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"What's in a name? That which we call a roseIt's impossible to imagine there are many who don't know the plot, but here's a quick outline:
By any other word would smell as sweet..."
By any other word would smell as sweet..."
— Juliet Capulet
Two households, both alike in dignity,What, can't read Shakespeare? Fine. In troper's terms:Boy Meets Girl. It's Love at First Sight. But Boy and Girl are members of Feuding Families. Boy secretly marries Girl. Boy's friend is murdered by Girl's cousin, so Boy kills Girl's cousin in a fit of rage, then skips town. Girl agrees to dangerous plot to avoid an Arranged Marriage set up by her parents. Plot goes horribly right. Boy, hearing of Girl's "death," returns to town and kills self for real at her grave. Girl, waking and discovering this, kills self in turn. Grief-stricken families reconcile. The End!And yes, it all happens about that fast — all of this happens in the span of less than a week. One of the major themes is that rushing into things is never a good idea, particularly when love and/or family are involved. The other is that this is a not just a tragedy, but a comedy of errors in that sometimes, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.Your opinion of the play is likely to be shaped by the quality of the actors you saw performing it. While that's true of most plays, it's especially true of this one. Done poorly, it's hours of Wangst. Done well, there's a verve and passion to the play that can be lacking in Shakespeare's more critically beloved works. When done with middle-aged or older actors in the title roles, it just doesn't make sense.Your opinion of the play is also likely to be shaped by whether you can accept the Love at First Sight premise at face value. Though now largely a Discredited Trope, it was a highly popular plot device in Shakespeare's day. If you can buy into that premise, this is a story of true love struggling against impossible odds, and failing. All those warnings about moderation are well-intentioned but ultimately meaningless. If you don't buy the premise, it's a story of two shallow, overdramatic young people who don't really understand what love is.The play is a simple one and doesn't feature any of Shakespeare's famous side plots or other distractions. It's titled Romeo and Juliet, and dammit, that's who we're going to be watching.Despite the heavy subject matter, there are many lighter moments (as in most of Shakespeare's works). This, combined with the impression that some have of the title characters as immature and selfish, has led to productions of different moods. Quite a few directors have made comedic productions which can, in the right hands, become Black Comedy at its finest.Has been adapted for silver screen numerous times, perhaps most famously by the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli in 1968. That production is widely regarded as an exceptional movie, though it gained a measure of infamy at the time for featuring teen-aged Romeo and Juliet - Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting - partially naked during a scene.note Perhaps more well known today is Baz Luhrmann's zany 1996 adaptation which moved the story to a modern setting, and starred Leonardo DiCaprio at the height of his teenage heartthrob-dom.One of the most notable meta-textual features of the play is the way most of it fits comfortably in an author's arsenal of Small Reference Pools. That is, the vast majority of the English-speaking world knows that Romeo and Juliet are icons of passionate, youthful love... but not everyone might be aware that their story ends tragically, nor that their much-celebrated love was actually their downfall.Note: The play's full title is The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. No one uses it, though.
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
Works based on Romeo and Juliet
- Roméo et Juliette, a 1839 "dramatic symphony" in seven movements (choral and instrumental scenes) by Hector Berlioz.
- Roméo et Juliette, an 1867 opera by Charles Gounod.
- Romeo and Juliet, a 1932 short story retelling by Karel Čapek.
- Romeo and Juliet, a 1935 ballet with music by Sergei Prokofiev.
- Romeo and Juliet, a 1936 film directed by George Cukor that received four Academy Award nominations. Featured 34-year-old Norma Shearer and 43-year-old Leslie Howard playing the teenaged lovers.
- Romeo and Juliet, a 1954 film directed by Renato Castellani, starring Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall in the title roles.
- Romeo and Juliet, a 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film starring Olivia Hussey as Juliet and Leonard Whiting as Romeo.
- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, a somewhat polarizing update directed by Baz Luhrmann starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio. It keeps Shakespeare's text but dramatically reframes it in a late-1990s setting in Mexican-influenced Southern California ("Verona Beach"). The duels and dialogue about them are retained by naming the characters' gun models after various types of bladed weapons instead (e.g. "Sword 9mm class").
- Romeo and Juliet, a 2013 film by Carlo Carlei, and the first traditional retelling to hit screens in quite a while, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth in the lead roles. The dialogue was heavily rewritten, although the new dialogue was still in the Shakespearean style. The rewrites were...not well received.
- Romeo X Juliet, an anime adaptation set IN SPACE! with less Grey and Gray Morality (the Montagues are villains who ousted and all but extinguished the rightfully ruling Capulets)
- West Side Story, probably the most famous adaptation out there, telling the story of a romance between two teens from rival gangs in the 1950s.
- Romeo Must Die, a modern-day retelling (from 2000) moving the action to LA and changing the feud to one between rival black and Chinese gangsters.
- China Girl (1987), which could be described as West Side Story meets Romeo Must Die. It's reset in 1980s Manhattan with rival Italian and Chinese gangs.
- Tromeo and Juliet, a typically outrageous outing from Troma Films with a rather different ending.
- Private Romeo, a film which uses an all male cast and the original dialogue of the play as a commentary on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Romeo is a cadet desperate to get into West Point and Juliet is the new boy to the military academy he attends. Due to DADT, the school's staff finding out about the fact that the two are in love serves as their 'death;' no one actually dies in the film, but they'll both be kicked out of school and any hope of continuing their military careers (including Romeo's dream of West Point) is finished.
- Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour, a French musical by Gerard Presgurvic, which has played in more or less similar format in Canada, Mexico, Japan and various countries throughout Europe and in a much Darker and Edgier Hungarian adaptation.
- Pocahontas depicts a highly fictionalised romance between Pocahontas and John Smith in the midst of an upcoming war. The film was actually pitched as "Romeo & Juliet in 17th century Virginia". Notably it's one of Disney's only films to have a Bittersweet Ending (albeit where the lovers simply don't end up together as opposed to dying tragically).
- The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, which followed up the first film's Lighter and Softer African Hamlet with a similarly brighter version of this story. In Africa. With lions.
- Shakespeare in Love, in which we learn the "real" story behind the production of the play.
- Romeo & Harriet, a musical parody of Romeo and Juliet.
- Romiette and Julio, a 2001 novel by Sharon Draper about two teenage lovers dealing with the taboos of interracial dating.
- You Never Dreamed, a 1980 Soviet film.
- November 30, a 1995 Swedish movie with a Nonindicative Name where the Official Couple consists of a Peruvian immigrant and repentant neo-Nazi.
- Romeo Va Julietta Yohud Lan'atlangan Sevgi, an Uzbek film from 2006, which loosely resets the story in contemporary Tashkent.
- Romie O and Julie 8, a 1979 animated TV adaptation with robots.
- Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss, an animated adaptation with seals playing the roles.
- Gnomeo and Juliet, a 2011 CGI animated family comedy film with living garden gnomes in place of the original characters.
- Naturally, it was the subject of an episode of Wishbone as well.
- The Sims 2 features the "Veronaville" neighborhood, with the Montys and the Capps as major players, complete with a feud and teenagers from both families in love.
- Prince of Cats, a short 2012 comic by Ron Wimberly set in a mid-Eighties Brooklyn crossed with samurai films and centered around secondary characters Tybalt and Rosalyn.
- Romeo And Julieta, a very, very loose adaptation of the work starring two sentient llama piñatas. Yes, really.
- Warm Bodies, a novel by Isaac Marion where the Montagues and Capulets are replaced with zombies and humans. Also made into a film.
- Often done as a Show Within a Show when a film production or School Play is needed (because it's a play that most people, even those who have never read Shakespeare, are familiar with). If at least one of the two leads is a major character, expect Ship Tease. This includes an episode of Hey Arnold!, an episode of Pokémon, two episodes of K-On!, the second OVA to Cardcaptor Sakura, and an ongoing arc in the first part of Season 12 of Degrassi.
- Diana Wynne Jones used the story as a subplot in The Magicians of Caprona in which the feuding families of Casa Montana and Casa Petrocchi eventually learn that two of their younger members have fallen in love with each other.
- Juliet, a 2010 novel by Anne Fortier, in which the main character discovers that her ancestor was the "real" Juliet behind the famous story.
- Romeo and Juliet: A DreamZone Parody: The porn version.
- Upside Down, starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst. A science fiction retelling where the two clans are replaced with inhabitants of two planets tightly revolving around each other. Where each person is only affected by the gravity of his or her birth planet.
- Korean MMO Maplestory adapts the story for a party quest, though the characters live in a town of feuding alchemists (one more focused on nature, the other on technology) and somehow Frankenstein's monster is also involved.
- Jules and Monty, a 2014 webseries that translates the story to a modern college setting.
- The radio drama featuring AKB48, known as "Watashitachi no Monogatari", did their own version of Romeo and Juliet, with the two aces of SKE 48, Matsui Rena and Matsui Jurina, as the main pair. Not only do they change the characters names (basing them more of their respective members names), but they also give it a much happier end. As to be expected, this broadcast pleased lots of WMatsui fans.
- West Bank Story, an award-winning 2005 short musical comedy film, an Affectionate Parody of West Side Story set in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
This play contains examples of
- Adult Fear: The two main characters, who are just kids (Juliet is thirteen in the play - Romeo's age isn't given, but he's most likely in his late teens), take their own short lives for each other. While many people may have thought it romantic or stupid when they were teenagers, it's pretty unsettling to any parent (particularly since teen suicide is a far more publicized issue today that it ever was in previous decades).
- Age Lift: In the original poem, Juliet and Romeo were both about sixteen, while in the Bandello novel, she was 18 and he was 20.
- An Aesop:
- Grudges are bad; don't hold them.
- Love in moderation.
- Do not jump into things you're not ready for.
- Extremes in anything, love or hate, can lead to tragedy.
- Alternate Ending: Shakespeare is believed to have written one.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: The Nurse (who is more of a mother figure to Juliet than Juliet's own mother). In particular, the whole story of Juliet's weaning. Juliet's comment, "Stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse," should be translated as, "Dang it, will you please stop telling stories about the embarrassing things I did when I was three?"
- Anti-Villain: Paris is Romeo's rival for Juliet's hand but is a good man who would have made a good husband for Juliet.
- Anyone Can Die: Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Lady Montague, Romeo and Juliet all kick the bucket.
- Apothecary Alligator: Mentioned in the description of the apothecary's shop in Act V Scene I.Romeo: And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes
- Badass Boast: Tybalt to Benvolio.Tybalt: Turn thee, Benvolio. Look upon thy death.
- Barefoot Sage: Friar Lawrence is often portrayed as this (justified, since Franciscan friars often went barefoot). However, as "sagey" as he is, he still makes a fatal mistake.
- Betty and Veronica: Juliet's decision between her two suitors. Paris courts her in the 'proper' way, by asking her father's permission. Romeo falls in love with her, marries her in secret and kills her cousin.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Romeo is known as a "noble and well-governed youth," according to Lord Capulet. But kill someone close to him (Mercutio, then Juliet), and he will snap.
- Bilingual Bonus: "ill-shaped fishes" feature in Romeo's description of the apothecary's shop where he buys the poison. The French for fish is 'poisson'; 'ill-shape' it and it becomes 'poison'.
- Black Comedy: Sometimes performed this way. Mercutio provides black comedy in-story as he dies.Mercutio: Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
- Black Comedy Rape: Act I Scene 1 is filled with constant rape jokes.
- Blood Knight: Tybalt lives for fighting.
- Break the Cutie: Both of the lovers, but especially Juliet.Juliet: Alack, that Heaven should practice stratagems
Upon so soft a subject as myself!
- Bromantic Foil: Mercutio to Romeo.
- Bus Crash: Lady Montague, who has an important role in the first scene, then disappears almost entirely until the last scene where Montague mentions she died offstage. Her death serves to even the death toll to two from every house—Romeo and Lady Montague, Juliet and Tybalt, and Mercutio and Paris.
- Cargo Envy: From Romeo:Romeo: See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
- Character Filibuster: Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech.Romeo: Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!Thou talk'st of nothing.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Balthasar, a servant who has a small appearance in the first scene, ends up indirectly causing Romeo's suicide in Act V.
- The Chessmaster: Friar Lawrence only agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet in order to stop the feud, and puts their lives at risk in the process. Tragedy ensues.
- Child Marriage Veto: Juliet refuses to marry Paris. She's already married to Romeo, but her parents don't know that...
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Benvolio, one of the main characters in the first three acts, does not appear in the fourth or fifth. Nobody seems to notice this, even though he's the only significant member of the younger generation left alive at the end.
- Conflicting Loyalty
- Once Romeo marries Juliet, he is tied to both houses. This makes for an awkward decision when Juliet's cousin Tybalt challenges him to a duel.
- The Nurse fails Juliet in the end because of her conflicting loyalties to Juliet and to Juliet's parents.
- Cosmic Plaything: Romeo laments being one after he kills Tybalt.O, I am Fortune's fool!
- Courtly Love: Subverted. Romeo abandons his courtly love for Rosaline as soon as he meets the much more... open... Juliet.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Faking Juliet's death... wasn't.
- Cycle of Revenge: What's perpetuating the feud.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Mercutio's bawdy misogyny and bitterness toward love imply a past relationship that did not end well.
- Death by Despair: Lady Montague, who died after learning of Romeo's exile. Also the presumed cause of Juliet's first "death" by those who don't know about the Friar's potion.
- Death Is Dramatic:
- Mercutio dies offstage, but goes off with a bang:"A plague a' both your houses! / They have made worms' meat of me. I have it, / And soundly too. Your houses!"
- Lady Montague, a much less important character, gets a couple lines for her offstage death in the very last scene. "Basically, the spectacle involved in a character's death is proportional to the importance of the character to the story."
- Mercutio dies offstage, but goes off with a bang:
- Diabolus ex Machina: Repeatedly. The line about "star-crossed lovers" in the opening narration is a Lampshade Hanging; the stars - meaning Fate - are going to make sure everyone ends up miserable.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Tybalt's initial response to Romeo's showing up at the party is to call for his sword and announce that he's going to kill him.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The death scene is rife with sexual imagery. The bit where Juliet welcomes being penetrated by Romeo's dagger is still pretty clear to modern audiences, but it's only the tip of the iceberg. The cup that Romeo drinks his poison from is supposed to be a symbol of femininity, and furthermore, Shakespeare often used "die" as a euphemism for "orgasm".
- Double Entendre: Almost every one of Mercutio's lines, overlapping with Get Thee to a Nunnery.
- Downer Ending: There is the glimpse of a Bittersweet Ending, as the rival families finally reconcile their differences, but two statues raised in pure gold above Verona are a poor compensation for the loss of their children, and everyone knows this.
- Drama Queen: Romeo literally throws himself on the ground sobbing at one point.
- Driven to Suicide: The two leads, each by the other's ostensible death.
- Due to the Dead: Romeo honors Paris' request to lay him beside Juliet, after having killed him because Paris thought that Romeo was coming to do the evil version of this trope.
- Dying Curse: Uttered by Mercutio while dying as a side effect of the house feud."A plague a' both your houses!"
- Elopement: Romeo and Juliet run away to Friar Lawrence to get married. After Juliet's arranged marriage to Paris is announced, Friar Laurence plans to help them run away for good. It doesn't work.
- Emo Teen: Romeo is this at first, moping around and reading emo poetry because of his one-sided love on Rosaline. It is also worth noting that Romeo's lines regarding his romance of Rosaline are very over-used cliches at Shakespeare's time, but as soon as Romeo starts describing Juliet, his lines become very creative and much more poetic. When he has to be separated from Juliet, he gets even worse than he was at the beginning.
- Enter Stage Window: Probably the Ur-Example.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Prince and the Nurse. (Although on the character list the Prince's name is given as "Escalus" and Capulet calls the Nurse "Angelica" at one point.)
- Fatal Flaw: Arguments can be made for a wide variety for each protagonist.
- Faux Death: Juliet. Unfortunately, it's shortly followed by actual, self-inflicted death.
- Feuding Families: Montagues and Capulets.
- The Fighting Narcissist: Mercutio's description of Tybalt's ornate fighting style implies that Tybalt may fit this trope.
- Foregone Conclusion: Even if, by some strange power, you've never heard of the plot of this thing, it's stated in the very beginning that the title characters die... on line six of the Prologue, to be precise. Supposedly, there was a happy alternate ending that contemporary audiences could vote for in lieu of the tragic ending. No one has ever discovered it, though.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Romeo is heartbroken about Mercutio's death . . . for as long as it takes him to kill Tybalt in a revenge-fueled rage. After Tybalt dies, Mercutio is forgotten, Romeo expresses far more grief over Tybalt's death than Mercutio's.
- Fourth Date Marriage: The titular characters get married less than 24 hours after meeting, and plan their marriage the night they meet. The entire plot unfolds over all of four days.
- Freudian Trio
- Romeo - passionate, intensely emotional, and romantic (Id).
- Mercutio - cynical, snarky, explosive, and driven (Ego).
- Benvolio - levelheaded, keeps the others in check (Superego).
- The Friends Who Never Hang: Juliet reacts to the news of Tybalt's death with heartbreak and tears, her beloved cousin. The Nurse exclaims that Tybalt was her best friend. Tybalt never spent time on-stage with any of these women. All of his stage time was consumed in proving himself a Hot-Blooded and pitiless fighter.
- Gallows Humor: Most of Mercutio's dying speech. "Ask for me in the morning, and you shall find me a grave man."
- GenreBusting/GenreShift: Unusual for its time in combining comedy and tragedy. A typical comedy contains bawdy humor, farce, and young lovers who live Happily Ever After, despite the interference of the older generation. A typical tragedy contains unquiet political figures, and drama, a Tragic Hero who makes mistakes and dies in the end, despite his best efforts. Romeo and Juliet explores all of this, except the happily-ever-after part. Act III marks the definitive shift from comedy to tragedy.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: Shakespeare in his usual idiom:Mercutio: I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie
- The Ghost: Rosaline.
- Gone Horribly Right: Juliet wakes up from her potion right on schedule. If she'd woken up five minutes later, then the Capulets and Montagues would have discovered her alive. If she'd woken up five minutes earlier, Romeo would have met her.
- Grey and Gray Morality: Both families seem equally responsible for keeping the feud alive.
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Tybalt, as everyone around him acknowledges. He reacts to catching Romeo at the Capulet feast by calling for his rapier.
- Lord Capulet, despite admonishing Tybalt for the same trait during the feast, has an explosive, violent reaction to Juliet's Child Marriage Veto.
- Hanlon's Razor: Two teens in "love" die because of a problem with the post. Not much malice against them from anybody except Tybalt, who proves pretty pathetic.
- Have a Gay Old Time:
- Some of the archaic uses of the word "ho" become a tad awkward in this day and age. Such as "Fetch me my long sword, ho!" Even funnier because, as mentioned previously, at this point in the play, his wife is trying to stop him from jumping into the fight. Or the Nurse calling for "Aqua Vitae, ho!", and getting a response from Lady Capulet.
- Romeo talking about his "Well-flowered pump." "Pumps" were shoes, which would be adorned with flowers at dances and other gatherings. Of course, Double Entendres do abound in this scene.
- There are several with Capulet as well, such as "You are a saucy boy" and "You are too hot," the latter being said to him by his wife.
- The Hero Dies: Both Romeo and Juliet at the end.
- Hot-Blooded: Mercutio exists in a state of constant, violent enthusiasm, whether reveling, soliloquizing, or dueling to his own death.
- Hufflepuff House: There's actually a third clan- the Prince's family (historically, the Scaligers or Della Scala- the Prince's name, Escalus, is a Latin version of this), consisting of the Prince himself, Mercutio, and Paris. This being Shakespeare, the Prince loses his two kinsmen over the course of the play too, leading him to say in the final scene that he has also been punished for the violence in Verona alongside the Capulets and Montagues.
- Hurricane of Puns: Both the start of Act I Scene 1 (between servants Gregory and Sampson) and the middle of Act II Scene 4 (between Mercutio and Romeo).
- Hypocrite
- Mercutio all over the place.
- He disdains Romeo for being a victim of love, even though much of Mercutio's own dialogue implies he is himself bitter over a past hurt.
- He accuses Benvolio, the famous pacifist, of having a Hair-Trigger Temper, of which his own actions later in the scene are more suggestive.
- He blames his own death on the pointless feud between the houses, despite having enthusiastically inserted himself into Romeo and Tybalt's conflict.
- He rants at length about how dangerous a swordsman Tybalt is and how Romeo wouldn't stand a chance against him, then takes personal offense when Romeo declines to fight Tybalt.
- Lord Capulet as well. He chides the "saucy" Tybalt for his dramatic reaction to Romeo's infiltration of the feast, yet explodes in an even more dramatic fashion when Juliet declines the marriage he arranged for her.
- Mercutio all over the place.
- Idiot Ball: Friar Lawrence fails to consider the thing most likely to interfere with Juliet's faked suicide—Romeo not getting the message in time—which is exactly what ends up happening.
- Impeded Messenger: Due to the plague sweeping through Europe, a priest carrying a vital message to Romeo never reaches him. Many places would close their doors to priests, who were believed to carry the plague as they visited those with it for religious ceremonies.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Whenever the Nurse asks for "aqua vitae", it's this.
- Informed Flaw: Mercutio describes Benvolio as hot-blooded, willing to start a fight for any reason at all. Considering that we have only ever seen Benvolio try to stop other people from fighting, it seems more likely that Mercutio is conflating Benvolio with Tybalt or himself.
- In Love with Love: Romeo, particularly with Rosaline.
- Inspiration Nod: In Act II, Mercutio disses several mythical Love Interests in comparison to Juliet. Included in this list is Thisbe, heroine of Pyramus and Thisbe, the original source material for Romeo and Juliet.
- Large Ham: Mercutio loves to make dramatic speeches.
- Lost Aesop: If Romeo And Juliet was intended as condemnation of hormonal teenagers who think their first relationship is true love and go to melodramatic extremes to prove that it is love rather than simply lust, it failed horribly.
- Love at First Sight: The title characters fell in love like this. They fell HARD.
- Love Triangle: Paris plans to marry Juliet, who is already in a relationship with Romeo.
- Maid and Maiden: Trope Codifier, The Nurse is the Maid who plays Secret Keeper for Juliet the Maiden as she tries to get with Romeo.
- Mandatory Motherhood: Romeo laments that Rosaline, who is determined to "live chaste," is wasting her beauty by refusing to pass it on to future generations.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: By their times's standards. Romeo is the one with emotional reactions for better or worse, whereas Juliet is more practical and stages their doomed escape. Romeo kills himself with poison, which is considered a feminine way to commit suicide, whereas Juliet uses a dagger, which was a weapon used typically by men.
- Masquerade Ball: Capulet holds one, which just so happens to be the place Romeo and Juliet fell in Love at First Sight.
- Matron Chaperone: The Nurse.
- Meaningful Name:
- Tybalt/Tybert/Tibert is the name of the hot-blooded prince of cats from the folk tales of Reynard the Fox. Tybalt is frequently made fun of for this, and is indeed hot-blooded.
- Benvolio means "Good will" and he is the most reasonable of the Montagues.
- Mercutio:
- Related to mercurial, meaning changeable, which Mercutio certainly is.
- Mercurial itself is derived from the name of Mercury, messenger god of the Roman pantheon. As a member of the house of Escalus, Mercutio is at least poised to serve as a messenger between the warring houses.
- Although it is unlikely that Shakespeare knew the element mercury by that name, it connects in several ways: mercury is notable for its liquid state at room temperature—neither a solid nor a gas (neither a Montague nor a Capulet); it is used both to measure temperature and to form highly reflective surfaces, just as Mercutio's mood measures and reflects the current state of house tensions; and it is toxic after prolonged exposure—like Mercutio.
- Name and Name
- Never My Fault: Mercutio says "A plague on both your houses" when he was the instigator of the fight that resulted in his fatal wound.
- Nice Guy:
- Benvolio is a generally inoffensive pacifist.
- Paris, although how nice he is depends on the staging.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Friar Lawrence's well-intentioned intervention instead leads to the death of both protagonists.
- No Antagonist: Tybalt acts as antagonist for a while, but he dies in Act III of a five-act work. Capulet can be seen as the antagonist, as he would be were the play a comedy, but it is ultimately implied that the feud and pointless hatred themselves were to blame for the play's conflict.
- Not So Above It All: Benvolio acts as though he is above the house conflict and will not takes sides. But in his telling of the duel in Act III, he makes it sound as though Tybalt challenged Mercutio, when in fact it was the reverse.
- Not So Different: Despite the grudge between the Capulet and Montague families, they have more in common than not, as pointed out in the very first line: "Two households, both alike in dignity..."
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio, and the other revelers attend the Capulets' ball wearing masks. No one is recognized save Romeo, and then only because he talks.Tybalt: This by his voice should be a Montague!
- Parental Substitute: The Nurse to Juliet.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: After Romeo kills Tybalt, Lord Montague protests that, since Tybalt had just killed Mercutio, Romeo was merely expediting justice. This likely contributes to Escalus's decision to banish rather than execute him.
- Plucky Girl: Juliet, especially considering the time period it's set in. She disobeys her parents, follows her heart, and braves disownment and being trapped in a tomb to stay true to the man she loves.
- Poor Communication Kills: This is one of the major things that contributed to Romeo and Juliet's deaths. Most notably, the reason the whole play ends in tragedy rather than with a happy reunification of the lovers is that Friar Lawrence isn't able to warn Romeo that Juliet is only feigning death before he hears about it from someone else.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Probably the main reason people think Romeo and Juliet are the model for a good relationship, and probably the reason a surprising number of people forget the ending in the prologue. Ironically, the title has become a kind of shorthand for idolizing the very behaviors it exists to make fun of.
- Power Trio: Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio.
- Prince Charmless: Sometimes Paris is played as this, making the audience sympathize more with Juliet for not wanting to marry him.
- Pun: A good handful of the characters, this being Shakespeare, though Mercutio in particular seems to live off of them. He even belts them out as he lies dying.
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- Prince Escalus can be played as such. He wants to stop the two families from fighting in the streets of his city, and it's explicitly stated he's showing Romeo mercy by banishing him instead of having him executed for Tybalt's death. However, it can be argued that his intervention has in fact escal-ated the conflict.
- Lord Montague, as opposed to Lord Capulet, is never shown to be bad in any way, and seems genuinely concerned for Romeo in the first scene.
- The Reliable One
- Benvolio (notice a pattern to his tropes yet?)
- The Nurse to Juliet—until she isn't.
- Friar Lawrence to Romeo—until he isn't.
- Replacement Goldfish: Juliet for the nurse's deceased daughter. Also probably Tybalt for Capulet's deceased children, and/or the Capulets for Tybalt's dead parents. While never explicitly stated to be dead, his parents never show up, and when he dies himself, Lord and Lady Capulet do all the mourning for them.
- Roaring Rampage of Romance: Romeo and Juliet's romance causes six deaths:
- Mercutio: Killed defending Romeo.
- Tybalt: Killed by Romeo.
- Romeo's mother: Died of sadness because of Romeo's banishment.
- Paris: Killed by Romeo.
- Romeo: Killed by Romeo.
- Juliet: Killed herself because Romeo did.
- Romantic False Lead: Paris shows up asking for Juliet's hand before she meets Romeo.
- Runaway Fiancée: The Faux Death set up by Juliet was an attempt to get out of marrying Paris.
- Sacrificial Lion: Mercutio and Tybalt die in Act III, after which the play begins to take shape as a tragedy.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: One could say that this is Friar Lawrence's intention (although it's more like "screw societal tradition" than "screw rules"), although he ends up failing miserably.
- Secret Relationship: The root of the tragedy.
- Serial Romeo: Romeo's object of hopeless affection changes on a dime in the play, and it's implied he's done this sort of thing before. He knew Juliet for about a minute, and was already making out with her.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: After Mercutio's death, the play turns into a tragedy.
- Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Romeo and Juliet is already one big slam against romance. It's not so much a critique of romance itself note as a critique of dumbass kids who, as soon as they think they're in love, immediately overreact. They're so blinded by love that they kill themselves the moment something goes wrong. Plus all the people they get killed along the way. The message seems to be the opposite of this trope: Romance should only be for people mature enough to deal with it sensibly, and kids should stay out of it.
- Spared by the Adaptation: The play never reveals what happened to the apothecary, but the source story ends with him being sentenced to death.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Romeo and Juliet are kept apart by a string of misfortunes. Possibly an Unbuilt Trope, as the play can be read as a deconstruction of same.
- Tag Team Suicide: Juliet uses Romeo's dagger to kill herself.
- Tempting Fate: Just before his wedding Romeo says this:Romeo: Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare
It is enough I may but call her mine.
- In modern English that can be summed up as "I'm so happy right now, after I'm married to Juliet death can do whatever he wants. I'll die happy." Death must have taken that as a challenge.
- The World's Expert on Getting Killed: Mercutio gives a very detailed description of how skilled a swordsman Tybalt is. He later starts up a fight with Tybalt himself, and ends up getting killed by him.
- Threatening Mediator: In Act I Scene 1, The Prince of Verona enters in the middle of a brawl that includes servants from Capulet and Montague, the hot-blooded Capulet heir Tybalt and his cronies against the Montague youths, and the heads of the houses. The Prince commands them to stand down, "on pain of death." At the end of the scene, he makes it clear to the heads of the houses that if another brawl erupts, punishing their servants won't be enough: the Lords themselves will be executed.
- Together in Death: Romeo and Juliet, who actually end lying side by side (or at least sufficiently close) in the middle of the Capulet mausoleum.
- Too Dumb to Live: It's probably easier to list the characters who don't act like idiots...
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: The entire romance is a string of action on impulse, and the the plot really starts to go south when Romeo kills Tybalt without thinking first.
- Tragic Hero: It has been argued that both Romeo and Juliet are this, that neither quite makes it, that they make one up together, that only Romeo is, and that only Juliet is.
- Tragic Mistake: Romeo's killing of Tybalt in vengeance for Mercutio, leading to his banishment. Everything goes straight to hell for both lovers because of it.
- Translation Convention: The play is set in Italy.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Romeo and Juliet, especially during their first scenes.
- Unstoppable Rage: Mercutio's death imbues Romeo with so much vengeful fury that he manages to defeat master swordsman Tybalt. Later, after Juliet's supposed death, Romeo kills Paris, the prince's cousin, when he tries to deny Romeo entry to the tomb.
- Unusual Euphemism: Shakespeare occasionally uses die as slang for orgasm, particularly in Juliet's wedding-night soliloquy.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- Romeo's servant Balthazar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead, oblivious to the fact that the death has been faked. Romeo takes this badly.
- Friar John is another unwitting instigator, although, ironically, this stems from his failure to deliver a letter. He doesn't know what it contains.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Tybalt sees Romeo as this; when Tybalt tells Lord Capulet that Romeo has come uninvited to the Capulet masquerade ball, Lord Capulet lets it slide because Romeo has a decent reputation (not to mention Lord Capulet didn't want any trouble). Conversely, the entire Capulet household is fiercely devoted to Tybalt, the play's apparent antagonist.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Friar Lawrence's speech to Romeo in Act III in which he calls Romeo out for crying like a baby, not realizing how lucky he is that he's not dead as a result of his idiocy, and for generally not manning up.
- Women Are Wiser:
- Juliet is far and away the more sensible and level-headed one of the title duo. Also, when a street brawl breaks out, Lords Montague and Capulet try to fight, and their wives have to hold them back.
- Even between the Nurse and Friar Lawrence, this trope is applicable - although in a darker way. Friar Lawrence sets about making tons of risky plans that, although well-intentioned, have a thousand ways to go wrong. The Nurse tells Juliet to be sensible and marry Paris, and give up Romeo for dead, because it involves less risk and heartache.
- Young Love Versus Old Hate: The young lovers come from families that have been at war with each other for generations. The hatefulness of the older generation eventually led to the death of both characters.
- Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: The fights are often portrayed as this.
Productions and adaptations add examples of:
- All Part of the Show: Variant in the Zeffirelli movie. Everyone thinks Mercutio, the local Sad Clown, is joking around after being injured by Tybalt; it is only when they check on him they realize his injuries are fatal.
- Ambiguously Gay: Mercutio, in some modern productions.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Very commonly seen to distinguish the two families and highlight how irreconcilable they are. In Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation, the Capulets wear red and the Montagues blue (or sometimes green), and the Prince's family wear somber, dark browns. In the 2013 film adaption, the Montagues wear red and Capulets wear blue.
- Composite Character: Many adaptations have Benvolio take the roles that random Montagues take in the final acts, since otherwise he disappears without explanation.
- Dance of Romance: Though Juliet off-handedly mentions that Romeo doesn't like to dance, some renditions have the duo dance together before they exchange dialogue.
- Demoted to Extra: Most adaptations seem to forget Paris. His death is one of the most frequently omitted sequences, even though it makes a nonsense of the Prince's "I have lost a brace of kinsmen" lines. (This may be because Romeo murders him, which is odd coming from the hero.)
- The Dying Walk: Some adaptations of the story have Mercutio doing this after or while he's uttering his Dying Curse.
- Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks:
- In the 1936 film the Friar has the standard movie scientist's arrangement of exotic glass flasks and beakers bubbling with smoke.
- Friar Lawrence in the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet has a desk covered in quite a few interesting-looking (and impractical) retorts and bottles, shown prominently during the scene where he is giving Juliet the sleeping potion. The shots of Juliet from Lawrence's P.O.V. make a point of showing her surrounded on all sides by the Italian Renaissance-era style glassware. Interestingly one of the items is a very anachronistic modern Erlenmeyer flask filled with blue liquid.
- Mortal Wound Reveal: Mercutio's death is often played as this in modern versions, with Franco Zeffirelli's screen adaptation being one example.
- Sad Clown: Mercutio, in some versions.
- Sexy Discretion Shot: In the 1936 film Romeo climbs over Juliet's balcony, and we get a cut away to shots of the trees and the stars in the sky and such.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- Some film versions and some productions leave Paris and Lady Montague alive since their deaths have little impact on the plot.
- In the Spaghetti Western adaptation, The Fury Of Johnny Kid, the characters based on Romeo and Juliet live — but everyone else dies, mostly by each other's hands (with a lone gunslinger cleaning out the rest).
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.


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Next we get the Britney Spears cover. Now I'm assuming this is a joke, but even if it is.....it's one of the crappiest and un-metal things I've ever heard. It's funny for the first couple of seconds, but then you'll realize how sad and pathetic it really is.
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METALLICA have selected the track "53rd & 3rd" as their contribution to the upcoming RAMONES tribute album, We're A Happy Family, which is due later in the year through DV8/Columbia Records, according to www.metallica.comAlthough the band had ended up recording and mixing no less than four RAMONES covers before deciding which track to include on the CD, they eventually chose "53rd & 3rd" — a track universally recognized as being about late RAMONES bassist Dee Dee Ramone's early New York life — as a way to pay homage to the bassist, who died of a drug overdose in early June. As previously reported, We're A Happy Family will contain additional cuts by KISS ("Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?"), ROB ZOMBIE ("Blitzkrieg Bop"), EDDIE VEDDER ("I Believe In Miracles"), RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ("Havana Affair"), THE OFFSPRING ("I Wanna Be Sedated"), PRETENDERS ("Something To Believe In"), GARBAGE ("I Just Want To Have Something To Do"), MOTÖRHEAD ("Rockaway Beach"), GREEN DAY ("Outsider"), STATIC-X ("Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment"), RANCID ("Sheena Is A Punk Rocker"), U2 ("Beat on the Brat"), and TOM WAITS ("Jacky and Judy"). In other METALLICA-related news, a rare version of the track "Hit The Lights" — featuring guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, and their friend Lloyd Grant guesting on lead guitar — will be appearing on the upcoming Metal Blade Records 20th anniversary box set, which is due on October 22nd. A different version to the one that appeared on the CD release of the very first Metal Massacre compilation LP (which included appearances by guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney), this early recording only appeared on the first few thousand vinyl copies of Metal Massacre and was subsequently removed from the album in favor of the other, more widely-available version. When asked about the project, Lars' response was, "This is the earliest and the rawest version of 'Hit The Lights' that exist, come to think of it, it is the earliest METALLICA recording ever released, and it's really fun to be able to share this with you. It's got amazing energy and a kind of youthful innocence that, to my ears, holds up quite well 20 years later." Also on the METALLICA-related front, James Hetfield celebrated his 39th birthday by racing vintage cars with his bandmates and family Tuesday, August 6th in Sonoma, California. The frontman (whose actual birthday was Saturday) got behind the wheel of several vehicles on a closed-off racetrack, including a Chevy Camaro that appeared as a stunt car in the band's "I Disappear" video.
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How do you fix a Yankee team that led the league in wins?
Well, the New York Yankees' season is over, and the game of locating the precise problem with a team that won 95 games and advanced to the American League Championship Series is on.
Without question, the sweep of the Yankees by the Detroit Tigers, capped by Thursday night's 8-1 loss, was one-sided. The Yankees never led at any point in the series, just the fifth time that's happened in a seven-game series.
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Of course, the last team that happened to, the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals, returned to the N.L.C.S. in 2005, and won the World Series in 2006. The 1963 Yankees returned to the World Series in 1964, and lost a very close series to the Cardinals in seven games. The 1966 Dodgers and the 1989 Giants are less-useful comparisons, with the former promptly losing Sandy Koufax, the latter seeing a number of pitchers get injured and regress.
The Yankees hit .188 this postseason. The 1986 Mets hit .189 in the N.L.C.S., en route to a World Series victory.
So bringing the same team back, when possible, didn't hurt teams who got swept, or those who struggled in small samples after excelling in large ones.
Maybe it's the reliance on home runs?
Not really. The Yankees were quite good at hitting home runs in 2012, leading the major leagues. But they were quite good at reaching and rounding the bases generally, with an O.P.S.+ that ranked second in the major leagues. And they didn't even strike out much, with only nine teams striking out less all season.
Exactly what is the difference between the 2012 Yankees, who led the league in home runs but bowed out in the A.L.C.S., and the 2009 Yankees, who led the league in home runs and won the World Series? They slumped at the wrong time this year. Nothing about hitting home runs during the regular season in 2009 prevented the Yankees from hitting 20 more of them in the postseason.
The Yankees actually tried solving this "problem" once before, 31 years ago. In 1981, a Yankees team suffered the indignity of merely losing the World Series in six games. That team actually was relatively homer-dependent, with a slugging percentage second in the A.L., but an on-base percentage that ranked eighth.
With George Steinbrenner intent upon changing the team's identity, making it more speed-based, the Yankees let Reggie Jackson go as a free agent, and signed speedy outfielder Dave Collins to replace him. The result? They still didn't get on base enough, and no longer had as much power. And the 1982 Yankees finished 79-83.
Elsewhere in New York sports:
R.A. Dickey had successful surgery on the torn abdominal muscle he played with for much of the season.
Amar'e Stoudemire is scheduled to make his preseason debut Friday night, and plans to deploy the post moves Hakeem Olajuwon taught him.
MarShon Brooks made his first bid to be the Nets' sixth man in Thursday night's 115-85 loss to the Boston Celtics.
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With a win Saturday at home against Sporting Kansas City, the Red Bulls can clinch a playoff spot.
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After one week at Lake Joyce it was time to pack and move our entire camp to Lake Vanda. Although i only stayed one week at Lake Joyce the rest of the team had spend close to a month there. It took two days to pack and four days to move all of the team and the equipment to Lake Vanda. This was also partly due to strong winds, which stopped the helicopter traffic.
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Lake Vanda is also an ice-covered lake of the Dry Valleys and located in the Wright Valley. In order to get there we flow over the Asgard Range with amazing views over glaciers and mountain peaks.
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In Reply to: Am I Losing My Mind? Short Term Memory Loss From Lyme's? posted by Jerry on October 18, 2000 at 12:42:07:
: Jerry,
Here is some info from the American Lyme Disease Foundation. You need treatment and really should read up on Lyme so you're informed when you see the doctor. Most lyme specialists believe 3 weeks (the standard treatment) is not enough. I'm going through this with my daughter and was shocked to learn how lyme can attack your entire body(and mind). There are many wonderful web sites that can give you info. If you need some I can e-mail them to you.
Localized Early (Acute) Stage: Solid red or bull's-eye rash, usually at site of bite Swelling of lymph glands near tick bite Generalized achiness Headache
Early Disseminated Stage: Two or more rashes not at site of bite Migrating pains in joints/tendons Headache Stiff, aching neck Facial palsy (facial paralysis similar to Bell's palsy) Tingling or numbness in extremities Multiple enlarged lymph glands Abnormal pulse Sore throat Changes in vision Fever of 100 to 102 F Severe fatique
Late Stage: Arthritis (pain/swelling) of one or two large joints Disabling neurological disorders (disorientation; confusion; dizziness; short-term memory loss; inability to concentrate, finish sentences or follow conversations; mental "fog") Numbness in arms/hands or legs/feet
If you think you have LD symptoms you should see your physician immediately. The EM rash, which may occur in up to 90% of the reported cases, is a specific feature of LD, and treatment should begin immediately.
Even in the absence of an EM rash, diagnosis of early LD should be made solely on the basis of symptoms and evidence of a tick bite, not blood tests, which can often give false results if performed in the first month after initial infection (later on, the tests are considered more reliable). If you live in an endemic area, have symptoms consistent with early LD and suspect recent exposure to a tick, present your suspicion to your doctor so that he or she may make a more informed diagnosis.
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So – should people be able to "save" parking spaces
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Sorry Charlie…
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DULUTH, Minn. -- Officials at the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth say they will reopen in about a week, but animal exhibits remain closed indefinitely as the zoo continues to clean up after major flooding last month.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar also toured the zoo on Friday, saying that while the its recent troubles captured the hearts of people around the world, the flood damage extended far beyond its walls.
"This was about people who have lost their livelihoods," she says, "or roads destroyed, [a] very difficult time for the people of Duluth and the surrounding areas, places like Moose Lake, and Carlton, and Barnum and Proctor."
The zoo made national news just over two weeks ago when flooding killed 11 barnyard animals and allowed two seals to escape. A polar bear swam outside of its exhibit and had to be tranquilized.
The bear and seals are now housed at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul. The exhibit suffered major damage, and Lake Superior Zoo CEO Sam Maida says it's still unclear when or if the exhibit will reopen.
"Until the analysis is done, the assessments are done and the engineering is done, we really don't know the extent of the damages there," Maida says. "So then after that decisions will get made."
Klobuchar praised the efforts of 350 volunteers who helped clear mud and remove trees left behind by the flood.
Maida says it's still not known how much it will cost to repair damage to the zoo, but he hopes FEMA will cover some of it.


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Steve Chiotakis: Germany is reeling from some sobering numbers, and officially now, it's in recession. Here's Kyle James in Berlin.
Kyle James: Germany has long prided itself on being the world's export champion. But its dependence on foreign markets is a big reason the economy has gone into the red. That's according to Jurgen Matthes, a senior economist at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research.
Jurgen Matthes: Our export ratio in GDP is close to 50 percent, much larger than compared to Japan or to the U.S. And so when the world economy gets into problems, Germany's export gets into problems, and that's what we see now.
German engineering giant Siemens has announced thousands of layoffs. At the same time, car makers from Opel to BMW are cutting back on production.
Next year doesn't look much better. A panel of top economic advisors yesterday predicted zero growth in 2009 and higher unemployment. They called on the government to spend more than $60 billion to help the country weather the storm.
In Berlin, I'm Kyle James for Marketplace.


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Facial recognition coming to Ice Cream Sandwich
Wouldn't it be cool to use facial recognition for unlocking your Android device? A list of files reportedly leaked from a Nexus Prime appeared on MyDroidWorld, and one of the surprise applications was FaceLock.apk.
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Both are examples of sawtooth design, which, at least in the case of Millennium Place, allows for more profit-maximizing "corner" units. Utile explains [3].
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We never tired of goofy old team promotional songs, and here's a particularly good one, from a late-'80s Arizona Wildcats team. Ever wonder what Sean Elliot, Steve Kerr and Tom Tolbert would look like rapping? Here's your chance.
And maybe our eyes are deceiving us, but we think we saw Kenny Lofton in here. He did play for them, after all.
Arizona Wildcats College Basketball Rap [YouTube]


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Teen charged in car theft part of Minneapolis cop incident
Police are trying to find the leader of a theft ring targeting rental cars at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. So far, the only man charged in the incident is 18-year-old Liban Yusuf, who made his first court appearance on Tuesday. He was charged with stealing an Avis rental car from the airport this March, and this isn't his first run-in with police. Regardless, he left court with confidence.
"I'm going to fight this as much as I can," he said.
"Their scheme is they go to the rental car place at the airport, they peel off the sticker that says it's a rental car, and then they try to sweet talk their way out of a security area," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said.
Freeman said this was all caught on camera and Yusuf did not steal the 2015 Dodge Challenger alone. A man named Said is also in the video, and allegedly the mastermind behind a theft ring, and police are still looking for him. In the criminal complaint, Yusuf told investigators Said routinely pays young men several hundred dollars to help steal vehicles.
On March 18, a few days after Yusuf allegedly stole the Challenger, police stopped him in south Minneapolis along with three other men on suspicion of grand theft auto, but eventually let them go.
Minneapolis cop: 'If you f--- with me, I'm going to break your leg'
They were not in the stolen car, and the story gained notoriety because of what the officer said to one of the men as the ordeal was recorded via smartphone.
"Plain and simple if you f--- with me, I'm going to break your leg before you get a chance to run," the cop can be heard saying in the video.
Minneapolis police continue to investigate that incident. As for the theft ring at MSP, authorities say finding Said is their top priority.
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Beaver Meadows
Doris M. Pollock to David Eugene Schnaufer, 82 Berwick St., Beaver Meadows, property on Berwick Street, $1.
East Penn Township
Chase Home Finance, LLC, to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Philadelphia, property at 150 S. Kittatinny, $1.
Scott R. Inhoffer to Scott R. Inhoffer, 101 N. Lake Drive, P.O. Box 248, Lake Harmony, Lot 3, Bradley E. and Angela G. Christman Subdivision, $1.
Franklin Township
Mary S. Storm to Christopher E. Derhammer, 426 Main Road, Lehighton, property at 426 Main Road, $84,500.
Albert F. Lombardo to Frank Cutola, 955 Green St., Lehighton, two transactions, lots 4 and 6, Pine View Acres, $1 each.
Oliver J. Angelus Jr. to Oliver J. Angelus Jr., 252 Fairyland Road, Lehighton, two transactions, property at 252 Fairyland Road and Lot 3, Donald E. Fisher Subdivision, $1 each.
Stephen J. Peters to Steven R. May, 178 Long Run Road, Lehighton, property at 178 Long Run Road, $44,745.
Jim Thorpe
Mount Pocono Enterprises, LLC, to Jennifer Havens, 34 Martha Lane, Jim Thorpe, property at 340 South Ave., $38,000.
Sheriff of Carbon County to U.S. Bank, N.A., Cincinnati, Ohio, property at 236 South Ave., $1.
William P. Baran Jr. to Jefferson D. Pooley, Allentown, property at 29 W. Broadway, $240,000.
Kidder Township
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company to Edward Ullrich, P.O. Box 782, Albrightsville, Holiday Poconos lots 45 and 47, Hemlock Forest, Block F, $37,500.
Joseph P. Kozel to Joseph P. Kozel, Philadelphia, Lot 10, Section D, Split Rock, $1.
Big Boulder Corporation to Henry C. Galganowicz, Philadelphia, property at 432 Bluestone Court, Lake Harmony, $325,000.
Barbara Tomaino to Haiyan Zhao, Stroudsburg R.3, Lot 459, Block C, Holiday Poconos, $5,500.
OPM Investments, Inc., to Robert D. Brown, Bristol, Pa., property at 24 Fawn Grove Drive, Albrightsville, $86,475.
Peter P. Pietruch to Sophie Kesselring, Coplay, property at 32 Andrewsville St., $1.
Joseph Genits to Larry Breitegam, 216 W. Front St., Lansford, property at 216 W. Front St., $32,900.
Wachovia Bank to Allen L. Bailiff, Orlando, Fla., property at 153 W. Ridge St., $18,900.
Larry Breitegam to Larry Breitegam, 216 W. Front St., Lansford, property at 216 E. Front St., $1.
Barbara A. Balogach to Daniel Walck, 627 E. White St., Bowmanstown, property at 336 N. Third St., $75,000.
Stephanie E. Amundsen to Stephanie E. Murray, 329 Iron St., Lehighton, property at 329 Iron St., $1.
Keith G. Semmel to Connie A. Smith, 403 Union St., Lehighton, property at 403 Union St., $80,500.
Robyn D. Long to Kristin E. Smith, 105 S. 10th St., Lehighton, property at 105 S. 10th St., $141,500.
Ricky P. Bjorkman to Eric Whiteman Sr., 414 S. Third St., Lehighton, property at 414 S. Third St., $95,700.
Lower Towamensing Township
Ampal, Inc., to Geraldine M. Vanbuskirk, 2597 Little Gap Road, Palmerton, Lot 1, Atomized Metal Powders, Inc., $1.
Samuel D. Weiner to Daniel A. Rotondo Jr., 200 Princeton Pines, Palmerton, property at 200 Princeton Pines, $275,000.
Mahoning Township
Ernest P. Christman to Glenn E. Miller, 2530 Mahoning Drive West, Lehighton, two transactions, lots 1 and 2, Winter Mountain Road, $62,500 each.
Harleysville National Bank and Trust Company to Calvin Shipwash, 160 Mauch Chunk St., Lehighton, property at 160 Mauch Chunk St., $53,500.
Catherine C. Horn to George W. Horn, Melbourne, Fla., parcel No. 83C-38-C21, $1.
Patricia M. Evans to Catherine Degiosio, 1 Little Flower Ave., Nesquehoning, property at 1 Little Flower Ave., $1.
John Kitchena to Jamie Tatusko, 35 W. High St., Nesquehoning, property at 35 W. High St., $25,000.
Packer Township
Frances D. Petrole to Vincent Petrole, Hazleton, parcel No. 125-46-A5.05, $1.
Luigi Raviele to Samantha F. Tilley, 260 Avenue A, Palmerton, property at 260 Avenue A, $64,000.
Lillian Strohl to Jed M. McFarland, 670 Franklin Ave., Palmerton, property at 670 Franklin Ave., $109,000.
William L. Teel Jr. to Dale Greenzweig, Box 51, Kunkletown R.3, property at 621 Franklin Ave., $75,000.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Caroline Lindaman, Northampton, property at 652 Franklin Ave., $62,000.
Penn ForestTownship
Ruja Investment Company to Joseph A. Schwengler III, Harleysville, Lot 206, Section A, Hickory Run Forest, $19,000.
Andrew Adorno to Andrew Adorno, 596 Towamensing Trails Road, Albrightsville, Lot 14, Penn Forest Acres, $1.
Mitchell Ross to Durbal Torres, Luquillo, Puerto Rico, Lot 703, Section LIII, Indian Mountain Lakes, $7,000.
Frank Mignone to Donato Mignone, Brooklyn, N.Y., Pocono Forest Lake Lot 203, Section B, $10.
John C. Staley to Michael Guttman, 365 Edgemont Ave., Palmerton, Towamensing Trails Lot 173, Section 1, $165,900.
John Wargo Family Trust to Wesley J. Nace, 24 Blackberry Lane, Jim Thorpe, two transactions, property at 24 Sparrow Lane and corner of White Spruce Way and Sunrise Drive, $12,500 each.
Lynda K. Kacicz to Kirk M. Bucholski, 100 Hawthorne Drive, Jim Thorpe, property at 100 Hawthorne Drive, $182,500.
Dorothea W. Shenck to Theresa Rullo, 1657 Burger Hollow Road, Effort, Lot V1933, Section V, Towamensing Trails, $2,500.
Sheri L. Cantrall to Becky L. Schneider, Roodhouse, Ill., four lots, also in Kidder Township, $1.
Donna M. Hineline to Wanda L. Trudell, 82 Cochise Trail, Albrightsville, Mt. Pocahontas Lot 1412, Section 4, $82,000.
Eugene W. Apice to Eugene W. Apice, P.O. Box 1993, Albrightsville, two transactions, Lot 1892, Section IV, Towamensing Trails, and property at 115 Wylie Circle, Albrightsville, $1 each.
Russell C. Crouch to David R. Franks, 1987 State Rt. 534, Albrightsville, lots 72, 73 and 74, Section A, Penn Forest Acres, $165,000.
Summit Hill
Louise Porambo to Thomas J. Parambo, 54 Laurel Drive, Summit Hill, property on West Fell Street, $87,139.50.
Julia Susko to Jeremy Knappenberger, 354 W. White St., Summit Hill, property at 254 W. White St., $41,800.
William Adam Moyer to PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, Allentown, parcel No. 27-57-B10.04, $65,000.
Roger S. Turner to Janet M. Lenton, Philadelphia, property at 440 LaMontage Drive, $1.
Jean Hayes Korshalla to Christopher M. Gaydoscik, 210 Second St., Weatherly, property at 210 Second St., $90,500.
Donald A. Hoegg to Brian Shiptoski, 664 W. Main St., Weatherly, property at 664 W. Main St., $179,000.


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Burning Bush, Inc., a Nashville-based 501 (c) (3), was founded by nurse Poppy Buchanan, along with the help of her family and friends. For nearly a decade, Burning Bush partnered with local nurses, entrepreneurs and concerned citizens to address the needs and dreams of the people in Ndathi, a small farming community near the base of Mt. Kenya (4 hours drive north of Nairobi). The nearest hospital is two hours away over very rough roads. Burning Bush and community members worked together to build a clinic that now serves a population of 20,000 people in and around Ndathi. In addition to the clinic, motivated community members have formed a number of micro-finance groups. Micro-finance groups offer participants sustainable financial leverage to improve their quality of life. The strong international friendships, healthcare and economic initiatives fostered through Burning Bush demonstrate the inspiring change for good that can come from a thoughtful, dedicated group of people.
While in Kenya, I also traveled to the Great Rift Valley and Masai Mara, visited a school at Lake Victoria in the west, and spent a few days on the small island of Lamu off of Kenya's northeastern coast. My experiences in Kenya exposed me to the tribal, political, religious, economic, and environmental diversity of what has historically been a relatively stable African nation. While aware of some mild political and tribal tension during the lead up to the presidential elections (December 27, 2007), I was heartbroken to receive news of the widespread ethnic violence that erupted throughout the country when the election became contested. I admire the spirit and hospitality of the Kenyans I met and I am hopeful that peace negotiations will put an end to the current political turbulence. My journey through Kenya was overwhelming and inspiring. I feel that I have only begun to scratch the surface of this complex and fascinating part of the world.


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by Alyssa Oursler | August 8, 2012 2:42 pm
The usual economic woes may still be weighing on consumer spending, but Macy's (NYSE:M[1]) sure doesn't seem to care.
The company posted a strong second quarter[2] today, and shares gained more than 3% this morning as a result. Profits jumped 16%, beating analyst expectations and setting a high bar for the many retailers that will announce earnings in the near future.
Macy's success, though, isn't surprising — it has had no problem digging itself out of the financial crisis. Shares of the department store climbed from a low under $6 in 2009 to a price that's now pushing $40. And the company has seen 10 consecutive quarters of revenue growth and 12 consecutive quarters of earnings growth.
Oh, and in the last year alone, shares have shot up around 60%. I'd say that's pretty good.
So what's Macy's secret? Well, besides the fact that it has benefited from the difficult times competitors like J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP[3]) and Kohl's (NYSE:KSS[4]) have had, it also seems to have mastered a simple thing: strategy. And Macy's has found one that's working a lot better than Penney's sad no-sales turnaround[5].
The company owns only Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores since closing its Hecht's and Marshall Field's stores more than five years ago, and it has been working to improve them ever since. To start, it has successfully been tweaking its offerings. It has a local "My Macy's" plan, which tailors 15% of the merchandise at each store specifically to that store's customer demographic. In Washington, D.C., for example, Macy's sells more conservative business suits than it does elsewhere.
And that's not all. It also has added countless exclusive brands, including Rachel Ray, Donald Trump and Martha Stewart lines (although Martha may not be exclusive[6] much longer), which set its stores apart. Throw in its recent deal with a Chinese online retailer, and you see a pretty strong foundation. The move gives Macy's global exposure and builds on the current success of its online operations — which registered 36% sales increase in Q2.
But the boom in profits — going to $279 million, or 67 cents per share, from last year's $241 million, or 55 cents per share — wasn't just the result of a boom in sales. Revenue increased only 3%, and same-store sales rose by about the same amount. Instead, the department store also found ways to cut costs and thus increase its margins.
Such sales numbers — although they're decent — are proof that Macy's has been facing the same struggles as other retailers. CEO Jerry Lundgren was especially pleased with company's results[7] since they came "even with challenges that include a soft economy, lower spending by international tourists and temporary disruptions" (including the major renovation of its flagship Manhattan store).
Possibly because of such struggles, Macy's has also been working to make itself more attractive to investors (as if its recent performance hasn't been enough). It doubled its dividend[8] near the start of the year, giving it a current yield of 2.1%, and has been busy buying back shares as well.
With all that Macy's has going for it, plus back-to-school sales around the corner, there's no reason to think it can't keep the streak going. Macy's sure thinks it can: It raised its full-year outlook to EPS between $3.30 and $3.35, up 5 cents from previous estimates and closer to analyst expectations of $3.36.
The main question, instead, is whether its competitors can keep up. The answers will begin rolling in Thursday as Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN[9]), Dillards (NYSE:DDS[10]), J.C. Penney and Kohl's are all set to report.
For now, though, Macy's has shown that there's still strength in the mid-tier retailing world, even in the face of a weak economy.
As of writing this, Alyssa Oursler did not own a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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TORONTO - If only the chatter of Wayne Gretzky coming to the Maple Leafs could have come in 1983 instead of 2013.
But if it did happen now, few in Leaf Nation would object.
And now that the NHL has finally settled up its $8-million outstanding debt with the Great One, most agree the legend from Brantford will now, if he chooses to, feel better about getting back involved in the game.
He basically walked away from the NHL after the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy that left him being stiffed.
"He's totally out of it," Walter Gretzky told me in 2009. "He's had it. I think he's done."
Since then Wayne Gretzky has been scarce around the NHL.
Four years later could this now change?
Reports that the NHL has agreed to pay the money has created speculation that the Number 99 will return to the league in some capacity.
It certainly made no sense for the league to have its most important record holder and arguably greatest-ever player being on the sidelines and also harbouring bitter resentment.
One source told me that even Maple Leafs co-owner Larry Tanenbaum has said behind the scenes that it just wasnt right and needed to be dealt with.


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Mountain Sounds is a new Portland duo—well, half Portland. The Rose City's Tim Hoyt has teamed up with Guatemala's Franc Castillejos to form the group, and they're about to release their self-titled debut album (out March 26). Former bandmates from Castillejos' time in the States, the pair sent each other demos long distance, then recorded the album in a disused orphanage in the mountains west of Guatemala City, Hoyt quitting his insurance gig here in town to spend three months down there. Mountain Sounds is a lush, stately record of mellow pop and emotionally charged ballads; listen to a couple songs on Soundcloud.
We've got the exclusive premiere of the band's new video, a stark performance of their song "Tired Birds" captured in the woods near the Guatemalan orphanage where the duo recorded. Surrounded by rustling leaves and sunlight peering through the treetops, Castillejos' voice and guitar could be almost anonymous in those woods, but instead he effectively captures individual and interior emotions; the result is a plaintive cry in the wild. More about Mountain Sounds on their site.


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Roy Oswalt: Boston Red Sox Need to Finally Pull the TriggerFebruary 12, 2012
In the immortal words of The Doors, the time to hesitate is through.
Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe wrote this morning that veteran free-agent pitcher Roy Oswalt is down to just two teams: the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals. For whatever reason, Oswalt remains reluctant to sign with Boston.
Apparently the Red Sox have an offer sitting on the table for Oswalt in the $5 million to $7 million range to pitch for the club in 2012. It is no secret that Oswalt's asking price was once $10 million this winter. While teams have been waiting him out, his price has dropped adversely.
The puzzling piece to Red Sox fans is, why is Oswalt so against pitching in Boston?
The Red Sox are perennial contenders, have a rich history and most importantly, have a need for him—unlike his preferred team, the Texas Rangers.
In the same Cafardo piece, Cafardo cite's a veteran baseball official familiar with Oswalt stating:
"He's definitely a little different. He needs to be in a place where he feels comfortable, and he probably hasn't spent too much time in Boston.''
Fair enough.
As an individual who was born in Mississippi and played most of his Major League career in Houston, a major market with a minimally relevant team over the past 10 years, Oswalt did show his ability to pitch in a high-pressure environment last season with the Philadelphia Phillies. He managed a 9-10 record with a 3.69 ERA and 1.338 WHIP in 23 starts.
In a piece by Alex Speier on WEEI.com, Speier mentions how Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino told Evan Drellich of MLB.com that the team will "fly by" the luxury tax in 2012.
What this tells me is that the team is declaring their willingness to spend the money. It is apparent that they may need to up their offer to reel in Oswalt. I think it is time to give him the $10 million he was looking for and end the stalemate.
If the Red Sox should add Oswalt, the team can be praised for having a successful winter. They added two bullpen arms (both capable of closing) in Andrew Bailey and Mark Melancon, while adding two outfielders in Cody Ross and Ryan Sweeney and also adding a slew of potential starting pitchers.
Reality check time: the Red Sox don't need a whole lot to be a complete team. Oswalt is really just the piece they need. It is time to show the man the money and reel him in. With a front four consisting of Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz and Oswalt the Sox would immediately be back in the conversation of being the team to beat in the AL East.
Until then, they're just sitting back and wasting time. Stop the stalemate. Bring in Oswalt and get the deal done.


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- COOKS - Miller's Ale House -New Restaurant Opening Soon! Hiring: Cooks up to $12-$16/hour for Experience Opening Our 5th Location In Chicago Coming To Schaumburg Soon .... Come Grow With Us! SO WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WORK WITH US? We expect you to be you! Throw in integrity, a relentless drive for excellence and a commitment to always doing what's right, and you've got our interest. Still reading? Here's what we need from you, what we offer in return, and how to get your career started. OUR COOKS: Guests come to Miller's Ale House to have good times and great food, that's where you come in. From our signature hand-breaded, boneless chicken zingers to delicious steaks and pasta to salads and robust sandwiches to "to-die-for" desserts, you'll make sure every one of our legendary dishes is delicious every time they're served. Our menu is one of the reasons Nation's Restaurant News called us one of the "Regional Powerhouses" for casual dining. Fulfills all cook job responsibilities in order to contribute to a "one great shift" operation Understands our menu to address any server or bartender questions, including food allergy issues Follows recipes; upholds specs and perfect presentation of every dish Satisfies food handling requirements and food safety compliance Accomplishes all running and end of shift side work; including ensuring work areas are stocked and ready for the next scheduled Line Cook to take over High volume experience preferred Must be available weekends WHAT WE OFFER: 40% dining privilege Fast-paced, fun environment Open-door communication Ability to advance your career to Coach, Shift Leader and New Restaurant Opening Trainer or Manager Hours of Operation: 11am-2am (at most locations), 7 days a week Miller's Ale House -Schaumburg (Across from PetSmart) 1300 Meacham Road Schaumburg, IL 60173 For more information please visit: https://millersalehouse.com/careers/ Millers Ale House is an Equal Opportunity and e-Verify employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Keywords: restaurant, kitchen, BOH, Back of House, Cook, Line Cook, Prep Cook, Dishwasher, QA, Quality Assurance (id:4485734) RESTAURANT - Brunch Cafe -Coming Soon!! Niles location. Servers, hostess, cooks & delivery drivers. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or call 630-877-3570 (id:4487290) INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR DRIVER - Chicagoland area and airports vans or cars,clean license,100-300 liability Ins. 800-473-4673x3220 Brian (id:4487141)
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