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Beware, for the Oktobermen haunt the night committing mystical crimes for their own benefit. If a group of occult-themed supervillains fits into your Mutants & Masterminds campaign, the Oktobermen may be just what you need for supernatural scenarios.
Due Vigilance, Issue 1: the Oktobermen is a 21-page PDF (19-pages if you remove the cover and OGL page) for the Mutants & Masterminds (3rd Edition) RPG written by Jack Norris and published by Vigilance Press. This is the first in Vigilance Press' Due Vigilance line for M&M (3rd).
The layout is primary traditional two columns and the text is a bit tight but not so much as to impede legibility. The art throughout is full color with each of the major characters getting their own illustration. A set of stand-up figures for the team is included as well.
The product begins with the group background and a colorful and useful relationship chart showing what each of the six members of the Oktobermen think of each other. Then it moves into the team members themselves, arranged alphabetically, which means that the team's leader, Spring-Heeled Jack is the last member detailed (which struck me as strange).
The team's members range from PL 10 to PL 12 though half of them are tricky and support characters rather than straight up combat characters. Using them to their best advantage will take careful reading and looking and how the characters' powers interact with each other. That being said, the characters are quite interesting and have a very superhero occult/supernatural horrorish vibe.
Springheel Jack, the leader, is a half-demon alive for centuries who is seeking to gather enough souls to be 'promoted' to full demon and has organized the Oktobermen to back his plans to do such. They all have their own agendas as well but are willing to work with Jack . . . for now.
Various plot hooks and discussions thereof are included with the characters along with a short scenario framework that concludes the product.
Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThroughRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: The Moreau-1 Files is seemingly unconnected to the USHER setting, the Wargame setting or the world being laid out in the Field Guide to Superheroes, but also seems like it would be very simple to insert in a number of settings. This $1 supplement is basically two full character write-ups: The android Moreau-1, and his creation Erapato. Moreau-1, as his name implies, is all about genetic engineering, tinkering with people and animals. It is laid out in the form of stolen intelligence, setting up the menace of Moreau-1. Erapato is an interesting creation, a type of elephant man designed to be the leader of Moreau-1's new race, though he's not so much a fan of his creator's tactics. Three plot seeds are also provided for using the material within.
WHAT WORKS: Moreau-1 and Erapato both have interesting character hooks, with Moreau-1 serving both as a supervillain arms dealer and a mad scientist, and Erapato perhaps attempting betrayal of Moreau-1 could make for some fun gameplay. As noted, the characters could fit well into a variety of supers settings with little work.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: Not much, especially for the price.
CONClUSION: Personally, I see a fair amount of potential use just out of this release (the first of three). There seemed to be a weird shift in fonts on the adventure seeds, but nothing to get too excited about. Thumbs up.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: This Action Scene for ICONS is a little pricier than the Vigilance Press Battlescenes that have been released in the past, but you're also looking at about an additional 10-12 pages this time. The premise is a hostage situation at a museum, in which a sorcerer and his minions are repelling the authorities, so your superheroes get called in to do the deed.
What ensues is a nice set-piece against a sorcerer who has a variety of minions from generic thugs to mystics to mummy wraiths. If the villain's plan succeeds, it provides (intentionally or not) a shot out to the X-Men villain the Living Monolith. The adventure has lots of sidebars and "What Ifs" to help you out in case the whole thing is going too smoothly or two simply.
Two pages of figure flat stand-ups are included, for those who like such things (and I do), as well as a new power: Summon (more commonly used by villains than heroes, but laid out here just the same).
WHAT WORKS: Some VERY nice art here, my favorite piece being an action scene on page 6. A good amount of flexibility is written into the adventure, to help the GM along. The adventure is set in the USHERverse, the "modern day" of Vigilance's WWII setting, but you could easily replace USHER with SHIELD or AEGIS or whoever, if you wanted to move it into a new setting.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: And here we start getting into the problems of open content: Redundancy. Misfit Studios' DOOM filled in the same gap of a missing "Summon" type power, so now we have two third party versions of the power out there...and what happens when Adamant decides to do it themselves? My only other gripe is that I wish Vigilance had handled the new power the way Adamant handles new powers, by providing a "substitution suggestion" for the Summon power, for folks who prefer rolling up characters versus point buy (I hate ICONS point buy).
CONCLUSION: Not surprisingly, this is another great product by Vigilance, with sleek production values, lots of stat blocks you can use for your own stuff, printable stand-ups and more. I believe Vigilance will continue to be a growing force in supers gaming in the future.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: A while back I reviewed WARGAMES: HEROES AND VILLAINS OF THE COLD WAR, which introduced General Venom (who is really kinda cool)...this supplement is The Copperhead Guard, General Venom's elite force of female assassins. Incidentally, the sole character image works, because the women all wear uniforms and tend towards similar hair styles (reddish, what with the copperhead image and all).
WHAT WORKS: Well trained mook stats are always nice. And really, anything without an individual name shouldn't be much more than that.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: Qualities and Challenges got swapped, unfortunately. This really just feels like an add-on to General Venom, as they are his bodyguards with nary a real personality to be found.
CONcLUSION: Not bad, but nothing particularly interesting, especially compared to, say, Moreau-1 Files, which is the same price but feels "heftier". It is worth noting that the Copperhead Guard aren't complete pushovers, especially when you factor in their Specialties.
Like Vols. 1 and 2 of this series, Vol. 3 presents ten superhero archetypes. For each archetype, author Jason Tondro provides an overview of the archetype and advice for modeling that type of hero in ICONS. An example character demonstrates each archetype in action, with illustrations by ICONS artist extraordinaire Dan Houser. This volume covers the magician, man [sic] of tomorrow, master of the atom, master of the elements, master of the martial arts, minority hero, monstrous hero, mythic hero, occult hero, and psychic hero. The advice given for each archetype is solid, and the sample heroes well illustrate each archetype's unique qualities.
Commendably, most of the sample heroes have a hook or twist that individualizes them even as they represent their archetypes. You can think of Mona Lisa, who illustrates the magician archetype, as a kind of female mashup of the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, Harry Dresden, and Mata Hari … she's a ritual magician and occult investigator whose utter focus on her task leaves a trail of emotional pain in her wake. Spectrum, who embodies the man of tomorrow archetype, has an interesting backstory and a cool new power (ultra-power, giving a hero access to a menu of powers one at a time). Dawn, representing the master of the elements archetype, and her partner Dusk combine elements of Frank Miller's future Batman and Robin with Cloak and Dagger (the latter implicitly acknowledged in the fluff). Dusk and Dawn also amp up the whole "archetypes" theme in a very intriguing way. Giza reminds me of Marvel's Living Pharaoh; I found iHero just silly. Each character writeup includes some story ideas that could bring heroes in your ICONS game into contact with the heroes presented in the Field Guide. Most of these sound like fun, although a few have blind spots, such as getting a blood transfusion from the Rubberband Man to soften the skin of an invulnerable hero—how are you going to get the Rubberband Man's blood into the hero if you can't penetrated the wounded hero's skin? The ideas presented about hero teams on p. 59 will be useful even if you don't want to use the specific teams from the Worlds of Wonder setting, presented on the following pages.
I enjoyed Volume 3 very much, certainly more than Vol. 2 and perhaps as much as Vol. 1, and I think that Vol. 3 provides helpful advice to ICONS players or GMs who have vague ideas about what they want from a character, but don't quite know how to pull it off. The archetypes help.
Why, then, only three stars? The product exhibits several features that compelled my "rigorous reviewer" aspect.
First, if I've transferred the powers to the ICONS Character Folio, the archetypes tend toward the extremes of the ICONS power curve, and sometimes beyond. Of the ten superheroes who represent archetypes described in this book (an eleventh hero, Dusk, appears but relates to an archetype from an earlier volume), only three could be built by players using the 45-point build system: The Rubberband Man at 37 build points, Giza at 40, and Dusk at 45. Two others, the Dragon and the Drifter, are so close that GMs using the build point system would probably let things slide. But then we get into Mona Lisa at 52 points, iHero at 61, Naga at 62, and Watchdog at a whopping 80—according to the ICONS Character Folio's math. This is important because players seeking to instantiate a particular archetype in their characters may find it quite disappointing that they can't easily emulate the more powerful characters in this book. Players trying to "reverse-engineering" randomly-generated characters, to associate randomly-generated powers and abilities with specific archetypes as an imagination tool, won't have as much of a problem here … but since the Field Guides are in some ways "how-to" books, the review must take this into account.
Second, this volume has only half as many illustrations as each of the previous installments. In Vols. 1 and 2, Houser provided an illustration for the archetype writeup itself plus an illustration of the sample character who displays that archetype. In this volume, only the named characters—not the archetypes themselves—are illustrated. Fans of Houser's art will be disappointed by the quantity of illustrations, but certainly not be the quality, which remains as perfectly suited to ICONS as ever. However, if you're thinking of sharing this product with children or teens who play ICONS, be aware that the illustration for Naga, the occult hero, is borderline pornographic, about as far as seminude can go without dropping the prefix. To the unwary reader (or parent), this comes as a bit of a shock—never mind the disconnect between Naga's negligee outfit on the one hand the text's description of her Buddhism and her "long cloak and hood" on the other.
Third, the minority superhero archetype rubs me the wrong way. I don't think Tondro has gone far wrong in describing the phenomenon of "blaxploitation" comics and superheroes whose main story roles were to represent their ethnicities. As a straight, white, Christian male, I don't fit into any minority demographic at all (unless "biblical scholars who play Dungeons & Dragons" qualifies), so I may be speaking out of turn, but I think comics have moved on—or have tried valiantly to move on—from the minority superhero archetype. Luke Cage might have started out as a minority hero, but nowadays his skin color is not the primary thing that identifies his role in the superhero community. He's more of a "family man" (with an Anglo wife) than "first and foremost a representative of [black Americans]," to use Tondro's phrase. Ditto with other heroes Tondro tags as minority heroes, like Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) and Batwoman (Kate Kane). Jaime's Latino heritage and Kate's sexual orientation are obviously key parts of their social context and the "soap opera" aspects of their stories, but it's inaccurate and insulting to real-world people with similar demographics to suggest (as Tondro does by identifying these heroes with the minority hero archetype) that, if forced by circumstances to choose, Blue Beetle would always help a Latino before a non-Latino and Batwoman would always help a lesbian before a heterosexual or even a homosexual man. This wouldn't bother me so much if the Field Guides didn't have the "how-to" vibe, but they do. I would have been happier with this volume if the minority superhero archetype had been omitted altogether, or had been discussed as an historical chapter in comics with the advice "don't make a demographic feature like ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation the central feature of your superhero" instead of guiding readers on how to create such characters.
Fourth, there seems to me a strong undercurrent of sexism in the Field Guides, and it's rather evident in Volume 3. Just a glance at the front cover will suggest the gender imbalance inside. The cover features the Watchdog, a male hero whose body is completely covered by his battlesuit; Spectrum, a male hero whose costume covers all but his eyes and a small amount of his forehead; and Mona Lisa, a female hero wearing a clingy knee-length skirt, a short-sleeved skintight blouse with a deep V neck, and no mask of any kind. Three female heroes are featured in the book; Mona Lisa has the quality "haunting beauty," Dawn has the quality "gorgeous," and Naga is illustrated with practically no clothes on. The only male in the book who has an aspect related to his looks is the Drifter, whose badly scarred face gives him the challenge "hideous appearance." The frequent use of "man" and "mankind" as generic terms for humanity—even in the writeups for female characters—is awkward at best; note the phrasing "a representative of his … gender" when describing the minority hero, even though males are not generally considered a minority gender (statistically, we just might be a few percentage points behind females in total world population, but the term "minority" isn't just about mathematics in this context). Elsewhere, Tondro tags Rachel Summers as a hero representing the man [sic] of tomorrow archetype; by contrast, to choose but one example, Catman is not tagged as representing the femme feline archetype in Vol. 2.
Finally, the credits page indicates that the volume was "editied [sic] by: Paula Rice"—not carefully enough, apparently, to prevent the misspelling of "edited," the odd hyphenation of "entertainment" in the middles of two lines in a row, the misspelling of "crucible" as "cruicible"—and that's just on the credits page! The rate of grammatical and spelling errors is lower than that throughout the rest of the book, although a few errors crop up again and again. "Which" very often appears where "that" is needed; a noticeable number of punctuation marks are placed incorrectly relative to quotation marks (the fact that correct and incorrect positioning sometimes follow each other on adjacent lines of text shows the errors to be true errors, not stylistic choices). Spectrum's specialties appear actually to be Mona Lisa's, copied and pasted, instead of his own. There also seems to have been some kind of font embedding oversight or glitch during PDF generation; the sample heroes' abilities do not appear in the same typeface used in volumes 1 and 2, and the effect of a compressed substitute sans serif font in the midst of all the comic-book lettering (Blambot) fonts is quite noticeable and jarring. Proper use of language matters, especially when you're selling a product made of words; I would very much like to see Vigilance Press exercise more literary vigilance in future products.
Oh, and the PDF needs bookmarks. After the complaints about Vol. 1's lack of bookmarks (recently remedied), I'm rather surprised that Vol. 3 doesn't have any.
By now you may be wondering why I went all the way up to three stars, instead of why I didn't go higher! I don't think the volume's problems should be hand-waved away, but they don't go so far as to make the volume a bad purchase (as long as you know what you're getting). The lengthy critiques above stem from my own need to explain as clearly as possible why I gave a mediocre rating to a product that I mostly like and can recommend (to mature readers). I'd rather have the book in my ICONS toolbox than to not have it. There's a lot of very good content here for readers who approach the book with realistic expectations about what it will deliver. I'm looking forward to Vol. 4, and hope it will exceed expectations.
A hefty collection of archetypes for the ICONS game. Lots of familiar territory here with some standard comic book archetypes. What I came here for was the Magician, Occult hero and the Psychic.
In all cases an archetype is presented with some explanatory notes on how this character works in the comics and the game. Examples from comics are given and ways to use the character. Then we also get a full write up of a ready to use character, either as an NPC or PC for your own games. Usually 4 pages per archetype.
Very good book for the price and now I want to pick up the first two as well.
This "Second Dispatch" adds two new characters to the Vigilance Press super-powered universe.
The Rukh bears some similarity to a cross between Ra's al-Ghul's personality and the Vulture's power set. As an activist who works against both corrupt elements within his own country's government and against U.S. interests, he presents some interest possibilities for forcing morally ambiguous decisions on superheroic PCs.
The Eyes of Medusa is an international terrorist organization run by Madame Medusa, who inherited the mantle of leadership from her mother. The product includes writeups for Madame Medusa herself and for Eyes of Medusa mooks. The difference in motivations between the original and current Madames Medusa—which I won't spoil here—makes for an interesting twist.
Like its predecessor in the Moreau-1 Files series, however, this product is marred by extremely poor proofreading. The front cover and page headers refer (properly) to the high-flying Qameristanian activist as the "Rukh," but the detailed write-up consistently spells his super-moniker as "Ruhk," except for one obvious but uncorrected typo, "Ruhlk." Even the product description page spells his name three ways: "Rukh," "Ruhk," and "Ruhl." Madame Medusa's personal name is spelled inconsistently as "Evelynn" or "Eveyln." A variety of less noticeable grammatical errors pepper the product. Errors like this really shouldn't slip by in a product so short. This could easily be a four-star product, maybe even rating five stars, if not for such sloppy production.
WHAT WORKS: General Venom's character design is very swell, and Vigilance Press again shows that ICONS can be used for more than just "animated series" type stuff that people seem to think it is limited to. The cover is also great, using trade dress that resembles a GI Joe action figure card. Venom, himself, is another fantastic example of how Vigilance pays homage to certain characters without ripping them off - While it is easy to see the image and the House of Serpents, combined with the GI Joe action figure call out, and think "Oh, it's Cobra Commander"...you would be dead wrong, as there are a number of elements included (even a bit of Iron Man), making Venom feel like a fleshed out character, rather than athinly veiled knock-off like you get in many supers products.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: While I'm not terribly hardcore in my ideology, I've figured out that I'm a biiiit to the right of the Vigilance Press guys - which is fine, as I think folks should feel free to believe what they believe until they start hurting someone else - but there were points where I was a tad uncomfortable with the first villain presented for the Wargames setting being presented as a worst case scenario for a superpowered Tea Partier. There were also a few points, especially in the Venom PDF, where the layout seemed to have a bit of wasted space that a different font size or something might have fixed.
CONCLUSION: The setting certainly has promise, although it is definitely in less politically "safe" territory than World War II, so it is possible that a given segment of the gaming population may not be thrilled with the presentation. It is absolutely worth getting while it's free, and if the Cold War-esque setting appeals to you, then it's probably worth purchasing as well. With a little tweak, Venom and the House of Serpents could easily be dropped into a number of settings (despite my comments above, I would have zero problem using him in a game - and could have much fun using him alongside The Patriot from the Villainomicon, in the right game, of course). Thumbs up on the overall presentation, just be aware that Wargames is NOT just WWII, with Russians inserted in place of Nazis.
For my full review, please visit: http://mostunreadblogever.-blogspot.com/2011/06/tommys-take-on-wargames-heroes-and.html-
If your superheroic campaign had a golden age (World War II and thereabouts), Homefront Heroes will be useful for it. While the M&M statistic could have been better presented, they are still excellent character backgrounds and art as inspiration for your campaign's history and early heroes, with the inexpensive price of this product it is well worth a look.
Amazing Stories of World War II: Homefront Heroes for Mutants and Masterminds (3rd Edition)is a 32-page PDF (29 pages less cover, credits and OGL) written by Steve Perrin and published by Vigilance Press.
The layout is a standard, dual column design and eminently readable. The cover and interior art is all full color, some period bits (ration book and coupons) are just flavor but the cover and interior art of the characters, done in four pieces each showing three of the heroes, by Jon Gibbons is quite amazing, almost worth the price of admission alone.
This product begins with a short discussion of the historical and publishing background to the homefront heroes, defining (for the purpose of this work) the golden age of comics, the involvement of the US in World War II (both pre and post Pearl Harbor), and some discussion on what life on the home front was like. Providing a useful, if general, primer to the period and setting.
Next come the heart of the book, twelve archetypes for the classic sorts of homefront heroes. Seven of which are taken from the original golden age comics and include such characters as: the Genius Kid, the 4F (someone who failed their medical exam to get into the military) and Other than Human (ghosts, spirits and aliens). The last five are from the modern look back upon the golden age and include: the Minority Hero, the Pacifist and the Rosie the Riveter-type heroine. A satisfactorily wide range of options is provided.
Each of the archetypes is given a completely written out hero or heroine to demonstrate how they work (and each also refers to classic comic book characters that fall within that archetype). All of these are quite fun from Captain Awesome, the genius kid with his roller skates and slingshot, to the crime fighting White Lady and the ghostly Brother Survivor. A wide and varied mix of inspiring characters for the setting. Unfortunately, the formatting on the game statistics is not as clear as one would wish for and the build could have been a bit tighter
Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThruRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review. The majority of this review is reworked from my review of the ICONS version of Homefront Heroes.
Good book, especially for the price. The villians each had good hooks and backgrounds. They were not retreads of established characters - they were all fresh, and showed what coudl be done with the system.
I just wish they could have been longer. I would have paid twice as much for a little more. But, for the price it is great.
This is a solid effort by Tondro. The example characters are a mixed bag in this book too, but seem to be better than Volume One. The Road Scholar is one of my favorites, and his new power of Super-Vehicle is a great addition to the ICONS system. The problems I have with it are relatively minor. The Inspiration is a nice addition too. I don't know how it will work in play, with the wrong game master, it might be used to short circuit adventures, and players who don't get enough information, might think it was a waste of a power, but it is a good idea.
I still think that the price for the page count is a little high. I think $5.00 would make it a better deal. The use of all caps makes reading long paragraphs difficult. The Jungle Hero and Feral Hero examples are a little too similar and could have been combined in my opinion.
If your superheroic campaign had a golden age (World War II and thereabouts), Homefront Heroes will be useful for it. Even if you just use the characters and art as inspiration for your campaign's history and early heroes, it is more than worth the incredibly inexpensive price of this product.
Amazing Stories of World War II: Homefront Heroes for the ICONS Super Role-Playing Game is a 28-page PDF (24 pages less cover, credits and OGL) written by Steve Perrin and published by Vigilance Press.
Next come the heart of the book, twelve archetypes for the classic sorts of homefront heroes. Seven of which are taken from the original golden age comics and include such characters as: the Genius Kid, the 4F (someone who failed their medical exam to get into the military) and Other than Human (ghosts, spirits and aliens). The last five are from the modern look back upon the golden age and include: the Minority Hero, the Pacifist and the Rosie the Riveter-type heroine. A satisfactorily wide range of options.
Each of the archetypes is given a completely written out hero or heroine to demonstrate how they work (and each also refers to classic comic book characters that fall within that archetype). All of these are quite fun from Captain Awesome, the genius kid with his roller skates and slingshot, to the crime fighting White Lady and the ghostly Brother Survivor. A wide and varied mix of inspiring characters for the setting.
Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThruRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.
The same superheroes who populate the ICONS (and, I presume, BASH) versions of the "Crown Guard" appear here, statted out for Mutants & Masterminds 3e. I really enjoyed this presentation of a British-organized European superhero team from Vigilance's WWII setting. Although brief, the in-character comments either from the heroes themselves or associated characters add flavor. Since M&M stat blocks are a bit longer than ICONS stat blocks, this version of the booklet adds individual hero illustrations for Excalibur and Repulse. As with the ICONS version, I would have appreciated individual illustrations of the other characters, and a key for the group illustration on page 8. It isn't too hard to decipher, but a caption or key would have been nice anyway. The body text could also stand to be set in a more interesting typeface.
Over the last decade, Charles Rice has shared bits and pieces of his amazing USHER superhero setting with us through various game systems (like d20 Modern) and publishers (RPGObjects and his own Vigilance Press), so I was thrilled to hear that he was doing this definitive work, this time for the ICONS system. The one thing that really impresses me is how the Vigilance Universe feels every bit as real as the Marvel and DC Universes - it makes you wish you could walk into a comic book shop and ask for the latest issue of Minuteman or Old Glory, or finally pick up a collector's copy of Amazing Stories of WWII #1 on eBay after years of searching. It's a great supers setting and the artwork by James Dawsey, Jon Gibbons, and Dan Houser really makes it come alive. This is a stellar piece of work and a great addition to the ICONS game system.
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©2013-2016 JNickBlack
Vehicle practice. A redesign of something I did a few years back.
Now that's a badass bike!
Looks like a real beast and I like the name too. Guess I should go take a look at V1.
Pretty cool!
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Oh wow! This is painted? At first glace I thought it was a 3D render. Fantastic work!
hey thanks. Yeah, the only part I rendered out for was the front head-plate thing. all the rest of the values were done with a soft brush/overlay layer.


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Add your quotes & analysis. Remember to note WHO said it and WHERE in the play. Also note which themes & characters this quote could be used for. This will help you to identify the "killer quotes" you should definitely try to learn (those which could be used to tackle the most questions). Potential themes include: •Prejudice, •Love, •Religion, Greed, Power, •Hatred, Revenge, Feminism, •Justice, •Mercy, •Deception, Money and •Betrayal. Characters you could be asked about include: Shylock, Antonio, Portia, Bassanio, Nerissa, Lorenzo, Jessica, Gratiano and Lancelot. Try to lay the quotes out using the same format as the first few that have been done for you...
Bassanio: "shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first" (Act I, Scene I). (Greed,Love,Money,Antonio,Bassanio)(Shoot another arrow and follow its path to find where the 1st is)(Bassanio wants to borrow money from Antonio to retrieve his own fortune(arrow))
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
Portia: "Tarry a little, there is something else. This bond doth give theee here no jot of blood. The words expressly are a pound of flesh" - (Act 4 scene 1) (Greed, Deception, Justice, Power, Revenge)
Gratiano: "O thou damn'd, inexecrable dog" - (Act 4 scene I). (Prejudice, Hatred,Gratiano(representing the Christian society as a whole), Shylock)(A vicious verbal attack upon Shylock by Gratiano)(Shocked and angered by Shylock's keenness to use his knife)
Shylock: "You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gabardine.. it now appears you need my help" - (Act1 scene 3). (Prejudice, Hatred)
Antonio: ''In sooth i know no why i am so sad'' <-- First line of the play!
Antonio: "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose" - (Act I, Scene III). (Prejudice, Religion, Power, Hatred, Revenge, Deception, Betrayal, Money, Shylock, Antonio)
Morocco: "Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun." - (Act II, Scene I). (Prejudice, Deception, Love, Hatred, Justice, Money, Portia)
Shylock: "If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" - (Act III, Scene I). (Prejudice, Religion, Hatred, Revenge, Justice, Mercy, Deception, Shylock, Antonio)
Shylock: "So can I give no reason, nor will not, More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing I bear Antonio, that I follow thus a losing suit against him. Are you answered?"(Act IV, Scene I)(Greed,Hatred,Revenge,Justice,Money,Religion,Power)(Only reason for such a bond is loathing of Antonio. He is merely capitalising on an enemy's mistake)
Portia (Balthazar): "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." (Act IV, Scene I). (Love, Religion, Power, Hatred, Revenge, Justice, Mercy, Shylock, Portia)
Nerissa: "There do I give to you and Jessica rom the rich Jew, a special deed of gift After his death of all he dies possess'd of."(Act V, Scene l)(Money,Revenge,Jessica,Lorenzo,Shylock,Love)(When Shylock dies all he possesses will go to his daughter and new husband Lorenzo)
Solanio (quoting Shylock): "My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian!" (Act II, Scene VIII). (Greed, Love, Money, Betrayal)(Shylock mourns first for his ducats, then his daughter)(This speech then grows into one condemning his daughter for stealing the ducats, "find the girl!" and the ducats are mourned far more, overall, than Jessica)
Portia: "If he have the condition of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me." (Act I, Scene II). (Pejudice, Love, Religion)(If he acts saintly, because he's black, I'd rather he be my priest than my husband)(Portia's racist attitude is introduced here, probably so that the racist jokes made later in the play (see below) are understood by the audience)
Portia: "Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair / As any comer I have looked on yet / For my affection." (Act II, Scene I). (Prejudice, Love)(You have as 'fair' a chance as any of the other suitors)(This would have been humourous to a Shakespearean audience, because of the play on the word 'fair', and because Portia doesn't like any of her potential suitors, with the exception of Bassanio)
Fish not, with this melancholy bait,For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
Shylock: "I hate him for he is a Christian." (Act 1 Scene 3) (This great if you want to show the examiner that the hatred that the Christians have for the Jews, Shylock gives right back.)
Shylock: "If every ducat in six thousand ducats / Were in six thousand parts, and every part a ducat, / I would not draw them; I would have my bond." (Act 4 Scene 1) (Bonds, Money, Hatred, Revenge,Shylock) (No amount of money could stop Shylock from taking his revenge on Antonio)
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice.
The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
Lorenzo: "Tha man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils" (Act 4 Scene 1) (Love, Betrayal, Lorenzo) (What can you say about this quote?)
Portia: "I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike" (Love, Bonds, Feminism, Power) (Portia, Bassanio, Morocco and other suitors) (Due to her father's will, Portia cannot choose her husband, she is dependent on the results of the casket trial.)
Morocco (on silver casket) : "Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserves". (Act 2 Scene 7) (Feminism, love, greed,deception) (Portia, Nerrissa, Shylock, Bassanio)
Bassanio: "Tis not unknown to you, Antonio, How much I have disabled mine estate." (Act 1, scene1) (greed, love).
Antonio: "I am like to call thee so again, to spurn thee too." (Act 1, scene 3) (Hatred)
Antonio: "In sooth I know not why I am so sad." (Act 1, Scene 1) (Isolation, love)
Portia: "If you had known the virtue of the ring, or half her worthiness that gave the ring, or your honour to contain the ring, you would not the have parted with the ring." (Act 5, Scene 1) (Feminism, Loyalty, Betrayal)
Bassanio: "Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice.", (Act 1, Scene 1) (Shows that Gratiano is the fool of the play)
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
The Merchant of Venice, 1. 2
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same
food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter
and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If
you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the
rest, we will resemble you in that.
The Merchant Of Venice Act 3, scene 1, 58–68
(Hatred, revenge, P&D) (Shylock, Antonio, Bassanio)
"That is the voice, Or i am much deceived, of Portia" (suprised found out that Portia was the lawyer)
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit." ( Explaining love to Portia that you can't always control it.)
"I fear you are damned by your father and mother" Lancelot-Act 3 Scene 5 (Here Lancelot expresses his prejudice and hatred towards the Jewish community,and believes that Jessica is "tainted" because she is the daughter of Jewish parents".
Gold casket: "Who chooseth me, shall gain what many men desire". (suggests greed, betrayal, not willing to sacrifice).
Lead Casket: "Who chooseth me, must give and hazard all he hath". (suggests that someone willing to take a chance "hazard all he hath" - New testament).
Morocco "Mislike me not for my complextion" Act 2, scene 1. The prince of Morocco sense Portia adittudes towards blacks.
Morocco (reading scroll): "All that glisters is not gold" Act 2 Scene 7
Themes: deception, love, greed
Characters: Portia, Antonio
Bassanio: "I like not fair turms in a villans mind" Act1, Scene3.
Prejudice, Greed, Betrayal (Bassanio is holding a grudge against Shylock, probably because he is a jew. He feels that there is a catch to the fair offer that Shylock has proposed to Antonio and doesn't want to see Shylock as a fair person perhaps, however the deal was far from fair I feel! He may have even been looking out for his possible love interest!)
Shylock: "I hate him for he is a Christian;
But more for that in low simplicity
He lends out money gratis, and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice". (Act 1, Scene 3, Line 37) This statement shows clearly that Shylock is selfish and greedy, as he is complaining that Antonio is lowering the interest rates at which he lends money. However to him lending out money gratis is not the right thing to do, as a Jew he is encouraged to lent out money gratis. It does however still show gread as he is unable to see the point of view of Antonio the christian, ergo he is also slightly predjudice!


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Lovely Hotel
This Hotel is lovely. The rooms are clean and of a good size. The balcony is what really make it special though. They were so big.
Very romantic
We have just returned from our honeymoon break in Sicily where we stayed for nine nights after staying in Rome for three nights for our honeymoon.
We decided to call the hotel at short notice to see if it was possible to arrange a transfer from the airport which they had no problem arranging. It is about a 45 minute drive and cost us 80 euros.
The staff at the hotel are so friendly and make you feel very welcome. Our bedroom was amazing with a four poster bed that makes it all the more romantic. We were given a bottle of prosecco as soon as we got into our room.
The bathroom is nice although it would be better if there was a shower instead of the hand held shower head attached to the bath. We were pleased to see that the bath had jets but when we switched them on they pumped out dirty brown water and mucky bits from the tube. This however was the only not so good point about this hotel.
The view of Etna, the sea and the whole of the town from our large balcony was spectacular. We had comfortable loungers and a patio set too. One evening we choose to have dinner on our balcony. The staff brought up a table and chairs from the restaurant and we had a very romantic evening.
The pool area and other public areas in the hotel are immaculate and the lifeguard is very attentive, adjusting the loungers and constantly.
A word of warning to those planning on going in the sea - We hired a kayak and were about three hundred metres out when a shark appeared very close to us. No idea what type of shark it was but didn't go in the sea again.
Would really recommend this hotel for complete relaxation.
"Spend your money somewhere else............"
We returned from our extended vacation in Sicily and when we arrived in Taormina we wished we had spent the extra money to stay somewhere else.
The staff was very friendly but extremely unprofessional for my entire stay ; we felt like they were doing us a favor by doing things for us or just replying our questions.
The breakfast was poor compared to all the other places and the rooms a lot smaller than described. We had a de-luxe room which we paid 250 euros that was a robbery ! Very expensive for the service offered .
It was good to leave and stay as planned to the best hotel in town at walk distance from the Villa angla !!!!
Excellent for couples
Have just returned from a 9 night stay at Villa Angela.It is owned by Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, who we met on our last day and who was very friendly. It has the feel of a private villa and has the most magnificent views of Etna and the bay from every room. The location is out of town up a very windy and hair-raising road, but they operate a shuttle bus in to town which takes you pretty much when you want to go.
We went with our two teenage children for a special occasion and while our elder child appreciated the peace and quiet, our younger teenager needed a bit more life. Having said that, I would recommend Villa Angela for couples of any age who want a quiet relaxing hotel with every comfort. Not really a family hotel.
The staff were very efficient and we were treated very specially on our wedding anniversary. The pool is lovely and the views are the best we've ever had. The balcony on the cheaper of our two rooms was rather small, but the mid and upper priced rooms had large balconies. This hotel represents good value in Taormina, which is not a cheap place.
What can i say? L'angela di villa era perfetto
I'm writing this on the plane ride home. That way it's all fresh in my mind. I'm stuck in the back of the plane in the middle seat no less. I have a stranger to the left of me and my boyfriend to the right.- he's been doing Su Doku since the beginning of the flight. What I'm a saying? He's been doing those stupid puzzles since the beginning of our trip. I'm sure I'm not the only girl that has to put of with that. The point of that ramble is to help you see that we are just an average couple coming back from what has been a wonderful holiday. And this next chat is a review written by the better half of this average couple. We also stayed at Villa Ducale, and the other half has written a review for that one.
Folks let me break it down for you:
1:I've been had, 2:Could do better, 3:So-so, 4:Pretty impressive, 5:Excellent
Overall: Excellent (24/30)
� Value for money - compared to other hotels in Taormina, room rate was pretty good for a seven night stay.
Hotel: Excellent (5)
� The Villa is situated at the top of a mountain in Taormina and it overlooks the sea.
� The outside (it's yellow) is very well kept.
� Counting the pool area it has 5 floors.
� The number of rooms is small enough to make it feel personal.
Pool: Excellent (5)
� You definitely what a pool because the beach is well, let's say, less then sub par (i.e. rocky, very busy, dirty & a hassle to get to)
� The pool area is clean and has a bunch of "chaises longues" that are very comfortable
� There is a lifeguard on duty. He also acts as the towel boy and waiter.
� They have four speakers in each of the corners of the pool area. They mostly play American soft rock. You can, however, ask them to unplug the one closest to you if Stevie Wonders I just call to say I love you is interfering with the enjoyment of your holiday read.
Room: Pretty Impressive (4)
� The room is a perfect mixture of old Sicilian style with modern touches - i.e. it gives off a traditional feel even thought it's all newly furnished.
� The bathroom is also very modern completed with a bidet.
� I appreciated the fact that the put a scale (electronic) in there - helps to know if you can fit it that extra cannoli at dinner time.
� The one thing I did not like so much was the fact that there was no shower. Let me explain: there is a normal size tub (with jets) at the head of the tub they have installed a "shower spray" that you have to hold in your hand to rise yourself off with. I wasn't very happy at first when I saw that but got used to it by the end of the week.
� Girls, no need to pack your hair dryer as they have supplied one.
� The television is of good size and has two English language stations.
� Oh yeah! Being in the modern age they have realized that some people, after lying in the blistering sun all day might wanna watch something other then CNN or BBC so they have provided a DVD player in the room.
� One last thing, although the bed looked impressive (four poster!) it was getting uncomfortable by the end of the week (especially if you are a princess)
� And one FINAL thing, ALL of the rooms have an ocean view.
Food: Edible (3)
� The morning buffet (included) is loaded with starchy, floury and sugary food i.e croissants, tartes and brioches - very yummy
� They do offer a "diabetic" option which means it's sugar free.
� The fruit is good but you have to get up early to get the good stuff.
� There is yogurt but it's also a case of first come first served otherwise you get the plain ones.
� They also bring out traditional Italian food - grilled eggplant, different cheeses and a bunch of other dishes that I did not recognize but looked good.
� The regular lunch and dinner menu is limited. What they do offer is good but the portions are small. The best value is the lasagne.
� I would suggest to only eat at the hotel if it's a case of "We are too lazy to walk to town" because the restaurants that are about a 30min walk are very good and worth making the trip down for. In fact the hotel recommended restaurant "La Botte" is very good indeed.
Friendliness: Nothing to write home about but nice enough (3 except for Grace whom I give a 5)
� The reception staff is ok. I mean they don't go out of their way to be nice to you but you also don't feel that they are talking about you in Italian.
� They know their stuff and if you ask for something they will try to help.
� I can say the same about the wait staff especially Grace - she is really nice and very sweet.
� They all have some knowledge of English meaning communication is pretty good in the main.
Extra services: More then we could have asked for (4)
� The hotel offers a shuttle to and from the centre on a regular basis. You can also reserve it if the set times don't work out for you.
� They have a list of DVDs you can borrow. The movies are recent enough and there is enough choice that you can find something to keep you busy when your skin is so burnt that just the thought of going in the sun makes your skin hurt.
� The hotel also offers internet access via a laptop at reception, its fast enough to pick up emails and check on your favourite football team.
� If you want a UK paper, there is a small shop in the centre of Taormina (next to the archway at the cable car end of town) which has a range of day old international papers.
If you have any questions feel free to email me.
Fantastic hotel in a beautiful place
My husband and I have just returned from a wonderful week's stay at the Villa Anglea, Taormina. The hotel was everything we'd hoped for and more for our honeymoon - the staff were both friendly and professional, the accommodation was furnished to a very high standard, the pool was beautiful, the views of Mount Etna jaw dropping and the atmosphere warm and relaxing. After a hectic few months planning our wedding the Villa Angela provided the perfect haven where we could relax and chill out in beautiful surroundings.
So, if you are reading this and are undecided about where to go for your next holiday I can't recommend the Villa Angela in Taormina highly enough. It is a lovely hotel, where nothing is too much trouble, in a beautiful town with lots of excellent shops and restaurants and plenty of Sicillian charm, history and warmth.
We hope to return again soon.
Stunning setting
Beautiful hotel with stunning setting. Gorgeous rooms with excellent large sun terraces overlooking Mount Etna. Friendly, helpful staff, who cannot do enough for you. Only slight disappointment was quality of food provided for room service and in restaurant, very obviously pre-pared, not what you expect in Italy. Would definitely recommend!
Villa Angela
I found this hotel just what i needed for a few days relaxation. It has fabulaous views of Mount Etna and the coast. Each room has a large terrace to relax and have a sundowner on! The staff were very friendly and helpful, one only thing was that the chambermaid always forgot tp leave towels and shower gels etc!!!
However I would still recommend this hotel to anyone and would go back there again! The pool was great with piped music to chill out to.
Magic Villa Angela
Just spent a magic week at the Villa Angela in Taormina, returned on the 17th October 2004.
Set in the cliffs above Taormina, this hotel enjoys truly spectacular views. Staying in the Villa Angela is akin to staying as a very special guest in a friend's private villa. The culture of the hotel is all about satisfying the individual requirements of each guest so that the guest can savor the atmosphere, tranquility and beauty of the surroundings. The staff are incredibly friendly and welcoming, you immediatly sense that they are proud of the facilities offered by the hotel and that nothing will be too much trouble to ensure that you enjoy your stay.
A typical day might begin with breakfast, served by the effervescent Sabrina and Martina on the terrace, with each table carefully arranged so as to maximise the panoramic view of Mt. Etna. Over a frothy cappuccino the day could be planned, be it a walk via steps (takes about 10 minutes)to the charming Taormina or one of the various excursions. In truth many days were spent relaxing by the beautiful pool, sipping a cool drink and soaking in the atmosphere of this remarkable hotel.
The free shuttle service from the hotel to Taormina proved particularly useful when dining out in the many lovely restaurants at night.
Elegant hotel in Taormina
This is a particularly elegant four-star hotel in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. Very high up in this stunning resort, which rises vertically from the sea. We visited in September 2004 and it seemed like very good value at 170 euros per night for two, especially when compared to some of the other hotels we stayed at in Sicily. Newish beautifully decorated rooms that have big terraces with comfortable loungers, helpful staff, van shuttle service to the center of town for dining/shopping, lovely swimming pool. A very popular hotel. We booked it directly and you can find info on webiste: hotelvillaangela
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... room with spectacular views from the balcony along the bay and to Mt Etna, Europe's highest active volcano. Unfortunately the trip Rob and I booked to get closer to Mt Etna didn't eventuate the next day, (it seems there were mixed massages about where to pick us up). But we still had a great day having a look at more of Taorima, and the views of Mt Etna were very clear from where we ...
First impressions of Sicily weren't very positive as we assumed the metered taxi would charge us the correct fair, but it was at least double what what it should have been, and the drive to the hotel wasn't impressive. Fortunately things got better. The city has some beautiful buildings, although it can take a bit of adjusting to the dark grey lava stone, which is an abundant building material provided by the still ...
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... our B&B without getting too wet. Settled in and set out to get acquainted with the town.
Taormina is perched hundreds of feet above the Mediterranean with incredible views for miles up and down the shoreline. It is the polar opposite of Palermo in that Palermo is a real city with some interest for tourists. Taormina is a tourist town, period. Until recent decades a backwater town that happened to ...
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Danielson has been vocal about the efforts to clean up the sport, and noted many of those cyclists punished had stopped using banned substances long before the USADA's investigation that ended in the sport's most high-profile athlete, Lance Armstrong, being banned for life. Danielson told reporters in interviews after his suspension that most cyclists welcomed the new changes as they felt they had no choice for many years.
Danielson has been one of the sport's most well-known riders despite not winning a major tour in his career. He said it was being injured early in the Tour de France this year that forced him to really evaluate why he was still cycling.
"Normally I'm in the race, I'm kind of there, knowing I could be there, and then at crunch time, can't do it; I just can't do it," he said. "Mentally, I kind of second-guess myself. I had a different Tour de France this year, getting injured at the beginning, and I had a lot of time to reflect while I was getting my head kicked in during that race, 'Why am I doing this sport?'
"When I came home, it became real clear to me, I'm doing it to try to win races," he said. "I don't like to try to be a guy it the peloton. I decided this would be a good race for me to do this."
When Morton earned the yellow jersey in Stage 3, Danielson said he tried to be a good teammate and help the 21-year-old hold on to it. Morton did earn the best young rider's jersey, while Stage 6 winner Mancebo won the most aggressive rider's jersey. Michael Torckler won the king of the mountain jersey, an honor he claimed on the first day and managed to hold on to despite competing against some of the best climbers in the world.
Danielson said his mindset shifted when Morton said he didn't have the legs to try and win Stage 5.
"I think a lot of people don't quite understand what professional cycling is and what we're doing," he said when asked if this race was a turning point for his career. "They think we're out there making money riding bikes, and we look cool doing it. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of suffering. It's a lot of injuries. Look at Chris here to my right.' He's seen it all, and why is he still doing it? He's doing it for experiences like we have here. That's why we do it. We put up with knee surgeries, calf tears and the crashes just to get that one moment like I had today. We just keep doing it. That's who we are as professional cyclists."
Not only is this Horner's first race in five months because of knee surgery, the king of the mountain jersey is the biggest prize Torckler has won since being hit by a car while training last year. The cyclists nodded as Danielson expressed his affection for the sport of cycling.
"We're very determined people who are looking for moments like we get today," he said. "We're not out there trying to make money or anything else. We're trying to seize that moment."
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Melissa is meeting with her family to fill them in on her plans for her book, and make sure they're OK with her revealing the truth about her late father's lifestyle. They all admit that when he would disappear for days, he was partying and most likely cheating on her mom. Every time Melissa talks about this book, which has been all season, so far, I cringe. Never one to side with Teresa, I can't help but be reminded that being on this show was a gateway for Melissa to gain fame and do what Teresa was doing. We can all admit that Teresa is queen of the books. Now Melissa has to write on, ugh. It all seems so inauthentic whenever she talks about the book, as if Bravo told her she needs to make the book a part of the season if she wants it to sell. I'm not interested in any of this. Joe comes home and tells Melissa about his fight with Teresa at the gym, and she admits that she did make the comment on Twitter about Teresa going bankrupt. After defending his wife and not believing Teresa, he can't believe that she was telling the truth, and was actually right to be upset. He doesn't want even his wife to talk badly about his sister, and he's pissed. Between him and Caroline, it's obvious that Melissa is no longer being seen as such an innocent victim.
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Kathy, Rosie, Caroline, and Jacqueline are getting make-overs together, as if Rosie would ever attend such an event. Teresa calls Caroline and tells her what happened with Joe, saying that she thought he wanted to make amends but it's obvious he doesn't. Caroline tells her that she needs to take a step back and they need to work it out. Teresa mentions holistic healing, and I already know where this is going. Hmm, a trip? An entire episode dedicated to some traveling and family fighting? Yes please. Let's not, however, act like Teresa came up with this idea on her own.
Between Kathy and Rich, there's trouble brewing. She's starting up her baking business, and he's taking over and overriding all of her ideas. Poor Kathy! She feels like Rich doesn't value her opinion, doesn't listen, typical marriage problems. He then brings her to a kitchen that he's renting for her, and she's not too happy. She wants to do it on her own, and I get it.
The Manzos are pointless so far, and I can barely deal with listening to the Manzo kids talk about their life goals. None of them want to ever get married, and Christopher never wants kids. He doesn't want to deal with having a daughter and making sure she's not a whore. Caroline must be so proud. She laughs along with her brilliant kids while they go on to say that despite Lauren being fat during her whore years, fat girls are, I don't even want to say it, "blow job queens." Now I hate them all, and especially the proud mama bear laughing at these guys. I still don't understand the whole Hoboken apartment thing, but for whatever reason it's there.
Rosie calls Teresa and asks if she wants to meet and hash things out. They meet and start arguing about Teresa's dad still being upset about Kathy calling him a coward. Rosie goes into ogre mode, pounding on the table and screaming in the middle of the bar. I'm glad Teresa stuck this out, because they actually end up on good terms. It was nice to see them in the end, talking about being family and just having to yell and hash it out, but still loving each other in the end. Maybe Rosie is the answer in all of this fighting. Teresa brings up the holistic healing retreat again, and now they're all going. Thanks Bravo.
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The win was the first on the road this season for Los Angeles (9-4), which had dropped its first four games away from Staples Center. It was also the Sparks' third win by 16 or more points in their last four outings.
Tulsa (3-12) dropped its fifth straight game and saw its modest two-game homecourt winning streak snapped. Rookie Skylar Diggins paced the Shock with 19 points, including 11 in the first half.
Tulsa's Tiffany Jackson-Jones made her first appearance since 2011. She missed last season while pregnant with her first child. After participating in this preseason, Jackson-Jones missed the first 14 games with a stress fracture in her right tibia. She finished with nine points.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Lindsay Whalen had 23 points and Monica Wright added 22 points and nine rebounds as the Minnesota Lynx beat the Indiana Fever in a rematch of last season's WNBA finals.
The Fever (4-8) made runs at the Lynx (10-3), but never managed to catch them. Wright and Whalen had plenty to do with that. The backcourt duo scored many of their points in transition off Indiana's 16 turnovers.
Indiana was playing without star guard Katie Douglas, who missed her 10th consecutive game with a bulging disk in her back. Shavonte Zellous led the Fever, who had won three straight, with 14 points.
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Terry Mullan & Chuck Love to headline benefit for house legend Paul Johnson
For legendary house DJ Paul Johnson, December started bad and got worse. The Chicago native, who has been DJing in a wheelchair for the better part of his career, was involved in a major accident that broke several of his bones and led to the amputation of his right leg.
In the community that's built up around house music at home and abroad, Johnson is a hugely respected figure, responsible for a string of the genre's classic releases (like "Get Get Down") and turning out monster DJ sets on a packed schedule. But, the accident put the music on hold, and Johnson's hospital bills have been mounting for months as he undergoes physical therapy. Local promotions duo Loud+Clear decided to lend a hand in stemming the tide of Paul's medical expenses, hosting Get Down!, a benefit show that features a one-time combination of fellow house major Terry Mullan and hometown hero Chuck Love.
Mullan, who also has deep roots in Chicago, is a major player in electronic dance music and has been for decades, his sets ranging from jacked-up disco anthems to stomping acid freakouts with loads of dancefloor bombshells in between. He's a genre legend right alongside Johnson, and his involvement in the benefit feels like a respected colleague stepping in to offer a helping hand during hard times.
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Loud+Clear have sweetened the deal by asking Minneapolis musician/DJ Chuck Love to take a night off from his increasingly busy schedule and play alongside Mullan. We said 'play,' not 'DJ'; Love is a talented multi-instrumentalist, and he'll be adding live accompaniment to the set with an assortment of horns and guitar (the two of them did this at Solera last summer and the result was incredible). Much like the event itself, Mullan and Love's dual performance is a special collaboration of efforts, and it promises to be a weekend highlight for anyone looking for something a little different from behind the turntables.
Matt Veloce and Little Aaron (the faces behind Loud+Clear) are well-liked DJs themselves, but they've given opening duties over to longtime house purveyor and Black alumnus Nick Gunz so that they can focus on making the event as successful as possible. It's yet another sign of the community strength that surrounds this music and its heroes, especially in local terms.
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Last year, the House and Senate both unanimously rejected Obama's budget — one of the few moments of true bipartisanship in recent years.
This time, the president came up with new ideas, such as raising taxes on the rich and spending a lot more.
Obama counts $167 billion the government never intended to spend as a savings due to a drawdown of war costs, then uses that to fund other projects. He forgot to include the savings from not funding a trip to Saturn and not having to pay ransom to an intergalactic overlord who might threaten our very existence. Think what that could fund.
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Betty Guidry Foret, 72, a native of Lockport and resident of Raceland, died at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, 2003.
Visitation will be from 6 to 10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Friday at Falgout Funeral Home in Raceland. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Raceland, with burial in the church cemetery.
She is survived by two sons, Ronald "Ron" Foret and Neal Foret Sr.; one daughter, Kathy Estes; two brothers, Alex Guidry Jr. and Perry Guidry; six sisters, Gloria Guidry, Joann Belanger, Gayle Crosby, Nelwood Adams, Nora Gautreaux and Sister Mary Elizabeth Guidry; 11 grandchildren, Heath and Kallie Estes, Stacy Doiron, Pansie Duplantis, Melina, Neal Jr., Caleb, Jason, Randy, Colton and Makayla Foret; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Francis J. Foret; her parents, Alex Guidry Sr. and Myrtle A. Green; her stepmother, Della Guidry; one daughter, Melina Foret; one sister, Joyce Oney; and one grandchild, Chase Foret.
She was a member of St. Mary's Ladies Altar Society, St. Anne's Ladies Auxiliary and was a parishioner of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
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