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Delegated tasks and projects explained
There could be several reasons to delegate a task or project in Procraster, e.g.:
To delegate a task or a project, open the task or project's detail window and click . The first time you delegate an item, iOS will ask you if you want to give Procraster access to your contacts. If you want to delegate items in Procraster you must allow access.
When an item is delegated, the contact's name will appear next to in the item's detail window.
To clear the item's Delegate settings, click and select .
All delegated items will show up in the list. You can tell that an item is delegated by the contact icon, inside the checkbox , and by the Name being grayed out. The item's stats will still show up in charts.
Note: Procraster will never tell your contacts that you have delegated an item to them.
iPad only: Due to restrictions in iOS it's not possible to delegate items in popovers. To delegate an item, you have to open it in the Tasks tab.


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Ah, Guild Wars 2. There's a game I have an odd history with.
It was a rare case of my drinking the hype Kool Aid before launch. Once it finally did release, I hopped on the bandwagon immediately, and I had a great time… for about three months.
The game lost its luster quickly. Despite its many merits, some major stumbles drove me away from the game, and once I started on The Secret World, Guild Wars 2 faded into my rear view mirror.
But it's always been in the back of my mind. My fond memories of the game taunt me, and I did get very attached to my characters in my time with the game. I've often been tempted to give it another try.
So I finally did. I hopped back in during the climax of the first season of the "Living Story" and spent a few days getting reacquainted. For my full thoughts, see my article on the topic over at WhatMMO:
Here's a brief excerpt:
"If I was to describe Guild Wars 2 in a nutshell, I'd say that it's a great game that is utterly ignorant of its own strengths. The Living Story seems designed to focus on all of the things ArenaNet cannot do right – like story and group content – while rejecting the positives of the game, such as accessibility and freedom."
It should be noted that there was a delay in getting this article published, so some of what it discusses is old news by now. However, most of my thoughts remain relevant.
It should be said that the recently started second season of the Living Story does — from what I hear — address some of the complaints I have. It does feature a new permanent game zone, albeit one I'm told is fairly small, and it seems like the Elder Dragons are taking center stage again.
However, I fear it may be too little, too late for this player.
It's a shame. There's much about Guild Wars 2 that I do truly love. The sense of freedom it offers is incredibly liberating, and it's probably my all-time favourite game in terms of visuals. Perfect balance between realism and stylization, and the graphics are just gorgeous, especially on my new computer.
But when I don't care about the world, there's nothing to disguise the grind at the heart of all MMOs, and I just can't seem to find the motivation to keep coming back.
It occurs to me that continuing to call this segment "Cheating on WoW" is growing increasingly inaccurate, considering I haven't played WoW for the lion's share of a year. It should probably be "Cheating on TSW" now.
Doesn't have the same ring to it, though.

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Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has long seen religious meaning behind her candidacy, going so far as to tell supporters that God was behind her rise from political obscurity, guiding her path to Congress.
On Wednesday, the celestial threads took another turn towards the bizarre, as Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston uncovered an interview in which the Tea Party favorite said that actions of the federal government were a "violation of the First Commandment" -- not amendment, commandment.
"I know people are very frightened about what's going on in this country," Angle said in an interview that originally aired on April 21 with TruNews Christian Radio's Rick Wile. "And these programs that you mentioned -- that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward -- are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. And you've just identified the real crux of the problem."
This statement alone was a rather glaring reflection of just how infused religion is in Angle's political mindset. The Nevada Republican has already made major waves arguing in opposition to abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
But once Ralston published the exchange, things grew even more bizarre. Angle's communications director, Jarrod Agen -- who was hired, it should be noted, less than 24 hours ago -- sent a clarifying statement to the reporter that was dipped even deeper in religious tones, framing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as a sort of dark overlord.
"Only the supreme arrogance of Senator Reid would believe that he has a divine right to rule over mere mortals by ramming through Obamacare, billions in reckless spending, and yes, buying cocaine for monkeys," Agen said. "The fact is, Reid has acted like he's all-powerful and accountable to no one. People are frustrated because, like Sharron, they understand Washington has become a giant, unseen, omnipotent force whose presence is felt in all our lives whether we like it or not."
The statement provoked a slew of seemingly shocked tweets from Ralston who took the response as sincere. Only after the fact did the campaign get in touch with him to insist the statement was facetious.
Asked to clarify whether, in fact, he was being sincere or sarcastic, Agen said there was "a little of both in there."
In all, the entire episode seems likely to end up being just another footnote in a Senate candidacy that has been filled with incredible oddities and dramatics. But context remains important. It's not unusual for a candidate to invoke his or her religion in the course of an election. Harry Reid himself has said it's difficult to "separate your religion from your politics, its part of your personality. It is part of who you are."
It's rare, however, for a candidate to insist that their candidacy is imbued with religion itself.
Angle has certainly raised the bar for envelope-pushing statements. Whether those following the campaign will adjust their expectations and coverage as a result (or continue to call a spade a spade) will matter as Election Day approaches.


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Read Episode 1 here
He protested mildly, but I stopped his protest when I began stroking his hair. I won't say I didn't know what I was doing but I couldn't help myself. Kola responded to my touch. He was vulnerable and one thing led to another and we saw ourselves partially naked and the deed had been done. Regret and shame flooded our hearts when we realized what we had done. We broke the edge, we broke the vow and most importantly, we disappointed God.
I picked up my clothe and wore it in haste. I was so ashamed of myself, I could not look at Kola's face. I was the one that set the whole thing in motion and pulled the innocent man into my snare. I hurried home and thankfully my parents had gone for leader's meeting in the church. I didn't know how I would have faced them. I knew they would be disappointed in me. I had also let my siblings down. I was their role model. They respected me a whole lot. I cried almost all night in my room asking for mercy and forgiveness from God.
I felt like getting iron sponge to wash off the guilt and shame on me, but I knew that could not help. I called in sick at work, and when my mum asked why I wasn't going to work, I told her I wanted to have a personal time with God. She was impressed. She told my father and they both prayed for me before they set out for their business for the day. I had lied to them again. I didn't have the boldness to tell them what happened. It will break them so badly.
In the afternoon, I received a message from Kola. "I'm sorry about what happened. I allowed my emotions and the feelings I had get in the way of my sanity and purity. I should have resisted you fiercely but I permitted my vulnerability to take charge. Please find a place in your heart to forgive me. I'll want us to seek God's face individually asking for mercy. Let's separate for a while so we don't repeat this. In due time, we will open up our sins to the church."
The latter part of the message left me more devastated. He wanted us to stop seeing. Was he already planning on leaving me? I thought to myself. The tears stung harder and flowed freely. "I'm sorry, Kola. I was the one who led you on. When I had the nudge to flee from the compromising situation, I pushed it aside and dragged you into my sin. Please find a place in your heart to forgive me too." I replied his message.
The more I tried facing my parents, the more the burden of guilt hung on my neck like a millstone. Three weeks after the incident, I was expecting my period and it was not forthcoming. I waited for the week to pass yet nothing. I settled it at the back of my mind that it was probably a delay.
By the following week, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. All sorts of thoughts turned my mind to a play ground. I decided to do a test to put my heart at rest. Committing sin is one thing, but to bear the consequences is another. I performed the test and my fears were confirmed. I was 4 weeks pregnant. A thought came to my head. Abort it. I discarded the thought.
"I'll rather face the shame of my folly than compound my problems.
I called Kola and he refused to pick my calls. Frustrated, I sent him a text.
"I'm pregnant." I didn't have to wait for a minute before he replied my message. "Sharon, we will have to open up. God may have forgiven us but we have to inform our parents and our leaders."
The thought of opening up sent cold shivers down my spine, but I knew that was the best thing for me to do if I was going to come out of the guilt and find help.
My mum noticed my mood all the time and anytime she tried to pry, I changed the topic. She gave up trying and said she would be praying for me. She sensed something was wrong but she could not place what it was.
"Mum, I have something to tell you." This was a week after I discovered I was pregnant. Each time I tried bringing up the discussion, shame and guilt would come as a flood and drown the words. This time around, I prayed for help before meeting her. "Please promise me that whatever I tell you now, you won't tell daddy immediately."
My mum dropped what she was reading. "Baby, I'm all ears but I can't fulfill your promise. You know no secret passes between your father and me. Whatever gets to my ears automatically gets to his." She said.
I prepared my mind to take whatever action that followed in good faith. Kneeling before her, "mum, please you and dad will have to forgive me for what I'm about to say. I know I've disappointed you, and I ask for your mercy." My mum wore a confused look. The gibberish I was speaking was sounding strange in her ears. "Mum, I'm pregnant." I eventually broke the news.
My mum's face fell. She went silent as she stared at empty space. The information was too much for her to bear. I was about narrating how it happened when my father stepped in. He knew something was wrong because my mother did not bother to perform their welcome ritual of greeting each other with a long, warm and welcoming hug accompanied with a kiss.
"Onitemi, what happened?" My dad asked.
"Olami, Sharon is pregnant." My mum replied. She did not bother beating around the bush. My dad sank into the chair immediately he heard the news. He could not imagine a thing like that could happen under his roof.
Before my dad could get a hold of himself, I began to narrate all that happened and how I was the engineer of the act. My parents drank in every detail I reeled out.
"What have you done about it, Sharon?" My dad asked, disappointment ringing in his voice.
I knew what he was talking about. "I've been asking God for mercy and pardon. I believe he has answered. I am also asking for your forgiveness."
"And Kola?" My mother asked.
My heart sank. "Kola said we have to be apart for a while. He said he will seek God's face personally while I should do same. He said when the baby is born he will be involved but we have to keep our distance. He said he will come and see dad as soon as he can to ask for forgiveness and open up."
"Hmm." My mum sighed. "We have to take the necessary actions. Just know that your courtship will be called off."
"You'll also have to step down from being a worker." My dad chipped in.
None of what they said mattered to me. All I really wanted was to get the burden off my neck and I felt light immediately I confessed.
"Sharon, if I must be truthful with you, I'm disappointed in the act you committed. More was expected from you, but if you've truly repented and God has forgiven you, who am I to hold your sins against you?" My dad said.
I was surprised at their reaction. I thought they were going to tell me how I brought shame on them being leaders in the church, but the opposite was the case. My dad tried to encourage my mum, and both of them pulled me off my feet and hugged me before praying for me.
"You're still our daughter, and we still love you." My mum said. "We will find a way to tell your siblings."
My mum and I were closer than usual. She personally drew up a Bible study plan for both of us and she also searched out promises in the Bible I could hold on to for my pregnancy. The first and last time I saw Kola after the incident was on the day we had to confess publicly before the church. After the confession, Kola disappeared into thin air while I was left alone to face the ridicule from some obnoxious members of the church. Once a while, Kola called to check up on the baby.
The pregnancy was a troublesome one, and when I could not bear it, I had to resign from my job. The doctor had advised that if I would not want complications at delivery I would have to be on bed rest for a while. It wasn't easy for me, but my greatest support system was my family, my parents being the chief supporters. When my dad was free, he would follow me for my ante-natal sessions and while we are alone, he'll pray for me and the baby. I felt loved on every side which sent my fear of rejection out of the window.
The months rolled by fast and the day of my delivery was due. After several hours of labour, I was wheeled to the operating theatre after the doctor announced that CS was the best option for me. He had said my birth canal was too tight to allow for easy passage of the head of the babies and if they forced it I would have serious tears.
The operation was successful and I was delivered of a set of twins; a boy and a girl. I was transferred to the ward with the babies after several hours. My parents came in to the ward and I could see the smile of admiration spread on their faces. They felt like new parents again.
"The boy has the striking image of his mother. Very beautiful." My dad said, lifting him up from the crib.
"And the girl?" My mum asked.
"Kola." I replied with pain in my heart. I couldn't believe Kola could disappear just like that. All the love I claimed I had for him went sour.
My parents could see the pain in my eyes and they initiated other conversations to brighten the atmosphere. "Things will fall in place, baby." My mum assured.
To be continued.


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Lipona has posted a blog about their upcoming EP titled Pigeonholed. Two demo's from the EP are available on their Myspace.
"It's been a while since we've posted an update and we have a lot of exciting news to announce. First, we're mid-way through tracking our 2nd EP, Pigeonholed. This album has marked a new direction for the band and we think this might be some of the best work we've ever done. It's faster, more technical, and has a more refined sound than anything we've ever put out.
Whereas Atlas was an introspective album, this EP is the opposite - the subject matter revolves around the current political climate and how we've all been dealing with the instability going on in the world. It's getting mixed by Mark Michalik (The Swellers, Much the Same) and we're really excited to see how it's going to turn out. If you haven't read about it, it will be yet another free EP but this time we'll be pressing it on vinyl as well!"
The band released Atlas in 2008.


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IN THE NEWSby YogaFit Team | 29/03/2017
Congrats are in order; Alaska beckons; and other cool stuff
Congratulations Everyone!
The YogaFit family really knows how to make a gathering fabulous and our Chicago MBF was no exception! Not only did everyone enjoy seeing old friends and meeting new ones, but 22 attendees graduated from one of our specialty trainings: 19 received their RYT-200 certificates; 1 finished her 500-hour YTT (our very own Macy Kalb); 1 completed the Warriors program (way to go Carrie Lever); and we had our first YogaFit for Athletes graduate (yay, Lisa Hausbeck). Congratulations everyone!
Our Newest Offering
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With an intimate network of partners based in Germany and pieces made to order, AA offers her clients bespoke services.
All pieces within our collections can be made with custom gemstone options, and customers can work directly with Alina to design the pieces to be one of a kind.
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American Elk Journal
$20.00 – $21.00
Choose a page style and cover color for your journal below, then add to cart. You can also leave it up to "Acorn's Choice" and we'll happily select a color that best compliments the artwork.
The following description appears on the inside cover of your journal.
American Elk (Cervus Canadensis)
The elk, or wapiti, is one of the largest species within the deer family, and one of the largest land mammals in North America. The name "wapiti" is derived from the native Shawnee and Cree languages meaning white rump.
Elk range in forest and forest-edge habitat, feeding on grasses, plants, leaves, and bark. There are many subspecies of elk which vary in size, but all elk are quite large. Female cows can weigh between 350-500 pounds. Male bulls are a good deal larger. Only the males have antlers, which start to grow in the spring and are shed each winter. Antlers are made of bone and can grow about an inch each day! During the fall, elk grow a thicker coat of hair, which helps to insulate them during the winter.
Elk are impressive animals and have played an important role in the cultural history of a number of native peoples, but is of particular spiritual importance to the Lakota, as the embodiment of strength, power, and courage.
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Weight has been a trending concern these days for all, whether it's a child or an adult. Losing your weight highly depends on your daily routine, eating habits and physical exercise. Food that you consume should be taken to satisfy the energy requirements of your body and hunger. Unwanted calories in the form of fast food and junk food lead to accumulation of fat in different parts of the body, resulting in an undesirable rise in your body weight.
So, if you're planning to shed those extra pounds off your body then start planning for a healthy diet today. Follow up with your planned diet programme is must to achieve desired results.
List of Top 15 Foods to Let You Lose Your Weight
Eating healthy food and adopting balanced diet, let's you lose weight at a faster rate compared to starving. Eating is a new style of shedding weight. Eating in portions at regular intervals helps you in enhancing the metabolic rate of your body, and thus the result is weight loss.
Below mentioned is a list of low-calorie food that is highly recommended during weight-loss process.
Green Salad
The Salad is the healthiest diet to make you feel full. It has particular health benefits along with weight loss. Salad including vegetables or fruit is high in fiber content and help you keep your digestive system active. Eating low-calorie salad before your meal makes you feel full and eat less of the cooked food. It can be included in place of high-calorie brunch and evening snacks too. You can add own low-calorie toppings and seasonings to make it tastier and different from your previous servings.
Whole Eggs
Egg white is highly recommended for weight loss. It is rich in protein, contains healthy fats and has low calorific value. Eating eggs for breakfast keeps you full, and the result is a low intake of food for the rest of the day. Eggs certainly help you in quick weight loss. You can also include eggs in your diet post your daily workout to meet the protein requirements of your body and stay nourished.
Almonds are the rich source of Vitamin E and Fiber. It helps to lower down the cholesterol levels in your body, inhibiting the weight loss process. It has low-calorie content in comparison to rest of the dried nuts. Munch on a few almonds in between your low-calorie meals to boost up shedding off of your extra pounds.
Broccoli has several health benefits including the highest support in weight loss process. This ingredient is highly suggested to include in your diet as it keeps you stuffed and the calorie count is meager. It can be included in salads with low-fat seasonings, as a vegetable or a complete main course dish in itself. It should be taken either in baked or boiled form.The Fried format is not advisable in weight loss recipes.
Apple contains negative calories. Just like an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Similarly, an apple a day keeps the fats away. Eating a low-calorie apple before your meal suppresses your hunger, resulting in low-calorie intake without the feeling of deprivation. You can even have an apple as the first meal of the day.
Raw Banana
Raw or unripe bananas contain resistant starch. This starch is highly helpful when it comes to weight loss. Your body does not immediately digest resistant starch; it makes you feel stuffed for long. Bananas keep your digestive system active and build up the lost nutrients after the exercise.
Eating raw tomatoes is highly helpful for Weight Loss. It is preferable due to its low-calorie count, fiber content and richness vitamin A & C. Tomatoes add volume to your diet but no calories. If you consider a cup of freshly chopped tomatoes, it just contains 50 to 60 calories. Opt for raw tomatoes empty stomach, before meals and in between meals and cut down on those heavy snacks, the output will be tremendous. You will shed off the extra pounds at the earliest.
Yogurt is good for losing belly fat. According to a research a person who consumes 1200 to 1300 mg of calcium per day from dairy products, increases the weight loss proximity. Yogurt has high nutrient value. It consists calcium, phosphorus, protein, zinc and many more nutrients good for health. Consuming non-fat yogurt in spite of unhealthy calories enhances weight loss and fat loss in your body.
Oatmeal is a healthy diet that keeps you fit and satisfied. A study reveals if you stick to an oatmeal diet for breakfast it leads to the reduction in your cholesterol levels as well as the size of your waist. It is the best replacement for Maggi and other all-purpose flour based ingredients used for breakfast. So, if you are planning to look slimmer and younger, then you need to stick with oatmeal breakfast to gain the significant results.
Boiled Potatoes
It is an age-old myth that potato act as your enemy while you are planning to lose weight. But, the fact says it is not the potato that acts as your fat booster but its preparation. Raw potatoes whether sweet or white, its completely fat-free. It is a rich source of nutrients including carbohydrates, protein, and fiber. A Half cup of baked or boiled potatoes contains only 90 calories. It is good to meet your daily nutritional requirement. It helps you to lose weight if it is taken with right method of preparation.
Fresh Vegetable Juices
Fresh vegetable, fruits, and juices are always good for weight loss. Having vegetable juices every day can be refreshing and satisfying. It helps you to be hydrated and supplies essential nutrients to your body. They have low calorific value and prove to be quenching. Vegetable juices like cucumber juice, aloe vera juice, spinach juice, tomato squash, carrot juice and much more help you to lose weight by removing fat and toxins from your body. Vegetable juices provide you with dietary fiber and maintain a desired and healthy digestive system.
Honey is a wonderful kitchen ingredient that has several properties beneficial for health. It is good for hair, skin, treatment of a cough and now the facts reveal about its weight management benefits too. A mix of warm water and a tablespoon of honey every night before bed regulates your digestive system. It helps you to burn fats, control over your appetite resulting in a healthy weight loss.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar is a multipurpose ingredient used for several body nourishing requirements. It helps in skin exfoliating, hair growth and shine, blood pressure management, weight loss and many more.
Use of one to two tablespoons of Apple cider vinegar in your daily diet lowers blood sugar levels, regulates metabolic levels, burns fat, reduces fat storage in the body and suppress your appetite. It is useless to say all the above factors lead to nothing else but a noticeable drop in your weight.
Indian Gooseberry Powder & Juice
Indian gooseberry popularly known as Amla is one of the key ingredients for weight reduction. It works as an antioxidant due to its high content of vitamin C, and vitamin E. One of the primary cause of increment in your weight is a lower metabolic rate, amla boosts up your body metabolism helping you to get rid of the reason behind. It helps in detoxification of your body and proper functioning of the digestive system resulting in weight loss. It can be consumed with warm water in powdered form, or you can have amla juice. Both the fresh and canned amla juice are advisable.
Seafood apart from being tempting is best to meet your weight loss goals. It is rich in nutrients, fiber, protein and has low calorific value. Some of the favorite foods to add to your weight loss diet are oysters, halibut, scallops, salmon and pacific, etc. It keeps you stuffed for a more extended period with comparatively low consumption of calories.
The above tutorial tells you about a good list of foods to manage your weight effectively. But the preparation of food should be done either without oil or with less consumption of oil and saturated fat. Apart from including the food mentioned above in your daily routine a well-planned program or workout can help you to achieve your goals in a better way.
Planning for a weight loss regime never means to exclude the sweets and fats completely off your diet, but you should have control over its intake. Everyone can include a cheat day in a week in their diet plans, where one of the meals can be of your choice. Though the calorie consumption should be taken care off. Keep in mind to detox your body once a week to achieve better weight loss results. If you immensely crave for sweets, dark chocolate is the best option to treat yourself once in a while. Make long-term loss goals and strive hard to achieve it. Maintain a proper lifestyle to have control over your weight.
Eat healthily fit, workout daily and live long.


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GMRS or General Mobile Radio Service is one of the tools available to us for communications. In this video we talk about how you can make the most out of GMRS. One of the best radios for the task is the Midland MicroMobile. The MicroMobile offers a few key features not found in other commercial GMRS radios that allow you to optimize how you communicate. While we've built our radio into the "Ham-O-Can", this radio is an excellent choice for GMRS communications permanently mounted in a car or ATV, or permanently mounted as a base station in your home or RV.
In this video we talk about:
The Midland MicroMobile
The key to maximizing portable communications is the N9TAX Slim Jim Antenna (NOTE: They also offer great 2M and 70CM antennas)
We also talk to the Midland GXT1000's
We repeatedly mention the "Ham-O-Can". Learn to build your own here.
New to radio? Start with the HAM 101 video
*About licensing- I'm an advocate of amateur radio licensing, because a typical VHF/UHF radio can be a dangerous tool in the hands of an ignorant operator. While I am sure you can cause some issues with GMRS, the FCC has manufacturers locked down. I feel that at this point, the GMRS license is unnecessary and just a bit of extortion on the part of the Feds.


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A Guy's Guide To Premium Vodka
Buying premium vodkaPerhaps part of why premium vodka has been marketed so successfully is that even at its most expensive, it's still affordable for everyday shlubs (unlike, say, single malt Scotch or cognac).
However, part of the watering-down of premium branding has been the incessant release of flavored vodkas. Absolut used to be the top of the heap; 50 flavors later it's a go-to mixer at high school reunions the world over. Our rule is, if your goal is to be classy, go with the original flavor. Grey Goose has released three flavored vodkas, and according to Thibault, these flavored versions are made with the same obsessively sourced ingredients as the original. Regardless, stay with the unflavored version unless you're making a pitcher of appletinis, and if you are, you have no business buying premium vodka to begin with.
Tasting premium vodkaStoring vodka in the freezer is fairly common practice: Most people prefer vodka shots icy cold, maybe because it dulls the spirit's antiseptic flavor. Thibeault, on the other hand, is a proponent of savoring vodka's flavor as one would a supple Pinot Noir or peaty Scotch. "Chill it, but don't keep it in the freezer for two weeks," said Thibeault.
Ideally, you should put your premium vodka in the freezer about an hour before you drink it, and let it thaw for a couple minutes before you pour it so the flavors have a chance to blossom. Just like a wine, the elements of flavor need to be able to "open."
According to Thibault, there are three stages in appreciating the taste of a fine vodka. First is the tingling sensation of the spirit on your lips as you drink it, next is the taste in the front of your mouth, and finally, there is the lingering warmth in your throat. Thibault ascribes a citrusy flavor to Grey Goose that mellows into notes of almond paste.
Whether or not you can taste the almond paste, premium vodka isn't meant to be knocked back in a shot unless you're serving it alongside some freshly shucked raw oysters. (Try it – a great way to start a romantic dinner.)


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17 years ago, my cousin Nora was born with Cystic Fibrosis. Our family went from not knowing a single detail about this genetic disease to becoming entrenched in the daily treatments and therapies needed to maintain Nora's quality of
life. Due to her severe form of the disease, symptoms set in when she was an infant and increased in severity until her
lungs could no longer function. She passed away a month after her 17th birthday.
People inherit Cystic Fibrosis from their parents, making it a genetically-determined disease. Both parents have to contribute a copy of the defective gene for a child to get the disease. Parents that both carry the defective gene have a 25% chance of having a child with the disease. Babies are tested for Cystic Fibrosis soon after being born in the United States by way of a "sweat test." This process uses an electrode placed on the skin, which stimulates sweat glands. The sweat is then collected and analyzed for chloride (a component of salt) content. A level of 60 indicates Cystic Fibrosis, while a level of 30 is average for people without the disease.
Nora's parents learned, after her diagnosis as a newborn, that they are both carriers of the defective gene. While there may have been an option to do genetic screening before deciding to have children, they were unaware of the reasons why it might be a good idea. Even if they would have done such screening, their odds of having a child with the disease were 25%, which may not have changed their plans.
Cystic Fibrosis causes mucus to build up in the lungs and many other parts of the body, such as the digestive tract and pancreas. While all bodies create mucus, in people with this disease the mucus does not break down and clear away as fast, causing it to clog airways and prevent digestive enzymes from breaking down food.
From the time Nora was born she underwent daily percussive therapy, starting with patting her back and chest for 30 minutes multiple times a day, and progressing to a vibrating vest for up to 2 hours daily. She also took enzymes and various other pills to help gain weight, fight infection, and increase lung capacity. By the time she was 4 years old, she started doing "tune-ups" at the local hospital, where she would be admitted for up to two weeks at a time to have I.V. antibiotic treatments, vest sessions, inhalation treatments, and a number of other symptom-suppressive therapies. In order to help her gain weight, she had a stomach-tube installed when she was 6. Nightly feedings of high-calorie liquid food allowed her to reach a normal weight and height. When Nora was 8, she had a PICC line put in, which is a catheter that allows drugs to be administered without an I.V.
While Nora was still able to attend school and participate in a range of normal childhood activities, these daily, monthly, and yearly treatments had a major impact.
People like Nora, with advanced cases of Cystic Fibrosis, often consider partial or full lung transplants as a last major intervention. By the time Nora was almost 16, her parents and doctors put her on the transplant list. She waited 3 months until a match was found. The surgery went perfectly well and she recovered quickly. The next 6 months of her life were amazing - she could breathe easily, participate in high school activities, and travel with her parents. It was like a new lease on life. Then, during what was thought to be a regular winter virus, doctors discovered a particularly rare and extremely disease-resistant bacteria in her new lungs. The doctors knew the bacteria was a major threat, so they placed Nora in isolation and started vigorous chemo-therapy and antibiotic treatments. Unfortunately, the combination of treatments had little effect and the bacteria proceeded to demolish the new lungs. At many points the surgical team considered putting her back on the transplant list for yet another set of lungs, but time became too short and they knew the bacteria would attack the new lungs just as ferociously. The lung transplant afforded Nora 6 great months of life, followed by 6 months of steady decline.
Scientists continue to research gene therapy and other cures for Cystic Fibrosis and are making amazing strides each year. While these efforts were not the right solution for my cousin, I have hope that people studying this genetic disease find a way to repair or prevent the damaged genes from taking a toll on the human body.


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Effect of smoking on blood pressure and resting heart rate: a Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in the CARTA Consortium
Allan Linneberg, Rikke K. Jacobsen, Tea Skaaby, et al.
Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis. The CARTA consortium
Richard W. Morris, Amy E. Taylor, Meg E. Fluharty, et al.
Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis
Eveline Nuesch, Caroline Dale, Tom M. Palmer, et al.


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The city's first private application under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program is on hold after Inwood's city council member postponed a vote on Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust's proposed 355-unit building in the neighborhood.
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who was booed by protestors at the project site over the weekend, sent an e-mail blast Monday citing community opposition as he announced the delay, Politico reported.
"As passions are running high when it comes to this issue, I implore residents to consider our options carefully. I will be in touch soon about when a final decision will be made as well as what/when our vote will be," he wrote.
The City Council's zoning subcommittee had been scheduled to vote on the proposal Tuesday morning.
The Council has until Aug. 16 to approve the rezoning for the project, located at 4650 Broadway at the corner of Sherman Avenue, which would pave the way for 17-story building where 20 percent of the 355 units would be set aside as affordable housing for those making 40 percent of the area median income.
Rodriguez did indicate support for the project, writing that by voting against it there would be "absolutely no opportunity to build desperately needed affordable housing at this site," and instead, the developers could build a "luxury tower at a minimum of 14 stories with 200 units at fully market price."
Residents oppose the plan saying that its height is out of character with the neighborhood and fear the impact it will have on gentrifying the area.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer gave the proposal her approval after the developers scaled back the size of the project.
A spokesperson for de Blasio said the mayor's office will continue to work with the stakeholders. [Politico] – Rich Bockmann


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Our hotel is located in the heart of the village of La Fortuna, with all the facilities of a small town and facing the impressive Arenal Volcano, our location offers walking distance to some of the tourist attractions and services of the area like La Fortuna Waterfall, local hiking's, restaurants, souvenirs and banks, everything without losing the charm of the daily life of a Costa Rican town.
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Standard rooms in the first floor, in the Terrace area and with private balcony, we also offer one beautiful Honey Moon Junior Suite and Junior Suite #33 in the third floor with balcony facing the Arenal Volcano.
All the rooms INCLUDES private bathroom, hot water via solar energy, A / C and Cable TV, some others also have fridge and safe.
Full free breakfast with traditional dishes, aromatic coffee and tropical fruits.
The best part of our hotel is our open air Terrace Garden located on the second floor with beautiful views of the Arenal Volcano, La Fortuna Town and other mountains, from this view we were inspired to create our name ¨Colinas¨ than means Hills.
Our Terrace Garden is the perfect area to relax and enjoy the good company of family and friends or a good book, is also a great way to stay in the hotel without losing the life of the town of La Fortuna.
In our beautiful terrace garden we also offer a Coffee bar service with refreshing smotthies, coctels, wine, nationald and local craft beer, organic coffee, a great place to relax between the adventure and nature activities!!
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With the NOAA 200th Celebration coming to a close at the end of 2007, maintenance of this Web site ceased. Updates to the site are no longer being made.
A NOAA Fisheries Enforcement Officer makes sure that a Turtle Excluder Device fits securely into a Gulf of Mexico shrimp net.


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A comprehensive exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover is dedicated to the complex and distinctive style of Ulla von Brandenburg. In her films, installations, performances and drawings, Von Brandenburg uses methods and approaches from theater to deal with social and historical questions. The boundary between actor and viewer, reality and illusion becomes blured through aspects of stage and theatre which act as metaphors for human interaction.
Films are, on the whole, at the centre of Ulla von Brandenburg's work. These are often integrated into an overall performance with theatre curtains, architecture and mural drawings. The viewer enters the stage-like installation and is drawn into the surreal setting of the film. The dialogue present in the black and white films, as well as the puzzling scenes and plots contain a multitude of cultural and historic references to the way in which questions are raised socially.
Mirrors and shadows are central themes in the work of Ulla von Brandenburg. She uses both in various ways, including in the form of silhouettes and shadows which are so characteristic of her work. Through these techniques she explores the levels of reality and the boundaries between existene and appearance. Mirrors in themselves are a reocurring symbol, both for the visual and the performing arts, and because of this a piece of theatre can be understood as an image that holds the "mirror" in which we see the reality of our lives. Ulla von Brandenburg's installations are allegories for the theatre as a symbol of life and for the complex link between theatre and reality, illusion and reflection. The artist gives us an view behind the stage of life, without destroying the appeal of individual plays. With every image, exposed by Von Brandenburg as illusion, shadow or reflection, a new, just as complex image is revealed. We experience the films and spacial installations as a set of mirrors, whose images reflect in several directions into other dimensions and the viewers finds themself at the centre of.
The newest film "The Street" (2013) follows scenes on a street, which Brandernburg sets in the open air on an ephemeral background city consisting of white canvasses. In the exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover, "The Street" is made into a whole performance in several acts usinig previous films and installations. "Wagon Wheel" (2009), "The Objects" (2009), "Shadowplay" (2012), "Self-Shadow" (2013) and "Mirror Song" (2012) submit to the mural works, designed for specific locations, and the spatial installations to create a comprehensive exhibition which highlights various aspects in previous works of Ulla von Brandenburg.
This exhibition has an accompanying catalogue, which is produce in cooperation with the Vienna Secession.


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As I've just learned we have a machine score questions by their quality.
We could use this to delay display of questions, lower quality leading to a longer wait.
The idea behind this is to make it "cheaper" (in terms of time until the questioner has an answer) to do your own research than to dump the question here.
This should discourage users to just dump their no-thought questions here while still allowing everybody to ask any question they can ask today and have them seem by all the experts.
So if you have a serious question on which you have done your research and you post a good question -> great, you'll get a quick (instant) display and quick answers.
But if you ask a low quality question it gets delayed so the personal reward system gets broken.
Of course after an edit this has to be recalculated to encourage enhancement of quality.
Who is going to be hit by this
- Beginners that just don't know how to ask properly yet.
They will get their answer (a bit delayed though) and be able to learn from the experience and improve so the next question they ask gets an earlier answer.
- "Gimme Code" or otherwise lazy people who think we are here to use Google for them
They want their answer quickly and if they get it quicker somewhere else (e.G. Google) they won't come back.
Comparable approaches
This request is somewhat similar to this one but aims at improving the questions that are already there. My Request aims at reducing the number of low-quality questions asked in the first place.
The existing "On Hold" concept isn't going to solve this problem, as it kicks in too late. When the question gets closed it often already has an answer thus for the "Gimme Code" part of questioners (especially the anonymous posters) it doesn't matter at all.


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Tech Night - Buying a Used Motorcycle
Thanks to everyone who came out to our most recent tech night on buying a used bike. Hopefully everyone found it informative and took away something that can help them out when they're buying their first or next bike.
Another thanks to our friend Viktor Radics from Corsa Meccanica for helping us out with his input on buying used but also what it's like when buying used or new from a dealership. Robert from Humber Rider Training also popped in and shared some info on rider training for getting you ready for the road.
We had a great turnout and we're looking forward to seeing everybody on the road this year! There's some more photos on our Facebook page.


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Swiss German
|Swiss German
|Schweizerdeutsch (in Standard German), or e.g. Schwiizerdütsch (in Swiss German)
|Native to
|Switzerland (as German), Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg (Austria), Piedmont & Aosta Valley (Italy)
Native speakers
4.93 million in Switzerland (2013)[1]
Unknown number in Germany (excluding Alsatian) and Austria
|Language codes
gsw (with Alsatian)
52-ACB-f (45 varieties: 52-ACB-faa to -fkb)
Swiss German (Standard German: Schweizerdeutsch, Alemannic German: Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch,[note 1] and others) refers to any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in some Alpine communities in Northern Italy bordering Switzerland. Occasionally, the Alemannic dialects spoken in other countries are grouped together with Swiss German, as well, especially the dialects of Liechtenstein and Austrian Vorarlberg, which are closely associated to Switzerland's.
Linguistically, Swiss German forms no unity. The linguistic division of Alemannic is rather into Low, High and Highest Alemannic, varieties of all of which are spoken both inside and outside of Switzerland. The only exception within German-speaking Switzerland is the municipality of Samnaun where an Austro-Bavarian dialect is spoken. The reason "Swiss German" dialects constitute a special group is their almost unrestricted use as a spoken language in practically all situations of daily life, whereas the use of the Alemannic dialects in other countries is restricted or even endangered.
The dialects of Swiss German must not be confused with Swiss Standard German, the variety of Standard German used in Switzerland. Most people in Germany do not understand Swiss German. Therefore, when an interview with a Swiss German speaker is shown on German television, subtitles are required.[3] Although Swiss German is the native language, from age 6, Swiss school students additionally learn Swiss Standard German at school and are thus fully capable of understanding, writing and speaking Standard German with varying abilities mainly based on the level of education.
Unlike most regional languages in modern Europe, Swiss German is the spoken everyday language of all social levels in industrial cities, as well as in the countryside. Using the dialect conveys neither social nor educational inferiority and is done with pride.[4] There are a few settings where speaking Standard German is demanded or polite, e.g., in education (but not during breaks in school lessons, where the teachers will speak in the dialect with students), in multilingual parliaments (the federal parliaments and a few cantonal and municipal ones), in the main news broadcast or in the presence of non-Alemannic speakers. This situation has been called a "medial diglossia", since the spoken language is mainly the dialect, whereas the written language is mainly (the Swiss variety of) Standard German.
Swiss German is intelligible to speakers of other Alemannic dialects, but poses greater difficulty in total comprehension to speakers of Standard German, including French- or Italian-speaking Swiss who learn Standard German at school. Swiss German speakers on TV or in films are thus usually dubbed or subtitled if shown in Germany.
Dialect rock is a music genre using the language; many Swiss rock bands, however, alternatively rather sing in English.
The Swiss Amish of Adams County, Indiana and their daughter settlements also use Swiss German.
Variation and distribution
Swiss German is a regional or political umbrella term, not a linguistic unity. For all dialects, there are idioms spoken outside Switzerland that are more closely related to them than some Swiss German dialects. The main linguistic divisions within Swiss German are those of Low, High and Highest Alemannic, and mutual intelligibility across those groups is almost fully seamless, though with some minor exceptions, mainly regarding vocabulary. Low Alemannic is only spoken in the northernmost parts of Switzerland, in Basel and around Lake Constance. High Alemannic is spoken in most of the Swiss Plateau, and is divided in an eastern and a western group. Highest Alemannic is spoken in the Alps.
- Low Alemannic
- Basel German in Basel-Stadt (BS), closely related to Alsatian
- High Alemannic
- western
- Bernese German, in the Swiss Plateau parts of Bern (BE)
- dialects of Basel-Landschaft (BL)
- dialects of Solothurn (SO)
- dialects of the western part of Aargau (AG)
- in a middle position between eastern and western are
- dialects in the eastern part of Aargau (AG)
- dialects of Lucerne (LU)
- dialects of Zug (ZG)
- Zürich German, in Zürich (ZH)
- eastern
- dialects of St. Gallen (SG)
- dialects of Appenzell (AR & AI)
- dialects of Thurgau (TG)
- dialects of Schaffhausen (SH)
- dialects in parts of Graubünden (GR)
- western
- Highest Alemannic
- dialects in parts of Canton of Fribourg (FR)
- dialects of the Bernese Oberland (BE)
- dialects of Unterwalden (OW & NW) and Uri (UR)
- dialects of Schwyz (SZ)
- dialects of Glarus (GL)
- Walliser German in parts of the Valais (VS)
- Walser German: Via the medieval migration of the Walser, Highest Alemannic spread to pockets of what are now parts of northern Italy (P), the north west of Ticino (TI), parts of Graubünden (GR), Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg.
Each dialect is separable into numerous local subdialects, sometimes down to a resolution of individual villages. Speaking the dialect is an important part of regional, cantonal and national identities. In the more urban areas of the Swiss plateau, regional differences are fading due to increasing mobility, and a growing population of non-Alemannic descent. Despite the varied dialects, the Swiss can still understand one another, but may particularly have trouble understanding Walliser dialects.
Most Swiss German dialects, being High German dialects, have completed the High German consonant shift (synonyms: Second Germanic consonant shift, High German sound shift[5][6]), that is, they have not only changed t to [t͡s] or [s] and p to [p͡f] or [f], but also k to [k͡x] or [x]. There are, however, exceptions, namely the idioms of Chur and Basel. Basel German is a Low Alemannic dialect (mostly spoken in Germany near the Swiss border), and Chur German is basically High Alemannic without initial [x] or [k͡x].
|High Alemannic
|Low Alemannic
|Standard German
The High German consonant shift happened between the fourth and 9th centuries south of the Benrath line, separating High German from Low German, where high refers to the geographically higher regions of the German-speaking area of those days (combining Upper German and Central German varieties - also referring to their geographical locations). North of the Benrath line up to the North Sea, this consonant shift did not happen.
The Walser migration, going on between the 12th and 13th centuries, spread upper Wallis varieties towards the east and south, into Grisons and even further to western Austria and northern Italy. Informally, a distinction is made between the German-speaking people living in the canton of Valais, the Walliser, and the migrated ones, the Walsers (to be found mainly in Graubünden, Vorarlberg in Western Austria, Ticino in South Switzerland, south of the Monte Rosa mountain chain in Italy (e.g. in Issime in the Aosta valley), Tirol in North Italy, and Allgäu in Bavaria).
Generally, the Walser communities were situated on higher alpine regions, so were able to stay independent of the reigning forces of those days, who did not or were not able to follow and monitor them all the time necessary at these hostile and hard to survive areas. So, the Walser were pioneers of the liberalisation from serfdom and feudalism. And, Walser villages are easily distinguishable from Grisonian ones, since Walser houses are made of wood instead of stone.
Like all Southern German dialects, Swiss German dialects have no voiced obstruents. However, they have an opposition of consonant pairs such as [t] and [d] or [p] and [b]. Traditionally, that distinction is said to be a distinction of fortis and lenis, though it has been claimed to be a distinction of quantity.[7]
Swiss German keeps the fortis–lenis opposition at the end of words. There can be minimal pairs such as graad [ɡ̊raːd̥] 'straight' and Graat [ɡ̊raːt] 'arête' or bis [b̥ɪz̥] 'be (imp.)' and Biss [b̥ɪs] 'bite'. This distinguishes Swiss German and Swiss Standard German from German Standard German, which neutralizes the fortis–lenis opposition at the ends of words, a phenomenon usually called final-obstruent devoicing, even though, in the case of German, phonetic voice need not be involved.
Swiss German /p, t, k/ are not aspirated. Aspirated [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ] have (in most dialects) secondarily developed by combinations of prefixes with word-initial /h/ or by borrowings from other languages (mainly standard German), e.g., /ˈphaltə/ 'keep' (standard German behalten [bəˈhaltn̩]); /ˈtheː/ 'tea' (standard German Tee [ˈtʰeː]); /ˈkhalt/ 'salary' (standard German Gehalt [ɡəˈhalt]). In the dialects of Basel and Chur, aspirated /k/ is also present in native words.
Unlike Standard German, Swiss German /x/ does not have the allophone [ç], but is always [x], or in many dialects even [χ]. The typical Swiss shibboleth features this sound: Chuchichäschtli ('kitchen cupboard'), pronounced [ˈχuχːiˌχæʃtli].
Most Swiss German dialects have gone through the Alemannic n-apocope, which has led to the loss of final -n in words such as Garte 'garden' (standard German Garten) or mache 'to make' (standard German machen). In some Highest Alemannic dialects, the n-apocope has also been effective in consonant clusters, for instance in Hore 'horn' (High Alemannic Horn) or däiche 'to think' (High Alemannic dänke). Only the Highest Alemannic dialects of the Lötschental and of the Haslital have preserved the -n.
The phoneme /r/ is pronounced as an alveolar trill [r] in many dialects, though certain dialects, especially in the Northeast or in the Basel region, have a uvular trill [ʀ] like the one heard in many German varieties of Germany.
Most Swiss German dialects have rounded front vowels, unlike other High German dialects.[8] Only in the Low Alemannic dialects of northwest Switzerland (mainly Basel) and in the Walliser dialects have the rounded front vowels been unrounded. In Basel, the rounding is being reintroduced under the influence of other Swiss German dialects.
Like Bavarian dialects, Swiss German dialects have preserved the opening diphthongs of Middle High German: /iə̯, uə̯, yə̯/, e.g. in /liə̯b̥/ 'lovely' (standard German lieb, but pronounced /liːp/); /huə̯t/ 'hat' (standard German Hut /huːt/); /xyə̯l/ 'cool' (standard German kühl /kyːl/). Note that some of those diphthongs have been unrounded in several dialects.
Like the Low German language, most Swiss German dialects have preserved the old West-Germanic monophthongs /iː, uː, yː/, e.g. /pfiːl/ 'arrow' (standard German Pfeil /pfaɪ̯l/); /b̥uːx/ 'belly' (standard German Bauch /baʊ̯x/); /z̥yːlə/ 'pillar' (standard German Säule /zɔʏ̯lə/). A few Alpine dialects show diphthongization similar to Standard German, especially some dialects of Unterwalden and Schanfigg (Graubünden) and that of Issime (Piedmont).
|Middle High German/many Swiss German dialects
|Unterwalden dialect
|Schanfigg and Issime dialects
|Standard German
Some Western Swiss German dialects (e.g. Bernese German) have preserved the old diphthongs /ei̯, ou̯/, whereas the other dialects have /ai̯, au̯/ like Standard German or /æi̯, æu̯/. Zurich German and some other dialects distinguish primary diphthongs from secondary ones that arose in hiatus position, i.e. Zurich German /ai̯, au̯/ from Middle High German /ei̯, ou̯/ versus Zurich German /ei̯, ou̯/ from Middle High German /iː, uː/, e.g. Zurich German /bai̯, frau̯/ 'leg, woman' from M.H.G. bein, vrouwe versus Zurich German /frei̯, bou̯/ 'free, building' from M.H.G. frī, būw.
In many Swiss German dialects, consonant length and vowel length are independent from each other, whereas they are dependent in other modern Germanic languages. Examples from Bernese German:
|short /a/
|long /aː/
|short /f/
|/hafə/ 'bowl'
|/d̥i b̥raːfə/ 'the honest ones'
|long /fː/
|/afːə/ 'apes'
|/ʃlaːfːə/ 'to sleep'
Stress is more often on the first syllable than in standard German, even in French loans such as [ˈmɛrsːi] or [ˈmersːi] "thanks". Note that there are many different stress patterns even within dialects. Bernese German is one of the dialects where many words are stressed on the first syllable, e.g. [ˈkaz̥ino] 'casino', whereas standard German has [kʰaˈziːno]. However, no Swiss German dialect is as consistent as the Icelandic language in this respect.
The grammar of Swiss dialects has some specialties compared to Standard German:
- There is no preterite indicative (yet there is a preterite subjunctive).
- The preterite is replaced by perfect constructs (this also happens in spoken Standard German in Southern Germany and Austria).
- It is still possible to form pluperfect phrases, by applying the perfect construct twice to the same sentence.
- There is no genitive case, though certain dialects have preserved a possessive genitive (for instance in rural Bernese German). The genitive case is replaced by two constructions: The first of these is often acceptable in Standard German as well: possession + Prp. vo (std. German von) + possessor: es Buech vomene Profässer vs. Standard German ein Buch von einem Professor ("a book of a professor"), s Buech vom Profässer vs. Standard German das Buch des Professors ("the professor's book"). The second is still frowned on where it appears in Standard German (from dialects and spoken language): dative of the possessor + the possessive pronoun referring to the possessor + possession: em Profässer sis Buech ("the professor his book").[9]
- The order within verb groups may vary, e.g. wo du bisch cho/wo du cho bisch vs. standard German als du gekommen bist "when you have come/came".[10]
- All relative clauses are introduced by the relative particle wo ('where'), never by the relative pronouns der, die, das, welcher, welches as in Standard German, e.g. ds Bispil, wo si schrybt vs. Standard German das Beispiel, das sie schreibt ('the example that she writes'); ds Bispil, wo si dra dänkt vs. Standard German das Beispiel, woran sie denkt ('the example that she thinks of'). Whereas the relative particle wo replaces the Standard German relative pronouns in the Nom. (subject) and Acc. (direct object) without further complications, in phrases where wo plays the role of an indirect object, a prepositional object, a possessor or an adverbial adjunct it has to be taken up later in the relative clause by reference of (prp. +) the personal pronoun (if wo refers to a person) or the pronominal adverb (if wo refers to a thing). E.g. de Profässer won i der s Buech von em zeiget ha ("the professor whose book I showed you"), de Bärg wo mer druf obe gsii sind ("the mountain that we were upon").[9]
- In combinations with other verbs, the verbs gah or goh "go", cho "come", la or lo "let" and aafa or aafo "begin" reduplicate, prefixed to the main verb.
example: Si chunt üse Chrischtboum cho schmücke. literal translation: she comes our Christmas tree come decorate translation She comes to decorate our Christmas tree. standard German: Sie kommt unseren Christbaum schmücken. example: Si lat ne nid la schlafe. literal translation: she lets him not let sleep translation: She doesn't let him sleep. standard German: Sie lässt ihn nicht schlafen.
- This is probably a generalization of a close association of these verbs with the following verb in perfect or modal verb constructions:
perfect: Si het ne nid la schlafe. literal translation: she has him not let sleep translation: She hasn't/didn't let him sleep. standard German: Sie hat ihn nicht schlafen lassen. or Sie ließ ihn nicht schlafen. modal verb: Si wot ne nid la schlafe. literal translation: she wants him not let sleep translation: She doesn't want to let him sleep. standard German: Sie will ihn nicht schlafen lassen.
The vocabulary is varied, especially in rural areas: many specialised terms have been retained, e.g., regarding cattle or weather. In the cities, much of the rural vocabulary has been lost. A Swiss German greeting is Grüezi, from Gott grüez-i (Standard German Gott grüsse Euch) or "God bless you".[11]
Most word adoptions come from Standard German. Many of these are now so common that they have totally replaced the original Swiss German words, e.g. the words Hügel 'hill' (instead of Egg, Bühl), Lippe 'lip' (instead of Lefzge). Others have replaced the original words only in parts of Switzerland, e.g., Butter 'butter' (originally called Anken in most of Switzerland). Virtually any Swiss Standard German word can be borrowed into Swiss German, always adapted to Swiss German phonology. However, certain Standard German words are never used in Swiss German, for instance Frühstück 'breakfast', niedlich 'cute' or zu hause 'at home'; instead, the native words Zmorge, härzig and dehei are used.
Swiss dialects have quite a few words from French and Italian, which are perfectly assimilated. Glace (ice cream) for example is pronounced /ɡlas/ in French but [ˈɡ̊lasːeː] or [ˈɡ̊lasːə] in many Swiss German dialects. The French word for 'thank you', merci, is also used as in merci vilmal, literally "thanks many times". Possibly, these words are not direct adoptions from French but survivors of the once more numerous French loanwords in Standard German, many of which have fallen out of use in Germany.
In recent years, Swiss dialects have also taken some English words which already sound very Swiss, e.g., [ˈfuːd̥ə] ('to eat', from "food"), [ɡ̊ei̯mə] ('to play computer games', from "game") or [ˈz̥nœːb̥ə] or [ˈb̥oːrd̥ə] – ('to snowboard', from "snowboard"). These words are probably not direct loanwords from English, but have been adopted through standard German intermediation. While most of those loanwords are of recent origin, some have been in use for decades, e.g. [ˈ(t)ʃutːə] (to play football, from "shoot").
There are also a few English words which are modern adoptions from Swiss German. The dishes müesli, and rösti have become English words, as did loess (fine grain), flysch (sandstone formation), kepi, landamman, kilch, schiffli, and putsch in a political sense. The term bivouac is sometimes explained as originating from Swiss German,[12] while printed etymological dictionaries (e.g. the German Kluge or Knaurs Etymological Dictionary) derive it from Low German instead.
Written forms that were mostly based on the local Alemannic varieties, thus similar to Middle High German, were only gradually replaced by the forms of New High German. This replacement took from the 15th to 18th centuries to complete. In the 16th century, the Alemannic forms of writing were considered the original, truly Swiss forms, whereas the New High German forms were perceived as foreign innovations. The innovations were brought about by the printing press and were also associated with Lutheranism. An example of the language shift is the Froschauer Bible: Its first impressions after 1524 were largely written in an Alemannic language, but since 1527, the New High German forms were gradually adopted. The Alemannic forms were longest preserved in the chancelleries, with the chancellery of Bern being the last to adopt New High German in the second half of the 18th century.[13]
Today all formal writing, newspapers, books and much informal writing is done in Swiss Standard German, which is usually called Schriftdeutsch (written German). Certain dialectal words are accepted regionalisms in Swiss Standard German and are also sanctioned by the Duden, e.g., Zvieri (afternoon snack). Swiss Standard German is virtually identical to Standard German as used in Germany, with most differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and orthography. For example, Swiss Standard German always uses a double s (ss) instead of the eszett (ß).
There are no official rules of Swiss German orthography. The orthographies used in the Swiss German literature can be roughly divided into two systems: Those that try to stay as close to standard German spelling as possible and those that try to represent the sounds as well as possible. The so-called Schwyzertütschi Dialäktschrift was developed by Eugen Dieth, but knowledge of these guidelines is limited mostly to language experts. Furthermore, the spellings originally proposed by Dieth included some special signs not found on a normal keyboard, such as ⟨ʃ⟩ instead of ⟨sch⟩ for [ʃ] or ⟨ǜ⟩ instead of ⟨ü⟩ for [ʏ]. In 1986, a revised version of the Dieth-Schreibung was published, designed to be written "on a normal typewriter".[14]
A few letters are used differently from the Standard German rules:
- ⟨k⟩ (and ⟨ck⟩) are used for the affricate /kx/.
- ⟨gg⟩ is used for the unaspirated fortis /k/.
- ⟨y⟩ (and sometimes ⟨yy⟩) traditionally stands for the /iː/ (in many dialects shortened to /i/, but still with closed quality) that corresponds to Standard German /aɪ̯/, e.g. in Rys 'rice' (standard German Reis /raɪ̯s/) vs. Ris 'giant' (standard German /riːzə/). This usage goes back to an old ij-ligature. Many writers, however, don't use ⟨y⟩, but ⟨i⟩/⟨ii⟩, especially in the dialects that have lost distinction between these sounds, compare Zürich German Riis /riːz̥/ 'rice' or 'giant' to Bernese German Rys /riːz̥/ 'rice' vs. Ris /rɪːz̥/ ('giant'). Some use even ⟨ie⟩, influenced by Standard German spelling, which leads to confusion with ⟨ie⟩ for /iə̯/.
- ⟨ä⟩ usually represents [æ], and can also represent [ə] or [ɛ].
- ⟨ph⟩ represents [pʰ], ⟨th⟩ represents [tʰ], and ⟨gh⟩ represents [kʰ].
- Since [ei] is written as ⟨ei⟩, [ai] is written as ⟨äi⟩, though in eastern Switzerland ⟨ei⟩ is often used for both of these phonemes.
Since the 19th century, a considerable body of Swiss German literature has accumulated. The earliest works were in Zurich German (Johann Martin Usteri, Jakob Stutz); the works of Jeremias Gotthelf which were published at the same time are in Swiss Standard German, but use many expressions of Bernese German. Some of the more important dialect writing authors and their works are:
- Anna Maria Bacher (born 1947), Z Kschpel fam Tzit; Litteri un Schattä; Z Tzit fam Schnee (South Walser German of Formazza/Pomatt)
- Albert Bächtold (1891–1981), De goldig Schmid; Wält uhni Liecht; De Studänt Räbme; Pjotr Ivanowitsch (Schaffhausen dialect of Klettgau)
- Ernst Burren (born 1944), Dr Schtammgascht; Näschtwermi (Solothurn dialect)
- August Corrodi (1826–1885), De Herr Professer; De Herr Vikari; De Herr Dokter, translation of Plautus's Mostellaria (Zurich dialect)
- Barbara Egli (1918–2005), Wildi Chriesi (Zurich Oberland dialect)
- Fritz Enderlin (1883–1971), De Sonderbunds-Chrieg, translated from C. F. Ramuz's French poem La Grande Guerre du Sondrebond (Upper Thurgovian dialect)
- Martin Frank (born 1950), Ter Fögi ische Souhung; La Mort de Chevrolet (Bernese dialect with Zurich interferences)
- Simon Gfeller (1868–1943), Ämmegrund; Drätti, Müetti u der Chlyn; Seminarzyt (Bernese dialect of Emmental)
- Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), only parts of his works are written in dialect (Bernese dialect)
- Paul Haller (1882–1920), Maria und Robert (Western Aargau dialect)
- Frida Hilty-Gröbli (1893–1957), Am aalte Maartplatz z Sant Galle; De hölzig Matroos (St Gall dialect)
- Josef Hug (1903–1985), S Gmaiguet; Dunggli Wolgga ob Salaz (Graubünden Rhine Valley dialect)
- Thomas Hürlimann (born 1950), Dr Franzos im Ybrig, loosely based on Morel's play
- Guy Krneta (born 1964), Furnier (collection of short stories), Zmittst im Gjätt uss (prose), Ursle (Bernese dialect)
- Michael Kuoni (1838–1891), Bilder aus dem Volksleben des Vorder-Prättigau's (Graubünden Walser dialect of Prättigau)
- Maria Lauber (1891–1973), Chüngold; Bletter im Luft; Der jung Schuelmiischter (Bernese Oberland dialect)
- Pedro Lenz (born 1965), Plötzlech hets di am Füdle (Bernese Dialect)
- Meinrad Lienert (1865–1933), Flüeblüemli; 's Mireli; Der Waldvogel (Schwyz dialect of Einsiedeln)
- Carl Albert Loosli (1877–1959), Mys Dörfli; Mys Ämmitaw; Wi's öppe geit! (Bernese dialect of Emmental)
- Kurt Marti (born 1921), Vierzg Gedicht ir Bärner Umgangssprache; Rosa Loui (Bernese dialect)
- Mani Matter (1936–1972), songwriter (Bernese dialect)
- Traugott Meyer (1895–1959), 's Tunnälldorf; Der Gänneral Sutter (Basel-Landschaft dialect)
- Gall Morel (1803–1872), Dr Franzos im Ybrig (Schwyz German of Iberg)
- Viktor Schobinger (born 1934), Der Ääschme trifft simpatisch lüüt and a lot of other Züri Krimi (Zurich dialect)
- Caspar Streiff (1853–1917), Der Heiri Jenni im Sunnebärg (Glarus dialect)
- Jakob Stutz (1801–1877), Gemälde aus dem Volksleben; Ernste und heitere Bilder aus dem Leben unseres Volkes (Zurich Oberland dialect)
- Rudolf von Tavel (1866–1934), Ring i der Chetti; Gueti Gschpane; Meischter und Ritter; Der Stärn vo Buebebärg; D'Frou Kätheli und ihri Buebe; Der Frondeur; Ds velorene Lied; D'Haselmuus; Unspunne; Jä gäl, so geit's!; Der Houpme Lombach; Götti und Gotteli; Der Donnergueg; Veteranezyt; Heinz Tillman; Die heilige Flamme; Am Kaminfüür; Bernbiet; Schweizer daheim und draußen; Simeon und Eisi; Geschichten aus dem Bernerland (Bernese dialect)[15]
- Alfred Tobler (1845–1923), Näbes oß mine Buebejohre (Appenzell dialect)
- Johann Martin Usteri (1763–1827), Dichtungen in Versen und Prosa (Zurich German)
- Hans Valär (1871–1947), Dr Türligiiger (Graubünden Walser dialect of Davos)
- Bernhard Wyss (1833–1889), Schwizerdütsch. Bilder aus dem Stilleben unseres Volkes (Solothurn dialect)
Parts of the Bible were translated in different Swiss German dialects, e.g.:[16]
- Ds Nöie Teschtamänt bärndütsch (Bernese New Testament, translated by Hans and Ruth Bietenhard, 1989)
- Ds Alte Teschtamänt bärndütsch (parts of the Old Testament in Bernese dialect, translated by Hans and Ruth Bietenhard, 1990)
- D Psalme bärndütsch (Psalms in Bernese dialect, translated by Hans, Ruth and Benedikt Bietenhard, 1994)
- S Nöi Teschtamänt Züritüütsch (Zurich German New Testament, translated by Emil Weber, 1997)
- D Psalme Züritüütsch (Psalms in Zurich German, translated by Josua Boesch, 1990)
- Der guet Bricht us der Bible uf Baselbieterdütsch (parts of the Old and the New Testament in Basel dialect, 1981)
- S Markus Evangelium Luzärntüütsch (Gospel of Mark in Lucerne dialect, translated by Walter Haas, 1988)
- Markusevangeeli Obwaldnerdytsch (Gospel of Mark in the dialect of the Obwalden County, translated by Karl Imfeld, 1979)
See also
- Swiss Standard German
- Argentinien-schwyzertütsch dialect
- Swiss French
- Swiss Italian
- Linguistic geography of Switzerland
- ↑ Because of the many different dialects, and since there is no defined orthography for none of them, many different spellings can be found.
- ↑ "Sprachen, Religionen – Daten, Indikatoren: Sprachen – Üblicherweise zu Hause gesprochene Sprachen" (official site) (in German, French, and Italian). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
Zu Hause oder mit den Angehörigen sprechen 60,1% der betrachteten Bevölkerung hauptsächlich Schweizerdeutsch
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Swiss German". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "10vor10 – Nachrichtenmagazin von Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen" (in German). 3sat – ZDF ORF SRG ARD, the television channel collectively produced by four channels from three countries. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
Swiss German talks and interviews on the daily night news show 10vor10 by the major German Swiss channel SRF1 is consistently subtitled in German on 3sat
- ↑ See, for instance, an Examination of Swiss German in and around Zürich, a paper that presents the differences between Swiss German and High German.
- ↑ Translations of Hochdeutsche Lautverschiebung
- ↑ Tranlslations of High German consonant shift
- ↑ Astrid Krähenmann: Quantity and prosodic asymmetries in Alemannic. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-11-017680-7
- ↑ Werner König: dtv-Atlas zur deutschen Sprache. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1989. ISBN 3-423-03025-9. S. 149.
- 1 2 Andreas Lötscher: Schweizerdeutsch – Geschichte, Dialekte, Gebrauch. Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart 1983 ISBN 3-7193-0861-8
- ↑ See Rudolf Hotzenköcherle, Rudolf Trüb (eds.) (1975): Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz II 261s.
- ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon, Volume II, pages 511-512
- ↑ Cf. the entry bivouac of the Online Etymology Dictionary
- ↑ Entry Deutsch ('German') in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
- ↑ Dieth, Eugen: Schwyzertütschi Dialäktschrift. Dieth-Schreibung. 2nd ed. revised and edited by Christian Schmid-Cadalbert, Aarau: Sauerländer, 1986. ISBN 3-7941-2832-X (in German)
- ↑ Archived 8 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ See a compilation on http://www.bibel-gesangbuch.de/mundart.html#schweizerdeutsch (in German)
- Albert Bachmann (ed.), Beiträge zur schweizerdeutschen Grammatik (BSG), 20 vols., Frauenfeld: Huber, 1919–1941.
- Fleischer, Jürg; Schmid, Stephan (2006), "Zurich German" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36 (2), doi:10.1017/S0025100306002441
- Rudolf Hotzenköcherle (ed.), Beiträge zur schweizerdeutschen Mundartforschung (BSM), 24 vols., Frauenfeld: Huber, 1949–1982.
- Peter von Matt, Deutsch in der Deutschen Schweiz. In: Peter von Matt: Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost. Zur Literatur und Politik in der Schweiz. München: Carl Hanser, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23880-0, S. 127–138.
- Verein für das Schweizerdeutsche Wörterbuch (ed.), Schweizerisches Idiotikon: Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache. Frauenfeld: Huber, 17 vols. (16 complete), 1881–, ISBN 978-3-7193-0413-3.
A Select Bibliography of English Texts on Swiss German offers the homepage of Schweizerisches Idiotikon.
External links
|Alemannic edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Chochichästli-Orakel – choose the Swiss German words you would normally use and see how well this matches the dialect of your area. (German only)
- Dialekt.ch a site with sound samples from different dialects. (German only)
- Schweizerisches Idiotikon The homepage of the Swiss national dictionary.
- One Poem in 29 Swiss dialects (and English)
- Swiss German Morphology and Lexicon
- swiss-linguistics.com Information portal on current linguistic research in Switzerland


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To celebrate the launch of the Taipei flights, Philippines AirAsia is offering promotional fares on airasia.com from as low as P888 for Cebu-Taipei (with travel period between 25 November 2016 and 25 March 2017) and from as low as P1,488 for Manila-Taipei (with travel period from 21 November 2016 to 25 March 2017). But, hurry! Promotional fares are up for grabs from today until 16 October only.
Philippines AirAsia CEO Captain Dexter Comendador said that in anticipation of the influx of tourists and travelers to Taipei following the recent easing of visa rules for Filipinos, they are thrilled to announce that Philippines AirAsia is launching direct flights to Taipei from their hubs in Manila and Cebu this November with promo fares now available online and through their partner travel agents nationwide.
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During the great American depression of the nineteen thirties to support his family young father Ben Harper is driven to crime. Arrested for robbery in front of his children, he is sentenced to hang. However, he has secreted the money he has stolen on his property and entrusted its whereabouts only to his children. Waiting for the gallows, Harper is enclosed in a cell with a preacher (Mitchum) incarcerated for automobile theft.
The audience learns from the start that Mitchum's character is in fact a vicious killer. Posing as a preacher he finds lonely widows, insinuates his way into their lives, and murders them for their money. The condemned Harper reveals in his sleep that he has hidden money on his property. Once released the 'preacher' sets his sights on the widowed Willa Harper (Shelley Winters).
In synopsis Charles Laughton's 1955 film sounds like a film noir, indeed there are stylistic and thematic elements of noir in the movie. Film noir largely arose due to a sudden influx of talented European directors arriving in Hollywood from the nineteen thirties onwards fleeing the rise of fascism. Laughton is clearly influenced by European film, but goes back further incorporating elements of German Expressionism. When the Harper children are forced to flee by boat pursued by Mitchum, the film transforms from noirish thriller into gothic fairy tale. The film's deliberate variation of tone is reflected by Walter Schumann's score which goes from full blown Universal horror bass tones to Walt Disney flutes.
Mitchum delivers a villain for the ages, the fingers of his left hand tattooed H-A-T-E, his right L-O-V-E. He uses his fists to illustrate the story of Cain and Abel with a slick line of patter inveigling his way into the affections of forlorn women. The character's murderous intentions are not merely for financial gain, a psychopathic misogyny is graphically revealed when he visits a burlesque show and aroused/revolted by a dancer releases the blade of a flick-knife which slices through his pant-leg at the crotch. A piece of symbolism that still has the power to draw gasps today.
Mitchum is the big bad wolf. Late in the film, he lays siege to a farmhouse in which the children have been sheltered by a kindly but tough old widow (a great Lillian Gish, toting a pump action shotgun as well as any action star). He sings a traditional hymn 'Leaning on the Everlasting Arms' (the tune is used as a leitmotif for the character, and becomes as sinister as the music from Jaws). He may as well be yelling 'I'll huff and I'll puff…"
Like Vertigo, It's a Wonderful Life and Blade Runner, Night of the Hunter flopped both critically and commercially upon release only to later join the pantheon of American film classics. Most likely stung by the reception his film received Laughton would never direct another feature. I would like to believe that perhaps since he had achieved as close to perfection as a work of art can get he chose exit on a high.
This review was originally published in the Verite Film Magazine blog http://www.veritefilmmag.com


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Robben Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists today, particularly known for his blues playing, as well as his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical contexts. A five-time Grammy nominee, he has played with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison, Phil Lesh, Bonnie Raitt, Michael McDonald, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, Greg Allman, John Scofield, Susan Tedeschi, Keb Mo, Larry Carlton, Mavis Staples, Brad Paisley, and many others.
An important and essential component of Robben's career is his commitment to teaching and passing on what he's learned over the past 40 years to current and future musicians. His instructional videos and clinics over this time have culminated in a collaboration with TrueFire and the birth of the Robben Ford Guitar Dojo. The wealth of his expertise and creativity is generously presented in these state-of-the-art productions, and will be, for years to come.
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Together We're Heavy: The Polyphonic Spree are big on togetherness.
Alone Together
Rock reflects the singular in the collective
By Karl Byrn
Elvis Presley once reflected, "Sometimes I get lonesome, right in the middle of a crowd." That sensation has defined a duality in rock ever since: in the rock experience, a powerful desire for community expands the music but clashes with a creeping sense of isolation.
Expressions of community and isolation have been opposing but parallel threads since rock's early years. Sam Cooke's lively, extroverted "Havin' a Party" sounds like a rebound off Ben E. King's stark, self-absorbed "I (Who Have Nothing)." The Youngbloods' warm-fuzzy sing-along "Get Together" and the Who's rally call "Join Together" are foils to the recalcitrant alienation of Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock" and the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black."
In the '70s, anthem-prone stadium-rock supergroups and reflective singer-songwriter solo acts rose to prominence at the same time. When alienated punks sought to distance themselves from both of those forces, they created their own thriving alternative community.
Does rock music still hold a duality that finds greater togetherness at odds with inward solitude? In current rock, the dual impulses for community and isolation are manifest not as opposing threads, but are instead emerging as a single connected thrust. Artists are acting like they want to reach out and retreat at the same time, using larger, busier, more universal sounds in tandem with intimate detail and individuation.
The so-called Memphis soul sound of the new Cat Power disc The Greatest is simply moderate instrumental lushness padded on her usual tender minimalism. It's as if Chan Marshall wants a fuller sound to signify a best effort to reach out in a way that doesn't dislodge her self-effacing confessions. Kentucky rockers My Morning Jacket also link an expansive, robust style with a private vibe. Lauded for a full-bodied blend of roots-rock and power pop, their recent discs It Still Moves and Z also bury their rich sound in so much reverb it sounds like the band are hiding at the end of a tunnel.
The noise-punk field demonstrates a desire to project absurdly enormous music from the smallest sources. The biggest bluster in that genre is typically made by duos or solo acts. A smaller-becomes-bigger aesthetic is also typical of new singer-songwriters like Sufjan Stevens, whose recent disc Illinoise is sublime and character-focused, but also majestically and colorfully orchestrated. It's the second in a 50-disc series about each state, with Stevens seemingly intent on making personal indie rock about everyone.
Rock's newly singular communal/individual impulse is also evident in the names and manners of numerous hip indie acts. Animal Collective are a conventional four-piece whose members live in four cities on two different continents. The Go! Team are a British mix-pop combo that alternates lead vocals by black and Asian women. The Polyphonic Spree are essentially a high school choir backing a simple band, with a 2003 album titled Together We're Heavy. Broken Social Scene are a rag-tag Canadian collective that sometimes features up to 21 revolving members.
Broken Social Scene could be the poster act for rock's current tendency to synchronize themes of community and isolation. Their often quiet, often rattling 2005 disc Broken Social Scene (their 2003 disc is titled You Forgot It in People) is built from careening alt-rock peppered with chirping oddities and varying focal points. Song titles like "Our Faces Split the Coast in Half" and "Windsurfing Nation" imply ideas about groups of loners.
The booklet in Broken Social Scene has a combined sense of separation and sharing. Rather than lyrics, each song has a strange character drawing and lists sets of instructions about relating to bits of the music, other band members and random emotions. One such instruction tells whoever to "try to make it sound like Bob Seger on acid." That connection is tough, since Seger's music is a hugely generic group-hug, while psychedelics are intensely micropersonal. But this combination just brings rock back to the problem that faced Mr. Presley: the rock experience might make you feel alone in a crowd.
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"Crucible Marks can be used to purchase Legendary weapons and armor in the Tower."
These items are crucible rewards used to purchase equipment from the crucible handler, crucible quartermaster, dear orbit, future war cult, iron banner and new monarchy vendors.
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Two solid hours of music sung by excellent singer-actors and a terrific seven-piece band playing the original Kurt Weill score and orchestration with book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. What could be better? Remember "Mack the Knife," "Pirate Jenny" and, of course, the "Ballad of Sexual Dependency"?–they're all there.
F. Murray Abraham heads the singing cast, and sings pretty well himself, too.
As this was a preview, we knew it would be polished further before the opening, but it's a good production that services this great work well.
The Atlantic Theater's home is in a Gothic Revival building on West 20th Street,
converted from a church into a 199-seat house.
and downstairs a little cafe
whose main decor is formed by its Wall of Honor listing many of the familiar supporters of New York theater.
Although this was only a preview, it was sold out and prior to showtime, we had the usual crush from the audience, eager to hear this 1928 musical theater masterpiece.
The Atlantic Acting Company was founded in 1983 by playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy. (atlantictheater.org)
(Source: npr.org) Today, it is a professional ensemble of experienced talented actors that go from Mamet's adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance (which we saw)
(Source: playbill.com) to new plays such as Our New Girl by Nancy Harris.The Atlantic Acting School, founded by Mamet and Macy, "offers in-depth training in Mamet and Macy's unique and influential approach to acting: Practical Aesthetics, the Atlantic Technique." (atlantictheater.org)
We were thrilled that they decided to tackle Three Penny Opera, often produced only in large houses or by opera companies, and it works well in this little theater. We had previously seen a production mounted in Studio 54 starring the excellent Alan Cumming with a new and bawdier translation by Wallace Shawn.
(Source: nytimes.com) We liked it but nobody else did. Atlantic's production is the Marc Blitzstein adaptation and it still works. It is pleasant to remember how this show and its creators outlasted the Nazi barbarians who forced Brecht and Weill to leave Germany.
I can't report any discount tickets and the price is $75, but with a big cast and musicians, it's understandable. Besides, compare it to Broadway prices for a musical and it looks really cheap. Member tickets are only $35 each and supporting this organization is a pleasure. You can also invest three pennies in the lottery and take your chance on a pair of $.03 tickets for each performance. Go to https://atlantictheater.org/3pennytix/ to find out how.
(Source: ahscares.org) Cast member Romeo, former rescue, has an important non-speaking role.


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