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caracarnn · 8 months ago

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ROLEPLAY HISTORY!

The rules are simple! Post characters you’d like to roleplay as, have roleplayed as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten, just write down however many you can and tag that number of people). Please repost, don’t reblog!

CURRENT MUSE(S): (canon muses)

Rand al'Thor (the wheel of time)

Elayne Trakand (the wheel of time)

Andraste (dragon age)

Asmodean (the wheel of time)

Ciri (the witcher)

Daenerys Targaryen (asoiaf)

Dalinar Kholin (the stormlight archive)

Deirdre Mayfair (anne rice)

Elend Venture (mistborn)

Galad Damodred (the wheel of time)

George Villiers (mary & george)

Geralt of Rivia (the witcher)

Jon Snow (asoiaf)

Julien Mayfair (anne rice)

Kaladin Stormblessed (the stormlight archive)

Kelsier (mistborn)

Mona Mayfair (anne rice)

Padme Amidala (star wars)

Perrin Aybara (the wheel of time) Renarin Kholin (the stormlight archive)

Robb Stark (asoiaf)

Rowan Mayfair (anne rice)

Shallan Davar (the stormlight archive)

Spook (mistborn)

Stella Mayfair (anne rice)

Tyrion Lannister (asoiaf)

Empress Tuon (the wheel of time)

Yennefer of Vengerberg (the witcher)

Anne of Austria (the musketeers)

Arno Dorian (assassin's creed)

Cesare Borgia (the borgias)

Daryl Dixon (the walking dead)

David 8 (alien)

Eleanor Guthrie (black sails)

Ellie (the last of us game)

Sir Gawain (the green knight)

Hannibal Lecter (hannibal)

James Flint (black sails)

Jamie Fraser (outlander)

Jesper Fahey (six of crows)

Katrina van Tassel (sleepy hollow)

Klaus Mikaelson (tvd)

Louis Pointe du Lac (anne rice)

Lucien Grimaud (the musketeers)

Magneto (xmen)

Obi Wan Kenobi (star wars)

Philippe d'Orleans (versailles)

Ragnar Lothbrok (vikings)

Rebekah Mikaelson (tvd)

Richie Gecko (from dusk till dawn)

Rick Grimes (the walking dead)

Sam Bridges (death stranding)

Ubbe Ragnarsson (vikings)

Victor Frankenstein (penny dreadful/novel)

WANT TO WRITE:

idk? lol I mean I always happen on someone new everyday so --- there are tons. I was looking for someone from the Dune novels but idk. Lestat? DONT KNOW

HAVE WRITTEN: (these I only write for strict people still but usually nope)

Steve Rogers (mcu)

Athos (the musketeers)

Porthos (the musketeers)

Loki (mcu)

Natasha Romanoff (mcu)

Doctor Strange (mcu)

Lanfear (the wheel of time)

Dr. Thresden (ahs)

every sarah paulson ahs character ever lol

mark (orphan black)

John Constantine (dc)

Oliver Queen (arrow)

Sylar (heroes)

Claire Bennett (heroes)

Sara Howard (the alienist)

Lucius Isaacson (the alienist)

Freydis (vikings)

Katia (vikings)

Aslaug (vikings)

Thor (mcu)

Edward Kenway (assassin's creed)

a bunch of other assassin's creed characters lol

Alina Starkov (shadow and bone)

Genya Safin (shadow and bone)

Luke Crain (Haunting of Hill House)

Eva Villanueva (high seas)

Lola ( reign)

Bash (reign)

Henry & Catherine (reign)

Michael Curry (anne rice)

Every Mayfair character ever lol (anne rice)

Santanico (from dusk till dawn)

Clarke Griffin (the 100)

Quicksilver (mcu)

Jensen (the losers)

Aragorn (lotr)

tagged by: @luckhissoul & @stcrforged tagging: @ofprevioustimes @adversitybloomed @malumxsubest @uncxntrxllable @forwardlion @depictedblue @qanedanegros @theasteria @revelour

#.ooc #long post for ts #help i dk when to stop #there's more too that I can't remember

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dirty-bosmer · 2 years ago

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OCs AS CHARACTERS

tagged by @nuwanders thank you!!! I've never seen this quiz before and honestly I haven't thought very hard on which characters I've drawn inspiration from. They just exist as kind of nebulous mush in my head, so it was both hilarious and informative. Very fun :D

rules: take this quiz and share 5 (or more! or less! the world is your oyster!) results from the top 50 that you feel really fit your oc(s). if you don’t recognize very many from the top 50, feel free to expand into the top 100.

tagging: @dumpsterhipster @atypicalacademic @chennnington @justafoxhound @gilgamish @skyrim-forever @wispstalk @princess-prawn @arnaerr @ptsilenthillremaster @thequeenofthewinter @nientedenada @thana-topsy and anyone else who might find it fun :)

There were a lot of characters that came up who I didn't know, so I just went with the top 5 that I recognized 😅

Nimileth

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Eleven (Stranger Things)

Hange Zoe (Attack on Titan)

Stitch (Lilo & Stitch) <- this one made me snort, but honesty I see it.

Arya Stark (Game of Thrones) <3

Other ones I thought were funny included Lip Gallagher (Shameless), April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation), and the Joker 🤡 (fr??)

Lorise

Gale Hawthorne (Hunger Games)

Ygritte (Game of Thrones)

Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)

Perrin Aybara (Wheel of Time)

Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity) <3

Sylawen

Beth Harmon (The Queen's Gambit)

Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

Michael (The Good Place)

Willy Wonka (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) <- my favorite

Amy Elliott Dunne (Gone Girl) lmaooo girl u wild

#tag games #OC: Nimileth #OC: Lorise #OC: Sylawen

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warninggraphiccontent · 5 years ago

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20 March 2020

Covid's Metamorphoses

Morning all,

I’m sure pieces have already been written about a generation that has grown up knowing only crises – political, financial, health, global – and government as crisis management. Even we millennials old enough to remember majority governments in moments of relative calm (though anything now seems calm in comparison) struggle with the dissonant discourse of horror and humour: as we send funny tweets to keep things light, we risk trivializing serious times; if we didn’t, it might be worse. It almost seems disrespectful to keep calm and carry on in a time of quarantine and crisis, but carry on we must.

Many of us will be completing a first full week of working from home (though it is not conventional working from home). It may prompt institutions, like government and parliament, to (finally) think about doing things differently. These enforced changes could change how we work and live for a long time to come. For years, I’ve known civil servants (in particular) amused by talk of artificial intelligence in government when their video conferencing software barely works. This might be the crisis that forces that tech to be taken up and improved, and make remote working the norm.

It won’t be quite as simple as that, of course. Once the current social distancing is over, we may crave being back in an office and jetting off round the world. Not everyone will want to – it may bring back uncomfortable memories. Loneliness is a risk. Not everyone can work from home. There are those jobs that can be done remotely, and those that can’t; those that have home situations that allow it, and those that don’t; those that have the tech and tools, and those that don’t. We may risk new divides.

The tech may not always be up to the promises made of it (will our digital infrastructure cope?). In our rush to embrace new tools, we may be handing over parts of our privacy to private companies. Governments may need emergency powers – but how long will they need to last? Our data is at the heart of much of these debates (and the long-term debate about how government uses our data needs to be had in public, with the public,for it to work). Do we risk replicating some of the issues of legacy IT, as we use different, walled, non-interoperable platforms – do we need a more decentralized web to be able to talk to each other? (Won’t somebody think of the knowledge and information management implications?) What does this all mean for government transparency and accountability? This brave new world requires all of us to ask new questions, about how we work, how we live and how we feel.

But, as big as many of these questions are and as challenging as the next few months will be, there are opportunities to make things better. People are innovating, on everything from choir rehearsals to public events. Community support groups are springing up on WhatsApp and elsewhere on the web. These times are what we choose to make of them.

And the future of work is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed. It’s a privilege to work with so many brilliant data, digital, open government and transparency types, many of whom are used to working in different ways and have been sharing tips on how to do so. There’s a list below – it’s not intended to be comprehensive, and I won’t be updating it (I am forever haunted by this). But I hope it’s of some use. If you do want to add to an ongoing list, let me recommend the Newspeak House Coronavirus Tech Handbook, or this remote working survival kit.

These times also provide a reminder of the importance of good communication. Some governments, news outlets and social media users are proving that by the negative. But there are those using their platforms to inform, educate and (yes) entertain. You’ll find some of those examples in the links below, as ever.

Stay safe, keep in touch, and see you next week

Gavin

Tips

How to Work From Home Without Losing Your Mind (Wired, via Alex)

18F’s best practices for making distributed teams work (18F)

How to help staff adjust to remote working (Digital Leaders)

Coronavirus threat is our chance to explore working from home (Catherine Stihler, Open Knowledge, in the Herald)

Assisted Serendipity, Random Coffee and the power of the unstructured meeting (Emily Webber)

It’s OK to… Working from home version (Nick Smith, GDS)

Video lectures etc (Alasdair Rae)

Crushing it from home (Chris Yiu)

Weeknotes #16: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. (Amanda Smith)

Things I am learning about leading a team that's newly entirely remote (Janet Hughes)

Sam Freedman

Alix Dunn

Liz Carolan

Mitchell Hashimoto

Max Gladstone

@LeenaVanD

Scott Lincicome

Sophia Collins

Call for tips (Emily Lakdawalla)

Data4SDGs

Tech

Coronavirus Tech Handbook (Newspeak House)

Remote working survival kit

Resources to support working, collaborating and training remotely (ODI)

Call for suggestions (Leigh Dodds)

Internet tools for civil servants: an introduction (UK Government – 'withdrawn', though maybe with more to follow)

Information Governance (NHSX)

Call for suggestions (LA Times graphics desk)

Call for suggestions (Ruth Levine)

Holding an online unconference (James Cattell)

Making video conferencing work better from a home office (Will Perrin, via Tom)

Learn how to run your next workshop – remotely (Equal Experts)

So You Want to Host a Web Meeting? (Nancy White, with Pete Cranston, Susan Stewart and Bonnie Koenig)

Practical Guide to Remote Meetings (CAST)

Remote classes on Zoom (Dr Andrew Schrock)

@digidatajen

GroupMap (via Gen)

Yap is the best new chatroom (The Verge)

Turning fringe meeting of cancelled @WorldBank Land & Poverty conference into great 2 hr web-workshop (via Tim Davies)

Although…

Today's links:

Graphic content

Viral content

Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand (Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team)

The shocking coronavirus study that rocked the UK and US* (FT)

Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” (Washington Post - free)

The most-read story ever published by the Washington Post online is a visualization (and other reasons why your organization should invest in a graphics team) (Alberto Cairo)

Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads* (FT)

Economic confidence falls to lowest since 2008 but half think government handling the coronavirus crisis well (Ipsos MORI)

Public opinion on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic (Ipsos MORI)

Confirmed cases vs. deaths per capita by country (Joey Schmitt)

9 charts that explain the coronavirus pandemic (Vox)

Containing coronavirus: the lessons from Asia* (FT)

COVID-19 Dashboards (Hamel Husain)

Coronavirus: Eight charts on how it has shaken economies (BBC News)

How do coronavirus containment measures vary across Europe? (The Guardian)

U.S. Lags in Coronavirus Testing After Slow Response to Outbreak* (New York Times)

Scenarios (ProPublica)

What people will do in self-isolation (The Times)

Control of the coronavirus gives China the world’s best-performing stockmarket* (The Economist)

Coronavirus country comparator (SciencesPo Medialab)

Confirmed cases (Edward Haas, via Benoit)

These Places Could Run Out of Hospital Beds as Coronavirus Spreads* (The Upshot)

Where have cases of coronavirus spread in the UK? (The Times)

We've created a map showing the concentration of employees in what we are tentatively calling at-risk sectors (Centre for Towns)

Coronavirus – latest figures (Rob Fry)

Pollution is plummeting in Italy in the wake of coronavirus, emissions data show* (Washington Post)

#dataviz and coronavirus

Data Visualization Is Crucial for Understanding and Combatting COVID-19 (Nightingale)

Explaining and simulating the coronavirus (Alberto Cairo)

Before showing any data, explain how your visualization works (Alberto Cairo)

Partnering Health and Data Expertise for COVID-19 (Data Visualization Society)

UK government

Clear objectives will help make relocating civil servants a success (Sarah for IfG)

Local government funding in England (Graham for IfG)

Cabinet committees (Ketaki and me for IfG)

New Home Office perm sec (me for IfG)

New ministers (me for IfG)

Brexit bill progress (Maddy for IfG)

Civil service staff numbers (Benoit for IfG)

Everything else

Research Output: Alternative measures of housing affordability: financial year ending 2018 (ONS - thread)

Rough sleeping statistics: How reliable are they? (Commons Library)

Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Our World in Data)

Stop the Meltdown (Meltdown Flags)

Meta data

Viral content

New data, new policy: why UK's coronavirus strategy changed (The Guardian)

GOV.UK Notify is available for the public sector to use for emergency staff communications (GDS)

Testify, Notify (GDS)

Covid-19: Making data and models open is part of the fight against it – governments must act now (ODI)

Exclusive: How Singapore sends daily Whatsapp updates on coronavirus (GovInsider)

Will the Coronavirus Break the Internet? (Slate)

The Coronavirus pandemic will shape the nature of our longer term digital future (Chi Onwurah for PoliticsHome)

While everyone's installing Zoom, I'm going to plug in my landline phone for the first time ever... (Reuben Binns)

A Call for Action #data4covid19 (The GovLab)

Covid-19 requires information hygiene as well as personal hygiene (NS Tech)

Making things open is making things better (Public Digital)

Phone location data could be used to help UK coronavirus effort (The Guardian)

The government might want your phone location data to fight coronavirus. Here’s why that could be okay. (Recode)

Whenever I hear about tech companies using "aggregated anonymous location data" to do anything (including tracking pandemics)... (Olivia Solon)

Come back, AI. All is forgiven: We know we've mocked you in the past, but we need help analyzing 26,000 papers on COVID-19, coronaviruses (The Register)

Information Governance (NHSX)

Quaran-teens: Has a youth spent online prepared millennials for isolation?* (New Statesman)

Can computers ever replace the classroom? (The Guardian)

As COVID-19 pushes classes online, some students are caught in the broadband gap (The Verge)

Viral misinformation

Facts on Coronavirus (Full Fact)

Take the quiz: New coronavirus and misinformation (Full Fact)

“I’m Not An Epidemiologist But…": The Rise Of The Coronavirus Influencers (BuzzFeed)

No, The British Army Isn't Marching Through London Because Of Coronavirus (BuzzFeed)

Here's A Running List Of The Latest Hoaxes Spreading About The Coronavirus (BuzzFeed)

YouTube Is Letting Millions Of People Watch Videos Promoting Misinformation About The Coronavirus (BuzzFeed)

Boris Johnson and the media need to inject more uncertainty into the coronavirus debate* (New Statesman)

We don’t deserve our wretched media class (UnHerd)

To Fight Covid-19, Curb the Spread of Germs—and Rumors* (Wired)

How One Particular Coronavirus Myth Went Viral* (Wired)

Pandemics & Propaganda: How Chinese State Media Shapes Conversations on The Coronavirus (Stanford Cyber Policy Center)

Coronavirus: Social giants police web with AI as staff sent home (BBC News)

Facebook fumbles its response to coronavirus (The Outline)

Scientists should take lessons from economists on virus response* (FT)

Openness

So long, and thanks for all the data* (Rachel Rank for 360Giving)

This slide comes from CabinetOffice internal guidance on handling FOI requests (Martin Rosenbaum)

OGP action planning: Not a good start (Andrew Ecclestone for Transparency International)

What happened to Freedom of Information? (politics.co.uk - more from IfG here)

The value of data

Ben and Jeni Podcast (ODI and Oxford DataLab)

Are data more like oil or sunlight?* (The Economist)

Governance models for redistribution of data value (voxeu.org)

AI, etc

Algorithms that run our lives are racist and sexist. Meet the women trying to fix them (The Correspondent - and thread)

Tackling the robot bigots: how to implement Artificial Intelligence intelligently (Global Government Forum)

Scotland to get biometrics commissioner (UK Authority)

UK government

The UK’s national data strategy is still missing in action (NS Tech)

Budget 2020: Investment in science and technology needs to bring about strong data infrastructure for the UK to thrive (ODI)

Explanatory framework for adequacy discussions (DCMS)

Everything else

Service Design in Gov talk — March 2020 (Cassie Robinson)

Data trusts in 2020 (ODI)

A future where we are all 'free to be human' (Privacy International)

What Are My Photos Revealing About Me? (The Markup)

AUDITING WITH ACCOUNTABILITY: SHRINKING THE OPPORTUNITY SPACES FOR AUDIT FAILURE (University of Sheffield, Copenhagen Business School, Luminate)

Reforming Audit in the Public Interest (Luminate)

Invisible Censorship (The Intercept)

Opportunities

JOB: Senior researcher: Whitehall Monitor (IfG - we're also looking for a researcher)

JOB: Evaluation Manager to work in the Innovation Growth Lab (Nesta)

EVENT: TICTeC’s going online (mySociety)

HOW TO: Journalism + data science projects (investigate.ai)

And finally...

Viral content

Homeschooling (via Konnie Huq)

Zoom pro-tips (Kate Buckley, David Zhou)

Cattening the curve (Anne Marie Darling)

Everything else

I like this innovative use of emoji-as-flowchart (via Gretchen McCulloch)

Geolocation... (Emily Gorcenski)

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act... (me for IfG)

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networkingdefinition · 5 years ago

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200 Internet Marketing Gurus

Official Website: 200 Internet Marketing Gurus

The Internet is cluttered with men and women who would call themselves gurus, however only a choose few online marketers and super associates can truly hold the mantle and be elevated to the top of the charts among truth greats. To aid you steer clear of any type of self-proclaimed experts, I’ve written up a list of 200 tried and real Internet marketing gurus. These are women and also males that have been via the fires as well as appear the various other end richer and also smarter for it.

• Adam Ginsberg • Alan Forest Smith • Alen Sultanic • Alex Carroll • Alex Goad • Alex Mandossian • Alex Nghiem • Alexander K Brown • Alice Seba • Allan Gardyne • Andrew Fox • Andy Jenkins • Anik Singal • Anthony Blake • Antonio D Thornton • Armand Morin • Bart Baggett • Ben Mack • Bob Jenkins • Brad Callen • Brad Fallon • Brian Keith Voiles • Brian T Edmondson • Bryan Winters • Carl Galletti • Charlie Page • Chris Bloor • Chris Lockwood • Christina Hills • Christine Carter Schaap • Christine Comaford-Lynch • Costa Dedes • Craig Perrine • Dan Kennedy • Dan Lok • Daniel Nickerson • Dave Lakhani • Dave Taylor • David L Hancock • David P Schwartz • David Vallieres • David Wood • Declan Dunn • Derek Gehl • Don Crowther • Dr Kevin Nunley • Dr Mani Sivasubramanian • Dr Ralph Wilson • Drew Kossoff • Eben Pagan • Eric Holmlund • Ewen Chia • Frank E Deardurff III • Frank Garon • Frank J Rumbauskas Jr • Gary Ambrose • Gary Bencivenga • Gary Halbert • Glenn Dietzel • Greg Cesar • Harlan Kilstein • Harris Fellman • Harvey Segal • Henry Gold • Holly Cotter • Howard Tiano • Jaime Luchuck • James Martell • Jason Henderson • Jason James • Jason Marshall • Jason Potash • Jay Abraham • Jeanette S. Cates, PhD • Jeff Alderson • Jeff Johnson • Jeff Mills • Jeff Mulligan • Jeff Walker • Jeremy Burns • Jeremy Schoemaker • JeremyGislason • Jermaine Griggs • Jim Daniels • Jim Edwards • Jimmy D Brown • Jody Colvard • Joe Vitale • John Carlton • John Rees • John-Paul Micek • Jon Atwood • Jonathan Leger • Jonathan Mizel • Jose Espana • Joseph Ratliff • Justin Blake • Keith Baxter • Keith Wellman • Ken Evoy • Ken McCarthy • Kenneth A McArthur • Kevin Wilke • Kirt Christensen • Ladan Lashkari • Larry Benet • Len Thurmond • Liz Sherwood • Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero • Lynn Pierce • Lynn Terry • Marc Goldman • Marc Harty • Mark Hendricks • Mark Joyner • Mark Ling • Mark Victor Hansen • Mark Widawer • Marlon Sanders • Martin Wales • Matt Bacak • Matt Carter • Matt Garrett • Matthew Glanfield • Michael Cheney • Michael Green • Michael J Enos • Michael J Holland • Michael Koenigs • Michael Morgan • Michael Nicholas • Michael Penland • Michael Port • Michael W Merz • Michael Wong • Michel Fortin • Michelle Alisande Chan • Mike Filsaime • Mike Litman • Mike Stewart • Mike Woo Ming • Nathan Anderson • Neil Shearing • Neil Waterhouse • Nick Marks • Paul Colligan • Paul Myers • Paul Smithson • Paulie Sabol • Perry Marshall • Peter Stone • Phil Wiley • Randy Charach • Randy Gilbert • Ray Edwards • Reed Floren • Rhea Perry • Rich Schefren • Rick Butts • Rick Frishman • Rick Raddatz • Robert Puddy • Rosalind Gardner • Russell Brunson • Ryan Deiss • Scott Schilling • Segovia Smith • Shawn Casey • Shawn Collins • Shelley Lowery • Simon Coulson • Simon Leung • Socrates Socratous • Stephanie Frank • Stephen Pierce • Sterling Valentine • Steve Iser • Steven Clayton • Stu McLaren • Stuart Tan • Sylvie Fortin • T. Harv Eker • Ted Schneck • Tellman Knudson • Teri & Doug Champigny • Terry Dean • Terry Johnson • Thor Schrock • Tim Knox • Todd Gross • Tom Antion • Tom Beal • Tom Hua • Tony Laidig • Van Day • Wayne Van Dyck • Wendy Shepherd • William Charlwood • Willie Crawford • Yanik Silver

When it comes to the world’s best Web marketing experts, you can wager that they are all on this list. If you find yourself in a bind, looking for some assistance with your following huge job, or just a little down on yourself, a fast Google search of any kind of among these online marketers will aid you get back on the right track in no time at all.

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equitiesstocks · 5 years ago

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200 Internet Marketing Gurus

Official Website: 200 Internet Marketing Gurus

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full-imagination · 5 years ago

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Thomas "Tommy" Michael Rudeen

Thomas “Tommy” Michael Rudeen, 77, of Spartanburg, SC, died Tuesday, October 29, 2019, at Spartanburg Medical Center. Born April 3, 1942, in Asheville, NC, he was the son of the late Paul Edward Rudeen and Sarah Parsons Rudeen and husband of the late Doris Sewell Rudeen. Tommy was a loving father, grandfather and friend. He was an avid golfer, pilot and flight instructor, certified scuba diver and instructor, and a devoted Clemson fan. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, a Deacon, a Stephen Minister, 32nd Degree Mason and member of Glendale Mason Lodge #271 AFM. Tommy enjoyed serving others and that was evident in his work at the Soup Kitchen in its infancy at 2nd Presbyterian and most recently the mission trips he took to Haiti with First Presbyterian. He was the founder of Service Electric Co., Co-Owner of DDT Construction, DDT Investments and Loving Care Daycare with his late wife; and owner of Aviation Management. He developed Tymberbrook Subdivision in Lyman alongside his wife of 52 years. He is survived by his loving daughter, Donna Rudeen Mills and her husband Kevin of Spartanburg, SC; a grandson, Brett Frady and his wife Chelsea of Pacolet, SC; two great-grandchildren, Bryce and Charlotte Frady of Pacolet, SC; sister-in-law, Evelyn Rudeen Herman of Waxhaw, NC; special friend, Doris Hammett of Boiling Springs, SC and her loving family. He will also be missed by his devoted Welsh Corgie and king of the house, Buddy. In addition to his parents and wife, he was predeceased by a brother, Paul Rudeen, Jr. Visitation will be 12:45-1:45 PM Friday, November 1, 2019, in the Perrin Room at First Presbyterian Church, 393 E. Main St., Spartanburg, SC 29302, with funeral services following in the church at 2:00 PM, conducted by The Rev. Dr. Tom Evans. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, 1300 Fernwood-Glendale Rd., Spartanburg, SC 29307. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mobile Meals Service, PO Box 461, Spartanburg, SC 29304. Floyd’s North Church Street Chapel from The JF Floyd Mortuary via Spartanburg Funeral

#Spartanburg Funeral #Funeral Consultant #The JF Floyd Mortuary

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mrmichaelchadler · 6 years ago

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Duck Soup at 85: Make Freedonia Great Again

The people believe the government has been mismanaged and demand it be placed in the new hands of a progressive fearless leader. Newly installed, the president presides over his first executive meeting, during which he blithely insults all of his cabinet directors. “I spend all my time and energy to my duties and what do I get?” one pushes back. “You get awfully tiresome after awhile,” the president responds.

This is not “fake news” coming from the current White House. This is real comedy courtesy of director Leo McCarey, the credited screenwriters Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin and four Marx brothers, with invaluable support from Margaret Dumont, Edward Kennedy, Louis Calhern and Raquel Torres. The film was—is—“Duck Soup” and it recently celebrated its 85th anniversary.

In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked “Duck Soup” the fifth funniest comedy of the 20th century. We’ll leave for another time whether it is actually funnier than “Some Like It Hot” (No. 1), “Tootsie” (No. 2), “Dr. Strangelove” (No. 3) or “Annie Hall” (you do the math). But it is generally considered by Marx Brothers purists to be the team’s funniest, with no dead spots, gratuitous romantic side plots or even harp and piano solos by Harpo and Chico. It’s non-stop anarchy that was rediscovered and embraced by college-aged Baby Boomers during the Vietnam War, “don’t trust anybody over 30” and Watergate eras.

It has been almost 50 years since that last Marx Brothers revival. At a time of seemingly unprecedented dysfunction in our nation’s capital and public confidence in its lawmakers at an all-time low, is it time for “Duck Soup,” with its farcical take on government, to go viral?

Directed by Leo McCarey (“The Awful Truth,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” various Laurel and Hardy films), “Duck Soup” is set in the mythological kingdom of Freedonia, where Groucho’s Rufus T. Firefly has been installed as leader by the country’s largest (and don’t think Firefly doesn’t comment on that) financial backer, Mrs. Teasdale (Dumont), Harpo and Chico play two spies hired by Ambassador Trentino (Calhern) of neighboring Sylvania to gather information that would undermine Firefly. Plan B is to gain control of Freedonia is to romance Mrs. Teasdale himself or start a war; whichever comes first. Zeppo plays Firefly’s secretary (he would depart the team following this film).

In adding “Duck Soup” to his pantheon of “Great Movies”, Roger Ebert noted, “‘A Night at the Opera’... contains some of their best work, yes, but in watching it I fast-forward over the sappy interludes involving Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. In ‘Duck Soup’ there are no sequences I can skip; the movie is funny from beginning to end.”

“Duck Soup” was the movie that gave Woody Allen’s suicidal character in “Hannah and Her Sisters” a new lease on life. Monty Python was surely playing homage during Holy Grail’s musical number, “Knights of the Round Table” with the knights’ helmets being played like a xylophone as the Marxes did during “Duck Soup”’s “This Country’s Going to War” spectacular. It is perhaps most famous for its mirror scene, an uncharacteristic bit of silent comedy between Groucho and Harpo. (Here’s Lucy and Harpo’s recreation from "I Love Lucy").

There’s no question “Duck Soup” is still funny. But is it still relevant? For those who are not fans of the current president, it is hard not to think of him when Rufus T. Firefly, laying down the laws of his administration, sings, “The last man nearly ruined this place/He didn’t know what to do with it/If you think this country’s bad off now/Just wait ‘til I get through with it.”

It is true that Donald Trump shares Firefly’s thin skin; Firefly plunges his country into war when Trentino calls him an “upstart.” But that’s where the parallels end, according to Roy Blout, Jr., whose salute of the film, Hail, Hail Euphoria! is the literary equivalent to home video commentary. By email, he offered, “‘Duck Soup’ remains profoundly tonic in its take on what’s toxic.”

Conventional wisdom labels “Duck Soup” a scathing anti-war satire. Here’s the punchline: It was not intended as such. This according to Steve Stoliar, who as a college student at UCLA in the 1970s led the charge for the re-release of the long stuck in the vaults “Animal Crackers,” which helped revitalize interest in the Marx Brothers, and who chronicled his years as Groucho’s archivist in the memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House.

“Groucho alternated between being amused and annoyed by people reading things into the films that were never intended,” he said in a phone interview. “He was the head of a hotel in ‘The Cocoanuts’ and the head of a college in ‘Horse Feathers.’ The writers thought, ‘Where else can we put Groucho where he doesn’t belong?’ and you can’t get loftier than the head of a mythological kingdom.”

During the heyday of the Marx Brothers revival, Groucho was often asked his favorites of their films. He invariably cited “A Night at the Opera” and “A Day at the Races,” which were made for MGM. “It was when the college students started embracing the Paramount films that Groucho started filtering in ‘Duck Soup,’” Stoliar said. “He didn’t think of “Duck Soup” for years because it marked the end of their Paramount contract (the film had received mixed reviews at the time and, while not a bomb, was not as big at the box office as their previous films). Then [legendary producer Irving Thalberg] brings them into the wonderland of MGM and makes two big moneymaking movies. Groucho felt 'Opera' and 'Races' were their best in terms of story and production values, but in terms of funniness, 'Duck Soup' is the obvious winner. You get out of it that war is not good and that countries start wars over seemingly trivial things. That’s fine, but in terms of the artists’ intentions—it may sound simplistic—but Groucho said, ‘We were just trying to be funny.’”

Still, Benito Mussolini took offense and reportedly banned the film in Italy. And radicalized American college kids related to the brothers’ irreverence and thumbing their noses at authority.

So where does that leave us? Will a new generation that has unprecedented access to movies and TV series be moved to re-discover an 85-year-old movie, in black and white, no less? If you count yourself a comedy geek and you haven’t seen it, what are you waiting for? (When you do see it, be sure to let us know what you think!)

By the way, about that title: several were in play before “Duck Soup,” including “Cracked Ice,” “Firecrackers” and “Grasshoppers.” “Duck Soup” was the title of a 1927 Laurel and Hardy short. But what does it mean? Groucho had this explanation for an interviewer: “Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life."

(Thanks to Matthew Coniam, author of several books about the Marx Brothers, founder of the Marx Brothers Council Facebook community and with Bob Gassel, and Noah Diamond, co-host of the Marx Brothers Council Podcast, for background on the film)

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Plays I have seen in 2018

Tonight, I will see my final show of 2018 so it seems an opportune moment to reflect on my year in theatre. It feels especially fitting that the show is Lynette Linton’s Donmar Warehouse production of Sweat by Lynn Nottage. Among the eighty-six shows I have seen (some of them more than once), I am especially pleased to have seen so many plays written by black women, so many black women in lead roles, and so many black women directing shows; and not just in studio spaces - but on main stages, too. The complete list of every show I saw is below, with links to the ones I reviewed. I was given a lot of complimentary tickets, so I have also noted which shows I paid for and which shows were free to attend. In 2018, I made a new year’s resolution to see more theatre not in London - I make the same resolve for 2019. Here are some of the not-London shows I am looking forward to next year:

Our Lady of Kibeho - Royal & Derngate

The Princess and the Hustler - Bristol Old Vic

Concubine - Birmingham Rep

Blue/Orange - Birmingham Rep

random - Leeds Playhouse

Two Trains Running - Royal and Derngate

One Night in Miami - HOME Manchester

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Heretic Voices - a night of new writing Dean McBride Dir. Roy Alexander Weise A Hundred Words for Snow Dir. Max Gill Woman Caught Unaware Dir. Jessica Edwards Arcola Theatre £

Belleville Donmar Warehouse Dir. Michael Longhurst £ Brothers Size Young Vic Dir. Bijan Sheibani £

Amadeus National Theatre Dir. Michael Longhurst £ Black Men Walking Royal Court Dir. Dawn Walton £ The Duchess of Malfi Swan Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon Dir. Maria Aberg £ Hamilton Victoria Palace Theatre Dir. Thomas Kail £ Nine Night National Theatre (Dorfman) Dir. Roy Alexander Weise £

Macbeth National Theatre (Olivier) Dir. Rufus Norris £

Lights Go Out Ovalhouse Dir. Makkala McPherson £ So Many Reasons Ovalhouse Dir. Zoe Lafferty £ Caroline, or Change Hampstead Theatre Dir. Michael Longhurst

Hamlet Hackney Empire Dir. Simon Godwin £ Br’er Cotton Theatre 503 Dir. Roy Alexander Weise £ Circle Mirror Transformation HOME, Manchester Dir. Bijan Sheibani £ The Internet Was Made for Adults The Vaults Dir. Anna Girvan £ The Blind Truth Lyric Hammersmith Dir. Annie Mwapulo £ Stains Lyric Hammersmith Dir. Kwame Asiedu £ The Divide The Old Vic Dir. Annabel Bolton Julie National Theatre (Lyttelton) Dir. Carrie Cracknell £ The Cherry Orchard Royal Exchange Manchester Dir. Michael Boyd £ Misty Bush Theatre Dir. Omar Elerian £

Dance Nation Playwrights Horizons, New York Dir. Lee Sunday Evans £ Cinderella Theatre XIV, New York Dir. Austin McCormick £ Mlima’s Tale Public Theatre, NewYork Dir. Jo Bonney £ The Fall Southwark Playhouse Dir. Matt Harrison Why is the Sky Blue? Southwark Playhouse Dir. Abbey Wright The Jumper Factory HMP Wandsworth Dir. Justin Audibert FREE

Red Wyndham’s Theatre Dir. Michael Grandage Schism Park Theatre Dir. Lily Mcleish Nightfall The Bridge Dir. Laurie Samson random/generations Minerva Theatre, Chichester Dir. Tinuke Craig £ Year of the Rooster Monk Pleasance Theatre Dir. Nathalie Adlam Leave Taking Bush Theatre Dir. Madani Younis £ Sancho: An Act of Remembrance Wilton’s Music Hall Dir. Simon Godwin An Octoroon National Theatre (Dorfman) Dir. Ned Bennett Shebeen Theatre Royal Stratford East Dir. Matthew Xia A Night at the Musicals Soho Theatre Dir. Le Gateau Chocolate/Jonny Woo Sea Wall Old Vic Theatre Dir. George Perrin Uprising - a night of new writing Orange Tree Theatre Dir. Roy Alexander Weise £ The Play About My Dad Jermyn Street Theatre Dir. Stella Powell-Jones POT Ovalhouse Dir. Sophie Moniram The Jungle Playhouse Theatre Dir. Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill NST, Southampton Dir. Mark Dornford-May Fun Home Young Vic Theatre Dir. Sam Gold Allelujah Bridge Theatre Dir. Nicholas Hytner The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Arcola Theatre Dir. Femi Olufowoju £ Hoard Bush Theatre Dir. Tinuke Craig £ Diamond Bush Theatre Dir. Jane Moriarty £ Genesis Inc Hampstead Theatre Dir. Laurie Sansom £ Aristocrats Donmar Warehouse Dir. Lyndsey Turner Papa Don’t Preach That Little Car on Drury Lane FREE

Emilia Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Dir. Nicole Charles £ Things of Dry Hours Young Vic (Clare) Dir. Debbie Hannan Run It Back Hackney Showrooms Dir. Coral Messam £ An Adventure Bush Theatre Dir. Madani Younis Women in Power NST City, Southampton Dir. Blanche McIntyre The Prisoner National Theatre (Dorfman) Dir. Peter Brook and The Fishermen Arcola Theatre Dir. Jack McNamara £ The Other Place Park Theatre Dir. Claire van Kampen Poet in da Corner Royal Court Dir. Ola Ince Dance Nation Almeida Theatre Dir. Bijan Sheibani £

Bullet Hole Park Theatre Dir. Lara Genovese ear for eye Royal Court Dir. debbie tucker green £ Dust Playhouse Theatre Dir. Sara Joyce £ The Ball Tristan Bates Theatre Dir. Garan Abel Unokan £ Love Thy Fro Theatre Peckham Dir. Malachi Green and Ronald Nsubuga The Wolves Theatre Royal Stratford East Dir. Ellen McDougall £ Sweet Like Chocolate Boy Studio Jack Theatre Dir. Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu The Hoes Hampstead Theatre Dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo £ Misty West End (understudy run) Trafalgar Studios Dir. Omar Elerian £ A Small Place Gate Theatre Dir. Anna Himali Howard The Dark Ovalhouse Dir. Roy Alexander Weise £ Twelfth Night Young Vic Theatre Dir. Kwame Kwei-Armah and Oskar Eustis £ Porgy and Bess ENO Dir. James Robinson Rockets and Blue Lights (Alfred Fagon Award rehearsed reading) Dorfman Theatre Dir. Nicole Charles All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Bush Theatre Dir. Paul Smith £ The Funeral Director Southwark Playhouse Dir. Hannah Hauer-King £ Hole Royal Court Dir. Abby Greenland and Helen Goalen Dr Faustus Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Dir. Paulette Randall Aladdin Broadway Theatre Catford Dir. Richard Cheshire The Worst Witch Royal & Derngate Dir. Theresa Heskins The Convert Young Vic Theatre Dir. Ola Ince Sweat Donmar Warehouse Dir. Lynette Linton

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