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Wabash traditions are alive and well. Being alive, the Wabash tradition of Chapel Sing, one of the College's finest, is always changing. The great Wabash College fight song, "Old Wabash," remains as robust as the day it was written in 1899 by Senior Ted Robinson '00 and Sophomore Carroll Ragan '02, but this year the performance procedure will be somewhat altered.
At the Chapel Thursday morning, Wabash junior and Sphinx Club president Doug Berry '07 told the crowd, including many freshmen sitting together in pledge or dorm group, the long history of "Old Wabash," not the least of which was that the two students joined together to write the piece of music in order to win the $50 prize money being offered for the best fight song.
On the Thursday before Homecoming, Wabash freshmen have gathered to show their loyalty and support of their college by demonstrating their knowledge of all the words in all the verses of "Old Wabash" and "Alma Mater."
For many years, according to Berry, freshmen were judged individually by upperclassmen. If students were not able to sing each correctly within 60 seconds to demonstrate their loyalty, it was demonstrated for them when a big letter "W" was shaved into the top of their heads. By 1964 the students who could not sing the songs in public were invited into the Chapel to try again in a quieter atmosphere, but the penalty for disloyalty remained the big "W" in the hair.
In 1967, a year when traditions were being demolished at every level of American life, six freshmen refused to participate in Chapel Sing, and some thought the great tradition was through. Not so. It continued with gusto and by 1982 the Sphinx Club had taken over the event from the then-defunct Senior Council. Freshmen were still judged individually on their performances, and the penalty was still a big "W," but by that time, it was Wabash scarlet and it was painted on.
By the 1990s pledge classes were performing as a whole, with matching shirts, caps, bare chests, jeans and, sometimes, war paint. The melody of "Old Wabash" was lost amid the screams of the words and laryngitis became a sort of badge of honor to the competitors.
Next week at Chapel Sing the song will be sung because, as Berry pointed out, "The importance of knowing the words never changes. Think of the practices as an honor, not a burden."
"Remember," Berry told the freshmen, "when you sing "Old Wabash, you are representing not only your living unit, but all Wabash, past, present, and future."
Jake Koeneman '06 then took the microphone to explain the next procedures for this year. There will be very strict spatial guidelines, so each group of freshmen can be judged in full advantage. Another change is the clothes they wear: a clean white tee shirt and shoes. If, given every opportunity to demonstrate his allegiance to Wabash in song, a student still cannot offer some rendition of "Old Wabash," a big, red "W" will be spray painted on his clean white T-shirt.
Still, as Koeneman admonished the students: The importance of the words never changes. They define our College and have for over a hundred years. Remember, Wabash College loves traditions and you are beginning the newest one next week."
The audience then rose and sang "Old Wabash."


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Traveler wrote:Man, I love me a tempeh sandwich and a bike ride! Glad to see Harold and I are so similar. Hopefully he'll come to stay with me soon.
dariofol wrote:I would like to add my name to the list. it's poosible?
i'm from Rome Italy
LORD DOOM wrote:Harold has arrived safely in Corvallis OR.
LORD DOOM wrote:Harold has arrived safely in Corvallis OR.
Teherean wrote:So... where is he annyway?
are there pictures or something?
eNiGMa wrote:Ben,
You can take my name off the list and let someone else join up. I'll be leaving in about four weeks, and won't be doing anything Lego-related for two years. Harold would have enjoyed Salt Lake, but if no one else gets him here, I can show him around when I get home.
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Men aren't the only ones reading adult comics and watching adult videos. (Shocking, I know!) In Japan, there are mature manga and porno flicks for females. Yet, women might feel reluctant to walk into their local convenience store and flip through dirty mags or rent X-rated DVDs at the video store. Good thing there are smartphones!
Japanese Android content company Ai Point has a popular smartphone service dedicated to female comics as well as a adult content site called Keitai Dougakan.
Android site Keitai Dougakan brings offers and array of adult comics and videos via smartphone to its members—a third of which are females. It's not only male-male boys love comics that are popular with females, but hardcore pornography that feature either "handsome" or gay performers. That site also has adult game apps for download as well as fan-made erotic manga.
According to a Keitai Dougakan spokesperson, many female customers are reluctant to purchase or rent adult material in a retail setting, but are more comfortable consuming it via smartphone. It's an increasingly popular way to view adult films.
Last year, when former Metal Gear fan girl Minako Komukai made her dirty movie debut, her flick was released simultaneously on disc and digital formats, such as Keitai Dougakan.
While pornography is widely available online for free, there appears to be a sizeable female audience in Japan willing to pay for it. This is probably related to a longstanding view in Japan that you need to pony up cash for things and not download them illegally. Or it could be that these female viewers feel more comfortable viewing adult content on a smartphone—a far more intimate device—than Googling on a computer.


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At first blush, it looks like confirmation of every critic's worst fears about the focus of the new Canadian Museum of History.
In response to a written question from Liberal MP Stéphane Dion, the Canadian Museum of History revealed last week that it is spending more than $8.8 million on commemorations surrounding the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
And about 87 per cent of that spending is to commemorate anniversaries of the War of 1812, the First World War and the Second World War.
In question period last week, Dion pounced. "Is it doing our rich history justice to dedicate over eight of 10 events to our military history?" he asked Heritage Minister Shelly Glover. Why is nothing planned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, he demanded, or the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
A gotcha moment? Not quite. As the Canadian Museum of History explained, all the military exhibitions and programs listed in the reply to Dion are taking place at the seemingly appropriate Canadian War Museum venue — an affiliate museum of the Canadian Museum of History.
The two museums have always been affiliated. Both report to Mark O'Neill, the CEO of the renamed Canadian Museum of History, the entity that replaced the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corp. earlier this year.
The fact that both museums now fall under the "Canadian Museum of History" name "is very misleading for people," said Patricia Lynch, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Museum of History. "I do believe it's a misunderstanding . . . but it's an important distinction to make."
In an interview, Dion said Canada should be proud of its military contributions. "It's very impressive what we have done, and we must celebrate that.
"But we have other kinds of achievements, too," he said. "We are not only a military nation. Now that we have this museum of history, can we make sure that it will celebrate all the rich aspects of our history?"
The federal government's focus on military history and the monarchy, Dion said, "may influence a lot of these museums if we don't remember that Canada is a great country for many reasons."
In its response to Dion, the museum of history — the corporation, not the Gatineau institution formerly known as the Canadian Museum of Civilization — listed just one non-military major exhibition among its planned commemorative exhibits and events between 2011-12 and 2019-20.
That's a $1.16-million exhibition called 1867, which will explore the three decades leading up to the founding of Canada and will run from November 2014 to September 2015.
Beyond that, the history museum plans only a small exhibit on the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's visit to the Ottawa Valley, a travelling exhibition from Halifax's Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and little else.
But Lynch pointed out that the Canadian Museum of History's planned new "history hall" – which will tell Canada's story from the arrival of the first humans to the present – is timed to open as Canada celebrates its 150th birthday.
Moreover, the museum currently has plans for five more exhibitions this year, four in 2015 and one each 2016 and 2017 that weren't on the list of commemorative exhibits and events that Dion received.
They range from an exhibition opening May 30 about Canada's greatest marine disaster, the 1914 sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence River, to exhibitions on Terry Fox, the Gold Rush and the 100th anniversary of the National Hockey League, which will be marked in the coming years.
The museum is also working on an exhibition on women's suffrage, tentatively booked for 2016, which would be in addition to a permanent exhibit on the subject in the new history hall, Lynch said.


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On Good Friday, Wabash alumnus and Buddhist monk Jotipalo Bhikku joined hands with the nuns and parishioners of Immaculate Heart Catholic Church in Mississippi and said the Lord's Prayer.
On Holy Saturday, when the nuns needed help preparing the sanctuary for Easter morning, Jotipalo's task was to lower the likeness of Jesus from the Cross.
Twenty-six days into an historic six-month walking pilgrimage from New Orleans to Thunder Bay, Ontario, the Therevadan monk from Abhayagiri Monastery in California finds one recurring theme—expect the unexpected.
Lately, the unexpected has brought hospitality, fellow spiritual seekers, and a deeper understanding of his faith.
Such blessings weren't apparent during the first days of the walk.
Walking along the Mississippi River levee between chemical and industrial plants in the notorious "Cancer Alley," Jotipalo and Buddhist layman Austin Stewart were met with stares and an occasional kindness, but landowners wouldn't give them permission to pitch their tarps, they couldn't find safe public places to sleep, and very few people were at all interested in knowing more about their journey.
It felt as though a man couldn't walk across his own country anymore.
"I think every cell in both of our bodies is screaming, "Stop this! End the walk!" Jotipalo wrote in his online journal that week. The two men with shaved heads and traditional Buddhist monk's robes had just been called "the Devil's seed in our midst" in a LaPlace, Louisiana fast food restaurant. They ended the day with an exhausting 22-mile walk, looking in vain for a place to sleep.
"It feels as though Louisiana isn't ready for Buddhist monks," Jotipalo wrote. "We have met some very kind, generous people here, but when taken with our exhaustion and our discouraging encounters with others, it's just not enough to sustain you emotionally."
Stewart wrote as they eyed the next state on their journey: "If anybody says they have no fear of death, I challenge them to walk through Mississippi the way that we are dressed."
The men's Buddhist practices of meditation and evening chants kept them off the edge of despair, and a ride from a Catholic priest from India and his three retired friends out for a day trip from Vidalia, Mississippi, helped turn the tide.
"We had a great time with this man and his friends," Jotipalo said. "They said that if we wrote about them, I should call them 'the Old Farts!' This was really our first contact since we've been here with people who were actually interested in what we were doing. They ended up giving us some money and before we left them, they asked me to perform a traditional blessing for them in the Pali language. It felt nice, like we're in Mississippi and being a little better received."
Soon the two were on the Natchez Trace, where long walks with heavy packs were rewarded with unexpected beauty and kindnesses.
"The Trace has been good to us so far," Jotipalo wrote in his online journal on Day 10 of the walk. "The extra weight has been heavy, but not the impossible task I had envisioned."
Strangers in campgrounds offered money and food, a ranger pointed out good places to spend the night along the Trace, and connections through the monastery, meditation centers, and the Catholic Church began to bring Jotipalo the restored faith and hope for humanity he'd envisioned discovering on the walk.
One Catholic group in Kosciusko, Mississippi gave the two men shelter from severe thunderstorms for three days, as well as food and hospitality in their homes and at St. Therese's Catholic Church. Both men now carry St. Christopher medals received as gifts from those parishioners, for whom the monks chanted Buddhist blessings.
"These women kept thanking us for coming into their lives," Jotipalo said. "But Austin and I had received so much warmth, hospitality, and generosity from these women—we were the ones to be thanking them."
It all led to remarkable interfaith exchanges during Holy Week in Houston, Mississippi, where the monk and Stewart were welcomed by the parishioners and nuns at Immaculate Heart Catholic Church.
"I feel very welcomed here, and my experiences and beliefs are so similar to the sisters that you would think I was Catholic!" Jotipalo wrote. "Later I was telling Sister Pat that listening to our conversation, some might think I was Catholic. She jumped in immediately and said, "Or we are Buddhist!"
"I wasn't expecting my faith to be strengthened by good things happening to us," Jotipalo wrote. "I guess I expected faith to come from having to endure hardships and suffering. I thought the test would show me strong enough to overcome the difficulties. I've carried this belief that you only learn through suffering. No pain, no gain.
"But this last week I'm finding that I can also learn from joy and happiness. I never imagined that the hardship and burdens would just be lifted from my back. I thought the faith would come because I would the one strong enough to overcome. But I'm discovering faith because others are looking after me!"
Charles is editor of Wabash Magazine.


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Far from tossing readers into the swarming sea of classics and demanding that they swim, this book offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres, accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the close of each chapterranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Paul Gilroypreview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.
Based on the same classical method as Bauer's terrifically successful The Well-Trained Mind, The Well-Educated Mind provides not only a thorough grounding in the classics but also a widely applicable foundation for self-education.
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of educationthe triviumwhich organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects.
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By Hilary Kissinger
I felt compelled to write in to WitOut to share my feelings. I like to write, and I have a lot of feelings. Lately, a lot of my good feelings have been happening on Wednesday nights, when my Philly Improv Theater house team Davenger rehearses.
I recently moved to Brooklyn because my husband got a fancy new job there. But because of my feelings, I just couldn't leave this group of people or give up the incredible experience of learning and performing with them. Here's what keeps me coming back on a crowded Megabus, and what we will strive to share with you during our Fringe Festival run:
1. Our good friend Harold. A few years ago, I wouldn't have thought that I'd be seeing the word "classic" cropping up next to this long form structure. Well-known in the improv community, the Harold has a long history stretching back to its development by Del Close in the 1960s, but it still felt revolutionary to me when I was first introduced to it in 2006. I feel like it is an excellent vehicle for a team to develop its skills and craft a cohesive performance, and I am really happy that Davenger has chosen to explore the Harold's challenges and satisfactions. Our director Maggy Keegan has an excellent eye for both the macro and micro levels of attention that the Harold demands, and she encourages us to reflect on our work not only as collected bits of comedy but also as thematically-linked commentary. She also likes when we make creepy faces.
2. Chemistry. (You know, like on Breaking Bad.) Another thing Maggy's done for Davenger (every time I drop her name I get to take the suggestion for another show) is really focus on the unique strengths of each individual on the team. We've done two rounds of "clinics" in rehearsal, where we'll spend 15 minutes or so working with one particular improviser on something he or she has identified as a personal challenge. I love this. It's really liberating to get to proclaim, "I think I'm bad at this!" and to have the group say, "We've got your back. Let's play about it!" Maggy (+3) has created a really supportive space that encourages a lot of feedback. Usually that feedback is – "Fuck you, Dan." This is a big compliment.
3. The Warm-Up. You won't actually see it at a Davenger show, but somewhere, probably in the basement beneath your seats as you settle in with a PBR, it is happening. A manic, incomprehensible goulash of circle games is devolving into bits, and patterns are becoming infected with patterns in an ever-repeating comedy fractal. Ok, so basically we point at each other and clap our hands at the same time. But you can expect it to sound something like this:
You – Yes – You – Yes – Rusty – Yes – Bear – Yes – clap clapclap clapclapclap – zoom – zoom – oilslick! – zoom – ERR! – zoom – Reasonable Beets! – Ladder Man! – clap clap clap clapclap clap clap – Run DMC – Yes – Method Man – Yes – NINJA SCREAMS – OldTimeyProspectorsYeeeeHOOOOO!pewpewpew
Just know that everything you see on stage is informed by this ritual. Sometimes there are Stallone impressions.
4. Memes. Because Davenger is a thing, that means it needs a "social media presence." That means that I have an outlet to create and share pictures with words over top of them. Here's one that Alex made:
5. Cupcakes & Nicknames. At our first rehearsal, we selected nicknames for one of the circle games in our warmup. It looks like we'll have them forever. We also really like cupcakes. Cait made these cherry limeade beauties for our potluck team dinner:
And Jess made these nickname-cakes back when we were still codenamed "Westmarch":
Anyway. Be jealous of our cupcakes.
I seriously love improvising with Davenger, and I want to share them with the world. But not the cupcakes. I won't share those.
Davenger is: Dan Corkery, Hilary Kissinger, Nicholas Mirra, Alex Newman, Cait O'Driscoll, Kevin Pettit, Brian Rumble, Jessica Snow, and Max Sittenfield. They are directed by Maggy Keegan.
Davenger performs Wednesday, September 12 – Saturday, September 15 on the Mainstage at the Adrienne Theater (2030 Sansom St.) Tickets can be purchased online.


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World Premiere Musical WONDERLAND Moves to Alley Theatre; Opens 1/20
Alley Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Wonderland about Alice, a children's book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life's balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all - if we know how to look.
With a book by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), and directed by Gregory Boyd, Wonderland begins previews Friday, January 15, opens officially Wednesday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, February 14.
The principal cast of Wonderland includes Julie Brooks (Fiddler on the Roof national tour) as Chloe, Janet Dacal (In the Heights, Good Vibrations) as Alice, Jose Llana (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) as El Gato, Karen Mason (Sunset Boulevard, Mamma Mia!) as the Queen of Hearts, Darren Ritchie (Dracula: The Musical) as Jack/White Knight, Nikki Snelson (Legally Blonde) as the Mad Hatter, Ed Staudenmayer (Forbidden Broadway) as the Rabbit and Tommar Wilson (Hair) as The caterpillar.The design team for Wonderland includes choreography by Marguerite Derricks, music direction and vocal arrangements by Ron Melrose, costume design by Susan Hilferty, set design by Neil Patel, lighting design by Paul Gallo, sound design by Jon Weston and video and projection design by Sven Ortel. Judith Lisi, president and CEO of the Straz Center is the producer.
The concept recording of Wonderland is available for purchase at the Alley Theatre gift shop and online at www.alleytheatre.org when a ticket is purchased.
Produced in Association with the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center), Wonderland will be transferring to the Alley Theatre the first week of January for rehearsals before going into technical rehearsals and previews. This will be the second play of the Alley's New Play Initiative.Wonderland is generously sponsored by Premiere Sponsor The Humphreys Foundation. Additional support is provided by Lead Sponsor Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. and Supporting Sponsors Cameron, KPMG LLP and Porter & Hedges LLP. The Alley Theatre is supported by the 2009-2010 season sponsor Continental Airlines, the official airline of the Alley Theatre.
Julie Brooks (Chloe) is thrilled to be part of this production. Brooks was most recently seen in the current tour of Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, as Bielke/ Grandma Tzeitel. She is a recent graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Janet Dacal (Alice Cornwinkle) Credits include on Broadway: In the Heights (four 2008 Tony Awards®), Good Vibrations. Off-Broadway: In the Heights (Drama Desk Award), Byzantium. Regional: Señor Discretion, Himself (Arena Stage); 5 Course Love (Carbonell Nomination); Four Guys Named Jose; Annie and others (Actors' Playhouse). Recordings and tours for various Grammy®-winning artists including Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada and Luis Enrique. Jose Llana (Hector/El Gato) Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee original Chip Tolentino (Drama Desk Award), Wang Ta in Flower Drum Song, Angel in RENT, Jessie-Lee in Streetcorner Symphony and Lun Tha in the 1996 Revival of The King and I. Off-Broadway: Gabey in On the Town and Adam Guettel's Saturn Returns, both at The Public Theater. Regional: Martin Guerre (Guillaume, Guthrie Theater), Ballad of Little Jo (Steppenwolf Theater, Jefferson Nomination), Candide (Prince Theater, Barrymore Nomination). Workshops: Melchior in Spring Awakening (Sundance Lab) and Tales of the City (O'Neill), among others. TV/film: Sex and the City and Hitch. Cast albums and solo album, VIVA Philippines label. www.josellana.com
Karen Mason (Mrs. Everheart/The Queen of Hearts) Broadway: Hairspray, Mamma Mia (2002 Drama Desk nomination as Best Actress), Sunset Boulevard, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Torch Song Trilogy. Off-Broadway: And The World Goes 'Round, Carnival. (Drama Desk nomination for Best Supporting Actress). Concert/cabaret: Carnegie Hall, Rainbow & Stars, Lincoln Center, Feinstein's, The Kennedy Center. Mason is a nine-time Mac Award winner. She has six solo CDs including her most recent Right Here/Right Now (2009 Mac Award for Best CD). www.karenmason.com. Darren Ritchie (Jack, The White Knight) Credits include Broadway: Wildhorn's Dracula, Little Shop of Horrors, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Bells Are Ringing and Les Miserables; National Tours: Fame; Regionally he has worked at the Music Theatre in Wichita, Goodspeed Playhouse, North Shore and Pittsburgh Music Theatre; TV: Law & Order, SVU, Half Hour News Hour, Days of our Lives, Guiding Light. Numerous commercials and workshops around the world. Nikki Snelson (Madeline/The Mad Hatter) Credits include Broadway: Legally Blonde (original Brooke Wyndham), Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters (Winnie Tate), Sweet Charity; Off-Broadway: How to Save the World (Violet), Have a Nice Life (Best NYMF Ensemble); National tours: A Chorus Line (Cassie), tick, tick ... BOOM! (Susan), Show Boat, Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Beauty and the Beast; Film/TV: Desperate Housewives, All My Children, Reefer Madness, Julie Taymor's Across the Universe. www.nicolesnelson.com
Edward Staudenmayer (Richard/ The Rabbit) recently starred in Spamalot, Las Vegas and on Broadway in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Staudenmayer has a 15-year association with the Tony Award-winning, Forbidden Broadway. Other: Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Noises Off, The Producer's, Little Shop of Horrors and voices for MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch. He's a Barrymore and National Theatre Award nominee, and Soloist with the Baltimore, Syracuse, Bartlesville and Adelaide Symphonies. AEA, SAG, AFTRA, AGVA member Tad Wilson (Jabberwock, Ensemble) Broadway: Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages. Regional credits include: Les Miserables, The Full Monty, For the Glory and The Civil War for Ford's Concert for the president. www.tadwilson.com Tommar Wilson (Theo/The caterpillar) Broadway: Hair, Hairspray, Lestat, Never Gonna Dance, The Music Man, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and national tours of Mamma Mia and Ragtime. He's also been honored to perform with The Public, The Alliance Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Trinity Rep., Playwright's Horizons, Papermill Playhouse, The MUNY, and the Vineyard Theater among others. BFA Carnegie Mellon University. www.tommarwilson.com.
The ensemble includes Tad Wilson, who will also take on the featured role of the Jabberwock, along with Grady McLeod Bowman, Sae La Chin, Carrie Cimma, Colleen Craig, Dan Domenech, Krystal Ellsworth, Mallauri Esquibel, Lori Eure, Derek Ferguson, Ashley Galvan, Laura Karklina, Mary Mossberg, Stefan Raulston, Julius Anthony Rubio, Melinda Sullivan and Danny Stiles.ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
Jack Murphy (Book/Lyrics) has worked on a wide variety of projects as both lyricist and composer. Collaborating with Frank Wildhorn, he wrote lyrics for Linda Eder's EMI CD And So Much More, as well as songs on her Atlantic CDs It's Time, It's No Secret Anymore, Christmas Stays the Same and Gold. In collaboration with Mary Bracken Phillips, he composed the score for the musical Silver Dollar, which debuted at the Goodspeed Opera House, with a second production at the Stage One Theater in Wichita, Kan., directed by Scott Schwartz. In collaboration with Wildhorn and Gregory Boyd of the Alley Theatre in Houston, he wrote the lyrics for The Civil War, which garnered him a Tony® nomination for Best Score when it debuted on Broadway at the ST. James Theater. He was back on Broadway again at the ST. James Theater with two songs penned for the hit show Swing. Once again in collaboration with Wildhorn, Murphy has written the book and lyrics of a musical about a 1920s American author and his wife, suggested by the lives of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, titled Zelda, directed by Vincent Marini at the Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center in Marlton, N.J. Wildhorn and Murphy had a world premiere in Budapest, Hungary, in May of 2006, of a musical about the tragic "Mayerling Affair" titled Rudolf: The Last Kiss. Another production of the show opened at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo in May of 2008. The show also just experienced yet another successful premiere in Vienna, Austria, on Feb. 26, 2009. Another show, The Count of Monte Cristo, had its world premiere in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on March 14, 2009.
Frank Wildhorn (Music) In 1999, Frank Wildhorn became the first American composer in 22 years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Civil War, which altogether garnered eight Tony nominations. Also on Broadway, Dracula and Victor/Victoria. He has enjoyed international success with The Count of Monte Cristo in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Rudolf: The Last Kiss in Budapest, Tokyo, and Vienna, Carmen in Prague (Karlin Theatre's biggest hit), Never Say Goodbye and The Scarlet Pimpernel for the famed Takarazuka Revue in Japan, and Cyrano in Tokyo. Artists who have recorded and/or performed Wildhorn's music include Whitney Houston (with the international #1 hit "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?"), Natalie Cole, Kenny Rogers, Sammy Davis, Jr., Liza Minnelli, Julie Andrews, Trisha Yearwood, Clay Aiken, BeBe Winans, Larry Gatlin, Jennifer Holliday, FrEddie Jackson, Deana Carter, Tracy Lawrence, John Berry, Trace Adkins, Patti LaBelle, BRyan White, Amy Grant, Ben Vereen, Regina Belle, The Moody Blues, Jeffrey Osborne, Stacy Lattisaw, Dennis DeYoung, Molly Hatchet, Brenda Russell, John Raitt, Anthony Warlow, Stanley Turrentine, Johnny Mathis, Colm Wilkinson, and Linda Eder. For Linda, recordings, television shows, and concerts. Wildhorn wrote all the music and served as Music Director for the Opening Ceremonies of the Goodwill Games in 1998. He was a producer and co-creator of Harlem Song, the first open-ended theatrical run at the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem. He also produced and was Creative Director for the television program Broadway's Best on the Bravo television network. Wildhorn wrote the song "Gold", which was used in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He is honored to be an Associate Artist at the Alley Theatre in Houston, where he launched Jekyll & Hyde, Svengali, and The Civil War. Upcoming: Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse), Havana (Pasadena Playhouse), Tears From Heaven in Seoul, Frank Wildhorn & Friends in concert, Zelda, Camille Claudel and Jekyll & Hyde all over the world.
Marguerite Derricks (Choreographer) Her remarkable choreography has enhanced hundreds of films, television, commercials, music videos and stage productions. Derricks received the prestigious Emmy® Award for three consecutive years. Her first was for the long-running television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She won her second Emmy® Award for Fame LA, and a third for the 1998 Goodwill Games Opening and Closing ceremonies. In addition, she was honored with the NAACP Award for Best Choreography for Sister Act, the Musical. Her films include the FAME remake, Little Miss Sunshine, Spiderman 3, Donnie Darko, Charlie's Angels, the Austin Powers trilogy and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, earning her MTV Movie Awards and American Choreography Award nominations. Her television credits include the Academy® Awards with Hugh Jackman, the 58th Emmy® Awards, numerous MTV Awards, Fashion Rocks telecast, That 70's Show and CSI Miami. Also in demand for commercials, Derricks has choreographed memorable ad campaigns including Old Navy, GAP, Pepsi and Jack in the Box. Derricks' choreography can also be seen in Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity, now in it's eighth sold-out year at the New York, New York Hotel in Las Vegas.
Ron Melrose (Music Direction and Vocal Arrangements) Music direction: Jersey Boys (Broadway and six additional companies), Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel (Broadway), Radio City Sinatra, First Wives Club, The Wiz, Caraboo and Zelda (Broadway-bound). Broadway dance/vocal arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year and Cabaret. Associate producer, Jersey Boys original cast album (certified platinum). Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical); Fourtune (off-Broadway); The Silver Swan (National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship); theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won't Be Singing); Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou); a gospel-based Requiem; songs for church, choir, cabaret and Saturday Night Live. Degrees from Harvard (philosophy) and Westminster (choral conducting). Neil Patel (Set Design) is a New York-based scenic designer who works in theater, opera, dance and film. He has designed Sideman, [title of show], 'Night Mother and Ring of Fire for Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include productions at prominent theaters such as Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, BAM, New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater and Playwrights Horizon, having designed productions of [title of show], Living Out, Here Lies Jenny, Dinner With Friends, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Quills and The Grey Zone. His regional work has been seen at the Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Steppenwolf and Chicago Shakespeare Theater among many others. His work with Anne Bogart and the Siti Company has been seen throughout the world, including the Holland Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Exit Festival in Paris and BAM. Opera credits New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theater and the Minnesota Opera. In Tokyo, his credits include Candide, Bent, Torch Song Trilogy and Take Flight at Parco Theater. London credits include Sideman (West End), A Question of Mercy (Bush Theater) and Henry IV (RSC). Awards include the Helen Hayes Award, the 2000 EDDY Award, numerous Drama Desk nominations and the 1996 and 2001 Obie Awards for sustained excellence in set design.
Susan Hilferty (Costume Design) has designed more than 300 productions from Broadway to across America and internationally including Japan, London, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Recent designs include Wicked (2004 Tony®, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination) August Wilson's Radio Golf and Jitney, Lestat (Tony nomination) Assassins, Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award), Manon at LA opera and Berlin Staatsoper, Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum, Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough to Say I Love You and Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo. She works with such well-known directors as Joe Mantello, James Lapine, Michael Mayer, Walter Bobbie, Robert Falls, Tony Kushner, RoBert Woodruff, JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, James MacDonald, Bart Sher, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Christopher Ashley, Emily Mann, David Jones, Marion McClinton, Rebecca Taichman, Laurie Anderson, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes, Richard Nelson and Athol Fugard (the South African writer with whom she works as set and costume designer and often as co-director since 1980). Hilferty also designs for opera, film and dance, and chairs the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She was awarded a 2000 OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Design.
Paul Gallo (Lighting Design) Last fall Gallo designed his 50th Broadway show with the revival of Pal Joey at Studio 54. In his 29 years on Broadway, his designs for musicals include Pal Joey, Never Gonna Dance, Man of LaMancha, Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound Of Music, Triumph Of Love, Titanic, Big, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Smokey Joe's Café, Guys And Dolls, Crazy For You, City of Angels, Anything Goes, Smile, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood and Tintypes. He has also designed many award-winning plays on Broadway which include November, A Bronx Tale, Mauritius, Losing Louie, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Three Days of Rain, The Crucible, 45 Seconds From Broadway, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Epic Proportions, Skylight, The Tempest, I Hate Hamlet, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me A Tenor, Spoils of War, The Comedy Of Errors, The Front Page, The House of Blue Leaves, Heartbreak House, Beyond Therapy, Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Grown Ups, Kingdoms, Candida, The Little Foxes, John Gabriel Borkman and Passione. Gallo is the recipient of eight Tony nominations, 10 Drama Desk nominations (winning one), six Outer Critics Awards, two Obie Awards and the 1986 Obie for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School of Drama. Jon Weston (Sound Design) Broadway credits include 13, Les Miserables, The Color Purple, The Glass Menagerie, Caroline, or Change (AUDELCO Award), Nine, Imaginary Friends, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Green Bird, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, On the Town, Company in concert at Lincoln Center and Man of La Mancha. His off-Broadway and regional credits include Rooms, Family Guy Sings! at Carnegie Hall, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Little Night Music (L.A. Drama Critics Award), Himself & Nora, The Thing About Men, tick, tick...BOOM! and Bright Lights, Big City. He began his audio career at T.T.G.studios in Los Angeles, recording the music for such television shows as The Love Boat and Dynasty. Sven Ortel's (Video & Projection Design) work has been seen all over the world. His collaborators are some of the most established and celebrated artists in the industry including directors Matthias Hartman, Jonathan Kent, Robert Lepage, Trevor Nunn, Deborah Warner and David Leveaux, choreographer Helgi Tomasson, conductor Valery Gergiev and set designer George Tsypin. His recent projects include Deuce directed by Michael Blakemore on Broadway, Complicite's A Disappearing Number directed by Simon McBurney, Disney's The Little Mermaid on Broadway, directed by Francesca Zambello, Swan Lake for the San Francisco Ballet and the Theatre for a New Audience's off-Broadway production of Hamlet. His current and future projects include the re-staging of the Kirov Opera's Ring Cycle under maestro Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the Royal Opera House in London. He is also working on a project in cooperation with the Guggenheim about "The Blue Rider" art movement. Since 2001, Ortel has been an associate of Mesmer, a collective of like-minded people that explore and further the use of imagery and projection in the live arts. With Mesmer, he conceived the video system and process that realized the technologically groundbreaking musical The Woman in White. Ortel is based in New York and London. Judith Lisi (Executive Producer/ David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts President) is the President of the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, which she joined on Oct. 1, 1992. With a background in theater that includes performing as both a singer and an actress, Lisi has also directed more than 40 productions and written six plays, including Stage Door Canteen, Speakeasy, Busby and WAISTWATCHERS, The Calorie-Free Musical. Before joining David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, she served as Executive Director of the prestigious Shubert Performing Arts Center in New Haven, Conn. Prior to her work at the Shubert, Lisi served from 1979-1984 as Artistic Director of the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Connecticut. As the Executive Producer of all David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts productions, she has produced many highly successful shows, including Florida's longest-running musical, Forever Plaid, which has toured the state. Other successes include the grand opera that Lisi brought to David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, from the first production, Madame Butterfly in 1996 to the world premiere of Anton Coppola's highly dramatic Sacco & Vanzetti in 2001 to the most recent production of Faust in 2009. She holds a master's degree in Theatre from St. Louis University and has done doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota. She also studied opera at the Juilliard School of Music. Lisi has been the recipient of many national and international awards, including the Broadway League Award for Best Presenter and the International Society for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. The creative team of Wonderland also includes Additional Dialogue by Phoebe Hwang, Hair and Wig Design by Tom Watson, Associate Director Kenneth Ferrone, Associate Choreographer Michelle Elkin, Conductor Greg Anthony, Orchestrations Kim Scharnberg, Associate Set Design by Caleb Levengood, Associate Costume Design by Tricia Barsamian, Associate Lighting Designer Craig Stelzenmuller, Associate Video and Projection Design by S. Katy Tucker, Stage Manager Kenneth J. David, Assistant Stage Manager Terry Cranshaw, Casting by Dave Clemmons Casting, Technical Supervisor Christopher Smith, Special Effects by Chic Silber and Managing Producer Judy Joseph.
Gregory Boyd (Director/Book) became the artistic director of the Alley Theatre in 1989. During his tenure, the Alley has risen in national and international prominence, winning the Special Tony® Award and experiencing record growth in its Houston audiences, while also transferring its productions to major European festivals (including two in one season at the Venice Biennale), Broadway and on tour to 40 American cities. Boyd's addition of artistic associates such as Edward Albee, Robert Wilson, Frank Wildhorn and Vanessa and Corin Redgrave, has enhanced the Alley's visibility and reputation worldwide; while his commitment to maintaining a resident company of actors has made the Alley unique among American theater companies. At the Alley, Mr. Boyd has produced more than 100 new productions of the widest ranging repertoire in the country. His Alley premieres have been nominated for eight Tony Awards-among them the premieres of Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams (Alley, London, Broadway), Jekyll & Hyde, (Alley, national tour, Broadway), The Civil War (which he also co-authored). In addition, Boyd directed the recordings of The Civil War and Jekyll & Hyde for Atlantic Records. At the Alley, he has appeared as an actor in Danton's Death (Tom Paine) and Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano) and directed more than 40 productions including: Treasure Island, Subject to Fits, Hitchcock Blonde, Hapgood, Jekyll & Hyde, In the Jungle of Cities, After the Fall, The Greeks, Macbeth, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. His recent directing project outside the Alley have included Our Town at Hartford Stage (HAl Holbrook), Coward's Design for Living at Williamstown (Marisa Tomei, Campbell Scott, Steven Weber), Tom Stoppard's Travesties at Long Wharf (Sam Waterston, Tom Hewitt) and the premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Boyd has served as Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He has taught on the faculties of Carnegie-Mellon, Williams College, the University of Houston and the University of North Carolina, where he headed the Professional Theatre Training Program. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a Distinguished Alumnus, and at Carnegie-Mellon.
The world premiere of Wonderland is the second play in the Alley Theatre's New Play Initiative. The Alley Theatre's New Play Initiative facilitates the creative collaboration between playwrights, directors, actors, designers and dramaturgs during all stages of a new play's development. Central to this Initiative are readings, workshops, and residencies that allow writers the unique opportunity to work with and write for Alley Theatre Actors in a concentratEd Manner over an extended gestation period. Three world premieres are being developed through this Initiative this season: Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, Jack Murphy, Gregory Boyd, and Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland, and Kenneth Lin's Intelligence-Slave, which will be on the Neuhaus Stage in May and June of next year.To read more about the development of Wonderland and hear some of the music visit www.wonderlandthemusical.org.
Tickets to Wonderland start at $21. All tickets to Wonderland are available for purchase at www.alleytheatre.org, at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas Avenue, or by calling 713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special concierge services and select discounts by calling 713.315.3346. The added convenience of reservations by phone or Internet is available for a nominal fee. Tickets purchased in person at the Alley Theatre Box Office have a $1 building restoration fee.
OSITO FOUNDATION $10 TIX (Replaces Pay-What-You-Can)
Saturday, January 16, 2:30 PM
The Alley Theatre continues its efforts to make the theatre affordable to patrons. Partnering with other social non-profit organizations, the Alley seeks to generate in-kind donations and reward patrons with $10 Tix for the matinee performance. The $10 Tix are available in person, the day of the performance only and are limited to two tickets per person. Purchase in person at the box office (615 Texas Ave.) on the day of the performance only. Cash or check only. Limited availability. Bring donations of a new teddy bear to the box office starting at noon (new time).
Saturday, January 16, 2:30 PM
The Alley Theatre is pleased to offer open captioning and audio description for many of our productions throughout the season. To ensure that your seats will accommodate your needs, please call the box office 713.220.5700 when ordering tickets to this performance. Discounted tickets are available for groups of ten or more. Call 713.315.3346 for more information.
CLUB 615 (replaces Mix & Mingle)
Thursday, January 21, 6:15 - 7:15 PM
Starting at 6:15 PM at 615 Texas in the Alley Theatre, Club 615 is a new pre-curtain mixer for young professionals. Enjoy a fabulous pre-performance reception with music, socializing, complimentary cocktails and appetizers, and specially priced theatre tickets. A-section seats are $35 and B-section seats are $25. This pre-curtain event is free with your ticket to the Thursday, January 21, 7:30 p.m. performance of Wonderland, but must be purchased for the performance using the promo code: Club615.
Saturday, January 23, 2:30 PM
Following the 2:30 PM performance, the Alley Theatre will present an Affinity Series Symposium featuring the artist team to discuss the genesis of the musical, the rehearsal process, and the issues raised by the musical.
Thursday, January 28, 6:00 - 7:15 PM
Houston's premiere theatre group for gay and lesbian theatre fans and their friends celebrate the Alley Theatre's production of Wonderland. To find out more visit www.alleytheatre.org. For tickets call 713.220.5700 and mention "ActOUT." Participants must have a ticket to the performance in order to attend this pre-show event.TALKBACK
Tuesday, January 26, 7:30 PM
Members of the cast return to the stage following the performance to take questions from the audience. TalkBacks are led by a member of the Alley Artistic Staff. PAGES & STAGES
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 - 7:15 PM
Alley Theatre is pleased to partner with the Houston Public Library for this new pre-curtain event. The perfect evening for the book worm in every theatre buff, this event combines the imagination of the written word with the excitement of live theatre. Patrons read a book that has been specially selected to complement each Hubbard Stage production, then enjoy a pre-curtain discussion group and then attend the performance. For Wonderland, the selected readings are Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Light refreshments will be served. After the performance, readers can stay for an additional Talk Back led by Alley artistic staff. This pre-curtain event is free with your ticket to the Tuesday, January 26, 7:30 PM performance of Wonderland.
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What Cowherd says, exactly, is "Who's your dad?" and his point, it seems, is that Wall lacks leadership ability because he also, um, lacked a father?
Here's audio of more Cowherd dumbassery, accompanied by a slideshow of some people who managed to not be complete failures because they didn't have a father.
Here's a list of notable fatherless people in different fields.
So, in summation, John Wall's destined to be nothing but a run-and-gun-type player who will never win anything because he dances before games and because his dad died. If you have an Insider account, you can listen to the full show here (the Wall business begins around the 56 minute mark). Caution though, you may be tempted to put a fist through your computer.
Once more, with emphasis: Colin Cowherd, fuck off.
H/T Kogod for the headline
Colin Cowherd now doesn't like John Wall's dad [DC Sports Blog]
UPDATE: Per this Boston Globe article on Rajon Rondo from last year, Rondo's father left his family when Rajon was seven years old.
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After an overindulging weekend I wanted something very light for today's lunch. As I anyway bought too many bunches of radish on the market, I wanted to make something that needs a lot of them. I have had the idea of radish soup already for a while on my mind, but I always postponed it. I definitely wanted to cook the radish, but it was important to keep its colour, therefore I prepared a stock using potatoes and then I used that to cook the radish for a few minutes. During the morning walk I collected some ramson flowers, ground ivy, yellow archangel, henbit deadnettle that brought spring right onto the plate.
300 g potatoes
1 onion
1 bay leaf
1/8 teaspoon caraway seeds
2 teaspoon butter
500-700 ml vegetable stock
1 bunch radish
125 g yoghurt
3-4 tablespoons rapeseed oil
salt, pepper
Peel and cut potatoes in cubes. Sautee chopped onion in a teaspoon butter, add diced potatoes, bay leaf, caraway seeds and vegetable stock. Cook over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Now sieve and set the liquid aside. You won't need the cooked potatoes for the soup, but do not throw away, instead make a puree or use in some kind of yeast dough that needs cooked potatoes. Sautee sliced radish in the other teaspoon of butter, add the potato liquid and cook for 2-3 minutes. Pour the soup into a mixer, add yoghurt and puree, season with salt and pepper. If you want a really smooth soup sieve. Serve the soup either lukewarm or chilled. For the oil puree about 1/4 of the radish leaves with the rapeseed oil.
May 14, 2012
Radish soup with yoghurt and radish leaf oil
Labels: soup
12 comments:
- Eline said...
Wunderhübsch und auch originell!
- May 14, 2012 at 3:18 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Beautiful and refined!
- May 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM
- Kalyn Denny said...
Lovely soup!
- May 14, 2012 at 7:31 PM
- tea with hazel said...
are you serious..that looks incredible..how did it taste?
- May 14, 2012 at 11:43 PM
- chriesi said...
@Eline: Danke!
@Rosa, Kalyn: Thank you!
@tea with hazel: Like radish. ;)
- May 15, 2012 at 12:54 PM
- Alessandra said...
This is so beautiful, and i love eating flowers!!
Well done!!
- May 21, 2012 at 12:51 AM
- Alessandra said...
give you a +1!!
- May 21, 2012 at 12:51 AM
- K and S said...
so pretty!
- May 21, 2012 at 2:12 AM
- chriesi said...
@Alessandra: Grazie! :)
@K and S: Thanks!
- May 21, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- Tales by a newer mama said...
Absolutely beautiful!! The most exquisite colored soup I've ever seen. Love!
- January 15, 2013 at 11:21 PM
- chriesi said...
Thanks so much!
- January 17, 2013 at 1:02 PM
- mollymell said...
Hello! I don't like radish but the soup looks so pretty that I feel I should try and make this recipe.
Thank you!
- February 3, 2014 at 2:27 PM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper and actor 50 Cent has pleaded not guilty to domestic violence and vandalism charges involving an ex-girlfriend who is the mother of his child.
His attorney entered the plea on Monday in Los Angeles. The performer, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was silent during the hearing.
He was charged after Daphne Narvarez reported that he had trashed her Toluca Lake condo and kicked her during an argument. Police said property worth $7,100 was destroyed.
Jackson was ordered to return to court on Sept. 4 and told to stay away from Narvarez, not make calls to her, and to get rid of his weapons.


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In the past, I provided a growing list of evidence that indicates atheism is becoming a religion as a consequence of the New Atheist movement. Well, there has been a new development that underscores the growing religious nature of modern day atheism – The Atheist Church has undergone its first schism.
The world's most voguish – though not its only – atheist church opened last year in London, to global attention and abundant acclaim.
So popular was the premise, so bright the promise, that soon the Sunday Assembly was ready to franchise, branching out into cities such as New York, Dublin and Melbourne.
"It's a way to scale goodness," declared Sanderson Jones, a standup comic and co-founder of The Sunday Assembly, which calls itself a "godless congregation."
But nearly as quickly as the Assembly spread, it split, with New York City emerging as organized atheism's Avignon.
In October, three former members of Sunday Assembly NYC announced the formation of a breakaway group called Godless Revival.
"The Sunday Assembly," wrote Godless Revival founder Lee Moore in a scathing blog post, "has a problem with atheism."
Moore alleges that, among other things, Jones advised the NYC group to "boycott the word atheism" and "not to have speakers from the atheist community." It also wanted the New York branch to host Assembly services in a churchlike setting, instead of the Manhattan dive bar where it was launched.
Jones denies ordering the NYC chapter to do away with the word "atheism," but acknowledges telling the group "not to cater solely to atheists." He also said he advised them to leave the dive bar "where women wore bikinis," in favor of a more family-friendly venue.
The squabbles led to a tiff and finally a schism between two factions within Sunday Assembly NYC. Jones reportedly told Moore that his faction was no longer welcome in the Sunday Assembly movement.
Moore promises that his group, Godless Revival, will be more firmly atheistic than the Sunday Assembly, which he now dismisses as "a humanistic cult."


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The Great Backlog Battle: (No) Hope for the Future
No one really knows what the future holds, but for generations, science fiction authors the world over have been trying to give their own interpretations. While every single vision of what the future holds comes from a different mind, there are many similarities that are easy to spot. One of the biggest is the dystopian ideal, where the future isn't what we bargained for, and in fact, is quite a bit more horrible and oppressive than the world we currently live in. That's doubly true for video games, where the likes of Remember Me have shown a glimpse of a world that's beautifully depressing.
Don't get me wrong. Remember Me's Neo-Paris is a stunner. It takes a lot of elements of the existing beauty of the city and ramps up the technology on top of what's been there for centuries. It's all very 'Blade Runner,' and I appreciate the amount of dedication and work that went into carefully crafting a vision of the French capitol. That said, I've seen this kind of future dozens upon dozens of times before. Despite the glitz and glamor of the neon-lit Parisian streets, there's a darkness about the city. It's a place where only the wealthy truly get to experience all that Paris has to offer, and that's an ideal shared by many futurist writers and thinkers. The future won't be decided by the lower class. That much is apparent.
The setting is merely window-dressing for Remember Me, and though it's important to know the story takes place many, many years down the road, the future presented isn't exactly a core focus of the story. What I mean to say is, that the things in Remember Me happen in a future timeline aren't as important to the overall game as the things that are happening themselves. The technology and Nilin's storyline could have easily been adapted to take place in modern day with just a few adjustments to the plot. The idea of Neo-Paris, while enjoyable, is just a cool setting with no real impact on the characters or themes. I'm thrilled a developer set a futuristic game in a place that wasn't an approximation of New York or Los Angeles, but why must all our futures look so damned bleak?
Outside of Mirror's Edge, there haven't been very many games that take place in a future that isn't dark, run-down, teeming with over-population or post-apocalyptic. Even Mirror's Edge had its dark side. The City's gleaming uptopian architecture housed a fascist government bent on keeping its world ever so perfect. Still, despite the ugly nature of some of the City's inhabitants, you can't deny how pristine the future looked in Mirror's Edge. This is in sharp contrast to the way pop culture has defined what the future could hold for decades. Films are rife with interpretations of the centuries to come that feature out of control governments, wastelands, population surges and most of all, depressing darkness. Neo-Paris is no different than the likes of 'Blade Runner' or 'Escape from New York' in that sense, and based on some factual suppositions and estimations by current science, not too far off from what we'll really be seeing.
At some point though, what might be science fact backed up by the way our populations are growing, and the way we're burning through natural resources at an alarming rate, can be disheartening. I'm having a good time playing Remember Me. I like the action and the combat, and I like Nilin as a character. She's interesting. Her job is interesting. The technology behind memory rewriting is incredibly fascinating. Neo-Paris bores the s--- out of me despite how gorgeously its rendered. If not for the graffiti on the walls or the landmarks in the background, Neo-Paris could be any other futuristic city in the world. The bright lights illuminating a decrepit underbelly. The homeless huddled in sewers and underpasses. The members of high-society living it up with robots assisting with daily life. The techno-elite running the show, while hundreds upon thousands beg for a small piece of relief. We've been here before, just with a different guide.
Despite my disappointment in yet another future where hope is a four-letter word left unspoken like so many vulgarities, that doesn't take anything away from Remember Me's overall presentation. I don't want Remember Me to be a different game; I just want someone somewhere to someday deliver me a future that actually shows mankind got a bit better about things. You can still tell stories about messed up people and practices in a world where the environment isn't in danger, buildings of immaculate design gleam brightly in unobscured sunlight, people have plenty of food, living space and jobs. It sounds naive and incredibly, unrealistically optimistic, but it's also something no one has really ever done before. Isn't that what storytellers should be striving for, versus showing off a wealth of influences that conveys just how clever they are in creating a world just like that world you saw before in that other thing?
People will still be people. We'll be kind and prosperous. We'll be good to those close to us. We'll keep striving to do more and do it better. But we'll also still be incredibly diverse, and unhinged. We'll be untrusting of others we don't know. We'll gossip, we'll make bad decisions and we'll disappoint those closest to us. We always do. It's not about the where or when that makes stories compelling, it's about the who and the why. Nilin's journey would be just as engaging were it taking place in a Neo-Paris that was truly revolutionary and lived up to its namesake as La Ville Lumiere. But we'll never really know because it's so much easier just to show the future's dark side with architecture and design than it is through characters and thematic undertones.
This year, I'm no longer neglecting my backlog while it continues to pile up. Instead, I'm whittling away, bit by bit, in a competition with a free dinner on the line. Every other week I'll be updating you on my progress with the twelve games I'm hoping to beat before the clock strikes midnight on December 31. This is the Great Backlog Battle.


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Games: Now Available in Gloss-Web
At long last, I can announce the game interface in gloss-web. This is still a good ways off in my class, but those of you who know what you're doing can play around with it anyway. As always, you can visit
If you've used the site before and don't see a game button, you may need to hit the refresh button.
How they work:
Games are similar to simulations, except that the time-step function has one fewer parameter, and there's an additional event handling function. So you'll need to write the following:
initial :: StdGen -> a
Just as with simulations, you can pick any data type you like (and probably write your own) to represent the state of the world. You then define initial to be a function that gets a random number generator, and returns the starting state. If you need random numbers, you can store the generator in your state type. The type variable a needs to be the same as a in all the definitions that follow.
event :: Event -> a -> a
Here's how you respond to events: write a function with the event and the previous state of the world, that returns a new state of the world as its result. That means anything you want to remember about the events that have happened should be part of your world type.
step :: Float -> a -> a
Here's how you respond to the passage of time. Much like the step function of the simulation interface, the time parameter is the amount of time that's elapsed since the last step. Unlike simulations, there is now ViewPort passed in. That's because in the OpenGL implementation, simulations automatically provided controls to zoom and such… but games don't. So you just get the elapsed time. (Of course, gloss-web doesn't provide those automatic transformations anyway.)
draw :: a -> Picture
Finally, of course you need to draw the world. This is where you say what it looks like.
An Example
The default program is a fairly simple one that draws a ball where ever you place the mouse; not much of a game, really! Never fear, here's something a little more involved… and actually pretty fun! My best score so far is 31. Can you do better?
import Graphics.Gloss import Graphics.Gloss.Interface.Game data World = World { player :: Point, target :: Point, goal :: Point, robot :: Point, speed :: Float, score :: Integer } initial _ = World (0,0) (0,0) (200,200) (-200,-200) 40 0 event (EventMotion (x,y)) world = world { target = (x,y) } event _ world = world distance (x0, y0) (x1, y1) = sqrt ((x1 - x0)^2 + (y1 - y0)^2) moveToward (x0,y0) (x1,y1) dist = (x0 + dx, y0 + dy) where totalDist = distance (x0,y0) (x1,y1) dx | dist < totalDist = (x1 - x0) * dist / totalDist | otherwise = (x1 - x0) dy | dist < totalDist = (y1 - y0) * dist / totalDist | otherwise = (y1 - y0) collisions world | distance (player world) (goal world) < 40 = foundGoal | distance (player world) (robot world) < 40 = initial | otherwise = world where foundGoal = let (x,y) = player world in world { goal = (-x, -y), score = score world + 1 } step time world = collisions newWorld where newWorld = world { player = moveToward (player world) (target world) (time * 60), robot = moveToward (robot world) (player world) (time * speed world), speed = speed world + (0.1 * time) } draw world = pictures [ color blue (figure (player world)), color red (figure (robot world)), color green (figure (goal world)), translate (-225) (-225) (scale 0.2 0.2 (text (show (score world)))) ] figure (x,y) = translate x y (circleSolid 20)
Have fun!
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robkinyon / Sep 5 2011 7:55 pm
The site seems to be down. :(
Simon Meier / Sep 6 2011 2:24 am
Hi Chris,
great work you're doing here! The game is fun :D
It would be even more cool, if one could choose to render the image on the client computer. I would expect that providing a remote renderer backend for gloss that is based on WebGL could be implemented with reasonable effort. One can always fallback to your existing backend for browsers that are not that up-to-date.
If I'd have some more spare time, I'd actually love to tackle this as a learn-me-a-WebGL project. I'd just love having these super snappy animations powered by Haskell :-)


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Nevada gave the Mountain View-based search company's dream of putting cars that drive themselves on the street the green light this week.
A Google self-driving car became the first automated vehicle to earn a driver's license when it passed a Nevada driving test.
The desert state has been paving the road for self-driving cars to hit the streets since last June when it passed a law officially conditionally allowing them on public roads.
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The license doesn't mean that the state's roads will be open to all automated vehicles. Nevada law still only allows driver-less cars for testing purposes.
Google began developing the car in 2010 it said to make driving more accessible for handicap people, to cut down on traffic accidents and road congestion.
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NEW YORK – Week 5 of the MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week welcomes a host of new faces, with three debutants from the Portland Timbers, who won their first two home games last week.
Ethan White (D.C. United) and Dilly Duka (Columbus Crew) are the young guns of the group, while Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy) and Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo) are the only returning players.
GK – Dan Kennedy (Chivas USA): In a match in which the Chivas USA goal was peppered by Vancouver, Kennedy solidified his role as starter over Zach Thornton.
DF – Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy): Led the back line's shutout against Toronto FC in midweek and then helped extinguish a Fire attack that rarely threatened LA.
DF – Ethan White (D.C. United): His own coach calls the academy product a "beast." Ben Olsen has some decisions to make as far as his center back selections.
DF – Rodney Wallace (Portland Timbers): The big knock on Wallace is that he attacks too much. Well, this week he showed he can do double duty, scoring goals in consecutive games and canceling out Marvin Chavez.
MF – Chris Pontius (D.C. United): Good health and solid players ahead of him means that Pontius is back to being an attacking threat for DC. Not to mention he does a lot of dirty work in between shots at goal.
MF – Dilly Duka (Columbus Crew): It seemed inevitable from the start of the season that manager Robert Warzycha needed his youngster on the field for his unpredictable runs and touches. He provides an extra dimension to the Crew attack.
MF – Kalif Alhassan (Portland Timbers): Few probably paid attention to this player before last week. Skill, speed, hard work and exhilarating plays. If Wallace didn't take the shot, he had a goal of the year in the making.
MF – Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo): He singlehandedly picked apart the New England Revolution with service, free kicks and shows of sublime skill. Evergreen.
FW – Luke Rodgers (New York Red Bulls): Maybe a dose of Rodgers is all the Red Bull attack needed. His coach loves how "busy" he is and he makes the runs that Thierry Henry and Juan Agudelo do not.
FW – Thierry Henry (New York Red Bulls): Fan controversy notwithstanding, he created and nearly finished a number of opportunities against a San Jose Earthquakes side that is usually stingy. Remains to be seen if this was a real breakthrough.
FW – Jorge Perlaza (Portland Timbers): He was due to break out and it took opening JELD-WEN Field for the speedy Colombian to light up the scoreboard. It was the dose of confidence he needed.
Manager – Robert Warzycha (Columbus Crew): Injuries and new faces are an easy excuse for a team to mail it in. The opposite is happening in Columbus, where they are running a tight ship in defense and are beginning to solve their issues in attack. Wasn't afraid to play Duka for the full 90 either and in the process discovered a player who will be decisive for his club's fortunes.
Honorable Mentions: Will Bruin (Houston), David Ferreira (FC Dallas), Jake Gleeson (Portland), Wes Knight (Vancouver), Jay Nolly (Vancouver), Jeff Parke (Seattle), Matt Reis (New England), Brek Shea (FC Dallas), Cam Weaver (Houston), Ben Zemanski (Chivas USA)
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PHOENIX -- Regardless of the different ways he was asked about it Friday night, D-backs first baseman Paul Goldschmidt was not about to talk about the five-year, $32 million contract extension he and the D-backs have agreed to.
Both the D-backs and Goldschmidt have declined to comment on the negotiations or even confirm they were taking place. An announcement is expected on Saturday.
The deal would cover all of Goldschmidt's arbitration years, as well as his first year of free agency. The club could grab another year of his free agency if it exercises a $14.5 million option for 2019.
"Just so you all know, I can't talk about it," Goldschmidt told reporters prior to Friday night's exhibition game against the Reds. "I can't talk about anything. Obviously there's rumors out there. If something happens, then I'll be able to say something about it. But right now, nothing is final or official or anything like that, so I don't really have too much to say."
While not commenting on the extension specifically, D-backs manager Kirk Gibson did not hesitate to praise Goldschmidt.
"What's not to like?" Gibson said. "He's very good at preparation, before, during the game and after. He's a great teammate. He works really hard. He has high expectations. He has high aspirations to be a world champion. He wants to win a Gold Glove. He would never change. He'll never change until he stops playing. We've talked about the 'Diamondback Way' the last couple of years several times and he's the model Diamondback guy. The model guy."
The humble Goldschmidt seemed almost embarrassed when told of Gibson's comments.
"Those are big words to live up to," he said. "We've got a lot of great guys around here, so I just try to learn from the guys that have been around."
Catcher Miguel Montero saw all the reporters crowded around Goldschmidt's locker and said with a big smile, "Oh, you guys are talking to the rich guy."
Goldschmidt, 25, hit .286 with 43 doubles, 20 homers and 82 RBIs last season, his first full big league campaign.
Goldschmidt was first called to the Majors on Aug. 1, 2011, and quickly became a favorite among the coaching staff for his approach to the game.
"You guys all know what it means to the team," Gibson said. "For them to even have conversations about [an extension], he's got, what, a year and a half in the Major Leagues. Really, position players don't get locked up like that. I think it speaks for itself, the fact that could even be a possibility to happen."


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Delicious, quick and simple idea starting with refrigerated cookie dough. I made these for a super fast dessert after a heavy meal.
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I don't generally use pre-packaged refrigerated dough as it contains a lot of sodium and other artificial ingredients. However, I would make the cookies using the basic Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe, subsituting one bag of Reeses Peanut Butter Candies for the chocolate chips. I think that 2 tbs of peanut butter would not be enough for this recipe; would suggest instead of covering the whole cookie, to put a small dollop in the center, maybe 1/2 to 1 tsp worth of peanut butter, smooth into a circle, then melt 1/2 bag of chocolate chips and dollop on top of the peanut butter to coat it. Still looks pretty without getting smeared or being messy!


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When it comes to recordings of the non Western classical traditions, I think David. B. Jones has to ranked at the very top. He is the one who did the Connoisseur Society (their technical "guru" was Bela Bartok's son Peter!) recordings of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, the greatest living Indian musician. Jones also did some of the Nonesuch recordings as well (thereally good ones) employing the same Sony tube mikes he used to
record Dr. Khan. Check out the Ramnad Krishnan title on Nonesuch.
There are also many, many Indian EMI recordings that are truly superlative. Mostly it was the vinyl that was dismal (even this,they
got it right at times!), but the recordings themselves, mostly
were good and sometimes outstanding. Simple mike techniques and tube electronics did the trick. I have a Malika Arjun Mansoor recording that is at the top of the list. So is the M.S. Subbulakshmi boxed set of LPs recorded "live" at a UN gala for UThant. In spite of the most embarrassing and hideouly ugly song in English (!) by Indial politician Rajaji, these LPs capture the queen in all her glory. Then, there are the many Yugal Bandi
recordings. The first one is of course the original Bismillah Khan/
Vilayat Khan pairing. This great recording was produced by Suviraj
Grubb,the only Indian to ever produce Western classical recordings. He
replacedWalter Legge at EMI as the principal producer and worked with all thegreats, from Barenboim, Zukerman, Perlman and Du Pre to Barbirolli,
Richter, Fischer-Dieskau and Klemperer. I must also mention the V.G.
Jog and Bismillah pairing which is also great. The recording of Lalgudi
Jayaraman and N. Ramani titled "Violin, Venu, Veena" also tops the
list. Some good recordings were also released on the Swedish label
Amigo (two of Nikil Banerjee and one each of Amjad Ali Khan and Ram
Narayan) while Sonet put out the most beatiful yugal bandi recording with
Shivkumar and Hariprasad.
The German label Loft, amoung other titles, released an excellent double lp of the junior Dagar Brothers, and the French label Still, which along with a surbahar recording of Imrat Khan,
has released the only recordings (two LP boxed sets) worth having,
of the Karnatic legend T.R. Mahalingam. The other two recordings of Mali, on Indian EMI, are truly horrid. Taking of French labels, two outstanding recordings of Zia Mohinudinn Dager (Rudra vina) on Alvares and Auvidis
respectively. The later also released a good recording of the junior Dagar Brothers. Another label called ESP put out ten or so recordings, of which there is a Hari Prasad that is wonderfull, as is the one of Fariduddin Dagar (vocalist brother of Zia). Their recording of the Bauls, though of a lesser crew than the Purnadas (the very same man on the cover of Dylan's "John Wesly Harding" album) outfit on Nonesuch, Electra and Buddah, sonicaly is
the best. Barclay (a jazz label started by the beautiful Nicole Barclay) too, released two recordings of Nagaswara Rao (vina), the same artist on Nonesuch, as did French CBS, a recording of Emani Shankar Shastry. Another French woman started Shandar that released a
great recording of Pandit Pran Nath, as well as Terry Reily's "Persian SurgeryDervishes". Arion released a very good recording of D.K. Pattamal, while Vogue has an outstanding recording of Parapancham Sita Ram (Karnatic flute) with Guruvayur Dorai on mirdangam.
Chante du Monde has a very fine
collection of Flamenco with great masters such as Pepe de la Metrona, with equally great sound. Andre Charlin made not just great speakers (electrostatic/dynamic hybrids) and amps (tube and solid state) but also truly great recordings, though most of them were of Western
Classical music. He did however do a Koto (like Cook) recording for Kenwood (yes, the ones who made one of the greatest turntables, the LO7D). I have a feeling that Charlin was responsible (or at least
partly) for the ORTF technique. Having mentioned France, Icertainly
must mention the great Indologist Alain Danielou, who edited the
wonderful UNESCO collection of recordings. Though the sound on many of
these is rather poor, having been done by some "ethnomusicologist"
with a cassette recorder and mikes with wind screens, two recordings do stand out. They are the LP of the Dagar Brothers (Sr) and a Karnatic
compilation with vocal tracks by Semanguddi Srinivasa Iyar. Though these recordings are in mono, the sound and performance, are out of this world!
Danielou introduced the Dager Brothers to the West in the early 60s. I have heard that Nadia Boulanger, the great Parisian music teacher, after hearing the Dagar Brothers remarked "This is real music! We have been wasting our time!".
Last but not least, there is the French Ocora catalog, a treasure
to ransom a king, with many, many outstanding recordings of the most
exotic music. Check out the Munir Bashir (Oud) recording or the
Emani Shankar Shastry (vina) recording with Madras Kannan on mirdangam! I also have a Portuguese EMI recording of Amilia Rodriguez
that is outstanding.
From the UK, Tangent had a steady out put including a collection of music from Ethiopia, as well the "Music from the World of Islam" boxed set. But, Tangent never had truly great sound. Speaking
of UK, I must mention the Hannibal recording of Nazakat and Salamat Ali, which is good. Another forgotten hero is Ron Marlo of Chess. Listen to the Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" LP and the "live" Ahmed Jamal LP titled
"Alhambra". Emory Cook is another great who has also been forgotten. Way back in the 50s, he was releasing recordings of the Tarahumara Indian (the very ones Antonin Artaud "visited") peyote chants, as well
as Hindu temple music from the Caribbean!!! Richard Bock of World Pacific
also released great recordings, one in particular is the "live" recording of
vina vidwan S. Balachander with N. Ramani. So is the recording
of Brij Bhushan Kabra.
Jones, Malo, Cook, Bock, Danielou and Grubb, these are the men that I respect and hold in high esteem. They wrote the ground rules and charted the way and made it possible for the likes of me. The rest, including myself,
are like the blind men with the elephant in a dark room! Groping in the dark, stumbling
into mike stands, tripping over cables, spilling hot tea onto the
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EMS Acronyms
To: All EMS Personnel From: Chief of Operations Subject: Proper Narrative Descriptions
It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms that many EMS narratives have taken a decidedly creative direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are to refrain from using slang and abbreviations to describe patients, such as the following:
1) Cardiac patients should not be referred to as suffering from MUH (messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking) or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again).
2) Stroke patients are NOT "Charlie Carrots."
Nor are rescuers to use CCFCCP(Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their mental state.
3) Trauma patients are not CATS (cut all to sh*t), FDGB (fall down, go boom), TBC (total body crunch) or "hamburger helper."
Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to include phrases like "negative vehicle to vehicle interface" or "terminal deceleration syndrome."
4) HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not "glow worms."
5) Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use are not considered "pharmaceutically gifted."
6) Gunshot wounds to the head are not trans-occipital implants."
7) The homeless are not "urban outdoors men," nor is endotracheal intubation referred to as a "PVC Challenge."
8) And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being "paws up," ART (assuming room temperature), CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), DRT (dead right there).
I know you will all join me in respecting the cultural diversity of our patients to include their medical orientations in creating proper narratives and log entries.
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All I have to say about this:
F u c ked up beyond any recognition, but unfortunately not dead, yet! ;) (best classification for chest X-rays ;))
Nach einer Prämedikationsvisite vermerkte der Anästhesist:
LAD im GAZ mit AFSA.
Liebe Alte Dame im Guten AllgemeinZustand kennen wir aus House of God, aber "Angst Fressen Seele Auf" war mir neu (die Dame war halt sehr nervös).