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Royal London: 'Ye Olde Pensions' (starts at 00:06) - UK
A walk through the ages - in the company of young actor Gethin Alderman - introduces us to the different types of insurance required by the inhabitants of each era, and reminds us that Royal London still holds the traditional values of days gone by. This is loaded with gags and there are little details you might miss the first time you see it which helps it stand up to repeated viewings.
Agency: VCCP
Director: Nathan Price
Currys PC World: 'Gardening' (starts at 01:09) - UK
A man has decided that his wife deserves to see all her favourite gardening programmes on the best television that money can buy, and the fact that there's a World Cup on the way is neither here nor there. It would be "perfect timing... what with summer and the, er, grass growing," he says - studiously ignoring the elephant-sized football in the room.
Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO
Director: James Rouse
Adidas: 'Unlock the Game' (starts at 01:43) - UK
One of the most interesting aspects of this excellent commercial for Adidas is the prominence of Luis Suárez. This time last year, the Liverpool striker was embarking on a lengthy ban after biting a Chelsea player and his reputation looked to be beyond rehabilitation. But stunning on-field performances have reduced the biting incident to a footnote and persuaded a major advertiser to make him a central figure in their advertising.
Agency: BBH Sport
Director: Niall O'Brien
Vodafone: 'Spotify' (starts at 02:53) - UK
There can be a fine line between ideas that empower and ideas that condescend. Some may feel that this attention-grabbing ad for Vodafone has crossed the line and that it's making fun of its elderly protagonists, but many will consider that the opposite is true. The older people singing along to contemporary hits as they listen to them on headphones don't look as though they need anyone to stick up for them, and this representation is overwhelmingly positive.
Agency: RKCR/Y&R
Director: Kim Gehrig
Wall's: 'United Nations' (starts at 03:57) - UK
A lot of advertising for Wall's shown in the UK is earnestly-made nonsense from mainland Europe showing models biting big chunks from ice cream on sticks so it's a revelation to watch this excellent advert from one of the UK's top agencies that takes an entirely different tack. Filmed with an astonishing eye for authenticity, it shows a number of serious-minded delegates at the United Nations getting silly when they discover they can play Salt-N-Pepa's Push It using their buzzers.
Agency: adam&eveDDB
Director: Owen Trevor
John Lewis: '150 Years' (starts at 05:01) - UK
It's a sign of their well-earned confidence that – with every commercial they make – John Lewis moves further and further away from showing products in its advertising. In this brilliant advert celebrating 150 years of "never standing still", we see a selection of vignettes showing memorable moments customers have experienced since John Lewis opened his first Oxford Street drapery shop in 1864.
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Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - August 14, 1962, Abilene, Texas "WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT 9 a 01 82ND YEAR, NO. 59 ABILENE. TEXAS. TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 14. sVX3i GES IN TWO SECTIONS PAGE EDITOR'S NOTE Hal Woodward of Coleman is to- day's guest columnist while Katharyn Duff is on vacation. Woodward, an attorney and member of a longtime prom- inent West Texas family, is a member of the Texas High- way Commission. His topic: Highways. By HAL WOODWARD Recently there was called to my attention a map prepared by the Texas Highway Depart- ment in 1918. This .map had been pre- j pared un- Ider a direc- I live of the I L e g i s 1 a- j ture that the [Depart- e n t for- mulate a plan for the highway sys- tern of Tex- WOODWARD glowed with considerable accuracy, the high- way system which today exists in Texas. For example, a pro- posed highway was shown which accurately marks the proximate location of the pres- ent U. S. 80 I.H. 20 Route. Another was shown connecting Abilene with Anson (the pres- ent U. S. 83 and U. S. 277 still another connected Abilene with Albany (accom- plished by the present State Highway 351 and U. S. My home town of Coleman is con- nected to Abilene by U. S. 84 along a somewhat similar route shown on this early map. To the motorist who drives on today's paved all-weather highway network in the region, it is difficult to recall that a generation ago some of these highways were more imaginary than real. To anyone using the safe, smooth divided-lane Interstate Highway passing through Tay- lor County, it is hard to realize that there were days when many farmers had a profitable side business going by keeping a team of mules handy to pull motorists out of the mud at a price of (A few instances are known in which enterpris- ing [armors ol that day, by means of their own ingenuity, kepi sections of the road in a perpetual state of mud month after month. Some found this ac- tivity more profitable than farming.) The change in West Texas highways has been nothing short of amazing, keeping pace with the remarkable growth of the area. In the days of the "road-irrigating" farmers, Abi- lene had only about peo- ple 'according to the census of Now Abilene's population has climbed above the mark. In step with this growth has been the expansion of the highway system. Less than a decade after the Texas Highway Department was formed, there were only 84 miles of surfaced highways on the state-main- tained system in Taylor County. That was in 1926. Today there are some miles about half being U. S. and stale- numbered highways, and half being Farm-to-Markct roads. The records of the Highway De- partment reflect that some million has been spent for con- struction of highways in Taylor County while another mil- lion had gone for maintenance. These expenditures have re- culled in actual accomplishment of a program that was largely a dream when the Texas High- way Department was first formed in 1917. Ten men formed the entire staff of the Depart- ment when it opened offices in a wing of the State Capitol. The new agency was faced with the building of a state-wide organ- ization from the ground up. In the early days of its existence, the Department's most valu- able property was a state ot determination that sta- tistics, slide rule, pick, shovel, sweat, and purpose shouk' join Ihe unending distances of Texas with smooth, safe highways. These highways today are real, hut this was not accom- plished over niRht nor with the it takes lo tell about it. To- day whom great dicscl-driven 9908 XB 03 SJnvs _ jus. Rules Out Quick Tax Cut EN ROUTE TO MAKE BOND Billie Sal Estes, right, enters the second floor of Abilene's Post Office Building Monday, where he made bond on each of three federal indictments. Shown with him are his brother, Word Estes of Pecos left and Abilene attorney Allen Glenn, coming out of the elevator. Bond was posted in U.S. District Court. (Other picture, Pg. 1-B) (Staff Photo by Bob Bruce) Estes Posts Bond Here Billie Sol Estes, as Commodity Credit posted three bonds MondayjCorporation. He had been indicted earlier on federal and state charges WEATHER 3AV 3103 9908 X8 S31VS Auociattd Prut (ff) 2 Spacemen Might Land Ships Today Related stories, picture, Pg. 12-A U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU MOSCOW (AP) Russia's two newest astronauts slept peace- fully in space early Tuesday while [heir twin ships raced around the earth constantly setting mileage and orbital records, Tass re- ported. Unconfirmed reports said "the Falcon" or "the Golden or both, might land Tuesday. A Soviet informant said some- thing interesting would happen Tuesday afternoon (Moscow time is eight hours ahead of Eastern Standard but he refused to elaborate. About that time, both astronauts might be in posi- tion to descend. (Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Britain's Jodrell Bank radio tele- scope, told reporters "I would not be surprised if both men came down in one craft and left the other craft in orbit. We believe either the spacemen now are both ogether or are extremely close o each "The Maj. Andrian (Weather map, pane 4-A) me i-aicun, ITIQJ. mnniau ABILENE AND VICINITY iRadius 4o Nikolayev, 32, made his 40th orbit iSPLZ 'SSKmS at in n m thp Tass routs) raruy cinuay ana ctmunuen mild with a chance for widely scattered at 10 p.m. Moscow time, .the Tass mild wiln a chance for widely scattered tu lu p.m. musty w imic, .uic IOM showers Tuesday ami Wednesday- High ronnrtpH That wnnir Tuesday 95, low Tuesday nisht 75, high HCWS agCtlCy reported. 1H81 WOUIO in Abilene on a three-count indict ment returned by a special fed n eral grand jury in Dallas Friday.iby grand juries in El Paso, Am- day ss-ioa. The three property bonds, filed Wednesday, the upper 90's. NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Cloudy to clear Tuesday and Wednesday. Chance of few late thundershowers mainly lar west. High Tuesday 92-99. NORTHEAST TEXAS: Clear to cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday. High Tuesday 93-100. SOUTHWEST TEXAS: Clear to cloudy hot Tuesday anil Wednesday o uesay ai scattered late thundershowers. High Tues in U. S. District Court, were sign ed by Estes' father. John L. Es- tes o'f Clyde, and his uncle, Dr. Sol B. Estes of Abilene. They were not with him. Accompanying the Pecos pro- moter before Court Clerk Gladys Walls were Abilene attorneys Al- len Glenn and Jack Bryant and a Brother, Word Estes of Pecos. Estes arrived at the U. S. Post Office Building at p.m. He went to the U. S. marshal's office, where Marshal Robert Nash of Fort Worth arrested him. served him with the indictments and fin- gerprinted him. Nash was assisted by Deputy Marshal Dick Bagby of Dallas. Estes spent about 10 minutes Nash and Bagby. then went to Ihe court clerk's office to bond. He left about p.m. A grand jury in Dallas voted a three count indictment accusing the Pecos man of making false statements to the Agriculture De. arillo and Pecos. He currently is the subject of investigations in Washington by Senate and House1 committees. Estes made no effort to avoid reporters who awaited him at the single entrance to the local build- ing which is being remodeled. He never smiled, however, as he has on past appearances. Meanwhile, Robert Earl Clem- ents Sr., 67, indicted by the fed- era! grand jury in a related case, surrendered in Dallas and posted Clements was indicted onj charges of interstate transporta- tion of forged securities. Clements once owned Superior Manufacturing Co. of Amarillo, High p.m.: TEMPERATURES a.m. Mon. p m 88 90 89 88 fifi 81 '8 76 9-00 75 and low for 24-hours ending and 73 low date last year: 'High and Sunset last night: sunrise, today: sunset tonigst: Baromtter reading at 9 p.m.: 28.22. Humidity at 9 p.m. 70 per cent. is mortgages some of the which Estes is charged in other cases with man- ipulating fraudulently. Clements was a co-founder of the depression era Townsend plan for old-age pensions. 8 Appointments Okayed by Board Abilene Board of Education Monday night approved eight ad- ministrative appointments to be- come effective for the 1962-63 school year. The appointments will see two cachers elevated to administra- tive duties and the transfer of six administrators to new assign- ments. The new administrators are Harold Wicker, a teacher at Bon- lam Elementary, promoted to the principalship at Milam Elemcn- ary, and Roger Bauornfcind, a teacher at Madison Jr. High, pro- moted to assistant principal at that school. A. G. Craver, principal at Jones Elementary, took a step upward principalship of Jefferson Junior High School. Also promoted was Preston Parker, assistant principal at AI.EX KDWARDS new Creckett principal Parker, assistant principal a Oom who serv Madison Junior High, as princi High during Ed for the pa8' six years, was ap- pointed elementary supervisor for grades 4, 5 and 6. Hix succeeds Maurinc Mays, who resigned. Alex Edwards, assistant princi- pal at Abilene High, who has been on military leave with Ihe 490th Civil Affairs Co. for Ihe past year, is being transferred to wards' absence, will be rctalnc; fM WOODWARD, Ft. II-A, Col. 3Ihe principalship at Crockett be about miles piled up since his Vostok HI blasted off Saturday morning. "The Golden code name for Lt. Col. Pavel Popovich, 31 at about the same time com- jleted his 24th trip around the planet, making about miles covered since his Vostok IV was aunched Sunday. He was be- lieved to be still somewhere the vicinity of Vostok III. Both had far outstripped the GAS GRENADES rises after tear gas grenades were fired by West German police near East German water-throwing truck in this scene near Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin Monday. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Berlin) Berliners Attack Communist Wall By CARL HARTMAN BERLIN Berliners' pent-up hatred of the year-old Communist wall poured out Mon- day night in a scries of violent protest demonstrations. They in- strations in the Bernauerstrasse area There, he said, about people, he said, is too severe, West Berlin demonstrators had economic But, Proposed Budget Given School Board Abilene Public School patrons .'ill pay the same tax rate for the 1962-63 school year as that of the ast year, if the Board of Educa- ion stamps its okay on a tenta- ive budget submitted Monday night by school administrators. Superintendent of Schools A. E. Wells and his budgetary staff did some juggling of the books to give a surplus of some in rev- enues over proposed expenditures or the new fiscal year beginning Sept. 1. Revenues for the proposed 1962- i3 budget total and ex- penditures amount to This compares to in mdgeted revenues and n expenditures for the 1961 62 term. Wells proposed that 3 per cent of the tax rate be transferred rom the debt fund requirements .o the salary and operation fund, leaving the same tax rate. The new division of the tax rate would appropriate 87 cents to sal- ary and operation and 41 cents to interest and sinking fund. Public hearing on the proposed bud get, which represents an in crease of approximately over the 1961-62 budget, will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in the board room at the Public Schools Administration building. Increased revenue from local, state and federal sources will off- set the increase in the hoped would be a quiet observ- ance of the first anniversary of the Red wall turned into near: chaos that lasted until late evening. Screaming, cursing crowds of West Berliners, blocked by West police from approaching the wall, found other outlets for their anger. Hurling stones and beer bottles, --i-i---- plulcsl UCI1JU113L1 aLlull.3. best Soviet space effort and had cluded attacks against Soviet ve covered distances beyond that to hicles and tne barrjcade itself, the moon. The distance to the moon ranges from to miles. The space men had their eve- ning meal and radioed the control center they felt fine. Both reported Monday morning they awoke refreshed from a night's sleep. It was the second night's sleep in space for Niko- layev. They said all controls were functioning, and were determined to carry their mission to a suc- cessful conclusion. Moscow radio said they had breakfast and took setting-up exercises. Neither reported any discom- ort from the peculiar condition of weightlessness encountered on all space flights. Maj. Gherman S. Titov, whose 17-orbital flight a year ago has now been exceeded, complained at times of a sort of seasickness during weightlessness. There was a flurry of excite- ment among correspondents in Moscow Monday when rumors cir- culated that the two space men were about to head for a landing. But the two wheeled on over the Soviet Union and a Russian source He Promises Later Action If Necessary By RAYMOND .1. CROWLEY WASHINGTON Kennedy turned thumbs down Monday night on a quick tax cut and reaffirmed his goal of a mul- tibillion-dollar reduction to be- come effective next Jan. 1. But he pledged to call Congress into special session and ask for immediate action if an economic crisis should develop later this year. There is no sign now of any such crisis, the President told the people via television and radio from the White House. Kennedy said there is an "ab- sence of a clear and present dan- ger" to the economy and thus a quickie tax cut "could neither be justified nor enacted." He recited economic data, and pointed to charts, to show that :he economy is moving "there is every -reason for confi- dence by the American people in the American system." He renewed his pledge to ask Congress next year for a massive reform of the American tax sys- tem with substantial income tax rate reductions as part of the overhaul. This plan, including all-bracket cuts in individual and corporate rates and rooting out of inequities would, he said, place billions of dollars to the hands of consumer) and businessmen. And this, in turn, would create new jobs and expand the American economy, he reasoned. The present bite on the Ameri- tacked his men with stones. ihe said, immediate tax reduction lis a weapon that should be "fired IIS a umi aiivuuj Reporters on the spot said jn emergency." To pro- stones appeared to be aimed one at this time, he said, the demonstrators at the Eastjwould needlessly undercut confi- c e c What West Berlin officials Berlul beyond the wall. Berlin police cars were lined up between the demonstrators and the wall and got some of the stones too, whether they As for the permanent reform measure he proposes for next year, he said leaders of Senate and House, plus Rep. meant for them or not. Nearby, at Wilhelmstrasse, a group of demonstrators attacked the wall with paving blocks. Driv en off by West Berin police, thej marched eastward along Koch Wilbur were; Mills, D-Ark., chairman of the tax writing House Ways and Means Committee, have assured him of speedy action in 1963. made no mention of the at- ill with paving blocks. Driv- Of gen. Harry F. Byrd, D- by West Berin police, theyjVa_ powerful chairman of the they smashed the windows of ajstrasse, parallel to the wall and Russian bus returning soldicrsiabout 100 yards away, the Senate Finance Committee, who See TAXES, Pg. 11-A, Col. I declared: "They are not coming down today." in his post at A1IS. Other transfers announced the board by Supt, A. E. W were B. Q. Smith from princi- pal of Locust Elementary to Jones Elementary, and F. Fitzgornlri from principal nt Milam to Jack- son Elementary, which is opening I this fall for the first time. budget, Wells told the hoard. In other business Monday night to the board amended the 1961 budget, set new school boundaries for Jackson, Bowie. Austin, Jones. Milam and Taylor Elcmen tary schools, hired 20 new teach- ers, and accepted the resignation DM BUIMJKT. Pi. II-A. CM. 1 i' Light Rain Is Recorded Abilene's 100 degree plus tem- peratures appeared to have sub- sided, at least for the next few days, Monday when the mercury went only as high as 91 degrees under cloudy skies. Weathermen forecast more ol the same for Tuesday and Wednesday with the high Tuesday around 95, and the high Wednes day in the upper 90's. Rain measuring .02 inch was re- corded at Municipal Airport Mon day. and Dyess AFB weather sta tion reported a trace. In the area Eastland got a trace of rain about mid-afternoon and .10 was recorded at Hawlcy about the same time. Tuesday's forecast is for partly cloudy and continued mild with a chance (or widely scattered show ers. The rain at Municipal Alrpor brought the year's total to inches, more than two Inches above the normal rom IN SENATE duty at the Soviet War Memorial in West Berlin. Two Soviet sedans were sur- ounded by youthful demon- trators who shouted "Pigs" and Dirty bums" at the Russian oc- upants, then tossed bottles at the chicles. West Berlin police freed the chicles and arrested at least one emonstrator. Other West Berlin crowds used le wall for target practice, scar- ing it with hundreds of paving locks. In the afternoon a protest pa- ade of West Berlin youths ouched off a battle of tear It rejected, 56 to 19. an amend- nd water cannon between East ment by Sen. Albert Gore, D- Satellite Bill Change Beaten WASHINGTON Sen- ate defeated Monday the first at- tempts by opponents to re- write the administration's com- munications satellite bill. us injuries. The car-stoning nd West police across the bar- icade. There were no reports of seri- ___ incidents oc- urred near Checkpoint Charlie. West Berlin police finally suc- eeded in breaking up the crowds s they banged on the Soviet cars nd shouted insults at the soldiers nside. Brig. Gen. Frederick 0. Hartcl, U.S. troop commander in Berlin, went to Checkpoint Charlie for a personal investigation of the at- acks on the Soviet cars. lie alkcd there with Erich Duensing, Vest Berlin police commissioner. Tenn.. to require the State De- partment to conduct or supervise all negotiations with foreign coun- tries and approve all agreements involving the proposed global satellite communications system. The bill would set up a private- ly owned, government-regulated corporation to operate the U.S. part of the system and allow it to conduct business negotiations with foreign countries and agen- cies with the State Department advising on foreign policy. The big issue will be decided Tuesday when the Senate votes bipartisan leadership pro- to invoke debate-limiting 'CSl I1CI lln JMIIII.L- Duensing told reporters he was cloture and end a filibuster that most concerned about the demon- has blocked final action on the NEWS INDEX SCCTION A 10 Oil MWI SICTION Okitmrin 2, 10, 11 WMMII'I Mm 1 4 t 10 10 V v TV fcmrt ht> ttrm MWI, nwriiMf measure. Opponents of the bill, battling for government ownership of the proposed communications corpor- ation, have offered doieiu ol amendments and these could re- quire days to dispose of even if cloture Is adopted. Sen. Robert S. Kerr, in a lengthy argument against the bill. he- State Department permits ft." Kerr said that all leading mem- bers of the Kennedy administra- ion were supporting the bill as it now is written. Kerr cited Russia's latest space feats as a strong argument for ending what he termed "the senseless filibuster now going on in the Senate." A brief flurry of excitement was set off when opponents of the bill demanded an investigation of what one of them called a charge of bribery. The incident subsided when Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La. said he was not offered any bribe by the American Telephone Telegraph Co. to support the administration bill. Texas Senators Split in Voting WASHINGTON (AP) Texai senators split Monday in the vote by which the Senate defeated the amendment by Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn.. seeking to specific authority to the State De- Gore amendment, said would the corpoiation to put voted tor the shackles about it so that It couldn't do anything when partment for foreign the communications in Democrat Ralph Republican John Towr TfM It. ;
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Carioca (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaɾiˈɔkɐ] ( listen) or [kɐɾiˈɔkɐ]) is a Brazilian noun or adjective used to refer to anything related to Rio de Janeiro, the capital and the homonymous state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original word, "kara'i oka", comes from the indigenous Tupi language meaning "house of carijó", which was a native tribe of Rio de Janeiro who lived in the vicinities of Carioca River, between Glória and Flamengo neighbourhoods.
The archaic demonym meaning for the Rio de Janeiro State is "fluminense", taken from the Latin word flumen, meaning "river." Despite the fact "carioca" is a most ancient demonym of Rio de Janeiro's inhabitants (known since 1502), it was replaced by "fluminense" in 1783, when it was sanctioned as the official demonym of the Real Captainship of Rio de Janeiro (later Province of Rio de Janeiro), a few years after the City of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro has become the capital city of the Brazilian colonies. From 1783 and during all the Imperial Regime, "carioca" remained only as a nickname by which other Brazilians called the inhabitants of Rio (city and province). During the first years of the Brazilian Republic, "carioca" was the name given to those who lived in the slums or a pejorative way to refer the bureaucratic elite of the Federal District. Only when the City of Rio lost its status as Federal District and became a Brazilian State (Guanabara State ) by the time the capital city was moved to Brasilia, "carioca" was made a co-official demonym with "guanabarino". In 1975, the Guanabara State was extinct by President Geisel (under the military dictatorship) becoming the present City of Rio de Janeiro and "carioca" was made the demonym of its municipality. Besides the fact "carioca" is not recognized as an official demonym of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazilians call the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro in general (State and city) "cariocas" and most of its inhabitants claim to be "cariocas". Nowadays, social movements like "Somos Todos Cariocas" ("We are all Cariocas") try to achieve the official recognition of "carioca" as a co-official demonym of Rio de Janeiro State.
Like other Brazilians, cariocas speak Portuguese. The carioca accent and sociolect (also simply called "carioca", see below) are the most famous of Brazil, in part because Rede Globo, the second-largest television network in the world, is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. Thus, a lot of Brazilian TV programs, from news and documentary to entertainment (such as the novelas), feature carioca-acting and -speaking talent.
Accomplishments and influenceEdit
Carioca people have invented a few sports; the most famous is footvolley.
Cariocas are credited with creating the bossa nova dance.
Famous cariocas in film include Brazilian "bombshell" Carmen Miranda, a Portuguese woman who grew up in Rio de Janeiro. An eponymous song from 1933, Carioca, has become a jazz standard.
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The Portuguese spoken across the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo and neighboring towns in Minas Gerais and in the city of Florianópolis, has similar features, hardly different from one another so cities such as Paraty, Resende, Campos dos Goytacazes, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Vila Velha and Linhares may be said to have the same dialect as Rio de Janeiro, as they are hardly perceived as strong regional variants by people from other parts of Brazil.
The Brazilian Portuguese variant spoken in the city of Rio de Janeiro (and metropolitan area) is called carioca, and it is called sotaque locally, literally translated as "accent". It can be said that Rio de Janeiro presents a sociolect inside the major fluminense-capixaba dialect, as speakers inside the city may be easily recognizable more by their slang than the way the phonology of their speech, which is closer to the standard Brazilian Portuguese in the media than other variants. It is known especially for several distinctive traits new to either variant (European or Brazilian) of the Portuguese language:
- (for Brazilians) Coda /s/ and /z/ can be pronounced as palato-alveolar [ʃ] and [ʒ] of English or the alveolo-palatal [ɕ] and [ʑ] of Catalan. That is inherited from European Portuguese, and carioca shares it only with Florianopolitano and some other Fluminense accents. In the northern tones of Brazilian Portuguese, not all coda /s/ and /z/ become postalveolar.
- (for Europeans) /ʁ/, as well what would be coda /ɾ/ (when it would is not pre-vocalic) in European Portuguese, may be realized as various voiceless and voiced guttural-like sounds, most often the latter (unlike in other parts of Brazil), and many or most of them can be part of the phonetic repertory of a single speaker. Among them the velar and uvular fricative pairs, as well both glottal transitions (voiced & unvoiced), the voiceless pharyngeal fricative and the uvular trill: [x], [ɣ] (between vowels), [χ], [ʁ], [h], [ɦ], [ħ] and [ʀ].[1][2] That diversity of allophones of a single rhotic phoneme is rare not just in Brazilian Portuguese but also among most world languages.
- (for both) Originally probably from Tupi influence,[3] through the Portuguese post-creole that appeared in southeastern Brazil after the ban of Língua Geral Paulista as a marker of Jesuit activity by the Marquis of Pombal (the Northeast had Nheengatu, another língua geral, too, but it had a greater native Portuguese-speaker presence, had a greater contact with the colonial metropolis and was more densely populated), the consonants /t/ and /d/ before /i/ or final unstressed /ɛ ~ e/ ([e̞], that in this position may be raised to [i] or deleted) become affricates [tʃ ~ tɕ] and [dʒ ~ dʑ] (again, as those of English or Catalan, depending on the speaker), respectively. That is now common place in Brazilian Portuguese, as it spread with the bandeiras paulistas, expansion of mineiros to the Center-West and mass media. It is not as universal in São Paulo, Espírito Santo and southern Brazil even though they were populated mostly by the original bandeirantes (caboclos, formerly língua geral speakers) because the European immigrants learning Portuguese and their descendants preferred more conservative registers of the language, perhaps as a mark of a separate social identity.
- (for both) Historical [ɫ] (/l/ in syllable coda), which merged with coda /ɾ/ ([ɻ]) in Caipira, has undergone labialization to [lʷ], and then vocalized to [u̯];[4] Nevertheless, with the exception of [ʊ̯] be the one used in Southern Brazil and São Paulo instead of [u̯], both commonly transcribed as [w]; the process is now nearly ubiquitous in Brazilian Portuguese so only some areas retain velarized lateral alveolar approximant (rural areas close to the frontier with Uruguay) or the retroflex approximant (a very few caipira areas) as coda /l/.
The traits (particularly the chiado, a palatalization process that creates a postalveolar pronunciation of coda s and z and affricate pronunciation of [ti] and [di] and te and de rhymes), as a whole and consistent among the vast majority of speakers, were once specifically characteristic of Rio de Janeiro speech and distinguished particularly from the pronunciation of São Paulo and areas further south, which formerly had adapted none of the characteristics. The chiado of the coda sibilant is thought to date from the early 1800s occupation of the city by the Portuguese royal family, as European Portuguese had a similar characteristic for the postalveolar codas.
More recently, however, all of the traits have spread throughout much of the country by the cultural influence of the city that diminished the social marker character the lack of palatalization once had (apart of assimilation of the caboclo minorities in most of South and Southeast Brazil). Affrication is today widespread, if not nearly omnipresent among young Brazilians, and coda guttural r is also found nationwide (their presence in Brazil is a general heritage of Tupi speech too) but less among speakers in the 5 southernmost states other than Rio de Janeiro, and if accent is a good social indicator, 95-105 million Brazilians consistently palatalize coda sibilant in some instances (but as in Rio de Janeiro, it is only a marker of adoption of foreign phonology at large in Florianópolis and Belém: palatalization, as in any other Romance language, is a very old process in Portuguese and its lacking in some dialect rather than reflecting a specific set of Galician, Spanish and indigenous influences on their formation).
Another common characteristic of carioca speech is, in a stressed final syllable, the addition of /j/ before coda /s/ (mas, dez may become [majʃ], [dɛjʃ], which can also be noted ambiguously as [mɐ̞ⁱʃ], [dɛⁱʃ]). The change may have originated in the Northeast, where pronunciations such as Jesus [ʒeˈzujs] have long been heard. Also immigration from Northeastern Brazil and Spanish immigration causes debuccalization of the coda sibilant: mesmo [meɦmu]. Many Brazilians assume that is specific to Rio, but in the Northeast, debuccalization has long been a strong and advanced phonological process that may also affect onset sibilants /s/ and /z/ as well as other consonants, primarily [v].
There are some grammatical characteristics of this sociolect as well, an important one is the mixing of second person pronouns você and tu, even in the same speech. For instance, while normative Portuguese requires lhe as the oblique for você and te as oblique for tu, in carioca slang, the once formal você (now widespread as an informal pronoun in many Brazilian Portuguese varieties) is used for all cases. In informal speech, the pronoun tu is retained.but with the verb forms belonging to the form você: Tu foi na festa? ("Did you go to the party?"). So the verbal forms are the same for both você and tu.
Many cariocas and many paulistas (from the coast, capital city or hinterland) shorten você and use cê instead: Cê vai pra casa agora? ("Are you going home now?"). That, however, is common only on the spoken language and is rarely written.
Slang words among youngsters from Rio de Janeiro include caraca! (gosh!) [now spread throughout Brazil], e aê? and qualé/quaé/coé? (literally "which is [it]", carrying a meaning similar to "What's up?"), and maneiro ("cool", "fine", "interesting", "amusing") and sinistro (in standard Portuguese, "sinister"; in slang, "awesome," "terrific," but also "terrible," "troublesome," "frightening," "weird"). Many of these slang words can be found in practically all of Brazil by to cultural influence from the city. Much slang from Rio de Janeiro spreads across Brazil and may be not known as originally from there, and those less culturally accepted elsewhere are sometimes used to shun not only the speech of a certain subculture, age group or social class but also the whole accent.
- ^ Barbosa, Plínio A. (2004), "Brazilian Portuguese", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (2): 227–232
- ^ http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/prioritizing-irrelevant.html
- ^ (Portuguese) Dialects of Brazil: the palatalization of the phonemes /t/ and /d/. Aside of using the term "alveopalatal" thoroughly, p. 27 sets it clear that Brazilian alveolo-palatal affricates are similar to but different from Italian palato-alveolar ones.
- ^ Bisol (2005), p. 211
- Bisol, Leda (2005), "Introdução a estudos de fonologia do português brasileiro", editora EDIPUCRS (4th ed.), Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, ISBN 85-7430-529-4


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Today is the day! The winners for the Story contest have been chosen! I just want to first thank everyone for entering, all of the stories were awesome in there own ways. I really liked the story plots.
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Ships' Log Twentieth January Year of Our Lord Twenty Thirteen
It has been seven days since we found land, four since the first crew members showed signs of infection and just one day since I became the last surviving member of the Red Anchor. Me, the ships cabin boy.
We had been searching for landfall for such an age both water and food supplies were running low. When John Collins finally sighted this lush green isle we all felt that it was a miracle. He was the first to die. That we were finally saved. Upon making landfall scouts were sent out to find food and drinking water. They came back soon after with various fruit and canteens full of water. As we were having our fill the scouts described the animals they had seen, colourful scaly creatures who grazed on the many green leaves of the island.
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Twenty-First January Year of Our Lord Twenty Thirteen
My eyes have been open to new and exciting possibilities. It is all down to my new friend, Kawil Doomclaw. Let me start at the beginning.
I was awoken by a loud squealing and squalling. On the waters edge nearby were creatures unlike any I had ever seen before. Green and yellow scales covered their bodies which was covered in old scars. They appeared to be flocking together like sea birds over a school of fish. Fighting for position on the carcass. Or rather what I thought was a carcass, a groaning alerted me to the fact that the victim of the attack was still alive. Having a weakness for the underdog as I do, I rushed at the creatures, making as much noise as possible. They all took off into the sky and settled in the trees where they stared at me balefully.Now that I could see him, the creature I had just saved was purple in colour and scaled he also appear to be bleeding in multiple place. As I looked at him he appear to look straight at me and smile. I know it sounds crazy but he did before promptly falling unconscious. I managed to manoeuvre my purple friend to my camp site and tend to his wounds with some effort. Now I could see him properly I realised he was only slightly shorter than me and appeared to be wearing some kind of rudimentary armour. His shape he scales which covered him reminded me of the stories my father used to tell me of ancient lizards called dinosaurs that lived on the earth millions of years ago.
Hours later he began to stir, his eyes flickered towards the bird-things in the trees before resting on my face. Then to my great surprise in rusty but fluent English he thanked me for saving me. My astonishment must have show on my face as he explain that I was not the first visitor to the island. Apparently others who looked like me with 'power over the elements' had arrived through a different route and help his tribe in a time of need. For saving him he insists that he must repay the debt and has swore to protect me where ever I go on the island.
My new friend Kawil appears to recover very quickly from his ordeal as he was soon up and searching in the undergrowth nearby. He found what he was looking for and appeared with two swords in his short front claws which he could use while standing on his back legs. He motioned for me to enter the jungle and we began travelling.
I am astounded that not only are there the dinosaurs my father described but that they have a real civilization with a culture and language. More of these incredible creatures were revealed when took me to his village. There were numerous creatures who looked just like him in different sizes and varying shades of blue and purple. Kawil guided me to a hut in the centre of the village. Smoke surrounded the interior, as it cleared I saw what appeared to be an ancient version of Kawil. We sat in a circle and the elder stared at me silence for several minutes. When he finally spoke it was clear that he had been expecting me for some time. Apparently the legends of this tribe predicted my coming, I am believed to save them for the great evil that threatens the island.
I am now in a small hut in the village, in the morning Kawil and I will start out on a great adventure. I can't wait.
Azteca, the land of Aztecosaurs had thought to have been lost by many. A number of pirates had sailed around the spiral in search of such a land. Many had returned empty handed with dampened hopes, and the others? Well they never returned. 'Probably because they were too embarrassed to come back' thought Captain Charming Tasha Blake with a smirk on her face. 'If there's a pirate who could find Azteca in all the land, sea and sky then it'd be me' she told herself. Charming Tasha Blake had her heart set on finding Azteca, she was convinced she would. Why might a a pirate be so interested in Azteca and the Aztecosaurs you may wonder. Well it's simple really, Aztecosaurs mean gold! That's right, what else could interest a pirate so?
There was a reason why so many had failed to reach Azteca. It was well hidden in order to protect the Aztecosaurs who were sought by many. And the few who had actually made it to this land, well let's just say they were no more. Azteca was protected by an elite force. The group comprised of Chilam Bak, Lemba Moonskull, Kawil Doomclaw, Itzen Kaan, and Holkun Doomhorn out of which Kawil Doomclaw was the leader. Kawil Doomclaw along with his elite group had vowed to put their people and land before them and protect them with their lives. The Azrecosaurs were the last living kind of the dinosaur race, which is why they were worth so much.
After dark while the elite force were performing their daily patrolling duties Chilam Bak heard a small cough from behind a large tree. He slowly gestured for his group members to follow. They silently made their way over to the tree, but before they reached the tree they saw a figure speed off away from them. "Well boys" says Lemba Moonskull "Looks like we've got a pirate on our land, first to catch her wins" he says and runs off followed by the rest of the members.
Charming Tasha Blake had finally found Azeca, that hadn't been too hard, but now she was being chased by a group of Aztecosaurs. A group of very large and powerful looking Aztecosaurs. 'Just my luck' she thinks as she, closely followed by her first mate, Egg Shen run towards a cave. They finally reach the cave. "We should be safe in here" she says mostly to reassure herself. "I think we should head back to the ship and get the rest of the crew out here" says Egg Shen which was followed by a disapproving look from his Captain in response. "And let Ratbeard think that I can't take care of myself? I don't think so." she says.
Earlier that day when Charming Tasha Blake along with her crew had sailed the skies in search of Azteca, Ratbeard who was a recent addition to the crew, had snidely remarked that the Captain would never be able to take on the Aztecosaurs alone. In truth Charming Tasha Blake loved and dearly appreciated her crew, but after hearing Ratbeards' words she decided that she would take on the Aztecosaurs alone. After she told her crew about the decision she had made they made immediate protests. Ratbeard had laughed and said "I didn' mean it Captain". However Captain Tasha wasn't going to change her mind. Finally it was agreed that Egg Shen would accompany the Captain on her search for the Aztecosaurs. Remembering this Charming Tasha Blake was certain that there was no way she was going to ask her crew for help, not this time atleast.
'Strange, it's awfully quiet here" thought Charming Tasha Blake suddenly. She looks around for Egg Shen, only to find that he's nowhere to be seen. Captain Tasha quickly picked up her round buckler and cautiously looks around when suddenly there is a bright flash of purple smoke and everything goes black.
"Captain! Captain wake up!" Charming Tasha Blake hears a distant voice speaking to her. She could even feel a tug on her sleeve. With great difficulty she manages to open an eye lid and finds Egg Shen hovering over her with an anxious look on his face. "Captain you're alright! I was so worried..." Captain Tasha had a splitting headache and could barely hear what Egg Shen was saying. "Where are we?" she manages to ask. "I wish I knew Captain, these barbarian's came out of nowhere, they stuffed my mouth, blindfolded me and locked me up in this cell. Just then the cell door opens and four Aztecosaurs enter. "Well well it looks like the Captain has finally woken up boys" says a strong looking Aztecosaur. "Who are you?" asks Captain Tasha. "My name is Holkun Doomhorn, not that you need to know really. I hope you and your friend are ready to meet your end." "That's enough" says another Aztecosaur who enters the room then, "you know you don't have the right to make these kind of decisions without consulting me first" he says. "K-K-Kawil Doomclaw" stammers Holkun Doomhorn. "Don't worry brother. I understand that you were only protecting our people. But this pirate is different,".
"What are you talking about?" asks Charming Tasha Blake. "Forgive me young pirate. Let me introduce myself, I am Kawil Doomclaw, leader of the elite force in charge of protecting all the Aztecosaurs. You are Tasha are you not?" he asks. "It's 'Captain' Tasha, yes I am, but how do you know who I am" asks Charming Tasha Blake suspiciously. "Ah pirate, not only do I know who you are I've also known that you would come in search of Azteca." says Kawil Doomclaw. "B-B-But how?" stammers Captain Tasha. "Well Captain, that's a long story. Why not discuss this over dinner?" asks the elite force leader. "Dinner? Am I going to be dinner?" asks Charming Tasha Blake with a gulp.
It turns out that Kawil Doomclaw had indeed been expecting Charming Tasha Blake's arrival to Azteca. There was a prophecy involved. Azteca's very own witchdocter 'Irina Destinyseeker'. an Aztecosaur, had predicted that a pirate named Charming Tasha Blake would one day arrive to the land of Azteca. She had also said that the pirate is the key to saving Azteca from the great peril that was yet to come. Hearing this Kawil Doomclaw had grown gravely upset. 'This was his land, it needed to be protected' with that thought in mind he made one of the toughest deisions he was ever going to have to make, he decided to leave Azteca. He knew that the elite force, his brothers would manage without him. He needed to face the danger before it reached his land, so he asked Captain Charming Tasha Blake if he could join her crew after explaining the situation to which she said, yes.
Seem surprised? Yes it's true Captain Tasha loved gold and had gone to Azteca with the hopes of trading any Aztecosaurs she captured in return for gold, but there were a few things which meant more to her than all the gold in the spiral. Her crew was chief amongst them, and also helping those in need. 'This is the right thing to do' she told herself when she had decided to let Kawil Doomclaw join her crew. Capturing Aztecosaurs no longer interested her. This is where a new adventure begins. Though Charming Tasha Blake may not know it now, this was the beginning to a whole new chapter in her life. And she along with her faithful crew were about face danger head on.
D.S. Devereaux's Entry
Who was Itzen Kaan? It was many a local who started to doubt that
Itzen himself knew the answer. An outcast from his family, a leaf
plucked from his family tree and sent down rapids, Itzen had taken to
something even more primitive than expected by the wizards – the art
of weapons. Limited to the safer reaches of the Cloudburst Forest,
Itzen spent his days with a spear, hunting and foraging for whatever
he needed. Though he survived, he did just barely, and his talent soon
became a disgrace.
Itzen himself knew the answer. An outcast from his family, a leaf
plucked from his family tree and sent down rapids, Itzen had taken to
something even more primitive than expected by the wizards – the art
of weapons. Limited to the safer reaches of the Cloudburst Forest,
Itzen spent his days with a spear, hunting and foraging for whatever
he needed. Though he survived, he did just barely, and his talent soon
became a disgrace.
In fact, it was just another one of those days, where the creatures
scurried away from the towering Itzen. Grunting out a sigh, Itzen
stormed back to the tree where he had started that day, having woken
up there after the previous night's meal. It was then, over the
withering grass on which Aztecosaurs and wizards alike hobbled
something small, bigger than a mere bird (to Itzen's surprise) but
smaller than a younger Aztecosaur, something perfect, like a frog. It
took no time for Itzen to perk up and sniff the air, taking in the
drool-creating scent that contributed to the will to draw his spear,
to strike and earn another meal, but through his thinking, the
creature crossed the path, all while Itzen planned and watched.
Muttering words under his breath, Itzen decided to busy himself a
little by attending to the slight flaws in his spear. Looking from one
side, then to the other, he raised a clawed hand over the splintered
shaft and watched the wood be surrounded by a flock of small birds,
thus repairing the spear instantly. Uneducated even on Aztecan
standards, Itzen was not sure whether he was truly the weird Ptero of
the family, or perhaps a spear-wielding theurgist, but it was truly an
idea that he didn't want to think about.
"Itzen!" Itzen turned, not sure how to respond. Very few had ever
called Itzen's name in the past few years, but he still turned
positively, "Itzen Kaan!" Itzen left his spear behind and took a few
steps out. In a matter of seconds, Itzen heard a new sound to him – a
slight hissing, a sort of snake-like dialect infiltrating what would
count as ears on his scaly head. His entire body was surrounded in
wisps of green, tendrils that snaked up and seemed to coil around, as
if not intending to hurt, but Itzen understood the intentions of the
attack immediately, and he struggled.
"Hello, Itzen," a cloaked figure approached Itzen, but he knew who was
under it – his cousin, Maosi Kaan. She too sported a Ptero figure, but
like her mother was a master in necromancy, a not-so-common trait in
the Kaan bloodlines, "I knew you'd be here." Maosi approached Itzen
with a curious glance, keeping her hold in case of an attack. "Itzen!"
His mouth ajar, Itzen received a hug with mechanical qualities, little
emotion and minimal cling. His clawed toes dug into the bare earth of
Azteca, causing a bit of lukewarm groundwater to rise where Itzen had
dug in.
"What do you want, Maothi?" Itzen whispered with his hereditary lisp,
"It'th dangerouth already to theek me out like thith." Itzen looked to
the sides again, looking for any passerby who could have listened.
Sometimes, it truly hurt to kill, but revealing his own location would
send him off to elsewhere, a place probably hostile or barren. It
scared Itzen, the thought of a place so new that he'd have to explore
and keep his head down in, something that he couldn't possibly do at
the same time. Before his exile had gone "official", Itzen had learned
the forest's paths and growths like the webbing between his toes.
Eventually, the simile of the forest merged from Itzen's toes to his
spear, but it made sense either way. Maosi looked behind her shoulder
and whispered,
"There's someone hurt. I saw you mend that spear, can you mend it?"
"What do you mean, it?" Itzen was a little alarmed by the lack of
gender and species associated with whatever was hurt. In most cases,
Maosi lived up to her reputation as a know-it-all, whatever she didn't
know tended to scare Itzen. Still, the crease in Maosi's forehead and
the worried tongue-biting look in her eyes convinced Itzen enough to
go with her. Maosi received Itzen's approving grin (the two were used
to communicating through facial expressions because of Itzen's lisp)
and took her cloak off, handing it to him.
"Bring your spear, come on!" she exclaimed. Itzen bounded off, spear in hand.
Over the course of the dash, Itzen was very surprised that he didn't
get noticed, though he suspected Maosi to be the reason. If she were
truly a handy magician, then she would have made him invisible. Itzen
perked up as he approached the smaller but more frequent bodies of
water that in which he used to stomp around, in comparison to the
groundwater and scarce pond where Itzen roamed. In fact, the thrill of
being closer to home and to his family made Itzen a little nervous,
even though he was very excited to see them again. He could just
barely put together the faces of his nuclear family, and (except for
Maosi, a returning visitor to him) he had no recollection at all of
his extended family members. Maybe it would be rejuvenating. Looking
down for the first time at his arms and practically useless wings
(because they were so short. A birth defect, Itzen always guessed.),
Itzen found them to be semi-transparent. He looked towards the path he
took, the one that would go back home, and the one he took to flee.
Itzen took one step after the other, each bound feeling like an hour
in the mere seconds they truly took. Maosi held onto Itzen's elbow and
pulled him away.
"It's too dangerous, we're taking the backroad." Mouth agape, Itzen
backed away from his ambitions, still looking back. Shaking himself
back to reality, Itzen caught up to Maosi, who was already on the
unused back path.
"I don't know what it is, really. It's humanoid but doesn't have the
power of a wizard. I wonder what it's doing out here, I think it's a
merchant." Maosi explained, "Have you ever seen things like it?"
Itzen shook his head. The only human things out in Azteca were the
wizards, and a merchant would be new.
"Where ith it?" Itzen asked.
"Well, it's back in the forest, on the other side of the village. It
was hurt, but when I tried to help it attacked me. So it's tied down,
and was out cold when I left." Itzen's eyes widened, and he smiled a
little bit, his grin widening until he was laughing.
"Are you kidding me, Maothi? The thing mutht have woken up by now."
Itzen shrugged, spear in hand, "I think that it would be pretty
annoyed by now."
"Well..." Maosi started, growing a little annoyed by Itzen's state of
fact, "We should hurry." The two Aztecosaurs hurried through the
overgrowing back path, and a small shack eventually came into view.
"Alright, tho you tied it to a potht? Nithe going, Mao."
"You're talkative today," Maosi said, sarcasm dripping from her words.
Indeed the human had woken up already. His, a "he" being Itzen's
conclusion of body stature, shaggy hair had covered his face enough to
limit visibility, but when Itzen lifted the locks, he could swear that
the human tried to bite him. Upon seeing the Aztecosaurs, he began to
thrash in his bindings.
"Huth, who are you?" Itzen tried to make himself clear through his
lisp, but spoke very quietly still.
"Let me GO!" the boy cried, continuing to thrash. It was only when
Maosi unleashed a minor strike of necromancy, and the boy writhed for
a few precious seconds, did an answer uncover itself. However, the
answer wasn't exactly what Itzen and Maosi expected. It was a girl,
the same height as the tied boy but with a fierce glare lining her
scuffed up face. She carried two identical steel blades, both looking
very weathered and was panting.
"Don't...don't hurt 'im. 'E's me brother, 'e is."
"And you are...?" By how the human composed herself, Itzen felt that
she would budge a little easier. Over time, he had learned basic
gestures of other creatures by watching them when he gathered
supplies. The girl stood a little straighter, still a little hunched
over just in case of an approaching threat.
"M'name be Devereaux. Destiny Devereaux. If ye lay a hand on me
broth'r Remmy, then I'm not 'fraid to strike, en't not." Destiny
flipped her blades around her wrists baton-style, a habit, Itzen would
soon learn. Destiny, still facing the two Aztecosaurs, scurried to the
side of Remmy and cut him free from the primitive bindings.
"Alright, I don't know how we got here, but we're not supposed to, and -"
"That's enough." Itzen cut Remmy off. He quickly assessed Remmy's
better speech and marked him as the intellectual of the two, whereas
Destiny would be the better fighter, since she wasn't tied up.
A great rumbling was heard overhead, but it wasn't loud enough for
anybody to ignore Destiny's angry exclamation in what seemed like in
older tongue because of all the Flotsam drawl.
"So," Maosi started, "What do you think that is?" While Itzen and
Maosi looked directly up, Destiny and Remmy looked to each other and
ran for a bush. They stood up in tandem and side-stepped behind a
"You have two options," Destiny grunted, "Fight, or run and hope you
don't have to."
"Are you sure it's them?" Remmy whispered to Destiny.
"Of all beings, I'd suspect the Armada to get through the time barrier
and try to attack us, frankly," Destiny said, "I'm just worried
"You're worried about everyone," Remmy snickered, "They can defend themselves."
"Doubt it," Destiny muttered, clasping her sweaty palms around her
twin blades and watching for any movement. Itzen had drawn a spear,
and Maosi looked like a capable witchdoctor, or at the very least more
powerful than Destiny had ever seen. Still, she doubted that the two
Aztecosaurs knew what they were up against - brilliant fighters,
expert strategists, and ruthless killers - the Armada. Five clockworks
touched down in tandem, all carrying spears and shields. Without
another thought, the Aztecosaurs charged into battle, and Destiny
barked an order before she and Remmy joined the fight. Destiny took it
upon herself to take two clockworks, using a spinning technique to hit
both of them. Maosi took the first clockwork out very quickly, and
then assisted Remmy, who wasn't a master of HooDoo but learned a few
things as Maosi used her necromancer-style spells, like how he could
incorporate a few fighting moves into his attacks, adding a little
more pressure. It took a little longer for Itzen to take his clockwork
out, but joined Destiny in her pursuit against the two clockworks.
When they were both broken and twitching, Destiny acknowledged Itzen.
"Ye're not s'bad o' a fighter, are yeh?" she asked.
"Well, it took lot-th of training, you know," Itzen attempted to be
humble, "There'th not much elthe to do when you're thtuck."
"Hmm," Remmy said, raising his hand and watching sparks around it,
"Normally, I wouldn't do this, but I have enough mojo." Itzen cringed
as wisps surrounded his head, glowing so brightly that he closed his
eyes and brought his hands up to cover them. When the glow receded,
Itzen didn't feel any different.
"Um, what was...wassss...." Itzen stared in awe at Remmy and Destiny,
not sure what to say without his lisp. Meanwhile, Maosi was mumbling
to herself, and she gasped.
"What have you done!?" She shrieked, "I can't go on like thith!"
Destiny raised an eyebrow.
"Nice going, Rem." She said sarcastically. "Now then, shouldn't there
be..." Around the pirates and Aztecosaurs stood what seemed like an
army, at least to Destiny, being the smallest of the group.
"...more?" She finished.
The Royal Hermit
"A long, long, time ago, an old king of an Aztecosaur village, was getting wary and depressed. The king, whose name has been lost to time, was getting frail, weak, and closer to Death's door. He was worried that the fortune he had amassed throughout his life would be lost in his passing, to his unworthy family, or his careless friends he no longer talked to. You see, this king was a lonely king. His fortune had driven him absolutely insane. He loved his piles of gold and jewels more than anything else, and if anything happened to his precious stockpile of treasure, well, he would have wept and wept until he died. In fact, he was so obsessed with the gold that he isolated his treasure and himself in his palace, not leaving for anything. This sad king was so scared that someone would take his treasure that he took matters into his own hands to guard it. For how long to guard it, he decided, would be forever.
To try to accomplish such a seemingly impossible feat, the king commanded his subjects to come forward if they could help him; none did, except for one. A large, malicious-looking pterodactyl appeared at his window one day asking to come inside, for he had help. The king, so incredibly desperate for help, abandoned his policy of isolation and let the intimidating Aztecosaur inside. The pterodactyl introduced himself as Acan Swiftmoon, a prestigious witchdoctor. He claimed that he had the power to help the king on his quest for eternal protection of his treasure. He suggested the ingenious idea of granting the king immortality.
A simple potion and spell shall do the trick. I am well-renowned and my rituals are potent and powerful, he coaxed. The king believed him, the old fool. He drank the potion, the spell was chanted, and an unimaginably awful thing happened. The king fell to the floor and convulsed in fury as his flesh was dissolved from his body, leaving nothing but a luminescent skeleton of the now-undead king. Incapacitated, the king was dragged out of the castle and thrown out onto the streets, unrecognizable as a skeleton. The greed and foulness of the king's obsession doomed him from the time the witchdoctor stood at the palace window. As for Swiftmoon, he took the form of the king, in his healthy, live form and ruled from that time on. Altering his, or should I say the king's, personality, he became a great leader and cast a real, flawless, immortality spell on himself. To this day, he still deceives the king's subjects and abuses the precious fortune. In fact, the village was eventually renamed by the liar, after his pterodactyl form: Swiftmoon Village," the lowly hermit explained.
"How heart-wrenching," Bonnie Anne expressed, holding back tears.
The hermit, also on the edge of tears, clarified, "I know what you are all thinking, how does he know so much? Well, I am the greedy king." The mysterious hermit stepped into the faint tavern lamp-light. Every aspect of him emanated sadness and misery.
"Poor soul," Ratbeard whispered.
"My real name is lost, but just call me by my alias: Chilam Bak."
"Aye," I said. "Well, my name is Clever Luke Lawson and this is my crew, we are pirates, but we still know what's right and wrong, and right now, what feels righter than anything else, would be to avenge you,"
"Thank you, but centuries of living, being tortured by my failures, there's nothing you can do to help me now," Chilam explained, "You see, Swiftmoon's potion worked, I'm immortal, I live forever, but I really lost the life I wanted to live the day I became immortal."
"No, we just have to," Old Scratch responded, "You're mojo's been down for a while, we need to get it back up or else you'll waste away, living, but dead inside."
"We're going to help," I added, "To make it easier, want to help us get to Swiftmoon village?
"Well, if you insist," Chilam proclaimed.
"Well, if you insist," Chilam proclaimed.
Thus, our journey began. We sailed through the skyways, watching as the sunrise bloomed like millions of beautiful orange flowers in the morning sky. Then finally, after a morning of rough sailing, we arrived at the small, secluded, and primitive Swiftmoon village. Though undeniably primitive, the carvings, sculptures, and architecture of the village were definitely elaborate. As we paced through the village we came upon many statues of the apparent king, whom the townspeople either obviously loved or silently hated, and only pretended.
"See, they love him!" Chilam muttered.
"I don't know, this place's mojo seems off," Old Scratch observed.
As we continued I noticed the entire village was silent, and the villagers were either all away, inside, or there were no villagers at all. Finally, after wandering around for a while, my crew, Chilam, and I finally came across the heavily guarded palace, not by Aztecosaurs, but by visible, elaborate traps. "I got this!" Sarah announced confidently. She was telling the truth as she bounded from wall to wall, over traps, and under pulleys, swinging her blades all the while until all pulleys were dismembered, all nets shredded, and all spikey objects on the ground, mutilated or crushed. Sarah really knows her way around traps! Astounded, my crew walked through the entry of the place, and found it completely bare!
"Search over there! There be a strange vibe comin' from that room up ahead," Old Scratch directed, pointing to large, closed, and presumably lock doors.
"Oh no, the tr-tr-treasure room," Chilam stuttered.
We all rushed to the door. After shooting, pounding, and slicing at the door, it finally creaked open. Inside was a room full of swarming balls of violet light zooming past everyone. In the center of the room, the king, Acan Swiftmoon, appeared connected to all of the orbs by faint, violet, rays of light. His eyes were closed, yet he definitely noticed us as he said, "Aha, my old pal, the old king. What was your name? Oh, who cares?" He grinned, opened his eyes, and continued, "I see you've brought friends!"
"Where are the townspeople?!" Chilam exclaimed.
"Oh, don't you see? These balls of light are the people, well they're their souls! I like to absorb them to gain power, want me to show you what kind of powers I have obtained?" the evil king said. Then, raising his arms, he channeled a power unlike any other and focused a dangerous beam of energy onto Chilam, sending him back into a wall. Then, he yelled "SOULS!" and the alleged souls swarmed my crew and me, slamming into us. While we fought, the possessed souls, Chilam, regained his strength and charged toward Swiftmoon. Then, the both of them erupted into a fury of light and energy. My crew and I continued to fight the souls until, the floated away and stopped paying attention to us completely. Right after, Chilam, emerged from the ball of light, obviously victorious! The evil king was defeated!
Then, Chilam gave us a heartwarming thank you: "Thank you, my friends; I have definitely had revenge on that dastardly witchdoctor. Now that I have my village back, the people's souls have returned to their bodies, and the evil Swiftmoon has been defeated, I can restore this village to a new height of glory!"
"No problem," I grinned, Chilam was happy and that's all that mattered. My crew thanked Chilam, and vice-versa. Once we left the building, it exploded, and we never recovered Chilam from that mess. Our theories as to what exactly happened after we left that building and how the explosion was triggered were never perfected, but we all agree, we definitely saw a pterodactyl silhouette emerge from smoke of the explosion. Old Scratch also claims that Chilam seemed different after the battle. Who knows?
Fiery Alonzo Teach's Entry
One shady morning, in the Saltmeadow Swamp, Chilam Bak woke up to the terrible, blood curdling, sound of monquistans yelling at each other. Chilam Bak got up slowly and stretched with a loud roar, which made the monquistans stop for a while, but then they just started up again, louder than ever. So, Chilam Bak headed over to the base of the Pyramid of Storm Eye.
Once Chilam Bak reached the bottom step of the pyramid, he let out a tremendous roar, which is sign of respect in Azteca. Once he finished his roar, Chilam Bak started a witch doctor chant. Suddenly in the middle of Chilam's chant, something that looked like an overgrown monquistan wearing Aztecan garbs dropped out of the sky right in front of Chilam's feet. Chilam Bak stopped his chant emediatly, and went to check on the strange figure that had fallen from the sky.
Once the strange figure had come to it, Chilam Bak introduced him self, and the strange figure introduced himself as Fiery Alonzo Teach, a witchdoctor from Skull Island. After they had finished introducing themselves, Chilam told Alonzo of his problems, and Alonzo told Chilam that he could help him with the monquistan problem. Later on after all the monquistans had been knocked out and dragged away, Chilam begged to join Alonzo's crew. So, of course Alonzo had to agree.
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Brazil's real climbed to a one-week high after the central bank raised its inflation forecasts, spurring speculation that policy makers will allow the currency to strengthen to curb price increases.
The currency appreciated 0.1 percent to 2.0083 per dollar at 10:10 a.m. in Sao Paulo, the strongest level on a closing basis since March 20. The real extended its quarterly advance to 2.2 percent. Swap rates due in January 2014 fell one basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, to 7.73 percent.
"The report shows that the central bank is more concerned with inflation," Gustavo Rangel, the Latin America chief economist at ING Bank NV, said in a phone interview from London.
The central bank raised its market scenario forecast for inflation in 2013 to 5.8 percent from 4.9 percent and increased its reference scenario inflation forecast to 5.7 percent from 4.8 percent.
The real rose yesterday for the first time in seven days after the central bank sold currency swaps to limit its decline. The intervention was the first since March 11, when the central bank sold reverse currency swaps to weaken the real.
President Dilma Rousseff said yesterday in South Africa that anti-inflation policies shouldn't sacrifice growth, fueling speculation that the government will try to control price increases by allowing currency appreciation while putting off projected borrowing cost increases. She later reiterated the government's commitment to curbing inflation.
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