#Gould's turkey

[fatchance]

Plumas brillantes.

Iridescent plumage on Gould’s turkeys / guajolote norteño (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana) at Santa Rita Lodge. In Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

[eljeebee]

Now, with the turkey finished, it was time for dessert. Albert had poured them one of the ranch's stocks, and Priscilla had cut up both the cake and the pie for everyone!

Mr. Hubbard kneaded his clay, rubbed his nose, then took a sip of his wine. "Ah, this takes me back."

Albert smiled.

"Your Pa and Ma would host dinner from time to time," Mr. Hubbard said. He looked at his wife, who nodded at him. "You were such a fine young man back then, and such a dear to your sister. What was her name again? Anabelle? Anabella?"

Mrs. Hubbard shook her head. "It's Arabella, Jacob dear."

Albert's smile faltered, he took a sip. His hand shook as he tried to cut a piece of his pie.

"What happened to her again?" Mr. Hubbard asked, taking a huge bite of his pie, before downing it with the wine. "Poor girl, dying so young. And your parents—it must've been devastating."

"Jacob—"

"What was that—caught in an accident? Oh, you poor boy. You must've felt lonely. Your sister was dear to you, and she was such a fragile young girl. Sickly—"

Mrs. Hubbard hissed. "Yes, Jacob, we've heard enough!"

The table went silent.

Albert let out a chuckle, shaking his head. He took a bite, then a few more, then took a huge gulp of his drink.

Priscilla and Anthony looked at each other.

"Priscilla, do you mind, ah," Albert gestured on the bottle near Mrs. Gould, "getting that for me?"

Anthony handed it to Priscilla, who handed it to Albert. He poured the rest of the wine, and drank it straight down. Then, he took his plate, stood up, and said, "I'm feeling a little thirsty. I'll get more at the bar."

"You still have the bar?" Mr. Hubbard's eyes lit up. "Ahaha! I remember your Pa would pour me whiskey after working on your orchards!"

Albert left the room, ignoring Mr. Hubbard. Mrs. Hubbard clicked her tongue. "Just finish the damn pie, Jacob."

Mrs. Gould looked at Anthony and Priscilla apologetically. She said, "Why don't we finish our dessert?"

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[texastrophyhunters]

"Elsie" meets "Tom"

By Jim Heffelfinger

I was determined to hunt this special bird, a Gould's turkey, with my great-grandfather's 1894 L.C. “Elsie” Smith side-by-side, Damascus steel, double hammer, double barrel 12-gauge. A great friend of mine had the cracked stock fixed on this family heirloom as a Christmas present to me. He also loaded up some No. 6 shot reduced-power loads with Pyrodex that was safe for firing in the 130-year-old Damascus steel barrels. My son Wyatt agreed to come along and help which was special to me because it was Wyatt who got me into turkey hunting in the first place.

We were mostly big game hunters, but when Wyatt was 10 years old and a brand-new hunter education graduate, he told me he wanted to hunt turkeys because he loved dinosaurs so much. With the help of some friends and youth turkey hunting camps, we learned together and became quite good at it. After I called in both Merriam’s gobblers he harvested up to that point, he returned the favor on this hunt. 

The fourth gobbler we talked to that day was a stubborn bird with commitment issues. He was hot to answer every hen yelp with a gobble, but would not cross a deep ditch between us and him at 50 yards. The reduced-power loads I was using means I needed a 30-yard shot or closer. I thought he figured out a way around the ditch but the hen he was with started walking away.

Predictably, he followed her up an open, pine-covered hill. Wyatt called and called more aggressively but the tom kept gobbling as he walked out of our lives. When the tom neared the top of the hill I decided I had no choice but to try to sneak up the hill and make something happen on the other side. Wyatt called aggressively to keep him gobbling and cover my rapid stalk up the hill after him. The big tom answered him almost every time, but then fell silent as I approached the top of the hill. Wyatt followed me far behind calling more aggressively to make it sound like the hen was following him.

As I approached the top of the hill, I started sneaking and carefully looking into the clump of pine trees where I last saw him when suddenly he gobbled in my left ear! He had circled back and surprised me because of Wyatt’s aggressive yelps from the bottom of the hill. I swung Ol’ Elsie to the left, put the bead at the base of his head and squeezed the front trigger. The shotgun roared with a belch of gray smoke and the turkey fell where it stood.

The old heirloom did its job just as it did countless times on small game in my great-grandfather Frank's hands. I am lucky I didn't have time to think about the shot or I would have surely missed. The bird was 21 pounds, had an 11-inch beard and 1 1/8-inch spurs.

Jim Heffelfinger writes for the Journal of the Texas Trophy Hunters and works at his day job as a wildlife biologist for the Arizona Game & Fish Department. You can find Jim on Instagram: @Jim.Deere, and at deernut.com.

[tilliwriteapine]

Thank you @mysoftboybensolo for the tag!!!

Last Song: Ground Control by All Time Low ft. Tegan & Sara

Favorite Color: Blue - all versions!

Currently Watching: Depends, lmao. I'm rewatching MacGyver haphazardly, I'm watching Bob's Burgers, Colbert, John Oliver, Star Trek Lower Decks, Loki, and Seth Meyers daily/weekly (last ep of Lower Decks today for the season, cries!!)

Last Movie: Detective Pikachu movie!!!!!

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Depends on my mood, lmao

Relationship Status: Single and asexual

Current Obsession: Macgyver, All Time Low music, and Pokemon

Last Thing I Googled: what FEV1 meant in terms of a pulmonary function test (it means forced expiratory volume in 1 second!)

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Favorite Dish: oh man, that is tough. But the previous answer said thanksgiving and my dad makes the best fake turkey tacos EVER. Fake smoked turkey from Worthington, stuffing in the middle, baked into taco shapes? I crave them all. the. time. It is November! On the daily: I love enchiladas and burritos

Favorite Video Game: I love/d Crash Bandicoot!

Most Embarrassing Fandom You Belong To: .... all of them? I MEAN. I have so many, I'm not entirely sure which one drives me more insane at times. I try hard to avoid the drama. Marvel certainly has its moments....

Favorite Band/Artist: Needtobreathe, Backstreet Boys, For King & Country, Ellie Goulding, Halsey

Favorite Mutual(s): technically I love everyone I follow, but I'm especially partial to @impossiblepluto <3

[milfzatannaz]

Pls elaborate on the 2015 Skrillex fandom phase

WOAH. this takes me way back

I just want to preface this that I was 12-13 in this era. Like I really was just a really lonely stupid kid, and I was struggling with coming out in middle school and feeling isolated and lonely. so I saw a gif of an asshole with a bad haircut and I was like he’s mine now. I really loved him for many years. I can’t explain it.

I shaved half my head at 13. yeah. I also have one of the most comprehensive tags of his band days from 2004-2007 and half the time idk what to do with all those images bc someone might want them one day? again idek

aside from that the “edm” fandom was awful. Real people shipping and fights over it. Rampant misogyny. People actually hated Ellie Goulding for simply dating a few of the guys. At age 13 I snarkily posted that there seemed to only be white men that ppl obsessed over and I got accused of racefaking.

the whole thing came to a head when skrillex teamed up with diplo. I always got really bad vibes off that fucker, and then suddenly they’re releasing bad pop music with Justin Bieber and objectifying women. I got into several fights, bc no one wanted to admit that diplo was actively not a good role model to a bunch of fucking tweens. I feel so bad for all of us, bc we were just dumb kids. So one day I changed my URL and settings to make it hard to find my blog and never looked back. Since then I was a Star Wars blog, a marvel blog, x men blog, batfam blog then braime and finally the sexy talented vertigo girly you all know! (I’ve had many cringe phases)

I actually fully stopped listening to skrillex cold turkey in 2021 bc I no longer recognized him. He had gotten much older, grosser, started hanging around Jordan Peterson and was starting to be weird about women. so I don’t miss that part of my life. I take a lot of power in the women I look up to now.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"TWO YEARS ON DOPE COUNT," Toronto Star. October 30, 1943. Page 31. ---- Convicted on charges of selling narcotics, Joseph Bennett and Pte. James A. Gould were each sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by Judge J. Ambrose Shea in general sessions. To this was added a $200 fine or three months. They were convicted mainly on evidence by Mrs. Gwen Grigg and Miss Betty Bell, R.C.M.P. operators. [AL: Bennett was 31, married with a child, of Polish immigrant descent, a machine hand at a Toronto factory, and as the police file notes, 'a user of narcotic drugs.' He had previously been in the reformatory and in the penitentiary - if his experience is similar to other users at the time, he may have first encountered opiates in prison. He was convict #7495 at Kingston Penitentiary, and worked mostly in the tailor shop. He was reported three times for infractions but was generally a 'good conduct' prisoner. He was released August 1945. Gould was 42, single, a soldier in the Canadian Active Service Force, with three previous reformatory convictions to his name. He too was a 'user and dealer of narcotics. He was convict #7493 and worked mostly in the change room at the penitentiary. He was released the same day as Bennett. Both men were turned in due to women police informants who themselves were substance dependent at one time. Neither man would have received treatment in prison - the standard practice was the dangerous 'cold turkey' method much complained about by the incarcerated then and now.]

[papermoonloveslucy]

Lucy in Beverly Hills

Part 2 ~ The Episodes

'Thank God I'm doing "Lucy" and thanks for "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Dick Van Dyke", and the rest.' ~ Lucille Ball, November 4, 1963

~ Parallel Universes ~

Sometimes hillbillies turned up on Lucycoms - just not necessarily Beverly Hillbillies. Lucille Ball often blacked out her teeth and deepened her voice to play backwoods type characters.

In "Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford" Homer (Ernie Ford) and his family walk into a palatial penthouse and “The Lucy Show” suddenly feels very much like an episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies”.  It is very likely that “The Lucy Show” cast Roy Roberts as the much-anticipated Mr. Cheever after seeing him play banker Mr. Cushing on "The Beverly Hillbillies". Robert Easton (who plays Iffie on "The Lucy Show") appeared in both the TV series and the 1993 film adaptation of “The Beverly Hillbillies.”  

"Turkey Day" (S2;E4) presents what appears to be stereotypical Native American characters (aka "Indians") who are really just actors on a gig. On "Hillbillies" the faux 'Indians' are played by Benny Rubin and George Suwaya, two performers who were also seen on "I Love Lucy." Lucy's "The Indian Show" (1953) featured Ray Kellogg and Frank Gerstle as the pair. in both cases, the 'white' characters (Mrs. Drysdale / Lucy Ricardo) indulge in broken English and use now-offensive terms in a humorous context.

"Pygmalion and Elly" (S1;E10) riffs on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion (filmed in 1938), which was the basis for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady (filmed in 1964). Both play and musical deal with the transformation of a lowly woman into the epitome of beauty and class. In 1962 Sonny Drysdale sets to remake Elly from a hillbilly into a woman of society. In 1972, Lucy transformed wallflower Annie Whipple (Ruth Buzzi) into a brazen showgirl on "Here's Lucy." This was Ball's second take on the story, having previously produced "My Fair Lucy" (1965) on "The Lucy Show."

In 1964, the Hillbillies went on location to Marineland of the Pacific. But they weren't the only only ones. A year later, "The Lucy Show" also shot on location at the marine park, kicking off the show's 'move' to California. CBS had previously shoots at Marineland for “The Munsters”. Coincidentally, Sid Gould, Gary Morton's cousin and a bit player in 45 episodes of “The Lucy Show,” played the Munsters' Marineland tour guide.

"Dog Days" (S6;E27) trots out most all of Frank Inn's canine cast - and then some. Dozens of dogs were also involved in "Lucy and Viv Learn Judo" (1963). Prominent among Elly's pooches is Lord Nelson, the sheep dog who played Mr. Mooney's pet on "The Lucy Show."

1963's "The Clampetts in Court" (S1;E32) finds the family being sued by the Johnsons (Murvyn Vye & Kathleen Freeman) who claim to have been injured in an auto accident caused by Jed. They are faking, of course. In addition to Vye and Freeman, the episode features "Lucy" regulars Roy Roberts and Bert Stevens. Similarly, in a 1972 episode of "Here's Lucy," the Carters find themselves in court when a dancer and his unscrupulous agent (Jim Bates & Jesse White) claim injuries from Lucy's negligence - until Lucy and Harry spy him dancing up a storm with an undercover Kim.

Elly Mae's affection for her 'critters' is not unlike Wayne Newton's on "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy". In both episodes that the singer appears in (as himself), he is surrounded by a variety of barnyard animals. Lucy and Donna Douglas ignored the old show-business axiom: "Never work with children or animals."

"Jed and the Countess" (S3;E26) introduced Jean Willes as the Countess Maria. While she made only one appearance, Countess Henri Gaston Armand Jean-Louis Philippe Framboise Le Cul-de-Sac  (aka Rosie Hannigan) played by Ann Sothern made seven appearances on "The Lucy Show" in 1965. Burt Mustin played Countess Maria's chauffeur. Mustin played Old Uncle Joe on two episodes of "The Lucy Show." Countess Framboise flirted with Mr. Mooney the same way Countess Maria flirted with Jed. Willes was seen in two films with Lucille Ball as well as an episode of "Here's Lucy."

The Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills and The Westland Bank were the banks featured (respectively) on "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Lucy Show."

When "Elly Becomes a Secretary" (S1;E35), Millburn Drysdale is guest speaker at the National Bankers Convention. Two years later, in 1964, Vinnie Meyers (Max Showalter) takes over for Mr. Mooney while he is away at a banker's convention in Bridgeport on "The Lucy Show." Meyers is said to be from the Jamestown (NY) branch of Mr. Mooney's bank.

In a 1967 episode of "Here's Lucy," Mrs. Carmichael is volunteered as a date for the 90 year-old president of the bank (Dennis Day) so he can attend the Annual Bankers Banquet. Naturally, she disguises herself as a little old lady and finds that although he is old, he is still very interested in the opposite sex!

"The Clampetts Play the Rams" (S4;E7) tackles two hot topics of the day: Football and Color Television. Lucycoms were no stranger to pigskin plots, the LA Rams in particular. The entire team was featured in the 1949 Lucille Ball film Easy Living. Other mentions include: "The Football Game" (1950), Lucy is a Referee" (1962), "Lucy The Skydiver" (1970), and "Lucy and Aladdin's Lamp" (1971).

Although not played by Stretch (aka Duke), Lucy Ricardo briefly encountered a Basset Hound named Rocky aboard the S.S. Constitution in 1956. Lonely, she briefly considers the dog as a ping pong partner!

"The Little Monster" (S5;E29) introduces banker Drysdale's obnoxious nephew, Little Millby, played by Teddy Eccles. A year earlier on "The Lucy Show," banker Mooney's unruly nephew Wendell, played by Jay North, visits his uncle Theodore in "Lucy The Robot" (1965). North is best remembered for playing cherubic menace named Dennis on his own sitcom. Coincidentally, Eccles played Arnold Mooney, banker Mooney's youngest son, on a 1964 episode of "The Lucy Show."

The Clampetts found themselves in England on several occasions. Most of their adventures were filmed in Hollywood, but the shows did include some location shooting with the principal cast, including of Buckingham Palace, a location visited by Lucy and Ethel in 1955. On "I Love Lucy," however, the Palace was recreated at Desilu. In 1966, Lucy Carmichael went to London in a special titled "Lucy in London." This time Ball and company actually visited England. Both the Clampetts and Mrs. Carmichael flew Pan American Airlines. Lucy Carter went to London in 1971 as traveling companion to talk show host David Frost. Once again Pan Am carried the characters across the pond. In return, stock footage of one of their jets was used, but viewers never saw anything more than Hollywood recreations of the interior of the jet and Frost's London TV studio. Faversham!

In "Race for the Queen" (S2;19) in 1964, Miss Jane competed with Elly Mae (and Granny!) for the titled Queen of Beverly Hills. In 1970, Lucy Carter competed with Carol Krausmeyer for the title of Secretary Beautiful. Both pageants featured celebrity judges: Bob Cummings on "Hillbillies" and Robert Alda on "Lucy". Naturally, and somewhat regrettably, both contests included swimsuit competitions!

In "Clampett City General Store" (S3;E3) Granny gets cast as Cleopatra in Mammoth Pictures' new epic. A year earlier, in 1963, Lucy Carmichael played Cleopatra for the Danfield Community Players. In both scripts, Theda Bara, who played Cleopatra in 1917, and the 1963 Liz Taylor epic are mentioned. Neither scripts acknowledge the 1934 Cecil B. DeMille epic starring Claudette Colbert.

A bus tour of Beverly Hills is part of "Dr. Jed Clampett" (S3;E5) and a 1955 episode of "I Love Lucy" titled "The Tour". Both feature second unit film footage of a tour bus driving through the palm-lined streets. On the bus, an obnoxious woman is aching to get off, despite the warnings of the bus driver. In "Dr. Jed Clampett", that woman is the mother of a tap dancing prodigy and the home is that of movie studio owner Jed Clampett. In "The Tour," that woman is Lucy Ricardo, and the home is that of movie star Richard Widmark.

In "Jed the Movie Mogul" (S3;E1), TV viewers (and the Clampetts) get a preview of a scene from the upcoming Universal film Send Me No Flowers. The scene features Rock Hudson and Doris Day and is shown to the Clampetts as dailies from a film being shot at Jed's Mammoth Studios. On a 1955 episode of "I Love Lucy" titled "Lucy and the Dummy" the host of the MGM executive show introduces a clip from their upcoming movie musical Guys and Dolls. After the first airing, the clip was removed from the syndicated print, while Send Me No Flowers remains part of "The Beverly Hillbillies" to this day. That same season, Lucy Ricardo met Rock Hudson on "In Palm Springs." BTW, both films were released in color, but seen on television shows filmed and aired in black and white.

Double Trouble

With so many episodes and so many seasons, it was inevitable that "Hillbillies" and "I Love Lucy" shared the same titles.

"The Ballet" (S3;E10) of the "Beverly Hillbillies" concerns Jed financially rescuing the Los Angeles ballet. Leon Belasco played the ballet master. He was seen on several episodes of "The Lucy Show," often in the context of classical music. "The Ballet" (S1;E10) of "I Love Lucy" has Lucy learning ballet to get into Ricky's act. Mary Wickes played the ballet mistress. Wickes played social climber Adaline Ashley on a 1967 episode of "Hillbillies."

"The Diner" (S6;E19) of "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Diner" (S3;E27) of "I Love Lucy" have more than titles in common. They both concern the main characters purchasing a diner. Jethro named his eatery The Happy Gizzard. The feuding Ricardos and Mertzes divide their diner. One half is named A Little Bit of Cuba, and the other side is named A Big Hunk of America.

~ Epilogue: Y'all Come Back Now!

When the Clampetts made the cover of TV Guide in November 1962, it was Lucille Ball who got top billing - with a line over the masthead promoting her TV special with Danny Kaye. "The Beverly Hillbillies" made the cover nine times - while Lucille Ball reigned as queen of the Guide with 39 covers.

"Return of the Beverly Hillbillies" (1981) featured Lucy regulars Lurene Tuttle as Mollie Heller as Charles Lane as Chief, both of whom were in the original series. Lucille Ball never presented a 'reunion' show as such, she simply reinvented her Lucy character with a new last name, just as she did in 1986's short-lived "Life With Lucy."

In addition to comic books, both shows were novelized for young readers.

[movienation]

Netflixable? Muddled Marlowe noir from Turkey -- "10 Days of a Good Man"

You’d think a guy this obsessed with private eye Philip Marlowe, particularly Elliott Gould’s interpretation of the gumshoe in Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye,” could figure things out a lot sooner than “10 Days.” But that’s the length of time in the title of the wry Turkish riff on Marlowe, “10 Days of a Good Man.” So it doesn’t matter if our grizzled hero, Sadik, turns and shouts at Gould’s…

[thatsmylog]

[bm-european-art]

Meleagris Mexicana: Mexican Turkey, John Gould, Brooklyn Museum: European Art

Size: 23 3/8 x 18 3/8 in. (59.4 x 46.7 cm) Medium: Lithograph on wove paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/84354

[fatchance]

¡Pavo Rey!

Gould’s turkey / guajolote norteño (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana), at Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary, Cochise County, Arizona. 

Please click photo for an enlarged view. 

[eljeebee]

Mrs. Hubbard groaned. "That smells so good! You outdid yourself this time, Bertie."

Albert chuckled, "I wouldn't be able to do this without Priscilla and Tony."

Priscilla and Anthony smiled at them, taking a quick glance to each other.

Mrs. Hubbard smiled, "Ah, you're passing down the family recipes huh? I'd love to see y'all children helping y'all out in the kitchen."

"They're married, Anita?" Mr. Hubbard asked, he pulled out a clay, and started kneading it. "Bertie, why haven't I heard of that?"

Mrs. Gould shook her head. Leaning towards Anthony, she said, "Here we go again..."

"Put that damned clay away, will ya?" Mrs. Hubbard chastised her husband. "And yes, they're married! I'm not sure if they're here to inherit the ranch. Bertie, are they going to inherit the ranch?"

Albert let out a laugh, "Ah, they're great friends, but I don't want them to be forced to take care of this place."

Priscilla forced a smile.

Mrs. Gould shook her head. Taking a bite from her turkey, she asked Anthony, "So, how do you find this place?"

Anthony smiled, "It's calming. If life permits, I would gladly inherit this place from Albert."

"But that's not possible, is it?" Mrs. Gould said.

He raised a brow. "Well..."

Mrs. Gould waved her hand. "It's fine you don't have to say it."

Anthony smiled, returning to his food.

"You and the girl aren't really married, are you?" Mrs. Gould whispered.

Anthony almost choked on his food.

Priscilla took notice, and was about to ask him when Mrs. Gould firmly pats his back.

"You okay?" Priscilla asked.

Anthony gave her a thumbs up, before leaning towards Mrs. Gould. "Well, we were, but please don't tell the others. Don't want them to get too much nosy."

Mrs. Gould chuckled. "Relax. I won't."

"How did you know?"

Mrs. Gould shrugged. "I just know it."

Anthony frowned at her.

She smiled. "There's something between the two of you. Tense air. Looks like unresolved things. But there's something...it's tense, but when you two look at each other, there's more."

"And you noticed that a few days ago when you first met me?"

Mrs. Gould shook her head as she chuckled. "Kid, I was the weirdest girl in town in my youth. I love people watching."

Anthony looked unamused.

"I'm just saying," she took her last bite. "Maybe you guys would work it out? I like the way you guys look at each other. So youthful. Reminds me of when my husband was still alive."

Anthony looked down on his food.

Mrs. Gould looked at him. "If it doesn't, then that's okay, kid. You still like her, right?"

He moved his head, slightly nodding. "Then sometimes, loving someone from afar is enough. There are things that can't be easily mended. I don't know what happened between the two of you, but if the reason behind it was too serious, it's going to take a lot of time, before she could open up again."

"I know," Anthony mumbled.

"As long as you continue to love her," Mrs. Gould smiled.

How long should I continue to love her from afar and wait for her forgiveness? He thought. The damage has been done...

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[civilmanage]

Top international construction companies

Top international construction companiesWhich are the largest construction companies in the world in 2021?

Following are the top international construction companies in the world.

China Communications Construction Company | China

Bechtel | USA

Turner | USA

VINCI | France

Actividades de Construcción y Servicios | Spain

There are hundreds of international construction companies in the world and only few are known internationally because of their international exposures.

In civil engineering field, numerous leading companies are working to compete opponent and hold the first position and contributing to economy really.

Some of them provides a good project management & consultation, some provide a good architecture and some of them provides/designed pre cast member & material such as ready mix concrete .

Have a look in top construction and contractor companies by revenues and projects they have done already.

Read also Clark construction.

#1 China state construction engineering corporation:

CSCEC is the largest construction company based in China. It is owned by state. By the revenue it is the largest construction company world wide.

Famous/Signature Projects of CSCEC construction company:

Theres numerous project that have constructed by CSCEC.

Yintai center complex. (China)

TBA tower. (Dogguan, China)

Shimao strait towers. (Xiamen, China)

Malaysia Astaka Super High-rise apartment projects.

Satallite hall project at Shenzhen bao’an international airport. (China)

Mauritius SSR international airport expansion project.

GTC project at terminal 3 of Beijing capital international airport. (China)

Dairy plant in Indonesia.

Sino-Russian modo oil pipeline project.

Huawei plant in south.

Beijing Mercedes-benz workshop.

China state construction engineering corporation projects

Founded1957, Owner State of China Industry & TypeConstruction, State Owned, Headquarter Beijing, China. Key people Zhou Naixiang (Chairmain). (Party Secretary) websitewww.cscec.com.cn

#2 Bechtel construction company:

Bechtel stands at first position construction company in 2021. Bechtel’s business history was started when a farmer of cattle Warren A. Bechtel came to Oklahoma from Peabody to construct a railway track with his workers.

Warren A. Bechtel was born September 12 in 1872 in Freeport. He was fifth child of his parents, was graduated Peabody high school. After finishing first railway road work he moved with his family around the USA for the sake of work for 6 years.

In 1904 eventually he moved to Oakland, California, where he worked in a western pasific railway as superintendent. After two years of struggle he got his first sub-contract of constructing a part of a railroad section from Oroville to Oakland.

The same year he bought a steam shovel on his own and painted “W.A Bechtel Co“, and established a construction company. Later on he was growing and growing to the position of top most construction company in 2021.

Famous/Signature Projects of Bechtel construction company:

Since 1898 Bechtel has completed 25,000 Mega projects world wide in 160+ countries.

In 1931 Bechtel got first mega project of The Hoover Dam.

After that Bechtel completed Bay bridge of Sanfrancisco to Oakland.

In 1941 Bechtel got first shipbuilding job. Supplied 467 cargo.

1942 constructed 1430 miles (2300 km) pipeline across the Canada & alaska for oil transportation to new refinery.

In Bahrain Bechtel constructed refinery to produce 150,000 barrels of oil in 1943.

1947 when Bechtel Constructed Trans-arabian pipeline of 1068 miles (1719 km) across Saudi arabia, Jordan, Syria & Lebanon.

Onward Bechtel constructed the first Nuclear Reactor to generate electricity from atomic energy in 1949.

betchel construction company

Bechtel construction company signature projects

After 1950 Bechtel Constructed their projects one by one anf number is increasing year to year.

Further they constructed Swift Dam, Chocolate Bayou Texas, Bouganville Copper project, James Bay hydroelectric project, King Khalid International Airport Saudi Arabia, Three Miles Island etc.

In 2002 Bechtel built Tacoma Narrows bridge.

In 2004 Hamad International Airport was also their project in Doha, Qatar.

Hummel combined cycle power plant was also constructed by Bechtel in 2018.

In 2019 they constructed Kosovo motorway Route 6.

It the same year of 2019 NASA mobile launcher 2 was also constructed by Bechtel.

FounderWarren A. Bechtel ,Founded In1898, Headquater Reston, Virginia USA, Industry & TypeConstruction Engg Private Key People Brendan Bechtel Jack Futcher, Owner Bechtel Family, Revenue$21.8 Billions (2019) , $25.5 Billions (2018), Employees 55000, Sectors Infrastructure, Mining & Metals, Nuclear, Enviromental, Defence & Security, Oil,Gas & Chemicals

Bechtel construction company wiki

#3 Turner construction company:

Turner construction company is leading company globally and now holding 3rd top top construction company position internationally after Bechtel.

It is based in north America with 10,000 of employees and $12 billions revenue by constructing 1500+ projects.

Turner construction company was Founded in 1902 by Henry Chandlee Turner with the capital of $25,000. Turner has very first project of concrete vault in Brooklyn for $690.

In late 1920s turner got several projects to build high rise buildings for large businesses. In 1970s turner has completed numerous projects of sports stadiums.

An industrialist hired turner company in 1904 to build several concrete building and a plant, which was the largest reinforcement concrete building in US at that time.

In 1999, HOCHTIEF purchased turner construction company and made it their subsidiary.

Mega/Signature Projects of Turner construction company:

Burj Khalifa. (Dubai)

Northwestern Mutual Interiors. (Orlando, FL)

Grand 50 Tower. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Great American Tower at Queen city.

Tuntex Sky Tower. (Taiwan)

The Cira Centre. (Philandelphia, PA)

ABN AMRO Plaza. (Chicago, IL)

Hearst Tower. (Newyork)

Istanbul Development. (Istanbul, Turkey)

Merdeka 118. (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Sequis Tower (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Merriot Hotel & Conference Centre. (Trenton, NJ)

RAND Corporate Headquarter. (Santa Monica, CA)

Turner construction company projects

Founder Henry Chandlee Turner, Founded In1902, OwnerHOCHTIEF, Key People Peter Davoren (President & CEO)

Karen Gould (CFO), HeadquaterNewyork, USA, Industry & TypeCivil Engg & Construction Private, Revenue$12 Billions, Employees 10,000, Sectors Interiors, Manufacturing, Industrial, Pharmaceuticals, Infrastraucture, Sports, Public Assembly, Religious, Sports,Hotels & Resturants

Turner construction company wiki

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How TCM Resurrects Plan 9 from Outer Space for Ghoulish Table Read

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UFOs are often visible, but not always. Sometimes they make noise, sometimes they are silent. If you’ve never seen a flying saucer, that is proof they are everywhere. This is one of the many amazing things we learn in TCM’s upcoming table read of Ed Wood’s masterwork, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aero-plane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television. But it took a while to get the joke about Plan 9 from Outer Space. Written and directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. in 1959, it was a little-known independent film with a direct line through directors who carried on the DIY-filmmaking spirit like John Cassavetes, Melvin Van Peebles and John Waters. The Cult of Plan 9 began when Ed Wood was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time in 1980. Though this has been disputed.

Turner Classic Movies is the go-to channel for prestigious films. You can always count on a showing of The Treasure of Sierra Madre or The Public Enemy, or Citizen Kane. But top prize in the Golden Turkey awards carries its own prestige.

“This isn’t ‘Plans One Through Eight from Outer Space,’” Jerry Seinfeld proclaimed at the Chinese restaurant in a 1991 episode of Seinfeld. “This is Plan 9. The one that worked. The worst movie ever made.”

The SF Sketchfest presentation was adapted for the stage and virtual stage by former The Simpsons writer, and self-proclaimed Ed Wood superfan, Dana Gould. He and his Stan Against Evil co-star Janet Varney have been acting in live staged reads with a revolving cast of eager comic actors for over three years. The Zoom production also features Kat Aagesen, Bob Odenkirk, Bobcat Goldthwait, Oscar Nuñez, Deborah Baker Jr., Maria Bamford, David Koechner, Jonah Ray, Paul F. Tompkins, Baron Vaughn, and Gary Anthony Williams. The miniature visual effects, which are by no means just cardboard cutouts, were done by Mike Carano, and the sounds of musical accompaniment came out of Eban Schletter.

Laraine Newman is the narrator. She brings Gould’s adapted stage directions to such vivid life they can reanimate the dead, which is a key element of the actual plan at the center of the cult movie. Originally titled “Grave Robbers from Outer Space,” the film marked the last appearance of Bela Lugosi, who had also acted in Wood’s 1953 feature Glen or Glenda.

Lugosi’s footage for Wood’s unmade film “The Vampire’s Tomb,” was repurposed for Plan 9. Lugosi died of a heart attack on Aug. 16, 1956. To complete the film, Wood cast his chiropractor, Tom Mason, who in spite of his professional familiarity with the human skeletal structure, somehow believed he could mask the fact that he was much taller than the horror icon by pulling his cape over his face.

The table read of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space is part of TCM’s Classic Film Festival weekend, which runs through May 9. For easy comparisons, the original film will air directly after the event. Dana Gold and Janet Varney spoke with Den of Geek about refurbishing the low-budget cult classic, and how, like their predecessor, they proudly spared every expense on its new décor.

Den of Geek: I watched the table read a second time while playing Plan 9 in another window, and I just have to say, recreating those sets must’ve cost a fortune.

Janet Varney: Yeah, just like it cost Ed Wood a fortune.

Dana Gould: That’s the genius of, of Mike Carano. All those things were this big. You can see, I have the Bela Lugosi statue and the saucer. What he did was so amazing, and it really brought [the production] up to be better than it had a right to be. When Janet and I discussed doing this on Zoom, we were like, “Well, how do we take the limits of Zoom and turn them to our advantage? Why is it on Zoom?” By doing it, one, it allowed us to get a cast that we might not be able to get. Got people in different places. Maria Bamford was in Minnesota. Bob Odenkirk was in Vancouver. So, we could get people that normally we couldn’t get. Doing it in black and white helped. And then what Mike Marano did, it made it something unique.

Janet Varney: I would just also add, as a tribute to Ed Wood, we’ve never had anyone that we’ve asked to do the show who hasn’t wanted to do the show. Whether or not they’ve been in town for the live version, every person that we love that we’ve asked to be a part of the cast at one time or another is like, “Oh, my God, I need to do that. I want to do it. When is it? Please say it’s not a date I’m out of town. Please say it’s not. Will you ask me on the next one?”

Everyone knows this movie. And the idea of getting to step into its shoes in any kind of iteration is really exciting for every single person that we’ve ever asked.

Dana Gould: And it’s great to see how different people play different parts. Joel Murray plays the General different than David Koechner plays the General. Bob Odenkirk plays Eros differently than Patton Oswalt plays Eros. It’s always great. And Janet and I, we don’t want to know what you’re going to do. Just do it.

For this production, you assembled the all-star team. But were you ever tempted to use the same kind of players Wood used: wrestlers, tap dancing accordion players, chiropractors, and radio psychics?

Janet Varney: That’s a great question. I feel like we also have pretty good access to all those folks. So maybe that will get the next variety version. Because our friend, Jim Turner, is just about to do a fundraiser for the kind of variety acts who have been struggling in this last year, because of the many myriad things that they do.

So, I actually love that idea, Tony. And you’re right, it would be a totally different experience. That’s an interesting idea too, because we do come at it with a bunch of people who love the movie, but there’s also some major winking going on, as all the comedians and actors try to lean into being: “It’s my first time on stage, maybe my first time saying words,” really playing that up.

In the future, do you hope to see this performance eviscerated on Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000?

Dana Gould: That would be great. If they did this.

Janet Varney: Especially because Bill and Kevin have done it. They have been in our production of Plan 9. Bill had been what Laraine [Newman] did. Bill did the narration at a show, at SketchFest, and it was great.

Dana Gould: I would like to see Jonah making fun of himself.

Janet Varney: Yeah. Let’s get meta. Our fans can handle it. Fans of MST3K can handle it. Plant 9 fans can handle it. Everybody could handle it.

I know I’m paraphrasing Seinfeld, but as the person who’s trusted with Plan 9 and all that comes with that, did you get to see the first eight plans from outer space?

Janet Varney: And are you allowed to talk about it if you did?

Dana Gould: Exactly. What were they?

Janet Varney: So many questions.

Dana Gould: So many questions.

Were the first eight plans rejected?

Janet Varney: Or were they all executed? And I use that word purposefully. Were all of those plans executed and they didn’t have great results?

Dana Gould: That’s a drunk man at a typewriter, “Plan 9 sounds good.” I remember showing Plan 9 to somebody who’d never seen it before. And they turned to me afterwards and said, “Did he not have any friends he could have shown this to and gotten notes?” He didn’t have those kinds of friends.

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What are some of your favorite mistakes from the movie?

Janet Varney: Oh, God. I was going to say Dana had mentioned that the first time he saw the movie was on a video cassette that Tom Kenny and Dan Spencer, and Bobcat Goldthwait showed him. And I was actually going to ask, did you think it was the tape glitching at the end when the monologue goes from, blip to [makes a noise]? And you’re like, “Wait a minute. Back that up, hold on. Is somebody going to fix this?”

That’s definitely one. That’s a spectacularly new, weird problem in a movie that was not a consistent problem. So, you’re like, “Wait, how did that happen one time, in this very, very overt way?” So good.

Dana Gould: From the very beginning, it’s like the first time you saw William Shatner do “Rocket Man.” I remember, I had a party at my house, and I was working on The Ben Stiller Show, and everybody was there. And back then, there was no YouTube. You would just have these cassette tapes with all of the weird stuff that you had collected on it, like the farting priest and all these weird things that you had, and “Rocket Man.” And I remember showing “Rocket Man” at this thing and Bob Odenkirk just shouting at my television, “You’re a grown man. You’re a grown man.”

I always thought Shatner gave the same line reading for “Mr. Tambourine Man” as he did for “Kahn.”

Dana Gould: Yes, he did. He did. He had a couple of tricks, and he used them. Yeah. There’s one direction he doesn’t get a lot, “You want to just try one big? You want to just see how it goes?” “Take the chains off and let it rip?”

Was some of the background music in this reading, especially the oxidation bit, inspired by The Simpsons?

Dana Gould: That’s all Eban [Schletter, the musical accompanist], you have to ask Eban. But again, that’s great, especially the Solaronite song. Necessity being the mother of invention, that is a brutal chunk of dialogue for anybody, a thankless, brutal chunk. And every time I give it to Paul, I say, “I’m apologizing ahead of time. I give it to you because I don’t want anybody else to do it. Because if it was anybody else, it would be death.”

Eban came up with that. And we were just like, “Maybe we can break this up. Maybe there’s a way to break this up.” And then Eban came up with that kind of thing. And it is one of those things that I love, that it’s like a mutant. It’s grown into its own weird thing to solve its inherent problems. You can’t describe it to anybody. It’s just like, you have to see it.

I used to remember describing Kevin Meaney, the comedian. I used to just tell people, “I can’t describe what he does. You just have to see him, but then you’ll know. You only need a minute, and you’ll get it. But I can’t describe it to you.” That’s really a good analogy.

Laraine Newman, I believe, steals this as the narrator. How much of that is improvised and how much of that is written by you? Because I know that you wrote the stage directions.

Dana Gould: It’s written, but Laraine, I call it “newscaster flat.” Laraine knows how the notes need to be played. It’s like the Wrecking Crew, you have a guitar behind you. I don’t know what Tommy Tedesco is going to play, but I know it’s going to be good. I don’t know what Carol Kaye is going to play, but I trust it. It’s the same thing. It’s a murderers’ row, and I wouldn’t have the gall to tell them what to do.

Janet Varney: It takes a very specific kind of confidence as a performer to be that deadpan. It’s such a specific skill. And it’s a skill, I think, born out of a type of bravado and expertise that’s all just tightly contained in this tiny space, where she’s not trying to sell any of it. And that is the genius behind what she does is just letting it lay out there like that. I mean, it’s hard.

When you have something that you know is funny and you would be laughing yourself, if you were listening to someone else read it, it’s so hard not to want to sell it. Like, can I make this even funnier? And she’s like, “No, I need to take it all the way back, to the back of the house just like, who me, who me? I’m just reading these things.” And it’s just so brilliant.

Dana Gould: This is a person that did sketches on live television with John Belushi and Bill Murray. So she definitely knows where her center of gravity is.

Janet Varney: That’s right. Well said.

Dana Gould: And yeah, again, unflinching. And that takes, as a performer, just like a little inside baseball, a lot of control and to really, to have control of your own ego, to know that I’m going to get what I want by stepping way back. I mean, Sterling Hayden is the only person I’ve ever seen blow Peter Sellers off the screen. And he does it just by, he’s like a statue, but there’s so much weight to it.

In the original movie, I love the “Criswell Predicts.” So I wanted to ask, Janet, do you get asked to do bathroom readings?

Janet Varney: I would if asked, I would love to. That’s one of the things that’s great about Ed Wood in general too, is just having this a sort of fascination with the occult and that kind of thing. And the way that it fits into camp is so appealing. And so, yeah, I would very happily jump back into some bad psychic practices if I could. Hopefully, I will someday.

Dana Gould: And an unerring dedication to Wicker furnishings.

Janet Varney: That’s right. Always that. Paula and her wicker.

Because the table read is done during COVID and everyone feels an immediacy to Zoom calls, were you ever at all concerned about an Orson Welles’ scenario, where the residents of San Fernando Valley will believe they’re under attack by flying saucers from outer space?

Janet Varney: If only.

Dana Gould: Yeah. That’s the least of our problems out here. I don’t know when you visited last time, but the walking dead, they’re around.

The table read of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space airs on Friday, May 7 at 8pm on TCM. Plan 9 from Outer Space airs at 9:30pm.

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01. LITHUANIA

Ieva Zasimauskaite - “When we’re old” 12th place

After six, long arduous months, this ranking somehow outlived the entire Almaia relationship, and that alone should be reason enough to finish the ranking immediately, but the the upcoming ban of all nfsw stuff (/porn) from this website will also cause a homosexual exodus (homosexodus? 🤔), sooooo, definitely time to finish this ranking before I lose 85% of my current audience. 

Look, listen OKAY, just like how I naturally gravitate towards Lea Sirk’s sass and Elina’s pristineness and DoReDoS’s hilarious whateverthatwas, I was simply never *not* going to like a Lithuanian frumpy space princess and annointed HINDU with a voice more brittle than Theresa May’s position in the House of Commons, whose meditation rites include drinking a cup of boiling water (without the tea! just water) on a daily basis to *purify* her mind and soul. Okay the last MAY be an exaggeration on the behalf of the Flemish commentator (Peter Van de Veire is a known jokester), but then again, I can totally see Ieva telling this to random bystanders in her hotel lobby? Such oblivious, but well-meaning wackiness is just so Ieva SassyMouseKyte. 

Naturally, one MASSIVE part of my Ieva stanning is JUST her personality, which is both intensely kooky and disarmingly innocent, see above. Another example: Ieva serenly sliding off the stage during the semifinal, only to find the nearest camera and exclaim  ”I FELT THE PRESENCE OF *GODS* ON THE STAGE WHILE I WAS SINGING ^__^ I FEEL *ENLIGHTENED* 🤗🤗” llke she was Siddharta Gautama under the Bodhi tree <3 I am no a religious man but if Ieva said the stage was brightened with a non-descript Eastern Deity’s presence during the performance, who am I to refute it? 😁 

Gods or no gods, I will say that it took a *serious* amount of dharma to give us *the most unexpected gift* we’ve ever could’ve been granted, which is a COMPETENT EUROVISION ENTRY FOR LITHUANIA. In terms of Eurovision, Lithuania are amongst of the objective *worst* on a  terrifyingly consistent basis and here you have a fairly pleasant Ellie Goulding-inspired, frumpolicious Hindu cleric bringing a ballad about the inevitability of high medieval alliance pacts. Let’s Sing The Song That She Wrote:

Actually that’s selling the act a bit short, because for a brief moment, Ieva managed to transform her moment during the sheer INSANITY that was this year’s finale (well the sheer insanity streaked with horrifying, terrible, machinal dullness, not naming any names but *cough*austriaandaustralia*cough), into an oasis of *pure show-stopping sentiment* and that’s a powerful feat to accomplish for a Eurovision entry. Normally, you think such an entry would Blackbird itself into oblivion but as Ieva had prophetically declared, GOD WAS ON HER SIDE, AMEN, so nope, think again Christerifer Morningstar 😈

Speaking of, praise Hallellujah, Oh Glory and Mazzel-Motherfucking-Tov that Ieva qualified under the hilarity that is the current combined voting system (to those who still hate it, AISEL would’ve qualified under the old system despite being 12th in both jury and televote 🙃 Granted this would be funny if this had happened to Sennek or Ari or Eye Cue or basically anyone other than Aisel, but it didn’t so The Old System remains CANCELLED, s/n/s) because not only is Ieva an Elyon Goddess Moste High, and has the unique quality of being a Good Entry from Lithuania, “When We’re Old” is also... fucking awesome in itself?

 “When we’re old” is *not* your typical BorisBubbles fave on the surface (lol as if I can expect you to know what a typical Boris fave is after only two full rankings  on tumblr 😬), but it totally is? Ieva hits that personal sweet spot for me that I require from my faves: Quirky, but not overbearingly weird. Well-liked, but not liked *enough* to top every post-show list. Sentimental, but because her emotions are *real*, not because of some forced commercialized acting gig. (such as, um, fucking Rona Nishliu and her fake-as-fuck dry sobbing ugh die bitch! (k not literally, just musically, 5ever)). Also, this song makes me want to sing along like the soft ass fag that I am. “When Weeeeeeeeee’re OWLED Hooooooooooooooo!!!” All of this cements Ieva as a dark horse, an underdog and an eternal outsider and these are  the *specific*  type of entries that I started this blog for.   

I guess I should write a bit more, with more *sass and pizzazz*, but that’s basically my Ieva love in a nutshell! I think she’s an utter gem, both as a human and a Eurovision participant, “When We’re Old” *still* remains the only entry this year to give me *emotional attachment* in the form of shivers and near-tears and bad impromptu karaoke.  If you don’t think she’s all that, well that’s your loss, not sorry! She made the final through the good graces of Hare Krishna and did better than Jessi*can’t* and *No*lexander ! If I get a relationship, I want it be precisely like Ieva and her Hubbo’s. GET A LIFE!!

ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF EUROVISION 2018

Thank you for reading this ranking, it’s been a blast! See you on the 1st of April 2019 for the #TelAviv2019 preshow ranking. God bless you and shalom! 

EUROVISION 2018 - POST SHOW

01. Lithuania (Ieva Zasimauskaite - “When we’re old”) 02. Moldova (DoReDoS - “My Lucky Day”)

03. Estonia (Elina Nechayeva - “La Forza”)

04. Slovenia (Lea Sirk - “Hvala, ne!”)

05. Switzerland (ZiBBZ - “Stones”)

06. Germany (Michael Schulte - “You let me walk alone”)

07. Albania (Eugent Bushpepa - “Mall”)

08. France (Madame Monsieur - “Mercy”)

09. Hungary (AWS - “Viszlát nyár”)

10. Finland (Saara Aalto - “Monsters”)

11. Bulgaria (EQUINOX - “Bones”)

12. Denmark (Rasmussen - “Higher ground”)

13. Malta (Christabelle - “Taboo”)

14. Cyprus (Eleni Foureira - “Fuego”)

15. United Kingdom (SuRie - “Storm”)

16. Serbia (Balkanika - “Nova Deca”)

17. Portugal (Cláudia Pascoal - “O jardim”)

18. The Netherlands (Waylon - “Outlaw in ‘em”)

19. Ukraine (MÉLOVIN - “Under the ladder”)

20. Macedonia (Eye Cue - “Lost and Found”)

21. San Marino (Jessika ft. Jenifer Brening - “Who We Are”)

22. Sweden (Benjamin Ingrosso - “Dance You Off”)

23. Austria (Cesár Sampson - “Nobody but you”)

24. Latvia (Laura Rizzotto - “Funny girl”)

25. Azerbaijan (AISEL - “X my heart”)

26. Israel (Netta - “Toy”)

27. Norway (Alexander Rybak  - “That’s how you write a song”)

28. Montenegro (Vanja Radovanovic - “Inje”)

29. Armenia (Sevak Khanagyan - “Qami”)

30. Poland (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer - “Light me up”)

31. Greece (Yianna Terzi - “Oniro mou”)

32. Georgia (Iriao - “For you”)

33. Belgium (Sennek - “A matter of time”)

34. Italy (Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - “Non mi avete fatto niente”)

35. Romania (The Humans - “Goodbye”)

36. Ireland (Ryan O'Shaughnessy - “Together”)

37. Croatia (Franka - “Crazy”)

38. Belarus (ALEKSEEV - “Forever”)

39. Russia (Julia Samoylova - “I Won’t Break”)

40. Spain (Amaia & Alfred - “Tu canción”)

41. Iceland (Ari Ólafsson - “Our choice”)

42. Australia (Jessica Mauboy - “We got love”)

43. Czech Republic (Mikolas Jozef - “Lie to me”)

HALL OF BORIS BUBBLES EUROVISION FAVES (1972-2018) 1972: the Netherlands (Sandra & Andres - “Als het om de liefde gaat”) 1973: United Kingdom (Cliff Richard - “Power to all our friends”) 1974: Sweden (ABBA - “Waterloo”) (ed: totally by default btw. Shit year.) 1975: Germany (Joy Fleming - “Ein Lied kann Eine Brücke Sein” )  1976: Luxembourg (Jürgen Marcus - “Chansons pour ceux qui s’aiment”) (😂) 1977: Belgium (Dream Express - “A million in 1-2-3″) (ed.: top five ESC year) 1978: Israel (Izhar Cohen & Alfabeta - “A Ba Ni Bi”) 1979: Germany (Dschinghis Khan - “Dschinghis Khan”) 1980: Luxembourg (Sofie & Magaly - “Papa Pingouïn”) 1981: Belgium - (Emly Starr - “Samson”) 1982: Germany - (Nicole - “Ein Bißchen Frieden”) 1983: Israel (Ofra Haza - “Hi”) 1984: Ireland (Linda Martin - “Terminal 3″) 1985: Turkey (MFÖ - “Didai, Didai, Dai”) 1986: Belgium (Sandra Kim - ”J’aime la vie”) (même si c’est une folie!) 1987: Belgium (Liliane St. Pierre - “Soldiers of Love”) (ed.: top Five esc entry) 1988: Switzerland (Céline Dion - “Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi”) 1989: Denmark ( Birthe Kjær -  "Vi maler byen rød") 1990: Yugoslavia/Croatia (Tajci - “Hajde, da ludujemo) 1991: Sweden (Carola -  “ Fångad av en stormvind”) (ed.: top five ESC entry) 1992: Denmark (Lotte Nilsson & Kenny Lübcke - “Allting som ingen ser”) 1993: the Netherlands (Ruth Jacott - “Vrede”) 1994: Germany (MeKaDo  - “Wir geben ‘ne Party”) 1995: Cyprus (Alexandros Panayi - “Sti fotia”) 1996:  Croatia (Maja Blagdan - “Sveta ljubav”) 1997: Poland (Anne-Marie Jopek - “Ale jestem”) (ed.: Top five ESC year) 1998: the Netherlands (Edsilia Rombley - “Hemel en aarde”) (I think???? lol 😬) 1999: Croatia (Doris Dragovic - “MARIJA MAGDALENAAAAAAA”) 2000: Latvia (Brainstorm - “My Star”) (ed.: top five ESC entry) 2001: France (Natasha St. Pier - “Je n’ai que mon âme”) (but also, nobody) 2002: Spain (Rosa - “Yooropz leebin a selebrayshun”) (ed.: this trashfest <3) 2003: Germany (Lou - “Let’s get happy”) (and let’s be GAY!) 2004: Albania (Anjeza Shahini - “Image of you”) 2005: Romania (Luminita Anghel and Sistem - “Let me try”) (Ed.: top five year) 2006: Iceland (Silvia Night - “Congratulations”) (ed.: 2006 SF > 2006 GF 😬)   2007: Georgia (Sopho - “Visionary Dream”) (ed.: i have about 9 absofaves from this year though lol) 2008: Iceland (Euroband - “This is my life) 2009: Iceland (Yohanna - “Is it true?”) (ed.: top five ESC entry) 2010: Albania (Juliana Pasha - “It’s all about you”) 2011: Germany (Lena - “Taken by a stranger) (ed.: top 5 entry, bottom 5 year >_<) 2012: Sweden (Loreen - “Euphoria”) (ed.: as with ABBA Loreen wins my ranking by default because this year is mostly rubbish.) 2013: Greece (Koza Mostra - “Alcohol is free”) (ed.: personal fave ESC year :)) 2014: Slovenia (Tinkara Kovac ft. Lea Sirk - “Round and round) (ed.: top five ESC year) 2015: Latvia (Aminata - “Love Injected”)  2016: Armenia (Iveta Mukuchyan - “LoveWave) 2017: Belgium (Blanche - “City Lights”) 2018: Lithuania (Ieva Zasimauskaite - “When we’re old”) (ooooohhhhhhhh)

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“The Lucy Show” ~ Season 4

A handy dandy guide to helping you find your favorite episode blogs here at Papermoon Loves Lucy. Click on the hyperlinks to be taken directly to that episode’s trivia, background, and bloopers!

“Lucy at Marineland” (S4;E1) ~ September 13, 1965

“Lucy and the Golden Greek” (S4;E2) ~ September 20, 1965

“Lucy in the Music World” (S4;E3) ~ September 27, 1965

“Lucy and Joan” (S4;E4) ~ October 11, 1965

“Lucy the Stunt Man” (S4;E5) ~ October 18, 1965

“Lucy and the Countess Have a Horse Guest” (S4;E6) ~ October 25, 1965

“Lucy Helps Danny Thomas” (S4;E7) ~ November 1, 1965

“Lucy Helps the Countess” (S4;E8) ~ November 8, 1965

“Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty” (S4;E9) ~ November 15, 1965

“Lucy and the Undercover Agent” (S4;E10) ~ November 22, 1965

“Lucy and the Return of  Iron Man” (S4;E11) ~ November 29, 1965

“Lucy Saves Milton Berle” (S4;E12) ~ December 6, 1965

“Lucy the Choirmaster” (S4;E13) ~ December 13, 1965

“Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton” (S4;E14) ~ December 27, 1965

“Lucy, the Rain Goddess” (S4;E15) ~ January 3, 1966

“Lucy and Art Linkletter” (S4;E16) ~ January 10, 1966

“Lucy Bags a Bargain” (S4;E17) ~ January 17, 1966

“Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney” (S4;E18) ~ January 24, 1966

“Lucy and the Soap Opera” (S4;E19) ~ January 31, 1966

“Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (S4;E20) ~ February 7, 1966

"Lucy Dates Dean Martin” (S4;E21) ~ February 14, 1966

“Lucy and Bob Crane” (S4;E22) ~ February 21, 1966

“Lucy, the Robot” (S4;E23) ~ February 28, 1966

“Lucy and Clint Walker” (S4;E23) ~ March 7, 1966

“Lucy, the Gun Moll” (S4;E24) ~ March 14, 1966

“Lucy, the Superwoman” (S4;E26) ~ March 21, 1966

SEASON SUMMARY

Regular Cast: Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis)

Recurring Characters: Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Mel Torme (Mel Tinker), Joan Blondell (Joan Brenner), Ann Sothern (Rosie Harrigan, the Countess Frambois), Clint Walker (Frank Winslow), Mary Wickes (Aunt Gussie)

Guest Cast playing Characters: Lucie Arnaz, Desi Arnaz Jr., Harvey Korman, Sid Gould, Lou Krugman, Keith Andes, Herb Vigran, William Frawley, Dick Patterson, Jack Cassidy, Parley Baer, Eleanor Audley, Gary Morton, Jamie Farr, Doris Singleton, Elvia Allman, Jane Kean, Jan Murray, Reta Shaw, John Banner, Jay North, Vitto Scotti, Robert Stack, Bruce Gordon 

Guest Cast playing Themselves: Jimmy Piersall, Reb Foster, Danny Thomas, Milton Berle, Wayne Newton, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Durante, Kirk Douglas, Art Linkletter, Vince Edwards, Edward G. Robinson, Dean Martin, Bob Crane 

Live Animal Cast: Dolphin (Splash), Seal, Horse (Oil Well), Foals (Lucy and Rosie), Sheep Dog (Nelson), Cow (Bessie), donkey, faun, calf, goats, geese, turkey, chickens, rabbit, lamb, pigeons (all in “Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton”), Mutt (”Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney”), Basset Hound (Lightning) 

There were 26 new episodes

The location of the show was changed from Danfield, New York, to Los Angeles, California.

Changes: Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) was transferred to a bank in Los Angeles. Lucy Carmichael got a job at this bank.  Although her son Jerry (Jimmy Garrett) made two appearances, her daughter Chris (Candy Moore) was said to be away in college. Vivian (Vivian Vance) remained in Danfield with her son Sherman (Ralph Hart). Viv married and her character was now known as Vivian Bunson.  

Episodes Written by: Garry Marshall, Jerry Belson, Milt Josefsberg, Bob O’Brien, Iz Ellinson, Fred S. Fox,  Edmund Beloin, Henry Garson, Brad Radnitz, Bruce Howard, Henry Taylor, Howard Ostroff, Henry Taylor,  Elroy Schwartz, Hugh Wedlock, Jr., Allan Manings

All episodes Directed by Maury Thompson

All episodes filmed and aired in color

Filmed at Stage 21, Desilu Studios, Hollywood

Location Shoots: Marineland, Palos Verdes, California

Total Binge Hours: 13 hours (with commercials)

Papermoon’s Full Moon Pick: “Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (E20)

Papermoon’s Half Moon Pick: “Lucy, the Superwoman” (E26)

Season 4 was #3 in the ratings (up from #8) with a 27.7 share (up from 26.6)

Lucille Ball was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Comedy Series, but lost to Mary Tyler Moore of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

Season 4 was released on DVD on April 26, 2011