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Elvis & The Imposters play Mohegan Sun Arena, July 21, 2019
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Postby Man out of Time » Wed May 15, 2019 4:05 pm
As part of their joint headlining tour with Blondie, EC and the Imposters play Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT on Sunday, July 21, 2019. This preview was published on the website of the venue on April 2: Mohegansun.com
"Elvis Costello & The Imposters And Blondie Embark On Co-Headlining Summer Tour
Performing at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, July 21st
Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie will co-headline a coast-to-coast tour this summer. The 13-city tour will make a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, July 21st at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $75.00, $55.00 and $35.00 and go on sale Saturday, April 6th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to Ticketmaster.com or call Ticketmaster's national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office beginning on Sunday, April 7th at 10:00am, subject to availability.
Elvis Costello's wide-ranging recording career began in 1977 with the release of My Aim Is True in a catalogue that include such diverse highlights as This Year's Model, Get Happy, Imperial Bedroom, King Of America, Blood & Chocolate, The Juliet Letters with the Brodsky Quartet, The River In Reverse with Allen Toussaint and Wise Up Ghost with The Roots.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters' widely renowned Look Now was released in 2018 and of which Variety said, "It's so funny to be seeing him, after all this time, making a great cake of an album that doesn't really sound that much like any of the 30 before it." The catalogue will soon include the E.P., Purse, containing songwriting collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney and musical settings of lyrics by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 1976, Blondie has brought the worlds of Rock, Punk, Disco and Ska together and racked up four indelible Billboard Hot 100 #1 hits – "Heart of Glass," "Call Me," "The Tide Is High" and "Rapture " – as well as six #1s on the UK Singles Chart including "Maria," "Sunday Girl" and "Atomic." Debbie Harry – genre-spanning visionary, complex songstress, incandescent front woman and style icon – and the band's boundary-pushing Pop have shaped the look and sound of many chart-topping female artists who have followed and have made Blondie widely recognized as one of the most influential bands of our time.
Ever the bona fide international ambassadors of New York cool, Blondie – vocalist-songwriter Debbie Harry, guitarist and co-writer Chris Stein, powerhouse drummer Clem Burke, and long-time band members bassist Leigh Foxx, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen – has become and still remains a true national treasure; one whose influence both shaped and continues to inform the worlds of music, fashion, art and pop culture. Blondie's chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity led to an induction into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, a NME Godlike Genius Award in 2014, a Q Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2016, and more than 50 million albums sold worldwide to date."
Re: Elvis & The Imposters play Mohegan Sun Arena, July 21, 2019
Postby bronxapostle » Wed May 15, 2019 9:44 pm
Too close to home to miss...I WILL BE THERE,
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!!!
Postby krm » Thu May 16, 2019 2:25 am
bronxapostle wrote: Too close to home to miss...I WILL BE THERE,
Great ba!!!!
Postby sulky lad » Thu May 16, 2019 8:51 am
Great news BA - the question is digital or ANALOGUE !!!!
Postby bronxapostle » Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:30 pm
TWO TICKETS to show number two on this great tour in my pocket. NOW, I MUST FIGHT THE URGE TO VIEW THAT OPENING NIGHT setlist for those twenty hours.
Postby bronxapostle » Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:03 am
Gonna bump THIS original thread for tonight's show. Ten hours till showtime. Hope last night was great for those in the Woods, despite the weather and the delay. Other than viewing that info, I HAVE NOT PERUSED ANY SETLIST. it's easy to be strong when you attend the second show. enjoy tonight and/or whatever show you attend all. ba
Postby sulky lad » Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:29 am
Have a wonderful time, BA, what number EC is this ?!!
Hope there's at least a couple of new songs to add to your list
sweetest punch
Postby sweetest punch » Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:45 pm
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/elvis-co ... e39ce.html
Clubland
Accidents Will Happen
Photographs Can Lie
Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
This Year's Girl
Mr. & Mrs. Hush
Mystery Dance
I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
Every Day I Write the Book
Alison (With snippets of "The Tracks… more )
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
Postby bronxapostle » Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:41 am
BLONDIE 90 MINUTES, GREAT!!
ELVIS 85 MINUTES, VERY GOOD!
winner: BLONDIE
stricttime81
Postby stricttime81 » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:46 am
My decision not to go to these Blondie shows is looking better and better
AKA: Mike the Lawyer
Postby bronxapostle » Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:29 am
stricttime81 wrote: My decision not to go to these Blondie shows is looking better and better
Nooooo, you should go once
Postby Arbogast » Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:11 am
Gotta admit, the set list isn't wowing me...as I'd expected given the shortened set time on this tour. The Gettysburg set, on the other hand....
Postby sweetest punch » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:38 am
https://www.theday.com/article/20190722/ENT10/190729867
Review: Elvis Costello pumps it up in Mohegan Sun concert
Last July, Elvis Costello canceled the rest of his tour after he was diagnosed with cancer.
This year, Costello has returned to the road, and, man, does he seem jazzed to be back. He ripped it up at his show Sunday at Mohegan Sun Arena, where he co-headlined with Blondie.
Costello was like a locomotive of rock, powering through classic song after song. He slowed things down a couple of times, for Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love" and for a lovely version of "Alison" (working a bit of "The Tracks of My Tears' into the latter), but otherwise, this was a fiery rave. Costello, dressed in a black suit and eventually doffing his jacket, chatted briefly between a few songs. Most of the time, though, he barreled from one into the next number, refusing the show's energy lag.
And, no, the 64-year-old Costello never mentioned his 2018 cancer diagnosis. At the time, he said that it was "a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy." He never specified the type of cancer. Late last year, he downplayed the seriousness of it in a "CBS This Morning" interview. He said, "I was receiving letters for three weeks. No, I am not dying! It's not to make a joke of it, because you don't have to walk very far to find somebody you love who's genuinely having a fight (with cancer)."
Costello's voice was robust on Sunday, and his guitar playing was virtuosic.
His band The Imposters (drummer Pete Thomas, keyboard player Steve Nieve, and bassist Davey Faragher), attacked the songs just as aggressively as their leader did. Backup singers Brianna Lee and Kitten Kuroi not only never stopped moving, dancing through the night, but they also provided killer vocals.
Costello & the Imposters closed out the night with an hour-and-a-half set. Blondie took to the stage first and likewise played for an hour and a half.
They opened with "Call Me" and wrapped up with "Dreaming" and, in between, broke out all their hits. They also offered some surprises, including a version of "Old Town Road," which Harry did oh-so-well. After Harry mentioned the sweltering temperatures of the weekend, she and the band segued into "Wipe Off My Sweat" — very funny.
As for Harry's voice, it sounded a bit weathered Sunday. (Age, of course, comes with its concessions — Harry is 74 — and no one's voice stays as dynamic as it was decades earlier.) Harry's vocals seemed more on-point as Blondie's set went on, perhaps the result of her becoming more warmed up or of later songs being in a more comfortable range.
Whatever the case, Harry still commands the stage like a cool rock star. She wore chic sunglasses for the first part of the concert, and her silvery, voluminously multilayered outfit was perfect for a singer on stage, reflecting the light beautifully. She shimmied and danced and waved to fans. She got lots of love; some fans made catcalls, and others bellowed, "We love you, Debbie!"
The band sounded muscular throughout the night. Tommy Kessler, a relative youngster who joined Blondie in 2010, handled the heavy guitar work (even playing the instrument behind his head at one point). Blondie co-founder Chris Stein, 69, played guitar, too, as he sat on a stool for most of the concert before standing to perform with Kessler briefly during "Heart of Glass."
And the secret weapon of Blondie? Clem Burke, who has been a member of the group since shortly after it formed. Wearing a CBGB shirt, he pounded out propulsive rhythms that really drove the tunes all night.
Postby docinwestchester » Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:08 pm
Clem is a beast. That is all.
Dr. Luther
Location: SF
Postby Dr. Luther » Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:25 pm
docinwestchester wrote: Clem is a beast. That is all.
Yup. No doubt.
Good to hear that he's still got it.
Dr. Luther wrote:
My two fave drummers in one night!!
Postby FAVEHOUR » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:59 pm
Arbogast wrote: Gotta admit, the set list isn't wowing me...as I'd expected given the shortened set time on this tour. The Gettysburg set, on the other hand....
So glad he did the warm up in Gettysburg. Small theatre 30 miles away. Thank you, Elvis.
Postby sweetest punch » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:45 pm
https://www.thesunchronicle.com/go/musi ... ac397.html
Concert review: Elvis, Blondie bring new wave/punk nostalgia into the Sun
Blondie and Elvis Costello sure make for suitable touring partners.
The new wave/punk icons from the '70s and '80s, and their latest bands, played separate 90-minute sets Sunday night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Costello was the headliner, and he and his band The Imposters played 18 songs from his eclectic musical career, starting off with the fiesty 1978 tune "Pump It Up" and onto "Clubland," which featured tropical-colored video.
Two songs from 1979, "Accidents Will Happen" and "Green Shirt," made it appear the set was going to go in chronological order.
The piano-heavy "Photographs Can Lie" is off last year's "Look Now," Costello's second collaboration with Burt Bacharach.
It was followed by another song off that album, "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter," which Costello wrote with Carole King in the 1990s.
"Watching the Detectives" from 1978 was played with posters from old movies on the large video screen behind the stage. The organ was prominent on "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea." "This Year's Girl" was another vintage tune.
Following "Mystery Dance" and "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down," a Sam and Dave cover, the two female backup singers joined the singer/songwriter/guitarist on stage for "High Fidelity."
The melodic "Every Day I Write the Book" from 1983 was extended with band member intros, and a slowed down version of "Alison" had parts of Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears."
The sole song in the encore was 1979's high-energy protest anthem "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding," where video of military personnel was shown, including some of Costello's relatives.
Blondie opened with the 1980 No. 1 "Call Me," on which guitarist played a lap piano, and fast-paced "One Way or Another" from two years earlier.
"Doom or Destiny," "Rifle Range," "Fun," and "Picture This" segued into the snappy 1999 comeback hit "Maria."
A highlight was "Rapture," one of the first rap songs.
Alluding to the humid and hot weather, lead singer Debbie Harry, 74, sang "Wipe Off My Sweat," which featured acoustic guitar.
After "Fade Away and Radiate" was the charter-topper "The Tide Is High," in which the keyboardist played two keyboards at once.
Fire was shown on the screen for "Atomic" and the band closed with the 1978 arm-waving smash "Heart of Glass," the first new wave song to cross over to disco, and the sweet "Dreaming."
Postby sweetest punch » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:23 pm
http://southingtonobserver.com/2019/07/ ... ears-pass/
Review: Former punksters Blondie, Elvis Costello get better as years pass
What happens to punk rockers 40-plus years after they recorded their first album.
For some of the army of disaffected musical youth of 1976-1979, the question is moot. Many have become an obituary.
Think of, for example, Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols), Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys), and Richard Hell (Television).
For some, they become a footnote in rock and roll history.
Think of… well, you don't think of them because many of these footnotes have been forgotten.
For the rare few, you become really good musicians always vying to be better artists and blaze your own trail.
That has been the case of Blondie and Elvis Costello, who teamed up for a bang-up concert at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville on July 21.
Both bands upon their arrival on the music scene in the time of Jimmy Carter were filled with spit and vinegar as befitting the punk era.
Blondie, which found a home at the legendary C.B.G.B.'s with other groundbreaking bands such as the Ramones and Talking Heads, showed their guts by turning to beach music and girl groups for their inspiration. Keep in mind, at the time, some bands were suffering from a psychedelic hangover and other bands were trying to be the next Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. Elvis Costello,instead, was the angry young man that drew upon punk's "Up yours" attitude to fuel his repertoire. He was the guy willing to kick James Taylor's butt.
However, unlike some of their musical peers, both Blondie and Elvis Costello had other aspirations than shake a fist at the world.
Blondie always had the air of a New York art scene project. It's willingness to mine other musical genres- rap, disco, reggae, power pop, and the aforementioned beach music and girl groups could best be described as a musical collage. They had more on their mind than another hit single (although they had a few of those). They wanted to open the ears of the general public.
Costello on the other hand revealed through his music, about four albums into his career, that he wanted to be more than acerbic and rebellious. Like some of his fellow angry young men of the punk new wave era (Joe Jackson and Graham Parker), he wanted to be a singer songwriter. Eventually he worked with tunesmiths such as Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach, and Carole King. He even tried his hand recording an entire album backed by a string quartet.
Punk and new wave may have provided a launching pad for Blondie and Costello but both bands refused to let those genres become their prison.
At the Mohegan, both acts showed subtle hints of their punk roots by refusing to become mere oldies stations on satellite radio.
Blondie dipped several times into its latest release, 2017's "Pollinator" even though the fans were clearly waiting for "Rapture" and "Heart of Glass."
Costello dove in and out of the deep tracks of his iconic albums. He also pulled out tracks from some lesser known, but still artistically intriguing, efforts .
Both acts also were interested in keeping their audiences on their toes. Thanks to the web, the setlists of many acts are available so fans can anticipate what they will hear at their particular show. Many bands will not vary from that list.
But, although there were some similarities night after night, both Blondie and Costello shake up what they play every night.
So you got some surprises.
Blondie pulled out the hook-filled and fun "Wipe Off My Sweat" from 2011's "Panic of Girls."
Costello trotted out "The Look of Love" from his former writing partner Burt Bacharach.
In their punk days playing with velocity and abandon was expected.
But with youthful spirit relegated to the past, both acts showed a superb command of musicianship. Blondie and Elvis Costello and the Imposters were tight and polished (which would have horrified the punksters of old). And both Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry and Elvis Costello showed their voices have not been diminished by the passing of time even if perhaps the keys have dipped a few tones lower.
Blondie and Elvis Costello and the Imposters proved at the Mohegan Sun Arena that even though the years have passed by, their talent has not faded in the least. They are artists still striving to keep that creative mojo flowing.
I give the evening of Blondie and Elvis Costello at the Mohegan Sun Arena on July 21 five out of five stars.
Postby bronxapostle » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:12 pm
Agree for the most part, but Richard Hell lives on.
Postby sweetest punch » Wed Jul 24, 2019 12:23 am
https://bestclassicbands.com/costello-b ... w-7-23-19/
Elvis Costello, Blondie Concert: Satisfying Variety
Across the land, venues are blanketed in deep drifts of nostalgia, trotting out farewell-this and reunion-that as long-ago hits erupt in arenas packed with the greying. Some acts fly solo and some bring friends, packaged together in barnstorming assortments that range anywhere from the cynical to the sublime. Closer to the latter is the current combination of Elvis Costello and the Imposters and Blondie, which would have been a cutting-edge sensation if assembled in 1979, and somehow remains a remarkable enticement 40 years on. The double feature made its second of 13 scheduled stops July 21 before a full house at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., and delivered satisfying variety with performances that had little in common, yet shared appeals to lovers of off-center music.
As they did the night before when the tour kicked off in Bethel, N.Y., Blondie opened the program. Half of the band's current six-piece lineup is holdovers from its seminal 1970s and '80s run, not least singer Debbie Harry, who at 74 is five years older than co-founder Chris Stein and 10 older than drummer Clem Burke. Harry remains the band's defining face, but Burke's contributions are equally important to group identity, which was clear in the insistent rattle he generated as the band took the stage under a wash of red light for its 1980 hit "Call Me."
Harry remains a wellspring of quirky glamour, ambling onstage in a busily decorated cape that read DEJAR DE FOLLAR EL PLANETA on the back (with STOP FUCKING THE PLANET stitched vertically onto a front edge in case anyone needed a handy translation) atop a silver-and-black striped frock—it wouldn't be fair to call the dress shapeless, because it had one, even if it didn't remotely resemble Harry's own—underneath it, and a pair of slightly oversized sunglasses. Her singing jabbed at high tones on occasion, but also floated quite a bit, plainly at ease with the material and her ability to shape it. Her handling of "One Way or Another" had none of the sneering urgency of the original recording, but her cooler approach didn't lack for personality.
Even after so many years, Blondie still oozes the artsy punk grit in its DNA, augmented by a presentation that included plenty of junk footage—static, test patterns and geometric noise—that smartly established a clubby vibe as it cycled through a trio of onstage video screens both acts shared. More elaborate material backed "Doom or Destiny," drawn from the group's 2017 album Pollinator, but even that bit was on-brand with its rapid succession of oddball visuals, a testament to the band's recognition of its iconography's power.
Harry was a touch loose with lyrics here and there and had a hard time finding an on-ramp at the start of "Maria," but inevitably wound up where she needed to be. She finessed "Rapture" carefully, showing some of its more challenging vocal demands to be beyond her reach, but was effective in coloring its out-there passages. With Leigh Foxx's bass plumping its low end, the tune chugged pleasantly, right through its delightfully archaic rap, until its "And now he only eats guitars" line cued a sharp Stein solo trip.
A brief and rather puffy rock rendition of current "it" song "Old Town Road" intended to highlight how music always offers something new, but its by-the-numbers importation landed just this side of pandering. Even the well-worn 1980 hit "The Tide is High" felt more organic, with Harry's comfortable caress and a detour interpolating Dee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart" along the way.
Sweating through an old-school CBGB shirt behind his drum kit, Burke added deliberate drama to the ever-oddball "Fade Away and Radiate," and delivered an anchoring presence alongside the throbbing Matt Katz-Bohen synthesizer on the still-grabby crossbreed of rock and disco "Heart of Glass." Blondie closed their 90 minutes (slightly longer than Costello's set would prove to be) with "Dreaming," placing Harry's relaxed vocal saunter alongside Burke's propulsive force, a pleasant coalescing of their complementary elements.
It took less than half an hour to turn the stage around for Costello, whose hard-charging rock baseline marked a striking change of gears from Blondie's more pop-friendly textures. Fronting a six-piece of his own—the Imposers quartet that he led plus two backing singers—Costello lunged into the throwback rock of his 1978 tune "Pump it Up," contributing his own sharp bark and sinewy electric guitar line. With the versatile Steve Nieve prodding on piano, another trip to the archives followed, with Costello reaching back to 1981 to holler "Clubland."
Last October saw Costello's first album in five years, Look Now, from which was drawn the crooning-friendly Burt Bacharach collaboration "Photographs Can Lie." Costello floated into the tune with an appropriate taste of his co-writer's "The Look of Love," which inspired images of Costello working out the song's particulars at home with wife Diana Krall, who has a bit of history with the number. He returned to the disc twice more, with Pete Thomas' drums pushing the sturdy "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter" and making a last-second detour from his planned setlist for the R&B-draped rock of "Mr. and Mrs. Hush."
Just over a year ago, Costello canceled a string of dates in the wake of successful cancer treatments—now 64 and back on the road, he seemed in good health and at ease, stripping off the jacket from his navy blue suit and vest combination to add arch urgency to the snaky, reggae-laced and acidic 1977 hoot "Watching the Detectives."
Costello's vocals were augmented by the crisp backup of Kitten Kuroi and Briana Lee, who joined him at the front of the stage to help power the feisty "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down" and the organ-trimmed "High Fidelity." They added clout to the stout sway of "Everyday I Write the Book," a 1983 track Costello once described as "a bad Smokey Robinson song," but which perfectly captures Costello's atypically cerebral appeal in the rock milieu.
The mellow slow burn of "Alison" closed the set on a relaxing note, as Costello briefly surveyed "The Tracks of My Tears" (which sounded like a good Smokey Robinson song), "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Over the Rainbow" along the way. He soon returned in a sparkly jacket for a one-song encore, traveling back to 1979 for the Nick Lowe-penned "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding," a high-octane offering that encapsulated what was to like about the night's double bill, displaying charms still considerable even after those 40 years.
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On September 17th and 18th 2015, the first joint event of the German Research Platform on Zoonoses and the German Center for Infection Research, the workshop "German-African Cooperations on Infection Research" took place at Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) in Hamburg.
Under the scientific and organizational leadership of Prof. Dr. Jürgen May (BNITM, work group May) and Prof. Dr. Martin H. Groschup (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, INNT), the national and international participants (among others from various African and European countries) were given an overview of previous infection research activities of German scientific institutions in Africa, their collaboration with African institutions and of the work and development of African institutions. In the ensuing professional discussion, the relevant results and experiences were discussed, existing problems addressed and recommendations for improvement of international and interdisciplinary cooperation for European and African governmental organizations and political policy makers were deduced.
In addition, various national and international networking and promoting options were presented, including the German Research Platform for Zoonoses. For the purposes of "One Health", "Global Health" and better cooperation between research and public health, the workshop was attended by representatives from human and veterinary medicine as well as infection biology, among others from university and non-university research institutions in Germany and abroad (including the Institute Pasteur and ILRI), university clinics, national and international research and research funding organizations (inter alia, DLR-PT and the Joint FAO / IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture) and the Bundeswehr (German military).
The feedback from participants and speakers given during the workshop was exceedingly positive. A continuation of similar events on this topic was unanimously welcomed. For more efficient networking, contact and project data are to be included in a common database.
Sie können das finale Programm zum Workshop hier herunterladen.


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Treasure of the Amazon, The (1985)
... aka: Diamonds of the Amazon
... aka: El tesoro del Amazonas
... aka: Greed
René Cardona Jr.
Having been responsible for hundreds of films between them, René Cardona (who passed away in 1988) and his son René Cardona Jr. (who passed away in 2003) were a force to be reckoned with in Mexico. The secret of their success? They both knew it was wise to pay close attention to whatever hot trend was going on at the time to ensure their films were profitable. In 1974, the two worked together (Sr. co-writing and directing; Jr. producing) on the bio-pic La isla de los hombres solos ("The Island of Lost Souls"); which detailed a man's 20-year stint on a brutal prison island. Because of the "based on a true story" angle and the fact the film was based on a popular, best-selling novel, the film went on to break Mexican box office records. Wanting to keep striking while the iron was still hot, the duo would start milking sensationalism for all it was worth.
They made Survive! (1978), about that 1972 plane crash in the Andes where the survivors were forced to cannibalize each other in order to stay alive, TERROR STORM (1977), which was based on the same story but was set on a boat, Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979), which hoped to capitalize on the Jim Jones tragedy, The Bermuda Triangle (1978), a popular "real life" mystery in the late 70s and others. Treasure of the Amazon came late in the game. It too professes to be based on a true story, though I'm not sure what true story they're talking about. The opening titles state "This story is based on actual facts that occurred in 1958 in the depths of the Amazon Jungles of South America." and adds "The action does not take place in a specific country but in a fictitious place." As you read the plot synopsis below, keep the "true story" claims in your mind.
Things begin on a steam boat, where we learn not to try to rob grizzled old Gringo (Stuart Whitman). If you do, you're bound to get your finger cut off and then get tossed overboard where hungry piranha will feast on you. So what has made Gringo such a tough s.o.b.? Years earlier, he and five friends ventured into the jungle on a treasure hunt. Six long years later, a maddened Gringo emerged with the shrunken heads of all of his fellow travelers. Since then he hasn't mellowed out too much, but he is reconsidering risking another jungle trip after two guys he meets on the boat; Zapata (Pedro Armendariz Jr.) and Jairo (Jorge Luke), claim they know where they can find some gold and are in need of an experienced guide.
Meanwhile, pilot Clark (Bradford Dillman), whose idea of a good time is hitting birds with his airplane propellers mid-flight, is escorting prissy Southern belle Barbara (former Miss World Ann Sidney) and her whiny boyfriend Dick (Clark Jarrett) around as they scout for oil. They've been coming up dry, but during one dig, they find a diamond and decide to stick around and see if they can find more. Elsewhere in the jungle, Nazi-in-hiding Klaus von Blantz (Donald Pleasence) is also on the search for treasure. He wants to use his potential findings to "revive the glories of the Third Reich" and has a tough and always-topless female native guide named Morinba (Sonia Infante), who needs money herself because her daughters have been forced into sexual servitude by a horny old slimeball (Emilio 'El Indio' Fernández) she's indebted to. Whew! These three groups of treasure hunters battle the elements, the vicious jungle animals, tribes full of blood-thirsty machete-wielding natives and blowgun-shooting cannibal headhunters and, of course, each other on their quest for riches.
Cardona leaves nothing out of this kitchen sink jungle adventure and moves things along at such a fast quip you never have time to get bored. Seemingly every other shot is of some jungle critter (alligators, snakes, parrots, tarantulas, panthers, leopards, monkeys, pigs, anteaters, you name it) and there's lots of blood and gore (throats slits, heads cut off), various animal attacks (bats, gators, some really strange bugs that suddenly fly out of the water), nudity (mud-covered topless native women in thongs enacting an Amazon wrestling ritual), people eating spiders and snakes, a tied-up man getting eaten alive by a slew of flesh-hungry crabs (!), quicksand, leeches, real animals eating each other and much more.
The cast is also excellent. This has to be the best role Whitman has had in years and he does a great job as the centerpiece for all the action. Pleasence, sporting a terrible German accent, is hysterically funny chewing the scenery and spouting lines like "I've killed many... Yanks... vith... zis...gun." He also gets to spend his last scene suspended from a tree by a hook stuck through his tongue! All of Infante's scenes are performed topless and she clearly doesn't known English at all because she reads all of her dialogue phonetically and with no inflection whatsoever (though it's somewhat fitting for the role of a native guide, I guess). John Ireland (a priest) and Hugo Stiglitz (a riverboat captain) also have small roles. The director's son, René Cardona III (now a prolific director himself), was the second unit director.
Very entertaining and lots of brainless fun's to be had in this one, folks. The ending's great, too. Initially released on video in the U.S. on the All-American label. VCI handled the DVD release.
Labels: alligator/crocodile, animal attack, Bradford Dillman, cannibal, decapitation, Donald Pleasence, Hugo Stiglitz, John Ireland, jungle, Mexico, nazi, piranha, René Cardona Jr., Stuart Whitman

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Teaching German History - Reading Suggestions
Thread starter MartinFarrar
german reading suggestions teaching
World History Forum
MartinFarrar
I'm a high school history teacher about to start teaching Nazi Germany, and I'm looking for suggestions for books I could read to help me prepare. I'm already halfway through Kershaw's great Hitler biography, and I'm going to read Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich over Christmas. What I'm looking for right now is general, pre-twentieth century, information about Germany, from the medieval age up to the world wars. I like to start my students with a whistle-stop tour of how we arrived at the start of our area of study.
I found two texts that looked good: Iron Kingdom, by Christopher Clark, for a history of Prussia, and the Cambridge Concise History of Germany. I'm looking for guidance now. Are these books any good (one is a little long)? Do I even need a separate book on Prussia to understand German history?
And most importantly, do you have any alternative suggestions?
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Iowa, USA
My favorites include:
"German Knighthood, 1050-1300," by Benjamin Arnold
"Armies of Bismarck's Wars: The Army of Prussia-History, Uniforms and Equipment, 1860-1867," by Bruce Basset Powell
"Medieval Civilization in Germany," by Franz Bauml
"Society and Politics in Germany: 1500-1750," by G. Benecke
"History of Germany, 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century," by David Blackbourn
"The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective," by Peter Blickle, Thomas A. Brady Jr., & H.C. Erik Midelfort
"Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from the Enlightenment to the Nazis," by Andrew G. Bonnell
"Fearless Wives & Frightened Shrews: The Construction of the Witch in Early Modern Germany," by Sigrid Brauner
"Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe," by Peter Burke
"Princes and Parliaments in Germany: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century," by F.L. Carsten
"Pictures of the German Life in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," by Gustav Freytag & Georgiana Malcolm
"Germany in the High Middle Ages c.1050-1200," by Horst Fuhrmann
"A Concise History of Germany," by Mary Fulbrook
"German history in Modern Times: Four Lives of the Nation," by William W. Hagen
"A Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages: Slaves and their Families in Early Medieval Bavaria," by Carl I. Hammer
"German Life in Town and Country," by William Harbutt Dawson
"The Franco-Prussian War; The German Invasion of France 1870-1871," by Michael Howard
"Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806," by Michael Hughes
"Law and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Imperial Aulic Council in the Reign of Charles VI," by Michael Hughes
"The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 1760-1785," by Charles W. Ingrao
"History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages," by Johannes Janssen
"People on the Move: Attitudes toward and Perceptions of Migration in Medieval and Modern Europe," by Harald Kleinschmidt
"The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War," by Bruce Levine
"The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War," by Hermann Lons & Robert Kvinnesland
"Prussia: The Evolution of an Empire," by John Marriot
"Rural Settlement & Farming in Germany," by Alan Mayhew
"The European Family," by Michael Mitterauer & Reinhard Sieder
"Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720," by Martin Mulsow & H.C. Erik Midelfort
"A Sketch of the German Constitution and of the Events in Germany from 1815 to 1871," by Arthur Nicolson
"Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany," by Steven Ozment
"A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People," by Steve Ozment
"The Thirty Years' War," by Geoffrey Parker
"The Social Basis of the German Reformation," by R. Pascal
"The Survival of the Hessian Nobility, 1770-1870," by Gregory W. Pedlow
"Handbook of Imperial Germany," by Janet Robinson & Joe Robinson
"Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany," by Thomas Robisheaux
"The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg," by Lyndal Roper
"Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany," by Lyndal Roper
"Our Daily Bread: German Village Life, 1500-1850," by Teva J. Scheer
"Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany," by R.W. Scribner
"Religion and Culture in Germany, 1400-1800," by Robert Scribner
"Social and Political History of the German 1848 Revolution," by Rudolf Stadelmann
"Indentured to Liberty: Peasant Life and the Hessian Military State, 1688-1815," by Peter Taylor
"German Villages in Crisis: Rural Life in Hesse-Kassel and the Thirty Years' War, 1580-1720," by John C. Theibault
"The Early Germans," by Malcolm Todd
"Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany: 1740-1806," by Maiken Umbach
"German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871," by Mack Walker & James J. Sheehan
"The Barbarian West, 400-1000," by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill
"The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871," by Geoffrey Wawro
"The Thirty Years War," by C.V. Wedgwood
"Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History," by Simon Winder
"Wealth and Taxation in Central Europe: The History and Sociology of Public Finance," by Peter-Christian Witt
"He is the Sun, She is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany," by Heide Wunder & Thomas Dunlap
This is an amazing list, thank you. If you could only read a couple of these books, which would you choose?
Regnum Francorum (orientalium) / Germany
MartinFarrar said:
Prussia was only one of many German states (although it became during the 19th century the most important German state and leading Germany). Some people say that Germany was prussianized while others say that Prussia was germanized.
I cannot recommend a special on German history that covers the period from the medieval period to WW1 (this alone are more than 1100 years). Moreover the borders of Germany and the concept of German identity changed significantly over these centuries. Moreover German history is not isolated from European history. As you probably know northern Italy was united with Germany until the end of the Holy Roman Empire.
As a start it's always good to have a look at wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany
As a rule of thumb, I find Cambridge's concise histories to be quite good.
Larrey
Maybe try something like "German Genius" for a slightly different take from the political history — how the 19th c. Germans created much of the modern world through scientific and technological inventions.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/09/german-genius-peter-watson-review
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RIBBON was a short-lived band formed by former LAREINE bassist EMIRU on his own label STRAWBERRY HOUSE (later known as Maple Kiss).
RIBBON announced their formation on June 2002 debuted with a series of secret concerts and the release of their first mini-album in Summer. It seems that their vocalist was initially supposed to be ex-Arege's member and LAREINE roadie Yukio, but was changed to KANZAKI right before announcing the band details.
Even though their first official live at Shinjuku Astro Hall was announced for October, guitarist LUCA suddenly left in September due to personal reasons.
RIBBON went on with two support members on guitar for the rest of the year and closed down their fanclub a couple of months later. In December they released a free single by mail order for Christmas. In the meantime plans for a LAREINE reunion started and RIBBON eventually announced their activity pause on magazines in February 2003 without even holding a last live. EMIRU rejoined LAREINE in March and would also invite KAZUMI on drums.
RIBBON had a one-night revival including all original members on Halloween 2003 for a special gig featuring with NEW SODMY and LAREINE at Omotesando FAB. A commemorative split single featuring a re-recording of "TERRITORY" was also released.
Afterwards KANZAKI briefly continued activities as a solo artist before retiring from the scene (LUCA also reappeared a support member for a while). He resurfaced for a few months in 2007 with a new project which was eventually cancelled due to unspecified health problems.


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SCF Partners taps RMC's Chad Robinson to lead Calgary office
Kirk Falconer
© 2018 SCF Partners
U.S. energy private equity firm SCF Partners has hired Chad Robinson as a managing director.
Robinson will lead the Houston-based investor's Canadian office in Calgary.
Robinson joins SCF from Canadian energy private equity firm Resource Merchant Capital (RMC), which he helped found in 2013 and lead as a managing director.
Previously, he was an owner and CFO of Pacesetter Directional Drilling, sold to Schlumberger in 2015, as well as a partner and vice president, corporate finance, at Stonebridge Merchant Capital.
Earlier this year, SCF merged four portfolio companies, including SITE Energy Services and Waste Treatment Solutions, to form Centurion Group.
SCF Expands Leadership Team with Addition of Chad Robinson to Lead Calgary Office
HOUSTON — SCF Partners is pleased to announce that Chad Robinson has joined the firm as a Managing Director and will lead its Canadian office.
Prior to joining SCF, Chad was the Founder and Managing Director of Resource Merchant Capital, a boutique merchant bank focused exclusively on investments in the Canadian Oilfield sector. From 2006 to 2015, Chad was an owner in and the CFO of Pacesetter Directional Drilling, Canada's largest private directional drilling business. Pacesetter grew from zero revenue to over $100 million of revenue in its first five years and eventually sold to Schlumberger in early 2015. Prior to 2006, Chad was a Partner and VP of Corporate Finance of Stonebridge Merchant Capital, where he began his career in 1998. Chad has chaired and has sat on a number of private oilfield service company boards. He is currently the Vice Chairman of CUPS in Calgary, a non-profit helping kids and families break the cycle of poverty.
Chad earned a B.Sc. in Science from the University of Alberta in 1995 and a dual MBA / Master in Agriculture, specializing in Resource Economics, from the University of Alberta in 1999. He also completed his ICD.D designation focused on Board of Directors work in 2016. Chad and his wife have two children and live in Calgary.
L.E. Simmons, Founder and Chairman of SCF Partners, said, "We are thrilled to add Chad to our team and have him lead our efforts in Canada. His talent and experience will allow SCF to continue our mission to build global leaders in the energy services, technology and products segments for years to come."
Chad stated, "It is an honor to join SCF Partners as a means to build on the stellar reputation the firm has built in the Canadian Oilfield Services sector. SCF is the Global leader in energy service investing with an unparalleled track record over the last 30 years of building great companies. I am thrilled to join such a talented, progressive and thoughtful team."
ABOUT SCF:
SCF Partners, headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices also in Aberdeen, Singapore, and Calgary, is a private equity firm focused solely on building energy services, equipment, and technology companies. SCF has completed more than 400 energy services investments and helped build 17 public companies in its nearly 30-year history. SCF partners with operational management and assists with additional growth through acquisitions and geographic expansion initiatives to build leading companies across the globe. Current investments from active funds include Nine Energy Service (NYSE: NINE), Select Energy Services (NYSE: WTTR), Forum Energy Technologies (NYSE: FET), NESR (NASDAQ: NESR), Centurion Group and Variperm.
Theresa Eaton, 713-227-7888
teaton@scfpartners.com


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Q: Accelerate add text to a TextBox I have code to set text of TexBox as
 textBox1.Text = s;

where s is a string that have more than 100,000 char, and it take long time to show text on textBox.
Anybody have solution to make it faster ?

A: To do that split the s string into many strings, and use the AppendText to add those subStrings, if you check MSDN you will see that :
The AppendText method enables the user to append text to the contents of a text control without using text concatenation, which, can yield better performance when many concatenations are required.
 public string s = "Put you terribly long string here";

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //For responsiveness
        textBox1.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
        {
            //Here's your logic
            for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i += 1000)
            {
                //This if is just for security
                if (i+1000 > s.Length)
                {
                    //Here's your AppendText
                    textBox1.AppendText(s.Substring(i, s.Length-i));
                }
                else
                {
                    //And it's here as well
                    textBox1.AppendText(s.Substring(i, 1000));
                }
            }
        }));
    }

I used the value 1000, you can use 1500 , 2000 , choose the one that gives better result.
Hope this helps.
Update :
AppendText is available for both WindowsForms and WPF, too bad can't find it on WindowsPhone and WinRT. so I think this solution may help you a lot

A: break s in sub strings and when you pass first sub string to the text box it will appear after that it concatenate to the second and so on.
other way is that use loop to set the value
for(int i=0;i<s.length; i++)
{
   textBox1.Text += s[i];
 }

may these helps you

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A laser-like focus on person-centred care, same-day access to a health provider, and better health outcomes is what Ontarians can expect if politicians heed the advice of nurses.
That vision is laid out in a blueprint. Charting a course for the health system and nursing in Ontario takes a comprehensive look at the province's health system, and sets out recommendations related to the system's five key sectors, including public health, primary care, hospital care, home care, and rehab, complex and long-term care. The vision provides short, medium and longer-term recommendations for each sector, which examine how care is delivered, who delivers it and where it should be delivered.
See the vision website, or get the document(s) below.


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Kathleen Marjorie Henderson (* im dritten Quartal 1905 in Portsmouth; † 2000, geborene Marjorie Bell) war eine englische Badmintonspielerin.

Karriere
Marjorie Henderson gewann bei den prestigeträchtigen All England 1933 das Damendoppel mit Thelma Kingsbury. In den drei folgenden Jahren verteidigten sie diesen Titel. 1935, 1936 und 1937 siegten beide auch bei den Scottish Open.

Erfolge

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Statistiken des englischen Verbandes

Einzelnachweise

Badmintonspieler (England)
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Geboren 1905
Gestorben 2000
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See What's in Store for the Swimming Pool and Spa Industry at Everything Under the Sun Expo in Orlando
The event delivers education, networking and fun events.
By Linda G. Green
Photo courtesy Florida Swimming Pool Association
Celebrating its 46th year, the 2018 Everything Under the Sun Expo has a fitting theme: "Sunny Florida Days."
"The industry is doing well, and things are happy and sunny," says Wendy Parker-Barsell, executive director of the Florida Swimming Pool Association.
Set in subtropical Orlando, the event sports theme colors of orange (for oranges), as well as cheery blue and green.
The event truly caters to swimming pool and spa professionals, as well as solar experts, from the Sunshine State, Parker-Barsell says. In fact, an FSPA breakdown of attendance shows that 88% of visitors hail from Florida, with another 5% from the Southeast and 4% from the Northeast and Midwest. And approximately 2% travel from the Caribbean and Central and South America.
On Feb. 9-10, the expo will unfold in West Hall E of the Orange County Convention Center. Organizers expect a turnout similar to years past, namely, around 225 exhibitors and up to 4,000 attendees in an exhibit space of 33,000 net square feet.
This year, the New Product Showcase will have a new feature, says Mary Anderson, FSPA's education program manager. Manufacturers will provide short talks about the items they have on display. Attendees will find a schedule posted at the showcase, and seating will be available. Each talk will last approximately 10 minutes so manufacturers can more thoroughly provide the whats, whys and hows of their new products.
To help folks navigate the expo, a mobile app once again will be available. It can be downloaded at iTunes or Google Play. Free to FSPA members, it enables users to find exhibitors, take class notes, fill out course evaluations and more.
When it comes to the upcoming expo, Parker-Barsell sums it up thusly: "It's the place you need to be in February for education, technology and networking."
For online registration and more information, visit underthesunexpo.com.
Learning Made Easy
Free to FSPA members, this year's educational lineup includes courses required by the state of Florida to maintain licensing, along with more targeted sessions for swimming pool and spa builders, retailers and service technicians, and solar professionals.
Education is an essential part of the expo due to the state's licensing requirements. That's why FSPA is a course sponsor approved by the Florida Construction Industry Licensing Board, the Electrical Contractors' Licensing Board, and the Board of Landscape Architects.
This year's 60-seminar lineup offers something for everyone. Among the new offerings expected to be in demand, says Anderson, is the "Florida Public Pool Specialist (FPPS) Course" on Feb. 7-8, which addresses Florida Administrative Code 64E. Then on Feb. 8 there's the "EPA Section 608 Prep Course" and exam.
Yet another is "LP04-08 Installer C License Exam Prep Course," which is required for a license to work with LP gas equipment, appliances and piping. Following successful course completion, attendees then register with the state to take the LP Gas Exam.
Brand-new this year is the full-day-long Hayward University. The pre-show session will take place Feb. 8, with the first half devoted to sales and the afternoon for troubleshooting tips and tricks.
As for standout seminars, they are expected to fill up fast. Here, again, sessions devoted to code compliance are expected to be most popular. These include "Basic Electrical Requirements for Pools and Spas" on Feb. 9, as well as "Laws, Codes and Standards in the Pool & Spa Industry" on Feb. 10.
"There's a lot of call for business classes, too," Anderson adds.
These seminars include Grandy & Associates' "Product & Service Pricing for Profit" on Feb. 8 and "Dispatching for Profit" on Feb. 9. Another class, "10 Steps to Success" on Feb. 9, not only covers what it takes to run a profitable business, but also helps participants see how they compare with industry colleagues.
Of course, we can't forget the Learning Labs. This year will see double last year's slate, for a total of 16. Located on the show floor, these product-specific sessions are led by manufacturers. They are free for FSPA members and cost $10 for nonmembers. They run Feb. 9-10 in the afternoon, with limited seating.
When formulating the educational slate, diversity is a key ingredient, Anderson says "The pool and spa industry is changing so much and rapidly — take new building codes. You need to keep up with what's happening, whether it's sitting in the classroom for continuing education credits or in a Learning Lab or talking with exhibitors. You're always learning. "
The show's much-anticipated social activities will include the Welcome and Awards Reception and the Friday Night Industry Party.
The Welcome and Awards Reception officially kicks off the show on Thursday, Feb. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the Rosen Plaza Hotel. Held in recognition of outstanding designs and individual accomplishments in 2017, the event will feature an open bar and food stations filled with Florida fare. A live pianist will be on hand, and an after-party will follow the awards.
This year's private Friday Night Industry Party will take place at Cuba Libre restaurant in Pointe Orlando on Feb. 9. The venue evokes Havana, Cuba, circa the 1950s, and festivities will run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The authentic cuisine will include empanadas and ceviche, and the drink menu will be highlighted by mojitos, sangria and beer. Admission is $35; tickets may be purchased when registering for the expo, or at the FSPA booth during the show.
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