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Michael Ansara
Michael George Ansara
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Calabasas, California, USA
Guest star
Kang (pictured above);
Jeyal (pictured below)
...as Jeyal in 1996
Michael George Ansara (15 April 1922 – 31 July 2013; age 91) was the Lebanese-American actor best-known to Star Trek fans for playing Kang in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "Day of the Dove", the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode "Blood Oath", and the Star Trek: Voyager third season episode "Flashback". He later appeared as Jeyal in the DS9 fourth season episode "The Muse".
He filmed his scenes for "Day of the Dove" between Friday 23 August 1968 and Thursday 29 August 1968 at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10.
Ansara, as Kang, was one of eleven actors to play their respective characters on three different Star Trek TV series. The other actors who hold this distinction are Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Mark Lenard, George Takei, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman, John de Lancie, and Richard Poe.
Personal Edit
Ansara was born in a Lebanese family a small village in what was then the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon in 1922 and emigrated with his family to the United States when he was two years old. They resided in Lowell, Massachusetts, until they moved to California ten years later. Ansara enrolled in the Los Angeles City College intending to become a doctor but ultimately decided to become an actor. [1]
He was married to I Dream of Jeannie actress Barbara Eden from 1958 through 1974. He also worked with her on several projects, including directing and appearing on several episodes of Jeannie. He and Eden had one child, a son named Matthew, who died of a drug overdose in 2001.
Ansara married actress Beverly Kushida in 1977. He retired from acting in 2001. He died at his home in Calabasas, California, on 31 July 2013. He was 91. [2]
Career Edit
Television Edit
Due to his complexion, Ansara was often cast in the role of a Native American. This was the case for his starring role as Chief Cochise on the ABC TV western series Broken Arrow from 1956 through 1958, for which he is probably best remembered. He then starred as Native American US Marshal Sam Buckhart on NBC's short-lived Western television series Law of the Plainsman.
He also played a Native American character in the 1978 mini-series Centennial. This series also featured such Trek alumni as Henry Darrow, Cliff DeYoung, Robert DoQui, Robert Easton, Sally Kellerman, Brian Keith, Nick Ramus, Clive Revill, James Sloyan, Morgan Woodward, and Anthony Zerbe.
Ansara won a Bronze Wrangler for his performance in the 1963 Rawhide episode "Incident of Iron Bull". He appeared in two other episodes of Rawhide, including "Incident at Rio Doloroso", in which he and fellow TOS guest star Madlyn Rhue portrayed husband-and-wife.
Ansara had a role in the pilot for the 1975 TV series Barbary Coast, starring William Shatner. He previously co-starred with Shatner in his pre-Trek days in a 1964 episode of Burke's Law. Ansara also worked with Leonard Nimoy twice before they appeared together on Star Trek, first in a 1957 episode of Broken Arrow and again in a 1965 episode of The Virginian.
In addition, Ansara and TOS regular James Doohan co-starred together in a 1964 episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Also in 1964, Ansara and Tim O'Connor worked together in the "Soldier" episode of The Outer Limits, which was written by Harlan Ellison. Ansara then worked with George Takei in an episode of The Wackiest Ship in the Army in 1965.
After co-starring together on Star Trek's "Day of the Dove", Ansara and Susan Howard (who played Kang's wife, Mara) reunited for an episode of Here Come the Brides in 1969. TOS guest stars Robert Brown, Mark Lenard, and David Soul were regulars on this series.
Ansara played the villain Killer Kane in four episodes of the 1979-1981 sci-fi TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, on which Erin Gray and Tim O'Connor was a regular cast member. In the 1980s, he guest-starred on such television series as Fantasy Island (starring Ricardo Montalban and Wendy Schaal), CHiPs (starring Robert Pine), Simon & Simon (in an episode directed by Mike Vejar), Hardcastle and McCormick (starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly), and Murder, She Wrote (directed by Vincent McEveety).
In 1994, Ansara appeared as a technomage on the science fiction television series Babylon 5 at the start of the second season, alongside various Star Trek guest actors such as Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, and Mary Kay Adams.
Ansara was partnered with future Klingon John Schuck in an episode of the 1970s game show Celebrity Bowling. (They lost.)
Voicing Mr. Freeze Edit
Ansara became recognizable as the voice of the DC Comics character Mr. Freeze on various animated Batman series. He voiced the character several times between 1992 and 2009, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series. He later voiced the role in the animated series The New Batman Adventures and Batman Beyond. Other major villains on the various animated Batman shows were voiced by Adrienne Barbeau (Catwoman), John Glover (The Riddler), David Warner (Ra's al Ghul), and Paul Williams (The Penguin). Loren Lester voiced the role of Robin, while Robert Costanzo provided the voice of Detective Harvey Bullock.
In addition, Ansara voiced Mr. Freeze in the 1998 direct-to-video release SubZero, set between the events of Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. The aforementioned Loren Lester and Robert Costanzo also lent their voices to this movie, again playing their respective characters of Robin and Detective Bullock. More recently, Ansara voiced Freeze in the video games Batman: Vengeance. The latter also featured the voices of the aforementioned Paul Williams (as The Penguin) and David Warner (as Ra's al Ghul), as well as Ron Perlman (as Bane) and Clancy Brown (as Killer Croc). Incidentally, Clancy Brown also voiced the character of Mr. Freeze on TV's The Batman.
Ansara's final appearance as Mr. Freeze was in the Batman Beyond episode "Meltdown", co-starring Sherman Howard.
Films Edit
Ansara's many feature film credits include Julius Caesar (1953, co-starring fellow TOS veterans John Hoyt, Richard Hale, Ian Wolfe, and Lawrence Dobkin), The Comancheros (1961, starring John Wayne), and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). Ansara appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1954), as Charlie. As the Hittite commander in The Egyptian (1954), he had only two lines, but presented a Klingon-like appearance, declaring "No Hittite warrior cries out in pain!"
Ansara also made uncredited appearances in the biblical epics The Robe (1953, with Jean Simmons and Jay Robinson) and The Ten Commandments (1956). The latter film also featured the likes of Judith Anderson, Lawrence Dobkin, and Robert Herron.
Ansara worked with Ricardo Montalban in three feature films. The first was the 1954 romantic adventure The Saracen Blade, which was followed in 1968 by the crime drama Sol Madrid. Then, in 1977, the two co-starred opposite each other in the western Mission to Glory: A True Story.
In Irwin Allen's 1961 science fiction classic Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Ansara portrayed scientist Miguel Alvarez. That same year, he had a supporting role in the western adventure The Comancheros, along with Nehemiah Persoff. Ansara later played a prince in the Gene Nelson-directed 1965 Elvis Presley movie Harum Scarum (co-starring Theo Marcuse) and a Comanche chief in the 1966 western Texas Across the River (with Rosemary Forsyth, Andrew Prine, and George D. Wallace).
In 1974, Ansara played The Captain in the cult horror film It's Alive! In 1976, Ansara and fellow TOS guest star Michael Forest starred in the highly-controversial film Mohammad, Messenger of God (known in the US as The Messenger). This film chronicled the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Ansara then starred in the 1978 horror film The Manitou, for which he received a Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films as Best Supporting Actor.
Ansara's subsequent films include Bayou Romance (1982) and Access Code (1984), both with Michael Durrell. He later worked with Walter Gotell and Sally Kellerman in the 1986 drama KGB: The Secret War and with Jill Ireland in the 1987 action thriller Assassination. Ansara then appeared in the 1990 western Border Shootout, which also featured fellow TOS guest actor Michael Forest. Ansara's last feature film was the 1999 independent drama The Long Road Home.
Star Trek interviews Edit
"Michael Ansara, Klingon with a Cause", Mark Phillips, Starlog, issue 138, January 1989, pp. 32-33
"Noble Presence", Tom Weaver, Starlog, issue 225, April 1995, pp. 56-61
Michael Ansara at Wikipedia
Michael Ansara at the Internet Movie Database
Michael Ansara at the Internet Broadway Database
Michael Ansara at the Babylon 5 wiki
Obituary at Legacy.com
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"Crime-fiction megastar Connelly can always be counted on to try something a little different. In The Reversal (2010), his last Mickey Haller novel, starring the L.A. lawyer who prefers to work out of his Lincoln Town Car, Connelly offered a tour de force of plotting on multiple levels. Here, he narrows the focus considerably, concentrating almost exclusively on what happens inside the courtroom but bringing to the traditional give-and-take of prosecutor, defender, judge, and jury an altogether more complex commingling of personality and legal strategy than is typically on view in legal thrillers. He accomplishes this with a particularly rich first-person narration in which Haller takes us through the courtroom drama as it happens, noting his blunders and praising himself for quick-thinking improvisations. It doesn't hurt, either, that the plot is meaty: a woman whom Haller was representing in a suit against the bank attempting to foreclose on her mortgage is accused of killing the bank official in charge of foreclosures. Combining ripped-from-the-headlines information on the mortgage crisis with a cast of characters that defies stereotypes at every turn of the plot, Connelly shows once again that he will never simply ride the wave of past success. And, neither, apparently, will Mickey Haller, as he reveals a shocking change of direction in the novel's final pages."
— Bill Ott, Booklist * Starred Review
"Connelly's compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller's first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel's protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March."
— Publishers Weekly, * Starred Review
In this up-to-the-minute thriller, criminal defense attorney Haller has taken on foreclosure work, which creates complications: one of his clients is accused of killing the banker threatening to foreclose on her home. Buy multiples."
"About half the novel deals with the murder trial itself, and it's here that Connelly excels, easily surpassing even John Grisham in the building of courtroom suspense. It's clear that Connelly just loves this stuff. …The idea that Connelly is very good comes as no surprise, but the consistency of his excellence is remarkable, given that he's publishing two books a year right now. I picked up "The Fifth Witness" one night last week, intending just to get a feel for the story, and found I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it more than five hours later."
— Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times
"Mickey Haller's legal business has been hit hard by the recession, but he's decided to turn lemons into lemonade by coming to the aid of foreclosure victims. One of his very first cases backfires, however, when soon-to-be disposed teacher Lisa Trammel emerges as the foremost suspect in a homicide case. Applying all his legal and investigatory skills, Haller turns a prosecution slam-dunk into something far more interesting. Keyed with suspense and last minute surprises, Michael Connelly's latest courtroom procedural will keep you reading and guessing to the end. Editor's recommendation."
— Barnes & Noble Editorial Review
"Just in time for his movie debut this spring, Connelly brings back the Lincoln Lawyer for a satisfying case that pits him against a real-estate foreclosure mill. …the courtroom scenes—thrust, parry, struggle for every possible advantage—are grueling enough for the most exacting connoisseur of legal intrigue."
"Connelly is himself a master manipulator, and there's always something deadly serious behind his entertaining courtroom high jinks. Here he describes the background of the real estate collapse, exposing the venality involved in mortgage foreclosures. And just to keep it light, he throws in a few inside jokes about Hollywood hustlers and the things they'll do to get their hands on a hot property."
— Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
"This is Connelly at his thought-provoking best."
— People Magazine, 4 stars
"The Fifth Witness deftly shows us the workings of a justice system fraught with peril inside and outside the courtroom. It's a battlefield, so Haller can be excused for taking a Donald Rumsfeldian view of his job: "There are three things for the lawyer to always consider," he reflects. "The knowns, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns." By the time this twist-filled legal ride is done, the parties involved have confronted the known and unknown alike."
— Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
"I've said many times that Connelly continues to show why he is one of the best – and most consistent – living crime writers. "The Fifth Witness" adds evidence to the case."
— Oline Cogdill, Sun-Sentinel
"Michael Connelly sure can write em. His latest, The Fifth Witness, is a court procedural. This means there are many chapters where an attorney is asking a witness questions. Most of the time this makes for a tedious read and a boring thriller. Michael Connelly creates a mystery as satisfying as the other Mickey Haller and Bosch mystery novels. …The Fifth Witness is yet another Connelly page-turner."
— Richard Lanoie, The Mystery Site
"The book is a legal thriller to end all legal thrillers. I didn't see the twists and turns coming at me, and was hard pressed to put the book down to sleep. I didn't want it to end, a sure sign of a winning book."
— Maggie Mason, Deadly Pleasures Magazine
"When you're at the top of your game, millions of readers await your next book with anticipation, reviewers are ready to scratch at your reputation if you so much as offer a less than excellent story. As the saying goes "It's tougher to stay at the top than it is to reach it". With The Fifth Witness, Connelly need not worry; he can keep his throne for a while longer; and his reputation very much intact too. This is one of his most complete books in every aspect; his prose is meticulous, as sharp as a scalpel, and he keeps every thread of the story tightly knit together – like expertly done stitches. As usual for Connelly, no detail is unnecessary; he's not there to try to fool the reader, he just wants to tell a story. One that will grip the reader right from the start, when we find Mickey Haller in his 'office' (his bulletproof Lincoln Town Car) up until the finale, when some earlier details end up revealing the truth, the whole truth, and a bit more than that for the defense lawyer."
— Jacques Filippi, House of Crime and Mystery
I can't remember the last time I breezed through a weighty hardback with such speed. Nor can I remember when the content of such a tome felt so light and pleasing. …The author, a master of pace, carefully places each new nugget of information as it pops into view on the horizon. It's this trickle of facts that keeps the pages turning and with every new revelation it becomes harder and harder to stop reading. Do yourself a favour set aside a good chunk of time and digest the whole thing in one go. Then at least you won't suffer the craving for more."
— John Massey, Wharf.co.uk
"Plot and judicial gymnastics are the focus here, making "The Fifth Witness" an easy, amiable read with a tang of venom for zest."
— Katherine Dunn, Oregonian
"Mickey Haller is an irresistible character: smart, cynical, funny and always with a trick up his sleeve. Connelly, a former crime reporter, knows how to keep a story moving and give us characters to love and hate."
— Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer
"Readers who love a good down-and-dirty courtroom battle will love this superb new novel featuring Mickey Haller."
— Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail
"I just couldn't put it down as the twists kept coming right to the end. His best – until the next one!"
— Alex Gordon, Peterborough Evening Telegraph (UK)
"The greatest living American crime writer has landed another telling blow to his nearest rivals. The Fifth Witness is criminal defence attorney Mickey Haller's strongest and most pertinent performance yet."
— The Mirror (UK)
"With The Fifth Witness, Connelly delivers his best Lincoln Lawyer to date, dissecting Mickey Haller's emotions between family and overzealous courtroom antics. The verdict: a sucker punch finale with an interesting future for our anti-hero."
— JC Patterson, Rankin Ledger
"Connelly is a master at knowing when to shift focus. He knows when to put his foot on the gas and when to take it off. Once Connelly has you on board, turning the pages, you won't want to climb off. As popular entertainment goes, it doesn't get much better than this."
— Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe
"The Fifth Witness by best-selling author Michael Connelly is another masterpiece by one of America's best crime fiction novelists."
— Ray Walsh, Lansing State Journal
"Superb storytelling, corkscrew twists and a killer finale. Rush out and buy it – you won't regret it for a moment."
— Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail UK
"As ever, Connelly makes Mickey the perfect conduit through the hazardous jungles of LA courtrooms and low-rent neighbourhoods. But the social underpinnings here are what really engage the author: The Fifth Witness will not be comfortable reading for bankers, but neither is it indulgent towards those who feel that the world owes them a house and a living. Mickey may champion the latter, but he knows that most of his clients will end up on the scrapheap. This is as diverting an outing for Connelly's hero as we have been granted."
— Barry Forshaw, The Indepedent UK
"Connelly demonstrates his versatility here. His latest legal thriller, replete with authentic characters and compelling dialogue, provides a fascinating glimpse of our justice system in action that's sure to entertain."
— Robert Wade, San Diego Union-Tribune
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Well, the next few weeks may bring some good news. Or not. That's the nature of the entertainment business. I've been circling around on the outskirts of "show business" for a very long time so I'm used to it. While the outcome could be great, I'm always haunted by the wish of it happening earlier. On the other hand, if it had, would I be in the midst of enjoying a long career or now be a has-been? I'm a "glass half empty" kinda guy. Actually, I'm a "Hey, who took my glass" kinda guy.
I've been writing things since grade school. School plays and assemblies. I did little cartoons for the school paper. I converted standard school projects into radio plays or short films; writing, acting, directing. We'd put on shows in the basement. I started by ripping off my favorite things, things I had heard or watched; Bob Newhart routines or Abbott & Costello (a lot of Abbott & Costello). For the 6th grace recitation contest, while other students memorized and recited "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" or "Casey at the Bat," I did the Fat Albert routine from Bill Cosby's "Wonderfullness" album. I wrote parody comics about my part-time job after school and passed them around to my co-workers.
I can create. Usually it takes the form of stringing together words to tell a story. All in the vacuum that is suburban America. As I get older and learn about people and things out there, I find myself drawing parallels to the careers of others. Maybe parallels isn't the proper word. Comparisons; Parallel implies a sense of forward motion that is simply not there. I would occasionally have a vision of me motoring around Hollywood in a VW Beetle convertible, but there was no sweeping plan, no path mapped out for a career.
Now I've read the blogs of working writers. They tell amazing stories. One blogger writes about his youth. How, long before the invention of the VCR, he would set up a timer and a tape recorder to tape Johnny Carson's monologues on the Tonight show. How he created "mix-tapes" before there was such a thing off of TV and radio. He was creative from the get-go and evolved into a writer. This was all stuff I had done!
I've read about another Staten Islander who went off to Harvard to basically major in comedy, so he could get a job at Saturday Night Live and work there for a decade. He did some stand-up. He worked on the college humor magazine. I did that.
I've listened to podcasts hosted by a guy from Staten Island who just jumped in a car and drove to Hollywood after he graduated college because that's where you went to do writing. Was I supposed to do that? He wrote scripts and scripts until someone got interested. Check and check.
Yes, yes, I know, we're not supposed to compare ourselves to others. Things happen in their time. That's the rub. I could do the writing, but I never had the moxie, the gumption, the ambition to upend my life, to make that time. But, it's writing, I can do that from anywhere and send it out, no? Should I have relocated to LA and waited tables while I wrote? Was staying home, getting a job, raising a family, a decision made from being practical or made out of fear?
As a kid, I made movies with the other neighborhood kids. I took writing courses in college. I did showcases. It was a bit of a compulsion. Yet, I was only compulsed so far. I kept letting something (fear? Anxiety?) prevent me from pushing onward. The creative drive would take me far but I didn't have that certain something, the nerve frankly, to tear up the track, to tackle the object of my desire. I could write and submit, write and submit forever. But follow-up? Not good at that. If they liked it, they would get back to me, right? Why would I go and ask them for an out-right rejection?
If I step outside my head, I might be envious of the number of things I've done. Inside my head, they're all things that happened "out there" away from my home, while I was in the basement typing.
I hope this event comes to pass. Will it lead to things? Who knows? There's nothing linear about what I've done. It's a series of random odd-jobs, one never leading to the next. All fits and starts.
The what-ifs loom large sometimes. I could have done things differently. But then I would have had a different life. Is my life that bad? No, it's not. Could I have better woven my writing career into my life? I have no idea. I think that's what I'm lamenting.
But I know me. The anxiety of always trying to hustle for the next gig probably would have driven me insane. So, was I acting out of fear or self-preservation? My brain is filled with contradictory excuses and conflicting reasons for the way things are that I'll never fully sort out. But I do keep at it. I've had exciting moments, until it's hard to get excited about things that may or may not happen. The hope is there in earnest, though. Losing excitement isn't nearly as bad as losing hope. Technically, I guess, I never have. That would be awful. But, yes, it would be great to feel the excitement again. To feel like the part of a project. To have people fuss over my work. I could stand that.
I had completed a script called (at the time) "The Kringle Project" I was one of those ideas that came to me in a flash, the thing practically wrote itself, I just had to type it. Fortunately, I took typing in high school. It was a Christmas comedy that dropped a film noir-type private eye detective in the middle of a Santa-centric mystery. It was honestly the best thing I had done up 'til then.


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Heath Holland On...Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
by Heath Holland
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Of the six Star Wars films made between 1977 and 2005, this is hardest one to write about. How do you begin to approach the cultural phenomenon that 1977's Star Wars (the subtitle "Episode IV: A New Hope" wasn't added until 1981)? It changed the landscape of movies forever, and has been both lauded and blamed for solidifying blockbuster filmmaking. Those of us who grew up in the 1980s owe Star Wars a debt of gratitude, because it opened the door for so many wonderful films that followed in the years after it debuted that could never have been made without the trail that George Lucas and his team blazed with their space opera. The difficulty that Lucas had trying to get the movie green-lit with a major studio is now movie-making myth and Star Wars is the world's most successful independent film. I'm saying, it's a lot to try to wrap your arms around. Maybe the best thing I can do is point out why I love it.
I really want to try to avoid getting bogged down in the production details because Star Wars and the two sequels are probably the most documented films of all time in terms of behind-the-scenes coverage. In fact, it was Star Wars that first got people wondering "how'd they do that?" But you can't talk about Star Wars without talking about the people that made it happen. The galaxy we see in the film and all the sequels, including the ones that Disney is now spearheading in order to make sure Star Wars as a franchise goes lives on, was the brainchild of George Lucas. I could spend 5,000 words talking about The Journal of the Whills (Google it), but I won't. I don't want this to take more time to read than it takes to watch the movie. I'll just say that Star Wars starts with George Lucas, and his contributions, influence, and leadership can't be overestimated. It's his baby, in the good and the bad.
However, George Lucas had some pretty powerful friends who helped him out along the way and advised him that his concepts needed to be cut down and simplified for his audience. Lucas has always been ambitious, and his director pals like Francis Ford Coppola and Brian De Palma, both of whom had major hits when Lucas was still struggling, steered him toward the less-experimental, more accessible path. Lucas has revealed that the text crawl at the beginning of the movie was originally intended to be six paragraphs long, with four sentences each. Brian De Palma took the crawl and cut it down to the most basic state, and that's what we now have in the movie. Thank you, Brian De Palma, for being awesome.
1977's Star Wars also couldn't exist without all the influences that led to its creation. There's truly very little that's new under the sun, and that was the case even before Star Wars. What George Lucas did was combine common mythological and religious themes from all over the world and marry them to the things that he was nostalgic about. A dose of Flash Gordon here (the idea of an opening crawl comes directly from Flash Gordon serials), a little John Ford western atmosphere there, transplant World War II airplane dogfights into the setting of deep space, throw in a few character archetypes like the farm boy destined for greatness, the princess, and the scoundrel, and you've got a recipe for success. None of those things were new; Star Wars borrows and outright nicks almost all of its themes and ideas. It takes names and places from pulp stories and even from Frank Herbert's Dune books. No, what made Star Wars special was the way Lucas combined all those elements into something that had never been packaged and presented quite that way before. His friends wanted to know why he insisted on making a movie for 10-year-olds, but he knew that those 10-year-olds born in the shadow of the Vietnam War desperately needed heroes of their own. Lucas has stated that his generation had westerns and pirates, but children during the '70s had The Six Million Dollar Man and Kojak. Spielberg's Jaws was a huge hit in 1975 and Rocky was the winner of 1976. The tide was turning and people wanted to believe that good could win.
Without a rich foundation in comic books, serials, and Saturday matinees, the film might never have made it to screens, and without a crew of EXTREMELY talented artists and designers, what ended up on those screens might have been so visually dull that no one would have cared. That's why we have to pay our respects to the concept art of Ralph McQuarrie, whose drawings and paintings gave life and form to all the ships and creatures and characters that we've come to know so well. His concepts were so influential that they're still mining them for new stuff even now. We also have to remember the importance of the set design and decoration of John Barry and Roger Christian, who actually crafted those clunky, worn-out ships and sand-blasted desert hovels. Roger Christian created Han Solo's blaster from a real gun and added his own western touches. He made the first lightsaber out of a flashbulb handle from the 1940s. He also constructed The Millennium Falcon, fastest ship in the galaxy, out of old scrap airplane metal. Lastly, the sound design of Ben Burtt is CRUCIAL to the success of Star Wars. Every droid's beep and whistle, every "Ptang!" of blaster fire, and the iconic electric buzz of laser swords owe their iconic status to his sound creation. Star Wars is the first movie I can think of where the sounds we hear are as important, if not more important, than the images we are seeing on the screen. These men took the ideas in George Lucas' head and brought them to life in a way that felt real and ordinary. There's not a single environment in Star Wars that doesn't feel like it's been lived in for decades. Each and every vehicle looks like it's been broken, fixed, and then fixed again. I believe that THIS is the real success of Star Wars, and that without the lived-in element and the men with the skill to make that happen, the movie wouldn't have been the success it became.
Then there are the actors. The Prequel Trilogy is criticized for its dialog, but don't forget that Star Wars Eisode IV: A New Hope is the film that started it all and made fans out of millions, yet has some seriously clunky dialog. Harrison Ford is on record as saying "George, you can type this sh*t, but you can't say it." For all the wonderful, witty lines in the movie ("Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?" and "What an incredible smell you've discovered!") we have Luke whining about going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters. Episode IV has a lot of the same problems with the actual spoken lines that the three Prequels do. We just forgive them more because they're being delivered because so many other things are working.
How great is Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker? It's weird, because the entire trilogy hinges on Luke, but he almost feels like the least important character through this chapter. He's our entrée into this great adventure, and it's through him that we are introduced to the larger world of Jedi and The Force, but we don't actually meet Luke until around 20 minutes into the story. The time before that is spent establishing the world and the stakes, the Empire and the Rebellion. Princess Leia seems to be given more import than Luke Skywalker. Even the droids take precedence to Luke. Mark Hamill embraces this role of "everyman" and owns it. It's a testament to his performance that we actually care about Luke at all, and grow with him over the movies. There's a contingent of people who say that Hamill wasn't very good in the movie; that he's whiney and irritating. I think he's supposed to be. After all, if there's a bright center to the universe, he's on the planet that it's farthest from. He's young, unproven, inexperienced. Just like Hayden Christensen, he's doing what he's asked to do.
Is Carrie Fisher not the archetype for the strong, independent woman who doesn't need a couple of dudes to come rescue her? She's the best, and even though her English accent comes and goes, she more than holds her own with classic thespians like Peter Cushing. Her performance is witty, sarcastic, and practical. Princess Leia is the kind of character that you can be happy your daughter aspires to be like. She's intelligent, brave, regal, and defiant in the face of adversity. You want depth? Leia's got it.
Meanwhile, Harrison Ford excels at being Harrison Ford. I'm not so sure that Han Solo is much of a character and isn't just a facet of who Ford actually is in real life, but either way it works. Han Solo is the guy that men want to be and that women want to be with. Cocky and self-assured, he's also both a little foolish and a little sensitive. A sometime pirate and smuggler (hey, times are hard), Han doesn't sweat the details and he's probably not going to be around when the sun comes up, but he's also honorable and willing to stick around for a cause that he believes in. His relationship with Chewbacca implies that he lives by a certain code and that loyalty means a great deal to him, but that it takes a lot to earn it. What a guy!
Alec Guinness is great as Obi-Wan Kenobi (or simply "Ben"), and he brings that feeling of loss and sorrow to the proceedings. It's one more component to the film that gives it a deeper resonance and weight. We don't know exactly what Kenobi has seen, but his tales of war, murder, and betrayal hint at a backstory that viewers in 1977 could only imagine (and fans today are still trying to imagine because the three movies set before this didn't show us much). He's the wizard, the mentor of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, and the casting of Alec Guinness gives the role a sense of importance and dignity. You have to remember, everything we knew about the Jedi between 1977 and 1980 was based on what we learn from Ben Kenobi and his brief interaction with Darth Vader. He carries all that exposition on his shoulders.
Ah, Darth Vader. Has there ever been a more iconic villain? If there has, I sure can't think of it. The story makes it unclear exactly what role the towering Sith--a term from the film's novelization, but not used in the actual movie—plays in this Empire. He seems incredibly powerful, yet he also seems to be an underling of Peter Cushing's Grand Moff Tarkin. Leia says it best herself when she's brought before Tarkin: "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash." To whom does Vader's loyalty lie? What are his motivations? There is nothing as great as a mysterious character that has not yet been fleshed out and explained into boredom.
The last reason that I think Star Wars was such a success—after the concept, the creation, and the cast—is the fact that it was FUN. Though we'd eventually get bogged down into the politics of the galaxy and the totalitarianism of the Empire, Star Wars is, at its heart, a great space adventure film. It takes science fiction, fantasy, and western motifs and combines them into one incredible ride of a movie that takes us from the hot sands of Tatooine to the metallic corridors of the Death Star to the verdant moon of Yavin IV. We know there are stakes, but those stakes take a backseat to watching cool characters do cool things, and filmmakers should NEVER underestimate the appeal of cool characters doing cool things.
Star Wars was always destined to be a massive hit or a massive failure; there's no way that it could have been in the middle. We know that Lucas went to Hawaii in late May of 1977, but the reason why has varied depending on the account. In some, he's in Hawaii because he's dreading seeing his movie fail completely. In others, he's in Hawaii because he had to escape the overwhelming success of the film and the subsequent media deluge. What we know for sure is that Spielberg was with him, taking a break from his own Close Encounters of the Third Kind. As the two friends built sand castles, they discussed the idea of a James Bond without the gadgets, and there amidst the burgeoning success of Star Wars, the character of Indiana Jones took shape. That kind of talent to come up with winning concepts is RIDICULOUS. It's just success to success to success with these guys, especially during this time period.
I think Star Wars is a complete success. It's exciting, it's populated by characters we can relate to, it blazed new territory with it's special effects that hold up to this day, and it made it safe to have fun at the movies. It came along during a time when heroes were hard to find and kids were just waiting for someone to strike a match and blow up the whole scene. It could have been another movie that resonated with such a wide audience, but it wasn't another movie: it was Star Wars. Clearly there was something about it that resonates to this day. We have heroes everywhere now, but there's something about this trio of Luke, Han, and Leia that made them special. Even though it's not my favorite of the films, this is the movie that changed the game. Now that Disney owns the rights and is going to be making more films, we're going to have new adventures in a galaxy far, far away for a very long time. But you know what? No matter how many more movies they make, there's only one Star Wars.
See you in a few weeks when the Empire strikes back at the Rebellion and scores a direct hit. Until then, may The Force be with you.
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janbottig September 16, 2015 at 11:58 PM
Fun column, Heath! I've loved Star Wars ever since I first saw it in 1977 as an impressionable 13-year-old. I remember being struck by exactly the "real and ordinary" sensibility you describe -- everything had a lived-in look that made that galaxy far, far away seem so possible, so relatable. A lot of my friends thought Luke was cute with his feathery Leif Garrett hair but I felt like I already knew plenty of whiny boys just like him... Han was WAY cooler in my book. I might even credit Star Wars as being the movie that made me a real movie fan; I'd always loved "going to the movies," but Star Wars made me love *movies*, if that makes any sense. It created its own world and invited me in -- that collective creativity you write about was evident on the screen every minute, and made the idea of what a movie could be more compelling, complex, and exciting to me.
TOMBARTMAN454@GMAIL.COM September 17, 2015 at 4:08 AM
While Empire is still my favorite I will admit that A New Hope is definitely the most fun of the bunch. I would actually disagree with the critique that Mark Hamill gives a bad performance here and is whiny. In fact the only line he delivers that i think is maybe a bit off is when he has to go to toshi station to get some power converters.
As to the kids movie argument I dont think this movie is a kids movie per se- its really more of a family movie- in all honesty if I had kids I'm not sure how well my 5 year old would be able to handle darth vader's throat choking. I know the little kid in that car commercial loves doing it but while the overall feeling of fun is throughout this flick I think this movie is one I might keep away from the little little ones.
Alex Keil September 17, 2015 at 2:20 PM
I think you need the whiny, immature Luke in New Hope so that you can get to the Jedi Luke that shows up in the beginning of Return of the Jedi


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Flickering shadows of the fine skeleton of a cell
by Advanced Science News | Feb 8, 2021
A new method with unprecedented resolution allows researchers to visualize dynamic and elusive mechanisms that underpin essential biological processes, such as cell division.
Image credit: Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Scientists have, for the first time, directly imaged fluctuations in the shape of single macromolecular species using a rather simple optical microscope.
"Ever since super-resolution microscopy revealed nanoscopic details about where in the cell specific single biomolecules do their job, we have dreamed about seeing the dynamics of the protein machinery which keeps life ticking," says Marek Piliarik from the Institute of Photonics and Electronics in Prague.
Light microscopy offers insight into the dynamics of biological matter. However, the level of spatial details is intrinsically limited by the diffraction limit of light. Therefore the shape of sub-diffraction species can not be optically resolved.
In a study recently published in Small Methods, researchers introduce a new microscopy toolbox to discern the shape of protein structures.They employed the new method to visualize a series of individual conformational changes confined deep below the diffraction limit of light that characterizes the dynamics of single disassembling microtubules essential for cell function.
Illustration of a disassembling microtubule. The new microscopy method allows researchers to discern the microtubule shaft from the curved structures at the microtubule tip as well as themomentarily disassembled protein segments
Microtubules are among the most dynamical cellular structures that perpetually grow and shrink,enabling vital processes in cells including division or motility. The presence of nanometer-sized curved structures at the tip of a disassembling microtubule observed on static electron micrographs have puzzled scientists for decades. To date, no time-resolved data has allowed them to gain an insight into the disassembly process.
Now, the group of authors from Prague have discerned the changes in the light scattering of protein structures owing to fluctuations in their immediate shape even though these transient segments are normally hidden in the diffraction-blurred edge of the microtubule. They were able to capture the choreography, rate, amplitude, and spatiotemporal displacement of transientstructural changes at the tip of disassembling microtubules.
Zdenek Lansky from the Institute of Biotechnology CAS adds a biological perspective to the work: "The unprecedented resolution of the method enables us to better understand the dynamic changes in the structure of microtubules — elusive mechanisms that underpin essential biological processes, such as cell division."
To achieve this, researchers adopted one of the most sensitive light microscopy techniques, recently coined sinterferometric scattering microscopy, which is ultimately capable of imaging single unlabeled proteins. The team from two institutes a tthe Czech Academy of Sciences pushed the limits of the technology beyond just detecting the light extinction signal cast by a structure of one or a few protein molecules in a split of a millisecond. The variation in a specific fraction of its signal allowed the scientists to resolve changes in the immediate shape of the protein structures.
"The fact that we can see protein-sized structures changing shapes only milliseconds before they break apart still amazes us. When considering the method's capability of non-invasive imaging with up to MHz repetition rates, we believe it has significan tpotential to become a new window into cell machinery. The concept of seeing geometrical details of objects hidden in the diffraction bluris a greatopportunity for the whole field of optical microscopy," said Milan Vala, the first author of the publication.
Piliarik shares his vision: "We believe that our technique will open a whole new field of applications similar to super-resolution microscopy that do not rely on a fluorescent probe to light up but simply resolve a particular conformation of natural protein structures."
Reference: Milan Vala, et al., Nanoscopic Structural Fluctuations of Disassembling Microtubules Revealed by Label-Free Super-Resolution Microscopy, Small Methods, DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202000985
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Battle Creek but never expected to return after leaving for college and her ensuing several year as a resident of Grand Blanc."We lived in Bedford for a bit and Athens," says Elisha Hodge, owner of Plumeria Botanical Boutique. "I didn't have a great high school experience and I never thought I would come back."Hodge graduated from Central Michigan University and took a job in banking and later in financial advising. She had a good job, a dog, and a home in Grand Blanc, but realized she wasn't happy with what she was doing."I had this heart and this spirit, but the world kind of steps on you at times and I learned to be quiet," Hodge says. A telephone call to her mother in Battle Creek set her life on a course she never expected to follow."I was calling my mother and she said you should come home," Hodge says. "My mom, my two sisters, their two families, and the rest of my family lives in Battle Creek. I don't have a relative outside of Battle Creek. For years they were asking me to come back."Hodge's mother, Sandy, had worked for more than 30 years at the Country Bouquet Flower Shop located on West Michigan Avenue in Urbandale. The owner of the flower shop was planning to sell the business and at her mother's urging, Elisha decided to throw caution to the wind. She put her house in Grand Blanc on the market."My mom said I could take my banking background and her florist background and we could buy this business," Hodge says. "When she mentioned it, I don't know if any of us thought she was serious."However, when Hodge's Grand Blanc home sold in two weeks, she took it as a sign and moved back in June 2015 to embark on a new career as a business owner... http://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/Urbandale-Where-business-is-blooming-and-helping-one-another-is-the-way-neighborhood-grows1213.aspx
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Pomeroy Alumni hold banquet
Penny Hayes Holcomb of Lithopolis, Robert Murphy of Racine, Shelia Faulk Hollon of Chester, Jim and Becky Nease Anderson of Racine, Jennifer Menchini Kirby of Middleport, Sandy Bailley Mathews of Athens, Jane Wells Mitchell of Ravenswood, W.Va., Becky Hawley Ellis, Don Lambert, Jane Quivey, Janet St.Clair Peavley, Jerry Well, Paulette Hudson Harrison, John Goodwin, Sally Globokar Erwin, Loring Vaughan, Bonnie Banks Lightfoot and David Carr, all of Pomeroy.Officers elected for 2019 are William Young, President; William Francis, Vice President; Marcia Grueser Arnold and Thelma Davis Jeffers, secretary-treasurers.The executive committee elected includes Mary Scott Wise, April Shasteen Smith, Judy Wehrung Sisson, Lila Terrel Mitch, Charlene Diehl Rutherford, and Carol Strauss Kennedy.The advisory committee elected includes Norman Price, Carolyn Sisson Teaford, Jean Caston Hilton, Ed Kennedy and JoAnne Jones Williams.Ted Scott, Class of 1953, who lives in Westland, Michigan, was given a free ticket to next year's banquet. The ticket was given by Madalyn Pickett Markham of Plantation, Florida. Markham graduated from Pomeroy High School in 1936. A second free ticket given by the alumni association went to Carolyn Brown Charles (1956), who comes to the banquet every year.Sara Hawk Cullumns (1938) celebrating her 80th anniversary and Belva Glaze (1943) celebrating her 75th anniversary were given purple and white flower arrangements.Many door prizes were given out and the ladies were given potted purple and white petunias at the conclusion of the meeting.Scholarship winners were also announced. (The winners will appear in a separate article).Singing of the Alma Mater and the benediction by Joe Kennedy closed the event. Group photos were taken of the reunion classes.Submitted by Marcia Arnold, secretary-treasurer. RECOMMENDED FOR YOU	Load comments ... https://www.mydailysentinel.com/features/community/27230/pomeroy-alumni-holds-banquet
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Gifts from the hands - The Daily Post-Athenian
I'd start earlier in the year, I wouldn't be in such a rush. But, I love every minute of it - despite all the glue gun burns on my hands."Crafting is a labor of love the Athens senior discovered as a senior in high school."I had enough credits to graduate early, but I wanted to wait and graduate with my friends, so I enrolled in a program where I went to school half a day and worked half a day. They placed me in the florist in my hometown in Texas. I enjoyed it so much, and the man who owned it was so nice and such a great teacher, that I just kept doing it and spent 13 years of my working life as a florist."The challenge is probably what I enjoy most," Elliott added. "It's a challenge to take things and put them together into a form that's beautiful and eye-catching. Corsages were always my favorite thing to make as a florist because of all the intricate details. It really takes a little instinct, a little mechanical inclination, and a good eye to be a florist."Even after arranging ceased to be her profession, Elliott has continued pursuing it as a passion."I make decorations for my home -¬?probably 80 to 90 percent of my house is covered in decorations I've made," she said. "It's a great way to do Christmas gifts. You buy someone a shirt, it might not fit right or they might not like the color, so they'll probably take it back or just keep it in a drawer and never use it. If you make something for them by hand, they'll keep it forever, they'll get real enjoyment out of it, and they'll always tell the story about the person who made it for them or bought it for them. It always makes it personal when it's an item made by hand."Find some of Elliott's handmade items - as well as those crafted by other local artisans, during the McMinn Senior Activity Center's 18th Annual Christmas Bazaar and Craft Show on Fri... http://www.dailypostathenian.com/article_3ebc3b86-a817-11e6-8086-10604b9f1f4a.html
New Houston home design shops have much to offer - Houston Chronicle
Moxie Interiors From the street, Moxie Interiors on West Alabama, looks like a quaint, ivy-covered house but in fact is a building with 8,500 square feet of retail space filled with fine antiques, art and home decor accessories. The four business partners who run this shop have amassed a collection of antiques and vintage pieces from all over the world. The recent renovation created a series of rooms with distinctly different personalities. A few are filled with glossy shelves of vases, fine porcelain and items like George Briard glass trays (in clear or Hermes orange, $125 and up). Some look more like living rooms, with striking chandeliers and furniture ranging from custom pieces made in the on-site upholstery shop to fine antiques such as a pair of ornately carved Chinese Chippendale-style cabinets ($300,000 for the pair). You'll find small objects, too, for as little as $50. 2031 W. Alabama; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday or by appointment The Webster Laure Heriard Dubreuil's clever Galleria shop, The Webster, is carving out some space for home goods now. Parisian architect/designer S... https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/style/luxe-life/article/New-Houston-home-design-shops-have-much-to-offer-13810864.php
New florist in Foley offers 'Just Perfect' arrangements - Pensacola News Journal
Smith said. It's Just Perfect is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The shop is located at 15213 Alabama Highway 59 in Foley. For more information, call 251-943-5765 or visit itsjustperfectflowers.com. Kalyn Wolfe is a freelance columnist for the News Journal. Send new business tips to pcolanewbiz@gmail.com. https://www.pnj.com/story/money/business/2018/08/12/new-floral-shop-its-just-perfect-opens-foley/957658002/
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Forget Flower Girls Chic "Flower Grannies" Led the Way Down the Aisle at this Wedding
Joseph Garrity, a junior on the baseball team, had noticed her from the dugout. However, Chelsea transferred schools after her freshman year, switching to a college in Alabama. Even though Chelsea and Joseph were now at two different schools in two different states, they exchanged numbers over Twitter. For the next year they spoke to one another non-stop. Chelsea's mysterious instinct about Joseph deepened: it felt meant to be.Though they had been talking for months, it had been a while since their first mutual year at Frostburg. For the couple's first official date they settled on a restaurant neighboring the Chesapeake Bay in Havre de Grace, Maryland, called the Tidewater Grill. Chelsea and Joseph strolled together down the pier sharing life stories and inside jokes. By the time they reached the Concord Point Lighthouse, it felt as though the stars had aligned. For the next four years, the couple took turns traveling to each other's homes every weekend.div class="eic-image eic-image-0" data-size-x="516"... https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/09/26/wedding-flower-grannies-not-flower-girls/


This is the third in the series – each book relates to another couple, and it can be read as a standalone, although we do see the results of the previous two stories, so there is linking if you read them all.
Tim is the drummer in Spiral, and he likes being behind the drum kit. He chooses to take the route of least resistance in his life, although coming to NY to try and get the band off the ground has resulted in huge success. He does manage to clear the clinging girlfriend from his life, but what happens next definitely throws him off his comfortable fence edge. I enjoyed watching him realise what was happening, how he deals with it, and just how uncomfortable he has to be to get what is really worth having.
Carter is a man who seemingly has it all, but his past has meant that he knows all too well that money does not equal happiness – and his attempted detachment with Tim is not going well. I loved how his ability to like simple things was such a revelation to Tim. The yoga classes were brilliant fun too. In fact, they make a crazy, but hot couple time and time again. Although from different backgrounds, they have reasonable parity in wealth stakes, which makes some things much easier for them to ignore.
I found this to be a very easy story to read, with some interesting twists, but fundamentally telling a love story as old as time, which is exactly what romance story readers want. Thank you, Ms. Hayes.
For reviews & more info, check out our A Kind of Romance post.
Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of A Kind of Honesty (A Kind of Stories #3) by Lane Hayes to read to and review.


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Q: it's possible to invert summation/ series limits? If the summation  just sum every term i was thinking that for instance 1+2+3+4 = 4+3+2+1
so why this $$\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n} (3i)\       = \sum\limits_{i=n}^{1} (3i) $$ is not true ?
And how i can invert the limits of the summation without changing the result ?

A: As a matter of convention, indices rise. If you want to reverse the order of the terms, you need to write $\sum_{i=1}^na_i=\sum_{i=1}^na_{n+1-i}$.

A: To be consistent with the summation identity $\sum\limits_a^{b-1}+\sum\limits_b^c=\sum\limits_a^c$ when $a<b<c$
You need to set $\displaystyle \sum\limits_{i=M}^m x_i=-\sum\limits_{i=m+1}^{M-1} x_i$ for the case $m<M\ $ (and $0$ if $|M-m|\le 1$).
Have a look at this paper for a detailed approach.
As for integrals when bounds are reversed, a negative sign appears before the sum.

A: as others pointed out it is common (not convention) that indexes start from low values to high in that order, but when it is obvious it is undertood
$\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n} (3i)\       = \sum\limits_{i=n}^{1} (3i) $ is true, not sure why you think $3+6+9+\cdots +3n \neq 3n+\cdots+9+6+3$?
Just remember it is a shorthand, it is meaningless without defining what it means, you coud even define it with additional properties $\sum\limits_{k \text{ is prime} \le10000} k $  means $2+3+5+7+11+\cdots$ only primes less than 10000.

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Coneygree success in Cheltenham Gold Cup demonstrates the importance of smaller stables
March 15, 2015 John Welsh
Cheltenham horse racing, Horse Racing
The 2015 Cheltenham horse racing festival may have been dominated by the performance of legendary Irishman Willie Mullins in training eight winners and by the final appearance of Tony McCoy at the prestigious annual meeting, but it was also noteworthy for the success of Coneygree in the coveted Cheltenham Gold Cup and a victory for […]
McCoy stuns horse racing public with surprise retirement announcement
February 8, 2015 John Welsh
Horse Racing, McCoy
When English viewers were watching Channel 4 television coverage of Newbury horse racing on Saturday afternoon, one of the main sources of interest was the return of 2014 Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Sire De Grugy after an injury setback. It was earmarked as a final preparation race before attempting to retain his crown at […]
Another Leopardstown victory proves that Hurricane Fly will be a serious contender for Champion Hurdle crown
January 28, 2015 John Welsh
Horse Racing, Hurricane Fly
The statistics will show that Hurricane Fly won the 2015 Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown for a record-breaking fifth time, eclipsing the performances of the legendary Istabraq, and also won his tenth race from as many starts at the racecourse. The 11 year old racehorse is now being aimed at another tilt at claiming the […]
Silviniaco Conti and Road To Riches demonstrate their credentials for Cheltenham Gold Cup glory
December 30, 2014 John Welsh
Cheltenham Gold Cup, Horse Racing, Silviniaco Conti
Many of the contenders for the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup appeared in two separate races during the Christmas period with ante-post favourite Silviniaco Conti justifying his odds with a smooth front running success in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day while Road To Riches emphasised his claims for glory by claiming […]
Noble Mission emulates his brother Frankel on a proud day for the Cecil family
October 20, 2014 John Welsh
Horse Racing, Noble Mission
When Frankel won the 2012 Qipco Champions Stakes at Ascot in beating French horse Cirrus Des Aigles, it marked the end of an illustrious career for the unbeaten four year old horse and a deserved victory for his ailing trainer Henry Cecil. Two years later, Frankel's brother Noble Mission managed to win the 2014 renewal […]
Treve retains Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe crown after fine training performance
October 7, 2014 John Welsh
Horse Racing, Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe, Treve
When an international crowd of horse racing enthusiasts gathered at Longchamp racecourse in Paris on Sunday October 5th, there were many doubters expressing concern that French filly Treve was no longer capable of defending her Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe crown which had been secured with much aplomb just twelve months previously. The Criquette Head-Maarek […]
Taghrooda defeat demonstrates unreliability of the form guide
August 22, 2014 John Welsh
Horse Racing, Taghrooda
The announcement that Jamie Spence was to retire as a jockey to concentrate on an alternative role with Qatar Racing was greeted with an element of surprise by racegoers at the York Ebor festival but that news was accompanied by an even unlikelier event much later in the day. Taghrooda was long odds on favourite […]
Australia answers fitness doubts with comfortable win at York
Aidan OBrien, Horse Racing
After winning both English and Irish Derbies following his defeat in the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas, Aidan O'Brien trained horse Australia was allowed a brief summer break before resuming his racing career. The three year-old reappeared at York this week in the 1m2f Juddmonte International Stakes with his trainer concerned that he may lack fitness following […]
Further glory awaits Taghrooda after stunning King George victory
July 28, 2014 John Welsh
Horse Racing, King George, Taghrooda
When Australia produced an impressive performance to win the Epsom Derby in June, it was heralded as the best horse ever to be trained by Irishman Aidan O'Brien and probably the leading three year old of the 2014 flat season. At the same meeting, Taghrooda won the Oaks in an equally stylish display but the […]
Estimate dethroned as courageous Leading Light wins Ascot Gold Cup
June 20, 2014 John Welsh
Ascot Gold Cup, Horse Racing
After Estimate created history by winning the 2013 Ascot Gold Cup and so becoming the first horse to claim the prestigious prize for owner Queen Elizabeth II, all eyes were focussed on the horse as she attempted a repeat performance in the 2014 renewal of the race at the royal meeting. Having raced only once […]
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Q: Why my power supply drops voltage when peltier is connected? I had these 12v 2a power supply(adaptor) and rgb box labeling INPUT: 12VDC OUTPUT: 12v 6a(Max Current).
I can light up led without problem but when I connect peltier, the supply is dropping down and up repeatedly.
I know that rgb box is for led, but I use it for peltier because I don't have a power supply for peltier.
I buy this peltier online, it says that 12v 6a is need to cool peltier.
Why is that ?
Is there any suggestion to stabilize the output current and voltage apart from buying a power supply ?
I don't have money so I build from scratches.

A: You can't use a power supply that is capable of providing 2A to power a load that requires 6A.
The peltier element tries to draw more current than the power supply can supply so voltage may not reach 12V.
The power supply has overcurrent and/or undervoltage protection so it senses that something is not right and turns off to protect both the supply and load, but it will repeatedly then start up again but only to find out the problem still persists.

A: You need to look at the wattage: the load draws (6A * 12V = 72W). Your existing source can supply (2A * 12V = 24W), that is only 48 Watts short. When you pick the source pick at least 72 watts at 12 VDC, plus a few more watts to spare. Since you are supplying 24 watts to a 72 watt load, something has to give, that is probably the power supply protection circuits.These circuits are designed to protect the power supply, not its load.
Your power supply can source more then 6 amps that will not be a problem as long as the voltage stays at 12V.  Since you build from scratches you could build a power supply with a transformer, a few CAPs, a series pass circuit and a rectifier circuit, be careful with the ripple, most peltier devices do not like it.


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13th March - Great Songs of the Decades - show starts at 6pm.
This year's Music Hub Primary schools 'Big Sing' performance is a celebration of songs from the 1940's through the decades through to the 2000's and features many well known classics loved by every generation. Accompanied a by live band the show will feature children from North Lincolnshire Primary schools and is great entertainment for the whole family.


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Bacólod , antaño conocido por Bakulud, es un municipio filipino de cuarta categoría, situado al norte de la isla de Mindanao. Forma parte de  la provincia de Lánao del Norte situada en la Región Administrativa de Mindanao del Norte en cebuano Amihanang Mindanaw, también denominada Región X.
Para las elecciones está encuadrado en el Primer Distrito Electoral.

Barrios
El municipio  de Bacólod se divide, a los efectos administrativos, en 16 barangayes o barrios, conforme a la siguiente relación:

Historia

Influencia española

El Distrito 7º de Lanao creado a finales del siglo XIX, concretamente el 8 de octubre de 1895, formaba parte del Imperio español en Asia y Oceanía (1520-1898).
Su territorio, segregado de los distritos 5º de Cottabato y 2º de Misamis, no fue  dominado completamente por las armas españolas. El término de Bacólod formaba parte de Misamis.

Ocupación estadounidense
En 1903 fue creada la provincia del Moro, siendo Lánao uno de sus distritos. La provincia de Lánao fue creada en 1914 formando parte del Departamento de Mindanao y Joló (1914-1920)  (Department of Mindanao and Sulu) .

Independencia
El 10 de mayo de 1956 fue creado el distrito municipal de Bacólod formado por los siguientes  barrios hasta entonces pertenecientes al municipio de Colambugán: Bacólod, Rupagan, Minaolon, Dimologan, Binuni, Liangan West, Esperanza, Cahayag, Camp One, Camp Three, Mati East and West, Pagawayan, Babalaya-Matabaogan, Dilabayan y Barogohan East.

El 27 de febrero de 1959 fue creado el municipio  de Maigo al que se ceden los siguientes  barrios y sitios hasta entonces pertenecientes al municipio de Bacólod: Liagan Proper, Barogohan, Camps I, II y III.

El 22 de mayo de 1959 la provincia de Lánao fue dividida en dos provincias, una que se conoce como Lánao del Norte y la otra como Lánao del Sur.
Bacólod es uno de los 10 municipios que forman la provincia de Lánao del Norte.

Referencias
 Official Gazette: ACT NO. 2657 AN ACT CONSISTING AN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE CHAPTER 2 Political Grand Divisions and Subdivisions.
 Ignacio Villamor, Director: Census of the Philippine Islands taken under the Direction of the Philippine Legislature in the year 1918. Volume I Geography, History, and Climatology. Compiled and published by the Census Office of the Philippine Islands. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1920.

Localidades de  Lánao del Norte
Municipios de Filipinas de Cuarta Categoría
Estados y territorios fundados en 1956

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The Line on... Joe Ogilvie: He's a Golfer Without Portfolio
Kevin Cook
The Nike tour's leading money winner spent an hour with his idol,
multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett, at last month's Omaha
Classic. "I didn't get any tips, though," says Ogilvie. "Every
time I mentioned stocks, he changed the subject."
Ogilvie, 24, has won $134,513 in 1998 after finishing 42nd at
last week's Nike Permian Basin Open in Odessa, Texas. The Duke
economics grad, whose two wins this year put him within one
victory of a battlefield promotion to the PGA Tour, calls Buffett
his hero "because he doesn't deviate from his game plan for
success. That's how I try to play golf." If the game doesn't lead
him to easy street, Ogilvie may take the Wall Street route. "I
thought I'd be a stockbroker in New York by now," he says.
Despite his passion for the market, though, he has yet to invest
his earnings. Like the Omaha Oracle, he sees few bargains on the
big board: "Stocks have been overpriced, but I am looking at
Boeing and Disney."
--John O'Keefe
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Tourism is the first resource of its inhabitants due to the large number of hotels and tourism businesses. Apart from the widespread form of family marine tourism, the conference and exhibition tourism have known particular development, due to the existence of adequate infrastructure in the hotel complexes. However, along with tourism agriculture coexists with craft activities. Although the agricultural - livestock sector in recent years has continued to decline, it employs (seasonally or exclusively) a large part of the population. The City is developing into one of the main poles of residential urban complex of Heraklion (with which it is almost joined) for primary and secondary residence. As a fishing region it is considered among the most active fishing waters of Crete.
Local residents are engaged in agriculture and livestock farming and there is also agritourism accommodation available. The areas near Tylisos have undergone a relative growth due to the installation of, mainly, artisanal business. It has many natural beauties, canyons and nature paths, whereas the most well-known are that of Strouboula canyon and the forest of Keri.The ancient city of Tylisos is one of the most important archaeological sites of the area.
The site is located at the foot of Mt. Psiloretes. Vineyards and olive groves are the almost exclusive cultures of the region. In the plateau of Krousonas, also known as Livadi, at 1200 m. altitude, 300.000 pear and apple trees are cultivated. Even in the mountainous region sheep farming is flourishing.


Plan F is one of the letter plans if you purchase a Medicare Supplement plan. Plans F and G are the only Medicare Supplement insurance plans that cover costs known as Medicare Part B excess charges. An excess charge is the difference between what a doctor or provider charges and the amount Medicare will pay. These plans will help protect you from additional out-of-pocket expenses should you need treatment that exceeds what Medicare will approve. Plan F also has a high-deductible option*. Plans F and G cover 100% of the Medicare Part B excess charges.
With Medicare Supplement Plan F, you get the most complete coverage available. Because the plan covers costs in excess of Medicare-approved amounts, you may have no out-of-pocket costs for hospital and doctor's office care with this plan.
But did you know that in 2020, companies and insurance agents will no longer be allowed to sell plan F, although people who currently are enrolled in plan F, and who enroll for another few years, will be allowed to keep plan F. So in essence, no, plan F is not going away, but after 2020 no Medicare participant will be able to enroll in it. Plan G will most likely be the plan of choice, as the only difference currently between Plan F and Plan G are that Plan F pays the part B deductible (currently in 2017 is $183).
Contact me if you want more information on the differences between the different supplement plans and what they mean for you.


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Jubbada Hoose er en officiel territorial enhed i det sydlige Somalia, hvor hovedbyen er Kismaayo. Jubbada Hoose grænser op til Kenya og de somaliske territoriale enheder Geedo og Jubbada Dhexe samt Det Indiske Ocean.

Somalias geografi


Pictured (L-R): Luke Jensen, Regional Promotion Manager, Arista Nashville; KXKT MD Hoss Michaels; Carrie; KXKT PD Erik Johnson.
Carrie Underwood visited with KXKT's PD and MD during a stop on her Storyteller Tour in Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 26.
Pictured (L-R): Vanessa Kuhlman with KTOM's Sam Diggedy, KRTY's Tina Ferguson, Live Nation's Aaron Siuda, KRTY's Nate Deaton, Arista Nashville's new Manager, Regional Promotion, Lisa Owen.
Country newcomer Cam headlined a performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on March 23. This was a homecoming appearance of sorts, since Cam was raised in the bay area of California in nearby Lafayette.
Pictured (L-R): America's Morning Show's Blair Garner, Warner Nashville's Chris Janson, Kelly Ford, Chuck Wicks and NASH Director of Programming John Shomby.
Chris Janson paid a visit to America's Morning Show at the NASH Campus in Nashville on March 24 to perform the self-proclaimed favorite song he's ever written, "When I'm Holding Her," a tribute to his wife.
Hilary Williams (L) with Inside Edition's Megan Kelly (R).
Hilary Williams was recently interviewed by Inside Edition's Megan Alexander in promotion of I Saw the Light, a new feature film about the life and career of Williams' grandfather, Hank Williams. The interview took place at the Country Music Hall of Fame and the house where Hank Williams lived in Nashville. Hillary Williams' father is Hank Williams Jr.
Shenandoah on Larry's Country Diner.
The lineup for Larry's Country Diner on RFD-TV (Rural Media Group) includes Shenandoah, Hot Club of Cowtown, Jimmy Fortune and Darrell McCall. On April 7 (re-airing on Saturday April 9), Shenandoah's performance will include "Two Dozen Roses" and "Next To You, Next To Me." Scheduled performers will share fan-favorite hits with new music and never-before-heard stories during interviews with Larry and the cast. Each episode is filmed live-to-tape in front of an audience.


This setting of the traditional American folksong is perfect for Middle School choirs. Valerie Crescenz gives us a three-part mixed voicing accompanied by piano. Try it during American music month or to close a spring concert. Difficulty Level: Medium Easy Adult.


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Scots' Industry Welcomes FSA 'Sustainable' Review
11 February 2008, at 12:00am
SCOTLAND - Bertie Armstrong, Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermens Federation, says sustainability needs to be part of food standards advice.
Responding to the Foods Standards Agency announcement to review of its advice on eating fish, he said that sustainability of fish stocks has been at the top of the Scottish fishing industry's agenda for some time and FSA was right to include the issue within its policies.
"In Scotland, the industry is leading the way in the development of sustainable practices, which was most recently illustrated by our support for the ground breaking 'Scottish conservation credits' scheme," he added.
The SFF has been invited to participate in the FSA review. Mr Armstrong says the Federation is confident that it will recognise that its fishermen are harvesting Scottish seafood in a sustainable and sensible manner.
- Go to our news story on the FSA review by clicking here.