#anders larsen

[seaside-coffeemilk]

Elizabet : Okay everybody, status update.

Featuring : the world's most stressful group project finals.

(Inspired by one of the comments in my prior art that said zero dawn was basically last-minute group project vibes.)

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Bonus - Some recordings from the meeting :

Charles : We're doing everything we can to save DNA samples.

Margo : Learning modules are showing incredible growth! Some systems will still need smoothing out, though.

Naoko : Metal flowers are in production. I'll send you the newest designs.

Patrick : Sending you the newest updates on the cradles.

Anders : We've been revising strategies on atmosphere restoration.

Samina : Information coding is currently on schedule, 56% complete.

Travis : (with his coffee cups) We're going on the 2,091th stimulation. (sigh) Things with the ol' girl still need working out, though.

Catalina : Will need to figure out more solutions on ocean restoration.

Okilo : MINERVA's codebreaking systems are under constant development. Recent breaches in numerous frontlines may also provide learning opportunities for the software.

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[starchaserr]

Raske Menn on Beat for Beat

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

The Oscars "Best Short Film (Live Action)" Nominees, 2023.

#onemannsmovies review of the Oscar "Best Short Film" film nominees for 2023. Again, some of these are better than many feature films.

A One Mann’s Movies review of the nominations for the Oscars in the “Best Short Film (Live Action)” Category. I’ve not done separate reviews for these Oscar “Short Film” nominees but am including brief reviews for them in this one post. An Irish Goodbye (2022). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: Turlough (Seamus O’Hara) and Lorcan (James Martin) have lost their mother and return to the…

[leviabeat]

IT'S NOW OR NEVER

HOW INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY VOLBEAT ARE SEIZING THE MOMENT TO INTRODUCE THEIR "ELVIS METAL" TO THE U.S.-WITH THE HELP OF A LITTLE BAND CALLED METALLICA

Revolver Magazine | Mar/Apr 2010

By Richard Bienstock | Photos By Justin Borucki

It's just past 7 on a fall evening in New York City, and the lights have dimmed at mega-arena Madison Square Garden. As four men in black don instruments and take the stage, the opening anthem to the cartoon American Dad blares from the P.A.: "Good morning, U.S.A.!" To those in the know, the introduction is a humorous poke at the rest of the audience: Onstage stands Volbeat, Denmark's finest heavy-music export and possibly the biggest Scandinavian metal band you've never heard of.

"It's very obvious when we take the stage that a lot of the crowd isn't familiar with us." said Volbeat singer-guitarist Michael Poulsen the previous night. "If we're lucky, maybe a few people in the front even know who we are. [Laughs] But most everyone doesn't have a clue."

This, of course, may soon change, as Volbeat spent much of the fall playing to thousands of American metal fans a night, and in some of the country's largest venues, as the opening act on the final U.S. leg of Metallica's World Magnetic Tour. It's the gig of a lifetime for any band and one that begs the question: Danish popularity notwithstanding, how did a relatively unknown act land a coveted spot on the biggest metal bill of the year? Easy: Metallica asked them to do it.

"Apparently James [Hetfield] and Lars [Ulrich] are fans of the band," Poulsen says. It's the afternoon before the New York show, and the Volbeat singer is relaxing with guitarist Thomas Bredahl in a hotel bar across the street from the venue. (Bassist Anders Kjølholm and drummer Jon Larsen are absent.) The Metallica gig marks only the second time Volbeat have performed in the city, and, as Poulsen gazes out the window at the arena, he jokes, "I guess it's not a bad venue. Though I don't know where we'll play next time we're here. Is there anywhere bigger?"

Bredahl goes on to explain the band's connection to Metallica, which extends back to both acts' Danish roots. The members of Volbeat hail from around Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, where Ulrich spent his childhood years. "A few summers ago, Metallica came over to Denmark to play some shows on their Sick of the Studio (2007) Tour," the guitarist says. "Lars is still connected to people back home and likes to know what's going on there with new music. So he made some calls, asking. 'Who should we get on the bill with us?' And people mentioned our name to him. So he checked us out, liked what he heard, and we wound up as the main support for their Danish shows."

That led to more gigs together and, eventually, a friendship. When Metallica returned to Denmark on later dates, Hetfield's assistant phoned Poulsen inquiring if he would like to grab a bite with the frontman on one of the band's days off. "James wound up coming over, and my girlfriend cooked dinner for everyone," Poulsen says. "I mean, I remember being a teenager and lying in bed looking up at posters of this guy on my wall, and now here he was, sitting in my house, having something to eat. It was very weird, to say the least." The next time Poulsen got a call from the Metallica camp it was the offer to join the band on select U.S. dates of their World Magnetic Tour. The Volbeat frontman says, "It wasn't a hard decision to make."

The appeal of the pairing from Metallica's standpoint is easy to understand. Volbeat's music, in particular on their third and most recent release, Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (Mascot), mixes beefy "Black Album"- type riffing with pop-punk hooks à la Metallica faves the Misfits. In addition, the band evinces a serious fixation with early rock-and-roll and outlaw country artists - in particular Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash - which permeates everything from the music's swaggering rhythms to Poulsen's soaring Elvis-via-Danzig vocals. Essentially, Volbeat is a straight-up metal band that also manages to sound more inherently "American" than most current American acts.

"If you ask me, all great rock songs were written in the '50s and '60s," Poulsen says of his inspiration. "Everyone since is just a copycat. Including us. You can listen to any of those early American rock or country songs and they still sound great. So it's my way of paying respect."

Poulsen, who grew up in the small Danish city of Ringsted, credits his father with first exposing him to classic rock and country music. "My dad would always be playing Elvis, Fats Domino, Jerry Lewis, stuff like that around our house," he recalls. At the same time, Poulsen's older siblings [I would like to add a correction here. It was his uncle, not his older sisters] introduced him to Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. As a teenager, he got into Metallica and Mercyful Fate ("We have two kings in Denmark," he says with a laugh. "Lars Ulrich and King Diamond") and then into metal's heavier subgenres. "In the early '90s I really got into the death-metal thing, when the Florida scene was exploding." he says, "and then the melodic death metal that was coming out of Sweden."

At age 16, Poulsen formed his own death- metal act, Dominus. The band relocated to Copenhagen and made a name for itself in the city's underground scene. Dominus first two albums, 1994's View to the Dim and 1996's The First 9, were staunch death metal efforts, but Poulsen soon found himself growing bored with the format. "It was very rigid," he says. "I could feel that I wanted to write songs that were a little loosor, a little more rock and roll." His band's next album, Vol. Beat - a mashup of the words "volume" and "beat"- awakened Poulsen's dormant rock tendencies and laid the groundwork for his eventual exit from the group. "A lot of people thought that album shouldn't have even been called a Dominus album," he says. "It was pretty different sounding." After one more record, Poulson disbanded Dominus, adopting the title of the group's transitional third effort as the name of his new project.

Although Volbeat's sound wasn't an immediate hit - "at our early shows," Poulsen says, "some people were still screaming for Dominus songs, while others were like, 'What is this shit?' " - the band's unique blend of music genres soon began to find an audience. "Suddenly, a lot of girls started to show up," Poulsen recalls. "It certainly wasn't due to our looks, because we're ugly bastards! But they could find something to like in the music, because there was melody. And so then the guys thought, OK, maybe we'll give it a chance, too..."

As the band's following grew in the underground scene, mainstream Danish music fans and press began to take notice. Volbeat's first full-length effort, The Strength/The Sound/The Songs, was awarded Debut Album of the Year at the 2005 Danish Metal Music Awards. Two years later, the follow-up, Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil, entered the Danish album chart at No. 1, eventually reaching platinum (30,000 copies sold). Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood earned the group their second No. 1 and platinum record and cemented their status as Denmark's biggest metal act.

"For a band like Volbeat to be so well known, and to be played on the radio alongside international pop stars like Madonna and Britney Spears, it's really pretty unbelievable," Poulsen says. "It's not typical at all. You don't usually hear double-bass drums on Danish mainstream radio."

And while no one will mistake "Hallelujah Goat" for "...Baby One More Time," Bredahl does believe Volbeat's accessibility has opened doors previously shut to metal bands in their country. "Some people have tagged us with the slogan, 'Metal even your mom would like," he says. "And it's true - my mom really does like our songs! Even people who are not necessarily huge music fans can hear one of our songs and say, 'That's a good melody.' It reaches people."

The following evening at Madison Square Garden, Volbeat do an impressive job of connecting with the rabid Metallica crowd during their brief 30 minutes onstage. Although most in the audience, as Poulsen says, are not familiar with their music, the band whips through crowd pleasers like "Sad Man's Tongue" - a virtual rewrite of Johnny Cash's classic "Folsom Prison Blues" - and a faithful cover of the Misfits' "Angelfuck." When the audience responds to the final tune, "Still Counting," Poulsen counters, in his best Elvis sneer, "Thank yuh. Thank yuh very much."

"We tell ourselves we win more than we lose," the singer reasons, and at present, they appear to be on a pretty good winning streak. Volbeat just released a two-DVD set, Live: Sold Out!, that will provide newbies with a crash course in the band, with one disc devoted to live performances, and a second featuring a biographical documentary and video history. In addition, they recently signed an international deal with Universal and are preparing to begin writing and recording their fourth album. At the moment, anything looks possible.

"You look at a guy like Lars Ulrich, who grew up right outside of Copenhagen, playing tennis, going to rock shows, and then he came to America and started the biggest metal band in the world. That's a nice story," Bredahl says, perhaps seeing hopeful parallels in Volbeat's path. "It's inspiring."

Of course, as Metallica's frontman learned on this tour, you may be able to take the musicians out of Denmark, but you can't necessarily take Denmark out of the musicians. "Backstage the other day." Poulsen says, "the Metallica guys posted a sign that said "No Danish Language Allowed." Basically, it was James and his assistant who were behind it. Because Lars will walk into our dressing room, and we'll sit and talk to each other in Danish. And then James will drop by, and he doesn't know what the fuck is going on." Poulsen laughs. "He's always like, 'Speak English!' "

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– From The Tattoo Issue of Revolver Magazine, March/April 2010.

(The best damn Volbeat blog you’ll find!)

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Hws Scandinavians: a list of alternate name ideas

Keep in mind my human au

🇳🇴Norway

Canon/fanon name: Lukas Bondevik

Name ideas: Magne, Ingvar, Yngve, Kristian, Ola/Ole, Lars, Sigurd, Lukas

Potential surnames: Amundsen, Larsen, Eide, Moen, Fossheim

Other: used to go by more traditional names before, chooses more evangelical/modern names in modern times

Fem/nyo: Sunniva, Synnøve, Nora, Ingrid, Ida, Freja, Siv

🇩🇰Denmark

Canon/fanon name: Mathias Køhler (German???)

Name ideas: Magnus, Mikkel, Anders, Søren, Christoffer, Christian, Tage, Malte, Mathias is fine

Potential surnames: Christoffersen, Rasmussen, Andersen, Nielsen, Sørensen

Other: Magnus is an older name of his, currently uses Mikkel

Fem/nyo: Mette, Maren, Monica, Margrethe, Mathilde, Louise, Idun

🇸🇪Sweden

Canon/fanon name: Berwald Oxenstierna

Name ideas: Björn (similar meaning to his canon name), Örjan, Carl, Olle

Potential surnames: Simonsson, Svensson, Bergström, Blomqvist, Eklund/-ström

Other: Björn is honestly the perfect name for him. And it’s so common he could def get away with using the same one for decades

Fem/nyo: Annika/Anniken, Agnes, Ylva

I didn’t do Finland and Iceland bc I found names using Norwegian, Swedish and Danish websites and I don’t understand the two other languages lmao

[materialsscienceandengineering]

PhAI—an AI system that figures out the phase of x-rays that crystals have diffracted

A trio of chemists at the University of Copenhagen has developed an AI application that can be used to figure out the phase of x-rays that crystals have diffracted as part of efforts to predict the structure of small molecules. In their paper published in the journal Science, Anders Larsen, Toms Rekis and Anders Madsen describe how they developed their system and how well it worked during testing. Over the past several years, chemists and computer scientists have teamed up together to create AI applications that can be used to assist chemists in various applications. Such applications are a natural fit due to the way that a lot of chemistry is done—through trial and error. As one example, an AI application was recently developed to predict protein structures. In this new effort, the researchers have used AI to create an application that can do the same for small molecules.

Read more.

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05.31.2013 | Wuhlheide | Berlin | Germany

📸 Mick Hutson on Getty Images

[jprgirl]

Best TAJ Episode: Poll 5

Use whatever metric you like! Personal preference, technical aspects, whatever! Feel free to make your case in the notes, and reblog to help spread the polls! :)

Possibly spoilery episode descriptions and screenshots below the cut to help you decide!

S3.E10 - "Playing God"

Michele continues her healing sessions, now with Anders. Mike becomes suspicious of her activities, finally getting the truth from Anders. Mike and Michele argue and break up. Ty and Dawn have resumed their relationship and moved in together. Olaf warns Ty against getting too close to a mortal, then visits Dawn and gets her stoned. While high, and provoked by Olaf's unconsidered comments, she worries about being hurt, even killed, with Ty in her life. Ty arrives and talks her down from a rope climbing tower. Meanwhile, Axl happens on the goddesses playing with the Yggdrasil cutting and learns of the powers it gives them - such as wisdom to Ingrid. He hits on the idea of Ingrid tapping its power to find Frigg. At first reluctant, she guides Axl to an aged care home: there, they find a mute man whom Ingrid introduces as Frederick Larsen, the god Hœnir, and Frigg's father. As Axl returns with Michele, hoping to cure him and find Frigg, Mike throws the Yggdrasil cutting into a woodchipper. Axl becomes enraged.

S1.E8 - "I Can Give You Frigg"

The goddesses have, apparently, found the lost goddess Frigg: a goth singer and butcher named Eva. Michele, Ingrid and Stacey collude to not inform Agnetha, but she finds out anyway. Michele makes a blood oath with Anders and tells him. Meanwhile, Mike and Val's marriage is again rocky. Rob admits to initially being angry at Mike for marrying his fiance, while Anders tries to convince Mike that Val is still in love with Rob. Anders brings Axl to see Eva. Sparks fly, literally, from the sound system, and Axl, too, is convinced she is Frigg.

Episode descriptions taken from Wikipedia

[kutyozh]

list of artists that sing in nynorsk and/or their dialect from the vk group @/vestlandet (nynoreg)

— nynorsk

artists that sing (almost) exclusively in nynorsk or in nynorsk and their dialect

• metal

aasen — oslo

blodsmak — drammen, buskerud

drittmaskin— bergen, hordaland

liksminke — sandnes, rogaland

rammsund — oslo

staal — oslo

storm — oslo. the band has only one album: "nordavind" (1995)

• rock

bergtatt — risør, aust-agder

gåte — sør-trøndelag

h.s.d.— odda/skare, hordaland

olav stedje — sogndal, sogn og fjordane

• folk

audithor —

daniel sanden-warg— valle, agder

dei nye kapellanane — oslo?

eldrim —

hallvard t. bjørgum— valle, agder

oddvar torsheim — bergen, hordaland

olav flatastøyl—

sigurd brokke — valle, agder

sol i skuggeskog —

stanley jacobsen — sveio, sunnhordland

wardruna — bergen, hordaland

ivar bjørnson & einar selvik — bergen, hordaland

— dialect

artists that sing (almost) exclusively in their dialect 

• metal

myrkgrav — ringerike, buskerud

nifrost — jølster, sogn og fjordane

windir — sogndal, sogn og fjordane

cor scorpii — sogndal, sogn og fjordane

vreid — sogndal, sogn og fjordane

• rock

baksi'a — harpefoss, oppland

beist — orkdal, trøndelag

daniel kvammen— geilo, buskerud

d.d.e.— namsos, trøndelag

fjorden baby!— loddefjord, bergen, hordaland

hellbillies— ål, buskerud

jon olav—

leidulf hafsmo & håvard kvarvings orkester — trondheim, trøndelag

mods — stavanger, rogaland

leif & kompisane— stavanger, rogaland

nøkken — bergen, hordaland

publiners — brønnøysund, nordland

rotlaus — ørsta, møre og romsdal

senjahopen — senjahopen, troms

skambankt — klepp, rogaland

sunnmøre baarelag — ørsta, møre og romsdal

terje tysland — namsos, trøndelag

vømmøl spellmannslag— verdal, trøndelag

arbeidslaget hass k. vømmølbakken— verdal, trøndelag

hans rotmo— verdal, trøndelag

åge aleksandersen — namsos, trøndelag

åsmund åmli band — valle, agder

• folk

agnes buen garnås— bø, telemark

askøystrilane — askøy, hordaland

aslak høgetveit — telemark (?)

bergen mandolinband — bergen, hordaland

boknakaran — tromsø, troms

bukkene bruse — oslo

arve moen bergset — sandnessjøen, nordland

camilla granlien— elverum, hedmark

e-76 — vinje, telemark

eivind bjørke—

magnhild aaker gundersen—

fjøllmannjentun — telemark

folkemusikk frå møre og romsdal—

gitarkameratene —

halvdan sivertsen— bodø, nordland

hallingdal kraftlag — hallingdal, buskerud

harald foss —

inger marie lien rust—

ivar medaas — alversund, hordaland

johannes kleppevik — sotra, hordaland

ausekarane — bergen, hordaland

jon anders halvorsen— lunde, telemark

kristian p. åsmundstad —

liv tanche-larsen — sandnes, rogaland

lothepus— odda, hordaland

odd nordstoga — vinje, telemark

ola måsafinn — voss, hordaland

ole ivars— hamar, hedmark

reidar svare med svermere—

rett vest — karmøy, rogaland

salhuskvintetten — salhus, bergen, hordaland

vinskvetten — salhus, bergen, hordaland

sondre bratland— vinje, telemark

spyttmyra tjuvjakt & spellemannslag— gullverket, akershus

staut — valdres, oppland

stein torleif bjella — ål, buskerud

talleiv røysland — lårdal, telemark

tiriltunga — telemark/buskerud (?)

torolf nordbø — finnøy, rogaland

tove karoline knutsen— senja, troms

trygve hoff— rognan, nordland

tønes — sokndal, rogaland

unni løvlid — hornindal, sogn og fjordane

vamp — haugesund, rogaland

verdal mannskor —

vind i gardhol— obrestad, rogaland

vindrosa —

3 busserulls — karmøy, rogaland

• hip-hop

balestrand badeklubb — balestrand, sogn og fjordane

bald bros

guddfaren

hagle

kjartan lauritzen — balestrand, sogn og fjordane

kompani 69—harstad, troms

lars vaular — bergen, hordaland

ogobor — dovre, oppland

dåm— dovre, oppland

rsp & thomax

shitrich

side brok — ørsta, møre og romsdal

sirkel sag — ørsta, møre og romsdal

skolekorps—

tuveia — dalsbygda, hedmark

yoguttene — bergen, hordaland

• misc

ane brun—

bjørn eidsvåg—

byting—

‎bømlingen band—

dag kajander—

gunslingers — tørvikbygd, hordaland. pop-country

joe bjørnars — vallset, hedmark. danseband

jon martin skauge — tørvikbygd/kvingo(?), hordaland

kari bremnes

ketil stokkan

knut anders sørum — østre toten

moddi—

sie gubba —

stein torleif bjella —

synne vo —

tove knutsen—

vassendgutane — møre og romsdal. danseband

zoo

— nynorsk/dialect + misc

artists whose discography is only partially nynorsk/dialectical (a significant part is in bokmål, english, etc)

• metal

glittertind («blåne for blåne» 2015)

kvelertak

lumsk («åsmund frægdegjevar» 2003, «troll» 2005)

nàttsòl— ålesund, møre og romsdal. альбом «stemning» (2010)

solefald («norrøn livskunst» 2010, «norrønasongen. kosmopolis nord» 2014)

sorgsvart

svadilfare

sylvaine— oslo. («eg er framand» 2024)

taake — bergen, hordaland

ulvhedner— sauda, rogaland

• rock

vazelina bilopphøggers

• folk

bare egil spellemannslag —bøler, oslo

børt-erik thoresen

erik bye

henning sommerro

kajsa balto

kirsten bråten berg

kong lavring

lillebjørn nilsen—

slogmåkane sjantikor— karmøy, rogaland

songleikr — københavn, danmark

valkyrien allstars —

vestlandsfanden—

• misc

den norske studentersangforening— oslo

gunstein draugedalen — kviteseid, telemark

kenneth sivertsen—

marianne beate kielland («veslemøy synsk» 2011, «grieg» 2014, «songs: olav kielland & arne dørumsgaard» 2017, «do you believe in heather?» 2019)

— groups of one song

songs in nynorsk/dialect of artists that generally don't sing in it + bloggers' music videos 

arcturus— raudt og svart

bergen raudt kor — el pueblo armado  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muode9ojuck 

brotsmannskvad  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noizzy1q3jc 

carina dahl & adrian jørgensen— despacito  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xojkkol (trøndersk)

dj krogh — knusarball  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oirpxougpq4  (a miley cyrus — wrecking ball parody)

ein drakefødd kjem  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvrcuy1c8y  («the dragonborn comes» in nynorsk)

elisabeth vik — heiemo og nykkjen

ingrid wigernæs — gulljentutn våre  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jralnlrbuze 

isengard — i kamp med kvitekrist

kalandra— helvegen (wardruna cover)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6by9cl24cw 

kalenda maya — iddan hermund  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpmmallje-i 

kati rán— blodbylgje

kling & de— fy faen så deiligt. karmøy, rogaland

hemne songlag — kan du høyre folket syng  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4upv-13arq  («do you hear the people sing» from the musical les miserables)

her er kvivsvegen  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfbk1ghkn1i . gangnam style in nynorsk.

njål sparbo — mellom bakkar og berg

nordmannen-rap  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbf_krvikvq 

sandnes ghetto — byen vår  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajmlcvsf9c 

sandnes ghetto — min beste homie  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_ova91gba 

slepp deg laus  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ituo_fi-9c0  («let it go» in nynorsk)

suldal billag - me kjøre' buss  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwa0lqdl9g 

hiiiiiii

i already told you but again omg what a treasure. i hope to have more capacities for music exploring soon so i can go through all these amazing recs 🥺 thank you so much !! 🩵

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Earth Day 2024

April 21, 2024, update: . . . " the average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1.2° Celsius (1.9° Fahrenheit) since 1880 (it increased 0.4° Celsius since 2016). There is only 0.3° Celsius of increase left before we hit the first tier of cataclysmic thresholds, according to environmental scientists.

According to an ongoing temperature analysis led by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), "the average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1.2° Celsius (1.9° Fahrenheit) since 1880 (it increased 0.4° Celsius since 2016). The majority of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15 to 0.20°C per decade. . . . . The data reflect how much warmer or cooler each region was compared to the base period of 1951-1980. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was 14°C (57°F), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.)"

Adding to this is the growing number of methane sinkholes, each releasing several gigatons of gas per day. This growing phenomenon is changing all the current climate projections. Indeed, we might already have reached the climate tipping point.

There was a time when we believed that we were the center of the universe and that we should have dominion over the Earth. But then Copernicus came along, who asserted that the Sun is indeed the center of our solar system, the Moon being the only body that revolved around the Earth. I'm sure you know that this resulted in a bit of an uproar. As for the dominion idea, our use of resources, overhunting, and factory farming of animals has contributed to climate change and the current sixth extinction. Watch Marvin Gaye's video, Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology), released in 1971.

The following two photos show a contrast between Greenland's Tunu Glacier in 1933 and 2013. This melt-back is characteristic of ice all around the world, though melt-back varies widely, depending on location.

Source:

The Greenland Ice Sheet - 80 years of climate change seen from the air.

/ Bjørk, Anders Anker; Kjær, Kurt H.; Larsen, Nicolaj Krog; Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup; Khan, Shfaqat Abbas; Funder, Svend Visby; Korsgaard, Niels Jákup. 2014. Abstract from 44th International Arctic Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, United States.

It wasn't so long ago that Carl Sagan and climate scientists started sounding the alarm that we were going down a dangerous path. Subsequent climate data has revealed that those early projections vastly underestimated what was happening, since we now know that climate change is not a linear but an exponential process. That is, it happens faster and faster over time.

Via Voyager 1 (click to enlarge)

The now famous photograph of Earth as a pale blue dot was taken on February 14, 1990 by the deep space probe, Voyager 1, from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). The more recent

Via Cassini

photograph was taken by the deep space probe, Cassini. Though more striking with Saturn in the foreground, it also shows how Earth is but a spec in the cosmos. As Sagan said in his book: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. (Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot, 1994)

People often say we have to save the Earth. Not so! The Earth will go on just fine without us. The issue is preserving the current biosphere that supports us and the other higher vertebrates. There will always be life on the planet so long as there's liquid water. As I present every year, here is my fictionalized account of our worst scenario. Let's do better!

[leviabeat]

Okay but why is Jon not even at the drums...? He's just standing eerily off to the side

- unter We Heart It.

[starlene]

Så som i himmelen proshot thoughts

Just some quick-ish notes on the cast and direction to sorta process watching the proshot for the first time!

Philip Jalmelid as Daniel: I've gone on record saying that acting-wise, he's not my favourite Daniel, but he really has a voice like no one else, and I really do appreciate him for that. He was also the first Daniel I saw, and he made me cry literally every time he opened his mouth to sing. You don't forget an experience like that. He's still no number one favourite of mine, but I have grown very fond of his portrayal of the character, and I especially enjoyed his first act on the proshot. I love Daniel Daréus so, so much!

Tuva B. Larsen as Lena: I enjoyed seeing all the closeups of her – there is really a lot going on under the surface in her Lena, more than I think I saw/understood live in theatre. With that said, I think the creative team has done the character of Lena a big disservice by not giving her a proper introspective/I want solo (like. How come Stig gets two but the female lead gets none?), so she always remains a bit of a mystery, no matter how talented the actor is. But I do like Tuva's portrayal. I just wish there was a bit more substantial stuff for her to perform!

Malena Ernman as Gabriella: potentially an unpopular opinion, but she's my absolute #1 musical Gabriella and I adore her. You can see that there's a tremendous capacity for joy inside this Gabriella, a bright spark that she has to suppress because of Conny. I can 100% see where the actors who make Gabriella meeker and more shy are coming from, but for me, Malena's Gabriella is where it's at.

Björn Kjellman as Arne: I mean, he's fine. It's just that Morgan Alling was so, so, so much better in the role.

Anders Ekborg as Stig: the only actor I've seen that I feel really gets this insane character... as much as you can get him, anyway. I have no idea why the musical spends so much time on Stig's marital troubles, nor why the thought of marital sex makes this Lutheran priest turn into an ultra-repressed Catholic monk, but Anders almost sells it to me. He has a voice like no one else, too. The red shirt in Stig's final scene is a piece of costume design I really, really like.

Sofia Pekkari as Inger: she's good, I don't really have further notes.

Rikard Björk as Tore: he's really good and has clearly done his research, but I gotta say, I think this is a role that truly benefits from having an actually disabled actor do it. I suppose it might not have been viable in the original production where they have to do a lot of cognitively very taxing workshopping and last-minute changes – but I'm so glad they cast the brilliant Jaakko Lahtinen as Tore in Helsinki. Jaakko's portrayal was so refreshingly honest and genuine, I don't really think any non-disabled actor can give the role that. That being said, Rikard also did a great job editing the proshot, he's clearly something of a renaissance man with all his talents!

Linus Eklund Adolphson as Holmfrid: love love love. Brilliant. Best Holmfrid I've ever seen by a mile. The bit in the beginning of the 2nd act where he mimes getting a kiss from the audience and putting it in his pocket? One of my favourite details in this entire show.

Christopher Wollter as Conny: hands down the best Conny I've seen, with the perfect mix of scary and incredibly insecure. Way too many actors just lean into the scary vibes. (Also the best Daniel in the original cast, but that's besides the point of this post.)

Annica Edstam as Florence: babygirl. The other half of my Gabriella/Florence otp that I know will come true one day. Love.

I know there are more named characters but these are the ones I feel the most strongly about!

Direction by Markus Virta: I've seen other productions do certain scenes better, but as a whole, I really do appreciate the simplicity and straightforwardness of Virta's direction. He lets the songs and the characters stand on their own, which I think is a good way to go – elaborate choreography/blocking and extra whatever can and has been nice, but this is not the sort of musical where you really need that. On the proshot, Virta's direction loses me during the last ten minutes, like it always has (we absolutely do not need to see Daniel's soul embracing his child self, not when absolutely nothing in the previous two hours has indicated we're dealing with a world where tangible afterlife visions like that are a thing) – but other than that, fantastic work, no notes.

Random notes:

I like how subtle Lena's "grandpa must go paint another angel on the wall" thing is here. I've written in length before how much I dislike the instant pregnancy thing – but I dislike it less here, where it's not a huge joyful declaration of pregnancy like in some other productions but a little unsure line that's left to the audience's interpretation. It's unclear if Daniel really gets what she means, and I'm also free to imagine she's really having her ex's child or whatever.

Am I losing it, or was there a short reprise bit of Den tid jag har in the last scene early in the run that wasn't included in the proshot anymore? I thought the last scene felt a little less overwrought and cringy than before, somehow.

Did anyone else watch the proshot yet? What did you think?

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Denmark roster

Archery

Kirstine Danstrup-Andersen (Copenhagen)

Athletics

Simon Hansen (Herning)

Ida Karstoft (Lemvig)

Lisa Pedersen (Copenhagen)

Katrine Koch-Jacobsen (Ballerup)

Badminton

Viktor Axelsen (Odense)

Anders Antonsen (Aarhus)

Kimmo Astrup-Sørensen (Copenhagen)

Anders Skaarup-Rasmussen (Copenhagen)

Mathias Christiansen (Copenhagen)

Mia Blichfeldt (Solrød Strand)

Maiken Fruergaard-Sørensen (Hvidovre)

Sara Thygesen (Frederiksberg)

Alexandra Bøje (Copenhagen)

Boxing

Nikolai Terteryan (Vejle)

Canoeing

Lasse Madsen (Solrød Kommune)

Victor Aasmul (Rudersdal Kommune)

Morten Gravesen (Copenhagen)

Magnus Sibbersen (Hvidovre)

René Holten-Poulsen (Sakskøbing)

Frederikke Hauge-Matthiesen (Høje-Taalstrup Kommune)

Emma Aastrand-Jørgensen (Bagsværd)

Cycling

Mikkel Norsgaard-Bjerg (Copenhagen)

Michael Mørkøv-Christensen (Kokkedal)

Mads Pedersen (Tølløse)

Mattias Skjelmose-Jensen (Copenhagen)

Carl-Frederik Bévort (Copenhagen)

Tobias Aagaard-Hansen (Odense)

Niklas Larsen (Slagelse)

Rasmus Lund-Pedersen (Odense)

Simon Andreassen (Odense)

Sofie Pedersen (Aalborg)

Rebecca Koerner (Herlev)

Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig (Frederiksberg Kommune)

Emma Bjerg (Silkeborg)

Amalie Dideriksen (Kastrup)

Julie Norman-Leth (Aarhus)

Caroline Bohé (Hillerød)

Malene Kejlstrup-Sørenson (Randers)

Equestrian

Daniel Bachmann-Andersen (Sønderborg)

Peter Tersgov-Flarup (Viborg)

Andreas Schou (Kolding)

Nanna Skodborg-Merrald (Kirke Hvalsø)

Cathrine Landrup-Dufour (Kirke Hvalsø)

Golf

Nicolai Højgaard (Aarhus)

Jacob Olesen (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Emily Pedersen (Copenhagen)

Nanna Koerstz-Madsen (Nørrebro)

Handball

Niklas Landin-Jacobsen (Gladsaxe Kommune)

Magnus Landin-Jacobsen (Gladsaxe Kommune)

Niclas Vest-Kirkeløkke (Ringe)

Emil Manfeldt-Jakobsen (Kerteminde)

Rasmus Lauge-Schmidt (Randers)

Emil Nielsen (Aarhus)

Magnus Saugstrup-Jensen (Aalborg)

Hans Lindberg (Høje-Taastrup Kommune)

Mathias Gidsel (Skjern)

Henrik Møllgaard-Jensen (Bramming)

Mikkel Hansen (Helsingør)

Lukas Lindhard-Jørgensen (Lejre)

Lasse Bredekjær-Andersson (Copenhagen)

Simon Hald-Jensen (Aalborg)

Thomas Sommer-Arnoldsen (Skanderborg)

Simon Bogetoft-Pytlick (Thurø)

Sandra Toft (Gribskov Kommune)

Sarah Aaberg-Iversen (Nykøbing Falster)

Rikke Iversen (Nykøbing Falster)

Helena Hagesøe-Elver (Copenhagen)

Anne Hansen (Glostrup)

Kathrine Brothmann-Heindahl (Rudersdal)

Line Haugsted (Skive)

Althea Reinhardt (Aarhus)

Mette Tranborg (Aarhus)

Kristina Jørgensen (Horsens)

Trine Østergaard-Jensen (Skanderborg)

Louise Vinter-Burgaard (Esbjerg)

Mie Enggrob-Højlund (Voldum)

Emma Uhrskov-Friis (Herning)

Michala Elsberg-Møller (Aalborg)

Judo

Lærke Olsen (Hørsholm)

Rowing

Sverri Sandberg-Nielsen (Tórshavn, Faroe Islands)

Marie Hauberg-Johannesen (Solrød Kommune)

Julie Poulsen (Odder)

Astrid Steensberg (Sorø)

Clara Hornæss (Copenhagen)

Sára Johansen (Tvøroyri, Faroe Islands)

Nikoline Laidlaw (Dunblane, U.K.)

Karen Mortensen (Fredericia)

Caroline Munch (Bjæverskov)

Nanna Vigild (Copenhagen)

Sofie Vikkelsøe (Copenhagen)

Frida Werner-Foldager (Roskilde)

Sofie Østergaard (London, U.K.)

Hedvig Rasmussen (Frederiksberg)

Fie Udby-Erichsen (Hobro)

Frida Sanggaard-Nielsen (Copenhagen)

Sailing

Johan Søe (Aarhus)

Johan Lundgaard-Schubert (Aarhus)

Nikolaj Hoffmann-Buhl (Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune)

Daniel Nyborg (Copenhagen)

Mathias Bruun-Borreskov (Skanderborg)

Andrea Schmidt (Aarhus)

Johanne Schmidt (Aarhus)

Natacha Saouma-Pedersen (Odense)

Anne-Marie Rindom (Søllerød)

Shooting

Jesper Hansen (Bjegsted)

Rikke Mæng-Ibsen (Herning)

Stephanie Scurrah-Grundsøe (Roskilde)

Skateboarding

Viktor Solmunde (Copenhagen)

Swimming

Thea Blomsterberg (Birkerød)

Martine Damborg (Kastrup)

Elisabeth Sabroe-Ebbesen (Skanderborg)

Schastine Tabor (Copenhagen)

Julie Kepp-Jensen (Hvidovre)

Helena Rosendahl-Bach (Holstebro)

Signe Bro (Copenhagen)

Table tennis

Anders Lind (Hørsholm)

Martin Buch-Andersen (Rudersdal Kommune)

Jonathan Kjaer-Groth (Albertslund)

Taekwondo

Edi Hrnic (Brøndby Kommune)

Tennis

Clara Tauson (Kongens Lyngby)

Caroline Wozniacki-Lee (Miami-Dade County, Florida)

Triathlon

Emil Holm (Frederiksberg)

Alberte Kjær-Pedersen (Aarhus)

Wrestling

Turpal-Ali Bisultanov (Copenhagen)

[wibzenadarksiderwithasoftheart]

Fandom URL Tag Game!

The rules of the game are to write one song for every letter in your url, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.

I was tagged by @underacalicosky and @dark--whisperings thank you so much for tagging me 💜

This is one of those times when I regret my overly long URL 😅

W - Who's Laughing Now by Ava Max

I - I Don't Wanna Go by Alan Walker and Julie Bergan

B - Blinding Lights by The Weeknd

Z - Zombie by The Cranberries

E - End of Time by Alan Walker and K-391

N - Nightmares by WE ARE FURY with feat. Gallie Fisher

A - A Day At Sea by Everen Maxwell

D - Darkside by Alan Walker

A - Aurora by K-391 and Roxanne Emery

R - Rise Up by VINAI feat. Vamero

K - My Woman by Kim Larsen

S - Sing Me to Sleep by Alan Walker and Anders Frøen

I - In the End by Linkin Park

D - Dance Monkey by Tones and I

E - Enemy by Imagine Dragons and J.I.D.

R - Rainbow by Sia Furler

W - Walk With Me by Måns Zelmerlöw

I - In My Blood by The Score

T - Thunder by Imagine Dragons

H - Hislerim by Serhat Durmus with Zerrin

A - Across The Stars by Eliott Tordo Erhu

S - Stamp On The Ground by ItaloBrothers

O - On Top of the World af Imagine Dragons

F - Fuck U Love U af Alison Wonderland

T - The Resistance af Skillet

H - Hey Boy af Phillipa Soo

E - Euro Anthem by Kozah

A - Alive by R3HAB, Vini Vici, Pangea

R - Rule The World by The Fat Rat & Alexa

T - The Drum by Alan Walker

Phew 😮‍💨😅 30 letters later

The mix of songs (all from my Spotify playlist) probably says something about my poor taste in music 🤷

I am NOT going to tag 30 others, not going to happen! But feel free to feel tagged if you're reading this. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

[ellie-e-marcovitz]

Larson Family Brewing

@kathrynalicemc

First recorded in 950 ad, under Áki Larsen and his sons, Tormod and Sigurd.

Started by brewing Mead and a couple of ales, all of which act as the core of their selection to this day (with some modification), along with seasonal rotations and small batch international drinks, mostly for those working at the Flossen Dragon Reserve.

The brewery is currently being overseen, as of 2019, by Asgeir Larson, with Idunn taking care of some of the international brewing and bookkeeping.

Anders (father) and Brynhild (mother) still help with day to day activities and moving of the Mead during the start of Yuletide. Kaia Larson also helps out whenever she returns to Skalafell.

Most distinctive features are the steam-stacks and it's impressive adaptation of muggle technology both outside and inside. Several forms of renewables are utilised, including wind turbines and meticulously maintained solar panels (summer). Most of Skalafell's inhabitants seem baffled by their appearance, but don't seem to mind too much if it means good drinks and a steady supply of Mead for Yuletide.