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The Milch Studies - NYPD Blue Season Five, The Cast & Guest Stars
There's no getting around it, Season Five of NYPD Blue is the weakest season so far. The series, which began as a character drama with some procedural elements, is now firmly a procedural, hitting virtually the same beats at the same time each episode. It's a show about cops chasing crooks, and for maybe two minutes an episode we're granted a brief look into their personal lives. Were it not for the utilitarian look of the show, and the unique rhythm of David Milch's scripts, it'd be hard to distinguish this season from the 1,000 other crime procedurals currently airing on CBS. Okay, maybe that is a little harsh...
The show didn't receive a lot of press during this year (I remember a tepid review in Entertainment Weekly and little else), until Jimmy Smits announced in April 1998 that he was leaving the series. Smits' departure brought to an end a pretty long run of a solid, consistent cast from episode to episode.
The cast this year…
Jimmy Smits as Det. Bobby Simone
This is the year Bobby marries his longtime girlfriend (in TV terms) Diane Russell, even though we have to wait until the final moments of the season finale. Until then, he deals with Diane's pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage, acts as a sounding board for a few characters, and just keeps on working cases until his contract runs out.
We do learn some information about his past this year; in fact, the episode "Prostrate before the Law" almost tells us more about his backstory than we've learned in the past four years combined. Bobby is the son of a French father and Portuguese mother, he served in the Army Reserve (or at least that's what he tells a suspect), and he lived in Belize until he was three years old. It's amusing that the character's been on the show for so many years, and is about to exit the series, and we still know so little about his past.
Dennis Franz as Det. Andy Sipowicz
Milch has already established his interest in working out Biblical themes through the show, and it's clear that Dennis Franz can handle heavy drama, which leads to one of the standard beats of the series -- Sipowicz as Job. This year his big drama is his doctor's discovery of prostate cancer, which gives us the series' second "Sipowicz vs. His Prostate" storyline, and more excuses for Dennis Franz to say "prostrate" instead of "prostate." That one annoyed me, since Upstairs John had already corrected his use of the word, even pulling out the dictionary to make his point, in a previous episode.
James McDaniel as Lt. Arthur Fancy
When doing early press for this season, Milch revealed that Lt. Fancy would be undergoing a midlife crisis this year and likely having an affair. Never happened. Instead, James McDaniel continues to play utility, with only a brief conversation with an old friend that hints that maybe Fancy's reevaluating some things in his life. The only real attempt at a Fancy-specific episode this year is "Weaver of Hate," which portrays Fancy as shockingly out of character. In this episode, Fancy becomes enraged after he overhears a grieving father use racial slurs in the coffee room, leading to a series of irrational decisions that hinder Simone and Sipowicz's ability to work the case. It's one of the worst examples of the writers just grasping for something to do with an underused character.
Nicholas Turturro as Det. James Martinez
Nicholas Turturro disappears for around a third of the season this year, taking a leave to star as Sammy "the Bull" Gravano in a TV miniseries. His character does have a few significant moments this season -- he marries Gina the PAA and they have a kid together. How was Martinez written out for a few episodes? He throws out his back during a "domestic situation" with his pregnant wife.
Gordon Clapp as Det. Greg Medavoy
Medavoy also becomes a father this season, even though 1) the event occurs off-screen and 2) I don't think the kid is ever referenced again. The producers put one last try early this year into selling that "Medavoy fathers a lesbian couple's child" story, but it's essentially dropped after the first few episodes. Medavoy has a few phone conversations with Abby (who totally disappears from the show), then informs us that the baby's been born in-between episodes, and that's it.
One important Medavoy story we should've seen this year is his reaction to killing someone for the first time. It's not a controversial shooting, and the character doesn't have any real options in the situation, but it's shocking that this moment wasn't played for some drama. All we get out of it is Diane leaving Greg a message on the phone, offering her support, and that's all. Medavoy's back to his normal irritating behavior next episode, with no angst or self-reflection whatsoever.
Kim Delaney as Det. Diane Russell
Diane's storylines are intertwined with Bobby's, which isn't surprising since they're one of the two main romantic couples of the series. (And with Sharon Lawrence only appearing as an occasional guest star, that leaves Bobby/Diane as the only real couple we see on a regular basis.) We also see Diane Russell and Jill Kirkendall grow closer during the year, which is a nice use of both characters. There's no drama there; they're just friends who support each other and share small insights into their personal lives.
Andrea Thompson as Det. Jill Kirkendall
Now officially a series regular, Det. Jill Kirkendall rarely makes a major contribution to the "A" storylines, but she's always around to play utility and work the B-plots and C-plots. Andrea Thompson, I have to say, is very believable as a cop. She's much less glamorous than many of the female detectives that are introduced later on, and she has that deep smoker's voice that just sounds the way I'd expect a cop to sound.
And the guest stars…
Sharon Lawrence as Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas
Sharon Lawrence was starring on an NBC sitcom during this year, but she agreed to make a few Special Guest Star appearances. The show without her just doesn't feel right; not only because she's been around since the pilot, but also because so much of Dennis Franz's character work came from his scenes with Sharon Lawrence. There's real chemistry there, and without Sylvia in each episode, most of the season we only see Sipowicz in the context of work. Sylvia does announce towards the end of the year that she's returning to her job as an ADA, however, which I'm sure had nothing at all to do with Sharon Lawrence's sitcom getting cancelled…
Michael Buchman Silver as Assistant District Attorney Leo Cohen
Leo Cohen remains the ADA viewers see on a regular basis on the show. This is the year Cohen is portrayed less as a jerk, and more of a guy just doing his job that Sipowicz simply views as a jerk. He's also given a romantic subplot with Det. Jill Kirkendall in the early episodes that's casually dismissed by the end of the year (but it does return later).
Lourdes Benedicto as PAA Gina Colon
I have no idea what happened here. When the season opens, Gina is clearly pregnant, but still trying to hide the bump and rebuffing Martinez's marriage proposals. A few episodes in, she relents, they elope, and then…Gina's gone. Never appears again (well, looking online, it seems maybe she reappeared during Martinez's final season. Maybe.) Doesn't give birth onscreen. Doesn't come by the squad room with the baby. She's just referred to as Martinez's wife on a few occasions and that's all. I have no clue what happened, but giving Martinez a wife that we never see harms his character the same way Sylvia disappearing hampered Sipowicz's role.
Gabrielle Fitzpatrick as PAA Naomi Reynolds
Another odd one. Naomi is Gina's replacement as the squad's civilian aide (PAA). She has a thick Southern accent that Bobby discovers is actually a cover for her natural Australian drawl. Naomi's illegally in the US, but dreams of becoming a New York police officer. She disappears for several episodes, after establishing a connection with Bobby, then returns in uniform to announce to the new PAA that everything's worked out okay and to please say hello to Bobby. And…that's it for Naomi.
Lola Glaudini as PAA Dolores Mayo
Another egregious example of the producers recasting actors occurs this year when actress Lola Glaudini plays Patty Bell, a bit character involved in an investigation in "Dead Man Talking,"
then six episodes later is back as the new PAA Dolores Mayo. Dolores is another example of the producers using the PAA role as a source of easy jokes; Dolores is initially a bit of a ditz, far more interested in her smoke breaks than in doing work. A few episodes in, she's not as lazy, but still a bit quirky. Jill learns that Dolores is a ballet dancer who's insecure in her abilities, a character trait that goes nowhere. I barely remembered this character until I recently rewatched the series, but one thing does stand out -- Lola Glaudini has the kind of face you'd expect to see on a 1920s silent film star. I don't necessarily find her as beautiful as the characters seem to (most likely due to the way she's styled on the show; she looks quite different if you Google her red carpet photos), but you can't deny the woman has a unique face.
Conor O'Farrell as Det. Stuart Morrissey
Det. Morrissey is a minor character who occasionally pops up; I think every time he appears in a story, he's stymied on a case and has to ask Simone and Sipowicz to help him out. I mention Det. Morrissey because he also has a cameo appearance on Brooklyn South, which establishes the two shows as co-existing in the same world. (How that could be when established Blue actors like Michael DeLuise and Titus Welliver play totally different characters on South is a question that's never addressed.) FBI Agent Kriegel, played by Scott Jaeck, is another character from Blue who hopped over to Brooklyn South.
Charlotte Ross as Laurie Richardson
Perhaps the most famous example of the show recycling an actor. Charlotte Ross appears in two episodes this year as Laurie Richardson, the abused wife of a uniform cop suspected in a murder. The actress then joins the cast three years later as Detective Connie McDowell. Initially, Ross was there to play the role of secondary female detective on the show, but she made such an impression her role was elevated to that of…well, she became quite an important character. I'll say that much. And, under mysterious circumstances that had more than a hint of "Caruso" to them, she abruptly disappeared from the series.
Next time: A ridiculously long list of things that just don't add up…(Also, I should mention that it looks as if the show is disappearing from Amazon Prime in a few days, in case anyone has been watching it from there.)
Posted by G. Kendall at 5:30 PM
Labels: NYPD Blue, The Milch Studies, TV
wwk5d June 8, 2016 at 6:44 AM
"Smits' departure brought to an end a pretty long run of a solid, consistent cast from episode to episode."
Does this mean characters start going through revolving door starting next season Looking at the wiki cast chart, it seems like almost every season had someone leaving or joining the show. Seasons 4 and 5 seem the most stable, in that one person becomes recurring (Sylvia) while one other goes from recurring to regular (Jill). I guess seasons 6 through 8 have the biggest revolving door...
Also, as per her wiki page, this is Lola Glaudini's third role on the show.
G. Kendall June 8, 2016 at 8:42 PM
The cast is never as stable as it was during Seasons 2-4, expect for maybe the final two seasons. Season Six sees one character go from regular to recurring, while another goes from recurring to regular...plus, Smits is replaced, of course. After the fairly brief Rick Schroeder era, Mark-Paul Gosselaar manages to stick around for four years.
Lola Glaudini has shown up fairly often over the years, but I think I missed her on Agents of SHIELD. According to Wiki, she also attended Chris Claremont's Alma mater, Bard College.
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Nel corso della sua giovane carriera si è aggiudicata un titolo WTA a fronte di quattro finali disputate. Vanta nel suo palmarès una finale Slam all'Open di Francia 2019, prima teenager a riuscirci dopo dieci anni da Caroline Wozniacki allo US Open 2009, e la medaglia d'argento ai Giochi olimpici di Tokyo 2020; in seguito all'impresa parigina, ha raggiunto il suo best ranking alla 14ª posizione il 1º luglio dello stesso anno. Per quanto riguarda il doppio, invece, si è spinta fino alla semifinale all'Australian Open 2019 e alla posizione numero 54 del ranking nel mese di marzo del 2022.

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Raggiunge buoni risultati a livello giovanile, in singolare nel 2014 raggiunge le semifinali degli slam di Parigi e Londra. Nel doppio ragazze conquista due Slam consecutivi insieme alla connazionale Miriam Kolodziejová, vincono infatti all'Australian Open 2015 battendo Katharina Hobgarski e Greet Minnen in finale e al Roland Garros dove hanno la meglio sulla coppia formata da Caroline Dolehide e Katerina Stewart.

2015-2016: inizi
Nel circuito ITF vince 8 titoli in singolare e 6 titoli in doppio.

Nel mese di aprile 2015 ottiene una wild-card per le qualificazioni del J&T Banka Prague Open dove riesce a superare i primi due turni per poi arrendersi a Danka Kovinić nel turno decisivo. Riceve una wild-card anche per il torneo di doppio in coppia con Kateřina Vaňková perdendo al primo turno contro Kateryna Bondarenko e Eva Hrdinová in due set. L'anno seguente sempre a Praga riceve una wild-card direttamente per il tabellone principale e batte Océane Dodin prima di arrendersi alla testa di serie numero quattro Samantha Stosur. Dopo aver giocato il torneo giovanile al Roland Garros 2016 a causa di un infortunio salta la restante parte di stagione.

2017: primo titolo WTA e Top 100
Nel 2017 al suo ritorno, Vondroušova inanella una serie di venti vittorie consecutive vincendo un titolo ITF da $15,000, uno da $25,000 e raggiungendo un'altra finale ITF da $25,000. Ad aprile raggiunge la sua prima finale WTA a Bienne, dopo aver superato le qualificazioni, batte in sequenza Lina Ǵorčeska, Annika Beck, Kristýna Plíšková e in semifinale Barbora Strýcová. In finale affronta Anett Kontaveit battendola col punteggio di 6-4, 7-66, vince così il suo primo titolo nel circuito maggiore, senza perdere nemmeno un set durante tutto il torneo. Grazie a questo risultato la settimana successiva viene convocata per la partita di semifinale di Fed Cup contro gli Stati Uniti. Nel primo incontro in singolare viene sconfitta in due set da Coco Vandeweghe, batte poi Shelby Rogers riportando il punteggio sul 2-2. A maggio riceve una wild-card per il torneo di Praga dove batte al primo turno Carina Witthöft in tre set prima di arrendersi ad Ana Konjuh.

Prende poi parte al Roland Garros dove vince tutti e tre i match di qualificazione senza perdere un set. Accede così al main draw di uno slam per la prima volta, ed è l'unica minorenne in gara. Al primo turno dello slam batte la francese Hesse con il punteggio netto di 6-1 6-0 e si qualifica così per il secondo turno dello slam dove viene sconfitta da Dar'ja Kasatkina, testa di serie nº 26, per 6-7 4-6. Prende parte all'AEGON Championships supera i turni di qualificazione, per poi venire estromessa al primo turno per 5-7 6-7 da Ashleigh Barty. All'Eastbourne International viene elimata al primo turno di qualificazioni da Cvetana Pironkova con un doppio 2-6.

Prende parte a Wimbledon dove viene rimontata da Peng Shuai (7-6 0-6 4-6). In doppio, in coppia con Catherine Bellis, si spinge fino ai quarti di finale, sconfiggendo: Moore/Ōmae per 6-2 6-0, Krunić/Bondarenko per 6-2 6-4, Curenko/Kičenok per 6-4 6-2; per poi venire sconfitta dalle teste di serie nº 9, Niculescu/Hao-ching per 3-6 4-6.

Il 30 luglio vince il suo settimo torneo ITF in patria.

Prende parte all'US Open dove viene eliminata in rimonta dall'8º testa di serie, Svetlana Kuznecova, per 6-4 4-6 6-7. In doppio, sempre in coppia con Catherine Bellis, viene eliminata al primo turno per 3-6 4-6 da Kičenok/Rodionova.

È 5º testa di serie al Tashkent Open; dopo aver sconfitto con un doppio 6-1 Misa Eguchi, viene sconfitta da Stefanie Vögele per 6-7 6-4 5-7.

2018: ottavi di finale agli US Open e Top 50
Inizia l'anno malamente perdendo al primo turno ad Auckland per mano di Petra Martić con il risultato di 62-7 3-6. A Hobart, dopo aver sconfitto Natal'ja Vichljanceva per 6-4 6-3, perde con un doppio 4-6 contro Donna Vekić. Prende parte al primo Slam della stagione, l'Australian Open. Qui, dopo aver sconfitto Kurumi Nara per 7-5 6-4, viene eliminata dall'ottava testa di serie, Caroline Garcia, in un match particolarmente combattuto conclusosi per 7-63 2-6 6-8. In doppio, in coppia con Catherine Bellis, viene sconfitta da Anastasija Sevastova e Ekaterina Aleksandrova per 3-6 2-6. Prende parte al torneo di Doha dove, dopo aver superato le qualificazioni, sconfigge senza problemi Julija Putinceva (6-3 6-1), per poi perdere contro la 3ª testa di serie, Elina Svitolina, per 2-6 4-6. A Dubai viene sconfitta in rimonta da Bernarda Pera per 6-0 3-6 0-6.

Fa un'ottima figura a Indian Wells, torneo nel quale supera Madison Brengle con un doppio 6-2, Johanna Konta, 11ª testa di serie, per 7-65 6-4 e Aryna Sabalenka con un doppio 6-2, per poi perdere nuovamente contro Petra Martić per 3-6 64-7. Il 19 marzo migliora ulteriormente il suo best ranking diventando la 50ª tennista mondiale. A Miami viene fermata al primo turno da Wang Yafan con il risultato di 2-6 6-4 60-7. A Lugano viene sconfitta al secondo turno dalla futura vincitrice del torneo, Elise Mertens, per 2-6 7-5 5-7. Questo risultato la fa scivolare alla 73ª posizione del ranking. In doppio, in coppia con la connazionale Renata Voráčová, viene eliminata al primo turno dalla coppia formata da Nicola Geuer e Eva Wacanno per 5-7 4-6. A Stoccarda, dopo aver superato le qualificazioni tutte al terzo set, sconfigge al primo turno Julia Görges con un doppio 6-2; nel turno successivo si ritira contro Elina Svitolina, su un risultato di 6-2 1-6 2-3 in favore dell'ucraina. Nello Slam parigino viene sconfitta in tre set da Ana Bogdan (3-6 6-1 4-6). Nei tornei di 's-Hertogenbosch, Maiorca e Wimbledon non va oltre il primo turno venendo sconfitta rispettivamente da Aryna Sabalenka, Samantha Stosur e Sachia Vickery. Sulla terra di Gstaad raggiunge la semifinale superando Lara Arruabarrena Vecino con un doppio 6-3, Elica Kostova con un doppio 6-4 ed Evgenija Rodina per 6-2 6-3; viene poi rimontata da Mandy Minella per 6-4 2-6 2-6. Nel torneo di Cincinnati viene estromessa per 3-6 5-7 da Ashleigh Barty, testa di serie numero sedici. A New Haven non va oltre il primo turno di qualificazioni. Allo US Open raggiunge per la prima volta in carriera un ottavo di finale Slam. Estromette nell'ordine: Mona Barthel per 6-1 6-4; Eugenie Bouchard per 6-4 6-3 e Kiki Bertens, tredicesima testa di serie, per 7-64 2-6 7-61. Gli ottavi di finale la vedono opposta a Lesja Curenko, contro la quale perde con il punteggio di 7-63 5-7 2-6. A Wuhan, ultimo torneo della stagione disputato, viene ripescata nel tabellone principale come lucky loser ed estromessa all'esordio da Julia Görges per 3-6 6-3 64-7.

2019: finale al Roland Garros, Top 20 in singolare e infortunio; semifinale all'Australian Open in doppio
Inizia la stagione presentandosi all'Australian Open dove, dopo aver estromesso senza grossi problemi Evgenija Rodina, cede a Petra Martić per 4-6 5-7. In doppio, in coppia con la connazionale Barbora Strýcová, invece, raggiunge la semifinale prima di cedere alle future campionesse, Zhang Shuai e Samantha Stosur, per 5-7 6-4 5-7. Ritorna a disputare una finale WTA a Budapest, nella quale viene sconfitta in rimonta da Alison Van Uytvanck (6-1 5-7 2-6). Nel corso del torneo si era imposta su: Georgina García Pérez per 6-0 7-66, Anna Blinkova per 7-66 3-6 6-3, Irina-Camelia Begu per 5-7 6-1 6-3 ed Anastasija Potapova per 6-0 6-2. A Indian Wells si spinge fino ai quarti di finale eliminando, tra le altre, anche Simona Halep, numero due del mondo, per 6-2 3-6 6-2; viene poi estromessa in rimonta da Elina Svitolina, numero sei del seeding, per 6-4 4-6 4-6. In seguito, raggiunge i quarti di finale anche a Miami prima di cedere alla connazionale numero cinque del mondo e futura finalista, Karolína Plíšková, per 3-6 4-6.

Inaugura la stagione sulla terra rossa raggiungendo un'altra finale WTA a Istanbul dove viene sconfitta in rimonta da Petra Martić, che si aggiudica il torneo per 1-6 6-4 6-1. Si presenta agli Internazionali d'Italia spingendosi fino ai quarti di finale sconfiggendo in tre set Barbora Strýcová, nuovamente Simona Halep e Dar'ja Kasatkina, ma viene fermata da Johanna Konta, futura finalista, con il punteggio di 3-6 6-3 1-6. Approda dunque a Parigi in ottimo periodo di forma seppur senza essere una testa di serie. Supera i primi quattro turni senza grosse difficoltà imponendosi nell'ordine su: Wang Yafan per 6-4 6-3; Anastasija Potapova per 6-4 6-0; Carla Suárez Navarro, testa di serie numero ventotto, per 6-4 6-4 e Anastasija Sevastova, numero dodici del seeding, per 6-2 6-0. Giunta nei quarti di finale, fatica contro Petra Martić, numero trentuno del ranking, contro cui ha la meglio per 7-61 7-5 e in semifinale contro Johanna Konta, numero ventisei della classifica, ma anche in questo caso la spunta per 7-5 7-62, vendicando in tal modo le sconfitte subite da entrambe nei tornei precedenti ed accedendo alla sua prima finale Slam in carriera. L'8 giugno 2019, sul campo dedicato a Philippe Chatrier, disputa la partita più prestigiosa della sua giovane carriera contro l'australiana Ashleigh Barty, ottava forza del ranking, che le infligge un perentorio 6-1 6-3. Tuttavia, entra per la prima volta a far parte delle prime venti tenniste del mondo a soli diciannove anni, collocandosi precisamente al sedicesimo posto.

Ritorna in campo solo sull'erba di Eastbourne dove, dopo essersi imposta su Zheng Saisai, cede alla belga Elise Mertens in tre set. Tuttavia, al termine del torneo, perfeziona il suo best ranking alla 14ª posizione. A Wimbledon viene invece sorpresa in due set da Madison Brengle nel match di esordio. A causa di un infortunio al polso subito durante una sessione di allenamento in preparazione a quella partita, Markéta è costretta a sottoporsi a un intervento chirurgico e di conseguenza a dover rinunciare a tutta la restante stagione tennistica. Ciononostante, chiude l'anno alla 26ª posizione del ranking.

2020: semifinale a Roma
Markéta inaugura la stagione 2020 con la partecipazione al nuovo torneo di Adelaide. Qui supera i primi due turni in scioltezza lasciando soltanto tre giochi a Tatjana Maria e umiliando la padrona di casa Arina Rodionova con un doppio 6-0. Nei quarti di finale affronta Ashleigh Barty, numero uno del mondo, primo scontro diretto tra le due tenniste dopo la finale di Parigi 2019, da cui ancora una volta l'australiana ne esce vincitrice imponendosi con un doppio 6-3. La settimana seguente approda all'Australian Open, primo Slam stagionale, prendendo parte sia nel singolare che nel doppio in coppia con CiCi Bellis, uscendo in questo caso al primo turno. Anche in singolare delude le aspettative venendo sorpresa all'esordio da Svetlana Kuznecova che la spunta al terzo set. Continua il periodo negativo a San Pietroburgo, dove viene rimontata da Ajla Tomljanović. Non fa meglio nei tornei mediorientali di Dubai e Doha, registrando rispettivamente un'uscita al secondo e primo turno.

Successivamente, i giocatori sono costretta a un periodo di stop forzato dal 9 marzo al 3 agosto, a causa della Pandemia di COVID-19 del 2019-2021. Scende in campo a Palermo, primo torneo post lockdown, ma viene rimontata da Kaja Juvan con lo score 6-1 5-7 4-6. In seguito, a Cincinnati subisce una pesante sconfitta all'esordio da Laura Siegemund in tre parziali. Si presenta agli US Open come dodicesima testa di serie; si sbarazza di Greet Minnen per 6-1 6-4, prima di venire annichilita da Aljaksandra Sasnovič, la quale le lascia appena tre games. Mostra il suo gioco migliore a Roma, dove si impone con fatica al terzo set su Misaki Doi, estromette con un doppio 6-3 Arantxa Rus, rimonta Polona Hercog per 1-6 6-1 7-65 ed elimina, senza grossi problemi, la Top 10 e due volte campionessa al Foro Italico Elina Svitolina, infliggendole anche un bagel. Approda, così, in semifinale dove non può fare niente contro la campionessa uscente Karolína Plíšková. Per quanto riguarda la classifica, scivola alla 20ª posizione mondiale. La ceca si presenta al Roland Garros, dove difende la finale colta nel 2019: tuttavia, la sua corsa si arresta già al primo turno, sconfitta da colei che vincerà il titolo, Iga Świątek, con un netto 1-6 2-6.

Termina l'anno al n°21 del mondo.

2021: l'argento olimpico a Tokyo
La ceca inizia l'anno al WTA 500 di Abu Dhabi, dove è testa di serie n°8: viene battuta all'esordio da Hsieh Su-Wei (6-3 3-6 6(3)-7). In seguito, si presenta allo Yarra Valley Classic di Melbourne, dove è ancora 8° testa di serie: dopo il bye al primo turno, vince la prima partita dell'anno contro Gracheva (6-4 6-0), approdando agli ottavi di finale. Nella circostanza, batte Vera Zvonareva per 7-6(4) 6(4)-7 6-4; ai quarti, si impone in rimonta su Nadia Podoroska (4-6 6-3 [10-4]), giungendo in semifinale, dove viene travolta da Garbine Muguruza, che le lascia soltanto un game. All'Australian Open, la ceca esordisce con la vittoria in rimonta su Rebecca Peterson (2-6 7-5 7-5). Al secondo turno, batte Rebecca Marino in due set; al terzo, elimina Sorana Cirstea con lo score di 6-2 6-4, approdando così agli ottavi di finale. Nella circostanza, cede in due set a Hsieh Su-Wei. A Dubai viene estromessa da Coco Gauff al secondo turno (6-3 0-6 4-6) mentre a Miami si spinge fino agli ottavi di finale dopo le vittorie su Wang e Bencic; al quarto turno, perde da Aryna Sabalenka per 1-6 2-6. Sulla terra, non raccoglie grossi risultati nei primi tre eventi giocati: tra Stoccarda, Madrid e Roma trova solo un successo in Germania contro Bouzková. Il miglior risultato stagionale sul mattone tritato la ceca lo ottiene al Roland Garros dove, da testa di serie n°20, raggiunge gli ottavi di finale, battendo Kanepi in rimonta (4-6 6-3 6-0), la wild-card Tan (6-1 6-2) e Polona Hercog (periodico 6-3). Nella circostanza, Markéta si arrende a Paula Badosa in tre set. L'erba non è foriera di buoni risultati per Vondroušová, che centra un solo successo a Wimbledon in tre eventi disputati.

In seguito, la ceca disputa il torneo olimpico a Tokyo: al primo turno, elimina Kiki Bertens nella sua ultima partita in carriera (6-4 3-6 6-4); dopo un comodo successo su Buzarnescu (6-1 6-2), Markéta riesce a sconfiggere la n°2 del tabellone Naomi Ōsaka per 6-1 6-4, accedendo ai quarti di finale, dove approfitta del ritiro della spagnola Badosa dopo aver vinto il primo set; in semifinale, la ceca lascia quattro giochi alla n°4 del seeding Elina Svitolina (6-3 6-1), approdando alla finale per l'oro, dove affronta la svizzera Belinda Bencic. Nell'ultimo atto, Markéta si arrende in tre set (5-7 6-2 3-6), aggiudicandosi comunque l'argento. Per la Repubblica Ceca è la terza medaglia nel singolare femminile, la prima d'argento dopo i due bronzi di Petra Kvitová a Rio 2016 e di Jana Novotná ad Atlanta 1996.

In seguito, si presenta a Cincinnati, dove, al primo turno, riaffronta Belinda Bencic: anche questa volta Vondroušová cede alla svizzera, con lo score di 3-6 5-7. A Chicago è quinta testa di serie: batte Quinn Gleason (6-2 6-0) e approfitta del ritiro di Alison Van Uytvanck sul 6-1 1-0 in suo favore; ai quarti, si arrende alla futura finalista Alizé Cornet. Agli US Open, la ceca esordisce battendo Elena-Gabriela Ruse (7-5 6-0). Al secondo turno, cede a Kasatkina per 6-3 4-6 4-6. Partecipa poi al torneo di Lussemburgo, dove è la quinta forza del seeding: elimina nettamente Van Uytvanck (6-2 6-3) e Jana Fett (6-2 6-4) per poi imporsi su Elise Mertens (7-5 6-2). Nella sua terza semifinale annuale, viene estromessa da Clara Tauson, per 4-6 6-2 4-6. A Chicago (nella versione "500" del torneo), vince in due set su Tomljanović (6-1 6-2), Pavljučenkova (6-3 6-2) e Teichmann (6-4 6-3); nei quarti, batte Danielle Collins in rimonta (6(4)-7 6-0 7-6(3)), raggiungendo la sua quarta semifinale del 2021; tuttavia, decide di non scendere in campo nel suo match contro Muguruza, a causa di un problema gastrointestinale. Dopo un'uscita all'esordio a Indian Wells, si presenta alla Kremlin Cup, dove si impone su Rybakina (n°7 del seeding, 6-4 6-4), Curenko (6-3 6-3) e la finalista in carica del Roland Garros Anastasija Pavljučenkova (6-4 6-2), cogliendo un'altra semifinale, la quinta del 2021: nella circostanza, Vondroušová si arrende ad Anett Kontaveit, con lo score di 3-6 4-6.

Chiude l'anno giocando per la Repubblica Ceca nelle fasi finali della Billie Jean King Cup: nel girone D, contribuisce al successo sulla Germania battendo Andrea Petković (6-1 6-3); nel tie decisivo con la Svizzera, porta a casa l'unico punto per le ceche, sconfiggendo Golubic (6-4 6-2); tuttavia, la Repubblica Ceca viene battuta dalle elvetiche per 2-1, risultando 2º nel girone e non riuscendo a qualificarsi per la semifinale.

Termina il 2021 al n°35 del mondo.

2022
Inizia l'anno ad Adelaide, dove esce di scena al secondo turno contro Ana Konjuh. Va meglio in doppio, dove raggiunge la sua seconda finale WTA assieme a Tereza Martincová: le due cedono il titolo alle giapponesi Hozumi/Ninomiya al super-tiebreak. All'Australian Open, Markéta coglie il terzo turno da 31° testa di serie, eliminando Priscilla Hon (6-2 6-3) e Ljudmila Samsonova (6-2 7-5); ai sedicesimi, perde dalla n°2 del mondo Aryna Sabalenka, con lo score di 6-4 3-6 1-6. Dopo un primo turno a San Pietroburgo, prende parte al WTA 1000 di Dubai, dove è costretta a partire dalle qualificazioni: le passa battendo Shibahara, Liu e Putinceva. Nel main draw, approfitta del ritiro della top-ten Danielle Collins (sul 2-6 3-0) e poi lascia due games alla russa Gračëva (6-2 6-0), approdando al suo primo quarto di finale stagionale. Nella circostanza, estromette Dajana Jastrems'ka in due set (7-5 6-4), qualificandosi per la sua 10° semifinale WTA in carriera, la 7° sul cemento. Nel penultimo atto, trova Veronika Kudermetova: Markéta non scende in campo per il suo match a causa di un infortunio all'adduttore destro. Grazie al buon risultato, sale di tre posizioni nel ranking, assestandosi al 35º posto in classifica. Successivamente, si presenta ad Indian Wells, dove è accreditata della 30ª testa di serie: dopo il bye, elimina Magdalena Fręch (6-1 6-3) e poi batte la n°5 del mondo Anett Kontaveit (3-6 7-5 7-6(5)), tornando a vincere su una top-10 per la prima volta dalle Olimpiadi di Tokyo. Agli ottavi, viene estromessa da Veronika Kudermetova con lo score di 6(5)-7 7-6(5) 5-7. Torna a giocare nelle qualificazioni della Billie Jean King Cup, sulla terra di Praga: la ceca vince entrambi i suoi singolari su Dart (6-1 6-2) e su Raducanu (6-1 6-1) e anche il doppio con Muchová (6-1 7-5), aiutando la sua nazionale ad accedere alla fase finale della competizione.

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On December 14, representatives of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the United States Department of Defense will sign a memorandum of understanding, launching a two-year pilot program of collaborative work on environmental issues.
UW–Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies will provide expertise to the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) across a range of environmental and resource management areas. Broadly, Civil Affairs coordinates and supports essential services for civilian populations. UW–Madison's well-recognized leadership will meet Civil Affairs' critical need in its specialist area "38G/4E – Environment and Natural Resources."
UW–Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin
Brigadier General Dean Thompson, 353rd Civil Affairs Command
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Chancellor's office, 165 Bascom Hall
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Rock Master 1995  –  międzynarodowe zawody we wspinaczce sportowej organizowane od 1987 roku we włoskim Arco, których 10 edycja Rock Master odbyła się w dniu 10 września w 1995.

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Organizator festiwalu Rock Master's do zawodów wspinaczkowych na sztucznych ścianach (Climbing Stadium Arco), zaprosił wspinaczy, którzy wystąpili w konkurencji;
 prowadzenie (kobiety i mężczyźni).

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W zawodach wspinaczkowych w konkurencji prowadzenie wzięło udział 14 zawodników oraz 11 zawodniczek.

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Les dernières infos de la planète Jarre - Latest news from Planet Jarre !!!
Published by Louis on 12/21/2010 27 comments
Jean-Michel Jarre - Grands Prix des Musiques Electroniques Sacem 2010
Jean Michel Jarre has been awarded by la SACEM with the "Grand Prix des Musiques Electroniques 2010" on the 29th of November 2010 in Théâtre Marigny in Paris. A broadcast of the ceremony will take place on channel France 4 on Monday 27th December at 11pm (french TV).
Jean Michel Jarre a reçu le "Grand Prix des Musiques Électroniques de la SACEM 2010" voici une vidéo de son passage dans la cérémonie qui a eu lieu le 29 Novembre 2010 au Théâtre Marigny à Paris. Retransmission de la cérémonie sur France 4 lundi 27 Décembre à 23h.
Grand Prix des Musiques Electroniques 2010
Hommage de la SACEM à Jean Michel Jarre - Grand Prix des Musiques Electroniques - 2010
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KOSICE show CANCELLED
Jean Michel Jarre has been informed that his concert in Kosice scheduled for November 16th next is cancelled : the Slovakian promoter, Jan Poliak from EPG Rock On ! could not comply with the contractual financial conditions.
This news has caused great disappointment and prejudice to the Artist and his staff, at such late notice.
Jean Michel Jarre and his Management have instructed Mr Jan Poliak to give immediate full refunds to all the fans who have bought tickets.
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10-10-10 Project Video still Online
the 10-10-10 Project live broadcast from London at The O2 is still online!
You can watch it here !
Self Pirated Live Transmission happening right here right now
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3 Summer Outdoor Concerts
31/7: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Gothic and spiritual ambiance.. Monsignor Barrio gave for the first time, a special agreement to build the stage on the stairs of the cathedral.. The result was quite spectacular, with the façade of the church directly behind us.
The stage was at 6 meters high, and i got slightly dizzy during the laser harp! What I really enjoyed were the live videos in B&W directly projected on the walls in a ghostly, haunted mood. The whole atmosphere particularly during songs such as Rendez Vous 2 & 3 ,Chronology 2 and Fin De Siècle was very "Phantom of the Opera".. The concert was broadcast live on Spanish TV and the Spanish female director did a good job with a quite cinematographic approach.
28/8: Oslo, Norway
An outdoor concert took place for the first time in the central Oslo in front of the Royal castle. It was a kind of festival, with different bands and I closed the event by a concert starting at 10:30, with Royksopp playing just before us...
Coming straight from the south of France, it was quite a shock to be in Norway with around 10 degrees and a pouring rain.. Fortunately the rain stopped 2mn before we got on stage.
The crew was really happy to get together again after the August break, the mood was really warm, and we delivered quite a good show in front of a pretty young audience. The sound and the energy of the music plus the impact of the visuals demonstrated that the production is ready for any kind of big festival. Everybody was quite excited..
18/9: Beirut souks, Lebanon
After having been postponed twice because of logistics issues and then the Ramadan, the concert finally took place yesterday night at the Beirut souks in a totally crazy atmosphere..
Extraordinary city, being rebuilt so quickly by Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Solidere, Beirut is so full of energy. The new generation who used to go to school under constant bombing have learnt the value of being alive and they hardly sleep, working during the day and having fun every night... Clubs such as the Sky bar or the White are full all the time with probably amongst the best sound systems on the planet.
At 37 degrees, the sound check was hot and hectic with a lot of technical problems due to the heat. The lebanese audience was definitely hot and we had great time in spite of a few problems on my side. The digisequencer refused to work (probably overheating too!), meaning we had no sequence in Oxygene 2 and Oxygene 5. Patrick came behind me to reset it while we were desperately improvising to give him enough time to reload the sequence.. Risks and magic of live performance..
Apart from this glitch, we had great time and finished the night at the Sky bar... This morning I visited my friend Bahia Hariri ( Rafik Hariri's sister), Unesco ambassador and President of the Rafik Hariri Fundation for Education, cultural development and for Women. We had an interesting conversation about the future of Beirut, Lebanon and the all Middle East. She talked me through all the activities of the fundation.. She is an extraordinary person and a luck for Lebanon and all Middle East..
We decided that we should get together more often to promote her projects.
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"Suite à une mauvaise interprétation, voire une mauvaise traduction d'une interview que j'ai donnée récemment au magazine anglais Uncut, je souhaite rectifier les propos qui me sont prêtés et qui courent un peu partout sur le net depuis ce matin.
Je n'ai jamais dit que l'Internet était mort, pas plus que je n'ai évoqué l'expression "imposture moche" à propos d'internet, qui est un outil dont je n'ai pas à vanter les évidents mérites!
J'ai simplement avancé l'idée, qu'après une époque où Internet est considéré comme un espace de liberté, une grande toile fraternelle sur laquelle tout le monde échange tout, plus ou moins gratuitement, il se pourrait bien que les rebelles de la prochaine génération "prennent le maquis" du web en considérant qu'il est devenu la plus grande machine d'exploitation de tous les temps, contrôlé par des multinationales bien plus puissantes que les majors du disque ne l'ont été par exemple, dans le domaine de la musique ces dernières années...
Ceci est un exemple, parmi d'autres, nous montrant que, constamment, n'importe quelle info circule, n'importe comment, sur le web. Notre responsabilité et la plus grande difficulté de notre relation, dans les années à venir avec le web, va être de vérifier la véracité du flot d'informations que nous recevons à chaque seconde, en particulier quand on les relaie.. Bon courage.
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Jean Michel Jarre in Santiago de Compostella July 31st 2010 - Time Lapse
MOJO Lifetime Achievement Award 2010 Video
Published by Louis on 8/21/2010 8 comments
The tour in pictures
JMJ and Pierre are continuing their foray into photography
Tour 2010 on Fotopedia
Special message to the fans
First of all, I would like to pay tribute to all my fans around the world who are supporting my work constantly.
It has been one of the most encouraging elements of my life, and particularly this past year, for all the reasons you know.
The feedback, I receive from you all, night after night, in each city I am playing at the moment, is just great and gives me the energy to go on.
I want you to know that I share this Mojo Award with you all, around the world, because in a sense I feel that you deserve it also...
Magic and Amazing Istambul
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16 million people, 4 times as many as Paris.. a perfect mix of Ottoman beauty, European and Asian style, also a perfect mix of tradition and extreme modernity. A total surprise for all of us, the city has changed so much, yet managed to keep its soul at the same time..
Under a very hot temperature, we joined the band at the hotel, then went to see the stage and the crew. Everybody was excited to be together again. We had a dinner in a cool terrace by the Bosphorus organized by Zeynep our charming promoter.. The following morning we went with the musicians to some music stores where Claude and I bought some great and rare turkish cymbals..
Later we went to the venue by boat to do the sound check under 40 degrees... The instruments were so hot that I could not touch my Memory Moog. We did a decent rehearsal, the most challenging moment being to try the laser harp under the sun! We had to cover the captors and wait till sunset to check it..
Then the concert started at 21h40.. I had to climb the back of the grand stand to appear at the top of it, at the beginning of the show, quite an experience.. The concert went really well, in spite of the fact that we did not have our regular PA system and that I was really burning on stage with the extreme heat.. The turkish audience was as hot as the weather and we had a great evening together..
The following day, I had a few meetings, I saw a strange audio/ visual installation, part of a large art exhibition organised at the occasion of Istanbul being European cultural capital 2010. The audio part of this installation is produced by Aphex Twin. In the evening, we all had dinner at a beautiful villa owned by two sisters, lovely women, one being involved in an association taking care of autistic children in Turkey, the other is involved in Soufi music, and she played us incredible recordings of traditional turkish music.
Then we went all together by boat on the Bosphorus to the old part of Istanbul to visit some place they have in mind for a future outdoor concert. We'll see.. Anyway, the trip on the river in the middle of the night surronded by old Mosques, was awesome.
A Memorable Night
After Bucharest, I went for 2 days to Beirut to check the site before the July concerts there. Amazing city, I took a lot of pictures (they are on their way..). I shall tell you more about it in July. Then I spent the beginning of the week promoting the concerts in France.
And then yesterday I was in London to receive a life achievement award at the Mojo Music Awards. The ceremony took place at the Brewery and what happened was an absolute surprise for me..
Such a brilliant audience was attending the event.. Jimmy Page, members of Depeche mode, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Devo,
Florence and the Machine, Anthony and the Johnsons, Blur, Stone Roses, Jarvis Cocker, Roger Daltrey, Emilou Harris, Mark Almond from Softcell.. either receiving or giving an award. At the end of the ceremony, John Foxx from Ultravox presented the
award to me..
I have been so moved by what Phil Alexander, the chief editor of Mojo magazine and John said about my music and my concerts. How new, different and influential it has been until now.. what an honor coming from such brilliant artists and in London!!
John Foxx also had an interesting view, he said that in England, he was feeling that the style of british pop and rock music was initially coming from America. When he listened to Oxygene, he felt that this music was totally european and had nothing to do with the US, and for him it was the signal that something totally different was happening. John is a delightful man and a great artist I always admired and receiving this award from his hands was really special for me.
I was deeply impressed when I came on stage, in front of a such brilliant and warm audience so kind to me. I told them that it means a lot to me coming from MOJO, specially because I have always had a special relationship with England for artistic and personal reasons, and that I feel rather like a beginner, doing my first real world tour in 2010. There are so many things to do out there in so many fields. So I hope to come back in 20 years to receive eventually a life achievement award part 2...
Afterwards I discussed with Jimmy Page, such a nice and friendly man, and Anthony ( from A.& the Johnsons) about our mutual friend Laurie Anderson. She lost her copy of Zoolook and she would like a new one.. I discussed also with Jarvis Cocker, J.J. Brunel from the Stranglers who is from Normandy and speaks fluent french. He said he would come to the concert in Caen in November with his family. Mark Almond is going at the London gig at the O2 arena on the 10/10/10..
And then on the way back to Paris this morning, I met briefly Jude Law, Sienna Miller and their three children, going to Paris as well in the Eurostar, a very nice couple...
Taken by JMJ, who has decided to become his own photograph for this leg.
Liberec in color
Liberec in black & white
A poor lonesome robot far away from home
Liberec, 1910 or 2010
Claude in the move
Jérôme and Claude on the way to Bratislava
Debriefing after the show
Party time..
Jérôme in the bus
In the bus
Ghosts in the cabin
The new tour bus
4am stop on a slovakian highway
Vincent and Luc, backstage in Liberec
Colorful Hungary, far from Soviet Union times
Chris Rowley, Fiona Commins, Claude Samard, Francis Rimbert and new member of the band, Jerome Gueguen
Self-portrait backstage in Budapest
Published by Thomas on 6/05/2010 30 comments
The past few weeks have been difficult.
My Mum passed away the 21st of April… sad, painful, a boy always thinks his mother is eternal.
Then Dominique Perrier told me that he could not be with us in the tour for family reasons and I had to find a quick solution three weeks before Budapest. Fortunately Domino has a good friend, Jerome Gueguen, excellent musician, with whom he has been playing on other projects for a long time.
We rehearsed everything, Domino showed him every detail of his parts, and I must say that Jerome has been quite amazing.
The first concert went almost perfectly and Jerome found the way to be faithful to Dominique's style plus adding his own personal touch.
I must say that the tour is really going well and every night we are delivering something special… The crew is becoming a real family and Jerome is already totally part of it .
The audiences are really great everywhere - lots of electricity in the air.. !
I also try to give the maximum of energy like if it was a one off every night..
Greece was special, because of the crisis you can feel people feeling abandonned by the rest of the world…More than ever artists and citizens of the world must be close to the Greek community, the cradle of civilisation which gave us so much in so many fields…we must never forget that.
Also for this reason, we really gave everything we had on-stage, both in Tessaloniki and Athens, to a fantastic audience.
Tessaloniki was the first outdoor gig of the world tour, however, the venue being a historical site, limiting weight and installations, we could not hang the cyclo.
I decided then that we should use the site itself, as it is, by projecting films and lights on the trees.
The result was quite fantomatic and very encouraging for the future outdoor gigs where we should have our big screen.
Liberec and Bratislava were also unique because of the venues and the audience. Bratislava is such a lovely city with a lot of good vibes for me. I really would like to come back soon for an outdoor concert by the castle (love to Iveta, Fred and Milan !).
A lot of things are in store for the second part of the year… Because of what happened to me recently, I decided to go not to far away from home this year. A lot of concerts in France, UK and other countries in Europe and going to the US, South America and Asia in 2011. My agent came to Athens and we made quite precise plans about all this.
Next week, I have to go to London to prepare the UK tour, with a possible second 3D filming of the autumn leg and to receive an award from MOJO magazine. I also hope to have the energy to finalise some of the new tracks I have for the coming concerts and new album sometime.
I thank you all, my dear and loyal fans around the world, for your support recently, it has been of a great help to me ...
The first part of the tour is over, and while we're organizing the new leg, all the team is back home enjoying some rest. Now that I have more time, I want to explore different directions, and in particular the notion of silence. I am sure you have noticed how the first few seconds of silence at the end of a track feel like they still belong to that track. To the best of my knowledge, the only work of importance ever composed in this field is the minute of silence played in solemn occasions, but I find the arrangement a bit basic. I would like to compose a silent album that would retain melodies, and mix the warm grain of analog silence and some sampled silence as well. Expect to hear something soon. Or not.
Published by Jean Michel Jarre on 4/01/2010 105 comments
Nantes, Marseille, Nice, three different shows
The Nantes Zenith is one of France's best venues, and we had an audience of connoisseurs that I liked a lot. From the stage we could feel the dynamism of that city, where concerts, expos and films do so well. Among our guests, many of our friends from Algam and La Boîte Noire, the leading musical instruments import company in Europe, as well as Joachim Garraud's family, and part of mine. We all had a warm gathering after the show.
Marseilles: Sun, the Vieux Port, relaxing time with the musicians. Marseille is the city of music and soccer, which is a hard thing to admit for a native of Lyon. Yet I said it on stage and it caused a little shock.
The show was one of the craziest since the tour began. The Dome has a pretty bad reputation for its acoustics, but Alain Courieux, Cédric and Arno somehow managed to set up their system, and we had a great sound. The show started red hot, and continued to ramp up in a stadium-like ambiance, it was electrified. The Marseille audience will be hard to beat!
Jean-Pierre Janiaud, the great sound engineer with whom I mixed Oxygene and Equinoxe, came backstage with Christophe, I was so happy to meet them again. Also my uncle Jean Nicolaï, in great shape despite his 95 years, and my dear Edith.
For Nice, I was afraid the audience would be quieter on a Sunday night, but it turned out I was wrong.. Many of the crew are from Nice, as well as the whole Arpege company, which provides our sound and video, and as I mentioned that on stage, the audience made it a point to not lag behind Marseille.
Ignace was here to fine-tune details in preparation for Bercy and the 3D film this week-end. Paul Charles had come from London to discuss the show dates for the rest of the year, which will prove challenging. Then we boarded "our" bus and spent the night watching the photos and films shot by Christine and Thomas, and arrived in Toulouse under a pouring rain.. Meanwhile my mother had arrived with Louisa and Gilles to attend the concert at the Zenith in Toulouse...
Le Zenith de Nantes une des plus belles salles de France, et un public de connaisseurs nous attendait, j'ai beaucoup aimé. On a pu sentir depuis la scène le dynamisme de cette ville où les concerts, les expos et les films marchent si bien. Nos amis d'Algam et de la Boite Noire, la plus grosse société européenne d'importation d'instruments de musique étaient là en grand nombre, ainsi que la famille de Joachim Garraud et certains membres de ma famille. Nos nous sommes tous retrouvés après, dans une ambiance vraiment chaleureuse.
Marseille: Soleil, le vieux port, détente avec les musiciens. La ville de la musique et du Foot et comme je l'ai dit sur scène, pour un Lyonnais c'est pas facile à dire!
Le concert a été un des plus délirants depuis le début de la tournée. Pourtant le Dôme a plutôt une mauvaise réputation sur le plan acoustique, mais Alain Courieux, Cédric et Arno ont fait un super travail sur les réglages des systèmes, et le son était super.
Le concert a démarré tout de suite dans un climat électrique et n'a cessé de monter dans une ambiance de stade. Le public marseillais sera difficile à battre...
Jean-Pierre Janiaud, un très grand ingénieur du son, avec qui j'ai produit les albums de P. Juvet à Los Angeles et au studio Gang, et mixé Oxygène et Equinoxe, était là, accompagné par Christophe. J'étais très heureux de le retrouver. Mon oncle Jean Nicolaï était là aussi, en grande forme (étonnant pour ses 95 ans) ainsi que ma très chère Edith.
Nice: J'avais peur d'un dimanche soir en mars à Nice et d'un public plus réservé, j'avais tort.. Beaucoup de gens de notre équipe ainsi qu'Arpège, la société qui nous fournit le son et la vidéo, dirigée par Christian Lorenzi, sont d'ici et le public a donc mis un point d'honneur à ne pas rester derrière Marseille..
Ignace était venu pour peaufiner certains réglages lumières en vue du show de Bercy et du tournage 3D de la fin de semaine. Paul Charles était venu de Londres pour discuter du planning des concerts de la suite de l'année, très chargé.. Ensuite nous avons pris "notre" bus et passé la nuit à regarder les photos et films de Christine et Thomas, et c'est sous une pluie battante que nous avons fait notre entrée dans Toulouse. Et ce soir ma mère est arrivée avec Louisa et Gilles pour assister au concert de demain...
First French show in Bordeaux
Arrived from Paris before 4PM under a warm sun, soundcheck was OK, feels good to be with the crew again. Did a live interview from the stage with France 3 evening news, then got a phone call from the Maire, former Prime Minister Alain Juppé, a very nice man, apologising for missing the show but Bordeaux was playing Greece tonight, and he couldn't affort to miss it as the Maire of the city.
The arena is an ice-skating rink, pretty cold, but the concert went really well and the audience was really into it for one of the best shows so far.. A good omen for the french leg.
Later that day, Pierre fell in the street and is still in the hospital with strong pain in the right foot.. Fiona is with him, we hope that he will be able to follow us to Nantes tomorrow..
In the meantime we had dinner with Gerard Drouot, our french promoter to discuss Bercy. He and his team are very enthusiastic about the show tonight.
Good night..
Premier concert français à Bordeaux:
Nous sommes arrivés de Paris vers seize heures par un beau soleil. Soundcheck à 16h, tout se passe bien, je suis heureux de retrouver tout le monde après la tournée allemande de ces deux dernières semaines..
Interview en live pour le JT national de France 3 puis attente habituelle sur scène pour le direct avec Samuel Etienne. Appel d'Alain Juppé, maire de Bordeaux pour s'excuser de ne pas être là, mais Bordeaux joue contre les Grecs ce soir en coupe d'Europe, et il ne peut raisonnablement pas manquer le match en tant que maire de la Ville..
La patinoire de Bordeaux est un lieu difficile, froid par définition avec une acoustique qu'il faut maîtriser. Le concert s'est néanmoins très bien passé, un des meilleurs depuis le début aux dires de l'équipe, malgré un problème de séquenceur au début de Chronologie 6 (ah les aléas de l'analogique..). Le public Bordelais était debout pour la dernière demi-heure, ce qui est assez rare d'apres le promoteur local..
A la sortie, beaucoup de monde m'attendait pour une séance d'autographes et c'est là que Pierre, membre éminent de l'équipe, a glissé sur le trottoir et s'est abimé le pied droit.. Fiona est encore en ce moment même avec lui aux urgences. Nous espérons tous qu'il pourra venir avec nous à Nantes demain..
Pendant ce temps j'ai dîné avec Gérard Drouot et son équipe pour parler de Bercy..
Bonne nuit..
Manheim, Adios Germany
The first time I went to Manheim was to see Pink Floyd's The Wall and I loved it. I said to myself, if one day I am doing indoor concerts I would like to play there.. And here we are few decades later.
This is the last concert in Germany for 2010 and we already have quite good recollections. Maybe it's the harmony in the crew. I must say that every one is top class, doing their job with dedication and talent... Everyone is improving their part everyday and we have a really good show now. I do hope that we are going to keep up like this back in France. Playing your own country is like going back to your family, warm but never easy...
Talking about family, this crew is turning into a family of its own. I feel responsible and I do care for it.. One important member is missing though, Thomas Alsina, always present for every concert since 1998. He's busy working in California on the release of yet another Apple product, but he'll be joining us in Marseille. We are all missing him.
New dates of concerts are coming in everyday from my agent in London and we have to make decisions about them. We are discussing with Alain Courieux about working with a DigiCo console for the next album and involving him in the recording and mixing process.
Peter the director for live video is doing a great job, always finding new ideas. I asked him to film some parts of the concerts. He has such a good eye. Dominique has created a new club with special backstage passes called Spam. The main character is a funny face sculpted into a potato by Domino himself.. Pierre is more and more into photography using my new Canon D7 and the results are pretty good, he knows the show by heart and he's got a good eye. You will see some of them on the blog soon. Louis from Aero prod is everywhere and it is a real pleasure to be with him on the road.
As I write this, we are on the bus, going to France, driven by Zippy. I wonder why all tour busses have such a similar style, a kind of 70's porno film type of decor, purple, black and white carpets seats and walls, with mirrors on the ceilings and glass snakes on the doors.. The Bus itself is in a dark pink robe, very chic..
And as is now usual just before going to bed, we drank sake, red wine and tasted saucisson de Lyon, the best in the world of course...
Chris, trying to make some money
My new hair dryer
This way nobody can steal my screen
Entering the arena from the back
Souvenir de Chine
Vintage-style live video feedback
Playing Big Brother like it's 1984
I like the new oblique position of lasers
We built a teleporter for Chronologie
I even get to sit
Munich, 2:00 AM
Saturday night in Munich was great, The show seems to be consistent now... The beginning was quite religious and then became hot and groovy, we all had a good time except Julien who had an argument with his console.
Then we were all invited by Klaus, the german promoter and his wife for dinner to celebrate this german tour ending the next day at Manheim. Everybody seemed working well all together, and Klaus said he really would like to put together a 2011 tour in the country. They're nice people to work with and we'll be back then...
Pierre has done a lot of photos tonight with his new camera and turns out to be quite good at it..
Tomorrow we leave quite early to Manheim, good night.
Published by Jean Michel Jarre on 3/15/2010 7 comments
Those who already saw the show know that the new Adagio track is entirely about numbers, demographics and the pressure we impose on natural resources. Those numbers are dizzying. Every week, world population increases by over 1 million. It's hard to realize, that's a new large city every week, 1 million extra people to feed through agriculture, to provide with energy, health care, sanitation.
The slightest quantity becomes impressive when you multiply them by a population. Five little grams of toothpaste every morning seem innocent, yet multiplied by Europe's population, that's 2000 tons of toothpaste that flows to the rivers daily, along with 600,000m3 of urine. 12 billion dollars spent every year on dog and cat food. For every american person to eat a steak every day, that's over 100,000 cows per day. That same day, China consumes 68,000 fully-grown trees in the form of disposable chopsticks.
But there's hope: every single hour in the world, probably over 20 million people are making love, of which about 10,000 "succeed". During this hour, the earth has travelled over 100,000 kilometers in our solar system, at about 30 kilometers per second, and people will have exchanged over 8 billion emails, of which a good proportion is spam, and the rest contains the ideas of tomorrow, love declarations, lawsuits, and my words to all the people who subscribe to this blog via email.
Intimist Bamberg
Probably the smallest venue of the tour but one of the best sound so far.. All my choruses with the Moog Liberation and the AX-S sounded really great and the bass and drum sounds were quite precise. Everyday it seems that we are progressing by doing solid sounchecks where I check every track, sound-wise and visual-wise.
Christine Ferreyra has done really good photos soon published on the blog...
Tomorrow, en route to Munich... Good night..
Great audience in Leipzig
It is a privilege to play the city of Bach.. After a perfect sound check and some adjustments that I wanted to make with Olivier and Ansar for the Lights and Lasers, the concert started on time. Everybody was in a good mood. The photographer, Christine Ferreyra, arrived today. She has done amongst the best photos of the previous concerts and it is great to have her around for a few days..
The concert went rather well, with good energy on stage, I got a few problems with my in-ear monitors, and Francis had MIDI issues on his Synthex right in the middle of RV2, despite that the audience was really grooving up until the end.
Tomorrow, I would like to add some new video on Oxygene 4 which I originally planned..
I decided to add new tracks (apart from the Adagio I am playing at the Statistics moment) after March because I really want to focus on the sound, performance and visuals first. Fans will have quite a few surprises during the year anyway.
By the way, thank you for your great comments since the beginning of this leg of the 2010 tour, I really appreciate, and I'm trying my best to improve the show night after night.
A night in Stuttgart
After two days off, I came back to Germany by train with my friend the musician/producer/dj Joachim Garraud. We spent a lot of time talking new instruments, new plug-ins, tours, new media and future projects... It is always a rare pleasure to spend some time with Joachim.
Then I arrived in Stuttgart for soundcheck. I met Eric Mandel from the french sunday paper JDD, a nice guy with who we talked about the tour and lots of other things.
Stuttgart has a reputation of being quite austere like some cities of south Germany, but it is not necessarily true. Tonight I had a good time on stage and for a tuesday night quite a warm audience. The concert went rather well and we seemed to have now found a consistent level of energy..
Next stage Leipzig..
End of First Week
Yesterday was the fifth concert of the 2010 Tour, after general rehearsals in Belgium which went quite well considering the amount of work done.
I worked a lot on this project to get closer to what I have been having in mind for quite a while. First of all, I rearranged existing tracks for the instruments the four of us use on stage. I also spent time on the mix with Alain Courieux to get every part of the music we play as clear and precise as possible, and with Julien and Vincent to get the best possible sound in our ear monitors, an essential ingredient to play in the most natural way. Then we worked hard with Cedric Courieux and Arno to adjust our new L acoustics PA system for each venue. I did practice quite a lot as well, especially the new Theremin part and my various solos. All that was previously rehearsed in the studio with the musicians Claude Samard, Francis Rimbert and Dominique Perrier. I really wanted that, beyond the technical aspect of the music, every one would express every emotion in each track, our eight hands playing with the same feel.
The other endeavour for this 2010 project was also to design a scenography which could convey the magic of my outdoor concerts, with each song building its own visual world. With Ignace d' Haese, the lighting director, we drafted specific color schemes for the cyclo behind us and I asked him to consider the instrument on the stage like "actors" in a play.. I also made the decision to include video backdrops but to avoid any directly narrative content so that the music should let every one create their own story in their mind. With Hugo and Ansar, the Laser team, we improved the laser harp and thought through ways to use the laser on stage and in space with a 3D approach. That gives the feeling of total immersion into the show for the audience, and will come in handy when we film the concert in 3D in Strasbourg and Liege.
Once we put the last touch to the music in my studio in France, I could focus on the scenography in Belgium. For the first time I decided to inject some live video throughout a few songs, to share some close-ups with the audience, as the way we are playing the instruments is sometimes quite "special". All the live feeds are intentionally in black and white to match the vintage look of the analog synthesizers and to provide a better contrast with the high-tech look of the scenography. Peter is doing an excellent job catching the best angles of the performance. To that effect, we put eight cameras on stage, including a mini cam on my glasses to give a dynamic first-person point of view.
The last general rehearsal went rather well which is quite unusual.. Then we left Belgium for Katowice in Poland, by bus. In fact, I asked Chris Rowley our great production manager to travel as much as we can by bus. In these days where the sense of geography and distances is becoming more abstract because of planes and communication technologies, it is a great experience to go through each continent by road.. And I just love the community spirit and those moments we share with the musicians, Chris, Pierre, Louis or Fiona, drinking sake, discussing future shows or making music..
The first concert in Katowice was exciting because of the Polish audience, always warm and so special to me. Technically, we had all possible problems. It was difficult to install the whole production in time, then something went wrong in Julien's console and suddenly the mix we had on stage was awful. It was a nightmare to play with such a mess in our ears. We knew from the beginning that this hall was the most difficult of the tour... But again, the audience was great and gave us the energy to fight.
During the day off, we decided to visit Auschwitz, which is only 20km away from Katowice. I thought a lot about my Mum, a great figure in the french resistance. She was caught three times by the Germans, and was sent to Ravensbruck, another horrible deportation camp. Everything has been said about the camps, but when you actually see one for yourself, it is beyond all description. The most striking thing to me is to measure the ability of some human beings to be as systematically, massively and madly destructive. It is something that every teenager should see. You feel so sick afterwards.. Thank you Mum for having taught me tolerance after all you have been through.
Then, we set off to begin the German part of the tour to Braunschweig. This second gig went much better, more or less at the level of the general rehearsals.
Hamburg was the first large city, with a lot of media presence, plus my agent Paul Charles and Gerard Drouot, the french promoter.. It was much tighter this time, the show starts to sound the way I want, still some visual glitches to improve. I think that Paul and Gerard understood what I am aiming for with this project..
We left for Berlin, always challenging and difficult like every capital in the world. Not only is it the capital of classical and electronic music, but it has also been the heart of european culture for centuries.. It is always something to play Berlin.
Fortunately, the concert went really well, the audience was so great, a mixture of young musicians, people closing their eyes to focus on the sound, girls dancing, others taking pictures. They were all so enthusiastic, it was a huge encouragement for all of us..
Yesterday night was Oberhausen.. I think for the first time, we delivered what I had in mind, all week we have made the few necessary adjustments on stage and visually and the result was an incredible feedback from the crowd. Everybody stood up for the last 45 minutes, and we delivered such an energy on stage that everyone went really crazy.
I hope we can keep this level of quality next week and maybe even improve it. Then when I will feel we "have" the show, I shall be able to introduce some new songs, but first we need every one in the crew to become in total control and confidence...
Next step Stuttgart.. Stay tuned.
It is now a ritual, Saturday night we boarded "our" bus and took possession of our cabins like passengers of a steamship. By the time we were done making ourselves at home, the lights of Antwerp were gone and we were cruising eastward towards Katowice, and it felt as if the previous tour had never stopped. Claude is dozing in his front seat, Francis probably fell asleep watching a movie at the back, Chris and Dominique explored the kitchen for some sake and went to bed. As to me I am enjoying the hypnotic highway from my room. For a whole month we will live in this ship in apnea from the world, emerging every morning in a new city so different from the others. We're a circus and Europe is our playground.
2010 is off to a great start. Not that 2009 was bad, but 2010 is one step above.. After the 2009 tour ended, I wanted to evolve the concept a bit, to give a new meaning to the music, moving moods, bright and somber passages.. It will be quite different, and quite special. The new tracklisting is really powerful now, and I have been working with Marie-Jeanne, Thomas and Ignace to give it the visual force it deserves. There is still a lot of work, but we have a solid base, a solid team and fresh energy after the holidays. The promotion has already started, and I'm glad we have some interesting press articles.
The new concept also gave me inspiration for new tracks that I want to try, refine and sharpen during the tour, with a new album in mind later this year.. That and a few other surprises..
Another exciting change in 2010 is 3D. As you know I have been experimenting with 3D concerts for over a decade, so I'm observing with curiosity how Avatar is changing the movie industry. It is like the beginning of 5.1 for sound: sweat, pain but a whole new opportunity. I am working on a special 3D project linked to the 2010 concerts..
I hope 2010 will be as thrilling for you as it is for me. Thanks for all your kind comments, and happy new year to you all. Specially to you, yes, you.
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For a millennium many have confused headwraps and headdresses with the turban that the World's First Turban Designer sets the record straight on it's origin and her unique title
Posted on December 2, 2018 December 2, 2018 by Veroniqué Salagean
The world' first turban designer Veroniqué Salagean reveals that the turban as we know it today was originally called the 'dulband' dating to the 1st century B.C by early Persians in modern Iran and Prygians in modern Turkey. There are also records of people in Ovid's Metamorphosis wearing a conical cap (Prygian cap) covering the ears to enhance personal style. During the 1st century B.C a headdress was worn in modern Turkey named the 'tülbent' which is believed to be also worn in Egypt.
prygian cap
As fashions changed, a style of turban called the phakeolis continued to be worn by soldiers of the Byzantine army in the period of 400 – 600 as well by Byzantine civilizations as by depicted Greek frescoes from the 10th century in the province of Cappadocia in modern Turkey. It was in 16th century France where the headdress was actually given the title of the 'turban'.
8th century dulband – Byzantine
10th century in Cappadocia
Tülbent in 16th century
Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay 17th century
Turbans over the ages have formally been associated with the upper class, royalty and leaders who sported the look to display grandeur, wealth and elegance. As fashions changed, people created different shapes by encircling bands of cloth around the head which have been depicted in many paintings of the social elite between the 16th and 20th century. Veroniqué Salagean reveals an important truth: 'A turban is essentially a couture piece made from hand that needs to have a base however throughout history what has been called a turban is often a headdress where fabric is wrapped around the head without structure.'
It has to be noted that till 2015 there has not been a single individual in the history of fashion specifically known for being a Turban Designer, though some noted designers have used the headwrap as part of complimenting their collections. As Ms Salagean sheds further light, the second designer to have a fashion house in Paris after Charles Frederick Worth was Paul Poiret. Historical records reveal that a famous reception called the Arabian Nights was held on June 14th, 1911, in Paris at the residence of Paul Poiret on the Rue d'Antin. At the lavish party Mr Poiret created and wore a turban adorned with an aigrette feather. According to Mrs Poiret, the idea of wearing such an audacious piece came about during their move to the sumptuous private residence on Rue d'Antin, when woman of the house, assailed by an onslaught, tied a simple triangle of fabric on their heads held on the back of the neck in a bun. This inspired Mr Poiret to create turbans for women to compliment his designs.
Paul Poiret and his wife Denise at their party
Another significant figure that made an impression upon the turban was Milliner Designer Madame Paulette, as her designs between 1939 – 1984 lead to great achievements with creations being worn by actresses and international royalty. In the book 'Hats by Madame Paulette' written by Annie Schneider there are many illustrations of her turbans that capture the essence of her work where creations display minimalist volume with simple elegance.
June 1973, Paris, France — Parisian milliner Paulette de la Bruyere in her workshop. — Image by © Pierre Vauthey
As we enter the modern era from the 20th into the 21st century many so called turbans have been placed on the international catwalks of Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta, Hermes and Marc Jacobs. But the truth is that these are actually headwraps as they have no solid base and are used to accessorise their fashion collections. Whilst being renowned designers these fashion houses are not specialists in Turban design and creation.
Oscar de la Renta catwalk 1991
Veroniqué Salagean, the world's first turban designer has demonstrated great passion with turban techniques since creating 36 one-off couture turbans to be displayed online in the afternoon of 9th June 2016. After moving to London in 2012, her creative ability lead to couture turban making, inspired to implement her style into luxurious head wear that people can wear with pride and elegance has been the foundation of setting up VS Turbans. After painstaking research and studying fashion at the prestigious Central Saint Martins, one afternoon Ms Salagean found herself taken back to age 6 when her mother gifted needle and thread to make doll's clothes from swatches that a passion was realised. Her silence in being creative acted as a reminder of the life purpose ahead yet her mother never wanted her to work in fashion as it was believed there was no future in the artistic field.
Instead Ms Salagean was expected to pursue a future in finance and economics. The turban designer reveals 'I still don't know how I completed my accountancy collage yet be creative in PowerPoint projects, winning many competitions, diplomas and appearing on two TV shows. Despite having such an ambitious streak, deep down I was actually really unhappy with the learning process. I kept pushing ahead with my university program but in the end I could not complete my studies. Instead I knew I had to follow my passion for creating turbans, to have freedom of expression and creativity. I adore each and every one of my turbans, seeing them beyond fabrics as my little babies of creation. I can say that now I am truly happy that I've been able to make a success of my creativity with turbans to become the world's first turban designer. I truly pursue what I do from the heart.'
Veroniqué Salagean officially embraced the tittle of the World's First Turban Designer when her first commission came in 2015 from a chance encounter with a socialite in public. The designer attests that it was then her classmate milliners addressed her as the one in Turban History to be known specially for creating just turbans. Then began public appearances where people would queue to have their picture taken with the designer in her elegant turbans and outstanding style. The journey to make VS Turbans an international luxury brand continues as Veroniqué Salagean follows her passion to make elegant and luxurious turbans that turn heads.
May 2016, London, United Kingdom – Veroniqué Salagean portrait
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is a global celebration on May 13th.
The purpose: to showcase the small-scale producers at the heart of the fair trade movement and the contributions they make to healthy and sustainable communities around the world. When you choose authentic fair trade goods, your purchase casts a vote for small-scale farmers, producers, and artisans around the world.
Dedicated fair trade brands, such as those taking part in the World Fair Trade Day campaign, partner with these producers on organic development, training, and restoration projects to build a supply chain that is more fair and helps sustain the planet.
Small-scale farmers using regenerative agriculture practices have been shown to help reverse the trends of climate change—that's why supporting farmer organizations & the companies who partner with them is more important than ever!


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Q: Postgres rails doesn't recognize user So my rails app gives me the "We're sorry, but something went wrong."  When I check the logs, I see
PG::Error (FATAL:  role "ubuntu" does not exist
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However, when I then do this (note I believe that I never added a password to role ubuntu):
sudo -u postgres createuser ubuntu
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y
createuser: creation of new role failed: ERROR:  role "ubuntu" already exists

I'm running this on an ubuntu ec2 instance with nginx server.
EDIT: I just tried uninstalling and reinstalling postgres, and completely broke it, so I won't be able to accept any answer here.

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Hey NL Fans, It's Time to Let Go and Accept the DH Justice for all, whether you kneel or stand
Instead of Fighting Over Who Stands, Kneels or Raises a Fist During the Anthem, Let's Focus on Freedom and Justice For All
By League of Fans On July 27, 2020
Across the country, from the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) to Major League Baseball (MLB), sports fans have looked on as athletes have chosen to stand, kneel, or raise a fist during the playing of the national anthem.
Both the kneelers and standers have been attacked on social media in recent days.
Some people called for those that kneeled to immediately be released from their teams. Others told the kneelers to leave the country. NFL coaching legend Mike Ditka was in the latter group.
"If you can't respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country," said Ditka.
Hey Mike, what about respecting the freedom of speech rights of fellow citizens? How about showing a little civility toward people who have opinions different than yours? Perhaps you'd prefer North Korea, where the people don't have the freedom to kneel and silently protest during the national anthem?
On the other side of the anthem debate, some people attacked the athletes who chose to stand during the anthem, calling them racists. Racist for standing for the national anthem? Those comments are as ridiculous as Ditka's comments.
People who wholeheartedly support racial justice, who are for police reform and the end of police brutality, who donate hours in their communities working to better the lives of the less fortunate, can also feel strongly about standing for the national anthem out of respect for military members in their families, or vets in general.
The abusive language going back and forth between those supporting the kneelers and those supporting the standers is sad to witness. All this vitriol has shown that the country, as a whole, has now officially become as divided and dysfunctional as Congress.
Here's my overarching fear: I'm afraid we're devolving into a country that only supports free speech for those we agree with. That's a movement we need to turnaround.
Instead of spreading hate toward people we disagree with, we should be celebrating that we live in a country in which we are all free to share our thoughts in the marketplace of ideas and to make decisions like whether or not to stand for the national anthem. The American flag is a symbol of freedom, and whether an athlete, fan — or anyone else in this country — chooses to stand or kneel during the anthem, he/she is exercising one of the freedoms that our military men and women have fought for decades to preserve.
We need to get to the point as a country where we can debate issues in a respectful, civil manor. All of us, across the political spectrum, need to grow up and start acting like we're mature enough to responsibly handle the freedoms we've been blessed with, most notably the freedom of speech.
Marie Tillman, the widow of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who gave up his football career to become an Army ranger and serve in Afghanistan (where he was killed by friendly fire), might have put it best:
"The very action of self expression and the freedom to speak from one's heart — no matter those views — is what Pat and so many other Americans have given their lives for. Even if they didn't always agree with those views."
Nate Boyer, another military veteran, who advised Colin Kaepernick about the best way to peacefully protest during the anthem tweeted:
"I will continue to stand with pride when the Anthem is played. That doesn't mean I'm 'against' or 'don't support' the REASON others kneel. We can spend the rest of our lives debating whether sitting, kneeling, standing on your head is offensive or we can focus on fixing the WHY."
Ah yes, the WHY. Instead of spending so much time and energy on who's doing what during the anthem, or who's a true patriot and who isn't, how about we all focus on living up to the ideals represented in the American flag: freedom and justice for all.
Yes, freedom and justice for all: That's the essence of what Colin Kaepernick said when asked four years ago why he started the kneeling protests.
"Our country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all, and it's not happening for all right now. … I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country," said Kaepernick.
"I have family, I have friends that have gone away and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone. That's not happening. People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening."
Let's stop the childish bickering and name calling. The WHY is certainly a helluva lot more important than what people choose to do during the playing of the national anthem.


FAIRFAX, Va.—The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) has announced that it will induct Howard V. Gimbel, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS and the late Phillips Thygeson, MD into the ASCRS Ophthalmology Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 4, 2019. The ceremony will be held at 10:00 a.m. at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, during the ASCRS opening general session of the ASCRS•ASOA Annual Meeting. Dr. Howard Gimbel is an ophthalmologist and clinical professor at the University of Calgary and Loma Linda University. He is pioneer in out-patient cataract and refractive eye surgery and was the first ophthalmologist in Canada to use phacoemulsification for the removal of cataracts. Gimbel is also the developer of the Divide and Conquer phacoemulsification technique and the co-developer of the Continuous-Tear Capsulotomy technique, which are accepted as international standards of excellence for their safety and effectiveness.
Additionally, Gimbel developed many applications of the Optic Capture technique and others to manage late intraocular lens complications.
Gimbel received his doctorate in medicine and a master's in public health from Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. He completed his internship and ophthalmology residency at the White Memorial Centre in Los Angeles and began his private practice in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1964. He opened the Gimbel Eye Centre in 1980 and began out of hospital cataract surgery in an oral surgeon's suite. The Gimbel Eye Surgical Centre was opened in 1984 complete with a glass wall between the operating room and an optional family viewing room.
Dr. Phillips Thygeson, the second distinguished American ophthalmologist to receive the Proctor Medal Award of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, earned his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Thygeson interned at the Colorado General Hospital in Denver, and in 1931, became a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
From 1930 to 1932, Dr. Thygeson was an assistant in ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and served as an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine from 1933 to 1936. He became a professor of ophthalmology at New York's Columbia University and also served as the director of the Institute of Ophthalmology of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
After active duty in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, Thygeson became a colonel in the Medical Reserve, U.S. Army. From 1946 to 1948, he was the section chief in ophthalmology, Brand 12, Veterans Administration.
In 1946, Thygeson became a lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of California Medical School. He received his doctorate of ophthalmology and master's degree from the University of Colorado at Denver. He passed away in 2002.
The ASCRS Ophthalmology Hall of Fame was created in 1999 to honor pioneers in the field who have laid the foundation for the modern practice of ophthalmology—and to celebrate their contributions and distinguished careers.


APIBA Business English SIG is back to stay!
In the SIG Opening Event on April 11, and to start off a special year of celebration of our dear APIBA SIGS, which are turning 15 this year, we briefly went through their history and some APIBA members suggested re-launching this very successful SIG, which first started in the year 2000 and was extremely popular for a number of years, but then disappeared around 10 years ago.
Here´s the proposal for the re-launching of the APIBA BESIG put forward by APIBA member Prof. Analía Duarte.