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Par TFH dans Then and now le 15 Août 2018 à 22:34
Hosingen (Great-Dutchy of Luxembourg), January 29, 1945 : the 193rd GIR fights for the last time
I have made many many research on the 193rd GIR and I'm finishing a book (in french) dedicated to this 17th Airborne's unit. I am currently doing the layout of the Rhineland campaign chapter. On January 28, 1945, the 193rd GIR were located in the little village of Hosingen (Great-Dutchy of Luxembourg) facing the German border and the Siegfried Line (also called Westwall) delimited by the Our river. To better understand the battle, I have made a one day trip in the area and I think it is interesting to share this with you.
The operation: on January 29, 1945, the 193rd GIR has received the mission to seize the highest ground facing the Our valley to better observed the German border and movements of enemy troops. The offensive starts around 02:00 PM with A Company on left and E Company on right. Under heavy fire, A Company failed to reach its objective while E Company reaches its goal at the cost of numerous losses. The two companies are ordered to withdraw at 05:30 PM. This action will be the last one for the 193rd GIR.
Operation of the 193rd GIR on January 29, 1945 (TFH map)
Hosingen before the war & after the battle of the Bulge (from the Archives of Hosingen, available on the web):
The Battlefield today: these pics have been realized on August 12, 2018.
Hosingen today seen from the left part of the front occupied by the 193rd GIR on January 28 & 29, 1945 :
Both companies leaved the village by the main road to Germany, exactly at this place :
The Our valley today :
The objectives of the January 29, 1945 (still seen from the left flank of the front) :
This pic realized just on the right of the E Company's goal shows very well the very hilly landscape in this area and the incredible difficulties to lead patrols at this place, especially in winter with anti-personnel mines on the ground and enemy fire over your head !
As a testimony of the battle, it is still possible to observe fox-holes. On the first pic, we seen very well a large german collective shelter with wooden roof remains. On the second one, we can seen individual fox-holes :
Or simply pieces of shrapnel lying on the ground 75 years after the battle ...
Or a commemorative plate in honor of the 17th AB Division :
And finally two other surprises on the way to home ...
This german 88mm PAK 43/41 anti-tank gun visible on the village of Heinerscheid (Great-Dutchy of Luxembourg) located 10,9 kms north of Hosingen :
And this german 150mm Schwere FH18 visible on the village of Cherain (Belgium) located 10 kms north-east of Houffalize, in the area where the 17th AB has fought during the Bulge. Of interest are the numerous impact of shrapnels visible on this battlefield relic :
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Throughout this term The Knox Student has been in the process of developing an online version that will serve to extend the print edition and allow readers another, more immediate, venue for their news.
Content from this and last week's issue of The Knox Student is now online at www.theknoxstudent.com.
The online edition, although it will contain all the content from the print version, will additionally include features that are impossible to incorporate without the assistance of technology.
For example, Online Editor Matt Baker said, "we would like to have video and audio content, and take advantagee of the things the web has to offer."
In the near future, readers will be able to post comments about online articles, see lists of related links — both internal and external — and have access to online databases.
"By this time next year, or before, I would like to create something that involves taking data out of the paper and putting it into a database," he said.
One of the primary databases Baker plans to implement is an interactive and searchable Campus Safety Log.
"I would like a student to be able to go to the website and ask for every alcohol violation in the Quads for the last three days, for example," said Baker.
Among other plans are making it possible to search for photos by their captions and the people pictured in them. With this system readers could search for a name and the website would pull up all TKS photos showing the person of that name, as well as the articles those photos are connected to.
In addition to providing more content, the website could potentially provide faster access to news.
"I'm hoping to reach a point where an article can come in at any time and the site can be continually updated, instead of having a single, weekly update, like we do now," said Baker. "I'd like to see students checking the website every day and seeing fresh content."
Baker acknowledges that there are still some bugs.
"It's been a good launch, but it's a beta and it doesn't render in Internet Explorer," Baker said. "It's hard to find the time to account for errors in Microsoft's browser. We suggest users use Firefox or Safari."
Although many other college publications use services like College Pub that produce and run the site for them, Baker said he feels that The Knox Student has bigger goals, and in order to accomplish those goals he had to build the website from the ground up.
"The Content Management System (CMS) was built using the Django web frame-work, and it's written in python," said Baker. "One of my goals with that was to make the website something that would be easy and intuitive for the staff to use, even after I'm gone, but also be something powerful that can turn into a great tool for Knox."
Baker is looking to put together an online development team. If you are interested, you can contact him at email@example.com.


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While a staff member of The World Bank, Joe Valadez was the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the Global HIV/AIDS Programme and the Malaria Booster Program for Africa, and provided M&E support to other areas of health sector.
He is a community epidemiologist who has worked in more than 50 countries, including Kenya, where he was Director of Projects for the African Medical and Research Foundation and Rwanda where he served as Senior Health Officer for UNICEF immediately after the genocide. There he helped the new Rwandan government develop a Ministry of Health and addressed priority health problems during their crisis period.
He has deep practical experience in planning and managing national and sub-national health programs throughout Africa, Latin America, and South and Central Asia.
As an epidemiologist he has advanced the development of rapid and practical programme monitoring and evaluation techniques that adapt quality control statistics as used in industry, for application in community health programmes.
He pioneered the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling method during the mid-1980s while a member of the Harvard faculty. LQAS is now used internationally and recently LQAS has been integrated with cluster sampling for applications in large countries.
Professor Valadez has also been prescient in using epidemiological methods to expedite Health Facility Assessments for quality control of the treatment of sick children, and patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. He is interested in developing Programme M&E techniques that empower local managers to manage their programmes by using results. Currently he is working to successfully develop a tool kit for Programme M&E that local Public Health Officers can use to identify which interventions are priorities and need improvement.
Currently, he is supporting the Government of the Republic of South Sudan establish its national informatics systems. He has been working throughout the South Sudan's 10 states since 2006. He also supports the governments of Bihar and Odisha States in India to implement LQAS methods for monitoring their malaria and maternal and child health programs.
In Uganda he support DFID to evaluate the impact of Results Based Financing in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions, and USAID to institutionalize LQAS nationally. He also supports UNICEF to roll out LQAS methodology throughout sub-Saharan Africa to support its programme for integrated community case management, and to assess the effectiveness of Child Health Days.
He has authored 5 books including Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries: Testing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (Harvard Press, 1991), and Monitoring and Evaluation Social Programs in Developing Countries (The World Bank, 1994).
Recent Publications (abbreviated list)
- Carmen Maroto-Camino, Pilar Hernandez-Pastor, Naomi Awaca, Lebon Safari, Janet Hemingway, Marilia Massangaie, Donald Whitson, Caroline Jeffery, Joseph J Valadez. Improved assessment of mass drug administration and health district management performance to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. PLoS NTDs (In Press)
- Caroline Jeffery, Marcello Pagano, Janet Hemingway, Joseph J Valadez. Hybrid prevalence estimation: a method to improve intervention coverage estimations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, Dec 5, doi 10.1073/pnas.1810287115.
- Elizabeth Harding, Colin Beckworth, Richard L. Lako, J.J. Valadez. Using lot quality assurance sampling to assess access to water, sanitation and hygiene services in a refugee camp setting in South Sudan: a feasibility study. BMC Public Health, 2017, 17: 643.
- Jerald Hage and J. J. Valadez. Institutionalizing and Sustaining Social Change in Ugandan Health Care: An organizational learning analysis. Health Policy and Planning, 2017, 1–8.
- Daniel A Sprague, Caroline Jeffery, Nadine Crossland, Thomas A House, Gareth Roberts, Joseph Ouma, Stephen K. Lwanga, J.J. Valadez. Understanding delivery practices of Ugandan mothers past, present and future: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study in multiple districts, Emerg Themes Epidemiol, 13, 9, 2016.
- Colin A Beckworth, Robert Anguyo, Francis Cranmer Kyakulaga, Joseph J Valadez. Can local staff reliably assess their own programs? A confirmatory test-retest study of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling data collectors in two districts in Uganda. BMC Health Serv Res, 16, 396, 2016.
- Musabe, R., Katusiime, M., Sinabulya, Z., Mucunguzi, S., Mbonye, A. K. & Valadez, J. J. 2016. Empowering districts to target priorities for improving child health service in Uganda using change management and rapid assessment methods. Glob Health Action, 9, 30983.
- J.J. Valadez, Sima Berendes, Richard Lako, Simon Gould, Susan Milner. Finding the gap: measuring local disparities in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health services in South Sudan using lot quality assurance sampling. Tropical Medicine and International Health, November 2015, doi, 10.1111/tmi.12613.
- Nadine Crossland, Wilbur C Hadden, Joseph Valadez, Caroline Jeffery. Sexual and reproductive health services of Ugandan youths: changes from 2003-04 to 2012. Journal of Adolescent Health. October 2015 doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.06.015
- Caroline Jeffery, Colin Beckworth, Wilbur C. Hadden, Joseph Ouma, Stephen K. Lwanga, Joseph J. Valadez. Associations with HIV testing in Uganda: An analysis of the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling database 2003 – 2012. AIDS Care, November 2015.
- Sarah Anoke, Paul Mwai, Caroline Jeffery, Joseph J. Valadez, Marcello Pagano. Comparing two survey methods of measuring health related indicators: Lot Quality Assurance Sampling and Demographic Health Surveys. Tropical Medicine and International Health, November 2015.
- Ayobami Olanrewaju, Caroline Jeffery, Nadine Crossland, Joseph J. Valadez. Evaluating Access to Education among Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda using the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Method. PLoS One, 2015, 10(7), e0132905. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132905
- Sima Berendes, Richard L. Lako, Donald Whitson, Simon Gould, J.J.Valadez. Assessing the quality of care in a fragile state: South Sudan's first rapid health facility assessment. Trop Med Int Health, 2015, 19(10), 1237-1248. doi:10.1111/tmi.12363.
- Joseph J. Valadez, Caroline Jeffery, Rosemary Davis, Joseph Ouma, Steven K. Lwanga, and Sarah Moxon. Putting the C Back into the ABCs: A Multi-Year, Multi-Region Investigation of Condom Use by Ugandan Youths 2003-2010. PLoS ONE, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 4, e93083.
- Valadez JJ, B Devkota, Akshay Dhariwal, GS Sonal, MM Pradhan, R Davis. Fighting malaria in India by improving district programmes: Assessing the impact of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling on programme outcomes. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 19(10), 1226-1236. 2014.
- Casey Olives, J.J. Valadez and Marcello Pagano. Estimation after classification using lot quality assurance sampling: corrections for curtailed sampling with application to evaluating polio vaccination campaigns. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2014.
- Colin Beckworth and J.J. Valadez. Can health workers reliably assess their own work? A test-retest study of bias amongst data collectors conducting a Lot Quality Assurance Sampling survey in Pallisa District, Uganda. Health Policy and Planning, 2014, 1–6.
- Hund L, Northrop-Clewes CA, Nazario R, Suleymanova D, Mirzoyan L, Irisova M, Pagano M, Valadez JJ. A Novel Approach to Evaluating the Iron and Folate Status of Women of Reproductive Age in Uzbekistan after 3 years of Flour Fortification with Micronutrients. PLoS One November 2013, Volume 8, Issue 11, e79726.
Research Grants (as of May 2018)
Grants (As of May 2018):
- £731,451 (2017) DFID: Monitoring, Evaluation and Operational Research (MEOR)
- $94,474 (2017) UNICEF: Niger. Assessments of preventive nutrition interventions in 17 municipalities and support data use for policy making
- $199,825 (2017) World Vision: Wrote a planning manual for global use of LQAS in World Vision Offices
- $5,898,591 (2009-2018): Support to the Government of South Sudan (through the World Bank) to develop the national Monitoring and Evaluation System (Sept 2017-Feb 2018)
- $433,868 (2015): UNICEF—support child health and nutrition programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2015-2016)
- $1,738,603 (2015-2018):Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, India to assess the validity and reliability of the government of Bihar's M&E systems for MNCH programs and to develop hybrid prevalence estimation.
- $345,062: UNICEF Niger and Sudan to assess the effectiveness of child health days (2015)
- £88,628: Developing LQAS for assessing the quality and use of health services in refugee camps in South Sudan. Donor: Humanitarian Innovation Fund 2015
- £998,969 (2012-2016)Support DFID for operations research of Results Based Financing (Acholi-Lango sub-Regions Uganda.
10.$1,241,446 (2011-2016, UNICEF Uganda) The Community and District Empowerment for Scale up (CODES) to reduce child mortality by improved local health system governance in Uganda.
11.$854,803.36: (2011-2012) Support UNICEF Headquarters develop a rapid monitoring and evaluation system to assess priority programs (e.g., Integrated Community Case Management, EPI).
12.$50,000: (2008-2010) Support the World Bank to develop decentralized monitoring and evaluation systems for malaria, child and maternal health projects in Nigeria, Benin, Lesotho and India.
13.€1 million: (2009-2011: Supports Government of Libya develop its first national HIV/AIDS strategy, and measure HIV seroprevalence in Hard To Reach Populations. (European Commission)
14.£500,000: (2010-2012 DFID) Support Government of India establish M&E systems for decentralized diagnosis and treatment of malaria in Orissa State
15.£1.5 million: (2009-2011 DFID)Support Government of Zimbabwe establish rapid monitoring systems for assessing maternal and new born health care and CBD performance (2009-11, DFID)
16.$3 million: (2009-2013 USAID) Support Government of Uganda institutionalise a national M&E system for HIV/AIDS programme monitoring using the LQAS method


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Chapter 9: Long Eared Maid Little Sister
The elf girl who stiffened for a moment from the surprise. She shed a great quantity of tears.
[Uh,uu,uu, … …. UeEeeEeeEeeeeEe, Onii-ChaaaAaaN …. …]
She was shedding tears that it looked like she will use up all of the water inside her body. That girl hugged Isagi around his waist, like she wanted to pushed down Isagi who sat in his seat.
Within one day, he got embraced by three women. Perhaps this is what they called as "Popular period"
He remembers clearly about this girl. That's obvious. Maybe for that girl it's was already passed for 20 years. But for Isagi it was days that he spent just not long ago.
Also the reason why he didn't realize that the girl was right there, was because of her outfit was too much of a difference. There's no way that she was at this place, that kind of prejudice became a hindrance.
That maid outfit with frills is a thing that is used in whole the Arbarisus continent presently.
Because since the old time people that were from other worlds often came, it said that various culture were introduced from earth. This awfully typical cute maid outfit is also one of them. Leaving that aside.
[No way …. Princess Rimino … …?]
Wearing the maid katyusha, this girl who cried until she was worn out for sure is the third princess of the queen who once ruled over the elf country, that's her.
[O" NI" I" CHA" aaaN …. … UeeeEeEeeeEeen … …]
[Wai, Wait, stop! stop!]
Finally he got pushed down from his seat to the floor. On top of it, she fell on top of him and rubbed her face on him with all her strength.
Isagi grabbed her shoulder and pushed her away. Her face was in a mess with tears and snot.
[I'll ask this once more, umm, you're Princess Rimino, right?]
[YEe' sssss …. ….]
It has already be 20 years since that time. But even so, her appearance didn't really changed that much.
That vivid green hair tied up in big braids. Those big eyes which release emerald green shine are now sparkling because of the tears. That skin which almost look transparent, now somehow got little injured.
Perhaps it became hard to notice because of her whole body got slightly dirty. But if Isagi were to look closely, he would understand that the beautiful face which was suitable for the title of princess, has not withered even one bit. Though if one had to say, then it feels like her mind got somewhat tired …. He once heard that once an elf becomes an adult, then their growth speed will extremely slow down. Perhaps it's because of that.
[AaUAuAuAuAAAAaaa …. ….]
When she got a chance, she slipped through Isagi hand and once again, she buried her face into that chest.
[Fo, for now, please calm down]
And thus, he earnestly soothed her down. ……… perhaps it took about 30 minutes.
[Ah——! I feel refreshed!]
Rimino stretched her body in full of spirit. She rubbed her red eyes. Rimino the smiled until she seemed hard to recognize.
[Really Onii-chan, it's glad that you are alive!]
She came and hugged him with a smile like someone who got possessed.
They then changed their place, and came into Isagi's room. Supposedly Eyeglasses wouldn't come back for a while, and thus he brought Rimino in.
Though he felt bad for her, it will become troublesome if someone heard her called him as the brave repeatedly. Sitting in line side to side, he asked her about her circumstances.
[Wh, why, are you at this place?]-Isagi
[Umm, that's you know, the story will be long though… …]
Rimino who got asked about her story, she narrate it bit by bit.
It's a thing that happened 13 years ago. The human race started the war with the Elf race, thus they continued their resistance. But, the royal capital surrender to the adventurers, all of her family, surrender to the humans or so she said.
The queen too, the first princess too, the second princess too, and even all the younger children also got captured by them. The only one who survived, was only Rimino. She ran away. As long as Rimino can remain alive, then the household will be able to rise once again, they said.
Along with few of the guards, Rimino got across to the Dark Continent. She went seeking refugee in Demon country union, and was asking for their protection. But of course the demon's society was still not solid. If they gave shelter to the Elf princess, then the human race surely will come to attack them, or there's some who thought like that.
Even if there's no movement from the Human's kingdom, then the adventurers will come. 『Go capture the elf princess』or such order, will run about the world with that tittle as ○○ class quest. Those outlaws will come out anywhere, and plunder everything they needed after all.
For a demon who feared the adventurers, Rimino existence is like a bomb that was already ignited with fire. Rimino continued to get rejected by even the demons.
Without anybody to rely on, she had to go on a long journey. Even the bodyguards who helped her, fell in front of the assassin's dagger of the adventurers, and one by one they fell down.
And then the place where she finally arrived was at the Dyutyu's place. It seems even among the demons who are well known as the hardliner faction princess which propose to do a do or die resistance. It was something that quite surprising.
No, she must have just said something like [Let's defeat the human desu!] without giving a thought about anything. Isagi ended up thinking something like that. Anyway
Rimino got protection from Dyutyu castle. For when the day when Dyutyu rise, Rimino will play her part as the princess of the Elves.
But, for Rimino who does not even have a single guard, and without any power. It's already grateful for her to stay.
And thus, she is now working as a servant. That kind of livelihood, has lasted already for 8 years.
[For the first time, it was so hard and unbearable. Everyday I felt like I was about to cry]
[Is that so….]
[But Rimino, believed you know. One day, Onii-chan will come fo me]
[……. I'm sorry kay]
With a smile that seemed to hide something, unintentionally, Isagi apologized.
As expected, there's a bit part of her that had changed. The former her was supposed to have more with resolution. After all, she is the princess of a whole country. Her etiquette is perfect, and her wording is also bit more elegant.
Although there's a time where she called him as『Onii-chan』 at the place where there's nobody around. But even so, it's supposed to be just something that was categorized as a joke.
[It's okay you know, in the end you was alive right. Also, it's feels like there's result from all of Rimino's struggles] – Rimino
Inside those word, he felt a flood of emotions included in it. In front of the girl who made a smile that seems to shine. Isagi ended up with not being able to say anything.
Even thought 20 years already passed, it feels like her mind has rejuvenated to regressing into a child …. perhaps it is something like that. It must have been full of painful experiences for her. The whereabouts of Isagi was the Demon Lords castle. For her, to get help from her arch-enemy's daughter was maybe humiliating. She must have had to always endure it.
While he patted the girl's head who was smiling while floating tears, Isagi thought. To this princess too, he must treat her kindly.
His meeting with Rimino, was at the time right after Isagi started his journey. For the sake of saving the Elf race who was invaded by the Demon empire's troops. The brave party, stationed themselves at the Elf's country Mistorando for short while.
At the time when he meet Rimino at that time, they were on good term. Or rather, she one sidedly followed him around. Perhaps having saying that, it is more likly that is correct.
For Isagi, she was an existence that was similar to a little sister. Even after the brave party left Mistorando, she followed the party for a while. As expected it's not something that a princess should do, and thus she got teared off from them by the imperial guard though.
After that, whenever he got a chance he sent her a letter. Even though for Isagi, that is an event that happened only just one year ago.
[At the time when the royal palace got invaded by the demons, Onii-chan gallantly saved all of us. right? Rimino, even now I still kept the thing from that time at the back of my eyelid you know]
As she persistently didn't wanted to separated from Isagi's body for even a moment. Rimino who was clinging her whole body in his arm, said it with spoiled voice.
Even though she wasn't supposed be a child that always clinging like this. At any rate, it was their reunion after 20 years. While she was alive, she did say that Isagi was something like her moral support for her. There's no way for him not to be considerate of her.
Perhaps she is in her own way, she tried to desperate hold onto Isagi desperately. This is must be the same thing as a resolution that Dyutyu and Ira said. This is, perhaps that thing called as an affection MAX from the start.
The more separated they are, they will realize the the other is their beloved, though there are such phrases. The time Rimino separated with Isagi is 20 years. Even if faint felling of love, is evolved into passion that burned brightly, then it's not even weird.
But that chance is for next time. Rimino too separated her body from Isagi, and peered into his eyes.
[But, Onii-chan, these 20 years, what were you doing?]
It's a reasonable question. As Isagi became a little silent, and this made the girl panic.
[Ah, no, ummm, that's ,I don't have any intention to blame you,…. ummm, really, I think that Onii-chan must also have trouble right, and then Rimino is ….]
[Un, well]
Isagi troubled about what should he said. At this place, perhaps he should tell her the truth.
『Actually right after I defeat the demon king I summoned to this world 20 years in the future you know~, hahaha. That why I really made a lot of trouble for Rimino right, I really didn't know anything ~』
Yep. No way. It's out of question.
Furthermore, at this case, there's a possibility that she will aim her anger at Dyutyu who is the one who used the summoning formation. If Dyutyu didn't summon him, at least there's a possibility that Rimino wouldn't need to become this ruined.
If Rimino ended up hated Dyutyu, that girl will lost her last place. If that's really happened, what will happen to Rimino from now on.
It's not good. There's no way he tell her about the truth. Even if he were to tell her, now is not the right time.
At least, Isagi wouldn't do any action that will abandon Rimino. Even if he had a reason, and there's a need for him to do that, he will even make war with a whole country. That's why.
(This wouldn't be favorful for anyone …. )
As the matter if the relationship between Rimino and Dyutyu would become worse, it wouldn't bring any benefit. Thus Isagi became silent.
At that time,suddenly there's a thought that crossed over his brain.
(……. Eh? what if I didn't get summoned ….. what would be happening?)
If the brave Isagi is alive in this age. Perhaps his existence, will it become a wedge in the law of that world. Regarding to certain immorality-like act, then perhaps is it functioning as an deterrence.
The story about the adventurers attacking the Dwarf race, or the story about the assault on the Elf race too. Furthermore the demons who got oppression, will those thing become nonsexist.
20 years ago, after fighting with the demon king, The brave Isagi disappeared.
Due to Dyutyu Summoned Isagi for saving the demon race, it's made the demon cornered with the dilemma because of adventurers….?
This world, is it the result of the distorted history because of his time slip?
As he thought about it for a moment, he shook his head. There's no way that's true.
(There's no way one human would have such a kind of power…. how could such a thing be done with me alone eh. If it's Plea or Selder, Balzdo then they will do more right)
Isagi shook off his own thought.
From the start Isagi existence is an irregular which he came from another world. After he finished his role that is to『defeat the Demon Lord』is done, surely he will repeled from the Arbarisus right. Either way, someday it will end up like that. And then when they need him once again, there's no mistake that he will be summoned again to this world. That was Isagi's fate.
Rimino looked over here with upturned eyes, timidly asked him.
[…… Perhaps, as expected, umm, because of the curse from the Demon Lord, you ended up losing your memory?]
Somehow this girl, didn't seem to harbor any questions about the fact that Isagi didn't grow old. The brave category, somehow got different treatment from an ordinary person.
(In the first place I am a person from another world right. …. )
Yoshi. Let's make it like that.
Isagi nodded in seriousness.
[That's true, actually I lost my memory]
[As I thought…..]
Rimino gulped.
He didn't mind it. If it's able to make Rimino assent, he will cover himself in dishonor. He cannot destroy her livelihood.
[I think, I always wander around in this dark continent. It wasn't a decent livelihood these 20 years you know. As I was moving around to place to place, then I got dragged by the summoning formation]
[By the summoning formation … and then, the Demon Lord's candidate ….]
He didn't forget to make the thing seems coherent.
[At that time I remembered everything you know. Thank to the summoning formation the curse from the demon king is lifted]
[Is that so~…..]
He got really careful with the relationship between Dyutyu and Rimino.
[Thanks to that I become able to meet again with Rimino. This is also thanks to Dyutyu right]
[…… Un. Thanks god. Ehehe ……]
The small tear which floated at the tip of her eyes, Rimino wipe it with her hand. Because of that pure smile, his heart beat.
[Tha, that's why I want you to be silent. The fact that I am the brave, to everyone you know. The other party who wanted to helped everybody, if they know that the other party is their arch-enemy, it's not amusing right]
[Then that's mean, Onii-chan, planning to save Dyutyu is that so?]
[…. That is, still, I haven't decide it yet]
It was his honest feeling. If he can, he doesn't want to kill any of the adventurers. Perhaps even those guys, maybe got deceived by someone.
The adventurer inside Isagi's thought, were with nobility and overflowed with sense of justice. That's why he wanted to hear the situation first, if he is able to, he wanted to settled this with a discussion. Perhaps he can be called as naive but,
For that reason too.
[U, un]
By having her name called,Rimino's face brighten in delight.
As an deep affection someone called the other with their fist name. Even the thing itself for her is might the thing that happen for after many years.
[If you know, can you tell it to me. Perhaps about what are Plea, Balzdo, Selder doing right now]
[Ah …. ummm …….]
She suddenly avert her eyes. He got bad premonition.
[Plea Onee-chan is ……]
That girl yearn for calling Plea as Onee-chan. It seems that she admired a girl who become witchcraft master and battling in her young age.
[Eh, what happen?]
[……. Un, you know, Onii-chan …..]
Rimino knew. Those two, Isagi and Plea relationship with each other. The fact that each of them held a faint feeling like an unrequited love.
Because she knows. That's why, while she casted down her eyes, she said
[… … Umm, I want you to calm down and hear this, okay … …]
Finally. Those words. She told it to him.
[… … Plea Onee-chan, is already, gone]
He asked again. And thus all the sound from the world sudenlly lost.
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All Crowns are Hollow: The scheming and backstabbing politicians of today would do well to ponder the fate of Shakespeare's Kings
"Should Shakespeare be studied in secondary schools?" Sydney-based student Tazmin Harper wrote to Shakespeare Magazine with some questions about Shakespeare's relevance in the modern day, both inside and outside the classroom – needless to say, Editor Pat Reid had a few comments to make on this subject…
TAZMIN HARPER: How did you become interested/involved with Shakespeare and his works?
PAT REID: "It's a long story, but the short version is this: At the start of 2013 I decided to read Richard III, and I enjoyed it so much that I carried on until I'd read Shakespeare's Complete Works, which I think took me about seven or eight months. I had the idea for Shakespeare Magazine almost immediately. I was a media professional experienced in making specialist magazines, so I knew it was something I could do. I thought about it for a year, but couldn't raise any finance, and I was giving up hope that it would ever happen, when suddenly there was an opportunity. I took a leap of faith, and the first issue of Shakespeare Magazine was published on 23 April 2014."
"The two biggest readerships are the USA and the UK, followed by Germany, Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain, France and Brazil. If you name a country, I can tell you how many readers we have there, and what I know about how Shakespeare is perceived there. We have readers in the most surprising places, but I've realised that any country with a capital city, a university, a theatre and a British Embassy will usually have at least a pocket of Shakespeare fans."
What themes and issues from Shakespeare's works are most prominent in the modern day?
"This leads me to another observation: outside of the English-speaking world, the interest in and love for Shakespeare is phenomenal. So even if native English speakers cease to value Shakespeare, his works will find a home in emerging superpowers like China, India and Brazil."
Attention! Leading experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment are calling on everyone to help them – by sharing a livestream of their unique Table Top presentation of all 36 of Shakespeare's plays, performed with the aid of household objects…
Beginning this Friday 26 October and running until Saturday 3 November, Forced Entertainment are to livestream Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare - each of Shakespeare's 36 plays condensed and presented on a table top over nine days, using a cast of ordinary household objects.
Originally devised and performed in 2015, Complete Works will be presented at and livestreamed from SPILL Ipswich, between 26 October and 3 November, giving those who aren't able to make it to the Festival the opportunity to see all of the hour-long pieces.
"Why I always watch Shakespeare with the subtitles on – And I invite you to do the same." Shakespeare Magazine Editor Pat Reid is convinced that subtitles are good for the brain, and can greatly enhance our enjoyment and appreciation of Shakespeare.
When my son was a baby, I mentioned to my brother that I was always anxious while watching television at night. If I was enjoying a programme downstairs and I turned up the volume, there was a danger I might not hear the baby crying in his upstairs bedroom. My brother, who already had two children, told me he'd acquired the habit of watching TV with the volume turned down low and the subtitles on. So I started doing this too, and I soon discovered that what I was missing in sound, I was more than making up for in the amount of information I was taking in.
During his toddler years, my son started watching CBeebies, the BBC children's channel. We were a little concerned at first, because his interest was so intense. But it gave us, his parents, a break, and the programmes were suitably nourishing, so we decided it was all right.
Then we noticed a surprising side effect. Like all parents, we monitored our child's developmental milestones. He seemed to be a little behind with some of them. But there was one area where he seemingly raced ahead, and that was learning to read.
One day we were watching CBeebies together, and I realised that as we had permanently left the subtitles on, every TV programme our son watched was effectively a reading lesson. A character or presenter would say a simple phrase, the subtitles would correspond with it, and our son was making the connection. He was learning a crucial skill – and, like some Holy Grail of education, it was both effortless and fun.
When he started school at four, our boy was one of the younger children in his class, but one of the most advanced readers. I'm sure that other factors played a part, but CBeebies and subtitles definitely helped.
But what, you may ask, does this have to do with Shakespeare? Well, I was busy planning and launching Shakespeare Magazine during this time, and I was watching a lot of Shakespeare DVDs. Again, I had the volume down low and the subtitles on. And I began to notice that I was understanding the plays better, and enjoying them more.
How so? Well, often when we watch TV programmes or films, we don't actually hear everything that's being said. Sometimes actors can mumble or have their voices drowned out by other sounds. Hollywood films have been like this for decades, but in more recent years a spate of British television dramas have drawn complaints from viewers who can't properly hear the dialogue. Some viewers in the US have resorted to the subtitles because they can't understand the new Doctor Who's accent.
It's not the end of the world, of course. Usually, our brain goes to work trying to fill in the gaps, and we come away with a good sense of what's going on. But films and TV shows often leave us with a sense of dissatisfaction and incompletion. I do wonder if that's a subconscious feeling of being shortchanged when we can't hear the words.
With Shakespeare productions, I noticed some big differences when I used subtitles. When I saw the 2015 Macbeth film at the cinema, I was initially disappointed. The soundtrack music seemed to be mixed very high, while the male actors all affected the same guttural, clenched-buttock delivery. This was a play I knew very well, and yet I could hardly understand a word that was being said.
When Macbeth was released for home viewing, I watched it again – this time on my iPad, with the subtitles on. I enjoyed it a lot more, and the mumblecore approach didn't bug me to the same extent.
A complete contrast was the 2012 BBC production The Hollow Crown, which struck me as being particularly beautiful in terms of sound. I watched this on a rattly portable DVD player (late at night, while working on a laborious email campaign), and even with the volume on the very lowest level, I could still hear pretty much everything. The subtitles did the rest. I was especially struck by the scenes with Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston as Henry IV and Prince Hal – they sounded like a couple of lions purring at one other.
Ralph Fiennes' 2011 Coriolanus, which I also watched on the portable DVD player, was different again. It's a first-rate example of a modern-day Shakespeare film, but the sound levels seemed to be all over the place. I suppose this captured the chaos and confusion of war, but it was also likely to wake up my sleeping family, so I turned it right down and largely relied on the subtitles.
It was a similar story with the 2016 BBC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I watched this one on our (relatively) big-screen TV, and the problem was I had to keep turning it up because I couldn't hear the dialogue, but then the soundtrack music would come crashing in (several notches higher than the dialogue) and I had to turn it down again, which meant I couldn't hear the dialogue, which… You get the picture. At times like this the subtitles are a godsend.
As it was CBeebies that started all this for me, I'm delighted to say that their two Shakespeare productions, 2016's A Midsummer Night's Dream and 2018's The Tempest, have very good sound. But these are lively, exuberant productions with a lot going on, so the subtitles can certainly help to keep track of it all.
So we've established that I firmly believe Shakespearean subtitles are good for us. But how does this actually work? My guess is that because we're seeing it, hearing it AND reading it, this means that more of it goes in – and more of it stays there.
I have to admit that some of my readers have reacted angrily – even viscerally – to my periodic urging to switch on the subtitles. I'm not quite sure why this idea is so offensive to some. I think some people were taught in school that Shakespeare's plays were "supposed to be heard", and therefore experiencing them any other way is wrong. It's an interesting position to take, but I can't find it within myself to agree.
In my opinion, reading Shakespeare's works is brilliant, because it gets us nearer to the experience of being Shakespeare's original actors. In fact, it gets us closer to the experience of actually being Shakespeare.
I know from my years as a cinema journalist that a lot of people do have an instinctive dislike of subtitles. With the exception of Amélie (way, way back in 2001) very few subtitled films have succeeded at the UK box office. But using subtitles is something that anyone can easily train themselves to do. After all, if you can read a tweet or a text message, or a picture caption, a subtitle doesn't exactly present a challenge.
Now, before you ask, no, I don't know if there are any studies or books on this subject, and frankly I don't care. I KNOW that it works for me. It's helped my son learn to read, and it's given me a better understanding of Shakespeare's texts. And the chances are it'll work for you as well. So what are you waiting for? Whack on the subtitles, and get stuck into some Shakespeare.
Actress Joanna Pickering has been telling us about an exciting new TV project, Actors On, which "explores dramatic literature, including Shakespeare, by experiencing the actor's creative process"
Pickering as Lady Macbeth
A British actress based in the USA, Joanna Pickering has most recently performed the role of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth in a dramatic series, Actors On. This ambitious new TV series aims to help others explore dramatic literature by experiencing the actor's creative process.
The show was created by stateside Shakespearean actor and teacher Jeff Monahan. "The main aim of Actors On is for younger actors to access the world of Shakespeare, and without expensive fees," he says. "It is more about the journey for the actor working on their roles, how to break into difficult texts and find character, than showing a finished product."
"It's been a great experience," Joanna tells Shakespeare Magazine. "We are still shooting as it is being performed for camera, on stage and then interviews as the actor prepares. We performed a lot of it on stage, which was fantastic"
Joanna Pickering and Jeff Monahan on stage as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth
The pilot for Actors On has been made with support from Shakespeare in The Park, PSTV studios and The Porter Theater in Pittsburgh. It will air on cable for public educational purposes at the end of year in USA, and the producers are now taking the series to bigger networks such as Netflix.
"I actually saw your [Shakespeare Magazine] tweet about why they did not have Shakespeare on Netflix," Joanna says. "And that's what we are trying to change, to get it into the mainstream, to make it cool."
Monahan describes Actors On Macbeth as being similar to the style pioneered by Al Pacino in his 1996 documentary/performance hybrid Looking For Richard. Referring to Pickering's performance as Lady Macbeth, he says: "Joanna brings a sensual ferocity to her role as Lady Macbeth. We're approaching the couple not as a 'butcher' and his 'fiend-like queen', as Malcolm refers to them, but as a man and wife dedicated to each other and intimate confidants. I knew Joanna was right for the role, having seen her perform and from how passionate she was about delving into the part."
Pickering regards it as one of the most challenging roles in dramatic history. "I spoke in preparation with directors Catherine and Paul Calderon," she says, "who pointed me in the direction of researching Lady Macbeth afresh from the eyes of a warrior who would fight for her country. I researched feminist papers and I tried to play her strength, ambition and need for power over the femme fatale villain – more as a Celtic warrior fighting for her people, where murdering kings was not so unusual. I made no judgement on her actions but attributed them with bravery, and, of course, ruthlessness."
Speaking on the overall experience, Pickering is excited, "It was a challenge and delight to work on Lady Macbeth – given the actors whose footsteps I was following. And although it was small budget, the performance edits will be on screen for time to come. I am ready for The Globe! I was very grateful to my experienced and talented co-stars."
Check the Actors On cast and series information on imdb.
For more information about Joanna Pickering and her work, or to contact her, visit her website.
Set photography by Tanya Dovidovskaya
"I was Richard, I was Hamlet…" Young Indian writer Amogha Sridhar discovered Shakespeare during her childhood. Here, she tells us about the sense of familiarity she found in his works, and how this in turn has stimulated her own creativity.
One day when I was ten and down with a fever, I was given a copy of Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. My mother had bought it from one of the old second-hand bookstores in Bangalore. It was a late 2000s edition, a green book with grey illustrations and it had questions in the end. Eyes burning, I read the whole thing in one sitting. I remember two things vividly. One, I thought Florizel (from The Winter's Tale) was a fascinating name I should use in a story, and two, the witches in Macbeth were the most interesting characters I'd ever come across.
The next year, I played the First Witch by myself for the literary fest in my school, where I cried "Double, double toil and trouble!" and my hat flew away. I remember thinking that these were the kind of stories I wanted to write (with pencil on coloured paper, but write nevertheless).
At ten, when I first read Macbeth on that gloomy day when I was ill, I was bewitched by the idea of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I couldn't quite place it then as clearly as I do now but I had found a familiarity in Shakespeare. Shakespeare reminded me of the stories from Indian mythology my grandfather used to tell me in Kannada, the ones with characters larger than life and elaborate arcs that tied together in the end. Nothing I had read in English as a child, a combination of Enid Blyton and EB White, had evoked that sense of familiarity.
At 16, when I read Much Ado About Nothing, what I loved was the pure scathing wit. That play was fodder to so many daydreams of playful Benedick and Beatrice-sque romance. At 19, when I read Richard II and Hamlet, it was character. In my mind, I was Richard. I was Hamlet. With that came a desire to act in Shakespeare, and I performed the 'Hollow Crown' monologue for auditions for university a few months ago.
My current interest in Shakespeare is the idea I've come to form that in Shakespeare's largely auditory culture the beauty of a sentence was more important than numeric or characteristic permanence. It has considerable explanatory power as to the discrepancies between 2,000 men and 20,000 men in Hamlet, or the fact that Yorick has been dead for 23 years and yet Hamlet is in university. The idea suggests that, sometimes, it isn't about characterisation or logic. Sometimes, characters say things because it needs to be said. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter if it is contradictory or illogical – as long as it sounds beautiful, it just overrides implausibilities.
And much like my ten-year-old self, I find myself incorporating what I interpret as Shakespeare's style into my own writing. The drafts of the apocalyptic novella I'm working on don't add up in terms of chronological sense but sound nostalgic, trees speak up if something needs to be said and a draft contains the phrase 'Once upon a tiger stripe'.
Working my way through Shakespeare, I am fascinated with the Shakespearean experiment with meaning and I am most interested in how we can keep that experiment with meaning alive. I want to direct Shakespeare productions that have a conversation with the canon – I think of doubling Aumerle with Exton in Richard II or a production of Hamlet where the poisoned swords are on stage from the very beginning. I think of stirring up the infinite possibilities the canon offers. I want my post-graduate studies to focus on Shakespeare. I want to engage with my little Shakespeare discoveries with an academic rigour.
Actor Norman Bowman has performed alongside Jude Law in Henry V, played Ross in Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth and, most recently, was the eye-gouging Duke of Cornwall in Talawa Theatre's King Lear… That's why we're asking him Six Questions about Shakespeare
What is the most recent play or area of Shakespeare you've worked on, and what did you get from it?
"The last area of Shakespeare was King Lear which was a year ago now. As a quick diversion, as I've got so much time off in my show, [Norman is playing Pat Denning in the West End musical 42nd Street] I've been refreshing my memory of some of the monologues I've learnt over the years. I have to go up and down the stairs just to make a quick change and go back on stage and it's so monotonous, so I'm going back over all those monologues. Just on the stairs, mind you, not on stage! On the stage I'm focused – I'm Pat Denning, America, 1930s. It's because I miss it. It has been a year and, certainly with Shakespeare, you never want to stop learning because there's so much to unearth.
"When I finish, I'm almost slightly relieved because it does take a lot out of you. These jobs are three months at a time, they're arduous, you know. They're like triathlons! The last role I played wasn't a nice guy [The Duke of Cornwall in King Lear], but I love it, it's great. I love the antithesis. He died an hour before the end of the piece, so I did get big breaks, but what you do is measure your energy appropriately – if you have got an hour off towards the end, it doesn't make what you do any less dense, or full on. It was a great one to be able to do. I never thought I'd do Lear as a play, and you're watching other actors thinking 'It would be good to have a go at that one as well, and that one…!'
"On a personal level, I'm always surprised to get employed when it comes to Shakespeare, but that's the same as musical theatre. You do it because you love it. You don't necessarily believe you're going to be great at it, but it's your passion that gets you through."
What have you learned about Shakespeare that would have surprised your younger self?
"Crikey, everything! My younger self didn't quite comprehend it. I keep saying to people 'Those who have had bad experiences of it need a refresher, but you need it with somebody who works well for you'. It's a bit like singing teachers – you can get through three or four before you find one that you feel good about. At school, I had a decent experience in English, but some tastes arrive later in your life. You might have hated asparagus when you were young, and then all of a sudden you grow up and acquire a taste for it. I don't know what that difference is, whether it's something that develops or about finding the right asparagus!
"Until I got to college, I saw Shakespeare as like another language. I don't think it's essential, but I don't think it's an accident that a lot of academics 'get' Shakespeare. If you look back at your classic actors, like McKellen and Dench, they come across as supremely intellectual. Perhaps they were like that before the discovered Shakespeare, but I believe Shakespeare does that to you. I think it does absolutely enhance the grey matter. It makes you more knowledgeable and intelligent an actor. It's like opera – once you get to the basics and understand the function, and how much it can do for you, I think the world is your oyster."
Which Shakespearean character most resembles you, and why?
"Oh, boy! Do I know enough Shakespeare to even draw a parallel? See, this is it, this is why Shakespeare works – because there's an element of everybody in everyone. It's all human condition. It's all because you can sit there as a person and absolutely relate to that character's journey. If Shakespeare is done properly then that should be the case. I could easily relate to a little bit of Othello, I could easily relate to a little bit of Hamlet. When I'm older, no doubt I'll be able to relate to Lear. It's almost like the seven stages of man – you could pretty much find a character for everyone.
"Erm, Benedict from Much Ado About Nothing is a little bit more like me. It's the gymnastics of relationships. It's wanting to understand them and then not understanding them, and then getting them and not getting them! Also, that inability to truly communicate how you feel with somebody. Actually, I'm not sure I am that much like Benedict! If anything, when I was younger I'd probably be more like a Romeo with that wide-eyed wonder that comes with meeting somebody and everything else just fading into grey. Like I said, though, my knowledge of Shakespeare still isn't extensive enough for me to make a truly informed decision with one character only."
If I ask you to give me a Shakespeare quotation what's the first thing that comes to mind?
"I guess it's 'To thine own self be true'. There's a poem called Desiderata, and the bulk of it points to this. You know, mindfulness is about this, meditation is about this. A lot of anything we relate to is about those words because it's about how we feel. Too often, we step outside of ourselves and say what we think somebody wants us to say, or feign affection or whatever. If we could just be ourselves more often…"
What is your favourite Shakespeare related fact, myth story or anecdote?
"Have you read Shakespeare on Toast? [By Ben Crystal] It's a bit like Shakespeare for Dummies, but it's a bit more anecdotal. It's full of stuff. For example, during the American Civil War, a soldier watching a performance of Othello was so taken in by the actor playing the dishonest Iago that he stood up from his seat, drew his pistol and shot the actor dead! I'm pretty sure I've read that happened back in Shakespeare's time as well, because the audience was drawn in so much. Not because they were simple or anything, but because they allowed themselves to disappear into the performance a lot more that they felt so involved.
"The other one is the superstition that you ought not to utter 'The Scottish Play' [Macbeth]. If it's to be taken as truth, it's that you're dooming your production to failure and, if so, in the olden days they would then put on a production of 'The Scottish Play', it was a guaranteed sell-out. I mean, I've said it in Drury Lane and, so far, we're still running, but I couldn't see them putting on 'The Scottish Play' instead of 42nd Street!"
You have the power to cast anyone in the world, actor or otherwise, to play any Shakespearean character. Who do you choose, and what role do they play?
"Gosh, I've seen Jacobi do Lear, which I thought was incredible. I've seen Branagh do Macbeth, which I thought was incredible – to be that close and watch it was amazing. Jude Law doing Henry V, come on, I've seen so many good ones it's so hard to come up with a new one! I've seen Ralph Fiennes do Coriolanus. When the day comes for him to do Lear I would love to see that, but that doesn't feel particularly imaginative!"
We met with scholar, author and poet Paul Edmondson for a delightful catch-up chat in Stratford-upon-Avon during the recent celebrations for Shakespeare's birthday
Which play or area of Shakespeare are you working on right now? And what are you getting from it?
"This week I've spent a lot of time in New Place garden with the sculptor Greg Wyatt who's produced those lovely sculptures inspired by Shakespeare's plays which are installed there. I've spent a lot of time – and I'm doing it again this evening with a special group of VIPs – looking at Greg's sculptures with Greg. It's about me talking about how he made the sculptures, but then reflecting on them as responses to Shakespeare's works. So, this week I've been very much in my head with The Tempest, Julius Caesar, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV Parts One and Two, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet! Those are the eight sculptures.
"One of the great things about them is that they work on you like a Shakespeare play, each sculpture, because they draw you in and the more you look at them, the more you notice – details, a face emerging, a hand. They're a great highlight for visitors. In fact, only two days ago when I was there I saw a young father with his five-month-old son, reading him the script – all of them have got quotations from the relevant plays – from Julius Caesar, as if somehow this was having a positive impact on this five-month-old son. I took his photograph and asked if I could use it and he said yes, feel free to use it. It was most touching, because when I look at people interacting with these sculptures inspired by the plays, I know of no other sculpture like them in the world.
"I mean, I can think of sculptures inspired by individual characters and Shakespeare himself, but not in a response to an entire play – it's more like a painting. People reach out and touch them, and Greg said this is the highest compliment a sculptor can have, that you somehow want to become the work and reach out and touch it. This five-month-old baby was doing precisely that – it was reaching out to want to touch Julius Caesar!"
What have you learned about Shakespeare that would have surprised your younger self?
"This isn't recently, but I think I would have been surprised about how many books he used to write the plays. I'd have been delighted to know that as a younger self – the bookishness of Shakespeare's intellect, his sense of study before putting quill to paper. Each play was a significant research project, he wasn't just dashing these off. Although, of course, they were written at different speeds for different occasions. So, I think that would have been something I've learnt since my younger self that I would have been pleased to have known."
Which Shakespeare character most resembles you?
"Robin Goodfellow in a Midsummer Night's Dream. I'm not going to expand on that one!"
If I asked you to give mne a Shakespeare quotation, which is the first one that comes to your mind?
"'If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating' which is The Winter's Tale as Hermione's sculpture is coming to take her long lost husband by the hand. That's in my head because of the sculpture in New Place. I remember the novelist Salley Vickers said to me that was her favourite line in Shakespeare and that's resonated with me."
What is your favourite Shakespeare myth?
"My favourite Shakespeare myth is the deer poaching story from nearby Charlecote. I think there's more than a grain of truth in that myth. It rings true to me, but it does have the status of myth."
You have the power to cast anyone (actor or otherwise) to play any Shakespearean character. Who do you choose – and which role do they play?
"I would like to see Sir Stanley Wells play Hamlet. Although he wouldn't want to do this, in my imagination that would embody Stanley's pre-eminence in Shakespeare studies. Hamlet is the greatest role in Shakespeare, therefore let's have the greatest Shakespearean of our own times play him. If I was thinking about an actor, I'd like to Shakespeare himself perform Hamlet. Can you imagine? Apparently, he never did because it was written for Richard Burbage, but it would be great to Shakespeare himself play a role in one of his plays. You've got those two outlandish bookends, as it were, but I would also like to see Kenneth Branagh play all the other parts he is qualified to play, but hasn't!"
Paul will be appearing at the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival, which runs from 18-25 June. Go here for information and tickets.
A new psychological survey by dating site eHarmony has identified Shakespeare's most compatible couple – and you'll never guess who it is!
All due apologies to Juliet, but a new psychological study suggests that her star-crossed lover Romeo would have lived happily ever after with Fairy Queen Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the most compelling romances of all time. But detailed psychological profiling shows that finding love with Titania – rather than Juliet – could have prevented Romeo from meeting his untimely end.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann's beloved film Romeo + Juliet, relationship site eHarmony.co.uk teamed up with Shakespeare expert David Lawrence, Associate Director of the Pop-Up Globe, to determine the romantic compatibility of 20 of the Bard's legendary leads.
Which Shakespeare character would YOU be most compatible with? Take this Quiz to find out!
Each Shakespearean character was scored according to eHarmony's 29 Dimensions of Compatibility – such as emotional temperament, social style, values and beliefs – to assess their mutual suitability.
The eHarmony research found that while Romeo (who scored third in the compatibility league, overall) might have been burning with desire for charismatic Juliet, he was actually better suited to Titania, whose more mature character (combined with her agreeable nature and their shared need for affection) might have helped challenge his self-destructive tendencies.
Juliet's top-rated partner was Ferdinand, the noble – and far less neurotic – prince from The Tempest. Ferdinand's earnest, good heart works as a better foil for Juliet's more complex, determined nature, rather than Romeo's stubborn temperament
The most compatible couple in the study overall were Titania and Macbeth, as despite his dangerous character defects, they would have understood one another's anxieties and need for both empathy and space.
Meanwhile, the second best combination were Lady Macbeth and Bassanio (The Merchant of Venice), with eHarmony's psychological analysis showing their shared interest in manipulating others would complement their wishes for a balance between future planning and spontaneity in a relationship.
Another of Shakespeare's own couples fared better though, as the Macbeths surprisingly ranked among the top five. While at first glance they may seem another doomed couple, they would undoubtedly understand each other's needs and desires well, if only they hadn't led each other down a murderous path.
At the other end of the scale, out of all the possible matches in the Shakespearean couple canon, Hamlet and Desdemona would be the least-compatible couple. eHarmony's compatibility algorithms found that their Hamlet's cold and aggressive nature would be too much for kind-hearted Desdemona. In fact, Hamlet appears three times among the five least compatible couples for this reason.
Director and Shakespeare scholar David Lawrence commented on the findings: "What is so interesting about some of these results is the way they illuminate how good Shakespeare is at polarities within relationships. I think Titania and Romeo would be very well-suited in that she relishes uncomplicated adoration, and he would probably find his in-love-with-the-idea-of-being-in-love tendencies better spent a partner who is content to be adored. Equally, Juliet would benefit from being with someone who is mature enough to accept that she has complicated thoughts and ideas and passions of her own."
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PD+ This Thurs 1pm: How the Harry Potter Alliance Turns Fans Into Activists, One Muggle at a Time
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, July 25 2012
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's PDPlus teleconference with Andrew Slack, the founder of the Harry Potter Alliance--not because I'm a fan of the books, but because I'm intrigued to learn more about how you can convert fans into activists, and how the web makes that easier. We live in a world driven and distracted by pop culture, and while that may mean lots of brands spend lots of time trying to convert their consumers into their promoters, fans of various icons, books and movies are also creating their own autonomous spaces that can have political value. The read-write web, of course, as Henry Jenkins most memorably argued in his writings on Participatory Culture, makes this process of fan-driven expression and celebration a lot easier to do.
Into the new mix of challenges and opportunities Andrew Slack entered as a comedian with a love for Harry Potter and a passion to change the world. The Harry Potter Alliance practices what Slack calls "cultural acupuncture," that is, "finding where the psychological energy is in the culture, and moving that energy toward creating a healthier world." HPA has a staff of more than 60 volunteers, 85 chapters, and a network that reaches more than a million people. On that backbone, it has sent five cargo planes of aid to Haiti, donated tens of thousands of books, and contributed to a variety of political causes.
I'm hoping we'll be able to drill down into the details: How did HPA get started? How much of HPA is web-based? How important is it to have local chapters with face-to-face meetings? Would it help or hurt HPA if it wasn't an entirely volunteer-driven organization? How do HPA members decide what they want to work on? And where are some other places in today's culture where Slack sees an opportunity to stick some needles and draw out some energy?
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Great piece of historical fiction and that fact that it's Canadian is an added bonus. A very enjoyable read.
I got this book back in the summer for a birthday gift and now wonder why I never picked it up earlier (I know, I was reading the library books I had to return first!). It is wonderful. Inspired by one of Canada's first woman doctors, Dr. Maude Abbott, and with each section introduced by a quote from her, it takes you completely into another world. We follow the life of Agnes White, from her childhood to after the first World War. Agnes exhibits her love of science at a young age and fights doggedly to become a medical doctor. She is helped along by her governess and mentor, who steps into her life just when she needs her the most. Agnes continuously longs for and emulates her father who walked out of her life when she was only five, and we see how this loss deeply affects her the rest of her life.
This amazing novel will be one of my top reads of the year.
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Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has announced that vice president Terrance Kearney, a longtime resident of Allentown, retired as of May 1. Kearney joined Merrill Lynch's Allentown office on May 1, 1968 as an account executive and trainee after graduating from St. Bonaventure University, and has remained with the office throughout his career. He was promoted to vice president in 1982 and has achieved the firm's Chairman's Club recognition.
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Cho, who has been employed at CSC since 2008 and most recently served as the director of child and family development, has more than 25 years of experience in social work and management. During her time with CSC, Cho has led a comprehensive Early Head Start home visitation program for pregnant women, infants and toddlers, as well as family engagement services for Head Start families, and developed a community-based parenting education program.
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Vece, I said vece, didn't I? I meant WC, of course. For zenski. With a squiggle on top of the z. That's what it says in the section "Slovenian Survival Phrases" at the end of the guide book.
I started reading that glossary the day before our trip, but somehow nothing sank in. Except perhaps Ja and Ne. Some other words sounded vaguely familiar, like "dobro", meaning good, which sounds like the Polish word "dobre", which I heard often in my schooldays from my Polish speaking friends and their families. And "Na svidenje", meaning goodbye, which sounds a lot like its Russian counterpart, "Dasvidaniya" (please ignore spelling.) But other than that, I seemed to bump against a wall, or mental block.
How can I call myself a linguist if I can only manage mildly-foreign languages such as French, Spanish and Italian? The moment things get a bit tricky, I'm lost. In Portugal, it was the pronunciation rather than the vocabulary that killed me. Here it's both. All those impossible consonant clusters!
Before our first trip to Greece many years ago, I made a point of studying the Greek alphabet, so that I could read the signs. It did help. Here in Slovenia, the alphabet is familiar, I even know how to pronounce the c and the z with and without the "chupchik", but it all comes to naught when we're driving along the highway at 130 km/h and a sign looms with a list of half a dozen destinations, all with impossible names, and is gone within a blink.
One major mistake was not learning the names of the cardinal directions. A hit-and-miss attitude to directions is bound to result in trouble... And there is absolutely no way you can guess: North = Sever, South = Jug, East = Vzhod, West = Zahod. I couldn't think of a single mnemonic for any of them. Sever made me think of the river Severn; "Jug" made me think of the jugular vein and vampires; Vzhod looks to me like total gibberish; and Zahod brings to mind the delightful(?) Zaphod Beeblebrox which, you'll agree, is not a very helpful association.
Today, for instance, on our way to catch a train in the middle of nowhere, we were stopped because of road works. We tried to explain that we have a train to catch, even resorting to mimicry and "choo-choo", but the guy with the beret and red-and-green lanterns just shrugged.
By the time I've mastered a few basic words in Slovenian, we'll be in Croatia. Anyone have any helpful hints???
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Hi Nina,
The only help I can offer (and I don't if it's any help at all) is about the cardinals: Vzhod is similiar to the Russian word meaning sunrise, so it's east, and Zahod is similiar to sunset, so it's west.
Have a lovely trip!
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- Nina Rimon Davis said...
Thank you! Makes perfect sense. Now all I have to do is brush up my Russian :-)
- May 8, 2011 at 11:19 AM
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Carrefour is looking to benefit from the increasingly global awareness of Singles Day by adopting the name for its own promotion, which will run in France. The retailer, from 30 October to 6 November, will enable loyalty cardholders to register on its site, at which point they will receive an e-coupon. The first 1,111 (11 11) shoppers who register for the saving will receive an 11% discount on their total basket, across food and non-food, at its hypermarkets or online on 11 November.
Greenweez, the organic online specialist owned by Carrefour, has acquired the Italy-based online retailer Sorgente Natura. It is the second acquisition made by Greenweez after it bought Spain-based Planeta Huerto in October 2018. Announcing the purchase, the company said Sorgente Natura is the leading pure ecommerce retailer of organic products in Italy. Sorgente Natura carries a range of about 18,000 products across food, health and health and beauty. Following its purchase, Sorgente Natura will retain its brands, management team and its existing supply chain structures.
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Click here to download a PDF copy of the 2013 book published by Descriptive Psychology Press.
Click here, to download an earlier version entitled "Clinical Topics: A Seminar in Descriptive Psychology," available on CU Scholar as LRI Report No. 11. This Report is a transcript of 14 lectures delivered by Dr. Ossorio from January 20, 1976 through April 27, 1976.
The citation for the 2013 book is:
Ossorio, P.G. (2013). Seminar on Clinical Topics. Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio (Vol. VII). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press. (Originally published as LRI Report No. 11. Boulder, CO: Linguistic Research Institute).
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