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Gators face big challenge in Red Carpet Bowl
By Ernest Bowker
Published 8:00 am Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Eleven years ago, when he was an assistant at Vicksburg High, Tim Hughes remembers having to face South Panola in the season-opening Red Carpet Bowl.
The Tigers were at the height of their powers, in the middle of an eight-year run in which they lost one game to a Mississippi team.
Fast-forward a decade and a year, and Hughes is now Vicksburg's head coach with a similar challenge in front of him. On Friday night he'll lead the 2019 Gators into their season opener, in the Red Carpet Bowl against perennial Class 6A power Madison Central.
Vicksburg did not win that game against South Panola all those years ago — it hung tough before losing 27-6 — but Hughes said it was beneficial. Vicksburg finished 9-3 that season and reached the second round of the playoffs. So now Hughes is taking the same approach and hoping some of the same lessons are learned by his current players about how to handle a difficult early-season assignment.
"When you get a game like that, you get ready for it. It gets you ready for that season," Hughes said. "We expect to win the ballgame just on that preparation end of it. It's helped us out a lot, because we know our first game is Madison Central. I don't have a problem with it at all."
On paper, the opening game of the Red Carpet Bowl doubleheader at Warren Central is a mismatch. Vicksburg has only had one winning season since 2008, and finished 3-7 in 2018. Madison Central has been to the MHSAA Class 6A semifinals four consecutive years, and nine times in the past 11 years.
Vicksburg is more experienced than last year, but still looking for a breakthrough. Madison Central is loaded with talent, as usual, and eyeing a state championship run.
"They're good. They're going to be good at everything discipline leads you to be good at. They're going to be one of the top three strongest teams we play," Hughes said of the Jaguars. "They've done a lot of winning and know how to do it, and that's going to be a big part of it. When you have that kind of confidence, they'll take advantage of any mistakes you have and they're not going to make many mistakes."
For Vicksburg, Week 1 is about more than just winning or losing, though. It's about taking a step in the right direction.
The Gators appeared to do that last week by generally dominating their two-quarter preseason jamboree game against Wingfield and winning 14-6.
The Gators scored twice, on a short run by Cedric Phillips and a long pass to Laurence Sullivan, and were at the 3-yard line when time ran out in the second quarter. That final drive bled more than five minutes off the clock.
Wingfield, which went 0-12 last season, was far from the stiffest challenge the Gators will see this year. Hughes, however, said the way the Gators carried themselves and controlled a game they should have won easily showed how much progress they've made during the offseason.
"You could tell it was a little different for them. It wasn't just the win. It was how it was done," Hughes said. "Even the few games that we won last year, it was a battle. If we play a full game, maybe it's a battle. We achieved what we were going for each time we were going for it. We got off the field on third downs, which was a huge thing for us last year."
Part of the progress stems from experience. The Gators are replacing a few key players, but also have more than a dozen starters — including most of the offensive line and front seven on defense — returning.
Rather than having to evaluate everyone and do a reboot like he did in his first season as head coach, Hughes said he's been able to build on last year and move the program forward.
"I liked our structure. We knew what we were doing. There wasn't a lot of confusion. I know that sounds funny, but that means a lot. It means we can move on," Hughes said.
Even some of the players with little to no experience have shown flashes of promise, Hughes added. The Gators will be breaking in a new quarterback this season as junior Sha'Kori Ragan takes over for Levi Wyatt.
Wyatt threw for 2,249 yards and 18 touchdowns in 2018, but left the team in the offseason. Ragan played linebacker and kicker last season but was never a quarterback until offseason workouts began. Hughes said Ragan, though, has taken command of a demanding position.
"We had a couple of positions with a lack of experience, and I liked what I saw there," Hughes said. "It wasn't just the abilities. It was the command of the game that the quarterback and a couple of other positions had. You know what you have out of others. Now it's about us gelling together and putting people in the right spaces and stuff like that."
Hughes admitted that facing a stiff Madison Central defense will be a trial by fire for Ragan and the rest of the Gators. He also said how they handle it, good or bad, will be as important as the final outcome.
"It's going to be that week after week. The big part of what we have to do is understand the competitive side and that everything is not going to go your way. It's not about the last play, but it's always about the next play," Hughes said. "The faster we can get those positions to realize that and not let a situation get too overwhelming, the faster we can become a really good team."
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RED CARPET BOWL TICKETS:
Advance tickets for the Red Carpet Bowl will be on sale at the VWSD athletic office, as well as Vicksburg and Warren Central junior highs and high schools until 1 p.m. Friday, and at 601 Sports, Just Duett Sports and Michel's Music until 4 p.m. Friday.
Tickets for the football doubleheader at Warren Central are $10 in advance and $15 at the gate and are good for both games. Vicksburg plays Madison Central at 5:30 p.m, and Warren Central faces Holmes County Central at 8.
About Ernest Bowker
Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured sports reporters in the paper's 137-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
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Star Wars - Train Like a Jedi As part of the government led initiative to get children more active, NHS Change4Life programme have designed a Star Wars themed series of activities for children. Your child will bring home a yellow pack linked to the web based activities you can find at the link above. Watch the short vidoe clip and then scroll down to find a new 'planet' of activities set each week to 'race across the Star Wars Galaxy'. There's a note card in the pack for grown-ups too. May the force be with you!
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Philadelphia Eagles release veteran LB Zach Brown after loss to Vikings
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Former Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zach Brown (53) was released three days after making harsh comments about former teammate and Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins. File Photo by David Tulis/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The Philadelphia Eagles released veteran linebacker Zach Brown, three days after he made harsh comments about former teammate and Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins.
The team announced the roster move Monday. League sources told ESPN that multiple NFL teams are interested in signing Brown.
The Eagles suffered a 38-20 loss to the Vikings on Sunday, dropping their record to 3-3 this season. When asked about Cousins before the contest, Brown told reporters: "I think every defense is going to want that guy to throw the ball. For me, that's probably the weakest part of their offense is him."
Cousins completed 22-of-29 passes for 333 yards and four touchdowns against the Eagles. After the game, Brown was asked to comment on Cousins' performance.
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"I'm here to talk about the game. Not about that," Brown told reporters Sunday.
When he was pressed further, Brown said: "Any other questions besides about Kirk Cousins? He did a good job. He played good. Hats off to him."
The Eagles signed Brown to a one-year contract in May. He has played a significant amount of snaps in all six of the team's games this season, recording 31 total tackles, two tackles for loss and a pair of pass breakups.
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Amazon's stock skyrockets toward $1,040 on strong earnings (AMZN)
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Thursday afternoon was tech earnings mania with Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, and Microsoft all both reporting earnings and beating expectations across the board.
Google's parent company Alphabet beat expectations on third-quarter results, sending the stock popping after-hours. The company generated $27.77 billion in revenue, up 24% from a year ago.
Intel beat analyst expectations in its third-quarter earnings report with revenue up 2% from the same quarter last year.
Microsoft's fiscal first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Shares in the company, which reported its results after the closing bell Thursday, inched up by almost 4% to about $81.75 in after-hours trading.
Amazon also just released its third-quarter earnings report. It reported:
Revenue: Q3 2017 revenue of $43.7 billion, versus $42.19 billion expected. So that's a beat.
Earnings: $0.52 a share versus $0.52 last year.
Amazon's revenue jumped 34% over the year-ago quarter. Investors are happy. Amazon's stock has jumped 7% in after-hours trading to about $1,037 a share.
That's better news than it saw in the second quarter, when the company missed Wall Street's expectations and its stock dropped. The e-commerce giant is ramping up investments in warehouses, content for its Prime Video streaming service, and investments in international markets and in groceries, following its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods earlier this year.
Amazon's all-important cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services, reported $4.6 billion in revenue, up from $3.2 billion last year. Wall Street has been concerned about slowing growth with AWS, but it's still growing well.
For its fourth quarter, a major one that includes the holiday shopping season, Amazon predicts net sales of $56 billion to $60.5 billion. So that's growth of 28% to 38% compared with the fourth quarter of 2016.
That forecast includes the impact from its acquisition of Whole Foods, and it also includes a favorable foreign-exchange rate. Operating income is expected to be anywhere from $300 million to $1.65 billion, compared with $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016.
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JUST IN: Boko Haram Destroys Electricity Tower Leaving Maiduguri In Total Darkness
By News Agency of Nigeria on February 1, 2021
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Residents of Maiduguri and environs have been thrown into lingering blackout following the destruction of one of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the national grid.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the blackout, which has lasted for one week, has grounded many businesses that are relying on power.
Those operating on generators are managing to render skeletal services.
Some residents, who spoke to NAN, not only condemned the action of the insurgents but lamented the continued inability of the authorities concern to restore the power.
"It's now one week and most people don't know why there is no electricity in Maiduguri.
"We need to know what caused it and efforts by the power company to address the matter.
"You can't leave people in darkness without explanation,'' a resident, Ibrahim Abubakar, said.
Also, a welder, Moses Bala, said the development has grounded his business because he solely depends on electricity from the national grid for his work.
"Because of steady supply over the months, I solely depend on power from government and now that there is no power for one week; I remain out of business.
"I can't afford a generator as I am still young in this business,'' Bala said.
He appealed to the authorities concern to expedite action to restore the electricity.
Musa Idris, Sahabi Abdulrahman, Amina Bello and Talatu Musa who also lamented on the power outage on their small businesses said they do not know the cause of the power outage.
They said that they would want something to be done urgently to ameliorate their plight. When contacted, the Corporate Communication Manager of Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) in charge of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba states, Mr Kingsley Nkemneme said he could not comment because the problem has to do with Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
"The TCN is in a better position to comment on this as the problem is not about distribution but transmission,'' Nkemneme said.
NAN reports that this is the second time in three months that insurgents will be attacking the power transmission line to Maiduguri.
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What will it take to stay top of the FX class?
By Lee Oliver
Financial markets are always dynamic places and constantly evolving as they embrace change. Today's foreign exchange market is no exception and it is arguably developing at a faster pace than at any other time in its history. So how will it look in five years' time? Lee Oliver asks leading FX participants to peer into the crystal ball.
A JOURNEY BACK five years to Euromoney's 2002 foreign exchange poll (May 2002) shows that we identified a dominant theme of market consolidation then. We suggested that the market appeared set for domination by just five banks – much as today – and that consolidation was supposedly going to lead to a reduction in the number of trading venues, possibly to the extent that activity would become concentrated on just one. We wrote: "There's no doubt that barriers to entry are rising in forex. To be a top-10 player in the market requires not only expertise and global presence but also good technology."
Five years on it's apparent that our judgement was both true and false. Technology and a global presence do play a key role in maintaining a position in the top 10. But technology has also allowed the entry of new players to the market – specifically those established to service the increasingly important retail sector – often on a virtual global basis. It has also attracted participants from other asset classes, not all of which are welcome, that have found it easy to access an efficient, transparent and extremely liquid market.
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Emmys 2019: Paste's Nominations Wish List
By Allison Keene, Amy Amatangelo, Alexis Gunderson | July 10, 2019 | 9:48am
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Though it took some time, the nominations for the Emmy Awards over the last few years have finally started to reflect the beautiful variety of Peak TV, embracing series that are not always just the most popular and most visible. That's not always the case though, and there are sure to be plenty of snubs and surprises when it comes to the 2019 nominees (which will be announced on July 16th). So in the spirit of celebrating the great television of late 2018 into 2019, we've come up with one wish list pick for each major category.
The following nominee hopefuls are programs or individuals that we felt truly stood out, but also, are under-the-radar choices. They aren't the only series or actors who are deserving of the nod, but we did want to specifically highlight a few that, regardless of how Emmy voters feel about them, deserve your attention.
Best Drama Series: Counterpart
This may sadly be the last opportunity for me to stump for Counterpart, the excellent Starz supernatural spy series that ended this year with its second season (and don't let that keep you from catching up—the finale was satisfying as a series finale as well). Despite the fact that the show is smart, strange, compelling, and outstandingly acted, it remained a niche watch. It's an Emmy longshot for sure, but the series—which stars J.K. Simmons playing dopplegangers who become trapped on each other's parallel worlds—deserves that recognition. It should have been nominated for a slew of awards for its first season, but complicated, slow-burn series on premium networks (that aren't HBO) find it hard to get noticed. A Counterpart nomination would be a move in the right direction towards honoring series that are indicative of the best (in writing, production, acting, and overall world building) that TV can be. —Allison Keene (Photo Courtesy of Starz)
Best Actor in a Drama Series: Mark McKenna, Wayne
It's not impossible that a YouTube Original Series will someday grab an Emmy nomination, but even if that day comes sooner than any of us might be anticipating, whatever series does manage to break through won't be one about a couple of dirtbag teens from the Boston suburbs making their John Wickian way down the Eastern seaboard on the back of a dinky motorcycle. This is a shame, as Shawn Simmons' Wayne is the exact kind of provocatively violent, highly stylized teen series that HBO is trying to make hit with Euphoria, and lead actor Mark McKenna (Sing Street) is doing as much arrestingly exquisite, tensely constrained work as the central broken character in his series as Zendaya is doing in hers. For all that only a fraction of Emmy voters will have seen him doing this work, McKenna's Wayne is nevertheless a heartbreaking wonder, exploding your heart into a million pieces even as he acts like he's got an emotional range smaller than a butterfly's wingspan, and even as he's beating (or being beaten by) half the world into a bloody pulp. This is the kind of work the Emmys love to highlight, but since it's coming out of a teen series on YouTube, we're not holding our breath. We'd just be happy to see McKenna bring his gentle bruiser of a teen hero back for a second season. —Alexis Gunderson (Photo Courtesy of YouTube Premium)
Best Actress in a Drama Series: Suranne Jones, Gentleman Jack
There are only a few actors who can so command a series that you cannot imagine your TV life before them. Suranne Jones in HBO's Gentleman Jack is such a one, playing the incredibly witty, talented, seductive and bold Anne Lister. Jones imbues her character with such a winning combination of charm and warmth that to know her is to not just love her but to become a little obsessed with her. Anne strides boldly into our lives—winking, knowing, playful, righteous—with a unique story (based on real-life diaries) augmented by Jones' complete dominance in the role. It is the east, and Jones is the sun. But Anne is also sometimes overwhelmed, vulnerable and deeply hurt, making us realize she is, in fact, a mortal among us. Ultimately, when Jones brings us into her confidence as Anne, the experience is exhilarating. Emmy voters, do the right thing. —Allison Keene (Photo Courtesy of HBO)
Best Comedy Series: Speechless
Just like JJ (Micah Fowler), the protagonist at the center of ABC's charming, insightful and hilarious comedy, Speechless defied the odds. In a landscape dominated by dragons and zombies, a TV series about a family whose oldest son has cerebral palsy shouldn't have lasted for three seasons. But not only did it last, it thrived. The DiMeo family, with Maya (Minnie Driver, in a career-best role) as its fearless matriarch, represented not just a loving family with a special needs son, but all families who want what's best for their children and won't let any obstacles get in their way. The show may have served to educate the viewer and broaden our collective perspectives of what it's like for those living with special needs and the reality for those who love them, but Speechless never felt pedantic. Watching it never felt like work. Instead it was a weekly uproarious escape.
In its third, and unfortunately final season, the show truly blossomed as it set the stage for JJ to leave home and set off for college. Network TV doesn't get a lot of attention these days. The #SaveSpeechless campaign never really took off and it's highly unlikely the show will be saved the way One Day at a Time was (another show I would love to see get an Emmy nod). And certainly, the Television Academy seems to leaning more into the cooler cable shows so it's very likely that this comedic gem, on its last possible chance for a nomination, will be overlooked again. But not without me a-d—v-advocating for it.—Amy Amatangelo (Photo Courtesy of ABC)
Best Actress in a Comedy Series: Yael Grobglas, Jane the Virgin
Gina Rodriguez may be the beating heart of Jane the Virgin—and she absolutely had better clinch an Outstanding Lead Actress nom for her history-making seven-minute monologue in this season's premiere—but for our money, Jane the Virgin has only been as strong as it has been for the last two seasons because of the counterbalance Rodriguez's Jane has found in Yael Grobglas's sharply tender portrayal of Jane's enemy-turned-sister, Petra Solano. Ruthless, sharp-tongued and always impeccably styled, Petra has long been one of the series' best secret weapons. As she has been allowed to break free of the constraints put upon her character by the Jane-Raf-Petra Love Triangle of the show's earlier seasons, however, and as she's been given not only the opportunity to develop genuine friendships with both Jane and Rafael (Justin Baldoni), but also to get to know herself better through her surprise romance with JR (Rosario Dawson), Petra—and by extension, Grobglas—has been able to blossom into the kind of comedic powerhouse we not only love to see pop up on screen, but whose happy ending we can sincerely root for. In this Golden Age of television comedy, not even that may be enough to secure someone an Emmy nomination, but that won't stop us from shouting from the rooftops: Yael Grobglas is GREAT —Alexis Gunderson (Photo Courtesy of The CW)
Best Actor in a Comedy Series: William Zabka, Cobra Kai
Back in the olden days—say five years ago—it could be that even if you never watched a particular television series, you would have at the very least heard of it. But now when I mention Cobra Kai to people, I'm greeted with the same blank stare my daughter gives me when I ask her where her soccer cleats are. What's that you say? There's a TV series based on The Karate Kid that revisits Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny (William Zabka) more than 30 years after the original movie? Yes, indeed there is. And get ready for me to blow your mind. The show is on its second season on YouTube Premium and has already been renewed for a third. Because Cobra Kai is so far under the radar, I fear the Television Academy may have missed Zabka's nuanced and downright fantastic performance. With an effortless grace, Zabka balances humor and Johnny's great one-liners with the struggles of a man for whom life hasn't worked out the way he planned.
Johnny is a walking anachronism who doesn't understand computers or social media but Zabka never allows him to become a cliché or a one-note joke. Cobra Kai is at once an homage to the past (check out those great 80's era slow motion montages) and an innovative, fresh take on a beloved classic. Rooted in the past but always looking forward. Zabka embodies all of that and everything else great about the show. Without him the show wouldn't work. As I said back in April when Cobra Kai returned for Season Two, if he doesn't get an Emmy nomination next Tuesday, it might be time to sweep the leg of the Television Academy.—Amy Amatangelo (Photo Courtesy of YouTube Premium)
Best Miniseries: Vanity Fair
When we reviewed Amazon Prime Video's Vanity Fair at the end of 2018, we called it a venomous, lavish delight, and we firmly stand by that description. There have been too many excellent limited series in the past year—When They See Us, Good Omens, Chernobyl, just to name a few—to expect this poisonous fluffball of literary adaptation to get a nod, but just because we expect it to fall short doesn't mean we aren't equally ready to be disappointed. Olivia Cooke's purring glee as Miss Becky Sharp, Johnny Flynn's achingly earnest passion as Dobbin, Michael Palin's acidity as Thackeray's carnival barker, all of it tied together in a prickly, un-self-serious bow by showrunner Gwyneth Hughes—it all makes for a bonbon of a series, and one we hope continues to find an audience even in the likely absence of an Emmys nomination boost. — Alexis Gunderson (Photo Courtesy of Amazon Prime)
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The county has a Mediterranean climate of mountainous terrain with frequent rainfall, cool summers and mild winters. It is a purely mountainous area, with the greatest extension at an altitude of 1000 meters, and offers crystal clear waters and large forests. The clean armosphere, the healthy, dry, climate, the forests of planes, firs and chestnuts make Karpenisi the ideal destination for winter and summer holidays.
The central square of Karpenisi is paved with marble in harmonious colours with semicircular patterns that form the letters and the names of the old settlements of the area. Here also is the statue of Markos Botcharis. The Greek food, the local wine, and the traditional music, are what make Karpenisi a pleasant destination for everyone.
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Is Virgils Aenied an anti-war poem?
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Is Virgil's Aeneid an Anti-War Poem?
Virgil opens the Aeneid' with the words ARMA virumque cano ( I sing of arms and of men). The central role that war plays in this Roman epic is made apparent from the very first word of the Aeneid' by the emphatic placing of the word arma at the very beginning of the poem. A fair chunk of Virgil's Aeneid' is set on the battle field but its violent and gory descriptions of death and its frequent battles alone cannot make this poem an anti-war poem. Virgil does not merely use the notion of war to further his plot but deals with many types and aspects of war throughout the entirety of his book; mythological wars; recent wars; their effects; their causes; and often one is able to find Virgil's own opinion on such a matter, subtly incorporated into the thick of things. What messages does Virgil try to convey to his readers, in what ways does he do this and can we argue that the Aeneid' is an anti-war poem rather than an epic that simply narrates particularly tragic wars?
The first war in which Virgil goes into detail is the Trojan War which he dedicates an entire book to. Aeneas recounts the fall of Troy whilst in the company of Dido in book two of the Aeneid' and explains how the Greeks managed to sack Troy and how Aeneas and his men managed to escape to safety. Aeneas describes many horrific deaths in this flashback such as that of Priam's son, Polites in which we hear that "he finally appeared before his parents' eyes and fell before their faces and poured out his life with much of his blood" . As opposed to condemning war, this brutal account is more likely to have been described in such a manner as to flaunt Virgil's literary ability and smooth use of language. Aeneas' account is for descriptive and informative purposes. Book two is essential in linking the foundation of Rome back to Troy and is also able to link Rome to what much of the Ancient World believed was the greatest war of all time. Virgil's handling of the Trojan War does create sympathy for his protagonist but is not intended to criticise the act of war in general.
The two opposing attitudes to war in the Aeneid' are personified in the characters of Aeneas and Turnus. Aeneas symbolises the traditional Roman ideal of virtue and piety which Augustus was trying to reinforce when the Aeneid' was being written. By endowing Aeneas with all of the recognised Roman qualities, a Roman audience would have identified Aeneas as a man of wholesome character to be admired. In book eleven, Virgil stresses the protagonist's views on unnecessary violence when Latin envoys are sent to Aeneas to beg for a truce so they may collect their dead to which Aeneas replies "I would wish for those that were killed to have left this battle alive and I would wish not to have come here, if the fates had not given me this place and this home. Nor do I wage war with this race. It was the King who abandoned our friendship and trusted more in the weapons of Turnus" . Here we can see clearly that Aeneas was reluctantly forced into this war, not necessarily by the Latins but rather by the fates. It is possible that Virgil wished to communicate his own opinions on war to his audience in a subtle and stylistic manner by using Aeneas as his mouthpiece. Aeneas is the hero who we have all grown to love by this point in the epic and so expressing ideas via him would be the best approach as they will be more easily accepted when suggested by a well liked character. This technique could also allow Virgil to convey his personal thoughts in such a way that it would still be in keeping with the rest of the story. Virgil further suggests that an intense desire for combat is unhealthy and not particularly admirable by portraying Turnus, the enemy, as the embodiment of such a characteristic. After being manipulated by Allecto, Virgil states that the "love of the sword raged within him and the wicked madness of war" and describes the peace between Aeneas and Latinus as having been polluted (polluta pace) after Allecto's interference. Turnus indeed cannot be entirely blamed for rousing this unnecessary war as Juno's intervention is the key in this sudden turnaround. Nevertheless, this does not affect the overall message: war should be avoided if possible. The audience is provided with a clear right and wrong with the right being the reluctance for battle which Aeneas displays and the wrong being the thirst for blood which Turnus displays.
During Virgil's lifetime there was a long-lasting period of various conflicts and political volatility culminating in Augustus' victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium. The motto of the new government under Augustus was The Empire is peace' and after these ongoing struggles, the proclamation of world peace (pax Augusta) would have appealed to Virgil and the rest of Rome. Virgil was a client of Augustus and wrote the Aeneid' in praise of his patron and so one can only expect the writer to have been influenced by the values and morals of the person he is paying tribute to. Mackail neatly states that the epic needed to "exalt the new regime, and give shape and colour to its ideals of peace and justice, development and reconstruction, ordered liberty, beneficent rule;" . One of the ways in which Virgil does this is by providing us with various links between Augustus and Aeneas. For example in book one of the Aeneid', Jupiter foretells of the day when "the Gates of War, with their tight fastenings, will be closed with unholy Furor sitting behind them" . This would immediately suggest to a Roman audience the opening and closing of the gates of the temple of Janus which marked the beginning and end of a war; a practice reintroduced by Augustus . This Augustan reference comes at the end of a passage prophesising Rome's future starting with Aeneas' war against the Latins and leading up to this reference and so it is implied that Augustus is merely continuing what our protagonist first embarked upon centuries earlier. When reading this epic, we hope that Aeneas eventually finds peace in Latium and his war-related sufferings come to an end. Therefore to a Roman reader this comparison may have encouraged them to express this same desire for harmony in their own world. Augustus wanted Romans to believe that he symbolised peace and a better way of life and so by including a reference to ultimate peace among many prophecies that had already come to pass, Virgil makes Augustus' goal seem all the more possible.
A clearer example of Virgil's use of myth to influence Roman readers' views on situations relevant to their time, is the use of "the second half of the Aeneid' as a pre-enactment of the Social War" in Italy. The Social War would still have remained fresh in many Romans' minds and so even without any outside influence, many would have probably already been hoping for peace and calm. The echo of the Social War in the battles at Latium would have only refreshed many readers' already existent desire for a life without conflict. Aeneas is eventually successful in ending his war and bringing about a temporary peace. In book six, he is shown the spirits of future Roman greats among whom he sees "Caesar and all of the (other) descendants of Iulus" and this link connecting Augustus to Aeneas by blood would have given Augustus a great deal of credibility among Romans. The relation and parallels drawn between the men serve to hint that the two are both capable of similar accomplishments and thus Augustus has the ability as a leader to recreate the same peace which Virgil's audience knows Aeneas will finally bring about.
I have shown how Virgil's poem clearly encourages one to seek peace but it does not ignore the fact that often war is necessary before this can be achieved. In book eleven (line 110 ff.) Aeneas sees the battles at Latium as unnecessary and suggests that they could have been avoided. On the other hand, we hear at the beginning of the poem that Aeneas "also suffered many hardships until he could found his city" . The verb conderet is in the subjunctive mood which represents "ideas, possibilities or necessities" . Virgil suggests that these wars could not be avoided and therefore we cannot hope to live without wars but only hope to minimise their abundance. This is further supported by Virgil's numerous references to fate's role in the conflict dominating the last six books of the Aeneid'. Take for example Jupiter's conversation with Venus in book one where Jupiter assures Venus that "the fates of your Trojans remains unchanged..Aeneas will wage a great war" . Fate, both to a modern and Roman reader, is generally accepted as a power that can dictate the future and cannot be affected by mortals and so Virgil acknowledges that ultimate peace cannot be acquired unless destiny permits it.
Although most of Virgil focuses on the benefits of peace as opposed to condemning war, he does describe some of the destructive effects of warfare. The epic poem expresses particular concern with the deterioration of conventional Roman morals. Book eight tells the story of Saturn's rule of Latium during a time "which they called the Golden Age under this King and he ruled his people in gentle peace" but goes on to criticise a later age which "resulted in the madness of war and a love of having possessions" . Virgil clearly stresses the direct correlation between war and barbaric demoralisation. This notion was all too familiar to the Romans as after the second Punic War, Rome displayed a deterioration in its values and was "never wholly repaired of her older and nobler traditions, of simplicity, patriotism, a high standard of honour, all that was meant by Roman virtue" . Many Romans were already extremely concerned with the luxurious habits that some of their natives were adopting and so the reference to the degeneration of Latium's morals in the Aeneid' is one of the detrimental effects of war that many Roman readers would have experienced or witnessed first hand.
One of the most memorable epic passages in ancient literature is Virgil's Homeric-influenced description of Aeneas' shield. The shield symbolises Rome's achievements and history with a depiction of war filling the centre of this magnificent piece of armour. "In the middle there was the bronze fleet at the Battle of Actium to look at" . Rome's army was responsible for the formation of her vast empire. Without its power and victories in battle she would never have gained her supremacy. As well as praising Augustus' accomplishments by placing the Battle of Actium scene in the centre of the shield, Virgil also recognised the benefits that war could bring. Although he seems to seek peace for the future, he does not tend to criticise past Roman wars but often portrays them as a stepping stone in the search of future peace. As well as this, Virgil never suggests that if one's city entered into battle, one should abandon their loyalty to their native land and ignore their duty in war. In book six, Virgil describes the ghosts of those who died in battle as "distinguished men who were set apart (from others) in war" . However Virgil's Underworld scene is based around Homer's in book eleven of the Odyssey' and so one can argue that the heroic image that these warriors seem to have acquired upon entering the Underworld can be attributed to Homeric influence and Virgil was not making a purposeful statement about the benefits of dying in combat. Many of the war-related deaths in Virgil's Aeneid' do however force us to consider the personal losses that are suffered from battle. After Pallas' slaughter at the hands of Turnus, we hear a moving passage in which Aeneas is reminded of "Everything; Pallas, Evander were before his very eyes; the tables which the stranger then approached for the first time and the pledges of friendship given" . This is especially touching for the reader as we are able to reminisce with Aeneas because we were there in book eight (line 121ff.) where this first encounter was described and so we as the audience have been present from the beginning of this friendship. This makes Aeneas' reaction all the more understandable to the reader and we share some of Aeneas' emotion and the poem creates a resentment of war within the reader.
Overall I feel that the Aeneid' looks towards and encourages a future of peace without trying to denounce the wars of the past. Virgil glorifies both mythological and historical battles and justifies them with the idea that these were sacrifices made for an ultimate goal. By looking at the bigger picture', Virgil is able to link earlier conflict to later peace but leaves Romans with the message to know when enough is enough regarding war and their empire. Most of the anti-war propaganda in the Aeneid' is aimed directly at the Roman public and so to its contemporary audience, this epic would have seemed far more critical of war than it might to a foreign audience. The frequent losses of life and bloody descriptions in the poem carry strong connotations of death and disaster throughout most of the story. However such a topic and style of narration was borrowed from Homer and not used solely to deter people from war. But the two words that frame the poem, arma and umbras, adequately outline Virgil's main point: any story that begins with arma will end in the umbras (the shades).
Virgil, Aeneid', trans. with intro. D. West (Penguin Classics: London 2003)
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Hardie, P. , Greece and Rome – New Surveys in the Classics No.28 : Virgil' (Oxford University Press: Oxford 1998)
Mackail, J. W. , Virgil and his Meaning to the World of Today' (The Plimpton Press: Massachusetts 1922)
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4Kids Entertainment Home Video To Release New Volumes Of Collector's Editions Of YU-GI-OH! And SHAMAN KING On February 22, 2005
4Kids Entertainment Home Video, Inc., the home video unit of 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: KDE), in association with FUNimation, will release the third volume of the special DVD collector's editions of YU-GI-OH! and SHAMAN KING on February 22, 2005. Never before available in the U.S. and Canada, the discs will contain the original, unedited Japanese animation and Japanese dialogue with English subtitles, as well as optional English language tracks.
"Our uncut versions have demonstrated a strong appeal with the loyal anime enthusiasts and have been proven sellers at specialty retailers around the country," said Joe Lyons, Director of Home Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment.
The collector's uncut editions restore many features of the original Japanese versions, changed due to the necessities of American broadcast standards. Also restored is footage cut in order to meet on-air time requirements for commercials. The releases will also feature newly recorded English language tracks with the entire original cast, as well as the original Japanese tracks and English subtitles.
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Carl Hartvig Ryder war der älteste Sohn des Kolonialwarenhändlers (oder Bäckermeisters) Frederik Valentin Ryder (1821–1909) und dessen Frau Henriette Sophie Cathrine Husmann (1836–1896). Sowohl väterlicherseits als auch mütterlicherseits war er ein Cousin des Handelschefs Carl Siegfred Ryder (1859–1921). Er schlug eine militärische Laufbahn in der Königlichen Dänischen Marine ein, die ihn bis 1897 zum Kaptajn aufsteigen ließ. Als Leutnant nahm er an der dänischen Arktisexpedition im Rahmen des Ersten Internationalen Polarjahrs 1882/83 teil, die unter der Leitung des Physikers Adam Paulsen stand. In der Station im grönländischen Godthåb (heute Nuuk) wurden meteorologische und erdmagnetische Beobachtungen vorgenommen. Im Mittelpunkt stand aber die Polarlichtforschung. Ryder nutzte zudem die Gelegenheit, die Ruinen der Westsiedlung der Grænlendingar zu untersuchen. Bereits 1884 war er mit der naturwissenschaftlichen Expedition des Botanikers Eugenius Warming an Bord des Schoners Fylla wieder in Westgrönland. Ein Jahr später nahm er an der Vermessung der westgrönländischen Küste zwischen Nuuk und Maniitsoq durch J. A. D. Jensen teil. 1886/87 leitete Ryder selbst eine Expedition, deren Ziel die Vermessung und Kartierung der Gegend um Upernavik war. Gemeinsam mit Christian Bloch (1559–1944) erforschte er die grönländische Westküste bis 74° 25′ Nord, wobei er im Februar und März 1887 Hundeschlitten und von Juni bis August Boote benutzte.

Expedition nach Ostgrönland 1891/92

Die dänische Marine betraute Ryder 1891 mit der schwierigen Aufgabe, einen weitgehend unbekannten Teil der Ostküste Grönlands zu kartieren. Der Süden der grönländischen Ostküste bis etwa 66° Nord war in den Jahren 1883 bis 1885 von Gustav Frederik Holm vermessen worden. Von hier bis zum Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord auf etwa 73° Nord, der 1870 von der Zweiten Deutschen Nordpolar-Expedition unter Carl Koldewey entdeckt und erforscht worden war, gab es keine detaillierte Kenntnis über den Küstenverlauf. Ryder wurde begleitet von Leutnant Helge Vedel (1863–1931), vom Zoologen und Geologen Edvard Bay, vom Botaniker Nikolaj Hartz, vom Schiffsarzt Henrik Deichmann (1871–1939) und vom westgrönländischen Dolmetscher Johan Petersen, der schon zu Holms Expeditionsmannschaft gehört hatte. Ryder hatte das Robbenfangschiff Hekla und ein kleines Dampfboot zu seiner Verfügung.

Die Hekla stieß am 20. Juni 1891 bereits 350 km vor der grönländischen Küste auf einen zunächst undurchdringbaren Eisgürtel. Das Schiff musste nach Norden bis zur Insel Shannon ausweichen und erreichte schließlich Kap Broer Ruys bei 73° 32′ Nord. Weil schweres Packeis die Einfahrt in den Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord verhinderte, fuhr die Hekla in dichtem Nebel langsam nach Süden, wobei Temperaturmessungen, Tiefenlotungen und sogar Schleppnetzzüge zur Erforschung der am Meeresboden lebenden Tiere vorgenommen wurden. Manchmal kam das Schiff tagelang nicht voran. Am 2. August lief die Hekla in den Scoresbysund ein, wo die Expeditionsteilnehmer am Kap Stewart an Land gingen. Die Vegetation war hier erstaunlich reich – Hartz fand 150 Arten von Blütenpflanzen. Ryder entschloss sich, im Scoresbysund zu überwintern und fand einen geeigneten Naturhafen im Süden der Insel Danmark Ø, den er Hekla Havn nannte. Im Herbst 1891 und Frühjahr 1892 erforschte die Expedition das ausgedehnte Fjordsystem mit dem Dampfboot. Auf Danmark Ø und an weiteren Orten wurden die Reste von 50 verlassenen Winterhäusern sowie Gräber und zahlreiche Artefakte gefunden, die zeigten, dass die Region bis vor relativ kurzer Zeit besiedelt war. Die Wissenschaftler entdeckten auch zahlreiche pflanzliche und tierische Fossilien. Als Ergebnis der Arbeiten entstanden detaillierte topographische und geologische Karten des Scoresbysunds.

Erst am 8. August 1892 konnte die Hekla ihr Winterquartier verlassen und sich einen Weg zum Ausgang des Scoresbysunds bahnen. Sie fuhr zunächst südwestlich an der Küste entlang, konnte aber in Eis und Nebel keine Vermessungsarbeiten ausführen. Am 19. August brach Ryder den Versuch ab und steuerte die Hekla nach Island, um die Kohlevorräte zu ergänzen. Anschließend fuhr er nach Ammassalik (heute Tasiilaq), in der Hoffnung, mit dem Dampfboot an der Küste nach Norden fahren zu können, was die Wetterbedingungen aber nicht gestatteten. Die Expedition blieb zwei Wochen in Ammassalik und legte eine große ethnologische Sammlung an. Am 24. September verließ sie Grönland und erreichte Kopenhagen am 12. Oktober 1892.

Weiterer Lebensweg
1893 unternahm Ryder mit dem Schoner Diana eine Expedition nach Island und den Färöern. In den darauf folgenden Jahren hatte er das Kommando über verschiedene Schiffe. 1895 war er Kapitän des Kanonenboots Lille Bælt. 1897 bis 1899 fuhr er den Postdampfer nach Island, und 1901 befehligte er das Kanonenboot Falster. 1901/1902 auf dem Geschützten Kreuzer Valkyrien nach Dänisch-Westindien. Von 1902 bis 1907 war Ryder Stabschef im Marineministerium und danach bis zu seinem Tod im Jahre 1923 in Nachfolge von Adam Paulsen Direktor des Dänischen Meteorologischen Instituts. Er modernisierte diese Institution und beteiligte sich aktiv an der internationalen Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Meteorologie.

Familiäres
Carl Ryder war ab dem 15. Oktober 1888 mit Ida Caroline Helene Clara Wolff (1864–1933) verheiratet. Seine Tochter Ulla Ingrid wurde 1896 geboren.

Ehrungen
Carl Ryder erhielt die folgenden Medaillen und Orden:
 Ritter (1901) und Kommandeur zweiter Klasse (1913) des Dannebrogordens,
 Dannebrogsmänner-Ehrenzeichen (1907).

Die folgenden geographischen Objekte sind nach ihm benannt:
 Kap Ryder () an der Blosseville-Küste in Ostgrönland,
 der Fluss Ryder Elv () im Klitdal zwischen Jameson Land und Liverpool Land in Ostgrönland,
 der Ryder Gletsjer () in Nordgrönland,
 die Inselgruppe Ryder Øer () im äußersten Süden der Melville-Bucht in Westgrönland und
 der Ryder Isfjord (Nuussuup Kangia) () in der Avannaata Kommunia in Westgrönland.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Om premierlieutenant C. Ryders iagttagelser over nordlyset i Upernivik, vinteren 1886–1887 (= Meddelelser om Grønland, Band 8, 1888, dänisch)
 Fra Krydseren "Fylla"s Togt til Island 1888. In: Geografisk Tidsskrift. Band 10, 1889–1890, S. 95–102 (dänisch)
 Grønlænderen Hans Hendrik. In: Geografisk Tidsskrift. Band 10, 1889–1890, S. 140–143 (dänisch)
 Den Østgrønlandske Expedition udført i Aarene 1891–92 under Ledelse af C. Ryder, Første del (= Meddelelser om Grønland, Band 17, 1895, dänisch)
 Den Østgrønlandske Expedition udført i Aarene 1891–92 under Ledelse af C. Ryder, Anden del (= Meddelelser om Grønland, Band 18, 1896, dänisch)
 Den Østgrønlandske Expedition udført i Aarene 1891–92 under Ledelse af C. Ryder, Tredie del (= Meddelelser om Grønland, Band 19, 1896, dänisch)

Literatur

Weblinks
 Ryder, Carl Hartvig, Eintrag im Nordisk familjebok

Einzelnachweise

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