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Nine years since the Post Pepin Peregrination, my three speed bike tour

Pondero’s Rivendell Quickbeam (left) and my Raleigh Wayfarer on the La Crosse River Trail Recently on the venerable “For the Love of English Three Speeds” thread on Bike Forums (over 27,000 posts over 14 years!) someone asked, “Has anyone toured on a three-speed?” I like these questions because they are a break from the navel-gazing that sometimes clogs up the thread. And despite the fact there…

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Marbled Monday

This is the beautiful marbled cover of wood engraver and book artist Gaylord Schanilec’s exquisite 2015 book Lac des Pleurs published by Schanilec’s Midnight Paper Sales press. The book is a tour de force of wood engraving and is truly just gorgeous. You can see a few examples of the wood engravings in the book in our previous post. We’ll follow up with a more in-depth post on the book soon! 

Back to the marbling... According to the colophon, “The cover paper was marbled in Wiltshire, England, by Jemma Lewis, whose bespoke design is based on a photograph of wet stones taken along the shore of Lake Pepin.” The marbling here uses dark blue, green, grey, and yellow along with a wave technique. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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European Christianization and the Eternal Fate of Pagan Ancestors

”The relationship between the living and dead members of their clan has long been seen as an essential one in early medieval society. The dead constituted an age class that continued to have a role and to exercise rights in society. Archaeologists have suggested that the rich grave goods in burials of the ate fifth and sixth centuries were evidence of this importance in Reihengräberzivilization, in which ancestors played the role of intermediaries between the clans and tribes (Stämme) and the gods. Kurt Böhner and others have thus suggested that Christianity, which greatly lessens the role of the dead, must have had a fundamental impact on the place of the dead in in Merovingian society: “The profound change that Christianity brought with it is shown most clearly with relationships with the dead. Although these were once ancestors of many clans and tribes in which they lived on and enjoyed divine or quasi-divine veneration, they now entered the eternality of Christ.” As evidence of this essential transformation in relationship between the living and their ancestors,  Böhner cites the famous passage from the Vita S. Vulframni in which the Frisian duke Radbod, about to be baptized, asked Wulfram, the bishop of Sens, whether there were many Frisian kings and princes in heaven or in hell. Wulfram answered that, since these praedecessores had not been baptized, they were surely in hell. Hearing this pronouncement, the duke determined not to be baptized, saying that he could not do without the company of his predecessors. This text, whose importance for historical ethnography Herwig Wolfram has emphasized, seems however to contradict other archaeological evidence which, as we shall see, places in doubt Böhner’s interpretation both of the process of Christianization and of the account in the Vita Vulframni.

Radbod died in 719 and, it can be assumed, joined his damned ancestors. Around the same time or shortly before in the Rhineland near Alzey, Frankish nobles were founding a funerary chapel that served to preserve the memory of their pagan ancestors and, in a functional sense, to Christianize them retroactively. The church in question was Flonheim, and the careful archaeological study of the site by Hermann Ament suggests that the theological response to Radbod’s question presents only part of the eighth century reality. On December 29, 1876, the parish of Flonheim was destroyed by fire. During reconstruction between 1883 and 1885 it was discovered that the church stood on the foundations of a much older building, within which were found ten Frankish burials. The oldest portion of the church was a tower, the upper part of which was Gothic; the lower, Romanesque of ca. 1100. The foundations of the Romanesque portions of the tower, a crypt, were older still; and directly under this oldest portion of the old church, was a particularly rich Frankish burial. Ament’s examination of grave goods and his reexamination of the nineteenth-century report of the excavations demonstrated that the graves were part of a larger row cemetery, traces of which had been found in the 1950s elsewhere in the village. Moreover, the ten graves appear to be those members of a wealthy clan. That in the Merovingian period a family would erect a mortuary chapel in which to bury its members would hardly be remarkable; examples are common, particularly even earlier ones in the more Romanized areas of Europe. What is remarkable, however, is that Ament’s dating of the burials, particularly of grave 5, the one directly under the tower, is so early that the burials must predate the erection of the church (first mentioned in 764/767) and, in the case of grave 5, the conversion of Clovis. Ament compares this grave -in its depth (greater than the others at Flonheim), in its furnishings, and in its relation to other graves- to grave 319 at Lavoye. The rich furnishings of grave 5 include a famous golden-handled sword and other weapons and ornaments which both in their forms and variety argue for a date conclusively for a date contemporary with the tomb of Childeric (481). Ament sees grave 5 as a founder’s burial, like that at Lavoye. Around it, in the sixth and early seventh centuries, other clan members were buried. When the chapel was built, the importance of this founder’s burial was still recalled, and its builders included the other clan graves within the confines of its walls. The erection of a chapel over the graves of a clan and the particular position given to the clearly pre-Christian burial both strongly suggest that the continuity between pre-Christian and Christian members was not broken by baptism. In fact, on a physical, structural level, the founder was given a burial infra ecclesia after the fact, thus including him in the new Christianized clan tradition. Ament has compared the situation at Flonheim to those at Arlon, Speiz-Eingien, Morken, and Beckum and suggests that these other Merovingian churches containing Frankish burials may well be similar to Flonheim; for the chapels also appear to postdate the earliest burials. The American archaeologist Bailey Young has compared these apparently ex post facto Christianizations to observations of Detler Ellmers on Swedish cemeteries and suggests that the practice of assimilating pre-Christian ancestors into the Christian cult of the dead may be detected there as well. In Sweden, with the coming of Christianity, churches were generally built near the preexisting sepulchers of prominent families, and the last furnished burials are therefore older than the actual cemeteries. Elsewhere, pagan remains were moved into Christian burial places. The most famous Christian reburial in the North is that of the Dane Harold Bluetooth’s pagan parents Gorm and Thyre at Jelling. Harold first buried his parents in a wooden chamber covered by a large mound surrounded by standing stones in an outline of a ship, giving them a traditional pagan burial. After his conversion around 960, he had his parents’ remains removed to a church. Excavations of the present stone church (ca. 1100) indicate three previous wooden churches and a large, centrally placed grave containing the disjointed remains of a man and a woman obviously reburied there after the disarticulation of the skeletons. Harold’s runestone explicitly announces that the monuments he created were dedicated “to his father Gorm and his mother Thyre,” although it goes on to say that Harold “made the Danes Christian.” In both Frankish and Scandinavian situations, the archaeological evidence seems to contradict the explicit statement of Wulfram. How is the historian to resolve this contradiction? I would suggest that it arises from two sources. The first is the difference noted above between the intellectualized articulation of belief by clerical elite and the actual societal practice, lay and clerical. The second is the way the specific circumstances of Radbod’s aborted conversion color both the question and the response, making them part of a discussion of salvation in modern Christian terms, when the real issue is ethnicity and hegemony in eighth century Frankish terms. In the case of Flonheim and similar burials, the meaning of the construction of a Christian church over a pagan tomb is implicit: the ancestors have been conjoined in the new cult as they were in the old. Conversion is not an individual, but a collective, act that involves the entire clan and people, a fact long recognized about two groups of Franks - those of Clovis’s generation and their descendants. The collective nature of conversion implicitly applies to a third group of Franks as well, their ancestors. Although Gallo-Roman authors like Gregory of Tours have emphasized Clovis’s conversion, that does not mean the Franks had lost respect for or interest in their pre-Christian ancestry. Witness the literature of Merovingian Frankish genealogy, the Liber historiae Francorum, among others. Retroactive conversion is not articulated; indeed, it would be difficult to reconcile that orthodox Christianity. But in the symbolic and ritual structure that solidified and expressed the values of Frankish-Christian civilization, a place was found for their ancestors. Here, as in the example of the ritual humiliation of the saints I mentioned earlier, the physical juxtaposition presents a meaning in a Wittgensteinian sense which was apparently accepted by the lay founders of the church at Flonheim as well as by its clerics. Perhaps, although we cannot be sure of how much they knew of its origins, even the monks at Lorsch, to whom the church was given in the 760s, perceived this meaning. Thus the Franks of Flonheim, pagan and Christian, could keep each other company in the next life but not, apparently, Radbod and his pagan ancestors. It is tempting to cast this distinction in terms of the supposed two stages of conversion, the first represented by a maximum accommodation to  pagan tradition; the second (and this being the case with Radbod), an insistence on an inner meaning of Christianity. In fact, this approach will hardly suffice. Frisia was, in the early eighth century, hardly into a second phase of conversion; it was at the first stage of a process that would take generations. Rather, we should consider the specific context of the efforts to convert Radbod and his Frisians. Wulfram’s contact with the duke was part of the Frankish effort to subjugate the Frisians, an effort in which conversion was specifically conversion to Frankish Christianity. After Pepin II defeated Radbod in 694, he sent Wilibrord to convert Radbod and his people. Wulfram’s efforts were part of this mission. Pepin’s intention was specifically to establish a Frankish political and cultural basis in order to pacify the region. Conversion and baptism at the hand of a Frankish bishop would have meant, then, the acceptance of a specifically Frankish ethnic identity and the rejection of Frisian autonomous traditions, political and cultural. Radbod would really have cut himself off from his ancestors, but not merely by being assured of heaven while they languished in hell; for he would have become, in a real sense, a Frank. A similar break with their ancestors was demanded of the Saxons during the eighth century. It is hardly happenstance that the earliest condemnations of traditional Germanic burial sites in favor of church cemeteries was specifically directed at Saxon Christians: “We order that the bodies of Christian Saxons be taken to the church cemeteries and not to the burial mounds of the pagans.” Likewise, the famous Indiculus superstitionum was directed specifically at those “sacrileges at the tombs of the dead” performed by the Saxons. In the case of both the Frisians and of the Saxons, the bonds uniting the conquered people to their independent ancestry had to be broken because they were a source of anti-Frankish ethnic and political identity, not simply because they were pagan in a narrow religious sense. In the entirely Frankish contexts of Flonheim, Arlon, Spiez-Einigen, and Morken, though, conversion did not mean the rejection of a cultural and political tradition. It meant instead the confirmation of tradition through the acceptance of a new and more powerful victory-giver, Christ. The benefits of such a conversion could be shared with the past as well as with the future. - Patrick J. Geary (Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages, pages 35-41)

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Events 8.15

636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins. 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year. 718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople. 747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom. 778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army. 805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising 927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. 982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria. 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria. 1038 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him. 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. 1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England. 1096 – Starting date of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II. 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. 1237 – Spanish Reconquista: The Battle of the Puig between the Moorish forces of Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon culminates in an Aragonese victory. 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.) 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years. 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. 1310 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes. 1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca. 1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. 1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel. 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate. 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. 1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded. 1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540. 1537 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded. 1540 – Arequipa, Peru is founded. 1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549). 1592 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu. 1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle. 1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels. 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon. 1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states. 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863). 1893 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton. 1899 – Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened. 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. 1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia. 1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I. 1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula. 1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. 1939 – Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn. 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. 1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. 1943 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds. 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France. 1945 – Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan. 1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi. 1948 – The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula. 1950 – Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurrs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800. 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people. 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. 1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. 1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016. 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. 1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. 1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game. 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. 1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends. 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee. 1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. 1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. 1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh 1985 – Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement. 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). 1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured. 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting. 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. 2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. 2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years. 2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.

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My All-Inclusive Aaron Tveit Review

Here we go! Aaron Tveit: A Review! 

Paramount- Huntington, NY

The Vets- Providence, RI

TLA- Philadelphia, PA

BONUS* OVERALL BEST PERFORMANCE OF EACH SONG* (I’ll include any adorable stories below under each song individually.)

Thanks for bearing with me everyone! This is a super long post, I am aware of this! Let me know what you think!

*This post has my opinions of the shows. I’ve seen Aaron perform A LOT. They are only my opinions. I’d love to hear you’re comments and talk about the show, but WILL NOT entertain rudeness.*

OVERALL: The show that was 100% the best in my opinion was TLA in Philly. The band was ON POINT and the venue was a little bit smaller which, in my opinion, allowed for a little bit more of an intimate experience. I also think that helped the crowds energy and, in-turn, Aaron’s. (I am not in anyway saying Paramount or The Vets were not amazing, just that Philly was the best of the 3.)

The show at the Paramount had a very high set stage which made the angle, while glorious, slightly straining if you were up close. The acoustics at the Paramount were also a little weird. There were several points in the show where there was almost an echo-y sound. The band (without Music Director extraordinaire Bryan Perri) did not sound great on some of the Broadway tunes. (Sorry, but they didn’t.) There were also some points where the band drowned out Aaron’s amazing vocals.

The show at The Vets was a completely different vibe. It was a stunning venue and had theatre seating, so there was no standing and dancing like the other 2 performances. The band (again, without Bryan at the helm) was slightly better on the Broadway Tunes, but just did not sound as incredible as I know they could have. The acoustics at The Vets were SO MUCH better. The show was a different energy because everyone was seated and, while participated, was nothing like the crowds dancing and singing at the other shows. It was definitely more of a relaxed vibe. Aaron also seemed to “ham it up” a little more too. (Perhaps because he had family in the audience?! Or maybe because it was a little more chill?!) The lighting was also incredible and together with the blue button down he wore for the first part of his set REALLY made his eyes POP. (Yes, they are REALLY THAT BLUE.) Unfortunately, no photos were allowed and I almost saw phones confiscated.

TLA Philly was hands down, top notch. Bryan Perri was back at the keys. Whether or not that was the entirety of it, or if it was that plus Bryan and Aaron’s working relationship, I don’t know, but it made a difference. (Please don’t ever leave us again Bryan!) The acoustics were great and the band was just ON POINT. Both the rock songs and the broadway songs were fantastic. The stage wasn’t as high so much less of a strain if you were closer. Aaron always feeds off the energy of the crowd and it was the better of the 3 shows energy wise. The lighting was kinda sucky though and it was really dark at some points.

For Reference:

Irving Plaza

House of Blues Boston

Bethel Woods

Setlist Breakdown:

Runaways (The Killers):

This song right here is actually one of my favorites! When discussing what changes we’d make to the show (with friends) I kept this in because I LOVE IT. Nothing stood out as my favorite of the 3 nights, I just always love this song and get completely lost in it when he comes out and sings it!

Overall: Nothing will beat the first time I saw him perform anything, but especially this, live at Irving. I also really enjoyed him performing this at Bethel Woods so those are my top 2!

Desert Island Top 5 Break-Ups (High Fidelity)

Best: Paramount I AM SO THRILLED WITH THIS ADDITION TO AARON’S SHOWS! I think this is a GREAT rock/Broadway song and fits SO. WELL! I really like the character Aaron gets into! In order of preference (and believe me, I went back and forth on this one A LOT) Paramount > TLA Philly > The Vets. I loved everything about Paramount, and in my opinion girls sounded best with Aaron and the Band at Paramount. The band was best at TLA Philly but Aaron messed up the words ever so slightly there. I also liked Aaron’s interaction as “Rob” with “Laura” at Paramount best. I also love Aaron’s character of Rob in this song overall! It shows how versatile and amazing his acting really is! (Bonus was we got a small feature of Julia Burrows, one of Aaron’s back up singers on this one!) I find myself playing this one A. LOT. Memorable Moment: After Laura tells Rob to take care of himself in Philly, Aaron looked like an adorable lost puppy and everyone awe’d and it was so cute!

Somebody to Love (Queen)

Best: Paramount (TLA Philly was a close second though.) I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: AARON MURDERED THIS SONG. Like, completely crushed it. One of my all time Aaron Favs. His range and the arrangement that he did with this song was INCREDIBLE. I LOVED the performance at Paramount. The different notes he played with during each “Somebody to Love” melted me. The Vets was amazing but not as incredible as the Paramount in my brain. TLA Philly was a VERY CLOSE SECOND, like almost first, but I keep finding myself going back to that first performance and nothing gives me the kind of reaction like Paramount does.

Pop Medley: Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen)/ Confident (Demi Lovato)/ Runaway With Me (Carly Rae Jepsen)/ My Life Would Suck Without You (Kelly Clarkson)/ Nice and Slow (Usher)/ Shake it Off (Taylor Swift)

Best: TLA Philly was definitely probably the closest second to this Aaron’s top performance and my favorite of the 3 shows! He also messed up the lyrics slightly at Paramount and The Vets to Call Me Maybe! Overall: Irving. Hands down. The shock value of the entire thing was perfection. “Omg, is he singing Nice and Slow?! Holy ^]% he IS!”

One Song Glory/Creep (Rent/Radiohead)

One Song Glory:

Best: Definitely Philly, the band and him were on the same wavelength and blew it out of the water. He always has so much emotion in this one that I love it regardless. Memorable Moment: It was also very sweet because Aaron said that Philly was were he got to play the role of Roger and sing this song here so he was able to sing it again.

Overall: Okay, so I’m super spoiled and got to see him perform this IN PERSON at Times Talks with Alex Lacamoire on piano and that stripped down version will always be my favorite.

Creep:

Best:TLA Philly. He always gets into character for this song and it’s always hilarious and amazing. Philly was definitely the best of the 3 shows. Memorable Moment: At the Vets, Aaron put his hands at the top of the mic stand and like rested his head on the mic stand during part of this song and it was adorable.

Overall: Nothing will top the original Creep from Irving. I’ll never forget him getting into character and starring down the audience looking at me and me thinking like omg he’s looking at me but this is so strange. TLA Philly was my second favorite overall.

This Is How Do It (Montell Jordan)

Best: TLA Philly Aaron hit the rap ON POINT and seemed to have the most fun with it at this show. His smile at the end of it when he finished was adorable. Memorable Moments: At Paramount, Aaron didn’t get the rap, he stumbled a bit over it and at the end was like “I’m not a rapper.”, but it was so freaking adorable. At The Vets, Aaron during part of the song, was walking across the front of the stage in front of the mic stand and was walking backwards and bumped into a speaker with his foot and he kinda turned to look at it and then went into a a slow spin like “Oh I meant to do that.” And. It. Was. SMOOTH. Very Broadway of him.

Can’t Make You Love Me/ All I Ask (Bonnie Rait/ Adele)

Best: TLA Philly. If you would’ve asked me before Philly I would’ve said The Vets, because at one point he went lower in the note instead of belting it and it was unexpected and sounded great. But, while the Vets is a super close second of the 3 for that slightly lower note, and nothing beats the tear rolling down his cheek at Irving, TLA Philly was the best of the 3.

Overall: Bethel Woods is still my favorite though. I don’t know why, something about his voice there that I just love, I can’t pin point it either, I’ve tried.

What About Love/I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Heart/Whitney Houston) ft. Alexa Green

Best/Overall: TLA Philly I love this mash up!!! I definitely preferred Alexa Green’s duet better than Carrie Manolakos’ who performed this with him at Irving. I loved Alexa at Boston but she messed up the lyrics at the House of Blues at the beginning of the song. Aaron and Alexa always have fun with this one, I think Philly was probably the best overall, especially considering we couldn’t actually dance at The Vets.

Why God Why (Miss Saigon)

Best: TLA Philly Aaron’s voice on this song is PERFECTION.  I teared up at each show. Philly was the best performance with his voice, the band and his character

Overall: Elsie Fest

In Your Eyes/ Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel/ RENT)

Best: TLA Philly Again, based on the overall performance with the Band and Aaron’s vocals. Memorable Moments: At the Paramount and The Vets though, Aaron expanded on the story he tells before the song and talked about how Dave Pepin, who was playing the keys and leading the band, was the guy that pulled him out of school because he’s the one that got Aaron the Audition for The National Tour of Rent, which he was touring with, so he never got to audition for American Idol.

Overall: HoB Boston- I just love how Aaron acted like he was actually auditioning for American Idol and was like: Simon makes me nervous.

Castle on the Hill (Ed Sheeran)

Best/Overall: The Vets. First reason I’m in LOVE with this addition to the Setlist… it gives Aaron a song in his lower vocal register that we don’t get to hear very often in his Rock Shows. At The Vets, Aaron did this like growl thing during the “When we did not know the answer…” line and it was… wow.  So great.

Memorable Moments: When Aaron introduced the song he talks about how he is still close with his friends from high school and the people he grew up with and how the song reminds him of that… and HOW FREAKING ADORABLE IS THAT?! At the Paramount he mentioned he was actually missing a friend’s wedding that night and then at The Vets the next night he mentioned it again and dedicated it to his friends that were probably hungover! Aaron also got emotional during each performance and I saw tears at Paramount.  

Encore: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor Swift)

Memorable Moments: At the Paramount Aaron went into the spoken part at the end of the song before he went into the “I used to think that we were forever ever.” So he had to add-lib another little spoken part! The band (again, no Bryan) didn’t transition as well into the end of it and he didn’t end up swearing at the end like he usually does. At the Vets, Aaron went into the spoken part after the lyrics correctly, but the band didn’t pick it up right away so it again was a slightly different transition. He was also super close to the front of the stage towards the end getting the crowd to interact! At Philly band was on point and Aaron was on point and it was INCREDIBLE as always! SO FUN!

Please don’t make me pick an OVERALL FAVORITE because I really just love how much fun he always has with this!!

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Los Montesinos Mayor José leads Rojales and Torrevieja history tour for town's foreign residents

By Andrew Atkinson Los Montesinos Town Hall received a round of applause from foreign residents who were invited to a taste of Vega Baja history in Rojales and Torrevieja on a tour that was attended by Mayor José Manuel Butron. Rojales Museo De La Huerta was once the residence of the Hacienda, that showcased interiors from yesteryear, with sewing rooms, weights, measures and lighting room, and traditional pharmacy. The Hacienda de los Llanos is a 30,562 Sq. metre farm, converted into an agricultural museum, with original furniture and tools on show. The secondary house, houses the Mill and traditional bakery; stables and trades' exhibits, along with the Oil Mill, including one of the last Oil Mills working in the municipality. The stables, which were used for cattle, are redesigned to recreate traditional works and long lost trades, including hemp work, ice cream making, fieldwork, beekeeping, slaughter, hunting and fishing. [caption id="attachment_29682" align="alignleft" width="222"] Mayor José Butron and Andrew Atkinson in the Rojales Museo De La Huerta.[/caption] The old Mill building houses instruments and equipment from the former Lo Pepin Oil Mill. A visit to Rojales Caves followed, with the spectacle of Manuel Fulleda Alcaraz's decorated 'shell' house - with patterns of shells, tiles and mirrors. The artists' caves in Rojales - ‘Cuevas del Rodeo’ - are situated on the hillside above the town, giving spectacular mountain views. The Cave houses location is stunning, with regular live jazz music evenings staged, filling the evening air. Arts and crafts markets are held monthly, with stalls of home-made products and demonstrations taking place. Art exhibitions are staged each month, with a mixture of artists' exhibits in the Sala Mengolero exhibition gallery cave. The Torrevieja Salt Lakes tour gave a history of the Salinas, where until 1802, Torrevieja existed only as an ancient guard tower. In 1803 Charles IV authorised the movement of the salt production offices from La Mata to the town itself, allowing the construction of dwellings. In 1829 the town was totally destroyed by an earthquake, but the basins were reconstructed and re-opened. In 1931 Alfonso XIII gave Torrevieja city status by special grant. During this period, there was also a growing market for flax, hemp and cotton. In the 19th century the salt was mainly shipped from the town by Swedish and Dutch ships. At the turn of the 20th century a quarter of all the salt harvested from the lagoon in Torrevieja was sold in Spain. Other markets included European nations. [caption id="attachment_29684" align="aligncenter" width="1328"] The Torrevieja salt mountains.[/caption] In the 21st century the Torrevieja Salt Lakes are a major supplier worldwide. A train tour of the Torrevieja Salinas and a talk on the history was given. "Thank you to both Rojales and Torrevieja for allowing the foreign residents from Los Montesinos see an insight into their history," said Los Montesinos Mayor José Butron, who was on hand throughout, assisted by Town Hall staff. A hand of applause was given to the relevant Rojales and Torrevieja officials, along with thanks and applause to Mayor Butron and staff in respect of The Town Hall tour arrangements. Photographs: Helen Atkinson.

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Gov. Cooper seeks $130 million for safer NC schools. Here’s how he’d spend it. | Charlotte Observer

N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a $130 million school safety budget Thursday, offering a first glimpse at how the state might respond to the clamor for better protection in the wake of February’s mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school.

State lawmakers, who will convene May 16, are already holding study sessions on how to respond to gun violence in schools but have not released any budget plans.

Cooper released the school safety proposals at Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough before unveiling his full budget proposal. The biggest spending, at $65 million, would go toward making buildings safer. The money would be available to K-12 schools, community colleges and universities for communication and camera systems, panic alarms, doors and other physical improvements to deal with possible attacks.

He calls for $40 million to go toward hiring more counselors, psychologists, social workers and nurses, and $15 million for additional "innovative programs" to address students’ mental health challenges.

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"We should address both classroom security and youth mental health needs," Cooper said. "My budget takes meaningful steps to prevent school violence and protect teachers and students."

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper takes a tour of Cedar Ridge High School with school nurse Jennifer Pepin in Hillsborough, N.C., on Thursday, April 19, 2018, where the Governor announced his budget recommendations for improving school safety and youth mental health.

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The budget provides $7 million to increase the state allotment for school resource officers from $35,000 to $50,000 per high school, designed to cover the actual cost of hiring armed officers to patrol those schools. Another $3 million would go toward grants to hire such officers for elementary and middle schools.

Finally, the governor’s budget would provide $444,000 to support a web-based School Risk Management System that helps schools work with law enforcement and emergency staff to prepare for threats or attacks.

Cooper’s strategies are similar to those being discussed by local officials in Charlotte and Raleigh.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Superintendent Clayton Wilcox is seeking just over $9 million from county commissioners to strengthen buildings. His plan also calls for $624,000 to hire five more CMS police officers, including one who will lead active shooter training, as well as two locksmiths and two electronics specialists to upgrade security.

Superintendents in Wake and CMS are seeking county money for more counselors, social workers and psychologists, with $5 million in Wake Interim Superintendent Del Burns’ plan and $4.4 million in Wilcox’s.

In March, Cooper had recommended policy changes to make schools safer, including stronger background checks for handgun buyers, raising the age for eligibility to buy assault weapons and enacting "extreme risk protection orders" that would let law enforcement temporarily confiscate guns from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.

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2017 TCJP Sortie

Lake City, MN

Thursday August 24th at 12:00pm - Sunday August 27th at 2:00pm

The Twin Cities Jet Pilots invite you to the 12th Annual “Sortie” at the beautiful Hok-Si-La Park. We have a large plot of the best campgrounds reserved on a bluff overlooking beautiful Lake Pepin. Beginner to factory pro, young to old, standup or sit-down rider….everyone is invited!

We will be having HUGE raffle for donated items from our great sponsors on Saturday night. Lots of great gear to be raffled off thanks to our generous industry sponsors! Please visit our sponsor tab and support the people who support us.

The Lake City Kiwanis will be making us breakfast on Saturday morning and a Pig Roast Dinner on Saturday night before the Raffle.

I urge anyone on Facebook to join the group ( TCJP Face book page ) to get new info and RSVP on the event page so we can get an idea of how many people to plan for.

Location: The large wooded area on the river side of 61. You can’t miss it - there will be a brown highway sign that says “Hok Si La State Park” - it is just a mile north of ‘downtown’ Lake City on 61.  Here is a map of the area including non Ethanol and race gas stations, food, etc…

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There are also a few hotels in town you can crash at, but you have to be out of the park by 10PM if you are not camping.  There is also RV parks within a mile if you have to use your RV. Arrival:

We now have the ENTIRE north side of the campground!   All sites from the showers north are ours!!!!

The park has reserved the main area of the campsites for us all week long for anyone that wants to make it an extended free ride! We also have the area thru Monday the 28th, so if Sunday is perfect weather you can enjoy it and not have to pack up!

This also means you can arrive anytime, no more restrictions on when you can arrive!

PLEASE NOTE: There is no need to call and reserve space from Friday to Sunday, but if you plan to extend your camping, call the park office the first week of August so they are expecting you. When you arrive go into the park office. The office manager will collect your payment for camping and give you a vehicle pass. The cost is $16.00 per person/per night. You will get a wristband for each night you are camping (fri and sat) from the office manager. She will then let you through the gate and you can drive back to our camping area (Section B). You can unload all your gear and then drive back out to the parking area. We will have a lot of people coming in at the same time so unload and then go park - don’t leave your vehicle there while you are pitching your tent.

PLEASE NOTE: The south end of the reserved space is for families and quiet groups to respect other people using the park. If you plan to party all night find a spot as far north as you can. It worked out GREAT last year!  Now with more space we will have much more space to spread out.

Parking: We have an area designated for us to park in. It is a grassy alley off of the main parking lot. There is plenty of room for all of us to park with trailers, but if you have a really big/long trailer, disconnect it and park side by side with your trailer. You will need a vehicle pass to park overnight - so if you are coming for the day and park there, you need to have your car out by 10pm. It is about a 1/3 mile from the camping area, so if you have a cheap bike to share please bring it! Launching Skis:

We discovered we could launch right from our campsite via a trail down to our beach. We used a few beach carts and a lot of man power. If you don’t have a cart or don’t have the space to bring one….don’t worry there will be plenty to share thanks to Jet-lift giving so many away over the years!

There is also a 3 lane launch about a 1/2mi away for bigger boats.

We have found over the years that most people cart their skis down the hill, and then at the end of the weekend, we bring them over to the launch.

We will most likely have a wheeler and cart; don’t be afraid to ask for help if you need it.

Most people leave their skis on the beach all weekend; we have had no issues with theft. Just make sure to pull them up in case of a big storm.

Riding conditions:

The area is a very wide part of the Mississippi River so there is little to no flow. We will again have a buoy course setup most of the weekend. We have found the big boats are very fair weather, so if the weather is nice there are usually plenty of boats to chase. There are also all sorts of tributaries and areas to explore….so if touring is your thing you can go all weekend and explore!

Beaching Skis: The only drawback to this campsite is that the beach is rocky. They are smooth river rocks, so unless you have a brand new ski you can probably plan on just gently dragging your ski up on shore and it will be fine. Otherwise, you may want to plan on bringing some bunks, a folding stand, or an anchor (cork screw ones will work). Boats will be able to pull up just fine. Amenities: The park is pretty modern and has some running water spigots nearby, a couple nice outhouse close by, and just a little further walk has fully modern bathrooms with electricity and hot showers (coin op, so bring quarters).

The fire rings have grates for cooking, and there are usually a few grills brought to share. DON’T BRING WOOD! Wood is provided from the campground for a small fee and will be delivered right to your campsite.

There is a small playground for the kids and a GREAT sandy beach for swimming around the corner from the jet ski area.

Unfortunately the park does NOT allow RVs in the park. There is an RV park just down the road, and skis can be left on the beach for easier logistics.

If you just can’t handle camping, there are also a few affordable hotels in town you can crash at.

We usually have a generator and a power strip so we can charge stuff. Jump packs work well to keep your phone charged. There is no electric at any of the sites.

Updates:

As we get closer to the event will be posted on the Facebook Page SEE YOU THERE!!!!

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Pepin-Minneapolis 2022 Trip, Part One: The train ride out

Pepin-Minneapolis 2022 Trip, Part One: The train ride out

The view of the Rockies from the dining car, as the Empire Builder crests Marias Pass in Montana. 12 May 2022. Olympus XA2/Kodak Portra 160 Here is Part One (of a planned three) posts about Emee and my trip to the Midwest for the Lake Pepin Three Speed Tour. We took Amtrak’s Empire Builder out of Portland on Wednesday May 11th and landed in Red Wing, Minnesota on the morning of Friday, May…

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Romance is in the air in Montréal

Montréal is made for lovers – it’s got a little touch of Europe, fine dining galore, entertainment options for DAYS and tons of hidden gems that will feel like your own private discoveries. It’s the perfect spot for a romantic weekend getaway, a Valentine’s Day jaunt or a marriage or proposal destination, no matter the style of moment you’re looking for! Curate some of the suggestions below into the exact type of romance you want – because whether you’re after something quiet and intimate or loud and exciting, we’ve got just the #montrealmoment for you.

Romantic feasts

Woo your love with fine dining at Maison Boulud, which puts on the ritz for Valentine’s Day and every other day at the Ritz-Carlton Montréal, as does Toqué and Mercuri, both in Old Montréal. Other memory-making options include 400 Coups, Le Quindici or Branzino, or, on beautiful Laurier East in Outremont, Leméac or Chez Lévêsque. Vegetarians like quiet tête-à-tête too, right? Reserve a table at Chu Chai (vegetarian Thai at its most refined), Sushi Momo (all vegan, hyper creative sushi) or the casual Lola Rosa. And if you take in the nightlife, what could be more romantic than a 4 am poutine for two? Try La Banquise or Chez Claudette.

The scene at the mountain this evening was pretty idyllic❄️

Une photo publiée par Michelle Karpman (@thephotofaerie) le 25 Déc. 2016 à 20h08 PST

Fresh-air fun

Get your heart pumping for all kinds of reasons with a night-time snowshoe excursion up Mount Royal, organized especially for Valentine’s Day by Amis de la Montagne. Cross-country ski lovers, head out to Parc Jean-Drapeau for a beautiful half-day on the trails. A walk through the city could also be amazing fun: Cité Mémoire will educate as it amazes with its artful projections on buildings. Nestle up to each other in the back of a horse-drawn carriage as it tours Old Montréal – you can grab your ride across the street from the stunning Notre-Dame Basilica.

Relaxation nation

To soothe sore muscles and indulge the senses, Strom Spa awaits with its splendid water treatments and selection of massages; if you book during Valentine’s, don’t forget to enjoy a couple of glasses of bubbly. Spend the evening relishing the Valentine’s Day spa package at Bota-Bota, where a three-course meal with live cello music follows the relaxation of the water circuit. To primp up and prep for a big night out or to indulge in a few other otherworldly couple options, try one of these expert spas.

Découvrez les exposants de la 6e édition de Je t’aime en chocolat sur http://ift.tt/1Fm5dWr sous l’onglet “Marché du chocolat”. #JTMEC se déroulera du 10 au 12 février 2017 au Marché Bonsecours #Montreal

Une photo publiée par Je t’aime en chocolat (@jetaimechocolat) le 16 Janv. 2017 à 13h32 PST

Shop hopping

Shower each other in gifts from unique local designer shops like Old Montréal’s Denis Gagnon, Rad Hourani, U&I and Espace Pepin, or in Mile End, Unicorn, Citizen Vintage and Les Étoffes. You’ll find world renoened labels at the tawny Holt Renfrew or Ogilvy downtown, and along Laurier Street in Outremont. If the time has come for proposals, you’ll find unique Montréal-made fine jewellery at Birks or Ecksand, who specialize in engagement rings. More in a chocolate and roses mood?

Maison Christian Faure makes gorgeous chocs, or, if you’re in town around Valentine’s Day, you’re just in time for the festival of all things chocolate: Je t’aime en chocolat, at Marché Beausecours, a cool couple’s outing in itself.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the #heart #helenkeller #montreal

Une photo publiée par Piero ☕️ Baristello™ (@baristello) le 17 Janv. 2017 à 12h42 PST

Cultural exploration

Soak up some artful culture downtown at the Musée d’art contemporain, at the Belgo (home to dozens of independent art galleries) or at Phi Centre, where you can take in indie music, exhibitions, films and shopping at the super cool Rhinocéros boutique. The great Chagall exhibition at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts is also worth a visit. Cuddle up in a movie theatre at Cinéma Banque Scotia on Ste-Catherine Street before dinner at the completely unique Foodlab, at the stunning Société des arts technologiques (SAT), followed by a performance in the immersive Satosphere downstairs. Classical music lovers might prefer a night at Maison Symphonique, at Place des Arts. For local indie music, saddle up to the bar at one of these fantastic indie music hot spots.

About last night! #valentinesday #dinner #concert #jazz #soul #show #love #mtl #montreal #church #music #magic

Une photo publiée par MH Glad (@mhglad) le 15 Févr. 2016 à 16h02 PST

Nightlife excitement

Express your feelings with a little groove. If you’re into a classy jazz flavour, you won’t want to miss the V Day celebrations at Le Balcon; if you’re more into a 2/4 beat, there’s Newtown, Buonanotte, Moomba or the iconic Time Supper Club (located in a1930s bank building). Then it’s real dance time: The massive New City Gas in Griffintown always hosts great international guests to get the party going. Downtown there’s Stereo, Circus and Club La Boom; in the Gay Village, good lovin’  times live at Club Unity and the Sky Complex.

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Events 8.15

636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins. 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year. 718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople. 747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom. 778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed. 805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising 927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. 982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria. 1038 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him. 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. 1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England. 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. 1237 – The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory. 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.) 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. 1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes. 1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca. 1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. 1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel. 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate. 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. 1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded. 1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540. 1537 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded. 1540 – Arequipa, Peru is founded. 1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549). 1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle. 1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels. 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon. 1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states. 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863). 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto. 1893 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton. 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. 1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia. 1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I. 1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula. 1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. 1939 – Thirteen Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors. 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. 1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. 1943 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds. 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France. 1945 – Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan. 1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi. 1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north. 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people. 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. 1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. 1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang. 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. 1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. 1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game. 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. 1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends. 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee. 1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. 1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. 1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). 1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured. 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting. 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. 2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. 2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years. 2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8½ hours ahead of UTC.

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Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour, Turning Stone Classic XXXI 9-Ball Open, Jan 10-13, 2019 - Complete Results

Everyone,

Here is the complete order of finish for our Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour’s, “Turning Stone Classic XXXI 9-Ball Open”, which was held January 10 – 13, 2019. The event was $25,000 added with a total prize fund of $41,400. There was a full field of 128 players. All players were paid in cash immediately upon their elimination from the event!

1st $8,000 Jayson Shaw 2nd $5,000 Shane Van Boening 3rd $3,600 Jeremy Sossei 4th $2,600 Denis Grabe (ES) 5/6th $2,000 each – Petri Makkonen (FI), Tommy Tokoph 7/8th $1,600 each – Dan Hewitt (Can), Zion Zvi 9/12th $1,200 each – Alex Kazakis (GR), John Morra (Can), Spencer Auigbelle, Billy Thorpe 13/16th $850 each – Frank Hernandez, Sean Morgan, Ron Casanzio, Josh Friedberg 17/24th $550 each – Nick Charette (Can), Dennis Hatch, Kevin West, Jia Li, Raphael Dabreo, Mohammad Ali Brejaoui (Leb), Luc Salvas, (Can),Erik Hjorleifson,(Can) 25/32nd $300 each – Hunter Lombardo, Gregg McAndrews, Thorste Hohmann (Ger), Joey Cicero (Can), Brent Boemmels, Len Gianfrate, Jay Goyer (Can), Jennifer Barretta

33/48 – Jed Jecen, Mike Giurleo, Chris Braiman, Thomas Wan, Shaun Wilkie, Randy Labonte, Johnny Archer, Matt Krah, Sylvain Desrosiers (Can), Dave Shlemperis, Martin Daigle (Can), Jonathan Smith, Eric Lim, Annie Flores, Eric Cloutier, Waleed Hashem (Can)

49/64 – Kyle Pepin, Greg Johnson (Can), Hendrik Drost, Cleiton Rocha, Jesse Docalavich, Qays Kolee, Clyde Matta, Troy Deocharran, Pat Fleming,Devin Buttle (Can) Jim Kearney, Mark Creamer, Bruce Carroll, Caroline Pao, Matt Tetreault, Mike Toohig,

65/96 – Paul Dryden, Geoff Montgomery, Matt Gillingham (Can), Willie Oney, Dan Faraguna, Tom Acciavatti, Holden Chin, Rob Hart, Frank Gaetani, Steve Lillis, LoreeJon Hasson, Jason Michas, Jerome Rockwell, Paul Rozonewski, Rob Pole, Mike Badstuebner, Steve Sutton, Roger Miller (Can), Alvin Thomas, Patrick Sheldon (Can), Ray Lee, Jerry Crowe, Marco Kam, Mika Immonen (FI), Dwight Dixon, Don Reigel, Jorge Rodriguez, Matt Harricharan, Paul Pensgen, Dale Kimmett (Can), Jordan Turner, Steven Winter(Can)

97/128 – Bill Cote, Alan Gordon, Rich Grande, Bob Cunningham, Frank Wolak, Amy Yu, Mike Yednak, Dany Normandin (Can), Mike Andrews, Justin Mencfeld (Can) Lida Mullendore, Dave Mills, John Andrade (Can), Vince Prinzivalli, Will Schmidt, Al McGuane, Robert Ragusa, Eric Croteau (Can), Tom Peterson, Rich Connors, Mike Pettit, Rich Kravetz, Bruce Gordon, Redgie Cutler, Ranulf Tamba, Steven W. Smith, Tony Antone, Larry Phlegar, Nabil Lazouzi, Brian Wheel, Ed Culhane, Nick Coppola,

Our Second Chance event had a field of 25 players with a total prize fund of $1,250.

1st $500 Jia Li 2nd $300 Dave Mills 3/4th $225 each – Steven Winter, Nick Coppola

$1,500 Joss Cue raffle winners – Steve Daoust & Mark Caravaty & winner of the autographed Aramith Pro Cup cue ball used in the final match – Alethea Lazor

The Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour Is Proudly Sponsored By;

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Week Three of #threespeedadvapr2020 still in effect! This week's theme: Three Speed in Nature. For today's post, I dug into the archive and found this shot of my old #raleighwayfinder from the #lakepepinthreespeedtour in 2015. What a great event: two days of riding around Lake Pepin (on the Mississippi River) in Wisconsin and Minnesota, followed by a three-day, three-speed camping tour with @pondero and @graveldoc This shot was taken above Maiden Rock on the WI side.

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Pepin-Minneapolis 2022 Trip, Part Two: The Tour

Pepin-Minneapolis 2022 Trip, Part Two: The Tour

The Brew-Up in Lake City, 15 May 2022. Minolta XD5/Ilford HP5+/Ilfosol 3 1:9 at 5:30 in Rondinax 35U This wasn’t my first Pepin rodeo, nor was it Emee’s. I’ve been to the Lake Pepin Three Speed Tour four times before, Emee once. Heck, I even wrote a “tips and tricks” blog post for newbies. Yet even after all the previous tours, I felt both rusty and like a first-timer again. I guess four years…

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Heading to Pepin again!

Heading to Pepin again!

I’ve made hints at various points, and in various places over the past few months. But I didn’t want to make an “official” post until everything was, well, official. But now I can announce it: I am heading out to Minnesota in May to participate in the annual Lake Pepin Three Speed Tour! I’ve been thrice before: 2014, 2015, and 2016. I took last year off. Much of the mechanics of the trip will…

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Events 8.15

636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins. 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year. 718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople. 747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom. 778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army. 805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising 927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. 982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria. 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria. 1038 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him. 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. 1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England. 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. 1237 – The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory. 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.) 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years. 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. 1310 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes. 1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca. 1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. 1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel. 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate. 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. 1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded. 1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540. 1537 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded. 1540 – Arequipa, Peru is founded. 1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549). 1592 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu. 1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle. 1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels. 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon. 1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states. 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863). 1893 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton. 1899 – Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened. 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. 1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia. 1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I. 1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula. 1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. 1939 – Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn. 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. 1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. 1943 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds. 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France. 1945 – Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan. 1947 – India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi. 1948 – The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established south of the 38th parallel north. 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people. 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. 1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. 1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016. 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. 1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. 1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game. 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. 1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends. 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee. 1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. 1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. 1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). 1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured. 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting. 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. 2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. 2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years. 2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8​1⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.