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A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Tongue-twisters may rely on similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a language.
The hardest tongue-twister in the English language according to Guinness World Records is supposedly The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
Makes batter better.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter,
Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better.
Some tongue-twisters are short words or phrases, which become tongue-twisters when repeated rapidly, often expressed as "Say this ten times fast!".
"Wet rain."
"Peggy Babcock"
"Thin Thing"
= "French friend"
"Red Leather, yellow Leather"
"You Know You Need Unique New York"
"Sometimes sunshine"
"Irish wristwatch"
"Toy Boat."
"Tasty Twister"
"Flammable Flanimal"
"Big whip" is another that is difficult for some people to say quickly, due to the lip movement required between the "g" and "wh" sounds.
Some well-known English tongue-twisters are:
Billy blew a blue bubble while bouncing on a bongo.
"Peter Piper":
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
But if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Were they pickled when he picked them from the vine?
Or was Peter Piper pickled when he picked the pickled peppers
Peppers picked from the pickled pepper vine?
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?":
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that he could
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
A woodchuck
would chuck
all the wood he could
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
and using the same format,
"How many cars can a carpark park?":
How many cars can a carpark park
if a carpark could park cars?
A carpark could park all the cars that it could
if a carpark could park cars
"Sick hicks":
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
"Sister Suzie":
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill at sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews
"She sells sea shells":
Sister Sue sells sea shells.
She sells sea shells on shore.
The shells she sells.
Are sea shells she sees.
Sure she sees shells she sells.
"Night light":
You've known me to light a night lightor a variation:
on a light night like tonight.
There's no need to light a night light
on a light night like tonight,
for a night light's a slight light
an a night like tonight.
"Thistle sifter":
Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
through the thick of his thumb.
Orange jello, lemon jello,
This next one won grand prize in a contest in Games Magazine in 1979: (Contest announced in issue of November/December 1979; results announced in issue of March/April 1980).
Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stopped Schwab's watch.
An English example of this sort:
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate,
And I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.
Or another:
I'm a sheet slitter
If sheets need slitting,
Sheets I slit.
Or another: I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
Other features of language can make for tongue-twisters; for instance, the Czech strč prst skrz krk (stick a finger through the throat) relies on the absence of vowels, although syllabic r is a normal Czech sound.
One Japanese twister (attempted by child genius Chiyo Mihama in the Anime series Azumanga Daioh) is Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu, Busu Basu Gaido, meaning "Bus Gas Explosion, Ugly Bus Guide." Another (as heard on Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous) is Tonari No Kyaku Wa Yoku Kaki Kuu Kyaku Da, meaning "The customer next to me eats a lot of persimmons (or oysters)". Still another (featured in the Anime series Clannad, where Tomoya challenges Fūko with it) is Tokyo Tokkyo Kyokakyoku, which means "The Tokyo Special Patent Approval office."
An example in Polish is "Król Karol kupił królowej Karolinie korale koloru koralowego" (King Charles bought Queen Caroline a coral colour necklace). And other like: "W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie" (In Szczebrzeszyn a beetle buzzes in the reed) or "Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami" (Table with legs broken out).
In Scouse, the dialect of the English city of Liverpool, it is common to say They do, though, don't they, though. In Scouse this is easy as all of the diagraphs 'th' are pronounced as a 'd', but saying it quickly in Standard RP or GA (GA they do though don't they though.ogg) can be very difficult.
In the Philippines, popular tongue-twisters spread. These are: "Minikaniko ni Moniko ang makina ng minika ni Monika", "Botika, Bituka, Butiki" and the one word, "Nakakapagpabagabag".
Although in Czech is well known the "Tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třicet tři stříbrných střech" (333 silver syringes squirted over 333 silver roofs), one of the most difficult is vowel-free "Smrž pln skvrn zvlh z mlh" (The morel full of stains become wet from fog). However, tongue-twisters based on repeating the one or two difficult words are more common: "Nenaolejuje-li Julie koleje, naolejuji je já" (Should not July oil the tracks I will oil them myself). Popular are also long words created by adding various prefixes and suffixes (such as "nejneobhospodařovávatelnějšími") which – although grammatically correct – do not have much use in common language.
The most famous French twister (called "virelangue") is certainly "Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien", meaning "a hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his dog".
Very difficult russian one is "Korabli lavirovali-lavirovali, lavirovali-lavirovali, da ne vilavirovali" meaning "Ships have been manoeuvring, manoeuvring and couldn't finish manoeuvring".
The Georgian tongue-twister, "ბაყაყი წყალში ყიყინებს" (baq'aq'i ts'q'alshi q'iq'inebs; "the frog is croaking in the water") contains several instances of a uvular ejective consonant that is very difficult for non-Georgians.
The sign language equivalent of a tongue twister is called a finger fumbler. According to Susan Fischer, the phrase Good blood, bad blood is a tongue-twister in English as well as a finger-fumbler in ASL.


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First Look: Nook Color
Colour, supports loaning, 2 million books available, holds 6000 books
8-hour battery life, the screen might not work so well on the beach, no library checking service like Sony
Book lovers and journalists across New York City gathered at Barnes & Noble's massive flagship store in Union Square for their "Very Special Event" to launch the new Nook Color, and of course Pocket-lint was there to cover it. The new 7-inch tablet is the company's first full-colour touch reader and a follow up to the popular black and white Nook already on sale in the US.
At first glance, the reader looks, like a standard tablet. Similar to the iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Nook Color isn't designed to look much different to other 7-inch tablets. The tablet's screen integrates "VividView" technology, which basically means it has a 16 million colour 1024 x 600 LCD IPS display as well as a full lamination screen film, designed to reduce glare from the backlight and external light. The Nook Color's screen is as vivid as its competitors, but that's not really the feature that makes the Nook Color stand out from competitors.
The first feature that really stood out was the price point. At $249, this tablet is much more accessible than the iPad and functions on Wi-Fi rather than expensive 3G that might require a data plan and/or monthly fee. The device runs on the Android platform and once connected to Wi-Fi, users can browse the web, shop book titles, magazines, and newspapers, and share or "loan" books to friends via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
The other thing that stands out about the Nook Color is that Barnes & Noble offers its users a very "curated experience" through different "nooks" like Nook Kids, Nook Newstand, book titles, recommendations from Barnes & Noble's master booksellers, and apps from Pandora and Dictionary.com.
This curated experience also applied to the Barnes and Noble's demos at the launch in New York. We could see, ask questions, get the product demonstrators to do things for us, but weren't able to physically touch the devices ourselves away from the eyes of Barnes and Noble.
Once you start exploring the Nook Color, you'll see that pretty much everything is stored in your library. Within the library, titles are separated into books, newspapers, magazines, and then other types of files like pictures and personal documents (Microsoft Office docs, JPGs, MP3s, etc.) With 8GB of storage, you can store a good amount of content on the reader itself. The Nook Color currently features over 2 million book titles ranging from classics to new releases and even independent books featured in the Nook's PubIt section for independent publishers all for around $9.99 per title.
When you open up a book, you can scroll through the pages by swiping the screen or simply tapping the sidebar. You can also bring up a view of multiple pages like the table of contents and cover minimised in the middle of the screen for easy navigation. The Nook Color also offers users a customisable experience where they can change the font size, which is useful for multiple users. We liked that the Nook Color had a section for recommendations based on your previous book choices and that the device immediately picked up from where you left off when you open up a book.
Some of the other journalists we spoke to at the launch event mentioned that there was some lag when turning the pages, but this is simply not a noticeable enough flaw to make us dislike the device.
Aside from reading books, you can also access magazines and newspapers in the Nook Newstand. Most major magazines and newspapers were represented with options to purchase single issues, a subscription, or try a 14-day trial. The magazine reading feature really stood out because it not only highlights the Nook Color's screen with full screen pictures, but it also showed off the elegant UI.
For us, the best part about reading a magazine is appreciating the pictures and diving into the articles from time to time. The Nook Color does not make you sacrifice this magazine reading experience simply because you are reading the magazine on an reader device. Instead, the Nook Color features "Article View," which allows you to flip through full screen pictures and access full articles when and where you want to.
The newspaper reading experience was similar to magazine reading and integrates some rich content like videos and colour pictures. Reading these online periodicals was certainly not the same experience as reading these same stories online, since videos and pictures aren't really integrated into the story itself as they are online. Only certain stories feature rich media like videos, and these are only located at the top of the article. If you use the Nook Color's web browser to go online and read periodicals, the device will not support Flash, which is a limiting feature.
The Nook Color also has a stocked Nook Kids department that allows parents to download classic kids stories and newbies for their kids. The best part? If the parents don't feel like reading the story to their kids, the Nook Color features recorded versions of the story narrated by professional storytellers. Nice.
When our family goes on a holiday, our mum packs a duffel bag filled with books. Not only is this the heaviest bag that we have to lug up the stairs, but it's simply outdated. This is the first tablet that we could seeing buying our mums for the holidays.
At $249, this device is accessible and isn't the kind of gift that requires the recipient to spend an arm and a leg to actually use it, simply because it doesn't use 3G. This is something that we really like because it's truly a gift.
This device is an ereader with a focus on reading. Yes, you can go online; yes, you can share stories and quotes on Facebook and Twitter, but overall, the emphasis is on reading books, magazines, and periodicals. If that's what you're interested in doing, then this is the ereader for you. The book recommendation feature was also an interesting tool for readers since the Nook Color has custom recommendations based on your previous choices.
Overall, the Nook Color is a great ereader. If you're looking for more apps and more web accessibility, then maybe the Nook Color is not for you.
The Nook Color is available for pre-order from BestBuy.com, Wal-Mart, and Books-a-Million. It should be available for purchase on 19 November.

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Social Justice at St. Edward's University — A Living, learning experience
Living Learning Community. What does that mean? As a freshman this year, I participated in the Social Justice Living Learning Community. I lived fully, learned a lot about myself and the world around me, and now am part of a community that is forever. Community is the most important aspect of a LLC and mine understood that. The Social Justice LLC isn't just a group of students that live on a residence hall floor together — we are a family, a family that is there for each other and cares for one another.
I feel as though I happened upon this experience. During high school, I visited St. Edward's once and knew nothing about residence halls or the campus in general. I had no intention of enrolling … just wanted to visit the campus. During the spring semester of my senior year, I decided St. Edward's was my college. I then received an e-mail about applying for something called a Living Learning Community and thought to myself, "That sounds neat, why not?"
Service is a huge part of my life, and it was something that I wanted to take with me to college. I felt like the Social Justice LLC would provide me with that opportunity. The rest is history and here I am now at St. Edward's. On campus, there are so many ways and opportunities to be involved. It can sometimes be overwhelming. Being in the LLC was comforting. I knew that at the end of the day I was still part of something wonderful, with wonderful people.
In LLCs, students choose their housing based on a common theme, and throughout the year, they explore the topic and deepen their knowledge of the subject. Taking a class together made our experience more than just a group that served and lived together. The class emphasized the learning aspect and our closeness facilitated some great discussions, discussions I had never had in class before college. This is what college is meant to be like. There is supposed to be good conversation, conversations that make you think and grow.
In the LLC, we are all so different. I am a Global Studies major, but some are studying Political Science, others English, and some are Education majors. It's this meshing of differences that keeps things interesting. We all come from different places with different lives and different beliefs. But at the end of the day, we can all agree that we are a family and we are a community that lives and learns together. I highly recommend the LLCs to anyone attending St. Edward's. They are great for so many reasons. For 2011–2012, freshmen can choose from five different Living Learning Communities, including:
- Business
- Global Understanding
- Honors (by invitation)
- Natural Sciences
- Social Justice
Why not take a chance and do something wonderful for yourself? What LLC are you interested in? The final deadline to apply for an LLC is May 2. Apply now.
- Laulie Eckeberger is a freshman majoring in Global Studies.


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Today we have released an updated version of Skype for Android.
This latest Skype for Android version is optimized to take advantage of the screen size of your Android device, so you can experience your favorite Skype features no matter what screen size you have - either on a smaller Android phone or the more spacious display of your tablet.
New features:
- Microsoft Account login
- IM with Messenger buddies
- New UI for Android tablets
- Wideband Silk audio codec support
- Call auto-answer option
More about the improvements:
- Login with Skype or Microsoft Account
- You can sign into Skype on Android with both Skype and Microsoft accounts. You will need to merge your Microsoft and Skype accounts if you wish to see your Messenger and Skype contacts in one place.
- IM with Messenger buddies
- Once your Skype and Microsoft accounts are merged, you can instant message your Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail and Outlook.com contacts via Skype.
- Tablet UI
- This latest Skype for Android version is optimized to take advantage of the larger screen size of your Android device. For instance: contacts are displayed as large avatars in a grid layout allowing users to find contacts and conversations easily if you are on an Android tablet.
- Wideband Silk audio codec support
- Skype for Android 3.0 features Skype's wideband audio codec, SILK. SILK copes well with the varying speeds of Internet connections, ensuring that the audio quality is always the best it can be.
- Call auto-answer option
- This version of Skype also includes an option to set your device to automatically answer incoming calls.
No, it does not work in portrait mode.


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Simple set up.
Each background comes equipped with a 6" pole pocket along the 10' side for easy attachment to a background support system.
Take the background on location
This Westcott backdrop will come folded inside a heavy-duty PVC carry case that allows for easy storage and transportation. The clear PVC carry case comes in handy when trying to find a specific color.
Seamless 10' extra wide width.
Need a little extra room? Westcott's backdrops are 1' on average larger than industry standard providing more room for framing your image. No need to worry about removing seams in post-production as all of Westcott's backdrops are seamless to ensure professional results.
Easy use for key compositing (chroma keying).
This background features true chroma key color for key compositing. This is a technique for compositing two images or frames together in which a color from one image is removed (made transparent), revealing another image behind it commonly used in video production and post-production.
High-quality fabrics.
For over 112 years, Westcott has been working with the best fabric mills worldwide. Each backdrop is constructed from 65% cotton/polyester blend muslin.
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I've finally managed to run MediaTomb on my ReadyNAS Ultra 4. With the current setup I can stream any video to my PS3. Subtitles are supported but only as external srt or sub file (that must be named exactly like the video file with the exception of the extesion that can be either srt or sub).
I've also made a bin package for readynas. Before installing it you must enable ssh access and install a few external dependecies:
apt-get update
apt-get install libfreetype6 ttf-dejavu ffmpeg lsdvd
Then you can download the bin package from:
https://github.com/rriggio/MediaTomb4Re ... 2.1-10.bin
and install it from the web interface.
The package contains three executable:
(1) MediaTomb, the actual DLNA server
(2) mencoder, used for transoding video and audio to formats that are supported by the PS3
(3) mediainfo, used to extract infomation from the video file (such as codec and resolution)
A transcoding script borrowed from:
is used in order to understand if the video and audio shall be streamed to the PS3 or if it must be transcoded. In the later case the format used is mpeg2. Notice that if a subtitle is found the video is always trancoded since that is the only way to deliver subs over DLNA.
After installing the package you will see a new section in Addons -> Installed. This section, named MediaTomb, contains a single button that redirects to the MediaTomb configuration interface (that is quite straightforward).
Finally, this mess between etch packages and lenny packages is a nighmare, for example the development version of the freetype package is from debian etch while the freetype package is from lenny, which make impossible to install libfreetype6-dev using apt-get.


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Every aspect of sustainability is written large in the city that is considered Germany's most environmentally friendly major city and, indeed, the perfect model for a "green city". So energy + the environment are obvious strengths – but medicine + healthcare, chemicals + pharmaceuticals and technology + innovation are also sectors in which the city excels.
Energy + the environment, or more precisely, the environment and sustainability, could be considered the "natural" areas for research and development in Freiburg. As early as 1992, the city was voted the "Environmental Capital of Germany" and scientists, businesses, politicians and citizens work closely to improve Freiburg's environmental and climate protection policies. Freiburg is something of a "green model" for many towns and cities around the world. As one of the first locations to focus closely on sustainable environmental, solar and biotechnologies, the city has gained decisive advantages over its international competitors. Freiburg is now one of the top ranked cities in the areas of the exploitation and promotion of alternative energies as well as in the expansion of local public transport system - and not just in Germany. Approximately 12,000 people are employed in the environmental and solar economy and Freiburg is also the host and organiser of a whole series of international trade fairs and conferences on the topic of sustainability.
Medicine + healthcare play a key role in Germany's most southerly major city although the major focus is concentrated on healthcare. In 2010, Freiburg participated successfully in the state-wide cluster competition as "Healthcare & Economy Region of Competence". Its achievements are not only impressive in the research and treatment of cancers and immunological diseases, but also in the cooperation between its various medical institutions and between medical institutions and hotels - another interesting and innovative facet of modern health policy.
In Freiburg, chemicals + pharmaceuticals, primarily means life sciences. BioRegio Freiburg was founded in 1996 to promote the biotechnology potential in the region. This was followed in 1998 by the founding of the three national BioValley Associations and the BioValley Central Association. Since 2007, the year of the excellence initiative launched by the University of Freiburg and the opening of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the region as been one of the top life sciences locations in Germany and Europe. Top level research and outstanding medical products and developments highlight the skills of the institutions and companies operating in the city and its surrounding areas.
Technology + innovation in Freiburg: While companies in this sector in the region have specialised in the production of innovative sensors and sensor solutions, research in the area of microsystems technology has made its mark, too. Several associations and initiatives promote synergy effects and closer links between science and industry.
Contacts for further information:
City of Freiburg
FWTM Fairs Congresses and Events


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Rushed tourists can sometimes wind up believing that Buckingham Palace is famous for its display of leaping pigs or that Downing Street is filled with duck feathers. Slow down and enjoy the ride with today's Groupon: a hop-on, hop-off bus tour of London for two people for £26 with Big Bus Tours.
Taking in star London landmarks such as Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, this open-top bus tour allows explorers to hop on and off for an investigation of the capital. Sightseers can ride between key spots before hitting the pavement for a wander around interesting sites. Live commentary and a multilingual recorded tour provide a soundtrack to the trip and cover London's 2,000 year old history, though sadly not in chocolate. The tour includes a cruise on the Thames, up to three guided walking tours, and discount vouchers for souvenir shopping, dining and attractions (including offers for Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe and Wembley Stadium).


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Get whisked away to another world with your favourite play friend. Whether it's Barbie, Sylvanian Families or one of Doc McStuffins 'cool' chums, there's plenty to choose from.
So have a look at our toy dolls and girl's dolls to see what great adventures the family could be having next.


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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
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When auto enthusiasts equate muscle cars with road racing, sooner or later the discussion always goes back to the golden age of the Trans-Am series. These were the glory days of American road racing and the '67-69 Z/28s were born out of Chevy's desire to dominate the ponycar category. The ripples from that time period are still being felt today.
Larger wheels, wider rubber, bigger brakes, beefier sway bars, air dams, rear spoilers and even seats with high bolsters all found their way not only onto later production cars, not just those with performance pedigrees, but also onto four-door family sedans as well. Horsepower ratings increased also, but the emphasis from the factory led to the development of well-rounded cars and not just drag machines. Chevrolet carried that trend over into the development of the new Gen V Camaro--and then in a brilliant marketing move brought even more attention to the new car by fielding near-stock production Camaros in '10 with a familiar look from the halcyon era of Trans-Am.
Handling all the nuts and bolts behind this factory-Camaro road-racing team last year was Stevenson Motorsports. Based out of the Jacksonville, North Carolina, area, Stevenson Motorsports is a Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GT team that has been competing in Grand-Am Road Racing for several years with a variety of cars, including a Corvette and a Pontiac GXP-R. With strong connections to General Motors and a successful racing pedigree, Chevrolet saw them as the best choice to campaign the new Camaro bodystyle in the Rolex Series, along with two other Camaros in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.
Of particular interest for Chevy were the two Grand Sport class entries to be run in Continental Tire. With stock suspension mounting points, no internal engine mods and OE-style brakes, these cars were the closest thing on the track to a stock production car and an excellent test bed for future performance parts. Drawing from the Trans-Am tradition of the past, Bow Tie fans were particularly excited when an updated Penske/Sunoco livery was chosen to adorn the cars throughout the racing season. Jeff Bucknum and David Donohue, sons of the original Penske drivers Ronnie Bucknum and Mark Donohue, were co-drivers when the Camaro made its competition debut at the last race of the 2009 season.
"The cars have to be as close to stock as possible, meaning that they come straight from the showroom floor for the most part," said Mike Johnson, team manager for Stevenson Motorsports. "We have aftermarket brakes, performance exhaust systems, and safety equipment, but the biggest changes involve the suspension with shocks, springs, and sway bars. We also replace a lot of the rubber bushings to stiffen everything up, but everything has to be in the stock location. Other than that, everything else is basically bone stock."


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Thursday, February 27th (All times Eastern)
Los Angeles Kings (32-22-6) at Calgary Flames (22-29-7), 9:30 p.m.
(SportsNetwork.com) - Fourteen points out of a playoff spot and considered a team still rebuilding, the Calgary Flames may feature a number of new faces down the stretch of the season.
That will be the case on Thursday night when a pair of players make their NHL debuts in a clash with the Los Angeles Kings.
Goaltender Joni Ortio and forward Markus Granlund are both expected to play tonight for the Flames after putting together solid campaigns so far with the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League.
The 20-year-old Granlund, a 2011 second-round pick of the Flames, has netted 23 goals and 44 points in 50 games with the Heat. He is expected to center the fourth line between Paul Byron and Kevin Westgarth.
"You can play only one first NHL game, so I'm just going to try and enjoy the game," said Granlund.
Ortio, who like Granlund hails from Finland, is 20-6-0 in 28 games with the Heat this season, posting an impressive 2.22 goals against average. His start tonight will give Swiss Reto Berra some extra time to recover after having traveled to Sochi, Russia for the Olympics.
Flames goaltender Karri Ramo is currently out with a sprained right MCL, opening the door for Ortio to debut along with Granlund.
"It's exciting. I'm happy that we get to make our debut at the same time," Ortio grinned. "It's a fun coincidence and it's going to be fun."
The Flames sit 14 points out of a wild card spot despite winning six of eight going into the Olympic break. They have managed to beat the Kings twice already this season in Los Angeles and will try to defeat the club at home for the first time in five encounters.
The Kings will play their second game following the Olympic break, having bested the hosting Colorado Avalanche 6-4 last night. Anze Kopitar had two goals and an assist, while Justin Williams and Jeff Carter helped the rally with a goal and an assist each.
Kopitar and Carter scored 2:04 apart in the second period to tie the game at 4-4 and Kopitar's power-play goal 3:13 into the third frame put his club ahead for good.
"Those two quick (goals) at the end of the second were huge and we carried that momentum into the third," Kopitar said. "It's nice to start off the third with a power play."
Robyn Regehr and Jarret Stoll also lit the lamp as the Kings have won two straight following a four-game slide. They did so by scoring six goals, nearly half the output of the 15 goals they had scored in their previous 11 games.
Backup Martin Jones stopped 25-of-29 shots in the victory, giving No. 1 goaltender Jonathan Quick some more rest after Quick served as the starting netminder for Team USA in the Olympics.
Quick may start tonight and is 8-5-1 with a 1.62 GAA and .935 save percentage in 14 previous meetings with the Flames.
Los Angeles is five points ahead of Vancouver for third place in the Pacific Division.
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Bet you thought this midyear was pretty much a stock one when you first looked at it. Then you looked at it again, and its fine details began emerging. So it is with Jeff Hess' "Coupester," a '66 Sting Ray Coupe that he and Vestris Vettes collaborated on together.
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The monthly two-for-one at Oakland's Breads of India on Clay Street begins August 25.
A little mughlai biryani or fish tikka, maybe a cocktail from the bar and a light comedy flick from India? This month's four-course menu features old Delhi dishes and the movie Cheeni Kum ("Less Sugar"). $40 per person. 7 p.m.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 – July 15, 1904) (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, ) was a Russian short-story writer and playwright, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard; and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress.
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim by Konstantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov's last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text. Chekhov had at first written stories only for the money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Anton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860, the third of six surviving children, in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia where his father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, the son of a former serf, ran a grocery store.A director of the parish choir, devout Orthodox Christian, and physically abusive father, Pavel Chekhov has been seen by some historians as the model for his son's many portraits of hypocrisy. Chekhov's mother, Yevgeniya, was an excellent storyteller who entertained the children with tales of her travels with her cloth-merchant father all over Russia. "Our talents we got from our father," Chekhov remembered, "but our soul from our mother."
In adulthood, Chekhov was to criticise his brother Alexander's treatment of his wife and children by reminding him of Pavel's tyranny:
Let me ask you to recall that it was despotism and lying that ruined your mother's youth. Despotism and lying so mutilated our childhood that it's sickening and frightening to think about it. Remember the horror and disgust we felt in those times when Father threw a tantrum at dinner over too much salt in the soup and called Mother a fool.
Chekhov attended a school for Greek boys, followed by the Taganrog gymnasium, now renamed the Chekhov Gymnasium, where he was kept down for a year at fifteen for failing a Greek exam. He sang at the Greek Orthodox monastery in Taganrog and in his father's choirs. In a letter of 1892, he used the word "suffering" to describe his childhood and recalled:
When my brothers and I used to stand in the middle of the church and sing the trio "May my prayer be exalted," or "The Archangel's Voice," everyone looked at us with emotion and envied our parents, but we at that moment felt like little convicts.
In 1876, Chekhov's father was declared bankrupt after over-extending his finances building a new house, and to avoid the debtor's prison fled to Moscow, where his two eldest sons, Alexander and Nikolai, were attending the university. The family lived in poverty in Moscow, Chekhov's mother physically and emotionally broken. Chekhov was left behind to sell the family possessions and finish his education.
Chekhov remained in Taganrog for three more years, boarding with a man called Selivanov who, like Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, had bailed out the family for the price of their house. Chekhov had to pay for his own education, which he managed by—among other jobs—private tutoring, catching and selling goldfinches, and selling short sketches to the newspapers. He sent every rouble he could spare to Moscow, along with humorous letters to cheer up the family. During this time he read widely and analytically, including Cervantes, Turgenev, Goncharov, and Schopenhauer; and he wrote a full-length comedy drama, Fatherless, which his brother Alexander dismissed as "an inexcusable though innocent fabrication. Chekhov also enjoyed a series of love affairs, one with the wife of a teacher.
In 1879, Chekhov completed his schooling and joined his family in Moscow, having gained admission to the medical school at Moscow University.
Chekhov now assumed responsibility for the whole family. To support them and to pay his tuition fees, he daily wrote short, humorous sketches and vignettes of contemporary Russian life, many under pseudonyms such as "Antosha Chekhonte" (Антоша Чехонте) and "Man without a Spleen" (Человек без селезенки). His prodigious output gradually earned him a reputation as a satirical chronicler of Russian street life, and by 1882 he was writing for Oskolki (Fragments), owned by Nikolai Leikin, one of the leading publishers of the time. Chekhov's tone at this stage was harsher than that familiar from his mature fiction.
In 1884, Chekhov qualified as a physician, which he considered his principal profession though he made little money from it and treated the poor for free. In 1884 and 1885, Chekhov found himself coughing blood, and in 1886 the attacks worsened; but he would not admit tuberculosis to his family and friends, confessing to Leikin, "I am afraid to submit myself to be sounded by my colleagues. He continued writing for weekly periodicals, earning enough money to move the family into progressively better accommodation. Early in 1886 he was invited to write for one of the most popular papers in St. Petersburg, Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned and edited by the millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin, who paid per line a rate double Leikin's and allowed him three times the space. Suvorin was to become a lifelong friend, perhaps Chekhov's closest.
Before long, Chekhov was attracting literary as well as popular attention. The sixty-four-year-old Dmitry Grigorovich, a celebrated Russian writer of the day, wrote to Chekhov after reading his short story The Huntsman, "You have real talent—a talent which places you in the front rank among writers in the new generation." He went on to advise Chekhov to slow down, write less, and concentrate on literary quality.
Chekhov replied that the letter had struck him "like a thunderbolt" and confessed, "I have written my stories the way reporters write up their notes about fires—mechanically, half-consciously, caring nothing about either the reader or myself." The admission may have done Chekhov a disservice, since early manuscripts reveal that he often wrote with extreme care, continually revising. Grigorovich's advice nevertheless inspired a more serious, artistic ambition in the twenty-six-year-old. In 1887, with a little string-pulling by Grigorovich, the short story collection At Dusk (V Sumerkakh) won Chekhov the coveted Pushkin Prize "for the best literary production distinguished by high artistic worth.
That year, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe. On his return, he began the novella-length short story The Steppe, "something rather odd and much too original," eventually published in Severny Vestnik (The Northern Herald). In a narrative which drifts with the thought processes of the characters, Chekhov evokes a chaise journey across the steppe through the eyes of a young boy sent to live away from home, his companions a priest and a merchant. The Steppe, which has been called a "dictionary of Chekhov's poetics", represented a significant advance for Chekhov, exhibiting much of the quality of his mature fiction and winning him publication in a literary journal rather than a newspaper.
In autumn 1887, a theater manager named Korsh commissioned Chekhov to write a play, the result being Ivanov, written in a fortnight and produced that November. Though Chekhov found the experience "sickening," and painted a comic portrait of the chaotic production in a letter to his brother Alexander, the play was a hit and was praised, to Chekhov's bemusement, as a work of originality. Mikhail Chekhov considered Ivanov a key moment in his brother's intellectual development and literary career. From this period comes an observation of Chekhov's which has become known as "Chekhov's Gun," noted by Ilia Gurliand from a conversation: "If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act.
The death of Chekhov's brother Nikolai from tuberculosis in 1889 influenced A Dreary Story, finished that September, about a man who confronts the end of a life which he realizes has been without purpose. Mihail Chekhov, who recorded his brother's depression and restlessness after Nikolai's death, was researching prisons at the time as part of his law studies, and Anton Chekhov, in a search for purpose in his own life, himself soon became obsessed with the issue of prison reform.
In 1890, Chekhov undertook an arduous journey by train, horse-drawn carriage, and river steamer to the far east of Russia and the katorga, or penal colony, on Sakhalin Island, north of Japan, where he spent three months interviewing thousands of convicts and settlers for a census. The letters Chekhov wrote during the two-and-a-half month journey to Sakhalin are considered among his best. His remarks to his sister about Tomsk were to become notorious.
Tomsk is a very dull town. To judge from the drunkards whose acquaintance I have made, and from the intellectual people who have come to the hotel to pay their respects to me, the inhabitants are very dull too.
The inhabitants of Tomsk later retaliated by erecting a mocking statue of Chekhov.
What Chekhov witnessed on Sakhalin shocked and angered him, including floggings, embezzlement of supplies, and forced prostitution of women: "There were times," he wrote, when "I felt that I saw before me the extreme limits of man's degradation. He was particularly moved by the plight of the children living in the penal colony with their parents. For example:
On the Amur steamer going to Sakhalin, there was a convict with fetters on his legs who had murdered his wife. His daughter, a little girl of six, was with him. I noticed wherever the convict moved the little girl scrambled after him, holding on to his fetters. At night the child slept with the convicts and soldiers all in a heap together.
Chekhov later concluded that charity and subscription were not the answer, but that the government had a duty to finance humane treatment of the convicts. His findings were published in 1893 and 1894 as Ostrov Sakhalin (The Island of Sakhalin), a work of social science, not literature, and worthy and informative rather than brilliant. Chekhov found literary expression for the hell of Sakhalin in his long short story The Murder, the last section of which is set on Sakhalin, where the murderer Yakov loads coal in the night, longing for home.
Mikhail Chekhov, a member of the household at Melikhovo, described the extent of his brother's medical commitments:
From the first day that Chekhov moved to Melikhovo the sick began flocking to him from twenty miles around. They came on foot or were brought in carts, and often he was fetched to patients at a distance. Sometimes from early in the morning peasant women and children were standing before his door waiting.
Chekhov's expenditure on drugs was considerable; but the greatest cost was making journeys of several hours to visit the sick, which reduced his time for writing. Chekhov's work as a doctor, however, enriched his writing by bringing him into intimate contact with all sections of Russian society: for example, he witnessed at first hand the peasants' unhealthy and cramped living conditions, which he recalled in his short story Peasants. Chekhov visited the upper classes as well, recording in his notebook: "Aristocrats? The same ugly bodies and physical uncleanliness, the same toothless old age and disgusting death, as with market-women."
Chekhov began writing his play The Seagull in 1894, in a lodge he had built in the orchard at Melikhovo. In the two years since moving to the estate, he had refurbished the house, taken up agriculture and horticulture, tended orchard and pond, and planted many trees, which, according to Mikhail, he "looked after… as though they were his children. Like Colonel Vershinin in his Three Sisters, as he looked at them he dreamed of what they would be like in three or four hundred years."
The first night of The Seagull on 17 October 1896 at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Petersburg was a fiasco, booed by the audience, and the play's reception stung Chekhov into renouncing the theatre. But the play so impressed the theatre director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko that he convinced his colleague Constantin Stanislavski to direct it for the innovative Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. Stanislavski's attention to psychological realism and ensemble playing coaxed the buried subtleties from the text and restored Chekhov's interest in playwriting. The Art Theatre commissioned more plays from Chekhov and the following year staged Uncle Vanya, which Chekhov had completed in 1896.
In March 1897 Chekhov suffered a major haemorrhage of the lungs while on a visit to Moscow and, with great difficulty, was persuaded to enter a clinic, where the doctors diagnosed tuberculosis on the upper part of his lungs and ordered a change in his manner of life.
After his father's death in 1898, Chekhov bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Yalta and built a villa there, into which he moved with his mother and sister the following year. Though he planted trees and flowers in Yalta, kept dogs and tame cranes, and received guests such as Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, Chekhov was always relieved to leave his "hot Siberia" for Moscow or travels abroad. He vowed to move to Taganrog as soon as a water supply was installed there. In Yalta he completed two more plays for the Art Theatre, composing with greater difficulty than in the days when he "wrote serenely, the way I eat pancakes now"; he took a year each over Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
On 25 May 1901 Chekhov married Olga Knipper—quietly, owing to his horror of weddings—a former protegée and sometime lover of Nemirovich-Danchenko whom he had first met at rehearsals for The Seagull. Up to that point, Chekhov, called "Russia's most elusive literary bachelor", had preferred passing liaisons and visits to brothels over commitment; he had once written to Suvorin:
By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her… give me a wife who, like the moon, won't appear in my sky every day.
The letter proved prophetic of Chekhov's marital arrangements with Olga: he lived largely at Yalta, she in Moscow, pursuing her acting career. In 1902, Olga suffered a miscarriage; and Donald Rayfield has offered evidence, based on the couple's letters, that conception may have occurred when Chekhov and Olga were apart, although Russian scholars have conclusively refuted that claim. The literary legacy of this long-distance marriage is a correspondence which preserves gems of theatre history, including shared complaints about Stanislavski's directing methods and Chekhov's advice to Olga about performing in his plays.
In Yalta, Chekhov wrote one of his most famous stories, The Lady with the Dog (also called Lady with Lapdog), which depicts what at first seems a casual liaison between a married man and a married woman in Yalta. Neither expects anything lasting from the encounter, but they find themselves drawn back to each other, risking the security of their family lives.
Chekhov's death has become one of "the great set pieces of literary history", retold, embroidered, and fictionalised many times since, notably in the short story Errand by Raymond Carver. In 1908, Olga wrote this account of her husband's last moments:
Anton sat up unusually straight and said loudly and clearly (although he knew almost no German): Ich sterbe. The doctor calmed him, took a syringe, gave him an injection of camphor, and ordered champagne. Anton took a full glass, examined it, smiled at me and said: "It's a long time since I drank champagne." He drained it, lay quietly on his left side, and I just had time to run to him and lean across the bed and call to him, but he had stopped breathing and was sleeping peacefully as a child...
Chekhov's body was transported to Moscow in a refrigerated railway car for fresh oysters, a detail which offended Gorky. Some of the thousands of mourners followed the funeral procession of a General Keller by mistake, to the accompaniment of a military band. Chekhov was buried next to his father at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Always modest, Chekhov could hardly have imagined the extent of his posthumous reputation. The ovations for The Cherry Orchard in the year of his death showed him how high he had risen in the affection of the Russian public—by then he was second in literary celebrity only to Tolstoy, who outlived him by six years—but after his death, Chekhov's fame soon spread further afield. Constance Garnett's translations won him an English-language readership and the admiration of writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield, the last arguably to the point of plagiarism. The Russian critic D.S. Mirsky, who lived in England, explained Chekhov's popularity in that country by his "unusually complete rejection of what we may call the heroic values. In Russia itself, Chekhov's drama fell out of fashion after the revolution but was later adapted to the Soviet agenda, with the character Lopakhin, for example, reinvented as a hero of the new order, taking an axe to the cherry orchard.
One of the first non-Russians to praise Chekhov's plays was George Bernard Shaw, who subtitled his Heartbreak House "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes" and noted similarities between the predicament of the British landed class and that of their Russian counterparts as depicted by Chekhov: "the same nice people, the same utter futility.
In America, Chekhov's reputation began its rise slightly later, partly through the influence of Stanislavski's system of acting, with its notion of subtext: "Chekhov often expressed his thought not in speeches," wrote Stanislavski, "but in pauses or between the lines or in replies consisting of a single word… the characters often feel and think things not expressed in the lines they speak. The Group Theatre, in particular, developed the subtextual approach to drama, influencing generations of American playwrights, screenwriters, and actors, including Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan and, in particular, Lee Strasberg. In turn, Strasberg's Actors Studio and the "Method" acting approach influenced many actors, including Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, though by then the Chekhov tradition may have been distorted by a preoccupation with realism. In 1981, the playwright Tennessee Williams adapted The Seagull as The Notebook of Trigorin.
Chekhov is now the most popular playwright in the English-speaking world after Shakespeare; but some writers believe his short stories represent the greater achievement. Raymond Carver, who wrote the short story Errand about Chekhov's death, believed Chekhov the greatest of all short-story writers:
Chekhov's stories are as wonderful (and necessary) now as when they first appeared. It is not only the immense number of stories he wrote—for few, if any, writers have ever done more—it is the awesome frequency with which he produced masterpieces, stories that shrive us as well as delight and move us, that lay bare our emotions in ways only true art can accomplish.
Ernest Hemingway, another writer influenced by Chekhov, was more grudging: "Chekhov wrote about 6 good stories. But he was an amateur writer. And Vladimir Nabokov once complained of Chekhov's "medley of dreadful prosaisms, ready-made epithets, repetitions. But he also declared The Lady with the Dog "one of the greatest stories ever written" and described Chekhov as writing "the way one person relates to another the most important things in his life, slowly and yet without a break, in a slightly subdued voice.
For the writer William Boyd, Chekhov's breakthrough was to abandon what William Gerhardie called the "event plot" for something more "blurred, interrupted, mauled or otherwise tampered with by life.
Virginia Woolf mused on the unique quality of a Chekhov story in The Common Reader (1925):
But is it the end, we ask? We have rather the feeling that we have overrun our signals; or it is as if a tune had stopped short without the expected chords to close it. These stories are inconclusive, we say, and proceed to frame a criticism based upon the assumption that stories ought to conclude in a way that we recognise. In so doing we raise the question of our own fitness as readers. Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic—lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed—as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on talking, as it is in Tchekov, we need a very daring and alert sense of literature to make us hear the tune, and in particular those last notes which complete the harmony.


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Reduced to economical yet expressive elements, this composition reveals Winslow Homer's strong sense of design, honed during his early career in illustration. (He quit magazine work in 1875, in part because of the income generated by watercolor sales.) After settling in 1883 in Prout's Neck, a rocky peninsula off the coast of Maine, he became increasingly preoccupied with the dynamic interactions of sea, sky, and extremes of weather along the water's edge.
- Artist: Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910
- Medium: Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dates: 1883
- Dimensions: 14 1/8 x 19 3/4in. (35.9 x 50.2cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed lower left: "[W]inslow Homer 1883"
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- Credit Line: Bequest of Sidney B. Curtis in memory of S.W. Curtis
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- Caption: Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). The Northeaster, 1883. Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, 14 1/8 x 19 3/4in. (35.9 x 50.2cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Sidney B. Curtis in memory of S.W. Curtis, 50.185
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