#Arnold Hoke

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OCTOBER 25, 2024 RELEASE

All my videos can be found here, full release under the read more! I am also offering the two Great Gatsby videos as a bundle for 30 USD! If interested, please contact me at bikinibottomtrading@gmail.com!

This release includes: Maybe Happy Ending, Moulin Rouge! (John/Solea), The Roommate, Empire Records, Great Gatsby (Alex Prakken)

EMPIRE RECORDS September 25, 2024 | McCarter Theatre | 4K MP4 (8.32GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Lorna Courtney (Corey), Samantha Williams (Gina), Liam Pearce (AJ), Analise Scarpaci (Debra), Tyler McCall (Lucas), Eric Wiegand (Mark), Michael Luwoye (Joe), Damon Daunno (Rex Manning), Taylor Iman Jones (Max), Alex Lugo (Ensemble), Hoke Faser (Ensemble), Sam Poon (Ensemble), Leah Read (Ensemble), Maximilian Sangerman (Ensemble) Notes: Great 4K capture of this world premiere musical! One head obstruction that blocks the center-right, mostly when characters sit / lay on the floor, worked around fairly well but still some missed action. Some moments of wandering / readjustment and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBJWDh | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL APRIL 17, 2025

MOULIN ROUGE! October 15, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.4GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: John Cardoza (Christian), Solea Pfeiffer (Satine), Frank Viveros (u/s Harold Zidler), David Harris (The Duke of Monroth), André Ward (Toulouse Laurtrec), Pepe Muñoz (Santiago), Sophie Carmen Jones (Nini), Jacqueline B. Arnold (La Chocolat), Nicci Claspell (Arabia), Jeigh Markus (Baby Doll), Cameron Burke (s/w), Olivia Cece (s/w), Aaron C. Finley, Bahiyah Hibah, Kamal Lado, Heather Makalani, Nick Martinez (Pierre), Dylan Paul (s/w), Brandon Stonestreet (s/w), Brooke Taylor, Alec Varcas, Cole Joseph Wachman, Shaun-Avery Williams, Jordan Wynn, Jenn Stafford Yip Notes: Excellent 4K capture of John, Solea, and Pepe’s (scheduled) first performances on Broadway! Roughly one minute total of blackouts due to people walking in the aisles. Action on the far left and on the walkway is obstructed. Some washout on the wider shots. Some wandering and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call and encore, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBNmyU | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL APRIL 17, 2025

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING October 16, 2024 | Broadway (Previews) | 4K MP4 (8.96GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Darren Criss (Oliver), Helen J. Shen (Claire), Dez Duron (Gil Brentley), Marcus Choi (James & others) Notes: Great 4K capture of this show’s first preview! There is a tech hold an hour in, it is edited out and the video resumes after the show starts up again. A few brief black outs due to late seating, people leaving etc. Video starts about two minutes into the first song. Some wandering / readjustment and unfocusing throughout. Includes audio of pre-show speech by Michael Arden and curtain call, audio is fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBNwwK | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL APRIL 17, 2025

THE GREAT GATSBY June 2, 2024 (M) | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.28GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Jeremy Jordan (Jay Gatsby), Eva Noblezada (Daisy Buchanan), Alex Prakken (u/s Nick Carraway), Samantha Pauly (Jordan Baker), John Zdrojeski (Tom Buchanan), Eric Anderson (Meyer Wolfsheim), Ryah Nixon (u/s Myrtle Wilson), Paul Witty (George Wilson) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of Alex’s debut as Nick! Minor head obstruction on the bottom, no action is missed. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBtnQs | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL APRIL 17, 2025

THE GREAT GATSBY August 28, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.37GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Alex Prakken (u/s Jay Gatsby), Eva Noblezada (Daisy Buchanan), Noah J. Ricketts (Nick Carraway), Samantha Pauly (Jordan Baker), John Zdrojeski (Tom Buchanan), Eric Anderson (Meyer Wolfsheim), Chilina Kennedy (t/r Myrtle Wilson), Paul Witty (George Wilson). Samantha Pollino (s/w Gilda Grey) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of Alex as Gatsby (on his birthday)! Act One is a bit more wideshot, and in general the filming is slightly worse, but still a very good capture! Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBFdB9 | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL APRIL 17, 2025

THE ROOMMATE August 29, 2024 | Broadway (Previews) | 4K MP4 (7.89GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Mia Farrow (Sharon), Patti LuPone (Robyn) Notes: Good 4K capture of this show’s first preview. The first half is wideshot and doesn't have any zooms, but all action is visible. Second half is filmed like normal. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBFqxr | ASKING $16 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL APRIL 17, 2025

I am also offering the two Great Gatsby videos as a bundle for 30 USD! If interested, please contact me at bikinibottomtrading@gmail.com!

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Ingram Braun

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Blitzturnier zum Semesteranfang

Semesteranfangsnlitz 2019 v. vorne: Michael Niggl – Martin Werner, Adrian Hoke – Vitali Maier, Gerhard Nolte – Hartwig Hake, Ansgar Kühn – Arnold Otten …

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A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord’s daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple’s money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman’s parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Joseph Donnelly: Tom Cruise Shannon Christie: Nicole Kidman Stephen Chase: Thomas Gibson Daniel Christie: Robert Prosky Nora Christie: Barbara Babcock Danty Duff: Cyril Cusack Mary Kay: Eileen Pollock Kelly: Colm Meaney Dermody: Douglas Gillison Grace: Michelle Johnson Bourke: Wayne Grace Joe Donnelly: Niall Tóibín Paddy Donnelly: Jared Harris Colm Donnelly: Steven O’Donnell McGuire: Barry McGovern Gordon: Gary Lee Davis Farmer: Peadar Lamb Peasant: Mark Mulholland Peasant: P.J. Brady Landlord: Wesley Murphy Priest: Jimmy Keogh Villager: J.G. Devlin Villager: Gerry Walsh Tavern Keeper: Brendan Cauldwell Peter: Derry Power Matthew: Noel O’Donovan John: Macdara Ó Fátharta Lady: Eileen Colgan Lady: Kate Flynn Lady: Joan O’Hara Map Vendor: Frankie McCafferty Hat Vendor: Poll Moussoulides Irish Vendor: Pat Kinevane Flag Vendor: Donncha Crowley Fruit Vendor: Tim McDonnell Thug: Todd Hallowell Thug: Ken McCluskey Rebel Leader: Brendan Ellis Flynn: Clint Howard Coniff: Jeffrey Andrews Glenna: Judith McIntyre Olive: Rynagh O’Grady Lamplighter: Martin Ewen Social Club Policeman: Brendan Gleeson Doctor: Frank Coughlan Crew Boss: Hoke Howell Old Man: Arnold Kuenning Immigrant: Rocco Sisto Immigrant: Michael Rudd Railworker: Donré Sampson Derelict: Harry Webster Officer: Mark Wheeler Tomlin: Rance Howard Blacksmith: William Preston Prostitute: Pauline McLynn Prostitute: Joanne McAteer Prostitute: Cara Wilder Prostitute: Aedin Moloney Piano Playing Prostitute: Helen Montague Boxer: John-Clay Scott Boxer: Clay M. Lilley Boxer: Cole S. McKay Boxer: James Jude Courtney Boxer: Jeff Ramsey Boxer: Anthony De Longis Boxer: Carl Ciarfalio Bigoted Man: Tim Monich Boston Maid: Alecia LaRue Turner: Ian Elliot Social Club Thug: Bobby Huber Social Club Woman: Julie Rowen Social Club Woman: Louisa Marie Henchman: Brian Munn Honest Bob: Bob Dolman I.M. Malone: Phillip V. Caruso Immigration Policeman: Tom Lucy Dancing Girl (uncredited): Kris Murphy Film Crew: Original Music Composer: John Williams Producer: Brian Grazer Costume Design: Joanna Johnston Producer: Ron Howard Editor: Daniel P. Hanley Editor: Mike Hill Animal Coordinator: Greg Powell Screenplay: Bob Dolman Stunts: Tony Brubaker Stunt Coordinator: Walter Scott Director of Photography: Mikael Salomon Stunts: Corey Michael Eubanks Stunts: Gary Powell Movie Reviews:

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The U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ 100 years ago. America and warfare were never the same.

By Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, April 3, 2017

At night when things were quiet in the “jaw ward,” the wounded doughboys would take out their small trench mirrors and survey the damage to their faces.

Noses had been shot off in the fighting at Saint-Mihiel. Chins were destroyed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Mouths had been torn apart in the battle of Belleau Wood.

It was 1918, and Clara Lewandoske, a 25-year-old Army nurse from Wisconsin, was caring for these cases in a Red Cross hospital in Paris. “They were wonderful boys,” she recalled, and rarely complained.

But at night, if she saw one with a mirror, she would go to his bedside and start chatting. “Get them off of the subject,” she said. “Invariably, you’d get them to sleep.”

In time, they got used to their injuries. “We all did,” she said. “It was just one of those things.”

Lewandoske and her “boys” were among the millions of Americans who served in World War I--soldiers, sailors, nurses; white, black and Latino--who were caught up in the cataclysm, which the United States entered 100 years ago on April 6.

Among them was an Army sergeant from Iowa named Arnold Hoke, who would one day become Clara’s husband.

Tens of thousands from their generation would perish on the battlefield--25,000 in one six-week period alone--and many thousands more would die of disease.

Others came home physically or emotionally broken.

This month, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National World War I Museum and Memorial, in Kansas City, are marking the anniversary with exhibits, lectures and commemorations.

World War I started in Europe in the summer of 1914, and ended on Nov. 11, 1918. The United States entered the conflict after France, Russia and Britain had battled Germany and its allies for almost three years.

And American might was brought to bear against Germany only in the closing months of the conflict, but just in time to help reverse the enemy’s huge, last-gasp offensive and end the war.

The United States, although badly divided, had been provoked to join the war by the sinking of neutral American ships by German submarines, and by a secret German deal to offer Mexico the states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if it joined the German cause.

The offer, outlined in the “Zimmerman telegram,” was sent in code by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman to the German ambassador in Mexico.

It was intercepted, hit the newspapers March 1, 1917, and created a national uproar.

Five weeks later, in a one-paragraph congressional resolution, the United States declared war.

In those days, it was called the “Great War,” or simply “the world war,” because no other like it was imaginable.

Along with staggering death tolls, it generated memorable literature, geopolitical upheaval, hope, disillusion, Hitler, the Russian Revolution, and the seeds of World War II.

For Americans, it provided, among other things, trench food called “corn willy,” the Selective Service System, the double-edged safety razor, and George M. Cohan’s anthem, “Over there.”

Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming The drums rum-tumming everywhere.

But over there, the Yanks would find nightmare landscapes scarred by trenches and shell holes, and “mud that swallowed men, machines and horses without a trace,” wrote historian David M. Kennedy.

There were horrific weapons like the flamethrower, the machine gun, and phosgene gas, and the bullet-swept region between the lines known as no man’s land.

It was “industrialized death,” as the late art critic Robert Hughes put it.

When the U.S. entered the struggle in 1917, the conflict already had claimed 5 million lives.

But the Yanks were game.

So prepare, Cohan’s lyrics went, say a prayer, Send the word, send the word to beware We’ll be over, we’re coming over And we won’t come back till it’s over, over there.

Sgt. Arnold S. Hoke and his men had just hauled a supply of rations and ammunition overnight to their comrades at the front, and by the time they arrived the food was cold and congealed in grease.

In the dark and the rain, he and his detail had gotten lost, and they had not found his company until after dawn.

But the famished soldiers gathered in a patch of woods in the Argonne Forest, in northeastern France, to devour the food anyhow.

“The men lined up, and they started to dish out this food to them,” Hoke remembered. “The captain told me to--he knew I’d been up all night--and he told me to go over there in the basement of this farmhouse and get a little sleep.”

Hoke, 25, was a veteran who had served on the Mexican border in 1916.

He had been honorably discharged and had reenlisted after the United States entered the war.

A native of Spaulding, Iowa, he was assigned to recruit local Iowa men for what became Company M of the Army’s 168th Infantry Regiment.

By mid-1918, he and his men already had been through a lot, he recalled in a tape recording he made on April 12, 1971, that is now part of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress.

Often, the soldiers would talk about what they would do when they got home, “all kinds of silly things,” Hoke said. He planned to go to the local drugstore and have a thick pineapple malt as soon as he got back.

One doughboy, a man he had recruited from Atlantic, Iowa, said he figured he would be wounded, lose a leg, and meet his comrades at the train station. “I’ll get back home before you guys,” he told his buddies.

He���d have a hollow artificial leg, fill it with whiskey, and pass it around so all the boys could have a drink.

As Hoke rested in the farmhouse that day, German artillery had zeroed in on the trees where his comrades were eating.

“They threw a salvo of shells into this woods,” he said. “And they caught our men all lined up waiting for their chow.”

Fifteen to 20 men were killed, and about 30 were wounded, he remembered, including the man from Atlantic.

One of his legs had been practically blown off, Hoke recalled, and was just hanging by a few ligaments. He was conscious as he lay on the ground, and didn’t seem to be in a lot of pain.

“You guys thought I was kidding,” Hoke remembered him saying. “I’ll meet you at the depot with that wooden leg full of bourbon.”

Hoke said the soldier was taken to a battlefield dressing station, where the damaged leg was amputated. But the man died in an ambulance en route to the rear.

“I apologize for a rather unpleasant war story,” Hoke said on the recording. “Let me assure you there’s nothing pleasant about war, in any shape or manner, and I just hope that nobody will ever see another one.”

The day after he got home from France, he went to the drugstore and got his pineapple malt.

Nurse Clara Lewandoske recalled only one night when she fell apart during the war.

It was in Paris’s Lycée Pasteur, a high school that had been made into a 2,400-bed hospital, during a period of heavy fighting, when the wounded and sick soldiers would come pouring in from the front.

Some of the cases were horrific.

She once found a soldier who had wandered from his bed.

“It was a gorgeous moonlit night,” she recalled. “I came out in the hall. Here was this patient sitting in the doorway. He had taken his bandage off, and it looked like half of his head was gone. It was a horrible sight. It shook me more than anything else in the whole war.”

“We got him back to bed, and he died before morning,” she said.

Lewandoske had 36 patients in four wards to care for. At night, she and other nurses walked the corridors with lanterns shrouded with denim, to guard against air raids, she recalled.

They often worked on patients by candlelight.

One night it got to be too much.

“I was a pretty calm individual,” she said. She had been orphaned at 9 and raised by the family of a local minister. Back home, she had once assisted at a surgery done on a dining room table.

But during an awful night in the hospital, with soldiers crying out from all over, “I did cave in,” she said. “I got hysterical.… We just couldn’t get around to everything. We had hemorrhages … [and] a lot of sick boys.”

It was heartbreaking. “We were mother and sister and home to them,” she said.

On Nov. 11, 1918, the war ended with an armistice. She happened to be in downtown Paris when word came.

“All hell broke loose,” she recalled. “It was a terrific thing. You didn’t know whether you’d survive to or not.… It was just the wildest time.”

American nurses were hugged and serenaded, she said. “We saw our chief nurse … she was quite old, and they had her on a cannon, pulling her down through the main streets of Paris.”

Clara and Arnold came home from the war in 1919.

In September 1921, she was a delegate to the American Legion convention in Kansas City. Also in attendance was Arnold. They met and fell in love. They were married Nov. 22, 1922, lived through the Depression, and raised two children.

Arnold died July 30, 1971, four months after they recorded their memories. He was 78. Clara died June 27, 1984, at the age of 91. According to granddaughter Patricia Munson-Siter, they are buried side by side in the military section of Greenwood Memorial Park, in San Diego.

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1918 Nurse Clara Lewandoska of Wisconsin married her former patient Arnold Hoke, an army sergeant from Iowa. From History Bites, FB.

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Radix Dance Convention, Biloxi, MS: RESULTS

High Score by Age:

Rookie Solo

1st: Haddie Templet-’Do What I Do’

2nd: Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes-’Tommie Milazzo’

3rd: Annie Cardwell-’Yes I Can’

4th: Rose Ramirez-’Into the Unknown’

4th: Lily-Kate Nance-’Lost Boy’

5th: Louise Cole-Dream’

6th: Yumi Zhu-’Grow’

6th: Maddie El-Amin-’I Will Survive’

6th: Averie Mangipano-’Little Egypt’

6th: Sloane Harris-’Never Enough’

7th: Monroe Watson-’Rubbernecking’

8th: Amelia Abshire-’Jazz Baby’

9th: Emma Doles-’Shake Senora’

9th: Caroline Henry-’Together’

10th: Landry Waltman-’Dream Is A Wish’

10th: Adair Poche-’Rainbow’

10th: Lily McArthur-’Took The Night’

Mini Solo

1st: Carrigan Paylor-’It Is Time’

2nd: Allie Plott-’The Path’

3rd: Brynlee Fitzgerald-’Can’t Get It Out’

3rd: AnaKate Danner-’Unleashed’

4th: Paislyn Schroeder-’Defeated’

4th: Janiya Ortiz-’Destined’

5th: Aurora Brady-’Hit The Road Jack’

5th: Ella Grace Tice-’Quiet’

6th: Natalie Gerami-’Evil Twin’

6th: Ave Grace Merritt-’Love Me’

7th: Camille Foreman-’Boogie Woogie’

7th: Adelaide Faust-’Get Up’

7th: Scarlett Kay Forbes-’The Other’

7th: Lillian Kate-Spring-’This Year’s Love’

8th: Kensley Kling-’Gorgeous’

8th: Isabella McClinton-’Waves of Grey’

8th: Laurel Leathers-’Your Song’

9th: Evelin Paterson-’Able To Love’

9th: Henley Thomas-’Mine’

9th: Melody Thiel-’Rotton to the Core’

10th: Khloe Kramer-’Giants’

10th: Emma Bolton-’Girls Night Out’

10th: Mackenzie Miller-’Ran’

Junior Solo

1st: Gracyn French-’Covergirl’

2nd: Henley Thomas-’Mine’

3rd: Aaliyah Dixon-’Icon’

3rd: Emme James Anderson-’Resume’

3rd: Stella Winker-’Takt’

4th: Stella Vince-’Steep Turns’

4th: Ryleigh Jane Touchstone-’This is Real’

5th: Campbell Clark-’Blah Blah Cha Cha Cha’

5th: McKinley Cantwell-’Shifting Forward’

6th: Elaina Arnold-’He’s Not On His Knees Yet’

6th: Kynadi Crain-’So Close, So Far’

7th: Ari Rametta-’Now or Ever’

7th: Ava Grace Gallagher-’The Greatest’

8th: Caitlyn Holden-’Almost Fell’

8th: Lydia Smith-’My Heart Without’

9th: Mia Narvaez-’Destinations’

10th: Ansley Harris-’Absence of Time’

Teen Solo

1st: Brady Farrar-’The Apology’

2nd: Georgia Greene-’Alpha and Omega’

2nd: Brooklyn Law-’Super Organism’

3rd: Kenzie Jones-’Flightless Bird’

3rd: Avery Pesson-’Make Me Cry’

3rd: Mariella Saunders-’Until We Break’

4th: Emma Branch-’At Last’

4th: Taylor Hoke-’I Hate Men’

4th: Isabella Ferrara-’The Choir’

5th: Izzy Howard-’Medicina’

5th: Annamarie Messina-’Bitterly’

5th: Anna Claire Scott-’C’est Si Bon’

5th: Hali Jones-’See Me Now’

6th: Vianney Narvaez-’Sin In Your Skin’

6th: Abby Resch-’Submerging’

7th: Ava Hales-’Stop’

7th: Cydney Heard-’Summer Wine’

7th: Sami Sonder-’The Practice of Surrender’

8th: Ashlyn Palmer-’Mud’

9th: Rianna Weck-’Sensory Overload’

10th: Courtney O’Bryant-’When You Loved Me’

Senior Solo

1st: Charlee Fagan-’Valace’?

2nd: Samantha ?-’Then I Heard a Bachelor’s Cry’

3rd: Camryn Guarino-’Shout’

4th: Ariel Banfalvy-’Adios’

5th: Izzy Burton-’The Space Between Hope and Despair’

6th: Hayden Folse-’Blades’

7th: Wysdem Caesar-’Blades’

8th: Cameron Claire Rhodes-’The Last Event’

9th: Alex Hutchinson-’Perm’

10th: Meredith Link-’Chapters End’

Rookie Duo/Trio

1st: Elite Dance-’Bippity Boppity Boo’

2nd: DKG-’Fabulous’

2nd: DanceSouth-’Funky Monkey’

3rd: DanceSouth-’Boom’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: DKG-’Before I Go’

2nd: Machita Dance Company-’Let’s Do It’

3rd: Elite Dance-’Aye Carumba’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: The Dance Centre-’Us’

2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Love Changes Everything’

3rd: Revolution Dance Company-’The Ritz’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Make Me High’

2nd: Machita Dance Company-’Magnets’

2nd: DanceSouth-’Swim Good’

3rd: Main Street Dance-’Destinations’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: DKG-’Julia’

2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Wild Love’

3rd: HD Dance Academy-’And The Birds Sing’

Rookie Group

1st: Machita Dance Company-’Land of 1000 Dances’

Mini Group

1st: Cypress Dance Project-’Pause’

2nd: The Dance Centre-’You’ll Be Back’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Lean On Me’

3rd: Machita Dance Company-’Shake’

Junior Group

1st: Cypress Dance Project-’Vogue’

2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Unraveling’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Power Within’

Teen Group

1st: The Movement Dance Academy-’Vibeology’

2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Never Again’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Fire Away’

Senior Group

1st: DKG-’Holy’

Rookie Line

1st: The Movement Dance Academy-’Crazy In Love’

Mini Line

1st: The Dance Centre-’Jindigo’

2nd: DKG-’Lagoon’

3rd: The Dance Centre-’Perfect Way’

Junior Line

1st: The Dance Centre-’Jagged Roots’

2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Cool Off’

2nd: The Dance Centre-’Heroes’

2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’War Child’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy- ‘Mean Girls’

Teen Line

1st: The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

2nd: Elite Dance-’Xtina’

3rd: Elite Dance-’Unimaginable’

Rookie Extended Line

1st: Elite Dance-’Villains’

Mini Extended Line

1st: DKG-’It’s A Party’

2nd: Elite Dance-’At The Playground’

Junior Extended Line

1st: The Dance Centre-’Shook’

Teen Extended Line

1st: The Dance Centre-’Scorned’

2nd: The Dance Centre-’Blinded By the Light’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Call The Law’

3rd: The Dance Centre-’Meet The Plastics’

Mini Production

1st: DKG-’Invisible’

Junior Production

1st: The Dance Centre-’The Tina Turner Review’

Teen Production

1st: Machita Dance Company-’Little Swing’

2nd: The Dance Centre-’Welcome To the Moulin Rouge!’

High Score by Performance Division:

Rookie Jazz

Machita Dance Company-’Land of 1000 Dances’

Mini Musical Theatre

The Dance Centre-’You’ll Be Back’

Mini Lyrical

The Dance Centre-’Perfect Way’

Mini Jazz

The Dance Centre-’Jindigo’

Mini Specialty

Cypress Dance Project-’Pause’

Mini Hip-Hop

DKG-’It’s A Party’

Mini Ballet

The Dance Centre-’Rodeo’

Mini Contemporary

DKG-’Lagoon’

Junior Jazz

Cypress Dance Project-’Vogue’

Junior Lyrical

The Dance Centre-’Storm Coming’

Junior Contemporary

The Movement Dance Academy-’Unraveling’

Junior Specialty

Elite Dance-’The Garden’

Junior Musical Theatre

The Movement Dance Academy- ‘Mean Girls’

Junior Ballet

The Dance Centre-’Woodland Fairies’

Junior Hip-Hop

The Movement Dance Academy-’Cool Off’

Teen Lyrical

The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

Teen Hip-Hop

The Dance Centre-’Meet The Plastics’

Teen Contemporary

The Dance Centre-’Scorned’

Teen Jazz

The Movement Dance Academy-’Vibeology’

Teen Musical Theatre

The Dance Centre-’Welcome To the Moulin Rouge!’ 

The Movement Dance Academy-’Too Darn Hot’

Teen Tap

The Dance Centre-’Blinded By the Light’

Teen Ballet

The Dance Centre-’Tabula Rasa’

Senior Contemporary

DKG-’Holy’

Best of Radix:

Rookie

The Movement Dance Academy-’Crazy In Love’

Machita Dance Company-’Land of 1000 Dances’

Elite Dance-’Villains’

Mini

The Dance Centre-’Jindigo’

DKG-’Lagoon’

Cypress Dance Project-’Pause’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Lean On Me’

Elite Dance-’At The Playground’

Machita Dance Company-’Shake’

Junior

Cypress Dance Project-’Vogue’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Unraveling’

The Dance Centre-’Jagged Roots’

Teen

Machita Dance Company-’Little Swing’

The Dance Centre-’Scorned’

Elite Dance-’Xtina’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

Senior

DKG-’Holy’

Studio Standout:

Machita Dance Company-’Little Swing’

Elite Dance-’Xtina’

DKG-’Lagoon’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

The Dance Centre-’Scorned’

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Released in 1946, “It’s a Wonderful Life” still captures the hearts of new viewers seven decades later — a testament to its quality, even though it was a box office failure at the time of its debut. Perhaps it’s because it’s such a wonderful metaphor for your power to change the world that it has stood the test of time. It’s one of my personal all-time favorites.

In the film, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls. But come one Christmas Eve, he is dismayed and suicidal over a misplaced bank deposit and the plotting of the evil millionaire, Mr. Henry Potter, who wants to take over the town.

Just when George’s spirit is about to be broken, his guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth and shows him how his town, family and friends would’ve turned out had he never been born. At the time, in 1946, Time magazine declared the film was “possibly the best movie of the year,” noting it was the “skilled balance of fantasy, sentimentality and quality” that made the film stand out above the crowd.1

“In unskilled hands, this moral fable might have been dully preachy,” the reviewer said. “Director Capra’s inventiveness, humor and affection for human beings keep it glowing with life and excitement. Stewart’s warm-hearted playing of what might have been a goody-goody role is a constant delight. And if director Capra’s Christmas-cheer ending is slightly hoked up to make it richer and happier than life, that is the way many a good fable ends.”

Despite glowing reviews, the film failed to recoup the $2.3 million spent on the production. Some have suggested it might have been too “dark” for the 1946 postwar holiday season. The film didn’t become a Christmas classic until the 1970s, after its copyright had expired and it began being aired on television on Christmas Eve.

The ending to this movie, if any of you still haven’t seen it, will bring tears to your eyes and remind you of how many lives YOU touch every day. So, this holiday season, I want to thank you for your loyalty and support, and wish you peace, joy and health on this special day. I’d like to leave you with one final thought — an idea for what to gift those on your Holiday shopping list, as quoted by novelist Oren Arnold. The best part? These gifts don’t come from a store and they keep on giving all year long.

“Christmas Gift Suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To a friend, your heart.

To a customer, service.

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect.”

Merry Christmas!

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Love Letters: Dear Thomas Mitchell

“I didn’t know I was that good” —what you said upon accepting your Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Stagecoach (1939)

Dear Tom, or Dear Kid Dabb (Only Angels Have Wings, 1939) …Diz Moore (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939) …Doc Boone (Stagecoach, 1939) …Clopin (Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939) …Gerald O’Hara (GWTW, 1939) …and all the other unforgettable characters you wore as comfortably as an old cardigan,

For such a celebrated actor, there sure isn’t much ink on you.

I mean, researching you has been somewhat frustrating. Born in New Jersey in 1892, to Irish parents, with both your father and brother in the newspaper game, which you tried for a bit before ditching it for the theatuh. You were a Republican, apparently, though you don’t seem to have made much noise about it. You were an avid art collector. Otherwise, all I’ve found: obits, your Wiki, your entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Film, a YouTube of your appearance on a short-lived ’50s show (The Name’s the Same), a conversation with Gene Fowler in the last chapter of his book Minutes of the Last Meeting, his rumination on The Bundy Drive Gang, the hard-drinking circle of friends that included John Barrymore, W. C. Fields, John Carridine, and yes, you—though I perused the book in vain looking for you in some of the outrageous doings Fowler recalls so lovingly. These last two, along with an informative blog post at Immortal Ephemera, with your charmingly self-effacing line when you claimed your Oscar, provide about the only glimpses available of you as yourself.

The rest is your acting, and I gotta say, though I suspect you know, what both Academies (for film, and for television—the guys who present the Emmy Awards), the American Theatre Wing (who gave you your Tony in 1953, making you the first triple crown winner: Oscar, Emmy, Tony), along with directors including Howard Hawks, John Ford, George Cukor, Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and the Who’s Who of actors you shared the screen with, know so well, so inarguably, that it’s just a fact: You were character actor royalty, one of the titans among names below the title. And you graced some of the very best movies Hollywood produced between 1937 and 1947. And while your movies aren’t all classics, a remarkable number of them are, a point demonstrated most impressively with your credit list from 1939, which includes five of that banner year’s greatest: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gone with the Wind, and Stagecoach. When people rhapsodize over the remarkable list of great movies from the year widely considered Hollywood’s greatest, you cut a wide swathe with some of the most memorable performances in some of the best movies ever made.

Doc Boone, cheroot clamped firmly, hanging onto the whisky sample case for dear life.

“I didn’t know I was that good” could be false modesty, but I believe it.

Your acting is unmannered and unfussy. It reminds me of what Anthony Hopkins said Katharine Hepburn told him when they were shooting The Lion in Winter—don’t act your lines, just speak them. If you know what you’re feeling and thinking, it will come through. No need to hoke it up.

After shooting Hunchback, you spoke of Laughton with great admiration. It must have been remarkable to witness him create that heartrending role by, per Laughton biographer Simon Callow, intensifying his own physical and mental suffering almost beyond endurance. Your own approach to acting appears radically different, or at least it produced a strikingly different effect. How did you work, Tom? How did you speak so simply and clearly from inside all those disparate characters, as if you were just being yourself?

Or maybe it’s all an act, and you’re just a common actor, mostly ego and vanity. You could pull it off. I’ve been rewatching some of your movies recently—specifically the five 1939 blockbusters, and I failed to find a single instant when you blink, when your mask slips.

Great acting is so mysterious, to me at least. To you, it’s probably not. Talent looks mysterious to those who ain’t got it. Maybe to you, the process of fully becoming someone else, someone whose presence has a totally different quality from your own, is a process of the most prosaic sort.

All I know is, it was so interesting to see you on The Name’s the Same, in 1954. In that few minutes, in which Robert Q. Lewis leads a panel including Arnold Stang and former Miss America Bess Myerson as they try to guess what you would like to do. They fail, because your wish was “to do nothing.” Watching you answer their questions, amiably and intelligently, gave me even more respect for the transformation you effect when you act, because your entire presence as Tom Mitchell was so very different from any of your roles.

You memorably played drunks, at least two of them doctors (in The Hurricane and Stagecoach), and your membership in good standing in the Bundy Drive Gang suggests that you at least enjoyed the company of hard drinkers, which almost certainly means you could enjoy the occasional binge yourself. But it would fall upon you to regale me with your misadventures in that celebrated liver-destroying brotherhood, because your own personal life is a black box—no arrests, no fights, none of the chaos or medical problems that mark the lives of alcoholic movie folk, who often ended up in the newspapers despite the best attempts of the studios’ publicity departments.

But watching you as Doc Boone in Stagecoach, happily and methodically drinking your way through Mr. Peacock the whisky drummer’s sample case as he repeatedly tries, ineffectually, to reclaim it, then your expression and kindly response when you are rebuked for smoking and sickening the pregnant Mrs. Mallory…. You play Boone’s drinking for laughs, as was the custom of the era, but Doc Boone is hardly a clown. He is an iconoclast, a reproach to convention and the judgment and rejection of the respectable. He’s sort of a conduit between the respectable and shady characters. Doc is unapologetically self-destructive and committed to drinking, but we see nothing morbid about it. He’s not killing himself out of some poorly concealed self-loathing. He is, he cheerfully tells his traveling companions, a fatalist, and he knows eventually some bullet or bottle will have his name on it. Being a Civil War veteran, he long ago faced his mortality. Doc Boone is philosophical; he rejects society’s judgment of him as a drunken failure, and when Mrs. Mallory goes into labor, he pulls himself together and  delivers her baby. This gives him evident satisfaction, and he immediately rewards himself. With a drink.

As Doc Boone, you are the most self-aware of the stagecoach’s passengers. In Stagecoach, respectability is window dressing for hypocrisy or, in one character’s case, outright criminality. The banker/embezzler, Gatewood, is a dreadful blowhard, bloviating his obnoxious grievances at top volume, too wrapped up in his tirade to see how his shouting is increasing Mrs. Mallory’s distress. Gatewood is perpetually outraged, always feels hard done by. He berates their army escort for following orders and leaving to deal with Apache attacks, and treats Dallas, the prostitute (Claire Trevor), as though she is beneath contempt (note: Gatewood’s wife is the leader of the citizens’ committee that forced Dallas and Doc Boone out of town). A couple of the other passengers treat Dallas like dirt, too. But we know Gatewood is a crook who hides behind his position, and that his wife’s civic group supports the cruelty of respectable society.

In a 1921 production of Synge’s Playboy of the Western World

When Dallas falls in love with the Ringo Kid (John Wayne, sigh), it’s you she turns to for advice. There’s something about you that makes you that guy, the one women trust with their most delicate problems. Jean Arthur confides in you in both Only Angels Have Wings and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. In the first, she starts out as your competitor for Cary Grant’s attention but you end up becoming allies who both love him, and in the second, you’re in love with her, but when she falls for her un-wised-up boss, you support her all the way.

You often play deeply flawed characters, but you never reduce them to their flaws. I’m increasingly aware of a shared quality among some of my favorite actors: humanism. You give us whole human beings, messy but with some divine spark of inner life. We rarely know their backstory, but you somehow offer these characters to us without obscuring either their weaknesses or their beautiful qualities—courage, intelligence, kindness, compassion. Even in weakness or downright impotence, they often see underlying, painful realities that elude most of us. Seeing the truth can be a terrible burden, and it’s possible that Doc Boone and Dr. Kersaint, in The Hurricane, may drink partly to lighten that burden.

I don’t care about space travel, but time travel is something else—that I would do in a heartbeat, given a guaranteed safe return to my own time. Watching old movies is my preferred form of time travel. But alas, I cannot make my way back to Broadway to see you onstage. If I could, I’d buy a ticket to see you as Willy Loman in the 1949 national touring company of Death of a Salesman, in which you replaced Lee J. Cobb. What would you do with such an unsympathetic character? How did your compassion express itself in Willy? I just found your performance (audio only), along with Mildred Dunnock and Arthur Kennedy and the rest of the original cast, at the Internet Archive. So at least I’ve now heard your Loman, as close as I’ll ever get to seeing you in a play.

Shortly before you left us in 1962, you premiered the character Columbo onstage. Of course a few years later, Peter Falk would make Columbo his signature TV role. I’d love to see your version, though. And I’d love to see you in Hazel Flagg, the 1953 Broadway musical version of Nothing Sacred, William Wellman’s 1937 comedy. It would be wonderful to travel even further back, to 1913, to see you learning your craft as a young actor in Charles Coburn’s Shakespearean troupe. And also the plays you wrote, and it would be fascinating to see you direct.

In his Tony-winning turn in Hazel Flagg (1953), Jule Styne’s adaptation of Nothing Sacred (1937)

If we could sit down for a couple of cocktails, and you felt comfortable talking about personal stuff, I’d love to hear about your marriages—the two long ones to the same woman, Susan, separated by a rather brief one after the first divorce. She and your only child, daughter Anne M. Lange, were at your side when you left this world at your Beverly Hills home from cancer, aged 70, just two days after Laughton had succumbed to the same disease. I’d like to hear about your farm in Oregon, the one you described when you visited a Washington state navy hospital in 1944 (from the hospital’s newspaper, also at the Internet Archive). That article says you were best friends with Laughton. Is that true?

And I would say, as I signaled the bartender for two more of the same, You’re a writer. How come you didn’t write a memoir? Your career has been so interesting, and 56 years after your death, thanks to TCM, we’re still loving your work. You were a witness and participant in a huge chunk of Hollywood history, not to mention your long career on the stage and a shorter but vibrant one in television—but there is no full-length biography. And it’s your voice I want to hear.

I want to read your thoughts and observations. Not just about yourself, but all the people you worked with, your experiences making the films (my favorite!), and whatever of your personal life you felt comfortable sharing. How did you end up married three times, for a scant two years, sandwiched between two 20-year marriages to Susan, who was with you when you passed?

You wrote plays and screenplays, so you certainly could have written a memoir, and I bet it would have been a doozy. Oh, the stories you could tell, about making some of the most beloved movies of all time. Your recollections of Laughton, Cary Grant, Vivien Leigh, Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, John Wayne, Gregg Toland, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter—oh yes, another doctor in your gallery is Doc Gibbs in Our Town (1940), with Bainter as Mrs. Gibbs. And the tales of your early career with Coburn’s Shakespeare company, and your stories of the Bundy Drive Gang….

As Diz Moore in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, showing up wet-behind-the-ears Senator Jeff Smith

Were you just so busy, what with movies, theater, and television, that you could luxuriate in a fantasy (“doing nothing”) that most actors could only envy? Maybe as a writer you knew how much work it would be, how much of your time it would consume, and it was only worth doing if you did it right. And maybe you preferred to let your work speak for you.

Seriously, Tom, why didn’t you write a memoir?

You gaze for a moment into your glass, that little smile playing across your face, that familiar mischievous glint in your eye, then you say you’re just an actor, and living life is so much more interesting than writing about it. Then you take a sip and start telling me about your art collection. And I am riveted.

This post was written for the 2018 edition of the What a Character! blogathon, hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula’s Cinema Club. There’s lots of great posts, so get on over and start reading.

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Merry Christmas to You and Yours From Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola Christmas Day is a time for family, friends and others who have touched our lives deeply. On this day, I hope you are sharing in the joy of the season with loved ones, and I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for subscribers like you, who help, support and share our vision for a naturally healthier, happier world, every day of the year. Mercola.com seeks to be your trusted source of reliable and accurate health information, supported by the best available science. But it is only because of you, our family of subscribers, that our influence has spread not only in the United States, but in other countries as well — now translated into nine languages and serving some 12.25 million unique visitors each month. It is my sincere hope that, with our continuous service, you will stay motivated to take control of your health, and help others do the same. It's a sad fact that medical and health truth can take years, and frequently decades, before gaining widespread recognition. By shedding light on important findings, I aim to give you a significant head start, and to arm you with the information you need to avoid becoming yet another tragic statistic. With every article you read here, you build your knowledge base of how to address the roots of disease before it even starts. Within your own sphere of influence, you have the power to help others preserve and enhance their health by sharing these health tips, and we know that many of you eagerly do. Enjoy One of My All-Time Favorite Movies: 'It's a Wonderful Life' Released in 1946, "It's a Wonderful Life" still captures the hearts of new viewers seven decades later — a testament to its quality, even though it was a box office failure at the time of its debut. Perhaps it's because it's such a wonderful metaphor for your power to change the world that it has stood the test of time. It's one of my personal all-time favorites. In the film, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls. But come one Christmas Eve, he is dismayed and suicidal over a misplaced bank deposit and the plotting of the evil millionaire, Mr. Henry Potter, who wants to take over the town. Just when George's spirit is about to be broken, his guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth and shows him how his town, family and friends would've turned out had he never been born. At the time, in 1946, Time magazine declared the film was "possibly the best movie of the year," noting it was the "skilled balance of fantasy, sentimentality and quality" that made the film stand out above the crowd.1 "In unskilled hands, this moral fable might have been dully preachy," the reviewer said. "Director Capra's inventiveness, humor and affection for human beings keep it glowing with life and excitement. Stewart's warm-hearted playing of what might have been a goody-goody role is a constant delight. And if director Capra's Christmas-cheer ending is slightly hoked up to make it richer and happier than life, that is the way many a good fable ends." Despite glowing reviews, the film failed to recoup the $2.3 million spent on the production. Some have suggested it might have been too "dark" for the 1946 postwar holiday season. The film didn't become a Christmas classic until the 1970s, after its copyright had expired and it began being aired on television on Christmas Eve. The ending to this movie, if any of you still haven't seen it, will bring tears to your eyes and remind you of how many lives YOU touch every day. So, this Christmas, I want to thank you for your loyalty and support, and wish you peace, joy and health on this special day. I'd like to leave you with one final thought — an idea for what to gift those on your Christmas list, as quoted by novelist Oren Arnold. The best part? These gifts don't come from a store and they keep on giving all year long. "Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." Merry Christmas! >>>>> Click here to expand <<<<< >>>>> Click here to expand <<<<

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1. Turnier des 2. Herbst-Grand-Prix im Schnellschach

Am Donnerstag begann des erste Turnier der zweiten Serie des Schnellschach-Kerbst-Grand-Prix, mit dem wir die Zeit vom Ende der Sommerferien bis zum Beginn der Mannschaftskämpfe überbrücken wollen. 23 Spieler stellten sich der Herausforderung. Das erste Turnier gewann Titelverteidiger und Favorit Johannes Karthäuser vor Ingram Braun, weil er das direkte Duell etwas glücklich gewann. Erfreulicherweise bekamen wir auch wieder neue Gesichter zu sehen. Der vereinslose Felix Linn gelangte sogar in die Punkteränge. Bravo! Das macht doch ust auf mehr. In zwei Wochen geht es weiter. RangTeilnehmerTWZVerein/Ort12345PunkteBuchhSoBer1.Karthäuser,Johannes2149ESV Göttingen5s115w114s12w14s15.015.015.002.Braun,Ingram2056ESV Göttingen21s16w18s11s07w14.015.510.503.Voelkel,Tobias1906ESV Göttingen12w½9s14w½10s16w14.015.012.004.Mörke,Niklas1801SC Bad Salzdetfurth18s113w13s½14w11w03.515.08.005.Heynck,Lukas1700ESV Göttingen1w017s120w½12s113w13.513.07.256.Schano,André1810Hildesheimer SV20w12s011w18w13s03.015.07.007.Hoke,Adrian1769ESV Göttingen9w½12s113w½15s12s03.014.07.258.Friedhoff,Kai1828ESV Göttingen17w110s12w06s019w13.013.56.509.Linn,Felixvereinslos7s½3w021s½16w115w13.012.56.2510.Schulz,Michael1754ESV Göttingen11s18w022s13w014s13.012.05.0011.Ohme,Jonavereinslos10w0+6s018w120s13.010.54.5012.Otten,Arnold,Prof. Dr.1512ESV Göttingen3s½7w016s15w021s12.514.05.5013.Nolte,Gerhard2127ESV Göttingen19w14s07s½20w15s02.513.55.0014.Hoke,Joshua1830ESV Göttingen16s122w11w04s010w02.014.02.5015.Buchholz,Stephan1827ESV Göttingen23s11s019w17w09s02.013.52.5016.Babenko,Ivan1500vereinslos14w018s112w09s023w12.09.52.0017.Drost,Siegfried1186ESV Göttingen8s05w023s121w0+2.09.51.5017.Simon-Fabricius,StellaESV Göttingen4w016w0+11s022s12.09.51.5019.Opfermann,Malte1673ESV Göttingen13s023w115s022w18s02.08.51.0020.von Ivernois,JuliusESV Göttingen6s021w15s½13s011w01.513.03.2521.Homann,Christoph1620ESV Göttingen2w020s09w½17s112w01.512.53.0022.van Sponsen,Jakobvereinslos+14s010w019s018w01.010.52.0023.Babenko,Volodymyr1000vereinslos15w019s017w0+16s01.08.00.50 SpielerTurnier 2Turnier 3Turnier 4GesamtKarthäuser   10Braun   9Voelkel   8Mörke   7Heynck   6Schano   5A.Hoke   4Friedhoff   3Linn   2Schulz   1    0

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#Repost @deptvetaffairs (@get_repost) ・・・ Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Arnold Stephen Hoke. After serving in the Iowa National Guard, Arnold joined the US Army in 1917. Arnold served three enlistments with the Iowa National Guard and the U.S. Army from 1917 – 1922. He served with the 42nd Infantry Division. His stations of duty included Creston, Iowa; Mexican border; France; Germany; Texas. Like so many others, Arnold was thrust into trench warfare in France with little knowledge of what to expect, and initially without a weapon. He saw every major battle that the Army participated in during WWI, and his straightforward descriptions of the trenches, and the men lost, and the randomness of who lived and who died, are a timely reminder of the true cost of war. We honor his service.

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Ball State is the MAC’s most MAC team. Is that good or bad for 2017?

Let’s find out!

In 1929, sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd published Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, an enduring work that was designed to study your average small American city over a long period. They chose Muncie, Indiana.

This made sense for any number of economic or demographic reasons. It also shows writers’ inclinations toward looking at the Midwest as “real” America isn’t a recent construct.

It’s also kind of funny to think about because if you were looking to study the most run-of-the-mill MAC football program, you would look toward the one housed in Muncie.

Ball State fits every MAC personality trait you can think of.

Losing successful coaches to Big Ten jobs? Check. Dave McClain went 26-7 from 1975-77 (BSU’s first three years in the MAC) and won a conference title, then got plucked by Wisconsin. And in roundabout ways, Bill Lynch (to Indiana via DePauw) and Brady Hoke (to Michigan via San Diego State) used Muncie as a Big Ten prep course.

Semi-drastic ups and downs? Yep. You can rise or fall quickly in this conference, and in the last decade, Ball State has gone from 12-2 in 2008 to 2-10 in 2009 and from 10-3 in 2013 to 3-9 in 2015. In the 1990s, the Cardinals both went to two Last Vegas Bowls and finished 1-10 or worse twice.

An offense much further along than the defense? Oh yes. Over the last 10 years, Ball State has ranked 65th or better in Off. S&P+ six times, peaking at 19th in 2012. In that same time frame, the Cardinals have not ranked better than 83rd in Def. S&P+. They haven’t cracked even the top 100 since 2013.

In 42 years at the FBS level, Ball State has won zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 12 games in a season at least once each. A long-term study of the Cardinals is a long-term study of MAC existence.

But despite what we might call a normal MAC life, it’s not like the school has a set type of coach. Far from it.

McClain (1971-77) was a Woody Hayes disciple.

Dwight Wallace (1978-84) was a career offense guy and had spent four years as a Colorado assistant.

Paul Schudel (1985-94) was a Bo Schembechler disciple.

Lynch (1995-2002) was a small-school head coach at Butler.

Hoke (2003-08) was a Ball State alum and longtime Michigan assistant.

Stan Parrish (2009-10) was a coaching lifer with head coaching gigs at Wabash, Marshall, and Kansas State.

Pete Lembo (2011-15) had spent his previous 10 years as head coach at Lehigh and Elon.

BSU has alternated between Typical MAC Profile (i.e. guy with Ohio State or Michigan ties) and wildcards. And in replacing Lembo with Neu, the school leaned heavily into the latter.

As Ball State quarterback, Neu was the MAC’s offensive player of the year in 1993. He played in the CFL (Calgary Stampeders) and Arena League (Orlando Predators, Nashville Kats). By 1999, he was Nashville’s offensive coordinator, and by 2004 he was head coach of the AFL’s New Orleans VooDoo. When the team was shuttered, he joined the Saints as an assistant and spent a couple of years as Tulane’s QBs coach.

Professional playing experience? Professional head coaching experience? Recent college coaching experience? Neu crafted a unique résumé off of the normal grid. And in 2016, he showed significant promise.

2016 in review

2016 Ball State statistical profile.

Lembo’s last couple of BSU teams lost their way. The Cardinals won 19 games in 2012-13 with an extreme efficiency offense, and when the offense lost some difference-makers and stumbled, the defense had no chance of picking up slack. They won just eight games in 2014-15, and Lembo left for a Maryland assistant position.

Under Neu, the defense wasn’t suddenly great, but it was better; the Cardinals improved from 116th to 101st in Def. S&P+. The offense, meanwhile, began to show signs of peak Lembo-era efficiency.

Granted, this wasn’t enough to spark a surge in the win column. A combination of tight losses and a late-year defensive collapse made sure of that.

First 7 games (4-3) — Avg. score: BSU 28, Opp 24 | Avg. percentile performance: 46% (~top 70) | Avg. yards per play: Opp 5.8, BSU 5.5

Last 5 games (0-5) — Avg. score: Opp 39, BSU 25 | Avg. percentile performance: 31% (~top 90) | Avg. yards per play: Opp 7.1, BSU 5.8

The run defense began allowing about a yard more per carry, and the pass defense collapsed; over the last five games, the Cardinals allowed a 155.4 passer rating. There doesn’t seem to have been a single injury that was a catalyst for collapse, but the Cardinals’ inability to get off the field on passing downs might have had a cumulative effect. And while the offense remained sound, it couldn’t raise its game enough to keep up.

Still, the improvement was obvious, even if it trailed off. It was something to build on, though the Cardinals have to replace just enough to make you wonder how much more can be expected in year two.

Offense

Full advanced stats glossary.

In 2012, the Cardinals ranked 19th in Off. S&P+ thanks to monstrous efficiency. Keith Wenning completed 65 percent of his passes and averaged just 10.3 yards per completion. Jahwan Edwards and Horactio Banks averaged 5.8 yards per carry but with few huge, explosive runs. BSU just picked you apart, five to seven yards at a time.

It was hard to stand out offensively in the MAC in 2016. Eight of 12 offenses averaged between 1.24 and 1.35 IsoPPP (isolated points per successful play), and eight had a success rate between 36 and 43 percent. The range was tight.

BSU had the third-best success rate in the conference and by far the worst explosiveness. The Cardinals had a reasonably healthy 102 passes of 10-plus yards (82nd in FBS), but only 11 gained 30-plus (119th). Of the five players who caught more than 15 passes in 2016, none averaged more than 11.4 yards per catch, and three averaged under 10.

Four are back, though. So is quarterback Riley Neal. The junior has already started for most of two years, and after an inefficient start, he completed 63 percent over the last nine games of the season. Interceptions were an issue; after throwing only six in 2015, he doubled that. Still, the 6’6, 220-pound Neal can run (on about 10 non-sack carries per game, he averaged 6.1 yards per carry), and the efficiency potential is obvious.

Plus, he has his best possession man back in Corey Lacanaria. The 5’8 senior caught 79 percent of the passes thrown his way last year, albeit at only 10.3 yards per catch.

Still, the Cardinals have turnover in the receiving corps. KeVonn Mabon graduated after catching 304 balls in his career, and sophomore-to-be Damon Hazelton Jr. elected to transfer. That leaves Lacanaria, senior Jordan Hogue, and junior Devin Reece as the only returning wideouts to catch a pass.

Reinforcements could be on the way, but they’re young. Sophomore tight ends Danny Pinter and Kyle Schrank could feature, as could a pair of redshirt freshman tight ends, Nolan Givan (a former 247Sports Composite three-star) and Dylan Koch. Lord knows tight ends can be palatable weapons in an efficiency offense.

Meanwhile, the search for upside at wideout could lead Neu to tear off some redshirts. Three-star true freshmen Khalil Newton, Justin Gibbs, and/or Justin Hall could be tempting.

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James Gilbert

Any big-play potential Ball State had last year was featured in the run game. James Gilbert’s average of 5.23 highlight yards per opportunity was above average, and in minimal opportunities (just 24 carries), Malik Dunner averaged 6.1 yards per carry as a freshman.

Still, the run game was also more efficient than it was explosive. And BSU returns Gilbert, Dunner, and utility man Darian Green, who both ran efficiently and caught 24 passes. And if Neu and coordinator Joey Lynch — a carryover from the Lembo era — decide they need bigger backs to go with this trio of smaller guys, then either of two three-star freshmen (226-pound Caleb Huntley or 207-pound Kevin Dominique) might carve out a niche.

Ball State’s offense will be this year what it was last year. Turnover could hinder upside, but the run game could improve, especially with what are basically 3.5 returning starters on the line.

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Darian Green

Defense

Within a decade of his graduation from Butler University, David Elson was a head coach. He spent two years as Jack Harbaugh’s defensive coordinator in 2001-02 at Western Kentucky, then succeeded the legendary head coach.

Elson had a couple of top-15 finishes at the FCS level and oversaw the Hilltoppers’ move to FBS ... and then bombed. In 2008, WKU went 2-0 against FCS opponents and 0-10 against FBS. In 2009, the Toppers went 0-12, and Elson had a career to rebuild.

The rebuilding process has taken him a lot of places. After year as a quality control guy at Indiana (for Bill Lynch, strangely enough), he served as a high school coordinator in Kentucky, then took over as DC at New Mexico State just in time for head coach DeWayne Walker to get fired. He was DC at Southern Illinois in 2015 and Western Illinois in 2016 before finding another FBS coordinator role.

Elson’s WIU defense was pretty aggressive, recording 87 tackles for loss and 69 passes defensed and logging a havoc rate of 17.2 percent, which would have ranked about 35th at the FBS level. His first Ball State defense nearly matched that; the Cardinals were 41st in havoc, 81 spots higher than Lembo’s bend-don’t-break unit managed in 2015.

The variety was impressive. Six Cardinals recorded at least 6.5 tackles for loss, seven sacked the quarterback at least twice, and six defensed at least three passes. It was quite the identity shift for this personnel, and it worked for a while.

Two problems:

BSU did everything but close the deal. The Cardinals ranked 13th in standard downs line yards per carry and 21st in rushing success rate, then went hard after the quarterback once the opponent was leveraged into passing downs (25th in passing downs sack rate). And yet, they still ranked 117th in Passing Downs S&P+. If the QB wasn’t getting sacked, he was finding receivers downfield. Once per game, opponents completed a pass of 15-plus yards on third-and-10 or more. Despite best intentions, Ball State let opponents off the hook, and it backfired from a fatigue standpoint.

Linemen Joshua Posley, Kevin Thurman, and John Whitman III combined for 20.5 tackles for loss and 10 sacks. They’re all gone. Linebackers Sean Wiggins, Aaron Taylor, Zack Ryan, and Stu Stanley combined for 27 tackles for loss, five sacks, and five passes defensed. They’re gone, too. So are safeties Corey Hall and Martez Hester (4.5 TFLs, eight passes defensed).

Ball State’s defense was a weird mix of super-aggressive against the run and bend-don’t-break against the pass. That combo didn’t always work, but it will be far more difficult to pull it off without the eight starters and one chief backup I listed.

There’s still some play-making talent here, especially in the secondary. BSU cornerbacks gave up a few too many big plays, but the three leading CBs were two sophomores and a junior, and the trio (Marc Walton, Josh Miller, David Moore) also combined for four interceptions and 27 breakups. If you’re going to give up plays, you might as well make some, too.

Meanwhile, in Anthony Winbush, the Cardinals still have one bona fide pass rusher, and in tackles Kevin Willis and John Swisher, they do return a couple of seniors who have been around the block.

Linebacker is a mystery, though. Juniors Jeremiah Jackson and Damon Singleton combined for 26 tackles and 2.5 sacks as backups last year, but the two-deep has otherwise gotten a complete makeover. Higher-upside youngsters like sophomore AJ Jaffal (a former three-star recruit), redshirt freshman Brandon Martin, and maybe one of three three-star true freshmen (Shahid Reece, Brock Burns, Jimmy Daw) will need to prove some of that upside quickly.

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Anthony Winbush

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Marc Walton

Special Teams

If you had to bring one, and only one, guy back from last year’s Ball State special teams unit, you’d choose place-kicker Morgan Hagee, who was virtually automatic on kicks under 40 yards last year and made half of his longer kicks. And hey, good news: Hagee’s basically the only one back. (Part-time kickoffs guy Ryan Rimmler is, too.)

The rest of an otherwise mediocre unit isn’t, and while that might not be awful news, it’s not automatically good.

2017 outlook

2017 Schedule & Projection Factors

Date Opponent Proj. S&P+ Rk Proj. Margin Win Probability 2-Sep at Illinois 85 -3.6 42% 9-Sep UAB 130 23.6 91% 16-Sep Tennessee Tech NR 17.1 84% 23-Sep at Western Kentucky 51 -13.7 21% 30-Sep at Western Michigan 74 -7.5 33% 7-Oct at Akron 122 6.0 64% 21-Oct Central Michigan 97 4.2 60% 26-Oct Toledo 59 -7.9 32% 2-Nov at Eastern Michigan 96 -0.9 48% 9-Nov at Northern Illinois 86 -3.2 43% 16-Nov Buffalo 128 15.6 82% 21-Nov Miami (Ohio) 88 2.1 55%

Projected S&P+ Rk 90 Proj. Off. / Def. Rk 66 / 109 Projected wins 6.5 Five-Year S&P+ Rk -5.2 (84) 2- and 5-Year Recruiting Rk 96 / 106 2016 TO Margin / Adj. TO Margin* -10 / -3.5 2016 TO Luck/Game -2.7 Returning Production (Off. / Def.) 63% (65%, 62%) 2016 Second-order wins (difference) 5.6 (-1.6)

Ball State went 1-4 in one-possession finishes in 2016. Some combination of poor turnovers luck (nearly three points per game), a lack of big plays on offense, and a slow degrading of the defense turned the tide late. A 3-2 record in those contests would have meant a bowl bid.

This being the parity-centric MAC, the Cardinals can expect close finishes this fall. They are projected 90th in S&P+, just about the same as last year’s No. 84 ranking, and five Cardinal games have a win probability of between 40 and 60 percent.

Getting UAB, Tennessee Tech, and Buffalo at home should give BSU some baked-in wins and make bowl eligibility likely. Still, the Cardinals’ fortunes could turn on whether last year’s deficient areas change. It’s hard to say they will. The Cardinals should have a strong run game, and the passing game should be about as efficient as it was last year, but unless a freshman emerges, big plays might still be a rarity. The defense will boast some exciting corners, an excellent pass rusher ... and who knows what else.

Neu’s first year was encouraging. Per 247, his first full recruiting class ranked fourth in the MAC, a solid improvement over the Lembo years. Ball State might be destined to be the most MAC MAC team of all, but that probably means some postseason action in the Cardinals’ future. And whatever the Cardinals are in 2017, they should be even further along in 2018.

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I obviously was quite taken by this. Here’s some more information.

1918 Nurse Clara Lewandoska of Wisconsin married her former patient Arnold Hoke, an army sergeant from Iowa. From History Bites, FB.

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Erste Mannschaft: eine Hiobsbotschaft nach der anderen

Zum Nachholen der wegen der Coronawinterwelle ausgefallenen vierten Runde mußte die erste Mannschaft zum Abstiegskandidaten Hildesheim Ⅱ fahren. Die Situation war so, daß der Aufstieg an den beiden Nachholspieltagen zwischen uns und dem SC Wolfsburg wohl nach Brettpunkten entschieden wird, wobei wir einen halben Brettpunkt weniger, aber das leichtere Restprogramm hatten. Trotz dieser Ausgangslage gestaltete es sich aber schwierig, überhaupt eine Mannschaft zusammenzubekommen. Schließlich mußten ärgerlicherweise zwei Spieler aus der zweiten Mannschaft abgezogen werden, die selbst noch um den Aufstieg kämpfte. Da wir zu wenig Fahrer hatten, mußte die halbe Mannschaft mit dem Zug anreisen. Wir waren mit dem Zug längst durch Northeim durch, als uns die Nachricht erreichte, daß Joshua krank sei. Das war um so schlimmer, als er als Autofahrer seinen Bruder mitbringen sollte. Mit Ach und Krach gelang es, Arnold nach Northeim zu schicken, um Adrian abzuholen., sonst wären wir nur zu sechst angetreten. In Hildesheim mußten wir dann auf die Autofahrer eine Viertelstunde warten, weil eine Autobahnabfahrt gesperrt war. Nunmehr nur zu siebt, stand es bereits 1–0 für Hildesheim. Ingram Braun gewann aber sehr schnell. Leider stellte Anton Schmid durch einen Dameneinsteller nur wenige Minuten später den alten Abstand wieder her. Das sah jetzt gar nicht gut aus. Arnold stand auf Verlust und nur Johannes K. auf Gewinn. Michael Niggl, der eigentlich sehr gut gestanden hatte, kämpfte plötzlich auch eher um das Remis, das er aber schließlich reichte. Arnold Otten hatte in selbstmörderischer Absicht lang rochiert und stand sehr schlecht. Der Gegner spielte aber zu ungenau und verbrauchte sehr viel Zeit. Schließlich stellte er mit einem Reflexzug die Partie ein und überschritt dann die Zeit. Das war wohl der Kipppunkt des Wettkampfes. Als nächstes gewann Johannes Karthäuser erwartungsgemäß seine Partie, die sich relativ lange in theoretischen Bahnen bewegte. Auch Peter Konetzke gelang endlich sein erster Saisonsieg aus einer lange ausgeglichenen Stellung hinaus. Damit war der Wettkampf gewonnen. Schließlich konnte dann auch Adrian Hoke seine Partie gewinnen, was lange nicht so aussah. So sprang doch noch ein 5½:2½-Sieg heraus. Es scheint aber ein Muster ohne Wert zu sein, denn es stellte sich heraus, daß Gifhorn gegen Wolfsburg nicht angetreten war. Nachdem Wolfsburg jetzt zweimal 8:0 gewonnen hat, während wir gegen diese Mannschaften spielen mußten, haben wir drei Brettpunkte Rückstand und können den Aufstieg wohl abschreiben.

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DSOL 2. Runde - Sturmtief auch auf den virtuellen Brettern - 3 ESV-Teams von den Schachgleisen gefegt

(Hinweis: Die Schreiberin dieses Beitrags hat sich erst im Verlauf des Mittwoch-Schachabends zu den anderen in der "Fankurve" auf Zoom gesellt und die Partien nur ausschnittsweise mitverfolgt, so dass andere die Details dazu liefern müssen. ;) ) Die 2. Runde in der DSOL verlief für die 4 Schachteams vom ESV Rot-Weiß leider so wie das Wetter in Norddeutschland: Passend zum Sturmtief "Ylenia" fegten die gegnerischen Mannschaften über die Bretter von ESV 1, 2 und 4 hinweg und legten den Zugverkehr bei den Rot-Weißen fast komplett lahm. Lediglich ESV 3 konnte dem Sturm die Stirn bieten und schaffte einen knappen Sieg. Den Auftakt zum 2. Spieltag in der DSOL machte am Vorabend des Sturms Team ESV 2, das am Dienstag virtuell "auswärts" beim SC Erbendorf in der Oberpfalz an der Bayerischen Porzellanstraße antrat. Das ruhige Erbendorfer Wetter nützte aber nur den Gastgebern, und zu Bruch gingen leider nicht die Bayerischen Schachkünste, sondern die Porzellanstellungen der ESVler. 0,5-3,5 lautete die Bruchbilanz. Dann am Mittwoch Abend: Sturmwarnungen auf allen Nachrichtenkanälen, passend zum ESV-"Großkampftag" mit drei virtuellen "Heimspielen" gleichzeitig. Es blies ordentlich auf den Schachbrettern, und zunächst knickte ESV 4 mit 1:3 gegen die "fuß brothers" aus Jena ein, doch dann stellte tatsächlich ESV 3 die Weichen auf "Sieg" und fuhr einen knappen 2,5-1,5-Sieg gegen den SC Hechingen (ehem. hohenzollerische Kreisstadt) ein. Bei ESV 1 gegen den SK Ettlingen II aus dem Schwarzwald landeten gleich 2 ESV-Bretter schnell auf dem Abstellgleis, das dritte gesellte sich bald dazu, nur Arthur Fischer an Brett 4 schaffte mit einem Remis einen halben Ehrentreffer zum 0,5-3,5 Endstand. Zwei "gebrauchte" Abende also, und wir hoffen beim nächsten Spieltag auf eine günstigere Schachwetterprognose sowie einen deutlichen Aufwärtstrend.

Der letzte Zug 23...d5 von "Joing" lud den Gegner zu einem hübschen Matt ein. Der Vollständigkeit halber die Ergebnisse des 2. Spieltags in chronologischer Reihenfolge: 15.02.2022 19:30 (Dienstag) 6. Liga, Gruppe B: SC Erbendorf 3½ − ½ ESV Rot-Weiß Göttingen II Wolfgang Hoffmann ("Der Bademeister", 1857) 1 : 0 Jan Meise ("janmeise", 1752) Veronika Mihl ("VeroMihl", 1698) ½ : ½ Adrian Hoke ("ANH", 1682) Kevin Hasenfürter ("freekh15", 1382) 1 : 0 Christoph Homann ("Christoph22", 1589) Johannes Keck ("Bavarian-Potato", 1000) 1 : 0 Prof. Dr. Arnold Otten ("Arnold Otten", 1551) https://dsol.schachbund.de/ergebnisse.php?s=2022&l=6b&r=2 16.02.2022 19:30 (Mittwoch) 2. Liga, Gruppe D: ESV Rot-Weiß Göttingen I ½ − 3½ SK Ettlingen II Gerhard Nolte ("nolte37124", 2139) 0:1 Timo Fucik ("TimoFu", 2000) Ingram Braun ("Archaeopath", 2034) 0:1 Dominik Schwingen ("DomiS", 1937) Joshua Hoke ("JSH", 1788) 0:1 Marijan Orsolic ("MarijanSKE", 1999) Arthur Fischer ("Art28", 1713) ½ : ½ Simon Fromme ("siwica", 1940) https://dsol.schachbund.de/ergebnisse.php?s=2022&l=2d&r=2 9. Liga, Gruppe A: ESV Rot-Weiß Göttingen III 2½ − 1½ SC Hechingen Moritz Jakob Gronemeyer ("MoritzGronemeyer", 1301) 1 : 0 Peter Bock ("Peter Bock", 1646) Samuel Hilgerdenaar ("samzscribbler", 1358) 0 : 1 Vincent Scheu ("DietmarClemente", 1467) David Jansen ("davidNorge", 1241) ½ : ½ Bernd Kelemen ("Bernd Kelemen", 1353) David Mercier ("Encore_" 1000) 1 : 0 Felix Heine ("Felix Heine", 1000) https://dsol.schachbund.de/ergebnisse.php?s=2022&l=9a&r=2 10. Liga, Gruppe D: ESV Rot-Weiß Göttingen IV 1 − 3 fuß brothers Jena III Johannes Nolting ("Joing", 1000) 0 : 1 Robert Simmank ("FiveFingerRunefang", 1000) Camille Bartholdi ("SussyObamaHamburger", 1000) 1 : 0 Joachim Gutmann ("Joachim Gutmann", 1179) Stella Simon-Fabricius ("Stellaria", 1000) 0 : 1 Julian Tittmann ("Julian Tittmann", 1202) Adrian Wanschik ("adrianjfkejgwke", 1000) 0 : 1 Tatjana Jarosch ("tanjatatjana", 949) https://dsol.schachbund.de/ergebnisse.php?s=2022&l=10d&r=2 Read the full article