#Magyar Power 50

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[“El arte está muerto”]

[canmom]

Animation Night 157: Hungary

Jó estét mindenkinek! Eljött az Animációs Éjszaka ideje.

Good evening everyone! It’s time for Animation Night.

Hungary!

Tonight I’m going to continue the grand tradition of ‘copying Aniobsessive-senpai’s homework’, and take us to visit the ‘Hungarian school of animation’, aka magyar rajzfilmiskola. They were a bunch of experimental weirdos from the period when Hungary was ruled Much like the Zagreb School from across the border in Croatia (AN 136), who were a biiiig influence, they launched away from the midcentury UPA style and experiments like Yellow Submarine to make something unique.

The best known Hungarian animated film is Son of the White Mare (1981) directed by Marcell Jankovics. Lemme quote Aniobsessive:

[White Mare] is hard to compare to other animated features. Marcell Jankovics and his team used Hungarian folk art and folk tales as the basis for a huge, mind-expanding, psychedelic adventure movie. It tells an accessible story in an art-house style — 90 minutes of searing colors and spellbinding patterns, with each character in a state of constant transformation.

This film was wildly influential, reaching people like Genndy Tarkovsky to form a big part of the DNA of Samurai Jack. But White Mare didn’t spring out of nowhere.

The 20th century for Hungary was, to put it mildly, a rough time. Here’s a really really brief version. In World War I, Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which lost the war hard and basically collapsed. In the resulting power vacuum the country was separated from Austria and went through a brief communist revolution which fell to a monarchist counterrevolution; the monarchists surrendered to the Entente in 1920 and gave up most of the country’s land. In the new peace, the new monarchy set about their agenda of ‘doing antisemitism’, which predictably got a great deal worse in the 30s following the great depression and the rise of Hitler nearby.

So in WWII, Hungary sided with the Axis. They joined Hitler in invading the USSR, and got pretty much crushed. The Hungarians started negotiations to break from the Axis and surrender, but Hitler noticed and quickly ordered his soldiers to occupy, appointing a Nazi governor; at this point the Holocaust in Hungary kicked up a gear and the Nazi-backed Hungarian government deported hundreds of thousands of Jewish people to the death camps. To brush over a messy story, within a year the Soviets counter-invaded and destroyed the fascist government, establishing Hungary as in the Soviet sphere of influence in the aftermath of the war. The Hungarian communist party, which had existed despite its ban during the war, joined forces with communists from Moscow... uneasily.

After briefly playing with elections, the Soviets reorganised Hungary as a single-party Leninist state. The new government set about the whole show-trials-and-purges-and-statues-of-the-leader routine, attacking his rivals as spies in the pocket of the Americans, or maybe Big Trotsky. A lot of messy intra-party politics took place while the country struggled economically, attempting to copy Stalin in dismantling the peasants and building heavy industry. In the 50s, a certain prime minister Imre Nagy won popularity by relaxing some of the state control and closing labour camps and so forth, but this put him at odds with Moscow, and he was attacked as a right-deviationist and driven out of politics. But not for long...

(Did you think that was an end to the antisemitism btw? Lmao no of course not. In 1953 the government tried to frame three random Jews for the abduction of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish industrialist who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust, who in reality died in a Soviet prison. That whole affair abruptly stopped when Stalin died.)

In 1956 it all came to a head with the ‘Hungarian Revolution’, started by students, which like all such uprisings was messy but broadly was pro-Nagy and anti-Soviet. Nagy, who had only recently been returned from political exile in the wake of the ‘Khruschev Thaw’, took control of the party with his allies. He went so far as to announce that Hungary might even withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. ‘Excuse me?’ said Khruschev, and sent in the Red Army tanks to remove Nagy and his supporters, killing about 20,000 people in the process. This is one of the two incidents that led to the coinage of the word ‘tankie’, originally meaning someone who defended Khruschev’s intervention.

The next guy, János Kádár, started out by attacking the participants in the 1956 uprising, but changed his tune and declared an amnesty in the 60s, establishing a relatively relaxed set of policies nicknamed ‘Goulash Communism’ which encouraged foreign trade and consumerism. As such, it’s this period where Hungary started making a bunch of animated films.

Because yeah this is a post about cartoons actually!

In the 60s, Hungarian animators - funded by the state - were following in the footsteps of the Zagreb School, with its unique approach to timing and design philosophy. But eager ot put their own spin on it, they started introducing bright colours and textures to the UPA style, in films like Duel (1960) and Ball with White Dots (1961).

In 1968, Sándor Reisenbüchler, a colleage of Jankovics at Pannonia Film Studio with a wildly improvisational method, released his first short film The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon, created with the assistance of his wife. The film is an absolute riot of shapes and colours, all relating a story of a many-headed dragon which devours all the stars until a hero comes to slay it. For Reisenbüchler it’s an anti-war metaphor. Despite being controversial back home, the government eagerly started spreading it abroad in Russia and US alike as a symbol of cool shit being made in Hungary.

Reisenbüchler would go on to make many more films, such as The Year of 1812 (Az 1812-es év) in 1972, but he’d still hold a special place in his heart for Kidnapping.

The British film Yellow Submarine dropped in 1968, and sent major waves into both Hungary and Yugoslavia. For Hungarian artists like Jankovics, it was the inspiration they needed to find a third pole of animation, distinct from both the Disney tradition and the UPA style. He appreciated the space it offered for inconsistency - character designs would no longer need to be identical in every shot, the messiness could be part of the style.

In 1973, Jankovics directed the first feature-length Hungarian animated film, titled Johnny Corncob (János Vitéz). Based on an 1845 epic poem, it tells the story of the worldwide adventures of a young soldier separated from his over, completed over a period of 22 months at Pannonia. The film was a huge undertaking, and its style is unlike pretty much anything before or since, with something of a Western flavour, and uniquely Hungarian outfits...

The next year, Jankovics released a much smaller project, the two-minute long Sisyphus. Jankovics was determined to constantly reinvent his style, lest his films get lost in the shadow of the ones before.

In contrast to the bright colours and textures, Sisyphus, completed in just six weeks, keeps things about as simple as possible: pure black and white silhouettes with a brush texture. Most of the 1800 drawings were by Jankovics himself, and much of the rest by Edit Szalay, who would soon become a key part of White Mare. Into the myth of Sisyphus, Jankovics channeled his own struggles with the nigh impossible task of creating the country’s first animated film. And this film proved wildly popular, running around the world from Yugoslavia to Iran. It threatened to overshadow everything else Jankovics did, and so he changed his style up completely for White Mare.

As the 70s went on, the films just got more experimental. Honeymation (Mézes-táncos) in 1975, directed Ferenc Varsáyani, decided to do a stop motion film entirely with gingerbread people. It was photographed by Gábor Csupó, who would later leave Hungary to America and co-create the Rugrats series. Eventually he would reunite with Varasáyani who would come to work on Rugrats too...

The 70s also saw the wildly popular TV series Rabbit with Checkered Ears, dir. Zsolt Richly and written by Veronika Marék. The two became friends while writing for a childrens’ magazine, and that magazine style would adapt perfectly to depict the clumsy, floppy rabbit. In a big cabin in the yard of Pannonia, Zsolt Richly oversaw the creation of the series for years. You can read more about the story here.

And of course this whole thing was a massive success in both Hungary and pretty much everywhere else, launching both into animation. The floppy plush main character reminds me a little of Marumi from Paranoia Agent, but this one isn’t so sinister. It’s just a very cute bunny in an appealing style. All the episodes are entirely wordless, relying on the expressive movement and music to convey the story. This person seems to have uploaded the full series on Youtube, albeit not really organised into a playlist, so check it out ^^

As then we enter the 80s, Jankovics got the studio working on their biggest project, Son of the White Mare, bringing all these threads together into one massive project, the magnum opus of the Hungarian school at large. So that’s what we’re going to watch tonight! A whirlwind tour of Hungarian animation’s important short films, and Son of the White Mare. (I would show Johnny Corncob as well, but it’s late and it’s proving slow to download, so another week.)

Eventually of course the Soviet Union fell, and Hungary’s Leninist state apparently transitioned to a regular capitalist one relatively gently. Pannonia continued to function, making films up to around 2011 with the final film of Jankovics, The Tragedy of Man, but ultimately closed its doors in 2015. Jankovics himself passed away in 2021. I would love to investigate some of this later Hungarian animation, but I’ll have to save that for another day...

And so! Animation Night 157 will go live in just a minute at twitch.tv/canmom, and I plan to begin showing films on the hour (22:00 UK time)! I’d love to see you there!! Let’s check out a corner of animation history that is far too unknown, and watch a film that’s said (by someone somewhere) to be one of the best animated films of all time...

[mariacallous]

Viktor Orban is playing poker in Brussels these days. By blocking decision-making on important issues such as European Union enlargement, Sweden’s proposed membership in NATO, and the European budget, the Hungarian prime minister has been exasperating colleagues from other EU member states. This week, 27 national leaders have to travel to a summit in Brussels for one main reason: Orban’s continued refusal to agree to a 50 billion euro ($54.2 billion) financial aid package for Ukraine.

Orban’s tactics, however, are not very surprising when seen in historic perspective. The use of blackmail has been part of the Hungarian political playbook for centuries. In the Habsburg Empire, which Hungary belonged to until its collapse at the end of the First World War in 1918, it behaved in a similar way—and this included taking the common budget hostage.

For those wondering how the EU should deal with Orban in the future and whether he will ever stop being so difficult, this historical parallel is particularly instructive.

(Spoiler: He will not stop being difficult.)

Hungarians were a stubborn people in Habsburg times, too. Of all the nations and languages and religious groups within the multinational empire, they were easily the most demanding. They knew that Emperor Franz Joseph (1830-1916) wanted to prevent the empire from falling apart at almost all cost and would go far to accommodate them.

In the mid-19th century, when Hungary was the empire’s largest grain producer, the Hungarians even stopped food production to the rest of the empire for several years, producing just enough flour to be able to feed themselves. In what was called the Passive Resistance movement, Hungarians also stopped paying taxes and boycotted public offices.

This was their reaction to the harsh way that Vienna had squashed their political rebellion during Europe’s revolutionary years in 1848-1849. Their main demand was far-reaching autonomy. And sure enough, in the end, their civil disobedience was effective: In 1867, the empire was transformed into the so-called Dual Monarchy, a kind of alliance of two sovereign states, Austria and Hungary, each with far-reaching powers within the empire. From then on, the Hungarians were allowed practical self-rule on matters such as education and health care in their half of the empire (which also included present-day Croatia, Slovakia, and Romania). Foreign policy and defense, however, remained federal. There, the kaiser was firmly in charge.

Many historians agree that the Hungarians got the best deal of all constituent parts in the empire because of their stubbornness and tough negotiating tactics. In the Double Monarchy, Hungary prospered. Yet it was never satisfied and always pushed—or rather squeezed—the emperor for more.

In one instance, just like today, Hungary took part of the Habsburg budget hostage in order to get what it wanted: the dismantling of the federal army, which the Hungarians considered a thorn in their side. “Hungary’s integration in the EU has not effaced [Habsburg] memories that often come up and are hardly understood by West-Europeans,” French historian Catherine Horel writes in her 2021 book Histoire de la Nation Hongroise; des premiers Magyars à Viktor Orbán (or History of the Hungarian Nation: From the First Hungarians to Viktor Orban).

The Hungarians saw the imperial army as an occupational force. They wanted to have their own army. Because the emperor refused their demand, they tried to undo some of the army’s crucial underpinnings instead. For instance, they detested the federal language law that stipulated that officers and soldiers (Czechs, Slovenes, etc.) could speak their mother tongues while on duty. At the time of the Dual Monarchy, no fewer than 13 languages were spoken in the empire.

To the emperor, who spoke many of those languages more or less fluently, multilingualism was the spirit of the multinational empire. Among themselves, soldiers often spoke German, but this was by no means compulsory. Hungary detested this practice, too. In its half of the empire, only 40 percent of the people spoke Hungarian, or Magyar. But immediately after the Ausgleich of 1867—the compromise that established the Dual Monarchy—the Hungarians introduced a law forcing everyone to use Hungarian.

Non-Hungarian schools, for instance, were closed. While the Austrian half of the empire became more liberal and decentralized over time, Hungary did the opposite in its half: Everything was centralized and Magyarized. “There were hardly any representatives of the national minorities in the Hungarian Parliament (where the language was, of course, Magyar),” Habsburg expert Steven Beller writes in his book The Habsburg Monarchy, 1815-1918.

In 1903, the Hungarian parliament launched an attack on the imperial language law by refusing to approve the military budget. Just like in today’s EU, Hungary had a veto over the budget.

The emperor was furious. At that time, France, tsarist Russia, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire—the powers surrounding the Habsburg Empire—were conducting an arms race. They were spending 3 percent to 4 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. This worried the emperor a great deal. Habsburg weaponry was outdated. If war came, his empire could soon be outgunned. So, Franz Joseph implored Hungary, which had tens of thousands of soldiers in the imperial army, to behave more responsibly in the face of these serious international threats.

But the Hungarians did what they often do when everyone puts pressure on them—dig in. This is exactly how they behave nowadays in Brussels: The more that collective pressure piles up on Orban, the more the Hungarian self-image seems to confirm that they are on their own.

“We always tend to go against the rest of the world,” Hungarian ambassador Anna Siko explained a few years ago in a lively discussion on the parallels between the Habsburg Empire and the EU. “We always create tension and make other people’s lives difficult, because we need to prove every day who we are.” The reason, according to her, is that the Hungarian “allergy to others telling us what to do … makes us wild and very undiplomatic.”

Diplomats and analysts in Brussels say they are not sure what Orban is really after. His goal posts seem to shift all the time. One of the things that Orban certainly wants is to get European subsidies that Brussels currently withholds—approximately 20 billion euros ($21.7 billion)—because of Hungary’s rampant corruption and its violations of the rule of law. In order to get those funds, he blocks everything that comes along: Swedish NATO membership, the financial and military aid package for Ukraine, or the reappointment of the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. The more vital the issue for other member states, the better.

In 1903, the emperor managed to break Hungary’s blockade with an unusual bluff: He suddenly presented a new, surprisingly liberal electoral law that gave minorities considerably more voting rights. This law, Franz Joseph announced, was to take effect in the entire empire. Budapest, hating enhanced minority rights even more than the imperial army’s language law, promptly approved the budget that it had previously blocked. Soon enough, of course, the emperor’s electoral law with enhanced minorities rights was taken off the table, too.

Following this analogy, could other 26 EU member states perhaps break the standoff with Hungary on the budget by proposing something that Orban hates more than sending 50 billion euros to Ukraine?

There is probably only one thing that would displease Hungary’s prime minister more than missing out on EU subsidies: being deprived of his voting rights in the EU Council (a procedure contained in Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union). According to diplomats who spoke with Politico, this nuclear option is currently being discussed among the other member states. However, chances that it will be used seem slim. Some national leaders apparently fear that if it is used against Orban now, it could be used against them tomorrow.

And so the 26 member states seem condemned to muddling through with Hungary. This explains why Orban, while lambasting the European Union every day, does not want an exit from the EU: He is far more powerful inside the EU than he would be outside it. He uses membership as leverage.

This is exactly what the Hungarians did in the Habsburg Empire: By being obnoxious, they obtained the best deals of all. But can you guess who left last, when the empire collapsed and all the nations had departed one by one? Exactly: It was Hungary.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.10 (before 1950)

654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. 991 – Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex. 1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum. 1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland. 1346 – Jaume Ferrer sets out from Majorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River. 1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines. 1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551–59. 1585 – The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels. 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage off Stockholm. 1641 – The Treaty of London between England and Scotland, ending the Bishops' Wars, is signed. 1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico. 1741 – King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India. 1755 – Under the direction of Charles Lawrence, the British begin to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies and France. 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob. 1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces led by General von Döbeln defeat Russian forces led by General Šepelev in the Battle of Kauhajoki. 1835 – P. T. Barnum begins his career as a showman and circus entrepreneur by exhibiting Joice Heth, an octogenerian African slave whom he claims was George Washington's nursemaid. 1856 – The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths. 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state. 1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War. 1901 – The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place. 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 1913 – Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war. 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Second Spanish Republic. 1945 – The Japanese government announced that a message had been sent to the Allies accepting the terms of the Potsdam Declaration provided that it "does not comprise any demand that prejudices the prerogatives of the Emperor as sovereign ruler." 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as The Candid Microphone. 1949 – An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.

[wingedchildtiger]

Man City valuable

Man City named world's most valuable football club brand Man City has been named the most valuable football club brand in the world after topping the Brand Finance Football 50 report for the first time

Five other English clubs appear in the top 10: Man Utd (fourth), Liverpool (fifth), Arsenal (eighth), Tottenham (ninth), Chelsea (10th).

It is the first time an English club has topped the list in six years and comes after a 34 per cent growth in the club's brand since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hugo Hensley, associate director at Brand Finance, said: "Premier League brands make up 45 per cent of the value of the top 50, and the league has the highest number of brands (18) represented; the seven from London is more than Serie A or Ligue 1 in total.

"This is most obviously due to the financial power Premier League teams possess thanks to huge broadcasting contracts, however, this is merely a reflection of the attractiveness of the league and its clubs to fans and sponsors around the world.

"Brand Finance market research shows that the league is seen as the most competitive and exciting league to watch, and is perceived as having more world-class players and clubs than any other league, while Manchester United and Liverpool were rated first and third respectively for the metric.

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"Relatively equal distribution of broadcasting revenue, and the league’s reach allowing even smaller or newly promoted clubs to secure significant sponsorships, perpetuates the competitiveness that keeps the league exciting.

"Manchester City’s recent dominance could be considered a threat to the competitive nature, winning the title five times in the past six years, and echoing a problem is seen in Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and less recently in Serie A."

Twelve other British clubs made the list, too:

West Ham (16th), Newcastle (17th), Aston Villa (20th), Everton (23rd), Brighton (26th), Leicester (27th), Crystal Palace (29th), Wolves (32nd), Leeds (33rd), Celtic (42nd), Brentford (43rd), Fulham (49th).

[poorguysheadisdoingwhatnow]

A Newsies history lesson: Joseph Pulitzer

I haven’t done a Newsies history lesson in a while, so I thought I’d do another one about arguably one of the most interesting people in the story: Joseph Pulitzer, The World publisher and antagonist of the musical.

Buckle up, y’all, because this is a long one (but his life is worth the read, I’d say).

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Early Life

Joseph Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847, in Mako, Hungary to a wealthy Magyar-Jewish family. His father was a grain merchant who retired in Budapest, where Pulitzer grew up and attended school.

In 1864, when he was seventeen-years-old, Pulitzer tried enlist in the Austrian Army, Napoleon’s Foreign Legion, and the British Army, but he was rejected because of his poor eyesight and bad health.

Pulitzer still wanted to become a soldier, however, so he enlisted as a substitute for a draftee after meeting a bounty recruiter for the U.S. Union Army. Pulitzer enlisted for a year in the Lincoln Calvary, which worked for him because there were many German soldiers in the unit. Pulitzer was fluent in German and French; however, he spoke very little English.

After a year in the Lincoln Calvary, Pulitzer left for St. Louis, where he worked odd jobs as a muleteer, baggage handler, and waiter, among others. 

While in St. Louis, Pulitzer studied English and the law at Mercantile Library, and it was here, actually, that his journalism career began.

The Start of Pulitzer’s Journalism Career

Pulitzer met two editors of the leading German language daily, Westliche Post, while observing and critiquing their chess game, and they offered him a job after engaging him in conversation and finding him rather impressive.

In 1872, four years after beginning work for the Westliche Post, Pulitzer had already built a reputation as a journalist. He became a publisher for the paper at age 25, and by 1878, he had bought and become owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, another St. Louis-based newspaper. Pulitzer was already making his mark on the world of journalism.

Pulitzer worked tirelessly to improve and change the St. Louis Post-Dispatch into a spectacular newspaper. His specialties were investigative articles and editorials exposing corruption, tax-dodgers, and gamblers, and he did it incredibly well. This type of dramatic news was popular with the public, and the St. Louis Dispatch became very popular. 

The World

In 1883, Pulitzer met with Jay Gould, the financier, and bought The New York World, a newspaper close to bankruptcy. He immersed himself in The World, changing everything from its editorial policy to its format, and used some of the techniques that had helped the St. Louis Post-Dispatch prosper to build back up The World’s circulation.

“He crusaded against public and private corruption, filled the news columns with a spate of sensationalized features, made the first extensive use of illustrations, and staged news stunts,” a biographical article by Seymour Topping on the Pulitzer Prize website reads. “In one of the most successful promotions, The World raised public subscriptions for the building of a pedestal at the entrance to the New York harbor so that the Statue of Liberty, which was stranded in France awaiting shipment, could be emplaced.”

These techniques proved very successful, and over the next ten years, The World’s circulation increased to more than 600,000, and it became the largest circulating newspaper in the United States.

However, all this success came with a price that had only been building since the beginning of Pulitzer’s journalism career: both his health and his eyesight were rapidly failing, and there were many factors that only exacerbated the problems. One was Pulitzer’s unrelenting dedication to his work, and the other was a slanderous campaign against him by Charles Anderson Dana, publisher of The Sun, a competing newspaper.

Dana was frustrated by The World’s success, so he took matters into his own hands by attacking Pulitzer and his Jewish ancestry, writing him as “the Jew who had denied his race and religion”, and seeking to “alienate New York’s Jewish community from The World” (Topping).

This attack caused further stress on Pulitzer and caused his health to deteriorate to the point that he was virtually blind by 1890, when he then withdrew from the editorship of The World and was unable to return to its newsroom. Pulitzer also had severe depression, which was the partial cause of an illness that left him extremely sensitive to noise. Because of this, Pulitzer spent a great deal of the next portion of his life in soundproofed “vaults”, as he called them, “ aboard his yacht, Liberty, in the "Tower of Silence" at his vacation retreat in Bar Harbor, Maine, and at his New York mansion” (Topping).

Despite the fact that he was constantly travelling, trying in vain to find a cure for his illnesses, Pulitzer still kept a close eye on his newspapers and was very much involved in their editorial and business direction. He was so intent on keeping his communications with the newspapers secret that he actually kept a code book of approximately 20,000 names and terms.

The War, The Journal, and Yellow Journalism

1896 to 1898, Pulitzer found himself engaging in what has been described as a “bitter circulation battle” against William Randolph Hearst, who ran The New York Journal, during the years of Cuba’s rebellion against Spanish rule. The headlines and stories in both newspapers became increasingly sensationalized and inaccurate, coming to a head when the U.S. battleship Maine blew up and sank in Havana in February of 1898, and both The World and The Journal called for war against Spain.

After the Spanish-American War, Pulitzer withdrew from the battle with Hearst and what had become known as “yellow journalism” - the act of using sensationalized news, headlines, and cartoons to attract readers and increase circulation.

The Newsboys Strike of 1899

During the war, 200 publishers raised the price of a one-hundred paper bundle from 50 cents to 60 cents, which worked well for a time because so many newspapers were being sold due to the exciting headlines. Once the war ended, most papers brought their prices back down, but some--most notably The World and The Journal--did down, much to the anger of the newsboys who distributed those papers. The newsboys and girls (both groups referred to as newsies for the sake of consistency) declared a strike against the newspaper companies.

There were rallies in the name of the strike that drew more than 5,000 newsies from all over the city. Below is an excerpt from strike leader Kid Blink’s speech, quoted in an article by The New York Tribune:

“Friens and feller workers. Dis is a time which tries de hearts of men. Dis is de time when we’se got to stick together like glue…. We know wot we wants and we’ll git it even if we is blind.”

After two weeks, the newspapers and the newsies came to a compromise: the price of the papers would not decrease, but the newspaper companies would buy back any papers the newsies did not sell.

Columbia University

In 1903, Pulitzer donated $2,000,000 to Columbia University to help create the Columbia University School of Journalism. According to the State Historical Society of Missouri, “the school oversees the Pulitzer Prize, an award given to those who excel in journalism, literature, and music. The prize began with a donation from Pulitzer and was first awarded in 1917.”

“In May 1904, writing in The North American Review in support of his proposal for the founding of a school of journalism, Pulitzer summarized his credo: ‘Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations’“ (Topping).

Political Views

Pulitzer was active in politics in his twenties, and was elected to the Missouri state legislature in 1869. From 1871 to 1872, he helped to organize the Liberal Republican Party in Missouri, which nominated Horace Greeley to run for President in 1872. Greeley lost the election, the party collapsed, and Pulitzer became and remained a Democrat for the rest of his life. 

According to the United States History website, “Pulitzer supported organized labor, attacked trusts and monopolies, and exposed political corruption. He was committed to raising the standards of the journalism profession.”

Joseph Pulitzer and Theodore Roosevelt

There isn’t much on what Pulitzer wrote about Roosevelt before the latter was elected governor (at least not where I have easy access to it), but there is still controversy an event in 1909, when The World exposed a fraudulent payment of $40 million by the US to the French Panama Canal Company. Roosevelt then accused Pulitzer of spreading false information, and the federal government indicted Pulitzer for criminally libeling Roosevelt and the banker J.P. Morgan, as quoted in an article in The Herald and News (quotes by Roosevelt):

“The real offender is Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of the World. While the criminal offence of which Mr. Pulitzer has been guilty is in the form of a libel upon individuals, the great injury done is in blackening the good name of the American people. It should not be left to a private citizen to sue Mr. Pulitzer for libel. He should be prosecuted for libel by the government authorities.

“In point of encouragement of iniquity, in point of infamy, of wrongdoing, there is nothing to choose between a public servant who betrays his trust, a public servant who is guilty of blackmail or theft or financial dishonesty or any kind, and a man guilty as Mr. Jos[sic] Pulitzer has been guilty in this instance. It is, therefore, a high national duty to bring to justice this villifier of the American people, this man who wantonly and wickedly and without one shadow of justification seeks to blackmail the character of reputable private citizens and to convict the government of his own country in the eyes of the civilized world of wrong doing of the basest and foulest kind, when he has not one shadow of justification of any sort or description for the charge he has made. The attorney general has under consideration the form in which the proceedings against Mr. Pulitzer shall be brought.”

However, the courts ultimately dismissed the indictments against Pulitzer, and he won an important journalistic victory concerning freedom of the press.

Death

Joseph Pulitzer died on October 29, 1911, aboard his yacht. The following is an excerpt from his obituary in the New York Times:

“CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 29.--Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of The New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died aboard his yacht, the Liberty, in Charleston Harbor at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon. The immediate cause of Mr. Pulitzer's death was heart disease. Although he had been in poor health for some time, there was no suspicion on the part of those accompanying him that his condition was serious.

The change for the worse came at about 2 o'clock this morning, when he suffered an attack of severe pain. By daylight he appeared to be better and fell asleep soon after 10:30. He awoke at 1 o'clock and complained of pain in his heart. Soon he fell into a faint and expired at 1:40 o'clock.

Mrs. Pulitzer, who had been sent for, arrived from New York today, and reached the yacht shortly before her husband died. At his bedside also when the end came was his youngest son, Herbert, who has been cruising with his father.

Mr. Pulitzer's body will be taken north at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon on a special Pullman car. The funeral will be held at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York probably toward the end of this week.

Mr. Pulitzer's son, Joseph, Jr., is now on his way from St. Louis with his wife, and one of his daughters will come from Florida. Ralph Pulitzer, the eldest son, is on the way to Charleston, and will meet the train en route.

Up to an hour and a half before his death Mr. Pulitzer's mind remained perfectly clear. His German secretary had been reading to him an account of the reign of Louis the Eleventh of France, in whose career Mr. Pulitzer had always taken the liveliest interest. As the secretary neared the end of his chapter and came to the death of the French King, Mr. Pulitzer said to him:

‘Leise, ganz leise, ganz leise.’ (softly, quite softly.)

These were the last words he spoke.”

Joseph Pulitzer may have been the antagonist in Newsies, but he also definitely led a very interesting life, and it is safe to say that he and his newspaper had a great impact on journalism, and will continue to for years to come.

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Sources:

photo from the New World Encyclopedia

Biography of Joseph Pulitzer - The Pulitzer Prizes

Yellow journalism

Extra! Extra! Newsies Strike of 1899

Joseph Pulitzer - The State Historical Society of Missouri

Joseph Pulitzer - Jewish Virtual Library

Joseph Pulitzer - American newspaper publisher

Joseph Pulitzer - United States History

Obituary: New York Times

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Gaggan**

-Soha nem voltam még Michelin csillagos étteremben vendégként. –

Fiatal koromhoz képest szerencsésnek mondhatom magam, mert lehetőségem volt több kiemelten tehetséges szakembertől ellesnem, és megtanulnom nem csak a technikákat, de szemléleteket, és –bár közhelyesnek hangzik- rengeteg „lessons of life”-ot. Így lehet, van, aki azt mondja, hogy semmi keresni valóm egy világ top 50-be rangsorolt étteremben, de úgy éreztem, hogy pontosan tudom hova megyek és értékelni tudom, ami szembejön.

Vietnámba költözésünk során, csak azért került a bangkoki kitérőnk sorra, mert jelentősen olcsóbb volt ��gy a repülő jegy, és a különbséget inkább itt költöttük el, míg felfedeztük Thaiföld fővárosát. Utazásunk előtt pár hónappal már tájékozódtam, hogy milyen minőségi étteremek vannak a városban, és több ismerős is –határozottan- ajánlotta, ha már itt járunk ezt az éttermet ne hagyjuk ki. Több mint két hónappal az utazásig már megvolt a foglalás péntek estére: E-mailben hitelkártya adatokat kértek, és többször is nyomatékosan közölték a jelenlegi menü árát, a hozzá illő bor sort, 9 pohárral, illetve hogy meg nem jelenés esetén fejenként mennyit számláznak ki. Ezen kívül mindössze annyi információt kaptam még, hogy a vegetáriánus, peszkateriánus és állapotos hölgyek diétáján kívül semmilyen változtatásra nincs lehetőség, de ezt is előre kell közölni. (Sajnálom hogy Magyarországon ez még sajnos nem tudja megállni a helyét az általában – tisztelet a kivételnek- tájékozatlan, és arrogáns vendégek miatt). Foglalás ügyileg annyi választásunk volt, hogy fél 7-re vagy fél 10-re szeretnék-e érkezni – 15 perces türelmi idővel- a Bangkok általam megállapított banknegyedében elhelyezkedő étterembe.

Az egyik forgalmas főútról egy vékony sötét kapualj alatt áthaladva érkeztünk meg a nagyon kellemes, belső udvarról nyíló étteremhez, ahol egy host, egy hostess és egy teremfőnök fogadott minket. Rögtön az asztalunkhoz kísértek, attól függetlenül hogy kicsit korábban sikerült érkeznünk. Partneremnek ez meglepetés volt, és látszólag nagyon meg volt illetődve a stílusosan díszes eneteriőrt látván, de a személyzet –feszes fine dining ellentétét gyakorolva- rettentően közvetlen, fiatalos és roppant professzionális volt. Asztalunkon már oda volt készítve a citrus aromás nedves törölköző, és vékony pausz papírra nyomtatott emoji menü: 25 fogás; mindegyik csak egyetlen egy emojival jelölve, majd szóban tájékoztattak hogy van amit majd elmagyaráznak és lesz amit a mi képzeletünkre bíznak. (Partnerem vegetáriánus menüje látszólag csak pár részletében különbözött.) A host üdvözlése után bemutatta a felszolgáló hölgyet aki az este folyamán kifejezetten velünk fog foglalkozni. Az ital és borlapot tekintve, nem sokkal utána egy középkorú úr – a menedzser- is üdvözölt minket. Hamar meg volt a közös téma és a vacsora során nagyon sokat beszélgettünk, a vége felé oda is ült az asztalunkhoz, illetve körbe vezetett, de erről később. Szeretem a jó borokat –especially the bubbly-, de úgy érzem, hogy egy borpárosításhoz még fiatal vagyok, és nem tudom kellőképpen értékelni, így maradtam a hozzám rendkívül közel álló koktéloknál; és sikerült az egész estét martinik kíséretében tölteni. Fél 10 körül – tartva a második turnus kezdését – érkezett is az első étel. Túlzó jó kedvem és az inger dús környezet feledtette velem, hogy pontosan dokumentáljam az ételek sorát, de legjobb tudomásom szerint ezt most megkísérlem:

1) white peach – mélyebb bowl-ban jégbe fagyott egész fahéj rudak tetején, hidegen gőzölgő – nem tudom rá a szakszót- fagyasztott (valószínűleg folyékony nitrogénben) barackos pillecukor, japán yuzu géllel a tetején. Itt említenem kell, hogy minden fogásnál kifogástalan volt a szerviz. Ahol szándékoztak, pontos magyarázatot kaptunk az ételhez, illetve egy ajánlatot a fogyasztásához. 2) yoghurt explosion – az egyik signature dish, klasszikus india fogás ihlette: intenzíven fűszerezett (pontosan már nem emlékszem) krémes, folyós, kicsit sajtos ízre emlékeztető yoghurt szferifikáció, amelyet egyszerű acél kostoló kanálon prezentáltak. 3) lick it up: foie gras, mango – az egyik szakács prezentálta, a Kiss- Lick It Up c. dal kíséretében. Intenzív izű krémek és pürék, melyeket a tányérról felnyalva ajánlott fogyasztani. Tökéletesen harmonizáló ízek voltak, nagyon maradandó, főleg a zene szám hallatán. 4) cheese ghewar – indiai reggeli ihlette, alul ropogós kenyér toast, tetején karamelizált sajthab, amely kicsit állatiasabb ízt adott; talán kecskesajthoz hasonló. Itt a tányért az asztalon hagyták és jelezték hogy a következő fogásoknál szükség lesz rá. 5) eggplant cookie – kettő kicsi liofilizált zöld padlizsán keksz között, füstölt padlizsán csutney, tetején liofilizált spárga porral. 6) idly experience – alul ropogós rizs tallér tetején rizs hab, és zöldfűszer – ha emlékezetem nem csal kaffir lime levél. 7) charcoal samosa channa – az első meleg fogás, pontosabban tűz forró. Levegős, nagyon ropogós szén kéregben, mentás channa massala töltelék – kegyetlen jó volt. 8) chily egg nest – a menedzser rendkívűl óvatosan hozta ki, talán kicsit rájátszva, hogy élvezzük a műsort: alul ropogós fészek alakú keksz, rajta fehér csoki ’fürj tojás’ melyből, csilis – zöldfűszeres lé robbant ki. Hozzá teszem hogy az összes fogás tartalmazta az indiai bizsergető, pikáns-csipős jelleget, de pont megfelelő mennyiségben, hogy mindíg hozzá adta azt a kis pluszt. Itt vége lett a tányér kirakósdinak, ahol elmagyarázták hogy elmúlt 5 fogás, india küldönbőző részeiről származik, főként street foodok ihlették. 9) mushroom pav – kőedényben, erdei magokon, füstölgő babérlevéllel és fűszerekkel prezentált fogás. A babérlevelek alatt erdei csiperke gomba formájú sült tésztából készült falatok, melyek édes-csípős gomba pürével voltak töltve. Top 3-ban az este folyamán. 10) white asparagus cloves – prezentálásnál figyelmeztettek, hogy gyorsnak kell lenni, mert meg tud olvadni: fehér csokoládé rudakba töltött spárga texturák voltak, tetején –talán- zöldfűszer gél, amely alá forró szegfűszeg eszenciát öntöttek száraz jégre; így elárasztotta az intenzív aromás gőz az asztalt a fogás ideje alatt. 11) som tam - ismét street food ihlette étel – papaya saláta: zöld papaya csíkok, halszószos vinaigretteben, rengeteg korianderrel, mogyoróval, csili touilleben. (Huszár Krisztián pontosan ezt az ízt rekreálta a Beszállóban is) 12) puchka brain horseradish – panipuri-hoz hasonló utcai ihletésű ropogós kosár, benne tormás masala és kecske velő. 13) uni green apple – rendkívűl intenzív zöld alma textúrák (touille, benne sorbet, chutney) tetején hokkaido tengeri sün. 14) chutoro sushi tribute – száraz rizs puffancson, langyos chutoro (itt meg kell jegyeznem hogy volt benne kötőszövet amely enyhén rágóssá tette, tapasztalataim alapján nem kellet volna) és természetesen wasabi. Itt a vegetáriánus ételen a hal helyett egy füstölt padlizsán falat volt, mely állagában halra emlékeztet. 15) corn quail drip – mély bögre jellegű edényben piritott kukorica, és fürj falatok, melyre egy ismét szakács által prezentált fürjjel infúzionált kukorica consomé került – tisztán kukorica és fürj íz maradt, semmi egyéb- de nem volt fáradt, inkább kellemesen lágy. 16) prawn blachao – faszénen készült rák farok (teljesen elkészült) klasszikus blachao mártásban volt tálalva, csili porral mellette. Semmi különleges, de nagyon maradandó. 17) scallops cold curry – hokkaido jakab kagyló, hideg főként galangás, és nagyon kókuszos curry ’lében’, zöld fűszerekkel. A curry szerintem hidegen infúzionált, a kagyló nyers. Ismét top 3-ban. Gyönyörű óriás kagylóban tálalva. Jelzem, hogy ez volt az első fogás a vacsora folyamán ahol evőeszközt kaptunk – nem, a levest is inni kellett, amjd kézzel kivadászni a betétet. 18) momo vindalloo – emoji alapján rájöttünk hogy töltött tésztát kapunk. Malac vindallo, fekete gyoza tésztában, benne relish, alatta édes-savanyú mártás. Ismét evőeszköz nélkül (lsd. indiai étkezés). Kegyetlen párosítás, örökre megjegyeztem. 19) lamb chop green chilly – Új Zélandi bárány gerinc İhosszan! főzve, majd faszénen körbe sütve, hozzá zöld chili szósz – amely elsőre nekem teljes mértékig sóska ízű volt. Ismét pofon egyszerű, de szenzációs. 20) cutlass fish paturi – cutlass (nem vagyok biztos a magyar megfelelőjében) hal , mustárlevél mártásban, banánlevélben gőzölve. Szervírozásnál fa tányéron meggyújtják a banán levelet, magyarázván ,hogy a levegőben legyen klasszikus tűz fölötti készítés aromája. Teljesen ’rommá’ készülve, ennyire lágy és szaftos halat talán még nem is ettem, a mártás intenzív és friss. Köret nincs, nem is kell. Másodszor kaptunk evőeszközt. 21) death star porcini finale – az emeleten lévő séf asztaltó pont lehallatszik a Csillagok Háborúja egyik jellegzetes betétdala. A halál csillagra hasonlító három részes is kerámia edényben szolgálják fel a gomba curryt basmati rizzsel, ismét egy signature dish. A gomba curry vargánya alapból krémes, de currys frissessége megmarad, betétje fiatal borsó szemek. Top 3 – szépen lezárta a főételeket. 22) rose of tonka beans – egyforma ízű vörös-fehér rózsák jellegzetes tonka bab ízzel – csak ennyi maradt meg. 23) flower power lychee – indiai hagyományos virágot (nevére sajnos nem emlékszem) formájú tart, alulról parféval, tetején géllel; mindegyik alkotó elem intenzív lychee ízű, kellemesen édes. 24) dark side of the moon – Pink Floyd tribute, étcsokoládé ’kosár’ alulról gél, és különböző gyümölcs mártások körben- dinnye, áfonya, mango.... 25) yin & yang, saffron & pistachio – jég hideg olvadós keksz és parfait, szezámmagra tálalva, markáns ízekkel. Nincs friss íz benne, de szolid édességgel levezeti a vacsorát; hatásos.

Idáig több mint két és fél óra telt el, de egy percig sem tudtunk nem a vacsorára koncentrálni. Már nagyon össze barátkoztunk a menedzser úrral, aki elmesélte pályáját a nyitás előtt és óta. Utóbbi bánatomra, elárulta hogy nem nehéz egyébként a séf asztalnál helyet foglalni, általában csak kérni kell; nagy társaságok hiányában egyedüli és páros vendégekkel töltik meg a teret, ahol a fő konyha is elhelyezkedik az emeleten. Az alsó szinten három kisebb helységben foglalnak helyet a vendégek, mindegyikben 2-3 asztalnál. Feledhetetlen élményben volt részem, melyet minden cseppig maximálisan élveztem, és szakmailag is rengeteget mozgatott meg bennem – egyetlen vacsora.

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2018.10.26

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Events 8.10 (before 1930)

654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. 991 – Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex. 1030 – The Battle of Azaz ends with a humiliating retreat of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros, against the Mirdasid rulers of Aleppo. The retreat degenerates into a rout, in which Romanos himself barely escapes capture. 1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum. 1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland. 1346 – Jaume Ferrer sets out from Majorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River. 1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines. 1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551–59. 1585 – The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels. 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage off Stockholm. 1641 – The Treaty of London between England and Scotland, ending the Bishops' Wars, is signed. 1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico. 1741 – King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India. 1755 – Under the direction of Charles Lawrence, the British begin to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies and France. 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob. 1808 – Finnish War: Swedish forces led by General von Döbeln defeat Russian forces led by General Šepelev in the Battle of Kauhajoki. 1856 – The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths. 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state. 1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War. 1901 – The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place. 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 1913 – Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war. 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.

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The Stone, Dying Wish

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Azt egy másik cikkben mesélhetném el, miért alakult úgy, hogy az életemben és a gyűjteményemben is alulreprezentáltak a hazai zenekarok. Amit abból most ide kopipésztelnék, hogy a heavy metallal való, lassan négy évtizedes kapcsolatomban három korszak volt, amikor igenis fontos szerep jutott nekik, vagy legalábbis előtérbe kerültek a magyar bandák. Az első ilyen a kezdetek voltak, 1985-86, a számos ígéretes hazai bandát felvonultató fesztiválok (Acélkarácsony, 666 Fesztivál) és az első magyar nyelvű heavy metal albumok (Pokolgép, Ossian) megjelenésének időszaka. A második a Thrash Mosh Clubhoz köthető, ahol a Landler Művelődési Házban, az Undertaking előzenekaraként a kor kemény zenét játszó alakulatai mutatkozhattak be komolyabb létszámú közönség előtt. A harmadik pedig az új évezred legeleje, amikor nemzetközi színvonalon muzsikáló csapatok adták ki bemutatkozó (és több esetben sajnos egyetlen) nagylemezüket, amelyek egy része Uzseka Norbin keresztül jutott el hozzám, és adtam hírt aztán ezekről az akkoriban általam is írt lap angol nyelvű közönségének. Ebben és még két másik cikkben ez utóbbi bandák két évtizeddel ezelőtt született albumai kerülnek terítékre.

The Stone: Visitor in the Paradise (2000/2002)

A rövid életű, progresszív metalt játszó tatabányai csapat 1999-ben alakult, és 2002-ben már meg is szűnt létezni. A Kő szilánkjai később más építmények alkotórészeivé váltak – sőt, már a zenekar létrejöttét megelőzően is azok voltak. A The Stone-t ugyanis az egy évvel korábban ugyanabban a városban létrejött Cross Borns két tagja, Jankó Gergely billentyűs és Somlói Ferenc énekes hozta létre Békési Lászlóval, az Ideas dobosával, valamint Nagy Viktor basszusgitárossal (aki később maga is csatlakozott a Cross Bornshoz) és Guszmann Viktor gitárossal. Ők öten jegyzik a The Stone 1999-es, mindössze 50 példányban kiadott demóját, a The Groving One-t, amelyet aztán a csapat egyetlen nagylemeze, a 2000-ben kazettán, két évvel később pedig CD-n is megjelenő Visitor in the Paradise követett. Ezen az anyagon azonban már Preil Tibor gitározott (aki Békésihez hasonlóan az Ideas tagja volt), és Takács Tamás dobolt (aki aktuálisan a Scaffold „igazolt játékosa” volt, 2006-tól viszont ő is az Ideasban folytatta pályafutását).

A The Stone tehát a Cross Borns és az Ideas egyfajta mellékprojektjének is tekinthető, amelyben az egyéb zenei irányvonalakat (heavy/power és szimfonikus/ gótikus metal) követő muzsikusok az „igényesebb” műfajban is ki akarták próbálni magukat. Nyilván voltak ez irányú ötleteik és némi hiányérzetük az általuk aktuálisan játszott zenével kapcsolatban. Ezeknek a vektoroknak az eredője lett aztán a Visitor in the Paradise album, amelynek „szellemképes” borítójáról nekem A kis herceg írója, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ugrik be, aki maga is egy futárgép pilótájaként szolgált, világhírű meseregényének elbeszélője pedig kényszerleszállást hajt végre a sivatagban, és így találkozik a különös bolygókat végiglátogató, tragikus sorsú fiúcskával.

Egyáltalán nem rémlik, hogy annak idején hallgattam volna ezt a lemezt (pedig biztos, hogy igen), ugyanis most teljesen új élményt jelentett számomra. A Visitors… kellemes muzsika, a hangszerelési arányai miatt inkább rock, mint metal. Több helyen is a Classica és a Solaris munkássága jutott eszembe róla, de Pink Floyd-os, King Crimson-os, Marillion-os, sőt, Symphony X-es ízeket is felfedezni vélek benne. Mai füllel egy kissé retrónak hangzik az anyag, és ha máson nem is, az éneken azért erősen érződik a „kelet-európaiság”.

A zene nem meglepő módon a frontemberre és a billentyűs hangszerekre van kihegyezve. Lehet, hogy abszurd, amit írok, de nekem az egész anyagon az intró (Call) hangzása, dinamikája, beindulása tetszik a legjobban, de a szinti színei, megszólalásai is simogatják a lelkemet. Helyenként magával ragadó sodrása van a címadó nótának, a Swirl trilógia középső tételére (Dormant Emotions) pedig ez teljes mértékben igaz. A második felvonásból, de talán az egész előadásból is számomra a The Aftermath refrénje emelkedik ki a leginkább.

Bónuszként az 1999-es The Growling One EP három dalát kapjuk, amelyektől összességében majdnem egy- és negyedórásra hízik a produkció.

A The Stone még a CD megjelenésének évében feloszlott. Ennek részleteit a zenekarvezető, Jankó Gergő árulja el nekünk: „Egészen pontosan 2002. augusztus 2-án, valamikor délután 4.50 és 5 óra között, egy borzalmasan sikerült szigetes koncert után, a színpadról levonulva közöltem a többiekkel, hogy ’Ennyi volt!’. Megfáradt a zenekar, senkit nem érdekelt már különösképpen, ráadásul négyen a Cross Bornsban is játszottunk, az ötödik ember, a gitáros pedig már csak kisegítőként volt velünk, amíg az utódja betanul. Később többször is megpróbáltuk újraindítani a The Stone-t, stúdiófelvételek is folytak egy új anyaghoz, de valami mindig közbejött. Többen is kérdezték már az évek során, hogy lesz-e folytatás, de The Stone néven biztosan nem. Rengeteg zenét írtam azóta, ami ehhez a csapathoz köthető: legalább háromórányi feldemózott, profi stúdiózásra kész dal és még vagy kétszer ennyi félkész vázlat van, amiből lehetne valami, de igazság szerint Magyarországon nem lenne érdeklődés ilyen, Marillion-, Camel-, Pink Floyd-hatású zenékre.”

A The Stone érdekes színfoltja volt az ezredforduló hazai zenei életének. S bár engem, mint thrash-fanatikust, sem akkor, sem most nem tudott igazán magával ragadni, mégis azt mondom: ha vannak olyanok a progresszív metal hazai kedvelői között, akiknél esetleg kimaradt volna ez a lemez, mindenképpen szánjanak időt a megismerésére.

Dying Wish: Never-Ending Road (2001)

Életemben először 1992-ben, Püspökladányban ültem lovon, négy évvel később pedig ezen a településen alakult meg a Dying Wish. A két eseménynek – a helyszínt leszámítva – nyilván semmi köze egymáshoz, viszont első találkozásunkkor „régi ismerősként” üdvözöltem a zenekart, tudva, milyen miliőből érkeztek a színtérre. A ma már magyar nyelven előadott, melodikus death metalt játszó csapat a debütalbum megjelenésének idején még szimfonikus heavy/powerben utazott, a tiszta énekre csak bizonyos nótákban válaszoltak az alapító gitáros, Papp Lajos reszelős torokhangjai.

Az első demón (The Night Embraces Me – 1999) egy személyben Lajos volt a banda frontembere, ezt követően vették be – hatodik tagként – Monori Györgyöt énekesnek. Az együttes első három anyagán Árva Péter gitározott, a Never-Ending…-re érkezett Ács Sándor, aki a mai napig a DW tagja. Ugyanígy, a kezdeti két demón és a 2000-es The Silent Horizon EP-n még Schmidt Péter felelt a szintiszólamokért, a debütalbumon viszont már Nádas Péter „nyomkodta a billentyűket”. A Never-Ending…-en közreműködők közül két muzsikusról, a ritmusszekcióról nem esett még szó: Papp Sándor basszusgitáros és Moldoványi János dobos is a kezdetektől tagja volt a zenekarnak. Az ütős nem sokkal ezután távozott a csapatból, s később ugyan még visszatért, de újabb anyag már nem készült vele. Papp ellenben egészen 2014-ig maradt, neve további két DW-anyag stáblistáján olvasható.

A Never-Ending… dalaiban gyakorlatilag folyamatosan pörög a kétlábdob, bár egy kissé testetlenül, nem a mélyben, hanem a felszínen szól. Ezen anyag kapcsán is van egy erős „made in Hungary”-érzésem. Ennek oka nyilván a történelmileg adott, hard rockos gyökerekben, plusz a túlzottan előtérbe tolt, szöveg-centrikus, jellegzetesen intonált, tisztán formált énekben keresendő. Bár angol nyelvű a szöveg, ha nem tudnám, ki az előadó, valószínűleg akkor is eltalálnám a csapat nemzeti hovatartozását. Márpedig a kelet-közép-európai „akcentust” nem gondolom előnynek a nemzetközi piacon. Nem ezt, hanem a tipikus magyar zenei motívumokat (Æbsence, Thy Catafalque stb.) hallva bólintanak elismerően, mondjuk, az angolszász vagy a japán hallgatók.

Akárcsak a The Stone bemutatkozó nagylemeze, ez az album is billentyűs intróval nyit (Never and Forever…). A hörgős ének először a harmadikként felhangzó Land of Sorrow-ban kap teret, majd még néhány másik dalban is előkerül (Struggle Inside, The Wanderer of the Sky). Az anyag legnagyobb slágere egyértelműen a Fragments of the Past, amelynek refrénje ennyi év kihagyás után is megmaradt bennem. Egyes dalokat ízlésesen díszítenek szintis girlandokkal, a legizgalmasabb riffelésért pedig a The Last Journey-nek ítélek meg magamban pluszpontot. A leghosszabbra, csaknem nyolcpercesre a záró The Mirrort nyújtják, az album azonban így is csupán bő háromnegyed órás.

Meglepődve vettem észre, hogy minél többször hallgatom, annál jobban tetszik az anyag. Ha pontoznám, lehet, hogy a négyes mögé ma már egy tizedesvesszőt és egy ötöst is odakanyarintanék…

A Never-Ending Road megjelenését követő időszakról szólva, a leghosszabb szünet 2005 és 2013 között telt el a csapat két hangzóanyagának megjelenése között. Ekkor következett be az a váltás is, ami aztán a Dying Wish mai zenei arculatát is kialakította. A 2003-as Crimson Blood EP-n már nemcsak angol, hanem magyar nyelvű számok is helyet kaptak, a három évvel későbbi Tükörország albumon pedig az „új” énekes, Dömötör Balázs már kizárólag az anyanyelvén adta elő a dalokat, valamennyire a zene is visszadurvult, ugyanakkor modernizálódott. A Never-Ending Road-os felállásból ma már csak a két gitárost, Papp Lajost és Ács Sándort találjuk ott a csapatban, a Dying Wish viszont másodvirágzását éli, a debüt időszakát követően ismét a népszerűség útját járja.

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SAIL 2017 - World’s youth attracted by the timeless challenge of the Finn - 2017

22 agosto 2017 -  of the largest Finn Silver Cups on record is about to begin on the largest lake in Central Europe. Nearly 50 young Finn sailors from 21 countries and four continents are gathering at Balatonfüred, a popular resort town on Lake Balaton’s northern shore. The list of entrants could read like a who’s who for the 2020, or 2024 Olympic Games, including both those who have experienced Olympic competition, and those who are taking their first steps on the long, personal and physically challenging journey towards that quadrennial pinnacle. The host club is the MVM Hungarian Power Companies Sport Club (Magyar Villamos Művek Sportegyesület- MVM SE). The sailing club of MVM SE has an idyllic location overlooking the race area with lawns and tree lined boat parks leading down to the water. The sailors are all being made to feel very welcome as the build up continues for the first races on Tuesday. Within the impressive line-up, three sailors have won the title before and one has gone to the Olympics already. The defending champion is Phillip Kasüske from Germany. He hasn’t put as much time in the boat as he would have liked, having just returned from the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, where he was the wing trimmer on SVB Team Germany. “This year I'm trying to defend the title, but not having sailed the Finn as much as the others during the season it is going to be a very hard task.” Last year in Aarhus, Kasüske took the title off Ondrej Teply, from the Czech Republic. Teply is optimistic about his chances of a second title. “I am feeling good. I had a bit slower beginning of the season, but after some training in summer I am starting to feel better in the boat, so I hope I will be able to show it in the Silver cup. Balaton can be a light and tricky place, and with the number boats here it could be an interesting regatta. Anyway, my goals are to be around top three like for every junior worlds, and let’s see what happens.” His strongest opposition could come from the new U23 European Champion, Henry Wetherell, from Britain. Wetherell won the title convincingly in May in Marseille while also placing sixth in the senior fleet. Having only joined the Finn fleet last year he feels he is making good progress. “I feel like I'm constantly progressing and making gains. At the last Silver Cup I had only sailed the boat for a couple of weeks, so compared to last year I am 100 times more comfortable with the boat, the setup and my fitness. I have a great group to train with so we are always pushing each other to improve.” He says he was not too surprised at clinching his first Finn title earlier this year. “I had a great year training with the team and I literally felt as though I was going faster and faster each session. Over the past couple of events before the Europeans I had still been learning the boat. Obviously the format helped me jump up a few spots in the end but over the week I felt I was going well.” He has set his goals high this week. “My goal for the event is to win. I know the venue is quite light and tricky and there are some really good light wind sailors in the fleet so it will be a tough event. But it's easier saying it than doing it so we will have to wait and see who is the best on the day.” The third former champion present in Balatonfüred is Arkadiy Kistanov, from Russia, who won on home waters in 2011.  This year will be his final attempt as he will be too old in 2018. “It was pretty tricky for me to take part in the Silver Cups. Every year I expected something, but every year someone stronger came. I really think the level of top 10 sailors at the Silver Cup should be very high this year.” “I have three competitions in one month, so I will try to get a good result but I’m not focused only on this aim. This last Silver Cup for me is something special. I want to have some nice, tricky races. I expect light winds and will push; the conditions are good for me and I cannot wait to start racing.” There are lots of other stories to tell this week. Here are a few more: Facundo Olezza is he only sailor here with Olympic experience. He placed third in last year’s Silver Cup, just before he went to Rio for the Olympics, where he placed ninth after winning two races. One sailor who could surprise this week is Lars Johan Brodtkorb. He still splits his time between the Europe dinghy and Finn sailing and is too heavy for one and not really heavy enough for the other. A double Europe World Champion, a few weeks back he jumped straight into an OK Dinghy and won the European title after just four days in the boat. This should give him extra confidence as he approaches what could turn into a light wind decider later in the week. Last year Jan Orel turned to Finn sailing to turn his life around. This year his younger brother Liam has also begun to sail the Finn. A top Slovenian Optimist sailor in his younger days, he later turned to the Laser and windsurfing, before ending up in the Finn. He’s only done a few months training so far so, but his brother rates him highly for such little time spent in the boat. Another newcomer is Taavi Valter Taveter. His father Imre sailed two Olympics in the Finn and is in Balatonfüred this week coaching his son. Sailing since the age of six, he was successful in the Optimist class and won several Laser Radial national titles before turning to cross country skiing, for which, now at 190 cm and 97 kg, he feels he is too big. Then, “the old love (sailing) was in his heart, so he decided to start sailing Finn.” His first international Finn regatta was this year’s Kiel Week, where he finished 25th. Later we went to Warnemünder Week and he finished with good second place behind Jan Kurfeld, the 2007 Silver Cup winner. Luke Muller, from the USA, is sailing in his second Finn Silver Cup. Last year he took part in the Europeans and was Caleb Paine’s training partner in Rio [Paine went on to twin the bronze medal], before focussing on school. He said he also gained a lot from training alongside Paine. “It was great because it was by first time using really good equipment. I was fast tracked onto Caleb's Olympic kit and that was very helpful to see what the boat should feel like. Training and doing practice races with the Olympic fleet was extremely motivating and forced to train at my very best.” He feels the progress he had made so far has been positive. “I feel that I have made many strides working with Luther [Carpenter] as my coach. I am identifying opportunities on the race course much faster and my knowledge of sail trim is tenfold what it was last year. The only issues I am having now have been due to a lack of training volume, but focus on those weaknesses has helped mitigate them.” He is very excited to be sailing the Silver Cup this year. “It is where the best youth Finn sailors come together to compete. My goal is to just sail with a clear head and practice the things I have been working on recently. I think there will be a few guys gunning for the win and I hope to be one of those, but we will see, as Balaton will present a unique challenge.” The practice race takes place Monday afternoon. While the sailors who arrived early have been enjoying the fresh to strong winds over the past few days the breeze is forecast to fall away gradually over the coming week. Thirteen races are scheduled from Tuesday to Sunday to decide the 2017 U23 Finn World Champion.

FROM http://www.navigamus.info/2017/08/worlds-youth-attracted-by-timeless.html

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General OS Version: Android 4.4 CPU: MTK6582 Quad Core Processor Speed (max): RAM: 1GB Internal Memory: 8GB External Memory: Support up to 32GB Display Size: 5.5 Inch IPS Display Resolution: 960×540 Touch Screen: Support Capacitive Multi-touch: Support 5 Point Frequency: 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, 3G: WCDMA 850/1900/2100MHz GPS Wake Gesture HotKnot Bluetooth Adobe Flash FM Radio Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot (3G Tethering) Google Play Sensors: Light, Proximity, Accelerometer, Gravity Mic and Speaker Battery Size: 2500mAh Usage Time: 3 Hours (Talk Time) Battery Standby: Up to 72 Hours Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n 5 Megapixel Front-Facing Camera (8MP Interpolation) + 5 Megapixel Rear Camera (8MP Interpolation) Video Resolution: 1920×1088 Front / 1920×1088 Back

Ports 3.5mm Audio Out Port 2 (GSM/WCDMA) SIM card slot – 1x Normal SIM , 1x Micro SIM Micro USB Micro SD Card Slot: up to 32GB

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Battery: removable

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What Makes Hungary The Top R&D Talent Hotspot In Eastern Europe

“Land of Magyars” or Hungary as the rest of the world know it, is Central European land-locked country. Nestled in the Carpathian Basin, Hungary is unique not only for speaking a Uralic language that is not related to any other major European language but also for its skilled IT and R&D talent pool. A combination of factors such as geographical accessibility, the world’s third-fastest 4G network speed, an innovation-oriented mindset, a strong focus on higher education through dedicated public universities, and a vibrant technology start-up ecosystem has made Hungary an attractive location in Eastern Europe for setting up global delivery centers.

Hungary’s unique attributes have already drawn several large organizations to build their presence in the country. The Land of Magyars is already home to many organizations across varied verticals like engineering, technology, FMCG, manufacturing, medical devices, healthcare, and automotive, to name a few.

Hungary Rising

With a population of ~10Mn, of which nearly 4.5Mn is working, Hungary is the fifth most populous country in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest, with its 1.8Mn inhabitants, is not just the capital city, but also the hotspot where the majority of R&D centers are concentrated in. Debrecen, Szeged, and Miskolc are the other cities that are slowly emerging as technology talent hubs in Hungary besides Budapest. In fact, Debrecen is emerging as a key destination for mechanical and software talent. Low operational and functional costs in the city is attracting MNCs to set up their businesses in Debrecen.

Hungary has a diverse technology ecosystem with software development being one of the most dynamic sectors. The sector contributes as much as 6% to the country’s economy. The Information Technology vertical on the other hand is contributing ~15% y-o-y. Besides these, Hungary’s technology ecosystem is a hotbed of technology talent, thanks to the various ecosystem players such as universities, technology start-ups, and the existing R&D, delivery centers, and shares services centers across functions like finance, accounting, HR, customer services, and IT tech support.

6 Factors propelling Hungary to the top of the Globalization chart

1. Geography

Budapest is strategically located in central Hungary, at the crossroads of three main pan-European transportation corridors. Hungary has 6 international airports, of which 2 are in Budapest. From most places in Europe, Budapest is a mere two-hour flight ride away. Additionally, Hungary boasts of more than 1400 kilometers of motorways according to the State Motorway Management Plc. The Hungarian motorway network is comprised of 13 motorways, 13 expressways, and some fast roads. Thus, Hungary’s strategic location makes it an attractive location for organizations to consider it to set up their global centers in.

2.Communication Network

Hungary has the highest rate of broadband penetration among the V4 countries. V4 is a political and cultural alliance between 4 Eastern European nations – the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. Further, thanks to the presence of five of the major global network and telecommunications companies located in Hungary, the country has the third-fastest 4G network speed in the world. This not only helps in faster communication, but also helps large organizations and tech start-ups working on cutting-edge technology products and services.

3. Innovation Mindset

Hungary has notably improved its position in the overall ranking in the Global Innovation Index, jumping up six positions since 2017 to reach 33 in 2018. Also, Hungary improved its ranking in the Tholons Services Globalization Country Index that ranks the top 50 Digital Nations, jumping up to 22 in 2019. Hungary has made considerable efforts in areas such as talent, skill and quality, cost and infrastructure, innovation/digital, business catalyst, etc., to leap 7 places in one year.

The top technology start-ups of Hungary have a high focus on building cybersecurity solutions, developer platforms, AI/ML and Big Data platforms. Hungary is home to ~300 technology start-ups, some of which have raised significant amounts of funding. Almotive is a case in point. Almotive is a provider of camera-first, AI-powered, Level 5 self-driving technology that is engineered to answer all the challenges of autonomous mobility. Till date, the start-up has raised USD 47.5Mn in funding and employs 100+ technology talent. Technology organizations need to have Hungary on their radar when exploring Eastern Europe for possible R&D center setup.

4. Universities

Hungary houses more than 40 colleges and universities, with 6 of these making it to the respected QS World University Rankings 2019. Across all courses offered in these institutions, there are over 300,000 graduates, of which 3,000+ are enrolled in software and technology-related courses.

The three largest universities in the country are the University of Szeged, Eötvös Loránd University, and the University of Debrecen, offer technological courses. The University of Debrecen is one of the oldest continuously operating institutions of higher education focused on Engineering and Technology-related programs. The 40+ universities offer numerous undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs in engineering and technology-related subjects, helping boost the technology talent pool year on year.

5. R&D Tax Rate

The Hungarian government offers an R&D tax relief through a tax allowance for R&D centers, allowing them a full exemption from social security contributions. The corporate tax rate in Hungary stands at 9%, a record-low since it peaked to 50% in 1989. Further, Hungary ranks fifth among OECD and other major economies, in terms of the total volume of government support for business R&D, equivalent to 0.31% of GDP. In fact, tax incentives account for nearly 50% of the total public support for business R&D in Hungary.

6. Installed Engineering and Technology Talent Pool

We analyzed the Hungarian installed talent pool by leveraging DRAUP’s proprietary Talent Module. Of the total 4.5Mn working population, 4K+ is installed fresh STEM talent pool and an additional 2.5K+ is start-up talent pool. Further, there is a total of 26,000 installed engineering and technology talent pool.

The vertical-wise split of the installed technology talent pool illustrated below indicates a skewed number towards computer software and IT, making Hungary an attractive destination for organizations to set up their global R&D centers in.

Hungary hungry for Globalization?

Hungary’s geographical advantage, the high-speed communication network, a dynamic tech start-up ecosystem, the skilled technology talent, and the university ecosystem have all driven Hungary to be one of the favored destinations for large organizations to set up centers. The innovation mindset and dedicated government efforts to attract foreign companies to set up shop don’t hurt Hungary’s cause either. Any organization looking to globalize should have Hungary on their radar.

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Asustor AS4004T NAS Review

Every month we see a greater demand for faster file sharing devices that can support higher capacities. Let’s face it, 1Gbps connectivity inside of your house is slowly dying. The next step up from 1Gbps speeds is 10Gbps. I remember a few years ago 10Gbe networking wasn’t affordable for your average household and only enterprise companies were able to afford them. Today we can buy a 10Gbps switch for just a few hundred bucks and if you already have a 10Gbps network ready then you probably looking for a new NAS device. NAS manufacturers acknowledge the change in the small offices and household and so they release newer devices with 10Gbps capabilities. My test subject comes from Asustor, AS4004T. AS4004T is a four-bay Network Attached Storage device that is 10Gbps ready and backward compatible with 1Gbps networks. This NAS is powered by Marvel Armada 7K Dual-Core Processor and has 2GB of DDR4 RAM by Toshiba. Review Sample Provided by: ASUSTOR Product Name: AS4004T Price at time of review: $ 359.00 USD MSRP Product was given in exchange for work done to produce this review. Packaging The sample arrived in a plain shipping box however actual product packaging is similar to other Assistor’s NAS products. Asustor signature packaging is mostly white with blue images and detailed descriptions. Check out our other Asustor reviews if you are curious. Inside of the shipping box AS4004T is securely packaged in the protective foam and actual device has a plastic bag around it to prevent any accidental scratches.

  Hardware & Packaging

Hardware Specifications CPU: Marvell ARMADA-7020 1.6GHz (Dual-Core) Processor Hardware encryption engine integrated Memory: 2GB DDR4 Memory Expandable up to: not expandable Flash Memory: 512MB DOM HDD: 4 x SATA3 6Gb/s; 3.5"/2.5" HDD/SSD¹ Compatibility Maximum Internal Raw Capacity: 56 TB  (14 TB HDD X 4, Capacity may vary by RAID types) Maximum Drive Bays with Expansion Unit: 12 Maximum Raw Capacity with Expansion Units: 168 TB  (14 TB HDD X 12, Capacity may vary by RAID types) Expansion: USB 3.1 Gen-1 x2 Network: Gigabit Ethernet x 2; 10Gigabit Ethernet x1 Output: N/A System Fan: 120mm x 1 Power Supply Unit / Adapter: 90W x1 Input Power Voltage: 100V to 240V AC Certification: FCC, CE, VCCI, BSMI, C-TICK

Operation Power Consumption: 31.5W (Operation); 17.1W (Disk Hibernation); ² Noise Level: 19.7dB (HDD idle) Operation Temperature: 5°C~35°C (40°F~95°F) Humidity: 5% to 95% RH ASUSTOR Hightlight System Migration EZ Connect Dr.ASUSTOR 2-way Backup Task Monitor Eco-Friendly Design Auto-Standby for Both Internal and External Disks Auto Fan Control LED Night Mode Power Schedule: On, Off, Restart.

Size and Weight

Size: 170(H) x 174(W) x 230(D) mm Weight: 2.2 kg / 4.85 lbsPackage Contents

Software & Features

Operating System

ADM 3.1 Onwards Supports Online Firmware Updates Supported OS Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012 Mac OS X 10.6 Onwards UNIX, Linux, and BSD

   Supported Languages Deutsch, English, Français, Italiano, Nederlands,Русский, 日本語, 한글, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Česká,Polski, Svenska, Dansk, Norsk, Suomi, Português,Türkçe, Español, Magyar Supported Browsers Internet Explore 11 Onwards FireFox Chrome Safari Microsoft Edge Network Protocols CIFS / SMB, SMB 2.0 / 3.0, AFP, NFS, FTP (Unicode Supported), TFTP, WebDAV, Rsync, SSH, SFTP, iSCSI/IP-SAN, HTTP, HTTPS, Proxy, SNMP, Syslog File System Internal Disk: EXT4 ,Btrfs External Disk: FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, EXT4, HFS+, exFAT ,Btrfs File Explorer Web-based File Management ISO File Mounting Share Links Task Monitor Browse Files on Local PC Thumbnail Previews Data Access via External Optical Drive Supports video playback¹⁰ Storage Management Support Multiple Volumes with Spare Disks Volume Type: Single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 Support for Online RAID Level Migration MyArchive Insert Hard Disk & Immediately Access Files Transfer or Exchange Terabytes of Data via the Internal Hot-Swap SATA Interface Up to N-1 Bays Reserved for MyArchive Docking Purposes iSCSI/IP-SAN Maximum Targets: 64 Maximum LUNs: 64 Maximum Snapshot Versions of a Single LUN: 256 Target Masking LUN Mapping ISO File Mounting Supports MPIO Persistent (SCSI-3) Reservations Customized Sign In Page 2 Different Template Choices Customizable Title, Image and Background Image Import Function Disk Management Scheduled Bad Block Scans Scheduled S.M.A.R.T Scans Energy Control Configurable Disk Hibernation Wait Time Network TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6) Link Aggregation: Supports 802.3ad and Six Other Modes for Load Balancing and/or Network Failover Jumbo Frame (MTU) VLAN EZ Connect Wireless Network³ DDNS and EZ-RouterCompatibility Supports Wake-on-LAN (WOL) Backup Solutions Rsync (Remote Sync) Backup Cloud Backup FTP Backup External Backup EZ Sync Snapshots Btrfs Snapshots 256 snapshots iSCSI LUNs Support model: AS31/32/40/50/51/52/53/61/62/63/64/70. Snapshot Center will not display Volume snapshots information in other models. System Administration Log Type: System Log, Connection Log, File Access Log Real-time Online User Monitor Real-time System Monitor User Quota Virtual Drive (ISO Mounting, Maximum 16) UPS SupportCompatibility Network Recycle Bin Share folder-based Maintains original directory structure and file permission One-click restore Supports scheduled emptying Filtering rules File size File extension Access Control Maximum Number of Users: 4096 Maximum Number of Groups: 512 Maximum Number of Shared Folders: 512 Maximum Number of Concurrent Connections: 512 Supports Windows Active Directory Supports Windows Active Directory / LDAP ACL Provides both Windows ACL and Linux ACL permission configuration methods Can enable Windows ACL for specific shared folders Comprehensive support for Windows’ 13 types of advanced permission settings Can view Windows ACL permission settings from within ADM Supports local users and groups Exclusive permission reset function allows users to quickly restore default permissions Security AES 256-Bit Encryption Firewall: Prevent Unauthorized Access Alert Notifications: E-mail, SMS Encrypted Connections: HTTPS, FTP over SSL/TLS, SSH, SFTP, Rsync over SSH Built-in Hardware Encryption Engine: AS10/31/32/40/53/54/6/61/62/63/64/70 Series RAID Scrubbing: detects the integrity and consistency of RAID 5 and RAID 6 drive data. Network Defender Auto blacklist Trusted list Black/White list Supports IP/IP range/geolocation External Devices Compatibility Supports USB External Storage Devices USB Wi-Fi Dongle Support Bluetooth Dongle/Speaker Support USB Printer Support USB DAC Support CD ROM Drive/DVD ROM Drive/Blu-Ray ROM

Featured Apps

Download Center Supports BT(Torrent & Magnet Link), HTTP and FTP Downloads Torrent Search Choose Files Before a BT Task Starts Customizable Download Schedule Bandwidth Control RSS Subscription and Automatic Downloading (Broadcatching) ASUSTOR Download Assistant for Windows & Mac AiDownload for Android with Push Notification Smart Download Function DataSync for Microsoft OneDrive Each ADM account is able to individually log into a OneDrive account Supports file filter and bandwidth limitation Supported backup methods: Sync Directly upload files to OneDrive from NAS Directly download files from OneDrive to NAS DropBox Each ADM Account is Able to Individually Log into One Dropbox Account Supported Backup Methods: Sync Dropbox to NAS NAS to Dropbox FTP Explorer Directory Structure View with Drag & Drop Transfers Task Monitor Stopping of Transmission Task & Resumption of Connection Encrypted Connections: Explicit over TLS, Implicit over TLS FTP Site Manager Bandwidth Control Maximum Simultaneous Transfer Control Google Drive Each ADM Account is Able to Individually Log in to One Google Account Supported Backup Methods: Sync Directly Upload Files to Google Drive from NAS Directly Download Files from Google Drive to NAS HiDrive Support OneDrive and OneDrive Business Each ADM Account is Able to Individually Log into One HiDrive Account Supported Backup Methods: Directly Upload Files to HiDrive from NAS Directly Download Files from HiDrive to NAS Supported Protocols: Rsync FTP FTPS SFTP Rsync + SSH hubiC Each ADM Account is Able to Individually Log into One hubiC Account Supported Backup Methods: Sync Directly Upload Files to hubiC from NAS Directly Download Files from hubiC to NAS Yandex Each ADM Account is Able to Individually Log in to One Yandex Account Supported Backup Methods: Sync Directly Upload Files to Yandex from NAS Directly Download Files from Yandex to NAS LooksGood Transcoding Capabilities Built-in three main video library categories (Movies, TV Shows, Home Movies) and smart video sorting management Efficient Global Search function allows for searches by keywords followed by the execution of more detailed searches according to the Movies, TV Shows, Home Movies categories and parameters such as actors, director, year, genre, writer, and title Attractive poster wall and thumbnail display Automatic production of video poster thumbnails Centralized management and ability to configure the order of favorites and playlist history System administrator can configure video library and editing permissions according to user Can configure access permissions to share with friends and family Multimedia conversion function Self-defined smart folder for video conversions Supports digital TV recordings via digital TV dongles Easy streaming with Chromecast and DLNA Support to watch videos in Apple TV via AiVideos tvOS version iTunes Server For iTunes on Mac & Windows Supports AirPlay Supports iOS Remote Pairing Supported Audio Formats: AIF⁵, M4A (AAC & Apple Lossless), M4P, M4R, MP3, WAV⁵ Supported Video Formats: M4V, MOV, MP4 Supported Playlist Formats: M3U, WPL Mail Server Each ADM Account can Become an Independent Email Account Email Activity Monitor (Over 1 Week, 1/3/6 Months) Provides SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 Mail Protocols Supports SMTP Relay and Verification SMTP-SSL Secure Connections Spam Filter and Black List Settings Email Alias Creation and Mapping Monitoring of Mail Queue Mail Service Activity Log Exclusive Email Backup Mechanism Auto-Forwarding and Auto-Response Protocols Photo Gallery “Album” and “Browse” Viewing Modes Manage Photo Album Access Rights: Public Access, Restricted to Certain Accounts, Album Password Multi-level Folder Structure Support Supports Tagging of Photos Intuitive Sorting and Comprehensive Search Function Adjustable Photo Wall Browsing Scales Automatic Image Rotation One-click Sharing to Social Media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Plurk, email) Intuitive Drag and Drop Management Slideshow Viewing Mode Provides Comment Function for Users to Interact with Each Other. Supports a Wide Range of Image Formats: JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, RAW Supports Video Playback Surveillance Center Compatibility Up to 16 channels in 720p on single live view display On-screen camera controls including camera PTZ, manual recordings, take snapshots, configure camera settings and open Maps Up to 4 channels of synchronous and non-synchronous playback with audio Intelligent video analytics including motion detection and foreign object detection Supported Browsers: Windows Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Mac Safari, Mac Firefox ESR Event notification supports SMS, E-mail, and mobile push notification Automated event action rules Role-based access control RTSP streaming server (video and audio) AiSecure mobile app for iOS and Android with Push notification ONVIF™ 2.4, Profile S certified CMS Lite supports connect up to 128 IP Cameras from 32 NAS Two different camera license packages are offered: single channel and 4 channels. Maximum IP Cam (4 Free Licenses; Additional Licenses to be Purchased) Series Maximum IP cam Local display Note AS7 64 Yes With 8GB Memory AS63/64 36 Yes With 8GB Memory AS61/62 36 Yes With 8GB Memory AS50/51 30 Yes With 8GB Memory AS31/32/31 v2/32 v2 25 Yes N/A AS40 16 N/A N/A AS-6 16 Yes N/A AS-2TE/AS-3 8 Yes N/A AS-2T 8 N/A N/A AS10/AS10 v2 8 N/A N/A Minimum PC Client Requirements CPU: i5/i7 or above RAM: DDR3 4G or above Operating system Windows 7 and onward, Mac OS X Windows browsers: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, FireFox Mac browsers: Safari 7.0, Firefox Display resolution: 1280x800 pixels or higher for best user experience Network interface: Gigabit x1 Independent graphics card is highly recommend SoundsGood Import Personal/Public Music Collection Personal/Public Music Collection Permission Control Playlist Editor ID3 Tag Editor Local Speaker Support: USB Supported Audio Formats for Browser: MP3, WAV, Ogg Supported Audio Formats for Transcoding Through Browser: AIFF, Flac Supported Audio Formats for Local Speaker: MP3, WAV, Ogg, AIFF, Flac ASUS DAC Support Takeasy Download from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, and More Selectable the Video Type and Quality Automatic Downloads with YouTube Subscriptions Preview Downloads in Progress Online Playback UPnP Media Server Supports PS3 and other Digital Media Player Capable Devices Supports On-The-Fly Transcoding for Most RAW Images and Audio(OGG, FLAC) Supported Image Formats: BMP, GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG, PSD, TIF, RAW Image⁴ (3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, ERF, KDC, MEF, MOS, MRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RAW, RW2, SR2, X3F) VPN Client Supported VPN Protocols: PPTP, OpenVPN, L2TP/IPsec Transmission Package Monitor PPTP Authentication: PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, MS CHAP2 PPTP Encryption: No MPPE, MPPE (40, 128 bit), Maximum MPPE (128 bit) OpenVPN Port Control OpenVPN Link Compression VPN Server Supported VPN Protocols: PPTP, OpenVPN, and L2TP/IPsec View Current Connections & Ability to Disconnect Suspicious Connections Comprehensive Connection Log RADIUS Server Centralized management of wireless network certification Using WPA-Enterprise or WPA2-Enterprise encryption Must be combined with a wireless router that supports RADIUS authentication SNMP Server Supports SNMP v1, v2c, v3, and trap ASUSTOR NAS MIB provided Syslog server Supports standard Syslog protocol Graphical log monitoring by time and device Supports TCP and UDP Auto log archiving User-defined email notification Note: ¹ Hard disks not included. ² Test HDD: WD Red 3 TB HDD ³ USB Wi-Fi dongle not included. ⁴ You must first enable real-time transcoding for these files in order to play them. ⁵ Metadata (e.g. title) may not be able to displayed in iTunes. ¹⁰ Video playback is not supported in Chrome. Closer Look at the ASUSTOR AS4004T AS4004T is a 4-bay device that has ABS plastic shell with an aluminum frame on the inside. The color of the entire shell is black however the frame is painted silver. On the front of the device, there are two buttons, one for power and one for copying to the NAS from an external source. AS4004T also has a set of front-facing LEDs which show the hard drive and network activities. In addition to buttons and LEDs, there is a single USB 3.0 connection in the front for any external devices you may want to use. There are no ventilation holes on either side of the device. AS4004T is not completely square as it has a stylish pop-up design on both sides of the device. To gain access to the hard drives you would need to remove the front bezel which is magnetically attached to the case. To keep AS4004T on the flat surfaces Asustor glues four rubber pads on the bottom of the enclosure. At the bottom of the device there are air intake slots. AS4004T is actively cooled by a 120mm fan. On the back of the device, there is one USB 3.0 Connector, one 10GbE jack, 2 1Gbe jacks, a power connector, and a Kensington security port. To remove hard drive sleds, you need to operate a small lever in the front of the drive and pull it out. The drive sleds do not require any tools or screws to install drives in them. Hard drives are being held by a pair of clips.

AS4004T is very well packaged and grounded. As you can see from the pictures the entire shell is grounded in multiple places. I don’t think I have ever seen this much grounding tape on a device like this. The motherboard is extremely clean and has no over fluxing spots or excess of soldering on the components. The CPU and 10GbE controllers are passively cooled by a pair of aluminum heatsinks. On the back of the board, I found a metal cage that is soldered on. Daughter board which connected the drives to the motherboard is extremely clean as well.   Here are some of the chips I found on in AS4004T.

The CPU of this device is by Marvell, Armada 7K Dual-core ARMv8 Cortex-A72 Embedded Processor (88F7020-A2).

The 10GbE controller is also by Marvell, Alaska Single 10GBase-T/NBase-T Ethernet Controller (88x3310-BUS4).

AS4004T has 2 GB of RAM by Samsung, DDR4 Ram Modules (K4A8G16 5WB BCRC). These are soldered on and cannot be upgraded.

Marvell USB 3.0 Controller (RTS5412) supports the two USB 3.0 connectors in AS4004T.

The 1Gbps connection is supported by (2x) Marvell Energy Efficient Ethernet Controllers (88E1512-NNP2).

The Disk On Module (DOM) is supported by Toshiba Memory (QA3554).

The Disk On Module controller is by SiliconMotion, USB 2.0 Dual Channel Flash Controller (SM3252q BB). ASUSTOR Software ASUSTOR Start-up Wizard could be found in the previous review of AS1002Tv2 as it is identical. The detailed information on the Startup Wizard could be found here. ASUSTOR Data Master Overview also could be found in my previous review of AS1002Tv2 which could be found here. ADM 3.2.7 RRE3 offers some small improvements and bug fixes. A list of all of the changes could be found here. Testing Methodology System Configuration Case Open Test Table CPU Intel Core i7 8700K Motherboard Gigabyte AORUS Z370 ULTRA GAMING Ram (2) 8GB Corsair DDR4-3200 CMW16GX4M2C3200C16 GPU EVGA GTX 1080 (8Gb) Hard Drives Corsair Force MP510 NVMe Gen 3 x4 M.2 SSD (480Gb) Network Cards Dual Port Intel Pro/1000 PT Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-Express x 8 10GbE Ethernet Network Server Adapter Switches MikroTik Cloud Router Switch CRS317-1G-16S+RM (SwitchOS) Version 2.9 Transceivers used: 10Gtek for Cisco Compatible GLC-T/SFP-GE-T Gigabit RJ45 Copper SFP Transceiver Module, 1000Base-T 10Gtek for Cisco SFP-10G-SR, 10Gb/s SFP+ Transceiver module, 10GBASE-SR, MMF, 850nm, 300-meter 10Gtek for Cisco SFP-10G-T-S 10GBase-T SFP+ 10 Gigabit RJ45 Copper Transceiver 30m Power Supply Thermal Take Tough Power RGB 80 Plus Gold 750W   4 Seagate IronWolf 8 TB NAS drives were installed and used in the NAS tests. A Single port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-Express x 8 10GbE Ethernet Network Server Adapter network card was installed in the test system. Asustor AS4004T in all RAID arrays used a Single Static Volume. SFP-10G-T-S (10GbE) adapter was used for all 10GbE benchmarks. Network Layout For all tests, the NAS was configured to use a single network interface. Network cards were used to test 1Gbps (copper) and 10 Gbps (SFP+) connections. For 1Gbps connection one CAT 6 cable was connected to the MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+RM from the NAS and one CAT 6 cable was connected to the workstation from the switch. Testing was done on the PC with only 1 network card active. For 10Gbps connection one Cat 6 cable was connected to MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+RM from the NAS and one Fiber 10Gb cable was connected to the workstation from the switch.  The switch was cleared of any configuration. Jumbo frames were used (9000 MTU) on the workstation, NAS and the switch. Network drivers used on the workstation are 5.50.14643.1 by Mellanox Technologies. (Driver Date 8/26/2018) (10GbE adapter) and 9.15.11.0 by Intel (Driver Date 10/14/2011) Software All testing is done based off a single client accessing the NAS. Both of the software were installed on the RAM Drive by ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver. Crystal Disk Mark is an old favorite disk benchmarking software which we have used for many years. It provides us with useful information on read and write speeds of the targets. You can get your own free copy right here. ATTO Disk Benchmark gives a good insights on the read and write speeds of the drive. In our tests, we used it against the "share" on the NAS. ATTO Disk Benchmark could be download right here. All tests were run a total of three times then averaged to get the final result. RAID 0,5 and 10 were tested for 1GbE and 10GbE connections. Tests were run after all the RAID arrays were fully synchronized.   RAID Information

Images courtesy of Wikipedia   JOBD or Just a Bunch Of Disks is exactly what the name describes. The hard drives have no actual raid functionality and are spanned at random data is written at random. RAID 0 is a stripe set and data is written across the disks evenly. The advantage of RAID 0 is speed and increased capacity. With RAID 0 there is no redundancy and data loss is very possible. RAID 1 is a mirrored set and data is mirrored from one drive to another. The advantage of RAID 1 is data redundancy as each piece of data is written to both disks. The disadvantage of RAID 1 is write speed is decreased as compared to RAID 0 due to the write operation is performed on both disks. RAID 1 capacity is that of the smallest disk. RAID 10 combines the 1st two raid levels and is a mirror of a stripe set. This allows for better speed of a RAID 0 array but the data integrity of a RAID 1 array. RAID 5 is a stripe set with parity. RAID 5 requires at least 3 disks. Data is striped across each disk, and each disk has a parity block. RAID 5 allows the loss of one drive without losing data. The advantage to RAID 5 is read speeds increase as the number of drives increase but the disadvantage is write speeds are slower as the number of drives is increased. There is overhead with RAID 5 as the parity bit needs to be calculated and with software

 RAID 5 there is more of a performance hit. RAID 6 expands on RAID 5 by adding an additional parity block to the array that is distributed across all the disks. Since there are two parity blocks in the array more overhead is used with a RAID 6 array. For a full breakdown of RAID levels, take a look at the Wikipedia article here. RAID configurations are a highly debated topic. RAID has been around for a very long time. Hard drives have changed, but the technology behind RAID really hasn’t. So what may have been considered ideal a few years ago may not be ideal today. If you are solely relying on multiple hard drives as a safety measure to prevent data loss, you are in for a disaster. Ideally, you will use a multi-drive array for an increase in speed and lower access times and have a backup of your data elsewhere. I have seen arrays with hot spares that had multiple drives fail and the data was gone. Following Benchmarks were performed via 1GbE connectivity. Raid 0 1Gbps Raid 10 1Gbps Raid 5 1Gbps Following Benchmarks were performed via 10GbE connectivity. Raid 0 10Gbps Raid 10 10Gbps Raid 5 10Gbps Conclusion and Final Thoughts There is a lot to Asustor AS4004T than just a pretty outer shell. When we review hardware here at Modders-Inc we really get down into performance and statistics of a device and AS4004T treatment was no different. For the short time that I had with AS4004T, I have tested and used this device as I would any other NAS on my network. Moving large files and installing software from Asustor App Central was easy and straight forward. I have experience with ADM so it was easy for me to navigate. ADM is easy to work with as everything is intuitive and straight forward. Asustor AS4004T is powered by Marvell Armada 7K Dual Core Embedded processor and while using the device I have noticed CPU activity times in upper 70-80% while transferring large files across the network. Based on the benchmarks and the data they have produced AS4004T should be able to push data much faster while using 10GbE connectivity. At times it felt like the Armada 7K CPU had a difficult time keeping up with the Alaska 10GbE controller. Working with 1Gbps connection I saw no issues lag or choking.

ADM software which drives AS4004T is powerful and flexible and comes with App Central plugin through which you can install and manage a decent number of applications. Most of the applications are open sourced however, some are not such as Surveillance Center for your home IP Cam Security. Right now, Asustor AS4004T retails for about $ 360 USD and I think that is a fair price considering similar units sell for about the same. Asustor also has a two-bay unit, AS4002T for about $ 250 USD.  So, if you are looking for a 10GbE NAS, AS4004T is a pretty good and affordable device to have around for your daily file sharing activities. While not quite as fast as other 10-gigabit NAS devices we've tested, it certainly gets the job done. And with the 3-year warranty how can you go wrong?     Read the full article

[eurosong]

50 days of Eurovision: Day 10

Good morning, folks! It’s day 10 of eurovisionfanblog’s 50 days of Eurovision challenge, and the task today is to share one’s favourite non-English ESC song ever. For me, this would be pretty difficult to do - given that 90% of my favourites at the Eurovision are non-English songs - were it not for the fact that I have a clear and dear favourite ESC song ever that happens to be in a foreign language. For a second day running, I must salute the Magyars, as that song is their 1994 début, Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet.

This is an example of Eurovision meant to me - a simple performance of a heartfelt song whose sincerity and beauty transcended language barriers. It’s an extraordinary song - gentle but powerful, needing little more than guitar and a voice. No ostentations or gimmicks here, just pure emotion and some of the most intriguing and darkly poëtic lyrics sent to the contest. As much as I love the winning song of ‘94, I really wish Europe voted as the Nordics and Ireland did and gave Hungary the victory.

[brigcinireland]

Az ír nevekről

Az utóbbi időben nagyon sokat gondolkoztam azon, hogy egy-egy ír név miért pont az, ami. Ír nyelvtanórákon, és a barátaimon is észrevettem, hogy mindenkinek két neve van (az ír és az angol változata ugyanannak), és a helységnevek megfigyelése közben is sok érdekességet találtam. Erről a témáról nem készültem írni igazából, de ha már úgyis belevetettem magamat, akkor gondoltam egy rövid bejegyzésben összefoglalnám, amiket megtudtam.

Ha valakinek mondania kéne egy ír vezetéknevet, elsőre talán egy McValaki, esetleg egy O'Valaki vagy egy Fitzvalaki jutna az eszébe. Először ezeknek a jelentését magyaráznám meg, mert ezek a legelterjedtebbek és általunk is jól ismertek.

Szóval, az ír vezetéknevek nagyon sok más nyelvhez hasonlóan legtöbbször patroním összetételűek. Ez lényegében azt jelenti, hogy a születendő gyerek vezetékneve az apja keresztnevéből képződik, mint mi is megannyi példát látunk erre a mindennapokban. A foci eb-n például az összes izlandi valamilyen -son volt, a magyarban erre jó példa a Pálfi, és szerintem az angol Johnson is idetartozhatna. Írül (vagyishát gaelül) a már fent említett három példa a leggyakoribb, de a történet itt korántsem áll meg.

Először is tisztázzuk, hogy mikből és kinek képezhető külön vezetéknév. A leggyakrabban használtak a valakinek a fia (Mac), a valakinek a leszármazottja (Ó vagy néhány helyen Ua), a valakinek a lánya (Níc), a valakinek a női leszármazottja (Ní), a valakinek a felesége (Bean Ó vagy Mhic) és a valakinek a leszármazottjának a felesége (Uí). Ezeket az elöljárószerű izéket teszik az apa/felmenő neve elé, ezzel olyan vezetékneveket képezve, mint az Ó Dónaill (angolosítva O'Donall), a Mac Gearailt (angolosítva McGerald) vagy a Bean Uí Dhónaill (angolosítva Mrs. O'Donall). Hozzátenném, hogy nem csak ez a hat verzió létezik, természetesen lehet valaki valakinek a leszármazottjának a lánya, valakinek a fiának a felesége és még rengeteg verzió létezik, például a dupla patroním, amikor valaki egy felmenője nevét veszi fel és kiegészíti a sajátjával, vagy például van külön jelölése a koraszülött gyerekeknek is, amit néha beleraktak a vezetéknévbe (ne kérdezzétek minek).

Néhány esetben adtak matroním vezetékneveket is, leggyakrabban akkor kapta őket a születendő gyermek, ha az apa a terhesség alatt elhunyt, illetve erre nem találtam forrást, de elképzelhetőnek tartom hogy rangon aluli házasság esetén, ha a nő volt a nemesebb, akkor is az ő vonalát vitték tovább. Manapság már azt a nevet kapják az emberek, ami az apa vezetékneve (függetlenül attól hogy az matro- vagy patroním név). Nem nagyon variálnak ezen, és a legtöbben az angolosított verziót használják hivatalosan. Tehát ha valaki Sean McCarey, annak a fia, a lánya, a fiától született unokája, szinte mindenkije McCarey lesz, és a felesége is csak egyszerűen felveszi azt, hogy Mrs. McCarey házasságkötéskor. Tehát nagyjából ugyanúgy mint nálunk, a vezetéknév öröklődik. Sokan hivatalosan az angol verzióval vannak anyakönyvezve, de mégis az írt használják a mindennapokban, pédául facebookon ír névvel vannak fent vagy éppen fordítva. Érdekességként megemlíteném, hogy ezek a patron��m nevek a clann-t is jelölték a nagyon régi időkben, a clann szó jelentése pedig család. Nem nehéz kitalálni innentől, hogy a magyar ‘klán’ szó honnan jön:)

És ha azt hittétek ennyi az egész, akkor most jöjjön még két tényező, ami bezavarhat a vezetéknévbe (ha eddig nem lett volna elég bonyolult): az angol Junior és Senior, azaz idősebbik és ifjabb megfelelői. Írül a Mór, azaz "nagy" és az Óg, azaz "fiatal" jelöléseket használják. Erre egy példa a Seán Óg Ó Súilleabháin, ami angolra fordítva John O'Sullivan Jr. lenne. Apropó angolosítás, a Ní, Nic, Bean Uí és hasonló női alakok mind eltűnnek fordításkor, angol változatban csak a Mac vagy Mc, és az O' alakot használják, nemtől függetlenül.

És itt még nem áll meg az élet, merthogy még mindig vannak variációk, például a Fitz előtag, ami norman eredetű neveknél jelenik meg, de a latin filius, azaz valakinek a fia szóból ered. Ebből jönnek azok a nevek mint például a Fitzgerald. Szóval technikailag ez ugyanaz, mintha valaki Mac lenne, csak más helyről származnak az ősei. Vannak más norman eredetű nevek is, az ír de Paor például az angol Power vezetéknév megfelelője, ebben a de tag a norman rész. És vannak előtagok, amik azt jelölik, hogy melyik pontjáról jön az illető a szigetnek, ezek a formák pedig nyilván keveredhetnek is.

És akkor jöhet a kérdés: mi van azokkal, akiknek hasonló angol vezetéknevük van, de nem áll előtte O', például Seamus O’Connell helyett csak Seamus Connell? Nos, ennek történelmi okai vannak. Az 1800-as évek közepén volt egy másfél évtizedes éhínség, amikor az ország összes krumpliját megtámadta valaki kór és nem volt termény. Nagyon sokan ekkortájt vándoroltak ki Amerikába, de volt aki maradt a smaradt szigeten és tovább éhezett. Akkoriban ugye Írország még brit fennhatóság alatt állt, és a briteknek nem nagyon állt érdekében megmenteni az ír parasztokat. Egy mentőövet mégis bedobtak: ha valaki feladja a nevéből az O' előtagot, tehát gyakorlatilag letagadja az ír származását, annak és a családjának biztosítják az ellátást az angolok. Voltak akik ennek megfelelően cselekedtek, ezt azóta is gyávaságnak és a hazafiasság meggyalázásának tartják az írek. Bár ez sok-sok-sok generációval előttünk történt, ha valakinek a neve elől hiányzik az a bizonyos O', azt a mai napig megvetik, hiszen a felmenői eladták a nemzeti becsületüket pár tál ételért. Fun fact, 140 éve újra van krumpli és ennek annyira örülnek, hogy azóta is csak azt esznek:D

Most pedig, hogy kiveséztük a vezetéknevek jelentős hányadát, térjünk rá a keresztnevekre. Elöljáróban csak annyit mondanék, hogy a nagyrészük vagy ősi, kelta vagy keresztény, bibliai eredetű. Az írek vegyesen adnak ír és angol neveket a mindennapokban, de ez egy olyan dolog amin nem variálnak, ha valaki Aoife akkor azt mindig Aoife-nak hívják, sosem lesz Eve vagy Eva vagy Ava, és ez fordítva is igaz.

Gyakori ír női nevek az Aoife /ífa/, az Eibhlin /ájvlín/, a Caoimhe /kvíva/, a Caitlín /ketlin/, az Eimear /ímör/, a Sadhbh /szájv/, a Niamh /niev/, a Roisín /rosín/, a Shauna, a Sinead /sinéd/, az Aisling /áslin/ és a Saoirse /szirsa/. Ennek az utóbbinak a jelentése egyébként ‘szabadság’, és ez az egyik kedvenc ír nevem, szerintem nagyon szépen hangzik, és valahogy teljesen átjön benne az írség, még ha ilyen szó nincs akkor is:D Ezeknek a neveknek a egy része rendelkezik angol párral, például a Roisín Rosie lenni, az Eibhlín pedig Eileen.

Gyakori ír fiúnevek a Niall /nájl/, a Liam, az Eoin /oen/, a Conor, a Seán, a Pádraig /pódrich/, a Ruaidhrí /róri/, a Cormac, a Kevin, a Hugh, a Jarlath /dzsárlet/, a Lachlan /loklin/, az Oisín /osín/ és a Seamus. Ezek közül is soknak van angol párja, a Neil a Niall megfelelője, a Seán John lenne, a Pádraig pedig természetesen Patrick.

Sokan tudjátok biztos, de az én nevem is kelta eredetű, így leírnám a Brigitta néhány ír verzióját. A jelentése a névnek egyébként erős:D Szóval a Bríd a legelterjedtebb, de van Brighid, Brigid, és még néhány egyéb írásmód is létezik:)

És akkor utolsóként térjünk rá a helységnevekre. Mindennek van hivatalos ír neve, a legtöbb helynek (úgy 95%) pedig hivatalos angol neve is. Az ír nevek legtöbbször gael, angol, viking vagy skót eredetűek. Nagyon sok név természeti látványosságokra, például hegyekre vagy folyókra utal, de sok esetben emberalkotta dolgokról neveztek el helyeket, például Abbeyside, vagyis Dún na Mainistreach (a mainistreach /menisztrá/ szó egyfajta vallási létesítményt jelent, de nem tudom, hogy pont kolostor-e).

A hivatalos angol nevek viszont nagyon ritkán tükörfordítások csak, legtöbbször ugyanazt írják le, csak az angol helyesírás szerint, így lesz Lios Mór például Lismore. És persze van olyan eset is, ahol egyáltalán nem egyezik meg a kettő. Erre nagyon jó példa Dublin, ami bár az ír Duibhlinn-ból jön, és sok esetben hivatkoznak is rá így, a jelenlegi hivatalos neve mégis Baile Átha Cliath /bájl ó kliá/. Ez a modern ír neve csak, régebben ők is Duibhlinnak hívták, de ahogy az egész nyelv, az idők során ez is rengeteget változott, mind az ír, mind az angol változatnak vagy 20 féle különböző írásmódja is volt az évszázadok alatt.

A megyék nevei legtöbbször a megyeszékhelyre utalnak, például Co. Cork, vagy Co. Waterford, de vannak olyan megyék is, ahol már nem az a székhely, ami a névben szerepel. Vannak viszont kivételek is, például Co. Tyrone a Tír Eógain összemosásából jött, ami annyit jelent, hogy ‘Eógan területe’.

A városnevek pedig sok esetben összetételekből jönnek, gyakori előtagok az ard (magas) mint például Ard Mór, azaz Ardmore település esetén, a baile/bally (folyosó, összekötő) például Baile na Cúirte, azaz Ballynacourty vagy a fentebb már említett Baile Átha Cliath nevében, a cluain/clon (mező) Cluain Meala vagyis Clonmel esetében, és még vagy 50 ezekhez hasonló szó létezik. Ezért van annyi nagyon hasonló településnév, és rengeteg településről kapásból meg is lehet állapítani, hogy hol fekszik. És még egy fun fact: írül az út bóthar, ez szimplán annyit jelent, hogy ‘a tehenek ösvénye’:)

A bejegyzés végén annyit szeretnék még hozzáfűzni a témához, hogy mik voltak a limitációi a gyűjteményemnek, és hogy sajnos a leírtak csak a nevek olyan 30-40%-át fedik le. Egyrészt egy élő nyelv névvariációit nehéz összefoglalni, másrészt sok név azok közül, amiket fent említettem még létezik különböző összevont vagy éppen felbontott formákban is. Például amikor valaki valakinek a valakije, ott gyakran 4-5 féle vezetéknév is felvehető, mindenhez szigorú nyelvtani szabályok társulnak persze. 

Aztán ott van két nyelvtani szerkezet, a séimhiú és az urú, amik esettől függően az írásmódot és a kiejtést is befolyásolják. Minden, ami ehhez a kettőhöz kapcsolódó anyag, azt egyszerűen kihagytam a leírásból, mert ez a két nyelvtani rész tényleg olyan nehezen emészthető, hogy az iskolákban is hónapokig tanítják a használtatát. Aztán vannak olyan nevek, amiket bejegyzeve nem használnak, de vidéken mégis gyakoriak, ezekre sem tértem ki külön. Az utolsó faktor pedig az, hogy az ír nyelv rengeteget változott az idők során, nyelvészetileg ha jól emlékszem három teljesen különböző csoportba is van osztva, az óírbe, a középkoriba és a modernbe. Attól függően, hogy ki melyik időszakból elemzi a neveket, teljesen más lehet néhány név írásmódilag (az alidőszakokról meg ne is beszéljünk persze). És hát persze a modern írnek is területenként változik a kiejtése és hát az írásmódja is valamennyire, így egy névnek hihetetlen sok formája lehet. 

A poszt célja tényleg csak annyi volt, hogy a ma előforduló nevek egy kis hányadát bemutathassam, de ha valakit érdekel a téma, az ezer meg ezer különböző oldalon böngészheti (ahogy én is tettem). :)