 'mhmm?' -
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/08/17/606002607/ready-for-a-linguistic-controversy-say-mhmm?
sapient, I don't usually respond to your remarks to me about terminology for the administration, but in recognition of your recent efforts I am doing so one last time.
I said here on ObWi before the 2016 election that I believed a Trump presidency would be an existential threat to what I called the American project, by which I meant the better angels of your aspirations, or even the past status quo. Nothing that has happened has changed my mind, to the contrary in fact. But I still get to choose what words I use. I understand that you are doing your version of "God's work" with immigrants and asylum seekers for example, and I applaud and support you for it, as I have always made plain. I can even see that you may think you are doing vital work in trying to persuade the unconvinced of the heinousness of the Trumpsters, to avoid a population walking blindly into a dictatorship. But nobody here, certainly not I, can be classed as the unconvinced, so your attempts to strong-arm me into calling them what you and the Count want to call them, rather than what I want to call them, are both misguided and a distraction from what I presume is your real goal, which is to say fighting them. There have been other villains in history, apart from the Nazis (which word certainly describes some Trump supporters), and there will be others in the future. I do not intend to let kneejerk reaching for the names of the last great bogeymen circumscribe my own reaction to them.
@Nigel :-)
lj has sort of covered it, but I want to add that attention to grammar and usage is not the least bit in conflict with appreciation for rap, free verse, or the "vernacular."* It's a false equivalence--whether a misunderstanding or a deliberate gotcha, I don't know--to suggest otherwise. In fact, something like free verse by definition needs "unfree" verse, i.e. "the rules" (real or imagined), to play off of. Rap similarly. Those arts don't violate the boundaries of "correct" forms so much as they expand them, maybe interrogating the very notion of "correctness" as they go.
I talk about grammar and usage because I enjoy it, the way some people enjoy talking about baseball or beer or butterflies. Mostly I punch up: I'm bitching about the fncking New York Times, not the person-in-the-street who wouldn't know a subjunctive from a subway stop. (I'm not all that sure about the subjunctive myself.) I'm frustrated with the fact that the educational system in this country gave up a long time ago at teaching people to write well. The people whose writing I edit (for pay and as a volunteer) are smart and well-educated, and almost none of them can write a coherent paragraph composed of one sentence flowing into another, embodying a thought train, to save their lives.
*"The vernacular" reminds me of the saying, "A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy."
Ah, the roads not taken.
the battle of 'frahg' vs 'fraug' has been raging in my household for 22 years now.
What I mostly think about Rap is that it's fascinating that we found it necessary to create a new form of "music" to disguise the fact that what was really happening was a revival of poetry.
IMO, the history of rap is fascinating. 'talking blues' is an obvious predecessor. white folkies were doing it in the 60s, but it goes back to the 20s at least. and there are examples of preachers doing the classic rap cadence (ex. the one in Rapper's Delight) as far back as the 1940s. while the whole 'two turntables and a microphone' setup, where a DJ spins two records to keep the groove going seamlessly forever while rapping over it, can be traced to a specific party held in an apartment.
Posted by: cleek | August 19, 2018 at 09:18 AM
just trying to indicate that standardization didn't come in with the first factory, so the argument seems more like a 'oh, and by the way, your tie is ugly' kind of argument i.e. an argument tagged on the end to piss another person off.
It wasn't an attempt to piss people off, and thank you for sharing your expertise. It's truly a fascinating topic.
This is a handy rundown of the history of English spelling and standardization. Most of the important initiatives to standardize came with Samuel Johnson in the UK (18th c.), then Noah Webster in the US (18th and 19th c.). Standardization and conformity were important for a lot of reasons, manufacturing and trade among them. In any case, people spoke and wrote in English for a long while before standardization. Perhaps standardization is more about empire than factories.
so your attempts to strong-arm me into calling them what you and the Count want to call them, rather than what I want to call them
Thanks for the response. That has not been my attempt. My attempt has been to defend my own use of the term, and to draw parallels to a historical situation that is well-known to most people in my general demographic. I don't believe that I've ever insisted that you use the term.
To conclude my part in this conversation, let me just say that I admire good copy editors immensely, and believe that language is often at its best when precision and care are taken to select the most descriptive term. I wish I were better at it. However, when taking other people to task, if meaning is clear, small mistakes in spelling, word usage, or even grammar are (IMO) somewhat trivial. It's fun to detect these errors, to learn more about words by looking them up, and certainly to shame a major newspaper (especially one that deserves criticism for other reasons). In truth, though, since newspapers struggle financially, I'd rather have more reporters than copy editors (although, ideally, all would be employed and well remunerated).
Posted by: sapient | August 19, 2018 at 09:27 AM
sapient: Also, GftNC, I think your insistence on some rigorous definition of "fascism" or "Nazi" has skirted the fact of what's happening here in Trumpville...We're going to be lost. Maybe because people, early on, refused to call it what it is.
GftNC (and sapient quoting her): so your attempts to strong-arm me into calling them what you and the Count want to call them, rather than what I want to call them...
sapient: That has not been my attempt. My attempt has been to defend my own use of the term...
Thanks for that link, cleek. Hard to stop watching more of the Jubalaires.
JanieM has touched on one of my peeves: US pronunciation of French words. Of course we use French words here too: we pronounce them somewhere between English and French, depending on how familiar we are with French pronunciation and how affected we're willing to risk sounding. Whereas it's apparently normal in the US to use an unenglish pronunciation which would be anywhere near correct only if the words came from some unknown language almost entirely unlike French.
"Filet", especially as pronounced by waiters, is a prime example. It sounds like "fellate" with a silent "t". Someone somewhere has been told that French stresses final syllables, which is not wholly wrong, and exaggerated it absurdly. While not bothering in the slightest with what French vowels actually sound like.
In JanieM's example, "mémoire", unlike "memoir", is a French word, but "memwah" is not a French pronunciation, which ... ok, I'll stop ranting. For now.
Posted by: Pro Bono | August 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM

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Teens with sickle cell disease (SCD), an incurable genetic disorder predominantly affecting African Americans and Latinos, are among the most vulnerable youth living in urban centers. Due to sometimes frequent or long hospital stays, teens with sickle cell disease often miss weeks of school, compromising academic achievement, disrupting social networks, and causing isolation.
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Waterbirds are water-dependent, nonpasserine species which are not waterfowl or shorebirds. They are the long-legged wading birds, secretive marshbirds, and seabirds. They include the orders Gaviiformes (loons), Podicipediformes (grebes), Phoenicopteriformes (flamingo), Procellariiformes (shearwaters), Pelecaniformes (boobies, gannet, pelicans, cormorants, anhinga, and frigatebirds), Ciconiiformes (bitterns, herons, egrets, night-herons, ibises, spoonbill, jabiru, and stork), Gruiformes (rails, gallinule, moorhen, coot, and cranes), and the Charadriiformes of the families Laridae (gulls and terns), Stercorariidae (skua and jaegers), and Alcidae (guillemot and murrelets). Many of these species are long-lived, produce few young each year, have high juvenile mortality, and delayed sexual maturity. Several species make spectacular annual long distance migrations between breeding and wintering areas.
How many waterbirds are there?
World-wide there are over 600 species of waterbirds. Approximately 130 species are commonly found in North America. At least 90 species have been documented in the Great Plains region. The Great Plains is the largest ecosystem in North America and covers an area nearly 2,500 miles long and 600 miles across at the widest point.
What challenges do waterbirds face?
Dependence on water during part of their life renders waterbirds vulnerable to challenges associated with management and conservation of aquatic habitats. Wetlands, lakes, streams, reservoirs, estuaries and open pelagic waters face unique threats including habitat destruction, pollution and natural events such as storms. As many species are colonial, large numbers of individuals can be affected by a single event. Abandonment is likely when people enter nesting colonies during the nesting stage and predators will take unprotected eggs and young. Several species with robust populations are legally harvested in parts of their range. Still others are considered to be in direct competition with human interests and are legally taken under depredation orders and permits.
Though synonymous with being crazy, the common loon is a smart and interesting aquatic bird. The loon is also known for being extremely awkward. Its legs are placed far back on its body which makes it a powerful swimmer. This arrangement, however, doesn't help when on land. Loons are rather clumsy when on their own two feet.
Great Plains Waterbirds are found below. Species accounts and scientific names are in taxonomic order and follow the 7th edition (1998) of The A.O.U. [American Ornithologists' Union] Checklist of North American Birds and its supplements (42-50). Name changes and reordering occur regularly as biologists learn more about species and how they are related.
The Shoreline highlights key characteristics of the most visible and common species found in the Great Plains. Brief descriptions of rare species, known to occur in small numbers or found only in localized sites within the region, are also given. Accidental species, those which have been seen in the region but not on any regular or predictable basis, are listed.
Four species of loons (or divers) are reported from the Great Plains. Loons are highly adapted to water and spend most of their time on large bodies of water like reservoirs, lakes and rivers. They catch their prey, primarily fish, by diving using their webbed feet and occasionally their wings for propulsion. Loons need clear water to find their prey. Feeding studies show it takes over a ton of fish to fledge a brood of chicks. Loons have long bodies and their legs are set far back making them clumsy on land. Although strong fliers, they need "running" room across the water surface to become airborne. Several Native American tribes link loons to the creation of the world and see them as symbols of pride and bravery.
Loons begin breeding between 2 and 6 years of age, depending on the species and are not likely to breed every year. They are site faithful, territorial and monogamous. They generally build nests on small islands or along the edges of shorelines of freshwater lakes. Both parents incubate the 1-2 eggs, beginning with the first egg laid. Young can swim soon after hatching, but are often seen resting on their parents' back until they are about 2 weeks old. Chicks fledge in 7-11 weeks, but may still be fed by the parents even after they leave the breeding area. During migration, loons travel as single birds or in small, loose flocks, usually at night. Most loons winter in larger groups in coastal marine environments.
Loons are highly susceptible to disturbance from development and recreation. Mercury and lead contamination are also major threats to loons. Oil spills can kill wintering loons or destroy their food supplies. Wintering loons are sometimes entangled in ocean fishing nets and drown.
Grebes are adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. They sit low in the water, have streamlined bodies and short, hidden downy tail feathers. Their legs are set far back on their bodies giving them great propulsion, but making them clumsy on land. They can sit or swim with just their head above water and they have waterproof plumage. Pectoral muscles are poorly developed in grebes and there are several flightless species worldwide. Grebes run along the surface of the water while rapidly beating their wings to take off. It is suspected most grebes simultaneously molt all their flight feathers at the end of the breeding season or prior to completing their southbound migration. They may be completely flightless for a period of 3-4 weeks.
During the breeding season, grebes are found on lakes, reservoirs and wetlands. Migration usually takes place at night and flocks can be quite large. Migrating grebes use a variety of wetlands. They winter along coasts and on inland lakes.
Grebes have highly ritualized courtship displays. Partially floating nests with easy access to water are constructed from aquatic vegetation by the breeding pair. Both sexes incubate the eggs. After the eggs hatch, adults leave the nests and carry the chicks on their backs in pockets formed by the wing and back feathers. Although the floating nest reduces the predation risk from many mammalian species, gulls, crows, harriers, coots, turtles and large fish are known to take eggs and chicks. Introduced exotic fish also compete with grebes for food, prey on young chicks and alter aquatic vegetation. Grebes face many other challenges, including entanglement in fishing nets and habitat degradation through oil spills, pollution and destruction of nesting vegetation.
The order Pelecaniformes includes several species of tropicbirds, gannets, boobies and frigatebirds, as well as the species of pelicans, cormorants and Anhinga commonly found in the Great Plains. All of these are adapted to fishing. Long necks and long, conical bills are used to quickly strike and catch fish. Pelicans use their large, bare, extendible gular pouches, which can hold over 3.5 gallons of water, to scoop up fish. Although their tongues are small, it is the tongue muscles that control the pouch and allow pelicans to expel the water after they make a catch. All of the birds in this group have excellent propulsion through water due to large, webbed feet and short, sturdy legs set far back on their bodies. Hollow bones and air sacs make them buoyant in the water. The micro-structure of the feathers of darters and cormorants allows the feathers to become wet and reduces their buoyancy making diving easier. The trade-off is they need to spend considerable time perched with their wings spread to dry in the sun.
Birds in this group are long-lived and have delayed sexual maturity. They lay few eggs each year and usually only a few chicks per nest survive. Since many are colonial nesters, factors that affect a colony can have impacts on local and even regional populations. Outbreaks of diseases such as Newcastle's Disease and West Nile Virus can kill entire colonies. Many species are sensitive to human disturbance and mammalian predators during breeding and will often abandon their nesting colonies if disturbed. As fish eaters, they are exposed to large quantities of heavy metals and contaminant bioaccumulation. Eliminating the use of DDT in the U.S. and Canada allowed pelican and cormorant populations to recover. Although most species of fish taken by this group of birds have little or no commercial or recreational value, human perception of them as competitors often causes conflict and persecution. Aquaculture facilities are attractive to these birds because of the relatively easy feeding opportunities they provide, often resulting in conflicts.
Several cultures have historically depended on this group for a variety of purposes. Cormorants and darters have been kept as working pets to catch fish for their owners. Feathers from several species were used in the millinery trade. Eggs, chicks and adults have been taken for human consumption. Guano from nesting colonies provides fertilizer. Several species play key roles in maritime lore, medieval art and Asian medicine. Frigatebird chicks were hand raised and used as message carriers by early sailors.
vegetation. Bitterns are cryptic, solitary and usually nest in thicker aquatic vegetation. Clutch size varies from 2-7 eggs depending on the species and young hatch helpless, mostly unfeathered and with their eyes closed.
Several species grow ornamental plumes on the head, lower neck, breast and back during the breeding season. These plumes, once used to adorn fashionable hats, were highly valued by the milliner's trade. The overharvest of birds through the early 1900s resulted in the near extermination of several species. World-wide they have also been harvested for food and killed because they are fish-eaters and seen as competitors with humans. Habitat loss and pollutants are the biggest problems facing this group of birds.
The order Gruiformes has species representing both the smallest and largest waterbirds found in the Great Plains. These species inhabit marshy wetlands, are highly territorial and are solitary breeders. Several species have developed intricate courtship behaviors. Due to their longevity, monogamous habits and extended care of young, cranes, the largest species in this order, have long been viewed as symbols of good luck, long life, peace and marital bliss. Cranes have developed several elaborate displays and vocalizations which can include leaping, dancing and calling.
"Thin as a rail" describes the laterally compressed bodies of all rails. Flexible vertebrae allow them to effortlessly squeeze through dense marsh vegetation. Long toes, strong legs and vestigial claws at the tips of the wings assist them in navigating floating vegetation and climbing stems of emergent vegetation. Rails are also able to swim to elude predators and are not strong or graceful fliers. Most species of rails build nests on the ground or in vegetation above water level. Many nests are covered with a dome canopy thought to be built for concealment. Chicks can leave the nest within days, but depend on the parents to feed and brood them. Rails are often killed when they collide with objects, including lighted towers, overhead wires, buildings and vehicles. As with most species of waterbirds, wetland habitat degradation and destruction are their biggest threats.
Vocalizations are distinctive and often the only way small secretive species like rails can be reliably surveyed. Good recordings are readily available for species found in the Great Plains. Learning the calls can provide clues to bird presence and the use of playback calls may allow individuals to be coaxed into view. However, be aware birds are reacting to perceived threats. Overuse of calls to lure birds during the breeding season means time spent away from nesting and foraging, which is detrimental to breeding success.
Gruiformes is the only waterbird order in which several species are legally harvested within parts of the Great Plains. Crane and rail hunting is a specialized sport – to the point of developing its own culture among die-hard aficionados. Care is taken to delineate hunting areas, bag limits and season lengths sustainable for each hunted species. Understanding the biology and habitat needs of each species is important and researchers work with land managers to maintain high quality wintering and breeding habitat to ensure robust populations. Legal species, season dates and bag limits vary among states and years, so hunters should consult current regulations.
This large suborder of seabirds is most closely related to shorebirds. Several species have a worldwide distribution. Viewing areas for gulls and terns within the Great Plains include wetlands, reservoirs, sand bars in rivers and garbage dumps. Because they are powerful fliers, prefer open spaces and congregate in groups around food resources, most people are aware of gulls. Terns are generally smaller and more slender than gulls and are primarily fish eaters. They can be easily distinguished from gulls by their hunting technique. Gulls pick things off the surface of the water or land, whereas terns dive after their prey in open water. Jaegers are primarily oceanic, usually only coming inland to breed. At sea they steal food from other seabirds and on land they are predators feeding on lemmings, small birds and other animals.
Correctly identifying different gulls takes practice and careful observation. Individual bird identification can be challenging as gulls look different depending on age, feather wear, individual variations and the tendency of some gulls to hybridize. Size, leg and bill color and patterns on wings and tail are important for identification. Only the most general identification characteristics are offered here. It is recommended that you take time to make careful observations and take extensive notes on species you are unsure of. Because of the subtle differences and the low likelihood of encounters, similar species, which we have classified as rare in the Great Plains region, are not differentiated here. A specialized gull identification guide, showing standing birds and the wings and tails of flying birds, in both winter and breeding plumage and the different age classes, is highly recommended as a study aid for gulls, terns and jaegers. However, even with an excellent resource, some gulls and jaegers may not be identified to species in the field.
These species are not regularly encountered every year or are known to occur only in small numbers in localized sites within the Great Plains.
Many common waterbirds can be misidentified as a rare species. Sightings of suspected rare and accidental species should be confirmed using a more detailed text and carefully documented with photographs and detailed descriptions.
The following birds are considered Accidental within the Great Plains. Only a single or a few scattered records exist for each of these species. They are out of their normal range when found here.


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Find a great sale price on this 1948 Speedster 356/1 at Park Place Aston Martin in Bellevue, WA. This 1948 Speedster 356/1 is located at our dealership in Bellevue. If you're looking for a great price on this 1948 Speedster 356/1 or just looking to get an auto loan for the vehicle you want... you've come to the right place! Park Place Aston Martin.
Ultra-high quality 1948 356/1 Re-creation. 1915cc H4 engine, dual EMPI carburetors, 4-speed manual transmission, round-tube chassis, fiberglass body, 5-lug wheels w/ hub caps, 12V electricals, two-piece windscreen. Build by Vintage Replicar founder Mark Gomez.
Although it was originally developed for Volkswagen, the art-deco styled 356/1 prototype was conceived and built by Ferry Porsche and would go on to become the very first automobile to carry the Porsche name. The original 356/1 is proudly displayed at the Porsche HQ in Stuttgart, Germany, and the 356/1 seen here is a high-quality re-creation that was the first example built by Vintage Replicar founder Mark Gomez. Vintage Replicar re-creations are among the highest-quality re-creations on the market, and this example has been featured in Excellence magazine in April 2011. It has had just one previous owner since being built in 2010, and has been driven just 3,441 miles.
The development and build of this 356/1 re-creation was a multi-year affair that would help secure Vintage Replicar as one of the finest producers of re-creations. The body is constructed of hand-finished fiberglass with correct detailing, trim, headlamp bezzling, bumper guards and a proper two-piece windscreen, just like it appears on the original 356/1. As it was constructed in 1948, the original 356/1 interior was a very spartan affair, with not much more than seats and a steering wheel. This re-creation holds true with two red leather bucket seats, oatmeal & grey carpeting and an ivory banjo-style steering wheel. The door panels and gear shifter are also trimmed in red leather, and the dash features VDO-style instrumentation for an authentic look. Correct wheels wear polished hub caps with front disc brakes behind to provide stopping power.
Unlike the production 356 coupes and speedsters that were rear-engined, the 356/1 was originally built in a mid-engine configuration, with the engine positioned between the seats and the rear axle. This re-creation is powered by an air-cooled 1,915cc with dual EMPI 40mm carburetors that develops approximately 100hp -- a large improvement of the diminutive 1,131cc, 40hp four-cylinder in the original. The engine is backed by a four-speed manual transmission, and the car is built on a round-tube chassis.
This 356/1 has been well looked-after by its previous owner, and it is fully sorted after a comprehensive servicing at Chris' German Auto (to much fanfare), a local Bellevue area shop that specializes in all things Porsche. Record of this servicing, as well as other service records and guides, are included in an organized binder.
Because there is only one original 356/1, this high-quality re-creation commands massive attention wherever it goes, as most have no idea such a car even exists. It is a crowd favorite at vintage Porsche events, local car shows, and just driving down the road. If you're considering a vintage Porsche re-creation, you'd be remiss to miss out on the opportunity to add this example to your collection.


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Rogue – zawodowa drużyna e-sportowa, z siedzibą w Las Vegas, w Nevadzie. Składa się z sekcji rywalizujących w League of Legends, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege i Rocket League. Początkowo istniały również sekcje FIFA, Fortnite Battle Royale i Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. W League of Legends istnieją dwa zespoły: główna drużyna, biorąca udział w League of Legends European Championship (LEC), oraz akademia w polskiej Ultralidze. Organizacja Rogue została założona przez Franklina Villarreala, Dereka Nelsona i Carsona Knutha w 2016, a w 2018 została przejęta przez przedsiębiorstwo ReKTGlobal i jej partnerów. Współwłaścicielami organizacji są m.in. amerykański zespół Imagine Dragons, koszykarz Rudy Gobert, muzycy Nicky Romero i Nick Gross, czy piłkarz Landon Collins.

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20 listopada 2018 roku Riot Games ogłosiło, że Rogue będzie jednym z dziesięciu partnerów franczyzowych w nowej lidze LEC, przemianowanej z European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS). W skład większości drużyny wchodzili byli gracze Team ROCCAT: Kim "Profit" Jun-hyunga, Mateusz "Kikis" Szkudlarek, Chresa "Sencux" Laursen, Martin "HeaQ" Kordmaa, oraz były wspierający G2 Esports Kim "Wadid" Bae-ina.

Inauguracyjny sezon wiosenny LEC 2019 rozpoczęli wynikiem 0-8, a po zmianach w drużynie, zakończyli sezon ostatnim miejscem w lidze, z wynikiem 2-16. W sezonie letnim LEC 2019, większość zawodników akademii zostało przeniesionych do pierwszego składu (Finn, Inspired, Larssen, Woolite, Vander). Tym razem zakończyli sezon na piątym miejscu z wynikiem 7-11, uzyskując kwalifikację do fazy turniejowej. W pierwszej rundzie wygrali 3-0 z drużyną Splyce, a w drugiej rundzie przegrali  1-3 z drużyną FC Schalke 04 Esports. Nie uzyskując kwalifikacji na Mistrzostwa Świata 2019 w Paryżu. 18 listopada 2019 do drużyny dołączył doświadczony strzelec Steven "Hans Sama" Liv, który opuścił Misfits Gaming.

W sezonie wiosennym LEC 2020, odświeżony skład z nowym strzelcem osiągnął wynik 9-9 w sezonie regularnym zajmując piąte miejsce, kwalifikując się do fazy turniejowej. W pierwszej rundzie wygrali 3-0 z drużyną Misfits Gaming, a w drugiej przegrali 1-3 z Origen. W sezonie letnim, w tym samym składzie zajęło pierwsze miejsce w sezonie regularnym z wynikiem 13-5, kwalifikując się z pierwszego miejsca do fazy turniejowej. W pierwszej rundzie przegrali 0-3 z Fnatic, trafiając do trzeciej rundy drabinki przegranych. Zwyciężyli 3-0 z MAD Lions, jednak w finale drabinki ulegli wynikiem 2-3 tryumfatorowi turnieju, G2 Esports. Rogue zakwalifikowało się na trzecim miejscu do Mistrzostwach Świata 2020 w Szanghaju, trafiając do głównego wydarzenia. Zostali wylosowani do grupy B, razem z koreańskim tryumfatorem turnieju DAMWON Gaming, chińskim JD Gaming oraz hongkońskim PSG Talon, gdzie zajęli czwarte miejsce z wynikiem 1-5. W listopadzie w sezonie transferowym, drużynę Rogue opuścili Finn oraz Vander, w miejsce których weszli Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu z FC Schalke 04 oraz Trymbi z drużyny akademii.

W sezonie wiosennym LEC 2021, w odświeżonym o wspierającego składzie, w sezonie regularnym zajęli drugie miejsce w sezonie regularnym z wynikiem 14-4 (taki sam wynik osiągnęło G2 Esports, jednak G2 wygrało dwukrotnie z Rogue, czego wynikiem jest drugie miejsce). W fazie pucharowej przegrali pierwsze spotkanie z MAD Lions, trafiając do niższej drabinki, gdzie pokonali kolejno FC Schalke 04 oraz G2 Esports. W bardzo wyrównanym finale, przegrali wynikiem 2-3 z MAD Lions. Po wygraniu letniego sezonu regularnego, zajęli trzecie miejsce. Dzięki nieobecności Wietnamu na Mistrzostwach Świata 2021, od razu dostali się do fazy grupowej, której nie opuścili.

Wiosenny sezon 2022, drużyna Rogue rozpoczęła w składzie: Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu, Kim "Malrang" Geun-seong, Emil "Larssen" Larsson, Markos "Comp" Stamkopoulos oraz Adrian "Trymbi" Trybus. Wygrali sezon regularny z wynikiem 14-4. Wygrali pierwszy mecz fazy pucharowej z Misfits Gaming wynikiem 3-1, a następnie mimo złego początku serii z Fnatic (0-2), wygrali wynikiem 3-2, awansując do meczu finałowego. Zostali pokonani przez G2 Esports wynikiem 0-3. Latem w sezonie regularnym zajęli trzecie miejsce. W fazie pucharowej po pokonaniu 3-2 Mad Lions, przegrali w półfinale górnej drabinki 0-3 przeciwko G2 Esports i spadli do półfinalu dolnej drabinki, gdzie pokonali Fnatic 3-1. W finale letniego sezonu LEC, na szwedzkiej scenie Malmo Arena Rogue w zdecydowany sposób pokonało G2 Espors, wynikiem 3-0, zyskując swój pierwszy tytuł mistrza LEC oraz kwalifikując się do fazy grupowej Mistrzostwa Świata 2022 w Stanach Zjednoczonych. W trakcie fazy pucharowej Rogue poinformowało o rozpoczęciu współpracy w przyszłym sezonie z hiszpańską organizacją KOI, założoną przez Ibai Llanosa oraz Gerarda Piqué, która zapłaciła 20 milionów euro za 60% udziałów w franczyzie LEC. Wyszli z grupy C z drugiego miejsca, awansując do ćwierćfinałów jako jedyna zachodnia drużyna. Odpadli z Mistrzostw po przegranej przeciwko chińskiemu JD Gaming, zajmując najlepszy rezultat w historii organizacji - miejsce 5-8.

Skład Rogue:

  Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu
  Kim "Malrang" Geun-seong
  Emil "Larssen" Larsson
  Markos "Comp" Stamkopoulos
  Adrian "Trymbi" Trybus

AGO Rogue
W grudniu 2018 roku, miesiąc po utworzeniu drużyny LEC, organizatory sformowali drużynę akademicką, która brała udział rozgrywkach pierwszego sezonu Ultraligi – Rogue Esports Club w skład której wchodzili Finn "Finn" Wiestål, Kacper "Inspired" Słoma, Emil "Larssen" Larsson, Paweł "Woolite" Pruski, Oskar "Vander" Bogdan oraz Oskar "Raxxo" Bazydło. Na wiosnę 2019 roku, akademia Rogue EC zajęła pierwsze miejsce w Ultralidze, awansując do europejskiego turnieju drugoligowego – European Masters (EU Masters), gdzie nie opuścili grupy. Latem drużyna akademii w składzie Marcin "iBo" Lebuda, Marcin "beheve" Pawlak, Marcin "Selfie" Wolski, HeaQ i Raxxo przegrali w finale drugiego sezonu Ultraligi, przegrywając 2-3 z devils.one. Na EU Masters przegrali w ćwierćfinale z hiszpańską drużyną Vodafone Giants.Spain.  21 grudnia 2019 roku Rogue ogłosiło współpracę z inną polską organizacją x-kom AGO, tworząc nowy zespół: AGO Rogue.

Drużyna akademii (w składzie: Mathias "Szygenda" Jensen, Nikolay "Zanzarah" Akatov, Paweł "Czekolad" Szczepanik, Woolite, Patryk "Mystiques" Piórkowski) w trzecim sezonie Ultraligi zajęli pierwsze miejsce w sezonie regularnym z wynikiem 12-2. Następnie wygrali fazę pucharową, w finale pokonując 3-1 zmagającą się w Ultralidze, portugalską organizację K1ck eSports Club, tym samym zyskując drugie zwycięstwo w Ultralidze, uzyskując tytuł Mistrza Polski. W EU Masters zajęli drugie miejsce w grupie B, za francuską drużyną LDLC OL, przegrywając dogrywkę. W ćwierćfinale pokonali 2-0 niemiecką drużynę mousesports, w półfinale przegrywając z tryumfatorem turnieju – LDLC OL – wynikiem 1-2, nie awansując do finału, gdzie mieli ponownie spotkać K1ck eSports Club. W czwartym sezonie Alior Bank Ultraligi z nowym wspierającym, Adrianem "Trymbim" Trybusem zajęła pierwsze miejsce w sezonie regularnym z wynikiem 12-2, przegrywając w finale 1-3 z K1ck Neosurf. Na EU masters wygrali grupę z wynikiem 5-2, w ćwierćfinale pokonali 2-0 francuską akademię Misfits Premier, w półfinale pokonali 2-0 niemiecką organizację mousesports, aby ostatecznie zwyciężyć w finale 3-0 z niemiecką organizacją GamerLegion. W sezonie transferowym wszyscy zawodnicy akademii znaleźli miejsca w innych drużynach LEC lub ich akademiach.

Wiosną 2021, w piątym sezonie Alior Bank Ultraligi w nowym składzie: Jakub "Sinmivak" Rucki, Lukas "Lurox" Thoma, Chres "Chres" Laursen (wcześniej "Sencux"), Damian "Lucker" Konefał oraz Łukasz "Pyrka" Grześkowiak, wygrała sezon regularny z wynikiem 12-2, w finale rewanżując się drużynie K1CK Neosurf, pokonując ją 3-2, uzyskując trzecie zwycięstwo w Ultralidze, zyskując drugi tytuł Mistrza Polski. Na European Masters zajęli trzecie miejsce w grupie, nie awansując do fazy pucharowej. W szóstym sezonie nie udało się obronić tytułu mistrzowskiego przegrywając w półfinale 0-3 przeciwko Illuminar Gaming, uzyskując kwalifikację do fazy wstępnej European Masters 2021 Summer. Drużyna opuściła turniej w fazie pucharowej zajmując trzecie miejsce w grupie A. W listopadzie AGO Rogue wygrało lokalny turniej Trinity Force Puchar Polski.

W siódmym sezonie Ultraligi, wiosna 2022 roku drużyna wymieniła duet leśnika oraz środkowego na Jochema "Rabble" van Graafeiland oraz Ardiana "Nite" Spahiu, a także wspierającego na Leona Maximiliana "Leon" Antona. Po bardzo dobrym sezonie regularnym zakończony wynikiem 15-3, drużyna pewnie wygrała fazę pucharową, pokonując Team ESCA Gaming w finale, trzeci raz zyskując tytuł Mistrza Polski. Na wiosnny EU Masters 2022 z powodów zdrowotnych nie mógł udać się wspierający drużyny, wobec czego do drużyny dołączył Mauno "beansu" Tälli.  AGO Rogue jako jedyna nie-francuska drużyna opuściła ćwierćfinały, jednak w półfinale uległa Mistrzowi Francji - formacji LDLC z wynikiem 0-3. Na sezon letni do drużyny dołączył doświadczony zawodnik z grającej w LEC drużyny Astralis - Hampus Mikael "promisq" Abrahamsson. Zdominowali sezon regularny, oraz fazę pucharową. W finale doszło do niecodziennej sytuacji, ponieważ promisq musiał grać zdalnie, a Nite nie zdążył dotrzeć do studia na pierwsze dwie mapy. Spotkanie ostatecznie zakończyło się przegraną 0-3 na Zero Tenacity. Drużyna nie opuściła fazy grupowej na European Masters. W wyniku fuzji KOI i Rouge, drużyna akademii zostanie przeniesiona do hiszpanii, zaś AGO zostanie pozbawione partnerstwa z Rouge w Sezonie 9 Ultraligi.

Skład AGO Rogue:

  Jakub "Sinmivak" Rucki
  Jochem "Rabble" van Graafeiland

  Ardian "Nite" Spahiu
  Damian "Lucker" Konefał
  Hampus Mikael "promisq" Abrahamsson

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 1 miejsce - LEC Summer Playoffs 2022
 2 miejsce – LEC Spring Playoffs 2021, LEC Spring Playoffs 2022, LEC Summer Playoffs 2022
 3 miejsce – LEC Summer Playoffs 2020, LEC Summer Playoffs 2021
 5 miejsce – LEC Spring Playoffs 2020
 4 miejsce – LEC Summer Playoffs 2019
 5-8 miejsce - Mistrzostwa Świata 2022
 9-11 miejsce - Mistrzostwa Świata 2021
 13-16 miejsce - Mistrzostwa Świata 2020
 Rogue Esports Club / AGO Rogue
 1 miejsce – Sezon 1 Ultraliga, Sezon 3 Ultraliga, Sezon 5 Alior Bank Ultraliga, Sezon 7 Ultraliga
 2 miejsce –  Sezon 2 Ultraliga, Sezon 4 Alior Bank Ultraliga, Sezon 8 Ultraliga
 3 miejsce - Sezon 6 Ultraliga
 1 miejsce – European Masters Summer 2020
 3-4 miejsce – European Masters Spring 2020, European Masters Spring 2022
 5-8 miejsce – European Masters Summer 2019
 9-12 miejsce – European Masters Spring 2019, European Masters Spring 2021
 10-15 miejsce - European Masters Summer 2022

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Loaded Gun is the debut album from Canadian rock band Gloryhound. The album was recorded at The Farm Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and was produced and recorded by Garth Richardson and mixed by Bob Ezrin.

Track listing

Personnel
Evan Meisner – vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
David Casey – lead guitar, vocals
Shaun Hanlon – drums, percussion
Jeremy MacPherson – bass guitar
Garth Richardson – production,
Bob Ezrin – audio mixing at Anarchy Studios Nashville, Tennessee
Ben Kaplan  – Recording and digital editing, keyboards
Josh Guillaume – Assistant recorder, mixing engineer
Griffin Bargholz – Assistant recorder
Flavio Cirillo – Drum tech
Jarod Snowdon – Mixing engineer
Justin Cortelyou – Mixing engineer
Brock McFarlane – Mastering at CPS Mastering
Alex MacAskill – Artwork and layout
Dirty Harry – Photography
Leigh Righton – Photography
Nathan Quinn – A&R

Singles

References

2014 debut albums
Albums produced by Garth Richardson
MNRK Music Group albums


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2015 Yamaha R1 and R1M Launched in India
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India Yamaha Motor has launched the 2015 Yamaha R1 and R1M superbikes in the country. The latest generation R1 costs INR 22.34 lacs and has gone on sale in two colors – Racing Blue and Racing Red. The racier R1M, on the other hand, can be yours for INR 29.43 lacs and is available only in Silver Blu Carbon paint job. (All prices are ex-Showroom, New Delhi). These bikes come to India via CKD route and have taken only a few months to come here, since they were first unveiled at the last year's EICMA in Italy.
The 2015 Yamaha R1 is powered by a 998cc, liquid-cooled, parallel four cylinder engine that has a maximum power of 200 PS at 13,500 rpm and a peak torque of 112.4 Nm at 11,500 rpm. The engine is mated to a six-speed manual gearbox. Both the new bikes measure 2,055 mm in length, 690 mm in width and 1,150 mm in height. They have a wheelbase of 1,405 mm and the new generation R1s are built around an aluminium deltabox frame.
While the R1M shares its engine with the cheaper R1, it is much racier and is more race-ready in nature. The R1M, which is better suited to racetracks, gets some carbon-fibre bits and more electronic aids. The R1M also gets a higher seat height of 860 mm, an increase of 5 mm over its standard sibling. Also, R1M, in comparison with R1's 190/55 spec rear tire, gets a wider 200/55 spec tire.
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Luffa echinata är en gurkväxtart som beskrevs av William Roxburgh. Luffa echinata ingår i släktet Luffa och familjen gurkväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Ben Foster Reprising William Burroughs Role For Directorial Debut, Kristen Stewart To Co-Star
Six years ago Ben Foster played American author and Beat Generation member William S. Burroughs in Kill Your Darlings, a killer dramatic ensemble that kinda flew under the radar. I remember being sorta obsessed with it before and after its premiere at Sundance. Something about Burroughs must have really connected with Burroughs as he's coming back to play the influential writer again, only this time in his own directorial debut, and joining him will be none other than Kristen Stewart.
Foster will make his directorial debut in an untitled film about Burroughs, in which he'll star alongside Stewart and Dunkirk actor Tom Glynn-Carney. Oren Moverman co-wrote the script with Foster, having previously worked together on The Messenger. The story is said to follow the unusual relationship between Burroughs, his muse and common-law wife Joan Vollmer (Stewart), and an American ex-pat named Allerton (Glynn-Carney). Presumably, the latter is Eugene Allerton, a fictionalized character based on one of Burroughs' real-life boyfriends. Burroughs and Vollmer had a turbulent relationship to put it mildly, with infidelity, drugs, and alcohol a constant presence in their lives. Things got so bad that Burroughs "accidentally" killed her in New Mexico and did everything his power to cover it up. Covering up murders seemed to be a thing among those Beat Generation guys.
While this is a return to the Beat Generation for Foster, it's also one for Stewart who starred in 2012's adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
This one's pretty early on and is being shopped around Cannes, but with this level of talent finding buyers should be a breeze. [Deadline]