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ditto. Imagine the joy of deep state clowns being charged with treason:p
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ditto. Imagine the joy of deep state clowns being charged with treason:p
not a bad idea about a tech help section
what a grub.
More than one allegation here
only 67 thousand genders ? Surely there must be more. I think little chuckie sh is gender on it's own. Why are so many pollies creepy from both sides of the fence.
Any guessing on the new lineup and results.
Alexander Albon ( Toro Rosso ) new I guess, never heard of him
Ricciardo now Renault - Best or Worst move. I'm thinking hope he gets more cash !...
And further.. check out how those countries were treated in one way alone --- weapons ..... crooked HRC and family
If you check the Australian donations.. the then foreign minister Downer ( who is involved in other crooked stuff like leaking in the Russia Investigation )
Signed Australia up to a donation deal...
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CHICAGO (AP) ? The Latest on the attack reported by Jussie Smollett (all times local): 8:25 p.m. A California misdemeanor complaint against Jussie Smollett shows the actor was accused of identifying...
Lunatic Trillion Dollar " Everything is Free" Bernie is going to make a run for the White House.
Me too. Those clowns need some of their own medicine.
It looks like this guy faked his own mugging .. omg
Is a signature allowed ?
I think if was done right it would be okay.
Thoughts ?
this bloke is the uncertainty, he's dangerous
a Commie, politically correct douchebag,. a danger to any economy
Be afraid of this dickhead with his hands on government
fairfax / Ch 9 or some fake news mob ?
where did you get this fake news from.. ?
yeah enough said
really ? climate changes every day.. hoax of the century.. up there with Y2K bug :rolleyes:
yeah it's sad these creeps harass people
sort of funny, had two prime Ministers with the name Malcolm.. Turnbull and Fraser.. both duds.
well this guy is the son of the Ex PM, he's just talking trash as a proxy for the EX PM , his Dad Malcolm..
an uncouth or unsophisticated person regarded as being of low social status.
If you are an aussie, you'll get it.
Anyway, some bogan have called their kid these names
Selena Gomez looks happy and healthy while playing in the snow with BFFs...
in first photos since entering mental health facility
Do these people have too much time on their hands.. I don't...
I don't know if the son is a member.. but Malcolm should be banned
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Tracie Bennett stars as a tempestuous and triumphant Judy Garland in the music-filled production that began Broadway previews March 19 and opened to strong reviews April 2 at the Belasco Theatre. Bennett earned Olivier and Tony nominations for her dynamic performance.
"Tracie Bennett's balls-to-the-wall performance on the Tony Awards telecast has ignited the box office," a representative for the production told Playbill.com. "That it took place on what would have been Judy Garland's 90th birthday is particularly poignant and fitting."
Bennett delivers such Garland signatures as "The Man That Got Away," "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "The Trolley Song" during the performance. Tony Award-winning La Cage aux Folles director Terry Johnson stages the production that received its U.S. debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis prior to Broadway.
End of the Rainbow, with Bennett in tow, will launch a U.S. national tour at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre March 12-April 21, 2013.
Benett is joined on stage by Tony nominee Michael Cumpsty (The Constant Wife, Democracy) as Garland's accompanist, Anthony, with Emmy winner Tom Pelphrey ("Guiding Light") as her husband, Mickey Deans, and Jay Russell (Our Town, The Play What I Wrote) in a variety of roles. Music director Jeff Saver leads a six-piece on-stage band who back Bennett throughout the evening with arrangements faithful to Garland's originals. An album "Tracie Bennett Sings Judy: Songs from the Broadway Production of End of the Rainbow and Other Garland Classics" is currently available from Masterworks Broadway. (For other show and vocal recordings, visit the Playbill Store.)
According to the producers, "End of the Rainbow is set in December 1968 and Judy Garland is about to make her comeback... again. In a London hotel room preparing for a series of concerts, with both her new young fiancé and her adoring accompanist, Garland struggles to get 'beyond the rainbow' with her signature cocktail of talent, tenacity, and razor-sharp wit. This savagely funny drama offers unique insight into the inner conflict that inspired and consumed one of the most beloved figures in American popular culture. End of the Rainbow features some of Garland's most memorable songs, performed with the show-stopping gusto for which she will always be remembered."
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Bennett previously worked with Johnson in the London revival of La Cage aux Folles. She earned Olivier Awards for her performances as Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray and as Ilona Ritter She Loves Me. Her stage credits also include Les Miserables and Cash On Delivery. Numerous screen appearances include "Vincent," "The Long Firm," "Heroes and Villains," "Next of Kin," "Coronation Street," "Going Out," "Shirley Valentine," "Knights and Emeralds" and "Deep Red Instant Love."
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One year ago, as images of his rough treatment of Rutgers men's basketball players replayed incessantly on televisions across America, Mike Rice seemed destined for permanent hardwood exile.
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"It's extremely rewarding, helping them improve," Rice said via phone on Monday. "People do ask questions (about his time at Rutgers) and some are critical. But for the most part people are very understanding and forgiving when they see you're trying to learn from your mistakes."
On the anniversary of the bombshell video that blew up Rutgers' athletic department, the three principals in the saga have moved on to other ventures, even as resulting lawsuits play out. Eric Murdock, the staffer who furnished the images of Rice's practices to ESPN, owns and runs a restaurant in Raritan Borough named "Stapleton's," after the high school coach he credits with setting him on a path to the NBA. Former athletics director Tim Pernetti, who has not spoken publicly on the matter since he resigned, is chief business officer of the Major League Soccer expansion club New York City FC.


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The Last Photo Album?stevejb68 on October 27, 2016 in collections, Film & Books, pictures
I have a lot of photo albums. Scouting photo albums, that is. Most of them include pictures of troop meetings, weekend outings, summer camps, and courts of honor. There are also albums of the trips to Philmont Scout Ranch, the High Knoll Trail, and the 2001 National Jamboree. In total, there are 39 albums of Boy Scout Troop 68, covering activities from the mid 1970's through this year.
The reason I am posting about this is because I just finished putting the last photograph in the 39th album this week. This brings me up to May 2016, the troop's Camp Watchamagumee outing. It is time to start another album. Or is it?
As I was placing photos into the page sleeves I began thinking to myself, maybe this should be the last photo album I create of troop functions. After all, the only time they get viewed in when I use them for in displays for Scout Week in February or at one of the troop's meal fundraisers.
I also began thinking about the cost of each album, not just the book but also the cost of printing the pictures. Each finished album runs about $40-$50 by the time it is done. When you stop to think about it, I have a lot invested in these albums.
Then I thought of a third point. Most people, including myself, are more into looking at photos on their phones and tablets than they are to picking up an physical album. That was the main reason I bought an iPad. Not to play games but to carry my photos with me. Add to this that we all share digital photos so easily these days it begins to make little sense to create physical photo albums.
Finally, what is going to happen to all these albums when I am done with Scouting? No one is going to want them. Our troop does not have its own hut or building. (We meet in a school gym for meetings.) The only place that may want the books is our local historical museum. Yeah, they would probably love to have over 36 years of local Scouting history to add to their collection.
So there it is. In this digital age I really do not see a reason to create any more Scouting photo albums for Troop 68. What do you think? Am I wrong for thinking this way?


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Kreayshawn: "I've always been filming. I had a VHS camera when I was like 10 years old. There's video of me as a 10-year-old freestyling in my old neighborhood. Then three years ago, I just started messing around with iMovie and putting music behind stuff. Blogs started picking it up so I was just like, 'I'm going to start getting into music videos.'
"I had a whole bunch of videos and I was trying to go to film school and I was applying to pay. I tried to get a loan and I got denied. My grandpa couldn't help me get a loan. My mom tried and got denied. I was stuck. [The Dean of The Berkeley Digital Film Institute Patrick Kriwanek] saw my videos and he could tell what I was filming with in the ghetto. I told him, 'Honestly, I don't have enough money.' He really liked me and he was like, 'Me and my wife give out a scholarship every year to underprivileged kids. I'm going to talk to her and see if she thinks we should give you one.'
"In my head I was like, 'I'm already going to this school. I've got this.' I was buying my school supplies before he even gave me an answer. Then he called me and that was really life changing. I didn't think I could get something like that, but that just showed me anything is possible. And look, it is.
"I didn't graduate high school and they definitely asked me for [my high school diploma]. I had a scholarship so there wasn't really any signing of papers. It was like, 'Yeah, you can come to this school for free.' It was a program where you learn everything really hardcore and quick for a year and then you spend the next year working on projects. It just wasn't really the path meant for me. Me being me, and always having to change up every five seconds, I just got impatient. I had to spread my wings up out of there. I moved to L.A. not long after that."
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The publicity queen, who started Sydney PR company Sweaty Betty at the age of 24, has suggested the swimmer and Dane Bouris, son of head judge, Mark, are more than just friends during a radio interview with Triple M Tuesday morning.
"There is a rumour, that perhaps Ms Rice, but you never heard it here, may have had some sort of a rendezvous with Bouris jnr (Dane)," Jacenko told the station.
It's no secret the pair don't get along with Jackeno's latest comments proving just that.
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Pikachu, who hurt you?
We regret to inform you that our beloved Pikachu went out and got impulse bangs.
Pikachu's new look was debuted in a trailer for Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! Features include customizing Pikachu and Eevee with different hairstyles. Of all the scenes in the trailer, one just makes you want to shake your head and mourn for Pikachu's hair.
Just look at what the poor Pokémon went and did!
Check out the new trailer and see what a ridiculous haircut you can give Pikachu! https://t.co/MS1gmsTLQ9 pic.twitter.com/ZQqeiPJHpH
— PokéJungle (@pokejungle) July 12, 2018
Everyone knows that you don't get bangs unless you're going through a rough patch. Nobody chooses to hack off the front half of their hair if they're doing OK. Giving yourself bangs is the kind of thing you do after a 4 a.m. crying jag, when nothing else in the world makes sense aside from covering your forehead with some manic pixie dream girl fringe.
Which is why we're asking: Pikachu, are you OK? Girl, who hurt you?
To invoke the wise words of @alliewach, "if u want bangs u should go to therapy first."
personally i believe wanting bangs is almost never about wanting bangs and if u want bangs u should go to therapy first
— jugs bunny (@alliewach) February 7, 2018
You give yourself bangs when you're experiencing only the deepest inner turmoil. Impulse bangs are reserved for exactly six days after a breakup, when you're feeling vindictive and need to drastically change yourself.
who broke up with pikachu pic.twitter.com/W0ARtQLd3b
— morgan sung (@morgan_sung) July 13, 2018
They gave pikachu terf bangs the whole franchise is cancelled!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/nTLaN81TjY
— tommy tsao ✌🏽😯 (@ttxao) July 12, 2018
Does Pikachu even know how LONG it's going to take for those bangs to grow out? Pikachu, you've doomed yourself to a year of keeping hair pins in every pocket and forever sweeping your side bangs out of your face!
Who hurt Pikachu? If you have any information, please come forward. Until then, please support Pika in his journey to find himself as he navigates what's clearly a difficult time in his life.


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It's easy to know when your old decor has become stale and boring. Even so, you may be baffled when it comes to figuring out just how to revitalize it. Here are some family room addition design ideas to help you decide on elements that will bring both excitement and usability to your home:
If your house simply doesn't have enough room for you to do everything you want when you're at home, it's time to put on an addition. Additions can be added as partial second stories, but they aren't limited to such placements. As long as you have enough land, an addition can be used to extend a house's width, depth, or both. When you have any type of addition put on, you should consider which family members will be using the new room. This will ensure that you can have a builder like Guedes Construction, Inc. add the features you'll need.
When you intend to use the space as a family room, the needs of your entire family must be given careful thought before you have the room finished. If you have young children, for example, you should add plenty of features that can be reached from their height. Try adding a built-in entertainment center that holds game consoles, a TV, a kid-friendly stereo, and has room for plenty of children's CDs. All of these things should be at kid height so that they can just flop down on the floor and start having fun. There should also be plenty of kid-sized furniture for the times that they don't want to lay on the carpet.
Families with older children don't need to have things at a low height, but kids of any age can still be hard on the furnishings. Design with an eye to durability and ease of cleaning.
Those who have no kids or teenagers in the house can finally go full-on high-end without having to worry about spilled sodas, scratched furniture, and other such things. Family room addition design ideas for these families include leather sofas, fine wood tables, and Saxony carpet for a luxurious experience. Of course, you should also add a built-in entertainment center. Add a few cabinets to keep everything organized – you won't want the appearance of your new room marred by the clutter of TV guides, remotes, or newspapers.


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We are working hard to keep information on this website up to date but things are changing rapidly. Please check individual venue websites before travelling.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton,
West Yorkshire,
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Reopening news:
YSP are excited to be able to welcome you back. The Parkland and Formal Gardens are open for you to enjoy modern and contemporary sculpture in the open air. The Underground Gallery is also be open, so you can enjoy the vibrant major exhibition by Joana Vasconcelos.
All visitors will need to book a ticket in advance so that capacity can be managed, to comply with NHS track and trace, and to raise vital funds at this difficult time. Car parking charges will not apply at this time.
For more information about reopening, please visit: https://ysp.org.uk/visit/visitor-guidelines
Yorkshire Sculpture Park's Visitor Centre and entrance is a landmark building, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects that offers greatly improved visitor facilities in a vibrant and contemporary setting.
Alongside the restaurant and shop are a Community Resource area, auditorium and conference space. An outdoor workshop site and an indoor classroom are also available for visiting schools and groups.
Why not take a look at the "Walk Of Art" as you approach the Visitor Centre from the car park area. 'Walk of Art' is a 100 metre metal pathway designed and inscribed with the names of individuals, clubs, groups, companies and schools. You cant fail to miss the thousands of names (some more famous than others!) beneath your feet in this permanent work of art by sculptor Gordon Young, in collaboration with "why not associates". Can you spot the name of a famous Yorkshire born chat show host? Good Luck with your search!
Opening details
Winter: Galleries + indoor facilities 10am-4pm / Open air 10am-5pm
YSP is closed 24th - 25th December inclusive.
Car park locked 30 minutes after closing.
Free entry
Car Park Charges:
Up to 1 hour £2.50
1-2 hours £5.00
All day (3 hours+) £8.00
By Road:
From Wakefield City Centre: Take the A637 from Wakefield. Proceed through West Bretton village. At the next roundabout turn right and follow the road through to the YSP car park.
From Motorway North/South: Exit the M1 at Junc 38. Take the A637 and follow the YSP brown heritage signs for 1 mile. At the next roundabout turn left and follow the road through to the YSP car park.
From Motorway East/West: Leave the M62 at Junc 29 and take the M1 South towards Wakefield. Exit the M1 at Junc 38 and take the A637. Follow the YSP brown heritage signs for 1 mile. At the next roundabout turn left and follow the road through to the YSP car park.
By Public Transport:
Nearest Railway Station: Wakefield Westgate Railway Station (5 miles)
Nearest Bus Station: Wakefield Bus Station (5 miles)
Bus Route: Tate Travel Service No. 96 goes into the grounds of the YSP.
Parking charges apply.
Motorcycles are free – please donate.
Coaches – please report to the Information Desk on arrival.
Parking charges apply to all visitors including blue-badge holders.
with charge
- Baby changing facilities
- Coach parties accepted
- Credit cards accepted (no fee)
- Disabled toilets
- Education/study area
- Facilities for groups
- Facilities for educational visits
- Gift shop
- On-site catering
- On-site light refreshments
- Picnic site
- Regional Tourist Board Member
- Wheelchairs available
- Accepts groups
- Facilities for conferencing
- Facilities for corporate hospitality
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
- Dogs not accepted (except guidedogs)
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Dominican Republic
Wrapper origin:
Wrapper type:
Filler: unknown
Length: 5.5"
Ring: 43
Cost: $1.00
Appearance (0-20): Light wrapper with one too many veins for my liking. A couple of major veins dominate the length of the cigar with a few smaller ones stretched throughout. The wrapper is completely unimpressive, and the band is also somewhat normal. From first look, its one I would typically pass up.
Score: 6
Construction (0-20): For being such a small and compact cigar, you would think it would be perfectly packed. And if you put money on that fact, you would actually be right. This one was tightly packed, but unfortunately it was overpacked. The draw was way too tight through the entire smoke.
Score: 6
Strength (0-20): I expected this to be light, and this would be the area that meets my expectations in full. Absolutely a mild cigar that would suffice as something you can pass on to someone who had never had a cigar in their life and they would be fine after it.
Score: 12
Flavor (0-20): Woof. The only flavor that is distinguishable at all is a bit of cream. Aside from that it's got a slight nutty sense to it, but otherwise it's a ball of nothingness. No complexity, no real changes in flavor profile… yeah. It's just completely one dimensional and boring.
Score: 5
Value (0-20): For a buck, I guess it isn't awful. But on the same token you wouldn't be able to convince me that a Diesel Unlimited is worth 4 of these… or 10… or 20.
Score: 4
Additional Notes: Paired with water.
Overall (0-100): I sincerely cannot fathom someone giving this a good rating. Its poor quality, bland tasting, and honestly not something I would choose to smoke. Hell, I don't even think I would give these a second try. I'll even go one step further and say I wouldn't take one of these if it was given to me for free.
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Discussion by: MrJB
Maybe succession isn't the right word, and maybe this sounds like a silly question, but I've been wondering where the younger spokesmen are for the subjects that men like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens have been reveling us in for all this time? Maybe I have not come into contact with them because I havn't looked enough, in which case I hope to be enlightenend here about their presence. It's something that has been on my mind ever since the passing of Mr Hitchens, and I can't stop but fear what would happen if there are none to take their active places, especially in this time when truth seems to be being attacked from all directions.
Thank you for your replies.


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The OddFellows chocolate Company case study and how card payments transformed their business
This inspirational story is a testament to all start-up businesses that with perseverance, passion in your product, vision and of course… the ability to accept card payments, that you can turn any dream or in this case cocoa beans into a business.
Founder, Emily Flanagan first concocted Oddfellows chocolate in her kitchen in 2010. The Willy Wonker venture began when Emily started making truffles and chocolates for family and friends in her spare time.
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Word soon got around about her delicious chocolate and unusual flavours that demand grew, and soon the business was over taking her whole house. Emily soon needed somewhere else to get creative with her chocolate and moved their head quarters to a modern building in Staffordshire.
The OddFellows Chocolate Company did not previously accept card payments, however got in touch with Chip & PIN Solutions when she heard about our competitive card payment rates. She soon realised that accepting card payments was affordable and imperative to help her business grow as she mainly sells the chocolate at events across the country.
Emily discovered that by offering her customers the option to pay by card, she soon saw a dramatic increase in sales, mainly through impulse purchases. As a result it improved the efficiency of her business as card payments offered an instant way of receiving payments and less cash handling.
"Introducing card payments has 100% benefited my business. The sales of our chocolates at events have significantly increased since offering customers the option to pay with their cards".
Emily Flanagan, Founder, Oddfellows Chocolate Company
When we asked Emily if she would recommend our services to other businesses, she stated that she would have no hesitation in recommending Chip & PIN Solutions. She found the setup to be quick and easy and the customer service team were really helpful. This meant that had even more time to get creative with her chocolate!
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Sophie Hacker specialises in Church Art, including stained glass windows, vestments and re-ordering liturgical space. She is a trustee of A+C, the UK's leading organisation in the field of visual art and religion, and a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College in Salisbury Cathedral Close. Since 2006 she has been Arts and Exhibitions Consultant for Winchester Cathedral, with particular responsibility for curating three exhibitions each year.
Recent commissions include collaborations with musicians and poets, and numerous ecclesiastical projects (see Church Art).
Sculptures incorporate found objects and natural materials to highlight the beauty of the ordinary and point to the joy and suffering in creation (see Sculpture and specifically 'Icons of the Incarnation', illustrated in the first film below).
Oil and acrylic paintings are often rooted in the English landscape. Sketches made on walks are restated in simple forms using colour and texture (see Painting).


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Availability date: 01/01/2016
Hal Leonard, Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along, Volume 4: Christmas Hits.
The Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along series is designed for pianists ready to play their first solo. Each volume comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations, and is carefully arranged for beginning pianists. There are two tracks: a full performance track for listening and practice, plus a separate backing track which lets you be the soloist! The CD is playable on any CD player, and is also enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch. This volume includes 8 songs to make holiday spirits bright.
A Jazzy Christmas Time Clarinet
Little Angels A Nativity Musical


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Galapagos April 18, 2010: Hiking on Española Island
Today marked the first full day in the islands and our introduction to the rather intense schedule that would be typical for the rest of the week.
Wake up was at 6:45am with a full breakfast buffet (or whatever you wanted from the kitchen) from 7am to 8am.
Promptly at 8am, we departed for Punta Suarez on the westernmost tip of Española Island. For such excursions, we used zodiacs — inflatable boats with outboard motors commonly used by the military — to ferry from the Endeavor to the shore.
Española Island is composed of relatively rocky shores with the occasional beach where we landed. We then hiked around to stand atop 100 foot cliffs.
In between, we met many of the critters endemic — unique species only found in the Galapagos and, in some cases, only found on one of the islands — to this particular island. This was also the first island where we encountered the red marine iguanas, one fine specimen pictured at left.
They were everywhere on this island, obviously along the shore but also quite far inland as the females will wander way inland to dig a hole to lay eggs, sometimes losing more than 50% of their body mass on the journey.
Marine iguanas are exclusively vegetarian and are the only iguanas that forage in the water for their food, primarily the algae that grows on the rocks up to 30 feet under water.
But more about Marine iguanas later in a post dedicated to these magnificent creatures. Española had many other creatures, including some unique to the island.
Like, for example, the Sally Lightfoot (Grapsus grapsus) crab.
The Sally Lightfoot crabs are everywhere on every shore. They are the cleanup crew of the island and one of the first land critter to colonize fresh lava flows (marine iguanas and sea lions being the sea critters that climb up on the land and provide the crabs with one major food source). The crabs feed on basically anything dead or nearly dead, efficiently converting biomass into what will eventually become the soil that provides a toehold for plant life and other creatures.
Crabs have an exoskeleton and, like many such creatures, they shed that exoskeleton periodically as they grow. This is actually a shed exoskeleton. While the live crabs are quite brightly colored, their shed exoskeletons are even more intensely colored.
Lacking a fear of humans, the animals of the Galapagos do their animal things sometimes right under your feet. It quickly became quite apparent that I should keep my camera out, lens cap off and ready to shoot at all times!
While walking the trail on Española through a bit of fairly heavy brush, these two doves popped out and started fighting pretty much right on top of my feet.
Except, no, they weren't fighting….
… they were mating.
Just as quickly as they appeared they disappeared off into the bushes on their merry dove way.
Española Island was also the first island where we encountered one of Darwin's mockingbirds.
In this case, a Hood Mockingbird endemic to this particular island. When Darwin visited the islands, it was really the mockingbird specimens that he took with him that really catalyzed the notion that the animals of the islands had evolved to the unique environments presented by each island.
These guys were quite the characters. Not just fearless of us, they hood mockingbirds have been known to poke about a hiker's clothes, backpacks or water bottles for food or water.
They are also fascinated by camera equipment. While I got a photo of a mockingbird eyeing me up, the videographer on our trip shot a video of a mockingbird inspecting his camera's lens quite closely!
After hanging out with the mockingbirds, doves, and finches, we walked around to the cliff-tops to visit the waved albatross nesting grounds.
The waved albatross is a huge and beautiful bird that is optimized for long flight. With a wingspan of over 7 feet, the albatross is a bird made for soaring!
And soar it does!
After hatching, the young albatross is cared for by the parents for about 10 months. At the end of which, the young albatross quite literally walks to the edge of the cliff, throws itself off and 95% of the young learn to fly before hitting bottom.
Once the young take flight, they stay in the air or at sea for the next three to four years before returning to these cliff-tops to nest.
I wasn't kidding when I said that the albatross literally throw themselves off the cliff.
While we were sitting and enjoying the cliff-top breeze, one albatross did exactly that. It walked over to the cliff, consider the wind and the "runway" for a moment, then took a sort of stumbling run right off the cliff!
For all that wingspan, the albatross has a fairly short and stubby set of legs. They simply can't take off from the ground at all well. However, the birds can take off from the water and we saw well over one hundred albatross well off the coast foraging for food.
This also means that the albatross is not much of a nest builder. As a matter of fact, the female lays a single egg (per season or every other season) directly on the ground and will roll it about as it is incubated!
The cliffs on top of which the albatross live are magnificent. Being relatively young volcanic islands, the interface between land and sea is often sheer, extremely rough, and full of holes.
This leads to lots of holes and ledges. The ledges are oft used by various birds and the marine iguanas while the holes sometimes lead to giant jets of water like the one at right, a blowhole.
The albatross taking off was successful and at left is a picture of said bird flying in front of the cliffs just to the left of the blowhole.
The albatross have no fear of humans and many of them were "nesting" (more like, sitting around on the ground) very close, if not on, the designated path through the island.
Roger found all of the creatures to be thoroughly fascinating and consistently found lots of things that no one else had noticed.
We spent the afternoon snorkeling, but I really didn't spend much time taking photos. We focused on making sure Roger was comfortable with snorkeling (being his first deep water snorkeling experience) and I figured out how to use the underwater camera.
All in preparation for the next day's adventures!
But, it was impossible to walk back to the zodiac landing spot without running into at least one more photo opportunity (and, if you look in the Flickr set, about a dozen more).
In this case, a nazca booby preening….
Española Island is home to both nazca boobies and blue footed boobies. It is actually not uncommon to see a nazca raising a blue chick or vice-versa!
Taking anything but an extreme close-up or something in flight, it was almost impossible to shoot a photo of just a single species. As in this picture, there always seemed to be a lizard or iguana popping up in a bird picture or vice-versa!
We did spend the afternoon snorkeling around Gardner Islet on the northeast corner of Española.
This was the only photo I kept. Mostly, we used the time to get aclimated to snorkeling. In particular, it was the first time Roger has snorkeled in deep water (and only the second location he snorkeled).
He took to it like a fish. By the end of the week, Roger was diving down 20 to 30 feet to checkout the critters at the bottom!
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Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots debuted at number one its opening weekend and has continued to dominate the box office ever since. Although much worse films have had that honor (lookin' at you, Paul Blart Mall Cop), we must still ask -- really? This makes the fifth film of the Shrek genus and while Boots was an amusing addition to the first movie, we're feeling a little Shrek fatigue.
The success of PIB also sets a dangerous precedent for other animated origin stories. Are we now going to be subjected to films about that tow truck from Cars and from whence the Chipmunks' human father Dave Seville came? Oh wait.
A combination of not much original screen time and having all the best lines make comedy relief characters easy favorites and ripe for the spin-off picking. But if Art Attack had our way and the $130 billion budget that Puss in Boots did, these are the origin stories we'd prefer to see get made.
5. Megan of Bridesmaids
The general assumption is that Melissa McCarthy won her Emmy for Mike & Molly because everyone liked her so much in Bridesmaids. Based on that alone, Universal Pictures is probably hearing the sound of silence over spin-off possibilities right now, because the sound of billions of dollars falling from the sky is actually pretty quiet.
Like any good comedy relief character, Megan is completely over the top but she also exhibits great heart and inner conflict -- the root of any worthwhile origin story. The story Megan tells about falling off a cruise ship and talking to a dolphin that changed her life is probably a good start.
4. Franck Eggelhoffer of Father of the Bride
Martin Short's role as the fey wedding planner in this heartwarming Steve Martin classic typifies comedic relief. He is responsible for bringing swans in the picture and even goes so far as to have a pan-European accent. So beloved was he that Franck figured into the sequel to a much greater extent. The tale of Franck's origins would finally reveal just where he's from, other than the planet of not wanting to die by a drive-by shooting.
The original film was made back in 1991, but given the political realities of the present day, perhaps a film about Franck planning his own wedding would be more appropriate.
3. Bad Horse of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Much of the charm of Joss Whedon's short but sweet Web series was the fact that good guys and bad guys of varied powers existed without question. Of course a Snake Bite, Dead Bowie, Captain Hammer and Bad Horse populate the world, just as naturally as pandas and pigeons do.
But you can't help but wonder about the Thoroughbred of Sin. When and why was the Evil League of Evil founded? What horse parts, specifically, does Bad Horse have and was he born with them? Did he train under a sensei in Tibet to get his special powers? Either way, we imagine his origin story would be a lot more interesting a movie than the first 20 minutes of Batman Begins.
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2. Gromit of Wallace and Gromit
It's rare when a cartoon character can be described as having quiet dignity, but it's true of Gromit. The sidekick to his goofy, cheese-loving human master, Gromit not only exhibits remarkable common sense when rescuing Wallace from harrowing situations, he also shows a practical knowledge of mechanical engineering, keeps up with world events and is an avid cook. Where did he learn these skills? Unlike the characters in the apocalypse-heralding Chipmunk sequels and Puss in Boots, Gromit is actually a character with depth and a story that might really be provoking.
1. Tony Stark: The College Years
Iron Man is an origin story as is, and Robert Downey Jr. managed to provide a majority of the comedy as the main character. But before the bed-hopping businessman got in touch with his heroic side and all the technological trappings that come with that, he was merely an overconfident college student with some dad issues on a bender. We imagine that story would be something like a combination of Old School and Hackers.


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Léo Ferré, one of the greatest French language wordsmiths of the 20th century was born on August 24, 1916 in Monaco. One of his most haunting songs is Avec le temps, first recorded in 1970, shown here with the original lyrics alongside an English translation. Gifted as a child soprano, he studied at a boarding school in order to sing, but he was always marked by the loneliness of those years. His father refused to let him enter the Conservatory of Music, and instead he went to Paris to study law. He continued his musical studies on the side and began composing in earnest, sacred music at first. He returned to Monaco after the war. An encounter with Edith Piaf in 1945 would prove to be decisive as she encouraged him to go to Paris to try his luck in the music world. For seven years, he worked obscure music halls where he was paid a pittance. He began to spend time with Spanish anarchists. Some of the big names of the day began to record his music, including Piaf who had, after all, encouraged him to make the move, but also Henri Salvador and Catherine Sauvage.
He did not experience success until Sauvage had a big hit with a song other musicians had turned down, "Paris Canaille". Ferré used his improved finances to devote time write a classical oratorio. Throughout his career, he kept one foot in the classical world and one in the domain of chanson française, the popular music of the day that features beautifully drafted lyrics. For a couple of weeks the following year, he was the opening act for Josephine Baker singing his own compositions – apparently, he was not a crowd favorite. He was extremely prolific, steadily recording and even publishing a book of poetry. More than one album was an homage to the poets Charles Baudelaire and Guillaume Apollinaire. Ferré's style is impossible to pin down; he was sarcastic and romantic, anarchistic and tender, misogynistic and passionate. Some of his songs, such as "Thank You Satan", were so radical that they were not released due to censorship. He captured the mood of change and rebellion of 1968 of French youth and developed an enormous following among them. He continued to write, record, and perform until his death in 1993.
Léo Ferré systematically refused to accept awards, saying , "Le seul honneur pour un artiste, c'est de n'en pas avoir" (luh suhl honur poor uhn arteest, seh duh non paz avwar), which means "The only honor for an artist is not to have any." This hasn't stopped people from naming schools, town squares, and music halls after him. Perhaps the most touching tribute is a rose that bears his name; appropriately, its bi-colored, white, bordered in red, perfectly representing the many opposites in his life.


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Foleyvision does the Turkish 'Star Wars'
By Marc Savlov, Fri., Feb. 20, 2004
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (somewhere around Istanbul we suspect), Turkish filmmaker Çetin Inanç helmed his space opera masterpiece Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam, aka The Man Who Saves the World. More popularly known in the West as the Turkish Star Wars, Inanç's microbudgeted quasi-epic from 1982 is part loving tribute to George Lucas' finest hour and part blatant rip-off. Employing actual Lucas-lensed footage "liberated" from its Hollywood predecessor, Inanç and company make use of the rugged, Tatooine-like terrain of their native country while crafting a film that rivals anything Sid and Marty Krofft ever managed in terms of sheer goofball ineptitude. And yet, as the spike-helmeted Darth Vader stand-in battles a pair of Gil Gerard-era Buck Rogers types, it's hard not to feel a surge of misplaced pride in this director who attempted so very much with what surely was so very little.
Then again, the whole production is in Turkish sans English subtitles, which makes the plot somewhat more difficult to follow.
Enter Austin's Foleyvision, Buzz Moran's sound effects 'n' dialogue troupe, who have united once again with the Alamo Draft-house Downtown to render the unwatchable somewhat less so.
"This is the first English translation of this film ever in the world," says Moran, who along with Golden Arm Trio's Graham Reynolds and a pair of voice actors will provide a literal translation of the onscreen action and appropriate Foley work.
Moran's crew has taken dialogue cues from a Turkish-speaking UT student kind enough (or foolish enough, depending on your tolerance for blotchy Turkish films featuring poorly done Robbie the Robot knockoffs) to translate the film into English, and although much of the screen is often rear-projected shots of Lucas' film framing Turkish kung-fu fights in the desert, the real story is more enticingly original than you might think.
"Basically what happens," says Moran, "is that the bad guy, this sort of Ming the Merciless guy, shoots the Turkish heroes out of the sky, and they then crash land on the planet which is actually a chunk of the Earth that's broken off for some reason. There's also an iron brain that has gathered the power of all of the brains of the dead of the world and a magic iron sword. There's a lot of magic stuff going on in the film for some reason."
That said, Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam holds its own against, say, Roger Corman alum Jim Wynorski's worst work by sheer virtue of its over-the-top, take-no-prisoners badness. Where else can you see the great pyramids of Egypt doubling for an alien world, production values rivaling those of Devo's seminal "Whip It" video, and more than a little fundamentalist Islamic undertone?
Only in Foleyvision, and thank goodness.
Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam aka The Man Who Saves the World aka the Turkish Star Wars premieres in Foleyvision on Sunday, Feb. 22, 7 and 9:45pm at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (409 Colorado, 476-1320). See www.drafthouse.com for more information.


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Disaster area quickly becomes huge automobile market
One of the most indelible images people will take away from all those horrifying videos of the tsunami of March 11 is automobiles being swept up by the dozens and carried away. What's important to remember about the Tohoku region, especially the coastal part, is that cars are an indispensable component of everyday life there. In Tohoku, there is one car for every two humans. Because much of the area is cut off from the rest of Honshu by mountains, there aren't that many train lines. In fact, many of the people who died were in their cars at the time, trying to escape inland after the tsunami alert was broadcast. There are many stories of people driving to the homes of elderly relatives to pick them up and then getting caught in the wall of water.
In Miyagi Prefecture alone, according to a report on TBS, 146,000 vehicles were destroyed. The central government has pledged to do the cleaning up, but cars pose a special problem. Much of the debris is beyond being recognizable, but cars, even ones that no longer function, tend to be intact and thus are considered private property by local governments. They cannot simply be carted away as garbage. The process so far has been for tow trucks to bring the damaged vehicles to large lots where the owners can claim them and then sign a release allowing them to be scrapped.
However, in many cases the owners don't even know where their cars are, so it is taking a long time to process all the junked cars being brought to the lots. For instance, hundreds of cars were parked at Sendai Airport when the tsunami struck, and afterward their owners came to look for them but couldn't find them. Local governments have to somehow inform those people where the collected automobiles are being kept, and it's time-consuming. But that's not the end of the process. As one mechanic told TBS, before the car is scrapped and placed in a compactor, all the mud has to be removed from the interior. (Removing the gasoline isn't a problem since it seems that in almost all cases thieves had already siphoned off the fuel when the tow trucks showed up.) Before scrapping, the engines are removed and can sometimes be recycled, but not in this case. Sea water effectively destroys automobile engines.
If anyone benefits from this aspect of the tragedy it is, of course, automakers. Since the eco point system ended last year, manufacturers have been looking for a means to boost sales, and now they have an instant customer base of hundreds of thousands of potential buyers. The central government is going to help with a bill that will provide certain tax exemptions for victims of the earthquake/tsunami. Any victim who purchases a car, either used or new, will not have to pay the automobile purchase tax; nor will they have to pay the regular car tax based on weight, which is due when you register the car and every time you bring it in for mandatory inspections. Already, there is a paucity of available vehicles for sale in the Tohoku region, a situation exacerbated by production fall-offs nationwide due to a shortage of parts that are made in the Tohoku region. However, today Toyota announced that it would resume car production on April 18. There's no time to lose.
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Real-Time Facebook and Twitter Ads App Debuts
Shift turns posts and tweets into promos
Shift—previously known as GraphEffect—today is announcing its Media Manager application, which is designed to take Facebook posts and Twitter tweets (authored by the brand or consumers) and quickly turn them into ads.
For instance, if a consumer praises a brand or posts something that resonates with a brand's community on the social sites, Shift's system should automatically alert designated members of the marketing team to let them know about the Sponsored Stories or Promoted Tweet opportunity.
"The content team, the media buyers and the analysts can work together on their Facebook and Twitter initiatives in real-time," Shift CEO James Borow told Adweek. "Social moves so fast that you have to be able to coordinate in real-time, or you will essentially miss the boat again and again. It's a powerful thing to know that a post or tweet is doing well and that you need to put some money behind it."
Borow said Media Manager employs an algorithm his firm calls StoryRank, which pulls Facebook and Twitter insights and matches such data against the brand's social ad goals. "In one click, [the potential ad] can be sent over to your boss so that budget can be allocated," he added.
The app becomes part of Shift's Open Marketing Cloud platform, which is utilized by brands such as L'Oréal, Toyota, Kraft, American Express and Nissan. Media Manager also entails social ads budget notifications, collaborative worksheets and real-time chat to hook up agencies with brand clients, as well as other digital-campaign-based bells and whistles.


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Suffolk Police Ask for Help in Bodies Case
Suffolk County, N.Y., authorities issued an appeal for public help in determining the identities of five sets of human remains found along a Long Island beach this spring. Courtesy Fox News.
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@PRIMEWrestling – Season 5 – Time To Catch Up Part II
I may have a panic attack trying to fit in my wrestling duties this week. I'll be squeezing in an audio with the always entertaining Aaron Maguire tomorrow night. I'm hoping to get this past week's show done tonight too. No more yapping, let's start this party.
Aiden Veil starts the program off taking on Bobby Beverly. Veil is making his debut with a pair of drumsticks and he hailed from "The Stage". I love these early gimmicks. Bobby Shields was on commentary with Joe Dombrowski. Beverly offers a hand but Veil slaps him. Beverly tossed him outside the ring and kicked him in the chest from the apron. Beverly chopped away before tossing him into the ring. Veil used his drum sticks to get an advantage. Ah, this past week's episode was a review for Wrestlelution. I'll get to catch up on what I missed, hopefully. Beverly nailed a fisher man's suplex but only got a two count. Beverly followed it up with a super kick for the win. Bobby Shields charged the ring and a brawl ensued. Nicki Valentino tried to separate but needed help from the referees. Solid work from both guys in the ring. Shields could still use some work behind the head set.
Gregory Iron isn't sure what to say about Zack Gowen. Iron can't believe he's buying into N8 Mattson's BS. Iron is wondering why Gowen has given up on being a role model. Iron said he knows there would be no Gregory Iron without Gowen. (Someone needs to get him a book about the birds and the bees or he could just clarify that he means the wrestler.) Iron said that he's going to have to fight him. Gowen appears above him. He talks about how he's had to fight every day of his life. Gowen wished he could have called him a failure when he was a child. Iron is going to fight him because of the kids that look up to him. Gowen calls him pathetic. Iron leaves the area. Solid segment but Iron should really be more pissed at Gowen at this juncture. He should be ready to fight him willingly.
Krimson says that absence makes the heart grow fonder. He said that he used to have a life like Matt Mason. Krimson told him he's going to find out what it's like to his life ripped away from him. Krimson said he's going to take Mason's family then his soul.
Rhino is still doing a sit down interview still. Rhino knows what Jason Bane's record is in PRIME Wrestling. He said they're both bad men. Rhino said that he's going to end his winning streak. He finished by saying that even if he's hit by the Baneline, he's going to kick out and hit him with a Gore! Gore! Gore! He closed better than he start even if it ended with the predictable tag line.
Joe Dombrowski clears up that Mason's wife joined the Dead Wrestling Society. I was wondering because she was acting like a zombie. She was also still wearing her wedding ring. Mr. RBI Isaiah Bonds is taking on Bryan Castle with Dan Arkham. Castle started out using an ice cream board cut out to mock, I think, Mr. RBI. Castle got the early jump. Mr. RBI turned it around with some shots to the stomach. Bonds hit a nice looking enziguri. Bonds nails a standing moonsault. Mr. RBI used Castle's lucky head band to clean his mitt. Castle went crazy. He finished with a drop kick into the corner. Castle gave Mr. RBI a flying cross body for the win. It's nice to see Castle moving forward a little bit. He used to still pussy foot around after someone messed with his head band. That being said, it'd be nice if he'd move on from the head band some time soon.
Jason Bane continued his sit down talk about Rhino. I'm still not digging the look away from the main camera view. He turned to the camera to Bane Line! Bane Line! Bane Line! It was OK. At least he looked at the camera.
Jimmy Jacobs is wondering if the nerves are getting to Johnny Gargano. Jacobs is saying Gargano's 8 year career is going to be ended in 8 minutes in the ring. Jacobs wants to finish him, take his soul and break him. Jacobs said he's going to be the new man with a legacy in PRIME Wrestling after Wrestlelution.
Vic Travagliante is back in the Wrestlelution Studios. Hey, I bought those $30 tickets for myself and my girl today. Michael "The Bomber" Facade is out for blood. He told Gory he isn't intimidated by his gore. Facade said that Gory better bring a shovel because the only way he takes the title from Facade is if he's dead. I think they did police sirens on purpose so Facade ran out of the interview area. That is the first time they've played up "The Bomber" gimmick and it couldn't have come at a worse time. He just delivered a good promo about his year long foe. Jason Gory said a casket is a sign of finality. Gory said that Facade's fate is sealed shut. He's going to watch the breath leave his body. He was too breathy in his speech. Just use your real voice.
Striped tank tops are in and Johnny Gargano is part of the fad. Gargano talked about his injury at the hands of Jacobs. Gargano says he always plans on stealing the show at Wrestlelution. This year it isn't about stealing the show. He just wants to stop Jacobs. Gargano said that his heart will never be broken even if the rest of him is. Gargano is going to beat Jacobs to within an inch of his life. Gargano said he's going to take out the Zombie Princess's brain. I could have used without the gun going side cocked. Terrible form for shooting.
Vic Travagliante comes out acting Justin LaBar's assistant. Aaron Maguire leaves the announce booth to even the odds and keep an eye on LaBar. Vic joined Dombrowski on the announce booth. Jimmy Jacobs & Marion Fontaine came out first. Matt Cross & Johnny Gargano joined them for the main event. Vic & Joe talked about how both teams could implode. They reminded us that Cross lost the PRIME Title to Jacobs. Gargano and Fontaine got tagged in. Gargno took to the offense with a wrist lock. Gargano nailed a nice low drop kick. Completely unnecessary to run down the card with Vic doing it earlier. Fontaine missed a top rope leg drop. Cross got the hot tag. A double team by Jacobs & Fontaine led to Cross selling. Gargano got his own hot tag. Jacobs kept avoiding contact from Gargano. Fontaine took a lot of punishment. Gargano speared Fontaine into the middle turn buckle. Fontaine kicked out at two. Gargano got distracted by Jacobs. Fontaine super kicked Gargano. Fontaine tried to bring a chair into the ring. All hell breaks lose. Jacobs DDTs Gargano onto a chair and slides it out of the ring before the ref gets back from looking at Fontaine & Cross on the outside. Jacobs put Gargano in a chair outside and told him he shouldn't have been sending him the ski masks. Someone came out wearing the ski mask and revealed himself as Bobby Beverly. Gargano got the drop on Jacobs as Beverly backed away. The program ended. Nice finish. -Kevin


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Stone Irr's new, second album 'Performance' is equal parts heart-on-the-sleeve midwestern indie and warm, west coast pop, reflecting the artist's Indiana upbringing and recent move to Los Angeles.
Stone's tremendous growth as a solo artist, songwriter, and arranger is obvious on the standout track "All We Want Anymore." The song's bright, almost Beatles-like melodic structure and a cascading finale of strings and horns that pushes Stone's voice deep into the mix.
That voice, often multi-tracked with layers of harmonies, is Stone Irr's defining quality. It floats through the record, at times whispered and ethereal and at others gritty and broken, reminiscent of Thom Yorke, Jessica Pratt, Jens Lekman, and Sufjan Stevens.
Lyrically, Stone meditates on "performance" as the relationship between observer and observed. Often the same person plays both roles ("I'm more selfish than I thought", Cheer Up), but Stone also devotes attention to the modern sense of hyper-connected isolation caused by "sharing your life on the screen." (Nose Dive)
'Performance' also features essential, thoughtful production from Mark Edlin and Ben Lumsdaine (Kevin Krauter, Major Murphy, Steve Marino) and album art by William Schaff (Okkervil River, Songs: Ohia).
"Best taken as one whole, enveloping chronicle, Sinner balances smart songwriting with a wholly compelling heart; the kind of record that quietly, over time, might well become something truly special."
"Although the peaks of harmonic beauty certainly astonish, they would be far less effective without Irr's deeply felt delivery, like the "For My Friends," line "I can't even believe the shit I tell myself." In the end, Sinner's success seems to be equal parts heartfelt reflection and chilling orchestration."
"Irr channels the Beach Boys and Sufjan Stevens in equal measure, using ethereal, layered harmonies and a sweeping arrangement to tell the story of the dark places the mind can go when experiencing separation from a loved one."
"'All We Want Anymore' has everything you'd want in a classic pop song—the dizzy, the dreamy and the grand ... It's a must-hear."


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Art – on location
Many a legend tells of how the transition from pagan religions to Christianity became a battle of places. Christian churches became the new gathering place for artists, not least the writing reverends.
The political and economic reforms of the Absolute Monarchy in the latter half of the 17th century brought changes in the cultural landscape as well. Market towns and the provinces as a whole, once on a par with the capital, began to lose ground. But as their towns and regions began to lag behind, many people started to look at their hometowns with new, nostalgic eyes. This even gave rise to a new literary school on Funen in the 1680s, led by bishop and hymn writer Thomas Kingo.
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Although Ludvig Holberg, the leading cultural figure of the 18th century, displayed an exhaustive knowledge of Copenhagen in his play Den ellevte Juni (The Eleventh of June), he wound up a baron in provincial Sorø.
In the late 18th century, …