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CHOIR BOY oh boy oh boy – Religion, repression, resilience and harmony
January 19th, 2019 by Oscar E Moore
To snitch or not to snitch? That is the dilemma facing Pharus Jonathan Young (Jeremy Pope) the flamboyantly gay, smartass, witty, intelligent, Bible quoting, take-no-nonsense crap from anyone, limp-wristed scholarship student and resilient lead tenor of the choir at the fictional Charles R. Drew Prep School for black boys in CHOIR BOY written by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
First produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club off-Broadway in 2013 CHOIR BOY has had some repair work done and this revisal is now housed in the acoustically challenged Samuel J. Friedman Theatre once again produced by MTC with many of the original cast members in a limited run through February 24th. Some further repairs are called for.
Right away one can't help but notice that there is a problem. One of age. Five years ago these guys might have passed for prep school teenagers, but unfortunately that is no longer the case.
No matter how well they all act and sing and dance one cannot overlook that important detail.
Now back to Pharus. When your nemesis and fellow choir member is Bobby Marrow (J. Quinton Johnson) the nephew of Headmaster Marrow (Chuck Cooper) and you are in danger of losing your all-important, badly needed scholarship you would adhere to the school's policy of not snitching (no matter what) even though you have just ruined the school anthem "Trust and Obey" at the 49th commencement ceremony due to the fact that Bobby has whispered "This faggot ass Nigga" just loud enough to unbalance you.
Perhaps Bobby has some problems about being queer himself? As in the lady doth protest too much?
Choirmates include Bobby's best friend Junior Davis (Nicholas L. Ashe) who wavers throughout but is basically kind; the mysterious bespectacled David Heard (Caleb Eberhardt) seems to also have those kind of problems and the compassionate and straight roommate of Pharus, Anthony Justin "AJ" James (John Clay III) the hunky jock of the group whose body and soul are beautiful, especially when wearing just a towel in a couple of all important locker room scenes. Steam vapors included. Might even AJ have similar thoughts lurking within? Note the tickle/giggle scene, the dirty sock scene and the haircut scene.
Austin Pendleton (portraying a confused professor Mr. Pendleton) has been brought in to teach a course in "Thinking" – perhaps it should be "corrected thinking" His befuddlement only causes more problems in this already too-much-information-to-digest in this production directed by Trip Cullman which runs almost two hours without an intermission.
From the TV commercial featuring the five guys in their blue blazers, white button down shirts, khaki trousers and school regimental ties singing acapella, one is lead to believe that CHOIR BOY is all about the music. In a way it is. As the musical interludes are the best and most entertaining aspect of the show even though the numbers are shoehorned into the fragmented and complicated narrative. Gorgeous close harmonies (Jason Michael Webb) with creative synchronized choreography by Camille A. Brown lift one's spirits and supply hope.
The set design by David Zinn at first seems just right. But the overall red color becomes annoying as does the blackboard that is never put to use besides rising to reveal the dorm room shared by Pharus and AJ.
However, I did relate. Long Island City High School, 1961-2:
I was singing in the auditorium for my classmates a selection from GIRL CRAZY – a preview of the year end drama class production. A few guys started to harass me shouting out gay slurs. No one stopped them. But I kept on singing. As if nothing was bothering me. They continued jeering at me for being a sissy. I thought, well, if singing equals being a sissy so be it. I was as resilient as Pharus and didn't have to snitch. Everyone had heard them. I just kept singing.
www.manhattantheatreclub.com
Photos: Matthew Murphy
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THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT – David vs. Goliath equals inconsequential semantics
On the eve of this limited run engagement's closing at Studio 54 on January 13th, I offer this summation.
Fact: It has been reported to have recouped its investment costs. Eyeing London and a National tour.
Fact: It starred three A List actors – Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale. Each excellent.
It opened on October 18th fleetingly directed by Leigh Silverman. I felt it was somewhat entertaining albeit repetitive. The fact that it seemed somewhat contrived did not seem to bother many who were hungry to see these three thespians chew up each other and the scenery by Mimi Lien.
Fact: It took three writers to come up with the approximately 85 minute script: Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell.
I wondered if each took on a character and wrote specifically for that character as each character is quite one dimensional. The tough editor Emily Penrose (Jones) who is the referee between the speed speaking ramrod straight fact checker Jim Fingal (Radcliffe aka David) and the difficult and arrogant author John D'Agata (Cannavale aka Goliath) of the article/essay in question that is in dire need of its embroidered and sometimes fanciful factual material being corrected before being published about the suicide of a 16 year old boy who jumped from the observation deck of a Las Vegas hotel casino.
No one cares much about the suicide just getting a slew of inconsequential facts corrected much to the dismay of the author. Just the absolute correct facts ma'am just the absolute correct facts.
Fact: This David vs. Goliath sit-com type script is based on a 2003 quasi journalistic article (essay) by D'Agata that was fact checked by Fingal that resulted in the tug of war result published in 2010 which in turn resulted in the 2012 book "What Happens There" by the real life D'Agata and Fingal.
But one should only be interested in what happens on the too large stage of Studio 54 for this intimate examination of "truth vs. fiction" – "credibility vs. creativity" – "article vs. essay." It goes by fast enough.
In reality THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT is an exercise in semantics. Is it entertaining? To an extent. Is it fulfilling? Not really with its ambiguous and pretentious fizzling-out of an ending.
BUT this not quite satiric production dealing with the gap between facts and individual style (poetic license) has reportedly made back its investment costs. Ka-ching!
In the end it's all about inconsequential semantics that has paid off royally.
www.lifespanofafact.com
Photo: Peter Cunningham
THE CHER SHOW – Déjà vu
December 12th, 2018 by Oscar E Moore
Déjà vu – a feeling of having already experienced the present situation, best describes this cursory, surreal, Reader's Digest condensation, "This Is Your Life" Las Vegas type extravaganza aptly named THE CHER SHOW now on view for all Cher's adoring fans and then some at the Neil Simon Theatre where it most probably will run till the last of her fans departs this earth.
There's only one true CHER and she is not on stage. Like the brooms in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice Cher clones are in abundance in this fantasia of her life as scripted by Rick Elice. It takes a trio of gifted and talented actresses to narrate and star in Cher's edited life in this kaleidoscopic Wikipedia version.
From a shy Armenian oddball named Cherilyn Sarkisian born in El Centro California to "a goddamn goddess warrior" the beat goes on and on and on. Cher is like the Energizer Bunny. At age 72 she keeps going and going and going. At least she is not a hologram. Yet.
She is blessed with having Stephanie J. Block as Star, Teal Wicks as Lady and Micaela Diamond as Babe representing the three ages of Cher somewhat like Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN. They speak with each other, make jokes. They have her swagger and hair toss down pat. They sing with that throaty timbre and have the attitude that seems to have come naturally to Cher. They are wonderfully entertaining. In addition there is another Cher – a great dancing Cher (Dark Lady – Ashley Blair Fitzgerald) who gives our trio a bit of a rest.
In quick succession Cher's life flashes before our eyes not giving us enough time to take it all in or for the numerous (too many to count) musical numbers shoehorned into the narrative.
At 16 she meets Sonny Bono (a charmless Jarrod Spector; the butt of many short jokes) age 28. He promises her the world – within two years – and they team up.
We learn she is a Taurus (no surprise!) and that she has trouble reading. "Just sign this," Sonny orders and she does. She is afraid and not very confident despite her mom's advice to her that "the song makes you strong" repeating this mantra often during the two and a half hours (one intermission) production.
Ms. Skinner holds her own as Georgia Holt, Cher's mom. A confident beauty with a wry sense of humor. She also appears as Lucille Ball who advises her to "take charge of her life" in a bizarre scene. Following Ball's advice she is one of the three above the title producers of this musical memoir about empowerment and ego.
We also meet Gregg Allman (Matthew Hydzik) husband number two and Rob Camilletti (Bagel Bob). He 23 to her age 40. There are ups and downs and a brief unexplained sickness and her babies Chaz and Elijah, tax problems, fear problems, money problems, poor me problems, not enough time problems (after becoming rich for the moment it seems) and feeling alone problems and a slew of montages. Her Oscar. Her unemployment. Her hairspray infomercial. Et al.
But she keeps going on and on and on in this fast paced and much too loud show directed by Jason Moore and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli with a chorus of hunky and handsome bare chested men showing more navel than the belly button incident made famous by Cher on CBS. It kind of wears you down and into submission.
Before I end this review of a revue there is another star in this show. And that is Bob Mackie's costumes. Mackie is portrayed by Michael Berresse. Some of the infamous costumes we have seen before. They are still magnificent. Backstage must be something with so many costume changes.
Davy, a friend, summed up THE CHER SHOW succinctly as we left. "Well, it's cheaper than going to Vegas." I have to agree.
www.thechershowbroadway.com
Photos: Joan Marcus
NETWORK – starring a brilliant Bryan Cranston
I'm pleased as punch and I'd like to take in this production again and again – all the time wondering why it has taken so long for this theatrical jewel to arrive and wondering if Paddy Chayefsky had a crystal ball and wondering how satire became reality.
In 1976 Paddy Chayefsky's original screenplay won an Oscar for NETWORK. But ROCKY won Best Picture. NETWORK deals with a fictional television network UBS and its struggle with poor ratings. It was a satire. They said this could never happen.
Lee Hall has adapted this eerie, frightening and pertinent production currently running at The Belasco Theatre. It is impeccably directed by Ivo Van Hove who has turned the Belasco into a television studio, with monitors, large video screens and hand held cameras. Close-up and personal.
There is the production control booth at one side and a small dining area on the other. Why? Many have wondered. Well, how do most of us watch the evening news? Eating dinner, no? Watching terrorists murder and blow up bodies and buildings as we swallow a piece of apple pie ala mode for dessert.
So much is going on that at times one doesn't know where to look. But Mr. Van Hove gets our focus back immediately. And the outstanding portrayal of Mr. Cranston as the beleaguered newscaster as a man on the edge is unparalleled somewhat akin to the descent of King Lear.
Having been ousted after many years at UBS Howard Beale (Bryan Cranston) by his best friend and president of Network news Max Schumacher (Tony Goldwyn) he announces live on the broadcast that he is going to "blow his brains out" on live TV the following week. Cut to commercial!
Ratings soar as Howard Beale slowly disintegrates on and off screen. Sick of political lies and being manipulated, corporate bullshit, a decaying and demented world is enough to put him almost over the edge. Watching all this is fascinating and frightening.
I expected audience members to rise up and shout out along with him as he rants his famous line "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." Actually that happens a bit later when a newly revamped show by the treacherous Diane Christensen (Tatiana Maslany) has a warmup guy manipulating the audience into this rant-along. Along with an "APPLAUSE" sign. It's a bit late for our audience members to realize that they are being manipulated.
Unfortunately Ms. Maslany is the very weak link – not the formidable foe that she should be – in this otherwise excellent cast.
The set and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld and video design by Tal Yarden are superb. Tech rehearsal must have been fun. Two hours without intermission. See this disturbing and all too real production.
And please do not rush out after the curtain call. There's a bit more video.
www.networkbroadway.com
Photos: Jan Versweyveld
THE PROM – Love thy neighbor and love this show
Make a date. Take a date. With a friend. A lover. A teenager or person of a certain age who remembers what "musical-comedy" was in its prime. Better yet take someone who doesn't see eye to eye with you and see what happens after seeing this most clever, tuneful, original, uproariously funny, sweet and chock full of show-stopping numbers that is at the Longacre Theatre. THE PROM is its title. THE PROM is much more than the sum of its parts. THE PROM is a feel good musical. Better still, it is a feel good about yourself musical.
Favorable word of mouth, the best publicity there is, along with a ton of great critical reviews will keep this show running for a long time. Following in the footsteps of BYE BYE BIRDIE and HAIRSPRAY it bridges the generational gap that will have many regional theatres just waiting to stage this courageous and tender tuner.
The book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin doesn't mince words. It get rights to the point. The plot is deceptively simple. Four almost has been Broadway stars and their press agent hear about a teenage lesbian in Indiana who wants to go to the prom with her not as yet out girlfriend but the PTA has banned same sex couples from the school prom.
This immediately after a disastrous review in the New York Times closes their musical of Eleanor Roosevelt starring diva Dee Dee Allen (Beth Leavel) and the lighter than air Barry Glickman (Brooks Ashmanskas) who are accused of being narcissists and unlikable.
They along with Angie (Angie Schworer) who has been toiling in the chorus of CHICAGO for years awaiting her turn to go on as Roxie and Trent Oliver (Christopher Sieber) who is at the moment a waiter at the opening and closing night party of the Eleanor musical who repeatedly boasts of his training at Juilliard and their press agent Sheldon Saperstein (Josh Lamon) concoct a scheme to help Emma (a wondrous Caitlin Kinnunen) without whom THE PROM would not be the delightful show that it is.
Emma does not want to cause a fuss. She certainly doesn't want these crazy actors from New York. With her honest and sweet portrayal you immediately feel for her and want her to achieve her wish to simply dance with her girlfriend at the prom. She has just the right tone and attitude to counterbalance the outrageous behavior of the actors who have come to help her. Or have they come to get some good PR and revitalize their sinking careers?
The score (Music by Matthew Sklar) and (Lyrics by Chad Beguelin) will probably become a best-selling original cast album. The songs are exciting and uplifting. THE PROM is a perfect marriage of book and score and talent.
Emma's girlfriend Alyssa (Isabelle McCalla) makes for a great mate. Their ballads are honest and heartfelt. Alyssa's homophobic and in denial mom Mrs. Greene (Courtney Collins) is head of the PTA that wants to ban the prom. She locks horns with the pro-inclusive Principal Mr. Hawkins (an excellent Michael Potts who is a great longtime fan of the diva Dee Dee, Ms. Level. He adds gravitas to the show beautifully.
Production numbers are quite exciting as they build and build to their climax. The choreography and direction by Casey Nicholaw are both superb with the cast of energetic teenagers wowing us time after time.
The "quartet of actors" each have show-stopping turns: Angie's "Zazz" – Sieber's "Love Thy Neighbor" Ashmanskas' "Barry Is Going to Prom" and Beth Level's vocal powerhouse rendition of "The Lady is Improving."
And now a word about the brilliant and exceptional Kate Marilley who is responsible for my seeing THE PROM twice. I thank her profusely for her courage and talent. At the matinee performance on Saturday November 17th the curtain was held for some time as backstage havoc was wrought. A small slip of paper in the program stated that Kate Marilley would be performing the small role of Olivia Keating – reporter. When the show finally started and Beth Leavel was not on stage something was amiss. As it turned out they were finding a costume for Kate – a simple red dress. And without ever performing the role of Dee Dee, and without a rehearsal – a new star glowed brightly. She didn't miss a beat. Her comedic timing was brilliant and she stopped the show with "The Lady is Improving."
Remember her name. KATE MARILLEY. She might be hard to find on stage as she is not assigned a role but understudies multiple parts, is a swing and assistant dance captain! Brava !!!
NOTE: I do hope the very impatient to exit pushy woman in my row (gesturing with her hand for me to move) who obviously did not understand the message imparted by this great "It shouldn't be all about me" production and who didn't realize how difficult it is for me to maneuver my cane and wobbly knee got to her couldn't wait another second appointment on time – even though the exit aisle was packed with departing patrons. It was like being stuck in a traffic jam and having someone behind me honking for me to move. So…making room for her to squeeze past me I simply asked her if she was in a rush. "Yes," she replied. "Did you not understand the message imparted by the show?" No reply as she scurried away stuck in the middle of the hoard of happy theatergoers.
Based on an original concept by Jack Viertel. Very highly recommended. 2 hrs 25 min. One 15 minute intermission.
www.theprommusical.com
Photos: Deen van Meer
AMERICAN SON – in stark black and white at the Booth
November 24th, 2018 by Oscar E Moore
This is not a great one act play. It is a taut and timely play. A play torn from the horrific racial headlines that we read daily. And see nightly on the news. And so it is predictable in its outcome. From the onset. With some gasp inducing offensive language.
Reminiscent of the late 50's early 60's TV drama The Naked City a police and crime investigative series based in New York City where the tag line was "there are 8 million stories in the naked city, this has been one of them," playwright/lawyer Christopher Demos-Brown (Broadway debut) has set this somewhat documentary styled drama in Miami Florida, in a stark and pristine police station at 4 am as a thunderstorm pelts the glass enclosed waiting area; where a pensive Kerry Washington distraught and rapidly losing her patience with the young white officer Paul Larkin (Jeremy Jordan) on duty awaits hearing news about her son Jamal who has not returned home. Nine hours missing.
She cannot reach him on his phone. And that is so unlike her son. This after they had an argument and he drove off into the storm. She waits for her estranged husband Scott, an F.B.I. Agent to arrive. He is white and Irish and played by Steven Pasquale.
Her name is Kendra. She is a shaken, vulnerable and black. A psychology professor who isn't about to sit back and wait for news. She wants information right now.
Which unfortunately is not forthcoming. The polite but condescending officer Larkin citing protocol holds back awaiting the arrival of liaison Lieutenant John Stokes (Eugene Lee) who will facilitate communication between one and all. He is an older black man. And so the battle field is equally fortified or so it seems.
Racism, parenting and police procedure rear their ugly heads. And the longest wait for a cup of coffee, ever.
Little by little we learn the back story of the couple's marriage and their privileged teenage son Jamal who is rethinking becoming a cadet at West Point where his corn rows might cause some concern. He wants to find himself and play guitar. Dirty laundry is aired while awaiting that cup of coffee.
Eventually the car, registered to his dad, Mr. F.B.I. is located with a couple of other black guys along with Jamal – with an all-important bumper sticker that ignites the situation.
Fireworks ensue on stage at the Booth as tensions build becoming melodramatic under the direction of Kenny Leon, waiting for what you most probably will not be surprised with the revelations and outcome.
The only thing Kendra and Scott love is their son Jamal and the music of Thelonious Monk.
All four actors are excellent, especially Kerry Washington.
You might want to give a listen to some Monk to cool things down a bit.
www.americansonplay.com
Photos: Peter Cunningham
KING KONG – The beast has landed. Kerplop!
Remember the original Gong Show? Mid-70's TV fare? Where amateur talent might be stopped mid-act by the "striking of a large gong" putting an abrupt end to the dubious talent on view. Every so often, especially before the beasts roaring, majestic entrance on the same stage that Ethel Merman wowed in GYPSY, I was hoping desperately that I could strike that old gong. So ridiculous were the goings-on.
Remember CINERAMA? Innovative 50's film process where a deeply curved screen had you whizzing along in a roller coaster? Projections seemingly putting you in the picture? This process has been updated and improved tremendously by ARTISTS IN MOTION. The projections in KING KONG are one of the true stars of this technological wonder. Especially the rolling seas on board the SS Wanderer that almost induces seasickness or is it the script?
Remember when a musical had memorable music? Real, tuneful songs with great lyrics? Not just some cinematic background instrumentals (underscoring by Marius de Vries) that reminds one of the good ol' MGM days or is it Victory at Sea? – With "songs" by Eddie Perfect. Which they aren't. But KING KONG isn't billed as a musical. So the powers that be say. What is it then?
Based on the classic 1933 film (and its remakes) KONG has been adapted to the stage by none other than Jack Thorne who has been given the almost impossible task of writing the connective tissue that surrounds the beast. It is most difficult to believe that he also wrote the terrific book for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. Here we have one dimensional characters that can't decide if what they are saying is meant to be dead serious or satirical. The dialogue falls flat somewhere in between.
Unfortunately the actress portraying Ann Darrow (Christiani Pitts) who is "a warrior and not a damsel in distress" lacks just about everything and that is what brought back vivid memories of the infamous gong. We never care about her. She does however have a strong voice.
The opportunistic director Carl Denham (an earnest and determined Eric William Morris) searching for a star for his project to be filmed on Skull Island finds Ann in a diner, offers her the stardom she seeks and lots of glamorous outfits if she can scream on cue and look pretty.
Erik Lochtefeld as Carl's assistant Lumpy comes off best. He and the beast do some actual emoting on stage.
The beast is what will sell some tickets. He is the star that doesn't sing or dance or speak. The show cost 35 million dollars to produce – with a list of producers almost as long as the large cast of characters on stage at the Broadway Theatre – one of the only theaters large enough to house the beast that is a mammoth marionette (creature designer Sonny Tilders) operated by ten marionettists/puppeteers in full view of the audience which diminishes the effect even though they are clothed in black.
But are people willing to shell out big bucks to see this gargantuan fiberglass marionette roar, pounce, leap tall buildings in a single bound, show off his pearly whites, roar, sniff, fall in love, roar, save Ann from another mammoth snake puppet, be captured roaring, brought back to New York to be the star of a ludicrous Dames at Sea type musical version of what we have just been suffering through, then running amuck through the streets of New York and finally going apeshit atop a high rise as planes shoot him down?
I suggest watching the video trailer on line instead.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/e6XsJ3y7L9s?controls=1&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0
For the record, the beast is 20 feet high. 2,000 pounds. Computer operated along with the village of guys physically moving him around the stage. This truly is magnificent. Especially his eyes. This silver back gorilla has its eyes on success in New York but unfortunately for all its technological wonders the production falls way short. Great, bravo inducing Lighting Design (Peter Mumford) Sound Design (Peter Hylenski) and Kong/Aerial Movement Director, Gavin Robins.
This theme park looking production hailing from Melbourne (2013) is sadly misdirected and bizarrely choreographed by Drew McOnie.
Next! Roll the credits, please.
www.kingkongbroadway.com
2 hrs. 30 minutes. One intermission.
THE OTHER JOSH COHEN – a clever, joyous off-Broadway mensch-ical
Finally, a respite from mediocrity. A relief from rap and unrelenting horrible headlines. A Rolaids-like cure for indigestible musicals can be found at the Westside Theatre/Downstairs in this very clever, tuneful and bouncy 90 minute escapist journey through the maze of Josh Cohen's downtrodden yet uplifting, amazing life as he attempts to find love and do the right thing with integrity and honesty. In other words being a "mensch."
Actually there are two of him. A case of double vision as the saga unfolds with the present Josh as a balladeer retelling what happened to him a year ago as we see the past Josh facing up to the fact that his apartment has been stripped of his most prized possessions including a Bundt cake resting in his fridge. He is without a girlfriend, brokenhearted and broke. Facing Valentine's Day alone. Again. With only a Neil Diamond CD and kitty-cat calendar left behind by the robber.
They are dressed identically. The narrator Josh (David Rossmer) is upbeat. The past Josh (Steve Rosen) isn't, a bit heavier and has a mustache. They make beautiful music together. In fact, they are both responsible for the very funny book, catchy music and spot on lyrics to this delightful modern morality tale superbly directed with minute attention to every detail by Hunter Foster.
If it is a bit slow to get started – after all they have to set up his character and loveless situation – it goes into high gear with the arrival of a check for 56,000 thousand dollars made out to Josh Cohen from an Irma Cohen in West Palm Beach Florida.
We might be one step ahead of the authors at this point after all the title of the show in THE OTHER JOSH COHEN but once the check arrives the authors are two, three and four steps ahead of us all to our great amusement as they zanily steer us through the maze of seemingly endless characters that Josh has to contact in order to decide what the right thing is to do regarding the check.
All the other characters are superbly rendered by the five versatile cast members who also play various instruments, sing backup and wear great wigs as they scamper around the stage in this very entertaining production.
They are Kate Wetherhead, Luke Darnell, Elizabeth Nestlerode, and scene stealers Louis Tucci (Josh's dentist dad) and Hannah Elless (as Aunt Bea) – all doing justice to the almost stereotypical collection of characters that include Darth Vader and Neil Diamond.
For those feeling unloved and lonely and perhaps feeling that the world is against you and that fate has dealt you an unkind deck of cards you may discover the real underlying problem is you and that your outlook may need an adjustment. In other words be a mensch.
Go. Be kind and be honest and optimistic – don't give up and it will turn out just fine. If this sounds a bit Pollyannaish. So be it. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's the right thing to do.
Through February 24th 2019
www.otherjoshcohen.com
Photos: Caitlin McNaney
THE WAVERLY GALLERY – Into the abyss with ELAINE MAY on Broadway
November 1st, 2018 by Oscar E Moore
At the Golden Theatre, where "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May" opened 58 years ago, Elaine May – a spry 86 with all her faculties and comic instincts intact – is once again taking center stage in Kenneth Lonergan's loss of memory, memory play THE WAVERLY GALLERY first produced off-Broadway in 1999.
Suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease isn't at all funny. The play is. Particularly Act I. By Act II we are deep in the depths of dealing with the disease both for victim and her caregivers as they ponder what to do; how to react.
Under the guidance of director Lila Neugebauer, the words of Lonergan and the artistry of Elaine May as Gladys Green, a former lawyer who is a bit hard of hearing and a bit shopworn, this tale unfolds in docu-drama style. She lives for company and conversation. She's a real non-stop chatterbox. With plenty of money so she says.
Gladys has operated a small, quaint art gallery on Waverly Place in Greenwich Village New York and lives in the same building as her grandson Daniel Reed (an excellent narrator Lucas Hedges – somewhat shy with a splash of dry humor) a speech writer for the Environmental Protection Agency and her watchful neighbor down the hall.
Suddenly her landlord wants to replace the gallery with a café. She's never had a lease and has a growing fear of not knowing what to do if she can't continue to sell some paintings. And talk to people.
In walks an artist from New England. Young and naïve with little money and nowhere to live, Don Bowman (Michael Cera – without his trademark tics) – more an optimist than a great artist. They immediately bond. Kindred spirits. Like Harold and Maude. And Gladys (bringing to mind Ruth Gordon) offers to allow him to stay in a back space much to the dismay of her daughter Ellen Fine (Joan Allen) and her second husband Howard Fine (David Cromer).
They need to approve.
What follows is the decent into the abyss of Alzheimer's disease. It's funny until it's not. The patience needed to hear things repeated ad nauseam. The frustration that is inevitable. The not knowing how to cope. The ordeal of it all. The fear.
All the actors are first rate with Elaine May taking top honors. She is still amazing. There is an unseen dog that intrudes into the action as Gladys tries valiantly to over feed him. And talk.
The scene changes are a tad too long with vintage videos projected of the changing Greenwich Village that Gladys cannot comprehend due to her slowly progressing terminal illness.
Through Jan 27th. 2 hrs and 15 minutes. One intermission.
www.thewaverlygalleryonbroadway.com
Photos: Brigitte Lacombe
THE FERRYMAN – A Family Affair – Northern Ireland 1981
October 27th, 2018 by Oscar E Moore
Undoubtedly those of you interested in the latest openings on and off Broadway have heard all the positive hoopla over the multiple award winning play imported from London – THE FERRYMAN written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes.
And you know what, it's all so very well deserved. Beautifully written with sharp dialogue. Staged magnificently. With a backdrop of political strife to frame the action. A vanished body of ten years suddenly found pickled in a bog with a bullet to the head. And its repercussions to the large and extended Carney family. It's a fascinating, honest and true to life representation of human relationships and the sadness of love.
THE FERRYMAN is a must see production. Even for those who agree with W. C. Fields that to act with children or animals is a no-no. Not here. For here we get a live goose who has escaped from her pen seeking to avoid being the main course of the Harvest Day dinner, a tiny rabbit and a real live human nine month old baby boy who smiles and gurgles right on cue and a slew of Carney children and their cousins – the Corcorans.
Despite this cuteness there is a feeling of melancholy and despair, of forlorn love, of missed opportunities to express the love felt from various characters that permeates the over three hour long production that goes by so quickly that you actually want to see more of this family as they continue their lives despite all the distractions and troubles surrounding the household. Go. Meet the Carneys. Once you do some of the images will be etched on your mind forever.
Aunt Pat (Dearbhla Molloy) stiff as a rod sitting and listening to the latest report of the hunger strike deaths with her constant cigarette and whiskey that allows the truthful barbs that fly from her mouth to both sting and amuse.
Aunt Maggie Far Away (Fionnula Flanagan) wheelchair bound and lost in her memories and reveries yet coming to lucid life at times – especially to reminisce and enlighten the young girls of the clan of the beautiful lad she loved who loved another. Salty language included.
And the dancing and the drinking and the laughter and the shouting and the fear from the sinister IRA honcho Muldoon (Stuart Graham – his very presence evokes shivers to one and all) as he attempts to keep certain facts secret about the IRA informant's body that has been found. That of Seamus Carney. Brother of Quinn Carney – a forceful and eloquent Paddy Considine.
Seamus' wife the frustrated Caitlin (Laura Donnelly) has lived without closure for ten years – not knowing about Seamus' whereabouts; moving in with her son Oisin (Rob Malone) to her brother-in-law Quinn's farmhouse sharing with his wife and seven children who spends most of her life upstairs in bed dealing with a mysterious virus. Caitlin has taken over the wifely duties of the ill Mary (Genevieve O'Reilly) – everything except giving birth to all the children.
Technically speaking nothing could be improved upon. Set and costume designer (Rob Howell) Lighting (Peter Mumford) are excellent. And there is a huge plus. These actors know how to enunciate and project. Even so, if you do not want to miss a single word and you well shouldn't get yourself a set of headphones. They are terrific.
And finally there is Tom Kettle (a magnificent Justin Edwards) – a charming farmhand who happens to be the odd Englishman in this Irish populace – a poet and a bit slow on the uptake. He who distributes shiny apples and cuddles his tiny rabbit has one of the most heart wrenching and beautiful scenes in the entire production that reinforces the sorrow of love.
At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Go. Be transported and entranced by the Irish. One 15 minute intermission. One brief three minute pause following Act II.
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The Cirrus started the era of composite gliders in Kirchheim - it was the company's first glider built in glass fibre re-inforced plastic (FRP) technology. The fuselage shell was build as GRP shell with GRP/foam ribs, the wing was build as GRP/foam sandwich. Based on Klaus Holighaus' experience gained when building the D-36 as member of the academic flying group (Akaflieg) Darmstadt, the Cirrus was designed as the "ultimative top Open Class glider" without flaps.
Klaus Holighaus created the layout of this glider as part of his diploma theses in Darmstadt and could eventually bring in the design innovations that would become the key feature of his designs: A steel frame construction for the central fuselage section and wing connection.
In 1968, the Cirrus wan the Open Class World Championships in Poland. 107 Cirrus have been built in Kirchheim until May 1971. Several more were built later under license by VTC in Yugoslavia.
Nimbus-1
End of the 60s, new flap airfoils designed by Franz Xaver Wortmann allowed the design of wings promising even higher performance by realizing a higher aspect ratio. With the Nimbus-1 at 22 meters of wing span and a three-part wing Klaus Holighaus built himself a glider with an L/D above 50 that was would set a new performance benchmark and became the forefather of Schempp-Hirth's successful Nimbus series.
Standard Cirrus
At 701 gliders produced in Germany (200 of them in license by Grob), the "Standard Cirrus" would be Schempp-Hirth most successful fibre-glass glider before its successor Discus topped production numbers.
The maiden flight was 1969 and serial number 701 was finished in April 1977. Several more Standard Cirrus were later built by VTC and Lanaverre.
Various improvements during production included the replacement of the all-flying tailplane by a fixed tailplane, wing tips for 16 meters wing span, a sharper fuselage nose, bigger airbrakes and many more would be revealed by type name extensions "G", "75" etc.
Besides winning many national titles, the most outstanding success was probably the title of vice world champion 1974 in Waikerie, Australia.
Mini-Nimbus
The Mini-Nimbus (HS 7) was in serial production as of 1977 and was Klaus Holighaus' first glider for the new FAI 15-meter class. It was delivered both with an all-flying tail as with a fixed tail that had an automatic connection. It was later also built as Mini-Nimbus C with carbon-fibre wings and tailplane as Mini-Nimbus.
Joint feature of all Mini-Nimbus is the combination of spoiler and flap at the back of the wing, replacing the classical airbrakes and providing the Mini-Nimbus with the capability to perform extremely short landings that would only be possible with a landing parachute before. Another novelty was the trim being coupled with the flap settings and a retractable undercarriage primarily built in fibre glass reinforced plastic.
After building 159 Mini-Nimbus and collecting a lot of experience in carbon fibre serial production, the glider was replaced by the Ventus.
The Nimbus-2 was derived from the unique design Nimbus-1, on which George Moffat became World Champion of the Open Class 1970 in Marfa, Texas. Serial production Nimbus-2 won two further titles in 1972 and 1974.
The four-part fibre glass wing supported to carry up to 210 liters of water ballast and the outer wings could be optionally ordered in carbon fibre technology.
The fuselage was build as a pure fibre glass cell and, depending on the model range, came with an all-flying or fixed stabilizer. The cockpit provided sufficient space for tall pilots with a lot of equipment. This was one of the reasons that the Nimbus-2 was considered suitable to build Schempp-Hirth's first first self-launching motorglider, the Nimbus-2M.
The Nimbus-2C also had the inner wings built in carbon fibre construction and had the spoiler/flap airbrake system introduced by the Mini-Nimbus. The maiden flight of this variant took place in October 1978 and the Nimbus-2C was type certified in February 1979.
With the Janus as first serial-produced high-performance two-seater built in composite technology, Schempp-Hirth started a revival of two-seated competition soaring. First built with 18.2 meters of wingspan that was later extended to 20 meters, the Janus and with it two-seated long-distance gliding became so popular that a dedicated competition class was introduced: the FAI 20-meter Two Seater Class.
One of the reasons was probably the introduction of carbon fibre wings with the Janus C, which eased the handling in this class. Only the very popular Duo Discus, a two-seater without flaps, was capable of replacing the Janus in its class.
The decreasing market price of carbon fibre in the 1970s allowed building also of larger parts in carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), so wings could be designed for higher average speeds and less airfoil height.
The Ventus with 15-meter CFRP wings was designed for the regulations of the FAI 15-meter Class. Wingtips allowed the wingspan to be extended to 16.6 meters; later the Ventus c even permitted extension to 17.6 meters and supported modified winglets. The glider was the first to be offered with two different fuselage variations: the "normal" fuselage of the Ventus b, providing sufficient space for almost every pilot, and the Ventus a that came with a smaller, tighter cockpit meant to provide additional benefits for smaller pilots.
Both Ventus a and Ventus b had the complex combination of spoilers and flaps instead of classical airbrakes, similar to the Glasflügel Mosquito and the Mini-Nimbus. Later, however, the Ventus c went back to classical Schempp-Hirth airbrakes on the upper wing surface that operated independent to the flaps.
Both the Ventus b and Ventus c, under the names Ventus bT or Ventus cT, were the first gliders available with the then new "Turbo" sustainer system. The Ventus cM was Schempp-Hirth's first self-launching single seater produced in larger numbers.
613 first-generation Ventus were built, before the successor Ventus-2 was introduced into the market and took over in 1995.
In 1984, the Discus was introduced to succeed the successful standard class glider Standard Cirrus. Though it is considered a high performance sailplane, its handling is well within the capabilities of inexperienced pilots. With no bad manners, powerful airbrakes and a low landing speed, the Discus is very popular with clubs.
The Discus took over the Ventus' fuselage with the Discus a suitable to pilots of up to 175 cm body height and the Discus b for taller pilots. The wings, however, were a completely new design and stood out by their triple bent-back wingshape, which would become one of Schempp-Hirth's trademarks.
The Discus is a glider easy to assemble, having light wings, automatic control hookups and a single pin securing the wings. The double-height airbrakes are very efficient and the wing load can be increased up to 10.2 lb/ft² by adding water ballast
Equipped with the popular Schempp-Hirth Turbo system sustainer engine, more than 150 Discus bT have been built. The self-launching variant Discus bM was only built in very small numbers, but turned out to be an important proof of concept for later engine concepts that also kept the engine remaining in the fuselage.
In 1995, after building having built around 570 Discus in Kirchheim/Teck (including Discus bT and Discus bM), winning six World Championship titles in a row, claiming countless national titles and dominating the Standard Class as rarely any other glider before, the production of Discus a and Discus b was discontinued to give room for the next Discus generation - the Discus-2.
For many years, the identically built Discus CS was continued to be produced by Schempp-Hirth vyorba letadel in the Czech Republic town of Chocen.
Apart from performing extremely well, the main reason for the Discus' success are its harmonic flight characteristics, which Klaus Holighaus already considered more important than any other aspect when he started laying out the new glider.
The Nimbus-3, an Open Class glider built in carbon fibre re-enforced plastic (CFRP) technology with a wing span of 22.9 meters (4-part wing) or 24.5/25.5 meters (6-part wing) is based both on Nimbus-2, where experience in building large wing span gliders was gained, and the airfoil developed initially for the successful Ventus.
The result was impressive: The Nimbus-3 not only became World Champion straight away in 1981, it also won the title in 1983 and 1985.
In total, nearly a hundred Nimbus-3 were produced, of which around a third were built as Nimbus-3T and came with the successful Turbo sustainer engine. A single self-launching version (Nimbus-3MR) was privately built.
Nimbus-3D
In 1986, the two-seated version of the Nimbus-3 took of for its maiden flight and the Nimbus-3D was born.
The wings are slightly swept forward to keep the centre of gravity in balance. The high-peformance two-seater was built as plain glider and, as Nimbus-3DT, with the proven Turbo sustainer engine. With the Nimbus-3DM, a self-launching motorglider with a 60 hp Rotax two-stroke engine was also produced.
Initially, the Nimbus-3D was build with a wing span of 24.6 meters, but the wing span of the Nimbus-3D and Nimbus-3DT could later be expanded to 25.6 meters.

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According to a recent report by Mark Gurman and Alex Webb for Bloomberg, Apple is working on a new video social application similar to Snapchat.
Apple are apparently focusing on integrating social deeper into their mobile OS and one of the ways they will apparently do this is with their new video sharing application.
This new software will apparently be worked on at the moment and Apple also have plans to take on Facebook Messenger and other messaging apps like WeChat with iOS 10, they will launch an update messaging app in their next major release.
The new video sharing app will apparently work in a similar way to Snapchat and will come with a range of filters ans more. The idea is that the video can be shot, edited and uploaded in under a minute on an iPhone. As yet there are no details on exactly when this new video software will launch, although it looks like it will be released some time next year.


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Lesson #2 Objective: Subtract using algorithm.
Lesson #3 Objective: Subtract 3-digit numbers including word problems.
Lesson #4 Objective: Subtract 3-digit numbers including word problems.
Lesson #5 Objective: Add and subtract money.
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Ford's Oakville assembly plant is one of several Ontario factories building vehicles and shipping them to the United States.
The five-year outlook for Canada's auto sector remains strong, according to the Conference Board of Canada's latest outlook for the industry.
Broad economic conditions remain strongly positive for Canadian motor vehicle manufacturers, says a report entitled Canada's Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry: Industrial Outlook.
Low fuel prices, robust labour markets, low interest rates and a favourable currency situation have pushed U.S. demand to record levels for two consecutive years, and the industry's financial performance is improving as a result, the report says.
Since contract negotiations between the Detroit Three automakers and the union Unifor in late 2016, automakers in Canada have committed more than $2 billion in upgrades to plants, machinery and equipment here.
"These investments represent a commitment to an ongoing Canadian automotive industry," the board said in a statement.
Despite a softening U.S. market, the Conference Board of Canada forecasts five more years of strong demand for Canada-made vehicles.
The seasonally adjusted, annualized sales rate in the United States in June came in at 16.54 million, the lowest pace of sales of the year and slightly below the 16.6 million average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg. June marked the fourth straight month the SAAR has dropped below 17 million after six straight months above that threshold, including 18.38 million in December.
The Conference Board of Canada remains bullish.
"Looking ahead, demand for Canadian vehicles is forecast to remain strong, with U.S. light vehicle sales averaging above 17 million units on an annual basis over the next five years," it said in a statement.
However, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas told Automotive News on July 3 that the U.S. new-vehicle market is entering a period of an "eroding plateau," when the SAAR remains at healthy levels but overall monthly unit volume continues to decline or remain flat year over year.
The conference board has a different concern, though. Canadian auto exports could be at risk due to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Early indications are that the United States will seek to adjust the current rules of origin for autos and parts in the upcoming NAFTA talks, scheduled to start Aug. 16. Currently, light vehicles, engines and transmissions must have 62.5 per cent North American content before they can be imported duty-free into Canada. Any changes to that rule are likely to take one of two forms; an increase in the current levels of required North American content, or the imposition of U.S.-specific content requirements. If those changes are too restrictive, they could reduce the attractiveness of Canada for auto-related investment.
Dave Phillips of Automotive News contributed to this report.


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Pennaraptora (do latim penna "pena de pássaro" + raptor "ladrão", de rapere "arrebatar"; um predador semelhante a um pássaro emplumado) é um clado definido como o ancestral comum mais recente de Oviraptor philoceratops, Deinonychus antirrhopus e Passer domesticus (a casa pardal), e todos os seus descendentes, por Foth et al., 2014.

O clado "Aviremigia" foi proposto condicionalmente junto com vários outros clados baseados em apomorfia relacionados a pássaros por Jacques Gauthier e Kevin de Queiroz em um artigo de 2001. A definição proposta para o grupo foi "o clado originando-se do primeiro panaviano com... remiges e rectrizes, isto é, aumentados, de haste rígida, de palheta fechada (= bárbulas portando penulas distais em forma de gancho), penas pennáceas originando-se da distal membros anteriores e cauda ".

Ver também
 Evolução dos pássaros
 Origem dos pássaros

Maniraptora
Aves do Cretáceo
Aves do Jurássico

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Applebee's Teams Up with Country Music Artist Walker Hayes to Celebrate Date Night
Wednesday, September 01 2021 @ 06:45 pm
Across America with 'Fancy Like' Ad
GLENDALE, Calif., August 23, 2021 – Two straws, one check – it must be date night! In honor of country singer Walker Hayes' chart-topping hit turned TikTok trend Fancy Like, Applebee's is bringing back the beloved Oreo Cookie Shake for $2.99.
Just like the song says, guests will be "fancy like Applebee's on a date night" with a "Bourbon Street Steak with the Oreo Shake." You've never seen date night like this!
With fans doing the viral Fancy Like dance at Applebee's restaurants across the country, today the brand will also debut two different commercials featuring Walker Hayes' song along with videos of guests showing off their moves – Walker and his daughter who helped choreograph the dance are featured too!
"For years, my wife Laney and I have been regulars at Applebee's for date night, and I've always wanted to write a song about it," said country singer, Walker Hayes. "The response to Fancy Like, the dance and the fan love has been a dream come true – plus, Applebee's even brought back their Oreo Cookie Shake! What's better than that?"
" We'd like to congratulate Walker on the song of the summer. As soon as we heard 'Fancy Like' and saw the dance videos at our restaurants, we knew we had to showcase this viral sensation," said Joel Yashinsky, chief marketing officer at Applebee's. "With our new ad debuting today and the return of the Oreo Cookie Shake, we can't wait for guests to head into Applebee's for their own 'Fancy Like' date nights. Just don't ask me to do the dance - I'll leave that to our guests!"
And if that wasn't enough for your night out, starting today, cheers to Applebee's latest $5 Mucho Cocktails? with the NEW Summertime Sips. Enjoy a citrus refreshment with the NEW Electric Lemon Crush – an invigorating Vodka Lemonade with a citrus spin made with Grey Goose Vodka, blue curacao, lemonade topped with lemon lime soda. Or, keep things sweet with the NEW Flamingo Crush; a delicious, frozen cocktail featuring Bacardi Superior with a flock of pineapple, peach, lime and cherry flavors.
Applebee's Mucho Cocktails are made with premium spirits and served in a signature Mucho glass. Plus, guests can enjoy these $5 Summertime Sips To Go at participating locations.*
To find your local restaurant to for a Fancy Like Date Night, visit Applebees.com/restaurants. To order Applebee's To Go or delivery, visit Applebees.com or the Applebee's mobile app (iOS, Google).
For even more exclusive deals and specials, guests can sign-up to be a part of the neighborhood. Join Applebee's E-Club and receive a welcome offer!
*Must be 21+. Void where prohibited. Tax & gratuity excluded. Available for dine-in only except where carry-out alcohol is permitted by law. Participation may vary. While supplies last.
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About Applebee's?
As one of the world's largest casual dining brands, Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar serves as America's kitchen table, offering guests a lively dining experience that combines simple, craveable American fare with classic drinks and local drafts. Applebee's makes it easy for family and friends to connect with one another, whether it's in a dining room or in the comfort of a living room, Eatin' Good in the Neighborhood? is a familiar and affordable escape from the everyday. Applebee's restaurants are owned and operated by entrepreneurs dedicated to more than serving great food, but also building up the communities that we call home. From raising money for local charities to hosting community fundraisers, Applebee's is always Doin' Good in the Neighborhood?. Applebee's had 1,696 franchise and company-operated restaurants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and 11 other countries as of August 5, 2021. Applebee's is franchised by subsidiaries of Dine Brands Global Inc. [NYSE: DIN], which is one of the world's largest full-service restaurant companies.
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'Zelda' protein plays flap-open role in early embryo development, researchers find
by New York University
Fruit fly. Credit: John Tann/Wikipedia
New York University biologists, in collaboration with scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, have identified a mechanism that promotes activation of genes critical for the initiation of embryonic development.
In a paper published in the journal Genome Research, Christine Rushlow, a professor of biology at NYU, and Julia Zeitlinger, a principal investigator at Kansas City's Stowers Institute, write that our genes are activated by regulatory factors that bind to the control regions of genes called "enhancers"—a process necessary to turn them on at the right time during development. How they gain access to the enhancer regions when they are wrapped in proteins that form the chromosome structure is of great interest to scientists.
Rushlow and Zeitlinger find that in the fruit fly embryo, a protein called Zelda is responsible for "opening up" the enhancer regions so that other regulatory factors can gain access and bind to them, thus enabling activation of the associated genes. They also find that enhancer regions appear to be inherently "closed"—that is, they like to be wrapped in proteins, more so than other non-enhancer regions of the genome, and Zelda tackles the regions to open them up.
"It makes sense that enhancers are intrinsically closed because you do not want developmental genes to turn on inadvertently," says Rushlow, part of NYU's Center for Developmental Genetics. "Instead, it is important that they are tightly controlled so they are active only at the right time and right place. Otherwise, tissue and organs could end up in the wrong place or not form at all."
"We suspect that the more these enhancers are intrinsically closed, the better they can be regulated," says Zeitlinger, who is also an assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. "It may be counterintuitive, but the tight enclosure allows Zelda to open these enhancer regions just enough for other more tissue-specific factors to come in without risking the enhancers becoming active at the wrong time or place."
The findings, the researchers note, point to a newly found and vital role for this protein.
"Our results demonstrate the significance of a mechanism that scouts out enhancers across the genome to prime them for later activation by tissue-specific factors," says Rushlow.
"Zelda allows many different factors to gain access, thus helping them establish the different tissues of the embryo—for example, muscle and nerves."
The research showed that when Zelda was absent, the binding of other factors such as the Dorsal protein, which is important for proper dorsal-ventral (back-belly) patterning of the fly body, was greatly reduced at target enhancers, and instead redistributed to other regions of the genome that are inherently open.
The researchers used Drosophila, or fruit flies, to investigate these regulatory networks. The fruit fly has the advantage of being a tractable genetic model system with a rapid developmental time, and many of the genetic processes identified in flies are conserved in humans. Additionally, pioneering fly research has led to many of the key discoveries of the molecular mechanisms underlying developmental processes in complex animals.
The study brought together Rushlow, who discovered Zelda and is an expert in genetic regulatory networks in development, and Zeitlinger, a genomics and systems biology expert whose laboratory focuses on how transcriptional mechanisms regulate genome activity.
"I had wanted to work with Julia, and this was a wonderful opportunity for us to combine our complementary areas of expertise in a truly synergistic fashion," says Rushlow. "Our collaboration is a marvelous example of how a problem can be viewed from different perspectives, a systems view and an individualistic view of single regulators, and result in novel and significant discoveries."
Biologists describe key mechanism in early embryo development
Journal information: Genome Research
Provided by New York University
Citation: 'Zelda' protein plays flap-open role in early embryo development, researchers find (2015, September 29) retrieved 22 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2015-09-zelda-protein-flap-open-role-early.html
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Argenis Antonio Salazar Yepez (né le  à Anaco, Anzoátegui, Venezuela) est un ancien joueur professionnel de baseball.

Il évolue dans la Ligue majeure de baseball, où il est connu sous le nom Ángel Salazar, comme joueur d'arrêt-court pour les Expos de Montréal en 1983 et 1984, les Royals de Kansas City en 1986 et 1987, et les Cubs de Chicago en 1988.

En 383 matchs joués dans le baseball majeur, Salazar compile 188 coups sûrs dont 33 doubles, 6 triples et deux circuits, 69 points marqués et 59 points produits. Sa moyenne au bâton en carrière s'élève à ,212.

Voir aussi
 Liste des joueurs des Expos de Montréal

Liens externes
  Statistiques d'Ángel Salazar sur Baseball-Reference.
  Statistiques d'Ángel Salazar sur le site des Ligues majeures de baseball.

Naissance en novembre 1961
Naissance à Anaco
Joueur vénézuélien de baseball
Joueur des Expos de Montréal
Joueur des Royals de Kansas City
Joueur des Cubs de Chicago
Arrêt-court des ligues majeures de baseball


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A Cultural Catalyst at Virginia State University
VSU Multipurpose Center, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA
Colleges and universities across the country do more than educate the students enrolled in their degree programs — they create connections between people from different backgrounds and cultural experiences, providing vast opportunities for personal growth. Through these connections, our institutions generate profound impact on the communities around them, both economically and culturally.
Virginia State University, with its proud and storied history, has realized a dream 20 years in the making with the completion of their new, $84-million Multipurpose Center. This facility changes the landscape of their campus and delivers economic and cultural promise to the village of Ettrick, the greater community of Petersburg, and the state of Virginia.
As the largest capital project ever awarded to an HBCU, the Multipurpose Center presents significant academic, athletic, cultural, and entertainment opportunities to the University and its surrounding communities. A product of the deeply collaborative partnership among the school, the community, and the project team of Clark Nexsen, AECOM, and S.B. Ballard, the facility is described as "transformative to the University community" by Jane Harris, AVP of Facilities and Capital Outlay at VSU. The venue has a seating capacity of 5,100 to 6,100 and boasts more than 167,000 SF, making it ideally suited for athletic events, concerts, high school graduations, and other cultural events.
Home to the VSU basketball and volleyball teams, the Multipurpose Center is a physical manifestation of Trojan pride and serves as a catalyst for the revitalization of Ettrick to become a distinguished college town. As the largest arena in the area, it is intended to be a destination for public shows, meetings and events, concerts, and other cultural entertainment. Conveniently located, the Multipurpose Center is a short walk from the main campus and is also positioned for community access.
The exterior design of the facility blends the traditional aesthetic of the campus with modern elements of metal and glass, while the interior layout showcases a panoramic view of the campus from the main monumental stairway. Supporting University sustainability initiatives, the Multipurpose Center has earned LEED Silver accreditation. In addition to the horseshoe-style arena and the open-bowl design, the facility includes classrooms and offices, a fitness and wellness center, spectator suites, conference spaces, and a full-service kitchen able to accommodate a 900-person banquet.
The Clark Nexsen/AECOM design team sought to design a facility that complemented VSU's surroundings, honored the campus history, and supported the University's vision for the future. The trusted partnership between the experienced design and construction team, coupled with the University and community's energy and vision, has delivered an exceptional end result—a Multipurpose Center that will effectively serve the region for years to come.
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Gov. Tim Walz says his administration has renewed its challenge to a regulatory panel's approval of Enbridge Energy's plan.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Monday that his administration has renewed its challenge to a regulatory panel's approval of Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota, saying he wants to let the legal process play out.
Walz told reporters the Commerce Department refiled its appeal last week with the Minnesota Court of Appeals, which had dismissed earlier appeals in the case on procedural grounds. The independent Public Utilities Commission last month gave its final reaffirmation of its earlier approvals of the project, clearing the way for the department and the environmental and tribal groups to refile appeals that began under previous Gov Mark Dayton's administration.
"We think that that appeal should simply be heard, and that's fair," he said.
The Democratic governor said the state's appeal doesn't delay the timeline for the permitting process for or construction on the replacement pipeline because the state isn't seeking an injunction. Regulators have told Enbridge that they expect to certify all remaining state permits by November. The company hopes to put the new pipeline into service in the second half of 2020.
Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge wants to replace Line 3, which was built in the 1960s, because it's increasingly prone to cracking and corrosion. Native American and environmental groups argue that the project risks oil spills in pristine areas of the Mississippi River headwaters region and that the Canadian tar sands oil that the line would carry accelerates climate change.
Enbridge said in a statement that it believes the courts will affirm the commission's decisions, "which were made in accordance with the law based on full and complete evidence developed and presented over years of open and transparent regulatory and environmental review processes."
Walz was critical of lawmakers who've tried unsuccessfully to prohibit the state from spending taxpayer money on the appeal, calling their efforts "a gross violation of the separation of powers."
The legal issue at the heart of the Commerce Department's appeal is whether Enbridge provided legally adequate long-range demand forecasts to establish the need for the project. The Public Utilities and Enbridge said the company did. Walz said the statutory language is ambiguous, and that there would no basis for the state's appeal if lawmakers clarified the statute.
House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt said Republicans are "incredibly disappointed" by the decision to pursue a further appeal against a new pipeline that would be the "safest, most environmentally friendly way" to transport the oil and would create jobs and increase property tax revenues for communities along the route.
"What the governor is trying to do is play both sides," Daudt said. "I think he's trying to say that, 'Well this is ultimately going to happen, but I can at least tell the people that were against it I was with them.' And to me that's a failure of leadership."


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Q: Application closing when Activating the Connection on FireDAC I developed an application that uses FireDAC to connect to a MySQL Database.
But when I try to open it on a workstation, at the moment that I set the Connected := True; on the TFDConnection, the application closes itself without showing an exception. It is surrounded with a try...except, but still doesn't show no error message at all. Here's the code I'm using to set the connection:
procedure TfrmServidor.confConnection;
begin
  with conMySQL do begin
    DriverName := LeXML.Strings[5];
    Params.Add('Server=' + LeXML.Strings[3]);
    Params.Add('Port=' + LeXML.Strings[4]);
    Params.Add('Database=' + LeXML.Strings[0]);
    Params.Add('User_Name=' + LeXML.Strings[1]);
    Params.Add('Password=' + LeXML.Strings[2]);
    ShowMessage(Params.Text);
  end;

  try
     conMySQL.Connected := True;
  except
     on e : Exception do
       ShowMessage(e.Message);
  end;
end;

Where LeXML is a function that reads a XML file with the properties and returns the values on a TStringList.
What is it that i'm doing wrong?
The ShowMessage with the Params Text returns the following:
[Window Title]
Servidor

[Content]
DriverID=MySQL
Server=10.1.1.16
Port=3306
Database=treinamentos
User_Name=treinamentos
Password=masterkey

[OK]

Can anyone help?

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Q: Vimium interfering with HTML after removal Until last week I had the Vimium extension installed in my copy of Google Chrome. Vimium inserts some HTML and JS into pages I view to work. I've never had any troubles with this up until recently.
I run a Django development server for my job and on a certain page that's served by it a  was wrapped inside a  with the classes 'vimiumReset' and 'vimiumHUD'. This  has style attribute with the value 'display:none;', thus my form never shows up.
After trying some things I decided to uninstall Vimium. I did this the usual way using the Chrome settings menu. However, the Vimium div keeps appearing in my HTML.
The strange thing is that it does not appear in my page source so some relic of my Vimium installation appears to keep altering the HTML I see in my browser. The even stranger thing is that in other browsers (Firefox and Safari) this div is also inserted, but does not appear in the page source. The even stranger thing is that this div also shows up on other devices that try to view this page over LAN.
When someone runs the same project in their own development server the  does not show up, so it's not hidden somewhere in the project code.
So in short:

*

*Removed Vimium from Chrome

*Vimium inserted HTML keeps showing up in viewed pages

*Vimium inserted HTML does not appear in page source

*Viewing the page on other devices on the network also shows the Vimium inserted HTML, even though Vimium has never been installed on those devices.

Any ideas where this problem originates from?


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The 5 Worst Cybersecurity Disasters of 2017
Perhaps we'll remember 2017 as the year Malware went global. 2017 has ushered in a new era, where the dangers of cyber-warfare are more present in our lives than ever before. There has been no other year on record where the consequences of cybersecurity mess-ups have been so keenly felt by the public.
In the UK and Ukraine, people who lived their lives oblivious to the dangers of a Malware attack were suddenly made aware. In the UK, the country's health service was brought to its knees. In Ukraine, whole stretches of their essential infrastructure stopped functioning because of a brutal malware attack.
All these cyber threats have made it mandatory to secure our devices. Check the testing service engagements of Orenda Security and get their help today.
Along with our friends from https://arcules.com/ – we present to you our ranking of the worst cybersecurity disasters of 2017… and if this year is anything to go by, 2018 is a guaranteed wild-ride for those of us in tech.
The Shadow Brokers – April 2017
We really have the National Security Agency to thank for two of the world's worst malware attacks so far.
Like millions of shady government departments world-over, the NSA's mysterious tech department, the Equation Group, have been working on developing cyber weaponry. That's one thing – but leaving your weapons vulnerable to theft is something else entirely.
Hackers, the Shadow Brokers, stole a load of data from the Equation Group, and since August 2016, have been attempting to auction the info. With each failure to auction it, they've leaked the info online.
April this year saw their biggest data-dump yet. The Shadow Brokers released details on the NSA-developed exploit ETERNALBLUE… and the leak lead to two of the biggest malware attacks the world has ever seen.
These are exactly the cases to illustrate data management and its importance for businesses. Check out the RadiusBridge website for more info.
WannaCry – May 12th, 2017
If you knew something had been stolen from you that could bring half the world to its knees, would you tell anyone? The NSA certainly didn't think so.
On May 12th, WannaCry ransomware spread around the globe, and its success depended on the ETERNALBLUE exploit being open. During peak WannaCry chaos, the malware was on 57,000 computers in over 70 countries.
Truly the worst consequences of WannaCry were felt in hospitals, where WannaCry took down whole systems – endangering lives.
The UK bore the worst of it, and nearly the whole National Health Service had to switch to pen and paper during the outbreak. Lives were jeopardized, and crucial treatments delayed.
The NHS were ultimately blamed for not plugging patches in their system, because instead of doing something like get online malware removal, they left themselves open. But there's a lot of organizations who have blood on their hands for WannaCry – not least the US government, for keeping schtum about the exploit, after the data was stolen.
Ultimately, both the UK and the US government blamed WannaCry on North Korea – but some in tech are dubious.
NotPeyta- 27th June, 2017
This ransomware ended up being dubbed 'NotPeyta' because it masqueraded as Peyta ransomware – but was something else entirely.
The ransomware began in Ukraine and spread across the world, and it took out a range of businesses, including U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck, and Danish shipping giant Maersk. Once it got inside a companies' network it quickly spread from device to device, demanding $300 in bitcoin to unscramble each device.
However, it seemed NotPeyta only had the guise of ransomware, and was built purely to destroy, not to extort money. Like WannaCry before it, NotPeyta succeeded because of the leak of NSA exploits.
NotPeyta seemed to specifically target Ukrainian infrastructure, and took down systems related to public transport, power companies, airports and their central bank.
Because of this, NotPeyta is now commonly suspected to be an act of Russian cyberwarfare which specifically targeted Ukraine. Its spread outside Ukraine could be an accident – or an effort to disguise an act of targeted cyberwarfare.
Wikileaks' Vault 7- March 2017
Also known as the 'spies keep spying' data-dump. Wikileaks published a ginormous trove of documents stolen from the CIA – over 8,000 in total- detailing how the CIA spy on individuals.
The files were fairly unremarkable to anyone with a cursory knowledge of how intelligence agencies operate, because they are obviously developing method to spy on targets.
The more paranoid among us were relieved the CIA, unlike the NSA, don't practice blanket mass-surveillance. Many were pleased the CIA often need to physically install spyware on devices, because end-to-end encryption is so effective at blocking prying eyes.
However, users of Windows, OS X and iOs were all found to be vulnerable to remote CIA hacks, some of which were developed by the NSA, and others by Britain's GCHQ.
The leaks haven't been confirmed or denied, but if they are legit – and they most likely are – CIA operations have most likely been badly compromised.
Macron Campaign Leak, May 2017
Just two days before the French Election, during the time the French press and French candidates typically observe a media blackout on election coverage, emails from the Macron campaign were leaked on pastebin.
The Macron leaks came too late to influence the French election – Macron won fairly comfortably – but they are seen as an attempt to sow discord and doubt across the electoral system. The documents have been deemed 'utterly banal' – quite unlike the DNC leak that so influenced the American election.
Many cybersecurity experts have attributed the leaks to APT 28, a Russian hacking group that are believed to be state-sponsored. Also known as 'Fancy Bear', they are considered to behind the leaks of the US Democratic Party. If you experience any of the cybersecurity disasters, go to HightowerRisk.com.
As you can see cybersecurity is a vital issue nowadays, and you should be ready to face some serious data security issues. Scheduling your employees to attend phishing awareness training is the easiest way to educate your staff and protect your company data.


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About the Pegasus spyware, Apple's telling the full truth When spyware from an Israeli firm was discovered on a number of iPhones used by journalists, critics hit Apple over security and privacy concerns. But in this case, it doesn't look like the company did anything wrong.
Can Pegasus spyware infect iPhone 11 and iPhone 12?
Amnesty International just announced the results of analysis conducted by it and journalist advocacy and media group Forbidden Stories. The findings indicated that the Pegasus spyware program sold by surveillance company NSO Group was able to infect iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 models through zero-click attacks in the iOS iMessage app.
Is the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware a threat to iOS users?
Apple says that a flaw in iOS that is exploited by NSO Group's Pegasus system is "not a threat" to most people. The company says it's working to add new protections "constantly." Following the news earlier today that journalists and other high profile people are being targeted by the Pegasus spyware, Apple has released a statement on the matter.
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Apple released iOS 14.7 to the public today and I have to assume that doesn't have a fix for Pegasus, either. Apple would presumably have mentioned that in its note to the Washington Post if it did.
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These wild rules tried to stop people off-roading in the 1920s
By Carol Dennis	 On Nov 26, 2021
Motorists in PA during the 1920s had a lot of weird rules to follow.
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When a new mode of transport bursts onto the scene, its launch is followed by a flurry of legislation to manage its use. This isn't something that we're seeing for the first time as self-driving cars begin populating our streets. In fact, it also hit regular, human-controlled cars when they first appeared.
One organization in the U.S. even came up with its own set of recommendations for drivers in rural areas. And went as far as attempting to have them enshrined into law.
In rural Pennsylvania, an organization called the Farmers' Anti-Automobile Society took offense to the appearance of "horseless carriages" on roads and in the countryside. So, it published a pamphlet of rules and regulations for all drivers across the state. And, as I'm sure you're expecting, some of the group's suggestions make for a fairly funny read.
Don't forget to pack enough fireworks for your journey home from the golf course
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Published at some point "from 1915 until 1924" the Rules Of The Road has nine pointers to keep rural Pennsylvania safe from the onslaught of the car.
And, as it's a farmers' organization, many of the rules posed have seemingly been written to protect horses and cattle, rather than PA natives.
For example, the society suggests that if a driver sees a horse they must pull over and cover their car with a "blanket or dust cover, which is painted or colored to blend into the scenery".
The pamphlet adds:
"In case a horse is unwilling to pass an automobile on the road, the driver of the car must take the machine apart as rapidly as possible and conceal the parts in the bushes."
Imagine having to tear apart your Impreza whenever you meet a horse on your morning commute.
But, there's more inconvenience when it comes to driving home at night. Then, you'll be required to "send up a red rocket every mile and wait ten minutes for the road to clear".
Drivers are also asked to toot their horns or "fire a revolver" when they're 100 yards from a corner. And, the society called for the state to impose secret speed limits to encourage motorists to drive slowly.
Could you dismantle your Model T if a horse tried to trot past?
Finally, it asked members of the Farmers' Anti-Automobile Society to give up their Sunday and spend it "chasing automobiles, shooting and shouting at them, making arrests, and otherwise discouraging country touring on that day".
What a way to spend a weekend.
You'll be pleased to know that these rules never quite became law. While they were passed by the legislature, they were soon rejected by the state governor.
So thankfully, there's no need to pack spare fireworks whenever you find yourself on a country road in rural PA.
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The completed version of the browser will available as a download for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows Vista/XP from Apple's website later today.
Thank the gods and their pet demons that they backed down on their daft plan to copy Google's asinine user-interface "innovation" of putting the tabs at the top of the window. I was afraid that it would be one of those things that, like "brushed metal", hung around our necks for six major versions before they figured out it was a daft idea.


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