This resource presents a broad cross-section of the Wagner literature of the nineteenth century as held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, which possesses one of the world's finest collections of Wagneriana. The collection consists of Secondary Literature of the Nineteenth century; Wagner's Mein Leben, 1870-1880; Mathilde Wesendonck's Complete Published Writings.
Richard Wagners "Ring des Nibelungen"
Chambrun, Joseph-Dominique-Aldebert de Pineton,comte de,1821-1899.
Chambrun, Joseph-Dominique-Aldebert de Pineton,comte de,1821-1899., Legis, Stanislas.
Filippi, Filippo,1830-1887., Furchheim, Friedrich,b. 1844.
Flat, Paul,1865-1918., Chamberlain, Houston Stewart,1855-1927.
Richard Wagner und die neuere Musik:eine kritische Skizze aus der musikalischen Gegenwart.
Pfordten, Hermann Ludwig,Freiherr von der,1857-1933.
Schuré, Edouard,1841-1929., Wolzogen, Hans von,1848-1938.
Unmusikalische Noten zu Richard Wagners "Judenthum in der Musik"
Wagner, Richard,1813-1883., Glasenapp, Carl Friedrich,1847-1915.
Heil Dir, Friedrich, deutscher Kaiser!
Wesendonk, Mathilde,1828-1902., Ruff, Louis., Schweinfurth, Ernst.
Richard Wagners Bühnenfestspiel Der Ring des Nibelungen:ein Versuch, den Inhalt des Werkes und die Intentionen des Dichter-Componisten klarzulegen.
The bibliography on Richard Wagner is huge. He has stirred passions, love, and hatred in equal measure - sometimes (as in the case of Friedrich Nietzsche) within the same breast. It is a popular fact, especially among trivia fanatics, that more has been written about this composer than about almost any other human being except Jesus Christ. Wagner, never the most modest of men, would have been delighted (though he would probably have reckoned it as his due). The literature on Wagner really began at about the same time as his own literary output blossomed, namely after his flight from Dresden in the wake of the failed uprising against the King of Saxony.
His most important early apologist was his friend Franz Liszt, whose Lohengrin et Tannhäuser appeared in 1851. The literature on him swelled as his theories attracted more and more adherents and opponents, and has never ceased to grow. And yet, although the Wagner bibliography of his later years and of the years immediately after his death includes some of the most important writings on his life and work, many of these writings have remained difficult - and in some cases, well-nigh impossible - to obtain.
This edition presents a broad cross-section of the Wagner literature of the nineteenth century as held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, which possesses one of the world's finest collections of Wagneriana. The titles reproduced here cover the whole spectrum of European Wagner literature, from two of the earliest books on the composer - Liszt's Lohengrin et Tannhäuser and Die Wagnerfrage of 1854 by Liszt's friend Joachim Raff - to a journal entitled Maandblad voor muziek ( Monthly music journal) that appeared in Holland in the late nineteenth century, but was in fact dedicated wholly to Wagner and his art. Of particular significance is the reproduction here of Mary Burrell's biographical fragment. Burrell was the most important, and undoubtedly the most successful, of the early Wagner researchers. Her marriage to a wealthy man freed her to pursue her studies of the master, though she retained a remarkable degree of objectivity, taking care to steer away from the hagiographic (one might even say, proto-Stalinist) line of Wagner's widow Cosima. Mary Burrell died early, having completed Wagner's biography only as far as the year 1834. As a monument to her and her work, her husband had this fragment published in a bibliophile edition of just 100 copies, in elephant folio. It contains facsimiles of important documents in a quality astonishing for the time, and has become one of the rarest, most sought-after (and most expensive) titles in the history of Wagner research. This edition now makes this available, and with it many other rare titles of the early Wagner bibliography, at a cost affordable to researchers and Wagner-lovers alike.
Wagner's autobiography Mein Leben ( My Life) is without doubt one of the most significant literary documents in the history of Western music. But its first untruths are already to be found here, in the opening lines of its foreword. 'Untruth' is perhaps too strong a word. This book, which was dictated over a period of 15 years, mixes fact with fiction with breathtaking virtuosity, so that one can never quite be sure where the one starts and the other stops, or to what extent Wagner was himself aware of the merging of the two. For Wagner, historical fact (his 'unadorned truth') could sometimes be what he thought it was, or should have been, even if it wasn't. But this subjectivity merely makes his autobiography - warts and all - an even more important chronical of his life and work.
It was in fact Wagner's patron, Ludwig II of Bavaria, who expressed in a letter of May 28th, 1865 the wish to read about his life - though this wish was undoubtedly then echoed by Wagner's friend and lover (later his 'friend and wife'), Cosima. Work on the book began just a few weeks later. Although the fourth and last volume was not completed until 1880, the autobiography ends - tactfully, given the person of the man who commissioned it - with Wagner's being called to Munich by the young Bavarian king in 1864.
The printing history of this autobiography is almost as fascinating as the story it tells. Wagner had the first three volumes printed privately by G. A. Bonfantini in Basle, in just 15 copies. The first volume was proofread by no less a man than Friedrich Nietzsche (who was at the time still in the thrall of the master). The fourth and final volume was printed by Th. Burger in Bayreuth in 1880. An edition of Mein Leben was published in 1911, and was soon translated into other languages and read all over the world. However, it had been doctored in order not to embarrass Wagner's heirs or offend the heirs of those whom he criticizes in the book. An edition based on the original manuscript was not published until 1963.
The first edition of Mein Leben is one of the rarest published documents of the nineteenth century. Of the original 15 copies, those that Wagner had given to selected friends were regained by Cosima after his death. Most were then destroyed (though, unbeknownst to Wagner, his printer Bonfantini had kept a private copy for himself). A mere handful of copies has survived in the great libraries of the world. Wagner scholars today use a modern edition based faithfully on the original manuscript. But as a source document, no modern edition can completely supplant the one whose publication was overseen by Wagner himself. Despite this fact, despite the first edition's bibliophile nature - and its value as a measure of Friedrich Nietzsche's proofreading skills! - it has not been reprinted in facsimile until now. This edition reproduces the copy held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, home to one of the finest collections of Wagneriana in the world. Almost 100 years elapsed between the commencement of Wagner's autobiography and its presentation to the world in a reliable edition; now, almost a century and a half after he began his dictation, his own edition of his memoirs is at last freely available to Wagner lovers and scholars.
Mathilde Wesendonck must count among the most famous women of modern times. Her liaison with Richard Wagner, and her immortalization through his five Wesendonck Songs - settings of poems she wrote and gave to him - have assured her a place in the history books. She is generally regarded as the inspiration for Tristan and Isolde and the Valkyrie. However, as her relationship with Wagner became a modern myth, interest shifted to the composer, with Mathilde herself receding into the background. The famous edition of their correspondence, which was first published in 1904 as Richard Wagner an Mathilde Wesendonck ( Richard Wagner [writes] to Mathilde Wesendonck), contains little written by Mathilde herself: almost all her letters to Wagner had been destroyed by his jealous second wife, Cosima. The book is thus little more than an interior monologue on Wagner's part, with Mathilde relegated to the role of largely silent muse. This could explain why Cosima allowed publication at all, for 'Mathilde as muse' is by necessity disembodied, de-sexed, no longer woman, but an invented figure that cannot really be a serious object of envy or sexual jealousy. Mathilde has lost her voice, so to speak, and become little more than a cipher.
This interpretation of Mathilde as a disembodied muse was reinforced by the fact that it corresponded with common opinion that a woman could never be much more than a useful appendage to a male genius. It also helps to explain why Mathilde's literary works have never earned anything other than mockery, even though her critics have almost certainly never read them properly. Their scorn has been copied and repeated for decades without further comment. And yet when Wagner published his Wesendonck Songs, he did not reveal the name of the poet, leading the general public to assume him to be the author. This naturally suggests that the quality of the poems was judged to be similar to that of Wagner's own literary works. Perhaps the scorn, then, is misplaced?
We must not get too carried away in Mathilde's defense, however. She is not an undiscovered literary genius waiting to be presented to the world. Her poetic gifts failed her most when she was confronted by life's harshest blows (such as the death of her children). But she was a cultivated, intelligent woman who spoke and wrote several languages, and surrounded herself with men and women of similar taste and intelligence (her admirers included the composers Theodor Kirchner and Johannes Brahms, and the writers Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Eliza Wille-Sloman). Wagner fell in love with her, not least because she was able to provide him with a higher level of aesthetic discussion than could his own wife. Her poems, short stories, and plays exhibit both expertise and good taste. They also testify to the interest in Germanic myths and legends that she shared with Wagner. Her works are peopled by Norns, Valkyries, water nymphs, and the whole panoply of Nordic gods (though her own dramatized version of the Siegfried story ends with his waking not Brünnhilde, but Sleeping Beauty). Mathilde deserves to be read, and heard.
This edition presents facsimiles of the first editions of Mathilde's writings. These were published in small print runs and are available in only a few libraries scattered across the globe (this being perhaps the main reason why hardly anyone has read them: they are difficult to find). The largest single collection is in Zurich, so most of the editions here are from the Zentralbibliothek Zürich and the Zürich City Archives (the latter institution holds the biggest portion of Mathilde's estate). Commentators agree that, without Mathilde Wesendonck, the history of the music of the nineteenth century would look, and sound, quite different. And if her relationship with Wagner prevents us from reading her for herself alone, then we must at least read her in order to understand him. Even if our frame of reference remains fixed with a nineteenth-century bias, how can we comprehend the master if we do not understand his muse? But this edition does more than help us to understand Mathilde: it allows her to speak in her own voice again.


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"Macao・Creative City of Gastronomy" work meeting convened today to strengthen cross-field creativity and foster sustainable development
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"Macao・Creative City of Gastronomy" work meeting
The second "Macao・Creative City of Gastronomy" annual work meeting was held today (13 August). Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, presided over the meeting and expressed affirmation for the contributions of different entities. He highlighted that Macao's two glamorous calling cards, namely the designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy and the enlisting of the Historic Centre of Macao on the World Heritage List, have gained wide recognition for Macao internationally, which is a boon for destination branding around the world. In the future, the city will carry on collaboration across fields as well as the public and private sectors, harness synergies with innovation and technology to raise Macao's profile as a Creative City of Gastronomy in concerted efforts. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) and other governmental departments concerned, academic institutes, industry organizations and so forth.
Technology and creativity combined to move Macao towards sustainability
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, stated that with the Central Government's enormous support, Macao, China was designated as a member city of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the field of gastronomy on 1 November 2017 (local time of announcement: 31 October 2017). The Creative Cities Network covers seven creative fields including Gastronomy, Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Literature, Music and Media Arts. He believes that new possibility can be explored through synergies with innovative technology, which, combined with creativity, can unlock greater potential for the city's development. He mentioned that more tasks and projects including Art Macao are underway this year. Not only that, more creative elements are required in the future to push forward Macao's sustainable development and echo the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
He added that guided by the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Macao forges ahead with the vision to become a world centre of tourism and leisure, a commercial and trade cooperation service platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries as well as a base for exchange and cooperation, where Chinese culture prevails and different cultures flourish in harmony. He believes that Macao is marching towards a brighter future.
Macao participates in evaluation of applications to UCCN in the field of gastronomy
MGTO Director Senna Fernandes, Deputy Directors Cheng Wai Tong and Ricky Hoi attended the meeting and shared with delegates of different parties an overview of the Network and a retrospective summary of the work accomplished by MGTO to foster Macao's development as a Creative City of Gastronomy, as well as future work plans.
Senna Fernandes stated that the four-year action plan (2018 – 2021) for the development of "Macao・Creative City of Gastronomy" leverages creativity as a strategic enhancer for the city's progress towards sustainability, which aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals listed in the United Nation's 2030 Agenda. The initiatives underway are in parallel with some of the Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, in the second year following the designation, Macao possesses the right to vote for host destination for annual conference and evaluate applications to UCCN in the field of gastronomy. On the other hand, preparations for construction of the Macanese cuisine database are in steady progress. Work is currently carried out to collect family recipes against the prospect of being lost from past generations.
Representatives of different entities and industry associations also shared about their work done to push forward Macao's development as a Creative City of Gastronomy at the meeting.
The Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) shared about its upcoming launch of Master programs in the catering field, while Education and Youth Affairs Bureau presented the project of building an activity center for vocational and technical education. Equipped with an international culinary zone, the center is expected to come into service in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Secretary Tam believes that the international culinary zone in the activity center for vocational and technical education and the culinary centre of IFT, both to be established in the future, will provide more comprehensive and better training programs for catering professionals together with the Macau University of Science and Technology and other tertiary institutes.
Efforts across fields and entities to promote Macao's status as a Creative City of Gastronomy
In concluding the meeting, Secretary Tam recognized the work carried out by different entities. He pointed out that the two glamorous calling cards including Macao's designation as a Creative City of Gastronomy and the enlisting of the Historic Centre of Macao as a World Heritage Site have gained wide recognition for Macao internationally and raised the city's reputation, helping to promote the destination to different parts of the world. He called on members of different circles to cherish these two calling cards, not only to cast their concern on gastronomy and food safety, but also to strengthen industry training in order to promote overall quality enhancement in all aspects. In the future, through close cooperation across different fields and departments and with industry partners, and collaboration in preservation, creativity, education, training, food safety and other fields, all will work together to promote Macao's status as a Creative City of Gastronomy, driving growth in economic benefits and prosperous development of Macao.
President of IFT, Fanny Vong, Advisor of Office of the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Stella Leong, Vice President of Cultural Affairs Bureau, Chan Kai Chon, Deputy Director of Economic Bureau, Lau Wai Meng, as well as representatives of Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Municipal Affairs Bureau, Labour Affairs Bureau, Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute and Environmental Protection Bureau attended the meeting among others.
Macao, China was designated as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy on 1 November 2017 (local time of announcement: 31 October 2017). Following the designation, the SAR Government has unveiled a four-year action plan to develop Macao as a Creative City of Gastronomy with vigorous efforts. In the start of 2019, MGTO held the third edition of the "International Gastronomy Forum, Macao" and later launched the Great Green Food Journey project in collaboration with National Geographic, aiming to locate, support and promote sustainable practices in the food and beverage sector in Macao. The Office also carries out other initiatives including promoting the Sustainable Gastronomy Day with the rest of the world and working on building a database for Macanese cuisine.
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Actor can now use the suffix CMG, as does the character he portrays on screen
FILE PHOTO: Actor Daniel Craig poses on the red carpet at the German premiere of the James Bond 007 film "Spectre" in Berlin, Germany, October 28, 2015. REUTERS / Fabrizio Bensch / File Photo
James Bond star Daniel Craig has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, the same honour given to the fictional Agent 007.
The actor has been recognised for services to film and theatre in the New Year Honours, for his glittering career during which he played the world's most famous secret agent for a run of five movies.
A CMG is an honour often given to diplomats, and the fictional spy is described as holding it in the films and the books by Ian Fleming.
Craig, 53, made his final outing as 007 earlier this year with the highly anticipated release of No Time To Die, which achieved huge success at the box office.
The actor took up the mantle as the British spy with Casino Royale in 2006 and set the tone with a grittier and more brooding portrayal than some predecessors.
He also played the spy in Quantum of Solace in 2008, Skyfall in 2012 and Spectre in 2015.
After several pandemic-enforced delays, his swansong in No Time To Die premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in September.
The event was attended by British royalty, with the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all making an appearances, as well as a plethora of famous faces including singer Billie Eilish and her musician brother Finneas O'Connell, who co-wrote the new Bond theme song.
Before the release of the film, Craig was made an honorary commander in the Royal Navy, another rank held by James Bond.
In October he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Craig was born in Chester and trained at the National Youth Theatre in London before graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Craig's other film credits include Layer Cake in 2004, Munich (2005), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011), while he starred in Knives Out in 2019, playing the detective Benoit Blanc.
He has also taken to the stage throughout his career, featuring in the National Theatre's production of Angels In America in 1993, as well as taking on the classic Shakespearean role of Iago in Othello in the New York Theatre Workshop's version in 2016.
He is also due to portray the title role in Macbeth at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre for a limited run in 2022.
Craig has been married to fellow actress Rachel Weisz – the couple have a daughter – since 2011.
He also has a daughter from his previous marriage to Fiona Loudon, while Weisz has a son from a previous relationship.
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It wasn't really that long ago that WVDEP Secretary Randy Huffman was sounding like a pretty reasonable guy … Back in January, he announced that his agency was suspending permitting of valley fills and writing its own new policies to try to reduce the water quality impacts from strip mining.
If EPA's not going to give us answers, we need to get our own. We need to get our own posture on this, and the end result is going to be a reduction in the size and scope of these operations.
Our opposition [to EPA's permit reviews] has been more about the process than it has been about the science. There is a lot of validity to the concerns about the downstream impacts.
I think that's the change in direction everyone is going to have to make to meet the downstream water quality requirements. I don't see any choice but to reduce the impacts.
Well, four months went by, and WVDEP hadn't released any new policies, rules or water quality guidelines. EPA went ahead with its own actions, proposing a tough guideline for conductivity, aimed at addressing increasing concerns about what mountaintop removal is doing to water quality downstream. As far as I know, WVDEP still hasn't publicly released any new rules itself, though Randy told me last week that they were going to do so sometime soon.
West Virginia's top environmental official says surface-mine permitting in his state is getting tougher federal scrutiny than in any of the other five states the Environmental Protection Agency has targeted, and the continuing conflict over new standards will likely end up in litigation.
Several DEP employees are attending a meeting with EPA staff in Pittsburgh on Wednesday and Thursday over new water-quality standards imposed April 1 on six states: West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee. Huffman argues the standards are not only unattainable, but also being unfairly enforced.
If what EPA is doing is illegal, they will pay the price.
I can promise you, there will be much that will be said in this two-day meeting that will be held against them later.
What do we not see in these quotes? Any recognition at all from the Manchin administration's top environmental regulator of the overwhelming science showing that mountaintop removal is having pervasive and irreversible impacts on the environment and that tougher rules are needed to curb those effects.
Without evidence of any significant impact on the rest of the ecosystem beyond the diminished numbers of certain genus of mayflies, the State cannot say that there has been a violation of its narrative standard.
The greater concern for the Department of Environmental Protection, however, as protector of the State's water resources, is the unintended consequences of the Environmental Protection Agency's recent actions that have the potential to significantly limit all types of mining.
What happened to the realization from WVDEP that mining is having impacts that current regulations don't address, and to the state's efforts to try to tackle those impacts?
I asked Randy about that this morning, and he said WVDEP staffers continue to work on the project, that it's complicated and is taking longer than he would have liked. "We're working our tails off on it, but it is just hard," he said.
I'm obviously preparing to cross swords with EPA. I've made no secret about that for more than a year. But I did not say that they will pay the price. There's not a chance I'm going to do that, because I still have to work with EPA.
DEP spokeswoman Kathy Cosco just called me back to say that, in fact, Randy did say the things quoted in Vicki's story … and Randy was calling EPA this afternoon to apologize.
I think the only people that will end up "paying the price" will be the taxpayers of the state of West Virginia. Huffman, personally, is not going to have to lay out one thin dime when he goes up against the US EPA in court, but what everyone needs to remember is that the federal government has unlimited resources and unlimited time to get what it wants. It's not terribly wise to sue the people who can print their own money, but that sounds like what Huffman and co. are preparing to do. So I have to ask – to what end?
Monty – To answer your question, the purpose of suing the EPA has just one goal: Delay, delay, delay. Huffman simply wants to protect the status quo as long as possible, give the coal companies time to plunder as much as they can w/o being responsible for the consequences. The idea that he would consider the wishes of the citizens of the state, or the fiscal fragility of the state's finances, doesn't enter into it. Where's the governor on this? Does he favor the idea of litigation?
West Virginia is paying the price for what DEP is NOT doing, enforcing mining regulations and ensuring the protection of the State's enviornment.
Thanks Randy for manning up. Got to keep those emotions in check. I know from personal experience that is a very difficult thing to do sometimes, especially when a coal company is blasting the mountain above your home and you're eatin' rock dust and dodging fly-rock and boulders, or the cool sweet water you drank from your family's well for the past 60 years collapsed, or the family down the road can't drink their well water because it was poisoned from sludge injections.
What worries me about the State DEP is an inherent conflict of interest when it comes to mountaintop removal.
The raison d'etre for many of the DEP's offices and personnel is to regulate mtr. Moreover, the coal industry pays a lot of money to the DEP to go over its permits.
So, even if the DEP realizes that mountaintop removal is horrible for the environment, they have an inherent conflict of interest to approve the permits.
Now Huffman is telling the EPA he's sorry and he didn't mean to sound so confrontational … that speaks volumes about his good manners, but leaves open the open the option of dragging the state into a long (years), expensive (hundreds of thousands of $$$$) legal fight that in all probability it can not win.
Would it not be better to adopt the "Can't we all just get along?" approach and try to work with the EPA on some kind of a compromise? Why is the WV DEP so dead set on going toe to toe with the EPA in some kind of epic last man standing courtroom battle? I just don't get it.
Perhaps that was another of Mr Huffman's comments that he can't remember making and that he would like to apologize for.
It's clear to anyone looking that surface mining is having illegal environmental impacts. It boils down to "enforce the law or change the law". Not a lot of support for the latter, and Huffman claims they don't know how to do the former.
The third road is "stall until November" and is probably what we will see happen. In the meantime, forests, streams and wetlands will continue to be lost or destroyed beyond repair. Come quickly, Cthulu, and devour them last.
All this time I thought that the job of the head of the Dept of Environmental Protection was to protect the environment. But apparently it's to protect the coal industry. Who knew?


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There are bloggers, and there are people who have a blog on their website. I am the latter. There is a difference. Bloggers are legit. They post meaningful, coherent essays and stories. I respect them greatly. I don't intend to join their ranks. It sounds stressful.
I just like writing on this silly, obscure part of the internet. But even my low threshold for posting can generate some stress. The blog is always there, like a sink full of dirty dishes. Even when you think you're caught up, you look at the drying rack, and it's full. There's always something else to be done.
Warning – this is a long one. I'll start with a photo to start things off slowly.
George Floyd, Capitol Hill, Seattle, 20 June 2020.
I've been watching Lucifer on Netflix. Occasional binges. The show is good fun. Sort of. I've always been a sucker for police procedurals. They get criticized, a lot, and for good reason. The character development is usually one step forward, 15 steps back. The characters are almost universally incapable of communicating beyond the middle school level. They rely heavily on the Three's Company formula – a conversation incorrectly overheard, a statement misread.
But the show is fun, and occasionally makes me laugh out loud. It's also diverse. The women and the people of color in the show aren't props. They're not just there to boost the white male actors. Linda, Ella, Mazikeen, and Charlotte are all smart, capable, scene stealers.
There's nothing new about the foundation. It's a police procedural. Several suspects will be hauled in for questioning. A person ruled out early on often ends up being guilty. If you watch a lot of shows, you'll recognize a character actor who is seemingly discarded early on. Fear not, they get more screen time.
I was hooked on Castle for several seasons. I may have had a thing for Stana Katic. The chemistry between Katic and Nathan Fillion in the first few seasons was incredible. That's difficult to sustain for a series. Hello Remington Steele. The will they or won't they hype can only go on for so long. How do you resolve that? If it's "they will, they do", how much more mileage has the show got? I never finished Castle. The plots grew increasing ridiculous, which put it in seriously ridiculous territory, and it appears Katic and Fillion couldn't stand one another in real life.
Lucifer is pretty much Castle, substituting Satan for a rich author.
I'm 3 seasons in. I've been close to stopping several times, and I doubt I'll finish it. Why? It's yet another example of where Tipper Gore got things wrong. If you're of a certain age, you might remember her censorship efforts. I remember her mainly going after rappers, but it turns out my memory is faulty – she hit broader than that. According to Wikipedia, here was a Parents Resource Music Center Dirty Fifteen:
I look at that list and think a lot things. I'll save what seems like the most important thought for last. My first thought is how grateful I am that my friend Scott (yes, another Scott) had a car, a Blaupunkt stereo, and Public Enemy, NWA, Too Short, Run DMC, Ice-T, etc. I was an oblivious white kid in a suburb. But I somehow got exposed to incredible music. I started looking for it on my own and found KRS1/BDP. My sister's best friends sneaked me in to my first R-Rated movie – Purple Rain. I'm glad that I learned early on that fuck the police wasn't some sort of rallying cry for crime.
If you're still reading, this would be a great point to say screw this blog and go listen to Public Enemy.
Back to that list. Darling Nikki is on that list. I am going to load Purple Rain into Spotify and listen to it while I type the rest of this non-blog. I was on a Yazoo kick earlier, I'll save that for another day.
"I knew a girl named Nikki, I guess you could say she was a sex fiend…"
Danny and Craig were famous. Popular, well-liked star basketball players at my soon to be high school, friends with my sister. I can't remember how it happened, but they picked me up one day and took me to see Purple Rain. It was my Dazed and Confused moment, but instead of pot, it was being introduced to one of the greatest artists to have ever walked this earth. (That song is not safe for work, but it is safe for musical bliss.)
This isn't safe for work either. Tipper got it all fucking wrong. Think of the voices she worked so hard to silence. Spoiler alert – a lot of those voices were talking about systemic violence and racism in our institutions. Tipper should have walked a mile in their shoes. If she had, if any of us had, we'd have looked instead at the tradition of celebrating police expediency, omerta, and violence in our shows. Dirty Harry, 24, countless others. Can you think of a police show that doesn't extol the cop virtues of bending the rules, roughing up a suspect, looking the other way, or altering the paperwork?
Lucifer. I'm having fun watching the show. But scene after scene, show after show, it praises the cops who are willing to beat up or shoot someone. Several episodes sell the idea of winging someone, just shooting them in the leg. When cops go outside the lines, it's excused, glossed over. Tipper Gore should have spent her time reminding people that cops need to follow the laws they enforce. Don't agree? Point me to a cop show where a cop is rewarded and revered for calling out bad behavior. In Lucifer, which is nearing its 6th season, the cops routinely alter reports and narratives to protect their fellow officers.
Here's where I need to word this carefully. We have to figure out a way to get police to stop murdering BIPOC, but the idea that it's a matter of not hiring Derek Chauvins only addresses a small part of the problem. The systems that we have put in place since day one will always find more Derek Chauvins. I'll save that for another day, too. Long story short – all of us white folks have been hiding behind "a few bad apples" for a long time. You (we) know it's true. You (we) know it's convenient.
This is turning into a long post. I'll try to wrap it up.
I tried to listen to some of Trump's Tulsa rally. I couldn't get very far. The President lies constantly. He is telling his supporters that Seattle has been taken over, brought to its knees. Not true. I don't know what's more frightening, the idea he knows he's lying, or the idea that he believes Seattle has sunk into anarchy.
Protesters squared off against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard in late May and early June near Capitol Hill's East Precinct. Mayor Jenny Durkan and Chief Carmen Best used some vague threats to justify Fortress East Precinct. They then tear gassed and flash banged the hell out of protesters. Shameful escalation and rush to violence. Durkan has done so many things right with COVID-19. I won't vote for her, I hope she loses, and I hope one day she accidentally tear gasses herself. It's a violent weapon.
The Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone centers on 11th and 12th / Pine. It's not a large area, and it's not a major thoroughfare. Have businesses and residents been affected? Of course. But many businesses are open. Most importantly, it's an area for art, discussion, and community. It is not a violent takeover.
Trump is portraying it as one. I don't remember Republicans voicing similar concerns when the Bundys occupied a site. Trump is encouraging counter-violence, and he knows it. How long before an armed male from North Carolina pulls a Comet Ping Pong pizza investigation?
I've rambled on too long and have forgotten a few things I wanted to mention. Lucky you, if you're still here. And if so, one more photo.
Entering the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. June 2020. (Polaroid during the day (evening) seems a little purple.)
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Saturday, January 28News That Matters
How George Carlin Became A Comedian?
September 19, 2021 September 21, 2021 by Kristi McCall
George Calin was regarded as "the dean of counterculture comedians" because of his ground-breaking political views and satires depicted through his stand-up acts. George Denis Patrick Carlin is considered the most celebrated and influential artist of his time.
Who was George Calin?
He dropped out of high school and joined Air Force. He started appearing on the radio after collaborating with his manager Jack Burns and drew Lenny Bruce, the famous comedian. He helped him to make his imprint through The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. After this gig, there was no going back for Carlin and he went on to keep attracting the limelight to become a successful author, comedian, and TV star.
Carlin was born on 12 May 1937 in Bronx, New York. He and his brother, Pat was brought up by his mother, Mary Carlin in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighbourhood. She was a devout catholic and worked as a secretary. His father Patrick Carlin worked as a national advertising manager for the New York Sun and Mary left him soon after George was born.
He dropped out of High School to get listed in the Air Force at the age of 17 in 1954 as a radar technician. He received his first salary being stationed at Shreveport, Louisiana. He worked as a disc jockey at the night at a local radio station for the next three years. His job at Air Force did not suit him as he was court-martialled three times after facing n number of disciplinary punishments. Finally, he was discharged generally in 1957 and started taking random jobs at radio in Boston and Forth Worth, Texas.
Career in Comedy
Jack Burns was a newscaster in Texas. Carlin joined him in 1959 and both of them jointly presented the morning show in Forth Worth before they head to their calling in Hollywood. After moving there, the duo was spotted by Lenny Bruce. Bruce played an important role in booking gigs at important slots in showbiz. He helped them to appear at The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. This collaboration sealed Carlin's fate and established him as a comedian and he went on to appear 130 times on the show.
Burns and Carlin parted ways and Carlin continued his gig with The Tonight Show with Johny Carson and appeared 29 times on The Merv Griffin Show.
The ruckus of Seven Words Routine
Carlin's famous routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" got him arrested in 1962. The degree of profanity used in the act irked the administration. Eventually, he was arrested for violating obscenity laws in Milwaukee.
He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1987. He was included in the list of "100 Greatest Comedian of all Times" just 4 days before his death. He died of a heart attack after completing 71 years of age. He will be remembered for his contribution to the show business for eternity.
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'Everybody takes care of each other here' - Stoke-on-Trent school wins well-being award for helping pupils and staff to shine
Burnwood Community Primary School, in Chell Heath, teaches children yoga and meditation to help calm them down
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Karley Stewart, Fareh Butt and Maliha Isimeli hold up the well-being award at Burnwood Community Primary School
A school where pupils do yoga and meditation and earn kindness awards has achieved national recognition for its mental health work.
Burnwood Community Primary, in Chell Heath , has become the first school in the Midlands to receive a well-being award from the National Children's Bureau.
It follows an extensive range of activities aimed at helping not just children, but parents and teachers too.
Steps have included training staff to deliver the yoga sessions, which help to calm down pupils and get them in the right frame of mind for learning. They might spend five minutes in a lesson, focusing on breathing techniques.
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Headteacher Diane Herbert said: "One parent found it so beneficial for her little boy, who was hyperactive. She said yoga helped him to go to bed.
"Doing small things can make a difference. We have some children who say they are happy, but their faces don't show that."
Pupils use feelings boards in classrooms, where they write a word to describe their emotions.
Burnwood is the first school in the Midlands - and one of fewer than 40 nationally - to receive the well-being award from the National Children's Bureau
Eleven-year-old Fareh Butt, from Burslem , said: "If you put 'sad' or 'angry', the teacher will ask what's bothering you. Everybody takes care of each other here."
An inclusion team oversees support in school and there is also a home-school link worker.
Families have been invited to well-being days and have joined children at Burnwood's forest school, where they have sat round a fire and tried team-building tasks. Children as young as two take part in these outdoor learning activities.
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Mrs Herbert said: "We have friendship seats in the playground. As we have 23 different languages spoken at school, we have words in different languages on the seats. The children requested that."
Burnwood has been part of a trailblazer project as well, which has involved working with health professionals to reduce barriers to accessing specialist support.
Previously, pupils were waiting at least 18 months for an appointment with child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), but now it can take just 28 days.
To ensure staff have a good work-life balance, the school has also looked at reducing marking and assessments.
"At the beginning, staff didn't feel confident talking about their mental health. It was taboo. But now it's OK," added Mrs Herbert.
Eleven-year-old pupil Karley Stewart, from Fegg Hayes , said there are lots of opportunities for children to speak up if they have a problem.
"It's their choice if they want to talk to the teacher or not," she said. "We also have a bullying box and you put your name in it if you're being bullied. They sort it out."
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Maliha Isimeli likes the kindness awards. The 11-year-old, from Norton, said: "You get them if you've supported somebody. You also get a text sent to your parents, saying you've been kind."
The assessor for the well-being quality mark summed up life at Burnwood, saying: "The school population is happy, nurturing, trusting and supportive of one another. There is a clear sense of belonging."
And the school has double the reason to celebrate as it's also been praised by Ofsted, which rated its work as good overall.
The report found pupils 'brim with pride', are 'confident and resilient'' and are 'inspired to develop new skills and talents'.
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Andrew Brooke is an English actor. He is best known for playing Ashley in the Channel 4 series PhoneShop for three series. He has appeared in the movies such as Sherlock Holmes in 2009, The Bank Job and Children of Men.  His many television appearances include: After Life, Da Vinci's Demons, The IT Crowd, The Inbetweeners, The Mark Steel Lectures, Doctor Who, Pulling, How Not to Live Your Life, The Bible, Law & Order: UK, My Family, Collision, EastEnders, Silent Witness and No Signal. He also produced Escape of the Artful Dodger and One Way Ticket.

Brooke portrayed Ashley in PhoneShop on Channel 4. In an interview, he revealed that, previously in his life he had sold "bread, ad space and furniture". He also said that the show had a "wide demographic".

In 2020, he played Alistair Cunningham in the BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings.

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NGC 4984 is an intermediate lenticular galaxy exhibiting a double ring structure in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the NGC 4856 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Virgo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster. In December 2011, supernova 2011iy was discovered in it.

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